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Campus reacts to hurricane's effects in Gulf
Nate Billings
Anxiety stretched beyond the reaches of Hurricane Katrina to the hearts of students and faculty at Missouri Southern as the storm reached the southern shores of the United States.
Dave Slatton, junior mass communications major, had family members in Gulf Port, Miss., one of the towns on the edge of the hurricane's front.
Slatton's son, Cody, and his wife had just gotten married and were living on base housing while Cody was deployed for the Navy.
"I was afraid something had happened," Slatton said.
However, Slatton's daughter-in-law had driven out of the danger area before the storm hit.
"She packed up and headed out," Slatton said. "She took some clothes, wedding pictures and some papers. They lost everything."
He said they would not be able to return to the house for 30 days.
This will give Cody a chance to come home since he was working in Okinawa, Japan during the time of the storm.
"The Navy ships are going to send comfort and aide," Slatton said. "But, they always take care of the civilians first."
Slatton said the hurricane could have been worse on his son and daughter-in-law.
"They were fully insured," Slatton said. "Cody told her not to buy the insurance, but she went ahead and did so. He said, 'I'm so glad she didn't listen to me.'"
After the hurricane hit, Slatton did not have any communication with them for three days.
"I just knew it was going to be bad for everyone," he said. "I count my blessings that my son wasn't there and his wife had gone."
Others on campus felt the same anxiety as Slatton felt during that time.
Dr. Cheryl Cifelli, assistant director of bands and assistant professor of woodwinds, took her position at Southern just over a month ago. She had left Mississippi and many people there and waited for two weeks for any word after the storm.
"I found out just like everyone else," she said.
Cifelli said she was watching television when a report came on about a town just a few miles from where a couple of her friends lived. The town had been washed away.
"It was totally not there," she said.
However, as the phone services were replaced, a phone call and an e-mail relieved her worries. Her friends were safe.
"I was mainly relieved," Cifelli said. "I felt bad for them."
Several of Cifelli's friends were teachers.
"All those teachers had nowhere to go," she said.
The schools which they taught in were completely gone, and the students had left the area, so the jobs were likely to be cut.
"They are professional people who have been made to rely on others," Cifelli said.
Cifelli's friends sent her pictures of the area. A church she sang in during her years in Mississippi had been completely washed out except for the bells beside the front door.
"The people are very open," she said. "They were very helpful. They could have been your neighbors."
Cifelli is working on setting up a benefit concert for the victims of Katrina.
The concert will be later this month, and she hopes the concert will benefit the victims early enough so people will not forget what happened if the concert were to be at a later day.
"They will still care, but they forget," she said.
Some students at Southern, though some may not have known anyone in the affected areas, still reacted to the situation.
"I thought it was awful," said Julie Moller, sophomore undecided major. "It's probably really hard on them (the victims). I hope more gets done sooner."
Others agree with this.
"It was a real shock," said Erica Thomas, junior psychology major. "America thinks we're bullet-proof, but we're not."
However, there are other students who do have relatives and friends around the affected areas.
"Our brothers with our seminary had some flooding in their house, but they made it out okay," said Nghia Nguyen, freshman undecided major.
Nguyen had also had relatives near New Orleans who made it out in time. He said he hoped the best for everyone affected by Katrina.
"We're praying that everyone gets out safely," he said. "We did a prayer service. God looks down on us and takes care of us."


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How Do I Earn My Keep?
Yesterday, a person asked me how InterVarsity staff (like myself) are funded. In his words, he contrasted two models: what he called a "mission field" model of "not muzzling the ox" and being supported by donations, vs. a "tentmaker" model where I "earn my keep" by being paid for the work I produce. It was an honest question, and I think he was primarily trying to understand how InterVarsity works. But it's a good question, and I've been thinking about it a lot this morning.
My position (ESN Associate Director) is funded by those individuals and churches who share my concern and vision for the university, and who want to partner with me financially and prayerfully in this ministry. I believe that this is a Biblical model (not "the" Biblical model, though), and I also think it makes sense in a general, nonprofit sort of way. When I'm wearing my other hat, I work with several hundred Greater Cincinnati nonprofits, so I think I have a good perspective on the nonprofit world.
First, I believe that ESN is a ministry that God has called into existence, through the prayer, planning, and work of several dozen Godly men and women. However, it's easy for a single individual to deceive himself. If the Holy Spirit is truly behind ESN, then other Christians – who have communion with the same Holy Spirit – will also discern that ESN is a Godly ministry and, importantly, that I am the right person for this position. The fact that over a hundred people (and more each week, God willing!) have been led by God to partner with me financially is a testimony that God has called me to this ministry.
Secondly, money is a symbol of value. You pay a store $3 for milk because milk is worth something to you. You give the Red Cross $25 because you think it's valuable to have something like the Red Cross in our community. You pay $600 for an iPhone because you think it's awesome. You tithe to the church because, yes, it's a Biblical command, but also because you see the value in what your church and its ministers are doing. Many nonprofits start as all-volunteer organizations, but eventually enough people believe that someone needs to devote themselves full-time to the work, and money is raised to fund a salaried position.
The same principle applies to any business or nonprofit: if there aren't enough people who value what you do or make, then your organization will eventually cease to exist. Because of this, I'm not so sure that the two traditional models of ministry – "mission field" vs. "tentmaking" – are really so far apart. Even a tentmaker has to find a market for his tents. If you are called to Cambodia, and want to support yourself by being a furnace repairman, your ministry probably won't be very successful. If you start a university, but no one is willing pay (or borrow) for your classes, you won't be a university for long.
Thankfully, ESN has been blessed by God. Many hundreds of people around the country have invested their time, treasure, and talent to seeing ESN succeed, and, at last count, 2,700 students, professors, and "fellow travelers" have joined ESN and endorsed our mission. As we often pray before meals, may God make me truly grateful.


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To value is to set priorities. It is to choose one thing over another. It is to think about things in relation to each other and decide that one is better than the other. It is to decide what is "good." All persons assign higher value to some things and lower value to others. People assign these valuations in a consistent pattern that is unique to them. This valuation process is actually one's habit of thinking. It involves filtering, processing, storing, and analyzing data. It includes thinking about objects, discerning the different aspects of things, making judgments, and choosing. Our unique pattern of thinking and assigning value is called our Value Structure.
People often confuse value with values. Values are specific items that people stand for, believe in, or deem important. To value is to think, to assign meaning and richness of properties to reality. A Value Structure is the thinking map a person uses to reach conclusions about things. Value is thinking that values are important objects of our thinking. People value to arrive at their values.
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package org.deeplearning4j.spark.models.sequencevectors.functions;

import lombok.NonNull;
import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
import org.apache.spark.api.java.function.VoidFunction;
import org.apache.spark.broadcast.Broadcast;
import org.deeplearning4j.models.embeddings.loader.VectorsConfiguration;
import org.deeplearning4j.models.sequencevectors.sequence.Sequence;
import org.deeplearning4j.models.sequencevectors.sequence.SequenceElement;
import org.deeplearning4j.models.sequencevectors.sequence.ShallowSequenceElement;
import org.deeplearning4j.models.word2vec.wordstore.VocabCache;
import org.deeplearning4j.spark.models.sequencevectors.learning.SparkElementsLearningAlgorithm;
import org.deeplearning4j.spark.models.sequencevectors.learning.SparkSequenceLearningAlgorithm;
import org.nd4j.linalg.exception.ND4JIllegalStateException;
import org.nd4j.parameterserver.distributed.VoidParameterServer;
import org.nd4j.parameterserver.distributed.conf.VoidConfiguration;
import org.nd4j.parameterserver.distributed.messages.TrainingMessage;
import org.nd4j.parameterserver.distributed.training.TrainingDriver;
import org.nd4j.parameterserver.distributed.transport.RoutedTransport;

import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;

/**
 * This is wrapper for SequenceVectors training over given Sequence<T>
 *
 * @author raver119@gmail.com
 */
@Slf4j
public class TrainingFunction<T extends SequenceElement> implements VoidFunction<Sequence<T>> {
    protected Broadcast<VocabCache<ShallowSequenceElement>> vocabCacheBroadcast;
    protected Broadcast<VectorsConfiguration> configurationBroadcast;
    protected Broadcast<VoidConfiguration> paramServerConfigurationBroadcast;

    protected transient VoidParameterServer paramServer;
    protected transient VectorsConfiguration vectorsConfiguration;

    protected transient SparkElementsLearningAlgorithm elementsLearningAlgorithm;
    protected transient SparkSequenceLearningAlgorithm sequenceLearningAlgorithm;
    protected transient VocabCache<ShallowSequenceElement> shallowVocabCache;

    protected transient TrainingDriver<? extends TrainingMessage> driver;

    public TrainingFunction(@NonNull Broadcast<VocabCache<ShallowSequenceElement>> vocabCacheBroadcast,
                    @NonNull Broadcast<VectorsConfiguration> vectorsConfigurationBroadcast,
                    @NonNull Broadcast<VoidConfiguration> paramServerConfigurationBroadcast) {
        this.vocabCacheBroadcast = vocabCacheBroadcast;
        this.configurationBroadcast = vectorsConfigurationBroadcast;
        this.paramServerConfigurationBroadcast = paramServerConfigurationBroadcast;
    }

    @Override
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public void call(Sequence<T> sequence) throws Exception {
        /**
         * Depending on actual training mode, we'll either go for SkipGram/CBOW/PV-DM/PV-DBOW or whatever
         */
        if (vectorsConfiguration == null)
            vectorsConfiguration = configurationBroadcast.getValue();

        if (paramServer == null) {
            paramServer = VoidParameterServer.getInstance();

            if (elementsLearningAlgorithm == null) {
                try {
                    elementsLearningAlgorithm = (SparkElementsLearningAlgorithm) Class
                                    .forName(vectorsConfiguration.getElementsLearningAlgorithm()).newInstance();
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    throw new RuntimeException(e);
                }
            }

            driver = elementsLearningAlgorithm.getTrainingDriver();

            // FIXME: init line should probably be removed, basically init happens in VocabRddFunction
            paramServer.init(paramServerConfigurationBroadcast.getValue(), new RoutedTransport(), driver);
        }

        if (vectorsConfiguration == null)
            vectorsConfiguration = configurationBroadcast.getValue();

        if (shallowVocabCache == null)
            shallowVocabCache = vocabCacheBroadcast.getValue();

        if (elementsLearningAlgorithm == null && vectorsConfiguration.getElementsLearningAlgorithm() != null) {
            // TODO: do ELA initialization
            try {
                elementsLearningAlgorithm = (SparkElementsLearningAlgorithm) Class
                                .forName(vectorsConfiguration.getElementsLearningAlgorithm()).newInstance();
                elementsLearningAlgorithm.configure(shallowVocabCache, null, vectorsConfiguration);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                throw new RuntimeException(e);
            }
        }

        if (sequenceLearningAlgorithm == null && vectorsConfiguration.getSequenceLearningAlgorithm() != null) {
            // TODO: do SLA initialization
            try {
                sequenceLearningAlgorithm = (SparkSequenceLearningAlgorithm) Class
                                .forName(vectorsConfiguration.getSequenceLearningAlgorithm()).newInstance();
                sequenceLearningAlgorithm.configure(shallowVocabCache, null, vectorsConfiguration);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                throw new RuntimeException(e);
            }
        }

        if (elementsLearningAlgorithm == null && sequenceLearningAlgorithm == null) {
            throw new ND4JIllegalStateException("No LearningAlgorithms specified!");
        }

        /*
         at this moment we should have everything ready for actual initialization
         the only limitation we have - our sequence is detached from actual vocabulary, so we need to merge it back virtually
        */
        Sequence<ShallowSequenceElement> mergedSequence = new Sequence<>();
        for (T element : sequence.getElements()) {
            // it's possible to get null here, i.e. if frequency for this element is below minWordFrequency threshold
            ShallowSequenceElement reduced = shallowVocabCache.tokenFor(element.getStorageId());

            if (reduced != null)
                mergedSequence.addElement(reduced);
        }

        // do the same with labels, transfer them, if any
        if (sequenceLearningAlgorithm != null && vectorsConfiguration.isTrainSequenceVectors()) {
            for (T label : sequence.getSequenceLabels()) {
                ShallowSequenceElement reduced = shallowVocabCache.tokenFor(label.getStorageId());

                if (reduced != null)
                    mergedSequence.addSequenceLabel(reduced);
            }
        }

        // now we have shallow sequence, which we'll use for training
        /**
         * All we want here, is uniform way to do training, that's matching both standalone and spark codebase.
         * So we need some neat method, that takes sequence as input, and returns **something** that's either used for aggregation, or for ParamServer message
         */
        // FIXME: temporary hook
        if (sequence.size() > 0)
            paramServer.execDistributed(
                            elementsLearningAlgorithm.frameSequence(mergedSequence, new AtomicLong(119), 25e-3));
        else
            log.warn("Skipping empty sequence...");

    }
}

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On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Scheer and Paul Jay discuss and debate whether there is any rationality left amongst the ruling elites
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome back to Reality Asserts Itself on The Real News Network. We're continuing our discussion with Bob Scheer. Bob is a veteran U.S. journalist, currently the editor-in-chief of the Webby Award-winning online magazine Truthdig. And his whole biography you'll find beneath the video player. We're just going to pick up where we were. So here's what I'm accusing you off, that you seem to be suggesting that there's some rationality left in this system within the elites. And I'm not talking–of course there are some individuals that have some rational long-term view. I mean, even people like Soros has been crying about the lack of banking regulation. And there's people in different sectors of the elites who realize this is a train wreck and about go over a cliff. But those voices are actually marginalized. Even somebody who's got as much money as Soros within the banking and financial elite is completely marginalized. Nobody really listens to a word he says–people with power, at any rate. [1:07] PROF. ROBERT SCHEER, JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR: Well, they listen to–. JAY: Let me finish the point. SCHEER: They listen to Buffett. JAY: Well, maybe. But Buffett doesn't raise as much alarm as Soros does. But within there–they don't even seem to be able to rule in their own interest. It would be in the interest of global capitalism to have more rational banking regulations as they introduced in the 1930s. It would be in the interest of global capitalism to deal with the threat of catastrophic climate change. It would be in the interest of any rationality not to let fossil fuel and the arms industry so dominate U.S. foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East, I mean, this fueling of a Saudi-Iranian conflict. The idea that, you know, could there be a United States without a massive military, yeah, there could, but not this United States, not this economic system, not this elite. These guys aren't going to come around to some kind if view of we could be an equal, modest country. SCHEER: Well, you're absolutely right that the current configuration of power in America is irrational. We don't have adults watching the store. And we go from one disastrous pursuit to another. I mean, there was no reason whatsoever, if we had adults watching the store, you'd go knock off Saddam Hussein in Iraq, who had nothing to do with al-Qaeda, was a force against Iran, which–you know, we backed him in his war with Iran. So the contradictions are obvious, that we don't have adults watching the store, we don't have rational policy. However, I think you are not the only person that now knows that. JAY: Oh, I'm sure lots of–I would say most ordinary people kind of know it. SCHEER: No, I think even in those circles there's an awareness that we're not doing very well, and there are reminders that we're not doing well. You know, our economy is stagnant. We're up against some real problems in terms of our future. Income inequality is one. You don't have to be some wild lefty liberal to see that. I mean, the whole foundation of our country was always on a stable middle class and an expanding middle class, opportunity, equal playing field. I'm not saying that was the reality, but that was always the expectation. You know. And, you know, whether it's de Tocqueville or the founding fathers, there was always an assumption that at least for what you thought was the base population there would be this opportunity. You know. And we have been forced over the last couple of decades to recognize that no, it's going alarmingly in a different direction. Internationally, we know we're not doing very well. I mean, we don't produce a whole lot of products that everybody in the world is dying to get their hands on. The main thing that we've been effective on is this tech stuff, and our tech companies are the ones that are most concerned that our political model is not a good one. They're the ones that are out there having to sell this stuff, and this stuff involves getting confidence and knowing the culture, caring about other people, winning their confidence. And that's been endangered. So the only thing I would–I don't disagree with you at all as to whether our model is in trouble. It's in trouble. I disagree with you only on whether–the number of people who know it's in trouble. JAY: I would say even most of them–I would probably think most of the elite know it's in trouble. They're just going to cash in on it, and it's going to be someone else's problem to do something about it. SCHEER: Okay. You're putting your finger on something that I feel is very critical. And I have spent my life interviewing people generally around power, in government and so forth. I've traveled with Nelson Rockefeller and David Rockefeller. You know, I have interviewed people who became president, from Richard Nixon, Clinton, and so forth and so on. And if I were to try to explain, the big shift that I've seen is long-term as opposed to short-term, that most of the people I had interviewed in the first stage of my career, say somewhere up until 1970, were people that at least were concerned what their grandchildren might think. You know? There was either through family, inherited wealth, or going to certain schools, or there was some sense of social responsibility, you know, that you could find, that we have to leave our mark, we have to leave it a better place, we have to–and just for our place in history, that it mattered. Okay? So you could be concerned, oh, we'd better get with the civil rights movement, because otherwise we're going to fall apart, or we'd better care about the economic condition of the rest of the world, because otherwise it will rebel, we'd better worry about the living condition of our own people here or they'll rise up with pitchforks and toss you out. I think what happened is we went into this madcap period of short-term greed. JAY: And let me just–Bob wrote a book called The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street. And this was a kind of turning point you're talking about. SCHEER: Yeah, that's really what my book is about, because you had sensible rules of the road that came out of the New Deal, and there was a recognition, because of the Great Depression, that you just can't have this madcap, crazy, Gilded Age society. Again I overuse this concept of adults watching the store, but I remember going back to just being a kid in the Bronx, and you didn't leave the children to run the fruit stand, 'cause they'd give everything away or they'd go off themselves and play stickball. Somebody had to be there to make sure the stuff got sold and money was paid and things. And you lost that. You got people coming out of the law schools and the business schools that were shysters. You know, they just wanted some hustle, some scam. That's how you got into credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations. JAY: Yeah, but the bubbles are euphoric,– SCHEER: Yeah. JAY: –if you're in on cashing in on the bubble. SCHEER: And anybody who looked at that knew. I mean, I was interviewing people during those years, and they'd say, this is, you know, as Buffett said, financial instruments of mass destruction. You know, how could you believe in any of this stuff? How could anybody believe if you–this is what my book was about–you take all these loans and you redefine them and you talk about the risk in stupid ways and you give loans to people who can't support it, and somehow, okay, and whether you were in Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or whether you were in the private sector, 'cause Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were being traded on the stock market, you had to know that this was going to explode. They knew it. And they got the laws to change to make it legal. It should have been illegal. You know. I mean, the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which Bill Clinton signed off as a lame duck president in 2000, after it was already–you know, the election was over, he was now a lame duck, and he signed this bill. What was the purpose of it? It was to make all of this garbage legal. It said–I think it was Section 3 of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act–a Republican-Democratic bipartisan bill–said no existing law or regulatory agency will have jurisdiction over credit default swaps or collateralized debt obligations or any of these new financial mechanisms. Why? Because they said this is modern. We have to compete with Europe. You have to be able to do these things. We can't let–we have to give legal certainty–Lawrence Summers, you know, secretary of the Treasury–we have to have legal certainty for these financial instruments; otherwise, they won't be effective. Right? Legal certainty meant no one's going to look at it, no one's going to challenge it, no one's going to set any standards, no existing regulatory agency or law will apply. So it was a license to steal. JAY: Now, for people that don't understand the concept, quickly. SCHEER: Well, quickly, what happens is they developed all these new financial gimmicks. You know, a credit default swap was something that was an insurance policy, but it was not an insurance policy. It's what AIG did and got into so much trouble. They said, you do these collateralized debt obligations, you take all these different loans, subprime mortgages–. JAY: Which were invented in Baltimore, by the way. SCHEER: Yeah, auto loans, or any of these things, and then they don't make sense on their own and they all seem quite risky, but we'll put them into a pool and we'll assess their value and we'll get these credit rating agencies that have a stake in saying, yeah, they're all good to go because they're going to get money from it. So there was no regulation. And then you pass a law that says you're allowed to do this, no one will look at it carefully, no existing regulatory agency will have control. So you've got a license to steal. Go knock yourself out. You know? And they, selling all these loans, packaging them, and then reselling them to people over the world. Right? And we can predict, you know, get this income and so forth. And then, if it looks shaky, we're going to give you these phony insurance policies, right, that will seem to back them up. But there's no money behind it. It's not like a real insurance policy. Nobody's putting any resources. So, suddenly, you've got this thing that's going to explode, and AIG, which is supposed to be backing up the insurance, says, hey, we can't do that; we have no money for that. So now your housing bubble has collapsed and AIG can't support it. And it's nothing more than the mafia doing a scam, only you have passed laws that say that's all legal, that's all legal. Now, you're absolutely right. You wouldn't do that if you were worried about how even you would appear to your grandchildren. Okay? People looking back now know these people were crooks, whether they went to–they didn't go to jail, 'cause they they get the law passed to make it that it's not a crime to defraud people. It's legal. It wipes out half of the wealth of African Americans in this country, wipes out the economic gains of the civil rights movement, 'cause they were particularly a group that was particularly victimized. It wipes out two-thirds–these are Pew Research Center figures–wipes out two-thirds of the wealth, the collected wealth over generations of Hispanics in this country because they were subject to these subprime. They lose everything when they lose their house. But the guys putting it all together, they escape with their billions. They don't go to jail. So, yes, if what you mean by your opening statement was we don't have solid, responsible people who even care how they will appear to their grandchildren–. You've got a guy like Robert Rubin, okay? Robert Rubin was secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton. He had come from Goldman Sachs. He had convinced Clinton you could do all this stuff, this is all great, we'll do all this crap. He brings in Lawrence Summers. Timothy Geithner, who's a younger person working in there, he becomes the Treasury secretary under Obama. They do all this stuff. They get Clinton to sign off on it. He does it with Phil Gramm, the Republican, so it's bipartisan. Very few people challenge it. You know, now, I think if you ask anybody about Robert Rubin, they say, God, yeah, he wasn't too good for it. I'll bet you his own family members think he got his–you know, what happens? He leaves the Clinton administration; he goes to work for a bank that he makes legal, right? The merger of Citibank and Travelers Insurance they make legal with their reversal of Glass-Steagall, the Financial Services Modernization Act, and then they got the Commodity Futures [Modernization Act], which makes these gimmicks legal. He gets $10 million a year for the next decade. Sure, he's got money salted away. But I don't think he's got a reputation that's worth anything. I don't know. Lawrence Summers, again, I don't think people particularly treat those with respect. But they have money. You know, they can take care of their nephews and nieces. But I think it's generally accepted they caused a lot of damage to the economy. JAY: But it's not, like, that it's just a bad group of people happened to get into power. And I'm not suggesting you're suggesting that. SCHEER: No, it's the best and the brightest that Halberstam wrote about in Vietnam. These are very well educated people who know what they're doing and, I believe, have to know it's going to destroy the lives of millions of people, and they go ahead and do it. It's just like–. JAY: Yeah, 'cause they say if it ain't me doing it, it's going to be him doing it, or her. SCHEER: Whatever their rationalizations, they surround themselves with lawyers and PR people who tell them this is all wonderful, and they get away with it. JAY: But it's the way the system has evolved that so much money is in so few hands. There's not much else for them to do with it than bet and gamble against each other, create this massive speculative sector of the economy, which is financializing everything. Even when they talk about climate change, all they really have in mind is a way to financialize it. So whether it's this group or the other group, the sort of system itself is created where there's–so much capital has become completely parasitical. SCHEER: Yes, but they could also be decent people. They could actually wonder about what would Jesus do. They could actually think about what does their lives mean. JAY: I think some do and drop out. SCHEER: A few. JAY: Some do, and they can't take it anymore, and they drop out. SCHEER: Yeah. JAY: But they're not in any position to change the course of the ship. SCHEER: Well, but also the question you should ask is why aren't they being observed in doing this. And the reason is because they can buy off everyone. JAY: Especially the media. SCHEER: The media, but the universities, the grants of–you know, build buildings at universities. Come on. JAY: I want to stress the media 'cause they have this theatrical show going in the elections–I'm not saying there isn't a real contention for power, but when you have unlimited contributions, unlimited spending, what are they spending it on? They're spending it on TV advertising. SCHEER: Yeah, and they're spending it on candidates who will not give them a hard time. There's no question about it. But it's not just the media. I mean, I don't want to exonerate the media, but you–you know, in the day of the internet, you should have more critical voices, right, 'cause–but even there you look at where could–you know, okay, to understand the economy or foreign policy requires a little brainwork, okay? Most people have got to take care of their job and their family and pick the kid up and how do I pay this bill and am I going to lose my job and/or how am I going to make that sale. And so their lives are taken up. And then we have a group of people, whether they're called journalists or professors or consultants or what have you who actually have the time and are really charged with figuring stuff out. Now, most of this stuff is not all that difficult to figure out. So then you have to ask yourself the question, why didn't you figure it out? I mean, why didn't the media–in my book I describe how The New York Times was a cheerleader for this radical deregulation. They used words like modernization. They said long overdue. Now, why? You know, because they were living in a culture and benefiting from a culture that was benefiting from the ripoff. These are the people who advertise. These are the people who invest in your venture, in your media. These are the people who buy chairs at the schools where you're teaching. These are people who support the charities or political causes that you happen to agree with. There is a culture of corruption, I mean, 'cause anyone else looking at this, they say, wait a minute, this is nonsensical, this is bad. Why are you selling–I remember writing about this stuff. I would go out to what they call the Inland Empire in California where they're building all of these–. I said, who's going to live here? How are they going to get to work? Who's paying for this? Why are they making the loans? And then you realize there is no there there. Don't confuse the thing–I remember an old advertising [incompr.] don't confuse the thing being sold with the thing itself. They're not selling a house to somebody who needs a house and is going to live and be able to afford the payment; they're selling this collateralized debt obligation that's 1,000 of those houses that you have made and chopped up and iced and diced and everything and sliced, and then you're going to make that seem like a good bet to somebody. Where? In Saudi Arabia or in France or–. JAY: Knowing it's all going to default. SCHEER: Yeah, but you're going to get in and out before it defaults. JAY: Yeah. So please join us for the next segment of Reality Asserts Itself with Bob Scheer on The Real News Network.
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The wisdom and magic of Diego Milito
March 3, 2015 by Juan D'Angelo
The last days of a football career are undoubtedly a paradoxical time. At 35 years of age, a highly productive age for any other profession, a footballer is practically a pensioner. There are very few players who can stand among the most competitive leagues at that age.
Most, knowing that the good days have passed, choose, not without reason, those "elephant graveyards" that are peripheral leagues in world football. Places like Australia, Malaysia, China, South Korea and, to a lesser extent, the United States and Japan offer to the players the opportunity to keep shining on the pitch and fatten the bank account.
However, there are cases such as Diego Milito who break this scheme, the former Inter Milan striker who returned last year to Argentina to wear the colors of his beloved Racing Club.
With the help of Milito, "La Academia" won the title for the first time in 13 years. The arrival of the "Principito" was fundamental to changing the dynamic of a team that, despite having a good squad, never could establish itself as a serious contender for the title.
The contribution of the ex-Inter striker included his presence meant the arrival of a strong leader to the locker room of Racing Club, someone able to absorb and deflect the pressure from his teammates.
For years, playing there was a "pain in the ass" for football players. Racing, a special club in many ways, has suffered throughout its history from numerous calamities – the bad results that doomed the team to play in the second tier of Argentine football in the early 1980s, the economic problems that almost led to the disappearance of the club in mid-90s, and the sports ostracism of the last 50 years (in which Racing could only win the Torneo Apertura 2001 and the Supercopa 1988) were combined to shape the most emotional fan of Argentine football.
The other side of the "madness" that surrounds the fans of Racing Club is the excessive pressure that they exercise over the team. In previous years, the lack of a leader able to keep cold mind and a warm heart meant that Racing were unable to aspire to something more than a runner.
Last year, the arrival of Milito was the key to appeasing the fans who saw him as a source of tranquility. So, this calmness amongst fans moved to the playing field, where his teammates were able to gradually deploy a better quality of play.
There are few football players who have the ability to empower their teammates, making them play above their abilities. Milito is one of them. The clearest example of this is Gustavo Bou, his strike partner who arrived at Racing wrapped in a sea of doubt.
His poor performances in Gimnasia Y Esgrima de La Plata the previous season and an erratic career did not make for a very encouraging background.
Surprisingly though, Bou became the ideal partner for Diego and, contradicting all the odds, he became the top scorer of the team. Currently Bou is a key player for Racing; with six goals in two matches, he is the top scorer in the Copa Libertadores and is now being seen as a future national team player.
The partnership with Milito can be decisive for the career of Bou, who went from being an almost unknown to become the striker of the moment in the Argentine football.
Milito, aware that his age weighs on his legs, has started to turn provider, taking advantage of the speed of Bou and his own intelligence to read the game.
The veteran is reaching his last moments as football player and he knows it very well. The fact that the striker prioritises only playing in the Copa Libertadores matches over the local tournament is a sign that he is aware of the limitations of his body.
But these limitations, typical of age, do not prevent Milito remaining as one of the most exquisite players to ever walk the fields of Argentine football.
Posted in Featured, South American FootballTagged Argentina, Diego Milito
Juan D'Angelo
Amateur football journalist, currently pursuing a degree in History at the National University of La PLata (Argentina).
One thought on "The wisdom and magic of Diego Milito"
Liam Bekker says:
Great piece. I've always been a big fan of Milito. He was the main man in Mourinho's Champions League winning Inter side and at the time one of the best in the world. Glad he has made a positive impact on his return to Argentina
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Staying in with B.A. Smith
April 2, 2018 lindasbookbag	9 Comments
It gives me very great pleasure to introduce another new to me author, B.A. Smith, here on Linda's Book Bag as Brianne stays in with me to tell me about one of her books.
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Staying in with B. A. Smith
Welcome to Linda's Book Bag, Brianne. Thank you for agreeing to stay in with me.
Hello Linda! I am so happy to be here with you today! I'm starting to feel like an actual celebrity!
(It's all the paparazzi on the drive I think!)
Tell me, which of your books have you brought along to share this evening and why have you chosen it?
I've brought along Spooning Leads to Forking: A Gay Teen Romance Novel since it's the first book I've ever published and very near and dear to my heart. I've chosen this title because it took me almost 10 years to get up the nerve to publish it. It's one of my proudest accomplishments to date! I wrote it during a time I was suffering from depression and writing was my only outlet and the only thing keeping me sane. It's my hope this book will provide that same kind of escape for someone else.
(What a marvellous outcome from illness though – a novel – and I love the title!)
What can we expect from an evening in with Spooning Leads to Forking?
Spooning Leads to Forking is a coming-of-age story about two teenage boys, Dylan and Michael, who grow up in a small town and discover they're gay. Many of the situations they find themselves in as they explore their relationship are riddled with awkwardness and the sort of banter you'd expect from teenagers with very few filters. They battle their own misconceptions about what it means to be gay while living in a community where gossip is the local currency and their families have their own set of problems. I wrote each character with unique traits and flaws that I believe will resonate with anyone who's ever had an embarrassing moment (or several) with a crush.
(I think we've ALL had those moments Brianne. I know I have!)
What else have you brought along and why?
I'm a very visual and aural person, and I brought some music to share today! The first song is The Kiss by Karmina. It was my anthem for this story when I first wrote it back in 2009 and stopped me dead in my tracks at a Big Lots store in Tampa, FL. The music video features real-life couples that were considered taboo or faced some kind of hardship because of the person they were with. It's a "love conquers all" message that I wanted to be a resounding theme in Spooning Leads to Forking regardless of race, gender, or orientation.
(Good for you, Brianne.)
The next song, funnily enough, is American Girl by Carrie Underwood. This song prompted an entire scene in the book written only a few weeks before I published the final manuscript. More specifically the lines:
Sixteen short years later,
She was falling for the senior football star.
Before you knew it he was dropping passes,
Skipping practice just to spend more time with her.
The coach said "Hey son, what's your problem?
Tell me, have you lost your mind?"
Daddy said "You'll lose your free ride to college.
Boy you better tell her goodbye".
But now he's wrapped around her finger,
She's the center of his whole world.
And his heart belongs to that sweet little beautiful, wonderful, perfect all-American
Substitute the "she" for "he" and the song defines one of the main problems the boys face in their new relationship – they're so completely wrapped up in each other that nothing else in the world matters!
(I think music can sometimes convey for us exactly what we want to say. How fascinating that it has had such an impact on your writing.)
Thank you so much, Brianne, for staying in with me to introduce Spooning Leads to Forking. I love the rationale behind the book and wish you every success.
Thank you so much for having me, Linda! It was wonderful getting to meet you and share a little bit of my heart with you and my readers through this book!
Spooning Leads to Forking
Dylan and Michael are two high school boys attempting to figure out their attraction to one another and happen to fall in love along the way. They explore their sexuality together through a series of games until they push their competition too far one day, and their game turns deadly.
Spooning Leads to Forking is a coming-of-age story about two teens coping with being gay while growing up in a small town like Gallant, MT.
Despite the challenges, they discover love through humor, family, mistakes and, ultimately, forgiveness.
Spooning Leads to Forking is available for purchase here.
About B.A. Smith
Brianne has been creating through a variety of artistic mediums which include drawing, graphic design, writing, dance, music, and performance art since a very young age. Her favorite genres include fantasy, adventure, drama, and unique romances – particularly LGBTQ.
She has been writing for about fifteen years and has posted her work in online writing communities such as fanfiction.net, fictionpress.com, and Archive of Our Own. She has a passion for unconventional romances not usually portrayed in mainstream media and tends to be ultra-realistic and detail-oriented in her writing. She has no reservations about jumping headfirst into awkward or uncomfortable subject matters.
Brianne is a native of Colorado and enjoys reading smut, playing video games, performing with her dance troupes, and lazing about with her two fur babies, Fraggle and Leroy Jenkins.
You can find Brianne on Facebook. She also has an excellent blog. I know Brianne is looking for reviewers too and you can contact her through her blog.
An Extract from The Wildflowers by Harriet Evans
April 1, 2018 lindasbookbag	1 Comment
I have been absolutely desperate to read The Wildflowers by Harriet Evans because I so loved another of her books, The Butterfly Summer, my review of which you can read here. Sadly, emergency trips to hospital with my Mum and other family illnesses have stolen my reading time. However, I'm delighted to be part starting off these launch celebrations with an extract from The Wildflowers today.
I'd like to thank both Anne Cater for inviting me to be part of the tour and Becky Hunter for sending me a copy of The Wildflowers.
The Wildflowers will be published on 5th April 2018 by Headline Review and is available for pre-order here.
The Wildflowers
Tony and Althea Wilde. Glamorous, argumentative … adulterous to the core.
They were my parents, actors known by everyone. They gave our lives love and colour in a house by the sea – the house that sheltered my orphaned father when he was a boy.
But the summer Mads arrived changed everything. She too had been abandoned and my father understood why. We Wildflowers took her in.
My father was my hero, he gave us a golden childhood, but the past was always going to catch up with him … it comes for us all, sooner or later.
This is my story. I am Cordelia Wilde. A singer without a voice. A daughter without a father. Let me take you inside.
An Extract from The Wildflowers
Dorset, August 2014
The abandoned house covered in bindweed and brambles didn't look like anything much, when first glimpsed from the lane.
But after the two men had struggled through the tangled mass of wild flowers and creepers surrounding the house they came upon a porch. The steps up were blackened with rot; on the porch itself rested a long-abandoned cane chair, bleached silver-grey by the wind and the sea and chained to the decaying floorboards by the tendrils of a pink-and-sage Virginia creeper. Below came the shingling slap of gentle waves and when you turned towards the sound of the sea there was Worth Bay, curving away from you, cream-yellow sands, turquoise water, chalk-white rocks in the distance.
Dave Nichols, trainee agent at Mayhew & Fine, watched in irritation as Frank Mayhew paused on the sandy path, fiddling in his pocket for the key. It was a boiling hot day, the sun beating down remorselessly. A mother and a young girl in swimming costumes, carrying towels, passed by on their way to the beach, looking at them with curiosity. Dave felt stupid, standing there in his smartest suit in front of this rotten old building.
'I don't understand,' he said sulkily, 'why we have to value it when the old girl's not going to sell.'
Frank tutted in disapproval. 'Old girl! That's Lady Wilde to you, Dave, and she's not long for this world – have some respect. Listen. In a few months when she's gone, the family'll most likelwant to sell. They don't care about the place, that's obvious. That's where we come in, see?' He turned to take in the glorious view of the bay, then glanced at his slouched, sullen trainee, the son of an old golfing buddy, and sighed very gently. 'If we play our cards right, we'll be the agents to handle the sale. Houses on Worth Bay don't come up often. There's only ten or so of 'em. The Bosky – it's prime beach-front property, this place.'
Dave shrugged. 'It's a wreck,' he said, staring at the bindweed, the algae-coated windows. 'Look at these floorboards! Rotten through, I shouldn't wonder.'
'Most buyers don't care. They'll just level it and start over again.' Frank pulled the bindweed and dead roses away, then inserted the key, pushing against the peeling door with difficulty. 'Makes me sad, seeing it like this, if I'm honest. How it must be for Lady Wilde, stuck in that old people's home up the road, looking out over it all day, I've no idea. Bugger me, this is jammed fast. Come on, you—' He threw his rotund form against the frame. Nothing happened. Frank stepped back and to the side, looking through one of the shuttered windows. 'Hmm . . .' he said, bouncing on his heels, and then suddenly he gave a loud, outraged yelp.
Dave, who'd been staring at the view, turned in alarm: Frank had sunk a foot or so into the ground, the wooden boards simply melting away, as though they were made of butter.
Trying not to laugh, he lent Frank his arm as the older man pulled himself out of the hole, with some difficulty.
'I'll explain that to Lady Wilde myself.' Frank smoothed down his ruffled hair. 'Now, you give me a hand. It'll come open with a bit of extra oomph. That's it—' Together they fell against the door: it gave way with an aching crack, and the two men tumbled inside.
As the warm, musty smell of the dark house tickled their noses Frank turned on his torch, shining it around the hall. He pulled the yellowing tendril of some dead plant from the ceiling.
'Well,' he said quietly. 'Here we are.'
Dave sniffed the musty air. 'Perfume. I can smell perfume.'
'Don't be daft,' Frank said, but he shivered. This was air that no one else had breathed for years; it felt heavy with something.
There was a cloakroom to his immediate left, and stairs in front of him, down to the bedrooms below. Off to the right was the kitchen, and to the left was the sitting room which had French windows leading back on to the porch.
'Let's open these,' said Frank, going into the kitchen, flicking back the faded sand-coloured curtains, the original colour now long forgotten. In the corner of the room, a window seat padded with faded yellow-and-grey patterned fabric and dotted with a decade's worth of dead flies and wasps faced the porch. The galley kitchen was at the back, the windows looking out over the lane.
There was nothing on the surfaces or shelves, no sign of occupation.
Frank flicked a switch a couple of times. 'No, not a thing.' He sniffed. 'I can smell something too. Scent, or flowers, or something.' He shook himself. 'Right. Let's open some windows. Get some fresh air and light in and we can go downstairs and measure up the bedrooms.'
But the window frames were too swollen with damp to open and after struggling for a minute they both gave up and went back into the hall.
Dave said, 'The bedrooms are downstairs?'
'It's an upside-down house. All your living rooms are up here overlooking the sea. Bedrooms are for sleeping in, doesn't matter what you're looking at.' Frank ran his hand along the bannister. 'It's a good idea. I used to dream of having a place like this when I was a lad.'
Dave stared at him, quizzically. 'You knew them?'
'Everyone knew them,' Frank said. 'They was quite something, the Wildes.' He moved his torch up on to the wood-panelled wall and both men jumped, as a face leaped out at them. Frank recovered himself first. 'It's just a photo,' he said, slightly shakily.
The picture on the wall gleamed in the darkness. A middle-aged woman with a floppy hat and large nose, smiling broadly, holding a dangling crab between her forefinger and thumb.
'She looks like a witch,' Dave said.
The torch juddered suddenly in Frank's hand, lighting up a pair of faces.
'Who are they? What – what on earth is all that?' said Dave, eventually.
Frank moved the torch along, and slowly the walls were illuminated with more faces, staring out from frames. Faces laughing, gurning, smiling politely, groups clinking glasses together, children dancing – more faces, some in colour, most in black-and-white. There were theatre posters too, and newspaper cuttings.
'That's them,' said Frank, gesturing. 'Weren't they quite something?'
Dave peered at the photo next to him. A beautiful Titian-haired woman sat with two girls on her knee, one blonde, the other dark. A group of adults reclined on the porch, glasses and cigarettes in hand. A grinning pair of young children danced on a beach: a boy and girl. More groups of smiling people. The man and woman were in the newspaper articles too, always elegantly dressed. In one they were holding hands and laughing, and she was turning slightly towards a knot of onlookers, waving with the other hand. Dave scanned the photos, sliding the torch along, plunging one, then another photo into white light and then darkness, searching for her. He stared at her, transfixed. She was the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen.
'"Anthony Wilde and his wife Althea arrive at the Royal Court for the First Night of Macbeth",' Dave read with difficulty, holding his phone up to the text. '"Curtain call went on for ten minutes as ecstatic crowd gave Mr Wilde a standing ovation." OK then.' He turned back as Frank reached into his briefcase. 'Who the hell are they?'
'I can't believe you've never heard of Anthony Wilde,' said Frank, pointing his laser measure at the walls. 'Two point four metres. Greatest actor of his day. And that's Althea Wilde, his wife. You must have heard of her. She was in Hartman Hall. Lady Isabella?'
Dave shook his head. 'Nope.'
'Lordy, Lordy. How can you not know Hartman Hall? Bigger than Downton, better 'n' all.' Frank sighed. 'What about On the Edge? That sitcom about the older lady, talking into her mirror? That was her, too.'
'Might ring a bell, maybe.' Dave looked at her again, the long neck, the slightly too-large nose, the liquid green eyes flecked with hazel. She was staring at him, only him, in the gloom of the house. He turned his torch away from her. He didn't like it, suddenly.
About Harriet Evans
Harriet Evans grew up in London. As a child she loved reading and making up stories. She then progressed on to teenage geekdom and agonised Sylvia Plath- style poetry it's probably best not to dwell on. The career in musical theatre she'd always dreamed of never materialised for whatever reason, and so she ended up at Bristol University where she read Classical Studies. In her twenties she was lucky enough to get a job as a secretary at a publishers and instantly realised working with books was what she'd always wanted to do. She was a fiction editor for ten happy years but left in 2009 to write full- time, making up stories all day.
Harriet still lives in London with her family. She likes old films, property websites, sloe gin cocktails, feminism and Bombay Mix, not in that order.
You can find out more about Harriet Evans on her web site, follow her on Twitter @HarrietEvans and find her on Facebook.
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What right does a man have to write about women's issues? A Guest Post by Chris Nickson, Author of The Tin God
My grateful thanks to fellow blogger and tour organiser Abby for inviting me to be part of the launch celebrations for The Tin God by Chris Nickson. Chris has written a fabulous guest post for Linda's Book Bag today.
The Tin God is published by Severn House Publications and is available for purchase here.
The Tin God
When Superintendent Tom Harper's wife is threatened during an election campaign, the hunt for the attacker turns personal.
Leeds, England. October, 1897. Superintendent Harper is proud of his wife Annabelle. She's one of seven women selected to stand for election as a Poor Law Guardian. But even as the campaign begins, Annabelle and the other female candidates start to receive anonymous letters from someone who believes a woman's place lies firmly in the home.
The threats escalate into outright violence when an explosion rips through the church hall where Annabelle is due to hold a meeting – with fatal consequences. The only piece of evidence Harper has is a scrap of paper left at the scene containing a fragment from an old folk song. But what is its significance?
As polling day approaches and the attacks increase in menace and intensity, Harper knows he's in a race against time to uncover the culprit before more deaths follow. With the lives of his wife and daughter at risk, the political becomes cruelly personal …
What right does a man have to write about women's issues?
A Guest Post by Chris Nickson
Quite probably, none at all. I certainly wouldn't attempt a contemporary novel going into that area.
But let me plead some mitigating circumstances.
Firstly, this is a novel, an historical crime novel, and many of the facts are true. After the law changed in 1894, all ratepayers, both men and women of every class, could vote on some local elections. They could stand to be elected as Poor Law Guardians and on the School Board (the first women on the Leeds School Board was Mrs. Catherine Buckton, actually in 1873). The first female Guardians were elected in Leeds in 1894. Many politicians, of all parties, didn't approve of the idea, and quite a few newspapers were critical.
And secondly, the idea for the book was suggested by a woman, an historian who specialises in feminism in 19th century Leeds. She's a fan of the series, and loves Annabelle.
While the idea of a working-class woman standing as a Guardian is at the heart of the book (and one of the first women elected to the post was a miner's wife), there's no debate about it. It's an accepted fact. She's standing, and that's that. Annabelle has been a speaker for the Suffragists for several years. This is a natural development for her. Yes, there's a man who's violently opposed to women in politics, and Annabelle's husband, Det. Supt. Tom Harper, has to catch him. But six other women are standing and threatened.
There are resonances of today in there. You only need to look at the terrible murder of the MP Jo Cox, or the way female politicians of all parties are abused on social media – women who stand up for themselves in any way, in fact.
The issue is there, but this is about the people. In the book, some men approve of women running for office; others don't. It's reflection of life at that time – and that time is just 120 years ago, not even two lifetimes, and 20 years before any women received the Parliamentary franchise.
The Sufragettes, the movement that began at the beginning of the 20th century, are very well known, and rightly so. But long before that, the Suffragists were working to gain the vote and quality for women for much of the 19th century, and plenty of that took place in Leeds. The first petition to Parliament on the issue, in 1832, came from Mary Smith, a Leeds woman.
Yet the Suffragists have largely been ignored. And that's a terrible shame. All I'm trying to do, through Annabelle, is to show some of the work they'd done, and the advances they managed to make. There's no discussion of the national issue; it's irrelevant here.
This is essentially the story about a copper and his wife, like the rest of the series. In this book, what's happening to each of them is interwoven. It's very personal, about justice – in many ways – and her battle to be elected is very much at the centre. But it's a story about people. About the working-class coming forward, and about Leeds, too, which is at the heart of most of my books.
The real Leeds Suffragists deserve to be celebrated, especially in 2018. And they're going to be: the historian who gave me the spark for The Tin God is curating an exhibition which will run for the month of May at Leeds Libraries, called The Vote Before The Vote. The 'official' launch of my book will be part of that. But only because she said yes.
Whether that justifies my dealing with this topic, I don't know. I hope so. Only you can be the judge, really…
About Chris Nickson
Chris Nickson, author of the Richard Nottingham series, was born and raised in Leeds, England. A well-known music journalist and author, he's written many celebrity biographies as well as being a frequent contributor to numerous music magazines.
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Staying in with David Olner
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A little while ago I interviewed Nathan and Wayne from the newly formed Obliterati Press in a blogpost you can read here. What I didn't realise at the time was that would be sending one of their authors, David Olner, to stay in with me to tell me about his book.
Welcome to Linda's Book Bag, David. Thank you for agreeing to stay in with me.
No probs, ta for inviting me.
I've brought my debut novel The Baggage Carousel. It's a travel-sized epic that takes the reader around the world in 250 pages. From Doncaster to Australia via South Africa and a few other stopovers, too.
(Sounds like my kind of read. I love to travel and have been to Doncaster, Australia and South Africa so I'm sure I'd love to revisit those places – some more than others!)
What can we expect from an evening in with The Baggage Carousel?
It's a visceral yet humane travelogue about life's great let-downs: family, work and love.
(I hope your let-downs are fictional ones Davis!)
All the ingredients for my traditional night in: San Miguel beer and olives. I like to drink the beer in its official San Miguel glass that I liberated from a life of servitude in Wetherspoons. The amber liquid and the creamy head look particularly aesthetically pleasing when displayed within. I could only fit eight cans in my knapsack, though, so I dunno what you're drinking.
(It's fine. There's always some San Miguel in the fridge in the 'gym' so if you finish those cans I can grab some more. That liberating of the glass was very noble of you!)
As for the olives, I've always found myself strangely drawn towards dank fruit. We can share those, though, they've got feta cheese mixed in with them and if I eat too much of that it makes my mouth feel a bit claggy.
(Happy to share olives and feta David. One of my favourite combinations of food as it always makes me think of holidays.)
Thanks so much for staying in with me to tell me all about The Baggage Carousel David. It's made me realise it's time for another trip abroad!
The Baggage Carousel
Dan Roberts has a troubled past, anger management issues and a backpack named after an abducted heiress. A chance encounter with Amber, a free-spirited Australian girl, seems to give his solitary, nomadic life a new sense of direction. But when she doesn't respond to his emails, the only direction he's heading is down…
The Baggage Carousel is a visceral yet humane travelogue of a novel about life's great let-downs; family, work and love.
Dan Roberts is destined to go down as one of fiction's great solitary men, equal parts Iain Banks' Frank, Camus' Meursault and Seuss' The Grinch.
The Baggage Carousel was published by Obliterati on 23rd March 2018 and is available for purchase here.
About David Olner
Dave Olner likes to travel, relishing the opportunity to alienate people from different cultures. He currently lives in Humberside where he works as a reach truck driver by night and sleeps during the day. Like a vampire, except without the bloodletting, immortality or superhuman strength. The Baggage Carousel is his first novel.
You can follow David on Twitter @daveocelot.


When rif and I were in Penang a week ago, we went on an oh chien frenzy, eating as much oyster omelette as we could possibly stomach. Stumbled across the oh chien stall at the junction of Chulia Street on our last day, and I remembered Ken telling me the stall is pretty popular.
Ordered a large plate (RM10) to try and I liked it better than the version at Seng Thor. The egg batter is crispy – almost like fritters, while the oysters were justly cooked, moist and bursting with flavour. This was delicious with the garlic chilli sauce provided. I almost got a second plate but stopped short because I also placed an order for a bowl of beef noodles.
Also a popular feature at Lam Ah Coffeeshop, the soup stock is made from bones, innards and meat, and served with kuay teow. A bowl doesn't come cheap – you're looking at RM7 per small portion and RM8 for a large one.
This is said to be the best beef noodles in Penang and it was pretty tasty. Each bowl comes topped with tender beef slices, tripe and meatballs, and garnished with coriander leaves and fried garlic. The soup packed flavour from the ingredients, while the coriander helped cut through the richness of the broth.
Verdict: Both the oh chien and beef noodles were commendable.
This is my go-to stall whenever I'm in Penang. But the problem is the parking spots which can be real pain.


In October of 2014, John Pugno, a Rhoades McKee client represented by Stephen Hulst, was injured when a stack of heavy cardboard fell on top of him while he was walking through Blue Harvest Farms' facility. Blue Harvest created the stack of cardboard that measured over 14 feet high and weighed over 1,000 pounds. Blue Harvest, however, used no shelving, banding, or any other security measure to ensure that the stack did not fall over. Blue Harvest also used cracked wooden pallets as part of the stack. The Pugnos brought suit against Blue Harvest, and the case was tried to an Ottawa County jury in the summer of 2017. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the Pugnos, and a judgment exceeding $415,000 ultimately entered. Read full case study here. Blue Harvest appealed.
On appeal, the Michigan Court of Appeals, in a published opinion, affirmed the jury's verdict and the Ottawa County Circuit judge's rulings. Of particular note, the Court of Appeals held that the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur ("the thing speaks for itself") applies to premises liability claims. Prior to this decision, there had been no published decisions in Michigan addressing this issue in a premises liability case. The Court agreed that the evidence supported the conclusion that this sort of event – a large stack of cardboard falling without warning – would not normally happen in the absence of negligence. In addition, the Court affirmed the trial court's ruling regarding spoliation of evidence, agreeing that the spoliation jury instruction was properly provided in light of Blue Harvest's immediate disposal of the cracked wooden pallets following Mr. Pugno's injuries. The opinion was listed as one of the most important opinions for 2018 by Michigan Lawyers Weekly.
Following the Michigan Court of Appeals' ruling, the parties resolved the case, with Blue Harvest satisfying the judgment.


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Tesla Cybertruck steel supplier's TX facility is inching closer to completion
Credit: Steel Dynamics Inc.
By Simon Alvarez
The Tesla Cybertruck's first customer deliveries may have been moved to next year, but this does not mean that facilities that would be supporting the production of the all-electric pickup are not inching towards completion. Among the most notable of these facilities is Steel Dynamics Inc.'s (SDI) upcoming Sinton, TX mill, which would be producing the steel that would be used for the body of the Tesla Cybertruck.
Drone footage from Steel Dynamics' Sinton plant last month showed that the facility is coming to form. Similar to an update video posted by the company a few months ago, the August flyover featured several more structures emerging from the ground and far more machinery being installed in some of the site's key areas. Steel Dynamics did not provide specific details in its August flyover, but the message was clear: the Sinton, TX plant was progressing quickly.
Steel Dynamics' Sinton, TX plant would play a key role in the production and ramp of the Cybertruck. But that's not all. The facility would also be tasked to produce the steel used by Elon Musk's private space enterprise, SpaceX, for its Starship program. Interestingly enough, Steel Dynamics' Sinton plant is located practically in the middle of Starbase, TX, and Austin, TX, where Tesla's sprawling Cybertruck Gigafactory is currently being built.
It should be noted that the Cybertruck would not be using the steel produced at the Sinton, TX plant directly. As per previous statements from San Patricio County Judge David Krebs, Tesla would still be "redoing" the steel that it would be taking from the Sinton facility to create the Cybertruck's exoskeleton. This suggests, at least to some degree, that the all-electric pickup truck's steel components would have a unique Tesla touch.
"Now some of these other companies who work with SDI will actually be taking SDI's product and refining it a little bit better. We're hearing that one of the companies that were pretty close to–probably getting close–is a company that's going to be taking SDI steel, redoing it, and that steel will actually be going into the Tesla cars that they're moving in from California to manufacture here," Krebs said.
Steel Dynamics Inc.'s Sinton plant is estimated to cost $1.7 billion, and it is expected to provide numerous good-paying jobs to workers in the area. The facility was also initially announced to start operations in Fall 2021.
Watch a recent drone flyover of Steel Dynamics' Sinton, TX plant in the video below.
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In search of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin's mysterious creator
In May 2008, Nakamoto published an online paper outlining how the cryptocurrency would work. Then he vanished.
By Ian Steadman
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? This week, he is a computer scientist from Australia. In 2014, he was a Japanese-American man living in Los Angeles. In 2013, a Japanese mathematician. In 2011, a Finnish sociologist . . .
Satoshi Nakamoto is a pseudonym. Eight years ago, he or she (or they) invented the digital currency Bitcoin and then disappeared. To some, he's a hero, and to the tech press he's their great white whale. Discovering the Bitcoin creator's real identity has become what finding Lord Lucan was to the British tabloids in the 1970s.
In May 2008, Nakamoto published an online paper that outlined how Bitcoin would work, then released the software needed to run it the following year. A completely decentralised "cryptocurrency", Bitcoin is the perfect product for an early-21st-century ideology that thrives online, that is technologically hyper-literate and radically libertarian. It is designed to avoid any kind of central control. New bitcoins are generated by solving difficult cryptographic calculations that are "computationally expensive" and occur at a predictable rate, unlike the money that a central bank prints.
So, trusting Bitcoin does not involve trusting people. It relies on rational mathematics and computer code that are immune from political interference. Bitcoin is an ideal currency for buying something (legal or not) without anyone finding out.
This aspect was deliberately designed: Nakamoto spent a year or so corresponding with other experts in the nascent Bitcoin community, explaining his philosophical reasons for wanting to create a kind of digital gold standard. Then Nakamoto vanished and that community, obsessed with freedom from authority, has been trying to find its founding father ever since.
There are some obvious candidates. Hal Finney, a games developer-turned-cryptography advocate, was the first person to receive bitcoins (from Nakamoto, in a test transaction). He died from complications related to motor neurone disease in 2014.
Nick Szabo, a cryptographer and legal scholar, had worked on an idea that was similar to Bitcoin a few years earlier called "bit gold". Others involved in Bitcoin in its early stages, such as Gavin Andresen, the chief scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation (which, if Nakamoto is Jesus, would be the Vatican), have also been suspected.
These suspicions are based on anecdotal evidence – such as Nakamoto's use of British English idioms such as "bloody" – but rarely meet the standards expected by cryptographers. Confidence can lead to embarrassment, as Newsweek found in 2014, when it turned the world's media on to a retired computer scientist called Dorian Nakamoto, basing its efforts on little more than coincidences.
This brings us to Craig Wright, who is by all accounts a politically and intellectually appropriate candidate. Is he Nakamoto? Maybe. There is only one kind of proof that most experts will accept: a signature, encrypted using Nakamoto's private key and associated with the "genesis block", the first bitcoins "mined" (or created) when Nakamoto's computer was the only one on the network.
Wright says that he is Nakamoto and wrote a blogpost in which he produced a signature (he also presented evidence to some journalists and Bitcoin experts in private). However, almost as soon as the headlines announced that Nakamoto had been found, many in the community dismissed the evidence as faked. Sceptics speculated whether Wright's claim was part of a larger scheme involving his business and tax issues.
Regardless, Wright says that he will provide more conclusive proof soon. The Bitcoin community, which has factions and disagreements aplenty, looks to Nakamoto's early posts and emails when arguments break out. But what makes the story so compelling for journalists is that the mystery makes no sense.
Satoshi Nakamoto is a man (or woman, or group) who created a new kind of money and it took on real value. But Nakamoto can't spend the million or so bitcoins he or she has (worth about $450m at the time of writing), as doing so would flood the market and depreciate the currency.
Instead, they have to sit, unable to be spent, as their owner avoids scrutiny – from the state, from organised crime, from everyone. Which is one reason why so many people now claim that the one thing we can say for sure is that the founder of Bitcoin wouldn't be so foolish as to give the game away.
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Ian Steadman is a staff science and technology writer at the New Statesman. He is on Twitter as @iansteadman.
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Summer continued full bore in August as the hot weather of June and July continued into the month. In fact, August placed in the top 10 hottest on record in Memphis (#10), meaning that all three summer months were ranked in their individual top 10 warmest. At the end of August, a new record was established for consecutive days above 70°, standing at 82 days. The hottest day of the month was 99° on the 5th.
The summer will best be defined by its persistent heat and warm nights, not extreme highs, as the mercury only touched the 100° mark on one occasion. A two-month-long streak of average temperatures above 80° ended in the middle of the month, as well as a 72-day streak of highs at or above 88°. Both of these streaks rank in the top 3 longest on record. The average temperature of 84.3° for June-August was 2.9° above the climate average and ranks as the 4th hottest summer in Memphis' recorded history.
In terms of precipitation, the month started dry, but thunderstorms were abundant during the mid-month period, ending with above average rainfall for the metro by over 2.5". Four days recorded more than 0.75". For the summer season, Memphis ended with 14.72" of rainfall which is 3.62" above the long-term climate average. Only two severe weather warnings were issued for the month in the metro, one over Memphis and the other for eastern DeSoto and northwest Marshall Counties. No severe weather reports were received in the Memphis metropolitan area.
Records set or tied: Daily record high minimums (warmest low temperatures) were tied on the 2nd (81°), 10th (81°), and 30th (79°).
Comments: 22 days recorded highs at or above 90 degrees in August, which is 2.8 more than average. This month tied for the 6th warmest August on record in Memphis. For the year, the average temperature is 67.0 degrees, which is 2.0 degrees above normal and ties for fourth warmest January-August period on record.
Comments: Three days recorded one inch of rain or more. Through the first seven months of 2016, Memphis International Airport has recorded 49.81" of precipitation, or 14.43" above average (141%). That also ranks as 7th wettest on record for the January-August period.


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