ty Explanation Accessibility By kutpodcasts.org Published On :: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 21:28:50 +0000 Many factors play into how we make sense of the world and our place in it. In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about how the accessibility of certain explanations frames our understanding. Full Article Two Guys on Your Head #gender bias comedy podcast presentation psychology Science
ty The Role of Identity in Processing Information By kutpodcasts.org Published On :: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 14:13:04 +0000 When it comes to how information influences our mood, how we identify ourselves plays a big role. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about the role of identity in processing information. Full Article Two Guys on Your Head Coronavirus COVID-19 Identity Information news podcast psychology The Brain
ty Episode 0x09: Copyleft, -or-later, and Basics of Compatibility By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:30:00 -0500 Bradley and Karen discuss types of copyleft generally and introduce the basics of license compatibility and -or-later clauses. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:38) This show discusses copyleft and basic issues of license compatibility (04:09) Karen mentioned an episode of the old Software Freedom Law Show, Episode 0x08, where Bradley and Karen discussed selecting a FLOSS license and what the various options are. (04:45) license compatibility 06:28 Bradley incorrectly said that the original Emacs license didn't have the word General in it. However, the other explanations appear to be correct. There's a useful history page that someone wrote about the history of GPL. It appears the non-general GNU copylefts existed from 1984-1988. (06:57) Karen noted that the Library GPL was renamed to the Lesser GPL which happened in 1999. (09:30) Bradley mentioned that when he and RMS worked on the GNU Classpath Exception, Bradley suggested it be called the Least GPL. (10:38) GPL doesn't have a choice of law clause. If another copyleft does, it surely is incompatible with the GPL. (14:17) AGPLv3 § 13 and GPLv3 § 13 explicitly make themselves compatibility with each other, which Bradley calls compatibility by fiat. (15:40) Karen mentioned that the Mozilla Public License § 13 has a section about multiple licensed code (16:50). Bradley mentioned that Mozilla Firefox uses a combinatorial license: (GPL|LGPL|MPL), which is a disjunctive tri-license. (19:00). Bradley mentioned that the old Software Freedom Law Show Episode 0x17 discussed compatibility of permissively licensed software and copylefted software. (20:22) Apache Software License 2.0 was likely the first FLOSS license to have an explicit patent licensing provision (23:40) Bradley and Karen discussed the fact that -only vs. -or-later are options with the GPL, while they are not with other copylefts, such as CC-By-SA. (30:11) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
ty Episode 0x11: Corporate Licensing Decisions That Impact the Project's Community By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 06:06:06 -0400 Dan Lynch (filling in for Karen) and Bradley discuss a few examples where licensing decisions by companies impacts the health of the software development community. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:36) Dan interviewed the CentOS developers on FLOSS Weekly. (00:05:52) Bradley has a blog post that describes RHEL licensing model. His previous blog post to that one, while mostly off-topic here, has a few points of interest. (00:10:36) Dan Lynch mentioned The Smoking Man from the The X Files television series. (00:17:22) Bradley mentioned that Lennart Poettering is a Red Hat employee working on systemd, which is now in Fedora, but not in RHEL yet (as far as we know). (00:18:53) Bradley suggested that developers starting projects read Karsten Wade's The Open Source Way, and Karl Fogel's Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project, and Bradley's blog post about developing in public. (00:22:16) Dan and Bradley briefly discussed copyright abolition. Dan mentioned Stallman's writing on the Pirate Party's copyright positions. Segment 1 (00:32:30) Bradley briefly discussed the history of StarOffice, and the creation of OpenOffice.org. (00:33:40) Bradley explained issues related to the LibreOffice fork of OpenOffice.org. (00:37:30) Bradley has talked about how proprietary relicensing is very dangerous (00:39:50) Fedora, Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE all switched to LibreOffice as a default. Bradley didn't know at recording time that the OpenOffice package in wheezy is a transition package to switch to LibreOffice. (00:41:24) Bradley and Dan mentioned a blog post by IBM's Rob Weir that misquotes the FSF to support IBM's positions on the OO.o relicensing issue. (00:58:26) Bradley mentioned the idea that Apache-2.0 work can be relicensed under LGPLv3-or-later, as he discussed in his blog post about the OO.o relicensing (01:00:45) Dan mentioned Jeremy Allison's comment on the aforementioned post on Rob Weir's blog. (01:02:08) Segment 2 (01:16:09) Bradley thanked Dan, on behalf of Karen, for all his work to make Free as in Freedom possible. Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
ty Episode 0x20: Gender Inequality in Software Freedom Community By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:25:00 -0500 Bradley and Karen discuss issues of gender inequality in the software freedom community and technology generally. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:38) Bradley and Karen discuss issues of gender inequality in the software freedom community and technology generally. Bradley wrote a blog post a while back noting that issues of gender inequality are technology-sector-wide, as shown on PDF page 10 of this study. However, Bradley incorrectly remembered the study: in fact, all levels of academic computer science are (23:19) Karen got a 5 on our Calculus AB exam, even though her teacher told her only boys were good at math. Bradley also got a 5 on the Calculus AB exam. (27:06) Bradley believes that Stand and Deliver. (29:37) Bradley is sure there is no Calculus in Good Will Hunting (30:08) Bradley mentioned that S05E11 of American Greed contained an rsync output on a Debian system and Python DBUS binding C code as “code cracking examples” (31:00) Miguel de Icaza had a cameo in the file Antitrust. (33:27) Bradley mentioned that Craig Mundie keynoted OSCON (38:55) Bradley mentioned the USENIX/Freenix to Perl Conference to OSCON history (42:50) Karen mentioned the GNOME Marketing Meeting at FOSDEM 2012. (43:27) Karen is speaking at Linux Conf Australia on 19 January 2012,Bradley is speaking at Scale 10x, the 2012 Southern California Linux Expo (44:16) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
ty 0x52: Legal Issues from a Radical Community Angle By faif.us Published On :: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 10:30:00 -0500 Bradley and Karen play and discuss Stefano Zacchiroli's talk entitled Legal issues from a radical community angle that he gave 12:00 European/Central time on Sunday 2 February 2014 at FOSDEM 2014. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:35) Karen and Bradley introduce the talk. Segment 1 (00:02:38) Stefano Zacchiroli's talk entitled Legal issues from a radical community angle . You can watch the video instead of listening to our audio and/or follow along with Zach's slides. Segment 2 (00:53:17) Please note: Bradley and Karen recorded these comments before the init system coupling referendum completed, which is why Karen and Bradley don't discuss it. However, their comments about the Debian democratic process are highly relevant to the recent vote. Also, Bradley discussed his views on that specific issue as a guest co-host on Linux Outlaws, Episode 368. Bradley and Karen discussed SPI as Debian's fiscal sponsor and used a few terms like grantor/grantee (01:01:20) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
ty 0x65: Linux Foundation's Community Bridge By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 08:21:00 -0400 Bradley and Karen discuss and critique the new initiative by the Linux Foundation called CommunityBridge. The podcast includes various analysis that expands upon their blog post about Linux Foundation's CommunityBridge. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Conservancy helped Free Software Foundation and GNOME Foundation begin fiscal sponsorship work. (07:50) Conservancy has always been very coordinated with Software in the Public Interest, which is a FOSS fiscal sponsor that predates Conservancy. (08:26) Conservancy helped NumFocus get started as a fiscal sponsor by providing advice. (08:53) The above are all 501(c)(3) charities, but there are also 501(c)(6) fiscal sponsors, such as Linux Foundation and Eclipse Foundation. (10:00) Bradley mentioned that projects that are forks can end up in different fiscal sponsors, such as Hudson being in Eclipse Foundation, and Jenkins being associated with a Linux Foundation sub-org. (10:30) Bradley mentioned that any project — be it SourceForge, GitHub, or Community Bridge — that attempts to convince FOSS developers to use proprietary software for their projects is immediately suspect (12:00) Open Collective, a for-profit company seeking to do fiscal sponsorship (but attempting to release their code for it) is likely under the worst “competitive” threat from this initiative. (19:50) Segment 1 (21:23) Projects that use CommunityBridge are required to act in the common business interest of the Linux Foundation members. (27:30) Board of Directors seats at the Linux Foundation are for sale, according to their by-laws. (28:50) Bradley advises that you should not put anything copylefted into CommunityBridge — given Linux Foundation's position on copyleft and citing the ArduPilot/DroneCode example. (29:50) CommunityBridge appears to only allow governance based on the “benevolent dictator for life model” (31:40), at least with regard to who controls the money (34:30) Bradley mentioned the LWN article about Community Bridge. (33:22) Segment 2 (36:54) Karen mentioned that CommunityBridge also purports to address diversity and security issues for FOSS projects. (37:00) Bradley mentioned the code hosted on k.sfconservancy.org and also the Reimbursenator project that PSU students wrote. (42:00) Segment 3 (42:44) Bradley and Karen discuss (or, possibly don't) discuss what's coming up on the next episode. Fact of the matter is that this announcement wasn't written yet when we recorded this episode and we weren't sure if 0x65 would be released before or after that announcement was released. We'll be discussing that topic on 0x66. Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
ty Is My Christianity Real? Pt. 1 By www.amazingfacts.org Published On :: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT Do we know that our Christianity is authentic? We get preoccupied with the actions and forget about our attitude. Part 1 of 2 Full Article Amazing Facts with Doug Batchelor
ty Is My Christianity Real? Pt. 2 By www.amazingfacts.org Published On :: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT Do we know that our Christianity is authentic? We get preoccupied with the actions and forget about our attitude. Part 2 of 2 Full Article Amazing Facts with Doug Batchelor
ty The Priority of Prayer, Pt. 1 By www.amazingfacts.org Published On :: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT What is prayer? How important is prayer? How do we pray? Full Article Amazing Facts with Doug Batchelor
ty The Mystery of the Trinity By www.amazingfacts.org Published On :: Sat, 07 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT The Trinity is one of the deepest and most profound subjects that we can explore. This message will help to clear up some of the mysteries of the Trinity. Full Article Amazing Facts with Doug Batchelor
ty How About Some Fun Community Indoor Activities? By bestof.metafilter.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 07:41:57 GMT "BUSY CITY" by jjlcooterpie (cc by)Discussion in Metatalk Full Article activities community fun ideas indoor Metatalk online sharing suggestions
ty 278: ‘Dot Net Party’, With Federico Viticci By daringfireball.net Published On :: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 16:35:51 EDT First-time guest Federico Viticci joins the show. Topics include how the coronavirus outbreak might affect WWDC, speculation on a possible March Apple event, the state of iPad keyboard (and trackpad) support, and iPadOS multitasking. Full Article
ty Andreiclv – Cityscapes EP (Drift Deeper Recordings 013) By driftdeeper.com Published On :: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 07:45:22 +0000 Drift Deeper Recordings 013 is here, This one has been years in the pipeline, thankfully Andreiclv eventually got back to me to give the approval for release. The tracks were beautifully mastered by our friend Evaldas at Cold Tear Records. Some serious chilled people watching tracks on this release. Enjoy and share with your friends. [...] The post Andreiclv – Cityscapes EP (Drift Deeper Recordings 013) appeared first on Drift Deeper Recordings. Full Article Uncategorized
ty Is My Christianity Real? Pt. 1 By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT Do we know that our Christianity is authentic? We get preoccupied with the actions and forget about our attitude. Part 1 of 2 Full Article Amazing Facts with Doug Batchelor
ty Is My Christianity Real? Pt. 2 By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT Do we know that our Christianity is authentic? We get preoccupied with the actions and forget about our attitude. Part 2 of 2 Full Article Amazing Facts with Doug Batchelor
ty The Priority of Prayer, Pt. 1 By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT What is prayer? How important is prayer? How do we pray? Full Article Amazing Facts with Doug Batchelor
ty The Mystery of the Trinity By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 07 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT The Trinity is one of the deepest and most profound subjects that we can explore. This message will help to clear up some of the mysteries of the Trinity. Full Article Amazing Facts with Doug Batchelor
ty Charity: Janet Poppendieck (Ep. 8) By kutpodcasts.org Published On :: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 18:54:10 +0000 In this edition of The Secret Ingredient, we talk with Janet Poppendieck, Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, City University of New York and author of Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement (Penguin, 1999), about the complexities of food charities, governmental food programs, and the overall condition of our economy, our nations... Full Article The Secret Ingredient
ty Solidarity (Ep. 35) By kutpodcasts.org Published On :: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:55:49 +0000 The Secret Ingredient is “Solidarity.” Listen back as Raj Patel, Tom Philpott and Rebeca McInroy talk with organizers Hodaliz Borrayes, Diana Sierra, and Andrea Schmid from The Pioneer Vally Workers Center, about their profound backgrounds and how they come together to educate, inform, and support immigrant workers. Full Article The Secret Ingredient farm workers workers rights immigration Latin America pioneer valley workers center Raj Patel Rebecca McInroy solidarity Tom Philpott workers center
ty Brian Beattie //Kathy McCarty //Ray Benson By kutx.org Published On :: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 16:57:42 +0000 In this episode of “This Song” we hear Brian Beattie talk about a song that blew him away and made a shelf in his brain, Kathy McCarty talks about a song that opened her up to the possibility that songwriting wasn’t just for people from the olden times, and Ray Benson explores a song that […] Full Article This Song bob dylan Brian Beattie elizabeth mcQueen John Coltrane Kathy McCarty KUTX ray benson the Foundations
ty This Song: Thor // Misimplicity By kutx.org Published On :: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:13:29 +0000 Thor Harris takes Elizabeth on a brief tour of progressive rock and gives a shout out to Yes and other stalwarts of the genre and describes what music inspired his new, hypnotic project, Thor And Friends. Then Grace London and Zoe Czarnecki from the Austin band Misimplicity describe how Elliot Smith and a bass concerto by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf have helped them find their musical ways and climb musical mountains. Full Article This Song Elliot Smith. Car Ditters von Dittersdorf Heart of the Sunrise Misimplicity Swans Thor Yes
ty This Song: Tycho By kutx.org Published On :: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 22:27:00 +0000 Tycho's Scott Hansen describes how Boards of Canada's "ROYGBIV" helped him understand that his most effective form of expression was instrumental electronic music. Full Article This Song Ambient Music. Electronic Boards of Canada edm Tycho
ty This Song: Ty Segall By kutx.org Published On :: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 18:01:03 +0000 Psychedelic garage-rocker Ty Segall tells KUTX host Taylor Wallace how The Band’s “The Weight” influenced his songwriting and inspired the name of his new puppy Full Article This Song Austin Music Experience KUTX Ty Segall
ty This Song: Patty Griffin on “Secret World” by Peter Gabriel By kutx.org Published On :: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 15:54:33 +0000 Patty Griffin latest record "Patty Griffin" is a gorgeous acoustic exercise in vulnerability. Listen as she explores all the ways that Peter Gabriel's "Secret World" impacted her life and her music. Full Article This Song American Folk Patty Griffin Singer-Songwriter SXSW
ty War Memorials, Trauma and Identity By kutpodcasts.org Published On :: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 15:57:42 +0000 This month on In Perspective, our roundtable participants discuss public memory in relation to grief, war, and memorials such as the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Two of our guests represent that museum, which commemorates the September 11 attacks of 2001 and the World Trade Center bombing of 1993. Also joining us are two... Full Article In Perspective 9/11 clifford chanin film greek monuments Identity ideology jenny pachucki kyle henry monuments morgan blue museums Rebecca McInroy richard flores September 11th museum texas humanities project tom palaima War Memorials
ty Women, Gender, & Sexuality By kutpodcasts.org Published On :: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 18:15:06 +0000 This episode recognizes women, gender, and sexuality with a discussion of the complexities of gender and sexuality from contemporary and historical perspectives. Our discussants share what they’ve learned from their respective research projects, while exploring how privilege and power function in constructions of gender and sexuality. Ultimately, they agree that listening with empathy to each... Full Article In Perspective gender gender studies sex sexuality transgender Women
ty Practicality and Everydayness By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT Everyday life has its challenges, even in the small things. Join Pastor Doug and Pastor Ross in this episode of Bible Answers Live as they give listeners Biblical solutions to those everyday vexes : dealing with difficult people, taking care of the smaller chores on Sabbath, proper and practical attire for women in the daily routine and many other worries. Open your Bible with us and tune in ! Full Article Bible Answers Live
ty DVDs Came Late to the High-Def TV Party By www.washingtonpost.com Published On :: Fri, 6 May 2005 11:07:06 GMT You can now watch high-definition television on sets as cheap as $500, with plenty of programming from a variety of channels. But HDTV is missing from one crucial corner of the home-entertainment business -- the DVD. Companies are still developing and promoting two different, incompatible high-definition versions of the DVD, neither of which will have any consumer relevance (read: tolerable prices) until next year at the soonest. Full Article
ty Hu Jintao Tightens Party's Grip on Power By www.washingtonpost.com Published On :: Sun, 8 May 2005 19:03:50 GMT Chinese president is emerging as an unyielding leader determined to preserve the Communist Party's monopoly on power and willing to impose new limits on speech and other civil liberties to do it. Full Article
ty How can I get the functionality of Twitter's Legacy Version? By ask.metafilter.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 15:40:03 GMT Twitter has announced it is shutting down its "Legacy Version" on June 1, 2020. I use the legacy version to get the functionality of Legacy Twitter that allows you to have a window open with a Twitter page up, and when a new Tweet happens, a "(1)" shows in the browser tab. How can I get that functionality? The solution needs to work in Chrome & Firefox, and whether I have a twitter account or not. I want to be able to open 3 or 4 or however many tabs with twitter accounts I'm waiting for an update from, and see a notification in the tab header that there's a new tweet. Full Article Browser Chrome Firefox LegacyVersion Twitter
ty A path worth walking: life, liberty and the rise of pro-life feminism By archive.org Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 18:29:15 GMT Fiorella Nash gave this talk at SPUC's 2017 Youth Conference. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br_4e3-UZRY Uploader: SPUC Pro-Life.This item belongs to: movies/opensource_movies.This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, JPEG, JSON, MPEG4, Metadata, Unknown Full Article movies/opensource_movies
ty Wheat Ridge City Council Study Session 5-4-20 By archive.org Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 18:29:34 GMT No description available.This item belongs to: movies/cowrco.This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, MPEG4, Metadata Full Article movies/cowrco
ty City Council Meeting - May 7, 2020 By archive.org Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 18:29:35 GMT No description available.This item belongs to: movies/copsca.This item has files of the following types: Metadata Full Article movies/copsca
ty Bike Safety and Leash Laws in Wheat Ridge By archive.org Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 18:29:44 GMT WRPD Officer Miller reminds us all that with many more people on our trails this Spring, we need to look out for each other by obeying the speed sign if biking, wearing a face mask, using a bike bell and keeping one ear out..This item belongs to: movies/cowrco.This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Metadata, h.264 HD Full Article movies/cowrco
ty 150707-smart-city By archive.org Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 18:29:45 GMT 07-Jul-2015 20:58.This item belongs to: audio/radio24.This item has files of the following types: Metadata Full Article audio/radio24
ty Christy Doran's Sound Fountain: Lift The Bar By www.allaboutjazz.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 07:01:17 +0000 With four records in as many years Christy Doran's Sound Fountain seems in 2020 to have eclipsed New Bag as the guitarist's going concern. However, just because New Bag hasn't recorded since Elsewhere (Double Moon, 2015) doesn't mean that the band, founded in 1997, won't still make a comeback... [ read more ] Full Article
ty Borth Audio Releases Free Typewriter Sounds For NI Kontakt By bedroomproducersblog.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 13:32:38 +0000 Borth Audio has released Typewriter, a free sound library add-on for the Native Instruments Kontakt sampler. As the name suggests, Typewriter features a set of audio samples of an actual typewriter. This includes the sounds of typing, individual keys being pressed (Spacebar, Shift, and Caps Lock), levers, and various paper noises(feed, eject, crumple, tear). Six-octave [...] View post: Borth Audio Releases Free Typewriter Sounds For NI Kontakt Full Article News Free Soundware Kontakt
ty Kerry Team Seeks to Join Fight to Get Ohio County to Recount By www.washingtonpost.com Published On :: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:21:57 GMT Sen. John F. Kerry's presidential campaign asked an Ohio judge Tuesday to allow it to join a legal fight there over whether election officials in one county may sit out the state's impending recount. Full Article
ty Panel to Start Writing Social Security Bill By www.washingtonpost.com Published On :: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:24:27 GMT Five months after President Bush launched his drive to overhaul Social Security, the difficult, if not impossible, task of drafting legislation begins Tuesday when the Senate Finance Committee holds the first hearing on options to secure Social Security's future. Full Article
ty Fewer U.S. Deaths Linked to Obesity By www.washingtonpost.com Published On :: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:58:57 GMT A new government study has concluded that obesity causes about 112,000 deaths each year in the United States, far fewer than a previous, highly publicized estimate by another part of the same agency. Full Article
ty Due to coronavirus, NCAA grants extra year of eligibility to spring athletes, considers same for winter athletes By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 13:06:55 -0700 After the cancellation of the spring and winter championships tournaments stemming from concerns over the novel coronavirus pandemic, the NCAA will grant an extra year of eligibility to athletes who participate in spring sports, the organization announced Friday. Full Article College Sports Cougar Basketball Cougars Gonzaga Huskies Husky Basketball NCAA Tournament Other Sports Pac-12 Sports
ty Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott discusses conference’s financial hit and ‘concern and anxiety’ over athletes because of coronavirus By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 09:58:14 -0700 The Pac-12 is facing a revenue hit of at least $1 million per school from the cancellation of its men’s basketball tournament and March Madness, although the full extent of the damage won’t be known for weeks. Full Article Cougar Basketball Cougars Huskies Husky Basketball Husky Football NCAA Tournament Pac-12 Sports
ty When it comes to academics and diversity, Gonzaga is No. 1 seed By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 15:41:44 -0700 Gonzaga stood out in a study that seeded men’s and women’s NCAA tournament brackets based on graduation rates, academic success and diversity in the head-coaching ranks. Full Article Cougar Basketball Gonzaga Sports
ty Coronavirus takes a toll in Sweden’s immigrant community By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 23:24:33 -0700 STOCKHOLM (AP) — The flight from Italy was one of the last arrivals that day at the Stockholm airport. A Swedish couple in their 50s walked up and loaded their skis into Razzak Khalaf’s taxi. It was early March and concerns over the coronavirus were already present, but the couple, both coughing for the entire […] Full Article World
ty Revenue Quality & Leverage By www.seobook.com Published On :: 2020-03-17T11:07:05+00:00 The coronavirus issue is likely to linger for some time. GERMANY PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY PRESIDENT SAYS OUR ASSUMPTION IS THAT IT WILL TAKE ABOUT TWO YEARS FOR THIS PANDEMIC TO RUN ITS COURSE— Quantitative Trading (@fiquant) March 17, 2020 Up to 70% of Germany could become infected & some countries like the UK are even considering herd immunity as a strategy: "I’m an epidemiologist. When I heard about Britain’s ‘herd immunity’ coronavirus plan, I thought it was satire" - William Hanage What if their models are broken? Many companies like WeWork or Oyo have been fast and loose chasing growth while slower growing companies have been levering up to fund share buybacks. Airlines spent 96% of free cash flow on share buybacks. The airlines seek a $50 billion bailout package. There are knock-on effects from Boeing to TripAdvisor to Google all the way down to travel affiliate blogger, local restaurants closing, the over-levered bus company going through bankruptcy & bondholders eating a loss on the debt. Companies are going to let a lot of skeletons out of the closet as literally anything and everything bad gets attributed to coronavirus. Layoffs, renegotiating contracts, pausing ad budgets, renegotiating debts, requesting bailouts, etc. The Philippine stock market was recently trading at 2012 levels & closed indefinitely. Brad Geddes mentioned advertisers have been aggressively pulling PPC budgets over the past week: “If you have to leave the house to engage in the service, it just seems like it’s not converting right now.” During the prior recession Google repriced employee options to retain talent. In spite of consumers being glued to the news, tier one news publishers are anticipating large ad revenue declines: Some of the largest advertisers, including Procter & Gamble Unilever, Apple, Microsoft, Danone, AB InBev, Burberry and Aston Martin, made cuts to sales forecasts for the year. With the outlook for the spread of the virus changing by day, many companies are caught in a spiral of uncertainty. That tends to gum up decisions, and ad spending is an easy expenditure to put on pause. The New York Times has warned that it expects advertising revenue to decline “in the mid-teens” in the current quarter as a result of coronavirus. More time online might mean search engines & social networks capture a greater share of overall ad spend, but if large swaths of the economy do not convert & how people live changes for an extended period of time it will take time for the new categories to create the economic engines replacing the old out-of-favor categories. [IMPORTANT: insert affiliate ad for cruise vacations here] As Google sees advertisers pause ad budgets Google will get more aggressive with keeping users on their site & displacing organic click flows with additional ad clicks on the remaining advertisers. When Google or Facebook see a 5% or 10% pullback other industry players might see a 30% to 50% decline as the industry pulls back broadly, focuses more resources on the core, and the big attention merchants offset their losses by clamping down on other players. At its peak TripAdvisor was valued at about $14 billion & it is now valued at about $2 billion. TripAdvisor announced layoffs. As did Expedia. As did Booking.com. As did many hotels. And airlines. etc. etc. etc. I am not suggesting people should be fearful or dominated by negative emotions. Rather one should live as though many other will be living that way. In times of elevated uncertainty, in business it is best to not be led by emotions unless they are positive ones. Spend a bit more time playing if you can afford to & work more on things you love. Right now we might be living through the flu pandemic of 1918 and the Great Depression of 1929 while having constant access to social media updates. And that's awful. Consume less but deeper. Less Twitter, less news, fewer big decisions, read more books. It is better to be more pragmatic & logic-based in determining opportunity cost & the best strategy to use than to be led by extreme fear. If you have sustainable high-margin revenue treasure it. If you have low-margin revenue it might quickly turn into negative margin revenues unless something changes quickly. If you have low-margin revenue which is sustainable but under-performed less stable high-margin revenues you might want to put a bit more effort into those sorts of projects as they are more likely to endure. On a positive note, we might soon get a huge wave of innovation... "Take the Great Depression. Economist Alexander Field writes that “the years 1929–1941 were, in the aggregate, the most technologically progressive of any comparable period in U.S. economic history.” Productivity growth was twice as fast in the 1930s as it was in the decade prior. The 1920s were the era of leisure because people could afford to relax. The 1930s were the era of frantic problem solving because people had no other choice. The Great Depression brought unimaginable financial pain. It also brought us supermarkets, microwaves, sunscreen, jets, rockets, electron microscopes, magnetic recording, nylon, photocopying, teflon, helicopters, color TV, plexiglass, commercial aviation, most forms of plastic, synthetic rubber, laundromats, and countless other discoveries." The prior recession led to trends like Groupon. The McJobs recovery led to services like Uber & DoorDash. Food delivery has been trending south recently, though perhaps the stay-at-home economy will give it a boost. I have been amazed at how fast affiliates moved with pushing N95 face masks online over the past couple months. Seeing how fast that stuff spun up really increases the perceived value of any sustainable high-margin businesses. Amazon.com is hiring another 100,000 warehouse workers as people shop from home. Amazon banned new face masks and hand sanitizer listings. One guy had to donate around 18,000 cleaning products he couldn't sell. I could see online education becoming far more popular as people aim to retrain while stuck at home. What sorts of new industries will current & new technologies lead to as more people spend time working from home? Full Article
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ty Emerald City Comic Con to allow refunds for fans who decide not to go due to coronavirus concerns By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:44:00 -0800 Emerald City Comic Con organizers said Wednesday morning that they will change their policy and allow refunds to fans who choose not to attend this year because of coronavirus concerns. Full Article Books Comics Entertainment Events Movies Video Games