We had a delightful visit from the fabbity-fab Ross Collins, who created this fantabulous window to go along with How to Scare a Mouse and Bear (pub Nosy Crow).

#books #livres #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse #Ross Collins #Illustrator #Illustration #PictureBooks #HowToScareAMouseAndBear #NosyCrow #bookstodon #bookshops #librairies #WindowPainting

Attracted by Name

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. People are attracted to professions by their own name. That’s why there are a disproportionate amount of dentists named Dennis, lawyers named Lawrence and judges named Judy.

But I believe it goes even further than this. Your own name attracts you to other things, not just professions,

My favourite author is Larry Niven. His science fiction is riddled with many interesting and mind bending ideas for the future. Heretofore, I believed my liking his stories was an unbiased thing, based totally on merit. Now, I see that I am just a ball of conceit, picking someone with my own name to be my favourite writer.

Anyone who knows me well, knows that my favourite musical artist is Yes. Of course I love the song Roundabout which is their biggest song. But the second song I liked by them was Starship Trooper. Starship Trooper is divided into three sections. i) Lifeseeker, ii) Disillusion and iii) Wurm. Notice that Wurm is spelled like the last half of my surname. I guess I’m still a ball of conceit.

I could have picked Larry Gowan as my favourite musical act. But he only had 3 or 4 songs that were played regularly on the radio. However, when I first got into residence back in the late eighties, someone said I looked like Gowan. Then they asked me my name and I of course said Larry. So I got the nick name of Gowan.

Later, for one of those 3 or 4 songs on the radio, he teamed up with Jon Anderson of Yes for the song Moonlight Desires. So even here, we’re back to Yes.

Now I’m just wondering how I can get the Russ part of my last name involved. But I don’t know any celebrities named Russ.

Maybe I can say that the show Friends is my favourite sitcom because it features a character named Ross. But really its only about my 5th favourite sitcom.

Maybe I can say that my favourite place to live is the Rustbelt. Kitchener, Hamilton and Toronto used to be the three corners of the Golden Triangle which was where half the manufacturing in Canada was done. Yes it rusted for a few years but Toronto survived by being the centre of Canada and surpassed Montreal for being the largest city in Canada. Kitchener used its technology assets to become viable again. I’m not sure of the situation in Hamilton, but I don’t really think Ontario considers itself to be a Rustbelt area anymore.

Maybe I’m being persnickety by not accepting the spellings of Rust and Ross as an adequate substitute for Russ.

Maybe I’ll find a Russ someday and become that perfect ball of conceit that, it seems, I always wanted to become.

#ballOfConceit #Canada #dentistNamedDennis #Friends #GoldenTriangle #Hamilton #JonAnderson #judgeNamedJudy #Kitchener #LarryGowan #LarryNiven #lawyerNamedLawrence #mindBendingIdeas #Montreal #MoonlightDesires #myFavouriteMusicalArtist #myFavouriteWriter #Ross #RustBelt #StarshipTrooper #Toronto #Wurm #Yes

"As the first copyright cases concerning AI reach appeals courts, EFF wants to protect important, beneficial uses of this technology—including AI for legal research. That’s why we weighed in on the long-running case of Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence. This case raises at least two important issues: the use of (possibly) copyrighted material to train a machine learning AI system, and public access to legal texts.

ROSS Intelligence was a legal research startup that built an AI-based tool for locating judges’ written opinions based on natural language queries—a competitor to ubiquitous legal research platforms like Lexis and Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw. To build its tool, ROSS hired another firm to read through thousands of the “West headnotes” that Thomson Reuters adds to the legal decisions it publishes, paraphrasing the individual legal conclusions (what lawyers call “holdings”) that the headnotes identified. ROSS used those paraphrases to train its tool. Importantly, the ROSS tool didn’t output any West headnotes, or even the paraphrases of those headnotes—it simply directed the user to the original judges’ decisions. Still, Thomson sued ROSS for copyright infringement, arguing that using the headnotes without permission was illegal.

Early decisions in the suit were encouraging. EFF wrote about how the court allowed ROSS to bring an antitrust counterclaim against Thomson Reuters, letting them try to prove that Thomson was abusing monopoly power. And the trial judge initially ruled that ROSS’s use of the West headnotes was fair use under copyright law."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/protecting-access-law-and-beneficial-uses-ai

#AI #GenerativeAI #Copyright #ROSS #ThomsonReuters #FairUse

Ross Taylor ने रिटायरमेंट लिया वापस, लेकिन अब न्यूजीलैंड नहीं बल्कि इस देश के लिए खेलेंगे
#breakingnews #Ross Taylor #news #socialmedia #sports #sport #cricket

https://fitsportsindia.com/cricket/ross-taylor-out-of-retirement-now-he-will-play-for-samoa-latest-sports-update/

Beto Ehong lança ‘Vixe Beat’, manifesto sonoro de travessia

O EP Vixe Beat, novo trabalho de Beto Ehong, é mais que uma coleção de músicas: é um manifesto sonoro que entrelaça modernidade e tradição em mundo cada vez mais instantâneo. Composto por seis faixas autorais, o disco apresenta produção musical de Ehong em parceria com Jotanubeat, reafirmando sua assinatura artística ao mesmo tempo em que abre espaço para diálogos criativos.

As participações especiais dão corpo e diversidade ao projeto: as vozes femininas de Ross e Val Cor trazem potência, suavidade e contrapontos emocionais; as cordas de Lucilo Muirax evocam ancestralidade e lirismo; e a percussão de Dark Brandão injeta visceralidade, o sax de Caio Correia e o bass de Jesiel Bives.

Em termos estéticos, o Vixe Beat é um cruzamento de mundos: o reggae jamaicano reinterpretado pela tradição maranhense, o rap como linguagem de resistência urbana, os tambores da cultura popular como pulsação ancestral, e as abordagens religiosas e simbólicas do Maranhão que atravessam versos e arranjos, o poder e a audácia do funk. É um trabalho que resiste à catalogação fácil, moderno, mas enraizado; experimental, mas familiar.

O título, por si só, carrega metáfora: o ‘vixe’ é o espanto nordestino, o instante em que memória e corpo se arrepiam diante do inesperado; o ‘beat‘ é o coração eletrônico que mantém tudo pulsando. Juntos, formam a síntese de um Brasil que dança entre o passado e o futuro, reconhecendo-se nas ruas de São Luís, nos tambores de mina, no rap das periferias e nas radiolas que transformaram o reggae em identidade.

Vixe Beat se ergue, assim, como um EP de travessia: ouvir é ser levado a um passeio noturno pelas ruas da ilha, sentindo a maresia no ar, o batuque que ecoa das esquinas e a poesia que nasce da coletividade. É um convite a viver o presente sem esquecer as vozes que ecoam do ontem.

#ancestralidade #BetoEhong #CaioCorreia #culturaPopular #DarkBrandão #EP #funk #identidadeMusical #JesielBives #Jotanubeat #LuciloMuirax #músicaMaranhense #modernidade #rap #reggae #Ross #SãoLuís #tambores #tradição #travessiaSonora #ValCor #VixeBeat

Craig Ross granted parole after 2004 Kaikohe murder of Robert Green

Green operated a dairy farm on the southern side of Lake Ōmāpere near Kaikohe and Ross worked there…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #2004 #after #craig #granted #green #kaikohe #Murder #NewZealand #NZ #of #parole #robert #ross
https://www.newsbeep.com/95810/