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How to view the system registry by using 64-bit versions of Windows
This article describes how to view the Windows registry by using 64-bit versions of Windows.
The registry in 64-bit versions of Windows is divided into 32-bit and 64-bit keys. Many of the 32-bit keys have the same names as their 64-bit counterparts, and vice versa.
The default 64-bit version of Registry Editor (Regedit.exe) that is included with 64-bit versions of Windows displays both 64-bit keys and 32-bit keys. The WOW64 registry redirector presents 32-bit programs with different keys for 32-bit program registry entries. In the 64-bit version of Registry Editor, 32-bit keys are displayed under the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\WOW6432Node
You can view or edit both 64-bit and 32-bit registry keys and values by using the default 64-bit version of Registry Editor. To view or edit 64-bit keys, you must use the 64-bit version of Registry Editor (Regedit.exe). You can also view or edit 32-bit keys and values by using the 32-bit version of Registry Editor in the %systemroot%\Syswow64 folder. There are no differences in the way you perform tasks between the 32-bit version of Registry Editor and the 64-bit version of Registry Editor. To open the 32-bit version of Registry Editor, follow these steps:
Click Start, and then click Run.
In the Open box, type %systemroot%\syswow64\regedit, and then click OK.
Note You must close the 64-bit version of Registry Editor before you can open the 32-bit version (and vice versa) unless you start the second instance of Registry Editor with the -m switch. For example, if the 64-bit version of Registry Editor is already running, type %systemroot%\syswow64\regedit -m in step 2 to start the 32-bit version of Registry Editor.
To support the co-existence of 32-bit and 64-bit COM registration and program states, WOW64 presents 32-bit programs with an alternate view of the registry. 32-bit programs see a 32-bit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software tree (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\WOW6432Node) that is completely separate from the true 64-bit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software tree. This isolates HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, because the per-computer portion of this tree resides within the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software
To enable 64-bit/32-bit program interoperability through COM and other mechanisms, WOW64 uses a "Registry Reflector" that mirrors certain registry keys and values between the 64-bit and 32-bit registry views. The reflector is "intelligent", in that is only reflects COM activation data.
Reflected Keys
The WOW64 Registry reflector may modify the contents of keys and values during the reflection process to adjust path names, and so on. Because of this, the 32-bit and 64-bit contents may differ. For example, pathnames that contain the system32 registry entry are written as SysWOW64 in the 32-bit section of the registry. The following keys are reflected:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\COM3
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Ole
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\EventSystem
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The 2019 boys tennis team has had a slow yet promising start to their season.
The team is both young and full of talent, which should lead to success in the future.
The captains of the varsity team include seniors Alexander Walmer, Christian Collins and Marin Thomas.
So far, Collins believes this season has been tough but enjoyable.
“I would say that thus far, the tennis season has been a very enjoyable time. I definitely enjoy the team dynamic, and I do think that the matches and everything that we do before and after are really cool. Although I am slightly upset whenever practice is canceled, and I don’t think that we’ve had as many practices as we would have liked, my main complaint is that I would like more tennis which I think sums up my thoughts pretty well,” said Collins.
Junior Ian Mcdonald has been playing for the high school team for three years now; he believes the team always rallies together to support one another in the end.
Although the tennis team is 5 – 11 thus far, this year’s season has been “one of the best years we’ve had team bonding wise” said McDonald.
“The underclassman and the upperclassman are all friends, and there isn’t a single person on the tennis team who seems to be singled out of anything,” said McDonald.
Although it is key to include everyone through team bonding, the team hasn’t achieved a complete balance in working together.
“I think that a pretty decent weakness that we have is that sometimes as a team we struggle to work together- especially in doubles, and I do think that as a team we probably need more practice to hone each of our individual skills….,” said Collins.
A few of the team members also believe that the line up may be affecting the outcome of their matches.
“The line ups keep changing,and no one knows who will be playing until the day of the match,” said Walmer.
Unfortunately, the tennis team will lose Walmer, Collins and Thomas next year, but there is said to be little to no impact based on this.
“I really don’t think that there will be any massive changes because once again we are a very young team and it’s the first year for Marin and I as he’s from France and this is my first year playing tennis, so I think that Alex will probably have the biggest impact,” said Collins.
A few of the players who deserve recognition this year would be Marin Thomas because he
“stepped up and did what he needed to do,” said Walmer
Sophomore Michael Watkins has been playing for only two years and still manages to compete with the varsity players.
Collins believes that his doubles partner, Walmer, deserves some recognition as well.
“He’s definitely helped me improve my tennis a great deal,” said Collins.
One of the few changes the seniors wish would be made for next year are to “keep the mud off the courts,” said Walmer
So far the tennis team is 4th in the division and still has a long season left. There next game will be April 24th at Hanover High school tennis courts.
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Some thoughts into Planning for the Flood Relief in Sindh
Over the past two days our team of volunteers at Motorsports Club of Pakistan and the OffroadPakistan have been in some intense discussion on what might be the best course of action. We have been busy raising funds locally and commitments have reached to a tune of close to Rs. 2.5 million. The online drive at SARelief has touched $2278 from a few generous donors, as the message spreads im sure this easy PayPal payment option, so close to the Islamic month of Ramadan will most likely get a considerable level of funding for the devastation in Pakistan.
Flood has started to reach Sindh from the last two days, the winding Indus river which curves and twists across Sindh is likely to significantly change the terrain for a long time to come, it is anticipated that with the immense pressure of the water it is definite that the water will overrun the pre charted course of the Indus River and alter its embankments cutting a new course towards the sea spreading its wings wide across the plains of Sindh in its due course.
A few major concerns do remain, the question that lurks in the minds of many, will the barrages hold up. It seems the Sukkur barrage is as of now holding strong, credit can be equated to calculated and unplanned rupture of a few embankments upstream which have helped soften the pressure of the main flood, these leaks will continue to seep the pressure and lessen the impact in sindh, sadly it also does mean more flooding in the affected areas.
The most damage is happening in many low lying areas or the katcha villages, the population that inhabited these areas was forewarned and has been able to scamper towards safety meaning minimal loss of human life as seen in the Pakhtoonkhwa region where the poor folks never expected these floods, The devastation of property and crops will be exorbitantly high all across the country.
There are reports that the Government of Pakistan has provided these disaster area with sufficient funds for evacuation and basic support, some of the nazims, MPAs and MNAs have utilize the funds judiciously and these areas are fortunate to be faring well, but quite a large area of Sindh lies at the hand of corrupt leaders and feudalz who chose to siphon off the disaster relief into their own pockets, these localities are mostly suffering it is also being reported that it is these areas where the screams for aid is the largest. Its sad that even at times of disaster the corrupt are heartless even in such a situation.
Another concern that has come to light from a few strategic planners is to monitor the situation as the flood finally makes its way into the Arabian Sea, the mere mammoth amount of flood water colliding with the ocean will create a backlash, with high tide coming in there are good chances that the area surrounding areas will be inundated for example Keti Bunder, which are large plains at sea level will be at best drowned, Karachi is too far to be threatened but the marsh areas near the mouth of the Indus will be bad
There are various concerns with taking relief deep into Sindh, firstly one must asses the vehicular traffic going up north as two highways serve Sindh, Indus and the National Highway. The proximity of the Indus River to both must be monitored with care, the looping Indus River might wash away some major sections of the highway making the areas beyond it inaccessible. The road beyond Sukkur is already inaccessibly meaning Kashmore, Gothki and Shikarpur are already cut away from Karachi, as the flood flows southward more regions are to be affected hence impacting the delivery of relief goods and volunteer transportation, we would not like to risk the noble effort but accidentally creating more of a mess.
The flooding will generally subside in 10-12 days, though Sukkur barrage still awaits one major push of water which is expected to hit the area in few days, after which water levels will go down. The displaced people who have run to high ground with bare minimal belongings in tow will return after the flooding reduces and then hope to rebuild their homes
At the moment these refugees need cooked food, as there is no wood and shortage of eatables, if relief agencies plan then a kitchen is one best sought after relief, manning this for 10-12 days cooking 2 meals a day of rice and daal, one only needs a dependable volunteer commitment and decent logistical support, security I am told will be provided by the local administration as there is a definite chance of stampede at each meal.
The flood affected people also need medical assistance, snake bites, mosquitoes, and relief from other water borne diseases. It has been repeatedly suggested not to over burden these people with other relief goods while they are in temporary shelter as in a few days they will return, if they are showered with large quantities of relief rations it will be next to impossible for them to carry it all back, in these days the greed of stockpiling will overcome the actual needs of these poor dislocated people. Opportune time for relief goods, building material and other essential items can be strategically sent 10-12 days later when they are closer to their houses
Our effort with the Motorsports Club of Pakistan is to send out a scouting team with some minimal aid to evaluate and help the needy in whatever way possible, mostly medical assistance, return safely with sufficient information to plan for the larger push 10 odd days later after the flood has subsided and the roads are capable of transporting relief trucks up into deeper areas of Sindh.
It is expected that Faisal Kapadia and I [Awab Alvi] along with a few more friends cram into 3-4 offroad vehicles to embark on the scouting trip into sindh for 2-3 days, where then we can better gauge the impact of flood in the region. I hope to keep everyone posted as more information becomes available with time .
PS- This post has been a summary of the abundant discussion we have had over the past two days in planning for the Flood Relief effort to Sindh, if I am mistaken at a certain point or if I am wrong to have reached a certain conclusion then please correct me, my attempt is to share all the information as best as I have understood
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Aamir Mughal | August 11th, 2010
You are doing an excellent and commendable and Allah will reward you and your Team for this. Insha Allah.
Sadia Hussain | August 11th, 2010
The flood relief operations need to be well planned and then executed accordingly, the NDMA and other government departments need to estimate how much aid needs to be directed to a specific region. For instance Saudi Arab has announced relief supplies worth 100 million USD to be airlifted. The role of the government is to distribute these supplies swiftly so that successful relief operations will enclosure to donors to increase the aid supplies
dr jawad khan | August 12th, 2010
I believe that this could be only practical and useful approach for helping the othe people in current scenario.We have seen what is done with the generocities of the people in 2005 earth quake and now we can see the the unwillingness and hasitation of the common people to donate.
Collect and dispence by yourself is a great idea.
wish you best of luck.
Sincere Pakistani | August 16th, 2010
dr jawad khan !!!!
i like your idea "Collect and dispence by yourself" but don't give to these present looters, specially never pay in the a/cs of Zardari & Gillani.
Engr Abdul Rauf Qure | September 4th, 2010
I would like to divert your attention that PDMA has not even given figures of disaster in sindh province accurately despite submitted reports by sindh government, which an injustice for the people displaced in sindh provinces.
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Shaikh al-Albaani
Translations From His Works
Category: Signs of the Hour
The Signs of the Hour … 2
Translated by Ahmed Abu Turaab
Trials only increased after The False Prophet
Shaikh al-Albaani continued, “As for the prophet of Qadiyan, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, then he came and the trials and tribulations continued to increase after him, and the humiliation of the Muslims increased day after day. So where is the peace and security of Jesus, عليه الصلاة والسلام, and the rule of Islaam such that all people become rich, no poverty-stricken person found among them? Especially [among] the people of India among whom this false claimant to prophethood resided, they are from the poorest of the people on the earth. So the reality of the call of Ghulam Ahmad al-Qadiyani gives the lie to his claim of prophethood and [to the delivery of a] message, putting aside the fact that he contradicted that which is fundamentally and necessarily known about the religion: that there is no Prophet after Muhammad, عليه الصلاة والسلام. He, عليه الصلاة والسلام, said, “Prophethood and the [delivery of any new] message have ceased. There is no prophet and no messenger after me.” So everyone who claims prophethood … even if he philosophises about it as the Qadiani did [saying] that prophethood is of two types: prophethood of revelation and prophethood of legislation. So the Qadiani claimed that the prophethood which had ceased was that which legislates and that only that of revelation, which does not necessitate the prophethood of legislation, is the one that will remain until the end of time.
And this is a lie.
Rather it is disbelief due to its opposing the texts of the Book and the Sunnah and opposing the consensus of the Ummah, since it is united [upon the fact] that there is no prophet after the Prophet, صلى الله عليه وسلم, so there is no difficulty for anyone [to accept] the descent of Jesus, عليه الصلاة والسلام, because Jesus will not come with a new prophethood nor a new Legislation [Sharee’ah] nor new revelation.
He will instead come and judge with the Book and the Sunnah.
This is Jesus for whose [descent] at the end of time [i.e., at end of this worldly life] Allaah would have prepared the way through a man from the family of the Prophet, صلى الله عليه وسلم. And indeed [that man] is Muhammad the son of Abdullaah the Mahdi. This is the Mahdi which you hear much about, some of what you hear is correct and some things are not so.
And maybe you have heard from many people that there are those who reject the coming of the Mahdi. There is a book written by the famous author Ahmad Ameen called The Mahdi and The Mahdaawees, in it he denies the coming of the Mahdi, and this equates to being a rejection of the authentic sayings of the Prophet reported in the books of the Sunnah: that Muhammad the son of Abdullaah the Mahdi will come before the descent of Jesus as the one who paves the way for Jesus.
From the sayings of the Prophet, صلى الله عليه وسلم, which speak about the Mahdi who will come before Jesus and meet him, is his saying, عليه الصلاة والسلام, “The world will not end until Allaah sends a man whose name is the same as my name and whose father’s name is the same as my father’s name. He will fill the world with justice and fairness just as it had been filled with injustice and oppression.”[1] And from these hadiths is the hadith, “The Mahdi is from us, the people of the house [i.e., of the Prophet, from the family of the Prophet]. Allaah will prepare him in one night.”[2]
Where will Jesus, peace be upon him, descend?
And they think that Jesus, عليه الصلاة والسلام, will come down at that minaret and they interpret that previous hadith, “He will descend by the white minaret, [in the] east[ern part] of Damascus …” they explain this hadith [by saying that it is referring to] the minaret which is present today east of the Amawi mosque–and this is an incorrect explanation. That is because the Prophet, صلى الله عليه وسلم, said, “He will descend by the white minaret …” and not from the [actual] minaret, and there is a big difference [between the two]. They say, “He will descend in the minaret, then he will come down to the mosque from the minaret,” and the Prophet, صلى الله عليه وسلم, says, “He will descend by the white minaret …” Neither did he say, “East of the mosque …” but rather, “… [in the] east[ern part] of Damascus …” it is obligatory upon us not to add to the sayings of the Prophet, صلى الله عليه وسلم, that which is not from it.
So the Prophet, صلى الله عليه وسلم, spoke the truth: “Jesus will descend by the white minaret, [in the] east[ern part] of Damascus …” And this differs with the passage of time: east Damascus at the time Damascus was conquered was close to the Amawi mosque, and you know that part of Damascus was taken peacefully and the other part through force. So the eastern gate which was east of the Amawi mosque was the end of [the city limit of] Damascus in those days. As for today, then as you can see in all cities that which was east is now west due to the spread of buildings and [only] Allaah knows where east Damascus will have spread to.
The point of proof here is that Jesus will descend and the prayer will have been established, the morning [fajr] prayer for Muhammad ibn Abdullaah [Imaam] Mahdi [to lead], so when he sees Jesus, Imaam Mahdi will recognise him and ask him to go forward [to lead the prayer] but he will reply that no, I will not go forward.”
Al-Fataawaa al-Muhimmah lil-Allaamah Muhammad Naasirud-Deen al-Albaani, of Salaahud-Deen Mahmood as-Sa’eed, pp. 290-291.
[1] An authentic hadith. Reported by Abu Dawud (4282) and at-Tirmidhee (2230) who said, “Hasan Saheeh.”
[2] An authentic hadith. Reported by Ahmad (1/84), and Ahmad Shaakir (645) said, “Its chain of narration is authentic.” Also reported by Ibn Maajah (4075) and al-Albaani declared it to be hasan in As-Saheehah (2371).
The Signs of the Hour and
the False Prophet Mirza Ghulam Ahmad al-Qadiyani
Question: As regards the establishment of the Hour, there are lesser signs and major signs and especially Gog and Magog?
Shaikh al-Albaani: Dividing the signs [of the Day of Judgement] into minor and major is a technical division [used] amongst the scholars and it is not something which has been reported from the Prophet, صلى الله عليه وسلم–but when such terminology does not go against the Book nor the Sunnah then there is no problem [in using it]. No doubt the brother’s question that what is said should be about the major signs of the Hour is by way of starting with the most important thing first and then the most important after that in knowledge.
There are many major signs but from the most important of them which the respected questioner made special reference to is the descent of Jesus, عليه الصلاة والسلام, at the end of time, his killing of the major Dajjaal, and then Gog and Magog after that. These are three of the major signs of the Hour: the descent of Jesus, عليه الصلاة والسلام, the appearance of Dajjaal, Jesus’, عليه الصلاة والسلام, killing him, and the appearance of Gog and Magog.
As for Jesus, عليه الصلاة والسلام, then his descent near the end of time is an Islamic belief which it is incumbent upon every Muslim to take as religion before Allaah, and to worship Him through it, having faith and attesting to [the truth of] the Prophet, صلى الله عليه وسلم, by way of the numerous hadiths which have been reported from him in the two Sahihs and other than them [regarding him]. From these is the Prophet’s, صلى الله عليه وسلم, saying, “Verily, Jesus the son of Mary will descend among you as a just judge. And so [he] will break the cross and kill the pigs, and wealth will become so abundant that no one will accept it. And a [single] prostration that day will be more beloved to a believer than the world and everything in it.” [Bukhaari and Muslim]. This is one of the many hadiths in which the Prophet, صلى الله عليه وسلم, openly declared the descent of Jesus, عليه الصلاة والسلام, at the end of time, so it is obligatory that we know that the descent of Jesus at the end of time does not negate the end of prophethood or the end of the message.
For there is a group of people known as Qaadiyanis and they call themselves Ahmadis trying to [falsely] portray that they are followers of Muhammad ibn Abdullaah, صلى الله عليه وسلم, the Prophet of Islaam. But in reality they associate themselves with their false prophet called Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. For this reason they misinterpret the descent of Jesus, عليه الصلاة والسلام, by saying that it means the coming of someone who resembles Jesus and by that they are referring to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad al-Qadiyani. So it is obligatory upon us to know the characteristics which have been reported about Jesus, عليه الصلاة والسلام, who will descend at the end of time and which were not fulfilled by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad al-Qadiyani and neither were they fulfilled by those other than him who claimed to be prophets or Imaam Mahdi.
Because one of the principal signs of Jesus is that he is Jesus the son of Mary not [just someone called] Jesus in general, rather he is the son of Mary, the Prophet of Allaah, صلى الله عليه وسلم, the Prophet of the Children of Israel–this is the one who will descend and when he does he will not do so with a new prophethood, nor with a new message. But he will descend and judge by the Sharee’ah of our Prophet Muhammad, صلى الله عليه وسلم, especially when Jesus descended after Moses, to complete some of the laws which [Allaah’s] Wisdom of legislating determined that he should come with, or which Allaah sent down to Jesus, عليه الصلاة والسلام, after Moses, عليهما الصلاة والسلام.
And you all know that when the Prophet, صلى الله عليه وسلم, saw a page in the hand of Umar and asked him about it he replied that it was from the Torah so the Prophet, صلى الله عليه وسلم, questioned him about it and he replied, “A man from the Jews wrote it for me.” So he, عليه الصلاة والسلام, became angry and said, “Are you confused as the Jews and the Christians were confused?! By the One in Whose Hand is my soul! If Moses were alive he would not have any choice but to follow me.”[1] Likewise Jesus, عليه السلام, if he were alive on the face of the earth the day the Prophet, صلى الله عليه وسلم, was sent he would have had no choice but to follow the Prophet, صلى الله عليه وسلم.
And it is known that Allaah, the Blessed and Most High, took the Covenant from all of the Messengers and Prophets that if He sent Muhammad, صلى الله عليه وسلم, amongst them they would follow and support him. For this reason the descent of Jesus at the end of time does not negate the fact that the Prophet, صلى الله عليه وسلم, was the Seal of the Prophets and Messengers as the Lord of all Creation said, “Muhammad is not the father of [any] one of your men, but [he is] the Messenger of Allaah and Seal [i.e.,the last] of the Prophets …” [Al-Ahzaab 33:40]
He is the Seal of the Prophets before the descent of Jesus and after the descent of Jesus.
For Jesus, عليه الصلاة والسلام, will descend and judge with the Book and the Sunnah, for this reason the Prophet, صلى الله عليه وسلم, said in a hadith, “Verily, Jesus the son of Mary will descend among you as a just judge …” so he will judge with the Book and the Sunnah justly between the people not oppressing anyone. The proof for this is that he will break the cross which his followers have taken as [a means of] disbelief and tyranny, [something] Jesus did not order them with –far be it for him ever to do so–but after about one hundred years his followers deviated from the Law [Sharee’ah] of the Gospel [Injeel] and it, naturally, was Islaam, and there is no difference in Islaam as regards creed [aqidah]. For all of the Messengers, from the first to the last, from Adam, the first Prophet, to Muhammad, the last Prophet, عليهم الصلاة والسلام–all of them came with Islaam. The difference is only in some [specific] rulings.
So when Jesus, عليه الصلاة والسلام, descends as a just judge he will break the cross to confirm and establish for his followers that they are [standing] upon nothing and that they are upon manifest misguidance, likewise he will kill the pigs, i.e., he will judge [with the ruling that] it is forbidden to eat their meat and he will judge that they be annihilated and eradicated, confirming to those who claim to follow him or who make the pig lawful [to eat] that it is not from him but rather from the monks who innovated laws for the people of their own accord.
So these [are the] matters [that] are from the characteristics of Jesus, عليه الصلاة والسلام, and from the most important of them is that peace and tranquillity will dominate and prevail over the people in those days such that all of the people will become affluent, satisfied with the rule of Islaam which Allaah will bring about of at the hands of Jesus, عليه الصلاة والسلام. For every single one of them would have acquired sustenance which pleases and satisfies him and by which his life in this world would be established–and not only to a moderate level, but rather to such an extent that a man, and all men will give zakaah, but he will not find a single person who will accept it from him. Because the people in his time will have become–by his judging with the Islaam of our Prophet Muhammad, صلى الله عليه وسلم–all of them will have become rich, no poverty-stricken person will be found among them.
[1] Hasan. Reported by Ahmad (3/387) and Ibn Abee Aasim in As-Sunnah (1/27).
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Truth About the Lochte Lie
Here’s the truth about the Lochte lie.
As we all know, the Lochte lie is a bigger deal than any of Hillary Clinton’s lies. So thankfully the media is all over it.
Further, as we have learned through FBI investigation of this heinous national security incident, Lochte knew his information was on the server he had hidden in his bathroom. evidence.
The server was indeed hacked by the Brazilian secret police (with the help of the Russians), where we discovered the gas station video made by that dude in California.
Next, video guy uncovered the conspiracy against Michael Phelps, and voila: we are where we are.
I don’t blame Lochte for lying. After all HILLARY CLINTON DID IT and got away with it. Liberals lie all the time, and get away with it.
“If you like your plan, you can keep your plan…PERIOD!”
As we have learned from the moral relativism of Liberalism, it’s INTENT that matters. We all know that Lochte didn’t intend anything bad, when he lied about being robbed in order to cover up his crazy Millennials night of rabble-rousing.
Not to go all “racial” up in here, but who are we supposed to believe? Brazilians over Olympic medalist white Liberal Millennials?! Spoiled rich kids with pools the size of Somalia in their back yards always trump brown people! {pardon the pun, Build a Fence Donald}
So what Lochte had the media and the medals from the Olympics? Why not take a little bit more from that brown nation, right!
Lochte had political correctness on HIS side. After all, racist cops exist all over the world. In brown countries, the white man could be SHOT!
Then came that sorry JUDGE! If it weren’t for him Scooby Doo, Lochte would have gotten away with it.
The Outcome:
I think the judge should be removed, and the non-existent gun-wielding cops SHOT!
So what they have video offering a different narrative. The video could have been tampered with.
Moreover, who’s to believe Fernando Veloso, Rio’s Chief of Police said the four swimmers stopped at a gas station and one of them broke down the bathroom door. His evidence? A damaged door, as well as a broken soap dispenser and a mirror. Yeah right? Like that doesn’t happen in public restrooms.
Veloso reported that athletes were confronted by security officers, and they offered the gas station employees $20 and 100 Brazilian reais (about $33 U.S.).
Hmph. White elitist Millennials think they can buy their way out of anything. And $33!
Veloso continued, saying the swimmers continued being belligerent, prompting a security officer to show his gun, and he hastened to add there was no way the swimmers could have interpreted the situation as a robbery.
Unfortunately, the truth about the Lochte lie is we now live in a society where Liberals make up their realities. Make no mistake about it, Lochte and his teammates are Liberals. This situation proves it.
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Read Some Of Aaron Wolf’s Best Writing In Honor Of His Life
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Here are a few excerpts of some of Wolf’s best writings on faith––on Christ’s sacrifice and resurrection, and on our place as Christians intent on glorifying God. Don’t forget his widow and children, either.
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Google’s AI Fact-Checker Will Scrutinize Banking Sites for Supportive Data
Banks and credit unions don't run media sites, but they are an important component in the web's content base. The urge to verify what online publishers put out has spawned new tools like Google's fact checking function, now in beta. Making your financial institution website more approachable to Google's artificial-intelligence-based fact-checker can make it more authoritative, putting conforming institutions in a good place with search engines.
By Michael Bertini, Director of Search Strategy at iQuanti
In an era of increased scrutiny of “facts” and “fake news,” some media websites have implemented what’s called a “fact checker.” Fact checkers verify the claim that an article or web page is making with external resources like other articles, PDFs, or web-documented evidence.
Now, Google is starting to deploy fact checkers on certain search engine results pages (SERPs).
Some fact-checking organizations, like PolitiFact, will manually verify claims. However, much of the new generation of fact checking is powered by artificial intelligence. With so much content being published across the web every day — and “fake news” a pernicious problem in the media industry — expect these AI-enabled fact checkers to become even more common.
So how might they affect your financial business?
Fact checkers only work insofar as they can link to reliable sources of information. Google’s fact checker appears to use not just website content for validation but topical relevancy (sitewide content), topical authority (sitewide links), and, most importantly, backlinks.
If your financial institution is investing in SEO, chances are you’re already focused on these three things. That means your site may be well on the way to serving as a validation source.
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In addition to following standard SEO best practices, there are two specific steps you can take to serve as a source of validation and gain additional exposure on the SERP.
Optimize your content strategy for the news cycle. If you want to serve as a resource for validating what’s going on in the news, you must be able to create content quickly.
Is that to say that you want to be an authority for everything newsworthy? No, of course not. But it’s important to recognize what people are talking about in the finance space and consider how your institution can be part of the conversation.
Your content doesn’t always need to be news-oriented. For example, one claim that a fact checker might seek to verify is “Are banks doing away with physical locations?”
In this case, a bank could simply enhance its Locations page with a sentence like “Bank X has 5,000 locations nationwide and we’re adding more every year.” If Bank X’s website has strong authority and relevance for location-related searches, there is a good chance it will serve as the validation source for that particular query.
One quick-and-dirty approach to staying abreast of the news is Google Trends. Trends helps you identify not only what topics are trending but how Google’s search volume changes over time. Google Trends, combined with Google Alerts or a similar tool, can keep you on top of the news cycle.
Add schema markup to your content to highlight it as a source of validation. Even more important than relevance, from a fact checkers’ perspective is the technical side of things. Across your blog, resource section and insights section — anywhere you think you have information that can validate media claims — you should be prepared to add markup language (i.e., schema).
What you must do is use the markup to surround your authoritative content. Keeping with the bank example, if one of your credit cards has a competitive rate, you might publish a table that shows different cards’ interest rates, then wrap the table in the markup tag.
Using this tag alerts search engines that your content may be used as a source of validation. What kinds of content are appropriate for ? Anything that can answer a search user’s query in an authoritative way. Some examples:
Does Bank X have the lowest mortgage rates?
Are 401ks better than Roth IRAs?
Is it smart to get a personal loan to secure a down payment for a house?
Is it true that I can get a home loan with bad credit?
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Schema Will Rule in the Artificial Intelligence Age
Google’s fact checker has been in beta for some time and is only now coming into wide use. That means we don’t always know precisely what triggers a site to get selected as a validation source. Yet the key ranking factors mentioned above — relevance, authority and links — are likely to be important to the fact checker.
What’s most essential, though, is schema. Consider when and how you can deploy the markup on both your product pages (which can address branded queries) and your educational pages (for more general queries about your vertical).
Overall, it’s becoming more and more apparent that schema is how AI will interpret data as evidenced by voice search and SERP snippets; Google typically favors schema-tagged content for both result types.
As such, if your goal is to own more of the SERP for your target keywords — and it should — schema will be absolutely critical. Combine this technical best practice with topical content and you’ll be well positioned to win with fact checkers.
This article was originally published on April 22, 2019 . All content © 2019 by The Financial Brand and may not be reproduced by any means without permission.
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Tinubu Is Supporting Buhari To Preserve His 2023 Presidential Ambition – Saraki
Senate President Bukola Saraki says former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu is only supporting President Muhammadu Buhari to preserve his (Tinubu’s) 2023 presidential ambition.
He said this in a statement on Monday, in response to Tinubu’s statement a day earlier in which the APC national leader accused the Senate President of defecting because of presidential ambitions.
Saraki re-iterated that his decision to defect from the APC was because all principles required for a healthy functioning of the party and the government were deliberately violated or undermined.
Read Full Statement Here
According to the Senate President, himself and Tinubu had in previous meetings admitted to, and raised several issues within the party.
He said, “I can also vividly recall that he (Tinubu) himself always expressed his displeasure with the style of the government and also mentioned that he had equally suffered disrespect from the same government which we all worked to put in office. I also made the point that whatever travails I have gone through in the last three years belong to the past and will not shape my decisions now and in the future.
“However, during those meetings, the point of disagreement between Tinubu and I is that while I expressed my worries that there is nothing on ground to assure me that the administrative style and attitude would change in the next four years in a manner that will enable us to deliver the positive changes we promised to our people, he (Tinubu) expressed a strong opinion that he would rather ‘support a Buhari on the hospital stretcher’ to get a second term because in 2023, power will shift to the South-west. This viewpoint of Tinubu’s was not only expressed to me but to several of my colleagues, so much for acting in national interest.
“It is clear that while my own decision is based on protecting the collective national interest, Tinubu will rather live with the identified inadequacies of the government for the sake of fulfilling and preserving his presidential ambition in 2023.
“This new position of Tinubu has only demonstrated inconsistency — particularly when one reviews his antecedents over the years,” the statement read in part.
He further explained that his complex relationship with Tinubu has been continually defined by the event of 2014 when himself (Saraki) and other leaders of the APC opposed the Muslim-Muslim ticket arrangement for the 2015 polls.
According to him, the APC national leader has since then made all efforts to undermine him, by peddling falsehood.
“It should be noted that he has not forgotten the fact that I took the bull by the horns and told him that in the interest of the country, he should accept the need for the party to present a balanced ticket for the 2015 General Elections in terms of religion and geo-political zones.
“Since that time he has been very active; plotting at every point to undermine me, both within and outside the National Assembly,” Saraki stated.
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Seven things to know about the government funding deal
By Jordain Carney - 05/01/17 03:36 PM EDT
Lawmakers rolled out a deal early Monday morning to fund the government and avert a shutdown at the end of this week.
The $1.1 trillion bill to keep the government open through the end of September follows a one-week stopgap measure Congress was forced to pass last Friday, when negotiators failed to reach a longer-term deal.
Democrats and progressives quickly claimed the funding bill as a win, touting their ability to keep roughly 160 “poison pills” out of the legislation.
Their reaction was a stark contrast to the more muted comments from Republicans and early criticism from conservatives, who are murmuring that leadership should have taken a harder line given the unified GOP government.
“I don't think I'll be voting for it. I think there will be a lot of conservatives who have problems with the legislation,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told CNN on Monday.
Here are seven things to know about the funding deal.
It boosts defense money
The deal will give the Pentagon a roughly $15 billion increase for the rest of the year, handing Republicans and the Trump administration a small win in the spending fight.
The funding bill gives more than $9 billion for “immediate warfighting readiness,” including for missions against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
The money is categorized as overseas contingency operations (OCO) funds, which are not subjected to congressional spending limits.
But the increase is unlikely to satisfy the defense hawks who wanted a significant increase in defense money and argue that years of budget caps have undercut the military’s ability to respond to growing threats.
"I'm not particularly happy about it, but it is what it is," Sen. John McCain John Sidney McCainMeghan McCain promotes July 17 as #GBMday to raise awareness of father's cancer The peculiar priorities of Adam Schiff Ocasio-Cortez fires back at Lindsey Graham: 'Graham wants to bring back 1950s McCarthyism' MORE (R-Ariz.) told CNN late last week.
The money included in the omnibus is approximately half of what President Trump requested in a supplemental funding bill earlier this year; that request included $24.9 billion for the base defense budget and $5.1 billion for OCO.
There’s no money for Trump’s border wall
The legislation doesn’t give the administration dedicated money for the U.S.-Mexico border wall, even after White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney pushed lawmakers to include the funding and called it the administration's top priority in funding talks.
Instead, Trump will get roughly $1.5 billion for border security. That includes roughly $722 million for barriers and gates along the border, increased technology and more personnel, and an additional $617 million for immigration enforcement.
It also requires Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly to submit a plan to Congress on improving border security and a timeline for implementation.
The border wall emerged as a key hurdle to finishing the funding deal, with Democrats opposed to including wall money in the fiscal 2017 bill.
Lawmakers are expected to reignite the border fight later this year, when they face another funding deadline at the end of September.
A deal’s been reached on healthcare for miners
The bill includes a permanent extension of healthcare for thousands of miners and their families that was set to expire on Friday night without action from Congress.
A group of rust-belt lawmakers have been pushing Congress for months to pass a fix for the healthcare issue after only getting a four-month extension included in last year’s short-term continuing resolution.
Senators in both parties immediately claimed credit on Monday for ensuring the provision was included in the fiscal 2017 legislation.
“The provision I secured in this legislation will protect and permanently extend health care benefits for thousands of retired coal miners and their families,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellMcConnell: Trump 'on to something' with attacks on Dem congresswomen Dems open to killing filibuster in next Congress Senate passes bill making hacking voting systems a federal crime MORE (R-Ky.) said in a statement.
Sen. Joe Manchin Joseph (Joe) ManchinDems open to killing filibuster in next Congress Trump nominees meet fiercest opposition from Warren, Sanders, Gillibrand Kentucky Democrat says primary challenge to McGrath 'might be helpful' MORE (D-W.Va.) praised the healthcare fix but said he is “more determined than ever” to pass help for related pension benefits.
The spending deal doesn’t include a separate pensions fund that Democrats warn is headed toward insolvency without help from Congress but has drawn skepticism from some GOP lawmakers.
New York City will be reimbursed for Trump security
Lawmakers will reimburse New York City for protecting Trump and his family after including only $7 million in December’s end-of-year agreement.
The spending deal will give New York City and other state and local governments a total of approximately $68 million for the president's security. It includes an extra $20 million tied to Trump's protection before the inauguration, in addition to the $7 million already authorized by Congress, and roughly $41 million for after he took over the White House.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) praised the provision, saying it was the “right and fair thing to do” and adding that it was “ridiculous” to expect New York and other local governments to cover the cost.
James O'Neill, the New York City police commissioner, said earlier this year that the city had spent $24 million on protection for Trump and his family between the election and the inauguration.
He estimated the New York Police Department spends up to $308,000 per day on security when Trump is in New York, where his flagship Trump Tower is located.
Officials in Florida, where Trump frequently visits his Mar-A-Lago resort, have also asked for federal help.
It won’t defund Planned Parenthood
The funding bill bypasses a major priority of the administration and Republican lawmakers: defunding Planned Parenthood.
GOP leadership signaled early on that they were preparing to sidestep using the spending bill to cut off federal funding for the women’s health clinic, acknowledging the move would likely spark a government shutdown.
In addition to overwhelming opposition from Democrats, including the provision would have likely drawn pushback from moderate Republicans, including Sen. Susan Collins Susan Margaret CollinsHillicon Valley: Lawmakers struggle to understand Facebook's Libra project | EU hits Amazon with antitrust probe | New cybersecurity concerns over census | Robocall, election security bills head to House floor | Privacy questions over FaceApp Trump angry more Republicans haven't defended his tweets: report Republicans scramble to contain Trump fallout MORE (R-Maine).
But the dodge has drawn frustration from conservatives, whose votes Speaker Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanOcasio-Cortez top aide emerges as lightning rod amid Democratic feud Juan Williams: GOP in a panic over Mueller House Republicans dismissive of Paul Ryan's take on Trump MORE (R-Wis.) will need if he doesn’t want to have to appeal to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Democrats.
Asked how he felt about the spending deal, Jordan pointed to the health organization as a problem area.
“I mean, look, money goes to Planned Parenthood as you said. ... I think you're going to see a lot of conservatives be against this plan this week,” the Ohio Republican told CNN.
The IRS survives the GOP’s wrath
The IRS faces a mixed bag from the funding deal.
The Trump administration sent mixed signals over the tax agency’s budget. While Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin backed increased funding, the president’s budget suggested a 4 percent cut for the next fiscal year.
Instead, the funding bill freezes the financial agency’s budget at last year’s levels, rejecting the Obama administration’s proposal to increase funding by about $1 billion.
Republicans have long disliked the IRS, and Ryan touted the IRS provisions as a win, arguing that it “reforms” the agency.
The bill includes more than $11 billion for the IRS, with roughly $290 million tied to “measurable improvements” on customer service, identity protection and cybersecurity.
It also blocks the agency from finalizing any rules tied to determining an organization's tax-exempt status.
It quadruples money for the opioid crisis
The spending bill more than quintuples the money for the Department of Health and Human Services’ effort to fight opioid and prescription drug addiction, from roughly $150 million to more than $800 million.
The money will be divided between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration and the Health Resources and Services Administration.
Lawmakers passed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act in mid-2016 that authorized — but did not include — funding to combat prescription opioid abuse.
Lawmakers in both parties praised the inclusion of the money in Monday’s omnibus deal.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth Ann WarrenNew CDC overdose estimates are nothing to celebrate 2020 Democrats react to 'send her back' chants at Trump rally Democratic Houston councilwoman announces Senate bid MORE (D-Mass.) called the provision an example of when “aggressive negotiations over the budget yield something good.”
In addition to the HHS budget, the omnibus deal includes a funding increase for the Drug Enforcement Agency and more money for the Department of Veterans Affairs' opioid and substance abuse program.
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Mostly clear. Low 78F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Darlene Schacht shows off her artichoke plant grown at the First Avenue Garden, Community Gardens of Tucson’s first site, which no longer exists. The group celebrates its 25th anniversary Sunday, Oct. 25.
Courtesy of Darlene Schacht
Gardeners tend to crops at the First Avenue Garden, which was the first site created by Community Gardens of Tucson.
George Brookbank contemplates the future Presidio Community Garden in this photo circa 2002. “He gave people the gift of solving their own problems,” says master gardener Toni Moore.
Shirley McReynolds, left, and Carols Evans repair a leaking water line at the midtown Presidio Community Garden. Presidio is one the oldest of the Community Gardens of Tucson.
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The Presidio Garden is one of the oldest of the Community Gardens of Tucson, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary Sunday, Oct. 25 Sculpture Garden at the Tucson Jewish Community Center.
Community gardens celebrate 25 years of growth
By Elena Acoba Special to the Arizona Daily Star
Twenty-five years ago the Community Gardens of Tucson started as a class lab, subscribing to the idea that it’s better to show than merely tell.
That was George Brookbank’s idea. In the 1980s he was the horticultural agent for the University of Arizona’s Pima County Cooperative Extension. Part of his job included teaching gardening classes to the public. He received comments about people wanting hands-on instruction.
“I discovered there was a lot of interest around the people who were taking my classes,” Brookbank recalls.
Darlene Schacht, who took Brookbank’s master gardener course, agrees. “We realized that what they needed was education around gardening to teach them along the way,” she says.
In 1990, Brookbank, Schacht and other master gardeners built a garden on donated private property on North First Avenue near East Roger Road.
Newbie gardeners paid a $5 monthly fee to grow vegetables and get tips from the master gardeners.
In a few years, other master gardener-built sites popped up. Eventually, the cooperative extension decided to no longer support the program.
The original group of gardeners struck out on its own as the Community Gardens of Tucson to continue teaching gardening by doing.
By 2010 the group became a formal nonprofit organization that managed eight sites.
The Salad DAYS
The organization has seen tremendous growth in the last five years.
Pima County won a 2010 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for an initiative called Communities Putting Prevention to Work. County health officials used the grant to tackle obesity.
They worked with Community Gardens to create gardens in poor areas, as well as in neighborhoods with high numbers of Hispanics, a high-risk group for obesity.
At the same time, the Great Recession that began in 2009 contributed to the growth spurt, recalls Gene Zonge, who was CGOT executive director from March 2009 to March 2014.
“People needed to conserve their precious money and could do it by growing their own food,” Zonge says.
Another trend emerging at this time was the emphasis on locally grown, organic food, he says.
They all combined to create an explosion in local community gardens, established by CGOT or formed by other means.
During Zonge’s term about 30 CGOT gardens were built, reflecting a demand not seen in the organization’s first 20 years.
“In the old days, we couldn’t get anybody interested in gardening at all,” says Zonge.
Some of those grant-funded sites eventually failed. Zonge believes it’s because the organization didn’t know how to work with residents to encourage them to participate.
In a fall 2014 CGOT newsletter message, the board of directors, of which Schacht is still a member, admits that attempts to create sites that would attract gardeners was an “experiment” that “did not prove to be successful in all cases.”
The organization went back to its previous practice: Create only gardens that groups request and commit to maintaining.
“It seems that people want to create their own community,” the board acknowledged. “It can’t be done for them.”
JOINING A GARDEN
While gardens have come and gone over the years, CGOT has helped sites weather the ups and downs of membership.
“Even in low points, CGOT is there to maintain (a site) so someone would have someone to contact and get the garden started again,” says Zonge.
Every CGOT site is open to the public so that gardeners can find a place to tend crops. There currently are 500 members.
For $18 a month you can rent a 3-by-20-foot plot. This pays for the maintenance of the irrigation system, water, tools and monthly educational meetings.
Qualified gardeners can earn scholarships to help cover the rental fee. There also is a cooperative exchange gardener program in which volunteers work for the organization in exchange for rental fee reductions.
Members regularly gather in work parties to maintain the common areas of their sites. At some locations, social events are planned for members to get to know each other, share their gardening knowledge and swap recipes.
Brookbank says building community is the best thing that has come out of the Community Gardens of Tucson, an effect he saw from the very beginning.
“We saw people making friendships,” he remembers, “friendships that took in gardening.”
“There was a sense of togetherness.”
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1983: Darlene Schacht takes master gardener course from George Brookbank, at the time an agent for the University of Arizona’s Pima County Cooperative Extension.
1989: Brookbank and master gardeners start developing a community garden.
1990: A private lot on North First Avenue opens as the first community garden.
1995: The Community Gardens of Tucson (CGOT) is formed after the cooperative extension drops support for the program.
1997: CGOT helps establish the Community Food Bank Garden, the first of several that are unaffiliated with CGOT.
2003: Four other gardens are running, including Congregation Cheverim and Presidio, which still exist as the oldest locations.
2005: The original First Avenue garden closes.
2009: CGOT incorporates as a non-profit organization.
2013: Brookbank retires from active participation and is named director emeritus.
2014: CGOT reaches a record high of 29 active sites before closing several because of lack of interest.
A 25th anniversary celebration next week will mark several milestones.
Not only will the event recognize CGOT’s quarter-century of existence, but George Brookbank’s 90 years—his birthday was in January—and the opening of the 25th active garden site.
What: Lunch, music, garden tours and silent auction.
When: 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25.
Where: Sculpture Garden at the Tucson Jewish Community Center, 3800 E. River Road.
Tickets: $25, available online at www.communitygardensoftucson.org
Details: 795-8823.
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Timber and Steel Presents: Sunday 5th August at The Workers Club
August 2, 2012 at 09:12 (News, Regular Night News, Timber and Steel Events)
Tags: blue sun, folk music, roscoe james irwin, ryan meeking, the workers club, whitaker
Image Courtesy of Whitaker
If this is the first time you’ve visited Timber and Steel in a couple of weeks you may have missed the super exciting news that we’re presenting Sunday afternoon shows at The Workers Club in Melbourne beginning this week.
The debut matinée show will feature local lads Whitaker (featuring Timber and Steel favourite Ryan Meeking) with support slots from singer-songwriter Roscoe James Irwin and four piece Blue Sun.
The afternoon kicks off at 1:30pm at The Workers Club and is a mere $12 on the door with lunch and drink specials from 12pm (we’re having the burger). For more information check out the official Facebook invite here or head over to The Workers Club Gig Guide. Set times are below:
2pm – Blue Sun
3pm – Roscoe James Irwin
4pm – Whitaker
Timber and Steel Presents: Sunday Afternoons At The Workers Club
July 26, 2012 at 11:56 (News, Regular Night News, Timber and Steel Events)
Tags: blue sun, folk music, hat fitz and cara robinson, roscoe james irwin, ryan meeking, the workers club, whitaker
Image Courtesy of The Workers Club
Timber and Steel is proud to announce that beginning in August we will be presenting a series of Sunday matinee shows at The Workers Club in Melbourne. The afternoon will showcase some of the country’s hottest up and coming folk, roots, blues, acoustic, singer-songwriter, bluegrass and alt country artists and is the perfect way to wind down your weekend with some wonderful music in a cosy environment.
Working in association with Way Over There and The Workers Club, the afternoon shows will kick off on Sunday 5th August with a performance from the Ryan Meeking fronted Melbourne 5-piece Whitaker (with Roscoe James Irwin and Blue Sun in support). Tickets for the show are $12 with the music kicking off around 1:30pm.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg as we have a bunch of really cool artists coming up including album launches from Laneway (16th September) and Hat Fitz and Cara Robinson (21st October). That’s just what’s been announced so far – there’s so much more we’re just bursting to tell you about.
To keep up to date with The Workers Club shows (and everything else that’s happening at this iconic Melbourne venue) make sure you download their free iPhone App, follow them on Facebook and Twitter, and sign up to their mailing list via their official site. We’ll also be keeping you up to date with everything that’s going on at these matinee shows so you’ll soon be flooded with Timber and Steel Presents information.
I hope you’re as excited as we are about this – it’s going to be amazing!
New Festival Riverboats Announces 2012 Lineup
October 10, 2011 at 10:33 (Festival News, News)
Tags: benny walker, clairy browne and the bangin' rackettes, colin hay, folk music, lanie lane, mark seymour, mick thomas' roving commission, riverboats music festival, ryan meeking, tex perkins and the band of gold, the audreys, the bamboos, the bride stripped back, vika and linda bull
Image Courtesy of Riverboats Music Festival
Victorians are in for something pretty special after the brand new player on the festival scene, the Riverboats Music Festival, announced its inaugural 2012 lineup. Held in Echuca-Moama on the Murray River (two and a half hours from Melbourne) on the 17th to the 19th February, the Riverboats Music Festival lineup includes the likes of Tex Perkins And The Band Of Gold, Colin Hay, The Bamboos, Mark Seymour, Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission, Vika And Linda Bull, Lanie Lane (above), The Audreys, Clairy Browne and The Bangin’ Rackettes, Benny Walker, Ryan Meeking and The Bride Stripped Back. More than a couple Timber and Steel favourites floating amongst that list right?
Tickets for the Riverboats Music Festival are available now from the official web site.
Traveller & Fortune Launching New Release This Sunday 7/8/11 at The Jade Monkey, Adelaide
August 5, 2011 at 20:02 (Album News, News)
Tags: adelaide, folk music, indie, jayne west, new release, pop, ryan meeking, the jade monkey, tom west, traveller & fortune, traveller and fortune
Image courtesy of Traveller & Fortune
Who?: Traveller & Fortune supported by Ryan Meeking
What?: Launching a new 5 track release
Where?: The Jade Monkey, Twin St, Adelaide
When?: 7:00-10:30pm this Sunday 7/8/11
How Much?: $15 on the door, including CD and goodies
Regular Timber & Steel readers have probably seen the name Traveller & Fortune kicking around our regular online stomping grounds at some point. There’s no denying it- we’ve got high hopes for Tom & Jayne West (no relation, as far as I know…), both in their solo endeavours and with their talented band of Adelaide gals. We’ve seen their performances and songwriting grow over the years to the point to where they are now consistently putting on the greatest folk-pop shows in South Australia.
We heard a whisper a while ago that Tom West would be releasing his debut solo album later in the year, so we were very pleasantly surprised to learn that the full team will be putting out a new collection of songs that were recorded in a live session format at Adelaide’s Chapel Studios (and if you’ve ever seen T&F live, you’d know that this won’t get in the way of quality at all). Tom West himself has said to “expect lots of moody instrumentals and lush harmonies”, which has got us eagerly anticipating the back-up to their debut self titled release (follow this link for our review). The release will only be available at the launch, but if you can’t be there on the night (interstate, committed elsewhere, working, etc), shoot a quick email to travellerandfortune@gmail.com to get a copy sent to you.
The launch begins at 7:00pm on Sunday night and should be wrapped up by 10:30pm, in consideration of the working folks. All attendees will receive a copy of the record and some other goodies upon entry which will cost you $15 on the door; very thrifty considering that Melbourne’s Ryan Meeking is making the trip all the way over to play support on the night. The show will be the last full-band event for a while due to some overseas departures of members, but Tom West (whom recently opened for the Panics) and Jayne West will remain out there gigging and playing your favourite Traveller & Fortune songs. As per usual, we’ll keep you up to date.
Post-Gig Gigs: Gossling
July 10, 2011 at 15:32 (News, Video News)
Tags: folk music, gossling, post gig gigs, ryan meeking
Image Courtesy of Gossling
We count ourselves really lucky to have seen Gossling at Sydney’s GoodGod Club recently as part of her first ever headline tour. Gossling is a real rising talent on the Australian singer-songwriter scene and to catch her in such an intimate venue was such a treat.
While Gossling’s current tour may be over there is still a chance to experience her live and raw through the power of the internet. The good folk at Post-Gig Gigs managed to film this wonderful clip of her ballad “The Only Way” following her show at Bondi’s famous Beach Road Hotel. Accompanying Gossling are Anita Quayle on cello and Ryan Meeking on backing vocals. Watch the video below and make sure you catch Gossling next time she’s in your neck of the woods:
If you haven’t checked it out yet make sure you head over to the new Post-Gig Gigs web site and check out their incredible backlog of live videos.
Review: Gossling at GoodGod Small Club, Sydney
July 4, 2011 at 11:24 (Gigs, Reviews)
Tags: boy outside, folk music, gossling, ryan meeking
Image Courtesy of FasterLouder.com.au
Gossling supported by Ryan Meeking and Boy Outside
29th June 2011, GoodGod Small Club
Ever since catching Gossling in the support slot at Lior’s Sydney Metro Theatre show late last year we’ve been hanging out to see her in full headline mode. As wonderful as she is sitting solo behind her keyboard we’ve been eagerly waiting to see Helen Croome joined on stage by a full band and playing to an audience who were there specifically to see her play.
When we arrived at GoodGod Small Club Melbourne singer-songwriter Ryan Meeking had just taken to the stage with his trusty guitar in hand. I’ve been following Meeking’s work for a while now but this was the first time I’d managed to catch him live – and what a revelation! Meeking is a true talent, crafting intelligent folk songs and showcasing his brilliant range as a storyteller. His between song banter and well crafted set (with just the right tonal mixture of songs) just added to an incredibly enjoyable 40 minutes and I know the next time Ryan Meeking heads out on the road for a headline tour I’ll be the first in line for tickets.
Boy Outside (a.k.a. Aidan Cooney) is another artist I hadn’t had the pleasure of seeing live before. Joining Gossling on the NSW leg of her headline tour this Sydney-based artist brought his repertoire of alt-country songs to life with the ample help of a bassist and backing vocals (the latter of which was provided by FBi Radio’s very own In The Pines presenter Emma Swift). Boy Outside’s music definitely strays on the more sombre side of country, expertly delivering music and lyrics that are wrought with pain and longing. Some sound issues at the beginning of the set did nothing to dampen Cooney’s performance and by the end the audience appeared enraptured by his melancholy.
A Wednesday night in the middle of winter was never going to attract a massive crowd but those who did manage to make it down were in for a treat. Opening her set with the instantly recognisable “Days Are Over” Gossling proved once again why she is one of the most exciting acts in the country at the moment. Armed with her trusty keyboard and accompanied by Anita Quayle on cello and the occasional guitar of Ryan Meeking, Gossling filled the tiny space of the GoodGod Small Club with her infectious energy and quirky folk songs. Admitting that she tended to babble when tired (and she was tired having driven up from Melbourne that morning) I found Gossling’s between song banter and familiarity with the audience charming, adding a really personal touch to the evening.
My obsession with Gossling’s western-tinged single “I Was Young” is well documented – when I interviewed Croome in May it’s pretty much all I could talk about. I’d seen her perform it a couple of times before but only ever in solo mode which does tend to lack the punch of the recorded version from the Until Then EP. Having cello and guitar accompaniment this time around really added that special something to the song – it’s rollicking, foot-stomping rhythm captured my attention and had me singing along at the top of my lungs.
The other highlight from the night would have been “He Knows My Love”, a touching ballad recounting the relationship between a boy and the father who died before he was born. This song has really grown on me recently and the introduction Gossling gives it during her live performances gives it context and extra gravitas. I know from looking around the room that “He Knows My Love” really captured the crowd’s attention and may well be the song that most people will remember from the night.
GoodGod was not designed for encores (as was demonstrated in Josh Pyke’s performance there the week before) so Gossling’s performance finished with little fanfare. However I felt like I had been witness to something really special seeing her first headline performance in such an intimate venue. Expect to see more of Gossling in the coming year, she really is a talent to watch.
Australian Poetry Presents Lines at The Wesley Anne
June 6, 2011 at 10:00 (News)
Tags: australian poetry, eliza hull, folk music, lines, poetry, ryan meeking
Image Courtesy of Australian Poetry
Looking for a chilled out way to spend a Sunday afternoon in Melbourne? Australian Poetry are presenting Lines, an afternoon of poetry and music at the Wesley Anne in Northcote on the 19th June. Appearing at the event are wordsmiths Sophie Curzon-Siggers, Eliza Hull, Aden Rolfe and the wonderfully talented Ryan Meeking (soon to be supporting Gossling on her East Coast tour).
Tickets to the event are a mere $10 either from the Australian Poetry site or on the door. For more information check out the Lines page online.
Interview: Gossling
May 31, 2011 at 09:58 (Interviews)
Tags: folk music, gossling, ryan meeking
After a string of successful support slots Helen Croome, aka the beautiful and talented singer-songwriter Gossling, is hitting the road for a headline tour through Victoria and New South Wales. We managed to catch up with Gossling as she prepares for the tour to chat about what it will be like playing with a band, the making of her first video and how being bullied as a child led to the creation of one of her most popular songs to date.
Evan Hughes: You just announced a solo headline tour off the back of a bunch of impressive support slots. How are you feeling about being the headliner for once?
Gossling: I’m very excited because this is the first headline tour I’ve done really. As a support act I’ve been playing solo on all these tours and on this tour I get to play with a band. It will be exciting to see if anyone who came to the other shows that I’ve been playing comes to my own headline gig.
EH: I saw you with The Little Stevies a few weeks ago and again with Lior late last year and both times I’ve sat there going “I just want to see Gossling with a full band”. I’m really pumped for this.
G: It’s nice to be able to play, for people who have heard my CDs and the recorded versions, it’s nice to be able to with a band so people can see the same thing live as well. Rather than just me on the piano – not as exciting (laughs)
EH: Is your live band the same one that you recorded with?
G: The shows I’m doing in New South Wales will be with just a three piece – me, a cellist and a guitar player. The cellist has been with me for a while, she’s played on the album, and the guitarist is a singer named Ryan Meeking who does his own stuff as well – he’s coming along to play the support and then play in my band as well.
EH: It’s like now that you’re headlining you can bring your mates on as support acts
G: Yeah. Ryan and I have been mates for a while and we’ve always wanted to do a tour together so it’s good that we can finally play, that our schedules matched up.
EH: When I saw you perform at The Little Stevies’ gig and you played “I Was Young” I was just wishing you had a full band to give it the same sound as on the record.
G: Yeah, it’s a totally different song when I have to play it solo live. Unless I have a backing track there’s no way I can play it solo and sound like the recording (laughs). Hopefully in Sydney I’ll get to do some shows with drums and bass as well to give it the full, big band sound.
EH: You’re playing The Good God Club in Sydney which is perfect for you – such an intimate room.
G: That’s good to know – I haven’t been there before.
EH: Going back to that Little Stevies support slot – during the gig you introduced “I Was Young” by saying that the song was written about being bullied as a kid, which I didn’t realise (although it’s obvious once you know). You were saying you used to get bullied because of your voice and now it’s become your trademark, garnering comparisons to great artists like Sarah Blasko and Julia Stone. Is it a bit of a head spin to go from being teased to praised about your voice?
G: I guess so. I hadn’t actually introduced what that song was about before that gig and I don’t think many people realised it is about bullying. It felt quite odd telling everyone on stage that night actually, I felt like I was asking for sympathy somehow. I guess it is kind of ironic that I was bullied for having a little baby voice and now its going to be my career. Big turnaround.
EH: It’s almost a way to turn around to those people who bullied you and go “look at me now”.
G: I don’t think those people actually know that I’m Gossling though (laughs). One day they’ll figure it out.
EH: I didn’t feel like you were asking for sympathy – I felt it added an extra depth to the song.
G: Oh good, I’m glad.
EH: The video for “I Was Young” with the mock western storyline must have been fun to make.
G: It was – it was really fun. I’ve been wanting to make a film-clip for a long while and I had a production company do it for me. It was really interesting to see how a clip gets made and the story-boarding and even the filming on the day – I found it a really interesting experience. I hope I get to do another clip soon. It was a fun clip and people have responded to it well and can see the humour in it.
EH: It seemed to get picked up really quickly on Rage.
G: Yeah Rage have played it a few times which is really good because growing up I thought it was pretty cool if you got a clip on Rage.
EH: You’ve only released EPs so far. Is that what you plan to keep doing or would you like to record an album some day? Or are albums becoming more redundant?
G: That seems to be where the industry is heading. I’m not too concerned if the next release I put out is another EP. I’d like to do an album at some stage but there’s a lot of factors that I have to consider. I want to get another release out by the end of the year, so whatever form that comes in, it will just happen.
EH: A lot of artists I talk to don’t want to go through the long process of recording an album – they’re more concerned with getting their music out there as quickly as possible via singles and EPs.
G: And I think that people don’t necessarily listen to entire albums anymore because it’s so easy just to download one track from iTunes. People don’t slave over there albums anymore.
EH: So apart from the tour and getting another release before the end of the year is there anything else on the cards for Gossling?
G: I would like to do a lot more gigs after this tour, try to do a few more supports. Hopefully the middle of next year I’d like to go to the UK for a month or so and try and play some shows over there and experience what that’s like. But definitely I’d like to tour Australia a lot more, see what else is around.
EH: I think the UK will really respond well to your sound. They seem to embrace Australian female singer-songwriters there.
G: I hope so. I’d like to see what the scene’s like over there. I’ve been to Ireland before and I love all the singer-songwriter stuff that comes out of Ireland. I’d love to go over and experience it and play some shows, even if they’re only three or four people in a bar it doesn’t really matter.
EH: Well good luck with the tour – really looking forward to seeing you with a band this time around!
G: It’s been a pleasure. Thank you for having me.
Gossling is touring New South Wales and Victoria with a full band in June and July. Check out the dates here
Gossling Announces “War” Tour of Victoria and NSW
May 16, 2011 at 15:03 (News)
Our love affair with the wonderful Gossling (aka Helen Croome) is set to continue with the announcement of a headline tour through Victoria and New South Wales to support her brand new single “War”. Gossling has recently garnered rave reviews following her support slots with Oh Mercy and The Little Stevies and is set wow audiences on this, her first headline tour of 2011. Along for the ride is Ryan Meeking in support mode plus the promise of “special guests” at each of the concerts.
“War” is the second single from Gossling’s awesome Until Then EP. The full list of dates for the tour are below and tickets are already on sale:
Thursday 23th June – Karova Lounge, Ballarat, VIC
Friday 24th June – Northcote Social Club, Northcote, Melbourne, VIC
Wednesday 29th June – Good God Small Club, Sydney, NSW
Thursday 30th June – Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach, Sydney, NSW
Friday 1st July – Otis Bar, Wollongong, NSW
Saturday 2nd July – Northern Star, Newcastle, NSW
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Russia Pours Scorn on News of Hunter Biden's New Job
Vice President Joe Biden with his granddaughter Finnegan Biden and son Hunter Biden on Dec. 4, 2013 in Beijing.
Ng Han Guan-Pool—Getty Images
By Leonid Ragozin / Moscow
The news that Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter had taken a job with the Ukrainian gas company Burisma has been met in Russia with malicious glee. “Ahaha,” tweeted Member of Parliament Alexander Sidyakin, reacting to the White House statement that there was no conflict of interest after the news of Hunter Biden’s new role was made public on Tuesday. “Joe Biden is a good dad – took the trouble of going across the ocean to secure a job for his son,” the pro-Kremlin website politrussia.ru commented in its Twitter feed, referring to Vice President’s recent trip to Ukraine.
Rossiya TV channel’s commentator Andrey Arkhipov said the appointment was “in line with Washington’s plan to gain control over global energy resources.” Dubbing Joe Biden “the curator of the military coup in Ukraine” – a reference to the ousting of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in February following months of public protests – Arkhipov ridiculed the idea that no U.S. lobbying was involved in the appointment.
Top TV and radio anchor Vladimir Solovyov speculated about the fact that Burisma owned licenses for shale gas deposits in the areas of eastern Ukraine, where armed conflict between government forces and separatist insurgents is now flaring. “Let me remind you what the U.S. keeps telling Europe: Reject Russian gas. We’ll provide as much gas as you need. We have shale gas technology,” he said, without developing his conspiracy theory any further. Ukraine’s and Europe’s dependence on Russian gas supplies is a major factor in the Ukrainian geopolitical equation.
Russian media has been picturing Joe Biden as the Ukrainian government’s puppeteer ever since last month’s visit, which was aimed at demonstrating American support for the interim Ukrainian government. While in Kiev, Biden was filmed taking the chairperson’s seat at a meeting with Ukrainian ministers. That footage featured prominently in Russian TV bulletins as an illustration of Ukraine allegedly turning into a U.S. colony.
The incident prompted a vitriolic comment by Russian Foreign Minster Sergey Lavrov, who said that “Joe Biden was conducting a meeting with the Ukrainian leadership essentially in the capacity of the head of state, presiding over the table, with Ukrainian officials on his side.”
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GOP Wrestles With Change on LGBT Positions Before Convention
By Katy Steinmetz and Zeke J. Miller / Cleveland
On Tuesday morning, the first openly gay member of the Republican Party’s platform committee said she was offering amendments to see “just how far this committee is willing to go to avoid a single positive reference to the LGBT community.”
The 56-member group that is finalizing the party’s platform in advance of the GOP convention had rejected Rachel Hoff’s passionate appeal to acknowledge Republicans’ “diversity of opinion” on marriage the day before. And the same committee voted down her suggestions on Tuesday to acknowledge the murders of LGBT people in the Middle East and in Orlando, where the deadliest shooting in U.S. history occurred at a gay club exactly one month before.
Some in the GOP view the existence of any organized opposition within the party, such as Hoff’s, as a sign of significant change: While votes about what the word “marriage” means may have been unanimous at previous conventions, they are divided now. Members also debated topics such as religious freedom laws, gay parental rights and conversion therapy.
“LGBT issues were being discussed in almost every platform subcommittee,” says Gregory Angelo, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay conservative group. “Even if the votes didn’t necessarily go our way, every Republican on the platform committee is at least now aware that LGBT issues go far beyond marriage.” Transgender icon Caitlyn Jenner, who plans to appear at a brunch in Cleveland during the convention, expressed optimism about the party too, saying in a statement that, “As a proud Republican and transgender woman, I want to support courageous Republicans who advocate for LGBT freedom.”
Still, the GOP platform remains socially conservative, and Democrats are itching to draw contrasts as they prepare to release a final draft of a platform that Bernie Sanders extolled on Tuesday as “by far the most progressive … in the history of the Democratic Party.” As Republicans struggled in committees with just how overtly to condemn policies that allow transgender women to use public women’s restrooms, Democratic insiders touted the fact that nearly two dozen of their delegates this year are openly transgender.
Republicans are “attempting to roll back advances we’ve made,” says Lou Weaver, a Democratic delegate from Texas who identifies as a queer transgender man. “People in the Democratic Party understand we’re being targeted.”
Though many Republican leaders would like to avoid headlines about bathrooms in convention coverage—with one committee member calling it a “can of worms”—language alluding to fights between states and the federal government over that issue remained in the platform Tuesday evening. In reaction to the Obama Administration advising schools that students must be able to use the facilities that align with their gender identity, the platform states that the “edict regarding restrooms, locker rooms and other facilities is at once illegal, ominous and ignores privacy issues.”
The platform committee did, however, reject more explicit language that passed muster in a subcommittee, which encouraged “the common sense practice of protecting public safety and personal privacy by limiting access to restrooms … based on biological gender.” Senior RNC officials were involved in excising the language, according to the delegate who offered the amendment to cut it.
“We have a bathroom or restroom obsession in this platform,” said Annie Dickerson, a platform committee member and advisor to Paul E. Singer, a Republican who has funded an effort to get the GOP platform to adjust its position on marriage.
The final draft of the Republican platform also includes language, justified with research that has been disputed, asserting that children raised in a “traditional two-parent household” are likelier to have healthier outcomes. The word “traditional” was inserted after fierce debate in which one platform committee member called it a “slap in the face” to children growing up in homes with same-sex parents, and also drew criticism from single parents.
Multiple amendments to soften or eliminate language that rejects the validity of same-sex marriage failed, and the platform committee voted against including the word “gender” in a list of types of discrimination that should be opposed. On Tuesday, one member described the attempt to add that word to a list including qualities like race, sex and creed as a “sneak attack.”
Shortly after, an amendment to condemn the Supreme Court’s decision legalizing same-sex marriage was passed. Another measure attempting to undermine that ruling came soon after, with at least one member speaking out against it. “We know that we’re not gay happy or gay supportive here, but the dead horse has been beaten again and again and again,” said Dickerson.
By comparison, the final draft of the Democratic platform, which is expected to be finished by Wednesday but still must be approved at the convention in Philadelphia, will contain paragraphs of LGBT-supportive language. Four years ago, the party made news by expressing support for same-sex marriage. This year, the platform will also use the word “transgender” for the first time, express the notion that LGBT rights are “human rights,” condemn the bullying of LGBT kids, criticize legislation that restricts bathroom access for transgender people and detail support for a list of non-discrimination protections laid out in the Equality Act, according to delegates and committee members.
Democratic platform committee member Mara Keisling says that “it was not a hard sell” to get any LGBT-inclusive amendment added during their meetings over the past weekend. In an election year when Democrats are criticizing their opponents as divisive, it’s likely that they’ll keep emphasizing how wide their arms are open to voters who care about LGBT rights.
The Log Cabin Republicans’ Angelo says that while there are GOP members “hell bent on doubling down on anti-gay language in the platform,” that document “is just not representative of the LGBT community or Republicans in general.” And members of both parties share skepticism of how much one should read into manifestos crafted by a few.
“Most of the extreme positions come from people that are very extreme,” says Kimi Cole, a Democratic delegate from Nevada and a transgender woman. “Does everyone who belongs to the Republican Party believe that? No. And same thing with the Democrats.”
Write to Katy Steinmetz at katy.steinmetz@time.com.
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A 26-Year-old Looks to the Past for Her Literary Debut
Sarah Begley
The story of one of the summer’s most-anticipated novels begins with a trip to Ghana’s Cape Coast Castle—a symbol in stone of slavery and the walls built to ignore it.
Yaa Gyasi was a college sophomore when she visited her native country in 2009, 18 years after her family moved to the United States. She was there to do research for what she thought would be a straightforward novel about a mother and a daughter. When she visited the old fort, that novel shifted and expanded into something much bigger. The result is Homegoing, to be published Tuesday, an account of slavery’s legacy, stretched over eight generations and two countries, and one that earned the 26-year-old a whopping seven-figure advance for her first book.
At the castle, some of the local women married the British soldiers stationed there. Others were kept in dungeons before being shipped of to the New World. On her tour, Gyasi saw those two worlds up close for the first time. “That juxtaposition of the majesty upstairs with the awfulness and despair downstairs really struck me,” she says. “I was really struck also that there were women upstairs who maybe didn’t understand or realize what was going on underneath them.”
This contrast gave Homegoing its premise: The novel begins with two half-sisters growing up in Fante and Asante territory in the mid-18th century. While one marries a British officer and leads a life of relative privilege at the Cape Coast Castle, the other is captured and sold into slavery. Each subsequent chapter tells the story of one of their descendants, alternating between Ghana and America and showing how the characters were affected by major political events from the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act through the Harlem Renaissance to the heroin epidemic. The book ends around the turn of the 21st century. (The Civil War serves as a divider between parts one and two, and is not depicted.)
Gyasi’s novel begins with half-sisters who don’t know each other, Esi and Effia, and ends with distant relatives who’ll never know they share an ancestor, Marcus and Marjorie. Certain of Marjorie's biographical details resemble Gyasi's, and the author says Marjorie’s chapter is the one she revisits the least because it’s so “familiar.”
Born in Ghana and raised in America, the daughter of a professor and a nurse, Gyasi moved with her two brothers several times before the family settled in Alabama. "I was a really shy kid," she says, "and for long periods of my life the only people I felt really close to or understood by, I guess, were my brothers, who had the same experience not just of moving around but also being a Ghanaian in Alabama, which is a very unique position to be in. We share a lot of trauma and a lot of joy and all the things that all families feel for each other."
Gyasi says books were her "closest friends" when she was young. "Very quickly for me reading and writing went hand in hand, though I know that’s not true for all children who are big readers." She submitted the first story she ever wrote to the Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest, and received a certificate of achievement signed by actor LeVar Burton.
"It was my most prized possession, and I was just hooked from there," she says. "But I don’t think I really understood that you could choose writing as a profession for many years later. It wasn’t really until I was 17, when I read Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison and saw, ‘Oh, someone like me, a black woman, can do this as their job and do it so well.’ And so that was really a turning point. It was the beginning of me saying to people that I wanted to be a writer."
After graduating from Stanford with a degree in English, Gyasi studied at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop—considered by many to be the best MFA program in the country—and began serious work on Homegoing. When she’d finished, she cold-emailed the draft to an agent whose clients she respected and he took her on. With its acquisition by Knopf, Gyasi joined the ranks of recent novelists, from Garth Risk Hallberg to Emma Cline (her novel The Girls also comes out in June) who reportedly received more than $1 million for their first books.
Having that paycheck publicized feels like “a double-edged sword” Gyasi says. “It’s great that it brings the work attention,” she says, and she thinks it’s good for other African immigrants to see that it’s possible to have a lucrative career in the arts. But “it also makes me nervous that people are going to have kind of harsher expectations for my work than they might have otherwise.”
As she started drafting Homegoing in earnest, Gyasi was drawn to Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. She found the novel’s repetitive and unusual narrative "permissive," she says. “So many things that writers get told are rules, silly things, like ‘Don’t start two characters’ names with the same letter’ was something that I had heard before. And then you read One Hundred Years of Solitude and they all have the same name.”
Gyasi’s writing shares some of Márquez’s use of folklore and his narrative rhythm. It also evokes writers like Zora Neale Hurston in its plainspoken language and unusual sentence structure. Sometimes, her writing takes the form of parable: “When someone does wrong,” one character says, “whether it is you or me, whether it is mother or father, whether it is the Gold Coast man or the white man, it is like a fisherman casting a net into the water. He keeps only the one or two fish that he needs to feed himself and puts the rest in the water thinking that their lives will go back to normal. No one forgets that they were once captive, even if they are now free.”
Homegoing earned early praise from the author Roxane Gay, who called the book “the strongest case for reparations and black rage I’ve read in a long time.” Ta-Nehisi Coates gave Homegoing another endorsement, a moment that Gyasi says shocked her. “I didn’t even know that he had a [copy], and my boyfriend turned to me one day and was like, ‘Ta-Nehisi Coates is tweeting about your novel.’ I was like, ‘What?’ I had been reading his Atlantic pieces since college, and they were really formative for me in those years.”
Gyasi’s work can be seen as a fictional counterpart to the nonfiction work of Coates and the writers Isabel Wilkerson and Nikole Hannah-Jones, who have explored the lingering effects of slavery and institutionalized racism. “I hope that we can start to have a longer view of our history and how that informs the way that we treat people in the present,” Gyasi says. “Every moment has a precedent and comes from this other moment, that comes from this other moment, that comes from this other moment.”
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Payne joins outrage over Kent State shirt
An outpouring of outrage is hitting social media today in response to a sweatshirt designed by Urban Outfitters that appears to mock the Kent State University shooting of 1970.
Gregory Payne, interim chair of Emerson’s Communication Studies Department, has studied the shooting extensively since the killing of four college students by the National Guard took place—writing his PhD dissertation, authoring a book and a play, and being tapped as a consultant in a television documentary on the tragedy.
“As somebody who has studied the Kent State tragedy for the past 45 years, I’m appalled by this type of commodification of the shootings,” Payne said today. “Urban Outfitters’ response, that there was no intended reference to the shootings, is outrageous as the shirt itself. By next year, can they do a shirt about the beheading of James Foley?”
The faux-vintage sweatshirt contains what appears to be the Kent State lettering and logo saturated with what look like bloodstains.
On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed students at the Kent State campus protesting the Vietnam War, killing four and injuring nine.
In a statement today, Kent State officials said the college takes “great offense” over the sweatshirt.
“We take great offense to a company using our pain for their publicity and profit,” the statement reads. “This item is beyond poor taste and trivializes a loss of life that still hurts the Kent State community today.”
The college then invited Urban Outfitters executives to tour the May 4 Visitors Center at Kent State, which opened two years ago, to gain perspective on the tragedy.
Payne, who is author of the book Mayday: Kent State and the play Kent State: A Requiem, hopes today’s attention on Kent State will reinvigorate interest in the facts of that fateful day.
“We still do not know the facts about what happened, and if there was an order to fire, which the latest ballistics suggest there might have been,” Payne said.
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Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown – Japan
Japan has featured a fair few times now in Anthony Bourdain’s previous TV work (‘A Cook’s Tour‘ and ‘No Reservations‘) but this was the first time to visit here since he joined CNN. The seventh episode of the second season of this travel and food show aired this Sunday just gone with Tokyo, the penultimate episode in a series that has taken the witty, sarcastic and profanity-using American chef/TV personality to Israel, Spain, New Mexico, Copenhagen, Sicilly and South Africa thus far.
You can watch the episode here
Much is known about the dedication, conformity and daytime life of the city’s salarymen but this show, as ever, tried to do something different and saw Bourdain going in search of the city’s dark, extreme and bizarrely fetishistic underside. It starts with quite an intense intro featuring him talking about his early experiences in Tokyo whilst sat in the New York Bar in the Park Hyatt Hotel; the very same bar which featured quite famously in ‘Lost In Translation‘ (2003). The programme then picks up pace with loads of footage in a montage thrown together in a quick moving package of highlights.
First up is the Robot Restaurant (below) in Shinjuku’s kabukicho nightlife district which first came to my attention when I saw it in Muse’s ‘Panic Station‘ video a few months back. Bourdain went to see one of the evening show’s at this place and was thoroughly impressed calling it afterwards ”the greatest show in the history of entertainment.” I’ve been fairly indecisive recently about whether to cough up the 5000 yen entrance fee for this or not but after recent glowing reviews from friends…. and Bourdain I may just have to give it a go soon.
Some of the weird and perverse acts which happen in the underbelly of Shinjuku’s darkest district are described as being more about a field of dreams and fantasies rather than the act of sex. Bourdain talks to his Japanese accomplice about the host clubs where middle-aged women go to be entertained by these very feminine-looking young guys. Bourdain brings up the irony of such a thing in an area where there are many guys hoping to get laid but his sidekick tells him that people don’t like getting rejected so they pay lots of money to go to these host clubs where they’re made to feel like a princess or whatever.
Nearby is the Golden-gai district (below left) of Shinjuku; a few narrow passageways possessing many shanty-style micr0-bars, clubs and eateries which I have never been to as they don’t seem to foreigner-friendly and to be honest I really don’t have any real urge to go to one just to tick that box to say I’ve done it. However, Bourdain visits a bar called Albatross to find out about such places and the code of confiding in the bartender.
Both martial arts and making sushi are two things which most people know about when it comes to Japan but perhaps they don’t know how the techniques for each are so similar. This is shown when he visits his old friend and mentor Yasuda-san (above right) at Sushi bar Yasuda. The guy is an ex-karate expert who lived in New York for over a quarter of century and he said a couple of things which the average punter may be unaware of. Firstly, he said that rice is the most important part of sushi and that fresh sushi is not the be-all and end-all of fine raw fish dining. I always watch these shows on Tokyo and Japan hoping to see something new about the city I reside in and so it was nice to learn something I didn’t know about sushi.
Daitoryo is a street bar in Taito-ku where Bourdain and some other mavericks of Japanese culture (below left) eat grilled fermented fish and yakitori (skewers of meat) and some motsu nabe (intestine stew with miso) and talk about bondage, fetishes and all other parts of popular Japanese fantasy culture. We find out (if you can really believe these sources!) that all men like to tie up women and also be tied up!
Bourdain later meets up with the creator of tentacle porn (above) at Mie no Umi restaurant where he samples a particular nabe (hot pot of meat and veg) and talks about the violence, murder, rape and incredible sexual fetsishes that feature in Japanese porn.
You can’t deny Bourdain has a strong affection for this country and he doesn’t judge or laugh at the way things are done in Japan such as when discussing otaku culture which is of course different from his homeland where people are taught to put away the likes of comics and figures as they get older.
‘Merging Moon‘ is the Japanese metal band (below) featured in this episode. They have self released their previous albums and have no record deal but no doubt that will change given such promotion on the might of CNN as well as the programmes Facebook page…..oh and of course Tokyo Fox!!
Since his move to CNN I sometimes feel the food part of his programmes have taken a bit of a back-step so it was quite a relief to see it still included here although it did seem to be of secondary importance most of the time. One final trip to a tiny place in Naka Meguro saw him hook up with Yasuda again to sample some shrimp, basel, octopus, quail eggs and the place’s take on okonomiyaki (above) braised with worcester sauce.
Yet again Bourdain chooses to mention Lawson convenience stores (albeit vert briefly) as indeed he did on his last show in this country; ‘No Reservations – Japan: Cook It Raw‘ which makes me wonder if he’s being paid to promote such a place!
I’ve been watching Bourdain’s shows for many years now and have always enjoyed them but I’ve always been a bit wary that the stuff he does may not actually be that unknown and I guess it probably isn’t to most locals but with the programme geared towards the millions of CNN viewers in the USA and around the world I guess it really doesn’t matter. I did think that ‘Parts Unknown’ may have not offered anything too new for me and whilst I’m far from being a Tokyo specialist I was more than happy that it delivered a few things I didn’t know too much about.
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Category: Console gaming
The day has finally come!!!! All of the rumors and misinformation gets set straight. Today Bungie revealed some much needed gameplay and new features that will change the game that some of us love and others have hated with a passion. There’s no denying that if you played from day one like I have, we have seen the good, bad, and downright unbearable. With raid’s being broken, the crucible being unfair, trials being brutal for solo players like myself, and other modes just unpleasant to play Destiny really didn’t last for some players. But let’s get into some of the great things that Bungie revealed that has me ready to go preorder and get back into the world of Destiny.
First of all, let’s start with the campaign. With the cinematic trailer for the campaign we get a better understanding of which direction we will be mainly exploring. With that let me tell you some of the key points showed. The city is taken, the speaker dead, the connection to the light gone and last all the vaults are lost. That’s right, ALL VAULTS LOST!!! The campaign trailer did an excellent job with diving a little more into the newest threat that has come to earth.
Next the team at Bungie revealed some of the new tools and features that will make Destiny 2 standout and really shine. One of these new features is better clan tools and support through the console. Items like custom banners and content will be unlockable while in a clan. They really didn’t give too much away with exactly what kind of content will be unlocked, but one can assume that will include weapons, armor, and shaders. One new feature that I’m really excited for is a mode/tool called Guided Games. Now here’s how this works, let’s say you get all of your clan members on at the same time for a raid. Just put the raid or event in this option and you’ll be able to find that missing person or persons so you can still enjoy the raid. This will benefit solo players like me in a way to connect and be a part of content like raid and trials. Which, I played very little of the raids and trails, and it’s very rare when I had other people to play with.
Now, some of the even bigger news is Destiny is going to PC. We did get some more intel on what will be new to the PC port. Destiny 2 will be available through the battle.net exclusively. So don’t be surprised if we see some Blizzard and Bungie crossed products at some point. But the news that Bungie and Blizzard have joined together for this is truly groundbreaking. I can’t wait to see the content and server performance that comes with such a partnership
To find out more of the little details that was covered on the live stream on
twitch.tv/bungie.
With everything that was discussed and shown with the reveal I can’t wait to get back into the fight. Don’t forget to go preorder your copy to get access to the beta this summer.
Luis #Fallluis Benavides.Jr
Author The NerderyPosted on May 19, 2017 May 19, 2017 Categories Console gaming, Luis Benavides Jr, PC Gaming, PS4, XBox OneTags #blizzard, #bungie, #bungiegames, #destiny, #destiny2, #videogames, #xboxone, PS4Leave a comment on Welcome Back Guardians
Nintendo’s new console has made several innovations in the world of video games. But not without its own share of problems. Let’s cover some of the issues that have been found with the new Nintendo Switch. First, I would like to acknowledge that this console is groundbreaking in its own right. However, with all the flaws in design coming to light just over the first 30 days, things don’t well at all for Nintendo. With the base of the gaming industry being pc or console, the developers naturally stick to a package and just upgrade the models and hardware. This is great because it works, however, it doesn’t really leave a lot of room for innovation. One thing to keep in mind; with innovation comes hiccups. So with that said, always remember the road to making a great product is full of bumps and holes. So let’s look at what problems come with the Switch.
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Author The NerderyPosted on April 6, 2017 April 6, 2017 Categories Console gaming, Luis Benavides Jr, NintendoTags #fail, #fallluis, #nintendoswitch, #switch, NintendoLeave a comment on The Switch has a Glitch
Nintendo Switch Announcement Review/Reaction
First I would to say that Nintendo doing a live announcement like this is really different. The ability of live broadcasting over Twitch and YouTube has really changed the way that companies and developers can bring new content and news directly from the source. With this ability it gives companies breathing room to not be so constricted by the schedules of cons or game shows. They can really make their own events or announcements which allows the news to flow all year around.
So on to the meat and potatoes. Let’s talk about online services for a minute. First, online services/play will be free for a trail period upon launch but will be a pay to play later in the fall…Yeah, you read that right. The ability to region lock your online matchmaking will be gone, so now you can enjoy gaming with people around the world. But, keep in mind when you play with an open matchmaking, you run the risk of connection issues, frame-drops, and lag. This leads to elevated blood pressure, broken controllers, and heart attacks from the price of replacement. You will also be able to manage chat rooms and lobbies from a mobile app that is easily manageable instead of breaking from the game and returning to the main menu screen. Now the big question LAN gaming. With the tabletop and mobile modes of the switch allowing players to connect to each other’s consoles. Now here’s the awesome part, local connection through the wireless function allows up to eight Switchs to play multiplayer at a time. That’s awesomeness any way you slice it. Think about back in the day when we would have halo parties. All the stuff you had to make sure to take, let’s walk down memory lane real quick. TV, Xbox, 4 controllers (if not everyone brought their own), cords, game, and link cable. That was before flat screens were around, so TV’s were heavy as hell and it was only a 19”-24” TV that took up the whole backseat of your car. I can just see your reaction….F*** THAT!!!! Yup, the glory days of bro night. So reducing all of that equipment into a tablet and wireless network is AMAZING!!!! Now we can just meet up anywhere and beat the snot out each other on Smash Brothers or Mario Kart and have a blast. With all these different ways to game, we still have no answer on the net code. However, I still stand with my initial thought and they may be incorporating both net codes, which one code for the dock and one code for on the go. But again that’s just my thoughts, NOT FACT, at least for now.
On to the controller dubbed the Joy Con. This controller features a lot of neat and innovative technology like precision rumble allowing the controller to detail the feel of every motion and reactive feel. For instance, on the game ice was going into a glass, you can feel each ice cube. As you shake the controller you can feel each piece shake around the glass, as well as the water filling the glass up. Now a controller with that kind of precision will make for some interesting changes to the way we experience games.
They only covered 6 games during this announcement, so I’ll put these in a nutshell as best as I can. First was something a little similar to Wii play, called 1-2 Switch. This is a combo of mini games that are multiplayer like ping pong, gun shooter, sword fighting, boxing, and wide range of other mini games which will be available on launch. The next game is a fighting style game that will showcase the motion capabilities, called Arms. Now this one looks pretty interesting as it relies on you to throw punches to attack. Your character has the ability to stretch his/her arms to make attacks on enemies at a distance or in the air. What’s different is while you’re throwing your punches, you can twist your wrist and the punch will start veering towards the direction of your wrist’s rotation. This game will release spring 2017. Next was Super Mario Odyssey which showcases some pretty cool changes to our favorite plumber with whole new environments, tricks, and a new companion. Mario’s world is about to get that much bigger. Odyssey is set to release Holiday 2017. Elder Scrolls: Skyrim will also be ported and tweaked for the Switch. Which is a good starting point for a big third party developer like Bethesda to hopefully give us some cool and innovative games later down the road. Throughout the announcement we saw trailers for the upcoming new Xenoblade Chronicles, Fire Emblem, Dragon Quest Remasters, EA Sports, and new Splatoon game. The biggest piece of news came at the end of night. LEGEND OF ZELDA!!!!! We got a new story trailer as well as a release date. Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will release AT LAUNCH (Yes, you read that right). Zelda is the big launch title to push the release on Nintendo’s new contender on the console wars. But will Zelda be enough to make this console stand out? With all that information we are still left with one very big question…WHERE ARE THE OTHER GAMES AND THEIR RELEASE DATES!!!!!
Launch date for The Switch will be March 3 2017 WORLDWIDE!!!!! Retail Price will be $299.99. The Starter bundle will include the console (tablet), dock, HDMI cord, AC adaptor, 2 Joy con’s (left and right), joy con charger, and 2 joy con straps. Each individual piece will also be sold separately for replacements. The pro controller will be sold separately at a price of $70. (I’ll address the price of each piece in a moment, just hold that thought it gets better.)
Now, we can answer some of the questions and issues that came from the initial announcement. First, there was no set price point for replacement or single pieces which had me really scratching my head. But as the announcement was going on, I did some research to see what the price tags were and check this stuff out. The pro controller $69.99, Joy Cons(left and right) with strips $79.99, A Single Joy Con (left or right) with strip $49.99, Joy Con charging grip $29.99, Switch dock(includes HDMI cable & AC adaptor) $89.99, Joy Con Wheel (Set of 2) $14.99.
With all that, I had one response ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND!!!! $90 just for the dock, Hell no!!! And $50 just for the left or the right joy con’s. You expect people to pay $50 for an 8”x3” piece of hardware? And a low battery life of 2-6 hours. All I have to say is someone was higher than a kite when they priced this. This console is looking up to be the most expense launch, as far as extra’s go, in over a decade. For example, Console $300 + pro controller $70 + Joy Con’s $70 + Joy Con charger grip $30 + Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild Master edition $130 (regular edition is $60). So that comes out to $600 without taxes….I think would rather lick a piece of 60 grit sandpaper. That’s only with one game…ONE GAME!!!! All that just for a glorified gaming tablet. When put in terms like that Nintendo really put their collective head up their “you know what”. And another major issue is no games. The only games that were slated for launch are Legend of Zelda and 1 2 Switch. One bonafide game and a new version of Wii Play is absolutely ridiculous and somewhat underwhelming. With a high price tag, a need for added accessories, no games, a low battery life once taken off the dock. This really was kind of a waste of a press conference. They should’ve pushed dates and schedules back until more content was solidified for launch. With the promise of 80 titles being in development by first and third party publishers, most of the games are being slated within the first 6 months of launch. It’s hard to have any kind of enthusiasm towards the system. In all honesty we pretty much saw Nintendo show us their new pet. Its looks great, has great potential, but just finds a corner lies down and starts licking it’s nuts. So you’re left with an empty feeling like “I was excited for this?”
No titles at launch.
Have to wait 6 months after launch to get legit titles
High Price tags on accessories
Low battery life
Remastered & Ported games
Dropped frames & resolution when off of dock.
Won’t run 1080p
Offers 2 bundles, one with grey joys, another one will have colored joy cons (left blue & right red) with no price change
Precision Motion controllers that’s very innovative
Mobile and tabletop modes give the ultimate experience for on the go gaming
Wireless network connection allows up to 8 switch’s for LAN gaming at anytime
Cartridge’s make a return for easier game swapping while on the go
With everything as a whole, this release is going to be really rough for Nintendo. Only 5 million units will be shipped out worldwide, and that isn’t going to help its case. Do I believe that the Switch is worth getting at launch? Hell no. I think we will see some amazing games for this console, but not yet. I’ll give it till the holiday season of this year, or beginning of next year till we see some better titles to support the console. But the one question that’s on everyone’s mind is what was Nintendo thinking putting a console out with so few games and very little to push people to preorder at launch.
2.5/5 Greyskulls
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Author The NerderyPosted on January 18, 2017 January 18, 2017 Categories Console gaming, Luis Benavides Jr, Mobile Gaming, NintendoTags #gaming, #MARIO, #nintendoswitch, #SMASHBRO, #SUPERSMASHBROTHERS, NintendoLeave a comment on Nintendo Switch Announcement Review/Reaction
Gaming Event of Awesomeness
Thankfully, with all the advancements in technology, we have seen some real innovations in the world of video gaming. With the push of VR from independent publishers like Sony and Microsoft, and 4k TV’s and ultra-high resolution reaching an affordable level, we are now seeing the most amazing visuals in the history of video games.
The GoGames360 40 hour Gaming Marathon will showcase such advancements to the public in a friendly convention style setting. This will be an amazing opportunity since the general public doesn’t get hands-on experience with anything VR unless they’re purchasing it from Amazon or your local electronic store. This event will also feature gaming from every shade of the spectrum. From the high tech of VR to the low tech of TCG’S (trading card games), and pen and paper. A gaming event of this magnitude has never occurred in Houston, So as a casual (and occasional competitive) gamer, this is a welcomed event.
The event will feature LAN gaming for the PC gamers and console players to compete head to head and will feature cash tournaments for team and fighting games. GoGames360 will also have plenty of events for the “non-gamer” including a cosplay runway fashion show, costume contest, and a play and gaming area for the kids. Physical gaming will also have a spot reserved in the limelight of the event. Laser tag, archery, and Quidditch are just a few physical activities that will be available.
Another item to note is the charity that GoGames360 is already doing in the Houston area. 50% of online ticket sales will go to benefit the Covenant House Texas, a charity group that strives to get our homeless youths off the street. Their website clearly states their purpose…
Covenant House Texas (CHT) opened its doors in 1983 to provide shelter for homeless, abused and abandoned youth ages 18 – 20. After more than 30 years of service, CHT is still one of the only service providers in Texas of its type, offering an extensive continuum of care to the homeless youth population in Houston/Harris County.
Many of those youths are receiving complementary passes to come to the event. And, not to meet a charity and not help, The Nerdery will be donating a large amount of books from The Nerdery Vault!!!
The purchase of a three day past it will allow you to camp out at the complex and allows you to get a second one FREE!!. Single day passes are available for those just looking to see and experience the event and get a feel for an event this size. This is a phenomenal chance to expand your gaming experience and meet some awesome people. Making new friends, expanding your knowledge of gaming, and interacting with others that share your passion is always an amazing feeling. With live entertainment going on during the event everyone gets a chance to take a break from all the activities and just enjoy great music and food.
Tournaments will be available to individuals and teams and all but video game tournament fees are included in the ticket price. Anime Angels Runway show & Balentines Cosplay Ball presented by Cosplay Vogue will feature DJ Woody and Karaoke on Saturday from 10pm to 1am.
Confirmed Video Game Tournaments:
Super Smash Brothers
Confirmed Card Games Available:
Apples to Apples Demo
Blood of an Englishman
Love Letter Demo
Timeline Demo
Munchkin Demo
Flux Demo
Werewolf Tournament
Confirmed Dice Games Available:
Dicemasters Tournament
Zombie Dice Demo
Hero Clix Battle Royal
Confirmed Board Games Available:
Gravwell Demo
Catan Tournament
This event is shaping up to be an awesome change of pace for the heavy con goer, and is a little more like a festival/convention. With it bringing in the outdoor and camping aspect, it’s a pretty awesome way to keep everyone active. I’m personally pumped for an event of this kind and magnitude. Being able to watch Quidditch seems like an awesome event and I’m greatly looking forward to it. I’m also looking forward to being to compete on a grand stage again, which I haven’t done for many. I’ll be ecstatic to see the Houston gaming community come out and make this event successful so we may have many more to come. I and everyone else at The Nerdery hope to see you there and game together.
Luis #fallluis Benavides Jr.
VP of gaming of The Nerdery
JD #theprez Hardin
President of The Nerdery
Author The NerderyPosted on January 4, 2017 January 26, 2017 Categories Console gaming, Freemium Gaming, Mobile Gaming, Nintendo, PC Gaming, PS4, Table Top, Trading Card Game, XBox OneTags #d&d, #forceofwill, #gaming, #magicthegathering, #pcgaming, #quidditch, #tcg, #xbox1, #xboxone, PS41 Comment on Gaming Event of Awesomeness
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RSR – Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
By kamoedesu on August 31, 2014
Kamoe
Due to popular demand, and because my friend was kind enough to set me up with a 30 day free trial, I’ve finally sunken my teeth into the bitter fruit known as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. I’ll say this: I’ve never been a huge Final Fantasy fan, even though I love RPG’s, Final Fantasy’s never been a huge part of my childhood. Not because it’s not fun, but simply because I’ve never had the chance to play many of the games. Besides Final Fantasy IX, Square Enix’s highly touted MMO is one of the only games I’ve played under the popular franchise’s name. So without further ado, let’s get into the meat and potatoes.
Storyline: 8/10
Overall, the game’s storyline is pretty clear once you get going in the main quest line, which is pretty difficult considering the game’s grindy, errand-running approach to their quest system, most people will likely default to ignoring the quest dialogue and cutscenes to simple turn in their quests and advance to the next objective. Basically, you’re a newcomer to the realm of Eorzea, an adventurer seeking money, glory, or whatever it is you’re after. You’re given several, non-game-altering decisions to further customize your game for some immersion and character background. A nice touch, if you’re into that sort of deal. Your character fights and runs small errands to gain the trust of your fellow townspeople, but you discover you’re falling victim to strange spells of fainting, and hallucinations. Before long, you’re discovered by an organization of sorts that come to be known as “The Scions of the Seventh Dawn”, who explain that you are the possessor of a power called “The Echo”, an ability held by few that allow you to pose a serious threat to powerful beings known as Primals. Primals threaten the balance of the world, by gaining power from their followers. The more followers the Primal has, the stronger it becomes and the more danger it poses. The objective of the story seems to revolve around defeating each Primal to restore balance to the world, and achieve true peace.
Overall, I have to give the story a fairly high mark in itself, it only suffers due to the fact that I haven’t personally beaten the main scenario, as I left my character at a mere level 33 out of 50. This will be explained later.
Gameplay: 5/10
Have I ever told you that I HATE point-and-click auto-attack games? If not, you know now. Final Fantasy XIV is one of those games where you lock onto a target, and spam the same skills over and over while a fairly slow auto attack deals mediocre damage to your target. The game’s idea of “comboing” is linking certain skills in succession to deal more damage, and feels stiff and clunky, especially with most of your main skills having a global cooldown. This appears to be remedied later on, with the addition of skills that aren’t affected by the main global cooldown, but most of these additional skills have a long cooldown of a minute or more, in some cases.
One of the winning points, however, is the ability to be… well, whatever it is you want. FFXIV has many classes to pick from, and you have the choice to be one, or two, or five, or all of them! It’s recommended that you level cap your first choice when you make your character before attempting to raise a second class, but at level 30, you have the chance to advance a class to something called a Job. Lancer, the class I started with, can become a Dragoon at level 30 if you have a level 30 Lancer, and a level 15 Marauder. This gives you a slight stat boost, and access to more skills and gear later on. If you decide to play the game seriously, you can end up with a character with multiple level 50 jobs on it, or even deciding to level 50 all of them on one character is entirely possible.
Gameplay gets a painful 5/10 due to it’s boring and repetitive combat system, the high point being the multi-class system allowing you to spice up your bland Gameplay.
The World: 9/10
FFXIV is an open-world MMO, with some instance dungeons included. The open world is absolutely massive, and you can find yourself getting a little lost fairly easily, if not for the comprehensive map and compass, plus the ability to teleport instantly to any primary location you’ve been to, allowing you to traverse entire continents instantly with a bit of Gil. Otherwise, wandering around in the game can be fairly fun, but due to the sheer size of the maps and the distance between major cities with save points, it can be a bit of a drag getting to undiscovered areas… and turning in quests. More on this later.
The world gets a very positive 9/10, even if it is a bit lengthy walking from place to place, the ability to teleport to previously discovered key locations makes travel a breeze, and with high graphics settings, the view is quite nice.
Character Creation: 6.5/10
Wow, a decimal score. Weird? Not really. Anyway, character creation… *Sigh* Where do I begin with this? You’re given a choice between five fairly bland races.
Hyur: A default humanoid race. Abundant, easy to adapt to new locations.
Elezen: A tall, lanky elf-like race. One of the rarer races to find in the playerbase.
Miqo’te: A race with animal ears and tails. HIGHLY popular in the fanbase, for obvious reasons.
Roegadyn: Giants, basically. Huge muscles, tall stature.
Lalafell: Small, child-like race. One of the more unique races, honestly, and the one I happened to pick.
I honestly expected much better of a Final Fantasy game, often known for their outlandish creativity when it comes to their characters. You’re basically given basic MMO-like race choices with fancy names. The most unique of the races, in my opinion, are the Lalafell and Roegadyn, they offer the better customization options and don’t look like something you find in every other MMO ever made. Hyur, Elezen, and Miqo’te are shamefully basic in their design and background.
The saving grace for character creation is the class system. Yes, as I mentioned before, you have a LOT to pick from, and you don’t have to pick just one. The options are as follows:
Lancer: A heavily armored spear user, close-range, high single-hit burst damage. DpS class.
Gladiator: A heavily armored sword and shield user, close range, low damage, high defense. Tank class.
Pugilist: Lightly armored and nimble hand-to-hand combatant. Very close range, low cooldown, high combo ability. DpS class.
Marauder: Heavily armored, slow, axe wielder. Slow swings, high damage and AoE attacks. Tank class.
Archer: Medium armored, fast long-range attacker. Very long range, generates low aggro, some AoE. DpS class.
Arcanist: Cloth armor, summons creatures to aid in combat. Long range magic user with support skills. Healer class, but can advance to a DpS.
Thoumaturge: Cloth armor, deals heavy magic damage from a distance. Long range burst damage magic. DpS class.
Conjurer: Cloth armor, highly support-oriented class. Long range heals and buffs, inflicts enemy debuffs. Healer class.
Then things start getting more complicated with the Job system:
Dragoon: Upgrade from Lancer. Requires level 30 Lancer and 15 Marauder.
Paladin: Upgrade from Gladiator. Requires level 30 Gladiator and 15 Conjurer.
Monk: Upgrade from Pugilist. Requires level 30 Puglisit and 15 Lancer.
Warrior: Upgrade from Marauder. Requires level 30 Marauder and 15 Gladiator.
Bard: Upgrade from Archer. Requires level 30 Archer and Pugilist.
Scholar: One of Arcanist’s upgrades. Requires level 30 Arcanist and 15 Conjurer. Becomes support Healer class.
Summoner: One of Arcanist’s upgrades. Requires level 30 Arcanist and 15 Thaumaturge. Becomes summoning DpS.
White Mage: Upgrade from Conjurer. Requires level 30 Conjurer and 15 Arcanist.
Black Mage: Upgrade from Thoumaturge. Requires level 30 Thoumaturge and 15 Archer.
Yeah. Like I said, lots to pick from, and you can eventually become ALL of these. At once. On one character. Crazy, right?
Character Creation gets a 6.5/10 due to the lazy, un-innovative design for the races. I couldn’t give it a lower score because I am very impressed with the class and job system.
Subscription: 3/10
The only thing I hate more than point-and-click auto attack MMO’s, are pay to play subscriptions, and unfortunately, FFXIV is both. 30 dollars to buy an activation code for the PC version, which includes a 30 day trail run, and from there, 20 dollars per month to retain service. This is a huge downside to what would otherwise be a completely fine game to own and play regularly. I cannot warrant paying this kind of coin for an auto attack MMO.
Subscription makes the game take a huge score hit at 3/10. I simply cannot recommend paying this much money for a game like this. I seriously hope that Square Enix either lowers their prices, or makes the game free to play in the future.
Graphics: 9/10 (PC version)
I’ll keep this section pretty simple. The graphics on the PC are really good on high settings, it really accentuates the open world theme of the game. I really like being able to just idle around and look at things in-game. However, the game isn’t just on the PC, it’s also available on the PS3 and PS4, and the former of the two… really suffers in the graphics department, looking more on the medium default graphics settings. The PS4 version looks much better, to my knowledge.
Something that REALLY makes me happy is the wonderful addition of a day/night cycle, and randomized weather events that change up the scenery, and adds an epic twist to your general questing and adventuring. Transitioning from day to night, or seeing the sky get slightly darker with clouds rolling in, eventually leading to rain or even a sudden thunderstorm is a really quality aspect of the game, and definitely adds to it’s overall charm.
Graphics gets a 9/10, ignoring the PS3 and PS4 versions due to lack of personal experience with them. The open-world really benefits from the day/night cycle and weather events, it adds a sense of depth to the experience and definitely makes playing that much more interesting.
Quests and Dungeons: 4/10
This will get it’s own section because it’s something I was extremely disappointed and frustrated with during my free trial. The game, to an extent, has a linear story quest line that, along the way, will cause you to unlock dungeons that are required to advance the story and proceed to level. The default means of doing dungeons as a newcomer is applying for a party finder and joining a queue. As a DPS character, this can range from frustratingly lengthy to almost impossible amounts of waiting time for a party to fill up. Due to the amount of DPS classes in the game, a typical party, consisting of 4 characters, must include a healer, a tank, and two DPS. There are only 2 tank and 2 healer classes, but a grand total of 5 DPS classes. This results in an uneven distribution of party positions, an abundance of DPS and a low healer and tank count means that DPS classes are in for a LONG wait.
What can you do while waiting, you ask? Well… nothing, really. Quests give a very paltry amount of experience for the effort required to complete them, and grinding monsters is even less rewarding. The fastest way to level up is do complete dungeons, and advance the story to unlock the next dungeon. Leveling up was an extremely slow business for me, having been given 30 days to play, I only ended up at level 33 due to this glaringly flawed design in the game’s mechanics. At level 32, I waited up to 2 hours waiting for a dungeon party to fill up. That is absolutely ridiculous.
This isn’t even mentioning how long these quests take to complete. Most quests are multi-part quests, for instance, kill 3 of some monster, talk to X NPC, deliver item to Y NPC, go back to X NPC, turn in quest at Y NPC. Taking all of this effort to turn in a quest for a very small portion of your exp bar is extremely disheartening and very VERY boring.
Quests and Dungeons gets a very low 4/10 from me. If you’re not a healer or a tank, this game is going to be very rough on you unless you have friends in high places who don’t mind helping you level. The only reason it’s not even lower is because dungeons do give a lot of exp and that does help a bit, but it’s useless if you can’t get a party in the first place.
Overall Thoughts and Final Rating:
As a whole, Final Fantasy XIV is a successful game in it’s niche. To the people who can devote the time and money into the game will be completely satisfied, but a lot of the limitations and game structure can be a huge deterrent to newcomers who weren’t shown into the game by friends. While the Gameplay is boring alone, in a party where cooperation is key, it can become engaging and fun, but if you’re not playing in a party like I was most of the time, then the game seems very stale and generic.
The game gets a final score of 6/10. The bland Gameplay and long dungeon wait times are huge downsides that really prevent me from having fun with the game, but the graphics, scenery, and roleplay value of the game are, in fact, huge pros for me. But in the end, a game that prevents you from playing properly and punishes your class choices is not the game for me, and I probably won’t be renewing my subscription.
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Ethanol production hurts livestock farmers
by 5m Editor
25 January 2007, at 10:58am
MICHIGAN - Part of President Bush's new energy policy is to produce more ethanol to be less dependent on foreign oil. But, in order to make ethanol, you need corn. That reality is putting a premium on the price of corn and squeezing livestock farmers' profits here in Michigan.
At Sietsema Farms in Allendale, they have buildings with tens of thousands of turkeys in them. The birds eat a lot of corn feed in one year. Unfortunately for Sietsema, these days the cost of that corn is a lot more meaty.
"The price of corn from a year ago has literally doubled ... our bottom line is going to suffer tremendously," says feed manager Art Nor.
Sietsema sells a million turkeys a year, many raised here at the farm in Allendale. They also have 200,000 pigs that eat corn. The price tag just to feed their animals this year, will be $6 million more than last.
"Whether you milk cows, raise hogs, have beef cattle, it's going to affect all segments of livestock agriculture," Nor says.
The main reason corn costs more is because of skyrocketing ethanol production. Because of a new energy policy, the federal government is subsidizing ethanol, so manufacturers are cranking it out. The point is to reduce dependence on foreign oil, but it's corroding the farmer's bottom line.
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SESC São Paulo - Ausstellungen
William Forsythe: Choreographic Objects
27 March - 28 July 2019
Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil
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Curatorship: Forsythe Studio in collaboration with Veronica Stigger
The conjunction between architecture, visual arts and dance now has a temporary dedicated site in the city of São Paulo. SESC Pompeia — a traditional SESC unit in the city, designed by Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi — is currently hosting the exhibition William Forsythe: Choreographic Objects. Between March and July, 2019, in the common area of this culture and leisure center, passing visitors and SESC users can get to know the plurisensorial, choreographic and multimedia production of North American dancer, choreographer and visual artist William Forsythe (New York, USA, 1949).
Curated by Forsythe Studio itself, with collaboration by Brazilian curator and writer Veronica Stigger, eleven choreographic objects from the artist’s recent production, including some never before shown works, have been selected and adapted to SESC Pompeia’s architectural context. Since the 1990s, William Forsythe and his collaborators have been developing objects and installations, resorting to languages pertinent to the visual arts to engage the artworks in dialog with the architectural spaces where they are installed, giving rise to dynamics of interaction with the public.
William Forsythe: Unsustainables, 2019
The objects featured in the show are found in the Communal Area, the Theater Hall, the Exhibition Shed and the Outdoor Deck of Sesc Pompeia. Installations, video performances, multichannel videos, sculptures of an expanded nature, along with written and spoken instructions invite the public to participate, interact and negotiate. The artworks generally operate as devices that cause visitors to move their bodies, heightening the perception of the body’s mobility within its environment and in relation to its public coexistence with others.
William Forsythe: Instructions, 2019
For the occasion of the exhibition, two new site-specific installations were produced: Instructions (2019), consisting of instructions for action on the part of the public attached to ramps in the sports complex, and Unsustainables (2019), a concentric installation located in the more spacious communal area, in which the spectator is oriented, by audio and text, to carry out specific choreographic exercises. For its part, the previously shown installation Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time (2015) gains a site-specific version, occupying the converted factory building of SESC Pompeia.
William Forsythe: Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time, 2015/2019
William Forsythe became known worldwide for the reorientation he gave to classical ballet throughout his years of activity as a dancer and choreographer. He directed the Frankfurt Ballet between 1984 and 2004, and founded his own company in 2005. Today, based on his previous repertoire, the artist conceives and composes artworks beyond the domain of dance or performance, involving the spectators directly in his production, encouraging them to react, with their body, to the stimuli given in each situation. In a certain sense, these works only fully achieve their aim when they are activated in direct relationship with the public.
For the most part, they are artworks whose features are disconnected from manual labor and whose perceptions and interactions take place outside the hegemony of vision, and with motor activation of the body. As William Forsythe has often stated, his artistic practice makes us aware of our ability to foresee and calculate our actions and gestures, as we forge a relationship with the world around us. The ultimate goal is to promote recognition of the architectural and urban space through sensitive and synesthetic bodily awareness.
Installations and multichannel videos at SESC Pompeia
Aiming to enlarge the understanding of the visual art field’s encounter with dance and performing arts, SESC São Paulo is promoting this confluence through William Forsythe’s production, integrated with an architectural landmark. Like SESC Pompeia’s programmatic nature, the installations accentuate the place’s true vocation: an environment for the mobilization of bodies, where playful shared experience and learning are encouraged. Forsythe uses art and its devices to provide mediated experiences that broaden the frontiers of artistic languages, by choreographing, together with the public, the domain of what is intelligible or sensible through bodily movement.
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Photos: Marcel Verruno, Ricardo Ferreira, courtesy Sesc São Paulo
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Death toll in Iran floods rises to 76
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Seventy-six people have been killed in Iran by floods in recent weeks, according to a new toll published on Sunday.
Tehran : Seventy-six people have been killed in Iran by floods in recent weeks, according to a new toll published Sunday with warnings still in place for large swathes of the country.
“With the death of five people in the Khuzestan province flood and another person in Ilam province the death toll has now reached 76,” since March 19, according to a statement published online by the coroner’s office.
The two southwestern provinces are the latest overwhelmed by floods that first hit the northeast of the usually arid country, forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate from cities and villages.
Officials have again issued flood warnings for the east of Iran with heavy rains that began on Saturday forecasted to continue. The floods have caused immense damage with homes, roads, infrastructure and agriculture all hit.
“More than 14,000 kilometres (8,700 miles) of roads have been damaged,” transport minister Mohammad Eslami told parliament, according to the official IRNA news agency. He added that “725 bridges have been totally destroyed.”
The head of Iran’s meteorology service told the same parliamentary session that the floods do not necessarily mean that a decades-long drought has ended.
“The recent floods were due to climate change and global warming,” Sahar Tajbakhsh said. The Islamic republic has received aid from neighbouring countries and further afield, with France on Saturday donating 210 tents and 114 pumps.
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Wendy Williams Tearfully Reveals She’s Been Secretly Living In A Sober House [WATCH]
by Krystal Franklin
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On Tuesday’s episode of Wendy, Wendy Williams sent shockwaves through the audience when she revealed she was living in a sober house. “I have been living in a sober house. … You know I’ve had a struggle with cocaine in the past. I never went to a place to get treatment … there are people in your family, it might be you … I want you to know more of the story.”
Photo by Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Wilhelmina Models
She continued her shocking reveal on this morning’s show saying, “Only Kevin knows about this. Not my parents, nobody. Nobody knew because I look so glamorous out here. I am driven by my 24-hour sober coach back to a home that I live in the tri-state with a bunch of smelly boys who have become my family.” Watch below.
The 54-year-old has been forthcoming about her addiction to cocaine in the past, telling Entertainment Tonight just last year, “I was a functioning addict. I report to work on time, and I’d walk in and all my co-workers, including my bosses, would know but since I would have my headphones on and walk in the studio and [they] wouldn’t fire me because I was making ratings.”
Williams health has always been a picture of concern for many, especially after announcing she was diagnosed with Graves’ Disease after fainting live on television last year. And then there was that mysterious leave of absence for almost three months due to a reported fractured shoulder.
Wendy has famously made a living over the last two decades and now on her daily talk show reporting and sharing her opinion on the lives of celebrities, from her sit down with R. Kelly where the singer reportedly revealed he couldn’t read or write, to shading The Clark Sisters and then apologizing to a multitude of others.
Our prayers and thoughts are with Wendy as she navigates through this very tough ordeal.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2015 | Last updated about 7 hours ago
Plans for gipsy site at Hadlow Down
Plans have been submitted to use land in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty at Hadlow Down as a gipsy site.
Permission is being sought from Wealden District Council to put one mobile home, two touring caravans and a timber day room on the land in Stonehurst Lane.
Adjoining land at Five Badgers already has planning permission for occupation by members of the same family who have lived there for 13 years.
A design and access statement says about the latest planning application: “The application is retrospective. The applicants have been living in their caravans on this site for over two years in association with Five Badgers.”
The statement says permission is sought on behalf of Mr Joe Moore, 58, his wife Patience (Pashey) Moore, 56, their son Sam, 20, and their daughter Patience, 26, who is a single mother of three children, Jack, four, who attends the local nursery school, Pashey Ann, two, and Lucy Jane, one.
Mr and Mrs Moore are the parents of Elijah John Moore who occupies the adjoining site at Five Badgers with his wife and children.
Mr Joe Moore is a horse dealer and bought the land with his son in 2002 to have somewhere to keep their horses.
The statement adds that up until two years ago Mr and Mrs Moore were stopping on a socially provided site at Thistlebrook, Abbeywood, in Greenwich but they left after a dispute with neighbours.
Their daughter Patience had lived on a site owned and occupied by her uncle at Argos Hill but had to leave because he needed the space for his own family.
The statement said neither national or local planning policies prevent the location of gipsy sites in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in principle.
“The proposed development would not compromise the essential features of the AONB and would not add noticeably to traffic if consent is granted on a personal basis having regard to the fact permission is sought for an extended family who have part-owned the land since 2003 and have been visiting the site four to five times a week for the last 12 to 13 years to help look after the horses kept on the land and to visit family.”
See all the documents relating to the planning application on the Wealden Council website.
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Texas loses season opener to Maryland for second straight season
Sam Cooper
Yahoo Sports 1 September 2018
Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger, left, looks for a receiver as he is pressured by Maryland defensive lineman Byron Cowart in the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018, in Landover, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Maybe Texas isn’t back.
For a second year in a row, Texas, after an offseason of hype, dropped its season-opener to Maryland. After losing last season in Tom Herman’s debut in Austin, the Longhorns dropped another one to the Terps, this time a 34-29 decision at FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland.
The Terps controlled things early — thanks to three touchdowns from freshman Jeshaun Jones — and jumped out to a 24-7 lead. But Texas showed fight and was able to quickly make up ground, cutting the deficit to 24-22 at halftime.
Following some adjustments, the defenses played better to start the second half. Three punts opened the third quarter, and Maryland turned it over on downs in Texas territory later in the quarter. That allowed the Longhorns to take their first lead of the game, 29-24, on a Kyle Porter touchdown run.
But the Texas defense could not hold up its end of the bargain.
On the ensuing possession, the Terps marched right down the field, covering 75 yards in the span of 11 plays to re-take the lead with a 17-yard touchdown run by Tayon Fleet-Davis with 14:25 to play.
That’s when the rains came and a delay of 86 minutes halted the game. When play resumed, the Terps marched deep into UT territory again, but this time settled for a chip-shot field goal to increase the lead to 34-29 with 6:45 to play.
Texas blew three chances to win the game
Texas would have three opportunities to reclaim the lead but was doomed by turnovers all three times times.
First, UT quarterback Sam Ehlinger was hit as he threw, and the ball fell right into the waiting arms of Maryland linebacker Tre Watson.
On Texas’ next drive, it was a play by a different Tre Watson that doomed the Longhorns. Texas’ Tre Watson, a graduate transfer running back from Cal, fumbled on a third-down run — a run that would have been good enough for a first down near midfield.
Texas would regain possession one more time. Again, the drive ended in an Ehlinger interception. This time, Ehlinger looked for Lil’Jordan Humphrey deep in Maryland territory, but he overthrew his target and the pass was picked off by Maryland’s Antoine Brooks.
It was a turnover that sealed the win for the Terps, and another difficult loss for the Longhorns.
BALLGAME!
Antoine Brooks picks it off to seal @TerpsFootball's upset win.
Let's do it again next year, @TexasFootball. pic.twitter.com/Jf8RZs82wh
— Maryland On BTN (@MarylandOnBTN) September 1, 2018
What does this mean for Texas?
It’s been a decade of mediocrity and Texas fans are just starving for a resurgence under Herman. This will certainly not fulfill that hunger.
Frankly, this game resembled a lot of what made the Longhorns an average team in Herman’s first season. There was a hole-filled defense that struggled with Maryland’s speed. There was an underwhelming running game (just 3.9 yards per carry). And there were costly turnovers from the quarterback position.
And with all of that, Texas still had three — three! — chances to win the game late, and couldn’t do it against Maryland, a team mired in scandal that is expected to be among the worst in the Big Ten.
With a game against USC and the Big 12 slate on the horizon, this is not the way Texas wanted to start its 2018 season.
What does this mean for Maryland?
First of all, it had to be great for Maryland just to get back to football. The Terps lost a teammate earlier this offseason in Jordan McNair. And the administrative fallout from McNair’s death has been wide-reaching.
The Terps played this game without their head coach, D.J. Durkin, who is on administrative leave. Matt Canada, the first-year offensive coordinator, ran the show. After the game, Canada was quick to mention McNair. He was on the minds of the entire team, he said.
For Him. For You.#JM79 | #TerpNation pic.twitter.com/Ta1JGTLfGB
— Maryland Football (@TerpsFootball) September 1, 2018
Moving forward, Maryland has winnable games against Bowling Green and Temple before entering the juggernaut Big Ten schedule. After a win like this, the Terps won’t — and shouldn’t — be taken lightly.
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City clothing, jewellery designer favours ethnic minority fabrics
Update: March, 19/2015 - 09:59
Fab fabric: Cynthia Mann said these fabrics are of the highest quality and diversity, but the craft of making them is dying out as cheap Chinese goods flood the market.
by Le Huong
On one mid-summer day, the sun's strong, burning rays seem to have kept most people inside. Endless waves linger on a white, sandy beach in the central province of Binh Thuan.
Australian designer Cynthia Mann walks along the beach in her bare feet with a large, brimmed bamboo hat. The hot sun doesn't seem to bother her, as she has lost herself searching for treasures along the shore. From time to time she kneels down, picks something up and smiles to herself. She finds broken pieces of ceramics or glass, revealed by their twinkling as they reflect the sun's rays between waves.
Most would ignore the small objects. But for Mann, they're inspiration for new jewellery designs.
During a holiday on the beach, she might collect dozens of pieces. She reshapes them and frames them with silver, turning them into ornamental wares for her brand Future Traditions.
Mann has designed ornamental wares this way for more than a year. Her jewellery is purchased by expats, tourists and some Vietnamese.
"One can only imagine the stories behind each piece of ocean-polished ceramics and sea glass found washed up along the coast of Viet Nam – are they fragments from the cargo of one of the shipwrecks which date as far back as the 13th century, intended for trade in Europe?" She wrote on her website. "Or broken and discarded crockery from which the sailors ate?...We may never know, but in using what others would, and have, thrown away, these recycled pieces can reclaim their part in Viet Nam's seafaring history, this time as unique pieces of jewellery."
Mann said she knew she wanted to live in Viet Nam the very first time she stepped into a taxi on her first visit six years ago. Now, some of her favourite things about Viet Nam are its coffee and delicacies offered during the Tet holiday.
"It's hard to figure out which features of the country lured me," she said. "Its vibrancy, people and atmosphere. I sense that anything can happen here while Viet Nam is changing very fast. I feel a strong and fascinating culture identity here, though the country has blended Chinese, French and American influences, especially in tribal minority groups in mountain areas."
Working together: Cynthia Mann (left) poses for a photo with her friend (right) and two local women in Sa Pa. — Photos courtesy of Cynthia Mann
An average day for Mann includes shopping at big markets in the city like Hom and Dong Xuan, where she can buy materials for designing clothes and accessories. Her weekends are often spent in remote mountain communities in Ha Giang, Hoa Binh, Lao Cai and Lai Chau provinces.
Hand-woven designs
A love for fabrics hand-woven and hand-dyed by ethnic minorities is evident in Mann's designs. She said these fabrics had the highest quality and diversity. But the handicraft has been dying out as cheap Chinese goods flood the market. While lots of people work with ethnic minority textiles, there are few options for stable production of the handmade goods.
Mann has built relationships with locals, so she can order special textiles and use them in their designs. By blending traditional brocade with decorative patterns on small areas like hems, necks, buttons and borders decorations, she creates fashionable clothing at reasonable prices, while using special features of ethnic minority culture.
"I think her designs are special in the way she blends ethnic patterns," said Mai Thanh Nga, a fashion design student from Ha Noi Open University. "They bear both traditional and modern motifs, and I think they suit city life."
Mann said she designed items for all seasons and genders.
"I feel like I have a special connection to Viet Nam," she said, explaining why she has stayed in the country so long. "I don't know, Viet Nam may have put a spell on me." — VNS
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You probably have multiple ways of reaching out to your existing fans and potential customers. You may have a newsletter, email blasts, social posts, and/or ads. Those are great — but you’ll also want to know where your site visitors are coming from. This will help you determine which of your campaigns are more effective than others.
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Campaign links are tags you can add to any blasts you are sending out around your network. If someone visits your site by clicking on a campaign link, you’ll be able to track that. If you see heavy traffic from a specific campaign, it can help signal that your potential audience is responding better to particular content you’re highlighting or specific channels you’re using to reach them. You can use these insights to make adjustments to future campaigns.
How to build campaign links
You don’t need to be a developer to create a campaign link. The easiest tool to use is Google Analytics (GA). It’s free and you can easily add your GA account to your Vimeo OTT site.
The only required fields for setting up a campaign link are the URL of the site you’re directing your audience and the campaign source where you’d leave a descriptor of where this link is appearing (i.e. a newsletter, Facebook, Twitter, etc). That’s all you’ll need to get started, but even though you can set up a campaign link without filling out any more information, it’s worth spending a few minutes filling in the rest of the details. In the long run, it will make it easier for you to see which campaign is yielding more traffic at a glance.
The campaign name field allows you to give a universal title to all of the different links you intend to house under one campaign. For example, you may be running a back to school promo for your subscription. You’d fill out “Back to School” in the campaign name field, and then alter the source for the different platforms you were blasting it on. That way, when you go into your GA account, you’d easily be able to see all of the campaign links for your entire Back to School campaign and determine if you’re getting more traffic and conversion from certain platforms.
Why are campaign links important?
Insights from campaign links can help you determine which platform or messaging is getting you a stronger ROI. If you see you’re getting a lot more activity from Facebook than Twitter, that can inform where you want to spend money when it comes to social ads in the future. In addition, insights can help you track performance over time — if you’ve run promo codes at different time periods, campaign links can help you determine if you attract more signups around back to school vs holiday promotions.
You can also use them to A/B test images or messaging in a campaign. If you use a different photo or video with a campaign link in a Facebook ad, you can title your Campaign Content fields with descriptors (white background, black background, or copy 1, copy 2, etc) to see if particular messaging is resonating better with your prospective audience. If you are doing this, just remember to only A/B test one thing at a time. Happy campaigning.
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On occasion of the 27th Vis Moot the following prizes will be awarded:
Pieter Sanders Award - Best Memorandum for Claimant
Werner Melis Award - Best Memorandum for Respondent
Eric E. Bergsten Award - Team Orals
This award will be made to the winning team in the final round of the oral hearings.
Martin Domke Award - Best Individual Oralists
This award for the general rounds will be won by the individual advocate with the highest average score during these rounds. To be eligible for this award a participant must have argued at least once for the claimant and once for the respondent.
Michael L. Sher Award for the Spirit of the Willem C. Vis Moot
It can be awarded to a team or an individual student for its dedication and commitment to the Spirit of the Vis Moot. The Spirit of the Vis Moot has many facets. For example, unity in difficult situations, creativity and out of the box thinking or to overcome unexpected burdens or the fostering of relations across frontiers and traditional divides. The winner of the Michael L. Sher Award will be determined at the discretion of the Vis Moot Directors upon suggestion of teams and arbitrators. A team or individual cannot suggest itself to the Directors of the Moot.
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Kwankwaso Not Welcome In Kano – Governor Ganduje
helen pretty, August 20, 2018 August 20, 2018 , 0
Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has challenged Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso to launch his 2019 presidential campaign in Kano.
The governor said: “Kano is not and will never welcome Kwankwaso. The people have the constitutional right to make their democratic choices. And as such, we have all the right to reject him and we have already rejected him.”
Ganduje spoke yesterday at the Government House at an empowerment programme on money transfer for women.
About 6,600 women from the 44 councils each got N15,000 to boost their business.
He said, “We never considered him (Kwankwaso) from day one as a presidential material. We shall continue to maintain our position about him. We know nobody but President Muhammadu Buhari.
“We, the great people of Kano, as he knows, will explore every democratic means possible to reject (Kwankwaso) and show him the exit from political participation, even before the general election comes.
“We witnessed the demise of distinguished personalities, of which he chose not to come; we had fire outbreaks and this man did not care to come and sympathise with the victims.
“We raised a special committee to find the cause of the disasters and collect donations for the victims. A staunch Kwankwanso follower was included in the committee, but Kwankwanso didn’t allow him to participate in the committee’s meetings, neither did he send a dime as his contribution.
“Kano people, I am asking you, does this man have any concern for you and your families? In whose interest is he doing all these things? This man doesn’t even have an iota of feeling about Kano people.
“Because he knows he is not welcomed in Kano, he chose to stay away and launch his unorganised and unpopular campaign elsewhere.
“Kano is solely for Buhari come 2019. That is why we said we are waiting for him to come to Kano and launch his campaign. We shall use all democratically accepted ways and say No!”
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EGCSA launches scrubber database to eliminate operational uncertainty
July 9, 2019July 9, 2019
The interactive map shows restrictions on scrubber use at various ports around the world. Image courtesy of the EGCSA
The Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems Association (EGCSA) has estimated that there will be around 4,000 exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS) also known as scrubbers, in operation by January 1, 2020 when the IMO’s global sulphur cap enters into force.
The association has launched a free-to-access global database covering operating rules for scrubbers to help shipowners and operators prepare for the regulation and ensure correct use of their scrubber systems.
The global database, which can be accessed here, provides a comprehensive source of information on international, regional, national and local SOx emission regulation, together with guidance on the use of scrubbers as an alternative method of compliance. An interactive map shows where scrubbers can be used as a method of compliance, any port restrictions, and whether there are any additional regional, national or local compliance criteria, and indicates where overboard discharges from scrubbers are prohibited. The database provides links and verified information on legislation or rules that have been imposed. Verification material is included on the database.
Organisations such as the Clean Shipping Alliance 2020 and International Chamber of Shipping have approached ports and sought feedback from shipowners on scrubbers. The EGCSA reports that the work of these organisations and any other interested groups will also be incorporated into the database once verified, thus ensuring the most comprehensive and up-to-date verified information is made available to ship operators around the world.
According to the EGCSA, the high investment in scrubbers will alleviate some of the pressure on low sulphur fuel suppliers, with an estimated cut of 18 per cent in demand for 0.5 per cent sulphur fuel.
The entry into date of the global sulphur cap could have been set back to 2025, but a CE Delft forecast that implied a shortage of compliant fuel would be diminished by 2020 meant that the sulphur cap date was set at January 1, 2020.
According to the EGCSA, ships with high fuel consumption benefit from a reduction in operational costs by using scrubbers, reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, a cut in particulate emissions by 80 per cent and a decrease in sulphur emissions to less than IMO permitted levels. The EGCSA believes that those with high fuel consumption will find it more cost-effective to install a scrubber rather than switch to compliant low sulphur fuel.
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Things That Matter
The Stonewall Inn Is The First LGBTQ National Monument And This Is Why It Matters To Latinos
By Jorge Rodriguez-Jimenez June 24, 2016 at 4:12 pm
Credit: The White House / YouTube
It all started with a trans Latina.
The Stonewall Inn has officially been designated as the first national monument dedicated to the history of LGBTQ Americans. What began as yet another police raid on a queer safe space turned into a three-day protest sparking the gay rights movement. And who led the protests? Sylvia Rivera, a trans woman of Puerto Rican and Venezuelan heritage. Rivera began dressing in drag in 1961 and lived on the streets. It was at The Stonewall Inn that she and so many other LGBTQ Americans in New York in the 1960s sought refuge.
Bar patrons fought back against the police offiers who threatened to raid the bar and arrest everyone present. When Rivera saw the commotion, she knew this was the time for a revolution. In her own words, she threw the second molotov cocktail that lit the fire, literally and figuratively, of the gay rights movement nationwide
“I’m not missing a a minute of this,” Rivera told her lover that night, according to “The New York Times.” “It’s a revolution.”
History and a recent movie have tried whitewashing the contributions of LGBTQ people of color made at the start of the gay rights movement. In fact, there were calls for a boycott of “Stonewall,” the movie that claimed to be a portrayal of the Stonewall riots, but erased key black and Latino trans activists who started the fight. Today, all the people involved, including Sylvia Rivera, are remembered as starting the movement almost 50 years ago that continues today. That’s LGBTQ history. That’s our history.
Happy Pride Month, y’all!
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Tags: NYC, Stonewall Inn, Histroy, LGBTQ, New York
The NYC Blackout Forced J.Lo To Cancel Her Concert But She Came Back Better Than Ever
jlo / Instagram
By danielli July 16, 2019 at 11:05 am
Jennifer Lopez’s “It’s My Party” Tour was set to reach its pinnacle as the Puerto Rican icon returned to her home barrio, New York City, on Saturday, July 13. Instead, the sold out Madison Square Garden show was evacuated after a city-wide blackout turned Madison Square Garden (MSG) dark.
While StubHub reportedly refunded $500k to customers affected by the blackout, along with other suffering businesses, J.Lo was quick to action because her party ain’t over till she says it is.
When the lights went off, fans turned on their phone lights to light up the arena.
Credit: @jlo / Twitter
In video footage posted by J.Lo on her social media accounts, you can see the 49-year-old knockout performing for her loudest, most loyal fans when everything went black. Fans started to scream, and although J.Lo’s microphone cut out, she starts to tell the crowd, “Don’t panic. Everybody, stay calm.”
The singer quickly took to social media to blast her thoughts out to her fans.
Since nobody could hear her, she brilliantly sent a message through to everyone with a selfie video. “Hi guys, we’re backstage. They just told me to get off stage… They’re asking everyone to evacuate very slowly and calmly and that’s what we’re going to have to do,” she tells the camera. She tweeted out to her fans, “Heartbroken to say tonight’s show is cancelled. We will reschedule. Love you all!!! Stay safe!
#ItsMyPartyTour”
Some thought her fire caused the NYC blackout.
In a video she posted to Twitter, we hear someone telling Jennifer, “New York just wasn’t ready for you.” J.Lo agreed.
J.Lo posted several more videos that night expressing to her fans how “heartbroken” she was to have to cancel the show.
“Devastated and heartbroken that I can’t perform for all of you tonight. We will make this up to you, I promise!” she tweeted alongside the video. And that she did. :’ )
Later, she shared a video of her finding out the show could be rescheduled for the upcoming Monday.
“UGHHHH, this sucks. This SUCKS, she frustratingly shouted into a phone.” We see her with fiancé Alex Rodriguez and her team in a business meeting where the person on the other end of the phone confirmed that MSG could reschedule her concert for Monday.
J.Lo made sure to bring the whole Madison Square Garden to its feet during rescheduled concert.
Wow! @JLo tore up the garden! The place was exploding!!! Jennifer is not playing— she came to show us what 50 looks like. #boom pic.twitter.com/ATacB8pWs8
— Hoda Kotb (@hodakotb) July 16, 2019
The blackout might have stopped her concert in its tracks but that would never hold J.Lo down. She promised to deliver a performance for her fans and she did just that.
The singer is celebrating her 50th birthday like only she can and fans approve.
This is 50… in a few days! @JLo sure knows how to throw one epic bday bash. #JLOItsMyParty pic.twitter.com/wbkrwa63H9
— Ali Puliti (@APuliti) July 16, 2019
Way to go, J.Lo. That’s how you deliver a show to your fans.
Of course, A-Rod was there with all of the support.
Credit: @AROD / Twitter
Alex Rodriguez is the attentive and supportive partner everyone deserves. He seems to always be there for her performances and his unyielding support of her is something we can all cry over.
Even though she’s going to perform in a different city the very next day, she’s making The Garden show round two happen the night before.
Credit: @MySimple_Life / Twitter
“I just want to let you guys know that you’re going to get your money’s worth, that we are going to come back and do an amazing show for you. I am so sorry that this happened. Obviously, it was all beyond our control,” she told fans just hours before following through on her promise.
This morning, she tweeted “The party’s not over til I say it is…. See you tonight, NYC!!!!!!!!”
Credit: @momdcpac / Twitter
You can’t stop a Puerto Rican fire. ; ) J.Lo’s swift action and obvious disappointment for her fans has just reinvigorated her fanbase.
Meanwhile, around the city, Latinos were taking in the city sin luz.
Credit: @Joseph_Mora78 / Twitter
As the sun set on the city, it’s usually bright cityscape was absolutely pitch dark. Citizens started directing traffic, including directing police cars in the right direction. A Symphony Hall orchestra moved their performance to the middle of a busy New York street, making it open to the public.
Bodegas kept doing their thing.
Credit: @AliBaumanTv / Twitter
The metaphorical and literal cornerstone of NYC and Latino culture remained the hub for socializing and snacking.
Broadway just took their performances to the street.
Credit: @Hadestown / Twitter
Lin-Manuel Miranda tweeted an incredible video of André and company freestyling about the blackout, during the blackout, to keep the Hadestown performance alive.
Kulture still had a “lit” 1st birthday party during the blackout.
Credit: @iamcardib / Instagram
In an Instagram live video posted Sunday, Cardi B told her fans that her baby’s first birthday party “was so lit that I lost my motherf–king nail. Let me tell ya’ll something, ya’ll made it lit was the fact that I had got there, the lights went off in the party, it was like a whole hour with no lights, no music. But it was…lit!”
Here’s what we learned. A blackout may turn off the power in the City of Lights, but it can’t stop culture from doing its thing.
READ: A Valedictorian Wasn’t Allowed To Give A Speech Because He’s Gay, So J.Lo Came To His Hometown To Bring His Noise
Tags: New York City, Jennifer Lopez, New York, J.Lo
The Black Majesty At The Afro-Latino Fest NYC This Weekend Is What Dreams Are Made Of
#afrolatinofestnyc / Instagram
By danielli July 15, 2019 at 4:18 pm
With six years of celebrating Afro-Latinidad behind them, Afro-Latino Fest took to New York City for the seventh time running and it was better than ever. Latino Rebels and Futuro Media group partnered to create a social entrepreneur workshop, creating more much-needed access, and Afrolatin Talks launched their Podcast series to a live audience.
With live music, indoor and outdoor stages, and coalescence of uninterrupted culture-affirming celebration all weekend long, you can bet the whole event was like a POC dream come true.
In the last U.S. Census, more than 25 percent of all those claiming Afro-Latino heritage report living in New York City.
Credit: @blackownedbklyn / Instagram
So it makes sense that Afro-Latino Fest would go down in Brooklyn, where the bulk of the community already lives. In the last census, only 2.5 percent of all Latinos also identified as Black, which makes Brooklyn an especially special place.
Latin flags were held and celebrated showing the diversity of the Afro-Latino community.
Credit: @kirstensmetsx / Instagram
That’s just what you do at the Afro-Latino Fest. You don’t have to be afraid of someone coming up to you asking if you’re an American or be in fear to express cultural pride.
The music was next-level increíble.
Internet community Black Owned Brooklyn couldn’t have described the event any better: “Celebrating all things Afrolatinidad — from music, dance and food to politics, philosophy and religion — the Afro-Latino Festival (@afrolatinofestivalnyc) returned to Brooklyn last weekend for its seventh edition. Run by husband-and-wife duo Amilcar Priestley and Mai-Elka Prado Gil (both from Brooklyn by way of Panama), the event started in 2013 as a small gathering at Flatbush’s Parkside Train Station Plaza to “affirm, celebrate and educate” around the contributions of people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean. It has since evolved into a two-day festival, most recently at City Point in downtown Brooklyn, featuring music from eight countries across three stages. 🇵🇦 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇭🇹 🇭🇳 🇨🇺 🇨🇴 🇧🇷 ⠀”
There were chingona level DJ’s setting the party mood.
These identical twins, Coco and Breezy, were just one set in a lineup of incredible performance artists like Puerto Rican spoken-word poet, Felipe Luciano, Dominican singer, José Alberto “El Canario,” Haitian-American singer Tadia and all-women Mariachi group Flor de Toloache.
Afro-Latinos of all ages were able let loose a little bit.
Every child was made to feel like royalty, with Afro-Latino owned vendors like “A Princess Like Me” in attendance. This was a family event.
Of course, there were bubbles for los niños.
Credit: @aprincesslikemenyc / Instagram
Who doesn’t love a good bubble machine?! Unlike the parties many of us went to as kids, there were actual children’s events to look forward to after rubbing the red lipstick off your face from all the tía besitos. Plus, who doesn’t want to hang out with Elena of Avalor?
The festival was all about community.
And representing your whole heritage with pride. With the festival in its seventh year running, some of the children knew each other from the year before and others made fast friends.
The festival empowered Afro-Latino vendors to empower young Afro-Latino niños to be themselves.
Caption: “Thank you @afrolatinofestivalnyc for booking us and giving OUR kids a place to freely run, play, dance and color with PRIDE! Our Latina Princess met amazing little Latina princesses too 👑👑👑🥰 where we hosted the entire kids zone at @citypointbklyn !!! Empowering our girls one princess & party character at a time. With live singing, makeup, nails, tattoos, dancing and more we bring the party to you! Ensuring your child has the best party possible for the lowest cost in NYC it’s no wonder we only have top ratings! Ps ask us about our customized characters and package options.”
We hope they get even more business after the festival’s long over.
It also empowered Afro-Latina‘s all over the place.
Credit: @bxmary80 / Instagram
“I am so excited! #laborinqueña #Brooklyn,” wrote this festival goer. She even got to meet the artist that created the highly anticipated “La Borinqueña” superhero comic, which celebrates a Black Puerto Rican woman as the protagonist.
At the end of the day, the event was all about family.
Credit: @cjrbarnes / Instagram
The young man in this photo expressed his gratitude for the event with a post on Instagram that read, “As the son of a 🇯🇲 [Jamaican] Immigrant and a 🇨🇺[Cuban] American, I’m blessed to be able to identity with both my Caribbean and African roots. @AfroLatinoFestivalNYC exemplifies all of the richness that Africa has on our beautiful Latinx counterparts—culture personified!🌍”
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Pyridine, 2,4,6-trimethyl-
Formula: C8H11N
InChI=1S/C8H11N/c1-6-4-7(2)9-8(3)5-6/h4-5H,1-3H3
IUPAC Standard InChIKey: BWZVCCNYKMEVEX-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Other names: «alpha»,«gamma»,«alpha»'-Collidine; «gamma»-Collidine; s-Collidine; 2,4,6-Collidine; 2,4,6-Trimethylpyridine; sym-Collidine; 2,4,6-Kollidin; gamma-Collidine; NSC 460
UV/Visible spectrum
BS - Robert L. Brown and Stephen E. Stein
TRC - Thermodynamics Research Center, NIST Boulder Laboratories, Chris Muzny, director
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing
Tboil 444. ± 3. K AVG N/A Average of 7 values; Individual data points
Tfus 228.15 K N/A Assal, 1966 Uncertainty assigned by TRC = 1. K; TRC
Tfus 228.95 K N/A Mastrangelo, 1957 Uncertainty assigned by TRC = 0.05 K; TRC
Tfus 228.69 K N/A Brown, Johnson, et al., 1954 Uncertainty assigned by TRC = 0.1 K; TRC
vapH° 50.4 ± 2.9 kJ/mol CGC Lipkind and Chickos, 2009 Based on data from 342. - 373. K.; AC
vapH° 50.2 kJ/mol CGC Chickos, Hosseini, et al., 1995 Based on data from 323. - 373. K.; AC
vapH° 50.3 ± 0.2 kJ/mol N/A Majer, Svoboda, et al., 1985 AC
Enthalpy of vaporization
vapH (kJ/mol)
Temperature (K)
46.5 363. N/A Sakoguchi, Ueoka, et al., 1995 Based on data from 303. - 424. K.; AC
51.2 313. EB Lencka, 1990 Based on data from 298. - 444. K.; AC
48.3 328. C Majer, Svoboda, et al., 1985 AC
Enthalpy of fusion
fusH (kJ/mol)
9.535 228.96 Mastrangelo, 1957, 2 DH
9.54 229. Domalski and Hearing, 1996 AC
In addition to the Thermodynamics Research Center (TRC) data available from this site, much more physical and chemical property data is available from the following TRC products:
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Assal, 1966
Assal, F.A., Vapour-liquid equilibria in phenol-pyridine base systems, Bull. Acad. Pol. Sci., Ser. Sci. Chim., 1966, 14, 603. [all data]
Mastrangelo, 1957
Mastrangelo, S.V.R., Adiabatic calorimeter for determination of cryoscopic data., Anal. Chem., 1957, 29, 841. [all data]
Brown, Johnson, et al., 1954
Brown, H.C.; Johnson, S.; Podall, H., Purification and Physical Properties of 2,6-Lutidine and 2,4,6-Collidine, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1954, 76, 5556. [all data]
Lipkind and Chickos, 2009
Lipkind, Dmitri; Chickos, James S., An examination of the vaporization enthalpies and vapor pressures of pyrazine, pyrimidine, pyridazine, and 1,3,5-triazine, Struct Chem, 2009, 20, 1, 49-58, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11224-008-9389-5 . [all data]
Chickos, Hosseini, et al., 1995
Chickos, James S.; Hosseini, Sarah; Hesse, Donald G., Determination of vaporization enthalpies of simple organic molecules by correlations of changes in gas chromatographic net retention times, Thermochimica Acta, 1995, 249, 41-62, https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-6031(95)90670-3 . [all data]
Majer, Svoboda, et al., 1985
Majer, V.; Svoboda, V.; Lencka, M., Enthalpies of vaporization and cohesive energies of dimethylpyridines and trimethylpyridines, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 1985, 17, 4, 365-370, https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9614(85)90133-8 . [all data]
Sakoguchi, Ueoka, et al., 1995
Sakoguchi, Akihiro; Ueoka, Ryuichi; Kato, Yasuo; Arai, Yasuhiko, Vapor Pressures of Alkylpyridines and Alkylpyrazines., KAGAKU KOGAKU RONBUNSHU, 1995, 21, 1, 219-223, https://doi.org/10.1252/kakoronbunshu.21.219 . [all data]
Lencka, 1990
Lencka, Malgorzata, Measurements of the vapour pressures of pyridine, 2-methylpyridine, 2,4-dimethylpyridine, 2,6-dimethylpyridine, and 2,4,6-trimethylpyridine from 0.1 kPa to atmospheric pressure using a modified Swietoslawski ebulliometer, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 1990, 22, 5, 473-480, https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9614(90)90139-H . [all data]
Mastrangelo, 1957, 2
Mastrangelo, S.V.R., Adiabatic calorimeter for determination of cryoscopic data, Anal. Chem., 1957, 29(5), 841-845. [all data]
Domalski and Hearing, 1996
Domalski, Eugene S.; Hearing, Elizabeth D., Heat Capacities and Entropies of Organic Compounds in the Condensed Phase. Volume III, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1996, 25, 1, 1, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.555985 . [all data]
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Tboil Boiling point
Tfus Fusion (melting) point
fusH Enthalpy of fusion
vapH Enthalpy of vaporization
vapH° Enthalpy of vaporization at standard conditions
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Chromium,pentacarbonyl(pyridine)-
Formula: C10H5CrNO5
Reaction thermochemistry data
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Data compiled by: José A. Martinho Simões
fH°gas -629.3 ± 6.8 kJ/mol Review Martinho Simões The enthalpy of formation relies on -908.4 ± 2.6 kJ/mol for the enthalpy of formation of Cr(CO)6(g)
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fH°solid -732.5 ± 6.6 kJ/mol Review Martinho Simões The enthalpy of formation relies on -908.4 ± 2.6 kJ/mol for the enthalpy of formation of Cr(CO)6(g)
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Individual Reactions
C10H5CrNO5 (solution) + (solution) = (solution) + (solution)
By formula: C10H5CrNO5 (solution) + CO (solution) = C6CrO6 (solution) + C4H4N2 (solution)
rH° -61.9 kJ/mol KinS Wovkulich and Atwood, 1980 solvent: Hexane; The data rely on the enthalpy and entropy of activation for the forward reaction, 106.3 ± 4.6 kJ/mol and 13.0±14.6 J/(mol K) Dennenberg and Darensbourg, 1972, and also on the enthalpy and entropy of activation for the Cr-CO dissociation in Cr(CO)6, 168.2 ± 2.5 kJ/mol and 94.6±6.3 J/(mol K) Graham and Angelici, 1967. The latter data were obtained in decalin
C12H16CrO5 (solution) + (solution) = (solution) + C10H5CrNO5 (solution)
By formula: C12H16CrO5 (solution) + C4H4N2 (solution) = C7H16 (solution) + C10H5CrNO5 (solution)
rH° -84.1 ± 1.7 kJ/mol PAC Yang, Vaida, et al., 1988 solvent: Heptane
C10H5CrNO5 (cr) + (g) = (g) + (g)
By formula: C10H5CrNO5 (cr) + CO (g) = C6CrO6 (g) + C4H4N2 (g)
rH° 75. ± 6. kJ/mol DSC Daamen, van der Poel, et al., 1979
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Martinho Simões
Martinho Simões, J.A., Private communication (see http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/om/). [all data]
Wovkulich and Atwood, 1980
Wovkulich, M.J.; Atwood, J.D., J. Organometal. Chem., 1980, 184, 77. [all data]
Dennenberg and Darensbourg, 1972
Dennenberg, R.J.; Darensbourg, D.J., Inorg. Chem., 1972, 11, 72. [all data]
Graham and Angelici, 1967
Graham, J.R.; Angelici, R.J., Inorg. Chem., 1967, 6, 2082. [all data]
Yang, Vaida, et al., 1988
Yang, G.K.; Vaida, V.; Peters, K.S., Polyhedron, 1988, 7, 1619. [all data]
Daamen, van der Poel, et al., 1979
Daamen, H.; van der Poel, H.; Stufkens, D.J.; Oskam, A., Thermochim. Acta, 1979, 34, 69. [all data]
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fH°solid Enthalpy of formation of solid at standard conditions
rH° Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions
rS° Entropy of reaction at standard conditions
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New Details On Batman Prequel Series Pennyworth Surface
By Eric Joseph @RealEricJoseph 11 months ago
When everyone had a laugh over Teen Titans Go! To The Movies making a joke about butler extraordinaire Alfred getting a film of his own, the folks over at Epix apparently thought such a notion would make for some damn good television. As it turns out, they’re going ahead with a 10-episode series known as Pennyworth, which will likely debut later in 2019.
Truth be told, there actually is a lot of potential to be tapped here, as people can often forget about how the Dark Knight’s surrogate father was military intelligence in his younger days. Though this has been an aspect to the character for some time, it wasn’t until the graphic novel Batman: Earth One that the door was opened for a more rough-and-tumble Alfred in other media, namely in movies such as Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League, not to mention TV series like Gotham and Beware the Batman. Speaking of which, don’t expect for Gotham‘s Sean Pertwee to reprise his role in this instance.
Similarly, Pennyworth will take us back to when the eponymous gentleman’s gentleman was in his mid-20’s, as he tries to reconcile his former innocence with the killer he’s become as an adult. As one would imagine, Thomas Wayne will factor heavily into his path to personal redemption, with That Hashtag Show informing us of the following details:
“Alfred’s future is, of course, inextricably tied to the Waynes and Bruce’s father, Thomas, will play a major role in the series. Alfred will find himself allied with Thomas through his work for a private security company when Thomas arrives in London in search of his sister, Patricia.. The two will be contemporaries, and the 20-something Wayne is said to be intelligent, deeply moral and idealistic, characteristics that Alfred will come to instill in Thomas’s orphaned son.”
Gotham Gallery
When it comes to the subject of conflict, though, that’s where things get really interesting, for the outlet also had this to offer:
“The series will see Alfred, Thomas and two of Alfred’s closest friends, Trinidadian Marcus Bazza’ Barrington and Scotsman Wallace ‘Dave Boy’ MacDuff, take on the villainous Raven Society. Led by the mysterious Lord Hardwood and his sadistic henchwoman, Bet Sykes, the Raven Society will find themselves in what sounds like a season long game of cat-and-mouse with our heroes after Sykes abducts a dancer by the name of Esme Whitaker. The heroes will battle Hardwood and the corrupt London police force in an effort to rescue Whitaker and will have to come to trust one another to do so, setting the table for one of comics’ greatest relationships.”
Tell us, do you think there’s room for yet another Batman prequel show? Or will you take a hard pass on Pennyworth? Let us know in the usual place below!
Source: That Hashtag Show
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L. Jesus’ Great Prophecy About the Sign of His Presence (24:1–25:46)
Question about the sign of Jesus’ presence (24:1-3)
Features of composite sign and the great tribulation (24:4-22)
Dangers of being misled by false Christs (24:23-28)
The coming of the Son of man (24:29-31)
Illustration of the fig tree (24:32, 33)
This generation will not pass away (24:34, 35)
Day and hour unknown by man and angels; Jesus’ presence like the days of Noah (24:36-39)
Keep on the watch (24:40-44)
The faithful and discreet slave and characteristics of an evil slave (24:45-51)
Illustration of the ten virgins (25:1-13)
Illustration of the talents (25:14-30)
Illustration of the sheep and the goats (25:31-46)
jy 255; gt 110; w90 3/1 25
w74 681; pm 318
by no means will a stone be left here upon a stone: Jesus’ prophecy was remarkably fulfilled in 70 C.E. when the Romans demolished Jerusalem and its temple. Apart from a few sections of the wall, the city was completely leveled.
Stones From the Temple Mount
it-2 48, 1080; w88 10/1 3
w77 604; w74 428-429; w74 681; ad 823, 915, 932, 1586; kj 210; w68 743; w64 553; w62 233; pa 155; sr55 95; w54 439; w37 275
Mount of Olives: Located E of Jerusalem and separated from the city by the Kidron Valley. From this vantage point, Jesus and his disciples “Peter, James, John, and Andrew” (Mr 13:3, 4) could view the city and its temple.
presence: The Greek word pa·rou·siʹa (in many translations rendered “coming”) literally means “being alongside.” It refers to a presence covering a period of time rather than simply a coming or an arrival. This meaning of pa·rou·siʹa is indicated at Mt 24:37-39, where “the days of Noah . . . before the Flood” are compared to “the presence of the Son of man.” At Php 2:12, Paul used this Greek word to describe his “presence” in contrast to his “absence.”
conclusion: Rendered from the Greek word syn·teʹlei·a, meaning “joint end; combination end; ending together.” (Mt 13:39, 40, 49; 28:20; Heb 9:26) This refers to a time period during which a combination of events would lead to the complete “end” mentioned at Mt 24:6, 14, where a different Greek word, teʹlos, is used.—See study notes on Mt 24:6, 14 and Glossary, “Conclusion of the system of things.”
the system of things: Or “the age.” Here the Greek word ai·onʹ refers to the current state of affairs or features that distinguish a certain period of time, epoch, or age.—See Glossary, “System(s) of things.”
+Mt 13:39; 28:20
+Ac 1:12
+Mt 24:27, 37-39
New World Translation, pp. 1695-1696, 1707-1708
it-2 676-679, 941-942, 1056; jy 257; nwt 1695-1696, 1707-1708; w08 2/15 21-22; w99 5/1 8-9; w97 4/1 5-6; w96 8/15 9-14; kl 98; w94 2/15 8-13, 16-21; w93 5/1 10-11; g93 3/22 6; g93 5/8 26-27; gt 111; w90 3/15 8; sh 353; gm 135; pe 148-149; w88 10/15 4; tp 36, 75-76; g86 12/8 4-7
w85 2/1 13-18; w85 10/1 9-10; int 1147-1149; w84 4/15 3; Rbi8 1576-1577; g84 10/22 5; w83 5/15 22; w83 6/1 3; w83 8/1 23-25; uw 178; ku 9; w81 8/1 22; w81 11/15 4; w81 12/1 5-7; kc 106-107; w80 10/1 17, 21-22, 25-26; w80 10/15 31; w80 12/1 5; hp 141-142; g80 6/8 8; w79 6/15 23; w78 1/15 8-9; w78 3/1 28; w77 394; g77 11/22 27; gh 146-147; w75 272-273; w75 621, 633; w75 686; sl 19-20; ml 26-27; w74 50; w74 399-400; w74 717; po 172; ka 167-169, 205-206; g73 7/22 5; ad 199, 372, 441, 478, 562, 1335-1336, 1430, 1501, 1567-1568; kj 210; w70 42, 49-50, 715; w68 746; w67 166; im 315, 333; g65 10/8 16; w64 47, 575, 677, 704; g64 11/22 27; w63 501; g63 6/22 27; w62 131; g62 5/8 5; w61 205, 626; w59 8; w55 622; w54 632, 710; gn54 20; w53 644; nh 246; w52 275; lg 249; w51 334; el 215; w49 196, 325; ni 13; w42 9, 175; w40 269; w33 68
+Col 2:8; 2Th 2:3
ka 296-297, 320; w70 42-43; w61 626; w57 614; nh 188
the Christ: Greek, ho Khri·stosʹ. The title “the Christ” is equivalent to “the Messiah” (from Hebrew ma·shiʹach), both meaning “Anointed One.” Jewish historian Josephus indicates that in the first century C.E., some who claimed to be prophets or liberators arose, promising relief from Roman oppression. These may have been viewed by their followers as political Messiahs.
w75 273; w74 682; ka 296-297, 320; ad 1147; w70 42-43; w61 626; w57 614; nh 188
end: Or “complete end.” The Greek word used here (teʹlos) is different from the Greek word rendered “conclusion” (syn·teʹlei·a) at Mt 24:3.—See study note on Mt 24:3 and Glossary, “Conclusion of the system of things.”
+Mr 13:7; Lu 21:9
w85 2/1 14-15; w83 4/1 4; w80 10/1 22, 25, 28; w75 274; w75 388; ka 296-297; w71 406; w70 43-44; is 123; ev 161; g66 10/8 17; w61 626; pa 179; nh 246; w49 332
nation: The Greek word eʹthnos has a broad meaning and can refer to people living within certain political or geographical boundaries, such as a country, but can also refer to an ethnic group.—See study note on Mt 24:14.
rise: Or “be stirred up; be roused up.” Here the Greek word conveys the idea “to move against in hostility” and could also be rendered “rise up in arms” or “go to war.”
+Mr 13:8; Lu 21:10, 11
+Re 6:4
+Ac 11:28; Re 6:5, 6, 8
Teach Us, pp. 95-96
Bible Teach, pp. 88-89
10/2012, pp. 26-27
Does God Care, pp. 19-20
Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 201-202
it-1 670, 810; bhs 95-96; bh 88-89; g 10/12 26-27; w08 10/1 6-7; w06 9/15 4-5; w05 10/1 4-5; g02 3/22 9; dg 19-20; ip-1 201-202; w98 9/15 7; w97 4/1 6-7; kl 99-100, 102-103; g95 4/22 7-8; w93 3/1 4-5; w93 12/1 3-4; w92 5/1 6-7; gm 136-142; rs 234-236; w88 10/15 3; g88 4/8 5-9; w87 1/15 21-22; w86 5/15 5; tp 14-15; Lmn 24-25
w85 2/1 14-15; w84 5/1 5; g84 10/22 5-7; w83 4/1 4; w83 4/15 4-6; w83 5/15 4-7; w82 5/15 14-15; g82 7/8 16; tr 86-87; g81 1/8 11; g81 5/8 8-9; w80 10/15 10; hp 148; g80 2/8 23; g80 10/8 20-21; w79 6/15 11; w79 8/1 4; w78 1/15 10; gh 148; w75 274; w75 388; g75 10/8 13; w74 72-74; w74 195-196; w74 243; w74 682; g74 3/8 8; g74 5/8 18-19; g73 6/22 12; w72 339; g72 10/8 15-16; w71 69; w71 406; ad 478, 566, 597; g71 10/8 16; w70 43-45; w70 269-270; g70 8/22 15; w69 69; is 123-124, 127; g68 10/8 8-9; g66 10/8 17; w65 294; im 321; w63 671; bf 503; w62 131; g62 3/8 11; w61 627; g61 2/22 6; w60 672; g60 12/22 15; w59 37, 335; mn 23-24; pa 179; w57 612; nh 248; w51 203; g51 5/8 7; el 208; g47 5/22 3; g47 9/8 6; g46 11/22 18; ni 16; tf 290; g43 11/10 18
pangs of distress: The Greek word literally refers to the intense pain experienced during childbirth. While it is used here to refer to distress, pain, and suffering in a general sense, it may suggest that like birth pains the foretold troubles and suffering will increase in frequency, intensity, and duration in the time period before the great tribulation mentioned at Mt 24:21.
w05 1/15 17; dg 19-20; w93 3/1 5; gm 136, 138-142; w87 1/15 22; tp 80
g85 3/8 3-5; w83 4/1 4-6; w82 5/1 15; kc 111-113; tr 87; w80 10/1 25; w80 10/15 31; w79 8/1 4; w78 1/15 10; g75 10/8 13; w74 682; ka 297; ad 432; g71 3/8 4; g71 10/8 16-17; w70 45; w69 69; ev 163; w65 294, 626; gn 20; gv 27; w62 131; w61 627; pa 180; w56 755; nh 248; na46 23; g45 3/28 16; ni 16; tf 290; w39 165; w33 70, 141
on account of my name: In the Bible, the term “name” at times stands for the person who bears the name, his reputation, and all that he represents. (See study note on Mt 6:9.) In the case of Jesus’ name, it also stands for the authority and position that his Father has given him. (Mt 28:18; Php 2:9, 10; Heb 1:3, 4) Jesus here explains that people would hate his followers because of what his name represents, that is, his position as God’s appointed Ruler, the King of kings, the one to whom all people should bow in submission in order to gain life.—See study note on Joh 15:21.
+Mt 10:17, 22; Joh 15:21; Ac 9:15, 16; 2Ti 3:12
+Joh 15:20; Ac 11:19; Re 2:10
+Joh 16:2; Ac 7:59; 12:1, 2; Re 6:11
it-2 61; re 40; w02 3/1 14; w98 12/1 5; w96 7/15 30; km 2/94 3-4; jv 642, 675-676; rs 238
w83 1/15 31; g80 2/8 23; w78 10/1 8; go 169-170; hs 141-142; w74 202; w74 682; po 178; w73 398; w73 657; w73 748-749; ka 297-298, 306-307; g73 3/8 25; w72 143, 340; ad 199, 924, 1394; w70 276; w68 696; w67 103; w66 559, 625; kd 27; g66 10/8 31; im 326; w64 653, 745; bf 503; w62 621; tc 23; w61 586, 629; ns 370; g61 9/8 14; w60 92; w59 37; yw 289; w53 276; nh 251; w47 355; w46 37; na46 36; g45 3/28 16; ni 22; w43 84; tf 290; fl43 29; w42 215; w41 221, 297; ci 249; w40 6, 270, 374; w39 324; w35 60; w34 316; v-3 121
will be stumbled: In the Christian Greek Scriptures, the Greek word skan·da·liʹzo refers to stumbling in a figurative sense, which may include falling into sin or causing someone to fall into sin. As the term is used in the Bible, the sin may involve breaking one of God’s laws on morals or losing faith or accepting false teachings. In this context, the term could also be rendered “will be led into sin; will fall away from the faith.” The Greek word can also be used in the sense of “to take offense.”—See study notes on Mt 13:57; 18:7.
2016 Yearbook, pp. 2-3
yb16 2; g 10/12 27-28
w66 559; yb63 312; nh 251; w46 37; g45 3/28 17; w43 84; w41 221; w40 270; w35 60, 372; v-2 247; v-3 121
+Mt 7:15; 1Ti 4:1; 2Pe 2:1
gm 146; rs 237
g81 12/8 14-15; g80 9/8 18; w74 100-101; w74 244; g66 4/8 8; w61 629; nh 251, 288
lawlessness: The Greek word rendered “lawlessness” includes the idea of violation of and contempt for laws, people acting as if there were no laws. As used in the Bible, it suggests disregard for God’s laws.—Mt 7:23; 2Co 6:14; 2Th 2:3-7; 1Jo 3:4.
the greater number: Referring not just to “many” in a general sense as some Bibles render this but to “the majority” of those who have been influenced by “false prophets” and “lawlessness,” as mentioned at Mt 24:11, 12.
+2Ti 3:1-3
5/2017, pp. 17-18
it-2 279; w17.05 17-18; yb16 2; g98 10/22 3-4; g95 4/22 8; w92 10/15 32; w90 6/15 4; gm 144-146; rs 237; w88 10/15 5; tp 17-19, 81-82
w84 10/1 31; w84 12/15 30; w83 6/1 3, 7; w81 1/15 11; tr 89; g81 1/8 11; g81 5/8 10; w80 10/15 10; g80 2/8 23; w79 7/15 13; g79 10/22 27; w77 395; w75 37; w75 635; g75 11/22 15; w74 99-101; w74 244; w74 444; w74 682; w74 717-718; w73 691; g73 3/22 5; g73 4/22 13; w72 340; g72 10/8 16; w71 406; g71 5/8 6; w70 269-271; w69 70, 363; is 131-132; g68 1/8 18; g68 7/22 20; g68 10/8 9; w67 199, 361, 735; ev 166; g67 2/22 9; km 9/67 4, 6; g66 10/8 30; g66 10/22 29; g66 11/8 4; w65 202, 204; g65 10/8 20, 23; g65 11/8 16; w64 339, 585; g64 4/8 11; g64 8/22 16; w61 629; w59 335; mn 24; pa 184; g54 9/8 6; nh 251; w40 270; w35 372; v-2 247; v-3 121
has endured: Or “endures.” The Greek verb rendered “to endure” (hy·po·meʹno) literally means “to remain (stay) under.” It is often used in the sense of “remaining instead of fleeing; standing one’s ground; persevering; remaining steadfast.” (Mt 10:22; Ro 12:12; Heb 10:32; Jas 5:11) In this context, it refers to maintaining a course of action as Christ’s disciples despite opposition and trials.—Mt 24:9-12.
end: See study notes on Mt 24:6, 14.
+Mt 10:22; Heb 10:36; Re 2:10
it-1 724; w93 9/15 9, 14; w91 11/1 9-10; w90 1/1 19
w83 8/1 25-26; w82 12/1 17, 22; w82 12/15 26; w80 3/15 18; yy 91; w75 332; w74 55-56; w73 40; w65 586; w63 15; bf 503; yb63 20; w61 250; w56 752; nh 253; w48 105; w47 212; na46 36; w42 215; w40 6, 375
this good news: The Greek word eu·ag·geʹli·on is derived from the words eu, meaning “good; well” and ag·gelʹlos, “one who brings news; one who proclaims (announces).” (See Glossary.) It is rendered “gospel” in some English Bibles. The related expression rendered “evangelizer” (Greek, eu·ag·ge·li·stesʹ) means “a proclaimer of good news.”—Ac 21:8; Eph 4:11, ftn.; 2Ti 4:5, ftn.
the Kingdom: That is, God’s Kingdom. Throughout the Christian Greek Scriptures, the “good news” (see preceding study note on this good news in this verse) is closely linked with God’s Kingdom, the theme of Jesus’ preaching and teaching work.—See study notes on Mt 3:2; 4:23; Lu 4:43.
preached: Or “publicly proclaimed.”—See study note on Mt 3:1.
all the inhabited earth . . . all the nations: Both expressions emphasize the scope of the preaching work. In a broad sense, the Greek word for “inhabited earth” (oi·kou·meʹne) refers to the earth as the dwelling place of mankind. (Lu 4:5; Ac 17:31; Ro 10:18; Re 12:9; 16:14) In the first century, this term was also used in reference to the vast Roman Empire, where the Jews had been dispersed. (Lu 2:1; Ac 24:5) In its general sense, the Greek word for “nation” (eʹthnos) refers to a group of people who are more or less related to one another by blood and who have a common language. Such a national or ethnic group often occupies a defined geographic territory.
for a witness: Or “for a testimony,” that is, an assurance that all the nations would hear the good news. The Greek word mar·tyʹri·on (witness; testimony) and related Greek words often refer to a recounting of the facts and events related to a subject. (See study note on Ac 1:8.) In this case, Jesus says that there would be a worldwide testimony of what God’s Kingdom would accomplish and a recounting of events related to that Kingdom. Jesus indicates that the global Kingdom-preaching work itself would be an important feature of “the sign of [his] presence.” (Mt 24:3) The fact that all the nations would receive this witness does not mean that all the nations would convert to true Christianity—only that they would hear the testimony.
end: Or “complete end; final end.”—See study notes on Mt 24:3, 6.
+Mt 9:35; 28:19, 20; 1Co 9:16; Col 1:23; 1Pe 1:12; Re 14:6
5/2016, pp. 8-12
5/1/2015, pp. 3, 7
3/1/2011, pp. 3, 4-6, 7-9
Teach Us, pp. 99-100
God’s Kingdom Rules!, pp. 60-61, 67, 92-95
Ministry School, pp. 279-281
it-1 771, 1089; it-2 673; w16.05 8-12; w15 5/1 3, 7; w15 7/15 6; bhs 99-100; bh 92, 94; kr 60-61, 67, 92, 95; w13 4/15 22-26; w12 3/1 8; w11 3/1 3-9; w09 3/15 16-18; w09 5/1 16; w08 5/15 12-13; w06 2/1 22-26; w06 5/1 27; w06 9/15 6; w05 7/1 24-25; be 279-281; w99 8/15 19-24; w97 4/1 8; w95 9/1 17-18; w94 2/15 10; w94 8/15 16-21; jv 556; w92 6/15 14; w92 9/15 20-21; w89 1/1 11; w89 9/1 13-14, 19-20; gm 147-148; rs 238, 327; w88 1/1 21-29; w88 7/15 10-11; g88 4/8 12; tp 82-83, 170; ws 115
w85 2/1 14, 18; w85 8/1 10-15; w84 7/15 15; w84 8/15 13; su 143; w83 1/1 8, 12; w83 5/15 25-26; w83 8/1 26-27; w82 1/1 30; w82 3/15 18; w82 5/1 12; w82 12/15 24-25; w81 3/15 26; w81 8/1 22; w81 11/15 20; tr 93; w80 8/15 25-26, 31; w80 10/1 26, 28-29; g80 2/8 24; w79 1/15 13; w79 7/15 14; w78 1/15 10; w78 3/1 29; w78 10/1 6; w78 11/1 16; w78 12/15 24; w77 281; go 66-67, 148-150, 153-154, 162, 164-165, 169; gh 146-147, 149; hs 144-145; sl 343, 371; w74 4; w74 37; w74 183; w74 332; w74 558; w74 682; po 174; w73 40; w73 658; w73 681-683; ka 227, 288-289, 297-298; g73 4/8 17; g73 7/22 6; w72 656, 728; or 4; pm 139-140; g72 10/8 16; w71 69; w71 302, 308; w71 401; w71 466; ad 476, 754, 1030, 1333, 1430, 1501; kj 62, 181, 301, 317; w70 45; w70 174-175, 273, 462; w70 715-716; g70 3/8 15; w69 72, 244, 687, 753, 755; w68 10, 31, 656; g68 10/8 12; w67 103, 687, 754, 756; w66 215; w65 576; gn 22; w64 242, 480, 632, 679, 745; pw 28; w63 71, 588, 621; bf 462-464, 515; wg 20; w62 103, 132, 239, 633, 721; g62 7/8 7; w61 50, 136, 238, 594, 617, 630; ns 322, 367; nu 14; g61 4/22 19; w60 38; sw 21; w58 699; pa 185; w57 569, 700; hn 28; w56 752; w55 621, 626; w54 633; gn54 23; w53 276; bi4 9; nh 253; na46 29; w45 298; dr 23; w44 260, 307; rw 58; w41 158; w40 300; w33 68; g33 1/18 255; w31 357; w30 373; g30 4/30 505-509
the disgusting thing that causes desolation: Daniel foretold that “disgusting things” would be associated with desolation. (Da 9:27) Jesus here indicates that “the disgusting thing that causes desolation” had not yet appeared; it was to come in the future. And 33 years after Jesus’ death, Christians witnessed the initial fulfillment of this prophecy when they did catch sight of a disgusting thing standing in a holy place. The parallel account at Lu 21:20 reads: “When you see Jerusalem surrounded by encamped armies, then know that the desolating of her has drawn near.” In 66 C.E., pagan Roman armies surrounded “the holy city,” Jerusalem, a place that the Jews viewed as holy and that was the center of the Jewish revolt against Rome. (Mt 4:5; 27:53) Discerning Christians, who recognized that the Roman army with its idolatrous banners was “the disgusting thing,” took it as the final signal to “begin fleeing to the mountains.” (Mt 24:15, 16; Lu 19:43, 44; 21:20-22) After the Christians fled, the Romans desolated both the city and the nation. Jerusalem was destroyed in the year 70 C.E., and the last Jewish stronghold, Masada, fell to the Romans in 73 C.E. (Compare Da 9:25-27.) The detailed initial fulfillment of this prophecy provides a solid basis for trusting that the greater fulfillment will also take place, culminating with Jesus’ “coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” (Mt 24:30) Many ignore Jesus’ statement that Daniel’s prophecy would be fulfilled after Jesus’ day, and they follow Jewish tradition in applying the expression “the disgusting thing that causes desolation” to an event in 168 B.C.E. when Syrian King Antiochus IV (Epiphanes) profaned Jehovah’s temple in Jerusalem. Antiochus attempted to stamp out the worship of Jehovah, even building an altar over the great altar of Jehovah and sacrificing pigs as an offering to the pagan god Zeus of Olympus. (See study note on Joh 10:22.) The apocryphal book of 1 Maccabees (1:54) uses an expression similar to the one found in the book of Daniel (associating disgusting things with desolation) and applies it to the event in 168 B.C.E. However, Jewish tradition and the account in 1 Maccabees are human interpretations, not inspired revelations. Certainly, Antiochus provoked feelings of disgust by desecrating the temple, but his attack did not result in the desolation of Jerusalem, the temple, or the Jewish nation.
holy place: Referring in the initial fulfillment of this prophecy to Jerusalem with its temple.—See study note on Mt 4:5.
(let the reader use discernment): Readers should always use discernment when studying God’s Word, but there is apparently a special need to be alert to the application of this portion of Daniel’s prophecy. Jesus was cautioning his hearers that the fulfillment of this prophecy was not in the past but was yet future.—See the study note on the disgusting thing that causes desolation in this verse.
+Da 9:27; 11:31; 12:11
5/15/2009, pp. 9, 13
it-1 635; jy 258; w13 7/15 4-5; w12 4/15 25-26; w09 5/15 9, 13; w07 4/1 9-10; w99 5/1 14-18; w99 8/15 29; w96 6/1 14-19; w96 8/15 16-17; w94 2/15 10-11; gt 111; w90 3/15 8-9; w86 10/1 4-5
w85 10/1 10-12; w84 4/1 17-18; w84 9/15 15; uw 180; w82 5/15 15-16; w82 9/15 12-22; w82 11/15 3-6; w82 12/15 30; kc 107; w80 10/1 22-23; w79 2/1 25; w79 9/1 23; w77 44-45; go 148-150, 152; w75 741; sl 19-20; ml 21-22; w74 682-683; w74 717; ka 298-302; w71 31; w71 718, 723-724; ad 22, 95, 415, 417, 454-455, 979, 1346, 1375, 1475, 1501; kj 257, 351; w70 45-47, 602, 717-719; w70 721-722; w63 54; bf 240; w62 390; g62 10/8 23; w61 630; w60 47, 217, 448; w59 598; yw 210, 318; w54 438; w53 559; nh 269; w48 26; w47 236; w46 367; na46 24; w45 107; dr 25; w42 174-175; w41 307; w39 54; w37 136; ar 45; g35 11/20 113; w34 357; g34 8/1 698; w31 245; v-1 80
Judea: That is, the Roman province of Judea.
to the mountains: According to fourth-century historian Eusebius, Christians in Judea and Jerusalem fled across the Jordan River to Pella, a city in a mountainous region of the Decapolis.
it-1 635; it-2 134; w15 7/15 16; w12 4/15 25-26; w09 5/15 9, 13; w07 4/1 9-10; w99 5/1 18-19; w96 6/1 14-19; w96 8/15 16-17
w85 10/1 12-13; w82 9/15 13-14, 21-22; w82 11/15 3-4, 6-7; w80 10/1 22-23; w79 2/1 25; w79 9/1 23; w75 741; ml 21-22; w74 683; ka 298-299; ad 455, 979, 1122, 1186; kj 351; w70 45-46; w70 725-726; is 118; li 312-313; w63 361; w55 434; w54 438, 445, 464; w53 559; nh 269; na46 24; dr 25; w42 153; w40 331; w39 54; ar 45; wh 35; g35 11/6 85; ri 30; g34 5/23 515
on the housetop: The roofs of houses were flat and were used for many purposes, including storage (Jos 2:6), rest (2Sa 11:2), sleep (1Sa 9:26), and festivals for worship (Ne 8:16-18). That is why a parapet was required. (De 22:8) Generally, an external stairway or ladder allowed a householder to leave the rooftop without having to enter the house, which emphasizes the urgency of Jesus’ warning to flee.
it-1 1155; w13 4/1 10; w12 4/15 26; w06 12/15 17-18; w99 5/1 14, 19; w96 6/1 16
w75 340; ka 298-299; ad 800; kj 351; w70 45-46; nh 269; w42 153; g35 11/20 113; jh 358; ri 56
w12 4/15 26; w06 12/15 17-18; w99 5/1 14, 19; w96 6/1 16
w75 340; ka 298-299; ad 467; kj 351; w70 46; nh 269; g35 11/20 113
it-2 675; w99 5/1 14, 19; w96 6/1 16; w89 8/1 29; w88 3/1 21
w75 158; ka 298-299; w72 108-109; ad 1334; kj 351; w70 46; w63 639; nh 269; w46 283; w42 38; w40 374; jh 358; ri 59
in wintertime: Heavy rains, flooding, and cold weather during this season would make it difficult to travel and difficult to find food and shelter.—Ezr 10:9, 13.
on the Sabbath day: In territories like Judea, restrictions associated with Sabbath law would make it difficult for a person to journey great distances and to carry loads; also, city gates remained closed during the Sabbath day.—See Ac 1:12 and App. B12.
Teacher, pp. 248-249
lr 248-249; w99 5/1 14, 19; w96 6/1 16; w86 4/15 19
ka 298-299; ad 223, 922, 969, 1651; kj 351; w70 46; w61 679; w58 311; w55 241; w53 559; nh 269; w52 51, 740; w51 333, 336; g48 8/8 25; w46 283; w42 203; w41 364; s 28; g35 11/20 113; jh 358
+Re 7:14
+Da 12:1
it-2 1127-1128; w09 3/15 18-19; w08 5/15 15-16; w96 6/1 16; w95 2/15 13-14; w94 2/15 10-11
w83 8/1 24, 27; w83 10/1 14, 16-17; w82 5/15 15-16; w82 7/1 15; w82 9/15 14-15; w82 11/15 3-4, 7; w81 2/1 18; w81 11/15 18-19; kc 108; w80 8/15 19-20; w80 10/1 25, 28; w80 10/15 11-16; w80 12/1 5; w79 2/15 31; w78 8/1 20; w78 8/15 31; w77 41-43; gh 147; w75 272-273; sl 355; ml 25; w74 400; w74 683; po 174, 181-182; w73 293; ka 299, 304-305, 316-318, 398-399; g73 4/22 18; w72 629, 637, 660; dn 25; ad 95, 242, 597, 1615-1616, 1672; kj 112, 146, 161, 257, 269, 281, 351, 359; w70 46-53, 55, 286, 717; fm 200; w68 748-749; km 1/68 4-5; li 353, 355; w64 50, 240, 628, 768; pw 19; bf 521, 572, 630; g63 6/22 28; w62 163, 623; tc 26; g62 10/8 23; w61 236, 631, 671; w55 434; sr55 341; nh 330; w49 333; w48 362; na46 24; dr 25; w44 261; w43 328, 339; w42 175, 186; w41 120, 219; w40 260; w39 110; s 22; w36 253, 281, 297; ch 318; w35 246; wh 35; jh 19; w33 67
God’s Kingdom Rules!, pp. 223-226
it-2 47-48; w15 7/15 16; kr 223, 226; w13 7/15 5; w10 9/15 28; w99 5/1 10; w97 2/15 29; w96 8/15 15-20; w96 12/15 30; w95 2/15 13-14; w92 5/1 17; w89 9/1 19
w83 8/1 27; w83 10/1 14, 16-17; w82 7/1 15; w82 9/15 14-15; w82 11/15 3-4; w80 10/1 25; g80 8/8 19; sl 355; ml 25; w74 171-172; w74 683; w74 749; po 181-182; ka 299, 318-319; w72 629; dn 25; ad 242, 915; kj 146, 257, 269, 281, 351; w70 46-48, 50-53, 55-56, 627, 725; sv 24; w68 144, 748-749; km 1/68 4; li 353, 360; w65 415, 486; w64 240, 768; bf 521, 630; w62 623; tc 26; w61 236, 527, 631, 672; w58 311; w56 440; w53 689; nh 264; g50 10/22 26; w49 163, 333; w48 362; w46 377; dr 25; w44 261; w43 328, 339; w42 198; w41 219, 363; w40 262; w39 69, 111; w36 253; w35 246, 334; vn 59; w33 70; g33 12/6 156
+Mt 24:5
w81 12/1 5; w75 275; w74 749-750; ka 320-321; nh 288; w48 133
false Christs: Or “false Messiahs.” The Greek word pseu·doʹkhri·stos occurs only here and in the parallel account at Mr 13:22. It refers to anyone who wrongly assumes the role of the Christ, or the Messiah (lit., “Anointed One”).—See study note on Mt 24:5.
+Mt 7:15; 2Pe 2:1
+Mt 7:22, 23; 2Th 2:9
w80 7/15 21; w75 275; w74 749-750; ka 320, 322; w72 87-88; ad 84, 315, 599, 1322; nh 288; w48 133; w43 3; w30 70
w74 749-750; ka 320
w74 750; ka 320-321; ad 1656; w49 218
presence: See study note on Mt 24:3.
w75 275; w74 750; ka 320-321; ad 1068, 1336; g63 6/22 27; g62 5/8 8; nh 258; w50 239; el 222; w49 217-218; w40 253; g34 3/14 381-382
it-1 664; gt 111; w90 4/1 24; w88 10/15 4, 6-7
w74 750; ka 320, 322; ad 474; w67 408; w55 158; nh 258; el 232; w49 230
+Joe 2:31
God’s Kingdom Rules!, p. 226
“All Scripture,” pp. 147-148
it-1 1062-1063; it-2 1127; jy 258; kr 226; w99 5/1 12-13; w97 4/1 15; w95 10/15 23-24; kl 106; w94 2/15 17-20; w94 4/15 10; gt 111; w90 4/1 24; si 148
w83 3/1 27; w75 276; w74 750; ka 322-326; ad 733, 1068, 1346, 1552, 1559, 1616; w70 726; im 334; g63 6/22 27; w62 224; w61 631; w60 218; w58 549; yw 319; nh 258; w51 408; w48 25; w46 217; tf 291, 293
the sign of the Son of man: This sign is not the same as “the sign of [Jesus’] presence” mentioned at Mt 24:3. The sign mentioned here is connected with the “coming” of the Son of man as Judge to pronounce and execute judgment during the great tribulation.—See study note on coming in this verse.
beat themselves in grief: Or “mourn.” A person repeatedly beat his hands against his chest to express extreme grief or feelings of guilt and remorse.—Isa 32:12; Na 2:7; Lu 23:48.
see: The Greek verb rendered “see” can literally mean to “see an object; look at; behold,” but it can also be used metaphorically, of mental sight, meaning “to discern; perceive.”—Eph 1:18.
coming: The first of eight references in Matthew chapters 24 and 25 to Jesus’ coming. (Mt 24:42, 44, 46; 25:10, 19, 27, 31) In each of these occurrences, a form of the Greek verb erʹkho·mai, “to come,” is used. The term is here used in the sense of turning one’s attention to mankind, particularly to Jesus’ coming as Judge to pronounce and execute judgment during the great tribulation.
the clouds of heaven: Clouds tend to obstruct vision rather than facilitate it, but observers can “see” with eyes of understanding.—Ac 1:9.
Or possibly, “with great power and glory.”
+Mt 16:27; 26:64; Mr 14:62
+Da 7:13
it-1 484; it-2 942, 1003; kr 226; re 19-20; w99 5/1 12-13; w97 4/1 15; w95 10/15 21-24, 26; w94 2/15 20-21; w93 5/1 22; gt 111; w90 4/1 24; si 142; rs 341; w86 10/15 6
w84 12/1 16, 19; w81 12/1 8; bw 169; go 153-155; w75 272-273; w75 742; w74 748, 751; ka 327-328; g73 7/22 6; ad 96, 360, 923, 1501, 1531, 1614; w70 54; g67 12/8 28; w66 37, 40; im 333-334; w63 126; g63 6/22 27; g62 5/8 7; w60 763; w55 623; w54 374; w53 120; nh 258; w51 599; w49 216, 232; tf 293; w33 314; w32 45
the four winds: An idiom referring to the four directions of the compass—E, W, N, and S—thus indicating “all directions; everywhere.”—Jer 49:36; Eze 37:9; Da 8:8.
w16.01 26; w15 7/15 18-19; kr 227-228; w13 7/15 5; w95 10/15 24; w94 2/15 21
w85 2/1 16-17; w84 7/15 16; w84 9/15 14; uw 181; w80 2/15 16; go 153-155; hs 159-160; sl 201; w74 697-698; w74 751; ka 328-329; ad 1233, 1335; w70 54, 185-186, 726-727; w65 710; im 337; w64 109; w63 588; w61 166; w60 606; w58 177; pa 189; w56 694; sr55 142; w53 120; nh 258, 267; w51 407; w49 216; w48 25; w46 252; tf 305; w34 299; w30 183, 263
illustration: Or “parable; lesson.”—See study note on Mt 13:3.
+Mr 13:28-31; Lu 21:29-33
it-1 830-831; jy 258-259; w03 5/15 26; gt 111; w90 4/1 25; op 14-16
ad 580-581; g62 9/22 27
+Jas 5:8, 9
jy 258-259; w03 5/15 26; gt 111; w90 4/1 25; op 14-16
w83 1/1 12; tr 94-95; g81 5/8 10; go 155-156; w69 101; w68 754; g68 10/8 24; g62 9/22 27
God’s Kingdom Rules!, pp. 11-12
it-1 90, 918; mwb18.03 5; w14 1/15 31; kr 11-12; w10 4/15 10-11; w10 6/15 5; w99 5/1 10-12; w97 1/1 12-13; w97 6/1 28; w95 11/1 10-21, 30-31; w95 12/15 30; jv 715-716; gt 111; w90 4/1 25; w90 10/15 20; op 14-16; w88 12/15 12-13; g88 4/8 13-14; w86 2/15 5-6
w85 5/1 4; w84 3/1 18-19; w84 5/15 4-7; g84 10/22 7; w83 10/1 19; uw 176; ku 15; w82 5/1 15; kc 140; tr 94-95; g81 5/8 10; w80 10/15 31; w78 10/1 31; w77 395; go 151-152, 155-156; gh 147; w75 276-277, 279; sl 356-357; gc 22; ml 24-25; g75 7/8 29; g74 4/8 18; tp73 88; g73 4/22 19; g73 10/8 19; w72 583; ad 64, 642; g71 10/8 16; w70 52; w69 101; w68 42; g68 10/8 7, 13, 24; ev 171; g66 10/8 18; w64 144; w62 132, 428; g62 9/22 27; w61 236, 626; w59 158, 336; mn 25-26; w53 124; bn 51; w51 335, 404
Heaven and earth will pass away: Other scriptures show that heaven and earth will endure forever. (Ge 9:16; Ps 104:5; Ec 1:4) So Jesus’ words here could be understood as hyperbole, meaning that even if the impossible happened and heaven and earth did pass away, Jesus’ words would still be fulfilled. (Compare Mt 5:18.) However, the heaven and earth here may well refer to the figurative heavens and earth that are called “the former heaven and the former earth” at Re 21:1.
my words will by no means pass away: Or “my words will certainly not pass away.” The use of two Greek negatives with the verb emphatically expresses rejection of an idea, vividly emphasizing the permanence of Jesus’ words.
w95 11/1 15, 20-21
w84 6/1 19; w70 52; w68 754; w62 431; g62 7/8 27; w61 239; el 260; w43 197
+Ac 1:7
+1Th 5:1, 2
Bible Teach, pp. 203-204
it-2 1149; rr 194-195, 198; w16.07 14; bh 203-204; w12 2/15 4; w98 9/15 10; w98 11/15 17; w97 3/1 11-12; w96 8/1 30-31; w95 11/1 11, 20
w84 2/1 7; go 157-158; w75 9-10; w75 277-278; w75 768; w74 56; w74 378-379; ad 322, 715, 1346; w64 55; w63 223; w62 415; g62 9/22 28; w61 58, 671; nh 291; w51 614; tf 288
the days of Noah: In the Bible, the term “day(s) of” is sometimes used with reference to the time period of a particular person. (Isa 1:1; Jer 1:2, 3; Lu 17:28) Here “the days of Noah” are compared to the presence of the Son of man. In a similar statement recorded at Lu 17:26, the expression “the days of the Son of man” is used. Jesus does not limit the comparison to the specific day when the Flood came as a final climax during Noah’s days. “The days of Noah” actually covered a period of years, so there is basis for the understanding that the foretold “presence [or “days”] of the Son of man” would likewise cover a period of years. Like Noah’s days, which climaxed with the Flood, “the presence of the Son of man” would culminate in the destruction of those who do not seek deliverance.—See study note on Mt 24:3.
+Ge 6:11-13
it-2 677; w06 5/15 21-22; w03 5/15 6-7; w03 12/15 14-19; w99 11/15 19; w97 3/1 11-12; w95 2/15 13; w92 12/15 30; w90 4/15 13-15; w89 9/1 19; w89 10/1 12-14; rs 341
su 50; w83 3/1 27; ku 17-18; w81 2/1 17-18; w81 11/15 10-11; g81 8/22 24; w78 10/1 9; gh 82, 84; w75 10; ka 332-334; w72 651; pm 11-12; w71 168; ad 441, 1335-1336; te 127, 130; g71 4/22 23; w67 238, 623; rn 15; w65 165, 607; w64 55, 240; g64 10/8 28; w62 429; w61 231, 631; g61 7/8 8; sr55 289; nh 95; w51 618, 679; w49 211; w43 110; tf 324; fd 10; w42 372; w40 196; cg36 11; w31 172
Flood: Or “deluge; cataclysm.” The Greek word ka·ta·kly·smosʹ denotes a large flood with destructive force, and the Bible uses the word with reference to the Deluge of Noah’s day.—Mt 24:39; Lu 17:27; 2Pe 2:5.
ark: The Greek term can also be rendered “chest; box,” perhaps to denote that it was a large boxlike structure. In the Vulgate, this Greek word is rendered arca, meaning “box; chest,” from which the English term “ark” is derived.
+Ge 7:7; Heb 11:7; 1Pe 3:19, 20; 2Pe 2:5
w05 9/1 18-19; w00 2/15 6-7; w99 10/1 6-7; w99 11/15 19; w97 3/1 11-12; w95 2/15 13; w89 10/1 12-14; w86 9/15 5
w85 12/15 26; su 50; ku 17-18; g81 8/22 24; w78 10/1 10; w77 200; w75 10; w72 651; w71 168; ad 441, 638; te 127-129; w69 427; w66 327; w65 607; w64 55, 144; w61 231; g60 11/22 6; w57 639; fd 10; w41 148; w40 196; cg36 11
+Ge 7:23; 2Pe 3:6
6/1/2008, pp. 6-7
w08 6/1 6-7; w05 9/1 18-19; w00 2/15 6-7; w99 10/1 6-7; w99 11/15 19; w97 3/1 11-12; w95 2/15 13; w89 10/1 12-14; w87 5/15 20; w86 9/15 5
su 50; ku 17-18; g83 12/22 9; w82 5/15 17-18; g82 4/22 15; w80 8/15 4; w80 12/1 5, 18; g80 7/8 15; w79 5/15 19; w78 10/1 9; w77 200; w75 10; w72 651; w71 168; ad 441, 1331, 1336; te 127, 129-130; w66 327; w65 165, 327, 607; w64 55, 144, 240; w61 231; g61 7/8 8; g59 2/8 5, 7; w57 639; fd 10; w41 148; w40 196; w37 360; g30 4/30 504
be taken along . . . abandoned: See study note on Lu 17:34.
w05 10/1 22; w03 12/15 20; w97 3/1 13; w88 10/15 6
w75 11; ka 335-336; g63 6/22 28; w54 376; w49 228
Hand Mill
it-2 953; w05 10/1 22; w03 12/15 20; w97 3/1 13; w88 10/15 6
Keep on the watch: The Greek term has the basic meaning “stay (keep) awake,” but in many contexts it means “be on guard; be watchful.” Matthew uses this term at Mt 24:43; 25:13; 26:38, 40, 41. At Mt 24:44, he connects it with the need to be “ready.”—See study note on Mt 26:38.
10/1/2005, pp. 21-23, 25
w05 10/1 21-23, 25; w03 12/15 14; w97 3/1 12-13; w94 5/1 21; w93 6/1 14-15; w92 5/1 20; w89 10/1 30
w84 6/1 22; w78 10/1 31; w76 441; w75 11; ka 336-337; ad 562, 1346; w40 233
Or “at what time of night.”
+1Th 5:2; 2Pe 3:10
go 157-158; w75 11; ad 1335-1336
10/15/2011, p. 5
Jehovah’s Day, pp. 156-157
Kingdom Ministry,
w11 10/15 5; jd 156-157; km 11/03 1; w92 5/1 20
w84 6/1 22; w78 10/1 31; go 157-158; w76 441; gh 190; w75 11; w40 233
discreet: The Greek word used here conveys the idea of understanding associated with insight, forethought, discernment, prudence, and wisdom in a practical sense. The same Greek word is used at Mt 7:24 and 25:2, 4, 8, 9. The Septuagint uses this word at Ge 41:33, 39 regarding Joseph.
slave: The use of the singular form “slave” in Jesus’ illustration does not necessarily mean that the slave represented only one particular person. The Scriptures contain examples of a singular noun referring to a collective group, such as when Jehovah addressed the Israelite nation and told them: “You are my witnesses [plural], . . . yes, my servant [singular] whom I have chosen.” (Isa 43:10) In the parallel illustration at Lu 12:42, this slave is called “the faithful steward, the discreet one.”—See study note on Lu 12:42.
his domestics: Or “his household servants.” The term applies to all individuals who work in the master’s household.
Organized, pp. 18-19
7/15/2013, pp. 20, 21-23
Jehovah’s Will, p. 22
it-1 805-806; w17.02 26-28; od 18-19; w14 8/15 3-5; jl 19; w13 7/15 20-23; w09 6/15 20-24; w07 4/1 22; w07 11/1 30; re 201; w05 9/15 22; od05 15-21; w04 3/1 8-18; w02 3/1 15; w02 3/15 13-14; w02 12/1 17; wt 130-131; w01 7/1 11-12; w00 5/1 15-16; w98 3/15 20; w97 1/1 13-14; w95 5/15 16-17; kl 160-161; w93 5/1 16-17; w93 8/15 10; jv 142-143, 146, 626; w90 3/15 10-14; w87 5/1 15-16
w85 2/1 21; su 80; w83 8/15 23; uw 119-120; w82 12/15 26; w81 3/1 24-26, 28-30; w81 10/1 23-24; kc 147, 150; tr 120-121; yb81 6; w80 7/15 21; w80 8/1 20; w79 3/1 20-25; w79 7/1 7-8; w77 13-14; w77 750-751; go 158-159; w76 443; w75 45-46; w75 77-78; ka 338-347; w72 458, 636, 731, 755; or 8-9; w71 81; w71 462; w71 749-750, 755-756; ad 94, 372, 562; w69 51, 200; w68 656; w67 590; qm 380; yl 41; w66 558, 607; li 182; w65 144; im 339; g65 2/8 28; w64 68, 465, 613; w63 107, 176, 338, 539; w62 94, 430, 726; w61 144, 410, 631; ns 297-312, 367; w60 47, 434; jp 69; w58 486; w56 692; qm55 353; sr55 208; w54 163, 412, 532, 638; w53 215, 758; nh 260; w52 77; lg 199; w50 228, 387; w44 9, 331; w43 215; w39 75; hs34 39; v-3 121; w31 83; w30 5
coming: See study note on Mt 24:30.
+Re 16:15
7/15/2013, pp. 7-8, 24
it-1 805; w13 7/15 7-8, 24; w07 4/1 22; w04 3/1 11-12; w95 5/15 16-17; w93 5/1 16-17; w90 3/15 13-14
w81 3/1 26-28; w77 14; w77 751; w75 47; w75 77-78; ka 347, 353; w72 458, 731, 755; w71 462; w71 749-750, 755-756; li 182; w61 144; ns 297-312; w60 47, 435; w58 486; w57 370; sr55 208; w54 412; nh 260; w50 228; w47 199; w43 216; w34 133, 216; jh 196, 348; v-3 121; w31 83
7/15/2013, pp. 8, 24-25
it-1 805-806; od 19-20; w13 7/15 8, 24-25; w09 2/15 26; w08 1/15 24-25; w07 4/1 22-23; w04 3/1 12; w93 5/1 16-17; w90 3/15 14; w87 8/1 16-17
w85 2/1 21; uw 120; w81 3/1 29; tr 120-121; w77 14; w77 751; w75 77-79; w72 458, 731; or 10; w71 462; w71 750, 755-756; w69 200; w67 560; qm 380; w66 104, 607; li 182, 185; w64 465; w61 144, 595; ns 297-312, 367; w60 47, 437; w58 486; w57 370; sr55 208; nh 260; w52 78; w50 230, 387, 448; w47 199; w43 216, 348; w37 45; w34 133; jh 196; hs34 39; v-3 121; w31 316; w30 5, 201, 373
that evil slave: Jesus’ words here are actually a warning directed to the faithful and discreet slave, mentioned at Mt 24:45. Jesus is neither foretelling nor appointing an “evil slave” but is warning the faithful slave about what would happen if he were to start displaying the characteristics of an evil slave. Such a disloyal slave would be punished “with the greatest severity.”—Mt 24:51; see study note on Lu 12:45.
it-1 773; jy 259; w13 7/15 24; w04 3/1 13; w99 7/15 17; w88 10/15 4-5
w83 9/15 14-15; w81 3/1 29; w75 110; yb75 88; ka 358-359; pm 363-364; ad 84, 539; w65 144, 176; w63 405; w62 337; g62 2/22 28; g62 11/22 27; w61 409; w58 464; w55 206; w39 83; jh 270; w33 166; v-2 228; v-3 122; v-1 149; w30 292
su 142-143; w83 9/15 14-15; w75 110; yb75 88; ka 358, 360-361; pm 363-364; w65 144; w62 337; g62 11/22 27; w61 409; w52 78; w43 9; w39 83; v-2 228; v-3 122; w31 376
w75 110; pm 363; w65 144; w58 464; w43 218; w39 83; g32 2/3 277; w31 376
punish him with the greatest severity: Lit., “cut him in two.” This graphic expression is evidently not to be understood literally; rather, it conveys the idea of severe punishment.
hypocrites: See study note on Mt 6:2.
gnashing of his teeth: See study note on Mt 8:12.
w83 9/15 14-15; w75 110-111; ka 358, 361-362; pm 363-364; ad 1580; w65 144, 176; w58 464; w52 78; w43 218; w42 40; w39 83; w31 376
Matt. 24:3Mr 13:3, 4; Lu 21:7
Matt. 24:6Mr 13:7; Lu 21:9
Matt. 24:7Mr 13:8; Lu 21:10, 11
Matt. 24:9Mr 13:9, 13; Lu 21:12, 17
Matt. 24:32Mr 13:28-31; Lu 21:29-33
Matt. 24:15Da 9:27; 11:31; 12:11
Matt. 24:2Lu 19:44
Matt. 24:3Ac 1:12
Matt. 24:3Mt 24:27, 37-39
Matt. 24:3Mt 13:39; 28:20
Matt. 24:4Col 2:8; 2Th 2:3
Matt. 24:5Mt 24:24
Matt. 24:7Re 6:4
Matt. 24:7Ac 11:28; Re 6:5, 6, 8
Matt. 24:9Joh 15:20; Ac 11:19; Re 2:10
Matt. 24:9Joh 16:2; Ac 7:59; 12:1, 2; Re 6:11
Matt. 24:9Mt 10:17, 22; Joh 15:21; Ac 9:15, 16; 2Ti 3:12
Matt. 24:11Mt 7:15; 1Ti 4:1; 2Pe 2:1
Matt. 24:122Ti 3:1-3
Matt. 24:13Mt 10:22; Heb 10:36; Re 2:10
Matt. 24:14Mt 9:35; 28:19, 20; 1Co 9:16; Col 1:23; 1Pe 1:12; Re 14:6
Matt. 24:21Re 7:14
Matt. 24:21Da 12:1
Matt. 24:23Mt 24:5
Matt. 24:24Mt 7:15; 2Pe 2:1
Matt. 24:24Mt 7:22, 23; 2Th 2:9
Matt. 24:29Joe 2:31
Matt. 24:30Da 7:13
Matt. 24:30Mt 16:27; 26:64; Mr 14:62
Matt. 24:33Jas 5:8, 9
Matt. 24:361Th 5:1, 2
Matt. 24:36Ac 1:7
Matt. 24:37Ge 6:11-13
Matt. 24:38Ge 7:7; Heb 11:7; 1Pe 3:19, 20; 2Pe 2:5
Matt. 24:39Ge 7:23; 2Pe 3:6
Matt. 24:431Th 5:2; 2Pe 3:10
Matt. 24:46Re 16:15
24 Now as Jesus was departing from the temple, his disciples approached to show him the buildings of the temple. 2 In response he said to them: “Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, by no means will a stone be left here upon a stone and not be thrown down.”+
3 While he was sitting on the Mount of Olives,+ the disciples approached him privately, saying: “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your presence+ and of the conclusion of the system of things?”+
4 In answer Jesus said to them: “Look out that nobody misleads you,+ 5 for many will come on the basis of my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many.+ 6 You are going to hear of wars and reports of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for these things must take place, but the end is not yet.+
7 “For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom,+ and there will be food shortages+ and earthquakes in one place after another.+ 8 All these things are a beginning of pangs of distress.
9 “Then people will hand you over to tribulation+ and will kill you,+ and you will be hated by all the nations on account of my name.+ 10 Then, too, many will be stumbled and will betray one another and will hate one another. 11 Many false prophets will arise and mislead many;+ 12 and because of the increasing of lawlessness, the love of the greater number will grow cold.+ 13 But the one who has endured to the end will be saved.+ 14 And this good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations,+ and then the end will come.
15 “Therefore, when you catch sight of the disgusting thing that causes desolation, as spoken about by Daniel the prophet, standing in a holy place+ (let the reader use discernment), 16 then let those in Ju·deʹa begin fleeing to the mountains.+ 17 Let the man on the housetop not come down to take the goods out of his house, 18 and let the man in the field not return to pick up his outer garment.+ 19 Woe to the pregnant women and those nursing a baby in those days!+ 20 Keep praying that your flight may not occur in wintertime nor on the Sabbath day; 21 for then there will be great tribulation+ such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now, no, nor will occur again.+ 22 In fact, unless those days were cut short, no flesh would be saved; but on account of the chosen ones those days will be cut short.+
23 “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look! Here is the Christ,’+ or, ‘There!’ do not believe it.+ 24 For false Christs and false prophets+ will arise and will perform great signs and wonders so as to mislead,+ if possible, even the chosen ones. 25 Look! I have forewarned you. 26 Therefore, if people say to you, ‘Look! He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out; ‘Look! He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.+ 27 For just as the lightning comes out of the east and shines over to the west, so the presence of the Son of man will be.+ 28 Wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together.+
29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened,+ and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.+ 30 Then the sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will beat themselves in grief,+ and they will see the Son of man+ coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.*+ 31 And he will send out his angels with a great trumpet sound, and they will gather his chosen ones together from the four winds, from one extremity of the heavens to their other extremity.+
32 “Now learn this illustration from the fig tree: Just as soon as its young branch grows tender and sprouts its leaves, you know that summer is near.+ 33 Likewise also you, when you see all these things, know that he is near at the doors.+ 34 Truly I say to you that this generation will by no means pass away until all these things happen. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.+
36 “Concerning that day and hour nobody knows,+ neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father.+ 37 For just as the days of Noah were,+ so the presence of the Son of man will be.+ 38 For as they were in those days before the Flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,+ 39 and they took no note until the Flood came and swept them all away,+ so the presence of the Son of man will be. 40 Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken along and the other abandoned. 41 Two women will be grinding at the hand mill; one will be taken along and the other abandoned.+ 42 Keep on the watch, therefore, because you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.+
43 “But know one thing: If the householder had known in what watch* the thief was coming,+ he would have kept awake and not allowed his house to be broken into.+ 44 On this account, you too prove yourselves ready,+ because the Son of man is coming at an hour that you do not think to be it.
45 “Who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?+ 46 Happy is that slave if his master on coming finds him doing so!+ 47 Truly I say to you, he will appoint him over all his belongings.
48 “But if ever that evil slave says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying,’+ 49 and he starts to beat his fellow slaves and to eat and drink with the confirmed drunkards, 50 the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect and in an hour that he does not know,+ 51 and he will punish him with the greatest severity and will assign him his place with the hypocrites. There is where his weeping and the gnashing of his teeth will be.+
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Why Europe Needs a Trade NATO
July 30, 2014 June 21, 2018 economic warfare, Konrad Putzier, Moscow, Russia, trade, trade war, Ukraine
By Konrad Putzier
On Friday, Russia opened a second front in its undeclared war against Ukraine.
In an announcement lost in the back pages of Western newspapers, Vladimir Putin’s regime banned dairy imports from Ukraine, officially due to “quality concerns.” The move is a clear act of warfare – albeit the economic kind. It sends the message that even if Ukraine defeats the Russian-sponsored rebels, Moscow can still ruin it economically.
Ukraine’s economy is far more dependent on bilateral trade than Russia, making it vulnerable to Moscow’s trade sanctions. Putin has exploited his economic leverage in the past, and will undoubtedly do so again.
Last fall, Ukraine’s former President Viktor Yanukovych was ready to sign an economic association agreement with the EU. Putin responded by threatening trade sanctions that would have plunged Ukraine into deep recession. Yanukovych instantly changed track and signed an association agreement with Russia instead.
Russia recently banned all imports of Ukranian dairy products.
Other post-Soviet states have felt Moscow’s economic clout in similar ways. In 2009, a short-lived spat between Putin and Belarus’ President Aleksandr Lukashenko led Moscow to ban all imports of dairy products from the neighboring country. Georgia saw its wines banned from the Russian market following the Russo-Georgian war in 2006.
Blocking gas exports to neighboring countries has proven to be particularly damaging, as Ukraine had to learn again and again.
This kind of economic warfare works because Russia is bigger, stronger, and has less to lose from interrupted trade. In the end, weaker states are forced to either accept Moscow’s demands or face serious economic repercussions.
What is a serious threat to Ukraine’s sovereignty is also a problem for the EU. After all, Russia can and will use its economic leverage to prevent ex-Soviet States from integrating into Europe.
If the West is serious about helping Ukraine gain independence from Russia, it needs to support Kiev in its latest trade war. NATO’s success during the Cold War offers a model for how this can be done.
Following World War II, the Soviet Union was the unrivaled military power on the European continent. No single Western European state had the means to defend itself against a possible Soviet invasion. In response, Western states came up with the concept of collective defense as enshrined in the founding agreement of NATO.
Under the treaty, any attack against a NATO member state was deemed an attack on all, committing member states to defend their allies. The concept of collective defense worked exceptionally well as a deterrent. No NATO member was ever attacked by the Soviet Union.
In order to prevent Russia from bullying its weak neighbors today, Western states should apply the concept of collective defense to the economic sphere. Europe needs a trade NATO.
Under such a treaty, member states would treat politically motivated sanctions by any country against a member state as sanctions against all member states – automatically triggering a collective response.
For example, if Russia banned the import of Georgian wines, all members of the trade alliance would in turn ban the import of certain Russian goods. The nitty-gritty details of which sectors should be affected by sanctions would certainly lead to arguments among member states, but the prospect of a collective response would still make it extremely costly for Moscow to impose any form of sanctions.
By definition, a trade NATO should only cover sanctions that are part of a hostile foreign policy strategy against a member state, and determining what falls into that category won’t always be easy. Was Russia’s decision to cut off Ukrainian gas an attack on Kiev’s sovereignty or a legitimate response to non-payment of bills? What if there are legitimate safety concerns behind an import ban? But while some cases may be murky, many others—such as Russia’s dairy import ban—are clearly hostile acts.
If well designed, collective economic defense could be just as effective a deterrent as NATO was during the Cold War.
An important part of any such treaty would be a mechanism that balances out the cost of sanctions among member states. One reason why European sanctions against Russia have been largely toothless so far is that certain states have more to lose then others and are reluctant to curtail trade.
Germany’s industry depends on Russia’s gas and Russia is an important buyer of German industrial goods. London’s financial market would be less significant without Russian capital, and France’s defense industry has found an eager buyer in Moscow. These countries would be more willing to join a trade alliance and impose sanctions if they were compensated for their losses by those member states with little to lose from interrupted trade.
Member states could pay a certain portion of their annual GDP into a collective fund. In the event of sanctions, the fund could be used to support those states that would suffer from interrupted trade. The example of the IMF shows that such a collective fund is complicated but workable.
For now, the U.S. and the EU must do what they can to end the civil war in Ukraine. But even if fighting stops, the country still faces an existential threat from Russian trade sanctions.
If Europe’s governments want to stop Russia’s aggressive expansionism, they need the kind of solidarity their predecessors showed when they founded NATO in 1949.
Konrad Putzier is a New York-based journalist. He blogs at thelongerview.org.
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==The early years==
Judd Vinet, a Canadian programmer and occasional guitarist, began developing Arch Linux in early 2001. Its first formal release, Arch Linux 0.1, was on March 11, 2002. Inspired by the elegant simplicity of Slackware, Polish Linux Distribution, and CRUX, and yet disappointed with the lack of package management; Vinet built his own distribution on similar principles as those distros. But, he also wrote a package management program called pacman, to automatically handle package installation, removal, and upgrades.
==The middle years==
The early Arch community grew steadily, as evidenced by [http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/archgrowth.png this chart of forum posts, users, and bug reports]. Moreover, it was from its early days known as [http://www.osnews.com/story/4827 an open, friendly, and helpful community].
==The dawning of the age of A. Griffin==
In late 2007, Judd Vinet retired from active participation as an Arch developer, and [http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=38024 smoothly transferred the reins over to American sysadmin Aaron Griffin], aka Phrakture, who remains the lead Arch developer to this day.
Over the years, the Arch community continued to grow and mature, and has recently received an unsual amount of [[Arch Linux Press Review|attention and review]] for a Linux distro of its modest size.
Arch developers remain unpaid, part-time volunteers, and there are no prospects for monetizing Arch Linux, so it will remain free in all senses of the word. Those curious to peruse more detail about Arch's development history can browse the [http://web.archive.org/web/*/archlinux.org Arch entry in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine].
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Facebook’s 14-Hour Outage and Why It Wasn’t Handled Properly
Anyone who uses Facebook, WhatsApp, or Instagram knows that Facebook suffered a major Internet outage this March and many are frustrated with the way said outage was handled. What happened? How could Facebook and its affected apps go down for such a long period of time? What should have been done differently? March’s Facebook fiasco is a perfect example of how you should never handle website downtime or a so-called server configuration change.
The Day Facebook Fell off The Face of the Earth
Facebook isn’t a stranger to performance problems or downtime issues, but on March 13th Facebook and some of its associated apps, including WhatsApp and Instagram, faced a whopping 14 hours of downtime. While some speculated the downtime was due to a DDoS attack, the official reason for the outage was a problem with a server configuration change. Apparently, this supposed server configuration change created a domino effect that resulted in the massive amount of downtime that users of the platforms had to endure.
The First Thing Facebook Did Wrong
What was the first thing that Facebook did wrong and why are so many people frustrated with the 14 hours of downtime that occurred? The lack of communication from the company played a large role in users’ frustration. During this 14-hour outage, Facebook only communicated with users twice via the Twitter platform. Once to say they were aware that there was a problem with the service and once more to deny that the problem was due to a DDoS attack. When the sites were all back up and running, the company merely stated the outage was due to a server configuration change. They would not, however, give any further details regarding the issue. In today’s day and age when it is crucial for websites to communicate with their user base when website downtime occurs, the way Facebook communicated with the public was seen as less than acceptable. Especially when one considers that Facebook’s whole business model revolves around communication.
The Second Thing Facebook Did Wrong
Figuring out the second thing Facebook did wrong is a bit harder than realizing they seriously lacked in communication skills and outreach regarding the issue. The simple “it was a server configuration change” excuse doesn’t really give anyone much to go on in terms of why everything actually crashed. A server configuration change shouldn’t result in such a massive amount of downtime – especially for a company as large as Facebook is and as advanced as it should be.
The lack of communication is causing some to believe that Facebook is lying about what went wrong. Those who believe the outage truly was caused by a server configuration change are left wondering if the company is incompetent. Why would a server configuration change cause a 14-hour outage? Was the change not tested on a test server? Was it rolled out all at once instead of regionally? Exactly what changes were being made? Why didn’t Facebook immediately do a rollback instead of allowing the site to be down for 14 hours? Furthermore, regardless of what caused it, why did it take 14 hours to fix it the problem? These are all questions that are buzzing around the Internet and Facebook is giving no answers. While it is apparent that Facebook did something wrong that caused the downtime, with such vague information being provided it’s hard to pinpoint exactly what went wrong and where.
Who Was Affected?
When downtime hits a website, people usually think of the money that specific site must have lost during such a long bout of downtime. However, advertisers who paid to advertise on Facebook were also affected as were stockholders as Facebook shares dropped about 1.8 percent the next morning. When a site like Facebook goes down, numerous people are affected. It’s not just Facebook itself. Considering this fact, one would think Facebook would be more careful when doing a server configuration change. Even public policy may be affected as the 14-hour bout of downtime and vague answers are being used as proof that there needs to be more legislative oversight in terms of the Internet.
What We’ve All Learned from The Facebook Fiasco
The bigger they hard, the harder they fall. This saying is proven to hold true in light of the 14-hour Facebook outage. It’s important to remember that no matter how big your site is, you’re never bigger than your supporters, customers, and users allow you to be. If Facebook “loses face” over this 14-hour outage, it can and will affect a large number of businesses and individuals. The more your website grows, the more you have a need for things like contingency plans, testing services, and a high-quality website downtime monitoring service. You also need communication plans to keep your visitors in the loop. The lack of communication about the 14 hours of downtime may have lost Facebook more fans than the downtime itself.
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Lions meet the needs of local communities and the world. Our 1.35 million members - who perform community service in 207 countries and geographic areas are different in many ways, but share a core belief: community is what we make it.
The South Grand Lake Lions Club (SGLLC) is a volunteer-based nonprofit organization that supports the community of Grand Lake. We provide assistance to groups and organizations; and charitable support to individuals to sustain health, dignity and protection.
The SGLLC has provided support for five care homes and the Oklahoma Boys Ranch. Our scholarship project has provided many local youths the opportunity to enhance their higher education and careers. We have provided over 150 eyeglasses and eye exams, mostly to the children of the community. The SGLLC purchased over 250 smoke detectors that were installed in local homes by our local fire departments.
The Ketchum High School Special Olympics has received $3000.00 in the last three years. The SGLLC community support of the Langley City Park has been monumental in the park receiving a $30,000.00 grant for new playground equipment and our new project, Veterans’ Park, that was completed in 2012. This year, a Leo’s Club was formed with approximately 42 youths, which will ensure the growth of our Lions Club for many years to come.
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Do script readers start at the beginning?
Script readers-- the people who sift and sort the vast piles of scripts submitted to Hollywood -- do they start at the beginning?
The reason I ask is that I know 99% of scripts are awful and just get thrown out after a couple pages....but if that's true, do they even bother starting at the beginning, or do they just flip to the middle for a sample of the writing?
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Why should they do that? If the beginning is crap, then there is no hope for the middle part. If you are not hooked at the beginning, no-one will read/watch till the middle. – John Smithers Feb 7 '13 at 10:13
@JohnSmithers: If it's a movie, you won't walk out after first ten minutes. If the action picks up after the initial exposure, and makes up for the lost time before the end, you will walk out satisfied and recommend the movie to others despite the downer beginning. It's quite frequent that the movie really picks up the pace after halfway through, so it would stand to reason if you want to sift through a bunch of scenarios, a peek at that part would be telling more than the first paragraphs. Now if this is how it works in reality or not... – SF. Feb 7 '13 at 10:30
@SF. Yes, but there are two things to consider: if you see the same boring beginning on TV, you're going to change channel. In the cinema, you'd be wasting money so you stay. And secondly, watching a movie and reading a script are different things, especially for someone who reads many. I don't know their job, well... But hey, perhaps they occasionally check the middle, who knows. :P – Alenanno Feb 7 '13 at 11:31
It would be very good to wait for an answer from someone with some actual insider knowledge. – temporary_user_name Feb 7 '13 at 16:35
Just curious: Why do you care? Have you written a script that you know starts out awful but gets good in the middle, or vice versa? I wouldn't be surprised if they don't have a fixed rule about such things. If an editor or reviewer starts reading a script and the beginning sucks, I doubt he's going to flip to the middle to see if it gets better: he's going to throw it out. Likewise if he starts in the middle and it sucks, he's not going to go back and check for a good beginning. I suppose a writer could get lucky and the reviewer just happens to flip to the best part ... – Jay Feb 14 '13 at 21:59
The short answer is, yes, although there's no rule about it, studio readers do seem to start on page one.
Readers looking for scripts for their employers to film look for a lot of things: That there's a basic concept at work in the script, that the three-act structure is being followed... there's a list to be ticked off, and every studio will require their readers look for certain things. But these guys read a lot of scripts and only have so much time in the day. It's generally assumed that they may not even finish reading a script, skimming it or even abandoning ones that are not promising.
While readers not part of a studio may read for broad strokes or even just skim the dialog, studio readers seem to just start at the beginning. Saying that you can tell if a script is bad by the tenth page (and sometimes earlier) seems to be not unusual at all.
There may be some that dip into the middle first; I do this when evaluating manuscripts I may edit, knowing that writers open with a bang and the beginning may be atypical, but if they do, I suspect this isn't the norm. Movies are, by their nature, generally front-loaded, particularly modern ones. So it's never going to hurt to grab the reader up-front, and it's probably expected that you try. Just make sure you follow this through in the rest of your script.
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Caveat: This answer is based on research, reading, and the few conversations I've had over the years with scriptwriters. I have no experience myself as a reader. If we have any studio readers here, I'll gladly defer to their expertise. – Neil Fein♦ Feb 15 '13 at 6:21
I don't see how this says anything that my answer didn't. This one just uses more words to say the same thing. – Kit Z. Fox Feb 15 '13 at 11:14
@Kit - Not at all. Your answer was about paid readers/reviewwers, mine's about studio readers. A different anomal altogether. – Neil Fein♦ Feb 15 '13 at 16:45
anomal?? what is this anomal??? – temporary_user_name Feb 17 '13 at 17:45
@Aerovistae - *animal – Neil Fein♦ Feb 17 '13 at 22:25
I have no experience with screenwriting specifically, but I see no reason why this would be different from the considerations in the fiction market (where "sending chapters" is always the first three chapters: the reader will start from the beginning, precisely like a viewer would. Why would he do otherwise? That's what makes sense; that's what gives him the best understanding and experience of the work as a whole.
But beginnings are naturally slow and less-exciting? True. Also: tough. Quite simply, there's no good excuse for having a dull beginning. As a screenwriter, it's your job to bring the entire script up to par - before submission. That means you need to overcome the "how do I draw viewers into the movie" problem, just like later on you'll need to overcome the typical problems of a screenplay's middle and end.
Don't think of it as looking for a "sample of the writing," because that's not really what it is. It's "I'm going to experience this screenplay precisely as a viewer would, but if at any point I'm persuaded that it's not good enough, then I can stop." In a vast majority of cases, that point comes pretty early.
That being said, readers know movies and their genres. You don't need to start out with an erupting volcano because the opening of your domestic dramady isn't exciting enough. Lots of movies open with endearing characters, or great settings, or fun dialogue, or whatever. If you know why you would be riveted to this movie from the start, why your expected audience would leap right into this movie as soon as it begins, then you're absolutely fine. But if everybody would be bored by the first 15 minutes before "things get interesting," then that's a real problem - and the reader's quite right to reject your script as unready.
Analysts Read from the beginning (the Title) to the end without any sneak peaks ahead. They don't want to accidentally read any spoilers.
The book "Writing Scripts Hollywood Will Love [An Insider's Guide to Film and Television Scripts That Sell]" is by Katherine Atwell Herbert, an actual professional script analyst; she was the first reader for Robocop and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
The third chapter of that book details how script analysts work, and YES, they read from the beginning to the end; take notes along the way for themselves, and so on.
They may take overall impressions just from the title, page count, formatting and "density" on the page, but they do not read in the middle because they don't want to see any reveals or spoilers: They want to judge tension and open questions as they go, to simulate the experience of a seen movie.
On titles: Chris Meindl, reader for MGM:
"Titles are sometimes an indication that the writer has given this project more than a moment's thought. Good titles will have resonance or call up associations. Too many scripts have two word titles that sum up a high concept story and we already know how the story works before we even read it."
She says nearly all readers look at the length; if it is not between 100 and 130 pages, the reader suspects the writer's professionalism, and assume "the writer does not know how to tell a story in the context of a film".
The script analyst will also notice (and become biased by) any typos, non-standard fonts being used, missing punctuation, horrific grammar. All are unprofessional.
Most script analysts have made much of their judgment within a FEW pages:
For a six year veteran at a major studio the most common script problem is, "predictable people relying on clichéd events." In these scripts, "you know what's going to happen in the story after only a couple of pages," she adds. She hardly needs to read further, but of course, she does.
For some analysts the first few pages of a script are indicative of its overall merit. Meindl has found that, "You know in the first few pages if you're in the hands of a capable writer."
A senior VP of production at Twentieth-Century Fox is concerned with neatness, spelling and grammar and is also put off by scripts that, "are too dense. There's not enough white space on the page." Or as Allen Page, an analyst at Warner Brothers who has also taught various film courses, remarked, "a script should be easy on the eye. It should be script-like rather than novelistic." Being too dense means there is too much description, which means the writer is probably overwriting.
The book is worth buying if you are serious about script writing. Later in Ch3 she says:
Nonetheless, the readers stick with it to the end, and turns each page hoping to find originality, something unusual that will spark their interest, or a creative approach to the plot development, the hero's problem, the description of characters and the theme. Most of the time they don't find it.
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Aspies and school shootings
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Can we have a discussion on Loners and school shootings?
There was a story of a young adult in Montreal who shot others at a school. He was a loner, he kept to himself, he hated the world as he found most to be highly untrusting. They are always "obsessed" with something, in that case and this German one, it happened to be 'guns.'
The kid went to school to find out he was a loser.
Now, are all aspies going to shoot up their school? No, and 'normal' people are just as capable, but in these instances, there is a clear cut reason why they shot their schools up - a feeling of difference. Are they aspies or auties or whatever? I dont know, I only have a bit of an article to go buy, but many signs point to 'great possibility'
Most of us here are a bit more relieved as we know what is wrong with us (or 'isnt') but they may not know about what is wrong with them outside of their 'depression.'
I dont know, maybe its just me noticing this
Pileated woodpecker
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I posted a very similar thread and got slated for it so expect a backlash.
Your point is valid and i can see why an undiagnosed youth would be driven to this.
diseased
Thought about this one a lot, actually.
I was in high school in the mid-late 80's. I wore black a lot, I had all of, what, 3 friends (had acquaintances too but they weren't close enough that I'd consider them friends).
LOVED firearms, hated The System, etc.
I think a big part of it was that I just didn't give enough of a rats ass about anyone at my school enough to want to kill them myself. Not to mention the fact that, ok, you kill, what, 15-20? A month later, they've been replaced by new students and you have to start over (provided you're not locked up or have committed suicide via cop).
It's just a phenomenal waste of time. All that planning, all that anger and rage and angst, all that ammo, and for what? A week or two of prime time news that you would've despised anyway and a lifetime legacy of being 'That nut that shot up his school'? No thanks.
If I were of a mind to go out with a bang, so to speak, you can bet your ass it'd be something productive... like nuking Congress, or assassinating the CEO of.. I dunno, Pfizer or Bayer or something.
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Why were you slated for it? I think its perfectly valid! It doesn't mean aspies and whatevers are dangerous and need to be looked out for, its just that some of that constant bullying adds up.
All I know is that if I was one of the 'bullied' aspies, I may look at people a bit differently then I do (and I already look at them pretty bitterly (I say that with a chuckle but with most comedy comes truth))
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21 Nov 2006, 10:05 am
diseased wrote:
Bullies are only a symptom, not the problem. The problem is the way educational institutions are set up and how they run. The enviornment of these places allows bullies to flourish while inronically, the people the place was designed for, the students who are there to learn, suffer.
Anyone who has seen the 1970s era exploitation movie "Massacre at Central High" will know what I mean. It's basically the story of a high school terrorized by a gang of brutal bullies. A student who stands up to them ends up being cripples by them and goes on a killing spree until all the members of the gang are dead. Briefly the school becomes a nicer place but in the end, it actually becomes more violent because other kids, including those brutalized most by the bullies, start grouping together and fighting amogst each other for the chance to fill the void left by the now dead gang.
The gang wasn't the problem, it was only a symptom. The problem was the institution that allowed the gangs to flourish unchecked.
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21 Nov 2006, 12:42 pm
Comeon! Being a loner does NOT make you an aspie! That is only a likely outcome with ONE of the symptoms. An NT with a chemical imbalence could EASILY become a dangerous loner!
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I think even aspies need to learn self control. It is presumptious to even attempt to or succeed in such an act of violence.
I don't like guns and could never shoot anyone. I percieve this feeling everytime I picture myself with a gun in my hands, about to kill someone. And then I see myself crying, dropping the gun and going into crying/sobbing episodes. And I picture myself becoming angry for threatening that person.
Fraya
everytime I picture myself with a gun in my hands, about to kill someone. And then I see myself crying
Thats funny whenever I picture this I see myself carefully aiming for something vital
If I ever did point a gun at someone dont doubt I wouldnt pull the trigger without a second thought.. since the only reason I can picture myself holding and aiming one is in self defense.
I tend to agree that an aspie being violent like that would be very uncommon since shooting someone is almost always premeditated and driven by emotion.
Logically speaking it doesnt take a genius to realize it would only make things worse.
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
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SteveK wrote:
You're right, but don't conclude that they aren't aspie or even potentially. Your post sounds conclusive when you've had as much information to go by that I did.
Many of these kids are describe by others as weird, or not normal, or etc... Not conclusive but there is a good chance - lets not discount it.. There is always potential
As I've mentioned, "NT" people are just as capable of doing these acts, as well, but there is always a motive. The motives need to be analyzed
en_una_isla
Every once in a while when I hear of a school shooting, I see something in the story that makes me think "aspie." The more recent Montreal shooting, no, I didn't get that sense, but the one before that, where the guy singled out the women in an engineering school and shot them, yes, I got that sense. I got that sense from one of the Columbine shooters too. I agree with Corvus but I wouldn't say the majority are aspie, but I do believe there have been some.
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Joined: 9 Nov 2006
He could have possibly had Anti-social personality disorder, which would explain his solitary behavior.
Despair is always darkest just before it goes pitch black.
I watched part of a home video the more recent montreal shooter made of himself; in it he was really mugging for the camera and making steady eye contact with the lense; his body language didn't seem awkward at all, either. So as an armchair psychologist, I would say sociopath/ antisocial personality disorder would fit him better than AS would.
There were times when I wanted to shoot up the school.
I don't see how AS kids would be less apt to do something like that if given the chance.
They more often have a reason.
But on the other hand, it's the underlying attitudes and treatment towards these kids that make them snap, sooner rather than later if they're mentally unstable, and it is a treatment that I wouldn't be surprised generally thrives in the neurotypical groups.
I wasn't 100% discounting it, but look at Goth and vampirism! BOTH tend to be loners to the general population, and BOTH would be called WIERD!! ! Yet thier whole society, for want of another word, is something any aspie should be totally against.
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Port Dawgs hosts Run for the Fallen
By Tech. Sgt. Heather Redman , 15th Wing Public Affairs / Published May 22, 2018
Airmen from 515th Air Mobility Operations Wing run in formation during the 5th Annual Port Dawg Memorial Run at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, May 18, 2018. The purpose of the run was to honor and remember fallen Port Dawgs, Airmen who lost their lives in the air transportation career field. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Heather Redman)
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii --
The 515th Air Mobility Operations Wing hosted the 5th Annual Port Dawg Memorial Run here, May 18. The run remembers and honors those lost in the air transportation career field.
“In 2011 the Port Dawg Community experienced the tragic murder of one of our members, TSgt Eccleston,” said Senior Master Sgt. Duane Fish, Pacific Air Forces air transportation functional area manager. “Since 2013, Kadena Air Base, Japan, has held a memorial run in honor of Eccleston, and began what would become an annual event across the entire Air Transportation Career field. Since then, every year all aerial ports and 2T2's across the world have come together during National Transportation Week to hold a memorial Run.”
Aerial ports across the Air Force held and participated in a memorial run, during National Transportation Week, May 14-18, 2018.
“Port Dawg Memorial Run is held all across the globe,” said Fish. “Several locations held their run on the same day, the third Friday in May allowing the Port Dawg community come together. This unites our career field, and builds on the strong comradery that our career field already maintains.”
The memorial run is an annual tradition among port dawgs to memorialize fallen teammates across the Air Force with a ceremony and formation run.
“Our career field is very small and deaths in our community are felt across the globe,” said Fish. “Our career field is inherently dangerous. But, as a force provider we ensure the warfighters receive the necessary equipment to accomplish their missions. This annual memorial event is just one way that we as a career field have chosen to pay particular attention to those lost in our career field.”
This year’s run celebrated the lives of Staff Sgt. Daniel Albert, Senior Airman Billie Dutton, Airman 1st Class Caleb Bailey, Airman 1st Class Patricia Roy, and Airman 1st Class Montiel Alleyne.
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That does not keep me from having a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then
I go out at night to paint the stars.
–Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother
The town does not exist
except where one black-haired tree slips
up like a drowned woman into the hot sky.
The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars.
Oh starry starry night! This is how
I want to die.
It moves. They are all alive.
Even the moon bulges in its orange irons
to push children, like a god, from its eye.
The old unseen serpent swallows up the stars.
I want to die:
into that rushing beast of the night,
sucked up by that great dragon, to split
from my life with no flag,
no belly,
no cry.
Analysis, meaning and summary of Anne Sexton's poem The Starry Night
I have to agree with Shawn. The first time I ever read this poem (in tenth grade), I was struck with the sense that the speaker herself wanted to die. I immediately got the feeling that Anne Sexton was suicidal. And then my teacher confirmed it. About her battle with depression, her suicide attempts, her hospitalization, and eventual death. It really is quite amazing how much this poem and Anne Sexton’s life go hand-in-hand. It’s as if she was speaking in code about her own life, daring someone to figure out the riddle and know the dreadful fate she wished for herself.
lorkin says:
When I read that a person has allowed themselves to die I think (shall I say? as Anne questioned in her poem) …I think of Xt. He too allowed others to murder Him, and for no reason. Or was there a reason? We observers from the outside are once again led by (shall I say it…religion)?? yes led into Mystery again and again. Shall I say it Divine Mystery. Can the cause of death be birth? ..for Nicole presently, for Magdeline distantly, for Anne 40+ years past. The sorrowing mother Maria’s mother was Anne, over 2000 years past. Now I read the deep and beautiful insights of another Anne whom I find most profound. gratias agamus Domino Deo nostro…
I think Sexton produces incredible imagery in this poem. If one had never seen Van Gogh’s painting, it would still be as captivating. Having seen the painting however, I understand the “this is how I want to die” comment. It is not a depressing thought, or even that dark of a comment. It is purely the statement of the brilliance of the stars in the painting, and how if she could choose how to die, it would be to be sucked up into these fantastic stars. Incredible and wonderful.
i think this poem is absolutely brilliant. i love anne sexton’s writing. i admire how she wrote about a work of art, and it was all about her observations and opinions about the poem. brilliant.
The first stanza really does it for me. The town does not exist, she says. And in the painting that is so true as well. Except, she continues, where the lone tree projects upward. That image of this immense faceless town that in truth has no existence outside of that one lone tree. And the isolation which that implies. The bitter loneliness that to some extent is the lot of any true artist is so beautifully expressed in this absolutely wonderful poem.
Brilliant description of Van Gogh’s famous painting. She makes the night scene seem both beautiful and terrifying. I find it fascinating how Anne was able to convey her passion for life within the context of her death. She didn’t want to die meekly, but would rather lunge headlong into her fate, unburdened by ideologies and the base desires of humanity.
Breck A. Cox says:
I believe the exellent writer Anne Sexton wrote this poem to confirm that she had a great appreciation for art.She wanted to know how Van Gogh felt and she knew exactly what it was like for him.She composed this but could not find it within herself to live.Her imagery and symbolism are exellent.She is dearly missed.
Sincerly
actually, this poem (written in 1961) is a clear prediction of her impending suicide in october of 1974. the whole thing is riddled with details hinting at how she actually did eventually kill herself…read her bio thoroughly, find out how she dies, then read the poem again. i just did my thesis on this poem, i couldn’t believe my eyes when i realized what i’d stumbled across. i thought it was just going to be a run-o-the-mill sexton depression piece relating to her impressions of the painting by van gogh. but it was anything but that. it is intensely autobiographical. later ya’ll and keep reading and writing! don’t let the poetry fade!
This poem to me seems very dark. I feel that its about death possible an after life. He is living in a town where he feels he doesnt exist everyone in this town is alive but doesnt acknowledge his existanceand he wants to die.
THAI says:
THE POEM TO ME IS CONSIDERD TO BE A PLEA OF DEATH, HE SEES NO POINT OF LIVING, AFTER HOURS NO ONE CARES THAT HE EXISTS…ALL HE HAS TO DEPEND ON IS THE STARS AND THE DARK NIGHT. HE COULD COUNT ON THE MOON, BUT THE MOON HAS OTHER PRORITIES,AND HIS EXISTENCE IS NOT ONE.
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Poet: Anne Sexton
Poem: The Starry Night
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Brave Old World
By Robert Ferguson
The effort to discredit global warming skeptics is warming up globally. Australian blogger Graham Readfearn reports on Naomi Oreskes' speaking tour of Australia:
As a celebrated historian, Professor Naomi Oreskes is interested in the origin of things - where ideas start from, what drives them and ultimately who propagates them.
Oreskes, Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California San Diego, has just arrived in Australia on a whistle-stop speaking tour promoting her new book, co-authored with Erik Conway, titled Merchants of Doubt - How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming.
The book, five years in the writing, ultimately concludes that much of the world's scepticism on climate change - whether that be over the validity or certainty of the science of climate change, its causes or the need to act - is chiefly driven by a paranoid ideological fear of socialism and an unbending faith and belief in free-markets.
Put simply, free-market think-tanks such as the George C Marshall Institute, the Heartland Institute, The Science and Public Policy Institute and the Why-Can't-You-Just-Leave-us-Alone-While-We-Make-Oodles-of-Cash Institute (not a real institute) don't like industry to have to be held accountable.
Oreskes spoke to the ABC's Lateline program on this brand of scepticism which also drove shoulder-shrugs over acid rain, tobacco smoke and ozone depletion.
Says Oreskes, "It's part of this whole ideological program of challenging any science that could lead to government regulation, because it's part of an ideological conviction that all regulation is bad, that any time the government steps in to ‘protect' us from harm, that we're on the slippery slope to socialism, and this the ideology that you see underlying a kind of almost paranoid anti-communism. So even after the Cold War is over, these people are seeing reds under the bed."
Has Oreskes' snarky book indulged what Freud called "projection"? It is certainly demonstrable that her book's "carbon footprint" and "greed" slams on skeptics are so filled with hypocrisy they "stink on ice."
But this has to be the topper:
The book, five years in the writing, ultimately concludes that much of the world's scepticism on climate change - whether that be over the validity or certainty of the science of climate change, its causes or the need to act - is chiefly driven by a paranoid ideological fear of socialism[.]
As an average six-year-old might ask, "Gee, ya think?" (See an in-depth response to Oreskes here.)
Does this sneering sentiment represent a strident admission by Oreskes -- and by extension, her comrades in the real "denial" camp -- that she has no fear of -- nay, embraces socialism? Is she saying, along with Newsweek Magazine, "We are all socialists now!"? Does she believe (and hold in disdain the fact) that the American Founders also gained -- after one of the most thorough, brilliant, and inspired studies in comparative governments and their flaws in "the course of human events" -- a "paranoid ideological fear" of the Leviathan State?
Here are just a few more "paranoid" anti-socialists:
"Today's debate about global warming is essentially a debate about freedom. The environmentalists would like to mastermind each and every possible (and impossible) aspect of our lives." - Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."- Samuel Adams
"When plunder has become a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." - Lord Action
Is Oreskes is a Progressive leftist? Does she have no problem with the EU's and the U.N.'s drive for "climate justice," massive wealth destruction -- smiley-faced "wealth redistribution" -- Malthusian-driven population control (reduction), and the turning of every human on the planet into a conscripted, interchangeable brick for the "ruling class's" construction of their utopian tower to heaven?
In SPPI's recent paper, "Dr Rajendra Pachauri and the IPCC - No Fossil Fool," Dennis Ambler reveals:
The UN narrative says that developed countries of the Northern Hemisphere must atone for their "climate sins" of generating wealth and comfortable lifestyles using fossil fuels, by scaling back their economies through a process of "Contraction" and then transferring much of that wealth to developing nations, to bring them up to the new lowered expectations of the developed nations, described as "Convergence. "
Thus will there ensue a just and equitable Global Community of Nations, all having equal shares of the so-called Global Commons of the atmosphere and the oceans and living sustainable low-tech life styles in a state of Climate Justice, guaranteed by the UN World Government. It has been aptly described by Professor Fred Singer as "taking money from the poor in rich countries and giving it to the rich in poor countries."
Under this UN vision, consumption of everything will be controlled and rationed, globally, even to the point of individual allowances for energy use and carbon dioxide emissions.
So, what's really bothering Oreskes?
Like those of Babylon's tyrants before her, are Oreskes' dreams troubled? Is she alarmed that, like Nebuchadnezzar's three Hebrew civil servants, Americans and their elected representatives are turning a deaf ear to the "consensus" heralds' daily shouting of "Fall down before the golden image! Everybody is doing it!"? As with Belshazzar, has her self-indulgent banquet been hushed by the sudden appearance of wall writings she cannot decipher?
That is to say, is she tormented seeing that the public is wakening to the real-world reality that since its inception, progressive, Radical Environmentalism has been a smooth skin stuffed with a filthy lie -- that the left's concerns are centered not on man's place in or relationship to the modern natural world, but rather on his relationship to the ancient Totalitarian State?
That is to say, Environmentalism's serially contrived alarms, calamities, and apocalyptic soothsaying are not scientific, but political; its Leviathan-feeding prescriptions are not foundational upon science or data-driven policy, but rather upon policy-driven data: unidirectional fabrications advanced by self-interested propaganda, intense intimidation, and "thirty pieces of silver."
The fog is clearing, and more are seeing that when confronted with choices between Truth and Falsehood, reality and deception, liberty and captivity, light and darkness, Oreskes' "green" rabble of adherents, agents, and dupes never fail to shout in unison, "Give us Barabbas!" As Chesterton might phrase it, when it comes to individual liberty and personal accountability, the Oreskes crowd reflexively employ a special sieve forged in the fires of Hell that catches and holds fast all the dross and allows the gold to wash away.
Welcome to Oreskes' brave old world.
Robert Ferguson is President of the Science and Public Policy Institute.
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Nurses Ease the Stress of EMR Conversion
By Yara Souza, Contributor
Ongoing federal incentives and penalties for the adoption of electronic medical records, or EMR, continue to motivate hospitals and other healthcare facilities to update their systems. Initiated by the American Recovery and Reinstatement Act of 2009, $19 billion in funds have been allocated for healthcare providers to implement EMR systems.
But the transition to an EMR, or to a new EMR, can be difficult and stressful for providers if they lack the proper staff support. Without proper staff training and engagement, studies have found that hospitals can have a 25 percent decrease in productivity after the launch of a new or updated EMR system. Too often in the transition period, healthcare facilities focus on the technology and neglect the people who are going to use it.
AMN Healthcare has a network of nurses who are expert in EMR conversions and help health systems make smooth transitions without the loss of productivity. One example is a large healthcare facility in the Midwest, where an EMR conversion team from AMN made the difference.
The AMN team initiated a three-step strategy for the hospital, which required support to educate its staff before, during and after the “go live” date for its new EMR system. This included supplying a team of onsite clinicians who also were experts in the new EMR system. The team helped provide supplemental staffing so core staff nurses could be available for the classroom training. The extra staff before and after the launch date helped maintained high-quality patient care during the transition. After launch, the EMR nurse experts helped staff nurses get comfortable with the new EMR system.
AMN Division Vice President Kimberly Martini said her teams work closely with each facility to determine a unique strategy on how best to implement and maintain an EMR system.
“Our goal is to provide hospitals with the appropriate levels of support for each of the implementation stages,” she said. “This is critical to avoid efficiency declines that can impact patient care.”
Although patient care is critical, so too is maintaining staff morale during what otherwise can be an exasperating transition even for seasoned practitioners. This is why onsite experts with both clinical and EMR experience is necessary, according to Martini, since they can help to alleviate dissatisfaction, reduce transition times and ultimately lower costs. Regardless of a healthcare facility’s size, paying attention to staff willingness to adopt a new EMR system is perhaps the best way to ensure a successful transition and launch.
Because EMR adoption can hit technical bumps along the way, the AMN team allows for flexibility so that the EMR go-live date can be adjusted. At the facility in the Midwest, technical issues and other factors delayed launch by several months.
“The hospital was entering its high patient census period, its nurse vacancy rate was up and newly hired nursing graduates wouldn’t arrive for six months -- it was the perfect storm,” Martini said. “But fortunately, we were still ready with great nurses already geared up to help when they needed them.”
The ability to ramp up or down is how AMN tailors its EMR conversion service to each facility. AMN’s expertise in understanding the conversion process from beginning to end reaffirms its position as a leader in staff support for EMR transitions and launches.
“Our team has experience in many successful EMR conversions,” Martini said. “And what we’ve seen time and again is that facilities that pay attention to their staff needs are the ones with the most successful EMR adoption.”
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Stifel Nicolaus Reiterates a Hold Rating on Marten Transport
By Austin Angelo
Stifel Nicolaus analyst John Larkin reiterated a Hold rating on Marten Transport (NASDAQ: MRTN) on September 28 and set a price target of $15. The company’s shares closed on Friday at $20.55, close to its 52-week high of $21.15.
According to TipRanks.com, Larkin is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 10.5% and a 69.4% success rate. Larkin covers the Services sector, focusing on stocks such as Covenant Transportation Group, Expeditors International, and Air Transport Services.
Marten Transport has an analyst consensus of Hold, with a price target consensus of $15.
The company has a one year high of $21.15 and a one year low of $11.22. Currently, Marten Transport has an average volume of 152.9K.
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Marten Transport Ltd. engages in the provision of providing temperature-sensitive truckload carrier services. It operates through the following segments: Truckload, Dedicated, Intermodal, and Brokerage. The Truckload segment includes transport of food and consumer packaged goods that require a temperature-controlled or insulated environment. The Dedicated segment provides transportation solutions to individual customers using temperature-controlled trailers, dry vans, and specialized equipment. The Intermodal segment offers transports its customer’s freight utilizing temperature-controlled trailers and dry containers on railroad flatcars for portions of trips. The Brokerage segment involves in arranging smaller third-party carriers to transport freight for its customers in temperature-controlled trailers and dry vans. The company was founded by Roger R. Marten in 1946 and is headquartered in Mondovi, WI.
John Larkin, Marten Transport, MRTN, NASDAQ:MRTN
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12 June, 2019 - 22:51 Ed Whelan
León Viejo, The Lost City of Nicaragua That Emerged From The Ashes After 400 Years
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27 December, 2018 - 18:52 Alicia McDermott
Medieval Sword from the War of the Two Peters Unearthed In Spanish Castle
Archaeologists have made a rare discovery during their second season of work at a Medieval castle in Aín, Castellón, Spain. The have unearthed a 700-year-old sword that is in a remarkable state. The...
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Scientists Discover an Ancient Bio-Metallic Vampire Ant
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Sacred Mummified Arm Traverses Canada on a Holy Relic Road Show
A highly-venerated sacred arm and hand once belonging to St. Francis Xavier is being displayed on Canadian soil for the first time ever, and Angèle Regnier, co-founder of Catholic Christian Outreach...
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Unravelling the Mystery of the Maronite Mummies: Why Were Medieval Mummies Hidden in a Cave?
When archaeologists found a cache of medieval mummies in a Lebanese cave, the amazing discovery took their breath away. The remarkably well-preserved bodies of eight people who were buried in Qadisha...
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World First as Feathered Dinosaur Tail is Found Preserved in Amber
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Whiskers still bristling after more than 10,000 years in the Siberian cold
By The Siberian Times reporter Two extinct cave lions - dug from the permafrost – have made their first appearance since Pleistocene times. The ancient cubs, the best-preserved ever seen of this long...
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Seven-Pound Calcified Uterus Unearthed in British Cemetery
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Fully clothed body of 17th Century noblewoman buried with the heart of her husband unearthed in France
The well-preserved and fully clothed body of a French noblewoman, thought to be Louise de Quengo, has been discovered among 800 other graves in the city of Rennes in Brittany, North West France. The...
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The Mummy of Christian Friedrich von Kahlbutz, the Not So Chivalrous Knight
There are not many who would mourn the death of Christian Friedrich von Kahlbutz, a German knight who is known to have frequently exercised droit du seigneur , a legal right in late medieval Europe...
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Decapitated Skull Holds Remarkable Find - Oldest Preserved Brain in Britain
Archaeologists stumbled upon a surprising find in 2009 when they uncovered a preserved brain in a skull, buried in an Iron Age pit in Yorkshire, England. Known as the Heslington Brain, the find has...
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Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy with peculiar skull containing brain imprint
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Ancient Bog Mummies Reveal Secrets of their Identity
Over the past centuries, the remains of more than 500 men, women, and children have been unearthed during peat cutting activities in north-western Europe, especially in Ireland, Great Britain, the...
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Otzi's non-human DNA: Opportunistic pathogen discovered in ancient Iceman
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The discovery of an 8,000-year-old skull believed to contain preserved brain matter in Norway
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Many of the projects included in this website were projects I designed and managed in collaboration with Richard Haag, while working at Rich Haag Associates. These include: North Mercer Island, Seattle, Vancouver Island, Hunts Point, San Juan Island, Lake House, Bellevue and Medina.
PUBLICATIONS and RECOGNITION
-Gold List 2019 / LUXE “Gold List (Washington)”
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-National Endowment for the Arts Award for Excellence in Universal Design, 1996, Arnold Arboretum Visitors Center at Harvard University
-Massachusetts Horticultural Society 1994 Urban Landscape Award, Arnold Arboretum Visitors Center at Harvard University
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The Secret Power of Speaking God's Word
By: Joyce Meyer
Narrated by: Becky Brabham
Let God Fight Your Battles
Being Peaceful in the Storm
Narrated by: Jodi Carlisle
Based on her best-selling book The Battle Belongs to the Lord, Joyce Meyer delivers practical advice and biblical wisdom to help you triumph over any obstacle you face. By learning to lean on God's power, you'll be able to leave your fear behind and develop a life-changing sense of confidence. This compact edition is perfect for taking God's assurance with you everywhere you go.
What You Say Can Change Your Life
Developing the habit of speaking God's word will unlock the power of transformation in listeners' lives. In this compact derivative of her best-selling book, Me and My Big Mouth, Joyce Meyer draws from personal experience and scripture to illustrate how prayer and positive words can be used to overcome every challenge that stands in the way of fulfillment. Joyce teaches listeners how to stop talking idly about their problems and use God's power words to defeat them.
Concise and Brilliant
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Ephesians: Biblical Commentary
Deeper Life Series, Book 1
Paul's letter to the Ephesians is a well-loved book of the Bible that teaches some of the most important lessons of faith: who you are in Christ, how you are to live as His follower, and how to gain victory in the spiritual battles you face. In this study tool, Joyce Meyer takes a close look at the meaning of those beloved verses, identifying key truths and incorporating room for personal reflection. Joyce's first-ever biblical commentary series provides eye-opening teachings that will help you develop a stronger relationship with God.
The Mind Connection
How the Thoughts You Choose Affect Your Mood, Behavior, and Decisions
Narrated by: Joyce Meyer
In The Mind Connection, Joyce Meyer expands on the wisdom of her best-selling books Battlefield of the Mind and Power Thoughts to explain how to improve the quality of your thoughts and your life. She explores the undeniable connection between the mind, mouth, moods, and attitudes so you can develop and maintain the right mental position - no matter what challenges you face. Through practical advice and scriptural insights, Joyce will help you learn to think with purpose, gain greater confidence, and claim the fulfilling life you were meant to lead.
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Living Beyond Your Feelings
Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You
Narrated by: Sandra McCollom
The average person has 70,000 thoughts every day, and many of those thoughts trigger a corresponding emotion. No wonder so many of us often feel like we're controlled by our emotions. Our lives would be much improved is we controlled them. Joyce Meyer discusses the way that the brain processes and stores memories and thoughts, and then - emotion by emotion - she explains how we can manage our reactions to those emotions.
Best book about feelings and controlling emotions.
By Nestor Florez on 18-11-2018
Healing the Soul of a Woman
Internationally renowned Bible teacher Joyce Meyer draws on her own history of abuse to show women how Christ's redeeming love heals emotional wounds and brings joy to life.
Always in perfect timing
Worry-Free Living
Trading Anxiety for Peace
Difficult times are part of living in this world. However, God has provided a way for us to enjoy peace as part daily life. We can choose either to allow ourselves to be burdened with worry and anxiety or to live in the peace and joy that God wants for our lives. Joyce Meyer shows how to rely on God's strength during difficult circumstances by revealing the nature of God's peace as found in scripture. She explains how to trade anxiety for joy, develop a childlike attitude of faith, and give our worries to the Lord.
Some great practical advice for worry free living
100 Ways To Simplify Your Life
Many want a simple life, but find it difficult to actually live that way. They fight a constant battle to balance work, family, friends, and other demands on schedules stretched too thin. Joyce Meyer breaks it down to the simple principle of exercising faith rather than doubt and confidence rather than people-pleasing. She writes from her experience of struggling to balance work, family, friends, and all the other demands on limited time to show readers the simple answer to a simpler life.
My Time with God
Renewed in His Presence Daily
Over the course of three years, Joyce Meyer recorded in her journal the personal devotions and inspirations that guided her busy life. Those writings comprise My Time with God, the 365-day devotional that shares powerful insight into Joyce's spiritual reflections and journey. Each daily entry guides listeners through a narrative of meditations, an uplifting declaration, and relevant Scripture to encourage greater intimacy with God.
Find the Treasure Hidden in Every Day
Are you enjoying every day of your life? Or do you tell yourself and others that you will find happiness once you have achieved a specific goal or position? Jesus came so that you might have and enjoy life (John 10:10). In this compact abridgment, Joyce Meyer combines biblical principles with personal experiences to explain how you can enjoy every day on your journey through life.
Get Your Hopes Up!
Expect Something Good to Happen to You Every Day
One of the most powerful forces in the universe is hope - the happy and confident anticipation that something good is going to happen. Regardless of where one is in life, it is impossible to live successfully and to the fullest without hope. With Get Your Hopes Up!, Joyce will help listeners achieve a lasting sense of hope built on their faith in God. Hope is only as strong as its source.
Exceptional You!
7 Ways to Live Encouraged, Empowered, and Intentional
By: Victoria Osteen
Narrated by: Victoria Osteen
Become the exceptional person God has called you to be with these seven practices for living a fulfilled and plentiful life from best-selling author Victoria Osteen.
The Power of Simple Prayer
How to Talk with God about Everything
Have you ever really considered what prayer is and why you pray? Do you understand just how prayer impacts your life? In The Power of Simple Prayer, Joyce Meyer unravels the mystery of talking with God by explaining and exploring the different types of prayer.
Prayer is like breathing!
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Living a Life You Love
You may say that you love your family, your spouse, your church, or the Lord. You may also express love for temporal things like a good cup of coffee, your home, or a nice dinner at your favorite restaurant. But it is rarer to truly say "I love my life!" It's common to be more frustrated with life than at peace with it, because the daily grind wears you down. Responsibilities and burdens become heavy and rob you of the happiness you're meant to have as a child of God. But you can be hopeful, learn to rise above your challenges, and be filled with wonder at what God might do every day.
The Confident Woman
Start Today Living Boldly and Without Fear
Narrated by: Pat Lentz, Joyce Meyer
The Confident Woman is the culmination of a three-part message Joyce has constructed, drawing from her decades of experience interacting with and ministering to women. It is also the result of her personal journey from abuse and defeat to a confidence through which she is realizing her full potential.
Good Health, Good Life
12 Keys to Enjoying Physical and Spiritual Wellness
Based on her New York Times best-seller, Look Great, Feel Great, in this compact listen, Joyce Meyer presents her 12-key plan to address the "self esteem drought" which perpetuates the habits that cause poor health. As she explores each of the 12 keys for good health, she offers five methods for improving our physical and spiritual wellness. Additionally, Joyce provides helpful resources, like the "Ounce of Prevention Checklist," for self-maintenance.
They Shall Expel Demons
What You Need to Know About Demons - Your Invisible Enemies
By: Derek Prince
Narrated by: James Adams
In this practical, comprehensive handbook on deliverance, Prince shares his own struggle with demons and addresses the fears and misconceptions often associated with deliverance. Speaking from more than 30 years of personal experience in this ministry, Prince offers down-to-earth advice on how to receive and minister deliverance and how to remain free.
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God Turns Pressure into Power
By: T. D. Jakes
Narrated by: Brad Sanders
Follow God's process for growth and learn how you can benefit from life's challenging experiences with this audiobook by best-selling inspirational author T.D. Jakes.
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I have the actual book as well as the audio book. At times, I've followed along in my book while the narrator read aloud. I found that she misread some of the text, mispronounced some of the words, and had poor voice inflection...pausing at times in inappropriate places. The book itself is an amazingly wonderful resource. The narration of the audio version could have been better, but I'm still glad to have it.
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Author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Vincent Harding
Narrator: Coretta Scott King, JD Jackson
Publisher: Random House Audio
Genre: Social Science - Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
The last book written by King his final reflections after a decade of civil rights struggles
In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this significantly prophetic work, which has been unavailable for more than ten years, we find King’s acute analysis of American race relations and the state of the movement after a decade of civil rights efforts. Here he lays out his thoughts, plans, and dreams for America’s future, including the need for better jobs, higher wages, decent housing, and quality education. With a universal message of hope that continues to resonate, King demanded an end to global suffering, powerfully asserting that humankind—for the first time—has the resources and technology to eradicate poverty.
A King Legacy Series Book
Race Matters, 25th Anniversary
by Cornel West
The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introductionFirst published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than h...
Narrator: Cornel West
Black Detroit
by Herb Boyd
The author of Baldwin’s Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit—a blend of memoir, love letter, history, and clear-eyed reportage that explores the city’s past, present, and future ...
Narrator: James Shippy
Sundown Towns
by James Loewen
Professor emeritus at the University of Vermont, James W. Loewen won the National Book Award for his New York Times best-seller, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. Sundown Towns examines thousands of all-wh...
Narrator: Norman Dietz
Barracoon
by Zora Neale Hurston
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June 2005 - Volume 15 - Number 4
Solutions sought for excess manure piling up on farms
In the 1700s and 1800s, farmers sometimes couldn’t figure out what to do with all of the manure coming out of their animals. The waste would build up in barns until farmers would invite neighbors — usually with the inducement of plentiful alcohol — to a “dung frolic” to help clear the mess.
Others resorted to more drastic means. In 1825, one Pennsylvanian reported that “the dung has accumulated around some barns in such great quantities as to render access to them so difficult that they have been burned and new ones built.” ...
Options For Managing Manure Nutrients
A number of ideas for handling manure have emerged during recent meetings to develop a strategy for the watershed.
Adjust Animal Diets: Optimizing feed so that animals use, rather than excrete, more nutrients is one of the most promising and cost-effective options. The addition of the enzyme phytase to chicken feed has been highly effective at reducing phosphorus levels in poultry waste. A July 2002 report of the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology indicated that nitrogen reductions of 30–50 percent and phosphorus reductions of 40–60 percent are achievable by modifying diets without impacting animal health. ...
Backers explore options for John Smith historic water trail
Plans for a water trail retracing Capt. John Smith’s explorations through the Chesapeake four centuries ago appear to be gaining momentum, with the National Park Service and others expressing support for the concept during a Senate hearing in April.
The National Geographic Society, which is supporting the trail, highlighted Smith’s 1607-08 Bay explorations in the June issue of its magazine, and the governors of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware have signed a letter endorsing the project, along with the District of Columbia mayor and the chairman of the Chesapeake Bay Commission. ...
Support for Gateways Network grows; 7 new sites added
The National Park Service director, during a recent trip to Annapolis, indicated that there is continued support for the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network but stopped short of endorsing a new National Park focused on the Bay.
The remarks appeared to reflect the recommendations of a Park Service study completed last year that called for incorporating the Gateways Network as a unit in the National Park system.
But the report, by Park Service staff, stopped short of calling for an all-new park focused on the Bay or its watershed after examining numerous alternatives, in part because no suitable area or community stepped forward as a host site. ...
Virginia grapples with cost of cleaning all state waterways
While the cost of cleaning the Chesapeake Bay has gotten increased scrutiny in recent months, Virginia officials recently tabulated a related—and even more challenging—price tag: the cost of cleaning up all state waters.
The $12.5 billion tab goes beyond the nutrient reductions needed to achieve Chesapeake Bay water quality standards by also including the costs for meeting water quality standards in rivers, lakes and streams statewide.
Assistant Secretary of Natural Resources Russ Baxter recently presented the estimates to a legislative panel that was charged by the General Assembly to find ways to pay for the cleanups. ...
Pennsylvania voters saw green on environmental bond issue
Pennsylvania voters in May overwhelmingly approved $625 million in state borrowing to boost environmental protection, including the cleanup of rivers and streams, and to support farm and open space preservation.
“Voters made it absolutely clear that they want this investment to address some of the state’s most pressing environmental problems and help us win the race for new development and job creation,” said Gov. Ed Rendell.
Rendell had pushed for the bond measure, known as Growing Greener II, for more than a year, arguing that improving the state’s environment was critical to its quality of life and future growth. ...
Critical tool to protect farmland, open spaces in jeopardy
Congressional tax policy experts have proposed to sharply limit tax deductions for farmland easements, eliminating a powerful tool to curb the conversion of farmland into development.
If enacted, the recommendations of the professional staff of the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation would stymie efforts to reach a goal set by Bay watershed officials and advocates—to protect one-fifth of the farmland and other open spaces in the Bay watershed from development by 2010.
The report of the little-known Joint Committee, one of four Congressional committees made up of both senators and representatives, would prohibit farmers from deducting the value of their conservation easements from their taxable income if they planned to use their farms as personal residences. Conservation easements allow the farmer to continue planting and harvesting crops but typically prohibit development. ...
Scott Faber
Petition seeking federal protection for native oyster advances
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it would conduct a full review of the status of the eastern oyster along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts to determine if it warrants protection under the federal Endangered Species Act.
The May 24 decision by the NOAA Fisheries Service followed an initial 90-day review which concluded that a Maryland resident had presented “substantial scientific information” that action may be warranted. This will trigger a more detailed review by the service, which is expected to make a decision in January. ...
Early ariakensis research findings reveal mixed results, surprises
Preliminary findings from research projects taking place throughout the region show that the nonnative Asian oyster grows during more of the year than the native oyster species.
But research continues to raise questions about the suitability of the oyster in the Bay, as some studies hint that it may not survive in water with low dissolved oxygen or build reefs—an important Bay habitat—as well as the native oyster.
Those are among the preliminary findings mentioned in the first of a series of quarterly reports from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Chesapeake Bay Office that update ongoing research with the nonnative species Crassostrea ariakensis. ...
MD considers reeling in use of ‘nuclear’ worms
A nuke on a hook is OK for now, but its days may be numbered as state regulators consider banning certain nonnative live bait from Maryland waters.
The nuclear worm, a bright pink Vietnamese import up to 6 feet long, is among the species fishery managers consider potentially harmful, along with certain crayfish and the tiny organisms hidden in the packing material in which live baits are shipped.
No restrictions have been proposed, but the Maryland Department of Natural Resources has been talking with anglers about the issue at meetings across the state in the past two weeks. “The basic Maryland regulation is, if you can get something into the state, you can put it on a hook and use it as bait,” said Steve Early, an assistant director of the DNR Fisheries Service. ...
ASMFC taking comments on menhaden cap
Faced with concerns that the Bay’s menhaden population may suffer from “localized depletion,” the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission is moving forward with a proposal that may cap the commercial catch of the oily fish.
The commission, which manages migratory species along the East Coast, will decide in August whether to place restrictions on the industry after it takes public comments on a range of options this summer.
In May, it agreed to seek public comments on the possibility of setting a first-ever commercial catch limit in the Bay, whether the cap should apply only in the Bay or coastwide, and whether restrictions should apply only to the commercial fishery or cover the smaller bait fishery as well. ...
Scientists working to unravel mysteries of rockfish mycobacteriosis
These days, it seems that Andy Kane can find mycobacteria in fish just about everywhere he looks in the Chesapeake Bay.
It has turned up in many menhaden. And white perch. Even goldfish. And, Kane suspects, it may turn up in a good number of other fish species pulled out of the Bay.
“A lot of the data we are collecting are novel, in part, because no one has looked for it,” said Kane, who is the director of the University of Maryland’s Aquatic Pathobiology Center. “No one says that if you start looking, you may find it almost everywhere.” ...
SAV beds expanded in 2004, especially in Upper Chesapeake
Underwater grass beds last year rebounded from their losses of 2003, led by a strong recovery in the Upper Bay, which contained more of the vital habitat than anytime since annual surveys began two decades ago.
But the good news was not Baywide. The lower Bay suffered losses—thought to be caused by Hurricane Isabel, which hit in late 2003—and contained the lowest amount of grasses observed since 1987.
Overall, the annual aerial survey found 72,935 acres of grass beds in the Bay and its tidal tributaries during 2004, a 14 percent improvement over the previous year. ...
Chesapeake’s summer outlook: algae, low oxygen, more grass
By taking a look back at the past two decades, Bay scientists believe they may be able to see the future of the Chesapeake—at least for the summer.
But the outlook in their first ever “ecological forecast” isn’t a pretty picture.
They predict the fourth largest area volume of anoxia—water with no oxygen—seen in the past two decades.
They also predict a harmful algae bloom on the Potomac River that will cover at least 10 miles starting in June and last about two and a half months. ...
Every time she looked at her cows standing in Little Beaver Creek, Ruann Newcomer George knew she ought to do something to get the animals out of the water.
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To her surprise, the answers came by way of a family doctor—Michael Saylor—who, as president of the Beaver Creek Watershed Association, also keeps tabs on the health of the creek. ...
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Home World U.S. News How Ramen Noodles Becomes Most Popular US Prison Currency
How Ramen Noodles Becomes Most Popular US Prison Currency
According to a recent study, ramen noodles has become the most valuable commodity in US prisons overtaking tobacco.
The shift was a response to a decline in the quantity and quality of food on offer, the study says.
Study author Michael Gibson-Light said: “Because it is cheap, tasty, and rich in calories, ramen has become so valuable that it is used to exchange for other goods.”
According to US prison data, spending has not kept pace with the number of inmates.
Michael Gibson-Light said staff and inmates at the prison he visited said the amount of food being provided had decreased steadily over decades and warned the shift could have serious implications.
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“Prisoners are so unhappy with the quality and quantity of prison food that they receive that they have begun relying on ramen noodles – a cheap, durable food product – as a form of money in the underground economy,” he said.
“The form of money is not something that changes often or easily, even in the prison underground economy; it takes a major issue or shock to initiate such a change,” Michael Gibson-Light added.
The noodles are exchanged for goods including other food items, clothing, hygiene products and even services such as laundry and bunk cleaning, he said.
Other inmates use them as bargaining chips in gambling when playing card games or participating in football pools.
Ramen noodles are also replacing other traditional forms of prison currency, such as stamps and envelopes, the study found.
The shift was taking place across different groups within prisons and was not a response to bans on tobacco products within the prison system, Michael Gibson-Light said.
The researcher called for more research into what the reduction in food could mean for the care of prisoners.
All states spent about $48.5 billion on prisoners in 2010, 5.6% less than in 2009, according to the US Bureau of Prisons.
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David Organizes the Levites
1 When David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
(1Ki 1:33; 1Ch 28:5; 1Ch 29:22; 1Ch 29:28)
2 David1 assembled all the leaders of Israel and the priests and the Levites.
3 The Levites, thirty years old and upward, were numbered, and the total was 38,000 men.
(Nu 1:2; Nu 4:3; Nu 4:47; 1Ch 23:24)
4 “Twenty-four thousand of these,” David said,2 “shall have charge of the work in the house of the Lord, 6,000 shall be officers and judges,
(De 16:18; 1Ch 26:29; 2Ch 2:2; 2Ch 2:18; 2Ch 19:8; 2Ch 34:12; Ezr 3:8)
5 4,000 gatekeepers, and 4,000 shall offer praises to the Lord with the instruments that I have made for praise.”
(2Ch 29:25; Ne 12:36; Am 6:5)
6 And David organized them in divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
(Ex 6:16; Nu 26:57; 1Ch 6:1; 1Ch 6:16; 2Ch 8:14; 2Ch 23:18; 2Ch 35:4; Ezr 6:18)
7 The sons of Gershon3 were Ladan and Shimei.
(1Ch 26:21)
8 The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
(1Ch 15:18; 1Ch 26:21; 1Ch 29:8)
9 The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers’ houses of Ladan.
10 And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
11 Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons, therefore they became counted as a single father’s house.
12 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
(Ex 6:18; Nu 3:19; 1Ch 6:18; 1Ch 26:23)
13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron was set apart to dedicate the most holy things, that he and his sons forever should make offerings before the Lord and minister to him and pronounce blessings in his name forever.
(Ex 6:20; Ex 28:1; Ex 30:7; Nu 6:23; Nu 16:40; De 21:5; 1Sa 2:28; Heb 5:4)
14 But the sons of Moses the man of God were named among the tribe of Levi.
(De 33:1; 1Ch 26:23)
15 The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.
(Ex 2:22; Ex 18:3)
16 The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
17 The sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the chief. Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
18 The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.
19 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
(1Ch 24:23; 1Ch 26:31)
20 The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief and Isshiah the second.
21 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.
(Ex 6:19; Nu 26:58; 1Ch 6:19; 1Ch 6:29; 1Ch 24:26; 1Ch 24:29)
22 Eleazar died having no sons, but only daughters; their kinsmen, the sons of Kish, married them.
(Nu 36:6; Nu 36:8; 1Ch 24:28)
23 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
24 These were the sons of Levi by their fathers’ houses, the heads of fathers’ houses as they were listed according to the number of the names of the individuals from twenty years old and upward who were to do the work for the service of the house of the Lord.
(Nu 4:3; Nu 8:24; Nu 10:17; Nu 10:21; 1Ch 23:3; 2Ch 31:17; Ezr 3:8)
25 For David said, “The Lord, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people, and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.
26 And so the Levites no longer need to carry the tabernacle or any of the things for its service.”
(Nu 4:5)
27 For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered from twenty years old and upward.
28 For their duty was to assist the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the Lord, having the care of the courts and the chambers, the cleansing of all that is holy, and any work for the service of the house of God.
29 Their duty was also to assist with the showbread, the flour for the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baked offering, the offering mixed with oil, and all measures of quantity or size.
(Le 6:20; Le 6:21; Le 7:12; Le 19:35; Le 24:5; 1Ch 9:29; 1Ch 9:31)
30 And they were to stand every morning, thanking and praising the Lord, and likewise at evening,
31 and whenever burnt offerings were offered to the Lord on Sabbaths, new moons, and feast days, according to the number required of them, regularly before the Lord.
(Le 23:2; Le 23:4; Nu 28:11; Isa 1:13)
32 Thus they were to keep charge of the tent of meeting and the sanctuary, and to attend the sons of Aaron, their brothers, for the service of the house of the Lord.
(Nu 1:53; Nu 3:6)
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2 Hebrew lacks David said
3 Vulgate (compare Septuagint, Syriac); Hebrew to the Gershonite
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Lee Ann Roripaugh
Southern Illinois University Press, 2004
Library of Congress PS3568.O717Y43 2004 | Dewey Decimal 811.54
In her second collection of poems, Lee Ann Roripaugh probes themes of mixed-race female identities, evoking the molting processes of snakes and insects who shed their skins and shells as an ongoing metaphor for transformation of self. Intertwining contemporary renditions of traditional Japanese myths and fairy tales with poems that explore the landscape of childhood and early adolescence, she blurs the boundaries between myth and memory, between real and imagined selves. This collection explores cultural, psychological, and physical liminalities and exposes the diasporic arc cast by first-generation Asian American mothers and their second-generation daughters, revealing a desire for metamorphosis of self through time, geography, culture, and myth.
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The Young Composers: Composition's Beginnings in Nineteenth-Century Schools
Lucille M. Schultz
Library of Congress PE1405.U6S38 1999 | Dewey Decimal 808.042071073
Lucille M. Schultz's The Young Composers: Composition's Beginnings in Nineteenth-Century Schools is the first full-length history of school-based writing instruction. Schultz demonstrates that writing instruction in nineteenth-century American schools is much more important in the overall history of writing instruction than we have previously assumed.
Drawing on primary materials that have not been considered in previous histories of writing instruction—little-known textbooks and student writing that includes prize-winning essays, journal entries, letters, and articles written for school newspapers—Schultz shows that in nineteenth-century American schools, the voices of the British rhetoricians that dominated college writing instruction were attenuated by the voice of the Swiss education reformer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. Partly through the influence of Pestalozzi's thought, writing instruction for children in schools became child-centered, not just a replica or imitation of writing instruction in the colleges.
It was also in these nineteenth-century American schools that personal or experience-based writing began and where the democratization of writing was institutionalized. These schools prefigured some of our contemporary composition practices: free writing, peer editing, and the use of illustrations as writing prompts. It was in these schools, in fact, where composition instruction as we know it today began, Schultz argues.
This book features a chapter on the agency of textbook iconography, which includes illustrations from nineteenth-century composition books as well as a cultural analysis of those illustrations. Schultz also includes a lengthy bibliography of nineteenth-century composition textbooks and student and school newspapers.
You've Got to Be Carefully Taught: Learning and Relearning Literature
Jerome Klinkowitz. Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut
Library of Congress PE64.K56A3 2001 | Dewey Decimal 820.711
Drawing on his own experience in the profession, veteran English professor and internationally renowned scholar Jerome Klinkowitz sorts out the wrong ways of teaching literature before devising a new, successful method. Specifically, he concludes that a historically based “story of English” is precisely the wrong narrative approach to making sense of what literature does. Instead, Klinkowitz proposes a new method focused not on the product of literary writing but on the process of writing. Long involved with the making of contemporary literature, Klinkowitz shows how his classroom approach draws on the same strengths and inspirations writers use in the creation of literature. He involves students in the literary work as production.
Despite almost universal agreement that literary studies fail both writers and students, solutions have been limited to suggestions by superstar theorists teaching cream-of-the-crop students at elite universities. Klinkowitz aims not at the elite but at the ordinary student in an introduction to literature class. His goal is to introduce teachers to a new philosophy of teaching literature and to further deepen students’ natural love for the subject. He also seeks to revive the love of fine writing in those whose joy in the subject fell victim to obtuse teaching methods. Uniquely, his is not an esoteric theory developed by the best academics for elite students but a commonsense approach that works well in the kind of schools most students attend.
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National Haemovigilance
The National Blood Authority (NBA) has developed reporting and governance frameworks for the National Haemovigilance Program for Australia. It reports on serious transfusion related adverse events occurring in some public and private hospitals.
National Safety and Quality Health Service Standard 7 on Blood and Blood Products requires health service organisations to participate in haemovigilance activities conducted by the organisation or state or national levels and to ensure that adverse events are included in incident management and investigation systems. If you need to contact a state or territory health department, please use the links below.
The NBA’s national haemovigilance program is informed by the Haemovigilance Advisory Committee (HAC). The HAC comprises experts in transfusion medicine, science, nursing and epidemiology from both the private and public health care sectors. This group provides advice to governments on adverse event reporting originating from health service organisations and on national transfusion safety priorities.
The HAC Terms of Reference (TOR) (201.85 KB) document details the governance arrangements for HAC. The membership is included in the HAC Membership (63.62 KB) document. The HAC TOR is approved by the NBA’s Acting General Manager on behalf of the Jurisdictional Blood Committee.
Haemovigilance Program
A recommendation in the Australian Haemovigilance Report 2013 was to “Conduct a scoping exercise for a national haemovigilance system”. In response to the recommendation, the NBA developed an options paper for consideration by the HAC and the Jurisdictional Blood Committee (JBC). The outcome from that consultation is the Strategic Framework for the National Haemovigilance Program (Strategic Framework), endorsed by the JBC in September 2014.
The Strategic Framework redefines the scope of national haemovigilance arrangements to emphasise activities that contribute to national standardisation, but suspends further work to develop a national IT system solution at this time. Although the NBA will not host a National Haemovigilance reporting IT system, the NBA will continue to collect, analyse and report haemovigilance data received from state and territories at the level defined in the National Haemovigilance Data Dictionary.
Strategic Framework for the National Haemovigilance Program (pdf) (486.35 KB)
Strategic Framework for the National Haemovigilance Program (docx) (1.04 MB)
National Haemovigilance Report
Australian Haemovigilance Report - Data for 2015-16
The Australian Haemovigilance Report Data for 2015–16 was released in June 2019 and provides information on transfusion and donation related adverse events between July 2015 and June 2016. When using the data from this report it is important to note that it has quality issues in relation to data completeness, standardisation and relevance. Australia has a voluntary reporting process at a national level and therefore the report does not include a complete data setData in this report are in accordance with the National Blood Authority National Haemovigilance Data Dictionary (NHDD) 2010.
Australian Haemovigilance Report 2018 (pdf) (4.13 MB)
The Australian Haemovigilance Report Data for 2014–15 was released in June 2019 and provides information on transfusion and donation related adverse events between July 2014 and June 2015. When using the data from this report it is important to note that it has quality issues in relation to data completeness, standardisation and relevance. Australia has a voluntary reporting process at a national level and thereforehe report does not include a complete data set. Data in this report are in accordance with the National Blood Authority National Haemovigilance Data Dictionary (NHDD) 2010.
The Australian Haemovigilance Report Data for 2013–14 was released in August 2016provides information on transfusion and donation related adverse events between July 2013 and June 2014. For the first time the report includes the analysis of transfusion related serious adverse events. When using the data from this report it is important to note that it has quality issues in relation to data completeness, standardisation and relevance. Australia has a voluntary reporting process at a national level and therefore will not be a complete data set.
Australian Haemovigilance Report 2016 (docx) (6.1 MB)
Australian Haemovigilance Report - Data for 2011-12 and 2012-13
The Australian Haemovigilance Report Data for 2011-12 and 2012-13 was released in July 2015 and was developed by the NBA following receipt of data from states and territories. The report has been reviewed by the Haemovigilance Advisory Committee (HAC). This report provides information on transfusion-related adverse events between July 2011 and June 2013 and donation-related adverse events between July 2012 and June 2013. Australia has a voluntary reporting process at a national level and therefore will not be a complete dataset.
Read the online version of the Australian Haemovigilance Report 2015
Australian Haemovigilance Report – Data for 2009-10 and 2010-11
The Australian Haemovigilance Report was developed by the NBA in conjunction with the Haemovigilance Advisory Committee (HAC), and describes adverse transfusion events reported during 2009-10 and 2010-11. This report was released in October 2013 and also includes, for the first time, a section on donor vigilance provided by the Australian Red Cross Blood Service. Australia has a voluntary reporting process at a national level and therefore the report does not include a complete data set.
Australian Haemovigilance Report 2013 - Frequently Asked Questions (pdf) (215.22 KB)
Australian Haemovigilance Report 2013 - Frequently Asked Questions (docx) (153.35 KB)
Australian Haemovigilance Report – Data for 2008-09
The Australian Haemovigilance Report Data for 2008-09 was released in July 2010 and was developed by the NBA in conjunction with the Haemovigilance Advisory Committee (HAC) and describes adverse transfusion events reported in a number of States and Territories during July 2008 – June 2009. Australia has a voluntary reporting process at a national level and therefore the report does not include a complete data set.
Initial Australian Haemovigilance Report
The Initial Australian Haemovigilance Report was developed by the NBA in conjunction with the Haemovigilance Project Working Group (HPWG) and was released in February 2008. It describes adverse transfusion events reported in a number of States and Territories over three-to-five years. Australia has a voluntary reporting process at a national level and therefore the report does not include a complete data set.
Initial Australian Haemovigilance Report 2008 (pdf) (558.3 KB)
Australian Haemovigilance Minimum Data Set
The Australian Haemovigilance Minimum Data Set (AHMDS) enables consistent data collection and analysis of transfusion related adverse events to improve the quality of national haemovigilance reporting. The AHMDS was developed based on the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) Metadata Online Registry (METeOR) format and the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) standard haemovigilance definitions where possible. If these were not available from these sources then the Haemovigilance Advisory Committee agreed the definitions and standards. This second edition supersedes the first edition from 2016-17.
The Australian Haemovigilance Minimum Data Set (pdf) (2.15 MB)
The Australian Haemovigilance Minimum Data Set (docx) (939.17 KB)
The first edition of AHMDS (National Haemovigilance Data Dictionary) was published in 2010.
National Haemovigilance Data Dictionary 2010 (pdf) (281.71 KB)
Email haemovigilance@blood.gov.au
Australian Haemovigilance Information and Programs
NSW Clinical Excellence Commission - The key role of the Clinical Excellence Commission is building capacity for quality and safety improvements in Health Services, including promoting and supporting improvement in clinical quality and safety in public and private health services.
NSW Health Blood Watch - A program initiated by the NSW Clinical Excellence Commission as a state-wide transfusion medicine improvement program. The web site contains information and resources for consumers and hospitals.
Queensland Blood Management Program - A program established to ensure the Queensland Government meets its obligations under the National Blood Agreement. It provides links to fact sheets, guidelines and business initiatives related to the management of blood and blood products.
Queensland Health Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Service - A service designed to maximise best-practice outcomes and minimise patient harm by providing support to Queensland Health.
South Australian Department of Health BloodSafe Program - BloodSafe is a blood transfusion safety and quality improvement collaboration between the South Australian Department of Health, Transfusion Medicine Services of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service and South Australian public and private hospitals and their transfusion service providers. The web site includes a set of tools, resources and links for clinicians and consumers.
Victorian Blood Matters Serious Transfusion Incident Reporting (STIR) system - A Victorian state government program aims to support and enhance best practice in patient blood management (PBM), and the stewardship of blood and blood products, for improved patient outcomes in Victorian health services.. The web site provides consumer information, tools, audits and reports on transfusion incidents.
International Haemovigilance Information and Programs
International Haemovigilance Network - The International Haemovigilance Network (IHN) provides a forum for sharing best practice and benchmarking of data, as well as providing a resource for existing and new haemovigilance systems. This IHN web site provides access to documents, news, links and contact details for the network. IHN holds an annual haemovigilance seminar for member countries and researchers. The latest program and presentations can be found at http://ihs-seminar.org/programme.
International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) - The International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) is the premier international professional society for the field encompassing transfusion and transplantation science and medicine. The ISBT web site provides access to ISBT events and congresses, publications, working parties, news, membership and history information.
WHO Haemovigilance Program - This web site provides access to haemovigilance definitions, guidelines, global consultations, global databases on blood safety and contact information for the program.
New Zealand Blood Service. Haemovigilance Program - This link enables users to read and download the Haemovigilance newsletter, notification form and user guide as well as the Haemovigilance Program annual reports. These reports provide information on the adverse events associated with transfusion in New Zealand. They assist health professionals to better understand the risks associated with transfusion and to communicate these to potential recipients.
Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT) (UK) - This site provides an overview of the UK Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT) program. Annual Haemovigilance reports can be found under the 'SHOT Reports and Summaries' tab located on the left hand side of the screen.
Transfusion Transmitted Injuries Surveillance System (TTISS) (Canada) - This site provides an overview of the Canadian Transfusion Transmitted Injuries Section. Annual Haemovigilance reports can be found under 'National TTI Surveillance System (TTISS) - Program Reports'.
Transfusion Quality Management (TRaQ) Program (Canada) - The TRaQ program promotes quality improvement among transfusion medicine professionals through timely sharing of education and quality management information related to current practices and guidelines in transfusion medicine. This web site includes access to TRaQ manuals, education tools and a resource library.
U.S Biovigilance Network - This site provides information on the U.S haemovigilance system, including background on the network, a list of organizations currently contributing data, related news coverage, and contact information for those interested in learning more about the network or haemovigilance.
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The Scholar: A Novel (Paperback)
By Dervla McTiernan
(MYSTERY)
The second in the Cormac Reilly series, this smartly-constructed police procedural also reads well on its own. A grisly hit-and-run on the Galway University campus sees DS Reilly heading rapidly into professional and personal crisis as his hunt for the killer leads him uncomfortably close to home. With its believable cast of characters, this series makes a good itch-scratcher for Tana French fans impatiently awaiting The Witch Elm’s paperback release.
— Ilanna
From the author of The Ruin comes a compulsive new crime thriller set in the fiercely competitive, cutthroat world of research and academia, where the brightest minds will stop at nothing to succeed.
When Dr. Emma Sweeney stumbles across the victim of a hit-and-run outside Galway University early one morning, she calls her boyfriend, Detective Cormac Reilly, bringing him first to the scene of a murder that would otherwise never have been assigned to him. The dead girl is carrying an ID that will put this crime at the center of a scandal--her card identifies her as Carline Darcy, heir apparent to Darcy Therapeutics, Ireland's most successful pharmaceutical company. Darcy Therapeutics has a finger in every pie, from sponsoring university research facilities to funding political parties to philanthropy--it has even funded Emma's own ground-breaking research.
As the murder investigation twists in unexpected ways and Cormac's running of the case comes under scrutiny from the department and his colleagues, he is forced to question himself and the beliefs that he has long held as truths. Who really is Emma? And who is Carline Darcy?
A gripping and atmospheric follow-up to The Ruin, an "expertly plotted, complex web of secrets that refuse to stay hidden" (Karen Dionne, author of The Marsh King's Daughter), The Scholar is perfect for fans of Tana French and Flynn Berry.
Dervla McTiernan was born in Ireland and now lives with her family in Australia, where she works for the Mental Health Commission. She is also the author of The Ruin.
A Better Homes and Gardens "Best Books to Read This April"
"Tightly plotted, fast-paced read with enough twists to keep you guessing right to the end."
"There are shades of Ross Macdonald in McTiernan's sophomore novel: an austere patriarch, successive generations of a family manifesting the same flawed gene, a self-crippling lust for power, money, and status. . . . A complex, densely plotted murder investigation."
“Fans of Irish cop novels, like those by Adrian McKinty, will be happy to discover this up-and-coming author.”
“The complexities of the relationships within the [police] department, and the tensions between Reilly and Emma, are rich enough to carry the reader through this story and into the next one. McTiernan’s cautionary tale about money, prestige, and the secretive world of pharmaceutical research will resonate with many.”
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PBC on NBC Preview: Browne v. Kalajdzic, Cunningham v. Glowacki & Spence Jr. v. Algieri
By: Matthew N. Becher
This Saturday, Premier Boxing Champions will present an exciting boxing card from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Packed with Olympians, former titlist and the WBO Cruiserweight champion. Teammates on the 2012 US Olympic team Errol Spence Jr. and Marcus Browne will reunite and put their undefeated records on the lines against each owns respected opponents. While the Co-Main event will see the return of former two time Cruiser weight world champion Steve “USS” Cunningham, in his first fight back from a brief stint at heavyweight, he will attempt to win back a world title against the undefeated Kzysztof Glowacki.
Marcus Browne (17-0 13KO) vs. Radivoje Kalajdzic (21-0 14KO): Light Heavyweight
Marcus Browne is a 25 year old, undefeated Southpaw, who was a member of the 2012 US Men’s Olympic team. Browne has an impressive record and has faced some tough fighters on his quick rise up the light heavyweight division. He fought four times in 2015, winning all of his fights, including a knockout out of former titlist Gabriel Campillo and retiring veteran Aaron Pryor Jr. Browne has a very good amateur background and knows how to box, but he also carries heavy hands, with 13 of his 17 wins coming by way of the knockout.
Kalajdzic is also a young, undefeated fighter, with heavy hands. His opponents have not been up to the same standard as Browne’s, but Kalajdzic possesses stopping power in his right hand and he will look for the upset on Saturday night. Kalajdzic also fought 4 times last year with wins over Larry Pryor, William Johnson, Gilberto Domingos, and Fabio Garrido. This would be a big upset if Kalajdzic could pull it off, but he is undefeated and relatively unknown. This would be his chance to show what he is made out of on national television.
Krzysztof Glowacki (25-0 16KO) vs. Steve Cunningham (28-7-1 13KO): WBO Cruiserweight Title
Cunningham first became a world champion in 2007, traveling to Poland and winning a Majority decision against Krzysztof Wlodarczyk. He defended that title against Marco Huck and ended up losing the title to Tomasz Adamek in 2008. He regained it 3 years later in Germany against Troy Ross, before losing it to eventual lineal champion Yoan Pablo Hernandez. After that fight, Cunningham decided to make a run at the heavyweight titles. Even though he was much smaller than his competition, Cunningham stayed in the division for three years, going 4-3-1, with wins over Manuel Quezada, Amir Mansour, Natu Visinia and a draw with Antonio Tarver. Cunningham was never able to put on enough weight to fully compete in the division against the very large men and decided to come back down to his natural Cruiserweight division and attempt to become a 3 time world champ.
Glowacki is a 29 year old who is coming off the biggest fight of his life. In August of last year, he ended a historic championship run by Marco Huck, coming from behind and picking himself off the canvas to Knockout Huck in incredible fashion in the final round of their “fight of the year” candidate match. Last year’s fight against Huck was Glowacki’s first fight outside of his native Poland and he proved his mettle. This has the promise to be a very exciting fight, with an old and young champion coming to stop the other with a possible unification bout later this year.
Errol Spence Jr. (19-0 16KO) vs. Chris Algieri (21-2 8KO): Welterweight
Chris Algieri is the former WBO Jr. Welterweight champion of the world. He won that title after upsetting hard hitting Russian Ruslan Provodnikov. That night certainly changed Algieri’s life forever. After hitting the deck twice in the first round and his eye swelling completely shut, Algieri proved that he could not only re adjust to a fight in very quick fashion, but that he had the heart of a champion. He turned that fight into a three year run that has seen him face Manny Pacquiao, lose a tough nosed brawl against Amir Khan, and then duke it out last year against a very game Erick Bone. Algieri has gone from the “underdog” to the “gate keeper” of the welterweight division. He will be Spence Jr.’s toughest opponent to date, and many think that Algieri could derail the former amateur standouts road to a title fight this year.
Spence Jr. is what many are calling the future of the welterweight division. Spence is a 26 year old southpaw that seems to have it all, the hand speed, footwork and power to give anyone from 140-154 trouble. Spence is riding a 5 fight knockout streak against Javier Castro, Samuel Vargas, Phil Lo Greco, Chris Van Heerden and Alejandro Barrera. Spence Jr. is a very exciting fighter, whose future looks extremely bright. He will be fighting a former champion against Algieri, and the two seem to match up well on paper. This is a big moment for Spence to shine on the big stage of a primetime nationally televised audience, and if he fights the way he is capable of, this could lead to a big fight later on this year.
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Midlands productions
Reporter: Steve Orme
Lewis Doherty takes his “explosive” debut show Wolf, bringing to life 30 characters, car chases and multi-man brawls, to The Door at Birmingham REP from Monday until Wednesday.
Peter James’ “spine-chilling thriller” The House on Cold Hill, featuring Rita Simons and Joe McFadden, gets into the right spirit at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Monday until Saturday.
Torben Betts’s comedy Caroline’s Kitchen, an Original Theatre Company presentation, tours to Northampton’s Royal and Derngate from Monday until Saturday.
Frantic Assembly’s The Unreturning by Anna Jordan which explores the profound effect that war has on young lives can be seen at Curve, Leicester from Tuesday until Saturday.
The Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield’s 70th anniversary celebrations continue with the Tabs Productions and Rumpus Theatre Company presentation of Alan Ayckbourn’s How The Other Half Loves from Tuesday until Saturday.
Bill Kenwright’s production of Willy Russell’s musical Blood Brothers, featuring Linzi Hateley as Mrs Johnstone, visits the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.
Green Day’s rock musical American Idiot rolls into Malvern Theatres from Tuesday until Saturday.
Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers head towards their tragic end in Contender Charlie and China Plate’s Romeo and Juliet: Mad Blood Stirring at the Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire from Tuesday until Saturday.
New Old Friends takes Crimes on the Nile, a comedy thriller featuring a Belgian lady detective who heads off on a boat trip which has deadly consequences, to The Theatre, Chipping Norton from Wednesday until Saturday.
Jonty Stephens and Ian Ashpitel pay homage to Britain’s best-loved comedy duo Morecambe and Wise in An Evening of Eric and Ern at Lichfield Garrick on Saturday.
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday.
The stage adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s young adult novel Noughts and Crosses continues at Derby Theatre until Saturday.
A new production of Joe Penhall’s Blue / Orange, his “searing dissection of institutional racism and mental health in modern Britain”, continues at Birmingham REP until Saturday.
Nick Hancock appears in Jack Milner and Mark Stevenson’s new comedy Octopus Soup! which continues at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry until Saturday.
Big Window Theatre’s If All the World Were Paper, a new play about friendship and falling out, for ages three to six, takes to the stage at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham on Saturday and Sunday.
Lori Hopkins tells the tale of Sourpuss, a very grumpy ginger cat, a show for three- to eight-year-olds, at mac Birmingham on Sunday.
Robin Hood and his merry men take on one of their hardest challenges in Oddsocks’ Robin Hood and the Revolting Peasants at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Sunday.
Nottinghamshire playwright Beth Steel’s Wonderland, which is set during the miners’ strike of 1984, continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday 23 February.
Northern Broadsides’ first performance of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing for 19 years continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 2 March.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Swan Theatre Kathryn Hunter takes the title role in Timon of Athens which continues until Friday 22 February and Molière’s classic Tartuffe is brought up to date in a new version by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto which continues until Saturday 23 February.
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BOR Goes to the Movies: ‘Starving the Beast’
By Lize Burr on September 16, 2016 Education, Home Page, UT Campus
Starving the Beast, the new feature-length documentary that premiered last March at SXSW about the state-level attack on public universities currently underway in the United States, opens in Austin this weekend. Directed by veteran documentarian Steve Mims (Incendiary), Starving the Beast is a must-see for all Texas progressives. Frankly, it may be the best issue-focused political documentary I’ve ever seen. (And trust me, with a graduate degree specializing in archival film and a past life in independent movie marketing and distribution, I’ve seen a lot of political documentaries.)
The film provides much-needed insight into what’s been going on in the Red States of America over the past ten years. Mims may focus on a single issue but he gives us the big picture. In fact, that’s what makes Starving the Beast so successful. The overview of the past decade’s various battles to defund and dismantle public universities serves as a lens on the conservative movement’s coordinated campaign to diminish public trust in government institutions and services. What’s worse, it’s an attack on institutions that both embody states’ pride and enable their future growth and well-being by graduating future leaders and innovators. They’re hitting us where it hurts.
The story hurts even more here in Texas because it started here. There is no Starving the Beast without Texas. That’s because there is no conservative movement to “disrupt” public universities without a disgruntled former UT faculty member, the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) and Rick Perry. The film opens with a recounting of the now infamous “Seven Breakthrough Solutions” for higher education that Rick Perry put into effect at Texas A&M in 2011 to disastrous results. It also recounts the showdown between former University of Texas, Austin president Bill Powers and UT Regent Wallace Hall, featuring interviews with both. (Powers spoke on a panel at the screening I attended in March and received a standing ovation from the audience. It was his first time seeing the film.)
The interviews that form the heart of the film are well-edited and easy to understand. Subjects range from the architects of the policy “innovations” and advocates for funding cuts to faculty and administrators fighting to preserve the academic standards and freedoms essential to university education and research. Plus, there’s James Carville to make sure you understand what the hell these guys are trying to do (and it seems like they’re all guys) while having a really good time. But even James Carville can’t turn this thing completely around. Ultimately, the film is chilling.
Starving the Beast comes as the Texas conservative power structure is gearing up for another go round on public universities. Dan Patrick has already started his campaign to eliminate tuition set asides that make college possible for thousands of lower and middle income Texas students to attend college, even though the legislative session is still four months away. His motivation seems to be to satisfy the complaints of his voters who are angry over increases in tuition (necessary in a state that keeps cutting funding for public universities, colleges and community colleges) in a way that doesn’t affect them personally (and has the added bonus of cutting “giveaways” that help people who don’t deserve them since they’re poor already, a sure sign of being undeserving for those who believe in the Gospel of Wealth).
The film also suggests a new line of attack, one that we may well see when session gets underway in January. In North Carolina, the legislature went after specific institutes and research groups that produced scholarship critical of state government policies. That’s right: they passed laws that made it more difficult, if not impossible, for individual professors to continue with their research as they’d been conducting it. It’s not hard to imagine a legislature stung by major setbacks (think SCOTUS decisions) to stifle any potentially critical evidence (especially since they’re supposed to show evidence supporting their legislative directives–think SCOTUS decision again). Ultimately, “disrupting” higher education looks as much like a drive to silence dissent as one to improve “value.”
Starving the Beast‘s Austin premiere comes the same week US News & World Report released its 2017 college and university rankings. The news is not good. UT fell four spots this year, going from #52 to #56 nationally, where it’s tied with SMU and University of Georgia. Judged against other “top public schools”, UT’s #18. Texas A&M is at #74 this year, tied with American University, Clark University, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Virginia Tech. A&M is #27 among top public schools. Those rankings would be hard to take in a state that truly cared about its public universities. Thank goodness we don’t live in one of those.
Starving the Beast plays at the Violet Crown in Austin starting Friday, September 16th. It premieres Friday, September 30th in Dallas and Houston. Dallas screenings will be at the Angelika Film Center. Houston screenings will be take place at Sundance Cinemas.
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25 daily habits that will make you smarter
Jenna Goudreau
Exercise your brain.
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Want to expand your mind? A little bit of effort every day goes a long way.
In the Quora thread, "What would you do to be a little smarter every single day?", readers shared the habits they follow to fuel their brains.
Here are some simple actions that could help you become a smarter person.
1. Come up with 10 ideas every day.
Think about how to reduce poverty, how to solve a daily problem you have, interesting movie ideas, or anything. It doesn't matter what subject your ideas fall into, as long as you're working your brain and your idea muscles. Your list might even lead to a new startup idea or writing subject. — Claudia Azula Altucher
2. Read the newspaper.
It will help you become more aware of the important things happening around the word. You'll learn to form your own opinions and connect the dots between seemingly unrelated things. You'll also have a lot more to talk about at parties or with friends. — Manas J Saloi
3. Play devil's advocate.
Take something you recently learned and generate a unique opinion on it that wouldn't immediately come to mind. Try to support it with evidence, and be open to the idea that new evidence will change your opinion. Repeat this every day, and you'll become much better at thinking outside the box.
If you're feeling stuck, try reading and critically evaluating the editorial section of papers. They will help you understand how other people form arguments and express their opinions. — Peter DePaulo
4. Read a chapter in a fiction or nonfiction book.
Aim to read a book a week. You can always find pockets of time to read, whether on your daily commute or while you're waiting in line. Goodreads is a great way to keep track of everything you read and to also find a community of other readers.
Fiction books are great for understanding characters and getting absorbed into another perspective, while non-fiction books are great for introducing you to new topics, from politics to psychology. — Claudia Azula Altucher
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5. Instead of watching TV, watch educational videos.
Sometimes, it's more fun to watch things about a subject you love than to read about it, and you can learn a lot from other people's experiences.
You can find fun, educational videos on Khan Academy or watch TED talks. You can also find good ones on Youtube's channel SmarterEveryDay. In videos, the information is often presented in a digestible, memorable way, so you can be assured they'll stick. — Hendrik Sleeckx
6. Subscribe to feeds of interesting information.
Follow interesting voices on Facebook and Twitter, so you'll always learn something new when you look at your newsfeed or dashboard. For example, if you want to keep up with the latest news in science and technology, subscribe to the "I F------ Love Science" page on Facebook. You can also follow email newsletters, such as Cal Newport's Study Hacks and Today I Found Out.— Saurabh Shah
7. Check in with your favorite knowledge sources.
Every day, scroll through Quora, Stack Overflow, specialty blogs, or any other sources that satiate your hunger for knowledge. This is an extremely easy habit, because other users are curating the content for you, so all you have to do is follow the ones who write about topics interesting to you. Try using Pocket to save articles for later reading, and then try to get through them before going to sleep at night. — Manas J Saloi
8. Share what you learn with other people.
If you find someone to debate and analyze ideas with, you can add to each other's knowledge and gain new perspectives. Also, when you can explain ideas to someone else, it means you've definitely mastered the concept. You can even share what you learn without directly talking to someone. Many people like to start blogs so they can engage others in online dialogue. — Mike Xie
9. Make two "To Do" lists: one of work-related skills you want to learn now, and another of things you want to achieve in the future.
Google Docs is a convenient way to keep track of your lists. For both, decide what you want to learn, compile sources that will teach you these skills, and then work on them each day.
For example, if you work in a computer-science related field, your first list might suggest you learn something new in Python one day or that you try using MongoDB another day.
For your second list, you can think about long-term goals, such as whether you want to go into marketing or architecture. Write down the small steps you need to take to reach that goal, whether it's by reading the experts in those fields or taking classes at a local college. — Manas J Saloi
10. Write an "I Did" list.
At the end of each day, write down what you completed. This will help you feel better about all the things you accomplished, especially if you're feeling discouraged. It will also help you reflect on how productive you were and how you can re-structure your to-do lists for the next day. — Claudia Azula Altucher
11. Start a "Stop Doing" list.
To clear out the mental clutter, take note of the mindless ways you spend your time. Break old habits, and make time for new, better ones. As Warren Buffett says, "The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful say 'no' to almost everything." — Shane Parrish
12. Write down what you learn.
You can start a blog or use an app like Inkpad to help you keep track of everything you learn. Not only will this be a great way to keep a record of everything you're doing, but it's also a good source of motivation to keep you accountable. You will want to learn more if you know that at the end of the day you'll have to write about it. — Manas J Saloi
13. Stimulate your mind.
Going on a daily run is a great way to get your brain flowing and to keep your mental health in shape. It's also a great way to think through difficult decisions or process new information. — Rick Bruno
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14. Take online courses.
Check out this list of the most popular online courses for professionals. Make sure you don't overload yourself; commit to one to two and truly focus on them. The syllabus will also keep you on track, so you know you will be doing something every day, whether it's listening to a lecture or working on an assignment. — Manas J Saloi
15. Talk to someone you find interesting.
Even if they're strangers, don't be afraid to approach them. Ask about their interests and how they discovered them. Oftentimes, you learn the most from people you barely know. — Manas J Saloi
16. Hang out with people who are smarter than you.
Spend as much time as you can with smart people. Every day, you should strive to have a coffee date or walk with someone who inspires you.
Always be humble and willing to learn. Ask as many questions as possible. If you are always around people who are more knowledgeable than you, you'll have no choice but to learn more. — Manas J Saloi
17. Follow your questions.
If you see or hear about something cool, don't just let the moment pass. Follow up — pursue your curiosity and find the answer to your question. — Mike Xie
18. Use a word-of-the-day app.
You will increase your vocabulary, which can help you in competitive tests like the SAT or GRE, or even just sound more eloquent in daily interactions.
You can also try to learn new vocabulary in a different language. Every day, try to add five to 10 more words to the foreign language you are trying to pursue. You can use LiveMocha, Basuu, or DuoLingo. — Manas J Saloi
19. Do something scary.
"Getting out of our comfort zone always makes us wiser." Every day, push yourself a little further. Try public speaking by joining a ToastMasters class, lead a meeting by volunteering a proposal at work, or reach out to someone you really admire by sending a quick letter or email. — Claudia Azula Altucher
20. Explore new areas.
If you can't travel every day, at least try to find something new within your hometown. You'll meet different people, learn new facts, and understand something new about the world. It's a lot more productive than staying at home and watching TV. — Manas J Saloi
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21. Play "smart" games.
Some games, like chess and Scrabble, expand your mind. Challenge yourself when you play them. For example, play Scrabble without a dictionary. You can also solve puzzles via games like Sudoku, 2048, and Doors. — Saurabh Shah
22. Set aside some time to do nothing.
Oftentimes, sitting in silence can help you get inspiration and reflect on your day. — Claudia Azula Altucher
23. Adopt a productive hobby.
If you have something you can work on every day, from knitting to fly fishing, you can actively learn more just from doing. For instance, you may try to play a new piece of music every day, read a physics textbook, write a few more pages in your novel, or learn a new computer skill. — Mayank Rajput
24. Apply what you learn.
If you recently learned a new coding skill or how to play an instrument, make sure you are using that skill in your life as often as possible. Learning by doing is one of the most effective ways to become smarter. — Himanshu Pal
25. Exercise and eat a healthy diet.
Opt for brain foods to fuel your thinking, and avoid alcohol and heavy meals that will make you sluggish. When your energy dips, take a walk. "The more blood flowing into your brain, the better your performance. Great thinkers like Mahatma Gandhi and Charles Darwin were famous for their long walks." — Janne Piiroinen
This is an update of an article originally written by Maggie Zhang.
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The Google Pixel 3 XL's camera is as good as everyone says it is — here's the proof
Connie Chen
Mar. 28, 2019, 9:54 AM
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The Google Pixel 3 XL ($860) is a sleek, powerful smartphone that offers many ways to streamline your life with Google.
Most impressive is its 12.2 megapixel camera, which will help you capture clear and beautiful photos.
The 6.3-inch display's crystal-clear resolution, durable construction, and longer battery life (compared to the Pixel 3) of the Pixel 3 XL are qualities any new user will appreciate.
Despite a couple drawbacks like a singular USB-C port, we highly recommend this user-friendly smartphone.
Camera quality is one of the top factors people consider when shopping for a new smartphone, and I get it. If I'm not messaging people, checking my social apps, or listening to music, you can bet I'm using my phone to take pictures.
Though my Samsung Galaxy S9 has impressed both me and countless friends with its strong camera, my recent spin with the Google Pixel 3 XL has me even more convinced of the photographic prowess and potential of smartphones today.
The Pixel 3 XL is perfect for photo and Google enthusiasts who like the size, display, and feel of a larger phone. It has its drawbacks and it won't come cheap, but you'll love its sleek design, ease of use, and healthy offering of customizable features.
The Google Pixel 3 XL at a glance: large, light, and sleek
The phone has a 6.3-inch display and an impressively light, slim body that feels comfortable in your hand. The 2960 x 1440 resolution and 523 ppi display is clear and crisp (great for video streaming), while the glass back, made with Corning Gorilla Glass 5, not only looks attractive but also resists scratches. The phone is also water- and dust-resistant, with an IP 68 rating.
The on-screen notch at the top of the phone is the subject of complaints from many other tech reviewers, but it personally didn't bother me too much. On the back is a responsive fingerprint sensor located as just the right position. Despite the nice look of the rest of the matte back, I'd still recommend getting a case because it can quickly collect fingerprint smudges.
Getting to know the Google Pixel 3 XL (emphasis on Google):
The phone runs on Android 9.0 Pie, so as a long-time Android user, I was able to get accustomed to the operating system quickly. But even if you're jumping ship from iOS, the user experience is intuitive and easy to grasp. To access the main menu of apps, you swipe up from the bottom. You can toggle between in-session apps by swiping left and right, then up to close it.
Since it is a Google phone after all, integration with your Google account(s) is a key component of the experience. Photos, Pay, and Drive are a few apps you'll probably use often, as they all make life a little easier. Your photos and files are backed up in the cloud, and it's okay if you leave or forget your wallet at home. Google Home is also pre-installed if you own a Google smart speaker and want a place to control all your connected devices.
The Google Lens in action.
Google Assistant will be your personal voice assistant, accessed by saying "Hey Google" or squeezing your phone, and you can create automatic "subscriptions" such as weather and stock market alerts to streamline your daily routine. Google Lens is also a cool feature. Like a visual Shazam, it makes use of the camera to help you look up products, books, places (landmarks, notable buildings), barcodes, and more.
The indisputable star of the Google Pixel 3 XL is the camera:
The Pixel 3 XL (like the Pixel 3) has a 12.2 megapixel rear-facing camera and an 8 megapixel front-facing camera. For those front-facing selfies, there's a wide-angle feature that lets you zoom out and squeeze more people into the frame.
Unedited photos taken with the Auto camera function on the Samsung Galaxy S9 (left) vs. the Google Pixel 3 XL (right). Though the differences are subtle, the Google Pixel 3 XL's image is more crisp and saturated.
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Just on Auto mode, photos turn out crisp and vibrant, but you can also adjust for brightness and lighting conditions, plus make use of Panorama, Portrait, Motion (live photos) and Slow Motion modes. Meanwhile, the special Night Sight mode makes the usually tricky task of shooting in low light a relative walk in the park.
A portrait mode to rival the iPhone's and excellent night/low light shooting features are even more reason to love the Pixel 3 XL's camera.
Other notable features of the Google Pixel 3 XL:
The phone has dual front-firing stereo speakers and three mics, so calls came through clearly and video sound was well-rounded. It comes with Pixel USB-C earbuds, which have good sound quality, but aren't very comfortable. I preferred using wireless Bluetooth earbuds or my wired Samsung ones.
To help you learn about your phone usage and cut down on unnecessary screen time, the Digital Wellbeing feature breaks down how you're using your phone, even telling you how many times you've unlocked your phone today. I didn't initially love being confronted with the realities of my phone usage, but it ultimately helped me put my phone away when I didn't really need it.
Another thing I've always appreciated about Android is how you can make the phone your own with all the different customizable settings and preferences, from widget arrangements to "Night Light" scheduling that makes it easier to look at your screen in dim light. At the same time, the Pixel 3 XL's custom options weren't so vast that they become overwhelming.
Since you use your phone a lot throughout the day, you're probably curious about battery life. The Pixel 3 XL has a 3430 mAh battery (compared to the Pixel 3's 2915 mAh battery) and charges quickly. Depending on your usage, it can last nearly two days. It charges with a USB-C charger.
Accessories include a USB-C to USB-C cable, USB-C 18W Power adapter, Pixel USB-C earbuds, USB-C to 3.5mm headphone adapter, and a SIM tool.
Drawbacks of the Google Pixel 3 XL:
The phone's singular USB-C port is one of my biggest gripes since it means you must use the included Pixel USB-C earbuds if not for a wireless pair. You could also attempt to find another brand's pair, but there aren't as many high-quality USB-C earbuds currently in the market. Luckily, Google stays practical and understanding of this inconvenience — it includes a USB-C to 3.5 mm headphone adapter in the package.
My other gripe is that the lock and volume buttons are located directly under each other, instead of on opposite sides. Even after some time using this phone, I couldn't seem to recalibrate and remember this arrangement. The reliable alternative, however, is the fingerprint sensor, and that always resolved my lock-button woes.
If you want a larger phone, plan on taking lots of pictures, and hate charging your phone often, the Google Pixel 3 XL is the smartphone to buy. It's powerful but simple and intuitive to use, and it has all the features to make you a Google power user. While large, it's also light and slim, so you won't feel saddled down by it.
Shop the Google Pixel 3 XL (Verizon), available in 3 colors, for $900 ($37.50/month for 24 months) at Best Buy here
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Career experts say asking these 8 questions at work will show your CEO that you're a born leader
Shana Lebowitz
Show the CEO what you're made of.
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Ask one of these eight questions during a meeting with your CEO, experts say.
You'll look smart, knowledgeable, and engaged.
Those questions include: "What does success look like for you?" and "Do you feel we could increase revenue by doing X?"
During a meeting with your CEO, it's tempting to stay silent for fear of looking stupid.
But if you feel you've got something to contribute, there's a simple set of guidelines that can help you figure out whether your question is worth asking.
According to Lynn Taylor, a national workplace expert and author of " Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant: How to Manage Childish Boss Behavior and Thrive in Your Job," your question should do at least one of the following:
Show your interest in the big picture
Show that you're a problem solver
Show that you're an innovator and someone who thinks outside the box
Business Insider asked Taylor and Michael Kerr, an international business speaker and author of " The Humor Advantage," for some examples of questions that meet these criteria. Below is a list of their best suggestions.
A word of caution: Before you ask your CEO anything, Kerr recommended asking yourself, "Are you just trying to show off and look smart? Or do you genuinely have a question that will move the conversation forward?"
"We've all been in situations where — maybe we're wrong — but we perceive that an employee is merely trying to show off with their question," Kerr said.
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So don't be that employee. Consider the ideas below the smartest ways to frame the questions you already have.
1. 'How can I be of greater help on that?'
This question accomplishes two things, Taylor said.
One, it shows that you think like an entrepreneur, as opposed to just a cog in a wheel. You're trying to go above and beyond your stated job duties.
Two, it shows that you have leadership potential because you're putting yourself in your CEO's shoes: What might they need from you?
If you feel uncomfortable singling yourself out, Kerr also suggested asking: "What can my team do to help contribute to the success when it comes to X project?"
2. 'It seems that ABC company is making inroads in the XYZ area. Do you feel that's one of our biggest competitive threats?'
You're demonstrating that you've done your research and you're aware of industry trends, Taylor said.
3. 'Do you feel we could increase revenue by doing X?'
You're showing you're both an innovator and a problem solver.
Make sure you've fully researched your proposal, Taylor said, and make a good case for it. Your CEO might press you for more details.
4. 'What might this mean for the future? Is this part of a longer strategic decision for us?'
This question would be an appropriate follow-up if your CEO has just mentioned something about expanding overseas or another big company change.
You'll wind up making your CEO look good because they get to talk about their long-term plans for the organization. In turn, they'll think highly of you.
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5. 'Have you thought about John for this task?'
This way, Taylor said, you're showcasing your ability to tap into emerging talent for existing company needs. Again, it's about leadership potential.
Note that you don't have to be John's manager to make this suggestion. If John happened to tell you the other day that he'd be interested in a certain opportunity, feel free to recommend him for a related task.
If you haven't yet asked John about this particular opportunity, you can always say, "I don't know how he feels about it yet, but it just seems to be that he has really great skills [in this area]."
6. 'I can see how this idea is really, really going to help my department. But I'm a little concerned about how this might impact our salespeople. Do we have a strategy to [work with them]?'
Kerr said you're demonstrating concern for your entire company, as opposed to your team alone, which means you're thinking like a leader.
"CEOs are driven nuts by people working in those dreaded silos," he said.
7. 'What does success look like for you?'
You can pose this question to your CEO when the company is embarking on a major change or new project, Kerr said.
Alternatively, you can ask, "How do you think we should collectively define success?"
Read more: A former Googler and Facebook exec says asking your boss this simple question when you start a new job is the best way to ensure success from the get-go
8. 'What question do you think we need to be asking that we haven't asked already?'
You might not want to ask this question in a company-wide meeting, Kerr said. But in a smaller meeting, it could be a very smart question, prompting bigger-picture and more creative thinking.
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Upping the Ante: Soulless City show the LoI that money isn’t everything
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Precious as silver, vanilla brings cash and crime to Madagascar
Fri, Aug 31, 2018 - 1:30 PM
Bright moonlight reflected off broad banana leaves, but it was still hard to see the blue twine laced through the undergrowth, a tripwire meant to send the unwary tumbling to the ground.
[SAMBAVA, MADAGASCAR] Bright moonlight reflected off broad banana leaves, but it was still hard to see the blue twine laced through the undergrowth, a tripwire meant to send the unwary tumbling to the ground.
"This is the way the thieves come," said the vanilla farmer, lowering his voice and sweeping his flashlight beam over a ditch.
Each night the farmer, Ninot Oclin, 33, patrols his land in the foothills of a volcano in Madagascar, barefoot, with a bolt-action rifle slung over his shoulder. If he hears someone fall, he knows yet another bandit is trying to steal his lucrative crop of ripening vanilla.
The lush mountains in Madagascar's north-east produce about 80 per cent of the world's vanilla, one of the most expensive flavours. Its price has soared, reaching more than US$600 a kilogram last year, or about US$270 a pound - more than silver - compared with US$50 a kilogram in 2013.
Growing Western demand for the flavouring is partly driving the price spike, with vanilla used in everything from ice cream to alcohol to cosmetics. Supply was diminished by a cyclone that ravaged crops last year on the island, which lies off the coast of south-east Africa.
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With the perfect climate and soil for growing vanilla, the Sava region of Madagascar is in the midst of an economic boom.
So-called vanilla mansions have sprung up above traditional thatched grass huts. Even the humblest homes often boast solar panels and LED lights that make once-dark villages glow by night. Gleaming SUVs ply the broken streets of Sambava, the vanilla capital, where bustling markets line the roadsides.
The windfall, however, has come at a cost. Vanilla's high price, combined with rampant poverty and a corrupt, weak state, has made the crop a favourite target of violent criminal networks.
The story of the vanilla trade in Madagascar is one of dangers and rewards, and can be told through three vital links in the chain that delivers the flavour from the fields to port, where it is exported to the world.
THE PEASANT: GRUELLING WORK, ALWAYS ON GUARD
Most vanilla still comes from small farms, like Mr Oclin's, where the work is backbreaking.
Vanilla plants need to be nurtured for three to four years before bearing pods. The flowers bloom once a year for 24 hours and must be immediately pollinated.
Melipona bees in Mexico, where the Aztecs first used vanilla, originally did this job, but the insects never existed in Madagascar. So each season, about 40 million vanilla plants are fertilised by hand using a toothpick-sized wooden needle.
Once pollinated, a flower produces green beans within two months; the vanilla fragrance is tucked inside in thousands of little black seeds and an oily film. The beans begin fermenting once picked, so growers must quickly find buyers.
The hard work does not bother Mr Oclin.
"The problem is security," he said, explaining that thieves will attack and kill farmers for their vanilla pods.
So not only does he patrol his plot of about 3,000 vanilla vines, he pays three men to stand guard every night during the four months before the summer harvest.
The men are armed with double-pronged fishing spears and clubs, plus Mr Oclin's rifle. Each night, a vigilante group patrolling local plantations stops by with a half-dozen men armed with clubs and machetes.
"Every vanilla plot will be guarded," Mr Oclin said.
With little public trust in a corrupt police force and justice system, mob justice often prevails when a suspected thief is caught.
In April, a local militia captured a thief with a little over three pounds of freshly picked vanilla. He was beaten with sticks until he collapsed, then hacked to death with machetes, according to residents. It was just one of dozens of similar "vanilla murders" over the past two seasons.
But arrests do happen.
On one day this year, "we had 33 convictions," said Volozara Sakina Mohamady, the director of the prison in Antalaha, one of the Sava region's main ports. "Mostly for vanilla."
Despite the risks, Mr Oclin has seen a small payoff from the vanilla trade. He now has a smartphone and a Facebook account, and his one-room home has a TV and satellite dish powered by solar energy.
THE MIDDLEMAN: 'WITH VANILLA, LIFE IS SWEET'
In Sambava, in the shade of a mango tree, Pascale Rasafindakoto, 44, a "commisionnaire", or middleman, waits with dozens of his peers for lower-level sellers to arrive from the countryside with small plastic bags of vanilla beans.
The aroma, texture, and bean size (bigger is better) are examined and a price negotiated.
Sometimes, Mr Rasafindakoto ventures into the countryside in a battered car in search of deals. His trip back might include a forced stop at one of the frequent roadblocks, where the police expect a payoff to pass.
"I've never had any problems with gendarmes," he said smiling. "I work with them. I have to give them something so they are my friends."
With beans spoiling so quickly, growers have little bargaining power. They often get much less money for their beans than middlemen like Mr Rasafindakoto receive when selling the beans to a central curing facility.
"We've been poor for too long," said Dominique Rakotoson, 55, a longtime farmer in Sambava who represents 100 families of vanilla growers. "Despite the price hike, most farmers remain poor because they sell their crops right away, or too early."
Tales of commissionaires swindling growers abound. They also are widely accused of lowering overall quality by mixing good and bad vanilla.
"The middlemen is where the shady business goes on," Mr Rakotoson said.
Mr Rasafindakoto shrugs off talk like this. His family now has a new house with a flat screen TV and makes frequent trips to the beach to barbecue with friends.
The vanilla trade is hard work, he said, so why not enjoy the good times while they last?
"With vanilla, life is sweet," Mr Rasafindakoto said. "It has sped up and we can live it fully."
THE EXPORTER: 'IT'S LIKE COCAINE IN LATIN AMERICA'
Michel Lomone presided over his warehouse in Antalaha, watching a small army of aproned women curing, sorting and packing tons of dried vanilla into boxes for export to multinational flavouring and fragrance companies.
While wealthy by local standards, Mr Lomone's biggest concern is the same as Mr Oclin's: theft.
"There is no security of goods or of people," Mr Lomone said. "The system of justice is rotten. There's total impunity. It's like cocaine in Latin America. They get the little guys, but not the head."
Mr Lomone said hundreds of pounds of vanilla have been stolen from his warehouses over the years. All his employees are frisked when they leave work.
"The pods are so small and valuable it's easy to hide them," he said. "It's like with diamonds in South Africa."
Mr Lomone produces the highest quality "bourbon" vanilla, using a curing technique that takes months.
"Vanilla takes patience," Mr Lomone said.
This year, with supply less affected by bad weather, the price may dip, but vanilla's worth is expected to stay far above historical norms.
Mr Lomone said he was concerned about the boom's effect on local culture, with people doing whatever they can to get rich quick.
"Now in Madagascar, it's not a problem of poverty to eat, but of social poverty," he said. "It's about the competition to keep up with others making fast money. It's not good. We can't keep going like this."
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Eos announces London-Dubai service
11 Feb 2008 by Mark Caswell
Eos has announced the launch of daily flights from London to Dubai, and a new service from Stansted to New York Newark.
The airline says it will begin flying daily from London Stansted to Dubai International Airport on July 6 this year. The flights will compete with rival all-business class carrier Silverjet (based in Luton), which started a daily service to Dubai in November, (see online news September 19, 2007). Details of prices and flight timings have yet to be released, but the carrier says it will begin issuing tickets for the service next month.
Meanwhile, Eos has also announced a daily London Stansted-New York Newark service, to add to its existing 44 flights between Stansted and JFK. The new route will start on May 5, shortly after American Airlines begins its second daily flight between Stansted and JFK, on April 7.
AA’s two-class service on the route offers 30 angled lie-flat seats in business class (as opposed to the all-business class offering onboard Eos with 48 fully flat beds), but of course the former has advantages in terms of connections in the US, and the strength of its frequent flyer programme. Tickets for Eos Airlines' Newark route will be available from mid-February.
For more information visit eosairlines.com, americanairlines.co.uk.
Report by Mark Caswell
Tags: American Airlines, Eos
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Byers denies £100,000 Desmond donation sealed Express takeover deal
LONDON - Beleaguered transport secretary Stephen Byers has denied that porn baron Richard Desmond's £100,000 donation to New Labour influenced his decision on the takeover of Express Newspapers.
Speaking on 'Breakfast with Frost' yesterday, Byers, who was trade minister at the time of the donation in 2001, said that the decision came after he had made a statement saying that the Department of Trade and Industry would go along with the director general of fair trading's recommendations on which takeovers should be referred to the competition commission. This statement was made in 2000 -- before Desmond's Northern & Shell made a bid for Express Newspapers.
It was revealed on Sunday that Desmond had made the £100,000 donation in the run-up to the 2001 general election. Desmond had formerly been a Conservative Party donor. The Express supported Labour during the election.
Originally, Northern & Shell, which publishes the adult titles Asian Babes and Nude Readers' Wives, had offered the Labour Party free advertising space. However, Labour declined and asked for a cash donation. It is said that the money was later spent on ads in Express Group newspapers.
Byers is already facing calls for his resignation after telling parliament that the transport department's head of communications Martin Sixsmith had resigned. Sixsmith maintained, and was later vindicated, that he had been forced out of his job.
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EU says ready to launch U.S. trade talks, but without agriculture
By philip-blenkinsop April 15, 2019
Brussels | Reuters — The European Union is ready to start talks on a trade agreement with the United States and aims to conclude a deal before year-end, European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said on Monday. The EU approved two areas for negotiation, opposed by France with an abstention from Belgium. But agriculture was not […] Read more
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EU seeks to soothe U.S. by clearing soybeans for biofuel
By Jarrett Renshaw, philip-blenkinsop January 29, 2019
Reuters — The European Commission said on Tuesday it had concluded that U.S. soybeans can be used in biofuels in the European Union, part of the bloc’s push to improve strained trade relations with the United States. However, industry sources said it was unlikely to lead to a flood of additional U.S. soybean imports into […] Read more
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‘Buyer beware’ on Canada’s cheese concessions, EU exporters say
By Allison Martell, philip-blenkinsop September 13, 2018
Toronto/Brussels | Reuters — A trade deal meant to give European cheesemakers more access to the Canadian market is falling short of its promise in its first full year, government data show, frustrating the European industry, which blames a year-old Ottawa quota system. Under the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union, […] Read more
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EU nations back ban on all outdoor neonic use
Brussels | Reuters — European Union countries backed a proposal on Friday to ban all use outdoors of insecticides known as neonicotinoids that studies have shown can harm bees. The ban, championed by environmental activists, covers the use of three active substances — imidacloprid, developed by Bayer CropScience; clothianidin, developed by Takeda Chemical Industries and […] Read more
Germany swings EU vote in favour of glyphosate
By philip-blenkinsop November 27, 2017
Brussels | Reuters — Germany defeated its key EU ally France in a very tight vote on Monday to clear the use of glyphosate herbicide for the next five years after a heated debate over whether it causes cancer. After months of indecisive votes among the 28 member states in Brussels, Germany, whose Chancellor Angela […] Read more
EU delays decision on glyphosate
By philip-blenkinsop October 25, 2017
Brussels | Reuters — EU countries failed on Wednesday to vote on a licence extension for glyphosate, delaying again a decision on the widely used herbicide that critics say could cause cancer. The European Commission said in a statement the relevant committee did not hold a vote at a meeting and that it would announce […] Read more
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EU, Canada secure clearance to kick-start free trade deal
By philip-blenkinsop February 15, 2017
Strasbourg | Reuters — The European Union and Canada secured clearance on Wednesday for their contentious free trade deal and the removal of import duties that supporters say will boost growth and jobs on both sides of the Atlantic. The two parties can claim a success for their open markets policy after months of protest […] Read more
Key European body backs EU-Canada trade deal
By philip-blenkinsop January 24, 2017
Brussels | Reuters — A planned EU-Canada free-trade deal moved closer to reality on Tuesday after a key committee advised the European Parliament to give its backing after months of protests and heated debate. The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is seen as a test of Europe’s ability to forge future trade accords […] Read more
EU, Canada sign free trade deal but battle not over
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Brussels | Reuters –– The European Union and Canada signed a free trade agreement on Sunday that aims to generate jobs and growth though it must still clear some 40 national and regional parliaments in Europe in the coming years to enter fully into force. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed the treaty along with […] Read more
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Brussels | Reuters –– Belgian politicians failed to break their deadlock over a planned EU-Canada free trade agreement on Wednesday, but agreed to resume talks on Thursday in a sign they may be nearing a consensus that would keep the deal alive. The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), seven years in the making, is backed […] Read more
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You are here: Home / All posts / Knight Therapeutics CEO Jonathan Goodman is a genius, this investor says
Knight Therapeutics CEO Jonathan Goodman is a genius, this investor says
December 6, 2018 by Jayson MacLean
Jonathan Goodman
Specialty pharma company Knight Therapeutics (Knight Therapeutics Stock Quote, Chart TSX:GUD) has been trading sideways for over a year now, but shareholders should take heart — the company’s got a “genius” CEO in Jonathan Goodman who may need more time to develop the business at his own speed, says Lorne Steinberg, president and portfolio manager of Lorne Steinberg Wealth Management.
“Knight Therapeutics is run by the amazing Jonathan Goodman, and this is Jonathan’s second act after Paladin Labs, which was a mega-success,” says Steinberg, to BNN Bloomberg.
“About 60 per cent of the market cap is sitting in cash. There’s been some criticism about not spending the cash but Jonathan Goodman has proven himself to be such a brilliant acquirer and spender of money on drugs that he is a shrewd businessman who is undoubtedly waiting for right opportunities,” says Steinberg.
After floating above $10.00 for the first eight months of 2017, GUD has since fallen down to the low-$8.00 range where it has languished for the past 12 months.
In November, the Montreal-based company reported its third quarter 2018 financials, generating a top line of $3.2 million, a 73 per cent year-over-year increase, and net income of $12.9 million, a 260 per cent year-over-year increase. The company exited the quarter with $303 million in cash and cash equivalents.
Over the quarter, Knight announced the acquisition of the Canadian and Israeli licensing for diarrhea drug Mytesi from Jaguar Health, which will see GUD pay up to US$18 million in contingent milestones for the in-licensing and first negotiation rights for the Latin American market.
“I am pleased with our progress at building a specialty pharmaceutical company with products that make a difference in the lives of patients,” said Goodman, in the Q3 press release. “We have launched Probuphine, a novel option to assist in the national health crisis, opioid dependence. We continue to leverage our strong balance sheet to strengthen our pipeline of innovative products as evidenced with the licensing of products from TherapeuticsMD and Jaguar.”
Steinberg says that investors will have to play the waiting game on Knight.
“To own this stock, it’s not because of revenue growth at the present time, it’s because you believe in the genius of Jonathan Goodman and you think that they will spend the cash wisely,” he says.
“I actually do believe in [his] genius —we don’t own the stock at the present time because there’s a lot of stuff that has to happen, but I respect CEOs who are not influenced by the market but have a long-term outlook, and he does,” says Steinberg
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THE THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE
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Rep. Gregg Takayama, Chair
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Tomasky just wrote another hack article
In his latest column for the Daily Beast, Michael Tomasky makes at least three substantive claims that range from extraordinarily weak to flat-out wrong:
1. Tomasky claims that Clinton "has the strong backing of those who are the most dispossed and threatened," by which he means "mostly African American and Latino voters." But the polls indicate that nearly half of these people refuse to support her, and nearly 35% of them are actively opposing her by backing Bernie Sanders.
2. Tomasky claims that their support is justified by considerations about "electability". But in 2016, Sanders has consistently outperformed Clinton in polls head-to-head polls by an average of five points, and on the merits Clinton is an extraordinarily inferior matchup to Sanders.
3. Tomasky claims that we hear "so little about" Clinton's support among voters of color - but this is the opposite of true. On the contrary, it has become such a major narrative in the election that not only has the media coined a rhetorical shorthand for it - voters of color are her "firewall" - but there has in fact been a significant public backlash to the narrative by voters of color who support Sanders.
Again: these are, at best, openly disputed claims with little basis in fact. They're certainly important issues, and deserve more attention than just a passing reference; at the very least, a careful writer would defend them instead of simply asserting them. So why are they here? Why is Tomasky so eager to cram his writing full of dubious argument and demonstrable error?
The temptation is to insist that he's just shilling for Hillary Clinton, but it's actually even more ridiculous than that: Tomasky is just writing about himself. In the middle of one of the most hotly contested Democratic primaries in decades, with all kinds of grand questions about socialism, liberalism, class, race, and gender at stake, Michael Tomasky has now used his massive platform twice in the past month to write two columns insisting that he is not actually a shill.
The first came just a few weeks ago in An Ode To My Berniebro Trolls, where Tomasky insisted that "people can disagree with [Sanders] and not be monsters or corporate shills":
...that’s my take. It has nothing to do with loving Hillary Clinton or getting DNC talking points (by the way, I think Debbie Wasserman Schultz, payday-lender enabler, should resign from the DNC) or pining for invites to those mythic Georgetown cocktail parties that I get invited to maybe three times a year and go to maybe once. It’s just my take.
Evidently, however, this just wasn't enough - what this election really needs is yet another article explaining how Michael Tomasky is not actually a hack. That's why he rushes through the actually significant and important arguments in his piece. Obviously Sanders' supporters would respond that he is actually the defensive vote against a neoliberal centrist who will continue to wage war and gut welfare; obviously Sanders supporters would argue that his significant support among the poor, minorities, women, and the young also matters; obviously, they would also add that Clinton's central base of old rich white folks have less "skin in the game" than anyone.
But instead of engaging with these actual, substantive questions, Tomasky rushes past them to get to his personal concern: "Why is it we hear so much about [Democrats representing moneyed interests] and so little about [voters of color]?"
Presumbly, it's the second part of that question that we should actually care about - but it takes Tomasky eight paragraphs before he even mentions voters of color in his article. That's because he spends the first 500 words talking about the first part, scare-quoting "hack supporters" in the headline, dismissing criticism of "sellouts" as "a priori", and insisting that his politics actually come from "my core convictions" about offensive vs. defensive voting, etcetera.
Tomasky could have used his column to talk about voters of color, who they actually support, how the issues of electability bear upon their concerns, and so on - these are all weighty, fundamental issues that deserve more than a passing sentence or two. But instead, he's too busy relitigating the argument he made just a few weeks back; he only brings up voters of color as a way of proving that he's not a hack, and he drops them just as quickly, leaving objections like the ones listed above unanswered.
Unfortunately, for Tomasky, the more time you spend talking about whether or not you're a hack, the more decisively you settle the question.
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Vijayakumar S. Nair, S. Suresh Babu, K. Krishna Moorthy, S.K. Satheesh
Implications of multiple scattering on the assessment of black carbon aerosol radiative forcing
Abstract - The effects of radiative coupling between scattering and absorbing aerosols, in an external mixture, on the aerosol radiative forcing (ARF) due to black carbon (BC), its sensitivity to...
Hara, H., T. Kashiwakura, K. Kitayama, S. D. Bellingrath-Kimura, T. Yoshida, M. Takayanagi, S. Yamagata, N. Murao, H. Okouchi, & H. Ogata
Foliar rinse study of atmospheric black carbon deposition to leaves of konara oak (Quercus serrata) stands
Abstract - Dry deposition of Black Carbon (BC) to the actual leaves of konara oak (Quercus serrata) was evaluated in a foliar rinse method in an experimental forest in the suburbs of Tokyo, Japan...
Kompalli, S. K., S. S. Babu, K. K. Moorthy, M. R. Manoj, N. V. P. K. Kumar, K. H. B. Shaeb, & A. K. Joshi
Aerosol black carbon characteristics over Central India: Temporal variation and its dependence on mixed layer height
Abstract - In a first of its kind study over the Indian region, concurrent and extensive measurements of black carbon (BC) concentration and atmospheric boundary layer parameters are used to...
Hydrofluorocarbons & Alternatives
Zhang, J. & C. Wang
China's hydrofluorocarbon challenge
Abstract -
China should take more active participation in a prospective agreement on the global phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons.
Zhang, J. & C. Wang (2014) China's...
Xiang, B., P. K. Patra, S. A. Montzka, S. M. Miller, J. W. Elkins, F. L. Moore, E. L. Atlas, B. R. Miller, R. F. Weiss, R. G. Prinn, & S. C. Wofsy
Global emissions of refrigerants HCFC-22 and HFC-134a: Unforeseen seasonal contributions
Chi-Chuan Wang
System performance of R-1234yf refrigerant in air-conditioning and heat pump system – An overview of current status
Abstract - In this study, an overview of the system performance of R-1234yf in association with R-134a is carried out. Based on the existing researches, it is found that the COP and heat...
Carlos Sanz-Kock, Rodrigo Llopis, Daniel Sánchez, Ramón Cabello, Enrique Torrella
Experimental evaluation of a R134a/CO2 cascade refrigeration plant
Abstract - We present the experimental evaluation of a R134a/CO2 cascade refrigeration plant designed for low evaporation temperature in commercial refrigeration applications. The test...
Zhan, T., W. Potts, J. F. Collins, & J. Austin
Inventory and mitigation opportunities for HFC-134a emissions from nonprofessional automotive service
Abstract - Many vehicle owners in the United States recharge their vehicles' air...
Lee, B.-S., C.-B. Chiou, & C.-Y. Lin
Analysis of diurnal variability of atmospheric halocarbons and CFC replacements to imply emission strength and sources at an urban site of Lukang in central Taiwan
Abstract - Hourly atmospheric measurements of halocarbons and chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) replacements were conducted at an urban site of Lukang, Changhua, in central Taiwan from May to August, 2013...
Shenshen Su, Xuekun Fang, Li Li, Jing Wu, Jianbo Zhang, Weiguang Xu, Jianxin Hu
HFC-134a Emissions from Mobile Air Conditioning in China from 1995 to 2030
Abstract - Since 1995, 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (CH2FCF3, HFC-134a) has become the most important substitute of CFC-12 in mobile air conditioning (MAC) in China and MAC sector has dominated all...
In, S., K. Cho, B. Lim, H. Kim, B. Youn
Performance test of residential heat pump after partial optimization using low GWP refrigerants
Abstract - The present study aimed to improve the performance of the residential heat pump using R-32 and L-41b as a HFO blend after partial optimization by modifying heat exchanger and compressor...
Pottker, G., P. Hrnjak
Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Condenser Subcooling in R134a and R1234yf Air-Conditioning Systems With and Without Internal Heat Exchanger
Abstract - This paper presents an experimental study about the effect of condenser subcooling on the performance of an air conditioning system operating with R134a and R1234yf, under the same...
Charnay, R., R. Revellin, & J. Bonjour
Flow boiling characteristics of R-245fa in a minichannel at medium saturation temperatures
Abstract - This paper presents new experimental results concerning thermohydraulic characteristics of flow boiling at medium saturation temperatures. The experimental results were obtained in a...
Calabrese, N., R. Mastrullo, A. W. Mauro, P. Rovella, & M. Tammaro
Performance analysis of a rooftop, air-to-air heat pump working with CO2
Abstract - The air-conditioning sector for large buildings and shopping centers is developing a growing interest in...
Agarwal, R., & P. Hrnjak
Condensation in two phase and desuperheating zone for R1234ze(E), R134a and R32 in horizontal smooth tubes
Abstract - Condensation is usually assumed to begin when the bulk enthalpy reaches the saturated vapor enthalpy, which leads to discontinuity of heat transfer coefficient calculation in modeling....
Xu, Y., F. Chen, Q. Wang, X. Han, D. Li, & G. Chen
A novel low-temperature absorption–compression cascade refrigeration system
Abstract - This paper presents a novel absorption–compression cascade refrigeration system, which can reach an evaporating temperature of −170 °C. In the cascade system,...
Mota-Babiloni, A., J. Navarro-Esbrí, Á. Barragán, F. Molés, & B. Peris
Drop-in energy performance evaluation of R1234yf and R1234ze(E) in a vapor compression system as R134a replacements
Abstract - This paper presents an energy performance evaluation of two low-GWP refrigerants, R1234yf and R1234ze(E), as drop-in replacements for R134a. Tests are carried out in a monitored...
Joudi, K. A., Q. R. Al-Amir
Experimental Assessment of residential split type air-conditioning systems using alternative refrigerants to R-22 at high ambient temperatures
Steady state performance of residential air conditioning systems using R22 and alternatives R290, R407C, R410A, at high ambient temperatures, have been investigated experimentally. System...
Kroeger, T., F. J. Escobedo, J. L. Hernandez, S. Varela, Sonia Delphin, Jonathan R. B. Fisher, & Janice Waldron
Reforestation as a novel abatement and compliance measure for ground-level ozone
Abstract - High ambient ozone (O3) concentrations are a widespread and persistent problem globally. Although studies have documented the role of forests in removing O3...
Li, X., J. Liu, D. L. Mauzerall, L. K. Emmons, S. Walters, L. W. Horowitz, & S. Tao
Effects of trans-Eurasian transport of air pollutants on surface ozone concentrations over Western China
Abstract - Due to a lack of industrialization in Western China, surface air there was, until recently, believed to be relatively unpolluted. However, recent measurements and modeling studies have...
Ling, Z. H., H. Guo, S. H. M. Lam, S. M. Saunders, & T. Wang
Atmospheric photochemical reactivity and ozone production at two sites in Hong Kong: Application of a Master Chemical Mechanism–photochemical box model
Abstract - A photochemical box model incorporating the Master Chemical Mechanism (v3.2), constrained with a full suite of measurements, was developed to investigate the photochemical reactivity of...
Illingworth, S., G. Allen, C. Percival, P. Hollingsworth, M. Gallagher, H. Ricketts, H. Hayes, P. Ładosz, D. Crawley, & G. Roberts
Measurement of boundary layer ozone concentrations on-board a Skywalker unmanned aerial vehicle
Abstract - This study demonstrates novel measurements of in situ ozone (O3) concentrations and thermodynamics sampled on-board an instrumented Skywalker Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Small...
Cristofanelli, P., H.-E. Scheel, M. Steinbacher, M. Saliba, F. Azzopardi, R. Ellul, M. Fröhlich, L. Tositti, E. Brattich, M. Maione, F. Calzolari, R. Duchi, T.C. Landi, A. Marinoni, & P. Bonasoni
Long-term surface ozone variability at Mt. Cimone WMO/GAW global station (2165 m a.s.l., Italy)
Abstract - The Mediterranean basin represents a hot spot area for short-term O3 distribution and anthropogenic contributions to it. This is why we analysed in this work the surface O3 variability...
Chate, D. M., S. D. Ghude, G. Beig, A. S. Mahajan, C. Jena, R. Srinivas, A. Dahiya, & N. Kumar
Deviations from the O3–NO–NO2 photo-stationary state in Delhi
Abstract - A network of air quality and weather monitoring stations was set-up across Delhi, India, under the System of Air quality Forecasting And Research (SAFAR) project. The objective of this...
SLCP Impacts
Air Pollution & Health
Atkinson, R. W., I. C Mills, H. A Walton, & H R. Anderson
Fine particle components and health—a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological time series studies of daily mortality and hospital admissions
Abstract - Short-term exposure to fine particle mass (PM) has been associated with adverse health effects, but little is known about the relative toxicity of particle components. We...
Deffner, V., H. Küchenhoff, V. Maier, M. Pitz, J. Cyrys, S. Breitner, A. Schneider, J. Gu, U. Geruschkat, & A. Peters
Personal exposure to ultrafine particles: Two-level statistical modeling of background exposure and time-activity patterns during three seasons
Abstract - Personal exposure to air pollution is associated with time- and location-specific factors including indoor and outdoor air pollution, meteorology and time activities. Our...
Shen, H., S. Tao, J. Liu, Y. Huang, H. Chen, W. Li, Y. Zhang, Y. Chen, S. Su, N. Lin, Y. Xu, B. Li, X. Wang & W. Liu
Global lung cancer risk from PAH exposure highly depends on emission sources and individual susceptibility
Abstract - The health impacts of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), the most concerning organic pollutants, depend not only on the locations and strengths of emission sources, but...
Jill Baumgartner, Yuanxun Zhang, James J. Schauer, Wei Huang, Yuqin Wang, and Majid Ezzati.
Highway proximity and black carbon from cook stoves as a risk factor for higher blood pressure in rural China
Air pollution in China and other parts of Asia poses large health risks and is an important contributor to global climate change. Almost half of Chinese homes use biomass and coal fuels for...
Zanobetti, A., E. Austin, B. A. Coull, J. Schwartz, & P. Koutrakis
Health effects of multi-pollutant profiles
Abstract –The association between exposure to particle mass and mortality is well established; however, there are still uncertainties as to whether certain chemical components are...
Dholakia, H. H., D. Bhadra, & A. Garg
Short term association between ambient air pollution and mortality and modification by temperature in five Indian cities
Abstract - Indian cities are among the most polluted areas globally, yet assessments of short term mortality impacts due to pollution have been limited. Furthermore, studies examining...
Haines, A., K. L Ebi, K. R Smith, & A. Woodward
Health risks of climate change: act now or pay later
Intro - There is growing scientific consensus that climate change is happening, is largely human induced, and will have serious consequences for human health. The impact of climate change on...
Rosa, M. J., B. Yan, S. N. Chillrud, L. M. Acosta, A. Divjan, J. S. Jacobson, R. L. Miller, I. F. Goldstein, & M. S. Perzanowski
Domestic airborne black carbon levels and 8-isoprostane in exhaled breath condensate among children in New York City
Abstract – Background - Exposure to airborne black carbon (BC) has been associated with asthma development, respiratory symptoms and decrements in lung function. However, the...
Yang, C., A. Chen, R. Chen, Y. Qi, J. Ye, S. Li, W. Li, Z. Liang, Q. Liang, D. Guo, H. Kan, & X. Chen
Acute effect of ambient air pollution on heart failure in Guangzhou, China
Abstract – Background - Heart failure (HF) is a global public health problem of increasing importance. The association between acute exposure to air pollution and HF has been well...
Particulate Matter Air Pollution
Hasheminassab, S., N. Daher, B. D. Ostro, & C. Sioutas
Long-term source apportionment of ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in the Los Angeles Basin: A focus on emissions reduction from vehicular sources
Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) was utilized to quantify sources of ambient PM2.5 in central Los Angeles (LA) and Rubidoux, using the Speciation Trends Network data,...
Wang, Y., Q. Zhang, J. Jiang, W. Zhou, B. Wang, K. He, F. Duan, Q. Zhang, S. Philip, & Y. Xie
Enhanced sulfate formation during China's severe winter haze episode in January 2013 missing from current models
Abstract – A regional haze with daily PM2.5 (fine particulate matters with diameters less than 2.5 μm) exceeding 500 μg/m3 lasted for several days in January 2013 over North...
Ueyama, M., K. Ichii, H. Iwata, E. S. Euskirchen, D. Zona, A. V. Rocha, Y. Harazon, C. Iwama, T. Nakai, & W. C. Oechel
Change in surface energy balance in Alaska due to fire and spring warming, based on upscaling eddy covariance measurements
Abstract - Warming in northern high latitudes has changed the energy balance between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. This study evaluated changes in regional surface energy exchange in...
Wang, F., S. Yang, & T. Wu
Radiation Budget Biases in AMIP5 Models over the East Asian Monsoon Region
Abstract - The abilities of 27 Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Projection models to simulate the radiation budget (RB) over the East Asian Monsoon region (EAMR) are analyzed based on Clouds and...
Hutyra, L. R., R. Duren, K. R. Gurney, N. Grimm, E. A. Kort, E. Larson, & G. Shrestha
Urbanization and the carbon cycle: Current capabilities and research outlook from the natural sciences perspective
Abstract - This paper explores the urban carbon cycle from the natural sciences perspective, identifying key knowledge gaps and priority areas for future research. The combination of large,...
Salzmann, M., H. Weser, & R. Cherian
Robust response of Asian summer monsoon to anthropogenic aerosols in CMIP5 models
Abstract - The representation of aerosol processes and the skill in simulating the Asian summer monsoon vary widely across climate models. Yet, for the second half of the twentieth century, the...
Ovadnevaite, J., D. Ceburnis, S. Leinert, M. Dall'Osto, M. Canagaratna, S. O'Doherty, H. Berresheim, & C. O'Dowd
Submicron NE Atlantic marine aerosol chemical composition and abundance: Seasonal trends and air mass categorization
Abstract - Three years of continuous Aerosol Mass Spectrometry measurements at the Mace Head Global Atmosphere Watch research station revealed seasonal patterns in the chemical...
May, A. A., G. R. McMeeking, T. Lee, J. W. Taylor, J. S. Craven, I. Burling, A. P. Sullivan, S. Akagi, J. L. Collett Jr., M. Flynn, H. Coe, S. P. Urbanski, J. H. Seinfeld, R. J. Yokelson, & S. M. Kreidenweis
Aerosol emissions from prescribed fires in the United States: A synthesis of laboratory and aircraft measurements
Abstract - Aerosol emissions from prescribed fires can affect air quality on regional scales. Accurate representation of these emissions in models requires information regarding the amount and...
McKendry, I. G., & D. S. Gutzler
A possible link between wildfire aerosol and North American Monsoon precipitation in Arizona–New Mexico
Abstract - Previous research highlights the dominant role of Pacific sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and their associated large-scale teleconnections in modulating the North American monsoon (NAM...
Panday, P. K., J. Thibeault, & K. E. Frey
Changing temperature and precipitation extremes in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region: an analysis of CMIP3 and CMIP5 simulations and projections
Abstract - The Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region epitomizes a geographic region where cryospheric processes coupled with hydrological regimes are under threat owing to a warming climate and shifts...
Rubin, J. I., & W. D. Collins
Global simulations of aerosol amount and size using MODIS observations assimilated with an Ensemble Kalman Filter
A global assimilation that uses an Ensemble Kalman Filter and a set of derived scaling equations is presented for jointly adjusting the amount of atmospheric aerosol and the relative contribution...
Niessner, R.
The Many Faces of Soot: Characterization of Soot Nanoparticles Produced by Engines
Abstract - Soot nanoparticles produced by engines constitute a threat to human health. For the analytical chemist, soot is a hard nut to crack as the released particles undergo rapid changes in...
Creamean, J. M., J. R. Spackman, S. M. Davis, & A. B. White
Climatology of long-range transported Asian dust along the West Coast of the United States
Abstract - The contribution of trans-Pacific dust estimated from satellite observations has been shown to be 3 times greater than domestic dust in North America throughout the year. Thus, a...
McMeeking, G. R., E. Fortner, T. B. Onasch, J. W. Taylor, M. Flynn, H. Coe, & S. M. Kreidenweis
Impacts of nonrefractory material on light absorption by aerosols emitted from biomass burning
Abstract - We present laboratory measurements of biomass-burning aerosol light-scattering and light absorption coefficients at 405, 532, and 781 nm and investigate their relationship with aerosol...
Hand, J. L., B. A. Schichtel, W. C. Malm, M. Pitchford, & N. H. Frank
Spatial and seasonal patterns in urban influence on regional concentrations of speciated aerosols across the United States
Abstract - Monthly, seasonal, and annual mean estimates of urban influence on regional concentrations of major aerosol species were computed using speciated aerosol data from the rural IMPROVE...
Regayre, L. A., K. J. Pringle, B. B. B. Booth, L. A. Lee, G. W. Mann, J. Browse, M. T. Woodhouse, A. Rap, C. L. Reddington, & K. S. Carslaw
Uncertainty in the magnitude of aerosol-cloud radiative forcing over recent decades
Abstract - Aerosols and their effect on the radiative properties of clouds are one of the largest sources of uncertainty in calculations of the Earth’s energy budget. Here the sensitivity of...
Kaneyasu, N., S. Yamamoto, K. Sato, A. Takami, M. Hayashi, K. Hara, K. Kawamoto, T. Okuda, & S. Hatakeyama
Impact of long-range transport of aerosols on the PM2.5 composition at a major metropolitan area in the northern Kyushu area of Japan
Abstract - In view of the recent rapid economic growth and accompanying energy consumption in the East Asian region, particularly in China, there is much concern about the effects of emitted...
Putero, D., P. Cristofanelli, P. Laj, A. Marinoni, P. Villani, A. Broquet, M. Alborghetti, U. Bonafè, F. Calzolari, R. Duchi, T.C. Landi, G.P. Verza, E. Vuillermoz, & P. Bonasoni
New atmospheric composition observations in the Karakorum region: Influence of local emissions and large-scale circulation during a summer field campaign
Abstract - In this work we provide an overview of short lived climate forcers (SLCFs) and carbon dioxide variability in the Karakorum, by presenting results deriving from a field campaign carried...
Antonel, J. & Z. Chowdhury
Measuring ambient particulate matter in three cities in Cameroon, Africa
Abstract - This is the first study of particulate matter (PM) air pollution in Cameroon. In this study, mass concentration and PM size fractions as well as carbonaceous contribution to PM are...
Blanchard, C. L., J. C. Chow, E. S. Edgerton, J. G. Watson, G. M. Hidy, & S. Shaw
Organic aerosols in the southeastern United States: Speciated particulate carbon measurements from the SEARCH network, 2006–2010
Abstract – This study describes and analyzes measurements of 119 non-polar organic compounds in PM2.5 samples from three urban sites in the Southeastern Aerosol Research and Characterization...
Kanawade, V. P., S. N. Tripathi, D. Siingh, A. S. Gautam, A. K. Srivastava, A. K. Kamra, V. K. Soni, & V. Sethi
Observations of new particle formation at two distinct Indian subcontinental urban locations
Abstract - While the formation of new atmospheric aerosol particles and their subsequent growth have been observed under diverse environmental conditions globally, such observations are very...
Liu, Z. R., B. Hu, Q. Liu, Y. Sun, & Y. S. Wang
Source apportionment of urban fine particle number concentration during summertime in Beijing
Abstract - Continuous particle number size distributions (15 nm–2.5 μm), particle chemical compositions, gaseous species and meteorological variables were collected at an urban site in...
Dimitriou, K., & P. Kassomenos
Indicators reflecting local and transboundary sources of PM2.5 and PMCOARSE in Rome – Impacts in air quality
Abstract - The keystone of this paper was to calculate and interpret indicators reflecting sources and air quality impacts of PM2.5 and PMCOARSE (PM10–PM2.5) in Rome (Italy), focusing...
Kompalli, S. K., K. K. Moorthy, S. S. Babu, & M. R. Manoj
Aerosol mass size distribution and black carbon over a high altitude location in Western Trans-Himalayas: Impact of a dust episode
Abstract - The information on the aerosol properties from remote locations provides insights into the background and natural conditions against which anthropogenic impacts could be compared...
Davis, M. E., & A. Rappaport
Air quality in developing world disaster and conflict zones — The case of post-earthquake Haiti
Abstract - Data on air quality are remarkably limited in the poorest of the world's countries. This is especially true for post-conflict and disaster zones, where international relief efforts...
SLCP Emission Sources
Rosenkranz, M., T. A. M. Pugh, J. Schnitzler, & A. Arneth
Effect of land-use change and management on biogenic volatile organic compound emissions – selecting climate-smart cultivars
Abstract - Land-use change (LUC) has fundamentally altered the form and function of the terrestrial biosphere. Increasing human population, the drive for higher living standards and the...
Herrmann, C., A. Prochnow, M. Heiermann, & C. Idler
Biomass from landscape management of grassland used for biogas production: effects of harvest date and silage additives on feedstock quality and methane yield
Abstract - Biogas production from grassland biomass harvested during landscape management may help to maintain species-rich grassland biotopes, but extensive management and late harvests...
Tang, H., G. Liu, J. Zhu, & K. Kobayashi
Effects of elevated ozone concentration on CH4 and N2O emission from paddy soil under fully open-air field conditions
Abstract – We investigated the effects of elevated ozone concentration (E-O3) on CH4 and N2O emission from paddies with two rice cultivars: an inbred Indica cultivar Yangdao 6 (YD6)...
Deng, L., H. Yang, G. Liu, D. Zheng, Z. Chen, Y. Liu, X. Pu, L. Song, Z. Wang, & Y. Lei
Kinetics of temperature effects and its significance to the heating strategy for anaerobic digestion of swine wastewater
Abstract - The effects of temperature on biogas production and the heating strategy for anaerobic digestion of swine wastewater were investigated. Through a kinetic model, the maximum...
Xia, L., S. Wang, & X. Yan
Effects of long-term straw incorporation on the net global warming potential and the net economic benefit in a rice–wheat cropping system in China
Abstract - Straw incorporation has multiple effects on greenhouse gas emissions and soil productivity. However, few studies have comprehensively evaluated the effects of long-term straw...
Hammond, K. J., D. J. Humphries, D. B. Westbury, A. Thompson, L.A. Crompton, P. Kirton, C. Green, & C. K. Reynolds (2014) The inclusion of forage mixtures in the diet of growing dairy heifers: Impacts on digestion, energy utilisation, and methane emissions, AGRICULTURE, ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT 197:88-95.
The inclusion of forage mixtures in the diet of growing dairy heifers: Impacts on digestion, energy utilisation, and methane emissions
Abstract - Intensive farming focusing on monoculture grass species to maximise forage production has led to a reduction in the extent and diversity of species-rich grasslands. However,...
Kim, S. Y., P. Pramanik, J. Gutierrez, H. Y. Hwang, & P. J. Kim
Comparison of methane emission characteristics in air-dried and composted cattle manure amended paddy soil during rice cultivation
Abstract - Application of organic matter is essential for sustaining the health and productivity of a soil. However, organic amendments produce methane (CH4) emissions from rice (Oryza...
Brodt, S., A. Kendall, Y. Mohammadi, A. Arslan, J. Yuan, I. Lee, & B. Linquist
Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions in California rice production
Abstract - The nexus of climate change and food security challenges currently facing humanity requires better understanding of how to balance food production needs with climate change...
Asselin-Balençon, A. C., & O. Jolliet
Metrics and indices to assess the life cycle costs and greenhouse gas impacts of a dairy digester
Abstract - This paper aims to propose consistent Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing metrics and indices and to test them to assess an anaerobic digester on a dairy farm. The...
Biomass Burning & Cooking and Heating
Kang, C.-M., D. Gold, & P. Koutraki
Downwind O3 and PM2.5 speciation during the wildfires in 2002 and 2010
Abstract - A series of wildfires in northern Quebec, early July 2002, and in southern Quebec, late May 2010, resulted in severe air pollution downwind. Downwind exposures were investigated...
França, D., K. Longo, B. Rudorff, D. Aguiar, S. Freitas, R. Stockler, & G. Pereira
Pre-harvest sugarcane burning emission inventories based on remote sensing data in the state of São Paulo, Brazil
Abstract - The state of São Paulo is the largest sugarcane producer in Brazil, with a cultivated area of about 5.4 Mha in 2011. Approximately 2 Mha were harvested annually from 2006 to...
Li, L., Y. Chen, L. Zeng, M. Shao, S. Xie, W. Chen, S. Lu, Y. Wu, & W. Cao
Biomass burning contribution to ambient volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the Chengdu–Chongqing Region (CCR), China
Abstract - Ambient volatile organic compounds (VOCs) were measured intensively using an online gas chromatography–mass spectrometry/flame ionization detector (GC–MS/FID) at...
Porsö, C., & P. Hansson
Time-dependent climate impact of heat production from Swedish willow and poplar pellets – In a life cycle perspective
Abstract - Sweden has the potential to increase fuel pellet production from alternative raw materials, such as willow and poplar, and also to use former agricultural land for energy crop...
Rafael, S., L. Tarelho, A. Monteiro, E. Sá, A.I. Miranda, C. Borrego, & M. Lopes
Impact of forest biomass residues to the energy supply chain on regional air quality
Abstract - The increase of the share of renewable energy in Portugal can be met from different sources, of which forest biomass residues (FBR) can play a main role. Taking into account the...
Athanasopoulou, E., D. Rieger, C. Walter, H. Vogel, A. Karali, M. Hatzaki, E. Gerasopoulos, B. Vogel, C. Giannakopoulos, M. Gratsea, & A. Roussos
Fire risk, atmospheric chemistry and radiative forcing assessment of wildfires in eastern Mediterranean
Abstract - The current research study aims at investigating the atmospheric implications of a major fire event in the Mediterranean area. For this purpose, a regional aerosol model coupled...
Hayashi, K., K. Ono, M. Kajiura, S. Sudo, S. Yonemura, A. Fushimi, K. Saitoh, Y. Fujitani, & K. Tanabe
Trace gas and particle emissions from open burning of three cereal crop residues: Increase in residue moistness enhances emissions of carbon monoxide, methane, and particulate organic carbon
Abstract - We determined emission factors for open burning of straw of rice, wheat, and barley, as well as rice husks, and we incorporated the effects of moisture content on the emission...
Popovicheva, O., M. Kistler, E. Kireeva, N. Persiantseva, M. Timofeev, V. Kopeikin, & A. Kasper-Giebl
Physicochemical characterization of smoke aerosol during large-scale wildfires: Extreme event of August 2010 in Moscow
Abstract - Enhancement of biomass burning-related research is essential for the assessment of large-scale wildfires impact on pollution at regional and global scale. Starting since 6...
Diapouli, E., O. Popovicheva, M. Kistler, S. Vratolis, N. Persiantseva, M. Timofeev, A. Kasper-Giebl, & K. Eleftheriadis
Physicochemical characterization of aged biomass burning aerosol after long-range transport to Greece from large scale wildfires in Russia and surrounding regions, Summer 2010
Abstract - Smoke aerosol emitted by large scale wildfires in the European part of Russia and Ukraine, was transported to Athens, Greece during August 2010 and detected at an urban...
Xue, B., L. Z. Wang, & T. Yan
Methane emission inventories for enteric fermentation and manure management of yak, buffalo and dairy and beef cattle in China from 1988 to 2009
Abstract - Large ruminant production systems (dairy, beef, buffaloes and yaks) in China have experienced significant changes during the last 30 years driven by increased demand for milk...
Picasso, V. D., P. D. Modernel, G. Becoña, L. Salvo, L. Gutiérrez, & L. Astigarraga
Sustainability of meat production beyond carbon footprint: a synthesis of case studies from grazing systems in Uruguay
Abstract - Livestock production has been challenged as a large contributor to climate change, and carbon footprint has become a widely used measure of cattle environmental impact. This analysis of...
Rearte, Pordomingo
The relevance of methane emissions from beef production and the challenges of the Argentinean beef production platform.
Abstract - The livestock sector faces the challenge to respond to the growing demand for animal protein from an expanding population while reducing environmental impact through GHG...
Lei, L. et al.
Numerical simulation of dynamic processes of the methane migration and oxidation in landfill cover
Abstract - The coupling model of the multi-component gas flow and transport was developed to describe methane oxidation in landfill cover. A two-part simulation was carried out to investigate the...
Fernández-Nava, Y. et al.
Life Cycle Assessment of Different Municipal Solid Waste Management Options: a Case Study of Asturias (Spain)
Abstract - This paper analyses six strategies for managing the MSW generated in Asturias (Spain) in terms of their environmental impacts applying the Life Cycle Analysis methodology. To this end,...
Transport & Industry
Sookun, A., R. Boojhawon, & S. D. D. V. Rughooputh
Assessing greenhouse gas and related air pollutant emissions from road traffic counts: A case study for Mauritius
Abstract - The road transport sector is one of the major contributors of greenhouse gases and other air pollutants emissions. Regional emissions levels from road vehicles were investigated...
Nara, H., H. Tanimoto, Y. Tohjima, H. Mukai, Y. Nojiri, & T. Machida
Emissions of methane from offshore oil and gas platforms in Southeast Asia
Abstract - Methane is a substantial contributor to climate change. It also contributes to maintaining the background levels of tropospheric ozone. Among a variety of CH4 sources, current...
Cross Cutting & Other SLCP Sources
Cross Cutting SLCP Emissions Sources
Christensen, M. W., K. Suzuki, B. Zambri, & G. L. Stephens
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A picture of a new controller for Nintendo's upcoming games console appeared online, but was then swiftly taken down.
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Could this be an alternative control for Nintendo's forthcoming games console, the Wii U? It certainly looks that way.
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It looks like the real deal, unlike some suspect devices spotted online. And further supporting its credentials, the tweet was inexplicably pulled shortly after being uploaded. Someone could be in trouble...
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The Secret of Success: Suck Less
When I started working on Bugzilla in 2004, it was a difficult time for the whole project. There were tremendous problems with the code, we hadn’t gotten a major release out in two years, and a lot of the main developers had left to go do paid work.
But eventually, thanks to a bunch of new members in the Bugzilla community, we released Bugzilla 2.18. Hooray! Bells rang, birds sang, and there was much rejoicing.
However, in the space between Bugzilla 2.16 (which was before my time) and Bugzilla 2.18 (which was the first release that I helped get out), something very strange happened–we developed serious competition. All of the sudden there were a bunch of new bug-tracking systems, some of them open-source and some of them not, that people were actually using.
At first it wasn’t too worrisome. Bugzilla was pretty dominant in its field, and it’s hard to lose that kind of position. But as time went on, there was more and more competition, and some people were predicting doom and gloom for Bugzilla. We were a tiny group of completely unpaid volunteers, and some of these competing products were being made by companies whose marketing and development resources absolutely dwarfed us.
And yet, with every release, our download numbers kept going up. And always significantly–30-50% more than the previous release, every time.
And then we hit Bugzilla 3.0, and our download numbers nearly doubled. And they’ve kept going up with every release from there. Nowadays we get over 10 times the number of downloads per release that we did in 2004.
So how did we pull this off? Well, as far as I can tell:
All you have to do to succeed in software is to consistently suck less with every release.
Nobody would say that Bugzilla 2.18 was awesome, but everybody would say that it sucked less than Bugzilla 2.16 did. Bugzilla 2.20 wasn’t perfect, but without a doubt, it sucked less than Bugzilla 2.18. And then Bugzilla 3.0 fixed a whole lot of sucking in Bugzilla, and it got a whole lot more downloads.
Why is it that this worked?
Well, when people are deciding at first what software to use, they have varying criteria. Sometimes they just use what’s presented to them by default on the computer. Sometimes they have a whole list of requirements and they do lots of research and pick the software that has all the features they need. But once they’ve picked a program, they will stick with it unless there is some compelling reason to leave. It’s not like people constantly are looking for new software to replace yours–they only start looking when your software just won’t stop sucking.
As long as you consistently suck less with every release, you will retain most of your users. You’re fixing the things that bother them, so there’s no reason for them to switch away. Even if you didn’t fix everything in this release, if you sucked less, your users will have faith that eventually, the things that bother them will be fixed. New users will find your software, and they’ll stick with it too. And in this way, your user count will increase steadily over time.
You have to get out releases frequently enough that people believe that you really will suck less, of course. If your new release never comes out, then effectively, your current release never stops sucking.
But what happens if you do release frequently, but instead of fixing the things in your software that suck, you just add new features that don’t fix the sucking? Well, eventually the patience of the individual user is going to run out. They’re not going to wait forever for your software to stop sucking.
I remember a particular piece of software that I used every day for years. It had a lot of great features and a nice user interface, but it it would crash two or three times a week. I really liked the software in general, but man, the crashing sucked. I reported a bug about it, and the bug was ignored. I kept using it through 10 new releases, and it still crashed. The upgrades brought lots of new features, but I didn’t care about them. Remember, the feature set only mattered to me when I first picked the software. Now I just needed it to suck less.
But it never did.
So eventually, I went and looked for another piece of software that did the same thing, switched over, and I was happy with that one for a while. But guess what? It had a bug that really sucked. It didn’t happen very often, but when it did, boy was it a problem. But it sucked less than my old software, so I kept using it. Until one day, my patience ran out (after maybe 7 upgrades of the software), and I switched again.
Now I’m using a program that has half the feature set of either of the previous two programs. But, as a user, I’m the happiest I’ve ever been with this type of software. Because you know what? My new program sucks hardly at all. I mean, there are little things about it that suck, but supposedly a new release is coming out soon that will fix some of that sucking, and so I’m okay with it for now.
Would I have guessed this secret of success before I started working on Bugzilla? No. I would have told you the traditional wisdom–that a product succeeds or fails based on its feature set and user interface. But after 5 years on this project, managing our releases and watching our download count, I can tell you from my factual experience this strange thing: all you have to do to succeed as a software project is to suck less with every release. It doesn’t matter how much competition you have, or how many buzzword-friendly features you can cram into your interface. Just suck less, and you’ll succeed.
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Chris Cunningham says:
This is an awesome hypothesis, and makes it clear why it is always a good idea to ensure that low-hanging fruit is never neglected in favour of bigger gains – because people won’t notice the new features so much if they’re still annoyed by the old bits that suck. This is one reason I’m thrilled that, for instance, there’s a current drive in Ubuntu to fix “100 paper cuts” in time for the next release, where a “paper cut” is basically a small thing that sucks.
Thanks, Chris! 🙂 Yeah, I think that’s definitely true–the low-hanging fruit is so easy to miss sometimes when you’re looking at the huge features, but it’s amazing how important it can be. 🙂
Great advice! The hard part is to find what is to suck less 😉 To one user a feature can be amazing to other it just sucks!
Hahahaha, yeah. One thing that really helped us with Bugzilla was that I did a survey: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:Survey
Also, some students from Carnegie-Mellon University did a usability study on Bugzilla and came up with a lot of really great results.
ranza says:
You’re absolutely right. As an example I’m using chromium for some time now and those guys are really hard working and it sucks less with every release. Some time ago they had a bug that prevented tabs with opened js or flash from closing and I’ve almost quit, but they fixed it in two days.
and btw. I’ve made me interested in bugzilla 😉
Yeah, I think Google is generally pretty good at the whole “sucking less” thing. They usually don’t go in for crazy feature sets once a product is released. It’s pretty much just all about fixing the sucking, after that point. (And maybe adding a few extra optional things in that don’t interfere with people’s general workflow at all if they don’t enable them.)
Cool that it made you interested in Bugzilla, too! 😀
And when running from a bear you only need to run a little faster than the slowest.
brady says:
Like Valve’s Steam app. Sucked big time in the beginning, but they released less suck before I crapped it, and then even less suck with the next release &c.
Nice example. 🙂 Yeah, when Steam first came out, nobody used it. It was like, “What is this random crapware that’s coming with my Half-Life?” 🙂
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Peter Warnock says:
Adobe GoLive had as many or more features than Macromedia Dreamweaver. It crashed so much I learned to obsessively hit save. I was far happier after switching.
Android apps were a little buggy at first, but consistently get better with every iteration.
Nice examples! 🙂
Ian Claassen says:
This has never been more clear to me … Thanks 😀
Wow. You’re welcome! 😀 Thank for for the nice comment!! 🙂
Not to put down the author or anything but this is the main idea for every software product out there which comes in the market – To suck less than the previous one and the numbered version increments. Some software companies don’t improve much in every version but I think the author is rather stating the obvious fact in the software world.There are lot other factors, you got to sometimes revolutionize the product like firefox which just totally changed overnight the browser feel and apps.
I’m the author, so you’re welcome to just say “you”, if you’d like. 🙂
Perhaps it is obvious to you and to me, but sometimes it’s actually the emphasis of importance that matters in data, not just the existence of the data itself.
As far as Firefox goes, I’d say that also really just took the Mozilla Suite and took a lot of the sucking out of it, and all of the sudden it was enormously popular. I’d say that “making the browser suck less” may have even been one of the main design goals of Firefox (though of course stated differently, or not stated at all), as somebody who, while not actually involved in Firefox development, was generally around the Mozilla community during the time of its development.
A good article and I have to agree with your main point, it applies I think to most of the successful applications out there…sorta. Take firefox for example. When it first was envisioned as Phoenix it was designed as a lightweight, unbloated, standard supporting forward thinking browser. For quite a while it WAS a bloated, slow, no real advancements browser but it was becoming ever more popular. Even now, I’d still say its pretty bloated (and still seems to memleak like crazy compared to other options) for what it does. Yet, its crazy popular.
Or, to an extreme take Windows Vista. It was a necessary rework, far more forward thinking than previous Windows OSs yet because of a very rough release (but when has any major, massive new os release been “smooth?”) it was brutalized by many of the “knowledgeable” IT people even though its massively improved with each patch and SP. Now, Win7 (which is Vista SP2.5 really) is getting great press and reviews. So, is it always fixing bugs and making it suck “less” that wins users or good press?
Both work I think. Sorry if this rambles a bit, been a long day 😉
Well, I think Firefox 1.0 sucked WAY less than the browsers that came before it.
From the user’s perspective, Vista sucked because Microsoft took so long to release it that there were serious compatibility issues. When you release a new OS every two years, ISVs keep up. When you release one every seven years, people get complacent and think that they can use NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 APIs forever. 🙂 I agree that in a lot of ways, Vista was better. But Windows 7 clearly sucks a lot less than Vista, from reports (in fact, this is pretty much the main thing that I hear about it), and it’s getting much better press. So in this case, sucking less and getting good press could be intimately connected. 🙂
Actually, Firefox is an example of software that has increased it’s suckitude over time.
They changed their SOAP model between 2 and 3. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/SOAP_in_Gecko-based_Browsers
This has a major impact on software I would be using with Firefox, and why I’ve nearly completely switched over to Chrome at work.
Firefox 3.5 has a major load time issue that seems unlikely to be resolved in the short term: http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/07/workaround-for-firefox-3-5-slow-startups-on-windows/
And those students of history would realize that the real browser that has been innovative, and sucks less with each release — Opera. That is if you read their press releases and news articles and such.
Joe Ninja says:
From what little I’ve studied of the auto industry this is the very same tactic that japanese car manufacturers used to completely dominate the auto industry.
Huh, that’s really interesting! I can see how that could be! 🙂
mofino says:
Best advice I’ve heard in a long time.
I’m not sure I buy it. All software sucks, and therefore, there are very few programs I use for which I’m not looking for better alternatives. The ones I stick with tend to be big complex ones for which the problem space is pretty well explored, so I can be fairly confident that there’s nothing out there that actually does suck less, like text editors and web browsers.
There’s a possible message problem in this article.
You mention “…with every release, our download numbers kept going up. And always significantly–30-50% more…”. In the for-profit world those would be called customer wins, or something similar.
Later on though, you say “As long as you consistently suck less with every release, you will retain most of your users…”. That’s customer retention.
Your thesis about sucking less seems to me primarily relevant to customer retention, and not particularly relevant to customer wins.
How do you explain your growth rates with a relatively modest, incrementalist strategy like sucking less? Were you winning converts from other products? There was no attempt in your article to support this idea. Perhaps the market overall was growing rapidly and you merely shared in that.
I’m not suggesting that you are wrong, but I’m not sure your thesis is strong enough to stand on it’s own either. From a personal perspective I like the idea of sucking less. However lots of personal and corporate buying decisions are features driven.
Oops, “buying decisions” isn’t applicable here. Perhaps I should say “product installations” in this context.
Hey Brian. Yeah, of course buying decisions (and product installation decisions) are features based. That’s what I pointed out about first-time users. That’s how you get new users. 🙂 But if you just keep failing to suck less, you start shedding users faster than you can pick up new users, provided that there’s any available alternative to your product. (Witness MySpace, for example.) And if you retain users, then your installation count increases. I mean, that’s the basics. There are probably more subtle effects from sucking less, too, that might generate good word-of-mouth, good press, etc.
Sounds like another -zilla I know, called Filezilla. It just gets better and better with every microscopic point release.
Cool. 🙂
KCF says:
For me, stability and security are paramount. I do enjoy flashy stuff now and then, but my workstation _must_ _not_ _crash_, _ever_, and it must be secure– so I use OpenBSD. And for bug-tracking, I use Bugzilla. I didn’t know there was anything else ;] Thanks for all the progressively better releases. It’s definitely appreciated.
Thank you so much. 🙂 Yeah, security and stability are paramount to us, too. I’m always really surprised when there are products that just have endless security holes, because it’s really not that hard to catch and patch them, if you’re diligent and follow certain basic practices.
Joseph Garvin says:
You just made a very strong argument for writing a unit test every time there’s a regression.
Yeah, good point. 🙂
Don Kori Gina says:
This just reminds me of the sucking in windows vista…
I hope windows 7 sucks less…
But still i have a question….
How do u establish a sucking issue…seeing that people are different…someone may think it sucks while another thinks otherwise except in very obvious cases like crashes and stuff…??
I hear better things about Windows 7 than Vista. I guess we’ll see! 🙂 I’m a Linux user, myself, though. 🙂
Well, one thing that really helped us with Bugzilla was that I did a survey: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:Survey
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MIke Gil says:
Hi Max-
A decade ago, I worked with a product (that shall remain nameless, for obvious reasons) from a software development team who was said to have this as their mission statement (“To Suck Less”) on the grounds that it incorporated:
a. great competitive thinking: “suck less than the other guys suck,” and
b. principles of continuous improvement: “suck less than we sucked yesterday.”
Your vector of thought appears slightly different (i.e. you only measured your suckitude against your own prior releases), but the advice is timeless. Thanks.
That’s cool! 🙂 Interesting to think about it in terms of other products, too. 🙂
Haha, too true. New releases of software have a near monopoly on crushed hopes and dreams. I often marvel about how big companies can come out with upgrades that are consistently less user-friendly than the older versions. It’s amazing they don’t go bankrupt. Thanks for the great article.
It is amazing, isn’t it? 🙂
You’re welcome. Thanks for the great comment. 🙂
Mark Castillo says:
Cool 🙂
I also think that around that time people were getting wiser about software engineering, and seeking out tracking systems. There was beginning to be more focus on team engineering methodologies (don’t get me started) and there was an in creased demand for tracking products. So when the commercial solutions came out to fill this need … the demand for open source systems like Bugzilla went up.
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Francois Cottet says:
Thanks Max for this sharing. You explained it, and it looks so obvious now…
Actually I guess that people at Apple went to the same conclusion when they decided to announce the next version of their OS with 0 new feature. The only moto is “more robust, faster, easier”. But, as advertised, Snow Leopard contains the same feature as the previous Leopard version.
And Microsoft is more or less going in the same direction, presenting Windows 7 as a “Vista without bugs”, isn’t it?
“Suck less”, I am now crossing my fingers, hoping this can be heard by more software companies.
What an interesting observation! (About Windows 7 and Snow Leopard that is.) I hope that it gets heard by more software companies too! 🙂
Patterson Communications says:
Patterson Communications went Through similar ups and downs through its inital startup 10 years ago. Great article.
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Ilyak says:
Can I try guessing, was the crashing software mentioned in the last paragraph amaroK? 🙂
It still does. Maybe once per two months (1.4.10).
Hahaha, it wasn’t. 🙂 I actually didn’t know Amarok had that problem too…. 🙂
Anyhow, I don’t want to single out any particular piece of software or its developers and insult them, I think–that’s why I didn’t just name the software.
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Nitin Reddy Katkam says:
What “sucks” for one user may be a lack of certain features that he or she requires. For example, a lack of a formatting toolbar for the text area in a Wiki editor may be the one thing that he or she needs due to unfamiliarity with the Wiki formatting syntax. However, for another user, the formatting toolbar does not matter at all because he or she is more familiar with the Wiki syntax and finds it faster to type in the formatting rather than having to use the mouse to perform the formatting operation.
Crashing is definitely one of those things that is a big sucky thing that users need fixed. A crash is more sucky than a lack of a feature, although if it does not occur too often, it doesn’t really bother users all that much.
Yeah, it’s true that sometimes users consider a lack of a feature to “suck”. But *usually*, they only really feel that a missing feature sucks if it’s actually just an incomplete existing feature. For example, I’d say that a formatting toolbar is, to some degree, an integral part of any Wiki text editor, and that thus the Wiki text editor is simply *incomplete* if it doesn’t have that feature.
Usually, users don’t get very angry about entirely missing features, only about features that break or are incomplete.
garbeam says:
Have a look at http://suckless.org for various less sucking software projects.
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Mysterious burning lights have been spotted souring across the sky tonight.
Plymouth Live and Cornwall Live were inundated with messages containing pictures and videos of the bright, burning lights.
Mystery surrounded the UFOs, spotted over the Saltash area, but nobody knew what they were.
Some thought it was fireworks, some thought it was two Chinese lanterns caught in tandem.
But now we can confirm it was neither. It was, as you might expect, aeroplanes.
It is thought the private air display was being put on by either the FireFlies Aerobatic Display Team or the Twister Aerobatics Team.
It was confirmed on Sunday it was the Airborne Pyrotechnics display team performing for a wedding at Pentillie Castle.
Who are the two air display teams?
Fireflies is one of the few aerobatic display teams in the world able to offer twilight pyrotechnic air displays, and a display from the FireFlies is guaranteed to be a truly unforgettable experience for your event, be it large or small, day or evening.
Twister Aerobatics Team was formed in 2010 and has performed at events across Europe and the Middle East showcasing the highly efficient Silence Twister aircraft. The team is very versatile performing daytime aerial ballets and unique, sparking evening displays with specially developed pyrotechnic effects streaming from the aircraft's wingtips.
This could have been for a wedding, or other big, private party.
Eye witness Rich White said: "It started of as four extremely bright lights in the sky. I got up of my sofa and rushed outside and grabbed my wife.
"We thought a bloody plane had exploded in the sky. Then they started doing loop the loops. Then two lights disappeared completely then the other two disappeared and then reappeared.
"I missed the first two minutes as I thought my phone was recording but it wasn't."
Others has been left in awe at the sight, some literally gasping for air believing it was truly an unidentified object.
What is a UFO?
An unidentified flying object or 'UFO' is an object observed in the sky that is not readily identified. Most UFOs are later identified as conventional objects or phenomena. The term is widely used for claimed observations of extraterrestrial craft.
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PUBLISHED: 13:41 13 May 2015 | UPDATED: 13:41 13 May 2015
Nikki Jarman
Leanne Edwards with her husband Richard and children, Tom, 12, and Lily 7
For smallholder Leanne Edwards, animal welfare is paramount. She talked to neighbour and CS writer Jules Moore
Leanne with the two Shetland heifers
Leanne Edwards lives with her husband Richard and two children, aged seven and 12, on a 10-acre smallholding just outside Bristol. She had always wanted her own smallholding so that she could raise her own meat, and her concerns over the way livestock in the food chain is treated had almost turned her into a vegetarian. Her primary aim is to make sure her animals are properly cared for and some are kept as pets, rather than for meat or breeding.
Their smallholding is in a lovely quiet spot, hidden away and off the beaten track and is an idyllic retreat with a stream running past the front door and surrounded by trees and fields. They moved there in 2009, but their plans to get started on smallholding were put on hold in the winter of 2010 by the discovery that the stream had flooded and water was coming up throughout the ground floor of their farmhouse. They had to dig up the whole ground floor and have the house protected from further flooding. They now have a lovely waterproof home and have been busy creating their smallholding from scratch.
Some of the land needed clearing of scrub and they haven’t been short of grass, much to the delight of their two gorgeous Shetland heifers, Pearl and Bryony. “They are a bit chubby and very greedy, particularly Bryony who moos loudly when she wants more feed!,” said Leanne. “They are about to have a shock though, as we have got a Shetland bull coming to visit, so hopefully they are not too fat.”
Leanne and Richard have divided their land into small paddocks to house sheep, goats, cattle and pigs with shelters for their animals and a small barn for feed. Some of the land has been cleared and planted up as an orchard of 23 local varieties of fruit trees, including plums, pears, cider apples and suchlike. There are two Jenkins Pear trees with a bench beneath them in memory of Leanne’s parents, Brian and Diane Jenkins, who have sadly both died since they moved in. Bryony the heifer was named after Brian as she was born on the smallholding on the day of Brian’s memorial.
The veg garden
Setting up a smallholding takes a lot of courage and a great leap of faith, and Leanne has worked hard to learn about the animals she has bought or rescued. With Richard working full-time as a neurosurgeon in Bristol, she describes herself as an “almost one-woman band” as most of the time she is managing the smallholding alone and has two school-age children to look after as well. Over the last couple of years, she has managed to amass a wide variety of animals and is now looking to expand her range of home-produced meat.
Their first purchases for the holding were four chickens to supply them with fresh eggs. Despite a few visits from the fox, they have expanded their flock and now have a dozen birds of various breeds and a double row of electric fence! The children earn their pocket money from selling them on the doorstep to passing dog walkers and supplying their friends and family.
They also have four cats “who are meant to keep the rats and mice down”, says Leanne, and two labradors, Meg and Betty, who was rescued from a farmer in Wales. “She had been attacked by another dog whilst pregnant and had a caesarian and the farmer no longer wanted her. She had never been indoors and had little human contact. As a result, she is still frightened of men and will flinch if you wave a spade or rake near her.” This was four years ago, and she is now a fit, happy, friendly dog who is a testament to her new owner.
Rescuing animals is something that Leanne considers to be an important part of her role as a smallholder, and she has two lovely pet nanny goats, Beryl and Ada, who live alongside the cows in a happy free-range life, which contrasts hugely to their imprisonment and neglect in the stable where she found them.
Feeding the chickens
Their own free-range pork was also a priority, and Leanne started by successfully rearing two Oxford Sandy and Black piglets, sending them to the local butcher who turned them into fabulous pork, bacon and sausages, which she described as “amazing”. They now have two Large Black weaners, also for the pot, and two OSB sows both of whom are expecting Large Black cross piglets this spring.
Richard’s primary interest in the smallholding is keeping bees. I first met Richard when Leanne bought him a place on one of my Beekeeping Taster Days for his birthday. (I get a wide range of people from all different walks of life on my courses, but it isn’t often I get neurosurgeons, let alone two at once, and they were keen to get to know each other once the course had finished! ) With the smallholding developing apace, the hive is ready to be located in the new orchard and the bees are due to arrive in the summer. Locating the bees in the orchard will help with fruit pollination and hopefully provide them with some fabulous honey for their own use as well.
Leanne has also got three Easy Care ewes and their Southdown cross lambs who were born in 2014. Her first lambing went very well. “There were no major dramas, although we had one large lamb who took an age to arrive and one new mum came close to rejecting one of her twins,” says Leanne. They lambed outside in one of her small paddocks near the house and she admits that she missed most of the births, usually because she was on the school run! Not having to find a shearer for her ewes (Easy Care sheep shed their fleece) is, she says, “one less problem to have to think about”. This success has given her the confidence to expand her flock and she has purchased an Easy Care ram for this year and four more ewes, plus she has the crossbred ewe lambs from last year. Richard’s mum, who lives in Cambridge, also keeps sheep, but has cut back over the last few years and has a lot of surplus grass, so, rather unusually, they get an annual gift of 200 small bales of hay, only paying £100 for the haulage!
They still struggle in the winter with the stream which runs through the middle of their plot and, when it bursts its banks, all the animals can be cut off from the farmhouse. They have yet to buy any machinery to use on the smallholding as well, so getting to the animals and keeping them fed is quite a challenge, but Leanne is determined to get the most out of this lifestyle choice. “It is important to me to know where my meat has come from and that my animals have a happy life,” she says.
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Owner of fire-damaged home not dead
Bruce Lang returned home Sunday after being out of town. A Courier & Press reporter was the first to tell him his property was the victim of arson Saturday.
Owner of fire-damaged home not dead Bruce Lang returned home Sunday after being out of town. A Courier & Press reporter was the first to tell him his property was the victim of arson Saturday. Check out this story on courierpress.com: https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/local/2017/06/11/owner-fire-damaged-home-not-dead/102758308/
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A shirtless man sits on the porch of 1407 N. First Ave. Sunday afternoon. The home was damaged in a fire early Saturday morning. The Evansville Fire Department is investigating the blaze as arson.(Photo: Zach Evans)
He wasn't contacted about the blaze at the vacant home at 1407 N. First Ave. likely because public safety officials didn't know who the owner was in the early hours of the morning Saturday.
According to Evansville Police Department report, they couldn't identify the owners and didn't see them listed on the Vanderburgh County Assessor's online property search. The Evansville Police Department records management system reportedly indicated the owner is deceased.
He is not.
"Unable to find owner information ... RMS shows owner is deceased." Here it is and they're not. I just talked to him. pic.twitter.com/Vxy1BEixB6
— Zach Evans (@ECPzachevans) June 11, 2017
"You're the first person that told me," Lang said of the fire.
The property card available on the county assessor's online database lists the owner as Bruce and Gina Lang.
The Evansville Fire Department is investigating the fire, which happened around 3 a.m. Saturday morning.
The property at 1407 N. First Ave. is a longtime vacant and blighted property. The city brought the home up for a raze at the Hearing Authority earlier this year. The Lang's applied for a demolition permit in April, according to online city records.
According to a police report, police arrived at the fire to find a man sleeping on the porch as the second floor and roof had "flames coming from them."
Police received several complaints about homeless people going inside. The man who was asleep on the porch told police several people come and go from the home, but he didn't think anyone was inside at the time of the fire.
Lang said they've had trouble with people getting into the home.
"It was going to be demoed anyway. ... It'll definitely be demoed now," he said.
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Danny Boyle Says He Has Concerns About Making A Movie With A Female Lead
Jessica Rawden
Danny Boyle is a maker of movies, a prominent voice in the directorial world with features spanning plenty of genres and different types of stories. His latest, Yesterday, is hitting theaters this weekend. However, while you may note Yesterday is a fanciful and escapist tale set to Beatles music and is very different from a lot of Boyle’s other movies, it does have one thing in common: a male lead.
Recently, the director talked a little bit about his penchant for male protagonists in his movies, noting that he does have concerns with the idea of directing a movie geared around a female character. He noted:
You feel a bit... you obviously have a concern, especially now – and it’s a growing concern – where you don’t want to [make a female-led film as a male director], because you’d feel like an imposter. I certainly respond to that.
There are plenty of notable female characters in Danny Boyle movies, characters like Rosario Dawson’s Elizabeth Lamb in Trance or Joanna Hoffman in Steve Jobs or Freida Pinto as Latika in Slumdog Millionaire.
His new movie Yesterday does have one female character in particular who is given agency and an engaging storyline. In fact, I’d argue that while Himesh Patel is charming, Lily James is the actor who really steals the movie in Yesterday, playing a ray of sunshine in Jack Malik’s life who eventually has to find a way to stand up for herself and what she wants out of her life.
Still, Yesterday is ultimately Jack Malik’s story and not Ellie’s.
Slumdog Millionaire is Jamal’s story and not Latika’s.
Steve Jobs has Steve Jobs in the damn title, so we know what that movie is about. I could go on, but you get the gist. (And besides Trance is a little more of an ensemble.)
Danny Boyle went on to tell The Independent in the same interview that a lot of the projects he personally enjoys, particularly lately, have female names and voices front and center:
My favourite shows at the moment are Fleabag and Gentleman Jack. If Suranne Jones doesn’t win every fucking prize for Gentleman Jack, I don’t know what’s going on.
On that note, Gentleman Jack, which airs on HBO in the States, has been a genuine delight to watch on the small screen. Suranne Jones is the lead in that project and Fleabag is a Phoebe Waller-Bridge project that’s also earned a lot of nods. (Waller-Bridge has also notably worked on the script for Bond 25, a movie Danny Boyle was supposed to helm but then backed out of.)
What Danny Boyle seems to be intimating is that while he watches a lot of female-led projects, he’s just concerned about how it would look if he were to helm one, given he’s not a lady and the current climate with directing is trying to get more female projects made by actual females. Danny Boyle's always pretty much been a straight shooter, so his response isn't a gigantic surprise here.
It’s not clear what exact question he was asked, but it’s an interesting minefield to navigate as a prominent name in the movie-making business. Of course, we want more female directors, but it probably would just be cool to have more movies with female stars in general. Just don’t expect Danny Boyle to do is anytime soon.
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Archie Bunker Will Return to TV...Played By This Cannabis Enthusiast
One of television’s most beloved and controversial characters is returning to TV for one night only.
Next Wednesday, May 22, ABC is broadcasting two live episodes of classic Norman Lear comedies ‘All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons’, brought to life by modern Hollywood stars.
‘All in the Family’ patriarch Archie Bunker - originally played by the late Carroll O’Connor - will be portrayed by Emmy winner, Oscar nominee and cannabis enthusiast Woody Harrelson.
‘All in the Family’ was a groundbreaking sitcom, dealing frankly with issues like racism, antisemitism, feminism, abortion and more. While it didn’t directly delve into marijuana, its spinoff ‘Archie Bunker’s Place’ did, in an episode called ‘Bunker Madness’. Suffice it to say, the irascible Archie probably wouldn’t be down with Woody’s lifestyle choices.
Marisa Tomei will play Archie’s wife, Edith Bunker (previously portrayed by the late, great Jean Stapleton). Meanwhile, the ‘Jeffersons’ episode will feature Jamie Foxx taking over from Sherman Hemsley as George Jefferson, and Wanda Sykes replacing Isabel Sanford as Louise ‘Weezy’ Jefferson. Jimmy Kimmel will produce the special.
Watch a clip of Kimmel talking with Howard Stern about the challenges of bringing Bunker and co. back to TV below:
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Uncertain effects: An update on proposed competition law amendments
by Michael Corrigan, Sunita Kenny
The Government's decision on the future shape of the misuse of market power provisions is expected by the end of March.
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Readers may be familiar with the most controversial recommendation of last year's Harper Review ‒ to broaden the misuse of market power provisions in section 46 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) to capture conduct which has not only the purpose, but also the effect or likely effect of substantially lessening competition in a market.
The case for change to a broader definition has been made by some concerned stakeholders, and led with vigour by the ACCC. Reform proponents argue the current section 46 provisions do not effectively prevent anti-competitive behaviour, are too complex and out of step with other jurisdictions, and that a new, broader test is needed which lowers the effective threshold required to establish a misuse of market power. As early as 2013 there was sympathy for this position from the Government, with the (then) Small Business Minister Bruce Billson contending that the introduction of an effects test would address "some deficiencies in the existing law".
Since that time, the debate over of the section 46 amendments has been a stop/start affair. In March 2015 the Harper Review recommended change to introduce an "effects test", brushing aside objections from the BCA and a range of other commentators.
The Federal Government's response to the Harper's recommendations was not released until November 2015. Issues emerged as early as September, when the proposal reportedly split Cabinet, amid concerns that the changes were not needed and doubts that any proposal would get through the Senate. So, off to a Treasury Committee the proposal went.
In December 2015, the Department of Treasury released a discussion paper titled "Options to strengthen the misuse of market power law" which sets out six options that range from the "no change" option, through four stages of varying amendments. These options would remove the "take advantage" element and include specific reference to the "purpose" and effect of the conduct of the firm with substantial market power as a criterion for assessing the firm's conduct as competitive or anticompetitive. The sixth and final recommendation is to adopt the full set of changes recommended by the Harper Review.
In addition to proposing a range of recommendations, the Discussion Paper invited the views of interested parties on options to strengthen the misuse of marker power provision, and commenced a schedule of community consultation meetings, most recently in Tamworth, NSW (which political observers may note is the seat of Barnaby Joyce, Nationals Party Leader, newly appointed Deputy Prime Minister, vocal representative of agricultural stakeholders and keen supporter of section 46 amendments).
An effects test ‒ lessons from overseas
The ACCC supports the full suite of Harper amendments, but questions remain as to how an effects test will work in practice. What conduct will it catch? Will it be too broad, or not broad enough?
In broad terms, the EU approach prohibits abusive conduct by companies that have a dominant position in a particular market. The European Commission first considers whether or not a company can be said to hold such a dominant position, and then assesses whether the company has engaged in conduct which has the effect of hindering the degree of competition in the market. The concept of "abuse" in EU law is an objective, evidentiary inquiry into the effects of the claimed abuse; hence the shorthand term of "effects test" for the approach to these cases under EU law. Recent investigations provide some guidance on the European Commission's approach in such cases.
Since 2010 the European Commission has been investigating Google over Google's use of comparison shopping products in its general search term pages. (Comparison shopping products allow consumers to search online for goods and to compare prices between selected online shopping vendors). The European Commission claims that by showing its own comparison shopping product ("Google Shopping") above other search results, Google's conduct has the potential effect of preventing consumers from viewing all relevant shopping results that appear in response to a user's search terms.
As such, the EC's preliminary view was that Google should treat Google Shopping and its competitors' products in the same way to avoid stifling competition and causing potential harm to consumers. It contends that Google's systematic prioritisation of its own product amounts to an abuse of its dominant position in the market, while on the other hand Google maintains that consumers have more choice than ever before. Google now waits for the EC's response to its defence. If Google is unsuccessful in convincing the EC that it does not have a duty to supply its own rivals, it could be fined up to 10% of its previous year's turnover.
A broad effects test might catch a range of other scenarios. Imagine an established and powerful business that regularly poaches the senior staff of its competitors. Or a powerful corporation with an eye for prime and scarce commercial sites for new retail stores, that manages repeatedly to secure the sites over its competitors which blocks their entry. Imagine an airline that continually extends seat capacity and aggressive sales on airline tickets on routes which its competitors decide to enter. Or a grocery store that offers all customers generous discounts on purchases above a certain value as soon as a new entrant opens a rival store in the area. It is hard to say with certainty whether these hypothetical scenarios might constitute the types of "abuses" intended to be captured by an amended section 46.
Another example, drawn from a recent UK case, might involve a pharmaceutical company holding a patent over PBS listed drugs. Assume the patent holder legally challenged two generic pharmaceutical companies each of which proposed to launch competing generics, alleging that their generic products would infringe its patents, and commenced patent litigation proceedings against the generics.
If, before that litigation went to trial, the two generic companies entered into agreements with the patent holder to compromise the infringement case, which included terms prohibiting their independent entry into the Australian market for a further two year period and payment of substantial costs to them by the patent holder, would that be an abuse under an effects test? The potential impact of a broader effects test on a matter like this would require careful examination. Similar facts in the UK recently attracted a UK £45m fine.
It is unclear if Australia would adopt the European approach. However, we consider it likely that the Harper consultation process will result in some broadening of the existing law, while retaining some elements of the existing framework, including reference to "purpose" as an important, but not determinative, criterion.
How would reform of misuse of market power play out in Australia?
Competition by definition should be vigorous, and the difficulty arises in drafting legislation which catches conduct that has the effect of lessening competition while not stifling the ordinary rigours of commerce. Changes of the scope of the section 46 provisions are likely to have a significant and practical impact on firms that have, or might be considered to have, market power in Australia.
The Harper Review acknowledges the uncertain impact of new legislation, but considers that any uncertainty would be outweighed by the benefit of a more effective prohibition on unilateral anti-competitive conduct.
The effect on business of an amended section 46 will depend heavily on which model is accepted by the Government and on any additional measures that are introduced. For example, Harper suggests that the initiatives such as the following may address industry concerns:
allowing ACCC authorisation where the conduct generates a net public benefit;
asking the ACCC to issue guidance material on its approach to enforcement of an amended section 46; and
thorough consultation on the form and wording of draft consultation.
The next stage in the process
The issue still has a way to run, with the Government's decision expected by the end of March. In the meantime a broad range of stakeholders is busy making their varied views known, and senior members of our team will be taking every opportunity to engage in the consultation process.
Our advice to clients is to continue to follow the discussion closely, to carefully consider business interactions and of course to speak with us if you have any queries.
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Love & Rockets: Short Stories
Fantagraphics, 1987 Series
Published in English (United States)
10.95 USD; 15.45 CAD
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Gary Groth
Color cover; Black and White interior
One of four Love & Rockets reprint paperbacks in this format- the other titles were "Heartbreak Soup and Other Stories" "The Lost Women and Other Stories" and "The Reticent Heart and Other Stories."
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Intel researches optical connect for laptops and servers
Intel is developing an optical interconnect technology to replace copper ribbons in laptop computers and servers that should be...
Intel is developing an optical interconnect technology to replace copper ribbons in laptop computers and servers that should be ready for commercial use within three to five years.
The laboratory is also working on an optical interconnect technology for chip packages that could be ready between five and 10 years from now, Justin Rattner, Intel senior fellow and director of the company's systems technology labs, said.
"We have built short-range optical links that we believe will be cheaper, less noisy, and smaller than copper ribbons. You can get high-speed signals and you can get rid of the need of having to use copper ribbons," he said.
The optical interconnect technology aimed at laptop and servers uses tiny lasers and fiber-optic cables to transmit data at multi-gigabit speeds over a distance of about half a metre. While Intel has not yet approached PC and server suppliers, the company is collaborating with optical switch and network technology suppliers, and is confident that the technology can be made ready for volume production in three to five years.
"What we are looking at is using it to feed display data from the motherboard to the screen, or using it for servers to route high-speed, gigabit traffic in dense server environments," he said.
Another potential application is using the technology to replace serial ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) interconnects, he said.
"Results are very promising. There is a lot of opportunity to move from copper to high-speed optical equivalents. When we have a really solid design, then we will go to the appropriate systems suppliers," he said.
The biggest issue with optical connect technology is cost, he said.
Optical communications systems, traditionally used for trunk data routing over thousands of kilometres or in networks across cities, need lasers and devices to convert data in electrical signals to optical signals and then reconvert those optical signals back to their electrical form.
Although they are expensive now, Intel hopes that by the time optical interconnect technology is commercialised, an interconnect could be made for about $5 (£2.76) to $7. A laptop copper ribbon costs about $10 to $15, he said.
Rattner said that until recently the company had been focused on how to make its processors faster. But the company's systems technology labs these days is concentrating more on developing technologies to help chips perform more efficiently, and systems talk to each other better.
Paul Kallender writes for IDG News Service
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Road rage charges dropped against Carlisle mayor
Ryan Gauthier, Staff Writer
FRANKLIN — Road rage charges against Carlisle Mayor Tim Humphries were dismissed Monday, Jan. 25, after a police officer scheduled to testify failed to show up to Franklin Municipal Court.
Humphries, 41, was accused getting out of his car and threatening an 18-year-old man with a souvenir Cincinnati Reds baseball bat, because the teen was driving too closely behind him. The mayor faced a fifth-degree felony charge of obstructing official business and misdemeanor charges of aggravated menacing and prohibition against parking on highways as a result of the Dec. 1 incident.
But all of those charges were dropped Monday when no one from the Carlisle Police Department showed up for the 8:30 a.m. preliminary hearing and pretrial conference.
The mayor’s attorney, Jon Paul Rion, called the dismissal “a complete vindication of Humphries.”
“The fact that no officers from Carlisle appeared is an indication that they were not willing to subject their case to a fierce cross-examination,” Rion said. “The truth of our belief has come out through their silence.”
Carlisle Police Chief Tim Boggess said the officer slated to appear in court Monday got confused regarding the date, as Franklin court is typically held on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Boggess said he’s not sure why all of the charges were dismissed, adding he would consult with the prosecutor’s office on next steps.
Rion has argued for weeks that Humphries’ prosecution was part of a “politically-based scheme.” He said there still have been no charges brought against the mayor for alleged inappropriate materials on his city-owned computer, which was seized Nov. 5 and shipped to the FBI for analysis.
Someone is “trying to use the court system in an attempt to intimidate a good mayor,” Rion said. “Whoever is behind this, a message is being sent by the dismissals...that their attempts to corrupt the system will eternally fail.”
Boggess dismissed Rion’s conspiracy theory flat out, saying his department is “in no way doing such a thing.”
Humphries “knew what he did, and we filed charges that the prosecutor had to accept,” Boggess said. “The fact remains that he stopped in the middle of the road, exited his vehicle and went back toward the subject who was behind him with a weapon.”
Humphries, who was elected mayor in 2007, said now that these charges are behind him, his bid in the May primary election for Warren County Commission is still on the table.
Contact this reporter at (513) 705-2871 or rgauthier@coxohio.com.
Tim Humphries
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Truro man involved in police standoff bolts from courtroom, briefly escapes custody
Harry Sullivan (harry.sullivan@trurodaily.com)
A Truro man involved in standoff with police last Thursday escaped custody during a court hearing on Tuesday. File photo
TRURO, N.S. —
A Truro man involved in a police standoff last week bolted from the courtroom Tuesday afternoon during a hearing to revoke his bail from the previous day. He was later arrested on Lavinia Drive, after running from police.
Colby Smith, 22, was released from custody on a $2,500 surety posted by his girlfriend Monday morning. Two of his release conditions included not being in the driver’s seat of a conveyance and to keep the peace and be of good behaviour.
However, hours after being released on bail, Smith was arrested in the vicinity of a Truro liquor store and charged with operating a motor vehicle while being ordered not to and failing to be of good behaviour.
During the process of setting a new bail hearing for Wednesday morning, however, Smith, who was seated in the courtroom and surrounded by several deputy sheriffs, suddenly raced across between the front of the judge’s bench and the attorneys’ tables, slammed open a fire exit door on the far side of the room and disappeared.
“Call the police,” one deputy shouted to another, as two of them tore off in hot pursuit. Minutes later, police sirens were heard blaring in the area as the search began.
Smith was initially arrested last Thursday afternoon (July 4) at a Lavinia Drive residence following a standoff with the Truro Police and heavily armed members of the provincial Emergency Response Team.
He is to scheduled to appear in provincial court Sept. 4 from that incident to enter pleas on multiple weapons-related charges as well as a charge of taking a motor vehicle without consent, damaging a fire extinguisher in the Truro police cells and two counts of breaching court recognizances. He is also to enter a plea at that time to a charge of assaulting a woman dating to Nov. 16, 2018, in Brookfield.
After his escape from custody on Tuesday, Smith’s defence lawyer, David Mahoney, asked Judge David Ryan to release him from the case. His request was granted.
During last Thursday’s incident, armed police surrounded an apartment building and access points to the area were blocked by police vehicles as officers turned back motorists driving along Kaulback Street. Some people were temporarily moved out of their homes while others were told not to go outside and to keep away from windows.
Smith is scheduled to be back in court on Wednesday, July 10.
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You are here: Home / Dinosaur Profile / Stygimoloch
An Herbivorous Pachycephalosaurid
Stygimoloch, pronounced STIJ-eh-MOLL-uk, is generally regarded as a genus of large Pachycephalosaurid dinosaur, an herbivore (some regard Stygimoloch an omnivore). The genus received its name due the fearsome appearance of its skull. Only parts of Stygimoloch’s skull have been found to date, in Montana and Wyoming. Stygimoloch belongs to the family Pachycephalosauridae, which were Ornithischian dinosaurs that had thick, domed and spiked skulls.
What Did Stygimoloch Look Like?
Image Courtesy of Flickr User Adventures in Librarianship
The name Stygimoloch (meaning, Demon Of The River Styx) was given for the mean appearance of the specimen skull. It features three to four large spikes up to four inches (100 mm) long. Stygimoloch was a large Pachycephalosaur with a skull measuring 18 inches in length.
There was a lot of ornamentation at the top of the head of Stygimoloch, though smaller and shorter than other Pachycephalosauria. Its horns were conical, while the back corners of it’s triangular skull formed into large rearward spikes six inches long and two inches in diameter. Even around these spikes are other spikes, smaller. It is believed most likely that the horns and spikes were used primarily to garner effectiveness in jousting, through head-butting and flank-butting. In this case, the horns would certainly serve as ornamentation that could be helpful in identification and mating.
Pachycephalosauria are a thick-headed clade of dinosaurs, with domed skull-roofs that are usually several inches thick. In others (i.e.—Stygimoloch) the skull is flatter and wedge-shaped (triangular).
It should be noted here that some scientists theorize the flatter skulls to be representative of the youngest Pachycephalosaur dinosaurs, and that as adulthood manifests, the skulls become domed with maturity.
Most Pachycephalosaur lived in the Late Cretaceous, as Stygimoloch did
Triceratops is another Late Cretaceous ornithischian dinosaur that sported orbital/ cranial horns (similar generally horny cranial appearances), making them resemble today’s horny-toads, rhinoceros and ostrich. It was not until 1974 that Pachycephalosauria were first named as a suborder of the Order Ornithischia by Maryańska and Osmólska.
What Did Stygimoloch Eat?
Image Courtesy of Flickr User Paul Williams (Iron Ammonite)
While Stygimoloch is widely reported as an herbivore, it should be noted that some consider the genus to be omnivorous and that this idea is further supported by the Pachycephalosauria descriptions as a clade that were all bipedal and omnivorous.
A horizontal biped living during the Late Cretaceous Period, Stygimoloch could have eaten any of the angiosperms that were flourishing during the period. These flowering plants were largely responsible for the new lush lower landscapes (eventually grasses) that Stygimoloch probably also enjoyed. Stygimoloch may have also enjoyed the plentiful eggs found in nests as it foraged plant-life, along with the small marsupials and placental mammals. Snails, insects—anything small enough to be easy prey—would have been easy pickings for this quick genus.
How Did Stygimoloch Move?
Stygimoloch was a bipedal ornithischian dinosaur and as such was large and powerful in the hip (pelvic) region, with relatively long legs for its size. Its upper body was light in comparison, easing aerodynamic concerns and even though the head of Stygimoloch was long, it was relatively small and light. Stygimoloch would have been a fast and efficient plant-eating omnivore, which could possibly have also had a powerful loping or jumping gate—much like a kangaroo today.
The appearance of Stygimoloch is thought to have been mostly due to need of its own defense due to predation, along with basic social ritual. In times of defense, Stygimoloch was probably formidable enough, able to butt and gash the belly of any carnivorous predator, given the right angle. If one considers the top-head view that a predatory meat-eater would have seen if an unaware Stygimoloch had never noticed its presence and looked up, then one can see how the predator may have been deterred—it was almost a camouflage, and a horny spikey one at that.
Where Did Stygimoloch Live?
Fossils of Stygimoloch are found in the Late Cretaceous Period of North America, in what are known today as the states of Montana and Wyoming.
The Discovery of Stygimoloch
Image Courtesy of Flickr User j3tdillo
Stygimoloch takes its name from the Greek translation of “demon of the River Styx”—a name which refers primarily to appearance only, and is taken from legend (The River Styx separated the Earth from Hades in Greek Mythology.) Fossils were discovered in Hell Creek, Montana in 1983, and also in Wyoming. Stygimoloch was named in 1983 by British paleontologist Peter M. Galton and German paleontologist Hans-Dieter Sues.
Peter Galton helped champion the theory (cladistics theory 1974) that today’s birds are derived from prehistoric dinosaurs. He also showed that Hypsilophodon did not after all live in trees and that hadrosaur did not drag their tails but rather used them as counterbalances.
Stygimoloch, What Big Horns You Have
Although Stygimoloch had very large horns all over its bony head, it is believed to have been a largely passive herbivorous omnivore. Any real use of its horns and bony domed skull would have been either in defense from predators or in social activities with its own species.
The Significance of Stygimoloch
Stygimoloch seem to be significant in showing that during the Late Cretaceous Period, these were plant-eating creatures similar to our deer or kangaroo today in behavior and general appearance. Stygimoloch and the like help to show the diverse and yet somehow similar nature of prehistoric times, and help us learn about our own.
Filed Under: Dinosaur Profile, Herbivores, Omnivores, Stygimoloch Tagged With: Cretaceous Period Dinosaurs, Dracorex, Herbivorous Dinosaurs, Marginocephalia, Omnivore, Omnivorous Dinosaurs, Ornithischia, Pachycephalosauridae, Stygimoloch, Stygimoloch spinifer
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Two cars added to Heroes Marathon prize list
Entries increase with 7-seater vehicles and total of R700k up for grabs in Mthatha
By Mfundo Piliso - 15 December 2018
Runners in Sunday's Heroes Marathon in Mthatha have a little more incentive as sports, recreation, arts and culture MEC, Bulelwa Tunyiswa announced that two cars has been added to the list of prizes that already had R7000000 in prizes up for grabs.
Image: File
Athletes continue flocking into Mthatha for the 18th annual Heroes Marathon which is expected to bring a thousand runners from across Africa to the city on Sunday morning.
The race organisers held the last media briefing at the Mthatha Garden Court this afternoon where the MEC of sports, recreation, arts and culture (DSRAC), Bulelwa Tunyiswa announced an addition to the prizes, which already sat at R700000, by including two cars also up for grabs.
The cars will go to the winner of the male and female races.
Tunyiswa said the first male and female athlete to cross the finish line in the main 42,2km races would win a full expenses paid trip to go and participate in the prestigious Hannover Marathon in Germany in April 2019.
Race organiser Gogo Manqoyi thanked their sponsors DSRAC and the Eastern Cape Development Cooperation (ECDC) who've partnered with the Athletics Transkei for their contribution.
“The department of sports has been with us since the inception of this race, and I want to thank the department for that, because our private partners have been coming and going.
“But the department has been with us ever since, and a couple of years back we used to get cars sponsored by Vodacom.
“But because of the decline in the race they dropped that gesture, but this year I'm proud to announce that the ECDC has partnered with us and has contributed two cars
She added: “I'm told that those cars are seven-seater cars and if you can go to the registration points right now you'll see that the numbers [of people registering for the race] are increasing,” said Manqoyi.
The race which also coincides with the centenary of the late statesman Nelson Mandela and struggle veteran Albertina Sisulu had to find an alternative finish point because the Walter Sisulu University main field would host the Day of Reconciliation celebration event set to be addressed by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday.
“The race will not finish at the main Walter Sisulu University fields but at the soccer fields on campus.
“We are respecting the event that will be hosted at the stadium and we saw that it would be a logistical nightmare,” said Manqoyi.
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Pakistan avoid innings defeat, interrupt Proteas victory charge
By LIAM DEL CARME at Newlands - 05 January 2019
General view inside the stadium during the match between South Africa v Pakistan Second Test natch at PPC Newlands, Cape Town.
Image: REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
Test matches the statistics suggest, increasingly find ways of reaching premature climax inside three days.
It was, under partly cloudy skies for the bulk of the third day of the second Test, that Pakistan battled bravely just to fight another day.
In this case, just to take the match into a fourth day they succeeded in delaying their stay of execution to build a lead of 40 runs which South Africa will be required to knock off, weather permitting of course, over the next two days.
With a first innings deficit of 254 they were well and truly staring down the barrel at 27/2 once Imam ul Haq and Azhar Ali had departed the scene before lunch.
By then however early in their partnership Shan Masood (61) and Asad Shafiq (88) had joined forces.
They batted with resilience in the middle session, and in fact at times looked comfortable, on a pitch their coach Mickey Arthur the previous evening described unfit for Test cricket.
Arthur’s comments rankled the moment it left his lips, especially after South Africa had compiled a mini mountain of runs under, albeit trying circumstances on the second day. The point he was making though was that inconsistent bounce had made a lottery of batting already on day two, and not the last two days of a Test match.
Faf du Plessis and Temba Bavuma were routinely hit on different parts of their bodies as a result of the inconsistent bounce on day two, so his comments carried weight up to a point.
The application of the heavy roller between innings after South Africa was bowled out for 431 in their first innings on day three seemed to smooth out some of the demons in the Krakatoa, and despite the loss of the two early wickets, Pakistan found ways of hanging on.
Kagiso Rababa sought to bring some perspective on the pitch after day three after labelling it a ‘boring pitch’ before the start of the game.
“When you are prepared to fight in the middle you’ll score runs,” said Rabada.
“Even at Centurion, Imam ul Haq scored runs. Shan scored runs here. There have been runs. It shouldn’t be too easy to score runs in Test cricket,” said the fast bowler.
Arthur had pleaded for greater application from his batsmen. He was looking for a fight on day three and his batsmen to a large degree obliged as they dug in.
Pakistan’s batsmen facing exaggerated bounce had displayed some technical flaws by not moving across to their off stump earlier in the series but on Saturday they were in line. The pitch to be fair, held fewer demons.
As the shadows lengthened the biggest concern here was whether the match would finish inside three days and Pakistan somehow avoided that rogue’s list of teams vanquished inside three days.
Arthur, his comments about the pitch notwithstanding, wanted his batsmen to show some fight and some of them duly did.
He suggested that pitches carried more peril now compared to the time he coached the South African team between 2006 and 2010.
That of course partly explains why matches don’t run their intended distance but it is also a global phenomenon. In the 212 Tests played between 2008 and 2013, only 20 Tests finished inside three days. In the 270 Tests played between 2013 and 2018 41 finished inside three days.
Six out of 33 Tests in that period played in South Africa finished inside three days.
It thus became a matter of personal pride to take the match into a fourth day for Pakistan.
Despite the solid foundations of Shan and Asad early on and later by Babar Azam who compiled an at times enterprising 72 off only 87 deliveries, Pakistan were walking a tightrope.
Towards the end of the day Dale Steyn, who had settled into a nice rhythm earlier, became the most tormented soul inside Newlands. He watched catches being dropped off his bowling and the fact that he had collected four wickets by then clearly added to the frustration.
He’ll have to come back for the fourth day too.
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