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One of the benefits of working at LACMA is having the opportunity to meet and collaborate with creative, interesting people who make the museum hum, like our Director of Special Projects, Erin Wright. Not only does Erin have one of the coolest jobs around—overseeing and shepherding artist projects through—but she's also living the dream (or at least my dream; see her last answer) outside of the museum. Here, she lets us in on a few limited editions that just became available, and explains how she found herself to be the only American amongst a group of Germans in Texas.
What was your path to LACMA?
I studied art history at Simmons College and after graduation managed a photography gallery, Robert Klein, in Boston. I then went on to Sotheby's working in client services and marketing. My next endeavor was an internship at the Chinati Foundation, a museum founded by Donald Judd, which then led me to the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Lannan supported a number of Dia Art Foundation projects and was how I first began working with Michael [Govan]. After that I moved to Los Angeles and went to work for Gagosian Gallery as an editor on the Ruscha Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings. I joined LACMA in the fall of 2006.
That's such a rich background—is there one experience that stands out above all the others?
My internship at the Chinati Foundation was one of my most interesting experiences. I lived and worked at Chinati for three months with none of the usual distractions—no television and no cell phone—and was, for a while, the only American among a group of German artists and interns living in Marfa, Texas.
Sounds intense. Was there an artist whose work you ended up particularly excited about having spent so much uninterrupted time with it?
I had always been a fan of Dan Flavin's work but while I was at Chinati there was a special exhibition of his drawings and I was astounded at how extraordinary they were. I was able to spend a lot of time with the drawings and they gave me new insight into his work which was thrilling.
What are some of the projects you're working on now?
I just finished working on a project with the Jorge Pardo Studio. When Jorge was creating his design for our art of the ancient Americas galleries, he found a pre-Columbian object that he thought would be fantastic to use as a model for a limited edition piece. We took a 3-D scan and Jorge re-envisioned it as a lamp.
Is the lamp available to the public?
Yes, it's available though the website and is currently on view in the LACMA store where it can also be purchased. It's in an edition of twenty and will sell for $18,000. I've just finished another edition that is a little more affordable—a print with the artist collective Machine Project made in conjunction with the Machine Project Guide to LACMA event we had a few weeks ago.
Tell us about the print.
It takes the form of a sestina—a highly structured poem form popular with the European troubadours of the twelfth century—and features list of ideas that never made it to our event because they were too dangerous, foolish, over-ambitious, nonsensical, or just unsuitable, such as child docents and escalator skiing. It's printed by Aardvark Editions and retails for $95. It is an edition of 250.
Aside from these projects, what are you most excited by at LACMA right now?
I know your husband, Joe Sola, who actually just wrote a blog post for us about Matthew Barney's Cremaster, has work in the show (which, I want to note, the curator selected well before ever knowing of your connection).
Yes, there are two pieces. One is an older work called St. Henry Composition and the other was made for the show entitled In the Woods.
I was mesmerized by St. Henry Composition, in which he repeatedly subjects himself to getting tackled by football players. Is this sort of physicality typical of his work?
It is, there's a video piece he made in 2006 where he gets run over by a van!
When he's not getting tackled or run over, and you're not working on limited editions, what are you two up to?
At the moment, desperately trying to complete the Escher GuneWardena house we've built in Mount Washington.
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Towns now have advisory say in approving or denying applications. While town boards are in charge of running their own meetings and review processes, a guide created by land resources is intended to help address common issues and questions that arise, particularly because the land resources staff has limited resources.
Staff participation at town board meetings would be limited to the first review of an application, mostly to answer questions and provide general information.
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Report: Farm, War Machines Rule Professional Service Robot World
February 13, 2013
The International Federation of Robotics predicts that 93,800 professional service robots will be installed from 2012 to 2015, and that the majority of them will be used for defense and agriculture. Sales of personal and domestic service robots will also increase, primarily for household and entertainment applications.
In this blog, we'll examine some of the results of the IFR's report on service robots (registration required). In a blog post last week, we looked at the IFR's report on industrial robots.
Unit numbers are much smaller for service robots than for industrial robots. Like a Freedonia Group study we discussed last month, the IFR distinguishes between professional service robots and those aimed at domestic and personal use, and it found that professional robots comprise the vast majority of service robots.
In 2011, according to the IFR, professional robot unit sales increased 9 percent over 2010, and their dollar value increased 6 percent. The largest category (6,570, or 40 percent of the units sold) was defense machines, mostly unmanned aerial vehicles. "Field" or agricultural robots, such as milking systems, came in second at about 5,000 units, or 31 percent.
Robotic logistical systems, such as courier systems and automatic guided vehicles for factories, accounted for 13 percent of professional service robots sold in 2011 (about 2,100 units). As we've discussed in our comment boards, not everyone would define automated conveyor systems as "robotic." Medical robots, especially those that assist in surgery and therapy, accounted for 6 percent (about 1,000 units).
Other categories had unit sales well below 500, including construction and demolition, rescue and security, mobile, professional cleaning, inspection and maintenance, and underwater robots.
Between now and 2015, the IFR expects logistical systems and medical robots to be among the fastest-growing types of professional robots, partly because they're both long-established sectors. That makes total sense to me. But defense and agricultural robots will remain by far the largest categories. Although the defense numbers don't surprise me, I wouldn't have guessed that the agricultural category would be so huge.
Professional service robots have a much higher cost per unit than the Roomba vacuuming your living room floor or robots that do yardwork, come in hobby kits, or are sold as toys. The exception to the lower-cost rule for domestic and personal robots is the technology-dense class of personal assistance robots used to help the handicapped. The two costliest types of professional service robots are medical robots (averaging about $1.5 million) and underwater robots (about $850,000).
Unit sales of household robots -- those that do housework and yardwork -- increased by 15 percent in 2011, to 1.7 million, the IFR said. Sales of robots for entertainment and leisure, such as toys and hobby kits, increased 12 percent, to 841,000. Although many research projects are focused on personal assistance robots for the handicapped, only 156 of them were sold in 2011. However, the IFR expects sales of such robots to reach 4,600 by 2015. Rapid growth is also expected for robots for home security, surveillance, and personal transportation.
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PillCam is a product of Israeli company Given Imaging. In the United States, approximately 750,000 colonoscopies are incomplete every year, according to the company. "Incomplete" means that doctors weren't able to see everything that they needed to for a number of reasons, including a history of abdominal surgery or advanced diverticular disease, which affects the colon, among others.
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Although not strictly a YATI, the presence of a movie-era Klingon cruiser in Enterprise is a serious credibility strain. So is the idea of Klingons having holodeck technology on their ships over two hundred years before the Federation did in TNG.
Also, Trip has to go through decompression to get on board the alien ship, and then decompresses again in order to get back to Enterprise. He should decompress going one way and recompress going the other.
At one point, "comedy" is derived from having Tucker become all overanxious about ship safety. He calls an engineer over and complains about the little elevator in engineering, demonstrating how if you leave your hand on the handrail, as the lift goes up, a rail above can sever your fingers. The man responds "why would someone put their hands there, sir?" as if it was the dumbest thing in the world you could do. Yeah... because I can't possibly imagine why somebody might put their hand on... the handrail. Totally unbelievable.
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Trip is, according to Archer, the first case of an interspecies pregnancy involving a Human.
The Klingon battle cruiser in this episode was originally supposed to be a new design of ship rather than a re-use of the existing classic Klingon design. However, the effects team had been working very long hours for the last few episodes and were just too exhausted to work through the night producing yet another ship design, so they were regretfully forced to abandon their efforts.
This episode is a nominee for the DITL "
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A rash of system glitches on Enterprise turns out to be due to a stealthed alien ship which has been following closely behind them to use their plasma exhaust to replenish their own engines, which are malfunctioning. Archer contacts the aliens and offers to assist them. They accept, and Commander Tucker is sent over to lend a hand with their systems. Because the aliens live in a somewhat non-standard environment, Tucker has to spend several hours decompressing in their airlock before entering the ship. He struggles with the experience, almost panicking at one point, but manages to push through and acclimate himself to the new environment.
On board, he is amazed at how different the Xyrillian ship is from Enterprise but does begin to make progress repairing their systems. The female engineer, Ah'len, seems to like Tucker and during rest breaks the two begin to spend time together. She shows him some of their advanced technology including the remarkable chamber that produced immersive holographic environments. She also shows Tucker something she calls "a game" which involves both of them placing their hands in a small container of pebbles, allowing them to read each others minds.
With the repairs concluded, Tucker returns to Enterprise and the two ships go their separate ways. Shortly afterwards, Tucker notices a strange growth on his arm. Examination by Dr. Phlox shows that it is a nipple - Tucker is pregnant! He is accused of indulging in a romantic interlude whilst aboard the Xyrillian ship, much to his confusion and anger, but Phlox speculates that the "game" he and Ah'len played might have been how the aliens transfer genetic material to one another - their version of sex.
Enterprise sets out to find the Xyrillian ship, as Tucker's body continues to change as a result of the pregnancy. Eventually they locate the ship trailing behind a Klingon cruiser, apparently suffering from more mishaps to their systems and again attempting to leech off another vessel to repair them. Archer contacts the Klingons and informs them, but they respond by disabling the Xyrillian ship with weapons fire, viewing their actions as an attack. Archer is able to calm them down by explaining Tucker's situation, which the Klingons find funny. He arranges an exchange - the Xyrillians give the Klingons their holographic imaging technology in return for being freed. Meanwhile the Xyrillians agree to help Tucker by removing the fetus. Ah'len apologises, saying that she didn't realise that her actions would result in a pregnancy. All three ships go their separate ways, and T'Pol informs Tucker that he has made history by being the first Human male ever to become pregnant.
Some good points, some bad points. Trek aliens are notoriously Human-like; an old joke has it that in TNG you can only tell a person is an alien because he has a bumpy forehead, but that's still an improvement over TOS where often as not you could tell a person was an alien because he had a funny hat. Well the Xyrillians are a step or two beyond that norm since they live in a non-standard environment that requires considerable preparation for Humans to live in, have a different take on how the inside of a ship should look, and most especially reproduce very differently.
However, a LOT of stuff in this episode works really badly. The idea of Trip going to fix their engines for example. Huh? Xyrillian technology is significantly beyond Earth's, from what we see of it - certainly they have holodeck technology that Earth won't for almost 200 years to come. When he gets there the aliens have to explain to Trip what half the things he is looking at ARE, and yet he's instantly able to fix their problems better than they are? It makes no sense.
The most serious issue, however, is the attitude the episode takes towards what happens to Trip. Ah'len takes him into a holodeck, tells him she wants to show him "a game". She has him participate in the game, telling him she is not sure if it will work for him, which it does. Later on, we find... that the game is in fact the Xyrillian sex act and Trip is now pregnant. Just think about that for a second. By any sensible definition, what Ah'len did to Trip was an act of rape. She tricked him into taking part in a sexual act, never telling him that that is what he was doing, and her ONLY justification for it is that she didn't know he could get pregnant that way, as one of their own males would. Yet not only does the episode never once bring this topic up, it plunders every negative stereotype of rape that it possibly can, and does so because we are expected to think that the rape and the situation it creates is
Examples. After finding out he is pregnant, the very first thing the Enterprise crew do is start to accuse Trip of being such a hound dog that he couldn't keep it in his pants for the mission. If a woman in the present day was found to be pregnant but had no memory of sex, it would be an ominous moment; our thoughts would instantly turn to abuse, to date rape drugs. We would by sympathetic, supportive, and horrified. Not so here. T'Pol literally says "You were only there for three days and you couldn't restrain yourself!" When Trip denies any sexual contact, obviously confused and a little upset, she simply keeps needling him about how maybe Ah'len should have introduced him to her parents, for instance. And we the audience are expected to laugh along to this.
Nor is any blame whatsoever placed on Ah'len. When they finally catch up to her she is surprised that he could have got pregnant the way her own people's males do. "If I'd known..." she says. The clear implication here is that from the episode's point of view, the rape itself is a perfectly reasonable thing to do; the only issue with it is the fact that it had an unintended consequence. And to cap it all, Archer informs Trip that he may be "pleased to know that this is the first recorded incident of a human male becoming pregnant." Pleased. The idea of becoming pregnant from an act of rape is one regarded with such abhorrence that even a large percentage of the anti abortion lobby concede that such a pregnancy should be aborted because of the severe mental trauma it would inflict on the mother. But Archer and the episode writers think Trip should be pleased about it. Yeah, right.
Despite a couple of interesting ideas, the sheer massive wrongheadedness of the episode on this issue rates it a zero. I honestly wonder why Enterprise never made a comedy episode about child abuse.
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WOODBURY, BRIAN: Variety
Followers of our Quarterly will recall, about 6 years back, Woodbury's inspired arrangement of 'Shenandoah', which managed to embrace the whole of America history in under 10 minutes. Since then he has been working on completing this collection, his first full ensemble instrumental CD. The interest starts with the ensemble itself, half as expected for Latin, Jazz and Big band arrangements and half traditional American: pedal steel, banjo, accordion and fiddles. One thinks of Van Dyke Parks', and indeed VDP is a fan: '..consummate song writing craft ... indispensible'. This is the work of an arranger and composer still dedicated to the unfashionable pursuit of a kind of extended - mainly instrumental - show music where skill and intelligence and attention to detail matter indiv. An intensely musical record, and a highly unusual one. But then what would you expect from a guy who studied with both Tom Lehrer and Pauline Olivieros?
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Sunday 25 November 2012
Is there Bias on BBC Question Time?
But one place you might want to look for evidence of BBC bias is its flagship politics programme, Question Time. More specifically, if there is a leaning to the left or the right, this could be clarified by the political affiliations and loyalties of its guests.
Below are the top ten recurring guests by category since 4th December, 2008 - the date from which consistent and complete evidence of panelists are easily available. This gives us just shy of four years worth of data. Please note I have excluded Question Time's annual forays to Northern Ireland from the figures.
As of Thursday 22nd November, 362 individuals have occupied 704 panel slots. For those interested in gender and political participation, only 98 guests have been women. These between them have occupied 235 slots.
The most frequently-featured guests by party are:
Ken Clarke (10)
Theresa May (8)
Sayeeda Warsi (7)
Iain Duncan Smith (6)
Liam Fox (6)
Caroline Flint (10)
Peter Hain (8)
Diane Abbott (7)
Andy Burnham (7)
Alan Johnson (7)
Liberal Democrats
Vince Cable (12)
Chris Huhne (7)
Shirley Williams (7)
Paddy Ashdown (6) Menzies Campbell (6) Charles Kennedy (6) Simon Hughes (6) Jo Swinson (6) Sarah Teather (6)
Nigel Farage (11)
Caroline Lucas (8)
Nicola Sturgeon (7)
Elfyn Llwyd (5)
George Galloway (4) Alex Salmond (4) Leanne Wood (4)
The overall top five looks like this:
Vince Cable (12)
Nigel Farage (11)
Ken Clarke (10)
Caroline Flint (10)
Peter Hain (8) Caroline Lucas (8) Theresa May (8)
In total, there have been 47 Conservative politicians occupying 137 slots (of whom 16 were women taking 41 slots), 51 Labour with 148 slots (17 women taking 51 slots), 31 LibDems with 109 slots (9 women and 33 slots), and 18 Other taking 57 slots (7 women and 25 slots).
A slight advantage for Labour perhaps, but hardly indicative of a systematic political bias - and even less so if you strip out the Question Time dedicated to the Labour leadership election in 2010.
Matters are skewed when you introduce other categories of guests. We have trade unionists (7 occupying 9 slots), business people (23 and 32 slots), celebrities (31 and 46 slots), campaigners and wonks (4 taking 11 slots), 'other' (authors, scientists, clergy, retired military, etc. - 23 taking 29 slots), and by far the largest category, journalists (61 occupying 127 slots (21 women and 42 slots)).
Would you like to see who the five most frequently-featured journalists are?
Kelvin MacKenzie (8)
Melanie Phillips (6)
Janet Street Porter (6)
Mehdi Hasan (5)
Peter Hitchens (5)
Douglas Murray (5)
Balance-wise the right outweigh the left here, but that could be a freak of the figures, right? No. Of the 61 journalists, 40 could be described as explicitly political writers. 27 are of the right, and 13 are liberal/left. Rightwing journalists took 64 slots, and the liberal/left 31. For whatever reason, not only are hacks overrepresented on the Question Time panel, but Tory-leaning journalists outnumber their liberal and Labour-leaning contributors by over two to one.
The balance is not addressed by the other category of guests. Of the 31 celebs, 18 have definite views that align one way or the other. Six are on the right, and 12 of the liberal/left. The former had 13 slots, and the latter 16.
There are other questions that need to be asked. The predominance of business people over trade union voices came as no surprise at all. But come on, leading trade unionists combined have been on less than Nigel Farage! In case anyone needs reminding, trade unions are the largest voluntary organisations in civil society with a combined membership of some six million. Farage is the leader of a party whose supporters can fit into my living room. And if that wasn't bad enough, his odious minion Paul Nutall has been on twice too. So why are UKIP way overrepresented on the panel and a mass movement of millions virtually ignored?
Question Time is the most-watched political programme in these islands. An appearance on the panel sacralises you as a commentator or as a politician/political party of serious standing. You become part of the BBC's construction of 'official Britain', of the country's image it contrives to reflect. So in this media-saturated age, questions of gender and political underrepresentation are important.
Being the sad geek that I am, I shall revisit this in a year's time (provided the blog's still going) to see if there's been any evidence of a shift.
In the mean time, feel free to join me in the traditional Thursday night tweet-a-long.
35 comments:
- Alex Dawson said...
At last, someone has actually done the job that needed doing to destroy the myth of a "political balance" on Question Time once and for all.
1) UKIP have cemented their place as the establishment "safe" fascists with a lot of help from the media and the Farage/Nuttall semi-permanent fixture on QT is probably one of the biggest reasons.
2) The issue with journalists going on Question Time and spouting off completely destroys the laughable notion that still gets trotted about hacks being "neutral" - all news and editorial judgments are inherently subjective.
But rather than bleating about this, and imaging that Lord Leveson is going to deliver a fairer media through some sort of state-backed regulation, the the left would do better to develop more TV friendly independent minded journalists who are able to articulate the very many popular left positions clearly. The rise of Owen Jones and others shows that actually the space is there ready to be taken.
3) Rather than looking at the political orientation of journalists, another interesting stat would be the number of them that are members of the NUJ. Without busting too many data protection rules, I can tell you that the number of these journalists (even those of the liberal/left persuasion) that are members of the relevant trade union for their profession is woefully low.
4) I do feel, in defence to QT, the union voice has been better served recently than it has been over many years. I remember in the 90s when it was still taken as read that trade unions and New Labour were one and same thing, you were lucky to get a near-retirement moderate male Gen-Sec in a suit once a season. Now at least the awkward squad and everyone else seems to have a look in, although obviously not often enough given the reach of trade unions in the population as a whole.
5) Lest we forget, the great neutral arbiter Dimblebot himself has form as a nasty, penny pinching businessman. He and his brother owned a series of newspapers in south London until the late 90s where reporters had to buy their own notebooks and were reputedly paid less than the minimum wage based on their long working hours. These journalists only received a substantial payrise and celebrated wildly when the Dimbleboys sold it to the US multinational Newsquest - itself a hated firm not known for their high pay!
Anyway, great piece and should be spread far and wide every Thursday the minute a right-winger opens their cake hole to bleat about the Marxists controlling the BBC. - 25 November 2012 at 15:12
- Phil said...
Re: your final comment, I wrote it specifically for those annoying Question Time moments ;)
- 25 November 2012 at 17:32
The missing factor in your analysis is producers' obsession with 'good television'. UKIP give good television, not in or of themselves, but because their views encourage a good deal of anger and comment on the panel, in the studio audience and in the twitter sphere of public opinion. Rather this than a calm, logical discussion. QT is about eristicism not informed debate
- 25 November 2012 at 18:28
- The Purpleline said...
The only problem with this assessment is the audience factor & questions asked.
These are generally left wing. I will never forget or forgive the audience immediately after 9/11 that was quite frankly disgusting. - 25 November 2012 at 18:43
- Phil said...
While I agree Mad Mel, Farage and sundry right wingers give good television, I would accept that argument if left wingers didn't. Galloway and Bob Crow do a very good job of getting people's backs up - yet they're not on anywhere near as much.
- 25 November 2012 at 19:06
Surely Lib Dems should just be included with Tories
- 25 November 2012 at 19:27
You will never persuade the right with facts, when the whole right wing is built on ignorance.
I remember a Tory MP complaining that a QT panel had a left wing bias but he had included the former head of the CBI as neutral!
Let them say the BBC is left bias, let them say Hollywood is pinko liberal, let them say the music industry is full of commies. These, after all, are the best apsects of the capitalist system. We can turn around and say the best bit of your system, is us!
Imaagine how much better socialism would be! - 25 November 2012 at 20:16
- Fr Peter Weatherby said...
Interesting stuff. Though actually the Christian Churches, at 7.6 million (Tearfund, 2007) considered as one are a larger voluntary organisation than the Unions, and it seems, even less well represented, though thats only if you count clergy and not also adherents.
- 25 November 2012 at 21:42
Liberal/Left = didn't that cease to exsist in May 2010 ?
- 26 November 2012 at 00:23
- David said...
Very interesting. Of course this show & the one that follows has a very London political & media hack bias. There is very little representation from East Anglia, possibly as they think we are all carrot-crunchers!
- 26 November 2012 at 00:42
- Rex said...
This isn't particularly relevant but might interest you. It's a blogpost I did a while ago where I worked out the ratio of men to women on comedy panel shows.
http://panelshowratios.wordpress.com/ - 26 November 2012 at 01:59
- Madam Miaow said...
Useful bit of research. You should do Newsnight as well. Who are all those business pundits like Jon "shrink-the-state" Moulton? What's the ratio of business to trade-union?
- 26 November 2012 at 10:31
To add to this. From 2010 Lib Dems have sometimes appeared to represent the current right-wing administration and sometimes to represent their own political party (even arguing against current governmental policy), so while Labour politician appearances may have slightly outweighed other parties it would be interesting to compare appearances post-2010 election and see if this balances the left and right more equally or even skews it to the right.
- 26 November 2012 at 10:38
The problem with this analysis is it ignores the left-right balance. Lib Dems are left of centre, SNP are left of centre, Greens are left of centre, UKIP and Cons right of centre. Now do the sums and we have 137 + 12 + ? right wing politicians V 109 + 148 + ? left wing politicians.
I make that 149 right wing and 257 right wing guests. And that's without the "non-political" guests who are more often clearly left wing than right in my experience.
Balance? Do me a favour. - 26 November 2012 at 10:58
- Joe Daniels said...
Watch Question Time with a view to counting the numbers of time Dimbleby interrupts right-wingers compared to the number of time he interrupts others.
Would also be interesting to see an analysis of audience members, but I don't know where you'd get the figures. - 26 November 2012 at 10:58
- Phil said...
Richard Evans: Remind me who the LibDems are in coalition with again?
- 26 November 2012 at 11:18
- Youthpasta said...
The 1 thing that is missing in your research is how the balance has been on the night. Looking at an overall balance is good, but I have still felt that on certain evenings there is a political bias one way or the other and it has, in my eyes, tended to be a lean to the left. For example, I can remember an evening where they had a Tory, a Labour, a left-leaning LibDem, a left-leaning journo and a left-leaning "celebrity".
Counting up those scenarios and how often they happen and in which direction they lean would be very interesting. - 26 November 2012 at 14:59
You reckon Ken Clarke is right wing???
- 26 November 2012 at 16:58
- Bishop Hill said...
Is there any chance you could publish your categorisation of each name.
Thanks - 26 November 2012 at 17:19
- Phil said...
Perhaps I'll do that MM when I literally have nothing better to do. Sad to say this post took a fair few hours to put together. I think a proper Newsnight job could take weeks.
- 26 November 2012 at 17:21
- Phil said...
Joe - an analysis of Dimbles interjections is for someone with more time and geekiness than I!
That's a good point, YouthPasta. Though I think on those sorts of occasions they happen when a guest has pulled out.
Anyway, I know the BBC have a mania for collecting stats on itself sp perhaps they have the answer hidden away somewhere?
Anon - if it walks like a Conservative cabinet minister, talks like one, and votes like one ... - 26 November 2012 at 17:24
- Phil said...
It will have to wait for the xmas hols, Bishop.
- 26 November 2012 at 17:32
- asquith said...
Not bad that. Which way did you consider Deborah Meaden as aligning, out of interest?
- 26 November 2012 at 18:20
- Common sense news said...
"Farage is the leader of a party whose supporters can fit into my living room."
Wrong. This week UKIP are just 1% behind lib dems in the polls and will soon easily draw ahead as the Lib dems are a dead horse. Next election Ukip will be the 3rd major player. - 26 November 2012 at 21:32
- Phil said...
UKIP has about 16,000 members. The LibDems between 50,000 and 60,000.
You've got a long way to go before you can claim the mantle of 3rd party status. - 26 November 2012 at 22:06
- Phil said...
Re: Deborah Meaden and other business figures, I did not count them as part of the party affiliation/support figures. Had I done so, Meaden would have been down as a N/A figure like the majority of other business people.
- 26 November 2012 at 22:08
Why is media analysis probably the most important kind of activism? Because, as the sociologists Stuart Hall et al. explain: Not only do the media "Define for the majority of the population what significant events are taking place but also, they offer powerful interpretations of how to understand these events" ('The Social Production of News').
The British historian, Mark Curtis, adds:
The framing of discussion on issues is critical in setting the boundaries of debate. The programme Question Time is a *microcosm of how the media works here*(my emphasis)... rarely are critical voices invited. If they are, it is so rare that their views can end up sounding ridiculous in comparison with the 'normal' and 'balanced' views of the other panellists. It is acceptable for Question Time panellists to criticise each from within the elite consensus but not for anyone to criticise all of them from outside that consensus" ('Curtis, 'Web of Deceit': 378).
Dimbleby often interrupted Owen Jones and he was given less time to speak than the other panellists. - 27 November 2012 at 14:14
- FlipC said...
To pose the question a different way - should the BBC reflect the bias of the country?
If so taking into consideration 59% of the voters at the last general election voted for Labour or LibDem is there a reason why it shouldn't be leaning slightly to the left? - 27 November 2012 at 14:17
- Phil said...
Tbh I'm more interested in the gender figures. Women are approximately but consistently a third of guests. Conscious policy or a blind outcome?
- 27 November 2012 at 18:57
If you want to go a bit further back there is a complete list of QT panels between 25th September 2003 and 15th October 2009 here:
http://www.medialens.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2722 - 27 November 2012 at 19:15
- Phil said...
Oooooh! I'll have some fun with that over the festive period!
- 27 November 2012 at 19:25
Thanks for your work on this.
If you want to check out how the Right's BBC critics are responding to your findings - and if you fancy a laugh! -, give the 'Biased BBC' site a try:
The psoter decides to play the man rather than the ball. No attempt is made to engage with your findings. He also drops a clanger by completely misunderstanding one of your Tweets.
The comments are a hoot too. They seem to be competing with each other to see who can make the daftest comment. So far 'Demon' wins by a country mile. - 28 November 2012 at 07:21
- FlipC said...
"Women are approximately but consistently a third of guests"
Hmmm indeed is it simply a question of bias within the pool they have to draw from. After all if you wanted a panel of CEOs and picked them proportionally how many would be female?
"Oooooh! I'll have some fun with that over the festive period! "
I don't which is sadder - that you said that or that I'd agree with you :-P
- 28 November 2012 at 08:56
- Phil said...
I took a look at Biased BBC. A site so far up its own arse that no one else on the right ever bothers linking to it! Still, fame of a sort is still fame ;)
I think you're right on the third - it is slightly higher than the percentage of women who make up the Commons. But still, I think more of an effort can and should be made.
And aren't all people involved in politics geeks? - 29 November 2012 at 19:58
Bob Crow's useless on QT. An embarrassment to the left.
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As good as Google Now is, there's a huge, gaping problem. As I've written a million times before, Google and its hardware and carrier partners are notoriously awful at providing timely updates for Android devices. Jelly Bean launches in mid July, yet only about 7% of devices are running Ice Cream Sandwich, the current version of Android that launched about seven months ago. Almost everyone else is running Gingerbread, a version of Android that launched in late 2010.
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With Wisconsin Win, Romney Moves From 'Likely' To 'Almost Certain'
His wins Tuesday in Washington, D.C., Maryland and — most importantly — in Wisconsin has produced a subtle shift in the way Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney is being referred to by the news media.
For weeks he's been called the "likely" nominee, and you'll still see that word used in some stories. But on the front page of The Washington Post today, he's the "almost certain" Republican standard bearer. Politico says Romney will be President Obama's "eventual" opponent. According to The New York Times, Tuesday "was in some respects the start of the general election," because the president and Romney have set their sights on each other.
Now, Republican contender Rick Santorum isn't giving up. As Eyder reported last evening, the former Pennsylvania senator says it's still only "half-time" in the GOP race.
But with Romney continuing to add to his delegate lead, the news media appear to be signaling that for them, at least, the GOP race is all-but-over and it's time to focus on November.


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Oh my goodness!!! This week has been super crazy-busy as we're trying to get our house on the market-ASAP. Kevin and I flew to Utah for a quick house hunting trip in the middle of it all. My amazing mother is here helping and doing what seems like most of the work and she watched the boys for three days while we were gone. I have not had a moment to breathe, let alone bake and especially visit all my favorite blogs. It's killing me! ;) I miss you all! Haven't baked a thing since last week's TWD or barely visited any blogs. Sigh.
But today (Monday) we planned to have a French Silk Pie Throwdown with some friends and I wasn't about to cancel/change that. I needed a break and baking is just what I needed. So in between kids and some dejunking and cleaning and lunching with Mom (she had not left my house for 6 days!), I HAD to make a French Silk Pie, so in between crust and silk, I threw together Rick Katz's Brownies for Julia. And as I was hurrying through the recipe, I, of course ;), messed up. But only a little bit.
I didn't read ahead. So I melted the butter with the chocolate, added a cup of sugar, then whisked together the other cup of sugar with the eggs. THEN, the next thing is where I didn't read ahead. I whisked all the chocolate mixture in with the sugar/egg mixture. I didn't realize I was supposed to whip the eggs until they doubled in volume. So I just went ahead, folded in the flour and baked these brownies that had 2 sticks of butter and 2 cups of sugar, not to mention the 4 eggs!!! in the small 9x9 inch square pan called for in the recipe. These are not light brownies! I was very tempted to baked this in a 9x13 inch pan, it was really a lot of batter. But since I was in a hurry, I just threw it in the smaller pan and baked it for about 35 minutes. Since I wasn't too sure how these would turn out, I left out the extra chopped bittersweet chocolate.
These brownies, though I have no idea if they turned out the way they were supposed to, are a great, dense, fudgy brownie. They were well received by everyone who ate them. I assume by not whipping the eggs, they weren't as light/airy as they were supposed to be.
These did not finish baking until about 3:30 p.m. I took them right out of the oven and put them outside on the deck where they chilled in the 20-something degree air until about 6 o'clock. They were almost frozen by then, but were perfectly chilled. I thought they were too rich (I know, I can't believe I just said that about chocolate!). But they are a good brownie. On that note, I will probably never make them again, because that's about double the amount of BUTTER, SUGAR and EGGS in still-my-favorite brownie (my adapted Tribute to Katharine-Hepburn Brownies) in pretty much the same size pan! Holy cow, I just can't do that. I am really glad I made the time to get this week's TWD recipe made, which was chosen by Tanya of Chocolatechic (I love her honest and honestly delicious blog!). Tanya has the recipe on her blog. Thanks for picking brownies for my crazy week!
Dorie says these brownies are fragile. With my mistakes, these are not at all fragile—dense and very fudgy!
I wanted to tell you quickly about the French Silk Pie throwdown we had with some friends. Oh, a couple months ago, our friend, Bob and I were talking and he told me all he wanted for his birthday (which was Feb. 5) was Dan's (another friend) French Silk Pie, which he made a few years ago and we all tasted. Bob thought it was the most wonderful pie he'd ever had. Dan was not with Bob and I during this conversation, but I told Bob that "oh yeah, I could make a better pie than Dan." So right then, I told Bob that Dan and I would have a throwdown and Bob would be the judge and pick whose pie is better. (Then we later let Dan in on it and he was game.) We decided this sometime back in December. Oh, did I mention I had never made a French Silk Pie before? Nope. But I was certain I could and that mine would be better than Dan's.
During the month of January, I tried a few different recipes. I don't have time to tell you about the different recipes, and if you'd like my final recipe, let me know and I'll send it to you. We all met up tonight, Dan brought his pie and I had mine. They were similar in looks, except Dan tried to suck-up to the judge by putting chocolate candy bars all over the top of his. ;) But Bob did not know whose pie was whose.
Dan's pie (B)
My pie (A)
The judge is ready to go!
Dan's pie was thicker than mine, it was darker, and more chocolaty. I was a little worried that would win over the judge. I know him too well. He loves chocolate. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are one of his main food groups. But I had hope. My pie was lighter, creamier, and silkier.
That is some serious pie tasting there!
There were a lot of people waiting and watching and WAITING to eat pie. It was a close one. And here is where I have to graciously tell you that Bob chose this pie.
What? You can't see what he wrote? Okay, okay, he chose B—Dan's pie! Sigh. I lost. Sort of. This was fun. Over the last few weeks, it was fun to test pies and have our neighbors over to get their opinions. Bob chose the more chocolaty pie. I knew as soon as I cut into them and saw that Dan's looked more chocolaty that that was the one Bob would pick. Oh well. It really was fun. Now Dan and I have decided we must have more throwdowns! And who knew—his pie had 3 ounces of unsweetened chocolate and mine only had 2. (There were a few other slight differences, but Bob went for the more chocolaty one. (Others in the group begged to differ on mine being better because it was silkier, but Dan won fair and square.) Thanks for coming over for pie Bob (Happy Birthday), Tes, Berghouts, and Tippie/Heidners! We'll do it again soon!


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While many have long seen America as the global bad boy, everybody likes Canada. If Uncle Sam tucks his pack of Marlboros under his T-shirt sleeve and plays by his own rules, the Canadian moose -- or whatever their Uncle Sam equivalent is -- always wears his blue blazer and school tie and does his chores without being asked. Canada is a global citizen, a good neighbor, a northern Puerto Rico with an EU sensibility that earns its gold stars from the United Nations every day.
This fact should have relevance below the 49th parallel. Right now, we're all waiting for President Obama to decide on whether the Keystone pipeline can go forward. The pipeline would take oil from the tar sands of northern Alberta and deliver it to refineries in the U.S. It would extend all the way down to ports in Texas.
The prospect that Obama might approve the pipeline has environmentalists ready to handcuff themselves in a drum circle around anything that moves. For a while, they insisted that their core objections had to do with fears of spills in environmentally sensitive areas in Nebraska and elsewhere. As many suspected, this was always political cover. When the proposed route was changed to accommodate these concerns, opponents weren't mollified. They were only further enraged.
Opponents of the pipeline want America to lead by example, and the pipeline is a step in the wrong direction. "Who wants the U.S. to facilitate the dirtiest extraction of the dirtiest crude from tar sands in Canada's far north?" asks New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.
Well, first of all, the Canadians do! Second, if we won't, the Chinese would be happy to facilitate (a point Friedman ignores). Canada and China have made it clear that if the U.S. doesn't allow the pipeline to go south, they'll make one that goes west to the Canadian coast. In other words, the oil is going to be pumped out no matter what. Moreover, the risks of a bad spill increase if we don't build the pipeline. Oil tankers heading to China are a bigger threat to the environment than a pipe over or through dry land to American refineries.
But my aim isn't to defend the pipeline, which strikes me as a no-brainer in every way. It's to make a larger point. If the idea is that America is somehow "leading by example" when/if it kills projects like Keystone, or cracks down on oil drilling on federal lands, as Obama has done, then we're not fooling anyone -- not even the Canadians!
All around the world, governments are expanding their oil and gas operations. In Russia, oil output keeps going up. Brazil is racing to expand offshore drilling. Mexico recently announced another huge oil field it won't hesitate to develop. Experts are predicting a South Atlantic oil boom to rival the North Sea craze of the 1980s.
Meanwhile, thanks to technological advances, the International Energy Agency predicts the U.S. will be the world's largest oil producer by 2017 and a net exporter by 2030. And again, Greens, who've insisted for years that we need to wean ourselves off of foreign oil, aren't cheered by the news. They're ticked off that they lost another convenient talking point.
While it's true that President Obama brags about how oil and gas production are up, his policies have nothing to do with it. A new report from the Congressional Research Service confirms: "All of the increased [oil] production from 2007 to 2012 took place on non-federal lands." Since 2010, federal oil production is down 23 percent.
To what end? As global-warming activists will be the first to admit, global warming is global. Whatever CO2 we've declined to pump into the atmosphere has been more than replaced by emissions from growing economies in Asia. We could cut our emissions to nothing, and in a few years the increase in China's emissions alone would replace them.
You know what else are global? Oil and gas markets. Whatever oil we've denied ourselves has been made up for by development in other countries. All that we've done is make oil prices higher than they needed to be and denied ourselves billions of dollars that would have stayed here rather than go to the Middle East. No country, save the U.S., seems at all interested in denying itself or the world much-needed economic growth by letting oil and gas sit in the ground.
In other words, when you've lost Canada, you've lost the argument.


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Of course, if you're not me, you probably aren't particularly interested in reading about my blog. But I am me, and I plan to visit "The Truth Hurts" regularly, if only to read things like this:
For instance, bikesnob always complains about fixed gear riders and their lack of breaks. But why? We all know that us devout fixed gear riders hate brakes for one reason or another. Maybe he never took the time to learn to ride is bike properly. Or maybe he has a similar problem as some so called friends of mine, unable to grasp the concept of efficiently stopping without breaks.
Actually, I like to think I prefer brakes because I did learn to ride my bike properly. When you ride and race in all sorts of conditions you come to appreciate things like having as much control over your bike as possible and being able to apply stopping force to each wheel independently. Also, while I do "grasp the concept of efficiently stopping without breaks [sic]" I have yet to see it done. What I do see is people zig-zagging and fishtailing all over the place in order to do what you can accomplish with the flick of an index finger. I'm also not sure what's so efficient about using your tire as a brake pad. I was checking out the latest issue of Fixed magazine when I saw this:
"We have seen the light! Gone are the days of skidding through your Rubino's in a couple of weeks! Say nay to Gatorskins and their flimsy sidewalls! All hail the Conti Top Contact, which has two layers of Vectran anti puncture material and a large amount of rubber on the tread. Conti are so confident that if you get a puncture in the first year, they'll replace the tyre and tube, free of charge."
Hey, I'm all for durable tires (though I do get uncomfortable hailing something German), and there are certainly situations (like touring or commuting) when you want durability over performance. However, when you're using a tire on your track bike that weighs twice as much as a typical road tire just because you don't want to use a brake you're saying "I don't need to stop quickly or corner quickly." Part of being a smart cyclist is distributing weight as effectively as possible. If you want to go fast, put the extra 200 grams into a brake and a lever, not your tire. And if you want durability and couldn't care less about speed and performance, by all means use the heavy tire and the brake. That way the tire will last even longer. Using excessive amounts of rubber (or Vectran) instead of a brake is like using three condoms. If you need that much protection, maybe you should think about sleeping with someone else.
But mine isn't the only blog you can read about on "The Truth Hurts." You can also read about Prolly's:
Probablys blog is a little more interesting for several reasons. The main one being the simple fact that he posts a handful of pictures of riders doing tricks at spots that I used to frequent several years ago when I used to rollerblade.
Ah, I see. He's coming from a freestyle Rollerblading background. That would explain his firm grasp on bicycle performance.
But while "The Truth Hurts" and I may have different opinions when it comes to bikes (and to blogging) I like to think we both respect each-other. After all, a free exchange of ideas in which one party is clearly wrong is essential for the proliferation of intelligent discourse. And who could argue with this well-stated sentiment:
All of that being said, I simply want to offer a different approach then all of the previous bloggers. So I shall.
Alas, if only all bloggers felt this way. Despite the fact that "The Truth Hurts" seems to have it in for me to some degree (or perhaps because of it), I respect it vastly more than Robert Mackey's "The Climb," which you may remember from this past summer. Sadly, "The Climb" was a short-lived endeavor, probably because Mackey's interest in cycling was also short-lived. However, he's still out there. In fact, a reader informs me he was recently quoted in the Village Voice:
"A lot of those people almost ruined that experience for me," notes Robert Mackey, a writer for The New York Times website, referring to writing The Climb, a blogged account of his time riding much of the Tour de France route this summer as a novice cyclist. While the overwhelming number of comments were positive, Mackey found that a group of self-described "bike snobs" kept sparking dozens of "weird, angry" comments that he had to edit, including the bizarre contention that he had no "right" to do what he was doing, or even that he should hand over his bike to a poorer, more "worthy" cyclist—a demand made by the cyclist himself. It was a black-hole conversation, one that produced infinite heat and no light.
"It was an unbelievable experience—like editing graffiti," remembers Mackey. "It makes you feel awful about the world."
I was very pleased to read this for two reasons. The first reason is that, as I mentioned above, I like attention when it's paid to my blog. Yet despite the fact that I wrote about Mackey's blog repeatedly I never heard from him, nor did he make any mention of it. Could it be that, despite the fact that both "The Climb" and The New York Times website must have experienced an increase in visitors, they took no notice of my blog? Sure, I wasn't praising "The Climb," but I was bringing it to the attention of a number of cyclists and readers who might not have learned about it otherwise. And, amazing as it may seem, intelligent people actually do check things out for themselves and form their own opinions even after they read the negative opinions of others. Actually, sometimes they do it because they've read the negative opinions of others. I'm sure there were plenty of people who learned about "The Climb" here and then went and left some of those positive comments he mentions. You're welcome. Hey, even an angry email from him would have been nice. Well, I never got one, but finally in December I at least know he was aware of me.
The second reason I was pleased to read this is that I now know I was absolutely right about Mackey. Just like Mackey's approach to climbing the Tourmalet was to circumvent the path of pain and experience by buying a Cervelo, paying for coaching, and traveling to London for a custom insole, his approach to blogging was simply to delete any negative feedback he received like he was "editing graffiti." I'm not sure why some people have difficulty accepting the fact that some things can be painful--even the fun things, like cycling. Nor can some people accept the fact that just because you put yourself out there in public doesn't mean that everybody is going to like you. Yes, when you're eight years old you should expect to put on a show for your family in the living room without getting heckled. But once you're an adult you really should come to terms with the knowledge that when you put something out there for public consumption not everybody is going to like it--especially when that something is a blog about a really, really expensive bicycle trip. And hey, a blog without negative comments is like a 'cross race without barriers. Sure, they hurt to get over sometimes, but they're part of the experience and in the end they're part of what makes it fun. And calling someone a dilettante for spending too much money on a vacation is not a violation of their human rights.
One of my favorite things about cycling is that it can reward suffering with joy. Another thing I love about it is that it often rejects those who don't understand this. Cycling teaches you that there's such a thing as necessary suffering and such a thing as unnecessary suffering, and that sometimes a short cut is a dead end. I'm sorry the hardships Mackey encountered while cycling and blogging made him "feel awful about the world." If he'd looked at them differently, they would have made him love it.


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This distribution provides a means for generating authentication URLs for and invoking methods of the Remember The Milk API.
It utilizes glib2, curl and openssl and thus is probably most useful for *NIX applications — but re-implementation for Win32 is probably not too difficult.
At present, these bindings only provide a means of invocation — your application must process the responses it receives (usually XML) manually (with expat, libxml2, etc.)
The C bindings for the Remember The Milk API are BSD licensed.
Version 0 - Released 2006-05-12 - Initial proof of concept release.
To initialize the bindings, call:
rtm_api *rtm = rtm_api_init(YOUR_API_KEY, YOUR_API_SECRET);
Conversely, invoking:
Frees all resources allocated by the binding.
To generate an authentication URL, simply call:
char *url = rtm_api_auth_get_url(rtm, "write", NULL);
This will generate an authentication URL requesting write
permissions. Valid permission values are read
, write
and delete
The third parameter is a frob
value, which should be used as described in User Authentication. We could retrieve a frob
value with:
char *response = rtm_api_call_method(rtm, "rtm.auth.getFrob");
will contain a XML response with a frob
value as described in rtm.auth.getFrob.
We can exchange the frob
for an auth_token
by calling:
rtm_api_param_add(rtm, "frob", frob); char *response = rtm_api_call_method(rtm, "rtm.auth.getToken");
will contain a XML response with a token
value as described in rtm.auth.getToken.
Using the token
value, we can now make authenticated API calls. For Example:
rtm_api_set_auth_token(rtm, auth_token); char *response = rtm_api_call_authenticated_method(rtm, "rtm.tasks.getList");
Would retrieve all our tasks as per rtm.tasks.getList and store the result in response
should be used to set a timeline for utilizing the API as per Timelines.
Two additional rtm_api_param_add_*
functions are provided:
- Works the same way as rtm_api_param_add
, but the last argument must be of type long
- Works the same way as rtm_api_param_add
, but the last argument must be of type time_t
. This function formats its value as an UTC based, ISO 8601 compliant date.The various binding functions (rtm_api_call_method
, rtm_api_call_authenticated_method
, rtm_api_param_add
, etc) manage all necessary resource allocation and de-allocation.
However, if one wants to manually manage the internal parameter state, rtm_api_param_init
, rtm_api_param_clear
and rtm_api_param_reset
(which calls rtm_api_param_clear
then rtm_api_param_init
) can be used.
These bindings are at a proof of concept stage, and any feedback would be greatly appreciated.


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