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RHSV Service Awards
President's Report 2017
Royal Horticultural Society of Victoria Inc.
PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT 2017
The Royal Horticultural Society of Victoria (RHSV or "the Royal") is the leading non-profit horticultural organisation in Victoria and has significant impact throughout Australia by providing services and support to its Affiliated groups. Without the support of the RHSV many of the Affiliated groups would find it difficult to continue, thus depriving local communities of longstanding contributors working for the betterment of the community.
The Royal also has a significant number of Individual and Family members who enjoy the benefits of RHSV Membership (including a copy of the quarterly RHSV Gardeners' Gazette and the chance to participate in the Great Victorian Hanging Basket Competition).
In 2017 the number of Individual / Family members and Affiliated groups again increased. This highlights the continued relevance of the Society as its network of influence continues to grow and its community profile increases. The standing of the RHSV within the horticultural industry and the wider community is also greater than it has been for many years.
Unfortunately gardening continues to be underrated and undervalued by many, including those charged with servicing the community. As mentioned above, gardening groups provide significant social service in many communities, often supporting their community via local works and civic services generally undertaken without fanfare or recognition.
In an age with diminishing space to garden and an aging community the Royal has much to do and much to offer. This is the challenge for the future.
RHSV membership continues to increase. This is largely due to very successful promotion at the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show. A combination of enthusiastic and competent promotion and the support of MultiCrop attracted many new members.
Individual and Family membership has increased reflecting the continuing value of the Royal to gardeners and the ongoing community interest in gardening. This year over 100 new members (including families) joined. Active promotion and a much improved magazine have helped significantly. The opportunity to participate in the Great Victorian Hanging Basket Competition also continues to attract new members.
Affiliate membership has also continued to increase. Unlike individual membership this area has a relatively finite number of potential members, thus increasing their number is a great achievement. Recently the community garden sector have been joining the Royal. Currently more than 70 community gardens are affiliated. The Gardeners' Gazette, What's On, Garden Rambles, Speaker Database, Gardener's Day Out and efforts at better communication through items such as the Secretary's News Sheet, post and email have brought us all closer together. The use of modern communications tools is essential in the effort to contact potential new members, both Individual / Family and Affiliate.
Membership of our affiliated groups is also very positive. The membership for most is either steady or increasing, some groups are even experiencing exponential growth. However, we must also recognise that for a minority of groups membership continues to dwindle, some to the point where dissolution of the group is mandated. Decreasing membership is often characterised by an aging membership body but for many groups this is not so. It must be noted that members gained by the Royal at the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show are generally younger and many are family groups reflecting the broad spectrum of society. This gives one heart that despite the lack of promotion horticulture is seen as a positive contributor to community health and social harmony. (That of course does not apply to the largest, earliest tomato growing competition!)
RHSV Regions
The Regional Groups continue to support their members and the RHSV. The RHSV gratefully appreciates the management activities of the Regional Committees as without them the Regions would not operate. In many cases they continue to operate through the long service of individual members. The royal recognises the service of these people.
Development of Regions in areas where we were once strong is a vision but limited by resources. It is a focus for the future.
Interstate Members
While primarily a Victorian body the RHSV has many interstate members.
The value of our membership is becoming increasingly recognised across Australia. The insurance scheme we facilitate is widely used by horticultural groups outside Victoria. Without it many could not exist.
Our web site and magazine contain information on interstate activities. We are continually seeking ways in which we can add value to non-Victorian members. We value and welcome their support.
The value of services provided by the Royal to its Members has again been increased and improved.
The provision of insurance is a critical element in the provision of services to Affiliates. The Public Liability Insurance has a $20 million dollar limit and we have now added additional value and cover by adding Volunteer Workers Insurance. This has happened through persistent good work by the Society in sourcing such services.
The Website has been updated and continues to be a critical element of our organisation. We are continually developing it to provide information and services to all. Many of our groups have their own web sites. For a group to have good contact with its potential membership base a website is required. Via the website the RHSV provides ongoing services. The "What's On" segment now has the best and most up to date listing of shows and gardening events. It is being widely used as a promotional tool by our groups. The Garden Rambles is a large listing of gardens open for viewing which we know is valued resource used often by our members. The Speakers Database continues to provide Affiliate Members with possible options for speakers at their meetings. It is being continually developed.
The Royal is also continually assessing and developing new ways we can maximise the use of the website and email for membership benefit. A factor often beyond our control in this is the reluctance of many of our affiliates to join the electronic age and use the web. We need the ability to quickly and cheaply contact our members and affiliates. This opens up many more ways that we can benefit our supporters.
The medals, awards, show items etc. are continue to be popular. Several John Pascoe Fawner medals were awarded in 2017 for service to horticulture. The SS McKay medals are also extremely popular.
The Royal trophy has been reconfigured and is now a sort after award for Affiliate shows and competitions.
The Gardeners' Gazette continues to develop and is well received by our Members. Contributors now include significant gardening personalities and content is varied and reflects current trends. The Gazette now has the potential to act as a driving force to promote the RHSV, while providing Members with helpful and interesting articles relevant to their gardening experience.
The Gazette continues to provide income from Advertising. It is also increasingly being used by our Affiliated groups to place advertisements on their oncoming activities.
A future aim of the Royal is to facilitate more horticultural activities where the direct transfer and discussion of horticulture / gardening information is encouraged amongst members. This can take many forms but is a challenge for the Royal to reinvigorate this discussion.
The RHSV is increasingly going out into the community for promotional activities.
The Royal has significant input into the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show (MIFGS) in both the Exhibition Hall and Carlton Gardens. The Royal is there to promote amateur horticulture and primarily its affiliates. We have a significant display outside with the Great Victorian Hanging Basket Competition. This year we had over 400 basket entries. The response from the public, industry, sponsors and the public was very positive. The event is continuing to grow in size and effect. A feature of the event is the contribution of volunteers from many Affiliate groups to man and operate the event.
Inside the Main Exhibition Hall the Royal and many Affiliates provided a large and extremely successful display. The site was at the eastern end of the top floor.
Together the inside and outside displays make the Royal one of the largest exhibitors at the event.
Gardener's Day Out
The Gardener's Day Out is now a major horticultural event. The move to Deakin University has enabled it to expand beyond its previous confines. Benefits include better parking facilities, a larger presentation hall, a greater number of specialist plant sellers (including some Affiliated societies), and a great line up of speakers all of which contribute to new levels of success. 2017 was the biggest event to date with over 400 attendees. For the first time we were able to encourage non-members to attend and thus make it a more public event.
This year the morning session featured Cathy Powers on Preserving Australian Flora and Jane Teniswood on Tasmania's "BLOOMING GARDENS". The afternoon session featured the Gardenettes who showed a wide and dynamic view of the future of gardening. The presentations provided a framework of interesting, informative and enjoyable experiences that set a great atmosphere for the event. An increased number of vendors were invited to sell products at this year's event. The aim was to provide an opportunity for those attending to have access to plants and products that they were generally not able to access. Stalls were provided by specialist societies and specialist growers. This was a great success with a great response from those attending. It offers another reason to attend the conference.
A light lunch was available for a small cost. Awards for the winners at the MIFGS Basket Competition and the superb raffle prizes culminating with a great goodie bag for all sealed the success of the event.
The success of the day was also due in no small way to the contribution of volunteers. We thank these volunteers for their efforts and acknowledge that it is only with their help that the Royal can continue to run such events.
The Gardener's Day Out is now a significant and self-generating fixture on the horticultural events calendar.
The RHSV is a non-profit organisation. Consequently it is not a primary objective to make significant profit.
Industry financial support is very hard to obtain and other ways of working with industry are continually being explored. Despite this the RHSV is in a strong financial position.
As the Royal progresses and develops increasing demands will come on it financially. The scope of the organisation is continually being widened and meeting these demands will require significant expenditure. It is obvious that as the Royal develops into new areas of the community and horticulture it will expand beyond its simple garden club structure.
The financial management of the society is now computer based (as is the design of the Gardeners' Gazette and management of the website). All of these tasks require the relevant computer skills. As the society develops more professional support will be required. To progress beyond the structure of a simple garden club and fully realise the potential of the Royal will require more professional support ongoing. The Royal has been down this path several times. We must learn from previous mistakes and develop a structure and organisation that keeps us true to our aims and objectives without suffering the pitfalls of the past. This perhaps is the main challenge facing us moving forward.
The RHSV has a very good and expanding relationship with many industry and non-government organisations. The Royal is seen as a positive organisation that is constructive to work with. This support has enabled us to participate at events such as the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show. The sponsorship that such organisations provide (whether financially or in-kind) is essential for the continued participation of the Royal in such events. Without Multi Crop, Gardman (Brunnings), Scotsburn Nurseries, Yates, Scotts (Debco), Neutrog, Amgrow, Seasol, Bosistos, NGIV, Garden World -Keysborough, Collectors Corner, Poyntons the IMG organisation and the many others that support us we would find it difficult to continue with many of our activities. Support is not given lightly by industry and the RHSV appreciates this fact. To represent the amateur horticulturalist the RHSV must continue to maintain and develop its standing within the Horticultural community.
RHSV Management
The current Executive Committee of the Royal is a very hard working group. Without them the Royal would not exist. The Committee is the operational "heart" of the Royal and it is amazing how such a small committee can continue to do so much. Every member has their specific interests and activities. Together they create a tight and productive team.
The RHSV Executive Committee for the period 2016 -2017 was:
PATRON - JANE EDMANSON OAM
PRESIDENT - DON RICKERBY
VICE PRESIDENT - PAT INSALL
TREASURER- DIANNE SHARMAN
SECRETARY- JENNIFER RICKERBY
COMMITTEE - ELSIE CARTER, ROD NOONAN, KEVIN MONEGHETTI
All members are to be especially thanked for their work and support. It is most valued and appreciated.
RHSV AWARDS
The Royal has several significant awards for service to our groups, horticulture and the community in general.
During the period July 2016 - June 2017, 22 John Pascoe Fawkner awards for service to horticulture were made for service to horticulture. These are listed on the RHSV website. The large number of awards shows that our Affiliated groups are appropriately recognising their long standing members.
THE FUTURE - 170 YEARS and MORE
In 2018 the RHSV will be 170 years old. This is a tremendous and very creditable achievement especially for a non-profit, voluntary organisation. We will celebrate this milestone in many ways throughout the year.
The future of the Royal looks very good. Throughout its distinguished past the Royal has been able to change its focus and direction to meet the needs of the time. As never before the challenge is to remain relevant to the community and not only meet its demands but lead them too.
Consequently we need to review, rationalise, and develop what we do and how we do it. It has been and always will be the path we must follow.
Good Gardening
Don Rickerby – President RHSV


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Q: OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded Criterium I am trying to benchmark an expression using the Criterium library. The expression is
(vec (range 10000000))

To benchmark it i type
 (criterium.core/bench (vec (range 10000000)))

and after a while i get
 OutOfMemoryError GC overhead limit exceeded  java.lang.Long.valueOf (Long.java:840)

As i have seen here this means that the maximum size of the heap (1 GB) is not enough for the data to fit and the garbage collector tries to free space but is unable to do so. However, microbenchmarking the expression like below doesn't produce this error
(dotimes [i 60] (time (vec (range 10000000))))

By the way, i set it to 60 times because i have seen here that the bench macro does 60 executions by default.
The question is why is this happening when using Criterium.
Edit: When starting a fresh repl the code below
{:max (.maxMemory (Runtime/getRuntime)), :total (.totalMemory (Runtime/getRuntime))}

outputs
{:max 922746880, :total 212860928}

After i run (dotimes [i 60] (time (vec (range 10000000)))) or (criterium.core/bench (vec (range 10000000)))
it outputs
{:max 922746880, :total 922746880}

A: I was able to reproduce the behavior by using this test:
;project.clj
:profiles {:test    {:jvm-opts ["-Xms1024m" "-Xmx1024m"]}}

(:require [clojure.test :refer :all]
          [criterium.core :as ben])

(deftest ^:focused ben-test
  (is (ben/with-progress-reporting
        (ben/bench (vec (range 10000000))))))

The stack trace looks like this:
Estimating sampling overhead
Warming up for JIT optimisations 10000000000 ...
compilation occurred before 377618 iterations
...

Estimating execution count ...
Sampling ...
Final GC...
Checking GC...
Finding outliers ...
Bootstrapping ...
Checking outlier significance
Warming up for JIT optimisations 10000000000 ...
compilation occurred before 1 iterations

criterium.core$execute_expr_core_timed_part$fn__40395.invoke (core.clj:370)
criterium.core$execute_expr_core_timed_part.invokeStatic (core.clj:366)
criterium.core$execute_expr_core_timed_part.invoke (core.clj:345)
criterium.core$execute_expr.invokeStatic (core.clj:378)
criterium.core$execute_expr.invoke (core.clj:374)
criterium.core$warmup_for_jit.invokeStatic (core.clj:428)
criterium.core$warmup_for_jit.invoke (core.clj:396)
criterium.core$run_benchmark.invokeStatic (core.clj:479)
criterium.core$run_benchmark.invoke (core.clj:470)
criterium.core$benchmark_STAR_.invokeStatic (core.clj:826)
criterium.core$benchmark_STAR_.invoke (core.clj:812)

We can see here that the error occurs in the JIT-Warning-Up step. The interesting point is the function execute-expr-core-timed-part (core.clj:345). This functions performs the expression (vec (range 10000000)) n times and saves the returned value every time to a so-called mutable place. My hypothesis it that we have the memory leak here.
(time-body
  (loop [i (long (dec n))
      v (f)]
==> (set-place mutable-place v**)
    (if (pos? i)
     (recur (unchecked-dec i) (f))
     v)))

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Cable Giant Spectrum Endangered Its Employees And Screwed Its Technicians During COVID
Daily Deal: Cyber Monday Roundup
from the psst,-editorial-board,-speak-to-your-lawyers dept
Mon, Nov 29th 2021 09:31am - Mike Masnick
A few years ago the Washington Post (and a bunch of other newspapers) fought and won a fairly important 1st Amendment lawsuit to strike down as unconstitutional a Maryland law that required news organizations to publicly post information about the political ads they chose to carry. The district court and then the appeals court found that the law was pretty clearly unconstitutional:
As the district court noted in a lengthy and thoughtful opinion, Washington Post, 355 F. Supp.3d at 272-306, the Act is a content-based law that targets political speech and compels newspapers, among other platforms, to carry certain messages on their websites. In other words, Maryland's law is a compendium of traditional First Amendment infirmities.
Specifically, the court found that the compelled speech aspect of the law was particularly problematic:
Taken together, the Act's publication and inspection requirements ultimately present compelled speech problems twice over. For one, they force elements of civil society to speak when they otherwise would have refrained. Time and again, the Supreme Court has made clear that it makes little difference for First Amendment 515*515 purposes whether the government acts as censor or conductor. Indeed, the "freedom of speech `includes both the right to speak freely and the right to refrain from speaking at all.'" Janus v. Am. Fed'n of State, Cty. & Mun. Emps. Council 31, ___ U.S. ___, 138 S. Ct. 2448, 2463, 201 L.Ed.2d 924 (2018) (quoting Wooley v. Maynard, 430 U.S. 705, 714, 97 S.Ct. 1428, 51 L.Ed.2d 752 (1977) (internal quotation omitted)). It is the presence of compulsion from the state itself that compromises the First Amendment. The Amendment extends "not only to expressions of value, opinion, or endorsement, but equally to statements of fact the speaker would rather avoid." Hurley v. Irish-Am. Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Grp. of Boston, 515 U.S. 557, 573, 115 S.Ct. 2338, 132 L.Ed.2d 487 (1995).
What's more, the fact that the Act compels third parties to disclose certain identifying information regarding political speakers implicates protections for anonymous speech. Requiring the press itself to disclose the identity or characteristics of political speakers is a problematic step. See Branzburg v. Hayes, 408 U.S. 665, 709, 92 S.Ct. 2646, 33 L.Ed.2d 626 (Powell, J., concurring) (noting that newsmen faced with a grand jury subpoena are not "without constitutional rights with respect to the gathering of news or in safeguarding their sources"); id. at 725, 92 S.Ct. 2646 (Stewart, J., dissenting) (requiring the press to disclose its sources risks "annex[ing] the journalistic profession as an investigative arm of government"). This country, moreover, has "a respected tradition of anonymity in the advocacy of political causes." McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Comm'n, 514 U.S. 334, 343, 115 S.Ct. 1511, 131 L.Ed.2d 426 (1995). Much as our forebears elected to hash out the architecture of this nation under the pseudonyms of "Publius" and "Agrippa," many political advocates today also opt for anonymity in hopes their arguments will be debated on their merits rather than their makers. See id. at 343, 343 n.6, 115 S.Ct. 1511. To be sure, this tradition of anonymity is anything but absolute. But revelations of executive misconduct throughout our history have often been anonymously sourced. And when the government enlists the press to disclose the sources of political speech, thus potentially exposing those speakers to identification and harassment, First Amendment protections and values come into play. See Pac. Gas & Elec. Co. v. Pub. Utils. Comm'n of Cal., 475 U.S. 1, 14-15, 106 S.Ct. 903, 89 L.Ed.2d 1 (1986) (plurality opinion).
Apparently, the editorial board of the Washington Post is wholly unfamiliar with this lawsuit and the fact that its own publication won this lawsuit just two years ago. Because in a new opinion piece, the Editorial Board of the Washington Post calls for nearly identical requirements for internet companies. Really.
Specifically, the Washington Post endorses the extremely problematic recommendations from the Aspen Institute's Commission on Information Disorder:
The report starts, as any study aimed at restoring trust and truth ought to, by acknowledging reality: "In a free society, a certain amount of misinformation will always exist." The hope isn't to punish every exaggeration, piece of propaganda or flat-out lie but to home in on the most egregious damage caused by specific types of mis- and disinformation — by discouraging people from spreading falsehoods and minimizing the fallout when they do. This is easiest in "empirically grounded" areas, in which facts can most clearly be found: public health and election integrity foremost among them.
How do we do it? Some steps are obvious, such as mandating more transparency from technology companies. Platforms should be required, for instance, to publish data about the content, source, targeting and reach of posts seen by large audiences, as well as produce standardized archives of the material they remove or otherwise moderate.
That "obvious" step is exactly what the Washington Post fought in court against and won just two years ago. And, it should be noted that in fighting that Maryland law, the Washington Post trotted out Section 230 as a reason that the law should be pre-empted, but the court went past that and didn't even bother with the 230 issues, noting that the 1st Amendment was the issue, and it didn't even need to bother with Section 230.
In some ways, this isn't surprising. For reasons I don't fully understand, newspapers seem to have a weird blindspot for the very laws and constitutional rights that protect themselves when there are attacks on those rights on internet companies. The more conspiratorial will insist that this is because news organizations are jealous of the success of internet companies — with whom they often compete for ad dollars. But I think it's likely to be somewhat more fundamental than that. Institutionally, too many news organizations take such a dismissive view of the internet and the communities created on it, and look at themselves as the "defenders of truth" (hell, the Washington Post's own bizarre slogan, "Democracy Dies in Darkness" is trumpeted on every damn page). To them, the internet and social media are riff raff — enabling the people who are too stupid for their own good to wallow in disinformation.
And, thus, the only answer must be to mandate these kinds of rules that could and should never apply to the pure giant news orgs. It's disappointing and hypocritical, but hardly surprising.
Filed Under: 1st amendment, compelled speech, disinformation, editorial independence, section 230, transparency
Companies: aspen institute, washington post
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Comments on "Washington Post Forgets It Fought (And Won) Legal Battle Against Mandatory Transparency; Now Demands Internet Co's Face The Same"
Glennsays:
Journalism dies in the Editorial Board room.
-WaPo, 2021
It certainly seems like if you don't want to let pesky shit like journalistic standards get in the way become a syndicated opinion communist or get on an editorial board and you can just shitpost in actual newspapers. I'm guessing you need a connected parent/lots of money to make that happen though.
"syndicated opinion" … "communist?" (Even so, my eyes saw "communist," and my brain read "columnist.")
Finger-farts… I have those sometimes as well.
It seems many editorial boards believe they must completely ignore the news to remain adequately separated from the news side of the paper. I'm not sure that's how it's supposed to work.
Stephen T. Stonesays:
newspapers seem to have a weird blindspot for the very laws and constitutional rights that protect themselves when there are attacks on those rights on internet companies
It's not a blind spot, so much as it's a desire to go back to the days before the Internet wrecked the business model for newspapers.
It's not even about business. They, like so many others, want to control what people know and therefore what they think.
This is a legacy old media problem they want laws to apply to tech media company's that will hinder competition but the problem is now what media company now is not online? Every TV company had online streaming options newspapers have online digital editions online laws will effect all Media company's
See Murdoch he pushs laws that will hinder or put extra expense on Facebook or tech company's as he owns TV stations
James Burkhardtsays:
Washington Post failed to note its financial interest in the actions recommended by the editorial board, in that they were arguing to restrict competition to their benefit, but have wrapped it in concern over disinformation to hide an important piece of context.
They literally are violating the principles of transparency they call for in this Editorial. I highlight this because WP will likely claim in their defense that as journalists they are already held to higher standards by various publishing and journalism trade guilds. But this piece is evidence they are not.
Another Niemöller riff...
First they came for the newspapers – and we fought them off,
because being forced to speak violated our constitutional rights.
Then they came for the internet companies – and we handed out torches and pitchforks,
because they were the competition.
Then the profits failed to roll in …
For we had forgotten who was linking to our content.
ECAsays:
Discouraging on both sides.
I thought the 1st amendment was PERSONAL freedom of speech.
Not based ont he idea that Some group or org could just Blow smoke up our buts, nad not tell us WHO is saying it.
I dont mind a person saying/suggesting/ commenting/ debating something or anything. It adds to discussion.
When a group stands up and says something, you CANT fight what they say. You end up in a 1 vs 100 stand, and they all group up on you.
This isnt a nation of WHO has the loudest Voice wins. Its truth, Lies and allot of something in the middle.
Iv seen articles that said, this post said this, and that article said that, and the Law reads like this and that and the other thing. But its like looking up info in a dictionary and finding there are 20 different meanings to 1 word. And looking up references leads nowhere, that they suggested. As when reading the bible, and 1 persons opinion, can be debated. When a group DEMANDS you think 1 way or another, rather then Common knowledge, but you DONT KNOW WHO said what, as there is no reference to who said it. Or a group name and reference, but it was setup, Very recently and the phone number work.
An ANTI group site that makes itself look Huge and fancy and its from 1 side of a coin, saying that No one in this state WANTS THAT. And its a group of 2-3 people trying to stand for the WHOLE state? Its called brain washing.
Re: Discouraging on both sides.
and not tell us WHO is saying it.
Just because you get published in a newspaper or elsewhere for that matter, does not mean you have to give up your right to anonymity. Also, as is well known, most newspapers have agendas, and their stories should be viewed in that light.
The report starts, as any study aimed at restoring trust and truth ought to, by acknowledging reality: "In a free society, a certain amount of misinformation will always exist."
Derp. No kidding.
The hope isn't to punish every exaggeration, piece of propaganda or flat-out lie but to home in on the most egregious damage caused by specific types of mis- and disinformation — by discouraging people from spreading falsehoods and minimizing the fallout when they do.
Please, discourage people all you like, with your own speech.
This is easiest in "empirically grounded" areas, in which facts can most clearly be found: public health and election integrity foremost among them.
Aaaaand you don't understand how any of this works. Not only is it very popular currently, but the human race has a long history of believing stuff contrary to all evidence. Let's not even consider the psychology behind denialism and conspiracy story-mongering. Good luck discouraging that in any way other than engendering critical thinking skills in people.
How do we do it? Some steps are obvious, such as mandating more transparency from technology companies.
Platforms should be required, for instance, to publish data about the content, source, targeting and reach of posts seen by large audiences,
So. Doxxing for everyone! It's freeeee.
as well as produce standardized archives of the material they remove or otherwise moderate.*
i mean, sure. Mandated? Not so much.
Your stated interest does not align with your proposal. Thank you for playing. Next.
generateusernamesays:
What do they mean by this? Something like this Internet Archive/Wayback Machine? If so, this is something I support, but I consider it mainly a historic preservation issue at this point as opposed to a content moderation, transparency, or 1A issue.
That One Guysays:
Hypocrisy so thick you could build a house on it
Nothing like a company arguing for something they vehemently argued against just a few years ago to demonstrate that their only concern at the time was that it affected them and in fact they are completely fine with the proposal that they fought against if used against their competitors.
I think the issue is that opponents to mandatory transparency tend to focus on how this is unconstitutional instead of how this is a bad idea. Now, Techdirt has written on this topic before and I'm sure Mike thinks this is a bad idea in addition to being unconstitutional, but without going back to the articles I honestly cannot recall his reasoning. And IMO this just makes 1A sound like a burden to those less familiar with US constitutional law: as if mandatory transparency is a great idea, but we can't do it cause it's unconstitutional.
Well, the Constitution isn't arbitrary. There are loads of issues in compelling speech and behaviour without extreme good reasons and narrowly defined limits. Lots of not-good consequences, intended or unintended.
Some steps are obvious, such as mandating more transparency from technology companies. Platforms should be required, for instance, to publish data about the content, source, targeting and reach of posts seen by large audiences, as well as produce standardized archives of the material they remove or otherwise moderate.
Despite the "such as", transparency is ill-defined. Not good. Regarding the "such as", for one, this is an undue burden for many. For those large outfits who probably never actually delete anything anyway, they could design an API to make the demanded bits accessible, but who has access? What's the point in moderating if anyone can just go look at the moderated pool? If just certain parties, say some jackasses in Congress or the Provisional Internet Regulatory Agency, that would be way into "government interferes with speech" zone.
How about that if the post or whatever is so egregiously demanding of legal government attention, the government whips up subpoenas, or better yet, warrants with solid requirements. Still, what it the penalty for posting / advertising something the gov (or some loud demographic) doesn't like? A finger-wagging intended to chill speech?
Techdirt has written a lot on other forms of compelled transparency, and well beyond the "merely technical" 1A implications. E.g., if the moderation reasons, rules, procedures, and whatnot have to be made transparent and set in stone, so to speak, that's just a huge exploit in the game for bad actors.
Something something and y'all laugh when I point out humans are incapable of remembering & not repeating their own past.
Though I have to give the WP credit, normally it takes like 25 years to have a repeat.
Jacob Blausteinsays:
No offense but wouldn't a law like this let the public be aware of conflicts of interest?

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Saudi Attacks Expose Threat to Critical Infrastructure
By AFP on September 16, 2019
The strike on Saudi oil infrastructure highlights the easy vulnerability of such facilities even as the kingdom has splurged billions on sophisticated defense hardware.
Yemen's Iran-aligned Huthi rebels claimed responsibility for the weekend assault, saying they sent a swarm of drones far across the border, but Washington has squarely blamed Iran.
Here is a round-up of the nation's key infrastructure potentially exposed to attacks:
Oil facilities
Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest energy company, operates Ghawar and Safaniyah, two of its biggest oil fields.
While its oil wells, scattered over a vast geographical area, may be a difficult target, its various oil processing facilities are more exposed.
The Abqaiq facility –- one of the two sites targeted on Saturday –- is the "most vulnerable" among them, the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said in a report.
The Abqaiq plant is the world's largest oil processing facility, with a capacity of more than seven million barrels per day, according to the company.
Aramco's vast system of pipelines, pumping stations and its ports along the Persian Gulf and Red Sea are also vulnerable to potential attacks.
The Huthis claimed their drones targeted two oil pumping stations on Saudi Arabia's key east-west pipeline in May, shutting it down for several days.
The nation's oil infrastructure is also vulnerable to cyber attacks.
In 2012, Aramco was among the firms hit by Shamoon, an aggressive disc-wiping malware, in what is believed to be the country's worst cyber attack yet.
Desalination plants
Desalination plants provide more than 70 percent of the kingdom's drinking water, according to official figures.
Ras al-Khair, the world's largest desalination plant located on the kingdom's Gulf coast, is an obvious target.
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Nuevo Curso on Communist Militancy
"From Babeuf and Marx to us, revolutionary consciousness is the ray of light created by the clash between exploitation and the exploited, it is human subjectivity in rebellion against an objectivity that perverts and denies that same subjectivity, without which man is not man but a thing. Either our subjectivity accommodates the outside world to its requirements -there can be no others- or it submits itself, in slavery, to the nauseating existing objectivity." – Grandizo Munis, Revolutionary Consciousness and Class for Itself, 1976
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We republish an English translation of Nuevo Curso's entry on communist militancy
What Is Communist Militancy?
The emergence of new internationalist groups around the world has renewed the discussion about the nature of class militancy. It is not about establishing the mold, a "new man" or an ideal. It is a question of understanding the responsibilities that result for each one of us from that "school of political thought and, consequently, organization of struggle " that the party must be, even if, as today, it is a party in formation, in becoming.
From the first political expressions of the proletariat, the internationalist worker was aware that his militancy meant embracing an extraordinary life: living consciously meant "subordinating his own ends to those of the species." That is, making his life useful to a process that transcends much the individual as capitalism defines it. But if the individual can exist only as alienation in a society divided into classes, the object of that "real movement that annuls and surpasses the present state of things", communism, makes the "discovery of man by man himself, at the end possible", projecting on the forms of today's militancy, the demand and the promise of a different form of integration into History through collective doing. The militant's commitment is not a denial of his personality, but an overcoming of individualism and atomization to distill a consciousness that struggles to become human consciousness, of species.
To begin with, joining the class-conscious movement means embracing a way of contributing and intervening that can only live in collective political discussion and practice. That collective knowledge that is distilled into program, the very core of class consciousness, is what establishes historical and political continuities. It is the program and the method that animates it, the one that allows an exploited class to equip itself with a conscious strategy on the back of the combativity that its situation in society imposes on it. There is no soul other than the body, there is no consciousness without materiality, the program is not a pure idea that has existed for as long as the class receives or adopts mechanically and completely, carried by the pure immediate need or spurred on by the disasters of an exhausted system. The program and method is the result of the experience of the processed class in its most conscious minorities. There is no class program without a class party, and even in phases in which the party is no more than a set of more or less dispersed minorities and in which class struggles are weak, there is no possibility of programmatic development outside the attempt to build the party and without these organized minorities fighting for their own entrenchment in the majority of the class.
Also from the beginning of the communist movement, the class borders gave form to the organization and not only to the program. The first of these, internationalism, the affirmation of the proletariat as a single world class and thus the denial that it has any "national" interest once the bourgeoisie has succeeded in defeating absolutism and seizing political power, was a conquest of the first steps of the League of Communists. And it had, of course, organizational consequences. Engels recounts how the first revolutionary workers' organization was formed by becoming international in its own composition and program: "practically, by the diverse nationality of its members, and theoretically, by the consciousness that every revolution, to succeed, had to be a European revolution. In a very significant way, he ends by saying that "the English chartists were left aside as non-revolutionary elements, because of the specifically English character of their movement". "The enemy is in the country itself." – Karl Liebknecht. Internationalism, in its result of revolutionary defeatism, will shape the Second International from its origins – when August Bebel and Wilhem Liebknecht denounce the Franco-Prussian war and are brought to trial and prison – until their death, when the Social Democratic parties support recruitment in the war and the left calls for turning imperialist war into civil war… paving the way for the class struggle against war to become revolution. Until then, no one had swum so against the tide or suffered such brutal repression. That spirit, with internationalism and its clear meaning, will be the one that will shape the young communist parties like the Spanish or the Italian whose founding groups will later become the left of the Third International defending in the worst conditions of repression and isolation the revolutionary defeatism in the Second World War. But it is that in an era of imperialist wars, internationalism is the most present class divide and the one that most directly shapes the life of class political organizations, demanding the maximum from militants.
The other great frontier, centralism, gave life to the correspondence networks of the League of Communists, it was the centre of the battle of the 1st International against anarchism and its secret societies, but also of the left of the 2nd International against the national identities within the party… And without a doubt of the communist lefts that confronted Stalinism, that is to say the counterrevolution, and its deformation of the term to drown the discussion in the communist parties. Because the new model of militancy imposed by counterrevolution was not that of discipline to collective decision, but that of obedience to directives from above and the use of militancy as a mere "transmission belt". In reality, the Stalinist model of militancy is the negation of centralism. And from that model and from that of social democracy arises the whole range of militances of leftism: submission to bosses, worship of leaders, absence of theoretical debate, division into a thousand groups "by identities" with no other objective than "framing". In the working class, "centralism" does not mean adherence to a formal principle, the defense of a certain typology of command structures. And of course, it does not mean concentrating power in a single person or group, but on the contrary, extending the deliberative and decision-making scope of any organization to all its members, reflecting the universal character that beats under each expression of class and putting it before any particularism, any feeling or prejudice, imaginary privilege or real oppression. The centralism of the workers is that of an assembly that organizes a strike, not that of a board of directors standing on an organization chart. Therefore, it is a natural tool of the development of class consciousness and in the life of every organization. This, from the point of view of the militant, also means a responsibility, a certain form of discipline: to contribute topics of debate; to articulate in arguments their differences; to contribute to the collective consciousness of what the decisions taken among all mean and of course to be coherent with them and if the disagreements become disagreements of principle, to break them argumentatively. That is to say, the responsibilities of all those who decide to form part of a process of discussion and collective decision.
A WAY OF LIVING CONSCIOUSNESS
In daily practice, militancy is a way of living class consciousness. It therefore implies accepting a collective responsibility, the performance of which transforms our daily lives by making it part of a practical and conscious critique.
Daily militant practice involves collective learning and studying reality from a global perspective of class struggle. We read every day and pool press sources from around the world. The aim is to make us a framework of analysis that responds to the moment of the tendencies of capitalism. From there, sharing and discussing in common, emerge the reports that, in our case, make up the current sections of the blog: from the state of the imperialist conflict to the difficulties of the national bourgeoisies of Spain, Argentina or wherever we go forming a particular picture of analysis. Since the times of the League of Communists, this type of routines, reading the news and maintaining a framework of updated analysis of the global reality has been a central part of the daily life of the militants, a collective effort in which it was not a minor part to have access to the media. Today the Internet makes it much easier for us. And it also makes much easier what historically was the daily debate, the sharing of the day in the workers club or the village house. It is from this permanent discussion that the themes that allow us to work "formally", to investigate, to base and to contrast with method emerge.
What is by no means easier is to collectively re-appropriate the Marxist method of analysis that makes sense of that framework. It is not a question of making a marathon of courses or seminars. There is no degree of "militant" to "earn" nor any certification to obtain. It's about getting hold of the Marxist method through knowing its historical use of Marx to today, confronting again the old debates to gain a historical view. And it is not an individual work. They are shared and discussed readings, it is learning to see the world in its material historical perspective and to undo the traps of the dominant ideology.
All of the above is not social entertainment, an intellectual exercise. It has one objective: to be able to incorporate that depth into political intervention with clarity and simplicity in a way that is useful to the class movement. When the Spanish Communist Left insisted that "the consciousness of revolutionaries is the one that first has to situate itself at the height of the possibilities offered spontaneously by history," it referred to this. All this work has a purpose and it is to that purpose that it is subordinated. It is not about playing at being political commentators or pursuing the pleasure of mere knowledge, it is not about proselytizing or living under the vain evangelical hope of "convincing" masses of workers, it is about being useful in the precise way so that daily reflection, resistance to exploitation and especially open struggles when they occur, serve the development of consciousness in the whole class and can achieve broader objectives.
IN THE ANTIPODES OF LEFTISM
It is this ever-present purpose and not a sterile academicism or idiotic elitism that makes us study and discuss every day, nor, on the basis of these discussions, have others that are more formal and documented. While the organizations of the left are happy with a militancy of little or no formation, of aesthetic adhesion and caudillist subordination, the communist militancy is a demanding militancy. Leftism does not seek to form militants, but to frame workers in the cattle-raising logic demanded to be recognized by state capitalism ("both frames, both vouchers"), the very logic of any aspirant to lead a monopoly for, in or from the state. But class consciousness is something else.
Nothing could be further from the false erudition of academic Marxism or from the quotation always at the hand of the biblical preacher. The texts produced by Marx's class party to this day were tools for the development of consciousness and remain the best tools available. Nothing is more foreign to Marxism than the attitude of the guardian of the sacred texts: Marx, Lenin or Rosa Luxemburg were not oracles that picked up the truth from the mouths of the gods. They made mistakes, deferred important questions, corrected most of the times in the debate, other times reality corrected them, some with dramatic consequences. It is, as a whole and in its parts, a precious legacy, but like any historical legacy it implies a responsibility: to preserve its integrity, but also to develop it. We have inherited a revolutionary method of analysis, but it is in our hands to develop it in the present context.
The development of consciousness needs militants, not dilettantes. Once again the reality of leftism must serve as a model of what is not a class political organization. To integrate is not to go to meetings where the work has already been written and you just have to nod, put up some posters from time to time, go to some conferences and events to show strength. That can serve as a model for the organization of a hobby, it is not a collective doing that serves for the deepening and extension of consciousness.
"Group patriotism," songs of "loyalty to organization," exaltation of leaders… have nothing to do with fidelity to method and program. The organization is the body and the tool of the historical class program, but if it abandons it, it does not need to dissolve to have ceased to exist as a tool of the development of consciousness in the class. The separation between body -organization- and soul -program- is a characteristic idea of the exploiting classes that is in the essence of what alienation means. One of the most common manifestations lately is the figure of the "Marxist professor" who elaborates the program at the Academy -that is, from the state-for the nuclei of workers who can thus specialize in growing, numerically, the organization. It is a true concentrate of ideology already in the approach and therefore a whole demonstration of what is not a class organization: The fantasy of the social automaton to which a soul comes from outside, the exaltation of the division of labor to the extreme, the reduction of the workers to the number, the consecration of a ridiculous "individual authorship" of the program… The theoretical and programmatic advances are and can only be, result of a collective work, "of party", not a "pret a porter" uniform that can be adopted from among the generous offer made by the universities and other ideological apparatuses of the state. Still less an "author's creation" that makes us a made-to-measure misunderstood genius. And no, not even in the early stages of the communist movement did such figures exist rather than as a reactionary hindrance to the development of consciousness, like the pathetic Dühring, that petty bourgeois socialism fabricated a thousand times. Marx was all his life a militant, not a prophet, and no matter how hard they try, they will not succeed in reducing their trajectory to that of an intellectual pope that the ruling class likes, let alone inject new "Dühring" with that excuse.
Forms matter. The debate flooded with threats and violence that ends in the "witch-hunt" is an attitude that reflects the brutal forms of Stalinist counterrevolution. The seemingly opposite, the relativism of "anything goes" – because nothing is taken into account and positions are taken beforehand – is the reflection of cynicism under democratic discourse. Neither is even similar to the frank debate that takes place in the clear and explicit framework of a method and a programme. The discipline of a serious commitment to the development of consciousness includes overcoming the temptation to "look good" as well as inhibiting uncomfortable discussion.
CONSCIOUSNESS IS EXPRESSED AND DEVELOPED AS MORAL
As Engels commented in the Anti-Dühring, proletarian morality "presents the future in the transformation of the present". That is why it is more important than ever in the decadence of capitalism. With pauperization and precarization installed as permanent tendencies, with the commodification of every last detail of human relations – even the supposedly most "intimate" ones – today's capitalism propagates the atomization and decomposition of the most basic bonds of solidarity.
The system not only has under permanent attack the communist dimension of our class, trying to derail any awareness, it also confronts, more and more brutally, the expressions of its community dimension: the fraternal, personal, affective, family ties are inflated in the media and public discourse as much as they are degraded and destroyed in practice, when they are not commodified without modesty – "sharing economy"- or they are attacked with all the force of the media and the state trying to incite the divisions that the system itself creates to confront workers with each other.
The communist militant is not alone in his political action. To live consciousness, to live consciously means that in all his activity the tension of the future is present… so that to some extent it becomes present: The capacity to find the history of Humanity and its progress in what surrounds us, to discover the secular struggle of our species to reach abundance in everyday things, opens up to us the capacity to enjoy the most basic things, a different form of pleasure that is contagious and helps our own to resist, making present the possibility and the necessity of communism. It is that struggle for the abundance of the species, which today is concentrated and decided in the universal class, that is the distinctive element of communist morality. Living consciously also means that our relationship with the communal is based on the assertion that abundance is possible today, and that it is only constrained by the ballast of capitalism.
The class consciousness that is knowledge if not yet completely liberated, in liberation, makes us, gives us form and turns us into a contribution inside and outside the organization. If in militant life consciousness is expressed and developed as morality, the militant in community life projects consciousness as a de-mercantilizing morality of human relations in which individuals can project themselves as ends and not as means of the future society.
THE ROOTS OF MILITANCY
The relationship between consciousness, morality and militancy is clear and intimate. It is the individual acceptance of a need of the species which, by making it our own, unites us to the necessary future and already integrates us in its realization by dis-reifying us.
Nuevo Curso
original version: https://nuevocurso.org/que-es-la-militancia-comunista/
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Vet on probation over dog's death after surgery
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When Tiffany Cato dropped off her two dogs to be spayed, she never imagined it would be the last time she saw one of them alive.
But the routine sterilization was anything but routine.
Cato's American pit bull terrier, Harley, died within an hour of being spayed at the St. Bethlehem Animal Clinic. Now, almost a year later, veterinarian Ronald Whitford is being disciplined by the state.
The Tennessee Board of Veterinarian Medical Examiners found Whitford violated rules and regulations, specifically "gross malpractice or a pattern of continued or repeated malpractice, ignorance, negligence or incompetence in the course of veterinary medical practice" and "professional incompetence," according to a state Department of Health order obtained by The Leaf-Chronicle.
The board found that Harley "died as a result of a post-surgical hemorrhage owing to (Whitford's) poor surgical technique," and it ordered that Whitford's veterinary license be on probation for one year, the documents said.
The matter stemmed from Cato's complaint that on the morning of Jan. 7, 2016, she and her husband, Jason Handy, took Harley, a 2-year-old, 61-pound pit bull, and her litter mate, Daisy, to the clinic to be spayed.
She said she called to check on her dogs at 2 p.m. and was told they were both fine. When her family went to pick them up at 4 p.m., she said, they were allowed to take Daisy home but clinic staff told her Harley woke up with "a cold" and needed to be under heat lamps. She said she was told to come back at 6 p.m. When she did, she learned Harley would never be going home.
"When he told me 'She's dead,' I literally lost my mind," Cato said. "The night it happened, I cried myself to sleep and I woke up crying. It literally ripped my heart out."
She said Whitford told her Harley had parvo and that's why the dog died. But Cato insisted her dog was healthy.
The next day, Handy took the dog to Murray State University Breathitt Veterinary Center in Hopkinsville, Ky., for a necropsy.
"It showed no signs of parvo and that she passed away from post-surgical hemorrhage," Handy said. "He did not stitch her up on her left ovary, and that's why she bled out from the inside."
A copy of the necropsy report provided to The Leaf-Chronicle states that the dog had a suture on the right side of her body where the ovary had been, but no suture could be found on the left side. It also states no sutures were attached to the uterine stump nor to the arteries on either side, and the end of the stump was open.
The necropsy said the dog had blood coming from her mouth, nose, rectum and incision site and died within an hour of being spayed.
It ruled the cause of death as post-surgical hemorrhage.
Cato asked for an investigation by the Tennessee Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners. Whitford waived his right to a contested case hearing and any judicial review and accepted the board's findings, according to the board documents, which can be viewed below.
Whitford left a message with The Leaf-Chronicle, stating he chose not to fight the matter because of the expense involved. He said he did not get a chance to see the necropsy report but believes there may have been health issues with the dog, which he said had bloody diarrhea just two hours after the surgery.
"There was something else going on with the dog," he said.
He also acknowledged that a ligation may have come off, causing a blood vessel to open.
"Yes, it happened, but it has probably happened to almost every veterinarian in town if they've been in practice very long," Whitford said.
Whitford said he started a low-cost spay and neuter program four or five years ago and has sterilized 4,000 animals, including 3,500 last year, and this is the only case of its kind. He said he hopes the case won't harm the spay/neuter program.
The board ordered Whitford's veterinary license be on probation for at least a year and that within one year Whitford must appear before the board to meet any questions about his surgical technique. Also within a year, Whitford must obtain 10 continuing education hours in the subject of soft tissue surgery, with at least five of those hours being in person and hands on in a surgical setting. Those hours are in addition to any continuing education required to maintain a license.
He also was assessed $1,000 to be paid to the board for attorney expenses.
Reach Stephanie Ingersoll at 931-245-0267 and on Twitter @StephLeaf.


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7 things the NX must do in order to turn things around for Nintendo
By David Houghton 2015-10-12T16:48:15.284Z Feature
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To grossly understate the situation, Nintendo is in a rather tricky position right now. Never has a console from an established, major player failed as hard as the Wii U did. Crippled via a mix of confused messaging and underwhelming software support, we now know that Nintendo's current home console already has a successor incoming - as of now dubbed the NX - just three years after its launch. That's not a great legacy.
But what does the NX need to do, in order to avoid the same fate? Nintendo has arguably never been in a worse situation regarding support from third-party developers, the Wii U having limped along, propped up largely by first-party and indie offerings since just after its release. And in terms of public excitement, things are far from great. With the mainstream hype of the Wii now a distant echo, and Nintendo's core fanbase confused and disenfranchised, there's major work to be done just to garner an audience. There are ways to turn things around, but to do so, we have to take a cold, hard look at the recent past. More than any Nintendo console in history, the NX needs to get some very specific things right, from the very start. Here's what those things are.
Don't over-complicate it
Nintendo has never looked as confused as it did when marketing the Wii U. The casual market had delivered a huge influx of cash for the Wii hardware even if less giving when it came to software - so it ostensibly made sense to go after that audience again. But then what of the disenfranchised hardcore? Better try to excite those guys too. So, a proper controller then, yeah? But Wiimotes too. And extra horsepower. But early game demos that used simple, Mii-focused graphics that the Wii Sports audience could relate to. And another controller that looked like a tablet - because the mainstream is all about tablet gaming - but which doesnt actually function like a tablet, and also needs to be a proper controller as well.
It was a mess. No-one knew if the Wii U was for them, and additionally Nintendo really under-estimated the casual markets, well, casual nature. Turns out that fad-buyers without serious brand loyalty dont hang around once the novelty is over, especially not when the follow-up seems so complicated and confusing. The problem, really, was that Nintendo tried too hard in its messaging. It tried too hard to be too explicit about all of the things the Wii U would do, emphasising everything and nothing, selling to everyone and no-one. Which brings me on to my next point
Grow the audience naturally. Don't force it
The irony of the failure of Nintendos try-hard versatility with the Wii U is that both PlayStation and Xbox have captured highly eclectic audiences over the years, simply by delivering eclectic experiences. A couple of misfires, by way of Kinect and Move, aside, neither has ever made an explicit move for segmented markets. Theyve simply made a big deal out of their launches, by harnessing the excitement of the loudest, most committed elements of the fanbase, and then expanded from there, via a natural process of library expansion and price drops.
You dont need to force multiple identities with a Swiss Army Console. You just need to make a splash with the eager, early adopter hardcore, and then let the software speak for itself once you have a healthy user-base locked in. The Wii U approach was a convoluted case of too much, too soon. Go that way, and at best you sound confusing, and at worst risk an air of desperation to boot.
Don't piss off third-parties with gimmicks
Its long been Nintendos mantra that a good nay, vital aspect of console design is an interesting point of hardware difference. For years, weve heard Ninty talk about how if we just did the same as everyone else, there would be no point. For years weve heard that developers have new and interesting opportunities on Nintendo platforms. And you know what? For years, it has been wrong.
Think about it. Youre developing a major, AAA, cross-platform title. Youre up against it for three years solid, on an immensely complex project taking in many different staff over many different disciplines. In the PC, Xbox One and PS4, you have three platforms that roughly do the same thing. Over in the other corner, you have Nintendo, expecting you to make a different version, just for them, that uses a motion-sensor, touch-screen, microphone, heat-sensor, heart-rate monitor, waffle-iron and cheese-grater. Are you going to be excited about all of the new opportunities? No. Youre just not going to make a version for Nintendo. Thats why Nintendos third-party support is terrible, and thats why the NX needs to steer clear of complication. Again, sell your point of difference through your software.
Don't piss off third-parties with underpowered hardware
And coming off the back of that last point, shall we explode the Ninty-purveyed myth that horsepower doesnt matter? Because it does. Im not talking about a simple need for flashy graphics, nor am I making a case for Nintendo pushing its development resources into polygons over design creativity. The problem here is the same as that in the previous slide. Third-parties. No-one wants to port a major project over to a machine that has half the power of the lead platforms. No-one wants the extra hassle and work, and no-one wants to see their creative vision compromised for the benefit of one format. This is the other reason that Nintendo gets substandard third-party support.
The NX doesnt need to be a grand, technological leap over the PS4 and Xbox One. It just needs rough parity, and an architecture thats relatively straightforward to work with. Sony and Microsoft have both realised the importance of developer-friendly hardware, Sony in particular wearing its Cell-shaped mistakes on its sleeve when announcing the PS4s simple, PC-based tech. By the time the NX comes out, current-gen hardware will have been around for a while, costs will be dropping, and Nintendos rivals will be due (or will have already imparted) a price-cut. Theres no reason a competitively powerful NX should be out of the question. Beyond that, it will be necessary.
Don't piss off Wii U owners
Devs arent the only ones whove been disenfranchised over the last couple of generations. Theres work to do with the players as well. Obviously Nintendo lost a lot of goodwill among its long-time fans as a result of the Wiis drastic change of direction, but beyond that, theres the matter of the Wii Us rapid failure to deal with. Drawing a line under the platform and starting fresh is arguably the right business decision to make right now, but despite the machines low sales, doing so will still leave some of its adopters feeling rather abandoned.
The solution? Backward compatibility. The NX needs to allow Wii U owners to pick up where they left off, either via native compatibility or a downloadable solution similar to Microsofts backward compatibility between the Xbox One and Xbox 360. Whatever the exact method used though, Nintendo needs to transition Wii U owners over to the NX as painlessly as possible. Of course, legacy peripheral compatibility is going to be important for games that make heavy use of the Wii U GamePads screen but, for the reasons already discussed, lets reserve that stuff for last-gen software, and not build the new systems new games around old controllers. That was another thing that confused the hell out of prospective Wii U buyers.
Consolidate first-party resources in one place
If the Wii U proved anything its that even a creative design powerhouse as talented as Nintendo cannot sustain two platforms single-handedly through first-party releases. With AAA, third-party Wii U support virtually non-existent after the machines launch window, the platform holder has been notably stretched in its efforts to maintain a healthy library of games on both its home console and the 3DS. And unsurprisingly, given its much greater success and smaller demands the handheld has often taken the lions share of resources.
That cant continue with the NX. Yes, there are ways that Nintendo can make its new console far more palatable to third-parties, but it also needs a contingency plan if that doesnt work. With the 3DS now coming up on the five year mark, theres a great opportunity to consolidate resources here. Rather than self-cannibalising with two separate platforms, how about rolling everything into one? If, say, its controller sported a screen (just as a display) and Nintendo got some form of PlayStation-style remote play running, we could easily be in business. Whatever else it has done wrong, Nintendo has always maintained a strong reputation in handhelds, so sell the NX as one of those as well, and you have one platform to rule them all, whether you play on the sofa or the bus.
Give it some respectable on-board storage
Seriously. Just seriously. Its 2015.


We will observe adult butterflies and moths, caterpillars, and butterfly eggs under the microscope, and learn all about the life cycles of these interesting creatures. Students will learn how to identify and compare regional moths and butterflies. Student will get to choose a monarch, swallowtail, or gulf fritillary caterpillar to take home and rear to adulthood. All supplies are provided.
In this lab students will study the life cycles of many types of insects. Many live examples will be on display but we will focus on black soldier flies, lady bugs, crickets, and ant lions. We will observe insect body parts under the microscope. The lab reptiles and amphibians love this lab because students get to feed them the leftover crickets when the lab is finished!
When your children complete this study, they will never view insects in the same way again. Students become true scientists as they come to observe insects and their fascinating world.
Simple machines are simple tools used to make work easier. Compound machines have two or more simple machines working together. In science, work is defined as a force acting on an object to move it across a distance. Pushing, pulling, and lifting are common forms of work. In this lab students will make, interact, identify, and use many of the various types of simple machines.
Students start their own rock collection. They will learn how to classify rocks. Metamorphic, Igneous, Sedimentary Rocks and Minerals as well as the rock cycle will be studied. This year we will focus on fossils and the Mohs hardness scale. All students will go home with 12 very interesting rocks and one very cool fossil.
In this lab students will learn about some of the more exciting types of weather they could experience like tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning storms, and more. They will see how to make a cloud in a bottle, a tornado, lightning, snow, and more. They will make their own tornadoes, thermometers or barometers. Students will learn about the properties of air by learning how to use a Bernoulli wind bag. This is a great lab for students who like experiments!! This year we will make clouds and kites.
system as well as test our blood pressure, PH, and heart rates. An additional charge of $6 will be charged for those children who want a blood type kit.
Can your child identify the night sounds they hear from the chirping frogs and toad in your backyard? Now they can! This year we will learn all about South Carolina reptiles and amphibians. Does your child know what types of reptiles and amphibians inhabit our state? If not, this is the lab for them as we discover these creepy, slippery, and amazing reptiles and amphibians that live among us! Here is an opportunity for your child to get up close and personal with these wonderful creatures. There will be bearded dragon lizards, anoles, salamanders, green and gray tree frogs, turtles, a chameleon, and lots of shells,bones, and snake skins. Students will study the particular variations of reptiles and amphibians and their life cycles. Students can choose a bullfrog tadpole to rear at home. I will send instructions home before the lab.
April 17-21 Go Go Goats!!!
No kidding, we are going to have a really fun lab in April feeding the new babies with a bottle and learning how to milk the goats. Each child will have an opportunity if they dare!! We raise Saanen goats here on our farm. Children will see how we make goat cheese, goat soap, and goat lotion. These animals are valuable and extremely fun. You don't want to miss this exciting new lab adventure.
Dive in as we discover the wonders of the deep with many live and fossilized examples of ocean life as well as observation of an octopus, dissecting fishes, see clams, mussels, and oysters, and hold fiddler crabs!. Students will also classify common South Carolina shells. This is a great lab to get your child ready for their trip to the beach!
The hummingbirds are flying north. Learn all about these amazing creatures that fly here every spring and fly back to Central America in the early fall. Students will study habitat, anatomy, nesting, and migration of these tiny flying jewels that visit us every year. Every child will learn how to make their own hummingbird feeder and take it home.
Click on the registration document on the right if you are interested in enrolling your child in Science Labs this school year! You cannot do this on your phone unless you click full-screen view. You must go full-screen on a laptop or PC to access the document. Labs last 1.5 hours. Days and times are listed below so please check the schedule to the right to check for availability.
Aren't the classes for elementary age students? I have two in middle school students now.
This is exciting laboratory not only for children but also for adults. I like to explore the turtles and help their kids go to the ocean. Cuz such pristine brings people closer to nature. This was my summer camp in the childhood. After all, I did a project to protect the environment from oil spills. Look here https://poweredtemplate.com/brochure-templates/flyers/index.html cuz there are many materials that can be useful for creating presentations of abstracts and reports about nature and animals.


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The Northrop Grumman X-47 is a demonstration unmanned combat aerial vehicle. The X-47 began as part of DARPA's J-UCAS program, and is now part of the United States Navy's UCAS-D program to create a carrier-based unmanned aircraft. Unlike the Boeing X-45, initial Pegasus development was company-funded. The original vehicle carries the designation X-47A Pegasus, while the follow-on naval version is designated X-47B.

Design and development

The US Navy did not commit to practical UCAV efforts until mid-2000, when the service awarded contracts of US$2 million each to Boeing and Northrop Grumman for a 15-month concept-exploration program.

Design considerations for a naval UCAV included dealing with the corrosive salt-water environment, deck handling for launch and recovery, integration with command and control systems, and operation in a carrier's high electromagnetic interference environment. The Navy was also interested in using their UCAVs for reconnaissance missions, penetrating protected airspace to identify targets for the attack waves.

The Navy went on to give Northrop Grumman a contract for a naval UCAV demonstrator with the designation of "X-47A Pegasus", in early 2001. The proof-of-concept X-47A vehicle was built under contract by Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites at the Mojave Spaceport.  The Pegasus demonstrator looks like a simple black arrowhead with no vertical tailplane. It has a leading edge sweep of 55 degrees and a trailing edge sweep of 35 degrees. The demonstrator has retractable tricycle landing gear, with a one-wheel nose gear and dual-wheel main gear, and has six control surfaces, including two elevons and four "inlaids". The inlaids are small flap structures mounted on the top and bottom of the wing forward of the wingtips.

The X-47A is powered by a single Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D-5C small high-bypass turbofan engine with 3,190 lbf (14.2 kN) thrust. This engine is currently in use with operational aircraft such as the Aermacchi S-211 trainer. The engine is mounted on the demonstrator's back, with the inlet on top behind the nose. The inlet duct has a serpentine diffuser to prevent radar reflections off the engine fan. However, to keep costs low, the engine exhaust is a simple cylindrical tailpipe, with no provisions for reducing radar or infrared signature.

The X-47A's airframe is built of composite materials, with construction subcontracted out to Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites company, which had the expertise and tooling to do the job inexpensively. The airframe consists of four main assemblies, split down the middle with two assemblies on top and two on bottom.

The X-47A was rolled out on 30 July 2001 and performed its first flight on 23 February 2003 at the Naval Air Warfare Center at China Lake, California. The flight test program did not involve weapons delivery, but Pegasus does have two weapons bays, one on each side of the engine, that may be each loaded with a single 500 pound (225 kg) dummy bomb to simulate operational flight loads. The Pegasus was also used to evaluate technologies for carrier deck landings, though the demonstrator did not have a tailhook. Other issues related to carrier operations involve adding deck tie-downs without compromising stealth characteristics, and designing access panels so that they would not be blown around or damaged by strong winds blowing across the carrier deck.  The J-UCAS program was terminated in February 2006 following the US military's Quadrennial Defense Review.  The US Air Force and US Navy proceeded with their own UAV programs.  The Navy selected Northrop Grumman's  X-47B as its Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator (UCAS-D) program.

Variants

 X-47A
 X-47B
 X-47C: Proposed larger version with a payload of  and a wingspan of .

Specifications (X-47A)

See also

References

External links

 DARPA J-UCAS page
 X-47 Pegasus UCAV-N Factsheet on air-attack.com

Aircraft first flown in 2003
DARPA
Edwards Air Force Base
X-047A
Scaled Composites
Single-engined jet aircraft
Unmanned stealth aircraft
Tailless delta-wing aircraft
2000s United States experimental aircraft
Unmanned military aircraft of the United States


I came across this article from 2010 on Entrepreneur titled "10 Things Every Small-Business Website Needs". I thought, hmm I wonder if this may be dated since it was written more than 5 years ago. Turns out, the essential things for a small business website are still generally the same. Perhaps design trends have changed, but more or less, the ways that people are looking for small businesses, using their sites, and the strategy for the businesses to help people find them on the web haven't changed much, if at all.
I think the only thing I would add that really has changed in the past 5 years is that a small business website should absolutely be mobile responsive, meaning it is adaptable for viewing and use on a mobile device, not just a desktop/laptop computer browser. The use of cell phones to access the internet has proliferated and if your site doesn't look good or work well on a mobile device, a lot of your site visitors won't have a good a experience.


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While I'm excited about the theatrical release, I'm already looking forward to the DVD release, which is rumored will have *every single scene* from the comic book.
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Letter to the Editor> Northern Liberties Ascendant
By The Editors • March 6, 2014
The Piazza at Schmidt's by Erdy McHenry Architecture. (Courtesy Erdy McHenry Architecture)
[ Editor's Note: The following is a reader-submitted response to a recent feature article, "City of Designerly Love." It appeared as a letter to the editor in a recent print edition, AN03_03.05.2014. Opinions expressed in letters to the editor do not necessarily reflect the opinions or sentiments of the newspaper. AN welcomes reader letters, which could appear in our regional print editions. To share your opinion, please email editor@archpaper.com. ]
As president of Philadelphia's Northern Liberties Neighbors Association, I was pleased to see William Menking review our city's innovative architectural scene ("City of Designerly Love," AN 14_12.04.2013).
Yet I was surprised to see my community dismissed as the "troubled surrounding neighborhood" of the Piazza, a large mixed-use development anchored by a central plaza.
The Piazza can feel disconnected from the rest of the neighborhood, as Menking says. But Northern Liberties is not troubled: It's Philadelphia's fastest-growing community, with a 60 percent rise in population over the last decade. Multi-unit construction, industrial conversions, and infill development are everywhere, as are new restaurants and bars, entertainment venues, retail and service businesses, and professional offices.
This is no mere civic boosterism. Northern Liberties has problems, but they are problems of gentrification, not underdevelopment: decreased affordability, increased traffic, high commercial turnover, and pressures on demographic diversity and community fabric.
Menking is right to say the city needs to upgrade neighborhood infrastructure—but not to spur redevelopment. That ship has sailed. We need better city supports to accommodate the new density of active uses, restore access to affordable housing, and reserve property for public needs.
As an urbanist and frequent visitor to New York, I understand Northern Liberties might look rough around the edges compared to many redeveloped Manhattan and Brooklyn communities. But if we want to shape the future of Philadelphia's neighborhoods, we must assess their present accurately.
Matt Ruben
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What are the differences between absorption and variable costing methods on income statement presentation?
In product/service costing, an absorption costing system apportions a share of all costs incurred by a business to each of its products/services. In this way, it can be established whether, in the long run, each product/service makes a profit. Thus under absorption costing, all normal manufacturing costs are considered product costs and included in inventory. As sales occur, the cost of inventory is transferred to cost of goods sold; meaning that the gross profit (sales minus cost of goods sold) is reduced by all costs of manufacturing, whether those costs relate to direct materials, direct labor, variable manufacturing overhead, or fixed manufacturing overhead.
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Exclusive: #RHOC Tamra Judge Trying To Block Secret Audio of Blow Job With Jeff Timmons — Studio Owner Speaks Out!
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Becca is a Senior Editor for All About The Tea. She's a coastal girl who loves the outdoors, and writing about the sneaky and silly side of reality TV. Her bio is short, but her snark is endless. She loves writing for the sharpest posters in the world.
The Real Housewives of Orange County is shaping up to be a jaw-dropper — and Tamra Judge is sitting squarely in the hot seat.
As reported exclusively by AllAboutTheTea.com, Tamra is set to be slammed with her past, after an audio recording captured the reality star getting down and dirty with former boy-bander, Jeff Timmons, during a charity recording gig.
The woman at the center of the controversy is spilling the tea — and while she has asked to remain anonymous for now — the details are coming fast and furious. The owner of the recording studio is the one person who can really bring the reality star to her knees — and she is speaking exclusively to AllAboutTheTea.com. Here are the alleged facts.
Tamra participated in gay rights campaign, NOH8, around mid 2010 — and was asked to record a jingle for the cause. 90's boy-bander, Jeff Timmons, was in the studio, assisting the Bravoleb in the recording project. Tamra was allegedly caught in the act, clueless to the fact that her mic was still live.
"There was heavy flirting. We all saw it because the studio has a glass door, there's nowhere to hide." Describes the eyewitness. "She's [Tamra Judge] on her knees [performing the blow job] then she's gyrating on his lap. Afterwards, Jeff gave me a detailed explanation of why they hooked up — and described what it was like. It's mortifying for any man to talk about a woman like that."
Exclusive unreleased photo of Tamra and Jeff promoting NOH8
The source's husband was a production partner with Timmons at the time of the incident. The two men have known each other since 1998. Timmons was brought into the mix to help out Tamra in the making of the jingle, in the couple's California home recording studio.
"Tamra asked us to leave the room — then it got extremely quiet upstairs that's why we started to look in the glass door because, we were like why don't we hear any singing or music. We [Jeff and studio owner] were chatting after the act and I asked him why he hooked up with Tamra. He said he was taking one for the team," continues the tipster. "He wanted to make sure she finished the song so we could release it. Our production company received no financial benefit in releasing the song."
The studio head also alleges that Tamra has been at war with her for years. Tamra has supposedly blocked production from recruiting her to appear on the show, more than once. Bravo has expressed interest — because they know that she has knowledge of Tamra's buried secrets.
This woman owns the audio recording that exposes Tamra and Jeff's tawdry romp — which went down when Tamra was in a committed relationship with her now husband, Eddie Judge. Timmons married his current wife only one month later.
"Normally Jeff went for hot 20 year olds, so my husband and I were taken back by him hooking up with Tamra, because she was much older," the studio owner dishes. "Ricky [Santana] was just like 'oh that's Tamra.'
Ricky Santana, Tamra's former bestie, has since parted ways with the Bravoleb.
"When I texted Ricky and asked him what Tamra told him to say if Eddie ever asked anyone, he said that she said to, 'deny deny deny.' That's what Tamra does." The source revealed.
The woman claims that Tamra has actively sought to ruin the couple's reputation and professional standing in the community — in an alleged effort to thwart any RHOC involvement.
"Tamra tells people that I don't exist," explains our informant. "She says that I'm fictional, but the ladies know that it's not the truth. We have actually exchanged text messages, and the cast is aware of who I am."
When AllAboutTheTea.com broke the story, Tamra vehemently and vocally denied the allegations, and we're told that she's desperate to keep incriminating text messages, audio, and pics out of Season 12. We've also learned that after the story broke, Tamra supposedly flew to Las Vegas to meet with Timmons and his wife, Amanda, allegedly to gain control of the runaway scandal.
This story has only just begun — stay tuned as more details emerge about the bombshell that is set to blow the lid off The Real Housewives of Orange County Season 12.
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Archbishop Eulogius of Sumy and Akhtyrka asked Ukrainian President to protect Trinity Cathedral in Sumy from seizure .
May 3, 2018 Ukraine
March 29, 2018. Archbishop Eulogius of Sumy and Akhtyrka has sent a letter to Petro Poroshenko.
In his message to the Head of State, the archbishop expressed concern over the intentions of the leadership of the UOC KP to initiate the seizure of the Trinity Cathedral, the Bishop's seat, reports the press service of the Sumy eparchy on March 29.
"According to a report on the official portal of the Kiev Patriarchate, at the meeting of the UOC KP held on March 23, it was suggested that "the Holy Trinity Cathedral should be returned to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate," says the official letter sent to the President signed by the rector of the Trinity Cathedral. "This idea caused a wide resonance among Orthodox citizens of Sumy, since this cathedral is the property of the religious community of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on all legal grounds."
According to the leadership of the cathedral, at its official event the UOC KP became the initiator of actions, the result of which should be the alienation of church property of the religious organization.
Sumy believers have already called such an initiative a provocation from the leadership of the UOC KP and see it only as an attempt of a hostile takeover of the temple.
Photo document from the press service of the Sumy eparchy
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Insyde® Software BlinkBoot® is a UEFI-based boot loader that leverages Intel® Firmware Support Package (Intel® FSP) to deliver simple, fast and scalable firmware solutions for Internet of Things (IoT) platforms.
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Mr. John Weston Fullerton, 63, of Blairsville, Ga., formerly of Plymouth, Mass, passed away on Monday, June 18, 2007, following a brief illness.
Mr. Fullerton was born on Feb. 14, 1944, in Brockton, the son of the late Warren E. Fullerton and the late Mabel L. Milan Fullerton. He was a veteran of the Navy. He was an avid hunter and loved animals. John has now found the peace he was always looking for. Mr. Fullerton was a member of the Bible Baptist Church in Plymouth.
He was preceded in death by a son, John W. Fullerton in 1997; and by a sister, Nan Fullerton. Surviving Mr. Fullerton are one daughter and son-in-law, Jennifer and Donald Paschal of Carver; three sisters and brothers-in-law, Jo-Ann and Richard Jensen of Buzzards Bay, Marcia and Joseph Scribner of Hanover, and Suzanne and George Hopp of Dellwood, Penn.; six brothers and five sisters-in-law, Jere and Joan Fullerton of Sandwich, Warren E. III and Cori Fullerton of Howland, Maine, Stephen Fullerton of Falmouth, Peter and Patti Fullerton of Weymouth, David and Eileen Fullerton of South Wayne, and Michael and Sandra Fullerton of Hanover.
A memorial service will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials may be made to the Foundation for Fighting Blindness in Mr. Fullerton's memory.
Mountain View Funeral Home of Blairsville, Ga., is in charge of the arrangements. You may sign the family guestbook and send condolences online at www.mountainviewfuneralhome.com.