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Middle Chester Exploration, Day 2
After an amazing canoe paddle from Rolph's Wharf to Quaker Neck, the students met with Captain Andrew McCown on the skipjack Elsworth for dinner and stories to be told while anchored in the channel. They would sleep well that night on deck. The following day would require an early morning rise to go crabbing on the Mr. Louis, a rendezvous with Captain Dickie Manning Jr. and his son at their pound net just south of the Corsica, and a stroll along the shore examining the intertidal zone's diverse wildlife.

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When your hair is dry, moisturizing will help prevent the hair from having split ends, or becoming brittle and breaking off. However, sometimes you need more than just moisturizing. In order to help keep the hair moisturized, you can also seal it. By sealing your hair, you are essentially trapping the moisturizing agent into each strand of hair.
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Whether you moisturize your hair with a specific water based product, or simply apply the sealing oil (or light hair oil) after your hair is wet from the shower, the sealing oils do their job; prevent evaporation and seal in the moisture. The perfect solution when there is high humidity outside and you want to block the outside environment from wreaking havoc on your hair. Or, just a great way to prevent frizzy hair; sealing oils are the answer. A sealing oil will not only lock the moisture in, but also keep outside elements out, and as an added bonus you will find that your hair style will stay in place for a longer period of time.
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Grape Seed Oil– An effective oil in preventing moisture loss, grape seed oil has a high amount of linoleic acid. This acid is a type of omega-6 fatty acid. A light oil that does not leave hair looking or feeling greasy, grape seed oil also contains important nutrients, nourishing and promoting healthy hair. In fact some of the key benefits for the use of this oil include: moisturizing hair, strengthening hair, combating dandruff, and encourage hair growth. Besides the linoleic acid, grape seed oil also contains antioxidants like the nourishing Vitamin E, proteins, and minerals.
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Each of the Tourmaster 4100 amp head's channels has an identical set of controls, but that is where the similarities end.
Clean/Vintage 1 is the cleanest of the four. Within this channel lives a range of Classic tones ranging from pristine sparkle with the voicing switch set to MODERN to a punchy, aggressive drive (think clean JTM) in the CLASSIC mode. Pressing the button to activate the CONTOUR control opens an entire new range of beautiful clean, almost acoustic, tones not often found in a tube amplifier.
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The 2008 Barbarians kick back after their game with Australia at Wembley © Getty Images
Twickenham will open its gates to the Barbarians on Saturday, with the famous invitational side set to face down the challenge of the unbeaten All Blacks.
The star-studded Baa Baas will go out to play the open, expansive rugby that has become the club's trademark and attracted some of the greatest players in the history of the game to don the black and white hoops. We take a look back at some of the Barbarians' most significant fixtures in our latest Scrum Seven.
Barbarians 9-4 Hartlepool Rovers, 1890
The Barbarians have always been more than just a team, as was their design by their creator William Percy Carpmael. The former Cambridge University player's vision was a touring side allowing players from every walk of the game to turn out together, originally to fill a lengthy void at the end of the season, which finished in March.
Their first game came in 1890, against Hartlepool Rovers. The popularity of the concept led to several regular fixtures springing up in the intervening years, with the Mobbs Memorial Match, in remembrance of Bedford's Edgar Mobbs, killed in World War 1, and their Easter tour. There they would play Penarth, Cardiff, Newport and Swansea and stay at the closest thing the club had to a clubhouse, the Esplanade Hotel in Penarth.
English great Wavell Wakefield reminisced of his time with the Barbarians: "The basic idea of the Baa-Baas always was that rugby football was a game to be played for enjoyment, and that the greatest enjoyment could be obtained by the playing of the game as it was meant to be played - for fun and pleasure - and that could best be achieved by throwing the ball about and by playing attacking and adventurous rugby football.
"But to do this, of course, does mean that the players must be skilled and knowledgeable about the game. The Barbarians believed and considered that it was a great honour to belong to their club, as, indeed, it was, and that the qualification was not just to be a good player, but to be a well liked person as well."
Barbarians 9-6 Australia, Cardiff Arms Park, 1948
The Barbarians were invited by the Home Union committee to assemble a side to face the touring Australians before they headed for home, a not inconsiderable trip that was required to pass through Canada and needed the game to be staged as part of a fundraising effort.
The Wallabies had beaten England 11-0 at Twickenham and lost to France in Colombes before heading to the Arms Park to face the newly-assembled Baa Baas. The game, won by the Barbarians, was such a success, with 45,000 turning out, that it was coined as the 'Final Challenge' match, which would from then on be contested by a touring southern hemisphere side and the Baa Baas.
Barbarians 6-0 South Africa, Cardiff Arms Park, 1961
Avril Malan's Springboks carved a path through the home unions in the winter of 1960-61, winning a Grand Slam tour with Test victories over England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. After a short hop across the channel to draw 0-0 with France in Colombes, the Boks returned to the scene of their victory over Wales to face the Baa Baas.
Skippered by Irish hooker Ronnie Dawson the Barbarians set the tone for their victory with some shuddering defence. Swansea fullback Haydn Mainwaring was particularly vociferous. Following the game they were presented with a mounted Springbok head, which was hung in the Esplanade Hotel.
Barbarians 23-11 New Zealand, Cardiff Arms Park, 1973
"Kirkpatrick to Williams. This is great stuff. Phil Bennett covering, chased by Alistair Scown. Brilliant, Oh, that's brilliant. John Williams... Pullin, John Dawes. Great dummy. David, Tom David, the half-way line. Brilliant by Quinnell. This is Gareth Edwards. A dramatic start. . . . what a score!"
Featuring the greatest try of all time in the eyes of many, this game pitted the great and good of the British & Irish Lions' 1971 series win over New Zealand against the All Blacks once again. Cliff Morgan's excited commentary has become almost as recognisable as the pictures, beginning with Phil Bennett's devastating sidesteps, taking in John Dawes' phantom dummy and Derek Quinnell's offload before Gareth Edwards flew over in the corner. It's pure poetry and just one reason why the Barbarians are loved the world over.
Barbarians 22-40 Australia, Cardiff Arms Park, 1988
In 1984 the Wallabies had progressed through Europe under the steam of Mark Ella, who scored a try in each of their Tests on the way to a Grand Slam. They went on to face the Baa Baas in Cardiff as David Campese inspired a 37-30 victory for the Australians.
Four years later, after a loss to England and win over Scotland, the Wallabies again prepared for a 'Final Challenge' game. Campese was again his usual self, relishing the vast open space provided by the Baa Baa's traditional gameplan. Campo scored a memorable solo try, bewitching Welsh fly-half Jonathan Davies, no slouch himself, before putting the seal on their 40-22 victory.
Barbarians 22-5 Australia, Twickenham, 2007
The Springboks stopped off in the UK at the tail end of 2007 with the Rugby World Cup in tow following their victory over England at the Stade de France. Wales were dispatched easily at the Millennium Stadium in the inaugural Prince William Cup match before they went to face a star-studded Baa Baas outfit at Twickenham.
In the back-three for the invitational side was Jason Robinson, England's World Cup-winning wing, who was playing his final international game before retirement. 'Billy Whizz' provided several trademark bursts and his invention was matched with tries to Australians Matt Giteau and Rocky Elsom and a virtuoso solo effort from Wales openside Martyn Williams. The Barbarians were alive and well, much to the chagrin of Springbok coach Jake White, who was also enjoying his international swansong.
Barbarians 11-18 Australia, Wembley, 2008
The Baa Baas were called upon to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the London Olympics in 2008, taking to the field against Australia at Wembley Stadium in honour of the Wallabies' rugby triumph over Great Britain, represented by Cornwall, a century earlier.
In a close game showing the water-tight defence of modern rugby, the young Australian side had too much for a Barbarians team featuring some of the world's best in All Black skipper Richie McCaw, Springbok scrum-half Fourie du Preez and lock Bakkies Botha. Their try came from Jerry Collins following an all-too-Barbarian burst from Welsh dynamo Shane Williams.
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Digital Publishing: Online-Only Nonprofit Wins Pulitzer for National Reporting
When most organizations win Pulitzer prizes, staffers generally gather together in the newsroom to embrace and uncork champagne in celebration.
That sort of celebration wasn't in the cards for InsideClimate News, this year's surprise winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for its three-part series, "The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of." That's not because the staff wasn't happy about the win, or that the series exploring a long-forgotten oil spill in Michigan didn't deserve the cheers.
It's because the reporters and editors all live in different cities. The champagne still flowed — the only difference was the pop of the cork was heard through the phone and on Skype.
"We are truly a virtual organization," said Susan White, the nonprofit website's executive editor. "I am in San Diego, publisher David Sasson is in Brooklyn, and our reporters are in Washington, Boston, and New York."
The underdog, with a full-time staff of just seven, managed to upset two legacy finalists, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post, as well as 50 or so other entrants by devoting its scarce resources to an ambitious, in-depth investigative series that began as a fluke.
In 2010, White had sent reporter Elizabeth McGowan on assignment to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline route in Nebraska, before any major media outlets had begun covering the controversial project. When the project began to gain national interest, White decided to send McGowan back.
In speaking with local farmers and residents in the rural areas that would be affected by the pipeline, McGowan began to hear stories about a spill in Michigan. Documentation was sparse, and McGowan couldn't seem to get any good answers, so White sent her to the spill site in Marshall, Mich., in November 2011. Meanwhile, fellow reporter Lisa Song, an MIT science graduate with limited journalism experience, tracked down the scientific aspects of the story.
"Doing the investigative work put a huge strain on us," White said. "We have no resources and little funding. Managing editor Stacy Feldman kept the site running, and there were a lot of days we didn't have a new story to put up."
David Hasemyer, a veteran reporter from the U-T San Diego, was recruited by White to help the team out. Hasemyer had been laid off by the U-T and was working for FEMA when he got the call from White.
"I called him and said, 'I really need someone whose work I know that I can totally trust,'" White said. "He said, 'Of course,' and worked like a crazy person while keeping his job with FEMA. It was the work he was meant to do."
Bringing on Hasemyer strained the site's already stretched budget. Dependent on donors such as the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Marisla Foundation, and the Grantham Foundation, White's budget was so tight, she couldn't even afford to send a photographer.
"We didn't have the time, money, or any real bells or whistles," White said. "But it was the right story to tell, so you just push forward and do your best to tell it."
InsideClimate News has similarities with the nonprofit website ProPublica, which has won two Pulitzers for its investigative work despite launching less than five years ago. InsideClimate News is only published online, and other news outlets are allowed to run the site's original work through a creative commons license that links back to the original source.
White worked at ProPublica, and was an editor on Sheri Fink's 2010 Pulitzer win for a series on what happened at a New Orleans hospital cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina, so she had a bit of a Pulitzer pedigree to help her out.
"Somewhere along the line, you're working with the elements of a story and suddenly realize you have something," White said, noting that the Dilbit disaster series also won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, and was a finalist in the environmental reporting category for the Scripps Howard Awards.
The business model at InsideClimate News is the same as ProPublica as well. Donors fund the site and, while operations are lean, White said the site is stable and sustainable. Partners such as Bloomberg, McClatchy, and The Associated Press publish the site's news over their wires, enabling traffic to grow on InsideClimate News to about 200,000 pageviews a month. White hopes the publicity of the Pulitzer win will help bring in more resources for the editorial team to grow.
"I'm hoping we can get some sizable grants to help develop our website and maybe hire another reporter," White said. "We don't need a lot of bells and whistles, but if we're able to hire someone new, maybe we'll have all the time zones covered."
Environmental reporting has hit a rough patch over recent years. A study by The Daily Climate found that media coverage of climate change has steadily declined since 2009. The New York Times closed its environmental desk earlier this year, sites such as Treehugger and MNH have merged and shed jobs, and outlets such as the Washington Post's green-themed Sprig have long since turned out the lights.
Still, these cuts in coverage breed opportunity for sites such as InsideClimate News, and despite the challenges, White is optimistic about her team's chances for long-term success.
"I think my husband said it best," White said. "He said, 'You know, it's really a David and Goliath story. Only in this case, David didn't even have a stone.'"
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There are two dominant conspiracies behind the London Olympics logo, which, if you ask Iranians and Simpsons enthusiasts, is trying suspiciously hard to be just ugly blocky numbers spelling out the year "2012." The Lisa Simpson and "Zion" theories, as well as a swastika interpretation, emerged when the logo was first revealed — about four years ago. But Iran has only now officially denounced the design, perhaps with the help of this and other animated YouTube videos, on the basis that its interpretive spelling of "ZION" is pro-Israel, racist, and offensive.
According to the Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran's official letter of complaint to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) states that "[t]he use of the word Zion in the logo by the Olympic logo designer is a very vicious act and against the Olympics' moral slogans...which can affect the presence of participating countries in particular countries like Iran which insist on following [moral] principles and values." The letter was signed by Mohammad Aliabadi, the head of the country's National Olympic Committee, and by its secretary, Bahram Afsharzadeh.
The IOC's response was succinctly dismissive. "The London 2012 logo represents the figure 2012, nothing else," said an official, and a spokesman from London's organizing committee added, "It was launched in 2007... We are surprised that this complaint has been made now." We ask the offended parties to move on with the consideration that this may simply be another case of a perfectly ugly logo that we can all agree to hate in unity. Just like the Oscars.
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Demi Lovato is clearing the air following her latest comments on Taylor Swift's $250,000 donation to Kesha in the wake of her ongoing legal battle with Dr. Luke.
Lovato took to Instagram to vent her frustrations and clarify the original intent for her words aimed at the Grammy winner.
"As most people know, I tend to get fired up about the things I believe in, and although my heart and intentions are always in the right place, unfortunately sometimes my passion gets the best of me and causes me to say things that I probably shouldn't say," she wrote. [[369838991,C]]
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"And when doing so takes away from the real reason I am speaking up in the first place. Our focus should be on the topic of victims of sexual and physical abuse being afraid to come forward with their stories. They're more likely to face retaliation and harassment than to see justice being serviced. Especially women."
The "Confident" singer continued, "It baffles me that when it comes to serious issues like equality and abuse, too often women are not taken as seriously as men. All I want to see is women coming together and actually making a difference. A real change and shift in society."
Lovato was also quick to specifically address Swift's donation after earlier criticism, saying, "Everyone has their own way of giving support to others, and at the end of the day, helping victims is all that matters. Ultimately, the message I want people to hear is it's okay to come forward with your abuse and if you do decide to take action, you are not alone." [[369517252,C]]
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|On The Elephant's Knee: Gurdjieffian Typology
Thomas M. Easley
1998 186p. An Interesting Title By An Associate Of The Sacred Science Institute, Presenting A System For Psychologically Reading Or Evaluating People Through Observation Of Physiological & Psychologically Interactive Behavior Characteristics. This System Is Based Upon Principles Developed By The Famous Mystical Cosmologist, G. I. Gurdjieff, And Essentially Allows One To Learn A Quantity Of Information As Sophisticated As An Astrological Reading, Merely Through Observation Of Physical & Behavioral Characteristics. Such Systems Have Always Been Used In Esoteric Orders To Allow An Added Advantage Of Psychological Insight Into Those With Whom They Dealt. This Knowledge Is Called Foundation Knowledge, Revealing The Core Or Foundation Of All Knowledge Which Manifests Through The Law Of Correspondences In All Phenomena. A Valuable Work Meant For Application. Contents: Origins Of Foundation Knowledge; Body Type: Attraction & Repulsion; Alchemy: Keeping Peace Within Your Environment; Chief Feature: Diminishing Fear; Center Of Focus: Spending Your Energy; Essence: What You Can't Change. Charts, Tables & Diagrams Of Correspondences.
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|Vedic Mathematics, or 'Sixteen Simple Mathematical Formulae From the Vedas'
Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja, Shankaracharya of Govardhana Hatha, Puri.
1994, revised. (Original 1965) 367 P. This original work on Vedic Mathematics (Vedic Maths) begins with various introductions prefaces etc., illustrative specimen samples and a list of the Sutras and their corollaries. The book covers a considerable range of topics and is intended as an introduction to Vedic Mathematics. Contents: 1 Actual Applications Of The Vedic Sutras. 2 Arithmetical Computations. 3 Multiplication. Practical Application In "Compound Multiplication" Practice And Proportion In "Compound Multiplication". 4 Division By The Nikhilam Method. 5 Division By The Paravartya Method. 6 Argumental Division Linking Note (Recapitulation And Conclusion). 7 Factorisation (Of Simple Quadratics). 8 Factorisation (Of Harder Quadratics). 9 Factorisation Of Cubics Etc. 10 Highest Common Factor. 11 Simple Equations (First Principles). 12 Simple Equations (By Sunyam Etc.)13 Merger Type Of Simple Easy Equations. 14 Complex Mergers. 15 Simultaneous Simple Equations. 16 Miscellaneous (Simple) Equations. 17 Quadratic Equations. 18 Cubic Equations. 19 Bi-Quadratic Equations. 20 Multiple Simultaneous Equations. 21 Simultaneous Quadratic Equations. 22 Factorisation And Differential Calculus. 23 Partial Fractions. 24 Integration By Partial Fractions. 25 The Vedic Numerical Code. 26 Recurring Decimals. 27 Straight Division. 28 Auxiliary Fractions. 29 Divisibility And Simple Osculators. 30 Divisibility And Complex Multiplex Osculators. 31 Sum And Difference Of Squares. 32 Elementary Squaring, Cubing Etc. 33 Straight Squaring. 34 Vargamula (Square Root). 35 Cube Roots Of Exact Cubes. 36 Cube Roots (General). 37 Pythagoras' Theorem Etc. 38 Apollonius' Theorem. 39 Analytical Conics. 40 Miscellaneous Matters. Recapitulation And Conclusion.
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|The Art Of Memory.
Francis A. Yates
1974. 400p. Book Description "Once in a very great while, historical scholarship produces a book which makes one immediately begin re-thinking many of one's major suppositions about the thought systems of the past. Professor Yates has given us such a book."--Norman D. Hinton, The Modern Schoolman This book is one of the best overviews of the systems of memory and the nature of the art as used in the Renaissance and Greek times. An excellent introduction to the subject, though not focused upon application. Contents: Three Latin Sources for the Classical Art of Memory; The Art of Memory in Greece: Memory and the Soul; The Art of Memory in the Middle Ages; Medieval Memory and the Formation of Imagery; The Memory Treatises; Renaissance Memory: The Memory Theater of Giulio Camillo; Camillo's Theatre and the Venetian Renaissance; Lullism as an Art of Memory; Giordano Bruno: The Secret of Shadows; Ramism as an Art of Memory; Giordano Bruno" The Secret of Seals; Conflict Between Brunian and Ramist Memory; Bruno: The Last Works on Memory; Art of Memory in Bruno's Italian Dialogues; The Theatre Memory System of Robert Fludd Fludd's Memory Theatre and the Globe Theatre; Art of Memory and the Growth of Scientific Method.
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|How To Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Everyday Genius.
Michael J. Gelb
1998. 322p. We suggest this title for a introduction to the more interesting modern day approaches to Expedient Learning, while tracing them back to the genius of Leonardo. This is an inspiring and inventive guide that teaches readers how to develop their full potential, using the principles of Da Vincian thought identified by the author. Beginning with a brief historical biography of Da Vinci and an overview of the astounding advances made in the arts and sciences during the Renaissance, Gelb illustrates the seven fundamental elements of Da Vinci's thought process: Questionare: A questing, insatiably curious approach to life Dimostrazione: A commitment to test knowledge through experience Sensazione: The continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as the means to clarify experience Sfumato: A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox and uncertainty Arte/Scienza: The development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination. "Whole-brain" thinking Corporalita: The cultivation of ambidexterity, fitness and poise Connessione: A recognition and appreciation for the interconnectedness of all things and phenomena. "Systems" thinking. Loaded with practical exercises, quotes, sidebars, illustrations and material drawn directly from Da Vinci's personal notebooks, How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci is both a tribute to his great achievements and a call to carry on his legacy in our everyday lives by utilizing our potential to the best of our ability
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|And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared: TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving.
G. Altshuller (H. Altov) Translated by Lev Shulyak.
1990. 171P. This legendary book was first published in English in 1990. It is Altshuller's most popular book in Russia on how to become an inventor and how to solve technical problems. Originally written for high school students, it engages readers of all ages by inviting them to learn by doing. The translator, Lev Shulyak, is himself an accomplished inventor, engineer and TRIZ expert. About the Author: Genrich Altshuller received his first Soviet patent at the age of 14. While in his early 20s, he began developing TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving. Stalin rewarded him with 25 years imprisonment in Siberia. Released after Stalin's death, he led the underground TRIZ revolution, a fundamental shift in the technical creativity paradigm. Altshuller spent the remainder of his life working to advance what has become the science of TRIZ. He died in 1998. The similarity between many of these techniques and Vedic Mathematics is striking, particularly considering that both authors developed their systems around the same time period.
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|How To Strengthen The Memory; or Natural & Scientific Methods Of Never Forgetting.
M. L. Holbrook, M.D.
1886. 152p. Another of our favorites, from the 1800's, which covers not only techniques and systems of memory, but develops a complete system, considering the physiology with applications to every branch of life & thought. Contents: Best Foundation For A Good Memory; Memory & Nutrition; Fatigue; Perfect Circulation of Blood; Quality of Blood; Memory & Bodily Illness; Results of Brain Injury; Results of Use of Narcotics; Unconscious Memory; Memory, Its Exaltation & Degeneration; Exaltation; Degeneration; Repetition; Suggestions, Associations, Links & Chains; A Striking Example of Memory Culture; Close Attention; Careful Observation & Reflection; Methodical Association; Mental Employment; Memory Culture In Schools; Self-culture of the Memory; Memory of Names; Memory of Forms & Faces; Why the Memory Should Be Trained; Early Training; Methods of Training; Memory of Faces; Memory of Places & Its Culture; Culture of the Musical Memory; Strengthening the Memory for Facts & Events; Memory for Figures & Dates; The Figure Alphabet; Tricks of Memory; How To Learn A New Language; Association of Ideas – Analogous or Opposites/Neither Analogous nor Opposite; Application of These Rules; Word Memory; Lawyer's Memories; Suggestions For Clergymen; Mastering the Contents of A Book; The Art of Forgetting; Abnormal Memory; Conclusion.
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|Mind & Memory Training.
Ernest E. Wood
1936. 185p. Another or the more interesting and comprehensive titles from earlier this century with instructions for a full integration into life. Contents: The Mind & Its Management: The Magic Box; The Roads of Thought; Concentration of Mind; Aids to Concentration. Imagination & Its Uses: Mental Images; Familiarization of Forms & Words; Projection of The Memory; Simplification & Symbolization. The Art Of Thinking: Modes of Comparison; A Logical Series; Footsteps of Thought; The Power of a Mood; Expansion of Ideas. A Bag of Tricks: Number Arguments & Diagrams; Number Words; Placing the Memory; Memory-Men of India; The Mind At Work: Reading & Studying; Writing & Speech Making; More Concentration; Meditation. Some Parting Advice: Uses of the Will; Bodily Aids.
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DMCA Exemptions Announced; Exemption For DVD Ripping Rejected; Phone Unlocking Going Away
from the ridiculous deptIt's that time again, when the Librarian of Congress and the Register of Copyright announce their triennial "rulemaking" on DMCA exemptions for the anti-circumvention clause. Just the fact that they have to do this every three years should show how ridiculous the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA is. Basically, it's so screwed up that, every three years, the Librarian of Congress gets to randomly decide when the law can be ignored. Maybe... instead of doing that, you fix the law? There are some interesting exemptions, though they're limited. For example, people making "noncommercial" remix videos can apparently use clips from DVDs with specific limitations.
Motion pictures, as defined in 17 U.S.C. § 101, on DVDs that are lawfully made and acquired and that are protected by the Content Scrambling System, where the person engaging in circumvention believes and has reasonable grounds for believing that circumvention is necessary because reasonably available alternatives, such as noncircumventing methods or using screen capture software as provided for in alternative exemptions, are not able to produce the level of high-quality content required to achieve the desired criticism or comment on such motion pictures, and where circumvention is undertaken solely in order to make use of short portions of the motion pictures for the purpose of criticism or comment in the following instances: (i) in noncommercial videos; (ii) in documentary films; (iii) in nonfiction multimedia ebooks offering film analysis; and (iv) for educational purposes in film studies or other courses requiring close analysis of film and media excerpts, by college and university faculty, college and university students, and kindergarten through twelfth grade educators. For purposes of this exemption, "noncommercial videos" includes videos created pursuant to a paid commission, provided that the commissioning entity's use is noncommercial.In explaining this, they specifically call out the examples of remix videos as to why this should be allowed:
Creators of noncommercial videos provided the most extensive record to support the need for higher-quality source material. Based on the video evidence presented, the Register is able to conclude that diminished quality likely would impair the criticism and comment contained in noncommercial videos. For example, the Register is able to perceive that Buffy vs Edward and other noncommercial videos would suffer significantly because of blurring and the loss of detail in characters' expression and sense of depth.Of course, it's not all good news. Public Knowledge had put forth a request for an exemption for being able to rip legally purchased DVDs for the sake of watching them on a computer or tablet. This is something that a ton of people already do, but which technically violates the anti-circumvention part of the DMCA. Unfortunately, this request was rejected -- even though it's already acknowledged as legal to do the same thing with CDs -- and, as PK's Michael Weinberg points out, even movie studio bosses seem to recognize that it should be legal to rip your own movies:
And the RIAA and the MPAA agree with you. In 2005, their lawyer (now the Solicitor General of the United States) assured the Supreme Court that "The record companies, my clients, have said, for some time now, and it's been on their Website for some time now, that it's perfectly lawful to take a CD that you've purchased, upload it onto your computer, put it onto your iPod."So what is the reasoning for the rejection? Well, they argue that space shifting might not be legal after all, despite all of the above. They claim that key cases involving the VCR and the mp3 player -- both of which were found to be legal -- do not "provide the legal basis for a broad declaration that space shifting of audiovisual works is a noninfringing use." Think about that for a second.
Movie executives agree as well. Mitch Singer, the Chief Technology Officer of Sony Pictures Entertainment explained to author Robert Levine that the idea for the movie industry's UltraViolet program evolved out of Singer's own frustration with transferring movies between PCs in his home.
So do members of Congress. Earlier this year, Representative Darrell Issa did a IAmA on Reddit. Rep. Issa told Redditors that it was already perfectly legal to make personal copies of DVDs for their own use.
Also troubling: phone unlocking -- which was an exemption for the past few rounds -- will no longer be an exemption:
In 2006 and 2010, the Librarian of Congress had permitted users to unlock their phones to take them to a new carrier. Now that's coming to an end. While the new rules do contain a provision allowing phone unlocking, it comes with a crippling caveat: the phone must have been "originally acquired from the operator of a wireless telecommunications network or retailer no later than ninety days after the effective date of this exemption." In other words, phones you already have, as well as those purchased between now and next January, can be unlocked. But phones purchased after January 2013 can only be unlocked with the carrier's permission.And politicians wonder why no one respects copyright any more.
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(Bloomberg) -- Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said it's "time to break up Amazon" in a tweet Thursday, escalating a rivalry with Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeff Bezos, another billionaire investing in space exploration."Monopolies are wrong," Musk tweeted while tagging Bezos, the world's wealthiest man. The online retailer is among tech companies being scrutinized by federal regulators and lawmakers for the increasing size and the scope of its business.Musk's post came in response to a tweet from a writer who said his book titled "Unreported Truths About COVID-19 and The Lockdown" was being removed from Amazon's Kindle publishing division for violating unspecified guidelines.An Amazon spokeswoman said the book was removed in error and is being reinstated. "We have notified the author," she said in an email.Last year, a Space Exploration Technologies Corp. executive said Amazon's effort to build a constellation of broadband internet satellites was years behind the closely held company. Musk founded SpaceX two years after Bezos started rival manufacturer Blue Origin.With more than 35 million followers, Musk is a prolific tweeter. He has been criticized in the past for his posts on various subjects ranging from the coronavirus outbreak to Tesla's stock price.(Corrects timing of SpaceX and Blue Origin founding.)For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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General Motors Co <GM.N> is developing an electric van aimed at business users, joining a growing list of carmakers planning EVs for the same segment which includes customers such as Amazon.com Inc <AMZN.O> and United Parcel Service Inc <UPS.N>, five people familiar with the plans told Reuters. GM's plan to develop an electric van has not previously been reported.
General Motors <GM.N> will "work very closely" with Chinese electric vehicle battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL) <300750.SZ> as it ramps up electric production in the world's biggest auto market, a senior executive said. The Detroit automaker said in March it would invest $20 billion by 2025 in electric and automated vehicles as it races to catch up with Elon Musk's Tesla Inc <TSLA.O> in the sector. "We have already established a good working relationship and supply agreement with CATL," said Julian Blissett, GM's China president.
General Motors <GM.N> will "work very closely" with Chinese electric vehicle battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL) <300750.SZ> as it ramps up electric production in the world's biggest auto market, a senior executive said. The Detroit automaker said in March it would invest $20 billion by 2025 in electric and automated vehicles as it races to catch up with Elon Musk's Tesla Inc <TSLA.O> in the sector. "We have already established a good working relationship and supply agreement with CATL," said Julian Blissett, GM's China president.
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(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Big Oil's forays into renewable energy have drawn a lot of skepticism. Besides accusations of greenwashing, any oil CEO embracing energy transition must somehow convince investors to trust them putting cash into unfamiliar businesses that might need a lot of upfront spending before there's much in the way of profits. It's a race against time; a race to prove the CEO isn't just splurging money on their version of the vision thing. One way to try getting there faster involves a lesson from a more familiar bit of the energy business: pipelines.Hard as it is to imagine now, there was a time when pipelines were hot investments. Master limited partnerships, the tax-advantaged structures that usually housed them, were in huge demand in the years after the financial crisis due to their high payouts and shale-fueled growth. MLPs traded at almost double the earnings multiple of the wider energy sector.Some of the easiest money ever made in the history of investment banking involved showing some variation of that chart to an oil producer and saying something like: "Hey, how about we double the value of those old pipelines you own by sticking them into a new thing called [Company Name] Partners LP and spinning it off? That'll be $20 million please. I'll get an analyst started on the lucite."Of 188 IPOs of MLPs since 1986, almost 40% happened in that five-year period between 2010 and 2014, according to data from Alerian. Roughly two-thirds of MLP-dedicated investment funds launched then. What a time it was. As is often the way with such things, it got a bit out of hand. It turns out steering yield-starved investors toward companies with all the governance of benevolent dictatorships, minus the benevolence, can lead to sub-optimal outcomes.Even so, the original premise remains valid: taking assets that aren't valued by one set of investors and offering them to another set that might. Nobody's buying shares in the likes of Royal Dutch Shell Plc or BP Plc because of their solar farms or vehicle-charging ventures — or, given Covid-19's ravaging of oil demand, buying their shares at all. If these companies are serious about maintaining transition strategies once this crisis passes, then spinning off the assets should be a high priority.For one thing, transition-flavored companies have generally weathered the pandemic better.Like those MLPs of yore, transition stocks garner higher valuations too. There are ludicrous extremes such as Tesla Inc., but more down-to-earth stocks such as Danish wind pioneers Ørsted A/S and Vestas Wind Systems A/S or Florida's NextEra Energy Partners LP also command multiples oil majors should envy. And as for Tesla, while its four-figure earnings multiple makes no sense, what should unnerve the majors is the sheer zeal of its fans and power of its narrative despite all the red ink and red flags.An analysis just published jointly by London's Imperial College Business School and the International Energy Agency reinforces this in two ways. Examining portfolios of U.S. and European companies linked to fossil fuels and renewable energy, the authors find the new kids generated both higher and less volatile shareholder returns over five and 10-year windows.Perhaps more important is the sheer paucity of renewable energy stocks available. The study's U.S. fossil fuel basket, for example, has 163 constituents. The corresponding renewable power portfolio has only 18, a couple of which no longer exist and one of which is a regulated utility with an interesting backstory, PG&E Corp.This gets at a big problem: It's hard for the average investor to gain exposure to pure energy transition themes, as the assets often reside in private-equity-like portfolios or inside bigger companies that do everything from energy to autos to construction.Even though it's nascent relative to the incumbent energy business, the amounts invested are already large. Bloomberg NEF's database of clean energy asset financing adds up to $3.3 trillion from 2004-19, with almost half of that in the past five years. Yet while investors can pick or choose from any number of frackers, miners or majors — and dedicated funds tracking them — participating in renewable energy or other transition themes is much harder.That's a big problem for the transition itself. Capital costs can make or break renewable energy projects; with little running cost, virtually all the outlay is upfront. The IEA, in its latest energy investment report, released in May, noted that getting lower-cost institutional money into a wind project can be the difference between single- and double-digit returns (and, therefore, whether the project goes ahead). Similarly, without ready access to cheap capital, there would have been no shale boom (or no Tesla, for that matter). This is where oil majors seeking a relevant role in energy transitions might be useful. Rolling up a set of ventures hidden inside an oil major trading on a low multiple is a good way to destroy value. It also lends credence to accusations of greenwashing: If you're serious, then why obscure the scale and performance of these assets by lumping them in with natural gas or making them a quarterly line item?Spinning them out into separate companies instead should provide higher valuations and, therefore, a means to raise cheaper capital for new projects, by expanding the pool of dedicated options for interested investors. Meanwhile, traditional oil investors needn't be jealous of dollars heading into renewable energy projects. The majors could retain large stakes and even co-brand them; presumably, BP and Shell have retained names such as Lightsource and Greenlots for a reason. The only imperative is to avoid the conflicts and fetid governance that ultimately undid many MLPs.A consistent refrain of Big Oil is that its sheer bigness provides an edge. That doesn't fit neatly with the distributed and modular nature of renewable energy and other transition-related businesses. But heft could help where it really counts: raising money.This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy, mining and commodities. He previously was editor of the Wall Street Journal's Heard on the Street column and wrote for the Financial Times' Lex column. He was also an investment banker.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinionSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
Volkswagen (VWAGY) is set to invest $2.3 billion in two China-based EV players. Further, it revs up AV drive by closing $2.6-billion investment in Argo AI.
The jump in May was primarily because automotive firms embraced online sales and historically generous incentives to lure people into buying new vehicles.
Polestar, the premium electric vehicle maker owned by China's Geely [GEELY.UL], plans to open 20 showrooms in the mainland, as it prepares for delivery of its Polestar 2 electric sedans to compete with Tesla Inc's <TSLA.O> locally made Model 3. Polestar, which currently has only one showroom in Beijing, plans to have 20 in 17 Chinese cities, the automaker said in a statement on Wednesday. The Gothenburg, Sweden-based company is manufacturing cars in China's eastern city of Taizhou.
Polestar, the premium electric vehicle maker owned by China's Geely, plans to open 20 showrooms in the mainland, as it prepares for delivery of its Polestar 2 electric sedans to compete with Tesla Inc's locally made Model 3. Polestar, which currently has only one showroom in Beijing, plans to have 20 in 17 Chinese cities, the automaker said in a statement on Wednesday. The Gothenburg, Sweden-based company is manufacturing cars in China's eastern city of Taizhou.
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(Bloomberg) -- Yandex NV will test a driverless car it developed with Hyundai Motor Co. in Detroit as the Russian technology giant makes plans to approximately double its fleet of self-driving vehicles.Yandex plans to buy 100 of the cars, which are souped-up versions of Hyundai's Sonata, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. The test-drives, which had been planned around the now-canceled Detroit Auto Show, will commence on public roads in the city once lockdown restrictions are lifted, it said.Yandex and the South Korean company announced their partnership last year, seeking to create both a prototype of a driverless car and an autonomous control system that could be marketed to rival car manufacturers and car-sharing startups. The new, fourth-generation Hyundai model has been tweaked to help the system better detect what's around the vehicles.The new Sonata has nine sensors, up from six, and has moved the radar system from underneath the bumpers to the roof, improving the system's ability to distinguish objects around the car. Lidars, laser-based systems for measuring distance from a target, have also been moved to improve visibility. A human driver will be present in the car, but the vehicle should operate autonomously.Yandex operates a taxi service with its autonomous vehicles in the Russian city of Innopolis, though most of its fleet is currently occupied with test runs, which will gradually teach its driving software the skills it needs to react to incidents on the road. The company's autonomous fleet, which recently exceeded 100 cars, have run 3 million autonomous miles, in cities including Moscow and Tel-Aviv.The road to mass-market robo-taxis has been fraught, with developers burning cash to create cars that can safely operate without a driver and win regulators' approval. And the Covid-19 pandemic and accompanying lockdowns have hit the industry hard.Read more: The State of the Self-Driving Car Race 2020Competitors including General Motors Co.'s Cruise and Uber Technologies Inc. have cut staff recently, while Ford Motor Co. shifted plans to start self-driving services by a year to 2022. Self-driving trucks startup Starsky Robotics shut down in March with its founder saying that "supervised machine learning doesn't live up to the hype."Still, the promise of driverless vehicles and the revolution they could bring to everything from personal transportation to logistics, means the technology is still attracting investors. Amazon.com Inc. is in talks to acquire autonomous vehicle startup Zoox Inc., the Wall Street Journal reported last week. Analysts from Morgan Stanley estimate that Amazon could save $20 billion a year with the technology, which would also allow the e-commerce giant to compete in ride-sharing and food delivery.Read more: Amazon Buying Zoox May Save $20 Billion, Put Tesla on Its HeelsYandex, Russia's largest internet-search engine and ride-hailing operator, has spent $35 million over the past three years to develop its self-driving cars, using technologies such as machine learning and image recognition from its other businesses.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
Polestar, the premium electric vehicle maker owned by China's Geely, plans a big expansion of its showroom network in the mainland, sources said, as it prepares for delivery of cars to compete with Tesla Inc's <TSLA.O> locally made Model 3. Showroom strength is becoming an important differentiator for electric vehicle (EV) makers in the world's biggest auto and EV market, as they line up new model launches. Polestar, which plans to deliver Polestar 2 electric sedans in China from July, currently has one showroom, in the capital Beijing.
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Fresh from her Grammy Award victory, the bluesy star chats about music and life. She performs in San Diego on Saturday.
Bonnie Raitt is cool again, thanks to such high-profile admirers as Adele, Kelly Clarkson, Bon Iver, Lady Antebellum, Katy Perry and former San Diegan Adam Lambert.
They are just a few of the young artists who have covered "I Can't Make You Love Me," the heart-wrenching 1989 ballad that helped Raitt win the first four of her 10 Grammy Awards nearly a quarter of a century ago. (At last count, typing in "I Can't Make You Love Me" on Google yields more than 19 million results.)
Adele is such big Raitt fan that she included her version of "I Can't" on her 2011 DVD, "Live at the Royal Albert Hall." Adele also included the song in her sold-out 2011 concert here at the SDSU Open Air Theatre, where she noted how much she was inspired by this 2000 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
For Raitt, who performs here Saturday at Copley Symphony Hall, being embraced by a new generation is an understandably heady experience. Her other avowed fans range from Prince to Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl.
"It feels fantastic," Raitt said, speaking from her Marin County home. "This year, at the Americana Music Awards, The Civil Wars and these other young artists came up and told me they were raised on my music. That's probably a result of the wave caused by (Raitt's Grammy-winning 1989 album) 'Nick of Time.' A lot of these young artists were children when it came out, and their parents played my music. It's taken this long for it to come around."
A tireless champion of blues, funk, country, soul and other American roots-music styles, Raitt won her latest Grammy Award on Feb. 10.
It was her first victory in the Best Americana Album category, although she told reporters backstage that she regarded Americana as more of a marketing term.
"They try to put us in a box," she said. "We can't be put in a box; this is just good music."
Her new Grammy was for last year's "Slipstream," the first album on her own record label, Redwing, after four decades with such major labels as Warner Bros. and Capitol.
Has the success of "Slipstream," her first new album since 2007, made Raitt wish she'd launched her own label any sooner?
"For me, it was the right time," she replied. "I watched John Prine be one of the early people to have his own label. And I've watched Ani DiFranco and a bunch of friends of mine who have done it over the years, some by necessity, some by choice. It takes a lot of work to oversee that from your home office. I had to wait until I had the right people to handle accounting, marketing, social media and the tables for the grass-roots organizations that I have set up (in the lobby) at every gig I do.
"I felt this was the right time. Jackson Browne and Beth Nielsen Chapman were the two touchstones for me. They said: 'You'll love the math. If you're going to sell fewer CDs, you might as well own a bigger piece of each one.' With digital distribution, and because I'm a 'legacy' artist, I could do it."
Raitt has 18 solo albums to her credit. She has also been featured on recordings by everyone from blues giants John Lee Hooker and B.B. King to James Taylor and former San Diego singer-songwriter Michael Franks.
With her singing and guitar playing sounding more vibrant than ever, as she demonstrated at her rousing Humphrey's concert here last summer, there's no reason Raitt can't thrive for years to come.
"Once I started to do this for a living, I realized I could build an audience. And i realized that, as long as I kept my voice and stage presence, and kept my wits and picked these songs, I could have a long career," she said.
"My role models when I was growing up were Ella Fitzgerald, Mahalia Jackson, Louis Armstrong, Pablo Casals — people who were aging beautifully in their 60s and 70s. I felt there would be a place for me, as an eclectic musical presence, whether as a performer or hosting an NPR or PBS show, if — for some reason — I couldn't sing or play."
Raitt, who was barely 21 when her first album came out, chuckled.
"When I first met (blues icons) Muddy Waters, Sippie Wallace and John Lee Hooker, they were at the age I am now. They were incredibly cool, confident … kind of like Tony Bennett is — confident, but not cocky. And, now, I'm at that stage. I'm 63 and really enjoying being in the space I'm in, as a musician and as an activist."
Over the years, Raitt has inspired at least two generations of singers and songwriters, from Adele to Susan Tedeschi. She has also influenced the guitar playing of Laurie Morvan, Becca Williams and Australia's Annie McCue.
Has she witnessed a notable rise in the number of young women guitarists, or women in the music industry in general?
"In terms of women's place in this business, there are certainly more women (audio) engineers and women in management at record companies," Raitt replied. "But it's not commensurate with the population. There have been strides and women musicians have made great strides, in terms of how many bands and women instrumentalists there are that are getting attention. That's really changed, in the same way as Title Nine has boosted women in sports.
"Whether there will be a female Jimi Hendrix, I don't know. And whether we need one, I don't know. There are only a dozen or so women guitarists in the blues world that are building strong audiences. Artists like Lowell George and Jimi Hendrix only come along once in a generation, and we're due another crop. That's the great thing about the internet; you can go on it you and see and listen to who influenced Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page."
As a teenager, Raitt attended Radcliffe College, where she majored in African studies and social relations. She dropped out after her sophomore year in order to pursue music full time.
Raitt laughed when asked if Radcliffe has since given her an honorary degree.
"You know, Radcliffe doesn't have (physical) classes, so you attend classes at Harvard, and I got a Harvard Arts Medal from my friend, (actor) John Lithgow, who is on the board at Harvard," she said. "They did a parade in my honor."
She laughed again.
"They said I could come back and audit classes anytime I wanted! And the president of Harvard reminded me that the last time we were together at Harvard in the president's office, we took it over during the student strike (protesting) the bombing of Cambodia."
The Raitt Stuff
Bonnie Raitt has made nearly solo 20 albums since 1971. Here are three standouts:
"Bonnie Raitt" (1971): Only 21, Raitt already sounded wise and experienced beyond her years on her debut album. It showcases her impassioned singing, tart bottleneck guitar work and ability to make classics by Robert Johnson, Sippie Wallace and Buddy Johnson very much her own.
"The Glow" (1979): This sadly overlooked release features R&B chestnuts by Isaac Hayes, Mary Wells and Bobby Troup, plus the definitive version of Jackson Browne's "Sleep's Dark and Silent Gate." The title track, a jazzy after-hours ballad, features some of Raitt's most nuanced singing and the first-rate playing of San Diego bass great Bob Magnusson.
"Slipstream" (2012): Her first album since 2005 is one of Raitt's finest to date. Savor its winning mix of gritty blues and funk, stirring ballads and two Bob Dylan gems, "Million Miles" and "Standing in the Doorway," that she makes sound simultaneously timeless and brand new.
Bonnie Raitt, with Maia Sharp
When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday
Where: Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B St., downtown
Tickets: $50.50-$75.50
Phone: (800) 745-3000
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The Wabash Alumni from the Twin Cities provided volunteer support to People Serving People, Inc. in downtown Minneapolis on October 29.
Alumni arrived at PSP in advance of the morning meal and spent the first portion of their day providing meal services to the children and their families at the shelter. Following the meal service, alumni helped make the cafeteria sparkle, providing a much more thorough cleaning than is generally possible between meals, including scrubbing pillars, walls, tables and other areas.
Once that project was completed, alumni helped with food prep work,including the joyful task of pealing cases of onions. A crying good time was had by all.
After the food prep tasks were completed, alumni shared "shelter soup" and were provided a tour of the PSP facility. Alumni expressed their enjoyment of the activity and talked about 'doing it again next year.'
Shelter staff were greatly appreciative of the time and energy provided by the Wabash Alumni. In quoting, Dave P., the Food Services Coordinator, "the place hasn't looked this good in a long time." Mary C., the executive director stated that, "Little Giants truly stand out in their
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