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- Online video in Australia: exploring audiovisual fiction sites
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- Curtis, Rosemary; Given, Jock; McCutcheon, Marion
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- Online video has grown rapidly in recent years. One in five Australians (14 years and over) reported viewing online video via a PC 'in the last four weeks' in 2010, nearly double the figure in 2008, according to Roy Morgan. Other researchers estimate much higher proportions but of different groups. Across the whole population, Australians have been adding new screen activities to old ones. Australians get audiovisual stories online in many ways and from many places. Different types of online video service based in Australia and overseas use different delivery systems and retail business models to deliver many kinds of content. Measuring use of these services requires different tools that are not easy to reconcile and are being constantly developed by research companies. This makes analysis of the online video sector, at this stage of its evolution, more complex than other distribution sectors like cinema, television and DVD, where there is more consensus about what and how to measure, and what the metrics mean. This project concentrates on websites. Our primary measurement tool was Nielsen NetView. NetView provides data on the frequency and duration of access to particular URLs. The Interactive Advertising Bureau of Australia [IAB] appointed the Nielsen Company as the sole and exclusive preferred supplier of online audience measurement services in Australia in May 2011. In October 2011, Nielsen began releasing data using a new hybrid methodology, known as Nielsen Online Ratings. We also received some data about traffic to the ABC's websites and catch-up TV service collected by WebTrends, some data and analysis on the frequency and duration of access to particular URLs from Experian Hitwise, and gathered information from secondary sources about other places where Australians go for audiovisual stories. This project identified 25 sites for detailed analysis. Three main measures were used to analyse the selected 25 sites: (1) the size of the 'unique Australian audience' visiting each site each month; (2) the total amount of time ('total minutes') spent on each site by these visitors; and (3) the average time spent on the site per visitor. This data was obtained for the months June 2010 to June 2011. Demographic data was also supplied for the month of June 2011.
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- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. The Swinburne Institute for Social Research
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- Spreading Fictions: Distributing Stories in the Online Age, no. 1
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- 2012
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- ABC; Audiovisual distribution; Audiovisual fiction sites; Australia; Australian Broadcasting Corporation; Online video; Screen Australia
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- Swinburne Institute for Social Research. Swinburne University of Technology
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- Copyright © Swinburne University of Technology, April 2012.
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LACKAWAXEN, PA and BETHEL, NY — On Saturday, December 1, the Delaware Highlands Conservancy (Conservancy) hosted a successful Volunteer Training Day to launch the first winter eagle monitoring season with the Eagle Institute as part of the Conservancy. The Conservancy also officially opened the Delaware Highlands Conservancy/Eagle Institute winter field office in Lackawaxen.
In February 2012, the Delaware Highlands Conservancy, the region's foremost organization for land protection, and the Eagle Institute, the region's premier organization for the protection of and public education about eagles, merged in a "perfect partnership." Saturday's volunteer training was the first to be held with the Eagle Institute as part of the Conservancy.
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The Upper Delaware River region is one of the largest wintering habitats for eagles in the Northeast, because of abundant clean water and large, undisturbed stands of trees. Twenty years ago there was just one eagle's nest in PA and one in New York—now, there are approximately 200 nests in each state. This is a direct result of the work of the Eagle Institute and the community and organizations like the Conservancy that work for the protection of eagles and the healthy lands and clean waters of the Upper Delaware River region.
Following the training, volunteers were invited to the Winter Field Office in Lackawaxen to officially open the doors for the season. The office space is provided by the National Park Service. All Conservancy Eagle Institute volunteers are signed up in the NPS Volunteers in Parks program. Because the bulk of the NPS visitor program traditionally occurs during the summer months, this partnership provides the NPS with volunteer support during the winter season, when more than 6,000 visitors come to the region to view eagles.
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"Look around. With all due respect you cannot deny the will of the people forever," began Earthjustice attorney Paul Achitoff.
And this time, senators did not.
"We received thousands and thousands of emails for me and my colleagues," said Sen. Josh Green, chair of the Senate health committee.
For the first time, senators held a hearing on a bill to label genetically modified foods.
Well over 100 testifiers came out to say their peace.
"I'm not here opposed to science, I'm here opposed to emotion on this issue," said one opponent of the bill.
"The problem with this labeling thing is it creates fear," said an Oahu papaya farmer.
"While there are problems with this bill as written, the job of this body is to fix these problems, so that the people of Hawaii can get what they're asking for," said the University of Hawaii law student Christiaan Mitchell.
"I'm glad you had the hearing. I really am," said another testifier.
GMO seed companies and employees were well represented at the hearing, who said they are often targeted for their work.
"The attacks have been personal, widespread and purposefully misleading just like House Bill 174," said Fred Perlak, head of operations for Monsanto Hawaii.
Lawmakers against the bill said, even if they passed it into law, it would immediately run into federal and constitutional road blocks that would ultimately shut it down.
"To this day, in 50 states, the answer is no. The FDA has always preempted all of that," said agriculture committee chair Sen. Clarence Nishihara, who opposes the bill.
Ultimately committee members shot down the bill on Thursday, ending another year and another battle over GMOs, though everyone there had lots of fight left for their cause.
"In order to solve this problem we got to go step, by step, by step, and not just say no, no, no," said Molokai activist Walter Ritte.
"It's obviously pretty tough issues we need to unravel," said Nishihara.
"We're making progress today. That's important. We know this issue is not going away so let's work together," said Green.
Committees are now working on a resolution that would recommend major institutions and departments in Hawaii study the safety of GMOS and the possibility of labeling.
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Stony Brook Cruises Past Manhattan
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STONY BROOK, N.Y. -- The Stony Brook women's
lacrosse team led from start to finish, putting up its most goals
two seasons in an 18-6 victory over Manhattan Wednesday at LaValle
Melissa Cook (Bay Shore, N.Y.) finished with a team-high four goals and now has eight for the season. Alyssa Cardillo (Farmingdale, N.Y.) finished with a team-high six points after one goal and five assists. The 18 goals were the most by Stony Brook since putting up 20 at Sacred Heart on March 11, 2009.
The Seawolves jumped out to a 3-0 lead within the game's first six minutes. Cardillo (Farmingdale, N.Y.) scored the first goal unassisted just 1:25 into the game. Then Cook (Bay Shore, N.Y.) added a free position goal, and Cardillo fed Victoria Cable (Oakton, Va.) for a goal three minutes later.
After Manhattan's Phelicia VanOverbeke put the Jaspers on the board with 11:42 left in the first, the Seawolves scored five of the next six goals, including two by Kaila Gottlick (Madison, Conn.). The Seawolves went into halftime leading 7-2.
The second half was all Stony Brook, scoring six unanswered goals between 25:57 and 19:14. Cable picked up a pair of goals, and Matte Scully (Huntington, N.Y.) scored twice in a span of 3:49. Cook's fourth goal of the game came at 19:14 and put the Seawolves on top 14-3.
Kerry Kresse (Setauket, N.Y.) finished off the Jaspers with three goals in the final eight minutes of the game.
In total, eight different Seawolves put the ball in the net, and 10 different players notched at least one point.
Stony Brook will return to action Sunday, Feb. 27 as it hosts
Denver at LaValle Stadium at 12 p.m.
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Domes shine blue for Autism Awareness Day
To observe World Autism Awareness Day, the LED halos at the top of the Mitchell Park Domes will shine blue today.
The halos will stay on all day, but can be best seen after dark, Milwaukee County Park officials say. »Read Full Article
Wisconsin band PHOX performs 'Shrinking Violets,' 'Leisure' at sold-out Turner Hall Ballroom
PHOX has had a fantastic summer.
The whimsical folk pop sextet of long-time friends from Baraboo--one of the Journal Sentinel's 10 Wisconsin Bands to Watch this year--has headlined sold out shows in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Philadelphia, Washington, New York and elsewhere, on the heels of its self-titled, debut full-length album, released by Partisan Records in June. »Read Full Article
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"The Lego Movie": The final movie in New Berlin's community outdoor movie series is the year's No. 2-grossing movie — and one of its most awesome. Dusk Friday in Malone Park. Free. »Read Full Article
Milwaukee native produces album — in Japan
Forty-two years after getting his first guitar, Milwaukee native Arthur Fowler has finally got around to making his first album — in Tokyo.
Fowler, a 54-year-old Spanish language instructor, has lived in Tokyo the past five years. »Read Full Article
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Belgrade-born blues artist Ana Popovic performs at Shank Hall Aug. 14. Photo by Marco Van Rooijen. »Read Full Blog Post
'Hundred-Foot Journey' is a tasty alternative to summer fare
The first hint that this is not the usual summer movie is its introduction by producers Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey, welcoming the audience to "The Hundred-Foot Journey" like the hosts of a dinner party.
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Woody Allen alienated fans of his early comedy with serious themes and films.
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Classic cars look forward, race ahead, speed past — but also glance backward, slow down and stop time.
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New Matamoras teen sentenced in fatal accident
MARIETTA – A New Matamoras teenager pleaded guilty and was sentenced Thursday in Marietta Municipal Court on charges of negligent vehicular homicide and assault, for his recklessness in an accident that killed a Newport Elementary School teacher and injured her now 3-year-old grandson a year ago.
It was raining heavily the afternoon of April 28, 2012 when 19-year-old Jacob Minder of 1285 Ohio 260 lost control of his vehicle, and slammed head-on into a vehicle traveling the opposite direction on Ohio 7, killing the driver.
Prosecutors have asserted that it was Minder's unsafe rate of speed that was to blame for the death of 58-year-old Laura Hoff, a Newport Elementary School teacher just weeks away from retirement.
"Experts from the State Highway Patrol reconstructed the scene. They also retrieved the black box from the vehicle he was driving and it indicated he had been traveling 74 miles per hour," said Marietta City Law Director Paul Bertram.
The posted speed limit where the accident happened is 55 mph. A month prior, Minder had received a speeding ticket for driving in the 80 mph range in the same area, said Bertram.
Minder, driving his grandmother's Lincoln pickup truck, reportedly hydroplaned, spinning the tail of the truck into the front driver's side of Hoff's Suzuki SUV.
She was pronounced dead on the scene, said Bertram.
Hoff's grandson, then 2 years old, was life flighted to Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus and underwent surgery to remove some brain tissue that was protruding from a scalp laceration, said his mother, Brandi Hoff, who was present for the hearing. Brandi Hoff is married to Laura Hoff's son.
The boy is still undergoing weekly physical therapy classes and is denied the option of playing with his preschool classmates, said Brandi.
"My son will never be whole again. Ten percent of his motor skills he will never be able to get back," she said.
Minder was indicted in June on third-degree felony charges of aggravated vehicular homicide and reckless homicide and a fourth-degree felony charge of vehicular assault, related to the injuries of the child.
Though the law director's case does not typically handle felony cases, the Washington County Prosecutor's Office assigned Marietta Assistant Law Director Timsi Pathak as special prosecutor on the case because she assisted law enforcement at the crash site the afternoon of the crash.
Minder's attorney Rolf Baumgartel entered guilty pleas on Minder's behalf on first-degree misdemeanor counts of negligent vehicular homicide and assault. As part of the plea agreement, Minder received the maximum penalty – 180 days in the Washington County Jail, a $1,000 fine, and a five-year license suspension – on each charge.
The second 180 days will be suspended for probation and the five-year license suspensions will run concurrently, said acting Municipal Court Judge Nancy Brum.
Laura Hoff's daughter, Mallory, was also present for the sentencing.
Minder hung his head as Brandi and Mallory tearfully read letters, admonishing Minder for his reckless behavior.
"What you took from us from your careless behavior can't be described in a short letter. My mother was my rock, my everything," said Mallory.
Minder did not make a statement in court.
Baumgartel spoke on his behalf, saying that Minder is a well-behaved young man who helps on his family farm and never caused a problem at Frontier High School, where he was a senior at the time of the accident.
"He wasn't drinking. He wasn't doing drugs. He doesn't do those things. This is not a criminal. This is a young man that made a mistake that caused a tremendous amount of suffering to the victim's family," said Baumgartel.
Baumgartel mentioned the Minder asked to start serving his sentence as soon as possible.
He will begin the sentence May 10 and a restitution hearing for the toddler's medical bills will be set for a later date, said Brum.


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I love pearls from Japan. After I landed in Narita, I immediately went to visit my friend Jane Yonamine for a look at the latest Pearl styles! She has such awesome merchandise and her husband was the first man of color to play for the San Francisco 49ers! Check out her store ... Click Here For Real Pearls . Although I always go and see Jane, her pearls are not the only pearls I check out here!
Tomorrow we will have Pearls of Wisdom about SOA at the Japan SOA summit. There are over 400 customers attending and there will be 12 customer speakers from top companies like Yanmar, Nissan, Hokkaido Cultural Broadcasting, Sumitomo Trust and Banking, NTT Communications, and Asahi Kasei Medical. At this conference, we will make 2 announcements -- stay tuned and I'll post the information tomorrow.
I am sitting here with Anu Ahuja and Sachiko Tsuchiya-San and they just shared with me that in Japan, IBM is very well recognized as the market leader in SOA. According to Gartner (Gartner's IT Demand Survey Report from May of 2006), IBM was chosen as the leader of all vendors as the company they want to work with around SOA engagements. This is a powerful recommmendation of IBM as the vendor of Choice for SOA. And Anu and Sachiko continued with the good news. IBM GBS was the leading consulting firm that companies count on for their SOA adoption!
Well, more from Japan tomorrow - and then its off to China!
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Thank you for the awesome SOA demand! Did you see IBM's 3Q earnings!
I was very excited to see IBM's 3Q earnings yesterday. Due to the great acceptance and use of our SOA offerings, the 3Q results were good. Here are some of the quotes I pulled from Mark Lockridge's discussion to the financial analysts! (Mark is IBM's CFO).
To all our IBM partners and customers -- Thank you for your trust and confidence in us and our portfolio!
Some highlights:"In 2006, WebSphere technology has accelerated the emergence and acceptance of Services Oriented Architecture, contributing to double-digit revenue growth in WebSphere each quarter. IBM's lead in SOA is well recognized and we are continuing to invest to extend our leadership position."
The WebSphere family of software grew 30 percent, and 28 percent at constant currency.WebSphere provides the foundation for web-enabled applications and is a key product set in deploying a client's Services Oriented Architecture.
In July, we introduced DB2 version 9, commonly referred to as Viper, with enhanced XML and data compression technologies. This new database is a key component of our SOA and Information on Demand strategies and has proven to be particularly effective in SAP installations.
We are continuing to invest in high value-add Business Solutions. For example, we are enhancing our Global Development Center capabilities in China and India to leverage our Webify acquisition, and to accelerate SOA within our Industry solutions.
Security, energy and cooling efficiency, virtualization, and SOA, together with improved economics, continue to play to the strength of System z. These features are attracting new mainframe customers to this platform. Let me give you a couple of examples:
The largest profit contributor was our Software business. This quarter, our software results once again reflected strong demand for products deploying Services Oriented Architectures and Information on Demand, as well as the value of our systems management, security, and storage offerings.[Read More]
Big Blue goes for viral marketing!
I am now in Prague speaking to a marketing group on viral marketing and SOA. As I am here, I just saw this in Blue Blue Article! .
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Big Blue Goes for Viral MarketingComing soon to a theater near you- IBM's Service Oriented Architecture [SOA]. Is video supposed to be viral? A strange IBM spoof movie trailer which advertises a new movie called "Launch" and which seems to be about a returning executive who tried to implement SOA at a distressed company full of mystery. Is it just us, or does anyone else wish that IBM actually made the full movie. It has "cult film" written all over it and looks far more interesting than most Hollywood fare. They could do an online movie release whereby the SOA is used to conquer some pretty tough obstacles. Perhaps stubborn long term employees, supported by a mysterious Union, could try and sabotage the process. Oh well, maybe its just us. Nevertheless, good to see IBM trying new marketing techniques- we're giving it publicity at least.[Read More]
Varoom .... Harley Rocks Gartner IT Expo with its off roading of SOA!!!
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I am here at the Gartner IT Expo which is always held in Orlando Florida. Yesterday we unveiled our newest SOA announcements for BPM. Jim Hanley, from Harley .
Jim Haney, their CIO and biggest buyer of Harley's clothesline, outlined his challenges as a fairly new executive at Harley! His challenges were around the business challenges...his business needed to steamline their key business processes, provide quicker access to information, and basically make it easy to do business with. This sounds very simliar to alot of customers that I talk with daily! And simliar to the CIO conference where the challenge to CIOs was to become more linked to the business and become Chief Innovation Officiers!
Using the SOA approach, Jim has seen some amazing results at Harley -- one of my favorite brands! He was able to present a "business process" lens to his users, provide more business flexibility through loosely coupled integration, and lowered his costs through faster delivery of capabilities through reuse and common process component.
His closing top 3 points were....Run the IT like a business, Protect the Brand and Instill trust………AND……Invest in your people....
This is similar to Gartner's keynote and focus on people. Interesting way to kick off the conference...Discussion occured around...Aging baby boomers that must nurture next generation.. VERSATILISTS.. multi talented professionals who will likely not be the same mix as the people around the table today. The impact of Geographic diversification (offshore outsourcing)...etc
The bottom line....Accept the VERSATILISTS .. change focus & culture of your IT organization… REPROGRAM THE IT CULTURE!
Identify what kills ideas stone dead… We tried that didn't work Consultant speak I could have done that in cobol..
Well, that's enough for now!
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The SOA announcements from IBM
OK! So IBM made some major SOA announcements this week!
The first one is around the business value IBM's customers are seeing in the marketplace! Customers are looking to break out of verticalized pillars and drive innovation and flexibility into their businesses. The recent deep dive study by the Institute for Business Value confirms that customers are achieving hard, measurable value from their SOA projects. While 97% of surveyed customers justified undertaking their SOA projects based on cost reduction after they initiated their projects, 100% of them saw increases in flexibility and 51% saw measurable revenue increases attributable to the projects.
The second announcement is about how easy and perscriptive we are making it to "GET STARTED". The announcements today are about making it easier to achieve real business value with SOA. These announcements follow the earlier announcements we made in April of a set of SOA entry points to help businesses get started with SOA. Now, with the marketing moving past that early adoption stage, we have seen a focus on ensuring that customers can build upon the lessons they've learned for greater business value. This is a unified IBM is leading the way, teaming with virtually every part of the company to help customers achieve higher value SOA with initiatives such as Business Services and Business Process Management enabled by SOA. We combine all our strengths to help our customers support these projects through Infrastructure and Management for SOA and help ensure successful projects with proper SOA Governance.
And the third area is around the market momentum in this space we've seen! Wintergreen just last month an independent report from Wintergreen Research ("SOA Market Opportunity, Market Forecast and Market Strategies: 2006-2012") and found that IBM is the overwhelming leader in SOA, with 46 percent market share (up 12% ), more than three times the market share of the next closest vendor.
As Dwight Davis, lead analyst for OvumSummit, wrote in another recent report, IBM is "currently setting a SOA bar that other vendors will struggle to clear."[Read More]
CIO Conference in Monte Carlo: Some thoughts
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OK...now I am in Monte Carlo at the IBM CIO event. There are about 100+ of the most influential CIOs around the world here. Why am I here? Of course, SOA. We have several discussion points around SOA that were quite interesting!
But back to the CIO event, Sam Palmisano kicked off the meeting around Innovation being the path to growth. It was very interesting as he outlined some of the changes needed in the market place thinking....business model innovation being a key differentiator over just new products, new services. For external innovation, collaboration is critical and most companies get their best ideas from employees and customers. He challenged the CIOs with 2 results from IBM 's CIO study .... #1 challenge is that CIO's role are misunderstood because the business acumen is not a strength, and #2 how should CIOs be measured -- not cost so should it be productivity ... or?
A very cool panel followed led by one of my ex Harvard professors Linda Applegate! She led off challenging the audience on the new "inflexion" point. And that innovation is becoming more radical -- it is not what you do but how you do it! She asked how we viewed threats...and said that entrepreneurs viewed threats as opptys ... and innovation is the relentless pursuit of new opportunities regardless of the resources at your disposal. (very cool thought!)
The other folks on the panel were from ING and Astrazeneca. Some important points that came up were: How do we form a relationship between CIO and CFO? How do we manage Maintenance type activities and innovation -- same team, different teams, can they be done by the same person? Are you a risk taker or a risk manager?
It was interesting to see how much alignment there was around the concept of moving from processes that are sequence driven to processes that are now multi-layered and filled with various forms of collaboration! All the items that we have been discussing as part of SOA! Also the concept that innovation is really about a series of incremental steps!!
A thought to depart on for this very late night....are you a Business Outcome Manager? What outcomes are you managing and what are you really measured on!
Well, I'll be here for one more day ... then back to NY! I'll blog on new discussion points tomorrow!
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Where in the world is Sandy Carter?
I was recently hosting over 100 partners in Pinehurst. I have to sidenote here that I loved Pinehurst. Pinehurst was one of the best run facilities and a very relaxing setting. Going to course #2 was amazing and the spa was awesome. Just as a sidenote!
The conference in Pinehurst was to brief our partners on our new announcements coming from IBM on SOA. We had lots of excitement and energy and I am looking forward to having more and more of our Partner feedback.
You can hear all about the announcements if you are an IBM partner on Oct 4 by registering at REGISTER .[Read More]
The SOA Movie! Going Live on October 9!
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Supporters of SFMOMA came together for an award presentation and dinner to honor pioneering media artist Jim Campbell, recipient of the museum's 13th annual Bay Area Treasure Award. Hosted by SFMOMA's Modern Art Council, the museum's premier fund-raising auxiliary, this lifetime-acheivement award recognizes Bay Area-based artists who redefine the field of contemporary art. Proceeds from the event support SFMOMA's exhibitions and education programs.
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Leif Ragnar Dietrichson (1890-1928)
Leif Dietrichson was the nephew of Oluf Dietrichson who crossed Greenland with Fridtjof Nansen in 1888. He was also Bernt Balchen's cousin. He was the pilot on N24 and he died on the Latham plane in 1928 together with Roald Amundsen.
Leif Ragnar Dietrichson was born in Hønefoss on 1 September 1890 as the second youngest of five siblings. His doctor father was very socially engaged and "wore himself out" in his private practice. He died when Leif was only six years old and Leif's mother then had to earn for the family as a music teacher. His father was known to be much in favour of a strong military defence and he would probably have liked to see that his son made his career in the navy.
After Naval Academy 1908-11 Leif gained practice as a mate with the Bergenske Dampskibsselskap (Bergens Steamship Company) before he was appointed torpedo chief during the neutrality watch in 1914, and leader of the Hvaler Division with the torpedo boat Springer. When the naval air force was established in 1915, he moved to that and became one of the pioneers of military flying in Norway. He started to fly in 1916 and went in 1918 to Great Britain for further training. That same year he became head of the flying boat base in Kristiansand, a position he held until he died. In 1919 his plane crashed into Portør harbour, without him being seriously injured.
In 1923 he met Roald Amundsen through mutual acquaintances. Amundsen was planning to fly to the North Pole, and Dietrichson was granted leave to participate since the navy regarded the polar flight as further training.
The expedition started with two Dornier-Wal flying boats (N-24 and N-25) on 21 May 1925 from Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. After eight hours in the air the planes landed in separate leads in the ice in order to check their position. They turned out to be at only 87° 43' N. The planes had landed 3-4 nautical miles apart and it took some time to make contact. N-24's one engine was damaged and after some days of work the plane was given up and Dietrichson, Oskar Omdal and Lincoln Ellsworth started over the ice towards N-25. On the way the first two fell into a lead and Ellsworth saved their lives.
The six crew members had to struggle for three weeks to make a take-off strip and get the N-25 ready. On 15 June they took off back to the north coast of Svalbard, where they were picked up by a passing boat. There was naturally public enthusiasm when they turned up again from the polar wastes.
The following year Dietrichson was to have participated on Amundsen's transpolar flight with the airship Norge, but he withdrew "from family considerations". According to Amundsen biographer Tor Bomann-Larsen it was rather because he was dissatisfied that Ellsworth was appointed navigator, which was something Dietrichson was trained to be.
In 1928 Dietrichson was again granted leave from his position in Kristiansand since he planned to travel to Canada and USA, where he had the chance to participate on Richard Byrd's expedition by plane to the South Pole. However, when Amundsen asked him to join in the search for Umberto Nobile and his crashed airship north of Svalbard, he chose that instead. On 18 June 1928 they took off from Tromsø in a French Latham plane with a crew of four. The last radio contact with the plane was less than three hours later by Bjørnøya (Bear Island). Afterwards there was silence. That the plane had crashed into the sea was finally proved when a float was found in the sea 2½ months later.
Leif Dietrichson's deep-blue eyes, good humour and ability as pilot and navigator were emphasised in his obituaries. He was posthumously appointed captain in the naval air force while the search for the Latham was still underway.
A memorial to Dietrichson was unveiled in Søndre park in Hønefoss by Dietrichson's friend and colleague rear admiral Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen on 17 May 1949. Dietrichson's son Gustav (1921-45) also became a military pilot and he served in the RAF, losing his life during a bombing raid over Germany in the last weeks of the war.
A street in Stavanger was named after Leif Dietrichson in 1956.
Susan Barr: Leif Dietrichson. (2011-12-12) I Store norske leksikon. Hentet fra http://snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Leif_Dietrichson/utdypning
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Pictured (left-to-right) are Dr. Tesfaye Belay (BSC Associate Professor of Biology), Ms. Addy Gwinn (science teacher at Beckley-Stratton Middle School) and BSC students Jordan Mann, Kayla Fazio, Elisha Martin, Candice Harris, and Sheila Bailey, who participated in the ninth annual WV-INBRE Summer Research Symposium at West Virginia University.
(Bluefield)—Five Bluefield State College students, a BSC faculty member, and an area middle school science teacher took part in the ninth annual West Virginia-Idea Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (WV-INBRE) Summer Research Symposium at WVU on July 29.
BSC students Jordan Mann, Kayla Fazio, Elisha Martin, Candice Harris and Sheila Bailey, as well as Addy Gwinn (a science teacher at Beckley-Stratton Middle School) and Dr. Tesfaye Belay (BSC Associate Professor of Biology) were the participants. The researchers were involved in two ongoing research investigations focusing on "Stress and Chlamydia Genital Infection in a Mouse Model," and Long-term Survival of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa under Starvation in Water." The research was conducted in Dr. Belay's laboratory at BSC.
"Each researcher read the scientific literature, chose a research topic, formulated hypotheses, designed and carried out experiments, and presented a poster," Dr. Belay said. "The students and Ms. Gwinn have made significant contributions to advancing research in our lab. The opportunity to become a part of the research group as a mentor was a very rewarding experience."
One student summer research internship opportunity, fellowships to the teacher and two HSTA graduates were funded by an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act supplement to the WV-INBRE award. Two summer research internships were funded by NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium. "The students and teacher are very thankful for the support of WV-INBRE and the NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium, which created summer jobs in research training in their home institute. "This is the largest group of students to receive summer employment through these research opportunities at BSC," Dr. Belay said.


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Marie Kimmey got the idea after seeing former President George H.W. Bush skydive for his 90th birthday.
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True to her word, she treated herself and 11 family members to the skydive she had promised.
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Presidents often use the time-honored (or dishonored, depending on who you ask) tradition of the recess appointment to fill positions that have been blocked by the Congress. Usually these are judges that one party is holding up because of some ideological dispute or just to prove a point. Nothing says "screw you" quite like, well, like screwing you.
Presidents wield supreme executive authority and that makes it easy for them to make these kind of moves. Legislative powers are spread out between 535 (mainly) crusty old men and even supreme judicial power is divided up between 9 judges. But the president is one person and that means he can make decisions much more quickly when he needs to.
So, here's the question. Where could a baseball team take a lesson from the president in this matter? The manager is already relatively free to play who they want when they want but most don't have the power to unload a guy who's underperforming. Team owners are pretty much expected to pony up the money and then get out of the way.
When it comes down to it, if there's one guy who can exercise executive power in the ballpark, it's the GM. The team owner endows the GM with the ability to make huge decisions affecting the present and the future of the franchise and the GM is expected to repay that trust with quality acquisitions and wins. When the guy is Brian Cashman and the bank account is bottomless, that works out pretty well. When the guy is Isiah Thomas and an entire league no longer exists because of your actions, well, that's a different story.
But if the GM is like the president, how would he go about making a recess appointment? If you ask me, pretty much everything done during the offseason is a recess appointment. Trades and moves made during the season take place under the watchful eyes of millions of fans. Once the World Series is over, the diehard fans still take notice and the news will get some play but there's so much else to keep track of, any hubbub dies away pretty quickly.
So here's a hint for any of you budding GMs out there. You want to follow in the President's footsteps and make a recess appointment? Just wait til people's heads are turned the other way and then make the trade you know will infuriate everyone. They don't have to like it, they just have to get used to it.
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Recess appointments are just another slimy way to circumvent the three-branch system of checks and balances put in place to protect us from ambitious, yet idiotic chief executives like the current and previous occupants. Republicrat rent-seekers and useful idiots, however, tout the usefulness of such affronts to the republic just as long as "their guy" is the one polluting the Oval Office.
In the realm of MLB politics, however, Texas Rangers Mega-GM Jonestein wouldn't hesitate to distract Nolan Ryan with a prize heifer and the "I Am Second" Christian crowd with a MercyMe concert long enough to offload Josh Hamilton elsewhere for someone who isn't made of paper mâché.
…and before any of you start quoting the Constitution to me, allow me to clarify: I speak of modern day recess appointments and how they are abused by our chief knuckleheads via loose interpretations of Article II.
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I was just impressed that you got all the squiggly marks right on paper mâché.
You know, I completely disagree. GMs don't make deals in the offseason because of less media/fan pressure. Really, if a GM thought about these things when trying to make a deal they'd be a terrible GM. They'd always trade prospects for veterans, they'd overpay for "stars" and do other numerous stupid things. Also, I think owners are a great deal more involved than you imply. GMs don't have completely free reign over their team's fortunes. They most certainly have to make a case to the owner before trading anyone. No, the owner isn't the one fielding the calls from other GMs or putting players on the trading block or negotiating the player to be named later. But the owner clearly will want to be notified because in any trade payroll will increase or decrease and the performance on the field will be affected. And owners tend to be keenly aware of such things. I think GMs make deals in the offseason because that's when player values are the highest. Every team thinks they can compete this year (unless the team is located in Pittsburgh or Kansas City) so every team thinks they can add that one extra piece to make the playoffs. Mid season, half the teams are going to be out of the race and the market for Curtis Granderson is cut in half. Also, the owner really cares about the fans showing up and buying garlic fries. And the fans show up when the team is winning. And so while it may infuriate fans in the offseason or even midseason to trade a certain player, really the goal for the organization is to win. Because winning drives gate receipts, fills the owner's pockets and keeps the fans happy. If trading a player and putting up with some fan backlash can help the team win more in the future, that's the true goal of a GM/Owner team. So they don't really care when the trade is or the reaction.
I think what youcanhangastaronthisone is saying, Allen, is: you're retarded.
I think what Allen is trying to say here is… why you weren't looking Jeff the Tigers picked up Pujols…. Now that would be frickin hilarious…..
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Hmmmmm, very interesting post. I think that GMs can do a lot of great things to an organization, much like a president can do to a country. The same vise-versa. Nice post!
Completely off topic, but didn't you guys have a post last year around this time about the controversy in Detroit – the Tigers were having their Opening Day on Easter Sunday and Catholics were upset? I remember there was a heated discussion, but the specifics are fuzzy. Anyhow, since the Yankees open in Boston on Sunday – Easter – I'm wondering why no one seems to mind this time. What am I missing?
Jane — The controversy last year wasn't about playing on Easter… every team played on Easter last year. It was that Detroit was playing on Good Friday, during the hours that supposedly sky daddy's son was dying on the cross… of course, if you believe in that sort of flying spaghetti monster stuff, I can see how it might bother you… wait, no I can't. That's a lie. It was stupid really. Even if all that stuff WERE true (I have never seen any evidence supporting this idea), people seemed to lose sight of the extreme time difference between Detroit and Jerusalem.
Thanks for clearing that up, Jeff. I knew it was all about Easter something, but yeah, it was Good Friday. All righty then.


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Joel Gonzalez, a former U.S. Bureau of Prisons correctional officer, and Lisa Gonzalez, his wife, both admitted to accepting bribes from the family of an inmate in exchange for introducing contraband into the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Three Rivers, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
Joel Gonzalez said that from December 2012 through April 2014, he made arrangements to smuggle tobacco and other contraband into the FCI for an inmate in exchange for the cash bribes.
His wife said she assisted him in arranging times and locations for receiving the contraband and bribe payments. She also traveled with him from their residence in Beeville to Laredo in order to accept the contraband. Joel Gonzalez would then take the items into the correctional facility on his body.
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Tuesday's third and final public hearing on the topic provided no real new information and pitched the same two-well proposal as had been given at the second public hearing. That was a change from the one big well plan presented at the first public hearing, but didn't touch on the multi-well plan discussed last week by citizens, engineers and city staff, as reported in Wednesday's paper.
In discussing the third option during a tour of a reverse osmosis plant in Donna, city staff and engineers estimated that a one well in the deep, brackish Jasper aquifer with smaller RO plant and three wells (all on city property) into the shallower, sweet Evangeline aquifer could be done for approximately $8 million. This would seemingly be a bargain in comparison to the $15.3 million bond issue as it sits before voters. Because the dollar amount is fixed on the ballot, the unused balance of the issue could be reserved for future expansion and repairs to the entire system.
That certainly sounds appealing. Except it was not presented as the plan, or even an option, at the public hearing. When asked about it, the answer from staff and engineers is essentially: we won't know what we have until we drill the wells.
So citizens are asked to authorize a $15.3 million bond issue with no firm plan or commitment in place. In an age when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously told us we had to pass the Obamacare bill to find out what's in it, the bond issue doesn't come to the voters with an aura of prudence – only an aura of panic.
That said, in fairness, the NorrisLeal engineering firm has only been on the job since January, no doubt hired by the city to find a solution and quickly. That's what happens when the City of Corpus Christi reportedly tells Beeville that it cannot guarantee water from Lake Corpus Christi after 2014.
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Signs springing up in opposition tout city taxes going up 49 percent, but as city staff explained Tuesday, that is the worst case scenario if the entire bond issue was funded by property taxes. The city would look to spread the cost over several sources including property taxes, water and sewer rates and possibly hotel and motel tax rates if the state will allow that. The bond market wants a simple concise repayment source, so the city expresses it on a tax basis even if it will actually use other means.
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The UK government has confirmed it will introduce a hard cap on pension-fund charges at 0.75% of assets per year — a policy that will deal another blow to the insurance industry, just a week after the Chancellor rocked the annuity market.
Announcing the change in Parliament this morning, Steve Webb, UK minister for pensions, said he would bear down on costs "like a vice". Representatives from the Labour Party immediately accused him of stealing their policy.
The 0.75% cap is the strictest of the three options the government was considering — which also included a "comply or explain" capping policy under which schemes could charge higher fees if they provided evidence they were justified.
The government said it expected its fee cap to save pension scheme members £195 million in fees they would have otherwise paid.
This hard cap will hit many of the UK's biggest insurance companies, such as Standard Life, Scottish Widows and Legal & General, who also provide workplace pension schemes.
Sean McSweeney, an auto-enrolment specialist at Chase de Vere, said in a note this morning: "With a 0.75% charge cap providers will need to put aside additional capital reserves."
This is because insurance companies have to hold risk capital against the possibility that revenues might fall in the event of a collapse in the value of their assets. If markets tanked, and the value of pension pots followed them down, insurers would receive less in revenues from fees. In theory they could deal with this by increasing the fees charged — a fee cap prevents this.
McSweeney said: "We believe this could lead to them being even more selective about which companies they'll offer terms to and also providing a reduced level of service. This could result in employees being faced with less choice, inferior products and a lack of ongoing service."
One former insurance industry executive said the cost to the insurers in extra capital could run into the hundreds of millions of pounds.
In a statement this morning, Otto Thoresen, director general of the Association of British Insurers, said: "The Office of Fair Trading, in its workplace pensions review last year, came out against a charge cap. We agree with them. Average workplace pension charges are at their lowest ever levels."
The UK's Investment Management Association, which represents fund managers, also reacted with dismay. Jonathan Lipkin, its director of public policy, said the cap was "not the best way to achieve good outcomes", and said the government's focus should be on improving governance structures instead.
Lipkin did welcome the fact that the government decided not to include transaction costs — the cost of buying and selling shares — in its cap.
Webb, in Parliament, said the government would keep this issue under review, however, and the government will press ahead with plans to force schemes to disclose all transaction costs in the meantime.
The government also published an estimate for how much it thinks another of its policies — setting up new compulsory governance bodies to oversee insurers' pensions businesses — will cost the industry.
Setting up 20 of these Independent Governance Committees will set the insurers back by up to £1 million, and running them could cost up to £4 million a year, it said. In addition, minimum quality standards for other workplace pensions might cost companies up to £5 million a year, it said.
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