close to the windows, watching the scudding clouds with
anxious faces.

Fifteen minutes passed, then the ship raised her nose, reared in a long
curve, and swooped downward. From the galley came the sound of breaking
dishes, followed by a yell of anguish from the cook. Flung into each
other's arms, David and Red executed a clumsy dance about the room
before they could get their balance, as the ship righted and
straightened out again.

"Whew!" said Red, rubbing the back of his head where it had bumped
against a hook.

"Well, I don't like that so well," said David.

"I am going to take a squint at that weather chart, and then look at the
rear engine again," said Red. "Coming?"

"Go on," said David. "I'll join you as soon as I put on another sweater.
I'm cold." He turned and went into his cabin as Red hurried forward.

David had to unpack the sweater, but he didn't hurry. He knew that
Fraine was on duty. He slipped on the heavy garment, then sauntered
toward the control room. As he<|endoftext|>Doctor of Psychology, Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist.  Qualified 1981, University trained in Surrey and New York.  Associate Fellow, British Psychological Society (BPS).  Member, British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.  Member, National Academy of Neuropsychology, USA.  HPC registered.

Over 30 years NHS experience in mental health and neuropsychology.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)  has scientifically demonstrated to be the treatment of choice for common psychological problems.

Neuropsychology  is concerned with brain functioning and Dr Tossell offers a service of Assessment (IQ and memory testing, dyslexia, brain injury or impairment etc) and Rehabilitation (following brain injury);  including medico-legal work.<|endoftext|>Reply to a comment

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stwombly#495424 writes:

We used to use sports metaphors in politics. Now, politics has become a real sport in many people's eyes. People are "fans" of their candidate in the true sense of the word. If our guy wins we get to boast, make fun of and belittle the other side. If our guy loses then we hate the winner like a rival or an enemy. Our side can do no wrong, the other side can do no right. Our side plays by the rules, the other side cheats. The other guy hates America. The other guy wants to destroy the economy. The other guy is a communist. The other guy cheats on his taxes. The other guy is out of touch with "real Americans".

In political terms, there are real idealogical differences between the sides and between the candidates. Let's talk about those differences, let the candidates debate those issues, let the American people base their vote on those. But both sides seem to want us to ignore those differences and focus more on the sport, the game, the hatred, the fear, and the low-brow / reality t.v entertainment that we are about to witness over the next couple of months.
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Drowning Culture With Dams In Turkey

series: Global 3000

air date: 7/16/14 6:30 PM

Turkey: Culture Heritage Under Water - Turkey is building a huge dam on the river Tigris to generate energy for irrigation. Entire villages including Hasankeyf, which dates back to the Bronze Age, are to be submerged. The Ilisu dam is set to be completed this year, filling up the 135-kilometer-long Tigris Valley like a giant bathtub. Hundreds of unexplored archaeological sites are to be flooded for the dam project, although experts say the move would impact an area of huge historical significance. Info film: the Value of Forests - Forests have always played a significant role for humankind. They offer protection from landslides, store drinking water, filter out toxic matter from the air and capture carbon dioxide. An intact standing tree should be worth more than a felled one. Zambia: Measuring Forests - The Miombo, the world's largest dry forest area, is shrinking. Each year, an area the size of Northern Ireland is chopped down. In Zambia, teams of rangers and botanists are documenting how the forest is changing and showing residents how to carry out sustainable forestry. The REDD+ mechanism, funded by industrialized nations, secures money for developing nations to preserve their forests. Zambia wants to benefit. We accompany a team of local rangers during an inventory of the Miombo forest. Global Living Room: Maria Campos, Costa Rica - Maria Campos is a dance and yoga teacher and lives in Santa Ana, a suburb of the Costa Rican capital, San Jose. She shows us her living room and the three generations of her family. South Korea: Living to Learn - For years, South Korea has been one of the highest achievers on the international school tests known as PISA thanks to a combination of hard work and discipline. But there's stiff competition among students, with some 700,000 vying for the few places at top universities. Much depends on the choice of kindergarten. It has to be the best, followed by a good primary school, a top-notch high school and so on. Sending their child to top-flight educational institutes is what a family in South Korea usually works hard for all their life.

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Some article possibilities from today’s New York Times:

-“Farm towns that produce beef, corn and greens to feed the world are becoming America’s unlikeliest food deserts as traditional grocery stores are forced out by fewer shoppers and competition from dollar store chains. Their exodus has left rural towns worried about how they can hold on to their families, businesses and their future if there is nowhere to buy even a banana.”

-A woman who called 911 after a bullet punched through her car’s rear window in Coral Springs, Fla., waited so long for help that she finally drove herself to the police station. Why the delay?  The 911 supervisor was busy watching Netflix, according to the internal disciplinary report.

-From the obits, novelist Ernest Gaines (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman) dies at 86 and playwright William B Branch (A Letter from Booker T, and In Splendid Error) dies at 92.

-A black cat ran onto the field at MetLife Stadium and the Giants never recovered.

-Also, air pollution in New Delhi, India has become so dire that the government declared a public health emergency, shutting primary schools for days.  NASA satellite images show large swaths of India’s northern plains smothered by haze, and streets are blanketed in an opaque haze.

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People who cling to the war paradigm also forget another important and powerful point. In war you are allowed to kill people. Do we really want to accord Al Qaeda that kind of legitimacy?

What is essentially debated in Military Commission hearings is not the right of alleged Al Qaeda members to use armed force against US interests but whether or not they have done so within the laws of war.

By operating out of uniform, combatants – and it is worth noting that this is applicable not only to regular armed forces and armed groups, but potentially also to military contractors and intelligence agents – open themselves up to charges of perfidy, or the feigning of civilian status to kill, injure or capture an adversary. This is the legal theory underpinning most of the cases heard in Guantanamo: not that Al Qaeda does not have the right to kill Americans but that it has not gone about it in the right way.

The inherent logic of the war paradigm is that if Al Qaeda members wear at least rudimentary uniforms and carry their weapons openly, it can be argued that they would be free to engage uniformed Americans in combat and even, in some circumstances, civilians involved in potentially military tasks — such as weapons manufacture or infrastructure development — anywhere in the world without committing a war crime. This is not a development we should be seeking to encourage.

There is a much simpler, much more credible, way to ensure accountability for acts of armed groups like Al Qaeda — the criminal justice system. Many acts of terrorism are considered international crimes creating an obligation to prosecute or extradite the individual involved. US law furthermore asserts extraterritorial jurisdiction over the murder of its citizens. There is nothing complicated about either of these claims.

Describing terrorism as criminal activity is not weakness, it’s common sense. The U.S. criminal justice system has processed hundreds of terrorism cases over the years – such as the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center by Khaled Shaikh Mohammed’s nephew Ramzi Yousef and 1995 Oklahoma City bombing by right-wing extremist Timothy McVeigh.

Spanish authorities did not declare a state of war with Al Qaeda after the 2004 Madrid train bombings, which killed 191 passengers, nor did the British authorities after the 2005 London transport bombings,

 to post ’em).

-This is just further evidence that Coke > Pepsi.

-Diet Pepsi: Now with all-natural ingredients.

-I don’t see why the guy got all mad at Pepsi just because he had a frog in his throat.

-They should sue for false advertising. I’m pretty sure that can of Diet Pepsi had more than zero calories.

-It’s actually part of the “Drink Pepsi, Get Stuff” campaign. Just with really disgusting stuff.

-Diet Pepsi: Now Fortified with extra protein.

-Sadly, Michigan J. Frog’s career as a Pepsi mascot was cut short in a tragic industrial accident.<|endoftext|>Doctor of Psychology, Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist.  Qualified 1981, University trained in Surrey and New York.  Associate Fellow, British Psychological Society (BPS).  Member, British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.  Member, National Academy of Neuropsychology, USA.  HPC registered.

Over 30 years NHS experience in mental health and neuropsychology.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)  has scientifically demonstrated to be the treatment of choice for common psychological problems.

Neuropsychology  is concerned with brain functioning and Dr Tossell offers a service of Assessment (IQ and memory testing, dyslexia, brain injury or impairment etc) and Rehabilitation (following brain injury);  including medico-legal work.<|endoftext|>Reply to a comment

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We used to use sports metaphors in politics. Now, politics has become a real sport in many people's eyes. People are "fans" of their candidate in the true sense of the word. If our guy wins we get to boast, make fun of and belittle the other side. If our guy loses then we hate the winner like a rival or an enemy. Our side can do no wrong, the other side can do no right. Our side plays by the rules, the other side cheats. The other guy hates America. The other guy wants to destroy the economy. The other guy is a communist. The other guy cheats on his taxes. The other guy is out of touch with "real Americans".

In political terms, there are real idealogical differences between the sides and between the candidates. Let's talk about those differences, let the candidates debate those issues, let the American people base their vote on those. But both sides seem to want us to ignore those differences and focus more on the sport, the game, the hatred, the fear, and the low-brow / reality t.v entertainment that we are about to witness over the next couple of months.
<|endoftext|>Send an Email Reminder

Drowning Culture With Dams In Turkey

series: Global 3000

air date: 7/16/14 6:30 PM

Turkey: Culture Heritage Under Water - Turkey is building a huge dam on the river Tigris to generate energy for irrigation. Entire villages including Hasankeyf, which dates back to the Bronze Age, are to be submerged. The Ilisu dam is set to be completed this year, filling up the 135-kilometer-long Tigris Valley like a giant bathtub. Hundreds of unexplored archaeological sites are to be flooded for the dam project, although experts say the move would impact an area of huge historical significance. Info film: the Value of Forests - Forests have always played a significant role for humankind. They offer protection from landslides, store drinking water, filter out toxic matter from the air and capture carbon dioxide. An intact standing tree should be worth more than a felled one. Zambia: Measuring Forests - The Miombo, the world's largest dry forest area, is shrinking. Each year, an area the size of Northern Ireland is chopped down. In Zambia, teams of rangers and botanists are documenting how the forest is changing and showing residents how to carry out sustainable forestry. The REDD+ mechanism, funded by industrialized nations, secures money for developing nations to preserve their forests. Zambia wants to benefit. We accompany a team of local rangers during an inventory of the Miombo forest. Global Living Room: Maria Campos, Costa Rica - Maria Campos is a dance and yoga teacher and lives in Santa Ana, a suburb of the Costa Rican capital, San Jose. She shows us her living room and the three generations of her family. South Korea: Living to Learn - For years, South Korea has been one of the highest achievers on the international school tests known as PISA thanks to a combination of hard work and discipline. But there's stiff competition among students, with some 700,000 vying for the few places at top universities. Much depends on the choice of kindergarten. It has to be the best, followed by a good primary school, a top-notch high school and so on. Sending their child to top-flight educational institutes is what a family in South Korea usually works hard for all their life.

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Some article possibilities from today’s New York Times:

-“Farm towns that produce beef, corn and greens to feed the world are becoming America’s unlikeliest food deserts as traditional grocery stores are forced out by fewer shoppers and competition from dollar store chains. Their exodus has left rural towns worried about how they can hold on to their families, businesses and their future if there is nowhere to buy even a banana.”

-A woman who called 911 after a bullet punched through her car’s rear window in Coral Springs, Fla., waited so long for help that she finally drove herself to the police station. Why the delay?  The 911 supervisor was busy watching Netflix, according to the internal disciplinary report.

-From the obits, novelist Ernest Gaines (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman) dies at 86 and playwright William B Branch (A Letter from Booker T, and In Splendid Error) dies at 92.

-A black cat ran onto the field at MetLife Stadium and the Giants never recovered.

-Also, air pollution in New Delhi, India has become so dire that the government declared a public health emergency, shutting primary schools for days.  NASA satellite images show large swaths of India’s northern plains smothered by haze, and streets are blanketed in an opaque haze.

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Connecting to %s<|endoftext|>Back to Basics: A Military Commissions Primer

People who cling to the war paradigm also forget another important and powerful point. In war you are allowed to kill people. Do we really want to accord Al Qaeda that kind of legitimacy?

What is essentially debated in Military Commission hearings is not the right of alleged Al Qaeda members to use armed force against US interests but whether or not they have done so within the laws of war.

By operating out of uniform, combatants – and it is worth noting that this is applicable not only to regular armed forces and armed groups, but potentially also to military contractors and intelligence agents – open themselves up to charges of perfidy, or the feigning of civilian status to kill, injure or capture an adversary. This is the legal theory underpinning most of the cases heard in Guantanamo: not that Al Qaeda does not have the right to kill Americans but that it has not gone about it in the right way.

The inherent logic of the war paradigm is that if Al Qaeda members wear at least rudimentary uniforms and carry their weapons openly, it can be argued that they would be free to engage uniformed Americans in combat and even, in some circumstances, civilians involved in potentially military tasks — such as weapons manufacture or infrastructure development — anywhere in the world without committing a war crime. This is not a development we should be seeking to encourage.

There is a much simpler, much more credible, way to ensure accountability for acts of armed groups like Al Qaeda — the criminal justice system. Many acts of terrorism are considered international crimes creating an obligation to prosecute or extradite the individual involved. US law furthermore asserts extraterritorial jurisdiction over the murder of its citizens. There is nothing complicated about either of these claims.

Describing terrorism as criminal activity is not weakness, it’s common sense. The U.S. criminal justice system has processed hundreds of terrorism cases over the years – such as the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center by Khaled Shaikh Mohammed’s nephew Ramzi Yousef and 1995 Oklahoma City bombing by right-wing extremist Timothy McVeigh.

Spanish authorities did not declare a state of war with Al Qaeda after the 2004 Madrid train bombings, which killed 191 passengers, nor did the British authorities after the 2005 London transport bombings, which killed 52. The reason is quite plain: after decades of experience combating domestic armed groups, like the Provisional IRA and the Basque separatist group ETA, they knew they didn’t have to.

The criminal justice system is tried and tested. You don’t have to invent new laws or tie yourself up in legal knots to justify detaining a suspect. You gather evidence, bring charges, and make your case in court. Simple. It is a process


in a damned bad temper she
always reads Shakespeare, or Locke on the Human Understanding. Come out
of that."

Though Mrs. Nevill Tyson set her little teeth very hard, the corners of
her mouth and eyes curled with mischief. It was delicious to feel that
she could torment Nevill, to know that she had so much power. And while
she pretended to read she played with the pearl necklace she wore. It was
one shade with the white of her beautiful throat.

"Who gave you those pearls?"

She made no answer, but her hand dropped a little consciously. He had
given them to her that afternoon, remarking, with rather questionable
taste, that they were "a wedding-present for the second Mrs. Nevill
Tyson."

He leant over her chair and assailed her with questions to which no
answer came, to which no answer was possible, punctuating his periods
with kisses.

"Are you a conundrum? Or a fiend? Or a metaphysical system? And if so,
why do you wear a pink frock! Are you a young woman who prefers a dead
poet to<|endoftext|> And Yahoo's business model. And Pinterest's business model. And Instagram's business model. And everyone else's business model.

It's almost gotten to the point where everyone's business model, no matter what service they provide or trinket they push, is really all about selling advertising surrounding the service or trinket to other businesses around your neighborhood, your city, your state and your country. But if everyone everywhere is selling advertising space does this mean that the market for advertising is infinitely scalable? I don't think that's really possible.

I get that there's room for growth in emerging markets but the trend in the U.S. period already points to both deceleration and declining web ad revenue. The media buys are already too fragmented to achieve perceptible, measurable momentum and results for any but the most enormous marketers and, the fragmentation of the market continues unabated. Twitter stock recently took a big dive because investors are unsure how adding more advertising in yet another space within an already over crowded market will ultimately drive profitability. I'm sure the same will follow along for most of the purveyors of user generated content spaces because of the sheer amount of space available.

It all comes down to supply and demand. When ad space in a demographic sector (high capacity web users, hipsters, middle America Online ) becomes closer and closer to infinite the value of said space drops to nearly zero. A recent example is as close at hand as stock photography. Once upon a time stock images were hard to find, hard to get and hard to physically deal with. Now they are just electrons, they are sourced directly from your mom and your daughter and your Facebook pages and tens of millions of free stock image generators. The search and delivery is totally automated and we can now access billions and billions of images at the click of a touch pad. The supply has gotten closer and closer to infinite and so now the value has dropped to nearly zero. Supply and demand. In fact, Getty is giving most of your stock photography away free because they too believe the mantra that the key to profitability is to sell advertising space and they are using their product (your product) as a "loss leader" to drive eyeballs to their site in order to capture enough data to convince all the same prospective advertisers everyone else is chasing about the wonderful value of their space.

Wouldn't be surprised in the least if Amazon was making more money in the placement, advertising and marketing of the products that they sell than they do in the actual margins on the products you queue up to buy. Wouldn't it be bizarre to find out that your camera purchase or your purchase of Nike running shoes on their site is partially subsidized by advertising revenue delivered by selling space on their own site to their own merchants. Even if it is a less than direct methodology.

But let's dive a little deeper and see what we think the end results might be.... So, imagine a publisher starting a newspaper in a big, literate town which currently has no newspaper at all. They bring in a staff of reporters, designers, layout people, editors, sales people, distributors and all the rest. A big investment. But...they have an exclusive market for their style of advertising: Display ads in among the (riveting) content as well as consumer (user) generated ads in the "want ad" area of the paper. The newspaper makes a good profit. Which attracts another newspaper that comes in with the same basic offers and the same space. They split the market and both papers make a profit, although now the overall profits to both are reduced.

Now imagine a metro market of half a million people who are offered two thousand newspapers. All with very similar content. All with very similar ad space that is moving toward infinite availability. There are not nearly enough advertisers to go around (not enough demand) so the papers start price wars in attempts to get more of the market share. The prices drop because there is a huge supply of space resources and no increase in overall demand. As the ad space nears infinity the revenue from that ad space effectively approaches zero. But if the quality of the content remains the same that means costs remain fixed.

So, now the papers have two options. They can try to institute a much higher price subscription paradigm but they quickly find out that they have done a good job teaching their target markets (both advertisers and end consumers) that all information and ad space should be almost free (remember that the ad revenue was supposed to be the driver that paid for the overhead). The other option is to reduce the cost of content. They could do this by crowdsourcing the content and laying off their pro staffs but in the end they may find that the unvetted and unreliable content is no longer good enough to drive consumers to consume the papers in enough numbers and with enough loyalty to lure advertisers into buying ad space to reach said consumers.

At some point, across the board, the revenue starts to zero out. When the revenue starts to zero out the entity can no longer afford the content that drove the site in the first place. Or the market they once enjoyed in an almost exclusive way is now split between hundreds of very similar vendors, most of whom did not have to bear the same costs and time investments to create the market at the inception.

This then triggers Kirk's immutable law of virtual content and virtual delivery economics: Terminal Ubiquity (tm). Infinite, nearly identical offerings, drive markets to zero profit. When they approach zero profits the ability to supply differentiating content also vanishes and creates a death spiral for that particular industry.

While Amazon.com may be doing well now imagine how much different their battlefield will be when there are hundreds and hundreds of nearly identical marketers, some subsidized by the governments of their countries of origin, all competing for the same high value customers. Delivery costs can't be driven to zero. The cost of actual product is just as inflexible. At some point the margins will fall to unsustainable levels. As they have in royalty free stock photography, video tape rentals, office supply stores, camera stores (outside of the three thriving U.S. markets) and many other businesses.

When all of the web based businesses realize that Kirk's rule is also inflexible, that ubiquity drives out profitability, they will either have to offer consumers products with embedded value or they will have to exit the business. The point at which the profit/saturation curve crosses over is falling due for a number of players. Call it a bubble. Call it a thinning of the herd. The bottom line is death from Terminal Ubiquity

As an adjunct to the idea that this is a business model failure only of big social sharing and information websites it would be wise to apply these ideas to every other kind of business extant. The Chinese and Bangladeshi workers offer nearly ubiquitous labor which destroys the  markets in other countries for the manufacture of clothing. Photographers offer their work free to magazines and clients in the hopes that it will generate future, paid, work. It's a cycle that is also unsustainable.

At some point someone will have to make something that other people would like to have. Something that can't be imitated easily. Then real profit will be returned to the businesses and they will prosper. Right now most web businesses are running on an unfulfillable promise. Infinitely scalable advertising space needs.  And we have a good idea of where that will end...<|endoftext|>What makes a good ghost story? The Stanley Hotel's employees have spent a lot of time working on that question and on February 24, they found something else to support one of the most interesting stories they tell. Pieces of wallpapered drywall and carpet from the hotel's infamous Room 217 was discovered in the bowels of the structure while the hotel's engineer was checking the air handlers.

A good ghost story has an interesting and eventful life story, otherwise known as a rich history. Inspiring innovation, groundbreaking technologies, and colorful characters abound in the story of the Stanley Hotel. Freeland O. Stanley moved to Estes Park with his wife Flora in the early 1900s, seeking the "mountain cure" for tuberculosis. Co-inventor of the Stanley Steamer motorcar (with his twin brother, Francis), Stanley brought many new technologies to Estes Park and his hotel. He built a hydroplant at Fall River; the electricity generated from this plant was distributed along overhead lines to his hotel. He also sold electricity to Estes Park citizens, not by metering usage but rather, by selling light bulbs. Stanley also built the town's first wooden-pipe water distribution system. In 1909, the doors of his luxury hotel opened offering a

 And Yahoo's business model. And Pinterest's business model. And Instagram's business model. And everyone else's business model.

It's almost gotten to the point where everyone's business model, no matter what service they provide or trinket they push, is really all about selling advertising surrounding the service or trinket to other businesses around your neighborhood, your city, your state and your country. But if everyone everywhere is selling advertising space does this mean that the market for advertising is infinitely scalable? I don't think that's really possible.

I get that there's room for growth in emerging markets but the trend in the U.S. period already points to both deceleration and declining web ad revenue. The media buys are already too fragmented to achieve perceptible, measurable momentum and results for any but the most enormous marketers and, the fragmentation of the market continues unabated. Twitter stock recently took a big dive because investors are unsure how adding more advertising in yet another space within an already over crowded market will ultimately drive profitability. I'm sure the same will follow along for most of the purveyors of user generated content spaces because of the sheer amount of space available.

It all comes down to supply and demand. When ad space in a demographic sector (high capacity web users, hipsters, middle America Online ) becomes closer and closer to infinite the value of said space drops to nearly zero. A recent example is as close at hand as stock photography. Once upon a time stock images were hard to find, hard to get and hard to physically deal with. Now they are just electrons, they are sourced directly from your mom and your daughter and your Facebook pages and tens of millions of free stock image generators. The search and delivery is totally automated and we can now access billions and billions of images at the click of a touch pad. The supply has gotten closer and closer to infinite and so now the value has dropped to nearly zero. Supply and demand. In fact, Getty is giving most of your stock photography away free because they too believe the mantra that the key to profitability is to sell advertising space and they are using their product (your product) as a "loss leader" to drive eyeballs to their site in order to capture enough data to convince all the same prospective advertisers everyone else is chasing about the wonderful value of their space.

Wouldn't be surprised in the least if Amazon was making more money in the placement, advertising and marketing of the products that they sell than they do in the actual margins on the products you queue up to buy. Wouldn't it be bizarre to find out that your camera purchase or your purchase of Nike running shoes on their site is partially subsidized by advertising revenue delivered by selling space on their own site to their own merchants. Even if it is a less than direct methodology.

But let's dive a little deeper and see what we think the end results might be.... So, imagine a publisher starting a newspaper in a big, literate town which currently has no newspaper at all. They bring in a staff of reporters, designers, layout people, editors, sales people, distributors and all the rest. A big investment. But...they have an exclusive market for their style of advertising: Display ads in among the (riveting) content as well as consumer (user) generated ads in the "want ad" area of the paper. The newspaper makes a good profit. Which attracts another newspaper that comes in with the same basic offers and the same space. They split the market and both papers make a profit, although now the overall profits to both are reduced.

Now imagine a metro market of half a million people who are offered two thousand newspapers. All with very similar content. All with very similar ad space that is moving toward infinite availability. There are not nearly enough advertisers to go around (not enough demand) so the papers start price wars in attempts to get more of the market share. The prices drop because there is a huge supply of space resources and no increase in overall demand. As the ad space nears infinity the revenue from that ad space effectively approaches zero. But if the quality of the content remains the same that means costs remain fixed.

So, now the papers have two options. They can try to institute a much higher price subscription paradigm but they quickly find out that they have done a good job teaching their target markets (both advertisers and end consumers) that all information and ad space should be almost free (remember that the ad revenue was supposed to be the driver that paid for the overhead). The other option is to reduce the cost of content. They could do this by crowdsourcing the content and laying off their pro staffs but in the end they may find that the unvetted and unreliable content is no longer good enough to drive consumers to consume the papers in enough numbers and with enough loyalty to lure advertisers into buying ad space to reach said consumers.

At some point, across the board, the revenue starts to zero out. When the revenue starts to zero out the entity can no longer afford the content that drove the site in the first place. Or the market they once enjoyed in an almost exclusive way is now split between hundreds of very similar vendors, most of whom did not have to bear the same costs and time investments to create the market at the inception.

This then triggers Kirk's immutable law of virtual content and virtual delivery economics: Terminal Ubiquity (tm). Infinite, nearly identical offerings, drive markets to zero profit. When they approach zero profits the ability to supply differentiating content also vanishes and creates a death spiral for that particular industry.

While Amazon.com may be doing well now imagine how much different their battlefield will be when there are hundreds and hundreds of nearly identical marketers, some subsidized by the governments of their countries of origin, all competing for the same high value customers. Delivery costs can't be driven to zero. The cost of actual product is just as inflexible. At some point the margins will fall to unsustainable levels. As they have in royalty free stock photography, video tape rentals, office supply stores, camera stores (outside of the three thriving U.S. markets) and many other businesses.

When all of the web based businesses realize that Kirk's rule is also inflexible, that ubiquity drives out profitability, they will either have to offer consumers products with embedded value or they will have to exit the business. The point at which the profit/saturation curve crosses over is falling due for a number of players. Call it a bubble. Call it a thinning of the herd. The bottom line is death from Terminal Ubiquity

As an adjunct to the idea that this is a business model failure only of big social sharing and information websites it would be wise to apply these ideas to every other kind of business extant. The Chinese and Bangladeshi workers offer nearly ubiquitous labor which destroys the  markets in other countries for the manufacture of clothing. Photographers offer their work free to magazines and clients in the hopes that it will generate future, paid, work. It's a cycle that is also unsustainable.

At some point someone will have to make something that other people would like to have. Something that can't be imitated easily. Then real profit will be returned to the businesses and they will prosper. Right now most web businesses are running on an unfulfillable promise. Infinitely scalable advertising space needs.  And we have a good idea of where that will end...<|endoftext|>What makes a good ghost story? The Stanley Hotel's employees have spent a lot of time working on that question and on February 24, they found something else to support one of the most interesting stories they tell. Pieces of wallpapered drywall and carpet from the hotel's infamous Room 217 was discovered in the bowels of the structure while the hotel's engineer was checking the air handlers.

A good ghost story has an interesting and eventful life story, otherwise known as a rich history. Inspiring innovation, groundbreaking technologies, and colorful characters abound in the story of the Stanley Hotel. Freeland O. Stanley moved to Estes Park with his wife Flora in the early 1900s, seeking the "mountain cure" for tuberculosis. Co-inventor of the Stanley Steamer motorcar (with his twin brother, Francis), Stanley brought many new technologies to Estes Park and his hotel. He built a hydroplant at Fall River; the electricity generated from this plant was distributed along overhead lines to his hotel. He also sold electricity to Estes Park citizens, not by metering usage but rather, by selling light bulbs. Stanley also built the town's first wooden-pipe water distribution system. In 1909, the doors of his luxury hotel opened offering a flood of electric lights and running water to his guests. "It was one of the first hotels west of the Mississippi to have electricity," Freitas explained.

In 1911, Room 217 was the Presidential Suite, said Jesse Freitas, the hotel's archivist: an L-shaped room that took up the space that now houses two rooms: 217 and 215. On the evening of June 25 of that year, a thunderstorm cut the power and all of the hotel's guests were taken down to the lobby while staff was charged with lighting the back-up acetylene gas lamps. There was an unknown gas leak when chambermaid Elizabeth Wilson entered Room 217 with a lit candle.

"The gas didn't have an odor in that time period," said Freitas, "so she couldn't smell anything. As soon as she entered the room, there was an instant explosion." The massive blast destroyed about 10% of the nearly 70,000 square-foot hotel, it's entire west wing. "It was a compression explosion," Freitas explained, "so it actually put out its own fire, otherwise it would have burned down the hotel because it is mostly wood, a timber-frame structure." The force of the explosion sent Wilson crashing into


to "slam" the fellow if he took it
down.

Then there came into his head the bright idea that if he followed this
boy up the hill to an unfrequented spot he could hold him up for a
nickel.

A little way up the hill the boy suddenly turned and stood waiting for
him. Tom was hardly less than amazed at this for he had thought that
his pursuit was not known. When they came face to face Tom saw that it
was none other than the "half-baked galook" Roy Blakeley.

He wore the full Scout regalia which fitted him to perfection, and upon
his left breast Tom could see a ribbon with something bright depending
from it, which seemed to be in the shape of a bird. He had a trim
figure and stood very straight, and about his neck was a looselyknotted
scarf of a silvery gray color, showing quite an expanse of bare
throat. His sleeves were rolled up to his elbows, and on one wrist he
wore a leather band.

"What are you following me for?" he asked.

"Who's follerin' yer?"

"You are."

"I ain't follerin' yer<|endoftext|>ik tried to threaten the Major commanding the soldiers in the TV station but it was to no avail.

The rival factions of the army came very close an armed conflict, but this was averted at the last minute. Sharif was arrested and taken into 'protective custody' and whisked away in a military vehicle. This was the end of Sharif's sad saga.

Meanwhile the pro-Musharaf troops stormed the Karachi airport building and rescued General Musharaf's family which had been in police captivity for a few hours. They also arrested the police and pro-Sharif army officers and top Ministers and bureaucrats who were at the airport controlling the operation.

The plane landed and General Musharaf took command after a situation where the army had come very close to a bloody internal conflict. Loyalties changed in seconds, even those generals who had received hefty briefcases from Sharif's cronies not so long ago swore to defend the integrity, sovereignty and unity of the sacrosanct armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The coup was complete. Or was it?

Social, economic and political turmoil

This coup came within the context of severe social, economic and political turmoil. The economy is on the verge of bankruptcy, sectarian violence is claiming hundreds of lives, the number of suicides across the country is growing dramatically. Unemployment, corruption, crime, disease, illiteracy, hunger, poverty and misery stalks the land. During the 11 year democratic interlude the so-called civilian politicians played havoc with the economy and the assets of the state. They plundered and looted the exchequer and the resources of the country. New records of corruption were set and Pakistan was declared the second most corrupt country in the world by the Berlin based Transparency Monitoring Institute.

Yet in all these eleven years the army never really relinquished power. It was always there in the background looking over the shoulders of the civilian rulers. The army officers enjoyed all the perks and privileges and the civilian rulers were subservient to them in a thousand ways. During these years of civilian rule not a single government was able to complete its tenure. Seven governments changed during this interregnum of a botched democracy.

It is ironic that this "democracy" came into being after a previous eleven years of vicious military dictatorship. The first military dictatorship of General Ayub Khan was imposed through a coup on 27th October 1958, again, eleven years after Pakistan's "independence" from the British Raj in 1947. That military coup came in the aftermath of a corrupt, chaotic and anarchic rule of the feudal and capitalist politicians, who couldn't even formulate a constitution in all those years.

The Ayub Khan dictatorship survived till march 1969 when it was removed by another declaration of martial law by Gen. Yahya Khan. The prolongation of the Ayub dictatorship was mainly due to high economic growth rates and rapid industrialisation, which was the result of the spin-off effect of the boom in the West during the 50's and the 60's. However this industrial growth never managed to develop society and raise the living standards as a whole.

1968-69: power was in the hands of the masses

Paradoxically, this uneven and combined nature of development created a fresh and virgin proletariat. In 1968-69 this proletariat struck. A movement of the students erupted which culminated in a revolutionary situation. Power had passed from the echelons of the rulership into the streets, factories, shanty towns, villages and towns. The working masses actually felt power in their hands and there was the fragrance of the revolution in the air.

Unfortunately due to the lack of a Bolshevik party and a Marxist leadership the revolution was diverted along nationalist lines and led to the war of Bengal in 1971. After the humiliating defeat of the Pakistan army in the war, again a revolutionary situation broke out.

However, this time reforms were used to derail the revolution. The installation of the first elected government into power was the by-product of the revolution. This new P.P.P. government was headed by Ayub Khan's ex foreign minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. He had understood the real character of the 1968-69 revolution and accordingly developed a radical Socialist programme during that delicate and exceptional revolutionary period. This made him a legend which persists till today.

However, once in power, and in the clutches of the bourgeois state he had no option but to salvage the rotten system. Under pressure from below he carried through massive nationalisations and the most radical reforms in the history of Pakistan. But behind this facade of reform he was carrying out a democratic counter revolution to avert an impending socialist revolution in Pakistan. His reforms become counter reforms in a short period. Inflation and price hikes lead to crisis which was further aggravated by the 1974 world recession.

The 1977 coup

The discontent of the masses was exasperated by the rightward capitulation of Bhutto. A right wing reactionary movement was initiated at the behest of the CIA and this culminated in the military coup of 4th July 1977 lead by General Zia ul Haq. Bhutto was interned, imprisoned and later assassinated on the gallows of the vicious dictator in April 1979.

This was the beginning of one of the most tyrannical epochs of Pakistan's tragic history. Thousands of workers, peasants, youth, students and political workers were tortured, lashed, imprisoned and hanged in the jails of the military rule. The dictatorship carried out mass genocide of the movements which rose against it. In the 1983 movement in Sindh 1063 people were killed by the army alone. All this brutality was not only tolerated but was actively encouraged and supported by U.S. imperialism.

The Zia dictatorship was also used as a bulwark of reaction by the Americans in the whole region. The counter revolution in Afghanistan was the biggest covert operation ever carried out by the CIA in its entire history. The military regime in Pakistan was its modus operandi in this barbarous act. Four million Afghans were displaced and hundreds of thousands killed in this imperialist sponsored Islamic Jihad (holy war). The U.S. spent $7 billion in direct cash on this operation. Arms and other logistic support were provided by the ISI and the Pakistan army. The manufacture and smuggling of heroin was encouraged by the CIA, to fund the reactionary insurgency. They also provided the technical skills and know-how for converting raw opium into refined white powder (heroin). All this was being conducted under the auspices of the Pakistan army.

This indulgence in civil society and big money made a significant impact on the discipline and character of the army. The generals and senior officers became millionaires overnight. The so-called black money ballooned and it started having its political and social impacts on society. The phenomenon of Islamic fundamentalism gained new force from the flow of this black money and through U.S. patronage. The Zia dictatorship was based on very strong fundamentalist overtones. It used Islam to gain a social base amongst primitive sections of society.

Its prolongation was also based on other factors. Mainly a relatively high growth rate of an average of 7.2% per annum, high levels of remittances ($3.2 billion per year) from Pakistani workers abroad, support of imperialism for its own strategic reasons and above all the pathetic role of the 'Democratic opposition leaders'.

As the saying goes "Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad". Zia became over-obsessed with power and he started having the hallucination of being a reincarnated Caliph. He wanted to go to Kabul to say prayers in the main mosque, and proclaim a pan-Islamic state. He was going too far even for his own mentors. In fact he was even defying the Americans in his quixotic ventures and extravagances. Ultimately he was killed in a plane crash orchestrated by the CIA, in August 1988.

1986: the masses welcome Benazir...

However, towards the end of his rule a movement was building up. It was actually the huge welcome for Benazir Bhutto on 10th of April 1986 which had really sealed General Zia's fate. The high growth of the economy in the 80's had actually strengthened the working class.

ik tried to threaten the Major commanding the soldiers in the TV station but it was to no avail.

The rival factions of the army came very close an armed conflict, but this was averted at the last minute. Sharif was arrested and taken into 'protective custody' and whisked away in a military vehicle. This was the end of Sharif's sad saga.

Meanwhile the pro-Musharaf troops stormed the Karachi airport building and rescued General Musharaf's family which had been in police captivity for a few hours. They also arrested the police and pro-Sharif army officers and top Ministers and bureaucrats who were at the airport controlling the operation.

The plane landed and General Musharaf took command after a situation where the army had come very close to a bloody internal conflict. Loyalties changed in seconds, even those generals who had received hefty briefcases from Sharif's cronies not so long ago swore to defend the integrity, sovereignty and unity of the sacrosanct armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The coup was complete. Or was it?

Social, economic and political turmoil

This coup came within the context of severe social, economic and political turmoil. The economy is on the verge of bankruptcy, sectarian violence is claiming hundreds of lives, the number of suicides across the country is growing dramatically. Unemployment, corruption, crime, disease, illiteracy, hunger, poverty and misery stalks the land. During the 11 year democratic interlude the so-called civilian politicians played havoc with the economy and the assets of the state. They plundered and looted the exchequer and the resources of the country. New records of corruption were set and Pakistan was declared the second most corrupt country in the world by the Berlin based Transparency Monitoring Institute.

Yet in all these eleven years the army never really relinquished power. It was always there in the background looking over the shoulders of the civilian rulers. The army officers enjoyed all the perks and privileges and the civilian rulers were subservient to them in a thousand ways. During these years of civilian rule not a single government was able to complete its tenure. Seven governments changed during this interregnum of a botched democracy.

It is ironic that this "democracy" came into being after a previous eleven years of vicious military dictatorship. The first military dictatorship of General Ayub Khan was imposed through a coup on 27th October 1958, again, eleven years after Pakistan's "independence" from the British Raj in 1947. That military coup came in the aftermath of a corrupt, chaotic and anarchic rule of the feudal and capitalist politicians, who couldn't even formulate a constitution in all those years.

The Ayub Khan dictatorship survived till march 1969 when it was removed by another declaration of martial law by Gen. Yahya Khan. The prolongation of the Ayub dictatorship was mainly due to high economic growth rates and rapid industrialisation, which was the result of the spin-off effect of the boom in the West during the 50's and the 60's. However this industrial growth never managed to develop society and raise the living standards as a whole.

1968-69: power was in the hands of the masses

Paradoxically, this uneven and combined nature of development created a fresh and virgin proletariat. In 1968-69 this proletariat struck. A movement of the students erupted which culminated in a revolutionary situation. Power had passed from the echelons of the rulership into the streets, factories, shanty towns, villages and towns. The working masses actually felt power in their hands and there was the fragrance of the revolution in the air.

Unfortunately due to the lack of a Bolshevik party and a Marxist leadership the revolution was diverted along nationalist lines and led to the war of Bengal in 1971. After the humiliating defeat of the Pakistan army in the war, again a revolutionary situation broke out.

However, this time reforms were used to derail the revolution. The installation of the first elected government into power was the by-product of the revolution. This new P.P.P. government was headed by Ayub Khan's ex foreign minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. He had understood the real character of the 1968-69 revolution and accordingly developed a radical Socialist programme during that delicate and exceptional revolutionary period. This made him a legend which persists till today.

However, once in power, and in the clutches of the bourgeois state he had no option but to salvage the rotten system. Under pressure from below he carried through massive nationalisations and the most radical reforms in the history of Pakistan. But behind this facade of reform he was carrying out a democratic counter revolution to avert an impending socialist revolution in Pakistan. His reforms become counter reforms in a short period. Inflation and price hikes lead to crisis which was further aggravated by the 1974 world recession.

The 1977 coup

The discontent of the masses was exasperated by the rightward capitulation of Bhutto. A right wing reactionary movement was initiated at the behest of the CIA and this culminated in the military coup of 4th July 1977 lead by General Zia ul Haq. Bhutto was interned, imprisoned and later assassinated on the gallows of the vicious dictator in April 1979.

This was the beginning of one of the most tyrannical epochs of Pakistan's tragic history. Thousands of workers, peasants, youth, students and political workers were tortured, lashed, imprisoned and hanged in the jails of the military rule. The dictatorship carried out mass genocide of the movements which rose against it. In the 1983 movement in Sindh 1063 people were killed by the army alone. All this brutality was not only tolerated but was actively encouraged and supported by U.S. imperialism.

The Zia dictatorship was also used as a bulwark of reaction by the Americans in the whole region. The counter revolution in Afghanistan was the biggest covert operation ever carried out by the CIA in its entire history. The military regime in Pakistan was its modus operandi in this barbarous act. Four million Afghans were displaced and hundreds of thousands killed in this imperialist sponsored Islamic Jihad (holy war). The U.S. spent $7 billion in direct cash on this operation. Arms and other logistic support were provided by the ISI and the Pakistan army. The manufacture and smuggling of heroin was encouraged by the CIA, to fund the reactionary insurgency. They also provided the technical skills and know-how for converting raw opium into refined white powder (heroin). All this was being conducted under the auspices of the Pakistan army.

This indulgence in civil society and big money made a significant impact on the discipline and character of the army. The generals and senior officers became millionaires overnight. The so-called black money ballooned and it started having its political and social impacts on society. The phenomenon of Islamic fundamentalism gained new force from the flow of this black money and through U.S. patronage. The Zia dictatorship was based on very strong fundamentalist overtones. It used Islam to gain a social base amongst primitive sections of society.

Its prolongation was also based on other factors. Mainly a relatively high growth rate of an average of 7.2% per annum, high levels of remittances ($3.2 billion per year) from Pakistani workers abroad, support of imperialism for its own strategic reasons and above all the pathetic role of the 'Democratic opposition leaders'.

As the saying goes "Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad". Zia became over-obsessed with power and he started having the hallucination of being a reincarnated Caliph. He wanted to go to Kabul to say prayers in the main mosque, and proclaim a pan-Islamic state. He was going too far even for his own mentors. In fact he was even defying the Americans in his quixotic ventures and extravagances. Ultimately he was killed in a plane crash orchestrated by the CIA, in August 1988.

1986: the masses welcome Benazir...

However, towards the end of his rule a movement was building up. It was actually the huge welcome for Benazir Bhutto on 10th of April 1986 which had really sealed General Zia's fate. The high growth of the economy in the 80's had actually strengthened the working class. The rising movement of this confident and invigorated proletariat could have been very dangerous for imperialism and the toady compradore capitalist/ feudal set up in Pakistan.

So on the one hand the ruling elite got rid of Zia and on the other hand they brought in Benazir, prepared and indoctrinated in the ethics of bourgeois democracy and social democratic ideology, to stem the tide, water down the movement and divert the revolutionary upsurge. The tradition prevailed once again. The masses rallied around the banner of the PPP and more than 10 million thronged the streets and squares of Pakistan to welcome Ms Bhutto, chanting the slogan 'Benazir has come - she has brought the revolution'.

But Benazir did what she was sent to do. She saved the rulers, the military, the state and capitalism with its exploitation. She was able to vent the wrath of the masses with another democratic counter revolution. History was repeating itself both as a tragedy and a farce. The hopes of the teeming millions were dashed and the old order re-established itself under the guise of this democratic facade.

...but their conditions worsen

The ensuing democratic period was another nightmare for the masses. The living standards went on falling and


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Try to make tags meaningful and describe the content of spatial data in ways that are important to the map editors who'll be using it. For example, consider these issues:

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    • Create a scheme for categorizing data sources, layers, and maps. It doesn't have to be a complex cataloging system, but it should specify the important categories by which all items will be tagged.
    • Whether you work alone or for a large organization, document your scheme. In a large organization, the documentation is important to enable all taggers and searchers to use the right terms. Even if you work alone, you may need the documentation for your own purposes or to pass to another person eventually.
    • Use both broad and specific terms based on potential user search patterns. Use whatever categories and terminology are relevant to your environment, whether maps are related to government regulations, industry standards, or other domain-specific knowledge.
    • Create categories that reflect various aspects of the same data. For example, if you're working with land parcels in Montana, you might use the terms "parcel," "county," and "Montana."

      What if you live and work in Montana? Is it useful to tag with "Montana" if you work for a Montana agency and work only with Montana data? It might be useful if there is a possibility that your organization will sometime share data with other jurisdiction. It will be more difficult to go back and tag data later than it is to add the extra tag now.
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part in the business, and, after much cogitation, somebody triumphantly
announced that he had discovered her function. An old book stated it:

     "When horns wind a mort and the deer is at siege,
     Let the dame of the castle prick forth on her jennet,
     And with water to wash the hands of her liege
     In a clean ewer with a fair toweling,
     Let her preside at the disemboweling."

All was accordingly got ready: the towel, the most antique ewer, even
the jennet, piebald, black-barred, cream-coated, pink-eyed--and only
then, on the day before the party, was the Duke's pleasure signified to
his lady.

And the little Duchess--paler and paler every day--said she would not
go! Her eyes, that used to leap wide in flashes, now just lifted their
long lashes, as if too weary even for _him_ to light them; and she duly
acknowledged his forethought for her,

     "But spoke of her health, if her health were worth aught,
     Of the weight<|endoftext|>Quinta das Bágeiras, Avô Fausto

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Novel: Horror

The plan had been put into rapid effect the world over: every city with a gate had at least four chosen volunteers and the explosives. They would all enter on the night of the 17th. All on the same night, so it would be a surprise attack. The times the gates opened would be staggered, as always, but without lines of communication the Eternals would have no way of knowing what was happening across the countries.

Get in, get over, detonate.

There were cities that they wouldn’t be able to get to, in Somalia, Nigeria, Columbia. The demon populations there were just too dense. That was to be taken care of the next night. Agents had already found the gate locations, flying over the areas in daylight while the demons were sluggish or hiding from the sun. Far more agents were needed for this plan; they would have to protect the group as a whole from waves of demons once the sun went down, at least until the gate opened and hopefully until the sun rose again. But nobody had much hope for the latter.

Had it been about to happen in Chicago, they’d all be screwed. There were ten Possesseds left, or would be after tomorrow night. But agents in other cities hadn’t seen and heard the Eternal spelling out their doom. They had hope, were perhaps even skeptical this whole situation was even happening, that the world was ending.

Anna was the only volunteer that decided to work the night before the plan. Bryan tried to talk her out of it but she insisted.

“It’s why I’m going through that gate anyway,” she said.

Missy, Robbie, and Cam were nowhere to be found that night, which was more like what Bryan had expected. He assumed and hoped were getting drunk off their asses in one last big blowout.

In the meantime, the city was dying. There weren’t enough Possesseds and too many demons left over from the previous nights, and more to come tonight. Bryan cursed the difficulty and red tape involved in getting enough explosives to flatten several city blocks four times over. It could have all been done tonight.

But it gave Cam and the others one more day.

To what? Change their minds?

He shook his head to drive the thought away, and Harper glanced up at him from her laptop. She would have said something but Bryan’s cell rang right at that moment, and for once he was glad of it.

It was Wei, wanting to run him through the announcement pegged for the next morning, and see if he wanted to add anything. He didn’t envy Wei’s job, even beyond the obvious “sit in front of a camera” part. The public was getting furious at what they saw as a lack of action on the part of the Office, especially with knowing where the gate was and how to contain it. But they couldn’t just say they couldn’t control the demons at the gate due to a shortage of agents, so they were trying to steer all conversations towards how more demons were passing through as the gates headed towards stabilization.

That was another problem. The public had caught wind of the plan, which had been expected with a plan spread over major cities all over the planet. But opinion was divided over whether the volunteers were heroes to be cheered on or sacrificial lambs to be saved from slaughter. Without a doubt, police would be needed on site tomorrow.

The night passed in a blur of disasters – apartment buildings and housing developments and stores turned to graveyards and nobody to take care of it. Bryan wanted to be out

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A tag is a text string that you apply to a data source, layer, or map. Tags enable better search results for map editors who are using Google Maps Engine and better organization of your own data.

You can use a tag to identify anything you like about the item that you're tagging, but tags typically identify the item's data characteristics and themes. To enable good search results, it's a good idea to have some standardization in your naming, description, and tagging style, whether the workflow in your organization is highly distributed or you are the only person creating maps for others to use.

Try to make tags meaningful and describe the content of spatial data in ways that are important to the map editors who'll be using it. For example, consider these issues:

  • Why is this data important?
  • What type of end user will use this data?
  • For what exercise or crisis response is this data pertinent?
  • What landmarks are in the data?
  • Will a piece of imagery data be part of a mosaic? How can you tag the mosaic's imagery elements so that you can quickly select them and form a mosaic?
  • Are there specific themes for the data?
  • What are the features of the data? For example, is it natural color imagery, color infrared, or a topographic map?

These are some ideas that might be useful:

  • General
    • Create a scheme for categorizing data sources, layers, and maps. It doesn't have to be a complex cataloging system, but it should specify the important categories by which all items will be tagged.
    • Whether you work alone or for a large organization, document your scheme. In a large organization, the documentation is important to enable all taggers and searchers to use the right terms. Even if you work alone, you may need the documentation for your own purposes or to pass to another person eventually.
    • Use both broad and specific terms based on potential user search patterns. Use whatever categories and terminology are relevant to your environment, whether maps are related to government regulations, industry standards, or other domain-specific knowledge.
    • Create categories that reflect various aspects of the same data. For example, if you're working with land parcels in Montana, you might use the terms "parcel," "county," and "Montana."

      What if you live and work in Montana? Is it useful to tag with "Montana" if you work for a Montana agency and work only with Montana data? It might be useful if there is a possibility that your organization will sometime share data with other jurisdiction. It will be more difficult to go back and tag data later than it is to add the extra tag now.
    • If there is a formal plan for data reporting, such as an ID code that you need to use in government reports, tag that data.
    • Use whatever organizational plans you already use for other data, such as the name of your organization or division.
  • As an organization
    • Try to use consistent tags. For example, avoid using parcel and parcels; use only one form of a term. The type-ahead feature should help map editors choose existing options rather than creating new variants to tags.

Tags are not case sensitive and can contain spaces.

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Esta entrada foi publicada em W Competitions. ligação permanente.<|endoftext|>Black Heart – Chapter VIII Part III

Novel: Horror

The plan had been put into rapid effect the world over: every city with a gate had at least four chosen volunteers and the explosives. They would all enter on the night of the 17th. All on the same night, so it would be a surprise attack. The times the gates opened would be staggered, as always, but without lines of communication the Eternals would have no way of knowing what was happening across the countries.

Get in, get over, detonate.

There were cities that they wouldn’t be able to get to, in Somalia, Nigeria, Columbia. The demon populations there were just too dense. That was to be taken care of the next night. Agents had already found the gate locations, flying over the areas in daylight while the demons were sluggish or hiding from the sun. Far more agents were needed for this plan; they would have to protect the group as a whole from waves of demons once the sun went down, at least until the gate opened and hopefully until the sun rose again. But nobody had much hope for the latter.

Had it been about to happen in Chicago, they’d all be screwed. There were ten Possesseds left, or would be after tomorrow night. But agents in other cities hadn’t seen and heard the Eternal spelling out their doom. They had hope, were perhaps even skeptical this whole situation was even happening, that the world was ending.

Anna was the only volunteer that decided to work the night before the plan. Bryan tried to talk her out of it but she insisted.

“It’s why I’m going through that gate anyway,” she said.

Missy, Robbie, and Cam were nowhere to be found that night, which was more like what Bryan had expected. He assumed and hoped were getting drunk off their asses in one last big blowout.

In the meantime, the city was dying. There weren’t enough Possesseds and too many demons left over from the previous nights, and more to come tonight. Bryan cursed the difficulty and red tape involved in getting enough explosives to flatten several city blocks four times over. It could have all been done tonight.

But it gave Cam and the others one more day.

To what? Change their minds?

He shook his head to drive the thought away, and Harper glanced up at him from her laptop. She would have said something but Bryan’s cell rang right at that moment, and for once he was glad of it.

It was Wei, wanting to run him through the announcement pegged for the next morning, and see if he wanted to add anything. He didn’t envy Wei’s job, even beyond the obvious “sit in front of a camera” part. The public was getting furious at what they saw as a lack of action on the part of the Office, especially with knowing where the gate was and how to contain it. But they couldn’t just say they couldn’t control the demons at the gate due to a shortage of agents, so they were trying to steer all conversations towards how more demons were passing through as the gates headed towards stabilization.

That was another problem. The public had caught wind of the plan, which had been expected with a plan spread over major cities all over the planet. But opinion was divided over whether the volunteers were heroes to be cheered on or sacrificial lambs to be saved from slaughter. Without a doubt, police would be needed on site tomorrow.

The night passed in a blur of disasters – apartment buildings and housing developments and stores turned to graveyards and nobody to take care of it. Bryan wanted to be out in it, capturing, but that was impossible now.

Or was it?

It was only a guess that possessing with any demon would allow it to take over


intense humbug that can be imagined. They take place now in the
large room of the inn at Ziegelhausen, a village on the banks of the
Neckar, about two miles from Heidelberg, and are fought with straight
swords, square but sharp at the extremity, and having guards as big as a
soup-plate.

Before the fight begins, the combatants don their defensive arms,
consisting of a strong and broad-brimmed hat protecting the head and
eyes, an immense leathern breastplate defending the chest and stomach, a
padded case, also of leather, which shields the arm from wrist to
shoulder, and an impenetrable cravat which protects the neck up to the
ears. The nose, and a bit of each cheek, is all that can be possibly
wounded. Thus equipped the heroes set to work, slashing away at each
other, (it is forbidden to thrust,) shaving off pieces of their padded
armour, and looking exceeding fierce and valiant the while; until,
after a greater or less time, according as the combatants are equal in
skill or not, one<|endoftext|> was always sex involved with Moore’s alleged crimes. Was there evidence of that here?
          What we know is that Hae had her clothes on, although I know her shirt and bra had been moved up. And her skirt was on but pushed up. As far as I can tell from the lab reports, they definitely did a physical evidence recovery kit where they did anal and vaginal swabs and swabs in her mouth, but they never tested any of that—which is somewhat odd. There were hairs on her body, two of which were microscopically compared to Adnan, and he was excluded and they didn’t belong to her either. Then there was this rope near her body.

      • Susan, do you know Mr. A’s name and information? Have you, or anyone looking into Adnan’s case, tried to contact him?

  10. Its no surprise that Adnan was an early-on suspect; jilted ex-boyfriend—and you’ve got to start somewhere, right?? Don was also a suspect and so was Jay. But when Jay started singing to the cops tune…we know the rest—He’s not dumb, whatever else may be said about him. Interesting find re the cell records being btained prior to going through the legal motions, but not surprising. But even this illegality won’t have an affect on the case.

    Not sure I get the Leakin Park pings… If the calls originated miles away etc. If CG had been on her game, she would have discredited both of the LP calls as compete and utterly unreliable, not to say misleading per the AT&T warning on the top of the print out. (if the gloves don’t fit, you must acquit!) At least as far as the jury’s concerned those two calls are not clear evidence of whereabouts. Whether or not in reality they are is not as clear.

  11. Wow…so now we know why the prosecution never asked for any paper on the incoming calls. They already knew who was making those calls…. and what is unconscionable is those records must have provided exculpatory evidence (such as the supposed Best Buy call). Unbelievable work here Susan.

    • That’s one possibility. Without knowing what records requests were being made here, we can’t know for sure what AT&T was handing over. The investigators did have the power to obtain records of incoming calls, though, and either failed to do so or chose not to.

  12. Love your concluding remarks…

    It certainly seems not just plausible but (to me), a very compelling hypothesis – the body was recovered, the detectives somehow got a list of all cell calls on the closest tower for the day of (and perhaps day after) Hae went missing, hoping to find any hits among any of her acquaintances. I can just imagine them finding Adnan’s (or Adrian’s) phone show up in the list, and high-fiving “Bingo! Now let’s go prove it.” Perhaps it was just Adnan’s bad luck to be driving nearby using his phone on the wrong day.

    Another interesting catch on the phone call during Adnan’s traffic stop, and the coincidental mistake on the ticket.

    Perhaps you should rename your blog viewfrom221b…

  13. Wonderful work. I wouldn’t be surprised if Adnan became a particular person of interest to the police on Jan. 13th. Her disappearance was unusual and by all accounts, Officer Adcock’s call to him that evening was received awkwardly. She was never seen again until her body was found and certainly her family must’ve been in contact with the police during that period after reporting her missing. Maybe her brother shared serious concerns about Adnan because from what I’ve read it sounds like he wasn’t supportive of Hae’s relationship with him. Who investigates missing persons? Detectives? The police or detectives had already examined Hae’s diary and thus were privy to her on-again-off-again relationship with Adnan and all of her troubles with him, before her body was found — right? It seems to me that if the Lee family was staying in touch with the police, and presuming there was an active missing person’s case, a picture of Adnan Syed as a suspicious person could’ve been well-formed before she turned up deceased.

  14. This is the first thing I thought of when reading this article – Parallel Construction:

    “Drug Enforcement Administration training documents released to MuckRock user C.J. Ciaramella show how the agency constructs two chains of evidence to hide surveillance programs from defense teams, prosecutors, and a public wary of domestic intelligence practices.”

    Also, this Reuters article:

    Just because they have now greatly enhanced their capabilities in this realm, that doesn’t mean they weren’t doing a more basic version of it back in the day…

    • To me, this is exactly what the records are screaming. There is a nice paper trail that has been created to show how the cops supposedly got to each step of their investigation — but it doesn’t actually add up. There are too many jumps forward without an explanation from the record as how to how the investigators arrived at a new bit of intel.

      This is why I suspect either a tower dump, an undisclosed witness, or both. If it was a tower dump, the chain went tower dump –> find Adnan’s cell number in return —> unofficial request for Adnan’s cellphone info –> verify number belonged to Adnan –> official request for cellphone info. But instead of a tower dump, there could have been a witness (someone came forward 2/9, 2/10, or 2/11, but wouldn’t go on the official record?) who implicated Adnan in a way the detectives bought hook line and sinker, and they then went straight to the unofficial request for Adnan’s info.

      Alternatively, rather than an unofficial request for cellphone info, there could have been an official request through alternative and unpreserved channels.

      For similar reasons, I believe that Jenn was the parallel construction for Jay. When the cops went to talk to Jenn, they already knew who she was, and knew that she knew Jay — even though the records they had only showed a number in her father’s name. Why would they assume Jenn, and not Mark, was the one called? How would they know that Jay was the link between Adnan and the Pusateri residence? Well, if there’d already gotten to Jay, they would have.

  15. Susan, the seatbelt violation image shows Adnan’s address. I assume his family still live there–can you redact it?

    • I think Susan mentioned that both his name and address were incorrect – so perhaps that’s why it was ‘t redacted

  16. I had a theory…

    Others have wondered (including Rabia) that perhaps Jay was a CI.

    We may be looking at the wrong person. Perhaps someone in Jay’s household was a CI (for DEA), and BCPD was encroaching on DEA’s turf by investigating Adnan and Jay.

    So DEA “hinted” at BCPD to investigate Adnan and leave Jay out of it.

    Which was basically what happened.

    Urick’s link with narcotics unit would put him in contact with the DEA quite a bit, IIRC.

    I know, sounds so conspiratorial… But it potentially explains so many things!

  17. Hint for help reading faded documents: you may already know that an old trick is to put a yellow filter over the document. Photographers use this to accent the clouds etc (so do dentists to see plaque better). U can get one at any office supply store.

  18. It doesn’t really surprise me that the cops access information through back door means and then request a subpoena afterward. I don’t work in law enforcement, but I work in an area that requests police checks and I have seen colleagues do police checks without authorization for expediency knowing that they will get the authorization later. Wrong, but unsurprising.

    The theory about the traffic stop is quite interesting. I am quite surprised that anyone has time or resources for that

  19. The most plausible explanation given existing evidence:

    Hae and Adnan talk the night before (as noted in the cell records) over

 was always sex involved with Moore’s alleged crimes. Was there evidence of that here?
          What we know is that Hae had her clothes on, although I know her shirt and bra had been moved up. And her skirt was on but pushed up. As far as I can tell from the lab reports, they definitely did a physical evidence recovery kit where they did anal and vaginal swabs and swabs in her mouth, but they never tested any of that—which is somewhat odd. There were hairs on her body, two of which were microscopically compared to Adnan, and he was excluded and they didn’t belong to her either. Then there was this rope near her body.

      • Susan, do you know Mr. A’s name and information? Have you, or anyone looking into Adnan’s case, tried to contact him?

  10. Its no surprise that Adnan was an early-on suspect; jilted ex-boyfriend—and you’ve got to start somewhere, right?? Don was also a suspect and so was Jay. But when Jay started singing to the cops tune…we know the rest—He’s not dumb, whatever else may be said about him. Interesting find re the cell records being btained prior to going through the legal motions, but not surprising. But even this illegality won’t have an affect on the case.

    Not sure I get the Leakin Park pings… If the calls originated miles away etc. If CG had been on her game, she would have discredited both of the LP calls as compete and utterly unreliable, not to say misleading per the AT&T warning on the top of the print out. (if the gloves don’t fit, you must acquit!) At least as far as the jury’s concerned those two calls are not clear evidence of whereabouts. Whether or not in reality they are is not as clear.

  11. Wow…so now we know why the prosecution never asked for any paper on the incoming calls. They already knew who was making those calls…. and what is unconscionable is those records must have provided exculpatory evidence (such as the supposed Best Buy call). Unbelievable work here Susan.

    • That’s one possibility. Without knowing what records requests were being made here, we can’t know for sure what AT&T was handing over. The investigators did have the power to obtain records of incoming calls, though, and either failed to do so or chose not to.

  12. Love your concluding remarks…

    It certainly seems not just plausible but (to me), a very compelling hypothesis – the body was recovered, the detectives somehow got a list of all cell calls on the closest tower for the day of (and perhaps day after) Hae went missing, hoping to find any hits among any of her acquaintances. I can just imagine them finding Adnan’s (or Adrian’s) phone show up in the list, and high-fiving “Bingo! Now let’s go prove it.” Perhaps it was just Adnan’s bad luck to be driving nearby using his phone on the wrong day.

    Another interesting catch on the phone call during Adnan’s traffic stop, and the coincidental mistake on the ticket.

    Perhaps you should rename your blog viewfrom221b…

  13. Wonderful work. I wouldn’t be surprised if Adnan became a particular person of interest to the police on Jan. 13th. Her disappearance was unusual and by all accounts, Officer Adcock’s call to him that evening was received awkwardly. She was never seen again until her body was found and certainly her family must’ve been in contact with the police during that period after reporting her missing. Maybe her brother shared serious concerns about Adnan because from what I’ve read it sounds like he wasn’t supportive of Hae’s relationship with him. Who investigates missing persons? Detectives? The police or detectives had already examined Hae’s diary and thus were privy to her on-again-off-again relationship with Adnan and all of her troubles with him, before her body was found — right? It seems to me that if the Lee family was staying in touch with the police, and presuming there was an active missing person’s case, a picture of Adnan Syed as a suspicious person could’ve been well-formed before she turned up deceased.

  14. This is the first thing I thought of when reading this article – Parallel Construction:

    “Drug Enforcement Administration training documents released to MuckRock user C.J. Ciaramella show how the agency constructs two chains of evidence to hide surveillance programs from defense teams, prosecutors, and a public wary of domestic intelligence practices.”

    Also, this Reuters article:

    Just because they have now greatly enhanced their capabilities in this realm, that doesn’t mean they weren’t doing a more basic version of it back in the day…

    • To me, this is exactly what the records are screaming. There is a nice paper trail that has been created to show how the cops supposedly got to each step of their investigation — but it doesn’t actually add up. There are too many jumps forward without an explanation from the record as how to how the investigators arrived at a new bit of intel.

      This is why I suspect either a tower dump, an undisclosed witness, or both. If it was a tower dump, the chain went tower dump –> find Adnan’s cell number in return —> unofficial request for Adnan’s cellphone info –> verify number belonged to Adnan –> official request for cellphone info. But instead of a tower dump, there could have been a witness (someone came forward 2/9, 2/10, or 2/11, but wouldn’t go on the official record?) who implicated Adnan in a way the detectives bought hook line and sinker, and they then went straight to the unofficial request for Adnan’s info.

      Alternatively, rather than an unofficial request for cellphone info, there could have been an official request through alternative and unpreserved channels.

      For similar reasons, I believe that Jenn was the parallel construction for Jay. When the cops went to talk to Jenn, they already knew who she was, and knew that she knew Jay — even though the records they had only showed a number in her father’s name. Why would they assume Jenn, and not Mark, was the one called? How would they know that Jay was the link between Adnan and the Pusateri residence? Well, if there’d already gotten to Jay, they would have.

  15. Susan, the seatbelt violation image shows Adnan’s address. I assume his family still live there–can you redact it?

    • I think Susan mentioned that both his name and address were incorrect – so perhaps that’s why it was ‘t redacted

  16. I had a theory…

    Others have wondered (including Rabia) that perhaps Jay was a CI.

    We may be looking at the wrong person. Perhaps someone in Jay’s household was a CI (for DEA), and BCPD was encroaching on DEA’s turf by investigating Adnan and Jay.

    So DEA “hinted” at BCPD to investigate Adnan and leave Jay out of it.

    Which was basically what happened.

    Urick’s link with narcotics unit would put him in contact with the DEA quite a bit, IIRC.

    I know, sounds so conspiratorial… But it potentially explains so many things!

  17. Hint for help reading faded documents: you may already know that an old trick is to put a yellow filter over the document. Photographers use this to accent the clouds etc (so do dentists to see plaque better). U can get one at any office supply store.

  18. It doesn’t really surprise me that the cops access information through back door means and then request a subpoena afterward. I don’t work in law enforcement, but I work in an area that requests police checks and I have seen colleagues do police checks without authorization for expediency knowing that they will get the authorization later. Wrong, but unsurprising.

    The theory about the traffic stop is quite interesting. I am quite surprised that anyone has time or resources for that

  19. The most plausible explanation given existing evidence:

    Hae and Adnan talk the night before (as noted in the cell records) over something innocent but that requires her to stop by his house after school. (Maybe she wants a video tape to record her interview, maybe she doesn’t have a VCR or cable and wants Adnan to record it for her). She doesn’t mention this stop to her friends b/c a. it’s fairly trivial b. she doesn’t want people around school getting the wrong impression about her and Adnan. Adnan gets picked up by Jay after school. (Maybe this is the 2:36 call? Maybe Adnan did ask Hae for a ride home since she was going to stop by anyway and told Jay “I’ll either get a ride with Hae and you can pick me up at home, but if not, pick me up at school.” But why wouldn’t Hae just give him a ride? Maybe Adnan’s running behind, maybe they just don’t see each other after school, or maybe she doesn’t want to b/c of the same reason she doesn’t want to tell her friend she’s stopping by Adnan’s house–wrong impression). Jay picks up Adnan and they head to his house (after all, the last thing you want to do between the