Sports Interactive is a computer games development company currently based in Old Street, Central London and owned by the Japanese software and video game company Sega. It is the developer of the popular games Football Manager, NHL Eastside Hockey Manager and Championship Manager Quiz, and is the former developer of Championship Manager.
Each release of Championship Manager has traditionally been one of the fastest selling PC games in the UK with Championship Manager 4 the fastest of all time.
Founded by Paul Collyer and Oliver Collyer, the company is commonly abbreviated to "SI" amongst fans of their games. In 2003, it was announced Sports Interactive would no longer develop games under the brand Championship Manager as this was owned by publisher Eidos Interactive. Instead on February 12, 2004 it was announced that Sports Interactive had signed a publishing deal with Sega and would produce its new football management games under the self-owned brand of Football Manager.
Sports Interactive have had a relationship with AFC Wimbledon since the club's formation: Championship Manager: Season 01/02 contains a pro-AFC Wimbledon message occasionally visible at start-up (along with a similarly rare but now rather dated "Save Chip!" message), and they are currently AFC Wimbledon's main sponsors, with their logo appearing on the team strip.
In 2004, Sports Interactive announced a deal to help develop Markus Heinsohn's Out of the Park Baseball.
On April 4, 2006 it was announced that Sega Holdings Europe Ltd, holding company for Sports Interactive's publishers Sega, had acquired Sports Interactive. Despite worries amongst some fans, the effects of the takeover have had little to no effect on the daily operations of Sports Interactive.
On January 1, 2007 Sports Interactive announced that they were beginning work on a new game. The only detail revealed has stated that the game will be soccer-based, however what aspect of the game to be captured has yet to be disclosed.
On April 20, 2007, Sports Interactive announced the release of a "brand new massively multiplayer online football management game" entitled Football Manager Live, similar to that of Football Manager 2007, but, as the name suggests, played completely online by up to 1,000 people within any "gameworld" of which there will be multiple. The game was originally announced to be released in March 2008 but the game was actually released January 23, 2009. The game uses a database comprised of over 330,000 football players and 10 playable leagues. In addition, game players can trash-talk one another via in-game chats.
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There is no evidence of any settlement of Europeans, English or French, in the Ste-Agathe area prior to the community that began with the Dufresnes and the Menards in 1849. There may have been camps for coureurs de bois and for lumberjacks, but nothing more. Loyalists and British veterans had been settling along the Ottawa Valley since the end of the American War of Independence, and they tended to move upstream along the tributaries. Thus the English towns of Lachute and Brownsburg a little further upstream along the North River from St. Andrew's, and the English townships that spread up the Red River towards Harrington and Arundel.


A FEW years ago, Robert Carlyle found himself in some pretty deep snow. He and a bunch of mostly American actors had been shooting a savage historical comedy-horror in the mountains on the Czech-Slovak border, when their wayward Macedonian director, Michlo Manchevski, was sacked by the studio. Stuck up there under contract, with literally no direction, Carlyle phoned Antonia Bird in London and "practically blackmailed her" to come and take over. He had acted in her previous films Safe, Priest and Face, recommended her to the shivering cast, who sealed themselves in a room, watched those films, and agreed that Bird was the woman for the job.
THE short life of New York's World Trade Center began with one spectacular crime and ended with another. Philippe Petit can only speak for the first. "My story is a fairytale, " he says at the start of Man On Wire, a new documentary about Petit's illegal tightrope walk between Twin Towers on August 7, 1974. This film goes on to confirm that the thinking behind the act was infinitely simpler than the staging, but its meaning has never been agreed upon.


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Influencer marketing has become increasingly popular with the widespread use of social media platforms. In fact, almost every company out there has at least given influencer marketing a try, and many have experienced great revenues thanks to influencer marketing. However, despite all this, most marketers are still only experimenting with this type of marketing or they're only running individual campaigns instead of investing in ongoing programs according to Ayaz Nanji, a research writer for MarketingProfs. For this reason, marketing companies like Linqia and Altimeter, have set out to find out where influencer marketing was heading in 2017.
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Between August and September last year, the companies Altimeter and Traackr in partnership with TopRank Marketing have conducted a survey of 102 marketers and strategist to examine the current state of influencer marketing. Their findings were published in a report titled Influence 2.0: The Future of Influencer Marketing. The report introduces a concept called as 'Influence 2.0' for the future of enterprise businesses. What Influence 2.0 suggests is true customer centricity and the growth in digital transformation. The statistics outlined in the report show in themselves what works and what doesn't in today's marketing, but marketers will find the additional suggestions provided there helpful.
What The Survey Found?
The respondents in the aforementioned survey were mostly larger companies with over 1000 employees, and almost half of them (43%) stated that they were only experimenting with influencer marketing. Furthermore, 28% of the respondents said that they called for influencers in individual campaigns and only 24% had influencers involved in continuous programs. Only 5% of the respondents stated that they involved influencers in all their marketing activities. However, the use of influencer marketing varied greatly among different businesses. Business-to-consumer (B2C) companies seem to be the most actively engaged with influencers as 55% stated that they employed ongoing influencer programs while 83% stated that building a one-to-one relationship with key influencers was their top priority. On the other side of the spectrum are business-to-business (B2B) companies where only 15% said they were running ongoing programs.
However, other research on this same topic had slightly different findings. Linqia, an influencer marketing platform has conducted its own research and the findings were published in their paper called The State of Influencer Marketing 2017. According to Linqia's report, influencer marketing has experienced an explosive growth last year with 86% of marketers saying they used the tactic and 94% saying they found it highly effective.
Investment in influencer marketing also seems to be booming with marketers spending between $25.000 and $50.000 per influencer marketing program. However, the survey's respondents also said that they plan to double on these investments in 2017 with some planning to spend as much as $100.000 per program.
Why Utilize Influencer Marketing In 2017?
As far as the reasons behind influencer marketing endorsements go, there seem to be agreements between the two surveys. In the Influence 2.0 report, 94% of the surveyed marketers stated that the main reason why they involved influencers was to improve brand advocacy. Other cited reasons were to increase brand awareness and to reach their target audiences. As far as the Linqia survey goes, most respondents (89%) said they used influencer marketing in order to create authentic content about the brand but also to drive engagement around a particular brand (77%). More than half (56%) stated that they utilized this marketing tactic to drive more traffic to their websites or landing pages.
The Challenges of Influencer Marketing In 2017
However, influencer marketing, being a relatively new type of marketing tactic comes with its own set of challenges. The most commonly cited challenge for 2017 that marketers face is measuring the actual ROI of influencer marketing according to the Linqia survey. Around 61% of marketers are measuring their ROI through audience reach but which we know has its setback (purchasing of fake followers). Another commonly cited challenge is finding which influencer to work with according to 45% of the respondents. As far as the most preferred social media platforms for influencer marketing go, Instagram and Facebook are still taking the lead with almost 90% of the respondents looking for their influencers there. These were followed by blogs (48%), Twitter (44%), and Snapchat being the least used social media platform as only 28% of the respondents turned to this platform. By the looks of it, more and more marketers will likely be turning to platforms like ProvenSEO to make looking for the best influencers and marketing strategies easier.
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Influencer marketing is one of the most popular buzzword in today's media-driven world that seems to have caught the attention of mostly B2C companies. According to the surveys mentioned in this article, influencer marketing has experienced a boom last year, and as evidence shows, investments in influencer marketing will continue to expand in 2017. With social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook being the most popular place to find Influencers, we should continue to see more and more companies using them as marketing platforms. Other than that, marketers will need to think of smart ways to measure their ROI and to seek help from marketing platforms.
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Seattle Marimba Quartet thinks way outside the box when it comes to percussion – and classical music. Join us for a showcase classical favorites (Bach, Mahler, Ravel), a unique blend of drumming styles from around the world, and modern marimba repertoire from the 20th and 21st centuries. Best of all, YOU will have a chance to learn and perform Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, and African drumming rhythms right along with them! Presented by Second Inversion, KING FM's project dedicated to rethinking classical…
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05.25.2018 - 98.1 KING FM @ 8 pm
SMQ performs a variety of percussion quartet pieces including marimba quartets and original arrangements for Northwest Focus LIVE. Each week, NW Focus Live features some of the most talented musicians in the Northwest on a live, in-studio broadcast performance hosted by Sean MacLean. The show airs at 8 pm on Fridays.
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SMQ will perform works from their latest album, "A Thousand Pictures," in addition to "Singing Wood." Suggested $20 donation, at the door. Cash, credit, or check. Half of the donations will be going to the West Seattle Helpline!
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SMQ performs a variety of percussion quartet pieces including marimba quartets and their original arrangements for the city of Normandy Park's first classical music concert series at the Cove. Click here for flyer.
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SMQ performs their original arrangements of classical works for percussion quartet. This evening's show will feature the premier performance of new arrangements of selections from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Ballet. Each week, NW Focus Live features some of the most talented musicians in the Northwest on a live, in-studio broadcast performance hosted by Sean MacLean. The show airs at 8 pm on Fridays.


We have exciting dinner plans tonight. Our friends who own a restaurant are testing a new concept and we are to be their guinea pigs. These are last minute plans, so we had to quickly switch the planned dinner to lunch. That turned out not to be a bad thing. Dinner was to be a nice prime rib. Instead, I cut it into prime ribeye steaks and hit the grill. The weather is perfect. Mid 70's, no humidity. I love LA. Grilled steak, veggies, and a Sea Smoke Pinot. But it is dessert that made the meal extra special. The other day I was in Bristol Farms and spontaneously picked up a few special dark chocolate bars. The brand is one I never had before..Vosges. I tried two flavors; 'black pearl bar': ginger, wasabi, black sesame seeds. The other was the 'Red Fire Bar': Mexican ancho y chipotle chiles, Ceylon Cinnamon. Both are 55% Cacao.
From here, I would have to compare things to a wine tasting. The bars actually have five instructional steps listed on the back: "breathe, see, smell, snap, and bite." Each involves using your different senses to experience different aspects of the experience. One that was unfamiliar but effective involves using your tongue to press the bits of chocolate to the roof of your mouth. Combined with inhaling at the right moment, this had the effect of bringing out the respective spiciness of each bar.
All in all, we both loved the mexican bar best. I think the combination of great dark chocolate with cinnamon and chili is exhilarating.
One side note: There was a third bar: a green and black's. It was lousy. Being that this is normally a great brand, we were confused as to why. Then Scot noticed the expiration of 8/07 on the bar. This is now the third brand and time this happened to us at Bristol Farms. They never seem to remove their expired chocolate from the shelf. This time, we are actually going to go back and point it out to them. THen use the store credit to buy more bars, because this was fun!


I've had my Honda now 20+ years. Starts on the second pull if it hasn't run in a few months. Quietest generator I've ever heard. Honda's are an investment, and they keep providing returns for many many years. I could sell it tomorrow for at least 1/2 of what I paid for it. But why, it will give me another 20 years with minimum maintenance and expense.
My Honda was purchased 8 years before Champion started making generators. The cost was well below your 10X figure. The db rated in the manual is 49-58. The Honda is an inverted, the Champion is not. Champion is fine if you want to power frybabies and the like, sophisticated electronics call for an inverter. Tell me about your Champion in 12 more years. And as for personal finances, no need to go there.
Caleb, you fail to mention one fact, that the Champion runs at full speed, all the time, therefore max noise.
a inverter generator will idle at a much lower speed, when charging batteries, lights and fridge and stays at its lower decibel levels.
only when the a/c or microwave or blow dryer are running, does an inverter gennie rev up and get louder.
so, you have to compare the 49-53db of an inverter gennie to the all-the-time 68db of the Champion.
i agree that the Champion offers the most bang for the buck and has great customer service. i almost bought one until the DW said, no generator unless it's quiet as they get. so i got a nearly-new Honda 2000 for $650, from Craig's List. and i don't feel suckered at all. and it weighs half what the Champion weighs.
and, lucky us, it runs our 13.5btu Dometic a/c!
and i've heard the Champion, next to my Honda 2000 and it's way louder.
No joke you run a 13,5 AC with a 2000 watt Gen? From all I've read I thought it took a min of 2800 watts to start a 13.5. So i went and bought two 2000 watt genny's to run connected? Dang....Did I just waste a bunch of money?
How many ACs, power centers, microwaves, TVs, etc. will need to be replaced before the cheaper cost of a generator with dirty power equals that of an inverter generator ??
Around here, power tools for framing a house are toast after just a few houses built using a construction generator. Don't know why they just go and buy a inverter generator....maybe they don't work as well for that type of application, or it is just cheaper to replace a couple of power saws.
WOW This is a great debate. The fact is you will never convince someone who spent 2000 on a generator that there is a generator for a little over 200 that can do the same job. For someone who needs a gen 1 or 2 times a year and a little bit of creativity on how you direct the sound, 67 db can be put up with very easily.
Champion is rated at approximately 3 hrs per gallon. Honda 6 hrs per gallon. 1200 hrs is 200 additional gallons of gasoline for the Champion, quite a few more irritated neighbors, and how many fried electical devices? Go into this with your eyes open, and you get what you pay for.
MREZ - Two things - you must not run a 67db generator at a CG very often because you're still here.
I agree that using one at home or when dry camping far from anyone else would be acceptable, but c'mon, there is no way you can "direct the sound" in a typical CG so that your neighbors are willing to put up with 67db. You might not be bothered by it, but I truly hope that I am not camping anywhere near you.
Check out the video that probably everyone who owns a Honda has seen before. 1 minute and 45 seconds into the video is where a construction generator is pushed up to full load (69db). That's LOUD, wouldn't you agree?


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Thanksgiving Dinner, Thursday 28 November, 7.30pm
An American Thanksgiving feast with all the trimmings will take place at magnificent Clothworkers' Hall. Roast turkey (and stuffing and vegetables and of course pumpkin pie) will be a highlight. Franklin, in addition to suggesting the turkey become one of America's national symbols, practised cooking it as part of his early work on electricity.
Thursday 28 November, 7.30pm
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Magazine: 19 December 2020
Issue: 19 December 2020
Why mRNA vaccines could revolutionise medicine
From magazine issue: 19 December 2020
Almost 60 years ago, in February 1961, two teams of scientists stumbled on a discovery at the same time. Sydney Brenner in Cambridge and Jim Watson at Harvard independently spotted that genes send short-lived RNA copies of themselves to little machines called ribosomes where they are translated into proteins. 'Sydney got most of the credit, but I don't mind,' Watson sighed last week when I asked him about it. They had solved a puzzle that had held up genetics for almost a decade. The short-lived copies came to be called messenger RNAs — mRNAs – and suddenly they now promise a spectacular revolution in medicine.
The first Covid-19 vaccine given to British people this month is not just a welcome breakthrough against a grim little enemy that has defied every other weapon we have tried, from handwashing to remdesivir and lockdowns. It is also the harbinger of a new approach to medicine altogether. Synthetic messengers that reprogram our cells to mount an immune response to almost any invader, including perhaps cancer, can now be rapidly and cheaply made.
Katalin Karikó — the Hungarian-born scientist who doggedly pursued the idea behind this kind of medication for decades at the University of Pennsylvania before joining BioNTech — and her collaborator Drew Weissman may be the Watson and Brenner of this story. They figured out 15 years ago how to send a message in a bubble into a cell and have it read. For years they had tried putting in normal RNA and found it did not work; the body spotted it was an alien and destroyed it.
But by subtly modifying one of the four letters in the message (replacing uridine with pseudouridine, a chemical found in some RNAs in the body anyway), they made a version that escaped the attention of the cell's MI5 agents. Further refinements five years ago produced a recipe that worked reliably when delivered to cells inside a tiny oily bubble. The pandemic is the first time the technique has been tried in anger, and it worked: the first two Covid vaccines, BioNTech's and Moderna's, rely on these messengers.
The message tells the cell to make part of one of the virus's proteins which then alerts the body's immune system. Once invented, the thing is like a general-purpose vaccine. You simply rewrite the message between the same opening and closing sequences, put it in the same kind of bubble, and fire it off — almost as easy for genetic engineers these days as writing a text is for teenagers. It is faster, cheaper, safer and simpler than the old ways of making vaccines.
More conventional vaccine designs may still make a vital contribution to defeating the pandemic, Oxford's included. And the messenger method has its drawbacks, such as the need for extreme cold storage. But in the long run, messengers probably represent the future of vaccines. Now the principle has been approved by regulators, there may be no need to go through the same laborious and expensive three-phase clinical trials every time. Faced with a truly lethal pandemic — with a 10 per cent mortality rate, say — the vanishingly small likelihood that a new messenger vaccine would be unsafe pales into insignificance. You could deploy it in weeks or days.
What is more, at the cost of a few billion dollars, the world may now be able to build a library of messenger vaccines for every plausible coronavirus and influenza virus with pandemic potential we can find, test them in animals and store the recipes on a hard disk, ready to go at a moment's notice. Moderna's vaccine was first synthesised in mid-January, before we even knew the coronavirus was coming out of China.
There are already improved variations on the messenger theme too: self-replicating messengers, for example. Vaccine development has long been the Cinderella of pharmaceuticals, and this would not have happened without the pandemic. But nor would it have happened without the 30-year scientific slog Dr Karikó undertook.
A fast, adaptable vaccine platform has long been the dream. Let's try it against hepatitis, Zika and several kinds of common cold. We may begin to do to viruses what we have already done to most intestinal worms, many blood parasites and not a few bacteria: abolish them from the human experience. If the message is the recipe for a protein characteristic of particular tumours, the immune system may learn to mount a devastating attack on a cancer. How about Alzheimer's?
There will be setbacks, side effects and unintended consequences. There always are with innovation. There will be scares based on false fears spread by unscrupulous cranks. Already some worry that these vaccines might cause infertility. It's nonsense, but with just enough plausibility to alarm some people. Pregnancy depends on a gene called syncytin that causes cells to fuse in the placenta. Syncytin bizarrely appears to be derived from a virus our ancestors caught millions of years ago. The spike protein, target of the Pfizer vaccine, also causes cells to fuse in a similar way. It shares with syncytin a few short sequences of letters in its gene. But so do scores of other harmless proteins in our bodies, so the worry is baseless.
One problem we will probably face if this RNA dream comes true is a rise in allergies, asthmas and autoimmune problems. These are caused by the loss of parasites which used to suppress our immune systems. The more infections we get rid of, the more likely we are to have intolerant reactions to things like pollen and gluten. But then messenger vaccines may also be a way to tackle these, and teach the immune system to behave.
What if 2020 went down in history as the year synthetic biology dealt a mortal blow to future viruses and illnesses in general, rather than the year a virus ruined our health, wellbeing and livelihoods?
What if 2020 went down in history as the year synthetic biology dealt a mortal blow to future viruses?
Written byMatt Ridley
Matt Ridley's most recent book is How Innovation Works.
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5 Things That You Didn't Know About The Shutter Thai Movie
The Shutter Thai movie is a horror film that was released in 2004. The movie is about a photographer who takes pictures of ghosts and then sells them to the highest bidder. The photographer, Than, played by Ananda Everingham, gets more than he bargains for when he and his girlfriend, Jane, played by Natthaweeranuch Thongmee, take a picture of a ghost in an abandoned building. The ghost is angry and wants revenge. It starts haunting Than and followed him everywhere he goes. The ghost also starts killing people close to Than. In the end, Than has to face the ghost and defeat it in order to save himself and those around him.
Here are five things that you probably didn't know about the Shutter Thai movie:
1. The movie is based on a true story.
2. The director, Banjong Pisanthanakun, also directed the successful Thai horror film, Shutter (2004).
3. The Shutter Thai movie was banned in Malaysia due to its frightening content.
4. Some of the scenes in the movie were so scary that they had to be cut out or edited before the movie could be released.
5. The Shutter Thai movie was nominated for several awards, including Best Picture at the Thailand National Film Association Awards (2004).
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The Shutter Thai movie is a 2004 horror film directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom. The movie stars Ananda Everingham, Natthaweeranuch Thongmee, and Achita Sikamana. The movie was released in Thailand on October 7, 2004, and received mixed reviews from critics.
The movie is about a photographer named Tun (Ananda Everingham) who starts to see ghostly images in his photographs after he and his girlfriend Jane (Natthaweeranuch Thongmee) have an argument. Tun's best friend Wattana (Achita Sikamana) tries to help him deal with the situation, but things only get worse when Jane is killed in a car accident.
Tun begins to suspect that the ghosts are trying to tell him something, and as he investigates further, he realizes that they may be connected to a series of murders that have been happening around town. With the help of Wattana, he sets out to solve the mystery, but not before the ghosts take their toll on him.
The Shutter Thai movie was filmed entirely in Bangkok, Thailand. Some of the locations used in the movie include Wat Arun, Bangkok National Museum, and Khao San Road.
The movie was a box office success in Thailand, grossing over 60 million baht. It was also nominated for four Thai National Film Association Awards, winning two for
In the early 1990s, two American journalists, Michael Tollin and John Papania, were working in Bosnia as war correspondents. They became friends with a Bosnian Muslim woman named Zlata Filipovic, who was living in Sarajevo with her family. The city was under siege by Serbian forces, and Zlata's diary chronicled the everyday reality of life during the war.
Tollin and Papania decided to make a documentary film about Zlata and her diary. They enlisted the help of director Kevin McDonald, and the three of them traveled to Sarajevo to meet with Zlata and her family. The movie chronicles their experiences during the making of the film, as well as Zlata's continued struggle to survive amid the violence of the war.
The movie is set in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime.
The movie follows the story of a young girl, Loung Ung, who is forced to leave her family and home to live in a labour camp. The film depicts the harsh conditions of the camp, as well as the brutality of the Khmer Rouge soldiers.
Despite the darkness of the subject matter, the film is ultimately hopeful, as it shows how Loung and her fellow prisoners were able to maintain their humanity and hope in spite of their circumstances.
The movie is about a family who are forced to flee their home.
The father, played by Michael Fassbender, is a doctor who is trying to save as many people as possible. The mother, played by Kate Winslet, is forced to take care of the children. The eldest son, played by Finn Wolfhard, is trying to help his family as much as he can. The youngest daughter, played by Millie Bobby Brown, is scared and doesn't know what to do.
The family are eventually forced to leave their home and they end up in America. They are taken in by a kind family who help them get back on their feet.
This movie is based on a true story and it is very moving. It shows how families can be torn apart by war and how they can come back together again with the help of others.
The movie is shot in both Khmer and Thai.
The movie is set in Thailand and Cambodia, and is about the love story between a Khmer man and a Thai woman. The movie is shot in both Khmer and Thai, and features some of the most beautiful scenery in both countries. The story is told through the eyes of the two main characters, and we see their relationship grow and change as they journey through life together.
The movie has won several awards.
The movie has won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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The Shutter Thai movie is a gripping tale of the 13 Thai cave rescue. The movie follows the true story of the perilous cave rescue mission that captured the world's attention in 2018.
The film details the dramatic events that unfolded when a group of young footballers and their coach became trapped in a cave complex in northern Thailand. With time running out, an international team of rescuers was assembled to save them.
The Shutter Thai movie is a must-watch for anyone who wants to learn more about this incredible story. It's an inspirational tale of human endurance and courage in the face of adversity.
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There are plenty of reasons to love the Thai movie Shutter. For starters, it's a classic horror movie that's been terrifying audiences for years. But there's more to this movie than just scares. Here are five things you may not know about Shutter.
In 2004, a photographer in Thailand took some photos of a ghostly figure in the background of some shots. These photos went viral, and the story behind them inspired the plot of Shutter.
2. The movie was a huge hit in Thailand.
Shutter was a box office smash in Thailand, where it was released in 2004. It quickly became one of the highest-grossing Thai movies of all time.
3. The movie has spawned two sequels.
Due to its success, Shutter spawned two sequels: Shutter 2: The Soul Collector and Shutter 3: The Final Chapter. Both movies were also huge hits in Thailand.
4. The movie was remade in Hollywood.
In 2008, Hollywood decided to remake Shutter with American actors Joshua Jackson and Rachael Taylor in the lead roles. However, the remake was not well-received by critics or audiences and was a box office flop.
5. You can visit the real-life locations from the movie.
If you're a fan of Shutter, you can actually visit some of the real-
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If you are a fan of Thai movies, then you have probably heard of the movie Shutter. This Thai horror movie was released in 2004 and quickly gained popularity among fans of the genre. The movie tells the story of a photographer who starts to see ghostly images in his photographs. As he tries to figure out what is causing this, he realizes that the ghosts are trying to tell him something.
The movie was so popular that it was remade in Hollywood in 2008. However, many fans of the original movie were not happy with the remake. They felt that it did not capture the essence of the original Thai movie.
If you want to watch the original Shutter Thai movie, you can find it online. There are many websites that offer streaming services for Thai movies. Some of these websites even offer subtitles in different languages, so you can still enjoy the movie even if you do not speak Thai.
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Taken from his second solo album, 'ReProgram', released via hia own Nightmare Records earlier this month, the video itself is a combination of Tron and Blade Runner, in a futuristic setting, with a well-crafted alt-rock track showcasing Lance's top-level vocals to their best.
"It's an animated visual upload, representing the idea that people often do the opposite of what they truly want because of their fear of others' reactions, which is a learned coping mechanism that many don't realize they have. It generally manifests from very judgmental elders growing up, programming a person's desire for others constant approval. Wearing this mask does not allow a person to be authentic, even to themselves. It puts them on a repetitious cycle that will sabotage their dreams and relationships and ultimately their joys in life, resulting many times in depression and a fatalistic perception of the world.


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Bayesian Bias Correction of Satellite Rainfall Estimates for Climate Studies
Margaret Kimani, J.C.B. Hoedjes, Zhongbo Su
UT-I-ITC-WCC
Advances in remote sensing have led to the use of satellite-derived rainfall products to complement the sparse rain gauge data. Although these products are globally and some regional bias corrected, they often show substantial differences relative to ground measurements attributed to local and external factors that require systematic consideration. A decreasing rain gauge network inhibits the continuous validation of these products. Our proposal to deal with this problem was to use a Bayesian approach to merge the existing historical rain gauge information to create consistent satellite rainfall data for long-term applications. Monthly bias correction was applied to Climate Hazards Group Infrared Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS v2) using a corresponding gridded (0.05°) rain gauge data over East Africa for 33 years (1981–2013). The first 22 years were utilized to derive error fields which were then applied to independent CHIRPS data for 11 years for validation. Assessments of the approach's influence on the rainfall estimates spatially and temporally were explored. Results showed a significant spatial reduction of the underestimation and overestimation of systematic errors at both monthly and yearly scales. The reduced errors increased with increased rainfall amounts, hence was less so in the relatively drier months. The overall monthly reduction of Root Mean Square Difference (RMSD) was between 4% and 60%, and the Mean Absolute Error (MAE) was between 1% and 63%, while the correlations improved by up to 21%. Yearly, the RMSD was reduced between 17% and 49%, and the MAE between 13% and 48%, while the increase in correlations was between 9% and 17%. Decreased yearly bias correction corresponded with years of high rainfall associated with El Niño. Results for the assessments of the effectiveness of the Bayesian approach showed that it was more effective in reducing systematic errors related to rainfall magnitudes, but its performance decreased in areas of sparse rain gauge network that insufficiently represented rainfall variabilities. This affected areas of deep convection, leading to minimal overestimation reductions associated with the cirrus effect. Conversely, significant corrections were during years of low rainfall from shallow convections. The approach is suitable for long-term applications where consistencies of mean errors can be assumed
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Serve these citrusy courgettes on a salad, or as part of a pasta salad. This recipe is low calories and really easy to make, get creative with your pairings and enjoy!
Slice courgettes and place in a pan along with the rind and juice of the two oranges.
Cover tightly and simmer for about 6 minutes or until the courgettes are tender.
Add the butter and season with pepper.
Allow the butter to melt slightly, then toss until the courgettes are well coated. Serve at once.


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Description: Biennial 0.6-2.7 meter (2-9 ft) plant with large, rhubarb-like leaves. Thick, grooved stalk. Flowers are reddish-purple and thistle-like. Flowers present July through October. Brown, spikey seed pods or "burs" stick to animal fur and clothing.
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Leaf tea used in China to treat vertigo, rheumatism, and measles. Leaf wash used to treat hives, eczema, and other minor skin irritations. Leaf poultice used for burns, ulcers, and sores.
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Home » Blogs » Food Safety and Processing Perspective » Salmonella outbreak linked to Foster Farms raises questions on when to recall
Food Safety and Processing Perspective
Terrence O'Keefe, WATT's content director, provides his perspective on everything from animal agriculture trends that impact our food chain to food-safety related issues affecting chicken and egg production. O'Keefe has covered the poultry industry as an editor for more than a decade and also brings his experience in plant management and poultry production to comment on today's issues.
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Salmonella outbreak linked to Foster Farms raises questions on when to recall
Terrence O'Keefe
The recent outbreak of human Salmonellosis cases that have been linked to consuming chicken from three Foster Farms facilities and the actions by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Foster Farms and some of Foster Farms' customers have been difficult for some legislators, media and consumers to understand. I don't claim to have any special knowledge of the events before and after the USDA issued a public health alert stating Foster Farms' chicken products were associated with the outbreak, but I hope I can help some people gain a better understanding of why some of the parties have taken the steps that they have.
Raw, ready-to-cook poultry is not sterile, and some of the bacteria found on ready-to-cook poultry are likely a serotype of Salmonella. Some Salmonella serotypes aren't human pathogens, but others, such as Heidelberg, typhimurium and enteritidis are commonly associated with foodborne illnesses in humans and are sometimes found on poultry. Ready-to-cook poultry products derived from birds that are processed appropriately, and are treated with USDA- and FDA-approved antimicrobial agents, may still have Salmonella and or Campylobacter present on them. Even an effective, multi-hurdle approach to pathogen reduction will leave low levels of microorganisms on the ready-to-cook poultry product. There are no processing "kill steps" for raw poultry other than irradiation for total elimination of pathogens, and irradiation is not used commercially in the United States for poultry.
Informed consumers
Whether or not someone gets sick from eating a food item that has Salmonella on it depends on the amount of bacteria consumed and the ability of the person's immune system to fight off infection. With proper cooking and handling, Salmonella can be killed on poultry products, and cross contamination of other food items that are not cooked can be prevented. Some segments of the population are more susceptible to foodborne illness: the very old, very young and anyone else with a compromised immune system.
By issuing a public health alert regarding Foster Farms' chicken products from the three facilities linked to the outbreak, the USDA was letting the general public know about the possible increased risk associated with these products, and this could be particularly useful information for anyone in an at-risk category. I think that the USDA was correct in issuing the warning.
To recall or not?
Foster Farms has announced that they began taking additional steps two months ago in the three facilities linked to the outbreak to reduce the incidence of Salmonella on poultry products produced there. They have also stated that they are continuing to add additional control measures. The USDA has accepted that the changes that Foster Farms and the Foster plants are operating under increased scrutiny for the next few months. Foster Farms has not elected to recall any product. Since none of us outside of the USDA and Foster Farms have access to the data, we can't comment with certainty on whether or not this is the right decision. But, I suspect that the USDA wouldn't have said that Foster Farms could continue processing and didn't ask for a recall if they weren't convinced that it was the right decision.
Costco issued a recall for approximately 40,000 pounds of rotisserie chicken sold by one store. The chicken in question had been cooked in the store prior to sale to consumers. Consumption of this rotisserie chicken from this store had been linked to the outbreak. This chicken was sold as ready-to-eat, so most consumers would not cook it again prior to eating. This explains why the Costco recall is appropriate, even though Foster Farms is not recalling the ready-to-cook product.
Kroger Co. decided to recall Foster Farms' ready-to-cook items produced at the three facilities linked to the outbreak from its family of stores. I guess each customer had a decision to make, but I can say that I don't quite understand Kroger's decision based on the publicly released information.
Terrence O'Keefe is editor of Egg Industry and content director at WATT Global Media. To contact O'Keefe, email tokeefe@wattglobal.com.


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Pak's state media blacks out Abbasi's presser on NSC meeting
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 14 (ANI): Pakistan's state-owned media, Pakistan Television (PTV) on Monday censored Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's press conference on the National Security Council (NSC).
According to reports, the press conference was not aired by the Pakistani mainstream private media, while the same was aired on state-owned PTV after 'necessary omissions'.
Abbasi chaired a presser and told the media about the NSC conference and his recent meeting with his predecessor Nawaz Sharif who recently admitted Pakistan's role in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
In a new twist, Sharif reportedly told Abbasi that he did not make comments on Pakistan's role in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and said he was "misquoted".
"The statements attributed to Sharif are factually incorrect and are being presented in a wrong light by the Indian media. He told me that he has not made such comments and his words have been misrepresented and taken out of context," Abbasi was quoted by Daily Times Pakistan.
Following a backlash in international and local media, Pakistan Army Spokesperson Major Asif Ghafoor had announced that the NSC meeting had been called to clarify Pakistan's stance on Sharif's statement, Geo News reported.
Top military leaders, the acting foreign minister, chiefs of the navy and air force and other top civil officials of the government attended the meeting at the Abbasi's house.
Sharif in an interview given to the Dawn newspaper had said on Friday, "Militant organisations are active. Call them non-state actors, should we allow them to cross the border and kill 150 people in Mumbai? Explain it to me. Why can't we complete the trial?"
It is being seen as an admission of Pakistan's involvement in the terrorist attacks in 2008. (ANI)
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Note: this originally appeared as a guest post on Evie's older blog A Period Drama Fangirl and I'm reposting it here with her gracious permission. (Thank you, Evie!) If you'd like to see the original post/comments you can click here or go to my original link post here.
Hello everyone! We're going to be discussing the '05 P&P with Keira Knightley and, before we get started, let me just put out a qualifier. I'll be offering some thoughtful criticism in the following, but I DO have friends and relatives who really like this film, so please take it all solely as my own personal opinions and preferences. :) Now let us begin!
Some of this spills into the following points as well, so here we'll talk mostly about accuracy in the character portrayals and script.
First off is the pacing. This is a little interesting. At times it seems to move very slowly (with plenty of sitting and swinging in the barnyard) before it will suddenly speed up–skipping through various plot points. It was also filmed using more modern camera angles and coloration. Throughout, my general impression is that they were trying to inject a higher level of tension and drama into the story. After thinking it through, I've come to the conclusion that this sort of approach simply doesn't sit well on P&P. Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey, for instance, are more melodramatic–allowing for more artistic license in the drama direction–whereas P&P is much more of a candid social commentary.
The rewrite of Darcy's line above is not, in itself, a heinous offence (though I think the original is far better), but another–more serious–problem is the occasional giving of one character's lines to another. I'm talking a line of Miss Bingley's given to Mary, Miss Bingley then responding with one of Mr. Bingley's humorous lines (made sarcastic), and then Lizzy standing up for Mary. Needless to say, it rather messes with the character development.
By their handling of all this, the filmmakers were obviously trying to catch the bumptious energy and curiosity of the Bennets as well as the social tensions of the era and bring it across to modern audiences. And that's no easy feat–as our world's perceptions and sensitivities have changed so much from when the book was written–but it shouldn't be done at the expense of compromising the story.
Hertfordshire was one of the principal market counties of London, providing fresh produce to the city, and in the book we are told Longbourn was a journey of twenty-four miles (less than half a day's journey) away. This farmyard setting is most certainly brought out in the movie. Only problem is: setting-wise it's not quite accurate. This is in the days of gentlemen farmers (think Mr. Knightley), and those living directly on/working the farms were generally tenant farmers. The Bennets owned a farm and it's not specifically stated in the book whether or not they lived directly on it, but a few things can be inferred by their occupations–which would have been very different if they had. For reference, think of Harriet Smith's adventures with the Martins in Austen's own Emma–or the social hierarchy/daily activities of characters in George Eliot's Adam Bede or Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd. If the Bennets lived directly on the farm they would have been doing the work around it to some extent.
It's reasonable to assume Mrs. Bennet might have been wearing older dresses (i.e. Georgian)–except that she comes across as very fashion conscious (particularly when it comes to "long sleeves"). With the exception of the Georgian and Regency dresses, most of the waistlines tend toward a Romance-era look (c. Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters).
Another big fashion issue is the loose hair. In the period, we know, for instance, that they almost certainly didn't wash as often as we imagine. But socially, there were still things that were and were not done. A good woman would not have been seen publicly in the streets with her hair down or hanging messed around her face.
My final point is actually one of my biggest issues, but I'll just touch on it briefly. It basically comes down to what the foundation for a relationship between a man and a woman should be. This is a huge theme in the book, illuminated by all the different couples: Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, Mr. Collins and Charlotte, Darcy and Lizzy, Bingley and Jane, and, of course, Wickham and Lydia. To me, this version focused much more on emotional and physical attraction, and less on the meeting (or clash) of minds. Of the two main couples, this particularly came out on Darcy's side–and almost completely so in the relationship between Jane and Bingley (the other exemplary couple whose courtship we see).
If there was ever a story that emphasized the respect and clear-headed evaluations to be considered when looking at a marriage, P&P is it. Near the end of the book, Lizzy begins "to comprehend that he was exactly the man, who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both." "Gratitude and esteem"–discovered through all the ups and downs of their story–is the foundation for their love.
You may have started seeing how two of those 'Famous Lines' fit into this: "You have bewitched me body and soul" followed by, "Your hands are cold." There's nothing actually wrong with either (aside from not being Jane Austen), though the first one definitely belongs more to later 19th century literature…Mr. Rochester, perhaps??? As for the second one: I know people think, say, and experience all sorts of down-to-earth things at extraordinary times, so that's not the problem.
Now, of course, in a romantic relationship between a man and a woman there's all sorts of natural enchantment and bewitchment going on. But (as I mentioned above) as a story, P&P by definition places much more emphasis on a different aspect. The aspect of two people who are willing to see and correct their shortcomings (i.e. in this case, a fair amount of pride and prejudice on both sides) and who then respond each to the other in humility, gratitude, and love. And that, along with willingness for self-sacrifice, is a strong foundation for a marriage.
So, there are some of my thoughts on the '05 P&P. Thank you all for following me to the end of them! What is your opinion of this adaptation?
I think that this and the newer version of Persuasion are going to our biggest instances of having to agree to disagree :-) It's such funny timing for me that you posted this today because it just so happens that I bought the sheet music for it today! I ran across it at the music store while buying Sam's very first ever piano books (I'm so excited to begin teaching him to play! He is so very much not excited! Going to be interesting...) and it was on sale, and I was like, "Yes! I love this soundtrack! I can't wait to play this!" Hee.
Your criticisms are valid, and this is one of the kindest, gentlest "I don't like it" reviews I've ever read :-) While I don't really care about most of them, I do agree that the changing of the emphasis on attraction of the head versus physical attraction is not in keeping with Austen's book. I don't really mind it, though. I think most (all?) of the movie versions of Austen's books feature heroines and heroes that are more attractive than in the books, and they all involve more physical attraction than happens in the books, but I think that's partly because film is a visual medium and we like to look at pretty people, and of course people will be attracted to pretty people, so... um, yeah, I think that made sense.
If we both liked and disliked the same things, we would get bored.
I just finished my copy of that book I gave you for Christmas, "A Jane Austen Education," and that author pointed out that most of Austen's heroine's are not considered beautiful. Elizabeth has her fine eyes, but when Mr. Darcy first sees her, he says she is "tolerable." Jane is the beauty. In S&S, Marianne is beautiful, but Elinor is well-enough looking. Anne Elliot has lost her prettiness. Fanny Price is not beautiful. Catherine Morland is not beautiful.
BUT once the hero of each tale gets to know the heroine, he begins to find her more and more attractive. Austen seems to be making the point, repeatedly, that being attractive doesn't make you a hero or heroine, and being plain doesn't mean you can't be one. And that mere physical attraction isn't going to be enough to make a happy match, but that once two people become more and more acquainted, they will begin to find each other more and more attractive physically as well.
So... I don't know if you've started that book yet (I thought it was amazing -- review coming soon!), but if you want to expand on this idea, and juxtapose the movie and book versions of P&P on that issue, you might find good ideas in the "Education" book.
Yes....and most interesting! Actually, the more I got thinking about this whole issue, the more I realized it could be expanded on. I probably won't touch on a particular film per se (maybe just all of them in general), but I think I'll start drafting a post on Beauty in Austen. This whole discussion has started some ideas. :) I'm hoping to put some time/thought into it and maybe post it sometime next month.
Excellent! I very much look forward to it!
Great review! I must admit some of your review made me chuckle. : ) But I totally agree, I did not enjoy this version at all.
Great points, Hamlette, about the attractiveness of Jane's characters. This is an element that is real, yet the movie versions completely miss this wonderful subtlety with the actresses they choose (well, except perhaps for Amanda Root).
Also, (and you probably already saw this in my previous comment), but after all the chat flying about here, I'm hoping to work up a post eventually on beauty in Austen's own work and in her world. :) It should be interesting!
Thanks so much for commenting and I'm so glad it helped!
Yes, about point #3, I think there's definitely some deep (and very intentional) imagery and script adjustment throughout the entire movie adding up to that finished whole. In fact, since I've started thinking about it, it's been pretty interesting to see just how tightly they wove it throughout.
So, I definitely agree with you that the setting may not be completely accurate--particularly the fashions. However, as far as the "farm" part goes, I always assume that the Bennets MUST be living ON their farm, not just near it, because they are using the same pair of horses for their carriage and their field work--and I don't think they could do that if they were living some distance away from their farm.
However, I would argue that on Darcy's side, there WAS quite a bit of physical attraction involved . . . In fact, this is the only Austen novel I can think of where she let us see into the male hero's feelings as he was falling in love, and she specifically talked about Darcy being captured by Lizzy's prettiness, etc. "Fine eyes," "handsomest woman of my acquaintance."
And later on, when Darcy and Lizzy are talking about that time they ran into each other at Pemberly, he explains that, at first, he wasn't planning to try proposing to her again, but he started wanting to do that "about half an hour after I had first seen you," if I remember right. In other words, it was literally SEEING her again--fine eyes and all--that made him plan to try once more to win her hand.
So, basically, it doesn't bother me that they focused as much as they did on the physical attraction in the film, because I think that, for Mr. Darcy at least, it was fairly accurate.
Out of curiousity, what are your opinions on the Keira v. Jennifer debate? I, myself, believe that Keira's portrayal was, although not perfect, much more faithful to Austen's intentions than Jennifer's, because Jennifer's Lizzy strikes me as being FAR too calm and sweet and mature. I think Keira exaggerated the outspokenness and sauciness somewhat, but I felt like Jennifer left it out altogether . . . so I had a really hard time believing that she really WAS the same Elizabeth Bennet from the novel.
On the farm, I think the main indication why I think they weren't living "in or right off the barnyard" so to speak, comes from the girls' occupations in the book. Again, a lot of my frame of reference for this comes from George Eliot's Adam Bede and Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd (I think set on either side of P&P historically).
Yes, I definitely agree that Matthew Macfadyen was not as good a Darcy as Colin Firth. Although I didn't hate him or anything--there were actually some elements of his performance that I felt were very accurate to the book-Darcy. (Like, I know this sounds weird, but I really liked how he wold talk through clenched teeth when he was mad.) Just, overall, he was too shy.
But, for me, Darcy isn't as important to the story as Elizabeth is--she's really the "main main character," if you get what I mean. So, I don't mind if HE'S not perfect in a particular adaptation as long as LIZZY is perfect, or nearly so. And I felt that, comparing the 95 and the 05 movies, Keira Knightley was much closer to the way Jane Austen wrote the character in the book. Like you said, I feel like Ehle "softened" Lizzy's sharp edges quite a bit. And while I appreciate that it makes her NICER--i.e., I would be much happier to have afternoon tea with Ehle's Lizzy than Knightley's--it really disturbs me, too, because I feel like you can't truly call it "Pride and Prejudice" if Lizzy isn't being her true sharp-tongued self.
Oh, sure, I'll pretend I didn't hear that, Heidi :) But as far as I'm concerned, you can tell anybody you care to that LIZZY IS NOT MY FAVORITE JANE AUSTEN HEROINE. :) I do realize she has some really good qualities--not the least being courage and loyalty--but her sharpness, and also what I see as her silliness (ie, the whole Wickham business), REALLY get on my nerves. Basically, I think the best way to describe her is a "rough diamond." A very rough diamond, sometimes--but hey, with parents like that, maybe we can't really blame her too much.
You know, I've never seen the Elizabeth Garvie version--I'd be really interested to see how she portrays Lizzy! I think I've heard other people say that she's really close to the book character, too.
It was really interesting, too, to hear your "P&P history," as it were :) I always like hearing people say which one they grew up with, etc., and how that influenced their views of the different versions. I actually didn't see any P&P movies as a kid or teenager. Then, this spring, I chose to watch BOTH movies (95 and 05) within two weeks of each other (crazy, huh?). The 95 was first, and by the time I got to the end I was quite annoyed with Jennifer Ehle, to be honest, for "messing" with Lizzy's character (as I saw it :) Then I watched the 05 version and I was like, "this feels way more book-accurate" (as far as Lizzy goes, anyway). Plus, I REALLY enjoyed Rosamund Pike's Jane . . . and I loved all the beautiful cinematography . . . and even though Matthew Macfadyen wasn't super-accurate, I still really enjoyed his performance . . . so that's how the 2005 movie ended up being my favorite. Plus, as a history major, I was really intrigued by the different take on the Bennets' social status and with trying to decide how accurate I thought it was or wasn't.
I'd love to read a review of the 1980s P&P!
Just looked up Keely Hawes--she does look QUITE a LOT like Lizzy ought to look. I've never seen her act, but I bet she would've been cool if they'd picked her!
I think I've actually only seen Keeley Hawes in one thing -- though my parents have seen her in something else, too. But she's AMAZING in Wives and Daughters and I know she plays a deeper/thoughtful role in Our Mutual Friend (which none of my family have seen), so yes, I think she would have been super neat as Lizzy! Wives and Daughters isn't my ultimate top favorite Gaskell (I'm a North & South girl ;)), but every time I watch it I'm still floored by the intense beauty and sweetness of the story. :) I hope you can see it sometime soon and let me know what you think!
Oh, thanks for the recommendation! (Sorry, I didn't see it before.) I'll definitely have to watch it and let you know what I think!


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A different law for IMF presidents
Nicole Colson
Sandy Boyer
Dominique Strauss-Kahn. If the president of the IMF can be a socialist, a skunk never sprays anything but the most fragrant perf
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the millionaire former president of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and leader of France's center-left Socialist Party, is charged with raping a west African immigrant housekeeper in a five-star Manhattan hotel.
But Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr seems like he wants to make the whole case go away.
After initially agreeing to US$1 million bail and house arrest, Vance arranged for Strauss-Kahn to be released without any bail. The press reported prosecutors and Strauss-Kahn's lawyers met about a deal in which the case would be dropped.
The housekeeper stands by her allegations. Her attorney, Kenneth Thompson, told the New York Times: "She wants to testify to the world what Strauss-Kahn did to her."
But her credibility has been called into question — by prosecutors and the media alike. The housekeeper is alleged to have had a conversation with someone in an immigration detention centre about the possible financial benefits of accusing a wealthy man.
Other charges against her include claims that she lied on her political asylum application and that she had a bank account with irregular cash deposits — though such things are hardly unknown among the immigrant working poor.
Even if everything is true — and the housekeeper, through her lawyer, has strenuously denied the allegations that she was lying or seeking money — there is no reason not to bring Strauss-Kahn to trial.
There is abundant evidence to substantiate the accusations made by the housekeeper.
DNA tests found Strauss-Kahn's semen on the housekeeper's shirt. In fact, all sides agree that a sexual encounter took place, but Strauss-Kahn's lawyers claim it was consensual.
Yet four hotel workers who spoke to the housekeeper right after the encounter with Strauss-Kahn all said she was extremely distressed. Two of these workers are retired New York City police officers.
As a hotel worker told the NYT, "You had two former police officers who didn't think she was making it up."
But all this disappeared in a media circus, where the accuser has had every detail of her life thrown open to public scrutiny.
As usual, Rupert Murdoch's New York Post stooped to the lowest point with a front-page headline attacking the woman as a "hooker" — claiming she had traded sex for money.
The French press, not to be outdone, published the woman's name and photos.
Paris Match, a French society magazine, said Strauss-Kahn's lawyers regarded the accuser as "not very alluring", before going on to relate details of the woman's supposed physique — as if this were evidence of Strauss-Kahn's innocence.
Meanwhile, a number of women have come forward in the wake of Strauss-Kahn's arrest to say that they were sexually harassed by him. French writer Tristane Banon, the daughter of a Socialist Party officeholder, has accused Strauss-Kahn of attempting to rape her in 2002.
From the breathless media coverage, you might think there's an epidemic of false rape allegations leveled at powerful men in order to ruin their lives.
In reality, the American Prosecutors Research Institute says false reports of rape in the US are between 2% and 8% — on par with false reports of other crimes.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates about 60% of rapes and sexual assaults are never reported to police. This is, in part, precisely because victims are hesitant to have their supposed motives picked apart and their lives subjected to intense public scrutiny.
The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network says that when unreported rape cases are factored in, only about 6% of rapists will ever spend a day in jail.
The media frenzy surrounding the Strauss-Kahn case sends a disturbing, if familiar, message to women: If you are going to come forward to report a sexual assault, you better be sure there's nothing in your past or current behavior that could be used against you.
If you are not a "perfect victim," don't bother seeking justice.
The dynamics of race and class are also crystal clear in this case — as people from New York's African American community who rallied in early July to demand that Strauss-Kahn be brought to trial pointed out.
State Senator Bill Perkins said: "This is a very powerful white man — this is a very poor African woman.
"For us to ignore race would not really be looking at reality."
Even Strauss-Kahn is entitled to be presumed innocent until a jury finds him guilty — this is a constitutional protection that ordinary working people need far more than wealthy international bankers.
But this doesn't entitle him to avoid going on trial for rape.
From a very early stage, Strauss-Kahn's treatment has been a case of the special law that exists for the rich.
Imagine for a moment that the accused wasn't Dominique Strauss-Kahn, president of the IMF who was staying in one of New York's most luxurious hotels, but "Frank Smith", a Detroit autoworker in New York City on vacation and staying in a Holiday Inn.
Strauss-Kahn was initially released on $1 million bail and placed under house arrest in his wife's Manhattan penthouse. "Frank Smith" would still be in jail on Rikers Island.
Strauss-Kahn has the best attorneys money can buy. William Taylor III is a senior partner in the law firm Zuckerman Spaeder, which is ranked as the top white-collar crime firm in Washington, DC, Chambers USA says.
The firm researches and ranks US firms. Benjamin Brafman is one of New York City's most prominent — and no doubt most expensive — defense attorneys.
"Frank Smith" would be lucky to have a Legal Aid lawyer who was juggling dozens of other serious cases.
People who can't afford bail face months on Rikers Island, one of New York's most horrific jails, if they insist on going to trial.
None of this proves that Strauss-Kahn is a rapist. But it illustrates the very different way that the law works for the wealthy and influential — compared to ordinary working people.
Strauss-Kahn is a leader of the Socialist Party in France. If the charges are dropped, he may return home and run against right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy for the country's presidency, as he was expected to before his arrest.
But if the president of the IMF can be a socialist, a skunk never sprays anything but the most fragrant perfume.
The IMF's structural adjustment policies have forced poor nations to slash spending on health, education and nutrition to pay debts to international lenders.
The IMF has consigned millions of people, especially children, to poverty and malnutrition.
Socialists believe working people can abolish poverty when we own and democratically control our own societies. We are proud to stand with the working women and men of the world against the international bankers and bureaucrats.
When Strauss-Kahn is called a socialist, we socialists feel like we're being slandered.
[Reprinted from SocialistWorker.org.]
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Are You Doing Enough To Educate Your Customers On Safety?
Educate Customers And Sell The Need.
Firearms safety begins at the point of acquiring or even holding a gun, and it always remains the most important part of gun ownership. The safety message is permanently etched in every dealer's brain, so safety products typically make up the bulk of a store's accessory sales, or ought to. Is safety becoming more of a focal point for consumers? One gunshop/range manager in Texas says it is, which is good news for all dealers.
"People want to be more responsible in firearms ownership today. They're interested in knowing how to secure their guns, or what they should be concerned with when they go out to the range. And they're willing to spend more money on the better products," said Travis James, manager of The Arms Room in Dickinson, Texas.
James says pistol safes, along with eye and ear protection, are practically mandatory purchases for first-time gun buyers at The Arms Room. Their weekly firearms safety classes are quite popular, as well.
"We've seen our class on the fundamentals of safety grow tremendously over the last several months. We open it to all ages and spend about an hour on basic gun safety. We start at the lowest level and work our way up teaching people what they need to know," James said.
"I don't care how experienced or how good you think you are, you can learn something from our basic class. We talk about safe storage, what to do with your kids, how to establish a plan for home protection, or how to get to your gun if an intruder is kicking down your door. Any dealer can offer a basic gun safety class in their store to help get people in this mindset," James added.
New for 2015, the Liberty Safe National Classic series is Liberty's
first solid steel plate-door safe — it has a 3/8-inch solid steel
plate door and 10-gauge steel body for added security. A 4-in-1 Flex
interior creates configurations to fit a variety of your customers'
safety/security needs.
Talk About Safety
The Arms Room, in the greater Houston area, is built around its state-of-the art, NSSF 5-Star gun range. It branched out from the smaller retail store founded by James' late father Bill James, who was affectionately known as "Pops." The Arms Room emphasizes the importance of safety with customers and its employees.
"I think the most important thing is talking about safety, so we really push safety education," James said. "You have to have an educated sales staff, and it all trickles down. If you give a customer incentive to buy a safety product, then it's easy to sell it. We ask customers if they have kids at home, if they have a plan for securing the firearm, how often they plan on shooting. We talk about the basics in safety products, but we also tell them if they really want to get serious about it, here's something better."
The staff at The Arms Room realizes selling safety products often hinges around establishing their need.
"We put a better electronic earmuff into someone's hands and talk about its benefits. We do this for each safety item. We ask them why they might need a small pistol vault, and discuss the advantages of a biometric versus a keyed opening. Not only are you making a better-informed customer, but you're also making a customer for life. And they're going to go out and tell more friends," James noted.
The Arms Room is also a family-oriented establishment. As many as 150 to 200 folks a day patronize the range alone, and safety "is constantly harped on," according to James. Having a lot of contact with customers on the range side allows the staff to do additional promoting and selling of safety products, of course. Sometimes, the customers do the selling for them.
"We have husbands and wives coming into our store and onto the range. We, as men, tend to feel we know everything we need to know, but women tend to bring perspective. Women immediately want to know how to keep a gun safe and protect the kids. Men may think it's good enough just to put a gun up high. We don't always think it through as well as women do," James observed.
The Arms Room also makes good use of product demos, and is in the process of rolling out a line of free seminars to add to its current lineup of classes.
(Top Left) IntelCase Co., distributors of Negrini luxury gun cases, offers
2018R Custom Shop 1911 handgun cases in a variety of finishes. The cases
are air travel-approved and secured with dual steel combination locks.
(Bottom Right) Plano's Hunter Guide Series of waterproof cases will remain
waterproof to depths of 1 meter for 30 minutes.
Wiley X introduces a line of Remington-branded eyewear and hearing
protection. The eyewear meets ANSI Z87.1 High Mass and High Velocity
impact safety standards. The Walker's Game Ear Ultimate Digital Quad
Connect features Bluetooth sync compatibility with mobile devices
and an NRR of 27 dB.
What's Selling?
"Because of our gun range, the eye protection we sell the most are inexpensive glasses we buy directly from Pyramex, a big industrial manufacturer of safety products," James said.
The important thing is shooters understand the importance of eye protection, regardless of the brand name or expense.
"When I grew up shooting, eye protection wasn't a big deal. Nowadays, it's not unusual for us to sell a $150 pair of Oakley or Wiley X sunglasses to someone who wants to get into shooting. Some first-time buyers don't mind spending this kind of money upfront," James added.
"Our ear protection sales depend on the person. Again, in sheer volume our number-one sellers are the simple foam plugs for folks on our range. Dollar-wise, our number one seller is the Howard Leight Impact Sport muff, a very good, inexpensive, electronic earmuff. It's easy to jump up from a $20 set of earmuffs to a $65 electronic set. We also carry some $300 Pro Ears muffs, and we do move some of those," James said.
In handgun safes, GunVault is really popular with The Arms Room's customers. James says they also carry the Secure Vault line, and recently started stocking Browning's new Pistol Vault line of handgun safes.
Finding the right mix in safes can be an adventure. The Arms Room only carries the Browning line of large safes currently. The dealer incentives were hard to pass up, James said.
"It surprises me how well our gun cases do. When I first got into the gun business, people seemed to buy the cheapest case out there, but not now. If you can show them the advantages of a more expensive case, a lot of times they'll go for it. Boyt and Browning are our top-selling brands. We prefer to sell a better product rather than having to compete with everyone else around town on the cheaper cases," James said.
Hard gun cases do so well for The Arms Room, they recently built a table with a hot wire to custom-cut the inner foam for customers as a value-added service.
Browning's PV500 features a 10-gauge steel body and recessed
plate-hinged lid, electronic four-button touch pad electronic
lock, internal LED lights and foam interior.
The Pelican P1075 Pistol & Accessory HardBack Case is designed to fit
pistols, revolvers and magazines. It features customizable Pick N Pluck
Foam and is watertight and dustproof.
Utilize NSSF Safety Programs
Not only do the reports commissioned by the NSSF provide a selling edge to firearms dealers, but a variety of programs, including First Shots classes for first-time shooters, also are available to dealers. The Arms Room offers a free First Shots class to its customers.
Especially important to the entire firearms industry is NSSF's Project ChildSafe, which has both educated consumers through a variety of tools and distributed 36 million free safety kits via law enforcement agencies in every state and U.S. territory since 2003. "Own It? Respect It. Secure It." is the NSSF message reverberating throughout the firearms industry.
Project ChildSafe Inc. has now become the Project ChildSafe Foundation.
"The name change symbolizes the growth the 501(c)(3) organization has experienced, and better reflects its mission to support Project ChidSafe's safety messaging and free gun lock program," according to an NSSF statement.
Attendees registering for SHOT Show 2016 can also now donate to the foundation during registration.
New Safety Products For 2015
A lot of manufacturers took 2013–2014 as a re-evaluate and center-back-up year, James pointed out. This slowed down the flow of new products a bit. Here's a look at some of the newer safety offerings on the market:
Through a recent partnership with Remington Outdoor Company, Wiley X Inc. is now offering a line of Remington-branded safety products. New models include Remington Platinum Grade Eye Protection — which meets ANSI Z87.1 and EN 166 safety ratings — and hearing protection systems.
Visit www.wileyx.com.
Decibullz Custom Molded Earplugs have an NRR (Noise Reduction Rating) of 31 for use while shooting, traveling, swimming or listening to loud music. They are moldable (via boiling water) to fit anyone's ears.
Visit www.decibullz.com.
Pro Ears muffs feature Dynamic Level Sound Compression technology (DLSC) — which allows the wearer to hear every sound — even during high-volume noise spikes. All noises over the 70 dB threshold are instantly compressed by 50 percent, while conversational and other sounds are amplified.
Visit www.proears.com.
Howard Leight Impact Sport Tactical earmuffs feature all the design elements of Impact Sport, including a noise-reduction rating of 22 dB, battery life of 350 hours and Air Flow Control technology. The Tactical version features a contemporary, low-profile earcup design, padded headband, carrying case and replacement comfort cushions.
Visit www.howardleight.com.
Bedazzled ear and eye protection from Pack'n Heat include a 23 dB-rated earmuff decorated with genuine Czech crystal, and eye protection with matching crystal decoration. A wide variety of colors are available, with patterns including cheetah, zebra, camo and ombre.
Visit www.packnheatproducts.com.
IntelCase Co., distributors of Negrini of Italy luxury gun cases, announces Negrini's new 1911 Custom Shop case series. Like the standard 2018R model, the 1911 model has thermoformed double-wall construction and dual-steel combination locks. All Negrini cases feature hand-upholstered interiors and are made of fine Italian leather.
Visit www.negriniacases.com.
Pelican's P1075 Pistol & Accessory HardBack Case is designed to carry pistols, revolvers and magazines. The case is watertight to 3.3 feet for 30 minutes, with lockable hasps and a shoulder strap.
Visit www.pelican-case.com.
Plano's classic 1312 Field Box now has added utility with the addition of the Model 1312600 1312 Field Box Holster. A ballistic Nylon wrap transforms the 1312 Field Box into a fully dressed tactical field bag. The Field Box attaches quickly and securely to the Field Box Holster using built-in webbing loops at each end. It includes an adjustable padded shoulder strap with heavy-duty quick-connect hardware.
Visit www.planomolding.com.
By Greg Stanton
Click To Read The Shooting Industry November 2015 Issue Now!
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Educating customers about proper gun safety should definitely be a priority to dealers, especially if it's a firt time gun owner. Providing them with recommendations for proper equipment is a good idea as well. Thanks for sharing.


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