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Will Overpersonalization Hurt Mass TV Content?
by Wayne Friedman on Dec 20, 1:18 PM
Reed Hastings, chief executive officer of Netflix, is concerned that "overpersonalization" of media might create borders where viewers will never sample new TV or video. Hastings spoke at a meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors in Washington. This is interesting coming from Netflix, which has, in part, caused some of the audience fractionalization -- though probably not "overpersonalization."
Content Generation Not Easy, Driving Wave Of M&A
In the current environment of big-time media mergers and acquisitions, some analysts believe the next wave will be new TV/media distributors and operators buying premium TV producers and filmmakers. But content generation for the masses is no easy task. Even content generation for niche audiences is not easy.
Aiming To Get More Big TV Ad Dollars
To get the big TV dollars to shift to your pockets, it's increasingly a case of "If you can't beat 'em, (almost) join 'em." Facebook is taking another page from traditional TV networks by limiting the supply of its new video advertising opportunities, in hopes of grabbing high premiums for cost-per-thousand (CPM) viewers.
Can TV Shows Follow Beyonce's Lead By Reducing Show Promotion?
You've gotta hand it to Beyonce -- and, I'm guessing, Jay-Z. Here's her lesson: Release your entertainment product and tell no one. No "Today" show interviews. No big commercials; no Pepsi sponsorship deals. And hey, no pre-release social media plan. Instead, on the release date of her new album "Beyonce," she told her 8 million Instagram followers: "Surprise!" And all 14 songs and 17 videos from the new album went on sale via iTunes.
Big Broadcast Wildcards: Aereo To The Supremes
Aereo, the company that gives consumers low-cost monthly digital access to broadcast networks, is telling the broadcasters to bring it on: Let's go to the Supreme Court. Tough talk.
Can YouTube's $6 Billion In Video Ad Sales Be An Indicator For TV Networks?
Nearly $6 billion a year went to video advertising on YouTube worldwide, according to eMarketer. What effect will this have on the $50 billion spent on national advertising with traditional U.S. TV networks? It is something CBS, NBC, Fox and ABC should be concerned about? Not exactly, because these networks also gain from their own digital video businesses.
Commercials May Not Be 'Time-Sensitive,' But What About Their Price?
Can TV advertisers still make the case that anything past three days of time-shifted viewing doesn't amount to much for their brands? Les Moonves, president and chief executive officer of CBS Corp., says hogwash, because 80-85% of TV commercials are not "time-sensitive." Therefore they should be counted and paid for by marketers, no matter when they are see
Looking For Promotion, However Small, To Boost Traditional Viewing
What is the promotional value of Netflix and Amazon Prime for TV networks? David Zaslav, president and chief executive officer of Discovery Communications, says his cable network group is looking to license some newer content to Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD)companies in order to gain a benefit beyond additional revenue: the boosting of ratings for new episodes on the cable networks.
New Digital Services Should Give Viewers Exactly The Channels They Want
Some competition for traditional cable operators -- in the form of new technology-backed broadband pay TV services -- might be happening sooner than we think. Now is the time to think consumer marketing. News of a possible launch was spurred by Philippe Dauman, chief executive of Viacom, speaking at an industry media conference on Monday. He said this could happen as soon as next year (only a few weeks away). Who? What? Dauman didn't say.
Time-Shifting Blues -- Because There's Only So Much Time In The Day
by Wayne Friedman on Dec 9, 12:53 PM
Perhaps the issue isn't time-shifted viewing but rather available TV time itself. Consumers have squeezed more media into their lives over the past few years. But specific TV time-shifting on a per person basis has remained much the same. Brian Wieser of the Pivotal Research Group says the saturation point might have hit in 2009. He writes: "We have long noted that once people have DVRs or access to other time-shifting technologies their consumption of time-shifted TV does not change materially." This includes DVR technology as well as video-on-demand services.


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How important are ancient Hindu religious and spiritual texts? Opinion
While we see the forcefully inferred, concocted and biased opinions on religious texts of Hindu religion every day on social media platforms, TV series and many other places, have we ever thought about how important or how useful they may be? Have we ever tried to understand the qualities and the depth of spiritual and philosophical ideas that these religious texts contain?
Today I am going to make an effort in this direction. I will talk about Hindu religious texts. Before I begin with my article and put forth my points, I want to ask the readers, do the religious texts matter in our so-called modern life, surrounded by gadgets and devices? Do we seriously need such texts? What is the importance and relevance of these texts in our lives? Hindu Religious Texts are probably ignored or untouched section of Indian literature, especially amongst the younger generations. Though, I believe, the recent telecast of Ramayana and Mahabharata has instilled some curiosity amongst them about our Holy Scriptures. And therefore, there must be an urge to read the 'original versions' and try to understand the real depths that can seldom be translated on the screens.
No matter how modern we have become with the advancement of science, granths like Ramayana, Ramcharitmanas, Bhagavad Geeta, still occupy a prestigious place in our home. Why? I brought up in a spiritual environment, listening to the tales of Bhagwan Shri Ram and Shri Krishna. In fact, on every Sunday and on occasions like Ramnavami, Shri Krishna Janmashtami, I used to read and recite Dohas and Shlokas from those holy books along with my grandmother. And let me tell you, it used to be real fun. However, sadly, I see today's parents are so busy to get along with the modern lifestyle that they have almost forgotten to pass on the teachings they have learnt from their parents and grandparents about our religious texts to their kids and grandkids. It really hurts me.
Now, coming to the Hindu religious texts, I believe, it is the sixth element in addition to Panchamahabhutas (five elements) – earth, fire, water, air and space with which our body is formed. The role of this sixth element is to govern this unique system called Body. You can also see it as the cornerstone of our lives. Because religious texts or scriptures are those sacred texts that tell us everything about life – from its beginning to the end, from lessons of life to castigations which we may have to face, from questions (we as human beings can think of) to their most suitable answers. So, you have got the inkling that these texts are important to us today and forever. Let me explain with brief details.
Religious texts are the mirror through which we can peep into the ancient periods of our religion and learn the documented history and origin of arts and science form in India such as music, dance, sculptures, architecture, astronomy, science, mathematics, medicine, and wellness. While the Valmiki Ramayana gives the vindication of music, singing, medicine, and wellness; Ved Vyasa's Mahabharata authenticates mathematics, architecture and dancing. Moreover, four Vedas – Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samveda and Atharvaveda consists of the methods and information about worship, Yagya, music, and politics respectively. We also have Upnishads. Upnishads are in a continuation and they are the bodies of texts that tell us about various aspects of material as well as spiritual life.
Religious texts are the ocean of wisdom. If you're ready to dive deep into these oceans, they have gems, in the form of sayings and lessons, to offer you mental, physical, moral and spiritual growth and wellbeing. It also educates us about do's and don'ts of life and also describes Karma and Karmafal, like how justice, dharma, and righteousness wins over injustice, adharma and evil. The two timeless epics, Ramayan and Mahabharata, are the great examples of it. At the same time, a scripture like Bhagwad Geeta from the past has answers to all your questions, anything that you wish to know! However, the better you understand the question to which a text is an answer, the better we grasp the meaning of the text.
In addition to the above two points, religious texts are full of sympathy, empathy, kindness, forgiveness, and humanity. These are the five Mantras of happy and peaceful living. By grasping these Mantras in life, life will be free from all the kinds of modern stress and anxiety. However, it is difficult to practice these Mantras until we get success in taking ourselves out of the traps of illusions of which modern and advanced lifestyle has brought with it. In any way, it does not mean that we should not work, not strive for material gains or stop doing anything. It simply means that we have to understand where should be the full stop, and comma and semicolon. Hindu texts help us in understanding these aspects that we fail to perceive once we indulge ourselves in the acts of material gains.
So, at last, a simple conclusion can be extracted out of all the intellectual exercise that we had in the above lines. The Hindu religious texts are important and relevant for each and everyone, irrespective of religion. For example, there is nowhere any mention in the works of Vedas that only Hindus can have access to the knowledge of Ayurveda or Music. We all learn. And therefore, it would only be wise if along with the literature of other countries and of various genres, we could also incorporate a healthy habit in our life – reading our holy scriptures for a life filled with principles, morals, superior knowledge and contentment.
I hope that the recent and ongoing bad phase in our lives may, somehow, have inspired us to look back and deep into our treasure – the ancient texts. Ramayan and Mahabharat being re-telecasted on Doordarshan and then many channels following the same, people breaking records of viewership by watching these episodes as a community and then a raised level of interest in our youths for these religious serials give me hope that there will be an elevated curiosity among the young readers to know more about these texts and there will be many things to know and tell. And I also think that the bloggers' community in India will take an interest in bringing out the qualities of these texts to the readers and I can hope that many among the top book reviewers in India will take this thing up.
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"I was raised to know that I should never …
sacrifice a principle for personal ambition." Who said it?
Oh, okay, that's an easy question to answer. But inherent in the answer is a much larger question and a much more revealing answer.
In death, John McCain's belief in putting principle before personal will not only be amplified but may well write one of his most storied chapters. His memorial and eulogy will place in stark contrast "what ought to be" and "what is," thereby, allowing millions of people to more deeply understand what matters most in leadership.
"The most essential parts of life are matters of individual responsibility and moral choice." – David Brooks, author The Road to Character
In his excellent book, The Road to Character, David Brooks explains why a person's eulogy is far more revealing than their resume. Unlike a resume, one's eulogy is not about what you achieved for yourself, it's about what you achieved for others. It's about your values and principles, not your skill set and score keeping. Inherently, it's what we humans know matters most.
The out pouring of respect and admiration for Senator John McCain – from candlelight vigils across Europe to flowers where his fighter jet crashed in Vietnam – is not only unprecedented, it is a clarion call for leadership. It's not a wish to go back in time or that John McCain had become President McCain, it's an upwelling of human recognition of what one man represents. He embodies great leadership, and when placed in contrast with what we have today, it gives us hope, courage and a sense that, maybe, our lost principles can be reestablished. Because, in his words, "Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history."
If millions of Americans can reach for the brass ring that McCain has left hanging high above the political swamp and act on their visceral understanding of what needs to be done, then history will be made.
The contrast between John McCain and Donald Trump should resonate across America, and the world, and McCain's death should be a transfusion of courage and purpose into the hearts of Americans, and all of us. It should be a benchmark that proclaims, never settle for less in leaders, never less than what a humble Navy captain, war hero, POW, senator and tireless public servant can give. Never!
You are your roots
Whether looking for leaders of great nations or small communities, we need to look at character, not resume; measure depth, not volume; expect integrity, not bullshit. Leadership can be learned, but to whom a potential leader is born is bedrock. And revealing.
"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree."
There's an old axiom similar to the apple cliché: "Show me a screwed up kid and I'll show you screwed up parents." Obviously, the opposite is also true: "Show me a great kid and I'll show you great parents."
(l-r): Admiral John McCain, Admiral John McCain II, Captain & Senator, John McCain III
The first place to look in determining what a person's legacy might be is in their lineage.
John McCain's life has been a generational arc of service to country, of serving a purpose higher than self. And this quality is both genetic and "nurtured," growing through parental guidance that builds on the genetic blueprint. Our parents are the primary architects of the scaffolding on which we stand, and John McCain is the personification of a life well built.
Different roots, different outcome
(l-r): Donald Trump, Frederick Trump, Friedrich Trump
Donald Trump comes from a much different lineage.
Gwenda Blair, in her book, The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a President tells the story of Trump's family origins and their life, adventure and misadventure in the United States.
It's possible the original family name was Drumpf. Donald's grandfather, born in Germany in 1869, emigrated to the United States in 1885 as an "unaccompanied alien child." Grandfather Trump, after making his fortune, returned to Germany with his family in 1904, only to be deported because he had avoided serving in the military when he was a teenager. Trump family members have repeatedly tried to conceal their German heritage, until recently when Donald admitted his German heritage at the NATO summit in Brussels. But even then, he lied by saying, "My father was from Germany. He wasn't, Frederick was born in New York in 1905.
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made." – Immanuel Kant
Comparisons provide us with deep insight – if we choose to see it.
We humans see things more clearly and make better decisions when we can compare them, directly. Particularly two things – maybe three – but we struggle to differentiate when comparing more than three. Then we revert to learned patterns and ingrained beliefs and make poorly informed decisions. But when we have a chance to study things side by side, in glaring contrast, the differences are more defined and the choices easier to make.
So the gift that John McCain's memorial and legacy gives us is an opportunity to see what so many of us know is missing and what we have lost in leadership. Of course, we've lost a great man, but as importantly, we've already lost, in too many places, what he stood for. The personification of leadership. The black and white of great character.
Senator John McCain III stands in complete contrast to President Donald Trump when it comes to acknowledging what leadership and character are. And it only takes a few questions to help us answer the bigger question: How can we recognize leadership and character when we see it?
Who said it?
As a kind of litmus test, here are a few question. You decide whether McCain or Trump made the statement. There is no scoring, other than your judgement as to what constitutes the thinking of a leader of good character. And if the statements seem like blinding glimpses of the obvious, then the reality is obvious. (Correct answers at the bottom).
The doers don't talk and the talkers don't do
"It is your character, and your character alone, that will make your life happy or unhappy."
"I will not take the low road to the highest office in the land."
"My whole life is about winning. I don't lose often. I almost never lose."
"Humility makes for more productive politics. If it vanishes entirely, we will tear our society apart."
"I apologize when I'm wrong."
"We need a free press. We must have it. It's vital."
"I think if this country gets any kinder or gentler, it's literally going to cease to exist."
"Most great leaders in history that I've studied always need to get as wide a range of opinions as possible so that they can have sufficient information to make the right decisions."
"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."
"I admire and respect Senator Obama. He has accomplished great things, and he has motivated people … and he loves his country, just as I do."
"I think he [Obama] is a threat to our country."
"I admire Islam. There's a lot of good principles."
"Putin's Russia is our adversary and moral opposite."
"I hold both countries responsible. I think that the United States has been foolish … and I think we're all to blame."
[Correct answers (M for McCain/T for Trump): 1-M; 2-M; 3-T; 4-M; 5-T (surprise, Trump did say it but he was obviously lying); 6-M; 7-T; 8-T; 9-M; 10-T; 11-M; 12-T; 13-M; 14-M; 15-T].
"We need to give the American people what they deserve. And right now, they're not getting it." – John McCain
Do we get what we deserve?
I don't buy the existential idea that we get what we deserve in life, but in many ways it applies in politics, especially in the caliber of leadership we get. And the primary reason our political systems – at every level – don't work is because "we the people" don't do what's required to make them work. We can blame the politicians and the system, but we elect them and we accept the system. Therefore, we get a Donald Trump instead of a John McCain. The US system elected Donald Trump because only about 50% of the voters turned out, with Trump getting less than half, and he won in the antiquated, undemocratic electoral college.
And the political systems are just as ineffective in Canada, at all levels. Prime Minsters, premiers, mayors and councilors are all getting into seats of power with a minority of the vote. There are three, main reasons:
We citizens don't turn out to vote.
We make no effort to change the system.
We don't participate in citizen's groups.
Basically, we don't give a damn about making a difference or changing much. And we obviously don't think that finding great leaders is worth the effort. So we get what we deserve.
How can we elect the next John McCain?
Port Hope, ON. Is there a local John McCain?
From every nation to every small town, part of John McCain's legacy should be to ask the question: Do we want our leaders to have the character that's more like a Donald Trump or a John McCain? What character traits do we want in our Prime Minister? Premier? Or closer to home, our next mayor and councilors?
Look for character. Demand it! And if it's not there, join a citizen's group who will go out and find leaders who have it. Stop settling for less. Stop accepting "what is" and work to achieve "what ought to be." Remember, it's not the resume, it's the strength of character that puts principle before personal – and that is not easy to find. But it's worth the investment – if you give a damn.
No matter who the candidate, there are a few "dos" and "don'ts" that can help in determining character:
Don't elect someone just because they have "relevant experience" – like years on council. Political experience is overrated.
Don't put too much weight in personality ("I like her/him") – it tells you very little.
Don't go just for "business experience" – there's a lot of bad business experience out there.
Don't settle for "the same old, same old" – the same tired ideas, platitudes, promises (judging on where we are at, we need new, not more of the old).
Don't settle for "good enough" – it isn't!
Do look for new – new candidates, new ideas, new vision, new attitude, new thinking.
Do go for change – "what is" is not good enough so change is essential.
Do ask questions that reveal character – ask for examples from a candidate's life of integrity, principles, values, higher purpose and humility.
Hold them accountable
In the small town of Port Hope (population 16,500), the local citizens' group, Port Hope Citizens' Association (PHCA) has conducted surveys and published a citizens' election platform, and they are asking each candidate to respond to the priorities the citizens have identified. This information is then shared with the community and becomes part of the election process. In addition, the PHCA will be producing a "Quarterly Report Card" that measures each elected official's performance against promises-made and holds them accountable. Great idea! [I will be writing more about this and other active citizen movements in future blogs].
"Throw the bums out" – public imposed term limits
Cobourg, Ontario historic Town Hall where the seats of power need significant change, especially since the mayor is in by acclamation.
There's a political axiom that says the best way for we voters to manage the affairs of our government is to always vote the incumbents out. Each election. Because we will never get much change if we keep the same people and the same thinking in the same seats. We can impose term limits. But the problem with the execution of this principle is that we always wait too long, waiting until the "bums" have done too much damage (i.e., the GOP in US, Donald Trump, Kathleen Wynne, Mike Harris, Stephen Harper, Jean Chretien, Gil Brocanier, and most multi-term, local politicians).
There is merit in changing up the whole team every election. Of course, the argument against this is that it creates discontinuity. But since the "continuity" approach has been tried for decades and seldom sees the progress we expect – and deserve – is it not time to try the alternative?
After four years, which is a long time in any struggling small community, what could be better that new faces, fresh thinking and the potential, one-term "pressure" to achieve what the citizens expect to achieve in a four-year term? Especially if they have to answer to a quarterly report card.
What could be better than all new? New aspirations. New inspiration. New energy. New thinking. And lots of innovation. Hell, it couldn't be any worse than the accumulated track record so far.
"Our identities and sense of worth are not circumscribed, but are enlarged by serving good causes bigger than ourselves." – Senator John McCain
Senator John McCain III, lying in State at the Arizona Capital
By DHughes|2018-08-30T07:11:29-04:00August 29th, 2018|Categories: community, politics, social, trumpwatch, uncategorized|Tags: Cobourg, Donald Trump, John McCain, Leadership, lying in State, Port Hope|1 Comment
leonard H Goodman August 30, 2018 at 9:48 am - Reply
an interesting and thought provoking commentary David.. I am reminded of the emerson quote "Don not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail"


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The team of the recently released film Byomkesh Pawrbo consisting of Arindam Sil, Abir Chatterjee, Iman Chakraborty, Ujjaini and others graced the occasion of the unveiling of the SHER 2017 calendar.
The calendar consists of drawings of young school children on tiger conservation. Speaking at the occasion, Arindam Sil said "Many of you who have watched the film must have seen a scene in which Satyabati sees a tusker. Many praised me for the CGI work that I have done. But the truth is that the tusker was a real one. We are even lucky that we got to see one of the biggest tuskers of the area on our way back".
Abir Chatterjee highlighted on the fact that the adverse effects of mankind's deeds can be felt now. "This is the winter season and we are finding it hard to keep on a sweater. One can understand the level to which Nature has been destroyed. Global warming is already wreaking havoc. What we can do is to save our lives, we must protect Nature. Sounds selfish, but this is the way to make man understand. If they begin now, maybe we can keep the remaining part of Nature in a good way" said the Tollywood actor.
Nature must be conserved or else saving the Earth will become a distant dream. Do your bit for Nature as even a small step matters!!
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First, if you haven't read this thread on the London Sydney Rally of 1968, it should be considered a prerequisite:
http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/showthread.php?t=355160
After the success of the Daily Express's 1968 event, the Daily Mirror decided that it too needed a piece of the marathon rally action. And what better promotional tie-in than the World Cup (Soccer) tournament. Held every four years, the 1966 Cup had been held in London and the 1970 Cup was to be in Mexico. The 1970 World Cup Rally was symbolic of the Cup traveling from London to Mexico and was scheduled to end just as the Cup match began in Mexico City.
The route in Europe was not extraordinarily difficult and many entrants made it as far as the Lisbon point of departure for South America. Once on the South American continent, things changed rapidly and those that weren't truly prepared to deal with the harsh conditions dropped out quickly.
The winning car was the Ford Escort 1850 GT driven by Hannu Mikkola, car #18. This is a Trofeu model:
Second place went to Brian Culcheth in A Triumph 2.5PI. This is a Vanguards model:
Third went to Rauno Aaltonen in another Escort, a model I have not found.
Keb Tubman finished 11th in this Austin 1800, another Vanguards model:
I also have this IXO/Altaya model of Carlos Del Val's Seat 1430, a car that failed to finish the rally. Only 23 cars of the over 100 entered were able to make it to Mexico City.
Four years later, in 1974, UDT (an automotive finance company) decided to sponsor another World Cup-related rally, this time from London to Munich, the site of the '74 FIFA World Cup. Because the distance from London to Munich was too short to qualify as a marathon rally, the route ran from London through North Africa, and then back to Munich.
Because of the 1973 oil crisis, few factory teams entered as most had, at least temporarily, withdrawn from racing/ralying. Therefore most entries were privateers.
However the organizers of this event failed to account for road changes made between the time they laid out the route and the time the Rally was held. As a result, the timing instructions were off and most competitors got lost in the Sahara. The eventual winner was this Citroen DS 23, one of whose co-drivers was Ken Tubman, driver of the Austin above. This is a Rio model of the winner:
The experiences of the many teams that wandered lost the Sahara (in some cases for several days) was the spark that set in motion the planning for the first Paris-Dakar, in 1979.
In 1995, on the 25th anniversary of the original World Cup Rally, it was held again as a Historic event (i.e. the entrants must be cars that were around when the original event was held). It was called simply the London-Mexico Rally, since it was not held in conjunction with a FIFA event.
Amazingly, it was won by the same team (Mikkola/Palm) who won the first event 25 years earlier, in the same type of car. This is a Trofeu model of their car:
(If anyone knows of other World Cup rally cars in this scale, please send me a PM.)
Lummox
Thanks for the interesting history...lost in the desert for days...yikes!!!
Great models, and I can see where those Citroens must have been one heck of a car for off road. :thumbsup:
JSB 33
I have no idea why but the rally cars with the crash bars appeal the most to me.
This era of stock looking (and 4 door) cars competing in some of the toughest conditions is one of the best times of racing improving the breed.
Thanks for showing your cars here.
69Stang
Really great write up, I always enjoy the history behind a car, especially when It is a car or sport I know nothing about. This was a fun read! I had no idea where the Paris-Dakar idea came from and would have never though it was born like this!
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JSB 33 said:
Cool! Too bad that model appears to be a one-off.
I totally feel the same way.
Something about a regular production sedan or coupe from around the '60s era being run within an inch of it's life off road all tough looking with plain steel wheels, meaty tires, and maybe a number on it's side with minimal sponsor decals that is just bad to the bone.
Even U.S. cars.
I have a pic somewhere of a giant '66 Chrysler Newport 4dr running sidwards up the then-dirt road of Pikes Peak....awesomeness!
That's why one of my primary 1/43 collection themes has been these events:
- Monte Carlo Rally - the oldest and (formerly one of the longest) but now not even a regular part of the WRC.
- Safari Rally (formerly the East African Safari (and now defunct except as a historic event))
- Paris-Dakar (now just the "Dakar" and no longer even in the same hemisphere).
- Misc marathons like London-Sydney and World Cup.
The fact that most of these events are defunct or have changed in character makes my collecting easier, since I am now just filling gaps and not trying to keep up with new vehicles.
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Today's featured book is a recent download. The Summer House, by Hannah McKinnon, is a warm-hearted novel that is perfect for fans of Elin Hilderbrand and Mary Alice Monroe.
Something was not right. Throughout the night, driving spring rains had battered against the windowpanes, and flashes of lightning illuminated their bedroom in tumultuous bursts. But now the house was eerily silent. Turning over, she reached for the alarm clock on her bedside table: 7:15. She'd never get the kids ready for the school bus on time. Groaning, she slid back beneath the warmth of the down comforter.
Paige tossed the shopping bags on the bed and flopped down among them. She'd spent too much money in town, but it seemed like the only way to guarantee some time with Emma. David set his book down and looked over at her, bemused (46%).
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No matter. With her family finally congregated under one seaside roof, Flossy is determined to steer her family back on course even as she prepares to reveal the fate of the summer house that everyone has thus far taken for granted: she's selling it. The Merrill children are both shocked and outraged and each returns to memories of their childhoods at their once beloved summer house—the house where they have not only grown up, but from which they have grown away. With each lost in their respective heartaches, Clementine, Samuel, and Paige will be forced to reconsider what really matters before they all say goodbye to a house that not only defined their summers, but, ultimately, the ways in which they define themselves.
Got me thinking of my childhood vacations at the lake.
Thanks, Sherry, I love books that remind me of places I've been…or that take me to new places. Glad you could stop by.
Thanks for stopping by, Laura, it is always hard to see a favorite place sold. Enjoy your pick!
Sounds interesting despite it not being the kind of book I usually read. Thanks for visiting my blog. Happy reading!
Thanks, Kathy, I love to mix up my genres, especially in the summer. Glad you could stop by.
Thanks, Sarah, and I haven't yet started this one. Probably by tomorrow. Glad you could visit!
This brings back some great memories. I'd love to read it!
Thanks, Laura, I do enjoy books in lovely settings with family dynamics. Enjoy yours!
Sounds like an interesting but slightly sad book. I do like those teasers.
Yes, sadness would definitely be part of a story like this one. Thanks for visiting, Ali.
Sounds like a story about the personal growth about people within families. Stories like these I enjoy reading.
Thanks, Colline, I agree! Enjoy your reading!
I would keep reading. It sounds like a great summer read.
Thanks, Nise, I am excited about it…and got side-tracked with Good Me, Bad Me and The Sunshine Sisters…but this one is waiting in line.
It sounds like a great summer read. Stories like these I enjoy reading.
Thanks, Alvin, I'm loving it! Enjoy your reading.


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With Liverpool shortlisted to become the new home of Channel 4, Getintothis' Sinéad Nunes considers a bright future.
There's been a buzz going around social media and local press for a couple of weeks now, since it was announced that Liverpool's bid to become the new home of Channel 4 has made it to the next stage.
Imagine. Channel 4, home to some of the best TV dramas and the most iconic socks in evening news. Channel 4, the station that got a nation addicted to watching other people watching their tellys.
The TV broadcaster has just started looking for a new permanent home in the UK, which will be the biggest change the station has seen in its 35 year history. This will be the second time in 10 years that a major station has relocated; back in Channel 4's 1980s roots, it would have been impossible to believe that such a massive enterprise could ever exist outside London, never mind two.
Liverpool's creative community and industries have their collective fingers crossed to see C4 join the BBC up North, and with two chances at the bid (Liverpool is shortlisted for both HQ and creative hub status), it's looking likely that we might have some celebrating to do.
The news comes after London's Twickenham Studios announced a move to the much-loved 1930s art deco Littlewoods building off Edge Lane, which will be the production suite to hit TV shows (think Peaky Blinders, Black Mirror), as well as major US cinematic projects, with £90m of film money already pledged to the studio.
Liverpool is already the most filmed-in city outside of the capital, so it makes sense for film producers to move their studios to where the action is – the set of their movies. Why edit elsewhere when your cast and crew are based on the cobbled streets of our gorgeous Georgian Quarter, or racing furiously through the Birkenhead Tunnel?
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Home / California Magazine / September October 2006 Global Warning
Can We Adapt in Time?
It may be all in our minds.
By Sandy Tolan
On a cold wet day in 1997 I stood beside a retired fisherman on the end of a long wooden pier in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where, since 1623, fishermen had departed and returned with the north Atlantic bounty in the holds of their vessels. In its time, Gloucester was among the world's greatest fishing ports. Now we gazed out at the nearly empty Gloucester inner harbor. The old fisherman looked at me, frowning, and asked, to himself as much as to me: "What happened?"
What happened? The Gloucestermen took too much. They saw the warning signs but mistrusted the messenger, who usually came in the form of a clipboard-carrying U.S. government biologist. For decades the Gloucestermen fought every restriction until there was virtually nothing left to defend. As the numbers dwindled, the fishermen rushed back to sea, competing with their neighbors to harvest what was left. It was a classic battle over the commons—and in terms of its behavioral roots, its cultural and economic consequences, and its sheer preventability, the Gloucesterman's predicament mirrors that of all of us in the unfolding crisis of climate change.
Like the early data on the decline of George's Bank, where generations of Gloucestermen set their nets, the signals of a growing climate problem have been steady—faint at first but increasingly clear, and now joined in a unified scientific voice with growing evidence to accelerate their concern.
Early signals of the consequences of global warming are beginning to come in from every part of the planet. An examination of such signs was at the heart of an eight-month Graduate School of Journalism investigation overseen by Professor John Harte of Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group and me. Eleven students traveled from the South Pacific to the edge of the Arctic, documenting climate-change impacts that are already evident. Yet even with these and many other reports, the problem is still not understood as real enough to provoke dramatic action at home. For most of us, it seems, the water hasn't risen high enough, and the ice hasn't melted fast enough, to grab our attention. Like the frog in a slowly heating pan of water, we remain immersed—unready, or maybe unable, to leap to new circumstances.
Why is this so? How much has to do with culture, particularly American culture and the lifestyle it makes possible, and how much with human nature—specifically with the limitations of the human mind?
The abundant way of life afforded by technology and by generations of cheap energy no doubt contributes to a sense of complacency. If emerging problems seem theoretical or distant, then change—or worse, actual sacrifice—seems downright ludicrous. If up to now the gravity of the problem has seemed unclear, and the solutions too expensive, business as usual is the natural response. Who, from any culture, would want to give up their hard-won acquisitions voluntarily? And what's the point of sacrificing what seem to be little pieces of comfort, when no one else is?
Some scientists, especially those who study evolution and the human brain, argue that something deeper than culture is at work. They suggest that millennia of human evolution have conditioned us to respond primarily to immediate dangers—the snap of a twig, the crack of a thunderbolt, the flood in the canyon, the hunger in our stomachs. This, they argue, is clouding human ability to adapt to a threat that, until recently, has been invisible.
"The human mental system is failing to comprehend the modern world," wrote Robert Ornstein and Paul Ehrlich in their 1989 book, New World New Mind. "The human nervous system, well matched to a world in which small, sharp changes were important but large gradual changes were not, is inadequate… Our nervous system and our world are mismatched now… Although we are evolving, our mental machinery will not change biologically in time to help us solve our problems."
Ornstein, an expert on brain research, and Ehrlich, the author and Stanford biologist, linked this limitation of human perception to the problem of climate change, which was then barely a speck on the global radar. "In the long run," they wrote prophetically, "CO2-induced warming would melt the polar ice caps, thus flooding many areas. Our old minds, however, don't have the capacity to recognize the threat of CO2 increase. After all, a squiggly line on a chart is hard to translate into a portent of catastrophe."
In the nature of human beings, Ornstein and Ehrlich suggested, action seems imprudent if the threat is distant, even if it is real and growing. "Cultures did not spontaneously develop the ability to deal with long-term trends," they wrote, "because they had no need to until very recently."
If this is true—if biology is destiny—what does it say about reason, and human will? If our biology is hard-wired to respond to the most immediate threats—not to catastrophic scenarios of sea-level rise pegged to, say, the year 2050—is there any way to act in protection of our grandchildren, and theirs?
Edward O. Wilson, the Harvard evolutionary biologist, once said that far-off catastrophes, engineered by our own species, are simply out of the range of human capacity for planning and action. "It doesn't matter that that evolutionary process may be leading an entire species to the precipice," he said. "There is nothing in the species to foresee what will be happening ten generations down the line, only what is happening at the moment." Human beings, he added, "have a hard time reasoning why they should care what might come about 100 years hence."
Considering the effects of our actions today on people in a distant future is not unheard of, of course. Environmental leaders and even a few politicians speak of this. Some native peoples say they think seven generations forward, and there are indications that this is because they learned from past mistakes. According to some Native American oral traditions, the original inhabitants of the continent underwent hardships of their own doing and adapted. "Certainly in Lakota oral history, we have narratives saying our conduct seriously threatened the natural world," oral historian Edward Valandra of the Rosebud Sioux reservation told me. "And we paid a price for that. We were admonished. We paid a price."
Wilson concurs: "A general trait of early people was to eat up everything they could get their hands on, and to become conservationist only when finally they realized that it was necessary for their survival."
For some modern scholars, evidence of past collapse—be it among the Maya, the Easter Islanders, or the Akkadians along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers—should be sufficient to warn a highly educated, technological society of the folly of its chosen path.
"We are persisting when we ought to know better," says UCLA professor Jared Diamond, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel. "Whereas past societies persisted without being able to know better. When Mayan society was collapsing, the Mayans had no knowledge that society in the Fertile Crescent had already collapsed because of salinization. They had no knowledge of the fall of the Roman Empire several hundred years before that. So they could not learn the lessons… And yet we can."
Today's central challenge may be to generate empathy for our descendants 50 or 100 years from now. (Scientists frequently cite 2050 in their warnings on the need to act on carbon emissions today.) Yet how possible is it for us to generate compassion for generations whose lives we cannot immediately imagine?
Wilson has written that "compassion is flexible and eminently adaptable to political reality," depending on one's own allegiances. "So we therefore work like some great all-devouring juggernaut," he explained to me, "and it takes a considerable stretch of the intellect to start thinking in terms of a centuries-long future."
Ornstein and Ehrlich, however, have argued that humans can change their supposed biological destiny in the interest of preservation of the species. "For the first time humanity has the knowledge to destroy itself quickly," they wrote. Yet, "for the first time humanity also has the knowledge to take its own evolution into its hands and change now."
Wilson, though, remains skeptical that humans can change their very biology. After all, he states, "The genes hold culture on a leash." Yet despite the evolutionary "leash" on human action, Wilson believes a conservation ethic can emerge. "The reason why we are conspicuously lacking it in Western cultures, including the American culture," he says, "is that we have just concluded several centuries of worldwide colonization in which we always had another place to go when the place that we ruined was no longer sustainable. Finally when you come to the other shore, and when a few generations have suffered, then you begin to think like a conservationist."
Perhaps the Kyoto Protocol, a global, U.N.-sponsored accord to limit carbon emissions, is such an example. It is, in any case, an expression of human will, and its ratification, by leaders and elected representatives of most of the Earth's nations, suggests that humans do indeed have a capacity to look beyond a generation or two and even to consider protecting the commons. That the nation most responsible for global warming—the United States—refuses to ratify the treaty suggests that culture and lifestyle, not just human nature, play at least an equal role in not facing up to the problem.
At the heart of the American resistance lies the automobile, and the economic, political, and social structures we have built around it: vast networks to acquire, secure, and deliver petroleum; cities that sprawl ever farther from their centers; and a romantic magnetism that draws from the depths of American culture. This romance runs from Kerouac's On the Road in the 1950s, to the Beach Boys' Little Deuce Coupe in the 1960s, to the TV ad showing a sleek black sedan cutting through pine forest on a curving mountain highway, far above some unknown sea. This message elicits desire, and a longing for the freedom of the open road. In doing so, it underpins the entire American politico-economic-military effort to bring ever more energy to the people.
So perhaps human nature is not the main culprit. Nor is "Western" culture, for even the Europeans have by and large embraced Kyoto. Their political and social institutions, which have developed efficient mass transit systems, have led them to consume far less energy per capita than Americans do.
Some Americans, indeed, seem to be waiting for a grand "tech fix" to get us out of the problem. This is illusory. Yet if all the automobiles in the country magically became hybrid vehicles tomorrow, the results would be stunning: gasoline use for those vehicles would be cut in half, with an annual savings of some one billion barrels per year. If more efficient uses of electricity were implemented—including things as simple as energy-saving light bulbs and better standards for refrigerators, as were implemented in the 1990s in California—the U.S. could cut its electrical use by some 30 percent, which would bring it within compliance with Kyoto. And for those who point out that the growing industrialization in China and India will contribute equally to rising carbon levels, similar technological solutions, which would not necessarily impede growth, are being feverishly developed by engineers and planners around the world.
For years, the problem of global warming, as presented in the American media, seemed theoretical. It was cast as a fierce debate between dueling scientists over the gravity of the problem and whether it could be linked to human activity. In fact, climate scientists had decided both questions resoundingly in the affirmative years earlier, and their consensus has been reflected in the reports of the respected Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, representing the conclusions of more than 2,000 scientists in more than 100 countries.
Whether resistance to global warming lies more in the hungers of American culture, or because our species is wired to ignore problems in some far-away future—this matters less now than it may have a few years ago, because the future has arrived. We have indeed come to Wilson's "other shore," and the evidence is mounting that the shoreline may not be there much longer.
Sandy Tolan teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism, where he directs international reporting projects. He has produced dozens of award-winning documentaries for National Public Radio, focusing on land, water and natural resources. He has also written for The New York Times Magazine, Audubon, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, and other publications. He is the author of Me and Hank (Free Press, 2000), an exploration of heroes and race relations through the experience of home run king Hank Aaron. His most recent book, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (Bloomsbury), was released earlier this year.
From the September October 2006 Global Warning issue of California.
Filed under: Science + Health
Image source: Photograph by Nubar Alexanian
Anthony St. John '63 replied on August 31, 2010 - 12:30pm Permalink
This is the most important article ever produced by "California Magazine" because it explains why the IPCC is failing to even begin to achieve "350 or Bust," and more importantly why politicians are enabling the greatest threat to humanity in history. "UC Berkeley is widely known as the preeminent public university in America," so why do we allow our intellectual and political leaders to continue to fail to meet the challenges of change, a cultural failure mode that has destroyed every civilization before ours? The fact is that UC has the scientific resources, along with UC National Labs to create a new version of "Manhattan Project" similar to the position they were in from 1942 to 1945 during WWII when they made the Atomic Bomb happen to save democracy, and again when they made the Hydrogen Bomb happen in 1952 to overthrow communism . It's time to make hybrid fusion happen with at least the same sense of urgency that the Manhattan Project had, and time is running out as the latest calamities in Pakistan, Russia, China, etc. this year alone prove. Must we continue to prove the evolutionary biologists right, that we are not wired to prevent global warming calamity?
Nelson replied on October 28, 2017 - 10:43pm Permalink
Hey Anthony, I tend to believe like the author mention that some people don't have the foresight to fix problems until there becomes a clear immediate danger which is sad, but my hopes are that people become enlighten through educators and world events that make them realize what's the cost of ignorance on global warming – climate matters. We should be investing in science and research to help advance the development of better alternative fuel energy sources. I look forward to seeing people waking up to climate matters and pressuring the representatives to act, with historical evidence of how civilization fail before us for not acting…


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Hello Sunshine! In August I participated in another style challenge with The Home Depot. You may remember my colorful back porch I designed for The Home Depot last spring. Well, they asked me back for a second time around but with the emphasis on Halloween.
They challenged a group of bloggers to decorate a space for fall and Halloween. My room assignment was any outdoor space of my choosing and they sent me several mystery boxes full of spooky elements to get me started.
I had a ton of fun styling my porch. It's spooky yet whimsical. Decorating for Halloween is new to me and this challenge definitely stretched my creative muscles, in a good way. I got a lot of stares on installation day but the collective consensus was good. I received many honks and thumbs up of approval on my design!
My goal for this challenge was to have several simple DIYs that anyone could feel confidant in completing. I hope you check out the stenciled bat rug, felt hanging bats, the infamous levitating candelabra, and my super cute polka dot drop cloth treat bags. I will have a full tutorial on how to create the treat bags soon.
To read more about our Halloween style challenge head on over to the Home Depot Blog!
Checked out your post on Home Depot's blog (didn't know they had one). What a fun display! Love the bats and floating candelabra.
I loved it Darnetha! It looked wonderful. Fantastic job!
Looks great, Darnetha! I really love your cute little models all dressed up for Halloween. They probably were more than happy to play along! I can't believe Halloween is next month...yikes!
This is so cool and fun!!!!! Looks perfect Darnetha!


I recently joined a "Religion & Spirituality" discussion group on Facebook. It's been awhile since I've allowed myself to get involved in such debates, as I find they usually degenerate into a few atheists and a few Christians and Muslims slinging generic insults at one another. Since I am none of the above, and am interested in actual discussions, I bored quickly of those kinds of groups. This one seemed a bit promising, though, so I gave it a shot.
As an agnostic, I am generally shuffled into the "atheist" category and attacked immediately with preaching and threats of hell. That, I can deal with, but what's worse is when I can sense that someone genuinely believes that I am doomed to hell and hurts for me. That is hard to take, especially since my Mother is a Christian, and I can only imagine the worry she feels for me.
I worry also. I worry that religion is tearing our world apart. I worry that the focus has been put on the wrong things. I worry that while people argue over who God is and what his opinion on homosexuality is, they are overlooking the vastness and beauty of our universe.
My problem is not, I repeat NOT with the concept of God. One would have to know a lot more than I do to claim there is no God, and until we have a much better understanding of ourselves and our universe, I think it would be foolish to claim otherwise. Those who have searched for truth and come to believe in God have my utmost respect - not for their conclusions, but for their earnest search.
My agnosticism is not based on a disdain for the concept of God or an atheistic requirement for empirical evidence - rather, it is based on the complete opposite. When I look at the vastness of the universe, contemplate the complexity of every living thing, and indeed, even the non-living, it strikes me as self-evident that whoever, whatever, set this in motion is far beyond our own comprehension. It is not something that can be summed up in a book of parables and a handful of rules. It is not something that can be obeyed, it is not something that cannot be personified.
If one believes in God, one must also believe that God created not just Earth, but the entire universe. One must believe that every star, planet, sun, moon, every galaxy, was created with intention and purpose. We have a beautiful and mind-bogglingly large universe around seemingly just us, and we are squabbling over shellfish and dinosaur bones and two dudes getting married. I have a hard time believing that this was the intent.
Religion, all religion, tends to be based around a single event in the life of a single human - the crucifixion of Jesus, the enlightenment of the Buddha, the revelations of Muhammad. These single events are given enormous significance, and the recognition of them is seen as vital to our salvation. I tend to look at it from a more abstract angle. When I ponder these things, I picture the earth as seen from space - I see this small planet, surrounded by many other planets, stars and moons, and it seems to me that no one life is significant. Some lives have influenced our own, yes. Some lives have been given for us, yes. But it seems to me the real significance lies not in a single life but in all life, and the event we should be revering is existence itself.


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