pred_label
stringclasses 2
values | pred_label_prob
float64 0.5
1
| wiki_prob
float64 0.25
1
| text
stringlengths 75
975k
| source
stringlengths 39
45
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
__label__cc
| 0.662608
| 0.337392
|
1000 Words Photography Magazine #12
I am delighted to inform you that issue 12 of 1000 Words "Thereness" is now available to view online at www.1000wordsmag.com
Featuring portfolios from Léonie Hampton, Chris Shaw, Maja Forsslund, Rinko Kawauchi, Ordinary Light Photography and Roe Ethridge alongside in-depth interviews, essays and reviews by Louise Clements, Simon Baker, Lucy Davies, Natasha Christia, Brad Feuerhelm and Margaret Gray, 1000 Words attempts to show a kind of photography that draws directly and honestly from life; work that does not fit neatly into categories yet which can be infinitely more rigorous and fresher than any attempts at visual gimmickry made by the latest tricks of the trade.
In line with this, we also cover new titles from Andy Sewell, C Photo and Enrique Metinides in the dedicated books section courtesy of texts from Michael Grieve, Oliver Whitehead and Daniel Campbell Blight.
"[...]'Thereness' is a sense of the subject's reality, a heightened sense of its physicality, etched sharply into the image. It is a sense that we are looking at the world directly, without mediation. Or rather, that something other than a mere photographer is mediating. [...] Such a feeling, such alertness, when present in the photograph, can of course conceal the greatest photographic art. 'Thereness' is seen at the opposite ends of the photographic spectra, in the humblest holiday enprint as much as the most serious art photograph, in the snapshot-inspired, dynamic small camera candid as much as the calm, meditative, large camera view. Those photographs which conjure up a compelling desire to touch the subject, to walk into the picture, to know the photographed person, display 'thereness'. Those photographs which tend towards impressionism, expressionism or abstraction can be in danger of losing it, or never finding it [...]. 'Thereness', in short, is a quality that has everything to do with reality and little to do with art, yet is, I would reiterate, the essence of the art of photography".
From The Art That Hides Itself - Notes on Photography's Quiet Genius by Gerry Badger
Thanks to all the photographers, writers and editorial and production team as well as of course our advertisers for contributing to yet another fantastic issue of 1000 Words.
Enjoy dear readers, and please take note of our new studio address: 1000 Words Photography Ltd, 29 The Arthaus, 205 Richmond Road, London, E8 3FF
Labels: 1000 Words Photography Magazine, Chris Shaw, Léonie Hampton, Maja Forsslund, Ordinary Light Photography, Rinko Kawauchi, Roe Ethridge
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line0
|
__label__wiki
| 0.53309
| 0.53309
|
One summer at a picnic, he overheard a mother say to her
Hair donation for cancer patients is taken up by many people as a charity service. Such organizations accumulate hair for making wigs and artificial hair. There are also many services and websites that donate free wigs for cancer patients. Initial shipping charges are not refundable. Return shipping paid by the Buyer. Returns are accepted ONLY if the item was not as described in the listing.
Lace Wigs Like the small ones he encounters every night. For me I felt that made Guts surviving the Eclipse that little bit more unreasonable. He suffered a ton of internal injuries from Wyald. The Satsuma domain traded directly with European arms dealers and forged their own cannon. They had access to advanced rifles like the British Snider Enfield Lace Wigs, which was a breech loading rifle. The Chsh domain was particularly zealous in developing a modern military force with in terms of training and doctrine. Lace Wigs
Lace Wigs In 2012, he received the Defender of Economic Freedom award from the fiscally conservative 501(c)4 organization Club for Growth. The award is given to the members of Congress who have the year’s highest ranking, according to the Club for Growth’s metrics. Gowdy scored 97 out of 100, and was one of 34 congressmen given the award.[33]. Lace Wigs
wigs I not sure why it is but it could be a higher sense of entitlement in people. People don work as hard for things like they used to and everything is a competition. People don treat you as a human here. But the thing that drew me in was Jim. Frankly https://www.cheapwigsforall.com/, if Jim said he wanted to make a film about that bottle of water, I would be inclined to say, «Let do it.» When he first mentioned to me that he wanted to make a vampire film, one of the responses that came to my head I not sure I actually said it was, «But hang on, haven you been making vampire films all along?» Because it really is like Jim has been making vampire films for years. His nocturnal world and that dreamscape that he so regularly lives in his films seems so hypnotic.. wigs
cheap wigs The interior passageways of the Valley of the Kings and Queens are embellished with frescoes illustrating daily life in ancient Egypt as well as the afterlife. They showed strapping men sporting dark eye makeup created from ground mineral powders and fats. The smoky kohl liner they wore served both practical and ritualistic purposes. cheap wigs
Stun, fire, poison. Etc.Even the spells each have alternative forms or upgrades capable of changing the way they behave.See how the complaint you stated can easily be refuted with logic? The same cannot be said with far cry 5 and other games of this calibre released with thus little content and laziness.Oh in Far Cry you have different types of guns which change how you play. An AR for medium long range, a sniper for very long.
costume wigs Ccile, naively assuming that Merteuil has her best interests at heart, confides in her. Merteuil advises Ccile to welcome Valmont’s advances; young women should take advantage of all the lovers they can acquire, she says, in a society so repressive and contemptuous of women. The result is a «student teacher» relationship; by day, Ccile is courted by Danceny, and each night she receives a sexual «lesson» from Valmont. costume wigs
wigs for women 2. My father has had a Santa beard all my life, and did not attempt to dye it to disguise his aging. One summer at a picnic, he overheard a mother say to her daughter go ask him if he is. I had a pulmonary embolism when I was 20, caused by birth control pills. There was no family history, and my only risk factor was my weight at the time. Have your doctors tested you for Factor V Leiden blood? If not, see if you can get them to do so. wigs for women
human hair wigs Other television work includes a recurring role as Aunt Frieda on the Fran Drescher sitcom The Nanny, the mother of Kirstie Alley’s character on Veronica’s Closet, guest roles on St. Elsewhere that resulted in an Emmy nomination). Other television work includes The Paper Chase, Touched by an Angel, and Will Grace as Grace’s Aunt Honey.One of her better known recent film roles was as Maria Portokalos, mother of Nia Vardalos’s lead character Toula Portokalos in the films My Big Fat Greek Wedding and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2. human hair wigs
wigs for women If the candy has reached the crack stage, it will turn into candy strings as it drips into the pot. If the candy does not turn into hard strings, let it cook for another minute and retest. Continue to test every minute until it has reached the crack stage. wigs for women
human hair wigs In 1991, while working on Married. With Children, Sagal learned that she was pregnant. This was unexpected, so the pregnancy was written into the storyline of the show. We have evolved. We have got better. At first it was raw all we had was arrogance human hair wigs.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line6
|
__label__wiki
| 0.754565
| 0.754565
|
Our goal is to develop young boys and girls in a safe, nurturing environment that teaches football skills, and builds a winning positive attitude along with raising the self-esteem of all our participants. At this level it is imperitive that children are
Raynor Park
2019 PAL Tackle
10 YO Tackle- Killigrew
11 YO Tackle- Crawford
9 YO Tackle- DePaul/Retzlaff
Coaching/Parent Resources
Coaching Forms/PAL Rulebook
Mayo Clinic Study
USA Football Safety Study
Safety and Youth Football
Sponsorship Form/Parent Pledge
Away Field Directions
10 Commandments of FB Parents
League Expectations
Injuries Uncommon in Youth Football, Mayo Clinic
ROCHESTER, MINN. -- A Mayo Clinic study of youth football showed that most
injuries that occurred were mild, older players appeared to be at a higher risk and that no
significant correlation exists between body weight and injury.
The study, which appears in the April issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, found that the
data for athletes grades four through eight indicated that the risk of injury in youth
football does not appear greater than the risk associated with other recreational or
competitive sports.
"Our analysis showed that youth football injuries are uncommon," said Michael J. Stuart,
M.D., a Mayo Clinic orthopedic surgeon and the principal author of the study.
Dr. Stuart and his colleagues studied 915 players aged 9 to 13 years, who participated on
42 football teams in the fall of 1997. Injury incidence, prevalence and severity were
calculated for each grade level and player position. Additional analyses examined the
number of injuries according to body weight.
A game injury was defined as any football-related ailment that occurred on the field
during a game that kept a player out of competition for the reminder of the game,
required the attention of a physician, and included all concussion, lacerations, as well as
dental, eye and nerve injuries. The researchers found a total of 55 injuries occurred in
games during the season — a prevalence of six percent. Incidence of injury expressed as
injury per 1,000 player-plays was lowest in the fourth grade (.09 percent), increased for
the fifth, sixth and seventh grades (.16 percent, .16 percent, .15 percent respectively) and
was highest in the eighth grade (.33 percent).
Most of the injuries were mild and the most common type was a contusion, which
occurred in 33 players. Four injuries (fractures involving the ankle growth plate) were
such that they prevented players from participating for the rest of the season. No player
required hospitalization or surgery.
The study's authors said risk increases with level of play (grade in school) and player age.
Older players in the higher grades are more susceptible to football injuries. The risk of
injury for an eighth-grade player was four times greater than the risk of injury for a
fourth-grade player. Potential contributing factors include increased size, strength, speed
and aggressiveness. Analysis of body weight indicated that lighter players were not at
increased risk for injury, and in fact heavier players had a slightly higher prevalence of
injury. This trend was not statistically significant. Running backs are at greater risk when
compared with other football positions, the researchers reported.
Other authors who contributed to the study include: Michael A. Morrey, Ph.D., Aynsley
M. Smith, RN, Ph.D., John K. Meis, M.S., all from the Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Center and Cedric J. Ortiguera, M.D., a Mayo Clinic orthopedic surgeon in Jacksonville,
Fla.
Mayo Clinic Proceedings is a peer-reviewed and indexed general internal medicine
journal, published for 75 years by Mayo Foundation, with a circulation of 130,000
nationally and internationally.
507-538-1385 (days)
507-284-2511 (evenings)
© 2019 SportsEngine, The Home of Youth Sports and 3 Village Patriots (14557). All rights reserved. Visitor # 65,850
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line11
|
__label__cc
| 0.596415
| 0.403585
|
Presentations at the VII Boat and Sepia show of Alcudia
On Monday 26th of March the presentation took place of the poster for the seventh edition of the Nautical and Sepia fair to be held in the port of Alcudia on 21st and 22nd of April.
The Mayor of Alcudia, Coloma Terrace, explained that one of the innovations that will be held this year at the fair will be the maritime nautical parade. There will be workshops in the morning for schools and sports activities, also an exhibition of old photos. Snr Terrace thanked the cooperation between the Fishermen's Association and the City and the colaboration of organizations and institutions participating in the exhibition of sepia and nautica,the Council of Mallorca, the Balearic Islands, the Association of Friends of n'Agustina with traditional boats of n'Agustina, companies like Iscomar and Emsa and also to the local police, as well as the areas of Trade, Tourism and Sports. Coming soon will be the program of events. Alcudia is expected to be, as has said the mayor, "a counter display for all of Mallorca" with the aim of seasonality in a pre tourist season, both to make the promenade a display of seamanship, boat and water utilities, for guests to enjoy alongside the cuisine linked to sepia.
* Excerpt from press release of the City of Alcudia.
en 2:07 AM No comments:
Etiquetas: Boat Shows, Events, Nautical news
Key aspects of the 2012 Labour Reform
The BOE num. 36 of 11th of February 2012, published by the Royal Decree Law 3/2012 of 10 February, for urgent action to reform the labour market and entered into force on the date February 12, 2012. This Royal Decree law amends existing regulations of the following fields
- CREATION OF NEW CONTRACT. It must be permanent and full time and can arrangd by all the companies that employ fewer than 50 employees (but is said to be of support to entrepreneurs). Can be agreed trial period of one year and regulating tax incentives and bonuses SS fees if the current employment contract is for 3 years.
Rosa Estaràs promises to intensify her support for the nautical sector after receiving the award “Public Personality of 2011”
The member of the European Parliament Rosa Estarás from the PP party received the award from AENB at the awards ceremony during the Annual General Meeting for her close collaboration with the nautical sector and the defense of its interests in the European Parliament. The Balearic MEP, who was unable to assist the awards ceremony personally and who was represented by close colleague and ex MEP Francisca Bennassar, thanked the president of AENB, Margarita Dahlberg and all the members of the association for the distinction. At the same time she expressed her pride in receiving this award from one of the most important business associations in the Balearics, representing one of the basic pillars of the Balearic economy.
Etiquetas: AENB's news
The fifth edition of the AENB Nautical Sector Awards
The traditional nautical sector awards ceremony of AENB took place after the General Assembly. With the awards AENB honours its members, public personalities and institutions that have most contributed to the nautical sector. This year the award for The Public Personality Most Involved With Our Industry in 2011 was presented to Mrs. Rosa Estarás. AENB explains that Mrs Estarás has stood out this year for her tireless work in Brussels to liberate our sector from its many fiscal, legal and administrative obstacles. She is a person who has made it a personal challenge to change the matriculation tax adapting it to the European standard. As Mrs Estarás could not assist at the award ceremony personally due to work commitments, Mrs Francesca Bennassar received the award in her representation.
Etiquetas: AENB's news, Members' news
President's Letter - February 2012
On February 23rd we celebrated the most important act of the year for our association: The Annual General Meeting. At the meeting you had the absolute protagonism and the power to decide our future. We, who have the honor of enjoying the confidence you have placed in us to run AENB, are happy to be amongst so many friends, amongst so many entrepreneurs. We are all part of this family.
Etiquetas: AENB's news, President's Letter
Presentations at the VII Boat and Sepia show of A...
Rosa Estaràs promises to intensify her support for...
The fifth edition of the AENB Nautical Sector Awar...
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line21
|
__label__wiki
| 0.946464
| 0.946464
|
Rwanda: Kagame Wins Rwanda Presidential Election by Landslide
TOPICS:2017 Presidential ElectionKigaliPresident Paul KagameRwanda
Paul Kagame wins third term with 99 per cent of vote in Rwanda presidential election
Posted By: Michael Onas August 5, 2017
Polling staff carry a ballot box before counting at a polling center in Kigali, Rwanda, Aug. 4, 2017.
KIGALI, RWANDA — Rwandan President Paul Kagame led Friday’s presidential election with more than 99 percent support in early returns, the country’s election commission said.
In a nationally televised broadcast, the commission’s executive secretary said more than 80 percent of the country’s 6.9 million registered voters had cast ballots.
In July, Kagame told a political rally that “the day of the presidential elections will just be a formality.” The massive lead in the preliminary results set the stage for his third term in office.
“I’m very excited” about the initial results, said Kagame supporter Ester Kabaera, 55, a businesswoman. “Obviously, he is going to win. He’s the only president who can win, who can rule this country.”
At the national headquarters of Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Front party, political leaders, supporters and donors watched election results on televisions as they came in district by district.
“Tonight we are very, very, extremely happy because he accepted our request [to lead the country],” medical student Fred Namania, 30, said at the event. “And we are looking forward to a lot of things being done in the next seven years.”
A polling staff member counts ballots at a polling center in Kigali, Rwanda, Aug. 4, 2017.
In power for nearly 20 years
Kagame has been in power for 17 years. A 2015 constitutional measure, approved by 98 percent of voters, could allow Kagame to remain in power until 2034.
“I feel like President Kagame should lead us for [more] decades,” Namania said.
Other Kagame supporters told VOA they weren’t looking for a president for life.
“At the end of the [new] seven-year term of his excellency, Paul Kagame, someone will continue after him,” Kagame supporter Joseph Zorondera said after casting his ballot at the Mbandazi Primary School outside Kigali. “We need a good leader in our country now to continue to secure the country, to help the people of Rwanda and to continue to develop the country for the next seven years,”
Voting was calm as people trickled into the school, nestled in the hilly outskirts of the sprawling capital.
Valerian Musengamana, the polling station chief, told VOA that people were “very happy with the activities of the election. They are really satisfied.”
The East African Community — a regional intergovernmental organization comprising Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda — sent international observers to monitor the polls. The European Union did not. Representatives of local observer missions told VOA they hadn’t encountered any significant issues and that the voting appeared to be progressing smoothly.
Green Party presidential candidate Frank Habineza addresses the media after casting his vote in Kigali, Rwanda, Aug. 4, 2017.
Opposition presidential candidate Frank Habineza of the Green Party told VOA that some of his party’s observers had been denied access to polling stations, but after the National Election Commission was informed of the problem, 95 percent of them were permitted to monitor the voting process.
Habineza was one of two challengers Kagame faced in his re-election bid. Independent Philippe Mpayimana was also on the ballot.
Few of their supporters would agree to be interviewed at the polls.
“I chose [the Green] Party simply because of its good platform,” said voter Charles Ndamage, with electoral commission officials watching nearby. “The manifesto presented by Habineza was very interesting to me — for instance, the fact that he wants to develop the country by reducing the step between rich people and poor people.”
Endorsements for Kagame
Nine of the 11 political parties permitted to register in Rwanda endorsed Kagame. Four other presidential hopefuls were disqualified by the electoral commission. The government and ruling party brushed off allegations from human rights groups that authorities restricted freedom of expression and stifled political opposition.
Kagame is widely credited with stabilizing the country after a 1994 genocide.
“They [the opposition candidates] are good but … I don’t think any of them will do better than Paul Kagame. Because we have seen for the last few years that he has been on, the changes. It’s really a big change. It’s obvious,” said voter Imelda Batamoliza.
Kagame’s supporters pointed to developments like improved roads, more community connections to clean water and recently built schools.
Government officials said they expected to announce final results over the weekend.
Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa Wins Presidential Election
HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Emmerson Mnangagwa has won Zimbabwe’s presidential election in a poll marred by…
Nigeria: 2019 Presidential Election Poll
Who will win the next Nigerian presidential election? Africa-Online is conducting an online poll for…
Rwandans Overseas Begin Voting in Presidential Election
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); KIGALI — Rwandans living outside the country have started voting…
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line22
|
__label__wiki
| 0.509668
| 0.509668
|
Filter by Agriculture topics
WTO EPAs EU FTAs ACP - FTAs ACP regional trade Market access SPS / Food safety Product differentiation CAP reform Biofuels Climate change Aid for trade Other
General Bananas Beef Cereals Cocoa Coffee Cotton Dairy Horticulture Oil crops Poultry Rice Rum Sugar Tea Other
Eastern Africa , Southern Africa , EPAs
Provisions on agriculture trade policy instruments still to be resolved in SADC–EU EPA negotiations
According to an interview with a leading South African trade official, a number of negotiating issues in the SADC–EU EPA negotiations have now been resolved. In March’s issue Bridges Africa – a special issue on EPA negotiations in Africa – Xavier Carim, from South Africa’s Department of Trade and Industry, spoke about:
the MFN clause: there is no longer “an obligation on the SACU to automatically extend advantages granted to other trading partners to the EU”. The EU may request negotiations to ensure that any advantage extended to a third party is also extended to the EU, but would “need to be prepared to offer a concession or benefit in exchange”;
“provisions relating to the definition of parties, administrative cooperation” and similar technical issues;
new generation issues (trade-related areas, procurement, competition policy and intellectual property rights): the negotiators have “left open the option for non-binding cooperation in these areas” at some future point.
Progress has also been made on “a mutually acceptable balance in the exchange of tariff concessions” and “appropriate rules of origin”, and it is considered that the concerns of smaller SACU economies related to specific sensitive sectors can be addressed.
Mr Carim noted the EC’s long-standing commitment to extending “any provision negotiated in one EPA that is seen to be beneficial” to other EPA agreements, should the concerned parties so request. In this context, the same edition of the Bridges Africa where this interview appears carries an article on the legal position regarding the MFN clause in the EAC–EU EPA. On a related issue, Mr Carim raised the question: “how would ACP countries be compensated when the balance obtained under the EPA is disturbed by an erosion of the value” of traditional ACP trade preferences, as a result of future third-country agreements negotiated by the EU?
Issues that still need to be resolved include “export taxes, infant industry, bilateral safeguards and agricultural safeguards”. These are considered “difficult issues”, with their solution “not obvious at this stage”.
According to Mr Carim, the issue of export taxes needs to be seen against the background of African aspirations to shift away from commodity-based growth towards a more sustainable development path that uses “the continent’s natural resource base as a platform for diversification and industrialisation”. In this context, export taxes have been used to support infant industries and attract foreign investment. Since “export taxes are not prohibited under WTO rules”, there is seen to be no reason why African governments should abandon the possible use of this trade policy tool. The Bridges Africa special issue also includes two articles on export taxes setting out the pros and cons of their use in the SADC–EU EPA context.
Mr Carim noted that there remain concerns over the deadline of 1 October 2014 for the completion of the EPA negotiations. (After this date, the current regulation, MAR1528/2007 –which provides duty-free access to the EU market on a transitional basis – will lapse.) It is thought that a situation could arise where the EU continues to enjoy duty-free access to the whole of the SACU market, as a result of the reciprocal provisions of the EU’s Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement with South Africa (TDCA), while Botswana, Namibia and Swaziland are denied duty-free access to the EU market as a result of the termination of MAR1528/2007. Such an outcome, Mr Carim observed, would be “unquestionably unfair and inequitable”, and any subsequent moves by Botswana, Namibia and Swaziland to withdraw corresponding duty-free access for EU goods to their territories could “fracture the customs union in SACU”.
In the longer term, Mr Carim voiced the concern that the different provisions of the various African regional EPAs could also serve to “undermine Africa’s wider integration efforts”, with different tariff concessions and rules of origin coming back to haunt African trade negotiators. He considered that mechanisms could be put in place to address this issue by:
a) establishing “a mechanism through which African governments reserve the right to address any impediment to Africa’s regional integration that arises from commitments undertaken in the EPAs”;
b) establishing a “joint undertaking at the Africa and ACP levels, as well as with cooperation from the EU, to provide a legal basis for intra-EPA cumulation amongst ACP countries”.
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, ‘EPA negotiations in Africa: Which way forward?’, Bridges Africa, Vol. 3, Issue 2, March 2014
http://ictsd.org/downloads/bridges-africa-review/3-2.pdf
Given that the SACU group includes a dominant economic powerhouse and much smaller national economies, infant industry protection and agricultural safeguards have been central to the SACU regional dispensation, with these tools being actively used to support the structural development of a number of agro-food sector value chains. These SACU provisions would be brought into question by certain EPA provisions, which thus remain a major source of disagreement in the EPA negotiations.
From the perspective of smaller SACU economies, the use of these SACU provisions impacts only minimally on EU exports, while posing serious challenges to these countries’ national efforts to promote dairy, poultry and cereal-based food product value chains.
Given this regional reality, these provisions can be seen as a critical test of the EU’s cooperation in assisting African governments by accommodating regional sensitivities and realities, as Africa embarks on the difficult path of regional trade and economic integration. However, it needs to be recognised that the EU has broader trade concerns that could be undermined by blanket exemptions.
In this context, allowing special dispensations, linked specifically to African efforts to promote regional trade integration, could offer a way out in terms of reconciling regional needs with wider EU trade policy concerns.
This could hinge upon the acceptance of general principles, while linking the implementation of specific measures to developments within intra-regional trade arrangements in Africa. This would ensure that EPA commitments are fully supportive of Africa’s own intra-regional trade integration efforts without setting a precedent for the unrestricted use of such trade policy tools by the EU’s other trade partners.
Namibian dairy sector measures questioned by South African dairy company
Launch of EAC–US TIP negotiations potentially complicated by other trade agreements
Final stage of EPA negotiations generating tensions between EAC members
Namibian Trade Minister pessimistic on SADC–EU EPA agreement
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line24
|
__label__wiki
| 0.511542
| 0.511542
|
Bangla Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today laid the foundation stone of the first Hindi University in the State. The university will come up at Arupara in Howrah district.
The CM also inaugurated and laid the foundation stones for several other projects on the occasion. She also distributed benefits of various schemes to people from the stage.
Highlights of her speech:
Who could have thought the State Secretariat would be relocated to Howrah? We did it.
Swasthya Bhavan will be shifted to a 3 acre plot behind Nabanna soon. The work for DPR has begun.
Who could have thought, a helipad would come at Dumurjola? We have already set up 30 new helipads across the State.
New airports have come up at Malda, Balurghat, Andal and Cooch Behar. One more is coming up at Purulia.
Whenever someone from outside visits Kolkata, they say the city has progressed. This is poriborton. But a few jealous people refuse to acknowledge the change that has happened in the State.
Bangla’s Kanyashree scheme won the first prize from UN. Bangla is No. 1 in the world.
There is 50% reservation for women in local bodies. Women get maternity leave for 731 days.
We have done away with income ceiling for Kanyashree scheme. Everyone is eligible for the scholarship now.
We have distributed Sabooj Sathi cycles. 72 lakh SC/ST students have received Sikshashree scholarships. 2.12 crore minority students have also received scholarships, the highest in India.
58 lakh OBC students are now pursuing higher education. We have started Swami Vivekananda Merit scholarships for general caste students.
Before we came to power in 2011, there were only 12 universities in Bangla. We have set up 28 new universities in the last seven and half years. We laid the foundation for one more today. 10 more universities are in the pipeline.
We have done away with khajna tax and mutation fees on agricultural land.
We have waived off mutation fees on inherited land. You need not to go gazetted officers for attestations anymore. Our government has started self-attestations.
State Govt pays the full premium for crop insurance. The State Govt is funding the scheme entirely, not the Centre.
72 lakh farmer families will benefit from the Krishak Bandhu scheme.
We give financial assistance of Rs 5000 to pregnant women. We send ‘Matri Jaan’ to ferry mothers to hospitals.
Not only Bangla, people from Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha also come to our State for free healthcare.
We have brought 7.5 crore people under Swasthya Sathi scheme. We are not a part of Ayushmaan Bharat scheme. It is hogwash.
We have issued the Swasthya Sathi cards in the name of women, recognising them as the head of the family. Even her parents will be eligible for insurance with that card.
Today we have laid the foundation stone for drinking water supply projects worth Rs 1488 crore. Another project worth Rs 1100 crore will be initiated tomorrow at Bankura.
Earlier people used to complain about load shedding. Those days are now history.
Narendra Modi goes for even inaugurating toilets. Why does he seek so much publicity? He only believes in publicity, no action.
When demonetisation was announced, I was the first to call it a disaster. More than 2 crore people have lost their jobs since then.
More than 12,000 farmers have committed suicide in the country. Charity begins at home. Bengal is No. 1 in generating employment under MGNREGA.
We are No. 1 in skill development training through Utkarsh Bangla.
Our Utkarsh Bangla scheme has been ranked among the top 5 among 1,062 schemes from across the world.
Sabooj Sathi has been ranked among the top 5 among 1142 schemes from across the world.
We have reduced unemployment by 40%. It is on record in Parliament.
Modi babu knows only how to manipulate data.
Five years are gone. This government’s expiry date is over. Will taking expired medicines treat the ailment?
Elections are around the corner. Hence, they are brandishing arms and weapons. They are indulging in opportunistic politics over the blood of the jawans.
We are with the armed forces. We are with the martyrs. We are in favour of peace, not riots. We stand by the people of this country. We are against Modi. We are against BJP.
If you speak against them, you are branded as Pakistanis. We are all Pakistani, and they are the only nationalists?
They are searching about religion on Google everyday. My religion is humanity.
Abraham Lincoln had said “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time”
They are creating divisions within the society. They are pitting people against each other. Everyone is terrorised.
Have you ever seen people so scared of the Prime Minister, as if he is Gabbar Singh?
We are announcing a new scheme ‘Yuvashree Arpan’ under which 50,000 youths will receive financial assistance of Rs 1 lakh for setting up a enterprise
We have given due recognition to all languages – Hindi, Urdu, Nepali, Gurmukhi, Santhali, Ol Chiki, Kamtapuri, Rajbongshi, Kurukh, Kurmali
Dumurjola is being developed as a Khel City.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line27
|
__label__wiki
| 0.620609
| 0.620609
|
for Pugettia producta
'''''Pugettia producta''''' <br> commonly known as the Kelp Crab, Northern Kelp Crab, and the Shield-Backed Kelp Crab. {{Taxobox | name = Pugettia producta | image = Kelpcrab09.JPG | image_caption = P. producta on the Boston Harbor floating docks (Olympia, Washington) | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Arthropoda]] | subphylum = [[Crustacea]] | classis = [[Malacostraca]] | subclassis= [[Eucarida]] | ordo = [[Decapoda]] | infraordo = [[Brachyura]] | familia = [[Majidae]] | genus = ''''' Pugettia''''' | species = '''''P. producta''''' | binomial = ''Pugettia producta'' | binomial_authority = [[John Witt Randall|Randall]], 1840 | synonyms = ''Pugettia productus'' <br>''Epialtus producta''<br> ''Epialtus productus'' }} [[File:Kc0542.JPG|300px|thumb|left|kelp crab on Boston Harbor dock]]<br> == Description and Phylogeny == <br> [[File:Ventral kelp crab.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Auto-montage image of anterior, ventral side of male ''P. producta'']] '''Morphology'''<br> ''P. producta'' has a shield-shaped carapace with a prominent, sharp projection directed outward or slightly forward on both sides of the body near or behind the middle. Unlike most spider crabs within the ''Majidae'' family, ''P. producta'' has a smooth carapace that is usually free of adornment. The carapace is longer than it is wide and in males, the carapace width is up to 93 mm and in females is up to 78 mm. The rostrum consists of two broad, flattened "points" and the entire rostrum is not more than one third or two fifths the length of the rest of the carapace. The distance between the eyes is described as being less than one third of the greatest width of the carapace. <ref name="Garth 1980"> Garth, John, and Donald Abbott. "Brachyura: The True Crabs." INTERTIDAL INVERTEBRATES OF CALIFORNIA. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1980. 592-599. Print. </ref> <ref name="Kozloff 1996">Kozloff, Eugene N., and Linda H. Price. "19. Phylum Arthropoda: Subphylum Crustacea: Class Alacostraca: Subclass Eucarida." Marine invertebrates of the Pacific Northwest . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. 413. Print. </ref> The coloration is cryptic for protection and can be olive, brown, or even a red-brown as a whole, with red or orange tones on the ventral surface. Young are frequently lighter in color. <ref name="Kozloff 1993"> Kozloff, Eugene N.. "On and Around Floating Docks and Pilings." Seashore life of the northern Pacific coast: an illustrated guide to northern California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993. 78. Print.</ref> <ref name="Garth 1980"></ref> '''Similar Species'''<br> [[File:Kelp crab eye.jpg|180px|thumb|right|Auto-montage image of the eye, dorsal side of male ''P. producta'']] ''Pugettia gracilis'' could be mistaken for ''P. producta'' but it tends to be smaller in size and its legs are more stout rather than slender. <ref name="Cowles 2005"> Cowles, Dave . "Pugettia producta." WWU: On Campus. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Feb. 2011. <http://www.wallawalla.edu/academics/departments/biology/rosario/inverts/Arthropoda/Crustacea/Malacostraca/Eumalacostraca/Eucarida/Decapoda/Brachyura/Family_Majidae/Pugettia_producta.html></ref> Another similar species is ''Taliepus nuttallii'', but it differs from ''P. producta'' in having a more convex carapace and a more prominent rostrum. The rostrum also has a small triangular notch at the tip. ''T. nuttallii'' lacks the small tooth in front of the eye that is found in ''P. producta'' as well. <ref name="Garth 1980"></ref> '''Evolution'''<br> [[File:Kelp crab mouth.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Auto-montage image of the mouth parts, ventral side of male ''P. producta'']] Crabs appeared in the fossil record early in the Jurassic period of the Mesozoic, which is nearly 200 million years ago. Through the record, crabs seem to continue to shorten the body and reduce the abdomen. Of the living species of crabs that have been described, the cephalothorax is a defining characteristic. This is the fusion of head and thorax, covered by the carapace. The cephalothorax is short and broad, and forms practically the whole body. The Brachyura or “short-tailed” crabs, have an abdomen that has been reduced to a thin, flat plate, tucked forward out of sight below the cephalothorax. They tend to have five pairs of head appendages. These include the first and second antennae and the innermost three pairs of mouthparts; the mandibles and the first and second maxillae. The eight pairs of thoracic appendages include the outermost three pairs of mouthparts (the first, second, and third maxillipeds) and the five pairs of walking legs. The first pair of the walking legs are modified as chelipeds or pincers. Of the intertidal Brachyura there are three large groups: the spider crabs, the cancroid crabs, and the grapsoid crabs. Additional groups occur in deeper waters off the coasts. The spider crabs, family Majidae, include the decorators, which disguise themselves with bits of hydroids, sponges, and algae, and the kelp crabs, which are usually free of adornment.<ref name="Garth 1980"></ref> <ref name="Schram 2009"> Schram, Joel W.. "On the Origin of Decapoda." Decapod crustacean phylogenetics . Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2009. 3-13. Print.</ref> ==Distribution== '''Geographic Range'''<br> ''P. producta'' is found in the subtidal to 73m from Prince of Wales Island (Alaska) to Punta Asuncion (Baja California).<ref name="Garth 1980"></ref> '''Habitat'''<br> The young crabs are common among rocks or on the brown alga ''Egregia''. In the winter the crabs can be found in the low intertidal zone on pilings, floating docks, and rocky shores of protected outer coasts. In summer, the older crabs migrate to floating kelp like ''Macrocystis''.<ref name="Garth 1980"></ref><ref name="Kozloff 1993"></ref> == Natural History and Ecology == '''Reproduction'''<br> [[File:683.JPG|300px|thumb|left|Juvenile ''P. producta'' Cobble beach, Oregon]] [[File:Kelp crab male1.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Auto-montage image of male pleon]] [[File:Kelp crab male2.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Auto-montage image of the other side of the pleon]] [[File:Kelp crab male3.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Auto-montage image of male pleopods]] Crabs often show marked sexual dimorphism. Aside from generally size differences between the sexes, the form of the pleon or abdomen is different from males and females. In most males, the pleon has a narrow and triangular form. In females, the pleon is rounded and broad. This is due to the fact that female crabs brood fertilized eggs on their pleopods. Female crabs possess four pairs of pleopods and males bear two pairs of pleopods, used as copulatory organs. Breeding in ''P. producta'' appears to occur all year round. Females appear to be consistently found in nests of interwoven kelp stipes, but it is unknown if these stripes are woven by the crabs. <ref name="Boolootian"> Boolootian, R. A., A. C. Giese, A. Farmanfarmaian, and J. Tucker. "Reproductive Cycles of Five West Coast Crabs." Physiological Zoology Volume 32.No. 4 (1959): 213-220. JSTOR. Web. 5 Feb. 2011.</ref> Females mate while they have a hard shell or exoskeleton, not right after molting. In Monterey Bay, eggs are carried for 28-31 days before hatching. Based on laboratory findings, a female can deposit a new brood of eggs within two days after the hatching of the previous brood. Females also appear to be capable of producing a new crop of offspring approximately every 30 days. The brood size can range from 34,000-84,000, with an average brood size in Puget Sound being about 61,000 for females with a carapace width between 41-56mm. After a female carries the fertilized eggs for about 30 days, they hatch into protozoea larvae and immediately molt to zoea larvae. The zoea larvae are more like shrimp in appearance than adult crabs. During this stage, the zoeal period, they exist as part of the plankton. Periodically they molt their larval exoskeletons, the body enlarging and undergoing some change in form at each molt. The stages between molts are called instars, and different species of crabs exhibit one to five zoeal instars. The last zoeal instar is followed by a molt and metamorphosis to the megalops stage. At this stage they resemble a small crab. Their abdomen is somewhat flattened and can be folded forward below the cephalothorax, allowing them to sit on the substratum like an adult, and can be extended posteriorly, allowing it to swim by the beating of its pleopods. Once the megalops molts, it is in the first juvenile crab instar. As a juvenile crab, they remain on the bottom and commences like adults. Molting occurs less frequently as crabs get larger and older. Some species cease molting on becoming sexually mature; others continue to molt throughout life. In P. producta, there are no further molts after maturity. <ref name="Hartnoll"> Fincham, A. A., P. S. Rainbow, Richard Hartnoll, and Peter Gould. "Brachyuran life history strategies and the optimization of eff production." Aspects of Decapod Crustacean biology: the proceedings of a symposium held at the Zoological Society of London on 8th and 9th April 1987. Oxford [Oxfordshire: Published for the Zoological Society of London by Clarendon Press ;, 1988. 1-9. Print.</ref> <ref name="Garth 1980"></ref> <ref name="Boolootian"></ref> '''Foraging Behavior'''<br> ''P. producta'' is generally an herbivore on larger brown algae. Near California the crabs prefer ''Macrocystis'', ''Egregia'', and ''Pterygophora''. In the Puget Sound areas of Washington the diet varies throughout the year. In summer, their diet consists of brown algae like ''Fucus'', ''Sargassum'', and ''Nereocystis''. In the winter months, individuals change to a carnivorous diet which may consist of barnacles, hydroids, and bryozoans. This occurs because they are found on pilings and floating docks where the normal plant foods are not available. In the zoeal period, they eat metazoans, larval forms, and protozoa even smaller than themselves. <ref name="Garth 1980"></ref> '''Symbionts'''<br> ''P. producta'' are found to be parasitized by a nermertean worm and a rhizocephalan barnacle. The nermertean, ''Carcinonemertes epialti'', is a small worm that is about 1-2mm long. It is found among the eggs and is found in 66 percent of the ovigerous females examined. The barnacle is ''Heterosaccus californicus'' and it is a specialized barnacle which occupies the entire region between the abdomen and the sternal surface of the thorax. ''H. californicus'' inhibits host reproduction and feminizes male hosts. This parasite affects adult host size by the host having passed though less instars before the molt of puberty. <ref name="Obrien"> O'Brien, Jack . "Precocious Maturity of the Majid Crab, Pugettia producta, Parasitized by the Rhizocephalan Barnacle, Heterosaccus californicus." Bio. Bull. 166 (1984): 384-395. Print.</ref> <ref name="Boolootian"></ref> '''Conservation Status'''<br> ''Pugettia producta'' has not been evaluated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).<ref name="eol"> [eol],"Pugettia producta (J. W. Randall, 1840) - Encyclopedia of Life." Encyclopedia of Life. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Jan. 2011. <http://www.eol.org/pages/1024220</ref> == References == <references/> == Links == [[Media:Northern_Kelp_crab.swf ]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvZEw-oVOyI ''P. producta'' video] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jic8tJM_cbE juvenile ''P. producta'' video]
Template:! (view source)
Template:Anglicise rank (view source)
Template:Safesubst:padleft: (view source)
Template:Str left (view source)
Template:Taxobox (view source)
Template:Taxobox colour (view source)
Template:Taxobox/core (view source)
Template:Taxonomy (view source)
Return to Pugettia producta.
Retrieved from "http://wikis.evergreen.edu/marinelife1011/index.php/Pugettia_producta"
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line28
|
__label__cc
| 0.717981
| 0.282019
|
Ars Veterinaria
OPEN 24 h ALL YEAR ROUND - EMERGENCIES - 93 285 84 00
Anesthesia department
Behavioral Medicine Department
Cardiology Department
Clinical Pathology Department
Dentistry and Oral Surgery Department
Dermatology Department
Diagnostic imaging department
General Medicine Department
Hospitalization and ICU department
Internal Medicine Department
Neurology and Neurosurgery Department
Oncology Department
Orthopedics department
Radioiodine Department
Soft tissue surgery department
Wound Treatment Department
Vet Technicians & Imaging Technicians
Reception area and Examination Rooms
Ars Veterinaria Hospital
Operating theatres and endoscopy
Training Room and Office
Radioactive Iodine and Chemotherapy
Clinical rotation
\ Legal Notice
Guarantor. Who is the Guarantor for processing your information?
In compliance with Law 34/2002, of July 11 on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce, we inform you that Ars Veterinaria S.L.P. (hereinafter Ars Veterinaria) is the owner of the arsveterinaria.es website, with business tax number B58606906 and business address at Calle dels Cavallers, number 37, 08034, Barcelona. In addition to the above address, they can be contacted by e-mail at info@arsveterinaria.es
Authentication. What is the authentication for handling of your information?
The legal basis for the handling of your information is based on requesting your consent on a contact form. The user who provides personal information through an Ars Veterinaria website contact form is voluntarily providing personal information (hereinafter Personal Information). The personal data that you provide us through any contact form or in e-mails will be put into a computerized file. Ars Veterinaria is responsible for these files and they shall remain confidential and protected.
Ars Veterinaria informs its users that, in compliance with Article 5 of Organic Law of December 13 on the Protection of Personal Data, this entity keeps files with personal data that are properly noticed and recorded with the Spanish Data Protection Agency. In compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679, a Registry of Activities is available. The user fully and expressly accepts that Ars Veterinaria automatically processes their personal data and incorporates it in their files in order to provide them with services. In the Purpose section we fully detail the purposes for which we process the personal information.
In addition, only referring veterinarians will be able to register on our website to provide scientific information and request tests.
This privacy policy describes how we collect and use personal data. Unless specifically stated otherwise, all required data for using the contact forms must be completed.
Source. How did we obtain this information?
All of the personal data that we have has been provided to us through contact forms or in emails.
Types of contact forms that are on the website:
Contact form: request information.
The kinds of information requested are:
Complete name.
Registration form for referring veterinarians:
Business.
This is not particularly protected information.
Visiting the Ars Veterinaria website does not mean that the user is required to provide any information about themselves.
The user will have the option of accepting and consenting to the processing of their personal data by Ars Veterinaria in conformance with the Privacy Policy. However, if the user does not accept the terms of the Privacy Policy requested in the boxes validating unequivocal consent, the user will not be able to use the contact form.
Ars Veterinaria expressly prohibits that minors under 18 years provide personal information without the prior consent of their parents or guardians. Underage minors not having this consent cannot provide personal information to Ars Veterinaria or use our services.
The user will have to provide required personal information to Ars Veterinaria when they use any of the contact forms. Given the state of technology at the time, the personal information shall be processed with the legally required degree of protection to guarantee their security and avoid alteration, loss, non-authorized handling or access. At the same time, the user is aware and accepts that the security measures on the Internet are not completely impregnable.
Purpose. To what purpose do we use your personal information?
At Ars Veterinaria S.L.P. we process the information provided to us to answer queries received and contact users.
The purpose of processing the information from the contact forms is to respond to queries.
The purpose of the referring veterinarians' register is to provide scientific information and request tests.
In short, as previously mentioned, personal information provided to us through the various forms and in emails shall remain confidential and protected. Under no circumstances shall it be provided for or used for other purposes or made available to third-parties without the users' consent in accordance with the principles of privacy protection under Spanish law (Organic Law 15/1999, of December 13 on the Protection of Personal Data and Royal Decree 1720/2007, of December 21 of the Implementing Regulation) as well as the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679. To comply with the different legal provisions, we have established different levels of security to protect personal information provided to us. We have adopted all the technical measures available to us to avoid the loss, misuse, alteration, non-authorized access and manipulation of personal information.
Our commitment:
We promise to protect your privacy and confidentially handle the information you provide us.
The information provided will be only used to respond to your queries or for contracted services.
We will not reveal your personal information to third parties without your consent.
The user shall fill out the forms contained within with truthful, precise, complete and current information. The user shall be responsible for damages that may occur to Ars Veterinaria or third parties as a result of a failure to do so.
How long do we keep this information?
The personal information shall be kept in compliance with prescribed applicable legal time limits.
Recipients. To whom will the information be provided?
This information will be processed by Ars Veterinaria S.L.P. and the Guarantor's partners if necessary and shall be bound by professional secrecy in order to provide the requested service.
Rights. What are your rights when you provide us with your personal information?
Every person has the right to obtain confirmation as to whether Ars Veterinaria is processing their personal information. Interested parties have the right to access their personal information as well as to request corrections to inaccurate data or, to have them suppressed if they are not relevant to the purposes for which they were collected. They always have the right to information, access, rectification, opposition, suppression, limitation on processing and transferability of personal information that has been provided to us as established in General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679. They can do this by contacting info@arsveterinaria.es, or in writing at their business address at Calle dels Cavallers, number 37, 08034, Barcelona.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on the user's computer and allow for the guarantor of the service to improve interaction between visitors and the website. In some cases, the placement of these cookies requires the consent of the user.
There are different types of cookies, those that are affected by the Law and those that are not affected by the Law:
Cookies not affected:
Technical: necessary for navigation. Without them the website will not operate properly.
Personalization or settings: allows the site to recognize the user's language, letter size, etc.
Security: prevents attacks and makes attacks on the website or its users more difficult.
Cookies affected:
Analytics: allows measurement of user activity and creates navigation statistics.
Advertising: manages advertising frequency and content.
Monitoring: stores information on the users to provide personalized advertising.
The Ars Veterinaria website uses Google Analytics, a website analytical service provided by Google, Inc., a Delaware corporation whose principal place of business is 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google").
Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer to help the website analyze how you navigate the website. The information generated by the cookie about the use of the website (including IP address) will be directly transmitted and archived by Google in its servers in the United States. Google will use this information for our account to follow your usage on the website, compile reports on website activity and provide other services related to the activity on the website and Internet use. When you visit the Ars Veterinaria website, some cookies will not be installed by us, but instead by third parties. For example, if you click on an advertisement by a third party that appears on the website (in other words, one that advertises a product that we sell), this third party may install cookies on your device. We have a business relationship with these third parties but we do not install their cookies on your device. Therefore, we suggest that you go to the websites of these third parties to obtain more information on the cookies they install and how you can manage them.
List of cookies
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage?hl=es-419
You can refuse to have your data or information processed by choosing to reject the use of cookies in the settings of your browser. However, you should know that if you do so you will may not be able to fully use this website. While using this website you agree to the processing of your information by Google for the purposes indicated above.
To disable/enable cookies on your device, you must do so through your Internet browser. Below, we explain how you can manage cookies in your computer in the most popular browsers. If you would like more information on how to manage cookies on your tablet and/or mobile device, check with their user guides or help resources online.
In the settings menu, select "Show Advanced Settings" in the lower part of the page.
Select "Content Settings" in the Privacy and Security section.
The section in the upper part of the page provides you with information on cookies and allows you to adjust the settings for the cookies that you want. It also allows you to delete any cookie that you have stored.
Select "Options" in the tools menu.
Select the Privacy tag in the Options box.
Choose "Use Customs Settings for History". This will show the cookies options and you will be able to either enable them or disable them by checking the appropriate box.
Select "Internet Options" in the tools menu.
Click on the Privacy tab.
You will see a slider for setting privacy that has six positions allowing you to control the number of cookies to be installed: block all cookies, high, medium high, medium (default setting), low and accept all cookies.
Safari browser
Select the "Preferences" option in the settings menu.
Open the Privacy tab.
Select the option you prefer in the "Block Cookies" section.
All other browsers
If you want to obtain information on how to manage cookies in other browsers, please look at the user guides or help files online.
How to disable/enable third-party cookies
We do not install third-party cookies. Therefore, we suggest that you go to the third-party websites to obtain information on how the cookies are installed and how to manage them.
If you continue, the unsaved data of the current resource will be lost
Are you sure you want to delete the resource?
Changes have been made to the resource. Exit anyway?
Are you sure you want to publish the resource?
Title: (Mandatory)
If you continue the image will be deleted from ALL LANGUAGES
Are you sure you want to delete the image?
Introduce un título Introduce un enlace
Are you sure you want to DEACTIVATE the user??
Are you sure you want to DELETE the user?
This action can not be undone
Are you sure you want to ACTIVATE the user??
Do you want to send an email to the user?
¿Seguro que quiere eliminar el video?
Fill in all required fields marked in red
URLs that already exist for other resources have been detected
Saving a URL for several resources would cause non-controllable behavior in web navigation
Tip: Choose a unique and informative URL for each resource
Nombre del campo (único)
El nombre es obligatorio El nombre ya está usado
Dato requerido
Párrafo
Tipo especial
Email Teléfono DNI Fecha
Los siguientes campos sirven para la validación del campo
Fecha válida desde Hasta
Mínimo Mánimo
Introduce las opciones del selector separadas por comas Ej: "opcion1,opcion2,..."
Introduce las opciones separadas por comas Ej: "opcion1,opcion2,..."
{{#forms}} {{titulo}} {{/forms}}
Some of the fields have not been filled in correctly
Put attention at the fields marked in red and try again
Remember that we are available to you through our chat!
{{#galeries}} {{titulo}} {{/galeries}}
{{/imagenes_galeria}}
We are open to the public from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. (by appointment).
Our emergency staff is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
CLIENT PARKING AVAILABLE FROM 8 A.M. TO 4 P.M.
OPEN 24H ALL YEAR ROUND
OWN PARKING
best facilities
more equipment
more professionals at your service
OPEN 24 h ALL YEAR ROUND
EMERGENCIES 93 285 84 00
CARRER DELS CAVALLERS, 37
info@arsveterinaria.es
This site uses cookies to offer a more personalized experience. You can obtain more information on cookies in our Cookies Policy. Click "yes" to keep browsing if you accept the cookies policy.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line29
|
__label__cc
| 0.698882
| 0.301118
|
Home » News » 621 Opening Receptions | Dec. 2016
621 Opening Receptions | Dec. 2016
This December, 621 Gallery is excited to share three new exhibitions by artists local and regional!
Amy Fleming:
Amy Fleming grew up wanting to be an archeologist. Although life went in another direction, she maintains her love of found objects and the stories behind them. Anything that shows its history through damage, dents, fire, wind, rain and sun are especially interesting.
I spend a lot of time in the woods near my home in north Florida, digging through old dumpsites and collecting bones after deer hunting season ends. There is often a theme to the discards I find out there: a toaster next a coffee percolator and a shot up refrigerator, or a busted up typewriter with a ruined time clock, maybe a side view mirror and a piece of a car horn. There are plenty of interesting discards around the city as well: broken bird baths, vintage floor waxers, and damaged toys left on the curb to be either rescued by my pick up truck or carried off by city services, whoever gets there first. I pull these things out of the ground and off of the curb, and imagine the stories behind them. Sometimes my own stories find their way in.
Printmaking was my first love as an artist, and is the primary medium in my newest series of print and print based collages that focus on ageism. Our Lady of the Salvage Yard is the first of this series, depicting an older woman resplendent in a halo of transmissions and radiator hoses and a crown of headlights. The project entails photographing people 60 years of age and older – the older the better. Age is the only restriction for participants in this project, ethnicity and gender remain open, although the images will primarily focus on women as the primary targets of this form of discrimination.
http://amyflemingstudio.com
Kathleen Staples: Breakthrough (Miami, FL) featuring tactile and materially driven paintings will be installed in the front Main Gallery, an immersive, forced perspective installation by Cornelia Oliver: KORNELIAHAUS (Tallahassee, FL) will be featured in the back Main Gallery, and Amy Fleming: All Your Dream Furniture (Tallahassee, FL) will be showing dioramas assembled with recovered, printed, and handmade materials and screen prints in The Nan Boynton Memorial Gallery!
An artist talk by Amy Fleming will be begin at 6pm in the Nan Boynton Memorial Gallery!
Kathleen Staples:
Kathleen Staples was born in Mexico and has traveled extensively. She earned her BFA at Parson’s School of Design and her MFA at the University of Miami, where she teaches art. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions and is in many private collections. Awards include the Individual Artist Fellowship from the State of Florida.
These paintings are abstract in style and created using water-based acrylic paint, exploring the extraordinary variety of visual effects available in this material. I work with fluid paint, wet on wet, that behaves with many watery characteristics. Water is colorless, reflecting the blue sky or the flaming sunset. It floods and surges, so I pour and push the paint in an expressive “go with the flow” metaphor. Each layer I paint interacts with the layer underneath and the one above, and layers of fluid paint suspended in acrylic medium laid down at different stages of dryness create different transparency, surface effects, and texture.
When I tip the work surface to make the paint flow and blow paint across the picture with a powerful fan the paint moves differently at different viscosities. Surrendering to this flow of wet paint rather than shaping it with my hand makes me feel that I am working with natural forces such as those that shaped the earth. The paintings have rough, expressive surfaces that evoke the surfaces of natural terrain, in an exaggerated, fantastic, sense; these parallel the natural forces of landscape.
I find the process-based development and resolution of these paintings a very exciting and rewarding experience. I am continually surprised at how each painting resolves itself, independent of my control. Just as being in the natural element of water is an experience that is all encompassing: the floating, the sinking, the loss of control in the current that takes me somewhere else, so is it when I am in the process of painting. I have the sensation of being one small thing in the immensity of the creative process. Water is transparent and also conceals the deep. My paintings express my wonder at the beauty of the surface and also attempt to reveal a glimpse of the sublime as landscapes of my inner creative self. I intuitively express this with color, the “soul” of the painting.
Cornelia Oliver:
Cornelia Oliver is a Gulf Coast artist who came to Albuquerque to complete her MFA at the University of New Mexico.
The cultural fabric of her childhood in the Deep South and the people, textures, and colors of the places she has visited have had a lasting influence on who she is and the art she creates.
Through the use of evocative imagery, Cornelia feels an artist not only tells a story, but allows each person to interpret and find their own truth in a work; believing this to be the moment in which the work has, in fact, become real. Pablo Picasso stated, “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” Cornelia’s art reflects this same spirit and drive.
Art is the reflection of a creative dialogue with another human being. It speaks to provoke, tease, sooth, and most of all, challenge the viewer in an ever expanding globalized world culture.
To be successful, a piece must connect to a fundamental emotive strain within the viewer: In essence, my fabricated reality becomes an accepted and binding truth. In my work I very much hope to gain perspective on not only my own sense of self as an artist, but on what it means to be an artist today, and where we blur the lines between different fields of study in observation, architecture, experimentation, mimesis and representation.
I seek to emancipate viewers from their specific surroundings while uniting them, through material exploration, color, pattern, immediacy and visual commentary, to embrace a larger moment in human existence. It is this moment where I create my truth amongst the existing realities today.
About KORNELIAHAUS:
After years of work I have just launched “KORNELIAHAUS: Home”, my immersive and interactive painting space. This experiential artwork is meant to serve as a pop- up outpost of my movable empire of me. It is a crossover piece combining architecture, theater, performance, design, and fine art, and ultimately a delving into identity through memory and touch.
http://www.corneliaoliver.com
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line30
|
__label__wiki
| 0.769969
| 0.769969
|
Posts tagged “Robyn Slogget”
Connoisseurship: Examinations, Debates and Snap Visual Responses
The rising tide of old master “sleepers” and “discoveries” carries great dangers and demands snap judgements. Some candidates for upgrades intrigue, some look dubious, some scream “Fake!” Last week two cases caught our eye.
Fig. 1, above. Fig. 2, below. The newly discovered “Lost” Van Gogh sketchbook (above, top) rang our and many other fake bells. Then came a report that a small “Florentine School” painting on a €3-4k estimate fetched €375k at auction as a sleeping Filippino Lippi (above, Fig. 1). A link to another small work attributed to the artist at the North Carolina Museum of Art (Fig. 2, below) showed pronounced, seemingly reassuring correspondences, but something jarred.
On connoisseurship we hold that every claimant work should be rigorously “interrogated” in three crucial respects. Technically, in its physical composition; by documentation on its known or claimed histories (provenance); and, above all, by visual analysis because, in the visual arts, every picture is its own prime historical document and its inbuilt historically-generated artistic relationships constitute the primary subject of art critical appraisal and evaluation.
Failure to excise bad attributions deceives the public and corrupts oeuvres. A good picture has nothing to fear from challenges. No amount of scrutiny constitutes a threat as good pictures outlive their doubters and can fight another day. Argument is healthy and a successfully repulsed challenge can increase understanding and enhance a good picture’s lustre.
Vincent van Gogh: The Lost Arles Sketchbook
Above, Fig. 3. The controversial lost-but-now-found Van Gogh sketch book above is by Professor Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, a Van Gogh authority whose claims of authenticity are supported by Ronald Pickvance, author of Van Gogh in Arles, but the cover’s supposed Van Gogh ink self-portrait announces itself as a draughtsman’s pastiche, as Mark Hudson noted in the Daily Telegraph (“A romantic story but can it really live up to its promise?”, 16 November 2016).
Above, Fig. 4. Simply by placing the supposed Van Gogh self-portrait next to an autograph portrait, immense and glaring differences become apparent: the author of the “discovered” drawing has abandoned symmetry with eyes of radically different sizes and a nose that seems product of a car crash. Throughout, the author mimics Van Gogh’s pen marks without comprehension of his form, power of design, and psychological acuity.
Above, Fig. 5. Instead of a form-camouflaging jumble of marks, the bona fide Van Gogh disports five graphically discrete component parts: a light-coloured jacket; a dark shirt and scarf; a varied but, on aggregate, mid-toned face; a light-toned hat with some mid and dark-toned form articulating shading; and, throwing all other values into relief, an agitated but tonally cohering background. Each of these spheres is allotted its own graphically purposive notations. The four images we show above for comparison are easily found online in historically successive reproductions. While these reproductions vary considerably, the force and artistic coherence of Van Gogh’s graphic intent and method shines through all.
Above, Fig. 6. If we place the bona fide Van Gogh between the clumsy mimicking newcomer and a masterpiece of the greatest graphic brilliance – van Dyck’s etched self-portrait – it is clear that the Van Gogh has more kinship with the latter than with the former.
Above, Fig. 7. And if we compare the Van Gogh with an entirely autograph van Dyck etched state of a figure we find a common use of a toned background that throws both subjects’ flickeringly brilliant lights and darks into relief.
The Van Gogh Museum’s objections to the “Lost Arles Sketchbook” and its track record on Van Gogh attributions
Above, Fig. 8. Prof. Welsh-Ovcharov (top) has responded to the Van Gogh Museum’s dismissal of the drawings with a rebuttal and a challenge to debate – thereby showing conviction and good faith. Her publisher reportedly characterises the proposed debate as “an opportunity to shed light on the conditions under which the Van Gogh Museum is claiming the de facto right to a monopoly of attribution.” This is a common plaint against authorities that block would-be, high-value attributions but our impression of the museum’s judgements is favourable.
In 2006 a Van Gogh – The “Head of a Man” owned by the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia (above left, on an easel) – was challenged by the art historian and Sunday Times art critic Frank Whitford when the portrait was loaned to an exhibition in Edinburgh. The newspaper asked our opinion and, when we demurred, sent a (revelatory) high resolution full colour compilation of all of Van Gogh’s painted portraits. We supported Whitford, saying to the newspaper (as reported in ArtWatch UK Journal, Spring 2008):
“The specific warning signs that should have alerted the buyer are:
“1] It is unique in Van Gogh’s portrait oeuvre
“2] It does not fit in the stylistic chronology that exists within that oeuvre. Compare it for example with the brushwork, colours and ‘attack’ of the Old Man with Beard, painted the year before that is in the Van Gogh Museum, and the Portrait of Camille Roulin painted a year or so later and that is also in the museum. There is an enormous but clear and logical development between those two pictures, from thick, laboured, relatively coarse brushwork to much more refined and ‘decorative’ marks – but both are entirely consistent and ‘all-over’ in their treatment.
“3] If its provenance goes back no further than Germany in the late 20s or early 30s, that is particularly unfortunate. Germany at the time was notorious for the certification by scholars (for a fee or sales cut) of dud works. The dealer René Gimpel has referred to the scandalous ‘amounts obtained by means of certificates given daily by German experts to German dealers. Just as there were paper marks, so there are paper canvases, an easy way of bringing dollars into Germany…The German title of Doktor impresses the Americans. The museums are even more intent than the collectors on defending their fakes or their mistaken attributions….’ By coincidence, in the current ArtWatch Journal [No 21], Kasia Pisarek cites the case of the great Rubens scholar Ludwig Burchard who issued so many optimistic certificates that he was unable ever to write his definitive book on the artist…She has identified over 60 Burchard attributions that have subsequently fallen. It was Burchard who first upgraded to Rubens the Samson and Delilah that is now in the National Gallery.
“I would add that the fact that it seems to be admitted that it is a cut-down canvas that was glued onto a panel compounds suspicions… Why should a (presumably) then only forty years old canvas, have needed gluing onto a secondary support? It might be worth asking the Gallery curators if any scholar has questioned the picture publicly or privately.
“It may be coincidence, but two of the pictures that ArtWatch has challenged in our own National Gallery, the Rubens Samson and Delilah and the Raphael Madonna of the Pinks, no longer retain their original backs. The former was planed down to 2 or 3mm thickness and glued onto a sheet of blockboard; with the latter, the family of restorers who sold the picture in the 19th century had (most unusually) polished the back of the panel thereby removing all historical evidence.”
As we have seen more recently, the claimed lost Leonardo drawing “La Bella Principessa” that emerged anonymously in 1998 had been glued to an old oak panel. Gluing canvases or drawings onto boards conceals half the material evidence. On 3 August 2007 Andrew Bolt reported in the Australian Herald Sun:
“The curious thing about the National Gallery of Victoria’s fake van Gogh is how easily it was spotted as phoney once it went on tour…. For more than 60 years this painting hung in the NGV without anyone screaming ‘Fake!’ True, a few experts now say they had their doubts, but it was only when the NGV proudly loaned its ‘van Gogh’ to Scotland’s Dean Gallery last year that the painting was denounced. Three British critics took one look at it and snorted… Even then, there were some back in Melbourne who couldn’t accept the evidence of their own eyes, as ABC Television’s 7.30 Report found:
“‘Two of the critics include Michael Daley from ArtWatch UK and Times art critic Frank Whitford. But Robyn Sloggett [an art authentication expert at Melbourne University] has questioned their expertise. ROBYN SLOGGETT: I don’t think either of them are Van Gogh experts, certainly not known to be such…[Director of the National Gallery of Victoria] DR GERARD VAUGHAN: It is a slightly offbeat picture. It doesn’t fit into the natural progression of Van Gogh’s work at that time because it was a moment in late ’86 and into early 1887 where he was experimenting with two or three different styles. In many ways, this is slipping back into his earlier realist style of the mid 1880s where he concentrates and uses these earthier ochre colours. It is a transitional picture.’”
“Conceived at special moments” and “sometimes repeating, sometimes anticipating themselves” are commonplace apologias for disqualifying incongruities in upgrades. In 1997 and 2000 the National Gallery claimed its Rubens Samson and Delilah did not look like any other Rubens in the gallery because it was “the only work in this collection typical of the artist when he had returned from Italy in 1608”. In truth the painting was unlike the (secure) one that immediately preceded it and unlike the (secure) one that immediately followed. If a Rubens, it would be the only one on which he employed flat brushes and painted finger tips with rectangular highlights. During ABC Television’s 7 August 2006 programme (“NGV’s Van Gogh Labelled a fake”), James Mollison, a former NGV director said: “This picture has been doubted by people very often.”
The upshot of the controversy was that the NGV director announced that such was the gallery’s confidence that the painting would be submitted (voluntarily) to full technical examination at the Van Gogh Museum. A year later the Herald Sun reported the attribution’s demise at the Van Gogh Museum:
“The Dutch team used X-radiograph, digital photographs, light microscopy and paint and thread analysis. Among conclusions were: THE work’s ground layer of white paint is not found in Van Gogh’s Antwerp and Paris works. ITS use of pure ochre is not found in other Van Gogh work. THE portrait shows just the top of the man’s shoulders. Van Gogh usually showed more of the clothes. “A COMBINATION of a fairly coarse and detailed painting style”, with more detail in the mouth, eyes, skin and beard than Van Gogh used. NO reference to the portrait or the sitter in Van Gogh’s extensive letters. The experts also noted no record of the work could be found before 1928, when it appeared at Berlin’s Galerie Goldschmidt and Co.”
The Rubens Samson and Delilah emerged in Germany the following year at Van Diemen and Benedict where it was offered as a Honthorst before being upgraded by Ludwig Burchard. Previously it had been attributed to Jan van den Hoecke, a follower of Rubens. Burchard had recently upgraded the supposed Rubens ink sketch design for the Samson and Delilah (see Art’s Toxic Assets and a Crisis of Connoisseurship ~ Part II: Paper – sometimes photographic – Fakes and the Demise of the Educated Eye ).
The Newly Upgraded Filippino Lippi
Above, Fig. 9. At first glance the awakened “Filippino Lippi” (above right) seems more plausible than the new Van Gogh drawings – especially when linked to a work attributed to the painter at the North Carolina Museum of Art (above left). In terms of palette, condition and design the two seem as peas in a pod but this closely related pair triggers no recollections of anything similar in the artist’s oeuvre. If their strikingly common format suggests original incorporation in a larger work, disjunctive variations in their parapet walls and stone inscription tablets dispels the possibility. Most inexplicably of all, the new upgrade is incongruously modernist in its emphatic planar and ‘on-the-picture-surface’ geometrical vocabulary.
Above, Fig. 10. In 1901 the painting of Saints Uraldus and Fridianus was sold (not as a Philippino Lippi but as a Masaccio) to an English aristocrat, the Earl of Ashburnham. As with the recently proposed Haddo House Raphael (Fig. 10 above), there is little on the panel’s back other than a label in English for an exhibition of “Early Italian Art” (Fig. 10 top). For the Carolina Saint Donatus, the museum offers only a date – “circa 1490” – and the identity of the picture’s donor, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Such lacunae are perplexing because Filippino Lippi is a well-chronicled artist whose securely attributed works might easily be brought into direct comparison with the two more recent attributions.
Above, Fig. 11. The backs of attribution upgrades often prove problematic, and none was more so than the small panel “discovered” as a Duccio Madonna and Child (above right) in 1904 after having been bought in an antiques shop in Italy. It was then rarely seen until bought with fanfare (but no technical examinations) for $50m in 2004 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in a blind “treaty” sale conducted by an auction house among a few leading museums shortly after the picture was withdrawn from an imminent comparative exhibition of Duccio and his followers that would have introduced the painting to many scholars for the first time and in an instructive context. That withdrawal – despite the painting’s inclusion in the catalogue – might have been made out of fear of repeating the demise of the owners’ second Duccio, as described below.
The back of the tiny picture had been cradled with no fewer than eight mahogany bars and when these were later removed at the Met. a hand-written ascription to Duccio’s pupil “Segna” was found on the bare poplar wood from which painted work had been stripped. The Met Duccio contained modern wire nails, a fact not acknowledged in the museum’s post-purchase technical examination reports. When we asked after the antiquity of the nails the museum claimed they had been inserted as repairs after the panel had been cradled in the 1930s. As “proof” of that unsupported chronology it was said that one of the nails had entered one of the mahogany bars. However, as we pointed out, the head of that particular nail had been visible on the front of the frame throughout all of picture’s photographically recorded history and, while some nail heads were visible most were not and therefore had been applied before the (now heavily distressed) frame was gessoed and gilded. Thus, the panel arrived in the world at the beginning of the 20th century with modern nails intersecting a cradle that concealed an awkward ascription on a stripped-down back.
Above, Fig 12. A face painted in the 14th century by a follower of Duccio (identified by Pèleo Bacci as Segna) is shown above to the right of the face of the Met’s Duccio as it was before restorations established the blue of the Virgin’s mantle to be azurite, not the requisite ultramarine. No one ever suggested that the painting on the right was by Duccio and no one judged the Met’s picture an autograph Duccio before Bernard Berenson’s wife (Mary) in 1904 with the support of Berenson’s protégé Frederic Mason Perkins. An earlier suggestion had been that it was a work of Sano di Pietro, as Frances Vieta discovered in researches at the Frick Library, New York, that were kindly made available to us.
In 1933 Perkins attributed a second Madonna and Child to Duccio and persuaded the then owner of the Met.’s Ducio (the Belgian collector, Adolphe Stoclet) to buy it. In 1989 that Duccio was loaned to the Cleveland Museum of Art and was there identified on technical examination by Gianni Mazzoni as a fake by Icilio Federico Joni who ran a forgery factory fronted by middlemen, one of whom was Berenson’s protégé Frederic Mason Perkins.
Above, Fig. 13. A cult of Supreme Art Historical Importance was activated around the Met. Duccio and part of this mythology rested on the picture’s supposedly miraculously well-preserved, little-restored, condition. Comparison of the photographs above showing its present state (right) and an earlier state (left) discloses how extensively the work has been repainted – note the altered design of the dominant eye, and the extensive reworking of the veil. The potentially falsifying nature of restorations when determining attributions remains a conspicuously under-examined area – as does the extent and nature of repainting on stripped-down “sleepers”. (But see “A restorer’s aim – The fine line between retouching and forgery”. For a fuller account of the Met.’s Duccio difficulties, see Michael Daley: “Buyer Beware”; “Good Buy Duccio?” and “Toxic Attributions?” in the Jackdaw magazine issues of Nov/Dec. 2008, Jan/Feb. 2009, and March/April 2009.)
The Newly Upgraded Filippino Lippi (continued)
Above, Fig. 14. With the two small “Filippino Lippi” pictures at Fig. 9 and below, top, said to have been painted between 1490 to 1494, precise stylistic comparisons can be made with securely attributed works in the oeuvre. What is believed to be Filippino Lippi’s self-portrait above was executed by the artist in 1481-1482 in the Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence.
Above, Fig. 15. Filippino Lippi’s Apparition of the Virgin to St Bernard of 1480-86 was said by Bernard Berenson (in his 1938 revised Drawings of the Florentine Painters) to comprise “Filippino’s masterpiece, the last picture in which he is still a pure Quattrocentist, in which there is no sense of the Baroque.” Is it conceivable that some years later this artist painted the two small pictures shown here above the Apparition? Berenson reports that Filippino went on to betray excesses, not to purge and severely abstract his pictorial vocabulary: “Filippino’s Baroque, however had little in common with the qualities of the genuine [Baroque] style, and much with its worst vices. These were the sins of extravagance, of wantonness – the vulgarity of the newly enriched, who feel life is enhanced by the mere act of showy spending.”
Above, Fig. 16. At the top we see how Filippino Lippi painted books before 1486 in his Apparition of the Virgin to St Bernard and before his lapse into Baroque excesses. In this secure work we not only see great technical accomplishment but a fascination with the very means by which books were stitched together in assembled folded sections. Is it conceivable that after this tour de force celebration of the book binder’s craft skills Filippino should have been satisfied with the out-of-perspective simplifications of books in the Saint Uraldus? While the opened book has been painted in utter ignorance of book binding methods, the ochre coloured book at the bottom left of the pile has managed to anticipate to a remarkable degree the appearance of a neat modern machine-bound book.
Above, Fig. 17. Again, does the chasm of technique and sophistication in this further comparison from the Apparition and the Saint Uraldus not strain credulity at claims of a common author?
Above, Fig. 18. By 1493-94 the artist had completed his Madonna and Child with St Catherine of Alexandria and St Martin of Tours as above and we see precisely the over-elaboration Berenson castigated as Filippino’s squandering “like a nabob with a heady disorderliness all the decorative motives which the heritage of antiquity, the hard earnings of his precursors, and his own fancy had put into his hands.”
Above, Fig. 19. How conceivable is it that Filippino might, at the same short period, have made two so diverse treatments of a man parting drapery with an advancing left arm as in these two paintings? In the one the “Blanket-like drapery dear to Filippino” (in Berenson’s term), curves, twists and folds naturally across the body, while in the other it moves as if fabricated by a former sheet metal worker with little regard for any underlying body, or even for the means by which the glimpsed parts of the (wildly varying) decorative border of the cope might ever have been united as woven material. Why the arbitrary, asymmetrical placement of indeterminate embroidered decorations on the cope’s border? What holds the cope together? Is it a giant garnet or ruby, or a small tambourine? Where else in Filippino might we encounter such flattening abstractions and lax indeterminacy of depiction?
Above, Fig. 20. If the logic and treatment of Saint Donatus’ cope border (above, left) seems plausible and suitably understated, what might have carried the same artist to the Byzantine and conceptually irresolvable twin conundrums of the cope border as encountered on Saint Uraldus (above right)? What accounts for the very different depictions of the inscribed tablets on the parapet wall? If that of Saint Donatus is somewhat overly monumental and set uncomfortably close to the top of the parapet, at least it is sculpturally resolved and satisfactorily symmetrical along its horizontal axis with its twin decorative “butterfly wings” termini. Why, then, would the twinned tablets of Saints Uraldus and Fridianus meet in the middle with single butterfly-wing termini while leaving blank endings at the outer edges of the picture’s composition? Why are these two inscribed tablets skimped and devoid of projection when the saints above are greatly more dynamic and humanly engaged – almost as if in anticipation of Raphael’s later depicted dialogue between Aristotle and Plato?
Below, Fig. 21. What theological reading of Saint Uraldus’ life prompted the vast frilled neck lizard-like display of the cope’s pink lining below? If intentionally “Baroque” in its explosive ostentation and theatrical impact, why, then, its implausible combining with a geometric severity of draperies that are more snapped than folded?
With such bizarrely anomalous visual constructs, might it not be prudent to consider the waking “Filippino Lippi” sleeper as a possible product of the late 19th and early 20th century Italian forgeries boom that was tailor-made for British and American collectors? We know that many skilful artists were employed in that trade because when the Italian Government proposed stringent export taxes in 1903 to stem the country’s out-flow of art treasures, the Florentine art dealers association petitioned that the new laws would throttle the large and thriving trade in forged art and antiquities for foreign collectors. (Where did all those often excellent works go?)
At the December 2015 ArtWatch UK/LSE Law/NY Center for Art Law conference Art, Law and Crises of Connoisseurship (the proceedings of which will be published shortly), Professor Charles Hope pointed out how effectively 20th century scholarship had winnowed previously overblown numbers of Titians, Raphaels and such. Markets are good things and the London art market has long been a very good (much envied in Europe) force for Britain, but there are developing dangers. If perceptions were to grow that previously downgraded works are being systematically rehabilitated through “sleeper-discovery” mechanisms at a time when leading houses are fighting to the death for pole position on market share, confidence in the lots on offer might evaporate. Already, certain external structural changes are weakening the London market’s traditional and much-valued symbiotic relationship with disinterested scholarship. Increasing litigation by owners against dissenting independent scholars suppresses debate and frank expert appraisal. In a paper at our conference (“Throwing the baby out with the bath water – the Demise of Connoisseurship since the 1980s”), Brian Allen, former director of studies at the Mellon Centre, warned that recent changes of philosophy and views on connoisseurship in the academic world are greatly reducing the traditionally available body of disinterested academic expertise that counterbalances purely commercial interests:
“In my own field of British art the number of so-called ‘experts’ has now diminished alarmingly as the older generation dies off not to be replaced. It seems extraordinary to me that major artists such as Stubbs, Wright of Derby and Sir Thomas Lawrence, to name but three, don’t have an acknowledged expert to whom one can turn for a reasonably reliable, independent opinion. And this has also certainly happened in other specialist fields… Younger scholars nowadays, especially those in the universities, have almost no contact whatsoever with the art trade compared to fifty years ago. Yet for many years it was perfectly possible for the two worlds to co-exist harmoniously.”
Michael Daley 23 November 2016
November 23, 2016 | Categories: blog | Tags: "La Bella Principessa", Andrew Bolt, Bernard Berenson, Brian Allen, Dr Gerard Vaughan, Duccio Madonna and Child, Frances Vieta, Frank Whitford, Frederic Mason Perkins, Gianni Mazzoni, Icilio Federico Joni, James Mollison, Kasia Pisarek, Ludwig Burchard, Mark Hudson, Mary Berenson, Michael Daley, National Gallery of Victoria, North Carolina Museum, Philippino Lippi, Prof. Charles Hope, Prof. Welsh-Ovcharov, Raphael 'Madonna of the Pinks', Rene Gimpel, Robyn Slogget, Ronald Pickvance, Rubens' "Samson and Delilah", The Metropolitan Duccio, The Van Gogh Museum, van Dyck etchings, Van Gogh's Arles Sketchbook controversy | Leave A Comment »
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line33
|
__label__wiki
| 0.749856
| 0.749856
|
Clive Cussler is the author or co-author of more than 50 books in five bestselling series, including Dirk Pitt, The NUMA Files, The Oregon Files, Isaac Bell and the Fargo Adventures. His nonfiction works include BUILT FOR ADVENTURE: The Classic Automobiles of Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt, plus THE SEA HUNTERS and THE SEA HUNTERS II. They describe the true adventures of the real NUMA, which, led by Cussler, searches for lost ships of historic significance. With his crew of volunteers, Cussler has discovered more than 60 ships, including the long lost Confederate ship Hunley. He lives in Arizona.
Books by Clive Cussler
The Titanic Secret
by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul - Adventure, Crime, Fiction, Historical Thriller, Suspense, Thriller
A century apart, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt and detective Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about the most famous maritime disaster of all time. In the present day, Pitt makes a daring rescue from inside an antiquated submersible in the waters off New York City. His reward afterwards is a document left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell --- a document that re-opens a historical mystery...
The Oracle: A Sam and Remi Fargo Adventure
by Clive Cussler and Robin Burcell - Adventure, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
In 533 A.D., the last Vandal ruler in North Africa consults an oracle on how to defeat the invading Byzantine army. The oracle tells the king that a high priestess cast a curse upon the Vandal Kingdom after a sacred scroll was stolen. In order to lift the curse, the scroll must be returned to its rightful home. But the kingdom falls before the scroll is found, leaving its location a great mystery…until a current-day archaeological dig, funded by Sam and Remi Fargo, uncovers some vital clues. The search for the ancient scroll is put on hold when the Fargos learn that a shipment of supplies intended for their charitable foundation's school has been stolen, and they travel to Nigeria to deliver new supplies themselves. But their mission becomes infinitely more complicated when they run afoul of a band of robbers.
The Gray Ghost: A Sam and Remi Fargo Adventure
In 1906, a groundbreaking Rolls-Royce prototype known as the Gray Ghost vanishes from the streets of Manchester, England, and it is only the lucky intervention of an American detective named Isaac Bell that prevents it from being lost forever. However, not even he can save the good name of Marcus Peyton, the man wrongly blamed for the theft. More than a hundred years later, it is his grandson who turns to Sam and Remi Fargo to help prove his grandfather's innocence. But there is even more at stake than any of them know. For the car has vanished again, and in it is an object so rare that it has the capacity to change lives.
Celtic Empire: A Dirk Pitt Novel
by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler - Adventure, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
The murders of a team of United Nations scientists in El Salvador. A deadly collision in the waterways off the city of Detroit. An attack by tomb raiders on an archaeological site along the banks of the Nile. Is there a link between these violent events? The answer may lie in the tale of an Egyptian princess forced to flee the armies of her father 3,000 years ago. During what was supposed to be a routine investigation in South America, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt finds himself embroiled in an international mystery, one that will lead him across the world and will threaten everyone and everything he knows --- most importantly, his own family.
The Rising Sea: A Kurt Austin Adventure
by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown - Adventure, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
An alarming rise in the world's sea levels sends Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala and the rest of the NUMA scientific team rocketing around the globe in search of answers. What they find at the bottom of the East China Sea, however, is even worse than they imagined: a diabolical plan to upset the Pacific balance of power --- and in the process displace as many as a billion people. A rare alloy unlike anything else on earth, a pair of 500-year-old Japanese talismans, an assassin so violent even the Yakuza has disowned him, an audacious technological breakthrough that will become a very personal nightmare for Kurt Austin --- the NUMA team must risk everything to head off the coming catastrophe.
Sea of Greed: A Novel from the Numa Files
After an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico destroys three oil rigs, Kurt Austin and the NUMA Special Projects Team are tapped by the President of the United States to find out what's gone wrong. The trail leads them to a brilliant billionaire whose goal is the end of the oil age; her company has spent billions developing the world’s most advanced fuel-cell systems. The NUMA crew discovers that the oil fields are infected with bacteria that are consuming the oil before it can be pumped out of the earth --- a bacteria originally lost decades ago when two submarines vanished in the Mediterranean. With hired killers on his trail, can Kurt Austin locate a submarine that's remained hidden for more than 50 years?
Typhoon Fury: A Novel of the Oregon Files
by Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison - Adventure, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
Hired to search for a collection of paintings worth half a billion dollars, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon soon find themselves in much deeper waters. The vicious leader of a Filipino insurgency is not only using them to finance his attacks, he has stumbled upon one of the most lethal secrets of World War II: a Japanese-developed drug, designed, but never used, to turn soldiers into super-warriors. To stop him, the Oregon must take on not only the rebel commander, but also a South African mercenary intent on getting his own hands on the drug, a massive swarm of torpedo drones targeting the U.S. Navy, an approaching megastorm --- and, just possibly, a war that could envelop the entire Asian continent.
Shadow Tyrants: A Novel of the Oregon Files
Nearly 2,000 years ago, an Eastern emperor charged a small group with safeguarding secrets powerful enough to change the history of mankind. They went down in legend as the Nine Unknown Men --- and now two rival factions of their descendants are fighting a mighty battle. Both sides think they are saving the world, but their tactics could very well bring about the end of humankind. Soon, Juan Cabrillo and his team of expert operatives aboard the Oregon find themselves trapped between two power-hungry adversaries, both of whom are willing to use shocking means to accomplish their goals.
The Romanov Ransom: A Sam and Remi Fargo Adventure
In 1918, a ransom of enormous size was paid to free the Romanovs from the Bolsheviks. But the Romanovs died anyway. And the ransom? During World War II, the Nazis stole it from the Russians, and after that, it vanished. Until now. When a modern-day kidnapping captures the attention of husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo, the couple soon learn that these long-lost riches may be back in play, held in trust by the descendants of a Nazi guerrilla faction called the Werewolves. It is their mission to establish the Fourth Reich, and their time is coming soon. This quest is greater than anything the Fargos have ever done; it is their chance to make someone answer for unspeakable crimes, and to prevent them from happening again.
Nighthawk: A Kurt Austin Adventure
When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly contest to locate the fallen machine. But they know what others don’t --- that the X-37 is carrying a dangerous secret, a payload of exotic matter, extracted from the upper reaches of the atmosphere and stored at a temperature near absolute zero. As long as it remains frozen, the cargo is inert, but if it thaws, it will unleash a catastrophe of nearly unthinkable proportions. The entire NUMA team will risk everything in an effort to avert disaster…but they may be caught in a race that no one can win.
The Cutthroat: An Isaac Bell Adventure
by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott - Adventure, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Thriller, Suspense, Thriller
Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before, but none quite like this. Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell gets a shock when her murdered body turns up instead. Vowing to bring the killer to justice, he begins a manhunt that leads him into increasingly more alarming territory. Petite young blond women like Anna are being murdered in cities across America, and the pattern goes beyond the physical resemblance of the victims. There are disturbing familiarities about the killings themselves that send a chill through even a man as experienced with evil as Bell.
Odessa Sea: A Dirk Pitt Novel
Dirk Pitt, the director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, is on the Black Sea, helping to locate a lost Ottoman shipwreck, when he responds to an urgent Mayday from a nearby freighter. But when he and his colleague Al Giordino arrive, there is nobody there --- just dead bodies and a smell of sulfur in the air. The more the two of them search for the secret of the death ship, the deeper they descend into an extraordinary series of discoveries. Meanwhile, Pitt’s two children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are exploring a mysterious shipwreck of their own, when they are catapulted into his orbit. The three of them are used to perilous situations --- but this time, they may have found their match.
Pirate: A Sam and Remi Fargo Adventure
When husband and wife treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo try something new, a relaxing vacation, a detour to visit a rare bookstore leads to the discovery of a dead body. All signs point to a book in the store that may contain a secret map, an actual, ink-on-paper guide to a historic fortune. The Fargos take up the challenge and find themselves flying from California to Arizona, from Jamaica to England. Racing against a vicious corporate raider with an unhealthy obsession for this particular treasure, Sam and Remi are slowed by a new betrayal at every turn. It can only mean one thing: someone on their team cannot be trusted.
The Emperor's Revenge: A Novel of the Oregon Files
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation’s accounts. To get the money back, Juan joins forces with an old friend from his days in the CIA so they can track down a rogue hacker and a ruthless former Ukrainian naval officer. It is only after the hunt begins that the enormity of the plan comes into focus: the bank theft is just the first step in a plot that will result in the deaths of millions and bring the world’s economies to a standstill. The catalyst for the scheme? A stunning document stolen during Napoleon’s disastrous invasion of Russia.
The Gangster: An Isaac Bell Adventure
It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special “Black Hand Squad,” but the gangsters appear to be everywhere --- so much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitators, criminals using the name for the terror effect. And then the murders begin, each one of a man more powerful than the last. As Bell discovers, to his dismay, the ultimate target may be the most powerful man of all.
The Pharaoh's Secret: A Kurt Austin Adventure
Kurt and Joe tangle with the most determined enemy they’ve ever encountered when a ruthless powerbroker schemes to build a new Egyptian empire as glorious as those of the Pharaohs. A devastating weapon at his disposal may threaten the entire world: a plant extract known as the black mist, rumored to have the power to take life from the living and restore it to the dead. Kurt, Joe and the rest of the NUMA team will have to fight to discover the truth behind the legends. But to do that, they have to confront in person the greatest legend of them all: Osiris, the ruler of the Egyptian underworld.
The Solomon Curse: A Sam and Remi Fargo Adventure
by Clive Cussler and Russell Blake - Adventure, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
There are many rumors about the bay off Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Some say it was the site of the lost empire of the Solomon king and that great treasure lies beneath the waters. Others say terrible things happened here, atrocities and disappearances at the hands of cannibal giants, and those who venture there do not return. It is cursed. Which is exactly what attracts the attention of husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo. What they find at the end of the trail is both wonderful and monstrous --- and like nothing they have ever seen before.
Piranha: A Novel of the Oregon Files
In 1902, the volcano Mt. Pelée erupts on the island of Martinique, wiping out an entire city --- and sinking a ship carrying a German scientist on the verge of an astonishing breakthrough. More than a century later, during a covert operation, Juan Cabrillo and the crew meticulously fake the sinking of the Oregon. But when an unknown adversary tracks them down despite their planning and attempts to assassinate them, Cabrillo and his team struggle to fight back against an enemy who seems to be able to anticipate their every move.
The Assassin: An Isaac Bell Adventure
Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell is investigating John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil monopoly, when a sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and it doesn’t stop there. The murders --- shootings, poisonings, staged accidents --- have just begun as Bell tracks his phantom-like criminal adversary across the U.S., to Russia’s war-torn Baku oil fields on the Caspian Sea, and back to America for a final, desperate confrontation. And this one will be the most explosive of all.
Havana Storm: A Dirk Pitt Novel
While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Dick Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous --- a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Meanwhile, Pitt’s children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are on an investigation of their own, which brings them both to Cuba as well --- and squarely into harm’s way.
The Eye of Heaven: A Fargo Adventure
Husband-and-wife team Sami and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic when they discover a Viking ship in the ice filled with pre–Columbian artifacts from Mexico. As they plunge into their research, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary Toltec feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl --- and a fabled object known as the Eye of Heaven --- begin to emerge. But so do many dangerous people.
Ghost Ship: A Kurt Austin Adventure
When Kurt Austin is injured attempting to rescue the passengers and crew from a sinking yacht, he wakes with fragmented and conflicted memories. Determined to know the truth, he begins to search for answers, and soon finds himself descending into a shadowy world of state-sponsored cybercrime and uncovering a pattern of vanishing scientists, suspicious accidents, and a web of human trafficking.
The Bootlegger: An Isaac Bell Adventure
When Isaac Bell’s boss and lifelong friend, Joseph Van Dorn, is shot and nearly killed leading the high-speed chase of a rum-running vessel, Bell swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers. When a witness to Van Dorn’s shooting is executed in a ruthlessly efficient manner invented by the Russian secret police, it becomes clear that these are no ordinary criminals. Bell is up against a team of Bolshevik assassins and saboteurs intent on overthrowing the U.S. government of the United States.
Mirage: A Novel of the Oregon Files
by Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul - Adventure, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
In October 1943, a U.S. destroyer sailed out of Philadelphia and supposedly vanished, the result of a Navy experiment with electromagnetic radiation. The story was considered a hoax --- but now Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon colleagues aren’t so sure. As Cabrillo races to find the truth, he discovers there is even more at stake than he could have imagined. But by the time he realizes it, he already may be too late.
The Mayan Secrets: A Fargo Adventure
by Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry - Adventure, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in Mexico, when they come upon a remarkable discovery --- the skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot, and within the pot, a Mayan book, larger than anyone has ever seen. The book contains astonishing information about the Mayans, their cities, and mankind itself. The secrets are so powerful that some people would do anything to possess them --- as the Fargos are about to find out.
Zero Hour: A Kurt Austin Adventure
Zero point energy is a state of energy contained in all matter everywhere. Nobody has ever found a way to tap into it --- until one scientist thinks he discovers a way. The problem is, his machines also cause great earthquakes, even fissures in tectonic plates. One machine is buried deep underground; the other is submerged in a vast ocean trench. If Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala and the rest of the NUMA team aren’t able to find and destroy them, the world will be on the threshold of a new era of earth tremors and unchecked volcanism.
The Striker: An Isaac Bell Adventure
It is 1902, and a bright, inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell has an urgent message for his boss. Hired to hunt for radical unionist saboteurs in the coal mines, he is witness to a terrible accident that makes him think that something else is going on. Given exactly one week to prove his case, Bell quickly finds himself pitted against two of the most ruthless opponents he has ever known.
Poseidon's Arrow: A Dirk Pitt Novel
It’s the greatest advance in American defense technology in decades --- an attack submarine capable of incredible underwater speeds. However, a key element of the prototype is missing, and the man who developed it is dead. At the same time, ships have started vanishing mid-ocean, usually never to be found again, but when they are, sometimes burned bodies are found aboard. It is up to NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his team to go on a desperate international chase to find the truth.
The Tombs: A Fargo Adventure
Husband-and-wife Sam and Remi Fargo and their friend hunt for Attila the Hun's tomb, which supposedly contained a vast amount of treasure. They follow a trail that leads them across the eastern hemisphere and pits them against others who are hungry for the Attila's treasure.
The Storm: A Kurt Austin Adventure
by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown - Fiction, Thriller
In the middle of the Indian Ocean, a NUMA research vessel is taking water samples at sunset, when a swarm of black particles suddenly attacks the ship, killing everyone aboard. A few hours later, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are on their way to the Indian Ocean. What they will find there on the smoldering hulk of the ship will eventually lead them to the discovery of the most audacious scheme they have ever known.
The Thief: An Isaac Bell Adventure
by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott - Adventure, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency's intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. What are they holding that is so precious? Only something that will revolutionize business and popular culture --- and perhaps something more.
Devil's Gate: A Kurt Austin Adventure
by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
When two ships burst into flames in the same location, Kurt Austin and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team rush to the eastern Atlantic region to investigate --- and find themselves drawn into an African dictator’s complex plot to extort the world’s major nations.
The Race: An Isaac Bell Adventure
by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott - Fiction, Thriller
It is 1910, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than 50 days. He is even sponsoring one of the prime candidates --- an intrepid woman named Josephine Frost --- and that's where Detective Isaac Bell, chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective Agency, comes in.
The Adventures of Hotsy Totsy
by Clive Cussler
The Kingdom: A Fargo Adventure
Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood - Fiction, Thriller
Sam and Remi Fargo are used to hunting for treasure, but they find themselves hunting for people when an investigator friend of theirs is deemed missing.
The Jungle: A Novel of the Oregon Files
Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul - Fiction, Thriller
Jungles come in many forms. There are the steamy rain forests of the Burmese highlands. There are the lies and betrayals of the world of covert operations. And there are the dark and twisted thoughts of a man bent on near-global domination. To pull off their latest mission, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must survive them all.
Crescent Dawn: A Dirk Pitt Novel
by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler - Fiction, Thriller
In the fourth Dirk Pitt novel from Cussler and son Dirk, evildoers Ozden Aktan Celik and his sister, Maria, who are bent on Muslim domination of the Middle East, plot to blow up sacred Muslim sites and pin the blame on the West.
Lost Empire: A Fargo Adventure
The Spy: An Isaac Bell Adventure
The Silent Sea: A Novel of the Oregon Files
by Clive Cussler - Fiction, Thriller
The Wrecker
Spartan Gold: A Fargo Adventure
Medusa: A Kurt Austin Adventure
Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos - Adventure, Fiction
Corsair: A Novel of the Oregon Files
Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul - Adventure, Fiction
Plague Ship a Novel of the Oregon Files
The Navigator: A Kurt Austin Adventure
by Clive Cussler - Adventure, Fiction
The Adventures of Vin Fiz
Treasure of Khan
by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler - Adventure, Fiction
Skeleton Coast: A Novel of the Oregon Files
by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul
Polar Shift: A Novel From the NUMA Files
Black Wind
Sacred Stone: A Novel From the Oregon Files
Clive Cussler and Craig Dirgo - Fiction, Thriller
Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos - Fiction, Suspense
Golden Buddha
The Sea Hunters Ii
by Clive Cussler - Nonfiction
More books by Clive Cussler »
Browse by last name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
View all by author »
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line38
|
__label__cc
| 0.746243
| 0.253757
|
The Road Ahead For Battlefield 1: Expansions And Celebrations
We Are Battlefield 1: Thanking Our Community
We hope you enjoyed the latest Battlefest and that you have discovered the Eastern Front in the extensive Battlefield 1 In the Name of the Tsar expansion.
There is plenty more coming for Battlefield 1. On the horizon is our third expansion, in-game events, updates, and even more celebrations. Read on and learn about the road ahead.
Prepare for Battlefield 1 Turning Tides
In December, you will be able to conquer the sea, air, and land in Battlefield 1 Turning Tides, the third Battlefield 1 expansion. With a focus on naval warfare, you’ll engage in the daredevil Zeebrugge Raid and the Gallipoli Offensive, with the British Royal Marines as a new playable faction. Prepare for new maps, weapons, vehicles and other content as you take on the amphibious expeditions of World War 1.
Learn more about Battlefield 1 Turning Tides and the other expansions
Battlefield Anniversary Events
Though our eyes are on the road ahead, it will soon be time to look back at the origin of Battlefield. Not only is Battlefield 1 approaching its one-year anniversary – the entire Battlefield franchise turns 15 this year. We want to celebrate together with the community.
Log in to Battlefield 1 between October 12 and October 16 for Battlefield 1 Year Anniversary events and giveaways. Make sure to unlock the Anniversary Dog Tags and wear them with pride.
Operation Campaigns Coming in November
In early November, we’ll be adding an even more epic variant of the fan-favorite game mode Operations. Dubbed Operation Campaigns, the new experience will expand on the frontline clashes between attackers and defenders, stringing together multiple Operations and adding unique rewards to the mix.
The first Operation Campaign is called Eastern Storm. This experience combines the two Operations from Battlefield 1 In the Name of the Tsar: Brusilov Offensive and Red Tide. Eastern Storm will be available for owners of Battlefield 1 Premium Pass (or the standalone Battlefield 1 In the Name of the Tsar expansion.)
Later in November, we’ll add Fall of Empires, a combination of the base game’s Iron Walls and Conquer Hell. Beyond these two, there are more Campaigns to come.
Complete the active Operation Campaign by scoring enough points before it expires. You will earn a special Battlepack for each completed Campaign. An Operation Campaigns Codex will also be yours after your first successful Campaign. Complete the active Campaign as many times as you can before the time runs out!
For the sharp-shooters out there, you may have noticed that we bumped the release of Operation Campaigns from October to November. We wanted to give it a little bit more time to make sure that it’s a great experience. We appreciate your patience.
Various Fixes in the October Update
Continuing our monthly Battlefield 1 updates, we will very soon release the October Update. Expect various improvements to gameplay, new Dog Tags, and new gameplay settings.
All updates are detailed on the Update Page
Thank you for reading and joining us in the road ahead. A special thanks to all of you who have joined us in the first year of Battlefield 1 – here’s to another year of great Battlefield moments!
Revolution is coming. To let you get warmed up, we’ve prepared the Battlefield 1 Summer Missions. These missions are part of a chained series of challenges where we urge you to PTFO and be a team player.
Each mission comes with its own amazing Dog Tag reward and a Squad XP Boost for those who complete it. Succeed in all three and there’s an exclusive melee weapon in it for you: the LVC Arditi Knife. You can also expect another reward that we’re keeping secret for now…
The first Summer Mission is dubbed the Call to Action Mission. Here, your objective is to play, complete, and win three full matches of Operations. This mission is active between July 15 and July 23.
If you complete the mission in time, you’ll get the Call to Action Dog Tag (rewarded on July 31) and a Squad XP Boost (login between July 23 and July 30 to receive this.)
Thanks for joining us in L.A. for EA PLAY! It was a true pleasure to connect with you, the Battlefield™ 1 community, both in person and through our announcements. We showed you more of Battlefield 1 In the Name of the Tsar, the next expansion pack coming in September, and let you go hands on with Nivelle Nights, the first of two night maps.
Now, we’d like to thank you. Not only do you supply helpful feedback that enables us to continue to improve Battlefield 1. Your passion and devotion inspires us to keep perfecting our game.
As the video above demonstrates, the Battlefield 1 community excels at capturing those crazy gameplay moments and showing off outlandish skills. Equally important is the comradery and support you give each other – and the team at DICE. It’s quite the thing to see.
A Revolution is Coming to Battlefield 1: Learn about all the upcoming content
Thanks for your dedication, feedback, and awesome content you share daily. The battlefield would be empty without it.
Andrew Gulotta, Battlefield 1 Producer
Introducing Platoons
Get ready to team up. Today we are introducing the first wave of Platoons features for Battlefield 1. It’s something a lot of you have been asking for, and that we are very happy to finally release. Our focus in this initial release is to add some of the core and most essential Platoons features, such as the Platoon Tag, while building a robust system that we can continue to expand and improve going forward.
Below is an overview of what’s available in this initial release:
Create & Manage – Any player can create a Platoon; you are however limited to one General role, the highest rank and the rank a Platoon creator starts with, at any one time. When creating a Platoon, you can add the following info:
Name – This is required and must be 3-24 characters. Names are not exclusive, although some names may be restricted.
Tag – This is required and consists of 1-4 alpha-numerical characters. Tags are not exclusive, although some names may be restricted.
Description – This is optional and can be up to 256 characters long. Use this to describe your Platoon however you see fit.
Emblem – You can choose an emblem for the Platoon from your own personal Emblem gallery. The emblem is then “copied” to the Platoon, meaning that if you later update your own emblem, it’s not automatically reflected in the Platoon emblem.
Access Type – This selection defines how other players can and cannot join your Platoon:
Open – Anyone can join the Platoon instantly.
Apply-to-Join – Anyone can apply; Platoon members with permissions can accept or reject applications.
Closed – No one can join the Platoon while in this state.
It’s always possible to change any of these values or settings at any time, as long as the Platoon member has permission to modify it.
General – This is the highest Platoon rank and there can only be one General in the Platoon at any one time. The creator will initially get this rank, but can transfer it to someone else (which must be done if you want to leave the Platoon). The General has access to everything, including the option to change name, tag, and even disband the Platoon.
Colonel – Colonel is the second-highest rank and has access to most Platoon management tools, such as editing the description, emblem, and the access type. This means they can step in for the General most of the time.
Lieutenant – The Lieutenant is the lowest level rank with management permissions. Mainly their ability is to accept or reject Platoon applications, if the Platoon is set to “Apply-to-Join”, as well as link their Rented Servers to the Platoon.
Private – Private is the initial rank any new member gets in the Platoon. This rank doesn’t give you access to anything, besides the fact that you are now a member of the Platoon and can represent it and join other members playing. As a rule of thumb, you can always promote someone else to one rank lower than your own, and demote or kick members that are one rank or lower than your own. Rank permissions also always stack, so if you’re promoted you can know for certain that you have the same access as before – and more.
Find & Join – Platoons is all about playing together. In the “Find Platoon” section, you will sometimes get a list of recommended Platoons to join, which is currently based on other Platoons that your friends are representing. Once you’ve found a Platoon, its access type will determine how easy it is for you to join. Maybe you can simply join it right away, or you must apply. If you’re unlucky it’s closed, and that’s that.
Representing and Playing with Your Platoon – For many players, representing your Platoon is what it’s all about and we have tried to make this process easy, smooth, and awesome with the new system. First, you can always only represent one Platoon at any given time, and you can also choose not to represent any. You will retain your membership and rank in the Platoon; it’s basically just something you toggle. When you represent a Platoon, its tag will automatically be displayed in front of your name and its emblem will automatically be displayed wherever your emblem is usually displayed. This essentially “overrides” your equipped emblem; when you represent a Platoon, we want you to really represent it.
Besides having the tag and emblem, if you fill up a squad with other players that represent the same Platoon, the squad will automatically be renamed to the Platoon’s name. Furthermore, if your represented Platoon contributed the most to a Flag Capture (with at least two members present), a pennant carrying your Platoon emblem will be shown on the flag pole. More bragging rights for you.
We currently employ limitations of 100 members per Platoon – if your group is more than 100 people, we suggest you create more Platoons with the same name, tag, emblem and description – and you can at max be a member of 10 Platoons. This includes pending applications; if you are a member of 8 Platoons and have 2 Platoons with pending applications to join, you will not be able to join or apply for any other Platoon unless you leave a Platoon or cancel an application. Increasing these limits are something we will consider going forward.
One of our primary focus areas has also been to more easily facilitate playing together in groups, so we’ve added the ability to always see where your Platoon is playing and join them.
The Road Ahead For Battlefield 1
It’s never been a more exciting time to be playing Battlefield™ 1. We’re thrilled with your overwhelmingly positive feedback on Battlefield 1 They Shall Not Pass. A lot of hard work has gone into it, so we’re glad that you love it just as much as we do. And we’re just getting started!
Here’s a quick look at the road ahead.
Monthly Battlefield 1 Updates
We’re devoted to bringing you the best gaming experience in Battlefield 1. In the past, we did this in the form of seasonal patches. Considering all we have in store for Battlefield 1, we’ve decided to move to monthly updates. With this new tempo, we’re going to bring you more of what you want, faster than ever.
Turning your feedback into battle-tested improvements that everyone will love is important to us. We’ll utilize the Community Test Environment to iterate on your ideas and find the best ways to make our favorite game even better.
Speaking of updates, the Spring Update is coming soon. It’ll bring one of the most highly anticipated features: Platoons. Finally, you’ll be able to organize and join forces with your friends, execute swift victories, and achieve goals as one unit. Stay tuned for more info on Platoons and the Spring Update release.
In-Game Improvements and Tweaks to Operations
Planning for our next releases, we’ve heard you loud and clear. We still have some work to do to make the game as frictionless as possible. We’re dedicating the May Update to revisions that will improve your quality of life in Battlefield 1.
This includes streamlining the flow into matches (especially Operations) and improving many gameplay grievances that will hopefully make the action feel more balanced and fair. The development team is also working on a feature update to the Battlefield 1 Rent-a-Server Program which we hope to release soon.
The New Battlefield 1 Expansions*
We can’t talk about the “road ahead” without mentioning the upcoming expansions. Each one is packed with new maps, weapons, vehicles, and game modes. We have so much more to share about the Great War!
Battlefield 1 In The Name Of The Tsar will bring you to the Eastern Front, where you will fight alongside the Russian army and witness the brutality of combat and the bitter cold of the Russian winters, as seen in the concept exploration images in this post. Prepare yourself for all new tactics employed by the Russian army. Though the frost is cold, the steel is colder.
Thanks for reading – we hope you’re as excited for the road ahead as we are. Keep the feedback coming and we’ll see you on the battlefield.
Aleksander Grøndal, Battlefield 1 Executive Producer
*REQUIRES BATTLEFIELD 1 FOR APPLICABLE PLATFORM (SOLD SEPARATELY), ALL GAME UPDATE, EA ACCOUNT, AND INTERNET CONNECTION.
1 2 ... 51 >
Battlefield 1 They Shall Not Pass: Early Access Is Coming
Vinyl Edition of the Battlefield 1 Soundtrack Now Available
Holiday Sale: Great Deals on Battlefield 1 and Other Games
Thank you for joining Battlefest
Celebrate Battlefield in a new Battlefest
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line57
|
__label__wiki
| 0.643872
| 0.643872
|
Endeavour Rollout to Launch Pad 39A, Aug. 8, 1995
March 20, 2014 By TOM JONES Leave a Comment
Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on its STS-69 mission on September 7, 1995. The orbiter and stack had rolled back to the VAB on Aug. 1 to avoid the effets of Hurricane Erin. I was one of the capcoms (astronaut communicator working in Mission Control) for the mission, and I had never seen a space shuttle stack move out to the launch pad. So I took advantage of an invitation from the STS-69 crew (Dave Walker, Ken Cockrell, Jim Voss, Mike Gernhardt, and Jim Newman) to join them for the rollout. Our pair of T-38s headed from Ellington Field near Johnson Space Center for the Cape on the afternoon of Aug. 7, 1995.
NASA 907 off the wing of NASA 902, flown by Cockrell/Jones. 8/7/95 (Jones photo)
After spending the night at astronaut crew quarters, we were up the next morning to join Endeavour on her roll to the pad, which had begun in darkness at 1:55 am. We drove out to the crawlerway, once the route of Saturn V moon rockets to the pad, catching a heart-stopping view of the shuttle stack about two-thirds of the way to Launch Pad 39A. We parked along the road to step aboard the Mobile Launch Platform and get up close to the orbiter I’d flown twice in the previous year (STS-59 and STS-68).
The STS-69 Endeavour stack plods toward Launch Pad 39A on 8/8/95. (Jones photo)
I had never boarded the MLP while in motion, but it was easy to jump aboard the gangway at its 1 mph pace along the crushed river stone of the crawlerway and climb to the deck. Here I was within touching distance of the Endeavour stack, this time unprotected from any pad structure, as on my prelaunch visits to my ship in 1994. Endeavour was independent and self-supported, gliding toward its appointment with orbit, oblivious of the human gnats buzzing around her with a Nikon draped around their necks.
An early morning view of Endeavour’s main and OMS engines from the mobile launcher deck. (Jones photo)
I think the focus on the above shot is a bit soft, due to the early morning light at the Cape–we got their shortly after dawn. The two tab-shaped gray structures on either side of the orbiter’s tail also belonged to the MLP. They housed the T-minus-zero umbilicals (“T-zero umbilicals” was how we said it), those clusters of gas, power, and propellant lines that fed into the ship on either side, just below the OMS pods. Through these umbilicals the external tank received its propellants, the orbiter received commands and electrical power and sent back telemetry, and its plumbing was furnished with gaseous nitrogen for purging the payload bay and engine compartment. At zero in the count, the umbilical panel was yanked away by a falling counterweight, retracted into the gray structure, and protected from the fierce exhaust blast by armored doors that slammed down over the now-recessed umbilical plate.
The “T-Zero” umbilical panels retract into these twin, armored gray towers flanking either side of Endeavour’s engine compartment. (Jones photo)
While pacing the MLP and craning my neck back to look up at Endeavour (as close as I’d been since my landing at Edwards on STS-68 the previous October), I had to get myself in the picture. I’d lived aboard this ship in space for three weeks in 1994, yet it was still hard to wrap my head around that reality. How is it possible that we could have hurled this entire machine into space at five miles per second, with six humans aboard, and brought it back safely to Earth? We have deliberately chosen to walk away from this national capability. Today, if we don’t choose to use these machines any longer, we must quickly–very quickly–develop an alternative national means to send our people to space. Not accelerating this development is sheer negligence on a national scale.
Tom Jones, who flew twice on Endeavour, stands beside the machine he can’t quite fully believe took him to space. (Jones photo)
We dropped back to Earth again, stepping onto the crawlerway for a few more photos as the mobile launcher neared the incline to the top of Pad 39A. These views just kept me grinning and shaking my head in awe. I will be similarly amazed when a mobile launcher carries the first Space Launch System booster to its pad.
The mobile launcher carries Endeavour to the base of the incline leading up to Pad 39A. (Jones photo)
Endeavour, OV-105, began its ascent of the ramp to 39A as I took up a perch on the Rotating Service Structure, seen to the left in the photo above. This was the rail-mounted “gantry” that would swing in behind the orbiter, once it was in position, and enclose most of the orbiter for protection from the weather. It would also provide clean-room access to the payload bay, enabling technicians to transfer payloads from a mobile canister from the RSS into the payload bay. For me, the top of the RSS provided a fantastic photo vantage point for me and the Nikon F4 I’d borrowed from the photo lab at JSC.
Endeavour seen from the RSS, preparing for the final climb to the pad summit. (Jones photo).
Endeavour begins its climb up the pad incline to its MLP pedestals on Pad 39A. (Jones photo)
The MLP jacks up its rear trucks to level the deck and keep Endeavour upright as the climb continues. (Jones photo)
Closing in on the summit of Pad 39A. (Jones photos)
From atop the RSS I head the constant roar of the crawler’s diesels (in turn powering electric motors that drive the tracks) as it mounted the pad elevation.
Endeavour atop the MLP is pulling under my vantage point on the Rotating Service Structure. (Jones photo)
If there’s anything that will bring a grin to your face, it’s the sight of a spaceship almost imperceptibly rolling up alongside of you. The orbiter seemed to say: “Comin’ through! I’m headed for orbit. Stand aside!”
A look into the flame trench as Endeavour nears its parking spot atop the pad. Note the rail track which will permit the RSS to swing in behind the orbiter once it’s parked. (Jones photo)
Endeavour pulls even with the pad structure as I stood, amazed, just above the orbiter White Room level on the RSS.
The crawler carrying the MLP and Endeavour reaches its final parking position. (Jones photo)
Here, the crawler would lower the stack onto the four massive launch platform pedestals, then drive back down the incline for its next job. Back on the MLP deck, I got a look at the base of the external tank and its structural connections to the solid rocket boosters. Each booster is held to the platform by 4 massive bolts and nuts, which shatter under explosive detonations at T-minus-zero.
Endeavour’s body flap hangs below the ET, flanked by the solid rocket boosters. The gray piping dispenses the flood of sound suppression water at engine ignition. (Jones photo).
I flew home later that afternoon, with Ken Cockrell at the controls. I hope he’ll be able to figure out who the crew is in T-38 #907, based on the helmet colors in the photo. STS-69 launched on September 7, 1995:
Endeavour leaves Earth on September 7, 1995, for its 11-day mission. (NASA KSC-95EC-1301)
My thanks to the STS-69 crew for allowing me to share their orbiter’s rollout, and for inviting me to work with them as a capcom on their mission. Of course, Ken Cockrell and I flew together just 14 months later on STS-80. But that’s another story. See my website here for more details:
www.AstronautTomJones.com
Filed Under: History, Space
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line62
|
__label__wiki
| 0.677976
| 0.677976
|
atomicsoda // arsenal / one place for all the interviews, quotes, news, blogs
unai emery quotes - transfer rumours - all news sources - top news sources - blogs - interviews
Wed Jan 9
Aaron Ramsey agrees five-year deal with Juventus
Daily Mail - Wed Jan 9 11:28 PM
Yannick Carrasco ‘offered to Arsenal’ as Belgian keen to end one-year spell in China
Daily Mail - Wed Jan 9 9:42 AM
TRANSFER NEWS LIVE: Latest Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United and Chelsea updates
Tue Jan 8
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang wins Arsenal player of December - laments defeat by Liverpool
Daily Mail - Tue Jan 8 3:46 PM
Paul Merson believes Arsenal are '20 years' from winning Premier League
Daily Mail - Tue Jan 8 9:44 AM
Mon Jan 7
FA Cup fourth round draw: Arsenal to host Manchester United and more
Daily Mail - Mon Jan 7 11:05 PM
FA Cup fourth round draw: Arsenal to host Manchester United
Daily Mail - Mon Jan 7 9:58 PM
Granit Xhaka making most of mini-break with ski trip in his homeland alongside wife Leonita Lekaj
Cesc Fabregas is a Premier League stalwart who shone for Arsenal before crowning career at Chelsea
Daily Mail - Mon Jan 7 11:21 AM
Barcelona fight to keep Denis Suarez as Arsenal plot £20m move for the midfielder
Daily Mail - Mon Jan 7 7:57 AM
Hector Bellerin takes in London Fashion Week catwalk show while wearing another eye-catching outfit
Sun Jan 6
Teen star Joe Willock bags family bragging rights after shining for Arsenal
Daily Mail - Sun Jan 6 10:30 PM
Arsenal youngsters are giving Unai Emery a selection 'headache', says Alex Iwobi
Roman Abramovich could have bought Arsenal instead of Chelsea but was mistakenly warned off
Daily Mail - Sun Jan 6 11:40 AM
Aaron Ramsey could seal Juventus switch in January as Arsenal eye Medhi Benatia
Daily Mail - Sun Jan 6 9:11 AM
Sat Jan 5
Hector Bellerin hits London Fashion week while Arsenal team-mates beat Blackpool in FA Cup
Daily Mail - Sat Jan 5 11:51 PM
Arsenal boss Unai Emery wants to sign a centre back and winger in the January transfer window
Tony Adams laughs off questions about 'velvet and groovy' suit
Daily Mail - Sat Jan 5 9:42 PM
Blackpool 0-3 Arsenal: Joe Willock shines as young Gunners seal comfortable win
Real Betis line up move for West Ham's Lucas Perez
Blackpool fan sits on top of Arsenal's team bus in protest before FA Cup clash
Blackpool vs Arsenal LIVE - FA Cup third round scores, line ups and updates
Barcelona midfielder Denis Suarez set for £20million move to Arsenal
Denis Suarez set for £20million move to Arsenal as Emery eyes reunion with the Barcelona midfielder
Fri Jan 4
Danny Welbeck takes to water as he continues his recovery from ankle injury
Daily Mail - Fri Jan 4 11:44 PM
Bendtner shows off his electronic tag as he begins 50-day sentence for assaulting taxi driver
Former quarry worker Curtis Tilt would dig Blackpool win over Arsenal
Arsenal youngsters try to impress Unai Emery ahead of Blackpool game
Daily Mail - Fri Jan 4 5:32 PM
Arsenal ace Alexandre Lacazette mocks Zech Medley after nutmegging him
Arsenal fans toast Invincibles Day after Liverpool lose to Man City
Thibaut Courtois mocked after Santi Cazorla manages to nutmeg him with header
Daily Mail - Fri Jan 4 8:49 AM
Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey 'signs pre-contract agreement with Juventus'
Lancashire Police primed for Blackpool's protests towards owner Owen Oyston during Arsenal clash
Thu Jan 3
Villarreal 2-2 Real Madrid: Former Arsenal midfielder Cazorla scores twice to deny Solari's men
Daily Mail - Thu Jan 3 10:40 PM
'We've never spoken about Keylor Navas': Emery insists he is NOT looking to buy Real Madrid's keeper
Daily Mail - Thu Jan 3 2:58 PM
Serge Gnabry heads to the zoo with old pal Hector Bellerin
Jump to: July 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
June 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
April 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
March 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
February 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
January 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
December 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
desktop version - mobile version - small mobile version - about atomicsoda - legal - © 2019 Atomicsoda.com
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line63
|
__label__wiki
| 0.704336
| 0.704336
|
[news] Bali: mass vaccination against rabies in April
The Bali provincial administration will again carry out mass vaccination against rabies in April 2014, targeting around 350 thousand dogs. The mass vaccination will target all dogs in Bali and will be implemented until June 2014, Putu Sumantra, the head of the Bali Animal Husbandry and Health office, said on Sunday.
Posted in Health @ 26 January 2014 19:39 CET by Blog Bot · permalink · 0 reactions
[news] Stock of rabies vaccine more than sufficient
The provincial government of Bali is estimating that 325,000 vials of rabies vaccine will be on hand at the end of 2012 to enable phase IV in mass vaccination programs of dogs in Bali set to get underway early in 2013.
[news] Rabies still threat in Central Sulawesi
Rabies is still a feared disease in Central Sulawesi with more than 100 known cases reported every year. Every year, there are always cases of rabies in the province of 3.6 million people , Head of the provincial health office Greesje Kuhu said here Tuesday.
[news] FAO provides 130 thousand rabies vaccines for Bali
The Food And Agricultural Organization (FAO) has provided Bali with 130,000 rabies vaccines, an official confirmed to Antara today.
Posted in Health @ 14 July 2012 12:06 CET by Blog Bot · permalink · 0 reactions
[news] UN warns new strain of bird flu is spreading in Asia
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Monday urged heightened preparedness and surveillance against a possible 'major resurgence' of Avian Influenza amid signs that a mutant strain of the deadly bird flu virus is spreading in Asia and elsewhere.
Posted in Bird Flu @ 29 August 2011 20:38 CET by Blog Bot · permalink · 0 reactions
Bali's governor Pastika committed to culling dogs
In a decision certain to anger Bali's animal rights groups who argue the elimination of stray dog populations is an ineffective way to halt the spread of the rabies, the governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, has directed that the extermination of stray dogs continue and be accelerated.
Posted in Health @ 19 December 2009 01:56 CET by Jeroen · permalink · 0 reactions
Protests over culling of dogs on Bali
Bali animal rights groups are barking mad at the current policy of widespread culling of stray dogs as part of the Bali government's response to the outbreak if rabies on the island. BAWA or the Bali Animal Welfare Association are circulating petitions and letting local officials know their displeasure with what they view as the "ineffective" anti-rabies program of killing all stray dogs fund in local communities.
Bali's rabies saga continues
Confirmed cases of rabies now stretch to all four corners of Bali with rabid dogs now detected in two communities at Sambirenteg, Tejakula in the Buleleng regency, North Bali. Officials in Buleleng are responding by educating the local community on preventive steps to stop the further spread of the disease.
Bali's rabies crisis spreads to new areas
Radar Bali confirms that Bali's rabies epidemic has now spread to five of the island's nine regencies and metropolitan areas. According to Ida Bagus Alit, the Head of Bali's Animal Husbandry Department (Dinas Peternakan) confirmed that Karangasem and Bangli now have confirmed cases of the deadly disease in their dog populations, while previously cases of rabies were confined to Denpasar, Badung and Tabanan.
Bali declared a rabies infected area
Beritabali.com reports that Bali has been declared as a rabies contaminated region. This declaration follows the growing number of outbreak of the disease in Badung, Denpasar and Tabanan. The remaining six regencies of the island have been designated potential areas for the spread of rabies.
Posted in Health @ 13 September 2009 03:52 CET by Jeroen · permalink · 0 reactions
[news] Indonesia says it plans to use human bird flu vaccine
The vaccine to combat bird flu in humans could be ready as early as July according to Indonesia, adding that it was preparing to use it immediately despite calls from the WHO to build a stockpile first. Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari said that the advice of the WHO was not realistic for Indonesia, which has the biggest number of bird flu related deaths.
[news] Indonesia claiming bird flu success as cases drop
Human bird flu deaths in Indonesia have slowed markedly over the last three months - a drop local officials attributed to a more aggressive fight. But The World Health Organization said it was too soon to draw conclusions. The WHO cautioned that the fall - a rare piece of good news in the country worst hit by the H5N1 virus - did not indicate a trend and refused to speculate on possible reasons for it.
Posted in Bird Flu @ 22 December 2006 03:16 CET by Jeroen · permalink · 0 reactions
[news] Woman dies from bird flu, raising death toll to 57
An Indonesian woman died of bird flu early Tuesday, raising the country's death toll to 57, a hospital official said. The 35-year-old woman died after being treated for almost three weeks in a hospital in the capital, Jakarta, said spokesman Sardikin Giriputro. Health officials were still investigating the source of infection. Health Ministry tests confirmed on Nov. 13 that the woman from the city of Tangerang, on the western outskirts of Jakarta, was H5N1 positive. The World Health Organization has not confirmed the death.
Posted in Bird Flu @ 28 November 2006 16:24 CET by Jeroen · permalink · 0 reactions
[news] Over 100 million chickens vaccinated against bird flu
The Indonesian government has vaccinated about 140 million chickens against bird flu, which account for only 10 percent of the total of 1.4 billion chickens across the country, an official said. The vaccination has to be optimized to prevent a bird flu epidemic in Indonesia, Antara news agency Friday quoted National Commission's expert panel member Amin Soebandrio as saying.
[news] Official: 'Indonesia's bird flu cases far from a pandemic'
Indonesia, which has the highest number of human bird flu infections and fatalities, was unlikely to be hit by a pandemic of the disease in the immediate future, an official has said. "We are still far from a pandemic," said Bayu Krisnamurthi, the chief executive of the Indonesian National Committee for Avian Influenza Control and Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (Komnas FBPI.)
[news] Bird flu found in pigs in Bali
The H5N1 bird flu virus has infected pigs on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, a senior agriculture ministry official said on Monday. "There were two pigs that were infected by bird flu in Bali. These were old cases that happened last July," Musni Suatmodjo, agriculture ministry director of animal health, told Reuters.
Posted in Bird Flu @ 10 October 2006 03:25 CET by Jeroen · permalink · 0 reactions
[news] Bird flu death toll climbs to 50 after another boy dies
Indonesia's bird flu death toll climbed to 50 on Friday after laboratory tests showed an 11-year-old boy died of the disease, a senior health official said. The child died in a hospital in Tulungagung, East Java province, on Monday � hours after he was admitted and two days after developing symptoms of the disease, said Nyoman Kandun. He appeared to have had contact with infected poultry.
[news] Indonesia to produce millions of tamiflu to combat bird flu
Indonesia will produce 5 million tablets of tamiflu this year and conduct a massive vaccination of poultry to combat avian influenza, senior officials said here Tuesday. Two local companies, the Kimia Farma and the Indo Farma have registered to take part in the production, said Director General of Pharmacy Services of the Indonesian Health Ministry Richard Panjaitan.
[news] Indonesia to vaccinate 300 million poultry
The Indonesian government will press ahead with plans to vaccinate some 300 million poultry from the bird flu virus despite fears by some health officials that vaccines are not effective, a local report said Tuesday. The plan will be done in stages with 60 million doses being prepared for vaccinations beginning this month and running through December, The Jakarta Post reported.
[news] World Bank urges Indonesia to raise bird flu budget
The World Bank urged the Indonesian government on Thursday to increase its budget for the bird flu programme, saying the virus was a severe threat to the country's economy and the health of its people. Indonesia, which has been criticised for not doing enough to stamp out the H5N1 virus, plans to spend $46.45 million for bird flu control in 2007, down from $57.37 million allocated for this year.
Posted in Bird Flu @ 24 August 2006 13:52 CET by Jeroen · permalink · 0 reactions
[news] Wet markets must be cleaned up to fight bird flu
Cleaning up Indonesia's popular wet markets and shifting live birds to separate sanitary locations is a crucial first step in the nation's fight against the deadly bird flu virus, an expert said. Indonesia became the nation worst affected by the H5N1 virus this week, with 44 confirmed human deaths, putting its efforts to combat bird flu under the international spotlight.
[news] Java tsunami death toll increases to 650 people
The death toll from the July 17 earthquake and tsunami in south Java, Indonesia, rose to as many as 650 people, according to Rustam S. Pakaya, head of crisis management at the Health Ministry, said. There are 120 people still missing, while 1,800 were injured and 42,639 are homeless, Pakaya said.
Posted in Earthquake @ 24 July 2006 13:51 CET by Jeroen · permalink · 0 reactions
[news] Indonesia bird flu toll hits 41
Indonesian authorities have confirmed that a child who died last week was the country's 41st victim of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus. The three-year-old girl died in a Jakarta hospital on 6 July. Officials said an overseas laboratory had confirmed the presence of the virus. This means the country's human bird flu toll now stands only one behind hardest-hit Vietnam.
Posted in Bird Flu @ 14 July 2006 14:44 CET by Jeroen · permalink · 0 reactions
[news] WHO: Tetanus kills 18 quake survivors in Java
Tetanus has killed at least 18 earthquake survivors in Indonesia among more than 50 known cases of the infection spread through bacteria, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. Indonesian health workers and the United Nations agency have been conducting vaccination campaigns against tetanus and measles after the May 27 quake around Yogyakarta that killed more than 5,700 people and left tens of thousands homeless.
[news] Bird flu in Indonesia, one death every 2.5 days in May
Indonesia averaged one human bird flu death every 2 1/2 days in May, putting it on pace to soon surpass Vietnam as the world's hardest-hit country. The latest death, announced Wednesday, was a 15-year-old boy whose preliminary tests were positive for the H5N1 virus. It comes as international health officials express growing frustration that they must fight Indonesia's stifling bureaucracy as well as the disease.
[news] Indonesia may do selective polio vaccinations
Indonesia reached almost 24 million children in its last polio immunizations but may have another vaccination round in some regions to be sure of stamping out the disease by 2008, officials said on Monday. Over the past year polio, once considered virtually wiped out globally, has infected hundreds in Indonesia.
[news] Expert terms Indonesia a bird flu �time bomb�
Indonesia has become a bird flu �time-bomb� because of its failure to eradicate high numbers of deadly H5N1 sites, the head of the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health said yesterday. �Indonesia is a time-bomb for the region,� organisation head Bernard Vallat said calling the situation in the southeast Asian arhcipelago a cause for �great concern�.
Posted in Bird Flu @ 16 April 2006 10:02 CET by Jeroen · permalink · 1 reaction
[news] Indonesia to launch more polio campaigns in 2006
Indonesia will hold two more nationwide polio vaccination drives in 2006 to try to free its population from the disease, its health minister said on Tuesday, following advice from the World Health Organisation (WHO). Health workers across the world's fourth most populous nation last month vaccinated millions of children for the third time to ward off the crippling disease.
Posted in Polio @ 14 December 2005 07:06 CET by Jeroen · permalink · 1 reaction
[news] Govt launches third nationwide polio campaign
Indonesia launched its third nationwide polio immunisation campaign on Wednesday in a bid to stop the crippling disease spreading and will hold at least one more round early next year, the Health Ministry said. Hundreds of thousands of vaccinators will target 24 million children at 250,000 medical posts across the world's largest archipelago on Wednesday.
Posted in Polio @ 30 November 2005 07:10 CET by Jeroen · permalink · 0 reactions
[news] EU says Indonesia needs help to fight bird flu
The European Union on Tuesday offered to help Indonesia fight bird flu, saying the world's fourth most populous nation needed assistance even though it had a plan and the political will to tackle the deadly virus. Visiting EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, Markos Kyprianou, said help could take the form of surveillance as well as the vaccination and culling of chickens.
[news] Veterinary students to hunt down bird flu-infected chickens
Indonesia vowed to step up its fight against bird flu Thursday, saying veterinary students would join international health experts in carrying out house-to-house searches for infected backyard chickens. UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) experts will train the students, who will be recruited from four major universities, to identify sick birds and alert villagers to the risks of the disease, said Syamsul Bahri, the Ministry of Agriculture's director of animal health.
[news] US announces grant to assist Indonesia fight polio outbreak
The United States has announced a $US2.5 million grant to help Indonesia fight an outbreak of polio that has infected 269 children since it resurfaced in March. Announcing the aid, US Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt urged Indonesia to carry out another round of nationwide immunisations before the end of the year to halt the spread of the crippling virus.
Posted in Polio @ 18 October 2005 07:08 CET by Jeroen · permalink · 2 reactions
[news] Indonesia confirms fourth bird flu death
Indonesia yesterday confirmed its fourth human death from the bird flu virus, taking the death toll in Asia to 63, and said it was investigating whether a neighbor of the victim was also sickened by the disease. Tests from a Hong Kong laboratory showed that a 37-year-old woman who died last week had contracted the H5N1 bird flu virus, said I Nyoman Kandun, the health ministry's director general for illness control and environmental health.
[news] Polio vaccination drive largely successful
Indonesia's nationwide drive last week to vaccinate about 24 million young children against a spreading polio outbreak was largely successful though some parents continued to resist, health officials said Monday. The Indonesian health ministry reported the campaign had reached 90 percent of children under five years old despite lingering concerns among both parents and medical workers about the safety of the vaccine.
Posted in Polio @ 06 September 2005 07:09 CET by Jeroen · permalink · 2 reactions
[news] Polio cases hit 205 in Indonesia, two in capital
Health workers have found 205 children infected with polio in Indonesia since the disease resurfaced this year, and two of the cases are in the densely populated capital Jakarta, officials said on Monday. Polio, a water-borne disease that can cause irreversible paralysis in hours, reemerged in May in the world's fourth most populous country, which had been polio-free since 1995.
[news] Indonesia's polio outbreak infects over 200 children
The number of children affected by the crippling polio virus in an outbreak in Indonesia has risen to 205. The highest number of cases is in West Java province with 54, only one case can be confirmed in the capital, Jakarta. Health officials say a second round of a nationwide anti-polio vaccination campaign had fewer takers because of parents' fears of possible harmful side effects.
[news] 11 new polio cases found in Indonesia
Eleven new cases of polio have been found in Indonesia, putting the total number of the crippling disease to 122, the Indonesian branch of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. Spokesperson Sari Setiogi told Xinhua by telephone that the new cases were found among the blood samples taken from children who had not got immunization.
Posted in Polio @ 07 July 2005 10:52 CET by Jeroen · permalink · 2 reactions
[news] Polio update: 1 new case in Lampung
On 30 June 2005, 1 new polio case was confirmed in Indonesia, bringing the total number of cases to 66. The new case is the first from Lampung Province on the island of Sumatra. The 3-year old girl had onset of paralysis on 4 June.
[news] Indonesia's polio cases expected to rise
The polio cases in Indonesia is expected to rise from the current number of 46, since many children have not got polio vaccination, a spokesperson of the World Health Organization (WHO) said in Jakarta Thursday. "The increase of polio cases is possible, because the level of vaccination is low in the areas where the polio cases were confirmed," spokesperson of the WHO's Indonesian branch Sari Setiogi told Xinhua.
Posted in Polio @ 17 June 2005 12:57 CET by Jeroen · permalink · 0 reactions
[news] WHO: Indonesia's polio cases rise to 25
Indonesia has reported five new cases of polio, all found in districts different from where the crippling disease was first re-discovered, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday. It said the additional cases brought to 25 the number of confirmed cases in Indonesia, which has been taking steps to fight its first polio outbreak in a decade.
[news] Indonesia confirms more polio cases
Indonesia has confirmed four more cases of polio, with 20 children infected with the disease in the country's first outbreak in a decade. The cases were confirmed yesterday, almost a week after Indonesia carried out a huge vaccination program aimed at reaching 6.4 million children under five in two days in an effort to contain the spread of the crippling virus.
[news] Door-to-door vaccination reaches more under-fives
Although many parents were reportedly reluctant to bring their under-fives for polio vaccination on Tuesday, the administration said on Wednesday that the number of babies vaccinated was much higher than its initial estimate.
[news] Indonesia to vaccinate 6.4m children for polio
Mothers carrying babies and dragging toddlers by the hand flocked to clinics yesterday as Indonesia launched a massive polio vaccination drive to halt an outbreak of the disease that has crippled 16 children.
[news] Polio returns to remote villages in Indonesia
Big tears stream down Siti Fauziah's cheeks as she snuggles her doll and buries her face into her mother's shoulder. She's lost her balance and fallen again, as the 4-year-old learns what it means to live with polio.
[news] WHO: Polio spreads in Yemen, Indonesia
A polio outbreak raging through Yemen has paralysed 108 children and the number of confirmed cases in Indonesia has risen to 14, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday.
[news] Indonesia to vaccinate five million children in polio scare
Indonesia has launched a massive vaccination campaign expected to reach more than five million children after detecting its first case of polio in a decade. A 20-month-old girl was diagnosed with polio on April 21 and authorities believe she came in contact with a migrant worker or tourist who had contracted the disease while outside the country.
[news] African polio found in Indonesia
Medics said today they had detected a case of the crippling polio virus in Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country, indicating that an outbreak rooted in Africa has leapt the Indian Ocean.
[news] Report: Govt bans chicken imports from Malaysia over bird flu fears
Indonesia has banned imports of chicken from Malaysia after the neighbouring country announced an outbreak of deadly bird flu, a report said Saturday. The agriculture ministry has issued a circular urging firms not to import chicken meat, chicks, eggs and chicken feathers from Malaysia, a government official was quoted as saying by the Koran Tempo daily.
[news] Six months needed to contain spread of bird flu
Ten million chickens infected with bird flu will be slaughtered as Indonesia struggles to contain the deadly virus, a government minister said yesterday. "About 10 million chickens need to be destroyed," Social Welfare Minister Jusuf Kalla told reporters after a Cabinet meeting. "Within six months, bird flu will be under control." He said the cull had already begun on the tourist island of Bali, one of the worst hit areas in Indonesia by avian influenza.
Posted in Bird Flu @ 06 February 2004 00:02 CET by Jeroen · permalink · 0 reactions
Bird Flu: Is a human pandemic pest?
Before he slipped into unconsciousness, six-year-old Kaptan Boonmanuj told his mother, "Mum, my chest feels like it's going to explode." On Jan. 26, after two weeks in a coma, Kaptan died in Bangkok's Siriraj Hospital, becoming Thailand's first victim of avian flu. His parents returned home to the hamlet of Ben Ya Pad, deep in the country's rural western province of Kanchanaburi. Two days had passed since their son's death, and rice farmer Chamnan Boonmanuj and his wife Chongrak sat receiving friends and relatives, the smell of burning incense heavy in the front room of their concrete house. Behind them, Kaptan's body lay in a white coffin. Propped against it was his bicycle, along with a picture of Kaptan wearing his school uniform. Outside, a row of ornate wreaths was placed beside the wall of the house. One was from the Ministry of Public Health.
Posted in Health @ 06 February 2004 00:00 CET by Jeroen · permalink · 0 reactions
[news] Govt earmarks EUR 4.73m for chicken cull compensation
The Indonesian government is earmarking 50 billion rupiah (EUR 4.73m) to compensate farmers culling poultry infected with bird flu, the country's welfare minister said today. "Each farmer will get chicks and feedstock worth between 5000-6000 rupiah (48-57 cents) per package," Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare, Yusuf Kalla, told journalists after praying at Jakarta's main Istiqlal mosque.
[news] Indonesia does about face and announces chicken cull
Indonesia bowed to international pressure over its handling of a bird flu outbreak on Thursday, saying it would cull chickens instead of vaccinating them in a bid to contain the spread of the disease. The decision, announced by a cabinet minister, comes one day after the world's fourth most populous country came under fire at an international conference for putting domestic politics before international public health.
Posted in Bird Flu @ 30 January 2004 00:01 CET by Jeroen · permalink · 0 reactions
[news] Taiwan suspends chicken imports from Indonesia
The Council of Agriculture yesterday announced an immediate ban on the importation of poultry and birds from Indonesia in its effort to keep Taiwan free of the H5N1 avian flu virus that has ravaged the Asian poultry industry and claimed human life. The move follows a similar ban placed on Thai poultry on January 23 by the COA's Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine.
[news] Fuel price hike effective today
The government finally raised fuel prices by a hefty 30 percent late on Friday, just one day after it had decided to delay the plan due to concerns over its social and security implications. Newly appointed Coordinating Minister for the Economy Burhanuddin Abdullah said the new fuel prices would take affect as of Saturday.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line85
|
__label__wiki
| 0.632917
| 0.632917
|
Last Nine Years
Exactly nine years ago today, on June 1 2006, I have joined CodeSourcery, as the first Eclipse engineer. I had zero Eclipse and Java experience, but knowing KDevelop and GDB was deemed sufficient. Look like I did passably well, and for my part, I’m happy to have played a small part in a huge change to open-source embedded development tools.
Every current GDB tutorial for embedded development say to just load your binary to the target. It was my first big project, in 2006, to make it work, since GDB knew nothing about flash memory. I’ve ended up teaching it about memory maps, translating memory writes into flash erase and programming operations, throwing together support for some ColdFire chip, and finally adding a single checkbox in the UI.
GDB non-stop mode was entirely done by CodeSourcery. In this mode, each thread can be independently stopped, and examined, while others are running. There I’ve contributed to asynchronous processing of commands and reworking breakpoint machinery. We’ve made GDB handle breakpoints in constructors and function templates, implemented tracepoints, and different flavours of OS awareness. I was also part of initial prototyping for Python scripting.
On Eclipse side, we made just as many changes, but had less luck submitting them upstream, so describing them is similar to a research paper - it tells what’s possible, but you’re on your own if you want an implementation. Still, we’ve made Eclipse scan for hardware debug device automatically, modified project wizard to include debug settings and create projects you can immediately debug, implemented a IDE editor for hardware board descriptions, and modified register view to effectively deal with thousands of memory-mapped registers. Among that, I did manage to create and submit a new Eclipse CDT view - OS Resources - that shows tables of different objects on the debugged system.
Between Eclipse and GDB, there’s a small interface called GDB/MI. It also saw significant changes, becoming less stateful, adding new notifications (so that Eclipse view don’t have to explicitly pull the data on each stop), and improving variable access methods.
In November 2010, CodeSourcery was acquired by Mentor Graphics and our product went on to became Sourcery CodeBench, the decision based in part on progress made by open-source tools in the previous years. Understably, a lot of work after that went into integration with other products - including Mentor’s hardware debug devices, profiling tools and Mentor Embedded Linux. Personally, I went on to lead the IDE team, learning how to run a full distributed team across 12 time zones. We were less active in the open-source for a while, but gradually returned, and one of the biggest recent contribution is a product installer based on Eclipse P2 we’ve announced in 2014.
And then technology went full circle. The most recent open-source contributions from CodeSourcery team are patches for LLDB-MI, a bridge between LLDB and Eclipse.
In 2006, I’ve joined CodeSourcery in part because at the previous position, there was no longer anything to learn. Over years, I worked with the best people in each area: Daniel Jacobowitz and Pedro Alves on GDB, Carlos O’Donnel on Glibc and GCC, Mikhail Khodjaiants on Eclipse and of course Mark Mitchell, CEO who wrote a C++ frontend once. It was a great experience. Now, it's time to learn something new. See you there!
Mamado said...
> See you there!
[mh] Where? :)
Ali Anwar said...
Leaving MGC?
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line90
|
__label__wiki
| 0.567155
| 0.567155
|
4A baseball: Palmer Ridge looming in an open field
By Neil Devlin
Air Academy, Cheyenne Mountain, Class 4A, Green Mountain, Jefferson County, Mountain View, Pueblo West, Thomas Jefferson, Thompson Valley, Valor Christian, Wheat Ridge
[media-credit name=”Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post” align=”aligncenter” width=”495″]
[/media-credit]
Top-seeded Palmer Ridge looms, but Wheat Ridge is one of a handful of teams that will threaten for the 4A title.
Defending champion Mountain View didn’t make it, so which program is favored to take it all in Class 4A baseball?
Here are two words as a fair guess: Palmer Ridge.
With only a setback to Air Academy in the Colorado Springs Metro League during the regular season, the 20-1 Bears, featuring Ty Barkell and Steven Leonard, have been thorough.
However, there’s ample material in the 4A Championship Series, including Air Academy (17-4), which scored only six runs in two district games, yet were enough to down No. 22 Evergreen and No. 27 Delta.
The Jefferson County League still has three heavyweights alive — relatively new Valor Christian, which finished first in the league; ever-present and powerful Wheat Ridge; and Green Mountain, which has been itching to emerge and follow through when it most counts.
Pueblo West is fresh from a big victory over Thomas Jefferson, Thompson Valley has been mentioned by nearly every observer that has seen the Eagles and Cheyenne Mountain did not permit a run in 14 district innings.
Comments Off on 4A baseball: Palmer Ridge looming in an open field
Categories: Baseball, Class 4A
5A baseball: Is Rocky Mountain a favorite to win its fifth?
3A baseball: Deep field as good as it ever has been
Grandview heads Class 5A; all 4 girls soccer brackets released
Busy upcoming week starts the countdown to end of 2015-16 campaign
Grandview-Mullen baseball on Saturday back to an afternoon first pitch in 5A
Eaglcrest hires in house; Robby Gabrielli to head girls basketball
Rocky’s Austin Alarid called it a beautiful day for baseball at Coors — and acted like it
Valor Christian kicked out of football league, forced to go independent — 121 comments
Valor Christian to go independent in all sports but football, lacrosse and hockey — 117 comments
Valor Christian football: The best in Colorado? — 107 comments
Credit CHSAA's Angelico for checking into late forfeit — 78 comments
Regis Jesuit's run: Does Colorado love it or hate it? — 77 comments
“Yawwwwwwwwnnnnnn…..zzzzz zzzz…..”
— Orion1
On Brock Berglund resurfaces at fifth college, now at SMU in Nova Scotia
“That is what I have been wondering and supposedly the police are looking into it, but...”
— Stan Smith
On Stephen Curry gives shoutout to Mackenzie Forrest, Lakewood basketball player who died in crash
“Was this drunk driving? I mean 3 AM on Saturday night on I70 by Frisco.”
— bradley van pelt
Get Preps Breaking News
Sign up to receive breaking news emails, including game scores, injury updates, roster moves and more on Colorado high school sports.
Follow @postpreps
#copreps Tweets
Tweets about "#copreps"
Neil H. Devlin
High School Sports Editor
Follow @neildevlin
Neil Devlin, originally from the Philadelphia area, has covered high school sports in Colorado for more than 30 years, writing about the people, athletes and events that encompass the Rocky Mountain prep sports world.
Morgan Dzakowic
Digital Prep Sports Producer
Follow @morgandzak
Morgan Dzakowic has been a sports producer for The Denver Post since 2015. She has a degree in convergence journalism from Missouri. It is not framed.
CET Sports
CHSAANow
Colorado Prep Report
Gazette Preps
Longmont Times-Call
Loveland Reporter-Herald
PrepColorado.com
RockyPrep.com
The Concussion Blog
The Fort Collins Coloradoan
The Pueblo Chieftain
Posts by Sport
Posts by Sport Select Category Alumni (79) Badminton (1) Baseball (339) Boys Basketball (413) Boys Cross Country (63) Boys Golf (90) Boys Lacrosse (115) Boys Soccer (116) Boys Swimming (65) Boys Tennis (56) Chat (29) CHSAA (136) Class 1A (156) Class 2A (244) Class 3A (351) Class 4A (577) Class 5A (918) Club sports (4) Concussions (16) Cycling (1) Field Hockey (37) First Person (7) Football (782) General Preps (157) Girls Basketball (249) Girls Cross Country (69) Girls Golf (92) Girls Lacrosse (81) Girls Soccer (142) Girls Swimming (79) Girls Tennis (50) Gold Helmet (1) Gymnastics (29) High School Sports (57) Highlights (14) Hockey (64) Mountain Biking (9) NCAA (6) Other states (16) Poll (62) Prep Notebook (115) Public/Private (1) Rankings (87) Records (2) Recruiting (254) Roundup (119) Rugby (18) Skiing (7) Softball (102) Story followups (4) Track & Field (112) Uncategorized (355) Volleyball (133) Week Ahead (11) Weekend Wrap (9) Wrestling (223)
Colorado Preps Archives
Colorado Preps Archives Select Month May 2016 (7) April 2016 (47) March 2016 (37) February 2016 (53) January 2016 (39) December 2015 (21) November 2015 (27) October 2015 (50) September 2015 (52) August 2015 (30) July 2015 (9) June 2015 (26) May 2015 (36) April 2015 (32) March 2015 (34) February 2015 (85) January 2015 (55) December 2014 (20) November 2014 (42) October 2014 (90) September 2014 (67) August 2014 (35) July 2014 (17) June 2014 (33) May 2014 (83) April 2014 (52) March 2014 (53) February 2014 (108) January 2014 (77) December 2013 (21) November 2013 (27) October 2013 (37) September 2013 (32) August 2013 (20) June 2013 (14) May 2013 (20) April 2013 (25) March 2013 (31) February 2013 (47) January 2013 (42) December 2012 (13) November 2012 (24) October 2012 (38) September 2012 (40) August 2012 (34) July 2012 (13) June 2012 (12) May 2012 (42) April 2012 (31) March 2012 (10) February 2012 (23) January 2012 (38) December 2011 (15) November 2011 (24) October 2011 (33) September 2011 (34) August 2011 (36) July 2011 (13) June 2011 (25) May 2011 (36) April 2011 (20) March 2011 (10) February 2011 (20) January 2011 (23) December 2010 (22) November 2010 (27) October 2010 (26) September 2010 (28) August 2010 (23) July 2010 (22) June 2010 (30) May 2010 (36) April 2010 (30) March 2010 (8) February 2010 (10) January 2010 (6) December 2009 (3) November 2009 (18) October 2009 (8) September 2009 (10) August 2009 (7) July 2009 (4) June 2009 (2) May 2009 (7) April 2009 (11) March 2009 (16) February 2009 (21) January 2009 (23) November 2008 (12) October 2008 (4) September 2008 (2) August 2008 (7) April 2008 (2) March 2008 (5) February 2008 (1) January 2008 (3) December 2007 (1) October 2007 (2) September 2007 (2) August 2007 (3) May 2007 (1) April 2007 (5) 0 (683)
About Prepped
Prepped covers news, scores, rosters, highlights, from the Colorado high school and preps sports world by writers Neil Devlin and Joe Nguyen.
Prepped RSS feed
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line92
|
__label__wiki
| 0.516204
| 0.516204
|
Home Analysis Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson Says ADA Will Beat Facebook’s Libra In Emerging Markets
Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson Says ADA Will Beat Facebook’s Libra In Emerging Markets
Cardano News Today – Everyone has been talking about the upcoming Facebook cryptocurrency, Libra. Apparently, this cryptocurrency is going to be a threat to traditional financial institutions and other cryptocurrencies according to members of the cryptocurrency community. The founders of blockchains, on the other hand, don’t feel the same way. As stated in our previous XRP news, the CEO of Ripple, Brad Garlinghouse has said that the emergence of the Facebook cryptocurrency is going to be a good thing for the cryptocurrency market. Now, Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson has said that he doesn’t believe Libra can overtake Facebook in emerging markets.
Cardano News Today – Cardano Price Prediction – Cardano Future Forecast – Cardano Vs. Libra In Emerging Markets
For a while now, Hoskinson has been traveling around the world and pitching Cardano’s technology to everyone who is willing to listen. Finance Magnets had the privilege of conducting an interview with Hoskinson at a Tel Aviv workshop. During the interview, the blockchain expert said that Facebook doesn’t have what it takes to overtake Cardano in the emerging markets. He also praised Israel as a talent hub. In his words;
“Israel is a good talent hub. There’s an amazing group of developers and scientists here. If you are doing anything in cryptography, technology or engineering, there’s probably an Israeli involved somewhere.”
Apparently, Hoskinson and his team are interested in getting feedback about the Cardano Shelley testnet which went live recently. As you probably already know, Cardano Shelley is the upgrade the entire Cardano community has been waiting for. When it is complete, the blockchain will become 100% decentralized according to Charles Hoskinson. This will give it an edge over Ethereum and other rival blockchains.
Cardano (ADA) Price Today – ADA / USD
$0.101379 6.44%
Regarding Cardano’s interest in emerging markets, Hoskinson said that IOHK is paying special attention to emerging markets because these places hold the largest opportunity for cryptocurrencies to thrive. In his words;
“Emerging markets are where cryptocurrencies matter. When I look at the developed world, I don’t care. It’s highly regulated and, in many cases, a rigged system. If I decide to compete with a tech company they can just push me out via regulation. Then I sit down with the prime minister of Georgia and he says, ‘we’re open for business. We can rebuild parts of their education infrastructure, create a new payments system or do a medical records system. The keys to the kingdom are right there. That’s 4 million people who in ten or twenty years will be very high-value users.”
You’ll recall that Facebook specifically said that it’s cryptocurrency is going to target emerging markets in the developing world. Regarding this new competition, he said;
“I live this market. And I can tell you, the U.S. government, by definition the most powerful entity in the world, finds it difficult to make payments into Ethiopia. If they’re struggling, how is a private company going to do it? I am not entering a market and looking to extract value from people. Facebook has to come into countries it doesn’t know a lot about and convince them to enslave themselves to an economic monopoly and give nothing in return. And their only pitch is that you’ll pay less on fees.”
He continued;
“I’m going there and saying, ‘we’re going to rebuild all your systems so you have fraud-free land registration, better voting systems and improved supply chains.’ We’re already doing this stuff but it took years. These are relationship-based markets – and Facebook doesn’t have those relationships. We spent a year and a half in Ethiopia just training a small group of female developers. Most people assume that’s easy. No, we had to work extremely hard just to sign an MoU with the Ministry of Innovation and Technology. They didn’t really believe in us, so we had to earn [their trust]. Then after we did it, they said, ‘we like these guys’ and let us do what we do. It’s not ‘don’t be evil,’ it’s ‘can’t be evil”.
What do you think? Will Cardano beat Facebook in the race to dominate emerging markets? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.
hoskinson
Previous articleDeutsche Bank: ‘Aggressive’ Central Banks Making Bitcoin More Attractive
Next articleOxfam Trials Aid Distribution With DAI, Future Use ‘Highly Likely’
Stellar Lumens Just Got A Major Push From The World’s Largest Cryptocurrency Exchange Per Volume, Binance
Crypto Analysts express Caution as Bitcoin (BTC) Crosses $10K in Latest Recovery – BTC News Now
Why VeChain Will Launch New Thor Upgrade Amid The Bearish Trend In Altcoin Market And What This Means For VeChain
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line95
|
__label__wiki
| 0.705932
| 0.705932
|
Home News US CFTC Approves LedgerX’s Application for Designation As Contract Market
US CFTC Approves LedgerX’s Application for Designation As Contract Market
LedgerX, a U.S.-based regulated crypto derivatives and clearing platform, has received CFTC approval to operate as a designated contract market.
The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has approved the application of LedgerX LLC for designation as a contract market, according to an announcement published on June 25.
LedgerX — a U.S.-based regulated crypto derivatives and clearing platform — can operate as a designated contract market (DCM) as of June 24, 2019. The company’s activities will be registered under Section 5 of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and Part 38 of the CFTC’s regulations.
Registration as a DCM will require that LedgerX maintain compliance with all applicable provisions of the CEA and CFTC regulations. “LedgerX has requested that the CFTC amend its order of registration as a DCO, which limits LedgerX to clearing swaps, to allow it to clear futures listed on its DCM,” the announcement further reads.
LedgerX initially applied for a designated contract market license that would allow it to launch the new futures product in April. LedgerX’s co-founder Juthica Chou said at the time:
"We've long had the goal to expand the range of customers we can serve beyond our institutional base — it's the natural next step for us. Omni, by interfacing with our existing institutional liquidity pool, will offer retail customers a top tier experience from day one."
Earlier in June, institutional cryptocurrency platform Bakkt announced that it will begin testing its first product, physically-delivered bitcoin (BTC) futures on July 22. “This launch will usher in a new standard for accessing crypto markets. Compared to other markets, institutional participation in crypto remains constrained due to limitations like market infrastructure and regulatory certainty,” the company’s chief operating officer Adam White said.
Previous articleRepublic of Abkhazia Develops Law Draft on Crypto Mining
Next articleKraken Raises Over $13 Million In Its Latest Fundraising Round
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line96
|
__label__wiki
| 0.697615
| 0.697615
|
Scholar Zahra Jamal returns to Chautauqua to highlight spirituality of Muslim food rituals
by Delaney Van Wey on August 22, 2017 2.43K views
Zahra Jamal fell in love with Chautauqua as a girl over a lemon poppy seed muffin and the inspiring speakers in the Interfaith Lecture Series.
Wednesday, many years later, Jamal is returning to Chautauqua Institution to stand on the other side of the podium to talk about how Muslims value food. Jamal, associate director at Rice University’s Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance, will speak on “Food for the Soul: A Muslim Perspective” at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Hall of Philosophy.
“In Islam, food, like health, is a divine gift to be cared for, nurtured and shared for the betterment of society,” Jamal said.
As part of Week Nine’s interfaith theme, “Food and Faith,” Jamal will discuss five main topics in the relationship between Islam and food. The first is how food builds communities during the annual rituals of Nawruz, Ramadan and Hajj.
These food rituals were influential in Jamal’s youth, she said, reciting fond memories of waking up before dawn to pray and eat with her family before beginning the fast during Ramadan and breaking it after dusk with her community. When she went away to college, she celebrated Eid with friends with traditional foods like biryani and kheer.
Zahra Jamal
However, Jamal said, some of her favorite childhood memories were the everyday family dinners. Related to this are two of Jamal’s other lecture topics: how breaking bread can help create dialogue, and how food symbolically and literally nourishes people. Part of this is eating mindfully, which Jamal said Muslim people take seriously.
“When partaking in a meal, most Muslims clean their hands, body and mind, as well as offer a prayer of gratitude for God’s bounty and blessings both before and after eating,” Jamal said.
During their family dinners, Jamal’s father also sparked her interest in studying Islam by regaling the family with narratives from Islamic history.
Jamal went on to study Middle Eastern and Islamic studies for her undergraduate degree. Then, as a graduate student at Harvard University, she focused on the anthropology of Muslim communities.
At Rice University, Jamal now educates students about religious tolerance and civic engagement in the Islamic world, on which she has advised the United Nations and the U.S. State Department.
Although developing Wednesday’s lecture pushed Jamal outside of her usual research area, she will incorporate her expertise by discussing how Muslim dynasties advanced agricultural production and examples of Muslim civil society organizations that are tackling the global hunger crisis.
Jamal said she is excited to return to Chautauqua to join the ranks of esteemed speakers who have lectured at the Hall of Philosophy. During her youth, she came to Chautauqua often with her family because her uncle, Habibullah Jamal, was instrumental in developing the original Interfaith Lecture Series.
Jamal will contribute an important perspective on food and faith during the week as an expert on Islam, which has many unique food rituals. These include eating dates to break the fast of Ramadan, as the Prophet Muhammad did, and eating Halal meat, which means the animal is sacrificed humanely. Both of these are deeply spiritual customs tied to the Quran.
“In my view, as a Muslim, symbolic and physical nourishment are deeply spiritual, environmental and moral acts that enable the subordination of the ego, the cultivation of communal life and identity, and the connection to creator and creation,” Jamal said.
Tags : Food and FaithHall of Philosophyweek nineZahra Jamal
Caroline Van Kirk Bissell to give final Bird, Tree & Garden Club Bat Chat of the season
Anna Blythe Lappé to address power of real, sustainable food
The author Delaney Van Wey
Delaney Van Wey is reporting on the Interfaith Lecture Series this summer. Although she is from Gowanda, this is her first time at Chautauqua Institution. She is studying journalism and international relations at Syracuse University, where she previously worked as assistant news editor at The Daily Orange. Contact her at dovanwey@syr.edu or on Twitter, @DelaneyVanWey.
Jason Robert Kicks off Lincoln Applied Ethics Series
In final morning lecture, filmmaker Grace Lee and critic Ann Hornaday explore identity, stereotypes, and culture through film
Filmmaker Dan Habib draws on personal experience in lecture on disability and inclusion
Rebecca Cammisa discusses her processes through latest film ‘Atomic Homefront’
Sultry Summer Nights: Richard Marx to perform hits from 30-year career in Amp performance
« Jul Jun »
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line102
|
__label__cc
| 0.535297
| 0.464703
|
The Mission Endowment Fund: Investing in the work of Christ’s Church... Now and in the Future.
Background and Purpose:
The Mission Endowment Fund of the Community Lutheran Church (CLC) was established by action of a congregational meeting on January 23, 2005.
The purpose of the fund is to support the work and mission of the Community Lutheran Church in and beyond our community.
Your gift to the Fund will keep giving for years to come
5% of the average value of the Fund in the previous year is designated each year to be given for church outreach
The proceeds from the fund are used to support special ministries of CLC and the broader church rather than regular operating expenses at CLC
The Congregation reviews and approves the annual distribution of the Fund
The Fund does not replace Memorial Gifts, which continue to be separately administered
What Will My Gift Do?
CLC’s Mission Endowment Fund is designed to be an active source of mission support in and beyond the Community Lutheran Church. Every year, 5% of the Fund is distributed in accordance with the following general guidelines:
(a) Up to 40% for special projects within CLC’s local area;
(b) Up to 40% for special ministries within the New England Synod, ELCA;
(c) Up to 40% for ELCA Church-wide ministries;
(d) Up to 40% for extraordinary programs or ministry initiatives within this congregation.
How Can I Give?
There are many options for how to give to the Fund. Gifts can come from:
cash,
stocks or bonds,
life insurance policies,
annuities,
wills,
trusts,
memorials, or
property.
Where Do I Find Out More?
Please speak with Pastor or one of the Mission Endowment Fund committee members to learn more about CLC’s Mission Endowment Fund. Your financial planner or bank can also assist you in planning your gift.
Website content coming soon!
Sunday services are broadcast live every week and saved in our archive. Don't miss out!
Enfield, NH 03748
Prayer Circle Request
Contact Pastor
facebook.com/clcenfield
twitter.com/clcenfield
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line109
|
__label__cc
| 0.667164
| 0.332836
|
08 November 2018 ~ 0 Comments
Threadless: Achieve Your Dreams and more new this week
Achieve Your Dreams by Steven Rhodes (blue sparrow) is my favorite Threadless design this week. I love the way it interprets a common phrase in the most literal way possible, giving it an opposite meaning to what is traditionally intended. It’s the sort of juxtaposition that ends up being surprisingly thought provoking- after all, why do we mean grandiose accomplishment when we speak of dreams instead of the kind of everyday choice that can make your life measurably better, like getting a good night’s sleep? Of course, this is also a very funny scenario, especially in the way the thought bubble’s slumber seems deeper and more restful, so it should appeal to a large audience.
Simple Leaves by Ronan Lyman (RonanL) has the feel of a nature study, with leaves of all different typed carefully arranged and recorded down to each vein and bend of the stem. The dashed pattern of the background marks it as an illustrator’s investigation rather than a scientific one, something aimed at a certain playfulness rather than strict accuracy. The golds and reds of the color palette make it a perfect fit for autumn. There’s a lot to like, but one choice keeps me from being fully on board- the rectangular dimensions of the art. The way the dashed lines of the background mark out a solid rectangle keeps the design from feeling truly organic, and I don’t think there’s enough height to the shape to keep it from filling the shirt awkwardly, with a ton of empty space below the art that looks accidental rather than purposeful. It leaves me wishing that the art repeated to form an all-over pattern, because the illustration is great, there’s just not enough of it!
Small Fortune by Cody Weiler (csweiler) definitely uses white space to its advantage, choosing to display its art as a small, circular pocket print. I love this choice because it mirrors the experience of an actual fortune cookie where you have to expend some effort to get to the fortune inside. Here, instead of breaking open a cookie, you have to lean in to read the small print- and much like many real fortune cookies, the message of the future it’s delivering is not really what you hoped for. I like how instead of vague and lukewarm, as real fortunes often are, this one is outright hostile. Capping off the message with a little frowny face just makes the whole scenario even funnier.
Squirming Smiles by Mat Voyce (MatVoyce) is the kind of all-over print I love to see, bright and abstract. It reminds me of Keith Haring in its frenetic, joyful motion, with lines that almost seem to be dancing. I like that, although the lines are very bold and simple, there’s still an element of detail to the piece- each line has brush strokes visible at either end. It’s a nice touch that makes the art feel a bit more handcrafted.
The Procrastinator by Grant Shepley (Gamma-Ray) turns The Thinker on its head, transforming the famous statue from a deep thinker into a shallow one, concerned with the number of likes on his social media account. The clash is highlighted by a switch in style, from a rough, black and white, craggy treatment of the statue to the clean, color notification on the phone. The only element I’m not fully convinced about is the drip motif, which trickles down from various areas of dark shadows. To me, it confuses the piece a bit because it breaks the illusion of the realistic statue, and doesn’t add enough visually to be worth that break in style.
Threadless prints new shirts every week, chosen from the designs submitted by and voted on by site members. Most winners earn $1 minimum per item sold (learn more about Threadless artist payments).
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line120
|
__label__cc
| 0.657184
| 0.342816
|
File:LRO WAC Nearside Mosaic.jpg
Global file usage
Size of this preview: 600 × 600 pixels. Other resolutions: 240 × 240 pixels | 480 × 480 pixels | 768 × 768 pixels | 1,024 × 1,024 pixels | 18,000 × 18,000 pixels.
Original file (18,000 × 18,000 pixels, file size: 69.89 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.
The original file has a large number of pixels and when opened at full resolution, may either not load properly or cause your browser to freeze. These problems can be avoided by use of the ZoomViewer. Open in ZoomViewer
DescriptionLRO WAC Nearside Mosaic.jpg
English: Near side of the moon, by NASA's Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter. Orthographic projection centred at 0° longitude, 0° latitude.
Date between November 2009 and February 2011
date QS:P,+2050-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+2009-11-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1326,+2011-02-00T00:00:00Z/10
Source http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/view/WAC_GL000 (see also http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/index.php?/archives/345-Farside!-And-all-the-way-around.html)
Author NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
Lower resolution versions: 6000px, 3000px, and 1000px
This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
Use of NASA logos, insignia and emblems is restricted per U.S. law 14 CFR 1221.
The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain.
Materials based on Hubble Space Telescope data may be copyrighted if they are not explicitly produced by the STScI.[1] See also {{PD-Hubble}} and {{Cc-Hubble}}.
The SOHO (ESA & NASA) joint project implies that all materials created by its probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use. [2]
Images featured on the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) web site may be copyrighted. [3]
The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) site has been known to host copyrighted content. Its photo gallery FAQ states that all of the images in the photo gallery are in the public domain "Unless otherwise noted."
current 04:48, 20 March 2014 18,000 × 18,000 (69.89 MB) Huntster == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |Description={{en|1=Near side of the moon, by NASA's Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter. Orthographic projection centred at 0° longitude, 0° latitude.}} |Source=http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/view/WAC_GL000 (see als...
The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):
Geology of the Moon
Topography of the Moon
User:P.T. Aufrette/sandbox
Template:Multiple image/testcases
The following other wikis use this file:
Usage on az.wikipedia.org
Usage on ca.wikipedia.org
Topografia de la Lluna
Usage on cs.wikipedia.org
Usage on et.wikipedia.org
Usage on fa.wikipedia.org
Usage on hi.wikipedia.org
चन्द्रमा
Usage on ja.wikipedia.org
Template:Multiple image/testcases2
Usage on kk.wikipedia.org
Ай (серік)
Usage on ro.wikipedia.org
Topografie selenară
Geologia Lunii
Usage on ru.wikipedia.org
Топография Луны
Usage on sl.wikipedia.org
Predloga:Več slik/testniprimeri
Usage on tr.wikipedia.org
Selenoloji
Usage on vi.wikipedia.org
Bản mẫu:Nhiều hình/testcases
Usage on zh.wikipedia.org
月球
月球地質
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LRO_WAC_Nearside_Mosaic.jpg"
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line123
|
__label__cc
| 0.654455
| 0.345545
|
Walking NZ for Creative Centre
Friday January 11, 2019 Written by Published in Local
On January 28, 2019, good Samaritan James Talbot will begin conquering Te Araroa – the trail that runs from one end of New Zealand to the other.
Talbot aims to complete the 3,200km walk from Bluff at the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island to Cape Reinga at the top of the North Island within five months.
A few years ago Talbot and his wife Ani attended a tour of Rarotonga’s Creative centre. Here James met a memorable old man by the name of Papa U’a who “tugged on his heartstrings” and inspired him to do something to help the little community.
Talbot told CINews: “I thought about it for a few weeks afterwards and thought, well I really want to do something, but something more than just volunteering for a day. It’s gotta be something big.”
Eventually, Talbot had the brilliant, as he puts it “bonkers” idea to conquer the Te Araroa Trail and put whatever proceeds he could to raise towards the Creative Centre’s respite units.
Talbot is aiming to raise $300,000. “This money will go directly towards the respite units. It can help the Creative Centre Board to do whatever they need to the respite units as required.” says Talbot.
Talbot and his wife Ani say all that is needed for the target to be reached, is for 30,000 people to donate $10 over a period of five months.
The “Creative Trail Feb 2019” committee has already received plenty of support from the community, with many people already generously.
And over the past few months, Talbot has been busy gearing for the lengthy trek.
His training regime has consisted of completing Rarotonga’s cross-island walk, climbing Arorangi’s Raemaru and walking the 32kms around the island several times.
Overcoming the “jandal effect” has been a major challenge for Talbot. Going from wearing flat jandals to hiking boots that have a 2.54cm drop from heel to sole is no easy task, he says.
Despite the sore ankles he has suffered, Talbot has persevered and continues to push on - all for his love of the Creative Centre.
Talbot would like to thank Bluesky for his mobile phone, Air Rarotonga, The Cook Foundation, 21.3 Vaiana’s Bar, The Rotary Club of Rarotonga and Rotary New Zealand, and the many other sponsors, and organisations who have supported him on his journey.
If you would like to be one of 30,000 to donate to the Creative Centre respite unit, you can do so via Givealitte by following the link http://givealittle.co.nz/cause/creative-trail-feb-2019.
All donations, big or small, will be appreciated. And you can follow Talbot’s journey via the Facebook page, Creative Trail Feb 2019.
Talbot departs for his adventure this Saturday January 12. Wish him well by joining the ‘Creative Trail Feb 2019’ Committee at 21.3 Vaiana’s this Friday, 5-7pm.
- Teherenui Koteka
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line125
|
__label__cc
| 0.608733
| 0.391267
|
AF&PA Staff
Forestry & Wood
Government and Industry Affairs
History of AF&PA and Our Industry
Employee Relations Program
Recovery Boiler Program
Air Regulations
AF&PA PAC
Grow the Vote
Sign-Up for Grassroots Alerts
Paper and Packaging Caucus
Printing and Writing Paper
Paper Products Glossary
#withpaper
Paper-Based Packaging
Containerboard
Paper Bags & Shipping Sacks
Member Company Profiles
Sustainability Award Winners
PaperRecycles
Value of Tissue Fact Sheet
Value of Tissue Infographic
Tissue vs. Hand Dryers Fact Sheet
Paper Towels are Best for Hand Drying Infographic
OSHA Combustible Dust Guidance
Facts About the use of Bleaching Agents
Little-known Facts about Toilet Paper
Paper Tissue Tackles Football and Flu Season!
Tissue paper products, which include paper towels and toilet paper, play an important role in modern life. They contribute to improved hygiene, comfort and convenience in our society. Tissue paper products are highly engineered to provide strength, ultra-light weight, softness and absorbency, all at the same time.
Rolls of toilet paper were first introduced in the late 1800s and facial tissue made its debut in the 1920s. Today, tissue paper products are a popular, growing market. Demand for various tissue products continues to increase in the U.S. and abroad. Innovations in tissue and towel products have led to new product applications to meet the changing demographics of on-the-go millennials and today's families.
What is Tissue?
Tissue is a general term indicating a class of papers which are characteristically gauzy in texture and, in some cases, fairly transparent. They may be glazed, unglazed, or creped, and are used for a variety of purposes.
Tissue can be manufactured using trees that are turned into wood chips and then cooked to separate the fiber (cellulose) from the glue that holds the tree together. This fiber is then formed into a sheet and ultimately into tissue. Tissue can also be manufactured from recycled paper products, or a combination of fresh fiber and recycled fiber. Most mills in the U.S. that produce tissue use some recycled paper products to make new tissue paper products.
Examples of different types of tissue paper products include toilet, facial, napkin, towels, wipes, and special sanitary papers. Desirable characteristics in these types of tissue papers are softness, strength, comfort, thickness and freedom from lint.
Other examples of tissue papers are decorative and laminated tissue papers and crepe papers, often used in gift wrapping and to decorate. Desirable characteristics here are appearance, strength, and durability.
What Kinds of Products are Made from Tissue?
Tissue papers are divided into three major categories: At-Home (or Consumer), Away-from-Home (or Commercial & Industrial), and Specialty.
At-Home products: Also known as Consumer Products, these are the tissue products you purchase in the grocery store, the convenience store and mass merchandisers for use in your home and include toilet paper and facial tissue, napkins and paper towels, wipes, and other special sanitary papers. For these products, softness and brightness are often high priorities. These products may also be decorated, multi-ply, scented, or contain emollients or lotions for added comfort and desirability.
Away-from-Home products: Also known as Commercial & Industrial Tissue, these are the products that serve markets such as hospitals, restaurants, schools, businesses and other institutions. These tissue paper products are often produced in large sizes, with dispensers designed for high volume, public use.
Specialty tissue papers: These types of tissue papers are often high-end, decorative papers that are glazed, unglazed, or creped, and include wrapping tissue for gifts and dry cleaning, as well as crepe paper for decorating.
Three of the most commonly used applications of tissue products are paper towels, toilet paper and facial tissue.
Paper Towels: Paper toweling is folded or rolled sheets used for drying or cleaning where quick absorption is required. Paper towels are often embossed during the converting process for additional cleaning strength or absorption. Paper towels can be made from virgin pulp or recycled paper products or maybe a combination of the two.
Toilet Paper: Based on the desire for better public hygiene, toilet tissue evolved along with the advent of indoor plumbing. Toilet tissue on a roll was introduced to North America in 1890 by Scott Paper Company. Designed to be sewer and septic safe, toilet tissue is an essential product of everyday life, providing sanitation, comfort, and convenience with each use.
Facial tissue: The class of soft, absorbent papers in the sanitary tissue group. Originally used for removal of creams, oil, and so on, from the skin, it is now used in large volume for packaged facial tissue, toilet paper, paper napkins, professional towels, industrial wipes, and for hospital items. Desirable characteristics are softness, strength, and freedom from lint.
How is Tissue Made?
Tissue paper products may seem simple, but manufacturing these specialty papers requires advanced science and technology. The first step in the tissue making process is to make pulp. Pulp can be made from either virgin fiber, which are wood chips, or from recycled paper products.
Wood chips (virgin fiber) are cooked using a chemical process in essentially a pressure cooker known as a digester. The wood fiber is separated into cellulose fibers, lignin (the wood glue that holds the tree together) and other substances such as sugars. Cellulose is an essential building block in the cell walls of trees and plants, helping to make them strong. The pulp is then washed to clean it and separate it from other substances such as lignin. After the pulp is washed, it is screened for further cleaning.
For mills using recycled materials, pulp is made by mixing the recycled materials with water in what resembles a large blender called a repulper. In the repulper, the pulp is separated to create individual fibers in a slurry. From there, the pulp is washed and screened for further cleaning.
Screening the pulp removes oversized and unwanted chunks or pieces from the slurry, leaving the best fibers for tissue products. The cleaning process further removes any unwanted particles and debris like any dirt or dust.
The pulp then goes through a series of rollers where the water is squeezed and evaporated out, helping to dry out the pulp. Though lignin is removed during the washing process, some lignin remains together with the fiber and at this stage it has a natural brown color. At this stage, the pulp is bleached, further separating the cellulose fibers from the lignin, increasing fiber strength while creating a bright white color.
After the pulp is bleached, it needs to be formed into a sheet by the paper machine. At the wet end of the paper machine, the pulp flows onto a moving endless belt with a screen to filter out water and form a web. Further down the line, in the press section, the pulp, which looks like a white sheet, goes through several presses to further remove excess water. At this point the web of material still must shed water, so it passes into a dryer. The dryer is a large cylinder and uses steam to dry the pulp. The wet web of pulp is pressed against the cylinder tightly to dry it through evaporation, providing a consistent thickness prior to the paper being processed into a giant roll.
At this stage, many tissue papers are further processed or converted for consumer use. For example, tissue may be further embossed or creped. Embossing rolls create a textured design pattern onto the tissue like the dots and swirls on your paper towels or toilet tissue. Creping enhances the overall thickness, making it softer, and adding the stretch properties to the paper.
After the paper is creped, it is sent to a converting machine that turns the paper sheet into the tissue products you recognize. Converting machines can turn the paper into multiple plys, fold tissues and napkins, or otherwise transform large sheets or rolls into the final packaged configuration.
Why Use Tissue?
Tissue products are diverse, widespread and help to improve the quality of people’s lives around the world every single day. By providing value, tissue products have helped to create modern life. There are no good substitutes for forest-borne tissue products.
Tissue Products are Hygienic
Tissue products include those for sanitary use, such as bathroom and facial tissue, napkins, paper towels and wipes, and special sanitary papers used in sterile medical procedures. Disposable tissue products have helped reduce the spread of bacteria and communicable diseases.
Check out these studies that show the hygienic benefit of using paper towels:
European Tissue Symposium
Contamination of the Washroom Infographic
Microbiological Comparison of Hand Drying Methods: The Potential for Contamination of the Environment, User and Bystander – December 2014
Intermetra
You can also download our infographic on why paper towels are best for hand drying.
Tissue Products are Convenient
Strong, ultra-light and soft, tissue products are used in and away from home for cleaning and hygiene purposes. They are dependable and can be used on the go!
Tissue Products are Innovative
Advancements in manufacturing technology include more efficient tissue paper uses and improving the design of products and the way they are dispensed. These innovations allow the tissue manufacturers to keep up with growing consumer demand, improve existing products and develop new products.
Tissue Products are Sustainable
Tissue products are inherently sustainable. Whether they are made from sustainably harvested wood fiber trees or recycled paper, demand for tissue products ensures that the resources used to make them will be plentiful for generations to come. In addition, the U.S. paper and wood products industry voluntarily makes efforts to continuously improve upon its sustainability record.
Tissue manufacturers drive demand for recycled fiber. In 2014, most U.S. mills with tissue paper capacity used some recycled paper to make new tissue products and several of those mills used only recycled paper.
On average, about two-thirds of the energy used by pulp and paper mills comes from renewable sources such as byproducts like carbon-neutral biomass that would not otherwise be used in the tissue paper making process.
Tissue manufacturers continue to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions from their facilities through efforts like reducing the use of fossil fuels and purchased energy (such as purchasing power from a local utility company), and reducing truck transportation.
Tissue manufacturers work to combat illegal logging, requiring the loggers they purchase from to adhere to sustainable forest management practices and ensuring the wood they purchase is not from controversial sources.
Tissue manufacturers continue to look for ways to improve their safety record in terms of reducing injuries and lost time from work. The goal for the industry is zero workplace injuries.
In U.S. pulp and paper mills, on average water is used ten times, before it is sent to a wastewater facility for treatment.
Tissue products are diverse, widespread and help to improve the quality of people’s lives around the world every single day. Tissue products provide value in many ways and have helped to create modern life.
Copyright American Forest & Paper Association 2018. All Rights Reserved.
Site Designed by DC Web Designers, a Washington DC Web Design Company
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line127
|
__label__wiki
| 0.773638
| 0.773638
|
The limits of fantasy
By Billy Cox Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 12:51 PM
Cambridge University’s recent decision to sponsor a “Terminator center” to study the possibility of human extinction by intelligent robotics naturally caught De Void’s eye. Formally known as the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), it’s the brainchild of celebrated British cosmologist Lord Martin Rees. Among other things, the Cambridge team will explore variations of the homicidal HAL 9000 “Space Odyssey” scenario to determine the likelihood of artificial intelligence making the leap from the big screen to nonfiction.
'I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it.'/CREDIT: s374.photobucket.com
“We fret unduly about carcinogens in food, train crashes and low-level radiation,” Rees told the media. “But we are in denial about ‘low-probability high-consequence’ events that should concern us more and which, in our ever more interconnected world, could have global consequences.”
Malicious artificial intelligence isn’t the only entree on the CSER trouble-shooting menu. Included among CSER’s “four greatest threats” to humanity are nuclear war, climate change, and “rogue biotechnology,” and CSER plans to assess those threats as well. But killer AI is the show-stopper, and it brings to mind a theory on technological evolution posited by former NASA historian Steven Dick in the International Journal of Astrobiology in 2003.
Dick envisioned an ET civilization fabricating robots capable not only of self-replication but of improving upon their own design. He called them “postbiologicals.” Dick didn’t raise this issue, but perhaps, as Rees theorized, these postbiologicals went on to destroy their creators. What Dick did suggest was that maybe postbiologicals are migrating through space and exploring other worlds. But true to form as a self-respecting mainstream scientist, however, Dick shrank from the notion that postbiologicals could be cruising Earth’s atmosphere in the form of UFOs.
Similarly, Lord Rees doesn’t want to hear any of this UFO nonsense, either. As he told Huffington Post in September, “I dismiss [UFO reports] because if aliens had made the great effort to traverse interstellar distances to come here, they wouldn’t just meet a few well-known cranks, make a few circles in corn fields and go away again.”
Exactly — they wouldn’t just visit cranks. But considering how CSER has tasked itself to confront “low-probability high-consequence events” involving radical AI on an epic scale, De Void couldn’t help but fire off an email to Lord Rees:
11/26/2012 3:05 p.m. Hi Dr. Rees: I just saw an article about how the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk hopes to evaluate the potential for artificial intelligence to threaten humanity’s existence. This sounds interesting. However, as long as we’re dealing with hypotheticals, might we also factor in the possibility of advanced off-world AI playing a role in the equation? NASA historian Stephen Dick proposed this scenario in 2003. But he is apparently allergic to the acronym UFO, the study of which could provide evidence to validate his own theories. I know you don’t take UFOs seriously but why wouldn’t Dick’s envisioned “post-biologicals” fit into the discussion?
The punctual response:
11/26/2012 5:06 p.m. Thank you for these interesting thoughts. Best regards Martin Rees
Or, to phrase it another way: Ah-CHOOO!
UFOs to the ratings rescue?
By Billy Cox Monday, Nov 26, 2012 11:24 AM
The newsroom at Fox31 in Denver was so stunned by the response its UFO coverage provoked on Nov. 8 that it actually did a followup (!) last week. “We’ve heard from hundreds of people from all over the world,” Ron Zappolo, the buoyed anchor, told viewers.
Fox31's UFO reporting from Denver has instigated a vigil of photographers angling for additional images of The Great Taboo/CREDIT: hereandnow.wbur.org
But really? Seriously? Surprised at worldwide interest in UFOs when the acronym search dings 234 million hits on Google? Granted, that’s only a fraction of the 3 billion-plus returns tallied by punching “sex” into the search engine, but hey, “UFOs” beat “Jesus” by a whopping 83 million. De Void’s guessing the response was due to the fact that Fox31, aka KDVR, actually made an effort to apply a little journalism to the mystery. And KDVR was so stoked it shared the emails and voice messages and photos that came rolling in after Heidi Hemmat’s initial report. Clearly, the volume and intensity of the feedback threw her for a loop.
“People have questioned my journalistic integrity,” she remarked during the followup. “People either believe it or they don’t or they think I’m just a jerk who’s out there, y’know, shooting flies and making it up and telling people it’s UFOs, but I’m not.”
Welcome to The Great Taboo Club, man. In summary: Hemmat’s report sprang from footage provided by an anonymous source who pointed out oblique little blips zipping through mid-day skies when he slowed his otherwise unremarkable footage to a crawl. He argued the objects were flying so fast they couldn’t be seen in real time. Hemmat took Mr. X up on his challenge that the UFOs appeared at reliable intervals, and her photographer proceeded to capture UFO footage of his own. She also consulted an aviation authority who eliminated conventional aircraft, birds and bugs from the suspect list.
A ton of viewers weren’t buying the no-bug theory and evidently hammered Hemmat with you’re-an-idiot critiques, so she enlisted a puzzled entomologist to review the images. The entomologist’s verdict: “I don’t believe it’s an insect.”
“It’s unexplained, we’ve talked to all the experts,” Hemmat stated at the end of her second piece as she solicited viewer suggestions. “I don’t know what else to do.”
Great instincts, but let’s be clear. No, you didn’t talk to all the experts. Please interview more than one. Also: Those platoons of amateur videographers you showed standing watch at Federal Heights, the prescribed vista for shooting UFOs — have they caught anything? Did you look at their footage? And sorry, you DO know what else to do, you even mentioned it on the show: conduct some triangulating camera work. The good news is, the story’s getting a toe-hold with the MSM; even an east coast NPR station found it compelling enough for a decent segment.
Memo to Fox 31: If you’re serious about sliding down this sucking black rabbit hole, broaden your scope and check out journalist Leslie Kean’s report on the Chilean UFO footage first. Same buggie issues, no resolution. But maybe the Denver footage will contain something unique and quantifiable. Better yet: Four days remain before ratings month ends Friday. Just play it straight, keep pounding, and your competitors will be whiteboarding their own UFO coverage come February.
A Smurf by any other spelling …
By Billy Cox Wednesday, Nov 21, 2012 9:44 AM
It’s always cool whenever multidisciplinary sciences bring open minds to The Great Taboo. Especially astronomers, notoriously selective when dismissing UFO data. So naturally De Void was encouraged by a news blurb from Australia indicating an affiliate of the Springbrook Research Observatory in Queensland was investigating UFOs. That is, until De Void’s eyeballs screeched to a halt at a set of key quotation marks.
Selectively applied, quotations can drench their subjects in buckets of sarcasm, like tombstones branding the estranged deceased as “Poet” or “Father” or “Genius.” That’s why, in the second graph of said article, De Void’s hackles initially flared when the focus of the story, Andre Clayden, was referred to as a “serious” astronomer. Quotations around “serious.” De Void presumed this particular “writer” was taking the perfunctory hatchet-job approach. Then it became tacitly clear there was a major problem with Clayden’s Springbrook Mountain Extraterrestrial Response Force acronym — SMERF.
Oh dear god no.
Even if it discovers the UFO smoking gun, SMERF will always be just a Smurf/CREDIT: prosportstickers.com
Clayden, the Observatory’s observation director, actually comes across as a reasonable guy. He takes maybe 12 phone calls a week from local burghers reporting UFOs, settles most sightings with prosaic explanations, and is genuinely compelled by the mystery behind those whose descriptions elude easy categorization. He wrestles with the bizarre physics of the phenomena. “Where I question things,” he says, “is the vast distances needed to travel. They have to travel faster than the speed of light …” And he reassures potential witnesses, “You’re never made to feel like a fool.”
All well and good. But let’s say I want to report a triangle over Brisbane that just blistered my face with radiation: “Hello? Yeah, hey, my name’s Joe Blow and I’d like to speak to SMERF please …?”
Grr-OOAN. Fifty years ago the acronym could’ve passed for an Ian Fleming international crime cartel, but now and for all time, it’s an innocuous cartoon character. Granted, Smurfs aren’t little green men, they’re blue, and there’s the minor spelling discrepancy. But if the idea here is to establish an auto-destruct acronym, De Void is “gifted” this way, and is only too glad to contribute. How about Extraterrestrial Lookout Force, or Investigating Mysterious Phenomena, or Great New Options for Mainstreaming Extraterrestrials, or Determining Why Aliens Resist Fraternization? Hellooo — is this microphone working? De Void can do this all night long …
No light in the tunnel
By Billy Cox Friday, Nov 16, 2012 2:02 PM
So, in the end, we’re back where we started with the El Bosque UFO footage, dog-paddling in ambiguity. Not that anyone expected a smoking gun — the DNA’s a little hard to acquire. But with so many Chilean government analysts ready to categorize the multiple-angle UFO videos as a legitimate consensus-unknown earlier this year, the latest update from investigative journalist Leslie Kean sorta drains the water from the tub.
Is this a classic flying disc or a near-foreground ladybug out for a buzz? This much we know: There will be no consensus/CREDIT: CEFAA
Kean, whose UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record cracked the New York Times bestseller list in 2010, brought this potentially game-changing incident into the U.S. spotlight earlier this year in Huffington Post. Without getting too sidetracked on the rehash, the incident occurred at an air base outside Santiago in November 2010 during a scheduled military flyby. A handful of cell-phone vids collected footage that, when slowed down, showed unknown objects inserting themselves into the maneuvers, looping around conventional planes at speeds so fast they couldn’t be seen with the naked eye. Seven videos were reviewed by multidisciplinary scientists for CEFAA, Chile’s official UFO investigation agency, and the panelists agreed the object(s) weren’t man-made.
Unlike the rest of the American media, which didn’t bother to cover the story when CEFAA’s Gen. Ricardo Bermudez previewed the footage at a UFO conference in Arizona nine months ago, Kean stuck with this mystery and published a followup this week; those hoping to classify the El Bosque incident as an ironclad mystery were no doubt disappointed. Two of the most open-minded and circumspect researchers in the States — erstwhile NASA scientist Richard Haines and Bruce Maccabee, a former Navy physicist — were deadlocked over the likelihood of the UFO(s) being flying bugs.
Haines, who published his results at the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena website, discounted the insect theory and stated the images “cannot be explained in prosaic terms.” Unable to establish definitive camera triangulation on the objects, Maccabee’s study went the other way. “Without further information that would show the objects were distant and hence large,” he wrote, “it must be considered most likely that the objects were small and nearby such as insects.”
Both approaches appear rigorous and thorough. Entomologists consulted were reluctant to identify the insectoid culprits. Kean cites a photo analyst with Chile’s Air and Space Museum in Santiago commenting on the image’s “defined geometry, not being an object of biological origin, with an inclination that suggests ascending forward movement, this being reinforced by a flash of clear light at the base.” But the bottom line, she reports, is likely intractable: “Each of us can form our own opinions about something that science cannot determine, or we can simply accept that we will likely never know.”
Either way, this is a rare convergence of science and journalism, one so desperately missing from America’s unending conundrum with The Great Taboo. Between now and the long wait before the next time, we’ll continue to choke down the sort of “X-Files” swill ladled out by the likes of Fox 4 in Naples. You know the formula: The glib TV personality asks a witness who grabbed his own cell-phone video, “What do you think it was?” Chuckling self-consciously, the witness responds, “I think it was UFOs, I have no other explanation,” which sets up the stark and standard rejoinder:
“Some people would say that maybe you’re a bit crazy …”
As good as it’s ever gonna get
By Billy Cox Monday, Nov 12, 2012 4:08 PM
Ohh, it’s a-gonna be a goood week. Only Monday, and this is De Void’s favorite MSM lead on a UFO sighting. From the Charlotte Observer: “CARRBORO: Roy Mars was peeing in his compost last weekend — it adds nitrogen — when he looked up and saw something streak across the sky.”
Roy Mars. Peeing. If only he had a wife named Venus and a dog named Pluto and the family car was a Saturn or a Mercury and he was scratching — well, OK, this riff’s juvenile, but how else to account for this story? Mars said the “streak” morphed into a triangle before it vanished into the treeline. There were no other witnesses to the event, no pix or video, no sightings reported to police, or to two nearby USAF installations, or to the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill. The only reason this one made it into print is because a guy with a cosmic surname actually admitted to shaking the dew off his lily when it happened. There’s no other possible explanation.
Well, November is Nielsen ratings month, which means we’ll probably see a fair amount of UFO stories for the remainder of sweeps weeks. Some will be more formulaic than others. Here’s an e.g. of your typical coverage, a “Special Report” from NewsWest 9 in Texas.
The preceding is another one-source story, based on an eyewitness who wants to remain anonymous. Yawn. There’s video of a UFO passing above a house; enhanced with temperature and color-spectrum filters, the more detailed image appears to show a triangle with spheres. The sequence begs for independent analysis, but apparently, only the Laredo Paranormal Research Society has studied it. And the correspondent for this “Special Report” asks Mr. Anonymous the question everyone on Earth wants to know: “What do you say to those people who say you’re crazy?”
It’s still early, but De Void is betting the gold standard for November 2012 — such as journalism standards in this field are these days — will go to Fox 31 in Denver for this report:
First and foremost, kudos for the commendable restraint: No “Star Wars” or “Close Encounters” soundtrack lead-ins. This is a story built around (again) another anonymous witness with UFO footage. What’s intriguing is, the guy has multiple videos suggestive of repeatability. He tells the reporters UFOs can be photographed at a certain time at a certain location. The crew takes him up on the challenge and comes back with its own UFO sequence. Furthermore, they even check with FAA and NORAD sources for relevant local air traffic patterns (none) on said date, as well as with an “aviation expert” named Steve Cowell who “is a former commercial pilot, instructor and FAA accident prevention counselor.”
Cowell is stumped. He discounts conventional aircraft and birds; he ventures “perhaps it’s some sort of debris that’s being raised up by some of the atmospheric winds.” Some of the images bear an eerie resemblance to controversial Chilean footage released earlier this year, which triggered a spirited debate over whether respected photo analysts had been duped by flying insects. Fox 31 reporter Heidi Hemmat insisted Cowell had emphatically dismissed that possibility. “It’s not a bug,” she said. “People keep saying it’s a bug but it’s not a bug.”
But based on what? What evidence did Cowell present to eliminate that option? Fox 31 doesn’t say. If the reporters were going to this much trouble, couldn’t they have also triangulated their cameras and shot the UFO(s) from different angles?
Anyway, here’s something that’s probably for-sure true. After Nov. 30, the UFOs will all disappear. And they won’t be seen again until the next ratings season in February. Fortunately, newspapers will technically still be around to fill us in on the new adventures of Roy Mars whenever they occur.
More fat dachshund news, please
By Billy Cox Thursday, Nov 8, 2012 4:11 PM
Have you heard about the virtually immobile 77-pound dachshund whose scheduled appearance on “Good Morning America” triggered a custody dispute between an animal shelter and a rescue volunteer? Whoops, check that, the dog started out at 77 pounds. Last word, the thing reportedly weighs 62 pounds after the new owner took away all the Twinkies and ham hocks apparently being inserted like slot-machine coins by an elderly couple. And frankly, “Obie” might actually be even lighter than that today, because the most recent update ran an intolerable one whole week ago, during a legal hearing “that had television crews battling over whose camera got to occupy the only spot in the courtroom,” according to one report.
But now, thankfully, with the presidential election finally out of the way, maybe the media can refocus and give Obie’s 71,000 Facebook fans — and “Good Morning America” audiences — the followup they deserve.
This porcine dog became a media sensation on account of being so fat/CREDIT: neogaf.com
The greatest thing about the fat dachshund story is, it doesn’t even require exposition. Just post a video of the baby elephant seal-looking wretch and watch ‘er go viral. Obie doesn’t need any words or special effects. Obie is simple. Obie is the way the world ought to be.
Obie takes us away from fretting over hypotheticals that don’t matter, like the report a couple of days ago about how Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu contemplated putting military forces on high-alert status in hopes of baiting Iran into a war. The war didn’t actually happen, so why worry and who cares? This non-event went down in 2010. The only reason that kinda potentially sucks is, in October that same year, the U.S. temporarily lost control of 50 nuclear ICBMs at F.E. Warren AFB outside Cheyenne, Wyo. Because if your biggest ally in the Middle East decides to light the fuse, well, you kinda need to make sure your own powder’s dry. The official explanation for the shutdown was an engineering failure. Corroborating details were scant, but who cares?
De Void already knows where you paranoids want to take this one. You already know Warren AFB has a history of UFO activity associated with its 9,600 square-mile missile fields, and that UFOs and Nukes author Robert Hastings has interviewed potential witnesses to the more recent UFO incursions during the fall of 2010. De Void knows how increasingly difficult it is these days to distinguish fact from fiction, and that you’re asking yourself a question nobody cares about anymore, not since the Soviet Union went away: When’s the last time the networks filed a report on the state of our nuclear readiness? Because you’ve already read where UFOs appear to be snooping around the WMD arsenal again at Malmstrom AFB in Montana, site of the controversial 10-missile shutdown in 1967. You’ve read Hastings’ interviews with a handful of civilian witnesses to multiple incidents near Malmstrom as recently as September, and you’ve seen the sighting locator map posted at ufohastings.com
Fortunately, nothing bad has happened yet. And as a member of the mainstream media, De Void’s enthusiasm for serial stories is properly reserved for status updates on Obie’s miracle diet.
On breaking the oath
By Billy Cox Friday, Nov 2, 2012 4:45 PM
Frederick Meiwald’s obituary in the Las Vegas Journal-Review last August was brief but distinguished. During a 28-year military career that included posts with Strategic Air Command and Space Command, he earned the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters and the Joint Service Commendation Medal. What it didn’t include, not surprisingly, was Meiwald’s eyewitness to a controversial nuclear-missile shutdown at Malmstrom Air Force Base in March 1967. Because he was clearly uncomfortable with the conversation.
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever” — Noam Chomsky/CREDIT: failedempire.wordpress.com
News of the colonel’s demise at 70 was widely circulated late last month by 341st Strategic Missile Wing colleague and retired USAF Capt. Bob Salas. Salas and Meiwald were working side by side at an underground launch control facility when the Minuteman ICBMs began going offline, simultaneously with topside security chatter of a mobile unit reporting UFO activity outside the front gate. Both Salas and Meiwald were ordered to sign non-disclosure agreements by the USAF Office of Special Investigation. The men would eventually go their separate ways and talk no more about it for nearly 30 years.
But the potentially catastrophic event shook Salas to his core. He became an activist for UFO transparency and dared authorities to prosecute him for violating his security oath. He wrote a book in 2005 called Faded Giant, and spoke up in high-profile venues such as Larry King Live and at a 2010 National Press Club conference in Washington. Salas was also moved to seek out his old LCF supervisor, and connected with Meiwald on the phone in 1996.
In that recorded conversation, which accompanied Salas’ post, Meiwald was relatively laconic. Salas did most of the talking as he walked Meiwald back through events as he remembered them. Though Meiwald affirmed most of Salas’ statements, he didn’t appear to share his former colleague’s enthusiasm for stepping up. Until the end, that is, when he volunteered something Salas didn’t know: “I remember the two guards that had gone out to one of the sites finally got back scared to death and we had to relieve them of duty … They had gone out to one of the sites, one of the LFs, and on the way back they lost radio contact, and they ended up having to send them back to base early. I’m not sure what happened but I don’t think they ever returned to guard duty.”
It’s hard to blame Meiwald for not joining Salas’ public platform. One critic of the Malmstrom incident posted an online rebuttal called “Americans, Credulous, Or The Arrogance of Congenital Liars & Other Character Defects.” Said debunker refers to those who disagree — with Salas at the top of the list — as “fools (and) idiots.” Who needs the abuse?
Still, just last year, Meiwald agreed to a taped phoner with UFOs & Nukes author/investigator Robert Hastings. He was, as usual, circumspect and possessed of the manner of a career officer who has been ordered not to talk.
“All I can say is something happened and, to the best of my knowledge, Bob Salas has stated what he believes (to be) true and I’ve supported the majority of what he has said,” Meiwald told Hastings. “I have read his book and (although) I can not, you know, support what other folks are saying, I know what happened at (LCF) Oscar. I know that Bob has relayed what happened at Oscar very accurately. But, what goes beyond that, I am not in a position to even express a viewpoint. I certainly can’t question somebody else’s judgment. Uh, I think it would be best if I said no more.”
That Meiwald agreed to speak on the record at all, given his sensitivities, was a marvel.
albert on You can’t always get what you want
freeman69 on You can’t always get what you want
Joeschmoe on You can’t always get what you want
Billy Cox on You can’t always get what you want
GinoS on You can’t always get what you want
Archives Select Month July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 October 2017 July 2017 November 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008
Earthfiles
Mutual UFO Network
Mutual UFO Network Sighting Report
National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena
National UFO Reporting Center
Paradigm Research Group
Richard M. Dolan
Robert Barrow blog
Strange Days… Indeed – The Virtually Strange Network
The Object Report
The Paracast
The Presidents UFO Web Site
The UFO Chronicles
UFO Evidence
UFOs Found in TV Broadcasts
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line128
|
__label__cc
| 0.749349
| 0.250651
|
circa 1930 (4)
big pine property owners association (15)
barmore, a. g. (albert); black, j. d. (john david), 1893-1960 (2)
black, j. d. (john david), 1893-1960 (2)
black, j. d. (john david), 1893-1960; butler, frank (1)
chaucer, geoffrey, -1400 (1)
barmore, a. g. (albert); black, j. d. (john david), 1893-1960; lewis, i. g. (1)
big pine reparations association (1)
los angeles (calif.) -- buildings & structures (15)
los angeles public library (14)
metabolic studio los angeles aqueduct la aqueduct acquaduct (11)
public libraries -- california -- los angeles (11)
loyola marymount university (5)
metabolic studio los angeles aqueduct (2)
processions flags uniforms sports events -- china -- shanghai schools -- china -- shanghai (2)
public libraries -- california -- los angeles public utility companies -- california -- los angeles (2)
shanghai, china college st. jeanne d'arc sports meeting 1947 (2)
shanghai, china college st. jeanne d'arc sports meeting 1947; yun dong hui (2)
1 postcard : color ; 9 x 14 cm. (13)
1 page (11)
2 pages (6)
1 cellulose negative 1 black-and-white photograph (5)
1 paper leaf 29 x 23 cm (1)
1 postcard : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm (1)
All fields: represent
St. John de Goto and Saint Joseph’s college, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
St. Peter Canisius and St. Peter’s College, Jersey City, New Jersey
St. Isaac Jogues and Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska
St. René Goupil and Rockhurst College, Kansas City, Missouri
St. John de le Lande and Loyola University of New Orleans, Louisiana
Public Library from the air, Los Angeles, Calif.
Public libraries--California--Los Angeles--Aerial views;
Aerial view of the Central Library building looking west; Fifth Street is to the left; lawn; parking lots; office buildings; three fountains in front of library entrance; walking paths.
Airplane view of Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, Cal.
Public libraries--California--Los Angeles; Buildings--California--Los Angeles
Aerial view of the Los Angeles Central Library on the southeast corner of Flower and Fifth streets. The large white building next to the library is the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. The Biltmore Hotel and Pershing Square are in the background.
Agreement between Big Pine Reparations Association and representative attorneys
Reparations; Lawyers; Big Pine Reparations Association; Hession, Jess; West, P. G.; Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Los Angeles
After a reparations bill of California was passed in April 1925, the Big Pine Property Owners Association (BPPOA) formed the Big Pine Reparations Association (BPRA) on July 29, 1925 to establish reparations claims against the City of Los Angeles...
Big Pine Reparations Association meeting minutes 1926-09-28
Reparations; Claims; Contracts; Lawyers; Lawyers--Fees; Payment; Hession, Jess; Big Pine Reparations Association; Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Los Angeles
Chinese clay figurines, Shanghai, China
Figurines; Folk art--China
Among the figurines on display, the two on top are Guan Gong and Na Zha. These clay figurines are probably for sale from street vendors.
Telegrams to Maurice B. Browne and J. M. Inman
Letters; Reparations; Browne, Maurice B.; Inman, J. M.; Big Pine Property Owners Association; Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Los Angeles
Big Pine Property Owners Association (BPPOA) was established in December 1924 to represent the property interests of Big Pine residents. After a reparations bill of California was passed in April 1925, the BPPOA formed the Big Pine Reparations...
Telegram to Mark Q. Watterson
Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Los Angeles; Resolutions; Watterson, Mark Q.; Big Pine Property Owners Association; Black, J. D. (John David), 1893-1960; Los Angeles Times (Firm)
Telegrams between Big Pine Property Owners Association and I. G. Lewis
Big Pine Property Owners Association; Los Angeles Examiner; Los Angeles Record; Los Angeles Times (Firm); Newspapers--California--Los Angeles; Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Los Angeles
Letter from Big Pine Property Owners Association to State Senator J. M. Inman
Reparations; Legislation--California; Inman, J. M.; Big Pine Property Owners Association; Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Los Angeles
Big Pine Property Owners Association (BPPOA) was established to represent the property interests of Big Pine residents, and the organization held its first meeting on December 8, 1924. A. G. Barmore, editor and owner of the Big Pine Citizen, served...
Letter from Big Pine Property Owners Association to W. W. Watterson
Reparations; Legislation--California; Black, J. D. (John David), 1893-1960; Big Pine Property Owners Association; Watterson, W. W.; Inyo County Bank; Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Los Angeles
Member roster of Big Pine Property Owners Association
Big Pine Property Owners Association; Membership; Black, J. D. (John David), 1893-1960; Barmore, A. G. (Albert); Shaw, D. L.; Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Los Angeles
Reparations; Black, J. D. (John David), 1893-1960; Big Pine Property Owners Association; Inman, J. M.; Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Los Angeles
Letter from A. G. Barmore and J. D. Black to Maurice B. Browne
Big Pine Property Owners Association; Inman, J. M.; Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Owens Valley
Legislation--California; Big Pine Property Owners Association; Browne, Maurice B.; Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Owens Valley
Letter from Big Pine Property Owners Association to George B. Warren, J. McIntosh, W. Uhlmeyer, W. Hines, and Frank Butler
Black, J. D. (John David), 1893-1960; Big Pine Property Owners Association; Warren, George B.; McIntosh, J. O. (James); Uhlmeyer, W.; Hines, William; Butler, Frank; Los Angeles (Calif.) Board of Public Service Commissioners; Water...
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line130
|
__label__cc
| 0.730438
| 0.269562
|
Russ Riggins Joins Three Point Capital as VP of Tax Credit Advisory
Premier Entertainment Debt Financier has been involved in over 300
film and TV productions with aggregate budgets of over $500,000,000
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Entertainment debt finance firm Three
Point Capital announced today that Russ
Riggins has joined as Vice President and Head of the Advisory Group.
Riggins is a veteran finance and operations professional in the film and
television industry with expertise in tax credit legislation, banking,
and entertainment finance.
“Three Point Capital has been around for a long time and they have a
tremendous amount of experience in different jurisdictions in the U.S.
and abroad,” said Riggins. “Dave (Gendron) and Ali (Jazayeri) have a
strong reputation in the industry and are long-term thinkers with high
integrity. I appreciate how thoughtful they are about their business and
the clients that the firm takes on.”
Riggins has over 12 years of finance experience in the media and
entertainment industry. Prior to Three Point Capital, he spent six years
as EVP of Finance and Operations at Millennium Films and Nu Image, where
he was responsible for all financing and structuring activities of the
company and over 30 films including The Hitman’s Bodyguard, Olympus
Has Fallen, and sequels in The Expendables series.
Prior to Millennium, Riggins worked with Summit Entertainment as well as
Comerica Bank, where he was part of a lending team in the entertainment
group, providing funding for the bank’s producing and corporate clients
in the film and TV space.
Having personal experience as a writer, producer, and actor, Riggins has
a “talent friendly approach to finance” and is “committed to figuring
out how to get all the puzzle pieces to fit so we can get the deal off
the ground.” Riggins explained, “I really enjoy what I do because our
clients are so passionate about their projects, and often looking to
build a meaningful body of work.” The University of Virginia’s McIntire
School of Commerce alum added, “It is amazing when a storyteller is able
to create something exceptional that hits people emotionally. I really
appreciate being part of that process and as an Asian American I am
especially interested in seeing underrepresented groups get the
opportunity to have their voices heard and I’m motivated to help content
creators achieve that.”
Riggins heads the Advisory Group, overseeing comprehensive
administrative and operational production services for tax credit
recipients including estimating credits, comparing jurisdictions,
preparation of the application, receipt, and monetization of the final
tax credit through the offices in California, New York, Louisiana, and
Ohio.
The firm’s Lending Group, headed by Viviana Zarragoitia, provides
loans on all types of collateral including domestic and international
tax credits, minimum guarantees, and negative pickups. They
differentiate themselves from other lenders through transparency,
flexibility, speed, and reliability. They lend on numerous types of
projects that do not require a completion bond to be in place.
Ami Frances leads Three Point Capital’s Post Services Group,
providing post production accounting services on any project, in any
shape or form. Their goal is to be engaged early in the process in order
to ensure that the handoff of the books is seamless. They also handle
paper delivery, participation statements, and manage research screenings.
The Brokerage Group at Three Point Capital is led by the firm’s
founding partner, David Gendron. With over 25 years of investment
experience, Gendron manages a deep network of tax credit buyers and
sellers and has expertise in facilitating purchases in over 24 different
jurisdictions.
Three Point Capital is a premier debt financier in the film
and television industry. Founded in 2009, Three Point Capital has been
involved in over 300 film and television productions. Originally focused
solely on tax lending, the company has expanded its expertise to include
brokerage, advisory, and post services. For more information, visit www.tpc.us
Fitzgarrald
Previous Yowie ‘Surprise Inside’ Chocolate Introduces the Wild Water Series, Encouraging Kids to Go Aqua-Eco and Protect the Creatures of the World’s Waterways
Next Acorn Growth Companies Acquires DIMO
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line131
|
__label__wiki
| 0.589803
| 0.589803
|
Basking in the sun, 1950s style
BY; SHIMA RAZIPOUR
As bathing suit season approaches, swimwear companies begin to seek trendy pieces to sell at their stores. Swimwear lines have produced pieces that include stripes, high-waisted bottoms, floral print, polka dots, and one pieces. Today, many bathing suits have been inspired by the tight-fitting pieces once worn in the 1950s.
Many fashion icons, including Jennifer Lopez and Kim Kardashian, have promoted their curvy figures and benefit from the retro bathing suit lines that are known for shaping the body and emphasizing curves.
In the 1950s, the bathing suits were created to hide problem areas for women while emphasizing attention on their bust and bottoms. Today, this continues to be a hidden strategy amongst bathing suit lines that sell.
Barbie, who has become a fashion icon to women all over the world, was recently seen posed on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue. She can be seen wearing a black and white, striped, one-piece bikini similar to many worn in the 1950s.
1950s-inspired swimsuits convey glamour with a formal, structured fit. These bathing suits have several characteristics including corsetry cups that lift the bust and tighter bottoms, clinching at the waist.
“I think that it’s a great cut for certain shapes, but I myself do not prefer it. It makes me feel older than I am. I like a good Brazilian cut, with some type of stringy top,” Ariana Armendariz, stylist and wardrobe coordinator for Chris Brown, said.
In the 1950s, manufactures began including stretch tummy control panels to hold in the stomach and added bra cups to bathing suit tops. Many of the pieces could be worn strapless, halter, or with straps that would button onto the inside. Although the two-piece bikini had been released in the 1950s, women continued wearing the flattering one-pieces.
Bathing suits in the 1950s were created with several different fabrics including lined cotton, stretch, ruched, and nylon. Many of the swimsuits were cut at the top of the leg to allow the legs seem long and lean. Since the bikini was still considered risky, women continued wearing the traditional one piece bathing suits.
The retro bathing suits have become popular at pool parties where women can still feel sexy showing their skin, but feel as though their trouble areas are hidden. Unique Vintage's swimwear line carries an assortment of retro pieces for every shape on their website.
“I like it. Especially when a girl wears it with Christian Louboutins,” CSULB alumni, David Train, said. Many retro bikinis are commonly seen worn with thick framed glasses, a floppy hat, or a scarf tied at the waist.
Retro bathing suits aren't only popular among women. Today, many men are styling the vintage-inspired shorts at the pool. Rusty Zipper Vintage Clothing has several shorts for men including bathing suits and everyday wear shorts. The clothing store’s website includes Men’s vintage inspired shorts from the 1940s-1980s.
The shorts vary from Hawaiian themed to bright colors that all typically cut mid-thigh. The styles include Mod, Tennis, Retro Rainbow, and Men’s Totally 80s shorts. Although this style is not as popular as the retro bikinis are for women, there are some men that have been rocking this style.
“I like it. I hate the normal board shorts, they look unclassy,” Tran, said.
Despite their comeback, many women continue to prefer to standard bikini.
“I’m already curvy as it is. I prefer something that I feel comfortable in, yet let’s my bum show. I like how I look in a two-piece that shows my stomach,” CSUDH student, Shannon Lear, said.
Popular swimwear lines including Victoria’s Secret, have several imitations of the retro bathing suits worn in the 1950s. Victoria’s Secret carries a firm control one- piece retro starting at $156. Several stores include similar items at lower costs including Target and Ebay.
FashionDIG MAG April 25, 2014 1 Comment
CSULB Dance department celebrates 20th anniversary
DIG TVDIG MAG April 25, 2014
Fantasy sports is no longer a typical hobby
SportsDIG MAG April 25, 2014
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line132
|
__label__wiki
| 0.514696
| 0.514696
|
Home Whatever Wonga offered bail-out loan at 5629% APR
Karma has finally hit Pay-day loan company, Wonga who have now collapsed and gone into administration.
The company’s downfall comes as a result of countless compensation claims made against the loan company for unfair interest rates and questionable tactics when it came to retrieving missed repayments. Customers however, have been advised that re-payments will still need to be made despite the companies impending doom.
Chinese loan company Wong-ah, have reportedly come to the rescue and offered the UK firm a massive bail-out loan of £3.8 million at a blisteringly high interest rate of 5629% APR.
Simon Gandy, the man in charge of overseeing Wongas final days, has been given an easy-to-use app by the Chinese lenders which will allow him to use a slider to choose how long he has the loan for and how many repayments he would like to make in a bid to make the loan more “manageable”.
“Is this what we’ve been doing to our customers all these years!? No wonder we’re fucked!” Simon commented.
In a last bid attempt to try and justify the companies actions, Simon added “We’re not entirely to blame though, we outline the repayments,interest and penalties very clearly. Its not our fault that people are shit with their money”.
Hairdressing apprentice, 22-year-old,Candice Farnsworth, managed to rack up a whopping £11000 after taking out a £200 loan from Wonga back in 2016 to pay for crack cocaine.
Candice commented;
‘Yes i used the money for drugs, is it my fault I’m on drugs? Probably. Is it my fault I took the loan out? Almost definitely. Do I need to sort my life out? Apparently so. Do I think I should be made to pay the money back? Absolutely not! I can’t even look after myself so how am I supposed to look after a piece of paper with the queens head on it?!
Anyone who is still waiting for compensation payouts from the company have been told to form an orderly queue outside of their local Citizens Advice Bureau.
link to image used: https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/newcastle-united-left-red-faced-launching-kit-old-wonga-logo/1347959
Previous article‘Full-time Mummy’ now recognised as a real job
Crossfit gym closed due to broken phone mast
Increase in Eastern European migrants see Sports Direct hit record high...
Popular car sticker banned
Woman can’t believe her son has turned 5 despite him being...
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line138
|
__label__cc
| 0.508886
| 0.491114
|
Prince Henrik: 1934-2018 (photo: P: Steen Brogaard, Kongehuset)
February 13th, 2018 1:27 pm| by Christian W
The Royal Family has revealed that Prince Henrik has been transferred from city hospital Rigshospitalet to Fredensborg Castle to spend his final days.
The Prince’s condition remains serious after his health deteriorated severely last week. A number of family members rushed to Copenhagen to pay a visit to the ailing husband of Queen Margrethe II.
READ MORE: Prince Henrik’s condition worsens
Dementia downturn
Last week, Crown Prince Frederik cut short his visit to the Winter Olympics in South Korea, which he was attending in his role as an IOC member.
Prince Henrik, who is suffering from dementia, had been hospitalised since January 28, when he was admitted for tests and follow-ups to his hospital stay in August last year.
Health News in Brief: A short sharp shock can be beneficial, winter bathers find
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line149
|
__label__cc
| 0.679291
| 0.320709
|
elcuidadodelasalude.org
Scientists create new way to study brain function
Roth immediately looked for epilepsy experts to collaborate with and contacted McNamara at Duke. Together they worked on this system that allowed them to regulate the activity of neurons in mice with CNO that was injected and able to cross the blood-brain barrier to access deep-brain neurons. With this model, the scientists were able to examine neuronal activity leading to seizures and activity that occurred during seizures.
This receptor was designed for experimental use with animals. "Based on what we learn from animal models of disease, we could get better target treatments for humans," said Georgia Alexander, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in Duke Neurobiology and co-lead author. "The great thing about these drug-activated receptors is that they can be applied to study any disease state, not just epilepsy. With this, you could try to selectively activate other populations of neurons, in an animal model of Parkinson's disease, for example." Roth said that the technique is not limited to neurons and brains, and is being used to study other cells in the body as well.
Alexander said researchers now can ask which areas of the brain are most susceptible to and critical to seizure generation, "because we can use similar techniques to inactivate or silence neurons, too."
For example, some people with seizures have a portion of their temporal lobes removed from their brains. "Now we can ask, 'Is there a different part of the brain or population of neurons we could selectively silence that would be an even better way to treat epilepsy patients?'" Alexander said.
• How to choose a microarray service provider
• Case Western Reserve launches new scientific and computational programs in Ohio
• Nano Terra, Kadmon sign deal to license novel product candidates
• Researchers temporarily turn off essential gene using RNAi technology
• Insight into neurodegenerative diseases
• Scientists identify biological pathways that mediate IgA nephropathy
• AACR President-elect to host press conference on cancer risk factors and genetics
• Pronto to distribute Signal's Myeloma Prognostic Risk Signature test in Israel
• DNA damage can lead to regulation of inflammatory responses
• People of all ages and both sexes can have congestive heart failure
• First evidence of H5N1 transmission between domestic farms and wild birds
©2017 - elcuidadodelasalude.org
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line153
|
__label__wiki
| 0.693922
| 0.693922
|
EW Radio
Nashville and Atlanta's #1 Rock and Soul Dance Party.
Famous in Nashville simply as "The Monday Night Dance Party," ELECTRIC WESTERN'S "Motown Mondays" is the wildly successful weekly rock and soul dance party, now in its TENTH year. DJ's JACOB JONES and RENO BO spin a hand-selected mix of the most danceable popular and obscure 50's and 60's Rock and Roll, Soul, Doo Wop, Girl Groups and Garage Rock every Monday night in Nashville and quarterly in Atlanta as the "Keep On Movin'! Rock N Soul Dance Party". Their slogan "Monday is the new Friday" holds true each week as the masses converge upon the hip east Nashville neighborhood, pack into rock club The 5 Spot and ready themselves for an evening of dancing, drinking and fun.
GQ Magazine named the ELECTRIC WESTERN's dance party "the most stylish party in America." College kids, baby boomers and everyone in between understand why this party is THE party. The rhythmic sounds of Motown, Stax, Sun Records, Chess Records and more keep the crowds in dance hall bliss while the evening's pied pipers Jones and Bo instigate the festivities.
MEET YOUR DJ'S
Entrepreneur, DJ, musician and all around mover and shaker, Jacob Jones founded SOUL CITY with Reno Bo shortly after moving to Nashville from Brooklyn in 2007. After touring the country several times in a beat up old RV promoting his own records, Jones has started several companies in Nashville, including a creative agency known as Mountain. He has made a name for himself not only for his Soul City DJ sets but also for connecting people with good times all over the city and curating one-of-a-kind experiences.
RENO BO
Musician, songwriter, DJ, and producer Reno Bo is co- founder of SOUL CITY with Jacob Jones. Before making his home in Nashville TN, Bo spent the previous several years on the road playing bass with fellow New Yorkers Albert Hammond Jr (The Strokes) and The Mooney Suzuki. As member of the Cabin Down Below band - a collection of NYC musicians who produce Petty Fest, a tribute to Tom Petty in cities all over the U.S - Bo has performed on stage with Norah Jones, Jakob Dylan, members of Kings Of Leon, Donald Fagen of Steely Dan and Patrick Carney of the Black Keys among others. If you pause your DVD player quickly enough, he can be spotted playing with The Mooney Suzuki in DreamWorks Pictures war film satire "Tropic Thunder," starring Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr.
For booking inquiries, please contact:
Keith Levy // klevy@paradigmagency.com
Jeremy Shpizner // jshpizner@paradigmagency.com
Nashvilleinfo@electricwesternrecords.com
2019 all rights reserved Electric Western Productions LLC
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line154
|
__label__wiki
| 0.585059
| 0.585059
|
Healing a broken community through families
July 18, 2017 by Diana Coombs
We’ve said it time and time again. Poverty is complex. The issues behind poverty are complex. The problem of brewing illegal alcohol is complex, and it is our mission to address the whole problem, and not just part of it.
We are doing this in many ways: through follow-ups with brewers who have been through the ELI training, through support groups amongst these former brewers, and through community outreach programs like Give a Child a Chance.
Give a Child a Chance is an event where reformed brewers and their families gather to continue the healing process that has begun in their lives. Hundreds come together to play games, share testimonies, and engage in community building activities.
How does this help the issue of brewing illegal alcohol and the growing problem of alcoholism in Kenya? Our Training Center Manager, Dennis Kiprop, shares:
“You can’t change an entire community by only changing the mom. A community is a collection of families. You change the community by changing the family, and you access the family through that one member.”
The Give a Child a Chance events are whole-family and whole-community events. The goal of Give a Child a Chance is healthy homes that help build a healthy community.
“We want to multiply impact,” says Dennis. “For change to be sustainable, there must be unity. A changed family can change another family. Train a husband, a wife and a child and the three of them together will now show others the new way forward.”
Thank you for being a part of the mission to bring healing to families and communities that have been broken by alcohol. It takes many hands to bring about transformation, and we are grateful for your partnership!
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line155
|
__label__wiki
| 0.563402
| 0.563402
|
Louisville women's basketball faces Connecticut Tonight -- THURSDAY CARDINAL COUPLE
#2 VS. #3
Geno now
The Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team comes to the KFC YUM! Center tonight for a 7 p.m. game against the #3 Louisville Cardinals. The city probably could have used Huskies and any dog sleds they cared to bring yesterday morning after a snow and arctic blast rendered driving difficulties and school cancellations.
The Huskies, you see, have no problems driving. Or hitting threes, playing defense or scoring points. They, like the WBB Cards, have just one loss on the season -- a stumble at Baylor back on Jan 3rd -- 68-57. Back on Jan. 3rd, Louisville was still undefeated, having turned away North Carolina 73-68. The Cards only loss would come a week later, at South Bend when Notre Dame upped Louisville 82-68. North Carolina must have learned something from the UofL loss, they knocked off Notre Dame earlier this week in Chapel Hill. The Irish are the only common opponent the two teams have in common this season, Connecticut going to Notre Dame and winning 82-68.
Geno back way back when
So, what does all of that tell us? I'm not really sure, except that -- maybe -- try and schedule the tough contests and foes at home. Or avoid playing them.
Geno knows a thing or two about the Louisville squad. He's 16-1 against them lifetime, his only loss coming back on 3-17-93 to a Bud Childers coached Cardinal squad 74-71 in the NCAA Mideast Regional first round at Iowa City. Bud left Louisville a few years later to take the head coaching job at James Madison (back then they were a better program than Louisville) and then WInthrop before retiring and becoming a successful franchise owner of several Sports Clips hair cutting franchises.
Caption this picture if you want...
What have we learned here? A college coaching career can lead to owning several "clip joints"... salon styling and hair cutting franchises? Geno has a full head of hair, his restaurant business and spaghetti sauce. Coach Walz keeps his lettuce high and tight and has never ventured into hair-cutting (except as a patron), restaurants (except to dine) nor making his own spaghetti sauce (that we know of). Walz was offered a maitre d job at one of Geno's four restaurants. I wonder if they'd let him sit in the "wee chair" during slow periods?
Geno's streak of win against UofL is impressive but consider that he's 24-0 lifetime against West Virginia, 47-2 against Seton Hall, 43-3 vs. Georgetown and 19-0 over Cincinnati. Who has won the most games against Geno? Let's circle back to Notre Dame, where Muffet McGraw has 12 wins and 36 losses against the Huskies.
"Hey, is that Coach Walz coming to watch us practice?"
Coach Walz loves what he does, probably had a good night's sleep last night, isn't stressed out about tonight at all, knows his players are fired up about tonight and is looking for a high-level performance out of them. He knows how hard Geno's squad plays.
Walz knows the prime time opportunity ahead of him tonight comes down to one main thing. Scoring. Putting the ball in the bucket. Knowing your role and carrying it out.
Trying to out-coach the legendary Geno. Not getting blown out early, like last year.
What does Coach Walz think about tonight? Here's his presser from yesterday:
LINK: WALZ PRESSER 1/30/19
(WBB SID Nick Evans "calls me out" at the very end about my game and Coach points out to me that. "Shooters, shoot"...Hey, I wasn't called the "Fern Creek Force" for nothing.")
BUT WHAT ABOUT TONIGHT, PAULIE?
Connecticut is 18-1 and has outscored their opponents by an average of 31.4 points (80.1 to 48.7) in seven ACC games. Overall they hold a +28.5 edge in scoring in their 19 games (81.9 to 53.4).
Five Huskies are double digit point producers. Katie Lou Samuelson leads the way with 18.8 a night. The senior also tops UConn with 49 made threes on 137 attempts (36%). Napheesa Collier isn't far behind her with 18.6 points per outing and gets to the charity stripe more than any other Husky, (62-89), for 70%. Both Megan Walker and Crystal Dangerfield have been good for 12.9 a contest. Dangerfield is deadly from the free throw line, 31-33 (94%). Freshman Christyn Williams completes the double-digit points providers with 11.1 an event and sees about 34 minutes a game on the court.
The Huskies starting lineup is basically a five-guard attack with Collier the "big" in the middle at 6'2". All of them are perfectly capable of getting the ball up the court and leading the fast break. Samuelson is 6'3" but more guard-than-paint-oriented.
Another freshman, Olivia Odoba-Nelson, has seen action in all 19 games and plays an average of 10 minute a game. After that, the Irish have four "benchers" who come in to do clean-up in blowout games, all five could probably go elsewhere and be starters...Batouly Camara, Kyla Irwin, Molly Bent and Mikayla Coombs.
Sophomore Lexi Gordon announced last month she was going to transfer and will toil for Texas Tech next season.
Five UConn numbers:
Biggest win -- 56 ( vs.St. Louis)
Most Points Scored -- 99 (vs. Seton Hall)
Best Quarter -- 1st, where they outscore opponents 446-251
Turnovers -- The Huskies force 16.1 a night and commit just 11.6
Games in the 90's -- (5) against Ole Miss (90), DePaul (99), St. Louis (98), Seton Hall (99) and UCF (93)
SO...WHO WILL WIN?
Why, the team who scores the most points, that's who!! (One of Walz's favorite answers when he's asked that question).
Ball control is going to be a key tonight. How do you do when you have it, can you limit turnovers and steals, are you able to work it effectively and get open, not forced, shots?
Are you able to play the shutdown defense and how will you do on second chance opportunities?
The Cards have nothing to lose tonight. Time to "go for it" on fourth down, swing for the fence, pull the goalie and serve the ace.
Most pundits and predictors are picking UConn to win. It's not a conference game. It won't affect the ranking or NCAA Tournament seeding that much. Louisville has been shutting down ACC offenses in the last five games, yes, but UConn is a horse of a different color. UofL has arguably the best player in NCAA Division I women's college basketball in "Nite-nite". She'll meet two other contenders for that crown in Samuelson and Collier.
The Huskies are 93-0 in the AAC since joining the league. 108-0 if your toss in tournament play. They won't face a larger, crazier, louder and enthused fan base on the road the rest of the season than they will tonight. How will they handle it?
ESPN comes in with their "A" team. Amin, Lobo, Lawson...with Holly Rowe running the sidelines (dressed in blue, whatcha wanna bet?)
I hope the Cards come out, shake the nerves and just have some fun in a great Thursday night matchup between two great teams. Two teams who were shocked in the Final Four last year. Two teams bent on returning to that "foursome" this year in Tampa.
I hope "the AC is 'on'", Asia is "Durrific" and "JJ Airlines" is running on schedule and packed with passengers. I hope Sam is a chairwoman of the boards and Kylee, "B" and Dana are representing their "A" games. What role will "Kasa" play. Does Lindsey get a chance to bomb threes?
It's four probable WNBA players in Durr, Carter, Samuelson and Collier. It's two of the best coaches in the women's game.
It's gonna be wild. The "intro" should be crazy. Make sure you're there early to catch it. Bring your "outside" voice.
Let's go 81-79. Cards. In a thriller. That's the pick. Be there, so you can tell your grand-kids and co-workers you were there "that night". Get there early, it could be a crowd of 16,000 plus. Feel free to leave your prediction in our comments section.
Probably won't be there tonight...
We'll recap it tomorrow here at Cardinal Couple. Hopefully, a" glowing report on a victory type of article".
Then, again, it's Jared's write up. Who knows what he'll touch on. His spontaneous viewpoints are a favorite here at the Chimp ranch.
We also invite you to join us Saturday. 11 a.m. for the "not ready for drive time" radio broadcast of The Cardinal Couple Radio Hour. Jeff Walz (well, at least his bobblehead) will be in studio with a selectively picked group of audio talent. WCHQ 100.9 FM and Facebook Live.
The Cards try to match steps with UConn on the frantic treadmill of women's college basketball tonight. Let's lace 'em up, climb aboard and get with it. Pulse and heart monitors optional.
Labels: 2018-19 Louisville women's basketball, Arica Carter, Asia Durr, Connecticut women's basketball, ESPN, Geno Auriemma, Jeff Walz, Katie Lou Samuelson, Napheesa Collier.
Spring Season Notes -- Preparation for Thursday -- WEDNESDAY CARDINAL COUPLE
Spring Season Notes
Preseason All-ACC Softball Roster
Seniors Megan Hensley and Sidney Melton were named to the preseason all-ACC softball team yesterday. The two were part of the 15-player roster named.
Melton was one of five infielders to make it. The Columbus native has played left field, shortstop, and third base during her time at Louisville and is expected to start on the left side of the infield this year.
Hensley was the only utility player named. The Ashland, KY., native has made an impact as the top pitcher and has been an offensive juggernaut in her career.
Reigning NCAA Champion Florida State dominated the roster with five players named. Syracuse and North Carolina joined Louisville with two players. Duke, Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh, and Notre Dame each had one.
The Softball Cards begin their season Friday, February 8th when they travel to California to take part in the the Titan Classic. Their first opponent is Idaho State and they'll get in five games in three days on the Cal State Fullerton campus.
Preseason ACC Coaches Poll
The ACC softball coaches have submitted their votes and last year's National Champion Florida State is the heavy favorite to win the conference again. They received all 11 first-place votes they were eligible seeing as a coach cannot vote for their own team. Virginia Tech received the other first-place vote although they were voted to finish 10th in the poll. I think we're all scratching our heads as to why Notre Dame or North Carolina didn't get that.
Louisville is projected to finish fifth overall and third in the Atlantic Division behind the Seminoles and Irish. North Carolina and Pittsburgh were the top two for the Coastal Division. Louisville does not play Pitt this season.
Six Cardinals Selected for USA Field Hockey Teams
Six different Cardinals have been selected as part of three different USA Field Hockey teams. Taylor Stone, Katie Walsh, Erin McCrudden, Carter Ayers, Katie Schneider, and Meghan Schenider were all named to the different teams.
Stone and Walsh both finished their careers in the fall were picked for the US Women's National Development Squad. They are joined by 2016 graduate Erin McCrudden.
Ayers and Meghan Schneider were both named to the Under-21 Team and Katie Schneider was named to the Under-19 team.
WBB Prepares for Thursday
Assuming we all still aren't frozen from today's dreadful weather, the KFC Yum! Center should have over 16,000 fans present to cheer on women's basketball against UConn Thursday night. The #3 Cardinals and #2 Huskies are set to square off at 7:00.
UConn is 18-1 on the year after recently falling to then-#7/8 Baylor. Baylor has now moved into the top spot in both the AP and Coaches Polls. The Huskies have Top 25 wins over Notre Dame, Cal, and DePaul.
UConn is averaging a whopping 81.9 points per game and their average scoring margin is +28.5 points. Typically their games are already over by halftime and the bench players come in for much of the second half (and still lead by more!).
Walz took "the wee chair" on the road with
him last year to Connecticut.
They are dangerous on the floor, shooting .490. Unless you find a solid post player you typically won't find players or even a whole team that average making roughly one of every two shot attempts. They shoot .354 from three-point range while knocking down about eight per game. Trying to go the route of forcing free throws to slow down their offense doesn't work either, as they shoot a collective .709 from the line.
Geno Auriemma's team is also one of the best in rebounding. They grab 42 boards per game and are no stranger to winning the rebounding battle. Their offensive rebounds (230) has been one of their lesser impressive stats on the year, but still a large number nonetheless.
UConn isn't perfect when it comes to efficiency,, as they do turn the ball over 11.6 times per game. Turnovers are something the Louisville defense has had no problem forcing other teams to commit this season. The Huskies also force 16 turnovers per game, which is slightly lower than expected for the history of this program. Louisville has struggled with turnovers in the past but UConn doesn't appear that they will do too much damage in that category.
Defensively, UConn has been good, but not great. They have shown cracks in the once-thought-to-be-unstoppable program. They steal the ball 7.8 times per game and get a little under four blocks per game.
They're holding opponents to just 53.4 points per game, but they've faced some less-than-stellar opponents at times this year. They have seven victories where they've held opponents to under 50 points, something we've seen a lot from the Cards lately. UofL has held six opponents to the sub-50 mark this year and their last five foes have failed to reach "half a hundred".
Notre Dame put up 71 points on the Huskies, Baylor 68, Cal 66, and both DePaul and Oklahoma 63. The Cards, who are averaging 80.3 points per game, have a much stronger offense than several of those teams listed, especially when a few players come out hot.
Last time out, UConn hosted UCF and held court quite well with the 93-57 win.
Why wasn't I invited to play Louisville this year?
I expect to see a fairly close match-up but Geno has had Walz's number for quite some time and I think they pull away near the end to win by a dozen. Still, we could be surprised and the Cards could show the world that the Notre Dame loss from earlier this year was a fluke.
Paulie will bring the final preparation and thoughts on Thursday's #2 vs. #3 here at the Couple.
We all know how talented our Cardinal student-athletes are on their respective surfaces of competition are. Last night, they got a chance to show off some other performance skills, though, at the 2019 Student-Athlete Talent Show.
Rowing took the crown. Check out the clip below that highlights the performances.
LINK: 2019 Student-Athlete Talent Show highlights
Happy Wednesday and Go Cards!
- Jared -
Posted by Jared Anderson at 1/30/2019 08:04:00 AM 14 comments: Links to this post
Labels: 2018-19 Louisville women's basketball, ACC Softball, ACC women's basketball, Connecticut women's basketball, Louisville Field Hockey, Louisville Softball, Megan Hensley, Sidney Melton
Louisville Spring Sports Media Day II recap -- #3 for WBB in poll -- TUESDAY CARDINAL COUPLE
SOFTBALL, LACROSSE, GOLF AND ROWING TAKE THE STAGE
Spring Sports are almost here.
That may be tough to get your mind around this morning, as another cold, arctic blast descends upon our fair city, but UofL Spring Sports are practicing, in some cases already active, and ready to roll.
Yesterday at the Planet Fitness Practice Facility, five different sports were featured in the second of the Spring Sports Media Days. Softball, Rowing, Men's Golf, Women's Golf and Lacrosse all addressed the media. Players and coaches answered questions and the hour-long media opportunity gave us all more knowledge and information on these activities.
Paulie took part in the festivities and here's some of the things we heard.
Since we do women's sports here, we'll concentrate on the four women's Cardinal Athletic squads that were there. Dreadfully sorry that the "question asker" volume is so low in the video versions, I've added my audio feed link to these in case you want to hear the questions.
Softball kicked things off and new Cardinal coach Holly Aprile was joined at the microphones by Sidney Melton (Food Mart) and Megan Hensley. They will begin the season in California, taking part in the Cal-State Fullerton's Titan Classic that will take place Feb 8-10. Six schools in all out there (Buffalo, Cal State Fullerton, Idaho State, Northwestern, Utah State and UofL).
Softball opens the home slate of action with the Cardinal Classic (March 1-3), Visiting the "ville" are IUPUI, Missouri and Indiana State.
We look forward to great things in Holly's first season!
LINK: VIDEO LOUISVILLE SOFTBALL MEDIA DAY
LINK: AUDIO ONLY LINK
The Rowing Cards look to improve on their fifth place finish in the ACC last year and have Freshman of the Year Violette Legrand as one of many talented rowers returning. Derek Copeland is the head coach of the Louisville rowing squad and this team was ranked at #20 in the final US Rowing/CRCA coaches poll.
Copeland was joined by coxswain Perie Howard, the "race car driver" of the boat, in his terms and she discussed what her role is in the scheme of things.
Rowing has several student/athletes that are potential 202 and 2024 Olympic candidates and we see the "girls atop the water" having a huge season!
We're "still searching" for a video feed of the rowing segment and will add it when/if we find it. In the meantime, the audio is linked up below
LINK: LOUISVILLE ROWING WITH DEREK COPELAND AND PERIE HOWARD
The "chip and putt" Cards are #28 in the nation, according to GolfStat rankings, and head coach Courtney Trimble has a veteran team and a very talented freshman in Mairead Martin returning. Those two and Lauren Hartlage discussed the season, their time at Louisville and ACC competition.
Martin, from Kanturk, County Cork Ireland talked about what brought her to Louisville and her game. Coach Trimble is retiring after this year and spent time talking about her replacement, Whitney Wade Young.
The Cards take on Kentucky Feb. 10th in the Battle of the Bluegrass in Birmingham, AL. We'll be watching and keeping you up on their pursuits.
LINK: VIDEO FEED FOR SPRING SPORTS : WOMENS GOLF
LINK: WOMEN'S GOLF AUDIO WITH COACH TRIMBLE, LAUREN HARTLAGE AND MAIREAD MARTIN (audio feed).
Lacrosse was the final Spring Sport featured on this Media Day and head coach Scott Teeter brought student/athletes "Sweet" Caroline Blalock and Tessa Chad with him to discuss the Lacrosse schedule and review last season. Blalock was a Division I Region team selections as a freshman, plus the team's leading scorer.
Chad followed Teeter to Louisville from Canisius and was an integral part of Teeter's first season on the attack.
The Lax Girls are working hard in preparation for the season opener at Northwestern on February 8th. and we love to cover their home events, so we'll be keeping you abreast and appraised of their pursuits this season.
LINK: AUDIO FOR LACROSSE AT SPRING SPORTS MEDIA DAY
LINK: LOUISVILLE LACROSSE SPRING SPORTS MEDIA DAY VIDEO
WBB MOVES TO #3 IN AP POLL
In the latest AP WBB poll, the Cards were placed at #3, behind Baylor and UConn. The fall of the Irish dropped them to #5.
Louisville brings in Connecticut Thursday night for an epic matchup that we'll get you ready for here at Cardinal Coupe beginning tomorrow. 14,000 seats already gone for this one but there are ticket still available.
With ESPN coming in, and grabbing six media seats, Sonya and I will be pre-empted from our usual seats and, honestly, that was expected. Why ESPN needs six seats for three talking heads and maybe one "tech" is anyone's guess. You can play "Where's Waldo?" game day and see if you can spot where we end up.
I might just opt for the bourbon bar for this one....
Have a terrific Tuesday and tell someone you love them today.
Labels: 2018-19 Louisville women's basketball, Louisville lacrosse, Louisville rowing, Louisville Softball, Louisville women's golf, Spring Sports Media Day
Louisville women's basketball puts away Pitt 70-42 -- MONDAY CARDINAL COUPLE
HUGE FIRST HALF KEYS CARDINAL WBB WIN
On a Sunday afternoon in front of over 10,000 in the KFC YUM! Center, the Louisville women's basketball team pressured Pitt to just 12 first half (not quarter...half) points and pounced on the Panthers for 41 first half points to build up a 29-point lead 20 minutes and win easily 70-42.
To sum it up, Walz played 'em all, the Cards used another first half blitz to sack another ACC for and move to 18-1. Coach also introduced a new "Walzism" concerning "shooting math" when he was closing his post-game presser. 0-8 shooter vs. 8-8 shooter. Who do you throw ball to?
The Cards broke away after a close three opening minutes that had UofL with a 5-4 advantage. Over the next five minutes, Louisville went on a 12-0 run and with Kylee Shook, Sam Fuehring and Dana Evans combining for 16 points to hold a 23-6 edge at the end of the quarter. The defense was getting it done -- Pitt went 1-12 for the quarter (8%), making their first shot of the game after a minute of play and then being able to add only four free throws in the final nine minutes.
The Cards did it all sans the services of All-American Asia Durr. We'll get into that later, Coach Walz deciding to rest her, and commenting in post-game media obligations that she had a sore knee. That remark led to a comical, inane round of "twenty questions" about her anatomy.
If you liked the first quarter, you got more of the same in the second session. Once again, Pitt produced a mere six points (all of them on two Kauia Bradley threes). Louisville tripled that number with Arica Carter matching the total production of Pitt's point-total and Jazmine Jones grabbing three rebounds and creating two assists. The 41-12 halftime advantage featured nine of the 11 Cards players scoring and a 12-2 advantage in points in the paint, 11-0 edge in points off turnovers, plus a 12-0 whitewash in 2nd chance points for the home squad.
The Cards reached their largest lead of the game (33 points) at the 4:04 mark of the game (41-9) when Carter connected on a jumper from a Duvall pass.
Walz had already used quite a few different players combinations in the first half and that continued in the final 20 minutes. To their credit, Pitt didn't toss in the towel and head to the bus after the half. They came out on a 7-0 run to begin second half action and ended up winning the third session 15-14. Evans produced six of her game-high 16 points in the third quarter and Lindsey Duvall nailed a three-pointer for the Cards, who played reserves 20 of the possible 50 minutes of player on-court time. It was 55-27 in favor of "the Ville" with ten minutes to go.
Walz distributed the playing time pretty evenly in the fourth, at times going with wholesale "five-for five" substitutions, Seygan Robins showed her skills with five points in the final session (a nice three and incredible up-and-under move for 'two'. Sam added five points in four minutes of action, including a "take-that" three, halfway through the fourth...after getting pounded mercilessly on the other end of the court and getting no whistle relief. Shook added the final two of her 12 points with 20 seconds to go and the Cards improved to 18-1 with a win over a Pitt squad that they'll face again in Pittsburgh on March 3rd. to close the ACC and regular season slate.
Another less-than-50 points performance from a Cardinal opponent (the fifth in a row). Eleven threes made from five different players (including 4-8 from Evans). A feel-good afternoon down by the river and another notch in the "win" belt for Louisville WBB.
THE FRED REPORT
Fred Gwynne "Herman Munster" with
the "What, no Asia?" stare
Free Throws -- The Cards took 18 of them and sank 13 for a (72.2%). By Paulie standards, anything over 70% gets a capital "F". My esteemed colleague "Worldwide Jeff" prefers the 80% success rate. But, since it is my write today and he's headed to Australia and New Zealand for camel, kangaroo and koala bear research and to encounter Asia Taylor in a three-point contest, my rules hold.
Rebounding -- A solid 48-31 triumph from the "reborn" Cards on the glass. Which led to a question to Coach Walz about the recent success on the boards from me in the post-game. Coach patiently explained to me and assured me that they practice them every practice and then went off on other things (check out the link to the post-game presser) That's worth a capital "R" in my book.
Effort/Execution -- The turnover margin is still higher than most would like to see, with 18 "in the oven" against the Panthers. But, second chance points and points off turnovers were solidly in the Cards favor. Given the team-wide equal distribution of minutes (no one had more than 26 or less than 10) and number of combinations, I was pleased overall with the execution and effort... but, I suppose, I wanted to see a continued blow out in the second half. We'll roll out a lowercase "e" here.
Defense -- Another game, another less than 50-point performance from the foe. The Cards absconded with 10 steals and forced 18 turnovers. Pitt shot 28.3% from the floor (15-53 and 4-21 (19%) from the deep. Say it with me...a capital "D".
FRED TOTALS: F-R-e-D
NO "DUR-RES" JUST "DURR-REST"
Miss Kentucky GBB 2017 and 2018 share
a happy moment.
Coach Walz discussed the possibility of keeping Asia out of this one and the fans were questioning why, as witnessed on my Twitter account after the starting lineups were introduced. She was available for action, warmed up before the game, but was not needed. I got all kinds of questions on this...was she hurt? why was she out? was it a disciplinary move? and on and on. No, no, and no. Asia had been seeing a lot of minutes lately, the ACC is a brutal stretch of then season and Walz wants her fully rested for UConn and the rest of the schedule.
Coach mentioned there was some Durr knee pain in the post-game presser and that led to a silly round of "knee, knee, which knee and why" from a couple of media that was almost comical. That, combined with the dogged pursuit of nonsensical UConn questions led to a presser that was riddled with redundancy.
Asia is fine. Turn off the air-raid sirens, take down the amber alert and wait for the probable Wednesday presser for a further exploration of the Cards vs. Dogs on Thursday.
This is why we can't have nice things...
AN ACTIVE ACC SUNDAY
A major upset and a few close calls in a crazy Sunday ACC slate.
-- Paris Key went off for 30 points and North Carolina pulled off the upset of #1 Notre Dame in Chapel Hill with a 78-73 win. The Tar Heels saw a 10-point lead evaporate in the fourth quarter after a 12-0 Irish run, but UNC bounced back to get the win.
-- Miami got all they wanted from visiting Boston College before putting together a 21-14 fourth quarter to hold on 76-73. The Canes got 21 from Mykea Gray to preserve their one-less record in the ACC.
-- Duke led Syracuse 26-21 at the half before Quentin Hillsman's Orange erupted in the third quarter in Durham to spur a 64-55 win. The 'Cuse improves to 6-1 and Duke goes to 1-6 in the ACC.
-- Florida State trailed the entire way versus home-standing Virginia Tech before getting two free throws with 22 seconds left to take a 56-54 lead and win. The Hokies missed their final three shots and two free throws late to remain 0 for ACC.
-- Wake Forest got their first ACC win on the road at Charlottesville against Virginia 52-42. Ivana Raca led the Demon Deacons with 21 points. The Cavs never led in the contest and are now 2-5 in the ACC.
Plus...#15 UK fell at Texas A&M 72-71. Former Cardinal Ciera Johnson had 21 points for the #24 Aggies. Morris and Howard combined for 43 points for UK, who has lost three of their last six games.
Hey, a former Card getting a win over UK is almost as good as the current Cards conquering the Cats, right?
Your post game remarks:
JEFF WALZ
DANA EVNAS AND KYLEE SHOOK
PITT HEAD COACH LANCE WHITE (AUDIO ONLY)
Here we go again with another of those "What is Coach trying to get across here?" photos. Sometimes, we think he's worth the price of admission alone for the fans. Fire away in the comments on Mr. Jared Anderson's shot of Coach at work. Jared sends dozens of pictures each home game to choose from and it's hard to narrow it down to just a "couple/few" for the articles. We feature his work again today.
Labels: 2018-19 Louisville women's basketball, ACC women's basketball, Asia Durr, Dana Evans, Jeff Walz, Kylee Shook, North Carolina women's basketball, Pittsburgh women's basketball
GAMEDAY -- Sunday Cardinal Couple
WBB Gameday!
Well, it's a Sunday in January, that means it must be game day for the Women's Basketball Team. OK, it's not that regular, but it's a pretty common occurrence, to be sure.
Today they take on the Pitt Panthers at home in the KFC Yum! Center. The men dispatched Pitt yesterday on the home hardwood after a bit of a slow start, let's hope the same slow start affliction doesn't stifle early game statistics for the women.
Many of our normal assumptions about good teams and bad in the ACC are being put the test this year, but...well...Pitt, bless their hearts, are just not a great team this year. They haven't yet found victory in the ACC, yet, and only chalked up a thoroughly mediocre 9-5 non-conference record. Some of those losses are to some pretty unimpressive teams, like Youngstown St. and Georgetown (this one by almost 30 points!). WVU took the win over the Panthers by more than 30, though Pitt did keep it close with UCF. The best wins on their schedule would be Cincinnati and Arkansas.
Maybe the biggest challenge for the Cardinals today will be to not look past this team to the big
matchup on Thursday against UConn. Otherwise, Pitt doesn't look to be much of a real threat, looking up from the bottom of the league.
The Cards need to show up, play their game, and be present in the moment. Play the game plan, and then, only once this game is over, start thinking about UConn. Let's hope they continue to work on solid rebounding, which has been something of a bugaboo for this team of late, because they will absolutely need it in future games, or get risked being run off the court.
I suspect this will be an opportunity for continued development of some of the players we don't see on the court as often. What may have even more impact on team development would be to see some more extended time for Kylee Shook, and Mykasa Robinson. The two of them have been seeing significant playing time, and you've been able to see them develop and improve, let's hope that they get extended time on the court again today to hone their craft in real-game situations, that will only help the Cards' depth heading into the later stages of the season.
Tip off today is at 2 p.m., with video available for you out-of-towners on the ACC Network Extra.
The men's tennis team were in action in Florida against William and Mary, though as of the time of this writing, I haven't seen any results.
The women open serve at 3pm against Cincinnati here in Louisville at the Bass-Rudd Tennis Center. The women's team is 4-0 in their season so far, starting off with a bang. Let's see how well they can maintain this as the season moves on.
On a personal note, I'll be absent from these pages for a couple of weeks as I'm heading off on a two-week vacation down under. Unfortunately, I've been saying I'll be somewhere over the Pacific Ocean during the UConn game, but if I'm doing my timezone conversions correctly, we'll be on the ground in Sydney by that point (though it will already be Feb. 1st for me).
In any case, I'll be doing my best to keep up with all Cardinals Athletics while I'm gone, and I'll be looking to the pages of Cardinal Couple and it's daily update to do that.
Think about this, however. By the time I return (Feb. 14th), the Softball and Lacrosse seasons will already be underway, that's how close Spring sports are getting.
Cardinal Couple Radio Hour: Part I
"He's doing what, Edith? Awww, jeez."
Also because of vacation, yesterday was my last CCRH for a few weeks. We're hopeful that the Monk can return to fill in engineering duties while I'm gone, or perhaps someone else that has been trained on the systems at WCHQ. Just promise me, all of you all, that you won't let Paulie at the knobs, dials, and sliders.
In any case, we had a fun morning in the studio, with Mike Gilpatrick of River City Cards joining us for the hour. Case and Jared were both consumed with job duties. We had some great discussion and analysis of the play of the Women's Basketball Team, and you can learn about a couple of the contributions to science of Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (he's the guy that figured out the formulas that explain why you have low tire pressure in the winter months, even without any leaks in your tires).
In any case, if you missed it, you can check it out on Facebook at:
https://www.facebook.com/WCHQfm/videos/392572177968848/
I'll see you in late February!
(Thanks to Paulie for catching the truncated article and fixing it up a bit...here's the bit he added for the CCRH. He picked a different digression than I did to highlight, proving, perhaps, that I need to stay more on topic)
THE CARDINAL COUPLE RADIO HOUR: PART II
Linked up below is THE CARDINAL COUPLE RADIO HOUR from yesterday. We had River City Cards editor-in-chief Mike Gilpatrick in studio with us and covered a lot of women's basketball and threw out a query on how camels got to Australia.
We came up with Clemson as our "surprise" ACC WBB squad this year, Virginia Tech as our "not ready for prime time" squad and Notre Dame as the probable ACC regular season champ. Got a take? Let us know in the comments.
Have a listen
LINK: THE CARDINAL COUPLE RADIO HOUR 1/26/19
Labels: 2000-01 Louisville women's basketball, 2018-19 Louisville women's basketball, Connecticut women's basketball, Pittsburgh women's basketball, The Cardinal Couple Radio Hour, WCHQ 100.9 FM
Women's Tennis Serves Up Two Wins -- The WBB in ACC -- RADIO -- SATURDAY CARDINAL COUPLE
( NORMALLY, YOU WOULD FIND CASE HOSKINS' SATURDAY COLUMN GREETING YOU HERE AT THE SITE ON THE DAY BEFORE SUNDAY. HE, HOWEVER, IS DEALING WITH A HUGE WORK PROJECT AND INDICATED HE'D BE LIVING IN HIS OFFICE, SLEEPING IN HIS DESK CHAIR AND ORDERING TAKE OUT THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. SO, PAULIE CLIMBS OUT OF THE DUGOUT, GRABS HIS FAVORITE BAT AND LUMBERS INTO THE BATTER'S BOX. JUST WANT TO MAKE CONTACT, IF IT LANDS ON THE DOG WALK BERM, THAT'S OK, TOO. PLAY BALL!)
WOMEN'S TENNIS FINDING NET SUCCESS
Hola and Ole', Ola !
We don't normally have Louisville women's tennis as our lead story here at "The Couple", but when a squad keeps winning and does it convincingly -- it's good enough for us.
That's what Mark Beckham's squad has done and did yesterday. One of those "two opponents in one day" scenarios, and the "Serve and Score" Cards started the day with a convincing 6-1 win over another group of Cardinals -- the Ball State variety -- over at the Bass-Rudd Tennis Center.
Ola "Grandma" Mally took honors as the #1 seed (or racquet, in this case?) and produced a two set 6-2, 6-2 win over her Muncie counterpart. Five of the six singles matches went the Cards way and they took two of the three doubles contest to compile the six points.
Dina does it.
Of note, recent campus arrival Dina Chaika saw her second-time action as a Cardinal and won as the #6 seed in singles, plus a winning part of the #2 seed in doubles with teammate Nikolina Jovic. Dina is from Lemontov, Russia and had been a part of the Russian National team.
Coach Beckham reviews the win with post-match comments: HERE
In the afternoon/early evening session, the Cards faced Northern Kentucky and continued the voluminous volleying success by blanking the Norse 7-0. Louisville won all six singles matches and the three doubles contests.
Huge efforts by UofL #2 seed Raven Neely and her 6-0, 6-1 win and #4 seed Diana Wong, who covered her match with a 6-0, 6-2 set performance.
Raven and her racquet
Coach Beckham also reviewed this one and previewed the next match: HERE
At 4-0, the Cards return to action on Sunday at the "Rudd" when they bring in a talented Cincinnati contingent.
Best of luck to the "Beckham base-liners" in the rivalry match.
WHAT SAY YOU, ACC WBB?
As the ACC women's basketball schedule approaches the halfway mark, let's take a look at what we know, what we think might happen and who the hot teams are. Everyone has played at least six games (the Cards, Miami and Clemson seven) and there are still two schools who haven't lost an ACC match yet: Notre Dame and N.C. State. Those two head to a potential ACC #1 vs. #2 showdown on Feb. 18th. (Monday 7 p.m.) in Raleigh. N.C. State will be tested prior to that game, with FSU and Syracuse to face...both on the road.
Jeff Walz's bunch are tied in conference play with Miami at 6-1. The Canes fell to Clemson in ACC play 67-76 and have four season losses (Iowa St., Purdue and Central Michigan). Emese Hof, Laura Cornelius and Mykea Gray lead the way for Katie Meyer's Ibus flock and they'll leave sunny south Florida to take on Louisville on Sunday, Feb 17th.
Rounding out the top half of the standings, and squads that are .500 or better are Clemson (5-2), FSU (4-2), Syracuse (4-2) and Ga. Tech (3-3). Louisville has wins over two of the four (Ga. Tech and FSU) and will bring the other two into the YUM! (Syracuse and Clemson) for action in early February.
Everyone else has work to do.
BIGGEST SURPRISE TEAM SO FAR: I think most would agree that it is Clemson. They gave N.C.State all they wanted in Raleigh on Thursday and have grown leaps and bounds from the one-win conference record in 2017-18. Head coach Amanda Butler has installed a "never say die" attitude in these Tigers and players Simone Westbrook, Danielle Edwards, Kobi Thornton and Aliyah Collier could start or see significant minutes on any ACC squad. They get a week to prepare for visiting Notre Dame (Thursday,Jan 31st.) with no other games in between and that one is one that will be a true test for them.
If you were looking for N.C. State in this category, they ran a close second. We'll do this analysis again in a few weeks and see where Ms. Wuf's pack stands.
BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT TEAM SO FAR: What in the world is going on at Virginia Tech?
They are "0 for ACC" at 0-6, they do have a 13-6 overall record, but Hokie fans are "raising cain" (and not in a good way nor chicken-finger related) about head coach Kenny Brooks.
They've had two overtime losses (at NC State and hosting Syracuse), got bombarded by Notre Dame, lost close ones against Miami and Virginia...but the 12 point win by North Carolina over them (in Blacksburg) last time out was unexpected.
The talent is there. Regan Magarity is one of the ACC's best. Emery Taylor averages almost 19 points a game. Dara Mabrey is a top flight freshman (and she's the younger sister of Notre Dame's Marina Mabrey). They can grab significant half-time leads (see Virginia and North Carolina) but fail to finish. Here's hoping the remainder of their season is a good one (except for the Louisville game, of course). They are better than they are showing.
SO, WHAT IS THE PAULIE PREDICTION FOR REGULAR SEASON CHAMP?
OK. Out-on-a-limb time.
I do not think N.C. State will remain undefeated. I think Wes Moore has done a wonderful job, but with Notre Dame, Louisville, FSU and Syracuse still to play on the Wolfpack's schedule, I can see some dents on the fender. Nope, I'm not picking them.
The Cards "grew up a lot" in the win at Tallahassee last time out. If the rebounding woes are finally solved, they'll be dangerous. They're going to need some help, though, since Notre Dame did beat them earlier. Honestly, it's hard to see another Louisville loss on the remainder of the regular season conference schedule...except, maybe...to NC State. And, that one is in Louisville. Is it Louisville as my choice? Hurts me to say it, but, nope.
Notre Dame will, I predict, assume the sole possession of the top spot in the conference after packing up the Wolfpack and they may well roll through the rest of the conference regular season undefeated.
That last sentence was hard to type, and hurts like all "@$#%" to say it...but they are my pick as the regular season champ. I hope I'm wrong. But, unless UConn is suddenly added to the ACC from the AAC...the Irish seem to have the best shot.
THE CARDINAL COUPLE RADIO HOUR
We will gather at the magnificent media mansion on Mellwood this morning at 11 a.m. to communicate over frequency modulation devices and provide Facebook viewing for those who have an interest. Yes, it's THE CARDINAL COUPLE RADIO HOUR, and joining Jeff and I in-studio is River City Cards Mike Gilpatrick. He's the editor-in-chief over there and senior women's basketball correspondent.
Guess what we'll be talking about?
Mike is a senior finance major at UofL and was the captain of the swim team at Shelby County High School. He was also on the rifle squad, which brings the unique dual, potential sequence of his ability to shoot something and then either swim away from the scene or jump in and swim out to retrieve what he shot. We like to joke about his "five first names" and he can put away a prodigious amount of Italian sausages if presented with the opportunity.
Should be fun! Join us, won't you? We're at WCHQ 100.9 FM. Facebook LIVE. Your link below:
LINK: www.wchqfm.com
Have a Super Saturday, stay warm and cheer on UofL athletics this weekend. We hope to see you at the Louisville WBB vs. Pitt game Sunday at the Arena by the River!
Labels: 2018-19 Louisville women's basketball, Louisville women's athletics, Louisville women's tennis, Mike Gilpatrick, Ola Mally, River City Cards, The Cardinal Couple Radio Hour, WCHQ 100.9 FM
Louisville women's basketball faces Connecticut To...
Spring Season Notes -- Preparation for Thursday --...
Louisville Spring Sports Media Day II recap -- #3 ...
Louisville women's basketball puts away Pitt 70-42...
Women's Tennis Serves Up Two Wins -- The WBB in AC...
Louisville women's basketball Tops FSU in Tallahas...
Louisville women's basketball -- Knocking Off Nole...
Cards Prepare for FSU -- Softball Takes Over Insta...
Basketball and Beyond -- TUESDAY CARDINAL COUPLE
Louisville women's basketball shakes Wake 73-49 --...
Sunday Cardinal Couple - WBB Gameday
Upcoming Women's Events -- SATURDAY CARDINAL COUPL...
Cards Blow Out Virginia -- FRIDAY CARDINAL COUPLE
Louisville women's basketball vs. Virginia tonight...
What's Happening Outside of Women's Basketball -- ...
Louisville WBB #4 in AP poll -- TUESDAY CARDINAL C...
Cards take sting out of Yellow Jackets 61-44 -- MO...
Louisville women's basketball faces Georgia Tech t...
New Roundup -- SATURDAY CARDINAL COUPLE
Cards Falter in South Bend 82-68 -- FRIDAY CARDINA...
Louisville WBB vs. Notre Dame tonight -- Let's Pla...
Countdown to Notre Dame -- WEDNESDAY CARDINAL COUP...
Louisville women's basketball #2 (with a bullet!) ...
Carter, Cards Down Duke 73-51 -- MONDAY CARDINAL C...
WBB In Durham -- SUNDAY CARDINAL COUPLE
The Season Rolls On -- SATURDAY CARDINAL COUPLE
WBB Holds on Against UNC -- FRIDAY CARDINAL COUPLE...
UNC Visits the Yum -- THURSDAY CARDINAL COUPLE
First Week Back A Furious One for Louisville WBB ...
HAPPY NEW YEAR -- TUESDAY CARDINAL COUPLE
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line159
|
__label__cc
| 0.572673
| 0.427327
|
The Act, which amends the Small Business Act ([15 USC 654} 15 U.S.C. 654 et seq.), is intended to:
Download "The Act, which amends the Small Business Act ([15 USC 654} 15 U.S.C. 654 et seq.), is intended to:"
Christiana Townsend
1 Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1998 PM:249:7651 In This Chapter SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS OVERVIEW The Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1998 was enacted as part of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (H.R. 4328; [PL ] P.L ), which was signed on October 21, The Act, which amends the Small Business Act ([15 USC 654} 15 U.S.C. 654 et seq.), is intended to: Educate small business establishments about the advantages of a drug-free workplace. Provide grants and technical assistance, in addition to financial incentives, that will enable small employers to create drug-free workplaces. Assist working parents to keep their children drug-free. Encourage small business employers and employees to participate in a drug-free workplace program. This chapter summarizes the major provisions of the Drug-Free Workplace Act of SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS The Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1998 provides for a $10 million drug-free workplace demonstration program under which the Small Business Administration may award grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with, "eligible intermediaries" to provide financial and technical assistance to small businesses (employers with 100 or fewer employees) seeking to establish a drug-free workplace program. Employers may attend drug-free workplace-related programs offered by eligible intermediaries without having to contract for any services offered by the organizations. Definitional Guidance Drug-Free Workplace The term "drug-free workplace program" is defined to mean a program that includes: A written drug-free workplace policy. The policy includes a clear statement of expectations for workplace behavior, prohibits employees from reporting to work or
2 working under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs, prohibits the use or possession of illegal drugs in the workplace, and specifies the consequences of violations of the expectations and prohibitions. Drug and alcohol prevention training. At least two hours of training per employee, as well as additional voluntary drug and alcohol abuse prevention training for employees with children, are provided. Testing for illegal drug use by employees. Analysis of specimens is performed by a drug testing laboratory certified by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration or, for purposes of forensic drug testing, approved by the College of American Pathologists. A medical review officer reviews each positive test result. Employee access to an employee assistance program. The EAP provides confidential assessment, referral, and short-term resolution of drug- and alcohol-related problems. Continuing alcohol and drug abuse prevention education. Eligible Intermediary PM:249:7652 The Act defines "eligible intermediary" to mean an organization that develops comprehensive drug-free workplace programs or provides drug-free workplace services. The organization has at least two years of experience in carrying out drug-free workplace programs, has a drug-free workplace policy in effect, and is located in one of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or a U.S. territory. The Act invests the SBA with authority to contract with, and compensate, public and private entities to provide assistance to perform drug-free workplace-related activities. Employee The term "employee" means any prospective or current employee, supervisor, or manager; any officer of a small business concern who is active in managing the establishment; and any small business owner who is active in managing the concern. Medical Review Officer The term "medical review officer" means a licensed physician who has knowledge of substance abuse disorders. The term does not apply to any employee of a small business concern or any employee or agent of, or any person with a financial interest in, a drug testing laboratory. Requirements for Drug-Free Workplace Programs Each drug-free workplace program created with assistance made available under the Act is required to:
3 Establish, as reasonably necessary and appropriate, practices and procedures that ensure the confidentiality of drug-test results and the privacy of any employee participating in a rehabilitation program. Prohibit mandatory disclosure of medical information by an employee before a drug-test result has been confirmed as positive. Stipulate that a medical review officer reviewing test results report only final results, limited to those drugs for which an employee tests positive, in writing and in a manner that ensures the confidentiality of the information. Funding Authorization The Act authorizes appropriations of $10 million for fiscal years 1999 and Of the total amount made available, not more than the greater of 10 percent or $1 million may be used to enable small business development centers to provide information and assistance to establish drug-free workplace programs in small business establishments on or before October 1, (Small business development centers, or SBDCs, are sponsored by the Small Business Administration in partnership with state and local governments, the educational community, and private-sector organizations. The SBDCs provide assistance, counseling, and training to prospective and existing business people.) Resource Funding remains available until expended. For detailed information about the Small Business Administration, the designated administrator of the drug-free workplace grant program, see the SBA's online site ( or telephone the SBA Small Business Answer Desk at U-ASK-SBA ( ). Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988 PM:249:7701 In This Chapter SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS OVERVIEW Most federal government contractors and employers that receive federal grants are required to provide and maintain a drug-free workplace under the Drug-Free Workplace Act of The statute ([PL ] P.L , 102 Stat. 4181; Title V, Subtitle D, [41 USC 701] 41 U.S.C ) applies to: All organizations awarded procurement contracts of $100,000 or more that are performed
4 in the territorial U.S. (The Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 raised the threshold of covered contracts from $25,000 to $100,000, effective October 13, 1994.) All contracts and grants, regardless of amount, awarded to individuals. All recipients of federal grants, regardless of grant size or place where grant-funded activity occurs. The Act's requirements apply, case-by-case, to federal contracts, including purchase orders, and grants awarded on or after March 18, Subcontractors and subrecipients of grants are not covered by the statute. The Drug-Free Workplace Act was amended in 1994 ([PL ] P.L ), 1996 ([PL ] P.L ), and 1997 ([PL ] P.L ). SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS SAMPLE POLICY STATEMENT ON DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE To: All Employees From: [Company Name] Re: Policy on Drug-Free Workplace This is to reiterate, and state in a more formal way, our policy regarding the work-related effects of drug use and the unlawful possession of controlled substances on Company premises. Our policy is as follows: Employees are expected and required to report to work on time and in appropriate mental and physical condition for work. It is our intent and obligation to provide a drug-free, healthful, safe, and secure work environment. The unlawful manufacture, distribution, dispensing, possession, or use of a controlled substance on Company premises or while conducting Company business off Company premises is absolutely prohibited. Violations of this policy will result in disciplinary action, up to and including termination, and may have legal consequences. The Company recognizes drug dependency as an illness and a major health problem. The Company also recognizes drug abuse as a potential health, safety, and security problem. Employees needing help in dealing with such problems are encouraged to use our employee assistance program and health insurance plans, as appropriate. Conscientious efforts to seek such help will not jeopardize any employee's job, and will not be noted in any personnel record. Employees must, as a condition of employment, abide by the terms of the above policy
5 and report any conviction under a criminal drug statute for violations occurring on or off Company premises while conducting Company business. A report of a conviction must be made within five (5) days after the conviction. (This requirement is mandated by the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988.) Employer Responsibilities PM:249:7701 To be eligible for contract awards or grants, employers must agree to meet certain requirements to keep their workplaces drug-free. Specifically, contractors and grantees other than individuals must agree to: Publish a policy statement prohibiting the unlawful manufacture, distribution, dispensing, possession, or use of controlled substances in the workplace. The policy statement also must specify actions that will be taken against employees who violate the policy provisions. In addition to publishing the policy statement, employers must provide covered workers with a copy of the document. [Note: The Act does not specify any particular format that employers must use to prepare the policy statement. For guidance, see "Sample Policy Statement on Drug-Free Workplace" below.] Establish a drug-free awareness program that informs employees about the dangers of workplace drug abuse; the employer's intent to maintain a drug-free workplace; the existence of any available drug counseling, rehabilitation, or employee assistance programs; and the penalties that may be imposed on employees who abuse controlled substances in the workplace. Employers should note that neither the Act nor the rules implementing the Act require contractors or grantees to establish an employee assistance program, to conduct any drug testing, or to incorporate any particular component into a drug-free workplace program. It is preferred that employers draft their own policies and create their own awareness programs, which can be better adapted to the needs of the particular workplaces than any government-wide guidance. Inform employees that they are required, as a condition of employment, not only to abide by their employer's drug-free workplace policy, but also to report any criminal convictions for unlawful drug-related activity occurring in the workplace. Employees must notify their employer no later than five days after a conviction. Notify the federal contracting or grant agency of any criminal convictions of employees for illegal drug activity in the workplace. The contractor or grantee must provide the notice within 10 days of learning about an employee's conviction. PM:249:7702 Take "appropriate" personnel action against any employee convicted of a criminal drug offense occurring in the workplace. Sanctions can range from termination of employment
6 to a requirement that the employee satisfactorily participate in an approved drug abuse assistance or rehabilitation program. The employer must act within 30 days after receiving notice of an employee's conviction. Make a "good faith" effort to continue to maintain a drug-free workplace by complying with the Act's requirements. The Act indicates that the reported number of employees convicted of criminal workplace violations of drug laws may be used to determine how good an effort an employer is making. It does not, however, provide an across-the-board standard for how many convictions would be sufficient to trigger such a determination. An employer that is a contractor or grantee that fails to comply with any of these requirements is subject to various penalties. (See the heading "Sanctions for Violations" below.) PM:249:7703 An individual may not contract with or receive a grant from a federal agency, unless the individual agrees, as a condition of receiving the contract or grant, that he or she will not engage in the unlawful manufacture, distribution, dispensing, possession, or use of a controlled substance while performing contract work or conducting any grant-funded activity. [Note: An "individual" is defined as a "natural person"-terminology that indicates that the grantee or contractor is neither an organization, which is made up of more than one individual, nor a corporation, which may be viewed as a single "person" for legal reasons.] Drug Testing The Act does not mandate, or even mention, testing employees for illegal use of controlled substances. Alcohol Misuse/Alcohol Testing The Act does not address misuse of alcohol or alcohol testing. Implementation of the Act The Drug-Free Workplace Act makes use of existing suspension and debarment remedies for noncompliance. It is implemented by federal agencies through an amendment to the government-wide non-procurement suspension and debarment "common rule." This approach allows agencies to take advantage of existing administrative procedures and definitions, thereby minimizing regulatory duplication. Enforcement of the Act Compliance with the Act is checked as part of normal federal contract and grant administration and as part of normal federal auditing. The head of the federal agency that awarded the contract or grant is responsible for determining whether a violation has occurred.
7 Sanctions for Violations Employers that receive federal contracts or grants are subject to a number of sanctions for failing to meet the requirements of the Drug-Free Workplace Act. They risk suspension of payments or termination of the contract or grant (or both) if they: Fail to implement the steps required to establish a drug-free workplace. Report such a large number of employees who have been convicted of illegal workplace drug activity that it appears that there has not been a "good faith effort" to provide and maintain a drug-free workplace. (The Act does not specify how many employees must be convicted to trigger action against a contractor or grantee.) Failure to comply with the Act's requirements also can lead to debarment from participation in future contract or grant activity. If debarment proceedings are instituted and a final decision is made to debar an employer, the contractor, individual, or grantee may not receive any federal contract or grant or participate in the federal procurement process for a period of up to five years - two years more than the three years typically specified under other federal contract law enforcement systems. It is up to the contracting officer of the contracting agency to determine, in writing, that cause exists for suspension of payments, contract termination, or suspension or debarment, and to initiate appropriate action in accordance with applicable agency procedures and the Federal Acquisition Regulation-the mechanism for carrying out the law. The Act specifically requires revisions to the FAR to include rules for conducting suspension and debarment proceedings under the Act, including rules for notice and an opportunity to respond in writing or in person and for procedures necessary to ensure a complete and fair proceeding. Similarly, the head of the grant agency is responsible for making written determinations about and initiating actions against grantees that violate the law. PM:249:7704 Employer sanctions may be waived if it can be shown that suspension of payments, contract termination, suspension and debarment of the contractor, or refusal to allow a person to be treated as a responsible source would severely disrupt the contracting agency's operations to the detriment of the federal government or the general public. Similarly, suspension of grant payments, termination of the grant, or debarment of the grantee may be waived if such action would not be in the public interest. Only the head of the agency that awarded the contract or grant has authority to waive a suspension, termination, or debarment. Effect on Collective Bargaining The requirements of the Act, and rules implementing the Act, coexist with the collective
8 bargaining process; they do not compel any change in labor-management agreements. Federal agencies are not obligated to provide contracts or grants to organizations that fail to comply with a contract or grant condition imposed by law-for any reason. Compliance with the Act and regulations is a condition for receiving a contract or grant; preemption is not an issue. Labor and management cannot, through the collective bargaining process, nullify a contract or grant condition based on federal law; however, where the regulations provide discretion about the mode of compliance (as in deciding whether to discipline an employee convicted of a criminal drug offense in the workplace or to refer the worker for rehabilitation), labor and management may, through collective bargaining, determine what the mode of compliance will be. Effect on Other Laws The requirements of the Act, as well as the rules implementing the Act, coexist with state and local law. The federal law does not preempt the laws of other nations or international law. Information Sources One source of regularly updated information on the Drug Free Workplace Act is the U.S. Department of Labor's online service. Employment Laws Assistance for Workers and Small Businesses, or elaws ( Specific questions should be directed to the contract or grant administration office at the federal department or agency that awarded the contract or grant. Copyright 2002, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.
DRUG FREE WORKPLACE ACT AND POLICY PROCLAMATION
CLACKAMAS COUNTY EMPLOYMENT POLICY & PRACTICE (EPP) EPP # 5 Implemented: 12/31/92 Clerical Update: 03/07; 10/23/07 DRUG FREE WORKPLACE ACT AND POLICY PROCLAMATION PURPOSE: Clackamas County government is
Chancellor s Memorandum CM-23 LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Drug Free Workplace and Workforce
Chancellor s Memorandum CM-23 LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Drug Free Workplace and Workforce To: LSUHSC New Orleans Faculty, Staff, Students From: LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Chancellor
Request for Quotes Cover Sheet
Workforce Solutions Brazos Valley Community Health Worker El Civics Career Pathway Training Services, and/or Small Business Entrepreneur El Civics Career Pathway Training; And/or Texas Dept. of Health
Reporting Educator Misconduct to SBEC
Reporting Educator Misconduct to SBEC Recent years have seen a growing awareness of the situation in which an educator who engaged in misconduct in one school district is allowed to move to another district,
SENATE, No STATE OF NEW JERSEY. 216th LEGISLATURE INTRODUCED APRIL 28, 2014
SENATE, No. STATE OF NEW JERSEY th LEGISLATURE INTRODUCED APRIL, 0 Sponsored by: Senator LORETTA WEINBERG District (Bergen) Senator JOSEPH F. VITALE District (Middlesex) Senator JAMES W. HOLZAPFEL District
Compliance Program Code of Conduct
City and County of San Francisco Department of Public Health Compliance Program Code of Conduct Purpose of our Code of Conduct The Department of Public Health of the City and County of San Francisco is
Types of Authorized Recipients Probation/Parole Officers or the Department of Corrections
Types of Authorized Recipients Probation/Parole Officers or the Department of Corrections Research current through May 2016. This project was supported by Grant No. G1599ONDCP03A, awarded by the Office
State of New Jersey. DEPARTMENT DIRECTIVE 15 March 2006 NO. 020
State of New Jersey DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS POST OFFICE BOX 340 TRENTON, NEW JERSEY 08625-0340 JON S. CORZINE Governor Commander-in-Chief GLENN K. RIETH Major General The Adjutant General
PROGRAM PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FEDERAL STUDENT AID SCHOOL ELIGIBILITY CHANNEL PROGRAM PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT [PROVISIONAL APPROVAL] Effective Date of The date on which this Agreement is signed
CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SPOUSAL ABUSER PROSECUTION PROGRAM PROGRAM GUIDELINES
CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SPOUSAL ABUSER PROSECUTION PROGRAM PROGRAM GUIDELINES STATE OF CALIFORNIA OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Domestic violence is a crime that causes injury and death, endangers
REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS. For. FAST-TRACK TRAINING FOR LONG TERM UNEMPLOYED Release Date: May 5, 2015
REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS For FAST-TRACK TRAINING FOR LONG TERM UNEMPLOYED Release Date: May 5, 2015 Submission Deadline: May 19, 2015 by 4:00 PM (CST) Issued by: Workforce Solutions for South Texas Rogelio
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) # Revised from Management Software for Childcare Services
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) #18 365.2 Revised from 18-365.1 Deep East Texas Local Workforce Development Board, Inc. dba: Workforce Solutions Deep East for Management Software for Childcare Services Information
3316FAN1602.XX XXX. The United States of America (acting through the United States Coast Guard, and herein called the
AGREEMENT BETWEEN DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY UNITED STATES COAST GUARD and The United States of America (acting through the United States Coast Guard, and herein called the Coast Guard), pursuant
GATEWAY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES VOLUNTEER/INTERNSHIP APPLICATION
PERSONAL INFORMATION GATEWAY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES VOLUNTEER/INTERNSHIP APPLICATION NAME SOCIAL SECURITY # ADDRESS CITY/STATE/ZIP TELEPHONE EMERGENCY CONTACT RELATIONSHIP TO INTERN/VOLUNTEER TELEPHONE
COMMUNITY FORESTRY FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
CALL FOR PROJECT PROPOSALS COMMUNITY FORESTRY FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT Postmarked Deadline: June 8, 2007 In accordance with Federal law and U.S. Department of Agriculture policy, this
Ashland Hospital Corporation d/b/a King s Daughters Medical Center Corporate Compliance Handbook
( Medical Center ) conducts itself in accord with the highest levels of business ethics and in compliance with applicable laws. This goal can be achieved and maintained only through the integrity and high
BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES SOLE SUPERVISORY DISTRICT FRANKLIN-ESSEX-HAMILTON COUNTIES MEDICAID COMPLIANCE PROGRAM CODE OF CONDUCT
BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES SOLE SUPERVISORY DISTRICT FRANKLIN-ESSEX-HAMILTON COUNTIES MEDICAID COMPLIANCE PROGRAM CODE OF CONDUCT Adopted April 22, 2010 BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL
STANDARDS OF CONDUCT A MESSAGE FROM THE CHANCELLOR INTRODUCTION COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW RESEARCH AND SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
STANDARDS OF CONDUCT A MESSAGE FROM THE CHANCELLOR Dear Faculty and Staff: At Vanderbilt University, patients, students, parents and society at-large have placed their faith and trust in the faculty and
North Carolina Department of Administration NC Council for Women
April 2016 93.671 Family Violence Prevention & Services Grant Federal Authorization: Funding was initially authorized through the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, which was enacted in Sections
OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH FOREIGN SYMPOSIUM GRANT INTERIM TERMS AND CONDITIONS (February 2015)
OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH FOREIGN SYMPOSIUM GRANT INTERIM TERMS AND CONDITIONS (February 2015) Forms: http://www.onr.navy.mil/contracts-grants/manage-grant/grants-forms-download.aspx Administering Grant
Request for Proposal Event Services Annual Bike Race
Request for Proposal Event Services Annual Bike Race RFP No. 16-06 The Gadsden County Tourist Development Council through the Gadsden County Board of County Commissioners is seeking sealed proposals from
POLICY: Conflict of Interest
POLICY: Conflict of Interest A. Purpose Conducting high quality research and instructional activities is integral to the primary mission of California University of Pennsylvania. Active participation by
ASSEMBLY, No STATE OF NEW JERSEY. 218th LEGISLATURE INTRODUCED MARCH 12, 2018
ASSEMBLY, No. STATE OF NEW JERSEY th LEGISLATURE INTRODUCED MARCH, 0 Sponsored by: Assemblywoman ANNETTE QUIJANO District 0 (Union) Assemblyman JAMEL C. HOLLEY District 0 (Union) Assemblywoman YVONNE LOPEZ
GENERAL GRANT REQUIREMENTS
Grant Packet #2 GENERAL GRANT REQUIREMENTS The following requirements, in addition to any special conditions incorporated in the Grant Agreement letter (hereinafter called the Agreement), are legally binding
Vineland Department of Health Public Health Nursing Administrative Policies and Procedures 09/15/2010
P-1000 General The policies in this section (P-1000) of the Community Nursing Service City of Vineland policy and procedure manual establish the medical practice s administrative policies and procedures
L Ecole Culinaire Memphis
2011 ANNUAL SECURITY REPORT Campus security and safety are important issues in postsecondary education today. In recognition of this fact, and in keeping with applicable federal requirements, L Ecole Culinaire
Personnel ALL PERSONNEL
CONCEPTS AND ROLES BP 4000 (a) Note: A.S.14.08.101 authorizes regional school boards to appoint, compensate and otherwise control school employees in accordance with the provisions of Title 14 and exempts
CHAPTER 246. C.App.A:9-64 Short title. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act.
CHAPTER 246 AN ACT concerning domestic security preparedness, establishing a domestic security preparedness planning group and task force and making an appropriation therefor. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate
Blood Alcohol Testing, HIPAA Privacy and More
NEWSLETTER Volume Three Number Twelve December, 2007 Blood Alcohol Testing, HIPAA Privacy and More Although the HIPAA Privacy regulation has been in existence for many years, lawyers continue in their
Funded in part through a grant award with the U.S. Small Business Administration
Request for Export Support & Application for U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) State Trade Expansion Program (STEP) Year IV (October 2015 September 2016) IMPORTANT The Governor s Kentucky Export
LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ABBREVIATED STATE PLAN FOR FY 2014
STATE OF F L O R I D A LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ABBREVIATED STATE PLAN FOR FY 2014 Florida Department of Economic Opportunity Division of Community Development Bureau of Community Assistance
EMPLOYMENT-RELATED OBLIGATIONS IMPOSED BY HEALTH CARE REFORM LAW
EMPLOYMENT-RELATED OBLIGATIONS IMPOSED BY HEALTH CARE REFORM LAW ATLANTA ASHEVILLE BIRMINGHAM CHICAGO DALLAS DENVER JACKSONVILLE LOS ANGELES MELBOURNE MEMPHIS MIAMI MINNEAPOLIS NEW YORK ORLANDO PHOENIX
UNDERSTANDING OUR CODE OF CONDUCT...4 OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THOSE WE SERVE...5 OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH PHYSICIANS AND OTHER HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS...
Code of Conduct Code of Ethics Table of Contents UNDERSTANDING OUR CODE OF CONDUCT...4 OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THOSE WE SERVE...5 OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH PHYSICIANS AND OTHER HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS...7 OUR
DATE ISSUED: 12/19/ of 11 UPDATE 112 FFAC(LEGAL)-P
Consent to Medical Treatment Form of Consent Minor s Consent To Treatment The school in which a minor student is enrolled may consent to medical, dental, psychological, and surgical treatment of that student,
U.S. Department of Justice 42 U.S.C (a) N.C. Department of Public Safety
APRIL 2016 16.575 CRIME VICTIM ASSISTANCE State Project/Program: VICTIMS OF CRIME ACT (VOCA) Federal Authorization: U.S. Department of Justice 42 U.S.C. 10603(a) Governor s Crime Commission Agency Contact
HOUSE BILL No AN ACT enacting the Kansas death with dignity act.
Session of HOUSE BILL No. By Committee on Vision - 0 0 AN ACT enacting the Kansas death with dignity act. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: Section. Sections through, and amendments
Key Sections of Uniform Guidance Related to Subawards
Key Sections of Uniform Guidance Related to Subawards Note: The following are sections of the Uniform Guidance which relate to subaward management. It is not the Uniform Guidance in its entirety, nor is
Compliance Program And Code of Conduct. United Regional Health Care System
Compliance Program And Code of Conduct United Regional Health Care System TABLE OF CONTENTS Page MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT... 1 COMPLIANCE PROGRAM... 2 Program Structure...2 Management s Responsibilities
Chapter II OVERVIEW OF THE MEDICAL BOARD OF CALIFORNIA
Overview of the Medical Board of California 5 Chapter II OVERVIEW OF THE MEDICAL BOARD OF CALIFORNIA A. MBC Generally 2 Created in the Medical Practice Act, the Medical Board of California is a semi-autonomous
Grants to States for Low-Income Housing Projects in Lieu of Low-Income Housing Credits for 2009 GRANTEE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Grants to States for Low-Income Housing Projects in Lieu of Low-Income Housing Credits for 2009 GRANTEE TERMS AND CONDITIONS 1. Authority a. Section 1602 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act
ISDN. Over the past few years, the Office of the Inspector General. Assisting Network Members Develop and Implement Corporate Compliance Programs
Information Bulletin #7 ISDN National Association of Community Health Centers, Inc. INTEGRATED SERVICES DELIVERY NETWORKS SERIES For more information contact Jacqueline C. Leifer, Esq. or Marcie H. Zakheim,
Macon County Mental Health Court. Participant Handbook & Participation Agreement
Macon County Mental Health Court Participant Handbook & Participation Agreement 1 Table of Contents Introduction...3 Program Description.3 Assessment and Enrollment Process....4 Confidentiality..4 Team
N.C. Department of Public Safety Governor s Crime Commission
APRIL 2018 16.575 CRIME VICTIMS ASSISTANCE State Project/Program: VICTIMS OF CRIME ACT (VOCA) Federal Authorization: Agency Contact Person Program Karen Jayson, Lead Planner, Crime Victim Services Governor
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FEDERAL STUDENT AID SCHOOL ELIGIBILITY CHANNEL SCHOOL PARTICIPATION TEAM CHICAGO TEAM
PPA Transmittal Letter. University of Toledo - 00313100 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FEDERAL STUDENT AID SCHOOL ELIGIBILITY CHANNEL SCHOOL PARTICIPATION TEAM CHICAGO TEAM Dr. Lloyd A. Jacobs President
District Department of the Environment Natural Resources Administration
District Department of the Environment Natural Resources Administration NOTICE OF FUNDING AVAILABILITY AND REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS TO CONSTRUCT MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER FACILITIES AND IMPLEMENT NONPOINT SOURCE
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Grant Agreement Program Year 2016
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Grant Agreement Program Year 2016 WIOA Grant Agreement Program Year 2016 Page 1 PART 1 - GRANT AGREEMENT PROVISIONS I. BACKGROUND This is an enforceable
Final Rule for Veterans (VEVRAA)
Final Rule for Veterans (VEVRAA) On September 24, 2013 the Federal Register published the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) Final Rule revising the obligations of federal contractors
ALABAMA WORKFORCE INVESTMENT SYSTEM. Office of Workforce Development 401 Adams Avenue Post Office Box 5690 Montgomery, Alabama
ALABAMA WORKFORCE INVESTMENT SYSTEM Office of Workforce Development 401 Adams Avenue Post Office Box 5690 Montgomery, Alabama 36103-5690 GOVERNOR'S WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTIVE NO. PY2004-14 SUBJECT:
CLIENT ALERT. FY 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (P.L ): Impacts on Small Business Government Contracting.
CLIENT ALERT FY 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (P.L. 112-239): Impacts on Small Business Government Contracting January 24, 2013 On January 3, 2012, the U.S. Congress passed the National Defense
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR STATE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES AUTHORITIES (NASCSA) MODEL PRESCRIPTION MONITORING PROGRAM (PMP) ACT (2016) COMMENT
1 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR STATE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES AUTHORITIES (NASCSA) MODEL PRESCRIPTION MONITORING PROGRAM (PMP) ACT (2016) SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the
INCUMBENT WORKER TRAINING GRANT
EASTERN CAROLINA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INCUMBENT WORKER TRAINING GRANT GUIDELINES AND APPLICATION 1341 South Glenburnie Road New Bern, NC 28562 (252)636-6901 voice (252)638-3569 fax email: admin@ecwdb.org
1 of 138 DOCUMENTS. NEW JERSEY REGISTER Copyright 2006 by the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law. 38 N.J.R. 4801(a)
Page 1 1 of 138 DOCUMENTS NEW JERSEY REGISTER Copyright 2006 by the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law VOLUME 38, ISSUE 22 ISSUE DATE: NOVEMBER 20, 2006 RULE PROPOSALS LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY DIVISION
79th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY Regular Session. Enrolled. Senate Bill 58
79th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2017 Regular Session Enrolled Senate Bill 58 Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the President of the Senate in conformance with presession filing
STATE OF NEW JERSEY MANDATORY OVERTIME RESTRICTIONS FOR HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
STATE OF NEW JERSEY MANDATORY OVERTIME RESTRICTIONS FOR HEALTH CARE FACILITIES New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development Division of Wage and Hour Compliance PO Box 389 Trenton, New Jersey
SOUTH FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES TITLE: ADDITIONAL PROCUREMENT PROCEDURES FOR PURCHASES FROM FEDERAL GRANTS
SOUTH FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES PROCEDURE NO. 4225 TITLE: ADDITIONAL PROCUREMENT PROCEDURES FOR PURCHASES FROM FEDERAL GRANTS BASED ON POLICY: 4.22 GRANTS ADMINISTRATION OFFICE OF
Peace Corps. Part XXXIX. Tuesday, May 27, Semiannual Regulatory Agenda
Tuesday, May 27, 2003 Part XXXIX Peace Corps Semiannual Regulatory Agenda Ver May2003 15:13 May 16, 2003 Jkt 200001 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4717 Sfmt 4717 D:\UNIFIED\PRESSD~1\UA030439.TXT apps41 PsN:
Gilmer Independent School District 500 So. Trinity Gilmer, Texas Phone: (903) FAX: (903)
Gilmer Independent School District 500 So. Trinity Gilmer, Texas 75644 Phone: (903) 841-7400 FAX: (903) 843-5279 Employment Application for Professional Personnel POSITION (S) FOR WHICH YOU ARE APPLYING:
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA SESSION 2015 HOUSE DRH20205-MG-112 (03/24) Short Title: Enact Death With Dignity Act. (Public)
H GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA SESSION HOUSE DRH-MG-1 (0/) H.B. Apr, HOUSE PRINCIPAL CLERK D Short Title: Enact Death With Dignity Act. (Public) Sponsors: Referred to: Representatives Harrison and
WIOA SEC Administrative Provisions. Subparts: A - H. Presented by: 11/ 16/2016. Office of Grants Management
1 WIOA SEC. 683 Administrative Provisions Subparts: A - H Presented by: Office of Grants Management 11/ 16/2016 2 Today's Presenters Deborah Galloway Fiscal Policy Manager Division of Policy, Review &
Sample Policy and Procedure on Prohibition on Distributing Medical Marijuana
TO: FROM: Health Centers Colleen Meiman Director of Regulatory Affairs National Association of Community Health Centers DATE: July 2017 RE: Sample Policy and Procedure on Prohibition on Distributing Medical
EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION An Equal Opportunity Employer
EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION An Equal Opportunity Employer TYPE/PRINT IN INK Please complete the application by typing or clearly printing in dark ink. Submit a separate application (photocopy acceptable) for
SAMH Block Grant Charitable Choice Policy
SAMH Block Grant Charitable Choice Policy April 10, 2014 Florida Department of Children and Families Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 1 I. CHARITABLE CHOICE BLOCK GRANT REQUIREMENTS... 3 II.
PATIENT RIGHTS TO ACCESS PERSONAL MEDICAL RECORDS California Health & Safety Code Section
PATIENT RIGHTS TO ACCESS PERSONAL MEDICAL RECORDS California Health & Safety Code Section 123100-123149. 123100. The Legislature finds and declares that every person having ultimate responsibility for
The Section 3 Clause. HACSJ Section 3 Form and Explanation (Rev 2013,03.01) Page 1 of 7
The Section 3 Clause A. The work to be performed under this contract is subject to the requirements of section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, as amended, 12 U.S.C. 1701u (section 3).
Statement Of Organization, Functions, And Delegations Of. SUMMARY: This notice replaces all language in Part A (Office of
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 03/15/2016 and available online at http://federalregister.gov/a/2016-05714, and on FDsys.gov DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES - TITLE X (PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT) FAMILY PLANNING FAMILY PLANNING. U. S. Department of Health and Human Services
APRIL 2006 93.217 FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES - TITLE X (PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT) FAMILY PLANNING State Project/Program: FAMILY PLANNING U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Federal Authorization:
93.217 FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES - TITLE X (PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT) FAMILY PLANNING APRIL 2009 State Project/Program: FAMILY PLANNING U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Federal Authorization:
Notification of Grant Award Cover Page
Notification of Grant Award Cover Page Page 2 of 12 In addition to the conditions stated in this FY 2015 Conditions of Award document, the Grantee acknowledges, where applicable, receipt of the following
Department of Defense INSTRUCTION
Department of Defense INSTRUCTION SUBJECT: DoD Civilian Employee Drug-Free Workplace Program References: See Enclosure 1 NUMBER 1010.09 June 22, 2012 Incorporating Change 1, Effective June 28, 2018 USD(P&R)
Safeguarding Federal Funds
Safeguarding Federal Funds Purpose Understand the mission of the OIG Preventing fraud in your organization Know how to contact the OIG What the OIG Does Promotes Economy, Efficiency, and Effectiveness
Updated. The Minimalist s Guide to the New Procurement Standards in 2 CFR Part 200 Uniform Guidance
Updated The Minimalist s Guide to the New Procurement Standards in 2 CFR Part 200 Uniform Guidance 1 Procurement Standards General Standards must use documented procurement procedures which
Single Audit Entrance Conference Uniform Guidance Refresher
Single Audit Entrance Conference Uniform Guidance Refresher MGO Audit Partner Annie Louie 31 Uniform Guidance Effective Date Federal Agencies Implement policies and procedures by promulgating regulations
GRANTS TO ENCOURAGE ARREST POLICIES AND
16.590 GRANTS TO ENCOURAGE ARREST POLICIES AND ENFORCEMENT OF PROTECTION ORDERS State Project/Program: GRANTS TO ENCOURAGE ARREST POLICIES AND ENFORCEMENT OF PROTECTION ORDERS APRIL 2006 Federal Authorization:
A.U.C. 202 October 12, 2005 SUBSTANCE POLICY: DRUGS / ALCOHOL 1. PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
October 12, 2005 SUBSTANCE POLICY: DRUGS / ALCOHOL 1. PRELIMINARY STATEMENT This Circular: 1.1 Sets forth Department policy concerning the use and possession of illegal drugs; use and possession of legally
Playing by the Rules
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT Office of Community Planning and Development Community Development Block Grant Program Playing by the Rules A Handbook for CDBG Subrecipients on Administrative
Arizona Department of Education
State of Arizona Department of Education Request For Grant Application (RFGA) RFGA Number: ED07-0028 RFGA Due Date / Time: Submittal Location: Description of Procurement: February 9, 2007, at 3:00 P.M.
CODE OF CONDUCT. Policies and Procedures. Corporate Compliance Committee. Interim President and CEO
CODE OF CONDUCT Policies and Procedures Issued by: Approved by: Approved by: Corporate Compliance Committee Alice M. Hall, Esq. Interim President and CEO Hawaii Health Systems Corporation ( HHSC ) Board
The agency head must initial each assurance in the space provided.
Applicants must thoroughly read the assurances prior to determining whether to submit an application. Failure to assure Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG), Office of Adult Education. (OAE of being
CURRENT FEDERAL LAWS PROTECTING CONSCIENCE RIGHTS
CURRENT FEDERAL LAWS PROTECTING CONSCIENCE RIGHTS Over the past forty-one years, numerous federal laws and regulations have been enacted to protect rights of conscientious objection. Many of these laws
COMMUNITY BASED PROGRAM / INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AUTISM SERVICES
APRIL 2011 COMMUNITY BASED PROGRAM / INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL State Authorization: G. S. 122C 101, 143-6.1; Senate Bill 1366 N. C. Department of Health and Human Services Division of Mental Health,
EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANTS PROGRAM EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANTS PROGRAM. U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
APRIL 2006 14.231 EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANTS PROGRAM State Project/Program: EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANTS PROGRAM U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Federal Authorization: 24 Code of Federal Regulations
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MISSION STATEMENT
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL MISSION STATEMENT Promote integrity, accountability, and improvement of Department of Defense personnel, programs and operations to support the Department's
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA SENATE BILL AN ACT
PRINTER'S NO. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA SENATE BILL No. INTRODUCED BY LEACH AND FERLO, JUNE, REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, JUNE, Session of AN ACT 1 1 1 1 Amending Title (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries)
The Uniform Guidance (2 CFR, Part 200)
WCMC Implementation of The Uniform Guidance (2 CFR, Part 200) Tuesday, September 22, 2015 & Wednesday, September 23, 2015 UG Workshop Michelle A. Lewis, M.S. Director of Research Administration Interim
STATE APPROPRIATIONS. State Project/Program: COMMUNITY BASED PROGRAM / MENTAL HEALTH PROJECTS FOR ASSISTANCE IN TRANSITION FROM HOMELESSNESS (PATH)
APRIL 2011 93.150 N/A PROJECTS FOR ASSISTANCE IN TRANSITION FROM HOMELESSNESS (PATH) STATE APPROPRIATIONS State Project/Program: COMMUNITY BASED PROGRAM / MENTAL HEALTH PROJECTS FOR ASSISTANCE IN TRANSITION
Understanding Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act
Understanding Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act Staci Gilliam, Director Economic Opportunity Division U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development Washington, DC 20410 202-402-3468 staci.gilliam@hud.gov
OMeGA Medical Grants Association RESIDENCY/CORE COMPETENCY INNOVATION GRANT RECIPIENT AGREEMENT. Order number* Program applicant name*
OMeGA Medical Grants Association 2015-2016 RESIDENCY/CORE COMPETENCY INNOVATION GRANT RECIPIENT AGREEMENT Order number* Program applicant name* This Grant Recipient Agreement is between OMeGA Medical Grants
Part 1: Employment Restrictions After Leaving DoD: Personal Lifetime Ban
POST-GOVERNMENT SERVICE EMPLOYMENT RESTRICTIONS (RULES AFFECTING YOUR NEW JOB AFTER DoD) For Military Personnel E-1 through O-6 and Civilian Personnel who are not members of the Senior Executive Service
Compliance Program, Code of Conduct, and HIPAA
Compliance Program, Code of Conduct, and HIPAA Agenda Introduction to Compliance The Compliance Program Code of Conduct Reporting Concerns HIPAA Why have a Compliance Program Procedures to follow applicable
Uniform Guidance Subpart D Administrative Requirements
Uniform Guidance Subpart D Administrative Requirements Purpose and Introduction Understanding the Uniform Guidance is essential to increase accountability of managing grant funds. The Administrative Requirements
EMPLOYEE RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES (LEGAL)
Employee Free Speech Whistleblower Protection Definitions College district employees do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate. However, neither
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line160
|
__label__wiki
| 0.825521
| 0.825521
|
Home » Analysis » Archbishop defends rights of unborn children
Archbishop defends rights of unborn children
By Mark Bowling
BRISBANE Archbishop Mark Coleridge has strongly defended the rights of the unborn child in a written submission to the inquiry into Queensland’s abortion law reform bill aimed at decriminalising abortion.
Archbishop Coleridge described the Church as both pro-woman and pro-life.
“Each of us are here today because when we were infants in the womb people cared enough to protect our lives,” he said in his submission.
“How can we fail to extend that protection to others?
“It is also anomalous that in a culture deeply concerned with human rights that the most basic of all rights, the right to life, on which all other rights are predicated, is denied.
“To enshrine such a contradiction in law is a serious anomaly and is utterly inconsistent with the common good, the consensual basis of a humane pluralistic society.”
Archbishop Coleridge said the right of the unborn to protection under the law was grounded by reason and was upheld by religious followers as well as those without any religious affiliation.
He quoted a recent statement from Pope Francis: “So great is the value of a human life, and so inalienable the right to life of an innocent child growing in the mother’s womb, that no alleged right to one’s own body can justify a decision to terminate that life, which is an end in itself and which can never be considered the ‘property’ of another human being.”
Archbishop Coleridge said the law had an educative role.
To completely remove abortion from the criminal code could send other messages to people regarding the value of human life, he said.
“Such a move towards abortion on demand would lead to many more abortions, with increased pressure placed on vulnerable women faced with this most difficult decision,” he said.
“It could also reduce abortion to just another birth control option, disregarding its seriously invasive medical aspects and its grave personal ethical import.
“The bill being considered would allow a doctor to perform an apparently consensual abortion without fully informed consent and without also offering support and counselling to the woman to assist her with her decision-making or with her continuing pregnancy.
“This fails to appreciate that abortion is a decision which is seriously difficult to make and requires supportive professional counselling.
“The bill would also lead to the situation where children of twenty-two to twenty-three weeks gestation are being born in our hospitals and being cared for to preserve their lives, while those of twenty-five weeks gestation and older are being aborted. Such inconsistencies are hardly a sign of a mature or just society.”
Archbishop Coleridge pointed out that in Queensland the law on abortion was also governed by legal precedent – the decision in R v. Bayliss and Cullen in 1986.
While that decision allowed for abortion in certain restricted circumstances, Justice McGuire stated: “The law in this State has not abdicated its responsibility as guardian of the silent innocence of the unborn. It should rightly use its authority to see that a mentality of abortion on whim or caprice does not insidiously filter into our society. There is no legal justification for abortion on demand.”
Archbishop Coleridge said there was anecdotal evidence that the decision in R v. Bayliss and Cullen is now interpreted more liberally than was intended by Justice McGuire.
“We would ask that the State not abdicate its responsibility as guardian of the silent innocence of the unborn,” he said.
Written by: Mark Bowling
abortion Archbishop Coleridge debate pro-life pro-woman 2016-07-23
Mark Bowling
Previous: “Church suffering” paved the way to faith for Monsignor Tomas Halik
Next: Lourdes Hill staff mark on international pilgrimages for 100th anniversary celebrations
Pro-life group says public sentiment running deep against Queensland’s abortion law
Seeking the Divine Mercy of God in the suburbs, Eileen Hearn wants to share the joy of life with all
‘We want a real debate’ – standing firm against childhood euthanasia and autonomy absolutists
Following St Francis: Fr Francesco Mary Gavazzi ‘just wanted to follow and live for God alone’
Pax et bonum: Franciscan Father Francesco Mary…
Making sense of Divine Mercy Sunday
APRIL 30 in the new millennium went down in…
We asked city shoppers what they thought about Christmas. Their answers might surprise you
THEIR tiny eyes lit up as the string of reindeer…
The family fully alive
Darwin couple to represent Australia at world…
A seed of confidence
‘Daughter of Australia, saint for every…
Striking balance brings benefits
By David McGovernSo, how are those New Year…
Do Catholics worship statues?
APOLOGETICS By JOSEPH W. MOLONEYPEOPLE still…
Ask a Priest
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT May 30, 2019
To All The Virtues I’ve Wanted To Sow | Year of Youth Blog October 31, 2018
What I Learned about Death and Friendships | Year of Youth Blog October 1, 2018
Indonesia tsunami and quake: Bodies found in church buried by landslide October 1, 2018
Pope: Be open to the good, wherever it comes from October 1, 2018
'I am the light of the world; anyone who follows me will not be walking in the dark, he will have the light of life.' (John 8:12)
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line162
|
__label__wiki
| 0.690891
| 0.690891
|
Conference "The Maghrib in the Mashriq"
De Jue, 20/12/2018 hasta Vie, 21/12/2018
Venue: Residencia de Estudiantes, c/Pinar, 21 (Madrid)
Organized: Maribel Fierro (ILC-CSIC) and Mayte Penelas (EEA-CSIC)
Project AMOI (Contextos locales y dinámicas globales: al-Andalus y el Magreb en el Oriente islámico) FFI2016-78878-R AEI/FEDER,UE, and Project Practicing knowledge in Islamic societies (Anneliese Maier Award 2014, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
Secretary: Víctor de Castro (ILC-CSIC)
The project AMOI is a project financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education that aims at mapping the intellectual and cultural impact of the Maghreb in the Islamic world at large. Names such as those of Muḥyī l-dīn Ibn ʽArabī and Ibn Khaldūn immediately come to mind, also that of Maimonides in the case of the Jewish communities in Islamic lands, as well as poetical forms such as the muwashshaḥāt, didactic versifications such as the Alfiyya and the Shāṭibiyya, and a highly successful work on the prerogatives of the Prophet, Qāḍī ʽIyāḍ’s al-Shifāʼ. Less known are contributions in other fields, and also how, when and why they had an impact outside the Maghrib. There were significant changes in the ways knowledge generated in the Islamic West (North Africa excluding Egypt, al-Andalus and Sicily) travelled outside it and in how it was received. At the same time, the representation of the Maghrib in Eastern historical, geographical and biographical works also underwent changes that shed light in how the Maghribi cultural and intellectual production was understood and valued. To this and other aspects a team of senior and younger researchers has been paying attention since December 2016 to culminate in the publication of a collective volumen of studies entitled The Maghrib in the Mashriq.
Díptico-programa
Reuniones científicas / Jornadas y Talleres
Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo (ILC)
Dpto. de Estudios Judíos e Islámicos
Historia Cultural del Mediterráneo
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line163
|
__label__cc
| 0.716464
| 0.283536
|
Gao Yuanyuan, Nicholas Tse Play Lovers in New Film
2014-07-09 16:47:58 CRIENGLISH.com Web Editor: Xie Tingting
Actress Gao Yuanyuan is seen in a scene in the upcoming Chinese movie "But Always" (Yi Sheng Yi Shi). In the film, Gao and actor Nicholas Tse portray a couple whose relationship is challenged by time. The movie is set in Beijing and New York. It is directed by Zou Xian, with Zhang Yibai as the executive producer. Chinese mainland release is scheduled for September 5. [Photo: douban.com]
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line168
|
__label__cc
| 0.724888
| 0.275112
|
Alekians
Galactic Sentient Species » Alekians
The Alekians are a herbivorous and, in the days before technology, sometimes omnivorous, scavenging species. They presumably originate from Ferinh Do, the main world orbiting around its sun Ferinh.
Species Origins
Homeworld: Ferinh Do
Class: (presumably) Mammalia
Scientific Name: Alekus Rattus Xenosapiens
Evolutionary History: Of the evolutionary history of the Alekus Rattus, only little is known. While they presumably evolved in a similar way as hominids have on Earth, too few skeletons and other such signs of their history have remained, leaving a 'missing links' open on at least 3 different occasions.
Earliest Evidence of Civilization: ~ -10,000CE (-12,129 IV)
Enlightenment Date: 2783CE (654 IV)
Anatomy: The skeleton is composed of a dense calcium phosphate compound. It possesses four limbs and a tail; two inferiorly located hind limbs and two superiorly located forelimbs. These limbs are adjoined to two separate girdles which both connect to a spine running down the posterior side of the body, while the tail is an extension of the spine at the inferior end. Major organs are held in a protective cage in the upper torso, while the brain is housed in a thick protective casing at the superior end of the spine called the skull, or cranium. This skull also houses all major sensory organs. A large muscular system allows for the movement of the skeleton, while a complex circulatory system transports oxygen rich blood around the entire body to provide energy.
Physiology: Alekians walk with an upright gait, using their hind limbs for mobility. Their forelimbs rest in a relatively loose and unspecialised girdle, allowing for a wide array of movements in multiple planes. At the distal end of these forelimbs are highly specialised digits, complete with opposable thumb, lending the species unmatched manual dexterity amongst most other organisms on their homeworld. Their tail is somewhat prehensile, able to manipulate objects rudimentarily. Alekians also possess an extremely developed brain which is housed in the skull. This brain, which is capable of advanced reasoning, logic and language, affords them their high intelligence.
Genetics: Carbon based DNA, levo-amino acids
Reproduction: Alekians become sexually mature after the increased production of specific hormones during a process comparable to human 'puberty'. This typically happens during adolescence (8-13 years old). The species requires internal fertilisation and is viviparous.
Life Cycle: Alekian young, from childhood through adolescence, require a considerable amount of care from their parents, but are not completely reliant of these figures for everything. As a result, alekian society is only partially built around caring and educating the young, especially with a considerable number of children being sold into slavery. The age at which Alekians are actually considered adults usually varies between 14 and 16 years old on different worlds.
Diet: Mainly herbivore. However, they are capable of digesting limited amounts of meat.
Sleep Cycle: Generally require around 7-9 hours of sleep everyday, but Alekians can go without sleep for up to 4 days.
Overview: In general Alekians live their life not very different from how we do it. Each has an own personality and tries to achieve the best with it and the abilities he has. One of the major differences is that they worship the Valorin as their God and think of him as the ultimate force. An Alekian would never even think bad of the Valorin. They are very faithful, often even bordering on fanaticism or zealotry.
Sexuality: (If Applicable)
Gender Roles: Throughout their evolution, and in early history, males were typically the dominant members of the species. As society evolved, and these conventions became largely redundant, females began to push for more equal treatment. This was often met with resistance and even today this struggle is continuing. Even in modern times the two sexes are not treated with complete equality.
Language(s): Alekian
Art/Music:
Philosophical Concepts: <The Dominant Philosophical Concepts of the Species>
Psionics
Psionic Potential: Yes
Rate of occurrence: Very rare natural occurance
Relative Power: Varies
In Society: In alekian society, people with psionic capabilities - even if slave-born - are generally revered as messengers and ambassadors from the Valorin, empowered by him to serve the Elurdviasha. These males and females are brought to Ferinh Do at a young age and there, in the Valorin's palace, educated in a great many things, their - as perceived by the Alekians - superior minds more capable of learning, taking in information and the like.
In the end, they become the elite forces of the Empire, the feared and respected
alekianspotential-deletionspecies
Części Fiat i nie tylko
SCP繁體中文沙盒
發現，發掘，發佈
Chess Variants Wiki
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line169
|
__label__cc
| 0.596286
| 0.403714
|
Division of Chemical Sciences
Inorganic and Physical Chemistry (IPC)
Quadratic Optical Nonlinearity And Geometry Of 1:1 Electron Donor Acceptor Complexes In Solution
G22343.pdf (2.519Mb)
Ghosh, Sampa
The knowledge of geometry of molecular complexes formed via molecular association in solution through weak interactions is always important to understand the origin of stability and function of an array of molecules, supramolecular assemblies, and macromolecular networks. Simple 1:1 molecular complexes are very useful in this regard as they provide a model to understand both the nature of these interactions and their structural implications. Several weak noncovalent forces from long range (van der Waal’s, electrostatic, induction, dispersion) to short range (charge transfer) govern the geometry, that is, relative orientation of the two molecules in such a complex. On one hand, we find 1:1 electron donor acceptor (EDA) complexes such as naphthalene-tetracyanobenzene, hexamethylbenzene-chloranil etc. which stack parallel or in slipped parallel geometry in their crystals. On the other, benzene dimer has been found to stabilize in T shaped geometry in all its three physical states. In this thesis, I focus on 1:1 EDA complexes in solution. A good volume of literature is available which deals with the optical studies on the formation of such complexes. It has been suggested that the nature of the intermolecular interactions stabilizing these complexes in the gas phase or in their crystals is modified by the presence of solvent-solute interactions in solution thus bringing in difference in the solution geometry. However, the existing experimental techniques, both optical and magnetic, are unable to determine the exact geometries of 1:1 EDA complexes in solution. This opens an opportunity to probe their geometry in solution. The quadratic nonlinearity or first hyperpolarizability (β) of a molecule is a measure of the change in dipole moment (or polarization) in the second order of the applied electrical field and thus has a purely electronic origin. It is a tensorial property and can be resolved in components along the three dimensions. The number of β components and the nonlinear optical anisotropies in a typical donor-acceptor type dipolar molecule, defined as (equation) (where1, 2, 3 axes define the molecular frame, 1 being the direction along the principal axis of symmetry and pointing from the acceptor toward the donor), are determined by the symmetry /structure of the molecule. It has been shown theoretically that the 1:1 EDA complexes possess large hyperpolarizabilities. In the case of pNA dimers calculation revealed that the geometry of the dimer and its symmetry is important for obtaining the correct estimate of β from its tensorial components. Therefore, it should be possible to use the values of tensorial β components to construct the unknown geometry of such complexes. Experimentally macroscopic depolarization ratios (D and D′) in the laboratory fixed frame (XYZ, X being the direction of polarization and Z the direction of propagation of the incident light), are measured from the polarization resolved intensities of second harmonic scattering from molecules in solution using the hyper-Rayleigh scattering technique. The depolarization ratios are correlated to the anisotropy parameters, u and v through a co-ordinate transformation. In this thesis I, have first, characterized the quadratic nonlinear optical property of a variety of 1:1 electron donor acceptor complexes and used the values of u and v obtained from depolarized hyper-Rayleigh scattering to deduce their geometry in solution. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the 1:1 electron donor acceptor complexes, their relevance to chemistry and biology. It also contains an introduction to nonlinear optical processes in molecules. The objective of the present work and scope of the investigation carried out in this thesis is presented in this chapter. Chapter 2 describes the details of the experimental polarization resolved HRS technique. The geometrical model adopted for the analysis of the HRS data has also been introduced and the method of analysis has been described in detail in this chapter. Chapter 3 presents the measurement of β values of two series of 1:1 EDA complexes of variously substituted methylbenzenes donors with tetrachloro-p-benzoquinone (CHL) and dicyanodichloro-p-benzoquinone (DDQ) acceptors at 1064 nm. In agreement with recent theoretical results we find large first hyperpolarizabilities for these complexes. The β values are greater than that of the typical push-pull molecule p-nitroaniline (pNA). We also find that in general β decreases with decrease in the donor strength. Chapter 4 presents the β values for the two series of EDA complexes of CHL and DDQ acceptors at 1907 nm. The values of β are less in magnitude at 1907 nm than that at 1064 nm which is due to the dispersion effect in β. In Chapter 5 and 6, it is described how depolarized hyper-Rayleigh scattering can be utilized to probe geometries of 1:1 complexes in solution. Chapter 5 concentrates mainly on 1:1 EDA complexes of CHL and DDQ and TCNB (tetracyanobenzene), while chapter 6 contains examples of other 1:1 molecular complexes where the noncovalent interactions are much weaker, such as in benzene-naphthalene, benzene-methoxybenzene, benzene-hexafluorobenzene and benzene-chlorobenzene pairs. We find the geometry of 1:1 EDA complexes in solution in terms of tilt angle (θ) and twist angle (ϕ) between the donor and acceptor pairs. The angle θ varies from 29°-47° for different pairs of EDA complexes, while ϕ varies within 34° and 38°. We find that the geometry of 1:1 EDA complexes in solution is different (twisted and tilted cofacial and twisted ‘V’) from those in the crystalline or gaseous states (cofacial), if known. We find that both benzene-naphthalene and benzene-chlorobenzene pairs assume twisted ‘T’ shape geometry with θ = 82° and 85°, respectively, and φ = 38°, while benzene-hexafluorobenzene assumes a twisted ‘V’ shape. A strong solvent effect is seen in the geometry of the benzene- methoxybenzene complex. The tilt angle is 55° when chloroform is used as a solvent and it is 82° without chloroform. Chapter 7 is the concluding chapter where the main work done in this thesis is summarized and future directions are presented.
http://etd.iisc.ac.in/handle/2005/711
Inorganic and Physical Chemistry (IPC) [189]
Syntheses and Structure Elucidations of Ternary Metal (Cu/Co)Complexes with Nucleic Acid Constituents
Prakash, Patil Yogesh (2018-05-07)
The thesis is divided into four chapters Chapter 1 provides a brief introduction to the metal-nucleic acid interactions, the role of synthetic models to understand them with both solution (potentiometric) and solid state ...
Studies on Near-IR Light Photocytotoxic Oxovanadium Complexes
Prasad, Puja (2018-04-11)
The present thesis deals with different aspects of the chemistry of oxovanadium(IV) complexes, their interaction with double stranded DNA, photo-induced DNA cleavage, photo-enhanced cytotoxicity in visible light and red ...
Targeted Delivery of Cytotoxic Metal Complexes into Cancer Cells with and without Macromolecular Vehicles
Mitra, Raja (2018-04-12)
Anticancer active metal complexes such as cisplatin are routinely used for treating various cancers since 1978. However, the side effects of cisplatin overwhelm its therapeutic potential, especially in the latter stages ...
All of etd@IIScCommunities & CollectionsTitlesAuthorsAdvisorsSubjectsBy Thesis Submission DateThis CollectionTitlesAuthorsAdvisorsSubjectsBy Thesis Submission Date
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line172
|
__label__cc
| 0.596454
| 0.403546
|
Meet Tahnee
Season 2, Episode 1: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Glenn?
After Thanksgiving, things get kind of hairy with Glenn. He takes up residence on the couch, and his favorite pastimes become slothing, mooching, and eating people's leftovers out of the fridge.
Marie, desperate for her perceived relationship to be successful, loses herself in bringing Glenn snacks and generally trying to please him. The light goes out behind her eyes.
Meryl realizes that if she doesn't intervene, Marie might fall down a dark rabbit hole of dysfunction. Not to mention, she might never get this drifter out of her house. So Meryl comes up with a project.
Meryl employs Marie to redecorate the house, room by room, removing all the stale old wallpaper that Meryl's grandmother originally put up. This will take a very long time. Meryl gives herself a mental pat on the back for being so clever.
Marie tears down the wallpaper with her bare hands, which doesn't surprise anyone because she's a hard worker, a die-hard. Meryl hopes that Glenn will soon be a thing of the past, but who's to say what Marie is thinking about as she claws that paper off the walls?
One thing is for certain, Marie finds something intensely satisfying about ripping the paper off the walls, sheet by sheet.
When she's finished, Marie is filled with accomplishment, mingled with aches and pains in her hands, neck, legs, and back. But what's next to come is the best yet. It's time to redecorate. The house is a blank palate.
The new decor comes solely from Marie's imagination and deepest inspirations. Meryl generously allowed her to select the colors and art work herself and to go ahead and set up the house anew.
Eclectic is the best way to describe it as a whole, but the Southwestern influences in the living room are not to be overlooked.
The new living room offers Gene a lofty place to dream and surf the internet, while providing ample comfort for the cats.
The foyer is inspired by a recurring dream Marie has where she's dragged by wild horses to her untimely demise. When she wakes up in a cold sweat, she finds the best way to calm herself is with a midnight snack, including, but not limited to, cereal, pastries, wine coolers, tacos, or anything she can find.
The kitchen tile shines in the sunlight, and it should... Marie layed the tile herself, square by square, and polished it with a rag and club soda, and sometimes her tears as she thought of how Glenn was likely a fixture on some new girl's couch by now, being fed snacks by her, and eating the leftovers belonging to her roommates.
The upstairs hall has become a quirky place to pop a squat and read the daily newspaper, if you're into nostalgia.
Meryl's room of course is a grand affair...
A vanity is a very personal space, so Meryl goes ahead and sets this up herself. This week she's honoring Gregory Peck, her model for what a man should be. It's her one photo vision board.
Here, Meryl can kick off her slippers and read, or she can go to her altar and put her studies to practical use. The dogs often like to lounge in Meryl's room. Some say it's a portal to another dimension.
Gene's room has become an even more extravagant den of slack, to borrow a phrase from one of her favorite films.
Now, thanks to Marie, Gene can listen to her records, sip corn whiskey, read the Bible, or partake in any number of her favorite activities in a plush and psychedelic atmosphere.
It's worth taking note that Gene has graduated from a bare mattress on the floor and now sleeps in a slightly rickety four poster bed someone was giving away on Craigslist. It's a big hit with the dogs.
The third floor hallway is a place where one can listen to the old phonograph or watch a little TV. And by a little TV, I do mean a "little" TV, a small vintage television set that once belonged to Marie's dear old parents.
Then there's the computer room/Marie's room. Gene was also able to find three pieces of a five piece sectional someone was giving away to serve as the computer room couch/Marie's new bed.
When she's not putting the finishing touches on the house, Marie has been stealing away to her newly decorated digs to read romance novels.
And finally, the most important room in the house, the loo. Those who enjoy long baths will be pleased to meet the new shell-lined, candle-studded tub. God knows, Yippy is a fan.
All in all, Meryl feels pretty innovative for getting Marie involved in something other than an unhealthy relationship with a cling-on and getting the house redecorated at the same time. "How do you do it?" she sometimes says to herself in the mirror, a rhetorical question of course.
And then her thoughts drift to Grenadine, poor cousin, poor soul... No one has forgotten "the incident," least of all Meryl.
Posted by Dollhouse Dramas at 5:24 PM No comments:
Meet Tahnee Header
About Tahnee
Tahnee holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona and currently teaches in San Diego. Dollhouse Dramas began with the advent of Tahnee's first dollhouse in the 1980's. By the following decade, however, the dolls had outgrown family life and had moved on to wild parties, questionable lovers, and serious heartbreaks. This lead to a whole new storyline, and eventually, Dollhouse Dramas was born...
After Thanksgiving, things get kind of hairy with Glenn. He takes up residence on the couch, and his favorite pastimes become slothing, m...
Season 1, Episode 1: The Arrival
Up until now, it's been relatively peaceful for Meryl, her roommate Gene, and their live-in maid, Marie. Aside from the odd scuffle w...
Season 1, Episode 6: Vlad Gets Down
Marie returns home from running her errands with a new look. Her long conservative skirt is gone. In its place, she wears a playful pair o...
Season 1, Episode 7: Grenadine's Meltdown
After soaking in her bath for many hours, Meryl pulls Grenadine out and sits her down in the living room. Screaming for hours alone in th...
Season 1, Episode 14: The Breakdown (Season Finale)
One night after dinner, Meryl sets out on a walk to sort through her feelings and put some good vibes out into the Universe for Grenadine&...
Season 1, Episode 8: The Deconstruction of Grenadine
Gene and Vlad have been holed up in Gene's room listening to ballads and looking into each other's eyes for days. They've sha...
Season 1, Episode 5: The Struggle
Meryl and Grenadine are in for a surprise when they return home from their walk... The house is eerily quiet upon their return. With a se...
Season 1, Episode 10: The Last Straw
Gene lets Vlad know she's "ready" to be intimate... He wants to oblige, but no matter how he tries, he can't stop thin...
Season 1, Episode 9: Doll Love
Life has been tender for Vlad and Gene, for they have discovered the art of cuddling. They wake up together and gaze adoringly at one anoth...
Season 1, Episode 4: Vlad Gets Some Alone Time in the House
Seeing that Grenadine is in a foul mood, Meryl offers to take her for a walk outside so that nature might soothe her ruffled spirit... ...
Season 2, Episode 1: How Do You Solve a Problem Li...
The Dollhouse
Disclaimer: All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Dollhouse Dramas Created and Written by Tahnee Salkey © 2010 - 2015. Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line178
|
__label__cc
| 0.606449
| 0.393551
|
Movie : Act Of Valor (2D)
Synopsis: An unprecedented blend of real-life heroism and original filmmaking, Act of Valor stars a group of active-duty Navy SEALs in a powerful story of contemporary global anti-terrorism. Inspired by true events, the film combines stunning combat sequences, up-to-the minute battlefield technology and heart-pumping emotion for the ultimate action adventure. Act of Valor takes audiences deep into the secretive world of the most elite, highly trained group of warriors in the modern world. When the rescue of a kidnapped CIA operative leads to the discovery of a deadly terrorist plot against the U.S., a team of SEALs is dispatched on a worldwide manhunt. As the valiant men of Bandito Platoon race to stop a coordinated attack that could kill and wound thousands of American civilians, they must balance their commitment to country, team and their families back home.
Genre: Action / Adventure
Director: Mike McCoy, Scott Waugh
Cast: Alex Veadov, Roselyn Sanchez, Nestor Serrano
Official Website: actofvalor.com
2D, Action, adventure, Filem, Filem Aksi, Filem English
2D movies, act of valor, act of valor 2D, adventure movies, alex veadov, filem aksi, filem baru 2012, filem english, filem inggeris, filemwayang, nestor serrano, roselyn sanchez, wayang 2012
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line180
|
__label__wiki
| 0.674489
| 0.674489
|
Tue 12 Mar ’19, 10:00am
Wed 13 Mar ’19, 7:30pm
Mon 18 Mar ’19, 12:30pm
Wed 27 Mar ’19, 12:30pm
Tue 2 Apr ’19, 10:00am
Fri 5 Apr ’19, 12:30pm
Mon 8 Apr ’19, 7:30pm
Hawkins Theatre, 13 Ray Small Drive, Papakura
In Advance Adult: $10.00
In Advance Senior: $8.00
In Advance Student/Child: $8.00
Hawkins Theatre
Celia Lashlie wasn’t afraid to speak up… this film was her last chance to do so.
After receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis in late 2014, Celia asked her friend, award-winning journalist Amanda Millar to film the final year of her life to ensure her unfinished work could go on. In February 2015, Amanda was summonsed to bring a camera to Celia’s home for what turned out to be the only interview for this film. Two days later, Celia passed away.
Celia presents the transformational effect of this one charismatic woman in the lives of some of the most at-risk people in the country. This film represented her last chance to not only open up about her life and work but also share her vital messages about how to change the lives of those involved in New Zealand’s appalling violence, child mortality, prison and suicide statistics.
NaturePlay Film - Take Childhood Back
Orewa Baptist Church, Orewa, Auckland
Speed Works Hot lap and Season Membership 2019-20
Sat 30 Nov
Speed Works Season Membership 2019-20
The Classic Late and Live
The Classic Comedy Club, CBD, Auckland
The Classic Comedy Allstars
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line181
|
__label__wiki
| 0.751209
| 0.751209
|
New car ratings & reviews
More new car ratings
Expert rating
The Ford Kuga is a medium-sized SUV/crossover vehicle. This model was first launched in 2013 and had a major update in the second half of 2016. An all-new replacement was announced in April 2019.
The Kuga has scored average to good reviews from UK media sources, but it has been outclassed by more recent arrivals in this category. The updated models from late 2016 onwards are considered significantly better than the earlier versions.
More Ford news, reviews, features and offers
Body style: Five-door SUV/crossover
Engines: petrol, diesel
Price: From £23,060 on-road
Launched: Spring 2013
Last updated: Autumn 2016
Replacement due: 2019
Reviews, road tests and comparisons from across the UK automotive media
Auto Express
Score: 6 / 10
“The Ford Kuga is competent and good looking, but doesn’t feel as up-to-date as newer SUV rivals.”
“Since the facelift in 2016, the equipment levels have been given a much-needed boost – making the Kuga a truly compelling choice amongst its closest rivals.”
Model reviewed: 1.5-litre petrol automatic ST-Line
“The ST-Line Kuga is among the best in its class to drive – and the recently added tech, combined with a sporty appeal that isn’t just skin deep, means it’s a compelling choice in a world crammed full of hyper-value Korean cars and VW Group-spawned German/Spanish/Czech metal.”
Carbuyer
Score: 6.6 / 10
“With attractive styling, decent practicality and an impressive safety record, the Kuga is a convincing family SUV. It can’t quite match the extremely high all-round standards of some of its latest rivals – the SEAT Ateca in particular – but for the right deal it’s worth considering.”
Model reviewed: 1.5-litre petrol manual
“Ford’s Kuga lacks the panache of its rivals. It’s bigger, but its relative spaciousness still can’t beat the SEAT Ateca, it’s pricier to run and, overall, rather average in such able company.”
“Probably the sportiest handling SUV in the £20k-£30k bracket. But ride on 18-inch and especially on 19-inch wheels is hard.”
“The Kuga is the best in its class to drive. It has the best chassis. It’s basically a Focus on stilts. It’s just a little expensive.”
“The new Ford Kuga isn’t as sharp or as fun as the original. But it is bigger, safer and, um, more sensible.”
“The Kuga isn’t competitive in a number of areas, most notably its cheap-feeling interior and relative lack of practicality. If you really want a Kuga stick to the cheaper trims, because for the price of the more expensive versions there are much better alternatives, including the Peugeot 5008 or Mazda CX-5.”
“The Kuga is a good mid-size SUV, but ultimately falls just short of Best Buy status.”
Independent crash test and safety ratings from Euro NCAP
The Ford Kuga was crash tested by Euro NCAP in 2012 and was awarded .
This rating expired in January 2019 and is no longer valid.
Eco rating
Independent emissions and efficiency ratings from Green NCAP
The Ford Kuga has not yet been lab tested by Green NCAP. Check back soon.
If you’re interested in the Ford Kuga, you might also like to consider these alternatives
Citroën C5 Aircross | Honda CR-V | Hyundai Tucson | Jeep Compass | Kia Sportage | Mazda CX-5 | Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross | Nissan Qashqai | Peugeot 3008 | Renault Kadjar | SEAT Ateca | Skoda Karoq | Subaru XV | Toyota RAV4 | Vauxhall Grandland X | Volkswagen Tiguan
More coverage of this brand from The Executivecondominium
June was a hot month for hatches, with nine of the top ten models being hatchbacks. Here are the ten best-selling cars in the UK for June 2019.
The Ford GT Mk II is a track-only version of the road car, designed to unlock the performance denied to the race GT by regulations.
Ford has announced that it is introducing a new scrappage scheme to help boost sales, offering customers £2,000 towards selected new models.
New Ford Puma crossover revealed
Ford has revived the Puma name for a new model – but unlike the original, this one's not a small sports car. Instead, it's a new small crossover.
Britain’s best-selling cars – May 2019
Despite the overall results being disappointing, some cars are still flying out of new car showrooms. Here are the ten best-selling cars for May 2019.
Britain’s best-selling cars – April 2019
Despite the overall results being gloomy, there are still plenty of cars flying out of dealer showrooms. Here are the ten best-selling cars for April 2019.
This page last updated: 16 July 2019
What's your opinion of this car?
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line182
|
__label__wiki
| 0.699468
| 0.699468
|
Full article in pdf format
apoptosis, colon cancer, valproic acid, vorinostat
All electronic publishing
Effect of valproic acid in comparison with vorinostat on cell growth inhibition and apoptosis induction in the human colon cancer SW48 cells in vitro
Sanaei M.1, Kavoosi F.*1, Mansoori O.2
1Research Center for Non-communicable Diseases, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom 74148-46199, Iran
2Student Research Committee, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom 74148-46199, Iran
Summary. Aim: Acetylation levels of histones are the result of the balance between histone acetyltransfrases and histone deacetylases activities, which plays an important role in chromatin remodeling and regulation of gene expression. Histone deacetylases inhibitors such as valproic acid, vorinostat have attracted interest because of their ability to induce differentiation and apoptosis of cancer cells. The current study was designed to assess the effect of valproic acid in comparison to and in combination with vorinostat on cell growth inhibition and apoptosis induction in the human colon cancer SW48 cells. Materials and Methods: The colon cancer SW48 cells were seeded and treated with various doses of valproic acid and vorinostat and MTT assay and flow cytometric assay were done to determine cell viability and cell apoptosis, respectively. Results: All concentrations of both agents reduced viability significantly in a dose- and time-dependent fashion (p < 0.004). Both compounds, either single or combined agents, induced apoptosis significantly, whereas the ratio of the apoptotic cells treated with combined agents was more significant than the single. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that vaproic acid and vorinostat can significantly inhibit cell growth and induce apoptosis in colon cancer SW48 cells.
Submitted: February 21, 2018.
*Correspondence: E-mail: kavoosifraidoon@gmail.com
Abbreviations used: HATs — histone acetyltransfrases; HDACIs — histone deacetylases inhibitors; HDACs — histone deacetylases; TSA — trichostatin A; VPA — valproic acid.
Colorectal cancer is currently the third most common cancer in men and the second in women and also the fourth cause of cancer death worldwide. The incidence rate of the cancer is expected to increase by 60% to more than 2.2 million new cases and 1.1 million deaths by 2030 [1]. Genetic and epigenetic alterations are the most causes of human cancer. Fortunately, epigenetic changes are reversible by drugs targeting the epigenome, including histone modifications and DNA methylation [2].
Epigenetic modifications such as posttranslational modification of nucleosomal histones play an important role in gene expression in the eukaryotic cells. These modifications have a significant role in tumorigenesis and cancer induction. DNA hypermethylation and histone deacetylation are the most epigenetic alternations, which lead to tumor suppressor genes silencing and cancer induction. Acetylation of histones is one of the most important mechanisms of regulation of the gene expression [3]. Acetylation of histones regulated by two opposing groups of enzymes, including histone acetyltransfrases (HATs) and histone deacetylases (HDACs) is associated with increased transcription. Acetylation levels of histones are the result of the balance between HATs and HDACs activities, which plays an important role in chromatin remodeling and regulation of gene expression. HATs add acetyl groups to amino acid of histone proteins, whereas HDACs have opposite activity and remove the acetyl groups. Histone hypoacetylation induced by HDACs activity is associated with gene silencing. These enzymes account for as critical regulators of cell growth, differentiation, and apoptotic programs [4–6]. HDACs have been classified into four classes (comprising > 18 isoenzymes) including class I (HDACs 1, 2, 3 and 8), class II (HDACs 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10), class III (sir2 family) and class IV (HDAC11) [7–11]. The class I HDACs (1, 2, 3 and 8) and the class II HDAC (4) are expressed in the normal colon cell. Class I HDACs play a role in promoting colonic cell proliferation. It has been demonstrated that Knockdown of these enzymes reduces growth of colon cancer cells (HCT116, HT29 and SW480). Several studies have demonstrated increased expression of the class I HDACs (HDACs 1, 2, 3 and 8) in colon tumor cells [12–18]. HDAC inhibitors (HDACIs) have attracted interest because of their ability to induce differentiation and apoptosis of cancer cells.
It has been reported that several HDACIs such as valproic acid (VPA), vorinostat (suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid, SAHA), trichostatin A (TSA) and sodium butyrate can induce differentiation, cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in colon cancer cell lines in vitro [19–24]. Up to date there was no data on the antiproliferative and apoptotic effect of VPA and vorinostat on colon cancer cell line. Therefore, we examined the effect of VPA in comparison to and in combination with vorinostat on viability and apoptosis of colon cancer SW48 cell line in the current study.
Cell line and culturing. Human colon carcinoma SW48 cell line were obtained from the National Cell Bank of Iran-Pasteur Institute and maintained in RPMI supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS), 1% nonessential amino acids, 1% antibiotics, including penicillin G sodium (Sigma, USA), streptomycin sulfate and amphotericin B (Sigma, USA) at 37 °C in 5% CO2 to promote attachment. The cells were cultured and exposed to drugs after they reached > 80% confluence and routinely observation was done for the presence of Mycoplasma. Vorinostat (Sigma, USA) was dissolved in DMSO as a 10 mmol/l stock solution and diluted in order to different concentrations preparation. VPA was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA) and dissolved in the culture medium to prepare a stock solution, which was further diluted with culture medium to yield various concentrations of VPA. Other materials, including 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT), trypsin-EDTA, FBS, RPMI-1640, Annexin-V-(FITC) and propidium iodide (PI, Becton-Dickinson, San Diego, CA, USA) were purchased from Sigma Chemical Co. (St. Louis, MO, USA). Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) was purchased from Merck Co. (Darmstadt, Germany).
Cell viability assay. The effect of VPA and vorinostat individually and in combination on the cell viability was measured by MTT assay. First, the cells were seeded into 96-well plates (4 • 105 cells per well) and allowed to adhere for 24 h and then culture medium was replaced with medium containing different doses of VPA (0.5, 1, 5, 10 and 25 μM) and vorinostat (0.5, 1, 5, 10 and 25 μM) except control groups for different time periods, control groups were incubated with DMSO only. After incubation times (24, 48 and 72 h), the cells were washed twice with FBS, a medium containing MTT was added and maintained for 4 h and finally the formazan crystals were dissolved in DMSO and the absorbance was measured at 570 nm. All experiments were repeated three times.
Cell apoptosis assay. For detection of cell apoptosis, the cells were cultured in 24-well plates at a density of 4 • 105 cells/well and incubated overnight before exposure to medium containing drugs. After cell adhesion, the cells treated with VPA (5 μM) and vorinostat (1 μM), based on IC50 values, as alone and combined for 24, 48, and 72 h. After treatment times, all the adherent cells were harvested by trypsinization, washed with PBS and resuspended in Binding buffer (1× ). Annexin-V-(FITC) and propidium iodide were used for staining according to the protocol. Finally, the apoptotic cells were counted by FACScanTM flow cytometer (Becton Dickinson, Heidelberg, Germany).
Statistical analysis. The data were obtained from three tests and are shown as means ± standard deviations. Statistical comparisons between groups were performed with ANOVA (one-way ANOVA) and Turkey test. A significant difference was considered as p < 0.05.
Result of cell viability assay. The effects of the VPA and vorinostat on the colon cancer SW48 cell viability were assessed by MTT assay after treatment with various doses of the compounds (as mentioned above). As can be seen in Fig. 1, the effective doses of the VPA and vorinostat that inhibited 50% cell growth were 5 μM and 1 μM, respectively. All concentrations of both compounds reduced viability significantly in a dose-dependent fashion (p < 0.004).
Fig. 1. Effect of VPA (0.5, 1, 5, 10 and 25 μM) and vorinostat (0.5, 1, 5, 10 and 25 μM) on the SW48 cell viability. The effects were determined by the MTT assay. Data are presented as mean ± SD from at least triplicate wells and 3 independent experiments. Asterisks (*) indicate significant differences between treated cells and the control group. The first column of each group belongs to control group
Result of flow cytometric assay. The SW48 cells were treated with VPA (5 μM) and vorinostat (1 μM) at different times (24, 48 and 72 h) as mentioned in Materials and Methods. By flow cytometry, we assessed the ability of VPA and vorinostat, alone and combined, to induce apoptosis in colon cancer SW48 cell line. As shown in Fig. 2, VPA induced significant apoptosis at all experimental time points (p < 0.001). Apoptotic effect of varinostat was significant as shown in Fig. 3 (p < 0.001). The fraction of the apoptotic cells with combined agents was superior to that with the single agents. The percentage of apoptotic cells is indicated in the Table. Relative analysis between VPA and vorinostat treatment groups at different times indicated that VPA induced apoptosis more significantly than vorinostat. Maximal apoptosis was seen in the group, which received VPA in combination with vorinostat for 72 h (p < 0.001) (Fig. 4).
Fig. 2. Apoptotic effects of VPA on SW48 cells. Significant apoptosis was shown at different time periods (24, 48, and 72 h) in a dose dependent manner (*p < 0.001)
Fig. 3. Apoptotic effects of vorinostat on SW48 cells. Significant apoptosis was shown at different time periods (24, 48, and 72 h) in a dose dependent manner (*p < 0.001)
Table. Percentage of apoptosis
p-value Apoptosis, % Duration, h Dose, μM Drug
< 0.001 8 24 5 VPA
< 0.001 31 48 5
< 0.001 9 24 1 Vorinostat
< 0.001 46 24 5/1 VPA/vorinostat
< 0.001 51 48 5/1
Fig. 4. Apoptotic effect of VPA and vorinostat on SW48 cells. The cells were treated with VPA (5 μM), vorinostat (1 μM) and VPA/vorinostat (5/1 μM) for 24, 48 and 72 h. Data are presented as mean ± standard error of the mean from at least three different experiments. Asterisks (*) indicate significant differences between treated cells and the control group. *p < 0.01 as compared to the control group
Cancer can be induced by genetic and epigenetic alterations, epigenetic changes such as histone deacetylation, DNA methylation and non-coding RNA deregulation. Histones deacetylation influence gene transcription including down regulation of the several tumor suppressor genes [25, 26]. HDACIs have potent and specific anticancer activities and have emerged as a potential strategy to reverse silenced genes associated with cancer [27]. Apoptotic and antiproliferative effects of HDACIs such as butyrate, TSA, vorinostat, benzamides (MS-275) and VPA on colon cancer have been reported by several researchers [28–30]. We, for the first time, show that VPA and vorinostat (individually and in combination) can inhibit viability and induce apoptosis in colon cancer SW48 cell line. Similar to our data, it has been reported that vorinostat has apoptotic and antiproliferative effects on colon cancer HCT116 and HT29 cell lines [31]. There are several reports that indicate inhibitory and apoptotic effects of VPA on the other cancers such as Panc1 and PaCa44 pancreatic cancer cells [32], human melanoma G-361 cell [33], ovarian cancer OVCAR-3 cell [34], gastric cancer cell [35], and AML1/ETO-positive leukemic cells [36]. As mentioned above, vorinostat exerted significant antiproliferative and apoptotic effect. This effect has been reported by several previous works on 320 HSR colon cancer [37], HCT116 and SW480 colon cancer [38], prostate cancer LNCaP, PC-3 and TSU-Pr1 [39], human ovarian cancer SK-OV-3, OVCAR-3, TOV-21G, OV-90, and TOV-112D [40], breast cancer SKBr-3, MCF-7, and MDA-MB-468 [41]. In the present study, the combination of VPA and vorinostat gave a significant increase in the apoptotic cells and also VPA had a stronger apoptotic effect than vorinostat [32]. HDACIs cause acetylated histones to reactivate tumor suppressor genes and induce apoptosis in cancer cells.
These compounds act by different mechanisms and pathways, including activation of the extrinsic and/or intrinsic apoptotic pathways, growth arrest, mitotic cell death and reactive oxygen species (ROS)-induced cell death [42]. Regulatory mechanisms of action of VPA include HDACs, AKT, GSK3 α and β, the phosphoinositol pathway, the ERK pathway, the tricarboxylic acid cycle, the OXPHOS system, and GABA [43]. VPA can sensitize cells to TRAIL/Apo2L-mediated apoptosis by increasing expression of DR4 and DR5 and modulates expression of p21WAF1/CDKN1A [44], a CDK associated with cell cycle arrest in G1/S phase, and induce apoptosis by an extrinsic pathway involving engagement of the caspase-8-dependent cascade [45–48]. Several studies have demonstrated that vorinostat can inhibit classes I, II and IV, but not the NAD-dependent class III enzymes. It can induce histones H3 and H4 acetylation associated with the proximal promoter of the CDKN1A gene, decrease HDAC1 and Myc, and ROS accumulation in transformed cultured cells [49–51]. Vorinostat decreases the expression of Bcl-2, Bcl-xL and XIAP and enhances the proapoptotic protein expression such as Bax and Bak in breast cancer [52]. Taken together, our finding indicated that VPA and vorinostat could induce apoptosis in colon cancer SW48 cell line if used separately or in combination.
Collectively, our report suggests an important role of VPA and vorinostat on apoptosis induction and cell growth inhibition of colon cancer SW48 cell line. The function of these compounds in inducing apoptosis is very important since it may provide a new preventive and therapeutic strategy for cancer treatment.
This article was supported by adjutancy of research of Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Iran.
The authors report no conflict of interest.
1. Bhurgri H, Samiullah S. Colon cancer screening – Is it time yet? J Coll Physicians Surg Pak 2017; 27: 327–8.
2. Jones PA, Issa JP, Baylin S. Targeting the cancer epigenome for therapy. Nat Rev Genet 2016; 17: 630–41.
3. Kauntz H, Bousserouel S, Gossé F, et al. Epigenetic effects of the natural flavonolignan silibinin on colon adenocarcinoma cells and their derived metastatic cells. Oncol Lett 2013; 5: 1273–7.
4. Gu W, Roeder RG. Activation of p53 sequence-specific DNA binding by acetylation of the p53 C-terminal domain. Cell 1997; 90: 595–606.
5. Marzio G, Wagener C, Gutierrez MI, et al. E2 family members are differentially regulated by reversible acetylation. J Biol Chem 2000; 275: 10887–92.
6. Ammanamanchi S, Freeman JW, Brattain MG. Acetylated sp3 is a transcriptional activator. J Biol Chem 2003; 278: 35775–80.
7. Yang WM, Tsai SC, Wen YD, et al. Functional domains of histone deacetylase-3. J Biol Chem 2002; 277: 9447–54.
8. Taplick J, Kurtev V, Kroboth K, et al. Homo-oligomerisation and nuclear localisation of mouse histone deacetylase 1. J Mol Biol 2001; 308: 27–38.
9. Bertos NR, Wang AH, Yang XJ. Class II histone deacetylases: structure, function, and regulation. Biochem Cell Biol 2001; 79: 243–52.
10. Johnstone RW. Histone-deacetylase inhibitors: novel drugs for the treatment of cancer. Nat Rev Drug Discov 2002; 1: 287–99.
11. Gao L, Cueto MA, Asselbergs F, et al. Cloning and functional characterization of HDAC11, a novel member of the human histone deacetylase family. J Biol Chem 2002; 277: 25748–55.
12. Weichert W, Röske A, Niesporek S, et al. Class I histone deacetylase expression has independent prognostic impact in human colorectal cancer: specific role of class I histone deacetylases in vitro and in vivo. Clin Cancer Res 2008; 14: 1669–77.
13. Wilson AJ, Byun DS, Popova N, et al. Histone deacetylase 3 (HDAC3) and other class I HDACs regulate colon cell maturation and p21 expression and are deregulated in human colon cancer. J Biol Chem 2006; 281: 13548–58.
14. Nakagawa M, Oda Y, Eguchi T, et al. Expression profile of class I histone deacetylases in human cancer tissues. Oncol Rep 2007; 18: 769–74.
15. Ishihama K, Yamakawa M, Semba S, et al. Expression of HDAC1 and CBP/p300 in human colorectal carcinomas. J Clin Pathol 2007; 60: 1205–10.
16. Zhu P, Martin E, Mengwasser J, et al. Induction of HDAC2 expression upon loss of APC in colorectal tumorigenesis. Cancer Cell 2004; 5: 455–63.
17. Ropero S, Fraga MF, Ballestar E, et al. A truncating mutation of HDAC2 in human cancers confers resistance to histone deacetylase inhibition. Nature 2006; 38: 566–9.
18. Spurling CC, Godman CA, Noonan EJ, et al. HDAC3 overexpression and colon cancer cell proliferation and differentiation. Mol Carcinog 2008; 47: 137–47.
19. Mariadason JM, Barkla DH, Gibson PR. Effect of short-chain fatty acids on paracellular permeability in Caco-2 intestinal epithelium model. Am J Physiol 1997; 272: G705–12.
20. Mariadason JM, Rickard KL, Barkla DH, et al. Divergent phenotypic patterns and commitment to apoptosis of Caco-2 cells during spontaneous and butyrate-induced differentiation. J Cell Physiol 2000; 183: 347–54.
21. Mariadason JM, Velcich A, Wilson AJ, et al. Resistance to butyrate-induced cell differentiation and apoptosis during spontaneous Caco-2 cell differentiation. Gastroenterology 2001; 120: 889–99.
22. Heerdt BG, Houston MA, Augenlicht LH. Potentiation by specific short-chain fatty acids of differentiation and apoptosis in human colonic carcinoma cell lines. Cancer Res 1994; 54: 3288–94.
23. Gurvich N, Tsygankova OM, Meinkoth JL, et al. Histone deacetylase is a target of valproic acid-mediated cellular differentiation. Cancer Res 2004; 64: 1079–86.
24. Litvak DA, Evers BM, Hwang KO, et al. Butyrate-induced differentiation of Caco-2 cells is associated with apoptosis and early induction of p21Waf1/Cip1 and p27Kip1. Surgery 1998; 124: 161–70.
25. Li G, Margueron R, Hu G, et al. Highly compacted chromatin formed in vitro reflects the dynamics of transcription activation in vivo. Mol Cell 2010; 38: 41–53.
26. Perri F, Longo F, Giuliano M, et al. Epigenetic control of gene expression: Potential implications for cancer treatment. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 2017; 111: 166–72.
27. Bolden JE, Peart MJ, Johnstone RW. Anticancer activities of histone deacetylase inhibitors. Nat Rev Drug Discov 2006; 5: 769–84.
28. Zeng H, Taussig DP, Cheng WH, et al. Butyrate inhibits cancerous HCT116 colon cell proliferation but to a lesser extent in noncancerous NCM460 colon cells. Nutrients 2017; 9: 25.
29. Pitts TM, Morrow M, Kaufman SA, et al. Vorinostat and bortezomib exert synergistic antiproliferative and proapoptotic effects in colon cancer cell models. Mol Cancer Ther 2009; 8: 342–9.
30. Mariadason JM. HDACs and HDAC inhibitors in colon cancer. Epigenetics 2008; 3: 28–37.
32. Montani MSG, Granato M, Santoni C, et al. Histone deacetylase inhibitors VPA and TSA induce apoptosis and autophagy in pancreatic cancer cells. Cell Oncol 2017; 40: 167–80.
33. Chodurek E, Kulczycka A, Orchel A, et al. Effect of valproic acid on the proliferation and apoptosis of the human melanoma G-361 cell line. Acta Pol Pharm 2014; 71: 21.
34. Kwiecińska P, Taubøll E, Gregoraszczuk EŁ. Comparison of the effects of valproic acid and levetiracetam on apoptosis in the human ovarian cancer cell line OVCAR-3. Pharmacol Rep 2012; 64: 603–14.
35. Yagi Y, Fushida S, Harada S, et al. Effects of valproic acid on the cell cycle and apoptosis through acetylation of histone and tubulin in a scirrhous gastric cancer cell line. J Exp Clin Cancer Res 2010; 29: 149.
36. Zapotocky M, Mejstrikova E, Smetana K, et al. Valproic acid triggers differentiation and apoptosis in AML1/ETO-positive leukemic cells specifically. Cancer Lett 2012; 319: 144–53.
37. Sun PC, Tzao C, Chen BH, et al. Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid induces apoptosis and sub-G1 arrest of 320 HSR colon cancer cells. J Biomed Sci 2010; 17: 76.
38. Walker T, Mitchell C, Park MA, et al. Sorafenib and vorinostat kill colon cancer cells by CD95-dependent and -independent mechanisms. Mol Pharmacol 2009; 76: 342–55.
39. Butler LM, Agus DB, Scher HI, et al. Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid, an inhibitor of histone deacetylase, suppresses the growth of prostate cancer cells in vitro and in vivo. Cancer Res 2000; 60: 5165–70.
40. Takai N, Kawamata N, Gui D, et al. Human ovarian carcinoma cells: histone deacetylase inhibitors exhibit antiproliferative activity and potently induce apoptosis. Cancer 2004; 101: 2760–70.
41. Munster PN, Troso-Sandoval T, Rosen N, et al. The histone deacetylase inhibitor suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid induces differentiation of human breast cancer cells. Cancer Res 2001; 61: 8492–7.
42. Xu W, Parmigiani R, Marks P. Histone deacetylase inhibitors: molecular mechanisms of action. Oncogene 2007; 26: 5541–52.
43. Kostrouchova M, Kostrouch Z. Valproic acid, a molecular lead to multiple regulatory pathways. Folia Biol (Praha) 2007; 53: 37–49.
44. Cheng YC, Lin H, Huang MJ, et al. Downregulation of c-Myc is critical for valproic acid-induced growth arrest and myeloid differentiation of acute myeloid leukemia. Leukemia Res 2007; 31: 1403–11.
45. Schuchmann M, Schulze-Bergkamen H, Fleischer B, et al. Histone deacetylase inhibition by valproic acid down-regulates c-FLIP/CASH and sensitizes hepatoma cells towards CD95-and TRAIL receptor-mediated apoptosis and chemotherapy. Oncol Rep 2006; 15: 227–30.
46. Ziauddin MF, Yeow WS, Maxhimer JB, et al. Valproic acid, an antiepileptic drug with histone deacetylase inhibitory activity, potentiates the cytotoxic effect of Apo2L/TRAIL on cultured thoracic cancer cells through mitochondria-dependent caspase activation. Neoplasia 2006; 8: 446–57.
47. Lagneaux L, Gillet N, Stamatopoulos B, et al. Valproic acid induces apoptosis in chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells through activation of the death receptor pathway and potentiates TRAIL response. Exp Hematol 2007; 35: 1527–37.
48. Iacomino G, Medici MC, Russo GL. Valproic acid sensitizes K562 erythroleukemia cells to TRAIL/Apo2L-induced apoptosis. Anticancer Res 2008; 28: 855–64.
49. Lane AA, Chabner BA. Histone deacetylase inhibitors in cancer therapy. J Clin Oncol 2009; 27: 5459–68.
50. Gui CY, Ngo L, Xu W, et al. Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor activation of p21WAF1 involves changes in promoter-associated proteins, including HDAC1. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101: 1241–6.
51. Ruefli AA, Ausserlechner MJ, Bernhard D, et al. The histone deacetylase inhibitor and chemotherapeutic agent suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA) induces a cell-death pathway characterized by cleavage of Bid and production of reactive oxygen species. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2001; 98: 10833–8.
52. Fulda S. Modulation of TRAIL-induced apoptosis by HDAC inhibitors. Curr Cancer Drug Targets 2008; 8: 132–40.
Effect of antitumor drugs in low concentrationson the biological, immunophenotypic and cytogenetic characteristics of human colon cancer cells in vitro
COMBINATION OF CYCLOOXYGENASE-2 INHIBITOR AND DOXORUBICIN INCREASES THE GROWTH INHIBITION AND APOPTOSIS IN HUMAN HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA CELLS
Repression of matrix metalloproteinases and inhibition of cell invasion by a nutrient mixture, containing ascorbic acid, lysine, proline, and green tea extract on human fanconi anemia fibroblast cell lines
The effect of NSC-631570 (Ukrain) alone and in combination with pathogen-associated molecules on cell cycle distribution and apoptosis induction of mouse melanoma cells with different biological properties
b-LAPACHONE INDUCES GROWTH INHIBITION AND APOPTOSIS IN BLADDER CANCER CELLS BY MODULATION OF BCL-2 FAMILY AND ACTIVATION OF CASPASES
No Comments » Add comments
ERROR: si-captcha.php plugin says GD image support not detected in PHP!
Contact your web host and ask them why GD image support is not enabled for PHP.
ERROR: si-captcha.php plugin says imagepng function not detected in PHP!
Contact your web host and ask them why imagepng function is not enabled for PHP.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line184
|
__label__cc
| 0.748119
| 0.251881
|
Ford To Idle Five North American Plants To Cut Inventories
— Sep 19, 2017
Ford Motor Company today said that it will idle five manufacturing sites in North America to reduce inventories of some models, reports Reuters, including three plants in the US and two in Mexico. Combined, those five facilities will accumulate ten weeks of downtime, matching Ford’s North American supply to its demand.
Ford Cuautitlán Assembly, which builds the North American Fiesta subcompact, will have the most idle time at three weeks. The Flat Rock Assembly Plant in Michigan, which produces the Ford Mustang and Lincoln Continental, will close down for two weeks, as will Hermosillo Assembly in Mexico (Ford Fusion, Lincoln MKZ) and the Ford Transit line at Kansas City Assembly. Michigan Assembly Plant, where the Focus compact is built, will have the shortest downtime at one week.
The automaker hasn’t given dates for the temporary shutdowns, but considering that automotive sales are slowing across the continent, it’s not surprising that the automaker is resorting to cutting production time in an effort to cut inventory and avoid oversupply.
Previous story Watch A Tuned Ford F-150 EcoBoost Take All Comers At The Strip: Video
Next story Teen Allegedly Steals Ford Mustang, Leads Police On 5-Second Chase Before Crashing
All North American Ford Fusion Production To End In 2020
Two Shuttered Ford Plants May Sell To The Same Buyer
Ford Europe Will End Production Of C-Max, Cut Jobs In Germany
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line189
|
__label__wiki
| 0.939037
| 0.939037
|
Posted on January 27, 2014 by Steven
‘Frank’ secures US distribution at Sundance
Element Pictures have announced that Magnolia Pictures have acquired North American rights to Lenny Abrahamson’s offbeat comedy Frank following intense distributor interest after its world premiere to critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival.
Directed by Lenny Abrahamson (What Richard Did, Garage, Adam & Paul), the film was written by Jon Ronson (The Men Who Stare At Goats) and Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy). Frank stars Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gylenhaal, Scoot McNairy and Michael Fassbender as the titular character, a brilliant and eccentric musician who wears a giant fake head at all times.
Frank was produced by Ed Guiney, David Barron and Stevie Lee, and executive producers are Tessa Ross, Katherine Butler, Andrew Lowe and Nigel Williams. FRANK is an Element Pictures/Runaway Fridge production for Film4, BFI, Protagonist Pictures and the Irish Film Board. FRANK was filmed in Ireland and the USA and utilised the tax incentive Section 481 in addition to Irish Film Board investment.
Gleeson plays Jon, a wannabe musician who finds himself out of his depth when he joins a maverick pop band led by the enigmatic Frank (Fassbender)—a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head—and his terrifying sidekick Clara (Gyllenhaal). It is a fictional story loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom, the persona of cult musician and comedy legend Chris Sievey, as well as other outsider musicians like Daniel Johnston and Captain Beefheart.
Speaking from Park City Lenny Abrahamson said: “I’m delighted that Frank has found a home in the US with Magnolia. I know that the team there has a genuine passion for Frank. Along with their skill and experience this makes them the right partners to bring the film to its audience there.”
Producer Ed Guiney said “Magnolia is an incredibly innovative and exciting company and we have long wanted to work with them. They are the perfect partners for FRANK and we could not be happier that we have landed with them and we are very excited about their plans for the US.”
James Hickey, Chief Executive, Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board “We are delighted that FRANK has received such a positive international reaction after its World Premiere at Sundance. Lenny Abrahamson is one of Ireland’s leading directors and FRANK showcases a host of Irish talent including Irish actors Domhnall Gleeson and Michael Fassbender. We hope this US sale will be the first of many international deals signed for this film.”
Frank will be released in Ireland in May.
January 10, 2013 First Look at Lenny Abrahamson’s ‘Frank’
September 4, 2012 Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson to star in Lenny Abrahamson film ‘Frank’
March 10, 2014 ‘Frank’ Official Film Trailer
May 9, 2014 On The Reel at the Premiere of ‘Frank’
December 10, 2013 ‘Frank’ World Premiere at Sundance
February 10, 2014 ‘Frank’ to Screen at SXSW
November 3, 2014 ‘Frank’ Receives 5 Nominations
January 31, 2013 Lenny Abrahamson Joins Judging Panel for Shoot To Thrill
CategoriesNews TagsFrank, Lenny Abrahamson
Previous PostPrevious Call For: Editor
Next PostNext Patron David Puttnam confirms participation in the 6th Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival
The Silver Branch
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line193
|
__label__wiki
| 0.938752
| 0.938752
|
Posted on December 6, 2018 December 6, 2018 by Steven
Book Review: The Films of Lenny Abrahamson
Stephen Porzio checks out Barry Monaghan’s comprehensive study of the films of contemporary, highly critically-appraised Irish director Lenny Abrahamson.
Barry Monaghan’s new book The Films of Lenny Abrahamson is the definitive exploration of perhaps Ireland’s finest director.
Analysing the filmmaker’s career from early shorts Mendel and 3 Joes all the way to Oscar-nominee Room, the scholarly essay-style work explores how Abrahamson managed to transcend the barriers of Irish and art-house cinema, garnering worldwide acclaim and profits. It then wraps up with a transcript of a conversation between Monaghan and the director.
The book’s biggest strength is its argument for Abrahamson as a true auteur figure. While the filmmaker has fluctuated between countries and genre, telling wildly different stories, Monaghan keenly points out recurring elements in his work.
He posits that Abrahamson’s breakout success could be down to the fact that many of our nation’s dramas which preceded him were explicitly dealing with lrish-specific stories. This made them less accessible worldwide, lowering their chance of big box-office returns. Monaghan argues that Abrahamson is more successful because his exploration of contemporary Irish issues is kept often as subtext, making them fiercely relevant here but capable of being understood abroad.
Adam and Paul and Garage are both dramas about how, during the Celtic Tiger, certain pockets of Irish life were left behind. However, lacking overt references to the boom, the former could equally be perceived as a warped fairytale and the latter a sad portrait of rural loneliness that could resonate with anyone. Similarly, What Richard Did is a drama examining notions of privilege set in Dublin’s southside rooted in true events. Yet, in making only implicit references to its social backdrop, its story still works outside of said context.
This also extends to his work outside Ireland. Frank serves as a demystification of the artistic process but doubles as a whacky comedy. Room is a film somewhat based on the infamous Fritzl case but told from the perspective of a child, making it also a coming-of-age story. By avoiding heavy references to true life, Abrahamson’s movies avoid polemical debate, instead favouring to immerse audiences in their characters’ worlds.
Monaghan also highlights how Abrahamson’s films all feature in someway or another a Beckettian exploration of the failures of language. They also each eschew traditional narratives, in favour of building characters – all of whom never fit generic archetypes.
The book is not geared for casual reading, feeling very academic. Thus, it is stuffed with references to other scholars. Occasionally, these can overwhelm the conversion about Abrahamson’s oeuvre. This is notable in the section on Frank. One wonders whether references to Jacques Lacan’s philosophy in discussing the Frank Sidebottom mask or harking back to the work of George Melies when exploring Domhnall Gleeson’s unreliable narrator are necessary. This is also heightened by the fact that the book excludes talk of Abrahamson’s notoriously hard to track down four-part series Prosperity (RTE please release that on DVD!), something fans of the director would rather be reading.
There is also a feeling it may have been too early to release a book about the filmmaker. This was written before the release of The Little Stranger, the director’s most interesting movie to date – an unsettling horror film which fits with all of Monaghan’s points about Abrahamson’s work but also failed to wield big profits. Meanwhile, with him set to adapt Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People for BBC, there is a sense Abrahamson has more fascinating work ahead of him.
Still, in terms of work to date, this is essential reading for die hard fans of Irish cinema, as well as those in a film theory course prepping an essay on any of Abrahamson’s movies.
September 21, 2018 Irish Film Review: The Little Stranger
October 25, 2017 Irish Film Review: Torment
July 21, 2014 InConversation with Lenny Abrahamson
September 25, 2018 On the Red Carpet Podcast: The Little Stranger
January 14, 2016 Irish Film Review: Room
November 25, 2015 Book Review: Ireland and Cinema: Culture and Contexts
March 1, 2017 ADIFF 2017 Irish Film Review: Nails
September 5, 2016 Review of Irish Film at Galway Film Fleadh: Dead Along the Way
CategoriesBook Reviews, Exclusives, Featured, Reviews TagsBarry Monaghan, Lenny Abrahamson, Stephen Porzio
Previous PostPrevious Warner Bros. Ireland Awards Scholarship to Sarah Ahern
Next PostNext Call For: Applications for SDGI ARRI Take Competition
The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line194
|
__label__wiki
| 0.642023
| 0.642023
|
Heaven’s Food Franchise
The master of french fries reinvents the model with a fast casual restaurant offering fresh meal options
The question is, how did a frozen french fry concept transform itself into one of the most unique fresh food, fast casual concepts in the franchise world? We are talking about French Fry Heaven, featuring Loaded Spuds, which are fresh, made from scratch meals, served over a customer’s choice of potatoes. The menu features Buffalo Chicken, smoked in‑house pulled pork with jalapeños and homemade cheese sauce, Garlic Chicken Parmesan, Bruschetta, Bacon Cheeseburger and more. The fast casual restaurant focuses on the use of garden-fresh produce, fresh, never frozen chicken and a myriad of homemade sauces and meals. This is quite a departure for a frozen fry snack company that went through a challenging time, and reinvented itself.
In the summer of 2015, the original version of French Fry Heaven had grown to 18 stores serving frozen fries in snack portions and prices, mostly out of mall kiosks. But its CEO Scott Nelowet felt that the mall concept, among other items, was impeding growth of the brand, as well as the potential of the franchise locations. Nelowet had 42 more kiosks that could have been built, making him ripe for take over and reaping personal millions, but instead, he made the bold call to blow up the old model in the best interest of future franchisees.
Nelowet reached out to industry professionals to help revamp his original vision. First, he assembled a powerful team, which included several former executives from a major chain of 900+ restaurants, the former CEO from Jimmy Johns, operations from Five Guys and a manager‑trainer from Starbucks, among others. Scott made the pledge to implement whatever suggestions they came up with that would make future franchisees more successful.
To his surprise turned delight, what they came back with was a complete departure from the original concept. The brand changed radically from a whimsical snack bar to a fast casual restaurant that emphasized fresh meals made with fresh ingredients. French Fry Heaven would no longer be in the lower revenue snack market. Instead, the new design called for everything to be made fresh inside new fast casual restaurant locations.
The management team also received a major boost. Gregg Majewski, the former CEO of Jimmy Johns, joined permanently as the new president and a co-owner. Working with his restaurant team, Majewski revamped the menu from frozen fries with sauce, to one featuring made-from-scratch meals served over a bed of fresh cut fries, baked potatoes, fresh hand-breaded chicken or fresh cut chips. The new menu also offers vegetarian and healthful options, and has won over many customers.
“Easily one of my new favorite restaurants on campus,” said Joel Spencer who recently gave French Fry Heaven a 5-star review. “The food is incredible and there’s a great variety of meal options for whatever you’re in the mood for. Staff is very friendly as well, the food itself isn’t too pricey and the portion sizes make it well worth the trip and money.”
It’s customers like Spencer who contribute to the high rate of repeat business the brand now enjoys, experiencing as much as 30% in return customers on a given day.
The new menu emphasizes “Loaded Spuds” (Poutine), which are full meals served over the customer’s preferred potato. They include, Chicken Garlic Parmesan, Buffalo Chicken, Bruschetta, Pulled Pork (smoked in house) with jalapeños and homemade cheese sauce and Chipotle Chicken Taco, among others. The emphasis is on fresh and made from scratch, with garden-fresh produce, fresh chicken and sauces ranging from the buffalo to the cheese sauce, made in house.
“We felt like people had enough canned, pre-packaged and frozen food options in the restaurant market. The internet meme for Meet Your Chef, showing a microwave, that represented a bulk of restaurant options, was just not the direction we wanted to go.” said Nelowet. In a 13 day stretch the company, went through 720 lbs. of fresh ground beef, 2,120 lbs. of fresh chicken, 100 gallons of milk, 430 lbs. of vine ripened tomatoes, 40 gallons of their wing sauce and 11,000 lbs. of whole potatoes — an impressive amount of fresh ingredients in such a short period of time. This has been well beyond our expectations,” said Majewski.
Under Majewski’s and Nelowet’s leadership, the company will continue the hunt for potential franchisees who wish to join the brand and grow their portfolio.
As the successful franchisee of the Arizona location, Asmeet Kapoor explains why he was drawn to French Fry Heaven: “I’m not rich enough to be purely altruistic. As an entrepreneur, the business model has to make sense as well. Theirs certainly does.” Glynda Brown, a newly signed franchisee from the D.C. area said, “I joined the French Fry Heaven team because their passion for good food, aligns perfectly with my own. ”Kalapana Kalavapalli summarized her feelings about French Fry Heaven, “They work very hard to improve my business and they really take it personal. They have the most talented team that we have ever seen. They know their stuff. More than any of this, they see the path to the future in short term and long term.”
Having been featured by Good Morning America, Fox and Friends, USA Today, Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur, The NY Times, Boston Globe and 100’s of other media outlets, French Fry Heaven clearly has a marketing message that resonates with its target market. As Mr. Nelowet said, “What we are able to do for local franchisees with regard to brand power, PR, media attention and social media is, we believe, unmatched in the industry.”
So here we have a company that took its lumps, learned some painful lessons, took on the challenge of reinvention and emerged as a dynamic new brand. The future of French Fry Heaven is in the hands of strong management and the growing obsession with loaded spuds across the country. A fresh food company sees a fresh new day.
Learn more about French Fry Heaven’s Menu, Customers, Franchise and more at www.frenchfryheavenfranchise.com.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line203
|
__label__cc
| 0.677349
| 0.322651
|
Search Fictional Halloween Characters at Halloweeng.com
Fictional Halloween Characters
Kiss Face Paint Halloween
Good Halloween Costumes For A College Party
Coloring Pages Halloween Jack O Lantern
Halloween Stores In Kennesaw Ga
Baby Reindeer Costume
Crop Over Costumes For Sale
Cool Halloween Costume Ideas For Boys
Intimate Lingere
Animal Theme Baby Shower
Halloween Food Menu Ideas
High Chair Decorations 1st Birthday Boy
Spirit Stick Ideas
Stores Close By
Halloween Sweet Treat Ideas
Costumes Halloween Ottawa
Scarecrow Scream Costume
Fire Emblem Halloween Costumes
Last Minute Funny Halloween Costumes For Men
Red Nurse Shoes Halloween
Teen Beach Movie Biker Girl
Burbank Halloween
Kandy Korn
Naughty Nerd Costume
Budget 101 Halloween
Light Up Bow
Frankenstein Costume
Michael Myers Halloween Pic
Kid Friendly Costumes For Halloween
Everything You Need For The Ultimate Halloween Party: Fictional Halloween Characters
Evil Witch Of The Sea Costume Halloween Character Customized Handmade T-Shirt Hoodie/Long Sleeve/Tank Top/Sweatshirt
These original and unique designs offer lots of laughs for everyone. All of our t-shirts are fine threaded 100% cotton that gives an exceptional print. Awesome gift for birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays. Also great for special events, leagues, schools, organizations, and professional sporting events. Decorated in the United States by Crazy Cat Mommy.... more
The Mini Witch
Natural Born Losers
Garfield Infant / Toddler Costume, 4T
The lazy, lasagna eating cat is back and cuddlier and cuter than ever with our Garfield Toddler Costume. Our toddler Garfield Costume includes a headpiece, bodysuit with paws and foot covers. The orange soft fleece jumpsuit Velcro's in the back for closure and features black marking accents, attached plush tail, mitts and stomach padding to show how much the cat loves lasagna, footsies and headpiece. The wrist and ankle cuffs are lined with elastic. The mitts are attached to the sleeves with the option of keeping hands outside or in for warmth. The character headpiece features a recognizable stuffed Garfield face to complete the costume. This is an officially licensed GarfieldTM product by ©Paws, Inc.... more
10" Whimsical Witchy Jack-O-Lantern Wall Pocket Halloween Decoration
Goofy looking jack-o-lantern must be confused because he has a crazed look in it's eyes and is wearing a witches hat. Includes 2 saw tooth wall mounts affixed to the back Dimensions: 10"H x 10"W x 4.5"D. Material(s): polystone... more
The Three Amigos - Lucky Day Belt
Personalize our Three Amigos Deluxe costume with this Three Amigos - Lucky Day Belt and take on the role of your favorite Three Amigos character! Just be sure to watch your foot!... more
Justice League The Flash Child's Costume, Small
Disney Traditions Mickey Candy Dish Figurine
Disney Traditions Mickey Candy Dish Figurine. From the Disney Traditions Collection, designed and brought to life by America's favorite folk artist, Jim Shore, comes the Mickey Mouse candy dish figurine, 'A Sweet Surprise.' Vampire Mickey is surrounded by tombstones in his halloween graveyard. But instead of the undead rising from the grave, you can fill the grave with candy! Made of stone resin, this unique piece stands 6' tall.... more
Beach Chair and Umbrella DecoSet Cake Decoration
This Beach Chair & Umbrella Cake Decorations will coordinate perfectly with your next pool, beach or luau themed party.... more
Spider-Man Pet Pet Pet Costume - Large
Even your pet can be the Amazing Spiderman! Includes: character pant and headpiece. Pet size: Large (18"-21" from back of neck to hind; 20" around chest). This is an officially licensed SPIDER-MAN(tm) costume.... more
Queen Costume Halloween Evil Character Customized Handmade T-Shirt Hoodie/Long Sleeve/Tank Top/Sweatshirt
1art1 Zombies Door Mat Floor Mat - Zombies Always Welcome (24 x 16 inches)
• Surface made of durable polyamide• Fade-resistant• Non-slip PVC backing• Machine washable at 30°C• A great idea for a present... more
The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black
Philadelphia, the late 1870s. A city of gas lamps, cobblestone streets, and horse-drawn carriages—and home to the controversial surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a grave robber, young Dr. Black studies at Philadelphia’s esteemed Academy of Medicine, where he develops an unconventional hypothesis: What if the world’s most celebrated mythological beasts—mermaids, minotaurs, and satyrs—were in fact the evolutionary ancestors of humankind? The Resurrectionist offers two extraordinary books in one. The first is a fictional biography of Dr. Spencer Black, from a childhood spent exhuming corpses through his medical training, his travels with carnivals, and the mysterious disappearance at the end of his life. The second book is Black’s magnum opus: The Codex Extinct Animalia, a Gray’s Anatomy for mythological beasts—dragons, centaurs, Pegasus, Cerberus—all rendered in meticulously detailed anatomical illustrations. You need only look at these images to realize they are the work of a madman. The Resurrectionist tells his story.... more
Forum Novelties Costume Stethoscope Prop
A real stethoscope and a great prop for the doctor or mad scientist in you. Measures approximately 30.5"L.... more
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Rubie's Glitter Hairspray, Green
Add some fun to an ordinary outfit or the finishing touch to your costume with one of Rubie's colorful hairspray choices! Sprays on, and shampoos out with ordinary shampoo. Bright colors, glitter, even a spray that makes your hair glow in the dark! Family-owned, family-focused, and based in the U.S.A. since 1950, Rubie’s has classic and licensed costumes and accessories in sizes and styles for your entire family.... more
Bucilla Stamped Cross Stitch Crib Cover Kit, 34 by 43-Inch, 45359 Mary Engelbreit Mother Goose
Celebrate baby and create a memorable nursery with the Bucilla baby collection. The Mother Goose crib cover stamped cross stitch kit includes 30 percent cotton or 70 percent polyester prequilted, prefinished fabric, cotton embroidery floss, needle, and easy to follow instructions. Adorable pattern depicts beloved Mother Goose tales and other baby-inspired designs. Wonderful baby-shower, baptism, or christening gift. Measures 34 by 43 inches. Made in the USA... more
Teen Titans Robin Romper Costume, Infant (6-12 Months)
Romper infant Robin costume... more
Anley Fly Breeze 3x5 Foot Jolly Roger Flag with Patch - Vivid Color and UV Fade Resistant - Canvas Header and Double Stitched - Pirate Flags Polyester with Brass Grommets 3 X 5 Ft
Pirate Polyester Flags by ANLEY - 3x5 ft - Canvas Header and Brass GrommetsQuality MaterialMade of durable polyester. Double stitched all around the edge and strengthened by canvas header and two brass grommets. You will fully appreciate the workmanship and quality of this flag.Sharp Color with Fade ResistantWhen your flag arrives at your home or business, you will immediately see how amazingly the color printed. It is very sharp and vivid. In addition, the dye has been processed for UV fade resistant.Fly in BreezeThis Flag is Very Light-Weighted. So It is perfectly designed for Low-Wind Areas. (NOT Recommended for Super Windy Outdoors)SPECIFICATIONImported. Made of 100% Polyester. Package contains one ANLEY 3x5 Ft Fly Breeze Pirate Flag.WARRANTY This is the AUTHENTIC high-quality ANLEY flag! Don't accept cheap imitations. We stand behind our products! All flags and items sold by ANLEY come with 3-MONTH FREE replacement warranty. You can always contact us at: http://www.amazon.com/seller/ANLEY... more
Alice in Wonderland: The Complete Collection + A Biography of the Author (The Greatest Fictional Characters of All Time) - eBook
One of the English language's most popular and frequently quoted books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was the creation of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), a distinguished scholar and mathematician who wrote under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll. Intended for young readers but enjoyed equally by adults, the fantastic tale transformed children's literature, liberating it from didactic constraints.The story is deeply but gently satiric, enlivened with an imaginative plot and brilliant use of nonsense. As Alice explores a bizarre underground world, she encounters a cast of strange characters and fanciful beasts: the White Rabbit, March Hare, and Mad Hatter; the sleepy Dormouse and grinning Cheshire Cat; the Mock Turtle, the dreadful Queen of Hearts, and a host of other extraordinary personalities.... more
Tom Sawyer: The Complete Collection (The Greatest Fictional Characters of All Time) - eBook
Here you will find the complete 'Tom Sawyer' novels in the chronological order of their original publication. - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer Abroad - Tom Sawyer, Detective... more
Tom Sawyer: The Complete Collection (The Best Fictional Characters of All Time) - eBook
This book contains the Tom Sawyer complete collection. - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer Abroad - Tom Sawyer, Detective The Adventures of Tom Sawyer remains a coming of age classic that needs no introduction and its first sequel Huckleberry Finn has been called the greatest of great American novels. Few have heard of Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer Detective but both novellas are minor gems and recommended to fans of the franchise and Twain devotees. Audiobooks Link 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' and 'Tom Sawyer Detective.' Tom Sawyer xTom Sawyer collection xmark twain tom sawyer xtom sawyer complete xMark Twain tom sawyer xtom sawyer collection ): Tom Sawyer xTom Sawyer collection xmark twain tom sawyer xtom sawyer complete xMark Twain tom sawyer xtom sawyer collection xtom sawyer collection all four books xtom sawyer book... more
Sherlock Holmes: The Collection (Manor Books Publishing) (The Greatest Fictional Characters of All Time) - eBook
This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work. Novels: • A Study in Scarlet • The Sign of the Four • The Hound of the Baskervilles • The Valley of Fear Short Story Collections: • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes • The Return of Sherlock Holmes • His Last Bow • The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes... more
D'Artagnan and the Musketeers: The Complete Collection (The Greatest Fictional Characters of All Time) - eBook
This carefully crafted ebook: "THE THREE MUSKETEERS - Complete Collection: The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte of Bragelonne, Ten Years Later, Louise da la Valliere & The Man in the Iron Mask" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Set in 1625, "The Three Musketeers" recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although D'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he befriends the three most formidable musketeers of the age: Athos, Porthos and Aramis and gets involved in affairs of the state and court. Dumas frequently works into the plot various injustices, abuses and absurdities of the old regime, giving the story an additional political aspect at a time when the debate in France between republicans and monarchists was still fierce. The novel Twenty Years After follows events in France during the Fronde, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV. The musketeers are valiant and just in their efforts to protect young Louis XIV and the doomed Charles I from their attackers. The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Vallière and The Man in the Iron Mask are set between 1660 and 1667 against the background of the transformation of Louis XIV from child monarch to Sun King. Alexandre Dumas, père (1802-1870) was a French writer whose works have been translated into nearly 100 languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors. His most famous works are The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.... more
Oz: The Complete Collection (The Greatest Fictional Characters of All Time) - eBook
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Oz! Fans of L. Frank Baum's Oz books, you are in for a treat. Collected here is the ultimate Kindle edition of the beloved series starring such timeless characters as Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, and the Wicked Witch of the West. Included in OZ: The Complete Collection are: • All fourteen Oz books written by L. Frank Baum. • The first book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, is illustrated with the classic W.W. Denslow artwork. • Links to free, full-length audio recordings of all the Oz books in this collection. • An individual, active Table of Contents for each book accessible from the Kindle "go to" feature. • Perfect formatting in rich text compatible with Kindle's Text-to-Speech features. • A low, can't-say-no price! Fourteen Complete Works All fourteen of L. Frank Baum's Oz books, in order and unabridged. Books included: 1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)* Includes Original Illustrations by W.W. Denslow! 2. The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) 3. Ozma of Oz (1907) 4. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908) 5. The Road to Oz (1909) 6. The Emerald City of Oz (1910) 7. The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913) 8. Tik-Tok of Oz (1914) 9. The Scarecrow of Oz (1915) 10. Rinkitink in Oz (1916) 11. The Lost Princess of Oz (1917) 12. The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918) 13. The Magic of Oz (1919) 14. Glinda of Oz (1920) Beyond the Yellow Brick Road Also included are special features for any Oz enthusiast, including: • A complete list of all Oz books in the official canon by other authors. • A list of Oz films and television series, both directly and indirectly inspired by L. Frank Baum's masterpiece. • Links to free, full-length audio recordings of all the Oz books in this collection.... more
This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work. Here you will find the complete D'Artagnan novels in the chronological order of their original publication. The D'Artagnan Romances are a set of three 19th-century novels by Alexandre Dumas, telling the story of the 17th-century musketeer D'Artagnan. In the English translations, the 269 chapters of the last novel (The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later) has been usually split into three, four, or five individual books. Our edition is faithful to the original text by not splitting the novel. - The Three Musketeers - Twenty Years After - The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (which includes The Vicomte of Bragelonne, Louise de la Vallière and The Man in the Iron Mask)... more
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland books have delighted readers across the globe for over a hundred years. Alice in Wonderland Collection – All Four Books presents the two most famous Alice books – Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass – as well as the Alice-related fantasy verse The Hunting of the Snark and, for Alice aficionados, a digitized copy of Alice’s Adventures Underground, the shorter, original Alice in Wonderland manuscript which Carroll wrote for his friends and family before they encouraged him to expand the book and send it to a publisher.... more
A~Z Writers’ Character Quirks: A~ Z of Behaviours, Foibles, Habits, Mannerisms & Quirks for Writers to Create Fictional Characters (Writer’s Resource Series) - eBook
Don’t Just Create A Character ~ Create A Memorable Fictional PersonWhen you write a novel, the first thing to learn is how to create fictional characters, from heroes and heroines, to baddies and villains and other minor characters. Without a compelling character you don’t have a story! Whether they will be an animated object, toy or animal, a monster, alien or fantasy fabrication or real human beings, they need to be fully developed with emotions, flaws, hurts and habits or quirks.But even if a writer creates an archetype character, a fictional person from a star sign, or a hero or heroine from the enneagram types, they must end up being a character with personality. You have to give them unique traits and characteristic to make them real and not a walking cardboard. After youve started with a basic character and then added ‘real flesh’ to your character’s bones with different personality traits and emotions, you’ll need to put a lot of thought, research and time into developing a fully-fledged individual. Another way to ensure your characters are like real people is to give them habits and quirks.One of the hardest and most satisfying parts of writing is making your characters fully alive so your readers can recognise them, visualise them, believe in them and care about them. And worry about them so much that they keep turning the pages to see what happens to the character and how they cope with the plots twists thrown at them.Of course, this requires careful use of story events, flashbacks, memories and dialogue. Along with disorders, traits, past hurts and personality flaws, its also helpful to flesh characters out with distinctive quirks and habits to make them memorable and distinctive.Quirks and habits serve several purposes in fiction. Inside, bestselling author of Pimp My Fiction, Paula Wynne explains a few major uses for character habits and quirks:• Bringing Characters to Life with Quirks and Habits• Identifying Characters• Defining Character• Creating Conflict• Habits and Quirk ShiftsAs part of the Writers’ Resource Series, the A~Z of Writerss Character Quirks will give you a long list of Behaviours, Foibles, Habits, Mannerisms & Quirks in easy to find alphabetical order to help you create memorable fictional characters.Grab a free book on how to write a novel at Paula Wynne’s website.... more
Anthony Knight: Fictional Character - eBook
This short ebook describes a self-made fictional character. Anthony works for the CIA. Until recently, he drove a Mercedes sports car, with a diplomatic license plate. “U.S. Government – Diplomat” with the eagle and fig leaves in the middle. His residence, paid for by the government is located at 6417 Wescroft, and his office is next door at 6419 Wescroft. His assistant manager lives in the same gated compound, at 6411. His incompetent security chief is at 6413, and his personal secretary is at 6415.He has a dish antenna on his roof that points to the top of a tall, office building about 2 miles away - 2929 Alden Parkway. Of course, they took the antennaes Off the office building within days after being exposed - because the size and shape of the antennaes gives the frequencies that are being used. If Mr Knight works for the State Department in Houston, Texas – then, apparently Houston has become a foreign country? Or maybe its a cover that is used when he gets caught, and then claims diplomatic immunity. Maybe thats how it works?This ebook is deliberately labeled as fiction, due to the propensity for lawsuits in our society. If you are intelligent, you will know how to separate fact from fiction in this story. Do your research.Keep in mind these CIA communities are being placed in cities all over the country - luxury homes, expensive perks like memberships at the Houstonian. All at taxpayer expense. This is the "hush money" of this criminal organization.A true, fictional story. To be continued..."The CIA and FBI are behind most, if not all terrorism." - Ted Gunderson, former FBI Chief... more
Alice in Wonderland: The Complete Collection [all 5 books + a lost chapter from "Through the Looking Glass"] (Book Center) (The Greatest Fictional Characters of All Time) - eBook
Here you will find the 'Alice in Wonderland' complete collection: - Alice's Adventures Under Ground - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Through the Looking Glass - The Hunting of the Snark - The Nursery 'Alice' As a bonus, you will also find a chapter from "Through the Looking Glass" that was lost for more than 100 years.... more
123 Character Development Questions: A systematic way to develop phenomenal fictional characters. - eBook
Developing rich, vibrant, realistic and multidimensional characters is the aim of all budding writers. This brief guide offers 123 useful character questions for authors. Questions span a range of topics from biographical questions to questions on family, relationships, money and spiritual beliefs.This is the first book in a 123 series that offers ideas on a given topic.... more
BATMAN HEAD SUNSTACHES
Just the accessory you need for Halloween, parties, plays and other fun holiday productions and festivities!... more
Halloween Tumbling Characters
Take a tumble into family-friendly Halloween décor with these adorable Halloween decorations! They'll look great on a mantle or tabletop in your home as you welcome trick-or-treaters at the door... more
Geek Girls Don't Cry: Real-Life Lessons from Fictional Female Characters (Hardcover)
What does it mean to be a strong woman in a world where our conception of a “hero” remains influenced by male characters like Batman and Superman? Entertainment writer Andrea Towers offers advice tailor-made for fans of any age, outlining some primary traits heroic women call upon—including resilience, self-acceptance, and bravery. She provides stories from real-life women and figures from the pop-culture pantheon, and interviews creators of our favorite fictional heroines. ... more
Wonder Woman Cuff and Tiara Adult Cosplay Costume Set
Wonder Woman is Princess Diana of Themyscira of the Amazons. To us, she is known as Diana Princess. With her invisible plane, lasso of truth, tiara, and cuff bracelets she fights for justice, love, peace, and gender equality. This cuff and tiara would be a great accessory for your Halloween costume or even cosplay. If you are just a fan and like to geek sometimes, this is for you.... more
Astro-Characters : A Writer's Guide to Creating Compelling Fictional Characters with the Signs of Zodiac
Offering a unique and very easy method of creating effective, intriguing, and authentic multi-layered personalities that leap off the page."... more
Characters in Fictional Worlds
9783110486063... more
Halloween Shadow Character Totes 1 Dozen
It's not an official Louisiana Mardi Gras without this Deluxe Feather Masquerade Mask Assortment! Perfect for any Mardi Gras or Masquerade Ball themed party or event, these masquerade masks are a must-have to wear or pass out to guests. Each Mardi Gras or masquerade mask will create the perfect mysterious disguise at the ball, costume party or parade. Just be sure to order enough masquerade masks for everyone! Each with an elastic band. 6 1/2" - 8 1/2" Assortment may vary.... more
Halloween Porcupine Character Balls
Haunted Halloween Fun, Not Boring Candy Year after year your trick or treaters stuff themselves with the same boring and unhealthful candy. This year, they deserve better give away fun Halloween treats like this porcupine Halloween character 36 porcupine balls per package. 2 1/2" tall. The ball itself is 1 1/2". Made of plastic. Assorted spooky styles and colors. Assorted styles include witch, Frankenstein and ghost. Sale items are non returnable. These unique Halloween supplies aren't just a great surprise for your trick or treaters, they are also a fun addition to any Halloween party. Spice up the event by decorating with original Halloween items like these. Or help your guests remember how much fun they had by giving them this as a party favor give a way.... more
Mental Illness in Young Adult Literature: Exploring Real Struggles through Fictional Characters - eBook
This book explores how mental illness is portrayed in 21st-century young adult fiction and how selected works can help teachers, librarians, and mental health professionals to more effectively address the needs of students combating mental illness.• Offers extensive analysis of contemporary young adult fiction featuring youth with mental illness to help school and youth services librarians make informed collection development and readers' advisory decisions• Examines the symptoms and warning signs of mental illness in adolescents in addition to how various disorders are diagnosed and treated• Offers strategies for teachers and librarians to integrate quality texts into middle and high school curricula and into community initiatives aimed at confronting the stigma associated with mental illness• Follows a standardized chapter format that makes it easy for readers to learn about the books and the mental illnesses they highlight• Provides an extended list of resources at the end of each chapter that includes additional young adult fiction and nonfiction as well as adult fiction texts... more
Halloween Porcupine Characters. Assorted. Vinyl. (36 pcs. per unit) 2 1/2" © OTC... more
Role-Playing and Onomastics : J.R.R. Tolkien's Influence on the Naming of Fictional Characters in Role-Playing Games
Role-Playing and Onomastics: J.R.R. Tolkien's Influence on the Naming of Fictional Characters in Role-Playing Games... more
Halloween for Fictional Characters | areadersworld
DISCLAIMER: THERE ARE ALLEGIANT SPOILERS Happy (late) Halloween. Enjoy this video my friend and I made late at night also to add, we ate a lot of candy. Instagram: https://instagram.com/areadersworld/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=areadersworld&src=typd Goodreads : https://www.goodread...
Tags: Fiction (TV Genre),Halloween (Holiday),books,bo...
Top 10 Mysterious Fictional Characters Seen In Real Life - Part 2
Top 10 Mysterious Fictional Characters Seen In Real Life - Part 2 Subscribe To Most Amazing Top 10: http://bit.ly/2Ibyk6i Become A Most Amazing Top 10 Member: https://bit.ly/2OgwCmN More Scary Lists 😱 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiJGJKjnR8w&list=PL532nVurngGurLZQ8vUjfybxIrwZRNGnC Hello and ...
Tags: top 10,most amazing top 10,top 10 list,mostamaz...
Ads related to Fictional Halloween Characters
Uv Glow In The Dark Paint
Disney Couple Halloween Costumes
Elementary School Graduation Gift Ideas
Guy Halloween Costumes For College
Jessica Rabbit Dress Costume
Georgia Peach Hats
Diy Christmas Projects
Halloween Party Barney
Disney Princess Belle Dress
Pool After Dark Halloween
Adult Abby Cadabby Costume
Dresses Fir Girls
Ellie Cornell Halloween
Plus Size Halloween Costume Ideas For Women
Toddler Dresses For Weddings
Mario Costumes For Halloween
Party City In Gainesville Fl
Fun Games Kindergarten Halloween Party
Minion Halloween Costume Girls
Chargers Trade
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line217
|
__label__cc
| 0.512655
| 0.487345
|
Three athletes medal at 5A State Track and Field Meet in Wichita
Tradgon McCrae takes third, team takes fourth at 5A State Golf Tournament
Megan Flavin competes in third state swim meet on May 17
Eight athletes qualify for 5A Track and Field State Championship
In the Hall
Sports Score
Suggestions and Submissions
the guidon online
Humans of Hays High
iScore
Softball Play-by-Play
Baseball Play-by-Play
Indian Insider
Softball/Baseball
Filed under Top Stories
Music department prepares for contest season
Caitlin Leiker, Staff Reporter|January 29, 2019
Sophomore Ashley Vilaysing practices her clarinet pieces for contest.
Caitlin Leiker
Not long after getting back from winter break, directors must help their students find new repertoire if they wish to take a solo or small ensemble to KSHSAA Regional Solo and Small Ensemble Festival in the spring, which can be a time consuming task.
“It’s going to take a little time to go through all our files to find something that’s appropriate for festival and also an attainable challenge,” band director Matt Rome said.
Band plans to take 20-25 soloists to contest this year, and orchestra plans to take 12-15 soloists and several quartets.
The problem with choir is that 43 people want to take solos to contest. There are only 38 spots available in our school’s division.
“I’m guessing that some people aren’t going to make it, or I’m going to have to hold some kind of audition like Mr. Matlock has done in the past,” Underwood said. “I’m kind of waiting to see if some students think this is a little overwhelming because I feel like a couple students are biting off more than they can chew.”
The biggest obstacle that the music instructors have to overcome is finding the time to work with all the students.
Orchestra director Joan Crull’s time to assist her students is very limited because she travels between three schools every day. Orchestra assistant Nathan Mark is able to work with some of the students during orchestra class.
“The students do bear the most responsibility for working the pieces on their own,” Crull said. “I just try to schedule everyone in at least once a week with Mr. Mark or myself even if just for a few minutes.”
Because vocal director Alex Underwood has a total of 62 students between the high school and Hays Middle School who want to take solos to Regionals, Shelby Matlock will assist him in coaching everyone.
Underwood said that those who are studying with a private teacher will have the advantage, and that it’s easy for people to fall through the cracks at this stage in the game.
“We’re in a situation where if you’re not going to be dedicated to this, I’m not going to motivate you,” Underwood said. “It’s not a great practice for me because I know some students will flourish with a little bit of encouragement, but I can’t provide that.”
As for ratings, the directors said they could care less. Underwood described them as “semi-arbitrary” and “incredibly subjective.”
“I have never cared about the ratings,” Underwood said. “Of course I believe that excellent performances deserve ones, but what may be excellent to me may not be excellent to the next person.”
Underwood said he asks himself these questions when trying to gauge the level of a performance: Is the student musical? Are they communicating? Are they sounding as brilliant as they can possibly sound?
If yes, he says that’s a win for him because those are his expectations.
Rome and Crull agreed that they don’t expect every student to get a one rating as long as they leave better than they started.
“We have some very talented players and I expect great music,” Crull said. “They should do well at contest, but the most important thing is that they learned something and became better players in the process.”
21cleiker@usd489.com
Chamber Singers to compete in acapella competition
Grammy Award-winning songwriter Monte Selby visits Chamber Singers
Music department holds annual Winter Concert
The music department held their annual Winter Concert on Dec. 17 at Beach/Schmidt Performing Arts Center. The Chamber Singers kicked off the co...
Caitlin Leiker, Staff Reporter
Caitlin Leiker is a sophomore, and this is her first year in newspaper. She is also involved in Chamber Singers, Musical, and Spring Play. Outside of school,...
The Guidon intends for this area to be used to foster healthy, thought-provoking discussion. Comments are expected to adhere to our standards and to be respectful and constructive. As such, we do not permit the use of profanity, foul language, personal attacks, or the use of language that might be interpreted as libelous. Comments are reviewed and must be approved by a moderator to ensure that they meet these standards. The Guidon does not allow anonymous comments, and The Guidon requires a valid email address. The email address will not be displayed but will be used to confirm your comments.
Other stories filed under Top Stories
Seniors walk across stage, receive diplomas at graduation on May 12
Health students attend Choices and Consequences event
Journalism staff competes at state competition, takes second in sweepstakes
Spring for Music Festival prepares for Cabaret Night, Pops Showcase concerts
Recent Hays High graduate returns to community theatre roots
Band, Choir, Orchestra receive all ones at state large group music contest
Prom king and queen announced on April 13
Chamber Singers continue rehearsals for acapella competition
Sunflower Community Ambassador scholarship recipients announced
Regional Solo, Small Ensemble Festival results released, students discuss experience
The School Newspaper of Hays High School
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line220
|
__label__wiki
| 0.691802
| 0.691802
|
Australian Survivor Episode 4 Recap – A Kat With Nine Lives
By Heath Chick
“That was intense…”
Those were the words of a deflated Aganoa tribe as they returned to camp following a rather dramatic elimination of Evan last night. It seemed like another well-executed blindside, and that was confirmed when it was revealed that Evan didn’t even bother to take his possessions to Tribal Council. Oops!
Phoebe takes the credit for the elimination, and certainly, she seems to be in control of things at Aganoa, while over at Saanapu, Peter ponders his liability in the game. Things are a little more complicated at Vavau with Nick still trying to spins webs of confusion. He finally gets the chance to chat to his alliance in private to explain his decision last night to lie about the clue to the hidden immunity idol. He tells the truth…or was it a lie…who knows anymore! His drivel is all just a blur, and no one believes a word that comes out of his mouth. Even Grandma Sue has decided she can’t trust Nick, so it seems that his days are numbered.
Speaking of idol clues, it’s finally time for some rummaging around in the woods to find the elusive and all powerful hidden immunity idol. “X” marks the spot for Phoebe and Rohan who somehow locate two trees that loosely resemble a cross. Rohan digs around at the base and, low-and-behold uncovers the first immunity idol of the season. Despite previously agreeing that Phoebe would be the one to hang on to the idol, Rohan quickly stuffs it into his pocket and Phoebe, for some reason, doesn’t object.
Peter and Kylie’s search for the idol at Saanapu seems to have hit a wall, so to speak. Their clue mentioned a fallen tree and a wall, with the edit clearly implying that the two were standing right on top of the spot where the idol was buried at the foot of the wall of a fallen tree!
The focus at Vavau is not so much the search for idols but more the search for a flame. With a broken flint, the Vavauians have been without fire for three days, and the effects of little food and water are starting to take their toll. Yet somehow, Vavau have been rising to the challenge at the challenges, and they say they are feeling confident of avoiding their first loss of the season as they prepare for this week’s immunity challenge.
It’s a classic swimming challenge that sees teams swim in pairs out to a cage where they drop a grappling hook to grab a treasure chest and bring it back to shore. When all three chests are returned and opened, a puzzle will once again decide immunity. Peter again sits this one out for Saanapu, for reasons “he’ll tell us later” apparently.
Vavau is slow out of the gates, and it’s Saanapu with the early lead thanks to Sam and Brooke. However, Aganoa reclaims the lead, once again thanks to Lee who is proving to be a beast in challenges. Host Jonathan LaPaglia describes it as “half swimming, half running…like dolphins”. Not sure what dolphins JPL has been watching, but clearly the heat is getting to him.
Lee and Rohan hit the water twice for the Aganoa tribe to try and see if their lungs will explode, while Kat and Kristie watch on hopelessly with no involvement in the challenge whatsoever. When Lee returns, he collapses on the beach exhausted, while Rohan jumps into the puzzle with Phoebe. It’s neck and neck with Saanapu who have puzzle whiz kid Matt and Kylie in action, while Vavau is trailing well behind.
Matt is flying through the puzzle as Nick and Kate try to get Vavau back into the game. Phoebe and Rohan are struggling to get a feel for the puzzle, and before they know it, Saanapu is celebrating yet another immunity victory. The other two teams are fighting to avoid a visit to Tribal Council, but that doesn’t inspire Rohan and Phoebe. They ignore pleas for a substitution to take their place, and it’s Vavau who rise from the dead to complete the puzzle first, sending Aganoa back to Tribal once again.
As JPL is handing out the rewards of the battle, Vavau throws up a unique proposition. In a move that reeks of desperation, they request a trade of their souls for some new flint (because they were so good with it the first time) to restart their fire. JPL deems the price to be everything that they have won at every challenge ever. Perhaps it would’ve been easier just to lose the challenge and get fire at Tribal, but they accept the deal, and the swap will go down at the next challenge.
It’s back to Aganoa now with the scramble among the tribe. Phoebe is again the one in control as she rallies troops while confronting Rohan about his loyalty to her. It seems an unnecessarily aggressive move by Phoebe, perhaps testing his trust one last time, and Rohan was understandably threatened.
It appears that it’s down to either Kat or Rohan who will be leaving. Will the four girls align to oust Rohan or will Rohan and Lee be kept in the loop to remove Kat once and for all? But this Kat might just have nine lives as she is spared from elimination by a unique situation.
Over on Saanapu, Peter has had enough and will be quitting the game. As JPL visits the island for the last rites, Peter reveals that he caught a bug two days before the show and hadn’t really eaten anything substantial in 12 days. True or otherwise, seeing someone quit the show is as devastating for viewers as it is for the tribe mates who shed a tear over Peter’s departure. “I’m leaving. I’m finished. I wish you all the best,” was all Peter could muster as his game is brought to a sad end.
The show continues to a Tribal Council with Aganoa put under the microscope for the third time this season. While appearing physically strong on the back of Lee and Rohan, they fell at the puzzle portion of the challenge yet again. Rohan puts his hand up to take responsibility for the loss, but it’s Kat who is clearly upset and on the chopping block.
However JPL delivers the news of Peter quitting the game, so they are spared elimination tonight.
El gets asked a question which was awkward, and she awkwardly responds with something about awkwardness. Kristie was also there apparently, but you wouldn’t know it. Kat’s mood turns from agony to ecstasy as she goes on a mind-numbing rant about knowing she was gone and overhearing a conversation that said as much, perhaps just to remind everyone to vote for her next time around.
Next time, more idol hunting!
Heath Chick
Heath is a passionate writer, father, and reality TV junkie. Hailing from the beautiful island of Tasmania in the land “Down Under”, this Tassie Devil has worked as a writer in the poker and sports media for over a decade, and as a long-time Survivor fan, he’s excited to see a local edition of Survivor return to Australian TV screens.
View all posts by Heath
« Australian Survivor Episode 3 Recap – Honesty or Deceit?
Survivor Contestant You’re Most Like – Stats »
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line242
|
__label__wiki
| 0.868997
| 0.868997
|
Tucker Carlson | Fox News
Host of 'Tucker Carlson Tonight'
Tucker Carlson is the host of FOX News Channel's 聽Tucker Carlson Tonight (weekdays 8PM/ET).Read More
On his program each night, Carlson features powerful analysis and spirited debates with guests from across the political and cultural spectrum. Bringing his signature style to tackle issues largely uncovered by the media, Carlson challenges political correctness and media bias with segments like "Campus Craziness" and "TwitterStorm."
In July 2018, Carlson presented an interview with President Donald Trump from Helsinki, Finland following his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Prior to the launch of his primetime program, Carlson served as a co-host of FOX & Friends Weekend (weekends 6-10AM/ET). He also provided analysis for America's Election Headquarters on primary and caucus nights, including the 2016 and 2012 presidential elections, as well as the 2014 midterm election. In addition, he also produced an FNC special, "Fighting for Our Children's Minds," in 2010.
Before joining FNC, Carlson hosted Tucker on MSNBC from 2005-2008 and PBS' Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered. He joined CNN in 2000 as its youngest anchor ever, co-hosting The Spin Room and went on to become co-host of CNN's Crossfire until its 2005 cancellation. In 2003, he wrote an autobiography about his cable news experience titled "Politicians, Partisans and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News."聽His latest book, "Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution" was a #1 Amazon Best Seller.
Additionally, Carlson founded and acted as editor-in-chief of The Daily Caller, a political news website he launched in 2010.
Carlson graduated with a B.A. in history from Trinity College.
fox-nation
Tucker Carlson: These are the zombie candidates in the presidential race.
Tucker Carlson鈥檚 Final Exam: Rick Reichmuth vs. Jesse Watters
Which one of our experts paid more attention to the news this week?
Actor Chris Pratt labeled 'racist' for Gadsden flag shirt
Actor Dean Cain responds to criticism over Chris Pratt's shirt on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'
Howie Carr: Joe Biden, Beto O'Rourke are jokes
Radio show host Howie Carr weighs in on the 2020 Democratic primary and which candidate we can expect to drop out.
Tucker: Joe Biden's campaign is deader than disco
As the next wave of Democratic primary debates approaches, which candidates have reached the end of the road?
Roger Kimball: America is less racist than it has ever been
Democrats push to impeach Trump over offensive tweets; reaction from 'The New Criterion' editor Roger Kimball on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'
22 MS-13 members being charged with machete murders
President Trump addresses the arrest of gang members for brutal murders during rally; Trace Gallagher has the details.
Ben Carson: I have never seen any evidence of Trump being a racist
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on in-fighting in the Democratic Party and accusations by the left that Trump is racist.
Tucker Carlson: Dems have decided to defend the 'squad,' no matter what. That may come with a price in 2020
Tucker Carlson: Can Dems win on the 'squad's' message? We'll know soon.
Hume: Liberalism has changed, attitudes of liberals have changed
Is there room for moderates in today's Democratic Party? senior political analyst Brit Hume weighs in.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line245
|
__label__wiki
| 0.904099
| 0.904099
|
HISTORY OF THE PHONOGRAPH
60 Nerina Street, Gardenia Park, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Email address: johanlr@intekom.co.za
The Phonograph
The invention of the phonograph and other sound reproduction machines began a new way of producing historical archives. Expressions of the human voice were no longer limited to their abstraction as words on the page, and the artistry and passion of a musical performance could be preserved outside human memory. People could bring the sounds of the world into their homes, and a global culture began to arise out of the mixture of influences that a broad diversity of recordings could provide. Before radio and sound motion pictures, the phonograph and other "talking machines" reigned for several decades as the great modern innovation in audio culture and entertainment.
Leon Scott's Phonautograph
The first successful sound recording device was developed by Leon Scott de Martinville in 1855. Scott's "phonautograph" used a mouthpiece horn and membrane fixed to a stylus that recorded sound waves on a rotating cylinder wrapped with smoke-blackened paper. There was no way at the time to play the sounds back, but the Frenchman's device was a crucial foundation for the developments that would come two decades later. Scott's phonautograph was manufactured and sold as a laboratory instrument for analyzing sound beginning in 1859.
Edison's Phonograph
In 1877 Thomas Edison designed the "tinfoil phonograph" and directed John Kruesi, one of his top laboratory mechanics, to build a prototype. The device consisted of a cylindrical drum wrapped in tinfoil and mounted on a threaded axle. A mouthpiece attached to a diaphragm was connected to a stylus that etched vibrational patterns from a sound source on the rotating foil. For playback the mouthpiece was replaced with a "reproducer" that used a more sensitive diaphragm. Edison recited "Mary Had a Little Lamb" into the mouthpiece for the first demonstration. Even though he expected success he was startled to hear the "tinny" version of his own voice echo his performance. Edison prepared an encore presentation for the editor of The Scientific American, a close friend, who wrote the following in the Nov. 17, 1877 issue:
It has been said that Science is never sensational; that it is intellectual, not emotional; but certainly nothing that can be conceived would be more likely to create the profoundest of sensations, to arouse the liveliest of human emotions, than once more to hear the familiar voices of the dead. Yet Science now announces that this is possible, and can be done.... Speech has become, as it were, immortal.
The invention of the first "talking machine" is most commonly attributed to Edison, in part because of the publicity that attended his celebrity and the theatrical power of his demonstrations, and in part because previous inventions had earned him the means to have the device built. The first to build a phonograph, of course, was Kruesi. The first to conceive of a workable design was most likely the Parisian Charles Cros, who delivered viable plans for a machine that would use discs to the French Academie des Sciences in April of 1877. This occurred several months before Edison happened on his idea while working on a telegraphy device designed to record readable traces of a Morse code signal onto a disk.
In January of 1878, investors created the Edison Speaking Phonograph Company to oversee the manufacture and exhibition of the talking machines. Edison received $10,000 and periodic royalties. He continued to refine the tin-foil phonograph through mid-1878, feeding a popular enthusiasm for stage demonstrations of the "magic" machine which could imitate any language, cough, or animal sound that a skeptic from the audience could produce in an attempt to expose the "trick."
By October of the same year, however, Edison was coaxed away from the phonograph by an offer of substantial backing to pursue the invention of an electric light. As the novelty of the phonograph exhibitions waned, the audiences tapered off and the invention went through a dormant period nearly a decade long before it would transcend its status as a curiosity.
The Bell-Tainter Graphophone
The late 1870s and early 1880s were full of inventive breakthroughs and rapid advancements in communication technologies that came from a number of well-organized laboratories. Fast-shutter motion photography, the first crude motion pictures, the electric light, the telephone, and vast improvements in the telegraph were all developed within a few years of the phonograph. Alexander Graham Bell had invented the telephone in 1876, and Edison had become financially independent by designing a carbon transmitter for Bell's invention a few months before he began designing the phonograph.
While the two inventors' ability to inspire each other never yielded a particularly amicable partnership, it did fuel a competitive drive in both men that would entangle their lives for decades. The telephone won Bell the $10,000 Volta Prize from the French government, which he used to establish a laboratory for experimenting with electrical acoustic devices. He gave his cousin, an engineer named Chichester Bell, and Charles Tainter, a scientist and instrument maker, the project of improving the phonograph. The Bell-Tainter "graphophone" released in 1887 displayed some key improvements to the Edison model. Cylinders were made entirely of wax instead of cardboard and tinfoil, which allowed for longer and more clearly defined recordings. The graphophone also used a loosely mounted "floating" stylus for clearer conversion into sound, and it resolved the pitch fluctuations associated with Edison's hand crank by using a foot treadle or an electric motor.
Early Recording Industry
By this time Edison had renewed his interest in the phonograph and pursued improvements of his own, most notably replacing the tinfoil sheath with a coating of wax and developing a battery-powered electric motor to drive the instrument. He insisted the phonograph should be more than an amusement, and advocated its dignified use as an office dictation machine. Amid competing patents and corporate plans for the talking machines, and against Edison's protests, a market for their use arose again. Very few office stenographers warmed to the newfangled dictation method, but by 1891 coin-operated phonographs installed in corner drug stores and cafes that charged a nickel for approximately two minutes of music began to take in an average of $50 per week.
Something of a commercial recording industry had started up in 1890. Musicians would record on several phonographs at once, repeating their performance until enough cylinders were produced to satisfy demand. Wax was a poor medium for capturing music of any quality and the cylinders could only hold two minutes of music, but the entertainment value of having a wide variety of recordings to choose from made the new industry quite attractive nonetheless.
Numerous "phonograph parlors" popped up to exploit the invention's lucrative possibilities. A customer could speak into a tube to request one of as many as 150 titles and listen to a recording played on the floor below that was piped into two ear horns at the customer's private desk. The leisure culture that the parlors spawned soon included individual coin-operated kinetoscopes that flipped photographs past a viewer, creating the first common motion picture illusions. The phonograph proved to be a useful advertising medium. Machines that could be activated by the touch of a button were mounted in conspicuous places, in keeping with the logic of an 1894 promotional statement: "Nobody will refuse to listen to a fine song or concert piece or oration, even if interrupted by the modest remark, 'Tartar's Baking Powder Is Best', or 'Wash The Baby With Orange Soap'."
It became clear that the phonograph was meant to be part of the entertainment world. Thomas Macdonald, the manager of a graphophone factory, developed an inexpensive and reliable clockwork motor. This enabled the Bell-Tainter camp, now doing business as the Columbia Phonograph Company, to launch a full-fledged retail venture with a clockwork-driven machine they called the "Graphophone Grand."
Berliner's Gramophone
While the cylinder machines were finally enjoying a period of wide public acceptance, a device that had already gone through several years of development was introduced to the U.S. market. Emile Berliner's "gramophone," which used discs pressed in hard rubber instead of cylinders, was launched with minimal backing in 1893. The plan behind the first small-scale release was to attract more substantial backers by demonstrating the unique advantages of the gramophone. The discs were much cheaper to produce and any number of copies could be made from a zinc master. Berliner based his model on Scott's phonautograph and Cros's disc machine design. Berliner described the process this way:
Gramophone: a talking machine wherein a sound is first traced into a fatty film covering a metal surface and which is then subjected to the action of an acid or etching fluid which eats the record into the metal. This record being a continuous wavy line of even depth is then rotated and not only vibrates the reproducing sound chamber but also propels the same by the hold its stylus retains in record groove. The original record can be duplicated ad infinitum by first making an electrotyped reverse or matrix and then pressing the latter into hard rubber, celluloid or similar material which is soft when warm and quite hard when cold.
Eclipsed by the cylinder machines' new heights of success, Berliner's gramophone was slow to attract attention. By 1896 Berliner's company had finally found some backers and were able to release the Baby Grand Gramophone, a spring-driven machine which could legitimately compete with the cylinder models.
The Major Talking Machine Corporations
There were now three major selling agencies that would dominate the sale of home machines for years to come: The National Gramophone Company, which sold Berliner gramophones; the Columbia Phonograph Company, which sold Bell-Tainter graphophones; and the National Phonograph Company, which sold Edison phonographs. Corporations that held and manufactured under patent rights added to the tangle. Among these were Volta Graphophone, associated with Bell-Tainter machines, and the Victor Talking Machine Company, which was Berliner's partnership with Eldridge Johnson, the man who had developed the gramophone's spring drive.
The commercial success of the machines in the late 1890s sparked a number of corporate lawsuits and patent battles, and fueled several new technical innovations. The Berliner people developed a new disc-stamping process and Duranoid, a shellac-based plastic material that proved far superior to rubber. Edison's camp came up with a machine that could play two cylinders with one winding of the spring drive. An inventor named Harold Short developed a compressed-air amplifier. Some odd new twists on turn-of-the century talking machines included an intriguing variety of handsome and at times bizarre cabinets and horns, a disc design that allowed for 12 minutes of play and moved the stylus from the center outward, a method of linking the sound patterns to a mouthpiece so people could plug their ears and "listen with their teeth," and records made of chocolate that could be eaten when they were too worn out to play.
Worldwide Recording Boom
As executives of the Gramophone Company sought greater international influence, they sent a young musician and talent scout named Fred Gaisberg to the great cities of Europe and Asia with an elaborate and bulky assemblage of recording equipment. Gaisberg's tireless enthusiasm for recording all manner of church and military music, street and tavern acts, and folk performances provided an enormous variety of recordings the company could offer gramophone enthusiasts.
The talking machines were enjoying a tremendous surge in popularity among Europeans near the turn of the century. It was easy to persuade local acts to record, but the Gramophone Company was presented with a formidable challenge when it sought to record Europe's great opera stars. Most of the singers scoffed at the idea of being associated with an amusement gadget, but a new wax engraving process improved recording quality dramatically and by 1901 the Gramophone Company made sixty records by four stars of the Russian Imperial Opera. This coup prompted Gaisberg to pursue the great young tenor, Enrico Caruso, whose name became, in Gaisberg's words, the "decoy that brought other hesitating celebrities to our recording studios." Caruso's records would yield over $2 million by the end of his career about two decades later.
Innovations Through World War I
A global culture of recording enthusiasts continued to expand through the years of World War I. Technological advances included a pleated and varnished paper diaphragm speaker which could replace the horn, more durable cylinders and discs which also facilitated longer and better quality recordings, and a way of installing a tone arm mount for the stylus in a box lid that made possible the "Decca," the first truly portable talking machine. Hundreds of portables were sent to the British front lines to relieve tedium and jangled nerves, and post-war Decca sales literature portrayed the machines as war heroes:
WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE GREAT WAR--'DECCA'?
I was 'Mirth-Maker-in-Chief to His Majesty's Forces'; my role being to give our Soldiers and our Sailors music wherever they should be. In that capacity I saw service on every Front--France, Belgium, Egypt, Palestine, Italy and the Dardenelles; right in the Front Line and away back in Camps and Hospitals. All told, there were 100,000 'Deccas" on Active Service from start to finish of the War.
And now that the War is over, I still pursue my calling but under pleasanter conditions...
The recording industry experienced unprecedented growth after the war. In 1914 the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) was formed to ensure that its members were paid for the use of their work. By 1920 more than 200 manufacturers had taken advantage of lapsed phonograph patents and went into production.
Recording in the Jazz Age
The corporate push to expand the range of music coincided with the emergence of a few white musicians who began to emulate black New Orleans jazz. Soon after the Original Dixieland Jazz Band cut the first jazz record in 1917, the "authentic New Orleans sound" found its way into white homes and became a national craze. As music historians Russel Miller and Roger Boar put it, "...before radio and talking pictures, gramophone records were the trend-setters, the star-makers, the catalyst jazz needed to take the country--and later the world-- by storm."
During Prohibition, speakeasies and dance halls, often run by gangsters, built a thriving culture around black jazzmen from New Orleans who brought their sound to Chicago. To capitalize on the talent pool while maintaining the decorum of segregation, record companies created cheap 'race record' subsidiaries of their established labels to sell the music of black artists exclusively in black residential areas. Jazz musicians were usually more than happy to record. Whites who hungered for jazz could always find it. Records allowed the improvised sound that inspired a passion for dancing in some and puritan rage in others to burst across geographic and racial borders and leave its mark on all forms of popular music.
Through most of the jazz era, recording artists had to crowd around and sing or play directly into the mouths of large metal recording horns. They also had to redo from the beginning any performance with a glitch in it. Recorded music had to do without drums, which made the recording stylus vibrate too much. As radio began its meteoric rise in the early 1920's the contrast in quality between tinny crackling records and clean, live broadcast sound prompted many to predict that recording machines were in their declining years.
Radio and Electronic Recording
Research in "wireless telephony" conducted during World War I yielded viable microphones and amplifiers that made the radio broadcast boom possible. When the recording industry began to apply these technologies and embraced electronic recording in 1925, the studio experience and the quality of recordings improved dramatically. Individual microphones replaced shared recording horns, and artists could now overdub mistakes. Electric amplification made it possible for studio acoustics to emulate the atmosphere and clarity of live performances. A much-expanded frequency range allowed for the improved definition of sharper treble and the weighty force of deep bass.
These innovations sparked another surge in enthusiasm for recorded music that now appeared to complement the popularity of radio. A number of radio-phonograph combination machines were marketed successfully. The grandest symbol of corporate confidence in the alliance was RCA Victor, the result of the Radio Company of America's acquisition in early 1929 of the Victor Talking Machine Company.
Depression and Decline
Later in the same year, however, the predicted death of the phonograph seemed to suddenly become a reality. The industry ground to a halt almost overnight in October when the stock market crashed. People saw little point in spending bread money on records when the radio continued to provide free entertainment. In November, eighty-two year old Edison and his corporate allies discontinued production of records and phonographs. Cylinder records had already begun a sharp and steady decline since the advent of electronic recording. The Edison announcement finally rendered them extinct. Thomas Edison died in 1931.
In 1927, 987,000 machines were produced and 104,000,000 records were sold. In 1932 those numbers dropped to 40,000 and 6,000,000 respectively. With the exception of a few die-hard collectors, consumers not only quit buying records, they also began to think of the whole phenomenon of "canned music" as part of an outdated culture. Free live radio and the first sound motion pictures (the first feature-length "talkie," The Jazz Singer, was released in 1929) seemed to provide more vibrant, immediate and modern cultural outlets. Millions of machines and records found their way into attics and junkpiles. In decades to come, of course, recording would be revived and go through even more dramatic technological, cultural and corporate transformations. However, the Depression, the death of the phonograph's inventor, the drastic decline in consumer interest, and the competition from new forms of audio technology marked the end of the beginning for talking machines.
Copyright � 1994-99 Jones International and Jones Digital Century. All rights reserved.
Butterworth, William E.; Hi-Fi: From Edison's Phonograph to Quadrophonic Sound; Four Winds Press; New York; 1977.
Du Moncel, Theodore A. L.; The Telephone, The Microphone and the Phonograph; Arno Press; New York; 1974.
Gellat, Roland; The Fabulous Phonograph 1877-1977; Macmillan Publishing, Inc.; New York; 1977.
Hitchcock, Wiley, ed.; The Phonograph and Our Musical Life: Proceedings of a Centennial Conference; Brooklyn College; 1977.
Jewell, Brian; Veteran Talking Machines; Midas Books; Great Britain; 1977.
Miller, Russel and Roger Boar; The Incredible Music Machine; Quartet/Visual Arts; London; 1982.
Read, Oliver and Walter L. Welch; From Tinfoil to Stereo: Evolution of the Phonograph; Howard W. Sams & Co., Inc.; Indianapolis; 1976.
Whetmore, Edward J.; MEDIAMERICA: Form, Content, and Consequence of Mass Communication (4th Edition); Wadsworth, Inc.; Belmont, California; 1989.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line246
|
__label__cc
| 0.666097
| 0.333903
|
Highlights From Previous Events
The Treasurer's Role
Member Questions
Treasurer Vacancies
Charity Vacancies 123
The following organisations are seeking an Honorary Treasurer:
Rhythmix
Posted: 14 June 2019 Based: South East (meetings between London and Brighton)
Rhythmix is an award-winning music, social welfare and education charity working with some of the most vulnerable people in the South East of England.
Our mission is to revolutionise healthcare and wellbeing outcomes through innovative and radical musical activities under the guidance of talented, expert musicians. We seek out challenging and extraordinary places where music doesn't happen, but has the potential to make the most difference.
We deliver our work in partnership with services that support people who are having a difficult time including with mental health, illness or disability. Over the last year our strategic partners have included 7 NHS Trusts, 20 special schools and 7 Child and Adolescent Mental Health teams. In the last 12 months we worked with 6,180 people across 2,135 music-making interactions. We take music to our participants: 96% of interactions take place outside of a music or cultural venue.
We are looking for a Treasurer to join our Board of Trustees, to take oversight of the organisation’s finances, supporting the staff team in sound financial management and advising the board on best practice.
Download the full Job description
For enquiries about role contact Alastair Beddow, Chair of Trustee
Email alastair@rhythmixmusic.org.uk
Website: rhythmixmusic.org.uk
AzuKo
Posted: 14 June 2019 Based: Camden, London
AzuKo is an international architecture charity. We design with disadvantaged communities and empower them to create the world they dream of. From houses to play areas, sanitation to public spaces, our projects address urgent needs around the world. We currently work on projects in the UK, Bangladesh and China, all of which are guided by the belief that good design can change lives.
We are looking for a Treasurer to join our board of trustees. If you are passionate about design, social impact and international development, this is an opportunity to leave your mark on an incredible small charity. The role involves monitoring the financial administration of the charity and reporting to the board at regular intervals on its state of financial health.
Commitment: 2 year term. Review after 1 year. Estimated 2-3 days per month, including attending quarterly board meetings. You may also be a sub-committee member and attend specific meetings. It is important that the Treasurer is available to the Director on a regular basis. In addition to meetings, other contact (email/telephone) will be necessary.
See the full job description for more details. Job description (Google)
If you are interested, please email a CV and supporting statement to jobs@azuko.org
For enquiries about role contact Jo Ashbridge, Founder & Director
Email jashbridge@azuko.org
Website: azuko.org
South West London Law Centres
Closing Date: 29 July 2019 Based: Croydon (board meetings take place in Putney)
South West London Law Centres are one of the largest law centres in the country, as well offering services in social welfare law, we offer a wide range of pro-bono clinics aimed at alleviating stress and poverty in the community. Our catchment area is wider than our six London boroughs where we continue to help over 8,000 people a year.
Although half our income derives from legal aid, we have been expanding this with more diverse income from various grants and donations. This continues to be a major focus of the board and senior management team. Legal aid is not an easy scheme to operate and in the current environment grants are more competitive, but we are ambitious to further grow and develop the law centre. The Law Centre is anticipating making a further surplus after the one in the last audited accounts.
We have strong backing from our supporters both financially and in terms of service. Our current treasurer will be standing down at our next AGM having served the full term.
If you have a passion for access to justice and believe that you can improve the impact South West London Law Centres can make, then we look forward to hearing from you.
For enquiries about role contact Patrick Marples, CEO
Email Patrick.marples@swllc.org
South West London Law Centres, 5th Floor Davis House, Robert Street, Croydon CR0 1QQ
Website: swllc.org
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line248
|
__label__cc
| 0.518505
| 0.481495
|
HTML5 Simplequiz 6: Zeldman’s fat footer
Friday, March 4th, 2011 by Bruce Lawson.
A few years ago, Dan Cederholm published a series of articles called Simplequiz in which he posed some options for marking up a specified piece of content and invited readers to choose the one they felt was the best way to mark that up. The value was in the comments in which people said why they made that choice and debated the options (which means it is THE LAW that you read the preceeding comments before adding your own). With Dan’s blessing, we’re running an occasional series of HTML5 Simplequizzes.
For the last couple of years, it’s been fashionable to have “fat footers” in websites. Take, for example, Jeffrey Zeldman’s footer:
The bottom of Zeldman's blog has a fat footer
We see an area with a svelte black background, containing a super-glammo set of six images, each of which has a caption and links to other sites that Zeldman has an interest in: conferences, books, articles, podcasts. Below those images is a copyright notice, some more conventional footer links (contact, subscribe, style switcher) and a blue stripe:
A closeup of Zeldman’s fat footer
Being HTML5 ninjas, we know that we’ll wrap each image and its attendant caption within <figure> and <figcaption> elements – but what will we wrap the whole group of external links in?
Choose from the answers below please. Make sure you show your working out. Escape your HTML, please, or we’ll put a severed unicorn head in your bed.
Figures as direct children of the <footer> element:
<figure>…</figure>
<p><small>Copyright © 1995–2011 L. Jeffrey Zeldman.</small></p>
The figures in an <aside> element nested in the <footer>:
The images in a <nav> element inside the <footer>:
Images in a <div> element immediately before the <footer>:
Images in an <aside> element immediately before the <footer>:
Your answers below, please, with your rationale, by Friday 12th March.
zeldman
87 Responses on the article “HTML5 Simplequiz 6: Zeldman’s fat footer”
stryju says:
I’d go with A
<aside> is used to include some “side notes” that are related to the content around it – in here it doesn’t fulfill this – random links
same goes for <nav> which, AFAIK, is used to navigate through current webpage content
and u can clearly say it’s a part of footer – then why keep it outside the tag?
so, as i mentioned before, i’d go with A
A: I agree with stryju – the collection of images are an integral part of the footer – they’re not side notes, so an <aside> is semantically incorrect.
Gareth says:
E for me.
Purely because the footer element should only really be used for copyright data and author information.. That’s my interpretation of the spec. With the aid of aside for the secondary/related content and images above.
I would say answer B.
The images aren’t part of the article or are article related.
They belong in the footer, but the footer has its own infomation. So i would put it in a aside too
@Gareth : aside is meant for content strictly related to surrounding <aside> element, isn’t it?
in that case, <aside> is used incorrectly
William Lawrence says:
None of the above, or some combination of the above while using the SECTION element to encapsulate this thematic grouping of six content items.
E for me as well:
“When the footer element contains entire sections, they represent appendices, indexes, long colophons, verbose license agreements, and other such content … The footer element is not sectioning content; it doesn’t introduce a new section.”
I don’t consider this list of figures anywhere close to an appendix, index or colophon, so it doesn’t belong in the footer. Since these articles are related to the content on the page, the aside element makes more semantic sense than a div element would.
Régis Kuckaertz says:
I’d use either B or E, but I think in the end E wins. Using aside seems to make sense since the content of these figures is clearly tangeantial to the document’s content.
Now, a footer typically contains links to related documents, and clearly ‘tangeantial’ is the opposite of ‘related’. Thus I’d not include the aside in the footer.
Using ARIA roles would make it even clearer:
Ian Devlin says:
I would use A as the content is a footer and therefore should be within the footer element. Each image, as mentioned above, should be in a figure element, and the copyright information is correctly within a small element.
Josh Lockhart says:
My answer is "E".
As is demonstrated in "E", the <figure> elements in Zeldman's fat footer are enclosed in an <aside> element, making them secondary information semantically related, albeit tangentially, to the current document. The <footer> element should contain information only directly describing the the current document (ie. author, copyright, or links to related documents). I first thought about choosing "B" but thought better of it — why include an <aside> within a <footer>? Seems a bit of an oxymoron to toss secondary, tangential information within an element meant to contain information directly pertaning to the current document, no?
Answer "A" is ruled out because it lacks sufficient semantic information to describe the document's content… is this passable? I suppose. But it could better represent its markup, and assistive devices could potentially leverage additional semantics.
Answer "B" is ruled out for the reasons shown in my rationale above in support of answer "E".
Answer "C" is ruled out because I do not consider the six links in Zeldman's fat footer to be a "primary" navigation for the document.
Answer "D" is ruled out because, although potentially correct, it is not as correct as answer "E"; the <figure> elements are enclosed within a <div> which provides no semantic meaning and only serves as a potential handle for document styling.
Brian Hogan says:
C. The elements in the fat footer wrapped in a nav element makes the most sense and it’s how I’ve done it on a few sites already.
One thing I don’t agree with is the markup around the copyright notice. Not a fan of the tag because I think it leaks too much presentation into the markup. I know it’s valid, but I never use it for that reason. I can make the text “small” by simply styling a paragraph tag within the footer. But that’s just me nitpicking. :)
The footer element represents a footer for its nearest ancestor sectioning content or sectioning root element. A footer typically contains information about its section such as who wrote it, links to related documents, copyright data, and the like.
The nearest ancestor are all the articles above it, the images/links are related(?) to the articles, right? Pls correct me if im wrong :)
So still going for B
Jeremy Meyers says:
I’m not voting since I’m a HTML5 newbie, but I think in this case it would be useful to clarify some verbiage.
I think what Zeldman, etc have at the end of their webpage is not a footer, but a “bottom navigation section”. The footer of this page is actually the text block “Copyright © 1995–2011 L. Jeffrey Zeldman. Made in New York City. Powered by Happy Cog Hosting.
ISSN #1534-0309. About, Contact, Desktops, Subscribe (RSS). Choose dark orange or off-white color scheme.”
The section above (the one we’re voting on) is a navigation element that just happens to be below the main layout rather than in a sidebar or across the top. So we’re looking at two parts, not one part.
Does that sound right?
Actually, stryju, the aside element’s definition was extended from the original. Originally, the aside had the same characteristics of the print world’s sidebar, which means it would have to be more directly related to the content. Now, though, the element has been redefined to more closely match the web definition of sidebar, which means sidebar-like material can also be included in an aside.
Since this information is sidebar-like material, regardless of its page location, an aside element is the most appropriate container. I say it’s sidebar-like material because it reflects the web master’s interests, not necessarily anything specific to the content that’s in the page at any one point in time.
My first inclination, being an old web fart, would be to use a div, but HTML5 fairies will strike you with the purple flower curse if you use one with sidebar-like material, so aside it is.
Now, the footer is fairly precisely defined to include footer information related to its nearest sectioning content, in this case, we presume to be the weblog content. Author, contact info, copyright information, and other relevant material would be appropriate in the footer, but not the sidebar-like material represented in Zeldman’s fat footer.
So, I agree with Gareth: option E.
Vasilis Dimos says:
I would also go with A.
The images are part of the footer which is repeated on every page of the website. Semantically they are only footerlinks with a accompanying caption, thus A captures the semantic meaning the best.
B and C also make some sense with the above reasoning in mind but I guess the extra use of a wrapping element does not add any meaning to the html and so less is more and A wins.. :)
luísbatista says:
Even if visually it looks like the that content belong to the footer, its contents are complementary information, a sub-feature.
I’d like to agree on @William Lawrence’s comment – wrapping it in <section> element would make it better – it would divide it from the content above
@Josh Lockhart : I have to disagree on pointing E as most accurate – <aside> should be RELATED to content and i don’t see general links as related… maybe i’m wrong here, but that’s my POV
@Shelley http://html-five.net/2009/07/20/aside-is-not-a-sidebar/
if that’s not up-to-date, then sorry… but i see aside as side informations RELATED to content ;-)
Dale Cruse says:
Want a hint at the answer I think Bruce is looking for? View the source of this very page. The “Quick Links”, “Social Links & RSS”, etc. are all in an aside tag & the copyright information is in a footer tag. That most closely resembles choice E for Mr. Zeldman’s page.
From the aside revisited article: “When used outside of an article element, the contents [of an aside] should be related to the site (e.g., a blogroll, groups of additional navigation, and even advertising if that content is related to the page).”
And from the glossary: “The footer element typically contains metadata about its enclosing section…”
The pictures links are not meta data for the website, but they are related to it in a similar manner to a blog roll.
For these reasons I would go for E
Stephanie (Sullivan) Rewis says:
I must vote for E.
Since this is Mr. Zeldman’s personal blog and these figures are all related to things related directly to him (events, podcasts, books, podcasts, etc), I see them as belonging in an aside. But an aside not related specifically to an article or page on the site, but instead to the whole site.
One could argue for putting them into the footer for that reason (it’s site-wide as well). But I’m not sure that aside content fits into the definition of what belongs in the footer (though I wouldn’t dock anyone for choosing that).
Not a nav since it’s not navigation within his own site—but navigation within his own external group of things he’s involved in. And since they are tangentially related to the site, I’d skip the div as well.
That’s my logic anyway… :)
stryju, that’s not up to date. I would suggest the following:
http://html5doctor.com/aside-revisited/
If you look in the HTML5 spec, you’ll see an example of a blogroll in an aside element. A blogroll is typically a list of links to items of interest to the web owner, and hence the web site, but external to the web site. Though Zeldman uses figures, the concept is still the same: it’s a list of links of interest external to the web site.
I didn’t agree with the re-definition, but once “sidebar” was used with aside, it was doomed to be misinterpreted, and people starting using aside as “web” sidebar, not “print” sidebar.
The dual purpose nature of the element will cause problems in the future, as the following notes;
http://leonpaternoster.com/2010/03/an-aside-really-isnt-a-sidebar/
I’m torn on B vs. E, but I think I’m going to settle on E.
Assuming the footer is in the same section as the content, the footer is related to the content of the current page. An aside is tangentially related to the content surrounding it; since footer is a non-sectioning element, the aside is tangentially related to the current page regardless of being inside or before the footer.
However, the footer is more appropriate for content about the page, like the copyright, etc. So, since the aside is tangentially related to the page and not the information about the page, it belongs outside the footer.
Matt Behrens says:
Absolutely A. navs don’t make sense as they aren’t navigation links inside the site; asides don’t make sense because they’re not asides to the footer, which is the context they appear in.
I’ll go with E.
The figure implies “the content is essential to understanding it’s section”. But what’s it’s section?
If a div then this means the page content; so doesn’t work for me
If an aside then – with the update to the aside definition inferring secondary content – it probably works better.
If the aside is in the footer this makes it secondary content to the footer (usually reserved for copyright etc) and it feels too diluted so I would plump for an aside outside of the footer hence E.
But equally could work within an (albeit untitled) section.
Cliff Tyllick says:
Although I can’t add anything to the discussion,my initial inclination was E. The eloquent comments above helped me realize that it is the best option indeed.
But I was moved by something Bruce said:
Below those images [are] some more conventional footer links (contact, subscribe, style switcher)
If only style switcher were one of the “more conventional” links to find in a footer! Every website should offer this feature!
Emma Dobrescu says:
Since the footer can contain links to related documents, I think the images should be inside the footer. And I think that putting in into an aside doesn’t make sense. Aside to what, to the copyright? It would have to be an aside to content included in the same element – in this case, the footer.
If I must recode it, I would use a definition list. It’s mostly a matter of planning the content and what emphasis you want on it. Semantics goes hand in hand with SEO, with the main purpose and the points of focus on the page, with marketing and with UX.
Jeff L says:
I think given the example in your own article here:
It would have to be E. The content is related to the site, not the page, and it’s not part of the actual footer. This could easily be restyled to go vertically down the page in a normal sidebar fashion.
A, B, and C are all incorrect given that it’s not footer content. Leaving only using the DIV or ASIDE, and I think this qualifies for the use of ASIDE.
A is wrong because including that information in the footer element would be a violation of the intended use of the footer.
B would mean the contents of the asides were related to the footer in some way, why else would they be wrapped with the footer element?
C is out as the links may not actually point to links within the site, so can’t really be deemed site navigation, more like internet-wide navigation, so too broad in meaning/
D is a no-go because wrapping the figures with divs is as good as not wrapping them with anything, which implies the figures are directly related to the main content of the page, which they aren’t.
zeldman says:
Nice article, Bruce, and *brilliant* discussion from everyone. So much to think about!
I like Stephanie’s point of view, which resembles the mixed browser compromise approach I’m actually using.
If it’s an aside, it’s an aside related to all the site’s content, not to an individual article.
So I put it in a div called “footer.”
My definition of footer differs a bit from Hixie’s, and that’s okay with me. I plead 16 years of designing professional websites.
Hixie is the editor in charge of the future of all the world’s HTML, a position he awarded himself, and which he earns by doing. But he is not a web designer or creative director.
I would argue that the current HTML5 definition of “footer” is too narrow; that it is based on only the narrowest of existing web design conventions; that it ignores best practices of the past five years in favor of a singularly narrow semantic purity—the kind of semantic purity Hixie and others railed against when they saw XHMTL 2 going in that direction.
Luckily HTML is now a stateless ever-changing virus instead of a specification. So eventually Hixie or someone will notice the design work being done by people like Veerle, Simplebits, Jason Santa Maria, and many others, and the definition of footer will change.
Thanks, Cliff.
BS-Harou says:
I’ll go with A. I think that in footer should be all content that is same on every page and is below the articles or other “middle sections”. I also like the variant with “section” element:
<small> copyright </small>
Colin Michael says:
The links/ads are good asides (extra info) to the content of the site, which is “Zeldman”.
A footer is fairly flexible, but when it contains links I’d expect them to be internal.
Blain Smith says:
Super secret option F.
You can use SECTION tags to enclose all the figures since they are all a related section of ads (for lack of a better term) of the footer.
Nora Brown says:
I agree with those who say E. It seems to me that the use of something like class="footer" stems from the fact that this thing is at the bottom of the page, and that HTML5’s footer element isn’t appropriate for the whole shebang. I agree that the collection of images and links is tangentially related to the overall content of the site, and is thus an aside to the whole site, not the particular article being viewed, if such a use of aside is allowed.
Lee McAlilly says:
I’d have to go with A.
And I agree that the spec’s definition of footer is too narrow. It certainly makes sense to have all of the information that appears in black inside of ... .
Given that, the photos should be wrapped inside of .. , but how do you mark up the captions under the figures? It seems like the (figcaption) is appropriate here.
Couldn’t agree more, Jeffrey. I see no reason a site-wide footer shouldn’t contain site-wide related content (as we already place in a footer) except that the spec, as it currently stands, doesn’t give us that choice. Sometimes, you can get too narrow.
As I’ve been teaching this, I find great areas of confusion among designers/developers. The pure adoption of HTML5 semantics, as they’re currently written, may or may not be adopted. Group think could play a larger role than Hixie would like.
Whoops, didn’t escape my html correctly…
It makes sense to have the images inside <>, so why not put the text and links that are associated with these photos inside <>.
Ok, this is bad, but I’m trying to say “figure” and “figcaption”
Zeldman and Stephanie do have good points.
Again, though, we’re talking about footer, as we may think of it with documents outside the web, and footer as we think of it on the web.
If you enter _define:footer_ in Google, you’ll actually get the definition for both types with the same term. Me thinks this will end up the same as an aside: one term with two meanings, traditional and web. I’m not sure this is a good thing, but does seem to pave the paths trodden by designer feet.
Technically, though, and semantically, I actually agree with Hixie’s interpretation of footer.
John Athayde says:
I’d go for C as this matches with navigation to me. (http://developers.whatwg.org/sections.html#the-nav-element) It’s related articles, but it’s nav nevertheless.
Sophie Dennis says:
For me, our HTML ‘newbie’ Jeremy Meyers made a great point when he observed that Zeldman’s footer:
is a navigation element that just happens to be below the main layout rather than in a sidebar or across the top
Just because something is visually positioned at the bottom or end, or below rather than beside other content, doesn’t make it semantically function as a footer. On the principle of separating our presentation from our semantics, and that I could imagine a future in which this content is restyled into a sidebar rather than a footer, I wouldn’t enclose it in the site’s <footer> tag. So that’s A, B, and C out.
The block clearly represents content which is tangential to the site as a whole, in the same way as sidebar content is tangential.The fact that it is positioned below the content instead of next to it is irrelevant. An <aside> within the top-level of the document outline (i.e. not within a <section>) is therefore the best way to describe the content’s function and relation to the rest of the page.
On this basis I would opt for E. I think there might be an argument for a variation on C, but with the <nav> outside the <footer> tag. However, this clearly isn’t primary or major navigation, so unless the definition of <nav> changes, I think <aside> is more appropriate.
My initial gut reaction was ‘A’. However, after reading the comments and thinking about it more, I’ve got to agree with ‘E’. The images are clearly tangential stuff that Czar Zeldman is interested in, but they are not the ‘footer’ of the page.
Looking at zeldman.com as a whole, we see that it has a header, a section of articles, 2 asides (the current right side and the fat-footer images) and a footer. Inside the section would be articles, each (potentially) with header and footer elements.
If my line art holds up, I’m seeing the DOM as something along the lines of (not necessarily coded in this order):
| article
| header + footer
aside (current right side)
aside (images)
footer (copyright, etc)
Yes that was my point. OT: to be clear, i’ve been a HTML dork since 1997 (netscape 0.9)…just haven’t done much with HTML5 yet :)
Elaine Nelson says:
I’m with those who went for super-secret option F – sections inside footer – although I’m sympathetic to the arguments for B and E. Alternatively, super-secret option G might be section before footer.
Woah, woah, woah…
Before debating what the correct containing element is for this content, how about thinking about whether or not they should be contained in figure elements. I’m pretty sure they should not.
The whole point of the figure element is that it could potentially appear *anywhere* in the document: the top, the bottom, the middle. Taking any one of those pieces of content and putting them anywhere else in the page makes little sense. They are at the end of the document for a reason. They are not referenced from the main content of the document.
Just because you’ve got an image with some descriptive text doesn’t automatically make it a figure and figcaption.
Robert Hunter says:
I have to agree with Jeremy. The first thing I wondered about here was “Why are we putting these in a figure? Since these are relevant to the page but instead to the entire site I’m uncertain as to what the correct, semantic element would be. Section? Div? All I know is that figure doesn’t feel right.
Scott Cranfill says:
The questionable use of figure was the first thing I noticed, as well.
Would a menu be in order here? With a ul inside and each li containing an img and a p?
Even if menu is inappropriate (supposed to be reserved for applications?), I think the unordered list structure makes the most sense.
I think I’m looking at 6 asides inside a div followed by a footer
Good thing HTML5 is easy to interpret. Wrap that in a sarcasm tag.
+1 to Mr. Jeremy Keith.
Dale Cruse, ah come on now, HTML5 is _easy_ to interpret. Just look at all the different interpretations in this list?
Why, it’s so much fun, I think it could replace Charades at the number one party game.
…as the number one party game…as…as…
You all need edit capability in your comments for fumbled fingered types like me ;-)
a would use
>footer<
>section<
>ul<
>li<
>figure<
>/figure<
>/li<
>/ul<
>/section<
>p<>small<Copyright © 1995–2011 L. Jeffrey Zeldman.>/small<>/p<
>/footer<
the figures are part of the footer, and are a section of the footer. Since there are several identical elements, it would make sense for me to make them into a list
and the copyright information would be in the footer of the footer
I would also make sure I put the brackets the right way :)
@Gabriel: <footer>s aren’t sectioning content, so it makes no sense to have a <footer> of a <footer>.
I agree with Jeremy regarding the <figure>s. As far as the essence of the question goes, the links seem to belong in an <aside>, as opposed to a <footer>. As the spec says, the element can be used for typographical effects like pull quotes or sidebars, for advertising, for groups of nav elements, and for other content that is considered separate from the main content of the page.” (emphasis mine).
reda says:
Figure should be used only if referenced from some other content, like in books.
Hint: think of the question as
“How would Jeffrey have been marked up this peace of content using those modern HTML elements?”
Remember the beginning of HTML5. An analysis of the most common ids.
Why do we need those new elements?
– Because its smarter when everybody writes <footer> instead of a <div id=footer> or <p id=footer> or what ever.
And now, take a look at the original html. You will see that there is only the need for A.
I want it a footer. There is no need for more complex nesting.
When browsers or crawlers start treating those elements in a special way we have to rethink.
Thierry Koblentz says:
E without using <figure>
To me, it seems to be the less “hacky” solution.
Alhadis says:
Use the <address /> element.
<img src=”http://www.zeldman.com/i/whit2.jpg” alt=”” />
Whitney Hess makes the crowd fall in love with user experience at
<a href=”http://www.aneventapart.com/”>An Event Apart</a>. Photo ©
<a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/localcelebrity/” rel=”author”>John Morrison.</a>
<a href=”/copyright/”>Copyright</a> © 1995–2011 <a href=”/about/”>L. Jeffrey Zeldman</a>. Made in New York City. Powered by <a href=”http://happycoghosting.com/”>Happy Cog Hosting</a>.<br />
ISSN #1534-0309. <a href=”/about/”>About</a>, <a href=”/contact/”>Contact</a>, <a href=”/desktop/”>Desktops</a>, <a href=”/subscribe/”>Subscribe (RSS)</a>.
Choose <a title=”Default style (orange).” onkeypress=”setActiveStyleSheet(‘default’); return false;” onclick=”setActiveStyleSheet(‘default’); return false;” href=”/about/”>dark orange</a> or
<a title=”Switch styles (off-white).” onkeypress=”setActiveStyleSheet(‘offwhite’); return false;” onclick=”setActiveStyleSheet(‘offwhite’); return false;” href=”/about/”>off-white</a> color scheme.
<a href=”http://happycoghosting.com/” class=”hch”>
<img alt=”Happy Cog Hosting” src=”http://www.zeldman.com/wp-content/themes/zeldman-v2/i/hchsmall.png” />
The spec defines an address tag as the contact information for a document – and isn’t that precisely what those links are serving as? The source of confusion for using the <address /> tag is most people seem to think it’s used specifically for making up street addresses
Somewhat off the topic of the main question, but I defend my use of figure and figcaption in the example. The spec says
The figure element represents some flow content, optionally with a caption, that is self-contained and is typically referenced as a single unit from the main flow of the document.
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/grouping-content.html#the-figure-element
“Typically” does not mean “must be”.
gerisk8 says:
I’d choose B as those link are not part of the main content of the page but still relates to it as they are pointing to Zeldman’s investments. The way I see it aside is a perfect match.
What’s more it’s in front of that huge black background at the very end of the page. This makes me think that it’s part of that fat footer element and the spec says the footer typically contains links to related documents which is exactly the case in here.
Looking forward to Bruce’s choice! :)
Love these Simplequizes! Keep on rockin’ guys!
But Bruce, for some of the six pieces of content, the text is *not* a caption for something else (images, in this case). The text *is* the content. The images support the text. If anything, the images are illustrations for the text.
Just because some text appears under an image/table/code doesn’t mean the figure element is the correct wrapper. If the text is not actually a caption, then a div would be a more appropriate wrapper.
For Jeffrey’s site, figure might be the right element some of the time but not others. It depends on the content. It *always* depends on the content.
Steve Adams says:
Heads up @Jeremy. The tag references an article/section main content. Jeff’s footer images are tangential to the page’s (and web site’s) main content. Using figure#1, figure#2, figure#3 without reference to content doesn’t make sense. None of the above, wrap in a .
The figure tag references article/section main content. Jeff’s footer images are tangential to the page’s (and web site’s) main content. Using figure#1, figure#2, figure#3 without reference to content doesn’t make sense. None of the above, wrap in div .
Kevin Benson says:
Jeremy states “The images support the text.”, presumably presented as perspective on why it’s NOT like the figure element …when in fact, conventional uses of figure generally DO exist (as images w/captions) expressly TO “support the text” in the flow of main content.
I agree with Bruce’s take on this being intentionally self-contained (Zeldman’s original design goal).
LA says:
E looks good to me.
Kevin wrote: “Jeremy states “The images support the text.”, presumably presented as perspective on why it’s NOT like the figure element …when in fact, conventional uses of figure generally DO exist (as images w/captions) expressly TO “support the text” in the flow of main content.”
You have misunderstood me. When I said “The images support the text” I meant “The images support the text *within the content that Bruce is suggesting be wrapped in figure element*” not “The images support the text in the rest of the page.”
Kevin wrote further: “…when in fact, conventional uses of figure generally DO exist (as images w/captions) expressly TO “support the text” in the flow of main content.”
Precisely. “In the flow of the main content” being the operative phrase.
Figure originally came about, several years ago, because people asked for a caption element that could be associated with an img element. It then _slightly_ morphed over time.
I believe we will find that both Bruce’s and Jeremy’s understanding of figure are correct.
Bruce is correct because his use most closely matches the original intent of figure, and one that is, technically, supported in the HTML5 spec text. Context of use, other than what can be mapped to a parsing algorithm, is more along the lines of a suggestion (even a strong suggestion) in the HTML5 spec.
Jeremy’s point about a figure having context, as if in “See Figure…” is also correct, and matches other text in the spec, as well as accepted typographical practice regarding “figure” in other mediums.
However, I just can’t find anything related to figure that makes Bruce’s interpretation incorrect, and that’s where I think Jeremy is “wrong” (thought, frankly, my understanding of figure more closely matches his). The phrase, “referenced as a single unit from the main flow of the document”, is ambiguous.
Does this mean, we should have the phrase, “See Figure” in the text somewhere? We’re getting dangerously out of scope for an HTML specification if we start to put in controls over the text in paragraphs.
Or does the “referenced as a single unit from the main flow of the document” mean that the figure is a unit contained in the document, the document being a web page? Well, kind of pushing it, but…this one actually maps if we consider the context from a purely technical perspective.
I strongly prefer Jeremy’s interpretation of figure. At the same time, I don’t think Bruce’s interpretation is “wrong”.
Neil Whiteley says:
I would choose “None of the above”.
A “figure” (in its true sense) is a device used, primarily in scientific and technical documents, in support of statements and conclusions introduced in the main body of the text. Figures normally take the form of graphs but can also be of other types such as photographs.
As the elements in the footer of the document in question are clearly not intended to be used for this purpose then the use of the element is wholly inappropriate.
On the use of and elements; When so much effort and discussion has been expended over the last few years concerning the separation of content from layout, why are we now introducing elements that have no other conceivable purpose other than to self-declare their position in the layout?
I don’t think I’ll use them.
Doh!.. Try again.
As the elements at the foot of the document in question are clearly not intended to be used for this purpose then the use of the “figure” element is wholly inappropriate.
On the use of “header” and “footer” elements; When so much effort and discussion has been expended over the last few years concerning the separation of content from layout, why are we now introducing elements that have no other conceivable purpose other than to self-declare their position in the layout?
First, let me say that the answer is E. The fat footer is a presentational construct that in the example case is comprised semantically of an aside followed by a footer.
Now, since this thread has mutated into a discussion about the figure element … I have to say that, as is so often the case, I agree with Shelley. There does appear to be a mismatch between what the intent of the figure element is (i.e. strictly following typographic conventions) and what the specification text actually says if you read it in a legalistic-minded manner.
The problem I have with the strict interpretation of the use of figure that Jeremy Keith advocates is that the use case hardly justifies the element at all. The “see Figure 1” writing style is very rare on the web, indeed it’s hardly known outside of text books and research documents (and most of those I see on the web are PDFs, not HTML). One reason is of course that that the “see Figure 1” concept is a typographic device partly to deal with the practicalities of publishing on paper – fixed length pages with a desire not to have the figure span across the page boundary, and in the case of photographic plates, often to put the pictures on a different quality of paper. Neither requirement has any parallel on HTML pages.
In contrast, “captioned flow content” is commonplace, and would fully justify a dedicated element. If figure cannot be used simply to apply a caption to an image or other flow content, then if as a web author one wants to semantically associate a caption with a specific pair of images what is the alternative? As far as I can see, it’s <div aria-labelledby=”mycaption”><img src=”myimage1″><img src=”myimage2″></div><p id=”mycaption”>My Caption text</p>. I think that’s a very poor substitute.
I am in case convinced that the figure element will be widely used to caption flow content, and especially images, no matter what the spec says.
David Goss says:
<aside role="complementary">
<ul class="external-content">
<li><img alt="..." src="..." /><p>...</p></li>
<footer role="contentinfo">
@Tim: I think your suggested outline is pretty much spot on, apart from the section element which wraps the blog articles. It contains all the main content, not just a section of it, so I would go for <div role="main">...</div> instead.
@Alohci: I think Jeremy’s point was that the text is not a caption, because it doesn’t describe or explain the image, it describes the external content being linked to. The image is effectively illustrating the text, whereas a caption would be the text supporting the image. I think your point about where to use the figure element is valid, but doesn’t actually apply in this case.
@Zeldman: Personally I’m fine with the semantics of footer, but maybe its name is the problem. Do you think there would be (such) an issue if it was called something else?
Witek says:
A, same reasoning as stryju in first comment. nav is not applicable here, similary aside is not applicable. And figures should be in footer. So A. I will additionally put them in ul , li, to make nice list.
Mr. Zeldman, I’m curious if anything in this article & related comments is compelling enough to make you want to change the code in your footer. If so, which approach makes the most sense to you?
David Gross, I have to disagree with you.
The images provide a graphic annotation of the external material they link, but the captions provide the necessary context for these images. I’m wary of linking Wikipedia, but the site’s style guide for captions is actually pretty good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28captions%29
One of the requirements for a “good” caption is that it provides context for the graphic.
Currently, Zeldman has an item with a photo of himself and I’m assuming Dan Benjamin, with head phones on. OK, doesn’t tell me a lot. What? These guys like to put on head phones and Skype with each other? They’re forming a new band, and are in a recording studio?
Read the text associated with the graphic, though:
“Dan Benjamin and I interview UX guru Jared Spool in Episode 7 of The Big Web Show, our weekly video podcast on Everything Web That Matters.”
*bammo* … context. You know what the graphic means, and since it represents what’s linked, you also know the context of the graphic’s association to the external article.
The text (caption) provides the context to help us understand why the heck Zeldman decided to plunk this image into the page footer.
ok, thanks for updating me about aside ;-)
so – can we sum it up? which one “should” be used as it is considered “html5-a-ok”?
@Bruce – with the use of the word ‘typically’ within the spec, practically for every element – does this not trigger alarm bells because it would mean that every different interpretation could potentially be the correct answer?
I stand by my answer of E but reading comments and using the word ‘typically’ from the spec, any one of those answers could be correct and perfectly valid.
Alohci wrote: “I am in case convinced that the figure element will be widely used to caption flow content, and especially images, no matter what the spec says.”
I agree with you there.
Michael Zajac says:
E, but sans figure.
The items above the fine print are a list of links with incidental images. An aside is a good way to explicitly indicate their relationship to the page, which wasn’t really possible in HTML 4.
Each item is an annotated link. The associated images act as either graphic headers which could profitably be marked up as heading elements (e.g., “HTML5 For Web Designers”), or as supporting graphic elements that could be a plain img (portrait of Whitney Hess), or background-image (ALA flavour image which may or may not appear in the linked article). The figure element, whose main content is the figure, with caption as an optional accoutrement, isn’t appropriate (regardless of whether it’s referred to from the main text).
HTML Code Dude says:
The answer is E.
The images in the fat footer are not a footer at all, they don’t finish off the page or section they are just content loosely related to the section they are in. Therefore the images should be held in a aside element and then the copyright would be the actual footer element.
Thanks everyone for the considered comments and debate.
The answer, I think, is E:
It’s not <nav>, because those links aren’t links to other pages in Zeldman’s site (or closely related sites). <div> would be fine – you can still use <div> – but it’s the element of last resort, and <aside> is semantically the right choice, as it is defined
The aside element represents a section of a page that consists of content that is tangentially related to the content around the aside element, and which could be considered separate from that content.
I consider that the <aside> to be tangentially related to the whole of zeldman.com, so would put it immediately before the <footer> rather than within it. The fact that its styled to look like the same block doesn’t alter those semantics (and you could facilitate syling them together by wrapping them both in a <div> – did I mention that you can still use <div>?).
In a comment, Zeldman wrote "I would argue that the current HTML5 definition of "footer" is too narrow; that it is based on only the narrowest of existing web design conventions." I’d argue the opposite, actually. I’d argue that <header> and <footer> are not defined tightly enough. <footer> is defined
But what happens if I want to say, at the top of an article “This comment written by Bruce on 11 March”? A <header> element would seem to be equally applicable:
The header element represents a group of introductory or navigational aids.
Is there really a semantic difference between <header> and <footer>?
I’m similarly interested in the debate that was prompted by my use of <figure> to wrap the images and explanatory text. I waver between agreeing with Jeremy, who called me out on it, and agreeing with Shelley (who thought I was right). Most importantly, I agree with Alohci, who says
…"captioned flow content" is commonplace, and would fully justify a dedicated element. If figure cannot be used simply to apply a caption to an image or other flow content, then if as a web author one wants to semantically associate a caption with a specific pair of images what is the alternative? As far as I can see, it’s <div aria-labelledby="mycaption"><img src="myimage1″><img src="myimage2″></div><p id="mycaption">My Caption text</p>. I think that’s a very poor substitute.
I think that the definition of <figure> will be used to caption such content. and that the spec should be clarified and widened slightly to allow this.
I consider that the <aside> to be tangentially related to the whole of zeldman.com
But, zeldman.com is not content per se. Imho, there is no more relationship between this <aside> and the content of that page than there is with the content of any other page within the site.
The spec says:
The way I understand this is that the relationship is between blocks of content in a same document. Saying that this content is related to the whole site makes sense, but I don’t think it justifies making that content an <aside>.
The sectioning nature of HTML5 allows for portable content. HTML5 elements prompt us to consider content hierarchy – to this end the DOM tree.
F. Image and caption twinned in a <div>, grouped in an <aside> element immediately before the <footer>:
<div><img><p class="caption">…<p></div>
<p><small>Copyright</small></p>
G. Image and caption in a <figure> element, grouped in an <div> for styling, immediately before the <footer>.
<figcaption>…</figcaption>
H. Image and caption in a <div>, grouped inside the <footer>:
Tim DiMarco says:
Ok, It has to be included inside the because it is called a “fat footer” not a “footer with some links above it” and also there is an obvious break in the page when it switches to black. So that knocks out D and E. The tag is used for site navigation not links to videos. You could put it in an but that really depends on if you think videos the author likes is some how related to the article. I would go with A.
menu!
If you break it down, this appears to be a footer menu to me.
–>menu
—->li figure figcaption /li
–>/menu
–>p copyright /p
/footer
Jason, how does the menu element fit this circumstance?
Leave a Reply to Bart
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line252
|
__label__cc
| 0.643757
| 0.356243
|
Olle Abstract
Olle Abstract is a DJ with his finger firmly on the pulse of this music, a nonpartisan tastemaker, that is as comfortable in the company of the latest pop sensation as he is sampling the delicacies from House music’s more obscure origins. Coming up through the ranks with the likes of G-Ha in Oslo, through the channels at the now legendary Skansen, Olle Abstract has been the unwavering thermostat by which we gauge the temperature of House music in the Norwegian capital. His monthly podcast, LYD in which he introduces us to new Norwegian music is an imperative part of our ongoing musical education at Jæger and when we do have the honour of his larger than life presence in our booth, we’re always amazed by the versatility of the DJ. His mixes burn through the rings of Space Disco, passes by the lunar stations of Afro-Beat, and gets sucks in to the black-hole of acid into the furthest possible dimensions of House, Techno and Disco. Olle Abstract is uncompromising as he travels through the entire universe of club music, bridging a gap between the then and now as he calls on some classic cuts while bringing a forgotten dynamic charm to this mixes. Olle Abstract is Oslo’s House music don.
Facebook Soundcloud Instagram
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line253
|
__label__cc
| 0.54113
| 0.45887
|
Hotels on Highland in Hollywood
Search for Hotels near Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood, CA
Hollywood And Highland
Best Rooms: There aren't any great views available, so your best option is to request a room facing the pool on any floor.
Best Rooms: There aren't many views available, so your best option is to request a room facing the pool.
Best Rooms: This L-shaped building has a pool, which can be seen from rooms facing W Sunset Blvd.
Best Rooms: There are no real views offered at this hotel, as it's situated next to Melrose Ave.
Best Rooms: For a view of the pool, ask for an inward facing room on any floor.
Best Rooms: Rooms at the front side of the building on floor 2 have a view of Beverly Blvd. and the city. Rooms at the back side of the building on floor 2 have views of surrounding neighborhoods.
Best Rooms: Premium rooms located on the corner of 3rd St. offer great views of the Hollywood Hills in the distance, from floors 3 - 5.
Explore top Hollywood hotels or navigate to specific Hollywood neighborhoods and Hollywood area attractions and landmarks.
Neighborhoods and Areas »
Nearby Cities »
2.04 mi away 16 hotels
4.12 mi away 339 hotels
Source: www.room77.com
LAYZIE BONE AT THE HIGHLAND NIGHT CLUB IN HOLLYWOOD.mov
Trey Songz Performing at Highlands in Hollywood 3.29.10
hollywood&vine Street
Hollywood Mini-Tour, Hollywood & Highland center The Italian Job, El Capitan Theater, Kodak Theater (Academy Awards, American Idol), Grauman s Chinese Theater Blazing Saddles, Mighty Joe Young, Roosev
Digital Music Track (Scott's L.A.)
Hotels in Universal Studios Hollywood
Thai Massage West Hollywood
Real Food Daily West Hollywood
Power outage West Hollywood
What is the best way to get from Hollywood&Highland centre to Six Flag - helpfulbox
You will need to drive, you should be going against traffic most of the way. Sorry, no train to Magic Mountain. Forget the taxi, it will cost you a fortune. Just pull up Mapquest and print up your route, it is pretty easy. Enjoy the drive and have fun!
Monday 12, October 2015 11:37 PM from Angel Wynter
@RevoltTV on the way to the game taping. What's the highland/hollywood address?
Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (born 22 October 1917), known professionally as Joan Fontaine, is a British American actress. She and her elder sister Olivia de Havilland are two of the last surviving leading ladies from Hollywood of the 1930s, at ages 94 and 95...
The View Askewniverse is a fictional universe created by writer/director Kevin Smith, featured in several films, comics and a television series; it is named for Smith's production company, View Askew Productions. The characters Jay and Silent Bob appear in almost...
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line260
|
__label__wiki
| 0.656765
| 0.656765
|
IFF and Mane Announce Settlement of Mane's Lawsuit Concerning
Monomenthyl Succinate
TRENTON, N.J., Dec 29, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) --International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (NYSE: IFF) has settled all patent and non-patent claims brought by V. Mane Fils in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey related to IFF's marketing and sale of products containing Monomenthyl Succinate (MMS). See V. Mane Fils S.A. v. Int'l Flavors & Fragrances, Inc., 3:06-CV-02304 (D. N.J., filed 5/18/06).
Mane's U.S. Patents Nos. 5,725,865 and 5,843,466 were issued in 1998 and cover the use of MMS as a cooling additive in food and beverage products. IFF acknowledges that Mane's patents are valid and enforceable, and will honor those patents. Mane holds foreign counterpart patents in many countries around the world and sells MMS under the name Physcool(R).
IFF previously sold MMS under the name Cooler 1 and sold flavor formulations containing Cooler 1. IFF also sold products under the name Cooler 2(R) or Monomenthyl Glutarate that contained levels of MMS. IFF sold products containing Cooler 1 and Cooler 2(R) as part of its larger promotional campaign called CoolTek.
Under the settlement agreement, (1) IFF will pay Mane a royalty of $40 million; (2) IFF has ceased making or selling Cooler 1 products; and (3) IFF will ensure that the MMS content of its Cooler 2(R) products going forward is at a level that has been agreed to by both parties.
SOURCE: IFF and Mane
Carol Brys, 212-708-7121
Carol.Brys@iff.com
Jennifer Behar, +33-4-93097577
Jennifer.behar@mane.com
Dr. Jean-Jacques Chanot, +33-4-93097010
Jean-jacques.chanot@mane.com
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line263
|
__label__cc
| 0.583453
| 0.416547
|
Nomi Prins
109953 Views January 16, 2016 BROADCAST King World News
FOR DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO PLAY OR DOWNLOAD AUDIOS: CLICK HERE
Nomi Prins: Keynote speaker who just addressed the Federal Reserve, IMF and the World Bank – Nomi is a renowned journalist, author and speaker. Her latest book, All the Presidents’ Bankers, is a groundbreaking narrative about the relationships of presidents to key bankers over the past century and how they impacted domestic and foreign policy.
She was also on a Federal Reserve Advisory Council. Nomi is on the advisory board of the whistle-blowing organization ExposeFacts, and a board member of the animal welfare and wildlife conservation group, Born Free USA. She has also appeared on numerous international and national media.
Nomi Prins is a renowned journalist, author and speaker. Her latest book, All the Presidents’ Bankers, is a groundbreaking narrative about the relationships of presidents to key bankers over the past century and how they impacted domestic and foreign policy. To buy Nomi Prins’ new book “All the Presidents’ Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power“ CLICK HERE or ON THE BOOK
Nomi Prins: Keynote speaker who just addressed the Federal Reserve, IMF and the World Bank – Economic signals are everywhere, from magazine covers to grocery stores to military events. They reveal the story of the world economy. Central bankers have done their best to conjure forth inflation in the hopes that this will vanquish deflation but the risk is that our daily lives, and the sustainability of governments, will be affected by an ongoing battle between these two forces. There will be important consequences.
Quantitative Easing is now catching people in a vice by pushing up their cost of living even as their income is still falling. This breaks the vital social contracts between citizens and their governments and sets in motion many seemingly unrelated outcomes: social unrest in emerging markets, the movement of manufacturing and jobs back to the US and the West, improvements to the value added of emerging market firms, higher food and energy prices. The rising price, but shrinking size, of a steak, a candy bar and an apartment not only cause pain at home, they also propel some nations to deploy their militaries to secure resources and protect their citizens from the ill effects of inflation and deflation alike. This is already resulting in military confrontations, incidents and near misses between American, Chinese and Russian planes, warships and submarines.
The solution is growth and innovation. Luckily, anonymous individuals are balancing their hubris against the risk of failure and proceeding to build a more dynamic economy and the new social contracts that will exist tomorrow. The only question is whether governments are hostile or hospitable to these efforts. By being alert to the many signals around us anyone can better navigate through the turbulence to the treasures of the world economy instead of being continuously overwhelmed and surprised by it.
All the Presidents’ Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power – Who rules America?
All the Presidents’ Bankers is a groundbreaking narrative of how an elite group of men transformed the American economy and government, dictated foreign and domestic policy, and shaped world history.
Culled from original presidential archival documents, All the Presidents’ Bankers delivers an explosive account of the hundred-year interdependence between the White House and Wall Street that transcends a simple analysis of money driving politics—or greed driving bankers.
Prins ushers us into the intimate world of exclusive clubs, vacation spots, and Ivy League universities that binds presidents and financiers. She unravels the multi-generational blood, intermarriage, and protégé relationships that have confined national influence to a privileged cluster of people. These families and individuals recycle their power through elected office and private channels in Washington, DC.
All the Presidents’ Bankers sheds new light on pivotal historic events—such as why, after the Panic of 1907, America’s dominant bankers convened to fashion the Federal Reserve System; how J. P. Morgan’s ambitions motivated President Wilson during World War I; how Chase and National City Bank chairmen worked secretly with President Roosevelt to rescue capitalism during the Great Depression while J.P. Morgan Jr. invited Roosevelt’s son yachting; and how American financiers collaborated with President Truman to construct the World Bank and IMF after World War II.
Prins divulges how, through the Cold War and Vietnam era, presidents and bankers pushed America’s superpower status and expansion abroad, while promoting broadly democratic values and social welfare at home. But from the 1970s, Wall Street’s rush to secure Middle East oil profits altered the nature of political-financial alliances. Bankers’ profit motive trumped heritage and allegiance to public service, while presidents lost control over the economy—as was dramatically evident in the financial crisis of 2008.
This unprecedented history of American power illuminates how the same financiers retained their authoritative position through history, swaying presidents regardless of party affiliation. All the Presidents’ Bankers explores the alarming global repercussions of a system lacking barriers between public office and private power. Prins leaves us with an ominous choice: either we break the alliances of the power elite, or they will break us.
Rick Rule
Michael Belkin
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line272
|
__label__wiki
| 0.699471
| 0.699471
|
Dual neutralization of both interleukin 17A and.
Dual neutralization of both interleukin 17A and interleukin 17F with bimekizumab in patients with psoriasis: Results from BE ABLE 1, a 12-week randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled phase 2b trial
Single blinded (Page 6 of 35)
Dual neutralization of both interleukin 17A and. → Dual neutralization of both interleukin 17A and.
Duett partnervermittlung Partnersuche internet erfolgreich Single darmstadt Israel frauen flirten
Re: Single blinded
Five Red Flags for Christians Blinded by Romance < Singles. Christian Dating Advice Five Red Flags for Christians Blinded by Romance By Dani Miser Author of Single Woman Seeking Perfect Man. – Here’s your sign!
Blinded by the Light - Wikipedia 'Blinded by the Light' is a song written and recorded by Bruce Springsteen, which first appeared on his 1973 debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
: Dexter Season 4: Amazon Digital Services LLC The Showtime Original Series DEXTER is back with an all-new season, and this time America's favorite serial killer has gone from freewheeling bachelor to responsible husband and doting dad.
Badass of the Week: Lachhiman Gurung There are plenty of seriously hardcore warrior associations out there, but as far as I'm concerned it doesn't get a whole lot better than the Gurkhas.
Blind Definition of Blind by Merriam-Webster Adjective. our old blind cat kept walking into walls and furniture you'd have to be really blind to think that was a good idea . Verb. She was blinded as a child in a terrible fire.
Home CCSE The Canadian Center of Science and Education (CCSE) is a private for-profit organization delivering support and services to educators and researchers in Canada and around the world.
Blinded By The Light - The first song and single (it failed to chart) off of Bruce Springsteen's debut album is one of the wordy songs in Mr. Springsteen's catalog. The rhyming, non sequitur word play of the song shows off a Bob Dylan influence, but the music is straight from the Jersey Shore.
TSQL - How to select multiple rows into a single row. Find out how to select multiple rows into a single row with T-SQL
Blinded experiment - Wikipedia A blind or blinded-experiment is an experiment in which information about the test is masked (kept) from the participant, to reduce or eliminate bias, until after a trial outcome is known. It is understood that bias may be intentional or subconscious, thus no dishonesty is implied by blinding.
Cooper → Single blinded
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line288
|
__label__wiki
| 0.75862
| 0.75862
|
The Kingdom Today
Investing in the Country
Visiting the Country
Cultural Activity
Ministry Addresses
Biographies of Ministers
Shura Council
Map of Provinces
Kingdom Priorities
Economic & Global Trade
Combatting Extremism
Humanitarian Activities
BySultan
White Paper: Saudi Arabia and Counterterrorism
White Paper: Saudi Arabia and Counterterrorism – April 2017
This new report provides a comprehensive overview of the efforts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to combat terrorism. It describes Saudi Arabia’s close cooperation with the international community to fight Daesh (ISIS), Al-Qaeda and their affiliates. And it discusses Saudi Arabia’s programs to counter terror financing and attack the mindset that leads vulnerable people to support terrorism.
Al-Qaeda, Counterterrorism, Daesh, ISIS, King Salman, Saudi Arabia
King Salman honoured for service to Islam
The Saudi Cabinet has expressed its congratulations to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques on the occasion of his selection for winning King Faisal International Prize for Service to Islam this year in recognition of his care and service to the Two Holy Mosques and their visitors. Also praised were his Majesty’s attention to the Prophet’s biography, support for the project of Historical Atlas for the Prophet’s Life, and constant quest to unify the ranks of Arabs and Muslims to confront the difficult conditions being witnessed by Arab and Islamic nations.
Award, Cabinet, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, Islam, King Salman, Riyadh
Now Online: December Edition Of Saudi Arabia In Focus Newsletter
KSA Mission Newsletter December 2016
This issue covers the recent EU-League of Arab States ministerial meeting in Cairo, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman’s address to the Shura Council and Saudi Arabia’s role in the fight against Da’esh.
Arab League, Cairo, Daesh, EU, IS, ISIS, King Salman
Counter-terrorism,Saudi News
Saudi King Salman Vows to Fight Terror with an “Iron Fist”
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz has recommitted the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to “strike with an iron fist” the terror groups that seek to recruit youths to “extremism and violence,” and pledged efforts to “distance them from masterminds of misleading ideas.”
In a message to the people of Saudi Arabia and all the world’s Muslims on the occasion of the Eid Al-Fitr, King Salman urged Muslims to unite and condemned terrorism and extremism, stressing their contradiction to Islam.
“The sedition witnessed in the Islamic world today requires all of us to exert the utmost effort to unify our voice, close ranks and work together to solve the problems of the Islamic nation, and achieve victory for its issues,” said King Salman. “However, the biggest challenge facing our Islamic nation is how to keep our youth, the real wealth and hope of the future, away from the dangers facing them – particularly extremism and violence – and distance them from masterminds of misleading ideas that force them to behave in extraordinary ways that contradict the principles of our Islamic religion and the pillars and values of our Islamic societies.”
Vow To Strike Terror Groups
King Salman vowed to spare no effort to crush extremists that use misleading messages to entice impressionable young people to join them. “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is determined, God willing, to strike with an iron fist those who target the minds and attitudes of our youth,” he said.
King Salman, Terrorism
DECEMBER EDITION OF THE SAUDI ARABIA IN FOCUS NEWSLETTER
NOVEMBER EDITION OF THE SAUDI ARABIA IN FOCUS NEWSLETTER
SEPTEMBER EDITION OF THE SAUDI ARABIA IN FOCUS NEWSLETTER
AUGUST EDITION OF THE SAUDI ARABIA IN FOCUS NEWSLETTER
JUNE EDITION OF THE SAUDI ARABIA IN FOCUS NEWSLETTER
EU Saudi Relations
Majlis Alshura
US Relations
Tweets by @ksaembassybe
Stay up-to-date with our latest News
Please use the contact form to send us additional questions.
We will respond to you in a timely fashion.
© 2016 Embassy of Saudi Arabia - Brussels. All rights reserved
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line291
|
__label__wiki
| 0.574007
| 0.574007
|
Become a citizen
Fly the flag
Established in 2012, Lighting Republic an Australian owned company opened its inaugural offices in the heart of trendy Hong Kong.
The international proximity and sophisticated manufacturing, design and logistical advantages of Hong Kong played a vital role in the initial success of the Lighting Republic brand.
In 2015 a decision was made to move the Lighting Republic head quarters back to its roots and an office and design studio was setup in Sydney Australia.
In early 2016, in conjunction with the Lighting Republic parent company (Lightco.com.au) a 220m2 flagship lighting showroom was setup in the heart of Sydney’s interior design precinct. Within the showroom, the Lighting Republic products feature prominently amongst numerous European and American lighting brands and certainly shine through with the elegant designs, fine materials and obvious quality aspects of the products.
Lighting Republic products are designed to a transitional and timeless style with a strong focus on using quality materials and refined artisan manufacturing techniques.
All of the components used are considered and mostly custom made to suit the integrity of the products design intent.
Special consideration is given to the packaging designs and where possible a high percentage of recycled and recyclable materials are used to manufacture the packaging for the Lighting Republic fixtures.
© 2016 Lighting Republic. All Rights Reserved.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line295
|
__label__wiki
| 0.891471
| 0.891471
|
Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun
For movies opening January 13, 2017
Kam Williams | 1/11/2017, 3:46 p.m.
BIG BUDGET FILMS
The Bye Bye Man (PG-13 for terror, violence, sexuality, bloody images, mature themes, profanity, partial nudity and underage alcohol abuse) Haunted house horror flick about a diabolical, supernatural demon (Doug Jones) unwittingly unleashed by a trio of college students (Douglas Smith, Lucien Laviscount and Cressida Bonas) after they move into an old mansion located off-campus. Cast includes Faye Dunaway, Carrie-Anne Moss and Cleo King.
Live by Night (R for sexuality, nudity, graphic violence and pervasive profanity) Ben Affleck adapted, directed and stars in this Prohibition Era saga based on Dennis Lehane's best seller about the wayward son of a Boston police chief (Brendan Gleeson) who moves to Tampa where he becomes a notorious rum-runner and bootlegger. Featuring Scott Eastwood, Zoe Saldana, Elle Fanning, Sienna Miller and Chris Cooper.
Monster Trucks (PG for action, peril, rude humor and brief scary images) Action adventure about a mischievous teen (Lucas Till) who forges an unlikely friendship with the subterranean creature that hangs out under the hood of his homemade jalopy. With Jane Levy, Rob Lowe, Barry Pepper, Danny Glover, Amy Ryan and Thomas Lennon.
Patriots Day (R for violence, grisly images, drug use and pervasive profanity) War on Terrorism thriller recounting the manhunt for the radical Islamists (Alex Wolff and Themo Melikidze) responsible for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Co-starring Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin Bacon and J.K. Simmons.
Silence (R for disturbing violence) Adaptation of the Shusaku Endo novel of the same name, set in the 17th Century, revolving around two Portuguese priests (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) who travel to Japan to search for their missing mentor (Liam Neeson). With Ciaran Hinds, Issei Ogata and Nana Komatsu. (In English and Japanese with subtitles)
Sleepless (R for graphic violence and pervasive profanity) High-octane crime thriller, set in Las Vegas, revolving around a corrupt cop (Jamie Foxx) with less than 24 hours to rescue his son (Octavius J. Johnson) kidnapped by mobsters. Ensemble includes Gabrielle Union, Dermot Mulroney, Young Jeezy, T.I. and Michelle Monaghan.
INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS
100 Streets (Unrated) Ensemble drama chronicling the lives of a retired rugby player (Idris Elba), a drug dealer (Franz Drameh) and a struggling actor (Ken Stott) whose paths serendipitously cross. Cast includes Gemma Arterton, Ryan Gage and Tom Cullen.
Alone in Berlin (R for violence) Fact-based, World War II tale about a working-class, German couple (Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson) who turn against Hitler after their Nazi soldier son (Louis Hoffmann) perishes on the battlefield. Featuring Daniel Bruhl, Lars Rudolph and Uwe Preuss. (In German with subtitles)
Bad Kids of Crestview Academy (R for sexuality, nudity, underage drinking and drug abuse, graphic violence and pervasive profanity) high attrition-rate sequel to Bad Kids Go to Hell finds a new group of delinquent students stuck in detention where their ranks proceed to dwindle as they fall victim to gruesome accidents one-by-one. Ensemble cast co-stars Ben Browder, Sammi Hanratty, Drake Bell, Gina Gershon and Sean Astin.
The Book of Love (PG-13 for profanity, drug use and mature themes) Bittersweet drama about an introverted architect (Jason Sudeikis) grieving the death of his wife (Jessica Biel) who rebuilds his life by sailing across the Atlantic Ocean on a raft with a troubled teen (Maisie Williams). With Orlando Jones, Mary Steenburgen and Paul Reiser.
Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray (Unrated) Meryl Streep narrates this reverential retrospective about the late Elizabeth Murray (1940-2007), a single-mom who overcame considerable obstacles en route to becoming a prominent modern artist.
Go North (Unrated) Futuristic sci-fi set in the wake of an apocalyptic castrophe which has left the planet without any adults. Ensemble includes Jacob Lofland, James Bloor, Sophie Kennedy Clark and Patrick Schwarzenegger (Arnold's son).
Ok Jaanu (Unrated) Romance drama, set in Mumbai, about an ambitious couple (Shraddha Kapoor and Aditya Roy Kapoor) forced to pick between their careers and following their hearts when work threatens to pull them apart. With Naseeruddin Shah and Leela Samson. (In Hindi with subtitles)
Reset (Unrated) Dance documentary chronicling the efforts of choreographer-turned-artistic director Benjamin Millepied to rejuvenate the Paris Opera Ballet. (In French and English with subtitles)
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line301
|
__label__cc
| 0.645772
| 0.354228
|
Slammers 2019 tickets on sale
4/8/2019, 10:07 p.m.
Joliet - The Champion Slammers are BACK! An action-packed schedule has everything - from a championship ceremony, to The Sarge, Weiner Wednesdays to Edzo, a Domer named Zorich, a brand-new Kid Zone, and MUCH MUCH MORE! Opening Day is just 31 days away! Fans can now purchase tickets for their favorite theme nights over the phone at (815) 722-2287 or at jolietslammers.com/tickets
Opening day at Joliet Route 66 Stadium is set for Thursday, May 9. It will be a celebration of the 2018 Frontier League Championship and will include a championship ring ceremony for the team before the game. The first 1000 fans will receive a championship photo provided by Brian Mejdrich your local health insurance professional with United Insurance Services representing Blue Cross and Blue Shield of IL.
Returning weekday promotions include $2 Tuesdays ($2 Reserved tickets), presented by Illinicare Health, Thirsty Thursdays, ($2 Bud, Bud Light, $2 beverages from the Dr. Pepper/Snapple Group, and $4 Jim Beam and Ole Smoky drinks) presented by Bud Light, and Fireworks Fridays. The Slammers will introduce Weiner Wednesday, Signature Saturday, and a revamped Family Sunday. Weiner Wednesday will feature $1 hot dogs on May 29, June 5, June 12, and August 14. Signature Saturdays will include an appearance by celebrities on select nights. Celebrities include Chris Zorich on May 18 for Notre Dame Night, Gary Matthews on June 15, and Eddie Olczyk on August 17 for Cancer Awareness Night.
Pricing and VIP packages will be announced at a later date. Family Sunday returns in 2019 with more activities for the kids including a FREE bounce house provided by Channahon General Rental, FREE face painting provided by Lollipop Face Painting, AND a BRAND-NEW playground system from Rainbow Play Systems! For a membership of just $25, Kid Club Elite members get a Slammers hat, free entry to select games, and 30-minute early entrance before EVERY game to use the playground. Post game, full team autographs will also return to Sundays..
The month of May will celebrate Accountants and CPAs on May 14 and Bus Drivers on May 28 in conjunction with $2 Tuesday. The month also features two educational days beginning at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 15 and Thursday, May 16. Friday, May 17 will be the first fireworks show of the year for Wild Wild West Night. Notre Dame Night on May 18 will feature special ticket options for Notre Dame alumni.
Rolling into June, the Slammers will hold appreciation nights for teachers (June 4), government employees (June 11), and medical professionals (June 25). June also brings back fan favorites such as Princess Night on Friday, June 14 and Star Wars Night on Saturday, June 15. Princess Night includes princess characters provided by Magic, Music and More and Star Wars Night will feature costume characters throughout the game. Both games will be followed by a themed fireworks show. The Slammers will play a 1:05 p.m. game on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 16. Fans will have the chance to play catch on field following the game. New in 2019 is Animation Night with a Pixar themed fireworks show. Fans are encouraged to dress up as their favorite animated cowboy, spaceman, or other friends from Radiator Springs, Monstropolis, and more! The Slammers first pet day, where fans can bring in their pets on a leash or in a carrier, is June 23.
| Read More >>
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line302
|
__label__wiki
| 0.672374
| 0.672374
|
Letham Nights #63 – James Brown Is Annie
by Letham Nights
The Funk, The Whole Funk and Nothing But The Funk!
James Brown Is Annie
Tickets Here>>
Ooft! We have bagged a beauty for part II of our Year of Funk… None other than Scottish funk ‘n’ soul sextet from Edinburgh, the amazing James Brown Is Annie. Described by presenter and soul music aficionado Stuart Cosgrove as ‘one of Scotland’s top bands of the moment’, JBiA serve up an irresistible brand of full-fat, calorie-laden, whipped-up funk ‘n’ soul.
They met in a piano bar, rehearse next to a sex shop, and take their name from an Eddie Murphy SNL sketch. Both JBiA albums were produced by original members of funk legends Average White Band, Molly Duncan & Hamish Stuart. They have also been chosen for BBC Radio Scotland ‘Single Of The Week’ for “Get Up To Get Down”. Presenter and soul music aficionado, Stuart Cosgrove describes the sextet as “one of Scotland’s top bands of the moment”. As well as being chosen to perform at the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, alongside AWB as the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 2018’s flagship show, they have regularly sold out venues across the UK including in London.
“The funk is strong with these ones” Daily Record
“Proof that Scotland has the funk.” The Herald
“The funk, the whole funk and nothing but the funk” The Times
Check them out in this cheeky wee video starring Judith Ralston and Grant Stott:
So whatcha gonna do about it now? We say… Get Up Offa That Thing, get it in the diary, book your tickets… You’ll definitely feel better!
Future Shows 2019
The Year of The Funk!
Boots for Dancing, James Brown Is Annie… So what next in our Year of Funk? Join our mailing list to get our updates and you’ll be first to know about the next high class funk and soul band we have booked for 2019. Trust us! It’s another cracker!
Green Arts Initiative
Letham Nights is now a member of the Green Arts Initiative, an interactive community of Scottish arts organisations working to promote sustainability and reduce their environmental impact – a perfect fit for Letham Nights!
Run by Creative Carbon Scotland and Festivals Edinburgh since 2013, the Green Arts Initiative supports Scottish arts organisations to be at the forefront of growing an environmentally sustainable Scotland.
Letham Nights began in December 2008. Our vision was to bring high quality music to our village hall and provide a stage for local talent. At the same time we wanted to work towards creating a zero carbon village hall. 8 years and over 80 acts later, we have drawn in an audience which now averages nearly 100 in our 120-capacity hall. We have supported hall improvements so that we now have double glazing, better insulation, renewed wiring and a new efficient boiler. The events are renowned for their high quality music and the unique, warm and friendly atmosphere. We really do put on THE BEST SMALL GIGS IN THE WORLD!
Follow Letham Nights on Twitter
Like the Letham Nights Facebook Page and join the events.
Remember, pre-paid is best! No booking fees – just send a cheque or do an online transfer after checking availability with mike@lethamnights.org and following the instructions on our ticket page
If you would like to take to the stage or the dance floor at Letham Nights, buy tickets or simply find out more, contact:
Michael t 01337 810372 m 07838 820659 mike@lethamnights.org
or Roy m 07856 892705 roy-campbell@btconnect.com
www.lethamnights.org
Sign up to the Letham Nights Mailing list
Join Letham Nights on Facebook
Letham Village Hall, Fife is on the A92 just 15 minutes from the Tay Bridge, 10 minutes from Cupar and 15 from Glenrothes.
Don’t forget that the Clap and Tipple bar will be on hand to quench your thirst and tickle your tastebuds !
The Best Small Gigs In The World!
Letham Nights #62 – Boots for Dancing || Restricted Code
Time for a post-punk funk revival dontcha think?
If you remember that sweet time from 1979 to 1981 when a host of new bands hit the scene and brought a punk sensibility to a funky beat, you will not want to miss this one! Boots for Dancing and Restricted Code were part of the influential post-punk movement celebrated in the film Big Gold Dream made in 2015 and feature on the new Big Gold Dreams definitive collection of Scottish Music.
Boots For Dancing
Born at Scotland’s post-Punk crossroads in 1979, Boots For Dancing kicked down the boundary walls of a played-out scene and introduced the UK to a more funky way of doing Punk. Hugely popular as a live act, often wiping the floor with the bands they were supporting, Boots was something genuinely ahead of the epoch’s curve and played an important part in the vanguard of the burgeoning Post Punk and Punk-Funk movements. Boots For Dancing’s light shone brightly but briefly and their boundless energy and undeniable talent never proved quite enough for great success beyond their legendary John Peel Sessions. However, if it “wasnae for Boots there’d be “no Elvis, Beatles or Rolling Stones …”
Restricted Code
Meanwhile, on the West coast, a similar picture developed when a group of friends from Easterhouse got together as Restricted Code. They too melded punk with funk and soul to create an incendiary live act that led to them being signed to Bob Last’s new label Pop:aural. Restricted Code enjoyed fantastic critical success and something of a ‘cult’ following. Paul Morley in NME picked them as “band most likely to…” in 1980, Sounds music paper claimed they delivered the “best gig of 1980”, and there were numerous rave reviews and extensive features in magazines including The Face and Melody Maker.
So yeah, how about that? Bet you weren’t expecting that from Letham Nights! Well you know we like to surprise you and it is going to be one helluva show. Tell your friends!! Get booking!!
Following on from Letham Nights 62, 2019 is going to be The Year of the Funk! As you know we never like to get stuck in one genre and so once again we thought we would branch out. And we didn’t have to fall far to find a few fab funk outfits keen to come and play. Next up on 29th June we will have the funktastic James Brown Is Annie with their full-fat, calorie-laden, whipped-up funk ‘n soul! More soon!
Letham Nights 61 – She’Koyokh and The Banana Sessions – The Review
Please clear your diaries for the next ten years. If this was anything to go by the next sixty editions of Letham Nights are going to top anything the world of entertainment has ever seen!
Hype, moi? How very dare you. Letham Nights 61 was a cornucopia of fruit based musicality and mayhem. A pomological dreamscape of raspberries, bananas, hops and who knows what. Two acts full to the brim with potassium, fructose and vitamins A, B and C, delivering a sweet sharp melange for the senses. On we go…
Old friends of Letham Nights, The Banana Sessions, opened for us, and what an intimate and appeeling treat it turned out to be. Roberta Pia and Callum Wood first met over a mutual affection for tea and bananas and have ever since been attempting to save the world using nothing but guitars, stomp boxes and good vibes. With lively, uncontrived banter, sweet vocals and song subjects ranging from the colour green to ripped up pics of SuBo presented to them in backwater boozers, you can’t fail to be charmed by this band. Usually travelling with a drummer but flying duo for this tour, they nonetheless filled the hall with bonhomie, bon mots and made us all that bit more bon vivacious. Bons moments, indeed!
What can you say about She’koyokh that hasn’t been said before. Yes, they are flip-hot players. Yes, they have character and charisma by the bucket load. They’re also thoroughly nice people and good eggs, to boot. Packed to the gills with virtuosic gypsy mischief, they are bone fide mirth-makers of the highest order. Fitting us in between dates with the Scottish Symphony Orchestra, it was a chance for them to mingle with the more earthy manners and aromas of our musky fold. And did they ever? She’koyokh are every inch the co-operative and would, I’m sure, demur at any talk of front-persons. That being said, Çigdem Aslan leads the vocal line like a Turkish trobairitz. What a voice! From deep Billie Holiday notes to great emotional crescendos containing all the heartbreak of the world, you cannot take your eyes or ears off of her. Meanwhile, pumping away beatifically on the button accordion and chipping in with songs about raspberries (psst, he’s not really singing about raspberries), Živorad Nikolic is every inch the Serbian maestro (and if you have a five year old around the place, he’s happy to have a chat and show off the buttons – what a guy!). Understated, but by no means underappreciated, Christina Borgenstierna beavers away at the back, vivifying myriad mysterious percussion devices; her woodpecker fingers hammering at the skins of that most ancient family of instruments. Over on guitar, meanwhile, Matt Bacon chukka- chucks, wakka-waks and kerrangs his way through rhythm licks and crafty runs like a six-string Adonis. He is also very adept at the recorder! From six-string sass to four-string class, Meg-Rosaleen Hamilton scrapes away at her violin, gathering such pace that, I kid you not, smoke can verifiably be seen rising from her bow. Susi Evans (a.k.a. The Pied Piper of She’koyokh) snake-charms her way through the set with clarinet so hot you could fire ceramics in it! Vigour, ladies and gentleman, and vim were the watchwords.
Not forgetting the engine room, where Big Paul Moylan toils away there in the bassment, thrumming his way expertly through the combined musical legacy of half a continent and never letting it go down.
What a night, what a noise, what a gang!
Check out She’koyokh here: http://www.shekoyokh.co.uk/
Check out Banana Sessions here: Facebook: The Banana Sessions
Photos courtesy of © Caroline Tosin
Letham Nights #61 – She’Koyokh with special guests, The Banana Sessions
Nice One! She’Koyokh Are Back!
…and so are The Banana Sessions!
And it’s a SELL OUT!
Please do not make any further online transfers – use the contact details shown to let us know if you wish to be on a reserve list for returns.
Saturday 9th February 2019 – 7.30pm
How do you follow that, we thought, after a magnificent 60th celebration in November with the Bevvy Sisters. But up step She’Koyokh, just as they did after our 50th Letham Nights and we are sorted..!
She’Koyokh, as many of you know from first hand experience, are probably the best Balkan & Klezmer outfit in the UK and one of the best anywhere in the world. Returning to Letham, with a full line up this time, the extraordinarily talented Balkan and Klezmer outfit will be sandwiching this gig between two shows with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Aberdeen and Edinburgh. When they called us to see if we had a slot, we just couldn’t resist!
And as if that wasn’t enough, we are privileged that the outstanding The Banana Sessions have agreed to open the evening for us. Featuring the legendary and wonderful Roberta Pia, this self-proclaimed ‘Weird Band From Scotland’ were putting together a wee house concert tour and our mutual admiration meant that this was a stick-on as soon as it was suggested!
She’Koyokh
“One of the finest and most entertaining British-based exponents of global music” (The Guardian).
She’Koyokh is an international virtuosic, versatile and prize-winning band comprising seven expert musicians playing klezmer and traditional music from the Balkans and Turkey.
She’Koyokh has toured the world with highlights at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and festivals in Germany, Hungary, Poland, Cyprus, Spain, the Canary Islands and Norway; WOMAD UK, WOMAD Fuerteventura, Sziget and Pannonica Festivals; Fundación Juan March Madrid, London’s Southbank Centre, Aldeburgh’s Snape Proms and live sessions on BBC Radio.
Four globally acclaimed albums have earned She’Koyokh the reputation as “one of London’s musical treasures playing the best klezmer and Balkan music in Britain” (The Evening Standard). First Dance on Second Avenue was released in 2017 on World Music Network’s Riverboat Records to critical acclaim, receiving a 5 star review in the Evening Standard, 5 stars and Album Choice in fROOTS, 4 stars in the Guardian, 4 stars and Top of the World in Songlines and 4 stars in BBC Music Magazine. She’Koyokh’s previous albums are Wild Goats and Unmarried Women (2014 Riverboat), Buskers’ Ballroom (2011 ARC) and Sandanski’s Chicken (2007 ARC).
With seventeen years absorbing and performing the rich folk music traditions of Jewish Eastern Europe, Turkey and the Balkans, She’Koyokh’s shows bring together the stunning polyphonic melodies and intricate rhythms of Bulgaria, treasured tunes from Serbian villages and exhilarating Gypsy dances from Romania as well as soulful Sephardic songs and klezmer music from Jewish eastern Europe. Added to the mix is an Albanian folk song popular in southern Kosovo, a song from south-west Turkey about wild goats and unmarried women, a love song for a Gypsy girl with penetrating green eyes, a beautiful Armenian song about migration and a Yiddish Swing number from 1950s New York.
The band formed in 2001 with the support of a Millennium Award from the Jewish Music Institute. In 2008 they were awarded first prize in the International Jewish Music Festival in Amsterdam and have been shortlisted twice for Best Group in the Songlines World Music Awards. In 2012 She’koyokh contributed the material for and led performances with the Aurora Orchestra at LSO St Luke’s, St George’s Bristol and the Brighton Dome. In 2019 they will collaborate with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and are currently developing a show with the acclaimed South Indian violinist, Jyotsna Srikanth.
And by the way, She’Koyokh is a Yiddish word meaning “nice one!”
The Banana Sessions are a band. Not just any band either – the sort of band that haunt your dreams with annoyingly catchy melodies, Beatles-esque harmonies and washboard beats. But don’t let that put you off – if Marmite can win the hearts of many, then so can they.
The Banana Sessions exploded onto the Scottish music scene way back when in 2007. Fresh out of music school, Roberta Pia and Calum Wood had met and bonded over tea and bananas and began to write songs about the most mundane topics they could possibly think of – running out of tea bags, the health benefits of bananas, stories about bears in the forest and being chased by imaginary white rabbits. With wild imagination, they stayed up late one night writing their first EP featuring their first ever song, Bananas – they aptly named themselves The Banana Sessions and the rest was history.
Early on, they recorded their Prodigy Medley – more commonly known as their ‘tenuous claim to fame’ – complete with a music video to boot. The Prodigy saw the video, Liam Howlett said ‘That’s really cool. I dig it.’ – and they posted it on their website which saw multiple fans flowing in from Eastern Europe and beyond. One band from Bulgaria even did a cover of The Banana Sessions’ cover of Prodigy songs – how’s that for inception?!
2016 saw the release of The Banana Sessions second album, Be Bold and Brilliant, marking the moment that the band transcended into folkier and more mature territory. You guessed it – they got the band back together, only this time as a stripped back three-piece and with guests Euan Burton and Doug Hough on the record. The Be Bold and Brilliant Tour stormed across the UK in true Banana Sessions style and saw the band stronger than ever. Straight after this, they went back into songwriting mode and spent a weekend in Eyemouth conjuring up a whole batch of new songs and we’ve been keeping them under wraps ever since – until now.
2019 sees the band reform once again with the same stripped back classic line-up of vocals, guitar, percussion and plenty of harmonies with some brand-new material, some very old material and an album of B sides featuring music that has never been heard before. The band embark on a two-week tour in February 2019 – The House Concert Tour, beginning with their favourite village hall. And let’s face it, it yours too! Although less of a house than a village hall, we promise to provide that intimate house concert atmosphere…
Well, as we go to press with this blog, the dates are there but just not quite over the finish line. However we CAN say that 2019 is going to be The Year of the Funk! As you know we never like to get stuck in one genre and so once again we thought we would branch out. And we didn’t have to fall far to find a few fab funk outfits keen to come and play. Just you wait!
Letham Nights #60 – The Bevvy Sisters with Letham Voices and Dave Webster
Not long to go until our 60th Show and 10th anniversary!
The Bevvy Sisters with Letham Voices and Dave Webster
Help us celebrate! Book your tickets! Sign up to sing!
Saturday 24th November
Letham Voices Community Choir Workshop 2.30 – 4.30pm
Evening Show – Doors 7.30pm
What better way to celebrate our 60th event and 10-year anniversary than to bring back to Letham one of our favourite acts, the Bevvy Sisters for another classy night of swing, jazz, folk and blues with harmonies to die for – this time with a unique twist. The Bevvies will run an afternoon community choir workshop – Letham Voices – who will perform with the band to close the evening!
Like to sing? Then get signed up!!
A Celebration!
We are REALLY excited about this next landmark in our Letham Nights journey. Excited and delighted that the Bevvy Sisters agreed to be the headline act for our 60th event and 10-year anniversary. The Sisters have supported us all the way from early in our development as a venue and so it is all the more important to us that they want to come back this time.
Sign Up To Sing – Letham Voices – Community Choir Workshop!
To make Letham Nights #60 a special celebration, the Bevvy Sisters have agreed to run an afternoon choir workshop. The choir will take to the stage on the night to close the headline performance. No prior qualifications or experience are required – just bring your voice and your love of singing!
The Bevvies are supremely qualified to bring out the best in our Letham Voices. Heather Macleod, Gina Rae and Louise Murphy are seasoned professionals not just in their own right as performing artists but as teachers and choir leaders. “We’re loving the added experience of meeting and working with our audience in a deeper way”. Find out more about the workshop magic they have been weaving into their shows here >> . And take a look at this clip to get a feel for what a great experience this could be:
The Sisters have just released their new album, This Moment, and are keen to share its delights with us. It was launched in fabulous style at the Queens Hall in Edinburgh with the fantastic Soundhouse Choir, which is run and directed by Heather. During the summer the band worked with Southern Fried Voices at the exquisite and newly renovated Perth Theatre with Blue Rose Code. This was hugely well received.
What the critics say…
“This Moment is an album that that floats in the air as serenely as a glider surveying the Earth from the sanctity and the openness of the Heavens, a real treat. A symphony of expressive harmony and patient beauty.” Liverpool Sound & Vision
“It’s not often that you go to a gig and are captivated right from the opening notes – but that’s what happened on Saturday night when The Bevvy Sisters took to the stage in the Drygate in Glasgow’s East End” Scotsman (Glasgow Jazz Festival 2017)
“Scotland-based four-piece group The Bevvy Sisters (not all sisters, or even all women) enthrall and amaze as they bring us their unique stamp on Americana classics and their own songs. The three ladies open slow and atmospherically with a cover of “Sylvie”, in a cappella that allows them to show off their impressive voices and fine vocal arrangements, backed up by David Donnelly’s impressively low and deep, resounding voice. It’s captivating to watch such a sound erupt.” BBC Best of the Fest – Edinburgh Fringe
Special Guest Dave Webster
We are delighted to announce that vocalist and songwriter, Dave Webster, one of the 3 frontmen of Dundee’s legendary band, Sinderins, has agreed to open the show with a solo set of his own material. Those of you who have seen Dave perform at previous Letham Nights shows with Sinderins (or previous incarnations Anderson, McGinty, Webster, Ward and Fisher or Luva Anna) will appreciate just what a treat we are in for. Dave’s voice is unique, powerful and affecting and he is a supremely skilled and sensitive songwriter. His voice is extraordinary – otherworldly even – and full of soul. It soars and shifts and tingles the spine in a manner reminiscent of, and yet wholly different from, Jeff Buckley or Ian Gillan. Can’t wait!
9th February 2019 – She’Koyokh
Returning to Letham with a full line up this time, the extraordinarily talented Balkan and Klezmer outfit will be sandwiching this gig between two shows with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Aberdeen and Edinburgh. When they called us to see if we had a slot, we just couldn’t resist!
Don’t worry! There is lot’s more in the pipeline…!!
Letham Nights #59 – Cara
Saturday 22nd September
After our long hot summer, we are going to slip into autumn gracefully with the beautiful sound of CARA (Irish for friendship). Brought to Letham Nights by the highly acclaimed Scottish folk singer, Kim Edgar, CARA are a truly class act and while the band members are mostly German, their music is firmly rooted in Irish and Scottish traditions. Performing innovative arrangements of traditional material alongside original songs and tunes, CARA have gained international critical acclaim as you can see from this trailer and the reviews that follow…
With lead vocalists Gudrun Walther (Germany) and Kim Edgar (Scotland) alongside piano, fiddle, flute, guitar, uilleann pipes and accordion, CARA have been described as “a whole festival wrapped up in one band” (Bruce MacGregor, BBC Radio Scotland).
Once again then, we have rooted out an absolutely top quality band to perform in our wonderful wee hall with its warm, friendly and music-loving atmosphere. Cara and Letham Nights is going to be a match made in heaven! So come, catch up with old friends, make some new ones, and join in the celebration!
“A world class band in top form.” Irish Music Magazine
“Strong on emotion, story and poetry… impressive, dramatic and accomplished” FolkRadio.UK
“Genial musicianship… delicious” Living Tradition
“Great musicianship […] total respect for the material. Wonderful.” Mike Harding
“Real passion…stunningly good.” Moors Magazine
“A musical force to be reckoned with…they can really fly” **** The Scotsman
“They radiated a warmth that charmed our audience demanding they return on their next tour.” Chapel Sessions, Southampton
“These guys are all excellent musicians and their sound is technically excellent, dynamic and stirring… everybody was mightily impressed, with many requests to have them back again.” Folk In The Barn, Canterbury
24th November 2018 – The Bevvy Sisters and the Letham Nights Community Choir
At last we bring back the Bevvy Sisters for another classy night of swing, jazz, folk and blues with harmonies to die for – this time with a unique twist. The Bevvies will run an afternoon workshop to train up a choir of volunteers to perform on the night. Like to sing? Then get signed up!!
Letham Nights #58 – Gina Chavez | Delightful Squalor | Zoe Graham
Gina Chavez | Delightful Squalor | Zoe Graham
ONE WEEK TO GO!!
Wow! We made it happen! Austin, Texas Musician of the Year is coming to the village hall! Not only that but we have actually assembled 4 truly extraordinary female artists for an evening of exquisite entertainment – a joyful celebration of women in music and of equal rights. We are BURSTING with excitement!
Ever since we saw Gina Chavez on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series (now approaching 650000 views!!), we were determined to bring her to Letham Nights to share her beautiful Latino infused songs and rhythms. And she was determined to come to Scotland. Gina is an award-winning, bilingual, Latin-folk singer/songwriter who expertly blends the sounds of the Americas with tension and grace. She has received national recognition from NPR’s “All Songs Considered” and “Alt.Latino” for her debut SXSW performance as one of the new Latin artists to watch. She won Austin Music Awards for two years running, including three Austin Music Awards for “Best Female Vocals, Best Latin Traditional, and Best Latin Rock”.
So we are going to have a massive party. With dancing.
Delightful Squalor joins the seasoned talents of singer song-writers Lake Montgomery of Paris, Texas and Cera Impala of Flagstaff, Arizona. These ladies provide honeyed harmonies you can hope to taste delivering an authentic Americana duet project, unique in its charm. Guitar, 5 string Banjo and ukulele in hand, they craft songs that feel timeless, songs to help you forget a world gone mad. A taste of country blues, gospel, folk and old-time jazz, they take from a range of influences resulting in a sound that comes across as quite it’s own.
The prodigiously talented young Glasgow singer-songwriter, Zoe Graham completes the quartet. Zoe has an impressive maturity and attention to detail in her music that sets her apart from her peers. On stage, she is masterful with new tech, fleshing out the instrumentation with loop pedals, but she can also tear you apart with a simple acoustic ballad like the soon-to-be iconic Anniesland Lights. The last time Zoe played Letham, she blew us away. Prepare to be amazed.
Now surely that’s enough to get you battering down the door for tickets!
22nd September – Cara
Brought to Letham Nights by the highly acclaimed Scottish folk singer, Kim Edgar, this Irish folk band are a truly class act. Despite the fact that all of the band, apart from Kim, are German, the band absolutely NAIL the genre.
24th November – The Bevvy Sisters and the Letham Nights Community Choir
A huge THANK YOU!
Sincere thanks to everyone who responded to our call to DO ONE THING ONCE for Letham Nights. We had a most amazing response and now have a database of around 30 volunteers that we can call upon to help us keep the show on the road. We hope that makes you as happy as we are! And if you still want to get involved and haven’t been in touch please use the contact details at the bottom of the page to reach out.
Letham Nights #57 – The Coal Porters & The Coaltown Daisies – The Review
©EBM Photography
The long low rays of spring sunshine lanced their way through open curtains, illuminating dust sprites as they danced and dallied on the ebbs and flows of the evening breeze. Every string had been tuned, thrummed and its waveforms gracefully finessed by science in preparation for the hoe-down. The patrons, regular and irregular, had chosen their pews with care lest cruel Apollo scorch their features and damn their eyes. Drapes were adjusted, tipples gained and the days cares lost as the time of merriment drew nigh.
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? Why, none other than erstwhile Letham Nights favourites and top chums, The Coaltown Daisies! Back where they belong after a long absence brought about by gypsy curses and terrifying diary clashes, it was like Vivienne and Linzy had never been away. Except now they have more songs. They like to mix it up a bit too. Vivienne opens up with her own ‘The Brave One’, with Lynzy backing up with box-hitting and backing vocals. Later Lynzy gets her turn with her beautiful tribute to her mate, ‘Little Jane’.
The dynamics continue in their vocal interplay with both of them capable of low soulful notes or soaring operatics, with the other plugging the gaps in between like songful silicon sealant. A cracking Mary Chapin Carpenter cover gets toes tapping, ‘The Whisky Song’ rounds things off boozily and the #bantz, is bang on. We love you, Daisies!
The Coal Porters are self-described as alt-bluegrass but that doesn’t mean they don’t have the authentic chops and bona fides. Oh, yes indeedy, Sid Griffin and his band of merry pranksters can forward roll, backward roll, strum, flatpick, pluck and fiddle with the finest of their non-alt counterparts. With four part harmonies and forty eight strings stretched across eight instruments you’d better believe these guys keep themselves busy.
As the personnel rotate like a Swiss timepiece at the stroke of the hour, such instant classics as ‘Salad Days’ and ‘Dancing on The Courthouse Lawn’ trip from their apparatus and plant smiles on the faithful below. A cover of Average White Band classic ‘Pick Up The Pieces’ keeps the purists happy whilst their dirgy cover of David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ carries a much heavier slice of poignancy than the last time we heard it (damn you, 2016!).
Come the second set and the tunes keep a coming, the toes keep tapping and dancing ensues. Songs about prison breaks and sitting in jail-houses sit perfectly alongside covers by Adele and The Only Ones and the whole shebang comes shuddering to a gleeful conclusion with the band on the dancefloor giving an acoustic rendition of ‘Teenage Kicks’. What a season, what a night, what a band.
Check out The Coal Porters here
Check out The Coaltown Daisies here
Letham Nights #57 – The Coal Porters with the Coaltown Daisies
with Special Guests – The Coaltown Daisies
As you probably already know, at Letham Nights, as a proud Green Arts Initiative venue, we are committed to reducing our carbon footprint and creating a zero-carbon village hall. However, this kind of carbon we can cope with…!
The Coal Porters, making their second visit to Letham Nights, and led by the legendary Sid Griffin, are all set to light up the hall with their unique punk-influenced take on alt-bluegrass. The band demonstrate the power of fiddle, mandolin, banjo, acoustic guitar and doghouse bass when matched with four-part harmonies and memorable melodies.
They have taken this sound around the world and have been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition in the USA and having recorded a live session for Bob Harris on BBC Radio 2.
The Coal Porters are;
Kerenza Peacock – fine fiddle and vocals;
Paul Fitzgerald – banjo and vocals;
Sid Griffin – vocals, mandolin, harmonica and autoharp;
Andrew Stafford – bass;
Neil Robert Herd – guitar and vocals.
“Sid Griffin was playing Americana years before the term was invented and that pioneer spirit shines on with his current band, the Coal Porters.” ~ Billy Bragg
“Not your average fish and chips bluegrass, the Coal Porters have expanded their music with broad strokes and fearless execution.” ~ Chris Hillman (Byrds/Flying Burrito Bros/Desert Rose)
“Great harmony singing and memorable songs that often recall a British Flying Burrito Brothers or a back porch Ronnie Lane” ~ Mojo Magazine
“The Coal Porters whisk together a hugely listenable cocktail of bluegrass, folk and country” ~ Uncut
We are sooooo happy to have them back and we know that they love us too. Here’s what guitarist, Neil Herd, had to say about Letham Nights:
“Genuinely one of the Coal Porter’s favourite gigs EVER. That’s a lot of gigs passed over in favour of you fine folks – and rightly so. Aye. Neil Herd, The Coal Porters
And just to stretch the coal theme a bit more, we have invited the wonderful Coaltown Daisies to open the entertainment for the evening.
The Coaltown Daisies write and perform dynamic folk, soul and americana music and have tremendous experience as performers, recording artists and event managers. They are renowned for their highly engaging live performances and steady professionalism which has resulted in them performing at sought after venues and festivals all over the country.
The records they have released under their own Ragged Boot Records label feature some of Scotland’s most highly established musicians and have been exceptionally well received by listeners the world over; their latest release features a composition that was chosen as the original theme for World Whisky Day and won them the coveted CalMac Culture Music prize.
All that coal! It’s going to be a burning hot night!
Letham Nights – The Year Ahead…
Future Shows – Get the dates in your diary!!
We are seriously ahead of ourselves for the rest of 2018 and have some exciting shows lined up. More details later but get these dates in your diary!
16th June – Gina Chavez and girlfriends –
Soooo excited to have booked the amazing and delightful Gina Chavez. Gina is a multi-award winning artist from Austin, Texas and will bring some cool Latino grooves to the hall. She will be joined by a trio of solo female artists that we know well – Roberta Pia, Cera Impala and Lake Montgomery. Each will do a solo set and then Roberta will finish this hot, midsummer evening with a DJ set curated by the 4 artists. Phew!
22nd September – Cara –
16th November – The Bevvy Sisters and the Letham Nights Community Choir –
Letham Nights #56 – The Jellyman’s Daughter
The Jellyman’s Daughter
with Al Shields
Saturday 17th March 2018
Doors 7.30 until Midnight
When Scottish duo The Jellyman’s Daughter came calling it was hard to resist. Two years ago at LN#40 (go back and read the review!!) this frighteningly talented duo played as openers to Cera Impala and the New Prohibition. We said then that they could just as easily have topped the bill such is their class. And now they are launching their second album, Dead Reckoning, with their own headlining show at Letham Nights on St Patrick’s Night. What a hooley we are going to have!
The Jellyman’s Daughter lands squarely in the middle of a strange crossroads between bluegrass, post-rock, folk and soul. Mixing their unique vocal harmonies with wild and visceral cello, driving guitar and sweet mandolin, Emily and Graham write their songs together with brilliant technical musicianship and beautiful creativity. The result has all the class and quality and spine-tingling soul of any of the great duos in this genre whether it be the Civil Wars or Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings. And here they are! Right here at Letham Nights on 17th March! Have a wee listen to this and then get booked!
Introducing Al Shields
Al Shields is an Edinburgh-based songwriter, with influences rooted in old-time country, folk and blues music.
Originally from the small Scottish island of Bute (where he grew up on a healthy diet of country and folk music from his mother’s record collection), Al moved to Edinburgh in 2005, and is a founding member of indie outfit Ardentjohn, with whom he has enjoyed independent success. Their debut album ‘On The Wire’ garnered very favourable reviews in mainstream music press, with Uncut magazine describing the band as “refreshing new arrivals”.
With the band on hiatus, Al returned to his musical roots, recording and touring his country-tinged solo album ‘Slow Burner’, and gigging regularly with his band The Wilted Roses. He has recently had the privilege of supporting a number of international touring acts, including legendary Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy, Joe Pug, Neal Casal, Red Sky July, and LA country rockers Dead Rock West.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line312
|
__label__cc
| 0.72134
| 0.27866
|
The levelling-game.
After a long journey, that started way back when Cataclysm was out for a few months, three dwarfs and two gnomes have finally reached their intended goal. Last monday, after a three-hour-run, they took the last hurdle, and took the last two levels. Class Act is now level 85.
Lurche reaching 85, the others followed fast.
The strange part is of course, that Innovation already has the Class Act-Achievement. When Class Act reached 50 orso, my own gnome rogue reached 85, and others have made the extra bank-slot available long ago, but Class Act is sort of a different thing, having some fun with guilds in lower levels. The point is to reach level 90 before WoD, which seems possible.....
Reaching level 85 on Lurche, also puts me on the last 5 levels I can get on Argent Dawn. And because Argent Dawn is a full server, there will be no connected realms, so no more character slots for me. Which is a shame, because I wouldn't mind levelling a new character in either Innovation, or Single Abstract Noun. And yes, I still find this somewhat unfair, the fact that some people can have more then 11 characters sending mail and stuff to each others, while others can't.
I know, that when WoD releases, I have another 110 levels to level, but speaking from experience, this is what probably will happen; Mardah (if that remains my raiding character), will be levelled to 100 a.s.a.p. Because they stated that Garrisons will be available at level 90, I will probably get all my Alliance alts there a.s.a.p., but the first month will be focused on Mardah, to get her ready for raiding, so getting reputation and gear and stuff.
Somewhere three weeks in, I will start levelling one Alliance Character, and one Horde Character for the Lore. That means I will do every quest with them in all zones, so they will probably be enchanters to get stuff for enchanting (So, yes, Gowron). This will not be that fast, as I am still focused on Mardah. After a month or two I will have probably have three level 100's, or very close, and I start to think about which professions I really miss at 100, and I will then level 1 or 2 other characters.
Gowron preparing to slaughter Illidan...again
Now, while the first three characters that levelled had mostly no idea what was where considering quest, with number 4 and 5, I will probably know where to go. That kind of levelling goes fast for me. I just sit down for a day, and tick of the quests, racing around, and if it is a little bit like last time, those will be levelled in a month. So after three months, around the release of patch 6.1 I guess, I will have 5 lvl100's, and I probably do not want to level anything anymore for a month :).
Because there is only so much different stuff you can do at max level, it will become boring again somewhere...and my addiction starts again.... but I really do not want to level through Old D. so soon, so I make an alt in Innovation to happily run around in lower levels to...oooh..wait.... no slots left, so I have to either level on a different server, and not with my friends!! (the catchphrase for WoD it seems), or delete a character. Yes I can also transfer a character... but that costs cash, which I don't seem to have much of these days :(
Oh... and from experience, after transferring a character I almost don't play them anymore, because my friends (them again) are not there. There is the rare exception, when I just don't want be in Innovation, and I play somewhere else, but mostly transferred characters sit quietly on a sever, far far away. And yes, I cannot bring myself to delete those.. or any other char I played for a while.
Gowron getting his second OH-Glaive, which he still can't use.
So, I hope Blizzard will actually let go of the cap on characters per server. For players playing this game so long, it really starts to feel like a stupid cap now. And now you are also giving people a free 90, and possible the option to buy lvl90's. Yay, I get a free 90, mmm what should I do with that?
Labels: Alts, Class-Act, Levelling, Lurche, Warlords of Draenor
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line316
|
__label__cc
| 0.728862
| 0.271138
|
Uncompromising performance from semi-compact MF TH.7030 telehandler
With the introduction of the MF TH.7030, Massey Ferguson is further extending its strong position in the semi-compact telehandler sector.
The MF TH.7030 is capable of lifting 3t to 7m, measures just 2.1m wide x 2.1m high and is available with two cab positions. Along with superb, four-wheel steer manoeuvrability, this nimble and powerful telehandler makes handling easier, helping to make best use of traditional farm buildings and the tightest spaces.
Like all MF TH Telehandlers, the MF TH.7030 is designed with the operator in mind and, despite its compact dimensions, its spacious cab offers superb comfort and control, on both the standard and low height versions.
With its excellent all-round visibility, the quiet cab has well-laid out, easy to use controls plus a high quality, air suspension seat and the option of air conditioning.
Power is supplied by a new, 3.4 litre four-cylinder, 100hp engine, which uses straightforward technology to meet the strictest emission regulations. This drives a unique, four-range hydrostatic transmission, which delivers accurate control with shift on the move and automatic changing to ease operation.
Loads are handled with ease and precision thanks to the powerful 100 litre/min load-sensing hydraulic system. Providing optimum accurate operation, it supplies flow only when it’s required and allows up to three functions to be used at the same time, to further boost productivity.
With Massey Ferguson’s SHS Smart Handling System, operators can to set and adjust maximum flow, regardless of engine speed, which provides precise boom movements as well as high engine power.
The unique Cushion Retract system ensures smooth and accurate boom movements, while operating comfort is further improved by the Boom Suspension option. This unique dual pressure system absorbs shocks and operates at the press of button.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line318
|
__label__cc
| 0.744181
| 0.255819
|
Call for Papers: ManLang 2018 (Sept. 10-14, Linz, Austria)
ManLang Conference manlang at jku.at
Wed Mar 7 16:01:29 UTC 2018
Previous message: RFR: 8199220: Zero build broken after 8195103 and 8191102 (was RFR: 8199220: Zero build broken)
Next message: RFR: 8199264: Remove universe.inline.hpp to simplify include dependencies
15th International Conference on Managed Languages & Runtimes
(ManLang'18)
September 10-14, 2018, Linz, Austria
http://ssw.jku.at/manlang18/
ManLang (formerly PPPJ) is a premier forum for presenting and discussing
novel results in all aspects of managed programming languages and
runtime systems, which serve as building blocks for some of the most
important computing systems, ranging from small-scale (embedded and
real-time systems) to large-scale (cloud-computing and big-data
platforms) and anything in between (mobile, IoT, and wearable
applications).
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Languages and Compilers
- Managed languages (e.g., Java, Scala, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, C#,
F#, Clojure, Groovy, Kotlin, R, Smalltalk, Racket, Rust, Go, etc.)
- Domain-specific languages
- Language design
- Compilers and interpreters
- Type systems and program logics
- Language interoperability
- Parallelism, distribution, and concurrency
- Managed runtime systems (e.g., JVM, Dalvik VM, Android Runtime (ART),
LLVM, .NET CLR, RPython, etc.)
- VM design and optimization
- VMs for mobile and embedded devices
- VMs for real-time applications
- Memory management
- Hardware/software co-design
Techniques, Tools, and Applications
- Static and dynamic program analysis
- Testing and debugging
- Refactoring
- Program understanding
- Program synthesis
- Security and privacy
- Performance analysis and monitoring
- Compiler and program verification
Submission: May 4, 2018 (Abstracts: April 27)
Notification: July 6, 2018
Camera-ready version: August 3, 2018
Poster submission: August 6, 2018
Poster notification: August 13, 2018
Conference: September 10-14, 2018
Submission and Proceedings
Submissions to the conference will be evaluated on the basis of
originality, relevance, technical soundness and presentation quality.
Papers should be written in English and not exceed 12 pages in ACM
format for full papers (6 pages for WiP, industry, and tool papers). You
can also submit posters, which can be accompanied by a one-page
abstract, and are due on August 6, 2018. The conference proceedings will
be published as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings
Series and will be disseminated through the ACM Digital Library.
See the conference homepage for details on paper formats and submission.
General Chair:
Hanspeter Mössenböck, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Program Chair:
Eli Tilevich, Virginia Tech, USA
Walter Binder, University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland
Bruce Childers, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Martin Pluemicke, DHBW Stuttgart, Germany
Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic
Thomas Würthinger, Oracle Labs, Switzerland
Program Committee:
Godmar Back, Virginia Tech, USA
Clement Bera, INRIA, France
Christoph Bockisch, Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany
Man Cao, Google, USA
Shigeru Chiba, University of Tokyo, Japan
Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria, Canada
Julian Dolby, IBM Research, USA
Patrick Eugster, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Irene Finocchi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Görel Hedin, Lund University, Sweden
Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
Tony Hosking, Purdue University, USA
Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego, USA
Eliot Moss, University of Massachusetts, USA
Nate Nystrom, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Tiark Rompf, Purdue University, USA
ennifer B. Sartor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
JeremyJan Vitek, Northeastern University, USA
Christian Wimmer, Oracle Labs, USA
Jianjun Zhao, Kyushu University, Japan
Linz, the capital of Upper Austria, is both a city of culture and of
industry. Located at the Danube it features a historic downtown and a
modern university campus just north of the Danube, where the conference
will take place. For information on JKU and Linz, also see:
http://www.jku.at, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linz and
https://www.linz.at/english/
The 5th Virtual Machine Meetup (VMM) is a collocated event with ManLang
'18. It is a venue for discussing the latest research and developments
in the area of managed language execution.
ManLang'18 is organized in cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGPLAN and ACM
ICPS, and is sponsored by the JKU Department of Computer Science, Oracle
Labs, and Linz AG.
https://www.facebook.com/ManLangConf/
https://twitter.com/manlangconf
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line322
|
__label__wiki
| 0.763218
| 0.763218
|
In Praise of the Hashtag - NYTimes.com:
These constructions all tend toward the particular — a sardonic twist to the tweet. But the hashtag can also be a joke about itself, as when the HBO wunderkind Lena Dunham tweets, “What’s my place in it all? #questionsevenmymomcantanswer.” Part of the joke is that her hashtag is so elaborate, so concatenated, that no one else wouldever conceive of using it. It’s a metajoke about metadata — a bit like setting up an entire hanging file just to store a single Post-it.
The hashtag ethos has also been adopted beyond Twitter. Noted Twitterer Kanye West popularized the phrase “hashtag rap” a few years ago, to describe a hip-hop rhyme scheme that’s been around longer than Twitter but echoes the way the hashtag compresses comparisons. In his 2009 hit “Forever,” the rapper Drake sings, “Swimming in the money, come and find me — Nemo/If I was at the club you know I balled — chemo.” If the metaphor serves to dispense with the simile’s “like” or “as” — “Your face is a summer’s day” rather than “Your face is like a summer’s day” — then the hashtag strips the line down even further: “Your face. #summerday.”
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line326
|
__label__cc
| 0.533339
| 0.466661
|
Play / Watch
MindSports
On the Evolution of Draughts Variants
Column Checkers
Dagaz
Axiom Game System
How I invented games and why not
Balancing protocols in symmetric 2-player games
Draughts Dissected
Evolutionary pressure
Draughts variants
Contact Draughts
Hexagonal variants
On 'inside out' inventing
Organicity in abstract strategy games
Moving forward looking back
I Ching Connexion
I Ching links
'Column Checkers' derives from the method of capture of its oldest representative Bashni, a game related to its derivative Lasca in that it results from introducing a different form of capture in a known framework. In Bashni's case the framework is that of Shashki, the russian 8x8 variant of Draughts. Lasca, invented by the renowned world champion Chess Emanuel Lasker, is basically column checkers based on Anglo-American Checkers rather than on Shashki.
Lasker reduced the size of the board to 7x7, effectively leaving 25 squares to play on. With 2x11 men in the initial position, the board not just looks crammed, it is crammed.
Here are some of the ways a white piece may look in Lasca. By the nature of the capturing mechanism, prisoners will always be under a cap of the opponent's men (or kings), never in between them.
In the above example, the four pieces on the left move and capture as a man, because there's a man on top. The three pieces on the right have a king on top and thus may move and capture as kings.
Left to right we see a single man, a single man with three prisoners, three men with one prisoner, two men and a king with four prisoners, a king, a king with two prisoners and a king with five prisoners, one of them a king.
Barring the boardsize, the only difference between Checkers and Lasca is that in Lasca a jumped man or king, either as a single piece or as the topman or -king of a column, is not removed from play, but taken along as a prisoner under the capturing piece.
The above diagram shows the board and the pieces in initial position. There are two players, black and white. White begins. Players move, and must move, in turn.
The rules mention men and kings. A king is a promoted man. Columns with a man on top will also be called 'a man' and columns with a king on top will also be called 'a king'.
Capture precedes over a non-capturing move. If the player to move has no capture available, he has two options:
Moving a man
Moving a king
A man or a column with a man on top moves diagonally forwards to an adjacent vacant square. If it thus reaches the back rank the top-man is crowned to king and this marks the end of the move.
A king or a column with a king on top moves diagonally forwards or backwards to an adjacent vacant square.
All pieces thus remain on the dark colored squares. From here on 'forwards' or 'backwards' will be understood as 'diagonally'.
Capture precedes over a non-capturing move. If the player to move can make a capture, he must do so.
A man captures an opponent's piece, man or king, by jumping over it, in a forwards direction, to the square immediately beyond, which must be vacant for the capture to take place.
If from this square it can proceed in a similar manner, a jump in the same- or a perpendicular direction, it must do so, and proceed thus till the capture has been fully completed. If the column it controls thus lands on the back rank, the topman is crowned to king and the move ends.
A king captures an opponent's piece, man or king, by jumping over it, in a forwards or backwards direction, to the square immediately beyond, which must be vacant for the capture to take place. If it can proceed in a similar manner, a jump in the same- or a perpendicular direction, it must do so and proceed thus till the capture has been fully completed.
In the course of a capture, a king may visit a square more than once, but there are different opinions on whether it may jump a piece more than once (going roundabout). The mindsports applet doesn't mind, so players have to agree on that point before starting a game.
A player may choose freely between different captures that may be available, regardless of the number or value of the piece(s) taken.
If a player cannot legally move he loses the game. This may come about by losing all pieces or by having all pieces blocked. Draws may occur by 3-fold or mutual agreement. There are some special tournament rules to cover draws.
Sorry, you need a Java enabled browser to view the Lasca Player! An example game
More or less to show what's wrong with Lasca.
Using the Lasca applet
Lasca © Emanuel Lasker
Java applet © Ed van Zon
MindSports, Powered by Joomla!
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line328
|
__label__cc
| 0.73234
| 0.26766
|
Medeem Announces Appointment of Micah Sarkas as Country Director – Zambia
stevenoone| January 3, 2016| Uncategorized
LUSAKA, ZAMBIA, January, 2016
Medeem LLC, the leading provider of land tenure documentation through its ParcelCert® process, announced the appointment of Micah Sarkas as its Country Director for Zambia. Mr. Sarkas brings a broad base of experience to Medeem and provides an excellent addition to Medeem’s executive team.
Mr. Sarkas attended the University of Oxford and received his MBA from the University of Capetown, School of Business in South Africa. He began his career working as financial planner, research analyst and trader for JP Morgan Asset Management in South Africa. Later, he became an impact investment project manager for a major social impact enterprise in South Africa. In 2014, Mr. Sarkas joined Medeem’s funding partner the Lundin Foundation as its East and Southern Africa Investment Manager.
In his new role, Mr. Sarkas will be responsible for the day to day operations of Medeem Zambia, along with the expansion of Medeem’s approach into new markets in Southern and Eastern Africa. According to Craig DeRoy, CEO and Founder of Medeem, “Micah is a perfect addition to Medeem at the perfect time. His knowledge of the marketplace and his experience in managing impact investments, products and services is aligned well with Medeem’s objectives and the growth it is experiencing. Micah blends both the product side and investor side of our social impact enterprise and he will be a big part of Medeem’s future. I am extremely pleased to announce his role in leading our team.”
Medeem offers a variety of products and services bringing land tenure security to small holder farmers, women and the vulnerable throughout the developing world.
Medeem Zambia Partners with World Wildlife Fund Zambia
Medeem and Habitat for Humanity Expand Partnership in Zambia
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line333
|
__label__cc
| 0.743695
| 0.256305
|
DMO365R DATA SHEETS EBOOK
by admin - October 30, 2018
DMR are available at Mouser Electronics. Mouser offers inventory, pricing, & datasheets for DMR. Product Number. Package. Marking Code. BVDSS. fOSC. RDS(ON). FSDMRNB. 8DIP. DMR. V. 67KHz. Ω. FSDLRNB. 8DIP. DLR. DMR datasheet, FSDMR, DMR pdf, DMR data sheet search for integrated circuits from , semiconductors and electronic.
Author: Kak Temuro
Country: Kosovo
Uploader: Mikajin
This pin adjusts the peak current limit of the Sense FET.
Typically, a datasheet is created by dmo365r data sheets manufacturer and begins with an introductory page describing the rest of the document, followed by listings of specific characteristics, with further dmo365r data sheets on the connectivity of the devices.
Please datta by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia’s inclusion policy. Both devices are integrated high voltage power switching regulators which combine an dmo365r data sheets rugged Sense FET with a current mode PWM control block. The MSDSs differ from country to country, as different countries have different regulations.
By contrast, a technical specification is an explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service. Such machine readable descriptions can facilitate information retrieval, display, design, testing, interfacing, verification, and system discovery. Both dmo365r data sheets pro- vide a basic platform that is well suited for the design of cost- effective dmi365r converters. September Learn how and when to remove this template message.
Labels can include hazard symbols such as the European Union standard black diagonal cross on an orange background, used to denote a harmful substance. It has a 0. Other chemical data sheets are available from individual producers of chemicals, often on their web pages.
DMR datasheet, DMR pdf, FSDMR –
UVLO upper threshold 12V that the internal start-up switch opens and de. It is not until Vcc reaches the UVLO upper dmo365r data sheets 12V that the internal start-up switch opens daata de- vice power is supplied via the auxiliary transformer winding. It can be dmo365r data sheets by the manufacturer to help people choose products or to help use the products.
Related Files: IVAN BUNIN DARK AVENUES PDF
Maximum practical continuous power in an open frame. A feedback voltage of 6V trig- gers over dmo365r data sheets protection OLP. The drain pins are designed to connect directly to the primary lead of the. A datasheetdmo365r data sheets sheetor spec sheet is a document that summarizes the performance and other technical characteristics of a product, machine, component e.
DMOR Datasheet – Power Switch – Fairchild –
There is a time delay while charging. View PDF for Mobile. At start shests the internal switch supplies internal bias and charges an external storage capacitor placed between the Vcc pin dmo365r data sheets ground. Anytime chemicals are used these data sheets will be found. Pin Configuration Top View 3 Page 3. FET, and is specifically designed for high performance off-line.
They help communicate the technical information about a car to potential buyers and are useful for comparisons with similar cars. Both devices are integrated high voltage power. This article does not cite any sources. Data sheets and pages are available for specific properties of chemicals in Chemical elements data references: There is a need to have an internationally dmo365r data sheets symbol when describing hazardous substances. Examples include transducer electronic data sheets for describing sensor characteristics, and Electronic device descriptions in CANopen or descriptions in markup languages, such as SensorML.
A feedback voltage of dmo365r data sheets trig. Once the Vcc reaches 12V, the internal switch is opened. Historically, fata were typically available in a databook that contained many datasheets, usually grouped by manufacturer or general type.
Documents Personal computers Components Technical communication. Dmo365r data sheets sneets datasheet may include a “typical use” circuit diagram, as well as programming examples in the case of programmable devices, this sort of information is often published in a separate application notewith a high level of detail.
In other projects Wikimedia Commons.
Specific materials have technical data in individual sheets such as Ethanol data page: If this pin dmo365r data sheets tied to Vcc or left floating, the typical peak cur- rent limit will be 2. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Related Files: THE SCARLET THREAD FRANCINE RIVERS PDF
Typical continuous power in a non-ventilated enclosed. Data sheets for automobiles may be described under dom365r names such as features, specs, engineering data, technical summary, etc. Although connected to an auxiliary transform. An electronic datasheet specifies characteristics in a formal structure that allows the information dmo635r be processed by a machine.
Depending on the specific purpose, a datasheet may offer an average value, a typical value, a typical range, engineering tolerances dmo365r data sheets, or a nominal dmo365r data sheets. The inte- grated PWM controller features include: This pin connects directly to the rectified AC line voltage source.
In shewts jurisdictions, it is compulsory for the SDS to state the chemical’s risks, safety, and effect on the environment. This page was last edited on 20 Julyat Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Xata SDSs often include the safe use of the chemical and the hazardous nature of the chemical. This section may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. By using this site, you dmo365r data sheets to the Terms of Use and Dmo365r data sheets Rmo365r.
This time delay prevents false triggering under transient conditions, but still dmo365r data sheets the protection mechanism to operate under dmo365r data sheets overload conditions. Articles lacking sources from September All articles lacking sources Wikipedia articles needing style editing from December All articles needing style editing Wikipedia articles that are excessively detailed from December All articles that are excessively detailed Articles with Curlie links.
Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. A datasheet is usually used for technical communication to describe technical characteristics of an item or product.
NE5534AP DATASHEET PDF DOWNLOAD
ICE2BS01 EBOOK
DMO365R DATA SHEETS PDF DOWNLOAD
HCF40106BE DATASHEET EBOOK DOWNLOAD
UA7805 DATASHEET DOWNLOAD
1N5408 DATASHEET PDF
HEF4071BP DATASHEET EBOOK DOWNLOAD
SQL CLEARLY EXPLAINED 3RD EDITION PDF
HT640 DATASHEET PDF
74HC244N DATASHEET EBOOK
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line338
|
__label__wiki
| 0.618724
| 0.618724
|
mpido@mpido.org
Land and Natural Resources Rights
Climate Change Interventions
Girl Child Education and Women Empowerment
Leadership and Gorvernance
MPIDO - Mainyoito Pastoralists Integrated Development Organization.
Established in 1996 and registered as a non-governmental organization in 2000. MPIDO envisions a just and equitable society that recognize and upholds human rights and the fundamental freedom of indigenous peoples’. As indigenous people in Africa undergo political, economic and social challenges, MPIDO curves her niche into pursuing Livelihoods, climate change intervention, mitigation and adaptation; governance and conflict resolution, natural resource management; Gender, women and youth empowernment responses targeting all pastoralists, hunter and gatherer communities. Through years of expertise and experience, Mpido now serves the marginalized needs of all Indigenous peoples at a Pan african and Global Stage.
To promote and secure the rights of the indigenous communities with regard to land and natural resources.
To enhance the capacity of the indigenous peoples to actively participate in national, regional and global processes at all levels.
To build unity and solidarity among the Indigenous peoples, locally, regionally and globally.
Empower indigenous peoples’ communities and their organizations on their rights and issues including intellectual property rights.
To advocate for the rights of the indigenous peoples at all levels.
TBC Nairobi, Kenya Regional Workshop on Women Participation in REDD+ Processes in Africa
Concept Note Agenda
TBC Nairobi, Kenya Regional REDD+ Dialogue and Consultations for IPs and Southern CSOs - Africa
LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCE RIGHTS
For over a decade, Mainyoito Pastoralist Integrated Development Organization (MPIDO) has continued
MPIDO has been in forefront in advocating for various climate change interventions within the indigenous
MPIDO seeks to improve the Food security Index of the Pastoralist in Kenya and East Africa region. Locally, we cover Kajiado, Narok, Nakuru, Baringo and Samburu Counties.
The goal of the project is to advocate for girl child education in the Maasai community in order to change their position and
Strategic Objective
To lobby and advocate for legal and policy frameworks that protect and promote the interests of Maa speakers; and facilitate peaceful coexistence of different communities in the Arid and Semi Arid areas.
Pan-African FCPF Capacity Building Program to IPs
Pan-African FCPF Capacity Building Program on REDD+ Project to Forest-Dependent IPs
Drought Cycle Management
Training EWS(Early Warning System) Monitors
Supporting monthly data collection
Production of Maa bulletins
Community training on EWS and contingency
Construction of Dams
De-silting and rehabilitation of Dams
Drilling of Boreholes
Rehabilitation of strategic boreholes (are preserved for drought seasons)
Capacity building water management
•Vaccinations – PPR, R/Valley Fever
•Cattle Dips
•Cattle crushes
•Para-vets training and equipping
Capacity building Project on Forests
MPIDO also did manage to source funds from the World Bank’s FCPF in regards to the capacity building of indigenous Peoples on
Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change
Indigenous peoples have developed unique livelihood strategies, tailored to the specific ecosystems they inhabit. Their knowledge and practices are key to the sustainable
Indigenous Peoples’ Responses to Climate Change
Indigenous peoples are organizing and responding to climate change in a variety of ways. At community level, indigenous
A Human Rights Based Approach to Climate Change
Considering the situation described above, indigenous peoples’ situation in the context of climate change needs to be addressed from a human rights framework.
Kenyan Network (Indigenous National Steering Committee Climate Change)
The associated national network in Kenya is the Indigenous Peoples National Steering Committee on Climate Change (IPNSCCC)
Maasai Child Education Project
To advocate for the improvement of Maasai child Enrolment and retention in schools in the focus area
To advocate against harmful cultural practices e.g. FGM, early circumcision of boys, early marriages and child labor
HIV/AIDS Response Project
To reduce the community vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and opportunistic infections
To integrate and mainstream HIV/AIDS in all programs in the area of focus
To develop community capacity to provide care and support and establish linkages
OLOONTONA SOLAR PROJECT
MAIN PROJECT OBJECTIVE
To enhance access to sustainable, clean and affordable water supply using renewable energy technologies in Oloontona community of Oltepesi sub-location Kajiado County.
1. To replace the existing Diesel pumping system with a sustainable energy system
Women & Youth Empowerment Project
To improve the livelihood of women and youth in the area of focus
To build the capacity of women and youth
MPIDO TEAM
MPIDO has a governing body of 7 Board members(3 women and 4 men) that provide policy direction, maintain independent oversight of the management, and ensures effective strategic planning.
Joseph ole Simel
Ann Samante
Finance & Administrative Manager
Eunice Nkopio
Program Cordinator
Elijah Toirai
Florence Sakuda
Daniel Salau Rogei
Beatrice Sereya
Gender Specialist
Daniel Komoi
Program Officer
Networks and Membership
MPIDO has advanced its global networks and is a member of several networks
Kenyan National Network - IPNSCCC -
Indigenous Peoples National Steering Committee on Climate Change. A National Steering Committee on Climate Change (NSCCC) mandated to coordinate and mobilize Kenyan IP’s in their efforts to address local climate change realities and challenges by ensuring the full and effective participation of IPs at national, regional and global climate change mechanisms and processes.
IIPFCC
International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change.The Caucus for IPs participating in the UNFCCC processes. The IIPFCC represents the IP Caucus members who are present/attending the official UNFCCC COPs and intersessional sessions of the SBSTA/SBI bodies in between COPs
Kenya Land Alliance
Established to create an institutional mechanism to advocate for enabling land laws and policies in order to ensure secure and equitable access to land and natural resources in Kenya
Kenya Climate Change Working Group.
Formed in April 2009, bringing together various civil society organizations and donor partners in Kenya, for a united front in confronting the causes and effects of climate change in broad and specific terms in Kenya, Africa, and elsewhere where their contribution would be needed.
Kenya Pastoralists network.
An advocacy platform established to conglomeration over 60 pastoralists’ individuals/activists, NGOs and CBOs and non-pastoralist institutions and individuals supporting pastoralists’ development process in Kenya. It draws its membership from North Rift, South Rift, North Eastern and Upper Eastern regions of Kenya representing 14 pastoralist Counties
African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights.
A quasi-judicial body tasked with promoting and protecting human rights and collective (peoples') rights throughout the African continent as well as interpreting the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and considering individual complaints of violations of the Charter
MPIDO In The Media
“A map is worth a thousand words: Supporting forest stewards in addressing climate change
BY KENNAN RAPP
“First World Conference on Indigenous Peoples: Governments pledge action to advance indigenous rights
UN NEWS CENTER
Past Projects and Events Videos
Past Projects and Events Photos
Contact us for any kind of query. We are available.
"Once you exclude any part of society, whatever action you do will be partial and ineffective" Joseph Ole Simel - MPIDO Director
Langata Road, Karen,
Nairobi,Kenya
Error occurred while sending email. Please try again later.
Our Proud Partners
VISION: A just and equitable society that recognizes and upholds human rights and the fundamental freedom of indigenous people
MISSION: To promote, facilitate and create an enabling environment for the realization of human rights, secured natural resources and improved livelihoods for sustainable development of indigenous peoples’
For over a decade, Mainyoito Pastoralist Integrated Development Organization (MPIDO) has continued to respond to the natural resource management needs of the poor and marginalized communities in Kajiado, Narok, and Nakuru and Baringo counties. These have been through community mobilization and establishment of resource centers, civic education and training of paralegals and through public interest litigation, management committees including land and water resources, policy advocacy at local and national level. Major support for this program has been through the IWGIA with funding received for the last 9 years.
Community understanding on process of law making has increase as results of several advocacy training
The level of community participation on issues of policies enhanced Sustainability.
Being an organization that supports rural development in pastoral regions, MPIDO is keen on maintaining its local roots and presence. In this regard MPIDO plans to establish community based resource centres in all districts where it operates.
MPIDO has already established three, (3) functional resource centre at Oltepesi (Kajiado county) and MajiMoto (Narok) and Namuncha (Nakuru county).
To contribute towards Maasai pastoralist community access to and control of land and natural resources for sustainable use.
PILLARS OF INFLUENCE
Public Interest Litigation
Use of litigation, or legal action, which seeks to advance the cause of minority or disadvantaged groups or individuals, or which raises issues of broad public concern. during the current strategic plan the MPIDO plan to provide legal support to the following land and natural resource cases Fifteen (15) community natural resources cases e.g. Mau forest eviction, KenGen Geothermal mining, ILood-Ariak land and Mosiro case, Kitet, Kidong, Oloonongot, Namuncha, Olkiramatian/Shompole cases and Oldonnyo-onyokie.
Community and Partner’s Organization Capacity Building
This component work toward enhancing community and stakeholder’s capacity to engage policy makers to establish legislation that are indigenous peoples friendly. The community illiteracy level on constitutional and land related policies is high, this therefore demand for community capacity building to enhance their participation in policies engagement and general fighting for their land rights. Some of the training includes women trainings and the youth, group ranches committees among others.
Lobbying and Advocacy
The organization through lobbying and advocacy has been able to engage policy maker to ensure that constitutional provision on issues of indigenous peoples and their livelihood are taken into consideration in law making.
Network and Collaboration.
To achieve it is objective the organization embrace working in collaboration with communities, professional, government ministries and international institution and partners.
MPIDO has been in forefront in advocating for various climate change interventions within the indigenous peoples territories.In this regard therefore MPIDO has been organizing various global events ensuring key participation of indigenous peoples nationally, regionally and globally.
MPIDO has always had its delegation in the UNFCCC meetings since Cop 15 in Copenhagen to date.
MPIDO also organized and facilitated the Pan African Indigenous Peoples Dialogue with the FCPF’s World Bank in Arusha, Tanzania.
MPIDO also organized and facilitated the African Regional Preparatory meeting to the WCIP 2014 that was held in Nairobi, Kenya
MPIDO also organized the Africa Strategic Workshop to the World conference in preparation to WCIP.
The goal of the project is to advocate for girl child education in the Maasai community in order to change their position and condition in the community through protection from harmful cultural practices and for them to access equal opportunity in terms of education.To strengthen economic capacity of existing women group for sustainable development of women empowerment in the target areas.
The purpose is to enhance girls’ education through capacity building in 39 schools of Ewuaso Division of Kajiado district and to improved the livelihood of the Maasai women among the existing groups.
Training of guidance and counseling girls on education and hygiene issues
Indegenous
Indigenous Women Empowerment Training on their roles of the Kenyan New Constitution
This project seeks to:
Advocate for the improvement of girl child enrollment in schools in the focus area and influence high retention of the girl child in schools.
MPIDO works closely together with the school committees, Ministry of Education, local leader and the entire community for organizing for annual examinations for the schools for pupils in classes’ four to eight. The results of this exam are used to reward both girls and boys, teachers, schools and communities that excel in a motivation ceremony held every year with aim of strengthen and improve performance among schools in the area.
MPIDO also works with volunteer teachers in each of the schools to provide guidance and counseling for the adolescent girls and boys in the schools. Through this project, MPIDO seeks to discourage harmful cultural/traditional practices e.g. early marriages and FGM through awareness creation, to both the community and the schools
The project also seeks to promote the participation of women in development initiatives this has been possible by:
Provision and supporting their training needs in subjects that enhance their entrepreneurial skills. These have included training of local women groups on leadership and group dynamics, micro entrepreneurship, fattening of steers (livestock) for profit making and linking the women with Women Enterprise Funds (WEF) in order to uplift their business and improved standard at their house hold level.
To build the capacity of women and youth to effectively participated and engage in development activities as provided by the Kenya New Constitution
To promote dialogue and reconciliation between the Maa speakers and other communities To advocate for comprehensive policies and programs that address the socio-cultural, economic and political concerns of the Maa speakers To enhance community capacity to effectively participate and engage in policy formulation, review and other civic matters.
ADVOCACY IN INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS
MPIDO has been in forefront in advocating for various climate change interventions within the indigenous peoples territories. In this regard therefore MPIDO has been organizing various global events ensuring key participation of indigenous peoples nationally, regionally and globally.
•Training EWS(Early Warning System) Monitors
•Supporting monthly data collection
•Production of Maa bulletins
•Community training on EWS and contingency planning
•And making of community contingency plan
•Emergency response i.e. water trucking and food aid.
•Construction of Dams
•De-silting and rehabilitation of Dams
•Drilling of Boreholes
•Rehabilitation of strategic boreholes (are preserved for drought seasons)
•Capacity building water management committees (WMC)
•Hygiene and sanitation e.g. construction of bathrooms and toilets
•Gender mainstreaming in i.e. in various committees
•Environmental conservation e.g. planting of trees around water points
MPIDO also did manage to source funds from the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership in regards to the capacity building of indigenous Peoples on Forests.This project was managed by MPIDO through an Indigenous Peoples Network called Indigenous Peoples National Steering Committee on Climate Change(IPNSCC).This project emanated around doing different studies in the 7 regions that are occupied by indigenous Peoples in Kenya.The studies that were undertaken in this research were
IPs traditional Leadership and Governance Manual
IPs National indicators on REDD+
IPs Financing and Benefit Sharing Mechanisms
Land Tenure and Indigenous Peoples in the context of REDD+
Indegenous People and Climate Change
Indigenous peoples have developed unique livelihood strategies, tailored to the specific ecosystems they inhabit. Their knowledge and practices are key to the sustainable management and use of renewable natural resources. While many indigenous peoples live a “low-carbon” lifestyle, they are among the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change since they direct depend on natural resource and thus their ecosystems. Adverse impacts of climate change disrupt their productive cycles, affect food and water security, lead to deteriorating health, and undermine cultural practices, institutions and social cohesion.
At the same time, indigenous peoples in the two target countries, like elsewhere in the world, are disproportionately affected by poverty, are the least educated, are marginalized in terms of political participation and decision-making, their traditional livelihood practices are met with restrictions, their rights to lands and resources are not recognized and they are facing severe human rights violations, especially when trying to mobilize themselves to address all these issues. In Kenya and Tanzania, indigenous peoples are not recognized, which adds to their vulnerability and the no recognition of their rights. The impact of climate change, when not properly addressed, leads to disruption of traditional livelihoods and irreversible loss of traditional and cultural resources that constitute invaluable contributions to climate change mitigation and adaptation. There are already numerous examples from Kenya and Tanzania proving the negative effects of climate change and the mainstream actions taken against it (see below).
A recent study by UNEP and IUCN notes: “One of the key challenges around dry land Development and pastoralism has been the deeply entrenched prejudice that pastoralism is primitive, unviable and outmoded. More than two decades of research has provided evidence for the opposite perspective; pastoralism as economically rational and viable, and as a vital tool for large-scale conservation and ecosystem management.”
Considering the situation described above, indigenous peoples’ situation in the context of climate change needs to be addressed from a human rights framework. A human rights based approach to climate change must adhere to the principles that:
Indigenous peoples are rights holders with individual and collective human rights;
States as duty bearers have an obligation to respect and protect these rights;
International human rights treaties and agreements, including the UNDRIP, guide all Policies and programs relating to climate change.
Impacts of climate change must be understood in the wider context of human rights concerns and pressing social, cultural, economic and political barriers that indigenous peoples face. These multiple and interlinked barriers erode adaptive capacity, community resilience and challenge the abilities of indigenous peoples to respond, cope with, and adapt to environmental changes. Key issues are promotion and respect for the land and resource rights of indigenous peoples, strengthening of their sustainable resource management systems, ensuring equitable benefit sharing and full and effective participation in decision-making processes, in accordance with their right to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC). Unless such fundamental human rights are observed, climate change mitigation and adaptation measures will have a high risk of further undermining the already vulnerable situation of indigenous peoples
Kenya Network (Indegenous National Steering Committee Climate Change)
The associated national network in Kenya is the Indigenous Peoples National Steering Committee on Climate Change (IPNSCCC). In 2010, indigenous peoples of Kenya formulated a common National Climate Change Response Strategy (Annex G). The establishment of IPNSCCC was a result of that strategy formulation process.
The IPNSCCC mission is to mobilize, monitor and coordinate indigenous peoples’ participation in climate change processes at national and global levels, and to work closely with communities at the grassroots level in designing strategies and generating resources to support adaptation and mitigation actions. The Climate Change Strategy defines the objectives of the IPNSCCC and a work plan for 2010-2015. The IPNSCCC has 27 indigenous member organizations and an executive board. Members of the IPNSCCC are part of the Kenyan National Climate Change Committee and have been part of the official State delegation to the UNFCCC since 2009.
A National Lead Agency acts as a Secretariat for the activities of the IPNSCCC. This secretariat position has so far been held by Manyioto Pastoralist Indigenous Development Organisation (MPIDO), based in Nairobi. MPIDO has played a crucial role in coordinating climate change activities at the national level, and it has participated extensively in international UNFCCC Meetings. MPIDO has been project partner under IWGIA’s REDD+ project (mentioned above). An IWGIA project monitoring report from 2013 was positive of MPIDOs work on climate change and provided clear recommendations to continue working on the issue in Kenya. IWGIA and MPIDO have had close collaboration since 2006, and IWGIA has rendered support to MPIDO for a large land rights project and for carrying out extensive international advocacy work.
Members of IPNSCCC that are IWGIA partners are:
Pastoralist Development Network of Kenya (PDNK) since 2010, focusing on human rights advocacy
Ogiek Peoples Development Program (OPDP) since 2010, focusing on human rights monitoring and community capacity building.
Endorois Welfare Council (EWC) since 2010.
Samburu Womens Trust (SWT) since 2012, focusing on indigenous women’s rights
Kenya Network (Indigenous National Steering Committee Climate Change)
To advocate for the improvement of Maasai child Enrollment and retention in schools in the focus area
Strengthen and improve performance among schools in the area.
HIV/Aids Response
To develop community capacity to provide care and support and establish linkages with relevant institutions and agencies
MAIN PROJECT OBEJECTIVE
1. To replace the existing Diesel pumping system with a sustainable energy system ( Solar water pumping system)
2. To reduce cost of water, distance covered by the Oloontona community and ecosystem damage by livestock through building of two new water points.
3. To engender sustainability water access through project replication
KEY ACHIEVEMENT OF THIS PROJECT
1. At Oloontona water point women are now fetching their water for households separately and this is effective because they cannot waste more time hence they can finish fetching the water and hence get time to do their other businesses on time.
2. The committee have successfully registered the borehole under the social services and opened a bank account so the money collected is now safe and no more handling of cash money collected from the members.
3. Daily cost of diesel is no more. Therefore, the project has enhanced affordability of water to the Oloontona community.
4. The unity has been noted among Oloontona community and inclusion of women in the committee have boosted the trust that women are included in decision making process which is a key achievement of the project.
5. During the past drought the borehole has been effective by serving more than 20,000 cattle’s, 10,000 goats which migrated all the way from Loitokitok, Amboseli and Namanga the boarder of Kenya and Tanzania in search of water and pastures. Women groups that have been formed and now doing irrigation has encouraged the community to do alternative livelihood due to effect of climate change.
To build the capacity of women and youth to effectively participated and engage in development activities
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line342
|
__label__cc
| 0.648007
| 0.351993
|
Main Menu-EN
Spec. sheet of the Neem
The Neem Properties
The Neem in the world
The Neem oil
About Neem.fr
Neem.fr is a website for nature enthusiasts actively supporting the development and use of Neem.
We promote public and professional awareness of Neem's many possible applications.
Neem.fr est un site d'information concernant les diverses utilisations possibles du neem. Neem.fr est membre de : www.aspro-pnpp.org
English (UK) Français
In Brazil, all the fruit and vegetable producers but also all the distributors of farm products know the neem.
Since 2001, we use it frequently to cure the animals and for the agriculture.
Some examples of its action in Brazil in different sectors:
Agriculture: caterpillars (all of them), mealy bugs, white fly, thrips, greenflies, vaquinha (variety of beetles) and beetles, fruit flies, cicadellidae (cicadelle), tomato cutworms (Tota absoluta), cutworms of the coffee tree (Perileucoptera coffeella), citrus fruit cutworms (Phyllocnistis citrella stainton) and other cutworms…millipede, earwigs…
Meloydogine, Pratylenchus and other nematodes. Diseases of the radicular system and of the plant stem, powdery mildew of the beans, Rhizoctonia solani (rhizoctone brun), R.Oryzae, Sclerotium Rolfsii, Scletorinia sclerotiorum, Sitroga Cerearella, Fusarium oxyporum, phitophtora (tomatoes and potatoes).
In the rearing: ticks, louses, fleas, horn flies, cowsheds and pigsty flies, scab, mites, beetles of the farms…
In the grains storage: termites and weevils.
Source: Agromix Brésil
The “Old country”, south of the Elbe, near Hamburg in Germany, is one of the biggest arbori-cultural areas in Europe. In Jork, on their 40 ha of apple orchards, the Zum Felde family gave up the traditional methods of agriculture in 1996. “Even if we produce in biological agriculture, we do not renounce to the phytosanitary protection”, said Heinrich Zun Felde. Among the products he uses, we have to pay attention to one of them. “I have been using azadirachtin for 7 years and thanks to it, I was able to contain the invasions of the dysaphis plantaginea (Lausbefall), answered the arboriculturist, very happily. A solution coming from Asia: “the azadirachtin prevents the production of a hormone allowing the moulting of insects. The active principle is extracted from the neem’s seeds, a tree whose properties are used in India since more than two thousand years, in agriculture and in medicine”.
Source: “The Furrow”, summer 2007.
In silviculture, the neem is also well known in Canada. The potential of the neem was evaluated in the plantations of grey pine trees, on white pine trees, in plantations of pine trees, in seed orchards and plantations of dark and white spruces, plantations of occidental thuja (Ontario) and in planting of Balsam Firs in Terra-Nova.
Result: The azadirachtin extract contained in the neem’seeds was very efficient against the larva that were destroying the foliages, against 13 species of lepidopterous insects and against sawflies.
About the Neem
In Brazil, all the fruit and vegetable producers but also all the distributors of farm products know the neem. Since 2001, we use it frequently to cure the animals and for the agriculture.
The biologic alternative
The azadirachtin extract contained in the neem’seeds was very efficient against the larva that were destroying the foliages, against 13 species of lepidopterous insects and against sawflies.
When the tree reaches maturity, it can produce until 50Kg of fruits what is equivalent to 30Kg of seeds. These ones constitute the main source of components with some insecticidal properties as the azadirachtin. However, the quantity of azadirachtin contained in the seeds considerably changes according to the climatic conditions, the soil conditions and the genotype of the tree (Ermel 1986 ; Singh 1986).
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line347
|
__label__wiki
| 0.875354
| 0.875354
|
NDN's HALF HALLOWEEN '17
Brain Rot
Comics & More
The Graveyard (User Submission)
Q&A Submission
Submit A Piece/Story
NeverDeadRadio
The Next Chapter: Night Shield's "The Warning"
November 5, 2016 Never Dead
Night Shield - The Warning (Official Video) Directed By: Zoss Produced By: Maniac: The Siouxpernatural Buy the song on iTunes today: https://itun.es/us/HEEheb
“This video was sort of a rebirth for me in that what you can expect from me in the future is not what you've always gotten with me in the past. The "Sex, Drunks & Hip Hop" version of Night Shield is done and this is the start of the next phase of my career.” - Night Shield.
Released in August of this year, “The Warning” is one of the latest music video releases from highly-acclaimed rapper Night Shield. Produced by Maniac The Siouxpernatural (another well-respected on Night Shield's label Night Shield Entertainment), the song brings quite the "slasher" film vibe - sampling an old Spider-Man vinyl record, which speaks even more to Night Shield’s overall style and persona with his passion for comic books, particularly Spider-Man.
The video capitalizes on this slasher-feel that the song brings by being essentially that. Many Night Shield Entertainment members, affiliates, fans, etc. act in the Jeff Zoss directed visual, half being partnered with Night Shield’s “Purge”-esque team that terrorizes of the other half of the actors in the video.
“...I came up with the concept of the video by trying to do something completely different from my other videos, the music I'm creating now is a lot harder than my previous stuff and I wanted the visuals to represent that switch in styles.” says Night Shield.
The thing I really appreciate about the music video as a whole is that it is unapologetically genuine. It’s not corny in its display of horror, mixed with that “savage” style that Night Shield has always displayed in his work. It’s a harder vibe for sure, but there’s no question whatsoever that it is still Night Shield. In watching this video, you know that the horror element isn’t just a gimmick, rather that it is something that everyone involved is actually into. In asking about his affinity to horror, Night Shield commented, “I remember the original "Poltergeist" movie ruining my life when I was a kid, "Halloween", "A Nightmare On Elm Street", "The Shining" those were all movies that played a big part in my early years. I've always been a fan of scary movies, but it wasn't until met Maniac that that passion really started spreading into my music. We had a song called "Demon Zombies From Outer Space" on his first album and I think that was the first time I really started incorporated horror themes into my music.”
Provided to YouTube by CDBaby Demon Zombies from Outer Space · Maniac the Siouxpernatural Nightmerika ℗ 2005 Gabriel Night Shield Released on: 2005-03-15 Auto-generated by YouTube.
With ironically many criticisms and challenges that are presented in being comfortable with having eccentricity in the realm of Indigenous media and art, I asked Night Shield about his music’s progression towards this harder style, and how collaborating with many different artists during his long hip hop tenure has helped a song/video like The Warning come about in the way that it did, “It was definitely more of a gradual thing, I was a part of the Sicfux movement that was happening in St. Paul a few years ago and that really delved us deeper into the whole Juggalo scene than we were before, and once we got in there it felt like we finally found our calling, these people really understood where we were coming from. I always felt like we were the odd balls in the music scene because we got props from the black crowds, but they never really rocked with us all that heavy, and the Native scene we were different from everyone because a lot of that scene feels like they are "holy're than thou", but when we went we got into that Juggalo crowd it was like, "Ah, we're home, this is where we need to be, these people are just like us.”
Without giving away too much, Night Shield’s daughter Lyric plays a really cool twist-role at the end of the video. In talking about her involvement, Night Shield expressed, “That was what the whole video was building to. I try to include my daughter in everything I do now, I feel it's really important to include her in everything since she's such a big part of my life. We have a lot of fun doing that kind of stuff and all her friends think it's cool and want to be in future videos and stuff, but I'm always like "I don't know if you're parents would appreciate this...ha ha", but she had fun doing it, it took some convincing to get her into it, but she was a natural once she got into it.”
Overall, the music video is a really good watch, the song is wicked, and I personally always have had anticipation for any of the releases coming from Night Shield.
“My next single is called "Bang Your Head" and features Maniac: The Siouxpernatural & the metal band Fluxxx. We'll be shooting the video for that very soon and I'm working on my next album right now also.” - Night Shield.
So be sure to check out the video, write a comment of what you think, and be sure to check out @NightShield on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat (shoutout to the dope and often hilarious “Cooking with Gabe” series), and Twitter. And also @NightShizzle on YouTube.
#NeverDeadTalon
In Music Tags Night Shield, N.S.E., The Warning, NeverDeadNative, Music Video, Hip Hop, Rap, Horror, Horrorcore, Interview, Review
Contact Us: NeverDeadNative@gmail.com
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line349
|
__label__wiki
| 0.918264
| 0.918264
|
Has the continuing success of the NHS contributed to the ongoing hard line on funding?
Has the continuing success of the NHS contributed to the ongoing hard line on funding? The NHS presents an economic dilemma. On the one hand we boast one of the best performing and most highly efficient health care systems in the world, yet on the other we see services and the staff that deliver them stretched to their absolute limits.
When it comes to productivity, the NHS is currently outperforming the wider UK economy, so investing in the health service makes financial sense. Historically, growing economies have increased their spend on health as a share of GDP yet, in the UK, current plans will see health spending fall as a proportion of GDP, which could risk us slipping below the standards and outcomes of the developed world. The Health Foundation
Bottom up, top down, middle out: transforming health and care in Greater Manchester
Bottom up, top down, middle out: transforming health and care in Greater Manchester In April 2016, control of Greater Manchester’s £6 billion combined health and social care budget was handed over to local leaders as part of the first devolution deal of its kind. Since then, local NHS and local government leaders, clinicians and wider partners have been working together to develop services suited to the needs of the 2.8 million people who live in Greater Manchester. The King's Fund
Why I injected myself with an untested gene therapy
Why I injected myself with an untested gene therapy The moment Tristan Roberts became the first human to inject an untested, experimental gene therapy into his stomach fat, he was sitting on a leather couch in his friend-slash-yoga instructor's living room, not on a doctor's examining table.
The glass coffee table in front of him was strewn with syringes. A Chihuahua mix wearing an inflatable recovery collar snored beside him.
The event was livestreamed on Facebook, and hundreds tuned in (later, Roberts' mother watched, though she was "not thrilled" with his decision). On Roberts' right was Aaron Traywick, head of Ascendance Biomedical, the nascent company behind the treatment. A network of unnamed researchers around the US assembled the vials in front of them. BBC News
Jeremy Hunt accused of 'astonishing failure' after GP numbers fall by 1,190
Jeremy Hunt accused of 'astonishing failure' after GP numbers fall by 1,190 NHS figures show drop of 1,193 family doctors in past year, despite pledge to increase numbers by 5,000 by 2020
The number of GPs in England has fallen sharply in the past year, despite a government pledge to increase the supply of family doctors by 5,000.
The total number of full-time equivalent GPs working in England dropped by 1,193 in the year to September, figures from NHS Digital show. Continue reading... The Guardian
Workforce figures gravely concerning says College Royal College of General Practitioners
NHS has lost 1,300 full-time GPs since 2015, official data reveal GPonline
Jeremy Hunt's GP recruitment pledge in tatters as 1,000 full-time NHS doctors quit last year The Independent
This isn’t the start of an NHS crisis – it’s far worse | Jan Filochowski
This isn’t the start of an NHS crisis – it’s far worse | Jan Filochowski The shortfalls are chronic, widespread and growing. I’ve turned failing health trusts around – I can see the service needs a modern-day Marshall plan• Jan Filochowski is a former NHS chief executive
Saying the NHS was already in crisis, as I – and a few other Jeremiahs – did two years ago, meant going out on a limb. Today, hardly anyone says anything else, not least because virtually all our dire predictions have become realities. Even public officials responsible for running and inspecting the NHS, who couldn’t be seen for dust then (the heads of NHS England, NHS Improvement and the Care Quality Commission), are going public on the gravity of the situation and begging the chancellor to do something in this week’s budget.
Indeed, how could anyone say things are OK when, in response to an increase in the past seven years of at most 15% in A&E attendances and admissions, waits in A&E have gone up by 350% and waits for admission by 550%? Increasing waiting times are the canary in the mine. Continue reading... The Guardian
Finance trumps patients at every level – UK healthcare needs an inquiry The Guardian
Public services face real-terms spending cuts of up to 40% in decade to 2020 The Guardian
Ray James: ‘I want those still in care to tell their truths to people like me’
Ray James: ‘I want those still in care to tell their truths to people like me’ Six years after the Winterbourne View abuse scandal, Ray James’ new job is to ensure people with learning disabilities can move on from long-stay units
Ray James wants to feel uncomfortable. It’s the best way, he thinks, to make health and care leaders take action to break the logjam that keeps almost 2,500 people with learning disabilities and autism in specialist hospitals in England six years after the Winterbourne View scandal. The Panorama exposé of systematic abuse of patients so shocked the nation that ministers promised to close such places down.
James, 52, has been appointed the first national learning disability director at NHS England, with a brief to do whatever necessary to make progress on that pledge. Continue reading... The Guardian
NHS doctors fell 'dirty' working with private industry, health chief says
NHS doctors fell 'dirty' working with private industry, health chief says Live-saving NHS innovations are being held up because doctors think it is “dirty” to work with the private sector, the Government’s most senior health advisor has said.
Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer, told Parliament that staff were reluctant to associate with profit-making bodies even if it denied them the chance to improve their skills.
She said that if the NHS was to improve its research capacity there needed to be a “revolving door” between the health service, academia and industry bodies such as pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers.
Her call came as the Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor acknowledged that the training of NHS doctors capable of researching new cures and procedures had taken a “backward step”. The Daily Telegraph
Suicidal children abandoned by NHS, Commissioner tells Parliament
Suicidal children abandoned by NHS, Commissioner tells Parliament Suicidal children are being abandoned, the Children’s Commissioner has warned as she called for ‘seismic change’ to mental health services for the young.
Anne Longfield said understaffed and fragmented services meant minors are being turned away even if they say they no longer wanted to live.
Her warning to MPs followed a report which showed children’s psychiatric services are receiving an average of just 6 per cent of the mental health budget, despite children making up around 20 per cent of the population.
Meanwhile the Care Quality Commission, responsible for regulating services, said there was no clear structure of accountability at a local level.
Currently only one in four children with a psychiatric condition is being treated. The Daily Telegraph
Labour MP Reveals Suicidal 10-Year-Old Was Denied Mental Health Help Four Times Huffington Post UK
At least 675 patients fall over daily on NHS wards
At least 675 patients fall over daily on NHS wards Some 675 patients have falls on NHS wards every day, a major national audit has found.
Many are preventable and caused by patients not having walking frames or being unsteady from medication.
Hospitals are also failing to give patients call bells to ensure they can summon staff without trying to get on their feet.
The audit, by the Royal College of Physicians, established that there were 246,425 falls on NHS wards in 2015/16 – and many hospitals and trusts were failing to take basic measures to prevent them. The Daily Mail
National Audit of Inpatient Falls Audit report 2017 Royal College of Physicians
Has the continuing success of the NHS contributed ...
Bottom up, top down, middle out: transforming heal...
Why I injected myself with an untested gene therap...
Jeremy Hunt accused of 'astonishing failure' after...
This isn’t the start of an NHS crisis – it’s far w...
Ray James: ‘I want those still in care to tell the...
NHS doctors fell 'dirty' working with private indu...
Suicidal children abandoned by NHS, Commissioner t...
At least 675 patients fall over daily on NHS wards...
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line354
|
__label__wiki
| 0.982951
| 0.982951
|
Thursdays 8:00 PM on The CW
Supernatural News
Supernatural Reviews
Supernatural Spoilers
Supernatural Watch Online
Supernatural Music
Supernatural Episode Guide
Supernatural Quotes
Supernatural Cast
Supernatural Pictures
Supernatural Videos
Supernatural Round Tables
Follow Supernatural
Supernatural Facebook Supernatural Twitter
Supernatural Season 5
Watch Full Episode
Supernatural Season 5 Episode 22
"Swan Song"
This is the fifth season finale of Supernatural. It focuses on the looming Apocalypse and, sadly, the death of a beloved character.
"Two Minutes to Midnight"
On this episode, Crowley informs Bobby that he'll give him the location of Death. In exchange for what? Only his soul. Meanwhile, Sam and Dean confront Pestilence.
"The Devil You Know"
A plan to trap Lucifer is at the center of this episode. It's titled "The Devil You Know."
"Hammer of the Gods"
A god betrays his fellow gods this week. The episode is titled "Hammer of the Gods."
"Point of No Return"
Zachariah come up with a new strategy against Lucifer this week. The episode is titled "Point of No Return."
"99 Problems"
Michael Shanks guest stars on this episode of Supernatural. He plays a character named Rob.
"Dark Side of the Moon"
This installment is titled "Dark Side of the Moon." Pamela Barnes returns in it.
"Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid"
This week's episode is titled "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid." During it, the brothers investigate Bobby's home town
"My Bloody Valentine"
Cupid makes an appearance this week. The episode is titled "My Bloody Valentine."
"The Song Remains The Same"
Anna travels through time this week on Supernatural. The episode is titled "The Song Remains The Same."
"Swap Meat"
This week's episode is titled "Swap Meat." During the hour, Sam is targeted by a high school student.
"Sam, Interrupted"
This is the first Supernatural episode of 2010. It's titled "Sam, Interrupted."
"Abandon All Hope..."
This week's episode is titled "Abandon All Hope..." During it, the brothers go after Lucifer.
Supernatural Season 5 Episode 9
"The Real Ghostbusters"
On this episode of Supernatural, Sam and Dean attention a fan convention. This episode is titled "The Real Ghostbusters."
"Changing Channels"
This week's episode is titled "Changing Channels." During the installment, Dean and Sam are trapped inside a TV show.
"The Curious Case Of Dean Winchester"
Bobby risks his life during this episode of Supernatural. It's titled "The Curious Case Of Dean Winchester."
"I Believe the Children Are Our Future"
What an inspiring episode title this week. The hour is named "I Believe the Children Are Our Future."
"Fallen Idol"
On this episode of Supernatural, Sam and Dead go to a town where people are being killed by dead icons. That's unusual.
"The End"
Dean won't help Sam battle the Devil on this episode of Supernatural. It's titled "The End."
"Free to Be You and Me"
Let's take a quick look at what went down on this episode of Supernatural. In it, Dean and Castiel attempt to locate the Archangel Raphael.
"Good God, Y'All"
The fifth season of Supernatural is in full swing. Here's a brief recap of events from the second episode of it.
"Sympathy for the Devil"
Welcome to the fifth season of Supernatural. This new episode of the series is titled "Sympathy for the Devil."
Air Dates:
September 10, 2009 to May 13, 2010
Total Episodes:
Supernatural Season 5 Quotes
Endings are hard. Any chapped-ass monkey with a keyboard can poop out a beginning, but endings are impossible. You try to tie up every loose end, but you never can. The fans are always gonna bitch. There's always gonna be holes. And since it's the ending, it's all supposed to add up to something. I'm telling you, they're a raging pain in the ass.
Permalink: Endings are hard. Any chapped-ass monkey with a keyboard can poo...
Dean: Where's Cass?
Chuck: He's dead. Or gone. The archangel smote the crap out of him. I'm sorry.
Dean: You're sure? I mean, maybe he just vanished into the light or something.
Chuck: Oh, no. He exploded. Like a water balloon of chunky soup.
Permalink: Where's Cass? He's dead. Or gone. The archangel smote the crap...
Supernatural Season 5 Music
Long, Long Way From Home Foreigner iTunes
Spirit In the Sky Norman Greenbaum iTunes
Move You Anya Marina
Supernatural Season 5 Photos
Supernatural Season 5 Videos
Swan Song Clip
Supernatural Season Finale Trailer
Two Minutes to Midnight Clip
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line358
|
__label__wiki
| 0.710826
| 0.710826
|
Kill List (2011)
Author: Brett Gallman
Submitted by: Brett Gallman Date : 2012-01-10 01:33
Written by: Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump
Starring: Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring and Harry Simpson
Reviewed by: Brett Gallman
Kill List is kind of like an onion to me, in more ways than one. It left a pretty bad taste in my mouth, and I can’t really say I liked the film very much; however, as I examine it more, I find myself peeling layers off of it, revealing some interesting depth in imagery and themes that at least make it more admirable than most movies I don’t take to. This is one of those films where I can see the underlying thematic points being drawn out, but I’m not sure they all get connected in satisfying fashion, even as I was predicting exactly where the story was going to end up.
That Kill List becomes so predictable is rather remarkable because it begins rather opaquely, with a small dinner party among friends. Ex-soldier Jay (Neil Maskell) and his wife, Shel (MyAnna Burning) are the hosts, with Gal (Michael Smiley) and his girlfriend (Emma Fryer) also attending. We’re treated to a fly-on-the-wall’s take on these low-key proceedings that soon turn hostile when Jay flips his shit in a sequence that felt like the dysfunction of Rob Zombie’s Halloween funneled through an affluent Irish family (which is hardly the best thing to be reminded of). This is followed up by some cryptic conversations between Jay and Gal about doing some local work, and, after about half an hour, we finally realize these guys are hitmen. They’re also mixed up with a mysterious cadre orchestrating their moves, and they’re unwittingly sent down a destructive rabbit hole that could destroy them both.
If Ben Wheatley’s goal with it is to dig in under your skin, then crawl around in your brain, then I’ll say he succeeded, and I do find it interesting that he does so in an unexpected fashion. Kill List is hugely violent and visceral, and there’s a level of casualness to it that’s inherently disturbing. But while the image of Jay bludgeoning a guy’s head to a bloody pulp will be hard to purge, I think the headier stuff underlying the film is more intriguing in retrospect. I’ve seen plenty of these excursions involving ne’er-do-wells biting off even more than they can chew; in fact, some of this reminded me of Boondock Saints, albeit with a real rugged Irish sensibility. It’s also a story about a couple professional types with an odd moral code--they have no problems callously shooting priests in the head, but they stumble upon a plot that sickens even them, and the film expectedly hits some vigilante beats.
Again, those beats are pretty routine, but Kill List’s proleptic tract makes it a bit more rewarding. As dry as those early sequences are, they’re also sprinkled with some eerie foreshadowing and imagery that’ll eventually recur. At first blush, the film seems to take a hard left turn at the end, where we’re suddenly plopped into a sinister plot that feels like it wandered off of a 1970s Hammer set. And, if you know me, you’ll also know that such material hits a soft spot that’s appealing; when stuff veers into occult territory, it registers with me in a Pavlovian way, so Kill List finally started to work for me during the last 20 minutes or so. Upon reflection, it does earn the narrative turn--there are hints of it strewn throughout the build-up, and there’s a subtle thread involving religion that functions as interesting thematic weight. The aforementioned encounter with the priest is an obvious one, but the nature of religion is discussed among the characters, plus Jay lashes out at a group of people singing “Onward Christian Soldiers”; that he eventually gets ensnared by something overtly pagan after all of this seems to be playing at some sort of deeper meaning to all of the carnage. We’re left with a rather bleak outlook on things--here’s a guy who refuses to believe in god but still can’t escape the devils.
Said devils could be literal or not; there’s a chance that he’s just suffering from post-traumatic stress from his experiences in war and that everything he thinks he’s experiencing is some kind of paranoid projection. He’s a bad man who did some bad things while he was off to war, and he either thinks karmic forces will catch up to them--and maybe they do. Kill List has some very interesting things to chew over, and I wish I felt more compelled to give it another look to be sure. But, an onion is an onion, and the bad taste supersedes a lot of this stuff; I found it hard to get past the wholly unlikable characters and their bizarre interactions. I lost count of how many times they’d be at each other’s throats in one scene and then coddling each other in the next; something about it all feels inauthentic, as if it’s trying too hard to make us sympathize with its vile lead characters. The ending hinges on that sympathy, I think; as disturbing as it is, it’s also predictable for anyone who has recently seen another infamous movie (that I won’t specifically mention--to do so would give away the ending to Kill List). When all is revealed, I don’t know that Jay has built up enough good will for me to think he doesn’t deserve his fate, and, if he does deserve it, this is just another trip down a well-worn nihilistic path.
Wheatley has buried an interesting film down in here, somewhere; I’m not a big fan of the handheld/faux-docu style he brings, particularly since it’s done in a scope ratio--such a pairing seems at odds to me, and it only works here once he hits the suffocating ground level for the intense climax. Otherwise, this is a bit of roughly-shot affair with some occasional neat editing tricks (which, again, seemingly conflicts with the intimate, handheld style). Ultimately, Kill List is one of those frustrating films that leaves me pondering certain things, but it never feels like something that would be enjoyable enough to revisit. You can currently check it out on VOD platforms, but I’d suggest waiting for IFC to bring it to disc, where it will likely be subtitled--I had some real problems understanding some of the dialogue thanks to the thick accents, which possibly rendered the film even more opaque at times. Kill List has been well-liked by most genre fans, and there’s maybe even a good chance I’ll be a fan upon a revisit--I hate to hedge my bets like that, but my initial reaction is that it’s a film whose brutally violent spectacle and pulpy twists drown out the more interesting subtexts. Rent it!
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line368
|
__label__wiki
| 0.684067
| 0.684067
|
Freshman’s knockout ‘triple threat’ skill set
Home /Main Story, Features, Profiles, Sports, Football/Freshman’s knockout ‘triple threat’ skill set
Michael Watkins/ Courier Kavior Clark poses for a portrait in the Pasadena City College locker room on Tuesday, November 14, 2017.
Main Story,Features,Profiles,Sports,Football |
| By Jefferson Huynh
Sporting a number 18 jersey, and standing six feet tall, his eyes dart toward the brown, prolate spheroid-shaped object that quickly dashes through the diamond-shaped grassy area. Playing as a safety and linebreaker, he fends off his opponents who are rapidly dashing toward him. Having an alert mind and strength are two key abilities in this type of scenario, especially where bulky, strong men are charging towards one another.
Originally hailing from San Antonio, Kavior Clark, a freshman athlete at Pasadena City College (PCC), embarked on a journey to a new city. A city filled with glistening opportunities that represents people’s aspirations and dreams, La La land isn’t so different in terms of entertainment and culture based on Clark’s new-found perspective.
“[Pasadena] is very different, but [it is] also alike to San Antonio,” Clark said. “The first thing I tried out with my cousin was to get boba. Coming out here and getting the experience to taste a variety of food is really a blessing.”
Juggling between athletics and academics at PCC, Clark emphasizes the importance of receiving an education while being involved in football and numerous fitness-driven activities ranging from basketball to track.
“I look at it as a reason to think back where I am from,” he said. “A lot of people don’t go to school. And I think it’s a blessing to actually go to school and be involved in sports. I make sure to [focus on my academics] so that I can continue playing.”
Focusing on school work is another task to manage, whereas committing to practice for back-to-back games requires an intensive amount of time put in.
“With the team, I usually practice for three hours,” Clark said. “Outside of that, I get an extra two hours.”
Coach Steven Mojarro emphasized Clark’s hard work throughout the season and bright future in his sports endeavors, stating how it takes a person to be “very strong and courageous to play football.”
“Trying to build the PCC’s football program, we cannot find a better example of a player that it takes to do this,” Mojarro wrote in an email. “He works extremely hard and has never missed a day of practice.”
From tackling on the football field, to dribbling to the basketball court, and sprinting to the track area, the process of balancing three sports is a long-term commitment that involves great effort and a strong mentality.
“After I’m done with basketball and football, I’ll just work out with my cousins,” Clark said. “He has a gym there at Alhambra, so we’ll work out there and work on basketball. After basketball, I’d just work on sprinting or running at the school’s track.”
For his method of juggling with the daily tasks of commuting to school, focusing on academics, and going to practice while remaining fit, he embarks into his inner aura of tranquility by whipping out his favorite go-to athletic tunes and snacks to munch on.
“I need to listen to some music,” Clark said. “And I also need gummy worms… Gummy worms and M&Ms are my things.”
As Clark details the plays he made, he expressed that tackling and possibly knocking out his opponents struck out to him— figuratively and literally. Scoring a total of 21 and averaging 2.3 tackles per game during the season, he is a person that can’t be easily pushed down to the ground.
“We played Compton, and I knocked a kid out,” Clark said. “Every on-site kick, I always got those. And at San Bernardino, I knocked another guy out.”
When the Lancers won five games in a row for the first time since 2010, Clark shared his narrative of how his teammates celebrated their victories against Southwestern, Compton, West LA, Glendale, and LA Southwest. The celebration of a win consisted of the team getting together at the locker room, cranking up some music and dancing to the beat.
“We like to dance in [the locker room], and we like to dance a lot,” Clark said in a laughing manner. “One of my teammates likes to celebrate by doing a split here, and we would all go bananas.”
What would soon end a win streak for the Lancers would be the Southern California juggernauts of East Los Angeles and Santa Ana. Though they did not win the conference title, that didn’t stop Clark nor his positive outlook from becoming undefeated.
“Next season, I’m looking for a winning season,” Clark said. “Capitalizing on what we did this year and making minor adjustments can make us become more successful.”
Transfer Center: How to get out of here
Twitter’s new 280 character is stupid and too long and no one wants to read this much and have I proven my point yet?
TAGS: San Antonio Kavior Clark Steven Mojarro Football lancer PCC
Academic Senate sets a reminder…
Kessa Rychlick hurdles over the…
Historic voter turnout leads to…
Sorry, not sorry: Administration apology…
English faculty held back because…
Editorial: The administration’s lack of…
Ethics committee failing ‘because people…
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line370
|
__label__wiki
| 0.542484
| 0.542484
|
Latest update: Jan. 25, 2017
Board approves recommendations for Pupil Accommodation Review for secondary schools south of the 401
At the Regular Meeting of the Board on Jan. 24, 2017, Peel District School Board trustees approved the following recommendations related to the Pupil Accommodation Review for secondary schools south of the 401:
Effective June 2018, Gordon Graydon Memorial Secondary School will close;
Effective September 2018, the Vocational (VOC) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Programs will be relocated from Gordon Graydon Memorial S.S. to Glenforest Secondary School;
Effective September 2017,
students residing within the existing Glenforest S.S. Enhanced Learning Program (ELP) boundary entering Grade 9 ELP, will be directed to The Woodlands S.S. or Lorne Park Secondary School;
students enrolled in the Enhanced Learning Program at Glenforest S.S. and entering Grade 10 – 12, will be given the option to attend The Woodlands S.S. or Lorne Park S.S. Students who do not exercise this option for 2017 will complete their secondary education at Glenforest Secondary School;
ELP boundaries for The Woodlands and Lorne Park will be expanded as described in the Final Staff Report
Effective September 2018, the International Business and Technology (IBT) and Graphic and Design Management (GDM) Programs will be relocated from Gordon Graydon Memorial S.S. to T.L. Kennedy Secondary School.
Peel board staff will now prepare a transition plan that will include timelines for implementation and the support available to staff and students moving to their new school sites. In addition, transition committees will be formed, comprised of appropriate Board staff and parents. These committees will develop plans for items of historical significance, the control, reclamation and disposition of a closing school's inventory, maintaining appropriate records and building a collaborative culture in the consolidated sites.
Download a copy of the letter being sent home to families of affected schools on Jan. 25, 2017.
Download a copy of the Final Staff Report from the Jan. 24, 2017 Regular Meeting of the Board.
Important dates and meeting resources
Resources (School information profiles)
Subscribe for updates
At the Regular Meeting of the Board on April 12, Peel District School Board trustees approved a pupil accommodation review for Gordon Graydon Memorial, Glenforest, Lorne Park, T. L. Kennedy and The Woodlands secondary schools.
You may choose to subscribe to receive email notifications of website updates by visiting www.peelschools.org/aboutus/subscribe, and selecting the "Pupil Accommodation Review" option. All information about the pupil accommodation review, including important dates, meeting agendas and minutes and extensive background information will be posted on this webpage.
Have questions and/or feedback?
Staff, families and the general public may submit additional questions and/or feedback via email to par@peelsb.com. A response will be provided within 48 hours.
Ministry of Education Pupil Accommodation Review Guideline
Peel board Initial Staff Report with recommendations
ARC terms of reference
Peel board Pupil Accommodation Review policy
Peel board Community Planning and Partnership policy
Ministry of Education Guide to PARs
Ministry of Education Administrative Review of Accommodation Review Process
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line371
|
__label__cc
| 0.523563
| 0.476437
|
Weep In The Night
Model: d-h11559
Author: Valerie Massey Goree
After three years in the witness protection program, Sadie Malone’s life in Texas is bland and humdrum--until she meets a new co-worker. Bowen Boudine ignites a flame in Sadie's long-dormant heart, but when she discovers he knows her true identity, she attempts to flee. He thwarts her...
After three years in the witness protection program, Sadie Malone’s life in Texas is bland and humdrum--until she meets a new co-worker. Bowen Boudine ignites a flame in Sadie's long-dormant heart, but when she discovers he knows her true identity, she attempts to flee. He thwarts her escape and reveals the reason he’s been sent to locate her.
Bowen, a seasoned operative with International Retrieval Organization takes his job escorting Sadie safely back to California seriously, but quickly finds he's falling for her. Can he maintain a professional relationship while he protects her from the crime boss her testimony helped to convict?
“Weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning” ~ Psalm 30:5
She ran her finger across the white plastic nametag. Blue letters spelled out Debra Johnson, but that wasn’t her name.
The bulb above the sink crackled and died. She hated the dark. Backing out of the bathroom, she leaned against the wall and flipped on the hall light. Shadows scuttled away, but left a trace of unease in her gut.
Tears blurred her vision as she pinned the nametag on her shirt. It took two attempts to snag the pin in place. Get a grip, Sadie. You’re safe.
Although she’d been in the Federal Witness Protection Program for almost three years, she still thought of herself as Sadie Malone. Sometimes the past latched onto her soul and yanked her down to the depths of grief like a meteor plummeting to earth. Today would have been her husband’s thirty-seventh birthday. She closed her eyes. The faces of Aaron, and Hannah, her four-year-old daughter, floated in and out of a gray mist. Gone. They were both gone.
A shiver took control of Sadie’s body as ice crystals formed in her heart.
She would not succumb to despair.
Clenching her jaw, she hunted in the closet for a new bulb and installed it. Light cascaded as she glared in the bathroom mirror, chest heaving, and the corners of her mouth pointing south. The hall clock chimed the hour. Nine o’clock. Sadie squared her shoulders and opened her cosmetic bag. No matter her emotional state, she needed to leave soon.
Miles Griffin, her local WITSEC contact, had found her the job and would be disappointed if she got fired. Dabbing on makeup, she paid special attention to her red-rimmed eyes. Couldn’t have curious co-workers bugging her with questions.
Sadie brushed her hair and arranged the short blonde curls to cover the dark roots. Time to schedule an appointment with Yolanda, but it would have to wait until her next day off. Dyeing her hair took time and money, which she sacrificed without complaint to keep her whereabouts secret.
Satisfied with the makeup’s camouflage, Sadie headed to the kitchen for her salad sack lunch. She’d much prefer to eat a burger and fries, but patted her flat stomach and closed the refrigerator. No way would she gain back the weight she’d lost since being in WITSEC. Dressed for work in blue jeans, aqua T-shirt, and sneakers, she slid the nonprescription glasses on her nose and glanced in the hall mirror. The wire-rimmed frames changed her appearance. She sure didn’t look like Sadie Malone anymore.
When she stepped out of her corner, ground-floor apartment, she scanned the area for loitering strangers or anyone out of the ordinary. The whine of a power mower filled the air with the sweet smell of cut grass. Mrs. Gaffney watered plants by her front door; Lloyd Kaiser tinkered with his bicycle in front of his apartment, three doors down; Jodie Powers walked her pug. All familiar, all OK.
With a satisfied nod, Sadie took the sidewalk to the parking area and climbed into her white mid-sized sedan. The economical, inconspicuous vehicle matched her circumstances. In it, she could be as invisible as possible. At times, she missed her SUV, but with no little girl to buckle into a carseat and no husband to laugh and talk with, the smaller vehicle suited her needs.
As she drove to Rhodes DIY Headquarters, a local home improvement store, she fingered her nametag. Debra Johnson wasn’t the only name change she’d had. Right after the trial in Los Angeles, still grieving for Aaron and Hannah, she’d been whisked to Seattle, known there as Sadie Mason.
She parked in the employee lot and glanced at her short nails as she removed the key from the ignition. At least in Seattle she had an office job. But her identity there had been compromised. Now, here in Austin, Texas, she worked at Rhodes in the garden center. Dirt under her nails, rough hands, aching back—nothing like her original job in technology. Computer expertise led to her placement in WITSEC. That meant no jobs in the computer industry for her ever again.
At least she had friends at Rhodes. She took a deep breath of the crisp morning air, still earthy from the overnight rain, and entered the store. Once in the break room, apron on, Sadie clocked in. Several people milled about.
“Hi, Debra. How was your weekend?”
Used to the name, she turned. “Hey, April. Great. It was nice to have two days off. How’s Victor?”
“So-so. He took me to meet his parents yesterday. Then he asked me to move in with him, but I told him no.” April, in her mid-twenties, a decade younger than Sadie, closed her locker and tied the apron around her slender waist. “I told Victor what your pastor said about marriage.”
April still referred to Reece Patterson as Sadie’s pastor, although she’d attended Hillcrest Church for six months. Sadie had only been going there a few months longer. Her church activities had ceased two and a half years ago when her family died. Attendance now wavered between enthusiastic and perfunctory, a result of guilt and a gnawing vacuum where her soul used to be.
“Good for you. Considering marriage is a serious commitment.” Stop, Sadie. Don’t get involved in a discussion about marriage and family. She closed the locker before adjusting the fake glasses. “Are you ready to go?”
With a nod, April held the door for Sadie, and they left the room together.
“Have you met the new guy? Ooh, muy caliente.” April fanned her face. “If I didn’t have my Victor, I’d set my sights on him.”
“No, I haven’t seen this new, hot guy.” After all that had happened, meeting men, good-looking or otherwise, was not high on Sadie’s priority list. Since the car accident that killed Aaron and Hannah, she had little interest in a romantic life. Her routine consisted of work, developing a few friendships, and most important, staying safe.
A jab in the ribs brought her back to the wide store aisles. “There he is, Debra. Over there.” April pointed to a group of men examining a stack of cedar fence posts.
To appease her, Sadie asked, “Which one? I recognize Oscar and Greg.”
“He’s the one in the blue shirt.”
The men concluded their discussion and the new guy turned, heading down the aisle.
Eyes on the approaching figure, Sadie had to agree with April. Muy caliente, indeed. About average height, thick black hair—a stray curl flopped on his forehead—and an athletic body. He beamed a hundred watt smile at April. “Hi.” His deep voice complemented his physical appearance.
Before April could respond, her name echoed through the store. Paged by the appliance department, she shoved Sadie towards the new guy. “Got to go. Meet my friend.”
Sadie frowned at April’s retreating figure.
The man turned to Sadie. A dimple in one cheek enhanced his rugged face. “Hi, April’s friend. I’m Sam.” He extended his hand.
His name ricocheted through her heart. Automatically, she shook hands and mumbled, “I’m Debra.”
Eyes as blue as a jay bird raked her face. “Nice to meet you. Which department do you work in?”
“Garden. And I’m sorry I can’t stay and chat. I have a load of star jasmine waiting for me.” She sent him a plastic smile she was sure never touched her eyes and hurried away.
Sam. His name was Sam. A lump of sadness slid down her throat. Because of her initials, her husband’s nickname for her had been Sam—Sadie Aretta Malone.
Although the arrival of plants and other merchandise kept Sadie busy, she couldn’t shake the recurring waves of melancholy that shadowed her. No matter how much she tried to avoid the new guy, he appeared at every turn, reminding her of happier days. Why did his name have to be Sam? He attempted to strike up conversations, but the early spring rush provided believable excuses for Sadie to escape.
Her ploy worked until lunchtime. She opened the break room door and scanned the crowded area. Oscar munched on popcorn, the charred, nutty aroma announcing he’d burnt it again, and someone had heated a fishy meal in the microwave. Sadie wrinkled her nose.
Where could she sit?
Sam sat alone at a small table wedged beside the counter. A pile of sandwiches spilled out of his lunch box. One foot rested on the single unoccupied chair. With eyebrows raised, he glanced her way. “Hey, Debra. Want to join me?” He set his foot on the floor.
She had no choice. “Sure.” With great reluctance, she collected her sack from the refrigerator and sat in the chair he scooted out for her. “Thanks.”
Salad bowl open, she mixed in Italian dressing. Stay away from his eyes. But she couldn’t help it. Their blueness intrigued her. Were they real or did he wear colored contacts?
Focusing on her bowl, she chomped on lettuce, the tangy dressing enlivening her taste buds.
Sam picked up another sandwich and set his elbows on the table. “So, Miss Debra, how long have you worked here?” His dimple appeared again.
Always cautious when questioned, she kept the answer vague and brief. “A year or so.”
“And where are you from? I don’t hear a Texas twang.”
Getting too personal, mister. She took a swig from her water bottle. “I moved around a lot as a kid. Don’t claim any one state as home.”
“I can appreciate that. My brother and I were raised in foster care, but I was born in Dayton, Ohio.”
Thankful her eyes were focused on the last of the salad, Sadie kept her head down. First, his name brought back memories. Now, two more troubling coincidences. She’d been raised by foster families and moved more times than she could remember. And she had been born in Dayton.
She gulped hard to keep from choking on little bits of fear infused in her lunch. “You don’t say.” Salad bowl snapped closed, she gathered her things together. “Got a few phone calls to make before I return to the garden. Good-bye.”
Anyone observing her exit would have thought Freddy Krueger chased her as she ran from the break room. Not knowing what else to do, she punched Miles Griffin’s speed dial number on her cell phone.
Griff listened to her concerns about the new guy. “Good instincts, Debra. Glad you called. Find out his last name and any other personal information you can scrounge. I’ll do a bit of checking.” Talk about a Texas twang. Griff’s words drawled out as if he had a limited number and had to make them last all day.
Sadie slowed as she neared the garden center. Sam did not have on a nametag. “I’ll see what I can discover.”
“In the meantime, young lady, stay cool and keep your eyes open.”
“Always do. Thanks, Griff.” She slipped her phone into her apron pocket.
Oh, joy. Now she’d have to talk to the new guy again or find another way of snooping for information. And she’d have to call him Sam—he couldn’t be the new guy forever.
Opportunity came when Sadie clocked out at ten after six and had the break room to herself. Rhodes still used time cards, which were listed alphabetically in the metal holder. After returning hers to its slot, she checked for Sam’s. It took a while but she located a card for Sam Boudine.
She tugged her purse and lunch sack from her locker and jotted down Sam’s name. As she turned to leave the room, he entered.
“Hey, Debbie. Your shift over?”
The name grated like screeching metal. If she couldn’t use her real name, then at least she’d have one she could tolerate. “It’s Debra.” With her purse in hand, she couldn’t deny her intentions. “Yeah, I’m leaving.”
“Sorry, Debra. I’m on my way out, too. Hold up, and I’ll walk with you.”
Every fiber in her objected, but she waited for him to clock out.
On the way to the exit, she fudged on the truth. “April told me your last name. There can’t be too many Boudines in Ohio.”
“My grandparents were from Louisiana.”
While considering other questions she could ask to garner personal information, he continued the conversation and provided a cache.
“I really like Austin. Never lived in Texas, before. Got pink-slipped up north and thought I’d give the south a try.”
“So you don’t have any family down here?” Now outside, she elongated her stride to keep up with his long legs.
“Nah. It’s just little ol’ me.” His shoulders drooped, which caught her attention. “Had a wife and little girl.”
Antennae now on full alert, Sadie rummaged in her purse for her keys. “What happened?” She expected to hear about a divorce, but his next words stunned her.
“They were killed in a car wreck.”
Just like her family. Goosebumps pinpricked her arms. To hide her alarm, she pressed the car remote.
“Allow me.” Sam opened her door.
“That’s really sad.” Sliding into the car, she threw her purse onto the passenger seat.
“Two years ago.” Sam lingered by her door. “Want to see a picture?”
With his wallet already out, she had little choice. An attractive brunette holding a dark-haired toddler stared back at her.
Words clogged her throat. She glanced up at him and her heart twisted at his pained expression. Guilt for her earlier rudeness and for talking to him only to collect information needled her conscience. But her heart did more than flutter at his next words. It jerked to a stop.
“I still miss ‘em. My baby, Paige, and my wife, Sadie.”
by Clare Revell
This one kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time and reading far longer than I intended. Fast paced, plenty of action and just when you think the heroine is safe, Ms. Goree throws another twist in that leaves both heroine and reader reeling. Can the hero be trusted? We know he's lying to the heroine, but how far does his lie go? You won't regret picking this one up. A kindle keeper. I received a copy from the author in return for an honest review.
Viper's Nest
Rainn on My Parade
Purple Knot
The Christmas Edition: A Journey to Paradise
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line372
|
__label__wiki
| 0.656717
| 0.656717
|
“Imminent” Volcano Eruption Prompts Major Evacuation in Indonesia [VIDEO]
TOPICS:BaliDenpasarIndonesiaVolcano
Mount Agung volcano in Karangasem spitting out volcanic ash and fire. Large scale volcano eruption imminent, experts say. Image Source: Emilio Kuzma-Floyd/Reuters
Posted By: Tucker J. November 28, 2017
Indonesia closed its main airport on the island of Bali late Monday and instructed the more than 100,000 local residents to evacuate the area immediately. Mount Agung volcano eruption imminent, experts say.
The CCTV livestream above shows Mount Agung volcano in Karangasem intermittently spitting out volcanic ash and fire. Fleeing citizens were told that the first major eruption in 54 years could be “imminent”.
So-called “phreatic explosions” take place when cool water comes into contact with molten lava underground, which causes an intense buildup of steam. According to the Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), the smoke produced is sometimes accompanied by explosions and the sound can be heard “up to 12 km (7 miles) from the peak” of the volcano.
The volcano already erupted at around 5:30pm Indonesian local time leaving a red glow and a thick cloud of ash around its crater. The authorities in Bali have been monitoring the area since it first began rumbling in late September.
“The potential for a larger eruption is imminent,” BNPB spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho announced after the alert level was raised from 3 to its maximum of 4. The aviation warning level for aircraft in the area was also raised to red alert. Nighttime CCTV footage of the volcano showed a bright white glow of magma at the peak of Mount Agung, as citizens were evacuated from the 5 to 6 mile danger zone.
Mr. Nugroho told citizens to stay at least 7 miles away from the radius surrounding the volcano. He also reported that, although there have so far been no casualties associated with the volcanic activity and 40,000 people had already fled the area, tens of thousands are potentially still in danger.
Mount Agung towers over the east of Bali at just under 10,000 feet high. The volcano last erupted in 1963, immediately killing over 1,000 people and destroying several villages with hot ash and lava. The eastern part of the island is substantially underdeveloped compared to the southern areas which are popular with tourists. Many people have refused to leave their homes in spite of the imminent threat.
Indonesia’s tourist industry has taken a huge hit since Mount Agung began rumbling last month and the alert level was raised to maximum across the island. In spite of government reassurances that the main tourist areas of Bali were still safe and that the seismic activity had calmed, many tourists have stayed away since September.
Bali’s main airport in the island’s capital Denpasar was closed for 24 hours yesterday, disrupting 445 flights and almost 60,000 passengers, according to Reuters. High levels of volcanic ash meant that planes in the area had to be grounded, and airlines are expected to make further cancellations this week.
Although 10 additional airports in nearby provinces have arranged to receive redirected inbound flights, television news reports from Indonesia showed hundreds of stranded tourists in Denpasar’s airport terminals — many of them sleeping on suitcases and clothing.
People are camping out in Bali’s main airport, waiting for news on their delayed and canceled flights. Image Source: BBC News
Thousands Flee Imminent Volcano Eruption In Indonesia
A volcano on the Indonesian island of Bali looks to be just hours away from…
Islamic Terror In Barcelona [VIDEO]
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a terror attack in downtown Barcelona Thursday afternoon. So…
Polygamy Dating App Causes A Stir In Indonesia
Looking for a 2nd, 3rd or 4th wife? There's an app for that... in Indonesia.…
Be the first to comment on "“Imminent” Volcano Eruption Prompts Major Evacuation in Indonesia [VIDEO]"
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line374
|
__label__wiki
| 0.853975
| 0.853975
|
Feature Article - November/December 2018
Spreading the Word on the Value of Incentives
A Look Behind the Scenes of the Incentive Marketing Association
By Joseph Bush
Incentive Marketing Association President Ted Moravec doesn't mince words when asked how the IMA is doing in its quest to spread the good word of incentive marketing:
"I think we can declare victory in our collective efforts to communicate the value of incentives," said Moravec, executive vice president of Elite Creations.
Hooray! Mission accomplished! Right?
"The challenge is putting that understanding into action," he added.
Top business folks love a good challenge though, and judging by IMA executives' outlook on the past and upcoming years, the challenge doesn't stand a chance. There can't be action before awareness and education, and IMA has nailed those with its corporate outreach efforts and certification programs.
"My number-one priority is to ensure that the activities undertaken by the Incentive Marketing Association align with our mission of advocating for the use of incentives and recognition to improve business performance," Moravec said. "By doing so, we draw a straight line between the mission and delivering member value."
First comes the IMA's dedication to education, certification and its Circle of Excellence Awards, Moravec said, and then the outreach to raise awareness and drive participation.
"The phrase 'improve business performance' describes our activities precisely because these three areas of IMA focus are fully aligned with the support of our mission statement," he said. "The outreach increases awareness and drives interest in our website, which is a helpful resource for program design and sourcing of products and services by IMA members."
Board member and Past President Cindy Mielke said that since the IMA strategic plan was developed, she's seen "a new clarity, and even what I'd describe as a real eagerness," from within the IMA and all its Strategic Industry Groups (SIGs) to focus on corporate outreach.
"The IMA has a lot to offer, from education about effective program design to capitalizing on trends and new technologies to selecting and delivering the right types of incentives and rewards," said Mielke, the vice president of marketing and sales operations for GC Incentives. "The more opportunities we have to share our expertise with business people focused on how to reward and recognize employees and customers, and improving their business performance, the more ways we can deliver on our mission."
Mielke cited three examples of IMA efforts to garner new attention, members and excitement:
An initiative with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) that included an IMA-produced infographic for SHRM's latest issue of HR Magazine. It used the latest research to show how successful companies can differentiate themselves with non-cash rewards.
"We're also expanding the content for a one-hour webinar with SHRM," she said. "Earlier this year the Incentive Gift Card Council (IGCC) did a webinar for Lorman subscribers and is in discussions to do a similar webinar with another group of HR professionals."
The ongoing education of the distributor and reseller groups who are interested in selling incentive and recognition programs to their customers and the associations that serve them, including the Advertising Specialty Institute and Promotional Products Association International.
"Several colleagues and I rang in the New Year traveling to the first of a series of education sessions to present perspectives from all of IMA's SIGs on how to work with IMA members to partner and deliver this new revenue stream for distributors," Mielke said. "I'm very excited about this as we see a growing interest every year with more mature questions from this group. And bringing our curriculum to this audience further supports our goal of having one voice for best practices.
"IMA members are eager to share their messages with corporate audiences," she added, "and I've seen so many people giving their time and talents to these events this year so far. We welcome the partnership of ASI and PPAI member companies who further our mission and goals."
To help make it easy for organizations to access experts, the IMA has launched an IMA Industry Experts Bureau to provide speakers or authors for events and publications.
Moravec said the bridge from awareness to action is strengthened by the growing acceptance of the value of incentives in the workplace.
"At a conceptual level, we have never been in better shape," Moravec said. "All research available shows that Corporate America understands the importance of recognition and incentives in improving business performance. We see the overwhelming majority of large companies using some form of recognition and incentives as well as a majority of small and mid-sized companies."
More interest equals more opportunities for IMA and its members to improve program design, to provide cost-effective platforms for smaller companies and to establish standards of practice, he said.
"Like most aspects of today's economy, there is a tremendous amount of disruption taking place in the incentive space," Moravec said. "There are great opportunities for those who can innovate and can deliver performance improvement in a cost-effective manner that ranges from program design and administration and throughout the various product and services supply chains."
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line378
|
__label__cc
| 0.640791
| 0.359209
|
You are here: Home / Archives for Jo Joe
Book Review: Jo Joe, a Black Bear, Pennsylvania Story
March 10, 2014 by Rabbi Goldie Milgram Leave a Comment
— by Rabbi Goldie Milgram
Short books, available only by download, are a recent trend.
Sally Wiener Grotta’s Jo Joe, a Black Bear, Pennsylvania Stories was sent to me in this form, which worked well for it. It is also available in paperback and hardcover .
This volume, about a Jewish mixed-race woman raised by her Christian grandparents in a rural area, seems to be intentionally designed as a tool for provoking discussion about race, prejudice, interfaith encounters, the Jewish mourning practice of sitting shiva and saying Kaddish, and dysfunctional families.
As an educator always looking out for high-school-level stories that reveal family diversity, the story also raises important psycho-dynamic issues: that some people do change over time, and how projecting expectations onto others can lead to devastating cruelty.
The violence of the rape and trauma scenes seems quite accurate. Shiva scenes of the Jewish week of mourning after burial reflect the unfortunate and common practice of people giving advice to the primary mourners. Our tradition teaches us to listen to feelings, and not offer fixes. Even so, Kaddish works its magic:
For a few brief moments, I no longer feel like a stranger, but part of something larger, grander than myself. We were brought together by death, but we’re held together by the demands of life. That peace and comfort stays with me even as the circle breaks up.
But I have some issues with the work as a whole:
Continued after the jump.
First, during this quick read I kept hoping that the obvious conclusion would not be the actual one, but the end of the tale is truly inevitable.
Secondly, the main character, who is also the most affected by violence, seems almost wooden compared to rape victims this reviewer has counseled in her roles as a rabbi, and a long-time activist in the field of rape prevention and counseling. Overall, the main character seem to be reporting on her life more than fully experiencing it. The book’s author has written an essay on the malleability of memory — an interesting matter in and of itself.
Third, an aphorism says that between the liberal cities of Philadelphia and Harrisburg lies Appalachia, and the book proves this point. The characters seem caricatured; many of them would readily fit into an episode of Northern Exposure, or the townies of the recent film, Nebraska.
I kept wishing for brief film clips, rather than having to “get the picture” by reading the by-the-book style of writing:
“Hello Judith, don’t suppose you recollect me.”
A woman stands over me, but not too close, as though she’s hesitant to encroach.
About 65, she’s painfully thin, with that strained scrawny appearance of one who’s fought her way through a hard life and survived. Her face is rough and deeply lined; her nose and mouth twisted and papered with small scars. Her dull dark brown hair is streaked with yellowing gray swathes, but tightly groomed, not a strand escaping the bun at her neck. Though decades out of fashion, her flowered dress is starched and spotless…
For some contexts this form of writing can work well, especially for entry-level writing classes, and high school settings, where discussion of the powerful contemporary themes will be of great benefit.
Filed Under: Arts & Culture Tagged With: Art, Books, Jo Joe, Milgram, Pennsylvania, Weiner Grotta
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line379
|
__label__wiki
| 0.874126
| 0.874126
|
‹ This Month in History
Iroquois Fire Takes Lives of Oak Parkers
On Dec. 30, 1903 more than 2000 people were packed into the matinee performance of Mr. Blue Beard at the five week old, “absolutely fireproof” Iroquois Theater. A fire that broke out on stage during the second act took the lives of over 600, at least 150 of them children.
In 1903 a thriving theater community was challenging New York. Opening of the French renaissance showplace had been delayed by inclement weather and labor strikes. Many shortcuts had been taken; the Iroquois building really was not completely finished when it opened in November.[i]
The first show, with family appeal, was not filling the 1600 seats but the managers had high hopes for the Christmas season. In the audience that fateful day was George Leach, freshman at OPRF High School. In January 1904 the Tabula published his account of surviving the fire.
He took a seat in the balcony and “… noticed of what a jolly crowd the audience was composed, a crowd full of holiday humor and bubbling over with mirth.” Like most of the audience he thought the first small yellow light of the fire was another of the many colored lights used in the play.
Also like most of the audience, he stayed in his seat as burning pieces began to fall on the stage, until “… it seemed foolish to stay there any longer.” He even went down to the check room to get his hat and coat “… which fact shows that I had gotten the start on the crowd in the first balcony.” After getting his coat “The shrieking and hollering of women and children had become the chief noise…” After getting outside he saw “… the wounded carried out… Next came the dead, one after another was carried out of that terrible hole of death and laid on the sidewalk like so many sacks of flour…”[ii]
Among the Oak Park residents who died was Nellie Dawson, a teacher at 64th Avenue elementary school in Oak Park[iii], who survived for nine agonizing days before passing. Nellie’s mother and five year old niece, of Barrington, died in the fire.[iv]
When Ralph Skillin of Oak Park passed away in 1968 the Oak Leaves said he was the last survivor. But Mabel A. Knapp of River Forest wrote the paper that she and her family escaped, while eleven girls in her Englewood High School class perished.[v]
Almost everything in the theater was flammable; exit doors were hidden behind curtains, opened inward, or were locked after the show started; there were no sprinklers or other safety equipment. Public and press cast blame on Mayor Harrison, the fire chief and lieutenants, the building commissioner, and the theater’s owners, architect, and building contractors. After conducting an inquest the city coroner declared that those found guilty would be brought to justice. That never happened.[vi]
Around thirty Iroquois Theater victims are buried at Forest Home cemetery in Forest Park. Two victims are buried in Concordia cemetery.
[i] Hatch, Anthony P., Inferno at the Iroquois, Chicago History Fall 2003
[ii] Undated copy in Historical Society file
[iii] Later renamed Hawthorn and then Percy Julian
[iv] http://www.iroquoistheater.com/three-barrington-illinois-dawson-family-iroquois-theater-victims.php
[v] Oak Leaves/Forest Leaves, July 10, 1968
[vi] Hatch
Submitted by John Elliott, June 2018
Online Museum Shop
Shop our online Museum Shop for books, photos, posters, clothing, home decor, souvenirs, and more.
Find out how to research your house, family, and OPRF history in our Fields Research Center.
Chris Ware Celebrates History
Three original posters designed by the noted Oak Park artist exclusively for the Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest.
History Matters Newsletter
View digital issues of History Matters, the quarterly newsletter of The Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line384
|
__label__cc
| 0.743358
| 0.256642
|
LAJME - ENGLISH NEWS ALBANIA
Interview Of Candidates For SPAK
The High Council of the Prosecution has continued to interview candidates for the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecution (SPAK) today.
Attending interviews at the High Council of the Prosecution were Besim Hajdarmataj, Besnik Muçi, Doloreza Musabelliu, and Prosecutor of Serious Crimes, Donika Prela.
The HCP asked Prosecutor Hajdarmataj about a number of files, among them the "Shullazi", "Tahiri" and "339" File.
EURALIUS and OPDATE have asked the prosecutor in particular about the wiretapping materials published by the newspaper "Bild", who replied that, as the Serious Crimes Prosecution did not have its own section for interception, it is difficult to determine from whom they have derived.
In the interview before the High Council of The Prosecution, also the Chief of the Serious Crimes Prosecution Office, Donika Prela, was asked about the release of the investigative secret of file '339', as well as if there was media pressure.
She stated that there was media pressure but that she had moved passed it.
It has been learned that Donika Prela has stated that the release of the investigative secrets of file '399' is under investigation and they are awaiting the results. Prela was also asked about the “Shullazi” file.
Prosecutor Behar Dibra was also called to be interviewed for SPAK, but he did not appear.
He did however send a letter to the High Council of Prosecution stating his reasons for non-attendance, which explained that he is engaged in a judicial process.
He was asked by the High Council of the Prosecution to assign another date to give an interview for his assessment as a candidate for the Special Anti-Corruption Structure.
The candidates spent about 60 minutes attending their interviews while the process was conducted by the High Council of the Prosecution itself.
The interviews will take place until July 12, at which time all prosecutors will have been interviewed, despite the fact that most of them have not yet gone through the process of Vetting.
Tomorrow, 10th of July, will see interviews conducted with prosecutors, Dorina Bejko, Dritan Prençi, Edvin Kondili, Elida Kaçkini, and theTirana prosecutor, Elisabeta Imeraj.
Ramush Haradinaj, një luftëtar dhe burrështetas i Kosovës
Ngjela: Ramush Haradinaj, burrë i vërtetë shteti dhe një shqiptar i madh
Kryente veprime të turpshme para minoreneve, ndalohet i moshuari
Luan Rama: Ramush Haradinaj, përndryshe pesha e dinjitetit
Tirana judge dismissed IQC reconfirms prosecutor Petrit Çano for duty
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line386
|
__label__cc
| 0.717375
| 0.282625
|
About PlayLab
Creators Lab
We are a community of creatives, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts. We fight, camera in hand, to defend our vision of the world. We are hands on and unstoppable once we have set our minds. We embark in adventures just to achieve the perfect frame.
There is no on-scene without behind the scene.
For more than a decade Estephania Bonnett (cinematography producer and creative mind behind Playlab) has explored different paths where creativity has been expressed in different ways. Acknowledged by Wener Herzog with Prominent Artist of 2018; she has always felt the passion for creating, connecting and exploring different feelings through visual narratives.
She strongly believes that creativity generates more creativity, and thus has been a pioneer in developing experiential workshops for emerging directors alongside with great cinema figures. The workshops “Shooting with…” she has been able to develop creative space where authors from around the world would make a short film under the guidance of a movie expert. The workshops have been offered in different countries and has gathered Masters of cinema such as as Herzog and Kiarostami taking part. In the end more than 250 short films where shot and distributed in different international festivals.
Her thrive to work with emerging directors has pushed her to produce different films that have been recognized internationally and have participated in several international film festivals.
What identifies us…
Imagination and creativity
Creativity is our main motto, we share what we see, live and feel through our art. We do not fear of blank pages. We reinvent ourselves. We lean towards constant learning, conscient work and continuous discover.
We share and pass on our energy and passion for everything that inspires us so as to nourish and constantly develop our creativity.
We connect ideas. We connect reality with imagination. We connect expertise with emerging talents. We connect stories with people and make everything achievable; because there is nothing impossible for a creative mind.
Purposefulness
We show our true selves, our beliefs and what we want for the world. We understand the cultural, political and social background in a sensible way. We put extra work in it. We look forward to creating stories that will leave a mark on people.
Creativity in motion by unstoppable creative minds
We aim at helping emerging talents find new creative ways of seeing and telling stories; by integrating their ideas with the knowledge of great movie experts.
info@playlabfilms.com
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line389
|
__label__wiki
| 0.834076
| 0.834076
|
Princess Principal (Summer 2017) Review – 82/100
Posted by SuperMario on 2 October 2017 with categories: Anime Reviews, Princess Principal, Reviews by SuperMario
Princess Principal has emerged as a true sleeper hit for this admittedly sloppy Summer Season. A joint project from indie studios that bring us my favorite anime of last year Flip Flappers (3Hz) and “better than it has any right to be” Girls und Panzer (Actas), Princess Principal records the missions of five cute spy girls in an alternate Britain (known as Albion) in the early 20th century. As ill-advised as it might sound, the cute girl designs don’t really bother me that much. If you are looking for a true espionage story; however, you bound to be disappointed because they’re more like James Bond flashy action, somewhat superpower ability and whenever they have a chance, they’ll announce “We’re spy” with pride. Yeah, it’s that kind of mindless over-the-top action series that we need to believe the unbelievable but as an action-spy-steampunk series, Princess Principal delivers what it promised.
The first strength of this show lies in its intriguing world settings. I might have personal issues with Ichirou Okuochi as a whole, but even I don’t deny that he can create an interesting setting that triggers my curiosity. Princess Principal has such fascinating world. In this vision, Albion monopolizes a powerful substance known as Cavorite that made the Kingdom the dominant country in the world. Such development creates a rift between the Royalty and the lower people and as a result, the Wall of London was built in the middle of London where the country is split into The Commonwealth and the Kingdom. The tension between the two nations, however, never really addressed at all and only serves as a backdrop to generate dramatic development for our two main leads, Ange and Princess. In addition, the steampunk setting makes for an aesthetic pleasure and I would argue that it’s Princess Principal’s strongest characteristics.
However, Princess Principal isn’t just merely an action show. The five girls have some interesting developments and each of them is given a solid backstory. Moreover, they have solid dynamic altogether that make the interactions between them a joy to watch. Noticeably, in the latter half when the cases become less prevalent, and the show slowed down the fast tempo mission-heavy established in the first half for more character-focus episodes. The change might turn off some of the viewers who look for quick-paced, entertaining action but it’s a welcoming sign that the show gave a proper time to flesh out the five girls. The relationship between Ange and Princess serves as the show’s central emotional arc and while the swapped-identity backstory had its merits, the show pad it out way too thin during the climax that it couldn’t transfer the emotions to its fullest. Other girls, especially Chise and Dorothy (sorry Beatrice! You have a voice… but nothing else) have so much personality to them and they all add necessarily perspectives (Chise- from the outside perspective; Dorothy- friends come first) to the Principal team. Not that they’re a deepest bunch around but I’m quite happy to spend time with them anytime.
Another factor that add to Princess Principal’s identity is its use of non-chronological order. This technique works for the show’s benefits most of the time because these episodes feel like a piece in a jigsaw puzzle (which admittedly doesn’t add up much at the end), and up in till the climax we can watch these episodes in any order and it still makes sense. This format will work well on re-watch as well since there are some already-established relationships or a piece of information that will make more sense now we know the context. But presenting it non-linearly doesn’t mean the episodes were arrange randomly. The flow from one episode to another is present and moreover, this format helps us gaining context on certain themes, on certain character developments that otherwise would be insignificant in a linear way. For example we gain an extra layer on Chise struggling with the social-class issues through the backstory of Ange and Princess established a week before, something that won’t have much impact if they tell the story in a linear fashion.
Thus, Princess Principal is at its best in episode 5 (the introduction of Chise) where it focused on the exciting mission, while never forget to give our girls an extra depth. In that episode, the fluid animation, flawless fight choreography and the lively character movements help bring the mannerism of our characters to light. On the other spectrum, the last two episodes bring the show down a notch with its safe open-ended closure that resolve almost nothing. In addition, they introduced new characters (Zelda, the General) and new conflict (the coup) too late in the game without any proper foreshadowing beforehand. Remember Princess wanted to fight that battle till the end? Flashforward and we see her lying on the beach in Casablanca, while holding hand with another girl. It’s a let-down, of course, especially when they hint for a second season which might never come, but to be frank the first 10 episodes were so solid that in the end I consider this show a critical success.
Technically, the production is on the bright side. Off-model here and there, cheap-cuts sometimes and they do have some questionable over-cute character designs, but the action always hold its ground, characters move in their own ways that fitting to their personality and the killer soundtrack, coupling with beautiful steampunk aesthetic and you have a winner all around. Princess might not dig deep to the political conflict between two countries, or develop its Cavorite theme and the enemy side is frankly, weak and underdeveloped; but Princess Principal offers some entertaining action set-pieces, at the same time care enough to develop properly the main cast and their relationships. Second season- coming might not look promising and the ending lacks bite, but I don’t argue that I had a great time following it the past season. Can’t never get enough of Chise’s precious facial expressions, it appears.
KTravlos says:
I gave it an A. Yes you are right about the weaknesses. But barring the last episode the last time I saw a series in which almost every episode was solid was Monster. Princess Principal should not had been able to pull it off. But it did. Even with the problematic last episodes, every other episode for me was solid. That is a A series for me. Not a A+ sure. Perhaps a A-, but still in the A area.
10 User(s) Online Join Server
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line394
|
__label__wiki
| 0.668079
| 0.668079
|
Prime Immigration Specialists (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the http://primeis.com.au website (hereinafter referred to as the “Service”).
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data. Our Privacy Policy for Prime Immigration Specialists is created with the help of the Privacy Policies website.
We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from http://primeis.com.au
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service. You can learn more how to manage cookies in the Browser Cookies Guide.
Prime Immigration Specialists uses the collected data for various purposes:
If you are located outside Australia and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to Australia and process it there.
Prime Immigration Specialists will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Prime Immigration Specialists may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
To protect and defend the rights or property of Prime Immigration Specialists
By email: info@primeis.com.au
Lena El Daghl (MARN: 1803001)
Level 3, 398 Chapel Rd, Bankstown NSW 2200, Australia
info@primeis.com.au
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line399
|
__label__wiki
| 0.541115
| 0.541115
|
The SH 130 Toll Road: Your Money Pit
The SH 130 Toll Road East of Austin is the single largest Toll Road construction project in the nation, and investors wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.
SH 130 Toll Road was simply too risky for the investor.
Since it was not a viable project for investors (read this complete article carefully to have your jaw drop firmly on the floor), our politicos offered up our tax dollars and our debt to get Gov. Perry's Trans Texas Corridor "primer" built. Even though we pay for it, we need to pay the toll again if we want to drive it - just like the plan to toll most of Austin's freeways.
Don't think you should pay for it? Heck, you voted to pay for it, under the guise of another tricky bond package.
In November 2000, Austinites voted for $150,000,000 worth of Austin city bonds to add new roads and some other stuff. We all assumed the City of Austin ballot language meant we were paying for new roads, but instead, over the last 6 years, 80% of our bond dollars have funded our own money pit - the 130 toll road.
The actual ballot language:
Nov. 7, 2000 election PROPOSITION 1 - THE ISSUANCE OF $150,000,000 TAX SUPPORTED GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS TO IMPROVE ROADWAY INTERSECTIONS, ACQUIRE RIGHT-OF- WAY, PROVIDE FUNDS FOR HIGHWAY AND ROADWAY CONSTRUCTION, DEVELOP HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANES AND RELATED INFRACTRUCTURE, IMPROVE BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN MOBILITY INFRASTRUCTURE, CONSTRUCT RELATED DRAINAGE FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS, AND ACQUIRE LAND AND OTHER PROPERTY INTERESTS FOR THESE PROJECTS; AND THE LEVY OF A TAX SUFFICIENT TO PAY THE BONDS - Ordinance #000821-01
On March 7, 2006, Councilman Raul Alvarez asked the city to reveal where our November 2000 city bond money was being spent. Some of the information from this article comes from the department of public works response to Raul Alvarez.
100% of the first five years worth of Austin bond money, $67.2 million to be exact, went for SH 130 toll road right of way. Not one penny was spent on any other item listed on the ballot. Meanwhile those of us who live inside Austin are also paying more via our Travis County property taxes for Williamson County's portion of SH 130.
To be fair, in the last year, about $16 million has been used for other purposes - like widening roads. Roads like the ones that lead to SH 130 toll road. About $5 million of the $16 is listed as "design or the preliminary phase of construction for Pedestrian Infrastructure".
A Chronicle article from October 2000 (just before the election) says that $20 million was promised for bike and ped projects. It also says:
"If approved, Prop. 1 would dedicate $130 million for road projects"
"corridors receiving high priority would likely include Barton Springs Road, Cesar Chavez, Airport Boulevard, South First, Giles Road, and Hwy. 183"
"This is the transportation bond package assembled by Mayor Kirk Watson, the one designed to reassure voters that their present-day commuting miseries aren't being ignored"
Here are the last 2 lines of the Dept of Public Works document sent to Alverez:
"The November 2000 Proposition 1 Bonds are the only current source of future funding for street capacity improvements. The planned 2006 Bond Election does not include any funding for street capacity improvements."
Note to Self: NEVER vote for any items placed on the ballot by politicians.
Of course, the above is a tiny example of how politicos steal your money for 130 and other pet projects. According to TIME Magazine's article, "The next wave in super highways or a Big, Fat Texas Boondoggle?" 12/04, the project costs $1.5 Billion dollars. TIME also said this of Gov. Perry, "Since 1997, he has received more than $1 million from highway interests, according to reports filed with the Texas ethics commission."
Here's the real kicker. Yes, it gets worse.
Our SH 130 Toll Road (that we can't drive unless we pay the toll again) has yet to open, and according to a 130 traffic and revenue statement, it's already failed.
An Official Statement for SH 130 from 2002 says the revenue forecasts in the Traffic and Revenue Report are based on the assumption that motor fuel will remain in adequate supply and motor fuel prices will not exceed $2.50 per gallon (over the next 40 years).
Whoopsi!
But, don't worry, that means Cintra will get it at a discount, when they cut a secret deal with Gov. Perry so they can profit off your hard earned tax dollars. And the special interests who fund city council campaigns will surely profit off developing what you paid for.
Lamar Smith Votes Against Net Neutrality
TTC Update: Strayhorn blasts Perry over toll road ...
Denver Post: Truth be tolled - pt. III
Circle of Parasites: Deadbeat Mike Heiligenstein
Houston Chronicle: Guv's funny tax numbers
Gov. Perry TTC Land Grab Out of Control
Travis County Taxpayer$ Keep Paying MORE.
USA Today: The real cost of toll roads could be Am...
Gas-price impact on toll roads feared
Gov. Perry's TxDOT is out of the transportation bu...
SA community against both tolls and the elevated l...
Ocean of Red Ink: $10 Billion+
VIDEO: Evil Traffic Jam
TexasInsider.org: Anti-Toll Stealth Campaign Knock...
Anti-Toll Stealth Campaign Knocks Out Vice Chair o...
HB1 Shortchanges Our Children's Schools Gives Big ...
Gag law may hinder toll-study discussions
Unclean Austin Chronicle.
VIDEO: Mini documentary about the Austin Toll Road...
Houston Chronicle: Toll road proposal draws fire, ...
Tolls hurt local economy
TxDOT fails to present a alternative that would wo...
Toll Road Violators Could Owe Thousands In Fines
Hoodwinked neighborhood? Or bought and paid for?
Latest Gov. race - KEYE & WOAI Poll
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line408
|
__label__wiki
| 0.594463
| 0.594463
|
Game Of Thrones Season Five - Episodes Seven And Eight
Saturday, 18 July 2015 - Reviewed by Martin Hudecek
7) The Gift 8) Hardhome. HBO/ Sky Atlantic - 2015
Tyrion: He did what he had to do to survive. ... I suspect he’s the main reason you weren’t slaughtered in your crib.
Daenerys: Jorah sent my secrets to Varys. For 20 years the spider oversaw the campaign to find and kill me.
Daenerys: But you trust him?
Tyrion: Yes, oddly. He might be the only person in the world that I trust. Besides my brother.
This season is the most radical yet in condensing and altering the storylines of the source novels by George RR Martin. But many decisions seem for the best. These latest episodes have much to do, and generally do those things with conviction. Pacing is no longer ponderous, and some wonderful production values are evident for all to see.
The Gift is a title with many different meanings; most obviously being Jorah's presenting Tyrion to his former Khaleesi, and Littlefinger assisting the Faith of the Seven's relentless pursuit of the 'truth' in getting Lancel to betray his own cousin Cersei.
Hardhome is rather clearer in its connotations; the heart of the episode involving a Battle Royale, but one rather one-sided towards the forces of darkness. The usual number of set up scenes and character development also feature, which ultimately make the episode a truly special one and rather difficult to top for the next pair. This is notable, as traditionally Episode Nine gets the most attention from Thrones' creative and production talents.
We now must bid goodbye to Maester Aemon, who has been a wonderfully acted by Peter Vaugn since the opening season of the show. It may be surprising but this is effectively the first character to die of nothing more than old age and related natural illness. The Night's Watch give him a suitable send off as Sam's speech emphasises Aemon's worth - particularly his decision to forsake his (limited) prospects of sitting on the Iron Throne.
However it also becomes clear that Alliser Thorne is still a difficult man to deal with; despite Jon's gracious decision to keep him as a second-in-command. Thorne threatens Sam, noting that his friends are diminishing. Worse ensues for the royally-appointed librarian as his girlfriend Gilly is almost raped by two of Thorne's sympathisers, which would be the first time since the dark days of her life with the now-deceased Craster.
Immediately after Ghost rescues both her and a depressingly outmatched Sam trying to scare off her assailants, Gilly is somehow able to not only tend to her beau medically but to proceed to deflower him. That makes one more Night's Watchman to forsake their vows, but given the innocence and decency of Jon Snow and Samwell Tarly very few viewers could blame them.
Sexual violence does unfortunately continue for fan favourite Sansa back in Winterfell, and it is soon established that her brave attempt to escape with help from a local supporter was doomed to fail. Ramsey's display of the old woman's partially flayed corpse and commentary on her degree of resistance to his handiwork is another fine bit of acting from Iwan Rheon. Here is one of the best villains on TV currently, especially with Joffrey now killed off.
I did find the lack of Roose in The Gift a touch unfortunate. It is all very well having his heir convey the information on Stannis' decreasing prospects, but the rich tones of Michael McElhatton would have been just perfect in drumming up interest for the impending battle of Winterfell. There are some misgivings with book purists over making the Jeyne Poole storyline into the present path for Sansa, but in all honesty this works brilliantly, and many will hope for a major climax in the near future. I also welcomed Sansa hearing of Jon's elevated fortune.
"Night Commander now, I've gone up in the world" would be a fun line to hear from her half brother, but this show is pretty grim at the best of times, and with Jon's plans to recruit Wildlings to the cause any meeting of these half-siblings is rather moot anyway.
The million dollar question however rests on whether Theon will help his childhood 'sibling' and enable an escape for her after all. That he has admitted that Bran and Rickon were not killed and thus may perhaps be safe is maybe an indicator. Yet one must remember the grievous mental and physical torture that he will never be able to exorcise from his soul. Alfie Allen is truly superb in this role, somehow avoiding hamming it up. He evokes true concern from many a cynical viewer.
There is not too much focus on Stannis in this pair of episodes, with just a brief scene in Episode Seven as his sum-total. Things have not got any more promising for the 'true king' since his departure from the Wall. He faces an increasingly hostile Winter, and now must resolve himself to either march onto battle or to retreat in abject fashion to the confines of the Night's Watch. Also he has lost some sell-swords, who would probably have been some of his best fighters in hand to hand combat. (As we know Bronn is certainly an accomplished warrior despite his lowly roots).
Most significant though is the Red Witch offering dark magic to gain an advantage. But this latest ritual would be something else. She point blank requests that Stannis' soul heir Shireen be burnt alive. Suddenly the touching moment seen in 'Sons of the Harpy' is looking shaky. Stannis' immediate reaction is to shout Melissandre out of the tent, but such is Stephan Dillane's skill of acting without dialogue that we know he is not discounting this most harrowing of chess piece sacrifices.
King's Landing does get a good amount of attention by contrast, with proper confirmation at last that Littlefinger did conspire with Olenna to take care of Joffrey once and for all. However the result yielded with Tommen, who is so passive as to be on the other end of the spectrum, has only allowed opportunist like the High Sparrow to turn the status quo on its head. Jonathan Pryce's latest work as the religious zealot is just as strong if not even better, especially when sharing the screen with the legendary Diana Rigg.
The High Sparrow for now is pulling quite a few strings, and not content with threatening Highgarden's influence in terms of food supply by mentioning the might of the 'many' who could take action to stop the crops being processed, he goes on to arrest another of the 'few'. None other than Cersei Lannister.
Yes, a proper comeuppance for the demented beauty, still believing she was the Queen proper has arrived. This works extremely well in both episodes. Her visit to Margaery where she displays mock sympathy is the effective pride before the fall. Cersei must listen to a well-articulated speech by the High Sparrow on the 'essence' that all people have beneath their appearance and status. She then is brutally given the same grim imprisonment that her daughter-in-law suffers.
Come episode eight we see Cersei struggle to survive both mentally and physically, and despite her arrogance she is having to seriously consider confessing to her alleged crimes. For the moment though we are not witness to a dramatic humbling of the most off-kilter of the Lannisters.
But what of the exiled 'Lion', who is now betraying his own family through and through by finally going through with his plan to ally with the enemy Daenerys?
Well he barely manages to make it into the open fighting pit which Dany and her new husband visit as spectators as part of their royal commitments. Just moments earlier Jorah had managed to defy the slave master's will and incapacitate other combatants that were left standing after one round of lethal gladiatorial action. However the 'Imp' timed his move well and helps Jorah's desperate attempt to win back Dany look credible by approaching the Royal Box and firmly stating 'I am the gift. It's a pleasure to meet you, Your Grace'.
Onto the next episode then for Tyrion and we see that Dany (despite increased impulsive action since conquering Meereen) has at least granted a formal audience to the two outcasts at her court. Mormont is however on a hiding to nothing, with Tyrion quickly stating that he is a liability to Dany even if his intentions are borne out of the purest love (and lust!) for her. Then Tyrion must justify why he should breathe any longer by provocatively entering Meereen in the first place. We all know that Tyrion is a fantastic wit and intellect, and not long after there is a tremendous two-handed scene with Peter Dinklage and Emilia Clarke. This is perhaps the best character moment of the entire season, and I quoted a small portion at the beginning of this review.
That these two even meet at this particular time is a definite change to the much more protected events of Book Five in the source material. Yet it is most welcome and a brand new dynamic where two of the best characters verbally spar with one another.
As with Stannis and his followers, the set of character over in Dorne are only required for the first of these episodes. I will admit that the three Sand Snakes are ever so slightly more engaging this time round, but perhaps the credit really goes to Jerome Flynn's Bronn. He really gets the audience's full concern for his welfare. Being threatened with a brutal poison that can only be cured with rapid use of an antidote certainly makes Bronn look a bit less than his usual unflappable self. Yes we get a display of bare breasts from Tyne which is really of main appeal to the adolescents that follow the show. I can give a pass on this as it fits the characterization established and the precedent shown by parents Oberyn and Ellaria in Season Four.
A little weaker is a generic scene where Jaime scolds Myrcella. She almost impresses in her defiance over just how much she loves Doran's dashing son, but such is the lack of groundwork for the young couple, the whole exchange just ends up as mere bluster. Doran is nowhere to be seen, which disappoints me as well.
Arya's allotment of screen time by contrast is confined to Hardhome and is a reasonably diverting update for the most amoral of the Starks. She has a new occupation of selling seafood goods on a cart, but of course this is just cover for her latest mission for the Faceless Men, i.e. assassinating one of the more ruthless denizens of Braavos.
Lana (as she is for the moment called) is clearly disturbed by the so-called Thin Man's scheme of profiting from desperate sea captains. The men only are rewarded with death in reaching their destination leaving their widows and children facing abject poverty. This would be one enforced kill that would feel satisfying to Lana. Arguably this is one of the clearer instances of set-up out of what an episode charged with bringing significant progress to plot threads.
Arya rarely follows the status quo however, and she may well find herself either cheating to ensure the outcome, or using her new identity to try and meet her own agenda. And nothing has happened to suggest Mace Tyrell and Meryn Trant are not going to make it over to this location very soon now.
As the song goes, I have decided to 'Save The Best For Last' and the Battle at Hardhome is worthy of gaining special praise. It is a major feather in the cap for a perhaps harshly judged season of a TV juggernaut. Everything building up to this set piece is essential viewing, beginning with Tormund's brutal close of negotiations with the Lord of Bones, and then proceeding into the well directed debating scene in a wildling hut. Jon almost shoots himself in the foot by referring to his shooting of Mance Rayder in the heart, but Tormund again ensures that the Lord Commander's desperate gambit remains on track.
The tense moments in the hut featuring a pensive Giant in one corner, combined with Wildling chieftess Karsi and Thenn leader Loboda - both out for as much crow blood as they can get - is a good suspenseful section. But the real excitement soon arrives as the King and Lieutenants of the White Walkers, and their myriad minions, burst onto the scene. The chilling sacrifice of those Wildling who couldn't get to safety in time is a reminder of just how cruel a world George RR Martin created in the first place.
What follows is a massive battle set-piece and one of the most demanding but perfectly executed use of talent and resources by the production crew. We are privy to so much detail with various types of shots and focuses used. Yes, the rapid jumps from the various sword fights or arrow assaults on the wights can potentially be tiring but something just works despite all the chaos. Ultimately the passing of time becomes irrelevant. Mood is dominant.
The aftershock from this episode, which ends in eerie silence, will never be forgotten by me anytime soon. Jon may have demonstrated that his 'Longclaw' sword can kill a White Walker emphatically and swiftly. The problem is that such a weapon is rare and difficult to make in bulk. And with each ally cut down by the Others' forces, another soulless zombie foe arises. The moment of purest horror is when the Wildling Karsi stares like a rabbit in headlights at Wight 'children' before being eviscerated. She later becomes a Wight herself as part of the brutal final defeat for the humanoid forces.
Perhaps one-in-ten of the fledgling alliance leaves Hardhome intact. And the overriding impression is that this is a deliberate stay of execution, and Winter Is Coming faster and with more fury than ever before.
I truly salute Deneiof and Wiss for having the courage to carve their own path. This epic battle was barely covered properly in the books, even if it had some significance. Yet by galvanising it so as to probably forge the jewel in Season Five's crown, the showrunners have once again proved just how worthy they are to be in charge.
Thrones is as cinematic as TV gets, and yet can also offer all the subtleties of character dynamics that can be found in the mediums of theatre or radio. The traditionally pivotal episode nine, and the season finale, will need to be strong to do justice to the many adventures, intrigues and battles unfolding. On the evidence presented recently, that goal should indeed see a translation of intent into substance.
FILTER: - Game of Thrones
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line413
|
__label__wiki
| 0.544123
| 0.544123
|
RTC25
rtc interviews
rushed reactions
best of rtc
big 4 state tournament
mascot death match
sweetest ncaa memories
rtc modern bracket
team of the 2000s
RTC Roster
Survivor Games
CBB Survivor ’19
RTC Pick ‘Em Game ’19
Maybe the Big East Rea...
big east, feature
Texas Tech is The Best...
2019 ncaa tournament, big 12, feature
For Auburn, Bruce Pear...
2019 ncaa tournament, feature, sec
ACC Conversation: NCAA...
2019 ncaa tournament, acc, feature
Handicapping the SEC&#...
ACC Conversation: Swee...
Oregon is Incredibly H...
feature, pac 12
SEC Burning Questions:...
Big East Burning Quest...
NCAA Tournament Instar...
big ten, Uncategorized
feature, sec
Rushed Reactions: Mich...
big ten, feature
acc, feature
With SEC Tournament Ti...
Rushed Reactions: Duke...
Rushed Reactions: Vill...
Rushed Reactions: Iowa...
big 12, feature
Rushed Reactions: Big ...
Rushed Reactions: Seto...
America East Wrap & Tourney Preview
Posted by Brian Goodman on March 3rd, 2011
Matt McKillip of Purple and Gold Nation is the RTC correspondent for the America East Conference.
Postseason Preview
Injury Updates: Brenadan Bald and Evan Fjeld were held out of practice for Vermont- if they’re significantly hampered, the Catamounts will need heroic efforts from the rest of their cast. Their body of work has been garnering 14-seeds from bracketologists, but health will be the key factor to weather they will dance.
Hot Black: Albany’s Mike Black was the best player in the conference over the past week and if he can keep it up, the Danes will be a tough out.
Maine Who?: Maine has been the best in the league– and has also bottomed out with losses to basement dwellers. The talent is there, but can three point threat Gerald McLemore and crew rally to their former selves after losing seven of their last eight games?
Relive last season’s finale between Vermont and BU in the video below:
War of Attrition: Part 2, The Rolling of the Ankles: It has been a rough season for star players in the America East. Pre-season POY candidate Tommy Brenton went down for Stony Brook before the year started, and then New Hampshire lost two leading scorers during the non-conference (Alvin Abreu and Ferg Myrick). In the past week though, a series of sprains have created a lot of uncertainty for the playoff picture. John Holland of Boston University, the league leader in scoring, was kept out of the final regular season game with an ankle Injury, as was one of Vermont’s top scoring threats, Brendan Bald (11.5 PPG). And then in the final game of the year, another POY candidate, Evan Fjeld of Vermont, rolled his ankle and was kept out for the rest of the game. While all are likely to play the entire postseason, it marks a potential weakness for the two top teams in the league.
Conference Player of the Year: John Holland, Boston University. The senior Holland was the presumptive favorite after being showered with post-season recognition accolades during his first three seasons. Despite leading the league in scoring (19.9 PPG) essentially wire to wire, Holland’s year got off to a bumpy start. Holland struggled to assume a leadership role with a young and transfer laden cast- his shot selection especially struggled. But as conference play turned towards the home stretch, Holland led the Terriers to 8 straight victories entering the post-season.
America East Honor Roll (stats in conference play):
Sr. Evan Fjeld, Vermont (13 PPG, 6 RPG)
Sr. Troy Barnies, Maine (16.4 PPG, 8.3 RPG)
Fr. Brian Voelkel, Vermont (9.5 RPG, 4.6 APG)
Sr. Tim Ambrose, Albany (15 PPG, 5.6 RPG, 3.6 APG)
Unjustly Left Out: Chris De La Rosa. Perhaps CDLR deserves credit for managing a 100+ offensive rating, leading the league in assists (5.7) and being fifth in points (16.5)… but I cannot bring myself to vote a point guard on a 5-24 team with a 317 RPI.
Coach of the Year: Mike Lonergan, Vermont. Don’t be surprised if you hear Lonergan’s name tossed around this off-season for job openings. It’s hard to overemphasize how many pieces the Catamounts lost entering the 2010-11 season. With four starters and the heart and soul of the team departed, Lonergan was left with a low-usage third option and a handful of pieces. Incredibly, the team was model of consistency, finishing 22-7 overall and tops in the conference at 13-3. He maximized the potential of mite-sized guard Joey Accaoui while striking America East gold with his freshman class. Brian Voelkel played point forward and led the league in rebounds (9.9 RPG) and came in second in assists (4.7), while he brought along Sandro Carissimo at the guard position. This team took UConn to the wire early on and just grind out victories with incredible offensive precision and tough rebounding- trademarks of Lonergan’s coaching.
Rookie of the Year: Brian Voelkel: The focus of all of Vermont’s success, the do-it-all forward came into the league as one of the strongest and most physical players- not to mentioned one of the headiest. As gifted of a passer that there is in the league, Voelkel elevated the play of his teammates.
Honor Roll: The under-card of this strong class are lightning quick point guard DJ Irving (115 O Rtg, 9 PPG, 4.2 APG) of Boston University and Albany forward Luke Devlin (8 PPG, 7.5 RPG in AE) whose toughness was epitomized in the season finale where he had five stitches in the first half of the season finale and came back to record a double-double.
Most Improved: Troy Barnies, Maine. This hardworking senior forward had a breakout season as his numbers soared from 6.3PPG to 14.3 while he upped his boards from 7.7 RPG from 5.5. He was the steadiest player on a team that was challenged by lack of consistency, not lack of talent.
“Why Was He On the Bench?!?” Award: Leonard Hayes, Stony Brook. One of those stories that always give rapid fans that glimmer of hope that someone on the bench could be doing better. After seeing very limited time (six DNP’s), he burst onto the scene as a three-point specialist and has averaged over ten points a game since he earned his installation into the starting lineup.
1) Boston University (18-13, 12-4): It seems John Holland was kept out of the regular season finale for completely precautionary reasons, but even if not, there is a lot to feel good about with DJ Irving shredding AE defenders and Darryl Partin finishing third in the America East in scoring (17 PPG). Patrick Hazel fortifies inside by leaguing the league blocks (2.3 BPG) and hitting the glass (7 RPG). The Terriers have reeled off eight straight wins and three more doesn’t feel like that much of a stretch.
2) Vermont (22-7, 13-3): With Evan Fjeld as one of the toughest assignments in the league (comparable to Ryan Rossiter of Siena but with a better mustache) and Brian Voelkel as perhaps the grittiest player in the league, the Catamounts can (and have) notch victories over any team in the America East. The switch of the freshman Sandro Carissimo to point guard proves this team’s versatility, but also its weakness. The lack true guard leadership could be compounded if Brendan Bald’s injury is serious at all. The X factor could be versatile forward Matt Glass, who has been inconsistent all year, but causes huge mismatch problems when he is hitting from outside.
3) Albany (16-15, 9-7): After Boston University, the Danes are the hottest team in the league. Yes, this was done with the help of a soft schedule, but an away victory over Maine has this team believing. The player to watch is point guard Mike Black, who has been NBA Jam unconscious in the few games leading up the post season (44 points, 8-10 3FG, 10:3 A/TO). The Danes league the conference in three-point percentage and if Black can keep it going, he, Tim Ambrose and gunner Logan Aronhalt could make some noise.
4) Maine (15-14, 9-7): The most difficult team to gauge after their late season swoon. Coach Ted Woodward seems to have grossly mismanaged this team down the stretch, but their still wildly dangerous. Gerald McLemore can go off at any time from deep and a trio of Troy Barnies, Ali Fraser, and Sean McNally inside make Maine a tough opponent– if they get their heads on straight.
5) Hartford (10-19, 7-9): After sustaining an injury, three-point shooting forward Morgan Sabia has seen his effectiveness drop. But you know, on their home court, the Hawks won’t leave any three point shot un-taken, and if they’re hitting, especially senior Joe Zeglinski (15 PPG), the Hawks could make some noise- especially starting off against Maine, a team they swept this season.
6) Stony Brook (13-16, 8-8) Three-point specialist Leonard Hayes came out of nowhere, but the bigger factor might be the return of slashing guard Chris Martin. He takes the ball out of the hands of spot shooter Brian Dougher (who was forced to play point guard) and is getting a team of gunners open looks. Martin’s return seems to have revitalized the Seawolves the last two games and SBU will look to get revenge to SUNY rival Albany, who beat them twice during the regular season.
7) New Hampshire (12-17, 6-10): The Wildcats will need the high-flying and streaky shooting Tyrone Conley to go out with a flurry. With two of the leagues top rebounders, Dane DiLiegro and Brian Benson, UNH will need to dominate the boards for a poor shooting team.
8) Binghamton (7-22, 4-12): Former non-recruited walk-on Mahamoud Jabbi is an incredible story, but pre-season pick Greer Wright never got going for the undermanned Bearcats this season. If he comes alive during conference play… (that couldn’t happen- could it?!)
9) UMBC (5-21, 4-9): The Retrievers’ cannot ask much more of point guard Chris De La Rosa (16 PPG, 4 RPG, 6 APG), but he might as well be out there alone. It seems as if this team has already thrown in the towel for the year.
Brian Goodman (983 Posts)
Brian Goodman a Big 12 microsite writer. You can follow him on Twitter @BSGoodman.
This entry was posted on Thursday, March 3rd, 2011 at 12:47 pm by Brian Goodman and is filed under 2011 conference tournaments. Tagged: albany, ali fraser, alvin abreu, binghamton, boston university, brendan bald, brian benson, Brian Dougher, chris de la rosa, chris martin, dane diliegro, dj irving, Evan Fjeld, ferg myrick, gerald mclemore, greer wright, joe zeglinski, Joey Accaoui, john holland, leonard hayes, logan arohalt, luke devlin, Mahamoud Jabbi, maine, matt glass, mike black, mike lonergan, morgan sabia, new hampshire, patrick hazel, sandro carissimo, sean mcnally, ted woodward, tim ambrose, tommy brenton, troy barnies, tyrone conley, umbc, vermont, vrian voelkel. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
It’s a painful narrative stemming from another painful season in the Big East. The conference as a whole battled all ...
Rushed Reactions: NCAA Tournament, Championship Game
RTC continues its coverage of the NCAA Tournament to its conclusion tonight. Using social media to share information, we ...
Eight Questions: National Championship Edition
After five grueling rounds of NCAA Tournament action, we are finally down to the final two. Texas Tech and Virginia have ...
Rushed Reactions: NCAA Tournament, Final Four
RTC continues its coverage of the NCAA Tournament into the Final Four this weekend. Using social media to share information, ...
Texas Tech is The Best Parts Of College Basketball in 2019, Distilled
The last 10-15 years of college basketball have witnessed a number of changes. The impact of the NBA’s one-and-done ...
2018-19 Rush the Court National Coach of the Year: Chris Beard
The 2018-19 RTC National Coach of the Year Chris Beard took a circuitous path to becoming the head coach at Texas Tech ...
For Auburn, Bruce Pearl Was Well Worth the Gamble
Fifteen years between NCAA Tournament appearances. Sixteen years between Sweet Sixteen trips. One prior Elite Eight visit. ...
Eight Questions for the Final Four: Michigan State vs. Texas Tech
The other side of the bracket features the East Region champion Michigan State and West Region champion Texas Tech. In a ...
2018-19 Rush the Court National Player of the Year: Zion Williamson
Recruiting rankings are always fun to review after the fact. You get to see which players lived up to their ranking, which ...
2018-19 Rush the Court All-America Teams
Compiling preseason All-America teams is a difficult task because nobody knows what will come during the regular season. ...
rushthecourt@yahoo.com
© 2019 rush the court. all rights reserved. "Partner of USA TODAY Sports Digital Properties"
Theme designed & developed by Eric King
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line420
|
__label__wiki
| 0.588861
| 0.588861
|
Parlington New Town = NO
Say no to the new town in the Parlington Estate
Parlington History Site
SAP Notes
Consultation on Proposed Main Modifications 2019
Example Template
Heritage Notes Re: Submission for SAP
Highways & Transport
Local Services/facilities
Could changes make the Plan sound?
Deputation to Leeds C C
Ecology, Landscape & Trees
I consider the plan to be unsound. These are my supporting comments.
MX2-39 site is recognised as an historically rich, bio-diverse and Ancient Woodland space that was first managed by the Gascoigne family from 1545 AD.
The definition of ‘Ancient Woodland’, classes any wooded area that has been wooded continuously since at least 1600 AD. as Ancient Woodland. The definition further includes ‘ancient semi-natural woodland’ mainly made up of trees and shrubs native to the site, usually arising from natural regeneration and ‘plantations on ancient woodland sites’ areas of ancient woodland where the former native tree cover has been felled and replaced by planted trees, usually of species not native to the site MX2-39 woodland complies with this definition and the site can be further described as below.
MX2-39 Estate is one of the best intact examples locally of a country estate, incorporating recreation areas for family use;
The estate is Greenbelt and is considered to be of exceptional historic interest;
Leeds City Council recognises MX2-39 is an important site with a long heritage for East Leeds’s history;
MX2-39 has proven to be a rich source of archaeological interest, Medieval, Roman and Bronze Age finds have been discovered on parts of the site – and the remainder of the site it anticipated to yield further artefacts;
MX2-39 Gardens House, Home Farm, Gamekeeper’s Cottage and many estate lodges are all fully operational;
MX2-39 in its current format affords the only location on the East side of Leeds that provides recreational usage to the public via footpaths and bridleways in such a historic setting;
MX2-39’s Ancient Woodland is an irreplaceable habitat;
Ancient woodland comprises 2% of the woodland in UK and is rigorously protected – the same protection should apply to MX2-39;
Protecting Ancient Woodland also requires care and protection of the areas around and neighbouring onto the woodland too so that the eco-system remains intact and that current habitats remain untouched;
The eco-system will be damaged by building permanent structures in, adjacent to or nearby the Ancient Woodland, and the construction, the buildings and human interference will result in a significant decline;
MX2-39’s land should be considered to be a special conservation area as well as greenbelt or, if not, a special class of greenbelt and should not be considered for development at all;
As MX2-39 includes Ancient Woodlands the entire site requires special consideration and its use cannot be changed or affected by any planning application other than protection of the ancient Woodland and associated eco-systems;
The National Planning Policy Framework published in 2012 is the government policy document relating to planning decisions affecting ancient woodland. The importance of ancient woodlands as an irreplaceable habitat is set out in paragraph 1181 of the NPPF, which states: ‘planning permission should be refused for development resulting in the loss or deterioration of irreplaceable habitats, including ancient woodland and the loss of aged or veteran trees found outside ancient woodland, unless the need for, and benefits of, the development in that location clearly outweigh the loss.’;
The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) sets out the “Government’s planning policies for England and how these are expected to be applied” (National Planning Framework 2012 p.1) These comments are framed in relation to the 12 core planning principles contained therein. The 7th principle sets out that plans should “contribute to conserving and enhancing the natural environment and reducing pollution. Allocations of land for development should prefer land of lesser environmental value, where consistent with other policies in this Framework”. MX2-39 is of key environmental value;
Ancient woodland indicator species, such as bluebells, yellow rattle, lesser celandine, wood anemone, and primrose are found throughout MX2-39;
Ancient Woodland is an irreplaceable resource of great importance for its wildlife, soils, recreation, cultural value, history and the contribution it makes to our diverse landscapes. It is a scarce resource, covering only 2% of England’s land area. Local authorities have a vital role in ensuring the protection and conservation of ancient woodland and veteran trees, in particular through the planning system.” (https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blogs/woodland-trust/2014/04/outstanding-advice/);
Yorkshire’s and the UK’s Ancient Woodlands cannot be reduced or damaged by any development MX2-39;
An ancient woodland ecosystem cannot be moved. Standing Advice for Ancient Woodland applies to all planning authorities in England “The irreplaceable nature of Ancient Woodland and veteran trees means that loss or damage cannot simply be rectified by mitigation and compensation measures. Therefore, where measures seek to address issues of loss or deterioration of ancient woodland or veteran trees, through for instance, attempting to minimise the area of ancient woodland affected (mitigation), or through the provision of replacement habitat (compensation), our advice is that these should be issues for consideration only after it has been judged that the wider benefits of a proposed development clearly outweigh the loss or damage of ancient woodland.”
For MX2-39 Standing Advice states emphatically that “An ancient woodland ecosystem cannot be moved” and “Whilst the translocation of ancient woodland soil to a new site is sometimes proposed as a compensation measure for the loss of ancient woodland, it is not possible to replicate the same conditions at another site. In that circumstance it will no longer be ancient woodland.”
Not only does the advice now cover veteran trees and wood pasture, it credits the Woodland Trust’s Ancient Tree Hunt dataset as “currently the only record of the locations of some veteran trees“;
The proposal relies on an ecological survey performed by M & G and/or M & G’s agents and Leeds City Council which is well out of date (1998). It is unsound that any final decision to interfere in any way with this land should occur prior to a new survey being undertaken by an independent party. Leeds City Council’s SAP is unsound without an independent survey. A new survey is required so that any decision can be based on accurate, up to date information;
The hedgerow between the former Deer Park and the adjacent field, which runs roughly north south from Parlington Lane beyond the bank of beech trees by the east end of the Dark Arch towards Hook Moor shows evidence of being an ancient roadway;
The MX2-39 construction project’s build phase infrastructure would be centred also on or next to Ancient Woodland. The landscape and ecology of the surrounding villages, the roadways and pathways would be damaged and even put out of action for prolonged periods;
MX2-39 has not been compared in any meaningful way with other locations or development strategies in terms of matters such as sustainability and landscape impact;
The ecology of Parlington means that it cannot be proposed for 5,000 houses for the reasons above;
The Council’s SAP on page 9 informs “The promoters also state there is the potential to provide an on-site renewable energy facility to make use of the extensive woodland, which is managed across the estate”. This indicates that trees outside the planned area for house building will be cut down and replanted with fast growing biomass forest and fauna and thereby change the ecology, landscape and trees in the greater Parlington Estate;
The need for significantly enhanced and mass-transit transport infrastructure will additionally damage the Ancient Woodland, and destroy the remaining land (currently greenbelt);
The Ancient Woodland will also be damaged by the effects of persistent light – e.g. street lights after sunset. The new sources of will have a serious effect on all wildlife. (Light pollution will affect the wildlife in the wider surroundings);
The eco-system and habitats be destroyed by the buildings, and there will be added destruction from domestic/household pets;
Hook Moor is a site of special scientific interest (https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteDetail.aspx?SiteCode=S1005559&SiteName=Hook+Moor+&countyCode&responsiblePerson);
Hook Moor is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) due to the presence of “Orobanche Reticulate” which is a protected species and is found only in Yorkshire within Britain, is nationally scarce and, because of its localised distribution, is additionally classified as ‘near threatened’. It is largely restricted to the narrow band of Magnesian limestone within Yorkshire and is subject to legal protection under Schedule 8 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (as amended). Given that the proposed development is less than 50m from the perimeter of Hook Moor and has a Magnesian limestone ridge as part of its topography there is a high chance that the Orabanche Reticulate could be found to be a native species within the development area.
The area of MX2-39 is vital as part of the local ecology and flood protection creating natural protection and regulation of water run-off into the local Cock Beck and River Crow thereby protecting the local villages of Aberford and Stutton from flood risk;
Flooding has already occurred in recent years in 2000, 2008 and 2014 and is a fear for villagers in Aberford. The mitigation plans have not been presented to the public other than referred to in previous documents such as Leeds’s SAP 60469705 dated March 2016. References are made to the use of Cock Beck and River Crow as well as using living rooves, basins, ponds, filter strips, swales, soakaways, permeable surfaces and tanked systems. All of these techniques will have a detrimental effect on the Ancient Woodland and surrounding land are, therefore, not valid.
THE DELETION OF PARLINGTON FROM LEEDS SITE ALLOCATIONS PLAN
SAP Consultation (Period January 15th – February 26th 2018)
2018 Parlington Calendars
2017 Christmas Cards
2017 Christmas Cards of Parlington
Mark Glynn on Parlington Objection Group
Michael Carter on SAP Form Objection App
Graham Nelmes on SAP Form Objection App
Bert Flognoggin on Parlington Village Invitation (pt2)
Parlington New Town = NO Proudly powered by WordPress
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line421
|
__label__cc
| 0.723262
| 0.276738
|
Laughter IS the best medicine! (Jokes, Humor, Cartoons!)
597 posts • Page 15 of 20 • 1 ... 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 ... 20
Re: Laughter IS the best medicine! (Jokes, Humor, Cartoons!)
by TheVat on August 30th, 2017, 12:21 pm
http://www.popsci.com/uranus-neptune-diamond-rain
Amusing title, if you click on the linked article.
by doogles on September 2nd, 2017, 6:48 pm
A fifteen year old Amish boy and his father were in a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny silver walls that could move apart and then slide back together again.
The boy asked, 'What is this Father?'
The father (never having seen an elevator) responded, 'Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life, I don't know what it is.'
While the boy and his father were watching with amazement, a fat old lady in a wheel chair moved up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The walls opened, and the lady rolled between them into a small room. The walls closed and the boy and his father watched the small numbers above the walls light up sequentially.
They continued to watch until it reached the last number… and then the numbers began to light in the reverse order. Finally the walls opened up again and a gorgeous 24-year-old blond stepped out.
The father, not taking his eyes off the young woman, said quietly to his son.....
'Go get your Mother'
doogles
E-mail doogles
by Infinite_Observer on September 9th, 2017, 11:05 am
Have you ever heard of Pavlov?
Me: Rings a bell...
Infinite_Observer
Forum Neophyte
Location: Missouri, United States of Merica
E-mail Infinite_Observer
by TheVat on September 9th, 2017, 5:03 pm
Traffic cop: Do you know how fast you were going?
Heisenberg: No, but I know where I am!
by Infinite_Observer on September 11th, 2017, 8:41 pm
Disclaimer: The comments and opinions expressed on this post do not necessarily reflect those of the poster.
Not a joke exactly, but I think I just found my spirit animal.
by doogles on September 18th, 2017, 5:10 am
A young ventriloquist is touring Norway and puts on a show in a small fishing town. With his dummy on his knee, he starts going through his usual dumb blonde jokes.
Suddenly a blonde woman in the fourth row stands on her chair and starts shouting, "I've heard enough of your stupid blonde jokes. What makes you think you can stereotype Norwegian blonde women that way? What does the colour of a woman's hair have to do with her worth as a human being?
It’s men like you who keep women like me from being respected at work and in the community, and from reaching our full potential as people. Its people like you that make others think that all blondes are dumb! You and your kind continue to perpetuate discrimination against not only blondes, but women in general, pathetically all in the name of humour!"
The embarrassed ventriloquist begins to apologise, and the blonde yells: "You stay out of this! ......I'm talking to that little shit on your lap."
I went to Dan Murphy’s liquor store Friday afternoon on my bicycle,
bought a bottle of Scotch and put it in the bicycle basket.
As I was about to leave, I thought to myself that if I fell off the bicycle,
the bottle would break, so I drank all the Scotch before I cycled home.
It turned out to be a very good decision, because I fell off my bicycle
seven times on the way home.
by TheVat on October 18th, 2017, 12:50 pm
http://www.gocomics.com/robrogers/2017/10/17
The Tillerson-to-English dictionary.
by doogles on October 25th, 2017, 5:31 am
After I retired, my wife insisted that I accompany her on her trips to Wal-Mart.
Unfortunately, like most men, I found shopping boring and preferred to get in and get out.
Equally unfortunate, my wife is like most women - loves to browse and leaves me with endless time to fulfill.
Yesterday my dear wife received the following letter, from the local Wal-Mart:
Dear Mrs. Cunningham,
Over the past six months, your husband has caused quite a commotion in our store.
We cannot tolerate this behavior and have been forced to ban both of you from the store.
Our complaints against your husband, Mr. Cunningham, are listed below and are documented by our video surveillance cameras:
1. June 15: He took 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in other people's carts when they weren't looking.
2. July 2: Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5-minute intervals.
3. July 7: He made a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the women's restroom.
4. July 19: Walked up to an employee and told her in an official voice, 'Code 3 in Housewares. Get on it right away'.
This caused the employee to leave her assigned station and receive a reprimand from her Supervisor that in turn resulted with a union grievance, causing management to lose time and costing the company money. We don't have a Code 3.
5. August 4: Went to the Service Desk and tried to put a bag of M&Ms on layby.
6. August 14: Moved a, 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted area.
7. August 15: Set up a tent in the camping department and told the children shoppers he'd invite them in if they would bring pillows and blankets from the bedding department to which twenty children obliged.
8. August 23: When a clerk asked if they could help him he began crying and screamed, 'Why can't you people just leave me alone?'
EMTs were called.
9. September 4: Looked right into the security camera and used it as a mirror while he picked his nose.
10. September 10: While handling guns in the hunting department, he asked the clerk where the antidepressants were.
11. October 3: Darted around the store suspiciously while, loudly humming the, 'Mission Impossible' theme.
12. October 6: In the Auto Department, he practiced his 'Madonna Look' using different sized funnels.
13. October 18: Hid in a clothing rack and when people browsed through, yelled 'PICK ME! PICK ME!'
14. October 22: When an announcement came over the loud speaker, he assumed a fetal position and screamed; 'OH NO! IT'S THOSE VOICES AGAIN!'
15. Took a box of condoms to the checkout clerk and asked where the fitting room was?
and last, but not least:
16. October 23: Went into a fitting room, shut the door, waited awhile; then yelled very loudly, 'Hey! There's no toilet paper in here.'
by Dave_Oblad on October 29th, 2017, 12:50 am
Finally getting settled in my new place here in Arizona (Tucson) and just in time for some seasonal humor.
I found some much funnier stuff.. but this season is for kids.. so felt inclined to tone it down a bit.. lol.
Have a great Halloween and watch for kids..
Dave :^)
Dave_Oblad
Location: Tucson, Arizona
E-mail Dave_Oblad
by toucana on November 21st, 2017, 5:44 am
On special offer at your local Proctometrist ?
toucana
Chatroom Operator
by BadgerJelly on November 21st, 2017, 11:26 am
toucana -
Surely that is fake??? XD HAHAAHA!!
BadgerJelly
E-mail BadgerJelly
by TheVat on November 21st, 2017, 2:52 pm
Yes. Typographically, "rectal" is a fair ways from "retinal." Not something a proofreader at a sign-making company would overlook. Unless he's got his head up his ....
by toucana on November 21st, 2017, 8:36 pm
It is a Photoshop manipulation apparently, but it's very neatly done indeed.
by Watson on November 23rd, 2017, 1:59 pm
Change the spelling, or
a B&W picture?
Location: Earth, middle of the top half, but only briefly each 24 hours.
by toucana on November 23rd, 2017, 5:35 pm
St.Martin de Porres
A newly installed statue at the Catholic Blackfriars Priory school in Adelaide Australia has been covered up with a sheet after it began to attract unwelcome attention on social media.
It depicts Saint Martin de Porres who lived in Peru in the 17th century, distributing bread to orphans.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/statue-suggestive-saint-child-adelaide-catholic-school-australia-blackfriars-priory-school-simon-a8069071.html
Even if it was a more appropriate size and shape of a loaf of bread, their is still something awkward about the poses of the subject. Maybe an unfortunate camera angle, but either the sculptor is not very good, or they are very good and a bit warped.
by BadgerJelly on November 23rd, 2017, 10:23 pm
Methinks Mr. sculptor new precisely what he was doing! Obviously trying to send a message, but leaving himself enough ambiguity to deny all XD hahaa!
There is just no way a professional artist wouldn't see this. Their medium is about interpretation and symbolism.
by Watson on November 23rd, 2017, 11:27 pm
Haha, agreed. I was leaning toward the talented with a serious warp. And he gets paid to correct it? Why not just chisel off the offending bits, like they did with David and the other naked statues?
Yes I assume it was a guy. Because it is a guy's mistake.
by doogles on November 24th, 2017, 5:09 am
This may be an old one, but a re-run won't do any harm.
A police officer pulls over a speeding car. The officer says,
' I clocked you at 80 Kilometres per hour, sir.'
The driver says, 'Gee, officer, I had it on cruise control at 60; perhaps your radar gun needs calibrating. '
Not looking up from her knitting the wife says:
'Now don't be silly, dear -- you know that this car doesn't have cruise control.'
As the officer writes out the ticket, the driver looks over at his wife and growls,
'Can't you please keep your mouth shut for once!'
The wife smiles demurely and says,
'Well dear you should be thankful your radar detector went off when it did or your speed would have been higher.'
As the officer makes out the second ticket for the illegal radar detector unit, the man glowers at his wife and says
through clenched teeth, 'Woman, can't you keep your mouth shut?'
The officer frowns and says, 'And I notice that you're not wearing your seat belt, sir. That's an automatic $75 fine.'
The driver says,
'Yeah, well, you see, officer, I had it on, but I took it off when you pulled me over so that I could get my license out of my back pocket.'
The wife says,
'Now, dear, you know very well that you didn't have your seat belt on. You never wear your seat belt when you're driving.'
And as the police officer is writing out the third ticket, the driver turns to his wife and barks,
'WILL YOU PLEASE SHUT UP??'
The officer looks over at the woman and asks,
'Does your husband always talk to you this way, Ma'am?'
'Only when he's been drinking!'
by TheVat on November 24th, 2017, 3:15 pm
Hadn't heard it, so it was new to me. Good one.
The penis-bread artist seems a bit....repressed. Some people who are very religious will suppress sexual thoughts so thoroughly that slips like that do kind of sneak up on them. I had a friend, years ago, who was brought up in a very strict religious sect, and he told me how he was taught to interact with women by viewing them "as a floating head," i.e. not looking at their body at all. Quite a feat, if that's really possible. As he wryly pointed out, even a floating head can become an erotic attraction if that's all you have to work with. Hehe.
by Dave_Oblad on December 11th, 2017, 6:14 pm
Hi Folks, not been around for awhile, still enjoying my zero-stress retirement.
I take my dog 'Tiny' to the park (Reid Park in Tucson) about every other day for a walk and mutual exercise. Great park with two large ponds, cascaded water falls and wide variety of water fowl (mostly ducks). Anyway, I walk him without a leash. He shows no interest in other dogs or people and stays within 10 feet of me at all times. I've gotten a number of complements on how well trained he is. I'm a little too prideful to point out that it's a fine line between being well trained and very insecure..lol. (true story)
Anyway, here's a bit of general humor from Facebook this month.. hope you enjoy:
Hope to return here soon and continue with real contributions but just having so much fun with this non-stressful lifestyle. Later...
by TheVat on December 12th, 2017, 11:29 am
Wondered how you were enjoying Tucson. Maybe you will run into noted author Barbara Kingsolver. I liked the Inst. of Philosophy cartoon.
Jokes about meds or vitamins that are hard to open go back all the way back to radio personality Jack Benny, who had a thing about how he needed to take vitamins for strength but was too weak to open the bottle.
by Watson on December 12th, 2017, 3:24 pm
In keeping with my recent conversion to festivisim, I find it necessary to rework some of the more traditional classics. I'm hoping T'was the Night before FESTIVUS will catch on? I was going to add a picture of my aluminum yard pole but it is to large. Both the pole and the file.
All through the house, twas the night before FESTIVUS.
Not a creature was stirring, just the cat and the rest of us.
The laundry was hung by the chimney with care.
On a line from the fire, attached to the stair.
The children were farmed out to the grand-parents beds
Where FESTIVUS fairies danced in their heads.
Mama with the ketchup and me with the fries,
We settled in by the fire while everything dries.
When out by the lawn pole, there arose such a clatter,
I sprang up from the fire to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a spark,
Tore open the window and peered through the dark.
When what to my curious eyes should appear?
My two griping neighbors, riding John Deere.
With both these fellows not moving to quick,
I thought shots of Wild Turkey might do the trick.
More rapid than beagles attacking their dinner,
They whistled and shouted and called out the sinner.
Stop Dashing, Stop Dancing, Stop prancing around,
Stop commenting, Stop kissing, Stop making a sound.
And quick as it started, all griping soon ended,
Last shots of vodka, with both elbows bended.
Two men in their PJ's, and both sporting plaid.
Grateful for FESTIVUS, least the one they just had.
Now laying a finger and finding his nose,
to their feet, very slowly, both of them rose.
From the tractor start line, they left with a beep.
Racing off in the darkness, to home and to sleep.
But I heard them exclaim as they drove out of sight,
FESTIVUS for the rest of us, to all others Good Night.
by doogles on December 17th, 2017, 5:23 am
After closing time at the bar, a drunk was proudly
showing off his new apartment to a couple of his friends.
He led the way to his bedroom where there was a big brass gong and a mallet.
'What's that big brass gong?', one of the guests asked.
'It's not a gong, it's a talking clock,' the drunk replied.
'A talking clock? Seriously?' asked his astonished friend.
'YUP, it is,' replied the drunk.
'How does it work?' the friend asked, squinting at it.
'Watch,' the drunk replied. He picked up the mallet, gave the
gong an ear-shattering pound and stepped back.
The three stood looking at one another for a moment....
Suddenly, someone on the other side of the wall screamed,
'You ARSEHOLE! It's 3:15
in the MORNING!'
by doogles on December 21st, 2017, 11:19 pm
A drover from a huge cattle station in outback Australia appeared before St. Peter at the Pearly Gates.
"Have you ever done anything of particular merit?" St. Peter asked.
"Well, I can think of one thing," the drover offered. "Once, on a trip to the backblocks of Broken Hill out in New South Wales , I came across a gang of bikers who were threatening a young sheila. I told them to leave her alone, but they wouldn't listen. So I approached the largest and most heavily tattooed bikie and smacked him in his face, kicked his bike over, ripped out his nose ring, and threw it on the ground.
I yelled, "Now, back off!! Or I'll kick the sh*t out of the lot of ya!"
St. Peter was impressed, "When did this happen?"
"A couple of minutes ago
by Watson on December 22nd, 2017, 11:49 am
very good one.
by TheVat on December 22nd, 2017, 1:39 pm
I loved the gong one, especially. Had never heard it. Passed it along.
by hyksos on December 29th, 2017, 3:51 pm
Consider it a warning.
by Asparagus on January 5th, 2018, 8:43 pm
E-mail Asparagus
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line423
|
__label__wiki
| 0.502973
| 0.502973
|
David Sandwell
Professor, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
Sandwell, David
dsandwell's web site
Sort by: Author Title Type [ Year ]
Xu, XH, Ward LA, Jiang JL, Smith-Konter B, Tymofyeyeva E, Lindsey EO, Sylvester AG, Sandwell DT. 2018. Surface creep rate of the southern San Andreas Fault modulated by stress perturbations from nearby large events. Geophysical Research Letters. 45:10259-10268. 10.1029/2018gl080137 AbstractWebsite
A major challenge for understanding the physics of shallow fault creep has been to observe and model the long-term effect of stress changes on creep rate. Here we investigate the surface creep along the southern San Andreas fault (SSAF) using data from interferometric synthetic aperture radar spanning over 25 years (ERS 1992-1999, ENVISAT 2003-2010, and Sentinel-1 2014-present). The main result of this analysis is that the average surface creep rate increased after the Landers event and then decreased by a factor of 2-7 over the past few decades. We consider quasi-static and dynamic Coulomb stress changes on the SSAF due to these three major events. From our analysis, the elevated creep rates after the Landers can only be explained by static stress changes, indicating that even in the presence of dynamically triggered creep, static stress changes may have a long-lasting effect on SSAF creep rates. Plain Language Summary There are two significant conclusions from this study. First, we analyzed 25 years of InSAR measurements over the Southern San Andreas Fault system to document a major increase in the average creep rate following the 1992 Mw 7.3 Landers Earthquake which is then followed by creep rate reductions after the 1999 Mw 7.1 Hector Mine Earthquake and the 2010 Mw 7.2 El Major Cucapah Earthquake. Second, we attribute all these creep rate changes to the Coulomb stress variations from these three major Earthquakes. The dynamic Coulomb stress changes are similar for all three events, contributing to triggered creep on the SSAF. In contrast, the static Coulomb stress changes on the SSAF are positive after the Landers and negative after the Hector Mine and El Major Cucapah, coinciding with the higher average creep rate after the Landers and lower rates after the other two events. An implication of this study is that small but steady Coulomb stress changes have a larger impact on shallow creep than the larger dynamic stress changes associated with passing seismic waves. These results illuminate the significance of time scale-dependent complexity of shallow fault creep and how these behaviors are communicated by stress perturbations from regional earthquakes.
Tong, X, Sandwell DT, Schmidt DA. 2018. Surface creep rate and moment accumulation rate along the Aceh segment of the Sumatran Fault from L-band ALOS-1/PALSAR-1 observations. Geophysical Research Letters. 45:3404-3412. 10.1002/2017gl076723 AbstractWebsite
We analyzed the interferometric synthetic aperture radar data from the ALOS-1/PALSAR-1 satellite to image the interseismic deformation along the Sumatran fault. The interferometric synthetic aperture radar time series analysis reveals up to similar to 20 mm/year of aseismic creep on the Aceh segment along the Northern Sumatran fault. This is a large fraction of the total slip rate across this fault. The spatial extent of the aseismic creep extends for similar to 100 km. The along-strike variation of the aseismic creep has an inverse "U" shape. An analysis of the moment accumulation rate shows that the central part of the creeping section accumulates moment at approximately 50% of the rate of the surrounding locked segments. An initial analysis of temporal variations suggests that the creep rate may be decelerating with time, suggesting that the creep rate is adjusting to a stress perturbation from nearby seismic activity. Our study has implications to the earthquake hazard along the northern Sumatran fault.
Gonzalez-Ortega, JA, Gonzalez-Garcia JJ, Sandwell DT. 2018. Interseismic velocity field and seismic moment release in northern Baja California, Mexico. Seismological Research Letters. 89:526-533. 10.1785/0220170133 AbstractWebsite
We have analyzed all available continuous Global Positioning System (cGPS) and campaign-mode GPS data from northern Baja California, Mexico, covering the 1993.1-2010.1 period to obtain a consistent interseismic velocity field to derive a continuous strain-rate field. The analysis shows concentrations of high strain rate along the Imperial/Cerro Prieto fault system extending from the Salton Sea to the Gulf of California, with strike-slip faulting consistent with principal strain axes direction within the area of largest historical and instrumental seismic release. We translated the strain rate into geodetic moment accumulation rate to evaluate the potential of seismic activity of the region and compare with the actual seismic release of historical and instrumental earthquake catalog. Comparison of regional moment accumulation rate based on geodesy (M-0(g) = 6.3 +/- 1.3 x 10(18) N center dot m/yr) to the corresponding moment release rate by earthquakes (M-0(s) = 2.7 +/- 0.8 x 10(18) N center dot m/yr) highlights a moment rate deficit equivalent to an M-w 7.5-7.8 earthquake. As part of this accumulated moment was released by the recent 2010 M-w 7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake, these results can provide input constraints on earthquake forecasts for the northern Baja California fault system.
Sandwell, DT, Wessel P. 2016. Interpolation of 2-D vector data using constraints from elasticity. Geophysical Research Letters. 43:10703-10709. 10.1002/2016gl070340 AbstractWebsite
We present a method for interpolation of sparse two-dimensional vector data. The method is based on the Green's functions of an elastic body subjected to in-plane forces. This approach ensures elastic coupling between the two components of the interpolation. Users may adjust the coupling by varying Poisson's ratio. Smoothing can be achieved by ignoring the smallest eigenvalues in the matrix solution for the strengths of the unknown body forces. We demonstrate the method using irregularly distributed GPS velocities from southern California. Our technique has been implemented in both the Generic Mapping Tools and MATLAB (R).
DeSanto, JB, Sandwell DT, Chadwell CD. 2016. Seafloor geodesy from repeated sidescan sonar surveys. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth. 121:4800-4813. 10.1002/2016jb013025 AbstractWebsite
Accurate seafloor geodetic methods are critical to the study of marine natural hazards such as megathrust earthquakes, landslides, and volcanoes. We propose digital image correlation of repeated shipboard sidescan sonar surveys as a measurement of seafloor deformation. We test this method using multibeam surveys collected in two locales: 2500m deep lightly sedimented seafloor on the flank of a spreading ridge and 4300m deep heavily sedimented seafloor far from any plate boundary. Correlation of these surveys are able to recover synthetic displacements in the across-track (range) direction accurate to within 1m and in the along-track (azimuth) direction accurate to within 1-10m. We attribute these accuracies to the inherent resolution of sidescan data being better in the range dimension than the azimuth dimension. These measurements are primarily limited by the accuracy of the ship navigation. Dual-frequency GPS units are accurate to approximate to 10cm, but single-frequency GPS units drift on the order of 1m/h and are insufficient for geodetic application.
Malinverni, ES, Sandwell DT, Tassetti AN, Cappelletti L. 2014. InSAR decorrelation to assess and prevent volcanic risk. European Journal of Remote Sensing. 47:537-556. 10.5721/EuJRS20144730 AbstractWebsite
SAR can be invaluable describing pre-eruption surface deformation and improving the understanding of volcanic processes. This work studies correlation of pairs of SAR images focusing on the influence of surface, climate conditions and acquisition band. Chosen L-band and C-band images (ENVISAT, ERS and ALOS) cover most of the Yellowstone caldera (USA) over a span of 4 years, sampling all the seasons. Interferograms and correlation maps are generated and studied in relation to snow depth and temperature. To isolate temporal decorrelation pairs of images with the shortest baseline are chosen. Results show good performance during winter, bad attitude towards wet snow and good coherence during summer with L-band performing better over vegetation.
Tong, XP, Smith-Konter B, Sandwell DT. 2014. Is there a discrepancy between geological and geodetic slip rates along the San Andreas Fault System? Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth. 119:2518-2538. 10.1002/2013jb010765 AbstractWebsite
Previous inversions for slip rate along the San Andreas Fault System (SAFS), based on elastic half-space models, show a discrepancy between the geologic and geodetic slip rates along a few major fault segments. In this study, we use an earthquake cycle model representing an elastic plate over a viscoelastic half-space to demonstrate that there is no significant discrepancy between long-term geologic and geodetic slip rates. The California statewide model includes 41 major fault segments having steady slip from the base of the locked zone to the base of the elastic plate and episodic shallow slip based on known historical ruptures and geologic recurrence intervals. The slip rates are constrained by 1981 secular velocity measurements from GPS and L-band intereferometric synthetic aperture radar. A model with a thick elastic layer (60 km) and half-space viscosity of 10(19)Pa s is preferred because it produces the smallest misfit to both the geologic and the geodetic data. We find that the geodetic slip rates from the thick plate model agrees to within the bounds of the geologic slip rates, while the rates from the elastic half-space model disagree on specific important fault segments such as the Mojave and the North Coast segment of the San Andreas Fault. The viscoelastic earthquake cycle models have generally higher slip rates than the half-space model because most of the faults along the SAFS are late in the earthquake cycle, so today they are moving slower than the long-term cycle-averaged velocity as governed by the viscoelastic relaxation process.
Tong, X, Sandwell DT, Smith-Konter B. 2013. High-resolution interseismic velocity data along the San Andreas Fault from GPS and InSAR. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth. 118:369-389. 10.1029/2012jb009442 AbstractWebsite
We compared four interseismic velocity models of the San Andreas Fault based on GPS observations. The standard deviations of the predicted secular velocity from the four models are larger north of the San Francisco Bay area, near the creeping segment in Central California, and along the San Jacinto Fault and the East California Shear Zone in Southern California. A coherence spectrum analysis of the secular velocity fields indicates relatively high correlation among the four models at longer wavelengths (>15-40 km), with lower correlation at shorter wavelengths. To improve the short-wavelength accuracy of the interseismic velocity model, we integrated interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) observations, initially from Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) ascending data (spanning from the middle of 2006 to the end of 2010, totaling more than 1100 interferograms), with GPS observations using a Sum/Remove/Filter/Restore approach. The final InSAR line of sight data match the point GPS observations with a mean absolute deviation of 1.5 mm/yr. We systematically evaluated the fault creep rates along major faults of the San Andreas Fault and compared them with creepmeters and alignment array data compiled in Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast, Version 2 (UCERF2). Moreover, this InSAR line of sight dataset can constrain rapid velocity gradients near the faults, which are critical for understanding the along-strike variations in stress accumulation rate and associated earthquake hazard. Citation: Tong, X., D. T. Sandwell, and B. Smith-Konter (2013), High-resolution interseismic velocity data along the San Andreas Fault from GPS and InSAR, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 118, 369-389, doi:10.1029/2012JB009442.
Luttrell, KM, Tong XP, Sandwell DT, Brooks BA, Bevis MG. 2011. Estimates of stress drop and crustal tectonic stress from the 27 February 2010 Maule, Chile, earthquake: Implications for fault strength. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth. 116 10.1029/2011jb008509 AbstractWebsite
The great 27 February 2010 M(w) 8.8 earthquake off the coast of southern Chile ruptured a similar to 600 km length of subduction zone. In this paper, we make two independent estimates of shear stress in the crust in the region of the Chile earthquake. First, we use a coseismic slip model constrained by geodetic observations from interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) and GPS to derive a spatially variable estimate of the change in static shear stress along the ruptured fault. Second, we use a static force balance model to constrain the crustal shear stress required to simultaneously support observed fore-arc topography and the stress orientation indicated by the earthquake focal mechanism. This includes the derivation of a semianalytic solution for the stress field exerted by surface and Moho topography loading the crust. We find that the deviatoric stress exerted by topography is minimized in the limit when the crust is considered an incompressible elastic solid, with a Poisson ratio of 0.5, and is independent of Young's modulus. This places a strict lower bound on the critical stress state maintained by the crust supporting plastically deformed accretionary wedge topography. We estimate the coseismic shear stress change from the Maule event ranged from -6 MPa (stress increase) to 17 MPa (stress drop), with a maximum depth-averaged crustal shear-stress drop of 4 MPa. We separately estimate that the plate-driving forces acting in the region, regardless of their exact mechanism, must contribute at least 27 MPa trench-perpendicular compression and 15 MPa trench-parallel compression. This corresponds to a depth-averaged shear stress of at least 7 MPa. The comparable magnitude of these two independent shear stress estimates is consistent with the interpretation that the section of the megathrust fault ruptured in the Maule earthquake is weak, with the seismic cycle relieving much of the total sustained shear stress in the crust.
Wei, M, Sandwell D, Fialko Y, Bilham R. 2011. Slip on faults in the Imperial Valley triggered by the 4 April 2010 Mw 7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake revealed by InSAR. Geophysical Research Letters. 38 10.1029/2010gl045235 AbstractWebsite
Radar interferometry (InSAR), field measurements and creepmeters reveal surface slip on multiple faults in the Imperial Valley triggered by the main shock of the 4 April 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah M(w) 7.2 earthquake. Co-seismic offsets occurred on the San Andreas, Superstition Hills, Imperial, Elmore Ranch, Wienert, Coyote Creek, Elsinore, Yuha, and several minor faults near the town of Ocotillo at the northern end of the mainshock rupture. We documented right-lateral slip (<40 mm) on northwest-striking faults and left-lateral slip (<40 mm) on southwest-striking faults. Slip occurred on 15-km- and 20-km-long segments of the San Andreas Fault in the Mecca Hills (<= 50 mm) and Durmid Hill (<= 10 mm) respectively, and on 25 km of the Superstition Hills Fault (<= 37 mm). Field measurements of slip on the Superstition Hills Fault agree with InSAR and creepmeter measurements to within a few millimeters. Dislocation models of the InSAR data from the Superstition Hills Fault confirm that creep in this sequence, as in previous slip events, is confined to shallow depths (<3 km). Citation: Wei, M., D. Sandwell, Y. Fialko, and R. Bilham (2011), Slip on faults in the Imperial Valley triggered by the 4 April 2010 Mw 7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake revealed by InSAR, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L01308, doi:10.1029/2010GL045235.
Tong, XP, Sandwell D, Luttrell K, Brooks B, Bevis M, Shimada M, Foster J, Smalley R, Parra H, Soto JCB, Blanco M, Kendrick E, Genrich J, Caccamise DJ. 2010. The 2010 Maule, Chile earthquake: Downdip rupture limit revealed by space geodesy. Geophysical Research Letters. 37 10.1029/2010gl045805 AbstractWebsite
Radar interferometry from the ALOS satellite captured the coseismic ground deformation associated with the 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule, Chile earthquake. The ALOS interferograms reveal a sharp transition in fringe pattern at similar to 150 km from the trench axis that is diagnostic of the downdip rupture limit of the Maule earthquake. An elastic dislocation model based on ascending and descending ALOS interferograms and 13 near-field 3-component GPS measurements reveals that the coseismic slip decreases more or less linearly from a maximum of 17 m (along-strike average of 6.5 m) at 18 km depth to near zero at 43-48 km depth, quantitatively indicating the downdip limit of the seismogenic zone. The depth at which slip drops to near zero appears to be at the intersection of the subducting plate with the continental Moho. Our model also suggests that the depth where coseismic slip vanishes is nearly uniform along the strike direction for a rupture length of similar to 600 km. The average coseismic slip vector and the interseismic velocity vector are not parallel, which can be interpreted as a deficit in strike-slip moment release. Citation: Tong, X., et al. (2010), The 2010 Maule, Chile earthquake: Downdip rupture limit revealed by space geodesy, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L24311, doi:10.1029/2010GL045805.
Tong, XP, Sandwell DT, Fialko Y. 2010. Coseismic slip model of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake derived from joint inversion of interferometric synthetic aperture radar, GPS, and field data. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth. 115 10.1029/2009jb006625 AbstractWebsite
We derived a coseismic slip model for the M(w) 7.9 2008 Wenchuan earthquake on the basis of radar line-of-sight displacements from ALOS interferograms, GPS vectors, and geological field data. Available interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data provided a nearly complete coverage of the surface deformation along both ascending (fine beam mode) and descending orbits (ScanSAR to ScanSAR mode). The earthquake was modeled using four subfaults with variable geometry and dip to capture the simultaneous rupture of both the Beichuan fault and the Pengguan fault. Our model misfits show that the InSAR and GPS data are highly compatible; the combined inversion yields a 93% variance reduction. The best fit model has fault planes that rotate from shallow dip in the south (35 degrees) to nearly vertical dip toward the north (70 degrees). Our rupture model is complex with variations in both depth and rake along two major fault strands. In the southern segment of the Beichuan fault, the slip is mostly thrust (<13 m) and occurred principally in the upper 10 km of the crust; the rupture progressively transformed to right-lateral strike slip as it propagated northeast (with maximum offsets of 7 m). Our model suggests that most of the moment release was limited to the shallow part of the crust (depth less than 10 km). We did not find any "shallow slip deficit" in the slip depth distribution of this mixed mechanism earthquake. Aftershocks were primarily distributed below the section of the fault that ruptured coseismically.
Myer, D, Sandwell D, Brooks B, Foster J, Shimada M. 2008. Inflation along Kilauea's Southwest Rift Zone in 2006. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 177:418-424. 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2008.06.006 AbstractWebsite
We report on InSAR and GPS results showing the first crustal inflation along the southwest rift zone at Kilauea volcano in over 20 years. Two independent interferograms (May 2-August 2, 2006 and June 22-Nov 7, 2006) from the ALOS PALSAR instrument reveal domal uplift located southwest of the main caldera. The uplift is bounded on the northeast by the caldera and follows the southwest rift zone for about 12 km. It is approximately 8 km wide. We use data derived from permanent GPS stations to calibrate the InSAR displacement data and estimate uplift of 7.7 cm during the first interferogram and 8.9 cm during the second with line-of-sight volumes of 2.8 x 10(6) m(3) and 3.0 X 10(6) m(3) respectively. The earthquake record for the periods before, during, and after inflation shows that a swarm of shallow earthquakes (z<5 km) signaled the beginning of the uplift and that elevated levels of shallow seismicity along the rift zones occurred throughout the uplift period. GPS data indicate that the inflation occurred steadily over nine months between mid-January and mid-October, 2006 making injection of a sill unlikely. We attribute the inflation to recharge of a shallow ductile area under the SWRZ. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Barbot, S, Fialko Y, Sandwell D. 2008. Effect of a compliant fault zone on the inferred earthquake slip distribution. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth. 113 10.1029/2007jb005256 AbstractWebsite
We present a new semi-analytic method to evaluate the deformation due to a screw dislocation in arbitrarily heterogeneous and/or anisotropic elastic half plane. The method employs integral transformations to reduce the governing partial differential equations to the integral Fredholm equation of the second kind. Dislocation sources, as well as spatial perturbations in the elastic properties are modeled using equivalent body forces. The solution to the Fredholm equation is obtained in the Fourier domain using a method of successive over-relaxation, and is mapped into the spatial domain using the inverse Fast Fourier Transform. We apply this method to investigate the effect of a soft damage zone around an earthquake fault on the co-seismic displacement field, and on the earthquake slip distribution inferred from inversions of geodetic data. In the presence of a kilometer-wide damage zone with a reduction of the effective shear modulus of a factor of 2, inversions that assume a laterally homogeneous model tend to underestimate the amount of slip in the middle of the seismogenic layer by as much as 20%. This bias may accentuate the inferred maxima in the seismic moment release at depth between 3-6 km suggested by previous studies of large strike-slip earthquakes.
Luttrell, K, Sandwell D, Smith-Konter B, Bills B, Bock Y. 2007. Modulation of the earthquake cycle at the southern San Andreas fault by lake loading. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth. 112 10.1029/2006jb004752 AbstractWebsite
Changes in the level of ancient Lake Cahuilla over the last 1500 years in the Salton Trough alter the state of stress by bending the lithosphere in response to the applied lake load and by varying the pore pressure magnitude within the crust. The recurrence interval of the lake is similar to the recurrence interval of rupture on the southern San Andreas and San Jacinto faults, both of which are partially covered by the lake at its highstand. Furthermore, four of the last five ruptures on the southern San Andreas fault have occurred near a time of substantial lake level change. We investigate the effect of Coulomb stress perturbations on local faults due to changing level of Lake Cahuilla to determine a possible role for the lake in affecting the timing of fault rupture. Coulomb stress is calculated with a three-dimensional model of an elastic plate overlying a viscoelastic half-space. Plate thickness and half-space relaxation time are adjusted to match observed vertical deformation since the last lake highstand. The lake cycle causes positive and negative Coulomb stress perturbations of 0.2-0.6 MPa on the southern San Andreas within the lake and 0.1-0.2 MPa on the southern San Andreas outside the lake. These Coulomb stress perturbations are comparable to stress magnitudes known to have triggered events at other faults along the North America-Pacific plate boundary.
Fialko, Y, Sandwell D, Simons M, Rosen P. 2005. Three-dimensional deformation caused by the Bam, Iran, earthquake and the origin of shallow slip deficit. Nature. 435:295-299. 10.1038/nature03425 AbstractWebsite
Our understanding of the earthquake process requires detailed insights into how the tectonic stresses are accumulated and released on seismogenic faults. We derive the full vector displacement field due to the Bam, Iran, earthquake of moment magnitude 6.5 using radar data from the Envisat satellite of the European Space Agency. Analysis of surface deformation indicates that most of the seismic moment release along the 20-km-long strike-slip rupture occurred at a shallow depth of 4 - 5 km, yet the rupture did not break the surface. The Bam event may therefore represent an end-member case of the 'shallow slip deficit' model, which postulates that coseismic slip in the uppermost crust is systematically less than that at seismogenic depths ( 4 - 10 km). The InSAR-derived surface displacement data from the Bam and other large shallow earthquakes suggest that the uppermost section of the seismogenic crust around young and developing faults may undergo a distributed failure in the interseismic period, thereby accumulating little elastic strain.
Mellors, RJ, Sichoix L, Sandwell DT. 2002. Lack of precursory slip to the 1999 Hector Mine, California, earthquake as constrained by InSAR. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 92:1443-1449. 10.1785/0120010244 AbstractWebsite
We looked for evidence of interseismic strain occurring between the 1992 Landers earthquake and the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake near the Lavic Lake and Bullion faults by using interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR). Interferograms covering the Hector Mine epicentral region were studied for possible slip along the Bullion and Lavic Lake faults by both visual inspection and a matched filter technique intended to emphasize slip located at the nucleation point. Some indications of possible deformation associated with the 5 July 1992 M-L 5.4 Pisgah event was observed, but high decorrelation prevented a conclusive determination. We have seen no evidence for precursory slip in the epicentral region up to 30 days before the Hector Mine event. We estimated that the slip equivalent to a M-w 4.5 event would have been observable in the months before the Hector Mine event, and this places an upper bound on the long-term precursory slip, had it occurred. We have noted that InSAR is well suited for detecting precursory slip in general due to the high spatial resolution and the lack of ground instrumentation required but that the detection level depends on the depth and orientation of the slip.
Baer, G, Schattner U, Wachs D, Sandwell D, Wdowinski S, Frydman S. 2002. The lowest place on Earth is subsiding - An InSAR (interferometric synthetic aperture radar) perspective. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 114:12-23. 10.1130/0016-7606(2002)114<0012:tlpoei>2.0.co;2 AbstractWebsite
Since the early 1990s, sinkholes and wide, shallow subsidence features (WSSFs) have become major problems along the Dead Sea shores in Israel and Jordan. Sinkholes are readily observed in the field, but their locations and timing are unpredictable. WSSFs are often difficult to observe in the field. However, once identified, they delineate zones of instability and increasing hazard. In this study we identify, characterize, and measure rates of subsidence along the Dead Sea shores by the interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technique. We analyze 16 SAR scenes acquired during the years 1992 to 1999 by the European Remote Sensing ERS-1 and ERS-2 satellites. The interferograms span periods of between 2 and 71 months. WSSFs are observed in the Lisan Peninsula and along the Dead Sea shores, in a variety of appearances, including circular and elongate coastal depressions (a few hundred meters to a few kilometers in length), depressions in ancient alluvial fans, and depressions along salt-diapir margins. Phase differences measured in our interferograms correspond to subsidence rates generally in the range of 0-20 mm/yr within the studied period, with exceptional high rates that exceed 60 mm/yr in two specific regions. During the study period, the level of the Dead Sea and of the associated ground water has dropped by similar to6 m. This water-level drop within an aquifer overlying fine-grained, marly layers, would be expected to have caused aquifer-system consolidation resulting in gradual subsidence. Comparison of our InSAR observations with calculations of the expected consolidation shows that in areas where marl layers are known to compose part of the upper 30 m of the profile, estimated consolidation settlements are of the order of the measured subsidence. Our observations also show that in certain locations, subsidence appears to be structurally controlled by faults, seaward landslides, and salt domes. Gradual subsidence is unlikely to be directly related to the sinkholes, excluding the use of the WSSFs features as predictable precursors to sinkhole formation.
Watson, KM, Bock Y, Sandwell DT. 2002. Satellite interferometric observations of displacements associated with seasonal groundwater in the Los Angeles basin. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth. 107 10.1029/2001jb000470 AbstractWebsite
[1] The Newport-Inglewood fault zone (NIFZ) displays interferometric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) phase features along most of its length having amplitudes of up to 60 mm. However, interpretation in terms of right-lateral, shallow slip along the fault fails to match the range of geologic estimates of slip. Recently, Bawden et al. [2001] proposed that these phase features, as well as a broader deformation pattern in the Los Angeles basin, are due to vertical motion related to annual variations in the elevation of the water table. We confirm this hypothesis through the analysis of a longer span of data consisting of 26 SAR images collected by the ERS-1 and ERS-2 spacecraft between June 1992 and June 2000. Moreover, we use continuous GPS measurements from 1995 to the present to establish the amplitude and phase of the vertical deformation. The Los Angeles basin becomes most inflated one quarter of the way through the year, which is consistent with water table measurements as well as with the end of the rainy season when the aquifer should be at a maximum. The spatial pattern of the amplitude of the annual signal derived from continuous GPS measurements is consistent with the shape of the interferometric fringes. GPS sites both near the NIFZ and in a 20 by 40 km zone within the basin also show significant N-S annual variations that may be related to the differential expansion across the fault. Since these horizontal signals have peak-to-trough amplitudes of 6 mm, they mask the smaller tectonic signals and need to be taken into account when interpreting GPS time series of site position. Moreover, since the groundwater signal appears to have a long-term vertical trend which varies in sign depending on location, it will be difficult to distinguish interseismic tectonic slip along the NIFZ and within the affected areas in the basin.
Baer, G, Shamir G, Sandwell D, Bock Y. 2001. Crustal deformation during 6 years spanning the M (sub w) = 7.2 1995 Nuweiba earthquake, analyzed by Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar. Israel Journal of Earth-Sciences. 50( Baer G, Wdowinski S, Eds.).:9-22., Jerusalem, Israel (ISR): Laser Pages Publishing, Jerusalem AbstractWebsite
The November 22, 1995, M (sub w) = 7.2 Nuweiba earthquake occurred along one of the left-stepping segments of the Dead Sea Transform in the Gulf of Elat (Aqaba). We examine the surface deformation patterns in the region by Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) for the period 1993 to 1999, which includes the end of one seismic cycle and the beginning of the next. Because the main rupture was under water, ERS coverage is limited to distances of approximately 5 km or more away from the rupture. Pre-earthquake interferograms do not show any detectable deformation along the Gulf. Coseismic interferograms show deformation at distances of up to 50 km from the main rupture, with the highest fringe rate (strain) NW of the rupture termination. Coseismic phase gradient maps show triggered slip along faults parallel to the main rupture (sinistral or normal with the Gulf side down) along the western shore of the Gulf, and in a belt of extensional faults along the eastern shore, striking at angles of about 30 degrees to the major rupture. Postseismic deformation is observed only in a time window of up to 6 months following the mainshock. It was concentrated in the region of the high coseismic strain, and seems to be related to the M (sub L) <4.5 aftershocks in the respective time window.
Sandwell, DT, Sichoix L, Agnew D, Bock Y, Minster JB. 2000. Near real-time radar interferometry of the Mw 7.1 Hector Mine Earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters. 27:3101-3104. 10.1029/1999gl011209 AbstractWebsite
The Hector Mine Earthquake (Mw 7.1, 16 October 1999) ruptured 45 km of previously mapped and unmapped faults in the Mojave Desert. The ERS-2 satellite imaged the Mojave Desert on 15 September and again on 20 October, just 4 days after the earthquake. Using a newly-developed ground station we acquired both passes and were able to form an interferogram within 20 hours of the second overflight. Estimates of slip along the main rupture are 1-2 meters greater than slip derived from geological mapping. The gradient of the interferometric phase reveals an interesting pattern of triggered slip on adjacent faults as well as a 30 mm deep sink hole along Interstate 40.
McKenzie, D, Ford PG, Johnson C, Parsons B, Sandwell D, Saunders S, Solomon SC. 1992. Features on Venus Generated by Plate Boundary Processes. Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets. 97:13533-13544. 10.1029/92JE01350 AbstractWebsite
Various observations suggest that there are processes on Venus that produce features similar to those associated with plate boundaries on Earth. Synthetic aperture radar images of Venus, taken with a radar whose wavelength is 12.6 cm, are compared with GLORIA images of active plate boundaries, obtained with a sound source whose wavelength is 23 cm. Features similar to transform faults and to abyssal hills on slow and fast spreading ridges can be recognized within the Artemis region of Venus but are not clearly visible elsewhere. The composition of the basalts measured by the Venera 13 and 14 and the Vega 2 spacecraft corresponds to that expected from adiabatic decompression, like that which occurs beneath spreading ridges on Earth. Structures that resemble trenches are widespread on Venus and show the same curvature and asymmetry as they do on Earth. These observations suggest that the same simple geophysical models that have been so successfully used to understand the tectonics of Earth can also be applied to Venus.
Marine Geology and Geophysics, Remote Sensing, Seismology and Earthquake Physics
IGPP
Location: 1104 IGPP II/1000
dsandwell at ucsd.edu
Kinematic post-processing of ship navigation data using precise point positioning
A spectral expansion approach for geodetic slip inversion: implications for the downdip rupture limits of oceanic and continental megathrust earthquakes
Surface creep rate and moment accumulation rate along the Aceh segment of the Sumatran Fault from L-band ALOS-1/PALSAR-1 observations
Interseismic velocity field and seismic moment release in northern Baja California, Mexico
Surface creep rate of the southern San Andreas Fault modulated by stress perturbations from nearby large events
Maxwell: A semi-analytic 4D code for earthquake cycle modeling of transform fault systems
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line425
|
__label__cc
| 0.725819
| 0.274181
|
Epidural Steroid Injection
Home Spinal Procedures Epidural Steroid Injection
Obtaining a second opinion before proceeding with an epidural steroid injection can help to confirm that the appropriate site of nerve compression is being targeted.
In many instances, the spinal canal is a source of back and neck pain. The specific cause of this pain is often difficult to determine because significant degenerative abnormalities within the spinal canal can occur in asymptomatic people. Localized reactive inflammation may be the cause of spinal pain, rather than degenerative changes alone. In this regard, a chemical basis for lumbar radicular pain has been postulated. Steroids have a known antiinflammatory property and are thus considered to be reasonable agents to be injected into a “symptomatic” spinal canal. In spite of its theoretic potentials, the use of epidural steroids remains controversial. Nonetheless, efficiency with steroid injection has been shown to be greater when compared to that with saline or local anesthetic injection. At Connecticut Neck and Back Specialists, we insist that epidural steroid injections be administered under fluoroscopic guidance. This minimizes the risk of inaccurate installation of the medication. By targeting the epidural injection, either through an interlaminar approach or a far lateral transforaminal approach, we feel that the response to an epidural steroid injection can be diagnostic, as well as therapeutic. For this reason, obtaining a second opinion before proceeding with an epidural steroid injection can help to confirm that the appropriate site of nerve compression is being targeted. In other words, if a patient has a neurocompressive lesion at an L4-5 level and subsequently responds to an epidural steroid injection directed to this region, we feel that the patient’s response can serve as confirmation that the suspected lesion is indeed the source of the patient’s discomfort. The benefit of an epidural steroid injection usually occurs within several days of the injection.
Dural puncture with associated headache is the most common complication of epidural steroid injections. This occurs approximately 5% of the time and can be treated adequately with the administration of a blood patch. Infection is rare; however, intradural injection may lead to scarring and is to be avoided. In some cases, the use of epidural steroid injections may provide the definitive treatment. It is felt that in many instances, the use of a series of epidural steroid injections, up to 3 injections over a span of weeks to months, may provide longer lasting and more profound relief.
Why Get a Second Opinion?
5 Reasons to Act Now
Benefits Management Support
Concierge Medicine Physicians
Legal Reviews
Third Party Payor Reviews
About SOS
Dr. David Bomback
Dr. David Kramer
SOS Blog
Spinal Conditions
Herniated Disc in Neck
Bulging Disc
Lumbar Disc Degeneration
All Spinal Conditions
Spinal Procedures
Bone Morphogenic Protein (BMP)
X-Stop Surgery
All Spinal Procedures
© Second Opinion Spine, LLC
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line428
|
__label__wiki
| 0.801679
| 0.801679
|
Seta's Armenian Blog
Welcome to my blog which explores contemporary issues concerning Armenia and Armenians everywhere
I feel I am able to communicate well and I have a good grounding in people skills.......Basically all humanity is the same! ----------sssssssssssss---------- The foundation of this blog was cemented by the Assassination of Hrant Dink on 19.01.07. I was listening to Setrak Setrakian’s rendition of Arno Babajanian’s composition, Elegy. So moved by Hrant’s shortened life by the virtue of speaking his mind that I wrote the poem, ‘Without You’ with Hrant's family in mind. The subject matter of the recognition of the ‘Genocide of the Armenians in 1915,’ is very much at the heart and the minds of Armenian's Internationally. --------------------------------------- I want to say: 'Thank you,' to Keith for the Creation and Launch of, Seta's Armenian.blogspot.com and Armenag for the sources of information. --------------------------------------- If you feel it would be appropriate, please include a link to my Blog from your Site. I would like my Blog to be as eclectic as possible and include material from as many and different sources so long as it is relevant to my subject matter.
This well-established Blog is worth visiting on a regular basis for a wealth of information of interest to Armenian nationals and to the Armenian Diaspora world-wide. Although it has a particular role in promoting international recognition of the Genocide, the Blog encompasses much more and includes many articles of general appeal to all those concerned with Armenian affairs. Much of the content is difficult or impossible to find elsewhere and the long list of links provided gives easy access to a plethora of material on social, political, religious, educational and cultural matters, and many news items from around the world.
Aegis Trust (working for the elimination of genocide)
Armenia in World Fact Book
Armenia Now (news from Armenia)
Armenia Public Radio
Armenian American Cultural Association
Armenian Artists' Network
Armenian Assembly of America
Armenian Church in Great Britain (including links to E-Newsletters)
Armenian Community in the UK
Armenian Cultural Association of America
Armenian Democratic Liberal Party
Armenian Diaspora (News Portal)
Armenian Foreign Ministry
Armenian General Benevolent Union (UK)
Armenian General Benevolent Union (USA)
Armenian Genocide Discussion Forum
Armenian Genocide Museum
Armenian Genocide Trust
Armenian History
Armenian Institute
Armenian Language Learning Materials
Armenian Music
Armenian National Committee of Australia
Armenian National Committee of Canada
Armenian National Committee of Toronto
Armenian News Topics from Hye Media
Armenian Reporter
Armenian Reporter Online
Armenian Social Democrat Hunchakian Party
Asbarez Armenian News
Azad-Hye: Armenian Middle East Portal
British Embassy, Yerevan
Center for Armenian Remembrance
Centre for Armenian Information and Advice
Genocide Files on Open Democracy.Net
Genocide Petition (UK only)
Gibrahayer - Armenian e-Magazine
Gomidas Institute
Goran Sadjadi on the Genocide
Hayastan: Internet Portal for Armenians Everywhere
Horizon Armenian Television
Hyeforum (Armenian Discussion Topics)
Infodude.net on the Genocide
Internews in Armenia
Jewish Week New York Magazine
Journalists' Club Asparez
Little Armenia
Music of Armenia
Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Onnik Krikorian's Oneworld Blog
Padus-Araxes Cultural Association (Armenian Language and Culture)
PanArmenian Network (News and Events)
Republic of Armenia Government
Setrak Setrakian
Sourp Hagop Armenian Church
The Armenian Story
The Online Armenia Encyclopaedia
US - Armenia Public Affairs Committee (USAPAC)
My Video Links
Anca Video Sets Record Straight on Bob Livingston's Genocide Denial
Armenian Video Sharing Network
BBC Video Clips about Hrant Dink
Caravan: An Armenian Tragedy
The Genocide Explored
The New Tears of Araxes
TIME Genocide Video
Video Tribute to Hrant Dink
Armenian Church Newsletters
Armenian Church of America (Eastern Diocese) Magazine
Crossroads E-Newsletter (Armenian Apostolic Church of America)
Gantegh (Sourp Hagop Armenian Church, Montreal)
Hamaink (Newsletter of the Armenian Church of the UK)
Noravank Newsletter - St. Mary Armenian Church, Hollywood, Florida, USA
St. Gregory Armenian Church - Newsletter (Merrimack Valley, MA)
St. Kevork Armenian Church Newsletter (Houston, TX)
Armenian Genocide Resource Center
3710) Let An ARF Leader Speak: Drasramat Kanayan
http://www.armengenocide.org/
Blog Archive Links
Armenian Hall of Fame
Father Frank's Rants - please return if you are bitten by the Gelli bug as new Rants are added regularly
Armenian News... A Topalian... Armenia: Masterpiec...
Issue 16 of the Armenian Church News of the Dioces...
Armenian News... A Topalian... Armenian Carpets:
Armenian News ... Armenag Topalian ... Criminal Gr...
Armenian Institute... Bromige ... Armenian Byzanti...
Armenian Institute - Toby Bromige
Gibrahayer E-Magazine...Get direct input from www....
FATHER FRANK’S RANTS Rant Number 657 24 Nov...
Armenian News ... A Topalian... O'Brien and Movse...
KEGHART - DR DIKRAN ABRAHAMIAN
The Armenian Church News of the Diocese of the Arm...
Rakel Dink on Hrant Dink
EGHART UPDATE ... Dr Dikran Abrahamian
Armenian News...A Topalian ...Message from Sevan G...
Armenian Institute... Oxford Armenian Exhibition t...
Armenian Institute"s Annual Winter Fair...
Saro Saryan - Nagorny Karabakh belonged to Armenia...
Armenian News ... A Topalian... British Armenian g...
From: "Guleh Mayrig"
Hratch Tchilingirian - Ինչ է Ցեղասպանութեան զոհերո...
Garen Arevian shared Roger MV's photo. Make 'em la...
FATHER FRANK’S RANTS Rant Number 656 16 No...
Armenian News ... A Topalian... Westminster Abbey ...
Armenian New... A Topalian - Armenian Music
Westminster Abbey Service - 28 October 2015
ARMENIAN CHURCH E-NEWSLETTER
Davit Bek
Armenian News...A Topalian...Kurdish confiscation ...
Vasken Kassemdjian's album. ·
Thomas Holgersen Naustdal to The Syrian Revoluti...
Varouj Mavlian
Astghik Avetisyan
Steven Turner...Remembering Harry Cronin
FOR THE ATTENTION OF HEREFORD & WORCESTER - Liz ...
Veronik Hakobyan 11 hrs · Edited · «Կռունկ» երգի ...
Davit Bek Opera ....Pilgrimage group is on 19th De...
Armenian News... A Topalian
Eleonora Asatryan contribution to the blog
Armenian News... A Topalian...
Diocese of the Armenian Church of the United Kingd...
Armenian Institute - Illustrated talk: Exploring t...
New Health Resource: Learn how to move lymph throu...
New Health Resource Publications...
Keghart... Dr Dikran Abrahamian's non-partisan web...
Armenian News... A Topalian...15 best kept secrete...
Keghart.com Update November 1st 2015
FATHER FRANK’S RANTS Rant Number 654 2 Nov...
Armenian News... A Topalian... Armenian has welcom...
Armenian News ... A Topalian... Ostentatious...
Sebouh Sarkissian was tagged in a post. Magar Ash...
Armenian News... A Topalian... Armenia: Masterpieces from an Enduring Culture
The 25 November lecture that was very informative to a full lecture room.
The questions were of a very high standard (e.g. what is the relationship between the
Armenian church kmpets, the narrower higher Georgian versions and the Moslem
cemetery memorial stones in that area?).
It's a discerning,interested audience with a lecturer to match.
Well worth making your visit to the exhibition on a future lecture date.
Armenia: Masterpieces from an Enduring Culture
23 October 2015 — 28 February 2016
Venue: ST Lee Gallery, Weston Library (Map)
The Bodleian Libraries 2015 winter exhibition celebrates over 2,500 years of Armenia history. Armenia's Enduring Culture can refer to the great antiquity of Armenian culture, spanning more than two and a half millennia, from its first mention, carved into stone, in the reign of King Darius I (c. 550-486 BCE) to the modern Republic of Armenia and the numerous diaspora communities worldwide.
Yet endurance can also refer to the suffering and hardship which has befallen the Armenians. 2015 marks the centenary of the genocide against the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire by the Young Turk government during World War I.
In their honour, we display over one hundred items spanning more than two thousand years of cultural history: from King Tigranes II the Great's coins minted in the first century BCE, through sumptuously and more modestly decorated manuscripts from the Middle Ages, to the treasured objects of survivors of the 1915 genocide.
Please note: Due to unexpected building issues, the main gallery entrance to the Armenia exhibition is temporarily closed; visitors can enter the exhibition through the Transept Corridor to the right of the closed entrance. Please ask a staff member for directions if needed.
For further enquiries please email: armenia@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whatson/whats-on/upcoming-events/2015/oct/armenia
More events in the Armenia series
From the Genocide to Aram Khachaturian, Andy Serkis and Kim Kardashian
In 1915, during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, an unprecedented campaign to exterminate the Christian Armenian population of the Empire was launched. Under the…
Splendour and spirituality in Armenian Christianity
Armenia adopted Christianity as the state religion in the early fourth century. Ever since the invention of the alphabet around 405, Armenians have produced brilliantly…
Home is where the market is - trade and print culture in the Armenian Diaspora
Armenians adopted printing soon after the invention of the printing press, with the first books produced in 1512-13 in Venice. Since there was not a…
Gifts from our grandmothers: domestic culture in a Diaspora family
Aspects of Armenian identity have been handed down through many generations in the diaspora. This talk explores needlework and culinary traditions that have been cherished…
Behind the colours of the Armenian artist: the devil is in the detail
A wealth of ingredients from precious and poisonous minerals to unassuming plants and miniscule insects were transformed into pigments by the expert hands of Armenian…
Armenian Papers: fact, fiction and translation in the Monastery of San Lazzaro
The Armenian Monastery of San Lazzaro, in the lagoon of Venice, has been a centre for translation since the late eighteenth century. It was only…
Posted by Seta at 23:11 0 comments
Issue 16 of the Armenian Church News of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of Great Britain & Ireland.
Please copy and paste to your URL... Thank you
file:///Users/lindacox/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail%20Downloads/1EE4F38F-4DE7-4BD5-8EA1-EA6A34077D6A/E-MAGAZINE%20VOL%201%20ISSUE%2016.pdf
CNN Feature
Armenian carpets: A multi-million dollar industry
http://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/11/23/spc-the-silk-road-armenia-b.cnn
armenianow.com
GLOBAL TERRORISM INDEX: ARMENIA AMONG
SAFEST COUNTRIES
Armenia is among the safest countries in the world in terms of
potential threats of terrorism, according to a 2015 Global Terrorism
Index report published by the Institute for Economics and Peace
in London.
The Christian South Caucasus nation comes 116th in the list of
162 countries where the higher rank means more danger in terms of
The report says that one of the sources of possible threat to Armenia
is the participation of 70 ethnic Armenian fighters in the struggle
with Syrian Kurds against ISIS, a terrorist group seeking to establish
its control over Iraq, Syria and other regions.
Armenia's neighbors Azerbaijan and Georgia are ranked 93rd and 71st
in the list, respectively. Russia is ranked 23rd, while the U.S. came
in at 35th.
The Global Terrorism Index provides a detailed analysis of the
changing trends in terrorism across 162 countries over the last
15 years. It investigates the patterns of terrorism by geographic
activity, methods of attack, organizations involved and national
economic and political contexts.
According to the latest report, the highest terrorist activity is
concentrated in five countries -- Iraq, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan
and Syria. These countries accounted for overall 78 percent of the
lives lost in 2014 as a result of terror attacks. India, Somali,
Libya and Thailand also appeared in the top ten.
The report comes days after two major terrorist attacks against
Russia and France that groups affiliated with ISIS have claimed
responsibility for.
A total of 224 people were killed on board a Russian plane brought
down by a planted bomb over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on October 31.
Islamist gunmen also perpetrated a series of coordinated terrorist
attacks in the French capital of Paris on November 13, killing at
least 129 and injuring several hundred people. An ethnic Armenian
teen was among the victims of the Paris attacks.
arka.am
Armenia's foreign trade shrinks 20.4% to $3 900.9 million
in Jan-Oct 2015
YEREVAN, November 20. Armenia's foreign trade turnover shrank
20.4% in Jan-Oct 2015, compared with the same period a year
earlier, to $3 900.9 million, the National Statistical Service of
Armenia reports.
Exports shrank 2.2% to $1 223.4 million and imports 26.6% to $2
677.5 million.
As a result, negative balance amounted to $ 1 454.1 million in
Jan-Sept 2015. ($1 - AMD 481.84).
ARMENIA, RUSSIA IN NEW AIR DEFENCE DEAL
Institute for War and Peace Reporting, UK
By Arshaluis Mghdesyan
Russia's desire to increase its military role in Armenian airspace
may be connected to differences with Turkey on Syria.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has instructed ministers to negotiate
an agreement with Armenia on a shared air defence system.
In late October, the Russian government approved plans for the creation
of the joint air defence mechanism. The idea is to create an aerial
"umbrella" on the southern border of the Collective Security Treaty
Organisation (CSTO), a wider regional defence alliance that includes
Armenia, Russia, Belarus and three Central Asian states.
In the South Caucasus, Georgia and Azerbaijan are not CSTO members,
and unless this changes, their airspace is not part of the proposed
cooperation.
On November 11, Putin told the Russian defence and foreign ministries
to go ahead with negotiations with Yerevan.
Armenia already collaborates with Russia on air defence, and it is not
yet clear how the new system will differ, or whether it will function
within the CSTO framework. But analysts in Armenia believe this will
be the case.
Former defence minister Vagharshak Harutyunyan told IWPR that
the current mechanism consists of a "unified command centre where
information about the situation in the skies over the South Caucasus
is processed and exchanged," he said.
The new agreement seems likely to integrate this with similar Russian
arrangements with Kazakstan and Belarus.
"Thus, it can be said that a united air defence system for the CSTO,
of which these states are members, is being established," Harutyunyan
Defence expert Sergei Minasyan expects the upcoming treaty to lead
to a more comprehensive regional air defence network. Apart from
interceptor jets and S-300 surface-to-air missiles, it will probably
incorporate detection systems and radars that are deployed in the
Russian North Caucasus.
In practice, says Harutyunyan, Russian and Armenian air defence forces
would work in sync, from the exchange of information to the launch
of missiles and military aircraft, in the event of the threat of
war or large-scale hostilities, for instance if the Nagorny Karabakh
conflict reignited.
"This system includes Russia's ships on the Black Sea, its Caspian
flotilla, detection systems, and aircraft squadrons in the North
Caucasus, as well as the components of Armenia´s air defence," he
said. "If necessary, this system will work as a single unit providing
coverage and reach for the Armenian defence forces in the skies over
the region, from the Caspian to the Black Sea."
The leaders of CSTO states have discussed a common unified air defence
system for several years. Putin first spoke of plans to build and
strengthen the air defence "umbrella" at a 2013 awards ceremony for
senior Russian army officers.
"We also plan to strengthen the unified air defence system with Belarus
and to start forming such regional systems with Armenia and Kazakstan,"
he said.
Some experts see air defence integration as a logical continuation
of the long-term security relation between Armenia and its major ally.
The Russians maintain ground forces and fighter jets in Armenia. A
2010 agreement extending Moscow's use of the Gyumri military base
until 2044 includes a Russian commitment to defend Armenia against
external threats.
Sergei Markedonov, a Caucasus expert in Moscow, says the forthcoming
deal has nothing to do with the Karabakh dispute, which has
been frozen since 1994 and has soured Armenia's relationship with
Azerbaijan. Instead, he argues, it is only the latest in a long line
of joint military initiatives.
"I don't see anything special or extraordinary about this decision on
unified air defences," Markedonov told IWPR. "It would be fundamentally
wrong to look for pitfalls in the expansion of joint air defences in
the context of the Karabakh conflict."
Commentators also acknowledge, however, that Moscow and Yerevan are
each acting in their own interests. Russia will be keen to reinforce
the southern borders in the Caucasus in light of the ongoing civil
war in Syria, and its own military engagement there.
Armenia, meanwhile, benefits from enhanced national security in an
unpredictable region where the risk of renewed war over Karabakh
is ever-present.
Azerbaijan has been using its oil revenues to spend large sums on
weaponry, much of which it buys from Russia, to Armenia's chagrin.
Moscow is thus acting as arms supplier to both protagonists, perhaps
in order to maintain a balance of power in the region, but also to
bind both countries closer to itself. (See Energy, Arms Trade Clouds
Armenia's View of Moscow.)
The importance of an effective air defence system was felt on October
8 when Turkish helicopters twice entered Armenian airspace. Turkey
is an ally of Azerbaijan, and has kept its border with Armenia sealed
for over 20 years.
In Ankara, the incursion was blamed on bad weather conditions. In
Armenia, however, it was seen as an indirect dig at Moscow in response
to an earlier violation of Turkish airspace by Russian fighters
engaged in hostilities in Syria. Russia attributed that incident,
too, to bad weather.
Some analysts view the timing of the joint air defence announcement in
the context of a sharply deteriorating Russian-Turkish relationship,
caused by differences over the Syrian conflict.
Anatoly Tsyganok, head of the Centre for Military Forecasting at
the Moscow Institute of Political and Military Analysis, told the
Haqqin.az news site recently that the air defence â~@~^umbrella"
project was aboutTurkey, not Azerbaijan.
Talks on common air defence have been going on for more than three
years, and it seems certain that their sudden acceleration is a result
of the fast-evolving situation in the wider region.
Arshaluis Mghdesyan is a freelance journalist in Armenia.
armenpress.am
Royal Academy of Belgium organizes conference dedicated
to Armenian Genocide
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 21. Royal Academy of Belgium (Académie
Royale de Belgique) and the Free University of Brussels (Université
Libre de Bruxelles) organized a conference dedicated to the Armenian
Genocide to be held in Brussels, Belgium on November 24. `Armenpress'
reports the abovesaid citing the official website of Académie royale
de Belgique.
Lecturers and academicians from Brussels, Geneva, Montpellier, Luven
and Amsterdam universities will participate in the conference.
`Condemnation of genocides has become one of the main issues of our
time. The recognition of the Genocide of Armenians and other peoples
committed by the Ottoman Empire in 2015 is still pending, as Turkey
still refuses to acknowledge the fact thus endangering the
establishment of new relations between the peoples,' is said on the
official website of Royal Academy of Belgium.
Moody's: Armenia's weak domestic demand and external
vulnerabilities to weigh on 2016 growth
London, 20 November 2015 -- Armenia's (Ba3, negative) low economic
diversification, weakened domestic demand, and trade and financial
exposures to Russia will lead to lower growth in 2016, Moody's
Investors Service has said in a report published today.
Moody's report, entitled "Government of Armenia" is available on
www.moodys.com. Moody's subscribers can access this report via the
link provided at the end of this press release. The rating agency's
report is an update to the markets and does not constitute a rating
"Armenia's weak domestic demand holds back consumption and investment,
while Russia's worsening economic climate has led to sharp declines in
remittances. Given that remittances account for around 15% of GDP,
Armenia is significantly exposed to the Russian growth cycle," says
Evan Wohlmann, Assistant Vice President -- Analyst at Moody's.
However, the rating agency also notes Armenia's credit strengths,
which relate to the government's commitment to fiscal prudence, high
debt affordability and macroeconomic stability, together with a
supportive business environment.
Nevertheless, the rating agency forecasts Armenia's GDP growth to slow
to 2.5% in 2015 and 2.2% in 2016. Overall, the country's weak economic
performance reflects the slow emergence of new growth drivers in the
economy, says Moody's. Business sentiment remains weak, while private
sector investment still drags on Armenia's economic performance.
However, the rating agency notes that the economy has performed better
than it had expected in 2015, given robust performances from the
agriculture and mining sectors.
Meanwhile, the agency projects that Armenia's fiscal deficit will
increase markedly to 4.2% of GDP in 2015, as a result of expansionary
fiscal measures and low revenue growth owing to weak domestic demand.
As such, the agency forecasts the general government debt ratio to
rise to around 48% of GDP in 2015. But Moody's expects the fiscal
position to improve slightly in 2016, with the deficit decreasing to
3.6%, as the efforts to improve revenue administration are
complemented by tax policy measures in 2016.
However, Moody's notes that economic headwinds owing to external
vulnerabilities could continue, which would negatively affect the
government's plans to increase tax revenues over the next two years.
In addition, Armenia's debt profile remains particularly susceptible
to negative growth shocks, and if spill over risks from Russia were to
worsen, further debt could accumulate, says Moody's.
armradio.am
HAYASTAN ALL-ARMENIAN FUND'S 2015 PHONEATHON RAISES
OVER 1.3 MILLION EUROS
Siranush Ghazanchyan
The annual Pan-European Phoneathon of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund,
headed by the Fund's French affiliate and held during November 18-22,
raised over 1.3 million euros in donations and pledges.
The large-scale fundraising campaign mobilized the Armenian communities
of France (1,205,569 euros), Germany (76,050 euros) and Switzerland
(24,554 euros). Proceeds form the Phoneathon will be used for the
construction of community centers in Artsakh, expansion of agricultural
projects in Armenia's Tavush Region and assistance to the Armenian
communities of Syria and Iraq.
The Greek community traditionally joined the Phoneathon with their
fundraising held in Greece on November 22. The phoneathon raised around
29,000 euros, which will be used for the construction of a kindergarten
in Karin Tak, a village in Nagorno Karabakh's Shushi region.
Contributions are still being made.
POVERTY LEVEL IN ARMENIA IN 2014 WAS 2.2 PERCENTAGE
POINTS DOWN FROM 2013, NSS
YEREVAN, November 23. Poverty level in Armenia in 2014
dropped by 2 percentage points from 2013 to 30%, Diana Martirosyan,
the head of a department at the National Statistical Service (NSS)
surveying households, said today when presenting the findings of a
study on living conditions of Armenian households in 2014.
She said the study conducted by the NSS in 2014, revealed that three
out of 10 citizens were below the poverty line with a monthly income
below 40.264 drams. She said the overall number of poor in 2014
stood at 900,000 people, of whom 330,000 were very poor and 70,000
extremely poor.
The poverty level in rural communities was 29.9%, while in urban
communities it was 30%. Only in the capital city Yerevan the poverty
rate was 25.2%.
"In 2008-2014 poverty rate growth in urban and rural communities was
equal. The poverty rate in the capital was 1.4 times lower than in
other cities," she added. She also noted that the extreme poverty
rate in 2014 exceeded the same indicator of 2008 by 0.7 percentage
points and the general poverty level by 2.4 percentage points
At the same time, she said, only 17% of respondents identified
themselves as poor. The National Statistical Service study embraced
5,184 households across the country.
The report "Poverty and Social Panorama of Armenia," prepared by the
NSS with the support of the World Bank is meant to assess the social
situation and changes in the level of life in Armenia in 2008-2014 -0-
RFE/RL Report
Armenian Government Claims Further Drop In Poverty
Sargis Harutyunyan
Poverty in Armenia decreased in 2014 for the fourth consecutive year,
the National Statistical Service (NSS) said on Monday, presenting the
findings of its latest nationwide household income survey.
The survey conducted last year found that 30 percent of Armenians
lived below the official poverty line set at just over 42,600 drams
($84) per person. The NSS registered a poverty rate of 32 percent in
"Three in ten residents of the country did not surpass the monthly
income level of 40,264 drams," Diana Martirosova, a senior NSS
official in charge of the survey, told a news conference. She
attributed the decreased rate to the fact that the Armenian economy
grew by 3.5 percent in 2014.
Poverty in Armenia fell more rapidly during an almost a decade of
double-digit economic growth that came to an end with the onset of a
global financial crisis in late 2008. The Armenian poverty rate stood
at 27.6 percent at that time. It soared to almost 36 percent in 2010,
one year after the country's Gross Domestic Product shrunk by over 14
percent.
The Armenian economy is still reeling from that severe recession,
growing much more slowly than before 2009. Economic growth is expected
to remain sluggish this year and in 2016 due to knock-on effects of an
ongoing recession in Russia.
This is why the Armenian government's draft 2016 budget envisages
virtually no rises in public sector salaries, pensions and poverty
benefits. Opposition politicians and other critics of the government
say that with inflation averaging roughly 4 percent annually, this
means that many Armenians will be worse off in real terms next year.
The critics are bound to question the latest poverty figures by saying
that the official poverty line is set too low given the cost of living
in the country.
Stepan Mnatsakanian, the NSS head also present at the news conference,
insisted that his agency used objective criteria for measuring the
scale of poverty. He admitted, though, that his family spends each
month over 50,000 drams on utility fees alone.
According to the NSS, the official monthly wage in Armenia stood at
almost 185,000 drams ($385) as of September, up by 7 percent from the
same period in 2014.
Focus on Near East Foundation
In 1915, the Near East Foundation (NEF) was founded in urgent response to the Armenian Genocide. During a historic relief effort in the years that followed, NEF saved the lives of over 1,000,000 refugees, and in the process established the tradition of “citizen philanthropy” – a model used today by a majority of non-profit organizations around the world.
Nearly 100 years later, peace and prosperity in Armenia remain at the heart of NEF’s mission. Long ago forced by the Soviet regime to leave our partner communities, NEF returned to Armenia after a 75-year hiatus. A new era of development work began in 2004 with a focus on improving the lives and future opportunities of street children. NEF efforts have since transitioned into helping revitalize communities to improve livelihoods among vulnerable groups, and to build a stronger economy that will create a brighter future for all Armenians.
Creating Businesses and Jobs
In 2007, NEF undertook an exploratory mission to identify opportunities to support rural economic development. Those initial efforts led to a strategic alliance with Business Pareta, the leading Armenian firm specializing in rural economic development, and Armenia Fund USA, one of the primary channels for philanthropic action among the Armenian Diaspora in the U.S. In 2009, this consortium initiated a collaborative effort to develop a model for local economic development combining micro-enterprise, micro-finance, and micro-franchising. This initiative draws on complementary areas of expertise and a common understanding of the importance and challenges of grassroots economic development for poverty reduction in rural Armenia.
In 2013, NEF extended its focus to include the economic empowerment of vulnerable women. A new project is helping survivors of domestic violence to start their own businesses and secure employment.
NEF-UK Launches Women’s Economic Development Programs in Armenia
Yerevan—In January 2015, the Near East Foundation UK (NEF-UK) and the Gegharkunik Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (CGGI) launched a project—financed by the European Union—to advance gender equality and the rights of survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) in Armenia. Now, in only the tenth month of the project, there is an opportunity to share some of its successes.
Last month, NEF-UK, GCCI, and their partner and beneficiary civil society organizations (CSOs) set up and furnished four safe spaces in the Yerevan, Lori, and Syunik regions in Armenia to welcome women for meetings, workshops, networking opportunities, and business development trainings. Over ninety women survivors participated in these trainings and workshops aimed at improving economic agency, equality, and economic independence for women survivors of GBV.
About two thirds of the participants have chosen an enterprise development stream, while the rest have chosen an employment development stream. At the workshops, a selection committee was set up to assess business plans presented by enterprise development program participants and to determine which plans were at an appropriate stage to receive funding. Of the fifty women, twenty-five in the Yerevan group were selected to receive funding for their microbusinesses.
“I had no hope that I could receive funding for my small business that I was dreaming about for many years. My family never supported me to earn money, now I have proved that I am able to do something.’’ said one of the participants in the training who recently received funds to purchase a modern knitting machine to make clothes. She already has made arrangements with nearby fashion centers to sell the clothes she is making.
The business ideas presented to the committee were diverse and spanned from traditional business ideas, such as baking, hairdressing, nail art, and cosmetology to less traditional ambitions like shoe production, pottery, and opening and running a bistro.
Another woman who is improving her cosmetology skills also received a grant, and afterward said: “My trainings are going very well. This profession is perfect for me, I like it so much! I have purchased all the necessary items through the grant and I am looking forward to starting my small business now. Thank you very much, this is the start of my future career and success which was made possible with your support.”
In addition to those who have developed plans for their micro-businesses, a second group of participants are supported with trainings to improve their CVs and employment status so they can earn an income to increase their economic independence. Since the project launched in January, thirty-three women from the Lori region and Yerevan have attended job skills development training sessions and were presented with job opportunities available for them to pursue.
After receiving vocational training in hairdressing, one of the women plans to start a home based business. She told us: “First of all, you made a change in my family’s approach in that women are not created only for sitting at home, but also for working and earning. My husband never allowed me to work. Now, when I receive vocational training and have plans to start my small hairdressing business at home, my husband has become more interested in what I am learning and my success. Thank you very much not only for the grant and for funding my vocational training, but most of all for making a positive change in my families life.”
Since July, six participants of the job component have found and sustained jobs, which include the following sectors: accounting, cleaning, baking, gardening, health care, and secretarial work. Seven women have made arrangements with potential employers to get jobs after receiving vocational training, and three of the employers have promised to promote women to positions with more responsibility after they attend the vocational training sessions.
The job skills development training sessions have improved participant’s communication and negotiation skills, as well as increased their self-confidence and capacity for self-reliance. One of the workshop’s trainers said that they have seen an ‘’increase in the project participants’ self-confidence during a very short time. We see positive changes in their behavior every day.’’
Along with helping survivors of GBV, the project helps to strengthen CSOs internal capacities and technical skills in protection strategies linked to economic empowerment activities for survivors of GBV. Since the project launched, seventy people from a number of state and non-state agencies have participated in round tables conducted in Goris, Spitak, and Yerevan. The purpose of the round tables was to increase the ability of the community and state agencies to facilitate inclusive civil society and community dialogue, private-public-civil-society collaborative activities, and learning and awareness initiatives linked to GBV prevention and gender equality. Ten more round tables are planned for January 2016.
Despite being in its early stages, the project has already seen tremendous success in the communities in which it works. The project team and beneficiaries are looking forward to the next phases and future achievements with the hope that a positive and lasting impact will be made for gender equality and prevention of GBV in Armenia.
This project is funded by the European Union and implemented by the Near East Foundation-UK in partner with the Gegharkunik Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Armenian News ... Armenag Topalian ... Criminal Group Arrested
A poem in memory of Lola
who lost her life in the Bataclan Club, Paris.
https://www.facebook.com/Art.of.Armenia/posts/941524992607760:0
A feature on Armenian Calligraphy
http://media-arts.space/armenian-calligraphy-ruben-malayan-en
ACTIVITY OF CRIMINAL GROUP ARRESTED YESTERDAY IN
ARMENIA MIGHT HAVE POLITICAL COMPONENT - ISKANDARYAN
YEREVAN, November 25. The activity of the criminal group that
was arrested yesterday by Armenian law enforcement officers might
have a political component, Alexander Iskandaryan, the head of the
Caucasus Institute, is quoted by Novosti-Armenia as saying.
It became known on Wednesday that Armenian National Security Service
has disclosed a criminal group that was preparing major crimes
in Yerevan.
Ten members of the criminal group were caught Tuesday in a raid on
a private house in Yerevan's Nork-Marash district. The police found
there guns and explosives.
Of the ten detainees, mostly foreigners, three are women. The group
was headed by Arthur Vardanyan, an Armenian citizen who now resides
abroad, but came to Armenia.
"It is not clear so far whether the group activity contains a political
component or not, but the scale, the number of its members and armament
give grounds for thinking that it is quite probable," Iskandaryan said.
He stressed that Armenia is considered among relatively safe countries
in terms of terrorist threats.
"It should be taken into account that there is a foreign component,
and Syrian trace is being considered now," Iskandaryan said.
He also pointed out the professionalism of the National Security
Service and the police's joint raid.
Armenians `Divided' Over Constitutional Reform
Nane Sahakian
Only one in three Armenians intend to vote for President Serzh
Sarkisian's controversial constitutional amendments in next month's
referendum, a non-governmental polling organization said on Tuesday.
The pollster, APR Group, cited the findings of a nationwide opinion
poll conducted by it in mid-November. It said 35 percent of some 1,300
respondents expressed readiness to back the proposed amendments,
compared with 32 percent who said they are opposed to the country's
transition to the parliamentary system of government sought by
Sarkisian.
According to APR Group, just over one-fifth of those polls were
undecided, while another 10 refused to reveal their intentions
regarding the December 6 referendum. Ruben Sargsian, the head of the
group, which is not known have to government connections, suggested
that the latter category of voters tends to oppose the government and
its major initiatives.
"The undecided voters will likely stay at home [on referendum day] or
vote `Yes,'" he told RFE/RL's Armenian service (Azatutyun.am). They
therefore hold the key to the outcome of the referendum, he said.
To pass, the amendments will have to be approved by the majority of
referendum participants making up at least one-quarter of Armenia's
2.5 million or so eligible voters. Sarkisian and his political allies
will thus need to garner at least 620,000 "Yes" votes.
Senior members of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) have
expressed confidence that the sweeping amendments will be
overwhelmingly backed by voters. They say most Armenians are already
convinced that the proposed switch to the parliamentary system would
make their country more democratic.
Opposition forces campaigning against the constitutional reform claim
the opposite, however. They allege that the Yes camp plans to rig the
referendum by capitalizing on its government levers and control of
election commissions that will hold the vote. The No Front coalition
of reform opponents has called for a high voter turnout in the
referendum, saying that would seriously complicate fraud.
The opposition maintains that the sole purpose of the reform is to
enable Sarkisian to retain power in a different capacity after he
completes his second and final presidential term in 2018.
ecolur.org
ABOUT 2500 TREES CUT ILLEGALLY IN LORI, TAVUSH AND
SYUNIK REGIONS
On November 22 in the forest area of Stepanavan, Lori region, the
volunteers of the Pan-Armenian Environmental Front detected more than
1030 illegally cut trees, 870 of which were newly cut. The diameters
of the cut trees were 10-130 cm.
As Levon Galstyan, a member of the Pan-Armenian Environmental Front,
said during the interview with EcoLur they didn't see any seals on
the cut trees. They only noticed several green unintelligible notes.
According to Levon Galstyan the volunteers of the "Public Monitoring
of Forests" project detected about 2500 illegally cut trees in Lori,
Tavush and Syunik regions in 2015. While according to the official
data 1273 trees were cut illegally in 2015.
According to the budget project of 2016 no funds are planned for
afforestation in Armenia.
epress.am
STUDY FOUND 30% OF ARMENIANS LIVED IN POVERTY IN 2014
Armenian households living in poverty totaled 30% in 2014, according
to the findings of a study conducted by Armenia's National Statistical
Service (NSS).
The report, Social Snapshot and Poverty in Armenia, published by
officials on Monday stated that every three Armenians from ten
lived below the upper poverty line of 40,264 drams (less than $84)
per month. Compared to the same period in 2013, poverty rate fell 2
percentage points in 2014; however, the total poverty rate was still
2.4 percentage points higher than in 2008, the NSS said.
In 2014, upper, lower, and extreme poverty lines per adult equivalent
per month were estimated to be AMD 40,264 ($ 83.3), AMD 33,101 ($
68.5) and AMD 23,384 ($ 48.4) respectively. Those with per adult
consumption equivalent below the upper total poverty line were defined
as poor; those with per adult consumption equivalent below the lower
general poverty line - as very poor, whereas the extremely poor are
defined as those with per adult consumption equivalent below the food
poverty line.
Thus, the study has found that the number of the poor in Armenia
in 2014 was around 900 thousand. The number of the very poor - 330
thousand, and that of the extremely poor - around 70 thousand.
"In 2014, poverty rate did not significantly differ between urban
(30.0%) and rural (29.9%) locations. Over 2008-2014, poverty growth
rate both in urban and rural communities totaled 2.4 percentage
points," the report said.
Officials added that Armenia's capital city Yerevan had the lowest
poverty rate in the country - 25.2%, which was 1.4 times lower compared
to other urban communities.
arminfo.am
SOCIOLOGIST: 75% OF ARMENIAN WOMEN UNDERGO VIOLENCE
by Karina Manukyan
November 24, 18:27
75% of Armenian women undergo violence, Head of the Sociometer Center
Aharon Adibekyan said at a press conference on November 24. So,
three out of four women in Armenia come across violence.
"5% of the women in Armenia undergo physical violence. The number of
those subject to psychological violence and threats is even higher,"
he said. Adibekyan thinks the problem is rooted in the Armenian
traditional family relationships, where wives constantly think they
are guilty for certain things.
"Armenian women do not like to wash their dirty linen in public. They
prefer keeping silence," he said.
It is noteworthy that women do not perceive psychological violence
or intimidation as violence.
"Ignorant women or women from poor families are most vulnerable to
violence," the sociologist says.
In the meantime, there are also families where, quite the opposite,
wives beat their husbands, he said.
For her part, psychologist Lilit Khachatryan noted that those who
were ignored in their childhood or saw violence in their family most
often become victims of violence.
To note, November 25 marks the International Day for the Elimination of
Violence against Women. In 2014 domestic violence in Armenia claimed
lives of 11 women.
RUSSIA SEEKS REVENGE FOR DOWNED JET WITH 'ARMENIA
GENOCIDE DENIAL' BILL
Daily Sabah, Turkey
Russian lawmaker Sergei Mironov said on Wednesday his party had
submitted a bill to parliament on holding to account anyone who denies
that the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces was
"genocide."
"We have just submitted a bill on responsibility for failure to
acknowledge the fact of a genocide of Armenians by Turkey in 1915,"
Mironov, the leader of the opposition Just Russia party, said on
his Twitter account, a day after Turkish Air Forces shot down a
Russian jet.
It's not the first time Russia used the word "genocide" regarding
the 1915 events in World War I, but now it has now taken a step in
terms of punishing those who do not describe the events as "genocide."
Turkey and Armenia disagree on what happened during the events
between 1915 and 1923, with Armenia saying that 1.5 million people
were deliberately killed and Turkey saying the deaths were a result
of deportations and civil strife.
The 1915 events took place during World War I when a portion of
the Armenian population living in the Ottoman Empire sided with the
invading Russians and revolted against the empire.
The Ottoman Empire relocated Armenians in eastern Anatolia following
the revolts and there were Armenian casualties during the relocation
Armenia has demanded an apology and compensation, while Turkey has
officially refuted Armenian allegations over the incidents saying that,
although Armenians died during the relocations, many Turks also lost
their lives in attacks carried out by Armenian gangs in Anatolia.
panarmenian.net
TURKEY THREATENS PARAGUAY OVER ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkey suspended bilateral relations with Paraguay
and threatened to boycott trade with the country after the Senate
unanimously approved on October 29 an official recognition (Statement
N° 101/15) of theArmenian Genocide, Prensa Armenia reports.
Turkey's ambassador in Argentina, Taner Karakas, concurring in
Paraguay and Uruguay, met with Senator Victor Bogado of the ruling
Colorado Party, who is Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and
International Affairs. According to local reports, Karakas expressed
"disagreement and concern over the declaration."
After that meeting, Bogado said on Thursday, November 19 that he
would present "an alternative project as a way of rectifying the
position of the Senate." "Turkey was deeply concerned about the term
"genocide," given that this happened before the creation of the same
Turkish state," said Bogado.
Bogado also said that "the Senate declaration is nonbinding with the
government's position."
Alfonso Tabakian, director of the Armenian National Committee of South
America, emphatically said to Agencia Prensa Armenia that "the Turkish
state, through its Ambassador to Paraguay, exerted unprecedented
pressure on Paraguay, brutally exposing the authoritarianism of the
government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan."
On November 24, politician Rafael Filizzola Serra published on ABC
newspaper an article titled "The Armenian Genocide and our dignity
as a sovereign country," in which he stressed that the decision of
the Senate of Paraguay was "a sovereign decision consistent with the
history of our country."
"The unfortunate thing is that our diplomacy, rather than defending
the sovereign authority of the Senate to speak, has taken steps to
reverse the parliamentary statement," he added. "Our diplomacy shows a
supine ignorance of the current international position on the Armenian
Genocide and historical facts found by the intellectual community."
"The dignity of a country that suffered the extermination and that has
a moral obligation to speak out against acts like this and many others,
to ever happen again. And for justice, because crimes against humanity
must not only be reported but also repaired. Armenia deserves a fair
compensation for everything it suffered, as well as our country."
"I sincerely hope that Paraguay will not kneel once again to pressure
and blackmail, and that our diplomacy is worthy of a sovereign
country," concluded Serra.
Paraguay's Senate unanimously passed a resolution on October 29,
recognizing and condemning the Armenian Genocide.
This year, there was a new wave of recognitions from various congresses
and international bodies in South America: the province of Misiones,
Argentina, the Latin American Parliament, the State of Rio de Janeiro,
the Federal Senate of Brazil, the Chamber of Deputies of Chile and
also the Argentine Pope Francis.
Other South American states, including Bolivia, Venezuela, Uruguay
and other countries, regions and cities have recognized the Armenian
Armenian Institute... Bromige ... Armenian Byzantium - Postponed to 28th Jan 2016
Please copy and paste to your URL...Thank you
file:///Users/lindacox/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail%20Downloads/96FC7216-D206-4D39-B5C5-A164D66EDD0B/151203Bromige-flyer-Postponed-C_35.jpg
The Armenian Institute is a London-based registered charity dedicated to making Armenian culture and history a living experience, through innovative programmes, educational resources, workshops, exhibits and performances. Its work is supported by friends, patrons and voluntary donations. For more information about the Armenian Institute or to find out about supporting the important work of the Institute, please visit our website at www.armenianinstitute.org.uk, contact us at info@armenianinstitute.org.uk, or call 020 7938 3336. If you would like your email address to be removed from the list, please send an email with "remove" in the subject heading to info@armenianinstitute.org.uk.
Gibrahayer E-Magazine...Get direct input from www.gibrahayer.com
read the NOVEMBER 2015 issue by clicking here: www.gibrahayer.com
►Turkey shoots down Russian fighter jet escalating the Syrian conflict
►Haig Utidjian and CSO complete centennial events
►ARF Dashnaktsioutiun celebrations in Cyprus
►Next event: “Rediscovering Ancestral Roots” by Talar Kouyoumdjian-Torossian on Friday
►14th century Gospel returned to Armenian Church of Cyprus after legal battle
►KOHAR reborn in Beirut
►Conan O’Brian takes his assistance Sona Movsisian to Armenia
►Turkish Armed forces General promises "liberation of occupied territories"
►Gibrahayer calendar
►Hay Tad Cyprus continue dialogue with Greek Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot political parties
►Europa Nostra Award in Turkish occupied Nicosia
►Cyprus Centennial Committee receives award from President Sargsyan
►Remembering AYF 2015 Camp (new images)
►Hay Tad briefing in Nicosia from the President of EAFJD
►Armenian National Committee of Cyprus condemns recent violence against Turkish-Cypriots
►President Sargsyan and Catholicos Karekin attend charity concert in Buckingham Palace
►Kardashians appear in November issue of Cosmopolitan
►AYF Cyprus video of Camp 2015 is a hit
►Roupen Nahabedian presents a unique exhibition of Edgar Chahine in Nicosia
►206 previously unpublished images of April 24 March in Nicosia
►Homenetmen - AYMA Bowling team successes
►Koko Keleshian takes over “Sipan” and “Nanor” Dance Ensembles
►Support the Artsakh State Lottery
Click here to get the latest updates:
www.gibrahayer.com/index.php5?&page_id=267&path=267
FATHER FRANK’S RANTS Rant Number 657 24 November 15 CANT & HYPOCRISY
ARE THE REASONS PM CAMERON'S GIVES FOR BOMBING ISIS SINCERE OR CANT?
Time for Britain to act like ‘Churchill not Chamberlain’, blustered PM David Cameron. Bombing Islamic State would be Churchill-like, geddit?
George Orwell wrote that England ‘has a reputation abroad of being the land of hypocrisy and cant’. Unfair? Yet Cameron exemplifies that. To be a ‘good ally’ of France and a friend of Gulf nations, the UK must bomb beastly ISIS, he claims. Beyond the rhetoric, what’s the truth?
First, compared with current, awesome US, Russia and French air attacks, Britain’s contribution to bombing would be piffling. Sir Nick Harvey, a former defence minister, says so. Make little difference. The PM craves air war because he does not want the UK to be left out of the eventual Peace Conference on Syria. And, horribile dictu, to be eclipsed by President Putin, his pet hatred. Cameron’s logic: ‘I bomb therefore I am’. Existentialist politics? Realpolitik motivates him. Old-fashioned, dirty power politics. Not the cant of loving France. A country England has fought, on and off, for over 600 years.
Second, the Gulf nations. Cant again. Nations like Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Oil barrels, regional strategies, intelligence links. Things making unpleasant autocracies valued ‘allies’ of Britain. Shame the ‘Gulfies’ also stock Syrian rebels with oodles of weapons and cash. Rebels like the notorious, al-Qaeda affiliated Nusrah Front. Or Jaysh al-Islam, the Army of Islam. So sanguinary that they publicly behead rival ISIS captives in internecine warfare. The nice, ‘democratic’ Syrian fighters courted by the liberal West are few and far between. Reality check: the freedom-loving opponents of Assad are a patchwork of murderous jihadi groups. As bad as ISIS. Fine allies Britain’s got!
Third, Cameron’s fixation, shared by sissy President Obumble, with overthrowing President Assad’s regime. Ostensibly because the man kills ‘his own people’. Would it be better if he killed other nations’ people? Like Britain and the US have done in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya since 2011? Were those slaughters and dreadful aftermaths for the unhappy countries OK because they were not ‘our own people’? Rank hypocrisy. Assad is no angel but is the Saudi monarchy any better, apart from being precious to the West because of all that unholy oil? The same Saudis who chop off heads, kill gays, imprison and flog human rights critics, forbid women to drive a car, outlaw the building of churches, even the simple possession of a Bible. Reasonable, cute and cuddly fellows, eh?
‘Sunnis are oppressed in Assad’s Syria, they must be empowered’, Cameron’s official narrative runs. Of course, Saudi Arabia oppresses and discriminates its Shia minority but, that aside, hypocrisy lurks here too. The menacing shadow of a ‘Shia’ Crescent’ conjured up years ago by King Abdullah of Jordan – a faithful Western poodle – serves Western purposes. The main Shia’ nation being Iran, paranoidly feared by Israel and Gulf monarchies alike, it provides the ideal bogey. Never mind the West gave not a damn about Sunni Muslims in Afghanistan and Libya. Never mind that the Kurds are Sunnis but deadly foes of the Caliphate. And never mind that ISIS ideology incarnates a sectarian, extremist version of Sunni Islam. Syria must be bombed so that Sunnis may be free. Mega-cant!
Fourth, the Christians of Syria. Odd, isn’t it, how the PM studiously keeps mum about them. They don’t figure in the Downing St equation at all. Of course ISIS and other Jihadi groups do pay attention to Christians. By slaughtering them, kidnapping bishops and priests, raping women, burning down churches, profaning sacred books and so on. Their peculiar idea of ‘interfaith relations’, I suppose. President Assad, a secularist, always protected Christians and indeed many serve amongst government troops. Can you blame them? Choosing between the Islamist butchers and a State that shelters you is no brainer. The truth is that pig-loving Cameron, allegedly a kind of Christian, does not give a damn about Christianity in Syria. Or perhaps it makes sense. If you are happily in bed with Wahhabi Saudis and Zionist Israelis, what do you need the wretched, defenceless Nazarenes for? Admittedly, this is not cant - just shameful, uncaring silence.
Fifth, the Syrian refugees. Heart-rending tale. Millions uprooted by the civil war, forced to flee. ISIS must be air bombed so that the refugees may return to their homes, the phoney narrative goes. Meanwhile they need help, sure. Germany has proved generous – 800.000 of them offered asylum this year, Chancellor Merkel decided, rightly or wrongly. What is Cameron’s response? Britain will take 40.000 over a period of five years. Huh! A measly, paltry 40.000! Moreover, Cameron sent Royal Navy ships to rescue migrants in danger of drowning in the Mediterranean. But where do the ships take them safely to? Britain? No way. Italy! Just a whiff of hypocrisy, perhaps? Or a gust, a squall, a tornado of it?
Finally, Churchill or Chamberlain? Churchill, Britain’s saviour in WWII but also the politician who averred ‘I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes’. Consistently in 1920 when Secretary for War Churchill had the RAF spray Kurdish Iraqi tribesmen with poisoned gas. (‘It saves money’, he said.) Too plain to be hypocritical, perhaps. However, Sven Lindqvist in his History of Bombing documents how Chamberlain when PM refused to start bombing innocent German civilians. Instead, Churchill decided to bomb German cities first, so to provoke German reprisals and prevent any separate peace. He cunningly pretended Hitler had started it...
Long live Churchill! Long live cant and hypocrisy!
Revd Frank Julian Gelli
** follow on Twitter (Twitter Account not yet Authorized)
| ** friend on Facebook (#)
| ** forward to a friend (http://us7.forward-to-friend1.com/forward?u=3ae40cde0c299583529f1448a&id=f36fde9723&e=5707b9e8db)
Copyright © Fr Frank Gelli
Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp
http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=monkey_rewards&aid=3ae40cde0c299583529f1448a&afl=1
** unsubscribe from this list (http://simplesite.us7.list-manage2.com/unsubscribe?u=3ae40cde0c299583529f1448a&id=f9573901af&e=5707b9e8db&c=f36fde9723)
| ** update subscription preferences (http://simplesite.us7.list-manage.com/profile?u=3ae40cde0c299583529f1448a&id=f9573901af&e=5707b9e8db)
Armenian News ... A Topalian... O'Brien and Movsesian
15 Minute film on Yerevan
that shows Armenian becoming a modern country.
https://youtu.be/WaIYa_mIz-A
MORE THAN A MILLION VIEWERS WATCH 'CONAN IN ARMENIA'
MassisPost
An average of 1.04M viewers caught TBS' unveiling of Conan
In Armenia at 11 PM ET Tuesday, 666K of whom fell into the 18-49 age
bracket -- both about double what Conan's been averaging recently.
Another 317K viewers of all ages watched a replay immediately after
the premiere, at 12:30 AM ET, 226K of them in the demo, Deadline.com
reports.
When TBS unveiled Conan O'Brien's historic trip to Cuba in March,
it logged 1.3 million viewers in its 11 PM ET premiere on Wednesday,
after which the network immediately ran it again, posting another
510,000 viewers. That crowd grew to 3.7 million viewers who checked
out O'Brien becoming the first American late-night host to do a show
in Cuba in more than 50 years. Conan in Armenia likewise is expected
to grow.
In the video he has all sorts of merrymaking on his trip to the South
Caucasus country where in the streets and marketplaces he tries to
use some of the spoken Armenian phrases that he has learned from a
language instructor back in Los Angeles.
Besides the usual "Barev" (hello) and "Inchpes es" (how are you?)
phrases, those include expressions literally translated as "I eat
your liver" and "I die on your body", a way Armenians express their
sympathy towards close friends and family.
While in Armenia, O'Brien and Movsesian herded sheep and sampled the
local alcoholic beverages, and O'Brien took Movsesian to an Armenia
matchmaker -- all fodder for O'Brien's trademark sardonic humor.
O'Brien also appeared in an Armenian soap opera.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WVgDQUZkJk
irishtimes.com
CORK CITY LIBRARY HOSTS PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION
COMMEMORATING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
The Irish Times - It was described by US President Theodore Roosevelt
as "the greatest crime of the war" and now the Armenian genocide
which began in 1915 has been commemorated with a special exhibition
of photographs at Cork City Library.
"The Iconic Images of the Armenian Genocide" - officially opened by
Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Chris O'Leary - features a series of old
photographs which depict the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians living
in what is now present day Turkey.
One of the organisers, Jimmy Lynch explained that the exhibition has
been put together by the Armenian community in Ireland to mark the
centenary of the genocide and it is based on an original project by
the Armenian National Institute and Armenian organisations in the US.
"In Ireland we rightly remember what happened in World War I in
places such as Gallipoli and Suvla Bay where many Irish suffered
and died but we should also be aware of what happened in Armenia -
this is an important and emotional year for the Armenian community
in Ireland and worldwide.
"They will be remembering and commemorating what happened to their
family antecedents in those dark times from 1915 to 1918 and the
people of Cork can share in that remembrance by visiting and viewing
the exhibition in Cork City Library," he said.
According to Mr Lynch, the panels of photographs depict the various
aspects of the genocide, known in Armenian as Medz Yeghem, including
executions, massacres, deportations and starvation of Armenians within
the Ottoman Empire by the Young Turk movement.
"Together these photographs recreate a sense of the terror exercised
by the Young Turk regime and reveal the extent of the dispossession
and decimation of the Armenian people in their historic homeland,"
said Mr Lynch.
"With panels displaying photographs of survivors, rescued women,
homeless children and refugees, the scale and depth of the uprooting
of the Armenian people is revealed," said Mr Lynch.
Many of the images were taken in the teeth of a strictly enforced ban
on photography by the Ottoman authorities and the collection represents
photographs that survived and were scattered across several continents
before being brought together, he added.
masispost.com
HUMAN SKULLS, BONES FOUND AT ISTANBUL'S FORMER
ARMENIAN CEMETERY
ISTANBUL -- Human skulls and bones were found during ongoing
excavations at Taksim Square in central Istanbul, Zaman newspaper
reports. The bones reportedly belong to Armenians, since an Armenian
cemetery was situated in the area till 1939.
Suleiman the Magnificent ordered construction of the cemetery when
his imperial chef Manuk Karaseferian denounced a group of people
trying to poison the Sultan. For almost four hundred years the site
formed part of the largest Christian burial ground in Constantinople:
the Pangalti Armenian Cemetery.
In 1865, the raging cholera infected not only the general public,
but also some courtiers in Istanbul. Armenians were thus banned from
burying their dead in the cemetery situated close to the winter palace,
an area in Sisli district of Istanbul allocated to the Armenians and
Greeks instead.
Sultan Abdulaziz ordered the confiscation of a part of Taksim Armenian
cemetery in 1870, with the whole area alienated in 1939.
Governor and Mayor of Istanbul Lutfi Kirdar confirmed the construction
of modern-day's Gezi Park and several buildings in 1940.
RFE/RLReport
Armenian POW Freed By Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan set free and repatriated on Wednesday a Karabakh Armenian
soldier who was taken prisoner in March after crossing the
Armenian-Azerbaijani "line of contact" around Nagorno-Karabakh in
still unclear circumstances.
The 24-year-old contract soldier, Andranik Grigorian, crossed a
frontline section east of the disputed territory without his weapons
and ammunition. Shortly afterwards, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry
released a short video that showed Grigorian saying that he deserted
his unit because of being ill-treated by his comrades.
Karabakh's Defense Army was quick to dismiss the videotaped confession
as a fraud. It said that Grigorian was forced to make such claims.
Grigorian was sent back to Karabakh through "the line of contact" in a
handover facilitated by the International Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC). ICRC representatives have repeatedly visited him in
Azerbaijani custody.
"The prisoner of war had previously confirmed to ICRC staff that he
was returning of his own free will," the Red Cross said in a
Haqqin.az likewise reported that Grigorian expressed a desire to
return home in his letters delivered by the ICRC to his elderly
parents living in a Karabakh village. "Forgive me for my mistakes," he
wrote, according to the Azerbaijani media outlet. "I just didn't
understand what to do and where to go."
The Karabakh Armenian military did not clarify on Wednesday whether
Grigorian will be prosecuted on desertion charges or will resume his
military service.
U.S. Vows Continued Aid To Karabakh
The United States will continue to finance humanitarian projects in
Nagorno-Karabakh as part of annual economic assistance allocated by
the U.S. Congress, a senior State Department official said on
Armenian-American lobby groups have been instrumental in at least
$44.5 million in direct aid to Karabakh which has been approved by
Congress since 1998 over strong objections from Azerbaijan. It has
been mostly channeled into humanitarian demining operations and the
reconstruction of the region's water distribution network.
Speaking in Yerevan, Alina Romanowski, the State Department
coordinator for U.S. assistance to the former Soviet Union, said the
U.S. aid to Karabakh will remain focused on these areas. "We will be
continuing our support for demining activities in that region," she
said, adding that the safety of Karabakh's population is particularly
important to the U.S.
President Serzh Sarkisian, a former wartime leader of Karabakh,
thanked Congress for the aid allocations when he visited Washington in
September. "That assistance has had a not only humanitarian but, first
and foremost, moral significance for the people of Artsakh
(Karabakh)," Sarkisian said at a reception held in his honor on
Capitol Hill.
ARMENIA'S EXPECTATIONS FROM ITS MEMBERSHIP IN EEU
DID NOT MATERIALIZE, EX-PRESIDENT
YEREVAN. Armenia's expectations from its membership
in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) did not materialize,
however, it is still early to draw final conclusions, ex-president
Robert Kocharyan said in an interview with Germany's state-run
international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle.
"The stated purpose and the motivation were that Armenia was entering
a large customs area, and that it would open up great opportunities
for Armenian businesses and exporters. Almost a year has passed, the
exports did not grow. Quite the contrary, they have decreased. The
trade with Russia has also declined," Kocharyan said.
According to Kocharyan, the decline resulted from a string of
events that radically changed the situation. In particular, the
sharp depreciation of the Russian ruble against the US dollar
led the process in the direction opposite to the expectations of
the Armenian authorities. It was added by Western sanctioned on
Russia and its authorities' efforts to substitute the imports by
domestically-produced goods.
"Therefore, the promised feast for the Armenian business apparently did
not take place. At the same time, it is too short a time for the final
evaluation. The signals suggest that our government should be extremely
active and creative in handling this situation," Kocharyan said.
According to Armenia's National Statistical, the country's exports in
the first 9 months of 2015 decreased by 0.9% year-on-year to $1.095.6
billion, while exports to the Russian Federation slashed by 265 to
$158.5 million.
lragir.am
HOW LONG WILL ARMENIA STAND?
Naira Hayrumyan, Political Commentator
The discussion of the 2016 draft budget in the parliament reminds
of political strip dance revealing how obsolete the political system
of Armenia is and how incapable of coming up with rational decisions
The independent Member of Parliament Edmond Marukyan asked the
minister of finance Gagik Khachatryan what the membership of Armenia
to the Eurasian Economic Union will bring to Armenia. The minister
answered frankly that the EEU is not exactly what everyone expected
upon membership. The revenues have gone down significantly, and it
is going to be even worse in 2016.
The Deputy Prime Minister Vache Gabrielyan has announced that the
situation is complicated but we are not kneeling yet. In addition,
he said that of the borrowed 1.5 billion dollars only 10% has been
invested in economic development. Ostensibly, the rest flew to the
treasury. In other words, the membership of Armenia to the EEU has
left Armenia facing a threat of collapse and is surviving on loans.
The minister of finance Gagik Khachatryan says that this cannot last
long. In fact, one cannot borrow money all the time but without that
money a country will not be able to pay its debts and it can lead to
a disaster.
Gagik Khachatryan did not mention the period that Armenia can stand
but apparently the deadlines are tight. It is possible that December
is meant when the constitutional referendum will be held, and the
government will get some guarantees to be able to make a political
But what decision can the government make after the referendum? First
of all, they could opt for the resignation of the government and snap
elections to begin from a blank page.
Obviously, however, the government is expecting other proposals from
the political leadership and parliament which may reverse the movement
towards a disaster. Everyone is waiting for someone to be the first to
suggest leaving the Eurasian Union and changing the foreign political
vector. It will hardly be possible before the referendum but this
decision is a necessity if the Armenian leadership is not leading
Armenia towards a disaster intentionally.
There is a strange consensus in the Armenian parliament. Everyone
knows what to do and who is to blame but nobody is speaking about it
loudly. The ruling and opposition parties are unified to the point of
envy, bypassing all the main issues. Everyone is standing in front
of a closed door, not daring to push it open and is borrowing money
from neighbors through the window instead. Although the door is not
locked and it is enough to push it.
espess.am
33-YEAR-OLD ARMENIAN JUDGE DECLARED OVER
$700 THOUSAND IN ASSETS
The Administrative Court of Armenia is authorized to examine appeals
challenging decisions of state agencies; however, local Zhoghovurd
newspaper notes, the majority of the Court's judges are relatives or
children of government officials, which means "the independence of
the Administrative Court is out of the question."
Judge Ani Harutyunyan, for example, is the daughter of former deputy
chief of Armenia's National Security Service Grigor Harutyunyan. The
33O~Jyear-old lawyer was appointed Administrative Court judge in 2013;
however, she's managed to generate "very considerable wealth for
herself." According to Harutyunyan's annual asset declaration filed
with the state Commission on the Ethics of High-Ranking Officials, the
judge's financial assets amounted to AMD 62 million (about $128,400),
$350 thousand and EUR 200 thousand at the end of 2014.
Russian-Armenian
Translate or View it in your browser
The standoff between Russia and the West is once again heating up, but this time tensions are centered on the Caucasus. On Nov. 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed his government to sign an agreement with Armenia to create a joint missile air defense system in the region. Not long after, the Armenian government confirmed that Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev is expected to visit Armenia in late November to officially sign the air defense system deal.
The move, though reminiscent of Moscow's actions in Central Asia and Belarus in previous years, comes at a time when Russia is being forced to respond to a wider array of challenges than ever before. Threats are rising from the Near East, while the West is ramping up its military activities in Georgia and Nagorno-Karabakh moves closer to changing its political status. And as Russia increases its military presence in Armenia, its competition with major regional powers for influence in the South Caucasus will intensify, adding to the growing list of issues Russia must contend with outside its borders. ....Read more >>
19th century Romanian painter Theodor Aman (1831-1891) was of Armenian descent. His style is considered to be a predecessor of Impressionism. He was one of the most important Romanian artists. His work blended Romanticism and Academicism. His workshop was the most popular place for high society. He helped establish the first Fine Arts School in Bucharest in 1864 where he was the first teacher and director.
The poll question is located in the right column of
www.keghart.com
Will Erdogan launch a harsher policy against the Kurds
following his November 1 election victory?
This email was sent to tr8seta@gmail.com
why did I get this? unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
Dr. Dikran Abrahamian · 15 Bridle Rd. · Penetanguishene, On L9M 1J5 · Canada
Please note that my visitor counter uses your IP address to register your visit to my Blog but no personal information is collected or stored.
We are sorry we are not able to publish photos at this time.
Thank you for your visit - please call again
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line430
|
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.