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Firm: Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, China
Turnover: $75m (£38.1m) (Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong offices)
Total number of lawyers: 142
Total number of partners: 14 (seven in Hong Kong, four in Shanghai, three in Beijing)
Main practice areas: M&A, private equity, venture capital, capital markets, leveraged finance
Clients: Siemens, Morgan Stanley, HSBC, JPMorgan, UBS
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Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker launched its China offices in quick succession, having established its first Asia presence in Tokyo in 1988.
This opening was followed quickly by the firm's expansion into Hong Kong and Beijing in 2002 and the opening of its office in Shanghai a year later, in 2003.
"We opened the offices very quickly," says head of the Hong Kong office Neil Torpey. "The investment and commitment we've made to the China offices is pretty enormous in that context. I think that, out of all of the US firms out here, we have one of the largest presences in Asia."
The offices boast Siemens, Morgan Stanley, HSBC, JPMorgan and UBS as key clients. "Big financial institutions and private equity firms are the backbone of our practice," says Torpey.
Torpey explains that "the core strengths" of Beijing and Shanghai are M&A, private equity, venture capital and real estate investment and finance law. The Hong Kong office focuses more on capital markets, M&A, private equity and leveraged finance work.
Last year the firm featured on a number of high-profile mandates, including representing Wal-Mart on the sale of its South Korean retail operations to Shinsegae Co and advising Morgan Stanley Private Equity (MSPE) on its $215m (£109.21m) equity investment in Rotem, part of the Hyundai Motor Group. The transaction represented MSPE's largest equity investment in Asia to date.
Torpey is clear about the China offices' strategy for 2007. "This year we'll focus on representing big Chinese companies in connection with outbound investment all over the world," he says. "As a firm we have a global footprint and we want to be positioned to work with Chinese companies as they become more and more international in their outlook."
Recruitment into the China offices also remains a priority for Torpey. "We're continuing to look for strong Hong Kong capital markets people and for more people in the private equity field," he says.
This recruitment drive follows on from a busy year in 2006, during which the firm made a number of high-profile lateral hires in China. The Hong Kong office in particular dipped into a number of fellow US firms for talent, poaching acquisition finance specialists Alex Regan from Shearman & Sterling, Brett King from Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy and M&A specialist Basil Hwang from O'Melveny & Myers. All three have joined the firm's Hong Kong office as partners.
The firm has already seen some recruitment into its China offices this year. Last month (January) the firm looked at the magic circle firms to boost its presence. Paul Hastings hired former Allen & Overy corporate partner Jacqueline Lim, who joined the firm's Hong Kong office as a partner, and M&A specialist Adam Kearney joined the Beijing office as of counsel from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
Torpey is also particularly keen to target native Chinese lawyers who have gone abroad to study and work before returning home.
"That is the paradigm of people that everyone out here is looking for and they're very important to find," he says.


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I'm making a meal for a family who just had a new baby and I'm looking for suggestions. They don't eat beef and lasagna is off the table because someone else is already making it for them. Can't be too spicy because she is nursing and has a four year old. I prefer that it not be too expensive to make or too time consuming....
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i know it sounds dull, but i'd roast a chicken or two, as that will provide good fodder for sammies, salads, etc.
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Remembering those days, I usually bring things that don't need heating or even slicing! Most recently, salmon with a hoisin glaze, rice with a parsley pesto, cleaned lettuce, cherry tomatoes, little carrots, banana bread, chocolate chip cookies. All things that are good cold and in combination can be a nice meal or that can be grabbed in pieces in that bleary eyed haze.
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The Foreign Service and Foreign Trade: Embassies as Export Promotion
As communication costs fall, foreign embassies and consulates have lost much of their role in decision-making and information-gathering. Accordingly, foreign services are increasingly marketing themselves as agents of export promotion. I investigate whether exports are in fact systematically associated with diplomatic representation abroad. I use a recent cross-section of data covering 22 large exporters and 200 import destinations. Bilateral exports rise by approximately 6-10% for each additional consulate abroad, controlling for a host of other features including reverse causality. The effect varies by exporter, and is non-linear; consulates have smaller effects than the creation of an embassy.Download Info
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Conceptual search has the amazing ability of providing insight into information that may not, at face value, seem to hold anything special. People often talk about how with conceptual search you can discover things in your data that you didn't even know to look for in the first place. It's an exciting, game-changing prospect, no doubt, but for now I want to talk about the less sexy, but equally valuable elements, to any insight exercise—categorization.
The very powerful—but less sexy part of—conceptual search
One of the most important capabilities of HP IDOL is its ability to take categorization to the next level. Let's say you are a mutual fund company and you want to determine what kind of information is contained in your inbound emails. To accomplish this kind of task, you could take one of several paths:
- You could have your customer service folks read each email, and then apply a categorization ID or tag to the email, which you could later search—assuming you have a list of all the tags handy.
- You could have a machine read the email, and based on the satisfaction of your manually created keyword searches (regardless of how complex) and other manual approaches, you could apply a category ID to each email.
- You could let IDOL automate the process.
As you can probably tell, options one and two are major time killers, laden with lots of manual processing. They can not only take forever, but can then leave you with varying degrees of accuracy. Nothing against us humans, but to err is human, and especially in an organization with thousands of emails coming in, this type of task would not only be tedious, but likely quite error-prone. In situations like this, turning to technology that specializes in understanding and categorizing information is the way to go. Enter HP ExploreCloud, a Saas-based offering that provides insight and analytics across multichannel interactions.
Powered by HP IDOL, ExploreCloud helps you uncover insights across all channels: web, mobile, social media, email, contact center, database, and storefront, so that you can organize and quantify content in a consistent, objective manner, resulting in data that is more accessible and consistent. And you can maintain existing legacy taxonomies and/or enrich them with contextual understanding. When you go beyond the limitations of what keywords can help you do, your whole world opens up. You can also discover the "unknown unknowns," or topics you did not know to look for in the first place.
For those of you who are familiar with IDOL, you know that it fully supports keyword search to enable categorization. We aren't doing away with this philosophy—we just recognize its limitations and go beyond what keyword search offers. Since keyword and Boolean methodologies rely strictly on query terms, without taking into consideration the context of the terms, keyword search includes many false hits when categorizing information and it can exclude relevant documents that do not contain specific query terms. That leaves out quite a bit of information that could very well be relevant and leaves you with data blind spots.
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When a computer can understand that the letters "D-O-G" mean a dog, man's best friend, a Labrador, or an animal that likes to go for walks, the process becomes more human and the computer can do more of the work for us. Yet the lack of structure in human information still makes the search process challenging for the simple reason that people search or analyze data using an attribute of the data, such as the date a recording was captured, the people pictured in a photo, or whether a website gives a positive review of a product. This requires some form of metadata to be tagged to the item, or generated on the fly, as the item is saved. If no such metadata exists, you will have difficulty finding it, or you may not be able to find it at all. This issue is not an easy one to solve without human involvement.
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High EndTrayler & Co finds a market niche for its high end product among the well-to-do and includes Microsoft's Bill Gates among its customers.By Paul MacDonald
Trayler is just as likely to talk with a local wholesaler for a supply of some obscure hardwood
or, in the case of one customer, travel to London to purchase some extremely rare ebony for the
very high end furniture and millwork that his company has turned out for more than 15 years. And
business is good. Trayler & Co has grown in recent years, thanks to a fairly full order
book, and high profile wealthy customers like Microsoft's Bill Gates. The company's projects
have included millwork for Gates' legendary $60million, 50,000 square-foot home on the shores of
Lake Washington in Seattle. Trayler has also done a number of furniture pieces and millwork for
homes in the ski resort of Whistler, where a dot-com entrepreneur recently paid a cool $8 million
for a house. Clearly, Trayler & Co is into value-added in a big way, but not in the
traditional sense of taking commodity lumber and running it through a machine centre. That
usually involves making some cuts and perhaps adding a few hundred dollars per thousand board
feet to the value of the wood, and being quite happy with that. Value-added to Trayler can
mean having one of his 15 craftsmen on staff labour over a piece of custom-designed furniture for
hundreds of hours.
"High end furniture and millwork is the only kind of work we do," explains Trayler from his
10,000squarefoot shop in Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver. "We've never deviated from that.
It's a niche that we've consciously worked at and I think it's allowed us to get ahead as a
company ." But achieving that success has not been without its struggles, and some fits
and starts. In his first attempt to develop business in the United States, Trayler sent photos
of some of his furniture work to a Los Angeles showroom. "The reply was 'Thanks, but no thanks',
" he recalls. It took him a while to get over the rejection, but he then realized the problem
was in the presentation, not the product. "I invested some money in a better presentation,
and then personally went down to Los Angeles. The same person who said no before now wanted the
product. He shopped it around and it turned out that five or six showrooms were interested ."
These days, the company does about 80 per cent of its business in the US, and it is
represented through dealers with showrooms in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, San Francisco and
Seattle. Although he has all this representation in the US, the work for Bill Gates actually
happened by accident. In the mid1980s, Trayler was approached about doing some millwork for a
successful local businessman. "At that time, we had tried quoting on doing some millwork, but we
found it was just too competitive and we were not making any money on the projects. The client
would end up with a great job, but we did not make anything on the job ." The businessman
persevered, and Trayler finally agreed to do some work for his house. Michael Doss, who was
acting as one of the owner's reps for the massive Gates house project, happened to see Trayler's
work-ironically while viewing a competitor's millwork-and tracked him down. "At the time, we
were not really pursuing the millwork side of the business. But it was a great opportunity to be
involved with a project like this ." Trayler met with Doss. "I explained to him that I
understood the project, but we needed to confirm that they were looking for the best in terms of
quality. I've had people say that before, and in the end did not go ahead with a project because
it was too costly ."
It came down to competing against two American millworks suppliers in the east and Trayler knew
he had a chance because both of these companies had a strong focus on quality. The Gates people
were getting anxious to make a decision. To try and move the decision along, Trayler had one of
his craftsmen turn out a completely finished cabinet door sample. After submitting the sample,
he met with the project reps. "One of the reps looked at the sample, and said to the others in
the room 'This is the benchmark of quality we want in the Gates house from here on in' ."
The deal was done. Trayler feels that their finishing might have given them the edge on the
Gates project and is an ongoing advantage for the company. "Finishing is a big part of our
production and we spend a lot of time on it ." The company does not do offsite
finishing-period. "With our finishing, it's not just a couple of coats and it's done. We may
bleach the wood first, use a water stain, an oil stain and then glaze and antique it. It's a
huge process, sometimes seven or eight stages ." The low value of the Canadian dollar is
another advantage, especially when quoting on American work. "It allows us to build more hours
into a job when we're competing against someone from the US ." That said, however, it is
still a competitive business. "This is high-end work, and people might think we're putting a lot
of money in our jeans with this business, but we're not. We're making a decent living here, and
we like what we do. But we're not getting rich. Our clients may be rich, but we're not ."
Key to the success of the whole operation has been the craftsmen who work at the company,
complemented by a limited amount of equipment. "With our people, we're turning out great pieces
that can go against anybody in North America ." In fact, Trayler apprenticed in the
1980s under several of the craftsmen that now work in his shop. One of these craftsmen will work
on a furniture piece, from start to finish. "People like this are hard to come by. They,
and we, are interested in doing good, demanding work rather than staple gun work ."
While Trayler clearly relishes taking on a one-of-a-kind job, such as a wall cabinet he recently
completely for a New York couple, he acknowledges that the production flow in the shop works
better with larger jobs, notably the millwork. "When it's larger, it's much easier to organize
than what I call the 'ones and twoses' projects ." The focus is on labour in added value
in the Trayler shop, with the craftsman working on component cutting, assembly and final
finishing. There are two pieces of major equipment, however, a Simi veneer press and a Scheer
veneer saw. "We do our own veneer layups with the press. It eliminates any possible problems we
might have in terms of quality control if we were to have it done outside ." He noted that
the company's expertise is in high "hands-on" work and for that reason some production work is
contracted out. "It makes sense to farm out some limited work. For example, if we have a
couple thousand feet of moulding to run, rather than a small amount, we will contract that out.
That kind of repetitive work is not our expertise ." For that reason, they have purposely
not invested in a lot of milling equipment. Even though it would seem that there should be
an ample supply of BC wood stock available, Trayler says it can be a struggle obtaining specific
cuts and species. "Sometimes we end up buying beams coming out of old warehouses that are being
torn down. It seems that a lot of our good material is not available here, it's exported. When
we use this kind of material, it's hard to source it ." For a large job in Seattle, for
example, they ended up buying wood in Washington State because they could not find the good
Douglas fir they needed in BC. In general, the potential seems to be present for doing
further value-added work in British Columbia, but the mindset may be missing, Trayler says. "By
and large, we are a commodity province in BC. We just sell the timber, as opposed to doing some
research, designing something and starting to provide a certain type of furniture to markets. It
would take a huge investment and research to get it up and running, but it's feasible ."
Trayler has done some work in local wood, such as Douglas fir and hemlock, but their projects are
directed more by what the designers and customers want. "With local wood, there is the
possibility of doing more work where a customer is looking for a Whistler or Aspen kind of feel
to the millwork of the furniture," he says. "It's great wood, but our company can only produce
so many pieces for that market. And we're driven by the customers we work with, not with the
wood that is available locally ." And while the company started out producing furniture,
these days it has three main business areas: its own custom produced furniture, one of a kind
furniture and an area which has really taken off, the millwork. In spite of the growth in recent
years, Trayler says he has no desire to become a big company. "That's never been my goal. I
like designing new furniture and the challenge of doing custom work and that has driven our
growth, rather than any desire to become a big manufacturer ."
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When I try to select a photo for a photo frame widget, when it tells me to select a single photo, I click on a photo and crop it and click okay, it will jump back to the album page.
This also happens when trying to send a friend a photo from the gallery.
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Food palatability produces behavioral modifications that resemble those induced by drugs of abuse. Palatability-induced behavioral changes require both, the activation of the endogenous cannabinoid system, and changes in structural plasticity in neurons of the brain reward pathway. The ERK intracellular pathway is activated by CB(1) receptors (CB(1)-R) and plays a crucial role in neuroplasticity. We investigated the activation of the ERK signaling cascade in the mesocorticolimbic system induced by operant training to obtain highly palatable isocaloric food and the involvement of the CB(1)-R in these responses. Using immunofluorescence techniques, we analyzed changes in ERK intracellular pathway activation in the mesocorticolimbic system of wild-type and CB(1) knockout mice (CB(1)-/-) trained on an operant paradigm to obtain standard, highly caloric or highly palatable isocaloric food. Operant training for highly palatable isocaloric food, but not for standard or highly caloric food, produced a robust activation of the ERK signaling cascade in the same brain areas where this training modified structural plasticity. These changes induced by the operant training were absent in CB(1)-/-. We can conclude that the activation of the ERK pathway is associated to the neuroplasticity induced by operant training for highly palatable isocaloric food and might be involved in CB(1)-R mediated alterations in behavior and structural plasticity. |
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Robert William Service (16 January 1874 - 11 September 1958 / Preston)
My Bear
I never killed a bear because
I always thought them critters was
So kindo' cute;
Though round my shack they often came,
I'd raise my rifle and take aim,
But couldn't shoot.
Yet there was one full six-feet tall
Who came each night and gobbled all
The grub in sight;
On my pet garden truck he'd feast,
Until I thought I must at least
Give him a fight.
I put some corn mush in a pan;
He lapped it swiftly down and ran
With bruin glee;
A second day I did the same,
Again with eagerness he came
To gulp and flee.
The third day I mixed up a cross
Of mustard and tobasco sauce,
And ginger too,
Well spiced with pepper of cayenne,
Topped it with treacled mush, and then
Set out the brew.
He was a huge and husky chap;
I saw him shamble to the trap,
The dawn was dim.
He squatted down on his behind,
And through the cheese-cloth window-blind
I peeked at him.
I never saw a bear so glad;
A look of joy seraphic had
His visage brown;
He slavered, and without suspish-
- Ion hugged that horrid dish,
And swilled it down.
Just for a moment he was still,
Then he erupted loud and shrill
With frantic yell;
The picket fence he tried to vault;
He turned a double somersault,
And ran like hell.
I saw him leap into the lake,
As if a thirst of fire to slake,
And thrash up foam;
And then he sped along the shore,
And beat his breast with raucous roar,
And made for home.
I guess he told the folks back there
My homestead was taboo for bear
For since that day,
Although my pumpkins star the ground,
No other bear has come around,
Nor trace of bruin have I found,
- Well, let me pray!
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quality and authority This page considers debate about quality in wiki authoring and editing. It covers -
introduction As the preceding page indicated, wiki has been hailed as an embodiment of open source - or merely open access. It has been promoted as necessarily better than commercial publishing because it is collaborative, community-based, updated on an ongoing basis and the embodiment of fashionable notions such as the 'wisdom of crowds' (in contrast to work by practitioners of scholarly disciplines and intervention by elitist editors). Critics have complained that -
There has been little quantification and, as discussed below, many claims and counter-claims accordingly have an anecdotal basis. Debate about wiki as "faith-based publishing" has featured many of the claims about open source software - examined here and here. It has also featured the passions evident in open source, with critics comparing some discussion to the enthusiasm - or merely intolerance - evident in religious wars. a media phenomenon The wiki movement is as much a media phenomenon as a substantial advance in information production and distribution. Reception of wiki in the general media, in lifestyle publications such as Wired and in online fora such as Slashdot and Whirlpool initially echoed coverage of blogging, with largely uncritical restatement of assertions that wiki was unprecedented, "the future" and necessarily better than 'old economy' models of publishing. Disquiet spilled over from specialist media in late 2004, at around the same time that wiki was being assimilated by business strategists (the 'corporate wiki' to complement the corporate blog as a tool for knowledge management) and academia.
Much of that disquiet concerned questions about acceptance of wiki hyperbole and the authority of wiki publications such as Wikipedia. Critics noted, for example, that the rapid self-correction lauded by wiki proponents did not take place or did not not flow through to the numerous sites that lift wikipedia text - wiki clangers are digitally embalmed across the net.
authority Questions about the authority of Wikipedia - and more broadly about wiki publishing - have taken three forms. The first, noted above, relates to mirroring of wiki text across the web. A correction or qualification is not necessarily picked up (and picked up quickly), with critics accordingly sniffing that self-correction is offset by error-spawning. Wiki proponents retort that traditional encyclopedias and other reference works are frozen in institutional/municipal libraries and personal collections, with the supersession of errors being a function of an institutional or private budget ("no family buys a new edition of a print encyclopedia every year"). A second question concerns issues of attribution and responsibility. In practice much wiki content is the responsibility of everyone and no-one, or as the 'WikiProject Countering systemic bias' frets, the responsibility of the wrong (white, male, tech-savvy, Christian and educated) people. What James Surowiecki in The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations (New York: Doubleday 2004) lauded as collective common sense - populists are more reticent in lauding collective paranoia, xenophobia and sheer stupidity - may not be an effective substitute for the quality control exercised by professional editors and publishers in selecting authors and reviewing text. Anonymity is claimed to be antithetical to an 'acknowledged' author's investment in reputation, with the populist ethos discouraging contributions by experts. Andrew Orlowski argued that accuracy cannot be separated from readability.
Even when a Wikipedia entry is 100 per cent factually correct, and those facts have been carefully chosen, it all too often reads as if it has been translated from one language to another then into to a third, passing an illiterate translator at each stage.
Simson Garfinkel asked
how do the Wikipedians decide what's true and what's not? On what is their epistemology based? Unlike the laws of mathematics or science, wikitruth isn't based on principles such as consistency or observa bility. It's not even based on common sense or firsthand experience. Wikipedia has evolved a radically different set of epistemological standards--standards that aren't especially surprising given that the site is rooted in a Web-based community, but that should concern those of us who are interested in traditional notions of truth and accuracy. On Wikipedia, objective truth isn't all that important, actually. What makes a fact or statement fit for inclusion is that it appeared in some other publication--ideally, one that is in English and is available free online. "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth," states Wikipedia's official policy on the subject.
The final question concerns perceptions of the way that Wikipedia is received by readers, with critics variously lamenting that hype in the mass media has encouraged uncritical reliance by students and other readers. More broadly, some readers are claimed to believe that "online and self-correcting equals true" and that "free and collectively-written equals unbiased". Observers have commented that Wikipedia - and all other texts - should be read critically, with the reader being alert to potential bias, errors of fact, omissions and mistatement of interpretation as fact. Can you trust Wikipedia or other wiki text? One response to that question is that wiki results in content of an unknown quality, with few indications of accuracy or bias. A more hyperbolic assessment is that "wikipedia is the least reliable source of information since the ouija board" and that 'wikiality' is
the reality that exists if you make something up and enough people agree with you.
quality In 2005 Wired burbled that Wikipedia
is the largest encyclopedia on the planet. Wikipedia offers 500,000 articles in English - compared with Britannica's 80,000 and Encarta's 4,500 - fashioned by more than 16,000 contributors. Tack on the editions in 75 other languages, including Esperanto and Kurdish, and the total Wikipedia article count tops 1.3 million.
A more meaningful measure might perhaps involve an analysis of the quality of those articles and their completeness, given that a large number are 'stubs' (ie placemarkers).
Former Encyclopaedia Britannica editor-in-chief Robert McHenry, in sniffing at "the faith-based encyclopedia", commented the Wikipedia "method" is that
1. Anyone, irrespective of expertise in or even familiarity with the topic, can submit an article and it will be published. 2. Anyone, irrespective of expertise in or even familiarity with the topic, can edit that article, and the modifications will stand until further modified. Then comes the crucial and entirely faith-based step: 3. Some unspecified quasi-Darwinian process will assure that those writings and editings by contributors of greatest expertise will survive; articles will eventually reach a steady state that corresponds to the highest degree of accuracy.
With an eye to the soundbite he compared Wikipedia to a public toilet -
The user who visits Wikipedia to learn about some subject, to confirm some matter of fact, is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom. It may be obviously dirty, so that he knows to exercise great care, or it may seem fairly clean, so that he may be lulled into a false sense of security. What he certainly does not know is who has used the facilities before him.
In 2006 the Britannica offered a tart rebuttal (PDF) to a Nature article that argued Wikipedia compared favourably with the traditional encyclopedia. In discussing quality control one observer had earlier commented that
Wikipedia isn't really a fact-checking mechanism so much as a voting mechanism. If someone reads an entry, unless something sounds blatantly false, he or she will likely accept what it says. If there is disagreement about the facts, an edit war could break out until a consensus view develops.
McHenry's comments provoked a spirited, if not altogether convincing, response from Aaron Krowne on The FUD-based Encyclopedia, asserting that
McHenry's points are contradictory and incoherent and that his rhetoric is selective, dishonest and misleading.
... sins that never afflict practitioners of commons based peer production. Nicholas Carr, author of the perceptive Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage (Boston: Harvard Business School Press 2004), savaged "hive-mind" rhetoric by critiquing Wikipedia entries on Jane Fonda and Bill Gates. Carr commented that
This is garbage, an incoherent hodge-podge of dubious factoids that adds up to something far less than the sum of its parts. ... Something that aspires to be a reference work ought to be judged by the quality of the worst entry. An encyclopedia can't just have a small percentage of good entries and be considered a success. I would argue, in fact, that the overall quality of an encyclopedia is best judged by its weakest entries rather than its best. What's the worth of an unreliable reference work?
Wiki proponent Jimmy Wales agreed that the
The two examples he puts forward are, quite frankly, a horrific embarassment. Bill Gates and Jane Fonda are nearly unreadable crap. Why? What can we do about it?
Andrew Orlowski's answer was, essentially, nothing much. He commented that
Traditionally, Wikipedia supporters have responded to criticism in one of several ways. The commonest is: If you don't like an entry, you can fix it yourself. Which is rather like going to a restaurant for a date, being served terrible food, and then being told by the waiter where to find the kitchen. But you didn't come out to cook a meal - you could have done that at home! No matter, roll up your sleeves. As a second line of defense, Wikipedians point to flaws in the existing dead tree encyclopedias, as if the handful of errors in Britannica cancels out the many errors, hopeless apologies for entries, and tortured prose, of Wikipedia itself. Thirdly, and here you can see that the defense is beginning to run out of steam, one's attention is drawn to process issues: such as the speed with which errors are fixed, or the fact that looking up a Wikipedia is faster than using an alternative. This line of argument is even weaker than the first: it's like going to a restaurant for a date - and being pelted with rotten food, thrown at you at high velocity by the waiters.
US parodists The Onion naughtily lampooned Wikipedia in 2006
Wikipedia, the online, reader-edited encyclopedia, honored the 750th anniversary of American independence on July 25 with a special featured section on its main page Tuesday. "It would have been a major oversight to ignore this portentous anniversary," said Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, whose site now boasts over 4,300,000 articles in multiple languages, over one-quarter of which are in English, including 11,000 concerning popular toys of the 1980s alone. "At 750 years, the U.S. is by far the world's oldest surviving democracy, and is certainly deserving of our recognition," Wales said. "According to our database, that's 212 years older than the Eiffel Tower, 347 years older than the earliest-known woolly-mammoth fossil, and a full 493 years older than the microwave oven." ... The special anniversary tribute refutes many myths about the period and American history. According to the entry, the American Revolution was in fact instigated by Chuck Norris, who incinerated the Stamp Act by looking at it, then roundhouse-kicked the entire British army into the Atlantic Ocean. A group of Massachusetts Minutemaids then unleashed the zombie-generating T-Virus on London, crippling the British economy and severely limiting its naval capabilities. ... While other news and information websites chose to mark the anniversary in a muted fashion, if at all, Wikipedia gave it prominent emphasis over other important historical events from the same day, including the independence of the nation of Africa in 1847, the 1984 ascension of Constantine to Emperor of the Holy Roman Emperor, and the 1998 birth of Smokey, a calico cat belonging to Mark and Becky Rousch of Erie, PA.
That scepticism has not deterred the naive, with Pete Blackshaw of Intelliseek for example enthusing in 2005 -
For bloggers, it's almost like a badge of credibility to embed Wikipedia in their blog references. There's something about Wikipedia that confers a degree of respectability, because multiple Web users have converged on it.
Much of writing about wiki centres on values of 'community', 'free' and digital technology as a transcendent good. It also features 'us and them' hyperbole and the information populism questioned in works such as The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies (Princeton: Princeton Uni Press 2007) by Bryan Caplan. That is considered in the following page of this profile.
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Interview with Max Keiser, financial journalist
Greece faces a burgeoning sovereign debt which threatens to bring down major international banking cartels that seek to prop the European country in bid to delay their own crash, says a money markets analyst.
Greek leaders have resumed talks on appointing a new prime minister and a coalition government.
The ruling socialist party and opposition conservatives have talked over the phone on the composition of a 15-week administration.
The discussions come after Prime Minister George Papandreou agreed to step down.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Max Keiser, a financial journalist in Paris, to further explore the issue.
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Max, first of all, let's discuss the uncertainty about Greece. Where do you think Greece is headed now? Is it certain now that it will adopt the bailout package?
I think you have to take a bigger view and understand that going back to 2007, there has never been really a full disclosure about the amount of debts that various banks, sovereigns and hedge funds are holding and this crisis keeps getting worse because we keep finding out every month that there are in fact billions more debts that should have been disclosed years ago but are just being disclosed now and this is causing all kinds of market dislocations and political panic.
So in terms of Greece, they have more debt yet to disclose that has been hidden in their economy, same thing for France, same thing for Italy. Italy, of course, is sitting on hundreds of billions of euros of debt that they have yet to disclose.
The only ones that are making any sense of this in the total world are the people buying gold and silver who see that this is all going to end quite badly.
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I'd like to expand on the idea of the eurozone. Max, we know now that Germany and France have been quite adamant in their push to keep Greece in the eurozone.
There is this paradox because at the same time we are asking where are France, Germany and other the eurozone members going to bring this fund and cash-strapped themselves. They are going to bring this cash for Greece that is becoming a burden for them.
Why are they so adamant to keep Greece in the eurozone?
They want to keep Greece in the eurozone and they want to keep Ireland in the eurozone and these are countries because the banks of these countries own lots of German and French debt and vice versa. So there is a huge Ponzi scheme or you could call it a daisy chain that is interlocking with these countries.
So if Greece goes under, then the German banks in particular Deutsche Bank goes bankrupt or JP Morgan in New York would go bankrupt, more quickly than they are already going bankrupt. There is nothing going to stop these major banks going bankrupt.
We are seeing this play out in real time and this is the end of the neo-liberal banking model as it was figured out thirty years ago in Chicago but it is only a question of how fast. So they are desperately trying to keep these countries onboard but unfortunately the people in Ireland, I was just in Ireland, they are starting to realize in Ireland that they have lost their sovereignty.
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Max, do you think that Europe is prepared for a eurozone fall?
It is a global phenomenon. The euro is collapsing, so is the US dollar. So the question is: is the world ready for the global collapse? I do not think it is because none of the politicians are preparing people for this global collapse.
The only people who are preparing are the people buying gold and silver and those prices keep going up as part of this multi-year bull market in precious metals. Those are the only people who are going to survive this collapse but the euro is bad, but the dollar is much worse.
So going forward, it is not the question of whether or not the euro goes down; you have to understand that the entire global banking system with 600 trillion dollars and derivatives -- that have no counter party able to pay that risk off -- is collapsing.
It has been collapsing for three or four years and it will continue to collapse until we have a new Bretton Wood's type international conference where the entire global currency grid is completely reconfigured against something of impeachable value and that is something will once again be gold.
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