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Katherine Mangu-Ward

People love to freak out about incursions on their privacy. And by "people" I mean cable news shows. A week ago, Google implemented a plan to aggregate (most of) the data they collect from the many, many products they offer. Not to collect new data. Not to publish or disseminate that data in a new way. Just to put all the data in one pot and use it to tailor search results and ads across various platforms. Cue widespread panic about online privacy. Previously sacrosanct! Now utterly violated! Again!

As it happens, we know how much people value their privacy: They'll sell information about every prescription they fill at CVS -- or every pint of Haagen Dazs at Safeway -- in exchange for a steady infusion of $1 coupons. They'll hand off information about the timing of their daily commute in exchange for a couple of minutes saved at a toll booth every day. They'll let Amazon track their diaper and book purchases because they would rather not re-enter their credit card number every time they want to buy something.

In contrast to those seemingly paltry payoffs, I think people get a pretty decent bargain when they hand over their personal browsing, search, and email data to Google: powerful tailored search results, an elegant, efficient email management system, photo and document storage space of science-fictional proportions, and instant access to every otter video (and/or TED talk) of all time.

The price? Google does its darnedest to sell you stuff you would probably like to buy.

Two some extent this is just a two kinds of people thing. When you watch a YouTube video about replacing busted tire and then Google suggests a local repair shop with high yelp ratings, do you respond "cool" or "creepy"? I've always dug the magical quality of advanced technology.

But if you're more skeeved than pleased, consider letting your brain overpower your gut here. This is a fact you cannot change: All the free stuff on the Internet is possible because you slap your eyeballs on some ads from time to time. If Google and other retailers can't scrape and sort your data to offer a few well targeted ads, there are two other viable choices: 1) Less of the free stuff you like. Like this blog. It might stop being free. For instance. 2) More ads in the throw-spaghetti-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks school. Think: those annoying dancing silhouette gals selling cheap mortgages.

More upsides of life in the Googleverse: Google shrank and simplified their privacy policy, making some decent progress toward correcting this shocking semi-legit statistic from 2008 making the rounds this week: "Reading the privacy policies your encounter in a year would take 76 work days."

In 2003, Sun Microsystems founder Scott McNealy said: "You have no privacy. Get over it." He was right then. And he's even more right today. But don't just get over it. Learn to love it.

Bonus: For your daily dose of irony, check out this Washington Post which uses the words "spooky," "creepy," and "Tom Cruise" in a discussion of Google's new privacy policy. Now scan partway down the right sidebar, where readers are invited to "find the headlines that matter to you" on "Your Personal Post" -- an offer which asks readers to log in in order to customize the site based on the same concepts that power Google.


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This is likely to be the biggest campaign speech of his career that won't focus largely on biography.

Four years ago, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama gave the speech embedded above at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, accepting his party's nomination en route to his triumph at the ballot box. As the Democrats gather again, this time in Charlotte, North Carolina, it's an opportune moment to look back at that speech. Which points are likely to be repeated this year?

Which will go unmentioned?

Here are my predictions.

Obama first gained national attention with his 2004 speech at the DNC. In it, he explicitly tied his own biography to his belief in America's promise and exceptionalism, arguing that only in this country could the unusually named son of an African immigrant and a white woman achieve admittance to the best schools, professional success, and high office. He returned to that theme in 2008. "That's why I stand here tonight," he said. "Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women -- students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors -- found the courage to keep it alive."

By now, Americans no longer need to be introduced to Obama, and have heard his life story countless times; having already elected a black president, reelecting one doesn't seem historic; and Dinesh D'Souza and his followers aside, what we've seen of Obama in the White House informs how we judge his character a lot more than whatever we might gather from his background. For these reasons, the speech this year is likely to be much lighter on biography. This may seem obvious, but it's nevertheless notable, because this is the first time Obama has had to run for office without a story widely regarded as inspirational -- his own -- at the center of his campaign.

A DIFFERENT DEFINITION OF PROGRESSIn 2008, running against a GOP that governed as America slid into an economic downturn, Obama said:

You see, we Democrats have a very different measure of what constitutes progress in this country. We measure progress by how many people can find a job that pays the mortgage; whether you can put a little extra money away at the end of each month so you can someday watch your child receive her college diploma. We measure progress in the 23 million new jobs that were created when Bill Clinton was President - when the average American family saw its income go up $7,500 instead of down $2,000 like it has under George Bush. We measure the strength of our economy not by the number of billionaires we have or the profits of the Fortune 500, but by whether someone with a good idea can take a risk and start a new business, or whether the waitress who lives on tips can take a day off to look after a sick kid without losing her job - an economy that honors the dignity of work.
Obama will no longer measure progress by focusing on those metrics -- instead, he'll likely assert that it should be measured by the number of people with access to health care, the ability of gays to serve openly in the military, and the ease of women's access to contraception, among other things.

Four years ago, Obama promised to get us out of Iraq, send more troops into Afghanistan, and kill Osama bin Laden. Despite the troubled Afghan war effort, I predict he'll argue success on all fronts, perhaps even claiming that our presence in Afghanistan helped us to kill bin Laden and various other terrorists in Pakistan. What he can no longer claim, because of Afghanistan, is that "I will only send our troops into harm's way with a clear mission and a sacred commitment to give them the equipment they need in battle and the care and benefits they deserve when they come home." Nor can he rightly claim that "I will restore our moral standing," given all the innocents his drone policy has killed, but I suspect that he'll do it anyway by narrowly focusing on his success ending torture without suffering another terrorist attack. Finally, he'll try to assure us, simultaneously, that he's willing to go to war with Iran if necessary, and that the Republicans are spoiling to go to war with Iran even if it is unnecessary.

Said Obama in 2008:

These are the policies I will pursue. And in the weeks ahead, I look forward to debating them with John McCain. But what I will not do is suggest that the Senator takes his positions for political purposes. Because one of the things that we have to change in our politics is the idea that people cannot disagree without challenging each other's character and patriotism.
I don't expect Obama to attack the patriotism of Romney-Ryan. But attacks on their character will be common at the DNC -- if suggesting some of their positions are politically motivated counts as a character attack. Said Obama in 2008, "The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook."

Given the tenor of this campaign so far, I don't expect to hear that again.

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Reading Robert Penn Warren's 1964 interview with Martin Luther King Jr. along with Beth Reinhard's piece on how African-Americans still lack clout in Congress makes clear a conundrum at the heart of the unfinished revolution King helped lead. Namely, the minority-vote protections locked in by Section 2 the Voting Rights Act of 1965 worked best to ensure minorities had a voice in their own self-government at the federal level in an environment in which the party that elected African-Americans also controlled the House of Representatives, as Democrats did from 1955 to 1995 and again from 2007 to 2011.

King spoke about how inequality is fostered by physical segregation, which leads to segregated conversational communities. "Our society must come to see that this whole question of, of integration is not merely a matter of quantity -- having the same this and that in terms of a building or a desk or this -- but it's a matter of quality. It's, if I can't communicate with a man, I'm not equal to him. It's not only a matter of mathematics; it's a matter of psychology and philosophy," he told Penn Warren. It's an important point, and one we consider too infrequently these days, in which a more numbers-based approach to questions of equality often reigns supreme.

Meanwhile, the Voting Rights Act didn't just work to strengthen the right to vote, but the right to be represented, under Subsection (b) of Section 2.

A violation of subsection (a) of this section is established if, based on the totality of circumstances, it is shown that the political processes leading to nomination or election in the State or political subdivision are not equally open to participation by members of a class of citizens protected by subsection (a) of this section in that its members have less opportunity than other members of the electorate to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their choice.

What that meant in practice the rise of majority-minority districts in states where African-Americans or other minorities would otherwise have been unable to win office. When King spoke 50 years ago at the March on Washington, Reinhard points out, there were only five African-Americans in Congress. Today, 48 years after the Voting Rights Act passed, there are 44.

"But," she writes, "those numbers mask a hard reality: Even with an African-American in the White House, blacks arguably have less clout in Congress than they did in 1963."

She continues: "One key hurdle is obvious: All of the African-Americans in the House are Democrats serving in the minority, with scarce hope for a takeover in 2014 .... Another reason for their limited influence is that most come from relatively safe voting districts. Party leaders tend to dole out plum assignments and opportunities to carry legislation to members facing competitive elections."

And Republicans redrew House districts in 2012 to be even safer on their end.

So today we have set-up where minority voters are clustered in districts represented by the minority party in the House, while whites are over-represented in districts represented by the majority party. As Charlie Cook observed in March, "in the process of quarantining Democrats, Republicans effectively purged millions of minority voters from their own districts" with the result of "drawing themselves into safe, lily-white strongholds."

These substantially segregated congressional districts reflect a legacy of, on one side, a fear of contending for the votes of minorities and, on the other, certainty of defeat when contending for the votes of certain whites.

But this mid-century arrangement, strengthened since the 1990s and now hardened into place, is hardly ideal for ensuring minorities have a real say in the federal legislative branch during this extraordinarily partisan era. At the level of the presidential electorate, where everyone is potentially a part of the voting population, it's also not great for Republicans to be seen as the party of white people. (Republican Party leaders in Washington know this, and are working to change such perceptions, though leaders in key states, such as North Carolina, may have different views.)

To return to King's comments, one wonders how much real conversation there is when one party does not, in many districts, have to contend for the votes of minorities, and the other can only elevate minorities into positions of power when the political wind is blowing in its direction.


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The latest Press Freedom Index ranked the U.S. 46th.

That puts us around the same place as UC Santa Barbara in the U.S. News and World Report college rankings. If we were on the PGA tour we'd be Jonas Blixt of Sweden.

If we were on American Idol we'd have been sent home already.

Countries that scored better include Romania,  South Africa, Ghana, Cyprus, and Botswana. And 40 others. Put simply, it's an embarrassing result for the country that conceived the First Amendment almost 240 years ago. These rankings are always a bit arbitrary, but we're not anywhere close to the top tier these days. Why?

The report explains:

... the heritage of the 1776 constitution was shaken to its foundations during George W. Bush’s two terms as president by the way journalists were harassed and even imprisoned for refusing to reveal their sources or surrender their files to federal judicial officials. There has been little improvement in practice under Barack Obama. Rather than pursuing journalists, the emphasis has been on going after their sources, but often using the journalist to identify them. No fewer that eight individuals have been charged under the Espionage Act since Obama became president, compared with three during Bush’s two terms. While 2012 was in part the year of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, 2013 will be remember for the National Security Agency computer specialist Edward Snowden, who exposed the mass surveillance methods developed by the US intelligence agencies.

Elsewhere it notes:

US journalists were stunned by the Department of Justice’s seizure of Associated Press phone records without warning in order to identify the source of a CIA leak. It served as a reminder of the urgent need for a “shield law” to protect the confidentiality of journalists’ sources at the federal level. The revival of the legislative process is little consolation for James Risen of The New York Times, who is subject to a court order to testify against a former CIA employee accused of leaking classified information. And less still for Barrett Brown, a young freelance journalist facing 105 years in prison in connection with the posting of information that hackers obtained from Statfor, a private intelligence company with close ties to the federal government.

Some Americans reading those critiques will object that terrorism is a real threat, and insist that national security and freedom of the press must be balanced. Even if you agree in principle, consider the countries that rank highest on the 2014 Press Freedom Index. Here are the top 10: Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Denmark, Iceland, New Zealand, and Sweden.

Raise your hand if you're afraid to visit any of those countries.

Does anyone truly believe that the way they treat the press is imperiling their security, or that America couldn't prosper even if it was as friendly to the press as Finland? Does Team Obama believe that the terrorists are going to win in Sweden, New Zealand, and Iceland because their balance is too press-freedom friendly?

Take it from Lee Greenwood. "I'm proud to be an American because at least I know I'm freer than 47th-ranked Haiti" just doesn't have the same exceptionalist ring to it.

The index methodology is here. Having looked it over, I still want the U.S. to be on top next year. How about you?


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The European Commission has launched the first-ever official antitrust inquiry into Google's search and search advertising services. Despite Google's estimated 90 percent share of the European search advertising market, it hasn't necessarily done anything illegal. But its stranglehold may still be a prohibitive barrier to competitors, present and future.

The preliminary inquiry stems from three complaints. Two are from companies offering search services and claim that Google has purposely demoted their links in search results.

More interesting, though, is the third complaint from Ciao!, a German Microsoft-owned search engine, over a lack of transparency behind Google's AdSense system. It's a bit ironic that Microsoft is going to European regulators to complain about anti-competitive behavior. As the Economist explains, Ciao! and the industry group ICOMP, which includes Microsoft among its backers, take particular issue with the "black box" of Google's ad selling algorithms.

It is not clear why certain advertisers have to pay a minimum bid, how advertisements are ranked or how it comes up with the amounts it pays websites when they run advertisements managed by the firm. Without more information, "advertisers and policymakers have no way of verifying whether the dominant firm has exercised its power responsibly," ICOMP wrote in a recent paper.

While Google fiercely defends the secrecy of its ad program (its search algorithm is closely guarded, although Wired exposed some intriguing details this week) the basic structure is publicly available and will be critical to defending against accusations of abuse of power. It works something like this, according to Google's annual 10K filing: Imagine Alan, Betsy and Carl all bid on the same keyword at $1, $0.60 and $0.50 per click, respectively. Alan will receive the best ad placement and pay $0.61, Betsy will pay $0.51 and Carl will pay $0.01.

As The Financial Times reported, Google "has always maintained that advertising prices are set by auction, leaving it without any direct influence over pricing." If it were to set prices, Google would arguably be running, not just participating, in the European online ad market.

Google's defends its lack of transparency by arguing that advertisers can go elsewhere. But, as The Economist rightly argues, "in practice its big market share gives them little choice." Realistically, there is no alternative. The search ad market -- running, admittedly, without price-setting interference -- is nearly entirely run within the confines of Google "black box."

If a competitor were to devise a better, even more effective, way to advertise online, it would be incredibly difficult to begin to compete with Google and its command of online eyeballs. Its dominance effectively locks in advertisers.

To compete you need either to be incredibly well-funded, as Microsoft is, or to develop a game-changing way to advertise online. Merely offering a marginally better way  wouldn't be enough. While Google's dominance alone isn't anti-competitive, the resulting barriers to innovation may be.


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Americans Drive More, Fly Less to Memorial Day Celebrations

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AAA Forecasts a Slight Decrease in Overall Travel

Approximately 31.2 million motorists will pack the nation's highways this weekend as they drive at least 50 miles for their Memorial Day festivities. AAA Travel projects 34.8 million Americans are traveling for the holiday, a 0.9 percent decrease from the 35.1 million people who traveled last year. The Memorial Day holiday travel period is defined as Thursday, May 23 to Monday, May 27.

"Although overall national travel is down slightly with 34.8 million holiday travelers, we continue to see a general upward trend from the decade low in 2009 of 30.5 million travelers," according to Jim Lehman, President, AAA East Central. "Auto travel continues to be the most popular mode of travel. Approximately 89 percent of holiday travelers will be driving, most likely anticipating lower gas prices in many areas," he added.

East South Central region

Almost 2 million people from the East South Central states (Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi) expect to travel this holiday weekend. Approximately 88 percent will be traveling by car, while just over 7 percent will be flying to their destinations.

Impact of gasoline prices on travel plans

A survey of intended travelers found that gasoline prices would have no impact on plans for 62 percent of travelers. Of the remaining 38 percent of travelers who said gas prices would impact their travel plans, 27 percent plan to economize in other areas. Eight percent are planning to take a shorter trip and three percent will travel by an alternate mode of transportation.

Since national gas prices peaked at the end of February, motorists nationwide have felt welcome relief at the pump.

Air travelers to decline by eight percent

More than 2.3 million leisure air travelers (more than seven percent of holiday travelers) will arrive at their destination by air, an eight percent decrease from last year's 2.5 million air travelers. The remaining four percent of holiday travelers are expected to travel by other modes, including rail, bus and watercraft.

Median spending is expected to decrease as travelers prioritize family and friends

Median spending during the Memorial Day holiday weekend is expected to be $659, six percent less than the $702 median spending last year. Transportation is expected to consume approximately 28 cents of every dollar. Travelers expect to spend 22 percent on food and beverage and 20 percent on lodging.

During the holiday weekend, more than half of intending travelers will plan to partake in visiting with friends/family (59 percent) and dining (55 percent). Other popular activities include shopping (44 percent), going to the beach (32 percent) and touring and sightseeing (27 percent).

Car rental rates highest in four years, hotel rates rise modestly

According to AAA's Leisure Travel Index, hotel rates for AAA Three Diamond lodgings are expected to increase over four percent from one year ago with travelers spending an average of $166 per night compared to $160 last year. The average hotel rate for AAA Two Diamond hotels remained unchanged with an average cost of $120 per night. Weekend daily car rental rates will average $43, 19 percent more than last year and the highest rate recorded for the holiday since 2009.

AAA offers digital travel planning resources

AAA's digital tools for travel planning 'on the go' include eTourBook guides for 101 top North American destinations, available free to members at eBooks. Choose from city titles, like the award-winning Las Vegas, regions, like Wine Country, and National Parks. ______________________

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However popular sport utility vehicles may be, there are still plenty of would-be buyers out there who simply don't want the bulk and high running costs associated with many conventionally-sized (read big!) models. It's for these people that Suzuki has developed its all-new 1999 Grand Vitara - a compact, easy-to-handle SUV that offers surprising handling and performance and very commendable styling. And given the recent flurry of news reports about the ''environmental impact'' of SUVs, Suzuki could be poised to build some serious market share with its new rig.

Suzuki has a long-standing reputation for producing compact, affordable SUVs that offer go-anywhere capability, ease of handling and low running costs. The four door Grand Vitara is bigger than any of its Sidekick and Samurai predecessors, but it still falls into a compact category in the SUV market. Even so, it'll handle almost any chore the bigger rigs are capable of.

It certainly gives up nothing in styling to its more expensive rivals. It looks great from every angle and has a purposeful, wide-track, brawny stance that I find really attractive. Many models come with a very attractive two-tone paint job. The Grand Vitara doesn't look compact until you put it alongside a Jeep Grand Cherokee or Ford Explorer. Although this is a relatively inexpensive SUV, it gives visual the impression of being quite upscale.

Rugged composite bodyside cladding, which extends around the wheel arches, is an excellent protective feature and it looks good too. The rear door swings open and provides easy access to a roomy cargo deck - which can be expanded by folding the back seats. I'm no fan of tailgate-mounted spare wheels, but the Vitara's is at least full-sized and the setup does create more room inside. I suppose that with a compact SUV, there just isn't the room to locate the spare either inside or under the load deck.

One thing I didn't warm to was the power door lock arrangement. Although the key will lock all the doors, it only opens the driver's side. You have to reach inside and fiddle with a button while your passengers stand around in the rain. I found this a constant annoyance and wished that Suzuki had opted for a more convenient setup.

The Grand Vitara is powered by a very satisfying 155 horsepower V-6 that proved to be surprisingly refined on the highway and quite a ''stump-puller'' off-road. It's quite a bit more powerful than its Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4 rivals in the compact class. The Suzuki's V-6 is a sophisticated little motor with four cams and 24 valves working away inside. Not too many SUVs - especially inexpensive ones like the Grand Vitara - boast such a high-tech powerplant.

I did some serious off -road drives over very demanding territory with the Grand Vitara and it came through showing almost Jeep-like capability. I drove the vehicle on one day-long foray into the mountains around Whistler, crossing old washed-out logging roads and negotiating steep boulder-strewn grades. This little rig will take you just about anywhere when the going gets rough and no owner should feel hesitant about taking a Grand Vitara into the boonies..

My tester, which I drove for an extended period incidentally, was equipped with a smooth-shifting four-speed automatic transmission which didn't seem to clip off too much power. Four wheel drive - high or low range - is engaged with a secondary shift lever and there are no locking hubs to grapple with. You can also order your Grand Vitara with a 5-speed manual gearbox. Interestingly, neither the CR-V or the RAV4 offer a two-speed transfer case - even as an option. They don't offer a V-6 engine either and Suzuki undercuts them both on price.

Aiding performance on and off-road is an all-new 5-link rear suspension. Tackling a couple of runs up and down the Sea to Sky Highway to Whistler, I was amazed at the Grand Vitara's handling prowess. It powers round tight turns like a decent sedan - and maybe a little more competently than some.

Braking is taken care of with front discs and rear drums and ABS is standard - not always the case in this class. Other features include dual air bags, side impact beams and three-point seatbelts at all outboard positions. Rear passengers also get head restraints, which must be removed when setting up the truck for full cargo capacity. My tester was trimmed in a good-looking and seemingly durable cloth which was comfortable and easy to keep clean.

The snazzy exterior is complemented by an excellent cabin with clear instruments, easy-to-reach controls, lots of oddment space and more headroom than any Stetson-clad cowboy - or gal - could wish for.

I drove this Grand Vitara over a three-month period, on and off road, and it never missed a beat. The test didn't reveal a single flaw, which says a lot for a small automaker that seems to be making a big name for itself. A base Grand Vitara costs a very reasonable $22,995 (CDN), though options can push it close to thirty grand. Suzuki will soon launch a less expensive ''standard'' Vitara in short wheelbase two-door form. This model will also come as a convertible like its Sidekick predecessor.

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Start the year in a positive way! Inspired by David Letterman's "Top 10" lists, this back-to-school activity allows students to come up with 10 reasons why being back in school is great. It promotes positive-thinking and is a fun activity for the students.
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    Love your site, too. The lavender background is so pretty & calming. Of course, the content is awesome, as always!

  2. Tracee, I can’t wait to have my students write their own “Top 10 reasons why it’s great to be back in school” on the first day of the new school year.


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Michael Moore: By Watching Fox News You Have De Evolved

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Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore on Friday charged that people who watch Fox News have actually “de-evolved.”

Appearing on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the conversation was about where conservatives turn for news.

“The real problem is Fox News,” Maher said. “It’s the way conservatives get their information. It’s Fox News, it’s Rush Limbaugh, it’s Drudge, it’s a thousand books by Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin…the problem is how they get their information.”

Moore responded, “But it’s not information. You’ve made that point before — and actually I think you’ve said on previous shows that people would actually be better off watching no news than watching Fox News because by watching Fox News you have de-evolved.”

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A student chemist in a lab was working with a liquid that exhibited unusual properties. The substance would switch between being a frozen solid to a boiling liquid.

What science could be at play here?

First, take a look at the video of the lab experiment to see the substance in action:

“During a mass spectrometry experiment in the laboratory, we observed this happening to an unknown fluid sample,” the Reddit user going by Tenstone wrote, noting that the point of the experiment was to identify the sample.

“The flask is being evacuated, which drops the pressure and temperature. However, the idea is to vaporize the fluid by dropping the pressure so that we can [analyze] the vapour with the mass spectrometer. Interestingly, what I believe is happening is that the top of the liquid (which has surface tension so is less prone to vaporization) is freezing due to the temperature drop, while the liquid underneath is boiling due to the pressure drop. Is this correct?” the Redditor asked.

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A few subsequent commenters on Reddit speculated that the substance hit its “triple point,” a point at which the three phases — solid, liquid and gas — occur at the same time.

“Chemist here. You were indeed freezing it at the same time you were vaporizing it,” BantamBasher135 wrote. “As /u/m1ld pointed out, you found the triple point of this particular sample. The reason the bubbles were freeing first… well, there are a couple options. First I suspect there might have been some solvent left over. When that was evacuated the pure compound froze instantly. Second, the bubbling at the surface allows for easy re-orientation of the molecules, which allows them to form a crystal lattice without any additional energy expenditure. Additionally, the growth of the crystals on top of the liquid provided surface area–and especially sharp points– for the liquid to then boil.”

This video from Fluke Calibration details how a triple point is reached:

Though Tenstone might have better insight into what could be going on with the liquid, as of Sunday the Redditor wrote that he’s still not sure what it is.

(H/T: io9)


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I have been tested on may 7th and received my negative result. It was exactly 12 weeks after my last exposure. I was also tested at 6 and 9 weeks. I know that I am negative. I have recently entered a relationship and we have made the decision to be monogamus. I am on birth control so I would like to have sex without condoms. I told my boyfriend that I want him to take an hiv test to know all is well. He agreed. However, I may have thrown away my 12 week positive result and he wants me to get retested with him. They will not give me a copy of my previous test result, I have to test again. I have no problem doing that, but I am terrified that I could get a false positive?? Do you think I have any reason to worry about this since the other tests came out negative? Thanks so much

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Nutrient Deficiency Associated with New HIV Medication

By Kelly Williams, R.D., L.D., and Guy Pujol

December 2001

On October 26, 2001, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new drug for the treatment of HIV disease. Tenofovir (brand name Viread), the first in a new class of HIV medications called the nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors, has the benefit of once-daily dosing as well as a unique mutation pattern which makes it effective in medication-experienced patients with resistant viral strains. While an effective and exciting new drug, tenofovir is not without its side effects. Commonly reported adverse events include gastrointestinal events (nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and flatulence), weakness, and abdominal pain; and, precautions include renal impairment, lactic acidosis and severe hepatomegaly with steatosis (enlarged liver with fat accumulation) and bone toxicity or impairment.

This last precaution, bone toxicity or impairment, is most likely associated with a phosphorus deficiency induced or caused by tenofovir. Because phosphorus deficiencies are associated with tenofovir, physicians should check a patient's phosphorus levels before prescribing tenofovir, as well as regularly monitor phosphorus levels during therapy with tenofovir. Fortunately, healthy phosphorus levels can be maintained through nutrient-rich foods, thus avoiding a long-term deficiency that may result in more severe conditions.

Why Is Phosphorus Important?

Phosphorus is an essential mineral that is crucial for almost every cell in the body. First, it is critical for bone structure. In the kidneys, phosphorus plays an important role in converting vitamin D to its biologically active form, which is required in order for the body to absorb calcium, needed for development and maintenance of bone. Phosphorus is also a component of hydroxyapatite, the structural component of bone. Second, phosphorus is found in phospholipids, which make up the structure of cellular and plasma membranes in the body, as well as in many enzymes required for proper metabolism. Third, all energy production and storage in the body is dependent upon phosphorus to form adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the molecule responsible for carrying energy. Fourth, phosphorus is important in hormonal function and in regulating the acid-base (pH) balance in the body. Of total body phosphorus, roughly 80 percent is found in bone, and 9 percent is found in skeletal muscle.

What Happens if I Do Not Have Enough Phosphorus?

When the body becomes deficient in phosphorus (a condition known as hypophosphatemia), several processes are affected. In the early stages of hypophosphatemia the body experiences shifts in electrolytes. There is typically an increase in sodium, chloride, calcium, and water, while there is a marked decrease in potassium, magnesium, and nitrogen. If the deficiency persists, the body will try to compensate for the phosphorus deficiency by pulling calcium from the bones. Therefore, with chronic hypophosphatemia, adults tend to develop osteomalacia, which is a softening of the bones, along with muscle weakness and bone pain. Children often experience impaired growth as a result of hypophosphatemia. The potential for hypophosphatemia resulting from a tenofovir-induced deficiency is probably why possible bone toxicity or impairment is listed with other precautions in tenofovir's full prescribing information (see package insert (PDF)).

Many other disorders can also be associated with phosphorus deficiency. Proximal myopathy consists of muscle atrophy and weakness, and is often accompanied by osteomalacia. Rhabdomyolysis is characterized by severe muscle pain, weakness, tenderness, stiffness, and swelling, although this usually occurs only in hospitalization situations. Low energy (ATP) levels are common, resulting in fatigue. Cardiomyopathy (weakening of the heart) and/or arrhythmias occur in about 20 percent of patients with hypophosphatemia. Several other events are possible, although rare: respiratory problems, platelet disorders (impaired blood clotting), metabolic acidosis, and nervous system disorders.

How Can I Keep My Phosphorus Levels Normal?

The key to success lies in prevention of phosphorus deficiency. Fortunately, many foods high in phosphorus are also high in protein -- another nutrient that is crucial for people living with HIV. Meats, dried beans, milk, and eggs are all excellent sources of phosphorus. Grains and cereals are also good sources. Carbonated beverages or sodas do contain a fair amount of phosphorus, but they may be contraindicated because of other medical conditions.

Here are some tips to help you maintain your phosphorus levels while taking tenofovir:

Another diet-related issue with tenofovir is taking the medication with food. Tenofovir should be taken with food to enhance its bioavailability. In clinical studies, the best types of meals contained 700 to 1000 calories with 40 percent to 50 percent of the calories coming from fat because they maximized bioavailability of the active drug; however, it is best to discuss such diet recommendations with a dietitian before implementing such a high fat diet as it may be contraindicated because of other medical or health considerations.

Remember, it is extremely important for all HIV-positive individuals to consult with a registered dietitian (R.D.). In addition to helping you maintain adequate phosphorus levels, a dietitian can help you maintain or accomplish a healthy weight, prevent or fight wasting, and manage side effects associated with HIV and HIV medications.

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Clay, a Mudwing, is one of those dragonets, and he (for better or worse) has no desire to be a fighter, or to Change the World. He just wants to be with his clan -- Tsunami (Icewing), Sunny (Sandwing), Glory (Rainwing), and Starflight (Nightwing) -- and to hide from everything. Well, maybe he does want to meet the parents he was snatched from all those years ago. But when things come to a head in the underground caves, and Tsunami propels them into escape, Clay (and his clan) will find out that things are a lot more Dangerous and Ominous than they thought.

This was a lot of fun. The whole prophecy-as-a-copout thing aside, I thoroughly enjoyed the world that Sutherland created. There's some very despicable dragons to root against, and the dragonets (collectively, though I really liked Clay) are worth rooting for. I liked the complications of politics, the throwbacks to Roman times, and just the whole dragon thing. It's not as good a dragon book as, say, Seraphina, but then it's aimed at an entirely different audience. And for that audience, it works immensely well.

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Ernest Michael Merkelis, 62, of Clayton, passed away July 26, 2014, at Heavens Landing Airpark.

Born November 6, 1951, in East Chicago, Indiana, to Ernest and Helen Merkelis, he grew up in Calumet City, Illinois. In 1972, he married his wife Janice and during the next 32 years, they founded and built one of the largest residential and commercial security businesses in the South Chicago metropolitan area. They moved to the local Clayton area in 2011 after selling their business and entering retirement.

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Ernie is survived by his wife, Janice; his mother Helen; two brothers, John and Tom; and a sister, Marilu.

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In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations in Ernie’s name be sent to: Rabun Paws 4 Life, P.O. Box 216, Clayton, Georgia, 30525.

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Confirming his somewhat sudden departure, Cohen said in a statement yesterday: "To all the artists and employees who live and die for the music every day, and who personally sacrifice for the good of the creative process: 'keep on keepin on' in the tradition of a company that respects and honours the artistic community".

While Len Blavatnik, whose Access Industries acquired Warner Music last year, said: "I personally want to thank Lyor for his dedication and contributions to Warner Music. He has been both a business partner and personal friend and I wish him only the best".

Meanwhile Stephen Cooper, put in place as overall CEO of the Warner Music company by Access Industries after last year's acquisition, added: "Lyor Cohen has built something very special here. While we understand his desire to move on to his next challenge, the enduring success of our recorded music division will serve as a great testament to the progress we've made during Lyor's time at WMG. We are grateful for Lyor's contributions, and we wish him the best. I'm confident that given the strength of our talented management team in Recorded Music, we'll be able to drive further success".

Needless to say, speculation as to what has led to Cohen's exit from Warner is rife. Rumours of tensions between finance-focused Cooper and music industry veteran Cohen have generally been denied by senior insiders, who argue that the two men complemented each other well. Though it is possible there were differences of opinion regards long-term strategy, Cooper possibly having a much clearer personal vision for Warner Music now he has been in the CEO role for a year.

Other rumours suggest that the major simply couldn't agree new terms with Cohen, whose original pay packet including generous stock options which would need to be revised when Warner went from public to private ownership. Billboard cites sources as saying that Cohen's existing pay package was also rather generous by Access Industries standards, which would have made negotiations tricky, especially if the record industry veteran was seeking even more favourable terms.

There's been speculation also overnight regarding where Cohen may go next, and who might replace him at Warner Music, outgoing EMI chief Roger Faxon being one name linked to the role. Though Faxon's real experience, of course, lies in music publishing rather than recorded music, and at Warner the two sides of the business are still pretty autonomous from each other.

Unless Warner is interested in pursuing the more integrated approach Faxon was trying to install at EMI before the company was put up for sale by its banker owners, though if the soon-to-be-former EMI man was given a cross-company role at Warner, then what would Cooper do? That said, with the bosses of each Warner label division now reporting into Cooper directly, it may be that the major will instigate a bit of a restructure at the top before filling the seat left empty by Cohen.

As for him, wonderers have been wondering whether a return to his former employer Universal Music could be on the cards, perhaps to oversee the newly acquired Capitol division in the US, though Cohen himself might see that as a step backwards.

A Sony Music role has also been mooted, Cohen having apparently overcome past tensions between him and the top guy there, his former boss at Universal Doug Morris, who wasn't best pleased when Cohen jumped ship to Warner in 2004. Though at Sony too, the senior executive lounge is quite crowded, and taking a seat alongside the other division chiefs might seem like a backwards step.

Some new stand-alone venture might be more likely, and maybe even a return to artist management; either way, few expect Cohen to be away from the music business for too long.

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Sony Music can add two more digital royalty lawsuits to its pile, which is fun. Last week both REO Speedwagon and William 'Boz' Scaggs sued the major for a bigger cut of digital revenue.

As much previously reported, most traditional record contracts paid artists a much bigger share of so called licensing revenue than of monies generated by record sales. Since the digital revolution, the majors have treated download income as record sales and paid the lower royalty. But many artists argue that download revenues actually stem from licensing deals with the likes of iTunes, so where download income isn't specifically mentioned in a record contract, it should be considered licensing revenue and the higher artist cut should be paid.

Numerous heritage artists now have lawsuits pending on this issue, some of them class actions. All are relying on a precedent possibly set in a legal dispute between some early Eminem collaborators and Universal Music. FBT Productions convinced a US court that they should be getting the higher licensing royalty on download sales of various Slim Shady tracks in which they have a stake. Universal insists that the ruling in that case does not apply to all pre-digital record contracts, though Rob Zombie, Chuck D, George Clinton, Peter Frampton, Sister Sledge, Kenny Rogers and James Taylor, among others, do not agree.

As also previously reported, Sony Music has actually been battling digital royalty litigation longer than Universal, the Allman Brothers and Cheap Trick having sued the major over the issue in 2006. That lawsuit initially ran out of steam, mainly because of legal technicalities, though negotiations continued behind closed doors and in March this year a deal was announced offering all of Sony's heritage artists still on old record contracts a 3% increase in their download revenue share.

Linked to the Allman Brothers and Cheap Trick's original class action, that deal still needs court approval and, ironically, last week, just as the lawyer representing both REO Speedwagon and Boz Scaggs filed his paperwork, lawyers working on the settlement deal were pushing a judge in New York to reach a decision on the 3% proposal. If that settlement gets court approval, any qualifying heritage Sony act will be able to take the 3% increase, or opt out to pursue their own action against the major.

As those artists already suing the various majors on this issue expect to get a much bigger increase in their digital royalties than 3% if they win, it will be interesting to see if any Sony acts take the carefully negotiated quick-fix settlement should it get court backing. REO Speedwagon and Boz Scaggs, presumably, are hoping for the bigger prize.

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Fiona Apple has spoken about her arrest for cannabis possession last week at her first gig following the incident. As previously reported, the musician spent a night in a Texas jail before being released on a $10,000 bail after border patrol officials found cannabis on her tour bus. The brief incarceration caused a planned concert in Austin to be postponed.

Speaking about the incident at a show in Houston on Saturday, Apple said she was basically treated well during her very brief jail stint, but that she had issues with four specific prison guards. The implication of the singer's on-stage ramble - subsequently posted to YouTube, obviously - was that she'd not reveal said guards' misdemeanours providing they didn't try to capitalise on having had a celebrity in their cells for a few moments of fame. Or something like that.

Said Apple: "Now, most of the people were very nice to me. [But] there are four of you out there, and I want you to know that I heard everything you did. I wrote it all down with your names, and everything you did and said stupidly thinking that I couldn't hear or see you. I then ripped the paper up, but not before I encoded it and, I got two lock boxes. We'll call them 'holding cell one' and 'holding cell two'. In 'holding cell one' is the encoded version of the shit that you did that I know was inappropriate and probably illegal. In 'holding cell two' is the decoder".

She continued: "I'm the only one who holds the key, and you and I will be intimate forever because I will hold that secret forever. Unless of course the 'celebrity' that you had so much interest in - but you wanted to accuse me of bringing up, while you laughed at me all night - [well if] you're interested in being a celebrity, I'll make you fucking famous any time you ask and I'll open those boxes. So why don't you stay in your fucking holding cell?"

Perhaps unsurprisingly, staff at the Hudspeth County Sheriff department weren't very impressed with Apple's on-stage threats, and have told reporters that the singer should either file a formal complaint or shut up, adding that staff at the unit weren't in the business of scoring brief moments of fame by publicly bragging about their celebrity inmates.

In an open letter to Apple, the sheriff department's Public Information Office Rusty Fleming wrote: "First, honey, I'm already more famous than you, I don't need your help. However, it would appear that you need mine. Have you ever heard of Snoop [Dogg], Willie [Nelson] or Armand Hammer? Maybe if you would read something besides your own press releases, you would have known BEFORE you got here, that if you come to Texas with dope, the cops will take your DOPE away and put YOU in jail".

She added: "You and I only met briefly in the hallway, [so] I don't [really] know you, but I'm sure you're an awesome and talented young woman. [And] I'm sure that [your fans] would just as soon you get this all behind you and let you go back to what you do best - so my last piece of advice is simple 'just shut-up and sing'. Sincerely, Rusty Fleming".

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The lovely Leslie Feist has won this year's Polaris Prize, Canada's equivalent of the Mercury. She won the honour and the CDN$30,000 prize that goes with it for her album 'Metals'.

Asked for a quote for the award's official press release, Feist said: "Polaris is asking me for a quote... I haven't had a second to consider how to talk about this yet, but what I want to say is thank you to the people who really listened to my record. I'm genuinely grateful from one solitary listener to another. Honestly, thanks".

Feist's 'Metals' beat competition from other shortlisted albums by Cadence Weapon, Cold Specks, Drake, Kathleen Edwards, Fucked Up, Grimes, Handsome Furs, Japandroids and Yamantaka/Sonic Titan.

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No less than 30 music brands appear in the list of 571 companies and products that were officially declared 'cool brands' this week, which means that 5% of the coolest brands in the UK have music at there heart.

Led by The Centre For Brand Analysis, the Cool Brands survey puts approximately 1250 brands, selected by the Centre from a database of thousands, in front of a panel of 39 cool dudes (including designers, DJs, journalists, creatives and entpreneurs), to test awareness and perceived coolness. 3000 members of the public are then also asked to select which brands they consider to be 'cool' from the big list.

All that rating is then processed, with 571 brands this year getting a score that deemed them to be officially 'CoolBrands'. And in 2012 that list included six festivals, two music venues, six record labels, five music technology brands, five digital music services, one entrainment retailer and five music media.

Meanwhile a Top 20 of the coolest brands overall is also published, with Apple and YouTube topping those proceedings this year, neither of which are included in the music tally above, but both of which arguably earn some of their coolness from an association with music.

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Bon Iver main man Justin Vernon has said that he may bring the project to a close at the end of his next stint of activity, or at least put it on hiatus, to ensure it comes to an end "while I still care about it".

Asked by US radio station The Current what plans he had for Bon Iver after the band's current touring stint, he said: "Winding it down. I look at it like a faucet. I have to turn it off and walk away from it because so much of how that music comes together is subconscious or discovering. There's so much attention on the band, it can be distracting at times. I really feel the need to walk away from it while I still care about it. And then if I come back to it - if at all - I'll feel better about it and be renewed or something to do that".

So, you'd probably better get yourself tickets for those upcoming tour dates in November just in case.

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A summer in the making, and featuring co-production from past collaborator Peter Walsh, Scott Walker will release a brand new studio record bearing the title 'Bisch Bosh' on 3 Dec.

It's so named after Dutch artist Hieronymous Bosch (and not, obviously, the German electronics brand) because - like Bosch's paintings - it apparently can't be "apprehended" all at once, and features both heavenly and hellish themes.

The Wire Contributing Editor Rob Young has written a detailed blurb about it, with quotes from Walker on specific tracks and aspects of the LP, so read that here.

See You Don't Bump His Head
Corps De Blah
SDSS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter)
The Day The 'Conducator' Died

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Berlin-based pianist and composer Nils Frahm has marked his own 30th birthday by giving away for free his new LP 'Screws', which is a pretty nice and selfless thing to have done.

Very selfless, in fact, given that it was recorded under awkward circumstances, Frahm having broken his thumb falling out of his in-studio bunk bed one night. The thumb incapacitated (it was braced by four metal screws, hence the title), all nine tracks on the long player were played by Frahm with his nine intact digits.

Nils explains it all: "Even though my doctor told me not to touch a piano for a while, I just couldn't resist. I started playing a silent song with four fingers on my left and the remaining five on my right hand. I set up one microphone and recorded another tune every other night before falling asleep. The day I got rid of my cast I had recorded nine little tunes. They have helped me feel less annoyed about my accident".

Hear and download 'Screws' in its entirety via SoundCloud.

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Faux Discx, Gringo Records and Italian Beach Babes are to co-release 'Persistent Malaise', the debut long player by Brighton three-piece Cold Pumas.

In advance of its official issue on 5 Nov, have a blast of component track 'Fog Cutter', which is also available to download free.

You can also defer to the band's Tumblr for forthcoming tour dates (the most imminent at London's Old Blue Last on 24 Oct) and additional notes on the LP.

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Having had to "peel themselves off the road" to record their new LP 'Babel', roving folk gentlemen Mumford & Sons will in November begin a midwinter tour comprising six theatre and eight arena dates. They're billing it the 'Tour Of Two Halves', by the way, because that's what it is.

You can look at the dates in just a minute, but first please note that 'Babel' is now available to purchase and prize forever. And fuck off anyone who doesn't like it.

Tour dates:

21 Nov: Torquay, Princess Theatre
22 Nov: Portsmouth, Guildhall
23 Nov: Ipswich, Regent Theatre
25 Nov: Dundee, Caird Hall
26 Nov: Carlisle, The Sands Centre
27 Nov: Llandudno, Venue Cymru
4 Dec: Newcastle, Metro Radio Arena
5 Dec: Glasgow, SECC
7 Dec: Birmingham, LG Arena
10 Dec: Manchester Arena
11 Dec: London, O2 Arena
13 Dec: Cardiff, CIA
15 Dec: Belfast, Odyssey Arena
16 Dec: Dublin, The O2

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Steps would like you all to know that they're off on a "festive flavoured" tour quite soon. And look, now you know.

The boot-scooting pop quintet will release a Christmas-themed collection titled 'Light Up The World' - their first new studio LP in over a decade - via their Warner Music imprint Steps Recordings on 12 Nov, promoting it via the live dates you're about to have a look at:

30 Nov: Plymouth, Pavilion
1 Dec: Sheffield, City Hall
2 Dec: London Palladium
3 Dec: Manchester, Apollo
4 Dec: Glasgow, Royal Concert Hall
5 Dec: Wolverhampton, Civic Hall

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Already doing a DJ set on 23 Nov as part of this year's Hydra Series, James Blake has also announced several 'proper' live dates he's playing in December.

Blake (as his alternative solo alias Harmonimix) will also officially release two 'Harmonimixes' of tracks by ex Roll Deep rapper Trim aka Trimbal via R&S on 24 Sep, and accordingly has just debuted the video for A-side 'Confidence Boost'. View it now, why don't you.

Tour dates:

3 Dec: Bristol, Thekla
4 Dec: London, Conway Hall
6 Dec: Manchester, Gorill

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The Charlatans and super-prolific CMU approvee Keel Her will perform at a 'Sub-Sonic Live' party in honour of popular polo-shirt brand Fred Perry's sixtieth anniversary tomorrow. The night - which transpires at London's the Garage - will also feature DJ sets by Norman Jay, Terry Hall and Don Letts.

Tickets and further info via this link.

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Vince Power's Music Festivals plc confirmed yesterday that it was calling in the administrators after requesting that the sale of shares in the firm be suspended on Friday.

The latest live music venture from one-time Mean Fiddler chief Power only floated last summer, but has struggled in a challenging year for music festivals, with the British Hop Farm event in particular failing to perform, and the company's other main fest, Benicassim in Spain, also having a less good year than hoped.

The company's board admitted last week that it had failed to secure new funding, and confirmed it had asked London's Alternative Investment Market to stop the trading of its shares. In a statement yesterday the firm added: "The board of Music Festivals has resolved to appoint an administrator and once that appointment has been agreed a further announcement will be made in due course".

What this development means for the future of the Hop Farm Festival and Benicassim isn't yet clear.

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The Proud empire's Proud2 venue, in the former Matter space under The O2 dome, has had its licence temporarily suspended following an incident earlier this month. According to reports, a fight at the House Of Joy night hosted at the venue on 2 Sep resulted in two men being stabbed and a bouncer being hit with a bucket. The venue was subjected to a 28 day suspension of its licence pending an investigation by Greenwich Council, which will result in a full licence review on 4 Oct.

Despite speculation that the incident could have longer-term implications for the venue's license, owner Alex Proud has told The Stage that he expects the space to re-open following this review, even if some licensing conditions might change.

Proud told the theatre industry publication: "We are confident the club will reopen, but perhaps with some new conditions pertaining to our licence, such as maybe closing the club a couple of hours earlier. I am profoundly upset and disappointed at what we think is the police's heavy-handed approach. Even if we win in a month's time and can reopen, [the temporary closure] will have massively affected the club's viability because a lot of the promoters will have become understandably nervous and moved their nights".

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MySpace posted a video preview yesterday of it's all new look, the actual launch date of which is tbc.

The current owners of the one time social networking phenomenon have been promising a radical relaunch ever since they acquired the website off Rupert Murdoch's News Corp in 2011, though, despite some redesigns and a refocus on music, the platform remains very much as before, and as clunky as ever to use.

However, work has been underway for sometime now on a 'designed from scratch' Myspace v2 that would be free of the technical limitations that have dogged the site since it well and truly lost the social networking race to Facebook.

From the speedy video preview posted yesterday, it's not entirely clear what services the new look MySpace will offer, how it will work, or how it will specifically integrate with Facebook and Twitter (though such integration is hinted at), though it certainly looks a lot sleeker than past MySpace incarnations, and music does still seem to be very much part of the equation (as does Creative Director Justin Timberlake).

Obviously MySpace carries a lot of brand baggage as well as the technical baggage that hindered its growth, and many will ask why the former social network is needed in 2012 - what will it offer that Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr don't already provide between them?

Though, with media coverage of Facebook these days almost exclusively concerned with privacy issues and share price gloom (even if both aren't entirely justified), perhaps autumn 2012 is the right time for a MySpace revival. It would be rather remarkable if Timberlake and his business partners at Specific Media could actually pull that off.

See the preview here.

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Noel Gallagher has apologised for ruining music with Oasis's first album, so you can all rest easy now.

Speaking to Q, Gallagher said: "One of the best nights I've had out recently was at Coachella. We were up till seven o'clock in the morning, listening to those classic house tunes, going, 'Why did music have to change? Why couldn't it have stayed like this?' Then someone said, 'It's because of you!' And I was, 'Yeah, sorry about that'".

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The Role of Boredom in Financial Crises
Posted by Erik Gerding

Many of you won't read this post until Monday morning, which is the ideal time to consider the role that boredom may play in financial crises.

Consider asset-backed securities.  Many transactional lawyers considered securitization work something to avoid at all cost in their careers.  Why?  In part, because it was extremely technical and involved math.

How many of you with practice experience were shocked that these instruments now appear at the heart of the crisis?

Consider the role that risk management based on complex mathematical models also played in the crisis.  Unless you are like me, not particularly sexy stuff.

Now recall what Enron was all about -- off-balance sheet securitizations and accounting rules.

I tell my students that there is a lot of money to be made if you are a transactional lawyer who is not afraid of math and understands some finance and accounting.  On the flip side, if you are scared of math, someone will take your lunch money in a negotiation and you won't even realize it.  This goes for litigators and settlement agreements too.

Moreover, this lesson on technical expertise applies to regulators and scholars too.  Shying away from the technical and "boring" stuff can have grave consequences.

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{reading} Barnheart

I recently finished reading Barnheart:The Incurable Longing for a Farm of One's Own, by Jenna Woginrich. The title alone sold the book to me, and this memoir was a delight to read.

Woginrich moved to Vermont for a new job and was certain that she was going to start homesteading on her tiny rented acreage in the Vermont mountains. Her experience was small, other than gardening, raising chickens and rabbits in northern Idaho, she was a rookie at the farming adventure. But Woginrich was determined, and having recently published a book, , she documented her first few years in Vermont as a newbie sheepherder and farmer.
The section that I enjoyed the most occurred towards the end of the memoir, as Woginrich reflected on her vegetarian past and how that contrasted with her delight in raising a turkey for the sole and set purpose of sitting on her Thanksgiving Dinner table.

Woginrich writes:

"Raising food myself had changed my ideas about humans and animals, but not in that macho way, in which people think that other living things are theirs to exploit. No, this was not a question of possession. It was a question of equality... Treating animals as equals doesn't mean treating them like people; it means seeing humans as animals. We are all pieces of one big puzzle. Before I became so aware of the life and death involved with everything we eat, I saw us as separate. Us and Them. But as I evolved from a consumer to a producer, I began to see humans as the animals we truly are. We're all food, organic matter that will either feed the soil or another animal. Eating meat is what predators do, and human beings are nothing if not predators. I had no problem with a wolf eating me or my eating a deer. We were all in this together" (pg 138-39).

I love how she reached this conclusion, and watching how her connection with the land, growing food, and raising animals for meat, changed her perspective on her vegetarian lifestyle choices. I won't tell you what happened to the turkey, (it's an unexpected twist!) but she did ultimately start eating meat again.

Great memoir, and a great read! I heartily recommend it, and I can't wait to read her earlier memoir, Made from Scratch.

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1. Firing Line 2 routes in Cliff

All Trad
Access Issues: inherited from Mt Stuart

Do not park too close to the gate yor car may be moved

During the year the car club holds races on the mountian road. during this time road access is closed.

Ethic: inherited from Mt Stuart

-Take all rubbish home with you. -Be aware of loose rocks and other climbers who could be below you

RouteGradeStyleSelected ascents
1 Tampa Proof

15m to the right of 'Mixed Heritage' are 2 cracks 1.5m apart from each other. 'Tampa Proof' is the RH line. Nice climbing with good gear & a sling off a tree takes you to a large belay ledge.

FA: Rik Wittkopp, Paul Davis, 2001

17 Trad 27m
2 Stiff Upper Lip

6-8 meters R of 'Tampa Proof' is a body width crack with 2 chock-stones down low & a roof before the top-out. Up past the chock-stones taking care not to deck out while slinging the 2nd block. Continue up & left following gear placements to a restin the cave under the roof. A few inventive moves & a crucial camalot #4.5 cam (or equivalent) will see you through the crux to the difficult top-out. All natural, & all bomber gear was the highlight of this climb.

FA: Nathan Walmsley, 2002

21 Trad 28m

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Lionel Shriver’s Book Bag: Novels About Terrorism

From Philip Roth’s homegrown American to an Irish love story, Lionel Shriver picks her favorite novels featuring terrorism. Her new novel is The New Republic.

Windows on the World
By Frédéric Beigbeder

‘Windows on the World’ by Frédéric Beigbeder. 320 pp. Miramax. $24.95 ()

Still one of the best 9/11 novels. The author breaks two rules with panache: that you have to be American, optimally a New Yorker, to write with authority about the World Trade Center (Beigbeder is from France, where this novel was first published in 2004); and that books published too closely on the heels of any such tragedy are bound to suffer from a lack of perspective and come out rubbish. To the contrary, the story of a father taking his son to breakfast at just the wrong restaurant on just the wrong day is dramatic and stunningly vivid. The narrator’s intervening commentary is dry, smart, aptly sheepish, and, gloriously, sometimes even funny.

By Bernard MacLaverty

‘Cal’ by Bernard MacLaverty. 153 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $11.18 ()

Having lived in Belfast for a dozen years, I read a stack of novels set among the Northern Irish Troubles, and recall most of them in a nauseous blur. But this one stands out in my memory as touching yet not cloyingly sentimental. Technically one of those “Romeo and Juliet” romances that as a genre the Northern Irish disdain, Cal is about a Catholic lad who falls in love with the widow of the reservist he shot. A credible portrayal of the way ordinary people get swept up into violent movements that have become interwoven in the fabric of everyday life. By the by, Mark Knopfler’s soundtrack for the film is fab.

By Lorraine Adams

‘Harbor’ by Lorraine Adams. 304 pp. Vintage. $12.63 ()

An engaging, convincing portrayal of an Algerian illegal immigrant to the U.S., who gets caught up in a variety of dubious enterprises with other illegal Algerians to survive. But the FBI (which doesn’t come out well here, alas) spins smuggling rackets, drug running, credit-card fraud, and identity theft into a terrorist conspiracy. It’s a hard call whether the violence of the protagonist’s homeland or the corruption, incompetence, and abuse in his adoptive country is worse. Adams hones a razor-sharp cynicism about “the war on terror.”

American Pastoral
By Philip Roth

‘American Pastoral’ by Philip Roth. 432 pp. Vintage. $10.20 ()

The daughter of an American paragon, Merry Levov bombs a U.S. post office to protest against the war in Vietnam and then goes on the run. Roth paints a stunning portrait of Patty-Hearst-style terrorist wannabe going off the deep end. What always leaps out in my mind when I remember this novel is the image of Merry when she has decided she will no longer hurt any living thing, including plants: she will not eat, she will not wash, she will not cut her own hair or nails. She looks revolting, and she talks drivel. She somehow resonates with the case of the wayward Californian John Walker Lindh, also discovered filthy with long matted hair, and speaking mysteriously with an Arabic accent.

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