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What is terrorism? Dictionary.com describes it as " The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons. "
How ever is it really this simple, i think not. Whilst the above is a good description of what terrorism is. How can it describe what people are fighting for. If you want to know some facts that have mainly been confined to the history books about terrorism. Back in the 1980's Americam actively trained and recruited Taliban Afgan's to fight the current diplomatic government. After a few bloody years, they won. Now come up to the present-ish time and you will find that the Taliban have been defeated by, the Americans. Why because they harboured terrorist. Ironic really seeing that they trained the forces that they were mounting a war on. Not much has been said since about what is happening in Afganistan since the war was "over". I only know about the new president being elected and that is about all. What about the American forces that still continue to look for Osama-bin Laden? It seems as though that isn't news worthy any more so it shant be talked about. Oh well i guess the internet can help.
One thing that really gets up my nose is the way that governments can put people into power, and then when they say that it isn't in there best interests, they over throw them with another war. Stupid tactics i think. It is all a point of perspective i think, who knows who is right when both sides have been fighting for so long. Any war that isn't peacful is a waste of time. Something that i don't want to be apart of. Sure i would be scared shite less if i did have to go to war, i don't want to have to bear the same torrid nightmares as my Pa or other relatives. I would perfer to live in the bush until the war was over, safer and more humane. Well that is my thoughts. Basically Terrorism is a way of thinking and many need to open up there minds to other ideas.
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1 Big Data, Big Science and Beyond Ralph Schroeder Collaborators: Eric T. Meyer, Linnet Taylor, Josh Cowls, Greg Taylor, Monica Bulger Science 2.0, Hamburg,
2 Overview Projects Questions Issues Definition How knowledge advances Examples Big Data Issues in Research and Beyond Policy Implications Conclusion
3 Source: Leonard John Matthews, CC-BY-SA (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mythoto/ )
4 Twitter-bots OII master s students Alexander Furnas and Devin Gaffney saw a large spike in then-us presidential candidate Mitt Romney s Twitter followers, and decided to look at the new followers: Furnas, A. and Gaffney, D. (2012). Statistical Probability That Mitt Romney's New Twitter Followers Are Just Normal Users: 0%. The Atlantic, July 31, (accessed August 31, 2012).
5 Accessing and Using Big Data to Advance Social Science Knowledge Funded by Sloan Foundation Data sources 100+ interviews, mainly with social scientists Reports, workshops Publications, conferences No representative sample, but some patterns of disciplinary and skills background and career trajectory
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7 Number of News Articles on Big Data st Q 2nd Q 3rd Q 4th Q 1st Q 2nd Q 3rd Q 4th Q 1st Q 2nd Q 3rd Q 4th Q 2010 (n=998) Source: Nexis data compiled by Meyer & Schroeder 2011 (n=5,641) 2012 (n=27,033)
8 Data-driven economic models: challenges and opportunities of big data Funded by Research Councils UK (RCUK), New Economic Models in the Digital Economy (NEMODE) network Data Sources: 25+ interviews Case studies Issues include how models relate to national contexts (ie. privacy laws in Germany), where skills are located (plus gaps), use of public/private data, standardization
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10 Big data in the commercial world Commercial uses are: in house, outsourced own data, data analysis as a consultancy service Careers in data analysis entail as a baseline computer science/statistical expertise, plus different domains of sorting people and being able to manipulate them (ie. predict their behaviour)
11 Source: Hill, K. (Feb 16, 2012). Forbes.com. Available at: Based on Duhigg, C. (Feb 16, 2012). How Companies Learn Your Secrets. New York Times Magazine.
12 Definition Big data the advance of knowledge via a leap in the scale and scope in relation to a given object or phenomenon Data Belongs to the object taking before interpreting (Ian Hacking) the view that all data are of their nature interpreted is misleading: data are made, but as a good first approximation, the making and taking come before interpreting The most atomizable useful unit of analysis
13 Computational Manipulability? the distinctiveness of the network of mathematical practitioners is that they focus their attention on the pure, contentless form of human communicative operations: on the gestures of marking items as equivalent and of ordering them in series, and on the higher-order operations which reflexively investigate the combinations of such operations mathematical rapid-discovery science the lineage of techniques for manipulating formal symbols representing classes of communicative operations
14 Supercomputing Research computing The Grid Web 2.0 Clouds Big Data
15 Digital transformations of research Computational Manipulability + Research Technologies (Mathematization) Socio-Technical Organization (Computerization movements) Transformations of Research Front (For different fields)
16 Digital Objects and their Referents Digital Object (Examples: Twitter, Tesco Loyalty card information Represent / Manipulate Real World (People / Physical Objects)
17 Uses and Limits Big data research uses (academic, commercial, government) are limited to the exploitation of suitable objects The knowledge produced is aimed at sorting people and advancing representing and intervening (but without manipulating, except where this is warranted by practical economic and political objectives)
18 Platform Paper Size of Data in relation to phenomenon investigated Theoretical question/practical aim Key findings Facebook Backstrom et al. (2012) 69 billion friendship links between 721 million Facebook users Ugander et al. (2012) 54 million invitation s to Facebook users Re-examine Milgram s six degrees of separation online How does structure of contacts affect invitation acceptance? Four degrees of separation on Facebook Not number of contacts, but number of distinct contexts, matters for acceptance Bond et al. (2012) Facebook users Facebook experiment about how to mobilize voters Voters can be mobilized via Facebook friends more than via informational messages Twitter Kwak et al. (2010) 1.47 billion directed Twitter relations Cha et al. (2010) 1.7 billion tweets among 54 million users Is Twitter a broadcast medium or a social network? Who influences whom? Most use is for information, not as a social network Top influentials dominate, but some variation by topic Bakshy et al. (2011) 1.6 million Twitter users Who influences whom? Ordinary user influencers can sometimes be more effective than top influencers Wikipedia Loubser (2009) All Wikipedia activity How is editing organized? Administrators can impact negatively on participation Yasseri, Kertesz (2012) West, Weber and Castillo (2012) Editorial activity on Wikipedia, especially reverts Wikipedia contributions related to Yahoo! browsing Understanding conflict and collaboration What characterizes Wikipedia contributors information behaviour compared to Wikipedia readers and non-readers Types of conflicts can be modelled Wikipedia contributors are more information hungry, especially about their topics
19 Example 1: Search engine behaviour Waller s analysis of Australian Google Users Key findings: - Mainly leisure - > 2% contemporary issues - No perceptible class differences Novel advance: - Unprecedented insight into what people search for Challenge: - Replicability - Securing access to commercial data
20 ??? Surprisingly,? the distribution of? types of search query did not? vary significantly across the different? Lifestyle Groups (p>0.01).?? Source: Waller, V. (2011). Not Just Information:Who Searches for What on the Search Engine Google? Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 62(4):
21 Example 2: Large-scale text analysis Michel et al. culturomic analysis of 5 Million Digitized Google Books and Heuser & Le-Khac of th Century British Novels Key findings: - Patterns of key terms - Industrialization tied to shift from abstract to concrete words Novel advance: - Replicability, extension to other areas, systematic analysis of cultural materials Challenge: - Data quality
22 J Michel et al. Science 2011;331:
23 Example 3: Social network or news? Kwak et al. s analysis of Twitter Key findings: billion social relations - 2/3 of users are not followers or not followed by any of their followings - Celebrities, politicians and news are among top 20 being followed Novel advance: - Volume of relations and topics Challenge: - News or social network needs to be contextualized in media ecology - Securing access to commercial data
24 Data Internet Archives data of.uk back to 1996 Annual crawls of.uk websites since billion nodes, 40 TB compressed Features Full text search (in progress, IHR) Network analysis (OII) N-gram analysis Limitations Page content data access limited
25 N.B. y-axis on log scale Growth of subdomains
26 Relative sector size on the web
27 Sectoral linking 2010
28 Number of News Articles on Big Data st Q 2nd Q 3rd Q 4th Q 1st Q 2nd Q 3rd Q 4th Q 1st Q 2nd Q 3rd Q 4th Q 2010 (n=998) Source: Nexis data compiled by Meyer & Schroeder 2011 (n=5,641) 2012 (n=27,033)
29 Representing Manipulating Limits Digital Data
30 (Big) data definition enables pinpointing impacts and threats Google Plus may not be much of a competitor to Facebook as a social network, but some analysts say that Google understands more about people s social activity than Facebook does. New York Times, , p. A1 The Plus in Google Plus? It s Mostly for Google. Facebook Likes: Predicting users individual attributes and preferences can beused to improve numerous products and services. For instance, digital systems and devices (such as online stores or cars) could be designed to adjust their behavior to best fit each user s inferred profile online insurance advertisements might emphasize security when facing emotionally unstable (neurotic) users but stress potential threats when dealing with emotionally stable ones Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior. Kosinski M, Stillwell D, Graepel T.,Proc Natl Acad Sci 2013 Apr 9;110(15): More powerful knowledge will enable better services, and more manipulation
31 Big Data is Big Science, but only for limited domains Objects which give off digital data are limited Social objects which give off digital data are increasing (and data they give off is increasing), but how many are there, what phenomena do they lay bare (and which aspects of the phenomena), and how can their relations to the phenomena be theorized to advance scientific knowledge? For science 2.0, how many useful identifiers are there for a given publication that enables tracking its impact?
32 Big data for understanding society Real-time transactional data (unlike survey data, traditional staple of social science) Outside capability of normal desktop computing environment ( Too big to handle ) Big potential for understanding institutions and individual behaviour
33 Social Science and Big Data Research Dominated by social media Issues of whole universe What population, offline and online, does it represent Data quality and replicability How does modality determine findings about implications How to embed the research In existing theory (but also advance theory) In existing ecology of media uses in society (including ones that extend existing ones)
34 Scientificity and Big Data: Pro and Con Pro Replicability, extension to new domain Total datasets, whole universe (Often) no sampling needed, data for all behaviour and over whole existence Ready made manipulability Powerful relation of data to object Con Limited access to object, skills needed for manipulability (Often) not known who users are No or little knowledge of how (commercial) data were gathered Researcher does not ask what is of interest without givenness Datasets capture limited dimensions, and about one object Object in isolation, not framed for social change significance
35 Ethical and Social Issues in Big Data Research Objects with total knowledge (universes) Danger is inferring behaviour not of individuals, but of classes of people Asymmetry of knower and the subjects of knowledge is greater than elsewhere Based not on individuals but on aggregate behaviour Hence only utilitarian, not Kantian justification? Why does prediction or uncovering laws of behaviour grate? Benefits: greater scientific power and more specific details Relation to smaller data? Creep Solution: ethical = greater researcher and public awareness, regulatory (would apply to academic researchers?) = prevent legal and specific harms
36 Other positions on Big Data Implications 1 Mayer-Schoenberger and Cukier, boyd and Crawford argue that not all information can or should be captured No, need to create the legal and ethical social space which protects the individual. The solution does not rely on denying the powerfulness of knowledge, but harnessing it appropriately. Mayer-Schoenberger and Cukier solution of 1.more transparent algorithm, 2. Certifiying validity of algorithm 3. Allowing disprovability of prediction (p.176) Yes, but within social science, solution is to make knowledge more scientific. Underlying all these problems is more powerful knowledge This goes against free, untrammelled behaviour Solution: Society becomes more self-aware and shapes knowledge to constrain it Crawford, Marwick: big data is product of neoliberal capitalism? No, uses by different societies, and for purposes apart from neoliberal capitalist ones, such as open government data and Wikipedia analysis
37 Other Positions on Big Data Implications 2 Savage and Burrows: ask are commercial data outpacing social science? Boyd and Crawford: does big data raise epistemological conundrums, and isn t it always already (social) contextual? Mayer-Schoenberger and Cukier: what are the political and commercial harms of wrong knowledge, especially when it changes everything?... No... Knowledge depends on the relation between research technologies and the advance of knowledge The threats and opportunities are not contextual, but depend on how more powerful knowledge is used Big data contributes to more scientific (i.e. cumulative) social sciences, but within limits, and there are limits to commercial and political uses too
38 Consumer (and gov t) Big Data Consumer data and privacy (ie. Target pregnancy case) Solution: data protection Consumer data and prediction and control (ie. click behaviour): affects consumer without transparency, predictive privacy harm Solution: transparency, due process (Crawford and Schultz) Consumer data and government data - and exclusion from benefits thereof (ie. no or little use of digital devices) - if not captured by data, left out Solution: Data antisubordination (Lerman) Solution: government may need more data about us (and counteract the data invisibility of parts of the population) Consumer data from digital media (ie. search engines) manipulate what is found without transparenyc, inappropriate personalization (Pariser) Solution: transparency, consumer protection
39 Big Data and Policy Probabilistic rather than causal commercial and government uses of data (ie. profiling) - only probable, not definite causal behaviour of data emitters established (Mayer-Schoenberger and Cukier) Solution: more accurate knowledge Exposure of Data emitter because of identifiers in largescale and linked data (Netflix, AOL, Google Streetview, National Security Administration), such that anonymization does not work Solution: data protection, better anonymization, opting out, consent Social media used in authoritarian regimes for control (Weibo in China) Solution: more commercial independence, more civil society pushback, researcher non-cooperation
40 Future of Big Data Research Difference commercial versus academic world is that knowledge provides competitive advantage as against advancing (high-consensus rapiddiscovery) knowledge The limits in both cases are the objects (to which the data belong ), and that need to have available digitally manipulable data points How available these objects are differs There are many objects, for non-academics and scientists to humanities scholars (physical, human, cultural), but they are not infinite This availability, not skills or other issues, determines the future of big data research
41 The Outlook for Big Data Research There is an overlap between real world research and the world of academic research which is closer than elsewhere because this is the research front in both because they share common objects Research in the sciences (outside of social science) also consists of computer science/statistics plus domain expertise, and will provide more powerful knowledge for manipulating the physical world Ethical and social issues matter, but there is also creep The main (social science) objects are related to digital media, whose limits are their expanding uses
42 Implications For research Develop theoretical frame in which to embed big data (for social media), including power/function, relation to traditional media, and role in society For research policy Robust base for advancing research, including shared and open databases For society Awareness of how research can generate transparency and manipulability Big Brother? Yes, but also Brave New World of Omniscience, with Social Science as Handmaiden
43 Additional readings and references Bond, Robert et al. (2012). A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization, Nature 489: Bruns, A. and Liang, Y.E. (2012). Tools and methods for capturing Twitter data during natural disasters, First Monday, 17 (4 2), Furnas, A. and Gaffney, D. (2012). Statistical Probability That Mitt Romney's New Twitter Followers Are Just Normal Users: 0%. The Atlantic, July 31, (accessed August 31, 2012). Giles, J. (2012). Making the Links: From s to Social Networks, the Digital Traces left Life in the Modern World are Transforming Social Science, Nature, 488: Kwak, H. et al. (2010). What is Twitter, a Social Network or a News Media? Proceedings of the 19th International World Wide Web (WWW) Conference, April 26-30, 2010, Raleigh NC. Manyika, J. et al. (2011). Big data: the next frontier for innovation, competition and productivity, McKinsey Global Institute, available at: big_data_the_next_frontier_for_innovation (last accessed August 29, 2012). Silver, Nate. (2012). The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction. London: Allen Lane. Tancer, B. (2009). Click: What Millions of People are Doing Online and Why It Matters. New York: Harper Collins, Wu, S., J.M. Hofman, W.A. Mason, and D.J. Watts, (2011). Who says what to whom on twitter, Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World Wide Web. (on Duncan Watts webpage, last accessed August 29, 2012).
44 Project Papers Schroeder, Ralph (Forthcoming). Big Data: Towards a More Scientific Social Science and Humanities in Mark Graham and William H Dutton (eds.), Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information are Changing our Lives. Forthcoming. Schroeder, Ralph, & Taylor, Linnet (Forthcoming). Is bigger better? The emergence of big data as a tool for international development policy. GeoJournal. Meyer, Eric T., Schroeder, Ralph, & Taylor, Linnet (2013, August). Big Data in the Study of Twitter, Facebook and Wikipedia: On the Uses and Disadvantages of Scientificity for Social Research. Paper presented at the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Schroeder, Ralph, & Taylor, Linnet. Big Data and Wikipedia Research: Social Science Knowledge across Disciplinary Divides. Submitted to Information, Communication and Society. Schroeder, Ralph. Big Data in the Study of Twitter, Facebook and Wikipedia: On the Uses and Disadvantages of Scientificity for Social Research. New Media and Society. Status? Taylor, Linnet. No place to hide? The ethics and analytics of tracking mobility using African mobile phone data. Submitted to Population, Space and Place. Meyer, Eric T., Schroeder, Ralph, & Taylor, Linnet. Big Data in the Social Sciences: Towards a New Research Paradigm? International Journal of Communication. Revised and resubmitted. Meyer, Eric T., Schroeder, Ralph, & Taylor, Linnet (2013, November). The Boundaries of Big Data. Paper presented at SIG-SI Symposium, ASIST 2013, November 1-6, 2013, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Schroeder, Ralph and Cowls, Josh. Answering Questions and Questioning Answers in the Era of Big Data. In preparation. Taylor, Linnet, Meyer, Eric T., & Schroeder, Ralph. Bigger and better, or more of the same? Emerging practices and perspectives on big data analysis in economics. Submitted to Big Data & Society.
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There will be lots of M&A deals in 2015. But will they create value or destroy it?
By Professor Nuno Fernandes - January 2015
Another busy year of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) lies ahead following a bubbly $3.3 trillion of M&A deals in 2014—the most since before the financial crisis. But how many transactions in 2015 will create value rather than destroying it?
Highlights from last year included Comcast's $71 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable, the $43 billion merger of cement companies Holcim and Lafarge, and Medtronic's $42 billion purchase of Covidien in the healthcare sector.
The M&A boom reflects several factors. Many industries are changing fast, prompting companies to consolidate. Economic growth is returning, particularly in the US. Companies are sitting on lots of cash, low interest rates reduce the cost of funding, and buoyant stock prices make it easier to buy other companies with shares. In addition, private equity funds are increasingly active and well-financed, driving further M&A deals.
Raising the success rate
M&As are important parts of many companies' growth strategies, and good deals can create a lot of value. In practice, however, more than 60% of M&A transactions destroy it. It's tempting to blame "culture" or "difficult integration" for the high failure rate, but the real reasons lie elsewhere—in mistakes made before, during and after the deal.
Companies could increase their M&A success rate by following these five golden rules:
1] Before and after. Companies must have a continuous process linking the pre-deal phase, the transaction itself and the period afterward. Furthermore, their senior executives need to be involved from the start. Companies that destroy value in M&As often have different teams during and after the deal, and they don't plan the post-merger integration properly.
The initial due diligence is crucial because it provides the rationale for the valuation and deal structure. Due diligence allows companies to see where the merged entity can increase revenues or cut costs, what the main risk factors are, and what roles the respective management teams will play. Brewers InBev and Anheuser-Busch, for example, were clear before their 2008 merger on the joint team that would manage the combined entity.
2] Move fast and communicate. Companies that communicate quickly and constantly during M&A deals keep their focus better and reduce uncertainty among customers and employees—especially those of the target company. Talent exodus is a risk in most M&As, so senior managers must be ready to answer the "What happens to me?" question when employees ask it.
Speed is also crucial during and after the transaction. A prolonged bidding and negotiating period creates additional risks of information leakage, employee departures, and competitors preempting the deal. And if the synergies have not been realized within two or three years of the deal closing, it is because they are no longer there—or never existed.
3] Avoid "strategic" deals. Good, quantifiable reasons for M&A deals include increasing a company's product range, broadening its distribution, improving its manufacturing capabilities, and reducing its unit costs. Bad reasons include boosting a CEO's ego and salary, empire-building, or doing a "strategic deal" when the benefits cannot be quantified. When a CEO says "This is strategic; we'd be stupid not to do it," it's usually a bad sign.
The disastrous $165 billion merger between AOL and Time Warner back in 2000 is a good example. A more recent flop is Hewlett-Packard's $11.1 billion acquisition of Autonomy in 2011, which destroyed billions of dollars. The deal had no financial justification, but it was labeled "strategic" anyway.
4] Think like a financial investor. Companies must be ready to say no to an M&A deal that goes above its "walk-away price." They should not enter into auctions. And they should never fall in love with a deal. CEOs, meanwhile, must control their emotions, because overconfidence and ego can destroy value.
The acquiring company should have a standalone value of the target firm as it is now, and a value with all the projected synergies on top. The purchase price should be somewhere between the two valuations, so that the target company's shareholders also get a premium. But most bidders overpay relative to the value with synergies. Companies should ask "How much is it worth to me?" and then offer less.
5] Never use investment bankers for the valuation. Investment banks are good for roadshows and financing, and market regulators sometimes require public companies to hire banks in M&A deals. But firms should not use them for valuing or negotiating a deal. This is because investment banks get fees for closing the deal, regardless of whether or not it creates value for shareholders after it is completed. A banker is always on the side of the deal, not the company's side.
Companies must have strong in-house valuation skills, from top executives down. Otherwise they will put themselves in the hands of others and will typically overpay. Vodafone's $180 billion acquisition of German company Mannesmann in 2000 is a notorious example. This deal destroyed many billions of dollars, largely because a handful of investment bankers produced a flawed valuation. All employees who are involved in providing estimates that affect the valuation should understand the principles of value creation through M&As, and also basic valuation skills. Otherwise they will not be able to do a proper job in figuring out their individual contribution to the deal's success.
Think quality, not just quantity
M&A success is not random. The most effective companies have many senior executives who understand how M&A deals can create value. These firms do not get that knowledge from external advisers. Nor do they rely entirely on their own finance departments and M&A teams, forgetting about all the other business managers who are involved in the deal, particularly after it closes. If more companies follow the five rules above, then 2015 will be a year of quality as well as quantity in M&As.
Nuno Fernandes is Professor of Finance at IMD. He directs the Strategic Finance program and also Finance Fundamentals for Executives, a new IMD "Global Leadership in the Cloud" program. He is the author of Finance for Executives: A Practical Guide for Managers.


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Australian Town not Happy about New McDonald's
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Aaron Schachter: I'm Aaron Schachter, this is The World. McDonald's is a global fast food giant with 33,000 restaurants in 118 countries, but folks in the town of Tecoma, Australia are dead set against a new franchise there. They formed a group called Burger Off to protest against it, but the group failed to stop construction from starting this year, so it decided to take its protest all the way to Chicago to McDonald's headquarters. Burger Off representative Gary Muratore was there today to deliver a petition.
Gary Muratore: When we handed the petition of 95,000 names across today it was like we were handing them a hot potato. They had a guy there from corporate responsibility, he wouldn't touch it. He handed it off to a security guard who nearly got a hernia carrying it; it's something like 7,000 pages.
Schachter: You know, Australians are known as a pretty happy go luck, live and let live sort of folk. What is your main beef, if you'll pardon the pun, with McDonald's?
Muratore: Well, I guess it's a case of we don't like bullies in Australia. When it was proposed that this was gonna happen to our community, the council became contentious and they asked for people to put submissions in. I think the council expected to maybe get 20 or 30 submissions. They got 1,170. And the council did the right thing. They listened and they voted it down 9-0. McDonald's went ahead to a regional planning tribunal and had it turned over. They spent about a million dollars on this.
Schachter: What's wrong with McDonald's?
Muratore: Well, there's nothing wrong with McDonald's per se. There's one just down the road. It's less than three miles. You can basically get there in a car in seven minutes. The franchisee that runs that has been up and told us that he's happy to support the people because you know, he's got a store and he wants to run it. And the protest is hurting his store. And we said, you know, where your store is is an appropriate location. Tecoma is not an appropriate location. This will be the closest store to a national park anywhere in Australia. It's right opposite a preschool, it's right opposite an elementary school. It's too close to elderly residents who are concerned about crime because the strip of shops at the moment closes at 8PM every night. McDonald's want to run this 24/7 and it's five or six times bigger than the nearest shop in the strip. So yeah, they want to come in and be large and in charge, and we won't let them.
Schachter: Gary, I wonder how big a town Tecoma is.
Muratore: It's just under 2,000 people.
Schachter: Ah, so it's a really teeny, tiny place.
Muratore: Yeah, it's a little town. That's what I say, this doesn't make sense to put a McDonald's there. They keep on saying it's for the betterment of the community, but we know that they're going after the tourist dollar because the forest people come up there to do forest walks to look at lyrebirds, kookaburras, platypuses in the local creek, so people come up here not to see a homogenous fast food chain, they come up for the forest.
Schachter: You have 2,000 people in Tecoma and 95,000 signatures, is that right? Where do those come from?
Muratore: That's right, they're all around Australia. People have seen this as a David versus Goliath battle. We've been putting out the media message that if it happens in our town, it could happen in your town. And what's to stop them from doing it somewhere up on the Great Barrier Reef, or the pristine rain forests…what's to stop them from doing it at Ayers Rock. And I say to the American audience, what would happen if they did it at Mount Rushmore? There would be an outcry.
Schachter: Gary Muratore is a representative for the group Burger Off, a group of Australians protesting today in Chicago against McDonald's moving into their town, Tecoma, Australia. Gary, thank you so much.
Muratore: Thanks.
Schachter: Gotta love that accent. We asked McDonald's for a response and got a statement that says the company respects the protestors' right to peacefully express their views. It adds, "McDonald's Australia has followed due process every step of the way to build a family restaurant on a highway that already houses a number of food and service outlets; the only legal action that has been brought to protect those with opposing views from putting themselves and others in danger through illegal and dangerous actions." You can read the whole statement at theworld.org.


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'X Factor' Hopeful Reed Deming Says He Isn't a Justin Bieber Wannabe
First, the 13-year-old bears some resemblance to pop superstar Justin Bieber. And while judge L.A. Reid may give the contestant some extra points for looking like the pop star (who Reid helped to discover), Deming would rather not be considered the new Bieber.
"I think pretty much every prepubescent teenage boy is compared to Justin," Deming tells Celebuzz.
"It's not a bad comparison, because he's been so successful," the San Antonio native continues. "I really do admire what he does. But at the same time, it's extremely important for an artist to have their own identity and to be their own person. If you are a wannabe, you're just imitating what somebody's already done."
What else did the singer say about the comparisons to Bieber?
Deming, who was delighted to discover that Bieber now follows him on Twitter, tells us there are several differences between him and the successful Canadian singer.
"I think our musical styles are very different, and our vocal tones are very different," he says. "Our musical preferences are very different. He does a lot of very mainstream, pop music. I enjoy something with a little bit more depth to it, something similar to alternative rock, alternative pop, like Coldplay, One Republic, Sting, bands like that… bands that have a lot of lyrical depth in their songs."
The other thing that went his way during that audition was when judge and executive producer Simon Cowell allowed him to do a second song after the first one didn't work for the panel. "Simon saved my butt there," Deming says.
He then scored the pass to boot camp by singing a stripped down version of Bruno Mars' "Grenade." So, what is his game plan for getting through to live shows?
"Simon said the vocals had to be a hundred times better," he tells us. "I'm going to make sure they're 200 times better. Because of that, I think, I'm going to give it everything I can. I did the best I could've at that moment in time. I think that you just continue on, you show them why you belong, and you show them why you deserve to be there."
The X Factor airs Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8 PM on FOX.
Watch Reed's audition again below.
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… Without it Leading to An Argument!
Most of us are very diplomatic in the way that we raise and talk about difficult issues that may arise with our friends. We agonise about how we should talk about problems that come up between us, because we value our friendships and don't want to damage or lose them.
Why then do many intimate partners not devote the same sort of care and concern when addressing the problems and difficulties that come up between them?
Perhaps the reason is that they have made a serious commitment to each other and therefore feel the relationship is not as fragile, and can therefore bear a certain amount of open conflict.
Or maybe it's just a case of "familiarity breeding contempt", and that irritation and frustration builds up over time.
Whatever the explanation, the fact is that our relationship with our partner is our primary relationship, the person we hope to spend the rest of our lives wit. Therefore if anything, it deserves even more care and wisdom then even our friendships.
It is my understanding that serious arguments and escalations between couples develop in the following way – one partner starts to feel concerned/worried/anxious/irritated etc about either the behaviour of the other, or something in their own life, and decides to speak to their partner about it.
Don't Spring it on your Partner Unawares
This sounds sensible, but unfortunately such a course of action is rarely successful. Why? There are two main reasons:
Firstly, the person on the receiving end of the "concern" is not in the same emotional frame of mind as their partner who is wanting to raise the concern. They are "chilling out" or in the midst of some activity and project, and therefore not really ready or able to handle the urgency of their partner's issue. As a result, they are very unlikely to react in the way that their partner is hoping. The person on the receiving end will either be dismissive or defensive or react in some other way, that the partner who is raising the issue finds unacceptable or offensive – and an escalating argument is likely to begin.
The second reason is that the person who is wanting to raise and talk about the problem is not usually in a helpful frame of mind either. They are often feeling quite emotional and impatient, and therefore not devoting much thought as to how to diplomatically raise the issue with their partner. Instead their concern is often delivered with an accusatory edge, which almost guarantees that their partner will react defensively and the inevitable escalation ensues.
So what is the alternative?
A "Designated" Meeting
One very constructive and powerful strategy is for the couple to hold a "designated" meeting on a weekly basis to discuss their issues and concerns with each other. In this meeting each person is emotionally and intellectually prepared to speak constructively, and listen deeply to each other's concerns.
If you are "sick" of having the same painful arguments over and over without resolving anything, then Matthew Ryan may be able to help and guide you as to how to conduct such a meeting, as well as employ other powerful strategies to heal and transform your relationship.
Author: Matthew Ryan, B Psych (Hons), MA (Marriage & Family Therapy).
Matt Ryan is a senior psychologist with over 25 years of experience, and has seen great success in helping couples and families to work through their problems and difficulties.
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Ich beantrage die Adoption des Skip Beat! Wiki-Wikis aus folgenden Gründen: I'm an administrator over on the Skip Beat! English Wiki, I'm not fluent in German and I use Google Translate to understand it. I want administrator/bureaucrat rights on the de.skip-beat wiki because I want to customize other .css and .js stuff that I cannot do as a normal user. So far, I've updated the main page and I'm creating more articles.
-- Queennicolee Talk 04:09, 11. Mai 2014 (UTC)
- Hi Queennicolee,
- usually we only accept adoption requests by German speaking users and we do not encourage the usage of Google Translate for translations of wiki content. Maybe the Wikia Language Brigade can help you? Concerning customizing CSS and JS instead of adopting the wiki I suggest you to set up the codes on your private page within the wiki (see w:c:community:Help:JavaScript_and_CSS_Cheatsheet for further info) and contact me in the wiki. I can help you to set up the MediaWiki pages once the code suits you.
- If you still want to adopt the wiki after considering these points, feel free to stop by again :)
- Micha (Nachrichtenseite) 17:05, 21. Mai 2014 (UTC)
Hi Queenicolee, I am closing this request for now, since Micha (ElBosso) already talked to you about the conditions to be fulfilled and the action you should take for now. You are welcome to open the adoption request again in the future :) Please post to my wall, if you should have questions.
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The Palestine-Israel Working Group of Nevada County sponsored by Peace Center
January 4, 2013
The Palestine-Israel Working Group of Nevada County (PIWG) advocates for human rights, equality and justice for all in Palestine and Israel. Open to the public, the group meets at 7 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month at the Peace Center of Nevada County, 216 B Main Street in Nevada City.
PIWG sponsors the 'Women and Men in Black' vigil Thursdays, 5:15 to 6 p.m. on the Broad Street bridge in Nevada City. The vigil is in support of the Women in Black in Israel, who founded the movement in 1988. All who support human rights and justice for all in Palestine and Israel are welcome to join the vigil.
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Recipe by PugsAndKisses
A recipe I found on the internet, posted by request.
Top Review by rbarrett
Very nice recipe, thanks. I did make some mods: 1. Soak the raw peanuts over night in a large pot with a plate holding the peanuts under unsalted water (they tend to float). 2. I used 1/3 cup salt instead of 1/2 cup (for me 1/2 cup was too salty the first time I did this). 3. I had to cook mine about 14 hrs. on the High setting. Then turn the Crock Pot off before going to bed but let the peanuts sit in the brine until morning. Next day they are perfect. At least 2 days to cook 'em!
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- Wash Peanuts until water runs clear.
- Place peanuts in crock pot.
- Add salt and water; stir.
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