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True Crime: Richard Price on Mayhem, Murder and Journalism
By Richard Price | April 13, 2017
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The Crime Report is pleased to present an excerpt from acclaimed crime writer Richard Price's foreward to "The New York Times Book of Crime: More Than 166 Years of Covering the Beat," in an exclusive arrangement with The Times.
I've always assumed that the best crime reporting—sports reporting, too—was to be found in the tabloids, but after inhaling the contents of this anthology, which cover more than a century and a half of criminal mayhem as filed with The New York Times, the shingles have fallen from my eyes. Lurid writing can overwhelm lurid deeds. Excitable adjectives, judgmental prose and the egging on of public outrage can often obscure rather than illuminate the facts at the core.
In most of the articles contained herein, the thoroughness of the research combined with the implacableness of the tone, especially when flying in the face of a popular taboo or sentiment of the times, often reads like a fortress of probity.
A 1926 article debunks the era's hysteria over marijuana by carefully extrapolating the results of an investigation into the physiological and psychological impact of smoking marijuana on a number of subjects, "soberly" concluding: "The influence of the drug when used for smoking is uncertain and appears to have been greatly exaggerated . . . There is no evidence that [marijuana] is a habit-forming drug in the sense of the term as applied to alcohol, opium, cocaine . . .or that it as an appreciable deleterious effect on the individuals using it." I repeat: 1926.
An even earlier investigative piece written in 1852 regards the systematic use of capital punishments meted out by the guards of Sing Sing prison. The report gathers physicians and physiologists to refute the prison staff's claims that the punishments (including an hours'-long form of water torture) were carefully monitored, when in fact, due to either unchecked sadism or sheer ignorance regarding the limits of human endurance, they ended in either death or madness.
At other times, the measured tone and objective formalism of the writing, when set against the grain of outrage, can powerfully serve to isolate and heighten the darkness of the deed.
Occasionally, the stoniness of the prose can feel chillingly blunt given the subject at hand. The unnamed writer covering the aftermath of Lincoln's assassination in 1865, reports: "The pistol ball entered the back of the president's head and penetrated nearly through the head. The wound is mortal. The president has been insensible ever since it was inflicted, and is now dying."
At other times, the measured tone and objective formalism of the writing, when set against the grain of outrage, can powerfully serve to isolate and heighten the darkness of the deed. At first glance, John N. Popham's atmospheric description of the Sumner, Mississippi, courtroom during jury selection for the trial of Emmett Till's murderers in 1955 reads like a rough draft of To Kill a Mockingbird; the judge in shirtsleeves, the defendants and rubberneckers free to smoke up a storm, bailiffs passing out cups of ice water to their friends in the sweltering pews, the jarring intimacy between the state-appointed prosecutor and the prospective jurors during voir dire: "He seemed to be familiar with everyone's personal habits and family background, even to the nicknames they had for friends who might be interested in the outcome of the trial." And last, but not least, the defendants' children "played around the knees of their fathers and occasionally ran up and down the corridors" of the courtroom.
This effortless sketch of southern comfort has become a trope of countless Hollywood legal dramas, from Inherit the Wind to My Cousin Vinny, yet in this soon-to-be-infamous courtroom, the barely mentioned true crime that has brought this assembly together—the torturing and murder of a 14-year-old African American boy for allegedly whistling at a white woman—infuses every folksy detail with an aftertaste of revulsion. On the other hand, Popham's description of the courtroom hangers-on as "several hundred white persons who strongly support a strict pattern of racial segregation" seems, pardon the oxymoron, a feat of excessive understatement.
Legendary bank robber Willie Sutton (center). Courtesy Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., The New York Times.
At the other end of tone spectrum, and maybe the biggest revelation of all, is the discovery that certain crimes—especially those found in the heists and capers chapter—demanded a punchier, almost sporty, narrative. Who didn't root for Willie Sutton? How could you not like a jewel thief named Murph the Surf? The articles can read like a cross between a tense noir thriller and a riff on Jimmy Breslin's The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight.
In the report on the 1965 recovery (from a bus terminal locker in Miami) of the Star of India diamond (563.35 carats) and eight other eye-popping jewels stolen by the aforementioned Murph and two other part-time beach bums, the Florida paparazzi chasing three NYPD detectives, Assistant District Attorney Maurice Nadjari and a handcuffed perp, Allan Kuhn, seem more villainous than the bad guys, some of them "hiding in bushes . . . carrying walkie-talkies and . . . pulling ignition wires on cars the authorities had rented so they would not start."
But sometimes the melodrama can run as thick as in any news rag, including the account of the 1929 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre that consolidated Al Capone's gang rule in Chicago after two of the killers entered the murder garage dressed as policemen, "their stars gleaming against the blue of the cloth." The seven victims were lined up against a wall. The likely order "to give it to them" was followed by "the roar of the shotguns mingled with the rat-a-tat of the machine gun, a clatter like that of a gigantic type-writer." (Love hyphenated "type-writer.")
However, the same reporter redeems himself when he describes one of the victims in a sleek three-sentence word burst worthy of James M. Cain: "The body of Mays, the overall-clad mechanic, had only a few dollars in the pockets. He was the father of seven children. A machine gun bullet had penetrated two medals of St. Christopher."
In another gem of succinctness written 78 years later, Shaila Dewan describes the sound of another deadly barrage, this one slow and steady, resulting in the deaths of 33 Virginia Tech students (including the shooter, who killed himself) and the wounding of 17 more: "[the gunshots] went on and on, for what seemed like 10 or 15 or 20 minutes, an eternity with punctuation."
Editors' Note: See Also Deputy Editor Nancy Bilyeau's interview with anthonology editor Kevin Flynn of The New York Times.
Richard Price, a Bronx, NY native, is author of The Wanderers, Clockers and Lush Life, and also the screenwriter of The Color of Money, Sea of Love, Freedomland, many episodes of The Wire—and, most recently, the HBO series The Night Of. Readers' comments are welcome.
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CNN, Anchorage Daily News Win 2020 John Jay/H.F. Guggenheim Justice Reporting Prizes
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The 15th annual awards, the nation's most prestigious prizes for justice journalism, went to Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken of CNN for their exposé of privatized prison health care, and Kyle Hopkins of the Anchorage Daily News for his series examining the plight of indigenous Alaskans living with no police protection. John Jay President Karol Mason also announced 26 journalists have been chosen as John Jay justice reporting fellows for this year.
Prison Workers' Internet Access Cut After Epstein Death
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons is curtailing staffers' access to the internet and cell phones to guard against "unnecessary distractions" that allegedly contributed to the failure to prevent the suicide of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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GENEVA, March 30, 2009 (AFP) - Swatch Group, the world's biggest watchmaker, on Monday said orders begun picking up in March, suggesting the situation was "improving" for the industry.
March "confirms that the situation is improving" and that "retailers have began to place orders," Nick Hayek, Swatch's chief executive, told AFP.
"We are no longer talking about cancellations in the order of 50 to 60 percent," he said on the sidelines of Baselworld, the world's biggest showcase for the watch industry held in the northern Swiss city until Wednesday.
"Some retailers are buying more, the same, or 15 to 20 percent less" compared to a year ago, Hayek said.
While confirmation would have to wait until the middle of the year, "we have a good chance that the situation will stabilise and that the second half ... will allow us to recover a part of the slowdown in January and February.
"In March, consumers continued to buy, stocks are running out ... and the retailer will have to continue buying and gradually, the situation will normalise," Hayek said.
He acknowledged that sales in the first half would fall below the year-earlier level.
For the full year, sales would also dip below 2008 levels, but "even if we sell eight to 10 percent less by year-end, we will still have done better than in 2007," he added.
If demand for watches has been little dampened by the financial crisis, huge swings on the foreign exchange market have wrecked havoc on Swatch's earnings.
The group, with a vast array of brands from the eponymous plastic watch to the luxury Breguet hand-crafted timepiece, lost 230 million Swiss francs (200 million dollars) due to unfavourable currency effects in 2008.
Hit by the economic crisis, Switzerland's watch export volumes plunged 22.4 percent in February.
Experts in the sector believe that exports could fall 20 percent in the first half of 2009.
A Swiss court has backed Swatch Group in a trademark row with Apple Inc over the watchmaker's use of the "Tick different" slogan, which Apple had decried as an infringement of its "Think Different" advertising campaign.
Watches of Switzerland expects to make further acquisitions in the United States, which it first entered in 2017 with the purchase of jeweller Mayors, its chief executive said on Friday.
Swiss watchmakers are confident they can grow sales this year even in the face of a cooling Chinese economy, executives told Reuters at an industry fair on Thursday.


Becoming a Certified Public Accountant in Alabama is a great choice for those who are detail-oriented and organized enough to be drawn to the profession. Understanding the complex and ever-changing tax and finance laws, as well as following the details of the evolving components of the state economy takes focus and patience. The population of the state of Alabama in 2017 was 4,874,747 placing it at 24th in the population category among U.S. states.
Mid-sized automobiles and large automobiles, both in piston and diesel engines take up four of the top 10 exports from the state of Heart of Dixie and $7.701 billion of the total exports of the state. Chemical wood pulp from the state's coniferous forests is number seven on the top ten list, bringing Alabama $481 million in revenues. For all of this exporting, the income for workers in Alabama was not as grand in 2017. The state earned an average per capita personal income of $40,805 which was $10,835 less than the U.S. average. The gross domestic product in Alabama $211.0 billion which placed it 27th as compared to other states. The largest single industry contributing to this figure was government and government enterprises, at $35.2 billion. This is good news for those who are interested in entering the field of government accounting.
Alabama has three commonly used nicknames. The first of these is "The Yellowhammer State," inspired by the state bird, Northern Flicker or Yellowhammer Flicker. During the U.S. Civil War, Confederate soldiers from Alabama were nicknamed "yellowhammers" because the grey-and-yellow uniforms they wore looked like the colors of the bird. Alabama is also called "The Cotton State," and the "Heart of Dixie." This southeastern state touches Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi, and the Gulf of Mexico to its south. Alabama is one of the areas known for its vast stretches of inland waterways, adding up to nearly 1,500 miles. Birmingham, which is considered by some to be the starting ground of the Civil Rights Movement, is the largest city in the state. The more centrally located capital city is Montgomery. The state flag features a giant red X on a white background, symbolizing St. Andrews Saltire (diagonal cross) atop a white field. The flag design was brought forth by an act of the Alabama State Legislature in 1895.
There are five AACSB accredited schools located in The Cotton State. What it means to be accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business is that the business school or program at that institution found it more important to serve student and cater to their success, and hire faculty that is contributing experts in their field than literally any other priority. These five include Auburn University, Auburn University at Montgomery, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, The University of Alabama, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, and The University of South Alabama.
Auburn University is located in the city of Auburn and is a public research university. The Raymond J. Harbert College of Business was founded in 1957, one hundred and one years after its mother university was first chartered. They offer a General Business doctorate, and full and part-time bachelor's and master's in accounting degrees. Of the 78 business school faculty, 91 percent have terminal degrees in one of the many business fields.
Auburn University at Montgomery, on the other hand, was founded in 1967, the same year as their College of Business. They are located in the heart of Montgomery. It is a small public master's university, and marketing, business, management, and related financial support services are among the things the university is known for excelling at. They offer accounting coursework in full or part-time formats at the bachelor's and master's level. The College of Business employs only 28 full-time faculty, and 80% of them have a Ph.D. or other terminal degree in their field.
The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa was founded in 1831. The Culverhouse College of Business was founded in 1919. It is also a public research university but is roughly 10 times the size in terms of enrolled students. Alabama (as the university is often referred) offers full-time programs in Accounting at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels. Of the 147 full-time faculty, 115 have a terminal degree.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham offers the Collat School of Business and over 50 years of business, accounting, and management education. The Carnegie Foundation calls UAB a research university with a very high research activity. Collat offers undergraduate, and master's programs in accounting that are offered full-time, part-time, evenings and weekends, via distance education, and online. One of the standards of the accreditation from the AACSB is the relative accomplishments of the program faculty. At UAB, there are 49 of 64 full-time faculty members who have earned a terminal degree in business and their specific niche.
The Mitchell College of Business at the University of South Alabama is the last of the 5 AACSB accredited schools in Alabama. South Alabama is located on the Gulf Coast in Mobile, AL. It is a public university that is classified as a masters university, due to the high level of research. The Mitchell College of Business was named that in 1999 after generous benefactors from the Mitchell family, a prominent set of business people in the Mobile area. They offer accounting programs with the option of a full or part-time basis and doctoral programs in Management and Marketing in a non-traditional format. Mitchell employs 48 full-time faculty, 87% of whom have earned a terminal degree in their field.
To become a licensed CPA in Alabama, applicants must be 19 years old or older, and citizens of the U.S., with a social security number. They must have earned 150 hours in post-secondary coursework including a bachelor's degree in accounting. They do not need to have established residency in Alabama prior to going for the CPA license. The specific education requirements to become eligible to earn a CPA license include 24 semester hours in accounting. Of these 24, 9 hours if the coursework should be in the area of financial accounting, 3 should be in auditing, 6 hours should be in the area of taxation, 3 of the hours must focus on the area of management accounting, 3 hours should be in the niche area of governmental or not-for-profit accounting, and at least 3 of the coursework hours should focus on business law. After education and exam sitting requirements, CPAs in Alabama must earn 1-year of experience in public accounting or at least 2-years work experience in government, industry, business, or university instruction. All CPAs are required to pass the Ethics Exam from the AICPA prior to initial licensure.
The Post Licensure Requirements for CPAs in Alabama include 40 general requirement hours of Continuing Professional Education. There are no ethics requirements, which is unusual, as most states emphasize ethics throughout the course of a CPA career. Licenses must be renewed every year by September 30. The CPE Reporting period is from October 1 to September 30 every year. Other subject area requirements include 8 hours of accounting and auditing coursework. There are some limitations to achieving CPE credits, including the fact that behavioral classes have a limit of 8 hours. Also, publishing materials can count for authorship credit, however, the limit is 25 percent of the total hours. Self-study is granted as a form of CPE, though it is limited to 50 percent of the total hours granted. Attending technical meetings are also accounted for in the context of CPE credits, in the context of national and chapter meetings for state organizations in accounting, though they are limited to 8 hours.
In terms of credit calculation when CPAs provide academic instruction, credit is granted for the presentation times two, but no credit is granted specifically for research or prep. If the class is taught a second time, it will not be counted for CPE credits unless the material is dramatically altered. If the CPA returns to college or university classes as a student, every hour in the classroom will account for one hour of CPE credit. 10 CPE hours will be granted for every quarter hour. For every noncredit course, every classroom hour will make up for one CPE hour. CPE credits are accepted by the state of Alabama for programming delivered by the sponsors of the National Registry. All non-residents who are licensees must work with the requirements in this state to renew for a year-long permit in Alabama.


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DONORE Harriers athletes Louis O'Loughlin and Jack Raftery captured gold medals and Aoife Lynch a bronze at last weekend's National Junior and Under 23 Championships in Tullamore.
The former clocked 1.54.00 on his way to victory in a dramatic Junior Men's 800m in which he edged out Mark Milner (1.54.01) of Tullamore Harriers and Daragh McIlhenny (1.54.02) of Bantry AC.
Junior Women's 1500m winner Ava O'Connor and Junior Men's 800m champion Louis O'Loughlin.
The three pre-race favourites had broken clear of the chasing pack at 300m and reached the bell in a moderate 60 seconds.
It was not until the 600 metres mark that Milner made his move gaining three metres on Clondalkin man O'Loughlin and McIlhenny as they rounded the top bend.
The latter, who recently set new Irish junior records for the 5000m and the 3000m, began chasing down Milner in what appeared to be shaping up for a duel between the two in the sprint to the line.
Yet O'Loughlin, who was two strides back and looked out of contention, turned on the burners on the inside line and sprinted to a remarkable win, with just two-hundredths of a second separating the three athletes.
In the Junior Men's 400m final, Raftery found himself languishing back in seventh place at the 200m mark, but the Donore athlete drove forward around the top bend and hit the front with just five metres remaining.
A final forward lunge to the line secured the gold medal and a new personal best time of 48.40 ahead of David Ryan of Moycarkey Coolcroo AC and Adam Hughes, representing City of Lisburn AC.
Donore Harriers other medallist was Aoife Lynch whose time of 24.37 was good enough to see her finish third in the Under 23 Women's 200m behind Sophie Becker of St Joseph's AC and winner Sharlene Mawdsley of Newport AC while Donore's Sarah Lahiff (27.83) finished up fifth.
Lynch has been selected to help represent the Ireland in the 4x100m relay at the European Under 23 Championships at Gavle in Sweden from July 11-14.
Meanwhile Raftery (4x400m relay) and O'Loughlin (800m) have been included on the Irish squad heading to the European Under 20 Championships at Borsa in Sweden July 18-21.
Under 23 athlete Eva McPartlan finished fourth in the 100m Hurdles Final in a time of 16.52 as she continues to make steady progress after a long lay-off due to injury.
Ailbhe Healy (2.85m) is another athlete trying to regain form after injury and, with only limited preparation, finished fourth in the final of the Under 23 Women's Pole Vault, losing out on the bronze medal only on count-back.
Paul McDermott finished fifth in the final of both the Under 23 Men's 100m and 200m.
MEANWHILE on Day One of the National Juvenile Track & Field Championships also at Tullamore on Sunday O'Loughlin won the club's only medal when he contested the Under 19 Boys 800m Final.
The Clondalkin man took the race from gun to tape, winning in a new championship best time of 1.52.58 ahead of Ferrybank's Jake Bagge in second and Conor Matthews of Dunleer in third.
First season athlete Rory O'Farrell came home fourth in the final of the Under 13 Boys 60m Hurdles, with Ruby Kelly fifth in the final of the Under 17 Girls 2000m Steeplechase.
There was a fifth place finish also for Gavin Curtin in the Under 18 Boys 3000m Steeplechase with Abdel Laadjel sixth in the final of the Under 17 Boys 800m.
Elsewhere master athlete Orlaith Read (25.88m) won a gold medal in the 4kg Hammer at the Northern Ireland and Ulster Masters Championships in Belfast.
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Q: Nemerle Custom Operator Problem What would like to able to write in my code is the following.
c² = a² + b²

To begin with I tried creating a macro for ² first.
I have tried the following.
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But I get expecting an identifier errors at the (x) So I tried
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Now I get Unsupported Syntax Token error at the "²".
So I ask
1. is possible to write the Operator ² ?
2. What are the supported Syntax Tokens?

A: Currently, any character with an ASCII code lower than 255 and the following characters are valid for an operator: '=', '<', '>', '@', '^', '&', '-', '+', '|', '*','/', '$', '%', '!', '?', '~', '.', ':', '#', '\', '`', '(' , ')' , ';' , '[' , ']'.
We can add "²" too, but maybe a more generic approach would be better.

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People in central Italy have woken up this morning to devastating scenes of rubble, after an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 hit in the early hours.
The powerful quake hit central Italy, leaving at least 21 people dead. Italian officials say that the number of fatalities is predicted to rise, as there are still people trapped under the rubble.
The earthquake hit at 03:36 (01:36 GMT), with the epicentre striking Norcia, around 105 miles' northeast of Rome. The quake had a shallow depth of 10km.
It is reported that some of the buildings shook for 20 seconds.
The town of Amatrice, is said to have suffered from some of the worst damage, as several people died in the town.
The mayor, Sergio Perozzi, told RAI radio: "The roads in and out of town are cut off. Half the town is gone. There are people under the rubble. There's been a landslide and a bridge might collapse."
Emergency workers have been making efforts to rescue six people trapped under a collapsed building in the main street of the town.
The mayor of a town a further distance towards the north of Amatrice, Accumoli, stated that six people had died.
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Two people have also died in the village of Pescara del Tronto, police say.
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... Naruto fanfics, specifically ones focused on Shikamaru and plot-oriented (i.e., not romances or PWP pr0n, etc.). Any fan-types out there with pointers? She found one (I think called "Bloodlines"?) about Shikamaru discovering that the inherited power of his family was actually the beginning of a bloodline like the Itachi and Hyuga talents, but the author never finished it.


Lausanne, Switzerland, September 12, 2014 – Symetis SA, the leading European developer of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) systems, announced today the launch of ACURATE neo™, its 15F compatible transfemoral TAVI system. Commercial implantations started early September after Symetis received CE Mark approval for ACURATE neo this summer.
"I found the ACURATE neo to be one of the easiest and most predictable transfemoral selfexpanding TAVI systems, and its clinical performance outstanding," said Prof. Alexandre Abizaid, from the Institute Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia in São Paulo, Brazil, who conducted the Brazilian arm of the study.
The rollout of ACURATE neo will be modeled on the successful commercialization of Symetis's transapical system, ACURATE TA, which has witnessed a remarkably rapid uptake in core European markets. "We look forward to working with heart teams across Europe that have gained experience with our transapical ACURATE TA to progressively establish ACURATE neo as a leading transfemoral TAVI solution," said Jacques R. Essinger, CEO of Symetis. "With the launch of ACURATE neo, Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE:EW), Medtronic (NYSE: MDT), and Symetis are now the only companies offering dual access routes, transapical and transfemoral, for the delivery of transcatheter aortic heart valves.
Prof. Helge Möllmann will present a Technology Review, Clinical Results, and Case Examples of ACURATE neo on September 15, at 2:50pm, as part of the "Didactic Symposia: AORTIC VALVE THERAPIES – Today and Tomorrow" of the 26th Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), the annual scientific symposium of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation.
The Symetis transpical TAVI system consists of the ACURATE TA™ Aortic Bioprosthesis and its Transapical Delivery System. The self-positioning bioprosthesis is composed of a noncoronary leaflet surgical quality porcine tissue valve sewn into a self-expanding nitinol stent covered with an anti-leak PET skirt. Its transapical delivery system is designed for quick, sheathless 2-step deployment and tactile positioning within the native annulus. The product is available in three sizes (S, M, L) to treat patients with aortic annulus diameters from 21mm to 27mm.
Symetis SA is a leading European developer of innovative, minimally invasive heart valve replacement devices. The company's products, ACURATE TA™ and ACURATE neo™ and their delivery systems, are based on proprietary geometry and delivery technologies and are well positioned to target the estimated $2 billion TAVI market. For more information visit www.symetis.com.


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Q: Android: Change who's calling I tried searching around google for a way to replace or append whos calling.
E.g.: someone is calling that you do not have stored in the contacts list, and I wish to do a lookup in an application on the phone for that phonenumber.
Is that possible? I've seen apps doing it, but I failed to see API docs on Android API docs page.
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Often I am asked about the references for some of the pieces I have written about on this site, for example SWOT, PESTLE & SMART, so I thought it was about time to provide an answer here rather than just in person.
Unfortunately writing a reference for some of these is not as easy to answer as you may believe.
The Harvard (and other referencing systems) were developed for the use of academic material. On this and other more popular management models there was no public paper, it was practical research applied. In addition technically unless you had access to the original paper, your reference should be this site (page) and the company newsletter. During my research of SWOT, PESTLE & SMART, I have found many references quoted that are plain incorrect – many by established academics!
Many academics seem to blindly trust the research of their colleagues – this is a dangerous thing to do. For example many quote Drucker and "The Practice of Management" as the source of SMART – it is not. I have been through several different editions and there is no reference to the model in any of them. Humphrey and the information provided on SWOT is the nearest I have found to any original documentation.
The reality is with SWOT is that no one really knows, the piece I have presented is the earliest credible reference, but this does not mean he was the originator.
So to answer the question, you can only use references to sources of information you personally have used, be they modern or original.
Recently there has been a move to extend the use of the referencing system to more informal publications (see below) so technically you should reference my site and the newsletter, as these are the nearest things to the source as anyone will find (but I am still on the case but now unhopeful).
For web pages you must include the full address of the page, not just the address of the site. This can be copied from the address bar which normally appears at the top of the browser.
Morrison, M. (2006) SWOT Analysis, https://rapidbi.com/SWOTanalysis, Date accessed 16/01/09.
An extra date, the date you accessed the page is included at the end of the reference, because web pages, unlike books, can be modified and even disappear entirely. Note it is recommended to print pages as paper references as the content of a page is likely to change.
Author, Initials., Year. Title of article. Full Title of newspaper/ publication, day and month before page numbers and column line.
Hack, A., 2005. Corporate mergers:killing our high streets.
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Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Central Asia (CA) Strategy Talk
central-asia-and-central-and-eastern-europe, en, ru, regional-strategy-talks
NikosLikomitros December 13, 2022, 11:04pm #21
I am Nikos Likomitros, a Wikipedian, member of the Wikimedia user group Greece, and I come here with really good news. In November, according to stats.wikimedia.org, Uzbek Wikipedia garnered 11.4 million pageviews in Uzbekistan, while Russian got 11.1 million pageviews in the same country. This is the first time that a Central Asian language overtakes Russian in its country in any given month.
Uzbek Wikipedia, is a Wikipedia that has noted rapid growth in pageviews and community since 2015. In December 2015 Uzbek had only 438 thousand pageviews in this month, right now however Uzbek reached 11.4 million pageviews in November and in December the number will be around that level, around 12 million certainly, with a possibility to surpass Russian again (as of pageviews.toolforge.org in the pageviews of the first twelve days of this month has been noted an increase of around 12% in comparison with the pageviews of the first twelve days of the previous month). Karakalpak has grew from just around 5 thousand in December 2015 to more than 50 in November 2022, with Uzbek community planning to develop both Uzbek and Karakalpak next year. Tajik, spoken by around 1.7 million people according to the national censuses, and 6 to 11 million according to various studies, also noted 26 thousand pageviews in November in comparison with 2 thousand in December 2015, meaning that Uzbekistanis regardless their nationality opt to read content in their national or otherwise native language more and more frequently. Uzbek is the first Wikipedia in Central Asia to surpass 1,000 active users while before WikiStipendiya Uzbek grew from 786 users with one edit in 2018 to 1,921 in 2021 (source for these statistics is uz.wikiscan.org) and these year they will surpass 6,000 users thanks to WikiStipendiya and other growth. Also Uzbek was nearing Russian with a pace faster than the other Wikipedias of this area; I assume this happens because of the increase of the internet access in Uzbekistan and because the majority of the population is under 30, as Uzbek became state language after independence in 1991, although with abundant use of Russian from the people and the government itself (even today, many TV channels have Russian language local-made programs and Cyrillic Uzbek is the preferred alphabet for many; even state media use it.)
Before WikiStipendiya Uzbek had around 300 active users, growing a lot since 2016 when just 70 active users existed. And without WikiStipendiya, Uzbek would have grew to around 330 to 350 users, displaying the great potential of Uzbek Wikipedia these days.
Until summer Uzbek will surpass Russian in various months while after September 2023 the lead will become more stable and will extend to nearly all the period between September and June (in the summer months most FSU Wikipedias record a decrease of around 50 percent in pageviews, probably because schools are closed; I assume this based on the fact that every weekend there is a noticeable decrease in the daily pageviews even now. In order to understand what I said better, Uzbek Wikipedia had exactly 8 million pageviews in June but slightly more than the half of 8 million in July and August, i.e. something more than 4 million each month), based in an elaboration of today's trends. In order to further improve this lead and the general quality of Uzbek Wikipedia, a suggested step is to undertake efforts to expand existing articles, either as a part of WikiStipendiya, or independently. This is a crucial step to bolster the lead. Congratulations to the Uzbek community, for this achievement. WikiStipendiya is a great success, although improvements in the quality of translation need to be done in some pages.
In the rest of Central Asia this is far from happening in another country at least for the next 5 years. In Kazakhstan, Kazakh has 15 to 25 million pageviews each month (except July and August when pageviews dip to 2 or 3 million when schools are closed) and Russian holds on around 35 to 45 million pageviews per month year round, with some growth. In Tajikistan Tajik has a growth spiral that resembles Uzbek Wikipedia's one, going from 75 to 438 thousand pageviews per month in the same period that I noted for Uzbek. However Russian has more than 2 million pageviews per month there and given the lacks there it will take time. In Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyz has steady growth, but Russian is having approximately 6 to 8 million pageviews while Kyrgyz floats between 3 and 4 million except summer where it dips below million in Kyrgyzstan. In Turkmenistan Turkmen has steadily growing, despite minimal growth in articles; from 44 thousand pageviews in December 2015 they rose to 283 thousand last month. However with Turkish growing from 60 to 220 thousand in just three years (these two languages are partially intelligible, not in the degree of Azerbaijani and are both Oghuz languages) it is realistic that Turkish may become the most popular Wikipedia in Turkmenistan sometime in the future, after 2030 for a time before Turkmen reaches it.
How the other Wikipedias of Central Asia can take lessons, and what they can do to improve their standing substantially. Here's some advices that ate generally performing:
• Give emphasis in writing significant pages about your country and vital articles, e.g. a page about a topic related to Kyrgyzstan that Kyrgyz hasn't, but Russian or English (or even Uzbek) has one.
• Expand existing articles. Improving the quality of your articles, your reputation as e.g. Kyrgyz Wikipedia grows a lot.
• Open Wikipedia to the society. Advertise it on the media, to your friends, to the society in order to attract more users. Introduce it to schools as well, a space with abundant readership for all Central Asian Wikipedias (as I spoke for introducing Wikipedia as a means of information to schools and introducing the children to write/expand articles in it, you can take Armenian WikiClubs as an example; they have remarkable success).
Because WikiStipendiya shows that we can improve substantially the standing of a local language even if English, French or Russian is very significant in Kazakhstan, Bangladesh or Burundi, these tips are easily applicable to Indic and African wikis. Quality pages and quality translations must be however, the first and foremost priority.
Excuse me for the long text, but I am very fond of Wikipedia statistics and I chose to include some analysis of the climate in Central Asia as well, in order to give you an understanding on what happens in the rest of Central Asia.
AAkhmedova_WMF January 12, 2023, 5:42pm #22
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AAkhmedova_WMF January 23, 2023, 11:47am #23
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Martin was born at The Gentle Barn after his mom was rescued from a backyard butcher just in time. He is strong and healthy and loves to run and jump and play. Unlike his mom who had a hard life before coming to us, Martin will only know kindness, safety and love and will get to grow up with his mom!


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Smart Objects is pleased to announce the first installment of Fone Features, an ongoing series of exhibitions featuring phone-based art.
Opening reception Friday May, 10th from 7-10 pm ~~~ with VIRTUAL PHONE TOURS starting May, 4th from 4-8pm.
Over the past couple decades, the mobile phone has developed from having one basic use to having many, seemingly limitless, and customizable functions. Today's "smart phone" grants people many possibilities for using their device in unconventional ways-- from tracking ones sleep patterns to making painterly compositions.
For the inaugural show, artist Hana Weiss and Chadwick Gibson will be displaying various works created using different apps and functions of the iPhone. Weiss's paintings are the product of extensive experimentation, often involving three or four apps to create a single image. Gibson's work focuses on the iPhone's user interface, manipulating familiar functions into compositions, that highlight the smart phone's evolving forms of communication.
For the week prior to the official exhibition opening, Gibson will be giving Virtual Phone Tours using his iPhone, via FaceTime or Skype app. For a tour please FaceTime the gallery at 213-840-9681 or phone Skype smartobjectsla during the hours listed below.
Virtual Phone Tours will also be given during the opening and then by appointment for the remainder of the exhibit. Please text 213-840-9681 to schedule an appointment.


Calaveras Sheriff's Deputies arrested an Escalon man following a short vehicle chase. According to the Sheriff's Office around 6 Friday evening, a patrol deputy initiated a traffic stop on a vehicle for a minor traffic infraction on Pine Street in West Point. The vehicle failed to yield and accelerated at a high rate of speed fleeing westbound on Highway 26 and forcing another motorist off the roadway. The pursuit was terminated a short time later for safety reasons but the suspect vehicle was seen on Sawyer Road near West Point. Deputies familiar with the area knew that Sawyer Road dead ends so a perimeter was established. When the suspect vehicle attempted to leave the area a short time later, deputies conducted a felony car stop and arrested the driver without further incident. Deputies discovered two different license plates displayed on the suspect vehicle, and neither plate belonged to that car. A check of the VIN number revealed that vehicle was stolen out of Manteca. During a search of the vehicle, deputies seized methamphetamine and a key that had been altered to be used as a burglary tool. The driver, Lester Dias was booked into the Calaveras County Jail on a felony warrant out of San Joaquin County as well as a number of local charges. His total bail was set at $130,000.00.


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Covid-19 Affects Freshmen Fall Sports Season
A recap on how freshmen had to adjust to the protocols due to the virus during their fall season
Vito DeVito field: Foran High School football field. Photo courtesy: Lauren Ardolino, November 6, 2020.
Tori Matula and Lauren Ardolino
Covid-19 is an ongoing pandemic that has affected many students, especially freshmen during their fall sports season. These freshmen had a different experience compared to upperclassmen due to the virus. They had to adjust to many safety regulations, producing an abnormal season.
Being a freshman in a new high school can be scary for younger students. A bigger school, new people, new teachers, and an unfamiliar environment can all seem overwhelming. And with the virus circulating, it has had even more of an effect on the students and staff. Along with the incoming freshmens' unfamiliarity with the school, they are faced with the challenges of having to adjust to the protocols of Covid-19.
With fall being the first sports season during the pandemic, each sport has been making adjustments to fit the needs of safety while also allowing students to have a season. Especially with the freshmen being new to the school, it has been even more challenging for them to adapt to the precautions. For example, the volleyball team has had to wear a mask at all times because it is indoors. Soccer athletes have to wear a mask when they are on the bench and maintain social distancing. Football is only allowed to have practices and 7 v. 7 scrimmages, and all coaches and referees must wear a mask.
Coach of the boys cross country team and health teacher, Mr. Jeffrey Raucci says, " I have been blown away by the resilience of freshmen and how they adapted to the fall sports season with all the precautions, regulations, protocols, and different circumstances that they are practicing and competing under." It has made coaching even more enjoyable and the team has created positive camaraderie throughout the season.
Raucci, proud of his athletes, says that adjusting to the pre-season practices was difficult due to the cohorts of 10 and training sessions under an hour. He explains that "the resiliency of these student-athletes and how they came together as one when we got the 'ok' to practice as a full team has left me speechless." Their team was able to quickly form friendships and create positive relationships with one another which led them to having a successful team.
Izze Fallon, a new member of the girls soccer team, has had a first hand perspective on what it's like being a new athlete during the pandemic. Fallon states, ¨Covid-19 has affected our sports season by minimizing the team bonding opportunities and activities off the field.¨ Fallon also says, ¨I wish that we did not have to play restricted soccer and follow all of the new rules. High school sports teams are different from other teams I've played on because upperclassmen help me achieve new goals, and push myself to do the best I can.¨ Covid-19 has made Fallon's freshman year one that she will not forget.
One of the captains on the girls soccer team, Anna Byers, had a very different freshman year in comparison to the class of 2024. Byers states, ¨Obviously my freshman year, there was not a global pandemic happening. We practiced with the full team from the beginning and didn't have to worry about cohorts, masks or staying 6 feet apart from each other. The pandemic definitely made the transition for the freshman this year a lot more interesting and probably more difficult than my freshman year." Byers has led the team, and the new lower classmen through the soccer season, and has responsibly followed the new protocols.
Emma Honcz, a freshman this year on the girls volleyball team, gave some insight as to how she thinks the pandemic has affected her first volleyball season. Honcz says, "Once games began, I realized how different Covid-19 has caused the season to be. Whether it was playing with masks, no spectators, or sitting six feet from my teammates, it truly put into perspective how lucky we were to even be playing." Being a freshman, even without Covid, she states that she did not know what to expect and could tell all the girls were nervous in the beginning. Honcz claims, "High school sports is different to other sports teams I've played on because I am playing with mixed grade levels and forming bonds with them which is something I had a small amount of experience with in other sports outside of high school."
The class of 2024 has experienced some hardships with this year's fall sports season by having to follow safety protocols. It is hard enough being the new kids at a new school but the freshmen were able to adjust to their season in order to make up for what they lost. Despite the precautions that needed to be made, the freshmen were able to handle it and it has helped teams create stronger bonds with one another, creating more cohesive teams in the process.
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Hi, my name is Tori Matula and I'm a senior at Foran. I'm a content editor and I enjoy writing about any topic. I play volleyball at Foran...
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A blue polar bear and a pirate girl went wandering down the streets of Ashland, OR today. Fortunately no one noticed because they were part of a large parade of oddly-dressed people.
Ashland throws a huge costume parade down the main street for Halloween, and we were invited to attend by our new friends Kelli, Rob, and Allison. I say "new friends" because we've never met them before. Like us, they are traveling in an Airstream trailer with a young daughter and blogging the experience. Kelli and I have been reading each others blog for a few months, and Kelli realized recently that we would all be in Oregon right around Halloween, and invited us down so the girls could trick-or-treat together.
That turned out be a superb idea. Not only did Emma and Allison have a fabulous time together (parading, collecting candy, sharing their own private booth for pasta dinner after the parade, etc.) but the adults found a lot of common ground too. We're thinking about getting together for some travels in California in the next couple of weeks.
The Ashland parade was full of incredible and creative costumes, but the most amazing costume we saw today had to be Zoltar. This guy not only built the booth (full of intricate details) and the costume, but mounted the whole rig atop a Segway so it could travel along the sidewalks and streets.
Without video it's hard to convey how startling it is to see an entire booth, complete with mystical fortune-telling "robot" inside, roll up to you. It's even more magical when strange music begins to play, and you hear Zoltar's recorded voice announce in ethereal tones, "ZOLTAR SPEAKS!" Then he either tells your fortune or a joke, and the "robot" inside slowly picks up a candy and drops it in the bin so that you — the lucky recipient of a visit by Zoltar — can retrieve it.
And then, Zoltar silently glides away, booth and all.
It's pure magic, and the guy who came up with it deserves some sort of award. Nicely done.
It turns out that just up the road from Eugene are the assembly facilities for both Monaco Coach (expensive motorhomes) and Marathon Coach (extremely expensive motorhomes). They're right across the street from each other in Coburg, OR.
I like factory tours in general, and of course have a professional interest in travel vehicles, so the opportunity to see how these RV's are built was impossible to pass up. (It doesn't hurt that the tours are free.) Monaco runs the tours at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. currently, and Marathon runs theirs at 11:30. The Monaco tour can run 1-2 hours (ours went almost a full two hours) so if you want to do both, go see Marathon first.
As is typical for these tours, cameras are not allowed, so I have no photos from inside the plant. But I can tell you it's a great tour with lots of opportunities to get very close to all phases of the process. We watched as the motorhomes were welded together literally from the ground up starting with 3×8 box sections of steel for the frame rails. Monaco builds the whole coach including the chassis, whereas most manufacturers buy their chassis already pre-built, so you get to see just about everything that goes into making a motorhome.
1) Like most Class A motorhome manufacturers, they don't make a two-bedroom floorplan.
2) I don't have $500-800k to blow.
We've moved on to our next stop, Valley of the Rogue State Park, between Grants Pass and Medford OR. We'll spend Halloween here and take a couple of days to get other things done before heading into California.
UPS dropped off the replacement unit around 10:30 and Joe had it wired in place within 30 minutes. The job was about 1.75 hours of labor in total, including a few minutes to swap our spare tire for the new one we bought this week. By noon we were on the road. It's great when the plan comes together.
I have to acknowledge the behind-the-scenes contribution of David Tidmore at Roger Williams Airstream in Texas. David's shop installed these brakes originally, and he made himself available to consult with me several times during this episode, offering advice and facilitating the replacement unit from Actibrake. That's really great customer service.
There is one small problem remaining to be fixed. During the swap of the actuators, a tiny bit of air may have gotten into the brake lines. Skipanon doesn't normally work on hydraulic brake systems, so they didn't know how to bleed the lines. During testing of the system, I could tell that the brakes are not quite as aggressive as they were before, and I suspect air in the lines is the cause. The brakes are still very good and the trailer stops well, but it could be just a tiny bit better.
So we put some miles behind us and headed straight down to Eugene OR, where we can visit our friends at George M Sutton RV (an Airstream dealer). I may have them bleed the brakes tomorrow, but mostly it's a good excuse to drop in on George and Martha Sutton and say hello. George and Martha have been major supporters of Airstream Life magazine for over two years, and we've parked overnight in their lot every time we've been in Oregon. This is the third time we've visited with them.
By coming down to Eugene via I-5, we've made a conscious decision to skip the rest of coastal Route 101. Our next major destinations are in California, and the season is getting near the end for certain places at higher elevation. After a lot of discussion over the atlas, we made the tough call: we'll skip the rest of the coast (most of which we've driven before) and speed up our travels through Oregon so we can get to California sooner.
I've discovered that just a few miles from here are the Monaco and Marathon Coach factories, and both offer factory tours. Tomorrow we're going to drop in on at least one of them, while the Airstream is being serviced.
I remember spending Sundays at home when we lived in a house. I always felt challenged to find something different to do on Sunday in the winter, because otherwise there would be a tedious sameness to the day and by nightfall I would be feeling as though I had spent a day pacing a jail cell.
One of the things I like about moving around more or less constantly is that when Sunday rolls around there's usually something new to explore. I'm not one for watching football, or walking the same walk with the dog. Even in a little town like Astoria there's a bouquet of novel things to see and do, so Emma and I headed out today while Eleanor stayed back to finalize Emma's Halloween costume.
Astoria is sort of a tiny version of San Francisco, a town with a harbor, a long bridge, a steep hill, and lots of interesting Victorian houses. Atop the big hill is Astoria's version of Coit Tower, called the Astoria Tower. Take a couple hundred spiral steps up to the top and you get a superb 360 degree view of town, the Columbia River, the Pacific Ocean, and the inland forests.
Down by the river there's a long multi-use trail that follows the river and reveals the remnants of a dozen canneries, several ocean-going ships anchored (waiting for a chance to go up the ship channel to Portland), a Maritime Museum, several piers covered mostly with restaurants, and a cute rickety old wooden trolley running east and west.
We walked most of the trail, down to Pier 39, and then picked up the trolley for the ride back. You can ride as much as you want for just a buck — a bargain — and the volunteers who run it tell stories about the history of the waterfront as it rumbles and creaks along the rusty rails.
From downtown we headed over to Fort Stevens, a state park just up the road from our current campground. I'd much prefer to have camped here, but cell phones are marginal in some of the camping areas and given that we needed a lot of communication when we arrived, we opted for a safer location.
Fort Stevens is a large state park, with great bicycling trails, long stretches of beach, big dunes, good campsites, historic sites, views, and even a shipwreck. The Peter Iredale ran aground here about a century ago, and the bones of the steel ship are still embedded in the dense sand just off the beach. Stripped of just about everything and perpetually leaning hard to port, the Peter Iredale is a skeleton. People walk up, snap a picture, and walk away, but I like to look at it a while and imagine how the ship appeared in life, and imagine what it was like the day it crashed ashore.
And speaking of skeletons, Halloween is looming. When we returned to the Airstream the costume was still in process, and it will be tough for Eleanor to get it done by Wednesday, particularly if we don't have an electric hookup on Monday or Tuesday night to run the sewing machine. We also don't know where we'll be for Halloween, but we are aiming at southern Oregon to meet up with another 7-year-old girl who happens to full-time in an Airstream. More on that later.
Just down Route 101 from Warrenton we found another little surprise, Sunset Beach State Recreation Area. Just take a westerly turn and drive until you hit the sand (just past the trailhead for the Fort to Sea Trail) then head south along hard-packed gray sand toward Seaside.
You can drive for miles along this beach. I expect in the summer it might get pretty busy, but on a chilly Saturday in October there were probably only two dozen vehicles on the sand in four or five miles.
This would be a sweet spot to park the Airstream for a day at the beach. Overnight stays aren't allowed, but you could easily put the trailer on the sand as a private cabana. We might even do that on Monday if we get out of the RV shop early enough.
Things are turning around. The makers of our disc brake actuator, Active Technologies, came through promptly with some good news this morning. They have a few refurbished units which match ours, and put one in a box destined for delivery to us on Monday. This is better than getting the newer unit because it will be a direct-fit replacement and thus won't mystify the local RV repair shop quite as much.
With this happy news, we embarked fifty miles south to Tillamook. Our friend Gunny has been parked in Salem in his Airstream 25FB, patiently waiting for us to show up and visit. I was worried we'd be forced to skip past Salem by the ripples from this delay, so we invited him to meet us at the Tillamook Dairy.
The dairy is the major attraction of Tillamook. Even now, in the off-season, the parking lot is busy with hundreds of vehicles coming and going all day. The Dairy is a cheese factory, with a casual restaurant and a couple of ice cream bars inside too. You can take a self-guided tour overlooking the production lines, which is fun for people from 7 to 60-something years of age, as we proved today.
There are a couple of other tours along this stretch of Rt 101, according to Factory Tours USA. These include Pacific Oyster, just a couple of miles north of Tillamook, and The Real Oregon Gift Myrtlewood Company a bit further north. We dropped in on Pacific Oyster but there's only an oyster shucking operation to see and the line was closed when we arrived.
Route 101 is the real star of this trip. The road rolls and sways, dipping into cedar forest and then rising far above the ocean to reveal stunning views. It's like this all the way from here to Humboldt County in northern California.
Seaside Oregon is another little gem along this route. This town looks like just a strip mall from Route 101, but if you head west across the river at Avenue G, you'll find the Lewis and Clark Salt Works location neatly enshrined among a neighborhood of cute little shingled cottages. Park here and walk to the water. Seaside has a large flat beach insulated from the neighborhood by a deep barrier of sea oats, and it's really beautiful. In the early evening we found dozens of people crabbing in the low tide zone while the orange sun set cast reflections on the skim of water that still covered the sand.
Now it is starting to feel like there won't be time to visit all the things we want to see in this area. That's perfect. I'd much rather feel I left a spot a little too early, than feeling like I stayed too long.
If you believe that all things must be scheduled and everything must fit the schedule, you may not be well suited for a full-time travel life. Likewise if your fear of the unexpected paralyzes you into inaction. To live this traveling lifestyle, I have found that we need to deal with changes in circumstance that arrive like snowflakes in January.
The brake actuator is a highly visible example but far from the only one. In the past two weeks we've probably had a dozen small unexpected changes to the itinerary due to weather, road closures, campground closures, mechanical problems, work considerations, and fuel prices. It's all part of the game.
Today the news is not good. The actuator we have is a discontinued model. The replacement model is not a direct fit. It requires a new bracket and different wiring, and thus it should be installed by someone who knows something about the wiring of an Airstream. But the nearest Airstream dealer is George M Sutton RV in Eugene, about 150 miles away, which is too far for us to go without brakes.
None of the local service centers have ever seen this braking system before. The automotive shops don't know 12v systems and the RV shops don't know electric-hydraulic disc brake actuators. So we will have to find a way to telephonically transfer the knowledge of the original installers (Roger Williams Airstream in Weatherford TX) to the local RV shop. I've found a local company that is willing to attempt the task.
The other bad news is that the earliest we can get the replacement part is Monday. We were not planning to spend more than about 10 minutes here but it seems we will have plenty of opportunity to get to know the local area. We have three days to wait, and I don't like to wait, so instead we will pretend we meant to stop in Warrenton and explore some of the local attractions.
Primarily this is the heart of Lewis and Clark country. There are no less than twelve historic sites related to the famous expedition, including the Washington state park we just left (Cape Disappointment) and the Oregon state park just up the road from here (Fort Stevens). We can't visit them all in a three-day weekend, and Emma would go insane if I tried, but we can at least visit one or two.
There's also a scenic drive down Rt 101 to Tillamook. We were going to do it with the Airstream, but with this delay it makes more sense to just go down for the day without the Airstream.
Just between you and me, however, I will admit that I really want to hitch up and go right now. I'd like to be at a beautiful beachside state park, which was the major goal of driving down Rt 101 through Oregon. I'd like to be heading relentlessly toward the warmer temperatures of California (even with the wildfires burning down in San Diego County). And as with last summer when the wheel came off the trailer, it's hard to remain calm in the face of a mechanical problem that has no clear resolution at the moment. We can only trust that things will work out.
I think the Lewis and Clark historical sites will help with this. It will certainly put our current problem into perspective. Those guys in the Corps of Discovery basically floated, rode, and walked from what was (to them) the known world, into a completely foreign land of plants, animals, people, and incredible obstacles. They didn't know when they'd be back, and they knew their chances of survival were unpredictable. The nearest analogue to that expedition today would be hopping in a space ship to Mars with a big pile of canned food.
So at those times when I feel like I've received a sentence to serve under "trailer arrest," perhaps it will help to make a visit to the nearby site where the Corps stopped for a month to make salt. My worst food problem is finding a grocery that stocks those tasty maple cookies I like. Looking at it that way, things aren't so bad after all.


My Big, Fat, Greek Truffle!
Ok, it's not abnormally large, and not of Greek origin, but it is Anise-flavored like my favorite Greek liquor, OUZO!! If you make a mess while making/eating these, you can clean it up with Windex!
In a small saucepan over medium heat, bring cream and anise pods to a gentle simmer.
Cover and steep 10-12 mins.
In a bowl large enough to rest over the top of the water pot, combine chocolate and anise extract.
When cream has finished steeping, pour it through a wire mesh strainer into the chocolate & anise extract mixture. Discard anise pods.
Heat chocolate, anise extract, and cream slowly over the double-boiler until chocolate is melted and mixture is smooth.
Put granulated sugar into an airtight container with a lid.
Add your anise pods & shake container.
The longer the anise pods remain in the sugar, the greater the licorice/Ouzo flavor.
If you use some of your sugar & need to refresh, just add some sugar and let your container rest to infuse the flavor.


I re-released the Oceanside Pants & Shorts pattern yesterday! It's been almost 3 years since I first published this design, and it was time to extend it to my full size range. I also included some additional fitting techniques, because alterations for pants can be less intuitive than for other types of garments.
Before re-releasing the pattern, I tested it again in all sizes. Of course this was important to get the pattern just right, but it has the added advantage of getting to see all the great pants and shorts that the testers make! I'm inspired to add a few new Oceansides to my closet for the summer.
Of course, the quintessential way to make Oceansides is with a lightweight linen or chambray, which several testers chose. It's classic perfection – just add a couple of natural-looking buttons (like wooden or coconut).
I really liked seeing a few print versions! These also show the versatility of the design when made with other substrates — a rayon or polyester turns out really flowy, but a more structured cotton works too.
And we can't forget the shorts. Sometimes you need to stay cooler than full-length can get you, even in linen! Perfect for trips to the beach.
Get your wardrobe ready for summer with the Oceansides! The pattern is on sale for only $10, but just through Friday. Use the code NEWOCEANSIDE at checkout for the promo price.


Both the Dana-Farber Cancer Care Collaborative and the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Care Collaborative serve a select group of hospitals that have demonstrated a commitment to excellence by meeting a wide range of standards and best practices in adult medical and/or radiation oncology.
Following review of their oncology operations, Collaborative members agree to implement key recommendations in order to meet Dana-Farber standards.
Dana-Farber Collaborative membership enhances educational opportunities for member hospitals' staffs; offers opportunities for members to consult with medical specialists at Dana-Farber in Boston; and provides members with expedited access to Dana-Farber's main campus in Boston for their patients with complex cancers. Members can also take advantage of access to Dana-Farber support services, such as on-site specialty second opinion clinics, clinical trials, tumor board conferences, and physician lectures.
Dana-Farber is not responsible for the care provided at these locations.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Lifespan Cancer Institute in Rhode Island have created a strategic alliance to advance cancer treatment and research. Dana-Farber and Lifespan will support the expansion of clinical trials, access for Lifespan physicians to cancer-specific disease expertise for complex cases, and the launch of a new program to coordinate the treatment of bone marrow transplant patients, with transplants provided in Boston at Dana-Farber and care surrounding the transplant provided at Lifespan Cancer Institute in Providence. The two organizations will share patient information through their respective cancer-specific electronic health record systems and will use the same clinical trials management platform, resulting in better care coordination.


Thank you to all those who have purchased tickets. We look forward to seeing you at the celebration.
Join us for a fabulous night of dinner and dancing in commemoration of our 50th Anniversary. We will be celebrating 50 years of legacy, excellence and the power to make a difference in our community through civic leadership, community service and philanthropy.
Our Keynote Speaker will be Meena Harris. Ms. Harris is a Commissioner on the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women and Head of Strategy & Leadership at Uber. She also launched the Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign, which promotes activism and empowers women. Our Masters of Ceremonies will be Marcus Washington from NBC Bay Area.


The patient's movements are the most common cause of image artifacts.
Random movements which produce a blurry and noisy image, mainly in the phase-encode direction.
Periodic motion which creates ghost images in the phase-encode direction.
Motion artifacts mainly propagate in the phase-encode direction. This is due to movement of the spins between 2 excitations or between phase-encoding and signal reading: in the first case, the spins will not be recorded at the same position between excitations, in the second case, their phase-encoding will not be correct. As a result, the phase-encoding of these voxels is corrupted and this will be responsible for artifacts in the phase-encode direction.
On the other hand, signal sampling and spatial-encoding in the frequency-encode direction are done so fast that physiological motion will only produce a small amount of spatial blurring in that direction.
When the movements are periodical (cardiac beats, arterial or CSF pulsations, respiration), they can produce ghost images, propagated in the phase-encode direction, even outside the anatomic limits. The intensity of these ghost images becomes more extreme with the intensity of the moving structure and with the amplitude of movement. These ghost images can show up as an increase or decrease of the true image signal.
The spacing between ghost images varies with the direction of the movement, its amplitude and its periodicity relative to the phase-sampling interval (TR).


Discussion in 'Yahoo' started by tanvir islam, Dec 8, 2017.
anyone tried it as like Facebook group posting . ?
I did in the past, but focus more on things like Twitter and Facebook now. I've had better results there.
I haven't heard mention of Yahoo Groups in so long that I thought it was probably closed down. I'm thinking it might be a dead end, especially since Yahoo assets have been sold off.
Tried but didn't get best results..
It's very outdated now. Nobody really uses Yahoo! now, or Tripod. Etc.
I didn't try it and want to know if anyone had benefited from it.
I use facebook groups a lot but I have not used Yahoo groups. Can anyone show me some yahoo marketing groups or yahoo youtube groups where I can tell others about youtube videos.
I know it's too late to answer this but I just want to give my input.
I've tried Yahoo group posting before but I just don't seem to like it, it's very unorganized.
In the past I used yahoo answers, not sure what yahoo groups are. But recently I heard yahoo answers weren't that great at getting traffic any more because they don't rank so high on google these days?
Anyways, Dana would You be willing to share some short tips for facebook/twitter groups ?
Yes, yahoo group can be a good choice, make sure that you honor their community rules and answer questions clearly.
I think the best tips for any groups, are to find those that may have an interest in your niche. When you join groups, contribute to the community. Don't spam and follow the rules of the group.
I haven't trying , but I am thinking about using this, if any one find good things here.
I've noticed that some of my friends still use yahoo groups in europe but it's slowly become obsolete since google and facebook are the better platforms. I've had sucess with groups on google plus for meetups and networking. Facebook is great and easy to use. Especially since the feed settings for facebook are accurate when someone post.
Don't use it, it's a waste of time. Just go to Facebook or G+, they have more active people that actually care.
It's not accepting posts of any type - via e-mail or directly at the site. When I tried to do a post on another of my groups, it worked perfectly. Anyone seeing similar issues? Anyone know how to contact Yahoo for help?
I don't recommend doing this.


had to hit it early in order to get back to set up for Father's Day BBQ @ my house this yr.
wanted to get a few fillets as a surprise for my pop since we didn't keep anything the day before.
WInd - zero ----SW @ 10 by 9am..
was a few hrs into the outgoing -- just enough to try a few spots before the tide gave out..
FLAT CALM>>> moved from spot - nada > to spot - nada > to spot nada...a few hits here and there...but it took me 2 hrs to locate any fish..
4 th location... finally hada bass on the 1st cast --- micro..... then some scup and robin... all small.
decided to ride over to PJ .... every boat on the sound was there....looked like a P-Lot. - if you like PB fishing now's the time as they were doing very very well..
saw a few Noreasters as well... the fish were there too... but I couldn't get anything to them..wrong gear..
did manage a Very nice 15" scup for pop and some short fluke and more robins..
headed back to SB --- 9am-- stopped on Spot 3 saw a few fish surface...west side..best action of the day and I only had a half to fish it..
mostly blues...but had a bass in the mix.... had one very nice 28-29" blue...ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...then broke off.. thought it was a keeper bass until saw that devils fork tail...zip away and break the leader..
called it after that as I was pushing it on time..very low tide and leaving @ 10 am while everyone's coming in..is time consuming..
a nice early morning ride....with some fish mixed in caught a nice mixed bag..just mostly small.
1 big Blue...28-29" --got away..
- Never found the bass Bite I was looking for...well I did find it ..just not were I could fish it..
watched the weather ALL day -- hoping the rain would stay west until later as predicted..
zipped around the corner....and right behind... a S__L_O_W moving truck....with the license plate "POODLE" starring back @ me...settled in for an extra 5-10min of driving...and yeah --of course they went exactly the same way I was going..just about the whole way...well it's better than being behind..."GR8GMA"..ok I admit I was getting a little steamed..but as soon I was free from that.. all was gravy..
VERY low moon tide upon arrival.. 7:05 pm.
got outside and chop slop... very quiet..
stopped on spot close that had fish before....gave 3 quick drifts,,,,nada...marked 2 fish ..
hit the next spot...drift the longest here. marked fish - tried to get under the wind.. in the wind outta the wind .. in out.. nada-- not even a touch.. should have left sooner --but I felt there was a good shot @ nice fish...now with light fading.. Very overcast cut the light by more than half..
set up with another boat fluking .. hoping to pick up anything @ this point just to avoid a Skunk..
Fish ON .. SEA Robin = semi skunk. .. 2 more short drifts,,,guys picking up fluke n robins but nada a for me .. no bait..
now .5 hrs to Go>>>>>>>>>> 8:30 SUNSET> moved again to a spot I like....LAST shot...Payed off... saw a fish immediately....splash about 2 ft from shore?
then another and another and a whole school of bass rolling near shore... motored in quietly with 4 stroke.....had a hit...then 4-5 casted later.. fish on. nice schoolie..
left em rolling,,,but not as much --- done @ 9:06pm..
choppy slamming ride back..but still pretty fast with the new 90.
1 Keeper Bass ( 29") - weird cleft pallet face.
1 nice fish on and off..
plus 40% chance of t-storm...fog in the Am... doesn't really sound all that promising.. but I was going no matter what.. got off to a late start..
left the house @ 10:30...on the water by 11.
gave it another 30- 45 .. had a few more hits but no hook ups..
went to where I the hooked a hook fish on mem day....sea robin..blah..
the Bay was fairly Flat - the Wind NE -- blocked by land..made for a pleasant day.. I really thought it was going to bad..outgoing tide incoming wind..but it wasn't.
1pm moved to a spot I had a few bass in the past...calm...too calm...just very quiet not many boats out at all..saw some cormorans packed together moved in close with them.. but nada..
@ one point I moved into busting fish... got up on the casting deck,,,and saw a Big bas roll ...slowly @ my feet .. wow what a sight - He moved so slow I thought he was dead @ 1st... I just changed back to what I had the keeps on .. even if I was losing shoots @ bigger fish --it was atleast a shot.. everthing else wasnt working..
picked up 10 Schoolies and a fluke ....even though they would hit as often as I would like --I was patient.. 4:15 pm... had a good pattern going .. had a bite even drift.. (which was alot).... hook one finally....BAM,,,,light bite....But when I set it...ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ....ZZZZZZZZZZZZ very Nice Fish -- took me a few minutes to get em in .. Keeper ( 35") stocky...took my time releasing this one.. beautiful fish..Largest fish landed of 2011.
stayed too long missed a few bites -- robin and a XL scup. but fish moved on after that 1st Hr .. what a great bite to find. A school of all keeper bass..
Ok really Done @ 7pm...semi doghouse...but when you hit something like that - you just got to fish it...the drift was dead...fishing straight up n down...and they still hit-those light bites are great....never know what it's going to be until that hook is set..
~~~ 4 Keepers lost 1/2 way.- one big Hook straightening fish..
~ most important part was = ZERO Blues. not even one bite off..
to the water @ 645-- very good timing...that's 15 min early than expected / usual..
I made 3 quick flies the night before... because I had None? left in the fly box form last season...must be somewhere..
wind - NW 0-5 Calm breeze -- became zero wind..good fly conditions - Bad bugs conditions..
in the water by 650 perfect tide ..
Had great casts right out the box -- didn't last long 30 casts in I had a terrible Fly reel malfunction....3 seasons of abuse and my Pflueger Trion quit trion...and ground to a halt..
now I have the stink on it.. repeated the same process in the same area...fish were out a little further than I guess my fly was reaching...2 casts more and I another fish on -- a Nice one to -- about keeper size but he got off 20 ft away..
done @ 9pm - still good light with No clouds -- extra time..is just the best. NO blues rocks too..a great 2hrs.
wanted to get out just before the High tide so I didn't care about the time....but I do like prepacking everything the night before better...just like getting up n going better..
wind NW 5-10 .. then 10-15 by 2pm --never did switch to the South as predicted..
not that may trailers as I expected being a beautiful day mid-day launch..
moved to another spot where I had bass....6-7 drifts.....a few hits ..but still nada.. saw some seagulls in the distance -- then a splash..
high tailed it over there.. cast into a boil...Fish On BLUE... shoot..
blue after blue after blue after blue after blue....not one bass in the mix below or above..- the bite off, lure destroying, leader mangling, yellow eyed monsters have invaded..
picked up a scup in the mix a big one @ 15" --- released him and hoped he made it back to bottom 50/50 chance with all those choppers in the water...they were everywhere.
nothing @ the next spot -- some hits but nothing boated.. back to the Blues area...picked a few more and another scup n Fluke....back to the Micro bass spot...just more blues n Robins..
5:30ish ~ on the way back....decided to give the Blues spot one more shot @ bass.... 1st Cast...Bam get a nice hit as the lure came to rest...ZZZZZZZZ..and ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ to big runs...big fish.. staying down.. after a nice fight...boated a nice bass.. biggest of the season for me @ 34.75" -- fat and very healthy...released quickly after a quick measure..
stuck it out but the bite died .. managed another scup...on the 3rd "last Drift"
Glad I kept @ it...paid off this time. Many lures, much searching ..a little sad the spring blues have invaded avoiding them is impossible now...hide your bucktails.
20++ Blues ( 19-24") most 22"
-nice mixed bag day dominated by Blues..
-beautiful sky near the end of the day..
-went to use the fly rod -- but left the Flies in the truck.
watched the T-storms roll in and out in the am..watched the radar and snuck out of the house right behind them..well not right behind them but just enough..
to the water @ 11:15..
decided to hit the home waters in search of bass no matter what.
out on my way --found a promising spot I love --set up quick with another boat - nice guy - thanks for sharing the drift and pointing out fish..just he and I = I true gentleman - he was there 1st so I was just trying my best to stay clear enough but still wanted to get on the fish..breaking here ...then there..
took several drifts - but I finally hooked a nice shoolie ( 24").. man I love that feel of the bite -- subtle..but definitive. Fish.ON!
Speaking of FISH ON! - I made myself a pair of Fish oN! gloves just for this trip to try and shake of the So SO spring I have been having thus far..I just need to find a pattern..
released him and just kept @ it.... other guy split with no other fish in sight.... I just kept @ it...had that feeling..
subtle bite.. BAM ! SET it! FISH ON GLOVES ! yeah,. a nice fish took off....bzzzzzz....fought him to exhaustion..the line look weird in his mouth lure buried....was worried the leader would break from raking back n forth over his rough mouth...got em boat side and with one quick grab of the lip - measured a nice 32.5" fish..
gave in a few more drifts than I should of after that-- had a follow..but bite died..
had a good bite going Bass, Blues, fluke, porgy - not all out bonanza but very good...more missed hits and on / offs ..even ONE HUGE FISH on -- my reel was SCREAMING fish just kept running ...I thought I would run out of line.. but he stopped .. turned and the like broke?..ouch.. I think on a rock or structure..weird break.
stayed on them until 3:45pm? when the bite slowed even though I could see fish up n down right next to me.. just wouldn't hit..
12 short Bass ( 21-27") most 24-25" ~ Kept 1 @19"
many follows right to the boat,,mostly when I was just retrieving to cast @ breakin fish,..
many missed bites --too many but I'd rather have many bites.
- many WWII planes around B-29, T-6 trainer, Dauntless? ..very best part of the day was when a P-51 came screaming banking around the bend chased / followed by an F-16 --- so excited / surprised / startled @ the sight -- I yelled out P-51 Cadillac of the sky! YEAH!!! what a sight and sound..
Definitely one of my Favorite days of 2011 so far..


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Bangalore is taking baby steps in shattering the status quo by installing diaper changing stations in public places and helping hands-on fathers take up the role of the full-fledged active parent.
By Riya Sharma
Public spaces in Bangalore are being upgraded to facilitate diaper changing stations in men's restrooms to provide a family-friendly environment and help fathers perform their duties as primary caregivers.
The Softcopy found that unisex baby care rooms accessible to all have recently been facilitated in the Orion Mall and with the refurbishment of restrooms that starts next month, diaper changing stations will be available in men's restrooms as well.
Other shopping malls like The Forum Mall have followed suit and equipped the men's restroom on one floor of the building with diaper changing stations.
Shunman, spokesperson for the mall informed that all other men's restrooms will be equipped with the changing stations soon as well.
In the interest of becoming family-friendly at all levels, five-star hotels like The Ritz-Carlton and Four Seasons have equipped the men's restrooms with changing stations as well.
A tweet from a Maldivian tourist acclaiming the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) for installing a diaper changing station in the men's restroom has been doing the rounds on social media recently.
Ali Samhaan (@khamsyn) tweeted a picture of the station with the caption: "Saw this in Bangalore international airport men's room", that stirred the internet raising the topic of gender-specific roles in the society.
https://twitter.com/khamsyn/status/1172059977550155776?s=08
A somewhat bemused KIA spokesperson, Roshan confirmed this, pointing out that this is not a new provision.
He said, "All men's restrooms in the airport have been equipped with diaper changing stations for 3-4 years now."
Sumit Kumar, father of a 4-year-old in Bangalore, talks about how the progressive increase in the number of diaper changing stations in men's restrooms is a welcome move.
He said that public spaces equipped with changing stations in men's restroom pave way for more inclusive parenting.
"I have to travel alone with my child frequently and when she needs a diaper change, I would want to do that with a little dignity, in a private space that's sanitary where my child is not exposed to any infections", he added.
Fathers have to resort to unsanitary maneuvers because there are no changing stations in men's restrooms.
Dr. Sudeshna Mukherjee, Centre for Women's Studies at Bangalore University, discussed how providing changing stations in men's restrooms smashes the status quo and questions the gender- specified roles in the society.
She said, "Mothering is a gender-neutral term. You do not need to be a woman to be a mother. Installing these diaper changing stations in men's restrooms recognizes fathers as natural caregivers."
Gaurav, another hands-on father said, "It is unfortunate when even a common baby care room only allows women inside, making desperate fathers come up with maneuvers that are not always sanitary, to get the job done."
Dr. Mukherjee said, "The system should facilitate and not prohibit the men willing to change the status quo."
Sumit added, "I would hate a place where only a mother can enter and not a father. In my book, it is a cardinal sin to hold back a father from providing his child with proper care."
These changes in the city are baby steps towards questioning and bringing about an intervention for the gender-specified roles in the society, according to Dr. Mukherjee.
She said, "This is just the beginning and there is much more to be done. These changes need to be institutionalized and not just done as a charity."
These changes should be ingrained in the Public Works Department (PWD) specifications of restrooms and should be part of the protocol to bring about a real change and address a larger issue, she added.
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Sannidhi says:
That's a great step towards development. And great work Riya for bringing this up as mentioned many people don't even know about this. It's a great initiative and people should be aware about it.
Great work Riya.
Priyansh Kumar says:
I was excited for the author's next work and here it is again with a new and unique story. I appriciate how this new era of change in society is represented and this article will encourage the people of other parts of country to implement this idea in their surroundings also.
Vipin Kumar says:
Very nice work riya keep it up
Digvijay Singh Shekhawat says:
The title says it all. Excellent!!
Dhanesh Kumar Matolia says:
Riya your mind is great . welldon, keep it up.
Mansi Verma says:
Great work Di!
Riya Singh says:
Good jog Riyaaaa
D. C. Sharma says:
What a unique story is chosen by author. Story reminds the society that parenting is duty which can be fulfilled by anyone. If male partner is doing so, what kind of problem, he is facing. I appreciate the efforts of author.
Sulochana matolia says:
Keep up the good work Riya
Krishna Sharma says:
Thorough story!
Urvashi says:
It's a nice initiative.
Good job!!
There really should be a changing table in the men's room.
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