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Hannukah is the eight-day Jewish winter celebration. For Humanistic Jews, Hannukah is a tribute to human power and courage. Judah Maccabee was a man who was willing to fight for what he believed, although like his enemy Antiochus Epiphanes, he was a religious zealot who denied freedom of worship to those who opposed him. Despite this, his example of bravery and authenticity motivates us to seize control of our lives and take our future into our own hands. We choose how we shall live, seeking to behave courageously and to preserve our integrity. For Humanistic Jews, Hannukah is an endorsement of human strength and ingenuity, of hope and bravery.
CHJ loves Hannukah so much that we celebrate it twice! Once with a party at Sunday School and another with a party for adult members on a weekend evening. The Sunday School Hannukah party is well-loved for its meaningful service wit h songs and candle lighting, as well as student performances, crafts & games, and lots of latkes! The adult Hannukah party has its own traditions of food and games, notably the White Elephant Gift Exchange.
CHJ Sunday School Hannukah service. | 2019-04-20T07:23:24Z | http://humanisticjews.org/holidays/hannukah/ |
High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is a type of cardio training in which you alternate short, high intensity intervals with intervals to recover. They run this class alternating 1 min of strength followed by 30 seconds of cardio. This is a super efficient and effective workout designed to improve athletic capacity. Finish off with an ab circuit. | 2019-04-25T21:52:57Z | https://classpass.com/classes/public-recreation-hayes-valley-san-francisco/hiit |
The Fever, by Megan Abbott, explores of the intensity of female adolescence and the often-unsettling dynamics of life in suburban America. The novel follows Deenie, a high school sophomore; her older brother, Eli; and her father, who teaches at her school. When Deenie’s best friend suffers a mysterious seizure, rumors and speculation spread as to the cause. Photographs proliferate instantly by text message, amplifying anxieties, and soon, when other teenage girls experience the same symptoms, the high school is beset by what seems to be a full-blown epidemic. The community begins to uncouple as paranoid, desperate parents demand answers.
Abbott threads The Fever with fear: that first loves are ephemeral, that friendships are frail, that the integrity of family and community are questionable at best. She is perhaps best known for her early period noir fiction, and here draws upon the hardboiled tradition in style and pacing, starting multiple fires throughout the novel—a mysterious ritual, sexual awakenings, parental strife, internecine high school social quarrels—each to be dealt with in turn. Meanwhile, Abbott strategically deploys such lush, almost operatic lines as, “He felt a stirring in his chest, and looking at Deenie, her slight neck arched up, he wanted to put his hands on her shoulders and promise her something.” The result is a compelling, suspenseful, and unnerving novel by an author who is redefining the literary thriller.
Megan and I spoke by telephone about The Fever and her writing career. This interview has been lightly edited for clarity.
The Fever is loosely based on the 2012 mass hysteria outbreak in Le Roy, New York. What is it about that story that inspired you to write this novel?
It kind of came out of nowhere. I had always wanted to do a novel that addressed some of the same issues connected to the Salem Witch trials, but set in the modern day. So that was in the back of my head. When the [outbreak] story first broke in downstate New York in January 2012, I turned on the Today Show and saw two of the girls on camera. They had developed these tics—motor and vocal tics—and they were completely mystified by what was happening, and they looked so frightened and upset, as did their parents who were with them. It was really unsettling. And then I immediately started writing. The case was in the background as I started.
This is not the first time you’ve drawn from true events to craft a novel. An earlier novel of yours, The Song Is You was inspired by a true crime, as was Bury Me Deep. What sorts of stories tend to catch your attention and stick with you?
In some ways I guess they all are based on real life events; it is only the degree to which they change when I start writing. Sometimes they diverge wildly. For some reason I seem to need the real-life hook. I grew up reading true crime and that is probably the biggest reason, but there are lots of stories that I know won’t be a book. They might be too upsetting or dark to spend a whole year or two working on, and I don’t want to be there for that long. So those end up talking to me but don’t catch fire. Usually the ones that do, there’s a corner of the story that’s still behind a veil—there’s a part that hasn’t been explored. There is some psychological nuance or something that I’m trying to figure out, and that’s usually when the novel starts to catch fire.
In 2011, your novel The End of Everything marked a big shift in the stories you were telling. The narrator is a young teenager; the story is set in modern times—well, the ‘80s. Modern for us. How did it come about?
It was the first novel that I started writing in my early 20s, and I couldn’t figure out how to make it work. I didn’t know how to plot. So it has always been in the background. After doing four period noir stories in a row, I was looking for something fresh to sort of challenge me. So I returned to this book that I had put down, I think at that point, 10 years before. And it just kind of caught fire. I thought that I could deal with a lot of the same themes that I’d dealt with in the first four books, but with a different setting and time period and point of view. That it would make me try to do new stuff, figure something else out. I felt like it was going to be a challenge. And it was, especially trying to nail the voice and trying to write about the time.
Was there resistance from your editors to move from your established place in period crime fiction?
No. It coincided with a change in publisher and a lot of people assumed there was a strategy behind it. Well, not a lot of people—people in publishing! [laughter] I made the move as I switched from one publisher to the other, so it was seamless and it seemed to work out. You always wonder what kind of big turns you can do when you’re writing, but I think the fact that all of the books deal with a crime and they tend to deal with—this shouldn’t be a feature; it should be common—but deal with women and girls. They had that common bond, and I hoped that I could carry any readers that I had gained, that they would maybe follow me to this new place.
I read in an interview that Dare Me was a direct result of themes you explored in The End of Everything.
Yes. I had a character in The End of Everything—a girl who plays field hockey—and I was watching girls play field hockey and they were such badasses. They were barreling down the field and they looked like Lord of the Flies. Watching them, I was so impressed. And I thought that’s where it all goes for some girls. They get all that rage of being a teenage girl out on the field, and that led me to look at other girl sports and I found that the most dangerous for girls with the most catastrophic injuries was cheerleading, which really surprised me. It changed a lot from my day. And it turned out to be this fascinating excursion. It’s a journey from which I never emerged. I still follow that world a bit. They just felt like warriors to me, and it was a really exciting way to think about the anger of girls that age, and the aggression, and the ambition perhaps most of all.
You’re writing the screenplay for a Dare Me feature film, is that correct?
Yes. I’ve written it. It’s in development now, as they say, in Hollywoodland. But yes that was very challenging. I’d never written a script and to adapt your own book, it’s—it’s like when I finish a book I don’t want to look at it again. I don’t want to open it; I don’t want to read it. In this case I had to basically spend four months eviscerating it and it did feel a little bit like having an ex-boyfriend come to town, lie on my couch, and want to talk about our relationship and why it failed. But the script eventually turned into something else, and that’s when it got exciting and I realized it was not about returning to something but about making something new.
I hadn’t even made that connection, but that is a huge part of what that book is about. In some ways I guess hysteria is always about a reaction to a cultural crisis or event or pressure. I think there are forces around us—certainly the tough guy figure emerges to work through how to fix, or express, troubled masculinity during the Depression. To make the connection, the pressures—they’re not supposed to say anything about it, they’re not supposed to talk about it, and they’re not supposed to express it. Girls are supposed to be pretty and perfect and happy and men are supposed to be silent and strong and good and sometimes the world makes it really hard to be those things. In the end, in the case of mass hysteria, there is a desire for connection. There’s a theory that it’s more common with females because they’re culturally bred to empathize. I’m not sure if that’s true. Nobody knows if that’s true. It’s very much tied to gender in both cases.
The Street Was Mine came from your Ph.D. work, is that right?
Yes. It’s essentially a version of my dissertation.
How did that work lead to your bibliography of crime fiction?
It’s so strange in some ways. It’s like there are two sides of my brain, and really in The Street Was Mine I was taking apart and dissecting the genre. I never thought about that when I was writing, and I still don’t. I’m not trying to do anything, even for women. Some have said that I’m trying to make a place for women in the genre, but that was never my intent. I just wrote about the world I wanted to be in. There are two sides of my brain that are never in communication, and it is a kind of schizophrenia for me because if the side of my brain that wants to interrogate systems and the burdens of the culture—that is not a way to write a book, or a novel. So I think it’s important to keep them separate, so that when I sit down to write fiction I’m not trying to solve big issues or to make points. I’m trying to tell stories. Not that people can’t do both. I just can’t do both.
You were recently the John Grisham Writer in Residence at Ole Miss. How was that experience?
So great. I miss it so much. I loved it. Oxford, Mississippi is such a literary town, a writer’s town, a book-loving town, and it just was a wonderful place to work, and to work with students, and to—people sit around there drinking and talking about books and ideas and movies and that’s—it was so creatively inspiring. And it was such a different place to live. I’ve lived in New York for close to 20 years and living down there amidst ancient Faulknerian lore was just an enchantment for me.
The release of The Fever is, it seems, caught in the wash of Amazon’s assault on publishing and Hachette in particular. What are your thoughts on that and how is it affecting the way Hachette gets this book out there?
I don’t know—it’s changing by the day, but it doesn’t seem to be getting better by the day. It’s alarming and upsetting. I’d been aware that things were going on for a month with the costs, and Hachette authors, but then somebody told me that they’d gone to my Amazon page to get the book and that the links were gone. And the experience of going to that page with the buttons gone was very upsetting. Amazon is so big, and looking at that page it was like they had erased me. And it was a visceral, potent feeling. There are so many bigger issues at play here and it’s not about me and my little pre-order button, but that’s how it felt. I’m really hoping it’s resolved soon in the best way for authors and especially for readers.
It’s been enlightening about how much we tend to rely on certain large corporations. They’re our go-to places and if a book is not there, it’s not anywhere. I’ve done a lot of soul-searching about my own habits this past week as a result. I think the ripple effect is still coming over me. But my fingers are crossed that whatever happens, people get these books, all of them coming out, and that indie bookstores will reap some of the rewards for however long this lasts. Those are my hopeful, optimistic thoughts.
What’s next, my God. I’m working on this book and it’s killing me. It will be released, I believe, next year and it’s called You Will Know Me and it’s about a family with a child prodigy and a bad thing happens. I was really interested in families with prodigies and how they operate, with the parents and child and siblings. It’s a powder keg. | 2019-04-19T02:27:31Z | https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/06/rage-and-the-teenage-girl-an-interview-with-megan-abbott/372918/ |
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See following dates & venues for Young Referees Courses. There is no cost and clubs do not have to pre register participants.
Please note, this course is only Stage 1 and is for new referees that clubs may have. Those who completed the course last year do not need to come again, but are welcome to attend as a refresher.
We were hoping to have a Level 2 course complete but unfortunately, we are not in a position to roll that out yet for Coaches who attended Level 1 last year.
Mallow GAA, Friday 22nd March at 7.30pm.
Eire Óg GAA, Thursday 21st March at 7pm.
Clonakilty GAA, Saturday 30th March at 11am. | 2019-04-18T19:11:24Z | http://napiarsaigh.com/news/young-referees-course |
If the BRF cares so much about the commonwealth countries why not send a member to the different countries to have continual representation and they could sell themselves every day. Could it be because the commonwealth countries don't want them there?
There are only 16 commonwealth countries left and they will get rid of the Monarchy once the Queen is gone.
Why does the BRF think they have a right to sway the citizens of these countries decisions? The colonial days are over and gone.
There have been so many different reasons for why the Queens children were snubbed that I can't keep up with them all. It began with showing austerity so the people could see that they were cutting expenses and it has evolved to be about the Commonwealth countries.
There are people all over the world who do not care for Charles and Camilla, why would them standing on a balcony or riding in a carriage change that?
When I post my opinion I am not representing the Institution or it's survival but I am representing myself. Isn't that what we all do on the forums express our own individual opinions. If your opinion is to help the institution survive then good for you.
Another opinion of mine is that all Charles was thinking when Diana died was how is this going to affect me. I find it hard to believe that a man is shattered about the death of a person that he couldn't tolerate.
I'm not going to debate this with you in detail since I find that we are on two separate tangents.
I'm not here as an advocate for the British monarchy. I'm not here to denigrate your opinion or diminish your right to express it. And, I'm certainly not here to debate whether or not the BRF will survive in Commonwealth countries - or its reasons for wanting to do so.
Nor am I going to debate hypotheticals with you, which you are proposing. It's just not the way my mind works in debate.
I am simply expressing facts about recent visits by members of the BRF to Australia, Canada and NZ. This supports the proposition that the BRF wants to continue to reign over those countries. IMO, this explains, in-part (but not entirely) the balcony scene, which has caused some heated debate by virtue of its anomalous presence.
Again, it is not up for you - or I for that matter - to deny the BRF the right to so act over its subjects of the Commonwealth. I presented some brief facts and that doesn't seem to sit well with you. That's fine, your prerogative. But please remember, as it stands, the Queen is also the Queen of Australia and this Jubilee had some meaning for Oz also. It did not go unnoticed.
Now, I do know a thing or two about Australia's relationship with the BRF that you may not. It's only natural. I'm Australian and know a thing or two about politics and law. I'm not going to go into it now because it is off-topic and I don't care to.
But, just because YOU have decided that all the Commonwealth countries will not remain as Constitutional monarchies does not make it so. It does not mean the BRF thinks it's a hopeless case. It's a LOT more complicated than what you are suggesting, or even what I am posting here.
In Australia, at least, some of us think there are very good reasons for keeping the monarchy. It's not about personal feelings toward the Queen and her family. It's about our Constitution. But the only way the BRF can "sell" itself to us is to send its members on visits and to respect our right to govern our own country as we see fit.
Clearly, you despise Charles and my dissenting opinion of him doesn't abide with yours (obviously). I'm sorry about that and if it causes you sensitivity. But that is not something that I can change.
The Commonwealth countries partly because they are so distant are more progressive in that they don't see the point of having an archaic institution heading them up. In Britain, we are so used to centuries of ingrained forelock tugging that we can't imagine life without the RF. However, Scotland etc are now starting to shake off the shackles. Members of the BRF don't care enough about the commonwealth countries to go and live there...goodness, they've got it too cosy back in Blighty with its ready made fawning citizens.
If Charles thinks that basking himself, his spawn and their scheming wives in the limelight will sell themselves as the future of Britain and the Commonwealth...(sorry, I can hardly type for laughing) he's in for a big shock. In fact it just highlights what we've got to look forward to...and it's not an alluring prospect. The majority of people have lost a lot of respect for him and his aging, horsey wife and see them as self serving, deceitful opportunists - if they can deceive a young, beautiful, innocent Diana and treat her abominably, they will have no trouble treating the taxpayer with the same contempt - people don't trust them. The Telegraph even acknowledge that the majority of people don't want him...and, I'm guessing, they won't want William and Thing either when they see how reluctant they are to take on more work as a result of Charles paring down the RF.
I agree Snokitty, that all Charles was thinking when Diana died was how is this going to affect himself. Any sorrow was IMO due to the guilt of how he mistreated her when she was alive.
Well, as stated to SnoKitty, you may scoff all you like. You may not approve. But the fact is the BRF doesn't think it is a lost cause. That is what matters, pertaining to my point.
I wouldn't call Australia 'progressive'. But I would call Australians irreverent, not subscribing to class warfare. It's an issue here right now.
And, with respect, you are not Australian, so you don't know how the mood is over here. I know what's going on behind the scenes a bit, so it most certainly is not a "done deal" - not yet. Changing our Constitution - any Constitution - is a big deal.
I admit, I thought it was a fait accompli, but the political landscape in Oz has changed dramatically. Like I said, it's not about the members of the BRF - it's so much more than that. So, most Australians don't care about Camilla and Kate. Charles is not well liked, but I'm not sure it's enough for us to become a republic. With regards to Australia, it's not really personal - in the main - the way it seems to be in Britain.
The BRF cannot live in Oz, or any member of it, which you well know. We have the best of both worlds: we don't pay for the BRF, but we get the stability of a constitutional monarchy. It keeps out corruption at the top.
I appreciate your input on Charles and your right to express that opinion. It's just diverse opinion. But when it comes to expressing an opinion on Australia's position with the monarchy, I disagree based on the fact that I have considerable idea about what the real issues and obstacles are.
There are many things I could say but haven't and I don't intend to. But we do have monarchists in this country - high profile ones too.
Anyway, I just offered a point of view as to why the balcony scene was so slimmed. I'm happy to agree to disagree.
Even though you have prefaced this comment 'with respect', I don't think it's respectful at all. I could equally dismiss all your comment with the reason that, with respect, you are thousands of miles away so what do you know - I'm nearer to the hub of the BRF.
Actually, I meant it. I respect you as a Brit with good opinions. You might be a bit sensitive and I can't help that.
You can't dismiss what is 'fact'. And the fact is that you are not Australian and don't know what is going on here. Well, at least you have shown ignorance to it ... I don't claim to know anything about the British mind. I merely offered an opinion that was based in fact.
You have been arguing as to why Harry was on the balcony. I offered an explanation for it. If you don't agree, that's fine. But there is absolutely no need to invent an argument about the merits of what I know, or not, about the BRF.
You have put it upon yourself to tell me what my countrymen will do and what type of country I live in ('progressive'). Do you not agree that you are being presumptuous? When have I ever stated that I know what the Brits will do and what type of continent it is?
If anyone should take offence, it is I, as Australian. I think I responded with good grace.
I'm just letting you know that decisions for Australia to become a republic will not boil down to personalities of the BRF. If that were the case, then William could save the day. But it is beyond that.
Now, I have never presumed to know if and why the Brits would keep or scrap the monarchy. All I proposed was that if prominent Commonwealth countries become republics, it may reinvigorate republicanism in the UK.
And, for the record, Australia is still very much a conservative country; it is not 'progressive' at all. We have always been irreverent and not inclined to class distinction, however.
What do people expect? Again it doesn't mean his siblings will disappear now it's only they will be seen less it doesn't mean Prince Charles is "evil" that is just the way things work ...I am sure his siblings know that...having touched upon this nonsense can we talk about Camilla's hat ?
By the time Charles is king William possibly will have four kids, then it would make Harry the sixth. So if they are streamlining it doesn't make sense that he is considered as an important part of the RF.
Charles's brothers and cousins may disappear from the limelight in important events but I doubt that they will stop having royal duties, first because it wouldn't make sense to stop being patron of charitites simply because Charles is king and second because they have to maintain the royal duties if they want royal priveleges like living in Kensington palace.
The norwegian royal family has what you could say is the type of monarchy Charles could want, only the monarchs and the heir&wife have royal duties, while the daughter who is fourth only attends very specific events but has no important role. What is interesting is that they have thought about the future and the heir's second son doesn't even have the HRH. This is logical and you can see that they know what kind of monarchy do they want.
In Charles case he won't be able to streamline the monarchy in his reign unless he is king when he is 100 years old and his sibligns and cousing have died already. The only thing he can do is make the rules so the BRF will be able to change during William's. For example by not making Harry's children HRH and only lord/ladies like the Wessex children.
Jane23, so what if anything is approved by Liz, as you call her, many on this board say that she often makes the wrong decisions or no decisions at all. Charles is not particularly popular, he has a huge uphill struggle, and what he did in the 80s horrified a great many of his people. The country was as close as it can get to a republic in recent times when Diana died. The Queen made lots of wrong decisions at that time - so don't try and tell me she always knows what is best for her family and her own country. Harry may be part of Charles vision to bolster his own, and Camilla's popularity - but that's Harry is, a pawn in Charles game - plus, the fact that he is not a direct heir, but was included on the balcony, shows that is what Charles is up to.
June, I'm not sensitive, just very astute when people are trying to sugar coat a barb. The fact is I'm British, and if I follow your logic, I know a lot more than an Australian about how the people in my country feel about the RF and Charles in particular. You seem to be inventing all sorts of things about what I should and shouldn't know and for someone who does not 'know' what goes on in Britain, you sure have a lot to say on the subject. With respect, the decisions about what happens to the BRF here and in Australia can very well boil down to their personalities - it's the very reason why they employ such vast PR to rehabilitate themselves. Diana was loved by Australians but Camilla and Charles I disagree, Australia is much more progressive...sure you have your snobs and haves and have nots but it is not entrenched in centuries of deference as the UK. Jeez, it took an Australian to give second wave feminism momentum here.
@ June The BRF does not cause me sensitivity nor does Charles it wasn't me that he used as a "Brood Mare".
I don't think that you can speak for all Australians either just because you happen to be one of the people who live there. I don't even know what you are talking about anymore. It is not as if Australia would throw out the entire Constitution and start over to remove the British Monarchy as their head of State.
How many people in these Commonwealth countries have you spoken with or do you just think Australia, Canada and New Zealand are the only ones left?
They don't plan on slimming down the Monarchy they just plan on hiding the rest of them from public view. That is why the balcony scene was such a joke. It was all about Charles wanting the limelight. If he could have found a way to keep the Queen off of the balcony he would have done it.
I don't even know who ask you to debate hypotheticals, I was just stating my opinion. I only ask questions to see what your thoughts are but you did not answer them, you just did some kind of Lawyer speak to try and change it. The impression I got was you were speaking for the Commonwealth countries.
It is the cost that people want the BRF to streamline not the people, they need to start spending their own money more and taxpayer money less.
Willy 4 kids really now? As for Harry and his feature as a Royal it's useless to discuss it he could end up being 4th in Line to The Throne (at best) or he could end up being KING or Willy may have no children and his child may take on The Throne who knows ...or maybe by the time Liz and Chuck leave us there will be no Throne to sit on for Willy (or Harry) let alone any "grandchildren" the possibilities are endless...having said that Willy and Harry are a "double act" they are a team Harry ain't going anywhere EVER and Harry's children given that he is Willy's ONLY sibling and will be very near The Throne will be treated with the MAXIMUM respect ...can we leave the whole Harry thing go? Again Ann , Andrew and Edward are out he is in we all knew that was going to happen so I don't get why anyone is surprised or "angry" about it I didn't know Andrew was so beloved hold on Andrew fans he will be on that Balcony very soon given That Liz's birthday is coming up his girls too .
Ps: PRINCE Edward's children are a Prince and a Princess ...in the feature they will be called as such given that that's what they are.
If the Queen&Charles wanted to take the York girls their HRH it's logical to think that Harry's children won't have that treatment. In fact if he has children right now they won't have it, same with William. Although in the second case they will probably gave it to them because William is a heir apparent not like Harry.
No, you are totally wrong the Wessex children are prince/princess simply because they couldn't change the letters as Andrew was against it, it was said that they would always be called lord/lady. But I doubt Edward will want to anger Charles allowing his kids the HRH treatment even though it's their right. Why do you think the York girls are HRH and their Wessex cousins not?
This is not about loving Andrew or any of the future children that someone might have. This is about the Queen having four children and not one. This was the Queen's Diamond Jubilee not Charles's. When you are celebrating 60 years you do not leave out everyone in those years.
In my opinion the future of the Monarchy is not what Charles has in his mind anyway.
PRINCE Edward's children may or not use their Titles when they are old enough his boy may take upon his Title when he dies who knows...as for The York girls that is just hearsay and they are HRH so ...I doubt Harry's children will be treated any differently than The York girls are which is with the maximum respect they have their Title and their grandmother always has them with her .
Ok so why the York girls get one treatment and the Wessex children another?
could it be age differences?
The titles have not garnered respect for the York Sisters, they are vilified and tore apart for everything. Mostly because of who their Mother is. Those two girls do more for charity than Lazy Katie does but the press acts like Lazy is perfect.
This statement contradicts what you said before. Before, you said that Harry was a direct heir. Now you are saying he is not.
I really don't know why you keep going on about Andrew's popularity/lack of popularity - it's immaterial. He is HM's son, he has supported her throughout her reign, if Harry was included, he should have been on that balcony on that occasion as should her other children and grandchildren. And Snokitty, I agree, I do think if Charles could have appeared on the balcony without HM he would have done (HM should watch out for any banana skins on the stairs .....only joking ).
I disagree, Australia is much more progressive...sure you have your snobs and haves and have nots but it is not entrenched in centuries of deference as the UK. Jeez, it took an Australian to give second wave feminism momentum here.
I find it interesting how the BRF gives so much attention to Australia and seem almost paranoid about losing it. I mean, the BRF pays more attention to Australia and Canada than the majority of the other Commonwealth countries.
why not send a member to the different countries to have continual representation and they could sell themselves every day.
the commonwealth countries don't want them there?
Perhaps because no one in the BRF wants to be torn away from the fun of the London nightlife or wants to live in another country? The thing is, I think that if for example Princess Beatrice went to New Zealand and Eugenie lived in Australia and Harry in the Barbados/Jamaica, there would be a more tangible symbol and it would keep them gainfully occupied and away from the golddiggers in Britain. Perhaps the BRF should offer to send a member and see how that works out?
The BRF is full of idiots; forgive me, the thing is that HM can't seem to get it into her head that she is not supposed to meddle in these affairs and another thing is, that HM can't seem to comprehend what her family used to be and what they have become. The Scots will probably break away and I hoep for HM's sake that it's not true that she is scheming to work on preventing the independence movement. If she is caught out, it will trigger a violent backlash and only more countries will want ot break away, resorting to violence if need be.
The titles have not garnered respect for the York Sisters, they are vilified and tore apart for everything. Mostly because of who their Mother is.
Which is why I wish someoen would work on extracting Fergie from their lives because that woman is an albatross. | 2019-04-19T10:56:14Z | http://royalgossip.forumprofi.de/index.php?topic=4648.msg115993 |
Nutfield Youth FC U13s have places available for the 2019/20 season. This will be for boys in school Year 8 from September 2019.
We train on Thursdays and play matches against other clubs on Saturday mornings. Training is all year around, games are played between September and May.
Our coaching is focused on enjoyment, participation, development and team spirit. Looking to improve individual skills, first touch, passing, speed/strength and match play.
The Palace for Life Foundation (charity of CPFC) is offering a 15% discount to EEYFL clubs for their Soccer Schools this summer. The courses include practical and workshop-based sessions to help players develop and all courses come with player feedback, a workbook and lunch included.
quoting EEYFL as a discount code.
AFC Ewell U13s have places available for the 2018/19 season. This will be for boys in school Year 8 from September 2018.
Our current U12s will be moving to 11-a-side so we are looking for players to add to the squad. The team is run by a FA Licenced Level 1 coach. Training is on Tuesday evenings at Blenheim School.
AFC Ewell under 9 Youth have space for 1 promising player for season 2018/19, school year 4 from Sept 2018. You will be joining an established team in our first season at 7 a-side. This season we played in the 2nd group and got promoted to the top group during the season, hence, this opportunity is for a player who is showing good potential as a footballer.
Please contact Tony deVivo on 07881 808303 for more information.
Horley Athletic FC U14's are looking for players to join their existing team in the Premier Division of the Epsom & Ewell League on a Sunday.
We are looking for 2 midfield players and 2 defenders to join our new talented squad (Croygas Royals) for season 2016/2017. We are a friendly club with lovely grounds and facilities. Please come along to one of our training sessions at Croygas Sports Ground, Mollison Drive, Wallington, SM6 9BY, on Tuesdays 7pm - 8pm. All welcome. For further details please see our website: www.pitchero.com/croygasyouthfc.
Alexandra United FC's under 9 team are looking for a Goalkeeper.
The team plays in the Epsom and Ewell Youth Football League. They train on a Monday night at Court Rec and play home games at Alexandra Rec on Saturday mornings, both in Epsom.
Alexandra United is a registered charity (number 1162035) and a Charter Standard club.
Mogador Rangers FC Are looking for players for our under 13 s team for the season 2015/16. If you haven't got into a team at your trials this year then please give us a call. Our under 13 s coach is level 2 trained and is currently completing his UEFA B badge so your training will be at the highest quality.
Call Jack Hadley 07944 179291 or Tony Cowlam 07957 316006. | 2019-04-22T16:20:33Z | http://eeyfl.co.uk/index.php/news/blogger/listings/stephen |
When Robert was at Space Camp, I took the opportunity to visit Kennedy Space Center myself.
I spent roughly half of my time at the Visitor Complex, and the other half taking a bus tour and then exploring the Apollo/Saturn V Center.
I had an amazing time, and here are some of the highlights.
The Rocket Garden: I really enjoyed walking round the “garden” which contains many of the rockets used in the earlier space missions. Seven are real – but were simply not flown – and one is a replica (the Gemini rocket, which ironically is the first one you come to when you enter). I joined one of the 15 minute tours, and was interested to hear the guide talk about the significance of the “space race” during the Cold War: how Americans were genuinely scared of what was flying above them when the Soviets launched the first satellite into space, and then “embarrassed” when Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.
The Astronaut Encounter theatre: I saw veteran astronaut Bob Springer, who served on two Space Shuttle flights (on Discovery in 1989 and Atlantis in 1990: the latter carrying a top-secret cargo). He certainly had “the right stuff”, after being a pilot in Vietnam, then a test pilot, before joining NASA.
He told many fascinating stories about his time in the International Space Station: how he slept for only one and half hours each night (a combination of wanting to experience as much of his time in space as possible, and seeing a sunrise every 90 minutes) and the fact that he slept while floating (when most other astronauts velcroed their sleeping bags onto a wall or ceiling). He also spoke humorously about his suffering from space sickness during his second day in space – he managed to vomit into his sick-bag but the contents rebounded from the far side of the container straight back into his mouth!
The IMAX Theatre: There were two 3D films showing there. I saw Hubble, a 45 minute film narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, containing footage from the final space-shuttle mission to repair the Hubble telescope. The best parts though were the amazing images found by the telescope, with stunning animation of journeys through distant galaxies.
The Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit: this was probably the highlight of my day. It started with a film about the challenges of designing a reusable spacecraft, then another showing the shuttles in action. This film ended with the final landing of the Atlantis, with the commentary saying “Atlantis, welcome home” over the frozen image of the shuttle. The video screen then rose up to reveal that we had actually been looking at the real thing, and the effect was incredibly emotional. The exhibit is tilted on its side and it looks like it is flying in space with its payload doors open and the robot arm extended. (Only the arm is not authentic, the original having been taken back by the Canadian Space Agency). The shuttle was much larger than I expected, and the building was cleverly designed so you could see it from lots of different angles. It was amazing to see such an iconic spacecraft, the one that flew the last ever shuttle mission, with its black scorch marks from re-entry clearly visible on its tiles.
The Shuttle Launch experience: this simulates being launched into space aboard one of the shuttles. It is noisy and the vibrations are quite intense. It starts with the shuttle rotating into a vertical position and ends with the payload doors opening to give the impression that that you are floating in space. I enjoyed it, but would probably give it a miss if time is short.
* the NASA Causeway, which was the closest spot that the public could watch the space shuttle launches. There are panoramic views over the river from here, and you can also see the VAB in the distance.
The bus tour made several stops so we could stretch our legs and take photos.
The tour lasted around two hours – it started at the Visitor Complex and the final destination was the Apollo/Saturn V Center.
This is a huge museum dedicated to the Apollo missions and the Saturn V rockets that took astronauts to the moon.
A fully restored 363-foot Saturn V rocket is the showpiece exhibit. It is suspended on its side, allowing you to walk underneath as well as around it, and it is enormous.
There are lots of other exhibits from the Apollo moon missions, including the Apollo 14 Command Module and some moon rock that you can touch.
There are two very enjoyable theatre shows to see here – the first one is a recreation of the Apollo control room and simulates the final minutes of the Apollo 8 launch , and the second simulates the Apollo 11 moon landing.
It was impossible to see everything properly in just one day, and I would have liked to have spent even more time there.
Daily admission at the Kennedy Space Center costs $50, and this includes the bus tour. The Up-Close tour is an additional $25 per person, plus tax, and $19 per child.
Read about Robert’s trip to Space Camp!
This is amazing, and not just for kids! I would LOVE to go there!
I haven’t been there in ages but had a friend who worked there and gave me a behind the scenes tour of Kennedy Space Center. Great memories!
Loved the part about the Atlantis exhibit. The video and then the real thing! That should be so cool!
It was – I can’t believe how emotional it was, even for a non-American!
I would love to go to the Kennedy Space Center, it looks amazing! I would take my Husband I think he would love it too.
My husband wants to visit the Kennedy Space Center so badly! We planned to go the last time that we were in Orlando and couldn’t talk the kids into giving up a day at Disney. Next time we’ll be going for certain!
It depends how much time you have, especially as it is a good hour and a half drive away from Orlando. But if your kids are old enough (say eight and up) they will love it.
My husband and I spent two days at the Kennedy Space Center a couple of years ago. It was such an awesome experience!
Thanks Constance – yes, it really surprised how much there was to see, and how much i enjoyed it.
I should be working but I’d much rather read a little about your trip to the Space Centre – well done Robert – very well written and so interesting.
Thanks Trish. Good luck with persuading your husband – I am certainly no natural writer, so this may well be my one and only post!
Thanks for sharing, Brian! Sounds like a great place to explore.
Good to her another yet another Ebner family voice. We love space stuff on our travels- the kids seem to be particularly fascinated with anything to do with going to the toilet in space.
I would LOVE to meet a real astronaut. I hear they are generally a really great bunch. I guess you have to be the kind of person who gets on with people if you are going to be trapped in a small space with them for months on end…!
Hi Sarah, wow – there is so much to see and do! I imagine this is the ultimate experience for lots of boys and their dads. You definitely get your money’s worth!
Brian will be delighted! Hope he loves it too. | 2019-04-18T12:53:57Z | https://www.familytraveltimes.co.uk/blog/kennedyspacecenter/ |
Although the menu of many tables and an integral part of the kitchen almost every family, these are the three ingredients that you should definitely avoid in your daily diet.
White bread has almost no nutritional value. People who eat white bread, quickly collect unwanted pounds. Replace white bread whole wheat bread or pumpernickel bread.
In addition it has no nutritional value, seriously endangers your health and is associated with high cholesterol and blood pressure, which in turn can cause serious heart problems. Fried foods adversely affects digestion and digestive problems. Instead of frying, bake your favorite meals in the oven, in their own juice with lots of vegetables.
Just like white bread and white rice is low in nutrients and fiber that contains, among other things, essential for satiety. Also, white rice slows the absorption of sugar and raises blood sugar levels. Prefer to consume brown rice, which abound in antioxidants and vitamins that please the heart. Brown rice contains a lot of fiber. | 2019-04-22T06:20:59Z | http://healthylnb.com/foodandrecipes/an-integral-part-of-the-cuisine-are-ingredients/ |
Will Dean is the founder and CEO of Tough Mudder, the world’s most successful endurance event. Will first came up with the idea for the race while studying for an MBA at Harvard, and despite the protestations of his professors, he decided to put his dream to the test. He’d hoped to get 500 participants to his first ever event — in the end, he got more than 5000.
In just the seven short years since, Tough Mudder has gone from strength to strength, and today has put more than 2 million people through their paces at 150 events worldwide.
In this episode, Will tells us how close he came to tear gassing his participants, why he imported mud into the desert, and how his flash of inspiration came at the hands of an ill-fitting wetsuit. | 2019-04-21T09:16:37Z | https://www.thegentlemansjournal.com/podcasts/the-mark-zuckerberg-of-extreme-sports/ |
Briefly, I should introduce the research councils for those who don’t know what they are and what they do. Unfortunately, with the recent Higher Education and Research Bill , this will be probably be out of date by the time anybody reads it!
Currently, the UK research councils are seven government bodies that fund strategic research and develop training and communities across the whole of academia from arts to zoology. Until the recent bill they were partnered under the banner of Research Councils UK (RCUK), though they (in my experience) act as seven very separate bodies.
Where the research councils are going, under the new banner of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will be interesting to see… but, suffice to say, things may change over the coming years.
Multidisciplinary UK Research and Innovation?
The Technology Touching Life scheme seems to be, to me at least, an attempt by three of the research councils to a) change how the research councils deal with research that crosses between their remit, b) encourage the UK’s already excellent research community in that area and c) address problems and perceived problems of how multidisciplinary research is funded and supported between research councils.
What do I mean by ‘multidisciplinary’, well really the terms cross-, multi- and inter-disciplinary have come to mean the same thing (although, in truth, there are subtle differences and the three form more of a spectrum): research, or researchers, that occurs between or in-between the traditional disciplinary units. A good example is my own field, microscopy and bioimaging requires researchers from optics, computing, chemistry and biology to work together to develop new instruments, analysis algorithms and labels to answer challenging biological questions.
Currently, a major (perceived at least) problem with multidisciplinary projects being submitted for funding by the research councils is the phenomena of proposals ‘slipping through the gaps’ between the councils’ respective remits. Whether or not this is true, it’s something that one hears again and again in academia at the interface of disciplines.
One solution might be to ring fence some money for research just in these areas… sounds great, right? Well, one of the reasons that I personally have high hopes for the Technology Touching Life scheme is that it comes with no research funding: and that’s because throwing money at a such a cross boundaries area won’t change how the community and the councils approach multidisciplinary research and funding.
The Technology Touching Life scheme isn’t about funding, it’s about changing the way that the research councils and research communities work with multidisciplinary projects and researchers. It’s not about only letting only multidisciplinary researchers peer review multidisciplinary proposals, but rather better informing non-multidisciplinary researchers to recognise the impact research could have that transcends the classic disciplinary boundaries.
The challenges of multidisciplinary research and the problems of understanding and perception of such research are constantly reported on and commentaries on such challenges pop up again and again. The Technology Touching Life scheme won’t solve these challenges overnight, but as the research councils begin to morph into their new shape of UKRI, maybe this scheme can help shape them in a way that boosts the UK’s thriving multidisciplinary scientific community.
The ‘Maxwell Report’, or ‘The Importance of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research to Health and Life Sciences’ by Professor Patrick Maxwell, was an independent review published in 2014 by the EPSRC discussing the relationship between the engineering and physical sciences and health and life sciences . The review considered how multidisciplinary institutes were structured, what research challenges exist at the interface and what role physical sciences have played and will play in life science research.
The ‘Nurse Report’, or ‘Ensuring a Successful Research Endeavour: Review of the UK Research Councils’ by Sir Paul Nurse in 2015, was a review produced for government about the past, current and future roles of the research councils in enabling the world-class research that happens across the UK . It is this report that has lead to the Higher Education and Research Bill.
And, because of these reports and other factors, the research councils at the engineering and physical sciences boundary with health and life sciences have chosen to look at how they enable the UK’s multidisciplinary research in this area and what they can do to further that support. | 2019-04-22T20:35:58Z | https://www.chasnelson.co.uk/2017/06/23/technology-touching-life-multidisciplinary-uk-research-and-innovation/ |
“Vision 2018” defines 8 objectives drawn up after consulting all the stakeholders in inland navigation.
Because of the extent of their implications and their ambitious nature, the follow-through of some of these objectives could continue beyond 2018.
By 2018, inland navigation should have consolidated its positioning as a safe mode of transport, and the reliability of river transport services should have progressed in keeping with market demands.
Provision of single standards for modernised technical prescriptions suited to inland navigation vessels for inland navigation on the Rhine and elsewhere in Europe.
Support for inland navigation businesses in optimising safety and risk management, with a view to strengthening the shipping industry’s responsibility for safety measures and to being able to reduce the number of prescriptions in the long term.
Quality river information services making use of innovative technologies will be used by the shipping industry in order to both improve the safety of inland navigation and take more account of logistics aspects and ecological concerns.
By 2018, inland navigation should have an employment market meeting the growing need for a qualified work force and ensuring renewal of the work force in river transport jobs in the long term.
Modernisation of training courses and qualifications for crew members so that attractiveness of jobs in inland navigation increases in order to ensure sufficient available labour.
Statement of language requirements in order to contribute to an improvement in communication and hence also in the safety of inland navigation.
By 2018, inland navigation should be making an even more significant contribution to combating global warming by reducing both its fuel consumption and its emissions of greenhouse gases.
Definition and quantification of the long-term objectives of reducing fuel consumption and emissions of greenhouse gases for inland navigation on the Rhine and elsewhere in Europe with a view to concerted action by the shipping industry, the States, international organisations and other stakeholders.
Encouragement for the efforts made by inland navigation on the Rhine and elsewhere in Europe to reduce its fuel consumption and its greenhouse gases as part of concerted action by all the stakeholders based, inter alia, on the CCNR’s CO2 and fuel strategy.
By 2018, inland navigation should be contributing even more significantly to preserving air and water quality by reducing even further the emissions of pollutants caused by propulsion and by optimising the management of cargo residues.
Encouragement for innovation in favour of alternative fuels and forms of energy, particularly LNG, while maintaining safety conditions.
Improvement of conditions enabling inland navigation on the Rhine and elsewhere in Europe to reduce its emissions of pollutant gases and particles.
Development of the network of CDNI waste disposal points so that waste disposal becomes an everyday practice. Definition of a concept for treating gaseous residues of liquid cargoes, together with a regulatory framework.
By 2018, the infrastructures and operating methods should have been optimised, so that inland navigation and navigable waterways are in a position to guarantee their reliability and their performance levels even when adaptation is necessary in the future because of changes in environmental conditions.
Constant improvement in infrastructure performance in order to improve the safety and efficiency of navigation on the Rhine even more.
Improvement in international coordination with a view to planning and the integrated use of the Rhine and other navigable waterways in Europe.
By 2018, inland navigation should have consolidated its positioning within logistics chains for traffic both in the hinterlands of seaports and throughout the continent using corridors with relevance for inland waterway transport.
Improvement in physical, electronic and organisational links with other modes of transport in the framework of the European multimodal transport corridors so that inland navigation is better integrated in logistics chains. Inland navigation will then be in a position to attract more of the flow of goods that is generated by growth in cargo volumes handled in seaports.
Integration of navigation on the Rhine in a transboundary corridor management.
By 2018, the application of the appropriate reference social conditions which could substantially promote the attractiveness of jobs in inland navigation ought to be optimised.
Guarantee for boatmen of a sufficient level of legal certainty for social protection in order to take into account the mobile nature of their professional activity.
Assurance of actual compliance with the applicable social conditions through the introduction of appropriate instruments making use of the potential of innovative technologies, such as the electronic tachograph and the electronic service record book.
By 2018, inland navigation ought to have the benefit of the greater availability of relevant, reliable information on waterways as a transport system.
Creation of an observatory of inland navigation in Europe in order to draw up a comprehensive panorama of inland navigation, meet the specific information requirements of public and private stakeholders in inland navigation and the general public, and provide a platform for the exchange of data.
Improvement in communication on transport safety, the reliability of inland navigation on the Rhine and elsewhere, and impact studies of technical prescriptions and the effects on climate change, directed more particularly at political and economic decision-makers and administrations. | 2019-04-20T18:43:45Z | https://www.inland-navigation.org/observatory/sustainability-policies/vision-2018/objectives-of-vision-2018/ |
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Hosts and home performance experts, Grace and Corbett Lunsford, test and diagnose a recently rehabbed, big, beautiful house in Chicago, IL that now has unexpected comfort and moisture issues, leaving the homeowner not knowing whom to trust. The owner's mother in-law room is never comfortable and moisture beads off the new kitchen windows. Corbett and Grace's testing reveals a surprising answer and puts the concepts of "improved" HVAC on its head. | 2019-04-22T22:42:30Z | https://pbs.klrn.org/Programming/ViewProgram.aspx?ProgramID=281270 |
Prices for construction materials inched down in December, closing out a year of relatively subdued changes in both materials costs and bid prices, according to an analysis of new federal figures released today by the Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials said the price decline was likely to be temporary, noting that the vast majority of contractors predict materials prices will rise in 2013.
For the 12 months ending in December, the producer price index for all construction inputs rose 1.3%, similar to what contractors are estimated to charge for new nonresidential buildings, Simonson noted. The index for new school buildings rose 1.1%; new industrial and office construction, 1.4%; and new warehouses, 2.6%. Materials costs rose more than 5% in both 2010 and 2011, while bid prices were virtually unchanged in 2010 and rose between 2.9 and 4.8% in 2011, depending on building type, Simonson added.
The construction economist attributed the mild annual materials price increase to moderation in fuel, metals and paving prices, which offset steeper jumps in several materials used in residential building. The index for steel mill products fell 7.9% in 2012 after leaping more than 12% in both 2010 and 2011. The index for aluminum mill shapes decreased 1.6%, while copper and brass mill shapes increased 1%. Diesel prices climbed 1.8%, the smallest amount since 2008. The indexes for concrete products rose 2.4% and asphalt paving mixtures and blocks, 4.4%.
In contrast, the index for gypsum products soared 14.0%, which Simonson said reflected the demand from new apartment and home construction, along with renovations of office and retail space. Other building products with substantial price increases included lumber and plywood, 10.8%; architectural coatings, such as paint, 10.1%; insulation materials, 5.1%; and plastic construction products, 4.7%.
Association officials noted that 90% of contractors surveyed for the group’s 2013 Construction Hiring and Business Outlook predict materials prices will increase in 2013. They added that an increasing number of contractors will try to pass on some of those price increases to customers this year, noting that 29% report they will try to raise bid prices this year, compared to only 15% that raised prices in 2012.
Click here to view December 2012 PPI table. | 2019-04-25T01:13:43Z | https://www.ecmweb.com/contractor/construction-material-prices-down-slightly-between-november-and-december |
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Here are some amusing shop names OurNottinghamshire contributors have spotted whilst out and about in Nottinghamshire.
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When “Pink Moon,” Nick Drake’s final album, hit the shelves in 1972, there was barely a murmur in the market. Just like his last two records, it wasn’t selling. Not long after it came out, Drake apparently showed up at the Notting Hill flat of his manager, Joe Boyd, and demanded to know why his music wasn’t achieving the success he hoped it would. “I don’t understand… People say I’m great and I’ve got nothing to show for it.” He said, lamenting the crushing fact that another album had flopped. Boyd tried to suggest he play some live shows and record some new songs, but nothing came of it.
Maybe it was his crippling social anxiety or his refusal to play live promotional shows for his albums, but Nick Drake just couldn’t manage to bring his internal and external worlds into harmony. In the next few years after “Pink Moon,” the two would only drift farther apart, and his enchanting music became a distinct pleasure only for those lucky enough to have bought his albums in the late 60s and early 70s. For the rest of us he seemed doomed to fade away and disappear into the folds of time.
Fast forward 25 years later to a Volkswagen advertisement campaign, and you (and millions of others) could suddenly hear the title track from “Pink Moon” soundtrack a lovely country drive in a VW Cabriolet. It’s almost too amazing to comprehend when you watch it, but it’s all there: Drake’s soothing voice, his spectral guitar, the romantic sweep of the camera and a magical night time drive under the stars. Drake’s music had finally, against all odds, returned from the fathomless realms of obscurity. Prior to the advertisement, the sales of “Pink Moon” in the U.S. had been a measly 6,000 copies. In 2000 that number jumped to 74,000. Something had shifted over the last few decades, and the world was beginning to wake up to Nick Drake.
Yet Nick Drake would never know about the eventual success of his music. In November 1974 he died of an overdose antidepressant medication at his parent’s home in rural Warwickshire, his music loved (though deeply) by only a few. Those who were close to him mourned his passing and the loss of a musical voice that was as unique as they come.
Between his death and the VW commercial, things slowly began to change. Artists began citing Nick Drake as an influence. “Life in a Northern Town,” the hit song by The Dream Academy, was written as an elegy to him. Music lovers spread the word about his albums. Yet even as compilations and outtakes were released over the years, the enigma that was Nick Drake still seemed shrouded in mystery. With people aching to understand him through his songs, “Pink Moon” remained the last artistic statement of a man that would become an archetype of the ill-fated romantic artist, one so ethereal he hardly seemed to belong in this world.
There are many reasons the album is so well loved. “Pink Moon” captures the mood and mystique of Nick Drake better than any other record he made. His previous two studio albums, the stellar “Five Leaves Left” and “Bryter Layter” were excellent efforts, but rested their laurels on a full sound, with Drake’s deft fingerpicking accompanied by everything from buoyant piano chords to warm string sections. On “Pink Moon,” Nick elected to leave his songs bare, with only a single acoustic guitar accompanying his voice, save the spare, overdubbed piano riff that appears near the end of the title track.
Listening to the album, I feel that Drake’s songs were truly at home in this format. His masterful fingerpicking style, knowledge of alternate tunings, and folk sensibilities are all given ample room to breathe on “Pink Moon,” and the tracks are all the better for it. The tremble of his voice and the buzzing guitar on “Know” make you feel like Drake is lounging in the room with you, perhaps serenading himself in the afternoon sun. “From the Morning” arrives sparkling in the wind, the exquisite, tender swan song of a tragically misunderstood artist. Looking back through the mists of time, the song makes me ache, as if for a second I could actually touch the elemental parts that made up his world, perhaps say one word to him or watch his fingers gently dance upon the neck of his guitar.
At the time of the release of “Pink Moon,” critics seemed to enjoy the majority of the songs, but most found the album to be somewhat impenetrable, the output of an inaccessible and increasingly esoteric artist. Many cited his distant persona, obscure lyrics, and the fact that he refused to play any concerts as reasons they couldn’t get behind the record. Not many, even in his day, seemed to understand him.
One song that didn’t appear on any of his studio albums, but stands out as a key song in Drake’s mythology, is “Magic,” or “Made to Love Magic,” which appeared on the 2004 compilation also called “Made to Love Magic.” It was originally recorded for “Five Leaves Left” but didn’t make it to the final cut. It then appeared on “Time of No Reply,” a 1986 release of Nick Drake outtakes. For the 2004 version, the song was sped up and recorded with a string arrangement originally written in 1969 by Robert Kirby. The results are startling. Part elegy for the romantic condition and part spiraling affirmation of the poet’s heart, his lyrics have a pristine, prophetic quality to them, as if he knew his own fate even at the hopeful beginnings of his musical career.
I like to imagine his internal world was so beautiful, so alive with wonder and magic, that he became completely closed off from the external one. Communication is inherently difficult, and for Drake it would become excruciating to even try. Legend goes that people would see him at parties hunched up against the wall with his head down, then look again to find him gone without a word. Other times he would leave for weeks at a time without telling anyone where he was going. Later on there were the long, isolated drives he would take from his parent’s home and the eventual phone call for help when he ran out of gas, too overwhelmed by anxiety to even buy fuel. At home, though, as his miraculous hands gliding across the guitar, he was a technical wizard and a poetic genius, gifted beyond measure.
That romantic figure, exemplified by Drake, stands out in one’s mind like that solitary figure in the famous painting “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog,” standing poised on a rock and staring into the abyss. Inexorably alone, he is the individual who senses his isolation like the thick mist that surrounds him. Many experience this, though perhaps not as acutely as Drake. The tragedy is that our hero was soon raised into glorious heights long after he left this world, when the real sense of losing a once-in-a-generation talent sets in.
Every person who loves Drake and his music, both symbolically and actually, probably identify with that tragic isolation. They have felt the roar of disenchantment and frustration as the world seems to carelessly cycle around them, and in Drake have found their idol. The sublime beauty of his internal world informs their own, and in his songs they can find solace in knowing someone else felt their pain and expressed it with such charm and enchantment.
Listening to “Pink Moon” and Drake’s other albums, I get the sense that there was always a healthy dose of wonder and magic in his world too, as much or more than the pain and disillusionment. His songs are so vibrant as to make you gasp with delight, chase the moon rising up over the hills and glide towards the distant horizon where your lover is waiting for you. Even the saddest of his songs are gorgeous.
Perhaps he could only bear to live in this cold world so long, leaving us small pieces of magic to listen to. Speaking for Nick Drake’s now millions of fans, we’re all very glad he did. | 2019-04-23T16:55:14Z | https://lemonwire.com/2018/11/23/classic-vinyl-pink-moon-by-nick-drake/ |
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Poly rattan wicker furniture is the abbreviation of polyethylene (PE) rattan wicker furniture, which implies the wicker furniture produced using PE rattan. This is the most well-known kind of artificial rattan that is broadly used to weave wicker furniture. Poly rattan wicker furniture can withstand the outside conditions while being exposed directly, which makes it perfect to be used as outdoor furniture. It will continue looking lovely for a significantly long time. ATC Furniture is glad to be one of the most trusted PE rattan wicker furniture companies in Vietnam. Our furniture is varied from sofas, dining tables with chairs, hammock hanging chairs, daybeds, and so on, which are produced using only qualified materials. | 2019-04-22T11:02:14Z | https://atc-craft.com/tag/poly-rattan-wicker-furniture/ |
A resident of Ridge Avenue in Ben Avon reported a disturbance on Jan. 28.
A resident of Plumer Avenue in Emsworth reported disorderly conduct on Jan. 28.
On Jan. 29, a business on Ben Avon Heights Road in Ohio Township reported theft. | 2019-04-23T08:37:33Z | http://thecitizen.us/article/ohio-twp-police-news-81 |
Comfrey leaf fritters are delicious when cooked properly. I particularly like the sweet version as it especially suits the soft nature of comfrey. The secret is to have a really light, crispy tempura batter on the outside with the softness of the comfrey on the inside. There are two ways to do make comfrey leaf fritters depending whether you are going to serve them as a starter or as a dessert.The method is the same but there is one ingredient change, the type of fizzy liquid that you use.
For sweet: you can use lemonade or ginger beer.
First thing is to chill all your ingredients. The best batter is made when everything is cold. While they are chilling, rinse your comfrey leaves and buds in a colander.
Then add your oil to a saucepan in the ratio of 9 parts of sunflower oil to one part of sesame oil. This gives a lovely light oil which cooks at higher temperatures and helps to avoid the fritters from being at all greasy.
Heat the oil to 180˚C (356˚F). Low temperatures will result in greasier stodgy fritters. Line a shallow flan dish or plate with some paper kitchen towel, and put it on a flat surface near to the stove and have a pair of cooking tongs or a slotted spoon to hand.
Remove the chilled flour and cornflour from the fridge and put into a mixing bowl.
Add the chilled fizzy liquid.
Stir the mix together really quickly in one minute using either a spoon or, traditionally, chopsticks!
Do not worry about leaving any lumps. It’s more important not to over stir or the mix will become glutenous and lose it’s light crisp texture.
Get your comfrey leaves near at hand.
A leaf at a time, dip the leaves in the batter and fry quickly for literally a minute each side.
Remove from the oil as soon as they start to slightly brown. These were a little overdone.
If you’ve heard lots of scare stories about comfrey and its PA content, please read this article. | 2019-04-19T12:39:26Z | http://monicawilde.com/comfrey-leaf-fritters/ |
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“Finally, these massive turbines too often destroy the environment in the name of saving the environment… These are not your grandma’s windmills. They are taller than the Statue of Liberty, their blades are as long as a football field, and their blinking lights can be seen for twenty miles. … Apparently eagle killing has gotten so commonplace that the U.S. Department of Interior will grant wind developers hunting licenses for eagles. In Goodhue County, Minnesota, a company wants to build 48 turbines on 50 square miles of land and, to do that, it has applied for an ‘eagle take’ permit which will allow it to kill a certain number of eagles before facing penalties.
Congress should stop the “Big Wind” gravy train. Subsidies for developers of huge wind turbines will cost taxpayers $14 billion over five years, between 2009 and 2013, according to the Joint Tax Committee and the Treasury Department. This is more than the special tax breaks for “Big Oil,” which Congress should also end.
$6 billion of these “Big Wind” subsidies will come from the Production Tax Credit for renewable energy, which Congress “temporarily” enacted in 1992. The prospect of its expiration at the end of this year has filled the Capitol with lobbyists hired by investors wealthy enough to profit from the tax breaks. President Obama wants to make the credits permanent. According to the Wall Street Journal, this is a “make or break moment” for wind power companies.
There are three reasons why “Big Wind” subsidies should go the way of the $5 billion annual ethanol subsidy, which Congress allowed to expire last year.
Second, wind turbines produce a relatively puny amount of expensive, unreliable electricity. Wind produces 2.3% of our electricity, less than 8 percent of our pollution-free electricity. One alternative is natural gas: abundant, cheap, and very clean. Another alternative is nuclear. Reactors power our Navy and produce 70 percent of our pollution-free electricity. Using windmills to power a country that uses one fourth of the world’s electricity would be the energy equivalent of going to war in sailboats.
Let’s consider these three arguments, one by one.
For all we hear about “Big Oil,” you may be surprised to learn that special tax breaks for “Big Wind” are greater. During the five years from 2009 to 2013, federal subsidies for “Big Wind” equal $14 billion. Here I am only counting the Production Tax Credit and the cash grants that the 2009 stimulus law offered to wind developers in lieu of the tax credit.
According to the president’s new budget, “Big Oil” receives multiple tax subsidies. Doing away with them would save about $4.7 billion in fiscal year 2013 or about $22 billion over five years, it says. So far it sounds like “Big Oil,” with $22 billion, is bigger in subsidies than “Big Wind” with $14 billion.
But here’s the catch: Many of these subsidies that the president is attacking oil companies for receiving are regular tax provisions that are the same or similar to those other industries receive. For example, Xerox, Microsoft, and Caterpillar all benefit from tax provisions like the manufacturing tax credit, amortization, or depreciation of used equipment that the president is counting as “Big Oil” subsidies.
And, of course, wind energy companies also benefit from many similar tax provisions. But the production tax credit that benefits wind is in addition to regular tax code provisions that benefit many companies. So the only way to make a fair comparison is to look only at subsidies that mostly benefit only oil or wind, and by that measure, wind gets more breaks than oil.
The Heritage Foundation has done an analysis showing that if Big Oil received the same type of production tax credit as Big Wind, then the taxpayer would be paying Big Oil about $50 per barrel of oil, when adjusted for today’s oil prices.
And, according to a 2008 Energy Information Administration report, Big Wind received an $18.82 federal subsidy per megawatt hour, 25 times as much per megawatt hour as subsidies for all other forms of electricity production combined.
The Production Tax Credit first became law in 1992. Its goal was to jumpstart renewable energy production. While it is advertised as a tax credit for renewable energy, 75 percent of the credit goes to wind developers, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation.
Here is how it works. For every kilowatt hour of electricity produced from wind, turbine owners receive 2.2 cents in a tax credit. For example, if a Texas utility buys electricity from a wind developer at 6 cents per kilowatt hour, the federal taxpayer will pay the developer another 2.2 cents per kilowatt hour. This 2.2 cents subsidy continues for the first ten years that the turbine is in service. And this 2.2 cents credit is worth 3.4 cents in cash savings on the tax return of a wealthy investor.
Wind developers often sell their tax credits to Wall Street banks or big corporations or other investors who have large incomes. They create what is called a “tax equity” deal in order to lower or eliminate taxes. This is the scheme that our president, who is championing “economic fairness,” would like to make permanent.
Energy expert Daniel Yergin says that the price of oil during 2011, when adjusted for inflation, is higher than at any time since 1860. It therefore makes no sense to give special tax breaks to “Big Oil.” Neither does it make sense to extend special tax breaks to “Big Wind,” a mature technology. For every $3 saved by eliminating these wasteful subsidies, I would spend $2 to reduce the federal debt and $1 to double research for new forms of cheap, clean energy for our country.
The second problem with electricity produced from wind is that there is not much of it, and since the wind blows when it wants to, and, for the most part, can’t be stored, it is not reliable.
For this reason, sometimes the claims in newspapers about how much electricity wind turbines produce are misleading because of the difference between the capacity of an energy plant and its actual production. Daniel Yergin says that U.S. installed capacity for windpower grew at an average annual rate of 40 percent between 2005 and 2009. In terms of absolute capacity, Yergin writes in his book The Quest, that growth in capacity was equivalent to adding 25 new nuclear reactors. But, Yergin writes, in terms of actual generation of electricity—it was more like adding nine reactors. This is because nuclear plants operate 90 percent of the time while wind turbines operate about one third of the time.
As an example, the Tennessee Valley Authority constructed a 29-megawatt wind farm at Buffalo Mountain at a cost of $60 million. It is the only wind farm in the Southeast. Now you’ll read in the papers about a 29-megawatt wind farm, but that’s not its real output. In practice, Buffalo Mountain has only generated electricity 19 percent of the time, since the wind doesn’t blow very much in the Southeast. So this wind farm, sounding like a 29 megawatt power plant, only generates six megawatts. TVA considers Buffalo Mountain to be a failed experiment. In fact, looking for wind power in the Southeast is a little like looking for hydropower in the desert. So, one problem with the wind subsidy is that it has encouraged developers to build wind projects in places where the wind doesn’t blow.
Finally, there is question of whether in the name of saving the environment, wind turbines are destroying the environment. These are not your grandma’s windmills. They are taller than the Statue of Liberty, their blades are as long as a football field, and their blinking lights can be seen for twenty miles. Not everyone agrees with T. Boone Pickens that they are ugly but, when these towers move from the television advertisements into your neighborhood, you might agree with Mr. Pickens.
“Energy sprawl” is the term conservation groups use to describe the march of 45-story wind turbines onto the landscape of “America, the Beautiful.” If the United States generated 20 percent of our electricity from wind, as some have suggested, that would cover an area the size of West Virginia with 186,000 wind turbines. It would also be necessary to build 12,000 miles of transmission lines. The late Senator Ted Kennedy and his successor Senator Scott Brown have complained about how a wind farm the size of Manhattan Island will clutter the ocean landscape around Nantucket Island.
Theodore Roosevelt was our greatest conservationist president, and his greatest passion was for birds. Birds must think that wind turbines are Cuisinarts in the sky.
Last month, two golden eagles were found dead at California’s Pine Tree wind farm, bringing the total count of dead golden eagles at that wind farm to eight carcasses. And the Los Angeles Times reports that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service “has determined that the six golden eagles found dead earlier at the 2-year-old wind farm in Kern County were struck by blades from some of the 90 turbines spread across 8,000 acres at the site.” That puts the death rate per turbine at the Pine Tree wind farm three times higher than at California's Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area, which has 5,000 turbines that kill 67 golden eagles each year.
Apparently eagle killing has gotten so commonplace that the U.S. Department of Interior will grant wind developers hunting licenses for eagles. In Goodhue County, Minnesota, a company wants to build 48 turbines on 50 square miles of land and, to do that, it has applied for an “eagle take” permit which will allow it to kill a certain number of eagles before facing penalties.
I have not figured out how such a hunting license squares with federal laws that will put you in prison or fine you if you kill migratory birds or eagles. Nor have I figured out how it squares with the Fish and Wildlife Service fining Exxon $600,000 in 2009 when oil development harmed protected birds. Do not the same laws protecting birds apply both to “Big Wind” and “Big Oil”?
Surely there are appropriate places for wind power in a country that needs clean electricity and that has learned the value of a diverse of set of energy sources. But if reliable, cheap and clean electricity without energy sprawl is the goal, then four nuclear reactors—each occupying one square mile—would equal the production of a row of 50-story wind turbines strung the entire length of the 2,178-mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. And according to Benjamin Zycher at the American Enterprise Institute, a 1,000-megawatt natural gas power plant would take up 15 acres while a comparable wind farm would take up 48,000 to 60,000 acres. And, of course, even if you built all those turbines, you would still need the nuclear or gas plants for when the wind doesn’t blow.
Our energy policy should be, first, to double the $5 billion federal energy budget for research on new forms of clean, cheap, reliable energy. I am talking about the 500-mile battery for electric cars; commercial uses of carbon captured from coal plants; solar power installed at less than $1 per watt; or offshore wind turbines.
Second, we should strictly limit a handful of jumpstart research and development projects to take new technologies from the R&D phase to the commercial phase. I am thinking here of projects like ARPA-E, modeled after the Defense Department’s DARPA that led to the Internet, stealth and other remarkable technologies. Or the five-year program for small modular nuclear reactors. Third, we should end wasteful, long-term special tax breaks such as those for “Big Oil” and “Big Wind.” The savings from ending those subsides should be used to double clean energy research and to reduce our federal debt.
For a strong country, we need large amounts of cheap, reliable clean energy and we need a balanced budget. This is an energy policy that can help us do both. | 2019-04-22T18:29:13Z | https://www.alexander.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=C4F65C30-B918-40A6-8EEE-D5A4EE8D81AF |
Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says Canada has not been asked to contribute to any kind of military buildup around Korea. He says the Liberal government prefers to concentrate on diplomacy and would not discuss the country's obligations under the armistice that ended the first Korean War in 1953.
Should the tense standoff on the Korean Peninsula escalate into war, the United Nations could come calling on Canada for a military commitment.
There are reports that China has put its air force units along the North Korean border on heightened alert, and South Korea has moved its military to a heightened state of readiness over the possibility that the regime in Pyongyang will conduct another missile test, following a failed attempt last week.
China quickly denied the reports on Friday, but the buildup, which multiple media reports say could also include Russian forces, comes as a U.S. aircraft carrier strike force now moves towards Korean waters.
Rear Admiral Jim Kilby, commander of Carrier Strike Group One posted the news on social media. Last week, the White House said the task force was on its way to Korean waters when it, in fact, was not.
Canada fought under the UN in the Korean War and is part of an organization known as the United Nations Command, or UNC, which came out of the 1953 armistice that ended three years of brutal fighting between North and South Korea.
There was never a formal peace treaty and the two nations have remained technically at war for over six decades.
North Korea warns of nuclear attack on U.S.
"Diplomacy is the one thing we need to focus on first, because at the end of the day you could be putting soldiers' lives at risk," Sajjan said from Mumbai, India, in a conference call with reporters in Ottawa.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently expressed concern about what North Korean leader Kim Jong-un might do next.
"We are worried about the dangerous and unstable North Korean regime — period," Trudeau said on April 10 while in Normandy, concluding visits to Canadian First and Second World War battlefields.
"This rogue regime in North Korea is a danger not only to the immediate region but the entire world," Trudeau said.
Sajjan said he has been in close touch with U.S. Defence Secretary James Mattis and they spoke specifically about the escalating tensions in Korea.
If the shooting starts, the United States-South Korea Combined Forces Command would take the lead in the initial stage of fighting, but policy documents prepared for former defence minister Peter MacKay in 2010 say reinforcements could be assembled using the existing, decades-old UN framework.
"The UNC structure would be used as a means of force-generating, and receiving and tasking any contributions that UNC sending states may choose to contribute in the event of a crisis," said the document, originally obtained and published by The Canadian Press.
The Department of National Defence confirmed on Friday that Canada remains part of the organization because it was one of the original 17 countries that took part in the fighting.
Six members of the Canadian Armed Forces are currently serving with the UNC.
But unlike NATO, there is no binding, clear-cut obligation for Canada to join a potential military action in Korea.
Sajjan said National Defence has, regardless of the situation, "done prudent planning" for possible crises.
"Our military will always play a responsible role, and the responsible role right now is to allow diplomacy to work," Sajjan said. "And, I'm very happy to see China, who has significant influence over North Korea, is actually taking concrete efforts in this regard."
Over the past few weeks, in response to the rising rhetoric of U.S. President Donald Trump, Chinese media has suggested Beijing has the option of halting crude oil shipments to North Korea — something that would put enormous pressure on Kim's regime. But a major Chinese newspaper said on Friday that China, by itself, cannot force North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.
Trump ratcheted up the pressure on China with a Tweet Friday morning that read: "China is very much the economic lifeline to North Korea so, while nothing is easy, if they want to solve the North Korean problem, they will." | 2019-04-20T23:57:09Z | https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/korea-canada-war-1.4080214 |
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After four years of intense litigation, Klein Frank, P.C. is pleased to announce that we have received a verdict of $18.78 million in the case of Dawson v. Fluor Intercontinental. This case, which was heard in the Dallas County District Court, arose from the negligence of a military contractor in Baghdad, Iraq.
The plaintiff, David Dawson, suffered burns to over 65 percent of his body when he went to take a shower in his compound. He alleged that the maintenance supervisor for Fluor Intercontinental Inc. knew that there had been numerous complaints in the past about extremely hot water, but that the problem was never corrected. Although the maintenance supervisor knew the water heater should have been set at 120 degrees, he ordered it set at 158 degrees. However, with the way the water heater cycled, the water coming from the showerhead could have been as hot as 200 degrees.
Mr. Dawson went into cardiac arrest twice while on the way to emergency care, and was left in need of skin grafts. His body is now severely scarred and, because his burned areas do not have sweat glands, he will have difficulty regulating his body temperature. He will require additional surgeries in the future to maintain, readjust, and repair his scar tissue.
In order to prepare for the case, Klein Frank, P.C. had to locate witnesses in Iraq during the war and sought permission from the Foreign Ministry of Iraq to conduct the first depositions there for a U.S. Court. | 2019-04-21T10:03:51Z | https://www.lawcolorado.net/blog/2012/june/-18-78m-verdict-reached-in-dawson-v-fluor/ |
What Drives Quality In Distance Learning Programs? A Practitioner Inquiry.
Recent academic research shows a relationship between the perceived quality of distance learning programs and certain types of on-line activity. These include "verbal immediacy behavior" on the part of online faculty, aggressive moderation of online discussions, the mix and scheduling of synchronous and asynchronous sessions, and so on. During this session, a panel of active practitioners will discuss these reports and reflect on their own experience in higher education distance learning programs. Some panel members will be joining the session via Adobe Connect. | 2019-04-24T16:33:52Z | https://speakerrate.com/talks/4129-what-drives-quality-in-distance-learning-programs-a-practitioner-inquiry |
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What enforcement is needed for China to keep to a trade deal with US?
InterDigital CEO Bill Merritt on the Trump administration's trade negotiations with China.
President Trump is expected to announce plans for an upcoming summit with China’s President Xi Jinping on Thursday during his meeting at the White House with the Chinese leader’s special envoy Vice Premier Liu He.
Trump last month indicated that he was in “no rush” to complete a trade deal with China, insisting that any deal must include protection for intellectual property (IP). Chinese companies talk a good game about respect for IP. However, the challenge is getting the Chinese to move from words to actions and finding an enforcement mechanism that can guarantee that Chinese companies walk the talk.
My company is typically listed among the top three or four contributors to wireless standards like 5G, which we’re very proud of. And yet, here’s our tally of getting top global wireless players to sign fair licenses: of the non-Chinese companies that make smartphones, nine out of ten are current licensees, including Apple since before they even made phones and Samsung for more than twenty years. Of the top ten Chinese companies that make smartphones, zero out of 10 are currently licensed. Zero.
IP has been a centerpiece of the Trump administration’s efforts to reshape trade with China. And rightly so: manufacturing and supply chains can be drivers of jobs and value, and access to competitive goods can be great for consumers, but intellectual property – design, innovation, research and development – is the catalyst that drives all of those.
In the wireless industry, the centerpiece for a lot of trade angst these days, this is especially true. Every year, about $20 billion of research worldwide drives standards, like 5G, that underpin $400 billion in smartphone sales, $30 billion in network equipment sales, untold numbers of jobs and dollars in app development, and more than $2 trillion in worldwide operator revenues. And Chinese companies have become significant players in wireless research, especially in the last decade where they’ve joined the ranks of the major standards contributors.
China needs to realize and accept that respect for IP goes both ways. You can’t respect and highlight your own IP, and simultaneously disrespect the IP of others. You can’t uphold certain practices with the goal of getting paid royalties, and denigrate those same practices when you’re expected to have to pay.
For example, some Chinese companies have demanded in court that companies that owe them a license meet in arbitration, but have resisted arbitration as a form of settling conflicts when they find themselves as the licensee. Chinese companies have argued that European and American courts should only set rates for sales in those countries, but have filed suit in China to have Chinese regional courts set rates for the entire world.
The IP issue is not about talk. Xi Jinping signed an accord with the Obama administration to prevent IP theft in 2015, and has talked repeatedly about the importance of protecting intellectual property and punishing infringers. But without fair compensation, unchecked theft of American innovation by bold Chinese manufacturers continues. These companies are unfairly and illegally using patented technology to build smartphones and other gadgets – without regard for the long-accepted and successful global trade laws that have made those industries successful.
It's clear that Trump is committed to putting the interests of American workers first and ensuring that China respects IP. Trump tweeted recently about the importance of 5G and beyond, and said that he wanted U.S. companies to step up and win through competition … not exclusion. Very fair, and very true. But the playing field needs to be level.
What we need is not promises and guarantees, but concrete benchmarks and steps that can ensure that Chinese companies are playing by global rules if they are going to access global markets. Those benchmarks should include actually signing licenses with major patent holders and committing to binding arbitration to set license terms when the companies cannot agree.
Until we have those benchmarks, and they apply to all level of intellectual property misdeeds, from theft of brands and designs to implementation of technologies with no regard for fair licensing, we run the risk of simply getting still more words, and precious little action.
William J. Merritt is president and CEO of InterDigital, a mobile technology company that designs and develops advanced technologies that enable and enhance mobile communications and capabilities. | 2019-04-23T01:04:36Z | https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/trump-chinas-liu-to-meet-less-talk-more-action-needed-from-beijing-on-ip |
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Capcom is on a roll with Resident Evil news from the Tokyo Game Show, as they just announced the latest entry in their original CG animated film collection which will be titled, Biohazard: Vendetta.
Biohazard: Vendetta will be a feature-length film with an original story and will center around long-time Resident Evil favorites, Chris Redfield, Rebecca Chambers, and Leon Kennedy.
The film will be directed by Takanori Tsujimoto who is known for his work on Patlabor: The Next Generation, with a script by Makoto Fukami known for Psycho-Pass and School-Live!, and will feature the musical stylings of Kenji Kawai known for Patlabor and Ghost in the Shell. Notably, Takashi Shimizu who is reknown for creating Ju-on (The Grudge), is credited as executive producer.
The film is scheduled for release in Japan in Spring of 2017. No North American release plans have been announced as of yet. | 2019-04-25T03:47:43Z | http://gametyrant.com/news/new-resident-evil-original-cg-film-announced |
Mauritius might be small, smaller than the Tenerife and Crete, but it packs a punch for tourists. Pristine beaches aglow with the morning sun shining down upon the pearly white sands; shimmering cobalt seas fringing the beach and washing the shore with small laps; and interiors that just come alive with a wealth of natural wonders such as the lush green national parks, dramatic volcanic craters (not to worry, the volcanoes are dormant!) and coloured earths. A generous sprinkling of colonial architecture, bustling markets and sophisticated cities – all within easy reach of the beach resorts spice up the holiday experiences in Mauritius.
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Colour trend palettes from leading brands are often released to celebrate a New Year. Since 1915 Australian paint brand, Wattyl, has been influencing the colours in our homes.
Paint is one of the easiest decor features to change to give a completely different aesthetic. So the Wattyl 2018 colour trend palettes will help you stylishly paint an entire room, or a whole house, without agonising over colour combinations.
Increasingly, our homes are our sanctuaries. As an Interior Designer, I am often told by clients that they have trouble understanding colour. They often default to white or beige. Now, white and beige have their place, for sure, but colour combinations applied expertly will add vibrancy and liveability to any home.
Colour enables home owners to express their personality and paint is a very affordable option. Unlike some forecasts, Wattyl has based their colour trend palettes on extensive research into our lifestyles and multiple factors affecting our sense of place and wellbeing.
The Wattyl research indicates that our homes are more of a retreat from busy lives than ever before. FOMO (fear of missing out) has been replaced by JPMO (joy of missing out).
So with this research in mind, the 2018 colour trend palettes from Wattyl reflect the biggest influences in our daily lives. These influences are in four categories that can affordably be utilised in your home NOW!
Gorgeous mid-century modern Palm Springs (my fave) with a touch of luxe. Nowstalgia represents a time when life was simpler and optimism ruled.
Earthy with botanicals and minerals setting the scene. When we are grounded it reflects a desire to gain meaning and purpose making value-based lifestyle decisions that help us regain a connection to the environment.
Stimulating and light-filled, the Mood Monitor represents an inner strength of mind and body with a focus on breathing in a fast-paced world.
Soft, quiet and contemplative, when we Slow Down we don’t fear missing out anymore. This JOMO (joy of missing out) means our home really is our castle and our bust lives can be better managed in harmony.
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For more inspiration and information, please visit the Wattyl website. | 2019-04-25T06:47:14Z | https://dontcallmepenny.com.au/colour-trend-palettes/ |
Long time no post... again, but I have been busy on several things. Today I finally finished one of my projects, a working BMW diagnostic system / PC. This is in no regards thanks to my own efforts alone. All credit goes to a bunch of people who have worked together and shard their knowledge.
The system consists of a custom made interface board which connects to the vehicles diagnostics socket, and then the other end to a serial port on a computer. For instance a COM1 port on a Windows machine. Older vehicles like mine seems to need a genuine COM1 port, and no USB-adapters to work. I havent verified this yet, but so says the wise men (and women?).
The PC runs any Windows version. Mine was loaded with XP and the latest service pack at the moment. I just did a fresh install on an old Pentium 3 desktop box. On top of that some BMW factory interface software need to run, called EDIABAS and INPA. They can work as an interface server for the DIS. The DIS consists of a Sun OpenServer solution which runs fine in a virtual machine system like VMware Server (free). The system is called a GT1 base system, which like the names says provides a base operating system and interface for various BMW modules like the DIS and TIS (see own article about what all these abbreviations means).
Once the GT1 base system running Sun OpenServer is up and running, I had DIS Progman V39 loaded into the GT1 setup. This software piece is the actual diagnostics module which can read, program and test the various modules in your vehicle. V39 is a bit dated, so I am getting V44 which is the latest available which offers programming of modules. Later versions like V53 require a special Windows XPe enviroment called SSS to program modules in vehicles. Since V44 and later doesnt contain any usefull stuff for older vehicles like my E32 and E34 there is no need to get it either. At least not now.
This morning I had all this working thanks to a lot of people and forums. I managed to connect, read, clear and get status of most modules in my E32 750iAL. I could play around moving the seats, windows, wipers etc from the DIS station as well. A lot of errors was read out and cleared to see if they surface again. Which could indicate problems.
Stay tuned, I think you will like this! | 2019-04-24T00:36:55Z | http://www.ow.no/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=112&Itemid=13 |
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Put your boots through their paces with a two-day improvers scrambling course.
Having completed your grade 1 routes, you’ll be introduced to grade 2-3 scrambles as you venture onto more challenging terrain. Develop personal skills and techniques, as well as all the ropework needed for safe travel across stunning Snowdonia.
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Are Candle Makeup Brush Holders Hurting Your Skin?
Chances are, you’ve repurposed an aesthetically pleasing candle or two as a container to hold your makeup brushes, eyelash curler, or Q-Tips — or at the very least, you’ve seen the look in action on Instagram. But before you put the finishing touches on that perfect #shelfie setup, you may want to reconsider your DIY makeup brush storage. Even though they look luxe, candle makeup brush holders could actually be hurting your skin.
Many candles, including the ubiquitously chic Diptyque jars, are formulated with ingredients that aren’t meant to be anywhere near your face; including paraffin wax, artificial fragrances, and synthetic dyes. “Paraffin wax candles are considered more toxic than all-natural candles, because they release toxic compounds like acetone, benzene, and toluene — the last two being carcinogens, or cancer causing agents — when burned,” Dr. Jennifer Herrmann, a dermatologist at MFC Dermatology and consultant for DNA Renewal, tells The Zoe Report. (Not-so-fun fact: Paraffin wax also releases many of the same toxins as diesel fuel.) “Fragranced candles also often include other sensitivity-causing chemicals, like formaldehyde and limonene,” she says.
While that’s scary enough in terms of general well-being, let’s focus on how these substances could potentially impact the skin. Studies have shown that toxins are released into the air when a candle burns, and trace elements of wax and chemical compounds can accumulate on the inside of the glass jar. “These can cause allergic and irritant reactions on the skin,” Dr. Herrmann says.
“For me, these things cause my sinuses to close up, my face and ears to flush, and even make me nauseous,” Michael Carbaugh, the founder of the natural interior aromatic line Sandoval, tells The Zoe Report. “I took these as signs many years ago, and made it a mission to create something that wouldn't do this to me or anyone else,” he says, noting that his Sandoval candles are made with non-toxic blend of coconut oil, beeswax, and a touch of soy for solidity and fragranced with natural essential oils.
However, most experts agree that if you really want to use a burned out candle as stylish storage, you should be fine as long as you thoroughly clean the glass of any traces of leftover wax and residue. “All wax should be removed from candle jars and all repurposed jars should be cleaned with disinfectant or germicide,” Balfour says.
Another option is to only feature natural, non-toxic candles in your shelfie. Those with coconut oil, beeswax, and soy bases are considered safe (after all, most of those ingredients are in your skincare products, anyway), so long as they’re scented with natural essential oils and not synthetic fragrance, according to Balfour. Additionally, make sure the candle wick is made of cotton or another natural substance — lead wicks (which, thankfully, are pretty rare these days) release hazardous hormone-disrupting chemicals, per the Consumer Product Safety Commission. That said, you should always clean a glass candle jar before reusing it, natural or not.
Ahead, eight gorgeous candles made with natural ingredients to keep your top shelf — and your skin — in top shape.
"This one is great to repurpose once you've emptied the vessel," Carbaugh says. "It holds cotton balls, Q-Tips, jewelry, anything, with the peace of mind that there was never anything toxic inside."
In collaboration with Equinox, UMA's newly released candle features aromatherapy scents like lavender and eucalyptus to help the body reset after a workout — and the fact that the jar is super chic doesn't hurt, either.
Of course this frankincense-spiked scent from Goop is safe for use in any capacity — what else would you expect from GP?
Made in the U.S., MCMC's candle utilizes beeswax, natural cedarwood oils, and a cotton wick for a product smells as good as it looks.
Add a little humor to your bathroom shelf by storing your brushes in a jar emblazoned with the word "Books," a nod to its library-inspired fragrance.
This minimalist ceramic jar is ideal for Q-Tips and eyelash curlers, thanks to its soy wax base and natural scent (a beach-y blend of citrus and driftwood).
According to the brand, this sage and sea salt candle "smells like good vibes" (and looks like it, too).
The scent of palo santo is said to boost creativity and calm the nervous system — so you really can't go wrong with this prettily packaged, all-natural candle from TO112. | 2019-04-20T18:49:34Z | https://www.thezoereport.com/p/are-candle-makeup-brush-holders-hurting-your-skin-13168031 |
Wear your favorite story or phrase around your neck with our literary necklaces. An Out of Print adaptation inspired by S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders. | 2019-04-20T17:25:17Z | https://outofprint.com/collections/jewelry/products/stay-gold-outsiders-necklace |
An influential committee of British MPs has criticized successive governments for allowing Britain to develop a drinking habit that is killing tens of thousands of people every year. “Over the last 60 years drinking habits have been transformed. In 1947 the nation consumed 3.5 liters of pure alcohol per head: The current figure is 9.5….
More under-65s – and women in particular – will suffer alcohol-related brain damage, say doctors Women are more at risk of dementia through drinking because they metabolise alcohol differently from men. Heavy drinking may be to blame for one in four cases of dementia. Doctors have linked alcohol intake to the development of the brain-wasting….
Regular alcohol consumption can lead to binge drinking among all gender and age groups, a new study suggests. “What we found is that when people drink more often, they are more likely to drink more, take more drinks, and go to binge drinking,” said Andree Demers of Universite de Montreal, the study’s main researcher. She…. | 2019-04-25T04:57:07Z | http://treatmentcenters.com/local/alabama/russellville/ |
1:1 The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth. 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. 1:3 For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. 1:4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. 1:5 Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers; 1:6 Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well: 1:7 Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles. 1:8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth. 1:9 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. 1:10 Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church. 1:11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God. 1:12 Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, and we also bear record; and ye know that our record is true. 1:13 I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee: 1:14 But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Greet the friends by name. | 2019-04-22T14:28:04Z | http://www.surfinthespirit.com/bible/3John.html |
Frequently Asked Questions - Discover the world through fascinating stories.
We are in the 21st century and we no longer believe in the traditional educational system and in school subjects that have not changed for decades. Unlike in old-fashioned schools, we do not teach through facts and figures and by asking questions to test historical events but see the present and the future in searching for interconnections, causal links. Information does not need to be learnt but rather to be found and sorted according to new, previously non-existent interconnections. In addition, we focus on developing children’s best abilities so that they can feel useful, value-creating members of society through the knowledge and self-confidence acquired in this way.
What is the link between the curriculum and our categorisation?
One of the aims of the story-based games of Cheekyheads is to reform current education, but we do not wish to ignore what has already worked well, namely the UK’s national curriculum. By involving experts, teachers and child psychologists, we have examined how we can integrate certain elements of the curriculum into our stories and games. Although we considered the topics of the subjects important, we found the interchange between them and the exploration of interconnections aiding the understanding of the different academic disciplines wanting. For this reason we have created content for our app which is worthy of the 21st century, that looks at scientific and cultural themes with a fresh eye but interprets them globally in line with current challenges. At the same time, at Cheekyheads we still believe in human values and in useable knowledge. With the development of robotics and artificial intelligence, humanity has to face ever greater challenges. It is in this world that the story-based games of Cheekyheads provide a secure handhold and give guidance.
As a team of young parents, we aimed to create a real tool for parents and children alike. We set out to create a way for parents and children to bond through stories, by discovering the world together. Our app is meant to encourage children to read, going through the process of starting from letters, moving onto sentences, and then to whole stories. This is the concept upon which Cheekyheads was established.
We realized there was no real limit as to what we can accomplish together, so we put our heads together and came up with an app that covers all the bases our children need, including basic reading, math and science skills. We did all this in a way that promotes social awareness and responsibility. Our app is focused on educating the minds of tomorrow, trying the make a between world for their sake.
The Internet is huge, endless and uncontrollable, and children are curious. The measure of freedom that we allow them is for us to decide. It is not a question of trust but of responsibility. We at Cheekyheads are ourselves parents, so we see clearly the content we can allow children to have free access to and what in our view is harmful. Accordingly, there is no content on our website or in our app that poses a threat to children, and our own kids are using them right now.
We believe in reforming education as we think that learning in the 21st century should not be tied to place or time. Educational apps are slowly replacing or at least supplementing morning classroom lessons. With the aid of portable devices Cheekyheads story-based narratives can be accessed safely anywhere at any time as we have made learning fun, removing barriers and obstacles. Lifelong learning is more important in the 21st century than ever before, and using Cheekyheads makes the usefulness of learning, knowledge and information an integral part of children’s lives from an early age.
Why did we create Cheekyheads story-based games? The answer is simple – we don’t like most games for children. Most apps, books and games try to affect basic emotions with cute kitties, bleeping beings and harsh colours, but we think kids deserve more than that. The 4- to 12-year-old age group does not yet distinguish between having fun and learning, thus the process of acquiring knowledge occurs through play. Our developments teach children about the world around them to make them feel more at home in it, and give them knowledge they can use immediately.
The world in the 21st century is far more complex than the one we were born into. The availability, flow and processing of information has accelerated and changed in a way that even we who created and live in it have difficulties finding our way around. Cheekyheads is a tool that we can use to show and teach children how to behave in everyday situations, how to fit in among the millions of people so that they can boldly, confidently and successfully meet the challenges of the present and future. We have created a communication form for mobile devices, an app, which allows children to learn about the world around us and them in the way that interests them most, by having fun through stories and games. | 2019-04-19T11:21:10Z | http://cheekyheads.com/frequently-asked-questions/ |
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Every day people just like you are having conversations with our consultants about something that drives them to distraction.
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I love my wife. She’s cute, fun, and travel-size. That said, life with her requires some…adaptations.
This is how I found myself having to keep cookies under lock and key, preparing furry projectiles and featuring awkwardly in family Christmas cards.
She began eating those words within the next two weeks, as the history of severe morning sickness that she inherited from her mother finally caught up with her.
It wasn’t long after that that I didn’t seem to see Unwashed much. I wasn’t away, it was that she seemed to sleep the entire day. When she wasn’t asleep, she was complaining about how ravenously hungry she was. Or turning green and running away quickly. Old friends like garlic were suddenly no longer welcome. Worse, she had prepared and frozen many meals worth of lamb stew, which we had both found delicious. Then one day when I heated some up, I discovered that neither it nor I was welcome anymore.
The loaded question “Can you believe how LARGE I am?” began being thrown around. I assured her that she was not changing. She complained that clothes weren’t fitting. I apologized for leaving them too long in the dryer. She was worried her parka wouldn’t fit. I bought her a zip-in expander and carefully explained that it wasn’t for her, it was for the baby. This explanation was reused as necessary. Damn, I’m smooth.
as today was a beautiful day for skating here in the frozen North. Unwashed has needed a lot of help with little things later in the pregnancy. Changes in balance meant needing a spotter to climb onto a chair. Not being able to bend over meant needing help to tie her shoes.
If I have learned one thing about pregnancy, it seems they are constantly waking up uncomfortable. Needing the washroom frequently. Nausea. Heartburn. Muscle pains. Too hot. Not enough pillows.
This led to me coining the phrase “gestational gout” to refer to her inexplicable grumbles. Having now attended prenatal classes, I have a new theory: this is a baby-cry simulator, where the man has no idea what is wrong and must attempt to soothe his partner without her being able to tell him exactly what is wrong. Women instinctively do this in order to train their mate to effectively care for their offspring. This I call “gestational colic” and hope it is no indication of how much our baby will cry. | 2019-04-24T04:05:48Z | https://iamthegreatunwashed.com/tag/pregnancy-complaints/ |
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LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Let's go the Pentagon, where Defense Secretary Rumsfeld has already began the briefing.
DONALD RUMSFELD, SECY. OF DEFENSE: ... to alleviate the suffering of the Afghan people.
Today U.S. and coalition forces are on the ground digging wells, building schools, supporting other civilian missions to help the Afghan people recover from years of Taliban oppression, and they're doing a fine job at it.
And those who perpetrated these crimes against their own people are no longer in power, hundreds are in detention, and they will have to answer for their crimes.
MYERS: Thank you, Mr. Secretary.
I'd like to follow-up with the status on the Zhawar Kili strike from last week. The material we found around the site is being sent back to the United States for analysis. The first team was able to locate, we think, with the impact -- exact impact point of the missile, and then the team cleared snow around that site out to 200 years. There was anywhere from a foot to three to four feet of snow that had to be cleared. And I think yesterday Admiral Stufflebeem gave you a list of the type of material that they took from that site.
MYERS: And as I said before, that's currently being sent back to the United States for analysis. Our team has left that site but will continue to surveil that particular site in the region for some time to come.
The Hazar Kadam investigation is proceeding. At this point in this investigation, I don't believe that any of the detainees -- this is the 27 that were detained -- were subject to beatings or rough treatment after they were taken into custody. All 27 detainees were medically screened upon arrival in Kandahar, and there were no issues of beatings or kickings or anything of that sort.
As we told you before, we continue to perform investigation there and General Franks will make that available once it is complete. As an addendum here, the total number of detainees now in U.S. control of 474, 220 in Afghanistan, and 254 in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, speaking of Admiral Stufflebeem, his team admitted yesterday that this war has turned into what he called a shadow war in that you're chasing Al Qaeda and Taliban is differently defined -- you're very reluctant to discuss now the secret things that are going on, especially while they're going on, Special Forces, troops, what they're doing. It seems the things that you are announcing, for instance the attack at Zhawar Kili, and the attack north of Kandahar later turn out to be mistakes. Are you worried that this is turning into some kind of public relations disaster, where the headlines and newspapers' preponderance have been on the mistakes rather than accomplishments?
RUMSFELD: Well, the first thing one has to say is that, any time there is a suggestion that U.S. forces have, as you characterized it, made a mistake, it is something that we take very seriously, as a country, and certainly the Armed Forces and the Pentagon do. When that occurs, we ask the appropriate people to undertake an investigation and to look into the charges or the allegations that have been made. We do that because we care that things be done as well as it's humanly possible to do them.
You say that everything we do is being called a mistake. I don't know that that's the case, and maybe I didn't quote you quite right, but it seems to me there's a great deal we're doing in the country. We're in the process of assisting them to develop their own national military force. We're providing humanitarian assistance. We're assisting the government with a host of specific things. The forces everywhere they're located are helping people in those communities. So there's a great deal of good being done , and the harm that the Taliban was doing is no longer being done.
The Al Qaeda that had pretty much taken over the country in a major sense are on the run, and the Taliban have been thrown out. So the repression that existed, the circumstance of the Afghan people today, is vastly better. Now, does that mean that when there's an operation and someone suggests that it was in one way or another inappropriate that we shouldn't investigate it? No, we do investigate it, and we care about it. And we will in good time find out actually what took place.
QUESTION: And perhaps the weight is going in the other direction on that of us.
RUMSFELD: Well, you're right. I mean, to some extent when a -- the forces in the country are doing a variety of things, and among them are some things that are not public. That is to say they are observing things that are taking place and trying to make judgments about where people might be located, or who might be moving things around the country in a way that's inappropriate.
So we don't announce those things. They're out doing that on a covert basis. There are other things they do which are not announced until they happen. And those are direct action against a compound, for example, that is believed to be harboring Al Qaeda or Taliban, senior Taliban people.
The other thing taking place is a good deal of discussion going on, and people are in fact being discovered and being taken into custody. Lot of intelligence information is being gathered, and that intelligence information has been helpful in preventing other terrorist attacks. So no one ever likes to see an event where someone charges that it was improper, as we saw with respect to the operation that General Myers commented on. But it happens, and all you can do is go at it, find out what took place, and tell the world what actually happened.
QUESTION: concerned over these two high profile events and what they might be doing to the campaign in the eyes of the world? RUMSFELD: I'm always concerned when there's an allegation made that suggest that some innocent person was -- that an attack was inappropriate or that some innocent person was killed or injured.
RUMSFELD: Obviously, any one would be concerned about that.
MYERS: Can I add just something to that?
MYERS: You know, I think the secretary and I -- we are anxious to share some of these successes with you. The problem is that once you do that then the tactics and the technics and the procedures that are being used in this very difficult mission of locating leadership and other pockets of Al Qaeda or Taliban, once we tell how successful we've been then we will reveal those tactics, technics and procedures, and sometimes they're easy to thwart. So that's why we have to be very careful. This is a ongoing operation, if you will, and we've just got to be very, very careful.
Second thing I'd say that, no matter how these investigations turn out, as some of you know because you've been in the field with our forces, they are the most professional and disciplined forces there are. They make life and death decisions when they come upon this group, these two compounds where we had the 27 detainees and the 15 that were killed. Some of those detainees could have easily been killed. They were armed. The rules of engagement permit you to shoot back. And the fact that they were detained and not killed, I think, is an indication of just how professional and disciplined and dedicated our folks are.
Now, if there were mistakes made, we're going to find that out when General Franks finishes his investigation. But I think there American people need to know that we have the best forces in the world, the best trained forces who are making these decisions, and 99.9 percent of the time make them exactly right. RUMSFELD: Let me elaborate on your question, because when you asked the question, "Are you concerned?" there's always a risk if one says they're not concerned. That the headline will be that the Pentagon is not concerned. And it happened to me when I was asked in a lengthy interview by BBC about the detainees and how they were being treated. And I described how they were being treated.
They were being treated very, very well and properly and humanely and consistent with the Geneva Convention, and we went through all this, and I described it. And then he said something to the effect, "Well, are you concerned about how they're being treated?" And I said something to the effect, "No" meaning, as I said in the context, because I know how they're being treated and they've been treated very, very properly and humanely. And that has roared around Europe that the secretary is not concerned about how they're being treated when the context was that I was not concerned because I know how they're being treated, and they're being treated and handled very, very well.
Now, when you say, "Are you concerned about these?" and if I say, "No, I'm not concerned about," as you cast the question, which is, are you concerned that they are going to be negative and take support away from the campaign or the war against terrorism.
If I had answered and said, "No, I'm not," because I have confidence in the American people and in the people of world recognizing how much better off the people in Afghanistan are today than they were. And yet, I do have a concern when someone makes an allegation, because obviously we don't want people to be improperly handled and we do not want operations against targets that are not appropriate targets. So I'm concerned about the specifics. But I did not want to simply answer it in a way that the headline would become inflammatory. I've become very cautious.
RUMSFELD: This is on the three individuals?
QUESTION: The three at Zhawar Kili.
RUMSFELD: OK. Let's do that one. I don't know that I can add anything to it. It's my understanding that the people who operate the Predator were watching a large number of people, 15 or 10, 15, 20 people over a period of time. And out of this group came three people, and they moved in and among various out-croppings of rocks and trees. And the people who have the responsibility for making those judgments, made the judgment that, in fact, they were Al Qaeda and that they were a proper target. And they make those judgments based on behavior, based on various types of equipment and information that they have developed over a sustained period now of weeks and weeks and weeks.
A decision was made to fire the Hellfire missile. It was fired. It apparently hit three people, one or more people. There is an investigation under way. Special Forces could not get up there because of the weather. They went up there. They cleared away a large-diameter area of snow, anywhere from a foot to two feet of snow, and picked up a great deal of material from the site, and they are in the process of checking into that, and they're also interviewing people in the region.
Now, someone has said that these people were not what the people managing the Predator believed them to be. We'll just have to find out. There's not much more anyone could ask, except there's that one version and there's the other version.
QUESTION: Is there any additional intelligence that led to this site to begin with that may have contributed to the perception that these were Al Qaeda?
RUMSFELD: These are people who have been doing this now for a good many weeks, and they monitor sites, and they go back to sites where they know Al Qaeda have been, and they check things out, and they are honorable, fine people doing the best that's possible to be done.
I was not in the control booth, I have not reviewed the -- I've not compared the elements that went into their decision -- decisions. I'm sure people will do that.
QUESTION: What is your personal confidence that this, in fact, was an appropriate, legitimate target?
RUMSFELD: It's not for me to say. I have great confidence in the people it. They're honorable people, they're talented people, they're skillful, they've been doing it for weeks and weeks and weeks now, and they've got a darn good record and I've got a lot of respect for them.
QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, you said earlier there's a great deal of good being done in Afghanistan. You were citing in particular the humanitarian effort that's being made daily. But in the hunt for Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders, on the military front, what has gone right lately? We've heard nothing but problems lately. What's gone right?
RUMSFELD: Well, we have gathered some intelligence from them that has been beneficial to the United States and other countries and to our deployed forces -- and not just a little, but more than a little.
RUMSFELD: Second, we continue to gather in additional people, senior people in the Taliban and Al Qaeda. It's a fairly steady flow; it's not large numbers at any given time, but we are continuing to bring them in and to interrogate them at Baghran or at Kandahar and ultimately in Guantanamo Bay. So I feel quite good about the progress.
RUMSFELD: As you know, we've got what they say their names are. And we have what we think them to be and some of their aliases, and we've decided that it's not useful to announce their names because then, for one thing that could be wrong because they don't always tell the truth. And for a second thing, it can tell everyone else in those organizations who we have and what types of information we conceivably will be hearing from them, in which case it makes it much easier for others to get away.
QUESTION: I want to pick up on that point a second. About three weeks ago from the podium, you said you would think about releasing a list of who was killed in the Al Qaeda leadership. About two weeks ago, President Bush told the Washington Post that he keeps a score card like a baseball game, and 16 of 22 Al Qaeda leaders remain at large. This was about a couple of weeks ago. Can you shed any light on that? Is that roughly the number at large -- six may be killed, and another 16 at large?
RUMSFELD: It changes everyday, and there is such a list and it does indicate whether or not they have been killed for sure or presumed dead or in captivity, or at large.
And where people fit on that in individual status may change from week to week depending as more information becomes available. And in many cases they're qualified, that is to say that says presumed as opposed to certainty. And we have thought about it, and we've decided not to release it.
QUESTION: Six roughly have been killed?
RUMSFELD: I can't say. I have to go back and -- I'm sure when he said it was correct. My guess is the numbers have changed since.
QUESTION: General, I still have a quick one on the Predator.
QUESTION: There's been a lot of attention over this one strike. Roughly, how many of these Predator Hellfires have been fired in the campaign by the CIA? Are we talking in the 40 to 50 range and one or two have been controversial?
MYERS: I don't have that at my fingertips, and probably if I did we wouldn't talk about how many.
But let me just add a little comment to the earlier question on success here. You know, we said early on that one of the ideas, and the president has said this and others, that we wanted to disrupt these operations. And part of disruption is getting them to move.
And, you know, I think, at least I have said that if they leave Afghanistan that's not all bad because they're going to be in their second-favorite place, and they're going to be in a place where they're less comfortable, they're going to have to spend more resources to buy their security and so forth.
It has turned out that that's been true, that some of the folks we've gotten our hands on have been actually through other countries, and we've been fairly successful there, and when the time comes, that'll all be released.
So it's having the kind of effect, I think, that we want to have.
QUESTION: Two questions about the Predator attack. First of all, yesterday it was described as an appropriate target. Is it still the feeling in this building that it was an appropriate target?
RUMSFELD: As I said, from the people I've talked to in the building, I can't speak for the building, but there is no change in opinion on the part of the people who were involved in the process except for the fact that because people have raised a question about it, there is an investigation going on and people, as I say, are going up there to take a look at it.
Second question, there was a little confusion yesterday. Admiral Stufflebeem said that there was no real-time interaction between the CIA and CENTCOM when this attack was going down, when the CIA was pulling the trigger, and then we saw comments that seemed to contradict that in the wires a little later. Can you bring some clarification to that? How much interaction was there between the DOD and the CIA about this target at the time it was going down?
RUMSFELD: I can't speak to that except to say that there tends to be a high degree of interaction between CENTCOM and CIA on a whole host of things and certainly on these matters.
MYERS: I don't know why you got the contradictions, because there was close coordination, like there always is. And I don't know why you got the contradiction. I can't explain that.
RUMSFELD: He's getting careful, too.
MYERS: Thank you, sir. QUESTION: Well, explain what were the facts, if you could?
MYERS: Well, again, without divulging too much of how this all works, there is close coordination between what the CIA is doing and what Central Command is doing, and it's virtually continuous. And so, I don't know what Admiral Stufflebeem said or told you, but -- and that was the case here. I don't know what else there is to say.
QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, General Myers, both of you talked last week before Congress about developing a joint task force headquarters that would deploy in the event of something like that. If we had had that in place, how could this have helped this operation now -- with a joint task force headquarters that Joint Forces Command is developing?
MYERS: I'll take a stab at it, if I can. Central Command's a little different situation because, in a sense, they're already a joint task force headquarters, so it's a little different for them. A better one to take would be Pacific Command in doing something in their region, where the unified commander might designate a joint task force.
But let's assume it's Central Command. What we're envisioning there is not only habitual relationships, which CENTCOM does have with all its components -- its Army, its Navy and its Marine and its air components -- they have that relationship that we're trying to establish another unified commands, and maybe more than one. At Central Command they essentially have this one big joint task force.
MYERS: And one of the issues is, what is the suite of equipment that you equip them with when they go into conduct an operation, whether it's humanitarian or whether it's combat or whatever? And that's the part we need to focus on. They need to take a suite of equipment that plugs everyone in, so they all have the relevant pictures of what's happening and so forth. So I think it would be very relevant in terms of the equipment.
MYERS: Yes. Oh, absolutely. Yes. Have to be adaptable, yes.
QUESTION: This apparently the most specific information in the last five months about another terrorist attack today. Without divulging anything you don't want to, can you say anything about whether and how DOD's reacting?
RUMSFELD: Well, first let me say that the, as I understand it, the information that the Department of Justice used to come to the conclusion it came to that an announcement was appropriate was information that has been gained in large measure from the interrogations that have been taking place and the other information that has been a result of the efforts of the multidepartmental groups that do the interrogation.
The Department of Defense was pretty much at a level of alert that it didn't require many additional things, although I understand some elements have taken some additional steps, which I prefer not to discuss.
QUESTION: Can you say anything generally about what you mean by that?
QUESTION: The last thing you said, generally what are you referring to?
QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE) at Guantanamo Bay by the way or in Afghanistan?
QUESTION: I think you're right.
QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE) the Taliban leadership? About three weeks ago prior to the special forces (INAUDIBLE) in Kandahar, Afghan officials said that they were in negotiation with three top Taliban officials including Omar's secretary, try to bring him in from the (INAUDIBLE) And then the attack happened and they lost contact with these three folks. Were you aware of those negotiations, and if so, do you know what the status is of those are today?
QUESTION: Are you in contact with the Afghan officials or a party to the negotiations that these folks?
RUMSFELD: I can't speak to that as I said. I know that at any given moment of the day or night there are discussions going on, and we are certainly in touch with Afghan people who are in involved in those kinds of discussions.
QUESTION: Mr. Secretary you said recently or just actually after a couple moments ago that the folks firing Predators have a good record. What did you mean when you said that?
RUMSFELD: I mean that they're serious people. They've been doing this now since some months, and that I have observed how they handle themselves, and they develop patterns of behavior which give them information. They use human intelligence from the ground.
They observe a variety of things from the ground and the air, and they connect those things. And then they make judgments, and they have on a number of occasions been successful in doing exactly that which they intended to do.
QUESTION: The record implies a scorecard. You have some kind of scorecard in mind you can share with us?
RUMSFELD: I -- no, it is a series of events that I have observed and that others have observed rather than keeping score on them.
QUESTION: Secretary Rumsfeld, on the Predators, my question again. In late November, when people were asking you about the relationship between CIA operations and CENTCOM -- and then it was more about ground operations -- but you said very specifically that General Franks was the man at the steering wheel, coordinating, or in control of our military operations.
Now, with the Predator story, you're talking about an exchange of information, coordination, so I was wondering if simply you could clarify the situation of how CIA military operations are coordinated or in control by CENTCOM.
RUMSFELD: That's a good question, and it's hard to answer. The overwhelming bulk of all activity in Afghanistan since the first U.S. forces went in have been basically under the control of the Central Command. And that's particularly true after the first month. The one exception has been the armed Predators. I shouldn't say the one exception -- an exception has been the armed Predators, which are CIA operated.
QUESTION: Why is that an exception?
RUMSFELD: It is just a fact. They were operating them before the United States military was involved, and the armed Predators, and doing a good job, so rather than changing that, we just left it.
QUESTION: Why not drag them into the command control with CENTCOM? You have three operators of Predator.
RUMSFELD: It's just a historical fact that they were operating these things over recent years and they were in Afghanistan prior to the involvement of CENTCOM and they continued during this period. That's just the way it is.
QUESTION: Could I get the two of you to free associate a little bit more on that subject?
RUMSFELD: You got the wrong guys.
QUESTION: The general subject matter is there is this growing sort of military role for the CIA, and we have you guys up here every day and can ask questions, but the CIA obviously operates in a lot more shadowy way. People are thinking back and remembering some of the excesses of that agency in Latin America, 20, 30 years ago, and I think there tends to be a growing sense of what are we getting into here?
Could you all talk more philosophically about the dealings between the Pentagon and the CIA, and what the parameters are that you're developing or thinking about for how to manage this new world where the CIA now has its own real military capabilities that are not necessarily under the control of the U.S. military which has transparency with the American public?
RUMSFELD: I can give you a couple of paragraphs on the subject.
The relationship between the Defense Department and the CIA today is as good as I've ever seen it. That is to say, in the relationships and the interaction and the connectivity, we have people involved with things they're doing and, for example, in counterterrorism or in intelligence cells, where we're trying to bring all kinds of intelligence information into one place. They have people involved in things that we're doing in a sense of connecting their capabilities and their assets to what we do.
The concern you're expressing from a decade or two or three ago, I think, is not apt, simply because people are sensitive to those things. And there's all kinds of congressional consultation, there's all kinds of procedures within the executive branch, so that things that the agency is planning to do are well-vetted in the appropriate ways before they do them. I think the general relationship on the ground tends to be that if we're not there the CIA, obviously, has the reporting relationship straight up through the CIA and we're not involved.
To the extent they're there and we then get involved, there's an early period where they're both there and they're doing somewhat different things, needless to say. And then at a certain point, the defense element is large enough that it becomes -- things tend to chop over to it. And the chain of command goes up through the combatant commander, except for, obviously, things that don't fit within our statutory responsibilities. QUESTION: Secretary Rumsfeld, a number of administration officials have spoke recently about the need for a regime change in Iraq, probably the highest profile being Secretary of State Colin Powell. Do you favor such a regime change sooner rather than later? And how concerned should Saddam Hussein be that the U.S. military may be the force of that regime change?
RUMSFELD: Well, I think that the Congress passed legislation relating to regime change. I've forgotten the name of the statute. Do you remember?
RUMSFELD: Well, that was part of it, but I think it was also broader and I think that's -- I don't know many people who have developed a great deal of admiration for that regime in the way it treats its people and the way it treats its neighbor and the fact that it's engaging in the development of weapons of mass destruction.
The timing and whether or not anything is done with respect to any country is something that is for the president and the country to make those judgments and it's not for me to express views on that so I don't.
RUMSFELD: I think the United States since Desert Storm has always had various planning with respect to Iraq and what it might do to its neighbors. It's threatened -- its invaded Kuwait, it's threatened the Shi'a in the south and harmed them. It's harmed the Kurds in the north. It has expressed its view that the regimes of its neighboring countries are illegitimate and ought not to be there. It is a country that threw out the inspectors that has an active weapons of mass destruction program. I don't know if anything's changed.
QUESTION: Maybe it is a misperception there. Previous administrations have adopted a policy of trying to contain Saddam Hussein and it appears from what the president has said and what Colin Powell has said that containment no longer works in the view of this administration, that the threat has somehow changed, increased, that the dynamics are different and, therefore, regime change has become a more substantial goal for this administration than previous ones.
RUMSFELD: Well, if you think about what the president and Secretary Powell have said, what they have said, it seems to me, is pretty much self-evident. That every year that goes by and the inspectors are not there, the development of their weapons of mass destruction proceed apace, bringing them closer to a time when they will have those weapons developed in a form that is more threatening than it had been the year before or the year before that. The second thing that's occurred is, the technologies have advanced. And to the extent that the sanctions, which historically is the case, sanctions tend to weaken over time, they're relaxed in one way or another. And as those sanctions are relaxed and as dual-use capabilities flow into that country, their capability is restored, in terms of their ability to impose harm on their neighbors or threaten others.
Third, the September 11 attack, if you think of the president's words and Secretary Powell's position, it reminded the world and the United States that terrorist networks exist. That, in fact, we now know from the intelligence we've gathered that they've had a very active effort under way to get chemical, biological and radiation capabilities -- terrorist networks. And we know that Iraq has those and does not wish many of its neighbors well, if any. I don't think it has a neighbor that it wishes well, maybe. So it's that combination of things that I would suspect led to the president's comments and to the secretary's comments.
QUESTION: Would it be accurate to say that this building that the Pentagon is now spending more time considering Iraq than it had previously in terms of your planning process?
RUMSFELD: This building has always been attentive for at least more than a decade now -- 12 years. To Iraq, we've had northern no- fly zones and southern no-fly zones, and have been flying flights there, attempting to contain that country and prevent them from jumping on one of their neighbors.
QUESTION: Can I follow-up Mr. Secretary on what you just said please? In regard to Iraq, weapons of mass destruction and terrorists, is there any evidence to indicate that Iraq has attempted to or is willing to supply terrorists with weapons of mass destruction, because there are reports that there is no evidence of a direct link between Baghdad and some of these terrorist organizations.
RUMSFELD: Reports that say it is that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me because as we know there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know they're some things we do not know. But there're also unknown unknowns; the ones we don't know we don't know.
And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones. So people who have the eminence that they can say with high certainty that something has not happened or is not being tried, have capabilities that are -- what was the word you used earlier?
RUMSFELD: Yes. They can do things I can't do.
QUESTION: Excuse me, but is this an unknown unknown?
RUMSFELD: You know I'm right here.
QUESTION: I just want to ask a real bottomline question. Many apologies -- particularly back this Zhawar Kili one last time. But you mentioned here a couple of times that that incident is now under investigation and sighted that the team went up there for that reason.
QUESTION: But of course, the team went up there when people from this podium were saying that it was definitely what you believe to be senior Al Qaeda and you were simply going there to find out which Al Qaeda you killed.
RUMSFELD: I don't know that.
QUESTION: Are you investigating it? Is the CIA investigation that?
RUMSFELD: No, I'm not. Goodness, no. This is something that CENTCOM has decided and done, and properly so.
RUMSFELD: I don't know what the right word is. I know that when a -- I know you're correct. There was an interest in getting some positive identification, if that were possible. And second, every time an allegation comes up that seems to have some -- that raises questions that ought to be addressed, then CENTCOM, on its own, decides that they're going to have people go look at that. And whatever that word is, that some call it an investigation, others call it something else. But that's what's taking place is, they are going up there doing that.
QUESTION: So CENTCOM -- just to make sure I really understand -- CENTCOM is investigating these potential allegations that perhaps these were innocent people. Is that what -- and why is CENTCOM investigating that and not the CIA, since it was their missile and their targeting?
RUMSFELD: Well, I don't know that I said that CIA wasn't.
QUESTION: But could you explain that a little more?
RUMSFELD: No. I just don't know what they're doing.
QUESTION: But you do know that CENTCOM's looking into it.
QUESTION: And you, just one more time, explain something to me. Does the CIA have the ability, the approval to pull the trigger without coming to the military? Does the CIA have that bottom line authority to pull the trigger without coming to the military?
RUMSFELD: I don't know that I'm going to start responding to question for the Central Intelligence Agency.
QUESTION: Well, have you given -- let me try it the reverse way then. Has the U.S. military -- I don't know what the right verb is -- given the CIA the approval, the authority, the whatever to pull the trigger without coming to Central Command first?
RUMSFELD: I don't know that it's for us to give that authority. If they have capabilities they do them, what they wish to do.
RUMSFELD: I'm not going to answer what the CIA does. It is not the Pentagon that gives other agencies of governments authorities.
We're going to make the last question here.
RUMSFELD: ... and I thought it was a good response.
RUMSFELD: I could have said that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence,or vice versa.
QUESTION: Well, we just want to know are you aware of any evidence, because that would increase our level of belief from faith to something that would be significant.
RUMSFELD: I am aware of a lot of evidence involving Iraq on a lot of subjects, and it is not for me to make public judgments about my assessment or others' assessments of that evidence. And I'll make that the last question.
QUESTION: I wanted to go back to the terrorist attack. Can you provide any information and would this be also another one of the successes that you might cite about the interrogation in Cuba, or did you learn that the man had might have Al Qaeda connections? Is there anything that you can elaborate on the terrorist attack?
RUMSFELD: Other than to say what I said, that interrogations are -- have produced information and indeed in this instance produce some of the evidence that led to the decision by the Department of Justice.
HARRIS: And with that. General Myers and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wrap up today's briefing. Heard quite a bit of talk today about that incident around Zawar Kili, where a convoy was fired upon by a Predator unmanned drone plane that dropped a Hellfire missile on what turned out to be a group of friendly troops there, and not the Al Qaeda. We thought they were going in.
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There is not a lot written about Edwina Hudson Smith Moss. There’s not even a Wikipedia page. Yet, Moss worked for the first Executive Directors (first Wyatt Tee Walker, then Andrew Young) of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1961 – 1966. She sat in on strategy sessions, and with the other women of the movement, she took notes, and planned and implemented the organization needed to carry forth the movement. But when you google Edwina Moss (or any combination of her names), you find a sentence or two about Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr officiating the wedding between Edwina Hudson Smith and Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr, and perhaps about the children they had. You find two clips on YouTube of Edwina Moss talking about leaders of the movement- And that was just about it, until now. What follows is a short history of Moss’ work with SCLC, gained from a phone interview April 4, 2018.
Edwina Hudson was born in Atlanta GA, and while her family lived in the housing projects, University Homes was located in the middle of Clark College, Morehouse College, and Spelman College, “where it was like a playground,” Moss explains, “I was in a very supportive and educational environment. …That was my early life. Being exposed.” Education and the Church were the cornerstones of Moss’ childhood. When her mother and father broke up when she was 13 or 14, and she moved to Vallejo CA, the racism she was exposed to in that city led her to join the Youth Council of the local NAACP chapter, and become its President, building supervision and direction.
My question is actually about what brought you to work in Civil Rights, what brought you to work for the SCLC?
I don’t know whether I need to start early in my life, or at the very point of going to work for the organization. But to give you a little bit of background, I was born in Atlanta Georgia- and I am going to say this, a lot of this will not be relevant, but you will be able to listen to it, and decide what information is critical, important, would be good to know, for the article- But, I was born in Atlanta, which was really a very different time to be one of these folks, with many many young people who grew up in the South. And I was born in the 30’s. At that time, I lived in an area- I lived in the housing projects, University Homes, right in the middle of Clark College, Morehouse College, Spelman College, where it was like a playground for me. I was in a very supportive educational environment. And I went to Spelman Nursery School. That was my early life. Being exposed.
And a Church- Wheat Street Baptist Church, with the Rev. William Holmes Borders, who would invite people in to speak, like a Mary McLeod or Lillian Smith, who wrote Strange Fruit, a white woman, and Du Bois, and as a kid, these are the kinds of voices I heard. With the messages coming from these kinds of voices. And all of that has an impact on you over time. I was in a family that really valued being a part of an educational community. And I see that in really a kind of a backdrop of giving me strength.
And my mother and father broke up when I was about 13 or 14 years old, and we moved to a little town in California called Vallejo – it’s spelled VALLEJO, it’s spelled like Valley-Joe, but it’s really Vah-le-ho- And it was a very different kind of community, very racist, and my experience in that town was not a good experience. And I got involved with the Youth Council of the NAACP, and became president of that Youth Council. It was very good; I built supervision and direction. Even going to some retreats with leaders like, Franklin Williams- you may never have head of some of these names, but these were key people, early on in my life, who took me in, and kind of mentored me.
Well, I later, after a failed marriage and a child, I moved back to Atlanta GA, and I went to work for my uncle who owned an insurance company, Alexander & Co. They were a very well-off part of my family. They were considered black millionaires of the South. He owned an insurance company, and I went to work for him. And working there, he owned a building- the insurance company owned the building- and Wyatt Tee Walker was the Executive Director of SCLC, and he would come in our office and pick up SCLC’s mail every day. And one day he approached me, and asked if I would come to work for SCLC. Well that was really the beginning of my relationship.
I had heard of Dr King when I first went back to Atlanta. I went to a rally where the students were really upset with the adult community because they felt that they had agreed to something with the Rich’s Department store and they were not happy about it. That was my first observation of Dr. King. And I saw how he managed those students. The place was packed, students were hanging off the rafters- and when he walked in, and started talking, the whole church calmed down. And he was the only speaker who was able to redirect the anger in that crowd. And it was after that that I went to work for the organization, working for Wyatt Tee Walker who was the Executive Director of SCLC. Wyatt later left and moved to NY. In the meantime, Andy Young came to SCLC, and he became the Executive Director, and I worked with Andrew Young, until I married and left the organization in 66, before Dr. King was murdered.
So that was my introduction into the organization, and my responsibility was working with Andrew Young, who was the number 2, just like working with Wyatt- the number 2 person. So I was in on many of the meetings. I would travel with the organization -not on all trips- but on many. To Birmingham, to Albany CA, down to Florida, St Augustine; because they needed staff to work with them at that time. And there were a couple of us that went in order to help with news releases, keep in contact with the staff- so you are really a part of the core- the intimate part of the organization- so that’s how I got involved.
I don’t consider myself one of those brave soldiers who got out and marched, even though I did in St Augustine- which was one of the worst experiences of my life! But, that is my entry into the organization and I worked there from 61 until 66, when I got married.
Why was it important for you to go to work for SCLC?
Well, that’s why I wanted to give you the backdrop- I had, I guess, a strong feeling about unfairness, and racism, because all the experiences that I had had in Vallejo CA- we had to challenge them because they were painful, and I didn’t like it. I guess I was kind of a militant from a little girl- and wanted to challenge what was, and wondering why it had to be. So this was really predictable, even though at that time, none of that was my design. It wasn’t something that I figured out. When I look back on it, however, it seems like the natural order of my life, and I didn’t necessarily make the decisions to do what I did- it must have been a part of me. Being around a grandmother, who started a school in Atlanta, and also was very militant, and so was my mother. So I think it was just the natural order of things. And why I chose it- if I had to think about it- at that time, I probably would not have- because of the danger- because my family was not happy about it. They thought it was too dangerous, because I had a child, from my first marriage, and he was just a year old. You know, mothers are supposed to be at home with their kids- because, what kind of life would your child have, if you weren’t going to come back?
And how would you answer them, when that was their question?
You know, I really don’t know… I can’t think of any way of really answering then. I guess I didn’t answer them. Because I kept doing what I was doing. Because I guess they were afraid for me. Not knowing sometimes, I was afraid for me, too. But, I think they were afraid. And they just felt that I should be at home. And I was at home. My child was with me. I just didn’t take him whenever I went on these trips.
I had a very good friend- Fortunately, I had a very close relationship with Jean Young, Andy young’s wife. We were very close. Like sisters. And whenever I had to travel- because my son was very close to their family, he would stay there.
That’s what a lot of women do today- they find partnerships, where they can lean on each other for childcare.
All of us did that. All of us did that. We had a guy with the organization, his name was Blackwell, and his wife- it was the same thing. Whenever I had to work late, one of them would see to it that he was picked up from the nursery school. So it was like a family, a close-knit family, to all of us. That was our survival.
So women, even while they were in the background, where very much a backbone to the movement, for that reason?
Without a doubt. And they weren’t necessarily in the background- I think the media, the way it views stuff, often, they miss where the real strength is. Jean Young was a very powerful woman. Quiet. And so was Coretta Scott King. And so was Juanita Abernathy. And we had a woman on the staff; Dorothy Cotton from Ithaca NY, now- she ran our citizenship education program along with Septima Clark, who was from South Carolina. And those women were very important in helping to develop strategies around voting. They were the ones who had to organize. The men just- everybody focused on them- but the people doing the work were the women.
And I think it was because of the time- you know, you live in your time, and you do the best you can. But I don’t think there were many women who wanted to be out front- Ella Baker did- but many of them- being in the role where they could organize, put together news releases, pamphlets that needed to be produced so they could be distributed among the staff- Somebody had to do that. And that was part of my job, working with the field staff.
So, were you in more of like a director sort of role?
No. I was in a supportive role, and as the assistant to first Wyatt Walker, secondly Andrew Young.
I organized – when I sat in with Dr. King, Rev. Abernathy, Andrew Young, Randolph Blackwell- when they would sit, I would sit in along with them, and make strategies. And my job, along with some of the other women- it was our job to put it on paper. To get the letters out. To do whatever. And that is a lot of work. That’s not front page work.
You did a lot of implementation behind the scenes?
I wouldn’t say implementation. Because the implementation really was done by Dr. King, Wyatt, and Andrew Young. They were the ones in the forefront. We just gave them the kind of support system that was necessary for them to do what they did.
I think so. I think so. When we would have our national convention, it was my task- they didn’t ask me- because a lot of things– We were working in the moment, because none of us had a play book on how this was to be done. There was no direction. Every day was a new day. And, I developed a pamphlet, an organizational tool on how to run a convention. It was just coming to me as I did it, and recorded it with groups, so we would have something to follow- How to get the mail out, How to get the registration done, How to communicate with people who were coming into the city, How to handle when the FBI came in, asking a lot of questions- How do you handle that? Who’s responsible for it? That kind of thing. But in terms of doing the strategy of whether or not they were going out to get the young people to come and participate in the marches in Birmingham- that was our field staff, like James Bevel and those who were out there in the community every day.
What was your favorite part of working for SCLC?
It really brought me back to the Church. Which I consider important. Because I had not really developed an appreciation for the Church. When you are in college- a lot of times, all that stuff- you push that in another direction. But, being exposed to many of the leaders in the movement- really, it’s like finding your home of where you’re supposed to be. Like I said, I was probably a militant all my life, but I was comfortable in Wheat Street under a Rev. Borders and listening to the messages about the real meaning of the life of Jesus. And then, getting in an environment with a Martin Luther King Jr, who didn’t just talk about it, he was implementing it- this non-violence. That was what, I think, drew me into the center of the organization.
How did you then use that newfound experience with religion through the rest of your life?
Well, it led me to marry the man I am married to today- which has been the greatest blessing of my life. What is it? …52 years this year. I have to stop and add up! It’s been since 66. And, a person with the same spirit of a Martin Luther King Jr. Steeped in the holy issue of non-violence.
And being able to work with a Jesse Jackson- I was on the staff with Jesse, I gave notes to Jesse, a lot- because he was in Chicago, he was running action in an out, I had to commune with them. Plus, there were the checks and everything that needed to get paid- so I was there. Be sure and tell Jesse I was responsible for him.
The only thing that I can say- that this was one of the greatest experiences in my life. And I wish every young person could have, number 1, the exposure to the mind of a Martin Luther King Jr, the mind of a Andrew Young, the mind of a rebel like James Bevel, the mind of an organizer like Jesse Jackson. If they just had that expose, they would see life in a different way. And make them very determined to change things. And to not be fooled.
Can I ask you one more question now, based off that response? What would you say to all those kids who are now, I guess, kind of becoming their own Martin Luther King, as they are really stepping into the leadership positions of protesting, whether it is BLM, or gun control and school safety?
I love it, I love it, I LOVE IT! I love IT!! I think it’s absolutely wonderful! And I sit up and I watch it them tv and sit and clap in the room by myself! And say, thank God! They are coming up- popping up out of the ground!
What would your advice to them be?
Not to give up, but to stay non-violent. Because they are putting people in the midst of those young people- who will do anything to create confusion. That is the way opposition works. And they did it to us. Many many times.
What’s the best way to combat that? How do we keep that from really affecting us?
I don’t have an answer to that. I really don’t know. I wish I did. That would be really important. But, you can talk to people- oftentimes they don’t understand. And, then, it’s -you know- a sign of the times, it doesn’t seem like you all can get fixed up the way we were able to get fixed up. You know, you have to use different strategies, but I think the violent way is just not the way. I feel strongly about that. Because I have seen what it does to the organization- I saw what they tired to do with Dr. King. And you just don’t want to see that. You have to keep your ears propped up, your eyes open, your heart open, your head alert, because it will come from every direction.
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I was coming home for a wonderful vacation with my son when I started not feeling so well two days before we were leaving. We boarded the second leg of the three-leg plane trip home, and four hours into the flight the situation grew worse. I was in so much pain. It felt like I had the flu on steroids! I can’t recall ever being so sick, even with pneumonia. You must be thinking, “I’m so glad I wasn’t the person sitting next to her on the plane, or even being a passenger in that fuselage!” I don’t blame you!
In general, I consider myself to be pretty healthy, and hardly ever have temperatures, but I knew my temp was really high. Even Ibuprofen didn’t seem to cut it when it came to the aches, pains, hot and cold sweats and nausea I felt.
I tried to stay hydrated, and walk up and down the aisles to get some circulation going in my body. It took every ounce of energy from me to walk. I was completely zapped of any movement in my body and felt like a lead weight that could be an anchor for the Queen Mary.
I started to feel anxious, and trapped inside my body. We had been on the second leg of our flight for six hours, with another two hours to go, and feeling worse by the minute. Another two hours being on that plane felt like an eternity. I really wanted to walk over to the cockpit and ask the pilot to please drop me off in Iceland as we flew over it.
As the anxiety increased, I could feel the activation in my body. The flight response was rearing its head and I felt my lungs constrict, and my body tighten. Thoughts like what’s going to happen to me? And, What if I’m not ok? Were screaming inside my head. My body wanted to open that emergency door and leave this space capsule, and the other part of me wanted to shutdown, and fold up inside myself. I was feeling so terrible, torn and stuck. I could sense that part of being sick was my nervous systems threat response and the dys-regulation between flight and freeze responses.
I realized that I needed to urgently work with resourcing, which is a safe place one can visualize and feel in the body. I started to think about a wonderful place we visited while on vacation. I added some more places to this visual vocabulary that were very peaceful and quiet. After a couple minutes I could feel it in my body and started to feel my nervous system begin to downshift. Then it would become activated again triggered by another chill or pain, and I would work with downshifting, adding the ingredients of a visual, peaceful and kinesthetic experience.
I needed to resource for a good amount of time, and throughout the rest of the flights. It became my focus, my visual and kinesthetic exercise and experience, and it helped me profoundly. I had to work with myself on deep levels and apply the skills I’ve learned and teach to others in a serious and urgent way. I had to be present and in the moment with what was happening, really stay focused, and not allow the threat response to interfere with what I knew about my own energy. It was through this self-regulation process that helped me to have faith that my energy did exist, and consistently working with this helped me to know it, even though I was challenged over many moments. This experience forced me to go deep inside and find the courage to face the fears in myself. It was through the process of self-regulation that helped me to have many moments of groundedness and connection. There were many times when I really wondered if I was going to be ok and these questions came up all the time. Regardless of the fear and questioning, I knew that staying connected to myself was essential, with whatever happened. I wasn’t sure what it all looked like, but my job was not to know, and my focus became about connection and not loosing myself. This required a tremendous amount of energy and it was really hard work. It gave me a different perspective and an appreciation of finding peace in the midst of chaos. No small task. The experience of connection allowed me to feel stillness, even when those voices in my head, my body and my emotions were telling me something different.
This illness followed me off the plane of course, and two weeks later after many fevers of over 104 degrees (the highest temp I’ve ever had) and almost a week in the hospital, I survived! What helped me through all this uncertainty and pain was the skill of self-regulation and self care. I realized on a deep level that Self-regulation is synonymous with self-care. I had to keep finding my way back home when nothing but darkness obscured my vision. I had to find my way consistently to a peaceful place, even when nothing seemed to make sense, and the world felt unsafe, shaky and fragmented. I had to help myself continually find and connect with an inner stillness and peace. This is what kept me whole. I feel even more compassion for people who suffer from chronic pain, and for all of us who are suffering with something.
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WBD grossed an anemic and laughable $138,709, for a grand total of just over 5 million. At that rate, the movie would need to run another two years just to break even. My guess is it will disappear completely before very many more weekends pass. Considering that it is playing in 513 theaters, it earned just $270 per theater.
Perhaps, one day, the billionaires who fund this garbage will realize that the public is tired of the scapegoating of teachers.
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The petition’s demands were quite modest though likely to irritate the plant’s managers. The employees were demanding an adequate emergency medical service system operated over a 24-hour period by qualified people.
To hear the workers’ side, the present situation is terrible. Accidents and injuries occur. People have heart attacks or other sudden illnesses. Yet emergency treatment can take the form of security personnel trying to be medics transporting the victims on hi-lows, scooters or, if it is not too far away, in the single, ill-equipped ambulance. The ambulance not only is unable to gain access to major areas of the factory–thus losing valuable time–but then it has to connect with an outside ambulance service to take patients to the hospital.
The main medical department is open only during the day shift, five days a week. There are two physicians and several nurses who are not viewed by the workers as advocates for better emergency care. The medical department’s motivation, assert the petitioners, is to return injured workers to work as soon as possible to avoid productivity losses. On the other shifts, there are no physicians but there are nurses.
Hydra-Matic management is not pleased with the petitioners’ view of emergency medical care at the plant. GM claims that things are up to snuff and that the United Auto Workers’ local there is not sharing in the dissent. The dissident workers say that neither the union local nor the Detroit inspector of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are responding to their grievances.
This view is in marked contrast to the official GM view.
In a few weeks, the United Auto Workers will convene a conference of members to discuss what health and safety issues should be part of the next contract bargaining sessions with management. Emergency medical care should be on the agenda. It is one of the most neglected areas of plant safety and one where many of the medical staff are torn between pressures to shield management from liability and their professional duty to worker health.
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Since the OSHA safety law was passed in 1970, tragedies and medical evidence have accumulated to show how more than 115,000 workers die of worker-related diseases and injuries every year, in addition to the greater number of disabilities.
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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday threatened to inflict “very strong blows” on Hamas after fresh violence along the border with the Gaza Strip controlled by the Islamist group. “Hamas has apparently not understood the message — if these attacks do not stop, they will be stopped in another way, in the form of very, very strong blows”, Netanyahu said during the weekly cabinet meeting. If Hamas is intelligent, it will cease fire and violence now”, he added. | 2019-04-19T16:38:26Z | http://health.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/blows39/ |
As is the German automaker's wont, the new 5 Series Sedan comes crammed with technology serving both the driveline and in-cabin creature comforts. Notably, the first shipping iteration of wireless CarPlay is joined by optional assisted driving modes, adaptive cruise control, a heads-up display, and voice and gesture control.
"And smartphone integration has been further improved - from Apple CarPlay (which, in a first for a carmaker, has been incorporated fully wirelessly), to inductive phone charging and the WiFi hotspot for up to ten devices," BMW says.
CarPlay links to BMW's iDrive system, which in the 5 Series throws telephone, navigation, entertainment and car function information onto a central 10.25-inch touchscreen. Drivers interact with the system via the iDrive Touch Controller, voice commands, gestures, or direct taps on the screen. While left unmentioned in the press release, it is assumed that CarPlay takes over part or all of the widescreen display when activated.
Unlike traditional CarPlay iterations, the version set to debut in next year's 5 Series is completely wireless, meaning users can take advantage of available iOS 10 features without fumbling for a Lightning cable. Alongside wireless CarPlay, buyers can add on options like a Wi-Fi hotspot and a Qi-based inductive phone charger (iPhone users can buy an official BMW wireless charging case for their iPhone 5/5s and 6/6s models).
After years of going without, BMW finally jumped on the CarPlay wagon in May when it announced plans to roll out two vehicles with support for Apple's infotainment augmentation.
BMW isn't the only automaker looking to integrate wireless CarPlay into its lineup. Volkswagen, for example, was ready to showcase the technology at CES in January, though Apple reportedly nixed those plans.
Wireless CarPlay debuted in a beta version of iOS 8 last year, later arriving as an official feature in iOS 9. Like the original wired CarPlay system, Automakers have been slow to adopt the wireless technology. | 2019-04-18T20:38:31Z | https://appleinsider.com/articles/16/10/13/bmws-2017-5-series-sedan-to-be-first-car-with-support-for-wireless-carplay |
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Whether you are talking about a breakfast cereal called Corn Flakes or one called Flakes of Corn may not sound a big deal in the human world, but when it comes to exchanging information about products in the supply chain it could mean the difference between getting paid or not.
Gathering product data and maintaining it accurately in a standard format so that it can be used in electronic trade sounds like a no brainer, but product data synchronisation, as its is called, has proved a tough nut to crack.
For four years GS1, the European body responsible for bar coding and radio frequency identification (RFID), has been building up a worldwide system for swapping product data called the Global Data Synchronisation Network (GDSN).
The GDSN, which started in August 2004, now consists of 26 local data pools covering 50 countries in which suppliers deposit information about the attributes of their wares according to strict rules. In January this year, GS1 announced it had amassed details of two million products worldwide, twice as many as a year earlier.
The data is accessed by retailers and others via a global registry that acts as a kind of telephone exchange, directing calls to the appropriate data pool. Product information – tied to the 14-digit global trade identification number (GTIN) – is used in logistics, accounting and warehouse applications.
Accurately identifying goods is vital to efficient business transactions. Cash and carry firm Makro, part of the German Metro Group, says it suffers from the fact that over three per cent of its invoices contain invalid GTINs that cause failures in its systems, at a cost of nearly €1m per year.
Makro has also been experiencing problems with missing or inaccurate product dimensions which resulted in queries on an average 500 orders per year. The company says the errors also cause problems in planning shelves and in warehouse operations.
The company has started to use data synchronisation to align supplier product data so that just one description for each item is used in the supply chain. The first step is to carry out data cleansing to eliminate errors from data already stored about products.
Although Makro has not completed the move to data synchronisation, it already sees improvements, according to Philip Steedman, the firm”s e-commerce manager. Introducing new lines used to take a week because of the time involved in gathering information and filling in forms. Now the exercise can be completed in 24 hours with the help of the GDSN.
However, both suppliers and retailers have been slow to adopt synchronisation. One of the reasons is that getting accurate data posted in the pools involves a lot of hard work. Information has to be collected from different parts of a manufacturing organisation and that can be quite labour intensive because individual products must be weighed and measured.
Another reason that suppliers have been dragging their feet is that retailers, who call the shots in such matters, have been slow to insist that they put data on the GDSN. This despite the fact that some of the leading lights in supply chain automation including Wal-Mart, Metro and Ahold are committed to synchronisation.
In the UK some 1,000 suppliers have joined the network and nine retailers including Boots, Comet and Spar. Originally, GS1 had forecast that there would be 3,000 suppliers and 300,000 products on its books in the UK by the end of 2005. The organisation admits its estimates have been over optimistic.
Significantly, Tesco, the UK”s biggest supermarket company, is not a part of the UK data pool. When GDSN was launched in 2005, Tesco”s IT director highlighted the question of data quality. Smaller and medium-sized companies, he said, had not taken steps to address the issue.
Accurate data is critical to making data synchronisation work, especially when data is used in important business documents such as orders and invoices. Often quoted research by management consultancy AT Kearney revealed some time ago that a third of data in retail catalogues contains errors.
When the company looked at invoices it discovered 60 per cent contained errors because of mistakes in the data used to draw them up. As much of 3.5 per cent of sales are lost each year due to supply chain inefficiencies, AT Kearny concluded. These glitches cost between €60 to €90 to rectify, said the consultancy.
GS1 is aware of the data quality problem. When it set up its UK operation it contracted a company called Udex to clean up errors such as spelling mistakes, bad punctuation and wrong abbreviations. Product data also suffers from multiple variations of the same product and missing or incorrect weights.
Data pools store data about a minimum 52 aspects of a product such as its weight, dimensions, GTIN and so on. The price of a product is not a compulsory part of the mix, although individual trading partners may exchange price information.
The information held in the synchronisation network has many uses. Retailers can use it to learn more about their business. One retailer has looked up information about packaging to estimate the amount of cardboard and plastic waste the company is likely to have to deal with.
Suppliers adopt data synchronisation to ensure that customers use the right GTINs and to simplify the process of informing customers about new lines. R & R Ice Cream, one of Europe”s largest ice cream makers, says data synchronisation has been a key factor in driving up service levels over the last three years. The company introduces a new product or change to an existing product each day in the fast changing ice cream business. It has to supply customers with details of up to 20 ingredients in a typical product.
R & R has used the UK data pool to provide more accurate information to customers at a lower cost. ”Because the data we deliver to customers is more accurate and they are using the correct GTINs we see fewer failures and exceptions when getting products listed in our EDI-based ordering and invoicing,” notes Bemrose.
For now GS1 is concentrating on the fast moving consumer goods that have been allocated GTINs. The EPC code that is used for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is not included. ”At the moment EPC is not part of the solution because it is not as developed (as GTIN codes),” says Besford.
However, experts point out that synchronisation is also vital to effective use of RFID. ”You can”t use RFID if data synchronisation is not 100 per cent,” says Eddy van Herbruggen, group specialist RFID at services company Zetes. ”I have no doubt it will happen, although that may be some time off.” But for now, GS1 is concentrating on persuading more retailers and suppliers of the business benefits of data synchronisation. | 2019-04-25T22:11:38Z | https://www.logisticsandsupplychain.com/1546-getting-in-sync/ |
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Bowery Gallery is pleased to present a collection of Tony Serio’s landscapes that examine nature in the urban setting. The show is Nov. 27- Dec. 22, 2018.
Paintings in this show were done on site along the Hudson River Greenway and Fort Tryon Park in Northern Manhattan.
In these recent landscapes, we see Serio’s compositions growing and evolving more spontaneously. While taking cues from nature he reveals the particular character of the place.
“Bridge and Walkway” contrasts concrete structures against lush greens of the foliage which become a theatrical canopy for community gatherings to unfold.
After recent visits to the Prado in Spain and studying the old masters Serio started exploring the use of black to extend his color range to a new depth. He uses a deeper and darker tonality while retaining a rich luminosity.
In “Winter Night Reflections,” Serio explores multiple nocturnal light sources from the bridge as street lights punctuate the weighty dark masses of trees. The mood of a winter’s night is felt.
Then there’s “Fort Tryon Pines,” where broad diagonal swipes of the palette knife abstractly define pine trees and a rocky cliff with brilliant light and deep shadows.
“Tony Serio’s landscapes revel in leaps of space.…As with Bonnard, shifts of space and scale reveal not just topography, but also the character of the objects within.” —John Goodrich.
Tony Serio studied at MICA and Yale University. He has received two grants from the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMMA), the Alice B. Kimball Traveling Fellowship from Yale University and an award from the Drawing Center in Manhattan. His paintings are in many private collections and Columbia University.
Tony Serio/ Urban Nature is running concurrently with Lynn Kotula’s show . | 2019-04-19T09:11:32Z | https://bowerygallery.wordpress.com/2018/11/16/tony-serio-urban-nature/ |
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If you decide to hire a personal injury attorney for your case, how are they paid? Almost every Iowa personal injury attorney will agree to take your case on what is called a contigency fee. Which means, unless the qualified attorney is able to get you compensation, you will not have to pay any attorney fees. Unlike some attorneys, we do not ask for you to pay anything in advance because we understand you may be struggling financially after being injured. | 2019-04-25T06:16:04Z | https://www.iowainjured.com/video/if-you-hire-an-attorney-how-is-your-attorney-paid-.cfm |
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You might be here for inspiration. You might be here for empowerment. You might be here for…something else. In any case, we’re bringing the heat on some top-notch games and apps.
Aside from being great, they have one more thing in common—they were designed by women.
Less than a quarter of game makers in the industry are women. About 50 years ago…there was one woman designing games.
It’s amazing to think there was a time when only one woman was working in the industry—but it’s also amazing to think about how less than 25% of the industry workforce are female after half a century.
As we continue to fight the good fight for equality, liberty, and video game-induced happiness for all, it’s worth taking a look at some of the great games and apps that have come out over the years—specifically games and apps designed by women.
This is a history lesson, an education session, a celebration of achievement (against extra adversity), and an empowerment of all people to stand up for what’s right and to follow their dreams, no matter the roadblocks.
They’re not great for games and apps designed by women. They’re great games and apps period—And they’re designed by women.
Time to learn a thing or two about game design!
That’s right, the first “best” game is actually a two-for-one deal.
It’s a twofer because Speedway didn’t take up all the room on the cartridge, and Tag didn’t warrant its own cartridge.
A twofer is born. Synergy.
This game combo gets recognition because its designer was a real trailblazer—for women and the industry.
These games were created by Joyce Weisbecker back in the late 1960s (1967 to be exact).
Joyce’s father worked for RCA at the time. At a time when computers could cost $6,000-$25,000 dollars, Joyce’s father managed to build his own computer, called FRED, in his basement.
Long story short, RCA pulled from the FRED design and built their own version of the home computer—for which they wanted some games.
She’d been encouraged by her father to program on the family computer from a young age. While she was home on break from college, he asked her if she wanted to make a game for RCA.
One thing led to another, and Joyce put together these two games. But she wasn’t an employee of RCA—she was contracted to do this work.
This means she was the first woman to design games, and also the first female indie game developer (the first female video game designer credit is widely misattributed to Carol Shaw with her 3D Tic-Tac-Toe release for the Atari 2600—also impressive, just inaccurate, as that came after Speedway—Tag).
Speedway is a racing game, where player one controls a white rectangle and player two controls a white rectangle with a black dot in the middle. You raced each other around a simple track. Graphics have come a long way.
Tag was simply two dots. Whoever was “it” had to get their square dot to touch the other player’s square dot. Every tag was worth 10 points.
Centipede was a smash-hit arcade game that debuted in 1980.
If you haven’t played it, you basically dodge and shoot bugs (gamers are spoiled these days).
But it’s true. The titular centipede winds its way down from the top of the screen, and it’s up to you to shoot away all its body segments. The whole time you’re dodging spiders, scorpions, and other bugs.
Dona Bailey designed this winner of a game (along with Ed Logg), but left the industry for 26 years after its release—”it was the pressure and criticism from her male counterparts which drove her from the business.” But not before she could leave her mark by inspiring future games for decades to come.
You can grab it for $14.99 on Steam (where it has received very positive reviews).
It’s a game that doesn’t have the typical challenges of issuing death unto others while avoiding it yourself—it’s “just hours of blissing out to buttery-smooth gravity goodness.” Which sounds like a nice break from a crazy world.
Ivy Games is the indie game label behind Gravity Ghost. And Erin Robinson is the indie video game developer behind Ivy Games. She’s been developing games since 2005, and teaches and speaks publicly as well. Her games can be innovative, introspective, and influential.
This list is game-heavy, but we do want to mention this app.
Roni Frank (and her husband Oren) are the masterminds behind this app. You start by chatting with a “matching therapist to identify your therapy needs.” Plans start for as low as $32 per week—once you select your plan, Talkspace will match you with the therapist that best fits your needs.
The app guarantees 1-2 responses per day from your therapist (and you can message them at any time)—there’s also the option to schedule a video chat for longer talks.
In a crazy world where it’s easy to lose hope or even just feel overwhelmed, having anytime-access to professional, judgment-free help can be life-changing.
Portal is a super fun puzzle game from Valve…but the idea for Portal started as a different game: Narbacular Drop.
Kim Swift designed Narbacular Drop with help from fellow DigiPen graduates. The Narbacular Drop gameplay mechanics are based on portals. And, if you watch the Narbacular Drop gameplay, the similarities between it and Portal are very apparent (even the portal colors are similar).
After getting wind of Narbacular Drop, Valve hired Swift and co. to bring Portal to life—and they certainly did, with great success.
Portal involves solving a number of puzzles using—you guessed it—portals! Your character has a portal gun which can create and sustain two portals at one time. You just aim at a solid surface and shoot. This leads to some trippy puzzles that involve everything from capitalizing on gravity to calling on companion cubes.
The industry goes crazy over Swift, and Forbes named her a top 30 under 30 in the games and apps industry.
OK, that’s right, Loopin’ Louie is your bonus.
It’s a board game, you see.
There’s a crazy man (named Louie) who flies his airplane in a circle (Louie’s plane is attached to an arm which is attached to a motorized base).
The problem here is, your chicken farm is directly in Louie’s flight path!
You and three other players have to use your paddle to knock Louie and his plane up and over your chickens. If he hits your chickens three times, you lose.
Carol Wiseley is the mastermind behind this game. Without her, my childhood, my friendships, and my plane-paddling skills would be profoundly different. | 2019-04-20T18:51:09Z | https://www.gamedesigning.org/gaming/made-by-women/ |
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Tour of the Historical Clock and Watch Makers research site "
The website contains details of thousands of watch and clock makers. Some records are just a single trade directory entry and others are more detailed biographies.
There are two ways of finding out if the maker you want is listed. The easiest way is to use the 'Search The Indexes' box on the right hand side of the web page.
You can enter the surname, town or a single key word and look for that word in the index of the clock and watchmakers referenced on this website. The search is set up to default to searching for a whole word, so that if you search for 'Harris' you do not get the listings for Harrison etc. If you select 'Part word or phrase' then the search results will include any record that the letters 'harris' appear in such as Harrison etc.
The other method of finding the details is by using the indexes directly. These are stored in surname order. To access the indexes, click the 'A-Z Indexes' link at the top of each page.
You will then be taken to the first page and you can select the letter you want. | 2019-04-23T02:09:43Z | https://www.clockswatches.co.uk/tour1.php |
I have always been a big fan of gambling, and the internet has given me, even more, chances to enjoy my favorite games. In fact, the online gambling opportunities in New Jersey have provided me, even more, fun while I am in the area.
Unlike my home state, the laws in New Jersey are different regarding gambling. That is why I try to plan business trips there whenever possible. With the online casino, I can have some fun while I am in my room or even riding between the airport, hotel and other places I need to go.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the nomination of Daniel Therrien as the next Privacy Commissioner of Canada. Therrien is currently Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Public Safety, Defence and Immigration Portfolio, at the Department of Justice.
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) has commenced a legal proceeding in the Ontario Superior Court to have parts of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) declared unconstitutional.
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has revised and supplemented its published Frequently Asked Questions on Canada's anti-spam legislation (CASL).
Earlier today, the Federal, Alberta and British Columbia Privacy Commissioners released new Guidelines for Online Consent with the goal of helping "organizations understand the importance of being transparent about their online privacy practices."
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada announced yesterday that the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) will focus its 2014 international Privacy Sweep on mobile apps. | 2019-04-21T02:42:27Z | http://www.accessprivacy.com/News/List/2014/5 |
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Victoria is a provincial capital and one of Canada's finest destinations. Here you'll find warmly welcoming pubs, the province's finest cuisine and popular venues like Butchart Gardens. Just don’t forget to include the time-honoured tradition of afternoon tea at the Empress Hotel in your itinerary.
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