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Did you see the unbelievably STUPID overtaking maneuver that David Coulthard tried on Alexander Wurz with just eight laps remaining in the Australian Grand Prix. I'm thinking this isn't one of Red Bulls planned for product endorsements…
I have just seen the incident in pause mode on the old VCR and talk about Jimi Hendrix's lyrics "Tire Tracks ALL Across your Back!" It is utterly amazing to see an entire Formula 1 car cross completely OVER the nose of another with the actual wheels passing mere inches from the unsuspecting driver.
And it's even more amazing that the extremely lanky Austrian's crash helmet wasn't impacted. Even more interesting was seeing Wurz's quick reactions as he pulls his hands off of the steering wheel as DC goes crashing by!
I enjoyed Steve Matchett's comments onWind Tunnel, stating that DC is frustrated… The Red Bull cars aren't exactly living up to all of the hoped for performance of an Adrian Newey design and DC is frustrated as the sun is setting on his racing career…
Yet all I can say is, Smooth Move DC!
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Coulthard's Red Wings
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- blogmasterMarch 22, 2007 at 5:04 AM
I just have to tell a few words, he's a lucky guy.ReplyDelete
Wurts could have died (murderer)by that action.
He's a mediocre pilot.
Yes I agree that Coulthard is a mediocre driver. Well OK although I've NEVER been a fan of DC's; He must be somewhat OK to have managed to stay in Formula 1 this long… Yet he made a blunderous maneuver… And I'm very happy that Wurz wasn't injured! Perhaps Red Bull will finally give one of its young guns DC's seat…ReplyDelete
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Avila cleared to play Friday after taking foul tip
NEW YORK -- Alex Avila is OK. He says so, the CT scan taken in Cleveland says so and more tests taken by team physician Dr. Michael Workings in Detroit say so.
"He went through tests with me for about an hour," Avila said. "I probably could say it's the only one I passed with all A's. ... It's not a test you try to cheat on. Trust me, the reason why I'm here is I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that I'm physically and mentally capable of playing."
He may be capable of playing, but the team still felt that a day off is a good idea. Thus, although Avila was initially in the starting lineup for Friday's series opener against the Yankees, Brayan Pena made the start behind the plate.
Avila left Thursday night's win at Cleveland in the fifth inning complaining of dizziness and nausea after being hit by a foul tip in the previous frame. Initially, he told manager Jim Leyland and head athletic trainer Kevin Rand that he felt fine, but the symptoms emerged later.
"It was a little strange," Avila said on Friday. "It got me in the face mask, but it got me in the [left] ear, which is probably the reason for it. I mean, I've had some [foul tips] that probably looked a lot worse but didn't have cause for me to come out of the game. I felt terrible coming out of the game."
Having gone through this process before, however, he knew better than to mess around.
Thursday's exit the second time in as many years that Avila left a game in Cleveland with concussion symptoms. After colliding with first baseman Prince Fielder in front of the Tigers' dugout chasing a popup last September, he experienced similar symptoms and ended up missing four games.
"I know what to look for, and when I see it, I have to let Kevin know," Avila said.
Two other catchers in the American League Central have ended up on the seven-day concussion disabled list in the past week, both because of foul balls off the mask. Minnesota's Ryan Doumit felt ill after being hit on Wednesday, and Kansas City's Salvador Perez went on the DL last weekend after experiencing headaches.
Avila has taken plenty of other foul tips that looked as bad or worse, but not with the same symptoms. And every time there's a new incident, the question comes back as to why he seems to catch so much more collateral damage from those. Leyland has been saying it for years, but it's not just Tigers people saying it anymore.
A Major League scout who was at Thursday's game said on Friday that he hasn't seen anything like it, but can't really figure out why. Avila said he gets that a lot.
"I mean, any time we play a different team and I get hit, I always hear, 'Man, you get hit more than anybody I've seen,'" he said. "Catchers, other position players, they all say the same thing. I mean, I don't know why it happens. It's just part of the game, I guess.
"We have guys that throw hard, guys that are tough to center, so you get more foul balls. They always tend to be on balls that, when I'm set up on one side or the other, the ball's going toward the middle."

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A couple of years ago we had a shower installed to replace an old leaky tub.
The contractor did a good job but failed to caulk around the exterior. Not sure why but I'm not an expert and didn't even notice.
Before I complete the caulking myself, I wanted to glue one piece more securely to the wall. It is a little loose and I think it should be firmly glued to the wall before I caulk.
The piece (see pictures) is cultured marble and it is glued to a piece of drywall which itself is probably glued to our joined cinder block wall (semi-detached home).
What should be used? I plan to just put it in behind the cultured marble slab and put pressure against it until the glue sets (probably my arm, so a quick set would be ideal).
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Drive in memory of baby Giovanni
Students at Saint Anselm College are hoping to save lives all across New Hampshire.
"I feel like this is just another thing I can do to help people. It's something that doesn't really harm me, or doesn't really bother me," said Jeff Chen, a junior at St. Anselm.
Three students were the masterminds behind bone marrow drives all across campus. Their effort is all in the memory of Giovanni Guglielmo, who died from a rare immune disorder. A bone marrow transplant helped him live longer.
"The fact that so many people have come out to register, knowing, after we tell them what they have to do, it's a day of my life that may add years to this man's life with his family," said Alex Odegaard, a junior.
One in every 80 New Hampshire residents is on the bone marrow donation list, more than any state in the country.
Haley Jarek, a student at St. Anselm, has donated her bone marrow for a patient. She said she didn't think twice about helping someone who needed it.
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Before Christmas I was assisting my lovely wife while she was exhibiting at East Renfrewshire's Winter Fair. During one of the quiet periods I took a wander around some of the other stalls and had a chat with Alan Steel who runs Lochbyre Rare Breed Meat, on of my favourite local producers who I have also previously written about on the blog. The stall next to Lochbyre was taken up by Glasgow butcher, R.McDougall of Paisley Road West, who was keen to educate me on the advantages and benefits of Highland Beef. Until then I wasn't aware that you could actually eat Highland Cattle. I thought the cute long haired coos with the big horns were dotted around Scotland to provide handy photo opportunity for the visiting tourists!
Resident butcher Roddy kindly donated a pack of highland beef sirloins steak to help me understand why R.McDougall Butchers are proud to promote and stock Highland Beef.
The Highland breed of cattle has a long and distinguished ancestry, not only in its homeland of western Scotland, but also in many of the far-flung parts of the world. One of Britain's oldest, most distinctive, and best known breeds, with a long thick, flowing coat of rich hair and majestic sweeping horns, the Highlander has remained largely unchanged over the centuries.
Written records go back to the 18th century and the Highland Cattle Herd Book, first published in 1885, lists pedigrees since that time. New folds, as herds of the Highlanders are known, are founded every year both at home and abroad. In the British Isles folds are found from the furthest south to the extreme north on many different types of ground varying from the slopes of the Sussex Downs, the fenlands of East Anglian, to the windswept mac hears of the Outer Hebrides.
But it is on the vast areas of rugged mountain land with high annual rainfall and bitter winds, where no other cattle could exist, that Hghland cattle thrive and breed. The breed is exceptionally hardy with a natural unique ability to forage and convert poor grazing efficiently. Calving outside and seldom, if ever, needing to be housed, they make a real economic contribution to hill and upland areas. They are remarkable for their longevity, many Highland cows continue to breed to ages in excess of eighteen years having borne fifteen calves.
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Noam Chomsky: The New War on Terrorism: Fact and Fiction
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This lecture by MIT linguistics prof and left-wing eminence grise Noam Chomsky begins with a fairly startling statement: "I'm going to assume two conditions for this talk. The first one is just what I assume to be a recognition of fact. That is that the events of Sept. 11 were a horrendous atrocity, probably the most devastating instant human toll of any crime in history outside of war. The second has to do with the goal. I'm assuming that our goal is that we're interested in reducing the likelihood of such crimes, whether they're against us or against someone else."
Shocking, right? Well, only if you put them in context -- the context being that since the Sept. 11 attacks, Chomsky has been routinely excoriated, lambasted, and bitch-slapped by both the American right and (especially) the left. Along with Susan Sontag and a few other liberal intellectuals, he's been reviled as a paragon of heartless anti-Americanism, a knee-jerk apologist for any and all enemies of Uncle Sam. If you only read what was written about Chomsky (by Christopher Hitchens, Andrei Codrescu, and other leftists eager to prove they hate bin Laden as much as any Fox News blowhard), as opposed to anything he's written himself, you'd think he was celebrating the fall of the World Trade Center and the slaughter of innocents. Or at the very least that he saw Sept. 11 as a case of evil, imperial America finally getting what it had coming.
But Chomsky has said no such thing. As this recording of an 18 October 2001 speech at MIT makes clear, Chomsky's post-9/11 views are exactly consistent with his pre-9/11 views. That is to say, he sees international politics as a complex realm of actions and reactions, one in which everything has a context and a history, a place where things happen for logical (if cold and brutal) reasons. And in that realm, he sees the United States as an often malevolent actor, one prone to selfish short-term thinking that has dreadful long-term consequences.
Little in the speech will be news to the kind of people most likely to listen to it (i.e., informed left-wingers). Chomsky traces the roots of terrorism both in broad terms and in the specific case of Islamic fundamentalism. It's true that, in case after case, he finds the same culprits lurking behind the curtain: the United States, the CIA, and their designates. But almost all of this is undisputed fact. The United States really did fund and train a terrorist force to overthrow the Nicaraguan government (and the CIA really did mine the Managua harbor, leading to a blistering World Court rebuke that the Reagan administration blithely ignored). And the U.S. really did help organize and sponsor the Islamist mujahadeen, bringing Muslim radicals from across the Arab world together to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan (the whole time overlooking the Islamists' vicious anti-Westernism). And the U.S. (along with Israel) really did vote against a U.N. anti-terrorism resolution. And so on and so forth.
None of this is offered by way of excusing or justifying the Sept. 11 attacks. Chomsky is no ideological kin to bin Laden; his point is the reverse, that bin Laden is in good part a product of the very American foreign policy establishment that now declares war on him. The same, of course, is true of Saddam Hussein, and that's where this particular recording comes up a little short. Although you can certainly apply most of Chomsky's broad points to the current rhetoric about Iraq, the lecture seems inevitably dated by its focus on Afghanistan and al-Qaeda. It's also true that Chomsky's tone can border on hectoring. There is a self-assurance here that would sound a bit smug to anyone not already enamored of Chomsky's worldview. I think it is that tone, more than anything he actually says, that infuriates his critics. It may be effective when preaching to the choir, but it's not going to win him any converts.
Still, tone schmone. Most of what Chomsky says is so straightforward, so well-documented, and so clearly relevant to the issues at hand that it's little wonder his nemeses revert to dishonest characterizations of his views; it would be very hard to rebut him on the merits of his arguments.


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FRAMINGHAM - Framingham High School students with clipboards and binoculars will be playing a big role on the sidelines of the Boston Marathon this month.
Decked out in official blue Marathon jackets and stationed at mile markers along the route, they�ll be off-camera reporters for the day, spotting which runners are leading the race and immediately calling in to help feed WBZ-TV�s exclusive live broadcast.
A large group of recruits from Framingham High gathered to train on Friday, excited to be part of WBZ�s Spotters Network, but clearly understanding the responsibility.
"What you give us is what goes live to television," Fred Treseler, who created the program 29 years ago with then race director Tim Kilduff, told the students.
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Each team, led by a captain, is charged with calling into the Spotters Network studio as soon as it spots the lead truck. The reporter stays on the line to identify the lead runners and provide updates as they approach and then cross the mile marker.
WBZ anchors will report that info live on air within eight seconds, Treseler said, emphasizing the teams need to report with accuracy first and speed second.
"You�re the eyes and ears of television that day along the course," he said. "It�s a really cool job."
Treseler, president and CEO of Tracs, a Watertown global sports marketing firm, came up with spotters program with Kilduff as a way to improve live coverage of the Marathon.
Of the 90 or so spotters that will take their places between the start and finish lines this year, half are students at Framingham High School, Kilduff said.
Framingham students took off running with the idea more than 10 years ago and have been organizing themselves to participate ever since, Treseler said.
"They�ve never let us down," he said.
Senior and track and field�team captain Lisa Rusch has been serving as a spotter at mile marker 11 in Natick since she was a freshman. She�s now a point person and helps recruit fellow students to participate.
"It�s hard because most of the people are in a huge pack, but at the same time it�s really exciting to see everybody go by and be a part of this," she said.
Teams of spotters will arrive early along the course on race day on April 21 to rehearse before the gun goes off in Hopkinton.
When the race starts, Treseler will be in the studio, while Kilduff, who lives in Hopkinton, will be riding on the live truck with his eyes on the men�s elite runners.
Eric Gallitto, a 17-year-old junior, will be spotting for the first time at Mile 9, performing community service for the Rotary Club.
"I�m super-duper excited," he said.
"I think we�ll do a good job," said teammate and classmate Jake Stetson, 17, "and the race is good in our hands."
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Auditor: City should review nonprofit lease policies
San Diego should review whether to keep providing thousands of acres of space to nonprofit groups at little or no cost, a report to be discussed Monday by the city's audit committee is recommending.
City Auditor Eduardo Luna's report notes that the city has not implemented the 2006 recommendations of a consultant hired to examine its Real Estate Assets Department after a series of U-T investigative reports on the city's property management practices.
According to the audit, the consultant recommended examining whether the nonprofits support a city goal or provide a city service, determine their ability to pay rent, look at housing the nonprofits in a different location and track what the subsidies cost.
"While there are good public policy reasons for the city to subsidize rents for many nonprofit groups, the city nonetheless incurs costs for providing free rent in addition to the forgone lease income," the audit concluded.
In fiscal 2010, the city collected $993,298 for 126 leases of 2,656 acres, or about $31 per acre per month. Many of the leases have been in existence for a long time and have been repeatedly renewed, the audit found.
Real Estate Assets Department officials told the auditors that the nonprofits receive a lot of community support and are vocal in their opposition to any fees for the free or low-cost leases. They also said the department has many other work priorities and has not been able to dedicate time to addressing the issue.
Asked about the auditor's recommendation, Councilman Kevin Faulconer said he expects to work with council in addressing the issue.
"The city's rules for working with nonprofit organizations need to be fair and transparent so taxpayer dollars are protected. The city's policy governing city leases for not-for-profit entities is approaching 30 years old," Faulconer said. "It's only fair to nonprofit groups, whose work should be lauded, and taxpayers that this outdated council policy is brought up to date. As Audit Committee chair, I will work with the City Council to make that happen."


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Alimentos OrgánicosMar. 31, 2011
Disminuye superficie de frutillas orgánica en California, pero ventas continúan fuertes
California's organic strawberry acreage is down slightly this year, according to the Watsonville-based California Strawberry Commission, but growers say sales remain strong, despite the shaky economy.
California has 1,591 acres of organic strawberries this year, down from 1,730 acres in 2010, the commission reported.
Most of the decrease took place in the Oxnard district, which has 232 acres, down 244 from 2010. Orange County has 63 acres, 45 more than 2010.
Growers, it seems, are being careful not to overplant organic fruit and produce a market glut.
"We try to maintain a strong organic program to complement our conventional deal," said Cindy Jewell, director of marketing for California Giant Inc., Watsonville.
"We're very careful not to exceed the demand level for it."
Although the company did add some acreage in the Santa Maria, Calif., area, Jewell said the company's organic acreage generally stays consistent from year to year.
Watsonville-based Well-Pict Inc. maintains its organic program at around 12% to 15% of its overall volume, said sales manager Dan Crowley.
"There is the ability to expand down the road if we see the need," he said.
Growing organically is much more complicated than growing conventionally, Crowley added. Yields typically start out strong on virgin organic land, but they typically drop by about one-third.
"That's always a bit of a challenge," Crowley said. "We are still searching for the best solution to it."
San Diego-based Andrew & Williamson Fresh Produce has increased its organic acreage in Baja California by about 15% this season in response to customer feedback, said Mark Munger, vice president of marketing.
The company is in a strong position because certain markets have been waiting for this production to kick in, he said.
"We found that Baja is a real pristine area," Munger said, "and it has been an optimal area for us to increase the organic program."
Naples, Fla.-based Naturipe Farms has hired a product manager for the organic category — Keith Parker, formerly with Earthbound Farm, San Juan Bautista, Calif. — said Jim Roberts, Naturipe's vice president of sales.
Although the firm grows most of its organic strawberries in the northern districts, the company kicks off the season in the south, he said.
Organic sales have not exactly skyrocketed during the economic downturn, but neither have they plummeted, grower-shippers said.
"There's pretty much a core organic consumer that buys organic day-in and day-out," Jewell said. "That really didn't change much during the recession."
As long as a retailer "has a palatable price point," consumers won't really turn away from organics, Crowley said.
"But once you get a big separation in price between organic and conventional, you may see a shift in your customer base to the cheaper berry."
If the downturn had any effect, it may have been to pull organic and conventional price points closer together, he said.
"You just don't see larger spreads as you have in the past," Crowley said.
He added that settling prices also could be due to the increased availability of product and growers learning how to farm better and to get higher yields.
"That was always a big issue," he said.
The growth of the organic category may have stumbled a bit recently, but there never was a time when organics went out of favor, Munger said.
"Our customers' sales slowed," he said, "but they definitely didn't go backwards."


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Dirty Projectors recently released an EP with Björk, Mount Wittenberg Orca. However, that was done practically ages ago, but they've been working on a new record of their own, and Dave Longstreth said that it should be released in Spring next year, as he told SPIN (via Pitchfork). Potentially wonderful news.
In other indie-bands-being-snide-at-each-other development, Longstreth revealed a few song titles, and one of them being a bit of a dig at The Strokes, as a response to Is This It. Yep, the song in question is titled 'Maybe That Was It'. Harsh. Other titles include 'About To Die', 'Swing Low Magellan', 'Terror Vast'.
The penultimate of these, is about GPS systems, as Longstreth elaborates:
It's inspired by a GPS our manager gave me when I first moved up here. I fucking hate GPS. I just have these terrible memories of our first European tour back in 2007. We had hired this van and tour service from the former Czech Republic called Fluff Wheels and they sent us out with this 19-year-old vegan driver kid who had no money and refused to eat anything. So we'd slip slices of pizza into his bunk at night and this pale hand would grab the piece and take it.
He had no idea how to get anywhere in Europe so he just relied on the GPS. I just remember driving around the ring roads of every major European city for hours when we were supposed to be sound checking. So I ended up giving the GPS to my dad
Something we all can sympathise with. Click here to read the full interview.
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(CNN) -- Rosie O'Donnell will be sporting a new look when she returns to "The View" in May.
The former talk show host has tweeted a picture of herself after a significant weight loss. "Almost 50 lbs off - I can see it now," O'Donnell tweeted.
The 52-year-old actress reportedly underwent weight-loss surgery in 2013 after a series of health issues including a heart attack in 2012.
Almost 50 lbs off - I can see it now pic.twitter.com/GeuBnKttcm— Rosie (@Rosie) April 17, 2014
"I did what many women do, and I did not take care of myself," she said during a speech at an American Heart Association luncheon in Detroit in February. "And that's why I'm here, to try to get women to know you're worth it, take care of yourself and know the symptoms."
At the time of her speech, O'Donnell said she had lost 40 pounds after gastric sleeve surgery.
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Here's a cool new feature I just discovered in Youtube. I posted a short, really bouncy video (bouncy because I walk sorta bouncy). The video's nothing fancy – really just me, playing with my new iPhone 5.
Youtube noticed the bounciness of the video, and automatically offered to "fix it." And it did an ok job, too! Now the video looks really smooth (odd, since I'm talking about how bouncy I walk in the video), and there are some weird jerks as the automatic setting either gets a bit confused or is "catching up" to me. So be warned – your mileage may vary!
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Most people think of NASA as an organization full of rocket scientists. But while the U.S. space agency has spent decades launching spaceships and working on other important projects, it also puts some of its resources into much smaller efforts, such as making video games.
The list of games NASA has worked on is quite long. Among other things, it's created space station and space shuttle titles, it's given players a virtual walk on the moon, and it's put users in charge of space flight communications.
In recent weeks, the space agency has launched two new games: an air traffic control simulator for the iPhone called Sector 33 and a trivia game for Facebook called Space Race Blastoff.
So why is NASA so into games?
That's the question Gamasutra posed to Tony Springer, the head of communications and education in NASA's aeronautics unit.
"Ever since it was formed, NASA has had an obligation, under the laws that created us, to inform the public to the greatest extent practical about what we do," Springer told Gamasutra, "and we're always looking for new ways to do that and keep up with how people want to get their information. The explosion of social-media apps is just one more way we're trying to reach out across the agency, and games are part of that."
NASA makes sure that any game it builds has education as a primary objective. Sometimes, in fact, the games are created as spin-offs of in-house educational efforts. Sector 33, Gamasutra reported, was originally part of NASA's 2005 Smart Skies software package, which was designed to give kids lessons in math and science through the use of simulators.
The space agency also hopes that the kids who play games like Sector 33 will get more excited about science, technology, engineering, or math, and that they may even one day come to work at NASA.
"Looking back on the origin of [some of these] titles, Springer said that NASA's game projects are most often based on its newest research projects," Gamasutra wrote, "hopefully teaching players about the essential concepts behind more complex scientific disciplines. The organization hopes that if any of these players grow up to join NASA, they will already have an easy time getting up to speed to do the research themselves."


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Should be taller. This is a landmark spot, not some boring sidestreet needing infill to fix the street wall.
Hell if I had my way I'd make it a plaza. Lord knows they need open space down there.
The building they are proposing is actually really nice (always a COOKFOX fan) but just not here.


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Las Vegas, Nevada 2 courses · 27 holes Driving directions
Course reviews
Most votes | Newest first | Oldest first
+1 votes Daniel Chambliss › New course › November 24, 2012
Not the best course in the world, still another one on the belt. Baskets are kind of torn apart, kind of in the ghetto, but some interesting technical shots.
+0 votes Chris Thorne › New course › November 27, 2010
there's no sign's, the tee pads are 3x3 slabs and nobody that goes to that park has a clue what disc golf is so playing on a weekend is impossible.
+0 votes Justin Brown › New course › July 27, 2012
+0 votes Ryan Ranes › New course › April 3, 2018
small tee pads mostly open but there are a few good shots, the old baskets make putting a lot more challenging as well!


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I often preemptively match delimiters. As a simple example, I'll type
Import[], then left arrow, then
The problem is that when I type the
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[ highlights in the normal selection color to signify that this pair of brackets matches. During this automatic highlighting, if I type something that involves the shift key (such as something starting with
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Import[". This behavior is as if the
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To reiterate, the sequence of keys is (quickly typed!)
Import[] then Left Arrow and Shift+' but the behavior is as if the sequence were
Import[] and then Shift+Left Arrow and then Shift+'.
It might be my imagination, but it seems to have gotten worse in Mathematica version 9.
Can I disable or shorten the automatic highlighting of matching delimiters? It appears to be the source of the phantom shift keystroke.
This is Mathematica version 9 on Mac OS X 10.7.5.
Wolfram support suggested unchecking "Enable dynamic highlighting" and this does not fix the problem. I recorded the problem happening twice in a row here. It happens a bit faster than it is being displayed here.
I'd settle for just shortening the duration of this highlighting so I'd have to be Superman to reproduce the problem.


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82 year old Frenchman killed in motorbike crash with ATV in Phuket
An elderly French man has died after an American woman lost control of her all-terrain vehicle (ATV) and crashed into his motorcycle in Chalong, southern Phuket. The woman was seriously injured. Police say the incident occurred on Soi Klum Yang in Chalong around 4pm on Thursday.
The crash involved a red ATV, and a black motorcycle ridden by the 82 year old Frenchman Robert Geoffray.
The woman, identified as 39 year old American Onome Alero Adeosun, suffered a broken right arm, leg and collarbone. Emergency workers found the elderly Frenchman lying unconscious on the road with serious head injuries. Medics performed CPR before sending both to Chalong Hospital, where the man was later pronounced dead.
His body was taken to Vachira Phuket Hospital for autopsy. The woman was transferred to Siriroj Hospital and is currently helping police with their investigation.
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Coronavirus (Covid-19)
Re-opening Thailand to tourism will be vaccine dependent
Bill Barnett from c9hotelworks.com continues to follow the difficult journey of the Thai hospitality industry. Traditionally, now would be the start of the country's highly profitable high season for the tourism industry. But not this year. Thai hotels find themselves in the middle of an existential crisis – either still closed, only partly open, or one of the few converted to limited ASQ traffic. The situation is dire, when you consider that between 15-20% of Thailand's GDP is linked to tourism.
In a speech this week Thailand's Prime Minster Prayut Chan-o-cha spoke clearly that only when a vaccine is approved, produced, and implemented, would the country open to substantial tourism. Given the current timelines and forecasts, this may not be likely until mid-2021 at the earliest, though subject to advancement if the process could be accelerated, which is unlikely.
For tourism and hotel stakeholders, the writing is on the wall that 2021, for the most part, will see a continued reliance on domestic travellers, and only in 2022 will there be a large-scale return in numbers of overseas visitors.
Given the winter spike in Asia, Europe, and North America of Covid-19, Thailand is not alone in relying on the vaccine to return tourism but the process will not be instant and the re-openings of borders will most certainly be staged.
HERE's a list of 113 Alternative State Quarantine hotels.
The business reality for Phuket and across Thailand is to plan for the worst in the coming six months and only expect 2022 to see a notable uptick.
Currently, the hotel sector continues to advocate to the Thai government and Central Bank for debt and financing relief measures and assistance in a social security supplement to retain staff.
While it's negative news, it at least allows for hotels to understand the challenges ahead, plan and adjust their operating models going forward. 'Survive the downturn' is the new mantra.
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Phuket workshop helps residents cope with high stress brought on by the economic crisis
Hundreds of residents in Phuket's Wichit subdistrict attended a workshop focused on reducing stress from to the pandemic-induced economic crisis. A psychologist was even on site to help those who had extreme mental stress and a Buddhist monk taught meditation techniques to reduce physiological effects of stress.
The event was planned in response to an online survey conducted by the municipality asking residents about how much stress they were experiencing from the economic climate. They found that some residents had serious stress issues brought on by the pandemic and financial problems, according to Wichit Mayor Kreetha Chotiwichphiphat.
"The loss of income due to the economic crisis brought on by the Covid-19 situation has resulted in some people in the area suffering serious stress, which can lead to serious mental health issues."
Around 350 people attended the event. The mayor says it was the first step in caring for the residents' mental health. Local officials plan to hold similar workshops in the future.
"It was a good opportunity for people to realise the importance of mental health and to learn techniques of how to deal with stress, which will help people to maintain their physical health and avoid developing mental health problems."
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Phuket's Soi Dog Foundation opens Humane Education Centre at Mai Khao shelter
The Soi Dog Foundation has officially opened its Humane Education Centre, the first of its kind in Thailand dedicated to the welfare of stray animals. The centre, located at the Soi Dog shelter in northern Phuket, forms part of the foundation's Humane Education program. Rolled out in 2017, the program sees a team visit Thai schools to teach the next generation the basic principles of animal welfare and promote empathetic attitudes towards both owned pets and free-roaming strays.
The program has reached a total of 15,058 students and 861 teachers to date. With a dedicated classroom as well as educational tools and resources now on site at the shelter, Soi Dog will be able to expand the programme and reach an even greater number of young minds.
Co-founder and president of Soi Dog Foundation International John Dalley said, "The cornerstones of what we do – what I believe very firmly are the answers to the stray dog problem throughout Asia – are large-scale sterilisation of stray dogs and cats and education of, particularly, the next generation.
"We see all the time the problems that are being caused through us not respecting the environment and not respecting the other animals with whom we share this planet. That's why education is so important."
John also thanked the supporters and donors who made the construction of the centre possible. After cutting the ribbon, the students filed into the brand-new facility for the very first on-site class – a fun and interactive hour of roleplaying, brainstorming and problem solving.
Humane Education Manager Nuttawut "Film" Kumngern. said… "We want to encourage kindness toward animals, especially free-roaming dogs and cats, and teach youngsters to be responsible pet owners. This will sustainably reduce animal cruelty and pet abandonment."
"We hope to one day see animal welfare incorporated into the curriculum in Thai schools, and our education centre is a great start."
Soi Dog is ready to welcome school groups from Phuket and other provinces to the centre which can accommodate up to 40 students at any one time. Schools interested in participating are encouraged to email email@example.com
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Pro-democracy protest leaders hear lèse majesté charges
Thailand News Today | Digital Travel Pass, Chiang Mai outbreak, Alcohol ban | November 30
12 people arrested for allegedly illegally crossing Thai-Myanmar border
Young monk killed by wild elephant while meditating
Venomous octopus grilled and up for sale at Pathum Thani market
19 new Covid-19 cases detected in quarantine, 2 apparent reinfections
The Thaiger needs an excellent English-speaking vlogger and TV presenter
Police officer allegedly shoots and kills married couple, injures ex-wife at Isaan restaurant
2 more cases identified in the northern Thailand Covid-19 mini outbreak
Children injured on Hua Hin carnival ride, no safety certification submitted
Activists say reform is needed to end sexual abuse in Thai schools
Man arrested for allegedly robbing 500,000 baht from Bangkok bank
Twitter suspends Thai royalist linked account which spread pro-government propaganda
Ban on sales and promotion of alcohol online starts December 7
An international Digital Travel Pass could be the magic bullet to restart global tourism
No vaccine, no entry – the next Covid challenge
UPDATE: Coming to Thailand? Check your insurance and ASQ fine print.
How Thailand's domestic tourism market fell in love with Khao Lak during a pandemic
Pandemic has washed away Pattaya's "soapy" massage parlours
Thailand's English level drops for the third year – English Proficiency Index
Police have yet to investigate illegal hiring of foreign teachers at international school in Phuket
Coming back to Thailand? Here are some of the steps you need to know about.
Ex-Thai Airways official gets fat prison sentence for failing to pay excess baggage fees
Ban on sales and promotion of alcohol online starts December 7
Yellow ducks dominate at Bangkok pro-democracy rally
City officials plan to demolish abandoned Pattaya condo project
An explosion and gunshots fired at last night's protest outside the Siam Commercial Bank HQ
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BBC names Thai protest leader Panusaya in global list of 100 most inspiring women
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I've been waiting for a good opportunity to post something from this cool dude since I've played his edits for a long time now. He's a very productive remixer and producer and he got tons of stuff on his own blog aswell as on his myspace. Richardo aka Manaia runs the dopest party in Lissabon aswell as dj'ing all over. Today he sent us three original tracks that are all killers and he even gets support from the talented Deize Tigrona on one of the tracks.
DJ Manaia – Fatty Girl (direct link)
DJ Manaia – Hot Cold (direct link)
DJ Manaia (ft. Deize Tigrona) – Sobrevivente de Rave (direct link)


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By Ryan McGreal
Published January 26, 2010
If you only get the Spectator online, you won't have the opportunity to read today's op-ed by Eric Cunningham, titled "How media can survive: Keep it local", in which he revisits last Tuesday evening's panel discussion on the future of local media.
Cunningham happily reinforces talk show host Bill Kelly's claims about "the essential function that mainstream media provide in terms of the credibility and integrity of their content," in contrast to "the growth of anonymous and often vituperative character attacks facilitated through Twitter, Facebook or dubious websites."
Cunningham writes that Raise the Hammer "attracts 15,000 page views per month", contrasting this with the Spectator's five million page views per month.
That's incorrect. In fact, Raise the Hammer attracts 15,000 page views per day, or nearly half a million page views per month.
As I noted last Tuesday evening, it's less traffic than the Spec gets, but our site is entirely volunteer-run and our operating expenses are a mere $15 a month in hosting fees.
It's ironic that Cunningham would be off by a factor of thirty on a critical measure of the alternative local media's reach among readers, particularly in the context of an evening that constantly reinforced the reliability and trustworthiness of all those professional journalists and editors.
Even better is the fact that Mr. Cunningham's op-ed will not be published online on the Spectator's website, where it might be subject to the immediate and direct accountability of astute readers posting comments to call out the error.
By adrian (registered) | Posted January 26, 2010 at 08:56:37
Ryan, this ought to be a front-page article. This needs to be front and center. Not only did he minimize (by an enormous amount) the amount of reach RTH has, but he called it an "adventure". He belittled it.
RTH is by no means an "adventure". If his stats on The Spec's page views are accurate, RTH gets about 10% of the page views that The Spec does - that's a huge number, when you consider that RTH is run entirely by citizens, for no profit, while The Spec is a multi-million dollar corporation!
Screenlies, the site traffic report hasn't been available since the site was moved over to the new platform (Ryan, please install GA, I have an account if you need me to send you the script, it's a 5 minute install). But the page views were very high. And please note that "hits" is different than page views, if we counted hits, RTH would be in the millions per month.
If you wanted third-party confirmation, you could try a service like Compete. When comparing RTH to The Spec you can't see page views (unless you've got a Pro account), but you can see visitors. For instance, in 10/2009, according to Compete RTH got 3,479 unique visitors, while The Spec got 26,875. If those numbers are accurate (and I'm sure they're not, but they're useful for comparison), RTH got about 13% of the visitors that The Spec got, which is actually more page views than we're talking about here.
In other months, the numbers are even better. In 03/2009, RTH got 20% of the unique visitors that The Spec received. Twenty percent is HUGE when you consider the vast difference between these organizations.
By newspaper accountability (anonymous) | Posted July 11, 2013 at 15:54:32 in reply to Comment 37419
I agree that interestingly Mr. Cunningham again does not get his facts straight, which is a characteristic given his Spectator and Toronto Star comments of being victimized in a divorce which he alone dragged out for over a decade due to using his refusal to not disclose and his use of judicial/legal influence to sign false affidavits,unaudited financial statements, using personal undertakings which can be changed behind the back of the courts without the onus of the banks to reveal this; using Halton police to fabricate a report of having gone to the banks and finding no assets - when post judicial decision it was found that the police report was fraudulent and without merit - no police warrants or court orders forcing bank disclosure. No oiprd, Chief Blair action on the fraudulent report that garnered a false judicial decision from Justice Patillo and Justice Coats. For four years he refused as a former MPP to pay spousal support (claimed to have paid and did not pay, claimed he would pay if his spouse paid and then sat on all the monies, wrote cheques out to himself, wrote cheques with sticky notes that payments should bounce back to him - you get the idea) and made his spouse on a fixed income pay improperly downloaded and divided child support and education for 5 years for a 4 yr. degree when he knew the child had completed only 2 years of university. False claims of abuse, child alienation, bullying the ex's family with false, vexatious defamation suits against a vulnerable senior father in law, not paying equalization nor contract rights as demanded in their Borden and Ladler contract; claiming to to be the victim all while seizing the home of the ex wife, alienating the only child, attempting to seize the car of the ex wife and attempting to seize the ex wife's bank accounts based on a Justice Coats decision - with a non disclosed multiple - conflict of interest giving Mr. Cunningham all the rights and the ex wife no judicial independence what so ever...and having undisclosed Melrose corp, OEB International, sitting on profitable boards such as Woodland Chemical Systems Inc...all while lying with unaudited statements (claiming to make only 19k) and not paying a cent to a ex wife of 24yrs who paid millions into a marriage. Manipulating the law, lying and bullying should not be allowed among counsels nor judges who are placed in positions of trust - nor should the Toronto Star and Hamilton Spectator place one sided and non researched articles in the paper to protect a vindictive and dishonest politician.
By MediaWatch (anonymous) | Posted January 26, 2010 at 09:42:56
I bought a paper and actually read Cunningham's article. In fact I thought he was rather complimentary of RTH.
By Lurkalicious (anonymous) | Posted January 26, 2010 at 09:47:36
Please, aside from getting it's basic facts wrong, Eric's article dripped with condescension. Give the little 'adventurers' a pat on the head and send them off to bed, the grown ups are trying to talk.
How media will not survive: crap like this.
By nobrainer (registered) | Posted January 26, 2010 at 09:54:36
What is this "newspaper" thingy anyway? Sounds like it's kind of like they printed out a website or something.
By synxer (registered) | Posted January 26, 2010 at 10:18:21
This one ticks me off. He got the page views wrong, but what the heck does it matter what the page views are? So what if they are even 2 page views a month, what does that have to do with the quality or the truthfulness of the content?
This is just the perfect example of ego taking the driving seat of a problem solved by science and observation (not to mention logic).
I hope this new generation of media never takes a cue from the grindstone and perpetuate old good ideas that are now bad ideas.
Invention: a new idea not entirely tested on relating factors. Revolution: a change that is often necessary. Deprecation: the state of current media.
Change or be changed.
By Trust Me (anonymous) | Posted January 26, 2010 at 10:22:43
I just passed a copy of today's Toronto Sun, it has the word "SCUMBAG" written across the front page in like 200pt type. Voice of authority, that.
By synxer (registered) | Posted January 26, 2010 at 10:31:52
I just passed a copy of today's Toronto Sun, it has the word "SCUMBAG" written across the front page in like 200pt type. Voice of authority, that.
Old media's cry of defeat, scrapping talons down the throat of change.
By jason (registered) | Posted January 26, 2010 at 10:40:21
you're trying to tell me that an old fashioned media publication printed erroneous information?? GASP! What a stunning revelation!
By michaelcumming (registered) - website | Posted January 26, 2010 at 10:58:42
I agree that the article in the Spec reeked of condescension.
It's like the British Empire after Suez. It took awhile before some realized that the status quo had changed irrevocably.
By HowardElliott (registered) - website | Posted January 26, 2010 at 13:17:44
On behalf of The Spectator, I apologize for the error. You're quite right, it's significant. While the opinions expressed don't reflect those of our newspaper, we have and take full responsibility for all our print content. We will run a correction in tomorrow's newspaper. There is no intention on the part of The Spectator to in any way belittle the work being done by Ryan through RTH or any other community-run social media source. On the contrary, we aspire to get to be as good at this part of web experience as Ryan and others in Hamilton are. And we expect to make real progress, soon. To clear the air on traffic, The Spec's web traffic details are proprietary, but for the record some of the basic numbers are as follows. We use Omniture Site Catalyst for traffic measurement.
TOTAL MONTHLY VISITORS, 2009: (IPs log in once but in the past month but may have logged in more) 5,983,458, slightly less than a half million monthly.
TOTAL DAILY UNIQUE VISITORS,2009(IPs logged in at least once daily but possibly multiple times): 10,038,284, a little more than 836K daily uniques each month.
We are pleased with the progress we made in 2009, and have ambitious traffic generation goals for 2010 as well. We intend to learn as much as we can from all the successful web players, including Ryan, as we push towards our objective of become a key source of on-line information and community.
Again, our apologies. We wish Ryan and the RTH family continued success.
Howard Elliott Managing Editor The Hamilton Spectator
By nobrainer (registered) | Posted January 26, 2010 at 13:26:57
^ Kudos to Howard Elliott for a mature, responsible, professional reply!
If the print media can get enough people like Elliott and Paul Benedetti on board, they'll definitely figure out how to ride out the transition.
By jason (registered) | Posted January 26, 2010 at 13:47:07
Great response Howard. Thanks for chiming in and being honest.
If I may humbly make one suggestion for your web content - give us Paul Wilson back!!
Cheers Jason
By z jones (registered) | Posted January 26, 2010 at 13:51:08
Hear hear, credit definitely where it's due. I'm impressed to see the Spec take this seriously, it reflect very well on the integrity of their managers (if not a particular columnist).
By adrian (registered) | Posted January 26, 2010 at 14:18:01
Thank you Howard, your honesty and forthrightness is greatly appreciated by everybody at RTH.
By highwater (registered) | Posted January 26, 2010 at 22:10:16
If you only get the Spectator online, you won't have the opportunity to read today's op-ed by Eric Cunningham, titled "How media can survive: Keep it local", in which he revisits last Tuesday evening's panel discussion on the future of local media.
Here it is in all its glory:
How media can survive: Keep it local
The Burlington chapter of the University of Western Ontario alumni association recently sponsored a seminar on the future of local media.
An expert panel, which included Spectator editor-in-chief David Estok, favoured the large audience with a somewhat disturbing economic overview of the realities of media properties today. Simply put, some of them are in trouble.
The Canwest Global media empire that Izzy Asper built is in tatters. CHCH was sold for less than the price of a small Tim Hortons. The Aspers (more directly the banks) are selling most of their newspaper properties. The National Post is on the auction block.
Panel moderator Paul Benedetti, a journalism instructor at Western, told the crowd that the once-venerable Detroit Free Press now publishes only three days a week. It is the only paper in town.
On the electronic side, Rogers Media, owners of Toronto-based Citytv, recently dumped on-air veterans Anne Mroczkowski and Laura Di Battista. One former Citytv employee likened these events to "the end of local news."
News and information are now a free commodity, available in real-time on the Internet. The challenge for both print and electronic media is the timely provision of local content.
Despite the explosion of Internet media, The Spectator has maintained paid-subscription levels of more than 100,000. Paid subscribers are now the paper's single largest source of revenue. That said, it is hard to compete with "free."
Ryan McGreal, the engaging editor of online media source Raise The Hammer, pays $15 per month to host a website that attracts 15,000 page views per month. This contrasts with more than five million page views per month at thespec.com. McGreal's adventure is a nonprofit forum for different points of view.
Veteran broadcaster Connie Smith lamented the gravitation by the electronic media to "the lowest common denominator." Connie made an opportunity for herself with her Always Good News show on CTS. She has established a niche market focusing on the positive things "that make our world a better place."
Popular CHML talk-show host Bill Kelly brought home the essential function that mainstream media provide in terms of the credibility and integrity of their content. The Internet provides no such responsibility. Kelly quoted media icon, the late Edward R. Murrow, "A lie can go around the world while the truth is getting its pants on."
Most people would agree that an informed public is a worthy societal goal. It will never be accomplished through the growth of anonymous and often vituperative character attacks facilitated through Twitter, Facebook or dubious websites.
The late former U.S. Speaker of the House, Thomas Phillip (Tip) O'Neil, institutionalized the phrase, "all politics is local." So too, is the future of news.
When I was a child, my family was fortunate to subscribe to two newspapers. The Globe and Mail came in the morning and The Spectator in the afternoon. Access to newspapers for me fostered an interest in sports, business and public affairs. It also led to a lifelong interest in reading. Parents should think about this.
Local coverage enables me to be informed about important events in my community. News reporters and fellow columnists in this paper enhance my understanding of what is taking place at Burlington and Hamilton councils.
More importantly, local media provides for a level of transparency and accountability that elevates the level of behaviour of government and business. The mere prospect of exposure of impropriety on the front page of the newspaper is, in itself, an inducement to better stewardship.
In the fullness of time, the news and editorial opinion may guide my deliberations as I vote in pending elections.
Hopefully, it will help us all to make informed decisions, and help good triumph over not so good.
Eric Cunningham is the former Liberal MPP for Wentworth North and a public affairs consultant.
By corgi (anonymous) | Posted January 26, 2010 at 23:46:08
That was surprisingly banal, it's like he just phoned it in. I got to the end and thought: that's two minutes I'll never get back.
Sorry to say it but the papers should be as worried about mediocrity as they are about inaccuracy.
By jason (registered) | Posted January 27, 2010 at 08:37:58
perhaps anyone who still gets the Spec can let us know whenever Paul Wilson nails a beauty piece. I can pop by a cafe on those days to read it. I've read one of his pieces in like 6 months since they yanked him offline.
By highwater (registered) | Posted January 27, 2010 at 09:16:11
Shorter Eric Cunningham:
"How media can survive: Keep anonymous, vituperative bloggers off my lawn!"
By UrbanRenaissance (registered) | Posted January 27, 2010 at 09:50:44
Kelly quoted media icon, the late Edward R. Murrow, "A lie can go around the world while the truth is getting its pants on."
This sums up the problem right here. Kelly doesn't understand that this quote doesn't apply to a medium where everything is fact checked by hundreds, if not thousands of people, all with the ability to call shenanigans on anything that isn't correct.
Though, since the lie is usually more interesting/shocking and thus attracts more viewers/readers the MSM would rather lead with the lie and retract it later (if at all) thus perpetuating its spread.
Comment edited by UrbanRenaissance on 2010-01-27 08:51:02
By highwater (registered) | Posted January 27, 2010 at 11:30:27
Kelly doesn't understand that this quote doesn't apply to a medium where everything is fact checked by hundreds, if not thousands of people, all with the ability to call shenanigans on anything that isn't correct.
Kelly also used the example of the Drudge Report advancing a bogus story about Sen. Kerry having an affair during the 2004 US election to illustrate his point about Those Darn Unaccountable Blogs!, conveniently leaving out the fact that the reason the rumour did so much damage is because it was picked up and disseminated by the Ever So Respectable MSM.
He also claimed his radio format was 'accountable' because listeners can call up and disagree with him, conveniently leaving out the fact that callers to the show are vetted by his producers, so we have no way of knowing if dissenting voices are being filtered out. We're just supposed to take it on faith. That's the problem with all the old media's claims of credibility: they're all faith-based. Trust us! We've been vetted by omniscient, infallible editors and producers who only have the best interests of the public at heart! Put down that mouse, the internet is a scary, dangerous place! Parents should think about this!
By highwater (registered) | Posted January 27, 2010 at 14:34:07
Yup. Connie especially was living in a dream world. She made Bill Kelly seem hip.
By highwater (registered) | Posted January 27, 2010 at 15:27:00
Even if there's consumer interest, the Apple tablet won't save journalism -- because it will be a massive distraction that will keep newsrooms from making the real changes that could keep us in business. I could go on for a couple of thousand words on this, but today I'll try to keep it short. The problem with newspapers isn't really not having the right technology. To survive, we need to change our whole worldview -- finding ways to encourage more dialogue with readers and more community involvement so that local readers feel they have a stake in this thing. And we also need to do a better job at the thing we claim to be already good at -- real journalism that makes a difference. To show what I mean, read this recent expose on the Washington Post to get a feel for how once-great news organizations have drifted so far off the track. If the Apple table has been around in 2003, we still would have screwed up the run-up to war in Iraq, and if it had been invented in 2007, we still would have missed the looming financial meltdown. How many stories we will miss now while the bosses upstairs are waiting for "Jesus" to suddenly deliver all the loaves and fishes of subscribers and cash.
Unless newspapers are giving readers what they need and what they want, it wouldn't matter if Steve Jobs invented a way to deliver the news via brain waves and ESP.
Comment edited by highwater on 2010-01-27 14:27:38
By Really? (registered) | Posted January 27, 2010 at 17:05:01
Bill Kelly is Jaded and plagued with Bitterness & Ignorance (kinda sounds like another Radio Personality-Councilor...Hmm) It's too bad he bashes the Online Media so much, but with a Media with little-to-no Accountability (such as Radio), there's no doubt he's simply fearful for his job as, I mean really, Who listens to the Radio anymore!? Really!?
Change is scccaaaaarrryyyyy in Hamilton!
Comment edited by Really? on 2010-01-27 16:05:41
By Michelle Martin (registered) - website | Posted January 28, 2010 at 07:13:53
Here are some interesting thoughts on how the MSM, in the interests of a good headline, don't go after or tell the whole story. Rebecca Solnit (I first heard her on CBC radio not long ago and was glad to come across this article she's written) writes about the use of the word "looters" in the wake of disasters like the Haiti earthquake:
Within days of the Haitian earthquake, for example, the Los Angeles Times ran a series of photographs with captions that kept deploying the word "looting." One was of a man lying face down on the ground with this caption: "A Haitian police officer ties up a suspected looter who was carrying a bag of evaporated milk." The man's sweaty face looks up at the camera, beseeching, anguished.
By UrbanRenaissance (registered) | Posted January 28, 2010 at 07:41:37
Well at least someone in media gets it...
Comment edited by UrbanRenaissance on 2010-01-28 06:46:30
By highwater (registered) | Posted January 28, 2010 at 09:52:53
Here's another take on the looting myth:
There was an extremely disturbing photo published in several newspapers last week of a very young girl who had been shot dead by Haitian police. In both the captions I saw she was described as a 'woman' or 'female' looter, when it was quite obvious she was a young adolescent.
Old media: "Who are you going to believe, us or your lying eyes?"
By z jones (registered) | Posted January 29, 2010 at 09:12:58
Shorter Eric Cunningham: "How media can survive: Keep anonymous, vituperative bloggers off my lawn!"
Maybe Eric was pissed off about this?
By highwater (registered) | Posted January 29, 2010 at 10:26:52
Yeah. Those darn bloggers with their anonymous facts and vituperative evidence.
By MarkWhittle (registered) - website | Posted January 29, 2010 at 11:08:44
I only wish they would bring Andrew Dreshel back online, it's as if the Spectator thinks only the paid readership should be worthy, instead of the rest of the world and the Hamilton residents who use the Internet to get their news. I like this enterprise (RTH), along with The Hamiltonian and other local opinionators, all the worlds a stage. I subscribe to the tree version of the Spectator and only read the front, the wife likes the rest. As to Cunningham, he's a Liberal Politician and spin doctor, what did you expect?
By frank (registered) | Posted January 29, 2010 at 11:30:55
I just got through my 2 week trial of the Spec and when I got the call to see if I wanted to buy it, I said no. Newsprint isn't like it used to be. It's hard to keep up with what comes out online and as long as people can understand that sometimes what comes out online isn't fact checked in the interest of being the first to publish something we're good. The problem lies in the last part...
By Oche! (anonymous) | Posted January 29, 2010 at 17:06:44
Yeah, one of the problems with local media is that many of its stalwarts have yet to recognize that their authority was only credible when they operated in an oligopoly. The world has changed, but their reporting hasn't. And their biases and errors are caught out as frequently as they catch those of their detractors. The age of truth has passed. We live in the age of perception, opinion and belief.
The notion of media giants like Global being local is laughable. Their entire purpose was to maximize profits (and who, pray tell, is against a healthy profit?) by buying up local stations and filling as much programming time as possible with the same content from coast to coast. Most "local" content was largely left to the viewing hours of shut-ins, and mandated by licensing regs at that.
This is no giggling matter, however. Communications and advertising are central to our economy and the inability of media and advertisers to adapt to change has made a significant contribution to the recent recession. Overbearing executive salaries and no-down-payment monster homes are, in my opinion, more symptoms than causes. Put simply, people don't believe the media (new or traditional) or their advertisers. Alternative sources of news and opinions are quickly consulted through a variety of media. And this applies to local as well as international news.
By jason (registered) | Posted January 30, 2010 at 11:31:26
I think we're being too hard on the Spec. It's not like they publish pieces that are full of misinformation and outlandish fear-mongering just to create controversy:
You'll never see anything this horrendous on RTH and we're FREE and always UPDATED! The National Enquirer is embarrassed by this piece.
By highwater (registered) | Posted January 30, 2010 at 13:04:50
It's hard to keep up with what comes out online and as long as people can understand that sometimes what comes out online isn't fact checked in the interest of being the first to publish something we're good. The problem lies in the last part...
I think the problem lies in the fact that you think only online media are guilty of that.
By WRCU2 (registered) - website | Posted January 30, 2010 at 17:23:48
Ryan addresses his apprehension:
A little while after the website cutover, I installed Webalizer, a server log reporting tool, but I haven't yet figured out how to map it to a URL (httpd.conf kind of scares me).
You do not need to touch httpd.conf. You can open /etc/webalizer.conf to around line 42 (if default) and check for OutputDir, which should be /var/www/usage. Change this to a directory in the publicly accessible document root i.e. /var/www/html/usage. Webalizer will write everything to that directory nightly and will include in there an index.html page for us web browsers. You could make a symlink, but then you may also have to tweak httpd.conf to allow following IT. Be sure to make the target directory first. Another option is if you have a shell you could run an instance of webalizer outside of normal crond without altering the config file. To take a snapshot and write to a chosen directory use this command:
[root@localhost ~]# webalizer -o /var/www/html/usage
Look also at the configuration setting PageType. This evaluation tells Webalizer what to consider as legitimate Page Views. A proprietor who's small on big numbers could easily designate any image or flashy JS kludge, etc. as a page someone views. In webalizer.conf you will find oodles of options that are #commented-out by default. Turn some of them on if you dare but by all means have fun while you tweak IT with scare.
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Intel's Medfield system-on-a-chip isn't the company's first venture into smartphone territory. Last year, at CES 2011, Intel and LG partnered up to debut Intel's Moorestown chip. Unfortunately, nothing ever came of the reference device. Due to a "lack of marketability," the handset never saw retail. This year, things could be different.
Intel's Medfield has been rumored to appear at this upcoming CES, but in exactly whose hardware has remained a mystery until now – LG will be the one to put a Medfield device on display. According to the Korea Times, officials from both companies have confirmed the news. Intel Korea chief Lee Hee-sung has gone on the record saying, "Intel's chief executive Paul Otellini will release Intel's first Android smartphone using our own platform at the CES."
While LG may be the one to showcase a reference model, some LG executives don't think LG will actually be selling the device. A high-ranking executive at LG, who wished to remain anonymous, said, "personally, I doubt that LG Electronics will release phones running on Android software based on any Intel platform. It's quite possible for LG to push Intel's reference mobiles but with huge subsidies from Intel for promotion."
Essentially, LG will be payed in the form of cooperative advertising to produce the Medfield device.
Could 2012 finally be the year Intel makes a breakthrough in the mobile industry? At this point, it has to be. Rival chip manufacturers have such a huge head start, Intel can't afford any more setbacks. Intel's appearance at CES could make or break the company's chances. They hope to release their first Android device by March.
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