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28 May

Written: 1.27 a.m., June 13, 2006

And so arrives the day all of this is for.

I wake up earlier than usual �C 10 in the morning. Two minutes later, before I have the chance to brush my teeth, someone rings the doorbell and my grandmother asks me to answer it. I open the door and in rushes a small figure in lime green, who hastily says, ��Hello [Yelen] ��� (jiejie �C sister)!�� before running past me to��wherever. A smaller figure in bright red follows behind and smiles brightly at me.

My third uncle��s family has arrived, and those two small figures are my cousins. I greet my uncle and his wife, who asks me if I��ve just woken up. I smile groggily and say, Yes. Then I proceed to locking myself in the toilet where I do the usual freshening up things and putting in contact lenses, etc.

When I emerge from the toilet the small living room of the small apartment is filled with people, all my paternal relatives whom I haven��t seen in years. I smile and nod at everyone, then quickly retreat to my temporary room. I feel kind of awkward �C my dad is out buying things with my granddad, and I don��t really know what to say to my relatives. It��s certainly nice to see them, but this doesn��t automatically translate to endless conversations of nostalgia and how-have-you-been. So I stay in my room for a while.

My third aunt has printed a bunch of matching t-shirts to wear to my grandfather��s birthday celebration. She gives me mine (along with my dad��s, my brother��s, and my mother��s) and I pull out my short, tattered orange denim skirt from Mango and change into it, along with the shirt.

I obviously can��t hide forever. I finally go out and my dad comes back just in time, with a packet of ���� (liangmian �C cool noodles) for my breakfast. Awesome. But what isn��t awesome is the fact that we��re having lunch in an hour��s time, because my grandmother, among other people, come over and is all, We��re having lunch at 11.30! Can you still eat lunch after eating the noodles?

What can I do, really? I just smile and nod and say ��yes��. ��Awkward�� is definitely the code word.

Pretty soon, everyone �C and I mean this literally �C arrives and the living room is packed. The kids go off to jump on the bed in the master bedroom, the adults sit around the living room and talk, two of my cousins apparently go off to buy CD��s, and I��m glad to be having breakfast because at least I��m doing something. I really hope lunch would be better than��this.

I spot my second aunt��s eldest son and I��m genuinely surprised that he��s the same boy I used to run around with as kids during family gatherings, like a wedding or birthdays or whatever. He��s three months older than me and I have this vague, somewhat misplaced memory of playing some kids�� game with him and his younger brother at my old apartment, way back when. We ran down the staircase and sat in front of the doorway, and we laughed a lot.

The person I��m seeing now sits slouched in the sofa, staring at the ground, keeping to himself. It��s funny how people change, even weirder how seeing him now has more or less undermined whatever little I still remember of him from my childhood. It��s like a ��refresh�� button has been pressed in my memory bank, updating it, and I can��t quite fathom why this button even exists.

Well, in any case, he��s turned out really, really good-looking. My impression of him has always been that he��s a bit of an oddball: he was practically born a vegetarian and he recently had his name changed because he shared his name with a monk or something so I don��t even know what his name is, and so seeing him sitting there, all quiet, only serves to reinforce that impression. (The vegetarian thing isn��t about being a vegetarian, but that he was born one. As in he didn��t eat meat from a very young age, which is very unusual.)

But even more surprising is his younger brother. Like, oh my god, he��s certainly ballooned in size. I can hardly believe he��s the same little boy who followed his older brother wherever he went. Like I said, it��s funny how people change, and all that.

Anyway, at 11.30 we walk to the restaurant. My dad took quite a while to change and get ready and so we are the latest to arrive. We are given three tables in a separate room. I spend some time standing forlornly by myself, waiting for my dad to sit somewhere, but he��s off talking to people and leaving me by myself. Thanks a lot, Pops. Luckily Hanying waved me over and I sit down next to her and her sisters. Their mother takes the seat on my right.

A bit about her. She used to watch me when I was a kid. My dad would go off to teach, my mom to her architecture firm (or whatever it was she did), and they would leave me at her house. It��s also very convenient because my eldest uncle and his family lived opposite us (and still do, as a matter of fact). To be quite honest I don��t remember anything substantial about my ��ĸ (um, don��t know what it��s called in English; my cousins�� mother), just that she doted on me a lot and that her youngest daughter (a couple of years older than me) and I used to play with her make-up when I was at her house. They were fun times.

Now, she keeps complimenting me and telling me how pretty I am (which I don��t necessarily agree with). When the food starts arriving she keeps asking me if I wanted anything, even chicken, despite it being pretty much known to everyone that I don��t eat meat. I am slightly close to being annoyed but I brush it aside because I know she means well.

My dad and my third aunt are filming the proceedings, even though nothing is happening, really. We��re all just sitting around, eating, talking. I��m sitting around and sipping tea/orange+guava juice more than I��m eating or talking. I also go to the loo quite a bit.

Actually, it��s not that bad. My youngest uncle, who��s probably the coolest uncle ever (evidence: I nipped Nirvana��s In Utero from him six years ago), and his family are sitting at the same table. His wife happens to be pretty hip and she soon engages us in a conversation about shopping and cool places to go to in Taipei. She mentions a place that sells really cheap clothes, and I make a mental note to check it out for myself.

Eventually, the awkwardness dissipates. Someone starts up the karaoke machine and pretty soon it��s a cacophony of off-key singing with the occasional decent singing thrown into the mix. My grandfather sings a number or two, along with my eldest aunt (main contribution of decent singing); to literally everyone��s surprise, my eldest uncle also takes a stab at the karaoke thing. He��s awfully out of tune and I��m laughing a lot but when my dad comes over and tells me that this is his first time in his entire fifty years hearing his oldest brother sing, I get the significance of his gesture and I��m silently impressed.

My dad sings �޴��ӡ�s 1980���� (a song by a famous Taiwanese singer; can��t translate) which is apparently his signature song and I have a good time filming him on my Nikon camera. He��s only a notch better than his oldest brother, which he refuses to believe. Well, you know what they say: Ignorance is bliss, and all that.

Someone comes over and harasses me to sing a bloody English song. In fact, I have been harassed to sing a stupid English song ever since the karaoke machine was turned on. Damn. Then an elderly relative comes over and asks me to sing and I feel backed into a corner. Luckily Hanying is nice enough to offer to sing with me, so we pour over the karaoke song list �C a thick album �C and I��m dismayed to discover that there about a grand total of ten English songs in the entire album. I haven��t heard of half of them, I can��t sing most of the rest, and in the end Hanying suggests that crap You Are My Sunshine nonsense and I reluctantly agree. Needless to say, the song sucks ass and I can��t sing for nuts and it sounds horrendous. Hanying sings much better than me. The elderly relative��s wife comes over and sings back-up and I��m like, Well, that��s nice. Later, my dad bitches to me about her and about how she wanted to sing an English song with me to compete with me to see who has better English.

Um, okay. That��s just extremely stupid, especially if it��s true. I don��t know her at all and my dad obviously knows her better than me. She seemed nice, but then again, I��m not the best judge of character because I tend to give a person too much credit when my defences are down; and since I have no reason to be on my guard during the family lunch, I didn��t think too much of, well, anything. So I guess I��m taking my dad��s word for it and I��m rolling my eyes, thinking how absolutely dumb it is for someone to even think that her English can compare with a person who had an A1 for General Paper, among other things.

Hahaha. Right, please forget I said that.

I am glad when that insipid song ends, after which everyone gets up to leave. My oddball cousin apparently left a long time ago, and Hanying��s younger sister has also left early to go home and sleep. Waking up past 12 noon seems to be the ��in�� thing, for some reason or other.

By the way, the cake was an ice-cream cake and it wasn��t very good, particularly for a made-in-Taiwan cake. Taiwan has some really fabulous cakes. In general though, the food wasn��t fantastic and I didn��t eat a lot. The Hong Kong-styled fried fish drenched in soy sauce and all that was also so oily that I felt like hurling everything back up after a few bites. But then again, I suppose all these don��t quite matter, and that it was the company that counted. How often does the whole family get together anyway, even though my brother couldn��t be there? Today is even more special because, like, my dad and I flew in all the way from puny Singapore to be here. How awesome is that?

Everyone gathers back in the small apartment again and I have nowhere to sit. I go into my room and see my oddball cousin looking at my copy of Great Expectations. I feel like saying something to him but I don��t know what to say and so I say nothing. I shuffle back and forth between my room and the living room, stopping occasionally to say a few words with whoever talks to me, and finally I go back to my room and curl up on the bed and read Great Expectations. But my peace is soon disturbed when my young cousins run in and start jumping on the bed and playing hide-and-seek. Oh well.

My oddball cousin and his family leave first. At around 4-something, almost everyone has left, save for my eldest aunt because she��s waiting for her oldest son to wake up from his nap (he, by the way, graduated from National Taiwan University, which is the best university in Taiwan. He��s also seriously good-looking, though he could do with a better hairstyle and maybe contact lenses). It��s started to rain outside.

At five o��clock my dad finally budges and takes me to the saloon. My fringe is too sickeningly long and I desperately want to cut it. I changed my hairstyle in Taipei way back in December 2004 and I thought the haircut was really good, and so I go back to the same saloon. It��s raining out and it��s actually kind of cold; it even feels a tad like winter. In Singapore, rain naturally comes with humidity and not much wind. As inconvenient as it is to carry an umbrella when I go out, I kind of like the rain in Taipei.

The hairstylist �C a woman who calls herself Judy (I really doubt that people in Taiwan are born with English names) �C somehow manages to convince me to opt for hair care treatment. She goes off about how hair as long as mine gets tangled up easily and falls off easily and I��m all, Yeah, that��s exactly what happens! She quotes me a price (cut + wash + hair care) and I��m shocked to see that it��s around S$70. I tell her that it��s too much and she brings it down to S$57. She��s pretty persistent about the hair care thing and eventually I��m sold. What can I say? I��m weak.

I go off to get my hair washed and the girl asks me if I wanted the massage chair switched on. Massage chair?!?! Wow. This must be new. I can��t take massages and so she merely turns on the most basic function, and I spend the entire time, including the six minutes caring for my hair, having my butt massaged. When I stand up to walk back to my seat, my legs feel like jelly.

Judy snips my fringe and layers the rest of the hair. The rest of the hair turns out looking significantly shorter than it was before the cut, which bums me out a little because I��ve been growing the damn hair since 2004 and I don��t want it shorter. Nevertheless, I say it��s awesome, my dad pays, and off we go.

I��m craving for coffee. My dad tells me that he came across a caf��/bakery that has a lot of people queuing up while he was killing time walking around when I was having my hair cut. He brings me to a corner shop called 85 Degrees C. I order a French hazelnut latte and I have no idea how to pronounce the Chinese version of ��hazelnut��. I tell the girl my order in English but her blank look tells me that she��s not following. My dad comes to my rescue and places the order for me. The coffee, about the size of a medium-sized cup from Starbucks, costs only NT$60. That��s approximately S$3. And it tastes just as awesome as Starbucks�� coffee, and certainly better than Coffee Bean.

Seriously. You cannot even hope to find quality coffee that cheap in Singapore. For some reason there are a lot of caf��s all over Taipei. You have franchises like 85 Degrees C, Starbucks and Dante Coffee and you also have small caf��s opened by eager entrepreneurs, located practically everywhere. You can virtually find about four caf��s at least along a single road, which means competition for customers is extremely fierce. This is good news for caffeine addicts like myself, because it translates to competitive prices, such as NT$60 for Starbucks-quality coffee. In fact, the coffee menu at 85 Degrees C is practically exactly the same as Starbucks, except that the former has hazelnut latte. I was surprised to see ��iced caramel macchiato�� on 85 Degrees C��s menu.

To be quite honest, I don��t see the logic in paying double for coffee that��s almost the same in quantity and quality. 85 Degrees C also has one up on Starbucks because it sells fabulous Taiwanese milk tea, which is fine alternative when one doesn��t feel like drinking coffee. This is another reason why I totally don��t wanna go back to Singapore: There��s only so much coffee one can consume in a day, but in Singapore, one cannot turn to milk tea as a substitute. Sure, there��s teh peng and everything but it doesn��t taste quite as good as the milk tea in Taiwan. Even a NT$20 small cup of milk tea from 7-Eleven tastes better than teh peng. Besides, the quality of teh peng varies from coffee shop to coffee shop; when teh peng wants to suck, it really sucks (case in point: the teh peng at the NUS Arts canteen tastes like plain water). The good ones from places like Ya Kun and whatever definitely don��t come as cheap as S$1.

At night, after dinner, my dad and I walk around the other side of Yonghe. There��s nothing much to see. Apparently it used to be more populated and happening, but many of the shops have closed down and clinics of all sorts have taken their place. I pass by a bubble tea shop and I��m very tempted but my dad tells me ��no��. Oh well. It is already past 9 and bubble tea is fattening. Maybe some other time.

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The 2% Death Penalty – How a minority of counties produce most death cases

Graveyard & Deathby: Atlantic Philanthropies
published: 21 November 2013

Only two percent of U.S. counties have been responsible for the majority of cases leading to executions since 1976, according to this report by the Death Penalty Information Center.

The disparate and highly clustered use of the death penalty raises serious questions of unequal, costly and arbitrary application of the law.

Six states have ended the death penalty in the last six years. The report concludes more states may soon follow suit, viewing the death penalty as the insistent campaign of a few at tremendous cost to the many.

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Aurangabad, India, March 2015:

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In March 2015, Maharashtra government introduced a bill to ban slaughter of bulls and bullocks. This ban has been opposed by the muslim community (especially qureshi - the butcher community) as it impacts their lively hood.

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Malayalam fonts and problems with inkscape

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This is my first blog post on a technical subject. Hence it may have its own deficency. First let me thank my buddy ERSHAD.K (as he is the soul reason behind the publishing of this post), SMC, HIRAN VENUGOPAL(developer of DYUTHI.ttf), and the software fontforge, inkscape.

The situation which made me to publish such a blog is the overlapping of certain malayalam fonts in inkscape, whereas some other fonts (like anjalioldlipi, dyuthi). When there occured a situation for me to use stylish malayalam fonts in inkscape.

overlapped text in meera font

 Atlast I decided search the reason for this. . .
I was using Mozhi And Swanalekha for rendering malayalam. I thought it may be the problem with the lack of cordination between inkscape and those softwares. Hence I studied inscript pattern. Still there was no use. No matter how you render the letters will be overlapped(only for those fonts with probs). Hence I opened the fonts in fontforge. Fonts like anjalioldlipi, dyuthi etc. has drawn letters under each unicode both in english and malayalam. But the other fonts haven’t provided drawings of letters in both.

dyuthi opened in fontfroge

anjali old lipi opened in fontforge

Most of them have given drawings of malayalam letters in english the place of english letters viz, A=or in some other ways.

When I render the English alphabets in those fonts the corresponding malayalam letters are apperaing. Hence i concluded the problem with those fonts. But agian the font Meera which had given drawings in both English alphabets and malayalm alphabets overlaps in inkscape, for which I dont have an answer for you.

PS: Anyone knows the reason behind this or my reason behind this is wrong please tell me.


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027 – Charlie Buchan, £100 per goal.

Today’s scans feature Charlie Buchan. The story of his transfer fee consisting of a set fee and £100 per goal are well known and the three cartoons are from the Daily Herald. The last scan is the front of a dinner menu for The Press Club where Alfred Hitchcock was the guest of honour and our own George Allison the ‘Perdoocer’.

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024 – Boxers, Footballers, a Jockey and Tom Webster

Today’s first scan is a press photo from the early 1920s. The back slip says:

“Boxers Entertain Arsenal Players.
The Arsenal players spent the day at High Beech where George Cook, the Austaralian heavyweight boxer, entertained them with his full training exhibition yesterday (Friday). Frank Wootten, ghe famous jockey, was also there.
Photo shows the team watching George Cook (on right) sparring with Albert Lloyd.”

Both boxers were from Australia and toured England and Europe fighting. They were both in England at various times between 1921 and 1923 when I’d presume the photo was taken. The jockey Wootton (the correct spelling) became the youngest ever champion jockey at age 16 in 1919, and won it for the next three years.

The Tom Webster cartoon was first published in 1923, this version being from an annual of his cartoons published in 1924.

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011 – Woolwich Arsenal 26 France 1

Yup – you read the score right. A visiting team made up of players from a few different French clubs got a right tonking. Interestingly their goal was scored by the Arsenal reserve Hodges, who was playing for the French as they were a man short. The first two images are scans of postcards released at the time of cartoons from local paper the Kentish Independant which were reprinted a while back by Islington Libraries. The third is from a series of football postcards issued at the time.

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Getting lost in Jonathan Blow’s The Witness

In the follow-up to his 2008 PC puzzle platform hit Braid, Jonathan Blow has …

This overview shot of <i>The Witness</i> island setting doesn't do justice to the sense of loneliness you feel on the ground.
This overview shot of The Witness island setting doesn't do justice to the sense of loneliness you feel on the ground.

As a game journalist, I'm used to playing early builds of games with a PR representative or even the developer himself hovering just over my shoulder, ready to answer questions as I play or give advice when I get stuck. So I was a bit surprised when Braid creator Jonathan Blow started a demonstration of his upcoming PC puzzle-exploration game The Witness by suggesting that he leave the room and just let me explore on my own.

For the next 20 minutes or so I wandered a bit aimlessly through a beautiful, light-infused island that evoked the feeling of a silent Zen garden. The few sparsely decorated buildings that dotted the landscape featured shining blue monitors each with a maze-like etching for me to guess-and-check a path through. The game gave an intense feeling of loneliness and disorientation that was a stark change from the in-your-face instruction and narrative of a game like Braid.

Fixing adventure gaming's flaws

When Blow came back in the room, he said he created The Witness with an eye for fixing what he saw as "the flaws of classical puzzle adventure games." The biggest of these, Blow said, is overly subtle puzzle design that makes it unclear if certain situations even are puzzles in the first place. "Sometimes you're stuck somewhere and you're like, 'I can't get through this door but I don't know if I'm supposed to get through this door or if it's locked and I'm supposed to go somewhere else," Blow said. "You don't know if you're supposed to be there yet, or if you don't have the inventory items."

That won't happen in The Witness, which doesn't even have a physical inventory system. Instead, Blow said, the player's knowledge of how to solve different types of puzzles acts as a sort of mentally stored key to unlocking new portions of the island. "If I get to an area, I should probably be able to solve it," Blow said. "If you can't, you probably just haven't seen the concept."

Blow said he was inspired by the general mood and setting of games like Myst, but that he was purposely trying to avoid that game's frustrating sense of "I'm pulling this lever and I have no idea what it does! ... In this game, I try to be very clear." Taking me on a quick tour of the rest of the game's lush island setting, Blow showed me how the simple guess-and-check mazes from the beginning of the game evolve and change as the game progresses, introducing subtly different goals and solutions as you go.

One maze might introduce sets of colored hexagons to collect or avoid as you make your way to the goal. Others replicate the path you draw with symmetrical walls that block your path, or require you to notice that you can't cross shadows cast by the environment or your own avatar. In creating these puzzles, Blow said the overriding idea was that careful observation and logical thinking will always be the only tools the player needs to get through.

Yeah... there's the loneliness.
Yeah... there's the loneliness.

"You know if you wander somewhere in the game and you see a puzzle with weird symbols on it, you might just be, 'I don't know what those mean, but I know I have to go figure out what those mean.'," he said. "I don't want the hard part to be finding what the hell this thing does. Plenty of games do that, it's not interesting. The hard part is more like I see some new idea and I don't quite understand it yet, but I'm wrangling with the idea. The idea is to keep this stream of non-verbal ideas coming."

Telling a personal story

If Blow's Braid was criticized for practically forcing its complicated meta-narrative on the player, The Witness might have the opposite problem, letting you wander its open environments without much guidance. The first hint that there's more going on than meets the eye comes through a pre-recorded voice squawking through a lonely speaker box, with an unseen narrator giving an extremely self-aware speech about his role in the game.

"I'll keep the first thing I have to say simple," the unseen voice says. "My purpose here is to help you. We're conditioned by movies and video games to regard a statement like that as third act betrayal fuel, so if you have to be suspicious for a little while, OK... You have time. you're not in any danger. No more than I am anyway. Even if you don't want to trust me, know that my faith in you is unbreakable."

In delivering the story through pre-recorded messages, Blow said he wanted to take lessons from games like System Shock and BioShock, but skew the concept so it worked with The Witness' aura of mellow introspection. "In some sense, as someone who's played a lot of games, I'm conditioned by all the audio logs in all these other games that are always about the alien invasion, or the virus mutated everybody, or 'Oh I'm barely surviving, aghhh!'" he said.

For The Witness, though, Blow said that he's trying to create a story that's about "serious things. Not totally an entertainment story, but not pretentiously so or anything." He compared it to a novel that's "about something that the author cared about," unlike the majority of games he sees on the market.

"Most games are not trying to be about anything serious, they're just entertainment games," he said. "I'm not trying to bash that in any way, that's just not what I'm doing. If a game tries to be like a movie, it tries to be like an action movie, not Fried Green Tomatoes, but both of those are movies."

But Blow says creating a story that was so personal was tougher than he expected, leading to a few initial attempts that "came out kind of patronizing, as you can imagine," he said. The key to making the writing process work, Blow said, was just opening up in a way that was "very personal and honest and straightforward." He compared the process to going on a first date, where you can come off as artificial if you try too hard to present what you think your partner wants.

"The writing of this character actually was an exercise in being as honest with the player as possible, which is not something I feel like a lot of games have done," he said. "When you try to do that kind of thing, it's easy to try to do it in a very guarded way. 'Here's what I think is important to make a game about, but I'm not going to let you too close to my actual thought process. I'm just going to display the better parts of my thought processes. We have a professional thing to show you.' Maybe as we get older we just learn more how to be ourselves and still be engaging and good. I don't know if I would have been able to do it [when I was younger]."

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Disney gets DOJ approval to buy Fox but must divest sports networks

Disney will have to sell off regional sports networks to complete Fox merger.

A Disney logo.

The Department of Justice has approved the Walt Disney Company's proposed purchase of 21st Century Fox properties on the condition that the company divests Fox-owned regional sports networks (RSNs).

That's bad news for Comcast, which has been trying to outbid Disney for the Fox properties. Fox is reluctant to sell to Comcast because of concerns about obtaining regulatory approval of such a deal. The DOJ's approval of the Disney/Fox deal gives Fox another reason to reject any further bids from Comcast.

Technically, the DOJ filed a court complaint to block the Disney/Fox merger today. But the agency also filed a proposed final judgment that would let the merger proceed if Disney agrees to the DOJ's conditions. That's standard procedure for when the DOJ wants to impose conditions on a merger but doesn't intend to block it entirely.

Disney has already said it is willing to divest the RSNs in order to complete the merger. The DOJ's court filings were made in US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

"American consumers have benefitted from head-to-head competition between Disney and Fox's cable sports programming that ultimately has prevented cable television subscription prices from rising even higher," DOJ antitrust chief Makan Delrahim said in an announcement. "Today's settlement will ensure that sports programming competition is preserved in the local markets where Disney and Fox compete for cable and satellite distribution."

Within 90 days of buying Fox, Disney would be required to sell all 22 Fox RSNs "to one or more Acquirers acceptable to the United States [government]," a DOJ filing said.

The Fox sale to Disney would include 21st Century Fox's film and television studios, cable entertainment networks, and international properties including Star in India and Fox's 39-percent ownership of Sky across Europe. The sale also includes Fox's 30-percent stake in Hulu. Disney already owns 30 percent of Hulu, so it would end up with a controlling share in the online video company.

The sale would not include assets such as the Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, the Fox Sports national networks (FS1 and FS2), and Fox Broadcasting Company. Those would be spun off into a new company, and Disney would acquire 21st Century Fox after the spinoff.

Preserving sports TV competition

Without divestitures, the transaction would be anti-competitive, the DOJ complaint said.

"Disney's proposed acquisition of Fox's assets would combine two of the country's most valuable cable sports properties—Disney's ESPN franchise of networks and Fox's portfolio of Regional Sports Networks ('RSNs')," the complaint said. This "would eliminate the substantial head-to-head competition that currently exists between Disney and Fox and would likely result in higher prices for cable sports programming in each of the [geographic markets]," the DOJ wrote.

The DOJ's court filings included this map of Fox's regional sports networks.
The DOJ's court filings included this map of Fox's regional sports networks.

The Fox RSNs are Fox Sports Arizona, Fox Sports Carolinas, Fox Sports Detroit, Fox Sports Florida, Fox Sports Indiana, Fox Sports Kansas City, Fox Sports Midwest, Fox Sports New Orleans, Fox Sports North, Fox Sports Ohio, SportsTime Ohio, Fox Sports Oklahoma, Fox Sports San Diego, Fox Sports South, Fox Sports Southeast, Fox Sports Southwest, Fox Sports Sun, Fox Sports Tennessee, Fox Sports West, Prime Ticket, Fox Sports Wisconsin, and the YES Network.

"In the aggregate, the Fox RSNs have approximately 61 million subscribers across the country and have rights to telecast live games of 44 of 91 (48 percent) US professional sports teams in three of the four major sports leagues," namely Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League, the DOJ wrote.

This isn't quite a done deal because Fox and Disney shareholders still have to approve the merger. Comcast is also reportedly considering another attempt to outbid Disney.

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Italy: Trajan’s Market Museum, Rome

ITALY: Trajan’s Market Museum, Rome
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If only I could find that perfect pair of Roman sandals, but it looks like I’m 1900 years too late!

It’s Epiphany in Rome and you know what that means: Romans and tourists alike stampede the retail stores for the annual slashed price shopping sales. The government sanctioned event is an attempt to quell the restless strike-prone inhabitants of Rome, and it usually works.

 We decided to turn back the clock and explore the first shopping mall ever built, ancient Trajan’s Market (113 A.D.) Located on many levels of Quirinal Hill, the museum entrance is rather hidden at Via 4 Novembre #144 (+39 06 679 0048). It’s just off Via Fori Imperiali and walking distance from practically anywhere in the Historic Center of Rome.  Presumably, vendors sold cash and carry type products like olives, wheat, cheese, etc. The market is excavated and documented with great clarity and sensitivity, but is woefully short on building ornaments, mosaics and statues that would contribute to imagining the atmosphere experienced by early Roman shopaholics.  The adjoining Temple of Trajan, once a spectacular edifice, also exists more as a monumental plan or outline, missing most of its columns, walls, roof, and statues to the great Deities of Shopping.

So, question of the day: where did all the beautifully carved Roman capitals, sculptures of Hercules, Achilles, Caesar, etc., mosaics and ornaments go, for God’s sake?  I know it’s been about 1,500 years since the last gladiator cut out the heart of his defeated opponent in the Colosseum, but still… It’s no use simply blaming the British Museum or Napoleon when apparently, the problem started the minute the Roman Empire went out of business. Early medieval Christian sects, and just regular folks who wanted to live in a townhouse, moved into the Colosseum or built their dream houses atop the forums (fori) using the materials at hand. From the XVth century to the XVIIIth century, Popes used the Colosseum (read: worthless pagan real estate) as their private quarry. Also, the noble families of Rome could buy stones at bargain prices from the Papacy and build what would become the essential destinations on every contemporary tourist’s itinerary such as Palazzo Farnese, Palazzo Barberini, the Palazzi Senatoria dei Conservatori on Capitoline Hill among others.
The Popes didn’t stop at dismantling the Colosseum and the forums when they had the Pantheon just up the street. It’s well documented that Pope Urban VIII (born Maffeo Barberini, Pope1623-1644) stripped all the bronze from the portico ceiling of the Pantheon to manufacture canons to fortify Castel Sant’Angelo.  Experts have been arguing for years as to whether there was  enough left over to cast Bernini’s opulent baldacchino in St. Peter’s Basilica or was that just a vicious rumor? Urban VIII earned the famous Roman proverb: “What the barbarians did not do, the Barberini’s did”.
Back to our Mercati di Traiano. The Quirinal Hill is a spectacular site from which to view Rome, especially the dramatic weather changes. It is a pleasure to pick your way along the paths that climb up and down the many levels of this large structure which housed administrative offices of the government on the top floors and placed the vender’s stalls below, closer to street level. The only big difference between this ancient mall and our megamalls today  seems to be that there were no public bathrooms, or at least they are not indicated on the museum’s elaborate plan. That would have cramped any woman’s shopping style.
Stunning fragment on display in the museum – wish there were more
Beautifully detailed example of what was hauled away by those with discerning taste

Looking across Via Fori Imperiali towards Paltine Hill and Capitoline Hill and wishing Mayor Bloomberg were here to pull the plug on that muzak.
There is one other element I should mention. If you visit on a Sunday, the large boulevard in front of Trajan’s Temple and Market, the Via dei Fori Imperiali is closed to traffic so that pedestrians can have a lovely “passeggiata” (a promenade with swarms of Romans pushing strollers and tourists eating junk food). Since there are no “quality of life” laws, we could hear a Peruvian folk band blasting on an endless loop something that sounded like Paul Simon’s old song “If I could…I’d rather be snail, etc.” (which he presumably lifted from a Peruvian folk melody). So, this bizarre background muzak in Rome turned out to be just like the bizarre background muzak we find in a real mall in America today! Oh, and watch for the exhibition tango dancers!

If you are hungry after this, follow us to the refined tastes of  Roscioli Restaurant on Via dei Giubbonari 21, 00186 Rome. 39 06 687 5387.  They specialize in carefully curated prosciutto selections along with the finest Italian cheeses.  Their delicate pastas also contrast deliciously with some of the old fashioned Roman standards. Moderately expensive.

Roscioli Restaurant
loved eating in the wine cave in the basement

Photos by Waldemar Kalinowski

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  1. Hi Florence

    Ernst(the norwegian builder) calling from Botswana

    Like your blog, I see you guys are busy travelling. I have been following your life on the movie making side, and seen most of the movies. Very interesting. I have sent a message to Waldemar on facebook to become his friend. Otherwise, have a Happy New year and send my regards to all.

    Next trip should be Africa and Bushmann Art and Culture. You guys are welcome, we have a lodge at a game farm close to our town.

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CM continues Arunachal Rising campaign

*Offers Rs 2 cr for martyr Dada’s memorial

BORDURIA, Dec 05: Chief Minister Pema Khandu paid homage to Ashok Chakra awardee, late Havildar Hangpan Dada in his memorial before launching Arunachal Rising campaign here on Wednesday.

He also gave away cash prizes and certificates to progressive farmers, best ASHA & anganwadi workers of Borduria circle besides distributing blankets to GBs of the circle.

He met late Dada’s wife Chasen Lowang and had discussion with the Army officers for development of a memorial. He asked Tirap DC to submit a DPR for memorial and assured Rs 2 crore this year as initial fund to start the work.  He later inaugurated the circle office while DyCM Chowna Mein inaugurated the inspection bungalow.

Attending a public meeting, he congratulated the people of Borduria circle for the new CO office. The GoAP is willing to upgrade Borduria circle to sub-division HQs if people demand.

Responding to public memorandum, he assured establishment of circle office at Longo, construction of Tirap Chief Council office and 21-km Joypur-Hukanjari road.

Tirap, Changlang and Longding region has been deprived under central scheme; he said and asserted that the present Govt is ensuring that further deprivation does not continue. He informed that 21-km Terung to Sumsi Pathar has been approved under central scheme for Rs 20 crore.  On Sainik School, he promised to start one for eastern Arunachal in next session and assured to set up it in the TCL region.

Mein, advisor to CM Wanglin Lowangdong and state BJP president also spoke. DoTCL Minister Wangki Lowang and MLA Wanglam Sawin were also present.

At Khonsa: CM Khandu launched the Arunachal Rising campaign at Katang and gave away cash prizes and certificates to progressive farmers, best ASHA and anganwadi workers of Bari-Basip circle and distributed blankets to GBs of the circle.

Earlier, he laid foundation stone for multi-storied parking lot for Khonsa town to be built under CM district innovation & challenge fund and Katang police station, inaugurated Bari-Basip circle HQs, augmentation of water supply to Khonsa township under NLCPR and laid the foundation stone for while DyCM Chowna Mein inaugurated the Katang CO office.

Khandu, addressing a public function in Katang, assured to fill manpower gap for the CO HWs. The CO HQs was first approved by former CM, late Dorjee Khandu, including Borduria and Chubam.

Informing that the GoAP will be bringing several reforms in future, he said politicians may feel uncomfortable with the reforms initially but will prove to be in public interest with long-term benefit.

The CM released four-year progress report of local MLA Wanglam Sawin and lauded him for transparency and efficiency.  Besides DyCM Mein, PHE&WS Minister Wangki Lowang, advisor to CM Wanglin Lowangdong, MLA Sawin and state BJP president Tapir Gao also spoke.

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Title:On the role of the overall effect in exponential families

Abstract: Exponential families of discrete probability distributions when the normalizing constant (or overall effect) is added or removed are compared in this paper. The latter setup, in which the exponential family is curved, is particularly relevant when the sample space is an incomplete Cartesian product or when it is very large, so that the computational burden is significant. The lack or presence of the overall effect has a fundamental impact on the properties of the exponential family. When the overall effect is added, the family becomes the smallest regular exponential family containing the curved one. The procedure is related to the homogenization of an inhomogeneous variety discussed in algebraic geometry, of which a statistical interpretation is given as an augmentation of the sample space. The changes in the kernel basis representation when the overall effect is included or removed are derived. The geometry of maximum likelihood estimates, also allowing zero observed frequencies, is described with and without the overall effect, and various algorithms are compared. The importance of the results is illustrated by an example from cell biology, showing that routinely including the overall effect leads to estimates which are not in the model intended by the researchers.
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George Lucas’ $1 billion ‘Star Wars’ museum finds Los Angeles home

“Star Wars” filmmaker George Lucas has settled on Los Angeles for the home of his $1 billion storytelling museum, after pulling the project from Chicago last year.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Tuesday that the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will be located in Exposition Park in downtown Los Angeles.

“I believed in the vision for the Lucas Museum, and we went after it with everything we have — because I know that L.A. is the ideal place for making sure that it touches the widest possible audience,” Garcetti said in a statement, thanking Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson.

READ MORE: ‘Episode VIII’ to break ‘Star Wars’ tradition; new Han Solo unveiled

The museum was initially planned for Chicago, but Lucas ran into legal challenges from an open-spaces group and pulled the project. Garcetti immediately moved to woo the filmmaker to house the museum in Los Angeles.

The proposed museum, valued at $1 billion and funded by Lucas, would feature exhibitions of Lucas’ collection of paintings, illustrations and digital art from the blockbuster “Star Wars” movie franchise he started in 1977.

“South Los Angeles’s Promise Zone best positions the museum to have the greatest impact on the broader community, fulfilling our goal of inspiring, engaging and educating a broad and diverse visitorship,” the museum’s board of directors said in a statement.

ALSO READ: ‘Star Wars’ actor Carrie Fisher dies at 60

The proposed site for the museum is next to the University of Southern California, where Lucas studied film and met future collaborators including Steven Spielberg.

Lucas sold his “Star Wars” franchise to Walt Disney Co. in 2012 for $4 billion.

Disney rebooted the franchise with six new films, including a new trilogy in the space saga commencing with 2015’s “The Force Awakens,” and standalone stories such as December’s “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.”

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Indian delegation’s meeting with PM Nawaz stirs speculations

ISLAMABAD: An Indian delegation reportedly called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday in an unannounced visit to Pakistan causing disquiet in the opposition benches of Punjab Assembly, demanding agenda and discussion of the meeting to be made public, ARY News reported.

Indian steel tycoon Sajjan Jindal was among three Indians who called on the premier in Murree yesterday (Wednesday), media reports said.

The delegation reached Islamabad from Kabul in a special aircraft at 10:00 AM yesterday from where they traveled to Murree by road in three vehicles to meet Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

However, no details about the meeting and its agenda have been made public.

Apart of Jindal, the other two visitors to the prime minister have been identified as Suket Singhal and Virander Babar Singh, details relating their ranks and affiliation could not be established.

Various speculations circulating about meeting between the premier and Indian delegation as the news diffused in the media. The delegation have either came with a special message from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif or related to the fate of the convicted Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, analysts say while talking on the visit.

The government sources have yet to give their version of the unscheduled Indian visit.

Separately, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) lawmaker and opposition leader of Punjab Assembly Mian Mehmood-ul-Rasheed has tabled a resolution in the house by demanding to make the meeting’s agenda and discussion public.

Previously, Sajjan Jindal had reportedly played a key role in arranging a surprised meetings between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in Raiwind. The sources further claimed the Jindal had also attended the wedding ceremony of the granddaughter of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

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A new initiative by Indian government. They have launched “women only” bus. Specially during peak hours so that women may travel comfortably. A round of applause for this step.

Wait !!! Why do we women need this ? Special coach in train, reservation of seats in bus and now this “women only” bus? 8 march is celebrated as international women’s day to acknowledge the achievements by women’s. This day every women is told that they are not less than anyone and they do accept it. If we the women are not lacking anywhere then why do we need special reservations treatment ? Many will troll with answers that it’s not comfortable to sit with many men’s, and why we don’t feel comfortable? Because we were harassed sometimes by not only physical touch but plenty of times because the way they look at us with lust.

Is this the case only with women? Do men’s also go through it ? Yes, they do. Even they are harassed. I was watching an Indian television show “satyamev jayate” and a men said his story on that show. He was sexually harassed for about 16 years. Yes 16 years, by his own uncle. It was terrifying to know this. Like women even men has many problems. Its just that we both have our own different problems and every individual think his problem is bigger than anyone in this world. Always remember one thing, god test you only on what you are capable of. So, no problem is bigger than your capability.

As women feel they need to be cared even men feel the same. Men’s are less expressive than women. They will rarely share their problems or issues they are going through. Sometimes try to understand them too.

This world is not about who is stronger ? Men or women ? It’s about how we “human beings” can make this place better to live in.

System administrator has set policies to prevent this installation

I was very frustrated because of this error when I was trying to install some software on my windows. Tried number of different solution but was not successful.  But, today I tried something and it worked. I would like to share the solution with you. It is very simple.

Following are the steps:

  1. START
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And you are done :). After successful installation of the software please change the user account settings to default so that you are protected from malicious software.

What is Life ?

A big and a very common question for all of us. If we are happy we feel like we are in heaven. And when we are sad sometimes, feel like ending our life. I always think why there is sadness, difficulties, problems in our life ? And everyone answers life is combination of happiness and sadness. The value of happiness is known after value of sadness.

Yeah, I do agree ! But, I wish there would have been no sadness no difficulties in my life. I want everything that I wish for. But, when I look back I see “whatever happens, happens for a reason”. For example, when I was a child I never used to like to study(like most of the children). But my mother always made me to go school forcefully. I used to hate it. But, today when I have completed my post graduation I realize what is the importance of studies in our life. So, this was a very  short example. I used to cry a lot and feel god dosen’t like me . But, It was good for me.

Whenever we face a problem we always compare our life with others life. He is so happy and why I am not ? But, in this world each of us have some or the other problems in our life. Whenever you feel like giving up and not fighting for yourself remember one thing “Nothing is permanent”. Where there is a problem there is a solution. A light of day comes after darkness of night. So if you are sad, then get ready to get happier than before. 🙂

Sacrifice is the first step towards success !

Yes, its right ! While climbing each step of success you have to sacrifice at least one thing. The common sacrifice while climbing the steps of success is family. Some families don’t want us to play with our life’s or take risk. So, they don’t support us and there we sacrifice our family for our dreams. May be on other step some sacrifice their love. Love, with which he want to spend whole of his life. But, instead of selecting a happy life with his love he selects to sacrifice his love for achieving his dreams. And in this way every now and then sacrifices leads us to success.

This is life.. GIVE and TAKE. NO PAIN NO GAIN. So, if ever you have sacrificed something don’t be upset always think god has something more better than this for you. Once you realized this you will never feel sad and will chase your dream one day 🙂

The best gift ever can be given to a person is appreciation. No matter how small or big work he has done, a couple of words of appreciation will motivate him and will make his day. As its always said give respect, take respect. Life is whole about give and take. If you are managing a team the key skill a team leader should have is appreciating your team members. And if you learn that, your team will be the most good performer of all the teams. You should know how to handle a person or to motivate him. Even if he has done work not upto the mark you should only say you have done a good job but, I know you can do it better. And next time you will see the result. He will make sure to do it in a better way 🙂

A small word with a larger meaning and impact. Hope you will try it in your life, and do let me know what was the impact 🙂

An interesting write by Andy Rooney

I’ve learned….

That the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

I’ve learned….

That when you’re in love, it shows.

I’ve learned….

That just one person saying to me,

‘You’ve made my day!’ makes my day.

I’ve learned….

That having a child fall asleep in your arms is

One of the most peaceful feelings in the world.

I’ve learned….

That being Kind is more important than being Right.

I’ve learned….

That you should never say NO to a gift from a child.

I’ve learned….

That I can always pray for someone,

When I don’t have the strength to help him in some other way.
I’ve learned….

That sometimes all a person needs

Is a Hand to hold and a Heart to understand.
I’ve learned….

That we should be glad God doesn’t give us everything we ask for.

I’ve learned….

That money doesn’t buy class.

I’ve learned….

That it’s those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.

I’ve learned…

That under everyone’s hard shell is someone

who wants to be appreciated and loved.

I’ve learned….

That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.

I’ve learned….

That when you plan to get even with someone,

you are only letting that person continue to hurt you.

I’ve learned….

That love, not time, heals all wounds.

I’ve learned….

That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is

to surround myself with people smarter than I am.

I’ve learned….

That everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.

I’ve learned….

That no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

I’ve learned…

That life is tough,

to succeed you must become tougher.

I’ve learned….

That opportunities are never lost;

Someone will take the ones you miss.

I’ve learned….

That when you harbor bitterness,

Happiness will dock elsewhere.

I’ve learned….

That I wish I could have told my Mom that

I love her one more time before she passed away.

I’ve learned….

That one should keep his words both soft and tender,

Because tomorrow he may have to eat them.

I’ve learned….

That a smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

I’ve learned….

That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist,

That you’re hooked for life.

I’ve learned….

That everyone wants to live on top of the mountain,

But all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.

I’ve learned….

That the less time I have to work with,

The more things I get done.


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Emotions Are Street Signs

Higgins:  Negative emotions are not punishments for previous deeds. Negative emotions are indicators that you need to change your thoughts. Street signs…that’s all emotions are.

Only humans continue to punish themselves after making a mistake. Animals do not do this. Mistakes are only miss-steps. Stop punishing yourselves for miss-steps. Instead, use your negative feelings about things to find your true path in this world. We assure you that looking around to identify what you don’t like and then pursuing a solution is the surest way to your happiness.

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Summer Devotional July 7th, 2017

Romans 2:1:  “You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.”

Show grace today.  We are all sinners.  We’ve all done stupid things.  Forgive and forget as God forgives us.  Life it too short to hold grudges and judge others just to make ourselves feel better.

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  1. Thank you, Father, for giving me a window to your heart through the life and ministry of Jesus. Please bless me as I seek to know you better by knowing, understanding, and following Jesus more passionately.

    Atoz, Is it okay for me to continue sharing these prayers? I have hundreds of them. They help me but I don’t want to discourage anyone one to share on your website? At my age it is hard to find anyone that wants to talk about God.

    I am studying the Gospel of Matthew with a commentary. I have highlighted the comments that mean something to me. I would so love to share them a bit at a time but don’t want to impose my views on your site. Is this allowed?

    I never miss your devotionals or the studies with BSF. I can’t go to the meetings anymore but I follow you everyday.

    You are a blessing. Thank you.

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