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gallery February 13, 2016
Inside London’s Most Exclusive Celebrity Hangout
By Catie L'Heureux
Photo: Jonathan Becker
For Leonardo DiCaprio, Julianne Moore, and more celebrities heading to the BAFTA Awards this weekend, the night before the ceremony will be the most glittering, exclusive event — when British brand and talent agent Charles Finch throws his annual pre-BAFTA party. For 16 years Finch has hosted beautiful, famous friends like Meryl Streep and Mick Jagger, who gather around tiny tables at the posh London nightclub Annabel’s. Hosted with Chanel, the soirée is a rare, relaxing celebrity affair in which award nominees are not yet winners or losers.
The new book The Night Before BAFTA, out next month from Assouline, is a behind-the-scenes look at this tony event, tracing the story of Finch’s legendary party from the beginning with photographs of the biggest names in film at the event over the years. Click ahead to step into the party with Ben Affleck, Tom Cruise, Diane Kruger, Heath Ledger, Tom Ford, and so many more famous guests.
Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Cruise, 2015 Photo: Jonathan Becker
Meryl Streep, Ralph Fiennes, 2012 Photo: Richard Young
Leonardo DiCaprio, Guillaume Canet, Diane Kruger, 2005 Photo: Courtesy of Charles Finch
Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, 2006 Photo: Dave M. Benett
Harvey Weinstein, Jemima Goldsmith, Adrian Anthony Gill, 2015 Photo: Jonathan Becker
Jonathan Becker, Charles Finch, 2015
Tom Ford and Julianne Moore Photo: Jonathan Becker
Peggy Siegal Photo: Jonathan Becker
Tom Cruise, Josh Berger, Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Jennifer Garner, 2013 Photo: Dave M. Benett
Harvey Weinstein, Kylie Minogue Photo: Richard Young
George Clooney, Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Burton, 2012 Photo: Charlie Gray
View of the Stage From the 2011 BAFTA Film Awards Photo: Charlie Gray
The Night Before BAFTA, published by ASSOULINE.
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Siemens signs British Gas meter contract
By The Engineer 28th April 2010 3:35 pm 16th December 2015 11:59 am
UK-based Siemens Metering Services has announced that it has agreed a five-year £100m meter-reading data-collection deal with energy supplier British Gas – the company’s largest contract win since 2003.
The original meter-reading contract was awarded to Siemens in 2003 and covered two out of eight of British Gas’s geographical areas, serving approximately 2.5 million domestic and business customers in London, the South East and the East of England.
The contract, effective from 1 April 2010, doubles the meter-reading and data-collection footprint to approximately five million
customers and provides services for 50 per cent of British Gas’s national coverage, with the addition of services for Wales, the South West and the Midlands.
Helveta creates timber tracker
27th April 2010 3:41 pm 16th December 2015 11:59 am
Signalling Solutions wins modernisation contract
Samsung launches 20nm NAND chips
30th April 2010 10:21 am 16th December 2015 12:00 pm
Roper reports record first-quarter results
Ceragon announces record revenues
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Florida Sober Houses in the Crosshairs
By Hunter R. Slaton 10/31/12
Delray Beach officials are renewing their efforts to regulate what they see as a Wild West environment of sober-living homes.
Welcome—or not?—to Delray Beach.
A new push by the Delray Beach City Commission to regulate the city's large number of current—and future—sober-living houses is underway in the "Recovery Capital of America." The lobbying effort, led by Vice-Mayor Tom Carney, seeks to define just what a "sober house" and a "transitional living home" are, and also make it necessary for the Department of Children and Families to license them. Carney told the Orlando Sun Sentinel, "We want to make sure that those who are profiting from the recovery business are at least delivering on their promise." The worry is that it's too easy for just anyone to open up a so-called sober house, which has led to poor conditions and no oversight in some such facilities.
But some detect a less virtuous agenda: namely, to placate residents who subscribe to a "not in my backyard" view of these intermittently controversial recovery-industry businesses. For instance, another part of the legislation that Carney intends to push in the Florida state capital of Tallahassee would require sober-living houses to prove that they are at least 1,000 feet away from other such facilities. The city has already taken steps to do just that, passing ordinances—in response to news that the Caron Foundation planned to open a sober-living home in a beach mansion here—designed to prevent sober houses from operating in residential neighborhoods, along with other occupancy and permit restrictions. But in May, a federal judge put a halt to those ordinances, saying that Delray Beach may have "unlawfully discriminated" against people in recovery. According to city commissioner Adam Frankel, that's not the case—rather, it's just common-sense rules. He asks, "If hospitals and nursing homes are regulated, why not sober houses?"
NIMBY
Sober House
Hunter R. Slaton
Hunter Slaton is the esports managing editor for Blizzard Entertainment. You can find hunter on Linkedin or follow him on Twitter.
Rehab Revolt
Georgia Nimbys Want Rehab Out
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott Signs Emergency Treatment for Opioid Overdose Act
Florida Set To Roll Out Non-Euphoric MMJ Strain
cracking down
Marco Rubio Asks Feds To Investigate Florida Sober Homes, Rehabs
AFTER REHAB
How Safe is Sober Living?
Bill W. and Dr. Bob Opens Tonight in NYC
Rehab Review
The Fix Adds Thai Rehab—And More—To Its Review
The Rehab That Teaches You How to Drink Safely
rehab tv
Rehab Alum's Mom Defends Dr. Drew From Mary Karr
Interview with Michael Botticelli, Obama's "Recovery Czar"
Michael Botticelli was sworn in as Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)...
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The Free Library > General Interest/Informational > General interest > Mississippi Magazine > January 1, 2009
The Free Library > Date > 2009 > January > 1 > Mississippi Magazine
Bates & Smith.
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MLA style: "Bates & Smith.." The Free Library. 2009 Downhome Publications, Inc. 16 Jul. 2019 https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Bates+%26+Smith.-a0194193077
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Brandi Leigh Bates and Jessie Kent Smith were united in marriage at six o'clock in the evening on June 9, 2007, at Bethsaida Baptist Church in Philadelphia.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Doug Bates of Philadelphia. She is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Bates and Mrs. Dorothy Faye Jones and the late Mr. Paul S. Jones, all of Philadelphia.
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The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Kinsey Smith. He is the grandson of Mrs. Hester Smith and the late Mr. Odie B. Smith of Philadelphia. He is also the grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Curtis Estes of Louisville.
Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore an ivory, Italian satin gown. The fitted strapless bodice featured dramatic Swarovski crystal beading and Robinson-Anton platinum embroidery. The A-line skirt featured a pleated back accented with the same beading and embroidery around the entire hemline continuing to the chapel-length train.
The bride carried a bouquet of white Eskimo roses with soft pink tips. She wore a pearl necklace, bracelet, and earrings that were borrowed from her grandmother, Mrs. Carolyn Bates.
Emily Chamblee Shepherd served as matron of honor. Alisha Brantley Atwood served as maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Lauren Allen, Carrie Shrock, and Laura Smith. Attendants wore Alfred Angelo full-length, A-line satin dresses of tearose.
Each carried bouquets of roses and assorted spring flowers. Serving as flower girls were Alexus Lathem and Carly Jane Smith.
Kinsey Smith, father of the groom, served as the best man. Groomsmen were Matt Bates, Dan Graham, Jess Hardy, Chris Owen, and Chris Webb. Ushers for the ceremony were Kevin Boler, Trent Butler, and Cody Killen. Connor Webb served as the ring bearer.
The double-ring ceremony was officiated by Brother Billy James and directed by Amber Pettit. Music was presented by Lisa Pierce, pianist and Brandon Fulton, soloist. Lee Smith served as the register attendant. Halley Montgomery served as the bride's proxy.
Following the ceremony, a poolside reception was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stan Webb. The wedding cakes were created by Linda Hardy. The bride's cake was a four-tiered square cake with the couple's initial in light pink highlights. The groom's cake was a two-tiered square chocolate cake topped with fresh strawberries. The groom's table was adorned with fishing decor.
On the eve of the wedding, the groom's parents honored the couple with a rehearsal dinner at City Limits.
Following the reception, the couple left for a cruise to Costa Maya and Cozumel, Mexico. The couple is now at home in Philadelphia.
COPYRIGHT 2009 Downhome Publications, Inc.
wedding register 2009
Mississippi Magazine
Bates & Parenteau.
Bernet & Coates.
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The Free Library > Communications > News, opinion and commentary > The Nation > March 20, 1995
The Free Library > Date > 1995 > March > 20 > The Nation
Legislating chastity.
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In their first fifty days, the House Republicans have advanced measures to shift money away from crime prevention and toward prison construction, cut spending on child care and nutrition programs for the poor, slash subsidies for home heating, trim AIDS prevention spending, gouge support to severely disabled kids and require that new regulations aimed at protecting health and safety be justified on a cost-benefit basis. If signed into law, these changes alone will make a life that is nastier, more brutish and measurably shorter for many, if not all, Americans.
But these proposals pale against the zealots' latest bizarre idea. Convinced that government must prevent out-of-wedlock births but worried that their proposal to deny welfare to children born to unmarried minors would lead to more abortions, Republican social engineers would now return us to shotgun weddings and bastardy statutes. Under their latest welfare reform proposal, states that reduce their "illegitimacy ratio"--defined as the sum of out-of-wedlock births and abortions, divided by the total number of births--will receive an annual cash bonus on their welfare grant. This is a frontal attack on abortion rights--and a false issue: The ratio of out-of-wedlock births is rising because married couples are having fewer kids, not because welfare mothers are having more.
"I really don't want to replace the social engineering of the left with the social engineering of the right," declared Speaker Gingrich at a pep rally for the Republican revolution in January. Sure, tell us about it.
COPYRIGHT 1995 The Nation Company L.P.
the latest plan of the Republican-controlled House of Representatives is to award a cash bonus to states that decrease their 'illegitimacy ratio'
Zero gravity.
The spying game.
Laws, regulations and rules
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All insolvency notices
What is director disqualification?
Keith Steven explains the consequences of not fulfilling your legal responsibilities as a director.
As a director, you can be disqualified or banned if you fail to meet your legal responsibilities.
In order to prevent this, you need a proper understanding of the grounds for disqualification, as well as your obligations as a director.
Why would a director be disqualified?
Every director should consider the possibility of disqualification if their company becomes insolvent. However, it is a relatively rare process, with around only 1,200 UK directors being banned each year.
There are several reasons why a director may be disqualified. Here are the core reasons why an investigation may find you unfit to hold the position:
allowing your company to trade when it can't pay its debts
not keeping proper accounting records
failing to send accounts and returns to Companies House on time
refusing to pay tax owed by the company
using company money or assets for personal benefit
If directors continue to take credit when there is no reasonable prospect of creditors being paid, or if they misrepresent facts, or fail to respond to or comply with a liquidator's request, they will also be considered for disqualification.
How does disqualification work?
If you're involved in insolvency proceedings, or if there has been a complaint by a third party, you may be selected for investigation by the Insolvency Service.
Anyone can report a director as unfit. This includes Companies House, the Competition and Markets Authority, the courts, and company insolvency practitioners.
If the Insolvency Service believes you have not fulfilled your legal responsibilities as a director, they will notify you in writing.
This notification will explain what they think you've done to classify you as unfit, that they intend to start the disqualification process, and how you can respond.
At this point, there are two options:
Wait for the Insolvency Service to take you to court and disqualify you – this will give you the chance to defend your case if you disagree with their findings.
Give the Insolvency Service a 'disqualification undertaking' – essentially disqualifying yourself voluntarily and ending all court action against you.
The latter is often more appealing, as this fast-track approach allows you to admit you acted wrongly, receive a lower penalty, and complete the process much more quickly. If you wait three to five years for court proceedings to take place, and have a long ban on top of that, you will be out of work for much longer.
What does disqualification mean for directors?
A disqualification can last for up to 15 years, and severely limits who you can work for and in what role. And if you break the terms of your disqualification, you could be fined or sent to prison for up to two years.
If you're disqualified, you can’t:
be a director of a UK-registered company, or an overseas company that has UK connections
be involved in forming, marketing or running a company
sit on the board of a charity, school or police authority
be a pension trustee
sit on a health board or social care body
be a registered social landlord
be a solicitor, barrister or accountant
In addition to the ban, your details will be published online in the Companies House database of disqualified directors and the Insolvency Service's register of directors who have been disqualified in the last three months. This listing will include details of why you were disqualified.
Director disqualification is a gruelling process that can have a severe effect on those involved. If you are concerned you might be found unfit, it’s best to seek expert financial and legal advice before proceedings begin.
Keith Steven of KSA Group Ltd has been rescuing and turning around companies since 1994. He has worked for insolvency firms, turnaround funds and venture capital investors. Read more about director disqualification.
Claiming for director redundancy pay
Understanding directors' duty to avoid conflict of interest
Income tax relief when a business ends, under SEIS and EIS
The Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) aims to encourage investments in new start-ups, whilst offering tax efficient benefits to investors.
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Probate checklist
Probate fees: planned increase shelved
Ahead of the general election, plans to raise the legal fees payable after death (probate fees) have been shelved.
A Ministry of Justice spokesperson confirmed that the proposals would not have enough time to pass through parliament before it closes ahead of June’s election. Whether these changes will still go ahead after the election has yet to be confirmed.
Under the proposed changes, a sliding fee scale, linked to the value of the estate, was to be implemented, ranging from £300 to £20,000.
Read more: Probate fees: planned increase scrapped ahead of election
Wills and Probate resources
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Movie review: ‘Booksmart’ passes the test
Dana Barbuto More Content Now
In “Booksmart,” high school seniors Molly and Amy go together like vodka and Red Bull. BFFs since childhood, they are kindred spirits, two brainiacs who’ve shunned the high school social scene in pursuit of straight-A’s and Ivy League acceptances. They are a two-girl clique: Class president Molly (Beanie Feldstein) has designs on obtaining a seat on the Supreme Court, and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) is headed to Botswana on a mission trip. Their classmates - the jocks, drama kids, class clowns, mean girls, tomboys, preps, etc. - don’t get (or like) them. Lucky for them, first-time director Olivia Wilde understands Generation Z perfectly in crafting a well-written, strongly acted coming-of-age story with surprising depth, not unlike what Greta Gerwig did with “Lady Bird.”
You could call “Booksmart” the female “Superbad” (irony alert: Feldstein is Jonah Hill’s sister), but it’s got more on its mind than sex and partying. Wilde presents a two-hander about self-actualization and navigating that sweet spot between adolescence and adulthood.
The film opens on the last day of school with the girls realizing how much they’ve sacrificed by focusing exclusively on academics. They decide to spend the night before graduation partying like the rest of their classmates, whom the friends are horrified to learn still got into top colleges. Beneath the surface, Molly and Amy are not that much different than their peers. Each harbors a secret crush they’re determined to hook up with by the end of the night.
It’s down the rabbit hole they go, as the girls make their way to cute Nick’s (Mason Gooding) bash. But first they need the address. Their quest takes them to two other gatherings where there are mishaps involving drug-dipped strawberries, lesbian porn and a creepy pizza delivery guy. Yes, the plot is familiar, and that is indeed a drawback, but the movie is the rarity that gets teenage life right. Even in some of its more exaggerated bits, there is truth.
“Booksmart” can proudly stand shoulder-to-shoulder with “Dazed and Confused” and “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.” Like those classics, “Booksmart” has a rogue’s gallery of eccentric supporting players (Skyler Gisondo, Diana Silvers, Molly Gordon, Eduardo Franco) who might seem one-note at first but travel mini-arcs Wilde and screenwriter Katie Silberman (Netflix hit “Set It Up”) slyly cook up. The script is just a gem, so packed with hysterical dialogue that I willed myself not to laugh out loud because I didn’t want to miss a word - especially lines from Billie Lourd (daughter of Carrie Fisher), playing Gigi, a bohemian party girl with the uncanny ability to pop up everywhere Molly and Amy go. There’s also plenty of feminist nods to Michelle Obama, RBG, and Malala. A “Resist” bumper sticker hangs on the back of Amy’s beat-up Volvo wagon. But the girls talk like real teenagers, too, dropping well-placed f-bombs and other salty and snarky turns of phrase.
In most teen movies, adults don’t register. That’s not the case with “Booksmart.” Jason Sudeikis lends his wife, Wilde, an assist as the principal urging the girls to lighten up. Lisa Kudrow and Will Forte play Amy’s kooky parents, and Jessica Williams is the “cool” teacher.
As “Booksmart” moves toward its climax, Wilde never loses her grip. You can feel her stamp and see her woke-female vision. Part of the reason the movie is close to transcendent is because Wilde never panders to her audience. She seems to respect adolescence and all its craziness. This young generation is a whole new animal, and Wilde certainly aces her first test.
Dana Barbuto may be reached at dbarbuto@patriotledger.com or follow her on Twitter @dbarbuto_Ledger.
Cast: Beanie Feldstein, Kaitlyn Dever, Jason Sudeikis, Noah Galvin, Skyler Gisondo, Billie Lourd, Mason Gooding, Lisa Kudrow, Will Forte, Jessica Williams.
(R for strong sexual content and language throughout, drug use and drinking - all involving teens.)
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Trevor Timm column
The FBI used to recommend encryption. Now they want to ban it
Trevor Timm
For years, the agency recommended phone encryption as a defense against criminals. Now, that information has been scrubbed from public view
@trevortimm
Sat 28 Mar 2015 08.26 EDT Last modified on Fri 14 Jul 2017 17.18 EDT
FBI Director James Comey doesn’t want you to encrypt your phone...for your own safety, of course. Photograph: Susan Walsh/AP
The FBI wants to make us all less safe. At least that’s the implication from FBI director Jim Comey’s push to ban unbreakable encryption and deliberately weaken everyone’s security. And it’s past time that the White House makes its position clear once and for all.
Comey was back before Congress this week - this time in front of the House Appropriations Committee - imploring Congressmen to pass a law that would force tech companies to create a backdoor in any phone or communications tool that uses encryption.
He also revealed the Obama administration may be crafting such a law right now. “One of the things that the administration is working on right now is what would a legislative response look like that would allow us … with court process to get access to that evidence”, he said.
The whole controversy stems from Apple’s decision to encrypt iPhones by default - so that only the user can unlock a phone with a pin or password and even Apple itself does not have the key. It was a huge step forward for security, and given that the US government considers cybersecurity attacks a more dire threat than terrorism, you’d think they’d be encouraging everyone to use more encryption. But Comey essentially argued to Congress that because encryption sometimes makes FBI investigations harder, it should be outlawed.
The idea that all of a sudden the FBI is “going dark” and won’t be able to investigate criminals anymore thanks to a tiny improvement of cell phone security is patently absurd. Even if the phone itself is protected by a passphrase that encrypts the device, the FBI can still go to telecom companies to get all the phone metadata they want. They can also still track anyone they choose by getting a cell phone’s location information 24 hours a day, and of course they can still wiretap the calls themselves. Let’s not forget that with a four digit passcode - like iPhones come with by default - can easily broken into by the FBI without anyone’s help anyways. So a vast majority of this debate is already moot.
Beyond a few vague hypotheticals, Comey wouldn’t give any specific examples at the hearing about where this has tripped up the FBI before, but the last time the FBI did, what they said was immediately debunked as nonsense.
If you want to understand why encryption is important for protecting your data, look no further than the FBI’s own website. Well, at least you could until last week. For years, the FBI recommended people enable encryption on their phone to protect themselves against criminals, but at some point prior to Comey’s testimony, the FBI scrubbed that information from public view. (On 27 March the FBI told the National Journal that the security tips were not intentionally deleted, but “were because of the agency’s ongoing website redesign.”)
In other words, as security expert Jonathan Zdziarski remarked, the FBI “has weakened their recommended standards [and] best practices to intentionally leave you vulnerable to security breaches.” Computer science professor Matt Blaze put it another way: “Basically, the FBI is saying that they think you’re more likely to commit a crime than need to protect yourself against crime.”
The only thing worse than Comey’s position was the know-nothing members of the Appropriations Committee, who at various times were fawning all over Comey’s proposal and displaying zero knowledge about basic technological precepts. The video of the back-and-forth is cringe worthy.
When I say “know-nothing,” I’m not being facetious or hyperbolic. Take Representative John Carter for example, who the other members of the Appropriations Committee affectionately call “Judge” and kept deferring to in the hearing for his supposed wisdom. He also happens to be chairman of the subcommittee on Homeland Security in charge of funding cybersecurity. Carter prefaced his comments about cybersecurity and encryption by literally saying “I don’t know anything about this stuff.”
Yes, you read that right. The man in charge of billions of dollars of cybersecurity funding openly admits he has no idea what he’s doing. You can imagine how much “wisdom” his three minute soliloquy on the dangers of encryption contained.
The White House, for its part, was allegedly supposed to release their official position on the issue already, given the controversy. A White House official recently said: “[Obama] actually said there is no scenario in which the US government does not support strong encryption”. But now Comey is saying they may be drafting a law that states the opposite.
So which is it, do they want to encourage people to protect their security and privacy with technology, or do they want to pass a law to make that illegal?
Edward Snowden statue turns up in New York park – video
A video released by local news and culture blog Animal New York showed a group of anonymous artists arriving at the park overnight, and erecting the 4ft tall bronze statue
Published: 6 Apr 2015
Edward Snowden statue prompts cover-up at Brooklyn park
Park rangers throw tarpaulin over bust of NSA whistleblower before removing it, after installation by artists ‘to laud those who protect the ideals they fought for’
John Oliver presses Edward Snowden on whether he read all leaked NSA material
HBO host posts uncomfortable questions to NSA whistleblower in interview in Moscow
Journalists and surveillance: will the state respect confidential sources?
Omand, Trotter, Rusbridger and Stanistreet on the hot topic of the moment
Third of Americans take precautions to protect web presence, Pew report finds
The Guardian view on surveillance: parliament’s slumbering scrutineer
UK surveillance laws need total overhaul, says landmark report
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Business and the sustainable development goals
Guardian sustainable business
The waterless toilet that turns your poo into power
UK researchers have created a self-sustaining nano-membrane toilet that could provide a safe alternative to open defecation and public lavatories
Oliver Balch
@OLIVERBALCH
Sun 7 Feb 2016 03.00 EST Last modified on Wed 20 Sep 2017 14.32 EDT
A new toilet design is being trialled in Ghana which uses no water or electricity and can also create energy. Photograph: Cranfield Water Science Institute
Human excrement is rife with pathogens, “odorant volatiles” (the chemicals that make it smell) and parasites, but it has something going for it: it’s about 75% water. What’s more, water is the smallest of all its component molecules.
It’s these qualities of our faecal matter that got researchers at Cranfield Water Science Institute thinking about how to make a new kind of toilet that can provide safe sanitation to the 2.5 billion people around the world who do not currently have it.
The nano membrane toilet: how it works Illustration: Cranfield Water Science Institute
The result was the nano-membrane toilet which removes the water from human waste and leaves solids that can be used as fuel or fertiliser. It works by using a process called “pervaporation” – where mixtures of liquids are separated by vaporisation through a membrane.
The vapour is then recovered and drained into a collection vessel so it can be used for irrigation, household washing or even human consumption. The ingenuity of the nano membrane toilet is that it works without water or electricity, two key services lacking for many of those without access to toilets.
Instead of a flush, the toilet uses a scraper mechanism that sends the waste from the toilet bowl into a collection tank below, where the solids collect at the bottom as sediment and where the liquid waste is filtered. The solid waste is removed into a gasifier which converts it into gas and energy. According to Alison Parker, a water and sanitation expert at Cranfield University, there should be enough surplus power to charge a mobile phone.
The smart toilet is currently being trialled in Ghana. As well as the evident environmental advantages from its self-sustaining treatment system, the toilet promises to provide people with a clean and safe household alternative to the public lavatories that many currently use. This is of particular value to women and girls, who are often vulnerable when going to the toilet outside the house.
Market uptake challenges
Even if the technology proves robust outside the lab, numerous challenges still stand in the way of the toilet’s uptake.
Commercialisation is the most obvious. Parker and her colleagues are weighing up a range of options, but the most likely is a rental model that removes the need for customers to pay up front. Local entrepreneurs could also benefit from providing regular maintenance, the cost of which could be easily bundled into the regular rental package.
It’s an approach that has a proven record, says Parker, pointing to the Clean Team project in Ghana. The project rents portable toilets to residents in Ghana’s Kumasi district and charges them a fee to collect the waste two or three times a week. To date, nearly 700 toilets have been installed, benefitting 4,500 people.
Loowatt, another waterless toilet manufacturer on Parker’s radar, also uses a regular low-cost payment system for its operations in Madagascar. Loowatt, which uses an anaerobic digestion system, charges customers $1.10 (76p) per week to buy refills of the packaging where the waste is stored. “We set the price at an affordable level. If they need more refills they buy more; if they need fewer, they buy fewer,” says Virginia Gardiner, the firm’s chief executive.
Driving down costs
Another issue is affordability. The toilet’s designers have yet to fully cost out the nano-membrane toilet as it remains at a prototype stage. However, Parker notes that the hollow-fibre membrane materials are available off the shelf, given their current use in industrial applications such as blood oxygenation and beer nitrogenation, so don’t have to be specially manufactured.
In-country manufacture, an approach envisioned by RTI International is another practical means of keeping production costs low. In addition, RTI’s multi-use toilet block, which converts human waste into burnable fuel and stored energy, uses uniform-sized tanks in an effort to standardise production as much as possible.
How to turn human waste into drinking water – and more
“During 2016 we’re working with commercial partners in India to demonstrate [the technology] and hopefully progress towards manufacturing in-country,” says Myles Elledge, a senior director at RTI. “We are targeting [a cost] of about $2,500 per unit, which would serve about 50 users per day and would get us to the Gates Foundation target of five cents per person per day over a 10-year life.”
Cultural context is all-important, too. You can have the most efficient, most sustainable, most affordable toilet in the world, but social mores and cultural habits may still prevent people using it. According to Parker demand for western-style seat toilets in Africa is high, while squat toilets remain culturally preferable in Asia.
In the case of the nano-membrane toilet, its promoters are looking to pitch it as an “aspirational product”. As Parker says, “We need to make sure we get the marketing right so that people believe it’s a product that they want to invest in.”
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Nike accused of tolerating sweatshops
New report says workers still on low wages despite pledge, reports Burhan Wazir
Burhan Wazir
Sat 19 May 2001 19.29 EDT
Nike employees continue to face poverty, harassment, dismissal and violent intimidation despite its pledge three years ago to improve conditions for the 500,000-strong global workforce.
A new report, Still Waiting For Nike To Do It, published by the San Francisco-based Global Exchange, says Nike workers still toil for excessive hours in high-pressure work environments while not earning enough to meet the basic needs of their children.
The report's findings will further embarrass a company already discredited by consumer groups for exploitation of labour.
In 1996 Nike was severely embarrassed when a US magazine featured a photograph of a young Pakistani boy sewing together a Nike football. The following year it was revealed that workers in one of its contracted factories in Vietnam were being exposed to toxic fumes at up to 177 times the Vietnamese legal limit.
Still Waiting For Nike To Do It follows up the various promises made three years ago by Phil Knight, the company's chairman, to overhaul appalling conditions faced by the Nike workforce.
Standing before the American National Press Club in Washington DC, Knight told journalists and trade union activists that he personally would ensure an improvement in conditions at Nike factories around the world. He promised six main improvements:
All Nike shoe factories would meet US air quality standards.
The minimum age would be raised to 18 for workers in Nike shoe factories and 16 those in for clothing factories.
Nike would include non-governmental organisations in factory monitoring, and the company would make inspection results public.
Nike would expand its worker education programme, with free secondary-school equivalent courses.
A loan programme would be expanded to benefit 4,000 families in Vietnam, Indonesia, Pakistan and Thailand.
Research on responsible business practices would be funded at four universities.
The Global Exchange report concludes, however, that the projects Knight announced have been of 'little benefit to Nike workers' or 'have helped only a tiny minority, or else have no relevance to Nike factories at all'. And while the report's authors find that 'the education programme has ex-panded, wages paid in Nike factories are so low that the great majority of workers cannot afford to give up overtime income in order to take one of the courses'.
'During the last three years, Nike has continued to treat the sweatshop issue as a public relations inconvenience rather than as a serious human rights matter,' said Leila Salazar, corporate accountability director for Global Exchange.
The study also indicates that in many Nike factories the employees are still being coerced into working up to 70 hours per week and are being humiliated in front of other workers or threatened with dismissal if they refuse to do the extra work.
Knight last week discounted the report and said Nike had done more than any similar company to make sure that its workers were treated fairly.
'I think we've made significant strides, and I'm proud of what the company has done over the last three years,' he said. 'It may take a while longer, but I do think that it will be understood that Nike is a good citizen in all the countries that it operates in.'
Anti-Nike chants and boycotts of stores have become the backbone of the movement against the company, which employs 500,000 people in 55 countries. The negative publicity - at odds with the company's sleek designs and 'Just Do It' slogan - has seen the sales of its trainers plummet.
While its $9 billion turnover in 2000 was an increase of 2.5 per cent on the year before, sales of Nike products fell by nearly 8 per cent in 1999. And as rival shoemaker Reebok has seen its share price rise from $8 to $30 in the past year, Nike's stock has fallen by 15 per cent.
In February, Nike issued a report confessing the company's role in facilitating worker exploitation. It uncovered the exchange of sexual favours for jobs at factories in Indonesia. The company - which sponsors sports celeb rities such as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods - revealed that 30 per cent of the employees interviewed at Nike franchises in Indonesia had been abused verbally.
Jason Mark, of Global Exchange, said: 'The key to solving many of Nike's problems would be to pay a living wage that allowed workers to save money, raise a family and move up to their society's middle class. Nike says they can't find a formula because it's different for every country. It's an assumption that's convenient for them, because it allows them to pay lower wages.'
burhan.wazir@observer.co.uk
www.corpwatch.org/issues/sweatshops Corporation Watch campaign site
nikebiz.com Nike's look at the issue
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Situated in the beautiful Essex countryside on a plot measuring approx. 2.5 acres is this impressive detached cottage style residence with a substantial detached annexe incorporating a study, an impressive library with solid wood paneled book shelves and a leisure complex with a Jacuzzi. Inside the main residence you will find many original features including exposed beams throughout, useful storage nooks and crannies, an impressive entrance lobby featuring solid marble to name a few. The property itself is arranged over two floors, the entrance hall leads to the dining area with an archway into the formal living area with a snug to side leading to the conservatory. The farmhouse kitchen has solid wood units and a space for a 4-oven AGA and a breakfast room with circular domed skylight windows above. Upstairs you will find a 21ft master bedroom with a separate dressing room, bedroom two boasting an ensuite bathroom, two further bedrooms and a white suite shower room. Outside, the property is set within well tendered landscaped gardens with mature trees and a further woodland area with walkway. There's is also an outdoor heated swimming pool, open fronted thatched barn, timbered storage barns and a heated triple garage. Sweeping around the front of the cottage is a cobble driveway linking the house and the annexe. The property also offers DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL subject to relevant planning consent.
What the owner says
When we bought Frieze Cottage we were living in South Weald, which was still in the area we liked due to the open countryside. It was a beautiful cottage and just right for our needs.
We altered quite a bit, built the breakfast room with the lovely roundel ceiling lights, fitted out the kitchen with the oak cupboards and had the Aga put in.
We then put all the frieze around the lounge and fitted the cupboards all in oak.
We built the back porch and upstairs bedroom and bathroom.
All the marble in the entrance porch is from Chelmsford Cathedral that John bought me when the council guttered it. Also the small gate in there is a part of the altar
We built the study and library which was then a stable with groom’s accommodation above.
The swimming pool was already there but we made it smaller to cater for the sun lounge and shower room.
I think you will find on the deeds that this property dates back to about 1512. It was an Agricultural Cottage for Frieze Hall Farm.
The property is situated down Frieze Hall Lane which is just off of Coxtie Green Road. The popular restaurant 'Alec's which serves contemporary dishes, predominantly fish, and is served in spacious rooms of a former pub, which is located just 2.3 miles away. Brentwood Golf Club is situated within 1 mile of the cottage and Weald Country Park is 1.6 miles away. Brentwood train station is located within 3.9 miles and gives links to London Liverpool Street and the M25 & A12 is 3.1 miles away. Just a short drive away you will find Brentwood Town centre with it's array of local shops, public houses and restaurants include Sainsburys.
From Brentwood High Street turn right into Weald Road, following this road down past Weald Country Park turn right into Coxtie Green Road. A short distance down turn right into Frieze Hall Lane. Frieze Cottage is located on your right hand side.
Entrance door, six double glazed windows to sides with solid marble window seals, opening to;
23' 5" x 20' 6" (7.14m x 6.25m) Three double glazed windows to front, electric heater, timbered fireplace with wood burning stove, exposed timbers, archway to;
26' 9" x 13' 2" (8.15m x 4.01m) Double glazed windows and doors to front and rear, further double glazed window to side, cast iron log burner, opening to;
10' 3" x 10' 2" (3.12m x 3.10m) Double glazed window to rear, double glazed doors leading to the conservatory, electric heater.
14' 10" x 9' 10" (4.52m x 3.00m) Of brick and uPVC construction with double glazed windows and doors to sides.
13' 5" x 10' 3" (4.09m x 3.12m) Sink unit with mixer taps, fitted with a range of solid wood units with spaces for 4-oven AGA, integrated fridge and dishwasher, Quarry flooring, double glazed windows to front and side, opening to;
16' 5" x 12' 1" (5.00m x 3.68m) Five double glazed windows to rear and sides, door to front, two circular domed skylight windows above, Quarry flooring.
W.C
White suite comprising high level w.c, wash hand basin, towel rail, double glazed window to front.
Patterned stain glass window to front, door to;
21' 11" x 13' 5" (6.68m x 4.09m) Two double glazed windows to front and further double glazed window to rear, two electric heaters, built in wardrobe, door to;
13' 1" x 7' 3" (3.99m x 2.21m) Double glazed windows to side and rear, range of hanging rails and drawers.
14' 11" x 9' 8" (4.55m x 2.95m) Two double glazed windows to front, electric heater, feature fireplace, fitted wardrobe, door to;
White suite comprising panelled bath, shower cubicle, low level w.c, wash hand basin, electric heater, double glazed window to side and rear.
11' 3" x 8' 2" (3.43m x 2.49m) Double glazed window to side, electric heater, built in wardrobes
10' 7" x 6' 5" (3.23m x 1.96m) Double glazed windows to front and side, electric heater.
10' 0" x 7' 0" (3.05m x 2.13m) Oversized shower cubicle, low level w.c, wash hand basin with vanity unit below, airing cupboard, loft hatch, double glazed window to side.
Located next to the main residence you will find this SPACIOUS detached annexe which was originally stables and have been extended and converted over the years. Inside, the accommodation comprises a leisure complex with views overlooking the pool and gardens, a generous sized study and 21ft library to name a few.
Leisure complex
19' 5" x 19' 4" (5.92m x 5.89m) Double glazed windows and doors to all sides, fitted Jacuzzi, three electric heaters, air conditioning unit door to;
12' 3" x 6' 2" (3.73m x 1.88m) Stainless steel sink unit with mixer taps, floor standing units, electric heater, shower cubicle, double glazed window to side, door to;
White suite comprising low level w.c, wash hand basin, towel rail, double glazed window to rear.
Pool electronic room
7' 0" x 5' 11" (2.13m x 1.80m)
Inner hall
Double glazed window to rear, radiator, stairs leading to the first floor.
21' 4" x 13' 6" (6.50m x 4.11m) Double glazed window to front, door to side, electric heater.
21' " x 19' 0" (NaNm x 5.79m) Double glazed windows to front and rear, double glazed doors to front, electric heaters, air conditioning unit.
Wash room
14' 4" x 6' 10" (4.37m x 2.08m) Double glazed window to front, electric heater, wall and floor units with spaces for washing machine and tumble dryer.
20' 9" x 8' 10" (6.32m x 2.69m) Double glazed window to front, electric heater, built in wardrobes, eves storage door to;
White suite comprising panelled bath, low level w.c, pedestal wash hand basin, towel rail, eves storage.
16' 2" x 13' 4" (4.93m x 4.06m) Up and over door, double glazed windows to front and side, door to;
Double glazed windows to side and rear, door to side.
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Detached cottage style residence dating back to early 1500's
Substantial detached annexe
Plot measuring in approx. 2.5 acres
Circular domed skylight windows above the breakfast room
Dual aspect living room with cast iron log burner
Triple heated garage
Open fronted barn with thatched roof
Further storage barns
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Home Global FACEBOOK 12 BIRTHDAY ;checkout Facebook gift for you
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Facebook is celebrating its 12th birthday! Happy Birthday Facebook!
Facebook is celebrating its Birthday as Friendship day is meant to celebrate real-life friendships through photos and life events with a custom video for millions of users.
users will see their own Friends Day video popping up on the top of the News Feed. You can also view your own by clicking “watch yours” at the bottom of a friends’ video.
Facebook has a birthday gift for you
Check out the new collection at Facebook’s Sticker
It’s releasing a series of new sticker packs today,check out the new collection at Facebook’s Sticker Store, Stickers are Facebook’s version of anthropomorphic animal emoticons featuring characters like Beast, named after and based on Zuckerberg’s own Hungarian sheep dog, and Pusheen the Cat from the animated webcomic of the same name.
Here what Mark Zuckerberg recently said about the plans for the day
Our anniversary has a lot of meaning to me as an opportunity to reflect on how far we’ve come together as a community.
When I wrote the first code for Facebook in January 2004, I hoped it would help students at my college connect and bring our community together. Today more than 1.5 billion people around the world use Facebook to stay connected with friends and loved ones.
The acts of friendship, love and kindness we all share on Facebook are changing the world every day in ways we can’t fully measure. Sometimes they just make people in our lives feel a bit more loved. Sometimes friendship becomes a force that sets us on a different path in life. Sometimes friendship moves the world.
On February 4, I hope you’ll join me in celebrating #friendsday — a moment to celebrate the friendships that have made a difference in your life. If you have a story about friendship, I’d love to hear it. Please share in the comments below and I’ll read as many of them as I can!
Happy Birhtday FAcebook
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Home Columnists Antonio Flores: Legal Problems Tax residency cases in Spain: The devil is in the detail
Tax residency cases in Spain: The devil is in the detail
Antonio Flores (Columnist)
27 Nov, 2014 @ 09:00
‘THE devil is in the details’: that oft-repeated proverb implies that it’s the details that can make things fall apart, which is precisely what occurred in these three real test cases.
In each of them, the unfortunate resident thought that by having tax-residence-of-convenience status in Andorra or Switzerland and spending a short time there, they would be shielded from the action of the AEAT, the Spanish tax office.
Test case 1: A man who defined himself as a Swiss tax resident lost a case brought by the AEAT which claimed he was a resident of Spain. The taxpayer had argued that, according to the Spain-Switzerland DTA (Double Taxation Agreement), he could be classed as a resident of both countries.
Indeed, he did have properties in both Switzerland and Spain, as well as a daughter in each country. But according to the Spanish Supreme Court, those facts alone did not conclusively establish dual residency.
The devil in his case was that he had signed up to the Spanish Automobile Club as well as maritime clubs in Ibiza and Marbella, without similar memberships in Switzerland. The taxpayer did point out that there is no sea in Switzerland, to no avail.
Test case 2: Although he was based in Andorra and even married to an Andorran citizen, a Spanish taxpayer was unable to successfully establish his residency there.
The AEAT argued that he had a company in Barcelona, his apartments in Spain were being regularly used, utility bills were being sent there and paid regularly, he had hired domestic employees and had a daily subscription to a local paper.
In its ruling in favour of the AEAT, the Catalonia Supreme Court dismissed the man’s tax residency certificate from the Andorran authorities as irrelevant.
Test case 3: In a similar case, the AEAT proved that a person who claimed Andorra residency was in fact in Barcelona-based, because his medical insurance broker was based there. More conclusively, a hospital in the city reported frequent visits, which the AEAT said was inconsistent with living in Andorra.
But the AEAT does not always get its way and it’s worth remembering that it has no influence over Court decisions. In a subsequent issue, we’ll talk about some taxpayers who challenged the AEAT and won.
About Antonio Flores (Columnist)
Lawyer Antonio Flores is the legal columnist for the Olive Press. Antonio has been practising law since 1997, year in which he began working for a large law firm in Marbella as a Property Lawyer. In 1998 he left the company he had joined a few months earlier, and used his knowledge and the experience gained to build his own practice. He is known throughout the community as independent, reputable and trustworthy. Through a combination of strong work ethics, determination and international exposure, his competence of Spanish Law is unparalleled and demonstrated through his fluency in English and Spanish.
Chaos ensues with new laws on Spanish mortgage loans, writes Lawbird’s Antonio Flores - 6 Jul, 2019 @ 16:05
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bert 29 Nov, 2014 @ 13:30 at 13:30
why dont you mind your own bussines for good and leave us alone
your antispanishness is worthy of all admiration,
you find fault with eeverything but as the proverb goes you just see the hunchedback of your neighbor , but not yours
Jane 29 Nov, 2014 @ 17:38 at 17:38
bert, more explanation needed!
Fred 29 Nov, 2014 @ 19:29 at 19:29
bert, Newport News, drummerboy – all arriving on here the same day lol.
Gary Newsham 1 Dec, 2014 @ 10:32 at 10:32
it appears berts spelling is at the same level of his intelligence or maybe its the copious amount of achohol in his system that makes him bellow such rubbish….come on bert explain yourself
Are you an Ambivert?
Police probe in Spain’s Andalucia after ILLEGAL zoo with turtles, ostriches and porcupines BUSTED
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Singapore Police approves procession permit for St Patrick’s Day with no restrictions on the playing of musical instruments
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UN Human Rights Office condemns execution for drug-related offences in Singapore
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China, Thailand ink MOU for Kra Canal
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GUANGZHAO: China and Thailand are reported to have inked a memorandum of understanding on the construction of a canal that would cut through peninsular Thailand, linking the South China Sea with the Andaman Sea.
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By Chris Husted
Tuesday 19 May 2015, 11:50AM
Possible route of the canal, between Satun and Songkhla. Base map Google Earth
Once completed, the ‘Kra Canal’ would offer an alternative sea link between Asia with the Middle East and Europe, bypassing the Strait of Malacca, a key shipping lane for world trade.
The Straight of Malacca is one of the world’s busiest international shipping lanes with up to 40 per cent of the world’s trade passing through it.
Chinese and Thai officials are said to have signed the memorandum of understanding in Guangzhou this week. The canal is would take 10 years to complete at a cost of at least US$28 billion (934.5 billion baht), reported the Hong Kong-based Oriental Daily.
The current proposal is for a two-way 25m deep canal measuring 102km in length and 400m wide. (For comparison, the Panama Canal is 15m deep and measures 304m at its widest point).
The route would reduce shipping distances for vessels entering the Gulf Of Thailand from the west by 1,200km, bypassing Singapore entirely.
According to the Oriental Daily, Chinese officials described the project as part of the country’s proposed ‘Maritime Silk Road’, which aims to revive a trade route from China through Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean to Europe.
In documents sourced by The Phuket News, the most likely route proposed for the canal would be from Satun on the Andaman Coast to Songkhla in the Gulf of Thailand. It could follow the current path of Route 406, which runs through the only significant in the range of mountains that runs north-south down the peninsula.
That route is the one recommended in a report by Pakdee Tanapura, the international director and acting spokesman of the Board of Directors of the International Executive Committee for the Study of the Kra Canal Project in Bangkok.
Although it is the longest of a dozen or so possible routes, Mr Pakdee regards it as the best because there is very little development and a low population, and both ends – in Satun province and Songkhla – are most suitable for the building of ports and industrial zones.
The route is an old one. Phuket-based author Colin McKay, in his seminal book, A History of Phuket and the Surrounding Region, suggests that the route from Satun to Songkhla may date back as much as 1,100 years ago.
“There is sufficient evidence from excavations done in the region by archaeologists from Cambridge University and elsewhere, to speculate that around the 10th century [AD], an ancient waterway system may even have been dug across much of the peninsula from near Satun on the west coast to the great Thale Luang Lake and Songkhla on the east coast,” he wrote.
The canal through the Kra Isthmus has been discussed since the 17th Century, when King Narai commissioned a French engineer to assess the possibility of building a waterway from Songkhla to the Andaman Sea). But the idea was dropped because there was not the technology at the time to do it.
The idea has been resurrected several times since, but the signing of the MOU this week is the furthest things have ever got.
UPDATE, May 19, 5:55pm
Since this story was first posted by The Phuket News and a number of Thai websites, debate has raged as to whether the Kra Canal project is actually likely to be realised. The debate has now been taken up in interntional forums.
For example, Singapore's Channel News Asia reported, "... a Thai Transport Ministry official said the project is not in the pipeline. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also stated there has been no agreement between the Thai and Chinese governments on this matter."
It named no officials apart from Dr Panitan Wattanayagorn, "security advisor to Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan, [who said] the reports from China might have been a result of a misunderstanding."
Amid all the denials, however, no one yet named has denied that an MOU was signed.
The Phuket News is rechecking with its sources and will contact other sources tomorrow to see whether the signing can be confirmed or not.
One usually reliable source told The Phuket News, "There are outside interests that will not want this project to fly and it looks like they have already started..."
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Brief Thoughts About Baseball (4/27/2009 - 5/03/2009)
1. Kerry Wood is brought into a tie game, gives up a few runs, and ended up taking the loss loss. The subsequent day he was presented with the very same situation but pitches well and got the win. Guess which day he was in my fantasy team's line up and which day he wasn't?
2. Zambrano's got quite a bit of power. Maybe the Cubs should put him in the outfield on days he doesn't pitch. He could get any more injured than he already does.
3. Alex Rodriguez is looking like he'll be back in action around the 50 game mark. 50 is the exact amount of games a player is suspended for taking steroids. Coincidence or conspiracy?
4. Speaking of A-Rod, no story should come up that simultaneously involves him tipping pitches and being a poor tipper. It just leads to confusion.
5. Speaking of A-Rod tipping pitches, that's worse than steroids. I've had a long rant about A-Rod before, but let's just say I find it interesting that people are obsessed about A-Rod tipping pitches but nobody seems to care about the other players who presumably reciprocated the action.
6. Rain outs are lame.
7. Speaking of rain outs, the White Sox game was rained out on Monday. It was rescheduled for the next day 3 hours before that day's regular scheduled game. I had a big rant prepared about the stupidity a game starting 3 hours before the next one and the White Sox executives thinking they could get the first game to finish, people out of the stadium, and new people back into the stadium in time for the second game. Then the first game ended up being only 1 hour and 52 minutes long. I should've known the White Sox can predict the future.
8. Brian McCann is now going to use glasses to clear up his blurry vision. McCann is just not going to be himself this year. Then next year he'll be drafted later than usual in Fantasy Leagues but end up being awesome. Mark my words.
9. Mauer comes back in a big way...too bad he can't pitch. The Twins lose two games to the Royals in a series they really should have swept. (And fail to do the little things...again.) If it wasn't for Joe Nathan and the Angels, I would say the Twins have the worst bullpen in the league.
10. Closed-circuit to Mark Texeira: The baseball season started a month ago.
Posted by Dr. Bitz at 12:16 AM
Labels: Baseball, Brief Thoughts About Baseball, Twins
Teebore May 5, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Zambrano cracks me up. He has the attitude of this rough and tumble ball player that wants to do it all but, seemingly, the body of Mr. Glass.
So the ladies at Hooters don't like A-Rod either, huh? Man, everyone's down on the guy. I'm curious how "required" the 15% tip is. I mean, that's sort of the standard tip for acceptable service, as far as I know. Do the Hooters in New York automatically add that to the bill, and expect customers to tip in excess of that (like they do in Europe)? Maybe A-Rod only ever receives service worthy of a 15% tip?
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American Made restores Tom Cruise as reckless rogue: review
By Peter HowellMovie Critic
Thu., Sept. 28, 2017timer4 min. read
Starring Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Alejandro Edda, Caleb Landry Jones, Jayma Mays, Jesse Plemons and Lola Kirke. Directed by Doug Liman. Opens Friday at GTA theatres. 115 minutes. 14A
Just when it seems it may be time to close the book on Tom Cruise’s acting career, something comes along to suggest new chapters are possible.
The something being Doug Liman’s true-life flyboy flim-flam saga American Made, a mostly factual and deeply cynical crash course in U.S. government misadventures in the late ’70s through 1980s, involving wars on drugs, Commies, Central America and anything else Uncle Sam didn’t like.
After embarrassing himself with the horrific The Mummy this past summer, and spinning his wheels before that on a needless Jack Reacher sequel, it was starting to look as if Cruise had finally reached the cheque-cashing phase of his lengthy career. Just take the money and run, Tom, run.
Yet he rouses himself by reuniting with his Edge of Tomorrow director Liman, who evidently knows how to guide the Cruise missile. This is one of the actor’s best performances of recent times, one that draws energy from a combination of two earlier characters: his smirking college-boy pimp of Risky Business and his cocky flying ace of Top Gun. The shades he sports for most of American Made, as in those earlier two films, is Cruise’s way of letting us know he’s in on the joke, too.
What’s remarkable about the film, aside from the fact of how entertainingly it celebrates sin, greed, corruption and incompetence, is how willing Cruise is to play one of the dumbest people he’s ever brought to the big screen.
He’s Barry Seal, a commercial airline pilot who barely knows the geography of the world he zooms across and has no concept of what a kilogram is. He’s also reckless, pulling a mid-flight practical joke on his co-pilot that puts their lives and those of their passengers at risk. Cruise makes Seal sound like even more of a yokel with an unfortunate southern accent.
Yet Seal is such a talented airman, he could fly the proverbial camel through the eye of a needle, a skill that brings him to the attention of not only the CIA but also members of the soon-to-be-notorious Medellin drug cartel, both of which use airstrips designed for stealth and not safety.
The CIA wants him to spy on and deliver guns to Latin American revolutionaries; the drug lords need him as a courier, and Seal is dumb enough to figure he can serve two masters — and others to come. He’s vaguely aware of the risks he’s taking, revealing to the camera in a confessional home video that “I do tend to leap before I look.”
He’s known as “the crazy gringo who always delivers” and deliver he does, making so much cash he literally doesn’t know where to stash it. Even Leonardo DiCaprio wasn't this flush in his role as the eponymous financial raider in The Wolf of Wall Street.
Seal doesn’t waste any time thinking about the ethics of the situation, since many of his missions are at the behest of the CIA, represented with bloodless efficiency by Monty Schafer (Domhnall Gleeson), who assures Seal that he’s doing it all for love of his country — except for the times when he’s helping to poison his country by importing vast amounts of cocaine.
This wonky logic also seems to work with Seal’s untrusting yet devoted wife Lucy (Sarah Wright), who busies herself with making babies and counting greenbacks and decides not to ask too many questions about what her hubby is up to, intuiting that she’d be terrified of the answers.
She has good reason to fear. Seal’s daring ascents and landings, with his tiny-but-speedy propeller plane often overloaded and pursued by U.S. drug or Customs officials or angry drug lords, are like mini-thrillers unto themselves, since a fiery crash seems always a heartbeat away.
It can’t last, of course, although Liman and screenwriter Gary Spinelli try to make it seem it could for much of the movie’s 1:44 running time, which would have benefited from more editing and less ShakyCam.
There are other enticements for lingering. Among them are snapshots of the dubious intentions and misguided imperialism of no fewer than five U.S. presidents, one of them heard from but not seen and another glimpsed at an early age, played by a look-alike actor in a cameo too funny to spoil. The supposed forces of goodness in the film are about as capable as the CIA numbskulls of the Coen Bros.’ Burn After Reading, which is to say they’re not competent to do much of anything except cause mayhem.
They’re every bit as caught up in themselves and justifying their actions as Seal is, making it all seem appropriate that they’re yoked together under the film’s ironic handle: American Made, indeed.
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Tech Trade War, Best Buy, Tyson Foods, L Brands, Boeing - 5 Things You Must Know
U.S. stock futures point lower and global stocks decline as the U.S.-China trade dispute intensifies; Apple and Tesla extend declines amid worries of a damaging tech cold war; Tyson Foods is looking to set up a beef-processing plant in Kazakhstan to avoid Chinese tariffs, a report says; L Brands soars after lifting its earnings guidance.
Joseph Woelfel
Updated May 23, 2019 7:16 AM EDT
Here are five things you must know for Thursday, May 23:
1. -- Stock Futures Sink as the Trade War Intensifies
U.S. stock futures pointed lower on Thursday and global stocks declined as investors hunkered down for a prolonged U.S.-China trade dispute.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told the House Financial Services Committee that there were no scheduled talks with high level officials in Beijing, but added Wednesday that presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping likely would meet at next month's G-20. He also suggested that a decision for further tariffs on China-made goods won't be made "for another 30 to 45 days," a time-frame that overlaps with the late June summit in Japan.
However, with an increasing number of global companies joining the U.S. in blacklisting China's Huawei Technologies, including Japan's Panasonic and Toshiba and Britain's ARM Holdings,, and two U.S. warships currently patrolling the politically sensitive Taiwan Strait, there seems to be little hope for a near-term breakthrough in talks between the world's two biggest economies.
Apple (AAPL - Get Report) and Tesla (TSLA - Get Report) , meanwhile, extended declines as investors grow increasingly concerned that the dispute between Washington and Beijing will ensnare iconic companies in a damaging tech cold war.
Apple, Tesla Iced in U.S.-China Tech Cold War as Huawei Blacklist Raises Concerns
Contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped 246 points, futures for the S&P 500 declined 25.90 points, and Nasdaq futures fell 90.50 points.
Investors also must navigate an increasingly complicated political backdrop, both at home and abroad, while reducing bets on monetary easing from the Federal Reserve, which indicated in minutes of its last rate-setting meeting that it was prepared to have a "patient approach" to low inflation "for some time."
2. -- Tyson to Set Up Kazakhstan Plant to Avoid China Tariffs - Report
The trade dispute has Tyson Foods (TSN - Get Report) looking to set up a beef-processing plant in Kazakhstan to avoid Chinese tariffs, according to the Financial Times, which cited people with knowledge of the discussions.
Tyson's initial investment will be $200 million but sources told the Financial Times the total investment could hit several billion dollars as meat company seeks to produce about 5 million tons of beef in Kazakhstan, which would provide it with backdoor access into China.
The Financial Times noted that U.S. sales of beef to China fell 17% in the first quarter from a year earlier, partially due to a 25% retaliatory tariff that China imposed on U.S. beef exports last July.
A Tyson spokeswoman told the Financial Times the company has visited Kazakhstan, but doesn't have formalized plans to establish an operation there.
3. -- Best Buy, HP and Splunk Report Earnings
Best Buy (BBY - Get Report) posted stronger-than-expected first-quarter earnings and confirmed its full-year profit guidance, as consumer electronics sales helped comparable-store revenue top analysts' forecasts. The stock rose 2% in premarket trading.
BJ's Wholesale Club's (BJ) first-quarter earnings beat forecasts and same-store sales topped forecasts in a challenging environment for U.S. retailers.
Earnings reports are also expected Thursday from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE - Get Report) , HP Inc. (HPQ - Get Report) , Autodesk (ADSK - Get Report) , Medtronic (MDT - Get Report) , Splunk (SPLK - Get Report) and Deckers Outdoor (DECK) .
The economic calendar in the U.S. Thursday includes weekly Jobless Claims at 8:30 a.m. ET, the PMI Composite FLASH for May at 9:45 a.m., and New Home Sales for April at 10 a.m.
4. -- L Brands Jumps After Posting a Surprise First-Quarter Profit
L Brands (LB - Get Report) jumped sharply in premarket trading Thursday after the parent of Victoria's Secret and Bath & Body Works posted first-quarter earnings that surprised Wall Street and lifted the low end of its earnings guidance for the fiscal year.
Earnings in the quarter were 14 cents a share vs. a break-even result expected by analysts. Sales of $2.63 billion topped forecasts of $2.6 billion. Same-store sales at Victoria's Secret declined 5% but jumped 13% at the company's Bath & Body Works outlets.
L Brands said it expects fiscal-year earnings of between $2.30 and $2.60 a share, vs. its previous guidance of $2.20 to $2.60.
The stock rose 13% to $24.30 in premarket trading.
5. -- Acting FAA Chief Can't Say When Boeing's MAX Jets Will Fly Again
The acting Federal Aviation Administration chief, Daniel Elwell, said he couldn't predict when Boeing's grounded 737 MAX jets would be flying again.
Elwell told reporters at a news conference Wednesday that the process of approving a proposed software fix for the aircraft remains open-ended and subject to various factors, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Some of his comments, the Journal noted, seemed to signal potentially months of additional delay, as Elwell appeared to distance himself from plans by some U.S. airlines to put the jets back into operation in August.
"If you said October, I wouldn't even say that" was a realistic deadline at this point, Elwell said, because "we haven't finished determining exactly what the training requirements will be."
The FAA has called a closed-door meeting for Thursday with regulators from 30 countries to discuss progress in fixing the 737 MAX's software.
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Dow Ends Lower as Oil Spikes, Washington Turmoil Continues; Tech Gains
Stocks were mostly lower on Monday amid trade war worries, and reports that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will meet with President Trump Thursday.
TheStreet Staff
Updated Sep 24, 2018 4:03 PM EDT
Here Are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell Monday after closing Friday with a record high for the second consecutive session.
Canada's Barrick Gold Corp. (ABX) agreed to acquire Randgold Resources Ltd. (GOLD) in a deal that will create the world's largest gold company.
Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (SIRI) reached a deal to acquire Pandora Media Inc. (P) in a deal valued at $3.5 billion.
Wall Street Overview
Stocks ended mostly lower on Monday, Sept. 24, while oil prices surged to a four-month high as investors reacted to sharply worded attacks on Donald Trump's trade and energy policies as well as fresh turmoil in Washington.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 181, or 0.7%, to 26,562. The S&P 500 lost 0.4%.The Nasdaq gained 0.1%.
Stocks had been down even before said U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was planning to leave his post in anticipation of being fired by Trump, according to Axios. The White House said Trump and Rosenstein would meet Thursday.
OPEC decided to make no changes to its output quotas at its weekend meeting in Algeria, with Saudi Arabia's energy minister insisting that the global oil market is "balanced" and that he "doesn't influence prices," a clear reference to Trump's tweet last week demanding the cartel "get prices down now!"
West Texas Intermediate crude rose 2.2% to $72.30 a barrel, while futures for Brent crude, the European benchmark, rose 2.7% to $80.38 a barrel.
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China, meanwhile, accused the U.S. of "trade bullyism" soon after the U.S and China issued levies of $260 billion on each other's goods.
Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (SIRI) reached an agreement to acquire music-streaming service Pandora Media Inc. (P) in an all-stock deal valued at $3.5 billion that marks yet another shakeup in the U.S. media and entertainment sector.
Pandora shareholders will get 1.44 newly issued SiriusXM shares for each Pandora share, a fixed exchange rate that factors in SiriusXM's existing 15% holding of convertible preferred shares. The combination will create world's largest audio entertainment company, the companies said, with 2018 pro-forma revenue of around $7 billion.
Pandora fell 1.2% to $8.98 on Monday. Sirius shares fell 10.5%.
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Toronto-based Barrick will own around two-thirds of the combined company. Randgold's Mark Bristow will serve as CEO and Barrick's John Thorton will retain his role as executive chairman. The newly created gold-mining giant group will have a market value of around $18.3 billion, hold five of the world's 10 largest bullion deposits and have the ability to produce around 5.5 million ounces of gold each year.
American depositary receipts of Randgold jumped 6.6% on Monday. Shares of Barrick Gold rose 5.3%.
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Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) slid 6% on Monday after it outbid rivals Walt Disney Co. (DIS) and Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. (FOX) for the right to buy the outstanding shares of Britain's Sky PLC (SKYAY) however, it may struggle to convince shareholders to cash-in on the near $40 billion offer.
With Disney set to hold a 39% stake in Sky following its $71.3 billion takeover of Fox, and activist shareholders such as Elliot Management perhaps content to hold onto their investments, Comcast could be stuck between paying a high price for Sky but not having complete control over Europe's biggest pay-TV broadcaster, despite a ringing endorsement from the target.
"It is in the best interests of all Sky Shareholders to accept the (Comcast offer)," Sky said Monday. "Accordingly, the Sky Independent Committee unanimously recommends that Sky Shareholders accept the (Comcast offer), and in order to ensure the successful closing, and given the possibility of a delisting of Sky in the near future, urges shareholders to accept immediately."
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General Electric Co. (GE) fell 3.5% to $11.74 following on from losses suffered last week after the head of the company's power unit confirmed an issue with a new model of its gas turbine.
Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. (KORS) agreed to take control of Italian fashion icon Versace, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday, adding that an official announcement would be made this week. Michael Kors fell 8.2%.
Sears Holdings Corp. (SHLD) declined 2.8% after CEO Eddie Lampert said in a filing he wanted to restructure the struggling retailer to hold off bankruptcy.
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BGC Rises On Unusually High Volume (BGCP)
BGC Partners (Nasdaq:BGCP) is trading at unusually high volume Friday with 3.5 million shares changing hands. It is currently at four times its average daily volume and trading up 66 cents (+9.4%).
TheStreet Wire
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- BGC Partners (Nasdaq: BGCP) is trading at unusually high volume Friday with 3.5 million shares changing hands. It is currently at four times its average daily volume and trading up 66 cents (+9.4%) at $7.67 as of 12:55 p.m. ET.
BGC has a market cap of $607.9 million and is part of the financial sector and financial services industry. Shares are up 18.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday.
BGC Partners, Inc. operates as a financial intermediary to the financial markets specializing in the brokering of various financial products. The company has a P/E ratio of 25.1, above the average financial services industry P/E ratio of 22.2 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.
TheStreet Ratings rates BGC as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, good cash flow from operations and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself. You can view the full BGC Ratings Report.
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Corner Brook Barons know they must be better with the sticks against the St. John's
The Telegram
Published: Aug 03, 2018 at 11:02 p.m.
Michael Tavenor of the Corner Brook Barons delivers a pitch to a member of the St. John’s Capitals during Game 1 of the provincial senior A baseball final one week ago in Corner Brook. The provincial senior A baseball best-of-seven final series, with the Barons leading 2-1, resumes today at St. Pat’s Ball Park. Tavenor could be the Barons starting pitcher for Game 4 scheduled for 1 p.m. today if he’s able to make the road trip. — Dave Kearsey
Coach Frank Humber is glad to see the Corner Brook Barons holding a 2-1 advantage against the St. John’s Capitals with the series shifting to the east coast this weekend, but he discovered an obvious weakness in the group that he believes has to be fixed before Game 4.
The Barons hold a 2-1 lead over the Capitals in the provincial senior A baseball final after a great start to the series at home. The balance of the series, which resumes with Game 4 scheduled for Saturday 2 p.m. in St. John’s, will be played at St. Pat’s Ball Park.
Humber was pleased with how his pitching staff was able to contain the hitting prowess of the defending champions and he liked the way the defence came up big to give the pitching staff the support they needed.
What he wasn’t happy about was the offensive production of the group. He wasn’t impressed with the number of times he saw a player take a bad swing or chase a pitch outside the strike zone and that’s something he believes will need to be changed if the Barons want to make a serious run at dethroning the champions.
Corner Brook Barons earn two wins out of three games at home versus St. John's Capitals
He can live with guys hitting the ball on the nose and the opposition making the out, but he finds it tough when his players aren’t getting quality swings on the ball.
“Just not squaring up enough baseballs and just not hitting it hard enough,” Humber said earlier this week.
More timely hitting will be a key if his team is going to win the series. Humber looked back at Game 2 of the series as an example of how his team needs to be better with the sticks.
In Game 2, the Barons pushed eight runs across in the first inning and ended up winning the game 8-4 after letting the red and white claw their way back into the game.
After chasing starter Ryan Morgan after one inning, the Barons were limited to one hit over the next innings with Dan Rice — not one of the Capitals regular pitchers — keeping his team within grasp of a comeback with a dominant relief appearance.
“We should have scored 16 that night and we shouldn’t have been going into the sixth and seventh inning pulling our hair nervous about them coming back,” Humber said, noting timely hitting on the road will be huge with the Capitals expected to be tougher at home with Scott Goosney and Dan Connors expected to be in the lineup for the Caps after missing the first three games.
Catcher Greg Whelan agrees with his coach there were times when the Barons could have cashed in runs and didn’t, but he liked how the team played overall and the group was quite happy to win two and head to St. John’s with a lead in the series.
“Timely hitting wasn’t there but we managed to scrape together the first two wins and hopefully our hitting comes together in St. John’s,” he said.
The shift in the series means the Capitals will be bolstered with the addition of stalwart pitchers Scott Goosney and Dan Connors. He said Ben Murphy and Matt Murphy pitched well for the Capitals and they pulled out a couple of wins so he doesn’t think his team is at a big disadvantage on the road.
“We’re going to have to hit the ball no matter who pitches against us to score runs,” Whelan said. “We know they’re going to be able to score runs so we’re going to have to put up three or four runs if we want to have a chance to win.”
With the Barons up 2-1, Whelan believes his team has to make sure they get at least one win on Saturday to put the pressure on the Caps, but he really doesn’t want to be on the field Sunday with the Capitals still showing life.
“It would be nice to win two on Saturday and be able to party that night,” he said.
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Experiment With Scientific Method Steps
Prediction – An if-then statement that shows what you expect to see as a result of an experiment or observation (Ex. If fertilizer makes a plant grow faster, then seedlings planted with fertilizer will be taller than the ones planted without fertilizer) Steps of the Scientific Method. 1) Ask questions, make observations 2) Gather information
Some have claimed that the subject should be taught as a single methodology, presenting the scientific method as a fixed number of discrete steps. Others emphasize. taught through textbooks or.
Today we're going to look over the steps we take to follow through with an experiment! These steps help us go through a certain process to reach the answer to.
Steps to Designing an Experiment. Students need a strategy to develop a topic into an experimental design. With this method, science teachers can have.
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The Steps; Redi’s Experiment; Francesco Redi’s experiment. In the 16th century, people believed that sometimes living things, or organisms arose from non-living matter. In 1668, however, Francesco Redi conducted an experiment in which 4 jars of the same kind of meat had only 2 jars with gauze covering. This gauze kept flies away from the meat.
There are six steps to the scientific method. The steps are ask a question, do background research, construct a hypothesis, test your hypothesis by doing an experiment, analyze your data and draw.
As more proof that there is no one way to "do" science, different sources describe the steps of the scientific method in different ways. First, it is testable; an experiment could be set up to test.
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The scientific method is the system used for every science experiment. This system helps us to prove whether what we think is fact is actually fact or not.
There are certain steps to follow, but science doesn't always follow them!. Ask a question or make a statement that can be tested by an experiment.
Do Atomic Bombs Give Off Radiation The assumed flow of radiation would be similar to the blast radius from the bombs. The amount of radiation near the hypocenter of the blast should be where it is highest. The amount of radiation would then be less and less as you moved further along the radius of the blast. However, this is not
Nov 21, 2016. Scientific Method Steps. One resource I've used to have students design their own experiments using the scientific method is called Inquiry.
and to the scientific method for entrepreneurship — dispassionately testing all assumptions and hypotheses, and following where they led. So, where did I begin? And where do you begin? Here are the.
The scientific method is the backbone of every science experiment, and. The scientific method is a series of steps that serve as guidelines for scientific.
10. Scientific Method Steps Worksheets – Two worksheets will help save you time since they are already created! The first will help you check a student’s understanding of the scientific process and the second is a worksheet that can be used for almost any experiment.
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The 33 Best Beer Bars in the Country
By Andy Kryza Published On 06/22/2014
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By Andy Kryza @apkryza Published On 06/22/2014
Any bar worth its pretzel salt has at least a beer or two at the ready. These are not those bars. These are bars for serious beer people: places where home brewers flock for inspiration and where the beer world’s best artisans roll out their experimental and hard-to-find suds. You’re not going to find breweries on here (we’re looking for a diversity of product), or necessarily bars with the most beers (we went for quality over quantity). Anyway, enough small talk. Here are the 33 best beer bars in the US. Slainte, pass the pretzels, and -- as always -- let us know what we missed in the comments:
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The Avenue Pub
You had to expect New Orleans would do its beer bars a little differently, and -- truly -- imbibing at The Avenue Pub is a drinking experience you won't quite find anywhere else. For one thing, it's open 24/7, which can be both a blessing and a curse. The worn mid-19th century building and sprawling, shutter-backed roof deck give you the sense that people have been imbibing here for generations. While they draw hard-to-find selections from all over the country into their 43-strong tap lineup, make sure you get a round or two of the local stuff as well, like a sessionable Red Beans and Rice Ale recently rolled out by local upstart 40 Arpent.
Bangers & Lace
Named for the traces of foam (aka "Belgian Lace") left behind on the glass after downing a beer, as well as the tasty encased meats they sell to keep you upright after downing said beer, Bangers & Lace has made a name for itself with an impeccable, Cicerone-curated 32-handle tap list that offers everything from hard-to-find Midwest collabs to overseas rarities. To sample the finest of what they have on tap, get a tasting flight of the "six-pack", an antique keg cooler adjacent to the bar holding some of the day's most interesting offerings (and a motley crew of taxidermied critters perched atop it).
Brew Dogs Season 2
Too lazy to go out for beer? Not to worry, Scottish brewers James Watt and Martin Dickie, makers of The End Of History (one of the highest ABV beers ever at 55%) are bringing the malt madness to you. How will they one-up themselves from a first season filled with lobster beer and suds baths? Watch the trailer here and catch the season premiere on Wednesday at 9|8c on Esquire Network.
Andy Kryza
Belmont Station
Half bottle shop and half beer bar, walking into Belmont Station is like walking into a museum, or a temple to the God of Hops (Hopseclese?): With 1,200 bottles crammed into a shop the size of your average convenience store, you can spend hours staring at beers from throughout the world... and drinking them on-site. Whether it’s a bottle of a rare lambic or a bomber of a seasonal from local brewers like Breakside and Hair of the Dog, if it's available on the West Coast, it's here. There's also an adjoining biercafe (and huge patio) serving up one-offs from local brewers and hard-to-find imports, in case you prefer your rare beers in a pint rather than a bottle.
Blind Tiger
If you're a beer, Blind Tiger is like your Cheers -- everybody knows your name (and pretty much everything else about you). The bartenders at this warm, wood-festooned brew den are über knowledgeable about every type of beer there is, from their ever-changing 30+ craft drafts to their countless bottles and all others beyond. Their house list features some intriguing suds from all over the world (barrel-aged ales, sour Belgian lambics, and vintage beers), but their drafts have an American focus, and you can usually find some otherwise-elusive West Coasters on there (no, we're not talking about Johnny Depp). They're also spitting mad game with their food menu, which is constantly evolving in accordance with their in-stock beers and features some of the city's best wings, in addition to several other killer small plates.
Wendy Savage
Brewmasters
Located beneath a still-glowing “Restaurant” sign that has adorned this historic Warehouse District building since it was a destination for departing WWII troops, Brewmasters is now part of a very different war: the one on your liver and cholesterol. This is a place where everything, including candied bacon, comes by the pint. But you’re here for the beer, and the island of a bar is stocked with dozens of craft cans (Oskar Blues is particularly prominent) and 60+ taps, with special attention paid to NC brewers like Big Boss, Deep River, and Duck-Rabbit. If that’s not enough to prove the local love, the joint also allows local home brewers to take the spotlight some nights, fostering the future of NC’s booming brewery scene.
Jess Dewes
With its chandelier-lit ambiance and a menu that eschews local mainstays like toasted ravioli and Provel for charcuterie and cheese boards, you’d be forgiven for thinking Bridge is a wine bar… because it is. And a damn fine one. But it’s also the city’s best beer bar, with a 200+ bottle selection and 55 taps that rotate local favorites like Civil Life and a vast selection of Belgium’s finest. It’s the perfect place for wine and beer snobs to find common ground, and while it’s a bit more upscale than most bars on the list, it’s important to note that cheese doesn’t need to be melted on a burger to go well with beer.
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Churchkey
It only takes one glance at the draft list from the undisputed capital of the capital's craft beer scene to know they're serious, with 50-plus selections broken down by style, with such pertinent info as type of glassware (yes, there's a picture key) used and serving temp meticulously laid out. If you want your decision to be even more difficult, you can peruse the voluminous 29-page bottle menu via candlelight, but if you confine yourself to the well-priced 4oz draft pours you might at least make a dent in the deep-cut draft selections that range from dry-hopped cask IPAs to Burgundy barrel-aged sours from Norway.
Craft & Growler
Since opening in 2012, this self-proclaimed "Beer Filling Station" has become a fixture within the bourgeoning DFW beer scene on the strength of its Texas-heavy draft list featuring pours like Numb Comfort (a barrel-aged barleywine from nearby Deep Ellum). Come for the frequent specialty tapping events and friendly vibe, but don't forget to grab a to-go growler when you leave. As their name suggests, they do them right, selling seemingly every size and style under the sun and filling them via a high-tech CO2 injecting system that keeps them fresher longer. And if you really like beer, they also sell extras, like an attachment that'll let you turn that growler into a lamp.
Dan Gentile
Craft Pride
Located in the heart of a quaint neighborhood-turned booming bar district, Craft Pride reclaimed the curly and longleaf pine from the previous Rainey Street tenants and turned it into a temple to Texas beer. The 54 taps and two casks all spew Texan suds that are available in tasting flights or served in imperial glasses to allow for a proper foamy head. Expect a rotating cast of local rarities and don't forget to order one of the 33 best pizzas in the country from the trailer in back, which you can eat on-site or with a to-go beer from Craft Pride's amazing bottle shop.
Ebenezer's Pub
With more than 700 bottles available and a huge tap selection of Belgian rarities and favorites, Ebenezer’s has about 1.5 different beers stocked for each of its tiny hometown’s residents. No list of beer bars in the entire world is complete without Ebenezer’s, which has become Lovell’s star attraction, though stepping inside the place, you’d be forgiven for mistaking it for one of the many farmhouses that double as bars in the Belgian countryside. This is comfort drinking at its best, in a secluded house in the pines where you can explore a world of beer -- including the bar’s signature Black Albert and enough Trappist ales to fill a monastery.
Christopher Maharry Photography
El Bait Shop
The beauty of El Bait Shop is that it appears to be the kind of bar you’d find in Anytown, USA. The walls are covered in beer ephemera and taxidermy. Big Buck Hunter is a primary light source. The menu features fried everything, including wings by the pound and Iowa’s famous tenderloin sandwich. Oh, and it also happens to have the largest selection of American craft brews in the country, with 150 bottles and 120 taps pouring selections from Portland, OR to Portland, ME… and everywhere in between. There’s also an outdoor patio with its own bar, in the event that you need to get a little fresh air without slowing down your personalized tour of the American craft brewing movement.
Euclid Hall
Beer is the drink of choice at this bar co-owned by Top Chef Masters contestant Jennifer Jasinski, which pairs a variety of local and not-so-local beers with “international pub cuisine” handcrafted in-house: everything from sausages and pickles to schnitzels and spaetzles. Expect “classic, Old World beers” from Belgium and Germany, as well as Denver-area favorites like Black Shirt Brewing's red ales and an exclusive sour from New Belgium.
It's not news to anyone who pays attention to craft beer that some of the best breweries are in Colorado, so it makes sense that for one of the best beer bars, you have to go to Denver. Falling Rock leverages their owner's 30+ years in the beer business to fill out 30-40% of their 90 taps with stellar CO beers you'd have a hard time finding elsewhere, as well as other assorted goodies from the around the country (and some Belgian beers for good measure). Despite the bar being open for less than 20 years, it feels like stepping into an Old World pub, albeit one with a special vintage bottle menu -- you have to ask for it -- that has Belgian selections worth breaking out the wallet for.
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Father's Office
The iconic LA spot has two locations, both of which are renowned for their great beer program -- Russian River holds court alongside Euro imports and other rotating stars -- and a burger that regularly gets placed among the nation’s best. But the newer Culver City one beats out its older brother by pouring out an amazing selection of lovingly curated beers -- catering to beer lovers and geeks alike -- and offers them up on a sprawling patio loaded with picnic tables. In a city where outdoor seating is key, Father’s Office is the big daddy.
Hamilton's Tavern
While its craft beer bar iteration only dates back to 2006, the location that houses Hamilton's has been slinging suds for more than 75 years, and possesses San Diego's oldest license to sell beer. The owners transformed it into a craft haven after replacing a dive bar named Sparky's, but the place still has a dive's soul (pool, shuffleboard, a stellar jukebox, and tap handles hung from the ceiling). Throw in the steady influx of serious beer from San Diego's stellar brew scene (and the best of everywhere else, too), and you'll find yourself wanting to stick around another 75 years.
The Happy Gnome
This beloved St. Paul destination offers 76 lines of craft beer inside a former fire station from the late 1800s. They're staunch supporters of the local craft scene, which makes the many brews from Surly, Fulton, and Steel Toe a given. But they're also pulling from the country's best breweries, like Lagunitas, Odell, and Clown Shoes. Visit in the Summer to take advantage of the “Minnesota patio experience” and soak up the sun, or in March for the Firkin Fest that features 30-40 breweries, both local and national. No matter when you go, pair a beer with the Game Burger, a delicious mash-up of bison and elk topped with bacon and a lingonberry aioli.
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The Hay Merchant
The Houston bar's tap list checks in at an impressive 76, but this isn't one of those places just trying to run up the score with average selections. The thoughtfully curated assembly is broken down into categories even a non-aficionado can understand (Sociable & Refreshing, Sour & Fruity, etc). Do yourself a favor and nab something from the quintet of casks hand-selected by the owner. Or do yourself another favor, and stop by for happy hour on their welcoming patio to enjoy $3 pints of beers that you have no business paying $3 for.
Neil Braybrook
HopCat
Since opening in 2008, HopCat has become the beer bar go-to for a region that is serious about its suds. The success and accolades have been such that a second East Lansing location has already popped up, and outposts in Detroit and Indianapolis are in the works as well. But you won't get any mega-chain vibes here -- just 48 taps that're heavy on Mitten-state brews (Founders and Brewery Vivant are right there in town). The staff is steadfastly knowledgeable without making you feel bad about your lack thereof. Soak everything up with some Crack Fries -- perfectly sliced, spiced, and beer-battered. Get a side of cheese for dipping -- you're in the Midwest, after all.
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Hopleaf
One of the Windy City's OG bars for serious beer (opened in 1992), Hopleaf has been steadily drawing patrons from all over the city and beyond to the North Side neighborhood of Andersonville thanks to their encyclopedic beer selection (specializing in Belgian offerings, but don't sleep on their stateside lineup either) and incomparable, heaping servings of moules frites. A 2012 expansion, which nearly doubled its size, alleviated the crowds somewhat, without alleviating the cozy, "I could drink here forever", Old World charm that made it such a draw in the first place.
Horse Brass Pub
The late and legendary Don Younger had never been to England when he opened the Horse Brass, so it’s pretty amazing that he created the best and most authentic British pub West of the pond. The wood-covered bar is dark, dank, and cavernous. The fish and chips are Oregon’s best. The Scotch eggs are baseball-sized wonders. The whiskey’s served with a scowl if you ask for it mixed with anything but ice, and the 50+ taps offer the best-curated selection in the city known as Beervana. There’s no board naming what’s on tap at this pitch-perfect watering hole. Just a list, printed off weekly, on which the selections are crossed off as the kegs blow, only to be replaced by another rare or one-off selection from one of the Pacific Northwest’s myriad breweries. The only inauthentic touch? The beers are cold. Thank God.
Alec Dixon
The J. Clyde
70+ beers dominate a draught menu divided up unpretentiously by simple flavor profiles – “Tart and Funky”, “Crisp”, “Fruit and Spice” -- at one of the South’s finest drinkeries... a place that, between the cobblestone streets outside and stone/brick walls inside, kind of looks like it should be full of slurring Hobbits. Luckily, the staff knows their stuff (in regard to beer, not Orcs or obscure Led Zeppelin songs). Give them a clue of what you like, then order up a flight. They’ll work their magic. They also showcase a good number of local breweries -- Cahaba, Avondale, Trim Tab -- and feature the city’s biggest covered patio. In a region known for its back porches, that really says something.
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Lord Hobo
Though places like the Publick House, Deep Ellum, and Sunset deserve worthy nods in the beer bar category in Boston, Lord Hobo is our current favorite, and not just because that name is kind of the best. Their 40 draughts are eclectic (maybe you’d like to try a sour Berliner Weisse or a Spanish pale ale or a smoked porter with chipotle peppers) without being overly precious, and their beer cheese, dosas, and damn delicious popovers ensure you won’t have to go home with just a belly of beer.
Mallory + Justin
The Lockview
Outside of LeBron, Akron's pride and joy is this comfort food and booze Mecca, with 150 bottles, 12 taps, and grilled cheese sandwiches that kids would be weirded out by. The bottle list is split between local (Great Lakes Brewing from nearby Cleveland), national (Founders, plenty of Bell's), and international (Belgian beers like Corsendonk, plus five different Unibroue labels). Pair any of those beers with one of their six grilled cheeses, like the pepper jack and sautéed jalapeño-stuffed variety on a three-cheese miche bread. And it comes with blue cheese on the side, in case that wasn't enough cheese for you.
Joe Starkey
Mikkeller Bar
It arrived last year to great fanfare and hype, and then somehow, improbably, it was better than even imagined. The first US version of the famous Copenhagen bar, Mikkeller has 42 beers on tap (including four only-at-this-spot Mikkellers -- try the Tenderloin IPA) all controlled by a magical box that keeps each beer’s level of nitrogen and carbon dioxide specific to what’s best for said beer. That they’ve also got a secret downstairs sour room and specialized foodstuffs that pair really damn well with all those beers is just icing on their delicious cake filled with crazy oak-aged wild ales.
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Monk's Cafe
Back in the '80s, owner Tom Peters had to convince people to spend $8 on a bottle of Chimay -- nowadays, Monk's has little trouble finding people who want to drink from their 300+ bottles, mostly from Belgium. With antique Belgian beer signs hanging on the wall, the vibe is based on some of Peters' favorite cafes in the European country. The 20 seasonal, mostly Belgian brews on tap pair nicely with the elevated pub food that has achieved local acclaim, like the stout-braised lamb shank and Thai curry mussels made with Monk's own Flemish sour. In addition to more well-known Belgian breweries' wares that're offered, Monk's also features some of the newer kids on the brewery scene there, including ones that even some of his customers from Belgium have never heard of.
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The Monk's Kettle
Unlike some beer bars in the city, the bartenders at MK actually seem excited when you don’t know a beer and are eager to teach you. And they could teach you a lot: They carry a list of 200 rotating beers (24 on draft, 165 in the bottle, and 15 vintage selections from the cellar) that pair extremely well with their handsome grub, including the cornmeal-fried oysters and the pretzel knot. Go early though -- the place is small and tends to fill up by 6pm on weekdays with people eager to drink sour ales, black saisons, and even -- gasp! -- pilsners.
Brad Foster
The Pine Box
Located in an old funeral home, and helmed by a serious Seattle beer industry vet, this vaulted beer emporium's slinging mostly West Coast suds (Pike, Lagunitas, Anderson Valley, among others) from behind a U-shaped bar built using shelves that once held ashes in the crematorium, and decorated with a poster of Bruce Lee, whose funeral was held there in 1973. Pour out a sip for the Dragon from a selection of beers that changes daily, but save some to wash down the incredible porcini & rosemary popcorn and pizza... just don't think too hard about the origins of the oven in a former funeral home.
Riverside Market
Riverside Market and Cafe
This converted convenience store has taken fridge spaces formerly reserved for Gatorade and Steel Reserve and packed each slot with a unique craft beer -- 550+ choices, each of which owner Julian Siegel can probably describe right down to the yeast. There are also 20 taps offering small-release local drafts from the likes of Miami Brewing Co., Funky Buddha, and Due South, which you can drink inside or out (and with a game of Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots). The place also hosts beer school and home-brew contests. Last, but kind of the best, you can just keep getting up and getting beer from the coolers. When you’re done, just bring the empties to the counter and pay up. Honor bars, apparently, aren’t dead.
Sergio's World Beers
When you get to Sergio's, you might not be entirely sure you've gotten to Sergio's, with its unassuming sign-less exterior and windows covered with flags from around the world. Once you get inside you might not be entirely sure what's going on, either: the furniture's mismatched, and there are coolers everywhere. But once you start taking in all the tap handles, glassware, and bottle upon bottle (as in roughly 1,200 of them) of amazing beer, you'll feel like you've stepped into the secret basement hideaway of the world's biggest beer geek -- which is kind of true. Brazilian-born owner Sergio Ribenboim has been traveling the globe for decades making connections with brewers and amassing an unparalleled collection. Bring cash. Ask about what's on tap. Prepare to stay a while.
Nastassia Putz
With a clean, coffee-house vibe, a friendly-but-knowledgeable staff befitting one of America's most storied beer states, and an unassailable all-American 62-strong tap list to match, you won't find any of Milwaukee's most famous brews at the Sugar Maple. What you will find is a boatload of options from Badger State outfits like New Glarus and Central Waters (and other Midwestern standouts like Three Floyds), a sunny patio (sometimes, this is Wisconsin after all), and the option to get four 6oz pours of anything for a paltry $12. Get to work.
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TapWerks
Smack dab in the middle of OKC’s Bricktown, TapWerks is… well, it’s big. Really, really firkin big. Each of the historic, brick-and-wood-laden Old World-style pub’s two floors boasts 106 taps (212 in total), plus 100+ cellar-aged bottles from all over the world. Californian stouts, Flemish Blondes, sours, quadruples, pales? Yup. Rarities from big dogs like Founders and Sierra Nevada, and appearances by smaller locals like Prairie? Of course. Tecate? Why the hell not? There’s something for everyone. Except maybe your buddy who only drinks Steel Reserve. But why the hell would you bring him here -- or anywhere -- in the first place?
Taste of Tops
There are two reasons why Taste of Tops is unlike any beer bar in the country: Four of their employees are Certified Cicerones and have an encyclopedic knowledge of beer (ask for Issa, he's there the most often), and it's connected to a liquor store. Their 24 rotating taps are nice and all, but the real added value is being able to walk into the adjoining liquor store, grab any of their hundreds of bottled beers (including ones from their cellar vintage bottle list) and drink it on the premises in the bar. And if aged beer doesn't do it for you, breweries are always showing up to the store side of things for events, including Colorado craft brew favorites Upslope, Oskar Blues, and Ska Brewing.
Torst
Started by a consortium of "hardcore beer and food" types -- including a Momofuku research lab chef, the former beer sommelier from DBGB, and the guy behind Evil Twin Brewing -- this temple to all things brew is dedicated to bringing you some of the tastiest and rarest suds. The 20+ carefully selected taps are hooked to a high-tech, temp-regulating system and are organized from light to dark. Beers -- with a large selection from Evil Twin, naturally -- are served in a chill spot covered with marble and reclaimed wood that resembles the hull of a viking ship on a return voyage from Brooklyn. Like a "for a good time call" message, the constantly changing menu's written on the mirror. Expect to see a lot of stuff you haven't heard of. Luckily, the staff is as knowledgeable as they get.
Andy Kryza is a senior editor on Thrillist’s national food & drink team. He wrote the majority of this article in the Horse Brass. Follow him to increasing hubris via @apkryza.
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A Broadcasters' Guide to PSIP
Although proper implementation of the DTV Program and System Information Protocol (better known as PSIP) at the television-station level is not particularly complex, neither is it straightforward.
JERRY C. WHITAKER
Although proper implementation of the DTV Program and System Information Protocol (better known as PSIP) at the television-station level is not particularly complex, neither is it straightforward. Broadcasters have voiced their need for simplified information regarding the implementation of PSIP Standard A/65A. To this end, the ATSC is developing a draft Recommended Practice to explain the operator-oriented elements of PSIP and to provide practical examples of typical station operation. The draft document will also provide guidelines that should allow designers of PSIP-related hardware and software to prepare clear operating instructions for the users of such equipment.
Inside PSIP
PSIP is the glue that holds the digital television signal together. Although PSIP is a voluntary standard of the ATSC, and the FCC only requires parts of the standard, it is, in fact, a requirement in terms of actual real-world operation. In most locations, multiple DTV stations can be received — in some cases, from multiple markets. The PSIP protocol was developed with these real-world situations in mind.
PSIP is a small collection of tables designed to operate within every transport stream (TS) for terrestrial broadcast of digital television. Its purpose is to describe the information at the system and event levels for all virtual channels carried in a particular TS. Additionally, it may incorporate information for analog channels as well as digital channels from other transport streams.
There are two main categories of information in the ATSC PSIP Standard: system information and program data. System information allows navigation and access of the channels within the DTV transport stream, and program data provide the information necessary for efficient browsing and event selection. Some tables announce future events and some locate the digital streams that make up an event. The PSIP data are carried via a collection of hierarchically arranged tables. Figure 1 shows the primary components and the notation used to describe them. The base tables are:
System Time Table (STT)
Rating Region Table (RRT)
Master Guide Table (MGT)
Virtual Channel Table (VCT)
The Event Information Tables (EITs) are a second set of tables whose packet identifiers are defined in the MGT. The Extended Text Tables (ETTs) are a third set of tables and, similarly, their PIDs are defined in the MGT.
The System Time Table is a small data structure that fits in one transport stream packet and serves as a reference for time-of-day functions. Receivers can use this table to manage various operations and scheduled events, as well as to display the time of day.
The Rating Region Table transmits the rating system in use for each country using the ratings. Provisions have been made for multi-country systems.
The Master Guide Table provides indexing information for the other tables that comprise the PSIP Standard. It also defines table sizes necessary for memory allocation during decoding, defines version numbers to identify those tables that need to be updated and generates the packet identifiers that label the tables.
The Virtual Channel Table, also referred to as the Terrestrial VCT (TVCT), contains a list of all the channels that are or will be online, along with their attributes. Among the attributes are the channel name and number. This table is critically important as it contains the set of data that enables a receiver to tune and locate the service being broadcast. The VCT is essentially a list containing information about each service that a broadcaster creates (or has announced that it will create) within the DTV major channel assignment, as well as information about the broadcaster's associated analog channel.
There are several Event Information Tables, each of which describes the events or television programs associated with the virtual channels listed in the VCT. Each EIT is valid for a time interval of three hours. Because the maximum number of EITs is 128, up to 16 days of programming may be advertised in advance. At minimum, the first four EITs must always be present in every transport stream, and 24 are recommended.
Basic PSIP requirements
The three main tables (VCT, EIT, STT) contain information that makes it easy for suitably equipped receivers to find the components required to present a program (event). Although receivers are expected to use stored information to speed channel acquisition, sometimes parameters must change. The VCT is the table that must be accurate each instant because it provides the actual connection path. If nothing has changed since an EIT was sent for an event, the anticipatory use of the data is expected to proceed. When there is a change, the new parts would be used. These relationships — and the tables that carry them — are designed to be kept with the DTV signal when it is carried by a cable system.
There are certain “must have” items and “must do” rules of operation. If the PSIP elements are missing or wrong, there may be severe consequences, depending on the type of receiver. The following are key elements that must be set and/or checked by each station:
Transport Stream Identification (TSID)
The station must set the TSID correctly in all three locations (PAT, VCT common information, and virtual-channel-specific information).
System Time Table (SST)
The station should check the STT time daily and lock it to house time.
Short Channel Name
This is a seven-character name that the station can set to any desired virtual-channel name. For example, WNABSD1, KNABSD2, WNAB-HD, KIDS, etc.
Major Channel
In most cases, the previously assigned, paired NTSC channel is the major channel number.
The service type selects DTV, NTSC, audio only, data, etc., and must be set as operating modes require.
Modulation Mode
This parameter must be set appropriately.
The Source ID is a number that associates virtual channels to events on those channels. Typically, it is automatically updated by PSIP equipment or updated from an outside vendor.
Service Location Descriptor (SLD)
The PIDs identified here and in the PMT must be the same for the elements of an event/program. Some deployed systems require separate manual setup, but PIDs assigned to a VC should not change (unless there is a good reason).
It is recommended that broadcasters set up a minimal set of three days of tables. The recommended table cycle times result in a minimal demand on overall system bandwidth.
Most common mistakes
Experience has shown that certain errors are common in many PSIP implementations. Typically, these problems include the following:
Missing tables, specifically the STT and EIT.
Major channel number set to the DTV RF channel number, rather than the associated (legacy) NTSC channel number.
TSID set to 0 or 1, the NTSC TSID, or to another station's TSID; or it is not the same in the three required places.
System time missing or set to 00:00:00 on 1/6/1980
Some receivers react to these errors by not tuning to that station.
About the VCT
Broadcaster must input essential station-specific VCT information to allow viewers to tune programs properly.
Because the VCT also allows each minor channel to be assigned a permanent short name and channel name, and since each minor channel will keep the same TSID, carrier frequency (zero or not), and modulation mode over time, the PSIP encoder-system software should allow the user to create a local look-up table that associates each minor-channel number with these fixed values. This allows the user to create new VCTs simply by entering the number of the minor channel he or she wants to include in the new VCT. The PIDs for each minor channel should not be changed unless the nature of the virtual channel changes, because it will likely increase the time it takes for the receiver to tune to the station.
Even though the station can permanently assign the TSID and other parameters for each virtual channel, the minor channels that the station is using may change over time. When a program on a new virtual channel is announced in the EIT, the PSIP standard requires that the VCT contain EIT VCT information, and vice versa. Because of this, it is recommended that broadcasters update the VCT first to reflect a change in the channel lineup and then use the appropriate source_id to construct the EITs.
A broadcaster can transmit a new VCT containing updated information at any time by increasing the version_number by one. However, since a VCT normally describes the channels in the same transport stream, if virtual channels are added to the VCT at arbitrary times they will not be detected by the receiver until it is tuned to that particular transport stream. For this reason, it is highly recommended that broadcasters add channels in advance (with the program_number set to 0) to give receivers the opportunity to scan the frequencies and detect the channel presence. This is one reason for programming three days of EITs for transmission. The system design assumes the receivers scan all RF channels at least once just after being turned off. For sets that are never turned off or that experience extended power outages, filling three days worth of EITs once a day should reduce the risk of not having information at the time of tuning.
To underscore the PSIP implementation challenge facing broadcasters, WHD-TV — the model station project sponsored jointly by CEA, NAB and MSTV — has released a report on current PSIP implementation issues. The report, dated Nov. 14, 2001, can be obtained from the MSTV Web site at www.mstv.org.
Jerry Whitaker is technical director of the Advanced Television Systems Committee, Washington, DC. The author wishes to acknowledge the work of the ATSC Specialist Group on Data Multiplex/Transport, which developed the draft Recommended Practice upon which this article is based.
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ATSC standards are, by and large, modular in scope. One standard builds upon the functionality of another. This point is demonstrated in the development of the ATSC's latest Candidate Standard known as "Programming Metadata Communication Protocol" (PMCP).
PSIP, V-Chip and Other Acronyms
Since the first version of the PSIP standard was published in 1997, compliance reflected good engineering practice on the part of television stations, since the standard offers benefits for both viewers and broadcasters. PSIP is, in fact, critical to proper operation of the DTV system.
PSIP Revisited: Getting it Right
Nearly two years after the FCC mandated the use of PSIP, reports can still be heard of stations struggling to get it right.
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Game on for AEL Open
This month, eSports makes a welcomed return to 1st on Wharf at Twin Towns and also, Club Banora, giving gamers the opportunity to compete in a nationwide competition via the Australian Esports League (AEL) Open Clubs League.
eSports has grown to become a US $1 billion global sport, and 67%, or 16 million Australians, are avid gamers. Are you one of them?
If you’re a bit of a gaming legend in your own lounge room, maybe it’s time to take on the country!
As an AEL Open Clubs participant, you get the chance to test your skills against players at other club venues.
Earn points, win prizes, and perhaps advance your gaming cred to a local, regional or national level. Ultimately, the best will make it to the regional playoffs. From there, the top-ranking players from across Australia will compete at the National Finals later this year.
Games include FIFA 19, Tekken 7 and Smash Bros, using PlayStation 4 consoles and Nintendo Switch.
AEL Open Clubs League will be at Club Banora from 6pm on Thursdays (from 4 April) and 1st on Wharf at Twin Towns from 6.30pm on Saturdays (from 6 April).
Weekly prize at both venues is a $50 Twin Towns Gift Card. If you’re super keen and confident, play at both venues.
Participants in the AEL competition must be aged 16 years or over. If you’re in, just turn up at the venue 15 minutes or more before game time.
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L.J. Drake
American Steam tanker
Name L.J. Drake
Type: Steam tanker
Tonnage 6,693 tons
Completed 1918 - Ames Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co, Seattle WA
Owner Standard Oil Co of New Jersey, New York
Homeport Wilmington
Date of attack 5 Jun 1942 Nationality: American
Fate Sunk by U-68 (Karl-Friedrich Merten)
Position 17° 30'N, 68° 20'W - Grid ED 1749
Complement 41 (41 dead - no survivors)
Route Aruba (4 Jun) - San Juan, Puerto Rico
Cargo 72,961 barrels of gasoline
History Completed in August 1918 for US Shipping Board (USSB). 1919 sold to Standard Oil Co of New Jersey, New York.
Notes on event
At 20.49 hours on 5 June 1942, U-68 fired a spread of three G7e torpedoes at the unescorted L.J. Drake (Master Peter Nielsen) and hit her with all three after 45 seconds. The tanker exploded in flames and afterwards nothing remained but pieces of wreckage. None of the eight officers, 27 crewmen and six armed guards (the ship was armed with one 4in, one 3in, two .50cal and two .30cal guns) survived.
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Researchers find jail-based surveillance screeing useful in monitoring HIV and sexually transmitted
By Jeff Sheehy
A study by the San Francisco Department of Public Health, conducted at the San
Francisco County Jail, has found that anonymous HIV screening of jail inmates
offers an opportunity to track the epidemic in at-risk groups, particularly
those who traditionally under-utilize health care services.
“This type of screening, called sentinel surveillance, offers an early warning
system to monitor the extent of HIV infection in a generally low socioeconomic
group that doesn’t often access screening services,” said the study’s lead
investigator, Willi McFarland, MD, PhD, of the San Francisco Department of
Public Health HIV Seroepidemiology Unit and the University of California, San
Francisco Center for AIDS Prevention Studies.
Research findings were reported today (July 11) at the XIII International AIDS
Conference in Durban, South Africa.
The on-going effort, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
involves a close collaboration of the San Francisco health department’s AIDS
Office, Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Prevention and Control Services, and
Forensic AIDS program.
Researchers conduct the HIV testing through an STD services screening program
established by the health department three years ago at the county jail. It
offers voluntary screening for gonorrhea, syphilis, and chlamydia within hours
of arrest to male inmates aged 18-35 and females 18-45. Most prisoners offered
the services have chosen to participate in the program, and it has detected a
higher number of STDs than are typically picked up in screening programs that
are available to populations outside the jail setting, said McFarland.
“We saw in this successful STD screening program an opportunity to conduct a
completely blinded HIV surveillance survey in high-risk groups brought to the
jail,” said McFarland.
The study, which began in June 1999, tested for HIV in residual blood samples
drawn for syphilis testing. Researchers did not track the patients by name, but
were able to follow demographic characteristics and behaviors that put
individuals at risk for HIV, such as intravenous (IV) drug use, or men having
sex with men.
At the Durban meeting, results were reported for the period June 1999 to
Researchers found HIV in about 2 percent of 3,019 inmates who underwent
screening—a rate about 5 times greater than would be expected in the general
heterosexual population of San Francisco. The highest levels of HIV infection
(19 percent) were found in men who had sex with men and were also IV drug
users. Men who had sex with men and did not inject drugs had a 16 percent level
of infection. HIV-positive inmates of either sex were also more likely to
report injection drug use, having sex with a man, and having sex with an
HIV-infected partner.
The researchers were also able to determine which groups appeared to have been
more recently infected with the virus, because the study used a new HIV
diagnostic test that can determine whether infection has occurred within the
last six months. Most recent infections found in the jail were associated with
drug use.
Rates of others STDs in the study population were 2 percent for gonorrhea, 7
percent for chlamydia, and 0.1 percent for syphilis.
Although this HIV surveillance screening program is conducted on an anonymous
basis and inmates do not find out their test results, confidential HIV
screening and treatment referral are available on request for inmates who want
to know their HIV status, said McFarland.
Study co-investigators included Andrea Kim, MPH, of the SF Department of Public
Health HIV Seroepidemiology Unit, who presented the findings at the Durban
meeting; Tim Kellogg, MA, also of the HIV Seroepidemiology Unit; Charlotte
Kent, MPH, Robert Kohn, MPH, and Ameera Snell, BA, of the SF Department of
Public Health STD Prevention and Control program; Joe Goldenson, MD, of the SF
Department of Public Health, Forensic Services; and Keith Bordelon, MPH, and
Keith Sabin, PhD, MPH, of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Jeffrey Klausner, MD, MPH, director of STD Control for the SF Department of
Public Health, is the co-principal investigator.
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The discovery of penicillin and then streptomycin kick-started a Golden Age of antibiotic discovery and scientists collected soil from weird and wonderful locations all over the world to isolate new actinomycete bacteria and thus find new antibiotics. We know now that these were the "low hanging fruit" and by the 1980's scientists began to rediscover the same antibiotics over and over again and big pharmaceutical companies turned away from natural product discovery and tried to make synthetic antibiotics in the lab. The last natural product antibiotic to be introduced to the clinic was daptomycin, which is made by Streptomyces roseosporus and was discovered in 1987! Daptomycin is the treatment of last resort for people infected by MRSA.
15 years and billions of dollars later big Pharma eventually gave up on synthetic chemistry and focus is now returning to natural products as our best hope of developing new antibiotic treatments. New scientific advances, most importantly genome sequencing, and the discovery of actinomycetes in unusual places (including leafcutter ant nests and the marine environment) has renewed interest in natural products. It is has been estimated that there are more than 100,000 natural product antibiotics still waiting to be discovered, so now governments and industry need to invest money to allow scientists to find these compounds and develop new antibiotics for the clinic.
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Avalanche buries Italian hotel; 'Many dead' with at least 30 missing
One rescue worker said there was no sign of life in the decimated hotel building.
Avalanche buries Italian hotel; 'Many dead' with at least 30 missing One rescue worker said there was no sign of life in the decimated hotel building. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2jBNsQQ
Eric J. Lyman, Special for USA TODAY Published 4:08 a.m. ET Jan. 19, 2017 | Updated 4:05 p.m. ET Jan. 19, 2017
The avalanche came a day after a string of earthquakes rocked central Italy. USA TODAY NETWORK
Photo provided by the Italian National Alpine Cliff and Cave Rescue Corps (CNAS) shows rescue operations at hotel Rigopiano after it was hit by an avalanche in Farindola (Pescara), Abruzzo region, early Thursday.(Photo: Italian Mountain Rescue/CNAS, EPA)
ROME — Rescue workers in the central Italian region of Abruzzo, fearful about plummeting night-time temperatures, were in a race against time Thursday searching for survivors after an avalanche of snow, ice and mud flattened a resort hotel with up to 30 guests and staff members inside.
Two bodies were recovered in the piles of debris, but hopes of finding people alive were hampered by the agonizingly slow process of getting heavy equipment to the scene.
"The sun is starting to set here and the temperatures are dropping," said Giovanni Bianchi, a commander with Italy's civil protection. "The worry is that if there's a survivor we haven't found yet, they could risk freezing."
As the recovery effort dragged on and no sounds were heard from the pile of snow and rubble, Abruzzo Alpine rescuer Antonio Crocetta told the Italian news agency ANSA that "there are many dead."
The Hotel Rigopiano in the town of Farindola was ripped from its foundation and almost completely covered by a wall of snow and debris up to 35 feet tall, triggered by a series of earthquakes that shook the region Wednesday.
Heavy snowfall kept ambulances from approaching within 5 miles of the property. Some rescue workers arrived by foot, snowmobile and helicopter, local media reported.
Four quakes rock central Italy in massive snowstorm
Workers were able to access parts of the structure and documented hallways crammed with snow, ice and debris, along with the remnants of festive decorations.
One rescue worker who spoke on local TV station RAI said there was no sign of life in the decimated hotel. Antonio Di Marco, president of the provincial government, said on social media that two people were found alive.
One of them, Giampaolo Parete, a 38-year-old tourist, said he was saved because he left the hotel to retrieve something from his car parked outside. His wife and two children were inside the building, he said.
Premier Paolo Gentiloni urged authorities to redouble rescue efforts as he sought to deflect criticism. He told reporters Thursday that the priority is to reach all isolated towns and hamlets buried under snowfall for days before being jolted by the powerful quakes Wednesday.
Residents have been complaining of being left without electricity because of what Gentiloni called a “record snowfall.” Criticism has also come in about the response time to reach the buried hotel.
"We have been abandoned by everyone!” marveled one resident from the province of Teramo, Daiana Nguyen, on Sky TG24. “They talk about sending in the army: Thirty to 40 men came with shovels. We need heavy machinery.”
Nguyen said people have been stuck in their homes for days.
Before and after photos of the #HotelRigopiano in #Abruzzo, torn from its foundations and decimated by a massive avalanche today. #Farindolapic.twitter.com/uGKoSvXsAN
— Eric J. Lyman (@EricJLyman) January 19, 2017
“Help, we’re dying of cold,” one couple wrote rescuers, according to the ANSA news agency. Another man, identified by news reports as Fabio Salzetta, sent a text message saying he escaped with a maintenance worker, but that others were trapped inside.
Corriere della Sera quoted the message as saying: “Some walls were knocked down.” And: “I’m outside with a maintenance worker but you can’t see anything of the hotel, there’s only a wall of snow in front of me.”
Wednesday’s earthquakes did not directly impact Farindola, but the temblors apparently unsettled snow on the slopes of the majestic Gran Sasso, a 9,554-foot-tall peak that dominates the region.
Because of its proximity to Rome, Italy’s capital and largest city, the area around the Gran Sasso is popular with tourists on day trips or overnight excursions.
The weather in the area had been particularly good for skiing in recent days — cold and crisp with heavy snowfall. Before the avalanche, staff members at the four-star hotel tweeted: “A dream Tuesday at Rigopiano … the snow is giving us a spectacular panorama.”
At least 30 missing as avalanche buries Italian hotel
Rescue operations continue at the hotel Rigopiano after it was hit by an avalanche on Jan 19, 2017. Rescue workers in the central Italian region of Abruzzo, fearful about plummeting nighttime temperatures, were in a race against time, searching for survivors Thursday after an avalanche of snow, ice and mud flattened a resort hotel with up to 30 guests and staff members inside. Italian Mountain Rescue, European Pressphoto Agency
Rescue work continues at hotel Rigopiano after it was hit by an avalanche in Farindola, Italy, on Jan. 19, 2017. Italian Mountain Rescue, European Pressphoto Agency
The interior of the hotel Rigopiano after it was hit by an avalanche in Farindola, Italy, on Jan. 19, 2017. Guardia Di Finanza , European Pressphoto Agency
A man is helped during a rescue operation in the avalanche area following the avalanche in Farindola, central Italy, on Jan. 19, 2017. AP
Rescue work continues at the hotel. The Hotel Rigopiano in the town of Farindola was ripped from its foundation and almost completely covered by a wall of snow and debris up to 35 feet tall, triggered by a series of earthquakes that shook the region Wednesday. Italian Mountain Rescue, European Pressphoto Agency
Rescue work continues at the hotel. Italian Mountain Rescue, European Pressphoto Agency
Italian National Alpine Cliff and Cave Rescue Corps members work at the hotel Rigopiano after it was hit by an avalanche in Farindola, Italy, on Jan. 19, 2017. Italian Mountain Rescue, European Pressphoto Agency
An Italian army vehicle arrives in Campotosto after a series of quakes destroyed buildings. Claudio Lattanzio, AP
An Italian firefighter helicopter assists with rescue operations in the area where a hotel was hit by an avalanche in Farindola, Italy, Jan. 19, 2017. Matteo Guidelli, AP
Gilberto Petrucci, municipal assessor for the nearby town of Penne, said the entire region is suffering.
“We’re on our knees in the communities around here, we can’t take much more,” Petrucci said. He added that heavy snow has isolated Penne’s 13,000 residents from other cities.
Authorities in the area closed schools and most non-essential business until at least Monday in the wake of the earthquakes and the avalanche. Freezing temperatures and snowfall are forecast until the weekend.
Wednesday’s earthquakes — at least a dozen that measured between magnitude 5.1 and 5.7 — were the third round of temblors in Abruzzo in five months. The region is still recovering from a series of earthquakes in August that killed more than 200 people. In Amatrice, close to the epicenter of the latest quakes, the Renaissance-era bell tower at the church of Sant-Agostino collapsed after being severely damaged in last year’s disaster.
The latest quakes left several hundred people homeless and cut electricity to more than 100,000 homes in the region.
Contributing: Associated Press
An Italian official says a hotel in an earthquake-hit zone of central Italy has been buried by an avalanche, with reports of dead. Italian media say that the avalanche covered the three-story hotel in the central region of Abruzzo on Wednesday evening. (Jan. 19) AP
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Email: Dan.Tracy@usd.edu
Dr. Tracy holds a BS in Health Services Administration and an MBA from The University of South Dakota, and a PhD in Decision Sciences from Washington State University.
Dr. Tracy currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in production/operations management, lean management, and quantitative analysis.
Dr. Tracy's research interests include data envelopment analysis, applied optimization, lean management, and pedagogical design/development.
Ph D, Decision Sciences, Washington State University, 2001
MBA, University of South Dakota, 1993
BS, Health Services Administration, University of South Dakota, 1992
Beacom Opportunity Fund, Beacom School of Business, (2009 - 2011)
USD Mobile Computing Initiative Grant, Center for Teaching and Learning, (2009 - 2011)
Faculty Research Grant, University of Tennessee at Martin, (2005 - 2005)
Minnehaha County Facility Evaluation and Planning Recommendations, Minnehaha County Commision. (2016 - 2017)
Beacom Opportunity Fund, Beacom School of Business. Grant Role: Principal. (2011 - 2011)
USD Faculty Travel Grant, Center for Teaching And Learning. Grant Role: Principal. (2008 - 2008)
Faculty Development Grant, University of Tennessee at Martin. Grant Role: Principal. (2005 - 2005)
Summer Research Grant, Beacom School of Business. (2014)
Tracy, Dan, Weinandt, Mandie, and Knight, John E.. Process Capability for Left-Skewed Distributions with Negative Values, 16-23. Vol. 24, Iss. 1. Washington, DC: Journal of American Academy of Business - Cambridge, 2018.
George, Benjamin, Tracy, Dan, and Martin, Tom. Minnehaha County Facility Evaluation and Planning Recommendations, 75..
Tracy, Dan, Weinandt, Mandie, and Knight, John E.. Process Capability Analysis for Left Skewed Distributions with Negative Values. Academic Business World International Conference, 2016.
Tracy, Dan, Wergin, Rand, and Knight, John E.. The Assessment of Learning Using Repeatability: To What Extent Does Multiple Choice Testing Indicate Learning. International Conference on Learning and Administration in Higher Education, 2016.
Tracy, Dan, and Martin, Tom. Lean Operations Management, 184. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2015.
Wergin, Rand, Muller, Richard, and Tracy, Dan. An Analysis of Small Town Retail Pull Factors in a Rural State. Iss. 21. Aberdeen, South Dakota: Conference on International Business and Contemporary Issues in Business, 2014.
Tracy, Dan, Knight, John E., and Rieman, Mark W.. Business Student Versus Employer Course Design Preferences: Can Both Educational Stakeholders Be Satisfied?, 15-37. Vol. 18, Iss. 1. Academy of Educational Leadership Journal, 2014.
Wergin, Rand, Tracy, Dan, and Gillispie, Michael. An Update of Retail Trade Patterns in South Dakota. Iss. 21. Aberdeen, South Dakota: Conference on International Business and Contemporary Issues in Business, 2013.
Dykstra, De Vee, Tracy, Dan, and Wergin, Rand. An Empirical Look at Business Students' Attitudes towards Laptop Computers in the Classroom. Martin, Tennessee: Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2013.
Knight, John E., and Tracy, Dan. Labor Productivity Analysis for Picking Operations, 1-9. Vol. 17, Iss. 2. The Business Review: Cambridge, 2012.
Wergin, Rand, Tracy, Dan, and Dykstra, De Vee. An Investigation into Student Personality and Their Attitudes Toward Laptop Use in the Business School Classroom, 7-15. Vol. 7, Iss. 2. Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2011.
Rieman, Mark W., Tracy, Dan, and Knight, John E.. Course Design Feature Selection by Key Stakeholders: Building a Better Supply Chain Between Business and Academia. International Conference on Learning and Administration in Higher Education, 2011.
Dykstra, De Vee, Tracy, Dan, and Wergin, Rand. A Profile of Students and Their Attitudes Toward Laptop Use in the Business School Classroom. Nashville, TN: International Conference on Learning and Administration in Higher Education, 2010.
Wergin, Rand, Tracy, Dan, and Dykstra, De Vee. An Investigation into Student Personality and Their Attitudes Toward Laptop Use in the Business School Classroom. Nashville, TN: International Conference on Learning and Administration in Higher Education, 2010.
Rieman, Mark W., Tracy, Dan, Knight, John E., and Allen, Stephen L.. Business Course Design Preferences: Are Faculty and Students Ever on the Same Page?. Vol. 3, Iss. 1. Willamsburg, VA: International Conference of the American Institute of Higher Education, 2010.
Redman, Arnold L., Gullett, Nell S., and Tracy, Dan. Return and Risk in Mutual Fund Portfolios: The Impact of Real Estate Mutual Funds, 106-121. Vol. 36, Iss. 1. Journal of Business and Economic Perspectives, 2010.
Knight, John E., Tracy, Dan, and Allen, Sandra. Using Six Sigma to Evaluate the Reliability of a Teaching Assessment Rubric, 1-8. Vol. 15, Iss. 1. The Business Review: Cambridge, 2010.
Knight, John E., Allen, Sandra, and Tracy, Dan. Using Six Sigma to Evaluate the Reliability of a Teaching Assessment Rubric. New York, NY: The Global Management & Information Technology Research Conference, 2010.
Tracy, Dan, Knight, John E., and Rieman, Mark W.. Strengthening the Supply Chain Between Business and Academe Through Course Design Feature Selection. Vol. 5, Iss. One. Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2009.
Korte, Leon, Tracy, Dan, and Rieman, Mark W.. Identification of Productivity Relationships and Interactions Using Scale-DEA: A Look at Bank Merger Targets. Nashville, TN: Academic Business World International Conference, 2009.
Tracy, Dan, Knight, John E., and Rieman, Mark W.. Strengthening the Supply Chain between Business and Academe through Course Design Feature Selection, 1-12. Vol. 5, Iss. 1. Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2009.
Tracy, Dan, Knight, John E., and Rieman, Mark W.. Student versus Employer Course Design Preferences: Can Both Educational Stakeholders Be Satisfied?. Nashville, TN: International Conference on Learning and Administration in Higher Education, 2009.
Allen, Stephen L., and Tracy, Dan. An Unbiased Look at Automotive Quality, 1-12. Vol. 27. Regional Business Review, 2008.
Tracy, Dan, and Knight, John E.. Business Course Design Preferences: Are Faculty and Students Ever on the Same Page?. Nashville, TN: Academic Business World International Conference, 2008.
Tracy, Dan, and Knight, John E.. Lean Operations Management: Identifying and Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice, 8-14. Vol. 12, Iss. 2. Journal of American Academy of Business, Cambridge, 2008.
Knight, John E., and Tracy, Dan. The Assessment of Learning Using Repeatability: To What Extent Does Multiple Choice Testing Indicate Learning?. Orlando, FL: Proceedings of the International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines, 2008.
Redman, Arnold, Gullett, Nell, and Tracy, Dan. Constructing Efficient Portfolios with Real Estate Mutual Funds. San Diego, CA: Proceedings of the Southwestern Finance Association, 2007.
Knight, John E., and Tracy, Dan. Course Design Features: Balancing the Student and Potential Employer Desires. Orlando, FL: Proceedings of the International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines, 2007.
Roach, Joy, Tracy, Dan, and Durden, Kay. Integrating Business Core Knowledge through Upper-Division Report Composition, 431-439. Vol. 70, Iss. 4. Business Communication Quarterly, 2007.
Knight, John E., and Tracy, Dan. Pre-Assessment of Data Collection Procedures: Planning to Fail by Failing to Plan, 282-288. Vol. 10, Iss. 2. Journal of American Academy of Business, Cambridge, 2007.
Knight, John E., and Tracy, Dan. Value Drivers in Business Course Design: A Student Stakeholder Perspective, 16. Vol. 1, Iss. 2. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2007.
Knight, John E., and Tracy, Dan. A Plan for Transitioning from Athletics to Academics in Mid-Major Colleges: Regaining Academe's Control over Ever-Increasing Athletic Program Power and Control, 15-19. Vol. 2, Iss. 1-2. Journal of Academic Administration in Higher Education, 2006.
Knight, John E., and Tracy, Dan. A Plan for Transitioning from Athletics to Academics in Mid-Major Colleges: Regaining Academe's Control over Ever-Increasing Athletic Program Power and Control. Nashville, TN: Proceedings of the Academic Business World Conference, 2006.
Tracy, Dan, and Knight, John E.. Art or Science? Bridging the Lean Disconnect in Operations Management. Nashville, TN: Proceedings of the Academic Business World Conference, 2006.
Knight, John E., and Tracy, Dan. Course Design Features: Balancing the Student and Potential Employer Desires. Las Vegas, NV: Proceedings of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences, 2006.
Sapngenberg, Eric R., Sprott, David E., Grohman, Bianca, and Tracy, Dan. Effects of Gender-Congruent Ambient Scent on Approach and Avoidance Behaviors in a Retail Store, 1281-1287. Vol. 59, Iss. 12. Journal of Business Research, 2006.
Tracy, Dan, and Chen, Bintong. A Generalized Model for Weight Restriction in Data Envelopment Analysis, 390-396. Vol. 56. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2005.
Tracy, Dan, and Knight, John E.. Art or Science? Bridging the Lean Disconnect in Operations Management. Reno, NV: Proceedings of the International College Teaching Methods and Styles Conference, 2005.
Tracy, Dan, and Knight, John E.. Conceptualization of a Customer and Process Focused University. Nashville, TN: Proceedings of the Academic Business World Conference, 2005.
Tracy, Dan, and Knight, John E.. Conceptualization of a Customer and Process Focused University, 1-6. Vol. 1, Iss. 1. The Journal of Academic Administration in Higher Education, 2005.
Tracy, Dan, and Knight, John E.. Course Design Value Drivers: The Student Stakeholder. Reno, NV: Proceedings of the International College Teaching Methods and Styles Conference, 2005.
Tracy, Dan, and Knight, John E.. Customer-Driven Value: Evolution and Contemporary Extensions, 181-193. Vol. 31, Iss. 1. Journal of Business and Economic Perspectives, 2005.
Tracy, Dan, and Knight, John E.. Customer-Driven Value: Evolution and Contemporary Extensions. Nashville, TN: Proceedings of the Academic Business World Conference, 2005.
Tracy, Dan. Test Bank. In Fundamentals of Operations Management, Davis, Aquilano, and Jacobs, 5th ed.. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2004.
Tracy, Dan. Chapter Quizzes. In Fundamentals of Operations Management, Davis, Aquilano, and Jacobs, 4th ed.,. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2003.
Tracy, Dan, and durden, Kay. Homemade Soup: Integrating the Business Curriculum into Business Communication. Nashville, TN: Proceedings of the MMA 8th Annual Educator's Conference, 2003.
Tracy, Dan. Lighting the Way to an Understanding of Operations: An Experiential Learning Exercise. Nashville, TN: Proceedings of the MMA 8th Annual Educator's Conference, 2003.
Tracy, Dan. Test Bank. In Fundamentals of Operations Management, Davis, Aquilano, and Jacobs, 4th ed.,. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2003.
Allen, Stephen L., and Tracy, Dan. Internet Basics: Resources for the Production/Operations Management Instructor. Chicago, IL: Proceedings of the Midwest Business Administration Association, 1996.
Tracy, Dan. Product Distribution Makes the Grade. In Great Ideas for Teaching Marketing. 3rd ed.. Cincinnati, OH: Southwestern, 1996.
Awards and Honors:
Chapter Advisor of the Year - Great Plains Region, Delta Sigma Pi, 2014
Chapter Advisor of the Year, North Central Province, Delta Sigma Pi, 2014
Beacom School of Business Research Award, University of South Dakota, 2014
Presentation Excellence Award, International Conference on Learning and Administration in Higher Education, 2011
Beacom School of Business Outstanding Research Award, University of South Dakota, 2008
Integration of Business Disciplines Award, 1st Place, Beacom School of Business, 2008
Presentation Excellence Award, Academic Business World International Conference, 2008
Coffey Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Tennessee at Martin, 2007
Graduate Teaching Excellence Award, University of Tennessee at Martin, 2007
Research Excellence Award, University of Tennessee at Martin, 2007
Best Paper Award, Academic Business World International Conference, 2006
UT National Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Tennessee National Alumni Association, 2006
Best Paper Award, College Teaching Methods and Styles Conference, 2005
Service Excellence Award, University of Tennessee at Martin, 2004
Inductee/Member, Gamma Beta Phi Honor Society, 2003
ADP Faculty of the Month Award, UTM Alpha Delta Pi, 2002
Advising Excellence Award, University of Tennessee at Martin, 2002
SGA Summit Award, UTM Student Government Association, 2002
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, Washington State University, 1998
Inductee/Member, Sigma Beta Delta Honor Society, 1994
Inductee/Member, Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society, 1993
George, Benjamin, Tracy, Dan, Martin, Tom. Minnehaha County Facility Evaluation and Planning Recommendations.
Tracy, Dan. Lean management: How to Trim the Fat in any Industry. Presented at the Beacom Sampler, University Center, Sioux Falls, SD. (May 12, 2017)
Tracy, Dan. Process Capability Analysis for Left Skewed Distributions with Negative Values. Presented at the Academic Business World International Conference, Nashville, TN. (May 2016)
Tracy, Dan. The Assessment of Learning Using Repeatability: To What Extent Does Multiple Choice Testing Indicate Learning. Presented at the International Conference on Learning and Administration in Higher Education, Nashville, TN. (May 2016)
Wergin, Rand, Muller, Richard, Tracy, Dan. An analysis of Small Town Retail Pull Factors in a Rural State. Presented at the Conference on International Business and Contemporary Issues in Business, Rapid City, South Dakota USA. (October 9, 2014)
Wergin, Rand, Tracy, Dan, Gillispie, Michael. An Update of Retail Trade Patterns in South Dakota. Presented at the Conference on International Business and Contemporary Issues in Business, Rapid City, South Dakota USA. (September 26, 2013)
Tracy, Dan, Knight, John E., Rieman, Mark W.. Business Student Versus Employer Course Design Preferences: Can Both Educational Stakeholders Be Satisfied. Presented at the Allied Academies International Conference, New Orleans, LA. (March 2013)
Tracy, Dan, Wergin, Rand. Business Course Design: Do Business Students Have a Personality?. Presented at the Academic Business World International Conference, Nashville, TN. (May 26, 2011)
Rieman, Mark W., Tracy, Dan. Course Design Feature Selection by Stakeholders: Building a Better Supply Chain Between Business and Academia. Presented at the 2011 International Conference on Learning and Administration in Higher Education, Nashville, TN. (May 2011)
Dykstra, De Vee, Wergin, Rand, Tracy, Dan. Laptop Use in the Business School Classroom. Presented at the Academic Business World International Conference, Nashville, TN. (June 01, 2010)
Wergin, Rand, Dykstra, De Vee, Tracy, Dan. An Investigation into Student Personality and Their Attitudes Toward Laptop Use in the Business School Classroom. Presented at the International Conference on Learning and Administration in Higher Education, Nashville, TN. (June 01, 2010)
Rieman, Mark W., Tracy, Dan. Business Course Design Preferences: Are Faculty and Students Ever on the Same Page?. Presented at the 2010 Fourth International Conference, Williamsburg, VA. (April 2010)
Rieman, Mark W., Tracy, Dan, Korte, Leon. Identification of Productivity Relationships and Interactions using Scale-DEA: A Look at Bank Merger Targets. Presented at the 2009 Academic Business World International Conference, Nashville, TN. (May 2009)
Korte, Leon, Tracy, Dan. Identification of Productivity Relationships and Interactions Using Scale-DEA: A Look at Bank Merger Targets. Presented at the Academic Business World Conference, Nashville, TN. (May 2009)
Tracy, Dan, Knight, John E., Rieman, Mark W.. Student versus Employer Course Design Preferences: Can Both Educational Stakeholders Be Satisfied?. Presented at the International Conference on Learning and Administration in Higher Education, Nashville, TN. (May 2009)
Tracy, Dan, Knight, John E.. Business Course Design Preferences: Are Faculty and Students Ever on the Same Page?. Presented at the Academic Business World International Conference, Nashville, TN. (May 2008)
Tracy, Dan, Knight, John E.. On Learning Success Factors: Moving from Anecdotal to Scientific Evidence. Presented at the Association of American Colleges and Universities Conference, Seattle, WA. (January 2006)
Tracy, Dan. Introducing Lean Thinking into the Traditional Operations Management Course. Presented at the Kentucky-Tennessee Best Practices Conference, Clarksville, TN. (November 2005)
Tracy, Dan, Knight, John E.. Conceptualization of a Customer and Process Focused University. Presented at the Academic Business World Conference, Nashville, TN. (May 2005)
Tracy, Dan, Knight, John E.. Customer-Driven Value: Evolution and contemporary Extensions. Presented at the Academic Business World Conference, Nashville, TN. (May 2005)
Tracy, Dan, Knight, John E.. Art or Science? Bridging the Lean Disconnect in Operations Management. Presented at the International College Teaching Methods and Styles Conference, Reno, NV. (March 2005)
Tracy, Dan, Knight, John E.. Course Design Value Drivers: The Student Stakeholder. Presented at the International College Teaching Methods and Styles Conference, Reno, NV. (March 2005)
Tracy, Dan. Internal Controls and Operations Management.
Tracy, Dan. Putting a Spotlight on Operations Management. Presented at the Kentucky-Tennessee Best Practices Conference, Paris, TN. (March 2004)
Spangenberg, Eric R., Sprott, David E., Grohmann, Bianca, Tracy, Dan. Effects of Gender Congruent Olfactory Cues on Approach and Avoidance Behaviors in a Retail Store. Presented at the Society for Marketing Advances Annual Conference, Fort Walton Beach, FL. (January 2004)
Tracy, Dan, Durden, Kay. Homemade Soup: Integrating the Business Curriculum into Business Communication. Presented at the Marketing Management Association 8th Annual Educator's Conference, Nashville, TN. (November 2003)
Tracy, Dan. Lighting the Way to an Understanding of Operations: An Experiential Learning Exercise. Presented at the Marketing Management Association 8th Annual Educator's Conference, Nashville, TN. (November 2003)
Tracy, Dan. Revisiting the Cross-Efficiency Matrix: New Measures for Robustness in Data Envelopment Analysis. Presented at the Kentucky-Tennessee Best Practices Conference, Hopkinsville, KY. (March 2003)
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California Exempts HIPAA Covered Entities from Its New Consumer Privacy Act: HIPAA & HITECH Act Blog by Jonathan P. Tomes
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In June 2018, the California legislature passed the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), which was intended to change state law to better protect the privacy of consumers and contained new privacy protections and rights for consumers.
It applies to for-profit companies that hold the data of more than 50,000 individuals. The Act’s rights include the right to request access to personal data stored by a business, the right to be informed about the data that will be collected, the right to be informed whether personal data will be sold or disclosed, the right to have personal data deleted, and the right to prevent personal data from being sold. The CCPA is not due to take effect until January 1, 2020.
On August 31, 2018, the legislature passed SB 1121, which changed the implementation of the CCPA. The CCPA includes a consumer private right of action that allows California residents to take legal action against companies that have experienced data breaches as a result of a failure to implement appropriate security measures.
For HIPAA covered entities, the most important change to the CCPA is that it specifies that all data handled pursuant to HIPAA is exempt, confirming that the CCPA will not apply to HIPAA covered entities or to information collected by a HIPAA covered entity or business associate that is part of a clinical trial. Part of the reasoning for this exemption is that HIPAA provides similar rights to health care consumers and security over their data.
Perhaps the most helpful portion of the Senate Bill is that the CCPA relieves HIPAA covered entities from facing the CCPA’s private right of action, which allows health care consumers to sue directly without having to persuade the State Attorney General to sue on their behalf, as HIPAA does.
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In a salute to Vito's Italian heritage, we are proud to present The Tarantellas as our dinner show on the first and third Saturdays of each month for a festive and loving tribute to "The Legendary Favorite Songs of Italy." Bandleader/vocalist Richard Sclafani holds forth with his antique Neapolitan Mandolin, a little work of art in itself, with a unique sound that has been described as the "heart and soul of Southern Italy". On various nights, he is accompanied by special guests, including accordion virtuoso Bonnie Birch, acoustic guitarist Juan "Giovanni" Barco, and harmony vocalist Lana Brown. Romantic Italian love songs, classical waltzes, haunting Sicilian melodies, and wild Tarantella dances are all part of the authentic mix. Plus, The Tarantellas add their unique touch to many Italian-American favorites by Dean Martin, Al Martino, Julias LaRosa, Jerry Vale, and other great crooners of the '50s and '60s!
(Hint: Bring your Sweetheart, and upon request, The Tarantellas will perform a romantic table-side serenade just for you.) Viva Italia!
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Study: Vitamin D Has No Clear Benefit for COPD Patients
But Vitamin D Supplementation May Reduce COPD Flare-ups in People With Severely Low Levels
By Denise Mann
Jan 16, 2012 -- Much hope has been pinned on vitamin D to cure, prevent, or treat a host of diseases, including the lung disease chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
New research, however, may dash some of this enthusiasm for people with COPD, an umbrella name for chronic lung diseases, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. People with COPD often experience a worsening of their breathlessness and other symptoms (exacerbations) throughout the course of their disease.
But vitamin D doesn’t seem to reduce the number of these exacerbations. That said, vitamin D did benefit a small group of 30 people in the study who had severely low vitamin D levels when the study began.
The new findings appear in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Low Vitamin D Levels and COPD
Vitamin D is often referred to as the sunshine vitamin because our bodies produce it when exposed to sunlight. The Institute of Medicine recommends that people aged 1 to 70 take in 600 international units (IUs) of vitamin D per day, and people older than 70 should aim for 800 IUs. Some foods like fish and fortified dairy and juice products are rich in vitamin D, but supplements are also used to raise blood levels.
The new study included 182 people with COPD. Participants orally received 100,000 IU of vitamin D or an inactive placebo monthly for a year. There were 468 exacerbations during the study period, and there was no difference in the numbers between the different groups. There were also no differences in time to the first exacerbation between those who received vitamin D and those who did not.
People who took vitamin D did not report greater improvements in their quality of life or the number of times they were hospitalized for COPD, the study shows. Vitamin D also had no bearing on their lung function and risk of death.
However, in looking at a small subset of people with severely low vitamin D, the rate of exacerbations decreased among people who received vitamin D, the study showed. But the researchers note that the number of people in their study with severely low vitamin D was very small, so future studies to look at a possible benefit from vitamin D in people with severely low vitamin D levels need to be done to support the findings.
Screen for Low Vitamin D in COPD
Screening people with COPD for low vitamin D makes sense, says researcher Wim Janssens, MD, PhD, of the University Hospitals Leuven in Leuven, Belgium. “Be aware that vitamin D deficiency is prevalent in COPD and that it needs supplementation for bone health reasons,” he says in an email. Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium, which is important for bone health.
“Severe deficiency of vitamin D levels ... may even increase the COPD exacerbation rate and needs therefore aggressive supplementation,” he says. But “don’t think that supplementation will cure your disease.”
Barry Make, MD, agrees. He is a pulmonologist at National Jewish Health in Denver. “The study suggests that going forward maybe we should study preventing exacerbations in people that have low vitamin D levels,” he says.
His bottom line? “Vitamin D is important to measure and if it is low, it makes sense to supplement,” he says.
Adam Wanner, MD, is a pulmonologist at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He says the jury is still out on what role vitamin D supplements have, and in which COPD patients. “There were no benefits in terms of exacerbations in the study, but when they looked at the subset of those who had severe vitamin D deficiency, there was a benefit,” he says. “This is an important study in the sense that it helps us design future studies.”
The results of the study are in the eye of the beholder, says Michael Holick, MD, PhD. He is the director of the Vitamin D, Skin, and Bone Research Lab at Boston University. Holick has been championing vitamin D for years.
“Vitamin D has benefit above and beyond bone health,” he says. “There was a significant benefit for those people in the study who were most deficient.”
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Michael Holick, MD, PhD, director of Vitamin D, Skin, and Bone Research Lab, Boston University, Boston.
Lehouck, A. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2012.
Barry Make, MD, pulmonologist, National Jewish Health, Denver.
Wim Janssens, MD, PhD, University Hospitals Leuven in Leuven, Belgium.
Adam Wanner, MD, pulmonologist, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami.
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By Daniel J. DeNoon
March 6, 2001 (San Antonio) -- An outpatient procedure not only stops the heavy menstrual bleeding caused by benign fibroid tumors in the uterus, but also does it with less pain and faster recovery than open surgery. It also improves sexual function in some women, according to studies reported here at a meeting of interventional radiologists.
Fibroids are benign, noncancerous growths in the uterus. They are very common -- as many as 40% of women 35 and older get them. When fibroids become large, they can cause pain, heavy and prolonged menstrual bleeding, and a feeling of pressure or fullness in the abdomen.
When weighing what treatment to choose for fibroids, though, one expert says more patients learn about the outpatient technique from the Internet than from their gynecologists. If their gynecologists won't support them in seeking the treatment, many women are finding new doctors.
The technique is called uterine fibroid embolization, or UFE. During UFE, a radiologist guides a small tube through a small cut in the groin up into the artery feeding the uterus. The tube is used to deliver tiny beads that block the enlarged blood vessels feeding the fibroids, causing them to shrink.
"What we found is that in terms of control of bleeding, the embolization group did much better than the [abdominal surgery] group," Mahmood K. Razavi, MD, tells WebMD. "My feeling is it shouldn't be a second alternative, it should be the first alternative for bleeding patients."
The findings come from the first direct comparison of UFE to open surgery to remove fibroids without removing the uterus. The study did not look at patients who underwent a less-invasive form of surgery called laparoscopy.
The comparison of UFE and removal of fibroids via traditional, open surgery -- abdominal myomectomy -- is a collaborative study between Razavi and gynecologist Bertha H. Chen, MD, at Stanford University Medical Center. Over a three-year period, Razavi and Chen compared data from UFEs and abdominal myomectomies they performed.
The 76 UFE patients tended to be older, about age 45 vs. 38, and better informed than the 36 myomectomy patients available for follow-up. There was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of fibroid symptoms.
Myomectomy patients did tend to report better improvement in the sensation of uterine pressure, while UFE patients tended to report less pain after the procedure. Consequently, UFE patients reported using pain medication for only three to four days, compared to a week for myomectomy patients. UFE patients also returned to normal activity in about seven days instead of 35 days for those who underwent open surgery, and about 4% of UFE patients reported complications compared to more than 19% of the myomectomy patients.
"In myomectomy, they can't get all the fibroids, but with embolization, all of the fibroids are treated at the same time," Razavi says. "The key is that for appropriately selected patients, embolization performed better than myomectomy."
Most of the experts consulted by WebMD were quick to note that while normal pregnancies have been reported in women who have undergone UFE, the procedure is not currently recommended for women who intend to become pregnant.
Symptoms aren't the only thing that improves after UFE, according to a small study by Jackeline Gomez-Jorge, MD, assistant professor of interventional radiology at the University of Miami in Florida.
"It was very interesting to find out that this procedure does not adversely affect patients' sex lives, and, in fact, may improve them," Gomez-Jorge tells WebMD.
Gomez-Jorge and colleagues at Georgetown University gave a brief, nine-item questionnaire to 115 premenopausal patients who underwent UFE. Half the women responded to the explicit questions. The results:
64% of patients had no change in strength of orgasms
6% of patients reported stronger orgasms; 6% reported no orgasms
56% of patients reported internal orgasms with uterine contractions
80% of patients reported continued sexual desire more than once per week, vs. 8% who had no interest in sex
34% of patients reported sex more than five times in the last month
"It is my impression that by keeping the anatomy intact -- the nerve endings, the organs, and tissues -- to my mind it seems that would be an advantage to UFE," Gomez-Jorge says. "Of course, sexual response is more than anatomy -- but as far as the physical part, keeping your uterus, keeping your vagina, keeping the aspects that have to do with the sexual response may be an advantage. This is particularly true for those women who experience uterine contractions as part of their sexual response."
Yale interventional radiologist Michael G. Wysoki also studied sexual function in women who underwent UFE. In a telephone survey to which 21 premenopausal patients responded, his team found that 43% of patients had increased sexual desire. There was decreased pain during intercourse in 60% of women, and 27% reported increased frequency of orgasms.
Wysoki also asked the women about their gynecologists. Nineteen of the 21 women said it was they -- and not their doctor -- who initiated discussion of UFE. Most of these women learned of the technique on the Internet. All of the women said their gynecologist initially recommended hysterectomy for their fibroids -- and only one of these physicians ultimately offered UFE. This is not surprising, as only five of the 21 gynecologists had a positive opinion of UFE and more than three-quarters of them were strongly opposed to the procedure.
Eight of the nine women whose gynecologists remained opposed to UFE said they now had a new gynecologist.
"Women are taking charge of their healthcare," Wysoki says. "They are investigating options, especially on the Internet, and they are going to the gynecologist who offers them what they think are the best available treatment options. If their gynecologist is opposed to that option, they are going to switch doctors rather than fight with them."
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Home Tech Elon Musk’s company among final bidder for Chicago’s airport train
Elon Musk’s company among final bidder for Chicago’s airport train
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company is among the two final bidders to design, build, finance and operate an express rail system from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport to downtown area, Chicago mayor’s office confirmed on Wednesday.
“Strengthening connections between Chicago’s economic engines will drive our economy into the future, build on the city’s legacy of innovation and pay dividends for generations to come,” Xinhua quoted Mayor Rahm Emanuel as saying.
“Today, we have two teams that have the ability to get the job done and create an express connection between downtown Chicago and O’Hare Airport without a taxpayer subsidy,” the mayor announced.
One of the qualified contenders is Elon Musk’s Boring Company, the other is O’Hare Xpress LLC.
They have beaten another two initial bidders and will be eligible to respond to a Request for Proposals (RFP) that will be issued on Friday. Responses to the RFP will be due on May 18.
The project aims to deliver express service from downtown Chicago to O’Hare International Airport in 20 minutes or less, cutting more than 50 per cent off current travel times.
According to the website of Musk’s Boring Company, “To solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic, roads must go 3D, which means either flying cars or tunnels.”
Musk has claimed that his new drilling technology can trim costs on building a tunnel with high-speed pods to whisk riders to and from the airport.
Last month, the high-profile entrepreneur sent his Tesla Roadster to space by SpaceX’s brand new Falcon Heavy rocket.
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West Dorset Social Action Map is the brainchild of Oliver Letwin MP.
Oliver Letwin is a passionate supporter of social action groups, and a strong believer that they add real value and innovation to society.
Through being a local MP, Oliver Letwin MP has encountered hundreds of great social action groups in West Dorset, and has also help set up several social action groups, such as Dorchester Job Club and Yeo Valley Health Transport.
Oliver hopes that through mapping people will gain a better understanding of what social action looks like in West Dorset, in addition to encouraging groups to cooperate, information share and inspire people to set up new organisation. Furthermore, the website has the capacity for news sharing and promoting group activities.
Placement on the map is completely free, and you can promote a range of information, such as group description and contact details.
So, if you have a social action group, no matter how big or small, and would like it placed on the West Dorset Social Action Map, please get in contact with Oliver Letwin MP through the contact page.
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Operators of Scientology rehab center to open Clearwater halfway house (re Narconon)
Discussion in 'Narconon' started by CommunicatorIC, Jul 25, 2014.
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Tampa Bay Times: Operators of Scientology rehab center to open Clearwater halfway house
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scient...ter-to-open-clearwater-halfway-house-/2190139
Operators of a drug rehabilitation center in Hernando County, which uses Scientology-affiliated Narconon treatments under intense scrutiny in several states, plan to open a 60-bed halfway house in Clearwater.
And they won't say why.
Longtime center treasurer Sean Strickling heads a company that paid $950,000 in May 2013 for a plot on Sunset Point Road in north Clearwater. Contacted this week by phone, he declined to be interviewed.
His wife, Tammy, the top officer at the Spring Hill Narconon, helped usher the project through Clearwater's permitting process. She too declined to comment.
Prominent Clearwater Scientologist Kurt Feshbach, who heads a company that owns the Hernando Narconon center, also did not respond to interview requests this week.
CommunicatorIC, Jul 25, 2014
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthre...rwater-halfway-house-(re-Narconon)#post950046
Smurf said:
Tammy. https://www.facebook.com/tammy.strickling.5
Tammy congratulated her brother, actor Steve Howey, for his continuing role on the TV series, 'Shameless'.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0992538
http://www.hipaaspace.com/Medical_Billing/Coding/NPI/Codes/NPI_1346560729.aspx (The property used to be the Sunset Point Baptist Church).
The Wrong Guy Member
Narconon ‘halfway house’ in Clearwater? Not true, say our sources
http://tonyortega.org/2014/07/26/sc...-in-seven-lawsuits-against-its-rehab-network/
The Wrong Guy, Jul 26, 2014
meep meep Member
They will have a hard time running a rehab unit in an urban area. Brilliant guys
meep meep, Jul 26, 2014
JohnnyRUClear Member
Not such brilliant guys, really. Any brilliance in that enterprise either blew or is locked up in a trailer near Hemet by now.
JohnnyRUClear, Jul 27, 2014
DeathHamster Member
I wonder what they'll call the Purification Rundown / New Life Detoxification Program so that they don't need to get licensing for it?
New Step Non-Denominational Spiritual Cleansing?
DeathHamster, Jul 28, 2014
A short echo of the Tampa Bay story.
http://health.wusf.usf.edu/post/scientology-center-plans-expansion
Scientology Center Plans Expansion
(Editor's note: Health News Florida posts links to major articles about Scientology because of the church's general opposition to psychiatry, psychotropic medications and other aspects of traditional approaches to mental illness. The church was started by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard in the 1950s; its spiritual headquarters is in Clearwater.)
Rod_Keller
It's the new home of Narconon Spring Hill, now known as Suncoast Rehabilitation Center. See many docs about this facility.
http://forum.reachingforthetippingpoint.net/index.php/topic,12819.msg34439
Rod_Keller, Jul 31, 2014
Nothing says "legit" like a constantly changing name.
JohnnyRUClear, Aug 2, 2014
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Torys Bar (Osaka, Japan)
The Lane to the Torys Bar
Oasaka, Joso district.
You may notice the small sign in the middle of this picture reading "Juso Torys Suntory". This lane is located in the Juso red-light district in Osaka. Here is the sole survivor of a long bygone era, when Suntory whisky bars, named torys bars could be found all over Japan. Of the hundreds of Torys bars that dotted most of Japan in the 50s' and 60s', you'll find today only one remaining : the Torys bar of Juso, Osaka ...
Let's have a look at this recent Suntory history : As we know, Shinjiro Torii, Suntory's founder was at the same time a passionate whisky lover
and a smart entrepreneur. After the war,
as whisky was getting trendier in Japan, he wanted to speed the access of ordinary Japanese (especially of the hard-working salarymen) to his whiskies and decided to open countless bars across the country, named "Torys bars" where (mostly) men could have an after-work relaxing time drinking whisky. The first of these bars were opened in 1955 in Osaka and Tokyo and were to become a staple of post-war Japan. How many wives have patiently waited for their husband to come home while he was sipping glass after glass in a crowded Torys bar with his work mates... To give you an idea of the success of these whisky bars in Japan, consider the figures : 1500 such Torys bars were established in the 50s' and early 60s'... Many Suntory commercials were shot to promote the trendy drink since that era, like this one. This other one seems to show the flushing effect of whisky, even the house glows at the end (and the gender roles...the wife serves and the husband gulps.
The commercials on the right feature Coppola and Kurosawa enjoying Suntory whisky during the shooting of Kagemusha. Kurosawa seems to have enjoyed the sponsorship of Suntory, and we can even say that 2 generations of Copollas have had a crush for Suntory whiskies if we consider the thread of Lost in Translation, whose director is Sofia Coppola...Listen to the amplified sound of the ice cubes knocking together in the commercial. Uncle Torys, the character created by Ryohei Yamagihara for the Suntory whiskies commercials in the 1950s' was an icon of postwar Japan. After years working with Suntory, Ryohei Yamagihara brought his talent to the Mitsui OSK Lines, a Japanese cruise-ships and freight-ships company. A Ryohei Yamagihara Museum is devoted to his artistic work there.
Mr Eiji Egawa, Manager of the Torys BarTo reach Juso, take the Hankyu line from Umeda (central Osaka), Juso is just a station away (see a video of the trip). Then, once arrived, just go right when you pass the turnstiles at the Juso Hankyu station (East Gate), there's a narrow lane against a high wall parallel to the tracks and the Torys bar is just a few meters down on the left. See this map (pdf) for details (the bar is between the KFC and the Karaoke). If you're spending a few days in either Osaka or Kyoto, it is very easy to get there, so don't miss this opportunity to have a drink in the last Suntory whisky bar (just say you got the tip from a french couple)...
I read somewhere that this bar is a time capsule straight from the late 50s' and we could check it by ourselves : nothing seems to have changed, the bar, the stools or the wall covering. There's only maybe the flat TV hanging above for to distract the eventual lonely drinker. It is a very narrow bar going deep into the building. Its dim-lit lighting makes you feel relaxed even before you ordered the real stuff. my Glass of Suntory Owner's Cask 1993...Egawa-san is a nice man. We told him that we visited Juso just for the sake of enjoying a drink in his Torys bar and I think there aren't too many gaijins doing the same (I hope this post will bring more of them). He has been managing this bar for years (I would swear I wrote on my notes how many years but can't find anything). He says that the bar begins to fill up at 7:30pm or 8pm and we see several patrons coming in and sitting at the bar while we enjoy our drink. They are from the old generation and may have known the hot days of the Tory's bars in the 1960s'. Egawa-san says that his customers look for the authentic feel of the place, the crowdest days being fridays and saturdays. On saturdays he see couples who stop here after shopping time.
The prices for a glass of whisky go from 340 Yen to 3890 Yen. The Yamazaki 12-Year Single Malt for example costs 980 Yen. I set my choice on a Suntory Royal 15 Years at 770 Yen while B. chooses a macerated kaki drink, a 11°-alcohol tile-colored, lightly sugary drink. This is a traditional fermented beverage in Japan and it is made in winter because of the low alcohol. After we chatted a few minutes while sipping our glass, he offers us to try his "owner's cask". B. is careful with the hard spirits but I say yes! of course. Suntory's owner's cask is a Single Malt whisky that Suntory releases by the cask to buyers ready to pay the money for it. Mr Eiji Egawa bought an Owner's Cask 1993 for 1 000 000 Yen (6350 Euro or 9640 USD) with the help of a 100 of his patrons and they shared the precious spirit. Owner's cask prices go from 500 000 Yen to 30 000 000 Yen depending of the millesime and the type of whisky. I am thrilled by the offer and I sip it with relish. This is a 57° proof, nothing, no water added and it gets down the throat pretty well. The Torii : the Best Tool to Keep Walls CleanWe all know that tje Japanese are very respectful of their streets and never litter or drop anything on the sidewalk, but apparently in the night spots with a high concentration of bars and Izakayas there may be a few rebels who (long time ago I'm sure) took from who-knows-where the odd habit to take a leak on a wall or in a dark corner. That's why you may come across these red toriis pinned on the high-risk spots like here near this sewer grate which was probably seen as very appealing to the closing-time staggering patrons. I took this picture a few meters from the Torys bar, in this narrow lane lined with bars and other night spots. Why a torii ? In Japan, a torii is the gate to a shrine and is associated to a godly monument and you just don't piss on such a holy image. The thing is, it works and the hurried drinker usually runs for a safer spot... Umbrellas in Umeda, OsakaTorys BarThe last Suntory Whisky BarJuso, Osaka (Kansai Prefecture)Phone1 : (06) 6301-4826Phone2 : (06) 6308-1926
Awesome post. Next time I am in Osaka - I am going to Tory's (Torii's?) bar. Even without target destinations, I can wander for hours and have a perfectly satisfying time. But this place just sounds neat. Thank you.
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Target’s tech trouble clogs stores with long checkout lines
Posted: Sat 3:32 PM, Jun 15, 2019 |
Updated: Sun 3:45 AM, Jun 16, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A glitch stalled checkout lines at Target stores worldwide Saturday, exasperating shoppers and potentially eating into sales at a prime time for retailers, the day before Father's Day.
The outage is causing extended wait times for customers hoping to check out. (Source: Mike Mozart/Flickr)
The roughly two-hour outage periodically prevented Target's cashiers from scanning merchandise or processing transactions as long lines formed in some stores. Self-checkout registers, usually the speediest of options, also weren't working at times.
Target temporarily closed some of its stores, including one in San Francisco, rather than risk aggravating shoppers.
"Our technology team worked quickly to identify and fix the issue, and we apologize for the inconvenience and frustration this caused for our guests," Target said in a Saturday statement.
Before the company figured out was wrong, a Target employee was warning customers that they might not be able to check out as they entered a San Francisco store early Saturday afternoon. Sales were being completed after intermittent delays during the half hour an AP reporter observed the lines at the store.
But some shoppers posting on their Twitter accounts Saturday painted a different picture as they vented about excruciatingly long lines but expressed sympathy for the Target employees trying to cope with the situation.
The meltdown hit Target at the worst time for a mass-market merchant, given Saturdays are typically one of the busiest shopping days of the week.
Target has been vexed by technology before, most notably in 2013 when malware installed in its checkout system resulted in a data heist that exposed personal information in more than 40 million credit and debit card accounts. That debacle triggered lawsuits and eventually led to the departure of its CEO, Gregg Steinhafel.
The Minneapolis company said customers caught in up the checkout slowdown have no reason to worry.
"After an initial but thorough review, we can confirm that this was not a data breach or security-related issue, and no guest information was compromised at any time," Target said.
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Bear euthanized for killing goats in Nevada
By - Associated Press - Saturday, July 19, 2014
GENOA, Nev. (AP) - A black bear has been euthanized for killing goats a second time in western Nevada.
Nevada Department of Wildlife spokesman Chris Healy says the 6-year-old male bear was trapped and killed Friday after punching a hole in the side of a small Genoa barn and killing two goats this past week.
He says the same bear was responsible for killing four goats in Genoa in April.
The bear wore an identifying ear tag it received in March 2013 when it was captured near a lambing area in Jacks Valley, just north of Genoa.
After the bear was trapped following the earlier killing, it was released back into the wild about 80 miles south of Genoa.
Healy says this is the first bear killed this year for depredating on livestock. Two bears were euthanized in 2013 for the same reason.
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Once vilified, BP now getting credit for gulf tourism boom
In this Wednesday, May 13, 2015 photo, Demarkis Mosley, left, and his wife, Alexandria, of Starkville, Miss., play in the sand on their vacation in Gulf Shores, Ala. Industry officials say Gulf Coast tourism is surging, five years after the ... more >
By JAY REEVES - Associated Press - Monday, May 25, 2015
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (AP) - With the Memorial Day holiday here, fallout from the oil spill that left Gulf Coast beaches smeared with gooey tar balls and scared away visitors in 2010 is being credited, oddly, with something no one imagined back then: An increase in tourism in the region.
Five years after the BP disaster, the petroleum giant that was vilified during heated town hall meetings for killing a way of life is now being praised by some along the coast for spending more than $230 million to help lure visitors back to an area that some feared would die because of the spill.
Questions remain about the long-term environmental impacts of the BP disaster, with a report released just last week finding a definite link between the spill and a record die-off of the bottlenose dolphins that tourists love to spot along the northern Gulf Coast. Pockets of oil still blot the sea floor and spots along Louisiana’s coast.
Meanwhile, many are still wrangling with BP over spill-related claims. Attorneys for businesses and individuals claiming damages from the spill announced a $211 million settlement last week with Transocean Ltd., owner of the failed Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
Yet, at the same time, parking lots are full outside the same coastal hotels and condominium towers that struggled for business and slashed prices while crude was pouring into the gulf off Louisiana’s coast in 2010.
Visitors bob in surf where oil once washed in, and some restaurants have 90-minute waits for dinner on the weekend. Tourist business has doubled in Alabama’s largest beach towns since before the spill, officials say, and Pensacola Beach, Florida, is so clogged with visitors that traffic is a primary problem.
Many attribute the change in large part to the millions of dollars that BP spent on tourism grants and advertising that promoted the Gulf Coast nationwide to people who previously didn’t even realize that Alabama and Mississippi had coastlines.
“I’ve traveled as recently as the spring to California and there were people there who were saying, ‘Hey, I saw those commercials about Alabama,” said coastal condominium developer Bill Brett. “I really think those commercials helped.”
Brett is an owner of Brett/Robinson Real Estate, where he said business is up about 30 percent since the year before the spill. The company has developed 19 buildings with more than 3,200 condo units on the Alabama coast, including one that was finished with a $37 million settlement from BP after the spill.
The tourism surge isn’t happening in a vacuum: Many U.S. attractions have seen big increases during the same period as the economy recovered following the 2008 financial crisis and Americans returned to the road.
The theme parks of Orlando, Florida, helped draw a record 62 million visitors to the city last year, and the U.S. Travel Association expects Americans to spend about 5 percent more this Memorial Day than last.
But back in 2010, there were questions and fears over whether the tourist economy of the northern Gulf Coast would ever recover from the spill. Residents feared that images of oil-soaked birds and blackened beaches would permanently change travel patterns and leave towns like Gulf Shores, Alabama, and Destin, Florida, as the forgotten coast.
Ted Scarritt, who offers tourist cruises in Orange Beach aboard his 53-foot catamaran “Wild Hearts,” remembers crying and praying while the spill was happening. Scarritt, who also owns a beach service company, purchased the sailboat only months before the spill and had to keep it out of the oil-marred waters that summer.
Today all that seems like a bad, distant dream as he watches clear gulf waters slide past the hull during an afternoon of sailing off Alabama’s coast.
“We’re just amazingly thankful,” said Scarritt. “I think our area has recovered profoundly. You can look at the water right now, you can look at the beach. We’re fine.”
Picking up shells in the surf at Pensacola Beach, Autumn Ventling of Nashville, Tennessee, didn’t realize the spill ever occurred; she was just 18 at the time. Today, she said the white-sand beach and emerald-colored water appear beautiful, just like so many other beaches on the Gulf Coast.
“I can’t tell anything happened,” said Ventling, 23.
Part of that is because of a massive cleanup program BP conducted on beaches after the spill. For months, big machines with metal sifters dug deep to remove remaining mats of tar from the sand, which was then spread back on the seashore.
While the cleanup work was going on, BP was also shelling out cash to revive tourism.
BP spokesman Jason Ryan said the company provided $179 million in tourism promotion grants to the gulf states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi, and it aired commercials nationally touting the region as recently as early 2013. The company hasn’t disclosed the cost of the spots, he said.
But under an agreement with plaintiff’s attorney who sued over the spill, BP provided another $57 million for private groups and government to promote tourism and seafood on the Gulf Coast.
The rebound has been a relief to people like Jeanne Dailey, owner of Newman-Dailey Vacation Rentals in Destin.
During the long summer of 2010, Dailey spent many sleepless nights fearing oil would wash ashore and kill the tourism business. The Destin area never got the heavy patches of oil that polluted Alabama beaches, Mississippi coastal islands and the boot of Louisiana, but the perception that the entire coast was coated in oil prompted hundreds of vacationers to cancel travel plans, she said.
“Once I made peace with the fact that I might have to declare bankruptcy, things started to get better,” she said.
BP’s ad campaign combined with sales incentives combined to lure people back to the area eventually led to a strong rebound, Dailey said. Five years later, her business is thriving and preparing to mark its 30th anniversary.
AP writer Melissa Nelson-Gabriel contributed to this story from Pensacola Beach, Florida.
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Breathitt County family's gifts stolen from underneath tree
JACKSON, Ky. (WKYT) - The Howards spent Thursday together, trying, they say, to heal emotionally. This has been their nightmare before Christmas.
Thieves stole thousands of dollars' worth of items when they broke in Wednesday morning, Joy Howard said. Howard said the thieves took gifts from underneath the Christmas tree, as well as electronics, shoes and other items, including a basketball autographed by UK basketball coach John Calipari.
"Who does that?" Howard asked. "Who comes in this close to Christmas and literally goes to somebody's Christmas tree - and they probably thought there would be more presents under the tree than there were, thank goodness Santa doesn't come here until Christmas Eve - but to me that's very heartless."
Howard says neighbors saw a car pull up the road to their house around 11 a.m. Wednesday, and others saw it parked by their driveway. They described it as a dark gray Mitsubishi Eclipse or similar coupe, with tinted windows and black rims.
The Howards are glad no one was home at the time, but the ordeal has shattered this family's peace, just days before Christmas. Together they have three kids who live in the home, including two young girls. They say they made it clear to them that Santa is still coming for Christmas.
"We tried to be optimistic with our kids, we tried to be positive with our kids," Howard said. "This is definitely not something that we wanted to have to deal with as parents this time of year, how evil people can be, how evil the world can be."
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Rolls-Royce demonstrates world’s first remotely operated commercial vessel
Rolls-Royce and global towage operator Svitzer have successfully demonstrated the world’s first remotely operated commercial vessel in Copenhagen harbour, Denmark
Rolls-Royce testing the first autonomous commercial vessel
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Rolls-Royce has announced it has made maritime history after demonstrating the world’s first remotely operated commercial vessel.
The British engineering company has partnered with the global towage operation, Svitzer.
Earlier this year, one of Svitzer´s tugs, the 28-metre long Svitzer Hermod, safely conducted a number of remotely controlled manoeuvres.
From the quay side in Copenhagen harbour in Denmark, the vessel’s captain stationed at the vessel’s remote base at Svitzer headquarters, berthed the vessel alongside the quay, undocked, turned 360°, and piloted it to the Svitzer HQ, before docking again.
Rolls-Royce has only just made news of the demonstration public.
The Remote Operating Centre
The companies have also signed an agreement to continue their cooperation to test remote and autonomous operations for vessels.
The primary systems involved will be autonomous navigation, situational awareness, remote control centre and communication.
The president of marine for Rolls-Royce, Mikael Makinen, witnessed the demonstration.
The route taken by the ship
“It was an honour to be present at what I believe was a world first and a genuinely historic moment for the maritime industry. We’ve been saying for a couple of years that a remotely operated commercial vessel would be in operation by the end of the decade,” he said.
“Thanks to a unique combination of Svitzer’s operational knowledge and our technological expertise, we have made that vision a reality much sooner than we anticipated,” he added.
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The Svitzer Hermod, a Robert Allan ship design, was built in Turkey at the Sanmar yard in 2016.
It is equipped with a Rolls-Royce Dynamic Positioning System, which is the key link to the remote controlled system.
The vessel is also equipped with a pair of MTU 16V4000 M63 diesel engines from Rolls-Royce, each rated 2000 kW at 1800 rpm.
The Svitzer Hermod also features a range of sensors which combine different data inputs using advanced software to give the captain an enhanced understanding of the vessel and its surroundings.
The data is transmitted reliably and securely to a Remote Operating Centre (ROC) from where the captain controls the vessel.
Rolls-Royce said the Remote Operating Centre has been designed to redefine the way in which vessels are controlled.
Rolls-Royce believes this is the first time in the world that a commercial ship has been operated remotely
Instead of copying existing wheelhouse design, experienced captains were asked for their input with the aim of creating a future proof standard for the control of vessels remotely.
Lloyd Register is also working with both Rolls-Royce and Svitzer on the project.
Its marine and offshore director, Nick Brown, said working and supporting the two companies on the safe demonstration of the Svitzer Hermod was “truly a landmark moment for Lloyds Registry and the industry.”
“With autonomous ships likely to enter service soon, we have already set out the ‘how’ of marine autonomous operations in our ShipRight procedure guidance as it is vital these technologies are implemented in a safe way and there is a route for compliance.” he explained.
“Lack of prescriptive Rules was no barrier for “de-risking” the project and we provided assurance against LR’s Cyber-Enabled Ships ShipRight Procedure, whilst considering the safety implications associated with the first closed demonstration,” added Brown.
Throughout the demonstration the vessel had a fully qualified captain and crew on board to ensure safe operation in the event of a system failure.
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Major Research Review on eLearning Effectiveness
eLearning, Research, Work-Learning Research
Is elearning effective? As effective as classroom instruction — more or less effective? What about blended learning — when elearning and classroom learning are combined?
These critical questions have now been answered and are available in the research report, Does eLearning Work? What the Scientific Research Says!
In this research review, I looked at meta-analyses and individual research studies, and was able to derive clear conclusions. The report is available for free, it includes an executive summary, and research jargon is kept to a minimum.
Click here to download the report…
Note that the August 10, 2017 version of this report incorrectly cited the Rowland (2014) study in a footnote and omitted it from the list of research citations. These issues were fixed on August 11, 2017. Special thanks to Elizabeth Dalton who notified me of the issues.
10 August 2017 /0 Comments/by Will Thalheimer
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Giving Learners More Control in eLearning: What Does the Research Say?
eLearning, Research
Does giving learners more control of the way they navigate through an elearning program help them or hurt them?
Before I tell you what the research says, challenge yourself with this one-item quiz question:
How did you do? I ask because I want to give you maximum control of this learning experience.
Or maybe, I just like telling a joke. SMILE.
A recent meta-analysis (a scientific study that looks at many other scientific studies) found NO benefit for learner control. And contrary to what we were told by Malcolm Knowles and all those who tried to sell us on the adult-learner-knows-best baloney, the meta-analysis showed slightly more of a tendency for learner control to be beneficial for kids, NOT adults (but still a virtually non-existent benefit).
Our job then as elearning designers is NOT to give up control to our learners, but to design a learning experience that uses proven research-based techniques to guide learners through an effective repertoire of learning experiences. Certainly, the research finding shouldn’t be construed to mean that we should never give learners control, but it does mean that as an over-riding design principle, it’s a bad idea.
Interestingly, the meta-analysis broke down elearning into its methodological parts, and found no benefit to learner control in any of the components.
“The current study, in keeping with the previous meta-analysis (Niemiec et al., 1996), found near zero effects for all components of instruction (pacing, time, sequence, practice, review). Thus, there does not seem to be an advantage to giving the learner control over any particular instructional component.” (p. 404)
Of course, with research as with most things in life, some circumspection should be in order. My first worry is that research on elearning tends to be done on very short learning programs where learner motivation doesn’t really come into play. Who can’t keep attentive for 15 minutes, maintaining their motivation? Some learner control might help in longer learning programs where it might support motivation to engage the learning. Also, we wouldn’t want to throw out the idea of learner control completely. There may be some specific opportunities where it is worthwhile.
The Research Reviewed
Karich, A. C., Burns, M. K., & Maki, K. E. (2014). Updated meta-analysis of learner control within educational technology. Review of Educational Research, 84(3), 392-410.
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18 January 2017 /0 Comments/by Will Thalheimer
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Definition of MicroLearning
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I’ve looked for a good definition of microlearning, but because I couldn’t find one, I’ve created my own.
Microlearning involves the use of:
“Relatively short engagements in learning-related activities—typically ranging from a few seconds up to 20 minutes (or up to an hour in some cases)—that may provide any combination of content presentation, review, practice, reflection, behavioral prompting, performance support, goal reminding, persuasive messaging, task assignments, social interaction, diagnosis, coaching, management interaction, or other learning-related methodologies.”
Microlearning has five utilization cases:
Course Replacement
Provides training content and learning support, often as a replacement for classroom training or long-form elearning.
Course Augmentation
Provides after-course or within-course streams of short learning interactions to reinforce, strengthen, or deepen learning.
Retrieval Support
Provides retrieval practice, spaced repetitions, and reminding to ensure knowledge and skills can be remembered when needed.
Just-In-Time (Moment-of-Need) Learning
Provides information when learners need it to perform a task they are working on.
Behavioral Prompts
Provides action nudges, task assignments, or performance support to directly prompt and support behavior.
If it’s not obvious, there are clearly overlaps in these five use cases, and furthermore, a single microlearning thread may utilize more than one of the methodologies suggested. For example, when using microlearning as a replacement for a standard elearning course, you might also consider retrieval support and behavioral prompts in your full learning design.
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Providing Feedback on Quiz Questions — Yes or No?
eLearning, Learning Measurement
I was asked today the following question from a learning professional in a large company:
It will come as no surprise that we create a great deal of mandatory/regulatory required eLearning here. All of these eLearning interventions have a final assessment that the learner must pass at 80% to be marked as completed; in addition to viewing all the course content as well. The question is around feedback for those assessment questions.
One faction says no feedback at all, just a score at the end and the opportunity to revisit any section of the course before retaking the assessment.
Another faction says to tell them correct or incorrect after they submit their answer for each question.
And a third faction argues that we should give them detailed feedback beyond just correct/incorrect for each question.
Which approach do you recommend?
Here is what I wrote in response:
It all depends on what you’re trying to accomplish…
If this is a high-stakes assessment you may want to protect the integrity of your questions. In such a case, you’d have a large pool of questions and you’d protect the answer choices by not divulging them. You may even have proctored assessments, for example, having the respondent turn on their web camera and submit their video image along with the test results. Also, you wouldn’t give feedback because you’d be concerned that students would share the questions and answers.
If this is largely a test to give feedback to the learners—and to support them in remembering and performance—you’d not only give them detailed feedback, but you’d retest them after a few days or more to reinforce their learning. You might even follow-up to see how well they’ve been able to apply what they’ve learned on the job.
We can imagine a continuum between these two points where you might seek a balance between a focus on learning and a focus on assessment.
This may be a question for the lawyers, not just for us as learning professionals. If these courses are being provided to meet certain legal requirements, it may be most important to consider what might happen in the legal domain. Personally, I think the law may be behind learning science. Based on talking with clients over many years, it seems that lawyers and regulators often recommend learning designs and assessments that do NOT make sense from a learning standpoint. For example, lawyers tell companies that teaching a compliance topic once a year will be sufficient — when we know that people forget and may need to be reminded.
In the learning-assessment domain, lawyers and regulators may say that it is acceptable to provide a quiz with no feedback. They are focused on having a defensible assessment. This may be the advice you should follow given current laws and regulations. However, this seems ultimately indefensible from a learning standpoint. Couldn’t a litigant argue that the organization did NOT do everything they could to support the employee in learning — if the organization didn’t provide feedback on quiz questions? This seems a pretty straightforward argument — and one that I would testify to in a court of law (if I was asked).
By the way, how do you know 80% is the right cutoff point? Most people use an arbitrary cutoff point, but then you don’t really know what it means.
Also, are your questions good questions? Do they ask people to make decisions set in realistic scenarios? Do they provide plausible answer choices (even for incorrect choices)? Are they focused on high-priority information?
Do the questions and the cutoff point truly differentiate between competence and lack of competence?
Are the questions asked after a substantial delay — so that you know you are measuring the learners’ ability to remember?
Bottom line: Decision-making around learning assessments is more complicated than it looks.
Note: I am available to help organizations sort this out… yet, as one may ascertain from my answer here, there are no clear recipes. It comes down to judgment and goals.
If your goal is learning, you probably should provide feedback and provide a delayed follow-up test. You should also use realistic scenario-based questions, not low-level knowledge questions.
If your goal is assessment, you probably should create a large pool of questions, proctor the testing, and withhold feedback.
11 October 2016 /0 Comments/by Will Thalheimer
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Interview with Karl Kapp on Games, Gamification, and LEARNING!
eLearning, People, Research
Dr. Karl Kapp is one of the learning field’s best research-to-practice gurus! Legendary for his generosity and indefatigable energy, it is my pleasure to interview him for his wisdom on games, gamification, and their intersection.
His books on games and gamification are wonderful. You can click on the images below to view them on Amazon.com.
The following is a master class on games and learning:
Will (Question 1):
Karl, you’ve written a definitive exploration of Gamification in your book, The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-Based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education. As I read your book I was struck by your insistence that Gamification “is not the superficial addition of points, rewards, and badges to learning experiences.” What the heck are you talking about? Everybody knows that gamification is all about leaderboards, or so the marketplace would make us believe… [WINK, WINK] What are you getting at in your repeated warning that gamification is more complex than we might think?
Karl:
If you examine why people play games, the reasons are many, but often players talk about the sense of mastery, the enjoyment of overcoming a challenge, the thrill of winning and the joy of exploring the environment. They talk about how they moved from one level to another or how they encountered a “boss level” and defeated the boss after several attempts or how they strategized a certain way to accomplish the goal of winning the game. Or they describe how they allocated resources so they could defeat a difficult opponent. Rarely, if ever, do people who play games talk about the thrill of earning a point or the joy of being number seven on the leaderboard or the excitement of earning a badge just for showing up.
The elements of points, badges and leaderboards (PBLs) are the least exciting and enticing elements of playing games. So there is no way we should lead with those items when gamifying instruction. Sure PBLs play a role in making a game more understandable or in determining how far away a player is from the “best” but they do little to internally motivate players by themselves. Reliance solely on the PBL elements of games to drive learner engagement is not sustainable and not even what makes games motivational or engaging. It’s the wrong approach to learning and motivation. It’s superficial; it’s not deep enough to have lasting meaning.
Instead, we need to look at the more intrinsically motivating and deeper elements of games such as: challenge, mystery, story, constructive feedback (meaningful consequences) strategy, socialization and other elements that make games inherently engaging. We miss a large opportunity when we limit our “game thinking” to points, badges and leaderboards. We need to expand our thinking to include elements that truly engage a player and draw them into a game. These are the things that make games fun and frustrating and worth our investment in time.
You wrote that “too many elements of reality and the game ceases to be engaging,”—and I’m probably taking this out of context—but I wonder if that is true in all cases? For example, I can imagine a realistic flight simulator for fighter pilots that creates an almost perfect replica of the cockpit, g-forces, and more, that would be highly engaging… On the other hand, my 13-year-daughter got me hooked on Tanki, an online tank shot-em-up game, and there are very few elements of reality in the game—and I, unfortunately, find it very engaging. Is it different for novices and experts? Are the recommendations for perceptual fidelity different for different topic areas, different learning goals, et cetera?
A while ago, I read a fake advertisement for a military game. It was a parody. The fake game description described how the “ultra-realistic” military game would be hours of fun because it was just like actually being in the military. The description told the player that he or she would have hours of fun walking to the mess hall, maintaining equipment, getting gasoline for the jeep, washing boots, patrolling and zigging and cleaning latrines. Now none of these things are really fun, in fact, they are boring but they are part of the life of being in the military. Military games don’t include these mundane activities. Instead, you are always battling an enemy or strategizing what to do next. The actions that a military force performs 95% of the time are not included in the game because they are too boring.
If games where 100% realistic, they would not be fun. So, instead, games are an abstraction of reality because they focus on things within reality that can be made engaging or interesting. If a game reflected reality 100%, there would be boring game play. Now certainly, games can be designed to “improve” reality and make it more fun. In the game, The Sims, you wake up, get dressed and go to work which all seems pretty mundane. However, these realistic activities in The Sims are an abstraction of the tasks you actually perform. The layer of abstraction makes the game more exciting, engaging and fun. But in either the military game case or The Sims, too much reality is not fun.
The flight simulator needs to be 100% realistic because it’s not really a game (although people do play it as a game) but the real purpose of a simulation is training and perfection of skills. A flight simulator can be fun for some people to “play” but in a 100% realistic simulator, if you don’t know what you are doing, it’s boring because you keep crashing. For someone who doesn’t know how to fly, like me. If you made a World War II air battle game which had 100% realistic controls for my airplane, it wouldn’t be fun. In game design, we need to balance elements of reality with the learning goal and the element of engagement.
For some people, a simulator can be highly engaging because the learner is performing the task she would do on the job. So there needs to be a balance in games and simulations to have the right amount of reality for the goals you are trying to achieve.
In developing a learning game, what should come first, the game or the goals (of learning)?
Learning goals must come first and must remain at the forefront of the game design process. Too often I see the mistake of a design team becoming too focused on games elements and losing site of the learning goals. In our field, we are paid to help people learn, not to entertain them. Learning first.
Having said that, you can’t ignore or treat the game elements as second class citizens, you can’t bolt-on a points system and think you have now developed a fun game—you haven’t. The best process involves simultaneously integrating game mechanics and learning elements. It’s tricky and not a lot of instructional designers have experience or training in this area but it’s critical to have integration of game and learning elements, the two need to be designed together. Neither can be an afterthought.
Later we’ll talk about the research you’ve uncovered about the effectiveness of games. As I peruse the literature on games, the focus is mostly on the potential benefits of games. But what about drawbacks? I, for one, “waste” a ton of time playing games. Opportunity costs are certainly one issue, but maybe there are other drawbacks as well, including addiction to the endorphins and adrenaline; a heightened state of engagement during gaming that may make other aspects of living – or learning – seem less interesting, engaging. What about learning bad ideas, being desensitized to violence, sexual predation, or other anti-social behaviors? Are there downsides to games? And, in your opinion, has the research to date done enough to examine negative consequences of games?
Yes, games can have horrible, anti-social content. They can also have wonderful, pro-social content. In fact, a growing area of game research focuses on possible pro-social aspects of games. The answer really is the content. A “game” per-say is neither pro- or anti-social like any other instructional medium. Look at speeches. Stalin gave speeches filled with horrible content and Martin Luther King, Jr. gave speeches filled with inspiring content. Yet we never seem to ask the question “Are speeches inherently good or bad?”
Games, like other instructional media, have caveats that good instructional designers need to factor when deciding if a game is the right instructional intervention. Certainly time is a big factor. It takes time to both develop a game and to play a game. So this is a huge downside. You need to weigh the impact you think the game will have on learner retention or knowledge versus another instructional intervention. Although, I can tell you there are at least two meta-analysis studies that indicate that games are more effective for learning than traditional, lecture-based instruction. But the point is not to blindly choose game over lecture or discussion. The decision regarding the right instructional design needs to be thoughtful. Knowing the caveats should factor into the final design decision.
Another caveat is that games should not be “stand-alone.” It’s far better for a learning game to be included as part of a larger curriculum rather than developed without any sense of how it fits into the larger pictures. Designers need to make sure they don’t lose site of the learning objective. If you are considering deploying a game within your organization, you have to make sure it’s appropriate for your culture. Another big factor to consider is how the losers are handled in the game. If a person is not successful at a game, what are the repercussions? What if she gets mad and shuts down? What if he walks away halfway through the experience because he is so frustrated? These types of contingencies need to be considered when developing a game. So, yes, there are downsides to games as there are downsides to other types of instruction. Our job, as instructional designers, is to understand as many downsides and upsides as possible for many different design possibilities and make an informed, evidence-based decision.
As you found in your research review, feedback is a critical element in gaming. I’ve anointed “feedback” as one of the most important learning factors in my Decisive Dozen – as feedback is critical in all learning. The feedback research doesn’t seem definitive in recommending immediate versus delayed feedback, but the wisdom I take from the research suggests that delayed feedback is beneficial in supporting long-term remembering, whereas immediate feedback is beneficial in helping people “get” or comprehend key learning points or contingencies. In some sense, learners have to build correct mental models before they can (or should) reinforce those understandings through repetitions, reinforcement, and retrieval practice.
Am I right that most games provide immediate feedback? If not, when is immediate feedback common in games, when is delayed feedback common? What missed opportunities are there in feedback design?
You are right; most games provide immediate, corrective feedback. You know right-away if you are performing the right action and, if not, the consequences of performing the wrong action. A number of games also provide delayed feedback in the form of after-action reviews. These are often seen in games using branching. At the end of the game, the player is given a description of choices she made versus the correct choices. So, delayed feedback is common in some types of games. In terms of what is missing in terms of feedback, I think that most learning games do a poor job of layering feedback. In well-designed video games, at the first level of help, a player can receive a vague clue. If this doesn’t work or too much time passes, the game provides a more explicit clue and finally, if that doesn’t work, the player receives step-by-step instructions. Most learning games are too blunt. They tend to give the player the answer right away rather than layers choices or escalating the help. I think that is a huge missed opportunity.
By the way, your book does a really nice job in describing the complexity and subtlety of feedback, including Robin Hunicke’s formulation for what makes feedback “juicy.” What subtleties around feedback do most of us instructional designers or instructors tend to miss?
Our feedback in learning games and even elearning modules is just too blunt. We need more subtlety. Hunicke describes the need for feedback to have many different attributes including the need for the feedback to be tactile and coherent. She refers to tactile feedback as creating an experience where the player can feel the feedback as it is occurring on screen so that it’s not forced or unnatural within the game play. Instructional designers typically don’t create feedback the player or learner feels, typically, they create feedback that is “in your face” such as “Nice job!” or “Sorry, try again.” She describes coherent feedback as feedback that stays within the context of the game. It is congruent with on screen actions and activities as well as with the storyline unfolding as the interactions occur. Our learning games seem to fail at including both of these elements in our feedback. In general, our field needs to focus on feedback that is more naturally occurring and within the flow of the learning.
Do learners have to enjoy the game to learn from it? What are the benefits of game pleasure? Are there drawbacks at all?
Actually, research by Tracy Sitzmann indicates (2011) that a learner doesn’t have to indicate that he or she was “entertained” to learn from a serious game. So fun should not be the standard by which we measure the success of game. Instead, she found that what makes a game effective for learning is the level of engagement. Engagement should be the goal when designing a learning game. However, there are a number of studies that indicate that games are motivational. Although, one meta-analysis on games indicated that motivation was not a factor. So, I am not sure if pleasure is a necessary factor for learning. Instead, I tend to focus more on building engagement and having learners make meaningful decisions and less on learner enjoyment and fun. This tends to run counter to why most people want a learning game but the reason we should want learning games is to encourage engagement and higher order thinking and not to simply make boring learning fun. Engagement, mastery and tough decision making might not always be fun but, as you indicated in your questions about simulations, it can be engaging and learning results from engagement and then understanding the consequences of actions taken during that engagement.
As I was perusing research on games, one of my surprises was that games seemed to be used for health-behavior change at least as much as learning. What they heck’s going on?
Games are great tools for promoting health. We all know that we should focus on health and wellness but we often let other life elements get in the way. Making staying healthy a game provides, in many cases that little bit of extra motivation to make you stay on course. I think games for health work so well because they capitalize on our already existing knowledge that we need to stay healthy and then provide tracking of progress, earning of points and other incentives to help us give that extra boost that makes us take the extra 100 steps needed to get our 10,000 for the day. Ironically, I find games used in many life and death situations.
In your book you have a whole chapter devoted to research on games. I really like your review. Of course, with all the recent research, maybe we’ve learned even more. Indeed, I just did a search of PsycINFO (a database of scientific research in the social sciences). When I searched for “games” in the title, I found 110 articles in peer-reviewed journals in this year (2016) alone. That’s a ton of research on games!!
Let’s start with the finding in your book that the research methodology of much of the research is not very rigorous. You found that concern from more than one reviewer. Is that still true today (in 2016)? If the research base is not yet solid, what does that mean for us as practitioners? Should we trust the research results or should we be highly skeptical — OR, where in-between these extremes should we be?
The short answer, as with any body of research, is to be skeptical but not paralyzed. Waiting for the definitive decision on games is a continually evolving process. Research results are rarely a definitive answer; they only give us guidance. I am sure you remember when “research” indicated that eggs were horrible for you and then “research” revealed that eggs were the ultimate health food. We need to know that research evolves and is not static. And, we need to keep in mind that some research indicated that smoking had health benefits so I am always somewhat skeptical. Having said that, I don’t let skepticism stop me from doing something. If the research seems to be pointing in a direction but I don’t have all the answers, I’ll still “try it out” to see for myself.
That said the research on games, even research done today, could be much more rigorous. There are many flaws which include small sample sizes, no universal definition of games and too much focus on comparing the outcomes of games with the outcomes of traditional instruction. One would think that argument would be pretty much over but decade after decade we continue to compare “traditional instruction” with radio, television, games and now mobile devices. After decades of research the findings are almost always the same. Good design, regardless of the delivery medium, is the most crucial aspect for learning. Where the research really needs to go, and it’s starting to go in that direction, is toward comparing elements of games to see which elements lead to the most effective and deep learning outcomes. So, for example, is the use of a narrative more effective in a learning game than the use of a leaderboard or is the use of characters more critical for learning than the use of a strategy-based design? I think the blanket comparisons are bad and, in many cases, misleading. For example, Tic-Tac-Toe is a game but so is Assassin’s Creed IV. So to say that all games teach pattern recognition because Tic-Tac-Toe teaches pattern recognition is not good. As Clark Aldrich stated years ago, the research community needs some sort of taxonomy to help identify different genres of games and then research into the learning impact of those genres.
So, I am always skeptical of game research and try to carefully describe limitations of the research I conduct and to carefully review research that has been conducted by others. I tend to like meta-analysis studies which are one method of looking at the body of research in the field and then drawing conclusions but even those aren’t perfect as you have arguments about what studies were included and what studies were not included.
At this point I think we have some general guidelines about the use of games in learning. We know that games are most effective in a curriculum when they are introduced and described to the learners, then the learners play the game and then there is a debrief. I would like to focus more on what we know from the research on games and how to implement games effectively rather than the continuous, and in my opinion, pointless comparison of games to traditional instruction. Let’s just focus on what works when games do provide positive learning outcomes.
Will (Question 10):
A recent review of serious games (Tsekleves, Cosmas, & Aggoun, 2014, 2016) concluded that their benefits were still not fully supported. “Despite the increased use of computer games and serious games in education, there are still very few empirical studies with conclusive results on the effectiveness of serious games in education.” This seems a bit strong given other findings from recent meta-analyses, for example the moderate effect sizes found in a meta-analysis from Wouters, van Nimwegen, van Oostendorp, & van der Spek (2013).
Can you give us a sense of the research? Are serious games generally better, sometimes better, or rarely better than conventional instruction? Or, are they better in some circumstance, for some learners, for some topics – rather than others? How should us practitioners think about the research findings?
Wouters et al. (2013) found that games are more effective than traditional instruction as did Stizmann (2011). But, as you indicated, other meta-analysis studies have not come to that conclusion. So, again, I think the real issue is that the term “games” is way too broad for easy comparisons and we need to focus more on the elements of games and how the individual elements intermingle and combine to cause learning to occur. One major problem with research in the field of games is that to conduct effective and definitive research we often want to isolate one variable and then keep all other variables that same. That processes is extremely difficult to do with games. New research methods might need to be invented to effectively discover how game variables interact with one another. I even saw an article that declared that all games are situational learning and should be studied in that context rather than in an experimental context. I don’t know the answer but there are few simple solutions to game-based research and definitive declarations of the effectiveness of games.
However, having said all that, here are some things we do know from the research related to using games for learning:
Games should be embedded in instructional programs. The best learning outcomes from using a game in the classroom occur when a three-step embedding process is followed. The teacher should first introduce the game and explain its learning objectives to the students. Then the students play the game. Finally, after the game is played, the teacher and students should debrief one another on what was learned and how the events of the game support the instructional objectives. This process helps ensure that learning occurs from playing the game (Hays, 2005; Sitzmann, 2011).
Ensure game objectives align with curriculum objectives. Ke (2009) found that the learning outcomes achieved through computer games depend largely on how educators align learning (i.e., learning subject areas and learning purposes), learner characteristics, and game-based pedagogy with the design of an instructional game. In other words, if the game objectives match the curriculum objectives, disjunctions are avoided between the game design and curricular goals (Schifter, 2013). The more closely aligned curriculum goals and game goals, the more likely the learning outcomes of the game will match the desired learning outcomes of the student.
Games need to include instructional support. In games without instructional support such as elaborative feedback, pedagogical agents, and multimodal information presentations (Hays, 2005; Ke, 2009; Wouters et al., 2013)., students tend to learn how to play the game rather than learn domain-specific knowledge embedded in the game. Instructional support that helps learners understand how to use the game increases the effectiveness of the game by enabling learners to focus on its content rather than its operational rules.
Games do not need to be perceived as being “entertaining” to be educationally effective. Although we may hope that Maria finds the game entertaining, research indicates that a student does not need to perceive a game as entertaining to still receive learning benefits. In a meta-analysis of 65 game studies, Sitzmann (2011) found that although “most simulation game models and review articles propose that the entertainment value of the instruction is a key feature that influences instructional effectiveness, entertainment is not a prerequisite for learning,” that entertainment value did not impact learning (see also Garris et al., 2002; Tennyson & Jorczak, 2008; Wilson et al., 2009). Furthermore, what is entertaining to one student may not be entertaining to another. The fundamental criterion in selecting or creating a game should be the learner’s actively engagement with the content rather than simply being entertained (Dondling, 2007; Sitzmann, 2011).
If the research results are still tentative, or are only strong in certain areas, how should we as learning designers think about serious games? Is there overall advice you would recommend?
First of all, I’d like to point to the research that exists indicating that lectures are not as effective for learning as some believe. So practitioners, faculty members and others have defaulted to lectures and held them up as the “holy grail” of learning experiences when the literature clearly doesn’t back up the use of lectures as the best method for teaching higher level thinking skills. If one wants to be skeptical of learning designs, start with the lecture.
Second, I think the guidelines outlined above are a good start. We are literally learning more all the time so keep checking to see the latest. I try to publish research on my blog (karlkapp.com) and at the ATD Science of Learning blog and, of course, the Will at Work blog for all things learning research are good places to look.
Third, we need to take more chances. Don’t be paralyzed waiting for research to tell you what to do. Try something, if you fail, try something else. Sure you can spend your career creating safe PowerPoint-based slide shows where you hit next to continue but that doesn’t really move your career or the field forward. Take what is known from reading books and from vetted and trusted internet sources and make professionally informed decisions.
Finally, if we decide to go ahead and develop or purchase a serious game, what are the five most important things people should know?
First clearly define your goals. Why are you designing or purchasing a serious game and what do you expect as the outcome? After the learners play the game what should they be able to do? How should they think? What result do you desire? Without a clearly defined outcome, you will run into problems.
Determine how the game fits into your overall learning curriculum. Games should not be stand-alone; they really should be an integral part of a larger instructional plan. Determine where the serious game fits into the bigger picture.
Consider your corporate culture. So cultures will allow a fanciful game with zombies or strange characters and some will not. Know what your culture will tolerate in terms of game look and feel and then work within those parameters.
If the game is electronic, get your information technology (IT) folks involved early. You’ll need to look at things like download speed, access, browser compatibility and a host of other technical issues that you need to consider.
Think carefully and deeply before you decide to develop a game internally. Developing good, effective serious games is tough. It’s not a two-week project. Partner with a vendor to obtain the desired result.
(A bonus) Don’t neglect the power of card games or board games for teaching. If you have the opportunity to bring learners together, consider low-tech game solutions. Sometimes those are the most impactful.
One of your key pieces of advice is for folks to play games to learn about their power and potential. What kind of games should we choose to play? How should we prioritize our game playing? What kind of games should we avoid because they’ll just be a waste of time or might give us bad ideas about games for learning?
I think you should play all types of games. First, pick different types of games from a delivery perspective so pick some card games, board games, causal games on your smartphone and video games on a game console. Mix it up. Then play different types of games such as role-play games, cooperative games, matching games, racing games, games where you collect items (like Pokémon Go). The trick is to not just play games that you like but to play a variety of games. You want to build a “vocabulary” of game knowledge. Once you’ve built a vocabulary, you will have a formidable knowledge base on which to draw when you want to create a new learning game.
Also, you can’t just play the games. You need to play and critically evaluate the games. Pay attention to what is engaging about the game, what is confusing, how the rules are crafted, what game mechanics are being employed, etc.? Play games with a critical eye. Of course, you will run the danger of ruining the fun of games because you will dissect any game you are playing to determine what about the game is good and what is bad but, that’s ok, you need that skill to help you design games. You want to think like a game designer because when you create a serious game, you are a game designer. Therefore, the greater the variety of game you the play and dissect, the better game designer you will become.
If folks are interested, where can they get your book?
Amazon.com is a great place to purchase my book or at the ATD web site. Also, if people have access to Lynda.com, I have several courses on Lynda including “The Gamification of Learning”. And I have a new book coming out in January co-authored by my friend Sharon Boller called “Play to Learn” where we walk readers through the entire serious game design process from conceptualization to implementation. We are really excited about that book because we think it will be very helpful for people who want to create learning games.
You can click on the images below to view Karl’s Gamification books on Amazon.com.
Sitzmann, T. (2011). A meta-analytic examination of the instructional effectiveness of computer-based simulation games. Personnel Psychology, 64(2), 489–528.
Tsekleves, E., Cosmas, J., & Aggoun, A. (2016). Benefits, barriers and guideline recommendations for the implementation of serious games in education for stakeholders and policymakers. British Journal of Educational Technology, 47(1), 164-183. Available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjet.12223/pdf
Wouters, P., van Nimwegen, C., van Oostendorp, H., & van der Spek, E. D. (2013). A meta-analysis of the cognitive and motivational effects of serious games. Journal of Educational Psychology, 105(2), 249-265. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0031311
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Personalized Learning with Video… by Consensus.
eLearning, New Technology, Thoughts and Ideas
Research shows that one-on-one tutoring is generally highly effective — with a good tutor, of course. Similarly, John Anderson — the cognitive psychologist — along with others — developed Intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) that tailor content to learners based on cognitive models of what they know and don't know.
These learning approaches are beneficial because they personalize learning based on a diagnosis of learner knowledge. This is not a new concept. Indeed, the Socratic Method also took learners on a journey based on their responses. B. F. Skinner's operant conditioning provided reinforcement based on learner actions. Skinner's Programmed Learning and Fred Keller's Personalized System of Instruction are practical applications based on operant conditioning principles.
We've known for millennium that personalized learning is good — and we've even dabbled in scalable implementations like programmed learning — but for the most part we are still awaiting the promise of such personalization.
Now may be the time. New technologies are beginning to show promise. For example, subscription-learning threads based on personalized spacing schedules personalize learning nuggets based on learner responses. Still, one area where personalization hasn't been much in evidence is video. That may be changing.
Consensus allows its users to create videos tailored to each learner. Their focus is on sales and marketing — and particularly on creating demos — but the technology could be used for other needs as well. Consensus tailors content to users based on their interests, background, etc. When folks choose a topic as “Very Important,” users get the full video segment and get it first. When folks choose a topic as “Somewhat Important,” users get a summary video. When they choose “Not Important,” users don’t get any segments associated with those topics.
Consensus can also segment users based on their role in an organization, based on the size of their company, or based on other demographics as well.
They’ve got a great video that you can tailor to your needs. Worth watching! Click to check out Consensus.
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Integrating the Serious eLearning Manifesto Into Our Work
People have been cheering on the Serious eLearning Manifesto for over a year now…
Those of us who instigated the effort have been delighted with stories about how people are integrating the Manifesto and its 22 principles into their work.
Here's an example from Mark T. Burke, Founder and Lead Innovative Educational Program Designer for ThinkID8 and elearning consultancy. Mark believes so strongly in the eLearning Manifesto that he's created a series of posters in his office.
Asked why he did such a thing, he said, "I was looking for something I could use as a personal framework. So, as you can see, I adapted the opening statements to 'I….' statements. Of course, I did this to demonstrate to others MY commitment to the collective vision of the Manifesto."
Kudos to Mark!
I met Mark as he led a workshop with Dr. Karl Kapp at Bloomsburg University for instructional designers. The workshop is fascinating in that it's designed to help instructional designers learn how to take more entrepreneurial approaches to their work and careers.
3 June 2015 /0 Comments/by Will Thalheimer
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eLearning Manifesto’s 22 Principles
People keep asking me for a list of the 22 principles from the Serious eLearning Manifesto.
The 22 Principles
The Serious eLearning Manifesto is an attempt to help members of the elearning industry bend the curve toward more effective and fulfilling elearning.
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eLearning Paradigms 2014
eLearning, Thoughts and Ideas
I created a list of eLearning Paradigms to talk about subscription learning, but I think the list could stand on its own–and I'd like comments to see what I've missed.
Elearning is still a relatively young field, having its start in the 1960's during the advent of the computer age and gradually gaining a critical mass after the internet became a mass phenomenon. Because it's a young field, we are still learning how to think about elearning. With each new paradigm, we think more deeply, more fully about what elearning is–and can be. Below is my categorization of the most important elearning paradigms as of 2014.
Content Presenter (enables content to be presented to learners)
Comprehension Tester (enables learners' knowledge to be tested–and feedback provided)
Practice Provider (enables learners' decision-making to be tested–and feedback provided)
Performance Supporter (enables performers to be prompted toward action)
Reminder (enables learners or performers to be reminded to learn and/or take action)
Social Augmentation Provider (enables learners to learn from and with each other)
Gamification Provider (provides motivational incentives and behavioral prompts to action)
Mobile Learning Provider (provides learning and/or performance support through mobile technology)
Data Utilizer (enables data collection and data-based interventions)
Video Provider (enables video to be utilized in various ways)
Learning Organizer (provides organizational structure around learning opportunities)
Personalizer (enables content or prompting to be individualized or tailored)
Learning-Delivery Augmenter (enables easy delivery of content or prompting)
Context-Based Triggerer (enables content or prompting to be delivered depending on context)
Cost Saver (enables learning to be delivered at a lower cost)
I'm sure that I'm missing some elearning paradigms. You might have noticed that I'm only listing elearning memes that have a positive connotation. I am not mentioning such things as boring, trivial, poorly-designed. Also, some of the list may not be true, or may not always be true. For example, I've recently read research that shows that elearning is not often a cost saver. The bottom line, however, is that the list above represents a good number of the ways in which we tend to think about elearning.
Here's the thing: The paradigms listed above represent the dominant mental models we use when we think about elearning. As Thomas Kuhn wrote many years ago, paradigms are a double-edge sword. On the one hand, they help us think. On the other hand, they put boundaries on what we think. For us in the learning field, we get both benefits and costs from our elearning paradigms. They help us consider ways that we might design or utilize elearning. On the darker side, they constrict our thinking. One of the reasons we created the eLearningManifesto was to get the field to think beyond some of its weaker paradigms.
What are your thoughts on the dominant elearning paradigms?
If you want to learn more about subscription learning–offered as an additional paradigm for elearning, you can do that at SubscriptionLearning.com.
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Learning Solutions 2014 — Come Join Me!
eLearning, Learning Industry, Work-Learning Research
If you're going to the eLearning Guild's Learning Solutions Conference this coming week in Orlando, come join me–and say hello!
I'll be speaking in three sessions:
Featured Session (F2)
Subscription Learning: A Fundamentally Different Form of eLearning
Time: Wednesday March 19, 10:45AM
Details on the session
Slides for the session
Over 300 people are expected to attend. Get there early for a good seat!
Concurrent Session (105)
Serious eLearning Manifesto (Also with Clark Quinn and Michael Allen)
Time: Wednesday March 19, 1:00PM
We will hand out paper version of the Manifesto at the session (there are no slides)
Morning Buzz (MB31)
Time: Thursday March 20, 7:15AM
A casual conversation about the eLearning Manifesto and Instructional Design
Note: Look for Clark Quinn, or Michael Allen's name (as mine is not listed), but I'll be there!
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Home > News > Oil supply to swamp demand, squeeze OPEC in 2020, IEA says
Oil supply to swamp demand, squeeze OPEC in 2020, IEA says
By Grant Smith on 6/14/2019
LONDON (Bloomberg) -- Global oil supplies will increase far more than demand next year with the start of a host of new projects, putting further pressure on the OPEC cartel, the International Energy Agency said.
Even though growth in world oil demand will accelerate to 1.4 MMbpd in 2020, it will be eclipsed by a 2.3-MMbpd surge in output, as the ongoing boom in U.S. shale is augmented by new fields in Brazil, Norway and Canada.
As a result, the world will need significantly less crude from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the IEA, which advises most major economies, predicted in its monthly report on Friday. Though Saudi Arabia and its allies have been deliberately cutting supply this year, and political crises have crushed exports from Venezuela and Iran, OPEC is pumping much more oil than will be required in 2020.
“A clear message from our first look at 2020 is that there is plenty of non-OPEC supply growth available to meet any likely level of demand, assuming no major geopolitical shock,” said the Paris-based IEA. “This is welcome news for consumers and the wider health of the currently vulnerable global economy, as it will limit significant upward pressure on oil prices.”
Oil in New York moved into a bear market last week and Brent sunk below $60/bbl in London for the first time since January on concern that a slowdown in the global economy -- exacerbated by the ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China -- will hurt fuel consumption around the world. OPEC will meet in the coming weeks to decide its response.
The IEA report showed that the fears about demand are coming to fruition.
Global oil demand grew by 300,000 bpd during the first quarter, the weakest since 2011, as developing nations only just offset a drop in developed economies. The agency lowered growth estimates for 2019 as a whole for a second consecutive month, by 100,000 bpd.
For the rest of this year and into 2020, however, the IEA expects that demand will pick up markedly, averaging 1.2% in 2019 as a whole and 1.4% next year. That rebound assumes some progress in the trade stand-off between the U.S. and China, it said.
Even with its optimistic outlook for the economy, the agency sees growth in oil consumption being drowned by new supplies next year.
Fracing boom
About half of the supply expansion will be provided by the U.S., which has been transformed by the fracing boom in Texas and North Dakota into the world’s biggest crude producer. But unlike in previous years, growth in America is being supplemented by significant gains elsewhere, such as in Norway and Brazil.
That may make for painful reading for the Saudis and other OPEC nations, who together pump 40% of the world’s oil.
The demand for their crude will slump for a third consecutive year, to 29.3 MMbpd. That’s about 650,000 bpd less than the 14 OPEC nations pumped last month, when their supply was already significantly reduced as a result of a pact to restrain output, as well as by U.S. sanctions on Venezuela and Iran. Iran’s production fell to 2.4 MMbpd, the lowest since the 1980s.
The organization and its allies are due to meet in the next few weeks to decide whether to keep going with their agreement to reduce output. Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s biggest member, has recommended persevering.
If OPEC reduces output next year to the levels the IEA considers necessary, production would be the lowest since 2003 -- suggesting that its strategy to support oil markets has backfired.
Callon to acquire Carrizo in $3.2-billion stock transaction (7/15)
Britain raises Gulf shipping threat to highest level possible (7/12)
Cracks in Permian promise slowing shale boom (7/12)
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Trump announces new health insurance rules
by: Alexandra Limon
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — President Donald Trump announced a new rule he says will make it cheaper for some Americans to buy health insurance.
Critics say the points people to buy insurance from the Affordable Care Act Health Insurance Marketplace — which the administration is trying to eliminate.
Trump announced the expansion of Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs). The new rules allow employees to pay for the health insurance of their choice and be reimbursed by their employers tax-free.
“We are dramatically increasing the ability of Americans to access more affordable health insurance,” Trump said.
The Trump administration said expanding HRAs will increase competition among insurance companies, reduce healthcare costs and, most importantly, help small businesses provide employees with more choices for healthcare.
“An estimated 11 million Americans will now choose their own plans with the help of the HRAs,” Trump said.
Critics said the new rule encourages people to buy inexpensive health insurance plans which don’t cover things like pre-existing conditions.
Michael Feldman with the group Protect Our Care said there’s another problem.
“This is an incredibly hypocritical step,” Feldman said.
Feldman said the Trump administration’s plan provides money for people to buy health insurance from the Obamacare marketplace.
“But in reality, they’re also arguing in court that this entire marketplace should be disbanded,” he said.
The Trump administration is supporting a Texas lawsuit challenging Obamacare.
Feldman said if Obamacare is disbanded, this new HRA rule would be nullified.
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Supreme Court issues first of 4 gerrymandering rulings
by Raquel Martin / Jun 18, 2019
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday issued the first of four rulings on gerrymandering.
Justices ruled that the Republican-led Virginia Statehouse did not have the legal right to challenge a lower court’s ruling that deemed their legislative districting maps unfair.
PAVE Act introduced to increase election security
by Alexandra Limon / Jun 17, 2019
WASHINGTON (Nexstar) -- There's new legislation aimed at combating foreign interference in our elections.
"The threats we face in 2020 will make the election interference of 2016 look like very small potatoes," Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. said.
Lawmakers want firm protections for non-citizen veterans
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) -- Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are trying to find a permanent solution for veterans who aren't U.S. citizens.
A review by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found ICE isn't following its own rules when dealing with military veterans, doesn't know how many veterans have been deported and has also failed to track who qualifies for special protections.
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Cliffside Bay Bundle, Volumes 1-3
Cliffside Bay Book 1-3
by Tess Thompson
4kids5cats Editions
Contemporary Romance, Box Set
Available in: Audio
USA Today bestselling author Tess Thompson welcomes you back to Cliffside Bay to explore the rich, heartwarming stories of the characters who brightened the original five novels in the series. Each book in the Cliffside Bay Series is intended to be read and enjoyed as a sweet standalone, but for maximum enjoyment read this binge-worthy series in order.
From USA Today bestselling author Tess Thompson comes a trio of sweet standalone romances set in an idyllic coastal town full of charming and colorful characters whose journeys warm the heart and touch the soul.
Traded: Brody and Kara
(originally published November 2016 in trade paperback and reissued February 2018 in eBook)
Meet Brody Mullen and Kara Eaton as they overcome their protective instincts and learn to wholly trust one another as they fall in love.
Deleted: Jackson and Maggie
(originally independently published May 2018 in eBook)
Embrace freedom from the painful past with Jackson Waller and Maggie Keene, who unexpectedly receive a second chance to write their own story.
Jaded: Zane and Honor
(originally independently published July 2018 in eBook)
And celebrate with Zane Shaw and Honor Sullivan when they realize that their imperfections are what makes each of them perfect for the other.
Other Books by Tess Thompson
Cliffside Bay Series
Healed: Stone and Pepper
Cliffside Bay Book 7
Cliffside Bay Christmas
Cliffside Bay Novella
Missed: Rafael and Lisa
Blue Mountain Series Book 3
Tainted: Lance and Mary
Marred: Kyle and Violet
Riversnow
River Valley Series Book 4
Riversong
Riverstar
Tess Thompson's Bio
Tess Thompson Romance…hometowns and heartstrings. Warning. Tess Thompson books will make you laugh, cry and remind you what it’s like to fall in love. Don’t purchase unless you like books about good people with ridiculously happy endings. Tess writes epic love stories with relatable characters set in small towns. Some of her books have suspense, others a mystery, and a few are set in the past. Like a reader said recently, “Tess Thompson books give you more than just a romance.” She started her writing career in fourth grade when she wrote a story about an orphan who opened a pizza restaurant. Oddly enough, her first novel, “Riversong” is about an adult orphan who opens a restaurant. Clearly, she’s obsessed with food and words. Like the characters in her USA Today Bestseller River Valley Series, she hails from a little town in southern Oregon. Despite the fact she’s lived in Seattle for almost thirty years, she will always feel like a small town girl. She’s risen up the charts on all the major eBook retailers starting in 2012 when her debut novel Riversong was a Nook and Amazon bestseller. Since then, she’s released almost 20 novels and novellas. She loves music and dancing, books and bubble baths, cooking and wine, movies and snuggling. She cries at sappy commercials and thinks kissing in the rain should be done whenever possible. Although she tries to act like a lady, there may or may not have been a few times in the last several years when she’s gotten slightly carried away watching the Seattle Seahawks play, but that could also just be a nasty rumor. She currently lives in a suburb of Seattle, Washington with her husband, the hero of her own love story, and their Brady Bunch clan of two sons, two daughters and five cats. Yes, that’s four kids and five cats. Pray for her. Tess loves to hear from you. Drop her a line at tessthompsonwrites@gmail.com.
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You are here: Home / Sports / Brewers / Brewers win fourth straight
Brewers win fourth straight
July 2, 2015 By Bill Scott
Brewers pitcher Kyle Lohse: Photo – UPI/Bill Greenblatt
The Milwaukee Brewers pounded out a season high 17 hits and knocked off the Philadelphia Phillies 9-5 on Wednesday night.
Aramis Ramirez clubbed a 2-run double in the fourth to push the Brewers lead to 4-0. It gives him seven rbi’s in the last three games.
Adam Lind clubbed a two-run homer, his 12th of the season and Scooter Gennett had three hits (2 doubles and a triple) in the victory.
Kyle Lohse not only won his second straight game, but he added three hits with his bat. Lohse worked 6 1/3 innings and allowed 9 hits, 4 runs, 2 walks and struck out four.
The Brewers won the first three games in the series and extended their overall win streak to four. They’ll shoot for the sweep of the four game series tonight. Matt Garza (4-10, 5.52 ERA) faces Chad Billingsley (0-2, 6.75) in the pitching matchup. First pitch is set for 5:35 p.m.
Filed Under: Brewers, Sports Tagged With: Adam Lind, Aramis Ramirez, Kyle Lohse, Milwaukee Brewers, Scooter Gennett
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Soul Classics Get a Samba Flavor
Marc Myers
Updated June 20, 2014 1:08 am ET
The vocals on "Family Affair" sound a lot like Sly Stone and his sister Rose. But instead of the 1971 hit's slinky groove, the original music is gone, replaced by a sultry bossa nova with horns. Is that Sly and Rose singing—or impersonators?
"It's Sly and Rose," said Frank Berman, 48, who produced "The Brazil Connection" (Sony) with his brother Christian, 45.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab Teardown (Sprint)
The Sprint version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab went on sale in the US on November 14. It's priced at $399 (US) with a 2-year contract and one of two data plans--$29 a month (2GB cap) or $59 a month (5GB cap).
Follow along as I crack open the Galaxy Tab for a look at the hardware inside.
Photo by: Bill Detwiler / TechRepublic
Caption by: Bill Detwiler
Published: November 16, 2010 -- 07:24 GMT (23:24 PST)
The Galaxy Tab has a Samsung ARM Cortex 8 1.0 GHz CPU, 512 MB RAM, and a 7-inch (diagonally) TFT active matrix screen that supports a resolution of 1024 x 600 and 169 pixels per inch. The devices ships with Google Android 2.2.
Included with Sprint's version of the Galaxy Tab is the power adapter, USB data/charging cable, and a 16 GB microSD card.
The Galaxy Tab measures 4.74 inches wide, 7.48 inches high, and 0.5 inches deep. It weighs 13.58 ounces.
On the front of the device are the front-facing 1.3 MP camera, ambient light sensor, and four control buttons.
On the back of the Galaxy Tab are the rear-facing 3.2 MP camera and flash.
Along the Galaxy Tab's bottom edge are the external speakers and charger/accessory jack.
Along the Galaxy Tab's left edge is the external microphone.
Along the Galaxy Tab's right edge are the microSD card slot, volume up/down button, and power button.
Along the Galaxy Tab's top edge is the 3.5mm headphone jack.
Two tri-wing screws are hidden behind small plastic circles, which are held on with adhesive tape. You'll need to remove both screws before separating the Tab's plastic shell from the display assembly.
Once you've removed the case screws, you can pop the plastic case loose from the rest of the Tab. Unlike the iPad, the Galaxy Tab doesn't have any metal clips that break when you open the case. I used a very thin metal blade to pop the case loose and was able to do the job without marring either the display's frame or the case. If you're worried that you may not be able to do the same, could also use a plastic case opening tool.
There's not much to see inside the Galaxy Tab's plastic case. All the internal hardware is mounted to the display assembly and frame.
Flipping the display assembly over, we get our first look at the hardware the makes the Galaxy Tab run. As on the iPad, the Tab's battery takes up much of the device's internal space.
The battery is held in place with a single Phillips screw.
The Galaxy Tab uses a 3.7V Li-Ion, 4000 mAh battery.
Next, we'll turn our attention to the 3.2 MP rear-facing camera. To remove it, I popped loose its connector and gently lifted it away from the display assembly and frame.
Before lifting the main PCB away from the display assembly and frame, we'll need to disconnect five separate connectors.
We'll disconnect the headphone/microphone jack first.
Next, we'll remove the volume control connector (left) and touchscreen connector (right).
Now detach the connector for the LED for the front control buttons.
Lastly, detach the connector for the display screen.
After you've detached all the connectors, you'll need to remove seven Phillips screws that hold the Galaxy Tab's main PCB to the display assembly and frame.
Once the screws are removed, you can gently lift the main PCB away from the display assembly and frame.
The headphone/microphone jack assembly is held in place with a single Phillips screws and two pieces of tape. The translucent blue/green tape was extremely sticky, and I feared removing it would damage the thin ribbon cable underneath. As I want this Galaxy Tab to go back together in perfect working order, I'm going to leave the jack in place.
On the left side of the main PCB is the front-facing camera assembly. A large EMi shield covers most of the chips in the center. And along the right side, we find the two internal speakers, the power/accessory jack, and what appears to be the system battery.
Except for the front-facing camera, there's not as much to see on the back of the Galaxy Tab's main PCB.
The Galaxy Tab has a 1.3 MP front-facing camera. Was with the headphone/microphone assembly, I'm going to leave this camera alone. The camera's thin ribbon cable was stuck to the main PCB with adhesive. I was afraid prying the cable loose would damage it.
Unlike any other mobile device I've dissected, the Galaxy Tab's EMI shield is attached to the main PCB with five Phillips screws.
With its screws removed, the Galaxy Tab's EMI shield falls off the main PCB.
There's quite a few chips located under the EMI shield. Let's take a closer look at each of them.
AVAGO ACFM-7107 PCS/Cellular Band Quadplexer
2712 OXNGLB
The Sprint version of the Galaxy Tab has a Qualcomm QSC6085 chip, which provides support for EV-DO Rev. A, EV-DO Rel. 0, and CDMA2000.
Samsung KFM1G16Q2D OneNAND flash memory
Wolfson Microelectronics WM8994E (Audio Codec)
Samsung ARM Cortex 8 1.0 GHz CPU (KB100D0YM A453)
SD4G 9234BT P3A1422 10K2033
Samsung CMC6230R N2N321 S1032
Atmel MXT224 touchscreen controller (right) and Atmel MXT224 touchscreen controller and MAX8998 EWQ 1037 9FAB (left)
Texas Instruments 06D5X2T LVDS838
SanDisk SDIN5D2-2G NAND Flash
1R0 Resistor
Collection of chips on the back of the main PCB
AGD1 2039 RCF AF
Broadcom BCM4329 (Bluetooth/FM/WLAN)
The Samsung Galaxy Tab was rather easy to disassemble. The most difficult step in the process was removing the case. With the right tools and a little patience, those comfortable working on computer and small devices should definitely be able to service the Galaxy Tab.
TechRepublic's Bill Detwiler cracks open Sprint's version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7-inch Android tablet.
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The Future of Life Sciences in New York: Xconomy to Convene its First Big NYC Event Oct. 13
Arlene Weintraub
@arleneweintraub
Xconomy New York —
I had only been at Xconomy a couple of weeks when I realized how hot the topic of biotech’s future in New York truly is. It was April, and I was one of the members of the press at the New York Biotechnology Association’s 20th annual meeting. The first panel I attended had a provocative title: “The Global Struggle for the Biopharmaceutical Industry: New York Must Step Up Its Game!”
The title perfectly describes the anomaly of life sciences in New York: The city offers world-class resources such as top-notch universities and close proximity to pharmaceutical powerhouses like Pfizer and Merck. But issues ranging from high taxes to lack of government support have made it challenging for life-science entrepreneurs to choose New York over better-established biotech hubs like Boston and Northern California.
So what can scientists, academicians, entrepreneurs, and legislators do to make New York a life sciences leader over the next 20 years? That will be the topic of Xconomy’s first major New York event, titled Xconomy Forum: New York Life Sciences 2031, an after-work panel event on October 13.
We have assembled a stellar lineup of panelists:
Les Funtleyder (moderator), Health Care Strategist and Portfolio Manager, Miller Tabak Health Care Transformation Fund
Samuel Waksal, CEO, Kadmon
Barbara Dalton, VP of Venture Capital, Worldwide Business Development and Innovation, Pfizer
Sam Isaly, Founder and Managing Partner, OrbiMed Advisors; Manager, Eaton Vance Worldwide Health Sciences Fund
Eric Schadt, Director, Mount Sinai Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology; Chief Scientific Officer, Pacific Biosciences
The panel discussion will take place at the Apella Event Space at Alexandria Center for Life Science, with opening remarks from Joel Marcus, CEO of Alexandria Real Estate Equities. The evening will include a reception and plenty of time for networking, too.
You can find more information—plus special discounted ticket prices for early birds, students, and startups—by clicking here. Please join Xconomy for this exciting event.
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Johnny Rotten: Sex Pistols Film ‘Not Endorsed’ by Band
Richard E. Aaron/Redferns, Getty Images
It was recently announced that a Sex Pistols biopic was in the works. Fan interest was at a huge high, but in a new tweet, vocalist Johnny Rotten revealed the movie is “unauthorized, unofficial and not endorsed” by the Sex Pistols.
With the monumental success of rock biopics like Bohemian Rhapsody and The Dirt, not to mention the upcoming Elton John film, Rocketman, it’s only natural that Hollywood will begin running the gamut of legendary bands. “We were impressed by the box office takings for Bohemian Rhapsody. It only goes to show the public has an appetite for these films," filmmaker Ayesha Plunkett tells The Daily Star.
Unlike the 1986 Pistols film, Sid and Nancy, the upcoming biopic will focus on controversial band manager Malcolm McLaren and fashion designer Vivienne Westwood as the Pistols begin their ascent to infamy.
Johnny Rotten doesn’t seem too excited about the film, as he tweeted earlier today, “You may have seen recent reports of a Sex Pistols biopic. For the avoidance of doubt this film would be unauthorised, unofficial, and not endorsed by Sex Pistols.”
Rotten made headlines earlier this month when he verbally sparred with Marky Ramone and Henry Rollins during a panel for the new Epix series, Punk.
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Source: Johnny Rotten: Sex Pistols Film ‘Not Endorsed’ by Band
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New area: Miracles, Myths, Mistakes and Matters — See Title Page and List of Contents
— latest, 9th July 2018: Can Muslims (-women) marry Non-Believers
See: Project Rebuttal: What the West needs to know about Islam
Refuting the gross distortion and misrepresentation of the Quran, the Prophet Muhammad and Islam, made by the critics of Islam
Read: Background to the Project
List of all Issues | Summary 1 | Summary 2 | Summary 3 — completed, 28th June 2013
Project Rebuttal :Background
Sources of distortion and bias in Islamic history and their subsequent exploitation:
Khwaja Kamaluddin sums up the basis of historical exaggeration and distortion both in the sources and subsequently enlightened Islam haters who pick and choose such fictional accounts to their liking and then try to make their case against Muhammad and Islam:
There are numberless books on the life of the Holy Prophet, some of them written in the early days of Islam, and among these Books of Sirat (biography) and Maghazi (campaigns) are conspicuous. Nevertheless, they should be put to the test of the Books of Hadith, the traditions of the Prophet before they can be accepted as reliable on the subject. Hafiz Zainuddin, a well known “traditionist” very rightly remarks in his book, Al-flya-fissyar: “The seeker should remember that books on the Sirat (biography) of Muhammad gather all kinds of traditions and sayings, both those that are true and those which should be rejected”. The Sirat and Maghazi books were not over-carefully compiled, and many unreliable accounts, in the nature of fiction, crept into them. On the other hand, in the books of Hadith, we have the statements of about 13,000 persons who had spoken with the Prophet and seen him that have been written down and passed on to us. “In order then, to ascertain whether a certain narrator of a certain tradition is trustworthy, we consult a special branch of Arabic literature known as Asma-ur-Ral that is to say, the names of those who have either spoken to or seen the Prophet. In these books are preserved the accounts of the lives of the persons who are narrators of traditions, and it is from these books that we learn whether such should be accepted or rejected. Thousands of “traditionists” spent their whole lives in preparing this branch of knowledge. They took long journeys to meet and interview the persons who could relate any events of the Life of Muhammad. They met them and inquired about them; whether the narrator was a pious man; what were his occupations; whether he had a good memory; whether he was of a superficial or deep character; and if he proved to be in any way deficient, his evidence was rejected.” It was under this system of sifting the truth that the books of Sihah Sittah – six reliable books of traditions were prepared and became the basis of all other books on the life of the Prophet.
The books of Maghazi, on the other hand, have not appealed to the Muslim Divines and “traditionists,” and their writers have not been accepted as reliable. Among these writers, Waqidi and his Katib have been regarded (Life of Muhammad – by Syed Ameer Ali), in the Muhammadan world, as the least trustworthy and most careless biographers of Muhammad. Of the former Ibn Khalikan speaks thus: “The traditions received from him (Waqidi) are considered of feeble authority, and doubts have been expressed on the subject of his veracity (vol. iii, p. 62). Imam Shafi’i one of the four great Imams of the Muslim world says that all the books of Waqidi are a load of lies, and other “traditionists” say the same. But unfortunately Waqidi is the chief authority with some of those European writers, who approach the subject with sinister motives and for obvious reasons. They can of Muhammad as, with little distortion, will help them to malign the Holy Prophet. [The Ideal Prophet – pg 8-9]
While extra caution and high standards were exercised in the collection of Hadith, the collectors left it up to the judgment of the future readers to accept them or not in light of Quran. Essentially, they undertook to preserve sayings and actions of the Prophet but their work is still a human effort and does not match the standards of authenticity that Quran enjoys.
Add to the list of likes of Waqidi is Ibn Ishaq, who was born in the family of story tellers. He kept the same tradition of non-verifiable narrations in his compilations. It is no wonder that his contemporary scholars some of whom were Hadith collectors disregarded his works. That includes Imam Muslim, Imam Hanbal, Imam Malik and Imam Bukhari. He not only gets a poor peer review of his works but even outright rejection. He is particularly known for collecting “odd tales” from the Jewish descendants of Arabia with regards to events in the times of Muhammad.
The Ideal Prophet – Khwaja Kamaluddin
Ibn Isḥaq ( 85 AH – 150 AH)
Imam Malik ( 93 AH – 179 AH)
Al-Waqidi (130 AH – 207 AH)
Imam Shafi’i (135 AH – 188 AH)
Imam Hanbal (164 AH – 241 AH)
Imam Bukhari (194 AH – 256 AH)
Ibn Khalikan (608 AH – 681 AH)
Psychology of selective reasoning in anti-Islam literature:
Khwaja Kamaluddin comments on the dynamics of bigoted view of self proclaimed scholars who take it upon themselves to debase Quran, Islam and Muhammad despite the facts to the contrary:
“But there is another undesirable thing in some of the writers. Unfortunately Christianity has some advocates who advance her cause at the expense of others. They illuminate her by blackening other religions, they safeguard her by robbing others of their due; they deify her Lord by reviling all other Prophets of God. They have a novel system of recording actualities, for they know that they cannot appeal to facts in history. The force of repetition stands with them as the equivalent of proof. To repeat certain statements, while ignoring rebutting facts, is a sure method of carrying conviction to the minds of thousands. These writers have adopted this plan. They play upon the mob psychology and produce the desired effect. In writing against other religions the popular course is this: First of all, one writer says something by way of suggestion or insinuation; the next after him declares the suggestion a possibility; the possibility then is converted into a theory by a third writer, while the fourth tries to make a fact out of the theory. Thus a wish, in four or five metamorphoses, becomes a well-established fact, especially when other religions or civilizations come under their criticism.” [The Ideal Prophet – pg 4-5]
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Denmark Population: 5,593,785
Once the seat of Viking raiders and later a major north European power, Denmark has evolved into a modern, prosperous nation that is participating in the general political and economic integration of Europe. It joined NATO in 1949 and the EEC (now the EU) in 1973. However, the country has opted out of certain elements of the EU's Maastricht Treaty, including the European Economic and Monetary Union, European defense cooperation, and issues concerning certain justice and home affairs.
Controls Danish Straits (Skagerrak and Kattegat) linking Baltic and North Seas; about one-quarter of the population lives in greater Copenhagen
Location: Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, on a peninsula north of Germany (Jutland); also includes several major islands (Sjaelland, Fyn, and Bornholm)
Area: total: 43,094 sq km
land: 42,434 sq km
water: 660 sq km
note: includes the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark (the Jutland Peninsula, and the major islands of Sjaelland and Fyn), but excludes the Faroe Islands and Greenland
Size comparison: slightly less than twice the size of Massachusetts
Land Boundaries: total: 140 km border countries (1): Germany 140 km
Coastline: 7,314 km
Climate: temperate; humid and overcast; mild, windy winters and cool summers
Terrain: low and flat to gently rolling plains
Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, fish, arable land, salt, limestone, chalk, stone, gravel and sand
Land use: agricultural land: 63.4% arable land 58.9%; permanent crops 0.1%; permanent pasture 4.4% forest: 12.9%
other: 23.7% note: highest percentage of arable land for any country in the world (2011 est.)
Irrigated land: 4,350 sq km (2012)
Natural hazards: flooding is a threat in some areas of the country (e.g., parts of Jutland, along the southern coast of the island of Lolland) that are protected from the sea by a system of dikes
Current Environment Issues: air pollution, principally from vehicle and power plant emissions; nitrogen and phosphorus pollution of the North Sea; drinking and surface water becoming polluted from animal wastes and pesticides
International Environment Agreements: party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
Nationality: noun: Dane(s)
adjective: Danish
Ethnic groups: Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali
Languages: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority) note: English is the predominant second language
Religions: Evangelical Lutheran (official) 80%, Muslim 4%, other (denominations of less than 1% each, includes Roman Catholic, Jehovah's Witness, Serbian Orthodox Christian, Jewish, Baptist, and Buddhist) 16% (2012 est.)
Population: 5,593,785 note: Statistics Denmark estimates the country's total population to be 5,724,456 as of 2016 Q3 (July 2016 est.)
65 years and over: 18.96% (male 475,330/female 585,445) (2016 est.)
Median age: total: 42 years
Death rate: 10.3 deaths/1,000 population (2016 est.)
rate of urbanization: 0.6% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
Major urban areas - population: COPENHAGEN (capital) 1.268 million (2015)
Infant mortality rate: total: 4 deaths/1,000 live births male: 4.1 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 79.4 years male: 77 years
Country name: conventional long form: Kingdom of Denmark
conventional short form: Denmark
local long form: Kongeriget Danmark
local short form: Danmark
etymology: the name derives from the words "Dane(s)" and "mark"; the latter referring to a march (borderland) or forest
Government type: parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Capital: name: Copenhagen
note: applies to continental Denmark only, not to its North Atlantic components
Administrative divisions: metropolitan Denmark - 5 regions (regioner, singular - region); Hovedstaden (Capital), Midtjylland (Central Jutland), Nordjylland (North Jutland), Sjaelland (Zealand), Syddanmark (Southern Denmark)
note: an extensive local government reform merged 271 municipalities into 98 and 13 counties into five regions, effective 1 January 2007
Independence: ca. 965 (unified and Christianized under HARALD I Gormson); 5 June 1849 (became a parliamentary constitutional monarchy)
National holiday: none designated; Constitution Day, 5 June (1849) is generally viewed as National Day
Constitution: history: several previous; latest adopted 5 June 1953 amendments: proposed by the Folketing with consent of the government; passage requires approval by the next Folketing following a general election, approval by simple majority vote of at least 40 percent of voters in a referendum, and assent by the chief of state; changed several times, last in 2009 (Danish Act of Succession) (2016)
Legal system: civil law; judicial review of legislative acts
Executive branch: chief of state: Queen MARGRETHE II (since 14 January 1972); Heir Apparent Crown Prince FREDERIK, elder son of the monarch (born on 26 May 1968)
head of government: Prime Minister Lars LOEKKE RASMUSSEN (since 28 June 2015)
cabinet: Council of State appointed by the monarch elections/appointments: the monarchy is hereditary; following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party or majority coalition usually appointed prime minister by the monarch
Legislative branch: description: unicameral People's Assembly or Folketing (179 seats, including 2 representing Greenland and 2 representing the Faroe Islands; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote; members serve 4-year terms unless the Folketing is dissolved earlier)
elections: last held on 18 June 2015 (next to be held by June 2019)
election results: percent of vote by party - SDP 26.3%, DF 21.1%, V 19.5%, EL 7.8%, LA 7.5%, AP 4.8%, SLP 4.6%, SF 4.2%, C 3.4%, other 0.9%; seats by party - SDP 47, DF 37, V 34, EL 14, LA 13, AP 9, SLP 8, SF 7, C 6; note - does not include each of the two seats from Greenland and the Faroe Islands
Judicial branch: highest court(s): Supreme Court (consists of the court president and 18 judges) judge selection and term of office: judges appointed by the monarch upon the recommendation of the Minister of Justice with the advice of the Judicial Appointments Council, a 6-member independent body of judges and lawyers; judges appointed for life with retirement at age 70
subordinate courts: Special Court of Indictment and Revision; 2 High Courts; Maritime and Commercial Court; county courts
Political parties and leaders: Alternative Party or AP [Uffe ELBAEK] Conservative People's Party or C [Soren PAPE POULSEN] Danish People's Party or DF [Kristian THULESEN DAHL] Liberal Alliance or LA [Anders SAMUELSEN] Liberal Party or V [Lars LOEKKE RAMUSSEN] Red-Green Alliance (Unity List) or EL [collective leadership, spokesperson Johanne SCHMIDT-NIELSEN] Social Democratic Party or SDP [Mette FREDERIKSEN] Social Liberal Party or SLP [Morten OSTERGAARD] Socialist People's Party or SF [Pia OLSEN DYHR]
Political pressure groups and leaders: Confederation of Danish Employers or DA [CEO Jacob HOLBRAAD] Confederation of Danish Industries or DI [CEO Karsten DYBVAD] Confederation of Danish Labor Unions (Landsorganisationen) or LO [President Lizette RISGAARD] DaneAge Association [President Bjarne HASTRUP] Danish Shipowners' Association [Director General and CEO Anne STEFFENSEN]] Danish Bankers Association [CEO Ulrik NODGAARD] Danish Society for Nature Conservation or DN [President Ella Maria BISSCHOP-LARSEN] other: environmental groups; humanitarian relief; development assistance; human rights NGOs
International organization participation: ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Arctic Council, Australia Group, BIS, CBSS, CD, CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, ECB, EIB, EITI (implementing country), ESA, EU, FAO, FATF, G-9, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IGAD (partners), IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINUSMA, NATO, NC, NEA, NIB, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, Schengen Convention, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNRWA, UNTSO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
National symbol(s): lion, mute swan; national colors: red, white
National anthem: name: "Der er et yndigt land" (There is a Lovely Land); "Kong Christian" (King Christian)
lyrics/music: Adam Gottlob OEHLENSCHLAGER/Hans Ernst KROYER; Johannes EWALD/unknown
note: Denmark has two national anthems with equal status; "Der er et yndigt land," adopted 1844, is a national anthem, while "Kong Christian," adopted 1780, serves as both a national and royal anthem; "Kong Christian" is also known as "Kong Christian stod ved hojen mast" (King Christian Stood by the Lofty Mast) and "Kongesangen" (The King's Anthem); within Denmark, the royal anthem is played only when royalty is present and is usually followed by the national anthem; when royalty is not present, only the national anthem is performed; outside Denmark, the royal anthem is played, unless the national anthem is requested
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Lars Gert LOSE (since 17 September 2015)
chancery: 3200 Whitehaven Street NW, Washington, DC 20008
consulate(s) general: Chicago, New York
Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Rufus GIFFORD (since 13 September 2013)
embassy: Dag Hammarskjolds Alle 24, 2100 Copenhagen 0
mailing address: Unit 5280, DPO, AE 09716
telephone: [45] 33 41 71 00
FAX: [45] 35 43 02 23
This thoroughly modern market economy features a high-tech agricultural sector, advanced industry with world-leading firms in pharmaceuticals, maritime shipping and renewable energy, and a high dependence on foreign trade. Denmark is a net exporter of food, oil, and gas and enjoys a comfortable balance of payments surplus, but depends on imports of raw materials for the manufacturing sector. Danes enjoy a high standard of living and the Danish economy is characterized by extensive government welfare measures and an equitable distribution of income. An aging population will be a major long-term issue. Denmark is a member of the EU; Danish legislation and regulations conform to EU standards on almost all issues. Despite previously meeting the criteria to join the European Economic and Monetary Union, Denmark has negotiated an opt-out with the EU and is not required to adopt the euro. Within the EU, Denmark is among the strongest supporters of trade liberalization. After a long consumption-driven upswing, Denmark's economy began slowing in 2007 with the end of a housing boom. Housing prices dropped markedly in 2008-09 but, with significant regional differences, have since recovered. Household indebtedness is still relatively high at more than 305% of net disposable income in 2014, while household net worth - from private pension schemes and other assets - amounted to 546% of net disposable income. The global financial crisis exacerbated this cyclical slowdown by increasing domestic borrowing costs and lowering foreign demand for Danish exports. Denmark maintained a healthy budget surplus for many years up to 2008, but the budget balance swung into deficit in 2009. The structural budget deficit has remained below 1% and is estimated at -0.4% in 2016. Denmark is experiencing a lackluster economic recovery, having still not regained the GDP level of 2008. GDP contracted in 2012 and 2013, followed by real growth of 1.3% in 2014, and 1.2% in 2015. The government projects 1.9% growth in 2016, while private sector estimates are about 1% growth. A historically low level of unemployment rose with the economic downturn but the labor market has strengthened since 2013, and unemployment stood at about 4.5% in early 2016, based on the national measure. Productivity growth was significantly below the OECD average in 2012–2014.
GDP (purchasing power parity): GDP (purchasing power parity): $264.8 billion (2016 est.) $262.2 billion (2015 est.) $259.6 billion (2014 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate): GDP (official exchange rate): $302.6 billion (2015 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 1% (2016 est.) 1% (2015 est.) 1.3% (2014 est.)
Agriculture - products: barley, wheat, potatoes, sugar beets; pork, dairy products; fish
Industries: iron, steel, nonferrous metals, chemicals, food processing, machinery and transportation equipment, textiles and clothing, electronics, construction, furniture and other wood products, shipbuilding and refurbishment, windmills, pharmaceuticals, medical eq
Distribution of family income - Gini index: 24.8 (2011 est.) 24.7 (1992)
note: data cover general government debt and include debt instruments issued (or owned) by government entities other than the treasury; the data include treasury debt held by foreign entities; the data include debt issued by subnational entities, as well as int
Current account balance: $20.34 billion (2016 est.) $20.75 billion (2015 est.)
Exports: $93.6 billion (2016 est.) $95.97 billion (2015 est.)
Exports - commodities: machinery and instruments, meat and meat products, dairy products, fish, pharmaceuticals, furniture, windmills
Exports - partners: Germany 17.8%, Sweden 11.6%, US 8.4%, Norway 6.3%, UK 6.3%, Netherlands 4.4%, China 4.2% (2015)
Imports: $82.29 billion (2016 est.) $85.02 billion (2015 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, raw materials and semimanufactures for industry, chemicals, grain and foodstuffs, consumer goods
Imports - partners: Germany 20.4%, Sweden 12.3%, Netherlands 8.1%, China 7.3%, Norway 6.1%, UK 4.4% (2015)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $61.8 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $65.19 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Debt - external: $484.8 billion (31 March 2016 est.) $519.8 billion (31 March 2015 est.)
Exchange rates: Danish kroner (DKK) per US dollar - 6.865 (2016 est.) 6.7236 (2015 est.) 6.7236 (2014 est.) 5.6125 (2013 est.) 5.79 (2012 est.)
Electricity - exports: 9.8 billion kWh (2014 est.)
Electricity - from other renewable sources: 43.1% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Crude oil - exports: 98,430 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Crude oil - imports: 86,480 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Crude oil - proved reserves: 611 million bbl (1 January 2016 es)
Refined petroleum products - consumption: 154,500 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Refined petroleum products - exports: 167,800 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Natural gas - production: 4.634 billion cu m (2014 est.)
Natural gas - consumption: 3.182 billion cu m (2014 est.)
Natural gas - exports: 2.093 billion cu m (2014 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves: 29.93 billion cu m (1 January 2016 es)
Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy: 42 million Mt (2013 est.)
Telephone system: general assessment: excellent telephone and Internet services
domestic: buried and submarine cables and microwave radio relay form trunk network; multiple mobile-cellular communications systems
international: country code - 45; a series of fiber-optic submarine cables link Denmark with Canada, Faroe Islands, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and UK; satellite earth stations - 18 (6 Intelsat, 10 Eutelsat, 1 Orion, 1 Inmarsat (Blaava (2015)
Broadcast media: strong public-sector TV presence with state-owned Danmarks Radio (DR) operating 6 channels and publicly owned TV2 operating roughly a half-dozen channels; broadcasts of privately owned stations are available via satellite and cable feed; DR operates 4 nat
Internet country code: .dk
Pipelines: condensate 11 km; gas 4,377 km; oil 647 km; oil/gas/water 2 km (2013)
standard gauge: 2,633 km 1.435-m gauge (642 km electrified) (2015)
paved: 74,497 km (includes 1,188 km of expressways) (2016)
by type: bulk carrier 4, cargo 48, carrier 1, chemical tanker 125, container 94, liquefied gas 4, passenger 1, passenger/cargo 40, petroleum tanker 36, refrigerated cargo 3, roll on/roll off 8, specialized tanker 3
foreign-owned: 27 (Germany 9, Greenland 1, Norway 2, Sweden 15)
registered in other countries: 582 (Antigua and Barbuda 20, Bahamas 69, Belgium 4, Brazil 3, Curacao 1, Cyprus 6, Egypt 1, France 11, Gibraltar 7, Hong Kong 42, Isle of Man 30, Italy 4, Jamaica 1, Liberia 8, Lithuania 8, Luxembourg 1, Malaysia 1, Malta 34, Marshall Islands 7, Moldova 1, Ne (2010)
Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Baltic Sea - Aarhus, Copenhagen, Fredericia, Kalundborg; North Sea - Esbjerg,
river port(s): Aalborg (Langerak) dry bulk cargo port(s): Ensted (coal) cruise port(s): Copenhagen
Military branches: Defense Command: Army Operational Command, Admiral Danish Fleet, Arctic Command, Tactical Air Command, Home Guard (2010)
Military service age and obligation: 18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; conscripts serve an initial training period that varies from 4 to 12 months according to specialization; reservists are assigned to mobilization units following completion of their conscript service; women eligible to volunteer for military service (2012)
Military expenditures: 1.2% of GDP (2015) 1.17% of GDP (2014) 1.37% of GDP (2013) 1.41% of GDP (2012) 1.35% of GDP (2011)
Disputes - International: Iceland, the UK, and Ireland dispute Denmark's claim that the Faroe Islands' continental shelf extends beyond 200 nm; sovereignty dispute with Canada over Hans Island in the Kennedy Channel between Ellesmere Island and Greenland; Denmark (Greenland) and Norway have made submissions to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) and Russia is collecting additional data to augment its 2001 CLCS submission
Refugees and internally displaced persons: refugees (country of origin): 12,988 (Syria) (2015)
stateless persons: 6,580 (2015)
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A trip to Northern California would not be complete without a stop in the quaint and rustic Village of Mendocino. This historic town, which sits on rugged bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean, features dozens of shops, art galleries, bed-and-breakfast inns and is host to several special events every year, including the Mendocino Whale Festival in March and the Mendocino Music Festival in July.
The beauty of the town is what first impresses visitors. The New England-style architecture is the influence of homesick pioneers who “came ’round the horn” in the mid-19th century to be a part of the town’s lumber boom resulting from the Gold Rush. San Francisco was a booming city in need of building materials, and harvesting coastal redwoods abundant around Mendocino provided a source of prosperity for people in the small town. The area’s history is evident in its buildings, and the town of Mendocino has been designated a National Historic Preservation District.
Visitors will be delighted in and around this picturesque town. The area offers deep-sea fishing, whale-watching, canoeing, kayaking, abalone diving, hiking, biking and horseback riding. Trails lead from the headlands down to beaches where visitors can search for seashells or explore the numerous tide pools. However, beachcombers and hikers should always keep an eye on the ocean. Large “sneaker waves” are common, and can sweep unsuspecting hikers off the rocks and out to sea.
The Mendocino Hotel on Main Street is an attractive inn that was built in 1878. It still serves the same function today that it did more than 100 years ago, and its rooms are furnished with antiques, fireplaces and historic memorabilia. The Kelley House Museum on Albion Street is another historic building popular with visitors. Built in 1861, the Kelley House has period artifacts and photographs, as well as a lovely pond and gardens.
Little River began life as a mill town. Its first lumber mill was built in 1864, and next to it arose the shipyard of Thomas Peterson, whose vessels won prizes for their design and craftsmanship, including first prize in San Francisco at the Fourth of July Regatta in 1876. On average, three prime trees were used to build each ship. The mill closed in 1893, then burned down in 1910.
Little River Cove offers one of the most popular beaches on the Mendocino Coast. The protected cove is a great place for water recreation, and many divers splash into its smooth waters in search of abalone and other underwater treasures.
The cove is also near the entrance to Van Damme State Park, one of the coast’s favorite parks. It offers beautiful hiking trails in the lush Fern Canyon trail system along the fern-carpeted floors of the Little River Canyon. You will feel like a giant in the Pygmy Forest with its mature cypress and pine trees that grow between 6 inches and 8 feet tall, or you might decide to follow your nose to skunk cabbage at the Cabbage Patch bog. Van Damme offers several camping options and year-round guided coastal kayak tours.
In 1853 Captain W.A. Richardson built the first lumber mill in the town of Albion, on the river flats below the high wooden trestle bridge that spans the Albion River. The ancient name for England was chosen for the town in memory of Sir Francis Drake landing in Northern California in 1579 and naming it “New Albion.”
Today Albion features restaurants, lodging, a fully equipped grocery store and deli, and other necessities for the traveler. The area around Albion is rich with sheltered coves that are excellent for tide-pooling, hiking and exploring. Albion Ridge Rd., which travels east of Hwy 1, will afford the traveler panoramic views of the area’s rolling hills as they slope down to the ocean. It is an excellent place to watch red-tailed hawks and, in winter, the migratory tundra swans on their way to the Garcia River, south of Albion.
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Reginald Engelbach Collection
Engelbach MSS
Site indexes to the Journal d'Entrée and Temporary registers of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Engelbach, Reginald
Bernhard Grdseloff Collection
Grdseloff MSS
Photographs of objects in museums and of sites, material collected for projected articles, notebooks, notes and articles on hieratic ostraca, and notes on Coptic grammar.
Grdseloff, Bernhard
Battiscombe George Gunn Collection
Gunn MSS
c.1920s-1950
Notebooks, notes, articles (some unpublished), lecture notes, photographs, correspondence, squeezes, drawings, tracings, and casts.
Gunn, Battiscombe George
Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds Collection
Linant de Bellefonds MSS
3 copies (1 typescript and two carbon-copies) made from the diary (1821-2), glass negatives, and modern prints (1818-26).
Linant de Bellefonds, (<i>Bey</i> and <i>Pasha</i>) Louis Maurice Adolphe
Arthur Cruttenden Mace Collection
Mace MSS
(1) Excavation journals for 1899-1901 (working with W. M. F. Petrie) and 1901-2 (working with G. A. Reisner).
(2) Personal correspondence exchanged between Mace and his wife Winifred during the Winter season 1922-1923, Winifred Mace and her mother during the Winter season 1923-1924, and other correspondence related to the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
(3) Two typewritten articles by Mace on work in Tutankhamun's tomb: "DESPATCH No. 5" (3 pages), and "THE CLOSING OF THE TOMB" (incomplete, first page only + newspaper cutting of The Times article); both submitted to The Times and subsequently published on 31/01/1923 and 28/03/1923.
(4) 39 photographs, most are original Burton images, some of which have been annotated by Howard Carter; they may have been used during the preparation of H. Carter and A. C. Mace, The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen i (1923).
(5) Newspaper cuttings, most from The Times, published between 1922 and 1925.
(y) Mace's account of the opening of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun - typewritten version (TAA iv.1). Diary for 1922-3 (TAA iv.2).
(z) Mace's account of the opening of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun - original handwritten version (TAA iv.3).
Mace, Arthur Cruttenden
Metropolitan Museum of Art Photographs Collection
MMA MSS
Two incomplete sets of Series T photographs of private tombs at Thebes, in addition some negatives of the same. Incomplete set of photographs of royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings. Photographs of the tomb of Nefertari (QV 66). Incomplete set of photographs of the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri.
David B. O'Connor Collection
O'Connor MSS
Notes on some objects in the Nicholson Museum, Sydney.
O'Connor, David B.
Harry Burton Negatives Collection
H. Burton MSS
Photographic records made during the excavation of the Tomb of Tutankhamun, consisting of approximately 1400 black and white glass negatives. 10 albums of original prints made from these negatives for Carter, and original prints made for and kept with the object card index for the excavation.
Burton, Harry
James Burton Photographs Collection
J. Burton MSS
9 mounted photographs made from drawings of el-Kâb, Philae, and Amada.
Microfilm roll with copies of the Burton MSS once in the British Museum and now in the British Library.
Burton, James
Siegfried Hugo Erdmann Schott Collection
Schott MSS
(a) Approximately 3,500 negatives recording scenes from private tombs at Thebes, accompanied by a concordance in five notebooks .
(b) There are also several hundred photographs which were received in exchange with the Abteilung Ägyptologie, Trier.
(c) Microfilm roll with copies of the negatives.
Schott, Siegfried Hugo Erdmann
Griffith Institute Stereoscopic Photographs Collection
GI Stereoscopic Photographs
1) 103 stereoscopic photographs published by Underwood & Underwood, consisting of views of Egypt (49), China (50), Europe (3), and India (1).
2) Sawyer's View-Master Model B, black bakelite (c. 1944-1947), and twelve View-Master reels with seven pictures of Egypt each (© 1950): 3301 'Cairo, Egypt'; 3302 'The Famous Mosques of Cairo, Egypt'; 3303 'The Great Pyramids and Sphinx, Giza, Egypt'; 3304 'The Tombs of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt'; 3305 'Treasures of King Tut-Ankh-Amen, Cairo, Egypt'; 3306 'The River Nile, Assuan to Cairo, Egypt'; 3307 'The Valley of the Nile, Egypt'; 3308 'People of the Nile Valley, Egypt'; 3309 'Sakkara and Memphis, Egypt'; 3310 'Luxor & El Karnak, Egypt'; 3311 'Ancient Thebes, Egypt'; and 3312 'Assuan on the Nile, Egypt'.
3) 50 stereoscopic glass positives accompanied by a handwritten numbered index of images and a Gaumont stereoscopic viewer. The positives were created in Egypt sometime between 1900 and 1914. Views include Alexandria, Cairo (street scenes and inside the Egyptian Museum), the pyramids at Giza, the Luxor Temple, the Valley of the Kings, and Aswan.
Underwood & Underwood
William Arnold Stewart Collection
Stewart MSS
1927 to mid 1940s
Journal, photographs, typescript, and various notes connected with Stewart's work on the reconstruction of some of the furniture of Queen Hetepheres for the Harvard-Boston Expedition.
Xerox of a typescript entitled 'Creative Work in Palestine. Technical and Crafts Education 1918-1946'.
Stewart, William Arnold
John Williams Rubbings Collection
Wiliams MSS
Between 1830-1840
4 albums containing rubbings mainly of objects in the British Museum, and also other museums and private collections including those in the J. Lee collection.
Williams, John
Percy Edward Newberry Collection
NEWB
The Percy Newberry Collection has been listed thanks to a cataloguing grant from the The National Archives in 2015. The collection comprises a wide range of material on topics including Predynastic Egypt, Theban tombs, Egyptian flora and fauna, early Egyptian travellers, ancient Egyptian religion and culture, as well as Newberry's genealogy. Formats include notebooks, research notes, photographs, tracings, rubbings and neswpaper clippings.
The collection has been divided into 5 series: Biographical Material; Correspondence; Research Notebooks; Subject Files and Research Material.
The following key subject terms collate material on the same subject which have been listed in different series:
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/nome-ensigns-percy-newberry-collection">Nome Ensigns</a>
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/flora-and-fauna-percy-newberry-collection">Flora and Fauna</a>
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/predynastic-egypt-percy-newberry-collection">Predynastic Egypt</a>
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/scarabs-and-seals-percy-newberry-collection">Scarabs and Seals</a>
Newberry, Percy Edward
Rudolph Theophilus and Alice Lieder Squeezes Collection
Lieder MSS
Paper squeezes of monuments made in Egypt in 1850-3.
Lieder, (Revd Johann) Rudolph Theophilus
Alan Jenvey Rowe Collection
Rowe MSS
Copies of reports, photographs and correspondence connected with Beisan excavations by Philadelphia University.
Rowe, Alan Jenvey
Alan Richard Schulman Collection
Schulman MSS
Notes, copies of inscriptions, photographs, etc. of objects and sites, mostly concerning ancient Egyptian monuments from the Memphite area.
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by Clyde Nash
— Jan 18, 2017
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The new Kaby Lake processors will also be power-efficient, Kuo believes.
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Furthermore, the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros will start production in early Q3 with Kaby Lake processors. Earlier this year, Phil Schiller explained that Apple's decision to cap the MacBook Pro at 16GB of RAM was done in an effort to preserve battery life. Well, we have good news for Apple fans, recent reports have been showing that Apple is working on launching a 15 inch MacBook Pro during 2017 and it will ship with the whopping amount of 32GB of RAM.
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Minoan palace of Zominthos in Crete yields exciting Bronze Age finds
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Minoan palace of Zominthos in Crete yields exciting Bronze Age findsShare More News: ExcavationSee all photos Zominthos: Interior stairway discovered during the excavation (photo: Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports)
The Minoan palace of Zominthos was a complex with three-story buildings grounded in the rock at 1,200 meters above sea level. As early as 2000 BC, worshippers began placing offerings in clefts in the rock, such as “egg cups” – simple cup-shaped vases with a disc-like base – both painted and plain. The honorary director of the Antiquities Department, Dr Efi Sapounas-Sakellarakis, spoke enthusiastically to Greek Kathimerini newspaper about the results of the annual excavation of the Archaeological Society at Zominthos, a small plateau in the northern foothills of Mount Psiloritis on Crete.
Zominthos: the stone cases discovered would have contained precious artefacts that the inhabitants certainly must have taken with them (photo: Ministry of Culture and Sports)
The palace of Zominthos, she notes, had more than 150 rooms.
“It was a brilliant architectural combination in both design and construction. The large limestone floor slabs, which look like marble, have not been found elsewhere in the area,” she pointed out, adding that “they were brought there from a quarry 20 kilometers away.”
Pendant in the shape of a shell, discovered at Zominthos (photo: Ministry of Culture and Sports)
“It was a religious, political and economic center that was also in use in the post-Mycenaean era, as shown by the separate ritual vase found in one of the rooms on the west side. Fragments of a rhyton in the shape of a bull’s head, 30 centimeters high, were found by the late Yannis Sakellarakis east of this building, but we did not find such religious objects.”
New entrance to the Minoan palace of Zominthos, discovered during this year’s excavation (photo: Ministry of Culture and Sports)
This section yielded bronze daggers, seals, stone vessels and a fragment of a chalice with a small bronze spoon, dated to before 1750 BC. Sapounas-Sakellarakis also points out that, in excavation terms, it is the first time a multistory building has been found on a rock in a center of habitation. Interestingly, a stone vessel with a relief depicting a worshipper placing an offering on an altar between rocks had previously been found in the area of Gypsades Hill at Knossos.
Zominthos: View of the great hall that supported the upper storeys with central pillars or columns (photo: Ministry of Culture and Sports)
Zominthos, where 20 years ago Yannis Sakellarakis launched the excavations that have been continued by his wife, is inexhaustible. This year, an entrance from north to south was found with a double door leading to a paved area built on a suitably shaped part of the rock. In Minoan times it may have served as an outdoor area for sports or ceremonies, and later as a courtyard of the building that the Romans built on the Minoan ruins.
Zominthos: Section of a rock crystal, out of many located in the workshops’ area (photo: Ministry of Culture and Sports)
Also interesting for the archaeologists was the discovery of a coin showing the Emperor Hadrian. This, together with another one featuring Marcus Aurelius that was unearthed last year, confirms a Roman presence at the site.
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I was sitting in the pub having a quiet beer when a removalist truck pulled outside the bank on the other side of the road. The tail ramp came down and an elephant walked out and straight into the bank. It slapped all the bank staff with its trunk then wrapped its trunk around the safe, hauled it out and walked back into the truck which took off down the road.
A few minutes later the local policeman came into the pub and asked if anyone had witnessed the bank robbery, I said that I had seen it all. Notebook in hand he asked me to describe the event and when I finished he asked me to describe the elephant. "What do you mean describe the elephant" I said, "an elephant is an elephant surely?" "What I mean is, was it an Indian elephant or an African elephant?" said the officer. I replied "I couldn't tell, it had a stocking over its head".
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A woman takes a lover home during the day while her husband is at work.
Her 9-year old son comes home unexpectedly, sees them, and hides in the bedroom closet.
Then the woman's husband also comes home.
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That is far more than those two things cost. I'm going to take you to church and make you confess.'
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The boy says, 'Dark in here.'
The priest says, 'Don't start that shit with me again. You're in my closet now!'
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A tale as old as time gets ready to take the stage with Disney Cruise Line’s new musical, “Beauty and the Beast”
Heather Dawson Thuresson October 15, 2017 Entertainment
A tale as old as time gets ready to take the stage with “Beauty and the Beast,” a brand-new musical production inspired by Disney’s live-action adaptation of the animated classic. Our very own Audra Stafford takes us behind-the-scenes at their rehearsal facility in Toronto with performances, projection design and puppets!
The show will expand upon the most imaginative elements of the highly anticipated live-action and classic films and delight Disney Cruise Line guests aboard the Disney Dream, beginning this November.
Audiences will once again fall in love with the enchanting fairytale as they embark on a sweeping journey to discover the power of transformation through true love and courage.
This new production of “Beauty and the Beast” celebrates the romance, adventure and magic of the live-action film, weaving in the charm and nostalgia of the award-winning animated feature.
“Beauty and the Beast” will bring the timeless fable to life like never before, featuring a style of theater that interlaces classic storytelling elements with cutting-edge technology, to create a unique, theatrical experience in the 1,340-seat Walt Disney Theatre.
An innovative take on the story will transform renowned songs into spectacular, show-stopping numbers, and lavish costumes and puppetry will bring a fresh perspective to beloved characters.
To learn more, watch the full segment below or see it air nationwide on California Life with Heather Dawson.
Article via: Disney Cruise Line
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Spiel Des Jahres 2015 Comments
Posted on May 25, 2015 January 30, 2016 by E.R. Burgess
First, congratulations to all the nominees and recommended titles. I’m glad the Spiel Des Jahres continues to be a source of promotion for the hobby, even if it rarely is considered the ultimate arbiter of quality by serious gamers. The inclusion of the Kennerspiel (Complex Game) category is certainly welcome but even there, serious gamers have had some issues with the jury’s definition of ‘complex.’
But let’s get to our story – like many of you, I was watching closely for reports of the Spiel Des Jahres 2015 nominees last week and was excited to see that two of the nominees were games on my radar that I’d pegged as likely nominees. Conveniently enough, I have played all three games and I’ve acquired them so I can play them with my old group of friends who take a game holiday in early July. We love to get our own comparison going and then see what the Spiel Des Jahres jury decides. So, what are the nominees?
This amusing train robbery game has 2-6 players battling out to be the most successful thief on a 3-D train you construct. Players program cards from a fixed personal deck into a central deck (like one of my favorites – Mamma Mia and other similar games) that is then resolved in order, with players hoping that whatever they programmed goes off as expected – which is often not the case due to the action of the others. Players steal gems from the various trains, shoot each other to place space-filling bullets into the decks, and try to lure the Marshall over to hit their opponents.
Colt Express gets some criticism for a lack of control but gamers will want to immediately graduate to the ‘advanced rules’ which let you cycle through your cards rather than having a completely random draw each turn (making it possible for players to have almost no turn at all). I think the designer made a mistake in not calling this the normal game. While the basic rules are easier, I can see how people could be hugely frustrated by it.
On components alone, Colt Express would have a good shot. But based on the fun of the game, its approachability (we played it with a third-grader and he almost won), and the seeming interest in this theme lately, I feel like Colt Express is the front-runner. It’s available now through Amazon.
This title from the same designer of Qwixx was the surprise on the short-list for me. While, like the Oscars, the same designers seem to get an increased shot at the big awards if they previously missed them, I thought Qwixx was a fun game but didn’t expect it to earn the designer, Steffan Benndorf, another go at the big time. But here it is.
The Game is funny to me in that the comparisons to Hanabi make me think maybe he decided to build his own version of the game that edged him out of his big moment. Could be – there are some elements of similarity for sure; player collaboratively discard/play cards to stacks. But the closer comparison is probably 23, a pleasant little game which plays quicker and competitively. Players discard cards (ranked 2 to 99) to one of four stacks, two of which are ascending from 1 and two of which are descending from 100. Play one per turn from a hand and the twist is that if you get a card exactly 10 higher/lower than the top card on a stack, you can play it going the opposite way (i.e., play 49 on 59 for an ascending stack). That’s about it. Also, the art is grim/dark and feels kind of odd for such a light family-style game (which should have probably kept it out of the running for the SDJ).
With those in mind, I find The Game to be only okay and I think it’s a long-shot at best to win (unless the politics of giving the award to a smaller, independent publisher win out. The Game is kind of hard to get (and to find on BGG…just search for “The Game” and “Kannst”) at the moment but I got my own copy from TimeWellSpent Games.
This little dice-rolling, city-builder is the one I have had for the longest. I’ve played it many times and have also invested in the Harbor expansion, which many gamers insist is necessary to properly enjoy the game. While I agree that the basic game grows old quickly, even the Harbor expansion has its own problems. But if you play with the Harbor expansion and a variant that gives you one row of 1-6 cards and a second one of 7+ (also limiting the often annoying ‘6’ cards to one per player), Machi Koro is a lot of fun. As you can see, even our cat gets into it.
Machi Koro‘s chances are solid but I think Colt Express will likely take the prize on pure component fun. Some have suggested that awarding Machi Koro makes sense because it would acknowledge the wonderful microgame revolution coming out of Japan right now. I think the way to award that would have been tossing it to Love Letter but Machi is more the style of the Spiel Des Jahres.
Still, Machi is a bunch of cards and a couple of dice. Colt Express has freaking 3-D trains and Banditeeeples. It’s going to be tough to beat. You can buy Machi Koro on Amazon right now. Also, I strongly recommend the Harbor expansion – also available on Amazon immediately.
What do I think belonged in that spot for The Game?
Cacao from Sushi Go designer Phil Walker-Harding seems like the most obvious choice. It’s a pleasant gateway game with a nice theme, good components (though nothing eye-popping like Colt’s 3-D train or last year’s winner Camel Up with it’s dice-pooping pyramid), and family-friendly theme and feel.
I would have loved to have seen Bezier Games’ One Night Ultimate Werewolf in there, too. Although this version of the perennial party game Werewolf plays in 5 minutes, it would be a nice
addition to the game collections of families that just buy the Spiel Des Jahres winner each year. We’ve played it a bunch of times and it definitely has both that ‘let’s play again!’ feel and serious replay value with all of the characters included (and there’s more in the excellent expansion).
I need to try the rest of the list and will. Only Patchwork was on my ‘must-try’ list but now they all are.
Other Awards from the SDJ Jury
I’d note that I had no idea on the Kinderspiel at all and I had far too long a list of Kennerspiel possibilities but I will be back when I have finished playing all of them later this summer.
I haven’t played any of them Broom Service is based on Witch’s Brew, which I think it terrific. I’m also quite keen to play Elysium, having enjoyed previous games from Brett Gilbert (Divinare is an underrated gem), and Orleans has so much positive hype that I almost want to ask people to start lowering my expectations! When I get a chance to try them all, I’ll be back to report on them.
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Rafael unveils Spike missile's latest version
Land mobile version of the Spike NLOS weapon system. Image credit: Rafael
JERUSALEM (BNS): Israeli defence company Rafael has unveiled the latest version of its Spike missiles family � 25-km range non-line of sight (NLOS) missile.
The missile, which can be launched from all platforms � land, sea and air � can also hit targets not located in view of the missile launcher.
Equipped with a variety of warheads, RF communication, unique advantages of hitting non-line of site (NLOS) targets, the ability to switch between targets and abort mission, the Spike NLOS can be operated in offensive and defensive scenarios, Rafael said.
It can also update data while flying in the air using fiber optics. This feature will enable the weapon to divert its course to avoid missing its target or harming innocent targets.
Spike is a third-generation anti-tank guided missile, which works on a fire-and-forget principle with lock-on before launch and automatic self-guidance.
The previous versions of the missile have a range of 4-8 kilometers and are used by infantry forces, and can be fired by helicopters and ground vehicles.
Pak Navy test-fires indigenous cruise missile
Anti-tank guided missile test-fired successfully
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Pak test-fires short range ballistic missile 'Nasr'
Pakistan Army has test-fired the short range surface-to-surface ballistic missile 'Nasr' which it claims can defeat any ballistic missile defence system now available in the country's neighbourhood or any other system being developed.
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Alison is Leaving Maryhill
It is with great sadness that we have accepted Alison’s resignation. Alison and her husband came to Christchurch to make the most of the wonderful lifestyle the South Island offers and have now fallen in love with the Mackenzie country, which unfortunately is too far for Alison to commute. Alison says she had not anticipated leaving Cherry’s as it fits [...]
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March, April and May in the Infant and Toddler area
After some very settled weather during March and April, May has begun to bring us some more winter like weather. With things being a bit wetter and cooler we need to change our planning a little for the days when we were stuck inside. It is very easy to get used to being able to go outside during the warmer [...]
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News from the Older Children’s Area, March/April 2015
Happy Birthday to these children who have recently turned another year older! Flynn, Jamie, Ollie, Lucas, Violet R, Abbey, Josh, Lusia, Rosie, Jesse and Cooper. A big welcome to Violet, Cooper and James who are beginning their transition from the Infants and Toddlers Room, and to Leela, Kiya, Arlo Luka and Ellie who are new to our Cherry’s family. We’re [...]
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News from the Older Children’s Area, Jan/Feb
Happy Birthday to these children who have recently turned another year older! Emma, Holly, Kalyan, Ethan, Jack M, Viktor, Penny, Lou, Max and Emily. A big welcome to Penny, Carys T, Carys M, Ollie and Jamie who are transitioning/have transitioned from the Infants and Toddlers Room, and to Kean and Jack M who are new to our centre. Congratulations to [...]
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February in the Infant and Toddler area
What a great Summer we have been able to enjoy this year. With all this beautiful weather we have been able to really make the most of our wonderful outside area. During February Oliver Chitty and Jamie Swann have both begun their transition to the older children's area. Oliver is joining his older brother Cameron, following in Sophie's footsteps as [...]
January in the Infant and Toddler area
Welcome to 2015. What a wonderful Summer we have had this year. Plenty of sun filled days, so we have heard lots of stories about the wonderful things that our families were able to enjoy over the holiday period. It sounds like you have all had wonderful breaks. In January we welcomed Harry Trumper, Thomas Broadbent, Harrington Blowers, Ashleigh Trevella, [...]
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Purposeful Infanticide?
Filed under: General, Birding & Outdoors, NM & SW US, Florida & SE US
Posted by: Ken @ 7:44 am
At Albuquerque’s Rio Grande Nature Center, the groups of school kids that I guided as an interpreter rarely sighted any coyotes, but their tracks were often evident. To help distinguish them from domestic dog tracks, I went through the “3 P’s.” First, the “Paws”: their robust shape and minimal nail imprint. Second, “Perfect-stepping”: when walking, coyotes place their hind feet precisely into the prints of their front feet (as do cats), producing a “two-legged” set of tracks. Finally, the tracks of coyotes are “Purposeful,” meaning that they exhibit intent, or are directed toward a goal or reward. They tend to go in straight lines, from this tree to the cover of that bush, to then intersect with the tracks of a bounding mouse or vole.
Wild creatures cannot afford to waste energy. In the snow of New Mexico’s Sandia mountains, I often noticed the difference between the “purposeful” stride of a coyote or Gray Fox, as opposed to a pet dog’s meanderings. Young coyotes (and young rabbits) appear to “waste’ much energy in play and seemingly mindless scurrying about. However, they are gaining survival skills with a long term payback.
Some behaviors, such as the territorial skirmishes of the Muscovy Ducks on our suburban lake seem easy to interpret. They are directed at passing on the toughest drake’s genes. When food is scarce, some birds of prey, such as eagles and owls, may produce two or more chicks, only to have the older and stronger siblings kill their nest-mates. Again, we see the value of this fratricidal behavior, as likelihood of survival of at least one of the progeny is increased.
Last January, 2005 one of the Muscovy Ducks that inhabit our South Florida lake, appeared at our back door with seven newly hatched ducklings, a bit early in the breeding season. Two days later she was sitting on a neighbor’s lawn about 20 feet from the lake’s edge with the ducklings under her wings or milling close by. Suddenly as if on signal, twenty or so adult ducks began flying or swimming rapidly towards her, mobbing her.
Thinking I saw a yellow ball of fuzz in one of the ducks’ mouth, I ran inside to get my binoculars, as the ducks were about 100 yards away. Sure enough, the adults had captured and killed all seven ducklings. They fought over the carcasses and attracted Ring-billed Gulls that stole most of them and flew off.
The ducks were at the height of courtship with lots of head-bobbing, tail-wagging, fights and copulation. Perhaps this had something to do with this (presumably) unusual behavior. The attackers/mobbers appeared to include both sexes.
It is difficult to interpret such behavior. Did it carry any survival value? Had the local duck population reached a critical mass that triggered some deep instinct to assure adequate resources, such as food and shelter? Infanticide may be analagous to fratricide– if the chicks were sired by a rival or non-relative of the the attackers, it might even be more effective, as it also eliminates competing genes.
See follow-up responses on avian infanticide here.
A FEW GLEANINGS FROM THE LITERATURE:
Eugenie C. Scott wrote in a review of “Infanticide: Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives,” that avian infanticide is not a “rare, pathological aberration brought about by unusual conditions. It is too common. The behavior has more recently been considered as an adaptive response at the population level to pressures such as overpopulation, or as an adaptive response by individuals.”
High breeding density appears to have increased the aggression of a female to the point of infanticide in the Spot-billed Duck (Anas poecilorhyncha) observed on a small pond at Yatsu tidal flat, central Japan, from May to June 2000.
“…(S)ix families of conspecific and one Gadwall A. strepera family, respectively, occupied territories. A female Spot-billed Duck with 11 ducklings attacked ducklings of all the other families killing eight conspecifics and three of the Gadwall. High breeding density (15.0 families/ha) may have increased the aggression of the female.” [A case of infanticide in the Spot-billed Duck in circumstances of high breeding density : Tetsuo Shimada, Kazuyuki Kuwabara, Saori Yamakoshi, Tomomi Shichi, Abstract]
Competition for nest sites, mates or food is implicated in this study of European Starlings:
“Avian adult infanticide (the killing of conspecific young by an adult) has been reported for several species (e.g.: Crook and Shields 1985, Loftin and Roberson 1983. Trail et al. 1981). Here we document one case of attempted infanticide and circumstantial evidence for 3 more cases of infanticide in the European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris).
“In all cases, the nature of the wound was the same: a peck mark near one of the auditory openings. Similar wounds have been reported by Crook and Shields (19 8 5) Shelley (1934), and Stacey and Edwards (1983) in the context of infanticide…. In addition, similar peck marks have been found around the head and neck of dead adults (n = 3) found in nest boxes, and on the faces of pairs of birds that we have captured fighting inside boxes (n = 8 pairs), suggesting that bill stabbing is not uncommon.
“In two of the four cases, a female was suspected to have committed an infanticidal act. We suspect that infanticide in our population is related to competition for nest sites, a limiting resource (e.g., see Hrdy 1979). Other reports of female infanticidal behavior have been reported by Loftin and Roberson (1983) and Picman (1977). In both cases, a limiting resource (such as nests, mates or food) has been suggested as a reason for infanticidal acts.
“The importance and frequency of avian infanticide is largely unknown primarily because the observation time necessary to document this phenomenon can be prohibitive. As a result, infanticide may have greater biological significance than is implied by the existing literature. We encourage all observers to be cognizant of the possibility
of infanticide in their study populations.”
Intruding males and females may gain a reproductive advantage by killing the young of prospective mates [Prospective Infanticide and Protection of Genetic Paternity in Tropical House Wrens]:
“Sexually selected infanticide occurs when adults kill dependent offspring of potential mates and initiate new reproductive attempts with those mates more rapidly than if they had waited for the offspring to become independent.”
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"Damn Lies"
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Peter Rowan and the Dharma Blues
Peter Rowan and Yungchen Lhamo. Photo by Charleston City Paper
Before becoming a giant on the progressive bluegrass scene, Peter Rowan performed with the first giant of traditional bluegrass: Bill Monroe. Ditching Boston in 1965, Rowan found himself playing rhythm guitar for the Blue Grass Boys for two years, recording 14 sounds with Monroe before his departure. The more traditional bluegrass practiced by the Monroe, and the artistic friction he experienced would lead him to form the psychedelic rock group, Earth Opera, with David Grisman.
It’s easy to argue that the Earth Opera sound is about the furthest departure Rowan made from Bluegrass, but I’d like you to take a listen to the later (around 6:15) vocals in “As It Is Before,” and remember them for later.
Let’s move on.
Despite his artistic departure, Peter Rowan’s childhood love of the bluegrass sound would continue to draw him back to his roots. His next collaboration, Seatrain, had a more recognizable bluegrass influence. (Some songs more than others)
After Seatrain came two bluegrass supergroups, Muleskinner (with Richard Green, David Grisman, Clarence White, and the first bluegrass recording to include drums) and Old and in the Way (with Vassar Clements and Jerry Garcia). The second’s self-titled album, “Old and in the Way,” would go on to become the best-selling bluegrass album of all time (that is, until the “O Brother, Where Art Thou” soundtrack rolled out in 2000).
(Thanks, Keith Richards)
This relatively short period (about a year) of Rowan’s career garnered him a strong following and produced many bluegrass classics (see Panama Red and Land of the Navajo), but was also a major time of spiritual development for Rowan.
While living in Marin County (near San Francisco), Rowan had a life changing encounter with Kalu Rinpoche, the Buddhist lama and Tibetan exile. His new-found faith would go on to have a deep impact on his music and the bluegrass genre itself:
“Tibetan music shares a similarity with bluegrass…They’re both from remote mountainous areas populated by hill country people. Like Tibetan music, bluegrass has a very rootsy sound, earthy, and yet with spiritual overtones, both in the straight and the sacred songs. They have a kind of longing, a yearning for transcendence.”
-Peter Rowan, Marin Independent Journal
After years working in various arrangements, Rowan began a solo career that continues to this day. His faith and his roots continue to inspire his work, as seen time and again in each of his recordings (Yes, that’s a tanpura on Dharma Blues). Most recently, Rowan has been collaborating with Tibetan vocalist Yungchen Lhamo to great effect. Check them out with folk duo Mandolin Orange (Get it? Get it?!?!) at Merlefest this year:
(If Lhamo isn’t the epitome of “high and lonesome,” I don’t know who is. If they don’t release an album, I don’t know what I’ll do.)
Rowan himself has a lot to say on the subject of his unique blending of east and west, a blending of spiritual searching that meets in his music:
“There are a lot of links. I loved bluegrass especially because it spoke of the earthiness of life. And most of the songs that I learned were all about suffering. To me, that’s all spiritual music the same as Buddhist music. You know, there’s no difference. It’s just a difference in the meaning, on a subtle level. It all lines up, if we’re not dogmatic about it and open minded about it we can make the world a good place.”
-Peter Rowan, NPR interview
Take a listen to this:
“I sing a song of freedom while I’m riding…”
Where does that song sound like it is from? America, right? I mean, who else sings about freedom and riding horses and rolling hills?
“Across the rolling hills I come riding, I’ll ramble where I will.”
What does that song sound like it’s about? The Civil War, perhaps? Maybe a cowboy?
“Om Ah Hung Vajra Guru Pema Siddhi Hung. Padmasambhava comes riding.”
Ah, okay. Wasn’t it obvious? This is a song about Padmasambhava (aka Guru Rinpoche), the Indian Spiritualist that brought Buddhism to Tibet.
(And here I thought it was some sort of newgrass tribute to She’ll Be Commin’ Round the Mountain.)
If you get a chance, take another listen (here’s a version someone overlayed with artwork depicting Padmasambhava). Focus on the seamless merging of Buddhist spirituals with the four-part harmony, a neat take on progressive bluegrass, if you ask me.
Okay, remember those vocals I asked you to listen to? Here are some more:
(A different kind of high lonesome sound, am I right?)
While these type of Vedic spiritual vocals aren’t found in any of Rowan’s music that I have listened to (though he did bring back the tanpura!), it is neat to see a musician’s style form over time. The Earth Opera years were probably the first instance of eastern influence in his sound, but they were certainly not the last. Rowan’s musical legacy helps us realize that the high lonesome phenomenon is not necessarily an Appalachian phenomenon, but a human phenomenon.
I look forward to further exploration of this high lonesome sound in the hopes that it might just explain bluegrass’s cross-cultural appeal.
For more information, check out these great resources:
Peter Rowan’s Website
“The Enlightened Sound of Peter Rowan’s Buddhist Bluegrass” by Paul Liberatore of the Marin Independent Journal
The Fresh Air Interview: Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band
Thomas Goldsmith, The Bluegrass Reader, chapters 39 and 47
February 18, 2015 Biographies, Blog PostsBill Monroe, Clarence White, David Grisman, High Lonesome Sound, Mandolin Orange, Muleskinner, Old and in the Way, Peter Rowan, Seatrain, Yungchen Lhamosamawinter
“Smith’s statements that the music
began with Monroe’s post-war band
and his inclusion of Earl Scruggs-style
banjo as one of the defining
characteristics of the music were,
Monroe told Smith angrily, ‘damn lies’ as far as he was concerned.”
– Neil Rosenberg, “Bluegrass: A History”
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Surprise, the LEGO® Stranger Things set is real and I bet you couldn’t have guessed so from all the subtle hints over the last week. LEGO have joined forces with Netflix to create this impressive new set based on the hit show, Stranger Things. The set features two version of the Byers family home, both in the real world and the shadowy mirror realm of the Upside Down. It features 8 Minifigures, Hopper’s Police cruiser and display stand. It’s a truly unique set, based on an amazing show. It will be available online shortly for LEGO VIP members and will be available for all from June 1st. Check out the details below and stay tuned for my review shortly.
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Mr 16:1-20. ANGELIC ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE WOMEN ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, THAT CHRIST IS RISEN--HIS APPEARANCES AFTER HIS RESURRECTION--HIS ASCENSION--TRIUMPHANT PROCLAMATION OF HIS GOSPEL. ( = Mt 28:1-10, 16-20; Lu 24:1-51; Joh 20:1, 2, 11-29).
The Resurrection Announced to the Women (Mr 16:1-8).
1. And when the sabbath was past--that is, at sunset of our Saturday.
Mary Magdalene--(See on Lu 8:2).
and Mary the mother of James--James the Less (see Mr 15:40).
and Salome--the mother of Zebedee's sons (compare Mr 15:40 with Mt 27:56).
had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him--The word is simply "bought." But our translators are perhaps right in rendering it here "had bought," since it would appear, from Lu 23:56, that they had purchased them immediately after the Crucifixion, on the Friday evening, during the short interval that remained to them before sunset, when the sabbath rest began; and that they had only deferred using them to anoint the body till the sabbath rest should be over. On this "anointing," see on Joh 19:40.
2. And very early in the morning--(See on Mt 28:1).
the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun--not quite literally, but "at earliest dawn"; according to a way of speaking not uncommon, and occurring sometimes in the Old Testament. Thus our Lord rose on the third day; having lain in the grave part of Friday, the whole of Saturday, and part of the following First day.
3. And they said among themselves--as they were approaching the sacred spot.
Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? . . . for it was very great--On reaching it they find their difficulty gone--the stone already rolled away by an unseen hand. And are there no others who, when advancing to duty in the face of appalling difficulties, find their stone also rolled away?
5. And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man--In Mt 28:2 he is called "the angel of the Lord"; but here he is described as he appeared to the eye, in the bloom of a life that knows no decay. In Matthew he is represented as sitting on the stone outside the sepulchre; but since even there he says, "Come, see the place where the Lord lay" (Mt 28:6), he seems, as ALFORD says, to have gone in with them from without; only awaiting their arrival to accompany them into the hallowed spot, and instruct them about it.
sitting on the right side--having respect to the position in which His Lord had lain there. This trait is peculiar to Mark; but compare Lu 1:11.
clothed in a long white garment--On its length, see Isa 6:1; and on its whiteness, see on Mt 28:3.
and they were affrighted.
6. And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted--a stronger word than "Fear not" in Matthew (Mt 28:5).
Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified!--"the Nazarene, the Crucified."
he is risen; he is not here--(See on Lu 24:5, 6).
behold the place where they laid him--(See on Mt 28:6).
7. But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter--This Second Gospel, being drawn up--as all the earliest tradition states--under the eye of Peter, or from materials chiefly furnished by him, there is something deeply affecting in the preservation of this little clause by Mark alone.
that he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him, as he said unto you--(See on Mt 28:7).
8. And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre: for they trembled and were amazed--"for tremor and amazement seized them."
neither said they anything to any man; for they were afraid--How intensely natural and simple is this!
Appearances of Jesus after His Resurrection (Mr 16:9-18).
9. Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils--There is some difficulty here, and different ways of removing it have been adopted. She had gone with the other women to the sepulchre (Mr 16:1), parting from them, perhaps, before their interview with the angel, and on finding Peter and John she had come with them back to the spot; and it was at this second visit, it would seem, that Jesus appeared to this Mary, as detailed in Joh 20:11-18. To a woman was this honor given to be the first that saw the risen Redeemer, and that woman was NOT his virgin-mother.
11. And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not--This, which is once and again repeated of them all, is most important in its bearing on their subsequent testimony to His resurrection at the risk of life itself.
12. After that he appeared in another form--(compare Lu 24:16).
unto two of them as they walked, and went into the country--The reference here, of course, is to His manifestation to the two disciples going to Emmaus, so exquisitely told by the Third Evangelist (see on Lu 24:13, &c.).
13. And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them, &c.
15. And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature--See on Joh 20:19-23 and Lu 24:36-49.
16. He that believeth and is baptized--Baptism is here put for the external signature of the inner faith of the heart, just as "confessing with the mouth" is in Ro 10:10; and there also as here this outward manifestation, once mentioned as the proper fruit of faith, is not repeated in what follows (Ro 10:11).
shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned--These awful issues of the reception or rejection of the Gospel, though often recorded in other connections, are given in this connection only by Mark.
17, 18. And these signs shall follow them that believe . . . They shall take up serpents--These two verses also are peculiar to Mark.
The Ascension and Triumphant Proclamation of the Gospel Thereafter (Mr 16:19, 20).
19. So then after the Lord--an epithet applied to Jesus by this Evangelist only in Mr 16:19, 20, when He comes to His glorious Ascension and its subsequent fruits. It is most frequent in Luke.
had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven--See on Lu 24:50, 51.
and sat on the right hand of God--This great truth is here only related as a fact in the Gospel history. In that exalted attitude He appeared to Stephen (Ac 7:55, 56); and it is thereafter perpetually referred to as His proper condition in glory.
20. And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen--We have in this closing verse a most important link of connection with the Acts of the Apostles, where He who directed all the movements of the infant Church is perpetually styled "THE LORD"; thus illustrating His own promise for the rounding and building up of the Church, "LO, I AM WITH YOU alway!"
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Jamieson, Robert, D.D. "Commentary on Mark 16". "Commentary Critical and Explanatory
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By Michael Guta, TMCnet Contributing Writer | August 06, 2015
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"Fringe Benefits," entry in Encyclopedia of Taxation and Tax Policy, 2nd edition, Joseph Cordes, Robert D. Ebel, and Jane G. Gravelle, editors Washington: Urban Institute Press, (2005)
"The Optimal Provision of Services in National Parks," Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy, 2(1) Article 9 (2002) http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/topics/vol2/iss1/art9
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Infant Psychiatry: Its Relevance for the General Psychiatrist
K. Minde, D. Benoit
The study of infancy can provide us with new models for the genesis and treatment of psychiatric disorders. It allows us to observe development and can elucidate the contribution the internal and external world make to mental health and disorder. It can also help to define and describe developmental pathways which may be instrumental in creating a resilient or vulnerable adult.
The Construction and Selection of Predictive Scales, with Special Reference to Parasuicide
Norman Kreitman, J. Foster
Issues concerning the use of predictive and screening instruments include the difficulties posed by temporal changes in the base rates for the behaviour of interest, the possible advantages of using three rather than the customary two risk categories, and the desirability of specifying in advance the proportional sizes of the risk subgroups. A method is proposed for constructing and assessing tripartite risk scales, and a new scale for predicting the repetition of parasuicide, with the results of a prospective validation study, is reported.
The Diagnosis of Dementia in the Elderly a Comparison of CAMCOG (the Cognitive Section of CAMDEX), the AGECAT Program, DSM–III, the Mini-Mental State Examination and Some Short Rating Scales
G. Blessed, S. E. Black, T. Butler, D. W. K. Kay
The performance of CAMCOG, the cognitive section of the CAMDEX, is compared in a non-random sample of 222 elderly people with diagnoses based on agecat and on DSM–III criteria, and with the MMSE and some short rating scales. With a cut-off point of 69/70 and agecat organic syndrome as the criterion, the sensitivity of CAMCOG was 97% and the specificity 91%. However, 21% of DSM–III diagnoses of dementia scored above this cut-off; these were mostly mild cases. The correlation between CAMCOG and MMSE scores was 0.87, and the advantage of CAMCOG may be more apparent in longitudinal studies. Multivariate analyses showed that CAMCOG scores are affected by age, sociocultural factors and hearing and visual deficits in addition to dementia, but not by depression. There was a suggestion that individual subsections are differentially affected.
Psychological Symptoms and their Course in First-Year Medical Students as Assessed by the Interval General Health Questionnaire (I–GHQ)
P. McC. Miller, P. G. Surtees
Evidence is presented concerning the concurrent validity of the Interval General Health Questionnaire. This was used to describe the timing and course of spells of depression and anxiety symptoms in first-year medical students over their initial six months at university. A small subgroup of students who were continuously symptomatic were distinguished from other groups by the presence of a number of factors: they were slow to make friends, had inappropriate support from relatives, had a tendency to have rows, had steady girl/boyfriends and had ‘vulnerable’ personalities. By contrast, a large subgroup who were well throughout had experienced caring childhood backgrounds, seldom had girl/boyfriends, showed little tendency to have rows and had ‘resilient’ personalities. Other subgroups are also described. It is suggested that students who suffer from chronic minor symptomatic distress could be recognised early on and offered appropriate support from counselling services.
Self-detoxification by Opiate Addicts: A Preliminary Investigation
Michael Gossop, Malcolm Battersby, John Strang
A study of 50 opiate addicts attending a London service for treatment of drug dependence found that 47 subjects had previously made at least one attempt at self-detoxification. These subjects reported 212 previous attempts. Although 30 subjects reported having managed to complete at least one attempt, the success rate per episode was low (24%). One of the most commonly reported methods, used by 28 subjects, involved an abrupt cessation of opiates (‘cold turkey’). Of the drugs used in their attempts at self-detoxification, benzodiazepines were reported by 24 subjects and opiates by 20. Practical strategies such as distraction and avoidance were also used. Self-help detoxification materials for opiate addicts might be useful.
Heavy Drinking as a Risk Factor for Depression and Dementia in Elderly Men: Findings from the Liverpool Longitudinal Community Study
Paul A. Saunders, John R. M. Copeland, Michael E. Dewey, Ian A. Davidson, Christopher Mcwilliam, Vimal Sharma, Caroline Sullivan
A random community sample of subjects aged 65 and over was re-interviewed after three years by psychiatrists using the GMS and HAS. The relationship between drinking history and current psychiatric morbidity was examined. Men with a history of heavy drinking for five years or more at some time in their lives were found to have a greater than fivefold risk of suffering from a psychiatric disorder at the time of the interview. Among this group past alcohol consumption was significantly higher for those with a current psychiatric diagnosis compared with those who were well. This association between heavy alcohol consumption in earlier years and psychiatric morbidity in later life is not explained by current drinking habits.
Effects of Substance Abuse on Ventricular and Sulcal Measures Assessed by Computerised Tomography
Nicola G. Cascella, Godfrey Pearlson, Dean F. Wong, Emmanuel Broussolle, Craig Nagoshi, Richard A. Margolin, Edythe D. London
Computerised tomography (CT) was used to assess the possible effects of substance abuse on brain morphology. Polydrug abusers had significantly wider third ventricles than normal controls, with a positive correlation between age and ventricle:brain ratio (VBR). Assuming no effect of age, estimated quantity of substance abuse was not significantly related to ventricular and sulcal measures, except that alcohol consumption correlated positively with VBR and severity of cocaine use correlated negatively with sulcal width. When age of the subjects was partialled out, alcohol use showed a tendency for association with VBR; however, severity of cocaine use did not remain a significant predictor of cortical sulcal width. The findings suggest that chronic use of alcohol, but not necessarily of other commonly abused substances, produces brain atrophy.
Psychosis in Migrants from the Indian Subcontinent and English-Born Controls: A Preliminary Study on the use of Psychiatric Services
Sunjai Gupta
A cohort of first-generation Asian immigrants who received a diagnosis of a functional psychosis at the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals were compared with an English-born control group. The Asians were found to have spent a lower total percentage of time in the two hospitals, had fewer in-patient admissions per year, and had a shorter average duration of stay in hospital than the matched controls.
Changes in the Positive and Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenic In-patients in China
Michael R. Phillips, Zuan Zhao, Xianzhang Xiong, Xiufang Cheng, Guirong Sun, Ningsheng Wu
Positive and negative symptoms at admission and discharge of 401 unselected schizophrenic patients from four psychiatric hospitals around China were studied. On admission, 58% of patients had prominent negative symptoms and the overall severity of negative symptoms was similar to that of positive symptoms; at discharge, negative symptoms were more prevalent and more severe. The severity of negative symptoms was not significantly correlated with duration of illness or with dosage of medication; 48% of first-episode, drug-naive patients had prominent negative symptoms on admission. Negative symptoms responded to standard neuroleptic treatment, but the improvement was less marked than that in positive symptoms (47% v. 80%). The proportion of patients classified as positive type, negative type, and mixed type schizophrenia altered dramatically with treatment. These findings highlight the importance of negative symptoms in the assessment and treatment of both acute and chronic schizophrenia.
Suicidal Ideation as a Presenting Complaint: Associated Diagnoses and Characteristics in a Casualty Population
Christopher J. Hawley, David V. James, Paul L. Birkett, David S. Baldwin, Marian J. De Ruiter, Robert G. Priest
A prospective study was conducted of all referrals to the emergency psychiatric service of an inner-London hospital over one year. There were 53 individuals who presented with the specific and spontaneous complaint of suicidal ideation without any accompanying act of self-harm. The main diagnoses in this group were personality disorders (40%) and alcohol dependence (15%); only 13% were suffering from depressive illness. Members of the group differed from the other 369 presenters to the service in that they were less likely to be accorded a diagnosis of a defined mental illness, twice as likely to have a criminal record, and more likely to have a previous history of deliberate self-harm. A quarter of the suicidal complainants were admitted to hospital following assessment.
Social Adjustment of Remitted Bipolar and Unipolar Out-patients: A Comparison with Age- and Sex-Matched Controls
F. Bauwens, A. Tracy, D. Pardoen, M. Vander Elst, J. Mendlewicz
Various areas of social adjustment were compared using the Social Adjustment Scale in 27 remitted bipolars, 24 remitted unipolars and 25 normal controls matched for age and sex. Scores for global adjustment and for social and leisure activities were significantly worse in patients than in controls. The maladjustment in social and leisure activities appeared only in ‘contact with friends' for bipolar patients and ‘diminished social interactions' for unipolar patients. Unipolar patients differed significantly from controls on the items investigating sexual adjustment. In unipolars, social maladjustment seemed to be independent of the course of the disease; in bipolars, it was partly related to the mean number of lifetime episodes and current residual symptoms.
The COSTAR Programme. 1: Improving Social Networks of the Long-Term Mentally Ill
Graham Thornicroft, William R. Breakey
The present study examined the socio-demographic, clinical, cognitive, social behaviour and social network characteristics of the 97 patients in contact with the COSTAR programme – a mobile treatment and case management service for the long-term mentally ill in inner-city Baltimore. Compared with shorter-contact patients, those in contact for more than one year showed no change in symptoms, or in cognitive or global function. They did manifest improved social function, especially for slowness, personal hygiene and posturing. The long-contact group showed improvements in the quality and quantity of their social networks. Our results suggest that a home-based treatment system can help patients to reverse a vicious cycle of social isolation and to establish supportive social contacts.
A Comparison of Nutritional Management with Stress Management in the Treatment of Bulimia Nervosa
R. G. Laessle, P. J. V. Beumont, P. Butow, W. Lennerts, M. O'Connor, K. M. Pirke, S. W. Touyz, S. Waadt
In a comparison of nutritional management (NM) and stress management (SM) for treatment of bulimia nervosa, 55 female patients were randomly assigned to either treatment. Therapy consisted of 15 sessions in a group over three months, by the end of which, patients under both treatment conditions showed a significant reduction in the frequency of binge eating and vomiting and a significant improvement in various psychopathological features such as body dissatisfaction and depression. All improvements were maintained over 12–month follow-up. NM produced a more rapid improvement in general eating behaviour, a faster reduction in binge frequency and a higher abstinence rate from binge eating. SM led to greater positive changes in certain psychopathological features such as feelings of ineffectiveness, interpersonal distrust and anxiety. NM should be regarded as a necessary first intervention in all bulimic patients. Further psychological therapy, such as SM, is indicated as well for some patients, depending on their specific psychological difficulties.
Neuroendocrine Challenge Studies in Puerperal Psychoses: Dexamethasone Suppression and TRH Stimulation
E. S. Paykel, A. Martin Del Campo, W. White, R. Horton
Subjects admitted to hospital with post-partum psychoses were compared with matched normal postpartum controls using two neuroendocrine challenge tests: dexamethasone suppression of Cortisol and TRH stimulation of TSH. Post-dexamethasone Cortisol levels were significantly elevated. There were less-clear hints of blunting of TSH response. In the small samples there was no obvious association of abnormalities with any particular diagnoses within the range of mania, psychotic depression and schizoaffective disorders.
Schizophrenia and Affective Disorder: Are They Genetically Linked?
Miron Baron, Rhoda S. Gruen
The relationship between schizophrenic ‘spectrum’ disorders and affective illness was studied in the nuclear families of 90 chronic schizophrenic probands. An increased risk of schizophrenia and related disorders was demonstrated among the first-degree relatives of probands with a family history of major affective disorders. Conversely, relatives of probands with a family history of schizophrenic ‘spectrum’ disorders were at a greater risk of affective illness (major depression) than relatives of probands with no family history. These results lend support to the notion that a subset of affective disorders is associated with the liability to schizophrenia.
The Current Literature
Enhancement of Recovery from Psychiatric Illness by Methylfolate
Andrew Procter
“41 (33%) of 123 patients with acute psychiatric disorders (DSM III diagnosis of major depression or schizophrenia) had borderline or definite folate deficiency (red-cell folate below 200 μg/l) and took part in a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of methylfolate, 15 mg daily, for 6 months in addition to standard psychotropic treatment. Among both depressed and schizophrenic patients methylfolate significantly improved clinical and social recovery. The differences in outcome scores between methylfolate and placebo groups became greater with time. These findings add to the evidence implicating disturbances of methylation in the nervous system in the biology of some forms of mental illness.”
Obsessive Slowness Revisited
R. H. Ratnasuriya, I. M. Marks, D. M. Forshaw, N. F. S. Hymas
The Fregoli Syndrome and Puerperal Psychosis
Derek O'sullivan, Christine Dean
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome in a Case of Acute Post-traumatic Psychosis
Darryl Watts
Rapid-Cycling Manic–Depressive Illness Following Subarachnoid Haemorrhage
M. J. Blackwell
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General Wei is scheduled to give a speech on China’s se
ecurity cooperation with the international community and will meet heads of several
foreign delegations, Wu said at a news conference in Beijing on Thursday afternoon.
hina’s tech giant Huawei Technologies Co maintained its ranking as the w
orld’s No 2 smartphone vendor, continuing to narr
ow the gap with Samsung, the first on the list, market research company Gartner Inc reported.
With 71.62 million in smartphone sales, the world’s top vendor Sam
sung saw its market share reduce from 20.5 percent to 19.2 percent in the first quarter of this year.
Huawei sold 58.4 million units of smartphones in the same p
eriod, up 44.5 percent year-on-year, the highest growth among the world’s top five.
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Share planning with BrazilJinping meets with Brazilian Vice
Newly elected South American leaders see China as stable partner
China would like to have a shared planning process with Brazil to achieve coordinated development, President Xi Jinping
said on Friday during a meeting with Brazilian Vice-President Hamilton Mourao at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Calling the two countries highly complem
entary, Xi said China welcomes Brazil’s participation in the building of the Belt and Road.
He said China supports the prosperity and develop
ment of Brazil and believes that China-Brazil cooperation will produce great outcomes.
Xi asked Mourao to extend his sincere greetings to Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, who took office in January. Chi
na appreciates the efforts made by the new government to promote the comprehensive strategic partnership, he said.
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Quotable quotes from business leaders at 3rd WIC
Praising Tianjin’s efforts and achievements in intelligent sc
ience and technology, Liu Chuanzhi, board chairman of Legend Holdings Co Ltd, pred
icted the city will make a qualitative leap in two to three years by combining intelligent technologies with manufacturing.
Liu, also founder of Chinese computer giant Lenovo, said his company, like Tianjin, considers intelligent technology a new imp
etus. Lenovo is working on many intelligent applications and has invested in many high-tech ma
nufacturing enterprises. It uses various artificial intelligence-driven algorithms and machine learning to ana
lyze the data of its supply chain system, using it to optimize Lenovo’s new intelligent spare parts supply chain.
Liu Qingfeng, chairman and CEO of iFlytek, said the company has developed a series o
f products driven by AI applications, based on small samples over the past year.
The company’s latest technological breakthrough is for the first tim
e its machine has surpassed humans in English reading comprehension, Liu said.
He said that he believes AI in 2019 has entered the year of large-scale application.
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Since women have “internalized the thin ideal” from soci
ial media, they develop a negative relationship with their bodies. This often leads th
em to engage in “fat talk”－resulting in much lower self-esteem, Shen added.
Ye, from Hangzhou, who works as an accountant for Silergy Corp, said more than 90 percent of her colleagues in the finance
department are women, ranging in age from the early 20s to late 40s. Some have families, while others are singl
e or just “jump into” romantic relations. But all of them have varying degrees of dissatisfaction with their body shape.
“Every woman in our office is unhappy with at least one part of her b
ody. One of them might say her face is too round, while others are unhappy with their arms when
we sit together and gossip,” said Ye, who weighs 48 kg but frowns as she looks at the shape of her thighs.
“I have often thought I would be more attractive if my thighs were thinner,” she said, a
dding that one of her colleagues had not eaten dinner for at least two years in order to stay slim.
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He says that he collected 39 different versions of Beethov
So far, the pianist has performed all of the 32 Beethoven sonatas more than 50 times.
During the China tour, Buchbinder will also be the conductor besides his role as a soloist.
Founded by Prince Elector Moritz von Sachsen in 1548, the Staat
skapelle Dresden is one of the oldest orchestras in the world and steeped in tradition.
In 2018, Staatskapelle Dresden, which celebrated its 470th anniver
sary, toured China, and it was the seventh cooperation betw
een the orchestra and Wu Promotion, China’s leading music tour promoter, since 2011.
Presenting pieces of German composer, Robert Schumann, the tour attracted nearly 7,000 music fans.
“China has great audiences who are passionate about classical music. There ar
e also many great symphony orchestras in the country, some of which are over 100 years old,” says Buchbinder.
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Through 10 years of dedication to quality journalism and
technological innovation, the app now is a market leader with over 20 million downloads.W
ith eight propellers stirring in the air and the motor roaring, a flying vehicle successfully carried its inventor Zhao
Deli, who was dressed in a black suit complete with a helmet, goggles and elbow and knee protectors, into the air.
Over 500 news media industry executives, journalists, sponsors and suppliers attended the 2019 event.
The Guardian walked away with the top prize.
Besides its accurate, timely and engaging news reporting, the app also
provides the go-to source for foreigners interested in travel, study or work in China.
“One judge particularly enjoyed the intelligent algorithm basis of the newsfe
ed. The China Daily app has enormous scale, is easy to use and is very reader friendly,” said the judging panel.
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Efforts should be made to give people a more solid and
sustained sense of security, Xi said.Beijing blasts US Congress for Taiwan defense bill
Xi called for reforms in public security work and said big data should be used as a major engine to promote innovation in the sector. More
measures for higher-quality services should be implemented to give the public a substantial sense of fulfillment, he added.
While demanding that high discipline be exercised within the public security forc
es, Xi said there will be zero tolerance for violations of laws and Party discipline.
He also urged Party committees at all levels to suppo
Beijing resolutely opposes the United States House of Representatives for passing a bill on Tues
day to bolster Taiwan’s defense capability, calling it “boorish interference” in China’s domestic affairs.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang made the comment on Wedn
esday after the House voted to pass a nonbinding resolution reaffirming the US commitment to Taiwan. It also backed the
so-called Taiwan Assurance Act of 2019, which supports Taiwan increasing its defense spending.
rt public security staff in exercising power and fulfilling their responsibilities in accordance with the law.
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The Dessin Academy is an art class that runs under the able guidance of its Founder/Director, Mr. R. Rajendran, MFA and a core group of dedicated faculty members who embrace diverse styles and working methods. This institute, in a reflection of the various age groups of its students, who range from 3 year old to 60 year youths, offers a wide spectrum of courses in its art class. These are (i) Fundamental Course Level-1 & 2 (ii) Intermediate Course Level 1 & 2 (iii) Advanced Course
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Agriculture and Food: Sustainable or Profitable?
AGRICULTURE & FOOD: SUSTAINABLE OR PROFITABLE?
Featuring Nancy Romer, David Barkan & Brian Tokar
(Fred Magdoff’s flight was cancelled and was not able to speak)
Nancy Romer is Professor of Psychology at Brooklyn College and General Coordinator of the Brooklyn Food Coalition.
David Barkin is Distinguished Professor at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City and collaborates with communities involved in constructing post-capitalist societies.
Brian Tokar is an activist and author, director of the Vermont-based Institute for Social Ecology, and a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of The Green Alternative, Earth for Sale, and Toward Climate Justice, has edited two books on the politics of biotechnology, Redesigning Life? and Gene Traders, and co-edited the recent collection, Agriculture and Food in Crisis (Monthly Review Press).
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David Galarza: Why Capitalism Is Killing the Planet
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Accessing a Government Subsidised House
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Delivery Statistics
Future Focus
Incremental Informal Settlement Upgrading
What criteria must I fulfil in order to qualify for a RDP house?
All applicants must meet the following criteria:
Be a South African citizen or have a permanent residence certificate
Married, cohabiting with a partner or single with dependants.
Have never owned property.
Have never received a Government Housing Subsidy.
Be 21 years or older.
Joint household income should not exceed R3 500 per month.
When will my informal settlement be relocated or upgraded?
You can contact the Housing Unit’s Planning Branch on 031 311 3283 or your area Ward Councillor to enquire about the status of your settlement. You will need to provide the name of the settlement, the area in which it is located and the road or street used to access the settlement.
We need toilets in our informal settlement as there is no proper sanitation.
You need to liaise with your local Ward Councillor who will make representation on your behalf to the relevant department within the municipality.
I wish to sell my land to the municipality for housing development. What should I do?
Contact the Housing Unit’s Planning Branch on 031 311 3283.
Your written intention to sell can either be hand delivered to 13th Floor, Shell House, 221 Smith Street, Durban or faxed to 031 311 3005. Provide as much detail of the land as you can, including a cadastral description, street address, rate number and where it is situated.
Also provide your contact details including your telephone numbers. The Planning Branch will evaluate the land's suitability for housing development.
How do I go about making an application for a house?
The Housing Unit develops various types of projects for example, In situ upgrade, Greenfield, Social Housing (Rental), Rural, and so on.
The large majority of projects are:
In situ upgrade - Involves the upgrading of informal settlements where the land is suitable for development. Subsidies are allocated to existing residents and where certain residents are not accommodated due to them being in the way of services, they will be relocated to greenfield projects.
Greenfield - These projects are undertaken on vacant land. Given the fact that informal settlements have been identified as a high priority by National and Provincial Government, a large proportion of sites will be allocated to residents from relocation or upgrade projects. A portion of sites will be advertised in the local newspapers for the general public to access. The public will need to respond to such adverts by phoning in and making an appointment to fill in the relevant application forms.
Is my application that I made for a house years ago to the municipality, still valid?
In terms of a Council decision, housing waiting lists in the former Councils were scrapped with effect from November 19, 2002.
How do I apply for a reduction in my rent?
In order to qualify for a reduction in your rent, your household income must be less than R1 500 per month. If there is no household income, an Affidavit is required. Pensioners will need to produce their pension card. Your Identity Document and electricity account will also be required.
Is the municipality planning to provide rental housing for people in the middle income group?
No, but the municipality has provided assistance to Section 21 companies that develop and manage rental housing. Rental housing projects have been implemented in the City by a company called First Metro. You can contact First Metro on 031 307 7676 or visit their offices at Suite 201, 2nd Floor, Salisbury Centre, 322-344 Smith Street, Durban, to enquire about their units as well as current and future opportunities.
What is the municipality’s policy on informal settlement on private land?
All informal settlements within the municipality have been captured on our database. An Informal Settlement Programme has been developed to address each and every settlement via an appropriate intervention and within a certain timeframe. This is irrespective of the ownership of the land.
I need repairs made to my council owned flat. What should I do?
You should contact the Supervisor in charge of your building who in turn will attend to the necessary repairs.
How do I apply for rental accommodation?
Rental units are in the process of being transferred to ownership. Few vacant rental dwellings are available and these dwellings are allocated to priority cases, for example, disabled, chronic medical patients or exile prisoners.
I am disabled and need urgent accommodation. How do I apply for a house?
You will need to submit a detailed application to the Housing Unit, along with a Social Worker’s assessment and recommendation outlining the extent of your disability.
I would like to purchase a municipal site for building a house?
The following information applies these areas:
Merebank
Council is not selling sites in these areas to individuals. All sites will be developed and sold by developers. Adverts will be placed in the City's Ezasegagasini Metro newspaper.
The following information applies to these areas:
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Former R293 Townships
The administration of the former R293 areas has not yet been formally handed over to the eThekwini Municipality from the Province. The municipality, therefore, cannot sell any land as it is not yet the owner or custodian of such land. The public will be informed once sales can be undertaken via the local newspapers.
Where land has been transferred to Council in these areas, contact the Housing Support and Administration Department on 031 311 1464.
Council owned land will be sold by the Real Estate Unit via a public tender process. Adverts will appear in the City's Ezasegagasini Metro newspaper which is published fortnightly on a Friday and distributed in the Independent Newspapers daily papers. The Gazette is also available from the City Hall (West Street entrance), Rennies House, Shell House and various other municipal centres.
Application for Council land for Commercial and Religious purposes should be addressed to The Head: Real Estate, 18th Floor, 75 Winder Street, Durban 4001.
Where do I find ownership details and access maps?
From the Real Estate Unit at 18th Floor, 75 Winder Street, Durban – 031 311 4322, or the Surveying and Land Information Department at 4th Floor, 166 Old Fort Road, Durban – 031 311 7222/3.
You will need to supply a street address or property description. Maps are available from the Surveying and Land Information Department.
I am a tenant in a council flat. I wish to purchase the flat. What is the procedure?
Contact Housing’s renting offices close to where you live. They will assist you and enable you to purchase your flat.
Can I sell my RDP house?
When you receive a fully subsidised house, there are certain conditions that come with the subsidy approval.
One of these conditions is that if you wan to sell the house within the first 8 years of receiving it, you must offer the house to either local or provincial government. We can buy it back from you at the value of the subsidy.
Once the 8 years is up, you can sell the house as a private person.
Any sale within the 8 years and without the permission of local and provincial government is illegal.
Do not sell your house or buy and RDP house using an affidavit. This is not a legal document and you are not protected if there is a dispute about ownership.
eThekwini Municipality does not sell RDP houses. If someone asks you for money to secure allocation of a fully subsidised house, it is a scam. Please report that person to the City Integrity and Investigation Unit on 0800 202020
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Can graphic design save your life?
Published 22nd September 2017
Written by Clive Martin, CNN
A cigarette oozing fat. The clinical white glow of a pillbox. The distant green of a pharmacy sign. We might overlook it, but graphic design plays a major part in our perceptions of health and medicine. Through imagery and information, designers can have a massive effect on public health, helping us to identify symptoms and break bad habits.
Delving into this relationship between health and aesthetics is a new exhibition called "Can Graphic Design Save Your Life?" at London's Wellcome Collection, which examines everything from medical packaging and public health campaigns to historical artifacts. While it might sound like a niche meeting of worlds, curators Lucienne Roberts and Rebecca Wright (a designer and educator respectively) found a wealth of diverse material at this intersection.
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"One of our intentions with the show was to portray the variety of design and communication strategies," explained Wright. "There are some really playful examples ... In the education section, we have some children's pop-up books where show us all about the human body. They are very accessible, very colorful ... but we also have plague notices from the 15th century and cholera broadsheets."
The exhibition is divided into six themed sections. The first, persuasion, focuses on smoking, and how graphic design is as responsible for the proliferation of smoking as it is the fight to discourage it -- as evidenced by a concerted international movement toward plain cigarette packaging.
"(Smoking) is one of the areas where the power and influence of graphic design has been recognized officially," said Wright."The World Health Organization chose the packaging and branding of cigarettes as a key battleground ... So by legislating against the use of graphic design, it kind of elevates the power of graphic design."
A plain cigarette pack in a tobacco shop in Paris in 2016. As of January 2017, all cigarettes must have plain packaging in France. Credit: ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP/AFP/Getty Images
While much of the aesthetic language around health is about making people feel safe, clean, well-looked-after and informed, fear is a common technique that health bodies and medical companies use to grab people's attention. While some campaigns and logos make you feel better about yourself, others warn of an imminent danger of various lifestyle choices.
"Probably the most effective adverts are the ones that are most terrifying," says David Rosner, a professor of sociomedical issues at Columbia University. "The Legacy Foundation -- now the Truth Initiative -- was particularly impressive with their body bags in front of the Phillip Morris building in New York."
(As part of its "Truth" campaign, the American Legacy Foundation, a non-profit that aimed to discourage youth from smoking, launched a commercial that showed youth piling body bags -- representing the 1,200 people killed by tobacco daily, per the Foundation -- outside of the American tobacco company Phillip Morris' New York headquarters.)
1/17 – Jacobs Medical Center, California by Yazdani Studio
Rooms at Jacobs Medical Center, which was devised by Yazdani Studio of CannonDesign, are equipped with iPads that allow patients to customize the space. Credit: Courtesy of cannondesign/photography by Christopher Barrett
Wright and Roberts also explore how the look of our hospitals and medical facilities reflect public health priorities. Roberts found a featured project by design consultancy Pearson Lloyd as particularly interesting.
"They answered an open design challenge from the UK Design Council and the Department of Health to see if they could reduce violence in A&E (accident and emergency) wards. Through their research, they identified that one of the biggest sources anxiety and anger in A&E is the lack of information ... so their solution was based in information design. Violence in the departments they piloted their designs in reduced by 50%, so there's evidence that graphic design can have a really tangible impact on health."
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But as well intentioned as clever public health campaigns might be, Rosner, has doubts about their broader effectiveness.
"I generally worry that these campaigns make us in public health feel good, but are not very effective in shaping public behavior in the face of industry efforts to convince people that they should smoke, eat fast food and drink alcohol. The cute little toad that accompanies beer commercials during football games is much more effective in promoting alcohol than any ads about liver cancer," he said.
"Public health posters are only effective if they're coordinated in a much wider educational effort that involve children, into adulthood. Even then I think that alone they probably are marginally, if at all, effective in changing behaviors."
But clearly, some of these notices do resonate with people. Roberts cites the Scottish government's 2008 "Kill Jill" campaign to encourage people to register for the organ donor register. Designed by The Union, an Edinburgh marketing agency, it included posters, TV spots and field marketing.
"'Kill Jill,' and is less about fear and more about taking responsibility," said Roberts. "You see a picture of a child and you're invited to make a decision about her life, depending on if you donate organs or not. It led to a 300% rise in organ donations ... The TV ad had many complaints, but its effectiveness won over."
"Can Graphic Design Save Your Life?" is on at the Wellcome Collection in London until Jan. 14, 2018.
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Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY)
Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY), previously Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY), is a maternity benefit program run by the government of India. It was introduced in 2010 and is implemented by the Ministry of Women and Child Development. It is a conditional cash transfer scheme for pregnant and lactating women of 19 years of age or above for the first live birth. It provides a partial wage compensation to women for wage-loss during childbirth and childcare and to provide conditions for safe delivery and good nutrition and feeding practices. In 2013, the scheme was brought under the National Food Security Act, 2013 to implement the provision of cash maternity benefit of ₹6,000 stated in the Act. Presently, the scheme is implemented on a pilot basis in 53 selected districts and proposals are under consideration to scale it up to 200 additional 'high burden districts' in 2015-16.
The scheme, rechristened Maternity benefits programme is set to cover the entire nation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his 2017 New Year’s eve speech, announced that the scheme will be scaled up to cover 650 districts of the country.The announcement assumes significance as India accounts for 17% of all maternal deaths in the world. The country’s maternal mortality rate is pegged at 130 per 100,000 live births, whereas infant mortality is estimated at 43 per 1,000 live births. Among the primary causes of high maternal and infant mortality are poor nutrition and inadequate medical care during pregnancy and childbirth.
The scheme was launched in 2010 as Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY). It was renamed as Matritva Sahyog Yojana in 2014 and again as Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) in 2017.
Promoting appropriate practice, care and institutional service utilization during pregnancy, delivery and lactation
Encouraging the women to follow (optimal) nutrition and feeding practices, including early and Exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months; and
Providing cash incentives for improved health and nutrition to pregnant and lactating mothers.
IGMSY provides financial assistance as grant-in-aid to state governments.
Eligibility Conditions and Conditionalities
Originally, all pregnant women of 19 years of age and above were eligible for conditional cash transfer benefits of ₹4,000 to paid in three installments, except those who receive paid maternity leave. After the implementation of National Food Security Act the amount has been revised to ₹6,000 to be paid in two installments of ₹3,000 each. The cash transfers under the Scheme are subject to the following conditions:
The first transfer (at the end of second birth / pregnancy trimester) of ₹3,000 requires the mother to:
Register pregnancy at the Anganwadi centre (AWC) within four months of conception
Attend at least one prenatal care session and taking Iron-folic acid tablets and TT (tetanus toxoid injection), and
Attend at least one 3. counseling session at the AWC or healthcare centre.
The second transfer (three months after delivery) of ₹3,000 requires the mother to: Register the birth
Immunize the child with OPV and BCG at birth, at six weeks and at 10 weeks
Attend at least two growth monitoring sessions within three months of delivery
Additionally the scheme requires the mother to:
Exclusively breastfeed for six months and introduce complementary feeding as certified by the mother,
Immunize the child with OPV and DPT
Attend at least two counseling sessions on growth monitoring and infant and child nutrition and feeding between the third and sixth months after delivery.
However, studies suggest that these eligibility conditions and other conditionalities exclude a large number of women from receiving their entitlements.
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Minmae - Microcassette Quatrains
Artist: Minmae
Album: Microcassette Quatrains
Label: Blue Sanct
Review date: Nov. 24, 2003
In 1998, San Diego resident Sean Brooks decided to borrow a 4-track from a neighborhood friend and record an album. Adopting the alias Minmae (after his favorite character from Japanese animation, Robotech) and armed with only his trusty Squire Jagmaster, an old digital delay pedal, and a cheap drum machine, he did just that. The resulting collection of fuzz-heavy, distortion clad tunes sounded, at times, like Flying Saucer Attack�s wildest drone-haze hymnals and, at others, the earliest works of bedroom wanderers Smog and Sebadoh. Sean�s sleepy, slumbering voice could be heard just emerging from the chaotic sprawl that lay beneath it, which in turn would then grow to envelop their master�s words in the sonic shroud. The occasional sample (are those really the car horns from Madness� �Driving In My Car� I can hear?) and introduction of radio static filled the precious little space remaining. These primitive recordings were subsequently picked up by the people at BlueSanct, who then issued them as a cassette-only release.
But more than four years later, someone at Blue Sanct obviously felt the time was right for these musings to reach a new and potentially wider audience. With the addition of two bonus tracks, taken from a prior recording, Microcassette Quatrains is born again on CD. What is interesting about this reissue (I�m guessing it is a reissue and not some perverse marketing ploy), apart from the music itself, is the retention of those technical hiccups beget when transferring tape to compact disc. For instance, during the opening of �Perpetual Shift Introduction�, the guitar drone disintegrates and fades during a tape dropout, but is left in place as document of the process of transference, much in the same way, albeit in miniature, as the exploration of deterioration as legitimate music force in the work of New York based musician and composer William Basinski.
Like the discovery of an early band demo or a long lost tape recording of a bunch of childhood friends playing let�s pretend radio, which were so much an integral part of many people�s growing up (it can�t have been just me and my brother can it?), Microcassette Quatrains makes for an interesting but patchy curio, containing parts that will have you squirming with embarrassment, but others that will bring a little warmth to the heart.
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<p>Local authorities have a duty to ensure people receive appropriate care and support. We have given them access to up to £3.9 billion more dedicated funding for adult social care this year, and a further £410 million has been made available for adult and children’s services.</p><p>We will set out our plans to reform the social care system at the earliest opportunity to ensure it is sustainable for the future.</p>
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<p>The Guardianship (Missing Persons) Act 2017 will be implemented in July, and applications to the court for guardianship orders will be able to commence from that date.</p>
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<p>The UK is a world leader in clean growth – leading the G20 in cutting emissions while growing the economy.</p><p> </p><p>The recent Offshore Wind Sector Deal is a fantastic example of how this government and industry are partnering to create good jobs in new low carbon supply chains whilst further decarbonising our power sector.</p><p> </p><p>We are also working to support clean growth internationally, which is why we have bid to host COP26 in 2020, to demonstrate our commitment towards the Paris agreement and maintain momentum.</p>
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<p>We are committed to ensuring prisons are places where offenders can turn their backs on crime – reducing reoffending and keeping the public safe. In order for prisons to enable rehabilitation, they must first be places of safety and so we are taking urgent action to improve prison safety and security, alongside reforms to overhaul the system to focus on the rehabilitation of offenders.</p><p> </p><p>We have invested £70 million to improve safety, security and decency in prisons, allowing us to fund new security scanners, improved searching techniques, phone-blocking technology and a financial crime unit to target criminals operating in prisons. Alongside this, we have taken immediate action to strengthen the frontline with over 4,700 new prison officers.</p><p> </p><p>To reduce reoffending, we are implementing a cohesive plan to ensure offenders receive the right interventions to meet their individual needs. This includes investing £7 million in in-cell telephones to allow prisoners to maintain important family ties, and tackling health issues such as drug addiction through our drugs strategy.</p><p> </p><p>We want to ensure that everyone leaving prison has access to a secure job and stable accommodation. Last year we launched the Education and Employment strategy to ensure offenders are set on a path to employment from the outset. Governors now have control to commission education provision that leads to work and we are engaging with employers to take on prisoners on ROTL or after release via the New Futures Network, which has had more than 230 businesses register to work with prisons since its launch. We also recently made changes so that Governors can now consider Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL) earlier and in more cases to enable prisoners to enter the workplace sooner.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Government’s Rough Sleeping Strategy we have invested £6 million in pilot schemes bringing together prisons, local authorities, probation providers to help offenders find accommodation on release.</p>
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<p>One year ago, our Education and Employment Strategy set out plans to transform the way prisoners develop the skills they need to secure employment on release.</p><p>Since then, we have overhauled the prison education system through implementing new contracts and a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS). These allow governors to commission skills-based training and education that meets the needs of the local labour market.</p><p>We have also introduced the New Futures Network (NFN), which brokers partnerships between prisons and employers in England and Wales, and a new ROTL framework to increase the opportunities available for prisoners to gain experience in real workplaces.</p>
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How many organisations have signed up to the armed forces covenant.
<p>To date over 3,600 organisations have signed the Covenant at an average rate of 30 per week, up from five per month in 2014. In addition, all Local Authorities in Great Britain and four in Northern Ireland have pledged to uphold the Armed Forces Covenant.</p><p> </p><p>Broadening support for the Covenant is a top priority for the Ministerial Covenant and Veterans Board and the Armed Forces Covenant annual report outlines the progress we have made.</p>
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<p>The Government fully recognises the important role small and medium sized house builders (SME) play in delivering much needed housing in this country. We have already put in place a number of initiatives to help SME builders overcome barriers, specifically access to finance through the provision of the £4.5 billion Home Building Fund. £2.5 billion of which provides short term loans to SME housebuilders, custom builders and innovators. £110 million of that funding has been used to set up The Housing Growth Partnership. <br> <br>Launched in 2015, this is a £220 million partnership between Lloyds Bank and Homes England and is supporting the growth of SME house builders and expansion in the UK housing stock. It will deliver 3,400 homes. In addition, the Home Building Fund has also provided £125 million for the the Housing Delivery Fund launched by Barclays Bank and Homes England, in September 2018. The £1 billion development finance Fund will help build thousands of new homes across England. Of the £1 billion fund, Barclays is providing £875 million. <br> <br>A key priority of The Housing Delivery Fund is to support small and medium sized businesses to develop homes for rent or sale including social housing, retirement living and the private rented sector, whilst also supporting innovation in the model of delivery such as brownfield land and urban regeneration projects.</p><p>The Chancellor announced at Budget 2018 that the British Business Bank will deliver a new scheme providing guarantees to support up to £1 billion of lending to SME house builders. My Department and Homes England are currently working with the British Business Bank to implement this scheme.</p>
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of current lending conditions to (a) large, (b) medium, (c) small and (d) micro house builders in England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government , what steps he will take to stimulate improved lending terms from high street banks to small and medium-sized house builders in England.
What steps his Department is taking to support the Home Office in tackling economic crime.
<p>Our main contribution in helping to tackle economic crime is to run a world class court system that has a strong international reputation and enables highly complex crimes to be prosecuted.</p><p> </p><p>As well as that work, we are also active in scrutinising the law to see if anything needs to be changed to tackle economic crime. The Department carried out a Call for Evidence to examine the case for a change in the law in corporate criminal liability for economic crime in 2017 and intends publishing its response in 2019.</p><p> </p><p>This is in addition to the creation of a new world class court facility in the City of London specialising in tackling cyber-crime, fraud and economic crime announced earlier this year. This will help reinforce the UK’s reputation as a world-leading legal centre ready to deal with the changing nature of 21st century crime.</p>
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A Message Regarding Hurricane Sandy
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Dear fellow members of the Columbia community:
Fortunately, our campuses were spared serious damage from Hurricane Sandy. At the same time, we are painfully aware of the wake of destruction the storm has left on the city and the region. Collectively, we extend our concern for those whose lives, families, and neighborhoods have been most seriously affected by flooding, loss of power, and other damage.
Many here at the University have devoted very long days and nights to maintaining the well-being of our campus community, and I want to extend a special thanks to them for these efforts. Our residential students have seen first-hand what Columbia staff have been willing to do in order to ensure that meals continue to be served, buildings and grounds are secured, essential services are maintained, and library reading rooms remain open for study. With expert coordination by our Emergency Management Operations Team, staff members have worked long hours and stayed overnight in makeshift accommodations to ensure that everyone else's life is a little easier.
Our city and surrounding communities have much hard work to do in recovering from this historic storm. But as we find the ways to both assist these efforts and begin the process of returning to our normal routines and responsibilities, we are grateful to everyone at Columbia whose professionalism and dedication make a difference not only this week, but every week at our University.
My thanks and best wishes to all,
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Ayatollah Nouri-Hamadani:
If people didn’t participate in the 9th of Dey protests, the Islamic Revolution wouldn’t have remained
Rasa – The revered source of emulation said that if the people didn’t participate in the 9th of Dey protests, the Islamic Revolution wouldn’t have remained and emphasized the commemoration of this important epic.
RNA – In a meeting with a number of police commanders, Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Nouri-Hamadani explained that the 9th of Dey [December 30th] is a “Day of God” and said, “The 9th of Dey is a very important day in the history of the Islamic Revolution and we must give it its due attention at all times.”
The revered source of emulation noted that since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, all of the enemies have ambushed Iran to eliminate the Revolution by overthrowing it because Imam Khomeyni reintroduced the Islam to the people that the enemies had strived to marginalize and distance from the lives of the people through distortion.
Ayatollah Nouri-Hamadani said, “The enemies knew that from the time of its rising, Islam was founded by the people from an ‘Age of Ignorance’ and became unique in terms of power and civilization. At a time when there were no universities or libraries in all of Europe, Islam was able to introduce great scholars and scientists to the world.”
The teacher in the Islamic Seminary of Qom added that the phenomenon which sought to prevent the progress of Islam in 2009, assumed Ashura is normative and must be confronted. Therefore, they mobilized all of their powers to undermine the Revolution and break the norms of Ashura, which must not be forgotten.
He pointed out that if the people participated in a weak manner in the 9th of Dey protests, today, the Islamic Revolution wouldn’t have remained and said, “With the presence of the revolutionary people on the 9th of Dey, Wilayat al-Faqih [Guardianship of the Jurisprudent] was manifested again and demonstrated that the Islamic Revolution of Iran deals with religion and hearts of the people. There are many governments in the world but the Iranian government is the only government that operates in the realm of religion.”
Stating that before the victory of the Islamic Revolution, foreign countries determined who was a minister and stated, “Before the victory of the Revolution, even our offices were dominated by the hegemonic powers but today it is not so. Although today, the same departments exist but their structure has changed and everyone has come to serve the people and society.”
On December 30, 2009, millions of Iranians held nationwide protests to condemn the foreign-orchestrated unrest which had erupted following the presidential elections earlier that year.
People were especially angered by incidents that had taken place days earlier in Tehran, where a group of demonstrators offended the sanctities of the nation on the day of Ashura, the martyrdom anniversary of Imam al-Husayn. the third Shi’ah Imam.
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A demonstrated pro-American tilt can be observed again in the Canadian foreign policy, Huffpost says. “If earlier Prime Minister Trudeau stated that it was necessary to step out of the US shadow and lead an independent policy on the world scene, then he has been taking reverse steps lately”. Ottawa is going to affirm its traditional status of Washington’s strategic partner, US News & World Report notes calling the tough position of Canadian leadership towards the Venezuela issue to be “signaling”. “Trudeau shows his readiness to support the desire of the US to bring down Maduro’s regime”, Bloomberg quotes President of the Canadian International Council Rowswell. According to Financial Times, showing his loyalty Trudeau reckons on being in American elite’s good graces. It has a specific importance in the light of a new trade agreement discussion in the Congress, which is destined to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), CBC says adding that a number of lawmakers are going to revise the key points of the bargain. Its possible collapse in the Congress might lead to some negative economic consequences for Canada. Deprived of the preferential access to the US market, the country will have significant financial losses, Channel News Asia points up.
According to the Canadian press, Ottawa will actively be playing nice with Washington in its conflict with Beijing. According to Welt, Canada will fulfill the demand of the US to extradite Chief Financial Officer of Huawei Meng Wanzhou. The Washington Post considers being remarkable the recent retirement of Canadian Ambassador to China McCallum who made some statements that didn’t match the official Canadian policy on that issue. Trudeau sees he is ignoring the opinion of a part of Canadian elite that gives an advance notice of a threat of a serious conflict with Beijing that might get started. However he believes he will be able to avoid strengthening of the establishment’s discontent, Nikkei says. The observers do not rule out that Trudeau is going to obtain some concessions from the USA, particularly, trading extradition of Meng Wanzhou for a tariff cut for Canadian steel and aluminum.
Japan Times believes the pro-Amercan policy lead by Trudeau to be short-sighted. The head of the Cabinet has just showed his incompetence to provide a foreign policy that would correspond to the country’s interest by provoking a conflict escalation with Riyadh, and by failing on the Indian direction, Canadian Press comments adding that at the moment he is making another mistake by starting a conflict with China. The failures of the Prime Minister will be used by his opponents, Vancouver Star believes forecasting upcoming growth of the conservators’ rating. The background for the victory of the opposition in the upcoming elections in October has been forming, and that fact might put paid to the Trudeau’s political future, Financial Review says.
Tags Canada politics USA
Political crisis brought diarchy to Moldova
Failing to complete Brexit obligations will bring sanctions upon Great Britain
Selling US nuclear technologies to Saudi Arabia will start a nuclear weapons race in the Middle East
Greece demanded multibillion war reparations from Germany
China warns students and academics of risks of studying in U.S.
mnemon: The idea of ‘economic redundancy’ for the earth’s population has already been de...
mnemon: Uncle Sam’s hand is a story in its own right. And I wanted not to point why Ukra...
Dolly: The United Nations is certainly in need of reform as it is an outdated instituti...
sejanus: I look at it from this point of view... The forces behind Kyiv i.e. the United S...
fay fitz: unlike the International Olympic Committee, by the way, FIFA practices what it p...
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Ephedrine Supplements: How Bodybuilders STILL Use this Banned Drug
Ephedrine Web · February 12, 2018
Ephedrine supplements were purported to make weight loss effortless by increasing metabolism and naturally reducing appetite. In the 1980’s and 1990’s, ephedrine diet pills became recognized for their ability to boost energy, promote athletic stamina and support weight loss. These pills were widely used by dieters and professional athletes. In
Top Ephedrine Products Sold Over-The-Counter in the USA [List]
What ephedrine products can you still buy over-the-counter in the United States and other parts of the world? Certain forms of ephedrine have been banned from the marketplace, but there are still versions of this drug that can be purchased without a prescription. While prohibited by the FDA as an
Ephedrine Pills at GNC – Why you Can STILL Buy it in 2018 [Restrictions Inside]
Ephedrine Web · February 9, 2018
Can you still find ephedrine pills at GNC in the United States, Canada and other countries? It depends on where you live. Ephedrine HCL has been banned from any sort of dietary supplement promoted for weight loss, energy or fat burning. The US FDA enacted this ban in 2004 and
Ephedrine HCl 8mg Pills for Weight Loss – HARMFUL or Not?
Ephedrine HCl (hydrochloride) is a synthetic drug used to treat asthma, bronchitis, hay fever allergies and nasal congestion. Previously, Ephedrine HCl was promoted for weight loss and bodybuilding programs. It was commonly taken in an ECA stack with caffeine and aspirin. Multiple clinical studies demonstrated that ephedrine could be used
Can I Use Ephedrine Sulfate Pills For Fat Loss? [DANGERS & Results]
Ephedrine Sulfate is an ingredient sometimes used in asthma medications, allergy treatments and nasal decongestants. The bronchodilator medication Bronkaid caplets contain 25mg of Ephedrine Sulfate together with 400 mg of guaifenesin, an expectorant. This product is marketed for the temporary relief of mild intermitted asthma symptoms to restore free breathing
Ephedrine vs. Pseudoephedrine Difference – Which is Stronger for Weight Loss?
What is the difference between ephedrine vs. pseudoephedrine when it comes to weight loss? Ephedrine and Pseudoephedrine are two alkaloids that were isolated from the Ephedra Sinica plant. Both are used today in over-the-counter cough and cold remedies. Both can relieve nasal congestion and open or dilate airways in the
The Dangers of Ephedrine Recreational Use to Get High [Tolerance, Withdrawal + Addiction]
What are the dangers of ephedrine recreational use? Taking this supplement at high dosages can produce serious harmful side effects with lasting consequences. The ephedra plant and its alkaloids have been used as traditional cough remedies for thousands of years. Ephedrine exhibits a nasal decongestant effect and has also been
Is Ephedrine Safe or DANGEROUS to your Health? [Risks]
Is ephedrine safe to use for weight loss and bodybuilding? Ephedrine HCL is a synthetic drug that is commonly taken for fat loss, enhanced energy and athletic performance. Initially derived from the Ephedra Sinica plant, this compound has been shown to exhibit stimulatory effects and to boost metabolism. However, it
Ephedrine Pills: Top Positive and Negative Effects for Dieters
Ephedrine pills are commonly taken by bodybuilders and people who want to lose weight. Use of these diet pills has been shown in clinical studies to enhance fat oxidation, resting metabolic rate, energy levels and some facets of athletic performance. Ingesting ephedrine capsules can support fat loss through several mechanisms
Ephedrine HCL Half-Life, Kick-In Time & Duration of Effects
How long does it take for Ephedrine HCL to work and what is the half-life of its effects? Ephedrine is a stimulant drug that is used to enhance energy, workout performance, weight loss and motivation. It has a rapid onset of effects and produces noticeable changes in alertness, concentration, appetite
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NeoExodus reviews in work...also..
So I got a couple products from Louis Porter JR NeoExodus 'Enemies' line of products. I must say I'm pretty impressed with the writing for the fluff for the Folding Circle so far. NeoExodus A-House-Divided-Campaign-Setting
Anyway, from now until 4th of July LPJ products are on sale on RPGNow.com for 25% off....
Labels: Louis Porter Jr, LPJ, NeoExodus, RPGNow
ATOMIC ROBO!!!! Coming to Comic Con
Mike Olson will be running Atomic Robo RPG playtest events at both Gam3rCon and San Diego ComicCon in TWO Weeks!!! Want to be part of the playtest credits? You just might if you can make one of those events.
Obviously if you're going to Comic Con, you already have tickets, if you don't and want to play Atomic Robo, the FATE based RPG, you can get tickets for Gam3rCon instead!!!
Here's the link for Spirit of the [Blank]
Labels: Atomic Robo RPG, Gam3rCon, Mike Olson, SDCC, Spirit of the Bank
Earthdawn Denizen Guides - Savage Worlds/Pathfinder
So two days ago I posted that the Game Master's Guides were releasing soon (PDF available now), well I neglected to say that the Denizen Guides were already available, both Volume 1 & 2.
I know what to expect in them I'm just curious to see how everything is implemented for Savage Worlds and Pathfinder, this is a guide that could really expand race options. They give lots of background information such as the different human communities, in addition the denizen guides provide race specific disciplines in Earthdawn so I suspect some race specific options for savage worlds and either classes or PrCs and feats for Pathfinder.
Denizens-of-Barsaive-Volume-One SW
Denizens-of-Barsaive-Volume-One Pathfinder
Denizens-of-Barsaive-Volume-Two-Savage-Worlds
Denizens-of-Barsaive-Volume-Two Pathfinder
Labels: Earthdawn, PFRPG, RedBrick, Savage Worlds
Dresden Files RPG - Paranet Papers update
We're finally getting some previews for the upcoming Dresden Files RPG accessory "Paranet Papers".
Check it out: Novogorod
and Vegas
Labels: Dresden Files RPG, Evil Hat Productions, Paranet Papers
Earthdawn Savage Worlds/Pathfinder Game Master's Guide
Preorder Your Earthdawn SW or PF Game Master's Guide Now!Preorder your copy of the Earthdawn Savage Worlds Edition Game Master's Guide or Earthdawn Pathfinder RPG Edition Game Master's Guide now!
RedBrick is proud to announce its next release for the Earthdawn Savage Worlds and Pathfinder RPG Edition game lines—the Earthdawn® Game Master's Guide!
A Land of Wondrous Beauty and Unspeakable Evil...
...When the Wizards proclaimed that the Scourge had ended, Jaro, I, and three others broke open the seals on the doors and walked outside. We hoped to find a new world brimming with life. Instead, a barren landscape stretched before us. As quick as thought, the sky grew dark with creatures, their attack nearly overwhelming us. We fought our way back to the kaer, thinking ourselves safe. We soon learned that a Horror had entered the mind of Jaro...
Explore the province of Barsaive, a land that encompasses the high mountain realms of savage troll raiders, lush green jungles that conceal long-forgotten cities, vast plains filled with strange and deadly beasts, and the life-giving waters of the mighty Serpent River. An untamed land still recovering from the depredations of the Scourge, Barsaive now teems with orks and elves, t'skrang lizard-men, and human settlers, all drawn by the promise of her breathtaking wonders.
The Earthdawn® Game Master's Guide contains a detailed tour of this troubled province; stats for dozens of new monsters that stalk her lands, including several loathsome Horrors; descriptions of over 30 common and legendary threaded magical items; rules for the vile practice of Blood Magic; and the esoteric mysteries of ancient legends and nefarious secret societies to populate your campaign!
Scheduled for a mid-June print release, the Earthdawn® Game Master's Guide is now available for preorder for a limited time at special pricing—but ONLY from the RedBrick Shop! And if you are new to these editions, the Earthdawn® Player's Guide is available as well.
Join the brave souls of Barsaive in reclaiming their realm from the remaining Horrors while protecting it from the return of the oppressive Theran Empire. Discover the world of Earthdawn®, the Age of Legend.
Well it's mid-June, this should be coming out really soon. If you're interested pre-order now before the deadline is up....
There are options for Hard Cover, Soft Cover plus PDF Bundles. Hopefully I can get preview copies to review soon. As you all know I wasn't super thrilled with the Pathfinder edition, but the Savage Worlds version was nearly perfect! I'm hoping with the Game Masters Guide it will tie up some of the Pathfinder loose ends. I could even hope for an alternate magic system...
Labels: Earthdawn, PFRPG, RedBrick LLC, Savage Worlds
News - Hell on Earth
Well, that was fast, "Hell on Earth - Reloaded" is available for pre-order for hard-cover, and available as PDF now!!!!
Labels: Deadlands, Hell on Earth, Hell on Earth - Reloaded, Pinnacle
News - Deadlands Hell On Earth Savage Worlds edition
Pinnacle is producing all sorts of cool stuff these days.
Besides the Dealands Noir which just got a huge Kickstarter, they're getting much closer to releasing the new Savage Worlds edition Hell on Earth: Reloaded. This is a setting which I never bought into when it was in print unfortunately...I really like what I've seen of it, as I'm a big post-apocalyptic fan, and of Deadlands, so when the two combined, I just missed it I guess, I know it was right after I got out of the Navy and I didn't have a lot of spending money...so that's why I missed out on such a great game.
Now the reloaded edition is coming...
Here's the cover art of the new edition...pretty wicked wrap-around cover...want it as a wallpaper? Check out http://www.peginc.com/shop/hell-on-earth-reloaded/
Labels: Deadlands, Hell on Earth, PEG, Pinnacle, Savage Worlds
Fantasy Chess Board
So we're finally getting ready to play Fantasy Chess, I decided to create my own Chess Board for it, It looks a bit different than the regular Fantasy Chess board. As you can have 6 pieces fighting for a single 'square' I actually created a board which shows those six spaces. So without further adieu....
Permission is granted to print this board for non-commercial purposes. It is sized for 20x30, so I printed to 24x36, cut it down and then had it laminated at Lakeshore Learning for $.87...good deal! If you wanted to spend a bit more, you could probably get it printed on a canvas at Staples also.
Checkout Shadowhex.com for more information about Fantasy Chess.
Labels: Chess, Fantasy Chess, Shadowhex
Retro Review - Castle Falkenstein
If you've been reading the blog, you will already know I quite like Castle Falkenstein already. We had a chance to use the system for the Malifaux hack at Strategicon. I was able to pick up a used copy at Pair-a-Dice games, it was an almost new copy, which belies the fact that these books fall apart.
Castle Falkenstein - R. Talsorian Games
When computer game designer Tom Olam found himself sorcerously shanghaied by a rogue Wizard and a Faerie Lord, little did he suspect that he would soon become the pivotal force in the struggle to control an alternate Victorian Universe. But before the deadly game could end, he would first have to battle gigantic Landfortresses, outwit Dragons, romance a beautiful Adventuress, and defeat the Evil legions of a Dark Court determined to destroy him at all costs.
Then maybe, just maybe, he could find a way home again ...
It’s a novel. It’s a game. It’s both. It’s Castle Falkenstein™, an amazing journey into another universe just a few steps away from our own: a place where Dragons and Steampower rule the skies, Faerie Lords duel atop the battlements, and where the forces of Wizardry and Magick meet the gaslight streets of the Victorian Age. But with Castle Falkenstein™, the story never ends, as you too take up saber and spell to adventure in a distant world on the other side of the mysterious Faerie Veil: a world of Swashbuckling Fantasy, High Romance, and Magickal Technology. The world of—Castle Falkenstein™
First, this is one of the first games to use the term steampunk in a Role-playing game. Space 1889 was published in 1988, Castle Falkenstein was published in 1994. (If soemone can let me know if the original Space 1889 talked about Steampunk as a genre..).
The first 128 pages of this 224 page game are background, in full-color shiny pages. (A lot of games were beginning to use a full color gloss format mixed with black&white pages at this time.) You play in an alternate Earth, on the continent of New Europa. This is a land of the impossible, a land where science fiction authors and their characters walk the same streets. A place where Faerie Lords of the Seelie and Unseelie courts mingle with Dragons descended from Pterodactyls, where magick and steampower combine. A fascinating world brought to life with narration and excellent artwork.
Mechanically, the game only uses 2 standard decks of cards, one for everything except Sorcery; the other for sorcery, drawing power etc. Everything is skill-based. The game is much more story-telling than hard-core mechanical combat; though it can handle combat decently. Sorcery can be powerful, but it does take some time to draw enough energy (with cards) to be able to cast a spell.
Each skill is tied to a suit, the suits each being tied to a type of value: Hearts (Emotional/Romantic), Diamonds (Mental/Intellectual), Clubs (Physical), and Spades (Social/status). Your skills can range from Poor to Extraordinary, which grants a base value to which a card pull is added. For example, having an average Athletics (clubs), grants 6 as the base, if you were attempting to jump a moderate gorge (exceptional) Requiring a 10. Unless the player wants to fall in that chasm, they might want to add a fortune card from their fortune hand (4 cards which may not be discarded, only used.). All players and the Game master have a fortune hand to play from. A card which matches the linked value adds its full value, which cards which do not match, only add one. Combat is contested, each side pulling cards and adding fortune cards. Criticals are calculated with double value of the pull, fumbles are possibly, which typically results in bad things, think of cutting the fuse to a bomb, you fumble, it goes boom.
Sorcery is similar, you must pull cards from the Sorcery deck, which may not be augmented with fortune cards, a joker pull will automatically cause a spell to release as the power is too much.
All in all it's a unique system which I wish I had found many years earlier, luckily, everything IS available in PDF format, and R. Talsorian 's site says they're still releasing books, but I'm not certain the site is all that active. Clicking around the most current date I've seen is 2005. However, the PDFs are definitely available on DrivethruRPG.
Castle Falkenstein Core $16
Labels: Castle Falkenstein, R Talsorian Games, Retro Review
Reviews - Advanced Race Guide (PFRPG)
In work
Advanced Race Guide
Produced by Paizo Publishing, LLC
Get the most out of your heritage with the Pathfinder RPG Advanced Race Guide! Embrace your inner monster by playing one of 30 iconic races from mythology and gaming history, or build an entirely new race of your own. If classic races are more your style, go beyond the stereotypes for elves, dwarves, and the other core races with new options and equipment to help you stand out from the crowd.
The Pathfinder RPG Advanced Race Guide is a bold new companion to the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook. This imaginative tabletop game builds on more than 10 years of system development and an Open Playtest featuring more than 50,000 gamers to create a cutting-edge RPG experience that brings the all-time best-selling set of fantasy rules into the new millennium.
The 256-page Pathfinder RPG Advanced Race Guide includes:
- New rules and options to help you customize all seven of the classic core races, including new racial traits, racial subtypes, and racial archetypes.
- 30 exotic races, from mischievous goblins and reptilian kobolds to crow-headed tengus and deadly drow, each with complete rules for use as player characters, plus archetypes, alternate racial traits, and other options for maximum customization.
- A complete and balanced system for creating an unlimited number of new races, mixing and matching powers and abilities to form characters and cultures specific to your campaign.
- Tons of new race-specific equipment, feats, spells, and magic items for each of the races detailed!
What can I say, this is a great book.
There are going to be more in depth reviews out there, but I'm a bit busy with real life at the moment, so I'll make this one quick.
This is a 256 page full color, full-size, hard cover book. Lots of full color illustrations as is typical for Paizo's Pathfinder books. If there's one this Paizo is great at, it's creating pretty books, second only to the Legend of the Five Rings, 4th edition.
Review: The book is divided into 4 sections. Core Races, Featured Races, Uncommon Races, and the Race Builder section, which I will be using to determine the RP value of the Earthdawn PFRPG races. The 7 core races get long write-ups, 10 pages each. Compiling all the information from various sources and expanding it as far as Base Race, Alternate Racial Rules, and Favored Class options. In addition are rules for Racial Archetypes, equipment, feats, spells, magic items, etc. Alternate Races, typically covered in other games by different stat bonuses are covered by alternate abilities instead in the ARG. While I'm not a huge fan of single race equipment, I have no issue with race based archetypes, and each race gets 3 or 4 archetypes.
The Next section covers featured races, these are the races which are close to the power level of the core races. The 16 covered races are; Aasimar, Catfolk (probably Ian's favorite), Dhampir, Drow, Fetchlings, Goblins, Hobgoblins, Ifrits, Kobolds, Orcs, Oreads, Ratfolk, Sylphs, Tengu, Tieflings, and Undines. Each Featured race gets core race traits, alternate race traits, favored class options, and 2 racial archetypes, which is pretty good for non-core races. Of course the only way you can play these races in Pathfinder Society is to earn the Race Boon at a major convention. Each featured races also gets Equipment, Feats, Magic Items and Spells, but in less quantity than the core races. Now the let-down here is that the wonderful tables that the tieflings got in the Council of Thieves write-up is left out and that the Aasimar did not receive one of those tables as well.
The uncommon races section covers less friendly or obscure races, from the Haggish Changelings (not doppelganger ancestry, but hag ancestry) to the ancestors of ancient Azlant the Gillmen to the Shadow born Wayang of the Far East. The uncommon races are Changelings, Duergar, Gillmen, Grippli, Kitsune (a favorite), Merfolk, Nagaji, Strix, Sulis, Svivneblin, Vanara, Vishkanya, and Wayang. Each Featured race gets core race traits, alternate race traits, favored class options, and 1 racial archetypes. Each featured races also gets Equipment, Feats, Magic Items and Spells, but in less quantity than the core races.
The final section is the Race Builder. Using RP, racial points, this is a step-by-step guide to race creation. Using humans as the baseline race, at 9RP, you can find out how powerful or weak an alternate race might be. With these new rules, some companies should look at their races and possibly give them an RP value. It is an invaluable tool for Gamemasters to use to create races for their own worlds, or to accommodate a player that wants something different. The section is full of examples of common and unique races from Centaurs, Driders and Gargoyles; to Ogres, Kasatha and Wyrwoods. Use this as a guide to covert races from favorite settings into Golarion or your own setting. Create a half-contruct Pinnochio race. At the end of the section, there's a break-down of the RP for each Core and Featured race and a few Uncommon races.
Finally the book finishes with an appendix for age (appendix 1) and height/weight (appendix 2) of each of the core, featured and uncommon races. Appendix 3 is the class and level lists for all the spells presented in the book.
Artwork: Each race has at least one illustration and each chapter has a 2 page splash illustration. All quality artwork, as to be expected from Paizo.
Parental Rating: It's a main rulebook, so it's really tame, no cursing, some dynamic action poses but nothing horrible. Rated RPG-10.
Value: At $39.99 it's invaluable, if you can't afford it you can always get it in PDF format for $9.99.
No I won't post it for you, support the game if you want it to stick around. Don't ask.
19 of 20.
Labels: Advanced Race Guide, PFRPG, RPG Reviews. Pathfinder RPG
San Diego Comic Con/Gam3rCon
4 weeks til Comic Con and Gam3rCon...
I will be attending both. The boys and I will be covering both as well as Sarah!
Should be a fun time, If you haven't got your Comic Con Tickets, well you might as well get Gam3rCon tickets, come see a production of Gam3rs the play or the Spider Baby.
Come play games and enjoy everything Gam3rCon has to offer!
Labels: Gam3rCon, SDCC
Malifaux Update
The boys and I finally got the time to take all our Malifaux figs and trim/clean them. I showed them how to cut and file flash, how to drill a pinhole (since one of my figures broke really quickly, as the metal is a bit fragile.), and how to safely trim the figures from their sprues. This is the first time the boys have ever done this. Tomorrow we will prime the figs. Then we can play and start to paint them.
On a related note. Remember how I was able to play Castle Falkenstein Malifaux at Strategicon? I was able to pick up Castle Falkenstein at Pair A Dice. It's always nice for me to get a hard-copy rather than just a PDF. I'd love to have the PDF as well, but the book works for me for now. I'm really amazed at the system, originally published in 1994, it predated Deadlands by 2 years. Castle Falkenstein is a purely card based system that is extremely story driven. Set in an alterna-Victorian steampunk era, it might possibly have been the first 'steampunk' system that called itself steampunk. Space 1889 was definitely steampunk-esque, but I don't recall it being called steampunk in any of its literature.
Look for a full review soon as I'm still meandering through the book.
Labels: Castle Falkenstein, Malifaux, steampunk RPG, Strategicon.
Free RPG Day was great
I screwed up and didn't make sure my Friday post about the Free RPG Day reminder went up. I had it all written, I hit publish, but it didn't publish...oops.
I ended up running a new Traveller Scenario I came up with called "Lockdown on Lazarus V". I will post the entire scenario once I get everything typed out, it was all in my head for Free RPG Day
Only had one new person playing but it was still a pretty good scenario, better than my "No One Can Hear You Scream" scenario.
Here's the Map of the Space Station Lazarus V I came up with. (partial battle map.) Note: it is designed to be printed on 24x36, which costs $3 at Staples for Black & White. Feel free to download it for personal use. It is still my design and not for resale.
In the morning we played the NeoExodus adventure, as run by Corby of Fanatical Gamers Society. It wasn't a bad adventure, though you will need to go online and get the correct character sheet for Hans, the human Cleric. It was an interesting tweak to have the Cleric of Kaga be a divine casting sorcerer, but it made it nearly impossible to complete the adventure in a single adventure. No channel energy, no cure light wounds, and just a wand of cure light wounds with 4 charges. He was dropped during the second to last fight, by a falcion wielding skeleton that hit for 23 damage. It was pretty brutal. We finally ran from the temple, 1 charge on the wand, 1 Hp for the Cleric, 2 Hp on the rogue, and 9 hp on Nose Cutter the tank.
Deadlands Noir- Kickstarter Backer
So me and the boys y'know we're backin' the play by Pinnacle on this one, now it ain't no big thing, just 20 bones, and we'll be get'n some nice scratch.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/545820095/deadlands-noir
Check out these rewards...
Unlocked Rewards for Dime Novelists and Up
Here's a quick summary of what we're adding in addition to the reward levels you see on the right:
Hard Boiled in the Big Easy Audio Drama
Deadlands Noir Digital Soundtrack
Figure Flats PDF
4 x Map Flats PDF (Printable, figure-scale maps focusing on Metaire Cemetery, Old Absinthe House, Streets of the Big Easy, and the Bayou locations)
Detective's Notebook Deluxe Character Sheet PDF
Old Absinthe Blues" adventure PDF
Labels: Deadlands Noir, Kickstarter, PEG, Pinnacle
Wednesday Night at Pair A Dice
It's good to have the boys on Summer vacation, we were able to head over to Pair A Dice after I got off work and play some. We tried out Fantasy Flight's Lord of the Rings LCG. (Living Card Game). A Living Card Game is one which has booster pack style expansions, but they're not collectible, they're set cards. Well we played the store's base copy, it plays pretty cool, it's a cooperative game so making sure your friends survive is definitely a priority. It's a well thought out game that's not always winnable. One of the cool things is that you can actually play it solo, it's designed that way, not like playing Monopoly by yourself solo, but like playing solitaire, Solitaire for the LotR Geek.
I'm not sure I'll ever buy it at the $60 price tag. It does have the standard Fantasy Flight mark of quality. With thick cardboard pieces, a 'threat' counter that you would pay $10 for easily if bought separately and you get 2 of them. The problem with LCGs is like most of games, you 'want' to have all the cards...MUST HAVE ALL TEH CARDS..../drool.
Labels: Fantasy Flight Games, LCG, Lord of the Rings LCG, Pair-a-dice games
PFRPG - Advanced Races Guide
Shipped today so I got my PDF. I must say I like a lot of it, but one thing confuses me...racial gear...bit of an oddball thing, I mean why would a training whip be a human only item except with GM permission???
Of course a lot of the book is just rehashed info, but I'm really glad they expanded the human entry for the alternate race traits...there were just the three, and they were pretty lame. Now there are a lot more options.
More on this when I get my hard-copy so I can really read it better, this is a book I've been waiting for.
So I ACTUALLY received an anonymous request for me to upload the PDF...I don't think so. Paizo is able to continue making a cool game because of the people who buy the game. They've put all the PDFs on sale at a very reasonable price of $9.99 for any of the hard-bound books. As a subscriber to ANY Paizo product line you get 15% off of the purchase and a free PDF of the subscription. Without people buying the books and PDFs the game goes away. If you enjoy playing RPGs, spend a little money. If you're someone who does download PDFs off various point-to-point providers, and you find something you absolutely love, buy the actual book from the creators, not from Amazon, but from the actual creator, or a brick and mortar store. People spend a lot of time creating these wonderful games we play, support our hobby, support our stores, go spend some money.
MW2039 Attributes & FATE
So I'm trying to come up with an idea for coming up with Attributes for the FATE system for use with this game.Oh and a slight working name change to identify that it's not just on Earth, Moderne Worlds of 2039. Just the slightest of changes, but worlds of difference.
So I'm thinking of using a 4dF (drop lowest) for stats. This will give a range of -3 to +3. These will then be used to determine base range of skills. I don't really want to use the standard Strength, Dexterity Constitution etc. This is FATE, where more descriptive language is better. So here's what I'm thinking so far. I don't really want to have an Intelligence or Education stat, intelligence is something the player needs to role-play. Education in FATE is more represented with an aspect. Some skills use a single, some use average and others use difference.
Brawn: This is a measure of pure raw power. Besides being a modifier for weapons (and minimums) it is also useful with skills where power is important. Being to brawny can cause negatives where being lithe is relevant. Tumbling is a skill that uses (Ag-Br) as it's modifier,
Agility: Agility is used for many combat oriented skills. Thrown weapons, athletics to avoid blows etc.
Wits: While intelligence is up to the characters, wits is a measurable stat, it helps where speed of thought is important.
Perception: Perception, this is for skills where noticing what is going on around you is important, from conversations to safecracking.
Obviously, with base bonuses: this system will not have so many skill points, I'm thinking 10 points, but it might appeal more to players who are used to systems with attributes, and also lend easily to conversions.
I've begun my historical research as well, I'm learning a lot about the 20s especially, slang, The Red Scare, stuff that is often overshadowed by prohibition, speak easies, and flappers.
More to come as I continue to work on the system. I'm thinking of having a Reputation score that starts at +0, and can be brought up (or down) during the game.
And honestly, let me know what you think about this game so far...if it's really popular, I'll put up Kickstarter to help develop the game and come up with bonuses for it (Figure flats, original artwork, playtesting, short stories, novels? etc.). One of the things I think would make this game impressive it stunning artwork. I think the artwork could really make it come alive. Obviously the core of the system, and a starter set would always be free, as that is the origin of this RPG to begin with, I started this project specifically as a freebie.
Labels: FATE, Moderne Worlds of 2039, MW2039
MW2039 - The Nikola Tesla story (draft)
The premise of Moderne World of 2039 is a single divergence in the timeline created the new reality. This divergence centers around Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla, the creator of most of the technology which allowed mankind to expand into the solar system. Instead of being taken advantage of, he prospers, and eventually becomes the first cyborg.
Nikola Tesla had already begun going a bit mad when a young inventor by the name of Silas Bjorg came to him for some assistance in powering an automaton which can house a mammalian brain. After a year of development Tesla adapted one of his ZeeGee systems into an autoform, first rat brains were used, then a dog. Tesla demanded that he be the first, he wouldn't allow others to have the operation performed on them, of course, it would also mean immortality if successful.
The Operation was a success, except for one small issue, there was some damage to the vocal canter of his brain. This one thing drove Tesla to become insular, without the ability to communicate easily, and not needing to sleep, he began inventing at a furious pace. For a while he tried to explain his inventions in writing, but his frustrations got the best of him; he began to ignore those around him, inventing day and night. In exchange for a fully stocked lab, Tesla allowed his inventions to be taken so he could continuously invent. Teams of scientists took the inventions and tried to figure out what they did and how they worked; It sometimes yielded brilliant successes, yet many inventions have never been deciphered. Most however are reverse engineered, but not understood.
Next up will be a timeline of inventions.
Labels: Moderne Worlds of 2039, MW2039
Fantasy Chess Pre-Review
So while we getting ready to leave Strategicon, we noticed the Fantasy Chess demo, it looked interesting if a bit 1970s in overall execution. The game it put out by Shadowhex in booklet form, con pricing was $12 for the rulebook. Now the rulebook is very retro in appearance, 11x17 printing folded and stapled. It has some very interesting rules which we'll be trying out over summer, we'll have to see how everything plays out, first we'll need to get a board assembled, shouldn't be difficult using CAD, pop over to Staples get it printed, then head over to Lakeshore Learning to get it laminated.
Remember never judge a book by it's cover, well done artwork can hide the worst game ever, while poor artwork can hide one of the best gems ever. It has the appearance of a game that was printed on the cheap so it doesn't have to cost $60 for a rulebook...and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Though looking at the diagrams in the book can be a bit daunting...they're not 300dpi graphic images from a computer. I look forward to trying this game out and seeing how it works, especially the campaign rules and some of the variants.
Here's what the creator has to say on it from his website:
I made Fantasy Chess to be an interesting variant on chess. It is traditional chess with a layer of wargaming (or Role-Playing Game) mechanics layered on top. It uses traditional pieces (Pawn, Rook, Knight, Bishop, Queen, King) with their traditional moves. What makes it different is the ability of pieces to share the squares and instead of taking a piece, you fight for the square using dice and statistics.
You say traditional chess is tough enough as it is without adding more things to complicate it? Perhaps. But chess is actually very simple:
Six different pieces with six different moves.
A playing surface of 8 squares by 8 squares.
Move your pieces in such a way as to be able to get one to enter the enemy kings square, thus winning the game while avoiding his pieces from getting at your king. Remove those enemy pieces that get in your way.
Children have been taught to play traditional chess and its easy for them.
If you remove the daunting thought that traditional chess is hard because there are so many ways the pieces can interact, that if I make the wrong it'll be over so I have to worry over this move for 10 minutes, that its an intellectual bully game, you are on your way to having fun with Traditional Chess.
Well, that is what Fantasy Chess is doing. Its having fun with Traditional Chess by adding some flavor to it. In the core game, all it does is add the ability to co-occupy the square of your own troops. It does replace the taking of pieces with a dice procedure that notes hit points and each piece's ability to hit, but once you learn the combat system (a common concept for most miniature games and role-playing games), it isn't really that complicated.
Children have been taught to play Fantasy Chess and its easy for them.
Having playtested Fantasy Chess over the years with hundreds of players, I know I have a playable, exciting chess variant. If you give it a try, I think you will agree
- John Paul, Creator of Fantasy Chess
Labels: Fantasy Chess, Shadowhex, Strategicon
MW2039 Tab
I have added a tab for the Moderne World 2039 development. I really like where this game is going.
Here's some new information I'm getting ironed out.
The Seven Colonies As man expanded into the solar system spurred by Tesla's inventions, with Matter Transmission (MaX) Gates, and unlimited power provided by the Zee-Gee Generators, mankind first made it to the Moon, then to Mars, using the advances gained on the Moon, terraforming Mars was quick and and soon, a dozen colonial towns were popping up; Pyramids have become the symbol of the Mars colonies, as the amount of stone available for construction makes building them simple with vibralifts and laserdrills. Venus is the system HQ of Alcap1 Industries, Las Venus grew up around the towering casinos and speeks owned by some of the most powerful humans living today. Jupiter and Saturn host the 3 newest colonies on Io, Europa and Titan, a favorite destination for tourists as the gas giants make for stunning planet rises. The last colony started out as the penal colony known as New Alcatraz, floating in the middle of the Asteroid belt, hardened convicts broke big iron into little iron. Now known as The Rock, the mineral resources have drawn all sorts of traders and miners to the area. The Rock is a rough way to live for rough people.
War of the Worlds When H.G. Wells made his historic transmission, many thought it was some sort of hoax, days later when the aliens lie dying from Earth's germs, no one doubted it any longer. It was the catalyst to end warfare among the Earthlings, it put the nail in the coffin of racism, and sexism, suddenly a new age was dawning. When we reached Mars, we realized, they hadn't come from Mars, but from farther away.
Beings from the Darkest Reaches H.P. Lovecraft wasn't just writing, he was seeing through time and space, it drove him mad, but he had to get the information out to the people. Unfortunately as we stepped farther into the solar system.
Labels: FATE, Moderne World of 2039, MW2039
Free RPG Day coming Up
Are you going?? If you're not, you're missing out on some great freebies...Pair A Dice sent me a reminder email....so they're having Free RPG Day once more this year!!
June 16th - Free RPG Day- Once again Pair A Dice Games will be hosting Free RPG Day. On Free RPG Day, you will be able to grab brand new material for a variety of RPGs --- no overstock, retail-priced or dead product here. The goal of Free RPG Day is to inspire gamers to play a new RPG, which will in turn, create sales through local game stores.
Pair A Dice Royalty Rewards Customers can pick out 2 items each. A bonus item can be selected when you purchase $10 or more in the store on free RPG Day. All this happens from 10AM till 6PM on Saturday June 16th. Come early, cause this cool stuff is 1st come 1st serve and won't last long.
Check out the list of amazing product!
Blue Panther
Sample (1 per box), Dice Tower
Gold (10 ber box), A Time of War: BattleTech RPG/Shadowrun Quickstart flipbook
Gold (10 ber box), Cosmic Patrol RPG Quickstart
Silver, 4 Commerative Dice For Store Owner
Platinum (15 per box), Harn setting material with world map
Dice Candies
Sample (1 per box), Set of 6 chocolate polyhedral dice
(Final shape of chocolate NOT guaranteed with delivery)
Silver (5 per box), Conspiracy X Quickstart & Adventure
Gold (10 per box), Warhammer 40K Roleplay Only War Adventure, "Eleventh Hour"
Gaming Paper
Sample (1 per box), "Slavers of the Sunken Garden", Pathfinder Adventure
Silver (6 per box), Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG Quickstart & Adventure
Bronze (3 per box), Pathfinder, "Shadowsfall: Temple of Orcus"
Louis Porter Jr. Design
Bronze (3 per box), NeoExodus Pathfinder Adventure
OffWorld Designs
Sample (1 per box), "Ask me about Free RPG Day" T-Shirt (XL) for employees.
Platinum (15 per box), Pathfinder Adventure, Dawn of the Scarlet Sun
Pamean Games
Sample (1 per box), Brass & Steel Quickstart
Gold (10 per box), Unique Dice
Sample (1 per box), Castles & Crusades Adventure
Platinum (15 per box), D&D 4E Adventure, "Dead in the Eye"
If you're in North County, head to Pair-a-dice games:
Pair A Dice Games Inc
www.pairadicegames.com
2020 Hacienda Dr Suite A
In addition if you're down south, you can head to At Ease Games in Poway to get the goodies instead!
At Ease Games
ateasegames.com
12373 Poway Rd. Suite A&B
If you're in Temecula, looks like you can head to
Hobbytown USA
www.hobbytown.com/Temecula-CA/
27452 Jefferson Ave #7
Labels: At Ease Games, Free RPG Day, Pair-a-dice games
Review - Hostile Takeover (Interface Zero)
Sorry, taking longer than normal to write this one, the full review is now complete.
Been a while since I posted a review, so Dave over at GunMetalGames comped a review copy of Hostile Takeover to me, which I always love since I'm a fan of Interface Zero, and GMG puts out some nice product.
Hostile Takeover (Interface Zero (Savage Worlds)
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First Glance
First and foremost it appears that GMG has been reading the reviews on the previous products. There's still plenty of great art, but only one full-sized piece of artwork. In addition the layout has been simplified, making for a little less content, but a lot easier to peruse.
Main Review
I was a little skeptical at first, playing on the business side of MegaCorps, then I thought, wait, if I the GM am playing the business side, that will give me lots more options of what to throw against players, and if they decide to start a business of their own what would happen? Let's see what's in here shall we?
The book is divided into two main sections, and orientation section for new employees, including a biz-speak section, so you can really feel like you're an 80s power broker! ("Don't you worry about blank, let me worry about blank...")
In this Welcome New Employee section, a hacker named Tetsubo has left new hires commentary in the file.
The most interesting thing we see in this part is the fact that "The Company" in question is a Christian company as it's part of the NAC. Showing that religious companies are fairly common in the NAC. Biz-Speak is a pretty fun section as the "Dazzle them with Bulls**t" sidebar indicates. The section drops into how skills can be used differently in an office environment. An example being Gambling for betting pools. Tweaks on Edges and Hindrances, such as Big Mouth (minor), being (major) in a corporate environment because letting company secrets out can land your a** in the lock-up, or taking a leap off the top of the building in an assisted suicide. Also added is the Knowledge (Business) skill.
Some useful new hindrances and edges are presented. Black-Listed, Compassionate, Dependance (major/minor), Freelancer/Consultant, Jinx, NDA (yeah Non-disclosure agreement...), Out of your League, and lastly Owned, this one is great for other stuff, like people who want way more than the standard chrome, you mave have gotten a lot of debt, and now you're 'owned' by the MegaConglom like an indentured servant of old.(This will work great for Juicers and Full Borgs in my Rifts conversion.) Most of these are edges hindrances which make sense outside the office with a little tweaking. Some interesting new edges, so you've got cash from being Rich or Noble...but where's that dynastic power? Trust Fund Baby and Improved Trust Fund Baby, bring you that fame that a well-known name brings. Rainmaker is the good-luck of corporate life, good things happen for the business when this guy's involved. Three Combat edges make this supplement pretty sweet for non-Corp games. Fire Team drill (bonuses for combat teams well versed in working with each other...AKA, watch out Legends, those 20 SWAT officers are still dangerous.) Non-Lethal Take-down and its improved version can be handy for pretty much any SW game, especially for pacifists, or games where killing someone might have some legal ramifications.
Most of the Leadership feats are very oriented to this setting, Management Material, Dedicated Focus, Promote from Within, Inspirational Speech, Protege, and Master Planner.
Two new weird edges have some coolness to them. Hound let's the weird individual sense Zeeks (psychics), this one is perfect for certain Stalkers of Psions in Savage Rifts. Monstrous lets the player take a 'monstrous' ability, I think out of the monster section (I'll have to clarify with GMG). FIVE new professional edges are in this section as well. I always love professional edges, it's one thing to have an archetype idea, it's another to have some mechanics to go along with that meme. Infiltrator, Social Engineer, Security Specialist, Street Rat and the Business Wizard.
There's a 2 page section on Expense accounts, which works well to make the company pay for stuff you need, however you push too far, and you might get the sack when they audit you!
Speaking of expense accounts, the Malmart catalog includes: Armored Executive clothing, look good and kill em in the boardroom! I luckily wasn't drinking my tea when I came upon the L'il Mogul sleepware, it's an ARMORED ONESIE FOR BABIES!!!! HAH! Brilliant and Hilarious! Hah, the next section is the Useless Sh*t section, execs are always buying crap they don't need....this should cover that.
A good offense is just as important as a good defense in 2088, so you might find a monofilament sword-cane to your liking for maybe a briefcase gun (aggressive sales pitch with the artwork on this page as well). Need a little more punch but don't want to suffer any cyber trauma? Go for portable versions, making any type of cyber ware into a hand held/worn version, Cyber Eye Goggles for example. Watch out for Riot Gel Mines in offices which prefer to prosecute over execute, non-lethal mines, that'll leave a mark. Going out for a night on the town, grab some Pheromones, equally as effective in the board room. In the business world, missing deadlines isn't an option; the legal drug, Redline, is sometimes used by Managers to pull some serious OT, at the expense of the workers.
When you sign your life away to work for a corp, what you didn't read the fine print? You might be required to install certain programs on your tap that censor what you see and hear, from news to nudity to the boss and the secretary, if it's programmed that you can't see it, That Tap-Soft program won't let you see it. With behavioral Software and Selectivity Software installed, you've given your soul to the Company.
Let's face it, executive privilege makes lots of enemies, so you need to have security beyond the bodyguards. You can go for the Basic Security package or increase it, using advanced tech which even keeps out Zeeks. Travel in safety and style in the Warhawk VTOL or the Stealthy, Ford 'Phantom' Hover Limo.
As we slip into the second part of the manual, it gives a quick synopsis of what makes a good Corporate game, this is very important, because sitting in an office 10 hours a can is very, very not fun. Let me repeat that. Sitting in an office 10 hours a can is very, very not fun so why would we want to role-play that when we're trying to get away from work? Here's the titles of the 'advice' bits: Focus on the Exceptional, GEt out of the Office, Keep them on their toes, Let them be in charge. Really this is just reiterating what makes good gaming to begin with; however due to the subject material, it is very fitting. Next up is mood, because you can imagine working for ToyLand R&D would be better than working at McBurger Headquarters right? So setting the mood is tantamount to a successful Corp game. Corporate Espionage, perhaps your group is working for a MegaConGlom, but you're there spying for another. Corporate Ops style game puts you characters in charge of the Corp.
Now what I see is, players running a Corporate Ops game, having the team be the head honchos and sending some scrubs out for a little Corporate Sabotage, now the scene shifts to the players running the Sabotage team, meanwhile with the main big hitters out int he field, the head honchos suddenly find out their own office is being raided....So the players can be running two separate, yet related, games in the same night. It also lets the characters REALLY call the shots on where the game is heading.
Next up, Corporate Trappings, the literal body and soul of the corp office, however, it includes game mechanics as well. A Vengeful Corp tends to seek vengeance on those that wronged the company. However they're not looked on too highly and others react poorly when dealing with members of this company. With 20 different trappings, including the "-ism" trapping there's lots of room to make each company feel different. The descriptions cover pages 23-31.
Next up is the C-7. Descriptions of the 7 most powerful corporations in the IZ world. Central Belarusian Steel, Chimera, Helios, LaCroix Organizational Agencies, New Frontier Enterprises, Subarashii Ltd. and Golden Promise, Inc. These are just the biggest, not all of them, plenty of room for growth. In fact, the C7 is more of a Big Boys club, as many other powerful corps aren't on the list.
Next up some Variant rules, Using Chase rules to simulate A Race to bring a product to Market versus a rival company (or even department). Or how about using the Mass Battle rules to simulate a Hostile Takeover..pretty clever way to use existing rules to cover a new situation with minimal fuss.
And of course, last but not least, NPCs, the following NPCs are presented in this book, Low-level and Elite Security, and their Wildcard Head of Secutiry. Office executives and lowly worker drones. Security drones however are a bit different than Worker drones, with two separate security drones, the Centurion Light Drone and the Huanfeng III, being used by corps to patrol their halls, pack some armor for your next raid, you don't know what the opposition is prepared for, so be on your toes.
Family Rating: Again, this supplement is for Interface Zero, it deals with murder, death, and drugs, Rated 13+ as far as I can tell.
Artwork: Again, full color interior are, only 1 full page print, which means more content, I can't complain about that.
Overall Rating: 19. I've seen mybe 3 typoes in this book, the rules are pretty solid and the fiction is good as well. GMG stepped up and listened to what others were reviewing for clarity of reading, let's hope it keeps up for the next supplements, especially the upcoming MalMart product!!
Hostile Takeover is available in PDF format from DrivethruRPG at the low cost of $7.99
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He planted 5,000 seedlings of courgette on a 0.4 acre of land and 6,000 seedlings of lettuce on another 0.4 acre, two short season crops that mature within a period of 50 to 60 days.
“At maturity, I harvested at least 165kg of courgettes three times weekly for a period of three months selling a kilo at an average of Sh40. Lettuce on the other hand earned me Sh30 per kilo initially as I had not known the market well but afterwards this increased to Sh50 per kilo when I sold to an exporter in Eldoret,” said Kiptanui.
In December 2018, he used proceeds from the sale of the two crops to develop a greenhouse which cost him Sh100,000. In this, he planted Anna F1 hybrid tomato variety in which he harvested at least five kilos weekly at maturity for a period of three months at Sh50/kilo.
Since then, Kiptanui has never looked back; he grows tomatoes, potatoes, kales, cabbages, passion fruits, butternuts, red and yellow pepper.
“Currently I have two acres of passion fruits, 400 heads of Chinese cabbages under cultivation, three greenhouses for production of tomatoes and pepper,” said Kiptanui.
One of the greenhouses measuring 10m by 33m for instance is ready for transplanting of 1,500 plants of both red and yellow pepper which are currently in the nursery. He bought the pepper seeds at Sh4,800.
From his one acre under butternut cultivation, he expects to harvest 7,000 kilos of the produce and anticipates selling each kilo at Sh60. This would earn him Sh420,000 from the crop alone.
“One of the biggest challenges I faced in my first season was identifying the right market, I sold to brokers who reduce the value by 20 per cent, however, I have now created linkages directly with my clients,” he said.
Kiptanui also markets his produce on Twitter on his page https://twitter.com/Maxwel_Kiptanui which has 4,256 follower as of at June 17th 2019.
He also provides on-farm training on both greenhouse and open field horticultural production charging Sh2500 per head per day. In this, active and prospective farmers get an opportunity to eat fresh passion fruits and also take home a five kilo bag of vegetables of their choice. He trains at least 10 farmers weekly.
From his mixed farm, Kiptanui bought a starlet car three months ago at Sh190,000. He uses the car to transport his produce to the markets in Eldoret and Kitale helping him cut expenses.
Horticulture is ranked as the fastest growing sub-sector in the agriculture industry in Kenya. The sector’s earnings increased by 33 per cent from Sh78.2bn to Sh104bn during the first eight months of 2018 compared to a similar period in 2017.
In this, vegetable earnings increased by 9.6 per cent to Sh16.9bn from 50,000 tonnes of produce sold while fruit exports on the other hand fetched Sh8.7bn from 57,000 tonnes exported.
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Pre-order Volbeat New Album 'Rewind,Replay,Rebound'
A Statement From Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong…
Last night at the Mad Cool festival in Spain there was a horrific accident. An acrobat by the name of Pedro was killed during his performance before Green Day played our show.
We are so sad for Pedro and his family and we pray for them in this time of grief. I can’t imagine how much suffering the friends and family are going through.
Many of you are wondering why we continued to play our show after the accident.
Green Day did not hear about the accident until after our show was over.
We didn’t even know there was an acrobat performance at all.
these festivals are huge.
There are so many things happening at the same time it’s impossible to keep up with every performer/artist..
We were in a back stage compound about a half mile away from the main festival stage. We were warming up ready to go at 11:25 pm.
15 minutes prior our tour management was told by local authorities to wait to go on stage because there was some sort of security issue.
Security issues are a normal occurrence and procedure at any show.. we were NOT told why which is also normal. we waited as we were instructed. Still, We had no clue there was any such accident.
We were given the ok. The band jumped into vans and drove to the main festival stage.
This was to be the last show of our European tour and we were all so excited to play our hearts out one last time.
We were on stage at around midnight and played around two and a half hours. Everything seemed normal. the crowd and fans had a good time. We got off stage and drove back to our artist compound.
It was there when we were told the shocking news about Pedro. All of us were in disbelief. I don’t know why the authorities chose not to tell us about the accident before our concert. All we know is what was said after our concert.
This has never happened in the 30 years Green Day have been performing live.
If we had known prior to our performance we most likely would not have played at all. We are not heartless people. The safety and well being at any of our concerts absolutely comes first.
What happened to Pedro is unthinkable. Once again we are heartbroken for his friends and family. and we are also shocked and heartbroken for anyone that had to witness this tragedy.
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Green Day To Release ‘Greatest Hits : God’s Favorite Band’ November 7th
Watch Green Day Music Video for ‘Revolution Radio’
Mat Kerekes Releases New Music Video for ‘Ruby’
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Abramovich wants Chelsea stadium is better than Arsenal
Guide Chelsea plans to renovate their home arena Stamford bridge and as a result to increase the number of seats to 55 thousand. Eventually, the stadium should be one of the best in the world.According to Tribalfootball with reference to the Evening Standard, the owner of Chelsea FC, Roman Abramovich has already held talks with razlichinymi construction firms. It is expected that the project of reconstruction of Stamford bridge will be released in September.On Monday it became known that Arsenal will spend on building a new stadium about $673 million plan to Open it to the beginning of the season 2006/2007. The stadium will have a capacity of 60 thousand spectators..
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According to "Sport-Express" from different sources in the Russian football brewing sensation: in the near future in Russia may appear superclub.We are talking about Moscow "torpedo", the interest for which manifests tycoon Alexander Mamut and control structure
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Wiki: FrequentlyAskedQuestions
"What is a Wiki?" questions
What is a ''Wiki''?
What is this good for?
What are the major features of a Wiki?
What about Wiki security? Isn't a Wiki subject to complete wipeout or nastiness from a saboteur?
Questions about MoinMoin in general
Finding and accessing information in the wiki
How can I search the wiki?
How do I see what's been going on recently in the wiki?
How can I get RecentChanges to go farther back in time than it goes by default?
What are these weird different-colored links I keep finding all over the place?
Editing in the wiki
How do add something to the wiki, or change something that's wrong?
Are there any conventions I should follow when adding information?
How can I add non-text information to the Wiki?
How can I avoid the use of [[BR]] and use normal newline characters instead?
How do I add an image to a page?
How do I create a new Template page?
Adding documents in an intranet
Should I ''sign'' my changes?
What if I delete entries in pages, and you think you need them? Is it erased completely?
Adding other document formats to the wiki
Can I add HTML to the wiki?
Linking in the wiki
How do I link to something outside my wiki, as with an html a tag?
Administering the Wiki
How do I administer the wiki?
Can I restore a page from an older version?
A Wiki is a collection of pages that can be collaboratively edited using a web browser. They are open and free for anyone to edit as they wish. The system creates cross-reference hyperlinks between pages automatically.
The CollabNet wiki feature is based on the open-source MoinMoin wiki application. For more information about MoinMoin, see http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/.
It is good for reducing noise and increasing the amount of information available to your project members. The information is structured and easier to find than in some other media. You can put up a wiki on your internal web site with many pages, which describe various projects, architectures, ideas, etc. for people to comment on. Some pages just sit there and convey information. Other pages are an open invitation for discussion and commentary. For example, you could set up a wiki for a simple skills database.
In general, a wiki is very much a free-form tool, whose value derives from the use to which it is put. For instance, a page in a wiki can serve the same purpose as a discussion thread. You could use a wiki page to collaboratively work on a project.
Here are some important wiki features:
editability by anyone - a wiki page is editable by anyone with a web browser
ability to view recent changes
ability to search pages (several ways)
ability to very easily add new pages
ability to see the change history for a document
ability to add new information or modify existing information
This is an important question. In general, wikis used to have NO security. (That's right!)
For MoinMoin this has changed with the introduction of Access Control Lists. (See HelpOnAccessControlLists.)
But, assuming you do not use ACLs, the possibility exists for accidental or conscious destruction or corruption of the current page revisions in the wiki.
There are two main ways to devalue a wiki. One is through erasure and the other is through corruption. Dealing with erasure is not terribly difficult, because there is a change log (and back versions) of every page, and they can be reverted easily. Thus, when page deletions or major content erasures are detected (which should be fairly quickly), pages can be restored to their previous good state.
Explicit and intentional corruption is more difficult to deal with. The possibility exists that someone can enter incorrect information onto a page, or edit pages to intentionally change the information so it is incorrect. (For example, people can change the attributions on a page to make it look like a different person made a particular comment, or someone can change the content of a paragraph to alter its meaning in a detrimental way.) In practice, wiki corruption is an extremely rare event, and one that can be dealt with (if needed) with the notification feature (to a fixed auditor) for new material submission.
In other words, the philosophy of wiki is one of dealing manually with the rare case of a saboteur, rather than designing in features and overhead (both in implementation and in usage) to avoid the damage caused by a saboteur.
There are several ways to search or scan the wiki:
Use the search box or FindPage, where you can search by keyword in title, by full text, with normal words or wildcards (regular expressions).
Click TitleIndex. This will show you an alphabetized list of all pages by title.
Click WordIndex. This shows an alphabetized list of every word in every title (i.e. a page named BlueTooth is listed under B / Blue as well as T / Tooth).
Use the LikePages action. This shows pages that have words in their titles that are similar to the current page.
Click the page title at the very top of the page. This shows what pages link to the current page (which may help you find related pages).
Click the RecentChanges link at the top of any page.
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One of the interesting and disturbing things about this play is the way words uttered in playful or erotic excess inevitably prophesy doom. Comedy turns tragic, jokes and puns seem to have the magical power to bring about decidedly unfunny events. Be glad you don't live in one of Will's plays. You couldn't even say "I'd rather die than ______," or I'm going to kill you if you don't ________" without actually committing suicide or homicide. But of course it makes perfect sense. In literature, words--even conventional words--have a material force they lack in real life. Something similar happens visually in film. Whenever you see someone who's been shot, and there's a little trickle of blood coming out of the side of their mouth, they are definitely history. Whenever you hear someone cough in a daytime drama, they have an imminently fatal disease. And so on.
Some examples of this ironic/anticipatory use of language: at the end of the balcony scene, Juliet muses that if Romeo were her pet bird, she'd be likely to kill him "with much cherishing." In Friar Laurence's cell, Romeo proclaims that he'll be so happy to be married to Juliet that he doesn't mind dying:
Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
Then love-devouring death do what he dare--
It is enough I may but call her mine.
Okay...meet you at the tomb in a couple of days.
I've already talked about the whole sex/death (non)opposition, which is so overdetermined in this play that it gets annoying after awhile. This time I'd like to look at the way Will uses structure to mark the shift from comedy to tragedy. Romeo's comic verbal duel with Mercutio in Act 2 prefigures the tragic duel in Act 3. In the first, Mercutio gives in, conceding that his "wit faints." In the second, he faces his own death with a quip: "ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man." It's funny, in a morbid way, but these lines mark the end of comedy in the play.
The shedding of virginal blood and the "little death" of sexual climax (more on this presently) is forestalled by the literal killings in the streets of Verona. Marriage and sex are the stuff of comedy in the Renaissance--comedies invariably end with weddings--so the substitution of one bloody event for another also supplants comedy with tragedy. Juliet waits for the Nurse in two closely connected scenes. In the first, the Nurse delays telling her charge that Romeo has arranged the marriage--the delay is funny. In the second, the Nurse is so confused that she can't seem to tell Juliet what has happened to Tybalt and Romeo. Here, the Nurse's dilatory ramblings are anything but comic.
Friar Laurence, however inept he may be, is a great believer in comic endings--he wants, in a way, to write the play himself, to subvert tragedy by effecting a reconcilation between the two warring houses. He, like Benvolio, urges moderation:
These violent delights have violent ends,
And in their triumph die like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness,
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately.
Moderation just isn't on the menu in this play, however. Right after the Friar's monitory speech, Romeo and Juliet take turns proclaiming the limitless nature of their love. "My true love," Juliet gushes, "is grown to such excess/I cannot sum up some of half my wealth." In the very next scene, the first of Act 3, the excesses are violent, not erotic. Benvolio, ever the well-wisher, wants to avoid a fight:
I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire.
The day is hot, the Capels are abroad,
And if we meet we shall not scape a brawl,
For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.
Mercutio is having none of it, however. He jokes that Benvolio is actually the one with the hot temper:
...thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason than because thou hast hazel eyes. What eye but such an eye would spy out such a quarrel? Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling.
He goes on, piling ludicrous example upon example in an effort to prove Benvolio's more quarrelsome than he. Events will very soon prove him wrong. The Mercurial One is in a truculent mood, and it's going to lead to disaster. The fight begins when Tybalt and his posse show up looking for Romeo and trouble. Mercutio decides to take things the wrong way from the word go:
Tybalt: Gentlemen, good e'en. A word with one of you.
Mercutio: And but one word with one of us? Couple it with something. Make it a word and a blow.
Tybalt: You shall find me apt enough to that, sir, an you will give me occasion.
Mercutio: Could you not take some occasion without giving?
Tybalt: Mercutio, thou consort'st with Romeo.
Mercutio: 'Consort'? What, does thou make us minstrels? An thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but discords. [touching his rapier] Here's my fiddlestick; here's that shall make you dance. Zounds--'Consort'!
The man of words doesn't like the word Tybalt chose. "Consort with" had the meaning it does today--associate with. But to "consort" also referred to minstrels who played and sang together--it's related to our word "concert." Mercutio is obviously looking for a fight, and decides that Tybalt has insulted him by using a word that refers to lower-class musicians. Hence all the music talk--"discords," fiddlestick," and so on. Tybalt, of course, is made of simpler stuff intellectually. He's missed the point entirely, but he's always ready to man up when the opportunity presents itself. Benvolio tries to break up the fight by reminding them that they are "in the public haunt of men," but Mercutio isn't in the mood for detente: "I will not budge for no man's pleasure, I."
Romeo enters and captures all Tybalt's attention. "Well," he tells Mercutio," "peace be with you, sir. Here comes my man."
This really pisses Mercutio off. Again, it's language that bothers him:
But I'll be hanged,sir, if he wear your livery.
Marry, go before to field, he'll be your follower.
Your worship in that sense may call him 'man.'
Mercutio purposely misunderstands Tybalt again, this time accusing him of treating Romeo like a servant ("my man"). Tybalt turns on Romeo, calling him a "villain," which was another fighting word in those days--originally it meant "serf," so it's a class insult as well as a moral one. Romeo, newly married, tries to make peace with his cousin-in-law:
I do protest that I never injured thee,
But love thee better than thou canst devise
Till thou shalt know the reason of my love.
Tybalt, still enraged at Romeo's party-crashing, isn't interested in love talk, or in playing guessing games. But Mercutio, rushing on adrenaline and testosterone, finds Romeo's conciliatory speech intolerable:
O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!
Alla stoccado carries it away.
Tybalt, you ratcatcher, come, will you walk?
Alla stoccado is another of those fencing terms that Mercutio likes to bandy about. Again, it's all about words to him. Tybalt's confused at first, since his quarrel is with Romeo. Mercutio throws down the challenge, insisting that all he wants is one of Tybalt's "nine lives" (again insulting Tybalt's manhood by calling him a pussy--I mean cat). Tybalt finally gets it, declaring with chilling brevity,
I am for you.
Then all hell breaks loose. You probably know the rest. Romeo tries to break them up, but inadvertently gives Tybalt an opening. Mercutio, mortally wounded, falls to the ground. The Capulet crowd runs off, and we're left with this tragicomic scene:
Mercutio: I am hurt.
A plague o' both your houses. I am sped.
Is he gone, and hath nothing?
Benvolio: What, art thou hurt?
Mercutio: Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 'tis enough.
Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.
Romeo: Courage, man. The hurt cannot be much.
Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but 'tis enough. 'Twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o' both your houses! Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death! A braggart, a rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of arithmetic! Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm.
Romeo: I thought all for the best.
Mercutio: Help me into some house, Benvolio,
Or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses.
They have made worms' meat of me.
I have it, and soundly, too. Your houses!
Benvolio helps Mercutio offstage, and that's the last we see of him. It's probable that Tybalt would have forced Romeo into a duel even without Mercutio's wordy bloodlust. But it's interesting that Mercutio is the one who escalates this whole thing, because of course he isn't a Montague at all--he's Prince Escalus's kinsman, and therefore at least potentially neutral in the civil war between the two families. Not to reiterate my points of last time, but it's pretty clear that he's got kind of a thing for Romeo, and that's why he's suddenly all fired up to fight with Tybalt. When Romeo backs down, he goes berserk, intent on avenging his friend's honor--even though Romeo himself has acted "dishonorably" by refusing to fight. Only at the end does he assume a kind of impartiality--" a plague o' both your houses." But it's a little late for that.
Even after he's been wounded, Mercutio's main concern is that Tybalt "has nothing," i.e., got away without a scratch. It's all about honor, in that old macho Hegelian struggle-for-recognition sense. Romeo's back in the game, and he suddenly realizes that love has emasculated him:
This gentleman, the Prince's near ally,
My very friend, hath got this mortal hurt
In my behalf, my reputation stained
With Tybalt's slander--Tybalt, that an hour
Hath been my cousin! O sweet Juliet,
Thy beauty hath made me effeminate,
And in my temper, softened valor's steel.
And so, I must kill someone. Right now, before I do something stupid like think it over. Bring it. Go ahead, make my day. This time it's personal. This town isn't big enough for the both of us. And so on. Anything to prove my steel's not, you know, soft.
Tybalt comes back, maybe to take Romeo out, too, or maybe because he doesn't want to seem soft-steeled by running away. In any case, Romeo's rage and masculine self-loathing have a salutary effect on his dueling skills, and he dispatches the Prince of Cats in a few quick moves. After which he seems to forget his role in the whole thing, choosing instead to blame fate:
O, I am fortune's fool!
Really? I mean, because this whole thing doesn't look all that fortuna-fied (Will's got me hooked on neologisms) from where I stand. I mean sit. In Act 2, Mercutio got Romeo worked up about their star-crossed bromance, Romeo got married, and thereby betrayed his comitatus, and then Tybalt showed up, providing a convenient excuse for that oldest of male courtship rituals, the duel to the death. There was a pretty clear element of free will here--unless you count a pissing contest gone awry as a culturally predestined event.
Well, anyway. Fortune's fool or not, Romeo's in deep excrement here. Prince Escalus appears and issues another edict--which seems to be all he's good for, since civil order is completely beyond his administrative capabilities. Despite the vengeful insistence of the Capulet contingent, his death sentence (remember the first edict, in Act 1) is commuted to banishment. And we haven't even gotten to the sex scene yet.
If you were waiting for that, you're going to be disappointed. No sex. We do have a lot of eroticized anticipation, some lovely post-coital poetry and hand-wringing, but that's as hot as it gets in the text. Thankfully! I find movie and genre-fictional sex scenes mostly embarrassing to watch/read about. I'm not a prude, but really--some things are better either experienced personally or left to the imagination. In any case, sex and sex-talk are the stuff of comedy, and, as of right now, we're on the tragic train to doomsville.
But there's still a lot of beautiful morbid/erotic poetry between now and then, so stay tuned.
Posted by Gayle at 11:49 PM
Labels: Romeo and Juliet
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