For related races, see 1964 United States elections.
The 1964 United States presidential election was the 45th quadrennial American presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 3, 1964. Incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee. With 61.1% of the popular vote, Johnson won the largest share of the popular vote of any candidate since the largely uncontested 1820 election.
Johnson took the office in November 1963 following the assassination of his predecessor, John F. Kennedy. He easily defeated a primary challenge by segregationist Governor George Wallace of Alabama to win nomination to a full term. At the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Johnson also won the nomination of his preferred running mate, Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota. Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, a leader of his party's conservative faction, defeated moderate Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York and Governor William Scranton of Pennsylvania at the 1964 Republican National Convention.
Johnson championed his passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and his campaign advocated a series of anti-poverty programs collectively known as the Great Society. Goldwater espoused a low-tax, small government philosophy, and opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Democrats successfully portrayed Goldwater as a dangerous extremist, most famously in the "Daisy" television advertisement. The Republican Party was badly divided between its moderate and conservative factions, with Rockefeller and other moderate party leaders refusing to campaign for Goldwater. Johnson led by wide margins in all opinion polls conducted during the campaign.
Johnson carried 44 states and the District of Columbia, which voted for the first time in this election. Goldwater won his home state and swept the states of the Deep South, most of which had not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Johnson's landslide victory coincided with the defeat of many conservative Republican Congressmen, and the subsequent 89th Congress would pass major legislation such as the Social Security Amendments of 1965 and the Voting Rights Act. Goldwater's unsuccessful bid significantly influenced the modern conservative movement and the long-time realignment within the Republican Party, which culminated in the 1980 presidential victory of Ronald Reagan.
While on the first campaign stop of his re-election campaign, President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Supporters were shocked and saddened by the loss of the charismatic President, while opposition candidates were put in the awkward position of running against the policies of a slain political figure.
During the following period of mourning, Republican leaders called for a political moratorium, so as not to appear disrespectful. As such, little politicking was done by the candidates of either major party until January 1964, when the primary season officially began. At the time, most political pundits saw Kennedy's assassination as leaving the nation politically unsettled.
The only other candidate to actively campaign was then Alabama Governor George Wallace who ran in a number of northern primaries, though his candidacy was more to promote the philosophy of states' rights among a northern audience; while expecting some support from delegations in the South, Wallace was certain that he was not in contention for the Democratic nomination. Johnson received 1,106,999 votes in the primaries.
At the national convention the integrated Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) claimed the seats for delegates for Mississippi, not on the grounds of the Party rules, but because the official Mississippi delegation had been elected by a white primary system. The national party's liberal leaders supported an even division of the seats between the two Mississippi delegations; Johnson was concerned that, while the regular Democrats of Mississippi would probably vote for Goldwater anyway, rejecting them would lose him the South. Eventually, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Reuther and the black civil rights leaders including Roy Wilkins, Martin Luther King Jr., and Bayard Rustin worked out a compromise: the MFDP took two seats; the regular Mississippi delegation was required to pledge to support the party ticket; and no future Democratic convention would accept a delegation chosen by a discriminatory poll. Joseph L. Rauh Jr., the MFDP's lawyer, initially refused this deal, but they eventually took their seats. Many white delegates from Mississippi and Alabama refused to sign any pledge, and left the convention; and many young civil rights workers were offended by any compromise. Johnson biographers Rowland Evans and Robert Novak claim that the MFDP fell under the influence of "black radicals" and rejected their seats. Johnson lost Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina.
The Republican Party (GOP) was badly divided in 1964 between its conservative and moderate-liberal factions. Former Vice-President Richard Nixon, who had been beaten by Kennedy in the extremely close 1960 presidential election, decided not to run. Nixon, a moderate with ties to both wings of the GOP, had been able to unite the factions in 1960; in his absence the way was clear for the two factions to engage in an all-out political civil war for the nomination. Barry Goldwater, a Senator from Arizona, was the champion of the conservatives. The conservatives had historically been based in the American Midwest, but beginning in the 1950s they had been gaining in power in the South and West. The conservatives favored a low-tax, small federal government which supported individual rights and business interests and opposed social welfare programs. The conservatives also resented the dominance of the GOP's moderate wing, which was based in the Northeastern United States. Since 1940, the Eastern moderates had defeated conservative presidential candidates at the GOP's national conventions. The conservatives believed the Eastern moderates were little different from liberal Democrats in their philosophy and approach to government. Goldwater's chief opponent for the Republican nomination was Nelson Rockefeller, the Governor of New York and the longtime leader of the GOP's liberal-moderate faction.
The vice-presidential nomination went to little-known Republican Party Chairman William E. Miller, a Representative from upstate New York. Goldwater stated that he chose Miller simply because "he drives [President] Johnson nuts". This would be the only Republican ticket between 1948 and 1976 that did not include Nixon.
Although Goldwater had been successful in rallying conservatives, he was unable to broaden his base of support for the general election. Shortly before the Republican Convention, he had alienated moderate Republicans by his vote against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which Johnson championed and signed into law. Goldwater said that he considered desegregation a states' rights issue, rather than a national policy, and believed the 1964 act to be unconstitutional. Goldwater's vote against the legislation helped cause African-Americans to overwhelmingly support Johnson. Goldwater had previously voted in favor of the 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights acts, but only after proposing "restrictive amendments" to them. Goldwater was famous for speaking "off-the-cuff" at times, and many of his former statements were given wide publicity by the Democrats. In the early 1960s, Goldwater had called the Eisenhower administration "a dime store New Deal", and the former president never fully forgave him or offered him his full support in the election.
Shortly before the Republican convention, CBS reporter Daniel Schorr wrote from Germany that "It looks as though Senator Goldwater, if nominated, will be starting his campaign here in Bavaria, center of Germany's right wing." He noted that a prior Goldwater interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel was an "appeal to right-wing elements." However, the there was no ulterior motive for the trip; it was just a vacation.
Johnson positioned himself as a moderate and succeeded in portraying Goldwater as an extremist. Goldwater had a habit of making blunt statements about war, nuclear weapons, and economics that could be turned against him. Most famously, the Johnson campaign broadcast a television commercial on September 7 dubbed the "Daisy Girl" ad, which featured a little girl picking petals from a daisy in a field, counting the petals, which then segues into a launch countdown and a nuclear explosion. The ads were in response to Goldwater's advocacy of "tactical" nuclear weapons use in Vietnam. Confessions of a Republican, another Johnson ad, features a monologue from a man who tells us that he had previously voted for Eisenhower and Nixon, but now worries about the "men with strange ideas", "weird groups" and "the head of the Ku Klux Klan" who were supporting Goldwater; he concludes that "either they're not Republicans, or I'm not". Voters increasingly viewed Goldwater as a right-wing fringe candidate. His slogan "In your heart, you know he's right" was successfully parodied by the Johnson campaign into "In your guts, you know he's nuts", or "In your heart, you know he might" (as in "he might push the nuclear button"), or even "In your heart, he's too far right". Some cynics wore buttons saying "Even Johnson is better than Goldwater!"
The election was held on November 3, 1964. Johnson beat Goldwater in the general election, winning over 61% of the popular vote, the highest percentage since the popular vote first became widespread in 1824. In the end, Goldwater won only his native state of Arizona and five Deep South states—Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina—which had been increasingly alienated by Democratic civil rights policies. This was the best showing in the South for a GOP candidate since Reconstruction.
The five Southern states that voted for Goldwater swung over dramatically to support him. For instance, in Mississippi, where Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt had won 97% of the popular vote in 1936, Goldwater won 87% of the vote. Of these states, Louisiana had been the only state where a Republican had won even once since Reconstruction. Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina had not voted Republican in any presidential election since Reconstruction, whilst Georgia had never voted Republican even during Reconstruction (thus making Goldwater the first Republican to ever carry Georgia).
The 1964 election was a major transition point for the South, and an important step in the process by which the Democrats' former "Solid South" became a Republican bastion. Nonetheless, Johnson still managed to eke out a bare popular majority of 51–49% (6.307 to 5.993 million) in the eleven former Confederate states. Conversely, Johnson was the first Democrat ever to carry the state of Vermont in a Presidential election, and only the second Democrat, after Woodrow Wilson in 1912 when the Republican Party was divided, to carry Maine in the twentieth century. Maine and Vermont had been the only states that FDR had failed to carry during any of his four successful presidential bids.
Of the 3,126 counties/districts/independent cities making returns, Johnson won in 2,275 (72.77%) while Goldwater carried 826 (26.42%). Unpledged Electors carried six counties in Alabama (0.19%).
The Johnson campaign broke two American election records previously held by Franklin Roosevelt: the most number of Electoral College votes won by a major-party candidate running for the White House for the first time (with 486 to the 472 won by Roosevelt in 1932) and the largest share of the popular vote under the current Democratic/Republican competition (Roosevelt won 60.8% nationwide, Johnson 61.1%). This first-time electoral count was exceeded when Ronald Reagan won 489 votes in 1980. Johnson retains the highest percentage of the popular vote as of the 2016 election.
Although Goldwater was decisively defeated, some political pundits and historians believe he laid the foundation for the conservative revolution to follow. Ronald Reagan's speech on Goldwater's behalf, grassroots organization, and the conservative takeover (although temporary in the 1960s) of the Republican party would all help to bring about the "Reagan Revolution" of the 1980s.
Johnson went from his victory in the 1964 election to launch the Great Society program at home, signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and starting the War on Poverty. He also escalated the Vietnam War, which eroded his popularity. By 1968, Johnson's popularity had declined and the Democrats became so split over his candidacy that he withdrew as a candidate. Moreover, his support of civil rights for blacks helped split white union members and Southerners away from Franklin Roosevelt's Democratic New Deal Coalition, which would later lead to the phenomenon of the "Reagan Democrat". Of the 13 presidential elections that followed up to 2016, Democrats would win only five times, although in 7 of those elections, a majority, the Democratic candidate received the highest number of popular votes.
The election also furthered the shift of the black voting electorate away from the Republican Party, a phenomenon which had begun with the New Deal. Since the 1964 election, Democratic presidential candidates have almost consistently won at least 80–90% of the black vote in each presidential election.
This was the fourth and last time that the victorious candidate wasn't on the ballot in all states. Alabama refused to let Johnson on the ballot in this election and Truman in 1948. In 1892, Grover Cleveland was not on the ballot in Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, North Dakota, or Wyoming, while in 1860, Lincoln did not appear on the ballot in any future Confederate state except Virginia.
The 1964 election was the last time to date that any of the following states voted for a Democrat: Alaska, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming, although in 2008 Barack Obama won one electoral vote from Nebraska's second congressional district. It is the only time in Alaska's history that the state has voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.
This was the last time Virginia and Indiana voted Democrat until Obama won them in the 2008 election.
California, Colorado, Illinois, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Vermont wouldn't vote Democratic again until 1992. Iowa and Oregon wouldn't be won by the Democrats until 1988. Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, and Wisconsin wouldn't vote Democrat again until 1976.
In California, this election remains the last time to date when Calaveras, Colusa, Glenn, Inyo, Kern, Modoc and Tulare County were all carried by a Democratic presidential candidate.
This is the last Presidential Election (as of 2016) that Arkansas and Louisiana voted for different candidates.
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It was less than an hour into the new day of January 15, 2006 (EST), when tens of thousands of miles above our planet, two cable cutters and two retention bolts fired, releasing a spring which pushed a 101-pound (46-kilogram) sample return capsule away from its mother ship. Later, during its final plunge Earthward, the capsule would become the fastest human-made object to enter our atmosphere, achieving a velocity of about 28,600 mph (12.8 kilometers per second).
Then, at 5:10 a.m. EST (3:10 a.m. MST), for the first time in seven years, the sample return capsule finally stopped moving. By the time it landed, under parachute in the desert salt flats of the U.S. Air Force's Utah Test and Training Range in Dugway, the capsule had travelled 2.88 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers) -- a journey that carried it around the sun three times and as far out as halfway to Jupiter. Inside the Stardust mission's graphite-epoxy covered capsule was the objective of its prime mission -- humanity's first samples collected from a celestial body in deep space (beyond the Earth-moon system).
"The Stardust sample return capsule carried inside cometary material it gathered from comet Wild-2 during a flyby in January of 2004," said Don Brownlee, Stardust principal investigator from the University of Washington, Seattle. "The spacecraft deployed a tennis racket-like, aerogel-lined collector, and we flew the spacecraft within 150 miles (241 kilometers), capturing particles from the coma as we went."
Two days after the return, the sample return capsule's science canister and its cargo of comet and interstellar dust particles was stowed inside a special aluminum carrying case and transported to a curatorial facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Eileen Stansbery -- now Chief Scientist at Johnson -- worked on Stardust as the deputy director of Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science at the time. "We were investigating big questions with the smallest samples -- how did our solar system form? What are we made of? This comet is representative of one of the most primitive bodies in the solar system, preserving the earliest record of material from the nebula during the 'planetesimal' forming stage in its evolution."
Brownlee notes, "The science team couldn't wait to get their hands on the samples. It had been 10 years of planning and then seven more years for the actual mission, so everyone was raring to go."
The Stardust mission's international team of scientists -- 200 strong -- helped re-write the book on comets and the evolution of the solar system. The Stardust mission samples indicated that some comets may have included materials ejected from the early sun and may have formed very differently than scientists had theorized.
"What we found was remarkable," said Brownlee. "Instead of rocky materials that formed around previous generations of stars, we found that most of the comet's rocky matter formed inside our solar system at extremely high temperature. In great contrast to its ice, our comet's rocky material had formed under white-hot conditions."
Comet ice formed in cold regions beyond the planet Neptune, but the rocks, probably the bulk of any comet's mass, formed much closer to the sun in regions hot enough to evaporate bricks. The materials that Stardust collected from comet Wild-2 contain pre-solar "stardust" grains, identified on the basis of their unusual isotopic composition, but these grains are very rare.
"Even though we confirmed comets are ancient bodies with an abundance of ice -- some which formed a few tens of degrees above absolute zero at the edge of the solar system -- we now know that comets are really a mix of materials made by conditions of both 'fire and ice,'" said Brownlee.
While Stardust was the first deep-space sample-return mission of a celestial body, it was by no means the last. The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA's) Hayabusa mission collected samples from an asteroid and returned them to Earth in 2010, and the Hayabusa 2 mission to return material from asteroid Ryugu is currently underway. Still to come is NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission. Scheduled to launch in September of this year, OSIRIS-REx will travel to the near-Earth asteroid Bennu and retrieve at least 2.1 ounces (60 grams) of surface material and return it to Earth for study.
"The ways to explore space are probably as big as space itself," said Brownlee. "But for my money, you can't beat sample return. Having samples there in front of you, available for laboratory analysis when you want -- that's tough to beat."
Another thing about Stardust that was tough to beat was the spacecraft itself. Launched on Feb. 7, 1999, Stardust flew past an asteroid known as Annefrank, flew past and collected particle samples from comet Wild-2, and returned those particles to Earth in a sample return capsule in January 2006. As planned, the Stardust spacecraft did not re-enter Earth's atmosphere along with its sample return capsule. Instead, it went into a solar orbit. NASA then re-tasked the still-healthy spacecraft to perform a flyby of comet Tempel 1 on Feb. 14, 2011.


And I'm sure there are some who will still quibble about the hair.
Now, some of you may recall that the Marvel team-up film is the first distributed by the company's new corporate parent, Disney. That said, if you look at the trailer released yesterday, it still has the Paramount logo. What gives? According to Variety, the credit (and a substantial profit sharing clause) are part of the studio's deal with Disney when the two companies renegotiated Marvel's original distribution agreement with Paramount. "[It] granted Par placement on the marketing materials for both ['The Avengers' and 'Iron Man 3'], even though Marvel's films are fully owned by Disney and will be solely distributed and marketed by the Mouse House," they write. "Because of the ownership, Disney wants Marvel to get the spotlight, since Marvel = Disney. "
- there were three actors that ahd scenes in the Batcave. One of them was a woman. It was not Catwoman, sicne the only costume available there was the Batsuit. The woman was dressed casual/civilian.
- the crew shot there for a week, no vehicles present. Two scenes shot in the elevator.
- the mining tunnel (used for truck to get salt out) was shot but no vehicles present, like I stated before. I think Nolan is either hiding a new Batmobile or, more likely, plans to CGI the Batwing over the shots.
- the staircase near the elevator was not covered in any green screen, which seems odd, since the original staircase in BB was metallic, this one is wooden.
- the boats one the water were removed as a request during the filming.
Huh. I was never able to pin down if the mine was actually going to be used as a location, so this is something of a surprise. It's a great site, though, and would make for the most epic depiction of the Batcave yet seen on the screen.
According to Deadline, the film is officially back on with a $215 million budget and a start date early next year. Reportedly, the script features werewolves and other effects heavy elements bringing up the price tag considerably. Y'know, it's a shame the studios believe audiences won't go see an action movie set in the Old West and starring Johnny Depp unless it features monsters. I guess those other elements don't seem interesting.
Release date: December 21st, 2012?
Bleeding Cool points to a hilarious story at The New York Times in which Microsoft attempted to insert its search engine, Bing, into season one episodes of the show. "We pitched them last year where maybe the characters could find a library with a generator and do a Bing search," explained Sean Carver, one of Bing's marketing directors. However, this seemingly bad fit has given way to a cheeky Bing commercial to air during episodes this year in which a zombie extra flirts with a "real" zombie. You have to love to power of marketing people. They, like life, will always find a way.
I'm joining CBR's crew of reporters at New York Comic-Con over the weekend. As always, I'll go into Twitter mode, so feel free to follow me at @futurethreat or look me up on the Google+ as I post stuff there as well. Meanwhile, if any of you in the great, wide Internet discover something awesome, disheartening, or just plain weird, let us know! Take credit, come up with a clever nickname, or go anonymous. The choice is yours. Fresh rumors and movie news every weekday morning. I am Erik Amaya, bracing for the future threat of an "authentic" bagel.


President Obama after an emergency meeting with FBI and homeland security announced that everything is under thorough investigation and that in this so serious moment the LGBT community has his full support. The same time, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings, said: “This is an incident, as I see it, that we certainly classify as domestic terror incident.” that while photos from the local hospitals start leaking to the press and parents in tears talk to the cameras.
I kept following the news.
Tammy Baldwin, the first openly gay U.S. senator, described the shooting as "not only a horrific attack on the LGBT community, it was an attack on the freedoms we all hold dear." Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was nearly killed during a mass shooting in 2011, said in a joint statement with her husband that such events cannot be accepted "as a new normal."
ISIS took full responsibility for the gunman actions, but it looks like that ISIS would take responsibility for every single heart attack in USA if they could as long it gives them some headlines.
I keep following the news.
But did you notice something? After establishing that the shooter was homophobic, targeted a gay club motivated – perhaps, probably they are still thorough investigate – from his religious believes they all focus in the fact that this is a hate crime. In addition to that, as all of them carefully point, not to trigger any other kind of prejudice and discrimination, Mr Omar Mateen, 29, a U.S. citizen from Port St. Lucie, Florida. A U.S. citizen, which translates that he had the lawful right to pursue weapons.
The article ends: "The AR-15 has been used in several high-profile mass shootings, such as the 2015 San Bernardino attack and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. In the latter case, a complaint was filed against the manufacturer of the rifle. Omar Mateen used the AR-15 in the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history to date.” Despite everything else, you have to admit that Wikipedia – at least here – was immediately informed.
Don’t misunderstand me, this was a hate crime targeting a certain group of people. In this case the LGBT community and don’t doubt my support to the LGBT community, I never shied to publicize it. But I think that the time has come to draw a red line with what’s going on with guns in USA. Consequently, we have to draw a line with NRA, the National Rifle Association of USA and their idiotic arguments. And since talk about both, buying weapons and NRA has become a habit the last few years and we are doing it again, again, again and again after a shooting. It’s time to make the final one and draw a line.
An AR-15 is an assault weapon. Period. Is not a defence weapon. 50 dead and 53 wounded prove and guarantee that.
As of December 23, 2015, a total of 12,942 people had been killed in the United States in a gun homicide, unintentional shooting, or murder/suicide.
During the period 2005-2015, 71 US citizens were killed in terrorist attacks on US soil. 301,797 were killed by gun violence the same period.
At a rate of more than twice a day, someone under 18 has been shot and killed. At least 756 have been killed in USA in 2015, by gunfire.
Kids younger than three, have gotten ahold of guns and shot someone at least 59 times in 2015.
Silence for the unfairly dead kids. Silence for the victims. Silence for the families they left behind. Why silence for NRA and guns? Again?
The same time and during the last four decades thousands of cases have end in court rooms where tobacco companies took responsibility of the death of thousands of cancer victims, consequence of smoking cigarettes, and paid millions of dollars to them and their families.
Why under the same present not hold all the weapon companies and their champion NRA, responsible for the murder of all these people and expect them to compensate dearly victims and families.
I’m going to stop here. In respect to the victims and hoping that the weapon companies – after ISIS – will take its responsibility of the consequences for the cancer they have spread and NRA for the cancer they promote.
Plenty of food for thought here, given that the culprit of this horrendous deed lived only fifty miles from where I live and that many who live near me must also own assault weapons (for defense, of course, not for assault...). I am still trying to wrap my mind around this and may come out with some reflections of my own to add to the insights above.
Meanwhile let me leave the readers with this single thought: ask any psychologist and he'll confirm that before a person decides to take lives by the dozens, he must already have lost the will to live. Those suicidal tendencies do not apply only to individuals but to nations and political entities too.
When I read the headlines “A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle open fired in Florida nightclub" I stopped right there. I did not read further as the American media has lost all credibility as it is controlled by a corrupted government. After the way the 9/11 events were reported in the news, the American media has lost ALL credibility. Its purpose is clear: It serves to create propaganda to create pretexts for war and to create hateful sentiments toward a certain race/class/creed in society. Tune out of watching the a daily TV news item before it even begins. I don't even think half the events they report actually happen in real life. Many of the details of these stories don't even make logical sense. And what a coincidence, with this particular story, that, in the same week, a semi-popular female singer was also shot down in front of a nightclub in Orlando Florida. Did you read the details of that story? Apparently, the female singer was shot down and her brother managed to hold the gunmen down but then the articles claim that the gunmen ended up killing himself. How could the gunmen free his hands to kill himself if the singer's brother is holding him down on the ground? This is the reason I STOPPED reading the news. It is not because I do not want to acknowledge that there is tragedy and darkness in the world. I stopping reading the news because IT DOES NOT MAKE LOGICAL SENSE and IT DOES NOT SOUND REMOTELY BELIEVABLE.


Can digital be cloned? Most definitely! Digital audio can be copied from one machine to another without ever losing sound quality. It's just numbers being recorded. You can record copies of these numbers without affecting the voltages those numbers represent. The only reason too many generations could cause problems would be if the data got screwed up (somehow). But, most digital recorders have sophisticated error correction schemes to solve this problem.
S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format) is the "consumer" digital interface, with both hardware and software specifications. The digital audio is transmitted serially, alternating between the left and right channels, with each sample fitting into a 32-bit "sub-frame" (which is similar to a big word). It includes: synchronization information, the audio itself, some housekeeping and identifying data, and spare bits that can carry data like format info (pro, consumer, stereo, mono). This format uses RCA plugs.
Should I pay high dollar for a "studio quality" digital recorder when there are lots of truly inexpensive cards you can just plug into an IBM compatible computer? You get what you pay for. Those "inexpensive" cards don't necessarily sound all that great, nor do they all have the extensive features and editing capabilities you'll need. Also, be aware of the MIDI claim. The cards might have MIDI out but not MIDI in, or they might be compatible with standard sequencing software only. Basically, if you're gonna go cheap, just do your homework first. More on DIG IT AL next month!
"They won't take the tape!" Tommy Noles, Production Director, KBMX-FM, Osage Beach, MO.
After researching and writing January's Cheat Sheet, I received a call from fellow RAP member Tommy Noles regarding a donation to ACT! (Alternative Community Training, Inc.): "We have 168 5-inch reels of tape! I'm sad to say that it's not the highest quality of tape, but there are no splices, and each has its own box. (Isn't that special!)"
As it turns out, KBMX-FM converted to CD in October. Tommy contacted ACT! only to find out that they now will only accept metal reels (not 1/4-inch tape). "I hope someone will take the stuff. I'd hate to just toss them in the dumpster."
Going to new lengths: Two major tape manufacturers have just expanded their DAT offerings. Sony will offer a 15-minute tape (for the first time) complementing their Pro DAT Plus line (now 15, 34, 48, 94, and 124 minute versions). BASF will also now offer a 15-minute length, rounding out their DAT Master line of 30, 60, 90 and 120 minute tapes. So whattaya think of DAT?!


Is anyone able to get real time after hours charting to update properly with esignal? I have the time set to 24 hour so I'm getting all the data.
I only have a problem with stocks and not futures.
I do know that esignals "Last Trade Price" field only gives regular hour data and that the "Last/Extended Hours Last" field gives all data.
Maybe if Multicharts uses the "Last/Extended Hours Last" field instead it would solve the problem.
Anyone able to get after hours stock charts working with esignal?
I have noticed this for a long time. During RTH, no problem to get charts to load and update missing data. But after RTH, sometimes I have to restart MC several times and then sometimes I just let it sit and come back later and voila, the "Waiting for Data" is replaced with a chart full o' data. I'm not a programmer or a computer guru, but maybe it is the way MC asks for historical backfilling data from eSignal Data Manager / eSignal Servers and then has to wait for eSignal, and not so much a problem with MC itself. I also have the Quote Manager set to "Collect RT Data", but don't know if that helps.
Anyone from TSsupport care to comment?
We ran tests on MSFT. The 24 hour charts were identical in MC and eSignal.
If you are still running into this problem, could you please provide more details illustrated by relevant screenshots?
The problem is with real time charts. Open up a 24 hour chart of msft during after hours and see if it updates in real time.
Please contact our customer support via LiveChat at http://messenger.providesupport.com/mes ... tmloutside the regular session hours to demonstrate the problem.
Please contact our customer support via LiveChat at messenger.providesupport.com/messenger/tssupport.htmloutside the regular session hours to demonstrate the problem.
I just tried to contact support they were unavailable.
Look at the attached chart. Intel reported earnings traded over 1.5 million shares and your "real time" chart shows that it hasn't moved one penny.
Like I mentioned above this is the case for only stocks and not futures or forex.
I am also telling you how to solve the problem by using the esignal field "Last/Extended Hours Last" instead of "Last Trade Price" to plot your charts.
You can easily test this problem your self. Simply open a chart of an active stock during extended hour, set session to 24 hour, and observe no real time price movement.
If you say you are somehow seeing REAL TIME UPDATES then I would like to see you demonstrate this since I know it is not possible.
The problem is that we can’t reproduce the problem you’re describing. We plotted the same stock in both MC and eSignal – in the 24 hour format. The data was identical in both platforms and it wasn’t updating either in eSignal or in MultiCharts.
This is why we need your assistance in reproducing the problem. We need to see the data updating in 24 hour format in eSignal as well. We would really appreciate it if you tried contacting us again. Our LiveChat is always on-line after 6:30 am EST.
You could give me your phone number and I’d call you to set up the time for the remote connection session.


Xamarin.Forms. is one of the most powerful cross-platform mobile development frameworks for creating stunning cross-platform applications with the iOS and Android mobile platforms. XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language) allows developers to define user interfaces in Xamarin.Forms applications using markup rather than code.


There can be few materials that have the capacity to generate debate and polarise opinion quite as much as PVC. From its origins in the 1830s, technological development in the 1920s, through to mass production in the 1960s, PVC along with Nylon has characterised the triumph of 20th Century plastics technology and engineering. Today the world market demand is for around 40 million tonnes, 70% of which is used in construction. PVC's characteristics of durability and resistance to corrosion make it very suitable for above and below ground piping; its near-ubiquity as a window frame material is well known, even notorious, and, with the addition of plasticisers, PVC-based floor coverings have effectively marginalized the once dominant linoleum industry.
Further research began to confirm much that Greenpeace had alleged. Though sometimes confused and contradictory, findings have led public bodies non-the-less to question their use. In some cases, particularly in medical applications, a policy of substituting other polymers and materials for PVC has been put into effect.
The initial reaction of the PVC industry was denial, but after a period of further research-based and persistent criticism, reaction became more complicit. With the help of external sanctions and a drive to make itself more accountable, the industry has striven to remedy both the toxic elements of PVC product composition and the more dangerous aspects of its production and disposal.
The PVC industry has done much to reduce its overall environmental impact, but critics stand firm in pointing out that the manufacture and some methods of disposal are inherently dangerous, and, as their argument goes, however low the risk of release to the environment of toxic chemicals, it is a risk that society need not, and should not, take.
* Ethylene is produced from petroleum or natural gas; Chlorine is synthesised from sea salt by electrolysis.
* 1,2-dichloromethane is then pressurised under heat to form VC, a gas, with HCl as a by-product.
Chlorine, ethylene, ethylene dichloride, hydrogen chloride, vinyl chloride monomer and chlorinated by-products including dioxins.
The greatest risk of exposure is to workers in production facilities though there is also risk to the environment through accidents occurring during transportation.
Gaseous VC monomers are linked together to produce complex long chain solid PVC polymers. Pure PVC polymer is typically found as a white solid powder that is inert and non-toxic.
PVC can be mixed with other chemicals to yield a wide variety of plastic products. Additives, sometimes in excess of 50 percent by weight, are blended with the PVC polymer to yield the end product plastic characteristics.
Additives will typically include stabilisers, lubricants, fire retardants and for flexible PVC, plasticisers.
Once PVC has been formulated to meet certain end-use specification, the pellets are heated so that they melt together into a molten form. Once molten, the formulated PVC can be forced through various moulds and dies to achieve the product forms. The moulded forms are then cooled to produce the desired solid end-use products.
Vinyl chloride monomer and solvents have the potential to be released into the air during the PVC manufacturing polymerization step.
Potential health and environmental hazards during the use phase could include the release of toxic substances from largely plascticised PVC products into the indoor or outdoor environment .
PVC without additives is inert, but risks become and issue when it is combined with additives. The salient concern is with the phthalate family of plasticers, and, in particular DHEP (diethylhexyl phthalate), which has historically been the main plasticiser by volume. DHEP can be released to air from plastic materials, coatings, and flooring and can lead to high indoor concentrations which are considered highly toxic. DHEP has recently become effectively proscribed in Europe as a result of its being added to the REACH 'Authorisation List' along with other phthalates BBP and DBP.
Alternative plasticisers are now finding there way into PVC, primarily the phthalates DINP and DEDP, but their potential health risks of are largely unknown, due to the lack of toxicological data publicly available.
The concern is that additives including plasticisers and metal-based stabilisers will leach from the PVC into the environment. The recognised potential is greatest for flexible PVC products, such as floor coverings, that carry the greater amount of additives by weight. Research 5 , however, would suggest that leaching of chemicals of concern in landfill settings does occur but in most cases is minimal. In those cases where releases of chemicals of were increased, high temperatures and acidic conditions were required.
An obvious route to minimising the overall potential environmental impact of PVC is through recycling pre- and post-consumer waste. Rather than heading for landfill or incineration, waste PVC is returned to manufacturers as raw material for forming into new products. The 'loop' avoids the dangers associated with the creation of VC at the outset and the impacts of disposal at end-of-life.
Grabbing the headlines is the recycling of uPVC window frames stripped from properties undergoing refurbishment. Less advanced is the recycling of elasticised PVC where additives can easily confound the process. Tests have been performed recently on recycling PVC flooring through WRAP which show that at least some of the estimated 50,000 7 tonnes currently sent to landfill might be recoverable.
Following on from Vinly 2010, Vinyl 2020 is a European PVC industry 10-year plan, a voluntary commitment '… to enhance sustainability of its product and production over the full life cycle. This means continually improving production processes and products, investing in technology, minimising emissions and waste, and boosting collection and recycling.' 3 Results from the first 10 year plan show that the industry ran very close to achieving its commitment to recycle some 240,000 tonnes of post consumer waste.
2 Jay et al. 1995, Lemiuex 1997, EPA 1987a, EPA 1987b, EPA 1989, and EPA 1998.
5 Mersiowsky, I., R. Brandsch, J. Ejlertsson, 2001. “Screening for Organotin Compounds in European Landfill Leachate.” Journal of Environmental Quality #30:1604-1611.
Mersiowsky, I., M. Weller, J. Ejlertsson, 2001. “Fate of Plasticised PVC Products under Landfill Conditions: A Laboratory-Scale Landfill Simulation Reactor Study.” Water Research #35:3063-3070.
Mersiowsky, I., 2002. “Fate of PVC Polymer, Plasticizers and Stabilizers in Landfilled Waste.” Journal of Vinyl Additive Technology # 8(1) March 2002.


They're global phenoms now, but they had to start somewhere.
Here are the films that launched the careers of the most famous Australian actors.
Hugh Jackman - Now best known for 'X-Men' and 'Les Miserables', Hugh Jackman (centre) was a TV actor in the 1990s.
'Paperback Hero' - Jackman's first film role was starring as Jack Willis in the 1999 movie, 'Paperback Hero'.
Romance writer - Jackman plays a truck driver navigating Australia's outback, who just made it big as a paperback romance novellist.
Nicole Kidman - The Hollywood star's career is now in its third decade.
'Bush Christmas' - Kidman's first film was 'Bush Christmas' in 1983.
Outback woes - The movie followed a family in the outback, attempting to save their farm from foreclosure.
Cate Blanchett - Cate Blanchett's first film appearance was as a blonde cheerleader on the 1990 movie 'Kaboria'.
TV Roles - Blanchett was in a number of TV shows during the 1990s including 'Police Rescue', 'Heartland' and 'Bordertown'.
Breakthrough - Blanchett starred in 'Parklands' (1996), 'Oscar and Lucinda' (1997) and 'Elizabeth' (1998), solidifying her as a Hollywood star.
Chris Hemsworth - Now a superhero star, Hemsworth got his start on the TV show, 'Neighbours' in 2002.
'Home and Away' - He appeared on a number of TV shows including three years as Kim Hyde on 'Home and Away'.
'Star Trek' - Chris got his big break on the 2009 'Star Trek' film as George Kirk, father of James Tiberius Kirk.
Geoffrey Rush - Geoffrey Rush made his appearance on screen in a 1980, one-season TV show called 'Menotti'.
'Dad and Dave: On Our Selection' - Rush made a number of appearances in small roles in both film and television, before landing a major appearance in 'Dad and Dave: On Our Selection', about bushman running against corrupt politicians in an election.
Geoffrey Rush shone through a star-studded cast in this 1996 comedy about Stalin, Australia and a near-civil war.
'Mystery Men' - Rush broke through to American audiences with his 1998 performance as Philip Henslowe in 'Elizabeth' and his 1999 portrayal of Casanova Frankenstein in 'Mystery Men'.
Eric Bana starred in the TV movie 'Eric' in 1996 before appearing in a small role for the big screen in 1997's 'The Castle'.
Bana starred in a number of TV shows including 'Full Frontal', 'Eric' (a reprisal of the TV movie) and 'All Saints' between 1993 and 2000.
'Chopper' - Bana made his major breakthrough starring in the title role of 'Chopper'.
Liam Hemsworth - Before he starred in 'Hunger Games', Hemsworth appeared in 'Home and Away', as well as 'McLeod's Daughters' in 2007.
Josh Taylor - Liam played Josh Taylor on 'Neighbours' from 2007 to 2008.
'Knowing' - His big break was in the paranoid Nicholas Cage movie, 'Knowing'.
Heath Ledger - The globally famous actor who left us too soon got his start on a family comedy called 'Ship to Shore' in 1993.
Snowy Bowles - He then played the character Snowy Bowles on the Aussie TV show 'Sweat' in 1996.
Scott Irwin - Ledger played Scott Irwin on 'Home and Away' as well as Conor on'Roar' in 1997.
'10 Thing I Hate About You' - The year 1999 was a breakthrough one for Ledger, when he starred in '10 Thing I Hate About You' and 'Two Hands'.
Simon Baker - Simon Baker's first role was in the 1988 TV movie 'Shades of Love: Midnight Magic'.
James Hudson - Baker played James Hudson on 'Neighbours' in 1993.
'L.A. Confidential' - Baker got his break in the classic 1997 film, 'L.A. Confidential' as Matt Reynolds.
Mel Gibson - The future Hollywood darling-turned-pariah got his start playing Ray Henderson in the TV show 'The Sullivans' in 1976.
'Summer City' - Gibson, (left) first starred in the 1977 movie, 'Summer City', about surfers caught up in a murder.
'Mad Max' - In 1979, Gibson burst into international fame when he starred in 'Mad Max'.


I’ve been slowly working on getting my current employer up to "enterprise"-level development. Requirements specs, repeatable processes, redundancy, failover, flow documentation, etc. A version control server (svn) has been set up and is being populated. But one of the things that has been bugging me is that the main product (SMART) is being deployed internationally, but there’s no revision control for the database itself. I wasn’t thinking about some magical nebulous system — I really just wanted to be able to see a list of database changes at the end of each day. That way, if Mexico or China suddenly stopped working, and no code had been changed, I could look and see if the database had changed.
if exist smart-%dd%-diff.txt svn commit -m "automated nightly diff"
Generate a file that contains all of the SQL needed to (re)build the database.
Compare that file to yesterday’s version of the file.
If anything has changed, save it and commit it to the Subversion repository.
From the top … I wanted to be able to quickly see when changes occurred, so I set an environment variable (dd) to the current date in YYYYMMDD format. If your server’s date format is different than mine, you’ll need to do a bit of tweaking. However, I don’t want a ton of unchanged files cluttering up my server, so I only want to save those files if something has actually changed. The if exist statements rotate yesterday’s file into the correct place.
The scptxfr program comes with SQL Server and does the same thing as right-clicking on an object in the Enterprise Manager and selecting "Generate SQL Script". You give it a server (/s) and a database (/d) and it will put the script into a file (/f). The /H switch tells it to eschew the comments, which are timestamped and would mean that there would be a difference every day, which would be useless. I know mySQL has a similar SQL-dump facility, and presume that other DBMSes have their own.
I then diff today and yesterday into a dated text file. The for statement removes any diff files that are empty (no changes). The if commands, which could be combined, will copy the latest version into a dated file and commit the changes to the repository. Notice that I am not adding the dated file to the repository — the repository automagically handles tracking changes, so there’s no deed. I just want a dated one so that I don’t need to fire up the SVN client to see what the changes are.
Set up the batch file to be run every night via the scheduler (or at, if you are into pain).
Et voila! Automated change tracking for your database!


Maintain neutral: The government announced on Sept 5, 2018, that it is raising the minimum wage to RM1,050 from RM1,000 effective Jan 1, 2019 nationwide. This includes Sabah and Sarawak where the current minimum wage is at RM920. Recall that one of the items of the manifesto of the new Pakatan Harapan government is to raise the minimum wage from the current RM1,000/RM920 to RM1,500 with half of the increase to be borne by the government. However, the government announced recently that minimum wage will not be raised to RM1,500 immediately but it will be raised in stages in the next two years. It was also mentioned in the announcement yesterday that the government will not bear the additional RM50 increase in minimum wage next year.
While the increase in minimum wage in general is negative news for the overall sector, however, the impact on earnings of the glove manufacturer will be minimal as we note that most of the employees in the glove manufacturing sector are already earning more than RM1,050. For employees that fall below the minimum wage requirements, we estimate to be less than 10% of the total employees; our calculation shows that the impact on earnings of glove manufacturers will be less than 1%.
Aside from a minimal impact of less than 1% on the earnings of the glove manufacturers, the impact of the new minimum wage on the glove manufacturers is also negligible as the manufacturers will be transferring the increase in production costs to their customers, which has been the industry-wide practice all this while. In general, the labour cost constitutes 12% of the total glove production cost for the manufacturers.


In 'The Artist,' A Silent Look At Old Hollywood In the new film The Artist, the era of silent film giving way to sound is depicted with an unusual return to silence. That meant different challenges for the actors — even those who walk on four legs.
Silent Screen idol George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) and Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), a young and upcoming dancer, share a vivacious moment on stage in Michel Hazanavicius's film The Artist.
Director Michel Hazanavicius met me at the Bradbury building in downtown L.A. It's the location of a key scene in his audacious new movie The Artist, which takes place just at the moment when talking pictures supersede silent films.
"It's mythic," said Hazanavicius of the era during which Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford were stars.
In the scene shot here, a dashing film star reminiscent of Fairbanks bumps into his lovely young protégé on the building's remarkable staircase. He's on his way down; she's on her way up.
On the way down is precisely where George Valentin, played by French heartthrob Jean Dujardin, finds himself. He's unable to adapt to the newfangled talkies and his career is about to be ruined. Like so much else in The Artist, the location at this moment is a loving reference to cinema — the Bradbury has appeared in dozens of movies, most famously Blade Runner.
The Artist is itself a silent film, and black and white. But in spite of what might seem to be two formidable barriers to mainstream popularity, it's generating some of the strongest Oscar buzz of the year. Hazanavicius convinced producers to invest in The Artist based on the strength of two domestically successful comedies he directed about a 1950s French secret agent.
"That's one of the most difficult parts of the entire process," he sighed. "So they said yes, but it was a very shy yes."
The Artist was shot on classic old Hollywood back lots, as well as historic locations, including the Orpheum Theater. And the cast includes some great American faces, including John Goodman and James Cromwell, who you might remember from Six Feet Under and Babe.
"My goal was not to be in a silent picture," Cromwell confessed to NPR. Contemporary screen actors like to use their voices, he said, and use tricks incommensurate with silent film. For example, "You keep your eyes wide open, always, because you don't want to blink. Because when you blink, the director's going to cut away from you. So you betray as little of your inner life through your face as possible, and everything is done by the dialogue."
Acting in a silent movie, for Cromwell, was liberating.
"It's all on your sleeve," he said.
Making this film turned out to be liberating for another of the film's stars-- a scruffy little dog named Uggie. Because The Artist is silent, Uggie's trainer could bark commands, so to speak, whenever necessary while the cameras rolled.
"Usually he has to wait for the actors to stop talking," Hazanavicius grinned. "Maybe that's why the dog is so good in the movie."
In fact, Uggie won this year's "Palm Dog" for canine acting. It's just one of a heap of awards The Artist has accumulated, including the prize for best (human) acting at the Cannes film festival. The Weinstein Company, which won a bidding war to release the film in the United States, is banking on The Artist carrying off even more prizes, of the golden Oscar-shaped variety, at the Kodak theater come February.


I wanted to spend a moment to report on the incredible success I have been having using in-class exercises. Students have been engaging the content more directly, understanding of the immediate subject matter has improved, and much to my surprise, interest continues onto subjects beyond that immediate exercise. This continuation of interest for the entire 2-hour class period suggests more than mere amusement is involved, actual interest in the subject has been created. Perhaps the activities have moved their reference point to a more engaged and interested one.
I would like to share some of the excellent exercises that have been done with our student body. This is not a limiting set of these activities, there are many more available. Many thanks to Virgina Econ Lab for its excellent work in digitizing some of these classical class exercises.
The first exercise, best as an opening exercise, describes the opening idea that individuals are well-described by the rational model, and shows how the rational class naturally arrives at the results that we expect in classical economics. We have some of the class as suppliers, some of the class as buyers, and random values for the good are assigned. They enter a mock market place and trade goods among themselves. Output of the program is very good visually (although a little too colorful for my tastes). Learning is very visible.
Total time was maybe 15-20 minutes of execution, 5-10 minutes of setting up and logging into the computer, costs that have reduced after multiple exercises.
Refresh basic supply and demand model.
Review of basic rational model for firms .
More confidence in the idea of rational agents having validity.
Students put idea of rationality into contrast with behavioral models and procedurally rational models.
Strong retention and application of supply and demand, rational model for firms.
We have, since then, conducted several simulations where students interacted directly with rational (and procedurally rational) models. I have programmed these simulations myself and they are available here: Simulating Optimization Problems and Production Possibility Frontiers and Simulations of Optimization over Time. I would recommend these to any undergraduate body that has easy access to a PC lab, and more detailed interaction with the models is suitable for earlier graduates. I note that the programs do not generate exact correct answers, so one can still ask homework questions on the subject.
Most recently, we have conducted auctions to examine how individuals handle different auction schemes. Rational results suggest that individuals bid under their valuation in first-price sealed-bid auctions, and bid their valuation in second price sealed-bid auctions. But people do not always perform to those expectations, and it should be illustrated to students.
We would hope it would clearly show variation between the two auctions, like the plot above. The second-price auctions lead to significantly higher prices overall, and will often lead students bidding higher than their valuation.
Students correctly identified explanations for behavior.


More than half of teens polled say they have rejected certain apps over privacy concerns, according to the Pew Research Center.
Teenagers who use mobile apps do take steps to safeguard their privacy, according to a report released Thursday by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project.
Among the teenage app users polled for the study, 51 percent said they've avoided certain apps after learning that they'd have to share personal information to use them. Teens 12 to 13 years of age were more likely to avoid such apps than were those 14 to 17 years old.
Further, 26 percent of the teens said they've uninstalled an app because they discovered it was collecting personal information that they didn't want to share. And 46 percent reporting turning off location tracking in an app or on their phone because of privacy issues.
Asked the question: "Do you ever worry about what kind of data apps are taking from your phone?," one 13-year-old female said: "I always hit 'don't allow' to use my location," while a 13-year-old male said: "Yeah, I hit don't allow when it says that [this app would like to use your current location]...unless it's very necessary for the app."
Some expressed little or no concern. One 13-year-old male said: "I usually just hit allow on everything [when installing an app]. Because I feel like [the app] would get more features. And a lot of people allow, so it's not like they're going to single out my stuff. I don't really feel worried about it."
And a 19-year-old female said: "I mean, the only thing on my phone is just pictures and messages. So it's not really like, 'oh, you're [the app company] going to take my identity or anything,' so it doesn't really matter."
Finally, teens who asked for outside advice about privacy were more likely to disable location tracking than were those who didn't. Overall, 70 percent of those polled sought outside advice. Among those, 50 percent ended up turning off the tracking feature. Among those who didn't, only 37 percent turned off the feature.
Conducted by Berkman Center's Youth and Media Project, the survey reached 156 teenagers in four different U.S. cities. That sounds like a small number on which to base a survey. But Pew explained its reasoning, saying that "although the research sample was not designed to constitute representative cross-sections of particular population(s), the sample includes participants from diverse ethnic, racial, and economic backgrounds."


Can Pittsburgh finally tame Steelers killer Rob Gronkowski?
PITTSBURGH -- Rob Gronkowski is known by more nicknames than the famed "Gronk" around the Pittsburgh Steelers locker room.
Steelers coaches and players have called Gronkowski everything from "freak" to "dangerous man" this week as they prepare for the tight end who's tortured their defense for years.
Coach Mike Tomlin has seen effective coverages against Gronkowski in the past.
"But we haven’t been a part of it," said Tomlin in preparation for Sunday's clash with New England (9-4). "We’re looking to be."
The numbers validate Tomlin's point. In Gronkowski's past five games against Pittsburgh, he has 34 catches for 592 yards and five touchdowns. That's more yardage than all but eight NFL tight ends produced in the entire 2017 regular season.
The Steelers (7-5-1) have tried a bit of everything on Gronkowski, who last season was kept relatively in check before exploding for 69 yards on the final drive of the Patriots' 27-24 victory. Oh yeah, he also caught a two-point conversion after that drive.
Safety Sean Davis was covering Gronkowski for most of that game, and the performance still bothers him, though he's resigned to the fate that Gronkowski makes ridiculous catches through tight coverage.
Davis has moved from strong to free safety, so he won't match up with Gronkowski on Sunday. But he's got a promise on which to deliver.
"I’m just going to make sure those deep shots Gronk got on us last year, on me last year, you’re not going to get it this year," Davis said.
Questions persist about whether Gronkowski's game is deteriorating due to mounting injuries over nine seasons. From 2010 to 2017, Gronkowski produced at least eight touchdowns in every season with 10 or more games played. This season, he has three touchdowns in 10 games, along with a modest 637 yards on 43 receptions.
But he still garners the same respect in the Steelers locker room. Defenders say his massive 6-foot-6, 268-pound frame makes contesting catches difficult for defensive backs, and Gronkowski is athletic enough to get past linebackers.
"Make sure we put a couple of bodies on him, make sure the safeties know where he is at all times," cornerback Joe Haden said. "One-on-one [coverage] -- that’s what they want."
The Patriots move Gronkowski around enough that everyone must be ready. Slot corner Cam Sutton doesn't expect just one player to shadow Gronkowski. "Everybody in the secondary" can get lined up with him on a given down, he said.
Rob Gronkowski is atop the Steelers' scouting report after 592 yards in his past five games against them.
Mixing coverages can help, because as defensive coordinator Keith Butler points out, quarterback Tom Brady "will hurt you" if you stay in the same look all game. Brady has 23 touchdowns and one interception in his past eight games against Pittsburgh, with seven wins.
The Steelers' defense is not exactly brimming with confidence entering this crucial matchup. The unit hasn't picked off a pass since Week 10, and during this three-game losing streak, Pittsburgh has given up five drives of 60-plus yards in the fourth quarter.
But linebacker T.J. Watt likes his defense against any NFL team -- as long as the Steelers do a few things.
"Just going out and getting some damn turnovers -- make some splash plays and do our job and not try to do too much and we’ll be just fine," Watt said. "We’re getting so close. We have a lot of tipped passes, dropped interceptions. I think we know we’re so close, and one of these games, it’s going to all come together for us."


Recently, I attended the second annual National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations sponsored by Yale School of Management- The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures, and the Pew Charitable Trusts. The following is an edited version of remarks I made on a panel for funders of nonprofit enterprise.
When you boil it all down, the underlying challenge that nonprofits and funders are wrestling with today is how to achieve fiscal sustainability. Having the proper financial resources year in and year out is the key to enable nonprofits to continue to do the vital work they do in our communities and, for those so inclined, to be able to grow their efforts over time.
Particularly challenging for nonprofit leadership is moving beyond the more constraining “stove pipes and silos” of what the fields sees as “fund development” toward a more encompassing view of how one finances their organization and, ultimately, attains fiscal sustainability. Fiscal sustainability requires long-term funding and financing strategies. It is integral and fundamental to the organization, must be squarely the responsibility of the lead executive and the board of directors, and cannot and should not be relegated solely to a funds development person or department.
Fee-based services and venture enterprises.
a reluctant-to-skeptical attitude and culture.
Of these four, the lack of available capital and the means to distribute it effectively is the compelling factor and limitation. It is what keeps most subsectors of the nonprofit field from developing stable, sustainable organizations and represents The challenge facing funders and nonprofits alike. The capital challenge is even more pronounced for growth capital, the money that enables organizations to invest in themselves so they can grow, build, improve, and strengthen their organizations, products, and services for greater scale and impact. It has particularly strong implications for those who seek to develop income-earning or venture enterprises that may some day require capital for their growth.
The second factor is the lack of an ecosystem to nourish and support innovation that enables the development of nonprofit earned income and venture enterprise. If you look at any of the most prolific for-profit entrepreneurial regions in the world—in Boston, Silicon Valley, London, or Singapore—you’ll see that there exists a “critical mass” of entrepreneurs, larger firms, research, and a myriad of suppliers, e.g., tech firms, recruiters, service providers, etc., that understand and are capable of serving entrepreneurial businesses.
The nonprofit world needs to witness an ecosystem evolve along similar lines in which relevant knowledge, funders, resources, and relationships are available, accessible, and within close proximity to social entrepreneurs. No such comparable infrastructure or ecology exists within the nonprofit sector today, although there are the beginnings of such an infrastructure stemming from another of initiatives.
Although the nonprofit sector is blessed with remarkable leaders with compelling models for social change, a third factor is the dearth of relevant talent to manage and develop nonprofit organizations, particularly people with the skills necessary to perform in COO, CFO, “product development,” and traditional fund development roles, four of the most critical roles in stabilizing nonprofits or helping them grow. In addition, to develop earned-income and venture enterprise, the sector needs to cultivate a different kind of talent pool, people who in addition to being mission-driven and entrepreneurial are also savvy in “product management,” marketing, and general management aligned to the logistical needs of a particular service. This, unfortunately, is not where social entrepreneurs are most effective, but their willingness to recruit and work with such talent—sometimes as a peer or even a mentor—will be crucial to their success.
And finally, attitude and culture are very relevant. They can be highly supportive or work to quash any such earned-income or venture enterprise effort. Organizations pursuing earned-income strategies will have to effectively deal with the inherent tension and perceived conflict of being “mission-driven” and “earning income from services”—which, when not effectively addressed from the outset, may pit “the earned income” against the “mission-driven” members of the staff. Most fundamentally, the field needs to deal with how the sector views “risk.” Many executive directors and their boards are averse to the risk of building a dependency on earned income and the inherent uncertainties due to market ups and downs. No one wants “human life and services” to suffer for the sake of profit gain or loss. And for many executive directors and their staffs, there exists a culture of disdain for the functions of marketing, product management, and sales, which feels at odds with the mission-driven nature of their nonprofit organization. As a nonprofit considers earned-income or venture enterprise, it must do so in a way that recognizes and takes into account their organizational culture and staff attitudes.
All of us in and around the nonprofit sector—funders, public policy makers, potential donors, philanthropic thought leaders and nonprofit leaders alike—have heard over and over how we need to think differently about the way we do business. And we do. One such step organizations can take is to do more to bring people who have started and grown businesses, financial experts, and others to the table.
We need to break out of our traditional boxes and search for different ways of financing nonprofit enterprises so that effective organizations can not only become stable and sustainable, but, for those so inclined, grow and scale their operations and impact. We need to explore and most certainly create new sources of capital and invent alternative financing mechanisms that would allow the nonprofit sector to achieve its full potential.
The social ills we face are great, and the “status quo” is not acceptable as circumstances change around us. The rewards of building a stable and sustainable nonprofit sector will be invaluable for all of us.


How Do I Close MyDrive Connect?
How do I close MyDrive Connect after I'm finished with it? There is no "X" or menu I can use to close it or even reduce it to get it off the screen. Sometimes the Taskbar won't pop up so I can go to another program; I have to open "Task Manager" and "End Task" to close MyDrive Connect.
The Tomtom icon should be in the notification area of your computer. Right click on it and select 'exit'.
If you are not seeing the icon, perhaps it is hidden. Do you see an up arrow icon there? If so, click on it and then you should see the tomtom icon.
The MyDrive Connect page blocks everything else on the screen. Even the taskbar will not pop up when I move the cursor to the bottom. There is no "-" or "X" in the upper right corner to reduce or close the MyDrive screen.
What is your OS? Do you sometimes connect your PC to a second screen?
I'm using Windows 7. I do sometimes use a second screen, although the problem occurs even if I am not connected to another screen.
I did find that if I choose "The Smartest Route Planner" from the MyConnect screen, it goes to MyDrive Route Planner and I can navigate elsewhere from there. If I go back to MyConnect, I have to again open a MyDrive Route Planner screen to be able to get back control. I can not close the MyConnect screen except through "End Task" through "Task Manager."
Also check the resolution of your screen and choose the recommended one if possible.
I selected "Projector Only" but it just filled my other monitor with the MyConnect screen and I couldn't close it. What do you click on to close that screen? I don't see any options that say "Close."
This window closes automatically when you select a choice and validate it with a left-click or your keyboard.
Otherwise to close it without having made a choice press the "Escape key" on the keyboard, ESC.
You have a display problem that may be related to your shared display.
You should have tried this function without your 2nd screen connected to your PC. Remove the cable or use its buttom on/off to turn it off.
Restart your PC, use the keyboard shortcut Win + P "Computer Only" and use the default definition of your main screen.
Now I may be wrong.
Sorry, but I do not see anything else to help you.
I did try using MyConnect without the second monitor. Same problem; I don't see anything on the MyConnect screen to close it down. I must be missing something really obvious, but what do I click on to close the MyDrive page, the one with "My Device," "My Content," and "My Account" at the top?
Right click on the small tomtom icon in the notification area of your computer. One option is 'exit'. Use that.
Did you do what I advised? A PC Resart, the screen resolution on "recommended", with only the first monitor. And now you have the taskbar? Please, answer me Yes or No to both questions.
You can also try this, again a keyboard shortcut.
To do with only one monitor in function when the MDC window is displayed too big without red cross.
If it still doesn't work.
Uninstall MDC completely to make a clean installation.
That is the source of my problem: my taskbar is unlocked but, after popping up once or twice in MyConnect when I move the cursor to the bottom, it will no longer pop up when I try to access it. I don't have this problem with any other program. If that is not a problem for anyone else, it must be a quirk on my computer and probably not within my knowledge set to fix. I'll just live with it. Who knows, a Windows 7 update may fix it for me.
LAURE123-I did a restart and working from only the laptop screen with no other monitor connected I have the same problem. One time the task bar appeared a couple of times then wouldn't appear, another time it never appeared.
I tried holding the Window key and using arrow keys, but there is no movement. I think I'm seeing the full screen because I can see all the small text at the bottom and an American flag in the top right corner.
Do you have an "X" symbol in the top right of the screen to close the program?
Yes I have the red X, as for all Windows programs.
It's weird that the taskbar appears or disappears randomly and only with MDC.
Windows + Left or Right arrow keys normally the window should move. But it doesn't work for you.
I guess you've also tried Down (Minimize window).
If with this file of the last version there is no improvement in the display you can try the backup version of MDC which works like the previous versions before January 2018.
I admit, I despair a little in front your problem.
I opened MyDrive Connect yesterday and have the blue section at the top with the "X" to shut it down!
I think LAURE123 was on the right track about what caused my problem. My secondary monitor is above my primary one. That top strip must have somehow gotten in no man's land between the top of my primary monitor and bottom of the secondary monitor, perfectly positioned so it appeared to be a full screen. Since the cursor has to be on the blue area to move the screen, I couldn't move it. I must have shifted it accidentally while going between the two screens. I don't know why holding the Windows key down and moving the screen with the arrow keys, as LAURE123 suggested, didn't work. It does now.
I did a little dance of joy on my castor chair after reading your message!


"Three dimensions are real space. That gets rid of the problem of illusionism and of literal space... which is riddance of one of the salient and most objectionable relics of European art."
Donald Judd was an American artist, whose rejection of both traditional painting and sculpture led him to a conception of art built upon the idea of the object as it exists in the environment. Judd's works belong to the Minimalist movement, whose goal was to rid art of the Abstract Expressionists' reliance on the self-referential trace of the painter in order to form pieces that were free from emotion. To accomplish this task, artists such as Judd created works comprising of single or repeated geometric forms produced from industrialized, machine-made materials that eschewed the artist's touch. Judd's geometric and modular creations have often been criticized for a seeming lack of content; it is this simplicity, however, that calls into question the nature of art and that posits Minimalist sculpture as an object of contemplation, one whose literal and insistent presence informs the process of beholding.
Judd's goal was to make objects that stood on their own as part of an expanded field of image making and that did not allude to anything beyond their own physical presence. As a result, his work, along with that of other Minimalist artists, is often called literalist.
Unlike traditional sculpture, which was placed upon a plinth, thus setting it apart as a work of art, Judd's works stand directly on the floor and as a result, force the viewer to confront them according to their own, material existence.
Judd combined the use of highly finished, industrialized materials, such as iron, steel, plastic, and Plexiglas - techniques and methods associated with the Bauhaus School - to give his works an impersonal, factory aesthetic. This served to separate his pieces from those of the Abstract Expressionists, whose emphasis on the artist's touch gave their images a confessional, personal context.
Judd often presented his work in a serialized manner, a strategy that related to the reality of postwar, consumer culture as well as to the standardization and de-subjectifying nature of identical, multiple forms or systems. The multiple was another way to reinforce their materiality. This method was also seen as a part of a more general tendency toward the democratization of art, that is, to make art more accessible to more people, because it was composed of fabricated parts.
Donald Judd was born on June 3, 1928, in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. He spent much of his early childhood on his grandparents' farm and continued to live in the Midwest with his parents until they finally settled in New Jersey.
Interactive chart with Donald Judd's main influences, and the people and ideas that the artist influenced in turn.


Given a list of situations, which amendment of the Bill of Rights applies?
analyze one of the basic documents that shapes the government of the United States.
identify freedoms afforded by the Bill of Rights.
explain how the government protects individual rights.
analyze the importance of freedom of the press.
use their freedom of petition.
At the start of the lesson, give students a minute to write down three of the freedoms that are most important to them as citizens of the United States. Ask for volunteers to share their responses.
At this point in the lesson, present to students a mini-lesson in which you present the background history and highlights of the Bill of Rights. Check for understanding as you teach the main concepts.
Provide each student with a copy of the work sheet below, and review the directions with students. Arrange students into groups of three, and then have students work in their groups to complete the work sheet. Each group should come to a consensus and agree on the work sheet responses.
Directions: Read each scenario below. Explain in a couple of sentences whether you agree or disagree with each statement. Write the Bill or Rights amendment that relates to each scenario along with a brief statement that explains what you learned about that amendment. You may use your textbook and class notes.
A person who enters a room and screams "Bomb!" just to see the reaction of the people in the room is protected under provisions in the Bill of Rights.
Members of Congress can learn many different things -- such as what you like and dislike about the area where you live -- from letters you send to them.
A police officer comes to your door and asks to search your home without probable cause. You don't want to allow the officer to enter, but he is allowed to search your home.
Violence is getting to the point in our society where they should stop letting civilians own guns.
The Death Penalty is a good way to punish those who murder another human being.
A person is convicted of murdering another human being. Later, it is discovered that the victim of that murder had actually faked his or her death. Under those circumstances, it would be legal for the person convicted of the murder to kill the person who faked his/her death.
Your parents own a house. They invest hours of time and many thousands of dollar into it. The government can make your parents sell the house to them so a highway can be built on the land.
If a power is not expressed in the Constitution, then it is the responsibility of the individual states to protect citizens' rights.
Even after September 11th, people are still free to practice the Islamic religion in the United States.
A person involved in a dispute over $10 is permitted to take his or her complaint to a civil court.
President Bush is allowed to call you at home and tell you that you must let soldiers stay in your home.
Everybody in the United States has the right to a free education.
Provide time for students to share, compare, and contrast their replies to those scenarios.
Explain to students the directions for the evening's homework: Exercise your freedom of petition. Write a letter to your Congressman or Congresswoman. Write about something you would like to see done or changed. The letter should be 1 to 2 pages, double-spaced and typed.
Provide students an opportunity to begin the assignment in class so you can answer any questions they have as they get started.
list the freedoms provided under the Bill of Rights.
describe at least three freedoms that affect their everyday lives.
demonstrate their understanding of the Bill of Rights by completing the worksheet provided.
demonstrate their freedom of petition by writing a letter to a member of Congress about an issue of their choice.
Students will reflect on opinions expressed by group members and come to an agreed upon answer to each scenario on the work sheet. Throughout the classroom discussions, students will demonstrate that they value the opinions of other students.
Adam Burkett, a student at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.


The Justice Department invited a group of reporters to its offices on Tuesday night to view private text messages.
The messages were sent during the 2016 campaign by former investigators on the special counsel Robert Mueller's team, and some expressed a negative sentiment toward President Donald Trump.
The department's invitation was "highly unusual," one source said, since the texts are the subject of an ongoing investigation by its inspector general.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department invited a group of reporters to its offices on Tuesday night to view private text messages sent during the 2016 campaign by Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, former investigators on the special counsel Robert Mueller's team, Business Insider has learned.
President Donald Trump's allies have seized on the texts, which were critical of Trump, describing them as evidence that Mueller's investigation into Russia's interference in last year's election, including whether members of Trump's campaign colluded with Moscow, has been tainted.
The texts were obtained as part of an investigation this year by the DOJ's inspector general into how the FBI handled the probe into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.
Strzok, a veteran counterintelligence agent who was among those overseeing the Clinton investigation, was abruptly removed from Mueller's team in late July and relegated to the human-resources department. Page left over the summer for unrelated reasons.
It is "highly unusual" for the DOJ to release private correspondences that are the subject of an ongoing investigation to Congress, let alone to the press, a source on one of the congressional committees investigating Russia's election interference told Business Insider on Wednesday.
Asked by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday who authorized the invitation, Rosenstein demurred — but he said there had been a decision that the texts turned over to Congress were fit for public consumption.
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin asked Rosenstein whether he knew "of any other occasions in which material in an ongoing investigation was released to reporters."
Rosenstein replied: "We consulted wtih the inspector general to determine that he had no objection to releasing the material. If he had, we would not have released it."
A DOJ official provided a statement to Business Insider on Wednesday: "We often provide information we give to Congressional committees to avoid any confusion."
Asked whether that also applies during investigations by the inspector general, the official replied, "Statement stands."
It is true that the DOJ will sometimes give documents to reporters that it is already going to hand over to Congress. But it is not clear that the DOJ has ever released private text messages to the press that are the subject of an ongoing OIG investigation.
"Especially when there is still an ongoing internal investigation," she added. "Both FBI and DOJ have press offices that should be fielding questions from reporters on behalf of the agency."
Stephen Boyd, a former communications director for Sessions who's now the assistant attorney general for the Office of Legislative Affairs, provided the correspondences to Congress.
Former FBI agents who spoke to Business Insider last week emphasized that the nature of FBI investigations makes it impossible for one employee to exert outsize influence over others.
"The FBI investigators who are working on any given day will probably be mostly politically conservative," Rangappa said, drawing from her interactions with agents under President George W. Bush.
That is one reason, she said, Republicans should "think carefully" about the precedent they're setting in pointing to agents' political leanings as evidence of a tainted investigation.


My wife has an Ashkenazi background and loved singing Birkat Hamazon at the shabbat table with a traditional western melody (similar to http://www.chabad.org/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/692733/jewish/Bentching-Trax.htm , but without the instrumental, ofcourse). I am from an Iraqi background (nusach Edot Hamizrach) and recite Birkat Hamazon in a less 'melodious' fashion (very similar to, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAK-CdK0fJs). We use the od yosef chai siddur.
While both my wife and I have no dispute over the spiritual need and benefit to recite birkat hamazon she has expressed repeatedly that she misses the melodies she knows well and loved to use during birkat hamazon.
Is there a compromise somewhere? Are there ashkenazi-style melodies that are being used on the edot-hamizrachi text of the birkat hamazon? I've tried using the traditional melody, but edot-hamizrach differs sufficiently from the ashkenazi text to render the melody impractical at best.
Your question was asked in a much bigger way a few hundred years ago. The first large source to deal with this issue came from the Maharashdam (Rav Shmuel deMedina of the 16th Century), a large Turkish posek who was quoted by Sepharadim and Ashkenazim after him. The issue was that after the expulsion of Spanish Jews from Spain, the indigenous Turkish Jews found themselves outnumbered by the Sepharadim. Now most of the Synagogues were using the text of Minhag Sepharadi, and the Turkish Jews wanted to know if they had to use the Sepharadi Minhag of prayers (the new community standard), or if they could/should continue to use the original prayers of Minhag Turkey.
בטורקיה נתקבל נוסח הספרדים. וקמו מערערים לומר שרוצים להתפלל כסדר מנהג אבותיהם. ז"ל שו"ת מהרשד"ם (אורח חיים סימן לה), לא מצאנו ולא ראינו שאין לשנות מנהג אבותינו כי אם בדבר שיש בו נידנוד איסור. בכי-האי-גוונא דליכא צד איסור כלל ועיקר, ולא הרחקת עבירה -- בהא פשיטא דלא שייך ביה משום "אל תטוש תורת אמך". וכן יש לדקדק מלשון הר"ן שכתב (פסחים פרק ד ד"ה ונמצינו = דף יז ע"ב בדפי הרי"ף): נמצינו למדים בתורת המנהגות שכל מנהג איסור שהוא מעיר אחת -- כל שאינו מנהג בטעות אלא שהם החמירו על עצמן לעשות סייג לתורה או לדבר שהוא מחלוקת בין חכמי ישראל ונהגו כדברי האוסר כל בני העיר, חייבין בו מן הדין, ואפילו בצינעא, עד שיעקור דירתו משם ויקבענה בעיר אחרת, עכ"ל הר"ן. ומדאמר הר"ן שכל מנהג איסור וכו', ולא קאמר שכל מנהג סתם, משמע דלא אמרינן הכי אלא בדבר איסור שנהגו במקומו הוא דאין לשנות. הא במידי דליכא צד איסור כלל -- פשיטא שאין קפידא כלל.
Summary: We have not found and we have not seen any example to block the change of your ancestral minhag. except, in minhagim which have a minud (a little bit of) prohibition in them. And he states this is not his new idea, but rather it was taught by the Ran.
In other words, the only obligatory minhagim are those that have prohibitions involved in them. In practical terms, this means that refraining from rice during Pesach would be a binding minhag that cannot be changed because you are prohibiting yourself of something. As further clarified by [Rabbi Dovid Fink], a noted posek in Jerusalem: The nusach of your prayers, or the method of wrapping your tefillin, etc, have no aspects of prohibition, and therefore you can change them as you please. In this case of the Turkish Jews, they were allowed to pray in Nusach Sephard, or Nusach Turkey, whichever they wanted, whenever they wanted.
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Was the Ariadne of myth a cult hero or a goddess? In this essay, which is a draft of a Foreword that I am preparing for an online book by Robert T. Teske about Ariadne, my ultimate answer has to be this: Ariadne was both a female cult hero and a goddess. When we examine what we know about the rituals as well as the myths concerning this complex figure of Ariadne, rooted in traditions that go back all the way to the glory days of the Minoan-Mycenaean civilization that flourished in the second millennium BCE, we find that the idea of her death is central to her very identity. The death of Ariadne, consistently caused by the goddess Artemis in the many myths that survive into the first millennium BCE, defines her as a cult hero whose hero cult is linked to the myths about such a death. As I argue in this essay, such an identity of Ariadne as a cult hero in the historical period of the first millennium BCE is prefigured by her earlier identity as a goddess in the prehistoric period of the second millennium BCE.
I continue from where I left off in Classical Inquiries 2018.01.25. I focus here on another Athenian myth, as mentioned by Pausanias at 1.20.3, about the abandonment of Ariadne by her lover Theseus and about her seduction or—in terms of the mention made by Pausanias—her abduction by the god Dionysus. Pausanias at 1.20.3 mentions the myth as he sees it represented on a wall painting located inside the sacred precinct of the god Dionysus. According to the myth, Ariadne had slept with Theseus and is still asleep as Theseus quietly leaves her and sails off to Athens. Now Dionysus approaches from afar, preparing to seduce or abduct Ariadne. In the close-up from a modern painting of this myth, we see Ariadne asleep in the foreground, while Theseus is already sailing off in the background.
I continue from where I left off in Classical Inquiries 2018.01.11. I focus here on the details given by Pausanias at 1.17.3 describing a monumental wall painting in the sanctuary of Theseus. Depicted on this wall painting is the hero Theseus, who has just emerged from a deep-dive to the bottom of the sea. He is triumphantly holding in one hand the Ring of Minos and, in the other, the Garland of the sea-goddess Amphitrite, bride of Poseidon. The ring had been thrown into the sea by Minos, who challenged Theseus to recover it, while the garland was given to Theseus by Amphitrite, who had saved the hero from drowning and had thus made it possible for him to recover the ring. For the cover illustration, I have chosen a comparable mythological scene that was carved into a gem. It is a modern work of art. At the center is the hero Theseus, who is being carried along the sea-waves on the back of a dolphin and who is holding triumphantly a ring in one hand and a garland in the other—a garland of stars, it seems. This miniaturized scene as carved into a gem is comparable to the monumentalized scene that Pausanias saw painted on a wall in the sanctuary of Theseus.
In the posting for 2015.09.17, I showed what can be reconstructed as a Minoan-Mycenaean version of Ariadne. Here in the posting for 2015.09.24, I now turn to later versions, as reflected especially in the visual arts of the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. In these later versions, we can see more clearly the connectedness of Ariadne with idea of thalassocracy—an idea inherited from Minoan-Mycenaean civilization.
The concept of “the Cretan Odyssey”—or, better, “a Cretan Odyssey”—is reflected in the “lying tales” of Odysseus in the Odyssey. These tales give the medium of Homeric poetry an opportunity to open windows into an Odyssey that we do not know. In the alternative universe of a “Cretan Odyssey,” the adventures of Odysseus take place in the exotic context of Minoan-Mycenaean civilization as centered on the island of Crete.


her present age, she will be ten less than two times as old as she is now.
The length of a rectangle is ten percent more than its width.
The perimeter of the rectangle is two hundred ten feet.


Did Motorola just confirm a foldable RAZR phone?
We've already seen a couple foldable phones shown off this week from the likes of Samsung and Huawei, and we've seen teasers of foldable phones on the way from Xiaomi and Oppo, but the one rumor that has caught the imagination of many mobile phone fans has been the idea that Motorola might be working on a foldable RAZR. At least part of that question has been answered now.
Dan Dery, VP of Global Product at Motorola, confirmed in an interview that Motorola is indeed working on a foldable phone and plans to release it no later than other hardware makers. That's not a terribly specific time frame and not really helpful, in general. But, we know that Motorola announces its new devices during an event that tends to take place in June, so it seems reasonable to expect we'll at least see what Motorola is working on during the summer.
Dery said Motorola has been working on a folding phone design for a while and has tried a number of different options. He even said that the worries about scratching the plastic display required for foldable displays meant Motorola would likely want to avoid having the display on the outside of the device. Dery also noted that a dual-fold phone would be too difficult for a first attempt. So, that makes it sound like Motorola is working on a clamshell designed foldable phone and what does that sound like? A RAZR, right? Motorola did file a patent for a foldable RAZR phone last month so that's a lot of interesting evidence.
What do you all think? Would you want a foldable RAZR?
If it's executed correctly and has a decent battery I would be interested in this over the Fold or the Mate X.
Hopefully the final product looks a little different than what this patent represents - too much upper bezel to go along with that notch. Put the speaker and camera in the bezel and it would look much better.
Is no one else worried about your finger hitting the chin everytime? The chin seems in the way.
I would be interested even if it just folds out to the size of current flagship. I seldom need a tablet-sized device, but a modern flagship in a smaller form factor? I'd be all over that.
This is it, a really compact foldable phone.. I just hope the price isn't crazy high.