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Putin Apes Trump’s Climate Science Denial But Says US Open to Climate Cooperation
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Olga Dobrovidova | October 5, 2018
By Olga Dobrovidova • Friday, October 5, 2018 - 05:52
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin believes US President Donald Trump is open to international cooperation on climate change beyond the Paris Agreement so long as the global community does “not antagonise the relationship with the US”. Putin echoed Trump’s climate science denial, however, saying the reasons for global warming were “not entirely clear”.
Speaking at a major energy conference in Moscow, Putin told the audience:
“Without [the US] it would be impossible to reduce the influence of anthropogenic air pollution on the global climate even a little bit. Therefore, one way or another we need to involve the US in this discussion and this joint work.”
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Carter Page, Trump Aide With Russia Ties, Is Also an Energy Scholar: Here's What He's Written
Steve Horn | March 30, 2017
By Steve Horn • Thursday, March 30, 2017 - 19:22
Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser for Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, has been mentioned repeatedly in news coverage about the ongoing investigation into the Trump campaign's alleged ties to Russia.
Page owns the New York City firm Global Energy Capital LLC, located right next to Trump Tower, and lived and worked in Russia for a few years. Beyond that, however, he comes across as somewhat of an enigma, with little known about his past. Yet his own scholarly writings on the topics of geopolitics, energy, and climate, along with other career details, reviewed by DeSmog, may offer deeper insight into who Page is and how he came to assume the role of a Trump foreign policy adviser.
Page left the campaign in September 2016 after it was revealed he had visited Moscow, Russia in early July to give a speech at the New Economic School titled, “The Evolution of the World Economy: Trends and Potential,” just weeks before the Republican National Convention (RNC). Page eventually confirmed he had met with Russia's ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, at the RNC, but says it was a brief conversation and one among many he had with various ambassadors.
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Behind Trump’s Push for "American Steel" in Pipelines, Another Russian Company with Putin Ties Stands to Benefit
Steve Horn | February 28, 2017
By Steve Horn • Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - 14:45
In his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week, President Donald Trump commemorated the one-month anniversary of his executive orders calling for the approval of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, as well as one calling for U.S. pipelines to get their line pipe steel from U.S. facilities.
“I said, who makes the pipes for the pipeline?” Trump told the CPAC crowd. “If they want a pipeline in the United States, they're going to use pipe that's made in the United States, do we agree?”
But while the pipe may be made in the U.S., as DeSmog has shown in previous investigations, ownership tells a different story. Enter: TMK IPSCO, a massive producer of steel for U.S. oil country tubular goods (OCTG) and line pipe, and a subsidiary of TMK Group. A DeSmog investigation has found ties between TMK Group's Board of Directors and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Trump, Putin, Exxon: What Is Russiagate Really About?
Guest | February 20, 2017
By Guest • Monday, February 20, 2017 - 21:24
By Kert Davies and David Halperin
Any analysis of Russiagate, and the fateful phone calls between Michael Flynn and Russia’s ambassador to the United States, must address the critical fact that U.S. sanctions on Russia are severely damaging Vladimir Putin’s economic power. In particular, these sanctions – imposed by Barack Obama, supported by Hillary Clinton, and repeatedly questioned by Donald Trump and Rex Tillerson – are blocking a lucrative long-term oil agreement between Russia and ExxonMobil, a deal whose value is underscored by a little-noticed 1988 declassified CIA document.
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Like Keystone XL, Much of Dakota Access Pipeline Steel Made by Russian Company Tied to Putin
By Steve Horn • Sunday, February 19, 2017 - 04:58
At his February 16 press conference, President Donald Trump discussed his executive orders calling for U.S. federal agencies to grant TransCanada and Energy Transfer Partners the permits needed to build the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipeline projects.
Trump also cited a different executive order signed that same day, highlighting the “Buy American measures” which he said were “in place to require American steel for American pipelines.” But like Keystone XL, as DeSmog previously reported, much of the steel for the Dakota Access project appears to have been manufactured in Canada by Evraz North America, a subsidiary of the Russian steel giant Evraz.
Evraz is owned in part by Roman Abramovich, a Russian multi-billionaire credited for bringing Russian President Vladimir Putin into office in the late 1990s. DeSmog's finding comes on the heels of Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn resigning for potentially having discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with Russian diplomats before Trump took office, apparently without the knowledge of Trump or now-Vice President Mike Pence.
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How a Russian Steel Oligarch and Putin Ally Is Profiting from the Keystone XL Pipeline
Steve Horn and Itai Vardi | February 13, 2017
By Steve Horn and Itai Vardi • Monday, February 13, 2017 - 16:27
Believe it or not, there's a key connection to Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, in the fight over North America's controversial Keystone XL pipeline.
One of President Donald Trump’s first actions in office was to sign an executive order on January 24 expediting the approval of the Keystone XL. Owned by TransCanada, this tar sands oil pipeline was halted by former President Barack Obama in November 2015. Trump signed another order on January 24, calling for steel for U.S. pipelines to be made in the U.S. to the “maximum extent possible,” and two days later TransCanada filed a new presidential permit application for Keystone XL with the U.S. Department of State.
Critics, such as John Kemp of Reuters, pounced on the caveat language in Trump’s steel order and noted that it appears “designed to preserve lots of wiggle-room.” In fact, a DeSmog investigation reveals that much of the steel for Keystone XL has already been manufactured and is sitting in a field in rural North Dakota.
DeSmog has uncovered that 40 percent of the steel created so far was manufactured in Canada by a subsidiary of Evraz, a company 31-percent owned by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, who is a close ally of Putin and a Trump family friend. Evraz has also actively lobbied against provisions which would mandate that Keystone XL's steel be made in the U.S.
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Fake News You Can’t Use, They’ll Abuse, We All Lose. Except Putin. Putin Wins.
Guest | January 10, 2017
By Guest • Tuesday, January 10, 2017 - 18:19
This is a guest post by ClimateDenierRoundup
Along with “alt-right” and “post-truth,” “fake news” has become the latest and greatest term to describe the bizarre media landscape we all now inhabit. Sadly, it’s a home we’re comfortable in, as we’ve been exploring it for the last five years. (That said, Politico’s Simon Van Zuylen-Wood does a good job chronicling a two-week fake news diet.)
Since we’ve called out Breitbart’s fake climate news on numerous occasions, we’re encouraged that other outlets are now debunking its propaganda, too. Case in point, both AP and Guardian covered a Breitbart story which falsely claimed that on New Year’s Eve, a mob chanting “Allahu Akbar” attacked police and “set fire” to Germany’s oldest church. It was shared nearly 17,000 times on Facebook.
A more realistic version of the story is that a stray firework lit some netting outside a scaffolding around the church on fire, and it was put out in just 12 minutes. And there was no damage to the church, which isn’t actually the oldest in Germany at all.
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Fracking Fans Use Intelligence Report to Revive Baseless Claim Russia Funds U.S. Anti-Fracking Movement
Steve Horn | January 10, 2017
By Steve Horn • Tuesday, January 10, 2017 - 11:18
Proponents of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) have seized upon a paragraph found within the recent national intelligence report examining Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. elections to push a long-promoted but unfounded claim: that Russia and President Vladimir Putin fund the U.S. anti-fracking movement.
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As Trump Names Exxon CEO Tillerson Secretary of State, Waterkeeper Alliance Asks EPA to Tell Company "You're Fired!"
Steve Horn | December 14, 2016
By Steve Horn • Wednesday, December 14, 2016 - 14:37
The Waterkeeper Alliance, represented by Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, submitted a 54-page petition with 358 footnotes and 448 pages containing 43 exhibits to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), calling for an end of all of its federal contracts with ExxonMobil.
ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson was recently named U.S. Secretary of State by President-Elect Donald Trump and will likely face a contentious congressional nomination hearing due to his own and his company's ties to Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The petition centers around what Exxon knew for decades about climate change, which it studied closely in-house, while funding climate change denial efforts for decades, while also discussing the rest of its environmental track-record.
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Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson Tapped for Secretary of State Despite Close Ties to Russia, Putin
By Steve Horn • Saturday, December 10, 2016 - 11:28
ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson — who has close personal and company ties to Russia and President Vladimir Putin — is President-elect Donald Trump's top pick to become the next secretary of state, with the decision likely coming next week according to NBC News.
The news comes amid reports that Congressional members and senior U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officials say they have intelligence showing Russia attempted to tip the balance of the November U.S. presidential election in favor of President-elect Donald Trump by hacking into email systems and giving those emails to Wikileaks. And President Barack Obama has called for a complete investigation on the matter before he leaves the White House on January 20.
Though the evidence presented to the U.S. public so far lacks smoking gun documentation, many are alarmed that a geopolitical adversary may have interfered with the U.S. electoral process. Trump, though — who has signaled a potential sea change in the U.S.-Russia geopolitical relationship — is not among them, as indicated in his choice of Tillerson for top U.S. diplomat.
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Disney Bites 5
by XxMotherNaturexX, Oct 27, 2011, 6:47:10 AM
Literature / Fan Fiction / Romance
Minnie lingered in her enormous palace chamber. She held a beautiful pink rose, which it's petals had been plucked. She heaved a small sigh as she picked the last petal, before throwing the stem of the rose onto the glossy floor.
"Your majesty! Your mother wishes to see you!" Daisy Duck announced whizzing into Minnie's bedroom. Daisy was Minnie's lady-in-waiting, they had known each other ever since they were little children.But as the years went on, it seemed to Minnie that they were growing apart. She wanted it to be like the olden days, when she was running freely and not caring about becoming queen
. "Your grace? Are you alright?" Daisy questioned her royal companion.
"Yes, I'm fine." Minnie replied, she rose from her tall but wide pink silky sofa and wandered past Daisy humming to herself. She took a short cut through the palace and knocked lightly on the queen's bedroom door.
"Come in
" Came a weak voice.
Minnie began to feel nervous, she opened the door and immediately said; "You called
"
Her mother lay in bed, as the purple see-through curtains towered over her. "My beautiful daughter, I love you very much, you do know that don't you?" She asked her. "Yes mother, I love you too." Minnie replied, the tears had switched on and was ready to brake through.
"As you know, I am gravely ill. I will not be here anymore, so you have to be a big girl and become queen. You shall rule all of my beloved country which will become yours tomorrow. So rule wisely, take the path of love, not hate. Choose the sign not of wealth but of the heart
I- l-love you my beautiful d-daughter. P-promise me that y-you'll rule wisely, you'll a-always choose love over hatred, p-promise me this my daughter
" The queen gave out a small gasp as Minnie's tears flushed down her cheeks.
"I promise mother, and I hope that one day I will see you again.." She locked her eyes shut as the queen rubbed her hand, but instantly stopped. She gave out a small cry, and leant over her dead mother's bed. She could smell the sweet smell of her mother that she always used to.
She cried harder, just thinking about it.
Minnie looked up and stared at her mother, she shook her head, the tears escaping her beautiful eyes. She stood up and walked towards the door before stepping out. After the door had shut, she fell to the floor crying as hard as she could.
But she had calmed down once a warm feathery hand rested on her shoulder. Looking up, she witnessed Daisy, who was also crying. She bent down and gave the queen-to-be a cuddle, she had missed those playful days in her younger years too.
"I'm sorry your highness.." She whispered lightly.
Minnie looked at her with her weary eyes and stood tall. "I'm sorry Daisy, but I cannot be queen. I have to run away from here, I cannot stand these haunted memories that have only just happened. I have to get as far away as possible from here.." She exclaimed to her duck pal.
"I understand your majesty, I will not stop you nor beg you to stay. But I will come with you, tonight, we both shall leave." Daisy reassured the mouse. "Thank you, you're a great friend." Minnie replied to the touched duck. "Your welcome
Minnie
" Daisy smiled, at the sound of her name, the mouse locked her arms around the white duck, hugging her tightly.
Walking down the streets of London was a male mouse known as Mickey Mouse. He wasn't exactly the rich type, in fact he was poorer than you thought. He had a lot of bills to pay, but had no money to pay them with. Often in the middle of the night, the bill collector would come and take some of his furniture.
Behind him followed an orange dog, his name was Pluto. Mickey had Pluto ever since Pluto was a pup, and ever since he was a child. Mickey and Pluto were almost the same age.
Mickey witnessed everyone had miserable expressions glued to their faces. He walked towards a smart gentleman who heaved a sigh. "Excuse me sir, but why is everyone so gloomy today?" Mickey questioned him. "Haven't you heard? The queen is dead
" The gentleman replied. "Oh gosh," Was Mickey's response, he removed his cap and looked at the floor. "But not to worry young laddie, the princess is to be crowned tomorrow morning. I'm sure she'll be a great ruler, just like her mother." Chuckled the man.
"Princess? I didn't know the queen had a daughter, I was told she had a son."
"Well, she had both. But her son disappeared just the day before he was crowned. Come to think of it, I'm sure there's an even chance the princess will disappear too
" The man whispered the mouse. "Oh gee, let's hope that doesn't happen. The princess is all we have left." Mickey exclaimed to the gentleman.
"Yes, I do believe you are right young laddie, but no one can change fate." The man declared, he placed his top hat on his head and gave it a small tilt. "Good day to you laddie." He said before walking away.
"Gee Pluto, this really is bad news, the king is ill, now the queen is dead. I'm sure hope I'm wrong about the king dying next
" Mickey informed his dog, he gave him a pat on the head and continued to walk on.
But as he reached his home, he observed the bill collector who was trying to knock down his door with banging and shouting. "I know your in there you little rat! Open up!" He shouted before kicking the door a kick. He gulped nervously before backing away. But he accidentally tripped and knocked over a trash can.
He shut his eyes tightly as the noisy sound filled the air. He opened them to see the bill collector glare at him growling.
"You! You dirty little rat! You still haven't paid your bills, for six whole months!" The bill collector bellowed. "I-I'm sorry sir, I will pay it, I just don't have the money yet.." Mickey squeaked. He backed away as the bill collector took several steps forward.
"Well, I guess I'll have to take something away to sell it then. Since you have no more furniture left, I'll just take your precious little dog!" The bill collector gave out a loud and evil laugh before seizing the dog.
"Pluto!" Mickey cried, he tried to stand up and retrieve his dog, but the bill collector pushed him back, making his fall into the trash can.
He laughed again before walking away.
Mickey glared at him, he stuck his tongue out at him blowing a raspberry.
The bill collector turned around, he growled at Mickey who laughed nervously before gulping. "Why you little!" The bill collector shouted, he lunged at Mickey, but Mickey was swift. He jumped out of the trash can and began to run for his life whilst the bill collector chased him.
Mickey took a glance behind him, he seemed to be loosing the bill collector. He sighed in relief and looked forward, but accidentally bumped into someone. The two strangers rolled down the pavement and eventually stopped.
Mickey opened his eyes, to see another pair staring straight back at him. He realized his nose was also touching theirs.
Mickey speedily rose, he helped the young maiden to her feet before whipping off his cap and giving her a bow. "Sorry ma'am," He apologized.
"Come back here you dirty vermin!" The bill collector roared from behind. Mickey gave a frightened shout before zooming away. The bill collector stopped in front of the maiden and gave her a glare. "Whatta you looking at?" He asked impolitely. "Is that dog for sale?" The maiden asked. The bill collector's eyes widened, he looked at the dog and back at the maiden.
Mickey gasped for breath, he looked behind him miserably as his lips trembled. "Aw Pluto, I wish you weren't taken away
" He thought. Now that Pluto was gone, he was as lonely as ever. He thought that he would see Pluto turn old, he guessed that he was wrong. Lips still shaky, he continued to walk ahead, wishing he would get Pluto back somehow.
"Excuse me!"
Mickey glanced behind him, only to be lunged at. Someone licked him all over his face, making him laugh. He opened his eyes and saw Pluto standing on top of him. "Pluto!" He shouted merrily. He gave Pluto a big hug as the dog continued to lick his face.
After the happy moment had ended. Mickey stood up and looked around, no one was to be seen. "Pluto, how did you get out. You know the bill collector will come back to get you again-"
Pluto barked and began sniffing the ground. Mickey followed him from behind, until they reached a certain someone. She had a brown cloak around her so that no one could see her face, other than her eyes.
"Um, excuse me miss." Mickey called out to her. She turned around watching Mickey walk towards her. She smiled to herself as Mickey removed his cap and tugged at it endlessly staring at his feet.
Mickey had never been nervous or shy, he was always out-spoken and honest.
He looked up and gave a smile. "I just want to um, t-thank you for returning my d-dog back. I really appreciate it, if-if it wasn't for y-you, I guess I would never see m-my best pal again.." Mickey stuttered a few times, he felt a very strange feeling when he was around this young maiden, but he still had to thank her.
"It was nothing really, just a helping hand," The maiden smiled, the took Mickey's hand and offered him a brown bag.
"Here, use it wisely." She smiled sweetly. She watched as Mickey opened the brown bag with wide eyes. "I-I cant accept this, I'm sorry but I-"
"There you are! I've been looking for you everywhere! You could of at least waited for me!" Daisy shouted running towards her. She seized the maiden's arm and dragged her away speedily before running.
Pluto stared at Mickey and back to where the maiden stood. "Aw gee Pluto, I didn't even get her name
" Mickey sighed sorrowfully, he turned to Pluto who gave out a small whine.
"Come on boy, let's go home
"
Disney Bites 5 by XxMotherNaturexX
Literature / Fan Fiction / Romance©2011-2019 XxMotherNaturexX
AW! This one is called Fantastic Fantasies! I made this especially for ~hypermegatailsfan! Even though she probably didn't ask for it, it's a gift!
I hope she likes it!
hypermegatailsfan Featured By Owner Oct 27, 2011 Hobbyist Writer
It's a very cute story, and it has a lot of potential. Always good to have another Disney writer. Thanks for the gift
XxMotherNaturexX Featured By Owner Oct 27, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist
Thanks for the comment! I'm really glad you liked it!
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Taken By Me (Kuroo Tetsurou x Reader)
You lived in Miyagi and go to Karasuno. You were the assistant manager of the volleyball team. Tanaka and Nishinoya have always been nosy about your love life because for as long as they’ve known you, they’ve never once seen you go on a date.
The Karasuno volleyball team knew you had a boyfriend. They knew he was from Tokyo and that he was a volleyball player. However, aside from Daichi and Suga, none of them knew his name or what school he attended.
The Nekoma volleyball team knew their captain had a girlfriend. They knew you were from Miyagi and the manager of one of the volleyball teams. Aside from Kenma, none of them knew your name or what school you attended.
You and Kuroo had met by pure coincidence, Kuroo on the other hand likes to say it was fate.
You had met 4 years ago while you were on vacation in Tokyo with your family. You had decided to go explore on your own before going home and ended up getting lost. A good-looking guy approached you and asked if you needed
Stay With Me (Cheater!Levi X Reader) AU
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A long drag of smoke billowed from the soft glowing embers of the cigarette, undulating into the already misty midnight air grown heavy with the gentle breeze. Running a chilled and slightly pale hand through his onyx-raven locks, he attempted to tame the slightly tousled locks from his previous encounter with the woman he had spent quite a few hours with. He had already ridden himself of the overcoat laced with the overpowering scent of her disgusting perfume that she seemed to drench herself in, and had wiped away most of the ruby red lipstick stains sprawled over his neck, leaving him in his casual obsidian button-down shirt tucked into his charcoal-tinted pants. Besides his daily rendezvous with the ravenous women, he always felt calmed and
Examining You (Reiner x Reader) [AU]
DISCLAIMER: This story is an AU or remake. It’s not going to flow with the original story and there will be major changes to the original storyline.
Rating: FLUFF. Mild Coarse Language. Sexual References.
Something in your pocket was constantly buzzing and vibrating and it irritated the crap out of you. After finishing your supplementary exam paper you let up and pulled your unyielding device out. Looking intently at it your inbox was flooded with messages that looked like spam. From who? Well,
‘Reiner Braun; 11 unread messages’
“What the hell?” You thought to yourself. Ignoring the stash of messages you sent him a fresh one.
‘(Name): (1:12PM) - “Stop spamming me with messages Reiner. I can’t be bothered reading them now. Just tell me straight what’s up.” - (11/04/2014)’
Setting your phone down you filed away your study notes. A minute later you got a reply.
‘Reiner: (1:13PM) - “I
Camp Shenanigans (Kuroo Tetsurou x Reader)
Taken By Me (Part 1)
“And that’s how we met,” you finished.
You and the other managers were currently sitting in the room you shared together. They wanted to know more about your relationship with Kuroo and how it started so you told them.
“Wow, that sounds like it came straight out of a movie,” said Shirofuku.
“Kuroo likes to say it was fate,” you said and chuckled.
“What is it like dating the scheming captain of Nekoma?” Asked Kiyoko.
“Well, he’s a great boyfriend. He seems to always have a shit eating grin on his face but there’s a lot more to him than meets the eye. It feels like I’m dating my best friend, he knows what to say and what to do to put me in a good mood and he reads me like a book,” you replied.
“You really love him, huh?” Asked Su
Not a gentleman --7-- {Levi/F.Reader} victorian AU
The gong of the massive antique clock in the living room downstairs went off for the– you had truly lost count. You have been laying in bed for several hours now, waiting for Morpheus to grant you a visit and bloody put you to sleep. No such luck it seemed. Probably the fact that you had slept the most part of the day had something to do with your current insomnia. Yet it was not only your rested body that kept your mind painfully awake when all you wanted to do was pass out until morning so you could leave the place and lock yourself in your house for at least a week. The desire for isolation was ignited by a reason so irritating that it made your skin itch. Partially, you were irritated with yourself for not being able to handle the situation like the adult you were. The rest was irritation with the Lord – oh, great surprise!
No matter what you did, no matter how much you tossed and turned on your bed, you couldn’t bloody
Disney Bites 5Minnie lingered in her enormous palace chamber. She held a beautiful pink rose, which it's petals had been plucked. She heaved a small sigh as she picked the last petal, before throwing the stem of the rose onto the glossy floor.
Minnie began to feel nervous, she opened the door and immediately
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The Dial - Kent & London Party Band
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Located in London and Kent, (Left Of) The Dial have been entertaining party goers across Kent, London and beyond for 10 years, performing at weddings, special events and parties - on cruises, in stately homes and grand hotels.
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Great Music from... The Dial
Left Of The Dial, to give us our full name, are Kent's most exciting and hard-working musicians who have been filling dance floors and thrilling audiences across the South since 2007 with unique renditions of dance, pop and rock music.
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Hire our top class wedding and party band for Weddings, Birthday Parties, Charity Fundraisers and Corporate Events. Performing Rock, Soul, Disco and Pop Classics across Kent, London and the Southeast.
We are booked throughout Kent, London & the Southeast for every occasion: Weddings, Parties, Charity Fundraisers and Corporate Events.
Customers include BA, National Trust, Channel 4, Riding for the Disabled, Waitrose, English Womens Rugby as well as performances backing high profile artists.
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"Firstly, thank you so much for the terrific performance you gave at our fundraiser at the Novotel on Saturday night... We do not yet have a final total, but when we do we will certainly let you know. Again my sincere thanks."
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"Many thanks to yourself, Steve, Andy, Michelle and Morne for the superb evening entertainment which is the talk of Bearwood. Fabulous musicians and vocals, repertoire was on the nose for the audience, will definitely recommend you for future events.
Sadly the football on Sunday did not get the same enthusiasm.
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Beth Coburn
Area manager, house brand fashion accessories, House of Fraser, aged 29
Beth Coburn recently became area manager for own-brand accessories in House of Fraser’s top 21 stores.
She began working part-time in the retailer’s MetroCentre store while at university in Leeds and joined the management training scheme after graduating. Since then Coburn has worked for key House of Fraser stores, gaining broad experience of the business.
“The product area manager role is a completely different challenge for me as I’m used to managing within one store,” she says. The role is an important one – accessories are the second most important category for Christmas, and House of Fraser is driving sales from its house brands, Coburn says. It’s a role that is also raising her profile in the business.
“I know what it’s like to get a head office visit. But I hope I can talk easily about what will make a difference to sales. I like people, I like working with customers, and I treat people with respect.”
Peter Gross, House of Fraser’s executive director, retail operations east, says: “Beth is committed to her personal development, which has seen her progress her management career in stores such as the MetroCentre, Glasgow, Birmingham and Leeds. Having benchmarked for a store manager role last year, she has now moved into a new house brand area manager role. Her stores are already seeing the benefit of her support and guidance.”
Karen Millen lands at Gatwick airport
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Karen Millen has opened a 780 sq ft store in Gatwick’s North Terminal, in time for the Easter holidays.
Trade buyer could revive Karen Millen, say insiders
1 July 2019Isabella Fish
A trade sale to another retailer would be “the best fit” for Karen Millen, industry experts have told Drapers.
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Cambridge senior citizen releases stunning manuscript of Herod, King of the Jews. Astonishing revelations from the man accused of 'The Slaughter of the Innocents' and intended murder of Jesus The Christ.
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant.
Author's note: I have held this story privily unto myself for over four decades now. Not a day goes by, not an hour, that I have failed to examine this manuscript, touch it, venerate it, until I have come to know each sentence, every word, indeed every smudge and discoloration.
Since the very day this story begins, so many years ago, this document has determined the course of my life. Instead of merely discovering perhaps the most important of historical documents -- the apologia pro vita sua of Herod, King of the Jews, archetype of majesty, I have found a master... for whatever role I have played in this matter, it has always been Herod who has called all the shots, just as he called them every day of his life, as much a King in death as he was most assuredly King in life.
This papyrus clearly marked with the royal seal of Herod, King has held me in thrall. I have wondered, indeed dwelt on the matter with near manic intensity, whether I was right to withhold notifying my dissertation advisor of a find I knew almost instantly was a matter of the first importance, a certain wonder to the world, significant to people everywhere.
I was, however, just a second-year graduate student at the time and was as such unsure of my way; of no consequence or standing whatsoever. I decided then, and have lived with the consequences of this decision ever since, that when I was "ready" I would release the fateful document I have always known would make my career, guarantee a plum academic appointment, respect and admiration my certain portion...
... along, of course, with the jealous denunciations, painful abuses, and hurtful execrations of those who were determined to bring low anyone who threatens, as I and this seminal document would most certainly threaten, the version of events they had propounded and rested their careers, well being and reputations upon.
I was convinced then that I was not ready to withstand such abuse, which I knew was certain and so made the far-reaching decision to be silent and maintain this silence. Each time thereafter I determined I was at last "ready" for the world to know and take my rightful place amongst today's Sadducees, I paused knowing the first query I would be universally subjected to was "why?".... why had I waited even a single minute for revelation, the fateful query which even I recognized would undercut my case and make its acceptance even more difficult than I knew it would be.
Thus from the moment I determined I would not inform my advisor, would not inform anyone, my fate was sealed. Herod gained a loyal servant... I gained a boot on my neck, for I lived no longer my life; I lived only the life Herod, King permitted me. Here's how it all began...
In Widener's stacks, a bomb shell.
I was, I admit, a diligent, more plodding than brilliant student for all that Fair Harvard selected me. As such I was guaranteed a "good" job, at a "respectable" university... secured sustenance, but not one scintilla of the glory, fame and fanfare I yearned for. To avoid this fate, one known by most graduate students and the average Academician, I needed a dissertation that was at once meal ticket and masterpiece. And for that I needed just the right topic.
After discussion, I was given permission to write on the role of the "Slaughter of the Innocents" in the development of Christian theology, iconography, hagiography, and belief... and as such was immediately introduced to Herod, King, the designated villain of the matter.
Herod, scoundrel, murderer, infanticide, scourge of every decency, infamous traducer of every humane value, King.
The point of a dissertation, a doctoral thesis, is for the designated educational authorities to determine if you, aspirant to the Academy, can advance the cause of truth ("Veritas" as they simply say at Harvard) and, having advanced your point of view, defend it against all comers, and so enrich humanity.
It is the noblest occupation of all, the process through which assertions, however audacious and astonishing, shine out not as opinions but as Truth... thereby taking the place of mere arguments once regarded as important, now instead to be regarded as untenable propositions; no longer regarded as anything but the quaint beliefs of earlier, less enlightened times. All true scholars participate in this crucial work, indeed it is the major reason for the very existence of the Academy, where all work hard for wages ample but not excessive, shaping society, enriching society, advancing society word by careful word, idea by new idea.
I was proud to walk this road, honored, humble before such a great goal, determined to be worthy of the name Scholar. And so I opened my research on Herod (born 73/74 BCE, died 4 BCE aged 70); his reign (37-4 BCE), his wives (10), his children (at least 10), his vast achievements (particularly the construction of the Second Temple of Judaism and the astonishing engineering feat that was Caesarea Maritima and its breathtaking port, the envy of every governor and autocrat necessitous of tax revenues and wishing new ways to tap into the never ending bounty that was the trade of the Orient. Herod was the envy and inspiration of all, even unto the reigning Roman emperor himself.
The dark, sinister, paranoid, sleepless, fearful ruler, murder always at the ready to ease his uneasy spirit.
Then there was the "other" Herod, the one whose violent deeds continue to shock, disquiet, and disgust. This was a man of dark thoughts and darker deeds, a man whose penchant for murder as statecraft still reeks two millennia later. This was the man who killed his second wife Queen Mariamne, likely the only woman he ever loved; who then roamed the corridors of his many palaces calling her name, summoning her back to the life he had summarily ended.
He likewise killed his three sons by this queen as well as unnumbered officials, soldiers, priests, subjects, and nobles. Such a man well knew there would be jubilation at his death and so ordained that the leading men of every family, tribe, and section should die with him, thereby producing distress, lamentation and grief suitable for his stature and majesty.
Such a man could easily be thought to commit the unthinkable, the one act universally regarded as unmitigated evil, the act known to history as "The Slaughter of the Innocents", enshrined for all the world to know and judge in The Holy Bible (St Matthew, 3,13-16)
"Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years and older, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men."
This was and has always been the gravamen against this notorious sovereign, a grave charge found no where else. Even so, this heinous deed was accepted by all, historical fact, the very gospel. My diligent researches revealed nothing more... until one unforgettable afternoon in the cool recesses of Widener Library.
There at the bottom of a dusty box, tied in heavy string, marked as a previously unopened, uncataloged bequest of Judaica was destiny in the form of a seal, the kind of official marking on the correspondence of some great man indicating a matter of significance. And so it most assuredly was...
The Gospel according to Herod, King of the Jews.
I would have removed the document from the box in any case. The shear beauty and intricacy of the seal, remarkably intact, assured that. Its design I later identified as an element from the facade of Herod's masterwork, the Great Temple of the Jews. The document that followed was in Greek, a language Herod knew well from his extensive classical education. Here, too, he had the advantage of me...
But I knew enough to know the salutation was the king's own. It said "Attend! To Herod, King!" He used the Greek word, "Basileus."
Soon I was giving every moment that I could enter the stacks to this document; early and late I thought of nothing but its translation. But this was not enough. My poor Greek made for slow progress.... and so I determined to "borrow" this document from the library, promising to return it as soon as I had finished, but of course that day never dawned. I am looking at it now...
Obsession, a secret life, Herod rules my life.
Over the course of the next months, which ultimately turned into long years, my entire attention was focused on the document, which in due time proved to be a death-bed justification of the events of his momentous reign. The drift was always the same, I did such and such a thing because I was King, not saint.
Yes, he killed Queen Mariamne "a tiresome woman who would not keep to her place". Yes, he murdered her brother the High Priest "an ambitious man with his eye on my crown and the head in it."
Yes, he murdered his three sons by Mariamne "useless drones with only one interest in life... seeing me dead."
The document, running some 5,000 words in the most elegant and sophisticated Greek imaginable, was a treasure trove of valuable insights. He made it clear each word was the word of a king, as such sacrosanct; that he would not deign to dissemble even if it were to his interest. And so he produced a document only the ultimate insider could have produced. That is why his remarks about "The Slaughter of the Innocents" disturbed me so...
In whose interest?
Herod, King, so renowned and powerful even on his bier that he could afford to tell the whole truth about himself, was forthright on this matter, too. He never saw any "wise men" (characteristically saying that he had been looking for such men quite unsuccessfully for his entire life); never received them; was never told that they sought the infant "King of the Jews". If they had he could have directed them to dozens of such people in and around his kingdom, claimants to the throne being "common as dust".
Moreover, should he have wished to kill the children of Bethlehem as the legend states, he could easily have found methods at once less flamboyant and more effective, starting a pest house there for instance, thereby introducing new plagues and contagions. He then went on to another matter. But before he did, he asked his reader to consider in whose interest such a canard might be. Certainly not his.
Over time the likely answer to Herod's sharp question emerged. The early Christians lacked credibility and needed as many "miracles" as quickly as possible, to grow and prosper. Casting Herod as the certain cause for one of history's most tragic and cruel events allowed the early fathers to dazzle by claiming miracles, indeed the very involvement of God Himself on their behalf, never mind it was untrue. Thus instead of this Biblical "truth", I came to adhere to Herod's no nonsense conclusion; that the entire matter of this slaughter was fraudulent, a pack of convenient lies composed for their own purposes.
What was I to do? I had by now been expelled from Harvard, not for the theft of one of history's most important documents; that was child's play. Rather for neglecting my other work and classes. Thus, I had even less standing than before. And so the matter rested for all these years. Thus, I allowed the selfish beneficiaries of the hoax known as "The Slaughter of the Innocents" to continue their falsehood and deception.
A special message from Dr. Lant.
Three months ago, I found in the lobby of the building where I live a hand-delivered package hand-addressed to me. I noticed at once it had no return address. Per my invariable custom, I opened the box at once, only to find all the documents collected by the ex-Harvard graduate student whose research on the matter has been so meticulous and invaluable. It even contained the headline he once expected to appear upon publication of his discovery.
However while I have used this headline above, I am by no means sure I shall ever publish this article, much less the poor man's work, acute discoveries and conclusions as he clearly expected me to do. Here's the rub...
Myths are important, you see, none more so than this one. For, yes, I am fully persuaded King Herod, not the single reference found in The Holy Bible, was right, that the research of our scholar was right. However their conclusions are inconvenient, to say nothing more, to churches and Christians everywhere. They need belief and Herod's truth would only unsettle them so, especially at Christmas. For the story of Christmas relies on Herod, the three wise men, the dream God gave Joseph to flee into Egypt, and "the slaughter of the Innocents'. You see my dilemma....
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Air travel is responsible for 2% to 3% of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions caused by man. Since 2005, KLM has had an active strategy to reduce CO2 emissions from its entire operations. To do so, we are investing in new, more fuel-efficient aircrafts and improving our operational efficiency by, for instance, reducing weight on board. We are also stimulating the market for sustainable biofuel. Nevertheless, to reach our current goals we still need to offset our remaining CO2 emissions. KLM does this through its share in the EU-ETS (a European carbon offset scheme) and its voluntary offsetting service for passengers called CO2ZERO.
KLM initiated the CO2ZERO service in 2008. This voluntary option enables passengers to compensate for their flight-related carbon emissions, thereby neutralising their carbon footprint resulting from their flight. KLM and its partner airlines calculate the actual CO2 emissions for their flights. The calculation for each flight is based upon the type of aircraft, the distance flown, and the historical load factor.
As successor of the cooking stoves project in Ghana, KLM has selected a reforestation project in Panama for CO2ZERO. Since October 2017, the contribution for compensating via CO2ZERO is invested in CO2OL Tropical Mix. This project is committed to planting new trees, maintaining existing forests and supporting the local community in Panama for CO2ZERO. KLM chooses projects that carry the Gold Standard for the Global Goals certificate. The Gold Standard for the Global Goals certificate ensures that projects do more to responsibly manage natural resources and bring life-changing benefits to local communities. The investments are financed by the purchase of so-called carbon credits from the project. A carbon credit can be seen as a form of permission to emit greenhouse gases, which are then reduced or removed from the atmosphere through an emissions-reducing project. A reforestation project works as follows: newly planted trees absorb and store (sequester) carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) from the atmosphere in their roots, stem and crown.
The CO2OL Tropical Mix project combines the protection of biodiversity and ecosystem restoration with sustainable timber production and small-scale sustainable cacao plantations. Besides the numerous environmental benefits, the project’s activities integrate capacity building and create long-term employment with a sustainable source of income for the local population.
"My goal was to find a new CO2ZERO project for KLM that would fit the goals of the service and hold a Gold Standard certificate. This means that a project has to have a positive influence on the environment, but also make a positive contribution to the local community. There are not that many reforestation projects in the world with a Gold Standard certification but this project in Panama did.… In total, I visited 12 different locations, and in every single place the people were positive about their role and the change the project had made in their lives.” (Remona van der Zon).
Until now, at least 3.5 million trees have been planted on different fincas (farms). The newly planted forests not only absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, they also serve as bridges for animals seeking new habitats. Fifteen endangered animal species from the Red List, such as the ocelot, have already been observed. Reforestation also fulfils important ecosystem functions by protecting water levels and controlling erosion. Besides the positive effects on biodiversity and the environment, the project has created fair and long-term employment for the local population. Until now, 150 people have found a job in the project in Panama.
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Dublin City Council's social housing output to be slashed in half
The number of homes due to be made available this year has more than halved
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The number of social houses to be made available in Dublin this year is set to be slashed in half.
Dublin City Council stats show the government has a target of providing 3,347 homes up to the end of 2017.
That figure works out at just 700 homes a year - compared to the 1,700 created in 2015.
The majority of last year's social houses came on stream through refurbishing vacant homes, but now nearly all of these have been filled.
Meanwhile, a cross-party committee will work to address the housing crisis.
The Dail housing and homeless group was set up last week and met for the first time today.
Committee member Eoin O'Broin of Sinn Féin claimed there are some major questions to be answered.
He said: "What can government do now that it's not doing to stem the flow of families into homelessness?
"We need to look at the difficulties that people are having in accessing social housing, private rental housing and also first-time buyers in the private market."
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Emory Executive Education Launches LGBTQ Executive Leaders Forum
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ATLANTA— Emory Executive Education, in partnership with the LGBTQ Institute at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, will host a 4-day forum this summer designed for leaders in the LGBTQ business community.
The LGBTQ Executive Leaders Forum will provide a space for participants to network with peers and share experiences in order to become even stronger leaders and advocates for the LGBTQ population in business. Those looking to explore challenges that come with being an LGBTQ leader are encouraged to apply by July 15. A committee will review and accept a limited number of candidates.
“We’re excited to partner with the LGBTQ Institute to create a program that addresses the business landscape for LGBTQ leaders,” said J.B. Kurish, Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education and Professor in the Practice of Finance. “This program will prepare them to not only advance in their careers but to push their organizations—and the business community—to advocate on behalf of the LGBTQ population.”
Participants will review research on the current state of the LGBTQ population in business, discover methodology of design thinking to better define challenges and find solutions in the workplace, and grow their network by interacting with faculty and fellow participants from various backgrounds. Special attention will also be paid to developing storytelling techniques to engage others about the LGBTQ business community. Additionally, participants will explore legal protections and exposures for LGBTQ professions and learn strategies for hiring, retaining, and promoting top talent.
The Faculty Director for the Forum is Professor Karen Sedatole. A nearly 20-year veteran of academia, Sedatole’s research focuses on the design and effectiveness of performance measurement and reward systems. She is a two-time recipient of the American Accounting Association Notable Contributions to Management Accounting Research Award and previously served as senior editor of the Journal of Management Accounting Research.
Many other faculty members will present, including Professor Giacomo Negro. In more than 15 years in academia Negro has targeted his research on the various aspects of sociology and economics that drive organizational behavior.
“Our research shows LGBTQ people expect companies to stand up for equality and LGBTQ leaders in business have a unique opportunity to help steward their company’s strategies,” said Ryan Roemerman, Executive Director of the LGBTQ Institute. “This course will help LGBTQ leaders understand their value and navigate complex environments that can accelerate their personal growth, and help their business authentically support LGBTQ employees and customers.”
WHO: Executives with a minimum of 10 years management experience
WHAT: The LGBTQ Executive Leaders Forum
WHEN: Aug. 12-15, 2019 (Deadline to submit an application is July 15, 2019)
WHERE: Emory University’s Goizueta Business School; 1300 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322
COST: $6,000 (some meals included)
Additional details on the course can be found at: worksmarter.org/eulgbtq.
Recently ranked No. 28 in the world for custom programs by Financial Times, The Executive Education program at Goizueta currently offers more than a dozen, ongoing short courses and four certificate programs, including the Roberto C. Goizueta Leadership Certificate. Additional offerings for female executives and LGBTQ leaders have been added in recent years. A host of corporate clients also engage Emory for custom programming. Past clients include SunTrust, The Home Depot, Nielsen, International Paper, Crawford and Company, UPS, and the Genuine Parts Company.
About Emory University’s Goizueta Business School
Business education has been an integral part of Emory University’s identity since 1919. That kind of longevity and significance does not come without a culture built around success and service. Emory University’s Goizueta Business School offers a unique, community-oriented environment paired with the academic prestige and of a major research institution. Goizueta trains business leaders of today and tomorrow with an Undergraduate degree program, a Two-Year Full-Time MBA, a One-Year MBA, an Evening MBA, an Executive MBA (Weekend and Modular formats), a Master’s of Business Analytics, a Doctoral degree and a portfolio of non-degree Emory Executive Education courses. Together, the Goizueta community strives to solve the world’s most pressing business problems. The school is named for the late Roberto C. Goizueta, former Chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company. For more information, visit goizueta.emory.edu or follow us on Twitter (@emorygoizueta).
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Yesterday it was revealed that, in an effort to improve its performance figures on rape CPS leaders have told prosecutors to reduce the number of rape cases they charge (2). Earlier this week we heard that young adult men are much less likely than men aged over 24 years to be convicted of rape when tried in court (3).
Today’s report, based on an FOI to police forces and which finds widely varying practice, gives detailed insight into why so few cases ever make it to court and why victims of rape find the system so grueling and hostile.
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“The discovery that the police are all over the place in the way they treat people reporting rape is extremely disappointing, but no surprise.
“Our members who work with rape survivors tell us that the prospect of being asked to give permission for all this personal information to be examined is extremely anxiety-inducing for those considering reporting rape. On the other hand – we hear constant recommendations from those in power that those who have been raped should report straight away.
“We have a situation where a woman’s character, background and even social media activity are being used to decide whether or not her complaint of rape will be investigated and prosecuted. It is misogynistic and discriminatory, and very likely to be crashing into established rules on not building cases based on a woman’s sexual history.
“We need an end-to-end review of the way the police, prosecutors and courts handle rape. This week’s revelations have been not been a surprise to frontline women’s organisations who support survivors every day. We need top level, concerted action to change this now, because it does not have to stay like this – the offence is not inevitable and neither is a failure to protect or to provide justice.
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Microsoft is continuing to push quietly into new frontiers on the accessibility front. Their most recent effort? The release of four free "Eyes First" games that people who have speech and mobility-related disabilities can play using nothing but eye movements. The new quartet of Windows 10 games, Maze, Double Up, Match Two, and a Tile Slide puzzle were all developed by Microsoft Research.
All four games make heavy use of Windows 10 eye-tracking APIs that were introduced into the OS as a part of Windows 10 version 1803, which in turn, built on the "Eye Control" accessibility feature that was introduced in version 1709.
The company sees it as a perfect win-win scenario. People with the aforementioned disabilities get four fun games they can play. The company gets the opportunity to study, assess, and improve the technologies to open the door to new eye tracking technologies in the future. It's also a good proof of concept that Microsoft hopes will drive developer interest in creating new games that make use of the APIs. In fact, the company is counting on it and has even created a Gaze Interaction Library on their site.
If you're interested in testing the technology out for yourself, the first thing you'll need is a compatible eye tracker. Once you've got one, you'll need to enable the "Eye Control" feature under the "Ease of Access" section of your system's settings. From there, it's a simple matter of downloading and installing the games you want to play and getting to it! Of course, while all four games were designed with eye tracking in mind, it's also possible to play them via mouse or touchscreen controls.
It's an exciting new technology being put to fun, playful use for testing. Kudos to Microsoft!
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Social media drove the heart and soul of NHS Change Day 2014
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Joe McCrea reflects on a remarkable runaway success.
NHS Change Day is a quite extraordinary social movement for change and innovation across the health service.
Given the size and complexity of the organisation compared with others across the globe, it is one of the largest single social movements for change and improvement in the world.
By the end of the 2014 project, it had attracted an incredible 702,132 online pledges from across the NHS and beyond – smashing its original target of 500,000 pledges.
Being a social movement, it’s no surprise that social media is at the heart of NHS Change Day. Its success came from the adoption of a distinctive approach to social media – a Communitarian strategy.
In 2013, Change Day used just four mainstream social media channels: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Podbean. Even using these limited channels, survey research carried out as part of post-project evaluation suggested that over a third of Change Day 2013participants first heard about the project via social media.
In fact, the entire project began with a tweet between Helen Bevan and young doctors Stuart Sutton and Damian Roland.
For 2014, we expanded massively the number and range of social media platforms and channels deployed to engage the frontline and support the social movement. And we moved from the traditional core to encompass a range of extended social media tools and channels, including Pinterest, Blipfoto, Instagram, Flickr, WhatsApp and Vimeo.
As Change Day 2014 reached its culmination at Expo 2014 in Manchester, we went one stage further in our social media exploitation by linking from the Conference Centre live to the frontline and shared with the world via Google Hangouts. It included the first pledge delivered live online.
The results were startling. To take just three metrics, our main Twitter account gained over 86 million Twitter impressions, at its height getting over 1.3 million Twitter impressions a day. We had over 32,000 video views for our films carried across YouTube, Vimeo , Podbean and ITunes. Our Facebook Page footprint increased tenfold with a 95,000 daily reach.
But it’s not just the size of our social media footprint that was a success. It was the strategic approach we adopted towards the use of social media. This was through the adoption of what I call a ‘Communitarian’ as opposed to a ‘Broadcast’ approach to social media.
Practitioners of a Broadcaster approach typically see social media as simply another set of communications channels to continue traditional habits and behaviours of announcing things or speaking at people.
They typically deploy tried and trusted methods to pursue conventional PR and marketing goals of building brand and organisational presence; mainly through one-way communication to the media, members or member organisations, stakeholders or external bodies, customers or service users. The only difference that social media provides is a limited range of alternative broadcast mechanisms to the traditional tools and techniques of one-way press releases, media briefings, round-robin e-mails or mail-merged campaign literature and collateral.
A half-way house stage between the Broadcaster and Communitarian approach might see the deployment of a series of Listening capabilities and programmes. This involves mainly inviting stakeholders and service users to submit responses and comments, ratings or observations on the organisation and its performance and service approaches. These responses and comments are then analysed behind closed doors by the organisation and an improvement strategy developed to deal with the findings.
There is nothing wrong with adopting either the Broadcaster or particularly the Listening approach. In many contexts, it might be precisely the best course of action for an NHS body to adopt, delivering exactly what the organisation needs at a specific time or within its specific challenge or context.
But neither approach will work if the goal is to promote and sustain a social movement. This is where a Communitarian approach is needed to deliver truly groundbreaking results.
Under a Communitarian approach, the widest possible range of social media channels and tools are deployed to underpin a change and improvement programme built upon a rich mix of engaging, listening, responding, supporting, facilitating and participating in communities of individuals and organisations.
That is precisely the approach adopted for Change Day 2014. Rather than using social media simply to tell the NHS, social care and the wider world what WE were doing and what WE were thinking, we used social media to give frontline staff, carers, patients and families THEIR voice and THEIR spaces to interact with each other and inform each other. And a very powerful voice it proved to be.
And, of course, social media uniquely provides an economical and easy way to share the richest quality and depth material and content. An iPhone becomes a movie camera. A tablet becomes a novel or journal. A webcam becomes a live TV station. All of them provide spaces to interact, mutually discover and share.
And so, we were able to support and exhort the frontline to share their videos, their pictures, their stories, their ideas and their pledges with us and with each other. And social media allowed us and them to do so in a way that has hitherto been impossible.
The magnificent pictures, videos and human stories created and shared each day via social media drove the heart and soul of NHS Change Day 2014. And they also built up a remarkable tableau of determination, imagination, creativity and commitment lived and breathed by hundreds of thousands of staff, carers, patients and their families on the NHS frontline at the early stages of the 21st Century.
It felt – and still feels – revolutionary. It feels like a powerful, unstoppable movement for change. History will look back and judge if it truly was. In the meantime, we’ll continue to see you in Social Media space.
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During 2013-14, Joe McCrea combined roles as Social Media Lead for NHS Change Day – the single largest improvement event in the NHS – and Head of Engagement for Tameside Listens, the biggest patient and stakeholder listening exercise in Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s history.
This gave him a unique insight into current contrasting challenges and priorities from frontline and national perspectives.
He is a course tutor for the NHS Leadership Academy’s ‘Nye Bevan Leadership Programme’ and has designed social media strategies for the NHS Confederation and a leading UK local authority.
He has Board level experience in Non-Executive, Cabinet Ministerial Adviser, Parliamentary, Top 5 Consultancy and Senior Civil Service roles. He is a former Special Adviser at the Department of Health, Prime Minister’s Adviser in 10 Downing Street and a member of Cabinet Office Senior Management Team.
A communications pioneer for over two decades, he won numerous innovation awards in 1999 for designing and leading implementation of the world’s first Government-wide integrated policy, strategy and online communities network – the Knowledge Network – years before social media became pervasive.
One of his proudest moments came in 2001, when a word he first coined in 1994 while inventing the Labour Party’s Rapid Rebuttal operation officially entered the English language in the new edition of the Oxford English Dictionary: “Pre-buttal” (noun) – a pre-emptive response to an anticipated attack.
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When Sujoy Ghosh first planned to make a Hindi film based on the Spanish thriller Contratiempo, he offered Sanjay Dutt a role in it, which the actor ended up declining.
“Dutt had a look at the script, but he was offered Omung Kumar’s Bhoomi around the same time. He realised that both films were revenge dramas and so he had to choose one over the other. He opted for Omung’s film, but sadly, it turned out to be a huge flop despite it being his first release after getting out of jail,” a trade source says.
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Now, Ghosh’s film, which is being called Badla, is going places and we’re sure Sanjay Dutt is kicking himself for making the wrong choice. Amitabh Bachchan and Taapsee Pannu have been brought on board and Shah Rukh Khan has decided to produce the project. That sounds like the recipe for a winner.
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Elan’s factory in Begunje na Gorenjskem has been making skis for over seventy years with passion and love by people with capable hands and sharp minds. To those making them, the skis are a source of pride and satisfaction. And that is why Elan is the ultimate innovator.
You can see mountains from just about every window of the Elan factory in Begunje. The steep slopes of the Julian Alps rise in the distance, crowned by Mount Triglav, Slovenia’s 2864 meter national pride. When the windows open, our lungs fill with the fresh alpine air that always carries a reminiscence of skiing, no matter what the weather. Perhaps that is why Begunje is home to so many skiing enthusiasts. Conquering the white steeps had such a strong impact on people that they needed to start making their own skis. And skis were always considered special. They are an inspiration, joy, satisfaction. They are made using the head, and the profound insight of a sharp mind. They are made with hands, heart and soul. They are made with love and passion. That is why they are among the best in the world. That is why the many innovations that have changed the face of skiing bear their signature.
For a true skiing enthusiast, seeing the halls of Elan’s factory is almost a religious experience. Walking through the hallways of the manufacturing halls you immediately feel a spirit of greatness infused in the structure itself. In a way, it is like a museum, but it is also a window into the future. Elan’s engineers always manage to stay a few years ahead of the times, so these halls are a continuing birthplace of the future of skiing. It must be a special feeling, to be able to look back from the future to the present and smile roguishly. Well, that is exactly how Begunje’s engineers have always operated.
To just think of how many pairs of skis have passed through the machines and been caressed by the hands of the workers through the years ... All these skis laid end to end would circle the equator several times over. But Elan skis did not circle the globe only metaphorically; they have done it for real. They achieved global fame and took the name of Slovenia to all the continents of the globe.
All these years of tradition start with one man, Rudi Finžgar. He started making skis before the war, at first for himself and his friends. During the war, he made skis for the partisan fighters and went on to start the company and Elan brand immediately after the war. His vision paved the way for the modern company we have today and it appears that his successors seventy years later still carry the same ability to take a different approach and view things differently than others. Elan quality is an accomplished combination of a sharp mind and skillful hands. After all, a head is no good if the hands cannot make what it comes up with.
Elan’s products are born from a close cooperation between the R&D department and master craftsmen who can bring ideas to life. The process is not always straightforward as certain advanced design concepts pose major challenges and may even seem impossible at first. But Elan is home to some of the greatest masters of their craft. Just about every designer, engineer and craftsman is an accomplished skier in their own right, so they know exactly what to do and which materials to select for a ski to act a certain way.
That is why Elan skis proudly bear the tiny inscription: “Handmade in Slovenia”. These three words define their very essence. Careful hands-on work has been the cornerstone of success of Elan's products since the beginning. In spite of the advent of modern technology and production techniques used to help craftsmen, the main steps in the manufacturing process are still done by hand. This is the only way to achieve the highest standards. Elan has also always produced all the main elements of the skis in-house using the best available materials. Wood is still used as the core of most of the company’s skis. Beech and poplar are the main typesof wood used in racing ski cores while several exotic woods are used on skis that demand extra light weight. Edges are made of high-grade steel and reinforcements are made of titanium, the most expensive part of the ski. The light and stiff metal alloy adds stiffness, torsional stability and a controlled flex.
Call us old fashioned, but we are still sworn to a sandwich construction.It may be one of the oldest methods of making a ski, but it remains the most efficient and still the best way to put together a good ski. The roles of cheese, veggies and sausage in the ski sandwich are assumed by the above materials that take on their final form after being squeezed together for 25 minutes in a press.
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It is a real treat to watch Elan's skilled workers doing what they do best - performing the same procedures they have done thousands of times in their years of work, with all the dedication, accuracy and love of a master craftsman taking profound pride in their work.
The process of making a ski has many interesting steps. The press is certainly one,but the most visually exciting is certainly the grinding of the edges where the skis spark like an iron foundry. The hall where the wood is kept smells the best and meticulously assembled sections of the core provide an interesting insight into the inside of a ski. Looking at different core profiles it becomes clear how one ski can be stiff enough to grip the iciest of slopes while another is friendly and soft. The ski molds are an interesting sight as well, and each ski model and length has a dedicated set. They are a sort of archive of all Elan skis.
It is interesting to note that Elan makes skis by starting with the top sheet graphics. For several years now, they start with silk screening the design, logo and unique ID code onto the transparent top sheet. As each ski progresses through the manufacturing process, the unique identification code bears the signatures of all the persons that touched the ski during production.
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The halls of Elan’s factory hold an eternity’s worth of legendary skiing tales. Of course, the most important ones have to do with the racers that won World Cups, Championships and Olympic Games. Racing always had a special meaning for Elan and the company always knew how to listen to racers' wishes and needs. Sponsored racers receive skis custom tailored to their individual style. If Filip Flisar wishes for a GS racer with improved tail grip, that is exactly what he gets.
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The Move To Serial Bus Interfaces Promises Pin-Count Reductions
Dave Bursky | Aug 05, 2002
It seems that no matter which system-design conference you attend, there will be a session or two on serial buses that promise to eradicate wide parallel buses and other interconnections. Such buses are commonly found on connector backplanes, as well as in high-wire-count cables that connect disk drives to motherboards, external peripherals to systems, and even large systems to each other. The objective is simple—reduce system cost and complexity.
Serial interfaces can do this by first reducing the pin count—in some cases by 16 to one or 32 down to two or four. Reduced pin counts allow simpler and lower-cost cables to be used. Chip packages also require fewer pins, simplifying pc-board layout. Replacing a 16-wire bus with one wire requires the single-wire bus to operate at a clock rate 16 times faster than the parallel bus. In previous-generation systems, achieving the higher clock rates was challenging because serial data rates of just a few hundred megahertz pushed the technology.
However, the latest CMOS processes with design features of 0.13 µm and smaller let designers implement high-speed serializer-deserializer (SERDES) interfaces that can transfer data at rates of several gigahertz. Within another year or so, 10-GHz serial data interfaces will be achievable. At such speeds, most serial interfaces use differential signaling, so two pins are required for each serial channel.
Often, designers will divide the parallel data path into 8-bit wide segments and assign each segment to one serial channel. Thus a 64-bit bus would transform into a 16-wire interface, saving 48 pins. If several wide interfaces are used in a system logic chip, that savings could be multiplied by three or four times. Replacing three such wide interfaces would save about 144 pins and probably a considerable amount of power as well, not to mention the simplified pc-board layout achieved by eliminating 144 traces.
The latest serial efforts are focusing on adding gigabit and faster serial channels on CompactPCI and even next-generation VME backplanes for industrial applications, as well as on replacing the popular hard-disk ATA cable in the PC with a simpler serial cable. In the PC, such a change provides two benefits to system manufacturers.
First, it should reduce system cost by reducing the connector size and the number of wires in the cable. Second, it could permit longer cables to be used. This would give the system designer more flexibility in physically positioning the disk drive in the cabinet.
There is still much work to be done to ensure that all this can take place. Careful attention must be paid to the design of the SERDES interface to ensure signal robustness in the face of unpredictable loading. Additionally, timing issues related to converting the parallel interface to serial and vice-versa must be carefully analyzed to ensure that no bits are lost and data stays synchronized. At such high data rates, crosstalk may also become an issue. The use of differential signaling and NRZ coding will minimize that issue for the serial channels, but nearby signal lines may be affected.
Furthermore, the design must consume little power. When operating at speeds of 1 GHz and higher, a typical SERDES may consume 80 to 100 mW. In the earlier example in which three 64-bit buses are converted into 24 differential serial interfaces, 80 mW times 24 turns out to be about 2 W. Such power levels may compromise the overall power budget for the chip. Designers must therefore focus on further lowering SERDES power consumption.
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iFive: Obama’s “Fun” Science, Facebook Lost iPhone Deal, Iran’s Space Monkey, Foursquare-Apple Rumors, Nokia-Microsoft Deal
With iFive, you will appear very well informed at an incredibly early hour.
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1. Barack Obama once promised to have a science-friendly presidency, and at his ground-breaking town hall on Facebook, he promised more science. Specifically he wants to “start making science cool” and hopes the American people will think of the next “big energy breakthrough” the same way they felt about the moonwalks 40 years ago. If Obama hadn’t meddled in NASA’s budgets and plans, perhaps people would have a real moonwalk to get excited about, but let’s not be petty.
2. Facebook may be launching a suite of Facebook phones, but it seems the company lost out on what may have been its biggest smartphone coup–the iPhone. Digging through some prototype code for iOS4, it’s been revealed that originally there was going to be much tighter integration of Facebook in Apple‘s device. For presumably the same reasons the Facebook-Ping deal fell through, the idea was later excised from iOS4–and Apple is going its own social media way.
3. Proof positive that the space race is evolving to include some surprising players, Iran has announced today that its rocket systems are ready to fire a monkey into space in mid-September–echoing experiments that the U.S. and Russia made in the early part of the Cold War before Yuri Gagarin’s famous first flight. The global concern is that Iran’s space plans are merely a cover for advanced ICBM weaponry. Meanwhile NASA’s revealed Space Shuttle Endeavor’s last flight will be on April 29th.
4. Chalk this one up as very curious: Foursquare‘s cofounder Dennis Crowley “checked-in” at Apple’s Cupertino campus yesterday, at the same time as Holger Luedorf (the exec in charge of business development) and PR manager Erin Gleason. Speculation is now rife that some kind of deal is being struck with Foursquare to bring its expertise to the expected upgrade of MobileMe, which it’s thought will contain a social media angle.
5. Nokia and Microsoft just revealed that they’ve signed a “definitive agreement” ahead of schedule. It’s part of the plan to bring Windows Phone 7 to Nokia smartphones (to revive the company’s flagging smartphone business). Microsoft notes “hundreds of personnel” are engaged on joint engineering products and that “significant progress” has been made on the first MS-Nokia phone. They’re even reaching out to third party app developers.
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The Essentials for Visiting Manly, Sydney
by Daniel Schwartz
Manly beach promenade. Photo: Flickr / jimmyharris
Sydneysiders and tourists alike crowd Circular Quay's wharf three to cross the harbor to the north Sydney seaside suburb of Manly, for scenic sands, good eats, and the lively scene. Fathom intern Daniel Schwartz spent three weeks studying at the International College of Management this January, at the peak of Australia's summer. Forced to leave, missing it dearly, and seriously contemplating a move, he's reliving it through his list of Manly essentials.
MANLY, Australia – Manly, one of the wealthy suburbs surrounding Sydney, is packed with enough top-notch dining, drinking, and surfer-style shopping options to put a serious dent in any wallet. But that's not stopping anyone from flocking to the seaside hamlet for a day at the beach, fish and chips by the water, and a few schooners of cider come nightfall.
The rent isn't cheap, but the lifestyle is simple. You'll need a tank and board shorts. You'll probably stop wearing shoes. And you'll never want to leave.
THE LAY OF THE LAND
If the sun is shining, and it usually is, the ferry from Circular Quay will be packed. Sydneysiders en route to seaside relaxation look on in disbelief as camera-ready tourists push outdoors for passing views of the Opera House, slanted sail boats, and headland as the ferry glides north. (It's hard to blame them. It's a gorgeous commute, and the views never get old.)
Manly is a peninsula that straddles Sydney Harbour on the west and Tasman Sea to the east. Sydney Harbour National Park fills the southern end, the tony residential area is in the north, and the main action is concentrated in the narrow center. The wharf ends at the pedestrian Corso, the commercial epicenter of Manly that's filled with surfers in their swimmers (Aussie for bathing suits) and stilleto'd beauties in summer skirts. The Corso spans Manly at its narrowest point, and within minutes, you've reached the beaches at the other side.
Shelly tucked away. Photo: Flickr / Welix
The beaches are less crowded on weekdays, so you're almost guaranteed an open plot of sand for tanning, sleeping, and reading. Manly Beach is divided from north to south into three sections: Queenscliff, North Steyne, and South Steyne. If you're looking for a lively beach scene, you'll find it here, along with great surfing waves. If you find yourself marveling at the flawless bodies of practically every local, you won't be alone.
Shelly Beach is directly across from South Steyne, tucked into Cabbage Tree Bay. The appropriately named beach is covered in tiny, multicolored shattered shells and draws a cozy, family crowd. The moms are chatting, the kids are easing their way into the wave-less water, and you can't help but smell someone else's lunch. If you manage to snag one of the two public grills, you can snack on a sausage while you sip that beer you undoubtedly snuck onto the beach. On Sunday nights during the summer, fire twirlers and outdoor ravers dance to the beat of the drums at a really fun but really bizarre free-for-all party that attracts midnight BBQ'ers, friends with brews, and alarmed tourists (that would be me).
The ocean-water pool at Fairy Bower. Photo: Flickr / TenSafeFrogs
The Sporting Life
You can't fully experience the Manly vibe without picking up a surfboard. Go ahead, pretend a little: You're a pro, you practically live at the beach, and your tanned, toned body is evidence. When you've stopped daydreaming, head to Manly Surf School for lessons that start at $70 for two hours. If surfing is too much, you can get outfitted to paddle surf, an efficient, relaxing way to explore the coast.
If you're looking to get your laps in, head to Shelly Beach for calmer waters or stop at the seaside saltwater pool along the way. Yes, there are lots of pools at the beach in Sydney. The surf can get rough and it's tough to swim for exercise in the ocean. These pools are carved into rocks near the sea; the ocean splashes in, filling the pools.
Rent some snorkeling equipment on the walk over and explore the sea life by the rocks off Shelly. Keep your eyes peeled for water dragons and dolphins!
Commune with Nature
The International College of Management, Sydney, is a former Catholic seminary turned university located on a hill five minutes from the ocean. Come for a stroll: The grounds are beautiful. (Nicole Kidman got married here.) Don't be startled by the myriad of noises Australian birds are capable of. If it's late enough, you'll find bandicoots and bunnies roaming the lawns. (I didn't know what a bandicoot was before coming here. It's like a cute mouse, although "cute" is in the eyes of the beholder.) A running path leads from the school into Sydney Harbour National Park. Venture through bush fields, scale the headlands, and explore abandoned barracks. Trek to North Head for particularly stunning views of Sydney or to spend an afternoon of gazing into the Pacific's deep blue horizon.
The Shopping
You'll find the usual nice selection of clothing, jewelry, and souvenir shops, but you'll quickly notice the Corso is dominated by one retail category: surf shacks. Favorite Australian brands include Billabong, Quiksilver, and Rip Curl. On weekends, the open-air Manly Market Place is the go-to for fresh produce and local designs and crafts. For a taste of the northern countries down under, the small and funky Nordic Fusion carries Scandinavian clothing, homewares, and accessories.
Great nights with an Aussie crowd usually make for groggy mornings. Stabilize with a book and an egg sandwich at Hemingway's Manly, where solid Americana is served with solid ocean views. Check back in the evening for drinks and good fun: this is one of Australia's best small bars. The Bower also offers a good breakfast menu with outdoor seating right along the waterfront. If you're only up in time for lunch, fresh seafood and an impressive burger await.
Take a dip in the ocean before lunch — fish and chips taste way better if you're just coming out of the water. Fishmongers is a local favorite. The Ivanhoe delivers on value with delicious seafood snacks and burgers hovering around the $10 mark. Head to Four Fish, directly opposite North Steyne, for serious servings of fish and chips and fresh seafood you can select from the tanks. You can eat-in, but it's better to take away and enjoy the massive servings on the grass overlooking the beach.
At iconic Australian steakhouse Ribs and Rumps, few things are more satisfying than donning a bib, digging into a rack of pork ribs twice the size of human head, and wheezing between bites to tell the waitress, "Yes, I would like another beer."
For a more refined dining experience, The Pantry is a romantic, open-air brasserie on Manly Beach promenade that specializes in European fare and sunset views. Thai food is generally done well in Sydney, and I loved getting shared plates at Mortar and Pestle and Chat Thai.
Beachside dining at The Pantry. Photo: Courtesy of The Pantry
Manly Wharf Hotel, an expansive, multi-sectioned bar a few steps from where the ferry docs, attracts a well-dressed crowd of locals for casual drinks. Sundays, the bar's most popular night, is the best time to come to make new friends.
For a few more drinks, a round of pool, and a louder beer garden vibe, head to Hotel Steyne, where a mix of indoor, outdoor, and rooftop sections host big crowds into the early morning. If you're still thirsty, Moonshine Cider and Rum Bar upstairs offers a large selection of ciders — just make the climb before it closes at midnight (11 p.m. on Sundays). For DJs and dancing, hit the new, dimly-lit Beach Club. You'll party with good looking people on the rooftop sun deck and at the tequila bar on the ground floor. The various floors are worth exploring, especially after a few drinks.
If you're looking for a laid-back night with a twist, venture out to one of the discrete small bars managed by Eat.Drink.Manly. Brklyn is an underground speakeasy with a moody ambience, hidden behind an unmarked door at Sugar Lounge. When most bars are closing shop, Brklyn is still serving New York-style snacks and great cocktails.
Upstairs at the Steyne. Photo: Courtesy of Hotel Steyne
Underground, undercover, and unexpected. Photo: Courtesy of Brklyn
The hotel scene is concentrated around the Corso, although other options are available. Q Station is an idyllic boutique hotel in Sydney Harbour National Park, minutes from Manly center and surrounded by bush. The setting and the views of Sydney Harbour are amazing.
Fly to Sydney: Qantas flies direct to Sydney from New York (JFK), Dallas/Fort Worth, and Los Angeles.
Ferries: The Manly ferry runs roughly every 20 minutes from Circular Quay and takes about a half hour. Service terminates around midnight. Buses take a little longer and run at all hours, but they're much less scenic. Here are schedules.
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Neenah High School's Davin Munoz wrestles Oshkosh West High School's Roman Martell in a 182-pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held in Fond du Lac, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Munoz won the match by a 16-0 score. Doug Raflik, USA TODAY NETWORK-WisconsinDoug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
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Oshkosh West High School's Alec Hunter wrestles Hortonville High School's Austin Spindler in a 106-pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held in Fond du Lac, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Hunter won the match by a pin. Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Oshkosh West High School's Jack Zangl wrestles Appleton West High School's Chase Wendt in a 120-pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, in Fond du Lac. Zangl won the match by a pin. Doug Raflik, USA TODAY NETWORK-WisconsinDoug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Oshkosh West High School's Jack Zangl wrestles Appleton West High School's Chase Wendt in a 120-pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held in Fond du Lac, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Zangl won the match by a pin. Doug Raflik, USA TODAY NETWORK-WisconsinDoug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Oshkosh West High School’s Jack Zangl wrestles Appleton West High School’s Chase Wendt in a 120-pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, in Fond du Lac. Zangl won the match by a pin. Doug Raflik, USA TODAY NETWORK-WisconsinDoug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Oshkosh West High School's Jack Zangl wrestles Appleton West High School's Chase Wendt in a 120-pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held in Fond du Lac, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Zangl won the match by a pin. Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Oshkosh West High School’s Jack Zangl wrestles Appleton West High School’s Chase Wendt in a 120 pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held in Fond du Lac, Saturday, February 2, 2019. Zangl won the match by a pin. Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Doug Raflik, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Kimberly High School's Max Sanderfoot wrestles Oshkosh West High School's Logan Grota in a 132-pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, in Fond du Lac. Sanderfoot won the match by a pin. Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Kimberly High School's Max Sanderfoot wrestles Oshkosh West High School's Logan Grota in a 132-pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held in Fond du Lac, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Sanderfoot won the match by a pin. Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Kimberly High School’s Max Sanderfoot wrestles Oshkosh West High School’s Logan Grota in a 132 pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held in Fond du Lac, Saturday, February 2, 2019. Sanderfoot won the match by a pin. Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Doug Raflik, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Kimberly High School's Max Sanderfoot wrestles Oshkosh West High School's Logan Grota in a 132 pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held in Fond du Lac, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Sanderfoot won the match by a pin. Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Kimberly High School's Max Sanderfoot wrestles Oshkosh West High School's Logan Grota in a 132-pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held in Fond du Lac, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Sanderfoot won the match by a pin. Doug Raflik/ USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Kaukauna High School's John Diener wrestles Fond du Lac High School's Issac Ortegon in a 138-pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, in Fond du Lac. Ortegon won the match by a score of 8-5. Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Kaukauna High School's John Diener wrestles Fond du Lac High School's Issac Ortegon in a 138-pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held in Fond du Lac, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Ortegon won the match by a score of 8-5. Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Kaukauna High School’s John Diener wrestles Fond du Lac High School’s Issac Ortegon in a 138 pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held in Fond du Lac, Saturday, February 2, 2019. Ortegon won the match by a score of 8-5. Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Doug Raflik, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Fond du Lac High School's Logan Naker wrestles Kimberly High School's Tucker Smith in a 145-pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held in Fond du Lac, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Smith won the meet by a pin. Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Fond du Lac High School’s Logan Naker wrestles Kimberly High School’s Tucker Smith in a 145 pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held in Fond du Lac, Saturday, February 2, 2019. Smith won the meet by a pin. Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Doug Raflik, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Oshkosh West High School’s Drew Best wrestles Kimberly High School’s Charlie Hart in a 126 pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held in Fond du Lac, Saturday, February 2, 2019. Hart won the match by a pin. Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Doug Raflik, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Oshkosh West High School's Drew Best wrestles Kimberly High School's Charlie Hart in a 126-pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held in Fond du Lac, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Hart won the match by a pin. Doug Raflik, USA TODAY NETWORK-WisconsinDoug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Fond du Lac High School's Tristan Lakey wrestles Kaukauna High School's Logan Stumpf in a 126-pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, in Fond du Lac. Stumpf won the match by a score of 5-3. Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Fond du Lac High School’s Tristan Lakey wrestles Kaukauna High School’s Logan Stumpf in a 126 pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held in Fond du Lac, Saturday, February 2, 2019. Stumpf won the match by a score of 5-3. Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Doug Raflik, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Fond du Lac High School's Tristan Lakey wrestles Kaukauna High School's Logan Stumpf in a 126-pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held in Fond du Lac, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Stumpf won the match by a score of 5-3. Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Fond du Lac High School's Josiah Streblow wrestles Appleton North High School's Blake Koehler in a 152-pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, in Fond du Lac. Streblow won the match by a pin. Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Fond du Lac High School's Josiah Streblow wrestles Appleton North High School's Blake Koehler in a 152-pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held in Fond du Lac, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Streblow won the match by a pin. Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Fond du Lac High School’s Josiah Streblow wrestles Appleton North High School’s Blake Koehler in a 152-pound match during the Fox Valley Association wrestling championship meet held Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, in Fond du Lac. Streblow won the match by a pin. Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
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Italy declines to back extension of EU sanctions on Russia
Italy has refused to back an expected six-month extension of EU economic sanctions against Russia.
It comes as a surprise to officials in Brussels as EU leaders had struck a tentative agreement at the G20 summit last month.
The 28 EU ambassadors had been set to sign off on the extension, but such a move requires unanimity.
The sanctions were slapped on Moscow over Russian actions in Ukraine.
Italian diplomats said they wanted further discussions to take place at a ministerial level, perhaps at next week’s EU summit.
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Amatrice - euronews reports from quake-struck town
Much of the once picturesque town of Amatrice, in the Italian province of Rieti, was flattened by the devastating earthquake which has struck central Italy. Many of those killed or missing will have been holiday makers. Our special correspondent, Raquel Garcia saw first hand the search and rescue operation which has been under way since the early hours of Wednesday morning.
"It's a race against the clock"
Raquel Garcia euronews special correspondent
“After shocks which are still being felt are only one of the many difficulties search and rescuers are having to deal with,” she said.
“The lists of the town’s inhabitants are unreliable… It’s not easy to have an accurate idea of the exact number of people who were here when the earthquake struck. It means that nobody can reliably say who is missing or say how many victims there are. It could be far higher than the hundred or so bodies already found.
Hopefully some people had already left after their holidays, back to where they normally live during the rest of the year.
With the numbers unclear it is also difficult for aid workers to work out how many tents to put up for the hundreds of homeless families who will spend their first night out of their houses.
What is certain is that one of the biggest challenges is the fear of more tremors as people search for anyone still alive under the rubble…. It really is a race against the clock,” – Raquel Garcia.
Centre of Amatrice where much of it was destroyed. A large number killed here. pic.twitter.com/D6K0eQ14Tm
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Everyday Health Lung & Respiratory Cold & Flu
Fish Oil Could Lead to New Flu Fighters
Researchers report that fats from fish oil prevent the flu from killing mice when given with antiviral drugs, even when the mice are suffering from advanced stages of the disease.
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THURSDAY, March 7, 2013 — A compound derived from fish oil helped prevent death in mice infected with the flu, even when the disease had progressed to an advanced stage before treatment, according to study published today in Cell.
Researchers reported that the PD1, derived from fish oil, was effective at stopping the flu virus from replicating in the laboratory in human lung cells. And flu-infected mice who were given PD1 in combination with an antiviral drug were more likely to survive the disease — even when the treatment was administered more than two days after the mice came down with the flu.
Antiviral drugs on the market, such as Tamilflu, are typically not effective when given to human patients after more than two days.
“Tamiflu is the most commonly used antiviral medication right now, and it does have some benefit, but the benefit is incomplete,” said Dr. Bruce Hirsch, attending physician in infectious diseases at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York.
Why We Need More Targeted Flu Treatments
The development of a more targeted flu drug that could be effective in severe flu cases has the potential to save many lives, especially for seniors or those with weakened immune systems, said Hirsch. This could be particularly helpful in severe flu seasons like the current one. The U.S. Center's for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the flu vaccine fell short for seniors this year, providing only 9 percent protection against the nastiest strain of the virus. Overall, the CDC says the vaccine was only about 56 percent effective.
“The average efficacy of the vaccine is 60 to 70 percent in the population, so it’s imperfect, although it is helpful and people should continue to get the flu shots, especially healthy people who are around others in a weakened condition,” said Hirsch.
Flu seasons vary from year to year, and so does the hospitalization and death toll. The CDC estimates more than 200,000 people in the United States are hospitalized for flu-related complications every year, and the flu can kill up to almost 50,000 people every year.
“Flu and related complications are a dangerous problem,” said Hirsch. “The vaccine strategy is helpful, but it’s not efficient.”
According to Hirsch, the question for for future research is whether or not a person can safeguard him or herself from the flu by adding dietary omega-3 fatty acids.
“We know that fish oils have anti-inflammatory properties, so the question is whether or not fish oils have these anti-inflammatory properties because of molecules like PD1,” he said.
What if someone could ward against the flu simply by eating a diet rich in fish oils, or taking supplements?
“I think the concept of preventing health problems before they occur and avoiding some of the intense inflammation we may be subject to because of our western diet is an interesting area to explore,” said Hirsch.
Research has shown that can cut the number of strokes in people with heart disease, slow hardening of the arteries that can lead to heart disease, reduce blood pressure and lower triglycerides — fats which are unhealthy in high levels in the body.
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Senator Questions Microsoft's H-1B Plans
By: Roy Mark | January 26, 2009
Sen. Charles Grassley wants to know if Microsoft will be retaining H-1B workers rather than similarly qualified American employees when the maker of Windows implements its 5,000-employee layoff plan.
U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), a frequent critic of the tech industry's use of the H-1B visa system, didn't wait long in the new session of Congress to bring up the subject again. As soon as Microsoft announced it was cutting 5,000 jobs, Grassley fired off a letter to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wanting to know if the company will be retaining H-1B workers rather than similarly qualified American employees.
"My point is that during a layoff, companies should not be retaining H-1B or other work visa program employees over qualified American workers," Grassley wrote in the Jan. 22 letter to Microsoft. "Our immigration policy is not intended to harm the American work force. I encourage Microsoft to ensure that Americans are given priority in job retention. Microsoft has a moral obligation to protect these American workers by putting them first during these difficult economic times."
A favorite of American tech companies, the H-1B program is a temporary work visa program allowing American companies and universities to employ foreign guest workers who have the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor's degree in a job category that is considered by the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services to be a "specialty occupation." The idea is to help companies hire foreign guest workers on a temporary basis when there is not a sufficient qualified American work force to meet those needs.
However, Grassley wrote, "Certainly, these work visa programs were never intended to allow a company to retain foreign guest workers rather than similarly qualified American workers, when that company cuts jobs during an economic downturn."
Grassley wants Ballmer to tell Congress more about the jobs that are being eliminated, including how many of the eliminated jobs are filled by Americans, how many are held by H-1B workers or other work visa program employees and how many H-1B workers will be retained after the layoffs are completed.
Grassley wrote, "It is imperative that in implementing its layoff plan, Microsoft ensures that American workers have priority in keeping their jobs over foreign workers on visa programs."
Click here to read more about H-1B visa reform attempts.
In October of 2008, a report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services found that the H-1B program has more than a 20 percent violation rate. The fraud identified in the report included jobs not located where employers claimed, H-1B visa holders not being paid the prevailing wage, forged documents, fraudulent degrees and "shell businesses." Nevertheless, the tech industry, led by Microsoft, sought an increase in the H-1B cap.
Even before the report was issued, Grassley and fellow Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) were seeking reform of the H-1B visa program. A bill introduced by Grassley and Durbin would require employers to make a good faith effort to hire American workers first. Employers would also have to show that the H-1B worker would not displace an American worker.
The bill would require employers to advertise job openings on a Department of Labor Web site before submitting an H-1B application. In addition, the bill would give the Department of Labor a mandate to conduct random audits of any company that uses the H-1B program and would require annual audits of companies with more than 100 employees that have 15 percent or more of those workers on H-1B visas.
"This is about protecting the American worker," Grassley said in a statement accompanying the bill. "We're closing loopholes that employers have exploited by requiring them to be more transparent about their hiring and we're ensuring more oversight of these visa programs to reduce fraud and abuse. A little sunshine will go a long way to help the American worker."
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US equities bounce back after turbulent day
By Carmen Reichman
Wall Street has seen a rebound in the final hour of trading as equities surged back after dropping earlier in the day.
The S&P 500 index added 0.86 per cent, while the Nasdaq closed up 0.38 per cent and the Dow Jones 1.14 per cent.
In what was another turbulent day of trading the S&P 500 had fallen by close to 2.8 per cent earlier in the day while tech-heavy Nasdaq was down more than 3 per cent.
Speaking to FTAdviser's sister publication the Financial Times, Matthew Bartolini, head of Americas research for State Street SPDR exchange traded funds, said: "Volatile patterns are to be expected with so many macro risks in the air. Investors may be looking at the improved valuations and trying to buy the dip.
"Overall, however, until we get a clear resolution on the plethora of macro uncertainties I’d expect volatile oscillations between gains and losses to continue."
US stocks had fallen sharply in the run up to Christmas in what was one of their worst weeks of trading in a decade, with the S&P 500 losing some 9 per cent over seven days.
But the markets rallied on Wednesday with the Dow Jones up 4.98 per cent and the S&P 500 up 4.96 per cent.
On Monday the US Treasury Secretary sought to reassure investors amidst the downward trend, claiming he had spoken to the chief executives of six of the USA's largest banks who had confirmed they had "ample liquidity" to continue their operations.
Steven Mnuchin had said: "We continue to see strong economy growth in the US economy with robust activity from consumers and business."
Last week the Federal Reserve had increased interest rates again - to a range between 2.25 per cent and 2.5 per cent - despite pressure from US President Donald Trump who described rate raises as "crazy".
Meanwhile, the US government is in partial shutdown over spending plans, which is expected to drag into the new year.
The FTSE 100 was up 0.74 per cent this morning and European stocks experienced similar positive performance.
Asian markets had a mixed reaction on Friday morning with the Hang Seng and Nikkei 225 both down 0.02 per cent and 0.31 per cent respectively.
carmen.reichman@ft.com
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Josh Warrington vs Kid Galahad 06/15/19 Boxing Odds, Preview and Prediction
Josh Warrington defends his IBF featherweight title against mandatory challenger Kid Galahad on June 15, 2019 at the Leeds Arena in Warrington’s hometown of Leeds, England.
The Leeds Warrior
Warrington won the IBF featherweight title with an upset win over the highly touted Lee Selby in May 2018. He then followed that up with a sensational 12-round decision victory over former world champion Carl Frampton. Warrington was supposed to make his mandatory defense on May 4 in Leeds but they had to move the fight because he was still recovering from a minor hand injury.
The 28 year old Warrington, known as the “Leeds Warrior”, is unbeaten in 28 fights with only 6 knockouts. He stands 5-7 tall with a reach of 67 inches while fighting out of the orthodox stance. Warrington is fresh off the two biggest wins of his professional boxing career after he defeated Selby and Frampton in succession.
As his record shows, Warrington isn’t a knockout artist. But what he lacks in power, he makes up for in terms of punch output and work volume. He’s a very aggressive fighter who likes to push the pace of a fight. He also has the ability to walk through punches because he has a durable chin. Get our boxing betting tips here.
Galahad
Odds from Bovada as of 4/13/19
The Mandatory Challenger
Galahad earned his right to challenge Warrington by winning a final title eliminator against Toka Kahn Clary last October in Boston. While waiting for his title shot, Galahad took a stay-busy fight versus Brayan Mairena last December. Galahad and Warrington fought before as amateurs and Warrington got the better of Galahad back then.
The 29 year old Galahad’s real name is Abdul-Bari Awad. He was born to Yemeni parents in Qatar but ended up in Sheffield with Brandon Ingle. It was Ingle who christened him as Kid Galahad. He has a record of 26-0 with 15 knockouts and stands 5-6 ½ with an undisclosed reach. Galahad is also an orthodox fighter. He served a shortened two-year ban in 2014 for a failed drug test.
Galahad was one of the U.K.’s hottest prospects when he was suspended. He is an excellent boxer with decent punching power. He fights with an awkward style that makes him a difficult read for opponents. He is also a very good counter puncher who can put on a boxing clinic.
Underestimating The Opponent
Warrington is such an overachiever. When he fought Dennis Ceylan for the IBF final title eliminator, many thought that the Leeds warrior would lose to the undefeated EBU European champion. But Warrington ended up with a10th round TKO wins over Ceylan. And then he fought Selby, and even I thought that he was biting more than what he could chew. But Warrington entered the rind, outworked Selby for 12 rounds and took the title away from the Welsh Mayweather. Then in his most recent bout, Warrington outpointed Carl Frampton in the biggest win of his career.
Galahad cannot claim a victory over a fighter in the same level as Ceylan, Selby and Frampton. But he is not a walk in the park. Before his drug suspension, Galahad was one of Britain’s top prospects. He looked like a special talent with his smarts and awkward style. Sure, the ban has tainted his image but the way he worked his way back to the top shows his determination and well of course, his boxing ability.
A lot of people are doubting Galahad now they way many did when Warrington fought Selby and then Frampton next. So I don’t think Warrington is going to leave anything unturned here. He knows how it is to be in Galahad’s position and he knows he cannot underestimate his opponent.
This will be a battle between Kid Galahad’s slick and awkward boxing style against Warrington’s high volume motor. The champion will employ a fast pace, be aggressive and throw plenty of punches while eating some in return. Galahad will try to counter and do his best not to allow Warrington to pile up the points. He doesn’t need to throw as many punches, he just has to be accurate with his counters so he can at least slow Warrington down.
If Galahad can stop Warrington from being Warrington, he has the skills to outbox the champion. If not, he will be forced to fight fire with fire and I don’t think he can keep up with Warrington for a full 12-rounds. If Warrington has his way, it’s going to be another victory for the Leeds Warrior.
Another factor going Warrington’s way is the fact that this bout will be held in his hometown. We saw how Ellan Road cheered him on against Lee Selby. We know how that probably pushed him to do more than what was expected. You can expect Warrington to feed off the full house crowd at the First Direct Arena on June 15th.
This has the makings of an exciting fight and I think Galahad will prove his worth here. But I think this goes down to Warrington’s output. The kid throws punches like hell and doesn’t stop until that bell rings. Unless Galahad can hurt him early, Josh Warrington is going to swarm him all night long. I think Josh Warrington walks away with another successful title defense here.
Prediction: Josh Warrington by unanimous decision
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A British woman jailed in Egypt after painkillers were discovered in her luggage has reportedly been pardoned, declaring her holiday turned into a nightmare.
Laura Plummer, 34, from Hull, was sentenced to three years in prison on Boxing Day 2017 for taking 290 Tramadol tablets into the country.
The shop worker has been pardoned and freed from jail, according to The Sun.
Ms Plummer told the newspaper: “My two-week holiday in the sun turned into a nightmare.”
I promise you — I’ll never set foot in an airport again
She added: “I’m so happy to be going home. I mean, who goes on holiday for two weeks and then stays 14 months?
“I just wish I wasn’t being deported. But I promise you — I’ll never set foot in an airport again.”
Ms Plummer was arrested at the airport on October 9, 2017 when she flew into the Red Sea resort of Hurghada.
She claimed she was taking the tablets – which are legal in the UK but banned in Egypt – into the country for her Egyptian partner Omar Caboo, who suffers from severe back pain, and had no idea what she was doing was wrong.
The Plummer family has previously said Ms Plummer had no idea that what she doing was illegal and was just “daft”.
They said she did not try to hide the medicine, which she had been given by a friend, and she thought it was a joke when she was pulled over by officials after arriving for a holiday with her partner.
Mrs Sinclair said her daughter was being held in terrible conditions in a communal cell with no beds, sharing with up to 25 other women.
A spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: “Our staff continue to do all they can to support Laura and her family, and our Embassy remains in regular contact with the Egyptian authorities.”
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Madden 16 vs Madden 15: 10 Key Differences
What’s new in Madden 16? Here is out look at Madden 16 vs Madden 15 after playing through the new Madden on Xbox One.
Every year EA delivers a new Madden game, and there is always a question of whether there are enough improvements to upgrade and buy the latest version. After playing just a few games it is clear that there are some important and impactful changes from Madden 15 to Madden 16.
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We have a full Madden 16 review in the works with a look at these new Madden 16 features and modes that you cannot use or play in Madden 15, but while there is still a chance to get in on an insane Madden 16 deal and score some of the Madden 16 pre-order bonuses we want to take a closer look — a deep dive if you will — at the 10 key differences between Madden 16 and Madden 15.
The most important Madden 16 vs Madden 15 differences.
The Madden 16 release date is coming on August 25th, but there is an early Madden 16 EA Access release date now on Xbox One. The full release comes to Xbox One, PS4, PS3 and Xbox 360. There is a standard version for $59.99 and a Deluxe edition for $69.99 with a ton of Madden Ultimate Team Pro Packs.
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Madden 15 is free to play for EA Access members on Xbox One and it is also easy to find used at a decent price. After playing with the new modes and features it is clear that EA delivers on the promise of an upgrade worth playing. If you are a fan of realistic football and you want more control over the outcome of each play, Madden 16 is a major change from Madden 15.
Madden 16 Catch Upgrades
In Madden 15 catching the ball is a one choice option that either happens or doesn't -- and if you are lucky when you catch it you can still pick up some yards. The receiver doesn't play very differently from one situation to another.
In Madden 16 you can choose to catch the ball with an Aggressive Catch, a Run After Catch or a Possession Catch. This allows you to pick the right catch for the situation.
If it's a long bomb where you need to go high, you can control the receiver and go up to grab that ball for a spectacular to watch catch. Unfortunately if you are near the sideline you might end up out-of-bounds and the odds are good you won't pick up any more yards if you use this in the middle of the field.
The RAC option positions the receiver to add to the yards by catching with a focus on picking up more yards. This is perfect when throwing to a receiver that needs to pick up three or more yards after the catch to get the first down.
Other times you just need to make a catch so that you can get the first down or keep the clock running. The Possession catch option delivers a catch that you are more likely to hold on to, but you might not get any added yards and if there is a lot of pressure you may miss out.
You can control all of these after the throw and it actually works really well.
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Anthony Reeves
great game madden has done it again adding to the many other titles that have graced our fingertips madden 16 adds to an already phenomenal experience
Tony Gambaro
My son tells me the graphics and some of the news options don’t translate to PS3? If this is the case why wouldn’t that be full disclosure? He’s not happy!
Vinny Chace
Tony, do your son a favor and go out and buy him a PS4, I can’t believe your dumb enough to think, that the new graphics and other options would work on an old console. COME’ON MAN !!!!
jreedvick7
None of the new features translate to the old consoles. Eventually, every hardware cycle reaches its limit. For 360/PS3 sports games, that was 2013. They couldn’t add any of the new innovations to those older versions, even if they wanted to. Hardware wont allow it.
No wonder. I have an xbox 360 and my game looks nothing like the commericals, videos or pictures of the game. This is such bullshit. That is false advertisement. This is something that needs to be disclosed I wasted $60 bucks on a game that has barely any changes than my madden 25. I could have just updated the dame roster and saved myself the money. I want a refund but I doubt they will give me one. I bet I won’t even be able to play it either once I get an xbox one since I downloaded the game on the console.
Poophead
Bullshit? False advertisement? Why would people buy new gen consoles if the graphics look the same as the old 360/ps3? You sir are bullshit.
jimmybags
YA, TONY! DO YOUR SON A FAVOR… GET HIM A PS4! OF COURSE THEY WONT TRANSLATE TO A PS3!! IT WAS PORTED TO PS3 FROM PS4!!! ITS LIKE PLAYING A PS3 GAME ON A PS2… STUPID.
Ventrey
Why it wont let me continue my Franchise mode as soon as i go to it the game gets stuck…..why is this??????
allenivemvp
This Happens to me to! Starting to piss me off. I’m 5 games into season!
Freddie Mitchell
Ea servers are so garbage… I hate that I even bought an Xbox one yet alone madden… I get kicked out of every ranked game..its not my internet I’ve had Technion’s come out several times, I hate EA with a passion now…. My gamer tag is Fredro 386 fix this crap…how can I sue you guys?
Well you should have had an internet technician come out to your house rather than the technions. Those damn technions are fibbers.
All of you need to stop complaining. The game is still an advancement for the 360. I think that it is fun, and you are just one bored, spoiled, rotten egg. Carry on my friends.
NIGGER
Lol faggot. ”You are just one bored, spoiled, rotten egg.” you have autism.
Austin Carter
Niggers got nothing better to do than make fun of disabilities.
You can’t complain about graphics if you have a 360…graphics aren’t getting any better for the 360 anymore they are as good as they are gonna get. Xbox ones and ps4s are the real deal.
I have a problem with the kid who said that he thinks the game should have the same graphics on his xbox360
I feel dumber just for being a part of this conversation…
billy young
Dammit I jys baught the 2016 for my son we both r mad. We wanna play each other but it won’t download wats the problem guys. We paid our money for the game we wanna play it simple as that. How do we down load without internet can Simone help us out.
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Reducing DNA Polymerase α in the Absence of Drosophila ATR Leads to P53-Dependent Apoptosis and Developmental Defects
Jeannine R. LaRocque, Diana L. Dougherty, Sumreen K. Hussain and Jeff Sekelsky
Genetics July 1, 2007 vol. 176 no. 3 1441-1451; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.107.073635
Jeannine R. LaRocque
Diana L. Dougherty
Sumreen K. Hussain
Jeff Sekelsky
The ability to respond to DNA damage and incomplete replication ensures proper duplication and stability of the genome. Two checkpoint kinases, ATM and ATR, are required for DNA damage and replication checkpoint responses. In Drosophila, the ATR ortholog (MEI-41) is essential for preventing entry into mitosis in the presence of DNA damage. In the absence of MEI-41, heterozygosity for the E(mus304) mutation causes rough eyes. We found that E(mus304) is a mutation in DNApol-α180, which encodes the catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase α. We did not find any defects resulting from reducing Polα by itself. However, reducing Polα in the absence of MEI-41 resulted in elevated P53-dependent apoptosis, rough eyes, and increased genomic instability. Reducing Polα in mutants that lack downstream components of the DNA damage checkpoint (DmChk1 and DmChk2) results in the same defects. Furthermore, reducing levels of mitotic cyclins rescues both phenotypes. We suggest that reducing Polα slows replication, imposing an essential requirement for the MEI-41-dependent checkpoint for maintenance of genome stability, cell survival, and proper development. This work demonstrates a critical contribution of the checkpoint function of MEI-41 in responding to endogenous damage.
EUKARYOTIC cells constantly experience exogenous DNA damage from the environment as well as endogenous damage that occurs during DNA metabolism and replication. An inability to respond to either type of damage can result in genomic instability and loss of genetic material. To maintain genomic stability, cells have developed mechanisms for responding to DNA damage and/or incomplete replication. Maintenance of genome stability can be accomplished by coupling replication and repair with cell cycle regulation via the DNA damage checkpoint pathway. In this pathway, sensors recognize incomplete replication and/or DNA damage and then stimulate a variety of responses, including phosphorylation of downstream transducers. These transducers then activate or inactivate effectors that directly affect cell cycle progression, resulting in cell cycle arrest, presumably to allow time to complete replication or repair the damage (reviewed in Sancar et al. 2004).
ATM (for ataxia telangiectasia mutated) and ATR (for ATM and Rad3 related) are two kinases that mediate the DNA damage checkpoint in response to incomplete replication and DNA damage. These kinases are highly conserved and required for G1-S, intra-S, and G2-M checkpoint responses (reviewed in Sancar et al. 2004; reviewed in Shiloh 2003). ATM and ATR function upstream of conserved transducers of the checkpoint response, Chk1 and Chk2. In mammals, ATM primarily phosphorylates Chk2 in response to damage that results in double-strand breaks (DSBs) (Canman et al. 1998). In contrast, ATR primarily activates Chk1 in response to incomplete replication and/or damage that results in single-strand DNA (Cliby et al. 1998; Wright et al. 1998; Unsal-Kacmaz et al. 2002; Das and Dashnamoorthy 2004). Although there is some functional overlap of these kinases and the transducers of the checkpoint response, the ATR/Chk1 pathway is primarily responsible for the intra-S checkpoint (Boddy et al. 1998; Chen and Sanchez 2004; Helt et al. 2005; reviewed in Sanchez et al. 1996; Sancar et al. 2004).
Many studies have characterized DNA damage response pathways using exogenous sources of damage, such as hydroxeurea, UV, ionizing radiation (IR), and alkylating agents. However, it is presumed that the most common type of damage that a cell must respond to is endogenous, such as lesions that occur during replication and regular DNA metabolism (Lindahl 1993; Bishop et al. 2000; Frosina 2000). Evidence from other organisms indicates that orthologs of ATR have important roles in responding to endogenous damage. Cells from ATR-Seckel syndrome patients with a mutated form of ATR demonstrate elevated genome damage and chromosome breaks following replication stress (O'Driscoll et al. 2004) and ATR-deficient mouse cells also accumulate spontaneous chromosomal breaks (Brown and Baltimore 2003). Similarly, Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutants lacking the ATR ortholog Mec1 have elevated rates of gross chromosomal rearrangements (Cobb et al. 2005) as well as spontaneous DNA breaks that map to replication slow zones (Cha and Kleckner 2002). These results demonstrate the need to further understand how ATR responds to endogenous damage that occurs during DNA synthesis.
The role of ATR in response to endogenous damage has been investigated in multiple organisms by examining interactions between checkpoint proteins and components of the replication machinery, especially DNA polymerase α (Polα) (reviewed in Foiani et al. 1997). Initiation of replicative DNA synthesis begins with formation of an RNA primer by primase. Polα forms a complex with primase and is responsible for synthesizing the initial DNA extension from the primer. Thus, Polα is required to initiate both leading-strand and lagging-strand synthesis; however, Polα is required continuously for lagging-strand synthesis, since every Okazaki fragment initiates with an RNA primer. In S. cerevisiae, Polα is stabilized in a Mec1-dependent manner after treatment with the replication inhibitor hydroxyurea (HU) (Cobb et al. 2003), and decreasing expression of the catalytic subunit of Polα by 90% in a mec1 mutant results in increased genomic instability (Lemoine et al. 2005). In Schizosaccaromyces pombe, temperature-sensitive mutants of polα cause activation of Chk1 (D'Urso et al. 1995; Bhaumik and Wang 1998). In Xenopus laevis, uncoupling of helicase and polymerase activity during replication results in Polα-dependent activation of Chk1 (Byun et al. 2005; Cortez 2005). These results reveal a conserved genetic interaction between DNA Polα and the ATR-mediated damage response.
Drosophila ATR, encoded by mei-41, is the primary kinase required for the checkpoint response after DNA damage during all phases of the cell cycle (Hari et al. 1995; Sibon et al. 1999; Brodsky et al. 2000; Garner et al. 2001; Jaklevic and Su 2004; Bi et al. 2005; LaRocque et al. 2007). mei-41 mutants are sensitive to a wide range of agents that damage DNA or inhibit DNA replication, including ultraviolet light, methyl methanesulfonate, IR, and HU (Boyd et al. 1976; Sibon et al. 1999). Sensitivity to this broad spectrum of damaging agents suggests that MEI-41-mediated checkpoints are essential in the response to many types of DNA damage throughout the cell cycle. As in mice, humans, and S. cerevisiae, mei-41 mutants have an elevated frequency of spontaneous chromosome breaks (Gatti 1979; Baker et al. 1980; Banga et al. 1986).
To learn more about the role of the ATR-mediated cell cycle checkpoint in responding to replication defects, we genetically reduced Polα in mei-41 mutants. This resulted in P53-dependent apoptosis, increased genomic instability, and P53-dependent morphological defects. Our data also suggest that cell cycle regulation by MEI-41 is the major component of this interaction, although loss of the Chk1- and Chk2-dependent checkpoint cannot completely account for the defects.
Drosophila stocks and genetics:
Flies were maintained on standard medium at 25°. The mei-41 mutant males were hemizygotes of mei-4129D (Laurencon et al. 2003). The cyclin mutations used were CycAC8LR1 (Sigrist and Lehner 1997) and CycB2 (Jacobs et al. 1998). The lok mutants were homozygous for lok30 and the grp mutants were heteroallelic for grp209 and grpZ5170 (LaRocque et al. 2007). The p53 mutants used were p535A-1-4 (Rong et al. 2002). Reductions in Polα used the E(mus304) mutant chromosome (Brodsky et al. 2000). Recombinants of E(mus304) and p535A-1-4 were generated and verified using allele-specific PCR for both mutations and for presence of a rough-eye phenotype in mei-41 mutants.
Mapping mutations in DNApol-α180:
Recombination mapping between ebony (e) and claret was used to confirm the published location of E(mus304) (Brodsky et al. 2000) using the rough eyes in mei-41 mutants as the phenotypic marker. Deficiencies of the area surrounding and including 89D-F were used to narrow the location of the region down to five genes: E2f, CG31176, CG6353, CG15497, and DNApol-α180. Two genes, E2f and CG31176, were excluded from consideration when mei-41 mutants failed to have a rough-eye phenotype when heterozygous for these mutations. The E(mus304) chromosome was sequenced for changes in polα. Using GFP selection, genomic DNA was prepared from single embryos homozygous for E(mus304) and PCR was performed using gene-specific primers. PCR reactions contained 10 mm Tris–HCl, pH 9.0, 50 mm KCl, 2.5 mm MgCl2, 0.1% Triton X-100, 1.25 μm of each primer, 250 μm each dNTP, 2 μl of the genomic DNA prep, and Taq DNA polymerase in a 20-μl volume. PCR products were isolated using gel electrophoresis, purified, and sequenced directly. The mutation was confirmed by sequencing the opposite strand. Mutations found from the ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) screen were confirmed this way as well.
EMS mutagenesis:
One- to 3-day-old males were fed 25 mm EMS (Fluka Chemika) in 1% sucrose on cotton pads overnight. Males were then transferred to clean bottles for 1 day and then crossed to mei-41/FM7 females in bottles. To avoid screening progeny resulting from mutagenesis of premeiotic germline cells, males were discarded after 5 days. F1 male progeny mutant for mei-41 were screened for rough eyes, indicative of a possible dominant autosomal mutation that interacts with the mei-41 mutation. Mutations that mapped to chromosome 3 were crossed to E(mus304), and those that failed to complement the homozygous lethality phenotype of E(mus304) were sequenced to find mutations in DNApol-α180.
SEM imaging:
Adult fly heads were fixed in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) and 4% paraformaldehyde. Samples were stored at 4° for several days before being dehydrated through a series of washes in increasing ethanol concentration, with a final rinse in 100% ethanol, and then prepped with assistance from the Microscopy Services Laboratory at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Samples were transferred in absolute ethanol to a Balzers CGD 020 critical point dryer (BAL-TEC, Balzers, Principality of Liechtenstein) and dried using liquid CO2 as the solvent solution. Heads were mounted and sputter coated with gold:palladium alloy (60:40) using a Hummer X Sputter Coater (Anatech, Alexandria, VA). Specimens were viewed on a Cambridge Stereoscan S200 scanning electron microscope (LEO Electron Microscopy, Thornwook, NY) using an acceleration voltage of 20 kV and a working distance of 25 mm.
Detecting apoptotic cells:
Imaginal discs were dissected from third instar larvae of appropriate genotypes in Ringer's solution and fixed for 45 min in 4% formaldehyde and PBS with 0.1% Triton-X (PBT). Discs were washed and blocked in PBT with 5% bovine serum albumin. Discs were incubated with 1:500 dilution of rabbit anti-human cleaved caspase-3 (Asp175) antibody (Cell Signaling Technology) in PBT overnight at 4°. Discs were incubated for 2 hr at room temperature with 1:1000 secondary goat anti-rabbit rhodamine-conjugated antibody (Molecular Probes, Eugene, OR) or secondary goat anti-rabbit fluorescein-conjugated antibody (Molecular Probes), stained with 10 μg/ml DAPI in PBT, and mounted with Flouromount-G (Southern Biotechnology Associates). Discs were visualized using TRIT-C and FIT-C filters of a Nikon Eclipse E800 fluorescent microscope. Quantification was performed on images of 7–14 wing discs of each genotype. Each disc was counted for the total number of caspase-positive cells per disc to obtain an average. Significance was computed using an unpaired t-test with Welch's correction using InStat statistical software.
Genomic instability phenotypes:
Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at multiple wing hair (mwh) was detected as described by Brodsky et al. (2000). Briefly, wings of appropriate genotype were dehydrated in isopropanol and mounted in 1:1 methylsalicilate:Canada balsam (Sigma, St. Louis). Each wing was viewed at ×40 using the light filter of a Nikon Eclipse E800 fluorescent microscope and scored for mwh phenotype. A total of 10–20 wings were examined for each genotype to obtain an average rate of mitotic clones per wing. Standard deviations were determined on the basis of averages; significance was computed using an unpaired t-test with Welch's correction using InStat statistical software.
To detect increases in mitotic crossovers, unbalanced single males of appropriate genotypes heterozygous for ebony and scarlet (st) were crossed to ru h th st cu sr e Pr ca/TM6B females. Crossovers between st and e in the premeiotic male germline were scored in progeny of this cross. Over 3000 progeny were scored for each genotype. Significance was determined by analyzing a contingency table using chi-square approximation with Yates correction available through InStat statistical program.
Enhancer of mus304 is an allele of DNApol-α180:
A previously published study reported a spontaneous mutation that interacts genetically with mei-41 and mus304, which encodes the ortholog of ATR-IP (Brodsky et al. 2000). This mutation, referred to as Enhancer of mus304, is homozygous embryonic lethal (data not shown). However, heterozygosity for this mutation in mei-41 or mus304 mutants results in a rough-eye phenotype. The Enhancer of mus304 mutation was mapped to region 93F on the third chromosome (Brodsky et al. 2000). We further mapped Enhancer of mus304 (see materials and methods) to a region that includes DNApol-α180, which encodes the catalytic subunit of Polα. We sequenced the DNApol-α 180 coding region from the mutant chromosome and found a deletion of a single base pair in the third exon at codon 301 (Figure 1). This deletion results in a frameshift and a premature stop 29 codons downstream.
Enhancer of mus304 is an allele of DNApol-α180. E(mus304) was roughly mapped and predicted to be a mutation in DNApol-α180 (see materials and methods). Sequencing of this region confirmed a loss of an “A” in the third exon at codon 301, resulting in a frameshift and a premature stop 29 codons downstream. An EMS mutagenesis and screen for mutations conferring rough eyes to mei-41 mutants resulted in two new alleles (see materials and methods); both were nonsense mutations in glutamine codons. Shaded boxes are coding exons. Mutations are marked with asterisks.
To confirm that the interaction with mei-41 is due to a mutation in DNApol-α180, we conducted a mutagenesis screen to identify mutations that caused rough eyes when heterozygous in a mei-41 mutant (see materials and methods). Two new alleles of DNApol-α180 were recovered (Figure 1). Both are nonsense mutations at glutamine codons (1132 and 1322). Heterozygosity for any of these alleles, or for a deletion of this region, confers a rough-eye phenotype to mei-41 mutants. We conclude that reducing the dosage of DNApol-α180 (hereafter referred to as polα) by half is sufficient to cause a developmental defect in mei-41 mutants.
Reducing Polα in mei-41 mutants causes an increase in cell death:
The Drosophila compound eye comprises ∼800 ommatidia, each of which has a precise number of cells in an identical arrangement, resulting in a smooth appearance. The correct number of cells results from a carefully orchestrated sequence in which some cells differentiate and others undergo cell death (reviewed in Bonini and Fortini 1999). Because of this, eye development is highly sensitive to changes in cell survival, unlike other adult organs, such as the wing, whose cell number is largely dispensable for development (Baker 2001). For example, overexpression of P53, which is required for DNA-damage-induced apoptosis, disrupts formation of an ordered array of ommatidia, resulting in eyes with a rough appearance (Ollmann et al. 2000; Lee et al. 2003). Other mutations have also revealed a correlation between increased apoptosis and rough eyes. Temperature-sensitive mutations in the tefu gene, which encodes Drosophila ATM, cause both rough eyes and increased apoptosis in imaginal discs (Silva et al. 2004).
To determine whether mei-41 mutants that are heterozygous for a polα mutation have increased apoptosis in proliferating imaginal disc cells, we quantified the number of apoptotic cells per imaginal wing disc, using an antibody raised against human-activated caspase-3, a conserved effector caspase that is cleaved and subsequently activated during apoptosis (reviewed in Van Lancker 2006). The human cleaved caspase-3 antibody also recognizes Drosophila cells undergoing DNA-damage-induced apoptosis (Giraldez and Cohen 2003). The average number of apoptotic cells was increased fourfold in mei-41 mutants compared to wild-type larvae (P < 10−5; Figure 2C). A similar increase was also seen in mus304 mutants (P < 10−5; data not shown). Heterozygosity for a polα mutation did not increase apoptosis by itself (P = 0.08), but led to a further increase in mei-41 mutants (P < 10−5 for mei-41; polα/+ compared to mei-41 alone; Figure 2, A and C). Similar results were seen in other imaginal discs and when staining with the vital dye acridine orange (data not shown). These observations show that reducing Polα in mei-41 or mus304 mutants causes increased apoptosis in proliferating tissues. Most imaginal tissues can compensate for increased cell death through increased proliferation (Haynie and Bryant 1977; Jaklevic and Su 2004), so development of most adult appendages appears to be unaffected. Patterning of the compound eye, however, is exquisitely sensitive to changes in cell survival; as a result, the rough-eye phenotype is a sensitive indicator of increased cell death.
Reducing Polα in mei-41 mutants results in a variety of phenotypes. (A) Wing discs of third instar larvae were dissected, fixed, and stained with an antibody to cleaved human caspase 3, marking apoptotic cells. (B) As shown previously (Brodsky et al. 2000), mei-41; polα/+ mutants have a rough-eye phenotype that includes fused ommatidia and tissue loss. mei-41 mutants are indistinguishable from wild type and are used for comparison. This rough-eye phenotype of mei-41; polα/+ mutants was rescued by eliminating P53. (C) Quantification of apoptosis phenotype demonstrated in A. mei-41 mutants had an increase in apoptosis compared to wild type (P < 10−6), and this was quantitatively more severe when Polα was reduced (P < 10−4 when compared to mei-41). Mutations in p53 restored apoptosis to the levels seen in mei-41 single mutants (P = 0.19 compared to mei-41).
The increased apoptosis and rough-eye phenotypes of mei-41; polα/+ mutants are P53 dependent:
As noted earlier, previous studies have suggested a correlation between P53-dependent apoptosis and eye development. Overexpression of P53 causes a rough-eye phenotype (Ollmann et al. 2000; Lee et al. 2003), similar to the phenotype that we observe when Polα is reduced in mei-41 mutants (Brodsky et al. 2000; Figure 2A). We hypothesized that reducing Polα in mei-41 mutants elicits a P53-dependent apoptotic response, leading to a rough-eye phenotype. To test this hypothesis, we eliminated P53 expression in these mutants. Loss of P53 in mei-41; polα/+ mutants completely rescued the rough-eye phenotype (Figure 2B) and restored the level of apoptosis to that seen in mei-41 single mutants (Figure 2, A and C). Together, these data indicate that reducing Polα results in damage that elicits a MEI-41-dependent DNA damage response. In the absence of MEI-41, proliferating cells with reduced Polα undergo P53-dependent apoptosis, resulting in cell death and misregulated development of the adult eye.
mei-41; polα/+ mutants have increased genomic instability:
An inability to respond to spontaneous damage leads to increased genomic instability in mei-41 and mus304 mutants (Baker et al. 1978; Gatti 1979; Brodsky et al. 2000). One manifestation of genomic instability is increased LOH; both mei-41 and mus304 mutants have increased LOH at the mwh locus (Baker et al. 1978; Brodsky et al. 2000). We tested whether decreasing Polα in mei-41 mutants results in a further increase in LOH frequency. We found an increase in LOH in mei-41 mutants relative to wild type (P < 10−5; Figure 3), as shown previously. There was no increase in polα/+ mutants relative to wild type (P = 0.83), but heterozygosity for polα resulted in an increase in LOH in mei-41 mutants (P < 10−5, relative to mei-41 single mutants).
Reducing Polα in mei-41 mutants results in an increase of LOH. mwh mutant flies have multiple hairs from each hair cell of the adult wing, and mwh/+ flies are phenotypically normal. LOH at mwh will result in clones of cells with multiple hairs per cell (circled). LOH can occur through spontaneous mutation, gene conversion, deletion, or mitotic crossing over. Individual adult wings were scored for mwh clones. Bars represent the average number of clones per wing, and lines are the standard deviation based on 10–12 wings/genotype. Significance was determined by an unpaired t-test with Welch's correction.
LOH can result from many mechanisms, including chromosome loss, deletion, spontaneous mutation, and mitotic crossing over (reviewed in Pâques and Haber 1999). We quantified the frequency of mitotic crossovers between two markers on the third chromosome, e and st. Mitotic crossovers that occur in premeiotic germline cells are scored in progeny of males. As seen in wild-type, mei-41 and polα/+ mutants completely lacked mitotic crossovers between these markers. In contrast, when Polα was reduced in mei-41 mutants, there was a significant increase in the frequency of mitotic crossovers (P < 0.05; Table 1). This suggests that a subset, if not all, of the increased LOH observed at the mwh locus can be attributed to an increase in mitotic crossovers.
Mitotic crossovers between ebony and scarlet
Phenotypes manifested in mei-41; polα/+ mutants can be rescued by reducing mitotic cyclins:
We hypothesize that reducing Polα levels elicits a DNA damage response, due either to slowed and/or incomplete replication or to uncoupling of leading- and lagging-strand synthesis. We propose that this collective replication stress requires a MEI-41-dependent checkpoint response to regulate cell cycle progression, perhaps by giving enough time to complete replication before entry into mitosis. To test this hypothesis, we sought to bypass the requirement for MEI-41 by delaying entry into mitosis through other means. Reducing the maternal contribution of the mitotic cyclins, cyclin A and cyclin B, slows early embryonic cell cycle progression (Edgar et al. 1994). Reducing cyclin A and cyclin B also bypasses the requirement for MEI-41 in regulating the midblastula transition during early embryonic development (Sibon et al. 1999) and rescues the sensitivity of mei-41 mutants to P-element excision (LaRocque et al. 2007).
We attempted to rescue the rough-eye phenotype in mei-41; polα/+ mutants by reducing cyclin A and/or cyclin B. Cyclin B reduction partially rescued this phenotype, and reducing cyclin A (or both cyclin A and cyclin B) completely rescued the rough-eye phenotype, resulting in eyes that were indistinguishable from those of mei-41 mutants or wild-type flies (Figure 4A). We then asked if we could rescue the increased-apoptosis phenotype by reducing mitotic cyclins. Similar to the rescue of the rough-eye phenotype, reducing cyclin A in these mutants rescued levels of apoptosis that were indistinguishable from mei-41 single mutants (P = 0.14) or mei-41; CycA/+ mutants (P = 0.54; Figure 4C). These data demonstrate that mitotic cyclin reduction is capable of suppressing both apoptosis and rough eyes, supporting the idea that reducing Polα elicits a damage response that requires the checkpoint function of MEI-41 to regulate cell cycle progression.
Reducing mitotic cyclins rescues the rough-eye phenotype and apoptosis of mei-41; polα/+ mutants. (A) The rough-eye phenotype of mei-41; polα/+ mutants is partially rescued by reducing CycB and completely rescued when CycA is reduced. (B and C) The apoptosis phenotype observed in mei-41; polα/+ mutants is rescued by reducing CycA. Samples were prepared and scored as described in Figure 2. Bars represent averages of 7–10 imaginal wing discs/genotype, and lines represent standard deviations. Significance was determined by an unpaired t-test with Welch's correction.
Loss of the GRP/LOK-mediated checkpoint accounts for a degree of the phenotypes observed in mei-41; polα/+ mutants:
Rescue of rough eyes and apoptosis by mitotic cyclin reduction suggests that cell cycle regulation contributes to the phenotypes that we have reported here. To further test this hypothesis, we examined the effects of Polα reduction on loss of Chk1 and Chk2, which have partially redundant roles in mediating the DNA damage checkpoint response in mammals (Boddy et al. 1998; Chen and Sanchez 2004; Helt et al. 2005; reviewed in Sanchez et al. 1996; Sancar et al. 2004). The Drosophila orthologs of Chk1 and Chk2 are encoded by grp and lok, respectively. Like mei-41 mutants, grp lok mutants are completely defective in the replication and damage checkpoints (Su et al. 1999; Yu et al. 2000; Masrouha et al. 2003; Brodsky et al. 2004; Jaklevic and Su 2004; de Vries et al. 2005; Royou et al. 2005; LaRocque et al. 2007).
We first examined grp and lok mutants for the rough-eye phenotype conferred by heterozygosity for a polα mutation. The eyes of lok; polα/+ flies were indistinguishable from those of wild-type flies. In contrast, grp; polα/+ mutant males had a rough-eye phenotype (Figure 5A), but females had wild-type eyes. In grp lok; polα/+ mutants, both males and females exhibited rough eyes; however, the phenotype was still not as severe as that of mei-41; polα/+ mutants. We also measured the effects of grp and lok mutations on apoptosis. Neither the single mutants (grp or lok) nor the grp lok double mutants had the elevated levels of apoptosis observed in mei-41 mutants (Figure 5B). However, lok; polα/+ mutants had a slight increase in apoptosis compared to wild type (P < 0.05), and grp; polα/+ and grp lok; polα/+ mutants had a more substantial increase compared to wild type (P < 10−4). Interestingly, the levels of apoptosis in these mutants were not as high as in mei-41; polα/+ mutants (P < 10−4). These data demonstrate that the Chk1/Chk2-meditated checkpoint function of MEI-41 plays an important role in response to reducing Polα; however, the intermediate phenotypes suggest that loss of this checkpoint cannot completely account for the severity of mei-41; polα/+ mutants.
Analysis of grp and lok mutants when Polα is reduced. (A) While eyes of lok; polα/+ mutants are indistinguishable from those of wild-type flies, grp single mutants and grp lok double mutants have rough eyes when Polα is reduced. (B and C) lok; polα/+ have only a slight increase in apoptosis compared to wild type (P < 0.05) whereas grp; polα/+ and grp lok; polα/+ mutants have a greater increase in apoptosis (P < 10−4) but are not significantly different from each other (P = 0.16). Samples were prepared as described in Figure 2. Bars represent averages of 7–14 imaginal wing discs/genotype, and lines represent standard deviations. Significance was determined by an unpaired t-test with Welch's correction.
We have shown here that genetically reducing Polα levels by only half in mei-41 mutants results in increased P53-dependent apoptosis, rough eyes, and genomic instability, including elevated mitotic crossing over. Reducing mitotic cyclin levels rescues at least some of these phenotypes, supporting the idea that loss of MEI-41-dependent cell cycle regulation contributes greatly to the defects. However, the GRP/LOK-mediated checkpoint does not account for the severity of phenotypes observed in mei-41 mutants. We suggest here that reducing Polα results in P53-inducing damage, such as incomplete replication, stalled replication forks, or uncoupling of leading- and lagging-strand synthesis. This “replication stress” requires the checkpoint function of MEI-41 to maintain developmental processes, cell survival, and genomic stability.
Reducing Polα alone does not cause any detectable defects, which suggests that the damage caused by reducing Polα in an otherwise wild-type background is relatively mild. It is possible that the defects that we observed are an additive effect of defects in mei-41 mutants that we did not detect in polα/+ flies. A more likely explanation is that MEI-41 function is exceptionally important in responding to the very low level of endogenous damage that results from reducing Polα. This interpretation is consistent with our previous finding that mei-41 mutants have reduced viability when a single P element is undergoing transposition during development (LaRocque et al. 2007).
If the damage that results from reducing Polα requires the checkpoint response of MEI-41, it should elicit a checkpoint response in animals that are wild type for mei-41. It is difficult to detect S-phase checkpoints in Drosophila tissues, but there has been one report of MEI-41-dependent decrease in BrdU incorporation into larval neuroblasts, following treatment with 1600 rad of IR (Jaklevic and Su 2004). We were unable to detect this decreased BrdU incorporation in polα/+ larvae or in wild-type larvae after irradiation (data not shown). In contrast, irradiation induces a robust MEI-41-dependent delay of entry into mitosis (Hari et al. 1995). In imaginal discs, this G2-M checkpoint is readily detected by staining with a marker for mitotic cells after irradiation with as little as 500 rad (Brodsky et al. 2000; Bi et al. 2005; LaRocque et al. 2007); we were unable to detect any effect of reducing Polα on the number of mitotic cells (data not shown). A likely explanation is that irradiation induces a burst of damage, resulting in rapid cessation of entry in mitosis that can be detected soon after treatment, whereas any damage resulting from genetic reduction of Polα would occur and be repaired throughout development. It might be possible to detect an increased steady-state level of MEI-41-dependent phosphorylation of checkpoint transducers or effectors, but this would depend on the level of damage resulting from reduction of Polα.
Reducing other components of the Polα complex did not result in rough eyes in mei-41 mutants. These included the primase subunit (DNAprim), and the 50- and 73-kDa subunits of Polα (data not shown). We also reduced levels of other replicative polymerases and components of replication, using null alleles and/or deficiencies of DNApol-δ, DNApolϵ, E2f, and mus209, which encodes PCNA. None of these manipulations caused rough eyes in mei-41 mutants. It is possible that there is an unknown function of Polα responsible for the interactions with MEI-41. Alternatively, whereas pola-180 mutants are embryonic lethal, the reported lethal phenotypes of DNAprim, E2f, and PCNA null mutants include survival to at least first instar larvae (Royzman et al. 1997; Chen et al. 2000; Henderson et al. 2000). The 180-kDa catalytic subunit therefore may be the limiting factor of the primase complex, and reduction of this subunit, as observed with embryonic lethality, may have a more profound effect on replication than reducing other components of the replication machinery.
Previous work has demonstrated a link between increased apoptosis and rough-eye phenotypes (Ollmann et al. 2000; Lee et al. 2003; Silva et al. 2004). We therefore tested imaginal discs to see whether or not there was an increase in apoptosis that could presumably lead to rough eyes. We found a strong correlation between rough eyes and an increase in apoptosis: genotypes that had rough eyes also had an increase in apoptosis, and reducing the number of apoptotic cells also rescues rough-eye phenotypes (mei-41; CycA/polα). We directly tested whether eye development was dependent on P53-mediated apoptosis and found that eliminating P53 completely rescues both apoptosis and the rough-eye phenotype. Some genotypes that had an increase in apoptosis compared to wild type did not result in rough eyes: mei-41 single mutants, mus304 single mutants, and grp; polα/+ mutant females (data not shown). Overall, however, we found a strong correlation between two dramatic phenotypes associated with mutants in cell cycle regulation and in reducing Polα.
Reducing mitotic cyclin levels rescued the rough-eye phenotype and increased apoptosis of mei-41; polα/+ mutants. We propose that reducing cyclins slows cell cycle progression and therefore eliminates the need for MEI-41 checkpoint function to respond to damage induced by reducing Polα. We do not know the effects of cyclin reduction on cell cycle timing in proliferating cells of imaginal discs, but reducing cyclins does affect cell cycle timing during embryogenesis (Edgar et al. 1994; Crest et al. 2007) and ameliorates DSB repair defects of mei-41 mutants (LaRocque et al. 2007). It is possible that mitotic cyclin reduction has no effect on response to DNA damage, but contributes to proper development by regulating developmentally controlled apoptosis. We cannot directly test this possibility, but our finding that the apoptosis and rough-eye phenotypes are P53 dependent supports the proposal that reducing Polα elicits a DNA damage response, since P53 is required for damage-induced apoptosis but not for developmentally regulated programmed cell death (Lee et al. 2003; Brodsky et al. 2004; Jaklevic and Su 2004; this study).
The interactions among grp, lok, and polα suggest varying contributions of GRP and LOK to the phenotypes reported here. The lok; polα/+ mutants were indistinguishable from wild type in eye development and had only slight increases in apoptosis. In contrast, in grp; polα/+ and grp lok; polα/+, there was a dramatic increase in apoptosis. These genotypes differed from one another in that only males had rough eyes in the grp; polα/+ mutants, but both sexes had rough eyes in the grp lok; polα/+ mutants. It is not clear why there is a difference between males and females in grp; polα/+ mutants, as different genetic backgrounds show a similar discrepancy. It is possible that the severity of the defect in grp; polα/+ mutants is near the threshold for causing rough eyes and that this threshold is lower in males than in females. Comparing all three genotypes (grp and lok single mutants and grp lok double mutants), however, we conclude that the phenotypic effects of reducing Polα can be attributed predominantly to the GRP-mediated checkpoint. Nonetheless, there does appear to be some redundancy between GRP and LOK in these assays. Partial redundancy between Chk1 and Chk2 has been demonstrated in other organisms (Boddy et al. 1998; Chen and Sanchez 2004; Helt et al. 2005; reviewed in Sanchez et al. 1996; Sancar et al. 2004), as well as in the DNA damage checkpoint response in Drosophila (Xu et al. 2001; Brodsky et al. 2004; LaRocque et al. 2007) and in repair of DSBs induced through P-element excision (LaRocque et al. 2007).
Loss of both GRP and LOK did not produce defects as severe as those observed when MEI-41 was absent. We conclude that the GRP/LOK-mediated checkpoint cannot completely account for the defects seen in mei-41; polα/+ flies. Studies in mammalian cells suggest a checkpoint-independent role for mammalian ATM kinases in DNA repair (reviewed in Jeggo et al. 1998; Lobrich and Jeggo 2005; Jeggo and Lobrich 2006; O'Driscoll and Jeggo 2006). We previously showed that mei-41 mutants are more sensitive to P-element excision and have more severe defects in homologous recombinational repair compared to grp lok double mutants (LaRocque et al. 2007), and Jaklevic and Su (2004) found that mei-41 mutants are killed by doses of IR that are not lethal to grp mutants, even though both mutants are defective in the IR-induced G2-M checkpoint. Oikemus et al. (2006) found that both spontaneous and IR-induced chromosome breaks were increased in mei-41 mutants but not in grp lok double mutants, suggesting that MEI-41 has a role in preventing chromosome breaks that is independent of GRP and LOK. Together, these studies strongly suggest that there is a role of MEI-41 that is independent of the GRP/LOK-mediated checkpoint in response to reducing Polα.
Despite numerous observations that MEI-41 has GRP/LOK-independent functions in response to DNA damage, it is possible that the MEI-41-mediated checkpoint is not completely eliminated in grp lok mutants and that there is an unidentified transducer of the checkpoint pathway. We and others have not been able to detect a G2-M checkpoint after IR in grp lok mutants (Liu et al. 2000; Xu et al. 2001; Brodsky et al. 2004; LaRocque et al. 2007), consistent with studies in other model organisms that indicate that ATR/ATM-dependent DNA damage checkpoints are transduced entirely through Chk1 and Chk2 (Boddy et al. 1998; Chen and Sanchez 2004; reviewed in Sanchez et al. 1996; Sancar et al. 2004). We therefore favor the alternative hypothesis that MEI-41 has some role independent of its checkpoint function in response to damage caused by reducing Polα.
In conclusion, we have identified an interaction between regulators of the cell cycle and a component of replication machinery. These interactions are necessary for proper development of adult organs, maintaining genomic stability, and regulation of cell survival. This study reveals a checkpoint-dependent response when Polα is reduced, suggesting the importance for development and cell survival in responding to endogenous damage that occurs during normal DNA metabolism. Previous work in fungi and humans highlights a role for ATR orthologs in maintaining fragile site stability in response to slowing replication by aphidicolin treatment or genetically reducing Polα (Casper et al. 2002; Lemoine et al. 2005). Additionally, work in Xenopus has demonstrated that uncoupling of DNA polymerases from MCM helicase via aphidicolin treatment (Walter and Newport 2000), cis-platinum treatment, or UV irradiation (Byun et al. 2005) activates the ATR-dependent checkpoint. While most checkpoint studies rely on exogenously induced damage, our findings reveal the importance of an ATR-mediated checkpoint in responding to relatively mild endogenous defects. The results reported here demonstrate yet another conserved interaction between cell cycle checkpoint response and replication machinery, two cellular processes that are integral for genomic stability and cell survival.
We thank Shawn Ahmed and members of the Sekelsky lab for thoughtful discussions, Manfred Frasch for stocks, and the Duronio lab for antibodies and reagents. We also thank Victoria Madden at the Microscopy Services Laboratory at the University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill for assistance with SEM sample preparation and imaging. J.R.L. was supported by a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. S.K.H. was supported by the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Undergraduate Research and the Frances C. and William P. Smallwood Foundation. This research was supported by a grant from the American Cancer Society (RSG-05-138-01-GMC) to J.S.
↵1 Present address: Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261.
Communicating editor: K. V. Anderson
Accepted April 30, 2007.
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'We got $1,000 from an atheist': Amid lots of bad news, here's an inspiring Easter story you must read
The Easter Sunday massacre in Sri Lanka has dominated religion headlines the last few days, and rightly so.
That depressing news came on the heels of last week’s catastrophic Holy Week fire that ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
As Anne Murray sang, “We sure could use a little good news today.”
I found some in a rather unexpected place: a Washington Post story about one of the three predominantly black Louisiana churches recently destroyed by arson.
Now, you wouldn’t expect a report on a burned church to be inspiring. Yet this one was:
"Resurrection is a new beginning": On Easter Sunday, Louisiana church prepares to rebuild https://t.co/idtgVf8JPm
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 22, 2019
Give credit to the Post for sending a reporter to cover the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church’s Easter Sunday worship at its temporary home:
OPELOUSAS, La. — In a quiet lobby off the main hall at the Equine Sales Company, a livestock auction house that doubles as an event space, Gerald Toussaint, 56, sat quietly Sunday morning with his personal leather-bound Bible.
He wore a navy suit, tie, shoes and hat, and he kept in his pocket a white towel embroidered with “RGT,” for Reverend Gerald Toussaint. “I get sweaty,” he explained.
Toussaint was preparing to deliver an Easter sermon to the congregation of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, where he has pastored for 13 years and where his father led for 21 years before him.
Sunday’s sermon was especially meaningful because, as Toussaint put it, “Somebody decided to burn our church down.”
But keep reading, and this much becomes obvious: The heart — the soul — of the congregation remains fully intact.
And the symbolism of Resurrection Day on this moment in Mount Pleasant Baptist’s history isn’t lost on the pastor or the people in the makeshift pews:
“Resurrection is a new beginning,” he said. “It was dark the day Jesus was crucified. It was a dark night they burned the church.”
What has happened since, Toussaint said, “is like a resurrection. A new start. Old things are gone, but it’s going to be a new start after.”
The Post story is full of so many colorful and revealing details, such as these:
Before services began, members worked to turn the space into a makeshift church, using binder clips to pin white tablecloths down, turning on battery-operated votive candles and configuring extension chords to plug in the sole keyboard that would provide the day’s music. Through the back windows, massive horse stables and sprawling green fields were visible.
The burning of three small country churches in Louisiana initially drew little national attention, but the fire at France’s Notre Dame on April 15 inspired support for the Louisiana churches as well.
Perhaps my favorite quote was this:
“We got $1,000 from an atheist,” Toussaint said with a laugh. “He said he didn’t believe in God, but he don’t believe in burning buildings down, either.”
I’ll resist the temptation to copy and paste the entire story. It really is an encouraging piece.
Go ahead and read it.
Read it all.
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Joshua Tree Music Festival 2017 | Review
Article Contributed by Patrick Giblin | Published on Thursday, June 1, 2017
The 15th annual Joshua Tree Music Festival descended upon the Joshua Tree Lake RV & Campground May 18 – 21, 2017. Just as years past, the lineup was chock full of artists from all over the globe, representing the local desert area, up and down the western seaboard, UK, Peru, South Korea, and Netherlands among other places. The family friendly music experience is busting with global music, art, bodywork modalities, healing arts, and activities for all ages, adults and children alike. The festival has been on the same grounds since its inception and has continued to grow and develop with each passing year. The crowd is the embodiment of peace, love, and music; kids can be seen playing in the Kidsville during the day, while strangers share picnic tables under the shade while enjoying samosas, tacos, and pizza and conversing about all the important things in life. Daytime desert-attire gives way to Burning Man style costumes and LED toys and decorations as the sun goes down, all while the music reflects the mood as the day progresses to night. There are two mainstages in the Music Bowl that align side-by-side with each other and music is never playing on both stages at the same time, so you never miss any of the main stage acts you want to see. Java Gogo, the legendary mobile festival coffee shop, has a smaller stage alongside it that hosts music in the morning and late at night, while the Boogaloo Stage is home to more late-night festivities. One of the more remarkable aspects of the festival is that you never have more than a 10-minute walk to anywhere within the festival grounds, including throughout the campground.
The music kicked off on Thursday night; Sasha Rose got the festivities started for early arrivers with her unique brand of singing, songwriting, instrumentation, and producing and then returned for 2 more sets. Local multi-instrumentalist Chris Unck, and world-beat masters Todo Mundo from Columbia rounded out the performers. Friday was the first full day of music, featuring local talent Gene Evaro Jr. and his Prince meets Stevie Wonder brand of high desert groove. European Electro-Disco legends Kraak & Smaak also took the stage on Friday as the sun was making its way to bed for the night and setting the stage for what promised to be a rousing evening of music. Liberation Movement had the final set on the main stages with their tribal hip-hop and other-worldly rhythms. Led by Resurrector and Kevens as MCs with the band providing the interplanetary grooves, this offshoot of Heavyweight Dub Champions wasted little time capturing the magic and mystique of the desert during their set. Amy Secada joined the band donned a mythical eagle-like costume and danced on stage to compliment the spellbinding musical performance. The crowd then dispersed to the various late-night stages, the Astronomy Theater, or back to the campground depending on what their tastes preferred. Bay Area rockers Whiskerman treated the audience of the Café Stage to their own brand of groovy guitar rock, while LA Dub legend Marques Wyatt kept the beats rolling at the hippie-disco known as the Boogaloo Stage for those that hadn’t had quite enough dancing.
Saturday awoke with the desert sun, and the festival wasted little time getting things off on the right foot. Yoga classes start with the sunrise, and the Healing Oasis offered attendees an opportunity to recharge with the bodyworks of their choosing. Trevor Green kicked off the activities at the Vibration Station with a digeridoo workshop, while the artists participating in the Art Auction on Sunday resumed their works on the 3’ x 3’ canvases that were strategically placed throughout the festival grounds. High-Desert locals Desert Rhythm Project kicked off the music on the Copper Mountain Stage, with band leaders Mikey Reyes and Bryanna Evaro, aforementioned Gene Evaro Jr.’s sister, Desert Rhythm Project brought their usual high energy reggae rock to the stage and certainly gathered a few new fans along the way. Wally Ingram, Tom Freund & Friends took to the Indian Cove Stage to keep the crowd moving in the midday son, traveling through a variety of originals and covers that included Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” and Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower”. Sandwiched between worldly Baraka Moon and the California Honeydrops was South Korea’s own Jambinai. With the full band seated in chairs, they produced a sonic soundscape unlike anything heard before. The band comprises standard rock components with a drum kit, bass, and guitar, but the sound is augmented by traditional Korean instruments Haegeum (Korean fiddle played more like a Cello), Piri (Korean Bamboo Flute), and Geomungo (Korean Zither). The transformative music was very fitting as the stage lights began to take hold and light transitioned into dark. The final set at the Music Bowl was LA funkmasters Orgone, set to bring their high-energy, in-your-face, funk explosion. Orgone had played the festival twice before, including the very first one in 2003, but this was the first time they performed in the Joshua Tree desert with lead singer Adryon de Leon. Typical of an Orgone show, the crowd was raucous as the band ripped through their set full of originals with some special covers sprinkled in, including Led Zeppelin’s “Trampled Under Foot”. The late-night entertainment on Saturday included the frivolous, bluesy, roadhouse revue the Cactus Wine Experience and their Wild-West burlesque cabaret on the Café Stage. Over on the Boogaloo stage, House of Hamsa brought their unique combination of ancient instrumentation, live mixing, samples and electronics to keep the beats flowing into the early hours of the morning.
Sunday is often a day of mixed emotions for attendees, as is typical with most festivals the last day always comes with a bit of sadness as the encroaching reality of life after the festival begins to set in. However, there is also this sense of satisfaction when you make it all the way through festivals that are physically demanding, whether it is due difficult terrain or long walking distances, or in this case making it through a weekend in the hot desert sand and sun. The Healing Oasis appeared to be in full swing right from the start as attendees were looking to get one last session with their new favorite healer, and artists throughout the grounds were working feverishly to get their works completed in time for the Art Auction that would begin at noon. Not to be lost in the series of departures and related activities, one-woman band Edith Crash, 6-time J-Tree veteran multi-instrumentalist Trevor Green, Electro-funk DJ Ian Winters, and Americana-disco all-stars Dirtwire were among the artists to help close out the festival in a stirring fashion. As always, a very special thanks must go out to the Joshua Tree Music Festival founder and godfather Barnett English and his team of talented, creative, hardworking, and dedicated volunteers that help make the Joshua Tree Music Festival experience once-in-a-lifetime, every time.
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5 New Energy Blockchain Platforms
Author & Source: Jonathan Spencer-Jones (Engerati)
The emergence of new blockchain platforms continues apace in the energy sector. Here we look at some recent activities which should cause investors to do ‘undue’ due intelligence when looking to place their funds.
Greeneum blockchain platform
First up is Greeneum, which grandly styles itself as “the world’s first blockchain-powered sustainable, scalable and secure energy and data trading platform”.
Greeneum is from the same team that launched SolarChange with the SolarCoin solar generation reward programme. While a complementary project, in essence, it appears to broaden and grow that earlier programme to other green energies including wind, hydro and thermal.
According to the organisation’s website, the Greeneum solution combines blockchain and artificial intelligence to provide a global data system and local energy trading system that records the production and trade of green energy on a global scale.
Like all blockchain platforms, core to the offering is their token. In Greeneum’s case, its GREEN token -via GREEN certificates - forms the basis of a clean energy generation reward programme and also can be used to support renewable projects or to trade energy products and services.
Key to the credibility of such platforms is energy sector endorsement and Greeneum reports two industry pilots in which its energy prediction software has been integrated with a distributed energy resource management system.
One is associated to a microgrid for a collective in Israel, where increased levels of solar PV were creating instability on neighbouring grids as power was exported to the national medium voltage grid. The second is for the Electricity Authority of Cyprus, which was facing constant grid management issues due to fluctuations in PV output.
Solareum develops marketplace
Another new kid on the energy blockchain block is the New York-based startup Solareum, a spin-off from the growing local solar supplier America Green Solar.
Solareum’s stated ambition is to become the “Amazon of renewables” with its value proposition the development of a marketplace – much like Greeneum – for the funding and buying and selling of both energy as well as renewable products and services such as PV and solar heating systems.
Information is limited on external support or industry activities, but its website reports that a Solareum mobile app is currently under development for both the Android and iOS systems. Its young chairman Ken Reece, a co-founder of America Green Solar, also was tapped as a guest speaker at the UN’s 2018 Youth Assembly.
Romania’s Hidroelectrica ‘restarts’
Romania is one of the ‘hotspots’ when it comes to blockchain for the energy sector. Eva Energy was one of the first suppliers to initiate bill payments in crypto-currencies. Its founder, Christian Hagmann, has now moved on to another startup, Bittwatt, which is currently running a token offering in which the first batch of tokens raised approximately $10.8m in less than five days.
Another company apparently making blockchain waves there is Restart Energy, which claims to be the fastest growing private supplier in the European Union with 1,700% increase in revenues in its first two years and boasting a customer base of 27,000 household and 3,000 corporate clients and growth of around 2,000 clients per month so far this year.
Restart Energy’s token sale earlier this year netted approximately $30m. Through its franchise system, to which access is gained via tokens, power enterprises are able to sell energy “in more than 35 deregulated markets globally”, according to Restart Energy’s Chief Editor Rouă Denis.
Some recent developments by the company include the acquisition of six solar parks in Romania with a combined production capacity of over 47GWh per year and power purchase agreements with hydroelectric producer Hidropod for two plants with combined capacity of 22.4GWh per year.
The latest is a partnership with Romania’s largest hydro company Hidroelectrica SA, although how much of the 17TWh output will be accessed has not been revealed.
Irene Energy adopts Stellar
Another company adopting a supplier approach to blockchain is the French startup Irene Energy, which is also notable as being among the latest adopters of Stellar (XLM) as an alternative to Ethereum as the technology platform of choice.
According to Irene Energy’s white paper, its business model seeks to mimic Airbnb’s by “building a demand portfolio of savvy, price-sensitive and eco-aware consumers ‘poached’ from mainstream suppliers and a decentralised, capex-free supply portfolio of power generation attracted by marketing and local corporate image value propositions”.
The company states the biggest value of blockchain to be improving settlement operations in commodity trading. As such, it claims the Stellar blockchain, an open-licence software, as the “natural choice”, citing speed, scalability, cost, security and environmental advantages over other solutions such as Ethereum.
Currently Irene Energy has a token sale underway prior to planned launches in Europe, in particular France and the UK, in late-2018 and the US in early-2019.
According to the white paper, the first producer has been secured in France on the production side – an independent currently operating around 120MW of wind capacity and with another 50MW in development. On the consumption side, a partnership has been secured to become the default electricity supplier of a company specialising in connecting and managing smart buildings and microgrids. Irene Energy also reports preliminary talks being held with large residential property managers and some French municipalities.
Energo advances clean energy in the Philippines
Last up in this round-up and moving into Asia, clean energy and blockchain in the Philippines are in line for a boost with the implementation by community energy developer Energo Labs of Qtum Foundation’s platform for energy trading in local microgrids.
The deployment, which was implemented with clean energy producer First Gen, is part of the campus microgrid project at the De La Salle University in Manila. According to Qtum, this is a first of its kind for the platform, which Energo also anticipates being deployed to accelerate power reform in off-grid and other remote areas.
In the De La Salle project, users are able to conduct peer-to-peer transactions between buildings with the system ensuring that the supply and consumption of electricity in the buildings remain balanced.
Singapore-headquartered Qtum claims more than 50 decentralised applications deployed on its platform across a range of sectors. In February, Qtum announced its intention also to launch its technology into space aboard a satellite in order to provide cost-effective proof-of-stake mining to mobile users.
Source link: https://www.engerati.com/energy-retail/article/blockchain/5-new-energy-blockchain-platforms
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Greg Hands MP has welcomed calls by London Deputy Mayor Stephen Greenhalgh to improve public transport links to Stamford Bridge on the West London line, to ease congestion generated by potential stadium redevelopment.
In an Op-Ed in the Evening Standard this week, Greenhalgh wrote: “Chelsea FC plans to build a new 60,000 seater stadium on their Stamford Bridge site in the heart of Fulham, increasing capacity by nearly 50 per cent. A good design could make this new stadium considerably safer and better public transport connections could include a new Stamford Bridge station on the West London line.”
Greg Hands MP said: “This is a very interesting idea, and I will be contacting Chelsea to see what can be done. It would certainly help local residents considerably if as many fans as possible could come by public transport. Clearly, we already have the District Line, but it would help even further if thousands more fans could be brought in and out via the West London Line (London Overground), with its direct links to Clapham Junction, and in the future to Crossrail 2 as well."
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Instagrammable pastry? FrieslandCampina launches “indulgent and efficient” pastry cream powder
01 Jul 2019 --- FrieslandCampina Ingredients Food & Beverages has expanded its whipping agents portfolio with an innovative pastry cream powder for bakeries. The ingredient allows bakers to easily prepare indulgent pastry in all kinds of circumstances – hot or cold conditions – and offers a creamy mouthfeel. According to the company, the cream powder also yields a very high volume expansion – “overrun.” This, combined with its versatility, allows bakers to create a variety of products with just one whipping agent. Marketed as Kievit Vana-Monte DP580, the powder responds to two global consumer trends: consumers looking for multi-sensory experiences and personalization in pastry.
Cakes, pastries and sweet goods are the single largest bakery subsector, accounting for a third of overall bakery category sales and more than 20 percent of NPD, according to data from Innova Market Insights. Bakery trends are influenced by consumers who are no longer looking solely for a delicious taste but also want a multisensory experience that engages all their senses, the company notes.
Mouthfeel, smell, flavor and even the sound of food, are all equally important. In addition, the rise of social media has caused consumers to look for visually appealing, ‘Instagrammable’ foods. Kievit Vana-Monte DP580 responds to this trend by enhancing the pastry’s firmness, creating a smooth texture and sharp swirls in its topping. This luscious appearance, combined with a creamy indulgent taste and smooth mouthfeel, have consumers immersed in their senses, according to FrieslandCampina Ingredients.
Click to EnlargeMascarpone with Kievit Vana-Monte DP580Personalization is an industry megatrend and consumers actively look for products that can be adapted to their personal ideas, taste preferences and nutritional needs. For cakes and pastry consumers prefer a personal finishing touch, something unique which can be shared via social media, the company notes. With its versatility, Kievit Vana-Monte DP580 enables bakers to combine the cream with other ingredients and toppings to give consumers just the cake they want.
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Kievit Vana-Monte DP580 is an ingredient that can satisfy consumers’ need for multisensory, personalized pastry but also delivers excellent efficiency in bakery shops by providing even more volume and firmness after re-whipping, resulting in no waste – an important takeaway for bakers. Kievit Vana-Monte DP580 works with both ambient temperature and ice water (or milk) and has lasting stability, even at room temperature. Because of its volume and firmness, it can be easily spread over a cake in seconds – another essential element for bakers. Bakers can create new, delicious recipes such as a “Lemon Poppy Pie,” “Black Forest Cherry Trifle,” doughnuts, quark-cakes and many more.
FrieslandCampina Ingredients also says it has recently conducted in-depth research into the changing behaviors and needs of consumers, providing customers with the latest trends in the bakery consumer market and showing that the new Kievit Vana-Monte DP580 is responding to the latest consumer needs.
The baked goods sector is seeing a lot of innovation, as demands for clean label, sugar reduction and plant-based ingredients are intensifying. In this space, Cargill launched a range of lecithin to offer bread manufacturers plant-based emulsifiers that are entirely functional in terms of emulsification, dough handling, increased volumes and improved texture. Furthermore, Cargill also launched a palm shortening line, specifically for bakery. PalmAgility is positioned as a superior-performing, easy-to-use palm shortening for use in pies, donuts, cookies and crème fillings.
Click to EnlargeDIY Donut with Kievit Vana Monte DP580: indulgent and efficientIn February, Bell Flavors & Fragrances EMEA (Bell), launched a functional taste solution which allows a 30 percent reduction of sugar in bakery applications, among others. Also, Ulrick & Short launched Avanté 9, a gluten-free substitute for sugar. The ingredient is touted as reducing the need for sugar in bakery formulations by up to 20 percent while retaining the volume and texture of cakes, muffins and other baked goods. In addition, the company developed delyte 10 – a new ingredient designed specifically for pastry, which can reduce up to 25 percent of fat in applications, achieving overall calorie reduction in shortcrust pastry while still maintaining color, texture, bite and flavor.
In April, and in a bid to increase personalization in applications, Lesaffre officially opened its first Baking Center that is 100 percent dedicated to industrial customers, where tests can be run at full scale. Located in the south of Vienna, Austria, the new center features state-of-the-art technology on a floor area of over 600m² which enables thorough testing of technical products and machinery ranges.
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Is Your Choice Of Food A Fundamental Right?
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You grow a garden; you expect to be able to harvest the food from that garden and eat it. You raise a cow; you expect to be able to milk that cow and consume the milk. You raise chickens; you expect to gather eggs and eat them. It’s uncomplicated, simple, a fundamental right. Perhaps you wouldn’t feel this way if you lived under some other form of government, but here, now, in America and other democratized countries, this is what you expect.
According to Wisconsin Judge Patrick J. Fiedler, you do not have a fundamental right to consume the food you grow or own or raise. The Farm To Consumer Legal Defense Fund, the pioneers in defending food sovereignty and freedom, recently argued before Judge Fiedler that you and I have a constitutional right to consume the foods of our choice. Judge Fiedler saw no merit to the argument and ruled against the FTCLDF. When they asked him to clarify his statement, these were his words:
“no, Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to own and use a dairy cow or a dairy herd;”
“no, Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to consume the milk from their own cow;”
“no, Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of their choice…”
Talk about hammering a point home.
Sometimes I think I’ve woken up in a surreal alternate reality. I was raised in a patriotic glow where the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” was a well-defined, well-reasoned expectation. America is the “land of the free.” I do not think this means what I once thought it meant, particularly if we have no fundamental right to drink the milk from our own cows.
Constitutional law is not my thing, but perhaps it should be. That way I could develop a more cogent argument against the likes of Judge Fielder. As it is, I simply say, “But what of liberty? What of privacy? What of the right to do with my body and my property what I see fit, so long as I do no harm to others?”
How is it that I could have lived this long, and assumed that I had a right to eat the foods of my choosing?
I know how. It is our collective experience. In our day to day experience, we choose. In our day to day experience, we sow a garden and we harvest its fruit. In our day to day experience, we feed and milk our cows. In our day to day experience, we visit our local farms and buy foods from people we trust. In our day to day experience, we walk down the aisles of our grocery stores, and we choose. In our day to day experience, we open our pantry doors, let imaginary flavors roll over our tongues, and we choose.
We choose. We choose. We choose.
It’s like breathing. It is so common an experience, so personal, so much a part of our everyday existence, that I had (silly me!) come to assume that it was a fundamental right.
I certainly act like it is. And is that not, in the end, the measure of what is true? Is not truth that which matches our experience, that which is in accordance with reality?
If so, then food freedom and food sovereignty can’t be so casually stripped away, even by zealous judges.
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Amber Caudell via Facebook says
yes it is a fundamental right!
BoBo from Texas says
This is the Hope&Change! that you voted for.
Julie Kay says
Come on. That judge in Wisconsin doesn’t have anything to do with Obama. This comment doesn’t address the issue at all.
tilting@windbags says
Ron Paul 2012! The only candidate addressing this issue! Food freedom = economic freedom!
Just say NO to the NWO!
Why? It is not expressed specifically in the constitution as such. The judge quoted in this article seems to simply be saying that he does not find this in the constitution and therefor has no basis to state that it is a “right” protected by our constitution.
This is the type of judge that conservatives want. We don’t want judges who see things like abortion in between the lines of the constitution.
If you want protection in the law to consume the food you grow… work to get a law passed, but don’t beat up a judge who can’t find something that doesn’t exist.
Randy says
Yeah, cuz everyone knows liberals are down with the 9th and 10th amendments. And of course, that’s were these rights are protected, or are supposed to be.
And wasn’t it the liberals on the SC that all voted with the gov’t in Raisch v Gonzalez, the medical NJ case a few years back? So much for liberals for protecting our rights. It was 3 conservatives that voted for the plaintiff on this case.
In truth, both the Dems and Repubs are authoritarians, just on differing issues. And they’ve both done plenty to restrict our liberties.
Oops, make that the medical MJ case… so sorry..
The short version; You are not the master of my body, you shall not make choices regarding my body. Only I am the master of my body as per the word of my GOD and my religion. Stand Down, NOW! heathen. Quit trying to trump the authority of my GOD and my religious freedom.
Squid says
The Constitution does not spell out the rights of individuals; it spells out the powers of government. If a particular right of the people is not listed in the document, then it is assumed to remain with the people.
The “Where in the Constitution does it say you can stay up late?” question is popular with frustrated parents, but it has no place in discussions of policy.
I disagree Our Constitution protects Common law When our Forefathers wrote the Constitution they wanted to protect the rights they already had (“The Rights of Englishmen”)now called common law I’m sure under common law you have the right to consume food you raise!
Don Rodrigo says
Are you serious?
You think that the Constitution has to spell out everything so that a lame-brained clueless judge can find somenthing that mentions FOOD?
ARE YOU FRIKKIN’ SERIOUS?
“This is the kind of judge conservatives want?” SHows how much you don’t know, which could fill the Grand Canyon. “Pass a law?” Are you saying the Constitution in this case isn’t suficient? Really? Read much?
Eric says
Before Judge Fiedler, before the FDA, EVEN before the Constitution there is God. HE says in Proverbs 27:23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds.
24 For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation?
25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
26 The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field.
27 And [thou shalt have] goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and [for] the maintenance for thy maidens.
dcgirl says
doug you are wrong in your interpretation of the constitution. It does not have to spell out ALL of your rights. The constitution puts limits on the GOVERNMENT, not the people. Does it say in the constitution that you cannot grow your own food? No. Therefore you CAN.
You need to study the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and its Amendments. I DO have the right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. You are very mistaken to believe the Constitution must list every individual right. Our founding fathers declared what rights they were fighting for, then went into a bloody war to gain those rights. After which, they created to the Constitution which is meant to LIMIT government control of our lives. Our forefathers grew their own food. Many of them were farmers! They ate their own food, including the dairy products from their cows/goats. This particular Right falls under Life, Liberty AND the Pursuit of Happiness!
Abortion goes against the right to life, completely and utterly. You see YOUR rights stop when they infringe on another’s.
Mike Brabo via Facebook says
If only a fundamental right then it is based upon “law” or a governments whim and may be taken away. There is a reason why our nation’s founders called them inalienable rights.
Windy says
You mean Unalienable not Inalienable. Fundamental and unalienable are pretty much synonyms. Fundamental rights equate to unalienable rights, not to statutory nor case law. These right predate government and law.
If you want to keep your rights from being further restricted and, even better have those which have been stolen and limited by government all back, in full again, then your only hope is to help get Ron Paul nominated as the GOP candidate for President and then help him get elected. If necessary in your State, change party affiliation to do so. Become a delegate for Ron Paul at the local, State and national conventions. This is the one candidate who knows the Constitution and the Founding Father’s intent inside out. He has never voted for an unconstitutional law, and has introduced many bills that would require a return to Constitutional government (which have all been held up “in committee” by those who oppose such a turnaround, they like the power they have and are not willing to give it up, but Constitutionally they are NOT authorized the powers they have usurped from the States and the People. He is man of peace and liberty and he WILL get he federal government out of your life.
While I am a Ron Paul supporter, I don’t think he is our only hope. It’s very unlikely he’ll be nominated and even more unlikely that he’ll then be elected. I think it’s more likely that we’ll have to revolt. 🙂
He is our best hope at this time, the person around whom we can rally this revolution of ideas…the ideas can, will, must outlive Ron Paul, but right now he is our best choice and as long as he continues to do the incredibly hard work he is doing, patiently trying to educate the public about the perils of fiat currency and interventionist foreign policy in the 60 sec. sound-bytes he is allotted, the best WE can do is continue to chip away at the tenaciously held misconceptions held by the majority of people in our culture who have succumbed to the fluoride, the psy-ops and general brainwashing by repetition that is ongoing to those of us who see…we need to stay the course…find each other in the wildernesses of our isolated existences and know that we’re working together toward a common goal…liberty and justice for all is not a cliche to us, it is a guiding principle.
David in Atlanta says
How does predicting that Ron Paul will not be nominated make you a supporter of his? In my view, it makes you just another naysayer. If enough people like you perpetuate this prediction, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Supporters work toward making it likely that he will win the nomination. If he wins the nomination, I hear it said that pollsters are now predicting he will win over Obama. In the long run, he may not be our only hope, but right here and now, he is! I, for one, would much rather help make it happen than wait for circumstances to deteriorate to the point where revolt (whatever that is) is the only alternative.
Yes, this is VERY important!! thank you.
JQP says
Windy and Sam, I do like Ron Paul’s support of the Constitution. The problem runs deeper than the President! 2010 was shot across the bow, as the tide reverses to removing the ‘old guard’, Progressive +Socialist=Communists from elected positions of authority. Expose them, isolate them and vote them out of office! Who ever wins the Nomination will be a better choice than the Marxist Obama. The House and the Congress needs to be cleaned out. This also included your State down to your local level…Freedomworks.org Find and unite with others of like mind!
Michelle Stahnke via Facebook says
ummm he needs fired!
gullyborg says
more like tarred and feathered and run out on a rail.
This is not some isolated judge, the firing of whom will eliminate the problem. We will also need to fire the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In another lawsuit by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF), the FDA countered that “Even if there were some plausible argument that people have rights guaranteed under the Constitution to eat or drink anything they want (and there is not), such rights would not trump the government’s paramount interest in protecting public health.” (Quoted in a report by the president of the FTCLDF, and published in “Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts”, Summer 2011)
They also said similar rubbish previously in the same lawsuit, which I don’t remember but saw in the recently released documentary ‘Farmageddon’, which you will want to see on the big screen if it comes to a city near you, or on DVD when it comes out in late autumn/winter. Get notices by signing up at http://farmageddonmovie.com.
Marissa Joilette via Facebook says
agree!!!
Peg Danek via Facebook says
Maybe he is expecting us to revert to the English feudal system.
Patty B says
Perhaps we are trending back to a feudal system of sorts–one where agribusiness owns all the food, corporations own the means for acquiring income and power over our hours, media, managers, and advertisers give fealty to the corporate lords for the privilege of serving them thus gaining higher status and income, and the peasants can take or glean what they may.
notsure says
Patty, why do you default to the “big corporations are evil” meme? It wasn’t agribusiness that shut down the right to drink your own milk, it was the government. Corporations only have the power to sell you something. Government has the power to take things away from you.
Unfortunately the corporations and banks have bought most of the members of government and government passes the legislation the corporations and banks want, so Patty is correct in that the agribusinesses have influenced the legislation that protects themselves from competition even from the home food producers; they may even have written the legislation themselves. This judge is either ignorant of the Constitution he made an oath to uphold and defend, or he’s been bought.
mad libertarian guy says
And do you consider industry buying politicians a failure of industry or a failure of government? Do you somehow think that industry money has the ability to capture an official who doesn’t want capturing? Or that it somehow isn’t the officials who have created the system in which they can be captured?
Government makes the rules.
AP² says
Both? If I pay a guy to rob you, I’m still guilty even if he’s the one accepting the “job”.
Quin says
Simple answer to both sides of the crony capitalism equation. The dems want to eliminate the corporations and the republicans want to hire the right politician who is pure enough to resist the temptation. Get rid of the temptation by reducing the scope and scale of government regulation and massive subsidies and the pigs stop feeding at the trough.
Matty_J says
Prove it. Prove that the corporations have bought the government. Don’t give me your opinion, because it’s as good as my opinion, and my opinion is you’re another idiot hiding behind the delusional thinking of others.
TMLutas says
The literature on regulatory capture is pretty well developed. There really isn’t any cure to it other than limiting what can be regulated. If there’s nothing to capture, the companies surviving off regulatory capture get eaten up by new entrants that are better organized.
Fearsome Tycoon says
Exactly. Politicians can’t sell power that they don’t have.
The Burger King says
So well developed you can’t drop even a single reference on request, apparently.
Translation: “It’s true because I really, really want to believe it is.”
Anna Keppa says
How about googling “regulatory capture” and “crony capitalism”? You might actually learn something.
See also: Regulatory Capture: (ISBN: 6130913761) Editor: Surhone, Lambert M. Timpledon, Miriam T. Marseken, Susan F.
Oh and btw: have you ever given a thought as to what corporation pushed through the incandescent bulb ban? Free clue: its initials are G E.
EcoDude says
Regulatory capture is well developed with literally hundereds of theoretical and empirical studies to back the assertion up. Look at the Stigler reference here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Your comment has no basis in reality.
Greg F says
I view the government like the mob and the large corporations like the corner store that pays protection money. If the corner store pays the protection money the mob insures he will face no competition. If the corner store fails to pay the protection money the mob will replace him with someone that is more cooperative. The power clearly rests with the mob.
Denan says
Windy: While you may not like it, corporations have every moral and legal right to attempt to influence legislation that may help or hinder their business as long as it does so in legally and ethically acceptable ways.
Corporate executives and board members are required by law and regulations to act in the best interests of shareholders. They can lose their job and in some cases even be held personally and legally liable for choosing not to do so.
Further, given the massively volatile, complex and ever-growing regulatory environment businesses must contend with, companies who do not lobby and/or attempt to influence legislation can/will be hurt or even put out of business by the action of a politician/bureaucrat who may have been swayed by others on the issue, or who is simply ignorant of all the facts and seen/unseen economic effects of their vote or both.
And as another commenter rightly politicians can only be bought if they are for sale – and further, they literally are the ‘government’ who makes the rules under which a politician can even consider putting themselves up for sale.
Pettifogger says
Windy said: “This judge is either ignorant of the Constitution he made an oath to uphold and defend, or he’s been bought.”
Not so. I find his decision lamentable, but it follows from the leftist principles that began to be enshrined in the Constitution. In Wickard v. Filburn, the Supreme Court upheld the feds right to prosecute a farmer for producing wheat on his own farm for his own consumption.
That is a New Deal case and is considered a pillar of enlightened judicial thinking, at least by Leftist legal scholars. Leftists believe the feds can tell you what to buy and what not to buy and then are flabbergasted at the result? The operative word is schadenfreude.
Tom Perkins says
“Unfortunately the corporations and banks have bought most of the members of government and government passes the legislation the corporations and banks want, so Patty is correct in that the agribusinesses have influenced the legislation that protects themselves from competition even from the home food producers”
The regulations you are complaining about were all out into place to “protect” the “little guy” from the food produced by bug-agribusiness. How’s that working out for the “progressive” chumps? The corporations wouldn’t spend any money on politicians if there wasn’t something there worth the money, and what it is is the unconstitutional power to legislate the competition out of business.
Make government smaller, so it’s not worth buying.
Unfortunately, notsure, it IS the big Ag Corp’s that do not want us to grow our own food. Because if they don’t control the food, they can’t make any money off of it. It’s all about the money.
Food Renegade via Facebook says
@Mike — I think the judge was arguing that the choice of food isn’t even an unalienable right. Rather, he specifically argues that it’s a state-given right, subject to proper license, etc.
Melany Vorass says
So, let me get this straight – eating a plum from a tree I’ve grown in my front yard can only be eaten if the state grants me the right.
As a kid, I remember thinking, “can’t wait to be an adult so I don’t have to eat my liver and can eat dessert before my meals.” Instead, I am being force fed unhealthy food while being denied the right to eat something healthy. Bizarre times.
Melany Vorass said: “So, let me get this straight – eating a plum from a tree I’ve grown in my front yard can only be eaten if the state grants me the right.”
No. That is not the judge’s point. You can eat that plum as long as the government does not say that you cannot eat the plum. The assumption is that you can eat the plum, but the government may restrict your eating the plum, if it chooses. This is a reflection of the American conception of negative liberties rather than positive liberties.
This is a standard conservative legal approach; in other words, it avoids (the much reviled) substantive due process.
That is not to say this is good policy. But is policy that should be changed by the legislature, not by a judge making up fundamental rights.
We’ve just gone through a surreal regulatory moment where pollutants were almost regulated to a level beyond our ability to control them. In other words, we would not have had the engineering capacity to meet the new standards and thus we’d have had to close down entire industries and export them wholesale to jurisdictions that did not have our rules. Net pollution would worsen but we’d be getting it as it drifted to us internationally.
If the state can control my food, there’s nothing preventing them from simply not allowing me to eat other than their good will. That erases a fundamental difference between the US and the regime that produced the Ukrainian famine.
Kev Sa via Facebook says
Who gave this judge the authority to designate a fundamental, natural, human, inalienable right, and responsibility to feed myself. They are using legalese for a specific situation in which the government is involved.
koblog says
Think what our nation would look like if we didn’t have the Bill Of Rights — the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
If we didn’t have a First Amendment, would we have free speech or freedom of religion?
If we didn’t have a Second Amendment, would we be able to own firearms? And so on.
Our forefathers feared that if certain rights weren’t specifically written into the new Constitution — a Constitution that specifically states that if it’s not in the Constitution, the Federal government doesn’t control it — that newly formed Federal government might try to take the rights away.
The writers, of course, could not conceive of those rights being taken away. That’s why they didn’t feel the need to put them in in the first place. They relied on the “if it’s not in here, the rights revert to the states or the people” clause.
Today, our judiciary and the Nancy Pelosi/Harry Reid congress ignore the Constitution. Pelosi: “Is Obamacare Constitutional? Are you serious? Are you serious?” Meaning, “If we pass it, I don’t care about the Constitution.”
Today, our Federal government from Obama on down feel if it’s not in the Constitution, the feds have the power to do and decree whatever they want.
It was supposed to be a limited Federal government. It’s anything but.
So we get judges saying, “I don’t see a fundamental right allowing you to consume the food you grow in the Constitution, so I decree you don’t have that right.”
I guess we needed an 11th amendment in 1789: “The right of the people to eat the food they grow shall not be infringed.”
It’s so ridiculous that it was not conceived. Yet a judge today can seriously state it’s not a right.
Jennifer McGonagill via Facebook says
You might just want to move to Texas.
class factotum says
Of course I want to move to Texas! Who doesn’t?
Kitty McIlhenney Baker via Facebook says
Right! So if we don’t have the right, then who does? We the people have spoken, and its about time our servants do as they are told.
Foodies for Paul says
This is serious stuff. I’m glad the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund is out there.
There’s only 1 presidential candidate for 2012 that I know of who takes our food freedom seriously.
Hear, hear! Beat that drum loudly and often. For those who don’t know how to support this candidate, please scroll up to my first response (higher on this page).
Kylie Wilcox via Facebook says
Why is this not on the law/politics news circuit as well? This is more than just a food issue.
That was my point…. They’ve already taken away the right. I used to live in Eastern Europe. Centralized, government control over the entire food system ain’t pretty… unless you like sawdust in your bread and a life expectancy in the low 60s.
AmandaZ says
I think the most dangerous thing about the judge’s comments is his implications that food choice is not a fundamental right, but one granted by the state. The reverse of that is, it is a right the state can take away at any time.
Carry that too far, and the state is mandating we all drink UHT milk & coke and nothing else.
Slippery, slippery slope. I want my Constitution back!
KristenM says
Slippery slope, indeed!
What floored me is that people in some states aren’t allowed to collect rain water that falls on their own land. By law the water is owned by the ranchers not property owners. This strikes me kinda the same thing.
Dennis Cronin via Facebook says
Who have these people sold their souls too? The koch’s, corporations or the devil? Who wins? I really don’t know?
Way to smear. I think any judge who is claiming government control over what people choose to eat, including produce from their own gardens and milk from their own cows, is aligned with ideological groups that demonized the Koches.
Bringing up the Koch brothers is the new bringing up Hitler
You win the thread!
seguin says
You got that backward. The Kochs are libertarians…this is the sort of abuse of power that they spend money fighting against.
Mark Turner says
How about George Soros? The Koches are Libertarians. Soros actually has holding in a big Agro company, as opposed to the Koches.
“Here are George Soros’ top 10 holdings at the end of June:
1. Adecoagro S A (AGRO): Adecoagro was Soros’ biggest investment at the end of June 2011. Adecoagro is one of the leading companies in the production of food and renewable energy in South America. AGRO recently traded at $8.9 and has a market cap of $1.1 billion. Soros had $295 million invested in AGRO shares.”
Joshua Allen Donini via Facebook says
obviously bought out by the dairy board.
Tod Faassé via Facebook says
You can clearly see where this administration wants to go. First they devalue human life with senseless wars, then they control it with drugs. Mercury, fluoride, lead and now forced vaccinations and genetically manipulated food sources . . . every lawn should be a garden.
Seriously, though. Has anyone looked into or know of any funding, lobbying, etc. that may have influenced this? What else can explain that ruling?!?
Heather Brown via Facebook says
This type of infrigement of rights is the outgrowth of progressivism. I’m not talking left or right here, the first progressives were on the right. This type of government control is a baby step into fascism. The government and large corporations working so closely together to manage the economy, and through it our lives, is the end result of the policies we have seen in the federal government since George H.W. Bush got elected–from both sides. It’s finally picking up speed now.
Actually, that particular snowball began a long time ago. It has been rolling inexorably ever since, it gained a great deal of mass and speed in FDR years and has been growing exponentially ever since. And the only hope we have of blowing that snowball to smithereens in our lifetimes is to get Ron Paul nominated as the GOP candidate for President and then get him elected.
Greg Campbell says
The sad thing in this case is that the judge implicates his own lack of impartiality but doesn’t at all seem concerned about this. I wonder why we call it a justice system when it seems that judges favor the rich and powerful.
Sue Carver says
Judge Fielder needs to brush up on the Bill of Rights. This is why people are occupying Wall Street in New York.
Rob Crawford says
By “occupy” do you mean the people who work there? If so, I agree.
If you mean the children throwing temper tantrums in the street, then I disagree. Those people are the vanguard of the “mind”-set that leads to decisions like this one.
Exactly – the second amendment is a big issue for protestors today.
Svetlana Birthisel via Facebook says
I’ve been considering whether by supporting drug control (eg marijuana) it gives rise to these sort of opinions. It has caused me strongly question my position on legalizing drugs, which I’ve never been for.
Good for you, you SHOULD question prohibition, it denies the idea that you own your own body, it tries to make the government the owner of your body and talk about slippery slopes, that one is a real humdinger, which of course has led us to this point where a judge says we do not have the unalienable right to choose which foods/herbs/intoxicants we put into our bodies.
Rhayader says
Yes, support of drug prohibition is essentially the same from a philosophical standpoint as support of food prohibition. There is no fundamental difference between the choice to drink milk from a cow you own and the choice to smoke flowers from a plant you own.
allison burgueno says
the fundamental problem is that they brought this to court.
the fundamental problem is that government wants to be involved in every “financial” transaction.
the fundamental problem is that people who sell or trade dairy to others are in business – and therefore subject to the laws of commerce.
yes, you can do whatever you want with your own cow, however, when you talk to the law about it – then you are subject to their rectal inversion of the head.
Juanita Franke via Facebook says
I was just thinking the same thing, Svetlana. Never been a big fan of marijuana legalization, but thinking about the food question has changed that for me, I think,
Mandy Maranda Naylor-Graybeal via Facebook says
It’s amazing all the other things we have the freedom to choose – we can smoke and drink excessively (as long as it doesn’t hurt others). We can also eat unhealthy junk food without legal consequence. But we can’t produce our own healthy food and consume it. I guess our own healthy food doesn’t generate tax revenue like tobacco and alcohol…nor does it line the pockets of the food industry.
DHM says
Heather Brown has it exactly right. This is the natural outcome of progressive politics. If the government can meddle in any aspect of food production, it can meddle in all of it- and clearly does.
It’s not the mythical bogeyman the left has manufactured of the Koch brothers that should be scaring us- it’s the crony capitalists of left and right. The smaller the government, the less opportunity it has to meddle, and the less incentive there is for corporations or nanny minded activist groups to lobby for government favor.
Kudos to you, that comment gets a big +100 from me.
Holly Marie Meadows via Facebook says
If I don’t own my own body and cannot even engage freely in EATING (what is more fundamental?), then what rights does this man think I actually have inherent to my HUMANITY? Clearly he thinks there is no such thing as an “inalienable right” and has no concept of Constitutional liberty, and so utterly lacks a Biblical worldview that it is frightening!
And you, also, +100!
I disagree, in the Bible people were forbidden from eating food too. It’s very similar, in fact. Control and despotism.
I’m a big fan of raw milk, and the consumer freedom it’s ubiquitous availability implies. With that said, it looks like I am the only one so far, including the author, who took the trouble to read the court decision.
A district court judge is a publicly elected position. The judge’s job is to interpret the law, not make it or change it. As much as I hate to admit it, the judge’s arguments are solid and at first glance correct. First, according to WI law, they are operating a dairy farm, even though they are only distributing to themselves. The problem here isn’t the court, it’s the law. Fight to change the law.
Second, the FTCLDF’s arguments were underdeveloped, unfortunately. They should have taken a different tack.
Third, the use of private property may be the closest constitutional argument we can use for raw milk, but you still have to have a better argument than what FTCLDF had, and when you begin to distribute the milk, according to WI law, then you are defined as a dairy farm. That’s just the way WI sees it. Best way to change that? Lobby to change the law.
Fourth, a thought for most commenters here: while I would like to change the milk laws too, we in the US do not have the right to do anything we want. We have voluntarily granted many of our rights to our governing officials to steward for us. That’s what a democratic republic does. This concept is especially apparent with individual behaviors which affect public welfare. Like it or not, because of its sorted past, raw milk consumption has become one of those public welfare issues. We would do better, instead of trying to “assert our rights”, to educate the general public and change consumer behavior (which is why I like this blog), which can change both government, and industry.
I understand what you’re saying, and have had many of the same thoughts. This post isn’t about the judge’s decision regarding the legality of herdshares in WI, though. That’s a convoluted mess and the FTCLDF has quite the challenge in WI.
What this post is specifically about is the fact that the judge actually said that we do not have a fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of our choice, that we do not have a fundamental right to consume the milk from our own cow.
He said this in his original decision, so the FTCLDF asked him to clarify. Did he really mean to say that? Or were there qualifications? Perhaps he meant that in this particular case there were other laws and rights that took precedence? Did he mean to make such a blanket statement? Or was he merely trying to address the circumstances of this particular case?
So, the judge clarified, and it turns out he DID mean to make a blanket statement. In his opinion, no one has the fundamental right to consume the foods of their choice, even if they produced those foods.
That blanket statement is what’s bothering me.
Augie says
Though still future the government and their partners at the UN (Agenda 21) will determine what food is “safe and healthy” for us. Oh there will be local organic for those who can afford it but controlled by the controllers for our “safety and security”–small corporate farms with foreign guest workers. The rest will eat formulated K-type rations.The current danger is what we feed our children–raw milk fed to children has been suggested to be criminal.
The word is “sordid”.
You are right about the judge abiding by the State law. And right about educating the public (something our public schools fall severely short on doing) about their rights and their power as consumers.
You are wrong about holding off on asserting our rights. If rights are not exercised they are lost. We do NOT have to ask permission from government to assert, exercise or act upon our unalienable rights.
sa'ada says
+100 for that comment 😉
Matt said
“Fourth, a thought for most commenters here: while I would like to change the milk laws too, we in the US do not have the right to do anything we want. We have voluntarily granted many of our rights to our governing officials to steward for us. That’s what a democratic republic does.”
that may be what a democratic republic does IN THEORY, but that is not what is happening in the US. the inherently aristocratic process of elections allows those with the most money, corporations, to buy candidates, offices, votes, laws and therefore legal judgements in their favor. we live in a corporatocracy.
as good as ron paul’s positions sound, i’m wary of a savior complex developing. we, the people, do not need a presidential candidate to GIVE us back our rights. we need to TAKE them back. how long will the american people watch parents being locked up for feeding their children raw milk?
on second thought, don’t answer that question. i think it’s got a really depressing answer.
off topic a bit but one possible solution, for the politically minded to consider, is sortition. the electoral system doesn’t work. even if ron paul was elected how long would it take a successor to undo any good that paul MIGHT have been able to do?
“The judge’s job is to interpret the law, not make it or change it. ”
It is exactly a judge’s job to get rid of such idiocies by observing the fact the constitutions involved make such a law null and void. This judge did his job wrong, so he shouldn’t keep it.
“We have voluntarily granted many of our rights to our governing officials to steward for us. That’s what a democratic republic does.”
You’ve got that all wrong. If what you say correct, then “just following orders” is in fact not even dodging personal responsibility for crimes committed under law, it is in fact all that that is legitimate to do. Yours is the state where all that is not explicitly permitted is prohibited, and you’re claiming that’s right. Yours is a wrong and reprehensible view of the proper relationship between the people, the state, and the law.
It is not possible to separate the individual from the least of their rights, even voluntarily–the proper exercise of such is not a burden which can be laid down. The social contract is not that powers are actually surrendered to the state for the legislative representatives’ disposition, but merely that an openly arrived at covenant exists between the sovereign individual people and the individual people hired by them to do the jobs the people give to the government; that is it is commonly understood and popularly agreed to–by implicit supermajorities which are very large–what merits the attention of the heavy hand of the state.
Mere law exists to settle the details of what is already commonly agreed to.
You’ll find little agreement with what this overbearing idiot has said, and less with the puerile vehemence with which he has put it.
Chaya says
You criminal! How dare you eat your own food, drink your own milk!
If you have ever studied European block communism, we are seeing the beginnings of such total control in our own nation.
Pam Mercier via Facebook says
The Constitution has been relegated to the antiquities department it seems; looked at more or less like a curiosity, instead of the core document that it is.
Alan says
Agreed. Incidentally, the relevant Constitutional argument is based on the 10th Amendment, which states that all powers not delegated to the Federal government nor prohibited to the States are retained by either the States or the People.
There may be some question as to whether the States could pass such laws, but the 10th nevertheless states an important principle: that the delegation of some rights to government does not imply that the People do not retain their inherent rights. I am sure the authors did not consider explicitly noting the right of individuals to eat their own food, build their own homes, till their own fields, or breathe their own air because it seemed obvious to them that no one would question these rights. Though they had no naive view of humanity, they could not conceive of the depravity and stupidity of our modern politicians.
Ordinary Bob says
If a human has a fundamental right to eat what they want, do they have a right to end their life? This food debate does help illuminate the hypocrisy of government.
Absolutely, ownership of one’s body includes the right to dispose of your body at any time and in any way that does not violate the unalienable rights of another. This is also why, up until a fetus is capable of living outside the mother’s body without medical aid, abortion should legally be avialable on demand.
Pam Maltzman says
Ummmm, if I remember correctly, this country was supposed to be a constitutional republic, not a democracy. Those two forms of government are not the same thing. You might want to look it up.
This is what happens when ppl do not believe in the God of the Bible. They think they are gods. They don’t believe the God of the Bible gave you inalienable rights. They believe they are gods who have the right to control you denying you all rights.
Rachel Bush says
Laura, I think you mean well, but not everyone believes in the same God/s. I don’t believe in that God you speak of, I have a different but equally “good” belief, yet I don’t think I am a god. I think I am but a tiny part of the whole of creation. We do have inalienable rights which are inherent, but it is those who are immoral regardless of what God/s they may or may not follow, and by that I mean greedy and self-serving, who seek to take that away for their own benefit. Good knows not the difference between religions or deities, but neither does evil… both are found in all, because they are all made up of people who are free to make their own choices. I was never and will never be a Christian, but that does not stop me in any way from being a good, moral, and fair human being.
Think on that a little if you will.
Alejandra says
Very soon ,it’ll be your right after paying Monsanto.
People have a right to their OWN food, no matter what. I’d love to see dear ol’ Judgey try and stop me growing my own food. If a certain faction of our government keeps it up with taking food away, there’s going to be one heck of a resistance, and I for one hope that they will be set on their rumps! This country is the People, not the jerks we have currently running it, and they would do well to remember it!
Krissy says
Everyone should awaken and join the infowar. Check out Alex Jones on infowars.com. Mike Adams of Natural News guest hosts on Alex’s radio show sometimes as well.
Our liberties and justice are being taken away each day in the United States. We need to awaken the public. Thanks for the post! Even if one person is awakened–that is progress.
Thanks so much for this post!
His statements are so absurd. I have no idea what color the sky is in his universe. And, this sort of thing is happening over and over again.
I continue to eat the product of my garden. And I’m thinking of getting a cow … for milk!
Ron Paul!!
Pavil, the Uber Noob says
What would a constitutional amendment that establishes food rights look like?
Ciao, Pavil
Such an amendment is unnecessary. All that is needed is to elect people who understand unalienable rights and the Constitution.
Rhonnie says
Ok… so… I’m allergic to just about everything on the market, and pretty much only eat whole foods. Without the additives that I have trouble with. And only certain ones. Which it sounds like I don’t have the right to have…
(deep breath)
I’m really, really trying to behave, here.
Ditto – it it wasn’t pulled from the ground, plucked from a tree (and even then not always), or walked around at some point…I’m probably allergic to it.
Can’t wait to have my health ripped to shreds because someone else gets to dictate what I am and am not allowed to eat.
But hey, on the plus side, I’ll get to support the economy by spending all my money on food that makes me sick and to high insurance premiums for my pre-existing condition and to repare the damage with big pharma!!
Nursing Mother says
So what’s next? Are they going to forbid me from breastfeeding my baby since my breastmilk is unregulated, untaxable, and unprofitable to corporations?? Politics are just getting too surreal these days. I feel like I’m waiting to wake up to a world that makes sense…
This seems to be the trend now. There is legislation that is trying to make the food we eat more like pharmaceuticals, where large corporations and big pharma can profit off of it. It if isn’t able to be patented or profited off of, it must be banned. This is why raw milk and supplements are threatening to these conglomerates. Why isn’t government coming to our rescue? Oh that’s right, because everyone is scratching someone else’s back.
The YARD! via Facebook says
I think this is nonsense. Makes me wonder what pocket his hand is in to make this ruling.
“We choose, we choose, we choose.” Bravo.
Tina, you said:
” Can’t wait to have my health ripped to shreds because someone else gets to dictate what I am and am not allowed to eat.”
It’s pretty scary. We know our own bodies, and don’t need government stepping in telling us what we can’t consume. Are we sure this is the USA?
Perhaps the case should be argued with milk CONSUMERS as the plaintiffs – not the person who boards the cows.
JLynn says
I have to agree with others who have already said it:
>>> Ron Paul <<<
perlhaqr says
Welcome to Libertarianism. 🙂
Nicolas says
Ron Paul, the only presidential candidate who grows his own organic food, firmly disagrees with this judge.
Richard Popkin says
I live in the city and don’t have a garden or a cow. But if I had a cow and grew my own vegetables and someone tried to stop me from consuming my own produce and dairy products, they would surely be picking the buckshot, from the gun I have a fundamental right to own, out of their ass.
Mr. Popkin,
I am fully in accord with your views. However, in my case it wouldn’t be buckshot. I’d have sent him at least three 150 gr. “notices to cease and desist.” Arriving at the intended locations traveling at roughly 2700 fps, I’d say they would probably be pretty certain to change both his intellectual and visceral attitudes toward this issue.
I’m a believer in the Mozambique drill.
karrde says
It is a twisted world.
You have a right to privacy, if that right means that a court can strike down a state law restricting birth control.
You do not have a right to privacy, if that right means that a court cannot fine or punish you for consuming milk in a way that the FDA (or State Dept. of Agriculture, or whatever StateGovAgency) disapproves.
Is the FDA supposed to keep charlatans from selling tainted/unsafe milk, or is it supposed to keep you from drinking any milk that they disapprove of (no matter how closely you were involved in its production)?
What is happening is that Constitutional Law has mistakes in it, and things that are forgotten or get little traction.
During the 1930’s and early 1940’s, there were several Supreme Court cases about the laws of the New Deal relating to agriculture. One of them struck down Federal controls on how a meat-market handled its wares and dealt with consumers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schechter_v._United_States
Another such court case had the end result of forbidding a farmer from growing corn on his own land for his own consumption, because the FedGov had capped wheat grown per acre.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
I don’t know much more about nationwide laws and court cases involving farming, but I do know that this means the Federal Government successfully argued that a farmer growing things for his own use (and not for sale) can be limited by Federal Laws about interstate commerce.
Constitutional Law sometimes produces weird results, and the Court agrees for…some reason. Social pressure? Political pressure? Skilful argument?
Or just a pre-disposition to agree with laws that produce more work for lawyers?
Excellent point, STOP voting for lawyers for legislative and executive positions, limit the lawyers to the judicial branch of government (at ALL levels of government).
One argument in response to this you always hear is “show me in the constitution where it says that you have a right to drink your own milk.” I always respond with, “show me in the constitution where the government has the authority to prevent you from drinking your own milk.”
Maybe that is just my quaint way of thinking, but I don’t think so. Our government is supposed to be limited to specific numerated powers. I think we have forgotten that lesson.
Not all of us, and most certainly NOT Ron Paul.
blounttruth says
This is the very reason we need Ron Paul in 2012! I love to read the awakenings of people who see the true writing on the wall, I just hope that many more wake to the reality that not one single candidate other than Ron Paul, or Gary Johnson has any intention of helping Americans as they have all sold out to the world banking cartel and wall street elitists. They say Ron Paul is crazy, too old, to disillusioned? I say Ron Paul is ripe for the picking and people had better wake up and realize that he is honest, has integrity, and loves the Us aside from the fact he has been eerily correct about most pf the things that have hurt us as a nation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvlUx5ECD2w
delurking says
I wonder how many of the above commenters, who feel that choosing what you eat is a fundamental right, have thought out the logical extension of that belief.
Anyone would be free to cultivate and consume marijuana, coca, opium poppies, psilocybin-producing mushrooms, etc. The FDA and DEA would no longer be allowed to prevent you from taking any drug you choose.
I’d like to see the above commenters return and endorse these freedoms or moderate their outrage.
basic human needs are water, food, shelter, clothing. fulfilling those needs = inalienable right
i don’t see why, if we are allowed to fulfill our basic human needs, that means that recreational drug use has to be allowed also. following your logic, if choosing what you eat is a fundamental right then so is taking recreational drugs and so is enriching uranium. after all, you can take it out of the ground and do whatever you want to with it, right?
not to mention that they don’t do a very good job of preventing people from taking drugs anyway.
i’d like to see this commenter return and explain their jump in logic or moderate their complacency.
Hi Sa’ada,
If the government can regulate your growing and eating of one plant, they can regulate your growing and eating of any plant or animal. You can’t say it is a fundamental right to grow and eat wheat, but not a fundamental right to grow and eat coca. If you give the government the power to draw the line somewhere, then they can draw the line between raw and pasteurized milk, rather than between coca and wheat.
So, yes, following my logic (and the judge’s, obviously), if choosing what you eat is a fundamental right then so is taking drugs. How could it be otherwise?
Enriching uranium is another matter altogether.
damaged justice says
Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in defense of liberty is no virtue.
What you describe sounds much better than imprisoning and murdering people because you disapprove of what they choose to put into their bodies. Except you don’t have the moral fortitude and the courage of your convictions that would be required to go around toting a six-gun, putting it to people’s heads and blowing them away. You’ll just send men with guns to do that dirty work for you. Clean hands!
Fine by me if people can use marijuana, coca, opium, etc. Coca especially, when it hasn’t been concentrated, has a very good use: it prevents altitude sickness.
I’m fine with the FDA ensuring that food and drugs that are sold are pure and unadulterated (I’ve read “The Jungle”), but I don’t see where they have any authority to decide whether a food or drug can be sold or consumed.
May I also suggest that as a very bare minimum, we should consider anything in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to be covered by a Right to Life and Liberty?
I say yes to all of them. For every snake oil salesmen, there’ll be a wonderdrug that wasn’t crushed by the ridiculous red tape of the FDA. It would make drugs for lesser ailments more profitable, and therefore, worth producing for drug companies.
I’ll support all of that and then some.
perry says
unfortunately this case parallels the infamous wickard filburn commerce clause case, where the supreme court already ruled some 70 years ago that we don’t have the right to consume what we grow. the same powers that justify what you can and can’t consume from your farm also justify the power to force you to purchase a private insurance product as a precondition of being a citizen.
either we have the rights to determine what is in our own economic best interests or we don’t – you can’t have it both ways.
Yes of course it is a fundamental right, but it is no surprise that our government is seeking to suppress it — none of us have ever spent a day in a world in which we had the right to do with our own bodies as we choose.
For this we can thank that great beacon of bodily oppression, the War on Drugs. In a world where the government can tell you what you can’t smoke or snort or inject, there’s no reason it can’t tell you what you’re not allowed to eat or drink either.
Always On Watch says
I’ll be linking to this information at my site on September 28.
Larken Rose says
As long as the people treat the parasite class (“government”) as if it has the RIGHT to control us, it will. Who cares what a god-complex nutcase in a black dress thinks? It only matters because the people IMAGINE that it matters. Stop worshiping the narcissistic megalomaniacs, stop calling their decrees “laws,” stop begging them for permission to do anything–including milking your own cow. (Holy smokes!) Stop hallucinating that mythical thing called “authority.” Every scrap of power these intrusive, obnoxious, parasitic jackasses have comes from the public’s PERCEPTION of them as our rightful lords and masters. If we stop treating them like masters, one way or another they will stop treating us like slaves.
Anna D says
Can’t you people just vote him out at the next opportunity, if possible, or elect legislators who will replace him with someone who respects liberty – not someone who wants to be a food Nazi? I bet he’s a liberal….
The very concept of rights has been so mutilated and twisted by regulations, politics and ‘interests’ that the only ‘rights’ we have left are to an abortion if we want one, to ‘marriage’ if we are gay, and to embrace political correctness, and therefore our minds, to the ‘superior’ reasoning of someone else. No, our country isn’t what it used to be, and as it appears now, it never will be again.
Gunship Cowboy says
The better way to argue this point, is to ask, “Which of the enumerated powers in the Constitution prohibits the consumption of our own produce. The Constitution provides for “limited” government and lists what the Federal government can “do”. If its not listed, they can’t do it. Granted, Congress has played pretty loosely with the so-called commerce clause. Now is the time to get the arguments straight and fight on the interpretations of the definitions of the enumerated powers.
tom beebe st louis says
Time for civil disobediance
Thucydides says
Raising and eating your own produce is a subset of property rights, so this ruleing is an attack not just on free choice but also you ability to have unencumbered use of your property.
This case and others like it must be fought on the legal, political and social battlefields, and members of the TEA Party movement need to consider this as the next “downline” area to be addressed after capturing municipal and State governments from the progressives.
It will be a long, hard, war.
Tom Bri says
Libertarianism is looking better and better.
Billy D says
If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you weren’t a racist, please vote for someone else in 2012 to prove you’re not an idiot!
patch says
What a dumbass…
Zelsdorf Ragshaft III says
IMHO, a group of citizens, lets call them vigilantes, should gather together, visit that judge, drag him out to a tree. Read the constitution to him and hang his ass from that tree.
alvah halle says
…for the love of God.
one’s own food!!!!
are you freakin’ kidding me.
It has come to THIS.
sweet JAY-SUS.
as the J. Geils band summed many years ago “…somebody help me…”
KMarx says
Most foodies I know are rabid liberals. Serves them right. Hope their beloved communist rulers continue to make decisions like this, it makes their stupidity even more evident.
… And they say the same about us, whenever someone’s shot over a barrel a quarter inch too short.
And so the noose tightens ’round *all* our necks.
ThomasD says
Telling a person they have no right to consume the food they create is despotism writ plain and simple. Shame on us if we do not stand against this abuse.
It seems to me, based on the article that this story linked to, that the judge was hearing a case from a dairy farmer. The dairy farmer was trying to sell raw milk. Personally, I agree that if you won your own cow you have a right to use the raw milk in anyway you see fit. However, the dairy farmer’s lawyer tried to make it into a bigger issue, poorly argued, and improperly used incorrect case law to back up the suit. This seems more to me like a judge saying “you didn’t do your homework and argued badly so I’m smacking you for it.”
To me, it looks like better communication skills and more skillful and fact based arguments were called for on all sides and this screed here is just noise on the signal. If my HOA says I can’t own livestock, then I do not have a fundamental right to do so because I chose to live where livestock was not permitted. Therefore I have to live with the consequences. The noise and hoopla interferes with the REAL argument. The real argument of course being how much regulation we the people will tolerate and how do we get rid of some it. We certainly do NOT do it via specious lawsuits based on roe v wade when we are talking about caws and milk.
Bad lawyer…no milk with your cookies.
STONE DOME says
doesn’t this man realize that the citizenry is well armed?…i don’t think the government realizes the spirit that exists within the majority of people in this country and how they would use whatever force is necessary to preserve their liberty granted by their creator. the only reason some people are still walking around is that it is illegal to kill them. the trend that this judge espouses, which is a road to eventual government totalitarianism, may soon invalidate that statement…
Roux says
We are headed toward “Idiocracy”… soon we will all have to consume “Brawndo” because it has electrolytes.
David Mastio says
You might want to read this:
AD says
The Impeachment, and Conviction, of this Judge should be a high priority in the next session of the WI Legislature.
Chuck Pelto says
TO: All
RE: Judge Fiedler
This person is obviously NOT a christian. And how the hell they got to be a judge is a matter of interesting import. Let alone the significance of their being able to divide the law of the land in such an outrageous manner.
Chuck(le)
Seerak says
That’s right, Chuck. Christians have always been pro-choice. So obviously this judge can’t be a Christian, and that’s why we still yearn for the freedom we had for the thousand years of Christian rule after Rome fell.
TO: Seerak
RE: Pro-Choice
Not so much ‘pro-choice’ as it is written that a man should be able to rest under the shade of his own fig tree and eat the fruit thereof. As well as drinking the wine of his own vineyard.
[Do not muzzle the oxen as it treads out the grain.]
Archangel13G says
Hi-larious. A question for all you foodies cheering Mayor Bloomberg’s crusade against the twinkie: how does the sauce taste now that it’s been liberally applied to both goose and gander?
Jhn1 says
The judge is simply stating that you only may choose between the choices our benevolent government allows us to choose between.
TO: Jhn1, et al.
RE: Heh
Welcome to the world of THX 1138.
[The road to Hell is lined with ‘good’ intentions.]
P.S. The question becomes WHO decides what is ‘good’ and on WHAT do they base their decision?
If the road leads to hell, by what measure were the intentions good?
Dantes says
Progressivism marches on. Hey, what are you so upset about. I bet you think the government choosing what health care you get is ok too!
blackpoodle says
This may have originated in a case similar to one in Ann Arbor. A collective of people there bought a dairy herd so they could get unpasteurized milk. I believe there was a court case/regulatory ruling that they could not have the milk because it went through an organization — therefore commerce, even though the didn’t pay directly for the milk — and since commerce is a state interest and public health is a state interest, they would not be permitted to obtain milk that they might give to their their children that, because unpasteurized, might contain harmful bacteria, etc.
ch3cooh says
Owning your own dairy cow and consuming it’s milk changes the amount of milk demanded on the open market
Therefore it is an act of interstate commerce
Therefore is subject to governmental regulation and oversight according to the commerce clause of the constitution.
Pretty much the same issue as Wickard v. Filburn and is also the current justification for the constitutionality of Obamacare.
Bill M says
At least this statist judge is retired on the 30th. None too soon.
Demosthenes says
Welcome to a world where the Commerce Clause is expansive. Yes, your growing food could potentially affect the interstate market for those types of food. Therefore, under the Commerce Clause, the federal government believes it has a right to regulate your behavior. It’s the same principle that underlies the individual mandate in PPACA.
Brahma says
If you eat what you grow, there is no room in the transaction for taxation, regulation, or SEIU integration (lest you think I’m crazy see legislating away your ability to send lunch with your child to school.) It also opens up the opportunity for me to bring an apple pie to your house, and return with a gallon of milk and some tomatoes.
Zexufang says
Solution?
Impeach Wisconsin Judge Patrick J. Fiedler.
THAT is the only way to send a message to like-minded wimpy noodle brained judges.
Tyranny must be confronted with ACTION; and not with web-wide mumbling indignant blather.
Synova says
The regulations and laws that favor corporations weren’t passed with the purpose of favoring corporations.
They were passed to protect people from corporations.
Think about this. We (the people) have demanded that the government protect us from bad products and profit motivated businesses. We demand regulations about every little thing so that we don’t have to think about the safety of our food.
That this hurts the individual and small businesses and benefits corporations and big business is because they can afford to comply to the rules.
But please let us not mistake who it is demanding laws and regulations and why they did so.
CHOICE is a fundamental (i.e. Individual) right. Period.
Warren Bonesteel says
Peaceful version:
Work with your state legislators…and get the law changed.
Non-peaceful version:
Where’s Wisconsin’s version of Concord Bridge?
iow, how far are you willing to go, and what are you willing to sacrifice, in order to defend and protect your rghts?
Vote Libertarian.
And if you can’t, vote Tea Party.
Now you understand.
Fernando de Saracho says
why is this person even a judge? he may barely qualify to be outside a mental asylum now he decides what goes?
Let’s help him Get some tratment and out of that position quick!
Valerie Rega Rhodes via Facebook says
smacks of centralized planning
Dougger says
Wow, y’all have gone totally off the rails.
First off, this is not an issue of Federal powers under the constitution.
This is a Wisconsin law. If you want to avoid the restrictions of Wisconsin law, move to another state that allows you to consume milk from your own cow. Just make sure that that state considers collectively owned cows to be your own and not just a cover for a dairy farm that can be regulated as in this case.
The Ninth Amendment to the US Constitution is the one that concerns your rights:
“The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
The challenge here is to determine what rights are retained by the people. This is what we elect judges to decide. This must be balanced against the Tenth Amendment to the US constitution:
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
This means that the State of Wisconsin has the power to regulate what WISCONSIN RESIDENTS eat (since the US Constitution does not delegate this power to the federal govt).
Bottom Line, your choices are:
Move out of Wisconsin.
Amended the Wisconsin Constitution to provide a right to eat your home grown food.
Pass a law in Wisconsin to exempt dairy co-ops from the law in question.
Wow, you’re so totally wrong I can’t pick where to begin first. For one, that isn’t the only amendment applying here, there’s also the 5th and 14th protecting a general right to property from state interference.
Lettuce prey!
John C. Randolph says
Our rights do not come from the government, we created the government to secure our rights. When the government fails to do so, it should be disregarded. This judge, in the meantime, should be bounced off the public payroll, and disbarred for his contempt of the rights of a free people.
-jcr
John Primmer says
Obviouosly, Fiedler, J., is not old enough to have lived during World War II. At the time, encouraged by a progressive President, our parents cultivated “Liberty Gardens.” As our fathers, uncles and older brothers were fighting and dying for our freedoms, and Judge Fiedler’s, we were supporting the effort to retain our freedoms by, among other things, planting vegetable gardens. Of course we had the fundamental right to harvest and eat the results. We also made sure that our neighbors, who might not have been able to raise vegetables, got plenty to eat. This is what today’s liberals really want to obliterate. Not only should we not be able to milk our own cow, we shouldn’t have the right to share the milk with our neighbor. That’s the government’s function.
I don’t know the facts of the case Judge Fiedler screwed up, but there can be no facts that would allow a judge to rule against a citizen’s right to consume the product of his labor. Any other conclusion is slavery. Anyone within driving distance of his court should show up with vegetables, cheese, milk, fruit and anything else they’ve produced and dump it in his chambers. If he controls it, let him deal with it. It’s well beyond time that those of us who believe in these fundamental, God-given rights assert them. Aggressively. The way the union bosses have asserted theirs.
Concerned Citizen says
Actually, that “progressive” president who encouraged the Victory Gardens prevailed in the Supreme Court case against a farmer’s right to feed his own crops to his own animals. Lunacy is found throughout the court system. (from Wikipedia)
Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942), was a U.S. Supreme Court decision that recognized the power of the federal government to regulate economic activity. A farmer, Roscoe Filburn, was growing wheat for on-farm consumption. The U.S. government established limits on wheat production based on acreage owned by a farmer, in order to drive up wheat prices during the Great Depression, and Filburn was growing more than the limits permitted. Filburn was ordered to destroy his crops and pay a fine, even though he was producing the excess wheat for his own use and had no intention of selling it.
The Supreme Court, interpreting the United States Constitution’s Commerce Clause under Article 1 Section 8 (which permits the United States Congress “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;”) decided that, because Filburn’s wheat growing activities reduced the amount of wheat he would buy for chicken feed on the open market, and because wheat was traded nationally, Filburn’s production of more wheat than he was allotted was affecting interstate commerce, and so could be regulated by the federal government.
cbinflux says
SEN. Lamar Alexander (RINO-TN) strongly agrees with the judge.
Smarty says
Those of you who vote democrat need to ask your best friend to kick you in the nuts. This is what happens when you elect marxist do-gooders.
PD Quig says
Just try and take away my right to grow and eat my own vegetables, Judge. And I’ll introduce your sphincter to one of my 10-lb. zucchini…
Well, let us step back a moment. The government prevents more than just growing your own garden.
The poor and jobless are precluded from entering many lower skilled professions or starting their own business. The poor can not open their own taxi service, or style hair, or provide patrons the benefits of their extra rooms or cooking skills. Governments have effectively cut off all available entrepreneurial activity for the poor through expensive licensing, zoning and tax laws, and then ongoing overhead for ‘quality’ and suitability, and transactional tax and legal overhead which long ago stopped adding marginal value and became another tax layer to society.
Name one activity a jobless person can undertake to earn a living without government barrier.
SS also keeps the poor down. It precludes compounding and significant survivor nest eggs, two of the principal methods the rich use to become richer. But SS has neither!
Archie1954 says
Judge Fiedler like many judges in the US is definitely not a Constitutional scholar. His judgement should be appealed to a higher authority, perhaps where an educated judiciary reigns. There is always the possibility of course that he is simply another corrupt individual who is paid under the table by big agri.
Walter Jeffries says
Yes, it is a fundamental. Just because one idiot says otherwise doesn’t change anything. Fortunately the Supreme Court will disagree with him should this get that far.
Tatiana Covington says
I don’t have such a right? Why not? Because he says so? He’s just another man. What about him? Who cares what he thinks? Will he abide by my decisions for myself? No? Then I shall not abide by his for me.
I decide what rights I have, he does not. I never appointed him or anyone else. I do not even recognize him as having any authority at all.
I wonder how well he would fare, if he walked up to a gang of street toughs, seized their hot dogs, and said: “I have the right to tell you what you will eat.” Very likely they would beat him six feet into the ground, and rightly so.
If he doesn’t like it, let him go fuck himself.
Nobody *cares* what he thinks! Or even should!
RogerSmith says
The judge does not need fire – he needs to be shown the most patriotic use for a length of hemp rope and as street lamp.
Is it any wonder everyone sees this country is becoming LAWLESS???
Not only are there too many laws, no one follows the laws we have, including this judge. When people don’t follow laws, things are settled with a gunfight in the street.
Is that really what we want? Yikes!
Ernest Adams says
Choosing whether or not to be pregnant should be a fundamental right too, but there are LOADS of people trying to control what you can do with your own womb. In view of that, this one doesn’t particularly surprise me.
butch says
The Kulaks were unavailable for comment.
Mike Mahiney says
Giving the judge a great big benefit of the doubt. Bear with this a minute. He upheld a supreme court precedent set in that WWII era case that ruled a wheat farmer could not consume his own wheat. If he is half smart as I hope he is, he expects this case could wend it’s way back to the Metamucil Nine and let them digest this stomach churner. He is daring the Metamucil Nine.
If not, find Ye an olden oaken tree and stout chord, well fitted to said judge.
GetSkinny GoVegan says
So So Crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!! Since when is a Kale Garden illegal!
Walt says
I can’t seem to find it anywhere in the constitution that says government has the right to tell you what or what not to eat.
In other words, citizens shouldn’t have to claim and then prove the source of their rights. The critical question should be whether there is any legal basis for restricting citizen’s rights.
ID says
Guess what, Judge Fiedler, you have no fundamental right to be a judge of others. Society gave you this extraordinary power and it can be taken away as quickly as it was given to you.
haha says
“as quickly” …. hmm… i don’t unfortunately i do not think that is the case.
Dan III says
Don’t know if it’s been mentioned, but the words “…necessary to a free state…” keep coming to mind.
There’s no shortage of domestic enemies.
richard40 says
Don’t blame the judge, he was following the law, as a judge should do, blame yourself. If you voted for any politician who continues to support the FDA, then you yourself voted to take that fundamental right away from yourself. The FDA has the authority, given to them by us, to ban any food that it deems unsafe, regardless of our wishes, in this case it is unpasturized milk. A right is only fundamental if you stand up for yourself when it is taken away, and oppose the people that took it away. Since most natural food types are also political leftists, you have probably voted for politicos that fully support the FDA, and the ban you now so detest. If you want the right to decide completely for yourself what you eat and drink, even if most of the rest of society thinks it is unsafe, only the libertarians, and some libertarian leaning repubs, now support you, no dems do.
Finley says
In 1965, the U.S. Supreme Court established the “right of privacy” under the 14th Amendment — the only time the 14th has been used in U.S. history to decide a ruling. The ruling claimed that freedom and the right to privacy were part of the right to due process. Unfortunately, as I learned from 10 years of bitter experience in the Alabama judicial system, many judges do not even recognize the right to due process — just doing whatever they want because they are judges, the Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court rulings be damned.
This case could well come under the 14th Amendment if there were anyone willing to try it.
Jaytee says
Keep electing liberals (progressives) and watch this once fine nation turn into a socialist garbage bin – because that’s what’s happening. The liberals don’t believe in the limitations of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The liberals believe in “social justice” and “wealth redistribution.” The liberals believe they know better than everyone else. The liberals believe they can tell you how to live and how to eat and how to die. They want what you have unless you have nothing, in which case they’ll give you just enough to enslave you to their system. Yup, keep electing liberals, people.
John O'Neill says
Do you know how to respond to Wisconsin Judge Patrick J. Fiedler’s Nazi Ruling? GROWN MORE FOOD. These scumbags are actually making me grow my own food!!! Keep it up Judge Fiedler and all you other Nazi control freaks – keep it up – it just makes me want to plant MORE!!!!! And by the way Judge Fiedler – YOU CAN GO STRAIGHT TO HELL YOU SON OF A BITCH.
Malcolm Jensen says
Just so everybody can be sure about that to which I’m responding, here it is –
From Tod Faassé via Facebook
on September 20, 2011 | 12:27 pm
Well, Todd,
Are your “senseless wars” Bush’s war of choice in Iraq? Eliminating Bin Laden and his Taliban base?
Did you, just learn about fluoride, or do you think this administration brought us fluoride decades ago?
It’s a shame that you’re probably not a candidate for cervical cancer . . . you may well deserve it.
What about mercury and lead? Do you just name anything that comes to mind and blame it on this administration?
You think that Wisconsin judge is part of this administration?
Any other brilliant observations?
Lennox says
Wow. I don’t know what’s more disturbing: this Judge’s declaration or a good deal of the comments here.
Beyond the justified outrage of this ruling and it’s implications, it also seems this question of food rights acts as a virtual ink blot test that reveals the readers own agendas and biases here in the comments.
Rather than regard this information as the fellow human beings we all are, the fellow citizens of this country I assume most readers are, who ALL have the unalienable right to the food of our choice – rather than look at the commonality we share about this – we scramble to blame our favorite bogey men of choice: whether it be the “commies”, the corporations or Satan himself.
I tend to see the old culprits of greed (especially), stupidity, misguided do-gooders and group-think behind much of the struggles we are having with over-regulation (most problems, generally), rather than massive ideological conspiracies of a single bent.
Please note: This situation did not spring, fully borne, from any one administration/political party. This is not solely left or right created. Both sides have crossed the lines and trampled our rights to suit whatever given “greater good” they saw fit at the time. Whether wire taps on the general public or this current FDA foolishness of SWAT-like teams on a farm family’s doorstep.
People. Stop just objecting when it’s not “your side” doing this. Quit acting like this is somebody else’s fault. WE are at fault because we play right into Divide and Conquer politics and are so busy spitting at each other the big stuff goes right past us.
WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER. We need to knock this off, or we will truly get the reality we deserve (But hey, at least we’ll be able to blame the other guy…).
paita says
Is this not against the ;law???To restrict anyone in the united states of a america from the diet of there choice,ie ,food and beverage of there choice.This country or wisconsin is sounding more and more like Russia in the 1940,who do these republican,rich,arrogant,abuse of power,unhumane peoiple in position of power think they are,god??Wow,that democracy for u right??What happen to our constition?our rights??where are they going folks?Evil thrives when good men/women do NOTHING!!!!PAITA
Stuper Man says
The only problem is, we do not have this right: “What of the right to do with my body and my property what I see fit, so long as I do no harm to others?” You can’t run a meth lab – it is against the law. I understand where this judge landed – he is not going to cede to Americans as ‘constitutional’ the right to do whatever they want on their private property. It is well established the government has the right to regulate that. Question is, how do we keep it from being unreasonable. I do not know about you, but if I lived in a downtown NY highrise, I would not want my neighbor to be allowed to move in a dozen head of cattle to slaughter in his living room, because it is his private property and right to do so.
cali says
You do not have a fundamental right to own an animal. You should not be able to raise a cow/pig/chicken and use their bodies for what ever purpose. It’s slavery.
But plants, sure. You grow ’em. You own ’em. You choose who eats ’em. 🙂
But plants have feelings to!!! You need to read the “Secret Life of Plants”. When you get that digested think about how a plant feels being owned and eaten by yourself. How inhumane!!!
I hope the good people of Wisconsin get off their backsides and remove this person from the bench immediately! His ruling flies in the face of reason. A person has EVERY right to produce or raise his own food and NEVER have to rely on someone else for sustenance! It is incontrovertible and axiomatic! This judge is obviously in the pocket of corporate “farmers.”
J Clarkson says
Okay so the US Constitution is pants. The AMericans would have been better staying with the British Crown. We in Britain have the right to grow and eat our own food. No-one, no laws, nothing can stop this right! Your country is led by a President and a Constitution but surely it would be better to be ruled by a Prime Minister and a monarch? Come on, vote to join up with us and we can rule the world.
T Petty says
Really, do you have that right? Can you grow any of the following: marijuana, coca, peyote, mescal, tobacco, grapes, barley, hemp, opium poppies, salvia?
All these plants or the products made from them, were once or still are prohibited by government order, several of which I am sure are banned by the British Parliament.
Wayne Craig says
Here is an update re: Fiedler. He has left his judgeship, sometime in August, before his term ended and taken a job at a Madison law firm which has done work for Monsanto. You can’t make this stuff up!!! He left two motions re: this case unaddressed. What a stand up guy!!!
Anthony Rowe says
so I can walk onto any dairy in wisconsin and take any cow I choose then right? I mean the dairy owner has no right to own those cows right?
Unfortunately, our “rights” are determined by the government. It’s been that way ever since the bill of rights and the constitution. So the judge was right. His interpretation of the law, is law. And if he says they have no “rights”, he is correct. It’s the system we all buy into when we vote. With this system in place, we will never truly have “rights”.
Matthew Graybosch says
You need to start hammering on the Ninth Amendment, which states that, “The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” We possess the right to do anything we please, but the government’s authority is limited by law.
Are you guys knowledgeable about cooperatively raising grass fed beef? I’d like to get a program like that going.
Law grad says
First, a few basics about fundamental rights:
Courts have clarified that a limited number of fundamental rights flow from the Fourteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution, and thus legislation affecting these rights are subject to “strict scrutiny” rather than the rational basis or intermediate scrutiny tests:
Under the Equal Protection Clause, voting and travel.
Under the Due Process Clause, bodily integrity, family, and reproduction.
I did not see the brief on behalf of the people who want to drink the milk, but according to the judge’s order, they cited no legal authority to support the proposition that what they want to do is a fundamental right.
If these people don’t like Wisconsin’s laws, they can elect people who will change them. The laws they challenge are state laws, subject to the will of the state legislature and executive enforcement. Plaintiffs appear to be asking the court to engage in judicial activism by creating a federal constitutional right where none exists, based on no legal authority. This defies our system based on the rule of law.
To clarify, the above was offered only as a basic primer and for discussion purposes, not as legal advice. Anyone seeking legal advice should consult an attorney qualified to practice in the relevant jurisdiction.
I never realized that consumption choice was an issue. I see the judges point, in that this is actually so fundamental of a right that the framers of the constitution probably didn’t even imagine it needed to be addressed, just as they didn’t realize that a another fundamental right wasn’t addressed, that is the right to plant and grow anything we want.
So basic are these rights that it was like the air we breathe, so no, they were never written down as rights.
Time for a couple new constitutional amendments, I’d say!
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Nereida says
I went to McDonalds and chic filets today to buy a cinnamon roll, you know the ones with yummy butter melted on top,. Well guess what, neither place had one because they no longer carry them! Probably because they “the governmet” thinks they are bad for you. Please let me make that decision!! Government stay out of my life!!
Kennelmouth says
I read the actual court transcript of the case in question, and I have to say that I am disappointed by the gross mischaracterization of what happened in court that day. The court had repeatedly stated, as you can see in the transcript, that the right to own a cow or drink pasteurized milk was never at issue in the case. The exact quote in P25 was this: “In response, DATCP does not challenge the Zinniker plaintiffs’ claims that a person is permitted to own cows and board those cows at a dairy farm. DATCP also does not take issue with the Zinniker plaintiffs’ claim that a person may consume unpasteurized milk.”
What was at issue is the status of the milk producers. They weren’t merely milking their own cows to drink the milk over lunch…one of the Plaintiffs were engaged in Dairy Farming, and were doing so without a license. The other Plaintiff was misusing their dairy license in a manner that was in clear violation of the law. In both instances the court said that questions of the licensure took precedence over any other questions in the case, and those licensing issues were the key issues for both plaintiffs’ cases.
The transcript is available here: https://wicourts.gov/ca/opinion/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&seqNo=119002
…I’ve also been unable to find *any* transcripts that show judge Fiedler having made the quotes that you have attributed to him here. While I applaud you for providing a link to your source, I wish two things; 1, that you had linked to that source and checked it out, and 2) that your source had provided links. Your source was one David Gumpert at Complete Patient, a nice looking, well-composed blog that unfortunately appears to have made up a story, with quotes, from whole cloth. What is worse is that every single other blog or news outlet online that is also running this story all seems to link back to Gumperts original uncited blog, or possibly to a source that precedes him (there’s no way to know, without citations).
I appreciate what you’re trying to do here, but in this day and age we need to be more careful than ever that we are doing our due dilligence and not merely forwarding more “fake news.”
Thank you for your time…despite my nitpicking I really appreciated the info that you provided on raw milk, and the other topics you tackle here. But let’s be better skeptics.
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See the start of a new era as 21st century look unveiled
Opening time: The Piece Hall will be open from about 9.30am on Tuesday, August 1, and will officially re-open when Hannah Cockroft sounds the restored bell at 10am
For more than three years work has been going on, largely behind closed doors, to get the Piece Hall ready for its re-opening.
The project has had its trials, including upset as its cobbles were being removed - although these were only put down in the 1970s, were uneven and in no way original - and other incidents that come under the heading of “totally unexpected”.
No detailed architectural plans exist for the Piece Hall, so it was only when conservationists and civil engineers got on site that they could properly assess the work, with more extensive underpinning and remedial work than previously thought.
Then there was the issue of a graveyard underneath the Piece Hall revealing 200 ancient bodies which had been respectfully dealt with.
John Bradley, who built neighbouring Square Chapel, is one of the contenders as its architect. Hope Brothers can also stake a claim, and may have worked with him. But more recently Halifax local historian Stephen Gee has done research which suggests the hall may have been the work of John Aked.
When the Industrial Revolution totally change cloth production and sale the Piece Hall began its variety of uses through the years.
On display in one of three new heritage exhibition spaces is Halifax volunteer soldier Alexander Steele’s uniform and commission papers - remember this was a time before the police force existed and soldiers regularly drilled in the hall’s square.
Filmed fictitious characters - though based on real life obervations - middle class well-to-do housewife Mrs Bagshaw (1798), soldier Henry Booth (1806) and factory girl “Emma” (1842), who is proud to be bringing in a wage to her family - tell of their lives in Halifax past.
Originally the Piece Hall cost £9,692 - around £1.5 million in today’s money, according to the Bank of England’s conversion calculator.
The refurbishment has cost a lot more but a public building, centre of commerce and space is now in first class shape to face the future.
When the gates open to Halifax’s public again for that first look around at 9.30am on Yorkshire Day, Tuesday, August 1, ahead of a day of entertainment, you can see for yourself.
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Maidstone 0-0 FC Halifax Town: Fans Panel
Here is the view of the Fans Panel after FC Halifax Town’s 0-0 draw at Maidstone on Saturday.
Andrew Mann
Man of the match - Sam Johnson made several excellent saves to keep the scores level yet again as Town draw 0-0 for the tenth time this season.
Moment of the match - Has to be Scott McManus appearing to say his goodbyes at the end to the Town fans. Sad to see a true legend of the club look to be on his way out.
Moan of the match - Two missed penalties in two games now from different players, in fairness however I’d say a draw was the fair result.
Kit Walton
Man of the match – Niall Maher impressed on Saturday. He gets on with his job of keeping the opposition quiet without a fuss, whether in midfield or at centre half. Macca also did well in what was probably his last game for us. He’s been a good servant, and we’ll miss him.
Moment of the match – Four minutes left, and we get a penalty. It could have been anyone, but Fondop-Talom never looked confident. Like Kosy last week, he hit the ball at the perfect height for the goalie to save. At least there’s three months now for the team to practice taking them!
Moan of the match – Puzzling team selection. Why leave Martin Riley on the bench? If he plays, Macca, Hanley and Kosy could take up their more natural positions, improving the balance of the team. Still, we got a point and another clean sheet.
Man of the match - Easy choice this week, Sam Johnson. Sam made a number of decent saves in the game and throughly deserved his clean sheet.
Moment of the match - 86th minute, the referee awarded the Shaymen a penalty and a chance to win the game. In truth, it didn’t look like a foul but sometimes you get some luck.
Moan of the match - When will we ever get a player that can consistently score from the penalty spot? The last two penalty kicks have been awful. It’s not complicated, stick it in the top corner and the goalkeeper will never save it.
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Greece on verge of clearing next hurdle to bailout deal
ATHENS — Greece appeared ready to clear its second major legislative hurdle early Thursday in its quest for another multibillion-dollar bailout by approving legal and banking reforms demanded by its international creditors.
But Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras continued to face rebellion in the ranks of his left-wing Syriza party, from members who consider his acquiescence to lenders’ demands a betrayal of their principles. Several Syriza lawmakers said they would vote against the reforms, further calling into question Tsipras’ power to govern and to implement the new measures.
Significant dissent from within his party marred last week’s parliamentary approval of pension cuts and tax increases. In that vote, Tsipras was forced to rely on support from opposition politicians to push the legislation through. The same was expected early Thursday for the new set of reforms, which focused on streamlining Greece’s sclerotic civil justice system and updating some banking regulations.
The various measures were set as prerequisites by Greece’s European partners for Athens to qualify for a new international bailout worth nearly $100 billion. Once those conditions are fulfilled, negotiations on the precise terms of that rescue package are expected to begin in earnest.
The Greek government is in dire need of the money to pay its bills and to recapitalize its foundering banking system. An $8 billion emergency loan received Monday enabled it to pay a debt to the European Central Bank and to make good on two missed payments to the International Monetary Fund. But more repayments loom in mid-August, and Tsipras is hoping that a new bailout deal will be sealed by then, sparing Greece a catastrophic default and almost certain expulsion from the euro currency union.
Tsipras has reportedly taken a tougher line against party dissenters in recent days, telling them that they had yet to present him with any workable alternative to his agreement to the eurozone’s demands and calling on those who want Greece to give up the euro to "come out and say it, instead of hiding behind the safety of my signature."
Polls show that, despite now embracing policies that he won power explicitly campaigning against, Tsipras remains extremely popular among Greeks, many of whom say he had no choice and blame Greece’s lenders instead for acting punitively toward him.
But public support could quickly sour once new austerity measures start to be felt. A quarter of the workforce is out of a job, the economy has shrunk more than any other developed nation’s since the Great Depression, and even some officials in Germany, which has led the insistence on tough reforms, acknowledge that Greece is facing a humanitarian crisis.
To ease passage of the legal and financial reforms before Parliament, Tsipras decided to postpone more controversial legislation on further pension changes and agricultural taxes that Greece’s lenders have also demanded.
On Wednesday evening, thousands of protesters from a civil servants’ union and an anti-austerity group rallied outside Parliament against the bailout measures.
Inside, opponents took aim not at the specific reforms being put before them but at Tsipras’ adoption of the "neo-liberal" agenda of Athens’ creditors.
Panagiotis Lafazanis, the leader of Syriza’s hard-left faction and a Cabinet member until Tsipras sacked him for voting against last week’s pension and tax bill, told the Avgi newspaper that the government was making a mistake.
"We are doing an injustice to ourselves if we claim there is no alternative except austerity," Lafazanis said. "Greece has no future as a country under the pressures of eurozone austerity."
Tsipras defended his course of action, telling Parliament early Thursday that "this struggle will not be in vain."
"We chose a difficult compromise to avoid the worst plans of others," Tsipras declared, apparently referring to some eurozone officials who have publicly said that a Greek exit from the euro, or "Grexit," would be preferable. "The deal gives us time to exclude a Grexit."
There were reports Wednesday that the European Central Bank had decided again to increase its supply of emergency funds to Greek banks, which have nearly run out of cash. Last week, the central bank upped its emergency lifeline by nearly $1 billion; news reports said that its governing council had voted Wednesday to give another boost of the same amount.
(Times staff writer Chu reported from London and special correspondent Tsiantar from Athens.)
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Music Education Can Help Children Improve Reading Skills
ScienceDaily (Mar. 16, 2009) — Children exposed to a multi-year programme of music tuition involving training in increasingly complex rhythmic, tonal, and practical skills display superior cognitive performance in reading skills compared with their non-musically trained peers, according to a study published in the journal Psychology of Music.
According to authors Joseph M Piro and Camilo Ortiz from Long Island University, USA, data from this study will help to clarify the role of music study on cognition and shed light on the question of the potential of music to enhance school performance in language and literacy.
Studying children the two US elementary schools, one of which routinely trained children in music and one that did not, Piro and Ortiz aimed to investigate the hypothesis that children who have received keyboard instruction as part of a music curriculum increasing in difficulty over successive years would demonstrate significantly better performance on measures of vocabulary and verbal sequencing than students who did not receive keyboard instruction.
Several studies have reported positive associations between music education and increased abilities in non-musical (eg, linguistic, mathematical, and spatial) domains in children. The authors say there are similarities in the way that individuals interpret music and language and “because neural response to music is a widely distributed system within the brain…. it would not be unreasonable to expect that some processing networks for music and language behaviors, namely reading, located in both hemispheres of the brain would overlap.”
The aim of this study was to look at two specific reading subskills – vocabulary and verbal sequencing – which, according to the authors, are “are cornerstone components in the continuum of literacy development and a window into the subsequent successful acquisition of proficient reading and language skills such as decoding and reading comprehension.”
Using a quasi-experimental design, the investigators selected second-grade children from two school sites located in the same geographic vicinity and with similar demographic characteristics, to ensure the two groups of children were as similar as possible apart from their music experience.
Children in the intervention school (n=46) studied piano formally for a period of three consecutive years as part of a comprehensive instructional intervention program. Children attending the control school (n=57) received no formal musical training on any musical instrument and had never taken music lessons as part of their general school curriculum or in private study. Both schools followed comprehensive balanced literacy programmes that integrate skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening.
All participants were individually tested to assess their reading skills at the start and close of a standard 10-month school year using the Structure of Intellect (SOI) measure.
Results analysed at the end of the year showed that the music-learning group had significantly better vocabulary and verbal sequencing scores than did the non-music-learning control group. This finding, conclude the authors, provides evidence to support the increasingly common practice of “educators incorporating a variety of approaches, including music, in their teaching practice in continuing efforts to improve reading achievement in children”.
However, further interpretation of the results revealed some complexity within the overall outcomes. An interesting observation was that when the study began, the music-learning group had already experienced two years of piano lessons yet their reading scores were nearly identical to the control group at the start of the experiment.
So, ask the authors, “If the children receiving piano instruction already had two years of music involvement, why did they not significantly outscore the musically naïve students on both measures at the outset?” Addressing previous findings showing that music instruction has been demonstrated to exert cortical changes in certain cognitive areas such as spatial-temporal performance fairly quickly, Piro and Ortiz propose three factors to explain the lack of evidence of early benefit for music in the present study.
First, children were tested for their baseline reading skills at the beginning of the school year, after an extended holiday period. Perhaps the absence of any music instruction during a lengthy summer recess may have reversed any earlier temporary cortical reorganization experienced by students in the music group, a finding reported in other related research. Another explanation could be that the duration of music study required to improve reading and associated skills is fairly long, so the initial two years were not sufficient.
A third explanation involves the specific developmental time period during which children were receiving the tuition. During the course of their third year of music lessons, the music-learning group was in second grade and approaching the age of seven. There is evidence that there are significant spurts of brain growth and gray matter distribution around this developmental period and, coupled with the increased complexity of the study matter in this year, brain changes that promote reading skills may have been more likely to accrue at this time than in the earlier two years.
“All of this adds a compelling layer of meaning to the experimental outcomes, perhaps signalling that decisions on ‘when’ to teach are at least as important as ‘what’ to teach when probing differential neural pathways and investigating their associative cognitive substrates,” note the authors.
“Study of how music may also assist cognitive development will help education practitioners go beyond the sometimes hazy and ill-defined ‘music makes you smarter’ claims and provide careful and credible instructional approaches that use the rich and complex conceptual structure of music and its transfer to other cognitive areas,” they conclude.
Joseph M. Piro and Camilo Ortiz. The effect of piano lessons on the vocabulary and verbal sequencing skills of primary grade students. Journal Psychology of Music, 16th March 2009
Adapted from materials provided by SAGE Publications/Psychology of Music, via AlphaGalileo.
First Evidence That Musical Training Affects Brain Development In Young Children
ScienceDaily (Sep. 20, 2006) — Researchers have found the first evidence that young children who take music lessons show different brain development and improved memory over the course of a year compared to children who do not receive musical training.
The findings, published today (20 September 2006) in the online edition of the journal Brain [1], show that not only do the brains of musically-trained children respond to music in a different way to those of the untrained children, but also that the training improves their memory as well. After one year the musically trained children performed better in a memory test that is correlated with general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, visiospatial processing, mathematics and IQ.
The Canadian-based researchers reached these conclusions after measuring changes in brain responses to sounds in children aged between four and six. Over the period of a year they took four measurements in two groups of children -- those taking Suzuki music lessons and those taking no musical training outside school -- and found developmental changes over periods as short as four months. While previous studies have shown that older children given music lessons had greater improvements in IQ scores than children given drama lessons, this is the first study to identify these effects in brain-based measurements in young children.
Dr Laurel Trainor, Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour at McMaster University and Director of the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind, said: "This is the first study to show that brain responses in young, musically trained and untrained children change differently over the course of a year. These changes are likely to be related to the cognitive benefit that is seen with musical training." Prof Trainor led the study with Dr Takako Fujioka, a scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute.
The research team designed their study to investigate (1) how auditory responses in children matured over the period of a year, (2) whether responses to meaningful sounds, such as musical tones, matured differently than responses to noises, and (3) how musical training affected normal brain development in young children.
At the beginning of the study, six of the children (five boys, one girl) had just started to attend a Suzuki music school; the other six children (four boys, two girls) had no music lessons outside school.
The researchers chose children being trained by the Suzuki method for several reasons: it ensured the children were all trained in the same way, were not selected for training according to their initial musical talent and had similar support from their families. In addition, because there was no early training in reading music, the Suzuki method provided the researchers with a good model of how training in auditory, sensory and motor activities induces changes in the cortex of the brain. Brain activity was measured by magnetoencephalography (MEG) while the children listened to two types of sounds: a violin tone and a white noise burst. MEG is a non-invasive brain scanning technology that measures the magnetic fields outside the head that are associated with the electrical fields generated when groups of neurons (nerve cells) fire in synchrony. When a sound is heard, the brain processes the information from the ears in a series of stages. MEG provides millisecond-by-millisecond information that tracks these stages of processing; the stages show up as positive or negative deflections (or peaks), called components, in the MEG waveform. Earlier peaks tend to reflect sensory processing and later peaks, perceptual or cognitive processing.
The researchers recorded the measurements four times during the year, and during the first and fourth session the children also completed a music test (in which they were asked to discriminate between same and different harmonies, rhythms and melodies) and a digit span memory test (in which they had to listen to a series of numbers, remember them and repeat them back to the experimenter).
Analysis of the MEG responses showed that across all children, larger responses were seen to the violin tones than to the white noise, indicating that more cortical resources were put to processing meaningful sounds. In addition, the time that it took for the brain to respond to the sounds (the latency of certain MEG components) decreased over the year. This means that as children matured, the electrical conduction between neurons in their brains worked faster.
Of most interest, the Suzuki children showed a greater change over the year in response to violin tones in an MEG component (N250m) related to attention and sound discrimination than did the children not taking music lessons.
Analysis of the music tasks showed greater improvement over the year in melody, harmony and rhythm processing in the children studying music compared to those not studying music. General memory capacity also improved more in the children studying music than in those not studying music.
Prof Trainor said: "That the children studying music for a year improved in musical listening skills more than children not studying music is perhaps not very surprising. On the other hand, it is very interesting that the children taking music lessons improved more over the year on general memory skills that are correlated with non-musical abilities such as literacy, verbal memory, visiospatial processing, mathematics and IQ than did the children not taking lessons. The finding of very rapid maturation of the N250m component to violin sounds in children taking music lessons fits with their large improvement on the memory test. It suggests that musical training is having an effect on how the brain gets wired for general cognitive functioning related to memory and attention."
Dr Fujioka added: "Previous work has shown assignment to musical training is associated with improvements in IQ in school-aged children. Our work explores how musical training affects the way in which the brain develops. It is clear that music is good for children's cognitive development and that music should be part of the pre-school and primary school curriculum."
The next phase of the study will look at the benefits of musical training in older adults.
Adapted from materials provided by Oxford University Press, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS.
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WHY Magazine
An Uncommon Vision
Alexander Girard’s designs come to life in New York City.
Written by: Sam Grawe
Artwork by: Nicholas Calcott
Contemporary textiles from Maharam’s Textiles of the 20th Century series hang alongside a vintage Girard Group Arm Chair.
Trained as an architect, but proficient in all manner of activities, Alexander Girard was introduced to Herman Miller through Charles Eames and George Nelson, established the Herman Miller Textile Division in 1952, and served as its Director of Design until 1973. From his outpost in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he designed over 300 textiles in multitudes of colorways, multiple collections of wallpaper, decorative prints and wall hangings, an expansive group of furniture, and both decorative and useful objects.
His passion for international folk art led him around the globe as he amassed a collection of roughly 106,000 pieces, and his many corporate and freelance assignments—including the La Fonda Del Sol restaurant and the total design program for Braniff International—engendered lavish praise for his diverse skills and unique vision.
With a resolute and reserved personality, Girard believed quality should speak for itself—and he did much to propagate the notion that life should be lived with a higher regard for the humanity of one’s surroundings. His uncommon way of seeing and admirably undogmatic approach to each new solution resulted in an unparalleled body of work that is not only staggering in sheer volume and creativity, but due to its fundamental qualities of beauty and usefulness, remains completely relevant today.
Working closely with the Girard family, Herman Miller and Maharam are pleased to be the official producers of Alexander Girard designs and to make available a range of furnishings, objects, screen-printed panels, and woven textiles.
The space was produced with Brooklyn-based design firm Standard Issue. An archival exhibit introduces visitors to Girard’s many talents and diverse body of work.
In 1965, Girard was hired by Braniff International to orchestrate what amounted to a complete overhaul of their brand experience. From playing cards and matchbooks, to baggage tags and tickets, to the airport lounges and planes, the designer marshaled his talents into a comprehensive scheme that signaled “the end of the plain plane,”and eventually included some 17,543 design changes; The original silk screen for “Palace”and a vintage example of the printed Environmental Enrichment Panel.
This banner was sewn by Girard for the 1975 Walker Art Center exhibit, “ Nelson Eames Girard Propst, The Design Process at Herman Miller.”
For the La Fonda Del Sol restaurant, Girard created what he referred to as a “significant group,” a design program where greater significance is achieved because “each individual piece is enhanced by its relation to the group.”; In 1960, Girard designed a series of neckties for corporate gifts to be given out by Herman Miller salespeople.
A new Bolster sofa by BassamFellows upholstered in Girard’s Superweave textile from Maharam and an Eames Upholstered Molded Fiberglass Arm Chair on a “cat's cradle”base offer visitors a place to lounge.
On the occasion of the first archival reintroductions of furniture and screen-printed fabric panels by Alexander Girard we’re celebrating his life and work with a temporary installation in New York City’s Meatpacking District: “Alexander Girard: An Uncommon Vision.”
A curated exhibit of archival designs including textiles, objects, folk art, ephemera, and furniture provides an introduction to the iconic 20th century designer’s vast body of work. New furnishings and fabrics serve as the backbone of a Girard-inspired living room where visitors can relax and read from a selection of vintage reading material while enjoying a complimentary coffee from La Colombe. A selection of officially licensed Girard designs and products are available for purchase, including books, blankets, posters, dolls, and a selection of special-edition pillows from Maharam.
While Girard focused his abilities at Herman Miller on the textile program, he had a long history of designing furniture for other projects and clients. For Braniff this included sofas, lounge chairs, café seating, and tables for its airport lounges. In 1967, these designs were commercialized into the Girard Group—his only collection of furniture for Herman Miller. The new Hexagonal Table, Splayed Leg Table, and Color Wheel Ottoman represent the first archival reproductions of Girard furniture.
Girard's Color Wheel Ottomans and Eames Upholstered Molded Fiberglass Arm Chairs form the basis of a Girard-inspired living room.
A hexagonal composition of 216 inscribed triangles makes up the jewel-like, polished aluminum tops of these exquisite tables; A stellar archival example of a T&O Shop Mirror designed by Girard in the 1960s.
“Geometry”(left) and “Double Heart”(right) are among the new Environmental Enrichment Panels being introduced this fall. “Sign”(middle) is an archival example.
The Color Wheel Ottoman will be available in four color combinations, and two Maharam stripes; The colorful and lovely “Girls” is an archival example of a printed Environmental Enrichment Panel.
In 1972, Girard developed 40 decorative silkscreen designs to add an element of “aesthetic functionalism” to corporate environments. Unlike his printed textiles, the panels consist of single, stand-alone images that range from abstract patterns to figurative pictograms. Herman Miller is pleased to make 12 of these designs available once again.
Maharam has reissued 18 Girard patterns to date as part of its Textiles of the 20th Century series, which is dedicated to faithfully re-editioning the work of modern design icons. Girard’s mastery of the textile medium has made his designs—with their complex constructions, unusual yarns, and array of vibrant colors—among the most challenging to reproduce.
“Alexander Girard: An Uncommon Vision” is now open through May 28 at 446 West 14th Street, New York—daily from 11 am to 6 pm. Please drop by, or see what people are sharing on social media by following the hashtag #GirardNYC.
“Alexander Girard: An Uncommon Vision” is open to the public daily from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. In New York’s Meatpacking District.
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To celebrate the launch of WHY Magazine, we asked animators Part of a Bigger Plan to answer the big question—Why has Herman Miller thrived for over 108 years? Their engaging response joins other stories presented on WHY to reveal something of the depth and breadth of Herman Miller.
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Film for Change
SMD alumna, Dolma Tsering Lama, recently finished the IB (International Baccalaureate) program at UWC (United World Colleges) ISAK in Japan. She won a full scholarship at Wheaton College MA in the USA to study film as of fall 2018. As so many people are still illiterate in the mountains of Nepal, she thinks short films are a way to bring change. Dolma Tsering wrote the script, scouted the locations, and did the sound editing for the short film “Mero Dai (My Brother)”. She writes:
“At UWC ISAK I studied in the International Baccalaureate progam. I chose Film, Higher Level, and “My Brother” is my final film project with my team. It is about a social practice called “Chhaupadi Pratha” prevailing in rural areas of Nepal, where a woman is exiled to cowsheds during her menstruation because she is considered dirty and will bring bad luck to the family. The project took us two months with pre, pro, and post-production.
Very few kids get an education in Nepal. People are ignorant about many social evils happening around them. I was brought up at SMD School in Kathmandu as a Buddhist and taught to help others. I want to help people in Nepal get social awareness through my films in the future. That is my life goal.“
Rationale for Film
मेरो दाई (Mero Dai / My Brother) addresses a social practice called “Chhaupadi Pratha” prevailing in rural areas of Nepal where a woman is exiled to cowsheds during her menstruation because she is considered dirty and will bring bad luck to the family. The story is told through a girl, Poonam, who through the inhumane conditions in the shed and the loss of a friend experiences anger. It compels her to ask questions about this practice, presented in the form of a monologue. As the sound editor, I had found and created sounds to bring location and culture into context and to create mood for the film.
Read more about Dolma Tsering Lama at Wheaton College on the Wheaton Blog.
Read about Dolma Tsering at ISAK.
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Seechewal detects non-operational sewerage plants
Environmentalist Balbir Singh Seechewal, on Monday evening, visited the sewerage treatment plant at the Leather Complex and discovered that the two sewerage plants at the facility were simply not being used.
Environmentalist Balbir Singh Seechewal, on Monday evening, visited the sewerage treatment plant at the Leather Complex and discovered that the two sewerage plants at the facility were simply not being used. Industries were releasing all untreated water and effluents into the Kala Sanghian drain. Seechewal was accompanied by his followers and Sant Daya Singh.
"We had received complaints of negligence by the industrial units at the Leather Complex. This issue had been raised in the meetings with the Punjab Pollution Control Board. In the last meeting with chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, we were assured that this would stop, but apparently nothing has been done," said Seechewal while speaking with HT.
Seechewal then called up the local pollution control officer on telephone, directing him to reach the spot and witness the grave violation.
Executive engineer Manohar Lal Chohan visited the site. "I had detected the irregularities a few days ago and the matter was also brought to the notice of the PPCB chairman. It is the duty of Punjab Effluents Treatment Society (PETS) to operate these sewerage plants and it has been asked to submit it explanation before the chairman on April 22."
"What is the fun of installing CCTV cameras and building a treatment plant, when it is not to be used. It appears a mere eyewash," Seechewal rued.
The treatment plants at the complex have a capacity of 1.5MLD (million litres a day) and 5MLD.
"Such toxic and polluted water is being released in the drain. This is like fedding poison with the lives of people. This should be stopped," Seechewal said.
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Suffolk firefighters protest against cutbacks
Suffolk firefighters have launched a campaign to save their fire and rescue service from risking public safety.
The #RescueSuffolkFire campaign calls for an end to the erosion of fire cover and emergency response standards in the area.
Firefighters in Suffolk are demanding that the service:
- Commit to a minimum of five firefighters on every fire engine, ending the practice of three-person crewing
- Improve emergency response times in Suffolk without compromising the safety of firefighters
- Prioritise funding of frontline emergency response services rather than back-room projects
- Ensure firefighters are properly trained and that risk-critical training is part of a firefighter’s day-to-day job
- Listen to the warnings and concerns of firefighters and their elected representatives
Phil Johnston, FBU Suffolk brigade chair, said:
"For years now, firefighters in Suffolk have warned about deteriorating standards in our fire and rescue service, while management have ignored their concerns. Enough is enough - we won’t compromise on the safety of our community or our firefighters.
"Fire cuts in Suffolk have simply gone too far - residents now face a postcode lottery of public safety in the East of England. The lives of people in Suffolk are worth no less than those in neighbouring counties.
"Response times in Suffolk are currently the slowest in the East of England. When a fire engine eventually does arrive, it’s possible that it will only have a crew of three firefighters on it. Firefighter jobs in Suffolk have been cut by 21% since 2010, while central government funding has been cut by 18% since 2016/17.
"Suffolk firefighters have not been receiving adequate training to safely respond to emergencies. Many have been forced to attend risk-critical training on their days off, as the service cannot afford to train firefighters as part of their working day.
"Firefighters are asking members of the public to sign a statement of support calling on Suffolk’s fire authority and county council to urgently change course and improve standards in the area’s fire and rescue service."
James Goddard admits causing Anna Soubry harassment, alarm or distress
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New Mexico Chicano leader Tijerina is subject of new film
New Mexico...
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Reies Lopez Tijerina, a Pentecostal preacher turned activist who led a violent raid of a northern New Mexico courthouse more than 50 years ago and helped sparked the Chicano Movement, is the subject of a new Spanish-language documentary.
Mexican director Angel Estrada Soto is showing his film, "They Called Me King Tiger," around the U.S. and it will make its debut in New Mexico on Friday, the Santa New Mexican reports . Tijerina died in El Paso, Texas in 2015 at age 88.
The documentary attempts to offer a balanced view of Tijerina, detailing his Texas upbringing as the child of poor ranchers, the religious commune he founded in the 1950s in the southern Arizona desert, and his eventual adoption of the struggle of New Mexicans to reclaim ancestral land grants that had been usurped by the U.S. government and white settlers.
Estrada Soto said was fascinated by the way Tijerina described divine inspiration for his activism, detailing religious visions and a near-death experience at age five.
"That was the hook for me to tell this story - more than his political activity, more than land grants," Estrada Soto said. "When you want to understand why someone goes so far in his beliefs and struggle, you will find that someone like him has to have this other motivation, this divine motivation."
Estrada Soto said he wanted the film to address all possible aspects of Tijerina's story, especially his troubled relationship with his family.
Tijerina and his group wanted local officials to start honoring Spanish land grants outlined in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - the treaty that ended the U.S.-Mexican War of 1848 - and give land back to the descendants of Hispanic pioneering families they say had been illegally seized by whites.
Tijerina and his followers in 1967 raided the courthouse in the small community of Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, to try to make a citizen's arrest of the local district attorney. The group shot and wounded a state police officer and jailer, beat a sheriff's deputy, and took the sheriff and a reporter hostage.
Tijerina and his followers then escaped to the Kit Carson National Forest.
Tijerina was arrested but ultimately acquitted of charges related to the raid. He eventually spent about two years in prison for federal destruction of property.
The armed attack outraged some, but inspired Mexican-American college students of the late 1960s and early 1970s Chicano Movement that stressed ethnic pride, ethnic studies and
The armed attack outraged some, but inspired Mexican-American college students of the late 1960s and early 1970s Chicano Movement that stressed ethnic pride, ethnic studies and opposition to police brutality.
It came amid urban race riots, the emerging Black Panther Party and the militant American Indian Movement.
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Hemel youngster wins British junior grand final
Callum Powell won the net category in the British Junior Golf Tour Grand Final on Sunday
Callum Powell made it back-to-back Super Six wins on the British Junior Golf Tour as the Little Hay GC member clinched the net category on countback in the Grand Final at Redbourn, Hertfordshire.
Following on from his victory in the last event at Tadmarton Heath towards the end of April, the 13-year-old kept his composure again over the closing stretch on Sunday as he got the better of Ellis Whittles (Northampton) with a one-under-par net 69.
Callum came back from three shots down with as many holes left to claim the crown.
His dad Derek explained: “Callum made a par on the last hole – a 600-yard par-five – to win.
“Callum was three shots down with three holes to go.”
Callum had booked his place in the Super Six Series Grand Final on the British Junior Golf Tour after he grabbed the top prize at Tadmarton Heath in Oxfordshire.
The teenager, who plays with a handicap of 21, was in great form on a tight course in difficult windy conditions as he fired a battling net 70 to take the net plaudits in the Challenge Division.
Needing a victory to book his spot in the Grand Final at Redbourn, his composed back nine made all the difference as he edged out two other youngsters on countback.
For more details of how to play on the British Junior Golf Tour, visit the website www.juniorgolftour.co.uk.
Hemel win the Heath Park Cup
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A more personal side of Andriessen at Shenandoah Conservatory
Matt Mendez
on April 22, 2014 at 6:00 am
The weeklong Andriessen 75 festival moved down the road to Armstrong Concert Hall, Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, Virginia, on April 12, 2014, with three Andriessen pieces accompanied by music from Florent Schmitt, Derek Bermel, and Ruby Fulton. Most composers dread writing fanfares, flourishes, curtain-raisers, occasional works, homages, tributes, anniversary pieces… A few defy the odds, distilling something of their physiognomy, their way of being into the buttoned-down, throwaway miniature. And then there was the one and only Stravinsky: only in the unloved, unremembered Pour Picasso and Canon on a Russian Popular Tune can you find Igor Fyodorovich truly denuded, the composer as you were never meant to see him. Stravinsky at his most touching and vulnerable, sentimental diary entries from a man who otherwise abhorred autobiography.
Composer Louis Andriessen (photo: Frances Capatella)
Bells for Haarlem performs the same magic key function for Andriessen. Penned for the 2002 rededication of the Concertgebouw in Haarlem (birthplace of the composer’s father, Hendrik), this six-minute trifle, a severe procession of tolling sounds organized according to strict numerological formulae, is arguably the most personal thing Andriessen has ever done. That this music straight from the Requiem Canticles wellspring cracks nary a smile nor a frown – it’s all effaced faces, Magritte–de Chirico-style – is of no consequence.
Andriessen told the audience the story of Holland’s church bells being spirited away during the Nazi occupation. It was the only way to stop Hitler’s troops from melting them into cannons. The composer was but a few months old once war began, and when the American liberation started, he had still yet to hear a real-life bell. All he knew would have come secondhand through Ravel’s La vallée des cloches. Until one day, aged five, his father (who had been detained by the Nazis), took him to hear the bells’ reinstallation. Curiously moved, he’d never experienced anything like it. That’s Haarlem: familiar yet strange, this “simulation” of real chimes – no tubular bells à la Les noces, Andriessen instead calls for a “horrible bells” synth patch – a recreation of that magical childhood experience for ears no longer enchanted by the sounds of sacred carillons.
La Girò, a product of Andriessen’s recent turn toward the concerto form (La Passione, Haags Hakkûh), couldn’t have been more different. This being Louis Andriessen, though, La Girò is no ordinary violin concerto, but a surreal monodrama for playing-chanting-acting fiddler. In its exploration of the psychology of performance, it actually harkens back to the “meta-music” of the early 1970s. You sense the distinct shadow of Berio’s nutso Recital I for Cathy. The narrative starting point is Vivaldi’s alleged relationship with the young singer Anna Girò, so the first (wordless) movement is a baroque sinfonia. In other words, a lyrical takeoff on the motor-rhythms of il Prete Rosso, whose music Andriessen “admires a lot.” But the real touchstone is the Bach-as-filtered-through-Stravinsky of the Concerto in D, adding Andriessen to the lineage articulated in his own mot d’esprit: “The thing that Bach recognized in Vivaldi is the same thing that Stravinsky recognized in Bach – himself.”
Monica Germino
The third movement provides the coup, with the singing, speaking violinist recounting the world’s worst performance nightmare (“My entire family and my dearest friends were standing. I had to play, and every time I made a mistake, one of them was shot and killed”). But in the insistent final section, a long epilogue pervaded by dying seagull sounds, it becomes clear that the bad dream was very much a reality (“That shrieking, those are not birds!”). Somehow the whole salmagundi holds together. Not only that, in the hands of the dedicatee Monica Germino, it exerts a deliciously morbid fascination. Andriessen puts it best: “The piece would not have become the ‘performance’ it is without its dedicatee.”
Nicely complemented by sounds of “before” and “after” Andriessen – Florent Schmitt’s rarely heard Dionysiaques, replete with echoes of L’oiseau de feu and La Péri, and Ruby Fulton’s tragicomic Junk Pop, all kaleidoscopic textural disjunctions, were apt amuse-bouches – Haarlem and La Girò provided a night to remember.
Derek Bermel: Ides March (1990)
Ruby Fulton: Junk Pop (2011)
Florent Schmitt: Dionysiaques, Op. 62 (1913)
Louis Andriessen: Bells for Haarlem (2002), Hout (1991), La Girò (2011)
Monica Germino (violin)
EDGE Ensemble
Shenandoah Wind Ensemble
Damon Talley (conductor)
Andriessen 75Damon TalleyDerek BermelEDGE EnsembleFlorent SchmittLouis AndriessenMonica GerminoRuby FultonShenandoah ConservatoryShenandoah Wind EnsembleWinchester Virginia
Matt Mendez is an independent musicologist and critic.
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The nine grantees this year include the initiative’s first project in Africa, Soviet Modernist buildings and the first two iconic houses that were designed by female architects. These are two significant houses from the 20th century: Eileen Gray’s Villa E-1027 in France and Lina Bo Bardi’s Casa de Vidro in Brazil.
The Getty Foundation announced $1.3 million in architectural conservation grants for exemplary 20th century buildings as part of its Keeping It Modern initiative. The latest grants for nine projects in nine countries extend the program’s reach to Africa, and include the first two buildings selected for support that were designed by women. Since its inception in 2014, the initiative has to date supported 33 projects that serve as models for the conservation of modern architecture around the world.
Like the previous grantees, the projects selected to receive funding this year are of the highest architectural significance and we are happy to see that two iconic houses from the 20th century are included in the list: Lina Bo Bardi’s Casa de Vidro (Brazil) and Eileen Gray’s Villa E-1027 (France). The other buildings are: Nickson and Borys’s Children’s Library (Ghana); Wallace Harrison’s First Presbyterian Church (Connecticut, United States); Eladio Dieste’s Cristo Obrero Church (Uruguay); Gevorg Kochar and Mikael Mazmanyan’s Sevan Writers’ Resort (Armenia); Sir Frederick Gibberd’s Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (United Kingdom); Gautam Sarabhai’s workshop building (India); and Andrija Mutnjakovic’s National Library of Kosovo (Kosovo).
‘Each year, we extend the global reach of Keeping It Modern, making clear that there is modern architecture far and wide that is deserving of conservation and protection,’ says Deborah Marrow, director of the Getty Foundation. ‘We are pleased this year to support the initiative’s first project in Africa, and to recognize the accomplishments of two outstanding women who pushed the possibilities of modern architecture forward.’
The new projects share several ongoing challenges facing 20th century architecture. This includes the need to better understand aging architectural concrete, one of the most widely used materials in modern architecture, and its proper treatment. Another issue is the use of clear and colored glass, including large colored panes (dalle de verre), which were often set directly into concrete. Research in these areas through the Getty grants will continue to generate models for the conservation field.
Several previous grant recipients are close to completing or have completed rigorous analysis of the construction materials and design of their buildings, and they have developed conservation strategies that address key problems. These projects include Sydney Opera House, the Max Liebling complex in Israel, Het Schip in The Netherlands, Centennial Hall in Poland, and Paimio Sanatorium in Finland. Also emerging from this work is an understanding of the benefits of a conservation management plan (CMP), a relatively new development for twentieth-century architecture which helps stewards of modern buildings plan for long-term maintenance and preservation.
‘The projects supported by Keeping It Modern were selected not only for their architectural significance, but because of their potential to serve as models and to move toward new solutions and standards in the field as a whole,’ says Antoine Wilmering, senior program officer at the Getty Foundation. ‘These latest grants underscore that purpose – for example, Eladio Dieste’s Cristo Obrero Church in Atlantida, Uruguay makes use of reinforced brick, creating delicately shaped undulating forms with a technique of which we have little knowledge in terms of conservation practice. This building’s conservation management plan has the potential to inform the future preservation of hundreds of other buildings that use similar construction materials and techniques.’
Keeping It Modern is part of the Getty’s strong overall commitment to modern architecture, as demonstrated by the Getty Conservation Institute’s Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative (CMAI), the extensive and growing architectural collections of the Getty Research Institute, and the 2013 Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture initiative which focused on Los Angeles’ modern heritage. With these combined efforts, the Getty continues to advance the understanding and preservation of 20th century modern architecture.
Deadlines and criteria for the next round of Keeping It Modern applications will soon be announced on the Getty Foundation website.
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Cap Moderne, Villa E-1027 (recommended amount: $200,000)
On the rocky hillside shore of southern
France’s Côte d’Azur sits the Villa E-1072
built by Eileen Gray (1878–1976), one of
the most innovative furniture designers of
the modernist era. Constructed between
1926–1929 as a retreat and vacation
home for Gray and architectural critic
Jean Badovici, the villa is a model of
Gray’s uniquely balanced approach to modernism that attends to the inhabitants’ practical and spiritual needs. In addition to paying close attention to the furniture and interior design of the
home, Gray also carefully planned the
surrounding landscape and gardens. Not
long after its completion, her vision was compromised when a series of seven murals were painted inside the villa by famed architect and neighbor Le Corbusier in 1938 and 1939 at the request of Badovici but without Gray’s consent following the couple’s separation. Although not part of her original design, the murals remain today as part of the building’s history and fabric.
Following decades of environmental stress and multiple private owners since 1960, the building had suffered years of neglect. A recent restoration project completed in 2010 stabilized the site, and now the villa is under the care of the Association Cap Moderne, a non- profit organization that is committed to the long-term maintenance of this Monument Historique. Their analysis has revealed the need for a comprehensive conservation plan, as well as additional scientific research to mitigate the key environmental challenges of the site: exposure to corrosive sea air and water runoff on its steep slope. The Getty grant will allow a preeminent conservation architect and an experienced landscape architect to develop the plan and guide the research. The project will include analysis of the reinforced concrete, a scientific study of the original color scheme, climate control research, a furniture study, and a special scientific analysis of the Le Corbusier murals to inform their future restoration. The resulting conservation plan will not only ensure the future care of Villa E-1027 but will also inform an effort to provide public access to the overall site, which also includes three adjacent buildings by Le Corbusier.
Tim Benton gave a lecture on Villa E-1027 at our 3rd International Iconic Houses Conference in La Pedrera Barcelona 2014, which is online in our video section, (direct link to YouTube).
Photo Henrique Luz
Instituto Lina Bo e P.M. Bardi, Casa de Vidro (recommended amount: $195,000)
Brazil is renowned for its mid-century architecture, and Lina Bo Bardi (1914 – 1992) stands out as a leading practitioner of the modern movement, designing many of the country’s most iconic buildings. A precursor to her larger civic projects Casa de Vidro, or Glass House, in
São Paulo was designed and built
between 1950 and 1952 at a critical point in the architect’s career.
Created as a personal residence for
Bo Bardi and her husband after
emigrating from Italy in 1946, the
house was her first completed work
as an architect and as a new
Brazilian citizen. Casa de Vidro demonstrates Bo Bardi’s resourceful use of low-cost fabrication techniques and industrially produced materials, as well as her adaptation of European modernism to the natural settings and craft traditions of Brazil. Rooted to the earth with delicate posts, the main volume of the house floats graciously above the ground, maintaining a seamless relationship with the surrounding landscape through large panes of transparent, sliding glass.
Since 1995 the Casa de Vidro has been under the stewardship of the Instituto Lina Bo e P.M. Bardi, which was established by the architect and her husband to display and promote Brazilian culture and arts. While sound maintenance practices and several large renovation projects have kept the site in good condition, the Instituto recognizes the need for a preventive, scheduled maintenance plan based on specialized technical surveys to avoid an uncertain future of emergency interventions and ad hoc spot repairs. A Getty grant will allow an international team of conservation architects, landscape conservation specialists, cultural heritage experts, and civil and structural engineers to develop a conservation management plan for the property. The project will also include a 3D topographic survey of the site that allows engineers to identify potentially harmful structural deformations at the smallest scale, not perceivable to the naked eye. The results will be shared with researchers and custodians of other glass houses, such as those by Philip Johnson, Mies van der Rohe and Charles Eames.
The J. Paul Getty Trust is an international cultural and philanthropic institution devoted to the visual arts that includes the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Getty Foundation. The J. Paul Getty Trust and Getty programs serve a varied audience from two locations: the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades.
The Getty Foundation fulfills the philanthropic mission of the Getty Trust by supporting individuals and institutions committed to advancing the greater understanding and preservation of the visual arts in Los Angeles and throughout the world. Through strategic grant initiatives, the Foundation strengthens art history as a global discipline, promotes the interdisciplinary practice of conservation, increases access to museum and archival collections, and develops current and future leaders in the visual arts. It carries out its work in collaboration with the other Getty Programs to ensure that they individually and collectively achieve maximum effect. Additional information is available at www.getty.edu/foundation.
Publication date 22 September 2016
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'Some people call us backyard farmers but we love what we do and take it seriously'
My Week: Dermot Allen talks to Siobhán English
Rare breed: Dermot Allen on his farm in west Wicklow where he rears 220 pigs, most of them from the rare Oxford Sandy and Black breed. Photo: Siobhán English
Siobhán English
June 30 2019 6:00 AM
'I know a lot about pigs, but I don't know everything," says west Wicklow pig breeder Dermot Allen as he prepares for another busy evening with his hog roast business, which takes him the length and breadth of Ireland between April and October.
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One of the biggest breeders in Europe, and one of only a handful of breeders in Ireland, to keep the rare Oxford Sandy and Black, Dermot still knows more than most and definitely has the 'gift of the gab'.
"He is usually exhausted from talking," joked his daughter Georgina of the many times she has assisted him during a hog roast party. Cooked to perfection every time, a 60kg pig in dead weight can feed up to 120 guests in one sitting.
From Cork to Meath, and Carlow to Kildare, Dermot cooks at, on average, 100 parties a year, mostly facilitating hotels for after-wedding get-togethers. Home-cooked pulled pork, sausages, pork burgers and salads are all provided, making it a very attractive package.
"We rear our pigs specifically for the spit and they must not be heavier than 65kg. Once they go over that, they are too heavy to turn and instead are slaughtered for their meat, which is turned into burgers and sausages.
"It was purely by accident that I got into the business at all," Dermot said as he tended to his pigs on Winetavern Farm outside Baltinglass. "I got my first pigs 27 years ago when my daughters Georgina and Lisa were very young. I really wanted them to know where their meat came from so I bought some to rear. We also had some sheep and beef, so everything we slaughtered we ate."
Fast forward to 2010 and while cooking at home for Georgina's 21st, the pig on a spit proved hugely popular. "That night, I got five requests to do other parties. It just snowballed from there and soon after, we designed our own machine to be used outside of the farm."
Dermot was running a taxi business at the time, but enrolled in the HACCP course (Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Point) for food safety before investing in new equipment.
With a smaller taxi service now running on the side, Dermot regularly rises at 5am to head to his next venue, where it takes six hours for the pig to roast. "There is nothing like the taste of meat from the Oxford Sandy and Black," he said. "It has a bit of fat and an incredible flavour.
"Our pulled pork is cooked at home in the slow cooker, and we prepare all the salads as well before hitting the road. Most of the time I can manage on my own, but on a busy day, Lisa and Georgina will help out."
When Dermot first got interested in pigs, he kept Tamworths and Gloucesters, but in 2011, he took a shine to the Oxford Sandy and Black breed after a visit to the farm of British breeders Andy and Maureen Case. "I just wanted something different. After that, I was hooked," he says.
Dermot now keeps some 220 pigs and all bar a few are Oxford Sandy and Black. In fact, Dermot boasts 24 of 592 prized breeding females in the world. "We also have 14 of the original female bloodlines and four of the male bloodlines which is a great asset."
As a result, Dermot's boars are regularly in demand by other breeders of these rare animals.
"I also run courses here at the farm on keeping pigs. I will never sell a breeding female to someone unless they have a good bit of knowledge on how to look after them. We try to educate people as much as possible and I even take pigs to some of the schools now to chat to the kids about them."
For one, Dermot knows how to look after all of his pigs, who are free-range and roam as they please. In addition to meal, they have a daily ration of leftover vegetables from a nearby greengrocer.
"I also lease some pigs out to farmers who want to clean up forestry and at the moment, we have some in two big estates in Carlow. They will live in the forestry for the summer and come back in super condition in October.
"And I've been getting more calls lately as there's a bug killing eucalyptus trees, but pigs are stopping the cycle by eating what's on the ground."
As founder and chairman of the Irish Pig Society, he operates very differently to commercial pig farmers.
"Some people call us backyard farmers, but we love what we do and take it seriously. We get no grants, and everything comes out of our own pocket."
Every summer, Dermot takes time out for showing some of his best animals and each August, he can be seen in the ribbons in the pig section at Tullamore Show with his rare breeds.
However, one F1 hybrid female which made a guest appearance there in recent years is well remembered for her lead role in the television ad for Vodafone filmed in the Wicklow Mountains.
"Piggy Sue is rather famous now, but at the moment, she is enjoying some down time in the woods," added Dermot.
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BJP candidate Sunny Deol wins Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat
Actor and BJP candidate Sunny Deol on Thursday won his electoral debut by defeating Congress heavyweight and sitting MP Sunil Jakhar from the Gurdaspur constituency.
Deol defeated Punjab Congress chief Jakhar by a margin of 82,459 votes, the Election Commission's website said.
The Gurdaspur Lok Sabha Constituency of Punjab state was held by late Vinod Khanna of BJP, till 2017. In the ensuing by-polls, due to the actor-turned-politician's untimely demise, Congress' Sunil Jakhar won.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, the late Vinod Khanna (with 4,82,255 votes) defeated Congress' Partap Singh Bajwa, who secured 2,09,000 votes.
The Lok Sabha constituency went to polls in the seventh phase of the election -- on May 19.
In 2014, Gurdaspur had 1,500,337 registered electors -- 784,477 male and 715,860 female. The constituency had seen a 69.50 per cent voter turnout in the 2014 Lok Sabha election.
The seven phases of the Lok Sabha polls 2019 covered a total of 543 constituencies. Voting in the first phase was conducted on April 11.
Simultaneous elections were held to the assemblies of Arunachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, and Odisha -- the results for which will also be out today.
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Priyanka Chopra, looking like a million bucks, is all set to take over the WORLD in the inside pics of this photoshoot!
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Fashion and Lifestyle, Hollywood
It was a date night for JAY-Z and Beyonce at Rihanna’s Diamond Ball on Sept. 14! As they were leaving the event, though, Bey suffered a mini wardrobe malfunction when her dress flew up and fully revealed her Spanx!
Beyonce and JAY-Z coupled up for a rare appearance together at Rihanna’s Diamond Ball, and as always, they looked incredible! Bey rocked a gorgeous green dress for the event, which featured a plunging neckline and leg slit that went all the way up to the top of her thigh. The ensemble was super revealing, and with photographers snapping photos left and right, the singer wasn’t always able to get everything in place before her picture was taken. So, yes, that meant her black Spanx were on display quite a bit as she entered and exited the bash!
Of course, Beyonce pulled it off like a pro, keeping a smile on her face and continuing to look radiant despite the slight wardrobe malfunction. She paired the green dress with thick, black, open-toed heels, and wore her blonde hair in curls. Meanwhile, Jay looked quite dapper in a standard tuxedo, and they were the definition of #RelationshipGoals as they posed for photos inside. This was the pair’s first official event together since they welcomed their twins, Sir and Rumi Carter, on June 14, and they looked totally relieved and carefree on the night out!
Beyonce has clearly wasted no time getting her body back after giving birth, and has been showing off her incredible figure in various outfits since she returned to social media in July. She’s also taken time out of her busy life to support her hometown of Houston in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, and even visited the city to meet with victims and volunteer at a food bank just last week. Is there anything this woman can’t do!?
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Behind The Screen Digital Power
NewFronts: StyleHaul Launches VR Series Based on YA Novel 'Free to Fall'
1:50 PM PDT 5/10/2016 by Natalie Jarvey
Courtesy of StyleHaul
StyleHaul CEO Stephanie Horbaczewski
Each 22-minute episode will feature a segment in 360 degrees.
StyleHaul is bringing YA novel Free to Fall from 2D to 360 degrees.
The lifestyle-focused digital network is adapting the Lauren Miller novel into a series where each 22-minute episode will feature a short 360-degree segment.
Set in the not-so-distant future, Free to Fall tells the story of Rory as she navigates her first year of college in a world where every choice is dictated by one app. The three- to five-minute VR clips will take viewers into Rory's perspective as she deals with critical moments of the story.
"Free to Fall is one of the first examples of a 360 experience being fully immersed as part of a narrative story," StyleHaul chief content officer Mia Goldwyn said Tuesday in announcing the project during the company's NewFronts event in New York.
Other projects in the works include a docuseries about singer Pia Mia's role as creative director of Madonna fashion line Material Girl, and a program called Collide partnering BMG artists with StyleHaul creators.
StyleHaul put the focus on its talent at its advertising pitch, sharing testimonials from a number of creators including Mindy McKnight of the channel Cute Girls Hairstyles.
"Last year we told you who are, so this year I thought we'd tell you how we do it," said CEO Stephanie Horbaczewski. She went on to tout StyleHaul's 2 billion monthly views and the network's engaged audience, 60 percent of which are among the first to own, use or buy the latest beauty product.
StyleHaul also is expanding beyond its roots in the beauty and fashion space. The company has launched a vertical focused on millennial moms, driven by many of its creators and audience becoming mothers. The company says it now has 900 creators posting motherhood content.
The company also targeted the advertisers in the room with the launch of StyleHaul Society, a platform that will create custom digital and social campaigns for brands.
The presentation ended with a performance from Andra Day, the first BMG artist to participate in Collide.
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'Mr. Church': Tribeca Review
7:40 PM PDT 4/22/2016 by Frank Scheck
A reminder of what a great actor Murphy can be. TWITTER
Eddie Murphy plays a man hired to cook for a dying woman and her young daughter in Bruce Beresford's drama.
It's been four years since Eddie Murphy's last movie (the execrable A Thousand Words) and a decade since his last worthwhile performance (his Oscar-nominated role in Dreamgirls). But those who've dismissed him for his slapdash paycheck comedies will be eating their words after seeing his sensitive dramatic work in Bruce Beresford's new indie drama receiving its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. Playing the title role of Mr. Church, Murphy delivers the sort of superb character turn that may well mark a sea change in his career.
Based on the real-life experiences of screenwriter Susan McMartin, the story begins in 1965 Los Angeles with 10-year-old Charlotte, referred to as "Charlie" (Natalie Coughlin), waking up to find a stranger cooking breakfast in the modest home she shares with her single mother, Marie (Natascha McElhone). Calling himself only Mr. Church, he's apparently been hired as a cook for Marie and her daughter by Marie's deceased, and very rich, former lover.
As we soon learn, the arrangement is strictly to be a temporary one; six months, in fact, which is about how much time the doctors have given Marie after her diagnosis of breast cancer. In return for keeping his promise to Marie's benefactor, Mr. Church has been promised a salary for the rest of his life. Charlie, who is unaware of her mother's illness, is instantly resistant to the stranger in their midst, turning up her nose at his impeccably prepared meals. That is, until she reluctantly starts eating them and quickly gets hooked.
Mr. Church, who cooks to the perpetual accompaniment of jazz on the radio, is an endlessly courtly and polite figure, addressing Marie as "ma'am" and referring to Charlie as "my dear." Besides his culinary duties, he introduces Charlie to the joys of reading, issuing her a makeshift library card and allowing her to borrow the classic books with which he's stocked their shelves. He's also intensely private, rebuffing any attempt by Charlie to find out what he does when he's not with her and her mother.
Miraculously, Marie long outlives her diagnosis; living not months but years, long enough for Charlie to grow up into a high-spirited teenager (Britt Robertson) excited about attending the prom with Owen (Xavier Samuel), the boy on whom she's long had a crush. Mr. Church has dutifully kept his promise to Marie's benefactor to stay on for as long as she was alive, in the process becoming a father figure for Charlie and a doting caregiver for Marie. But she eventually succumbs to her illness, and Charlie goes away to study at Boston University, separating from Mr. Church for the first time since he entered their lives.
Two years later she shows up unannounced at his door, pregnant after a one-night stand and with nowhere else to go. He agrees to take her in, with one condition: that she respect his privacy. Although their relationship nearly falls apart when he staggers home drunk one night and discovers her going through his things, something dramatic happens that leads her and her new baby back into his life, this time for good.
The film is a touching coming-of-age tale and an even more touching account of an unlikely friendship marked by love and respect. Beresford, working with material that inevitably recalls his Oscar-winning Driving Miss Daisy, never lets the overt sentimentality become too schmaltzy, even if he's a bit hampered by the sometimes melodramatic plotting and schematic characterizations. The film is emotionally manipulative, to be sure, but it's ultimately hard to resist, especially given the quality of the lead performances.
Robertson, so impressive in last year's Disney misfire Tomorrowland, delivers a beautifully modulated performance here: radiant as a lovestruck teen; poignantly moving as a daughter helplessly watching her mother slip away; and convincingly gritty as a struggling single mom, she sustains the film through its myriad emotional phases.
And Murphy is a revelation. He doesn't seem quite right for the role at first, his blazing charisma ostensibly at odds with his character's unassuming, dignified demeanor. But he tamps it down just enough to be fully plausible, and he adds quiet grace notes, both comic and dramatic, that make his Mr. Church just as captivating for us as he is for the people around him. And as the character ages a couple of decades, his performance becomes all the more effective, subtly revealing the vulnerability underneath the smooth facade. It's a shame that it's taken this long for the star to expose this side of his prodigious talent, but better late than never.
Venue: Tribeca Film Festival (Spotlight)
Production: Cinelou Films, EMA Films, Shenghua Entertainment, Voltage Pictures
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Britt Robertson, Natascha McElhone, Xavier Samuel, Lucy Fry, Christian Madsen, McKenna Grace
Director: Bruce Beresford
Screenwriter: Susan McMartin
Producers: Lee Nelson, David Buelow, Courtney Solomon, Mark Canton
Executive producers: Yu Wei-chung, Fredy Bush, Dennis Pelino, Brad Kaplan, David Tish, Lawrence Kopeikin, David Anspaugh
Director of photography: Sharone Meir
Production designer: Joseph T. Garrity
Editor: David Beatty
Costume designer: Karyn Wagner
Composer: Mark Isham
Casting: Mary Vernieu, Marisol Roncali
Not rated, 105 minutes
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Lady Jane's Haircuts for Men brings live radio to its Birmingham salon
WCSX kicks off live radio at Lady Jane's Haircuts for Men in Birmingham.
Lady Jane's Haircuts for Men brings live radio to its Birmingham salon WCSX kicks off live radio at Lady Jane's Haircuts for Men in Birmingham. Check out this story on HometownLife.com: https://www.hometownlife.com/story/life/community/eccentric/birmingham/2018/10/17/lady-janes-brings-live-radio-birmingham-salon/1641710002/
Sharon Dargay, Hometownlife.com Published 3:01 p.m. ET Oct. 17, 2018 | Updated 4:19 p.m. ET Oct. 17, 2018
A radio studio in a men's haircut joint? Why not? , says Lady Jane's. Hometownlife.com
WCSX DJ Juline Jordan prepares to go live for the first time at Lady Jane's studio.(Photo: Bill Bresler | hometownlife.com)Buy Photo
Chad Johnson had a “wicked awesome” light bulb moment eight months ago.
Johnson, CEO of Lady Jane’s Haircuts for Men, wanted to build a broadcast studio at his Birmingham headquarters and hair salon, where customers could watch live radio shows while getting trimmed and styled.
“I looked over there and the thought popped into my head. I said, 'I’m going to make this area there into the most amazing broadcast studio ever,'” said Johnson, who had mentioned the idea during a corporate staff meeting. “Everybody looked at me and said what are you talking about? Eight months later, they’re seeing it come to fruition.”
Lady Jane’s, which has more than 100 locations nationwide, forged a two-year contract with Beasley Media Group, allowing its radio stations — WRIF-FM (101.1), WCSX-FM (94.7) and WMGC-FM (105.1) — to use the location on a rotating basis for remote broadcasts.
Juline Jordan kicked off the first live broadcast Monday at the Wicked Awesome Productions Lounge with her mid-day classic rock show. The WCSX DJ told listeners she had never seen “anything like it.”
“You really know how to do it here at Lady Jane’s,” she said. “So if you’re looking to get a little haircut guys, come on out and you too can see this beautiful studio.”
Jesse Dhillon built the studio at Lady Jane's in about a month, a pretty big job. (Photo: Bill Bresler | hometownlife.com)
That’s exactly what Dave Schnoblen of Macomb Township did. He needed a haircut and had seen a Facebook post about the new studio.
“I was kind of curious,” he said, as salon manager Melissa Martin clipped his hair. “I think it’s cool having a radio station out here. It’s different than any other haircut place. You can’t go to BoRics and see a DJ booth.”
$525,000 investment
The broadcast studio enhances the “unique atmosphere” created by the combination corporate offices, hair salon and adjacent coffeehouse, Birmingham Roast, according to Lady Jane’s president Tim McCollum. It has windows on three sides that separate it from the hair salon, the corporate offices and the sidewalk along Woodward Avenue.
Lady Jane's President Tim McCollum. (Photo: Bill Bresler | hometownlife.com)
McCollum pegged the cost of the studio build-out, the advertising investment and “everything else” it took to bring Johnson’s idea to fruition at $525,000.
“We’ve had over a decade relationship with Beasley radio, so this is a culmination of all that hard work coming together,” McCollum said. “We have big plans for this studio. Now that we have it, we’re going to open this up to all kinds of opportunity.”
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A fantasy football show and athlete podcasts are among future possibilities.
Jordan has broadcast from remote locations “all over town” during her 27-year career in radio, but said she felt honored to launch the studio at Lady Jane’s.
“I’m stoked. I’m really excited,” she said, as Pat Benatar’s “Heartbreaker” played over the air. “It’s something new and different. They are incredible here. They have gone above and beyond to make us comfortable and make sure we get what we need.”
That’s all a part of Johnson’s plan to treat on-air talent “like royalty” by giving them a work environment with a “different vibe.”
Dave Schnoblen, from Macomb Twp, gets a haircut from stylist Melissa Martin. The WCSX machine is parked outside. With glass walls, the studio is visible to customers. (Photo: Bill Bresler | hometownlife.com)
“Normally at a radio station, they are locked in a room, one person, and they see nobody for four or five hours. Here, they will mingle with stylists, with customers,” he said. “We want to create the most amazing space for the on-air talent to work out of in metro Detroit.”
And for customers?
“We want them to come say hi to the talent, get a haircut, listen to a little radio, get a coffee and bagel and go on about their wicked awesome day,” he said.
Contact Sharon Dargay at sdargay@hometownlife.com.
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Hoosiers are starting to look like a Sampson-built team
by Doug Wilson, H-T sports editor
Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson reacts to an official’s call during the second half of Wednesday night’s 85-58 win over Purdue. Chris Howell | Herald-Times
From the Jan. 11, 2007 Bloomington Herald-Times
At least Matt Painter isn’t too burned up most people in Indiana couldn’t get last night’s game on TV because it was on ESPNU.
“It’s great,” the Purdue coach said. “Nobody could watch it. It’s a hell of a ploy.”
In what many had billed as the start of a renewed rivalry between two rising teams from West Lafayette and Bloomington, Painter’s Boilermakers got torched from start to finish.
For the second straight game, Indiana pounded a Big Ten foe by its largest margin against that school since the early 90s.
Still, Hoosier coach Kelvin Sampson isn’t raving about his team. He said Wednesday night that his Hoosiers are not a great team or perhaps even very good, but they are at least becoming solid now.
Compared to recent Indiana teams, these Hoosiers are more than solid. The obvious hurdle ahead is that they haven’t won on the road yet.
These past four days – with a 22-point blowout over Michigan State and a 27-point rout of Purdue – look like a turning point for Indiana’s basketball program.
What we’re seeing is the best coaching Indiana has had since Bob Knight’s IU program started to slip in the years just following those when the Hoosiers last beat these two opponents by more: Purdue by 41 in 1992 and Michigan State by 31 in 1993.
Sampson didn’t build his 72 percent winning percentage at Oklahoma with blue-chip talent. He took mostly lesser-known high school talents and JUCO players and molded them into teams that won 25 games a season his last seven years in Norman.
You can see that team-building happening now at Indiana.
Sampson has one legit big-time recruit in his starting five in D.J. White. He has two JUCO transfers in Lance Stemler and Earl Calloway. He has a former prep school player in freshman Armon Bassett. And he has Rod Wilmont, who wasn’t highly recruited by big-time programs out of high school.
This patchwork group is competing harder and playing better defense than we’ve seen at Indiana in more than a decade.
And the Hoosiers have improved dramatically on offense since those 20-plus turnover games at the start of the season. They’ll still struggle to score on the road at times this Big Ten season, but at home against Purdue, they passed the ball well and shot 68 percent in the second half.
What a return from a wrist injury for A.J. Ratliff, the night’s offensive star. Ratliff really hasn’t shot well since his freshman year, but he didn’t miss a shot Wednesday in scoring 16 points.
Besides the starters, Indiana is getting good contributions from freshmen Joey Shaw and Xavier Keeling. Both of them have learned their roles and look like they’ll become good players at Indiana in the years ahead.
Painter has some good young players at Purdue, too. Freshmen Gordon Watt and Chris Kramer should give the Hoosiers some difficult moments in the upcoming seasons and perhaps as soon as a Feb. 14 rematch in West Lafayette.
The Hoosiers should remember that after Indiana defeated Purdue 106-65 at Assembly Hall in January 1992, the Boilermakers came back in March to defeat Indiana, 61-59, at Mackey Arena.
While Wednesday night’s game wasn’t what it could have been with a more competitive contest, I got to re-live one of the best games of the series during my lifetime before the game in talking with one of the heroes from the Knight-Keady heyday of the rivalry.
John Laskowski recounted the moment in March 1974 when he toed the line for a one-and-one with seven seconds left. With the Hoosiers trailing, 79-78, it was all on Laz to win it or lose it.
He buried both free throws. Then teammate Steve Green blocked a Purdue shot and the Hoosiers sealed a share of the Big Ten Championship with Michigan.
“The fans carried me off the court on their shoulders,” Laskowski recalled.
I was 10 years old watching that game at Assembly Hall. That kind of moment was what I grew up thinking the state’s biggest basketball rivalry was all about.
We didn’t see that kind of game Wednesday. But we saw a Hoosier program headed toward being capable of those kinds of championship performances.
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College Football Week 1 Recap: 10 Things
Sean Pendergast
Sean Pendergast | September 6, 2011 | 6:01am
College football is back, and probably for the first time I can remember, the feeling that the return of football brought with it more than anything else was relief.
Finally, we can stop obsessing over agents, runners, tattoos, memorabilia and Nevin Shapiro. The games are here and even though most of the games Saturday were complete and utter boredom, it's still nice to have them back. It wasn't sirloin steak, it was barely an appetizer, it was more like the free chips at El Tiempo, but it was still tasty.
I'm thinking as a weekly deal, I'll recap the weekend that was in college football by unveiling my Top 10, with the top five being my actual top five teams and the second five being people or entities that figured prominently into the weekend's activities.
One disclaimer on how I construct my rankings of teams -- I am a "body of work" enthusiast. You are who you've beaten, not who I think you could beat.
With that said, there were really only four teams who accomplished anything that was even remotely impressive and/or clarifying this weekend.
Those teams comprise my top four. There's almost no reason to rank everyone else at this point. (Truth be told, there's actually no reason to rank any teams until mid-October, but I'll do it anyway for the sake of content.)
1. Boise State The most thorough ass-kicking of the weekend came from the Broncos right in Georgia's backyard. The 35-21 final score doesn't begin to do justice to how futile Georgia's efforts were. Take out the one 80-yard touchdown run in the first quarter and the Bulldogs rushed the ball 30 times for 57 yards. Mark Richt's seat is a week away from being highly flammable.
2. LSU I wavered back and forth on whom to make number one (not that it matters after one week, but I'm nothing if not thorough), in the end the deciding factor was Boise State doing it in a de facto road environment and LSU being a little less impressive offensively. But Jarrett Lee's numbers (10 of 22 for 98 yards) were a little deceptive in that he had several drops and managed the game just fine. I think LSU can Miles-ball their way to ten wins.
3. South Florida I think if Notre Dame played USF ten times, the Irish would win eight. Unfortunately for Brian Kelly and his team, they only play once. In a game that feels like it just finished like ten minutes ago due to two weather-related stoppages, USF took advantage of five turnovers, numerous dropped passes and several foolish penalties to come away with a 23-20 win. (And the weird thing is I actually still think the Irish can win ten games if they play Tommy Rees at quarterback.)
4. Baylor The Bears provided the one highlight-reel game (not involving a team from Utah) of the entire weekend as they came up big on the Friday-night stage with a heart pounding 50-48 win over TCU. Robert Griffin III was outstanding all game long and a late interception by a weary Baylor defense sealed the deal and set off the rowdiest set of Bible readings Waco has ever seen.
5. (tie) Oklahoma, Alabama, Florida State, Stanford, Texas A&M, Oklahoma State, Wisconsin These teams comprise the rest of the public's top ten. Every single one smacked around either a non-AQ or FCS school by several touchdowns. All we know is these teams are good enough to beat bad teams, which within the context of the top ten means we know nothing. 5. The Rice "MOB" At halftime of the Rice-Texas game, the freewheeling Rice marching band spelled "$EC," taking a nice swipe at the Big 12-departing Texas A&M Aggies. Supporters of the MOB found it to be typically humorous, detractors continued to see it as the MOB showing off their ability to spell.
4. Brian Kelly's cardiologist Kelly arrived at Notre Dame last spring and immediately dropped a few dozen pounds so he could handle the stress of the new position. If he has many more Saturdays like this past one, he'll need to get down to Lou Holtz's weight to keep from having a coronary on the sideline.
3. Way too early Heisman ballot 1. Robert Griffin III 2. Kellen Moore 3. Andrew Luck
2. Way too early hottest coach's seats 1. Mark Richt (loss to Boise makes the game this weekend against South Carolina one of the most important of Richt's career) 2. Houston Nutt (loss at home to BYU) 3. Rick Neuheisel (loss at Houston)
1. Sacramento State It's not Appalachian State over Michigan, but it's in the neighborhood. Sac State beats the Beavers in. Corvallis and then LSU takes the Ducks to the woodshed. Bad week for the state of Oregon in football.
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Sean Pendergast is a contributing freelance writer who covers Houston area sports daily in the News section, with periodic columns and features, as well. He also hosts afternoon drive on SportsRadio 610, as well as the post game show for the Houston Texans.
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WeVue Curbs Company Culture Shock By Showing It Like It Is
November 2, 2015 by Erica Mixon Leave a Comment
A company’s personality is composed of a variety of intangible, ingrained habits. For example, perhaps your team tends to exchange witty, sarcastic banter towards the end of the work day. Or maybe your staff has an unexplained, unwritten ritual of blasting 90s hip-hop after breaking for lunch as a way to boost energy. Is it possible to express those oddly essential aspects of your work-life? Among the internal team, the company’s atmosphere is unanimously understood and embraced. But to an outsider, how do you explain the intricacies of your organization?
It’s important to convey an established company culture to your team, but it’s more essential to communicate that information to a potential employee. Cultural fit is a key indicator of whether a candidate will succeed in a company. Hiring someone who is a poor cultural fit can not only decrease overall productivity and engagement within the company, but it can also waste time and money—up to $50,000 for each company’s bad hire, according to a study by CareerBuilder.
On-site interviews help to mitigate that risk, but rarely do they contribute any value to your current staff. Fortunately, WeVue benefits both candidates and a current employees.
WeVue —a mobile app that enables users to gather photos and videos from their phones and then turn that content into montages—aims to provide visibility into each company’s culture.
“The ability to visualize resonates so much more with everyone,” says Saxon Baum, co-founder of WeVue. “It brings about emotions, reactions, and instantaneous feedback.”
The humanizing element that imagery elicits was only part of Baum’s motivation to found WeVue with his first cousin, Taylor Wallace. Initially, Baum began WeVue with a desire to capture live events such as sports games and concerts on camera. With college classes and an internship in the music industry, Baum’s jam-packed schedule didn’t allow him to attend every event that he wanted to. His solution? Crowdsourcing.
“I knew that everyone had their phones in the air at every concert, but I wondered where all that content was going,” said Baum.
This was three years ago, before Instagram hashtags and Snapchat stories began to take hold of the crowdsourcing industry, and Baum’s app only had 20,000 users. Still, Baum knew he could do more. He began looking at trends: what people were doing with their applications, and how often they were using them. Through his research, he found an opportunity to switch the company’s focus from a consumer to an enterprise market.
Baum noticed that many HR managers and employees would set up company photo albums to highlight events. “If people were using this internally,” he says, “why couldn’t we make it a business platform?”
WeVue gives companies the ability to create shared photos albums that enhance their culture; for example, albums that highlight company events like holiday parties, competitions, and company outings. WeVue is completely mobile, and the crowdsourcing aspect of the app means that companies no longer need an HR manager to take charge of photos at any given event—anyone can be a part of the process.
By allowing companies to share content, WeVue strengthens employer brand and boosts recruiting efforts. Baum calls the app a “company culture solution.” Even if the company doesn’t tout modern office perks like ping-pong tables and beer taps, this honesty can aid both candidate and hiring manager.
“Some companies we work with aren’t ‘fun’ at all,” admits Baum, “but they like to show off their culture so that people won’t expect a fun environment. It helps to wean out non-cultural fits before they even apply.”
And for those who decide that the company is, in fact, right for them, WeVue offers a chance to meet future coworkers before even stepping foot in the office. By giving future employees a better feel for who they’ll be working with, WeVue can alleviate the discomfort of the first few days on the job and ease the process of assimilation into a new company culture.
Most importantly, WeVue promotes transparency—an important piece in the process of showcasing a company’s culture and values.
“Everyone thinks they have a great culture,” he says, “but the employees will really let you know.”
Baum makes a valid point: many managers, clouded by personal bias, are unable to perceive and therefore communicate their company culture objectively. WeVue offers them to take a step back and look at what their culture really is. It allows companies to capture the true spirit of their offices and open up fresh avenues of communication between management and employees. Since anyone can share videos and photos, everyone has a voice.
“[We’re] going in to solve business problems and empower employees,” says Baum. “People outside boardrooms have ideas, and this allows them an outlet to get those ideas to the top.”
Ultimately, the goal of WeVue is to connect members of the workforce in dynamic and creative ways. Akin to gathering around and watching a home movie, watching a WeVue montage can give employees a different, more balanced perspective on their company culture. Plus, watching each other on the big screen is a bonding activity in itself.
Baum says that the app generates a type of content that is unique to WeVue. “You’re going to get raw content,” says Baum, “not content that someone has thought about for hours.”
By removing the polish of professionally edited and meticulously thought-out promotional videos, WeVue enables companies to promote who they really are and allows candidates to find their true cultural fit.
Filed Under: Company Profile, Recruiting & Staffing Tagged With: communication, company photo album, crowdsourcing, cultural fit, give employees a voice, HR app, mobile, mobile app, recording company events, saxon baum, taylor wallace, technology, wevue
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12/19/2012 05:00 EST | Updated 02/18/2013 05:12 EST
Alberta Scientist Finds Giant Fossil Freshwater Lizard, Pannoniasaurus, in Hungary
Bob Weber, The Canadian Press CP
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EDMONTON - It grew up to six metres long and its toothy mouth and crocodile-like body was the terror of ancient rivers and shorelines many millions of years ago.
Just don't call it a dinosaur.
"Mosasaurs are not dinosaurs," said University of Alberta biologist Michael Caldwell, the discoverer of a new type of the long-extinct marine lizard in a bauxite mine in Hungary.
Mosasaurs, unlike dinosaurs, were true lizards, meaning they were able to dislocate their jaw at will and swallow anything they could get their mouths around. This, it turns out, is what makes Caldwell's mosasaur — called Pannoniasaurus — so interesting.
Most mosasaurs were giant undersea predators, some growing up to 16 metres long, which breathed air but were full-time, fearsome sea creatures complete with paddle-like limbs similar to those of a whale. They lived around the same time as the dinosaurs and have been called the T. Rex of the sea.
"They were much bigger than T. Rex," said Caldwell, an expert in mosasaurs. "They really were sea monsters."
Pannoniasaurus, however, wasn't.
About 84 million years old, it is the first mosasaur ever found that lived in freshwater and retained the long, skinny legs of a land-based lizard. Judging by the shape of its skull and the abundance and type of its teeth, it probably hunted much like a modern crocodile, lurking just under the surface of the water to suddenly pounce on fish, or frog, or anything that moved.
But even though Pannoniasaurus didn't have the marine lifestyle or the seal-like flippers of its sea-going cousins, it still shared with them one essential mosasaurian characteristic — that little bone at the back of its skull that allowed its jaws to gape so impressively.
"This is kind of new stuff for us in the mosasaur world," said Caldwell. "Up until about five to 10 years ago, we treated the group as though it had a common ancestor with paddle-like limbs. We're beginning to recognize that the story is remarkably more complex than that.
"Mosasaurness is really about the skull and about habits, as opposed to everything but the head being focused on swimming adaptations."
It's an elegant and exciting example of evolution at work, Caldwell said. If the ancestors of all mosasaurs started out on land, the existence of Pannoniasaurus shows that the move from land to ocean took place at different times and in different ways, depending on what evolutionary pressures were at work.
"They're going through the high end of aquatic adaptations at different times and under different selection pressures," Caldwell said.
"This is really exciting new news in the business of evolutionary biology. It's almost like saying hominids evolved more than once, and having the fossil evidence to say so."
The bones Caldwell and his co-authors write about in a paper published Wednesday come from a wide variety of individuals of different ages and sizes, so it's unlikely they came from a single mosasaur that somehow found its way up an ancient river. But the team still lacks a complete skeleton, so drawings of what the creature may have looked like remain speculative.
Think, however, of a large, thin-bodied crocodile with a remarkably big bite.
"This is a particularly unique lineage of mosasaurs — true lizards — that were very successful in these freshwater ecosystems," said Caldwell.
"He was the big guy in his ecosystem."
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Steven Newton, Contributor
Professor of Geology, College of Marin
Science Education, Millennial Workers, and the Mad Skillz Gap
According to a recent survey by PayScale, there is a giant gap between how millennials view themselves in the workplace and how they are viewed by their managers. Media fretting about how this alleged "slacker generation" is faring in adulthood often manifests in articles decrying the number of millennials who still live with their parents. A recent Pew poll, for example, had the headline "For First Time in Modern Era, Living With Parents Edges Out Other Living Arrangements for 18- to 34-Year-Olds." But such statistics may say a lot more about the state of the economy than the work ethic of millennials. Likewise, this PayScale study on how millennials misperceive their workplace skills may say a lot more about flaws in our educational system than flaws in 20-somethings. As we will see, one way to correct these flaws centers on increased science education.
According to the PayScale study, while only 2% of millennials (defined as those born 1982-2002) thought of themselves as "unprepared" for their jobs, 13% of their managers described their millennial employees as unprepared. Forty-four percent of managers say writing proficiency was an issue among millennials; for public speaking, 39% of millennials fell short; for data analysis, 36%. Even worse, managers deemed 60% of millennials lacking in critical thinking skills, 56% inattentive to detail, and 46% lacking communication skills. What is especially striking is that millennials did not seem to understand their own deficits. While 20% of millennials described their job qualifications as "extremely prepared," only 9% of their managers agreed.
Overconfidence is rampant among American students. As part of the PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) test in science and math abilities, students were asked to rate their math confidence. For the 2012 PISA test, 69% American students reported confidence in their math abilities (compared to the international average of 56%). On the PISA test, however, the United States ranked an embarrassing 27th out of 34, with US students demonstrating "particular weaknesses in performing mathematics tasks with higher cognitive demands." This gap was particularly acute at the upper levels of math, with just 2% of Americans scoring in the highest rank; 31% of Shanghai students achieved this level. American students may think they're good in math, but in comparison to their peers in other countries they are not. Students from non-US countries who excelled on the PISA test were much humbler about their mathematical prowess.
The paradox of students feeling confidence but lacking skills may be partly the result of our toxic culture of unearned self-esteem, where effusive praise for mediocre achievements mixes with the haunting dread that some child, somewhere, might not feel like a champion all the time.
But a bigger portion of the blame falls on what schools offer and what schools require. Think about the skills the employers cited above were assessing: writing proficiency, public speaking, data analysis, critical thinking, attentiveness to detail, communication. There are many disciplines that touch on pieces of these, but only one type of class that consistently employs all of these: science courses. We might not be able to change endemic American overconfidence, but requiring more science classes might at the least improve a broad range of skills.
Science draws upon and integrates numerous essential skills. Scientists are expected to be effective communicators, frequently speaking in public at scientific conferences and translating their complex data into coherent explanations, both oral and written. Science requires attention to detail. Critical thinking is the essence of scientific examination, and critical analysis of data is required at all levels of science.
Science classes draw on skills taught in courses ranging from English, history, public speaking, math, and logic. Even artistic and graphic skills come into play; for example, early in my geologic education, I was expected to become proficient in Adobe Illustrator as a means of displaying data I collected in the field. So science courses can truly be said to be a capstone discipline, drawing on elements learned in other courses, integrating many disparate skills to synthesize something bigger than one individual class. Most students will not pursue careers in science, of course, but everyone can benefit from classes requiring the integration of so many skills.
It should be emphasized that the purpose of education is not merely to prepare students for earning money. But science courses can refine the skills employers are looking for. In our technologically-driven economy it makes sense that schools should expect their students to take an ever-increasing number of science courses.
It may be too late to fix the workplace deficits of millennials, but we can work today toward increasing the amount of science future students are required to take.
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Giuliani Fears Mueller Report Will Be ‘Horrific,’ Insiders Suggest Trump May Strike Deal To Resign
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Rudy Giuliani recently told a friend that he expects the Mueller report to be “horrific,” according to insiders who have begun speculating that Trump will make a deal with the special prosecutor to exchange his resignation for clemency.
In today’s story in Vanity Fair about how White House aides fear that President Trump has no exit strategy for dealing with the border wall and government shutdown crisis, it was also revealed that those close to President Trump are fearing the worst from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into potential collusion between President Trump and Russian interests.
Giuliani, who is leading President Trump’s legal team, in the past few days has suggested that the White House wants as much of the Mueller report to be made public, but did not rule out invoking executive privilege to block some parts of the report, according to NewsMax.
“We will enter that review process with no preconceptions about blocking material, but until our team reviews the report, we cannot waive executive privilege,” he said.
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— Mike Scarcella (@MikeScarcella) January 8, 2019
Today’s revelations in Paul Manafort’s legal filings have given the first indication that Mueller may be closing in on a “smoking gun” in the Russian collusion investigation, as it was revealed that Manafort lied to investigators about sharing polling information with alleged Russian intelligence operative Konstantin Kilimnik during the 2016 presidential election campaign. While Manafort’s defense team had previously shared information with Giuliani as part of a defense agreement, it is not certain at this time that Giuliani had been aware that Mueller had caught Manafort in the alleged prevarication.
The Manafort filings come at the same time that Donald Trump Jr. has again expressed concern to friends that he expects to be indicted by Mueller, according to Law & Crime. The possibility of Trump Jr.’s indictment has been raised for some time now, but rumors are swirling that he is again starting to discuss the possibility with those close to him.
It remains unlikely that President Trump will resign in an attempt to avoid exposure to the Mueller investigation, as doing so would open him up for potential indictment. Mueller has long stated that he would observe Department of Justice protocol and not indict a sitting president. Should President Trump resign, he would no longer have that executive privilege, so it is much more likely that a resignation from the president would have to be in conjunction with a promise of clemency from the special counsel’s investigation.
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Minimising screen time is not the answer, we need to teach kids to spot the fake news: experts
When it comes to navigating the digital world and sifting through what's real and what's fake, two experts say minimising your children's screen time is not the best course of action.
Tell-tale signs of fake news
Unusual URLs or site names
Bad spelling and grammar, words in all caps
Check a site's 'About Us' section to see who supports the site or is associated with it
Unsubstantiated claims lacking in evidence
A group of experts and academics came together for the Sydney Science Festival, held at the Sydney Opera House, to examine the fake news phenomenon, and the impact on the internet's younger users.
Researcher Dr Joanne Orlando specialises in the field of children and technology, and said children were engaging with fake news from a very early age. "You might think 'poor kids, they're growing up in this world, what's going to happen to them?'," Dr Orlando said.
"Are they just going to have this completely distorted understanding about life?"
But Dr Orlando said while the current discussion was about how to get kids off their devices, parents needed to instead take a more sophisticated approach to managing their children's relationship with technology.
"We seem to think a lot about screen time — let's get them off, let's minimise their time on screen," she said.
"But is that happening at the expense of us helping them to understand what it's actually like when they're online, how they're actually supposed to be engaging with the online world?"
She suggested parents should help their kids learn how to critique what they see online.
That can involve giving children the ability to spot tell-tale signs of fake news, such as odd URLs, bad spelling and grammar, advertising links and claims that are not substantiated by evidence.
"One of the great things about my work is that I get to see what kids and young people can do on technology, and they can do some absolutely brilliant things," Dr Orlando said.
"So I think if anything, the internet has helped us see how capable children are.
"They're growing up in the digital age where technology and the online world is incredibly important.
"So we want them to be able to engage with that aspect of their life just as well as they engage with their face to face aspect.
Is digital abstinence the way?
While some might consider digital abstinence, psychologist Jocelyn Brewer said avoiding the internet entirely was not a practical option for most.
"We don't really learn anything about ourselves if we're just jumping off social media, or technology, without having the reflection upon what we need to change," she said.
Ms Brewer said if people were made conscious of their screen addiction, they could then be encouraged to develop better tech habits. "I would suggest sometimes that digital abstinence and detoxing might be impractical and ineffective," she said.
"Sure, if you've overdosed to some degree or you're having trouble and you need to bring your tech use back, that might be something that you would try."
She suggested that when it came to young people, framing a positive argument to help them change their behaviour online was more effective than simply restricting access.
Dr Brewer said the fake news phenomenon had also created positive opportunities, and called for more emphasis to be placed on those benefits. "There's some benefit to us in being able to spot fake news and developing the skills to spot fake news, because you're building cognitive capacity," she said.
"That's where that can go in a positive direction — to say well if you're learning to spot fake news, you're learning to develop higher analytical thinking skills."
She said it was important that everyone, not just young people, develop "critical literacy around their media and the digital world."
Will sorting the real from the fake only get easier?
Like many children their age, 11-year-old Hugh and his four-year-old brother Nate love spending time on their electronic devices.
And even at their age they know that, at times, the internet is not always exactly what it seems.
"It depends what part of the internet you're looking at," Hugh said.
"Like say maybe you're watching [videos] about games on YouTube — that's probably true because who would want to lie to someone about that?
"But say there's [something saying] 'water companies are the best thing ever', you probably shouldn't believe that because that's probably sponsored by a water company."
However, Hugh said people should avoid spending too much time looking at a screen — at least on weekdays.
"On the weekends it's ok to be on it quite a bit, but you should still be active, maybe go to your friend's house or go to the park with them."
He said navigating the internet and sorting the real from the fake would only get easier for future generations.
"Each generation is more familiar with technology," he said.
"When I'm in the city I might see a toddler in a pram watching YouTube on an iPad, so they're getting familiar with it.
"But with fake news and spam and stuff, they might need quite a bit of teaching because they might just think the internet is a happy place, and it's not."
This article originally appeared on ABC News and was written by Maisie Cohen.
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Gabriella Rodriguez Photo: WCPO
Father of teen killed in Cincinnati hit-and-run: They ran her over like an animal
By Breaking News Staff
As he prepared to leave for work, Eduardo Rodriguez told his daughter he loved her.
Less than an hour later, 15-year-old Gabriella Rodriguez, described as a hard-headed, hard-working tomboy with an abundant sense of humor, was sprawled on Harrison Avenue “moving around like a fish out of the water,” her father told our news partner, WCPO-TV in Cincinnati.
She had been hit by two cars while trying to cross the street to catch a Metro bus to get to Western Hills University High School, where she was a freshman.
The first vehicle knocked her to the ground, Cincinnati police said. The second car ran her over as she tried to get up and then fled the scene.
“They ran her over like a g**damn animal,” Eduardo Rodriguez told the station. “That’s what they did”
Gabriella died later in the morning at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
Police said they are searching for a white 2010 Toyota Corolla with Ohio plates.
The four-lane intersection of Harrison Avenue where Gabriella was hit has no crosswalks, and people who live and work nearby said they weren’t surprised to hear about a fatal pedestrian strike, WCPO reported.
Gabriella’s mother, Shawna Rodriguez, said motorists tend to fly past at speeds far above the legal limit.
“I’ve worked in traffic and I’ve almost gotten hit on this road,” she said. “This road, people go 60, 70, 80 mph.”
More than anything, Shawna Rodriquez told WCPO she wants the person who struck and killed Gabriella to take responsibility for their actions.
“I’m begging them,” she said. “I need answers.”
The Cincinnati Reds observed a moment of silence in honor of the softball player, and her classmates decorated the softball-specific field for which she had pushed.
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5 cybersecurity trends to look out for in 2019
December 25, 2018 • Security
Five cybersecurity trends to look out for in 2019
Conversations around the strength of a company’s cybersecurity have never been more pertinent. We’re generating more data than we know how to deal with and our digital footprints are rapidly expanding. As the opportunities for cybercriminals proliferate, so their approach matures.
With the cloud continuing to aid digital transformation, and AI/machine learning finally realising their potential, cybersecurity defences are beginning to migrate to a more predictive model – allowing companies to create digital fingerprints of their employees and improving access to data and applications.
But how else will the cybersecurity landscape shift in 2019? And what measures can companies take to stay one step ahead of the bad guys? Dimension Data’s new Technology Trends 2019 report explores seven key areas of focus for companies next year, with cybersecurity playing a critical role. Here are five trends that will dominate cybersecurity in 2019.
1. Zero trust is maturing into digital trust
Last year, we predicted organisations would adopt a zero-trust security model. Due to the increasing sophistication of attacks and the emergence of insider threats, IT teams adopted a mindset of ‘we don’t trust anybody’.
This meant verifying the identity of anyone or anything in or outside their network that was trying to connect to systems or access data, before granting access. But zero trust proved difficult to roll out – especially for organisations with legacy networks – and often posed a barrier to employee productivity and customer engagement.
In 2019, digital trust will emerge as the next security model. Zero trust has laid the foundations for digital trust by allowing IT to build a ‘digital fingerprint’ of their users. They established a comprehensive behavioural profile for each user, which includes information such as the devices they use and their location, granting a user access to applications and systems, provided they remain consistent with their profile.
Improved threat detection
Digital trust involves the deployment of different tools such as deception technologies and robo-hunters ─ essentially automated threat seekers. If information regarding a genuine or decoy user is being used on the dark web, organisations will be notified that they’ve been breached. They can then immediately erase the breached digital identities from online and ─ through their backup and recovery systems ─ reinstate the known, accurate version of the user’s digital fingerprint.
An organisation’s repository of digital identities represents a gold mine of opportunity for cybercriminals – so the security surrounding that repository needs to be rigorous.
2. Organisations will focus on cloud-based security platforms
In 2019, cloud-based security providers will begin to gain traction in the security market. Cloud-based security is appealing for the same reasons organisations are drawn to cloud-based services: they’re platform-delivered, flexible, and scalable.
Because they’re built with open APIs, security teams can integrate technologies into the platform with relative ease and switch certain security services on or off, depending on their needs.
Cloud-based security is especially important in a hybrid-cloud era, as cloud services have historically presented many security challenges. Often, IT would have no knowledge of new cloud services being switched on or connections being made. But because of the flexibility and scalability of cloud-based security, organisations now have additional visibility and flexibility to scale security across their dynamic IT environments, rather than a static view of the organisation with a defined set of technologies, protecting specific points of the network.
Cloud-based security also allows for more automation and orchestration. With the advent of runbooks, security practitioners have a knowledge base that gives them a view on what, how, and when to respond to unusual new connections and cybersecurity incidents. It also lets them automate responses where appropriate. Leveraging machines, they can scan the environment for changes, gather and build intelligence back into the platform (and into runbooks), taking action where there’s a clear threat.
3. Organisations now aim to be secure by design
For many years, organisations would build technology solutions and then ‘bolt on’ security measures as an afterthought. This would often lead to deployment delays and additional costs. Organisations then shifted towards ‘building in’ security at various stages along the way. The security team was engaged periodically during development, but cybersecurity was still largely tagged on at the end.
This mindset is changing yet again. With business leaders now confident digital is here to stay, they’re also recognising they must be secure by design; being cybersecurity-conscious at every point in their digital transformation journey.
What’s the organisational impact?
Cybersecurity is being built-in as technologies and applications are conceptualised, designed, adopted, and created. DevOps and security operations teams are beginning to work more closely – as a DevSecOps team – creating the tools that enable secure digital transformation.
Encouragingly, cybersecurity is increasingly being seen as an enabler of the business and we expect to see closer collaboration between cybersecurity and all levels of the organisation.
4. Cybersecurity will become intelligence-driven
In a world of fast-moving, automated attacks, intelligence is the key to responding swiftly or even predictively, rather than reactively, to individual threats. Additionally, it will allow an organisation’s overall cybersecurity posture to change dynamically in response to the changing threat landscape.
Machine learning will play a critical role in gathering intelligence. Moreover, machines will start making more of their own decisions and execute changes themselves based on intelligence, to minimise the threat of attacks and human error.
While machine learning is helping organisations to protect themselves, we need to be mindful that cybercriminals are also using machine learning in their attacks.
This is going to let them move much faster. Once malware has infiltrated a network, its decision-making will be instantaneous. It’ll be able to move laterally within the organisation, across different ports and domains, more rapidly than ever.
This means security needs to be invulnerable 100% of the time. Organisations can’t afford to make one mistake, whereas cybercriminals only need to get it right once. Intelligence is becoming the new arms race between adversaries. That’s why getting ahead of the curve by using predictive intelligence is going to be critical in the year ahead.
5. Tighter regulation is affecting risk profiles
Standards groups, industries, and governments are constantly implementing new security policies. Compliance pressure on organisations has grown in the last year with the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe and the Notifiable Data Breach (NDB) scheme in Australia, for example.
Continuous risk profiling will be key
As a result, we expect to see governance and compliance playing an increasingly important role in how organisations manage their risk profile in 2019. If, for example, they’re deploying a new application or technology, they’ll be more critical in their decision-making process. They’ll need to carefully consider what additional risk it might add and how it will affect their risk posture.
Security operations can be complicated by regulations that lag behind the criminals’ strategies. As criminals keep coming up with new ways to attack, regulation – while necessary and important – can sometimes make security harder. Organisations, many of which have limited IT and security resources, need to find a way to adapt to ensure IT operations are compliant with these new regulations, managing compliance reporting, while still managing day-to-day operations and supporting the business with secure digital transformation and innovation.
A chief information security officer (CISO) has a doubly difficult job – balancing IT operations with concerns about regulatory compliance. This is why we will increasingly see the CISO split into two new roles: the chief information security officer and chief risk officer.
By Matt Gyde, Group Executive, Cybersecurity at Dimension Data
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Justin Montigne
Singing Sunday
Here are another couple warmups for the middle voice. Are you trying these out? If you are, please comment or contact me and let me know how they are working for you.
A lifelong favorite from The Bag. ❤️
Tagged: vocal technique, singing technique, Singing, vocal warmups, voice lessons, singing tips and tricks
Fun with "Jee Jaw Jee"
If you visit the Kanbar Performing Arts Center any afternoon of the week, you'll hear lovely singing all around. It's entirely possible that amongst that singing will be the simple, catchy, and enduring "Jee Jaw Jee" warmup below. I don't know why I like this one so much, or why it seems to be a favorite of my colleagues and students, but perhaps it's due to the bouncy rhythm, or the buoyant, effervescent feeling you get when you do it right. In these few sentences, I've already built it up to be more than it is in actual substance, but give it a try and see what you think.
Similarly catchy, but slightly more difficult is "Kee Yaw Kyaw." This one hails from the late, great Barbara Kierig (and, she would've told you, from Tovini before her. "He was an utter god, Honey!"). Her original was slightly different, putting the 'kyaw' on the top note of the exercise. When we worked on this one, I usually lost my grounding and ended up choking on my larynx, so she moved the 'kyaw' one note earlier so I could slide up to the top and try to maintain a neutral, relaxed laryngeal position. It's a small example of flexibility and pragmatism that was a hallmark of our work together, and that I try to practice with my own students. After all, as Barbara said time and again, "You have to do what you have to do to get it to do." So there.
VOCAL TECHNIQUE AND WARMUPS YOUTUBE PLAYLIST
Tagged: YouTube, voice lessons, vocal technique, vocal warmups, singing technique, Singing, singing tips and tricks, SingAsana
Vocal Technique and Warmups - Videos and Sharing
Beginning this week, I'll be posting videos of the warmups and vocalises I use regularly in my teaching. I used to think of these as proprietary, and think that keeping them semi-secret would preserve my unique teaching style and ability. In addition to being self-absorbed and vain, I now believe this notion is actually practically false as well. Sharing information with students and teachers, both close to me and in the vast online vocal community will only improve my teaching and ability to help singers. I hope to get feedback on my teaching, engage in dialogue with other vocal pedagogues, and help students I don't have time to see regularly or who aren't in the Bay Area. I'm going to throw this stuff out there and try radical openness for a change, and I bet it will be fun and fruitful. Please let me know what you think by commenting on my YouTube Channel, and please subscribe!
Currently, I am working with several young students who have been singing pretty high in chest voice—well above their lower passaggio. To give them another option besides that belt voice, we worked a little on this exercise of nudging the head voice downward in range. Their goal (for now) is to be able to sing D4 in a clear head tone. This tone will strengthen in volume and resonance with practice. These are rudimentary exercises, but many young singers need simple tools and lots of repetition to assimilate new vocal skills.
Tenors’ Festive Friday
Me and Valerie with The Tenors
This week, I had the wonderful experience of reuniting with an old friend and colleague, Fraser, who now sings with classical crossover super-group The Tenors . Sweetening this happy reunion was the first meeting of my two choral loves, Clerestory and the San Francisco Girls Chorus. Fraser messaged me looking for choirs to sing in The Tenors holiday show at Herbst, and the stars aligned to bring us all together for a few tunes. The Tenors were awesome to work with, entertaining to watch, and great with the kids. Clerestory was positioned right in front—between Valerie, my music director at SFGC, and the girls. Aside from the shortest sopranos trying to find sight lines around our tallest basses, things went swimmingly! We sang the fastest O Come All Ye Faithful in history, rattled the rafters with some humming on The Little Drummer Boy, and finished with a beautiful O Holy Night. You can hear the former two songs on The Tenors new album, Christmas Together, and the latter on their first Christmas album (under their original name, The Canadian Tenors), The Perfect Gift. Make sure you listen to the closing track of each album. The Perfect Gift ends with Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, a song that played no small part in The Tenors’ rise to prominence, and which they sang beautifully last Sunday. Christmas Together ends with a gorgeous version of Auld Lang Syne that helped me to understand the beautiful ending-as-beginning subtext of that traditional song.
Clerestory, The San Francisco Girls Chorus, Valerie Sainte-Agathe, and Me
While we’re talking tenors, I have one more group’s holiday album for you to check out. Sol3 Mio is another classsical-ish tenor trio having great success on tour right now. I came to know of them because tenor brothers Pene Pati and Amitai Pati are currently Adler Fellows with San Francisco Opera. They and their baritone cousin Moses Mackay hail from New Zealand, where they formed Sol3 Mio, and have a huge following. Unfortunately, Clerestory will be singing the same night as they are presented by SF Opera in a Christmas show, so I won’t get to hear them live, but I’ve been enjoying their first full-length holiday album, A Very Merry Christmas. Some very fine singing, plenty of light-hearted fun, and the constant presence of ukulele make this album stand out from the December crowd.
All of these tenors (and one baritone) are worth following beyond the holiday season!
Merry Monday!
The weekend was crazy, so instead of a Festive Friday, here’s a Merry Monday. I rediscovered Fantasia through the vehicle of her thrilling, uneven, yet enjoyable new Christmas album, Christmas at Midnight. This album begins on a nostalgic high note, with a cover of Donny Hathaway’s This Christmas, moves through a range of moods and vocal colors, sends Santa on a beeline to the ghetto (her words, not mine), pays jazzy homage to Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra, and ends with a soulful, chorus-backed rendition of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. I firmly believe the latter song needs no more covers ever for the rest of time, but Fantasia derives so much energy from a backing choir, that her spirited version won me over. I love the way this woman sings; she is honest and fearless, with one of the most unique instruments around. She also possesses enough technique to last for the last fifteen years, and the wisdom to throw it out the window when she needs to get to the raw heart of a song. Give this talented artist’s holiday work a listen.
Today is a double bill, so next up is Veni Domine, a wonderful album of pristine polyphony from Palestrina, Josquin, Mouton, and Victoria. The Sistine Chapel Choir (Coro della Cappella Musicale Pontificia) has been in existence in some form since early in the fourth century, but was formalized as an institution of the Catholic Church by Pope Saint Gregory at the turn of the sixth century. With adult basses and tenors, and boys on soprano and alto, this is the original old boys’ club. Although the choir’s musicianship and singing are characteristically gorgeous, it is especially satisfying to hear the equally stellar singing of Cecilia Bartoli on Beate viscera by Perotin. She is the first female singer to collaborate with the Sistine Chapel Choir in its long history, and the joining of voices echoes through the chapel with musical and historical power. Hear Bartoli speak about her experience in this video:
Let me know how you like these two very different holiday albums. Enjoy!
Feeling in need of felicity this fall? Fear not, Festive Fridays are here! I’m starting my annual Christmas album weekly recommendations early this year because, frankly, we all need a little Christmas cheer. Let’s begin with something most of you will know and already love, but which won’t fail to put you in a good mood and seeing sparkles of snow out of the corners of your eyes—Christmas by The Singers Unlimited.
No amount of global warming can ruin the cool of this vocal jazz supergroup. Chanticleer’s music director emeritus, Joseph Jennings, was a huge fan of The Singers Unlimited and their founder, Gene Puerling. We sang several Puerling arrangements while I was in that ensemble, and I too fell in love with the layered, breezy, crisp sound of the quartet, as well as Puerling’s uniquely crunchy chords. How did he know such musical weirdness would sound so awesome?
The Singers Unlimited formed in 1971, comprising Puerling, Don Shelton (from Puerling’s previous vocal quartet, The Hi-Los), Len Dresslar (the bass voice of the Jolly Green Giant), and Bonnie Herman (singer of the original “Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.” jingle). Christmas was actually the first album they recorded, although it was released as their second.
Every track on this album is excellent, but make sure to check out the wacky harmonization of the second verse of Silent Night, the more-major-than-major starting chords of each verse of Joy to the World, and the incredible tuning of fast-moving chords in Night Bethlehem, a lesser-known gem. In the solo accompaniment sections of Good King Wenceslas, you can also hear a textbook example of The Open-Mouthed Hum—a combination of ‘mm’ and ‘oo’ used by many choirs to get that perfect accompanimental palate. My beloved Clerestory will be using it a bit in our own Christmas concerts this year (shameless plug!).
This was a long post—future Festive Fridays will be shorter (and less alliterative, I promise). Hopefully, you think The Singers Unlimited are worth the attention. They’ve certainly got me open-mouthed humming along this morning. May these weekly posts give you a little joy and some musical inspiration in this wonderful time of year. Merry Christmas!
The Singers Unlimited
Premiere, Mortal Lessons
Ryan Brown's Mortal Lessons is a 35 minute work setting poetry of Richard Selzer, a former surgeon. He explores the processes of the body, illness, anesthesia, and surgery. Despite the somewhat grisly subject matter, Ryan's music is rhythmically vital, tuneful, and at times humorous. This performance premieres two new movements added to the ones already premiered in 2014 as The Exact Location of the Soul.
Switchboard Music Festival
Z Space, San Francisco
Tonia D'Amelio, Justin Montigne, Samuel Faustine, and Sidney Chen, singers
Eric Dudley, conductor
http://www.switchboardmusic.com/events-2/2017-festival/
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King's University College Strategic Plan
A Place to Be, A Place to Become: A Strategic Plan for King's University College 2017-2024
Background documents:
Strategic Planning Workshop Summary Powerpoint (J. Kirkham, April 2016)
Summary Document of Strategic Planning Workshop Conversations
Context and Background for Strategic Planning and Community Consultation
Vision, Values and Learning (2010-2014)
College Council Constitution
Ex Corde Ecclesiae
Affiliation Agreement with University of Western Ontario
Affiliation Agreement with St. Peter's Seminary
Principal-elect greets King's community
Dr. David C. Malloy introduced himself to the King’s community on April 8, 2019. Facebook Twitter Linkedin
Dr. David C. Malloy selected at ninth Principal of King's University College
Please join us on April 8th in the King Student Life Centre at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. to welcome Dr. Malloy. Facebook Twitter Linkedin
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Feb 28 2019, 08:00 AM EST /Stephen Ehrlich
Welcoming Ethos to the Voyager Family
Today, we're excited to announce that Ethos, a leading Universal Wallet & Blockchain Service Provider, has officially joined Voyager.
By combining Voyager’s state-of-the-art crypto trading technology with Ethos’ robust self-custody solution for storing, sending, and receiving assets, we bring to the market a truly integrated, all-in-one crypto solution.
The Ethos Universal Wallet has become one of the most trusted and respected wallets in the crypto space. The software will be integrated into the Voyager's retail and institutional businesses, allowing customers to self-custody their crypto assets while seamlessly integrating them with a brokerage solution for efficient trading. Our partnership will offer both retail and institutional crypto investors unparalleled liquidity, speed, and security.
Not only are we bringing best execution crypto trading and advanced custody under one roof, but we are also joining forces to reimagine the way financial institutions operate in a digital world. With Ethos Bedrock, an enterprise blockchain application, we strengthen our institutional offering, allowing businesses of all types to build blockchain-based applications rooted in custody, payments, investing, and more.
I’m excited to announce that Shingo Lavine, Founder and current CEO of Ethos, will be joining Voyager as Chief Blockchain Officer. He will maintain a seat on Voyager’s Board of Directors, helping us shape the future of our company. Ethos is Shingo’s brainchild, and under his direction, Ethos has brought two world-class products to the market, the Universal Wallet and Bedrock. He is a globally recognized expert and thought leader in the crypto and blockchain industries, and Voyager will benefit significantly from his experience and ideas.
(To learn more about Shingo and how he built Ethos from his dorm room at Brown University, read our Q&A with him here).
Since our partnership was announced in October, we’ve had the pleasure of interacting with Ethos’ engaged and captive community that spans hundreds of thousands of crypto enthusiasts around the globe. We’re proud to welcome the entire Ethos network and are excited to bring a long-anticipated fiat gateway to the community later this year.
The potential for Voyager’s customers and shareholders is stronger than ever before. Over the coming months, our two teams will be working hard to integrate our people, resources, technologies, and strategic plans resulting in new products, services, and an overall enhancement of the Voyager offering.
In the near term, it’s “business as usual” for our now larger company. We remain committed to delivering on our roadmap, which includes enhanced trading and custody features, along with a fiat gateway for Ethos Universal Wallet users. We will work hard to address questions arising from both communities.
Voyager and Ethos share the joint vision of a financial system that is open, safe, and fair for everyone. We believe that crypto is the future, and together we’re building the infrastructure to support and drive mass adoption.
Have you downloaded the Ethos Universal Wallet yet? Store and send all of your crypto assets safely and securely on your mobile device. Available internationally. Download now.
This post has been updated to represent its actual publishing date of 2/28/19.
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Posts Tagged ‘SIM’
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We know that demand for mobile services is growing. This opens up an expanding range of opportunities for mobile operators to exploit.
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eUICC eSIMs perception Vs reality: Mind the GAP!
Anyone connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) and M2M communications industries will be acutely aware of the levels of ambition and investment being set for the Embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card, more widely known as eUICC, or the eSIM.
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Self-declared mobile technology disruptor and global service provider Truphone has launched its new IoT proposition, Truphone Io3 on day one of Mobile World Congress 2018. The solution brings together Truphone’s market-leading SIM technology and unique global cellular network, alongside a suite of intelligence systems.
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IoT Now Magazine (ISSN 2397-2793) explores the evolving opportunities and challenges facing CSPs across this sector. Our exclusive interviews pass on the key lessons learned by industry leaders in next gen Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) services. In February-March issue: Talking Heads: Wind River's Jim Douglas explains why fluid computing, machine learning and [...]
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Still living at home with the folks? Call in the film crew
‘This Crowded House’ is looking for candidates for its next series about adults who want to - but can't afford to - move out of home
Fri, Apr 27, 2018, 06:00 Updated: Fri, Apr 27, 2018, 10:43
Brendan Courtney in ‘This Crowded House’
Are you in your 20s, 30s – or even 40s – and still enjoying the creature comforts of home? Or desperately trying to move out? Or maybe you’re a hard-pressed parent, looking to get your home – and your life – back after several decades of rearing children, but fear your children might never move on without a little leg up.
If you are any of the above, you’re not alone. Figures from the Central Statistics Office show that almost half a million adult children still live at home, and the number continues to increase, having risen by 3.3 per cent between 2011 and 2016.
While about one-third of these at-home over-18s are students, almost half are in work – and still can’t manage to move on.
A combination of soaring rents and rocketing property prices – not to mind the potential perks of getting your dinner cooked and your clothes laundered – is keeping far greater numbers at home.
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If this rings a bell, and you reckon you could do with some outside assistance to complete the move, then the makers of a television programme want to hear from you.
Following on from last year’s popular series of This Crowded House, which followed eight people in their quest to move out of home (and is currently being repeated on Tuesdays on RTÉ 2), production company indiepics is looking for another round of candidates to feature in the second series of the show.
Presented by Brendan Courtney, the show gives successful applicants the help and expertise of a financial adviser, Eoin McGee of Prosperous Financial Services, plus a team of researchers and consultants.
The show’s producers are looking to recruit 12 candidates from across the country to be followed as they seek out a home to rent or buy, and leave their childhood bedrooms behind. Filming will take place over the summer and the show will be broadcast next autumn.
If you’re interested in finding out more before the selection process ends in mid-May, you can email the production team at crowdedhouse@indiepics.ie, or call 01-7088181.
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Kenneally abuse survivors welcome investigation
Jason Clancy, whose complaint against sports coach led to investigation, ‘delighted’ with news
Wed, May 30, 2018, 01:00 Updated: Wed, May 30, 2018, 01:38
Barry Roche
Jason Clancy, one of the survivors of Bill Kenneally’s abuse: “I firmly believe that what we uncovered is only the tip of the iceberg in relation to this.” Photograph: Collins Courts
Survivors of abuse by Bill Kenneally have welcomed the Government’s announcement of a Commission of Investigation to investigate the handling of complaints against the sports coach.
Jason Clancy, whose complaint against Kenneally in 2013 led to a Garda investigation, said that he and the other survivors were delighted with the news. In 2016, Kenneally was convicted and sentenced to 14 years for abusing 10 boys in Waterford in the 1980s.
“We are very happy Minister for Justice Oliver Flanagan has obtained Cabinet approval to appoint retired circuit court judge Barry Hickson to chair this commission of investigation, and hopefully it will be able to start taking evidence within a matter of weeks,” he said.
Mr Clancy said that the survivors were satisfied with the terms of reference that Mr Flanagan brought to Cabinet for the inquiry.
It emerged at Kenneally’s sentencing hearing in 2016 that two senior gardaí in Waterford, Supt Sean Cashman and Insp PJ Hayes, were told in 1987 that Kenneally had abused another boy, but they never investigated the matter as no formal complaint was made.
The two senior gardaí spoke to Kenneally after contact was made with him through his uncle, the late Waterford Fianna Fáil TD, Billy Kenneally, and Kenneally gave an undertaking to gardaí to go for counselling and treatment for the abuse of the boy.
Mr Clancy said that he expected upwards of 50 witnesses could be called to give evidence before the inquiry.
He said that he and other survivors had also furnished Mr Flanagan with the names of other boys, now men, whom they believed could assist the commission of investigation with its work.
“We have uncovered a lot of stuff but I firmly believe that what we uncovered is only the tip of the iceberg in relation to this.”
Mr Flanagan said the terms of reference approved by Cabinet will now go to the Dáil and Seanad for approval, which he said would be “early the week after next”.
“Then the terms of reference can be given to Judge Barry Hickson and he can commence work within weeks,” Mr Flanagan said.
‘Unique circumstances’
Mr Flanagan said that there were “unique circumstances” relating to the commission “insofar as there are a number of criminal trials still outstanding. It could well be that more people will now come forward now that the commission has been established,” he said.
“Obviously every effort needs to be made to ensure that the commission doesn’t engage in anything that might cut across the Garda investigation or the criminal proceedings that are under way.”
Kenneally is currently before Waterford Circuit Criminal Court on 99 new charges of abusing three boys in Waterford in the 1980s, and Mr Flanagan said that it was important his right to a a fair trial would not be not prejudiced by the Commission of Investigation .
“As Minister for Justice, I am particularly conscious of the importance of ensuring the Commission does not impact upon any pending criminal prosecutions and, accordingly, I have consulted with the Attorney General and the DPP who will monitor the commission proceedings.
“I have always been conscious of balancing the rights of the survivors who have come forward and made allegations more recently to have their allegations fully investigated against the rights of those who have sought to have these very important matters investigated by a Commission.”
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No.5 Bed & Breakfast
Situated in the riverside town of Kilcullen, County Kildare, No.5 Bed & Breakfast is surrounded by scenic gardens and features a sun terrace. Free private parking is available on site and Dublin is 40 km away. Free WiFi is provided in each guest room at No.5 Bed & Breakfast, along with a private or shared bathroom and complimentary toiletries. A full cooked breakfast is served each morning & special diets can be catered for with prior arrangements. Guests can also relax in the communal TV lounge. Restaurants, bars & coffees shops including the award-winning Fallons Restaurant, Bardon's Bar and Grill & O'Connell's Traditional Irish Pub with live music can be found within a 5-minute walk of the property. Local amenities include Newbridge Silverware & Style Museum (7km), Curragh Racecourse (8.2km) and Royal Curragh Golf Club (6.1km).
Ballindrum Farm B&B
When you stay at Ballindrum Farm Bed and Breakfast in Athy, you'll be 8 minutes by car from Athy Heritage Centre-Museum. Free self parking is available onsite.
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Mill Race Bed & Breakfast
Mill Race Bed & Breakfast is situated in Athgarvan, 41 km from Dublin. Free WiFi is provided throughout the property and free private parking is available on site. The rooms include a flat-screen TV. Some rooms include a seating area for your convenience. You will find a kettle in the room. The rooms are equipped with a private bathroom fitted with a shower. Extras include free toiletries and a hairdryer. A continental breakfast is served daily and there is luggage storage space at the property. You can engage in various activities, such as golfing and horse riding. Carlow is 36 km from Mill Race Bed & Breakfast, while Kildare is 9 km away. The nearest airport is Dublin Airport, 47 km from Mill Race Bed & Breakfast.
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Dollardstown Historic Country House
Located in Athy, Dollardstown Historic Country House is in a rural location, within a 15-minute drive of Athy Heritage Centre-Museum and Carlow Golf Club. Free self parking is available onsite.
Moate Lodge
Located in Athy, Moate Lodge is within a 15-minute drive of Athy Heritage Centre-Museum and Ballintubbert Gardens. This 4-star bed & breakfast is 10.9 mi (17.6 km) from Kildare Shopping Village and 10.1 mi (16.3 km) from Irish National Stud. Rooms Make yourself at home in one of the 4 guestrooms. Conveniences include irons/ironing boards, and rollaway/extra beds can be requested. Amenities Take in the views from a garden and make use of amenities such as wireless Internet access (surcharge) and babysitting/childcare (surcharge). Business, Other Amenities Featured amenities include wired Internet access (surcharge) and luggage storage. Self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.
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Killossy B&b
Featuring a garden and free WiFi, Killossy B&B is set in Naas, 5 km from Punchestown Racecourse and 7 km from Naas Racecourse. The property is also 13 km away from Curragh Racecourse and 1.5 km away from Killashee House Hotel. Local points of interest like Moat Theatre are reachable within 5 km. All units in the bed and breakfast are equipped with a flat-screen TV. The rooms will provide guests with a wardrobe and a kettle. A Full English/Irish breakfast is served every morning at the property. Martinstown House is 14.5 km away, while Kildare Village Outlet is 18.5 km from the property. The nearest airport is Dublin Airport, 40 km from Killossy B&B.
The Rooms at Bardons
With a stay at The Rooms at Bardons in Kilcullen, you'll be within a 15-minute drive of Punchestown Racecourse and Kildare Shopping Village.
Hawthorn B&B
Featuring free WiFi throughout the property, Hawthorn B&B offers accommodation in Athy, only a 3-minute walk from Clanard Court Hotel. Free private parking is available on site. The rooms include a flat-screen TV. All rooms come with a private bathroom. Athy Heritage Centre-Museum is 2 km from Hawthorn B&B, while Kilkea Castle is 8 km from the property. Other attractions include Kildare Japanese Gardens and National Stud located 19.9 km away, Wicklow Mountains 46 km and Glendalough 55 km away from the property. The nearest airport is Dublin Airport, 67 km from Hawthorn B&B.
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New Abbey B&B
Located in Kilcullen, New Abbey B&B features a garden. Featuring a private bathroom with a shower and a hairdryer, rooms at the guest house also provide guests with free WiFi. Guests at New Abbey B&B can enjoy a continental breakfast. Carlow is 39 km from the accommodation, while Kildare is 14 km away. The nearest airport is Dublin Airport, 61 km from New Abbey B&B.
Ash House Bed And Breakfast
Located in Calverstown, 23 km from Naas, Ash House Bed and Breakfast provides a garden and free WiFi. There is a private bathroom with shower and a hairdryer in each unit, along with free toiletries. Continental and Full English/Irish breakfast options are available daily at the bed and breakfast. A children's playground can be found at Ash House Bed and Breakfast, along with a shared lounge. Carlow is 31 km from the accommodation, while Kildare is 17 km away. The nearest airport is Dublin Airport, 66 km from Ash House Bed and Breakfast.
Tulloch
With a stay at Tulloch in Kildare, you'll be within a 10-minute drive of Kildare Shopping Village and Kildare Cathedral. Free self parking is available onsite.
Abhainn Ri Farmhouse
With a stay at Abhainn Ri Farmhouse in Hollywood, you'll be on the riverwalk, within a 15-minute drive of Wicklow Mountains National Park and Russborough House. Featured amenities include laundry facilities and coffee/tea in a common area. Free self parking is available onsite.
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The Heritage Killenard
Located in Killenard, The Heritage Killenard is in a rural location, a 1-minute drive from The Heritage Golf Club and 9 minutes from Emo Court. Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Free valet parking is available onsite.
Silken Thomas
A stay at Silken Thomas places you in the heart of Kildare, within a 15-minute walk of Kildare Shopping Village and Kildare Cathedral. Featured amenities include limo/town car service and luggage storage. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours), and free self parking is available onsite.
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Egg Surprise by Zaini Now Available at Toys R Us
Egg Surprise chocolates by Zaini are finally available in the Philippines! It took a while for these insanely addictive chocolates to be widely available in Manila, but they're now here - and at a very good price! P199 gets you a pack of 3 eggs already.
Zaini Egg Surprise now available in the Philippines
Up until a few months ago, Zaini toy surprise eggs were only available from online sellers at around P400-P450 per pack of 3, which is really quite overpriced. The closest you could get from regular stores back then were Kinder Joy eggs, which had yummy chocolates and small toys also, but the toys were either generic, or Hot Wheels/ Barbie. Other co-branded egg surprise chocolates were not available.
Zaini and Kinder Joy at Toys R Us
For a limited time, selected supermarkets carried a different version of egg surprise candies with Disney Cars, Adventure Time and Barbie for only P40 a piece. These eggs, made by Bon Bon Buddies, came in small plastic eggs with candies and a surprise toy. The surprise toys though were not as good, and they come with hard candies, instead of chocolates. The hard candies were, quite frankly, not good and kids didn't really enjoy them. They seemed to be very limited too and we hardly see them in groceries lately.
Just a few weeks ago, Toys R Us started to display Zaini egg surprise chocolates in their stores. These are the same eggs you see in most Egg Surprise opening videos from Disney Collector (Fun Toyz Collector) and Blu Toys. They're usually co-branded and come with small replicas of the cartoon characters. The chocolate cover that comes with it is pretty good too. So far, we've seen only Spiderman, Disney Pixar Cars and Disney Frozen eggs on the shelves (we're assuming these are their most popular), but we're hoping to see more. Their display also included Kinder Joy eggs, but these are the same kind commonly found in local supermarkets. Still no Kinder Surprise so far though.
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Are they still available this time of the year? Or were they only featured because of the Easter season?
Keith's Toy Box August 17, 2016 at 10:56 PM
They're available all year round :) The characters may change though depending on what's popular.
This is very educational content and written well for a change. It's nice to see that some people still understand how to write a quality post.! toys for 2 year old
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Kentucky ranks low in breast-feeding | Lexington Herald Leader
Kentucky ranks low in breast-feeding
By Sarah Vos - svos@herald-leader.com
Sammy Yolanda Miranda wanted to breast-feed her children because she remembered her mother breast-feeding her younger brother.
That makes her unique in Letcher County, where approximately one-third of new mothers begin breast-feeding in the hospital and many have never seen another woman breast-feed.
Today women have an array of formula choices. But despite the advances in its production, it isn't the same as breast milk, Wolf said.
Wolf argues that formula-fed babies have changed society's view of what a normal, healthy baby is — because formula-fed babies get sick more often and have more serious illnesses than breast-fed babies.
”Formula is not the normal way to feed babies but really a very inferior way,“ Wolf said.
But breast-feeding is not always easy, especially at the beginning. New moms need encouragement, said Doraine Bailey, the breast-feeding support services coordinator for the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department.
”If they're not breast-feeding in the hospital, it's highly unlikely they're going to go home and start breast-feeding,“ Bailey said.
Nurses and doctors should encourage breast-feeding, and hospitals should have policies to keep babies in the room with new mothers and to prevent breast-fed babies from being giving formula, sugar water or even a pacifier, Bailey said.
At St. Joseph East, the hospital with the highest rates of breast-feeding initiation in the state, nurses and lactation consultants help new moms through the first few days, when a sleepy baby can make nursing difficult.
”You have to help mom not to get frustrated with what is normal,“ said Joan Morrin, the nursing supervisor there.
All of Lexington's birthing hospitals have high rates of initiation. At St. Joseph East, 72 percent of women initiated breast-feeding in 2006, according to the Kentucky Department for Public Health. At the University of Kentucky Hospital, 70 percent of women initiated, making it fourth in the state. At Central Baptist Hospital, 67 percent initiated, placing it fifth.
Once they get home, women need the support of their families and other breast-feeding women.
If the grandmother bottle-fed, then she has to be convinced of the benefits of breast-feeding, said Susan Stapleton, director of the midwifery faculty practice at the Frontier Nursing Service in Leslie County.
The grandmother and other relatives have the most impact once the mother goes home, Stapleton said.
The work challenge
If women make it through the first few weeks of breast-feeding, the next drop-off is when they return to work or school.
As part of the WIC program, Bailey gives away breast pumps. But she often has to talk to employers to convince them to give women time and a place to pump.
Employers often don't understand how important breast milk is for babies, said Becky Derifield, breast-feeding promotion coordinator for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
”They think it's just a fluff rather than an important part of a baby's life and a mom's life,“ Derifield said.
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Previous patients of Mayo Clinic Health System Mankato share their stories at award luncheon
By Holly Bernstein | June 18, 2019 at 6:39 PM CDT - Updated June 19 at 10:31 AM
MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) - Tuesday, previous patients of Mayo Clinic Health System Mankato shared their stories at a luncheon.
That includes one man who chose to undergo a relatively new procedure for a hernia operation.
It's something John Tanke knew was coming for a long time.
His family has a history of hernia operations.
When doctors told him about the da Vinci Surgical System, a robot, controlled by a surgeon, that can perform surgery, he decided it was the right option for him.
“Given the quick recovery time that they could promise using that technology, it was really, really easy to say yes," he said.
Tanke was one of the first patients in Mankato to have surgery with the technology.
He told his story Tuesday at a luncheon for the Mae Berry Service Excellence Awards, which honors non-physicians who work the extra mile for their patients.
“Not only will they continue to do that good work, but it’s nice to know that your peers recognize it, that your patients appreciate what you do," said senior patient experience advisor Lauren Zelinsky.
Previous patient Dennis Moe also told his story Tuesday.
A customer found him laying on the floor while he was at work.
He said he doesn’t remember much of what happened, but he said he appreciates the help he received.
Tanke said he appreciates the doctors and nurses who helped him with the operation and has advice for anyone going through his situation.
“Don’t put it off and do it right away. I already had a conversation like that with a friend of mine who has that type of surgery pending, same as what I did and I said don’t wait," he said.
Holly Bernstein
Holly Bernstein is a Multi-Media Journalist at KEYC News 12.
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Modular sofa system made of various components including ottoman, lounge chair, sofa.
Steel frame, covered with multiplex and foreseen with NoSag springs.
Standard laquered in white, black or aluminium base, also possible in another standard colour.
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A sofa with the allure of a metropolis, that looks at its best when standing alone. A dynamic seating arrangement that can be endlessly combined into a fresh composition. The Manhattan derives its unique look from its sleek lines, rounded corners and sloping back. Manhattan is a luxury place for an informal gathering or simply to relax. Use the separate elements to create your ideal place: thereﾒs a chaise longue, a seat with or without backrest, a corner element, and a pouffe.
Good design (ars) and durability (fortis) come together in Artifort, a manufacturer of some of the world’s most epochal furniture. Upholsterer Jules Wagermans founded the company in Maastricht in 1890. Following World War II, Artifort shed its traditional roots to embrace the modern movement under the guidance of interior/furniture designer Kho Liang le. Collaborations with the likes of Theo Ruth (Congo chair), and Gerrit Rietveld, cemented Artifort’s reputation with architects and design lovers as a manufacturer at the cutting edge of design.
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Safety car drama costs MP motorsport deserved GP2 podium double at Baku city circuit
MP Motorsport missed out on a podium double in round six of the GP2 Series at the Baku City Circuit in Azerbaijan on Sunday, 19th June, when two highly confused Safety Car re-starts spoiled, what looked set to be, a magnificent celebration for the team.
For the first half of the 'Sprint Race' at the brand new street circuit, Daniël De Jong looked likely to secure a podium with a potential second place finish – having started on pole position for the first time in his GP2 career – with team-mate Oliver Rowland right behind in third.
Everything went wrong, though, on lap 10 and also on lap 12 when race leader Nobuharu Matsushita twice drove erratically at two Safety Car re-starts. The first incident resulted in a lock-up for De Jong, who ran straight-on at the first corner, and the second led to contact from a rival for Rowland. Both situations enforced pit-stops, resulting in De Jong finishing 14th and Rowland in 15th place.
Post-race, officials found Matsushita to have driven in a manner causing danger to his fellow competitors, resulting in a number of collisions, and he has been banned from competing in the next event of the season in Austria at the beginning of July.
During round five on Saturday, 18th June, Rowland finished in fourth position, having looked set for third until a final lap dash following a late Safety Car period, while De Jong produced a storming performance to slice his way through into a fantastic top eight finish from 17th on the grid.
"We know we should have been on the podium in each race but the big positive is the pace Oli and Daniël showed – both drivers were outstanding", said team manager Sander Dorsman, "They raced fantastically well, showed what they're capable of and the team did a great job. It's frustrating to miss the podium through no fault of our own, but we're all confident for the rest of the season after such a strong weekend in Baku."
Racing Steps Foundation and Renault Sport Academy racer Rowland was in the upper order throughout the red flag interrupted qualifying session and he ultimately took sixth on the grid for race one of the weekend. De Jong, meanwhile, ended the session 17th fastest.
Saturday's 'Feature Race' began in dramatic fashion with multi-car contact at Turn One resulting in the deployment of the Safety Car straight away. Rowland made a great start to climb into fourth through the first corner but, just behind, several other cars tangled at the apex. Fortunately, De Jong managed to avoid the spun car of Norman Nato and he emerged in a much improved 11th place.
Racing resumed on lap three and Rowland judged it perfectly, getting his car into a position to successfully challenge Antonio Giovinazzi for third at Turn One with a great move. De Jong also impressed at the resumption, slicing his way into the top eight on the first lap back at full speed.
The Safety Car was required again soon after, on lap six, and with the tyre-change window open at that point all of the leading contenders flooded into the pits to switch from Super Soft Pirellis to the Medium compounds. Rowland emerged back onto the track as the third of the stoppers, fifth overall, with De Jong 10th of the those to have pitted, 12th overall.
On lap eight racing got back underway again but the Safety Car reappeared just a lap later as a result of a stranded car. At the third re-start on lap 11, Rowland held fourth on the road – third of the drivers to have pitted – with De Jong back into the top 10 in ninth overall, eighth of the stoppers.
Once again Rowland anticipated the resumption perfectly and after running three abreast into Turn One with Nabil Jeffri and Matsushita, the MP Motorsport racer boldly passed both drivers on the inside to leap into second with a stunning pass. De Jong managed to move up into the top eight as he continued his superb performance, although was edged back to ninth mid-lap by Mitch Evans.
On lap 14, Rowland was edged back to third again as De Jong ran bottled up behind Evans and Jeffri but the Dutchman was able to climb back into the top eight when Jeffri ran straight on at the third turn after a major lock-up.
Five laps later, the Safety Car was back on track for the fourth time. Rowland still held third but his team-mate was in 11th position, having been shuffled back outside the top 10, and De Jong opted to pit while the race was under caution to switch back to some used Super Soft tyres.
When racing resumed on lap 25, leader Giovinazzi kept the pack bunched up at the re-start and Rowland lost his podium place when bundled back to fifth in a chaotic first corner, although he moved back into fourth where he ended the race.
While the limited time remaining meant De Jong's inspired tyre call couldn't be fully rewarded, he did climb into the top eight to secure his second points finish of the season, back-to-back points after the previous round at Monaco, following one of his very best drives in GP2.
Austria's Red Bull Ring in Spielberg is the next destination on the GP2 Series calendar with rounds seven and eight of the season taking place over the weekend 2nd/3rd July.
2016 GP2 Series Driver Standings (after Rd6):
7th Oliver Rowland, 34pts; 16th Daniël De Jong, 6pts
2016 GP2 Series Team Standings (after Rd6):
6th MP Motorsport, 40pts
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Grundlsee (see = lake) is one of a small cluster of lakes surrounding the peaceful Austrian community of Bad Aussee. Located in upper Styria Province (also known as Steiermark), Bad Aussee lies at the geographic center of Austria. Being part of the Salzkammergut Lake District, Grundlsee is surrounded by breathtaking alpine mountains and lush forested valleys, but it is the people's culture and history that attracts visitors to Grundlsee, sometimes called the Styrian Sea.
Formed during the last ice age, this glacial lake is the largest lake in Styria and one of three lakes lying in a chain along a short stretch of River Traun. Locally called das Steirische Meer, Lake Grundl lies two miles northeast of Bad Aussee and has five villages lining its eight-mile shoreline. Picturesque Brauhof, Gossl, Archkogel, Untertressen and Grundlsee make up the municipality of Grundlsee.
The quiet simplicity and beauty of Grundlsee make this 1,023-acre lake a popular family retreat. Fed by mountain streams and snowmelt, the clear cold water is an invitation to swimmers, divers, windsurfers, sailors and paddlers. A long beach and hidden bays attract swimmers on a summer day with beach bonfires warming friends and family in the evening. Only electric motors are permitted on the water, helping to maintain the tranquility of lake life. Boat rentals, sailing and windsurfing lessons are readily available. During winter months portions of the lake are reserved for ice skating, and for the brave, ice diving into the 209-foot depths begins in January.
Fly fishermen will be thrilled with easy access from Grundlsee to River Traun, one of the best stretches of trout water in Europe. At Lake Grundl, fishery records date back to 1280 A.D. The lake's quality Arctic char were in such demand that they were served at the emperor's court in Vienna, 240 miles away. Prized for over 700 years, disaster struck the species in 2005 with an outbreak of Triaenophorus crassus, a fresh water parasite. Believed to have been introduced with the stocking of whitefish, pike or perch, this became the world's first recorded epidemic in Arctic char. With some restrictions, anglers continue to enjoy fishing Grundlsee while efforts are underway to restore Arctic char populations.
While at Grundlsee, continue up the River Traun for the "Three Lakes Tour." Lake Toplitzsee is the second lake, approximately one mile northeast of Grundlsee. Toplitzsee is a mile long with a depth of 338 feet. Fresh water covers the first 65 feet, and then becomes saline as salt leaches into the depths from the adjacent Hasel Mountains.
It isn't the water that makes Toplitzsee unique; it is the local history. A marker appears along the shore of Lake Toplitz identifying the area where Austria's Archduke Johann met and fell in love with a local peasant girl, Anna Plochl. They married in 1829 and continued their close ties to Bad Aussee and Styria. The prestige brought to Styria by the couple remains a source of local pride.
Not all of Toplitzsee's history is as romantic as the story of Archduke Johann and Anna. During the years following Hitler's 1938 invasion of Austria, Toplitzsee and surrounding mountainsides became a test site for German weapons and explosives. In 1945, during the last days of the Third Reich, Germany's SS guard dropped evidence of the testing along with documents and equipment into the depths of Toplitz. Several dives have taken place since the war uncovering a torpedo, ammunition, laboratory equipment, a printing press, counterfeit British money and secret military documents. While underwater salvaging is said to be complete, treasure hunters still find occasional bits of history abandoned by the SS.
The third lake on the tour is the tiny and breathtakingly beautiful Kammersee. Reached only by boat and a short hike, the only evidence of human activity is a channel carved out of a massive stone outcrop in the 16th century. In this deep green fairytale setting, Kammersee becomes the source of River Traun.
Pride in local tradition and history are at the heart of Grundlsee and Bad Aussee. Walk the streets of the towns and villages, and you will see residents dressed in traditional lederhosen and dirndl. Worn as everyday dress, not as costume, the garments are a local statement of cultural pride.
After a long winter, traditional festivals fill the spring days of the residents of Grundlsee. For over 50 years the blooming of fragrant white daffodils signals the beginning of Narzissenfest, one of Austria's largest flower festivals. This folk festival includes daffodil-decorated sculptures, parades, traditional costume, and local folk music.
Residents of Grundlsee share in Fasching, a pre-lenten spring festival celebrated in Bad Aussee. Reminiscent of Austrian peasant culture and masked balls of late-medieval and early Renaissance festivals, Fasching is filled with carnivals, masked costumes, masked parades, music and dancing.
Long winters don't stop the revelry at Grundlsee. In January, much in the tradition of America's Halloween "trick or treat," children go door to door gathering baked treats, fruits and nuts in a custom called Glockler und Berigeln. That evening, with faces covered and costumes on, adults open their homes to refreshments and entertainment while attempting to guess the identities of friends and neighbors.
Local traditions, mountain scenery, summer fun and winter sports make Grundlsee a unique destination among the lakes of the Salzkammergut Lake District. Area vacation rentals include holiday homes, guest houses, inns and hotels. Select your accommodation and hike between deeply chiseled mountain peaks, ski across alpine meadows or downhill slopes, sunbathe on the lakeshore, or dance in local parades. Pick your season or pick your festival and explore the legends, lore and attractions of Grundlsee.
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Lake Type: Natural Freshwater Lake, Not Dammed
Surface Area: 1,023 acres
Shoreline Length: 9 miles
Normal Elevation: 2,326 feet
Average Depth: 105 feet
Maximum Depth: 209 feet
Water Volume: 137,821 acre-feet
Water Residence Time: 1 year
Lake-Area Population: 1,294
Drainage Area: 48 sq.miles
Trophic State: oligotrophic
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whats-on, things-to-do, The Art House, Wyong, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Wizard of Oz, Lake Macquarie Farmers Market, Rathmines Catalina Festival
March 22, The Art House Wyong, 7.30pm $40 - $50 THE Art House is bringing the Sydney Symphony Orchestra back to the venue this month for another feast for lovers of classical music. The SSO will perform a piano program featuring the works of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Beethoven and will highlight the talents of virtuosso pianist Alessio Bax. April 26 - 28, Newcastle Entertainment Centre The Wizard of Oz - Arena Spectacular will begin its national tour at Newcastle Entertainment Centre with four performances from April 26 to April 28. Three Coal Point students have been cast. Visit wizardofozarena.com for tickets. Saturday, March 23, 7.30am to 1pm, Speers Point Park, Speers Point Buy groceries direct from the farmer, browse a selection of the finest fresh local produce and gourmet delights and look at handmade and boutique offerings. Monday, March 25, Woy Woy Library Local artists from the Peninsula Art Community will volunteer their time to share tips and techniques with budding artists. Bookings essential. Book online at www.eventbrite.com.au/e/art-on-the-peninsula-at-woy-woy-library-tickets-56529640677 or contact 4304 7555 Sunday, May 19, Rathmines Park Set on the western shore of Lake Macquarie at Rathmines Park the festival is one of largest in Lake Macquarie. Crowds are invited to enjoy performances of live music, a classic car show and shine, market stalls, kids' activities and much, much more in a commemorative nod to Rathmines' unique history.
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Check out these upcoming events across Lake Macquarie and the Central Coast
March 22, The Art House Wyong, 7.30pm $40 - $50
THE Art House is bringing the Sydney Symphony Orchestra back to the venue this month for another feast for lovers of classical music. The SSO will perform a piano program featuring the works of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Beethoven and will highlight the talents of virtuosso pianist Alessio Bax.
The Wizard of Oz - Arena Spectacular
April 26 - 28, Newcastle Entertainment Centre
The Wizard of Oz - Arena Spectacular will begin its national tour at Newcastle Entertainment Centre with four performances from April 26 to April 28. Three Coal Point students have been cast. Visit wizardofozarena.com for tickets.
Lake Macquarie City Farmers Market
Saturday, March 23, 7.30am to 1pm, Speers Point Park, Speers Point
Buy groceries direct from the farmer, browse a selection of the finest fresh local produce and gourmet delights and look at handmade and boutique offerings.
Art on the Peninsula
Monday, March 25, Woy Woy Library
Local artists from the Peninsula Art Community will volunteer their time to share tips and techniques with budding artists. Bookings essential. Book online at www.eventbrite.com.au/e/art-on-the-peninsula-at-woy-woy-library-tickets-56529640677 or contact 4304 7555
Rathmines Catalina Festival
Sunday, May 19, Rathmines Park
Set on the western shore of Lake Macquarie at Rathmines Park the festival is one of largest in Lake Macquarie. Crowds are invited to enjoy performances of live music, a classic car show and shine, market stalls, kids' activities and much, much more in a commemorative nod to Rathmines' unique history.
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Home Soccer Possible lineups of the Villarreal-Valencia of Europa League
Possible lineups of the Villarreal-Valencia of Europa League
Consult the possible onces of the first leg of the quarterfinals of the Europa League between Villarreal and Valencia that will be played at 21:00 h at the Ceramic Stadium.
The derby of the Comunitat Valenciana is played in Europe. Valencia and Villarreal reissue their European derby of 2004 but now, in the quarterfinals of the Europa League. Both groguets and valencianists arrive at a different time in the league. Marcelino's fight to play again in Europe next season while the Calleja fight for not going down to Second and maintain the category while showing their best in the Europa League.
Eleven of Villarreal: Andrés Fernández, Mario Gaspar, Álvaro , Victor Ruiz, Quintillà, Cáseres, Fornals, Cazorla, Iborra, Bacca and Gerard Moreno.
Andrés Fernández: He is the goalkeeper of Europa and Copa; He has gone from less to more and has been very short of reaching the best record without receiving a goal in Europe. Experience and reflexes Mario: It's not being his best year, he's being irregular and suffers in defense. He has no substitute, so there is no rest for him. Alvaro: It is the most regular defenses. Aggressive and strong in the brand. The three line back helps you and allows you to be more liberated. He suffers with the ball and sometimes it is too fast. Víctor Ruiz: He is the oldest defender and the reference. Good ball output. Suffers with space on his back, as the rest of the defense has been suffering a lot this season. Quintillà: Arrives from the branch team. Lateral quality and arrival, more offensive than defensive. A glove on his left foot and a stopped ball. Cáseres: An Argentinean five. Strong in the cut and physical deployment. Good handling with the ball, but it has no depth. It comes being substitute, since Morlanes has won him the position.
Cazorla: Emblem of this Villarreal. With the injury surpassed, the Asturian exerts of motor in the center of the field. It distributes, it is associated, it is important to set pieces. Responsibility under his shoulders. Fornals: He was one of the referents of the team, but now he is a substitute. All-around with arrival, but this season is not fine. It lacks tranquility, although it has enough quality to exploit at any time. Iborra: Referent in the middle. His size makes him key in the defensive game. Up acts as a link with the strikers, a position that makes it very dangerous. Chukwueze: Electric, as he showed before Barcelona. Encara, is fast, an ace in the dribble ... Every time he receives the ball, threat of danger. On the counterattack, lethal. A good match to look. Gerard Moreno: The signing star is starting this Thursday. Although he comes from injury and seemed to be much better, this may be the match he and the fans are waiting for.
Once from Valencia: Neto, Roncaglia, Garay, Gabriel Paulista, Gayà; Guedes, Parejo, Coquelin, Ferrán Torres; Rodrigo and Kevin Gameiro
Neto: Marcelino does not rotate under sticks in Europe. There he plays Neto, holder in League. It is also given the fact that Jaume is on sick leave.
Roncaglia: It is the main novelty of Marcelino's eleven. Arrived in the winter market, the center has been able to adapt quickly and is already a fundamental player. Correct, strong by high and intelligent in the positioning.
Garay: He did not play a single minute against Rayo, so the presence of the Argentine in the back line must be taken for granted. Garay gives security behind in the vicinity of Neto.
Gabriel Paulista: Return to what was his home for a while. The Brazilian is a basic pillar for Marcelino and it should be remembered that he did not play against Real Madrid a week ago due to illness, so he arrives without an excessive load of games. Gayà: One of the few footballers in the squad who can assure that they have a starter sign. And indisputable. Lato has not even entered the call. Guedes: Marcelino is giving more and more prominence to the Portuguese, who game by game feels more confident and turning the page of the injury that made him go through the operating room. Parejo: Brain and leader of Valencia. His substitution is not conceived except for injury or sanction.
Parejo: Captain and operations commander in the midfield. Valencia's football goes through their boots ... And also the goal. Playing one of the best seasons of his career, he is the leader of the team. Wass: Marcelino bets on Danish as a wild card in midfield. Coquelin, who was not one hundred percent, remains on the bench to give entrance to a sacrificed midfielder, correct in the recovery and barely makes mistakes. Ferrán Torres: The canterano, who was already a starter at the Estadio de la Cerámica in the League match, will occupy the right lane (except that Marceldo not opt for Wass). It should be remembered that Carlos Soler is down by sanction.
Rodrigo Moreno: Lately he is not entering the rotations and comes from playing also with Spain. Only for that reason could he leave his post to Mina, although a priori Rodrigo will play. Gameiro: He was a substitute against Rayo and nothing suggests he will not play against Villarreal.
Possible lineups of the Villarreal-Valencia of Europa League Reviewed by LALASPORT on 4/12/2019 06:05:00 PM Rating: 5
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Northern agrees to compensate non-season ticket holders
Rail operator Northern
David Nowell
A compensation scheme for non-season ticket holders has been agreed with train operator Northern.
Transport for the North has been working with Northern to broker a compensation scheme for the worst affected regular commuters who suffered from disruption to their rail travel this summer.
The scheme has been developed based on input provided by the Transport for the North Board and extends the compensation offer beyond the existing season-ticket holder scheme.
It allows regular travellers who do not hold season tickets to claim compensation for the disruption and inconvenience they suffered.
This is the first scheme of its kind in the UK to be introduced and to open for claims.
Agreement has now been reached with Northern on how this scheme will operate.
Northern has launched a web page – available at www.northernrailway.co.uk/compensation.
It explains how the scheme will work and how those entitled to compensation can make their claims after major disruption this year.
It is anticipated that the regular travellers scheme will be ready to accept compensation claims from Tuesday October 9 and will remain open for a period of eight weeks. The existing claim window for season ticket holders will be extended to match the same end date.
In terms of eligibility, the same qualifying routes and time periods being used for season ticket holders will be applicable and full details of these are on the web page.
For Level 1 routes, customers will need to evidence at least 12 days travel in a 28-day window, and for Level 2 routes at least 3 days’ travel in a 7-day window
Eligible journeys will need to have been made on the same route
Customers are eligible to claim for either season ticket or regular traveller compensation – not both
Customers are eligible to claim for either level 1 or level 2 – not both
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NEW TUESDAY: Forthcoming from Lethe in 2016
With the new year nearly upon us, here's a sneak peak at some of the titles Lethe has in store in 2016...
ALL GOOD CHILDREN | Dayna Ingram
Coming May 2016
Everyone tells 14-year-old Jordan Fontaine not to worry about the summer camp that isn't really a summer camp, not to worry about the survival statistics she's been calculating since elementary school, or about the quickly averted eyes and frowning mouths of her peers when she tells them her Liaison is coming to visit she and her brothers. She does not dare to tell anyone that her pulse quickens when she looks at the beautiful Liason. But the Liaison, whose role is to supply their inhuman masters with bodies, is being manipulated by another. And Jordan will be drawn into a dangerous coup that she in unaware of, This is a world where women are bred like cattle, ensuring the continuation of the human race—or, as they are known to the malevolent Over, sustenance. Perhaps some children need to be seen and heard.
CONNECTED UNDERNEATH | Linda Legters
Madena, New York. A small town like any small town: everybody keeps an eye on everybody else’s business, nobody recognizes the secrets that connect them. Teenage Persephone trades sex for the tattoo sessions that get her high enough to forget that her girlfriend doesn’t love her and she isn’t sure she loves her dad. Theo used to be the high-school bad boy who could never have the respectable girl he adored from afar—now he owns the last video store in town and worries wretchedly about the daughter he never understood. Natalie, trying so hard to grasp the last shreds of respectability, would do anything to forget the baby she gave up long ago, including betray the baby’s father. And wheelchair-bound Celeste who has never had a life, desperate to connect, watches and makes up stories and finally understands that things have gone terribly wrong and she stands at the heart of disaster.
WALKING THE TIGHTROPE
Coming in February 2016
A groundbreaking collection bringing together poetry and prose from LGBTQ writers from many nations across the continent of Africa. This book is both compelling and emotionally raw in its honest statement about being queer in modern day Africa.
BLIND JUSTICE | K.A. Kron & Brenda L. Leffler
Riley Connors has some serious woman problems. The love of her life, Ali Garcia, won't give her the time of day, but plenty of others want a piece of her. Riley's stream of one night stands doesn't get her any closer to Ali, but does get the attention of a dangerous old flame who brings the past crashing back. While trying to make time to focus on her second year of law school, she and Charlie race to stop whoever is checking names off of a hit list, as the victims get closer to home. The ticking of the clock grows louder by the minute, and when the timer goes off, it's not a drill.
We're taking pre-orders of Blind Justice right now for only $11, a better price than anywhere else on the 'net.
DEAD CELEBRITIES | Christopher Calix
Carter Calhoun was once a Hollywood legend, an agent both loved and loathed by stars and studio executives alike. But then the suicide of his lover and star client, matinee idol Sam Madison, sent Carter to the bottom of the bottle. Carter became a housebound recluse. Now, years later, new evidence reveals Sam may have been murdered and Carter emerges from seclusion to find his killer. The hunt will take him from the soundstages of Hollywood to a trailer park in Malibu to the mansions of Bel Air. Carter, struggling against addiction and bouts of agoraphobia, must navigate through a new and unfamiliar world where anyone can be famous and everyone has an agenda— and a secret. For Carter, solving Sam’s murder offers hope of redemption— as long as he can stay alive.
THREESOME: HIM, HIM & ME | Ed. Matthew Bright
Coming March 2016
Few sexual fantasies are as potent or lasting as “the threesome” – as an adolescent, the first time you saw a hot couple walking hand in hand and you wanted to follow them back home and into their bed, as an adult when you discover that your partner has been fantasizing also about the bartender at your favorite club.
1+1+1 = sensual delight!
Editor Matthew Bright, no stranger to threesomes himself, has invited twelve authors to write stories that range from the sweet and romantic to erotic and playful and even a bit depraved. Featuring stories from Evey Brett, Dale Chase, Shane Allison, Jeff Mann, 'Nathan Burgoine, Rob Rosen and more.
THE MYRIAD CARNIVAL | Ed. by Matthew Bright
Coming February 2016
Roll up, roll up... The circus has long been that dream palace, intoxicating with so many lights and sights, sounds and smells. Sawdust, popcorn, strange animals, make-up, and the sweat of the roustabouts. The circus intrudes into the life of the ordinary and mundane and brings magic. Editor Matthew Bright invites you to the enjoy the sixteen attractions of the fantastical and dark Myriad Carnival.
Featuring stories from Paul Magrs, Hal Duncan, Roy Gill, Nick Campbell, Evey Brett, Raymond Luczak, Sarah Caulfield, B.R. Sanders, Kate Harrad, Evan J. Peterson, and more.
Plus, plenty more with further details to come!
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POWERBALL WINNER CHRISTOPHER MCGURRAN RECEIVED LATE CHRISTMAS GIFT OF $50 MILLION
Powerball Winner Christopher McGurran, 30, from St Petersburg, received a late Christmas gift when he won the $50million Powerball jackpot from the draw held on December 26th 2012. The winning numbers in the Powerball results draw were: 11, 13, 23, 43, 54, and Powerball of 4. The winning ticket was a quick pick.You can see whether any of these numbers have been amongst the most and least drawn in previous draws in our Powerball numbers statistics section.
NEW YEAR – NEW PLANS FOR POWERBALL WINNER CHRISTOPHER MCGURRAN
Getting his new year off to an incredible start, Mr McGurran claimed the Powerball lotto prize on January 9th along with his wife and was presented with a one time lump sum payment of $32m. This was after the lucky player decided not to take 6-figure annual payments which would have spread his Powerball lottery jackpot over the next 30 years. Ted Baumgartner won a $50 million Powerball jackpot in March 2013 and also chose a lump sum payment.
The winner, a heating and cooling technician, has not divulged how he intends to spend his new found Powerball lotto fortune, however his neighbour, Bud Patten was quick to congratulate the new multi-millionaire “It’s always somebody, someplace else, and you wonder if somebody won it. It’s nice.”
DOES LUCK STRIKE TWICE?
Lottery officials reportedly told the press that the couple were excited but also “subdued”. David Bishop, deputy secretary of the Florida Lotto also said the couple had been talking to a financial advisor and were looking at various investment options.Winners often do seek financial advice when they pocket such a huge prize. Mary Ann Thompson won $124.9 million in July 2014 and took financial advice before even coming forward and claiming her prize.The winning Powerball lottery ticket, bought at Sweetbay, located on 2139 34th Street North in St Petersburg, has encouraged other lottery players to play Powerball there too. Players are hoping that lightning does strike twice! The store will receive a $25,000 bonus incentive for selling the winning Powerball lottery ticket. In statistical terms the chances of landing the Powerball jackpot are 135 million-to-one.
ABOUT THE FLORIDA LOTTERY
The Florida lottery was officially launched in 1988 and over its 28 year history has demonstrated some impressive statistics. It has been responsible for contributing more than $24 billion to education within the state and for educating more than 600,000 students at college achieved through the Bright Futures Scholarship Initiative. The funds generated by the lottery are now an integral part of funding for state led projects. The agency re-invests 98% of its revenue back into the economy through prize payouts to winners, bonus and incentive payments to lottery retailers and transfers to education. Since the first draw was held in 1986, 1200 have been made millionaires (and many of those, multi-millionaries!) by playing the Florida lottery.
Mr McGurran can now take his place in Floridian lottery history as the fifth Powerball lotto winner within the state.
If you want to see if you have followed in Christopher McGurran's footsteps then you can check your own numbers using our Powerball reults checker.
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How to Manage Bandwidth and Data Usage in Chrome for iOS
How To Browsers
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by Scott Orgera
Scott Orgera has been a tech journalist since 2007. He has 25+ years' experience as a programmer and QA leader and several Microsoft certifications.
This tutorial is only intended for users running the Google Chrome browser on iOS devices.
For mobile Web surfers, particularly those on limited plans, monitoring data usage can be an important part of daily life. This is especially true when browsing, as the number of kilobytes and megabytes flying back and forth can add up quickly.
To make things easier for iPhone users, Google Chrome offers some bandwidth management features that allow you to reduce data usage by upwards of 50% through a series of performance optimizations. In addition to these data saving measures Chrome for iOS also provides the ability to preload Web pages, making for a much faster browsing experience on your mobile device.
This tutorial walks you through each of these functionality sets, explaining exactly how they work as well as how to utilize them to your benefit.
First, open your Google Chrome browser. Select the Chrome menu button, represented by three horizontal lines and located in the upper right-hand corner of the browser window. When the drop-down menu appears, select the Settings option. Chrome's Settings interface should now be displayed. Select the option labeled Bandwidth. Chrome's Bandwidth settings are now visible. Select the first section, labeled Preload Webpages.
Preload Webpages
The Preload Webpages settings should now be displayed, containing three options available to choose from. When you visit a website, Chrome has the ability to predict where you may go next (i.e., which links you may select from the current page). While you are browsing said page, the destination page(s) tied to available links are preloaded in the background. As soon as you select one of these links, its destination page is able to render almost instantly since it has already been retrieved from the server and stored on your device. This is a handy feature for those users who do not like waiting for pages to load, also known as everyone! However, this amenity can come with a steep price so it is important that you understand each of the following settings.
Always: When selected, Chrome will preload Web pages at every opportunity; no matter your connection type. Preloading Web content, while providing the convenience of speeding up your browsing experience, can utilize a significant amount of data. Therefore this setting is not recommended for users on limited mobile data plans.
Only on Wi-Fi: Enabled by default, this setting instructs Chrome to only preload content when your device is on a Wi-Fi connection. This is the recommended setting for those users not on unlimited data plans.
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Beyoncé has a message for all the single ladies
By Linjust Last updated Oct 16, 2018
Beyoncé has a message for all the single ladies: Hands off my husband.
In a preview for TV One’s UNCENSORED, Beyoncé pal Tiffany Haddish recalled how the 36-year-old singer shut down an actress who touched Jay-Z’s chest after his concert.
“I was talking to Jay-Z for a little bit,” Haddish revealed. “And there was another actress that was there who was also talking to Jay-Z. [The actress] touched Jay-Z’s chest and Beyoncé came walking up like . . . ‘Biittchh!’ but, she didn’t say that,” the Girls Trip star clarified. “Her demeanor, her body from the way she walked up on them said, ‘Get your hands off my man’s chest.’”
Haddish, 38, added that Beyoncé then stuck around. “She started talking to the other actress and some other stuff happened,” the comedian revealed. “But I’m not gonna say nothin’ yet.”
The alleged incident appears to have happened the same night the 20-time Grammy winner discouraged Haddish from getting into a fight, seemingly with the unnamed actress.
“I’m not at liberty to say what had went down at the party, but Beyoncé was just telling me to have a good time, and I was like, ‘No, I’m gonna end up fighting this bitch!’” Kaddish told Vulture last month. “She was like, ‘No, have fun, Tiffany,’ and I said, ‘I’m only going to have fun if you take a selfie with me.’”
Haddish shared the picture to Instagram on December 22 with the caption, “@beyonce was telling me that my wig was slipping . . . But for real she told me to have fun and I DID!”
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The Color of Water
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Epilogue
All Themes Race and Racism Otherness and Belonging Family Memory and Identity Religion
All Characters James McBride Ruth McBride-Jordan Andrew Dennis McBride Sr. Hunter Jordan Sr. Mameh / Hudis Shilsky Tateh / Fishel Shilsky Gladys “Dee-Dee” Shilsky Peter Frances Moody
All Terms Black Panthers Black Power Kosher Ku Klux Klan Mulatto Rabbi Sabbath Shiva Yom Kippur
All Symbols Ruth’s Bicycle The Boy in the Mirror
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Ironically, although his mother was raised as an Orthodox Jew, James doesn’t realize that Jewish people exist outside of the Bible until he goes shopping for school clothes in a Jewish neighborhood. He’s surprised to hear Ruth haggle in Yiddish, but when he asks her, she refuses to tell him how she learned to speak it.
Ruth has closed off her past not only to herself but to her children. She’s forgotten much of her former self, but occasionally, or apparently when it is useful, she’s able to access this past self.
James recognizes that Jewish people are different from other white people, but he doesn’t feel any connection to them. Ruth, drawing from her own childhood, testifies that “some Jews can’t stand” her mixed-race children, but she also tells her children that certain Jewish people will treat them more kindly than other white people.
One of the reasons Ruth abandoned Judaism is her perception of its intolerance for interracial relationships. Although not universally true, Ruth’s Jewish family threatened to disown her if she married a black man, and this is a prejudice she has never forgotten. Still, she knows her family is not indicative of every family, and suspects that the discrimination Jewish people and black people share will motivate some Jewish people to be kind to her children.
In her parenting Ruth draws upon her Jewish traditions, especially one of academic excellence. Ruth makes sure to take every opportunity she can to transfer James and his siblings from their neighborhood schools to better-performing, predominantly white and Jewish public schools.
Although Ruth no longer practices Judaism and no longer even identifies as white, some aspects of her heritage are hard or unnecessary to shake. Although James doesn’t know about this Jewish heritage, he’s partially raised in the Jewish tradition anyway, decades before he goes on a hunt to uncover his identity.
While most of the other children in James’s neighborhood walk to the local schools, James and his siblings take buses to white and Jewish schools miles away. At these schools James is the only black student in his fifth grade class. He feels like “the token Negro,” and is aware of harassment from teachers (who round down his test scores) and fellow students (who call him slurs in class). Although he knows his siblings would fight back against this kind of treatment, James is too quiet to say anything.
James experiences overt racism for the first time at the hands of his white classmates. This experience is doubly troubling because he so desperately wants to fit in somewhere, and is already self-conscious about his mixed-race background. The bullying by his fellow students makes him feel both like an outsider and insecure in his blackness.
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In late elementary school James begins to escape from reality through music, books, and his own imagination. He imagines a boy in the mirror who represents his true, untroubled self. This imaginary James doesn’t have a white mother, and always has enough to eat.
The boy in the mirror represents everything James wants that he does not have — enough food to eat, a black mother, a clear sense of belonging — and gives him someone to talk to about his troubles. James doesn’t have anyone in his life who will listen to non-life-threatening issues, and so the boy in the mirror also acts as a silent friend in a household of noisy siblings.
James is generally a good kid—he does well in school, goes to church, and even has “good” or curly hair. Still, he feels incomplete because he doesn’t know where his mother comes from, and he’s aware that he doesn’t look like her, white celebrities he looks up to, or his black role models and relatives. James learns the term “Tragic mulatto” in a book and asks Ruth about it. She becomes upset and refuses to answer his question regarding whether he’s black or white. Some of James’ older brothers identify as black, but no one considers mixed-race to be an identity.
It’s hard for James to understand how he fits into the world racially when he never sees anyone who looks like him in his neighborhoods or on the television. The trope of the “tragic mulatto” is one that describes him well, but is an unflattering pop culture depiction — it generally involves a person, half black and half white, who is unable to be truly happy because they are unable to ever fit in to a white or black world.
James describes the question of race as “a silent power” which dominates his childhood household. Ruth, however, tries to keep her children too busy with school, free concerts, library visits, and other low-cost activities to think about their racial identities. Because the family is poor, she does everything as cheaply as she can, even getting her children’s teeth cared for by half-trained dentistry school students.
Although Ruth refuses to discuss race, she cannot prevent her children from thinking about it, and as mixed-race young adults her children will constantly be considering their race, and trying to navigate their black identity in a primarily racist, segregated world.
The revolutionary spirit of the 1960s disturbs Ruth’s carefully constructed household. Helen, who had run off at fifteen, returns five years later with a baby, signaling that the other children don’t have to follow the rules so closely either. Many of James’s siblings become excited by the Black Power movements, and express newfound black pride.
Again, although Ruth refuses to bring race into her household, she cannot prevent her children from exploring their blackness outside the home. It makes sense that many of her offspring, confused and ashamed of their mixed heritage and white mother, would gravitate towards a movement based around pride in their identities.
James’s older brother Richie is arrested by the police during a summer home from college. Richie is absentminded and has money in his pockets for his student loan. The police find what they think is a bag of heroin on the street, and pin it on Richie because he’s black and because he has money. Ruth, panicked, goes to his trial, and because the judge is white and Ruth is white, Richie is released and the charges are dropped. Unfortunately this makes Ruth even harsher on her younger children, as she attempts to keep them safe and out of trouble.
This is another instance of overt institutional racism. Richie is arrested solely because of his race, not because of any true ties to the supposed crime scene. Ruth’s experiences with her black husbands and in the South had made her wary of bigoted people putting her sons in danger, and every time she is proved right she becomes more and more protective. At the same time, this scene shows that no matter how much Ruth identifies as non-white, she still is white, and so receives many of the accompanying privileges in a racist society.
As he gets older, James becomes more embarrassed of his white mother. One day, instead of walking to the store with her, he insists he go alone. Unfortunately, the white storeowner purposefully sells him expired milk. Ruth is outraged, and marches back to the store to demand a refund. When the storeowner refuses to reimburse her she eventually turns to leave, but after she hears a whispered (presumably racist) remark, she throws the milk at him.
Ironically, although James appears black and therefore is more likely to be discriminated against than his mother, his mother is the one who notices and responds to this small act of injustice. Although James thinks the milk is just expired, Ruth, having witnessed a lifetime of anti-black discrimination, identifies the storekeeper as a white racist who is intentionally swindling her son.
As a child, James felt it would be easier if he were just black or white, and he wishes his mother were black. As an adult, however, he appreciates the diversity of his black and Jewish upbringing. He doesn’t identify as Jewish, but believes he is “a black man with something of a Jewish soul,” and often sees Ruth in Jewish women he encounters. As an adult James “belong[s] to the world of one God, one people,” but admits that as a child he preferred being black.
As an adult James understands that his mixed identity and his Jewish heritage are part of the rich tapestry of his identity. As a child, however, with no information and a lot of questions, that richness simply translates to confusion and angst. Although in many ways James is right that it is “easier” to be a single race and feel like a part of a single community, later in life he realizes that being part of many communities is in fact a blessing.
James remembers one day in school when his classmates forced him to dance like James Brown. Even though he explained he couldn’t dance, his white classmates didn’t believe him, and eventually he did a James Brown impression for his class. Everyone applauded, but James realized that even by entertaining his white classmates he was no closer to fitting in. He thinks of the boy in the mirror, who is free, while he feels trapped.
Once again, James is harassed by his white classmates simply for not being white. Like earlier in the chapter, James is offended by his classmates’ racist assumptions and upset by the way his race makes him an outsider. He feels trapped both by the people around him who he feels are mistreating him, and by his own insecurity and racial confusion.
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Vol. 26 No. 9 · 6 May 2004
pages 22-24 | 4238 words
Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation by Thomas Laqueur
Zone, 501 pp, £21.95, March 2003, ISBN 1 890951 32 3
Lounging in a boat anchored near his home, daydreaming about a ‘pretty wench’ he’d spotted in Westminster earlier that day, Samuel Pepys became so aroused that he ejaculated spontaneously, having ‘it complete avec la fille … without my hand’, as he recorded complacently in his diary, the ‘first time I did make trial of my strength of fancy of that kind’. The pride was that of a world-class wanker, an inveterate fantasist delighting in imaginary ‘sport’ with bevies of accommodating lovelies, including Mrs Steward, Charles II’s inamorata, and the queen (even in fantasy, Pepys was a staunch royalist). ‘The best that was ever dreamed,’ he chortled over a night-time’s romp with the delectable Lady Castlemaine, another of Charles’s mistresses. Only masturbating in church occasioned any qualms. ‘God forgive,’ he scribbled into his diary after a sermon spent mentally fornicating with a friend’s teenage daughter.
In May 1667, 18 months after the no-hands episode, Pepys recorded another delicious hour spent alone in a boat. This time, however, it was not the thought of pretty girls that diverted him but his friend John Evelyn’s ‘pretty’ new book ‘against Solitude’. Evelyn’s Publick employment and an active life prefer’d to solitude, published in 1667, was written to refute Sir George Mackenzie’s 1665 work, A Moral Essay, Preferring Solitude to Public Employment. The exchange was an exercise in paradox, with both disputants adopting positions contrary to their convictions. Evelyn’s text drew on a stock repertoire of arguments against solitude, including solemn warnings against the low appetites it unleashed. ‘He ought to be a wise and good man indeed that dares trust himself alone: for Ambition and Malice, Lust and Superstition are in Solitude, as in their Kingdom.’ Solitaries, Evelyn claimed, ‘have . . . no passions, save the sensual’.
Reading these strictures, or the many other 17th-century jeremiads against solitude, Pepys would not have thought to apply them to his solitary sexual pleasures. It took another finger-wagging text to make the connection: Onania; or, The Heinous Sin of Self Pollution, and all its Frightful Consequences, in both SEXES Considered, with Spiritual and Physical Advice to those who have already injured themselves by this abominable practice . . . etc was published anonymously sometime between 1708 and 1716. In solitude, men’s ‘vices find them out and attaque them’, Evelyn had quoted Seneca; in Onania, autoeroticism, the ‘filthy Commerce with oneself’, became the solitary crime sans pareil, ‘man’s vice of vices, sin of sins’.
With the publication of Onania, masturbation, previously a second-order sexual offence, soared to the top of the register of vices. Clerics condemned it and doctors, led by the eminent Samuel Tissot, catalogued its devastations. Intellectuals, too, went on the offensive, with Rousseau, the ‘promeneur solitaire’, labelling it the ‘most fatal’ of habits and Kant denouncing it as a moral madness more destructive than suicide. By the early 19th century, masturbation had become the ‘moloch of the species’, as J.H. Kellogg, the American health reformer and cereal king, described it in the typically apocalyptic rhetoric of anti-onanists. Female masturbators, previously sidelined, acquired new prominence, and the prevention of infantile masturbation became a Europe-wide obsession. French doctors performed genital surgery on children, and German educationalists spread anti-masturbation propaganda. By the beginning of the 20th century, a host of contraptions – penis alarms and cases, sleeping mitts, electric shock equipment – were being marketed to parents. The phobia raged on, unabated, until the end of World War Two, when it began to subside. Today, hundreds of chirpy websites offer online communal wanking sessions. In America, masturbation is described as ‘self-dating’, and in the UK we are treated to TV adverts featuring women writhing on top of washing machines. A recent Australian study found that frequent male masturbators have a lower incidence of prostate cancer than the more abstemious. ‘Keeping the tubes clean . . . is good news for blokes,’ one journalist concluded.
Transient moral panics of this sort are hard to interpret. Pepys’s insouciance about masturbation was echoed in early modern child-rearing practices: nurses routinely caressed the penises of baby boys to calm them, and parents and doctors looked forgivingly on infantile autoeroticism. How did a universal sexual act become a site of such debilitating fear and shame? Why, in the course of the 18th century, as Thomas Laqueur asks in this rich and lively history, did a practice tolerated by the ancients and largely ignored by Judeo-Christian moralists, come to be seen as the height of erotic depravity?
Laqueur, who teaches at Berkeley, is the author of Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (1990), one of the most heavily cited and argued about books of the last few years. With the publication of this new work he’s become almost a celebrity, lecturing internationally and appearing on chat shows and innumerable websites. ‘Professor Wank’, one American site calls him, which in a nation that recently fainted at the glimpse of a pop star’s breast is quite a moniker. But Laqueur is an experienced scholar and presumably can take the heat. He is also slyly humorous, tantalising the reader as he hints at, partly exposes and at last triumphantly reveals the secret of the masturbation panic.
Ancient Greeks and Romans thought masturbation a lowly and humiliating practice, condonable in slaves and satyrs but not in free citizens. Jewish and Christian moralists could be harsher in precept, but in practice they too tended to view it with contempt rather than alarm. Why did this unconcern give way to frantic hostility in the early 18th century? For the answer, Laqueur turns to what was once called the rise of the bourgeoisie but is now known in academic circles as the advent of modernity. Anti-masturbation, he shows, was not a hangover from a sexual dark age, but a quintessentially modern phenomenon, a reaction to a capitalist culture founded on appetitive egoism.
Modern culture encourages individualism and self-determination and is threatened by solipsism and anomie; it asks that individuals always desire more than they have and imagine far more than is real and at the same time that they learn to moderate their desires and limit their imaginations themselves . . . Masturbation is the sexuality of the [modern] self par excellence, the first great battlefield for these struggles.
Libido, Foucault said, is ‘one’s will’ going ‘beyond the limits God originally set for it’, and it was capitalism’s dependence on this boundless libido, the limitless desires needed to stoke its fires, that made solitary sex a site of such anxiety. Sex has ‘nothing natural’ about it, Laqueur quotes Foucault in the introduction to Making Sex; rather it is ‘a sort of artwork’. The sexual body is a historical phenomenon; eroticism is not an instinctual force to be released or repressed, but a cultural artefact. ‘The "too much” in sex is of course always a very relative concept,’ Ernst Schwabe, a German physician, declared in 1787, and it is the production of this excess and its normative antitheses, in different times and places, that Laqueur, like Foucault before him, seeks to illuminate.
In Making Sex, Laqueur traced over two millennia the transformation of biological gender from a classical one-sex model (woman as a lesser version of man) to the modern two-sex model (woman as the antithesis of man), showing how in the course of this transition woman became ‘what culture demanded despite, not because of, the body’. The ‘too much’ of femininity – that is, women’s physiological similarity to men – was suppressed in favour of an imaginary biological dimorphism. This radical scepticism about sexual categories is also evident in Solitary Sex, which, like Making Sex, takes the long view, beginning with Greco-Roman medicine, moving through Judeo-Christian sexual teachings to Enlightenment anti-masturbation discourses, post-Enlightenment sexual psychology and psychoanalysis, and concluding with present-day representations of solitary sex in art, politics and the popular media. But the heart of Laqueur’s argument, as in Making Sex, lies in his interpretation of the Enlightenment.
Once seen as an age of reason, tolerance and emancipation, the Enlightenment is now routinely characterised as repressive, paranoid and incipiently totalitarian, its logic one of control and domination, not liberation. This indictment – the work mostly of Foucault and his acolytes – has come under heavy fire from Enlightenment champions such as the late Roy Porter. The polarities echo tensions in the period itself, when images of a brave new world of self-governing, go-getting individuals collided with fears of moral anarchy. The elevation of once despised, divinely forbidden desires – for wealth, pleasure, worldly insights and freedoms – into goals whose pursuit was deemed not only legitimate but socially beneficial (the key argument of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations) triggered widespread concern about personal and political ‘licentiousness’. Luxury, leisure, the proliferation of mental stimuli such as novels, music, conversation: all were claimed to inflame the senses and promote lustfulness. Solitude, increasingly valued as a space of contemplative inwardness, also kept its reputation for encouraging solipsism and vice. The delights of getting and spending, especially the thrills of financial speculation, were simultaneously encouraged and condemned. (Laqueur’s discussion of the parallels between anti-masturbation and anti-credit rhetoric is one of the book’s chief joys.) Everywhere, as Isabel Hull showed in her pioneering Sexuality, State and Civil Society in Germany 1700-1815 (1996), civilisation teetered on a cliff edge of excess. One leading Aufklärer, quoted by Hull, expressed the dilemma well. While some increase in luxury was an inevitable concomitant of commercial progress, Dr Peter Kürn wrote in 1792,
when the sum of sensual pleasures surpasses the sum of more noble and more useful pursuits, when natural needs can no longer be distinguished from the crowd of imagined and fantastic ones, when reason does not choose, but only sensuality, and especially when all of this occurs among people who have become used to consumption that outstrips their wealth; this lays the foundation for their ruin.
By the end of the 18th century, onanism had become a key emblem of this ruin, a ‘kind of Satan to the glories of bourgeois civilisation’.
The diabolic force that drove masturbators was the imagination, and the reverence with which 18th-century thinkers viewed it – ‘a celestial flame’, ‘the highest prerogative of man’ – was matched only by the horror with which they contemplated its excesses, its ‘inflaming’ Rabelaisian energies. Solitary fantasy was regarded with particular anxiety, as conducive to an ‘invisible riot of mind’, a ‘secret prodigality of being’, which, according to Samuel Johnson, was as deadly as ‘the poison of opiates’. Fly from yourself, Johnson advised solitary fantasists, lest you succumb to these inner delights which – most anti-onanists agreed – were more tempting than anything real life could offer. The dizzier pleasures of imaginary sex were a popular theme. Since fantasies of erotic objects are much ‘more seductive than the objects themselves’, Rousseau wrote in Emile, it is essential that such images not be dwelt on, especially by young people who are liable to become addicted to them. Never leave a boy alone with his thoughts, he advised parents: ‘At the very least, sleep in his room . . . it is up to you to protect him from himself.’
This was not a counsel for sexual repression. Enlightened men and women, Laqueur reminds us, were keen on heterosexual pleasure; even unmarried love had its apologists. The masturbator’s sin was not lust per se but lust incited by imaginary objects. ‘In this way,’ Kant argued, ‘the imagination brings forth an appetite contrary to nature’s purpose.’ Or as a 1767 ditty put it:
But what more base, more noxious to the body
Than by the power of fancy to excite,
Such lewd ideas of an absent object,
As rouse the organs formed for noble end
To rush into th’embraces of a phantom,
And so do the deed of personal enjoyment.
Embracing phantoms, men and women turn away from each other, preferring shadow to substance. This was not just illicit sex, outside the laws of God and man, but sex unconstrained by the needs or feelings of others. It was this view of erotic desire as a closed circuit – self-activating, object-inventing, self-fulfilling – that so frightened anti-masturbators, Laqueur argues, since it exposed the solipsism latent in modern culture. In a period when personal autonomy and self-exploration were more highly valued than ever before, masturbation revealed the dangers of autonomous selfhood: the possibility that it could descend into a free-floating, irresponsible egoism detached not just from moral conventions but from human sociality tout court. In a world where ‘the old ramparts against desire had crumbled’, masturbation became the ‘vice of individuation’: ‘It pointed to an abyss of solipsism, anomie and socially meaningless freedom that seemed to belie the ideal of moral autonomy. It was the vice born of an age that valued desire, pleasure and privacy but was fundamentally worried about how, or if, society could mobilise them. It is the sexuality of the modern self.’
Like most recent cultural histories, this presumes a caesura between the modern and the premodern. The modern masturbator stands on the near side of a cultural divide whose far side is a world where the moral hazards of sex were not those of rampant individualism but violations of a hierarchical, providential order. Laqueur follows the line of Charles Taylor’s Sources of the Self (1989) and argues that premodern men and women knew little of the angst of self-governance, the seedbed of anti-onanism. Authority lay without: in God, monarch and a ‘hierarchic, organic universe’. The displacement of this world-view by one in which nature replaced God as the source of moral order, and doctors and educationalists took over from priests as arbiters of right conduct, set the scene for modern masturbation: ‘In the absence of divine authority . . . guilt about solitary sex arose because there was nothing else, nothing external, to restrain solipsistic pleasure.’ With the fading away of God – the Great Inhibitor – internal inhibitions were needed, and the regime of sexual shame inaugurated by Onania was an ideal candidate.
This argument, linking previously unrelated phenomena in the fashion of the best cultural histories, yields a host of new insights; but is it the whole story? God and sexual guilt have both, after all, shown remarkable staying power. Pre-18th-century men and women may not have fretted much about solitary sex, but they had plenty else to worry about on the sexual front. From Augustine, who claimed that Adam covered his sexual organs because they moved without his consent; to centuries’ worth of divines excoriating adultery, homosexuality, and any sex that promised fun without penalties; to the author of Onania, for whom lust was a ‘Satan within’, the shamefulness of concupiscence was a constant of Christian teaching. Protestantism, by drawing God – and the Devil – into the individual psyche, upped the ante. The inner world of the believer became a cosmic battleground, with sex as its front line. Accusations of witchcraft and diabolic possession flourished, and masturbation was a key sign of the Evil One’s presence. The spread of natural religion in the 17th century lowered the temperature, at least in advanced intellectual circles. But the moral primacy of sex, its centrality to the spiritual struggles that defined Christian subjectivity, remained unaltered.
Anxieties about autoeroticism played an important part in these belief systems, and not just in accusations of witchcraft, but they were articulated in very different terms from those used later. Such anxieties were unavoidable: loving God is the key Christian duty, but the intensity of transcendent passion in some believers – ‘a torrent of pleasure for the most voluptuous’, according to the Reverend Jeremy Taylor in his bestselling Rule and Exercises of Holy Living (1650); a ‘mighty ecstasy’, a ‘bliss completely full’, in the words of the popular 1690s poet Elizabeth Rowe – made its source and nature constant concerns. The Protestant emphasis on inner divinity, on private experience as a touchstone of moral truth, heightened the dilemma: how to distinguish sacred love from the profane variety? Jeremy Taylor summed up the problem. ‘Our vices,’ he wrote, ‘are in love with phantastic pleasures and images of perfection, which are truly and really to be found no where but in God.’ Make sure your devotions are ‘prudent, and without illusion’, believers were warned, unlike those mystics who had ‘Christ on their lips, but Epicurus in their hearts’.
As in later anti-onanist discourses, the culprit here was the imagination which, stimulated by the passions, led believers to confuse inner states with outer objects, to mistake their own desires and fantasies for the living God. The early modern word for this was ‘enthusiasm’, which, positively employed, meant a commendably intense piety, but in its more common, negative usage referred to a delusional psychic condition, a ‘fever of superstition’ in Coleridge’s phrase. Critics of enthusiasm were plentiful in 17th-century Britain, especially after the Civil War had demonstrated the dangers of religious emotions run rampant; but they increased in number and stridency in the early 18th century – just as the masturbation panic began. The ‘ardour of celestial fire’ that sparked Elizabeth Rowe’s devotional verse in the 1690s was by the 1730s deemed ‘too enthusiastic’ to be holy. ‘Enthusiasm grows upon us insensibly,’ a critic of Mrs Rowe warned his daughter: ‘Take care to guard against it.’
Solitude bred enthusiasm. While privacy was increasingly valued from the mid-17th century, private devotions were regarded with suspicion, as likely to lead vulnerable minds to confuse eros with agape. Laqueur gives a lovely account of the moralists’ obsession with the hazards of private novel-reading, but solo Bible-reading was also thought likely to induce those enthusiastic fantasies of ‘immediate intercourse with the Deity’, in Locke’s words, so detrimental to true religion. Far from pushing God aside, Enlightenment thinkers worked hard to defend religion from such superstitious errors, arch-enemies of a rational Christianity.
Did the roots of the anti-masturbation panic lie here, rather than in the predicaments of a secularised subjectivity? Throughout the 18th century, enlightened minds trod a narrow path between passions that elevated the self and those that convulsed and destabilised it. Refined sentiments might deteriorate into febrile effusions, sublime transports end in mania, transcendent devotion in enthusiastic delusions. Dilemmas abounded. If personal experience was the standard of truth, as Locke had claimed, how to choose between the ‘visions of an Enthusiast, and the Reasonings of a sober man’? One way was by gender. Women – with their weak minds, strong emotions and overactive imaginations – were natural enthusiasts. ‘When the Mind finds her self very much inflamed with her Devotions,’ the Spectator, that great populariser of Enlightenment values, lectured its readers,
she is too much inclined to think they are not of her own kindling, but blown up by something Divine within her. If she indulges this Thought too far, and humours the growing Passion, she at last flings her self into imaginary Raptures and Extasies; and when once she fancies her self under the influence of a Divine Impulse, it is no wonder if she . . . refuses to comply with any established Form of Religion, as thinking her self directed by a much superior Guide.
The enthusiast is a spiritual masturbator: the parallel was implicit in anti-enthusiastic rhetoric in which the sexiness of enthusiasm – its ‘bridal sensuality’, as one critic described it – was a major theme. The feelings that the enthusiast mistook for divine inspiration were widely assumed to be erotic in origin, again especially in the case of women, whose proneness to sexual overexcitement was notorious. Jon Mee, in Romanticism, Enthusiasm and Regulation,[*] has tracked this association, from Swift’s representation in A Tale of a Tub of a female preacher prophesying through her vagina – a reworking of an older image of the sibyl – to the opponents of Methodism, who regularly blamed women Methodists for the ‘love-sick visions of heaven’ that dominated Methodist worship. Celibate women, or those crossed in love, were seen as particularly at risk. Lamenting the ‘sensual extravagancies’ of Mrs Rowe’s poetry, Hester Chapone expressed surprise that they emanated from a happily married woman: ‘When I hear persons addressing the Supreme Being in the language of the most sensual . . . human love, I cannot help fancying they went mad on a disappointment of that passion, when it was placed more naturally.’ Bernini’s Saint Teresa swooning in spiritual ecstasy was a Catholic figure, but British Protestantism harboured many rapturous female devotees. Once revered for their privileged relationship to God, by the time Onania appeared they were pathologised, their fervour interpreted as sexual lunacy. Mystic, fanatic, masturbator, nymphomaniac: over the centuries the figures, surreal in their hypereroticism, leached and blurred into each other.
Masturbation, in either sex, was never a virile act. In women, it exploited and heightened existing weaknesses, and self-abusing men – their bodies emaciated and trembling, their conjugal potency destroyed – were feminised by it. Solitary Sex tracks the vicissitudes of the female masturbator, from her early appearances in the 1720s and 1730s up to 21st-century performance onanists like the fabulous Annie Sprinkle – née Ellen Steinberg – with her ‘post-porn’ marketing of black marble dildos. But why the masturbator was consistently a feminine figure is not explained. Laqueur sees the female onanist as a ‘prototypical’ modern masturbator because she produces no seed, only pleasure, but surely the issue is more one of mastery. Desires that sweep the body, shake the soul, overthrow the will: these are seldom seen as manly. Church and society may work to protect men from their passions, but desire is the ever-present serpent, awaiting its opportunity. The temptations of solitude beckon. Returning from his island – a masturbator’s paradise, if ever there was one – Robinson Crusoe looked back to his years of exile with nostalgia but also, recalling some ‘ill time spent there’, a degree of guilt: ‘A man may sin alone in several ways.’ The soul must master the body, Crusoe/Defoe insists, in the same way that a man with money in his pocket must know his intentions when he reaches ‘to take it out, or pay it, or dispose of it by his hand’.
Spending money in the 18th century, especially that fanciful money called credit, was a famously feminine activity, in both sexes. From antiquity, desires and fantasies that outrun and overturn reality have been associated with women. If the masturbator symbolised the hazards of modernity, it was not, as Solitary Sex shows so convincingly, the heroic individualism of an all-conquering capitalism, but a much frailer, more troubled image of the age. Yet her significance went beyond this. Laqueur situates the masturbation panic at the centre of a new relationship between self and society, but self’s relationship to self was also at stake. Staring at the female masturbator, as cultural producers and commentators did, and do, endlessly, revealed a core truth about subjectivity: we are none of us, female or male, masters in our own houses. The shame of the onanist is directed not at what she thinks or does, but at the hidden desires propelling her, the unconscious wishes that mould the sexual personality. Freud, as Laqueur says, may have been old-fashioned in his disapproval of masturbation, but in his anatomisations of the sexual conscience, of the unconscious dynamics of forbidden desire, he was surely onto something. ‘Shame,’ Jacqueline Rose wrote recently, ‘is one of the ways we try to forget part of ourselves,’ and it is this amnesia that ultimately lay behind the masturbation panic.
Solitary Sex concludes on an ambiguous note. Surveying representations of masturbation on film, television and the internet, Laqueur sees in them residues of the ‘old demons of guilt and obsession’ blended with a new sexual sensibility – uninhibited, super-sophisticated, overtly pornographic – that, one senses, isn’t entirely to his taste. Are some erotic pleasures better, more life-enhancing, than others? Reading recent magazine articles about masturbation, I’ve been struck by their fastidiousness, the way writers who begin on a jaunty, letting-it-all-hang-out note invariably later start to use adjectives – ‘sad’ is the favourite, closely followed by ‘futile’ – that, if not unequivocally damning, are certainly contemptuous. Solitary sex is a ‘solipsistic moral quicksand’, Barbara Ellen, a career cheerleader for the outré, declares, while Edward Marriott solemnly cites research showing that men who indulge regularly in porn are unfit for true intimacy. ‘Lost in a world of fantasy, such men become unable to form lasting relationships.’ In an ethical contest between imaginary and actual sex, reality must take the prize, seems to be the message. It’s a pity then that reality and desire aren’t always compatible bedfellows.
[*] Oxford, 330 pp., £50, May 2003, 0 19 818757 2.
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Lady Raider Basketball Notebook: Defensive breakdowns costly
Defensive breakdowns
Texas Tech gave Oklahoma plenty of open looks, and the Sooners took advantage.
Oklahoma was 23 of 49 from the floor (47 percent) and was 4 of 12 from the 3-point line in the first half.
Guard Morgan Hook was left open from the perimeter throughout the game and took five 3-point shots in the first half before picking up her third foul.
"We had a couple mental breakdowns," Tech coach Kristy Curry said. "I don't think there's any question, you can think of two different 3s on inbounds that we gave up. We had a couple mental breakdowns defensively, but you're going to have that at times, you just got to go get a make on the other end."
Oklahoma coach Sherri Coale said the Sooners ran multiple sets to get Hook the ball.
"We ran a little set to get her a 3 early and just continued to call things for her," Coale said. "It wasn't anything we came into the game feeling like we were able to exploit."
From here on out
Texas Tech's NCAA tournament hopes are all but dashed barring a run through the Big 12 tournament.
Senior Jordan Barncastle, who played her final home game Wednesday, said she just wants to end her Tech career on a high note.
"Just go out strong," Barncastle said. "Nobody likes to end their career on a low. Go to K-State … win there. Pump us up before the tournament, win the tournament. Whatever the future holds, if we stay true to our character, either way, we'll be successful."
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Celebrate Travel Under the Moonlight
From an astrology-themed cocktail reception surrounded by the scenic Arizona desert to a beachfront full moon celebration in Bali, the stars are calling everyone's name.
Mountain Shadows | Paradise Valley, Ariz.
Celebrate all things celestial with powerful programming at this upscale boutique resort. With dramatic views of iconic Camelback Mountain and the surrounding desert beauty, Mountain Shadows is allowing guests to fall in love with the night sky with new programming in 2019 including:
Cocktails Under the Cosmos: Enjoy an astrology-themed cocktail reception on the scenic Camelback Overlook rooftop deck. Savor passed hors d’oeuvres and drinks under twinkling lights and the beautiful night sky, seen brighter in Paradise Valley with its low light pollution and dramatic desert backdrop. Explore the galaxy through the lens of a telescope with an expert astronomer as your guide. Tickets are priced at $45, including two themed cocktails or glasses of sparkling wine and passed hors d’oeuvres (Pisces, March 12; Aries, April 16; Taurus, May 7).
Sun, Moon & Stars Wellness Series: Offering one-of-a-kind programming including Moonlight Yoga where guests can move with grace and rise like the moon atop the Camelback Overlook rooftop deck overlooking gorgeous views of the night skies followed by a glass vino under the stars (April 28, May 19 and Oct. 13).
Sipnic Under the Stars: Four customizable spirit-forward picnic basket offered on The Short Course with the breathtaking Camelback Mountain and starry desert skies as the backdrop. From a gin & tonic offering to a special proposal basket, the customizable boozy baskets include bites, sips, sweets and a luxurious Tartan Blanket Co. wool blanket from Scotland to be enjoyed on hole no. 2 on The Short Course where a set of string lights await for the perfect evening picnic spot. Sipnic Under the Stars start at $125 and can be savored at sunset February through May and September to November.
L’Auberge de Sedona, A Destination Hotel | Sedona, Ariz.
Located in Sedona, Ariz., recognized as an International Dark Sky Community, L’Auberge de Sedona offers a special Written in the Stars package curated with the night sky in mind, where guests arewelcomed for a two-night stay with a stargazing map, star-shaped cookie and throw blanket upon arrival, along with a $200 dinner credit to be used toward creekside dining underneath the stars at Cress on Oak Creek. Guests can enhance their astro-inspired getaway with the following star-focused experiences offered at L’Auberge:
Complimentary Stargazing Sessions on Tuesdays, Thursday and Fridays
Star Bathing - An adaptation of the property’s renowned Shinrin-Yoku or "Forest Bathing.” A certified Forest Bathing facilitators guides guests toward heightening their senses when vision is reduced by darkness of night and awakens the senses to the smell of the fresh water flowing through the creek, the rustle of the leaves, the taste in the wind; all while slowing down to meet the calm natural wonders of night.
Mindful Moon Meditation Series - A mystical moonlit series that transforms the vitality released during each month's full moon into a holistic rejuvenation process for guests. Surrounded by powerful energies of the surrounding Red Rock region and Sedona’s world renowned energy vortexes, L’Auberge de Sedona embraces the monthly lunar ritual with its Mindful Moon Meditation series, a guided journey of healing sessions offered on each night of a full moon.
International Dark Sky Parks |Utah
Most Americans live in an area where they cannot see the Milky Way due to the light pollution of the cities, but that is not an issue when stargazing in Utah, which has certified International Dark Sky Parks. Photographers with a passion for adventure and natural landscapes can visit one of the 11 places awarded an IDA-certified designation (the most in the U.S.), including two national parks, four state parks, four national monuments and one dark sky community along with more parks currently going through the certification process to capture ethereal images. One of Utah's best locally kept secrets is actually its expansive sky fields of stars during the winter months. Not only does the night sky arrive earlier in the day, but also winter skies tend to have less moisture, making them more transparent to the human eye and more accessible for amateur photographers to capture the beauty of the night.
Under Canvas | National Parks Nationwide
Fall asleep under the stars and to the sounds of nature. Under Canvas luxury campsites create an immersive escape, situated in remote locations among America’s most iconic national parks and monuments. With spectacular views of the Milky Way and fresh spring air, guests can wake up fully rested and connected to the land. The safari-style Stargazer tent has a night sky viewing window, strategically placed above a king-size Casper bed with luxe linens for cozy, undistributed stargazing.
Availability: Tucson (now through April 21), Zion (opens March 14), Great Smoky Mountains (opens April 4), Grand Canyon (opens April 25), Mount Rushmore (opens May 9), Yellowstone (opens May 23)
Baja California | Mexico
Baja Norte's diverse landscape and low-light pollution areas make embracing the celestial truly memorable. From sleeping under the stars at CuatroCuatros in Ensenada, star gazing at the National Astronomical Observatory of San Pedro Martir and zip lining under the full moon at the recently introduced Desert Nest nature park - the region truly sparkles at night. In the bursting wine region of Valle de Guadalupe, the newly opened Campera Hotel Burbuja is an eco-minded resort with 12 clear bubble-shaped tents, where guests are offered unobstructed 360 degree views of the starry night skies, making for the perfect Instagram or uninterrupted nights sleep.
The Mulia Bali | Bali, Indonesia
Located beachfront on the white-sand Nusa Dua beach, The Mulia & Mulia Villas recently introduced a once-in-a-lifetime beachfront dining experience to celebrate the full moon every month, which plays a significant role in Balinese culture as the yearly calendars is based on lunar phases. Set alongside Mulia Bali’s stunning ocean pier, the new “La La Lune” culinary dinner offers guests a delectable seven-course menu under the moonlight curated by the award-winning team of Soleil. The full moon - symbolizing infinity and perfection - is believed to be the time when the moon god bestows the blessing of light upon people, making the “La La Lune” experience perfect to celebrate with someone special, friends or for a simple dinner gathering. Reservations and more details can be found at this link.
Helena Bay Lodge | Northland New Zealand
A remote retreat tucked within New Zealand’s North Island Helena Bay cove, Helena Bay Lodge is home to 800 acres of scenic greenery, four private beaches, and unobstructed views of the pure night sky. After enjoying an ethereal dinner courtesy of Executive Chef Michele Martino, guests can venture outside to the property’s beautiful oversized beachside firepit and gaze upon the stars while sipping on digestifs. The attentive Helena Bay staff will provide celestial onlookers with warm blankets, binoculars and iPads set up with a stargazing app to guide their nighttime exploration to enjoy by the warmth of the outdoor fire.
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Road closures and traffic patrols planned for Marathon weekend
Marquette / Public Service Announcements / Road closures and traffic patrols planned for Marathon weekend
The annual Marquette Marathon, Half Marathon, and 5k and kids fun runs will be held Aug. 31 and Sept. 1.
The Friday, Aug. 31 Kids Fun Run will start at 7 p.m. at Lakeview Arena. Runners will cross Pine Street to the multi-use path, then continue north on the multi-use path for approximately 0.75 miles, crossing Wright Street, before turning around and returning along the same route.
The Saturday, Sept. 1 5k begins at Presque Isle at 8 a.m. and follows the multi-use path south to Fair Avenue, then west on Fair Avenue to Third Street, then south on Third to the finish on Michigan Street.
The Saturday, Sept. 1 marathon and half marathon begin west of the City limits and enter the City on the Iron Ore Heritage Trail. Runners are expected to arrive within the City limits at approximately 8:30 a.m. and follow the Heritage trail to McClellan Avenue, then continue on the multi-use path to Lakeshore Boulevard. At that point, runners will divide as follows:
Marathon participants will turn south on the path to a turn-around point at Founders Landing, then continue north on the path around Presque Isle before returning south towards Pine Street.
Half marathon participants will turn north on the path and run to Pine Street.
The marathon and half marathon will recombine at Pine Street and continue south to Fair Avenue then west on Fair Avenue to Third Street, then south on Third to the finish near Michigan Street
The races cross numerous streets including Wilson, McClellan, Fifth, Fourth, Third, Front, Lakeshore, Wright, and Hawley. Road closures include Peter White Drive at Presque Isle, Pine from Lakeshore to Fair, Fair from Pine to Presque Isle, Third from Fair to Michigan, and Michigan from Third to Front. In addition, Presque Isle will be closed to truck traffic from Fair Avenue to Wright due to the ongoing construction. Northbound truck traffic will be detoured west on College Avenue. Southbound Truck traffic will be detoured east onto Lakeshore Boulevard. Magnetic Street between Front and Presque Isle will be open.
Presque Isle Park will be closed to vehicular traffic Saturday, Sept. 1, from 7 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. due to the use of the park for the Marquette Marathon.
Additionally, roads will be closed from 5 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., except for Michigan, which will be closed until 4 p.m. All the other roads will be open with crossings manned by volunteers and City Police, who will stop cars to allow runners to cross from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. At that point, crossings will revert to rules of the road. The public is advised to use caution when driving and to obey the police and all road crossing attendants.
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City of Marquette - Municipal Government
The Planning Commission will hold a special meeting on Tuesday, July 23. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in the Commission Chambers of City Hall at 300 W. Baraga Ave. The purpose of the meeting is to conduct a Public Hearing for a variety of proposed amendments to the Land Development Code. An agenda and materials for the meeting will be made available on July 19. ... See MoreSee Less
Effective immediately, Division Street will be closed to through traffic between Genesee Street and Mesnard Street for a sewer main repair. This repair is expected to be completed Thursday evening, July 18. ... See MoreSee Less
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There will be a household hazardous waste collection at the City of Marquette Rubbish/Compost site on Pioneer Road tomorrow (July 11) from 3-7 p.m.HHW Collection Tomorrow - Marquette Rubbish/Compost Site ... See MoreSee Less
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Busy weekend for the Marquette Police Department
Wrapping up the Fourth of July weekend, the Marquette Police Department had their hands full.
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