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I don't think there is any easier way to spruce up a party, especially and outdoor one, than with a bit of bunting! Yes, bunting!
So simple to make too. I took an average A4 sheet, folded in 4, than glued both sides onto a piece of string.
Bunting gives a real old school vintage vibe, retro yet chic.
I made these, with the help of my friend Shonagh, using lots of different colour paper, and old piece of wrapping paper.
Nothing says this house is ready to party like bunting!
Tomorrow I'll post the reason why Ive been making lots of bunting lately.


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The corporate salaryman and professional housewife stand as hegemonic archetypes of masculinity and femininity in Japan. However, these rigid gender roles are being challenged by women who are seeking to move beyond the strictly defined confines of their traditional roles as caregivers and homemakers.
Through interviews with a range of Japanese women, this book explores how women’s gender roles are both reified and undermined in Japan today, and uncovers the prevalent themes, or ‘discourses’, that are utilized to construct gendered identities. It shows that while dominant discourses formulate notions of femininity within the domestic sphere, these are simultaneously resisted and problematized by contemporary women. To this end, Justin Charlebois traces the construction of different ‘oppositional’ femininities, such as the single career woman and married working mother, which challenge, destabilize, and potentially reconfigure the traditional gender order.
This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of gender roles and femininity in Japan, and as such will be of great interest to students and scholars of Japanese culture and society, gender studies and women's studies.
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Justin Charlebois is Associate Professor of Communication in the Department of Global Culture and Communication at Aichi Shukutoku University, Japan.
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By Jeff Sorby: Unbeaten Evgeny Gradovich (16-0, 8 KO’s) unseated IBF featherweight champion Billy Dib (35-2, 21 KO’s) on Friday night in beating him by a 12 round split decision on Friday Night Fights at the Foxwoods Resort, in Mashantucket, Connecticut, USA.
The judges had it scored 114-112 and 114-112 for Gradovich, and 114-112 for Dib. Gradovich took the action to Dib, backing him up constantly throughout the fight, and hitting him nonstop. The fight likely would have been a lot more one-sided than it already was had the referee not broken up the action quite so often.
It was like watching a replay of the Marcos Maidana vs. Amir Khan fight where the referee kept pulling Maidana off Khan while he was trying to finish off Khan on the inside.
It was the same kind of fight with Gradovich unloading on Dib with both hands, and then having him pulled off of Dib and the action reset to the center of the ring with both fighters with distance between them.
In the 8th, the referee took points away from both fighters for clinching. Later in the fight, Dib was cut over his right eye in the 11th.
Dib faded badly in the last four rounds of the fight, and was really outworked by Gradovich during those rounds.
Light middleweight Willie Nelson (20-1-1, 12 KO’s) annihilated Michael Medina (26-4-2, 19 KO’s) in stopping him in the 1st round in a two knockdown performance. Nelson connected with a hard right hand that knocked Medina down while Nelson was backed up against the ropes. Medina got back to his feet, but he was clearly hurt because he walked across the ring and turned his back to Nelson. It looked like he wasn’t thinking clearly.
When the action resumed, Nelson landed a huge right hand that sent Medina down for the second and final time. Nelson just barely missed a left hook while Medina was falling. During the knockdown, Medina hurt his right leg, and he had to be assisted out of the ring.
Other undercard results:
Luis Olivares TKO 1 Rafael Munoz
Shelly Vincent UD 4 Mikayla Nebel
Luis Rosa, Jr. UD 8 Jhovany Collado
Ryan Kielczwski UD 8 Gil Garcia

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French auto supplier Faurecia inaugurates US$ 86 million plant in Guanajuato
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French auto supplier Faurecia inaugurated its 15th plant in Mexico located in the municipality of San Jose Iturbide, Guanajuato, where it invested US$ 86.2 million and opened 400 job positions.
The 10,000 square-meter facility, part of its Clean Mobility division, will manufacture exhaust systems for automakers such as General Motors and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), commented Pilar Corona, manager of the new plant.
The manufacturer received incentives worth of US$ 0.42 million from the local government for this endeavor.
The construction of the plant started in September 2016 with the first phase of operations beginning last November. The site is expected to reach full production capacity by the end of year.
According to the company, this is its most advanced production unit in the country, since it incorporates elements of Industry 4.0, such as robots and digitized processes.
"This new plant will allow us to increase our installed capacity in North America by 20%," said Brad Ring, president of Faurecia Clean Mobility.
The company has another 14 plants in Mexico and two Research and Development centers, located in the states of Sonora, Coahuila, Puebla, Guanajuato, San Luis Potosi and Queretaro, which together employ about 10,500 people.
From these facilities, Faurecia provides components to other big names in the automotive industry such as Audi, BMW and Tesla.


Dec 30, 2013; Knoxville, TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers guard Jordan McRae (52) dribbles the ball during the second half against the Virginia Cavaliers at Thompson-Boling Arena. Tennessee won 87 to 52. Mandatory Credit: Randy Sartin-USA TODAY Sports
The Tennessee Volunteers improved to 8-4 on the young season with an impressive win over the Virginia Cavaliers on Monday night.
Jordan McRae led the Vols in scoring with 21 points as Tennessee blew out Virginia 87-52.
Check out our photo gallery from the Vols’ big home win!
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2001 Fourth Quarter Taxable Sale
Date: November 19, 2002
Customer & Taxpayer Services Division
2001 Fourth Quarter Taxable Sales
John Chiang, Chair, State Board of Equalization, announced today that growth in taxable sales in California declined during the fourth quarter of 2001, posting the second consecutive decline in quarterly growth. Transactions subject to the sales and use tax totaled $115.7 billion during the fourth quarter of 2001, a decrease of $2.8 billion or 2.3 percent from the fourth quarter of 2000.
In constant dollar terms, taxable sales declined by 0.8 percent over the same quarter a year ago. The California Taxable Sales Deflator measured a deflation rate of 1.5 percent for the fourth quarter of 2001.
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In the durable goods category, new car dealers posted taxable sales of $14.2 billion during the fourth quarter, a 25.3 percent increase over the same period a year ago. That increase resulted from aggressive marketing by automobile manufacturers who offered significant consumer incentives for new car purchases. Construction contractors showed a decline in growth over the same period last year with taxable transactions of $4.3 billion, a decrease of 8.0 percent. However, retailers of building materials registered continuing growth in sales. Building material dealers posted taxable sales of $6.0 billion, up 5.0 percent from a year earlier.
Gasoline consumption decreased slightly and measured 3.7 billion gallons. Additionally, the average price of gasoline during the fourth quarter was $1.300 per gallon, a 21.2 percent decline from the previous year's price. During the fourth quarter of 2001, service stations posted taxable sales of $5.3 billion, a 21.1 percent decline from the fourth quarter of 2000.
Although retail stores' sales increased slightly during the fourth quarter 2001, business and personal services taxable transactions amounted to $5.6 billion, a decline of 3.6 percent over the same period a year ago. Additionally, all other outlets, comprised primarily of manufacturing and wholesale businesses, saw their taxable transactions decline 10.1 percent to total $30.8 billion.

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North West business leaders have called on Boris Johnson for greater devolved powers, investment on infrastructure and skills and a greater focus on domestic issues to get the economy back on track.
Mr Johnson, who will become the next Prime Minister after winning the Tory leadership contest, has the daunting task of getting a Brexit deal through Parliament, his most immediate political challenge.
But North West businesses want to see the next PM focus on matters closer to home and expect him to ‘get down to business’ - and appoint a new cabinet immediately.
Chris Fletcher, director of campaigns and marketing at Greater Manchester Chamber, said he expects to see Mr Johnson ‘make realistic and deliverable plans to reverse years of domestic economic neglect’ for the business community and work towards a satisfactory outcome for Brexit.
He told BusinessLive : “While all eyes in Westminster have been on Brexit these last few years, the cost to our domestic economy has been great. Our members on a daily basis still tell us about skills issues, poor transport infrastructure and the ever increasing burden of up-front taxes such as business rates. All of which have got worse over the last few years.
“The very real danger is that even with a good Brexit deal the domestic economy has been neglected for so long that businesses will continue to struggle to take advantage of any new opportunities."
He continued: “A modern, successful 21st century global economy needs reliable and effective infrastructure built for the future - not a continuation of ‘make do and mend’.
“It has to have an effective, responsive and stable skills system in place, free of the constant tinkering that does so much damage and it must also be based on strong social values and a broader understanding of “good” business too.
“Here in Greater Manchester we also want to have genuine devolved powers and decision making free from Whitehall intervention, not some form of half-way house which just creates problems and delays.
“The PM has a short timescale to deliver the necessary progress that business needs and will be judged harshly if this is not achieved irrespective of what may happen as regards Brexit.”
This was echoed by Warren Ward, head of public affairs & policy at Wirral Chamber of Commerce.
“It is time to get real about the issues facing our country,” he said.
“No more political point scoring, our business community needs real results on Brexit and the UK Economy.
“We need to understand what a Boris Johnson led government will do to avoid a disorderly Brexit on October 31, which poses a real threat to communities across the nation and could disrupt our countries international trade around the world.
“For too long have key issues at home been neglected. Our communities and businesses can no longer be held back by party politics. Businesses need confidence, and quickly. We remain open to working with the Prime Minister, as always, to secure the interests of businesses locally and nationally.”
Lesley Martin-Wright, CEO, Knowsley Chamber, added: “What the business world needs right now is some stability and some certainty.
“Businesses are telling us that they just need to know what is happing and what is going to happen so they can plan ahead and continue to grow. We need to move on from all the different political distractions and concentrate on doing business.”
Brian Holliday, managing director of Siemens Digital Industries has called on the new PM to get serious about manufacturing and further commitment to the regions for ‘a robust industrial strategy’.
He said: “We need a commitment to invest in our regions and bolstering our ability to design and make the things we can trade.
“Brexit throws into sharp relief the need for a robust industrial strategy, a long-term response from government to collaborate with business in addressing disruptive risk and opportunity.”
Serial entrepreneur and CEO of Manchester-based tech firm UKFast, Lawrence Jones said he had spoken to Mr Johnson recently about the ‘tech tax’ issue.
He added: “I was in a meeting with Boris Johnson a couple of weeks ago where we discussed the various different taxation issues with Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google.
“He acknowledged that it’s clearly not a level playing field. He gets it. I’m confident that he’s the right man to try and finally remedy that issue and create a level playing field for British businesses which ultimately means more money for the British people, and more opportunities for our businesses to compete.”
Neil Norman, chief of Liverpool-based Human Recognition Systems, a leading firm providing biometric services to airports and construction sites, tentatively welcomed the news Mr Johnson had become Tory leader.
He said: “Jeremy Hunt is a businessman and I think he would have been good for the country. He seems level-headed and a decent guy - I’ve got nothing against him.
“Johnson is a more flawed character, but seems more battle-hardened politically.
“I am loathe to admit this, but I think you need a good politician not a good businessman [for the role].
“Churchill had his flaws but managed to lift the country - and I think Mr Johnson is more akin to that than Mr Hunt is.”
He also called for Mr Johnson to end the Brexit impasse, even if that means leaving the EU without a deal, adding: “I think what every business leader is looking for is certainty.
“Once we have that certainty we will work through it, we will all adapt.”
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Manchester recruiter Sellick Partnership believes the Boris effect could be catastrophic for the UK talent pool.
Managing director Jo Sellick said: “As a recruitment leader I am regularly asked what harming our relationship with the EU might do to our talent pool, or what might happen to our workforce should we leave without a deal.
“I think we are already witnessing the ‘if’ in this question.
“EU migration has fallen year-on-year since the EU Referendum and job vacancies are at an all-time high as a result.
“In November last year the Office for National Statistics reported that our UK unemployment rate rose to 4.1 per cent at the same time as we saw a drop of 132,000 citizens from other European Union countries working in Britain.
“This is worrying for a country that already has a massive skills shortage and I don’t see much being done to try and rectify it at present. Instead of fighting among themselves, the UK government and our politicians should be working to make the UK an exciting and attractive place to work for experienced candidates across the globe.”

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The very famous Indian actor, Arjun Kapoor, has recently shared three pictures on his social handle Instagram. He is the son of film producers Boney Kapoor and Mona Shourie Kapoor. Initially, he worked as an associate producer on his father’s production.
His acting debut was in 2012 in an action romantic film ‘Ishaqzaade’, and then appeared in several films, like ‘Gunday’ in 2014, the coming-of-age romantic comedy ‘2 States’ and also appeared in an English-language road comedy ‘Finding Fanny’.
He has a huge fan following on his Instagram with 11.2 M followers and has also shared a lot of posts with around 1888 posts. He has recently left us in ‘ohhhhh’. He shared three pictures wearing his black T-shirt in one of them and posing.
He put the same caption for all the picture and wrote the caption in the Hindi language that said “Photo mili, acchi Lagi, post kar di”. He is also wearing super cool glasses in the picture adding aesthetic to his picture a little more, which made his fans leave comments on the picture.


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Hillary, that is. A musical interpretation of Current Events.
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All chart music consumed by Millenials contain a three-note sequence called The Millenial Whoop. If you want to empty the purses of the Millenials, use it liberally.
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Overtone Singing by Anna-Maria Hefele.
Belgium, 1987. Good old Beatbox rock.


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“We are ready to shop.” This was the consensus among the large group of primarily women who visited Hardy from several of the States Department of Parks and Tourism Visitor Centers offices on a familiarization tour hosted by the Ozarks Gateway Tourist Council. The group was welcomed Sept. 26 at the Old Stonehouse Bed and Breakfast in Hardy before hitting the streets to enjoy the local shops. The event was held last week and was sponsored by the Ozarks Gateway Tourism Council.
Adam Davis, President of the Ozarks Gateway Tourist Council led the group to the welcome reception from Mammoth Spring.
Tour members were able to vist and shop in Hardy. Area businesses were encouraged to provide take aways about their businesses and the area for the group. The tour bus departed from Mountain View at Ozark Folk Center, then made stops in Mammoth Spring, where they gained Adam Davis, who led the bus tour to the Hardy reception.
All the Hardy area restaurants provided various deserts for the event. The Hardy Advertising and Promotions Commission and members hosted the event and provided fruit trays and gift bags for the participants. FNBC was also a contributor to the tour.
After departing the group were headed to Pocahontas and Walnut Ridge.
While the Ozark Gateway can not use their funds to promote items in their region, the visitors from various state park visitor centers can take away literature and experiences to promote the Spring River area in their respective regions throughout the state.
Other tours of the various regions are set for a later time. As president of the council, Davis will be making the trip during these familiarization tours.
“It is perfect, these people are able to promote our area in their areas throughout the state,” Davis said.
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Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism
by Craig Owens
from Foster, Hal, ed. The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture.
Seattle: Bay P, 1983.
Li, 31 December 1998
[le savoir postmoderne]
is not simply an instrument of power. It refines our sensitivity
to difference and increase our tolerance of incommensurability. ¡VJ.F.
Lyotard, La condition postmoderne
Thesis: I have chosen
to negotiate the treacherous course between postmodernism and feminism,
it is in order to introduce the issue of sexual difference into the
modernism/ postmodernism debate¡Xa debate which has until now been scandalously
D. The avant-guard sought
to transcend representation in favor of presence and immediacy; it
proclaimed the autonomy of the signifier, its liberation from the
"tyranny of the signified"; postmodernists instead expose
the tyranny of the signifier, the violence of its law (59).
- Decentered, allegorical,
schizophrenic . . . ¡Vhowever we choose to diagnose its symptoms, postmodernism
is usually treated by its protagonists and antagonists alike, as a
crisis of cultural authority, specifically of the authority vested
in Western European culture and its institutions (57).
1. What is at stake, then, is not only the hegemony of Western culture,
but also (our sense of) our identity as a culture
- In the modern period
the authority of the work of art . . . was based on the universality
modern aesthetics attributed to the forms utilized for the
representation of vision, over and above difference in content due
to the production of works in concrete historical circumstances. .
. . Not only does the postmodernist work claim no such authority,
it also actively seeks to undermine all such claims; hence, its generally
deconstructive thrust. As recent analyses of the "enunciative
apparatus" of visual representation¡Xits poles of emission and
reception¡Xconfirm, the representational system of the West admit only
one vision¡Xthat of the constitutive male subject¡Xor, rather, they
posit the subject of representation as absolutely centered, unitary,
- The postmodernist work
attempts to upset the reassuring stability of that mastering position.
This same project has, of course, been attributed by writers like
Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes to the modernist avant-garde,
which through the introduction of heterogeneity, discontinuity, glossolalia,
etc., supposedly put the subject of representation in crisis (58-9).
E. It is precisely at
the legislative frontier between what can be represented and what
cannot that the postmodernist operation is being staged¡Xnot in order
to transcend representation, but in order to expose that system
of power that authorizes certain representations while blocking,
prohibiting or invalidating others. Among those prohibited from
Western representation, whose representations are denied all legitimacy,
are women. . . . This prohibition bears primarily on woman as the
subject, and rarely as the object of representation, for there is
certainly no shortage of images of women (59).
1. Here, we arrive
at an apparent crossing of the feminist critique of patriarchy
and the postmodernist critique of representation; this
essay is a provisional attempt to explore the implications of that
intersection. . . . I have chosen to negotiate the treacherous course
between postmodernism and feminism, it is in order to introduce
the issue of sexual difference into the modernism/ postmodernism
debate¡Xa debate which has until now been scandalously in-different
(59). (Note 7: Many of the issues treated in the following
pages¡Xthe critique of binary thought, for example, or the
privileging of vision over the other senses¡Xhave had long
careers in the history of philosophy. I am interested, however,
in the ways in which feminist theory articulates them onto the issue
of sexual privilege (78).
A. An allegorical impulse
in contemporary art¡Xan impulse that I identified as postmodernist
1. Laurie Anderson's
multi-media performance Americans on the Move (60).
2. I had overlooked
something¡Xsomething that is so obvious, so "natural"
that it may at the time have seemed unworthy of comment. It does
not seem that way to me today. For this is an image of sexual
difference or, rather, of sexual differentiation according to
the distribution of the phallus¡Xas it is marked and then re-marked
by the man's right arm, which appears less to have been raised
than erected in greeting (60).
3. Like all representations
of sexual difference that our culture produces, this is
an image not simply of anatomical difference, but of the values
assigned to it.
4. If I return to this
passage here, it is not simply to correct my own remarkable oversight,
but more importantly to indicate a blind spot in our discussion
of postmodernism in general: our failure to address the issue
of sexual difference¡Xnot only in the objects we discuss,
but in our own enunciation as well (61).
a. Marxism privileges
the characteristically masculine activity of production as the
definitively human activity (Marx: men "begin to distinguish
themselves from animals as soon as they begin to produce their
means of subsistence"); women historically consigned to the
spheres of nonproductive or reproductive labor, are thereby
situated outside the society of male producers, in a state of
nature. . . . What is at issue, however, is not simply
the oppressiveness of Marxist discourse, but its totalizing
ambitions, its claim to account for every form of social experience.
But this claim is characteristic of all theoretical discourse,
which is one reason women frequently condemn it as phallocratic.
It is not always theory per se that women repudiate, nor simply,
as Lyotard has suggested, the priority men have granted to it,
its rigid opposition to practical experience. Rather, what they
challenge is the distance it maintains between itself and its
objects¡Xa distance which objectifies and masters (63).
B. To prevent a phallologic
relapse in their own discourse, many feminist artists have, in fact,
forged a new (or renewed) alliance with theory¡Xmost profitably, perhaps,
with the writing of women influenced by Lacanian psychoanalysis (63).
1. Many modernist artists,
of course, produce texts about their own production, but writing
was almost always considered supplementary to their primary work
as painters, sculptors, photographers, etc., whereas the kind of
simultaneous activity on multiple fronts that characterizes many
feminist practices is a postmodern phenomenon. And one of the things
it challenges is modernism's rigid opposition of artistic
practice and theory (63).
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A. Lyotard defines
a discourse as modern when it appeals to one or another of
these grand r?cit for its legitimacy; the advent of postmodernity, then
signals a crisis in narrative's legitimizing function, its ability
to compel consensus (64).
B. "Most people" does
not include Fredric Jameson, although he diagnoses the postmodern
condition in similar terms (as a loss of narrative's social function)
and distinguishes between modernist and postmodernist works
according to their different relations to the "'truth-content' of
C. Symptoms of our recent
loss of mastery are everywhere apparent in cultural activity
today¡Xno where more so than in the visual arts. The modernist
project of joining forces with science and technology for the transformation
of the environment after rational principles of function and utility
(Productivism, the Bauhaus) has long since been abandoned; what
we witness in its place is a desperate, often hysterical attempt
to recover some sense of mastery via the resurrection of heroic
large-scale easel painting and monumental cast-bronze sculpture¡Xmediums
themselves identified with the cultural hegemony of Western Europe
1. Postmodernist artists
speak of impoverishment¡Xbut in a very different way. Sometimes the
postmodernist work testifies to a deliberate refusal of mastery;
for example, Martha Rosler's The Bowery in Two Inadequate
Descriptive Systems (1974-75), in which photographs of Bowery
storefronts alternate with clusters of typewritten words signifying
a. On the one hand,
she denies the caption/ text its conventional function
of supplying the image with something it lacks; instead, her juxtaposition
of two representational systems, visual and verbal, is calculated
(as the title suggests) to "undermine" rather than "underline"
the truth value of each (68).
b. More importantly,
Rosler has refused to photograph the inhabitants of Skid Row,
to speak on their behalf, to illuminate them from a safe distance.
For "concerned" or what Rosler calls "victim"
photograph overlooks the constitutive role of its own activity,
to be merely representative (the "myth" of photographic
transparency and objectivity) (68-9).
c. Despite his or
her benevolence in representing those who have been denied access
to the means of representation, the photographer inevitably
functions as an agent of the system of power that silenced
these people in the first place. Thus, they are twice victimized:
first by society, and then by the photographer who presume the
right to speak on their behalf. In fact, in such photography
it is the photographer rather than the "subject" who
pose¡Xas the subject's consciousness, indeed, as conscience itself
d. In this work,
. . . she has nevertheless pointed negatively to the crucial
issue of a politically motivated art practice today: "the
indignity of speaking for others." Rosler's position poses
a challenge to criticism as well, specifically to the
critic's substitution of his own discourse for the work of art
Visible and the Invisible
A. A work like The
Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems not only exposes
the "myth" of photographic objectivity and transparency;
it also upsets the (modern) belief in vision as a privileged means
of access to certainty and truth ("Seeing is believing")
B. That the priority
our culture grants to vision is a sensory impoverishment is hardly
a new perception; the feminist critique, however, links the privileging
of vision with sexual privilege (70).
1. "Freud articulated
the 'discovery of castration' around a sight: sight of a phallic
presence in the boy, sight of a phallic absence in the girl, ultimately
sight of a phallic absence in the mother. Sexual difference takes
its decisive significance from a sighting" (70-1).
C. But what does it mean
to claim that these [six women] artists render the invisible visible,
especially in a culture in which visibility is always on the side
of the male, invisibility on the side of the female (72)? The following
are some examples:
1. When Sherrie Levine
appropriates¡Xliterally takes¡XEdward Weston's photographs of his
son Neil posed as a classical Greek torso, is she
simply dramatizing the diminished possibilities for creativity in
an image-saturated culture, as is often repeated? Or is her refusal
authorship not in fact a refusal of the role of creator as "father"
of his work, of the "paternal rights assigned to the author
by law?" (73).
2. Levine collaborates
with Louise Lawler under the collective title "A Picture
is No Substitute for Anything"¡Xan unequivocal critique of
representation as traditionally defined (E.H. Gombrich: "All
art is image-making, and all image-making is the creation of substitutes.")
3. When Lawler shows
"A Movie without the Picture," as she did in 1979 in
Los Angeles and again in 1983 in New York, is she simply soliciting
the spectator as a collaborator in the production of the image?
Or is she not also denying the viewer the kind of visual pleasure
which cinema customarily provides¡Xa pleasure that has been linked
with the masculine perversions voyeurism and scopophilia (73)?
4. When Cindy Sherman, in her untitled
black-and-white studies for film stills (made in the late '70s
and early '80s), first costumed herself to resemble heroines of
grade-B Hollywood films of the late '50s and early '60s and the
photographed herself in situations suggesting some immanent danger
lurking just beyond the frame, was she simply attacking the rhetoric
of "auteurism by equating the known artifice of the actress
in front of the camera with the supposed authenticity of the director
behind it"? Or was her play-acting not also an acting out
of the psychoanalytic notion of femininity as masquerade, that
is, as representation of male desire (73-5)?
5. When Barbara Kruger collages the words
"your gaze hits the side of my face" over an image culled from
a '50s photo-annual of a female bust, is she simply "making an
equation . . . between aesthetic reflection and the alienation
of the gaze: both reify"? Or is she not speaking instead of the
masculinity of the look, the ways in which it objectifies
and masters (75-7)?
A. In the visual arts
we have witnessed the gradual dissolution of once fundamental distinctions¡Xoriginal/copy,
authentic/ inauthentic, function/ ornament. Each now seems to contain
its opposite, and the indeterminacy brings with it an impossibility
of choice or, rather, the absolute equivalence and hence interchangeability
of choice (77).
B. The existence of
feminism, with its insistence on difference, forces us
to reconsider. For in our country good-bye look just like hello,
but only from a masculine position. Women have learned¡Xperhaps
they have always known¡Xhow to recognize the difference (77).
1. What is your view
about Martha Rosler's argument that to photograph the inhabitants
of Skid Row constitute a double victimization¡Xfirst by society,
and then by the photographer, who presumes the right to speak on
their behalf? (68-9)
2. Can you think of
other examples applicable to the term "The Visible and the Invisible"
Owen used in the essay to discuss postmodern feminist's artwork?
3. Can you think of
any other possible oversight to fit in the discussion of postmodern
Criticism: Feminism;Postmodern Theories and Texts

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February 14th and Dublin based band, ‘Leaders of Men’ have released their single ‘For Want of a Better Word’. Brian Ashe, Darren Lindsey, Edward Porter, Dean Byrne, Gavin Glynn make up the five piece indie band from Dublin, the single release comes ahead of some big plans for the lads who have their sights set on an album, touring bigger gigs and festivals. For Want of a Better Word is available to download from Three Ireland Music, 7digital, iTunes, Google Play Store, Nokia Music Store and Xbox Music.
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Marvel Rising Pays Homage to Classic Marvel Comics Covers
Celebrate the next generation of super heroes with special variant covers!
The next generation of super heroes have arrived! To celebrate, Marvel is excited to present Marvel Rising Action Doll Homage variants, hitting comic shops this December!
Featuring Marvel Rising characters such as Ms. Marvel, Squirrel Girl, America Chavez, Ghost Spider, and Quake stepping into their predecessor’s shoes, each of the five covers is a homage to a classic cover from years past.
“These covers are such a wonderful way of celebrating Marvel Rising while honoring the legacy of the great Marvel heroes that came before,” said Sana Amanat, Marvel’s VP of Content and Character Development. “They’re a true testament to the vastness of the Marvel Universe and the incredible way they can come to life with these amazingly awesome Hasbro action dolls. I wish I had these when I was a kid!"
The entire line-up of Hasbro’s Marvel Rising Action Dolls are available exclusively at Target! Find them on these select comic books starting this December. Take a look below at the covers at their inspiration, and dive into the entire gallery at the end.
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Can Someone With Diabetes Donate Their Pancreas
I have severe sharp pain as soon as I begin to eat. The pain is NOT my stomache but just to the left of my stomache. Exactly where the pancrease (pancrelipase) sits.
Abdominal organ. It is digestive organ: it secretes enzymes into the small bowel which break down food and help its absorption. It is also an endocrine organ: it produces hormones involved in sugar control and control of digestion. Insulin is one of these hormones. Diabetics either lack Insulin (type 1 diabetes) or have inadequate ...Read more
No: However bacon is a poor quality food with a lot of fat and pork. ...Read more
Pancreas transplant: A pancreas transplant is usually only done when you are having another transplant, like a kidney. With any transplant, you have to take powerful anti-rejection drugs, and that causes complications. Even in the setting of combined pancreas/kidney transplant, the new pancreas does not always function well, and you may still need insulin. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
My brother, aged around 5, has diabetes. I want to know that can pancreas be replaced in his case?
Is it possible that i give him at least a little bit of my pancreas so he can have a healthy pancreas again and no more diabetes?
Basically no...: A. For you, risk too high for serious complications from the surgery, and amount obtained would not reverse his diabetes b. Patients must confirm to current criteria- frequent low sugars or terrible complications pancreas/islet cell transplants are being done only from patients who've died-eg: trauma and donate organs other techniques being evaluated- stem cells in medical research centers. ...Read more
Bacon: The simple answer is NO! That said you must pay a lot of attention to your blood sugar and make appropriate choices for the food you take and the physical activity you do. Check your blood sugar at least once a day - alternate breakfast reading on day 1 and at bedtime on day 2., etc. Also go on-line and look up "NuVal". It will help you with your diet. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Diabetes ; pancreas: In type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune condition destroys the Insulin producing b-cells of the pancreas (the rest of the pancreas is ok). In type 2, the primary problem is Insulin resistance: initially high Insulin but the b-cells can't keep up so blood glucose elevates though you are making some insulin, but not enough. Repeated bouts of pancreatitis can damage the whole pancreas and cause diabetes. ...Read more
Artificial pancreas : The artificial pancreas is a continuous glucometer that communicates with an Insulin pump. They exist but are not fda approved due to issues with hypoglycemia, but will likely be the future of Insulin care. Pancreas transplantation is currently the most reliable way to achieve optimized glycemic control at the price of a large operation and lifelong immunosuppression. ...Read moreSee 3 more doctor answers
What to do if I have to make a 3d model of something representing diabetes affecting the body or pancreas. help please?
C'mon!: Hi. Do your own homework! How are you gonna learn if we do it for you. Read, think, and come up with an idea! You can do it! ...Read more
It takes: Will-power and initiative to break bad habits. I don't know what's wrong with your pancreas, so can't tell you how to heal it -- but if your problems are increasing blood sugar, the treatment is diet, exercise and weight loss to help prevent diabetes and give your body a chance to help your pancreas if it can. Check w/your doctor. ...Read more
If type 2 diabetes means your pancreas has burned out, does it stay burned out if you lose lots of weight?
Yes: Unfortunately you can't reverse your diabetes. The pancreas will not heal itself. However, weight loss and exercise makes you more sensitive to your insulin. So if you are taking insulin, or your body is still making any insulin... Exercise and weight loss will make that Insulin work better in your body. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
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The SL class from yesteryear is gone, and replaced by a new, radically different revolutionary 2+2 convertible. Few sports cars have the pedigree of the the SL, having been around since 1954, the original “gullwing” SL can fetch millions of dollars in auctions today. The latest iteration, code named R232 will be the first to be an AMG only model.
The new generation is the first to have 2+2 seating as standard rather than optional configuration since the R129 was introduced in 1989. Although the rear seats are more suited to pets or grocery bags, children or persons less than 5 feet tall can be seated there for small trips, although you probably wouldn’t want to have them sitting in the rear seats for your next 6 hour road trip! In front, the instrument cluster is placed within a binnacle to reduce the reflection of sunlight when the roof is down and the center touch screen panel can also be tilted to different angles depending on the driver’s preferences. Mercedes engineers also opted to use a soft top rather than sectional foldable hardtop as they did with the previous generation in an effort to save weight.
On the outside, the SL looks every bit what an AMG should portray; strikingly beautiful, menacing and very well proportioned. The gaping front grille is flanked by aggressively shaped headlamps atop gaping air intakes while a sculpted bonnet and sides flow into the rear bumper and large wrap-around taillamps. As always though, some people will love the design while others may find it not to be to their taste. Personally, I think that this is one of Mercedes-Benz / AMG’s finest yet.
Two V8 engine options will be available. On the SL55, a twin turbocharged 4.0 liter unit will generate 469 bhp while the SL63’s V8 churns out a whopping 577 bhp, with the different being attributed to higher turbo boost in the latter. Down the road, a 416 bhp 2.0 liter unit may be available, as well as a plug in hybrid. In addition, all-wheel drive will be standard on all SL models, making it the perfect year-round touring vehicle, making it as easy to take the SL on ski trips as it is to cruise with the top down in the summer months.
Other features to enhance the driving experience include an active rear spoiler which adjusts automatically to any of 6 different pre-set positions depending on your speed, as well as an optional aero package that give the car a more aggressive front splitter, larger rear diffuser and active underbody aerodynamic surfaces.


Ronnie Van Zant, Bob Burns, Allen Collins, Gary Rossington, and Larry Junstrom formed the band Lynyrd Skynyrd back in 1964, originally known as My Backyard, the band changed to its famous name in the early 1970s. In 1973, the band recorded and released “Free Bird,” arguably the most-recognized single in the Southern Rock genre. Of course, later down the road, the band recorded the iconic tracks “Sweet Home Alabama” and “What’s Your Name.”
The band’s current line-up includes original member Rossington, Johnny Van Zant, Rickey Medlocke, Mark “Sparky” Matejka, Michael Cartellone, Keith Christopher, Peter Keys, Dale Krantz Rossington, and Carol Chase. Lynyrd Skynyrd was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.
As the band promised to their fans, the Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour continues in 2020 with tickets for U.S. dates going on sale to the general public beginning this Friday, Dec. 6 at 10:00 a.m. local time at LiveNation.com.
The farewell tour will continue to take the band across the country and around the globe
in 2020 giving fans another night of classic American Rock-and-Roll. The tour will make a stop in Fort Wayne on Friday, September 18th, 2020, at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. The Southern Rockers will be joined on the tour by special guest Travis Tritt.


Google's Terms of Service for the Tez app mention sharing and storing of Aadhaar numbers of users. The app was criticised for this, but Google included the same in its terms of service incase it adds a 'Pay by Aadhaar' feature in the future.
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Google’s payments app, Tez, may get a 'Pay by Aadhaar' feature in the future. The Terms and Service for Tez include a criteria that allows Google to share your Aadhaar number with third parties. This, could easily seem like a privacy issue. So, we asked the question of Google. In answering that, Google’s VP of Next Billion Users, Caesar Sengupta, said that the clause has been included in the TOS in anticipation of the 'Pay by Aadhaar' feature.
The company clarified that Tez doesn’t support this feature at present, so users won’t be asked for Aadhaar details. “While NPCI guidelines permit payment by Aadhaar as a valid form of payment, we will not commence this feature until there is more regulatory and legal clarity,” said Google's Sengupta. “If at anytime in the future, Tez supports this feature with notice to the user, we would only collect relevant data required for the purpose of supporting these payments as per applicable laws. The Terms of Service refers to upcoming features in order to ensure that the user is aware.”
The Tez app is a UPI-based payments service run by Google. While the app will indeed compete against Paytm etc, it doesn’t necessarily function the same way. Where Paytm wants users to put money in their wallets, Tez is a UPI payment gateway, that allows users to send money to merchants and each other, directly from their bank accounts.
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Introduced in 1993, the Opel Corsa second generation of this small car was available with 3 and 5 doors. The Opel Corsa is primarily a city car and is not very suitable for longer distances, as it is noisy.
Standard equipment included an airbag for the driver, which was not even available on the competition list when competing. In 1994, the front passenger airbag was included as standard equipment, ABS was also included, but stability control did not.
Initially, only four-cylinder engines were offered. Gasoline was from 45 to 82 hp, later comes the model with 109 hp, and diesel from 50 to 67 hp. In 1997, when the Opel Corsa was redesigned, a very economical 3 cylinder and 55 hp diesel engine was added.
After the redesign, new gears were introduced that do not use a gear belt, as in the first models there were failures with a gear belt. These new engines still have problems with the water pump. Water pump leaks can occur and the engine may overheat afterwards. Electronics sometimes also know how to make problems so problems with lights, control panel lights and power windows can happen. The ignition for a car is not very good and if repaired, repairs can be expensive. Overall reliability Opel Corse is not bad, it is on the same level as the competition VW Polo of the same age.
On the Euro Ncap test, Corsa received 2/5 stars which is very bad for passenger safety.
Corsa's biggest flaw is the rust that occurs very often. In addition, the weak points are the doors, tail lights and fenders.
On the other hand, consumption is very good. For petrol engines it is 6 - 7 l per 100 km, while diesel engines consume about 5 - 6 l.
Advantages - Opel Corsa B
- Spacious for such small cars
- Cheap to maintain
Mane - Opel Corsa B
- Very prone to rusting
- Driving comfort
- Long-haul highway loudspeakers
- Electronics (problem with lights, interior lights, power windows)
- Management is significantly worse than the competition
- Poor quality of workmanship for car ignition
- Bad posture on the road
- The interior looks cheap
- Increased wear on the front tires
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This durable molded wood toilet seat features a chrome and porcelain retro bar hinge that accents bath hardware. With a superior high-gloss finish, it resists chipping and scratching. It fits all manufacturers' round bowls and is made in the USA.
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- Chrome retro bar hinge with chrome or white caps accents bath hardware
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GETTING the right amount of sleep is important for our day to day functioning, but there is one particular stage of sleep that's crucial.
Deep sleep, also known as delta sleep due to the slowing of brainwaves, is said to help us remain healthy and functional as we age.
What is deep sleep?
Sleep can be split into four different stages: stage 1, the lightest sleep, stage 2, which is the most enjoyable sleep, REM, in which we dream, and stage 3 - deep sleep.
Deep sleep is when the brainwaves slow and resemble what is known as a delta pattern, and the heart rate and breathing rate also slow down.
The thinking parts of the brain essentially shut down, the muscles completely relax and no dreams take place during this time.
This type of sleep is when the body grows and heals, with the body secreting various hormones to repair muscles and tissues, as well as strengthening your immune system.
How much deep sleep should we be getting?
While half of our sleep is spent in stage 2, and a further quarter in REM, we should spend around 15 to 20 per cent in a deep sleep.
The stage will only last for a few minutes per cycle, and we are most likely to experience it in the first hours of our night's sleep, when we are less likely to be woken up.
Adults should aim for more than 1 and a half hours of deep sleep per night, or around 20 per cent of their overall night, and you can never have too much of it.
For children the figures remain the same, requiring 20 per cent depending on the full amount of sleep recommended for their age.
Why is deep sleep so important?
Stage 3 sleep is the body's best opportunity to heal itself and promote growth, so for young people or those with chronic illnesses, deep sleep is essential to repair any damage.
The best way to get more deep sleep is to sleep better and more soundly.
Without deep sleep we can suffer ageing at a faster rate and make it harder for us to keep heart disease, bone problems or neurological issues like dementia at bay.
Making sure you get enough can be vital to ensuring your health in later life, so allowing adequate time in the night to sleep is the best way to encourage deep sleep.
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The Igneous Roof is a dark red slanted building-block.
Despite its name, this roof is not inflammable.
This slanted block can be placed to create corners of walls or for other purposes too when being rotated by pressing and holding R (as the default key) while moving the mouse.
It can be crafted in your Crafting Menu (default key "q") but only after the crafting-recipe has been unlocked by
- creating Iron Rods by putting Iron Bars into a Processor, made from Iron Ore that can be extracted from Nodes on the Stalactite layer or can be found in Iron Treasure Chests or Diamond Treasure Chests
- crafting or picking up Igneous Wall (unlocked after taking a block of Igneous Rock for the first time with at least an Iron Mining Cell equipped)
- crafting or picking up Iron Roofs
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TWO NAMES have been doing the rounds as the global newspaper business casts around for knights in shining armour to save them from an uncertain future.
The first is Alexander Lebedev, the former KGB agent who recently bought London’s Evening Standard newspaper from the Daily Mail & General Trust for the princely sum of £1 and who is now reported to be sniffing around the faltering Independent and Independent on Sunday, whose owner, Tony O’Reilly’s Independent News and Media, is in deep financial trouble.
The other is Mexican mogul, Carlos Slim, who – according to the Wall Street Journal – agreed to inject US$250m into the New York Times in a deal that could see him emerge with 18 per cent of the company’s shares, making his holding second only to the Ochs–Sulzberger family, the paper’s historical owners.
Over the years the Sulzberger family has always been the biggest shareholder in the “Grey Lady.” The family’s voting stock will ensure that it retains control of the company, but there is speculation that a determined assault led by Slim may put pressure on the voting structure and force the Sulzberger family to relinquish control.
Slim, by the way, made his money by pretty much owning Mexico’s entire telephone system, both landlines and mobile phones. This gives him slightly more of a media background than Lebedev, whose experience of newsprint appears to be limited to his days as a spook at the Russian embassy in London when, by all accounts, he used to scan the Evening Standard for tidbits of intelligence to send back to his paymasters in Moscow.
But it was Lebedev who made the remark that cheered the hearts of every British journalist currently considering a change of career in the face of withering job cuts: “As far as I’m concerned this has nothing to do with making money. There are lots of other ways. This is a good way to waste money,” he told the Guardian.
There’s a certain degree of nostalgia at the moment for the days when pretty much all newspapers were owned by moguls and their families – or, like the Guardian in London and the St Petersburg Times in Florida, were owned by a non-profit trust.
The recent deals have prompted speculation that newspaper groups may be moving back towards private hands as private equity groups and institutional investors look for a way out. “The likely prognosis is that we will see more private deals and a withdrawal of the institutional and private-equity investors who have tried hard to milk the newspaper industry, but have done little to enhance the value or importance of newspapers,” Jim Chisholm, a newspaper consultant at iMedia Advisory Services, told the Sunday Times last week.
Newspaper companies – runs an argument that is gaining more and more currency of late – are better off if they are owned, or at least controlled, by private individuals or companies rather than the stock market. The reasoning is this: media companies (only a very few organisations now own only newspapers) that are controlled by shareholders do not have the journalism as their first priority but are limited to short-term, quarter-by-quarter management driven by the balance sheet. The main argument in favour of public ownership of news companies, on the other hand, is that they impose discipline and provide the means to raise capital to finance acquisitions.
Before examining these two arguments further, let’s get one thing out in the open. Whether privately held or publicly traded, a lot of newspapers, particularly in the mature print markets such as the United States, Europe and Australia, are in trouble. As if the disruption to audiences prompted by the rise and rise of the internet were not enough, the industry is being further starved of advertising revenue by the general global downturn. Profits, which rarely fell below 15 to 25 per cent a year, are plummeting into single figures and below as revenue dries up. Many companies are loaded with debt that is getting increasingly difficult to service. It is, as ABC managing director Mark Scott noted in a speech last year, a “perfect storm.”
But this is not a cyclical matter, as the digital director of Guardian News and Media, Emily Bell, noted in a speech to the Britain’s Polis think-tank last year. It is a structural shift. People are increasingly getting their news elsewhere and, when it returns, advertising revenue may well not head back into the coffers of news organisations. Advertisers park their dollars where people park their eyes, so the beneficiaries of any upturn in advertising may just as easily be social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook as your local newspaper company.
But for the purpose of this argument let’s be more optimistic and examine some of the more upbeat scenarios. Mark Potts, co-founder of WashingtonPost.com and a former journalist with the Post and the Chicago Tribune, writes the influential blog Recovering Journalist, in which he has attempted to model the financial prospects of the newspaper business out as far as 2020. Potts sees revenues falling to a nadir by next year and bumping along the bottom until about 2014, at which point a gradual recovery is likely to kick in. Print revenues, he believes, will continue to fall – there is nothing he can see that will reverse this trend.
But Potts believes that online revenue, which was rising on average by about 20 per cent a year, albeit from a very low base, will overtake print revenues by 2018. The challenge for newspapers is how they are going to make sure they attract the lion’s share of that revenue.
Here’s the point. At the rate of attrition in first-world newspaper markets – in the United States, 15,000 journalists lost their jobs last year alone – by the time advertising revenue really starts to flow back and businesses start looking around for the right homes for their message, newspapers might not be the best place to settle. Put simply, they may not be able to fill the indispensable role and build the sorts of communities of readers that make them attractive to advertisers.
THIS IS THE CHALLENGE facing newspaper managers – how to remain a part of people’s lives into the future. It is not a challenge for the fainthearted and certainly not one that will be won by the short-term, cost-cutting strategies we have seen in the United States, Britain and – sad to say – some of our own media companies here in Australia.
Philip Meyer, veteran journalist, editor and educator and the author of the industry bible, The Vanishing Newspaper, has demonstrated a firm link between quality and influence and between influence and profitability. “A newspaper… produces two kinds of influence: societal influence, which is not for sale, and commercial influence, or influence on the consumer’s decision to buy, which is for sale,” he wrote in the Newspaper Research Journal. “The beauty of this model is that it provides economic justification for excellence in journalism. This is true because a news medium’s societal influence enhances its commercial influence. An influential newspaper will have more readers, be more trusted by those readers, and be worth more to advertisers.”
Meyer points to the current trend for raising cover prices and cutting costs – thus lowering quality – and calls it “harvesting market position,” a one-time only strategy aimed at making as much money as possible in the short-term. This strategy rests on the fact that brand loyalty will continue to attract readers for a while before they realise they are not getting what they want from their newspaper. But once they are gone, they rarely come back.
Thus far, newspaper circulation in Australia has not shown the rapid decline it has in the United States and Britain. There are a number of reasons for this: we are a little behind the curve in our consumption of online products due to our broadband internet services being relatively slow and expensive, for example. But this country is fast catching up.
The metropolitan press in this country is dominated by two big companies, Fairfax Media and News Ltd. Of the two, the Fairfax mastheads have probably enjoyed the greater societal influence as a result of 150 years of quality journalism. News Ltd’s mastheads, while also of a high quality, simply didn’t enjoy the same dominance of their target demographic as the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age once did in New South Wales and Victoria.
Fairfax has recently gone through a serious upheaval, both in the boardroom and on the editorial floor. David Kirk, who was attempting to drive radical change mostly with cost-cutting, was ousted in December in favour of his number two, Brian McCarthy, who came to Fairfax when it merged with Rural Press. Before he went, as he attempted an ill-fated public campaign to justify the cuts, Kirk pointed to what many analysts consider to be Fairfax’s major Achilles heel: the fact that its capital structure doesn’t separate voting shares from ordinary shares in the way that benefits companies such as the New York Times Company, the Washington Post Company and News Corporation.
Thus, decisions are largely dictated by the market rather than any individual who may either have a commitment to quality over profit or, as many analysts believe to be the case with the likes of Rupert Murdoch, a longer-term outlook and lifelong love of newspapers.
In their influential study, Taking Stock: Journalism and the Publicly Traded Newspaper Company, Gibert Cranberg, Randall Belancon and John Solosoky argued that often the decisions made in the boardroom of publicly traded newspaper companies are largely dictated by the opinions of media analysts in the financial sector “whose interests are strictly financial and whose expectations are by definition short term because of easy access to alternative investments at a moment’s notice.”
Writing in 2001, before the upheaval in the US newspaper market had really begun to bite, the authors drew on interviews with a selection of analysts, almost all of whom said that public ownership of newspaper companies was probably not good for journalism, whether it was good for the shareholders or not. “The stock market is concerned about growth rate, not about quality. The market doesn’t care,” said one analyst, while another said that if the cost of quality was perceived by shareholders to be too high, they would get “pissed.”
On balance, going public has been bad for journalism because of worry about the bottom line, the study concludes: “Going public forces management to tighten the belt, ‘to come out of the ivory tower,’ to invest less in editorial. Staffs are leaner and there is less investigative reporting. The quality of newspapers has degraded and part of that is due to going public.”
Their views are shared by analysts in this country and, if anything, that view is more pronounced in this economic environment. One media analyst, who wished to remain anonymous, told me last week: “The problem with media companies is that profitability is pretty important if you are publicly traded – too often it is more important than the journalism itself.
“When you look at what is happening at the moment the traditional media companies are in panic mode because of what is happening in the cyclical environment – they are being forced to cut costs to manage their margins, but the problem we have is that they are cutting the most important things – the content creators. So they cut staff, which then directly affects the quality and hastens the downward movement in circulation because more and more people start to look elsewhere and the advertisers don’t value them as highly.”
In his most recent update, media analyst Christian Guerra of Goldman Sachs JB Were wrote that the cost-cutting strategy was “driving decay in content quality” and added that “this must harm audiences”.
“The question we do not know the answer to is: Are audiences noticing the decay in quality? If the answer to this question is ‘Yes,’ which we suspect it is, traditional media companies face the prospect of the current challenges (cyclical and structural) actually driving further audience migration away from traditional media,” he wrote, adding: “It is ironic that traditional media companies may be contributing to their own demise.”
To add to this awful irony, it appears likely that – because of their very structure – there is little publicly traded media companies can do to arrest this. They are merely doing what the market forces them to do. In Guerra’s words, they are “attacking the one lever in their control: operating costs.”
So, if the value of media stocks continues to race to the bottom we may well see the return of the media mogul. Whether this will be good or bad for journalism is another matter. Remember – media moguls have priorities too.


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Seriously, this is 2018, we realise now that you can be educated up to your eye-balls but if your mental health is suffering – so is everything you are working for and everyone you love.
I would LOVE to see a couple of subjects dropped and replaced…
You need algebra for your chosen career? Perfect, learn it in detail during your further education; instead of at school when you could be learning cognitive and behavioural techniques to remain calm and balanced no matter what is raging on around you.
Why are we all learning Trigonometry – when we could be learning how paranoia and comparison lead to eating disorders and body dysmorphia?
Let’s teach children how chemical imbalances affect everything: their moods, their brain function and their thoughts.
Let’s give them the info they need to MASTER mental health – like the future bosses they are.
To understand the human emotions and the effect they have on the world.
To be able to spot suffering in others and counsel them through it.
I have seen the brightest stars, fall at the first social hurdle, university, simply because they had no clue how to handle the move from home, the new environment and the freedom.
Let’s better prepare our upcoming generations and give them what they really do need to survive and make it out there.
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Charles Oliveira vs Dustin Poirier UK Time: When does UFC 269 main event start tonight?
Charles Oliveira will bring his lightweight title to the top in the main event of UFC 269 on Saturday, as challenger Dustin Poirier will eventually become the undisputed world champion.
Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena will host one of the biggest fights of the year, with fans torn about who will leave Sin City with gold.
Poirier became interim lightweight champion in 2019 but was unable to unify the title against Khabib Nurmagomedov, with Oliveira later claiming the title was vacated by the Russians. The Brazilian knocked out Michael Chandler in May to claim the belt, and Saturday marked his first defense.
Speaking this week, Poirier – who has beaten Conor McGregor twice this year – said: “I am [used to say] 25 minutes to make life fair. This is 25 minutes for eternity, 25 for eternity. That’s what this is. You don’t take it away. Once a champion, always be a champion.”
Here’s everything you need to know about UFC 269.
UFC 269 takes place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday, December 11.
Preliminary passes will begin at 11:15 GMT, with passes at 1am GMT on Sunday morning.
The main card will then get underway at 3am GMT, with the main event expected to kick off around 5am.
How can I watch?
The prelims were initially available to stream on UFC’s Fight Pass.
In the UK, prelims and keycards will air live on BT Sport – as well as the broadcaster’s website and app – while ESPN+ will show them in the US.
What are the odds?
Poirier: 4/6; Oliveira: 5/4.
Nunes: 1/10; Pena: 6/1.
Charles Oliveira (C) vs Dustin Poirier (lightweight title)
Amanda Nunes (C) vs Julianna Pena (women’s bantamweight title)
Geoff Neal vs Santiago Ponzinibbio (middleweight)
Kai Kara-France vs Cody Garbrandt (flyweight)
Raulian Paiva vs Sean O’Malley (bantamweight)
Josh Emmett objected. Dan Ige passes unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 30-27)
Dominick Cruz def. Pedro Munhoz adopts unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Tai Tuivasa def. Augusto Sakai through knockout in second round (strike, 0:26)
Bruno Silva objected. Jordan Wright via first half TKO (strike, 1:28)
Andre Muniz objected. Eryk Anders approves first round submission (armbar, 3:13)
Erin Blanchfield defeated. Miranda Maverick adopts unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Ryan Hall beat. Darrick Minner passes unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-27)
Tony Kelley objected. Randy Costa via second half TKO (strike, 4:15)
Gillian Robertson protested. Priscila Cachoeira passes first round submissions (back of naked choke, 4:59)
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/ufc/poirier-oliveira-ufc-269-start-time-uk-b1973559.html Charles Oliveira vs Dustin Poirier UK Time: When does UFC 269 main event start tonight?


The date has been set for a planning inquiry into whether a school playing field should be registered as a village green to save it from potential development.
The site was originally part of plans by Taylor Wimpey for 180 new homes off Durrants Lane, Berkhamsted.
The firm had agreed with Egerton Rothersay School that it would fund a new and greatly improved playing field nearby, in return for being allowed to build on the land.
But Save Your Berkhamsted Residents Association (SYBRA) says the people who live next door have used the area to walk dogs, picnic and play football for more than 20 years.
Secretary Alan O’Neill says the playing field was only closed to the public as Taylor Wimpey’s plans took shape in the summer of 2010.
He said: “Most people in the area are against building on sports grounds. They can’t get in now, and say it’s not right that it should be closed off to us.
“They have used it for years and therefore it has become their right to use it. The other site requires a half-mile walk to get to.”
Two years ago, SYBRA applied to have the site protected from development by registering it as a village green. The association says it now has 21 letters of support and 39 submissions of evidence to back its village green application.
The Planning Inspectorate’s inquiry into whether the playing field should be registered as a village will begin at 10am on Tuesday, March 25, in Berkhamsted Civic Centre.
The plan will be opposed by Herts County Council, which owns the land, and the school itself.
Council spokesman Simon Hoggett said the playing field does not meet the criteria for the registration of land as a town or village green.
He said: “We are hopeful that our objection will succeed. We will be presenting our arguments at the enquiry.”
Taylor Wimpey held a public consultation last year on plans for 120 new homes on an agricultural field between Shootersway and Coppins Close, next to the playing field.
The firm then said that plans for a further 60 homes had been placed on hold until the outcome of the Planning Inspectorate’s inquiry.
Taylor Wimpey will hold informal meetings with members of SYBRA and Berkhamsted Town Council today.
They will discuss the firm’s revised plans, which will see fewer homes being built, following feedback from the public consultation.
Taylor Wimpey spokesman Joni Ager said: “We will be working with interested parties to confirm the details of our final proposal in the coming weeks.
“This will be followed by the submission of a planning application.
“The outcome of the village green application does not impact upon our residential development plans for the site.”


700 homes to be built in Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire
More than 700 homes are set to be built through two schemes in Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire.
Wolverhampton Council is set to approve more than 500 new rent homes, that are due to be built across the city by 2024, while 220 homes are set to be built in Perton.
Around 90 per cent of the Wolverhampton homes will be given to existing council tenants that are currently on the housing transfer list, with the remaining 10 per cent reserved for those on the emergency housing list.
The plan, which is part of a local lettings plan (LLP), has been recommended for approval when the council's cabinet make a decision at a meeting on July 10.
Councillor Peter Bilson, deputy leader and cabinet member for city assets and housing, said: “This plan will allocate a proportion of new council homes to existing council tenants already living in these areas, helping to ensure stable communities are established in the long term.
“Tenants transferring to new homes will make available other properties for applicants on the housing register – therefore two applicants benefit from the development of each new-build council property.
“The city-wide LLP will help the council make best use of the limited supply of social and affordable housing becoming vacant each year by providing a simple, transparent priority system based on clear criteria.”
Meanwhile, housing provider Housing Plus Group has purchased a 22.24 acre site next to Wrottesley Golf Club, which will see 220 houses built in Perton.
It will see a combination of sale, shared ownership and rented homes.
The company's chief executive, Sarah Boden, said: “We are very excited to share news about this flagship development during Rural Housing Week.
“We look forward to creating fabulous new homes in this popular village and to supporting economic regeneration in the area.
"Work on the i54 expansion got underway last month and is expected to bring more than 1,700 additional jobs in South Staffordshire.
"This represents a huge investment in the economic wellbeing of our region but will create even more demand for housing in surrounding communities.
“We are working closely with the Parish and District Councils to start work on these new homes and local amenities, such as allotments, as soon as possible.”
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We need to have a difficult conversation without finger-pointing or denials. The topic is one that inflames many and almost immediately shuts down any meaningful discussion. We need to discuss race in Pensacola and Escambia County.
An ember of discontent is smoldering in our African-American neighborhoods. The have-nots see themselves cut off from ever earning a piece of the “American Dream.” The public schools in their neighborhoods are failing. Children are hungry and left to fend for themselves on the streets. Guns, shootings and robberies are commonplace. Health care is inaccessible other than by waiting hours at the community clinic and in hospital emergency rooms.
A few blocks away, most of the white community is oblivious to day-to-day struggles for survival in the black neighborhoods. The public schools in their neighborhoods are fine. Kids are enrolled in after-school programs and don’t roam the streets. They have family doctors. The crime occurs when the poor get tired of feeding on each other and begin looking for bigger paydays.
The gap between two races is growing, not shrinking. We’ve written about it several times, but, other than Commissioner Lumon May and City Councilman Gerald Wingate, few local elected officials want to discuss the huge disparities. The few attempts to make a difference over the past few years have failed miserably.
In 2009, Superintendent Malcolm Thomas wanted to turnaround Warrington Middle School, the worst junior high in the county. He fired all of the teachers, created what he thought would be an elite faculty and pumped millions of dollars into the school. According to the Florida Department of Education, the school’s grade has dropped from a C in 2009 to an F for this past school year. Less than one out of four of its students read, write or can do math on their grade level.
The initiative failed, partially because Thomas never really engaged the parents and African-American community. He mistakenly believed that he could do it by proclamation and with dollars. And I bring this up not to lay blame on Thomas, but to show how difficult change is, especially when there is no conversation between the races.
The death of Trayvon Martin can be an opportunity for this community to come together and begin a dialogue on race and how we can work together to narrow the gaps between us. There are no shortcuts available, and the conversation will be emotional and difficult.
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Apple Music faces antitrust investigation
US attorney generals investigate tech giant's streaming service for potentially preferential deals
Apple's new music streaming servicehas come under investigation for potentially anti-competitive activities, just days after its launch.
The attorney generals of both New York and Connecticut are examining whether Apple signed preferential deals with big studio labels at the expense of other streaming services to support its latest product, Apple Music.
The offering is based on Apple's$3 billion takeover of Beats Music, and was launchedat the tech giant'sWorldWide Developer Conferencein San Francisco on Monday.
The rise of streaming services like Deezer and Spotify has led to "new and different ways" to listen to music, a spokesman for New York attorney-general Eric Schneiderman said in a statement.
However, he added that the market must remain competitive in order for this to continue.
"To preserve these benefits, it's important to ensure that the market continues to develop free from collusion and other anti-competitive practices," he said.
This is the second time Apple has come under scrutiny regarding this issue.
The EU launched an exploratory probe into the same subject earlier this year, sending quesionnaires about the company's behaviour to labels and rival platforms.
While music star Jay Z's streaming service Tidal makes a point of emphasising its exclusive releases, Apple has, thus far, made no mention of any such agreements.
Universal Music Group, one of the major US labels linked to the investigations, has denied having any contracts with Apple that would restrict it from signing deals with free or ad-supported services.
It is, however, a minority stakeholder in Tidal, with many of its biggest artists offering timed exclusives to the service's customers.
The main rival to Apple Music is Spotify, butthe primarily ad-supported service has run into trouble recently.
Several artists, including pop princess Taylor Swift, have pulled their catalogues from the platform following spats over its free tier.
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Newport County AFC delighted to announce Henry Howard Finance as secondary shirt sponsors.
Newport County commercial manager James Watts said “we are pleased to take the sponsorship deal with Henry Howard Finance to a new level for the upcoming season. The company have been involved with us for a few years now and have done a lot of fantastic work with the academy.
"Newport County AFC work with a number of local businesses who aim to grow with us, and we see this deal as something that will only grow as time goes on."
Mark Crook, Chief Operating Officer at Henry Howard Finance commented “we’re pleased to continue to support and be associated with such a great club.
“As a local business, we are delighted to be supporting Newport County AFC and continue our relationship with the Youth Academy.
“Like Henry Howard, Newport County have been going from strength to strength so it seems only fitting to continue our commitment to the club. We’re looking forward to next season.”
Michael Jones, Henry Howard Finance Marketing Manager commented “As a County fan, it’s brilliant to see Henry Howard as a sponsor on the shirt.
“We have great ambitions here at Henry Howard and it has been fulfilling to watch County realise and continue with their own aspirations. We look forward to continuing our relationship for many years to come.”