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Valley of the Moon Magazine
Sonoma Film Festival
Seeking Wellness Within
SDC—Three More Years of Warm Shutdown
Shutting Down RoundUp
Are Monsanto and Bayer Killing Us With Chemicals?
Musician René Jenkins is a curandero de sonido who heals with his sounds.
Putting a Price on Wellness? There’s more to wellness than a hexagon.
It is not surprising to learn that there is a National Wellness Institute, which convenes an annual National Wellness Conference, and it is even less surprising to learn that the National Wellness Institute has monetized wellness, for individuals ($149/year), for organizations ($350/year), for students ($35/year and for student chapters ($299/year).
NWI conducts trainings that can apparently result in an Empowered Health Consciousness Facilitator Certificate (at a substantial cost), and there is actually a “Council on Wellness Certification Excellence” that reviews “Certified Wellness Practitioner” applications to decide who has the knowledge and skills to teach and promote wellness.
According to NWI, there are six dimensions of wellness (Emotional, Occupational, Physical, Social, Intellectual and Spiritual). Notably missing from this wellness hexagon are environmental wellness, cultural wellness, financial wellness, political wellness, climatic wellness, organizational wellness, species wellness, habitat wellness, musical wellness, literary wellness, historic preservation wellness, or social media wellness (we could, of course, go on). Perhaps we’re being a little harsh here, but the idea of reducing wellness to a bureaucratic construct with precise dimensions, strategies, performance categories, and costs strikes us as slightly beyond the far side of ludicrous. What isn’t ludicrous is the need for a global commitment to recognize how unwell so many dimensions of planetary existence have become, and how urgently important it is for all of us—as individuals, as communities, as nations, as cultures, and as a species—to take active responsibility for making things more well.
So we decided, in the midst of a decidedly unwell political epoch, it would be useful to sift through the people, the programs, the writings, and the resources that at least partially define the pursuit of wellness in this Valley. We found so many points of light in the local wellness universe that we were barely able to scratch the service, and we know there are more people and programs deserving our attention than those featured here. Still, we think you’ll find value in what we’ve compiled, perhaps you’ll learn something new or remember something you knew but had forgotten.
This isn’t our last shot, so we’d love to hear from all of you about what we overlooked or didn’t have time and space for.
Meanwhile, as you will also read about inside and have no doubt already heard, there is positive news on the moving melodrama that is the uncertain fate of the Sonoma Developmental Center. On April 2, the State of California announced plans to extend “warm shutdown” funds for three more years, giving local stakeholders a significant extension on a deadline to come up with a viable, self-sustaining proposal for the now largely shuttered property. That extension will cost the state some $40 million, and state officials further announced they will provide $3 million to fund development of a viable proposal.
It was startlingly positive news, but as soon as the initial euphoria evaporated, the enormity of the challenge settled heavily on the members of a broad coalition sworn to save the land for the highest public use.
So read on, be well, and let’s all keep searching for opportunities to elevate the level of wellness wherever we go.
David Bolling, Editor & Publisher, Valley of the Moon Magazine
The Everlasting Leaf Blower Debate Story Don Frances Photos Steven Krause (Models: Victor Torrez, Angie Hurtado) There was once a time, before cell-phones, before microwaves, before hip-hop—before anyone can seem to remember—when people took care of fallen leaves using rakes, brooms and their arms. Then, in the early 1970s, the…
SDC and the Olmstead Decision
—News Analysis— How ADA compliance policy is forcing closure. Story David Bolling Photos David Bolling and Steven Krause On August 20, during what some construed as a historic convergence of state officials gathered at Altimira Middle School to address the future of the Sonoma Developmental Center, the Secretary of the…
Mike Benziger | Water Wizard
Story: David Bolling Photos: Steven Krause Winemaking is a kind of alchemy because, at a fundamental level, it involves turning water into wine. A lot of water. UC Davis professor Larry Williams studied a test plot of chardonnay grapes in Carneros and calculated that irrigated vines required a little over…
Uncertain SDC
Story & Photos: David Bolling The state says the developmental center has to close by 2018, but no one knows where to put the residents, how much it will cost or how many will die. Midway across the Harney Street Bridge over Sonoma Creek, centered more or less in the…
VOMM Makeover — Nancy King
Photos: Steven Krause When Nancy King was a kid, her mother would put a bowl over her head and cut off whatever hair stuck out. “Which is why,” King explained as she settled into the cozy embrace of Terry Sue Harms’ salon chair, “after that I grew my hair down…
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One World booklist
These children's books cover experiences from around the globe, and can help to encourage children to think about and appreciate the rest of the world and unfamiliar cultures.
The skin you live in
With the ease and simplicity of a nursery rhyme, this lively story delivers an important message of social acceptance to young readers. Themes such as friendship, acceptance, self-esteem, and diversity are ilustrated with children's activities for all cultures, such as swimming in the ocean, hugging, catching butterflies, and eating birthday cake.
Global Babies
This board book shows photographs of babies from all over the world in their native costume and describes how all babies are special. Babies love looking at faces and other children so this book is great for that whilst also introducing them to the diversity of cultures and people around the world.
Handa’s Surprise
Eileen Browne
Handa puts seven delicious fruits in a basket to take to her friend, Akeyo. Which fruit will Akeyo like best, she wonders - the yellow banana, the sweet guava, the juicy orange, the ripe mango, the spiky pineapple, the creamy avocado, or the tangy passion fruit? As Handa makes the long walk to the next village, carrying the basket on her head, a monkey, ostrich, zebra, elephant, giraffe, antelope, and parrot steal her fruits, one by one. But little do they know that Handa has an even bigger surprise in store! This charming book is also ideal for reading aloud.
How to make an apple pie and see the world
Marjorie Priceman
This engaging picture book can encourage young readers to think about different places around the world, and might even get them thinking about where different foods and ingredients come from. A deliciously silly recipe for apple pie takes readers around the globe to gather ingredients. First hop a steamboat to Italy for the finest semolina wheat. Then hitch a ride to England and hijack a cow for the freshest possible milk. And, oh yes! Don't forget to go apple picking in Vermont!‘
A simple recipe for apple pie is included too!
The swirling Hijaab
Na’ima bint Robert
A lyrical picture book about the feelings a little Muslim girl has for her head scarf, her Hijaab. Imaginatively written and beautifully illustrated, this book and can provide children with an interesting insight into the Hijaab, and encourage them to think about different cultures. Reading and looking at the brilliant illustrations together within the book can be fun for both you and your children.
Cleversticks
Bernard Ashley
Ling Sung doesn’t like school. The other children can do things that he can’t; Terry can tie up his shoes, Manjit can write her name and Sharon can button up her coat perfectly. But Ling Sung soon finds out that there is something very special that only he can do when at snack time he uses two paintbrushes as chopsticks to pick up biscuits. Not even the teachers can do this, and Ling Sung feels very special indeed!
Elephant Dance
A journey to India
‘Ravi and Anjali are fascinated by their grandfather's stories of India, where the sun is like a ferocious tiger, the wind is like a wild horse, and monsoon rains cascade from the sky like waterfalls. Ravi particularly loves to hear about the festival of Divaali, where parading elephants take pride of place in their grandfather's memories, and he dreams of having an elephant dance to the tune he composes on his flute. In addition to an evocative, beautifully written story, Elephant Dance also contains endnotes on the cultural heritage of India, making it a perfect introduction to Indian life and traditions.’
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
Verna Aardema
Set in Africa, this book can encourage children to think about other cultures and ways of life. Young readers will find out how Ki-pat the herd boy ended a dreadful drought in an enjoyable and vividly illustrated rhyming story.
Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals this work of fantasy from the author of Midnight’s Children is an exciting and imaginative world-related story. Haroun sets out on an adventure to restore the poisoned source of the sea of stories. On the way, he encounters many foes, all intent on draining the sea of all its storytelling powers. A great introduction for children to Rushdie's other works.
The silly chicken
This quirky story is set in rural Pakistan and should help children think about life in other parts of the world! It features a young girl whose mother’s pet chicken develops the ability to talk, and soon has the whole town following it. The chicken spreads an alarming warning, which causes the townspeople to panic without first considering the messenger, leaving the young girl in a position where she must restore sense to the town.
Kensuke’s Kingdom
This exciting book was written by the author of ‘War Horse’. It tells a tale of a young boy who is shipwrecked on an island in the Pacific Ocean… ‘Washed up on an island in the Pacific after falling from his parents’ yacht, Michael struggles to survive on his own. With no food, and no water, he curls up to die. When he wakes, there is a plate beside him of fish and fruit, and a bowl of fresh water. He is not alone'. There is another inhabitant of the island, and Michael must come to terms with his new neighbour despite a language barrier and cultural differences between the pair.
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Harar; An Ethiopian ancient city like no other
Lower Valley of the Omo, Ethiopia’s UNESCO World heritage site
Ethiopia’s UNESCO Wolrd Heritage site, Aksum ‘Keepers of the Lost Arc’
Ethiopia UNESCO Wolrd Heritage site, Fasil Ghebbi ‘The City of Castles’
Ethiopia’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Harar “The City of Saints”
Ethiopia’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Lalibela,’The Rock-Hewn Church’
Ethiopia’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Tiya ‘Ethiopia’s Enigmatic Stelae’
GreenPath taps into Ethiopia’s burgeoning organic popfarming market
Ethiopian is in talk with government and private sectors Plans to Establish Domestic Carrier in Nigeria
AWASH – WELDIA RAILWAY DREAM PROJECT
Ethiopia to issue two telecom licenses and minority stake of Ethio Telcom
Ethiopian PM Says Reforms Will Deliver 3 Million Jobs in 2019-20
Africa Isn’t Being Re-Colonized
What’s driving Russia’s interest in Africa?
‘Africa has been struggling to follow the West, and now that system is crumbling’, President Paul Kagame
Uganda is set to ratify the Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA)
Ethiopian Prime minister has scheduled a meeting between President Kenyatta and President Farmajo.
Alatish National Park was established in 2006. The general topography of the park is flat to undulating plains, with a general slope or inclination from the south to the north, interrupted by valleys, streams, scattered hills, and seasonal wetlands. Elevation ranges from 520m to 920m above sea level. It is located 970 km north of Addis Abeba, in QuaraWereda, North Gondar Zone, Amhara Regional State.
The park shares its boundaries in the south with Benishangul – Gumuz Regional State, in the west with the Sudan’s Dinder National park, in the east with Bembaho, Gelego, and Mahdid. It covers an area of 266,5 Square Kilometers composed of lowland woodlands. There are a few hills in the eastern and north-eastern parts of the area. The Twin Mountains of Amdog are a special feature in the southwestern corner of the park.
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Based on the characteristics of Ethiopian vegetation classification, vegetation in Alatish National Park is categorized largely under woodland vegetation ecosystem. The overall park area is dominated by Combretum spp., Terminalia spp., Oxythenantera abyssinica, Anogeissus leocarpa, Pterocarpus lucens, Dalbergia melanoxylon, Balanites aegyptica, Acacia seyal, Dacrostachys cinera, Ficus spp, Entada Africana and other woody species. In general the vegetation of the park can be classified Mixed woodland vegetation such as Combretum and Terminalia, Riverine vegetation such as Acacia and Ficus, Seasonal wetland vegetation such as Hygrophila auriculata and Balalnite aegyptica trees Open wooded grassland vegetation such as Annogiossus leocarpa and Combretum, last but not least is Hilly area woodland vegetation which is rich with diverse woody species types such as Ficus trees and lower canopy species like Oxythenanthera abyssinica
There are 26 larger mammals (excluding rodents) and 143 recorded bird species. The ornithology of the area requires more investigation but estimates based on habitat diversity show that there could be anything between 250-400 species of birds representing various status. Alatish is found in an arid and semi-arid ecological zone. It forms an ecotone between the high mountains of the Simen and the Sahel zone in the Sudan. As a result, the biological attributes of the park are believed to be diverse and rich. Alatish also has a number of historical and cultural assets. Of these, a large Baobab tree at Omedla and the ethnic composition of the area made up of Felata and Gumuz communities are important tourist attractions.
Alatish National Park is rich in zoological resources and it is home to various types of wild animals. 37 mammalian species of which 8 are not recently (last 15 years) seen, 204 birds species, 23 rodent species, 6 species of insectivores and 7 types of reptiles and amphibians are found in the park. Alatish National Park has a variety of fauna which requires conservation. It is especially rich in reptile diversity such as African rock python, monitor lizard, Egyptian cobra, black mamba and Blanding’s tree snake. It also harbors endangered and rare species of Elephant, Leopard, Lion and also the low risk but conservation dependent Lesser kudu and Greater kudu. Permanent but intermittent rivers bordering the park like Aayima and Gelegu provide a huge amount of fish resources to the local communities besides being the main water sources of people and animals.
The Lesser Kudu is a forest antelope found in East Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula. The Southern Lesser Kudu is a subspecies found in Kenya and Tanzania. Lesser Kudu stands about a meter at the shoulder and weighs 155 to 205 kilograms, males are larger than females. Lesser Kudu males are grey-brown while females are chestnut the coat is lighter on their underside. Both have about ten white stripes on their backs and two white tufts on the underside of their necks. Males have a small mane and horns of about 70 centimeters with one twist.
Lesser Kudu lives in dry thorn bush and forest and eats mainly leaves. They live in groups of two to five ranging up to twenty-four on rare occasions these have about equal numbers of males and females.
Aletash forest
Though lions are thought to have been present there for centuries, and locals knew of their existence in the area, the international community was unaware. But in a ground-breaking discovery, Dr. Bauer and his team found original and undisputable evidence of lions in the region – successfully obtaining camera trap images of lions and identifying lion tracks. The team also concluded lions were likely to exist in the larger, adjacent Dinder National Park across the border in Sudan.
Dr Hans Bauer said: “Lions are definitely present in Alatish National Park and in Dinder National Park. Lion presence in Alatish National Park has not previously been confirmed in meetings at national or international level. “Considering the relative ease with which lion signs were observed, it is likely that they are resident throughout Alatish National Park and Dinder. Due to limited surface water, prey densities are low, and lion densities are likely to be low, we may conservatively assume a density in the range of one to two lions per 100 km2. On a total surface area of about 10,000 km2, this would mean a population of 100-200 lions for the entire ecosystem, of which 27–54 would be in Alatish” he added.
The African lion is listed as ‘Vulnerable’ on the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species, with a declining trend throughout most of its range. Lion numbers are estimated to have declined 50% to 75% since 1980 and the species only occupies 8% of its historic range across the continent. Lions were thought to be locally extinct in Sudan, so the new findings are encouraging. Now the expedition is complete, the next step is to communicate with the governments of Ethiopia and Sudan and look at the needs for conservation in the area so this previously undiscovered lion stronghold can be protected. With lion numbers in steep decline across most of the African continent, the discovery of previously unconfirmed populations is hugely important – especially in Ethiopia, whose government is a significant conservation ally. We need to do all we can to protect these animals and the ecosystem on which they depend, along with all the other remaining lions across Africa, so we can reverse the declines and secure their future.
The diversity and relative abundance of birds were investigated in Alatish during the wet and dry seasons. Based on the topographic map, satellite image and preliminary survey, four habitat types were identified comprising 37 blocks in 100 km. Eleven blocks were randomly selected based on the type of vegetation. Transects of 10 km length and 2 widths of 0.2 km or less were randomly selected to cover 20% of the area. One hundred forty-three species of birds including endangered, rare and vulnerable species were recorded. Sixty-five species of birds were residents during both seasons. A total of 122 species of birds was recorded during the wet season and 86 during the dry season. The relative abundance of birds was determined using encounter rates that give ordinal scale. This resulted in 97 species of birds as rare, 20 uncommon, 19 frequent, four common and three abundant. The wet season survey showed highest species diversity in the wooded grassland habitat owing to the presence of resources. The dry season survey showed the highest avian species diversity, evenness, and richness in the riverine woodland habitat due to the availability of water. Most species of birds in Alatish were locally rare as a result of habitat degradation. This hindered the establishment of species distribution pattern, especially during the dry season. Availability of food, water, and cover were the major factors determining the diversity and abundance of birds. Habitat destruction by the nomadic Falata community with their livestock, poaching, and forest fire contributed to the deterioration in the diversity and number of birds. Urgent conservation measures are needed to conserve the biological diversity of Alatish.
In terms of tourism potential, the park has a capacity to tourism development with the numerous tourist attractions. As a natural attraction, Alatish National Park has various plants, and animals such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. In its spectacular landscape, the park is more or less flat train with very few scattered beautiful conical peaks. The landscape is dominated by dry woodland savanna and the riverine forest can also be potential tourist attractions.
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As a historical attraction, one big Baobab tree (Adansonia digitata) housed the former Emperor Haileselassie for seven days inside its stem on his return to Ethiopia after victory over the colonialist Fascist Italia in 1941. Moreover, Emperor Tewodros, which was one of the most magnificent Ethiopian leaders, was born in Quara about 25 km from Gelegu, headquarters of Alatish National Park in 1818. Alatish National Park has also cultural attractions which can be expressed in music, dance and drams performing groups, cultural festivals, a sale of visual arts and crafts (basketry & pottery) and life styles practiced by many diverse ethnic groups (Gumuz, Agew, Amhara) living around the par
Have you ever found yourself standing in a foreign land complaining about the excessive number of tourists?
Ten SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT ETHIOPIA
Let’s journeys through a land truly like no other — the place where man first walked on the earth
If you want to know what life might look like on the Red Planet, Don’t look further than Ethiopia’s Dallol geothermal area
Ethiopia National Parks
Abijitta-Shalla National Park
Alatish Ethiopian National Park
Babille Elephant Sanctuary
Bahir Dar Blue Nile Millennium Park
Borena-Sayint National Park
Chebera Churchura National Park
Dati Wolel National park
Gambella National Park
Gambella National Park 2
Kafta-Sheraro National Park
Maze National Park
Nechisar National Park, Ethiopia
Omo National Park
The Semien Mountains
Yabello National Park
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Kenny Cox in concert! Paul Elliott opens
Kenny Cox was born in Tampa & his family moved to Texas when he was a young child. They lived right next to the church where his father was preacher and Kenny had access to a full drum set and other musical instruments when he was only six years old. As was the family tradition he learned to sing and play music right there in that church. Years later he became an in demand “singing drummer” in Nashville. It was there Kenny caught the eye of the legendary singer/songwriter Verlon Thompson who helped pave his way into the singer/songwriter genre. So he added guitar to his list of instruments and became a triple threat in the studio and on stage. He also toured playing drums for the legendary Steve Forbert a major recording artist in the 80s. In Ft. Myers Kenny played drums & toured with Dan Morgan for several years before forming the long running popular band “Both Hands”. Recently he fronts the trio “The Kapo Kings” where Kenny exhibits his formidable skills as a frontman. In 2012 after a chance meeting with Rick Russell while both playing sidemen roles at a local show, a close friendship began and Kenny joined Stringtown in November 2012. Since his time in the Stringtown family he has evolved into the role of co-arranger and is responsible for all the harmony arrangements that have become a trademark of the band’s sound. Kenny was co-producer/engineer/mixer on the last two live CDs. A crowd favorite, he is a powerful musical and spiritual influence in the Stringtown family, in summer 2015 Kenny & Rick formed a duo called Big Sky (named after Kenny’s ranch).
In addition to playing locally in Stringtown, Big Sky and the Kapo Kings Kenny regularly tours the festival circuit in the summer appearing on the stage at the hHickory Fest.
Ahoy All
My name is Paul Elliott aka Chantey
Chantey being the name of many a boat I have owned.
I got a late start, bought my first guitar when I was 30 something.
Grew up listening to Artists like Tom Rush, Bob Dylan Ian and Silvia, Tim Harden and Gordan Lightfoot folk music was my preference.
Being a Sailor I took an interest in Sea Chantey’s . I started singing and playing with Cliff Haslam in the late 80 at the Famous Griswold Inn in Essex, Conn. We sang Sea Chantey’s every Monday night.
I started writing songs in the 90’s, mostly kept them to myself. I changed my guitar style to finger picking.
I moved to Florida about 2004 got involved with the Punta Gorda Guitar Army. With encouragement I wrote more songs and played out at pubs and festivals.
I have written songs about places, people, nautical and slightly spiritual (not to be confused with religious).
I look forward to sharing some songs with you.
Date: June 15
Cost: $10 - $15.00
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Super 4 by Luc Boltanski
The Salt of the Earth A. History of Fission I Her lips moved and she said: “The Magic Mountain”, remembers Françoise, the wife of Stan Ulam, at a bend in the path. On seeing the Hill for the first time. A large sanatorium set in snow. Immaculate desert of salt vitrified by ice. The blessed […]
The Salt of the Earth
A. History of Fission
Her lips moved and she said: “The Magic Mountain”, remembers Françoise, the wife of Stan
Ulam, at a bend in the path. On seeing the Hill for the first time.
A large sanatorium set in snow. Immaculate desert of salt vitrified by ice. The blessed arriving one by one. Plucked by an invisible hand.
They stripped bare in the peace of dormitories. United by flesh to the flesh of the labs. And their deported bodies, inhabited by numbers, yielded to the night, pacified.
And so a world would be reborn in pain from its ashes to create other ashes. They gazed at the sky and blessed it.
They still have a Velocar, a pedal-powered automobile.
But this thing is also forbidden to them.
Behind them, nations were collapsing. Carnage, cattle cars, conflagration by night, burning ash, flesh. And, far from the fallen towns, revoked childhood had fled their bodies.
Now landless, they were taking over the world. POB one thousand six hundred and sixty-three in Santa Fe. Despite clouds and censors, the rustle of missives occasionally arrived.
Out-of-date, incoherent, mentioning names on the brink of oblivion: Albert, the communist; Auntie Suzanne; André, a survivor; Michel, parachuted to safety. And their mother, deported.
Hidden, enlisted, kept in the cellar, handed over. And we the survivors fulfilled by life. Incredibly young in Los Alamos, where the fashion for Levi jeans began.
In the courtyard, an abandoned car.
Inside, toys, treasures, photos
Cliffs, canyons. We crossed rivers and mesas; Indian villages. The ochre of walls, alabaster, blue of the sky. Pines, junipers, ducks returned to the wild.
And the light captured by the Pond. The air feels like champagne, said Stan, drunk on mysteries. Such were the limits, far from human lands, of human knowledge.
Five thousand of the chosen in the hands of secrecy. Mess, cafeteria, dormitory, refectory, laundromat, canteen, army stores. All of them equal by the grace of Groves.
They had children, whose address was given on their birth certificates as POB one thousand six hundred and sixty-three. They came to life and that was all.
Father hidden, at home, under a floor.
Discovered one night. Feet under the curtain. Fear. The scream.
Robert Oppenheimer, alias Oppie, a thin, arrogant, energetic man beneath his fedora.
John von Neumann, alias Johnny the letch. And honourable George Gamow, alias Geo.
Fermi, Stan Ulam, Feynman, Klaus Fuchs, who avoided the death penalty, Leo Szilard, standing stock still in Bloomsbury gazing at the red light, head filled with strange thoughts.
Rabi, Otto Frisch and fiery Teller, already mesmerised by the vast energy of a fireball that would bear his name, depict his face.
Each of them came, like kings, like wise men, bringing their gifts, lemmas or real numbers – everything pooled providentially, the divine blind cost-benefit law.
A large living room with boarded windows.
Plank nailed across the door.
Amado mio/ Love me forever
And let forever begin tonight
Amado mio/ When we are together
I’m in a dream world/ And sweet delight
The youth of men and the beauty of women (Françoise again, lost in wonder). Feeling detached from the war, we sampled our first enchilada at the La Fonda bar.
Weighed down by fear and full of grace, they worked hard by day and let their hair down at night at Kitty’s parties. Oppenheimer’s famous martinis.
They played music and put on shows or read poems or watched the Pueblo Indians dancing, swapping masks.
Bella, from the village of San Ildefonso, taught the women the art of making pottery. On horseback, at sunset, end-of-world light. For the world, according to the Mishna, ends each day.
Should we love caretakers or fear them?
The chip pan. The blue water of the laundry tub.
Siempre que te pregunto
Qué, cuándo, cómo y dónde
Tú siempre me respondes
Quizás, quizás, quizás
On the morning of 13th July 1945, the Gadget was assembled for the crucial test in the New Mexico desert, at Trinity, named after John Donne.
And, in the afternoon of that day, they inserted the plutonium core – that fickle-hearted loner straying through love and terror – into the metal body of Little Boy
So that it became the obedient Fat Man which would fill the President’s heart with delight. They had to act fast despite their fear and the brewing storm, because on the 16th Truman was to meet
Stalin and Churchill, waiting dumbfounded in Potsdam, in order to become, then and there, the strongest, most powerful of all the Powers that be.
The cellar at night. Potatoes sprouting.
Pluck out the sprouts. Listen to the prayers.
At five-thirty in the morning, the sky caught fire. Flash of white light devouring the ether. The terrific thunder of the shock wave and the stifling heat in the early hours
Terrorised the men buried underground at base camp. Ten million degrees Celsius. The ground a stained glass window covered in gold, a rock of salt raised from the earth. Thirty-two milliseconds later,
A crimson fireball haloed with blue light. Incandescent glow claiming the clouds as far as the pink-tinged stratocumulus. At first like a raspberry, then a goblet,
Then a mushroom in the orange sky, said the spectators of the nuclear dawn, outlandish in their plumbers’ masks. Shielded in their exultation by metaphors and concrete.
Rations of sugar and flour.
A sugar cream pie; the taste of sugar.
Oppie, who claimed he learnt Sanskrit as he watched the melancholy waters of the Hudson flow by to escape quantum theory and keep his tormented flesh out of harm’s way,
Announced later, displaying the sting of his humble arrogance to the world, that he’d recited to himself, at Trinity, on seeing the flash,
The line from the Bhagavad Gita in which the many-armed god tells Prince Arjuna: “I am become Death, Destroyer of Worlds.”
But no one will ever know what they really felt at the Alamogordo Test Range during the Trinity madness.
Dad, again, but wrong, disguised as a woman.
Wig and necklace, in the strange photo.
L is for the way you look at me
O is for the only one I see
V is very very extraordinary
E is even more than anyone that you adore
(Françoise Ulam remembers) The morning of the day when the bomb exploded (we used to call it the gadget), we were at home, still in bed.
Not invited to the party, but on the alert, watching through the window for a glow, a sound, something coming from the thing, so that something might also come upon us. But there was nothing.
Then, in the evening, Johnny turned up. Von Neumann tired, pale and very shaken. He’d been there and had seen something like the knucklebones of destiny. This incomparable man
Who, as a child, had learnt The Universal History by heart (forty volumes bought at auction), remained among us, like an ordinary man after work. Stunned by his toil.
Reappearance of the stranger among his kin.
Face concealed beneath a veil of tulle.
Don’t be afraid, it’s dad, he’s back again.
Your father, it’s just your father.
Later they gathered the surviving sensors. Twenty thousand tons of TNT; one thousand metres levelled. And the calculation of operational parameters to ensure the safety of dropping the bomb
Somewhere, elsewhere, on human cities – Kyoto, Hiroshima, Yokohama, Kokura? – picked by the Target Selection Committee on Von Neumann’s advice.
He was keen to show the authorities that game theory was not just a game and how it could be used to make the world richer. With Flood (the famous Prisoner’s Dilemma),
They discovered that the best way to confuse the enemy’s defence and win the next nuclear war – because this war was now over – was to alternate valuable targets with worthless targets.
A baby arrives unexpectedly, along with unexpected news of death.
They cry, they rush about, everything is in disarray.
Enola Gay, piloted by Paul Tibbetts, took off at dawn on 6th August 1945 from the Tinian base. At a quarter past eight, it dropped its bomb directly over the Shima hospital.
When he got back, Tibbetts received the Cross (and later, they say, went insane). Science, industry and the army working together to achieve the biggest success in history, declared Stimson, Secretary of War.
Three days later, Bock’s Car, flown by Major Charles Sweeney, also took off from Tinian but, because Kokura was shrouded in fog, had to make do with Nagasaki,
Which had momentarily emerged from the mist so that it could drop its bomb on the stadium. The war ended in grand style, justifying the expense committed by Groves before Congress and the Nation.
Niania has returned to the room with the silent piano.
Her black hat, her cloak. She listens to the radio.
In Los Alamos too, it was the end of work, friendship and peace. Despite the whirl of parties and social events, everyone knew they’d have to get on with real life now.
Campus routines and duties in the ugliness of soulless America. And joy was tinged with bitterness. But life had given them everything they’d wished for. By the grace of mathematics and humble technique,
they’d changed art, although they weren’t artists. Lacking religious faith, they’d changed religion. Although not philosophers, they’d changed philosophy. Exiled, stateless,
Lacking territory, roots, land, they’d changed politics. Miraculous survivors far from their slain people, they’d changed death. They were justifiably proud.
Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though it’s breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you’ll get by
If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You’ll see the sun come shining through for you
The camp survivor put up in the shared room.
She speaks at night. The child sleeps.
Pretends to sleep.
So hard! So hard to do! And yet they took only two years to give mankind the power to destroy this earth which had only taken a so-called omnipotent Creator seven days
To build, rescuing it from chaos. And now chaos rested in their palms ready to escape, like a ladybird cupped in the closed hands of a child one spring morning.
At Oak Ridge, with Tennessee’s pure silver and clear water, the huge Calutron separated uranium isotopes. Unstable U-235 broke free, abandoning its inert brothers.
It was served by twenty-two thousand operatives who, like each of us, acted without knowing the purpose others had attached to their lives.
Sunshine. Open window.
They sing along to the bells.
In November nineteen hundred and forty-three, the Pile entered a critical state. And, when spring came, rich uranium and, crucially, precious plutonium
Which, kept safe from desire, is not found in nature, were brought to light, leaving their enchanting traces in the sensors’ delicate rapture.
And likewise at Hanford, along the Columbia river, the army and chemical engineers at the Dupont de Nemours factory, which had been in Delaware since eighteen hundred and two,
(and which also manufactured nylon stockings), were thrilled to see the Pile diverge and could, three months later, dispatch a kilo of pure desire sheathed in lead to the Hill.
On the completely deserted boulevard, in summer,
Men run, no one knows where they’re going, or whether they’re in pain.
Then anguish fills the head with heat to the point of collapse.
So everywhere there were men at work. Cities were being built in turmoil. With each new day, the sun rose over the night’s new-born sheds
From which trundled the glorious tanks of the just war, dispersing the black mist of the Great Depression. The uprooted, hobos travelling from station to station on the roofs of carriages,
Saw the light flare with hope. And even black children came back to life in battle or in the shacks of the scattered camps around the factories.
Masses stood straight, like a single man. Millions awoke in the grey dawn of sirens, stretched out on bunks, at the mercy of History’s unknown purposes.
New words, coined from sex and terror. And
The surrendered spirit torn apart.
In this way, the solitary dreams of dead masters and ancient empires came true. That Power,
Creator and State should merge in a single body governed by Science.
The bodies of Jerusalem, Athens and Rome were mystically united, blurring boundaries between freedom and slavery and, consequently, between love and murder, which eventually became indistinguishable. Inevitably, a god was born to them.
Just as henceforth the fates of Groves and Oppenheimer were merged, one fat, the other thin, bent over a map, deciding where to embody a code, a desire. The central laboratory known as Y.
Then Oppenheimer, determined to disappear, remembered the teenager in the grip of love, running away from the hacienda where a girl… Riding at random across the mesas in a place known as Los Alamos, the bomb factory.
Panic, in the attic, at not seeing her flesh
That had come back to life.
Bésame, bésame mucho
Como sifuera esta noche the ultima vez
Que tengo miedo perderte
Perderte después
Interlude 1: Victory, Joy and the Game of War
It was Admiral Lewis Strauss, a partner at the Kuhn, Loeb & Co. investment bank (described by Green as a very humane man, even though the remark may have been ironic), who had the bright idea of dropping the bomb on old ships allowed to drift at the mercy of the wind, just to see what happened when playing real life Battleships in the middle of the sea. And it was the greatest scientific experiment of all time. Not the end of the world, as predicted by the naysayers. The land consented to suffer. Riddled with pride, catapulted unwillingly into the new era.
Forty thousand people saw the furnace open with their own eyes, committing ships and passengers, rats, pigs and goats to the flames. Millions listened on the radio, deafened by the roar broadcast live. Terrified with happiness, burying the future. And Bikini exultantly entered their peaceful homes, naked and bearing arms from the waters of the Pacific, before lending its name to the arousing bodies of girls striking poses by the sea for the camera lens. First the isolated island, basking in the light of a thousand suns; then the water-loving girls, swimming with the daring of a body stripped bare by a bomb.
A bomb as big as a foot-high picture of Rita Hayworth, said Time Magazine to convey the incredible thing that drew the gaze of millions of human beings, animals and things, and non-existent entities even more powerful than princes, and gods depicted in stone. Entities situated within the structures of power taken from texts exchanged by states, letters of accreditation, numerical codes, and forms used in constitutional law. All of them, whether human or not, separate before and now united in a single living body celebrating victory.
B. A History of Fusion
You came to me
As poetry comes in song
And you showed me
A new world of passion
Come back, implored Bradbury. Come back to us here, on the Hill. A single bomb and, all at once, a thousand planes will be sent back to limbo, like the war chariots
On which the glory of Rome once depended. When the technology has been mastered, manufacturing will take the place of miracles. Thousands of warheads will emerge from our mechanical fingers.
And the power to stop the course of time, to make time exist, to abolish all life and, consequently, make life exist, will henceforth belong to the fallen on earth, meaning us,
Meaning all men. For who else could have snatched the waste of the mineral ages from the land for their own glory? At last mankind can consent to be. In other words to be, or not to be.
My brother, Jean-Elie, on his way back from school,
free to move, to buy a croissant,
to sit on a bench, in a park.
So they went back to Los Alamos. Each of them, in the loneliness of campuses, had invented justifications to restore the force of attraction that would subtract them from the insignificance of works and days.
Some trusted their instincts, forever ruled by science. Others wanted to save the laboratory whose funding was dwindling daily. Or to protect Europe from the Soviets.
Or to return to that state of purity which had joyfully swept over them in the desert. Or to be once again the leaders, the best. Or to show their loyalty to Teller, whose heart was already consumed with love for the Super.
But we have to survive, said Neumann. Because he knew there would be men who have done and will do whatever mankind was capable of doing. And that they were those men.
The yellow star pinned to the top of the Christmas tree.
So, on the 18th November, nineteen hundred and forty-six, John von Neumann wrote to Teller: I hope the worst is behind you and in front of you, nothing, honestly nothing,
But a happy carefree life on the Hill in Los Alamos. We’re all mad and you’re the worst. Understand the arrogance of my humility. It was an elegant way of voicing
His intense desire to be involved in the H bomb, that crazy, impossible dream of fusion simulating the stars, i.e. the energy setting the universe aflame, whose existence Edward had inferred.
It was a thrilling problem. But no one knew how to calculate the geometric factors, the volumes, the intersections of solids. And sometimes Edward wept with frustration and shame.
First school. There are nuns, frightened all the time.
Kneeling in vain when the scream of a plane
passes overhead in the sky.
The logical way to achieve fusion and make an H bomb is to use a fission bomb as a trigger, i.e. a normal-sized A bomb weighing twenty kilotons (as at Hiroshima).
A billion degrees for little more than a microsecond. And then unprecedented power will surge from the lithium core where tritons and deuterons have fused in the confined space
Of a fairly light casing to be dumped by a B52, or travel the world in a missile, flying over oceans, continents and poles quick as a flash and therefore unpredictable, unavoidable.
But no one really knew how to initiate fusion. Gamow had his theory (known as the Cat’s Tail), and so did Teller. They all applied themselves to the problem, Fermi and Rabi; Ulam and Johnny.
Everything is black and white, newspapers, images,
the Japanese wandering about on the screens.
Agreement over fission, sealed by the great peace of the real war, was followed, for all their trouble, by disagreement over fusion, nurtured by pride in an unbelievable all-out war.
Edward and Robert filled with hatred, denounced each other like two mimetic brothers. Teller plotted with Strauss to accuse Oppie of plotting to abort
The child of desire, the super Super. And Stan was pursued by Nemesis when, caught up in his dreams, he realised Teller would never succeed in capturing the beautiful monster of the future unaided.
“I found a way to make it work”, said Stan one day to his wife, as he stared into space like a blind man by the window. And, the next day, he went to see Teller.
Waiting in the car in front of the hospital. And at night, when he’s
with the sick. Because my mother will never leave his side again
and because we’ll never leave her side again. As if, yes, as if.
Because Stan and Johnny had discovered it was possible to apply probability theory to the mechanics of continuous fluids (known as the Monte Carlo method), and thereby manage
To press chance into the service of hydrodynamics. Consider therefore that particles are merely fictions; so sets of integral equations with multiple variables will represent infinite series.
During those blistering days, they happened to subvert the signs, placing the word nebech anywhere in their sentences. One saying cogito nebech ergo sum, and the other cogito ergo nebech sum, to make sure they’d remember they were nothing but dust.
Then Ulam wrote a secret report describing the idea, which Teller commandeered. And they never spoke to each other again, hurt by the idea that truth could be exclusive and so similar to the love that bound them.
But always the same dream in which the sky was filled with strange spaceships,
silently moving towards something unavoidable.
On the 31st October, nineteen hundred and fifty-two, for the first time, in Eniwetok on the Marshall Islands, a thermonuclear bomb exploded, proving Teller the optimist, right versus
Oppenheimer the pessimist, who hadn’t wanted to forge ahead. Then, two years later, again on Bikini, a single explosion whose yield was ten times that of the total bombs dropped on Germany previously.
The coral atoll became a cloud of radioactive dust, dispersed by the wind. And the Lucky Dragon disappeared, exposed to radiation whilst sailing familiar seas without ever knowing why a hundred kilotons had ripped through the air,
Setting two hundred kilometres of sky alight, to sacrifice a handful of Japanese fishermen to the world. After that, the strategists explored the ontology of threat, which dissipates as a result of inaction and is neutralised if carried out.
But always the same dream in a vast dwelling, both familiar
and unexplored. Too vast, bare of those who lived there.
Acaricia mi ensueño
El suave murmullo
De tu suspirar.
Cómo ríe the vida
Si tus ojos negros
Me quieren mirar.
Interlude 2: Economic and Technical Fallout
Energy: It was from black Pechblende mined in Joachimsthal, the Silver Mountain, that they extracted an unknown material named Uranium in honour of Uranus, which had just risen in the sky. It was full of polonium and radium, spontaneously radioactive components within which nuclear fission occurred when bombarded with neutrons by Fermi. On the 2nd December, nineteen hundred and forty-two, the reactor diverged for the first time. A heavy nucleus split to trigger a fission chain reaction. This was in Chicago. So, at that precise moment, matter lost continuity, as predicted by Dirac’s equation in nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, for our sins.
After that, it was still a matter of particles and antiparticles: a core, positive protons, negative electrons, neutrons, positrons, and unstable uranium on the verge of splitting, unsure whether to stay as it was or diverge beyond the point of no return. If a proton is brought nearer to a nucleus, their repulsion will increase. But forced to stay in close proximity with each other (if the critical mass reaches one kilo), the forces are reversed and the protons will penetrate the nucleus. As a result, once the potential barrier is crossed, repulsion becomes attraction, which holds true for all bodies.
Because mass is only one of the avatars of energy – as are heat, movement and work. Energy can change without fearing for its life and be reborn in a different form. Consequently, every kilo of precious stone, torn from the earth and carefully transported to power stations for containment, will be transformed into a billion kilowatt hours. Consider the lights of the city, the flash of a train through the January night along the wide river. Consider, you who sleep in peace, the billions of nuclei, protons and neutrons flowing past, like your bodies, still alive yesterday, in harmony with everything, then transmuted by a burst of radiance into heat and light.
Calculation: It was to handle the interminable calculations which were required by the Super to destroy the world that Johnny, with money from Lewis Strauss (who thought the machine could predict fine weather), built the first programmable binary computer at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study (whose director Oppenheimer was to become). This was MANIAC, a digital machine which broke with analogue dreams. It was conceived like the brain within the crucible of the Macy Conferences in the hope of controlling the flow of information the way William Harvey had subjugated blood, and of winning the cold war against the human race.
They’d already come a long way from the ineffable ENIAC, that obese electronic colossus gorged with tubes designed to calculate ballistic firing tables, reliable whatever the wind speed, in order to guide artillery and shoot down planes in any season, although it could be disrupted by a tiny insect. But they’d also come further than TRANSAC, the first transistor computer designed by Philco for the army in nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and the platform for the IBM 7090, which became the largest standard scientific computer in the world, equipped with a FORTRAN compiler, but already obsolete by the time Wilkes invented microprogramming.
Klara, Johnny’s wife and Françoise, Ulam’s wife, spent whole nights programming MANIAC’s double in Los Alamos. With uninformed hands, but with love (for this has always been the popular notion of women’s love), they fed their husbands’ thingamajig, without knowing the whys or wherefores of this endless embroidery of calculations (in the same way as I have no idea, sixty years on, how this MacBook Pro, on whose screen I’m typing these lines in memory of their faith, works or why). Because, as Fermi said, even the tallest tree on earth cannot touch the sky.
C. A History of Life
Niels Bohr, 1885–1962 (Copenhagen–Copenhagen). Leo Szilard, 1898–1964 (Budapest– La Jolla). Enrico Fermi, 1901–1954 (Rome–Chicago). John von Neumann, 1903–1957 (Budapest–Washington DC). Robert Oppenheimer, 1904–1967 (New York–New York). Edward Teller, 1908–2003 (Budapest–Stanford). Stan Ulam, 1909–1984 (Lwow–Santa Fe).
And you too, the youngest, Klaus Fuchs, who died with your kin in East Berlin in 1988, at the age of seventy, a year before the wall came down, and with it what had become the reason for your lives, your causes, your walls, you survivors of other causes, other walls. None of you will know the walls of our time, built after you, or our causes, or our wars, we who were the children of your causes, your wars, and the destiny of your life’s work.
At the Cinéac des Ternes, the earth grinds to a halt. Bombs
and giant octopuses. Clusters of people in flight.
Dead among other dead, all that remains of you is your eternal work stationed in the silos, with the indifference of the ancient gods, ready to appear suddenly in the din of turbines.
But you are there, among us, mortals enslaved by the blind power whose ring you one day closed. Geniuses, who’d read everything, who spoke every language. True geniuses.
Evil spirits and blessed spirits, inlaid within the applied sciences, which count for nothing much, i.e. the fate of the world. Escapees from the ghettos of Lwow, Budapest, Warsaw, Wroclaw,
Destined for wisdom, study, beauty; for the Law sought outside the Yeshiva, in order to reveal it in dark matter and poetry which (according to Vico) contains our spiritual origins.
A tower of which nothing remains but the iron frame
on the razed ground of the punished town.
John von Neumann in a wheelchair, receiving the Medal of Freedom from President Eisenhower. Ike face on and Johnny in profile,
His jaunty expression for the photo the same as when he used to ogle girls. His last public appearance, says the caption. Then, nothing, when back among us, mere mortals.
No public image of your decline, of your pallid face haggard with cancer on the tepid white hospital sheet; Of your fear, your wandering eye, your bloated stomach. Your ossified hands perhaps still gripping something. No matter. You, the salt of the earth.
Immense herd of oxen, driven towards the slaughter house.
The cries of the cattle traders.
And even you Edward, man and daimon, what were you gripping? What was that thing cupped in your palm when your hands let go of everything, even the power to embody power.
The power to bring death, to let live and bring to life. Or nothing but the power to live, just a little longer, among the survivors shielded from disaster.
No matter. It doesn’t matter what it was, it doesn’t matter what the thing was, so long as it was peaceful, and it remembered the inhabited, burnt-out radiant towns. You, the archetypal survivors.
How peaceful your terrified heart is now, restored by death to the infernal glory of childhood. Unconscious, eyes closed in innocence.
Mum in tears, in the car, newspaper open.
The war, more widespread than ever, say the black letters.
The bombs more powerful, more fiendish than ever.
When I was just a child in school
I asked my teacher what should I try
Should I paint pictures ? / Should I sing songs ?
This was her wise reply / Que sera sera /
Whatever will be will be
The future’s not ours to see / Que sera sera.
Oppenheimer: Julius Oppenheimer, from Hanau to New York, sold German textiles for the ready-to-wear industry. Seven hundred thousand sewing machines delivered every year, and a seventy-million-dollar contract. So Robert was born to wealth in Riverside Drive, a long way from the synagogues and market stalls. Why poetry, why not physics? Goethe loved chemistry and Robert, wooden-handed Ella’s Wonder Kid, shone, frail and bullied, naked in the icehouse, or watched the oceanic river flow past, alternating between poetry and differential calculus. Disgust of origins and the flesh laid bare on horseback in New Mexico on the mesa of Pajarito Mountain. Then the wanderings of the precocious lunatic. Hiding out in the Widener like – he said – a Goth pillaging Rome, where he devoured Poincaré and Bridgman, before fleeing to the Cavendish in Göttingen, where he lay in wait for a hydrogen atom which seemingly disobeyed classical mechanics beyond the potential barrier. Despite the devastation caused by quantum theory, he remained an underachiever, notwithstanding his promise, his wealth, the hype.
Szilard: the Szilard family weren’t always called Szilard, because they came from Galicia where the Jews were deprived of last names until Emperor Joseph II let them have German surnames. These they took to America, where they were arbitrarily changed by customs officers on Ellis Island into proper English like Silver, Gold or Black. However, it remains a mystery why Szilard stayed Szilard. Spitz, the surname, meaning summit, inherited by Leo’s grandfather, was lost in the mountains of Slovakia, and his widow, when she came to Budapest, changed Spitz to Szilard, meaning robust in Hungarian. There’s no rhyme or reason why surnames follow people then take flight, are given and taken back. But the new name took possession of the sons, turning them into engineers, and Leo’s father worked on the tramway. He, in his turn, fathered engineers, i.e. determined children who stayed curled up within the stories told by Tekla to teach them what truth was. Like the one about their grandfather who, when at school, acting out of dual loyalty, denounced his friends to the authorities, as he’d undertaken to do, then included himself among the culprits so that he was excluded too. Thereby illustrating the paradox of set theory which is as disturbing as first love.
Teller: Max, Teller’s father, was born in Ersekujvar, the market town where Jews traded absence at night for authorisation to appear by day. Ordinary bankers, good people, doctors, uncompromising lawyers. But Edward as a child wondered why they had to obey two laws, the Torah plus the secular set of rules. However, despite feet shackled by one law and hands tied by the other, they survived the camps, except for András, who died in nineteen hundred and forty-five. The year when his brother-in-law Edward first realised what he would do once America was in his pocket, and when he decided that Emma and Ilona would come to die at his side in a desert, if Stalin would let them leave, and if America managed to survive into the distant future. At the Minta Gymnasium, this mummy’s boy was teased for attempting to teach maths, to his maths teachers, because of his genius, naturally. Then later, having understood the meaning of the word justice, he knew how to meet threat with threat and create his destiny’s law without exception. After that, he left to study in Germany.
Ulam: Stan came from Lwow, Lemberg or Lviv, depending on the vicissitudes of war and the Go game played between princes, although none of this mattered to the boy. Dad was a lawyer and mum came from Stryj, where grandpa sold iron, mined in Galicia and the Carpathian Mountains. Sitting by the window with his father, he watched the Crown Prince pass by, then contemplated the figures in the carpet, knowing something his father didn’t. Then they were in Vienna, cheering on the Austrian army. After the war, they came back to live in Lwow, which was entered by Budenny’s cavalry (there was a horse named Babel), and he was saved by Pilsudski and attended the Gymnasium. Here, for the first time, he cheated, because each of his two eyes saw different things, making out numbers while the letters merged. Fascinated by the rings of Saturn, he wondered why Encke’s comet didn’t follow a regular path and discovered Poincaré in Polish – in the country where all his family and friends were to die, where his father burnt books to keep warm before being used to feed the flames in his turn.
Von Neumann: Max, Johnny’s father, a banker and poet from Galicia, made a wealthy marriage and was awarded a title by Franz Joseph. He put a tree in his living room on Christmas day, but still observed Yom Kippur, speaking, so they say, ancient Greek with his son, who learnt summas and cantos by heart from books which were once the pride and joy of a ruined country squire. He was then handed over to Laszlo Ratz, master of the theory of numbers, who every week knocked at the three-storey house on Zsilinszky Street (a discreet Mezuzah fixed to the doorframe), where Johnny was battling with axiomatic set theory, before escaping Béla Kun, then the enemies of Béla Kun and the Jews, whether they were rich or poor, law-abiding or rebellious. He fled to Germany and elsewhere, ending up in Princeton, where the Institute for Advanced Study had just been founded by the Bamberger family to breathe life and soul into the department store.
The Salt of the Earth was written in June 2013 in response to works by the artist Angelika Markul.
The central text draws on a wide variety of books and documents I’ve collected out of interest over the years. These include numerous works devoted to the history of the Manhattan Project, but I’ll only list a few that were particularly useful: Ray Monk, Inside the Center: the Life of Robert J. Oppenheimer, Jonathan Cape Ltd, New York, 2012. Giorgio Israel, Ana M. Gasca, The World as a Mathematical Game: John von Neumann and Twentieth Century Science, Birkhauser Verlag, Berlin, 2009. Stan Ulam, Adventures of a Mathematician, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1976. Pap Ndiaye, Du nylon et des bombes. Dupont de Nemours, le marché et l’Etat américain, 1900–1970, Belin, Paris, 2001. Jeff Hughes, The Manhattan Project. Big Science and the Atom Bomb, Icon Books, Cambridge, 2002. Claude Delmas, La bombe atomique, Complexe, Paris, 1985. Michel Rival, Robert Oppenheimer, Paris, Seuil, 2002. Istvan Hargittai, Martians of Science, Five Physicists who Changed the Twentieth Century, OUP, Oxford, 2006. John Hersey, Hiroshima. Lundi 6 août 1945, 8h 15, Paris, Texto, 2011 (1946). Michel Rouzé, Oppenheimer et la bombe atomique, Paris, Seghers, 1962. And, last but not least, the delightful memoirs by Françoise Ulam: Françoise Ulam, De Paris à Los Alamos : une odyssée franco-américaine, L’Harmattan, Paris, 1998. Two types of fragments are inserted between the twenty-seven stanzas of the central text: The first (in italics) are drawn from personal memories dating from my childhood, particularly my earliest years, i.e. 1943–1947. These recollections, which are often confused and difficult to interpret, even for me, only exist now as recurrent flashes of memory or fleeting images. The second (in bold) are texts – in Spanish or in English – taken from popular songs in the years around World War Two, which might have been playing at the parties and dances at Los Alamos while the bomb was being built.
Translated by Sue Rose
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A new version of the TQSL software for use with Logbook of The World (LoTW) is available, and it has major changes. This latest update, TQSL 2.0, has been revamped to combine TQSL-Cert and TQSL into a single program, adds additional documentation for certificate operations, and includes a new, task-oriented user interface. Where previous versions had two icons on your desktop — TQSL and TQSL Cert — the new version has just one. You’ll now be able to log onto your user account from TQSL. In addition, icons within the TQSL user window are larger and easier to identify.
With v 2.0, you get auto-uploading of TQ8 log files and TQ5 certificate requests. In addition, there’s automatic dupe checking to prevent previously uploaded QSOs from being uploaded again, saving LoTW server resources. TQSL 2.0 will check for updates in the software and configuration files and notify the user. Once the user approves the update request, TQSL does the rest.
Individual station locations — if you have more than one registered — are managed in a folder tree format. TQSL 2.0 also incorporates cross-checking to prevent users from entering invalid zones, states or provinces. TQSL 2.0 will back up your call sign certificates, station locations and uploaded QSO log, so it’s easy to move from one computer to another or recover from a hard disk failure.
It’s easy to upgrade. Install TQSL 2.0, and the installer will automatically uninstall older versions of TQSL while preserving your configuration information. Several things will be obvious the first time you run the new TQSL program. The user interface is completely different, with buttons to carry out major operations. It also provides tabs to access operations for Station Locations and Call Sign Certificates. The Station Location tab displays your station locations and associated call signs.
If you’re new to LoTW, instructions on the ARRL website explain how to participate. More than 60,000 radio amateurs use LoTW to confirm their contacts and to apply for awards, such as DXCC. Nearly 78 million contact confirmations have resulted to date.
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Home » Events » Summer Opportunities for Students
Society of Australasian Social Psychologists (SASP)
SPSP and the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists (SASP) participate in a summer school exchange program. The Australasian Summer School, which is held for a week (usually in early February) every other year, offers up to 36 places to graduate students placed across three workshops. In its agreement with SPSP, SASP reserves up to three places for students currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program. Students interested in participating should apply directly to the SASP Summer School.
SPSP is pleased to offer three Travel Awards to support attendance at the SASP Summer School. We believe that this is an exceptionally valuable experience for students. The Travel Award provides reimbursement for up to $750 in travel-related expenses to up to three students who have already been selected as part of the SASP-SPSP exchange program for 2018. We will be offering this same award for 2020.
Additional Details - 2018 Australasian Summer School in Social Psychology
When: Feb. 19th- Feb.25th , 2018
Where: Australian National University’s Kioloa Coastal Campus in Kioloa
There will be 3 streams with at least 2 teachers and 15 students in each stream. It is a great venue and will be the perfect time of year! We are waiting on some final confirmation of teachers and will be in touch updating this ASAP. Please contact me with any questions.
Political psychology and public opinion (Marc Wilson, Victoria University Wellington; Danny Osborne, Auckland University),
Is voting an act of affirmation or choice? Is it true that you can tell a politician is lying because their lips are moving? The Political Psychology Stream will provide a rollercoaster ride introducing the historical evolution of the study of political behaviour at the intersection of political science and psychology, some hands-on play with political psychology data, and key topics in contemporary political psychology. Depending on student interest these might include topics such as voting behavior, social networks, protest and activism, environmental politics, political language, and personality and politics.
Leadership and social change (Emina Subasic, University of Newcastle; Dominic Packer, Lehigh University, USA)
Social psychology offers a rich understanding of social change – from social action and protest in the face of injustice, to resolving conflict, enhancing social cohesion and building solidarity across group boundaries. The field has also seen a revival of interest in social aspects of leadership and influence, going beyond intra- and inter-individual analyses to consider group and intergroup aspects. In this stream, we will examine the intersection of these domains to better understand how people are mobilised for change in social relations and develop new paradigms for studying leadership and social change in interaction.
Reconceptualising prejudice (Michael Platow, ANU; http://psychology.anu.edu.au/about-us/people/michael-platow & Martha Augoustinos;
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/martha.augoustinos).
The cost is $450 per student due on confirmation of placement at the summer school (payment details will follow) which covers accommodation, venue, catering. Students will need to find their own transport to and from Kioloa but this will be co-ordinated to reduce costs.
Kate Reynolds (Katherine.Reynolds@anu.edu.au)
Questions about the SASP Summer School should be directed to the Organizing Committee at saspsummer@gmail.com.
Questions about SPSP Travel Awards for the SASP Summer School can be directed to the SPSP Executive Office at info@spsp.org.
2020 SPSP Convention
Come for the research, stay for the people
Connect with colleagues, share resources and join the discussion!
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Home › Company › News › January 30, 2003
The Macallan Says 'kanpai (1)'
WorldLingo and Cygnet Technology combine human translation with Web content management to help The Macallan target single malt Whisky lovers in Japan
The Macallan, the single malt Scotch Whisky owned by The Edrington Group, has launched a new website www.themacallan.jp in Japanese for the first time. WorldLingo, a leading provider of integrated online translation solutions, and Cygnet Technology, a Scottish web development company, have collaborated to develop the innovative website. The website was developed using 'Active-Language', a groundbreaking combination of human translation capability from WorldLingo and web content management expertise from Cygnet Technology.
The new website includes information taken from the original English language version www.themacallan.com. Web users can now view The Macallan single malt whisky range, a guide to tasting and other general information about Scotch whisky in both Japanese and English.
Jason Craig, direct marketing manager for The Macallan said, "The web is a powerful and cost effective means of communicating with our many markets. The Macallan is already recognized as the premium malt whisky in Japan and Active-Language provided by Cygnet Technology and WorldLingo has allowed us to communicate directly with our non-English speaking Japanese consumers."
Phil Scanlan, WorldLingo's Chairman said, "It makes sense to localise your website because customers are far more comfortable with content that is in their own language. The researchers IDC have even suggested that customers are up to four times more likely to buy online from websites that are in their own native language. Our high quality human translations ensure that The Macallan's website is faithfully reproduced in Japanese and that its brand values are reflected accurately in the Japanese language."
Howard Perkins, managing director Cygnet Technology said, "The initial concept came out of Scottish Enterprise Tayside, who were looking for ways to support local companies in the export market. Japan was chosen originally because it is the most different linguistically and culturally. The bigger the barrier to communication in a given market, the more important it is to communicate in the native language. Because it is hard to do, it gives a big competitive advantage to those companies that achieve it."
In addition to the localise d Japanese content on the website, 'Active-Language' includes an email workflow system. The system enables Japanese customers to communicate via email with The Macallan, each in their native language. Rapid response to these emails is made possible by using WorldLingo's human translators coordinated across the globe to account for time zone differences.
1) Japanese for "Cheers"
About the Edrington Group
The Edrington Group, a leading independent Scotch Whisky group, has a number of specialist operations covering every facet of distilling, blending and bottling. Owner of famed single highland malt whisky The Macallan, The Edrington Group which headquarters in Glasgow, also owns leading blended whiskies The Famous Grouse and Cutty Sark and has other exceptional malt whiskies in its portfolio such as Highland Park and Bunnahabhain.
About Cygnet Technology
Cygnet Technology Ltd specializes in the use of web technologies to provide business benefit. Our expertise ranges from simple websites, through content managed, multilingual sites to enterprise portals. As well as implementation projects, we also provide strategic consultancy services for a client base that includes SMEs and Blue Chip companies. Located in Scotland, Cygnet Technology Ltd is part of the Cygnet Group of Companies.
About the Active-Language? product
Active-Language? combines the power of activedition?, a leading content management system from C(2) Software, with professional human translation from Worldlingo. Active-Language allows you to update web pages in English and have them translated professionally within 16 working hours, via the web at the click of a button.
About WorldLingo
WorldLingo is a leading provider of integrated, online translation solutions. The company's services range from cost effective machine translation solutions, to professional human translation and culturally sensitive localization. A global network of over 5,000 professional translators produces human translations. WorldLingo also offers unique, real-time translation solutions for two-way email and instant messaging. These solutions make it easy for businesses and professionals to interact with internal and external multilingual audiences anywhere in the world. By combining accurate and cost effective translation, WorldLingo is taking great strides towards breaking down language barriers in the world of commerce.
WorldLingo produces thousands of translations every day. Clients include AT&T, Sony, Eli Lilly, Belkin, Cadbury Schweppes, Qualcomm, Priceline, and Tribal DDB. WorldLingo is also an official supplier of translation services to the European Union. In addition, Microsoft has integrated WorldLingo's technology into Office XP and Word 2002. WorldLingo is a global organisation with offices in the US, Australasia and Europe.
For more information: contact WorldLingo
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Kinect Sports Ultimate Collection
Rare | Sep 18, 2012 (US)
Developer: Rare
Publisher: Microsoft Games Studios
Genre: Kinect
This ultimate collection has two best-selling* Kinect� games wrapped into one � putting 13 great sporting games at your fingertips. So grab your friends and compete for a personal best or jump in and out of the action in team Party Mode! Anyone can play in these controller-free, full-body sports games. With your body as the controller, nothing comes between you and the action! *Best-selling based on U.S. sales as of March 2012, reported by the NPD Group/Retail Tracking Service.
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Famed game developer Rare Ltd. is reviving one of its most beloved and successful franchises exclusively on Xbox 360� with the third installment of the Banjo-Kazooie series. Banjo-Kazooie�: Nuts & Bolts embraces new and old fans alike, as the famous bear and bird duo return in stunning high definition for a unique adventure of epic proportions...
Beautiful. Smart. Deadly. Return to the time before the beginning. Shape the future. Perfect Dark Zero takes place when a secret war begun between shadowy corporations bent on world domination. Joanna Dark and her father, Jack, are caught up in the fight for the planet's future. A routine bounty hunting missions opens a global conspiracy ..
Perfert Dark from Rare is on it's way to the Xbox Live Arcade. Agent Joanna Dark hit the ground running in Perfect Dark, an epic tale of galactic conspiracies in 2023 America. Now this classic shooter comes to Xbox LIVE Arcade, rendered in greater definition and detail and sporting a silkier framerate than ever before. Fire up your Farsight ..
With Kinect Sports, anyone can become the next star of the living room, and it�s fun no matter how fit you are. Add your style to any of the six action-packed games - Soccer, Volleyball, Track & Field, Bowling, Table Tennis or Boxing - with Full Body Input. Compete against yourself to set a personal best or win as a team. Either way, you will u..
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Bungie's popular first-person shooter makes its debut on the Xbox 360 with Halo 3. The epic saga continues with Halo 3, the hugely anticipated sequel to the highly successful and critically acclaimed Halo franchise. In this third chapter of the Halo trilogy, Master Chief returns to finish the fight, bringing the epic conflict betwe..
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�Gears of War 2� is the highly anticipated sequel to the 5 million-selling blockbuster action game and one of the most popular Xbox games in history. Players continue as Marcus Fenix, a reluctant war hero and leader of Delta Squad, six months after the events of �Gears of War.� The last cities on Sera are sinking, swallowed by a new Locust t..
Halo 3: ODST's tale focuses on the legendary ODSTs or "Orbital Drop Shock Troopers" as they drop into the ruined city of New Mombasa, looking for clues behind the Covenant's catastrophic attack on the city. Sgt Mgr. Johnson, the toughest, cigar chomping-est, Marine on the battlefield can be yours to play in Firefight when you p..
"Crackdown" pushes the action-driving hybrid genre into the next generation with the first ever truly 3-D playground. Gamers will enforce justice by any means necessary in Pacific City, a crime-ridden urban center built to encourage the exploration of the full width, depth and height of the city. Coupled with highly innovative co-op gamep..
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Habitat For Humanity Planning Six Houses
Cape Croker | by Claire McCormack
Local chapter is planning to build six homes at Neyaashiinigmiing this year.
Habitat for Humanity Grey Bruce has six builds coming up this summer and all of them are at Neyashinigmiing at Cape Croker.
Executive Director Greg Fryer says it's a continuation of a project started last year where Habitat volunteers worked with members of the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation to build four homes for four families on Kaikaiknong Crescent.
"A number of their members who are living off-reserve who want to come back to Cape Croker and live but there's no housing for them, so we're helping provide that housing," says Fryer.
Habitat Celebrate First Build on First Nation's Reserve
Fryer hopes to get work underway this year in early June, if the weather allows for it. Right now, he says the land needs to be cleared.
He says there is always a need for volunteers from all over Grey Bruce, noting about 42 per cent of last year's volunteers were local to Neyashinigmiing and the rest were from throughout the area.
In all last year, 392 volunteers served 13, 932 hours in Grey Bruce.
Habitat to Seek Partnerships with Municipalities
Fryer says volunteers benefit from working on builds because they learn about home building and renovation that can be useful in their own lives. "We get the benefit of their help and as well we're helping them learn more about how they can look after thier own homes."
Fryer notes there will Also be three "Global Village Teams" from all over North America who visit to work on the builds this year.
The annual Realtors Association of Grey Bruce (RAGBOS) golf fundraiser is set to go on May 30th at Saugeen Golf Club. The day is a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity and includes golf, lunch and dinner.
Fryer says one of the other major way Habitat raises money is through its Restore locations where home and building items are donated for resale.
'We have lots of kitchens coming in as well as all kinds of building materials, appliances, furniture, lighting, you name it, we have it," says Fryer.
There are ReStore locations in Owen Sound, Hanover and Port Elgin.
Fryer says they'll also pick up items from homes if people can't get to restore to donate them.
To Contact Habitat for Humanity Grey Bruce and the Restore, call 519-371-6166.
You can register in time slots to volunteer on builds online at habitatgreybruce.ca
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THE MUSHROOM RIVER BAND Lose Drummer, Temporary Replacement Announced
Sweden's THE MUSHROOM RIVER BAND, featuring former SPIRITUAL BEGGARS bassist/vocalist Christian Spice Sjstrand, have parted ways with drummer Chris Rockstrm. According to an official statement issued by the band, during the last period of time, Chris has felt that he has grown apart from the band and now wishes to focus on other projects that he's involved with. Temporary replacement for the band's upcoming European tour in April-May will be Robert Hansson, originally from Vrnamo but now living in Stockholm. Exact dates and venues will be announced shortly.
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Legislative Democrats announce education funding plan
Puts money into classrooms now without raising taxes, protects future funding
STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX – Today Arizona Legislative Democrats released an education funding plan that will give public schools nearly $4 billion, without raiding funding from future generations and without increasing taxes.
Sen. Hobbs
“Our plan will put nearly $4 billion into public schools over the next 10 years, protects the long-term health of the state land trust fund, and puts dollars in the classroom now,” House Democratic Leader Eric Meyer, D-Paradise Valley (District 28), said.
The Democratic plan provides sustainable funding, unlike other proposals that would create a shortfall in funding for future generations. This plan:
Supports the belief that education is a long-term investment and the foundation for Arizona’s future economic success
Provides nearly $4 billion for public education during the first 10 years and protects funding levels after that
Does not rob future generations by harming the principal of the state land trust fund
Rep. Meyer
Does not raise taxes and can be implemented immediately
Meyer added that concerns are mounting about the governor’s idea to cut into the principal of the state land trust’s permanent fund. Arizona State Treasurer Jeff DeWit recently criticized that proposal, in part because it creates a fiscal cliff in five years and hurts the principal of the fund. The Joint Legislative Budget Committee estimates a loss of $3.2 billion in value under Ducey’s proposal.
“The plans put forth by Arizona's Republican leaders are not much more than smoke and mirrors,” said Senate Democratic Leader Katie Hobbs, D-Phoenix (District 24). “Our responsible plan puts desperately needed dollars immediately into classrooms without stealing from the state land trust or First Things First, without requiring uncertain voter approval, and without setting up our state to fall off another fiscal cliff. Our kids deserve a sound, sustainable plan to fund our schools.”
The Legislative Democratic proposal maintains the existing distribution of funding from the state land trust proceeds, which is currently 2.5 percent, and the $74 million inflation increase approved in the 2015-2016 fiscal year budget. It will allocate new revenue from the $278 million in projected 2015-2016 fiscal year surplus to K-12 funding in the current fiscal year and $250 million in ongoing revenue to school funding in future years.
Additionally, the plan would freeze the expansion of the corporate school tuition organization tax credit program beginning the 2016-2017 fiscal year to produce an additional $10 million in revenue dedicated to the K-12 budget. This will ensure that funding levels can be maintained. Existing tax credit funds for STO scholarships would not be reduced under the plan.
“Under our plan, Arizona schools will immediately receive desperately needed money without having to wait for an unguaranteed approval by voters,” said Hobbs. “And our plan leaves resources in the general fund to address the critical needs of child safety and higher education. It's a plan that protects our children and honors the state's commitment to their future.”
Meyer agreed.
“Arizona has the resources to fund public education. Our plan shows that. It has always been a matter of making it a priority,” Meyer said. “The Republican leaders in the state so far have offered ideas that jeopardize the future of education funding. We can’t afford to waste time on gimmicks, Arizona needs a sustainable education funding plan now.”
Click to download a full 10-year analysis of the Democratic education funding plan.
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McGuire: DPS leadership, law enforcement diligence keeps all Arizonans safe
STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX – Senator Barbara McGuire, ranking Democratic member of the Senate Public Safety, Military & Technology Committee, released the following statement on the recent arrest of a suspect in the I-10 shootings:
Sen. McGuire
"I want to commend Department of Public Safety Director Frank Milstead and his entire DPS team who worked diligently to find the first break in this case," said Senator McGuire. "I knew when my committee and the Senate as a whole confirmed Director Milstead's appointment that he had the experience and leadership skills to run DPS, and we've seen that leadership at work in this case.
"The I-10 shootings case is still active and there is much hard work yet to be done. I want DPS and all law enforcement agencies involved in the case to know that the people of Arizona have faith in you and deeply appreciate everything you do to keep us safe."
We cannot allow SB1070 to serve as an excuse to racially profile
STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX – In light of Judge Susan Bolton's ruling to upholdsection 2(b) of SB1070, Senator Catherine Miranda, chair of the Arizona Legislative Latino Caucus, is preparing a bill to ensure that section will not be used to racially profile Arizona citizens and visitors.
Sen. Miranda
"Racial profiling is unconstitutional, pure and simple. It violates the public trust in law enforcement and erodes our sense of community and safety," said Senator Miranda.
"With Judge Bolton’s ruling upholding the section 2(b) of SB1070, most commonly known as the “papers please” provision, I am meeting with stakeholders to introduce legislation to ensure this section of the law will not be used to target any ethnic group based on their skin color, but implemented fairly and without regard to a person’s race.
"While this ugly law still hangs like a dark cloud over our state's reputation, I will do everything in my power to make sure it doesn't hang over the heads of hard working Arizonans and the visitors who are so crucial to our economy."
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My Favorite Footnote to Mrs. Dalloway
Written by: Anne Fernald
From Woolf to Homer
Anne Fernald takes readers behind the scenes of the literary detective work involved in mapping Virginia Woolf's allusions in Mrs Dalloway. Writing footnotes to a 20th century classic involves a long literary history.
Preparing the textual edition of Mrs. Dalloway evolved in stages. First, I traveled to London, Los Angeles, Bloomington, Indiana, and took the train into New York City (where I also teach), to compare the first British edition to all the extant versions of the novel, including holograph draft material and page proofs as well as British and American versions published in Woolf’s lifetime. Collating all of these changes, checking and re-checking them, took a lot of time and demanded an unusual attention to minute detail.
That was tedious work, but also excellent training in beginning to listen for what I came to call the dog whistle of allusions.
The second stage was writing footnotes (after that, came writing the introduction). I began by compiling and assessing all the footnotes to the prior editions of the novel and built outward, reading scholarship on the novel and adding those insights to my growing list. But the most exciting part was when I found a reference that no one had documented before.
One phrase that troubled me came in the midst of the character Septimus Smith’s’s most disturbed and disturbing thoughts. In this scene, the shell-shocked World War One veteran, is in Regent’s Park with his wife, awaiting a doctor’s appointment. Septimus thinks: “His body was macerated until only the nerve fibres were left. It was spread like a veil upon a rock.”
That “veil upon a rock” sounded strange. As did the word “macerated.” There was an allusion in there—I could hear some high frequency resonance—but what was the source? I looked to The Waste Land: “Here is no water but only rock,” but that wasn’t quite right. I wondered if the body on the rock might be Prometheus, so I read versions of Prometheus by both Aeschylus and Shelley, two writers whom Woolf revered, but found nothing. I consulted Yopie Prins’s great article on why Prometheus Bound was such a popular text for Victorian women classicists, still all to no avail. I kept the phrase rolling around in my head, hoping that some day it would chime with something, but I was losing hope.
Then, one night, I was reading The Children’s Homer to my daughters and I read: “and then, with the veil bound across his breast, he threw himself into the waves. For two nights and two days he was tossed about on the waters. When on the third day the dawn came and the winds fell he saw land very near…. A great wave took hold of him and flung him toward the shore. Now would his bones have been broken upon the rocks if he had not been ready-minded.” A veil and bones upon rocks on one page. Could this be my clue?
This episode, in which the goddess Ino saves Odysseus from Poseidon’s storm by lending him a magical piece of fabric, appears in Book Five of The Odyssey. Wearing this veil, Odysseus washes onto shore, exhausted, and is soon found by the maid Nausicaa. I was quickly able to confirm that Woolf “read 5 books of the Odyssey” (D2 205) during this time. Thus, I knew she had just re-read this story—and, moreover, seems to have quit reading Homer, whom she did not greatly love, shortly thereafter. Looking a little deeper, I checked which translations of Homer were in the Woolfs’s library and looked at how each translated the name of the magical fabric. Butcher and Lang’s translation renders the Greek as a “veil imperishable.” Moreover, Woolf’s reading notes paused over the image of the rocky coast: ‘430 | At last he was dashed against rocks; a very odd image comes—his skin was torn off by the rocks’ (Berg RN25 80).
Thanks to some bedtime reading, then, I was able to hear the allusion to Homer in Septimus’s mad thoughts. It’s an echo that resonates profoundly for our understanding of the character for, in this moment, Woolf implicitly compares Septimus’s plight to that of Odysseus, one of the most celebrated traumatized soldiers in Western Civilizations: a connection that I hope will inspire scholars to say more about the role of war in the novel and just one of the hundreds of footnotes in my edition.
Here is the completed footnote:
His body was macerated [ . . . ] like a veil upon a rock The imagery of this passage draws heavily on Book Five of the Odyssey. There, Odysseus, in his protracted journey home from war, finally escapes Calypso and builds a raft, but his enemy Poseidon sends a storm, preventing his landing in Phaeacia. The goddess Ino appears from the waves, saying ‘Here, take this veil imperishable’ (Butcher and Lang 87). (Chapman translates the word as ‘riband’; Buckley uses ‘scarf’.) The veil protects him, allowing him to land on the rocky shore: ‘he would have been stript of his skin and all his bones been broken, but that the goddess, grey-eyed Athene, put a thought into his heart’ (Butcher and Lang 89). Odysseus remains unconscious until awakened by Nausicaa and her hand-maidens days later. VW re-read the Odyssey for ‘On Not Knowing Greek’. Cf. VW’s notes on Book Five of the Odyssey: ‘430 | At last he was dashed against rocks; a very odd image comes—his skin was torn off by the rocks’ (Berg RN25 80). See also: ‘I have read 5 books of the Odyssey’ (D2 205). Septimus’s image of himself recalls the figure of the Greek god Prometheus, bound to a rock in punishment for having given fire to human beings. VW’s tutor Janet Case translated Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound in 1905 and the Woolfs owned a copy of this translation. For the prominent role of Prometheus Bound among feminist classical scholars, see Prins. Shelley’s verse play Prometheus Unbound opens with a description of the god in a ‘ravine of icy rocks [ . . . ] bound to the Precipice’. See EN 130:10–11.
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FB Roundup: Casino Group, Luxottica, and LVMH
Casino to sell Big C stake to Thai TCC Group; Luxottica shares dive following management concerns; and LVMH shares soar on strong sales
Article | 12 February, 2016 12:55 PM | By Michael Finnigan
Casino to sell Big C stake to Thai TCC Group
French retailer Casino Group, owned by the Naouri and Guichard families, has agreed to sell its majority stake in Thai hypermarket operator Big C Supercentre for $3.4 billion.
The sale to Thailand’s TCC Group – controlled by Thai tycoon Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi and family – will allow Casino to pay down $6.7 billion of debt. The deal will be completed by the end of March.
Big C is Thailand's second-largest hypermarket operator after Tesco's Thai unit, and has a market capitalisation of 163.25 billion baht ($4.60 billion).
The sale of Big C fulfils Casino Group’s recent commitment to sell $4.5 billion in assets this year as it seeks to reduce its $6.7 billion of debt.
Last month, Casino reported fourth-quarter sales of $13.4 billion.
Luxottica shares dive following management concerns
Shares in family-owned eyewear group Luxottica fell sharply this week after losing its third chief executive in 18 months.
Leading shareholder Leonardo Del Vecchio, who also acts as Luxottica's chairman, will take on executive powers, tightening his grip on the company he founded in 1961.
He takes over from Adil Mehboob-Khan, who had joined the firm a little over a year ago following the exit of long-standing CEO Andrea Guerra and his short-lived successor, Enrico Cavatorta.
Luxottica, which has annual revenues of €7.3 billion $8.2 billion), owns brands such as Oakley, Ray-Ban, and Oliver Peoples. It also has more than 7,000 retail outlets operating under different banners including Sunglass Hut and OPSM.
LVMH shares soar on strong sales
Leading luxury family empire LVMH saw shares jump 6.8% this week after it posted record sales.
According to a company statement, annual profit from recurring operations rose 16% last year to $7.2 billion, while total sales increased 6% to $38.8 billion.
Strong performance in the United States, Europe and Japan offset weakness in China, where LVMH has recently shuttered stores, the report said.
Today, luxury group Christian Dior is the main holding company of LVMH, owning 40.9% of its shares, and 59.01% of its voting rights. Bernard Arnault is the majority shareholder of Dior.
LVMH was formed through the merger of fashion house Louis Vuitton with Moët Hennessy in 1987.
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Wilco – Star Wars
On “Cold Slope,” the 9th song off Wilco’s new album, Star Wars, Jeff Tweedy sings, “Some say you’re never really there, but you still take up space.” That line could be an indictment of the band over the past several years: touring endlessly but producing fewer albums. After a decade of hiring-and-firing, Tweedy and co….
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Elvis Depressedly at the Space (7/18/15)
Minutes into his set Saturday night in Hamden, Connecticut, Mathew Cothran, mic chord snaked around his hands and neck, asked the crowd at the Space if they were into prophecy. He then launched into a bunch of authoritative lines that seemed like he was performing an exorcism. Cothran’s project, Elvis Depressedly, mixed introspective lyrics with…
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Steve Gunn – Way Out Weather
Weather is probably the most common topic brought up amongst strangers. And its broad, unrevealing nature was something Steve Gunn had in mind when putting together his new album, “Way Out Weather. “Way out weather is a common song,” Gunn sings on the album’s opener. The Philadelphia-turned-New York City musician’s previous release, Time Off (2013),…
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Is “FourFiveSeconds” Even A Song?
On paper, the Kanye West-Paul McCartney-Rihanna collaboration “FourFiveSeconds” looks huge, a swing-for-the-fences song that could actually change things. It features two of the world’s greatest pop stars, plus a Beatle, and other wild card talent, but virtually none of their presence is felt. The legendary Paul McCartney is reduced to tapping on a few keyboards—maybe…
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Steve Gunn – “Milly’s Garden”
Steve Gunn’s music sounds like coming home after a long journey from some far away place. Last year’s Time Off was a spare and easy album to fall into, comprising of Travis picking guitar figures that hint at the Dead circa American Beauty. I saw him earlier this year in an air condition-less club in…
Dr. Dre and Detox
Last week, Dr. Dre, the notorious and elusive producer who had us salivating for 15 years for Detox, the final part of his solo album trilogy, announced that it has been scrapped. Instead, he is dropping Compton: A Soundtrack, inspired by the upcoming N.W.A. biopic on Thursday. Dre, who helped introduce a sort of street-level realism…
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Panda Bear – Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
Since his 2007 album Person Pitch, Noah Lennox’s Panda Bear has been the gateway drug into Animal Collective. Both outfits feature the same qualities: zone-out repetition, upfront rhythms, a swirl of ineffable sounds, and summer camp sing alongs. Their success both lies in combining something confusing with something instantly gratifying, a perfect distillation of modern…
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Panda Bear – “Boy Latin”
Panda Bear’s music has always felt like daydreaming, or recapturing that awe struck feeling of childhood. Those deceptively simple repetitions and stoned tempos seem like they could go on forever, and are on full display here. While Animal Collective’s Centipede Hz, and fellow band member Avey Tare’s latest album were too Saturday-morning-cartoons for even their music,…
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Home » General World News » The economy of every state and DC, ranked from worst to best
The economy of every state and DC, ranked from worst to best
The US economy is the sum of the economies of the 50 states and Washington, DC.
Using six measures of labor-market and general economic health, we ranked all of those component economies from worst to best.
The United States has a $20 trillion economy, and that behemoth is made up of the 51 smaller economies of the states and Washington, DC.
Business Insider combined six measures of labor-market and general economic health for all the states and the District of Columbia. They are the unemployment rate, job growth, per-capita GDP, GDP growth, average weekly wages, and wage growth. By putting all those read more >>>
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Auster, Donald: "A Content Analysis of “Little Orphan Annie”." In: Social Problems 2.1 (1954), S. 26–33.
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BibTeX citation key: Auster1954a
Keywords: "Little Orphan Annie", Gray. Harold, Themen und Motive, USA, Zeitungsstrip
Creators: Auster
Collection: Social Problems Views: 4/485
Attachments URLs http://www.jstor.org/stable/798661
Purpose: To determine the nature and extent to which a measurable social, political, and economic ideology exists in a nationally syndicated comic strip.
Procedure: Four areas were selected for study: (a) justice, (b) social class, (c) business success, and (d) political ideology. Hypotheses relative to the probable comic strip content in these areas were formulated. They were investigated by means of a content analysis of a representative sample of the comic strip taken from the universe of 25 years of its existence. A total of 1623 separate comic strip panels were analyzed far their theme and symbol content. Findings were checked by two independent judges. Agreement between the author and both judges ranged from a minimum of 75.5 percent in some areas to 91.8 percent in others.
Findings: Some of the hypotheses confirmed were: (a) American Justice—justice and the legal process are portrayed as unwieldly and corrupt, consequently it is necessary for extralegal substitutes to be employed; (b) Social Class—the working class is inadequately and unfavorably portrayed as compared with the middle class; (c) Business Success—the comic strip frequently mentions the Horatio Alger legend as the basis for success; however, actual success frequently results from luck rather than hard work. After analyzing the significance of these findings, the author points to the need for further study of the comic strips as important communicators of attitudes, values, and particular points of view.
(John Molstad, in: Educational Technology Research and Development 3 (1955) S. 159–160)
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Automania by Dr. Iain Corness
What did we learn from the Japan GP?
Well, we learned that all the hype about young Vettel being the next Schumi isn’t just hype. The kid has a real talent, and what’s more seems to have a happy bubbly personality, which makes him even more sensational when you look at the current crop of grumblers and mumblers in F1. Pole position and a lights to flag win. It doesn’t get much better than that, except getting fastest lap, but his Red Bull team mate Mark Webber took that away from him, in what had been a totally disastrous weekend.
No discussion on the Japan GP without mentioning the resulting shambles after qualifying, with six drivers up before the magistrates (sorry, stewards) for yellow flag misdemeanors and being penalized five grid slots. Yellow flags are hung out by the flag points to indicate a hazard ahead, with various degrees of danger going from single steady yellow, waved yellow and waved double yellows. Drivers who do not lift off are in breach of the regulations and will always lose out in any action with the stewards. Saying you could see the hazard and knew you could drive around it is no excuse. The stewards ruled that Brawn drivers Button and Barrichello, Alonso (Renault) and Sutil (Force India) had all failed to slow down under waved yellow flags. Alonso tried denying it, but his telemetry showed the Sulky Spaniard was being more than economical with the truth. Perhaps he wanted to dedicate his qualifying to Flavio!
The Toyota team was very happy with Trulli’s second place, but will that be enough to ensure Toyota’s place on the grid in 2010? Put your money on Toyota not getting the funding needed to maintain the team from new boss Toyoda-san, and poor old Jarno is out to pasture anyway.
Jenson Button for World Champion? It is difficult at this stage to imagine any driver looking less like a champion. After the meteoric first half of the championship with six wins from seven, he looked to be a shoe-in, but since then he has developed into a mid-field wimp, outclassed and out-driven by Brawn GP team mate Rubens Barichello (and half the field). He was extremely lucky to get the one point from eighth he was gifted after Sutil and Kovalainen came together. One would like to see a champion with personality and fire, who can deliver championship performances.
Sutil, in particular, is showing lots of ‘tiger’ in Team Poppadum and almost for the first time ever, Kovalainen (McLaren) became just as aggressive. The incident in the esses was all through Klumsy Kovalainen, but his later jump on Fisischella (Ferrari) on leaving the pits was superb.
Ferrari had the loquacious Kimi through to fourth, but he was rarely seen in the TV coverage. In fact the telecast had no continuity. A very poor effort by the director, in my opinion.
Interestingly, Kubica is much vaunted in the expiring BMW team, over Heidfeld, but it is Nifty Nick who seems to be higher up the order than the Pole (6th versus 9th).
Rosberg in the Williams continued to produce solid performances, but Knuckles Nakajima was, as usual, nowhere.
Finally, the ridiculous ‘no testing’ rule should be scrapped immediately. Without testing we are getting under-experienced drivers such as Jaime Algy and Romain Grosjean brought in who are trundling around as mobile chicanes or ending up as red flag or safety car accidents. It has also meant that Felipe Massa, trying to see if he is OK to drive in F1 after the head injury, being forced to drive a GP2 car instead of his F1 Ferrari (which should be the case to give a direct correlation to his times beforehand).
Autotrivia Quiz
1931 NAG
Last week I asked which amphibious car manufacturer sold more than 3,000 cars? The answer was Amphicar and the first in was Mo Bertrand.
So to this week. In 1931, the N.A.G. Company produced Germany’s first V8. Who designed it?
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OMG! The Trabant is back!
Anyone who ever saw a Trabant will never forget its boxy austerity. Anyone who ever covered more than 100 km in one without it breaking down has probably thought about contacting the Guinness Book of Records. Reliability was not its strong point.
However, the butt of Cold War-era jokes, the Trabant, was the unlikely star of the Frankfurt motor show. I kid you not, and the story of how it got there is even more fanciful than the 100 km non-stop.
The symbol of East Germany’s lack of progress under communist rule, the Trabant was ridiculed for its terrible build quality and smoky two-stroke engine. Families had to wait an average of 15 years to get one. And what a car did they get at the end!
Now the Iron Curtain is long gone and the humble Trabant has become a cult car. Good examples fetch good money.
This (misplaced) popularity was the main driving force behind the Trabant nT, an electric-powered concept car that has proved to be a massive hit at the show.
In fact, many German newspapers passed over cars such as the new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, Audi e-tron supercar and the Lamborghini Reventon roadster and put the East German’s people’s car on their front covers.
A constant crowd of media gathered around the car on a small stand among component suppliers during the first two days.
But for all the excitement it is not yet clear if the new Trabant has a realistic chance of making it into production.
Here is the totally quirky thing about this ‘new’ Trabbie - the car on the stand in Frankfurt was not the result of a car-maker or even a component supplier, but a toy company that produces model cars.
A company called Herpa bought the rights to both the Trabant name and shape to produce 1/87th scale model cars from 1990.
After selling several hundred thousand of them, Herpa manager Klaus Schindler presented a design draft for a full-size car in 2007 before enrolling designer Nils Paschwatta to come up with the new concept car.
Herpa doesn’t have the money or the technical capability to bring the Trabant nT to market, but presented the concept in the hope it could attract investors and perhaps get the attention of a major car-maker as a partner.
The Trabant nT concept car has moved on from the old two-stroke, instead using an electric motor generating 47 kW. This is linked to a lithium-ion battery pack which can store enough charge to give the nT a range of 160 km.
Like the Toyota Prius, a solar panel in the roof produces enough energy to ventilate the cabin.
The Trabant nT measures 3950 mm long, 1690 mm wide, has a wheelbase of 2450 mm and weighs 1050 kg.
Herpa says the three-door model seats four adults and one child.
The design is easily recognisable as based on the early model P601 Trabant, but with some mild updates.
Instead of a traditional chrome grille, the new car has a body colored panel with a cut-out line with turned up edges which can be interpreted as a smile.
Herpa’s Klaus Schindler said the Trabant could be an instant hit because of its design and its name. “The seed is the publicity, the sympathy and the attention the Trabant brand attracts. It already has fans today,” he said.
Schindler is not suggesting the nT could be a do-everything family car. “It is a safe and reliable city and medium-range vehicle, a second car, a handy helper for service providers,” he said.
While the technology would need a lot of development, Schindler is confident the new Trabant could be on the road within three years if the company is able to attract the necessary investment.
“It could be on the road in 2012 provided that we are able to find a strong partner,” he said. If it becomes anything like the old Trabant, partners had to be strong, to be able to push it!
Great Wall not so good hitting the wall
Beware of cheap imported pick-ups says the independent Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) which handed down a two stars (out of five) for the Great Wall Motors SA220 and V240 pick-ups.
Great Wall hits the wall
ANCAP program manager and RACV chief engineer Michael Case said, “Crash statistics show that occupants of one or two star vehicles have twice the risk of receiving life-threatening injuries in a crash, compared with four- or five-star vehicles, at a time when four and five star ratings are becoming increasingly available for new car buyers.”
Victorian Transport Accident Commission (TAC) senior manager for road safety David Healy said all three vehicles experienced loss of cabin structural integrity, with poor head and leg protection at impact.
All this really means is that you should be aware that cheap imports may not have the in-built safety standards you would want for your own family.
Official Formula 1 calendar 2010
Sharpen your pencils or get out next year’s diary:
Mar 14 - Bahrain (Sakhir)
Mar 28 - Australia (Melbourne, starting at 1700 local time)
Apr 4 - Malaysia (Sepang, starting at 1600 local time)
Apr 18 - China (Shanghai)
May 9 - Spain (Barcelona)
May 23 - Monaco (Monte Carlo)
May 30 - Turkey (Istanbul)
Jun 13 - Canada (Montreal, provisional)
Jun 27 - Europe (Valencia)
Jul 11 - Great Britain (Donington Park)
Jul 25 - Germany (Hockenheim)
Aug 1 - Hungary (Budapest)
Aug 29 - Belgium (Spa-Francorchamps)
Sep 12 - Italy (Monza)
Sep 26 - Singapore (starting at 2000 local time)
Oct 3 - Japan (Suzuka)
Oct 17 - South Korea (Yongam)
Oct 31 - Abu Dhabi (Yas Marina, starting at 1700 local time)
Nov 14 - Brazil (Interlagos)
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Everything Is Old Again
By Philip Schweier
Mar 11, 2004 - 8:17
Hollywood is notorious for rehashing old ideas with a new take. Sometimes they improve upon the original, but often it’s like being served leftovers. Maybe it’s someone discovering an old forgotten treasure, and hoping to bring a fresh perspective to a new audience.
Comics are the same way. In 2004 we are promised new versions of the Vigilante, The Question (sans mullet) and the Challengers of the Unknown. These are only the most recent of the countless properties that have been given new life for contemporary audiences. When the characters get a little stale, they freshen the bloom by replacing the original with a newer version. Usually, the old ones are laid to rest, allowing us to close the book on one era and begin anew.
I can appreciate taking an old concept and distilling decades of stories down into a more cohesive mythos. Such occassional housecleaning is necessary. But like it or not, old stories are part of the overall saga, and each chapter in a comic book series has, for better or for worse, contributed to the whole. Anyone one of us has moments from our lives that may not have been altogether satisfying, yet those times of misery and disappointment have all contributed to turn us into the people we are today.
To me, there is right way and a wrong way. John Byrne had the right idea with Superman back in the 1980s. It’s kind of hard to appeal to the current generation when your starting point is a half century in the past. He focused on the best aspects of the character, discarded a lot of the dead wood, and a Superman for a new generation was born. After almost 50 years, it was time.
Multiple versions of old favorites, such as Marvel’s Ultimate titles, are welcome, assuming the intent is to appeal to various segments of the audience. Both Marvel and DC have published titles based on the animated X-Men: Evolution and Batman series.
Marvel refers to itself as the House of Ideas. Please note that that does not necessarily mean NEW ideas. We’ve seen the debut of Marvel Age Spider-Man, with Marvel Age Fantastic Four soon to follow. These titles will feature retellings of old stories.
To simply take an old story and retell it seems redundant, at best. I can appreciate trying to appeal to a 2004 audience, which admittedly is difficult to do with a story written in 1964. I just fail to find much difference between all their regular ongoing Spider-Man series, and Ultimate Spider-Man to justify regurgitating old material. According to Comic Shop News #864, “it’s not a reprint, but a reworking done with today’s reader’s in mind.”
Once again, I blame Hollywood, for coining the term “re-imagining.” When Planet of the Apes was remade...
Let’s not kid ourselves. Despite what Tim Burton said, it was a remake. What’s the movie about? It’s about an astronaut who crash lands on an Earth-like planet where apes are the dominant species, and humans are treated like animals, only to discover he’s actually on Earth of the future. When the story is the same, it’s a remake.
...the term re-imagining gave filmmakers a license to cheat, to take an old idea and update it. “Remake” has become code for “We’re out of ideas,” but re-imagining suggests something new. Usually for the better, as in the case of Dracula. While I love the 1931 version starring Bela Lugosi, it’s pretty dull, especially when compared to the 1992 version.
But just as often, the new version pales in comparison. The sole purpose of such a project is to satisfy audiences who demand a fresh, NEW product. New implies something never before seen.
Eventually, one will find a person unfamiliar with The Fugitive watching Incredible Hulk reruns, or casting a Peoples Choice “Best New Song” vote to a Justin Soundalike’s version of “My Way.” I don’t fault younger audiences for not knowing what’s come before. Some are just too young to have had the time to discover certain aspects of pop culture.
But older audiences, which would include the editorial staff of Marvel Comics, should know better. I could understand this if the intent was to bring an end to current continuity and start over fresh. However, this seems be Marvel dusting off old stories simply to fill empty pages. If you truly want something NEW, that would mean NEW art, NEW story. You can find that in their regular ongoing titles.
Most people who are interested in such stories would just as soon have them as they were originally published years ago. Sure, the art is cartoonish and the coloring is flat, but they are comic books after all. In many older comics the action is compressed, and eight pages may tell the same story as 24 pages in modern comics. Icall that more bang for my buck.
I would recommend to Quesada & Co. that instead of wasting valuable talent and publishing resources on rehashed plots, maybe they should develope new ideas and characters to enhance their Marvel-ous universe and cultivate new readers for the comics industry as a whole. •
Praise and adulation? Scorn and ridicule? Email me at philip@comicbookbin.com.
Past Articles by Philip Schweier
The Bristol Board Jungle: A Review
Tales From The Bristol Board Jungle!
Remembering Julie Schwartz
Sequential Art at SCAD
Submissive Mail
Hitting the Motherlode in Utah
Wiping Out on the Wave of Nostalgia
Will Lightning Strike Twice?
Euro Comics
This is your captain?
The Incredible Hulk DVD Collection
DC vs. Marvel
Death, Take a Holiday!
Looking In on The Outsiders
News Bytes From The DC Universe
A Whole lot of Chaykin Goin' On
Superman/Thundercats (no, I'm not kidding)
Rucka Retires...
Why Jim Steranko Deserves all the Awards he Can Get
Are Trade Paperbacks the Future of Comics?
Crisis in the Infinite Continuity
How old is Batman?
Humour in Comics
Why Kids Don't Read Comics?
Superman Who?
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Are Single Tax Teachings Emasculated?
Antonio Bastida
[Reprinted from The Single Tax Review, 1921, pp. 9-15]
It seems to us that the following is an admirable expression of a point of view, in which, though there are statements from which we would dissent, we find much to commend. But at all events, it is certain to be read with interest, and expressions of opinion from readers of the Review are invited. - Editor, Single Tax Review
In the Sunday schools last week, throughout the Christian world, was told the story of the angels who appeared to the shepherds in the fields of Bethlehem proclaiming the advent of Christ, with the glad tidings of "peace on earth and good will to man."
Why is it then that today almost all of the powerful Christian nations of the world are engaged in bloody strife? That pious, but rival. Emperors, [priests] and peoples are daily praying to God to bless their armies and help them to slaughter those children of God who are on the other side of their political boundaries?
Is it not that Christians no longer follow the teachings of Christ to bade them work for the Kingdom of God on earth? "Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Is it not because they no longer preach the doctrine of the common fatherhood of God and brotherhood of man? Is it not because the effective force of the doctrine which looked toward reform on earth has been superseded by an attenuated spiritual doctrine which rewards suffering here below with an usurious reward on the other side of the grave?
Many writers have pointed out that the teachings of Christ were disturbing to the rulers and culture of His time, as indeed they are to the present, and to St. Paul is generally ascribed this shifting of the reward from this world to the next. Certainly it is due to his writings and advice, "Be ye all things to all men," that Christianity became respectable.
Shorn of its virility, impotent to harm privileged interests, loaded down with platitudinous precepts, robbed of its message of hope and happiness for mankind, - nearly all the civilized world now calling itself Christian - man is systematically exploited by man and nations engage in wholesale murder. This is emasculated Christianity!
In 1878 appeared a book destined to have a powerful influence on the future welfare of mankind; little at first when the small edition of "Progress and Poverty" was published and read by the professors of political economy; greater when Mr. George went to Ireland and was put in jail for preaching the truth in favor of the expropriated crofters; still greater when in an independent political campaign he polled 68,000 votes as a candidate for mayor in the city of New York.
We have all read this marvelous book, which combines crystal logic with word color and tone to such a degree that a critic was led to characterize the author as an inspired seer. This book has colored our lives; to it we proudly refer as to the source of our hope for the moral, as well as the material advancement of mankind; to many of us it is the bible of our only religion - humanity.
Now what was the message of Henry George to mankind?
After an exhaustive and close analysis of the causes of poverty and misery covering some three hundred pages, in book VI. of "Progress and Poverty" he brings forth his remedy.
"We must make land common property."
There then is the dictum of our prophet. Do we follow it? Are Single Taxers known as abolitionists of property in land? Does the democratic party reward confessed abolitionists of private property in land with appointments and nominations; does it send them to congress? The question may be begged by saying real estate men know it. To which I may rejoin, are we seeking to convert real estate operators while letting the people remain in ignorance of our cause? The truth is Single Taxers are not preaching the abolition of private property in land, so let us examine the book further.
Mr. George goes on to say, "it is not necessary to confiscate land, it is necessary only to confiscate rent." "We may safely leave the landlords the shell if we take the kernel." Are we known as confiscators of rent? Again we may answer yes, by the real estate men, for it is their business to know and guard against us. But do the people know?
Turn to the book again. Mr. George sa3rs, "As we take already part of rent in taxation, all we have to do is to take the balance."
At last we have got down to a tax. From the remedy we have come to the method. Now I have no fault to find with the method; what I want to do is to show that Mr. George in converting us, first pointed out a remedy for poverty and then a method of applying it, and that we persist in trying to convert the people by preaching the method only, keeping silent about the remedy itself. Without playing on words I want to say we have become methodists and have ceased to be abolitionists, to the great detriment of our cause.
Why have we elevated a tax as our slogan in place of the inspiring cry of "the land for the people?" I think it was because we developed a modem St. Paul in our movement, a man who like St. Paul saw the light through the medium of his position and training in society. In 1887 Mr. Thomas G. Shearman, a prominent lawyer and millionaire, then traveling in Switzerland, sent The Standard, published by Henry George, an article pointing out that a tax on the value of land would be sufficient for all governmental expenses and that other taxes would be unnecessary. The acting editor of the Standard, probably with the best motives in the world, capped this article "The Single Tax."
From this article we derive our name, and from the teachings of Thomas G. Shearman, limited Single Taxer and free trader, as put forth in his book "Natural Taxation," we have become fiscal reformers and respectable, while still honoring Henry George as our prophet.
The consequence of this change has been enormous. To it is due undoubtedly Mr. George's error of judgment, when, against the advice of Dr. McGlynn, he dropped the battle cry of "free land and free men" and led us away from the local field where the land issue should be fought, and entered the federal field as allies of the democratic party on the tariff issue. In doing this we antagonize all believers in protection, who were then, and still are, a majority in the nation. Also we antagonized all the temperance men and prohibitionists, who were for a tax on liquor. Then, as now, in our stupidity, we said, and still say, "Oh, he is not a Single Taxer, he believes in a tax on imports or liquors, etc." Of course he is not a Single Taxer, if we worship the words Single and Tax, but if you come to hate both words and understand that our object is to confiscate rent to the uses of the people, you will have no reason to say that any one believing in doing that is not with us, no matter how many other taxes he believes in.
Shall we persist in this stupidity? Shall we continue, conceited in our logic, boastful of our superior intelligence to insult our neighbors and then wonder why we do not make more progress? Must we always insist that a man shall cure himself of all economic fallacies before we will allow him to help us make land common property?
Is it not common sense on the other hand for us to say to the protectionist and the temperance man, your issues are national ones. We have an issue here in the State which we believe will cure poverty. We assert that land is of right common property and we want your help in making it so, and we care not how you vote for president and congress in the meantime, for cannot we do the same? After a man once sees the injustice of private property in land his eyes are opened and he soon drops his belief in a protective tariff; but a temperance man may still believe very logically in a tax on liquors as a restrictive measure.
To me it seems logical to think that it will be easy to get rid of taxes on the products of labor when the treasury is overflowing with collected rents, and conversely it looks beyond the bounds of reason to expect that governmental extravagance will allow the lopping off of any important tax beforehand.
Now for many years I thought the Single Tax programme was very beautiful. I wanted a tax - I did not want any other - consequently I wanted a Single Tax. Beautiful is the word, is it not? Well - after a Rip Van Winkle sleep I became conscious and was surprised to find that while I and my comrades had grown old, and that many had passed on, that there was a dearth of young blood. Where, Oh where is the army of young Single Taxers which should replace us? For lack of a fitting reply let us keep silent a moment.
Go to a Socialist meeting and observe the enthusiastic young men there. Why are they there and not with us? Because in our fiscal teaching there is nothing to enthuse over, and frankly, for that reason, the Socialists have a profound contempt for the Single Taxer. I am sorry to say this contempt in my opinion is merited. Had we preached common property in land they would have respected us.
Now I do not want to convey the impression that our wrong policy is maliciously maintained, for it is not, no more than are the platitudinous teachings of the church by the congregations. There, as with us, the really religious clothe the platitudinous mouthings of the ministers with their own deep feeling so that they do not perceive or suspect the absence of application or force in it. And so we hear or read a fiscal argument with its well known phrases for the Single Tax, and knowing that our own intention is the ultimate confiscation of rent, we fancy it says so in the argument. But to the uninitiated it is not there at all, and if we read it again with our attention drawn to it, we too must confess that it is not there. Take the letterhead of a leading Single Tax club, containing an exposition of the Single Tax. Now the writer of this letter-head is no doubt a good Single Taxer, no doubt either that he was honestly using the current style of argument, but, does he really convey our truth to the heathen? No; we can see it, but the heathen cannot. Suppose we put the club letter and a paraphrase of it in parallel columns; perhaps we can see then why it does not.
CLUB LETTER.
The Single Tax will abolish all taxes save one on the value of land, exempting improvements.
The Single Tax is not a tax on real estate, which includes improvements. Nor a tax on land, for it would tax only such land as is valuable, and would tax that in proportion to value. This would provide all public revenues - municipal, county, state and national.
The Single Tax would get rid of those taxes which promote fraud, perjury and corruption. It would enormously increase the production of wealth by removing the burdens that now weigh upon industry. A tax on things made by man tends to decrease the supply and increase the cost.
But the taxation of land values makes land more available, since it would be unprofitable for owners of valuable land to hold it idle for speculation.
Taxation of the products of labor and the insufficient taxation of land values produce an unjust distribution of wealth, which gives us the hundredfold millionaire on the one side and the tramp and the pauper on the other.
This condition generates thieves and social parasites of all kinds, and requires large expenditures of money and energy in watchmen, policemen, courts, prisons, and other means of defense and repression.
The taxes we would abolish fall most heavily on the poor, and tend to congest population in the great cities. The Single Tax would destroy that monopoly of land which is crowding the people too close in some places, and scattering them too far apart in others.
The Single Tax will abolish all taxes save one on the value of slaves, exempting their clothing.
The Single Tax is not a tax on plantations, which includes improvements. Nor a tax on slaves, for it would tax only such slaves as are valuable and would tax them in proportion to their value. This would provide all public revenues, etc.
The tax on slaves would get rid of the taxes which promote fraud, perjury, etc.
But the taxation of slave values make slaves more available, since it would be unprofitable for owners of valuable slaves to hold them idle for speculation.
Taxation of the products of labor and the insufficient taxation of slave values produce an unjust, etc.
The taxes we would abolish fall most heavily on the poor, and tend to congest population in the great cities. The tax on slave values would destroy that Monopoly of slaves which is crowding them and the people too close in some places, and scattering them too far apart in others.
Now it is very clear that there is no argument in the paraphrase for the abolition of slavery, and just as clearly is it apparent in reading the letterhead, as it was written, that there is no argument in it for the abolition of private property in land; neither does it advocate the confiscation of rent to the use of the people. The simple change of slave value for land value exposes the weakness of the fiscal form of propaganda, but a greater evil grows out of its use, for in and out of the shifting technical interpretations of fiscal terms the Single Tax politician can dodge his accusers. Now I am getting on dangerous ground. For, is it not treason to criticise those Single Taxers who, by reason of appointment or election, have secured the prefix of Honorable to their names? Are these men holy because they are known to us as Single Taxers? Unfortunately, many people believe it is treason or sacrilege; unfortunately, instead of holding the belief that just because they are Single Taxers much is expected of them, the style is to defend their silence as good policy, or to extol their bravery if they emit some innocuous Single Tax platitudes. This attitude abets the propaganda of emasculated Single Tax.
For example, in a certain State at the last election a well-known Single Taxer ran for Congress. As he failed of election he is not an Honorable, and I may therefore possibly criticise him without being excommunicated. Mr. R., candidate for United States Senator, was accused by Senator S. of being in favor of land confiscation. Did Mr. R. say to Senator S., "No, Senator, I do not think it is necessary to confiscate land, I hold with Henry George, that it is only necessary to confiscate rent." Now if he had said this it would have been the truth and you will notice the distinction would not have made much difference. However, he did not say this, but like Peter he denied his Master. He said, "The statement is false and Senator S. knows it, yet he will continue to use it." Then as a further argument for the Senator not to press this charge he said, "He (Senator S.) knows that it is not within the power of Congress to change our system of taxation. Under the Constitution Congress cannot levy a land tax and a Senator cannot vote for a land tax." Why then does Mr. R., a Single Taxer, and others like him, try to go to Washington? Why not go to his State Legislature? I thank him for giving me such a fine endorsement of the policy I have been advocating for the past four years. Now Senator S. is not deceived by this denial, and it served only to deceive the people, for the Senator knows that it was a cowardly evasion, and respects him as one politician respects another. Mr. R. went on to say - "Many of the largest land owners in the State are my friends and are working for my election." God save the mark! Did Mr. R. ever test these friends by telling them that landlords might safely be left the shell if the people took the kernel of rent? Of course not. He probably expounded the beauties of free trade and the abolition of taxes which bear on industry.
Let Single Taxers proclaim that they are out to abolish private property in land and I will assure you that none of them will be nominated or appointed to office by those parties whose treasuries are replenished in campaign times by vested interests.
Will the cause suffer if certain individuals can no longer hope to satisfy their political ambitions by hanging onto the skirts of the Democratic or Progressive parties? Must we concede that there is no means for them to gain a livelihood outside of political office? No, the cause will not suffer; on the contrary, let the issue be boldly proclaimed, inflexibly maintained, that the land of a State belongs to the people of the State; that the looting and locking up of this common estate by monopolists is the cause of unemployment and poverty to the expropriated, and there will be an awakening among the people of the State which will quickly restore that "howling dervish" enthusiasm which permeated the ranks of the early Single Taxers.
Let this condition once be established and I prophesy that these same men and others like them will start or support State independent political parties, which under the banner of Land and Liberty will march on the State capitals; then will they enroll the people on an issue which appeals to the moral sense of justice of all men.
Why then should we not organize? Is not the issue of common property in land big enough, broad enough and fundamental enough to warrant the organization of State parties to attain it? Is it not of more importance than any or all of the issues now dividing the parties within State boundaries? Can a real Single Taxer return any other than an affirmative answer? What then is needed? Simply the coming together in each State, where there are any Single Taxers left, of a few men animated by zeal and enough self-sacrifice to work for the formation of a State organization.
Shall we wait for other nations to lead the way? Impelled by misdirected patriotism and on mainly inconsequential, if not wholly fallacious issues, our kindred across the sea are engaged in a titanic struggle involving the reckless sacrifice of the flower of their manhood and the destruction of the accumulated wealth of the peoples; why should not we, the native and adopted sons of America, forming a composite nation, set them and the whole civilized world the example of brotherhood by burying all differences of birth and creed and start a battle through the ballot box for the common heritage with its open opportunity; the object of which shall be to bring justice, peace and plenty to all and sorrow to none?
This cause shall prevail, not by hiding its light under a bushel; not by evasions or diluted teachings, but by the force of the living truth that is in it. And, while we older men may not live to see the harvest, we shall fill the present day with honest endeavor and thereby merit and command the esteem of our comrades, at the same time setting a worthy example for them who shall follow after this on the path toward Land and Liberty, with resultant health and happiness for society.
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EP29-Girls with Guts: An Analysis with Deb Gonzales
In this episode, Deb Gonzales uses the author’s note from her debut non-fiction picture book GIRLS WITH GUTS: THE ROAD TO BREAKING BARRIERS AND BASHING RECORDS as the basis to analyze the foreboding competition demonstrated in the NCAA championship game between Baylor and Notre Dame. Deb explores the performance of two key players and their coaches, proving that they depict the ultimate expression of what it means to play like a girl!
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June 8: Joint Book Launch with Deb Pilutti, Nancy Shaw & Tracy Gallup - Ann Arbor, MI
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Tagged: NCAA, basketball, Baylor, Notre DAme, tenacity, Girls with Guts
EP28-The Answer Is Very Clear...You Can Do Anything with Ashley Wiles
In this episode, self-proclaimed ‘rule-breaker’, mental health advocate, and entrepreneur Ashley Wiles discusses how her once challenging relationship with her mother served to inspire her life’s work - mentoring young girls with the values and skills needed to achieve any goal they desire. As founder of Sole Girls, Ashley encourages her young athletes to improve their outlook on life by becoming physically active and engaging in the 3 C’s of her program - confidence, community and concentration.
About Ashley Wiles:
Ashley Wiles, founder and Head Coach of Sole Girls, Youth Speaker, Life Coach, 3x Iron(wo)man, Ironman 70.3 World Championship competitor and Mental Health Advocate. Growing up in a family of runners, Ashley started running at 5 years old, and now runs and competes in triathlons around the world.
While working as a life coach, dealing with anxiety and then seeing Amanda Todd’s video in 2012, she created Sole Girls. Ashley was named top 10 young entrepreneurs to watch in Vancouver by the Globe and Mail, and top 5 motivators in Canada by Impact Magazine; and recently the 2016 Most Inspiring Coach in North America by Brooks Running.
Ashley has spoken At TedxKidsBC, Rogers Arena, SheTalks as well as schools in Canada and abroad. She travels to teach workshops for adults and girls, hold leadership summits and empower others.
Sole Girls was named top 5 small business in BC with a Community Impact by Small Business BC, and has expanded to license sole girls curriculum globally. She travels to teach workshops for adults and girls, hold leadership summits and empower others.
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Website - https://www.solegirls.org/our-story/
Books - A Girl’s Guide to Finding Her Happy Pace (Indiegogo)
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Twitter - @evaruns
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Tagged: runner, triathlon, mental health, mentorship
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EP27-Just Being With the Dogs Is Winning with Terry Lynn Johnson
In this episode, author and musher Terry Lynn Johnson, most likely one of the bravest women Deb has ever met, talks about the dangers she’s confronted in the freezing wilderness of Ontario, Canada and how those experiences have become fodder for Terry’s amazing, adventure-packed books for kids.
About Terry Lynn Johnson:
Terry Lynn Johnson writes middle grade adventures based on her experiences living in northern Ontario, Canada. She might have fallen through ice a time or two, been dragged by a dog team, blown up a wood stove, been attacked by a sloth (slowly), nearly drowned on a portage, and chased a bear with a chainsaw. She owned eighteen sled dogs, but now owns one border collie who is almost smart enough to type out her own adventures.
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Website - http://terrylynnjohnson.com/
Books - http://terrylynnjohnson.com/books.php
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Tagged: Dogsledding, Mushing
EP26-Why Not Me? Can I Try? with Debbie Clarke Moderow
Debbie Clarke Moderow describes the her intimate connection with her dogs as friends and teammates. She explores the complexities she experienced as being a devoted mother and the pull of independence required to become an elite athlete. Debbie hails from a fascinating lineage of strong, athletic women who were willing to challenge societal norms in different ways, a calling that has been passed on to her daughter, Hannah. In this episode, Deb encourages young athletic girls to ask questions, demand answers, and to give it your all in anything you choose to do.
About Debbie Clarke Moderow:
Debbie Clarke Moderow is the author of Fast Into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs, and their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail. The memoir recounts her experience running Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and explores her deepening and inextricable bond with her team of Alaskan huskies. The memoir, her first book, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in February 2016 and will be released by Boreal Books of Red Hen Press in June 2018. Debbie earned a BA from Princeton University in 1977 and an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific Lutheran University’s Rainier Writing Workshop in 2013. She and her husband Mark live in Denali Park and Anchorage Alaska.
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Website - http://debbieclarkemoderow.com/
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Tagged: Iditarod, Musher, N.O.W., Motherhood
EP25-The All-American Baseball League: They've Defined My Life with Sue Macy
Sue Macy is passionately steeped in the history of the female athlete. Writing their stories has been her life’s work. She’s met the most accomplished females competitors of all time, face-to-face. Donna De Varona, Althea Gibson, and those incredible women of the All American Girls Baseball League to name just a few. She has been privileged to do so because she honors their legacies with her words, and her heart. In this episode, Sue talks about being athletic as girl and yet stymied by the limitations of growing up in a pre-Title IX era.
About Sue Macy:
Sue Macy is a published author and an editor of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Sue Macy include Swifter, Higher, Stronger: A Photographic History of the Summer Olympics, Bull's-Eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley (Photobiographies), Freeze Frame: A Photographic History of the Winter Olympics.
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Tagged: Sue Macy, All-American Baseball League, Female Athletics
EP24-The Protective Bond of a Team: We Had Each Other with Katie Mather
In this episode, Katie describes the special bond players have with their teammates and coaches. Katie also, quite candidly, discusses a terrifying experience in which her fierce sense of athleticism could have, quite possibly, saved her life.
About Katie Mather:
Katie Mather is a former teacher, a devoted mother, a writer, a civic leader, and the host of podcast Out Of Curiosity. She not only lives in Vermont an earned her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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Podcast - Out of Curiosity
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Tagged: soccer, mather, teammates
EP23-We're Responsible to Pave the Way with Anne Torrez
Anne Torrez is a mom, an athlete, an entrepreneur, a coach and founder of Tri It Your Way, a triathlon training service. Anne discovered her brilliance and value as a human being through competing in the triathlon. In this episode, Anne discusses the transformation she’s undergone from being a very shy girl to becoming a focused, determined athlete and how her evolution fuels her compassion to help others do the same.
About Anne Torrez:
Speaker, coach, and athlete Anne Torrez Is the founder of Tri It Your Way, an online and in-person coaching program for triathletes who want to improve their performance and efficiency. She dabbled in various sports and activities when she was younger, my true road to fitness and racing began when she was in grad school. Anne felt unhealthy and unsatisfied with her energy and happiness levels. Anne began with picking up recreational running and trail biking, and learning more about how to eat more healthfully. On a whim, she signed up for a triathlon to challenge and motivate herself. Anne didn't know much about structured training, and didn't know how to swim, but after training for and racing her first triathlon she was hooked! Before discovering this sport, and had never found something that excited her so much or gave her such drive and motivation to excel.
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Website - https://www.triityourway.com/
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Tagged: triathlon, running, Girls with Guts
EP22-There's No Glory in Easy with Kim Chaffee
Author Kim Chaffee candidly discusses the inspiration for her incredible debut non-fiction picture book HER FEARLESS RUN: KATHRINE SWITZER’S HISTORIC BOSTON MARATHON, and how the experience has had a lasting impact on her life. Motivated by a deep dedication to health and family, Kim’s caring and humble spirit is demonstrated by the philanthropic organizations she has developed and participated in. Listeners will want to cheer Kim on as #ThisWriterRunsBoston in support of Switzer’s 261 Fearless.
About Kim Chaffee:
Former teacher, Kim Chaffee is the debut author of the epic non-fiction picture book HER FEARLESS RUN: KATHRINE SWITZER’S HISTORIC BOSTON MARATHON to be launched in April, 2019. While working on Kathrine Switzer’s story has taught Kim that running in magic and with each step comes strength. Kim is a cofounder of New in 19, a group of authors and illustrators with trade picture books debuting in 2019.
Kim’s Contact Information:
Website - http://www.kimchaffee.com/
HER FEARLESS RUN: Kathrine Switzer's Historic Boston Marathon (Page Street Kids, 2019)
Contact Kim - http://www.kimchaffee.com/contact.html
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Tagged: Marathoner, author, Chaffee, Switzer, Boston
EP21-Big Goals Require a Long-Term Mindset with Silvia Acevedo
Author, reporter, and avid athlete, Silvia Acevedo, shares her passion for competitive speed skating, a sport she discovered as an adult. Silvia explores the diligence and devotion required to achieve personal and professional goals, on the ice and in all other aspects of life. She states that to crush lofty goals, an individual must own a daily commitment to work on them, little by little, each and every day.
About Silvia Acevedo:
Silvia Acevedo is a journalist and novelist. In her 20 years in news, she’s interviewed presidential candidates, covered national and international stories, and given breaking news reports for CNN and local TV and radio stations around the country. She’s guest hosted a television morning talk show featuring the lighter side of news on Milwaukee’s NBC station. Silvia currently freelances at various news publications and performs voice-over work.
All her years reporting objective fact enticed her to delve into her imagination in her off time. Ms. Acevedo brought fiction — particularly mythology — back into her life. Once she did, the gods of old pestered her until she relented to write about one in particular. The result is the God Awful series of books, starting with God Awful Loser, its sequel, God Awful Thief, and a final book on the way.
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Website: http://www.silviaacevedo.com/
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Tagged: speedskating, sportcasting, author
EP20-Do the Thing You Think You Can't with Michelle Cooper (aka Hella Waits)
Michelle Cooper describes the tender and supportive side of the physically active, and sometimes violent, sport of roller derby. She explores ways that the sport challenges the heart and soul of each competitor. Michelle also explains the notion that there are times in life that we have to borrow another’s belief in ourselves when we no longer have the strength to do so alone.
About Michelle Cooper:
Michelle Cooper is not your average Author | Speaker & Business Alchemy Advisor – in fact, she’s not your average anything!
At the heart of all of it, Michelle is an Influencer dedicated to shifting the conversation around money, shame, our perception of personal value and how we co-create the reality of our dreams. Michelle is a no-holds-barred financial powerhouse with a passion for seeing others succeed.
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Website - https://michellebcooper.com/
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Tagged: roller derby, Girls with Guts, tenacity, determination, grit
EP19-It's About Consistency Over Time with Laura Kebart
Educator and entrepreneur, Laura Kebart, describes how her dedication to fitness and passion for education combine to create a life full of creativity, healthy activity, and service. Laura shares that the secret to the establishment and achievement both athletic and professional goals is consistency over time. Laura’s lifetime commitment to marathoning serves as the inspiration for all that she does - personally and professionally.
About laura Kebart:
Languageartsteachers.com is a website and small business created by Laura Kebart, a certified (grades 6-12) middle school Language Arts teacher and M.Ed. dedicated to helping educators teach awesome lessons each day of the school year while still having a life outside the classroom for both themselves and their families.
Laura has spent nearly 20 years teaching English / Language Arts to grades 6-12 AND as in instructional coach. Now she serve super-crazy-busy Middle School ELA teachers who are sick to death of sacrificing their personal / family time prepping for class.
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Website - https://languageartsteachers.com/
Tagged: running, Marathoner, education, entrerpreneur
EP18-Solely Responsible for Many Beating Hearts with Hannah Moderow
Hannah Moderow’s lifelong passion for the frigid Junior Iditarod was birthed when she began dog sledding independently at five years old. In this episode, she describes the dangers and delights of being a “musher,” as well as the loving bond she shares with her sled dogs. For Hannah, dog sledding is a family tradition, one that will, most likely, be celebrated for generations to come.
About Hannah:
Hannah Moderow is a lifelong Alaskan. She holds an MFA in writing for children from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA in English and art history from Cornell University.
Hannah decided to become a writer when she was in elementary school because she loved words and stories and adventures. LILY’S MOUNTAIN is her first novel.
Growing up in Alaska, Hannah was lucky to spend a lot of time outdoors hiking, camping, skiing, and dog sledding.
Hannah raced in the Junior Iditarod while in high school. After graduating from college in 2006, she spent a year living at her family’s kennel in Denali National Park so that she could mush across the state of Alaska in the 2007 Serum Run expedition from Nenana to Nome, Alaska.
Hannah currently lives in Anchorage with her husband, daughter, and sled dog. On a clear day, she can see Denali. When she's not spending time outside with her family or writing stories, she works at Make-A-Wish Alaska and Washington.
hannah’s Contact Information:
Website - https://www.hannahmoderow.com/
Email - hannahmoderowbooks@gmail.com.
Instagram - @hannah.moderow
News about LILY’S MOUNTAIN
Tagged: Iditarod, dog-sledding, Make-a-Wish, Author
EP17-Every Girl is Full of Power with Rhonda Fields
Rhonda Fields is the Executive Director of the Girls on the Run of Southeastern Michigan. In this episode, she and Deb discuss the transformational effect that participation in athletics has on a girl, how teamwork opens one’s perspective of the world, and the joy she experiences when witnessing one of her girls crossing the finish line.
Girls on the Run® is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to creating a world where every girl knows and activates her limitless potential and is free to boldly pursue her dreams.
Meeting twice a week in small teams, we teach life skills through dynamic, interactive lessons and running games. The curriculum is taught by certified Girls on the Run coaches and includes three parts: understanding ourselves, valuing relationships and teamwork and understanding how we connect with and shape the world at large.
Girls on the Run- Instagram
Girls on the Run - Facebook
Girls on the Run - Twitter
Girls on the Run- YouTube
Girls on the Run - Pinterest
Girls on the Run - LinkedIn
Click here to pre-order a copy of GIRLS WITH GUTS: BREAKING BARRIERS AND BASHING RECORDS (Charlesbridge, 2019)
Tagged: Girls on the Run, running, coaching
EP16-Commitment: Figure Out a Way to Make it Work with Jen Mueller
Sportscaster Jen Mueller openly shares how the values she was taught as a child have shaped the professional she is today, how leadership is developed through sport, and how speaking with confidence impacts the perception of competence. Jen has created a fascinating career founded on being genuinely interested in others and discovering unique ways to connect with them - on and off the field.
About Jen Mueller:
Jen Mueller, America’s Expert Talker, pursued a career in sports broadcasting after repeated comments of “talks too much” from teachers and family members. Jen currently works as a member of the Seattle Mariners television broadcast on ROOT SPORTS and as the Seattle Seahawks sideline radio reporter.
Jen founded Talk Sporty to Me in 2009 as a way to leverage sports fandom in business conversations. She provides practical conversation strategies based on more than 15 years spent in sports broadcasting.
Jen is the author of two books, Talk Sporty to Me: Thinking Outside the Box Scores and Game Time: Learn to Talk Sports in 5 Minutes a Day for Business.
A life-long sports fan, Jen spent 10 years as a high school football official. She graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2000 with degrees in broadcast journalism and public policy.
Connect with Jen:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/JenTalksSports
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/talksportytome/
Email - Jen@TalkSportyToMe.com
Website - https://www.talksportytome.com
The Influential Conversationalist: Conversation skills that develop leadership potential
Talk Sporty To Me: Thinking Outside the Box Scores
Game Time: Learn to Talk Sports in 5 Minutes a Day for Business
The Influential Conversationalist
Seattle Sports Commission Women’s Leadership Breakfast
Root Sports
Tagged: sportcasting, basketball, volleyball, leadership, mentorship, commitment
EP15-What's the Point of Not Letting Girls Play with The Girl Scouts: Cadette Troop 45003
Following a presentation focusing on the premise of GIRLS WITH GUTS: THE ROAD TO BREAKING BARRIERS AND BASHING RECORDS, Deb records a brief Q & A session in which members of Girl Scout Troop 45003 respond to the foreign notion that there was once a dangerous time in history when females were not welcome in the athletic arena. Initially, the girls found the concept to be outlandish and quite humorous. Later, after the awareness that, historically a girl’s freedom to compete was threatened, Troop 45003 recognized in a potential call to action.
EP14-Title IX: Civil Rights for Women with Author Karen Blumenthal
Karen Blumenthal, brilliant author and historian, chronicles spirited events that took place leading up to and following the passage of Title IX. She states that, even more than laws passed during the Civil Rights Movement, Title IX is the most significant equal rights law for women. As a young girl, Karen “desperately” wanted to be a true athletic competitor. Today, she celebrates the fact that young women are freely encouraged to do so.
About Karen Blumenthal:
As a long-time journalist, Karen Blumenthal writes nonfiction for young people with the belief that nonfiction brings context to a complicated world. She is particularly fascinated by social change, how it happens and why. As a financial writer, she aims to write from the consumer’s and investor’s point of view, trying to answer their questions, cut through the marketing hype and arm them with useful insights that will help them make better and more-rewarding decisions.
Women’s Sports Foundation
Donna de Varona
Sue Macy
Edith Greene
Patsy Mink
Karen’s Books:
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
Bonnie and Clyde: The Making of a Legend
Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929: A Wall Street Journal Book for Children
Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America
Tagged: Title IX, journalism
EP13: It's Okay to be Afraid with Cori Myka
In this episode, Cori Myka shares how her life-long passion for swimming has guided her life’s work. As a young girl, Cori found a confidence, contentment, and a sense of belonging in the pool. As an instructor of adults, she’s grown to admire her students’ courageous efforts to face their fears, both in and out of the water. Cori talks about empowering her students to understand the stages of panic and to trust themselves to know what to do because, she believes, they are already perfect and whole inside.
About Cori Myka:
Cori started her swim teaching career at the young age of 14, when she volunteered at a local pool in her native Southern California community. In 1999, she co-founded Orca Swim School, together with her husband Bruce. In 2004 she was thrilled to work with Melon Dash to learn Miracle Swimming for adults. Cori became one of the first people certified to teach this breakthrough method of swim instruction. It has shaped the focus of her business and ignited her passion for teaching adults to swim, especially those with a fear of water. This teaching method became so important that the focus changed to include teaching others how to use Miracle Swimming. She began working with Melon to teach new instructors, and has taught her own staff to use Miracle Swimming, as well.
Orca Swim School for Adults
Melon Dash
Miracle Swimming
Facebook: Orca Swim School - Adult Swim Lessons
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cori-myka
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCszG-fOXGtpjPDRjSQM-BAQ
Tagged: swimming, fear
EP12-Risks are Worth It with Lindsay Leslie
In this episode, Lindsay Leslie candidly shares how her connection with athletics saved her life. She shares how her past athletic experiences became the source she needed to pull on in efforts to find the strength to heal from a potentially devastating illness. Lindsay’s motto is “Once an athlete, always an athlete.” Lindsay discussed how sports gave her the confidence required to take risks in her craft, and in her life.
About Lindsay Leslie:
A diary keeper, a journal writer, a journalism major, a public relations executive—Lindsay Leslie has always operated in a world of written words. When she became a mom and began to tell her kids bedtime stories, Lindsay connected the dots to children’s literature. She likes to bring her unique outlook on life, quirky humor, and play with words to the page in picture books.
Lindsay has always been an athlete of some sort. She played basketball, ran track, and played volleyball up until her high school years, and then volleyball became everything. Lindsay played varsity as well as club during those years. She also competed in club athletics throughout college. As an adult, she completed both a sprint- and Olympic-distance triathlon, was an avid cyclist for many years, and is now into weightlifting and running. Being an athlete is an “everyday thing” for her, and it shows.
Website: lindsayleslie.com
Facebook: @AuthorLindsayLeslie
Twitter: @lleslie
Instagram: @lindsaylesliewrites
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This Book is Spineless
Cate Berry
Penguin & Shrimp Don’t To Bedtime
Kim Chaffee
Katrina Moore
Matthew Winner
Lisa Hesse
Girls with Guts: The Road to Breaking Barriers and Bashing Records
Charlesbridge
Nova: The Star Eater
Wanted: Dusk Raiders
Tagged: Lindsay Leslie, running, volleyball, basketball, debut
EP11-Broken, Yet Undaunted with Kaitlyn Bean
Kaitlyn Bean is truly a girl with guts. In this episode, Kaitlyn describes a horrific car accident she experienced, one that left her with two broken legs and a crushed heal. Doctors told her that she would, most likely, recover to walk with a limp and that her running days were over. Determined to prove them wrong, Kaitlyn summoned all the mental strength she could muster. Miraculously, exactly one year after her accident, Kaitlyn crossed the finish line of the Livingston Manor Half Marathon!
About Kaitlyn Bean:
Katie Bean has been a camping and youth development professional since 2012. Katie has helped lead successful and engaging resident camp and outdoor education experiences for thousands of campers throughout her career, promoting character values and inclusion among staff and campers alike. She is also passionate about sharing the value of health and fitness with her colleagues in the camping community. She is currently serving as a camp director in New York, though she is proud to call West Michigan her home. In her free time, Katie enjoys long-distance running, reading, and trying the many small-town restaurants sprinkled throughout the Catskills.
YMCA Core Values
The Catskills Mountains
Frost Valley YMCA (where Kaitlyn works)
Scenic Catskills/NY Route 28
Oiselle Volée (Kaitlyn’s running team)
Tagged: Runnimg, Marathoner, survivor, core values, YoungLife
EP10-Fencing Found Me with Olympian Felicia Zimmerman
In this episode, two-time Olympic contender Felicia Zimmerman talks about her childhood experiences as a shy girl who became empowered the first time she placed a fencing mask on her face. Her sister, Iris, has had a life-time impact on Felicia’s competitive nature, developing confidence, and as a joint business owner. Listen as she describes what it felt like to compete in the Olympics with her sister by her side.
About Felicia Zimmerman:
Felicia Zimmermann is the only woman to win NCAA titles in foil (1998) and epee (1999). A team captain and Block S winner, she was known for her ability to out-think opponents and versatility with any weapon. Zimmermann captured four U.S. foil titles – only two women have won more – and was the first American fencer to claim the World Cup overall championship in under-20 category. She competed in the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics, helping the U.S. finish fourth in team foil in Sydney. In 2013, Zimmermann was inducted into the U.S. Fencing Hall of Fame and, most recently, the 2018 Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame. She lives in Egypt with her husband, Tamerzein. An accomplished pianist, she earned a degree in mechanical engineering, speaks three languages, and works as a management consultant. Zimmermann and her younger sister, Iris, who won an NCAA foil title for Stanford in 2001, are co-owners of the Rochester Fencing Club.
The 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games
The 2000 Sydney Olympic Games
Stanford University Hall of Fame
Tagged: Fencing, Olympics, Hall of Fame
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A Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction
In Walter Benjamin's seminal essay, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," he examines the ever-changing role of art within the epicenter of a culture predicated on technology and mass-consumption. Only recently have we the ability to disseminate texts through myriad channels with infinite copies. Benjamin's work has since become pivotal in Marxist theory to eloquently point out the inherent class system associated with privileging artwork to the few. But still, the two edged sword of mass consumption thereby eliminates the singularity, the "aura", its special-ness. As he writes:
Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be. This unique existence of the work of art determined the history to which it was subject throughout the time of its existence.
But as we ourselves hurdle through space and time we must look to new ways of reading this. I used to argue with Benjamin's notion of "the aura." What was the point of the singular object fixated within time and space if so few could experience it? Can the Mona Lisa not be seen as beautiful on a postcard rather than under bullet proof glass halfway around the world in the Louvre? How does that intangible quality measure up to the art I'm more familiar with: films, music albums, novels...work created within a medium that by definition requires copies.
Then again...is the aura what we feel when we come across that rare first edition of The Great Gatsby under a pile of junk in an antique shop? What about a limited print run of "Meet the Beatles" with the blank back? Or, a never before seen copy of Lang's Metropolis with scenes believed to be lost to history forever? Is this where the aura hides in artwork that was destined for reproducibility? In the rarities, mistakes, misprints, and gaffs that survive? Is history required in order to radiate aura? These are questions I still wrestle with.
But not only is understanding the effects "A Work of Art..." a labyrinthine exercise in masochism, it's also never locked into permanence. Because much like Benjamin's argument for the aura as existing in a singular object's time/space so too are the words he wrote.
What would Benjamin have to say when the majority of music today is encoded digitally in loss-less files and distributed online? Radiohead's "In Rainbows" came into fruition as a solely ephemeral work (that has since been distributed in tangible CD/Vinyl formats) purchased, downloaded, and absorbed without anything but an Ipod touching your hands. The loss of video-rental stores giving way to Netflix Instant-Streaming and cable-services On Demand functionality. E-Readers. I personally am not looking forward to the shift to fully digital age. I prize my DVD collection. I take for granted the ink residue on my fingertips after flipping through the morning paper.
Are we ready to analyze what this step away from the tangible symbolizes? What it means on a cultural level? I'm typing these words directly into cyberspace. They will never be printed (unless you CTRL+P) but will buzz around in the ephemeral sea of 1's and 0s. Where's the aura in that?
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From remote and wild hilltops to peaceful dales, from rugged limestone escarpments to green meadows and river valleys, the Peak District National Park is a dramatic and fascinating landscape. Heather moorland and blanket bogs add to the mix.
Covering 555 square miles (1438 sq. km) at the southern tip of the Pennines, the park, much of it privately owned, has the distinction of being Britain’s first National Park (1951).
Shaped by both man and nature, the landscape offers a variety of habitats for wildlife. The dales are replete with species that include Jacob’s ladder, alpine penncress and mountain pansy. The moors are home to a rich variety of insects and small animals: ring ouzel, fox, mountain hare and badger.
Limestone cliffs and crags offer challenges for climbers. Reservoirs provide opportunities for fishing, and public footpaths crisscross the landscape. Among the trail locations are Lose and Will Hills in High Peak, Thorpe Cloud and Bunster Hill in Dovedale, Alport Heights near Wirksworth, Mam Tor at Castleton and Oker Hill at Darley Dale.
Three types of rocks make up the bedrock of the area. The fossilized remains of sea creatures inhabit the sedimentary limestone plateau of the southern White Peak area. Water has carved the rock into steep-sided dales, and created caves. Eldon Hole is a 200-foot deep pothole, and the Giant’s Hole measures 495 feet in depth. Lead mining was an important industry in this area from Roman times to the 1870s.
The Dark Peak is an area of high peat-covered moorland plateaus, sharp cliff edges of millstone grit rock, and blanket bogs. Below the high hills lie valleys of sedimentary shale where ancient woodland and wild flowers add to the landscape mix. While the valleys provide a venue for agriculture, the moorlands are home to sheep farming and grouse. Local rock is widely used in the drystone walls that characterize these pasturelands.
Axe Edge, a gritstone escarpment, offers dramatic views. The village of Flash, just south of Axe Edge End, claims to be the highest village in Britain at 1518 feet (463m) above sea level. From Axe Edge is a view of the second highest pub in England, the Cat and Fiddle, at 1690ft (515m) above sea level.
The Dales National Nature Reserve is home to mountain currant, bluebells and sweet woodruff. Bird watchers can spot willow warblers, spotted flycatchers and woodpeckers.
The park offers camping, cycling, horse riding, and trail walking.
The Peak District National Park Authority
Aldern House, Baslow Road
Bakewell, Derbyshire DE45 1AE
Website: Peak District National Park
Visitor Centres:
Bridge Street, Bakewell
Derbyshire, DE45 1DS
Buxton Road, Castleton
Hope Valley, S33 8WN
Edale: The Moorland Centre
Fieldhead, Edale
Hope Valley, S33 7ZA
Upper Derwent
Fairholmes, Bamford
Hope Valley, S33 0AQ
Photos by Barbara Ballard
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Home » Perseverance and teamwork.
by dfclv | Jul 24, 2017 | Uncategorized |
The Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce recently hosted an extraordinary presentation. Major Scott Smiley was the featured keynote speaker. Major Smiley, a graduate of West Point and an impressive leader, shared his message of “Perseverance”. You see, Major Smiley had a story to tell. He was blinded by a suicide car bomb in Mosul, Iraq in 2005; a seemingly devastating incident that changes a life. Our first reaction might suggest it was a blow that would stop most of us in our tracks.
Instead, Major Smiley continued to rebuild, achieve, lead and remarkably became the first blind active duty officer in military history.
Due to the nature of my professional position, perhaps you thought my comments would focus on overcoming blindness. But Major Smiley had an important underlying message: it was teamwork that allowed him to achieve his many accomplishments before, during and after Iraq. He relied on a foundation of trust and teamwork again and again to advance his trait of perseverance that served him so well.
So as a community, can we be ready to make teamwork work for people with disabilities in the Lehigh Valley?
With the support of a community willing and open to teaming up with people with disabilities, I’m confident that perseverance will help them succeed and thrive.
Douglas A. Yingling, Executive Director Center for Vision Loss
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Martina Zaghi
Martina Zaghi graduated in International Relations at the University of Turin in 2017, where she defended a thesis on the notion of Europe as a civilian power. She joined EuVisions in January 2016, first as an intern and subsequently as content and editorial manager. In 2018, after an internship at the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM), she joined the social media analysis unit of EuVisions as a full-time researcher.
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Italian elections 2018: the Macerata attacks and the issue of immigration. A Twitter study
By Giovanni Pagano, Francesca Arcostanzo and Martina Zaghi
As the electoral campaign intensifies, political heat surrounding immigration remains high. Whatever the outcome of 4 March election will be, the issue of immigration is here to stay.
Do German parties care about Europe? A Twitter study
Judging from the political debate on Twitter, the discussion about the European Union was not at the core of the German electoral campaign. However, surprisingly, mainstream parties demonstrated to be more capable than Eurosceptic ones to lead discussions on Europe.
The Catalan Referendum Seen from Europe: A Twitter Study
By Martina Zaghi
We looked at how the European Twittersphere reacted to the Catalan Referendum in the first few weeks after the vote. From the results, it seems that the European Union (EU) was given an important role in these events.
«To mark the 19th edition of their flagship publication, the European Social Observatory (OSE) and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) are holding a presentation-debate.»
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Schaeuble denies ‘going too far’ with Greece
TAGS: Politics, Finance
Wolfgang Schaeuble has fended off criticism of being too harsh on Greece as finance minister of Germany.
Commenting during Deutsche Welle’s “Conflict Zone” interview program on the European Commission decision to reject Italy’s draft budget saying it represents a deviation from agreed targets, Schaeuble said, “I would have enjoyed if all these people who are now saying this in relation to Italy would have supported me in the times when we tried to tell the Greek people that they have to respect the rules.”
Asked about criticism that he “went too far with Greece,” Schaeuble, who is now president of Germany's Bundestag or lower house of parliament, denied the allegation.
“The accusation in my Parliament has been that I have been too generous in relation to Greece. And that was also true because Greece didn’t respect the rules.”
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Free Photoshop: Adobe Launches Photoshop Express
Adobe has recently launched the Photoshop Express site where members can upload their images and then edit them online. Many features such as Adobe’s simplified set of point-and-click controls for red-eye removal, cropping, exposure, saturation and other functions are available from the site. Users can also group images into Web albums and post them to popular social networking sites.
PRESS RELEASE: Free Online Software Brings Adobe Photoshop Technology to Anyone Taking Digital Photos
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Photoshop® Express public beta, a free Rich Internet Application (RIA) available to anyone who wants to store, sort and show off digital photos with eye-catching effects. During the public beta period, Adobe will solicit Photoshop Express user feedback on product features and functionality, which will continue to evolve over time. As the newest addition to the Photoshop family line, Photoshop Express has taken much of Adobe’s best image editing technology and made it simple and accessible to a new online audience. Photoshop Express allows users to store up to 2 gigabytes of images online for free, make edits to their photos, and share them online in creative ways, including downloading and uploading photos from popular social networking sites like Facebook.
“Photoshop is trusted technology that has changed the visual landscape of our world. Now, Photoshop Express allows anyone who snaps a digital photo to easily achieve the high-impact results for which Adobe is known,” said Doug Mack, vice president of Consumer and Hosted Solutions at Adobe. “Photoshop Express is a convenient, single destination where you can store, edit and share photos whether you’re at home, school or on the road.”
Simple, Fun and Accessible
With Photoshop Express, digital photos can be uploaded and sorted anytime, edited non-destructively to always preserve the original image, and shared from anywhere, on any Web browser. In a few easy clicks, Photoshop Express empowers anyone to make standard edits, such as removing blemishes and red-eye, converting to black and white, cropping and resizing, and much more.
No experience is required to add special effects that will impress friends and family. In keeping with its one-click approach, Photoshop Express offers tricks like Pop Color which selects an object in an image, mutes the background color of the photo and allows the user to swap the object’s color so it jumps off the page. Sketch effects help photos look like drawings and the Distort feature allows you to distort facial features or objects within the images for a comical or artistic effect. Even users with limited photo editing knowledge can simply select what looks best from a line-up of sample photos with visual hints showing different variations of the added effect.
Photoshop Express offers a variety of creative sharing options, including uploading and showing off photos and slideshows in your own online “Gallery” hosted by Adobe, or conveniently embedding or linking photos to social networking sites and personal blogs without having to leave the application. Slideshows never looked better with animation that makes photos float and fly across the screen, allowing for viewer interactivity and unique presentation styles.
Adobe Photoshop Family
Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended are at the heart of the Photoshop family, joined by solutions for users at every level who want to bring out the best in their digital images. Photoshop Lightroom™ addresses the workflow needs of professional and serious amateur photographers. Photoshop Elements provides exciting tools and sharing options for photo hobbyists.
Photoshop Express is the latest step Adobe is taking to leverage the advanced technology that underpins its award-winning creative products and deliver it to new online communities. In early 2007, Adobe also announced the availability of Adobe® Premiere® Express, an online video editing and mash-up tool on partner sites such as MTV and Photobucket. Adobe Premiere Express leverages the functionality found in Premiere Elements, a fully-featured desktop video editing program.
Free and Available Now
Adobe Photoshop Express beta is available now for free via any Web browser at http://www.photoshop.com/express . Photoshop Express was created with Flex, Adobe’s free, open source framework for building RIAs. Flex applications provide a consistent, rich user experience across operating systems and all major browsers, including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and others. An Internet connection and an up-to-date Flash® Player 9 are all that are required to experience Adobe Photoshop Express. In its early phases, Photoshop Express is available to US residents-only in English. Users may experience slow performance if accessed outside of the US. Future plans include availability in other languages and countries.
About Adobe Systems Incorporated
Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information – anytime, anywhere and through any medium. For more information, visit www.adobe.com .
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British police to target illegal gamblers during London 2012
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By Samuel Okocha Jan 2, 2012 in Sports
The risk posed by foreign betting syndicates is making UK’s Olympic chiefs put together a special unit to help prevent illegal gambling syndicates from bribing athletes at the 2012 Summer Games.
According to Sky News, Sports Minister Hugh Robertson described foreign betting syndicates as a threat capable of soiling the reputation of London 2012 Olympics more than doping.
"That comes from illegal gambling syndicates in the Far East and on the Indian subcontinent that comes from the evidence of what we have already seen happening in this country with the incident at Lord's 18 months ago, " Mr. Robertson told Sky News. "There are the conditions there in the Olympics for this to thrive."
To check the activities of the gamblers, officers from the Metropolitan Police, Interpol and the Serious Organised Crime Agency are to make up the unit that will identify spot-fixers and stop them from approaching athletes.
They will also monitor betting patterns for any signs of suspicious activity.
"We're reasonably clear that we can police the UK end of it," Mr. Robertson told the BBC. "The much more difficult element is how you police illegal syndicates probably operating a long way away from these shores."
The International Olympic Committee has created a unit to watch the global gambling market for unusually large bets on particular events or competitors, reports the Daily Mail .
According to the BBC, three Pakistani cricketers were jailed in November for spot fixing during a 2010 Test match against England.
Spot betting is said to involve who gamblers stake money on the details of sporting encounters, such as the precise timing of the first throw-in during a football game.
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Jorge Alió joins The Royal Academy Of Medicine Of Valencia
Doctor Jorge Alió > News > Jorge Alió joins The Royal Academy Of Medicine Of Valencia
Jorge Alió with Justo Medrano y Antonio Llombart, Vice President and President of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Valencia-.
Dr. Jorge Alió has reached yet another milestone in his career by being included as an academic at the Royal Academy of Medicine of Valencia (RAMCV).
The decision on the incorporation of the Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology at the Miguel Hernandez University of Elche (UMH) was taken unanimously by the Board of Governors of the RAMCV on 28th July, after having analyzed doctor’s extensive curriculum vitae. His official proclamation took place yesterday in the presence of the president of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Valencia, Dr. Antonio Llombart Bosch, and the president of the College of Physicians of Alicante (COMA), José Pastor Rosado. As a new member, Dr. Jorge Alio gave a speech entitled ‘The fascinating story of intraocular lenses in cataract surgery’.
Dr. Alió, known as the creator of the concept of microincisional cataract surgery (MICS), is a member of 26 scientific societies and holds executive committee positions in some of them. He also forms part of Academy Ophthalmologica Internationalis, the European Academy of Ophthalmology, and SHIOL (Hungarian Society of Intraocular Lens Implantation and Refractive Surgery). He has been presented with prestigious “ISRS Presidential Award” by the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) for his dedication and contribution to the field of refractive surgery and the International Society of Refractive Surgery. He is also creator and director of the first online course in refractive surgery from the Miguel Hernandez University, entitled “Scientific Methodology in Refractive, Cataract, and Cornea Surgery” and professor of Master in Clinical and Surgical Research.
The Royal Academy of Medicine of the Valencia Community has as its primary mission the study and research of the medical and related sciences in the entire autonomous community. It also collaborates with the health, academic and judicial authorities at all levels of public administration, emitting all the medical reports which are required by any of these official organizations.
‘Methodology in Refractive, Cataract and Corneal Surgery’ Course registration is available
Jorge Alió is the only Spanish who has joined the prestigious and exclusive American Society of Ophthalmology
Dr. Alio collected the Alberto Sols Award for the ‘Best Research Work’ in the 102nd birth anniversary of the scientist
Rotary E-Club Mediterraneo awarded unanimously Jorge Alio with the prize ‘Unidos por la Paz 2019′
Doctor Alio´s Juan Pallarés Conference at the annual Congress of the Ophthalmological Society of the Valencian Community
Jorge Alio has published the first book on surgical techniques used in corneal regeneration
National and international experts meet in Alicante to attend the course ‘Refractive, Cataract and Cornea Surgery’
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BY: LEIGH GIANGRECO WASHINGTON DC
Two of the US Air Force’s premier fifth-generation fighters, the Lockheed Martin F-35A Joint Strike Fighter Lightning II and F-22A Raptor, still can’t transmit data back and forth but the service’s plan to fix the communication gap is undetermined.Today, the F-22’s Link 16 network can only receive data from the F-35. The JSF can both transmit and receive data with other Link 16 legacy aircraft including F-16, F-15 and other NATO aircraft, Brig Gen Scott Pleus, director of the F-35 Integration office tells FlightGlobal. The F-35 would not receive F-22 data until a fourth to fifth generation gateway is deployed, but the timeline on that gateway is undecided, the service tells FlightGlobal. The USAF has plans for fourth to fifth-generation communications, which would cover the F-22’s Link 16 radio, but they’re not yet programmes of record.
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F-35 Completes First Live Air-to-Air Kill Test [AIM-9X]
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spazsinbad
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Given the task to rewrite the JPO press release - the first post 1st page - the 'HOPE' failed miserably for whatever reason.
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XanderCrews
Whats so surprising about this? we all know that hitting a target BVR has a lower chance of success than WVR.
Choose Crews
XanderCrews wrote:
I know, you're gona tell me that the age of dogfights is dead and we are now in the BVR age
and that future air combat will be fought with long range AAMs while pulling 2Gs. I get that.
and yeah, that may be true. All I was saying is that no matter how you slice it, hitting a target WVR will
always be easier and thus have a better chance of hitting than firing at a target BVR.
thats all. Im not saying that BVR systems won't work, all Im saying is that its harder for it to work.
vanshilar wrote:
zero-one wrote: Looks like we have some conflicting jornalism here.
However its puzzeling how they let the sidewinder hit but let the AMRAAM self destruct.
Maybe the truth was somewhere in between
Speculation here. The purpose of the test is to gather data to verify that the missiles will perform as expected in operational use. It's possible that the AMRAAM, with its longer range, gives sufficient data throughout the flight that the testers can be confident of its NEZ performance without needing to sacrifice an expensive drone, while the Sidewinder, due to its short range, does need to have its entire flight be tested, including exploding on a target.
Besides, AMRAAM has been live fired so many times (total something like close to 4,000 times and AIM-120C variants have been test fired a lot) that this event would not give much new information.Besides they would know exactly if the AMRAAM would hit or not if they self destructed it some tenths of a second before impact. Since the Another thing is that the drone used for AMRAAM target might've been quite a bit more expensive (like QF-16) than what was used for AIM-9X test as it was used in BVR setting.
I don't think that hitting a target within WVR is necessarily easier at all. Vietnam war era experience with SARH AIM-7 compared to fire-and-forget IR AIM-9 (which guides itself to target after launch) is not a necessarily a good indicator at all. Now we are comparing fire-and-forget missiles against one another, both with datalinks and stuff like that. BVR might actually be easier and have higher pK in real life since the shots usually lack such large off-boresight and high maneuverability requirements to successfully engage targets. I also bet that there is also usually much more time to set up for BVR shot especially in 5th gen jet. In WVR the advantages of 5th gen jets diminish a lot and 4th gen enemy with modern HOBS missiles could mean problems quickly.
No I'm going to tell you that statistically the last 25 years have seen a majority of BVR kills. I'm also going to utterly disagree with the idea that manuevering WVR is "easier" in the first place. How is it easier to wrench the aircraft all over the sky in a dogfight rather than doing a BVR intercept consisting of mainly button pushing and smaller control inputs?
You are trying to convince me it's "easier" to grapple with a guy for 5 minutes than just shooting him at 200 yards?
Kosovo had I think zero WVR kills.
I'd like to see your stats because I don't think it's a given.
hornetfinn wrote:
I understand what you're trying to say, but it has always been harder to set up a long range shot than a
short range one. a lot of factors come in to play, the enemy has more time to evade, you need more energy,
there are more ways to spoof BVR missiles.
I also understand that we have come a long way from the days of Vietnam and that BVR technology today is a world away from what it used to. But I don't think we have come to the point yet where the AMRAAM can match, let alone exceed the reliability of the sidewinder.
The F-14 was probably the best American 4th gen for BVR in the 90s, maybe better than the Eagle due to the APG-71, AAX-1 and Aim-54 Phoenix combos. but even with such advancements the Aim-54 never had a successful kill,(it had a mission kill though) but with simple Sidewinders, all targets were downed.
To me this is what makes American fighters great, they are usually designed for BVR with WVR requirements usually being secondary, but event that secondary requirement surpasses the WVR capabilities of most fighters.
I didn't say that WVR was easier than BVR, all I said was, it's easier to hit something WVR.
Lets take the kill statistics of the Sidewinder against the AMRAAM or Aim-54 or Aim-7.
I'm not questioning the relevance or the upward trend of BVR, it's there, and I agree with you that it will dominate future
air battles.
But won't you agree that it was harder for the AMRAAM to hit the test drone than it was for the sidewinder?
which is why a mis wasn't all that surprising at all.
Dog fighting is hard, BVR is easy, but once shots have been fired, the guy at the end of the sidewinder's sensor cone is as good as dead. on the other hand the guy at the end of the AMRAAM's radar, still has options left.
oh and by the way
http://www.f-16.net/f-16-news-article1010.html
At the time, U.N. officials said the Serb jets struck an arms plant run by Bosnia's Muslim-led government.
Capt. Robert Wright, flying F-16C #89-2137, got three kills; one with an AIM-120 and two using the AIM-9. Capt. Scott O'Grady fired an AIM-9 at a fourth J-21 but it missed. Two more F-16s arrived and S. Allen, flying F-16C #89-2009 got one using a AIM-9.
So unless the Aim-9M is capable of BVR I think there were at least 3 WVR kills
Also If I remember correctly some of the AMRAAM kills were WVR as well.
http://www.f-16.net/aircraft-database/F ... ofile/3150
I also remember a reporter asking Lt. Col North why he did not use the cheaper missile, his come back was great; he stated if you were in a fight and had a knife and a gun, which one would you use.
Judging by his response, it looks like the sidewinder was also an option in that engagement. but even if it wasn't it looks like that even against the lowly Serbs, WVR was still used
zero-one wrote: but even with such advancements the Aim-54 never had a successful kill,(it had a mission kill though)
See Iran v Iraq war 1980 - 1988.
smsgtmac
Looks like we have some conflicting jornalism here.
Maybe the truth was somewhere in between.
No. We have a credentialed but uneducated journalist making sh…tuff up about a press release.
No It’s not. It’s not puzzling at all if one knows anything about A2A missiles, the relative operational and functional differences between the missiles, missile testing or even the history of target drone operations.
No. There is no middle ground. The missile was either self-destructed or it was not. The original source of the story said it was.
There is no cause to invoke pet fears, theories or straws for grasping. No basis to infuse doubt or read into a story what one might want to be there. There is no hook upon which to hang any Strawman. The story is the F-35 and weapons appear to be operating as advertised and designed. The end.
--The ultimate weapon is the mind of man.
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bojack_horseman wrote:
the AIM-120C was given a successful self-destruct signal right before target impact.
My impression from this line was that they knew the target would be hit, but they aborted if only to save the cost of 1 target drone?
Am I right in this impression?
One is a direct quote of the original press release and the other is a reporter's "interpretation" of that same press release.
Care to guess which one is which?
"The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese."
les_paul59
the writer from DOD Buzz is obviously ignorant to how the usaf tests missiles but that's besides the point.
I think you can make a case that there is not a better equipped aircraft for a wvr engagement than an f-35 with the helmet, das, and 2 aim 9x sidewinders.
basher54321 wrote:
I knew some one would notice that thats why I said "American"
Just to give some context and reasoning behind the self destruct signal, here is an exerpt from the F-35's very first live AAM shot.
Test data and observers confirmed the F-35 identified and targeted the drone with its mission systems sensors, passed the target "track" information to the missile, and launched the AIM-120 from the aircraft to engage the target drone. After launch, the missile successfully acquired the target and followed an intercept flight profile. Moments before the missile was about to destroy the target, a self-destruct signal was sent to the AIM-120 in order to preserve the aerial drone for use in future tests.
https://www.f35.com/news/detail/f-35a-l ... -120-amraa
smsgtmac wrote: No. We have a credentialed but uneducated journalist making sh…tuff up about a press release.
Easy there, not trying to pick a fight with you sgtMac, but why are we so intent on dismissing one of the claims? Is because it was proven false and multiple sources confirmed that it was indeed a hit for both weapons. Or is it simply because one of the claims were inconvenient and we don't want to believe it so lets just say its not true.
The post was by Military.com, which is known to be a very reliable source and is hardly an anti-F35 site. In fact I don't think they have ever posted anything to discredit the program.
If anything, both statements confirm that the Aim-120 did not hit, one said that it was destroyed before it could hit and the other siad it totally missed.
smsgtmac wrote: No It’s not. It’s not puzzling at all if one knows anything about A2A missiles, the relative operational and functional differences between the missiles, missile testing or even the history of target drone operations.
Well we civilians don't know, far as I know some test launches don't have live explosive warheads to minimize the damage on the drone, so it could be used further. But maybe the AMRAAMs sheer size will cause too much damage which is why they decided to destroy it knowing that it may result in a successful hit anyway. Is that even close to how things are done?
smsgtmac wrote: There is no cause to invoke pet fears, theories or straws for grasping. No basis to infuse doubt or read into a story what one might want to be there. There is no hook upon which to hang any Strawman. The story is the F-35 and weapons appear to be operating as advertised and designed. The end.
I didn't understand this one, what fear? i have always said that the F-35's combination of impressive Kinematics, DAS, VLO (which works even in WVR) and HMD will make it dominant in any type of fight BVR or WVR. There is no fear in entering the merge if you are an In an F-35.
Yes it is not prefered and its like giving the enemy a chance, but if it does happen,
there is nothing for the F-35 pilot to fear, the level of superiority the F-35 gives post merge is still overwhelming compared to anything short of a Raptor.
So saying that the AMRAAM didn't hit isn't much news at all, its like telling a Delta force comando that his Rifle didn't work, that doesn't make him ineffective all of a sudden, his side arm makes him deadlier than most regular infantry men, and if he has to, the knife would suffice.
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Third promotion the best yet - Shearer
'Keeper Scott Shearer sealed a hat-trick of promotions at the weekend, and he hails this one as the highlight of his career.
Shearer, who only featured 20 times due to injury for the Millers throughout the season, had won double promotions under boss Steve Evans at Crawley.
And he told todays Star that Saturdays runners up clinching win over Aldershot, which sparked wild celebrations, was the best of the three.
“To complete a hat-trick of promotions is fantastic. This is the most special one of my career. The pitch invasion before the game had finished was unbelievable; that was mental! I think it just showed how much it meant to everybody involved at the club.
“The whole league has been inconsistent this year and the points tally tells you that. At Crawley last season, we finished third with 84 points and we only got 79 this year."
He added: “We thought we had thrown it away when we lost at Morecambe. I don’t think anyone would have predicted we would go on this run (five straight wins).
“The biggest result and night for me was at Bradford. I will remember that for years.”
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Select your shop Burnside Village Maroochydore Miranda
'This unusual, gorgeously written novel is filled with pleasures . . . [it is] an invitation to wonder--about the imponderables of life and death, the nature of intelligence and the ultimately inexplicable relationships of fathers and sons.' Booklist
A dazzling novel from the bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, winner of the 2017 Indie Prize for Literary Fiction.
Nathan Nelson is the average son of a genius. His father, a physicist of small renown, has prodded him toward greatness from an early age, but despite Samuel Nelson's efforts Nathan remains ordinary.
Then, in the summer of 1987, everything changes. Nathan is involved in a terrible accident and falls into a coma. When he awakens, he finds that everyday life is radically different. His perceptions of sight, sound and memory have been irrevocably changed. The doctors and his parents fear permanent brain damage, but the truth of his condition is more unexpected and leads to a renewed chance for Nathan to find his place in the world.
Thinking that his son's altered brain is worthy of serious inquiry, Samuel arranges for Nathan to attend a research centre where savants, prodigies and neurological misfits are studied and their specialties applied. Immersed in this strange atmosphere--where an autistic boy can tell you what day Christmas falls on in 3026 but can't tie his shoelaces--Nathan begins to unravel the mysteries of his new mind and finally makes peace with the crushing weight of his father's expectations.
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Gömböc 1827 in Toronto.
June 9th 2019.
Canada's most famous University put the Gömböc on permanent exhibit. Left: Prof. Jeremy Quastel, chairman of the Mathematics Department, right: Prof. Boris Khesin, student of V.I. Arnold.
Canada's top institution of higher education, the University of Toronto (ranking among the best 30 worldwide) decided to put the individual Gömböc 1827 on permanent exhibit, carrying its year of foundation as serial number. Gömböc 1827 is on display in the renowned model collection of the Department of Mathematics (ranked on its own right among the top 20 worldwide).
Th model collection hosts, among others, mathematical models made by one of the Department's most renowned professors, H.S.M Coxeter. Gömböc 1827 is on display next to the Coxeter models.
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Individual Gömböc pieces
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Gömböc 1868 at Berkeley
December 21st 2018.
The Gömböc and America's Cup
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Gömböc 2018 in Rio de Janeiro
Gömböc-inspired pictures in Beijing and Antwerp
Gömböc 1865 at Cornell
Gömböc 108 in Kalimpong
September 23rd 2018.
Gömböc 1877 in Tokyo
September 17th 2018.
The Gömböc at the Royal Institution
July 5th 2018.
Gömböc 1917 in Bangkok
April 4th 2018.
The Gömböc at Lisson Gallery
March 1st 2018.
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The Gömböc in Bangkok
January 16th 2018.
Gömböc statue in Budapest
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December 18th 2017.
The Gömböc on the poster of the American Mathematical Society
October 20th 2017.
Gömböc booklet
October 3rd 2017.
The Gömböc in Barcelona
July 20th 2017.
The Gömböc in Tokyo
May 9th 2017.
Gömböc 1348 and Gömböc 0013 at Windsor Castle
Gömböc 1883 and Gömböc 2016 at the University of Auckland
March 26th 2017.
Gömböc 1785 at the University of Georgia
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November 27th, 2015.
Gömböc 2015 made from titanium
Cutting-edge drone design inspired by the Gömböc
October 23rd, 2015.
The Gömböc helps to decode the history of pebbles on Mars
Gömböc 1855 at Penn State University
Gömböc 1409 in Leipzig
Hands-on Gömböc display at the Great Market Hall
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Award-winning Gömböc photo in the UK
Gömböc 2013 in Oxford
Cedric Villani on the Gömböc
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Gömböc movies
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August 1st 2013.
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Gömböc 1823 at the Bolyai Museum
November 2nd 2012.
Gömböc 1729 and Stephen Fry
Gömböc 1821 at the British Crown Estate
Gömböc 1802 at the Hungarian National Museum
Gömböc 100 at the Kepes Center
Gömböc is the Stephen Smale Prize
Gömböc 1928 in Paris
May 1st 2011.
Gömböc in the Halle Opera House
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Gömböc stamp
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Gömböc film wins in Berlin
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April 22nd 2009.
The Gömböc and the turtles in the Natural History Magazine
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Gömböc 1546 at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Giant Gömböc 8
The first Gömböc made from Herend porcelain
Gömböc 1924 at the Hungarian National Bank
Professor Alexander on the Turtles and the Gömböc
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Gömböc 100 at the Palace of Arts in Budapest
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Gömböc 1896 at the Hungarian Patent Office
December 18th 2007. The renowned institution picked the year of its foundation
The Gömböc in the New York Times Magazine
The Gömböc and the Turtles in the news of Nature Magazine
Knight's Cross for the Gömböc, Gömböc for Arnold
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When the New Paper comes down at the end, SB moves the picture of "Hungry Shark Emails" downwards to show the parts covered by New Paper, which is basically the formula followed for [[Homestar Peeking]]. Should this count as a reference? I know the other characters rarely if ever do this... -Zero.exe
:No, Strong Bad moved a piece of paper at, like, the second the paper came down. So, he could've just done it so it wouldn't get messed up or something like that. Doesn't really qualify as peeking. {{User:HRjcm/sig}} 22:54, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
==Bestest/Greatest==
Um, this got DELETED, but I am pretty sure that in Coach Z's rap (including the easter egg), he says "bestest" instead of greatest, except the last time that greatest is said in the easter egg. Can anybody confirm/disprove this? {{User:Strongkinghomsarsmith/sig}} 22:14, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
1 Reading Rainbow reference?
3 Accreditation
4 Goblin Keep Siege?
5 Homestar's Tongue
6 Coach Z's arms
7 The bear facts
8 Drawing Reference?
9 SB Peeking?
10 Bestest/Greatest
Reading Rainbow reference?
Stongbad says "But don't take it from me...". That sounds similar to the token phrase from Reading Rainbow: "But don't take my work for it...". Maybe too far of a stretch. — 65.208.30.254 (Talk | contribs) 17:00, 8 September 2008 (left unsigned)
It's the first thing I thought of. — 75.73.70.113 (Talk | contribs) 23:01, 8 September 2008 (left unsigned)
I don't think it's a reference. --Fourth of Jay (Fireworks!) 18:58, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
I think it is, It's very Burtonesque and it goes with the teachin' kids stuff theme of the email 24.254.225.128 19:01, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
It's "But don't take my word for it..." and if it was a reference they probably would have used that wording.--Pop tire 20:55, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
I found myself wondering where that screen shot came from that was used on the main page. It turns out it's from an Easter egg. I don't know what our policy on using Easter egg screenshots as the main screenshot that represents the email is, but I would be against doing this. Furthermore it's not really a shot of any of the "action" that takes place in the email. I would think a shot of the play itself, or maybe of Strong Bad abusing Homestar with the ice cream cone, would be a better choice.
Anyone? Octan 17:36, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
When I uploaded this screenshot, I wanted to take one similar to the one in the Toons Menu, which is the KOT in front of an empty blackboard. To get this image, one would probably need a flash decompiler, which I don't have. So I just took a similar one. However, if you want to replace it, go ahead. TCIC (Talk to me / Stuff I did) 17:46, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
We don't make screenshots based on the toons menu anyway. — Defender1031*Talk 17:50, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
Oh, okay, didn't know that. TCIC (Talk to me / Stuff I did)
On a similar note, why do we have two different screenshots on two different pages? Shouldn't they be the same? O.K., I've finally got off my butt and decided to make this page.
Hello, H*R Wiki Friends and Losers! I am Dungeonman262, a new(er) guy 'round here. I don't do many major edits; just spelling and a few fact checks here and there.
How did I find out about Homestar Runner? Well, it all happened in January of 2008, when my brother and I were talking about something related to the end of the world (I think...), when my brother said, "There's only one thing that can save us now...Trogdor the Burninator!" However, neither of us knew what Trogdor was; he had only seen it ona T-Shirt once at camp. So, we Googled it, and came across SBE-Mail 58. And the rest is history...
NOTE: This page is STILL under construction, so stay tuned... 4:44, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
Yeah! Why doesn't a Sysop edit that? I thought Sysops could edit the Main page...
I just replaced it. (the one on the main page). BTW., you don't need to be a sysop for that, you just have to edit Template:whatsnew, which is only semiprotected (meaning that anonymous users can't edit it). TCIC (Talk to me / Stuff I did) 00:06, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Whoever is williing to do it, please put my screenshot (the current one) on the page. They REALLY need to be the same. — MichaelXX2
The King of Town's reference about not losing accreditation may be inspired by the Clayton County, Georgia school system's recent loss of accreditation about a week ago. Clayton County is directly south of Atlanta, TBC's home base. [1] — 68.36.181.124 (Talk | contribs) 19:42, 8 September 2008 (left unsigned)
Yes. This is the truth and is not linked to any other school system, because a school system hasn't lost accreditation since 1969. — 160.10.7.115 (Talk | contribs) 22:55, 9 September 2008 (left unsigned)
Goblin Keep Siege?
It might be a bit of a stretch, but couldn't Nice Dad's third email (to the 42-year old etc.) be a reference to World of Warcraft, or at least MMOs in general? Goblin Keep sieges in particular makes me think of WoW. -Zero.exe
I think it was a mention, not really noteworthy though - Wecannotbesaved 00:06, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
It's not WoW. It's a parody of the indie game "Dwarf Fortress," a game that you control a fortress of dwarves and defend against goblin sieges. (MNC)
Homestar's Tongue
First time we see homestar's tongue? I'm going to check the rest of the site, but I'm pretty sure him licking his stack of dairy is the first time we see it... Anyone want to help verify? --Flytape8490 23:58, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
Hmm... I guess so. It sure could be a reference... — MichaelXX2
but what would the reference be to?--Flytape8490 01:31, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
I went ahead and added the fact to Trivia -Telamon 01:34, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
We're not counting the part where Homestar as John blows his nose as the first instance we see his tongue? --66.82.9.80 02:17, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Well spotted. I suspected it had happened before -Telamon 02:23, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Darn. So close to my first real contribution. ^^'--Flytape8490 22:00, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Coach Z's arms
Coach Z's arms are messed up; they are separated at the elbow.
I'm not so sure about this "goof". While it's technically true (that's how they are animated), it doesn't seem to be significantly different here than in any other toon. Am I missing something? Green Helmet 00:46, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Look for the outline of the lower arm separating the upper arm in certain poses. that usually doesn't happen. — Defender1031*Talk 00:53, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Do you mean the lower arm being drawn on top of the upper arm instead of underneath it? That seems to be pretty common. I found one or two frames where there's an actual gap between them though. Green Helmet 01:04, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
It's not entirely uncommon, at least, and definitely not restricted to this one toon. --DorianGray 19:27, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
The bear facts
Uh. That's not a bear. The ears look more like eyes to me. And the eyes look like nostrils. Also, what's with the spikes on its arms? DEI DAT VM ┌datvm center\super contra┘ 23:43, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Fur? Anyway, compare the ears and eyes to those of the Bear Holding a Shark. --Fourth of Jay (Fireworks!) 23:56, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Okay, granted, I just checked and the eyes don't match the BhaS as well as I remembered. Still looks like a bear to me though. --Fourth of Jay (Fireworks!) 23:59, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Before I read this topic, there was no question in my mind that it was a bear. Now, it still looks like a bear to me. Green Helmet 00:20, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Y'know, you've got a point there. I just accepted that it was a bear, but it does have some decidedly monster-like characteristics. (Image) I do still contend that the intended effect is the KoT's crown as the beast's lower jaw. -ReverendTed 01:49, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
I see a reptilian monster with an elongated snout (the crown IS the lower jaw), and i'm sure that was the intention. I do, however, see how one could think it's a bear. Similar to the old hag/young woman illusion, the "bear's" eyes are the nostrils, and the "bear's" ears are the eyes. — Defender1031*Talk 01:54, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Drawing Reference?
Um, this probably isn't a reference, but could the Chalkboard Bear and the "Hungry Shark" possibly refer to the Bear Holding a Shark? Strongking homsarsmith 00:07, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
SB Peeking?
When the New Paper comes down at the end, SB moves the picture of "Hungry Shark Emails" downwards to show the parts covered by New Paper, which is basically the formula followed for Homestar Peeking. Should this count as a reference? I know the other characters rarely if ever do this... -Zero.exe
No, Strong Bad moved a piece of paper at, like, the second the paper came down. So, he could've just done it so it wouldn't get messed up or something like that. Doesn't really qualify as peeking. JCM 22:54, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Bestest/Greatest
Um, this got DELETED, but I am pretty sure that in Coach Z's rap (including the easter egg), he says "bestest" instead of greatest, except the last time that greatest is said in the easter egg. Can anybody confirm/disprove this? Strongking homsarsmith 22:14, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
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A3CUBE Shatters Storage Bottlenecks with PCIe-Inspired Networking Tech
Posted on February 25, 2014 By Pedro Hernandez
A3CUBE, a San Jose, Calif.-based tech startup, has taken the wraps off a new PCIe-based storage networking technology that promises to massively accelerate applications.
Called RONNIEE Express, the company's platform leverages PCIe to create a "brain inspired" network fabric that addresses the lingering bottlenecks between increasingly faster server processors and storage systems shackled to traditional networking paradigms. The technology is the result of a five-year research and development effort to extend PCIe's memory mapping features to create a latency-busting, in-memory network that eliminates the need for central switching, courtesy of 2D/3D torus and hypercube network topology support.
To narrow the widening I/O performance gap between compute and storage, the company enlists a combination of specialized PCIe network interface cards and software, namely the company's ByOS parallel storage operating system. RONNIEE Express then establishes a globally shared memory container across the entire network, accelerating high performance computing (HPC), Big Data and enterprise application workloads.
"Today’s data center architectures were never designed to handle the extreme I/O and data access demands of HPC, Hadoop and other Big Data applications," said A3CUBE's CTO and co-founder, Emilio Billi, in a statement. "The only way to accommodate the next generation of high performance data applications is with a radical new design that delivers disruptive performance gains to eradicate the network bottlenecks and unlock true application potential," he added.
By eliminating protocol stack overhead and implementing a direct memory-to-memory mapped socket that unites RONNIE Express nodes, data courses through the network practically unimpeded, according to the company. In tests, RONNIE Express scored nearly 400,000 messages per second in the Sockperf benchmark, well ahead of a 10 GBe cards from Chelsio and Intel with over 100,000 and 50,000 messages per second, respectively.
When implemented in a 5-node, storage network using a multipoint direct topology and 40 TB of low-cost SSDs, A3CUBE estimates that its platform can deliver over 4 million IOPS, besting competitive configurations from NetApp and IBM, which top out at just over 500,000 IOPS.
Moreover, any application can benefit from RONNIEE and the company's ByOS software, said Billi. Since the technology is based on the tried and true PCIe standard, "it is completely transparent to the application," he told InfoStor.
Further efficiencies are gained by the added performance A3CUBE was able to squeeze out of PCIe. "Our memory mapping is 10 times faster than [traditional PCIe] memory mapping," he boasted. Billi also hinted at massive cost savings by deploying the technology on commodity servers. Compared to storage infrastructures from top-tier vendors, a "system with eight times the performance is less than one-third the cost," he said. "The most expensive thing is the solid state drive."
In prepared remarks ESG senior analyst Bob Laliberte said, "A3CUBE's In-memory Network fabric leverages an innovative approach to transforming HPC, Big Data and data center environments in order to drive greater performance and efficiencies in the network and storage systems."
Pedro Hernandez is a contributing editor at InfoStor. Follow him on Twitter @ecoINSITE.
Photo courtesy of Shutterstock.
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Melbourne’s bullish auction market sees $620.6m in property sold
Buyer spends $2 million on sight-unseen knockdown for Balwyn High zoneFitzroy rooming house set for new chapter after selling for $3.53 million at auctionMelbourne smashes Super Saturday, with highest auction result since October last year
The bullish Melbourne auction market has followed up its stunning Super Saturday result with another strong clearance rate but this time from significantly fewer listings.
Despite the lower result, Melbourne has now recorded consecutive weekend rates above 80 per cent for the first time since June 2015 – a clear indication of the underlying strength of the local market.
Melbourne recorded a clearance rate of 80.6 per cent on Saturday which was slightly lower than the 82.4 per cent recorded the previous weekend but remained well ahead of the 75.4 per cent recorded over the same weekend last year.
Melbourne recorded a median auction price of $843,750 on Saturday which was lower than the $850,000 reported the previous weekend but 12.5 per cent higher than the $750,000 recorded over the same weekend last year.
A total of $620.6 million worth of property was reported sold at auction in Melbourne at the weekend.
On Saturday 1183 homes were listed for auction in Melbourne, which was notably lower than the February record of 1393 set last weekend, but it was still higher than the 1156 auctioned over the same weekend last year.
Auction numbers will be sharply lower next Saturday due to the Labor Day long weekend, with just over 250 homes set to go under the hammer.
Melbourne’s north, west, south east and outer east suburbs continue to record boom time clearance rates although the range between the highest and lowest regions remains reasonably tight.
The north recorded the top regional clearance rate at the weekend of 88.8 per cent closely followed by the north east at 87.3 per cent, the south east at 84.2 per cent, the west at 83.9 per cent and the outer east 83.0 per cent.
The inner south had the highest sales of any region at 141 recording an auction clearance rate of 79.2 per cent, followed by the inner city on 75.3 per cent and the inner east with a clearance rate of 73.5 per cent.
Notable sales reported at the weekend included: A four-bedroom home at 45 Victoria Street, Sandringham sold for $4,680,000 by Hocking Stuart,Another four-bedroom home at 137 Yarrbat??? Avenue, Balwyn sold for $4,260,000 by Marshall White,A four-bedroom home at 11 Foote Street, Brighton sold by Biggin and Scott for $4,250,000,Four-bedroom home at 1-3 Palm Grove, Deepdene sold for $4,125,000 by Jellis Craig, And a five-bedroom home at 4 Orford Avenue, Kew sold by Marshall White for $3,820,000.
The most expensive property reported sold at auction was a four-bedroom home at 684 Orrong Road, Toorak sold for $5,500,000 by Marshall White.
The most affordable property sold was a severely fire damaged, six-bedroom home at 52 Chelmsford Way, Melton West for $190,000.
For a list Melbourne auction results Saturday March 4.
How to bug-proof your home: simple tips to keep creepy crawlies at bay
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Unwanted houseguests are a common problem in the warmer months (and we’re not just talking about those of the human variety). But how exactly do you keep the creepy crawlies at bay?
From dust mites and silverfish, to bed bugs and moths, we’ve got some simple tips and tricks to deter these home invaders. Dust mites and silverfishSeal up
To prevent them from entering and laying eggs, grab some caulk and seal any cracks in walls, between baseboards and floor or around cabinets. Cover up
Cover your mattress, bed base and pillows with anti-allergy covers. If you’re buying a new mattress, consider latex or foam options, as dust mites can’t live on these materials. Keep air dry
Buy a humidifier for the room. Dust mites die when humidity falls to below 45 per cent. Use the right vacuum
If you’re in the market for a vacuum, buy one that uses a double bag and a HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) filter, which filters out microscopic allergens. Wear a mask when vacuuming (making sure you vacuum your mattress) and if possible, leave the house for a few hours when you’re done. Clean up the clutter
By cleaning up the clutter, you’re reducing the number of hiding spaces for creepy crawlies. In particular, toss piles of magazines, newspapers, cardboard boxes and even bags, which tend to attract lurking silverfish. Change your sheets at least once a week
This is a simple step for a restful, allergy-free sleep. If your pillows are making you sneeze, throw into the washer and dryer, selecting the “sanitise” mode or the highest heat setting possible. (Note: This only works for synthetic and not down!) Keep clothes off the ground
Get a laundry hamper that sits a few inches off the ground, preferably on a metal frame. This will keep carpet-lurking bugs away from your soiled clothing – especially damp towels, which tend to wind up in bundles in the corner.
Always hang clothes and keep them off the ground. Photo: StocksyBED BUGSVacuum out luggage after travelling
Stay in any dodgy motels while you were away? When unpacking at home, run clothes through the dryer and vacuum out any bags you took with you. Try pouring borax powder into your vacuum bag to kill whatever is inside. Use caution when purchasing second-hand beds or furniture
Bedbugs tend to linger in joints and cracks in bed frames, headboards or platforms, so dismantle these and make sure you check every nook and cranny with a torch. Second-hand mattresses are especially notorious, so make sure you check the seams for telltale dots or rusty red marks. MOTHSAllow air to circulate
Though open windows make you think of bugs flying in, it’s important to keep your house well ventilated. Use natural repellents
Mothballs and moth crystals are poisonous, so consider natural alternatives instead. Lavender, rosemary, mint, thyme, peppercorns, eucalyptus, ginseng and dried orange or lemon peel can be placed in sachets and hung in your closet or placed in your drawers. Cedar also repels moths with its natural odour. Look for it in the form of blocks, balls, hangers and boxes and sand it with sandpaper every few months to keep the scent nice and strong. Wipe down your wardrobe
Take everything out of your wardrobe, then wipe it down with a detergent-soaked cloth. Before you return cleaned clothing to the wardrobe, wipe boxes, shoes and other surfaces with a damp, clean cloth, then throw it away.
Wipe down your wardrobe with a detergent-soaked cloth. Photo: Joern RynioKeep your clothes clean
If you have any vulnerable fabrics, dry-clean or wash them on the hottest setting the garment will allow. If items can’t be washed – such as fur and leather – bag them and place in the freezer for 48 to 72 hours to eliminate any larvae. Moths love to feast on protein-rich sweat, blood and food particles – so keep your clothes clean and avoid mixing dirty clothes with clean ones.
If you have the space, store off-season clothing in airtight containers somewhere dry and always dry-clean vintage clothes before introducing them into your wardrobe. Take extra care with your sweaters
Line your drawers with anti-moth paper and consider putting your best cashmere in vacuum bags or zip-loc bags lined with anti-moth paper strips. Always take your clothes out of those plastic dry-cleaning bags. The bags attract dust – and dust attracts moths. Vacuum and steam clean regularly
Vacuum at least twice a week and steam clean at least once a year, especially if you have wool carpet. Moths lay eggs in the carpets so destroy them at the source by moving around furniture and vacuuming every corner – taking care around the baseboards. Make sure you change the vacuum bag when you’re done – taking the used one straight to the outside rubbish so that pests aren’t reintroduced into the house.
Remember, the focus is on prevention. If it’s too late for that – and you’ve already found traces of them in your carpets, bed and wardrobe – pest control is just a phone call away.
Sydney market eases into autumn with lowest clearance rate since January
Owner sells Surry Hills home for $1.47 million after buying in market trough for $812,500
Red-hot Sydney auction market marches on, with $693.3 million worth of property sold on Saturday
Wet weather not enough to rain on Sydney’s parade this Mardi Gras
The Sydney auction market put the brakes on slightly after last weekend’s record-breaking Saturday, commencing the official autumn selling season with lower results from significantly fewer listings.
On a rain-soaked, Mardis Gras-distracted day, Sydney failed to clear 80 per cent for the first time in four weeks, although sellers remained generally pleased with the overall result.
Sydney recorded a clearance rate of 78.4 per cent on Saturday which was just below the previous weekend’s 80.1 per cent but remained well ahead of the 73.3 per cent recorded over the same weekend last year.
Over the weekend 696 homes were listed for auction in Sydney which was well down on the previous weekend’s February record of 941 but well ahead of the 592 auctioned over the same weekend last year.
Next weekend numbers will be down again with just under 650 auctions scheduled.
Sydney recorded a median auction price of $1,150,000 on Saturday which was significantly lower than the $1,420,000 reported the previous weekend and 2.5 per cent lower than the $1,180,000 recorded over the same weekend last year.
A total of $425.2 million in property was reported sold at auction in Sydney at the weekend.
Regional results were again mixed at the weekend with five suburban areas recording strong clearance rates above 80 per cent.
The city and east was the top performer with 88.4 per cent from the highest sales at 61, while the next highest was the northern beaches with 83.7 per cent, closely followed by the north-west at 83.3 per cent.
The west was significantly higher this weekend recording 81.4 per cent, the inner west with 81.3 per cent, followed by the upper north shore at 78.8 per cent and the lower north at 77.8 per cent.
The south had an auction clearance rate of 74.3 per cent, the south-west with 68.2 per cent, Canterbury Bankstown, with 67.6 per cent, the central coast 66.7 per cent and the Blue Mountains with a 50 per cent clearance rate from two reported auctions.
The most expensive property reported sold at auction was a five-bedroom home at 3A Warung Street, McMahons Point, for $9,380,000 by McGrath Neutral Bay.
The most affordable property reported sold at the weekend was a two-bedroom home at 3/17 Belford Street Ingleburn sold for $400,000 by Richardson and Wrench Ingleburn.
Notable sales reported at the weekend included: A four-bedroom home at 72 Campbell Street Balmain sold for $6,100,000 by Belle Property Balmain,A five-bedroom home at 18C Kirkoswald Avenue Mosman sold by Belle Property Mosman for $5,220,000,A four-bedroom home at 30 Wilson Street Cammeray sold for $4,000,000 by LJ Hooker Mosman Projects.A three-bedroom home at 309 Edinburgh Road Castlecrag sold for $3,915,000 by LJ Hooker CastlecragAnd another three-bedroom home at 6 Blandford Avenue Bronte sold by PhillipsPantzer Donnelley for $3,500,000.
For a list of Sydney auction results click here Sydney auction results Saturday March 4.
Cashed-up buyers spending up big in this underrated suburb
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Number 80 Alfrieda Street, St Albans, looks innocuous enough. It sits amongst similarly tepid brick veneer homes; some cladded, most offering some kind of service: travel advice, foreign CDs, the odd tooth pulled. Yet last month this weatherboard with solar panels on the roof sold for a whopping $1.81 million. Crazy money.
It’s no surprise to see the neighbours are cashing in, too. No. 82 is up for auction on March 25 and No. 86 will find out its value on April 8. It’s exciting times for this previously sleepy suburb.
According to Domain Group data, the median house price for the six months to September, 2016 was $500,000. Latest Domain data indicates a jump to $530,000 – houses are up 22 percent in the past year. Even units have jumped from $320,000 to $340,000 in six months, showing that it’s not just blocks ripe for development that are lifting the market.
“I’m not good,” says Ray White agent Minh Tran, who has the two latest listings on Alfrieda, and sold No. 80. “I’m lucky!” He just sold 19 Erica Avenue, which is in a normal zone, for $901,000. “That’s $1500 per square metre in the normal zone!” he exclaims.
The Alfrieda blocks are in a residential growth zone and sit just steps away from the “welcome to St Albans Shopping Centre” sign. There’s a calm busy-ness here. It’s almost impossible to find a car park, yet people wait patiently. An old man slowly reverses his car into the front of a parked car and no one bats an eyelid.
The local library is a colourful and busy place surrounded by Vietnamese restaurants doing a brisk trade in iced coffee and pho. Nothing in the street rises above two storeys, though with the residential growth zone allowing up to four levels of construction, no doubt the only way is up.
Away from this hub, it’s a fairly desolate, harsh n environment. Wide tree-less streets remind everyone where they are. It’s n suburbia, but there’s also a sense of country town serenity.
The centre’s looking better: the St Albans Community Centre and Bowery Theatre is smartly clad in timber, and the train station will reopen soon, all sparkly and new, with new retail buildings. Three months ago two of the suburb’s level crossings, including this main one in the centre of St Albans, were removed.
That level crossing is the one thing I remember about St Albans from my time here 15 years ago as a student at Victoria University. Well, I remember another thing: I’d park my car in the VU carpark and cross my fingers that it would still be there when I got back. It always was, and I was always surprised.
There’s still a seedy edge to this ‘burb of more than 35,000 residents. There’s a rawness on its streets. “You don’t know where I am, you don’t know where I went!” yells one man to an associate as he bolts down the main street on foot. Another guy has made the bus station his home.
St Albans is often in the news, and usually for not great reasons. Back in 2014 it was up there in the crime stats but it’s lost its top spot – now not even making the top five.
But the sense of community seems strong; locals gather on the outside tables on Alfrieda, chatting, smoking, reading foreign papers. There is a lot of laughter. Maybe they’re talking about how much they just sold their house for. Five things you didn’t know about St AlbansIt’s 15km from the CBD, and you’ll stop at nine train stations to get here from the CBD.The top responses for ancestry in the 2011 census were Vietnamese (17 per cent); English (7 per cent); n (7 per cent); Maltese (6 per cent) and Chinese (5 per cent).While there are no substantial parks in St Albans itself, Brimbank Park sits between it and the Calder Highway.It’s separated from booming Albion and Sunshine by the Western Ring Road.The large St Albans Market is open Wednesday to Saturday, but countless vegetable shops compete with Woolworths and IGA the rest of the time.
Want to move in together? Don’t do it during this relationship phase
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It’s one of the first major milestones in a relationship, but how do you know when the time is right to shack up with your beloved?
First up, it’s important to ask yourself whether you’re still in the limerence phase of the relationship – that is, the period that usually lasts between 18 months and three years and has you all starry-eyed and wearing rose-tinted glasses.
“That attraction releases chemicals and with it comes a bit of euphoria in the way we see that person,” says Sue Yorston, a senior manager at Relationships Victoria. “But that feeling doesn’t last forever.”
Instead, Yorston suggests taking the time to consider your motives and ensure you are taking the leap with someone whose values, beliefs and lifestyle are compatible with yours. She also stresses the importance of talking about individual financial assets before the big move.
At the same time, Yorston does concede that you can never really know for sure if things are going to work until you take the plunge.
“You can rationalise and think it through as much as you like,” says Yorston. “But sometimes you just have to jump in.”
These four couples shared their experiences of living together – and apart.
The fast movers
Faith, 29, and Jes, 27
Faith Kelly and Jes Harris moved in together six months after meeting each other, deciding it didn’t make sense to pay rent in two houses. They’ve now been together for 2?? years.
“It was huge, but it felt right,” says Kelly. “We knew very early that we wanted to be together, so it all sort of just happened.”
Jes Harris and Faith Kelly moved in together six months after meeting each other.
Kelly said she was worried that she and Harris would discover things about each other that they didn’t like, but instead found themselves balancing one another perfectly. Kelly is bringing out Harris’ funny side, while Harris has got Kelly into cycling, for example. Harris likes cleaning the bathroom, while Kelly likes vacuuming.
“It helps that we talk a lot. You just have to be really open with each other.”
The second time around-ers
*Vera, 27, and *Henry, 26
After more than two years together, Vera Morrison and Henry Lee thought it was time they took the next step and moved in together. Six months later the couple broke up and Vera moved out.
Morrison says their downfall was a combination of lack of communication, the stress of not being able to afford their rental and living in each other’s pockets.
“When you have no real routine for simple cleaning duties, it can all get messy and out of hand pretty quickly,” says Morrison. “You can end up in unnecessary arguments and ongoing frustrations with one another.”
After a year apart, the couple moved back in together 10 months ago, and things are running much more smoothly.
“We communicate better than ever now,” says Morrison. “We have designated chores that we do and always help each other out. It’s not because we have to, it’s because we want to make life easier for one another.”
The cautious couple
Gabriella, 37, and Joel, 28
Gabriella Scardamaglia and Joel Andrew waited 2?? years before moving in together.
Scardamaglia says it was a fairly smooth transition.
“The only real issue was cupboard space,” she says. “Making room in my already jam-packed wardrobe was a real compromise! Oh, and wet towels on the bed didn’t go down well.”
Moving in together was a smooth transition for Gabriella Scardamaglia and Joel Andrew. Photo: Supplied
Four-and-a-half years later the couple has a new baby and is happier than ever.
Her advice?
“It’s really important you maintain your own interests. Having your own time will only strengthen your relationship and keep the spark alive.”
The separate dwellers
*Sylvia, 70, and *Alex, 74
“As a rule, it’s just the weekends we see each other,” says Sylvia West, who has never lived with partner Alex Kerr in their 12 years together. “We do our own thing. We’ve got our own friends and we see each other when we want to.”
According to Yorston, this situation is a growing trend among the over 60s age bracket.
West also thinks that this separation might explain why they travel or holiday together so harmoniously. Plus it adds a little more excitement to the relationship.
“If we haven’t seen each other for a few days, it’s nice,” she says. “It brings a smile to your face.”
*Names have been changed to protect privacy
From $3000 to $6000 a week: Prices double for some of Sydney’s fanciest rentals
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Hyper-inflation in the upper echelons of Sydney’s rental market has taken agents by surprise and is forcing all but the most affluent prospective tenants to consider whether they really need to rent a Woollahra mansion or a harbour-front penthouse.
The prestige rental sector, which begins around the $3000-per-week mark and is almost exclusively confined to Sydney’s harbourside suburbs, has been hit by a double whammy of higher-than-expected demand and lower-than-normal supply this autumn, causing asking prices to double in some areas.
“We get these little windows in the market from time to time, but it’s quite an unusual phenomenon,” says Alison Coopes, whose eponymous agency deals almost exclusively with the cream of the Sydney sales and rental markets.
Coopes, who along with Ken Jacobs brokered the $61.8 million sale of Altona in Point Piper late last year, says current prospective tenants at the high end are, quite simply, desperate to find somewhere to live. “Something that might have rented for $3000 or $4000 six months ago will rent for $6000 to $7000 today, because there’s absolutely no supply,” she says.
Part of the reason that Sydney’s prestige rental market is vulnerable to price spikes is because it is concentrated in a relatively small area with a small total number of dwellings. Traditionally, there have been only a handful of neighbourhoods that high-net-worth individuals have considered worthy, including Darling Point, Point Piper, Bellevue Hill and Vaucluse.
“Proximity to the CBD and to leading schools is very important for a lot of these clients, so most of the activity is confined to the harbourside eastern suburbs,” says Lucinda Waugh, business development manager at The Agency.
“They’ll look at Mosman as well, but I haven’t had too much traction with people looking at the Inner West. I think that just comes back to the fact that everybody wants waterside if they’re going to be paying that much money.”
Like Coopes, Waugh says the undersupply of prestige rentals seems particularly acute this month. “We often find there is not enough stock to service people in the busier parts of the year, but that generally changes by the end of summer,” she says. “But high-quality properties are still very much in demand.”
In the background, the continued price growth in Sydney’s overall rental market is also having an impact. In Darling Point, for example, the median asking rent has hit an eye-watering $4625 in 2017, according to Domain data.
So who, exactly, has the means to rent Sydney properties at such arresting prices? According to Waugh, many prestige tenants arrive from overseas to work for multinational companies on fixed-term contracts. Others may be affluent Sydneysiders in need of a temporary nest.
“We see a lot of locals who already have homes, or they’ve purchased a deceased estate or an older property, and they’re going to renovate, so they’re looking for somewhere to keep their family for six to 12 months,” says Waugh. “Of course, those people want to be close to the property they own so they can keep an eye on the renovation and also be close to work and school. That means Eastern Suburbs.”
According to Coopes, these two types of tenants have different price thresholds. “There’s almost a consistency of capping it at $10,000 with your high-net-worth corporate individuals who are here for a two-year contract,” she says. “In the case of the renovator who really does not want to downgrade his or her lifestyle, it’s usually capped around $6000.”
But both groups may be forced to find extra cash in the weeks and months ahead.
“Longer-term leases have historically capped out around $8000 to $10,000 in my experience,” says Waugh. “But with the way the eastern suburbs property market is going at the moment, we could be in excess of $10,000 in the coming months.”
Last week, Coopes rented a $5,000 property in Darling Point and says she is already fielding prospective tenants asking for a similar address. “That property had sat there un-rented for a period of time,” she points out – “but the minute you get this lack of supply, it’s a completely different market”.
Current high priced rentals:
99 Bay Street, Mosman – $6000 per week
8C Mcleod Street, Mosman – $6000 per week
14d Eastbourne Road, Darling Point – $5950 per week
3/3 Loftus Road, Darling Point – $4750 per week
51 Village High Road, Vaucluse – $4200 per week
I bought a house I hated: The problem with buying a house you don’t love
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“I, Vivienne, take you, 15 Smith Street, to be my lawfully owned house. I promise to love you, obey all your rates notices and keep your gutters clear ??? if you will promise to shelter me, keep me comfortable and not develop any expensive repair needs.”
Buying a house is as big a commitment as a marriage. But what’s love got to do with it? Do you need to fall in love with a house to be happy there?
Or can it start like an arranged marriage, where you are deemed to be compatible and love is left to grow (or not) after the contract is signed.
This question is dear to my heart as, six months ago, I bought a house that I did not love.
On my first inspection, I had no expectation of even liking it. There were so few houses on the market that to research the area it was easiest to simply visit each one. The severely hedged trees that dominated the garden nearly made me turn back and the steepness of the driveway – even research shouldn’t be that onerous – made me grimace.
Inside, once recovered from the driveway climb, I discovered that the house ticked almost every box from my list of criteria; lots of storage, two bathrooms, separate toilet, two living areas, study big enough for two desks. Tick, tick, tick.
Then I discovered that I liked certain parts of the house. It was light and airy and the back garden, though also steep, was a riot of colour.
An arranged marriage with this house was now on the cards. I found myself considering whether the budget would stretch to re-doing the front garden and wondering whether the steep driveway might be good as a daily workout.
An arranged marriage with this house was now on the cards. Photo: Stocksy
There was one major stumbling block. At the same time, I was in love with another house. Madly, deeply in love.
This house was a few kilometres away, in a trendier area where we would have been surrounded by friends.
The house was delectable, with white timber weatherboard and purple trims and meticulously maintained decks. It had a flat, spacious garden that was just crying out for a trampoline or even a plunge pool (oh, wouldn’t we be the hit of the neighbours!). My love for this house kept me awake at night.
Unfortunately, the same features that made me love it meant that it was out of our price range. So I did ridiculous sums and wildly contemplated whether we could crowdfund the purchase; offering accommodation in the tiny studio out the back in exchange for donations.
My love was so strong that I tried to convince myself that, despite being broke and not having a single square metre of storage space, I would be ludicrously happy there.
None of these dreams transpired into reality and despite my better judgment, I bought the house that I never expected to even like, let alone love.
Six months on, though I could not use the word love to describe my feelings for this house, I have certainly grown fonder of it.
We are enjoying the light and airiness of the living spaces. Photo: Stocksy
I am appreciative of the tick-box features that have proven to suit my family’s needs. The storage allows us to live without clutter, and the double-desked study has allowed me and my husband to focus on our businesses without negotiating desk-time. We are enjoying the light and airiness of the living spaces – the feature that first turned our thoughts from “no way” to “maybe”.
I am also grateful that this house has allowed me to buy into a property market that is on as steep an uphill trajectory as the driveway (which has not contributed to my fitness and continues to irk).
We were able to afford to make some changes to the garden that, once finished, will buoy my positive emotions further.
Though I still yearn for the house that I fell in love with, it no longer keeps me awake at night.
The negatives of the house I bought still frustrate me. The traffic noise is bad. The driveway is steep. The house is not gorgeous.
But all relationship have ups and downs, and I know there would have been frustrations and downsides with the house that still makes my heart flutter.
Will I ever love my house? I’m not sure, but I can feel an inkling that with more time, it might be possible. Practicalities are all very well, but love is a wonderful thing.
Can you see it? Mirage house perfectly camouflaged with desert
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Most of us have misplaced our house keys at some point but now one artist has come up with a way you could misplace your whole house.
American artist Doug Aitken has created the Mirage House, which becomes invisible against the desert landscape backdrop.
It’s one of 16 artworks in the Desert X art festival, installed across the Coachella Valley, also famous for filling with celebrities each year for Coachella music festival.
“Mirage distils the recognisable and repetitious suburban home into the essence of its lines, reflecting and disappearing into the vast western landscape,” Aitken wrote on his website.
Every available surface of the house is clad in uneven mirrors that absorb and reflect the landscape and create a kaleidoscope effect and exclusive views of the desert.
“As Mirage pulls the landscape in and reflects it back out, this classic one-storey suburban house becomes a framing device,” Aitken wrote.
“A perceptual echo-chamber endlessly bouncing between the dream of nature as pure uninhabited state and the pursuit of its conquest.”
The ever-changing light and shadows mean each visitor will have a unique experience depending on the time of day.
Aitken’s work is a different take on the concept of the family home – it’s harsh rather than welcoming.
The house has no doors or family possessions and in the desert it seems hostile rather than safe and secure.
Other works in the exhibition include Monument – a bronze statue of JFK inside a nuclear bunker by artist Will Boone and Jennifer Bolande’s Visible Distance/Second Sight a series of billboards depicting the mountains behind them.
Desert X opened February 25, 2017, and runs until April 30, 2017, although Aitken’s Mirage will remain in place until October 31, 2017.
The easiest ways to turn your new house into a home
From the colour of the bed linen to the texture of a benchtop, every element of a house presents an opportunity to convey a style and feel.
Before going to town on the latest Kmart collection, take a step back and consider following some expert tips on how to create a more personal home space.
“A house becomes a home when it tells a story. It is a sincere energetic reflection of who you truly are internally,” says Julie Parmax, design director of 3 Marks of Existence.
Establish your personal aesthetic
The first port of call for every interior project is to establish a concept or style that will carry throughout the home.
While taking inspiration from trends can be a fun way to mix up your home’s look over time, this underlying concept will help create an enduring, effortless aesthetic.
If you don’t naturally feel drawn to a particular home style (such as Scandi, bohemian, minimal, for example), look at your existing furniture for inspiration.
“Look at the items and see the common threads, whether they be the colour or texture, and use it as your key inspiration for your home’s base palette,” says Catherine Valente, design marketing manager at Laminex .
“By using your core palette, you will create a stunning flow throughout and your style will be seamless.”
Place hero items throughout the home to create a consistent overall look, and frequently refer back to them for colour inspiration.
“If you’re working with an existing space, take colour palette inspiration from an item already in the space, such as a rug or artwork ??? Ideally you want to be using three to five colours on repeat throughout,” says interior decorator Emma Blomfield.
Try also to inject elements of your hobbies and passions into the home, as this will create a unique and intimate point of difference.
“What is your passion? Are you an art lover? Do you collect magazines? Can you draw? Incorporate it into your home,” Parmax says.
“This is who you are, so why not be inspired by your own passions ??? Make a point to surround yourself by what you love.”
Photo: Essastone by Laminex
Keep hero pieces neutral
Playing with colour and texture can be great, but too much can lead to an overly busy and cluttered home.
To avoid going overboard, stick to timeless shades and materials for the more permanent features, such as benchtops, splashbacks and flooring.
“Start with a neutral canvas that includes different textural elements. This way you can always build on a base,” Parmax says.
“Remember, accessories are easier to change than the foundation of a space.”
To achieve this classic look, Valente recommends using neutral shades from the essastone ranges Fino Venato, Ash Concrete, Saint Moritz, or from the Laminex Colour Palette range, Basalt, 180fx Carrara Marble and Bianco.
“If you wish to add a layer of colour, add it through small feature areas (rather than hero pieces) such as a small shelving unit in a pastel blue shade like Laminex Colour Palette Fresh Spring,” Valente says.
Experiment with colour and texture through homewares
Now that you have your base palette sorted, it’s time to add more personal touches to your home through furniture and homewares.
“Simply adding in colourful or printed cushions and rugs makes such a difference,” says Christie Turvey from Neue Blvd.
“I absolutely love how rugs can transform a space; they instantly add depth and a sense of comfort to any interior.”
Interior designer Crystal Amesbury recommends selecting a range of textured decor items.
“If you have a smooth textile sofa, then add some chunky knit or heavily tactile cushions. If your bed has plain linen, then add a patterned throw,” she says.
It also pays to mix up the shape of your furniture, making sure that this is balanced throughout the home.
“It comes back to contrast. Is your space minimal and all straight lines? Then add a sculptural element. Is your living space ‘boho’ with texture overload? Then add a solid square edge ottoman in a plain colour or generous armchair with strong lines,” Amesbury says.
“Visual or tactile contrast implies thought and consideration, which is something all beautiful spaces have in common.”
Photo: Cultiver
Look beyond IKEA
IKEA can be great for the basics, but creating a distinctly personal home requires a more eclectic approach to furniture and styling.
Turvey advocates shopping at op-shops and garage sales, as well as modern homewares stores, for a more individual look.
“You would be surprised at the stunning pieces you can find at your local op-shop or garage sale for a bargain price,” she says.
“It is so easy to simply change the handles on a cabinet, or repaint a desk to suit the style of your new home.”
The key is to remain patient throughout this process. As tempting as it is to dedicate just one weekend to buying your furniture, in reality, it takes years to develop a curated home.
“The nicest interiors are created over time,” Turvey says.
Display sentimental items
Contrary to picture-perfect home magazine photos, no home ever feels personal without some one-of-a-kind sentimental pieces.
Items such as photos, family heirlooms and collections are ultimately what make your home an inimitable space.
“Your home needs to stimulate those happy memory triggers that get your heart pumping and your mind racing ??? Being surrounded by memories gives you a feeling of protection and stability,” Parmax says.
According to Amesbury, the trick is to curate these items in a way that tells a story, such as grouping those of similar shapes, colours or textures together.
“There’s nothing more clinical than walking into a home that has all the hot and trendy pieces, minus your personality,” she says.
Whether it’s framed photographs, art prints or original paintings, make sure your home has something hanging on the walls to avoid feeling unfinished.
“No home is complete until there are some beautiful pieces of art hanging on the walls,” Blomfield says.
“Bare walls aren’t anywhere near as inviting and welcoming as a home filled with artworks showing your love of colour, texture or pattern.”
This doesn’t have to be expensive. Retailers such as Society6, Hello Polly and Hunting for George all offer affordably priced artist-designed prints to suit any budget.
Photo: Hunting for George
Airbnb to hold ???secret’ briefing for state MPs
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Airbnb is ramping up its efforts to gain access to Sydney’s apartment blocks by holding a private briefing for NSW state MPs ahead of new legislation on the short-term holiday letting industry.
MPs have been invited to a special event at Parliament House on Thursday where Airbnb employees and selected super-hosts will “advise them on home sharing and the visitor economy in NSW” as well as present them with details on the positive impacts of Airbnb in their electorates.
However, the Airbnb flyer omitted the time and place of the meeting, leading to speculation that they are concerned about protests from residents’ groups.
The timing for Airbnb is crucial. Next month, the state government is expected to table new laws that will, if they follow the recommendations of a parliamentary inquiry last year, allow home owners to “share” their houses and apartments with overseas visitors even when their property is zoned as permanent residential only.
The inquiry report openly declined to differentiate between houses and apartments and Airbnb is now anxious to head off growing resistance to “home sharing” in Sydney’s unit blocks.
Sydney’s inner-city harbour and beachside apartment blocks are the jewels in the holiday-letting crown, as they are in the areas tourists want to visit, near cafes and transport, and many even have resort facilities.
Opponents, including the n Hotel Association, say this would basically deregulate short-stay letting and turn unit blocks into de facto hotels – but without all the safety, health and management restrictions the hotel industry has to observe.
But many MPs are already onside with home-sharing, and on Thursday they will hear Airbnb argue that guests and hosts supported $214 million in economic activity in one year in Sydney, supporting 1600 jobs.
While Airbnb consistently promotes its main business as “ordinary people” letting rooms in their homes, critics say its main income is derived from opportunist owners and tenants letting whole apartments in key holiday areas.
Recent independent studies, including one by Sydney University, have shown that in areas where Airbnb is most active, rents have soared by as much as three times the rise elsewhere, while rental availability and housing affordability has plummeted.
A number of apartment resident groups like the Owners Corporation Network, its lobbying offshoot Our Strata Community, Our Choice and the independent group Neighbours Not Strangers are campaigning against the deregulation of holiday letting.
Their aims range from allowing apartment owners to choose whether or not they want bylaws regulating holiday lets, to an outright ban on Airbnb in buildings that are currently zoned residential only.
MPs will be presented with information packs that will include an overview of the benefits of Airbnb in their electorates and the economic impacts of the home sharing economy in NSW.
It will also include the Airbnb Community Compact, which sets out their principles for working with governments and communities to get the “right balance” and the Airbnb Policy Tool Chest, “a resource for governments to consider as they draft or amend home sharing rules”.
Leading strata lawyer Stephen Goddard, a spokesman for Our Strata Community, Our Choice was displeased about the private meeting.
“Now the scales are off Airbnb’s arrogance, telling politicians how they should be governed,” he said.
Jimmy Thomson writes the Flat Chat column in Saturday’s Sydney Morning Herald and edits the strata advice website flat-chat苏州夜总会招聘.au
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A TRY on debut bynew recruit Shaun Kenny-Dowall was a rarehighlight forthe Knights in their28-4 loss toSydney Roosters at Allianz Stadium on Friday night.
Kenny-Dowall, a mid-season import before the June 30 deadline, was playing his first game in Newcastle’scolours –coincidently against the team for whom he played 224 NRL games over 11 seasons.
TRY TIME: Luke Keary is congratulated by Mitchell Cornish after scoring against Newcastle on Friday night. Picture: AAP
He marked the occasion with a 30th-minute four-pointer after winning the race to ground a Dane Gagai grubber kick in-goal.
Kenny-Dowall’s try left Newcastle facing a 12-4 half-time deficit but the Roosters, even without regulars Boyd Cordner, Jake Friend, Michael Gordon and Jospeh Manu,exerted their authority after the break.
LIGHTS OUT: Knights winger Chanel Mata’utia receives treatment after a nasty collision with Blake Ferguson on Friday night. Picture: AAP
Knights coach Nathan Brown said it was an encouraging start from the former Kiwi international.
“I thought he had some really good stuff, but he had a couple of things where he was a bit rusty, which you’d expect,’’ Brown said.
“He hasn’t played for a few months. He’s playing with some new personnel.
“But he certainly had a couple of carries, when the pressure was on, that got us out of trouble …that’s what he’s done for the Roosters for a long time. He actually does good things in key moments of games.’’
Brown said he thought Newcastle “did well and got to 12-4” and had been competing well against the Roosters’ heavyweight forwards.
“Then in the latter part of that game, we didn’t complete any good ball sets at all and they were just a bit too good for us,’’ Brown said.
Roosters coach Trent Robinson said his team’s defence was “rock solid” but the attack was “indifferent”.
“I thought there were some really good sets, but I don’t think it was consistent enough,’’ he said.
The loss was Newcastle’s 23rdin a row away from home.
Newcastle’s horrendous run on the road extends back to the final round of 2015, when a 30-12 thrashing at Penrith consigned them to the wooden spoon.
They lost all 12 away games last year and have gone down in 10 out of 10 this season.
The Roosters led 12-0 after tries by winger Blake Ferguson and five-eighth Luke Keary, but Newcastle reduced the deficit to 12-4 at half-time when Kenny-Dowall scored.
A 61st-minute try by Roosters winger Anthony Tupou gave the home side a 12-point buffer, then lock Isaac Liu strolled over four minutes later to leave the visitors facing an unassailable advantage.
Roosters fullback Connor Watson, who is reportedly joining Newcastle next season, darted over next to the posts in the 73rdminute after a Ferguson offload.
Knights bench forward Luke Yates was tackled inches short of his first NRL try twice in the second half.
There was a horrendous incident in the 57thminute when Ferguson, at full speed on a kick return, appeared to collect Newcastle winger Chanel Mata’utia on the jaw with a forearm.
Mata’utia lay motionless on theturf for several minutes before he was eventually taken by medicab for treatment.
The win lifted the Roosters to equal first with Melbourne, who have a game in hand against Canberra on Saturday. The Knights remain last, two wins adrift of Wests Tigers.
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Oliver Glowig
Credits Brambilla-Serrani
Poggio le Volpi
via Giovanni Giolitti, 36
The man who lived half a life finally tries to live a full one. Oliver Glowig arrives in Rome and it’s an immediate event. The challenge for the chef from Düsseldorf isn’t so much the Bundesliga playoff with Bavarian Heinz Beck, with whom he has numerous things in common as well as a birth certificate, but more a case of lending year-round continuity to a cooking full of talent which, up to now, has only been expressed in mainly tourist settings, with one very busy season and the other of melancholic hibernation.
The Aldrovandi Palace hotel, between Villa Borghese and Parioli, which was formerly home to the Roman gestures of the Iaccarino family, offers him the chance to have a clientele to be conquered and titillated all year long. And with it, the prospect of adding to his already congruous playlist of southern suggestions (considered in the broadest sense that a German has of this word considering that almost all of Italy is South), the rustic traditions of giogo and vanga of Roman cuisine, which he promises to propose on the menu “con juìcio”, after a study phase during which the menu – in the restaurant that bears his name, and his decision is final – will be based on his repertory.
Oliver is a stubborn beast (and so is Rome: so the best of luck!). As a German who has chosen Italy and set up his home and family here – by the way: the two Roman tasting menus are dedicated to his daughters Aurora and Gloria – he lives our country with a mix of foolish love and Teutonic severity. He, with his naughty little boy face, has been accused of everything over the years: of being too shy, of neglecting his clients in the dining room, of seeking refuge in “cult” but limited contexts (L’Olivo of the Capri Palace, then Montalcino, where he spent winter 2010-11 at Poggio Antico).
But he, Oliver, has answered by saying little and showing, as happens with many foreigners, more respect for our origins than we do ourselves. His menus which immediately received 1 star (Michelin 2011) and then 2 stars (2012) are worth Mameli-Novaro (and Battisti-Mogol) as the Italian national anthem: cherry tomatoes and basil, caciotte and ricotte, lemons and olives, artichokes and burrate. All simple and of quality as fine as the works of Michelangelo, because there’s no need to frame the Sistine Chapel, or David’s underpants. And if the great metropolitan hotel with its sophisticated clientele forces him to raise the bar, it matters little. How can you frighten someone who’s convinced – as are we – that there is nothing harder than a plate of linguine with cherry tomatoes and basil comme-il-faut?
Since 2019 he has been the only chef of the Poggio le Volpi estate, where he joined in 2017.
Andrea Cuomo
Roman, now living in Milan, sommelier, he's reporter of Il Giornale. He's been writing about taste for years
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SWAT team responds to barricaded suspects believed to be armed in Fremont
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FREMONT, Calif. (KBCN) - Police in Fremont closed an intersection on Friday following a report of two barricaded suspects, both believed to be armed.
The two suspects are inside the Mission Peak Lodge on Mission Boulevard and refusing to come out, police said around 1:50 p.m.
The police's SWAT Team has responded to the scene.
Mission Boulevard between Anza and Pine streets has been closed in both directions, according to police.
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Home Bangkok As World’s Trash Floods Thailand, Activists Call for Waste Import Ban
As World’s Trash Floods Thailand, Activists Call for Waste Import Ban
E-waste at the JW Metal Recovery Intergroup Co. Ltd. facility June 13, 2018 in Pathum Thani, accused of illegally importing foreign waste.
BANGKOK — Thailand and its Southeast Asian neighbors are becoming major dumping grounds for the world’s plastic garbage and electronic waste. Environmentalists now want to see a ban on waste imports imposed across ASEAN.
Environmentalists from Greenpeace Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines gathered at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand on Tuesday to discuss the sharp rise in waste imports seen by the three countries after China banned plastic and electronic waste imports in 2017.
According to Greenpeace Southeast Asia, imports of plastic waste to Thailand jumped from 152,244 tons in 2017 to 481,381 tons in 2018. Last year, Japan was the biggest exporter of plastic garbage to the Kingdom at 173,371 tons, followed by Hong Kong at 99,932 tons and the United States at 84,462 tons.
But in Southeast Asia, Thailand accounts for only the third largest share of plastic waste imports, after Vietnam and Malaysia. Malaysia took in 872,797 tons of plastic waste last year (up from 549,876 tons in 2017) out of total global imports of 8.35 million tons.
Heng Kiah Chun, a Malaysian campaigner for Greenpeace Southeast Asia, explained that the trouble with being one of the world’s biggest importers of plastic waste is that not all of it can be recycled.
“Some ends up in abandoned buildings,” he said, noting that the Malaysian government has begun returning some waste to the United States and the United Kingdom.
Heng and his Thai and Filipino peers agreed ASEAN member states should impose an immediate ban on imports of plastic waste, as the region is being flooded with garbage from the United States and other wealthier countries, including China.
Penchom Saetang, director of Ecological Alert and Recovery Thailand (EARTH), posed the question, “What does Thailand want with this kind of waste?” before answering that corruption has a lot to do with it.
Penchom pointed out that Thailand currently grants legal waste importers tax exemptions and expedited customs inspection procedures. As for illegal importers, 2018 saw 2,100 containers of plastic and 85 containers of electronic waste confiscated.
The eastern port of Laem Chabang in Chonburi province has become a major entry point for waste imports, she added. Waste handling in the area poses risks not just to the environment, but to health and the tourism industry.
Penchom and Greenpeace Thailand urged the Thai government to ban all imports of plastic and electronic waste, reform relevant sections of the Factory Act and push for an ASEAN-wide ban.
The activist noted that she has heard the Thai government plans to ban 422 types of electronic waste next month, with an unknown number of exemptions.
“We still keep watching,” Penchom concluded.
But Tara Buakamsri, the country director of Greenpeace Thailand, said he is not expecting much action on waste imports from ASEAN. The issue won’t be on the table during the ASEAN summit in Bangkok later this week, even with Thailand as the chair.
Domestically, said Tara, the public has no idea what became of the hundreds of plastic and electronic waste containers confiscated last year.
“We want to know where the waste went,” said Tara, adding that it’s unclear how much freedom of expression locally affected people will have to raise complaints under the new government.
In June 2018, Khaosod English investigated the JW Metal Recovery Intergroup Co. Ltd. in Pathum Thani where reporters found over 200 metric tons of electronic and plastic waste piled up. Foreign men manning the premises tried to chase away the reporters and took photos of them.
In the same month, police led almost 20 raids on illegal electronic waste plants and dumping grounds in and around Bangkok. Environmentalists said an order passed by the junta in 2016 to exempt recycling factories from urban planning regulations created a loophole for illegal dumping grounds.
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Home Politics Singha Beer Brewery Distances Itself From Anti-Govt Socialite
Singha Beer Brewery Distances Itself From Anti-Govt Socialite
BANGKOK – The executive director of the brewery whose products include Singha Beer has issued a letter criticising one of his relatives for her anti-government activities.
In the letter which was somehow leaked to the media, Mr. Santi Bhirombhakdi, the owner of Boonrawd Brewery, told a fellow executive board member Mr. Chutinant Bhirombhakdi that the actions of his daughter Ms. Chitpas Bhiromphakdi is leading to a negative perception of his company.
Ms. Chitpas Bhirombhakdi is one of the leaders of the People′s Committee for Absolute Democracy With the King As Head of State (PCAD), which has been organising prolonged rallies in Bangkok against the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
Often described in the media as "Singha Heiress", Ms. Chitpas is a part of the large Bhirombhakdi family.
She has stepped into the limelight recently as an outspoken critic of Ms. Yingluck′s government and the principles of electoral democracy. Ms. Chitpas has been quoted in a number of media reports as saying that she distrusts the concept of "one person, one vote" as it is rigged in favour of the uneducated rural voters.
But in the letter, Mr. Santi reminded Mr. Chutinant that "we have discussed [about it] for many times, and I have given many advises to Chutinant about Chipas' political activities which will affect the organisation and Bhirombhakdi family in present and future,"
The letter continued, "Yet there has been no response [from Mr. Chutinant]. The organisation and Bhirombhakdi are now inevitably tied with political situations".
Mr. Santi also wrote in the letter that as a board member of the company, Mr. Chutinant will be held responsible for whatever outcomes caused by Ms. Chitpas. The letter is intended to state for the record that Mr. Chutinant has been "warned and advised" about the matter for many times already, Mr. Santi wrote.
A senior member of Boonrawd Brewery has confirmed to Khaosod that the letter is genuine.
Earlier today, unidentified assailants have hurled molotov cocktails and bricks at the residence of Ms. Chitpas, police said.
Police said the attacks on Ms. Chitpas' residence occurred at approximately 03.30 this morning, only an hour after Ms. Chitpas returned home.
Security guards at the residence told police that 4 individuals wearing safety helmets rode their motorcycles toward the house, which locates at Soi Ramkhamhaeng 21 in Bangkok, before throwing 4 molotov cocktails and a number of bricks at the residence, then quickly fled the scene.
One vehicle inside the residence has been damaged, police said, with no reported injury.
Police officers believe that the attacks were politically-motivated. They added that the attacks were captured on CCTV and the investigation is ongoing.
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Home Politics Fugitive Journo Says He Obtained Asylum Seeker Status in US
Fugitive Journo Says He Obtained Asylum Seeker Status in US
Jom Petchpradab seen here in an undated photo. Photo: Jom Petchpradab / Facebook
BANGKOK — A fugitive anti-junta journalist said Thursday that he had obtained asylum seeker-status in the United States.
Broadcast journalist Jom Petchpradab said he obtained the status three years after he fled Thailand in the aftermath of the May 2014 coup after refusing to report to the military.
Asked whether such developments would affect the standing of the junta, spokesman Col. Winthai Suvari said he had no opinion.
“I don’t talk about views on foreign affairs,” he said.
Jom said through private messages on Thursday that he had been granted the status June 27, which gives him almost equal rights and benefits to those holding a Green Card. The application process for obtaining a Green Card – which will enable him to take up permanent residency in the United States – will take four months.
For the past three years, Jom, who lives in California, has produced YouTube videos on sensitive political issues, earning about USD$200 dollars per month from them and relying on other private donations to sustain his livelihood.
“I have two feelings. First, I feel something in my heart is lost, as my status as a Thai citizen is diminishing. My second feeling is I feel relieved about my existence [in the United States] particularly on Medicare in the sense that I would be treated like an American. Allow me to thank the government of the United States for its loving kindness. Although it took a long time, I understand since many people from around the world want this status.”
Jom, 55, feared he could be charged not only with refusal to report under the junta’s summon, but also with royal defamation charges if he returns to Thailand. Under junta Order Number 41/2014, not complying with a summon carries a prison sentence term of up to two years or a fines of up to 40,000 bahts – or both. The royal defamation, or lese majeste, law carries a maximum imprisonment term of 15 years. Despite all these, Jom said he hopes he will one day be able to return to the kingdom.
“I had to flee because of the merciless Thai dictator who repressed those who think differently or seek to exercise their rights as citizens or partake in politics,” said Jom, 55, who worked for various television stations including Channel 11 as well as Voice TV prior to his self-imposed exile in the aftermath of the coup.
A well-known television journalist prior to fleeing, Jom continues to produce timely interviews on YouTube for Thai audience at home, forgoing self-censorship and censorship practiced by most journalists, particularly broadcast journalist in Thailand today.
“I hope to create a force for change in a hopeful way,” said Jom, now based in Los Angeles.
When asked about Thai press since the coup, Jom mince no words in his assessment.
“It’s disappointing to see the Thai media’s fears and how they overly submit themselves to dictatorial power. Not that they have to rise up and lead a movement to oust the dictatorial regime of the NCPO as they did [campaigned] to oust an elected government. But at least they should unite to oppose the use of unjust and corrupt power and the treatment of people as if they were not citizens,” said Jom, adding that Thai media only conveniently cited people when they faced the threat of control from the proposed media reform bill. “These things substantially diminished the pride I used to have as a journalist. And this is another major reasons I sought refuge in a foreign land.”
Reached for comment to verify Jom’s status and if the development had any political implication, the United States embassy said it could not disclose information.
“Confidentiality provisions do not allow us to comment on individual asylum cases, or even on whether an individual has or has not applied for, or been granted asylum,” embassy spokesperson Melissa A. Sweeney said Thursday by email.
Jom’s followed an earlier announcement by fugitive former Redshirt Jaran Ditapichai in which he said he had obtained French nationality last month.
Jaran, 69, announced on June 29 that he was granted French citizenship. He posted on Facebook on July 5 that this will likely be his final battle for democracy in a “foreign ground.”
“My feeling is of greater happiness and sorrow. Although my ideology has been reduced from communism to democracy and republicanism, but I am still confident in the basic decencies of people and humanity like before,” said Jaran, who added that he still holds dual nationality.
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Year : 2012 | Volume : 2 | Issue : 2 | Page : 135--137
Public-private partnership to enhance oral health in India
Sangeeta Chavan1, Umesh Kemparaj1, Om N Baghele2, Arpita Rajdha3,
1 Department of Public Health Dentistry, Vishnu Dental College, Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh, India
2 Department of Periodontics, SMBT Dental College and Hospital, Sangamner, Maharashtra, India
3 House Surgeon, SMBT Dental College and Hospital, Sangamner, Maharashtra, India
Sangeeta Chavan
Department of Public Health Dentistry, Vishnu Dental College, Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh
In spite of great achievements in oral health globally, problems still remain in many communities all over the world, particularly among developing countries. The distribution and severity of oral diseases vary within the same country or region. In India, though health care is provided individually through public and private sectors, till now the oral health has not reached its summit. One of the strategies to improve oral health is through encouraging public-private partnership (P3). P3 can play a pivotal role with each sector contributing significantly to improve oral health outcomes. One of the major advantages of encouraging P3 is that when public and private sectors come together, they overcome each other«SQ»s weaknesses and work like a potent bullet to slay oral problems. Clinical Relevance to Interdisciplinary Dentistry
The prevention, early detection, and management of diseases of the dental, oral, and craniofacial tissues can be integrated with health care.
To promote oral health, improve the quality of life, and eliminate oral health disparities.
To increase the understanding of how the signs and symptoms of oral infections can indicate general health status and act as a marker for other diseases.
To enhance oral health literacy and boost knowledge of the value of regular, professional oral health care.
Chavan S, Kemparaj U, Baghele ON, Rajdha A. Public-private partnership to enhance oral health in India.J Interdiscip Dentistry 2012;2:135-137
Chavan S, Kemparaj U, Baghele ON, Rajdha A. Public-private partnership to enhance oral health in India. J Interdiscip Dentistry [serial online] 2012 [cited 2019 Jul 16 ];2:135-137
Available from: http://www.jidonline.com/text.asp?2012/2/2/135/100609
Good oral health is not only essential for good overall health and freedom from the pain and suffering associated with oral health problems, but also influences self-esteem, quality of life, and performance at school and at work. Majority of them are unaware of this fact,and those who are aware face potential hurdles such as few health care centers, exorbitant treatment rates, dearth of professionals, and so on. To overcome these hurdles is the need of the hour.
In order to get through the above hurdles, the existing dental health care infrastructure should be understood (public/private) [Table 1].{Table 1}
Health care delivery is primarily the responsibility of the state and national governments, but sinking funds, heavy work burden, lack of equipments, and high absenteeism crop up as roadblocks impinging the government's efforts. In contrast to this, in India, the private sector is perceived to be easily accessible, better managed, and more efficient. The private sector provides a large volume of health services, but with little or no regulation. The private sector is not only India's most unregulated sector, but also its most potent and untapped sector, and more urban biased than its public counterpart. Urban bias means investing heavily in urban-centered health facilities, often at the expense of the larger rural population.
Its strength is its innovativeness, efficiency, and learning from competition. Along with these merits come the loopholes like use of illegitimate means to maximize profit, less concern toward public health goals, lack of interest in sharing information, creating brain drain among public sector, health staff, etc. Currently, there are 292 dental colleges existing, with a total intake capacity of around 25,000-30,000 students per year. Of these, 1500 students are from government colleges and the rest are in private sector. This scenario demonstrates the impact of commercialization on dental education. [1] The distribution pattern of the dental colleges across various states of India is uneven and this situation leads to uneven distribution of dentist:population ratio in the respective states. The aggregate expenditure on health sector is 5.2% of the GDP; out of this, 17% is for public sector and 83% for private sector. Hence, it is vital to promote public-private partnership (P3) for preventive, curative, and promoted services in stirring the oral health. NGOs can also join hands toward oral health promotion. Private practitioners should be given geographic area responsibility in urban setup to ensure regular school health services. [2]
According to World Bank 1993 report, various health reform strategies can be formulated such as: [3]
Alternative financingInstitutional managementPublic sector reformsP3
Among these, P3 may be one of the effective means in reaching the pinnacle of excellence in oral health. Hence, fostering a partnership for providing dental health services will help counter the negative image and bring about synergistic outputs.
P3 as defined by World Economic Forum 2005 as, "A form of agreement that entails reciprocal obligations and mutual accountability, voluntary or contractual relationships, the sharing of investment and reputational risks, and joint responsibility for design and execution." [4]
The various potential partners in improving oral health [5] are mentioned in [Table 2].{Table 2}
Contributions/Role of Private Sector in P3
Planning, designing, and development of health care facilities in whole or specialty wiseOwning and operating diagnostic services for public health systemsOwning and operating other services like mobile clinics
Contributions/Role of Public Sector in P3
The government can generate private sector interest through initiatives such as:
Provision of tax incentives to encourage private sector investment in health care capacity, building, education, and trainingAllowing corporate entities to venture into health care education will generate private sector interest and have an immediate impact on increasing the training capacity
Potential Role of PPP
It increases the public expenditure on health aspects and reduces regional imbalances in health, pooling resources, optimization of health manpower, community participation, and ownership. P3 brings convergence of private sector interests and public sector goals. It intends to optimally utilize and enable increased access to vast rural poor and focus on the urban poor and marginalized segments like slum dwellers, etc.
Government contributions to a P3 should not be underlooked because without its support, planning oral health excellence will be like building a castle in the air. It plays a major role in providing infrastructure (creating a post for dentist in every PHC) and provide capital subsidy in the form of a one-time grant. In some other cases, it supports the project by providing revenue subsidies, including tax breaks, or by providing guaranteed annual revenues for a fixed period.
Government can develop fiscal policies and increase taxation on harmful products like tobacco, alcohol, and cariogenic products, and exempt taxation on healthy products like sugar substitutes, fruits and vegetables, herbal products, dentifrice, and mouthwash. Prohibit selling of sweets and chocolates in the vicinity of schools.
In the current scenario, the impact of joint venture of public and private sector is schematically presented in [Figure 1].{Figure 1}
Advantages of P3
Its motive of improvement in overall health of the population drives growth and expansion strategyEfficiency in management and operations by employing technology and latest best practicesIncreased access in areas of operation and availability of round-the-clock services Increased flexibility and responsiveness
Oral health problems are a perennial global problem, which means a mouthful of silver for the patients and a pocketful of gold for the dentists. This wrongly conceived notion may be one of the reasons why people tend to put dental health on the backburner. To change this notion, P3, if introduced, can play a magnanimous catalytic role in achieving excellence in oral health. So, why not harness it to the fullest so as to reach the zenith?
1 Database of Dental Council of India. Cited on 2011 October 16. Available from: http://www.dciindia.org/search.aspx.
2 Sunder Lal , Dinesh Paul , BM Vashisht . National Oral Health Care Programme (NOHCO) implementation strategies. Indian Journal of Community Medicine2004;Xxix:3.
3 World Bank. 1993. The World Development Report; 1993. Washington DC: The World Bank.
4 World Economic Forum. 2005. Building on the Monterrey Consensus: The Growing Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Mobilizing Resources for Development.
5 Pine CM, Harris RC. Community Oral Health. United Kingdom: Quintessence Publishing Co. Ltd; 2007. p. 361.
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List of speeches given by Adolf Hitler
Hitler declaring war against the United States in front of the Reichstag delegates on 11 December 1941
This list of speeches given by Adolf Hitler is an attempt to aggregate Adolf Hitler's speeches. these helped him gain position as chancellor.
1 Speeches
Speeches[edit]
16 October 1919 Munich Hofbräukeller - Hitler's first
arranged public speech. He had joined the German Workers' Party (aka the brownshirts) the previous month. 111 attended.[1]
13 November 1919 Munich Eberlbrau - Hitler's second public speech - hecklers were violently ejected. 130 attended.
24 February 1920 Munich Hofbräuhaus. First speech at a larger venue. 2000 attended. The 25 article political programme founding the new Nazi Party was presented[2]
11 May 1920 Munich Hofbräuhaus.[3]
13 August 1920 Munich Hofbräuhaus. Speech title "Why are we Antisemites?". 2000 attended. 2 hour speech interrupted 58 times by cheering[4]
3 February 1921 Munich First speech at the Circus Krone, Munich's biggest venue. Speech title "Future or Ruin" - denouncing reparation payment to Allies. 6,000 attended.[5]
4 November 1921 Munich Hofbräuhaus. Meeting degenerated into a full scale brawl with political opponents while Hitler was speaking.[6]
9 November 1921 Munich ...
12 April 1922 Munich ...
18 September 1922 Munich ...
1 May 1923 Munich ...
1 August 1923 Munich ...
26 February 1924 Munich Trial ...
27 March 1924 Munich Trial ...
27 February 1925 Munich Bürgerbräukeller - Re-founding the Nazi Party. 3,000 attended. On 9 March 1925 Hitler was banned from public speaking by Bavarian government. Most other German states followed suit.[7]
4 July 1926 Weimar 2nd Nazi Party Congress. 6-7,000 attended. First public display of SS.[8]
23 November 1926 Essen ... (Party Convention)
6 March 1927 Vilsbiburg On 5 March 1927 the Bavarian government lifted the public speaking ban on Hitler, provided the initial speech was not in Munich. 1,000 attended.[9]
9 March 1927 Munich In the Circus Krone for the first time since 1923. 7,000 capacity audience[9]
30 March 1927 Munich In the Circus Krone. 5,000 attended[10]
6 April 1927 Munich In the Circus Krone. Only 1,500 attended. "Hitler's magic no longer working"[10]
1 May 1927 Berlin In the Clou concert hall - Hitlers first speech in Berlin. Hitler was still banned from making public speeches in Prussia so the only legal way he could speak was to make this a private event open only to 4,000 party members[11]
16 November 1928 Berlin On 28 September 1928, following the poor performance of the Nazis in the 20 May 1928 general election, the Prussian government lifted its speaking ban on Hitler. This was Hitlers first speech in the Berlin Sportpalast (Germany's largest venue) which was packed to 12,000 capacity.[10]
2 May 1930 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[12]
18 July 1930 Munich Opening speech of the 1930 election campaign. 8,000 audience.[13]
3 August 1930 Frankfurt 25,000 audience.[13]
5 August 1930 Würzburg 8,000 audience.[13]
7 August 1930 Grafing 4,000 audience.[13]
10 August 1930 Kiel 4,000 audience.[13]
12 August 1930 Munich Circus Krone. 6,000 audience.[13]
15 August 1930 Essen 30,000 audience.[13]
18 August 1930 Cologne 20,000 audience.[13]
21 August 1930 Koblenz 12,000 audience.[13]
26 August 1930 Ludwigshafen 20,000 audience.[13]
4 September 1930 Königsberg 16,000 audience.[13]
6 September 1930 Hamburg 10,000 audience.[13]
7 September 1930 Nuremberg 15,000 audience.[13]
8 September 1930 Augsburg 10,000 audience.[13]
10 September 1930 Berlin Sportpalast - 16,000 audience.[14]
12 September 1930 Breslau Jahrhunderthalle - 20,000-25,000 audience.[14]
13 September 1930 Munich Circus Krone. 6,000 audience. Last speech of the 1930 election campaign. At the 14 September 1930 election the Nazi Party increased its seats in the Reichstag from 12 to 107, becoming the 2nd largest party. A political earthquake.
4 December 1930 Berlin Hasenheide - in front of students[15]
19 May 1931 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[12]
1931 Berlin ... (Hasenheide Beer Hall)
27 January 1932 Düsseldorf ... (Industry Club)
9 February 1932 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[12]
27 February 1932 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[12]
4 April 1932 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[12]
22 April 1932 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[12]
27 July 1932 Berlin ... (Berlin Stadium)
1 September 1932 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[12]
2 November 1932 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[12]
20 January 1933 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[12]
1 February 1933 Berlin ... (Proclamation to the German Nation)
15 February 1933 Stuttgart ...
2 March 1933 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[12]
23 March 1933 Berlin ...
1 May 1933 Berlin ... (At Tempelhof airfield)
24 October 1933 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[12]
10 November 1933 Berlin ... (At Siemens Factory)
13 July 1934 Berlin ... (Justification of his actions against the SA leadership in the Night of the Long Knives)
12 September 1936 Nuremberg ... (Labour Front)
14 September 1936 Nuremberg ...
30 January 1937 Reichstag ...
19 July 1937 Munich ... (On the Opening of the German House of Art)
5 November 1937 ... (given to Foreign Minister and military heads of the Reich)
28 March 1938 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[12]
1 April 1938 Stuttgart ... (Schwaben Hall)
1 May 1938 Berlin ... (Olympic Stadium)
1 May 1938 Berlin ... (Lustgarden)
26 September 1938 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[12]
5 October 1938 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[12]
9 October 1938 Saarbrücken ...
6 November 1938 Weimar ...
9 January 1939 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[12]
30 January 1939 Berlin ...("Prophecies" the "annihilation [of European Jewry]" to the Reichstag)
1 April 1939 Wilhelmshaven ...
28 April 1939 Berlin ...(Response to Franklin Roosevelt)
22 August 1939 Berchtesgaden ...Obersalzberg: speech to military leaders, Invasion of Poland will begin
1 September 1939 Danzig ...Germany Could No Longer Remain Idle (I WILL AGAIN PUT ON MY UNIFORM)
19 September 1939 Danzig ...
6 October 1939 Berlin ...
19 July 1940 Reichstag ...
18 December 1940 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[12]
10 December 1940 Berlin ... (Rheinmetall-Borsig Works)
24 February 1941 Munich ...
6 April 1941 Berlin ... (Order of the Day)
4 May 1941 Reichstag, Berlin Address to the Reichstag
11 December 1941 Krolloper Declaration of war against United States
9 November 1942 Löwenbräukeller (Stiglmaierplatz) Hitler Stalingrad Speech
23 March 1943 Berlin Zeughaus: Address to the Heldengedenktag
11 November 1943 Breslau Jahrhunderthalle: Address to 10,000 officer cadets
1 July 1944 Berlin Reichskanzlei: Act of state, funeral speech Generaloberst Dietl
4 July 1944 Berchtesgaden Platterhof, Obersalzberg: Speech to 200 senior managers of German industry
20 July 1944 Wolf's Lair Radio address following assassination attempt by Claus von Stauffenberg
1 January 1945 Adlerhorst Führerhauptquartier: Radio address: New year speech
30 January 1945 Reichskanzlei, Berlin Radio address: Anniversary of coming to power (Last Speech)
Other[edit]
Only one known recording exists of Hitler's voice when not giving a speech. An engineer for Finnish state broadcaster YLE secretly recorded 11 minutes of Hitler's 1942 meeting with Finnish leader Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (see Hitler and Mannerheim recording).
^ Ian Kershaw Hitler:1889-1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. page 140
^ bc.edu
^ a b Ian Kershaw Hitler:1889-1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. page 292
^ a b c Ian Kershaw Hitler:1889-1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. page 293
^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg, Germany (29 November 2012). "Conquering the Capital".
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af "BERLIN WEST AND SOUTH".
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Mühlberger, Detlef (23 May 2017). "Hitler's Voice: Organisation & development of the Nazi Party". Peter Lang. Retrieved 23 May 2017 – via Google Books.
^ Brechtken, Magnus (2017). Albert Speer. Siedler. p. 31.
For a more comprehensive list, see List of books by or about Adolf Hitler.
Baynes, Norman H. Ed. (1942). The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922 – August 1939 V1. London, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-598-75893-3
Hitler, Adolf (1973) [1941]. Roussy de Sales, Raoul de (ed.). My New Order. New York: Octagon Books. ISBN 0-374-93918-7.
Kershaw, Ian (1999). Hitler 1889-1936 : Hubris [Volume One]. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-04671-0.
Kershaw, Ian (2000). Hitler 1936-1945 : Nemesis [Volume Two]. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0393049947.
Doramus, Max (22 April 2007). The Complete Hitler A Digital Desktop Reference to His Speeches & Proclamations, 1932-1945 [CD-Rom Edition]. Bolchazy-Carducci. ISBN 978-0865166585.
Domarus, Max (14 March 2007). The Essential Hitler Speeches and Commentary. Bolchazy-Carducci. ISBN 978-0865166653.
World Future Fund: Key Hitler Speeches
British Pathé. "Newsreel footage of Adolf Hitler ranting – The Fuhrer's speech from Essen". britishpathe.com. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
Hitler, Adolf (23 May 2017). "Die Reden Hitlers am Reichsparteitag 1933 (Hitler's speeches before the 1933 party congress)". Zentralverlag der NSDAP, F. Eher Verlag. Retrieved 23 May 2017 – via Internet Archive.
Hitler, Adolf. "Die Reden des Fuehrers am Parteitag der Ehre 1936 (Hitler's speeches before the 1936 party congress)". Retrieved 23 May 2017 – via Internet Archive.
Hitler, Adolf (23 May 2017). "Des Reden der Fuhrers am den Parteitag der Arbeit 1937 (Hitler's speeches 1937)". Zentralverlag der NSDAP, F. Eher Verlag. Retrieved 23 May 2017 – via Internet Archive.
Hitler, Adolf; Deutsches Reich (23 May 2017). "The new Germany desires work and peace; speeches by Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler, the leader of the new Germany. With an introduction by Dr. Joseph Goebbels. (authorized English collection of Hitler's early 1933 speeches)". Berlin, Liebheit & Thiesen. Retrieved 23 May 2017 – via Internet Archive.
Hitler, Adolf. "A Collection of Speeches in German". Retrieved 23 May 2017 – via Internet Archive.
Hitler, Adolf (23 May 2017). "The Fuhrer Answers Roosevelt (An Eher Verlag edition of Hitler's speech against FDR. Includes a short catalogue at the end.)". Zentralverlag der NSDAP, F. Eher Verlag. Retrieved 23 May 2017 – via Internet Archive.
Hitler, Adolf. "Liberty, Art, Nationhood : Three addresses, delivered at the Seventh National Socialist Congress, Nuremberg, 1935 (a collection of speeches at the 1935 Nazi party congress, in authorized English translation)". Berlin: M. Müller & Sohn. Retrieved 23 May 2017 – via Internet Archive.
Hitler, Adolf. "Speech delivered before the German Reichstag on January 30th, 1939". Washington, D.C.: German Library of Information. Retrieved 23 May 2017 – via Internet Archive.
Adolf Hitler (23 May 2017). "Adolf Hitlers Reden (Adolf Hitlers Speeches)". Retrieved 23 May 2017 – via Internet Archive.
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Taste of Marietta
First-time event to feature Marietta eateries
Chad Plauche-Adkins
cadkins@mariettatimes.com
CHAD PLAUCHE'-ADKINS The Marietta Times Brian Rollison prepares a pizza on Wednesday at Smitty's Pizza in Marietta. Food from Smitty's will be available at The Taste of Marietta on Sept. 22.
Those traveling down Putnam Street on Sept. 22 will have to make a detour around the newest event in the Pioneer City–and may want to stop for a bite.
From 5 to 10 p.m., The Taste of Marietta – Taking it to the Streets fundraiser will be held in the 200 block of Putnam Street in downtown Marietta. The event is a benefit for the Ely Chapman Education Foundation.
Samples will include Greek food, chocolate treats, several varieties of pizza, hot dogs, desserts and more, all available for the price of a ticket.
Smitty’s Pizza will be one of the food sample providers at the event. Owner Juanita Lannigan said the restaurant has helped the Ely Chapman Education Foundation in the past.
“I like to be helpful to the foundation. We’ll be making a couple specialty pizzas for the event,” she said.
The event will feature not only food samples from several restaurants from around the area, but non-food vendors and live entertainment on a stage set up directly on Putnam Street. Performing will be High Schools That Rock, area students from grades 1-12 who focus on playing guitar. Also playing will be a ukulele ensemble simply called “The Ukulele Group.” The Stage Door next to the Peoples Bank Theatre will have live performances inside throughout the evening as well.
Gary Williams, the development director for Ely Chapman, said he wanted to try something different than the other fundraisers they’ve held. Money raised will be used to finance programs like the S.U.N.S.H.I.N.E. Learning Station and the Middle School Program. With half of the students enrolled at the foundation receiving scholarships, the funds are greatly needed, Williams said.
“Roughly 40 percent of families are two paychecks away from financial crisis,” Williams said.
With money so tight for families, the funds from the event are vital for the development of their students.
“Giving students a safe place before and after school…is a key to their growth,” said Williams.
Ely Chapman succeeded in coinciding the event with Marietta College’s Family Weekend.
“We hire 90 percent of our teachers from Marietta College, so it’s really nice to be able to have this at the same time as Marietta College’s Family Weekend,” said Alice Chapman, founder and chairman of Ely Chapman.
Vendor spaces are still available for the Taste of Marietta.
“There is no charge for vendors to set up, they just have to provide free samples of their food,” Williams said.
Tickets for the Taste of Marietta are $10 for adults and $5 for children under 12. They are available at the Ely Chapman Education Foundation located at 403 Scammel St. or at the event itself.
Restaurants participating include Putnam Chocolate, da Vinci’s, Living River Cafe, Smitty’s Pizza, Over the Moon Pizza, Flying Dogs, Parkhurst Catering, The Original Pizza Place, Tasteful Occasions, Elenie’s Souvlaki Greek Food Truck.
• What: The Taste of Marietta-Taking it to the Streets.
• Where: 200 block of Putnam Street.
• When: 5 to 10 p.m. Sept. 22.
• Tickets: $10 for adults, $5 for children under 12
• Restaurants participating: Putnam Chocolate, da Vinci’s, Living River Cafe, Smitty’s Pizza, Over the Moon Pizza, Flying Dogs, Parkhurst Catering, The Original Pizza Place, Tasteful Occasions Catering, Elenie’s Souvlaki Greek Food Truck.
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Indian Boxing Ace Vijender Singh Looks Forward to His First Pro Fight in USA Vijender Singh will take on American Mike Snider at the Prudential Centre in Newark on Saturday.
Indian Boxing Ace Vijender Singh Looks Forward to His First Pro Fight in USA
Indian Boxing Ace Vijender Singh Looks Forward to His First Pro Fight in USASports Buzz
(Image source from: hindi.indiatvnews.com)
Indian ace boxer Vijender Singh is excited ahead of his first professional fight in the USA and banks on the support of local Indians to make his mark there.
The former Olympic and World championships bronze medallist was to make his USA debut in April but had to postpone his fight after receiving a cut on his eyebrow during sparring.
Vijender used the opportunity to make his debut in politics. However, he said he never quit boxing.
“I was back to training soon after the elections were over and trained for one-and-a-half months. I trained with my trainer Lee Beard in Manchester for six-seven weeks before reaching here on Sunday,” Vijender told The Hindu from Newark.
The unbeaten 33-year-old Indian star, who has remained unbeaten in his 10 professional bouts with seven knockout wins, will take on American Mike Snider at the Prudential Centre in Newark, on the undercard of Shakur Stevenson vs Franklin Manzanilla, on Saturday.
Vijender, who last appeared in a bout against Ernest Amuzu of Ghana in Jaipur in December 2017, said his comeback was not a problem.
“I have trained hard, done a lot of sparring and worked on my technique. I have concentrated on my basics. I will handle the next bout with my experience,” Vijender was by The Hindu.
Throwing light on his approach, Vijender said, “I need to be more patient. I will rely on my footwork and skills as it will be a long duel of eight rounds.”
Vijender looked forward to feeling at home against the 38-year-old American, who has a win-loss-draw record of 13-5-3, including eight knockout victories, in the super middleweight contest.
“The difference in fighting in the UK and the USA is that I have received a lot of messages from the Indians based here. I hope many of them will be here to support me.”
Even as Snider warned the Indian of a “rough and ugly” contest, Vijender gave his familiar reaction. “I don’t believe in big talk. I believe in doing my job well.
“A door has opened for me. I am in the USA for a fight after eight years.
“Last time I had won a gold medal in the World Police Games in New York and this time I will be the winner as well. I look forward to achieving my long-standing dream of tasting success at the Madison Square Garden sooner than later,” he said.
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Off the radar… Out in the sticks…
Who is Mayer Hawthorne?
Stone Roses Comeback
By Geraldine
I came across The Exit on Wood Street, off Deansgate, at some point on a trip into Manchester in the early eighties: it looked so exciting and mysterious, as it was situated on a narrow street that faces on to the side of the John Rylands University Library, with all its menacing gothic splendour, and the name The Exit sounded great.
I finally went in there in 1983: it was designed to look like a medieval dungeon, so the location and the name really fitted in.
New Order – Blue Monday
There weren’t many people in but the seemingly constant playing of New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’, and The Human League’s ‘Fascination’ made for a very atmospheric night as the two songs seemed made for the place. It is still an atmosphere that the two songs conjure up so vividly.
The Human League – Fascination
In Places
Human League New Order The Exit
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Antwerp Mansion
Happy Mondays & The New Pecking Order
(Bar)Fly On The Wall
T-COY Carino
Sparks @ The Ritz
Tweaked Kondratiev Cycle
Last month, this caught my eye outside Night & Day on Oldham Street…
I thought: It looks like 1983!
…black & white photos, the violinist’s short-back-and-sides and white buttoned-up shirt, ‘Dancing and Laughing’ (like Falling and Laughing by Orange Juice?)… it’s all so earnest, monochromatic, modestly stylish, yet slightly tatty… just like the early 80s…
At Manchester Poly, in the mid-80s, I was taught about Kondratiev Cycles; the art-history lecturer described 30-year economic cycles during which fashions and trends come full circle, first observed by Russian economist Nikolai Kondratiev in the 1920s.
The lecture focussed on “backward looking” versus “forward looking” attitudes within society, and the knock-on effect which these have on fashion and retail: in boom times, people look forwards and embrace new technology, while in economically depressed times, people look backwards and adopt “old-fashioned” values.
At the time, in the mid-80s, natural materials were “in” and synthetic materials were “out”. Plastic, nylon and other synthetic fabrics reeked of 1970s dated tackiness back then… the notion of “kitsch appeal” hadn’t yet evolved.
The lecturer told us that our mid-80s obsession with natural materials and pseudo-1950s styling was part of a generalised “backward looking” trend, which arose directly from the national economic down-turn we were living through.
My own aversion to man-made materials felt very personal and tactile… (nylon bed-sheets, nylon paisley shirts with massive collars, etc.) The idea that this was linked to economics seemed a big imaginative leap to make, although the notion was intriguing.
The lecturer characterised “backward looking” periods as conservative. But my experience of mid-80s Manchester was anything but: lots of small independent creative endeavours and businesses flourished in an exciting hive of activity, while many larger established companies were losing their way.
When I looked up Kondratiev Cycles recently, I was disappointed to discover that the 30-year cycle which I remember from the lecture doesn’t really tally with the original theory.
But the Manchester Poly art-lecturer’s tweaked version of Kondratiev theory appears to be working well, if my Oldham Street photo is anything to go by!
1950s 1980s 2010s Kondratiev Cycles Manchester Polytechnic Night & Day Nikolai Kondratiev Oldham Street
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Week 1 Fantasy Football Reflections
You want to be the king of your Fantasy Football league? Well let's review what you need to look at after the first week to make the smart decisions that propel you to victory.
Generally in Fantasy Football there are two categories of people; winners and losers. More often than not the losers do a draft, lock in their top players each week, and play the season out. While this can usually give you a decent record it doesn't typically push you into the top spots. There is a pretty fine line these days with getting those tops spots so usually it is during the season that a few key moves are made that will then give you an edge.
Week 1 & 2 Roster Tips
Avoid Knee-Jerk Reactions - Yes Kevin Ogletree looked great on Wednesday night. I loved the number of targets and what he did with them. But, who do you drop to put him on your bench? Make no mistake this guy is currently a bench player because in reality his is the 3rd receiver on the team. Because when it gets down to it even at best he will be a 900 yard 6-8 TD WR for the whole season. In deep leagues with big rosters yes grab him, but in smaller formats be careful about grabbing a guy because of 1 game. There are some exceptions such as a long term injury opening a whole in the roster to make that person an instant starter. Last year we had Victor Cruz who moved from a #3/4 to a #2 due to injury and obviously took full advantage. The same thing happened with Laurent Robinson because both Austin Miles and Dez Bryant missed games due to injury.
Have a List of Potential Breakouts - Some people had no idea who Jordy Nelson was until last year. Savvy owners have a short list of guys who are back RBs and 3rd/4th string WRs that have speed and size that equals a big impact. Nelson was on my watch list last year because in 2010 he had 45 targets, 13 yards per catch and a whopping 5.9 yards after catch. Plus he is 6-3 and Jennings in only 5-11 which makes him a very solid red zone target because he fights for balls and yards. After his 6 catch 1-TD week 2, I snapped him up and looked like a genius. This year guys like Russell Wilson, Danny Amendola, Santa Moss, Matt Cassel, Titus Young (who has been grabbed by a lot of guys), and Tennessee Defense are on my radar.
Watch the Waiver Wire - Sometimes guys get super excited about a 1-week-wonder (see Ogletree) and drop a proven star to grab him. Everyone has a slow week or two but I will take a proven guy over an untested guy all day long. Last year one owner in a league dropped Marquis Colston (who had an injury that limited him to 1 catch in week 2) to grab some flavor of the week. Guess who I snatched up? The last 5 weeks of the season that stud gave me 5 TDs and 476 yards.
Always Check the Injury Report - This is a huge key every week. People who don't practice all week are usually not the best game time decisions (except the top 30-40 players in the league). You need points every week, not guessing come game day. Unless it is one of your top players, plan on using someone else if there is an injury. This also goes for turning a #2 player to a #1 player on a roster. This is especially true for Running Backs where if you don't have a handcuff on your top RB, you need to watch injuries to make sure you get the backups when needed.
Watch Kickers and Defenses - David Akers and the 49ers Defense won a lot of leagues last year. It was a combination of the defense playing well and the offense not having a red zone package. This happens just about every year where a low draft or no draft kicker turns into a monster as well as some low tier defense coming together. A lot of owners only carry 1 defense and 1 kicker at the beginning of the season to pick up other players. In the first two weeks you can sometimes pick up a gem that will push your team to the playoffs.
Keep an Eye on Targets - Receivers and Tight Ends live off trust from their Quarterback. You can quickly tell after a week or two if a QB trusts his guys because he will target them a lot and that is a big deal especially during broken plays. The same thing goes for touches and Running Backs. If a team is calling a lot of running plays they have confidence in a back to produce. A TE like Jimmy Graham received 1/4 of all of Drew Brees' targets last year and the percentage increased as the neared the red zone. Those numbers equal production.
Watch for Emerging Trends - By this I mean look at the bottom 15 teams in the league in regards to defense and offensive production. This is where some serious gems can pop up because there are a bunch of guys who are unproven but not necessarily untalented and even on crappy teams someone will get opportunities.
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Teacher/Director/Performer/Researcher
Working as a theatre director my job is to unify and synthesise all the artistic elements of a performance. These elements may be music, physical images, puppetry, text, improvisation, digital media and a range of performers.
From a performance in a domestic living room to a large scale event on a pier, I am skilled at creating theatre that is powerful, cohesive, surprising, satisfying, and that tells a story with heart.
'Personal' by Jodee Mundy Productions. Season at Arts House, Melbourne, Sydney Opera House and regional tours. 2018. Image Bryony Jackson.
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Quotes from reviews:
"Personal is precisely what it says on the packet: an idiosyncratic account of a particular social identity, simultaneously unique and representative. It’s evident that Codas will find heaps to identify with, but it’s also highly informative and moving for the rest of us. Mundy employs a variety of techniques to draw us into her world, and expertly delivers on her pact with the audience. It’s that rarest of things: a lean, punchy show that could easily accommodate more content.
There’s a delightful sense of the analogue about the play, even while it dazzles technically (the sound design by Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, and the video design by Rhian Hinkley are second to none). A long opening section involves soundless Super 8 footage of Mundy’s family projected onto cardboard boxes. At first, it looks like footage every family would take; only gradually do we get a sense that this family is different, as mum and dad sign happy birthday, for example. Later, we get footage of Mundy and her primary school teacher conducting an interview about the peculiar technologies that help her parents function in the modern world: doorbells connected to lights, and typewriters connected to telephones.
All of this is adorably daggy, as Mundy silently acknowledges, but it contains some hints of sadness too. Functioning as a bridge between the deaf and hearing worlds isn’t an easy or looked-for role for a young person, especially a very young person. A Skype conversation with her deaf brother Gavin reveals the extent of her parents’ needs; as a four-year old Mundy is co-opted into the role of translator for complex and age inappropriate transactions. When she asks him how he thinks this impacted on her personality, he simply says, “it made you a better translator”.
It’s an observation both revealing and true; Mundy is a beautiful translator, crossing back and forth between the worlds of the hearing and the hearing impaired with consummate ease. There are sections of the play that are totally dependent on sound, and sections that one has to be proficient in Auslan to understand. She always signs before she speaks, and sometimes she doesn’t translate at all, which is the most eloquent way of realigning priorities. While she is standing in for a whole community, she never comes across as more than representative of her own experience. Anthony Burgess said that all translation is degrees of loss, but Mundy gives the impression that we are gaining something by speaking without words."
Tim Byrne, Time Out 9/4/18
" The satire and caricature is gentle and subtle, suggesting, as the best clowning does, that these men are sadly but mercifully oblivious to their many inadequacies... ...The Concert is a show at the high-quality end of the Comedy Festival - a real treat."
Helen Thomson, The Age 1/4/03
“Merophie Carr has carefully built the performance (of The Corridor), carefully balancing the ebb and flow of energy. It is delicate, intimate, yet also inclusive, embracing the audience rather than positioning them passively…. It played to a packed house and the audience definitely left the richer for the experience. It deserves a more substantial run......It becomes our experience also, expanding our emotional vocabulary – something that art at its best should do."
Hillary Crampton, The Age 27/2/06
Mantalk
"It's a dialogue about what it means to be a man (without the New Age chest-thumping the phrase usually connotes) that ripples with gently surreal comedy and sincere emotion.....
Directors Merophie Carr and Thalia Thomas have achieved a flow as natural as pub talk. The chat is so free-wheeling and alive it's hard to tell where the script ends and improvisation begins."
Cameron Woodhead, The Age 2/10/06
Die Roten Punkte
"Complete with bad German accents, amateurish guitar thrashing and drum bashing, they’re a crazy mix of early ‘80s bands such as Nena, who made the hit 99 Luftballons and Sigue Sigue Sputnick, with Iggy Pop-esque posing from Otto, Bjork attitude from Astrid, and some truly awful angst-ridden songs. The parody is well observed, the sulky sibling dynamics wonderfully awkward, and the level of self-delusion spot-on."
Tim Hunter The Age 3/10/06
Hungry for You
"This visually stunning and sophisticated piece of story-telling blends actors, shadow and bunraku puppetry, live cooking, and projections to take us into the world of glamorous celebrity chef and food artist extraordinaire Pippa Corelli…..
The set, puppets and design of Ros Wren are inspiring, the rice paper body lit from the inside an absolute vision on stage. Along with the satirical film clips, cooking cams and atmospheric lighting from Jason James, they together create a crisp and lush aesthetic for the whole piece. This slides seamlessly from the designer-kitchen fun of TV-world into the viscerality of laboratory-land and finally to the gothic black-mass meditation of the last scene. Hungry for You is brave and challenging, it’s full of surprises, floating in my memory and leaving me thinking long after I have left the theatre."
Gai Anderson, Write Response, 4/12/2012
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Digital Edition Archive
100 Holes? In One Day? Yes And Yes
Scott Ashworth and Anthony Valverde combined to shoot just 11 over par for 200 holes at Kiele Waikahe. David Simon photo
I manage to get out on the golf course a handful of times each year. Usually by about the 15th hole, my shoulders start to get a little sore, my feet get a little tired and my mind begins to wander farther than the last errant tee shot.
Well, 18 holes is now child’s play for Anthony Valverde and Scott Ashworth, who played the Kiele Waikahe Nine course at Kaua’i Lagoons Aug. 29 for 11 complete rounds and one more hole for good measure, totaling 100 holes of golf. The effort was a charity event that benefited both Aloha Section PGA Foundation and ASPGA Japan Tsunami Relief Fund.
“First ball was in the air at 6:45 this morning and the last putt dropped at 4:30,” Valverde said, putting the duo’s time under 10 hours. “I knew we had to average playing each hole in nine minutes, and I think we averaged six minutes.”
Valverde is the executive director of ASPGA. Ashworth is ASPGA president, as well as the director of golf at Kaua’i Lagoons.
The idea for this type of fundraiser, a departure from a typical scramble or best ball event, came collectively from the ASPGA board, which wanted to do something different. Valverde says they were able to raise about $2,500 for their efforts.
The twosome who had the nine-hole course to themselves wasn’t just running to the tee box, slamming the ball with little concern for direction and not worrying about results. Ashworth finished with an even 400 strokes, good for 1-over par. Valverde wasn’t far behind with a 10-over par 409.
The mental stamina to play 100 holes of golf in succession, especially at that level of skill, seems beyond words. Put it this way, MidWeek Kaua’i editor Don Chapman has played in several 100-holes-inone-day charity events, including one year “with a friend who had previously done the Ironman at Kona and the Run To The Sun up Haleakala on Maui, and he said playing 100 holes was tougher mentally.”
I’m certain that, for me, the inevitable daydreaming would be too much to overcome.
“There were definitely some errant shots where I was like, ‘I wasn’t even paying attention that time.’ A couple putts, I took the club back and I forgot where I was going,” Valverde admits.
Having never played more than 36 holes in one day before, he says he’d like to make this an annual fundraiser, but that once a year will be plenty.
“We stopped and had lunch after 54 holes, and that nine coming back after lunch was my roughest nine,” Valverde says. “I hit the wall there; it was my worst nine that I had. But at the end of it, I feel better than I thought I would feel.”
I always say that when I play golf, my goal is to shoot 100. If I’m speaking to Ashworth or Valverde, I now know I’ll have to be more specific.
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Gaza Border Protests Called Off after Israel Air Raids
by Naharnet Newsdesk 15 March 2019, 08:16
Weekly protests along the Gaza-Israel border were called off Friday after a military escalation between the Jewish state and Palestinian militants in the territory, organisers announced.
"In keeping with the public interest, the commission has decided to exceptionally postpone its activities scheduled for this day," the body which organises the protests said in a statement.
Protests will resume in the coming weeks, with particular preparation for the one-year anniversary of their beginning on March 30, it said.
The cancellation, the first of its kind in a year, came after Israel said its aircraft struck dozens of Hamas targets in Gaza overnight in response to rockets fired from the enclave, including at Tel Aviv.
An official from the organising committee, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the protests were delayed "to protect our people due to the escalation and the Israeli aggression."
The often violent protests are demanding Palestinian refugees and their descendants be allowed to return to former homes now inside Israel.
Israeli officials say that amounts to calling for the Jewish state's destruction, and accuse Hamas, the Islamist movement that runs the Gaza Strip, of orchestrating the protests.
At least 255 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since March 2018, the majority shot during border demonstrations and clashes.
Others have been hit by tank fire or air strikes in response to violence from Gaza.
Two Israeli soldiers have been killed over the same period.
SourceAgence France Presse
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whyaskwhy 15 March 2019, 20:34 00
Another successful policy for the Palestinian authorities lol. I guess that the rocket firing did not work huh?
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Home À propos de NI Leadership Eric Starkloff
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As president and chief operating officer, Eric Starkloff leads NI’s global sales, marketing, and R&D organizations. Starkloff and his team are responsible for identifying the markets to drive growth around NI’s leading software-defined platform and aligning the teams to execute on the growth strategy. His experience and leadership have been focused on developing and delivering results driven through strategy built on disruptive technology and informed by customer needs.
Since joining NI in 1997, Starkloff has held many leadership positions, including leading the teams that pioneered industry adoption of systems platforms such as PXI and CompactRIO. Most recently, he served as executive vice president of global sales and marketing (2014–2018). In this role, he led NI’s global sales evolution and a more targeted market strategy focused on growth opportunities in the semiconductor; transportation; and aerospace, defense, and government industries.
Starkloff is a thought leader on topics such as the Internet of Things, 5G communications, and autonomous vehicles. He has served on advisory boards for the Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia, the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, and the Wireless Networking and Communication Group at The University of Texas at Austin. He works to contribute to the Austin community and was a founding board member of Urban Roots, an Austin-based sustainable agriculture program that transforms the lives of young people.
Starkloff holds a bachelor’s degree with high distinction in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia.
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New Nukes
New Alliance Warns of Pre-Emptive Strike by Nuclear Industry. The nuclear industry is already starting site preparation works at two of its favoured locations for new power stations – even before it has applied for permission to build the plants. This warning that the industry is “jumping the gun” comes from a new alliance of local organisations opposed to the government’s plans for a nuclear revival. Communities Opposed to New Nuclear Energy Development (CONNED) brings together groups around six/eight sites earmarked for possible development – Hinkley Point in Somerset, Sizewell in Suffolk, Bradwell in Essex, Wylfa on Anglesey, Oldbury In Gloucestershire, Heysham in Lancashire, Sellafield in Cumbria and Hartlepool in County Durham.
Shepperdine Against Nuclear Energy 29th Dec 2010 more >>
The CBI is not alone in criticising the SNP’s energy policy, which rejects the building of new nuclear power plants while focusing on renewables, as risking the security of energy supply. This newspaper has welcomed the SNP’s ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and for encouraging Scotland’s potential in harnessing wind and wave power. Until suitable storage of renewable energy is developed, however, it is essential that nuclear power is part of the mix if we are to enjoy security of supply.
Herald 29th Dec 2010 more >>
Responses to Jim Mather’s letter about Scotland “importing” electricity from France.
Scotsman 29th Dec 2010 more >>
Torness & Hinkley
EDF halted generation yesterday at two atomic units in the U.K. EDF’s 650-megawatt reactor 1 at the Torness nuclear plant on the east coast of Scotland and the 610-megawatt B8 Hinkley Point unit in southwest England went down yesterday, Sue Fletcher, a company spokeswoman, said today by e-mail. “Both outages were unplanned,” she said, declining to comment on when the units would be back in action.
Bloomberg 29th Dec 2010 more >>
As the chief executive of the Somerset Chamber of Commerce, I hope I can be forgiven for concentrating on economic and political issues that will affect Somerset in 2011, however, in most issues you could delete “Somerset” and insert any area of the South West. I see 2011 panning out very like 2010, but that does not mean stagnation or instability, it means uncertainty as the economy rebalances away from the over-dependence of the public sector and the waiting game for THE big opportunity. The long wait for us in this part of the South West is the slow progress towards EDF Energy gaining permission to build Hinkley C – the next generation of nuclear power generator, on the coast of Somerset about eight miles north west of Bridgwater. Why such interest? It is a £10 billion project that will last for nearly 10 years and at its peak employ over 5,000 people, with a legacy of nearly 1,000 jobs on site for the next 60 years. Let’s put things into perspective. This is bigger than the Olympic village and bigger than Terminal 5 at Heathrow. Now, if and when this comes to fruition, then that will be an economic prospect worth waiting for in 2011
This is Devon 30th Dec 2010 more >>
Latest data from the grid operator also showed that the Heysham 1-2 nuclear reactor would reconnect to the grid on Thursday, adding further supply to the system.
Reuters 29th Dec 2010 more >>
Nuclear vs Climate
The argument that nuclear represents reliable “baseload” power is, as Peter Bradford points out, “rapidly losing relevance.” He echoes Lovins in saying that the new combinations available in the deployment of the Smart Grid, distributed generation (DG), renewables, energy efficiency, demand-side management (DSM), etc. render the idea of one constantly streaming power source archaic. As Lovins points out, the grid has anyway pretty much always been about a combination of generators. Bob Alvarez said that nuclear power is a “millstone” holding back the flourishing of other, better technologies. I could not agree more. I have hated nuclear power for 40 years but now more than ever. Given the need to successfully address the specter of climate change, we are wasting precious time, money and expertise pursuing new nuclear. Amory Lovins, as is so often the case, is eloquent on this point: expanding nuclear power is uneconomic, is unnecessary, is not undergoing the claimed renaissance in the global marketplace (because it fails the basic test of cost-effectiveness ever more robustly), and, most importantly, will reduce and retard climate protection.
Climate Progress 29th Dec 2010 more >>
Small Reactors
Letter from Basic Element: Coming just before the conclusion of the UN climate-change summit in Canc n, your article on mini nuclear reactors could not have been more timely. As you pointed out, Russia has developed small floating reactors to deliver energy to the Arctic regions, primarily to overcome the problem of building power plants and grids on unstable permafrost. The simplicity and scalability of small reactors makes them an ideal energy source where future demand is uncertain and investment in larger plants and grids is simply not viable. But you passed over the one big area where small reactors can perhaps make the greatest contribution: the developing world. Harnessing this technology can promote clean and affordable economic and social development in countries that are held back by energy shortages. Indeed, small reactors should figure prominently when it comes to implementing Canc n’s pledges on technology transfer to developing economies.
Economist 29th Nov 2010 more >>
South Korea’s President said yesterday that urgent progress must be made in dismantling North Korea’s atomic weapons programme before a key anniversary that could spur Pyongyang to bolster its nuclear capabilities. President Lee Myung-bak said diplomats must persuade the North to abandon its nuclear aspirations as Pyongyang pushes to create a “powerful, prosperous nation” by 2012; the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il-sung, who founded the communist state in 1948.
Independent 30th Dec 2010 more >>
Iran no longer has the capability to create a nuclear weapon on its own, Israel’s deputy prime minister said on Wednesday, in a new assessment that would seem to make military action less likely in the near future.
Telegraph 30th Dec 2010 more >>
US officials are worried Iran could use new technology in coming months that would shorten the time needed to reach nuclear weapon status and reduce the scope for diplomacy. Washington is particularly concerned that Tehran might deploy a new generation of centrifuges to enrich uranium, a process that can yield nuclear fuel and weapons-grade material.
FT 30th Dec 2010 more >>
Stuxnet masy have damaged no less than 1000 centrifuges at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant.
IT Portal 29th Dec 2010 more >>
Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin has praised the New Start nuclear arms treaty with the United States in his first remarks on the pact since the US Senate approved it last week. Mr Putin lauded President Dmitry Medvedev for forging the treaty with US president Barack Obama – a clear signal of approval for the agreement from Russia’s paramount leader.
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Robert Pattinson Talks About Breaking Dawn
The fourth book in the Twilight series…
Robert Pattinson has said he wants to know when he’ll be shooting the fourth movie in the Twilight franchise Breaking Dawn.
According to reports the young Brit said: “It will be strange but it will be great just to be able to know what I’m doing.
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“Not knowing when Breaking Dawn is going to shoot- because it changes all the time- is a kind of burden, to have this think where you don’t know when it’s going to happen.”
He continued: “So you’ve got to organize everything in your life around that and that can be difficult.”
There have also been rumours that the Breaking Dawn book will be split into two films- which would mean even more work for Pattz.
The next Twilight flick Eclipse is due in cinemas this summer.
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Joining up with the Me and Mine Family Portrait Project with these photos of our family for April.
The first two pictures were taken on Easter Monday when we were having fun doing some egg games at a local park. These games have become a family tradition and I can't wait for next year when Baby R will be able to join in more with them! The third photo was taken onboard the boat at the Anderton Boat Lift.
April Highs:
- A real high was hearing that Little Miss A had got our first choice of school. Can't believe that she starts in September so need to make the most of the next few months before she's a schoolgirl!
- My brother and his wife came up again this month to stay for a couple of nights and look after the kids whilst we were at the Cancer Centre for my chemo. It's been so appreciated that they've travelled so far to help us out.
- Little Miss A started a new gym class this month. She loved her gym classes back in Aylesbury so we were keen for her to carry on. So far so good and she's enjoying these new lessons.
- We spent a great weekend with Mr MoaB's family celebrating his sister's 50th Birthday, including lunch out at a fab restaurant. It was just a shame that his Mum couldn't join us as she had only just come out of hospital.
- Although I really can't stand Peppa Pig, I endured a full hour when I took the kids to the Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience. It wasn't Little Miss A's first time at the cinema but it was Baby R's! He wasn't that bothered by the whole thing but Little Miss A really enjoyed it and joined in all the actions and songs.
- A local town held some events to celebrate St Georges Day so Little Miss A had a few rides at the funfair and then we watched the Parade.
- I did some fun Easter activities with the kids (well namely, Little Miss A). I think she did 6 Easter hunts in the end, plus we had to do some egg and bonnet decorating for them to take in to nursery. You can read more about Baby R's first Easter and all our Easter Activities.
- We hosted our annual Easter egg games at a local park. I love that these games, which include egg & spoon races and egg rolling, have become a family tradition.
- Since we moved I've been collating a to do list of places to visit and we managed to tick on of these off this month - the Anderton Boat Lift.
- Over the Easter weekend we had a visit from some friends from where we used to live. It's hard leaving friends behind when you move away so it was really nice to see them.
- Some of my best friends made the long trip up from the South Coast to visit. It was amazing to see them and meant so much. We had such a lovely weekend catching up and even had a girls night out in Chester. I miss them so much and can't wait for the next get together.
April Lows:
- Little Miss A has been poorly twice this month. The first time was a sickness bug so she was off nursery for a day. She handled it all so well with so little fuss despite the mess! Then she's been struck with chicken pox at the end of the month but thankfully has only had a few spots and has been absolutely fine in herself!
- Baby R hasn't been 100% himself either. I seem to constantly have the washing machine going because of either sick or the biggest poonamis!
- I've been through 2 more rounds of chemo this month but got to ring the bell this month to mark the end of the chemo. I had a fab banner with me that I'd made with Little Miss A. I will still have ongoing treatment but no more chemo. These last ones have wiped me out a lot more and I have needed a lot of sleep for a few days afterwards so I am relieved to have got through this tough part.
- My arm where I had a PICC line inserted was becoming really sensitive and allergic to the various dressings. A visit to the doctor was needed for some antibiotics but in the end I opted to have the PICC line removed to let my arm heal. I don't miss having to wear the plastic arm sleeve in the shower and I'll now be able to swim with the kids which is good. I may have an alternative (a Port) fitted at a later date but for now my treatment will be administered with a cannula.
This is my favourite picture of this week for #MySundayPhoto.
It's not often I post just a picture of me, but it was a significant week for me as I finished my chemo treatment on Tuesday. Treatment is ongoing so it's still a long road ahead, but it feels important to record this milestone. I got to ring the bell at the Cancer Centre and had a fab banner that I'd made with Little Miss A. It was quite emotional.
Labels: My Sunday Photo
Hosting a Charlie and Lola Party
Some ideas for hosting a Charlie and Lola themed Birthday Party.
When I asked Little Miss A what theme she'd like her Birthday Party, I thought she'd say Paw Patrol or Peppa Pig. Instead she chose Charlie & Lola.
The shops are full of party items for other themes, but of course not for Charlie and Lola so it meant I had to get creative!
My favourite things on the decoration front were definitely the large drawings of Charlie & Lola. I just drew these freehand. I'm definitely not an artist and hated Art classes at school, but I think they turned out pretty well.
I purchased a pastel coloured banner that was quite plain. I found a font on the computer that was similar to the typeface used in the books and printed off the letters of Little Miss A's name. I could have used any old font for the letters, but the perfectionist in me wanted to try to make it match the books! I used some themed stickers that I bought online to embellish the banner as well. I think we'll put the banner up in Little Miss A's bedroom now.
The butterfly features heavily in the TV series credits etc. It's a very simplistic shape butterfly so I cut out lots of butterflies from patterned paper and used these to stick on the chairs around the table.
I'd also managed to get hold of the soft dolls for Little Miss A on ebay. The bonus was that they talk! A fab addition to the table.
The party had to include pink milk - Lola's favourite drink. I put this in clear plastic cups and printed off some banners to put around the cups. The final touch were some fun stripy straws. To be more true to the books they probably should have had curly straws in them.
We also had all the usual party food with a few fun things like glitter jelly. I printed off some little Charlie & Lola pictures and put these on cocktail sticks.
I did manage to purchase a pack of Charlie & Lola themed paper plates (affiliate link) online. There weren't enough to go around so some of the adults just had plain plates but Little Miss A was excited to see Lola on her plate!
We didn't actually have time to play any games at her party but I had a few ideas which I thought fitted with the theme. Many of these would have used the fun stripy straws that I bought as drinking from straws features quite heavily in the series when they drink pink milk etc.
- Stick the butterfly on Lola - a variation on Pin the Tail on the Donkey but using the large Lola picture I had drawn.
- Straw tug of war - put a straw on the table horizontally between 2 people who each have a straw. They have to blow the straw in the middle of the table towards each other. The person who gets it across to the other side of the table wins.
- Straw & Smarties game - 2 teams. Bowl of smarties for each team and each person has a straw and an empty bowl in front of them. Each team must transfer as many smarties as possible bowl by bowl down the line.
- Pass the elastic band - 2 teams and each person has a straw in their mouth. Pass the rubber band down the line only using the straws.
- Hula hoops - we recently watched the episode called 'I Am Making A Craze' where all the kids were hula hooping so I did buy Little Miss A a hula hoop as I thought it would be fun to include some hula hoop challenges.
As we just had a family party, I just put together some party bags for Little Miss A and her 2 cousins from bits I had already however if there had been more children then a few ideas I had to include were:
Curly straws (affiliate link)
A sheet of Charlie & Lola stickers (affiliate link)
Dr Moo Strawberry Milk Magic Sipper Straws
We asked a friend to buy a Charlie & Lola CD (affiliate link) for Little Miss A. Unfortunately it arrived in the post the day after the party, but I would have liked to have played the theme tune as Little Miss A came in to the room!
The CD is really fun with songs and snippets from the TV show. It's the only CD that's been played in the car since we received it!
I spent a lot of time trawling the internet for pictures to use etc. Here's some of the resources I used:
Charlie and Lola Activity Sheets from Orchard Books
Charlie & Lola Colouring Pages from Kidspot
Charlie and Lola on CBeebies including episodes, games and an activity book
It might not have been the easiest of party themes but I'm really pleased with how it all turned out. Little Miss A liked the decorations and everyone had a really lovely time. We have the drawings up on our dining room wall now!
So this is some ideas on how to have a Charlie and Lola party. Would love to know if you host a Charlie & Lola party and what you get up to.
Labels: 4th Birthday, Birthday Celebrations, Birthday Party Ideas, Celebrations, Charlie & Lola Themed Party, Charlie and Lola Party, Family Occasion
All the fun of the fair! This was taken today at a little fun fair in the local town. She loved the bubble machine that went off every time she went round! It wasn't very busy so she had each ride to herself!
Our Easter 2017
A round-up of what we got up to over Easter.
Today was a craft day as we had been set some Easter challenges by nursery. We needed to make an Easter bonnet for Baby R and decorate an egg for Little Miss A. Both involved a lot of orange paint and the result of our orange footprints was Little Miss A becoming covered in paint and needing a bath! As we were starting to get in the mood for Easter, we also made some chocolate Easter nest cakes too! Has to be done!
Tuesday 11th April
Our first Easter Hunt of the week, we visited Gordale Garden Centre in Wirral to do their Spring Trail. We found that they had a really fab play area so spent all afternoon at the centre and will definitely be returning.
Wednesday 12th April
The kids took their bonnet and decorated egg into nursery. They didn't win the competitions but I'm pretty chuffed with our efforts.
Thursday 13th April
Easter Hunt number 2 today as at the end of our usual Thursday playgroup there was an Easter Egg Hunt.
Good Friday - 14th April
Mr MoaB was off work so we had a day out at Anderton Boat Lift. We decided to do the Lift and the River Cruise which we really enjoyed. Little Miss A did Easter Hunt number 3 and had fun running around the museum and grounds finding the bunnies.
Easter Saturday 15th April
A day off from Easter things today. Our plans were scuppered as we couldn't go out in the car when we realised Mr MoaB had the car seat in his car!
Easter Sunday - 16th April
Not one, not two but three Easter Hunts today! We started with a egg hunt at home before heading out to do the Bunny Hunt at Blakemere Village. In the afternoon some friends from where we used to live visited and I set up another quick egg hunt for the kids.
Easter Monday - 17th April
Today was all about carrying on our Easter family tradition of playing egg games. Before we went out we decorated our hard boiled eggs. Mine was a self portrait and Little Miss A kept reminding me not to draw any hair on it as I haven't got any!!
After lunch, we went to Runcorn Hill Park and found a good spot to have our egg competitions. First up was some egg & spoon races, then egg rolling, finishing with egg smashing before eating the eggs. I love this family tradition that we've started. Next year Baby R will be able to get much more involved which will be great.
It was a really nice week of Easter activities with a grand total of 6 Easter Hunts and our annual egg games. We have enough chocolate to last us a month - what a shame!
Hope you had fun whatever you go up to!?!
Labels: Easter, Easter activities, Family tradition, Family walks, Local playgrounds, Local walks, Toddler walks
Easter Bunny Trail at Blakemere Village
Hunting for bunnies and eggs on the Easter Bunny Trail at Blakemere Village.
On Easter Sunday morning after our egg hunt at home, I took the kids off to Blakemere Village. We've visited before but this time we were going solely for the purpose of doing the Easter Bunny Trail that was running.
We arrived about 10.30am and headed for the main information office which was closed. Not a good start. Another family were also waiting and they called up as they like us had seen that the Trail was meant to be running from 10am every day. We were told that we could collect a Trail sheet from one of the shops so off we trundled.
The Trail sheet cost £2 which is reasonable for these types of Easter hunts. We were searching for various things including bunnies and coloured eggs. We found the first couple quite easily and then got a bit stuck. From speaking to other families, it became apparent that we were meant to be going in to each shop to search for the items. This wasn't clear but it meant that we then found a few more in quick succession.
We continued round the Trail but after a few shops where we couldn't find the bunnies or eggs, I started to get a bit frustrated as it was quite hard on my own to keep going in and out the narrow shop doorways with the pushchair and Little Miss A. On the Trail sheet you just had to tick to say you'd seen the items, so I have to admit that as Little Miss A didn't know how many we were meant to be finding, I cheated a bit and ticked them anyway. She was quite happy and didn't mind one bit! Particularly when she was presented with a Rolo chocolate egg at the end for completing the trail!
The actual bunnies that we did find were really lovely. I feel a bit bad that we didn't do it all, but Little Miss A really didn't mind.
We had seen a few fairground rides on our walk around so I promised Little Miss A a go on one before we went home. These were £2 a ride so just one ride was quite enough. There was also a free sand pit which kept Little Miss A occupied for a while.
We were really fortunate with the weather as it was pouring with rain when we were driving there but stayed dry whilst we did the Trail, only starting to spit again as were leaving.
I'm left feeling a little bit disappointed with my experience of Blakemere Village again. You can read more about our first visit to Blakemere Village in Northwich. It has so much potential to be a fantastic place to keep going back to but both times we've had to wait around for things to open (the office was closed and we had to wait until the fairgrounds opened at 11.30am). The Trail was just made a little bit more difficult than it needed to be for parents with pushchairs etc. I'm sure those with older children had a very different experience but for us it wasn't the best. It's just me that left feeling like this though. Little Miss A enjoyed herself and was really well behaved the whole time and that's what matters!
Labels: Easter, Easter activities, Easter holiday events, Local activities, Local Easter events, Local events
Weekend in Liverpool 2016
Reminiscing about a fab weekend we spent in Liverpool last year.
I had a wish before Baby R arrived in this world that I wanted to spend a night away somewhere with Mr MoaB. I'd only ever had one night away from Little Miss A and that's when I was in hospital so I wanted the chance to have a child-free night before the sleepless nights started again! Time was running out as he was due in May, so in April last year when I was 37 weeks pregnant, we had a weekend away in Liverpool.
We stayed at the Novotel Liverpool Centre as I'd luckily won a 2 night stay as a prize on a Facebook competition. We travelled up North on Friday and spent some time with Mr MoaB's Mum before dropping Little Miss A off with his sister. Little Miss A was really excited to be having a sleepover with her cousins so we felt sure that she wouldn't miss us too much.
Then Mr MoaB and I drove to Liverpool to enjoy some quality time together. We had a quick swim in the hotel pool before getting ready to go out on the town!
One of the things I really wanted to do was go on the Wheel of Liverpool. We were really fortunate that as we were walking past looking for somewhere to eat, a guy gave us some spare tickets that he had. We decided to eat first and go on the wheel after dinner.
We dined at EastZEast in the Docks which has to be the best curry that we both have had. It was brilliant. We took our time and really enjoyed the meal.
The restaurant is right next to the Wheel so we then used our free tickets and had the whole wheel to ourselves! It was nice to see Liverpool all lit up at night.
After the Wheel we had a wander around Liverpool including finding the Cavern Club. Has to be done as a tourist in Liverpool!
We then headed back to the hotel to enjoy a guaranteed uninterrupted night of sleep. Bliss!
After a lovely lie-in and breakfast in the hotel, we set off to Southport where we were meeting Mr MoaB's family and collecting Little Miss A from them. She'd had a brilliant time and had been really well behaved. We enjoyed a really nice time in Southport including riding the carousel and spending a long time in the playground.
We then drove back to Liverpool for our second night, this time with Little Miss A.
The next morning we were up early (no lie-in this time) so went down to the hotel pool. For a long time we had the pool to ourselves which Little Miss A loved. We had breakfast and then checked out.
Before leaving Liverpool, we surprised Little Miss A with a visit to Mattel Play! We received free entry into Mattel Play! in return for a review. The play centre hadn't been opened that long. Little Miss A enjoyed all the themed play zones - Thomas The Tank Engine, Bob the Builder and Fireman Sam. What's not to like when you're 3 years old!?! You can read more about our experience on my review of Mattel Play!
We really did pack a lot in to our trip up North and our time in Liverpool. It was so nice to have a date night and night away. I can't believe it's taken me this long to write up about it, but it was a year ago last weekend so now felt a good time to do it.
Labels: Family Day Out, Family Holidays, Toddler Activity
Anderton Boat Lift in Northwich
A family day out at the Anderton Boat Lift with the added bonus of an Easter Treasure Hunt.
One of the things on our to do list when we moved up to Cheshire was to go on the Anderton Boat Lift and we chose to go on Good Friday. It also meant that we could fulfil one of the things that Little Miss A keeps asking to do - go on boat!
We arrived mid-morning and as we got to the entrance we saw a canal boat going in to the lift so stopped for a bit to watch it. Then we went to buy our tickets for the Lift and River Cruise. Our allocated time slot meant about a half hour wait but that was fine as there is the museum to look around plus you can take a wander in the grounds.
We filled the time by doing the free Easter Treasure Hunt which Little Miss A really enjoyed. She raced around finding the bunnies in the exhbition area and outside including in the maze. She liked the reward too of a Creme Egg!
Doing the hunt meant that we got our first sight of the Boat Lift from below. It's such an impressive structure.
There was just time to explore the museum a little bit and for some dressing up, before we headed up to the Cafe to find Mr MoaB & Riley and go out to board the boat. Little Miss A looked so cute in the costumes.
We boarded the glass sided boat at the top to go down the lift. There was a Guide on board who gave a really great commentary about the history of the lift, wildlife on the canal etc.
The boat cruise took about 90 minutes in total and we travelled along the picturesque River Weaver to Northwich and back. Baby R was more interested in walking about on the boat! We'd taken a packed lunch with us and we had ample time to enjoy this as we meandered down the canal.
On our return we disembarked the boat at the bottom. This was the only slight negative as I was expecting to go back up in the Lift.
When we disembarked Little Miss A made a bee-line for the small playground and then played in the maze with her Daddy. We then spent a bit more time in the museum before heading home.
You can actually explore the Visitor Centre including the exhibition area and grounds for free. You have the choice of just going on the Boat Lift, or like us doing the Lift and Cruise. Under 5s are free so we just had to pay for 2 adult tickets. More details, including prices can be found on the Canal & River Trust website.
I am glad we've been on this historic structure and it was such a nice family day out.
Labels: Easter holiday events, Family Day Out, Local activities, Local Easter events, Local events
Siblings - April 2017
Joining up with The Siblings Project with these photos of Little Miss A and Baby R.
I absolutely love this picture of Little Miss A and Baby R. So much so that I've got it as my lock screen on my phone. It makes me smile so much when I see it. Little Miss A and I made some Very Hungry Caterpillar headbands ahead of a Giant Wiggle sponsored walk for Action for Children. We were doing the walk with one of the playgroups we go to. Unfortunately it was pouring with rain the morning of the walk, so I took this photo before we set off as the headbands weren't going to survive the rain. We still had fun on the walk, even in the rain!
At the end of the sponsored walk the weather dried up a bit and so we had the chance to pop to the playground. Baby R is so lucky to have his big sister there to look after him at all times.
It is so nice that they can start going on equipment in playgrounds together as the next few photos show...
It is so fun seeing them play together. Here they are in their tunnel together.
Their relationship is really blossoming. This time last year whilst I was pregnant with Baby R, I was worried about how Little Miss A would react to having a sibling. I needn't have worried. She's doing a great job as a big sister.
Labels: Siblings
These are my favourite pictures of this week for #MySundayPhoto with an Easter theme as it's Easter Sunday. I've chosen not one but two pictures this week as it seemed only fair to have a picture of each child.
I love that Little Miss A was so excited to find the eggs on her Easter Egg hunt this morning! They were only paper eggs and the prize at the end was a chocolate egg, but she was just so happy!
As it's Baby R's first Easter, I wanted to capture a picture of him. He hasn't had any chocolate, but I'm sure he'll make up for that in years to come!
Spring Trail at Gordale Garden Centre
Garden Centres seem to be my go-to when I'm stuck for things to do with the kids and as we've moved we now have a whole load of new ones to explore!
Our plans for today changed and I was at a loss of how to entertain the kids this afternoon. So we headed off to Gordale Garden Centre in South Wirral as they have a Spring Trail running during the Easter holidays.
We picked up our Trail sheet for £2.50 at the Customer Service Desk and headed off. Little Miss A was actually really quite excited about the whole thing and once we'd found the first Bunny she was really quick to spot the next few.
Half way round was 'The Gordale Express' which was a good photo opportunity!
We then took a break from the Trail and headed for the Play Area. Split in to two sections, we spent a good hour here particularly as the sun had come out. Little Miss A made a few friends and was quite happy to run around with them. I love it when she comes over all excited that she's made a new friend. She never remembers to find out their names until I prompt her!
We took a short wander to see the various birds in the wildlife area and lake, before finishing off the rest of the Trail. The clues were very clever for the Trail and once I'd worked out the anagram for her, Little Miss A was rewarded with a Lindt chocolate bunny for completing the trail.
We decided to treat ourselves to some cake in the cafe before going back to the play area for another quick play before we headed home. I thought we'd only be out about an hour, but we were out all afternoon!
This garden centre is a great find for us with it's great play area. I found out about their Easter Trail on the Gordale Garden Centre Facebook page.
Labels: Easter, Easter activities, Easter holiday events, Local activities, Local Easter events, Review
We've just spent a really lovely weekend with Mr MoaB's family for his sister's birthday. We got together for a family meal out yesterday in a restaurant right by the canal so took a quick stroll after we'd eaten. The weather was glorious and I just kept smiling having my three favourite people with me.
This is my favourite picture of this week for #MySundayPhoto. Has to be a picture from Little Miss A's 4th Birthday.
Our little girl turned 4 this week so I've chosen a photo from her birthday party that we had with family. The Paw Patrol cake was made by one of her Great Aunts. It was really lovely of her to make it for Little Miss A and tasted yummy too!
Me & Mine - March 2017
Joining up with the Me and Mine Family Portrait Project with this photo of our family for March.
It's so hard to get a good picture of all of us together. Little Miss A is pulling a face which is pretty much the norm when we take these pictures and Baby R is more interested in what his sister is up to! Oh well, it shows the real us I suppose! Thanks to our friend for taking this.
March Highs:
- We took Little Miss A to a trampoline park for the first time this month. We tried the toddler trampolining session at Urban Air Cheshire and she had great fun! It was nice that I could join in with her and it wore me out!
- A day out in Southport with some friends. Little Miss A loved the mini rides and particularly loved going on the carousel with her Daddy.
- We stayed up at Mr MoaB's Mum's after our day in Southport and then she'd arranged for lots of the Great Aunts & Uncles to visit. Most haven't had the chance to meet Baby R yet so it was nice for them all to have cuddles with him.
- My brother and his wife came to stay for a couple of nights. It was really good to see them and catch-up. They were great babysitters giving Mr MoaB and I the chance to have a rare date night and looked after the kids whilst we were at the Cancer Centre for my chemo.
- We took part in a soggy 'Giant Wiggle' sponsored walk for Action for Children. Unfortunately the weather put most people from the playgroup off, but a few of us had fun.
- Little Miss A enjoyed a Pyjama day at nursery and then both kids wore red to nursery for Comic Relief.
- I got really spoilt on Mother's Day and we had a low-key but lovely family day together.
- We've explored a few new places and found some playgrounds - which we'll definitely be revisiting now that the weather is improving.
- The month ended on a real high as it was Little Miss A's 4th Birthday. She spent the morning at nursery and loved taking a cake in to share with her friends. Then we traveled up to have a party for her with Mr MoaB's family. She'd chosen a Charlie & Lola theme so I'd made lots of decorations for her. It was a lovely party. Can't believe she's now 4 and will be going to school soon.
March Lows:
- Unfortunately the month started with me being in hospital again with sepsis. Exactly the same as last month - I had to stay in for 2 nights.
- Another round of chemo - the end is in sight.
- I had quite an emotional day when Mr MoaB and I went down to my parents house for the last time as it has been sold. Even though I never lived there, it holds so many memories.
- Mr MoaB's Mum had a major operation so we've been thinking of her lots. She's doing ok so we're hoping she'll be out of hospital soon. One of the major advantages to our move up North is to be closer to Mr MoaB's family and so he's been able to visit every few days which just wouldn't have been possible before.
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Guitar Virtuoso Scott Henderson To Release Instrumental Album For Guitar Trio "People Mover" On July 1, 2019
By Glass Onyon PR June 19, 2019
Los Angeles, CA – Guitar virtuoso Scott Henderson has finished his new album “People Mover,” the most ambitious project of his career! The highly anticipated instrumental album for guitar trio will be released on July 1, 2019.
Says Scott, “The music has a lot of interplay due to a busy touring schedule with bassist Romain Labaye and drummer Archibald Ligonniere. I'd say this album is a bit more harmonic than 'Vibe Station,' and the rhythm section plays a bigger role in the music. The challenge was to come up with new tones and effects I haven't used before, since like 'Vibe Station,' the songs are layered with multi guitar tracks.”
“People Mover” demonstrates Scott's striking ability to combine elements of jazz, rock, funk and blues in an even more authentic, seamless and musical way than any of his previous work. Proof that after 35 years as a bandleader, Scott is a musician who's playing and composing continues to grow.
From a recent interview, “My music isn't for purists, that's for sure, and I'm very thankful for my fans who are obviously open-minded and share my love for many different styles of music.”
Scott Henderson's impressive work over the years as co-leader of the group TRIBAL TECH, leader of his own ground breaking trio, and sideman to some of the best jazz artists of their generation, including the great Joe Zawinul, has elevated him to the front ranks of both Jazz and Blues. Catch Scott on tour in 2019: July in Europe, September in South America, and October in Asia.
To purchase (available July 1, 2019):
https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/scotthenderson
https://www.scotthenderson.net/
https://www.facebook.com/scott.henderson.14418101
Press inquiries: Glass Onyon PR, PH: 828-350-8158, glassonyonpr@gmail.com
Guitar Instrumental New Album New Releases Prog Rock Progressive Rock Rock Scott Henderson
Labels: Guitar Instrumental New Album New Releases Prog Rock Progressive Rock Rock Scott Henderson
British Post-Punk Veterans 1919 Return With A Brand New Masterpiece Of Darkly Melodic Goth Rock, FUTURECIDE!
By Glass Onyon PR April 13, 2019
Los Angeles, CA - Like the mythic phoenix rising from the ashes, British post-punk band 1919 have gone through Hell and back over the course of their harrowing career, but they keep returning stronger than ever! Founded in 1980, the band released its debut album Machine in 1983 and one EP a year later before calling it quits. However, the band reformed in 2014 to great acclaim, performing numerous tours and at festivals across Europe. Then, tragedy struck as the band’s founding guitarist Mark Tighe was diagnosed with cancer in 2016 and succumbed to the disease in January 2017. Tighe insisted that the band should carry on without him, which they have done in finest form with their newest effort Futurecide. The album, which will be officially released on April 12 via Cleopatra Records, features brand new compositions and includes special guest performances by Tighe as well as former member Steve Madden, who also passed away this year. The first single, “Anxiety,” was released at the en…
New Age Instrumental Review: Anaya Music-AONKI – Gateway of Love (Cosmic New Age Music)
By Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck January 20, 2018
Release Date: February 2, 2018 Label: Anaya Music Website
Around this time a year ago I had the experience of listening to Anaya Music and providing coverage of Eternity. It was an uplifting experience and a memorable listen as I recall.
Now with February drawing closer AONKI – Gateway of Love (Cosmic New Age Music) will arrive.
Once again, the recording features several exceptional collaborations between Anaya Music and a live virtual symphony orchestra recorded in the heart of Prague, the capital of the Czech republic. The orchestra combines members of the finest ensembles in Prague, including the Czech Philharmonic.
I think they should rename the orchestra to “The Live Spiritual Orchestra.” If you have been exposed to Anaya Music you will understand what that means. If this is your first journey with this music you will find out very quickly. Either way, this is spiritually uplifting music that leaves a smile on your soul. It’s like the term digital footprint, there is an everlasting m…
Concert Review: Ghost At The Palace Theater Albany NY
By Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck December 15, 2018
Ghost At The Palace Theater Albany NY December 13, 2018 http://ghost-official.com
With winter upon us in the great Northeast, it was just another night. We never have a reason to stay in because of the weather, we just go. It so happened that it was a nice evening for a drive to a Ghost concert.We secured our tickets months ago and have been anticipating this night for months on end.
Last July I attended a “bucket list” concert, the great Iron Maiden was coming to Mansfield, MA. Opening for them was Ghost. This was a turn of a friendly card for the band, a great way to get worldwide exposure otherwise not afforded by a lesser band. They were already on the rise and the lead singer Papa Emeritus had a helluva a band (no pun intended there). At that time my prediction was that when the new year began Ghost would be headlining their own shows. So, then it happened, here we are tonight watching this incredible metal band headlining their own show, with no opener may I add.
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2010| July-September | Volume 17 | Issue 3
Online since May 2, 2016
In-situ pinning for Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis in blacks: experience in a regional orthopaedic centre
W Yinusa, AM Owoola, BA Ahmed
July-September 2010, 17(3):190-193
BACKGROUND: Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis (SCFE) is the commonest pathology affecting the adolescent hip with an incidence of approximately 2 per 100,000 population. Blacks are more commonly affected than Caucasians. Of many treatment options available, in-situ-pinning appears to be the most widely employed. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To determine the epidemiological pattern and the outcome of in-situ pinning for slipped capital femoral epiphysis in Nigerian adolescents. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This is a six-year retrospective review of all the cases of slipped capital femoral epiphysis treated by in-situ pinning between 1st January 1998 and 31st December 2003 at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi, Lagos, Nigeria. RESULTS: Thirty-one patients with 35 affected hips were managed with in-situ pinning during the period of review. Twenty-one females (67.7%) and 10 males (32.3%) with a F:M ratio of 2.1:1 were affected. The mean age for all the patients was 12.45 years (range 6 - 16; SD 1.79). The most common presenting complaint was hip pain seen in 48.4% of cases. Satisfactory results were obtained in 13 hips (37%) while the results in the remaining 22 hips were unsatisfactory. The most common complication was limb length discrepancy. CONCLUSION: This study shows that SCFE is not an uncommon condition in orthopaedic practice in Nigeria. The high rate of unsatisfactory results is associated with the severity of the slips and the unavailability of image intensifier at the time of surgery.
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Comparative effect of tube drain on post operative inflammatory complications of impacted mandibular third molar surgery College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
OS Obimakinde, AO Fasola, JT Arotiba, VN Okoje, AE Obiechina
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Swelling, pain and trismus are acute reversible inflammatory complications of impacted mandibular third molar (M3) surgery. They contribute to the deterioration of quality of life and loss of several useful working hours. This study aimed to investigate whether the use of a surgical drain following M3 surgery can minimise these inflammatory complications. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Eighty consecutive patients who gave consent were enrolled into the study. Patients were assigned into two groups (drain and no drain) by systematic sampling method which was modified to ensure matching of patients by age, sex and spatial relationship of the impacted mandibular third molar. The patients in the drain group (n=40) had a Foley's catheter drain inserted into the wound after the surgical procedure while the patients in the no drain group (n=40) had their wound closed without the use of drain. All patients had primary wound closure with 3.0 black silk sutures after the procedure. Demographic data, cheek dimension and maximal mouth opening were recorded before the procedure. Pain, swelling and trismus were evaluated in the two groups at 24 hours, 48 hours and 7th day after surgery. RESULTS: Post operative swelling and visual analogue scale score for pain were comparatively lesser in the drain group patients. The maximal interincisal distance was also more in the drain group patients. CONCLUSION: The findings from this study indicated that there is a significant benefit of using a surgical drain in minimising postoperative oedema, pain and trismus following surgical removal of impacted mandibular third molar.
Domestic refuse management practice in Sokoto: the effect of health education
AO Abiola, MT Ibrahim, BB Usman, KS Sabitu, IS Abubakar, OK Alausa, DB Parakoyi
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: Domestic refuse remains a major environmental concern in large cities around the world. Its management also continues to be a major challenge. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of health education on the knowledge, attitude and practices of domestic refuse management (DRM) among community members in Sokoto metropolis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A quasi experimental study design was employed to investigate two sampled (intervention and control groups) population of 225 subjects in the study areas. RESULTS: The mean knowledge score (%) of the study subjects was high and similar (p=0.82), in both the intervention and control groups at baseline, but differed significantly (p<0.0001) at post-intervention. The mean attitude score (%) was high and similar (p=0.38), in both the intervention and control groups at baseline, but differed significantly (p=0.008) at post intervention. The mean observed practice score (%) was low and similar (p=0.42), in both the intervention and control groups at baseline, but differed significantly (p<0.0001) at post-intervention. CONCLUSION: This study has identified the underlying problem of our DRM system to be inherent in the practice component in the triangulation of knowledge, attitude and practice of DRM. The implications of the study findings for healthcare policy, planning and implementation cannot be over-emphasised.
Knowledge and practice of standard precautions among health care workers in the Federal Medical Centre, Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria
AR Isara, AN Ofili
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: Health care workers (HCWs) are exposed to blood and other body fluids in the course of their day to day activities in the health care setting. Standard precautions are designed to reduce the risk of transmission of microorganisms from both recognized and unrecognised sources. This study is to determine the knowledge and practice of standard precautions among health care workers in Federal Medical Centre, Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: This descriptive, cross sectional study was carried out among Health Care workers in Federal Medical Centre Asaba, Delta State. A total population of all the doctors and laboratory workers was used while the nurses were selected using a stratified sampling method. A semi-structured, self-administered questionnaire was the tool for data collection. RESULTS: A total of 167 respondents participated in this study. The mean age of the HCWs was 36.9 ± 6.8 years made up of 47 (28.1%) doctors, 100 (59.9%) nurses and 20 (12.0%) laboratory workers. There were more females (65.3%) than males (34.7%) in the study. One hundred and thirty seven (82.0%) respondents had heard about standard precautions. Only 63 (37.7%) of them had correct knowledge of it. There was fair practice and adherence to the standard precautions by those who knew of it. CONCLUSION: Findings from this study emphasised the need for intensive enlightenment programme to educate health care workers on various aspects of standard precautions and infection control programmes and policies.
Influence of maternal height on mode of delivery in Nigerian women
VO Oboro, AB Ande, BN Olagbuji, MC Ezeanochie, A Aderoba, I Irhibogbe
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To determine the influence of maternal height on the mode of delivery even when matched for maternal characteristics. The study is a prospective cohort study comparing the mode of delivery in 57 short stature women (d"150 cm) with age and parity-matched, taller control women (n = 57). MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 114 parturients were studied, 57 of whom had a height of 150 cm or lower and constituted the study group, while the other 57 taller women were matched with respect to parity (i.e. belonging to same parity group of either nulliparity, para 1-3, para 4+) and maternal age group (i.e. <20, 20-34, 35+ years) to the shorter women and constituted the control group. Patients were also matched by gestational age (28-37 weeks, 38-42 weeks, 42+ weeks) and birth weight (<2500g, 2500-3999g, 4000+) groupings. RESULTS: Caesarean section rate in the short women was higher (42.1%) than in taller women (21.1%), P= 0.016, as was the incidence of cephalopelvic disproportion (35.5% versus 10.3% respectively, P = 0.010). Nevertheless, neonatal outcome remains good; the 5-min Apgar score <7 was 21.1% versus 15.8% respectively, P =0.469, while the stillbirth rate was 10.5% versus 7.0), P = 0.508. CONCLUSION: Short stature is independently associated with an increased risk of intrapartum caesarean section in Nigerian women and advocate early recourse to caesarean section to avoid undue delay.
Excision and end-to-end anastomotic urethroplasty in the management of post-traumatic urethral stricture disease: experience and challenges in a Nigerian teaching hospital
KH Tijani, CN Ogo, A Adeyomoye
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: The study aims to assess the outcome of excision and end-to-end anastomotic urethroplasty in the management of post traumatic urethral stricture in at one of the teaching hospitals in Nigeria. MATERIALS AND METHODS: All cases of post traumatic urethral stricture disease managed by excision and end to end anastomosis between January 2000 and December 2006 were retrospectively studied. The data collected included the patients age, cause of stricture, location, length and the outcome of surgery. RESULTS: A total of 47 patients excision and end to end anastomotic urethroplasty were carried out during the period. Twenty patients (42.6%) had bulbar stricture and 27 (57.4%) had pelvic fracture urethral distraction stricture involving the posterior urethra. There was a 100% success rate in the 20 patients with bulbar urethral stricture at a minimum follow up of 1 year while the success rate for the 27 patients with posterior urethral stricture was 70.4%. Complications included one case each of perineal wound infection and of urethrocutaneous fistula which were managed conservatively. CONCLUSION: Excision and end to end anastomotic urethroplasty gives excellent results for the treatment of short segment post traumatic bulbar strictures and should be used as the primary treatment for such strictures.
Assessment of violence against women in Kano metropolis, Nigeria
AG Salaudeen, TM Akande, OI Musa, JO Bamidele, FA Oluwole
BACKGROUND: Violence against women, in its various forms, is endemic in communities and countries around the world, cutting across class, education, race, age, religious and national boundaries. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted to identify various forms of gender based violence affecting women in Kano metropolis, determine factors responsible for gender based violence and use this to suggest ways of preventing gender based violence. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Respondents for this study were selected from the eight metropolitan Local Government Areas of Kano State, Nigeria. Six hundred adult males and females were selected through a multi-stage sampling technique by the use of questionnaire as the data tool. RESULTS: More than three quarters 436 (75.7%) of the respondents knew that women are subjected to various forms of verbal abuse in their homes by their spouses. Deprivation of assess to health care and education was identified by 454 (78.8%) and 490 (85.15) respondents as challenges faced by women at homes. Majority of the respondents 498 (86.4%) identified financial reason, four hundred and forty (76.4%) respondents mentioned unfaithfulness and three-quarters 434 (75.3%) of the respondents said refusal of sexual advance is a reason for violence activities witnessed by women in their respective homes. There was a statistically significant relationship in opinion of male and female on coercion of wife for sexual activities when she is tired and when she is not in the mood (p-value=0.0000). CONCLUSION: Government and Non Governmental organisation should intensify activities to promote awareness and advocacy on violence against women. Involvement of males in all programmes relating to violence against women should be done especially since the perpetrators in most cases are men
Argyrophilic nucleolar organiser region (AgNOR) study of some odontogenic cyst epithelium
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: This study compared the biologic activity of three different cyst types and assessed the value of the AgNOR technique as an aid to diagnosis. BACKGROUND: The nucleolar organiser region (NORs) reflect replicatory activities within the cells. It has been found to be of diagnostic value in the prediction of the biologic behaviour of some tumors and even oral epithelial dysplasia. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Thirty histologically diagnosed H & E sections of cystic lesions consisting of ten (10) radicular, ten (10 dentigerous and ten (10) odontogenic kerotocysts were randomly selected from the record of biopsy services of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. The paraffin blocks of the selected sections were retrieved for AgNOR staining. For each cyst type the mean and standard deviation of AgNORs/100 cells was calculated and compared with other cyst types using an analysis of variance and student's t-tests. RESULTS: RESULTS of this study show a statistically significant higher means AgNORs cyst. (p = 0.0016; p = 0.00049 and respectively). However, no statistically significant difference in mean AgNOR score/cell was found when the radicular and dentigerous cysts were compared. CONCLUSION: These variations reflect the difference in the proliferation rate of the odontogenic keratocyst, radicular and dentigerous cysts.
Malpractice and medicolegal issues in radiology practice: knowledge base for residency trainees and trainers
RA Arogundade, DO Omiyi
BACKGROUND: Medical malpractice is a global problem of professional negligence resulting in damage or harm to a patient due to deviation from accepted standards of practice. Radiology service delivery to patients from all the four major medical disciplines and the ever increasing imaging arsenal potentially increase the incidence of adverse events in radiology. It is pertinent therefore, that radiology practitioners become conversant with the regulatory role of the medical malpractice system in the protection of the right of patients. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To document the knowledge base of medical malpractice in current literature in order to arouse the awareness of radiology residency trainees and trainers to this all-important professional practising issue. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Literature materials on medical malpractice in general and Radiology in particular were reviewed. Four illustrative case reports from past experiences were highlighted. Discussion was carried out on the historical perspective, classes, defendant status, legal requirements and prevention of medical malpractice. RESULTS: Discovery of x-ray in 1895 shifted focus of medical malpractice matters to Radiology. Practically all imaging techniques, including US, CT, MRI have been subject of malpractice lawsuits. Cognitive and perceptual diagnostic errors constitute 70% of malpractice cases against radiologists. CONCLUSION: Adequate professional training, informed consent by the patient and improved doctor-patient relationship are basic to standard medical practice.
Choroid plexus papilloma in a Nigerian child: a case report
OB Bankole, OA Ojo, OO Kanu, SO Arigbabu
Choroid plexus papilloma is a rare but known cause of hydrocephalus among children. We report the case of an 8 month old girl who clinically was thought to have post-infective Hydrocephalus. Cranial CT however showed an associated intra-ventricular tumour which after surgical resection was reported as a Choroid plexus papilloma. This is the first time such a case is being diagnosed at our hospital and very few cases have been documented in literature from sub-Saharan Africa. This case highlights the available treatment and good prognosis that is possible with Choroid plexus papilloma. It also highlights the need for a high index of suspicion for less common causes of an enlarging head especially when the clinical picture is not typical as demonstrated in our patient. The seeming rarity of this disease in our environment may be partly due to the limited availability of CT scanners in many centres and the paucity of Neuroradiologist and Neurosurgeons in sub-Saharan Africa.
Flapless guided implant surgery: a case report and review of literature
EM Okoturo, EC Edeh, OO Olowu
Dental implant surgery has traditionally been done through raising flaps, until recently when flapless surgery was advocated. The major challenges of implant placement include correct implant localisation / angulations and osseointegration. In this regard, many types of surgical guides have been proposed. This is a case report of implant placement using flapless guided surgery with a simple surgical guide. A 31 year old female with missing right maxillary canine and left 1st premolar was treated in a private hospital in Lagos, Nigeria. Two implants (BASIC: Bio Anatomical System Implant Corporation USA) with titanium-oxidised surface were proposed for placement. The patient was treated according to the protocol in the BASIC treatment manual. In summary, it involved design and fabrication of a surgical guide and flapless guided implant surgery. This minimally invasive flapless procedure offered less chair time with no complication. The accompanying 3 month osseointegrating period offered a comfortable post surgical period for the patient without compromised treatment outcome. The design technique involved the use of a periapical (P.A) radiograph, impression casts, P.A film overlay. All of which are affordable in a developing environment.
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Lying About Dead Infants to Besmirch the Orthodox Jewish Community
The Journal News (Lohud) headlines a report "infant deaths hit Jewish community hard," and then writes "since 2008, nine infant deaths in Rockland County have potentially been linked to unsafe sleeping conditions and Jewish families have been hit particularly hard, losing eight of those children, according to the county Medical Examiner's Office. That's 89 percent, though Jews account for only about a third of the county's population."
Indeed, the Jewish community is only 33% of Rockland, but more than 75% children born last year in Good Samaritan, one of two hospitals in Rockland to deliver babies, were to Jewish parents; as per OJPAC research. The comparable data that the paper should have used is infant births vs. Infant deaths; not infant deaths vs. The whole population.
Lohud also reports that Good Samaritan delivered 3,100 babies last year. A majority of the 1,700 children born in Nyack, the other Rockland hospital, are also Jewish; as per OJPAC research. In total, more than 3,100 babies are born annually into Rockland Jewish households. If Sudden Infant Deaths (SID's) in the Rockland Jewish community was - God forbid - the same rate as it was statewide in 2012 (0.14% out of 1,000), then SID's in Jewish households would have been +4 in 2012 alone; not 8 deaths over a 6 year period as reported by Lohud.
The contrast between Rockland (mostly Jewish) infants and the rest of the state is stronger when looking at all infant deaths. If Rockland averaged only 3,700 live births annually from 2009 through 2014 (the period used by Lohud), it would exceed 22,000 live births. If Rockland's Infant Mortality Rate - from all causes combined; not just SID's - was the same as the rest of the state (5 per each 1,000 live births), then at least 111 infants would die in the reported period; not the 23 that sadly did. (The 23 deaths is from all communities in Rockland and it includes the 9 deaths focused on by Lohud.)
Each and every death is one too many, but Lohud's "investigative" piece is a shocking attempt to twist data to show the opposite of what it does. Namely, to suggest that a community does not know how to care for its infants when the data in fact shows that, in terms of SID's, the community is actually 3.5 times better than the rest of the state. The number rises to five times better for all of Rockland than the rest of the state when looking at all infant deaths.
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PNG Minister Slams ‘Wasted’ State-Funded Programs
Abel calls $52.2 million church partnership a ‘disaster’
By Isaac Nicholas
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (PNG Post-Courier, July 1, 2013) – A government funded program of K120 million [US$52.2 million] for church state partnership program has been wasted through misapplication and abuse.
National Planning Minister Charles Abel will table a report on the Social Development Plan or Church State Partnership Program where K120 million has been spent with nothing to show on the ground.
He will present the Report when Parliament resumes next week Tuesday.
The abuse of public funded programs has been a major concern to the O’Neill-Dion government with Department of National Planning putting in place measures including reviewing of government programs.
Minister Abel did not give details of the disaster in the church state partnership program but will do so in his Report to Parliament.
"I have met with the Church partners under the Church...
2013 National Games Opened In Palau
President announces prizes for winning athletes
By Peter Erick Magbanua
KOROR, Palau (Island Times, July 1, 2013) – Play with pride and honor; represent your state at 110%: these were the encouraging words President Tommy Remengesau Jr. and Palau National Olympic Committee (PNOC) President Frank Kyota gave out to over 500 athletes, coaches and officials in the opening ceremonies of the 2013 Belau Games yesterday afternoon at the Palau National Gym.
Remengesau said that the Belau Games is the starting step toward Palau winning a medal in the Olympic Games. He stressed out to the athletes that commitment and dedication are the main ingredients toward making the best athlete out of themselves
"From the Belau Games, we come to identify our athletes that will don our colors to the Micronesian Games, Mini Games, Pacific Games and on to the Olympics. I know in the future Palau will be able to win a medal in the Olympics as to when, it remains in the hands of...
‘Essential’ CNMI Executive Branch Hires Criticized
‘Essential’ CNMI Executive Branch Hires Criticized House official says Inos’ proposal ‘extremely high’
SAIPAN, CNMI (Saipan Tribune, July 2, 2013) – Northern Marianas Gov. Eloy S. Inos’ proposed hiring of 100 full-time equivalents (FTE) for the entire Executive Branch provided they are "essential" to the delivery of public services is a sticky issue with the House Ways and Means Committee, which is reviewing the governor’s proposed fiscal year 2014 budget of $123.4 million.
House Ways and Means Committee chair Rep. Tony Sablan (IR-Saipan) said yesterday that the 100 FTEs is "extremely high" a number at a time when the government is trying to limit its expenses to be able to pump more funds into the NMI Retirement Fund and other critical agencies.
Sablan said committee members are suggesting whether the number could be lowered to at least 25, and could be adjusted later if the need arises.
He said the committee will be bringing...
Samoa National Hospital To Get $57.2 Million Upgrade
Plans include 3 new buildings to house new facilities
By Lagi Keresoma
APIA, Samoa (Talamua, July 1, 2013) – The journey towards a new national hospital in Samoa saw its first phase completed today.
Tupua Tamasese Meaole Hospital, the hospital’s official name, is to eventually be transformed to a higher level at a cost of WST$135 million [US$57.2 million].
Today Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi opened Phase One which cost WST$70 million [US$29.7 million].
It includes three new buildings.
The significance of today’s event was not just the opening of new buildings, but the achievement of Government goals to developing the country and its people, Tuilaepa said.
"In order to achieve these, we need to lay strategic plans," he said.
The Government has been doing just that despite opposition and obstacles that stood in the way, he said.
The Medical Technology building houses the pharmacy, laboratory and X-ray...
PM Lilo To Open All New Airports In Solomon Islands
2 airports to be opened this month, 2 more later in the year
By Elliot Dawea
HONIARA, Solomon Islands (Solomon Star, July 1, 2013) – Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo is expected to open all the new airports in the Solomon Islands.
This was revealed by the permanent secretary of the ministry of communication and aviation Francis Lomo.
He said Lilo has indicated to the ministry that he will open all the new airports being built around the country.
Some of the new airports are Lomlom in Temotu province, Manaoba in Malaita province, Munda, the country’s second international airport, and Nusatupe both in the Western province.
Asked why, Mr. Lomo responded because these developments came about under the political leadership of the current Prime Minister.
Its understood Manoaba airport has been completed and is expected to be opened this week.
Prime Minister Lilo who visited the Malaita Outer Islands over the weekend is expected to...
Fiji Police Mum Over Investigations Into Abuse Video
Operations chief: no further comments to be made
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Radio New Zealand International, July 1, 2013) – Fiji Police say they will not make any further comment on investigations into a video showing Fijian security personnel beating recaptured prison escapees that released on the internet in March.
FijiVillage reports the chief of operations, Rusiate Tudravu, has given no reason for the decision.
He earlier said investigations into the video were ongoing and he could not reveal whether anyone in the video had been identified.
At least four of the five men, who escaped from Naboro prison, were hospitalized, including one who had to have his leg amputated after being captured in a joint operation by police and soldiers.
Fiji’s Prime Minister, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, has not condemned the violence, but instead praised the work of security personnel for protecting citizens from hardened criminals.
Officials Deny Foreign Fishing In Kiribati’s Phoenix Islands
Protected marine area official says media reports wrong
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (The Kiribati Independent, July 1, 2013) – Director of Kiribati’s Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) has denied reports that their marine reserves have been fished by some foreign fishing boats.
Tuukabu Teroroko says this is a no-fishing area where fish species are being kept and preserved for future generation and he has not found or heard of fishing activity there.
Speaking to Kiribati Independent newspaper in Tarawa, Tuukabu says he’s aware that reporters are trying to look for stories that sell to the market which is why the reporter has chosen PIPA because the eyes of the world now focused on Kiribati.
Tuukabu says the reports are wrong.
He says eight countries are supporting Kiribati’s commitment to projecting marine resources.
Tuukabu says apart from the marine reserves, officials have found more than ten thousand different birds on one of the eight...
Pacific Economic Ministers Meeting To Be Held In July
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Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center With Support From Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat Nuku’alofa, Tonga
Economic Ministers of the Pacific Islands Forum will gather for the 17th Forum Economic Ministers Meeting (FEMM) in Nuku’alofa, Kingdom of Tonga from 3 – 6 July 2013.
"The Forum Economic Ministers are meeting to consider updates on issues discussed in their previous meetings, and to discuss emerging economic issues and opportunities that the Forum Island Countries face in Leveraging Opportunities for Sustainable Development, the theme for this year’s FEMM," the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Tuiloma Neroni Slade said.
"The recovering global economy provides impetus to Forum Island Countries’ exports of goods and services. With the Pacific being next door to Asia, this is the right time for the...
Scope Of French Polynesia Nuclear Fallout Revealed
Tests affected more area than atolls listed by military
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Radio New Zealand International, July 2, 2013) – Declassified French documents show that the fallout from the nuclear weapons tests in French Polynesia was far greater than previously admitted by Paris.
Following the release of more than 2,000 documents about the atmospheric tests of 1966-1974, the test veterans group says the French authorities measured a plutonium concentration in Tahiti of 500 times the safety limit.
Tahiti is about 1,400 kilometers from Moruroa but under current French law it’s outside the zone where compensation claims for poor health can be lodged.
The documents, which include 114 blank pages, confirm that the fallout from the tests affected all areas and not only the 21 atolls, which the French military had listed so far.
The documents also reveal that a total of 26 navy vessels were contaminated.
Guam Airport Petitioned To Bar DFS From Future Contracts
Lotte Duty Free alleges DFS provided iPads to bid evaluators
By Michelle Conerly
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TÃA, Guam (Pacific Daily News, July 3, 2013) – Lotte Duty Free Guam has petitioned the Guam International Airport Authority (GIAA) to bar DFS Guam from participating in future procurement contracts with the airport, alleging unethical gift-giving and other misconduct.
Through a Sunshine Act request, Cesar Cabot, counsel for Lotte, obtained information that DFS distributed seven Apple iPads to airport bid evaluation team members, in addition to its bid proposal for the airport concession.
A letter to Charles Ada, airport executive manager, from attorney Rawlen Mantanona who also represents Lotte, states that DFS "failed to collect the iPads (which) were therefore permitted to remain in the possession of the GIAA team members, or otherwise within the possession of the GIAA."
When asked yesterday what happened to the iPads, the airport didn't answer that question...
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Traditionally, gold has been the "gold standard" of materials, and for good reason. Gold is highly biocompatible and is very long-wearing. A gold tooth, however, is not natural looking.
Today's a porcelain crowns or veneers don't mean choosing between strength and a lifelike appearance. You can opt for both. New all-porcelain crowns and veneers are available that look like natural teeth. They're durable enough to be used even for molars. This super-strong new generation porcelain is so resilient and tough it's being used in the manufacture of some tennis rackets!
Silver fillings (the kind that turn black) are a thing of the past. Instead, a composite resin filling can be used. And it's just as strong and durable as silver, and more closely reflects the color of the original tooth surface.
If you've had some cosmetic dentistry work done in the past, you'll be happy to know you're no longer locked into the choices of even five years ago. Modern dentistry is evolving rapidly, and fresher, more natural smiles, are the result.
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We had heard that the owner of Svea was going to take a sabbatical from sailing for a year and the crews on Svea and the
Mod 70 Orion were now seeking new gigs to keep them on the water and out of trouble, but the just announced listing of
Svea most likely means the end of the road. The J-Class showed a lot of promise 2 years ago when 9 J-Class boats were afloat
and it seemed like the parade of these elegant racing machines at various exclusive events and locations was just getting started.
But 2018 witnessed a splintering of the fleet and only 3 boats here and 4 boats there events occurred and the promise looked dashed.
And now with Svea on the market, it appears that at least one owner has thrown in the towel. Been there, done that.
Svea can be seen listed HERE
Engine/Fuel Type:
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Palma, Spain
Hull Material:
EUR 15,000,000 Tax Not Paid (US$ 17,110,500)
Not for sale to US residents while in US waters
Initially designed in 1937 by the renowned Swedish designer Tore Holm, SVEA was not built due to the onset of World War II, and plans were lost for decades. Over 70 years later, the plans were rediscovered and SVEA was commissioned with the intent of participating in the 2017 America’s Cup Superyacht Regatta and J-class Regatta in Bermuda. Retaining the heritage of her J-class lines, the original structure and sail plan was thoroughly updated incorporating many new features. To ensure maximum competitiveness, J-class rules were considered throughout the construction, with management of the delicate weight and balance an essential aspect of the build and finishing process. 80 years after the original drawings were made, SVEA was launched as the longest J-class ever built and won her second-ever race during the America’s Cup J-class regatta.
SVEA’s lines and deck are kept spectacularly clean, thanks to the compact wheelhouse, sunken wheel and wonderfully low boom. Her unusually large steering wheel allows the helms-person to position him or herself further outboard for a better view of the foresail telltales, a clear performance advantage. SVEA’s deck layout optimises modern racing, whilst also being a great guest area whilst the yacht is cruising.
SVEA has been meticulously designed with her racing capabilities in mind, however her interiors are not compromised with a luxurious interior below deck designed by the renowned yacht interior designer Pieter Beeldsnijder. SVEA's boasts a semi-classic interior which nods to the history of the yacht while providing a contemporary look and feel. Cream panels and walnut veneers keep her bright down below and her main salon benefits from a large deck light, flooding the space with natural light. The galley can be opened up to the comfortable salon and dining area by the drop down wall panel creating easy access to the galley while racing, and a relaxed breakfast bar and dining area while cruising. With an owner’s suite, plus two en suite guest cabins SVEA can accommodate up to 6 guests plus 7 crew members.
SVEA is one of the most outstanding yachts of modern times - an incredible fusion of 1937 design and 21st century technology. Her current owner has spared no expense. SVEA comes with a complete wardrobe of North 3Di RAW racing sails and a delivery wardrobe, a carbon fibre mast by Southern Spars and a 10m Humber RIB. When the wind dies, her main engine gives her a range of 2,200nm at cruising speed. SVEA is an exceptionally advanced and an unsurpassed sailing yacht, she arrives to market as the newly-crowned 2018 J-class champion.
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"A device that takes pain out of changing bed sheets — especially for hotel workers." Chicago Tribune
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Once raised it allows for 360º of access around the bed to clean areas never before accessible and it makes tucking in sheets far easier, particularly at the head of the bed where nightstands usually hinder that task. With the bed raised above and away from nightstands, the perpetual need for rotating mattresses will no longer require two maintenance men. The BedLift is pre-assembled at the factory to make installations simple, taking as little as 20 minutes for an individual or 15 minutes for a team of two. This all steel device is built, tested and guaranteed to withstand daily use for 20 years. An optional locking mechanism will lock the BedLift in either or both the raised and lowered positions.
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Language, Thought, and Space (V): Comparing Different Species
As I’ve talked about in my last posts (see I, II, III, and IV) different cultures employ different coordinate systems or Frames of References (FoR) when talking about space. FoRs
“serve to specify the directional relationships between objects in space, in reference to a shared referential anchor” (Haun et al. 2006: 17568)
As shown in my last post these linguistic differences seem to reflect certain cognitive differences:
Whether speakers mainly use a relative, ego-based FoR, a cardinal-direction/or landmark-based absolute FoR, or an object-based, intrinsic based FoR, also influences how they solve and conceptualise spatial tasks.
In my last post I also posed the question whether there is a cognitive “default setting” that we and the other great apes inherited from our last common ancestor that is only later overridden by cultural factors. The crucial question then is which Frame of Reference might be the default one.
Haun et al. (2006: 16570) argue that
“there has been a great deal of speculation about the inherited structure of spatial relational thought. Immanuel Kant argued that the human body provides the source of our basic intuitions about the nature of space. In agreement, many cognitive scientists hold the assumption that spatial cognition is fundamentally egocentric [references omitted, my emphasis, MP].”
In the same vein, Dirven et al. (2007: 1213), point out that
“The principle of corporeal deixis [i.e. body-based or body-centric spatial reference] is even so self-evident that it has been considered by most linguists, including cognitive linguists, as the default case, if not the universal one (Talmy 1983).”
I myself also thought this way and found Karl Bühler’s (1934) notion of the ego-based “Here-Now-I”-origo (“Hier-Jetzt-Ich”-Origo) quite self-evident (see for example, this old post).
In Bühler’s view, this deictic centre is the origin of a “coordinate system of subjective orientation,” which builds the basis and referential anchoring for all communicative acts and all social interaction and coordination,
However, we can still see the egocentric frame of reference as the universal default case and see absolute frames of reference as being cultural variations that transform our innate frame of reference. This would thus still be in line with the paradigm mentioned above as well as with developmental psychologist Jean Piaget’s central assumption that in cognitive development infants start with an egocentric perspective on the world and only later learns to coordinate multiple perspectives on the world.
To test whether this is really the case, Haun et al. used a similar but simplified setting like in their first experiment that I described in my last post, and tested gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and 4-year-old German children.
This time there were only 3 identical cups on the table so the object-centred and the geocentric conditions from the previous experiment were collapsed.
The subject was first shown where a reward is hidden
(X = Cups | = Screen E= Experimenter O=Hidden Object)
and was then rotated 180° and brought to an identical table behind the screen where they could then again locate the reward.
In the Relative condition the reward was in relation to the subject. If it was hidden to his left on table 1 it was also hidden to his left on table 2 :
In the Absolute condition
“the hiding and finding cups maintained position Relative to the larger, surrounding environment” and also to “a salient landmark between the two tables, namely the screen or the experimenter” (Haun et al. 2006 : 17569).
It turned out that the great apes including the 4-year old children deployed an allocentric/environment-based layout more readily than an ego/self-based spatial strategy. At the very least, these data indicate that
“Despite common expectations, […] Hominid spatial cognition is at least not always primarily egocentric“ (Haun et al. 2006: 15751).
To further corroborate this evidence, Haun et al. 2006 tried an even simpler version of this task on the non-human great apes as they are known to have problems with abstract rule-learning and generally scored quite low on the second experiment.
Thus, in a third experiment, the subjects were directed to the first table and in the baseline condition were rewarded for picking a cup no matter which it was for 10 times. The animals were then led to the table that was on the other side of the screen and the experimenter started to only reward one of the cups until the apes consistently picked a particular cup ten out of twelve times in a row. If they had succeeded in doing so, they were redirected to the original table and in the test trials were again rewarded for all of their ten choices.
In this way, the experimenters induced a “response” or “training bias” in the apes: In the test condition they tended to preferably pick the same cup as the one for which they were rewarded 10 times in a row in the training condition. That is, if they were rewarded for picking the middle cup in the training session, they also preferred to pick the middle cup when rotated 180° and brought back to the original table in the test condition.
The interesting question then is: If they were rewarded for picking say this cup:
in the training condition: which cup would they show the response bias for in the test condition? Would they interpret this as being ‘the cup to their left’? Or would they interpret it as being allocentrically/environmentally-based?
As in the second experiment, great apes showed a preference for environmental cues as opposed to self-based cues. That is if they developed a preference for the cup in the upper illustration, they then preferred to pick the following cup in the rotated test condition.
Haun et al. (2006: 17572) conclude that gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and we all have inherited “preference for allocentric spatial strategies” from our shared ancestor.
“Based on this result, we argue that, at least for small-scale spatial relations, the inherited cognitive mode of operation is not, as argued by Kant and others, egocentric but preferably deploys environmental cues as common reference between object.”
I think this is a fascinating result and I find the argument very convincing. It is also strengthened by findings from cognitive and linguistic development: By 16 months, when they have become successful mobile navigators, children competently use non-egocentric cognitive strategies. 3- to 5-year old English-speaking children even appear to be
“better at allocentric strategies than at egocentric ones.”
Moreover, in cultures where an absolute frame of reference is the dominant one, children master
“this system as early as 4 and certainly by 7 years of age.” Children who live in cultures that dominantly employ a relative frame of reference, on the other hand, do not seem to master the full use of a left and right system until about 11 years of age. (Haun et al. 17572).
At first sight, this might seem like quite a blow for embodiment theories in cognitive science and Cognitive Linguistics who see embodied, egocentric experience as our primary way of making sense of the world.
But as Dirven et al. (2007) point out, “given the universality of human bodily experience,” it would not be “astonishing” if corporeal deixis constituted “the default case” of spatial cognition,
“but as a more refined conception of embodiment, the notion of situated embodiment incorporates and integrates man’s physical and social environment in his or her holistic bodily experience” (Dirven et al. 2007: 1217).
Chris over at the Lousy Linguist also sees the concept of embodiment as crucial when talking about langauge, thought and space (see here):
But more to the point, I believe all direction terms are ultimately ego-centric insofar as they are embodied. The terms “north” and “south” are not magically universal. They are based on a human being’s body and orientation (i.e., ego-centric). Don’t believe me, ask yourself, what does “north” mean in space? What does “north” mean to an amoeba?
So the key question what to make of all these interesting results is still hotly debated and it is doubtful whether any kind of consensus will be reached in the foreseeable future (see e.g. the debate between Peggy Li and Lila Gleitman on the one side of the discussion[here], and Levinson and his colleagues on the other [here]).
That’s it for now, I hope you enjoyed this short series of posts.
Bühler, Karl. 1934/1982. Sprachtheorie: Die Darstellungsfunktion der Sprache. Stuttgart, New York: Fischer (Uni-Taschenbücher 1159). Engl. : Theory of language: the representational function of language. Transl. by D.F. Goodwin. John Benjamins 1990.
Dirven, René, Hans-Georg Wolf, and Frank Polzenhagen. 2007. “Cognitive Linguistics and Cultural Studies.” In: The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, ed. by Dirk Geeraerts and Hubert Cuyckens. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 1203-1221.
Haun DB, Rapold CJ, Call J, Janzen G, & Levinson SC (2006). Cognitive cladistics and cultural override in Hominid spatial cognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103 (46), 17568-73 PMID: 17079489.
Levinson, Stephen C. 2003. Space in Language and Cognition: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Levinson, Stephen C., Sotaro Kita, Daniel B.M. Haun, Björn H. Rasch. 2002. “Returning the Tables: Language Affects Spatial Reasoning.” In: Cognition 84: 155–188.
Palmer, Gary B. 2007. “Cognitive Linguistics and Anthropological Linguistics.” In: The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, ed. by Dirk Geeraerts and Hubert Cuyckens. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1045-1073.
Pederson, Eric. 2007. “Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Relativity.” In: The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, ed. by Dirk Geeraerts and Hubert Cuyckens. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1012-1044.
Talmy, Leonard. 1983. “How Language Structures Space.” In: Spatial Orientation: Theory, Research and Application. ed. by Herbert L. Pick, Jr., and Linda P. Acredolo. New York: Plenum Books. 225–82.
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The heat is on—but Ice Cream’s popularity is melting
Source: Roy Morgan Single Source (Australia), October 2008 – September 2013, average annual n = 19,469.
Australians are becoming less tempted by tubs and cartons of ice cream. In 2009, 76% of grocery buyers put ice cream in the trolley at least once in the past 12 months; after four consecutive years of decline, it’s now 72%. But to better understand the source of the decline, we need to look at who buys ice cream, and how often.
Just 3% of grocery buyers buy ice cream tubs at least weekly—a rate consistent over the last five years. The proportion buying ice cream only every 4-6 months is also steady, at 10%.
Instead, all the decline stems from fewer people buying ice cream fortnightly (down 2% points), monthly (down 2%) or every 2-3 months (down 1% point).
The rate of purchasing increased only for the least habitual buyers: the proportion of grocery shoppers who buy a tub less often than every six months has risen gradually from 8% since 2009, and is now 9%.
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Exploring the legacy of the rationalist Rishonim (medieval Torah scholars), and various other notes, by Rabbi Dr. Natan Slifkin, director of The Biblical Museum of Natural History in Beit Shemesh
The Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, Rav Ephraim Mirvis, has accomplished something extraordinary. He took an impossible situation, and through his strength, wisdom and political acumen, solved it.
For those who don't know, I am talking about his resolution of the controversy surrounding Rabbi Joseph Dweck, senior rabbi of the Spanish and Portugese Synagogue in London. Over the last few months, there has been a storm raging in British Jewry about (depending on which side you are on) various controversial teachings of his, and the response to this by various rabbis and other people. When Israeli Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef declared that Rabbi Dweck should not be allowed to serve as Rabbi, this seemed to have forced the conclusion. Yet, through some supernatural miracle that I cannot explain, Rabbi Yosef then put out a letter admitting that as a non-Brit he was not really qualified to evaluate the situation, and that it should be resolved by Rabbi Mirvis, whose judgment he would accept. Rabbi Mirvis put together a review committee, consisting of various senior Dayanim and - very significantly - a QC. They decided that Rabbi Dweck should remain in his position as senior rabbi, after he issued an apology for some of his teachings, stepped down from his position on the Beit Din, and an agreement to be more cautious in future. (I am simplifying matters - see the full report elsewhere.)
Several people had written to me over the last few months, asking me to write in defense of Rabbi Dweck. I did not do so (although I did defend him against the disgusting attacks of Yosef Mizrachi), for several reasons. One is that I felt that, being who I am, stepping in would inflame matters rather than help them. But another reason is that I felt that I simply did not know enough about the situation.
I find it amazing, and disturbing, how many people are ready to form strong opinions on controversial matters about which they know very little. For example, a few years ago, someone asked (and expected) me to voice my support for a woman stuck in a certain messy divorce case. But I refused to do so, for the simple reason that I did not feel that I knew enough about the situation. While her story seemed compelling, there are very often (if not always) two sides to a story.
The initial storm surrounding Rabbi Dweck was based on a shiur that he gave about homosexuality - a shiur that I did not listen to, on a topic that I know very little about. The subsequent controversy surrounded various statements that he made over the years - and once again, I have no idea what these were. So how on earth was I supposed to give an opinion?
What I find particularly distressing is how many people are criticizing the Chief Rabbi even though they, too, lack knowledge of the situation. There are numerous ordinarily intelligent people condemning Rabbi Mirvis for even the very limited way in which Rabbi Dweck was not fully vindicated. They have accused Rabbi Mirvis of giving in to charedi bullies. But how on earth do they know this to be the case? Maybe Rabbi Mirvis (or the Dayanim that he appointed - at least of whom is definitely not one to fall in line with charedi "Daas Torah") - actually did believe that some of Rabbi Dweck's teachings were problematic? After all, there certainly are at least *some* non-charedi rabbinic figures who feel that way. And, as I discussed in the previous post, you can't claim that *every* statement should be automatically acceptable within Orthodoxy.
So, while it's *possible* that Rabbi Mirvis kowtowed to charedi pressure, it's also perfectly possible that he reached an honest judgement based on his personal appraisal of the situation. And I see no reason why one should not assume this to be case. Furthermore, it seems that people who are so sure of themselves in criticizing Rabbi Mirvis don't actually know any more than I do about the details of the questionable teachings. So it would be appropriate for them to simply keep silent.
There's another reason why they should keep silent. You can be sure that the zealots who tried to destroy Rabbi Dweck will be up in arms about Rabbi Mirvis' verdict to permit him to stay in his post. They will point to Rav Yitzchak Yosef's condemnation of him. And yet, Rav Yosef subsequently wrote that people should go by whatever Rabbi Mirvis decides. If you want Rabbi Dweck's opponents to follow Rabbi Mirvis's decision, then you should likewise follow it and not protest it.
I am far from the only one to be in awe of how magnificently the Chief Rabbi handled this very difficult situation. One well-known commentator on the Orthodox community wrote to me "I was overwhelmed by the difference between the way they handled you - and a dozen other issues in Bnei Brak and NY - and the way they satisfactorily dealt with the Rabbi Dweck in London. Maybe you Brits are on to something!" Chief Rabbi Mirvis took a near-unsolvable situation and resolved it. To adapt an American expression to this British situation, Hail to the Chief!
(I wrote this post in the airport in a hurry, and now I am boarding a plane to Bangkok. So I hope that there are no errors, and I apologize if there are.)
Londoner July 20, 2017 at 9:42 PM
Chief Rabbi Mirvis took a near-unsolvable situation and resolved it.
What was unsolvable?
Looks to me that Rabbi Dweck pretty much acknowledged that he had erred, accepted to be re-mentored and resigned from the BD. Not sure what the Chief Rabbi resolved. Had Rabbi Dweck not apologised and not been contrite and not accepted he had erred, then we would have seen what skills the CR has.
Finally on the Big Issue of Homosexuality the CR said a big fat zero. Some resolution....
Usual media spin.
Northerner July 20, 2017 at 9:49 PM
It seemed unsolvable to have Rabbi Dweck continue in his position after Rav Yosef had said that he couldn't.
J. July 20, 2017 at 10:13 PM
The CR has made his position on homosexuality clear:
http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/shuls-must-embrace-gay-jews-says-chief-rabbi/
Charlie Hall July 20, 2017 at 10:05 PM
" I felt that I simply did not know enough about the situation. "
I felt the same say and did not comment either!
Simon M July 20, 2017 at 10:25 PM
By your argument, quite a few of Rabbi Dweck's critics (including some very high profile ones) should also have kept shtum, since they also appear to have not heard his lectures.
I think it's perfectly possible to comment on the way this whole campaign against RD was whipped up without getting into what was actually said.
David Ohsie July 21, 2017 at 2:10 AM
Here is one copy of what I assume was one of the controversial shiurim: Rabbi Joseph Dweck - Male Homosexuality Shiur - May 2017
Yoni2 July 21, 2017 at 3:51 PM
Thanks David
What a great shiur. Was this really controversial?
BoomBam July 21, 2017 at 7:36 PM
Here is the rejoinder. Powerful. Wow.
mms mamash July 23, 2017 at 8:56 AM
BoomBam: an interesting rejoinder. What about his anecdote near the start, praising the closing of a yeshivah where secular studies are (Hashem yishmor...) required by the Government? He doesn't place it in the past; this worldview should not be ignored when evaluating the criticisms of Dweck's positions.
Avigael Ester July 21, 2017 at 4:19 AM
Disagree. Hes just as corrupt as Sacks. Not creditworthy at all. Dweck sadly caved to 'keep the peace' and is better than the rest of them put together.
STEVEN GAFFIN July 21, 2017 at 9:45 PM
Just wondering what you are basing these comments on. Rabbi Dwek himself accepts that some of his halakhic decisions were perhaps not as precise as they should have been...
Yaakov Tolwin July 21, 2017 at 9:08 AM
The problem with not commenting on the Rabbi Dweck story is that a lack of knowledge is often used as a way to get out of sticky situations, usually without much success.
Take examples such as "I don't know David Duke", and we can see how these statements usually give the opposite message of what those who say them are trying to convey.
Don't get me wrong. I don't know EXACTLY, PRECISELY what happened with Rabbi Dweck. But I do know that the story included a prominent rabbi standing up just a bit for the rights of probably the most marginalized group of jews, and getting blasted for it. And while reacting properly is sometimes nearly impossible, for fear of a similar backlash, we can no longer just look the other way and claim ignorance.
Just my own personal feelings on the issue
Pippin July 21, 2017 at 9:34 AM
I have read the statement from the Chief Rabbi's Review Committee.
Nowhere in this statement does Rabbi Dweck express regret directly related to the issue of homosexuality. He does however, express "...a deep sense of regret over his inappropriate comments about the sayings of Chazal..."
On this issue Rabbi Slifkin should most definitely hold a view.
Dov July 21, 2017 at 11:02 PM
I heard the shiur - at one point he said Chazal were wrong about something. In the actual context its clear he meant that the societal situation they were discussing is different now and that they themselves would likely agree, not that they made a mistake. However I think its important for someone of R' Dweck's stature to be more careful with their wording - especially in public - and I think that would have prevented many of the other misunderstandings (or misquotes) as well.
Londoner July 21, 2017 at 10:02 AM
RNS, You should write an essay on homosexuality. How do rationalists resolve the contradiction between scienctific opinion that it is not voluntary and the torah's prohibition?
There are not many cases where science and torah clash like that. Maybe lice on shabbos is another.
Unlike age of the earth and dinosaurs with no halachik implications to speak of, this clash has major halachik implications. So how do you deal with it?
Fozziebear July 21, 2017 at 1:26 PM
The same way we all deal with lots of difficult bits in the Torah. We ignore it.
Might as well to be honest with ourselves.
I do not understand the problem. many people are unfortunately born with disorders that make them inclined to do all sorts of prohibitions (e.g. kleptomania). why is this different?
Sam, I agree completely. I'm even more puzzled about the so-called Agunah and Shidduch "crises". After all, the Torah doesn't require them to marry or re-marry, so what's the problem? They should deal with their fate and thank God that the Torah gave them their chance to fulfill their job in this world.
More seriously, stealing from someone else directly damages that someone else so we have step in to stop it. This is not some kind of new-fangled modernishe distinction. The Torah distinguishes between Bein Adam L'Chaveiro and Bein Adam L'Makom and also between Chok and Mishpat. The Rambam maintains that the very desire to violate Mishpat is an imperfection while the desire to violate Chok is not. Also, if the person was truly ill to the point of having no control over his own actions, we would not treat him as a criminal.
There are people just like you and me that have the same desire for sex, marriage, family that are directed towards the same rather than opposite sex. You will not find Torah authorities of the past discussing how to reconcile that with the halachah, because such people were not thought to exist. Rav Moshe claims that there is really no such thing as a homosexual and anyone desiring relations with the same sex isn't really looking for pleasure and could only be motivated by rebellion against the Torah. If the problem that I mentioned was so simple, Rav Moshe would not have had to make such a claim.
In the same way that we try to free the Agunah and enable all to get married, it makes perfect sense to have the same concern and sympathy for homosexuals.
Steven July 23, 2017 at 8:05 AM
There is no contradiction between the Torah and science on this matter. The Torah doesn't prohibit having the inclination, desire or predisposal towards engaging in homosexual acts. And science doesn't claim anyone must by nature engage in physical homosexual acts and cannot refrain or remain celebrate.
David Ohsie July 23, 2017 at 5:25 PM
There is no contradiction between the Torah and science on this matter.
That is true just as it is true that there was no contradiction between science and the Egyptian law that mandated the killing of all Israelite male children. The question is how to understand the morality of the law.
The fact that many Orthodox have moved from the position that there is no such thing as homosexuality to the new position that all homosexuals can be "converted" is a sign that the moral implication of the law do trouble people.
The Torah doesn't prohibit having the inclination, desire or predisposal towards engaging in homosexual acts.
The attitude that you espouse here is not the traditional view, results from the influence of modern society, and is not really implemented in general Orthodox societies. We don't find any description in the Torah literature of how the say 1-3% of gays were treated respectfully and given guidance (I don't know the exact percentages, but that is in the ballpark). Instead we have descriptions of how such desires can only result from evil intentions. It is only recently that anyone could dare come out as Orthodox and homosexual and that is very, very far from universal (probably only a minuscule percentage of Torah-based groups would tolerate it). The Charedi mayor of Beit Shemesh claimed that there were no homosexuals in his town.
And science doesn't claim anyone must by nature engage in physical homosexual acts and cannot refrain or remain celibate.
That is true in the same way that it is true that science doesn't say that anyone needed to submit to their tormentors when tortured. No rule of human psychology is universal. But as a general rule, people cannot remain celibate through self-imposition, and to the degree that they can, they have great difficulty in leading happy lives. We don't need to rely on any new-fangled science for this; the Torah itself had multiple halachos and chazakos that are based on this principle:
1) One who had no obligation or ability to have children is still obligated to get married in order to avoid prohibited sexual relations.
2) Unmarried men and women are not permitted to seclude themselves.
3) No person is considered reliable as a trustee in sexual matters.
4) The Gemara assumes that a woman would prefer a bad marriage to none at all.
So while every sentence that you write is literally true in some sense, none of it contradicts what I wrote.
"Fozziebear" has it right.
Elazar July 26, 2017 at 3:17 PM
@David Ohsie
You wrote: "The Torah distinguishes between Bein Adam L'Chaveiro and Bein Adam L'Makom and also between Chok and Mishpat."
"In the same way that we try to free the Agunah and enable all to get married, it makes perfect sense to have the same concern and sympathy for homosexuals."
However, also homosexuality is Bein Adam L'Chaveiro. Just because the other person agrees, does not mean that it is not harming him.
The agunah and people who wants to marry want to do things in accordance with halacha. So they are not comparable to people, who violate a Torah-prohibition. This does not mean that homosexuals do not deserve sympathy, however, they do not deserve support for their longings in contrast to the others.
Elazar.
That is a stretch; the fact that two people violate Bein Adam L'Makom together is not nearly the same as violating another person against their will. But it doesn't matter because it still remains Chok where desire for the prohibited behavior is not looked upon negatively at least according to Rambam.
The agunah and people who wants to marry want to do things in accordance with halacha.
Most/all orthodox want to marry according to halachah. But a married women who desires to marry someone else is desiring something completely prohibited according to halachah. We could tell her that this she is to be classified along with kleptomaniacs as someone desiring harm for others. But we understand that her motivation is good and proper so we bend over backward to try to make it permitted including accepting reduced levels of evidence than normally accepted to establish the death of her husband. Some also encourage a prenuptial agreement to lessen the chances of here ending up in the situation where her normal natural desire will be in contradiction to halacha in case of a recalcitrant husband. With homosexuals, we don't seem to have answer.
Borehamwood Chess July 21, 2017 at 10:14 AM
The conclusion reached was broadly what was expected at last Shabbat's dinner table for many Londoners. Rabbi Dweck used over enthusiastic language about homosexuality, but his basic message was to accept them as human beings. Probably 99% of Spanish and Portuguese, and United Synagogue members support Rabbi Dweck (OK I have not met any detractors in my wide circle).
To me, this is a good demonstration of the huge advantage of the British Commonwealth system of having a Chief Rabbi to represent us.
Lazar July 21, 2017 at 8:32 PM
If you did not know enough about the situation as you admitted, and have not heard the Rabbi Dweck's shiur about LGBT, why do you praise the resolution that let him remain? Do you automatically praise any action that go against the advice of Gedolim?
Profundus July 21, 2017 at 8:42 PM
Having read the actual report in the newspaper, I cannot agree with you, Rabbi Slifkin. Echoing some other commentators, what did the Chief Rabbi solve? Rabbi Dweck had to eat crow, has abdicated from his position and is being thrown the proverbial bone in keeping his position a Rabbi. Adding insult to injury, his speeches and writings have t0 be approved by some obscure committee. What an outrageous behavior! Yes, I realize that Rabbi Dweck did this to save his job-at least his position is honest. But the Chief Rabbi did nothing except capitulate again to the extreme right wing. And, by the way, the attack on Rabbi Dweck by Rabbi Zimmerman-that Rabbi Dweck is ignorant of Halacha- can be equally applied to the present occupant of the Chief Rabbinate in England.
Vafsi Ode July 23, 2017 at 12:11 AM
You neglected to mention the familial connection between dweck and yosef IMHO that was the decisive factor that caused yosef to act with any decency
Yavoy July 23, 2017 at 1:12 AM
Galileo all over again...
It's sad that Rav Dweck had to cave in to save himself, but at least he started a discussion.
I predict that in 20-50 years his views will be completely mainstream.
In 20-50 years those who believe those positions will have broken off from Orthodoxy.
Alan July 23, 2017 at 11:47 AM
That a bris for a baby born during shabbos bein hashmashos is on Friday (or many other blatantly wrong halachic statements)? I doubt it.
Disgusted, Tunbridge Wells July 23, 2017 at 2:31 AM
It is extremely difficult to accept the sincerity of those protagonists who publicly criticized rabbi dweck, even if rabbi dweck did make inaccurate halachic statements, when those very people don't give the same treatment to Chaim Halpern, the rabbis recently arrested in Lakewood, or the chareidi groups in Israel who have called for the murder of MKs trying to get more chareidim in the army. How rabbi slifkin can hail this result as any sort of triumph for chief rabbi mirvis is beyond my comprehension. I am an avid follower of this blog and agree with it's contents 99% of the time. This piece however, is most disappointing.
Yavoy July 23, 2017 at 12:37 PM
@"Disgusted, Tunbridge Wells": Please send my regards to Aunt Cecily!
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/844/844-h/844-h.htm
I can't pretend to know the mind and feelings of a homosexual, or the details of the controversy surrounding Rabbi Dweck. However, one aspect is clear. Ideological statements and motivational attributions by prominent poskim have little value if there aren't based on real knowledge. It matters little if the posek is usually realistic and considerate, as well as knowledgeable. If he opines on matters with which he has little or no familiarity, his judgment should carry little weight. This is true about homosexuality and other issues such as the supposed motivation of women seeking greater participation in religious ritual and offices.
Y. Aharon
Accurate as usual.
"The Torah distinguishes between Bein Adam L'Chaveiro and Bein Adam L'Makom..."
Also homosexuality is Bein Adam L'Chaveiro. His agreement does not mean that it does not harm him.
The agunah and people, who wants to marry, have a longing in accordance with Halacha and deserve sympathy and even support.
However, homosexuals have a longing for something forbidden. This might deserve sympathy for their suffering, but it is not "in the same way" as the others.
Gavriel M July 26, 2017 at 9:37 PM
As usual, 'orthodox' fans of homosexuality insist that they have facts and reason on their side, whereas opponents don't know anything about the issue. Of course, if you try to explain the facts about the homosexuality community then within ten seconds they will flip out and call you a heretic (sorry, 'homophobe'), even so it might be worth a try.
1) When male anal 'sex' was legalised in the western world, its supporters insisted that homosexuals were just harmless eccentrics and that male anal 'sex' posed no danger to the public.
2) In actual fact, the legalisation of male anal 'sex' led directly to the last great peacetime health crisis of the western world. Despite frantic attempts to prove otherwise on the part of interested individuals, HIV in the western world is almost entirely a problem for male homosexuals and intravenous drug users. Male homosexuals are 200 times more likely to have HIV than normal people and account for an unbelievable 63% of all syphilis cases in the US. It turns out that trying to fit limbs into holes that are too small to the extent that it causes both of you to bleed is unhealthy.
3) As a consequence of the normalization of male homosexuality, 'sexual' practices that were rare among normal people became common to the extent that Teen Vogue now has feature lengthy articles for 11 year old girls on how to stretch their sphincters. Even activities so strangely repellent as 'rimming' are now depicted on TV shows for a general audience.
4) Contrary to the lies of pro-homosexuality 'orthodox' people, there are essentially no monogamous male homosexuals. About 30% of them identify as such, but when you ask them what this means it turns out they have a different conception of 'mono'. This is not surprising. Romantic love is not a supernatural force acting between spirit entities, but an epiphenomenon of sex. Since anal 'sex' only marginally resembles actual sex, homosexual 'love' only marginally resembles actual love.
5) Far from being harmless eccentrics, people who can only become aroused by people with the same genitals as themselves turn out to be vindictive narcissists. They hunt down and persecute harmless elderly owners of B&Bs whose only crime is that they don't want to have to clear up sheets full of Santorum in the morning. They actively promote deviancy (shockingly enough, the editor of teen vogue is a gay man) and demand the freedom to simulate sex acts in public in their pride parades. Worst of all, and it is hard for a non deranged person even to understand this, they demand the right to give blood while leading active 'sex' lives, because protecting people from AIDS is less important than muh equality.
6) Whatever causes homosexuality, it is certainly not genetic and anyone with a calculator, a primary school understanding of evolutionary theory, and a halfway functioning brain could work out why this is so.
Gaon Dweck thinks this is great, up there with other great things like feminism (= mass abortion and institutional child abuse [day'care']). Go figure.
Thank God you wrote all 8 paragraphs. If you had only written one, some poor fool might have taken you seriously.
David Ohsie July 30, 2017 at 11:06 AM
Hey, no need to call me a name ;)
Gavriel M: You've outdone yourself in spouting absolute nonsense with complete confidence. Since you've piled absurdity upon absurdity, much of it meaningless and hard to reconstruct, I won't be able to react to everything in one shot, but let me take up the comment that most almost reaches the level of coherence.
Whatever causes homosexuality, it is certainly not genetic and anyone with a calculator, a primary school understanding of evolutionary theory, and a halfway functioning brain could work out why this is so.
There's a lot to unpack here. You seem to be arguing that homosexuality could never be a result of genes since it would natural selection would have selected it right out since homosexual relations don't produce offspring.
It takes about 2 seconds to show that this is wrong: there are exist fatal genetic diseases (e.g Tay-Sachs). QED
I would argue that anyone with a quarter functioning brain could point out that your putative half-brained reasoner must have been using the wrong half.
So where did you go so badly wrong?
1) You did not sufficiently distinguish genotype from phenotype. Phenotype results from your genotype (which may consist of many relevant genes) plus environmental factors.
2) Homosexuals are not sterile.
3) You attack a strawman. No one is arguing that there is a "gay gene" causing the phenomena that disturbs you so. (Although your argument fails in that model as well, as I have shown above).
Jshalet July 28, 2017 at 7:26 AM
Finally, someone who understands that homosexuality is not just a religious issue or even an issue of personal taste, but a societal moral issue
Notice that Gavriel M didn't make a single religious or biblical argument
He merely appealled to logic and reason
It's remarkable that people on the left or 'tolerant' side of the orthodox world are so quick to jump on the 'progressive' band-wagon
But when you try to point out these things are against evolutionary theory, biology, and destructive to society in general, they will conveniently ignore these facts to virtue signal their 'tolerance'
I love rationalist Judaism, but I do get very put off when it's adherents pick and choose
Remember, the same Rabbis whose opinions we enjoy to show it's okay to believe the universe is billions of years old and that chazal often erred in science, would never ever ever say that celebration of deviance is as Dwek puts it "a wonderful thing"
And came up empty-handed.
But when you try to point out these things are against evolutionary theory, biology
This literally makes no sense. Scientific laws are not things that you can violate.
I have no proof, but I think that almost no Jewish Young Earthers are going are going to be puzzled by the Torah prohibition on Homosexuality. Conversely, among those who feel the need to try to reconcile this prohibition with a modern view of morality, almost all are also going to accept the modern scientific account on the age of the universe.
You made this up. Please cite the claims by anyone that specific forms of sex are protected against STD's.
BTW, when was this legalized in the West? In ancient Greek and Roman times? In 1791 when it was legalized in France? In 1890, when legalization was finalized in Italy? In 1962 in Illinois? In 2003 when it was legalized in Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Virginia?
Personally, I haven't noticed homosexuals to be eccentric. Your excessive concern with certain kinds of sex, on the other hand...
In actual fact, the legalisation of male anal 'sex' led directly to the last great peacetime health crisis of the western world.
Evidence and reasoning please? That a disease affected group A doesn't mean that legislation about group A caused it. If there is any causation, it is likely the other direction. The social and legal sanctions against homosexuality led the public health response to be delayed. The Surgeon General was prohibited from addressing AIDS from 1981 until 1986, and then had to prepare his report in secret so that it would not be bowdlerized by the administration.
Male homosexuals are 200 times more likely to have HIV than normal people and account for an unbelievable 63% of all syphilis cases in the US. It turns out that trying to fit limbs into holes that are too small to the extent that it causes both of you to bleed is unhealthy.
Based on that reasoning, all the other STD's not concentrated among gay men and earlier syphilis outbreaks unrelated to gay men proves that sex in general is unhealthy. Also, you do realize that you don't get STD's from monogamous sex of any sort between uninfected people, right?
3) As a consequence of the normalization of male homosexuality, 'sexual' practices that were rare among normal people became common...
You think that people used varying sexual practices only recently? I think that our much earlier halachic authorities discuss these. I'm as uncomfortable as anyone else with the loosened restraints on public sexual behavior of all types, but if there is any causation arrow, you've likely got it backwards.
To cut to the point and, frankly, back to reality, unprotected sex with many partners is risky, same-sex or not. A major difference is that same-sex relationship, the risk is only by the participants, while in opposite sex cases, this also can also be damage inflicted on the resulting children, which is a huge problem in the US today. Monogamy is safe regardless of the manner of relations. Your line of reasoning, to the degree that it exists, actually supports same-sex marriage and adoption.
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Year in Preview: 2017
By Silicon Valley Newsroom / January 4, 2017 6
San Jose Inside peers into the fog of 2017.
San Jose Inside published its annual Year in Review list last week. Now we give you our prognostications of what’s to come in 2017.
Dems Work Through Their Identity Crisis
Democrats have been doing a lot of soul searching since this past election. That means many more heated policy discussions and seismic leadership shifts from the top down this year. Santa Clara County’s Democratic Party this week will say goodbye to longtime chapter president Steve Preminger and elect a successor to take the helm in 2017. Some names in the running to chair the local party: public housing analyst and county planning commissioner Aimée Escobar, former county policy aide Jeffrey Cardenas and attorney Bill James. Party insiders frustrated with the stubborn divide between business and labor are hoping to unify over key issues in 2017—like immigration, for example. Members who want the chapter to get a better handle on its finances say they’ll also demand greater transparency this year. The hope is that with a better accounting of its own resources, the local party may be able to hire a full-time salaried director—something its counterparts in other counties have—to whip it into fighting shape.
Will Khanna Work with Trump over Tax Policy?
It will be interesting to see how freshman legislator Ro Khanna leverages his Silicon Valley clout in the halls of Congress. Throughout his campaign for the 17th Congressional District seat held for eight terms by Mike Honda, Khanna touted his tech industry savvy and vowed to bolster the region’s national influence. It works to Khanna’s advantage that he shares some of President-elect Donald Trump’s allies and policy ideas. Like Trump, Khanna has garnered support from uber-libertarian billionaire Peter Thiel and a number of other Big Tech donors. Like Trump, Khanna opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. Also like Trump, he has said he wants to give corporations a tax break for repatriating offshore earnings—as long as they invest that money in expanding factories and creating a net number of new jobs. While a fine idea in theory, both men would do well to learn from the failed “tax holiday” of 13 years ago. When George W. Bush lured $312 billion back by slashing corporate tax rates from 35 percent to 5 percent, he had the same caveat: invest in R&D, hire more U.S. workers. Instead, according to a nonpartisan Senate investigation, companies went about laying people off, buying back stocks and bumping up executive pay. If Khanna backs a repatriation deal in 2017, let’s hope it’s not a throwback to 2004.
(UPDATE: Congressman Khanna reached out to note that he opposed the 2004 repatriation in his book, Entrepreneurial Nation: Why manufacturing Is Still Key to America’s Future. He also vowed to oppose Trump’s plan for repatriation.)
Immigration Invigorates Local Activism
Trump’s vows to crackdown on undocumented immigrants have already prompted local governments to take action. Santa Clara County, San Jose and even Morgan Hill have all passed resolutions promising to protect immigrant families from being torn apart by deportations. Last month, the county agreed to pay for legal services for immigrants at risk. That level of protection will likely require more funding in the coming year. If Trump makes good on his threats, it may also prompt California’s lawyers and lawmakers to come up with new ways to make it harder for federal immigration officials to carry out the president’s mandate. It should be noted that South Bay governments already have a policy of refusing to cooperate with ICE. In 2017, however, that same policy could cost local jurisdictions if the federal administration withholds funding for that kind of conscientious objection.
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Associates Only Jan 4, 2017 @ 11:04 am
The identity politics thing is interesting – will be important to not let careerist women trade on a legitimate issue to advance their careers and misuse feminism to cover for their flaws (Darcie Green).
Smokey Jan 4, 2017 @ 1:56 pm
What is ‘gender parity’? Is that like lowering the bar enough that the gals can pass the Marines physical?
How can that possibly be good for the country, or the city, or the county?
The original concept of ‘equal opportunity’ has been perverted by the Left into ‘equality of results’.
Either women ‘can-do’ the job, or they can’t do the job. If they can do it, great. But if they can’t, tough. Because that job is supposed to be for the benefit of the public — not for the benefit of the helpless Snowflake contingent.
BOHICA Jan 4, 2017 @ 2:43 pm
Predictions:
Nothing will change, the snowflakes will continue to be snowflakes, women will constantly want more than anyone “else” around them, politicians will continue to lie, the Police and Fire Departments will continue getting shafted, rents will increase, the roads will still suck, liberals will never admit they were wrong, Alviso will not sink into the ocean, traffic will continue to suck, downtown will struggle to survive, crime will continue to increase, affordable housing will still suck, the homeless population will not go down, gun control will continue to fail, City Council will continue to be corrupt, the Chamber of Commerce will continue to be unaccountable for anything, Almaden and Willow Glen will continue to dictate City policy, the San Jose Mercury news will continue to suck, the 49ers will continue to fail, the Sharks will not make the Stanley Cup playoffs, and the earth will still spin on its axis…..whether it is warming or not.
frustrated finfan Jan 4, 2017 @ 3:13 pm
“Santa Clara County used to be known as the “Feminist Capital of the Nation” because of the considerable number of women in elected office.”
Santa Clara County is the “Capital of Squandered Blessings,” its leaders managing to wrest decline from the horn of plenty. Nice job, silly girls.
sjoutsidethebubble Jan 4, 2017 @ 3:35 pm
> When George W. Bush lured $312 billion back by slashing corporate tax rates from 35 percent to 5 percent, he has the same caveat: invest in R&D, hire more U.S. workers. Instead, according to a nonpartisan Senate investigation, companies went about laying people off, buying back stocks and bumping up executive pay.
Translation: We’ll give you a tax break, but you have to spend YOUR money the way WE want you to spend it.
‘laying people off, buying back stocks and bumping up executive pay” are all symptoms of a bad business environment.
How about TAX BREAKS and IMPROVING THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT.
Empty Gun Jan 4, 2017 @ 7:38 pm
Santa Clara county was once known as the “Feminist Capital of the Nation”, It’s run by Democrats that are really conducting a war on women.
Ladies you all might get a little more traction if you weren’t all following in the footsteps of Nasty Pelosi.
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Minister welcomes Timberlands' decision
Tuesday, 21 March 2000, 10:23 pm
Press Release: New Zealand Government
Minister welcomes Timberlands' decision on consultant
Minister Responsible for Timberlands West Coast Pete Hodgson today welcomed the decision by the company to end the consultancy arrangement with Mr Kit Richards.
"The Government's position from the outset has been that the arrangement was untenable," Mr Hodgson said. "I conveyed this view to the chairperson of the board, Mr Warren Young, on Thursday last week, soon after I learnt of the arrangement.
"In the intervening period Mr Young has been in consultation with his chief executive examining the precise terms of the arrangement and the precise tasks undertaken by Mr Richards.
"Last night I raised with Mr Young a number of points that he was unable immediately to answer, mainly because he had been occupied with a High Court hearing involving the company.
"Those outstanding points have now been answered and the company has taken its decision."
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DryShips Announces Special Committee’s Appointment of Financial and Legal Advisors
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DryShips announced that the special committee of its board of directors, formed to consider the previously announced non-binding acquisition proposal made by an entity controlled by the Company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. George Economou, has retained Evercore as its financial advisor and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP as its legal advisor.
The Special Committee is comprised of the following independent and disinterested directors: George Kokkodis (Chair), Andreas Argyropoulos and George Demathas.
The Special Committee is considering and evaluating the Proposal, and no decisions have been made with respect to the Special Committee’s response to the Proposal. There can be no assurance that any definitive agreement will be finalized and executed or that the Proposal or any other transaction will be approved or consummated. The Company does not undertake any obligation to provide updates with respect to this or any other transaction, except as required under applicable law.
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Home | Keywords | Countries | Africa | Central Africa | Chad
Official Name: Republic of Chad
Capital: N’Djamena
Official languages: French & Arabic
Area: 1,284,000 km2
Population: 10,329,208 (2009 estimate)
Region: Chad is landlocked country in Central Africa
Border Countries
Cameroon 1,094 km
Central African Republic 1,197 km
Libya 1,055 km
Niger 1,175 km
Nigeria 87 km
Sudan 1,360 km
Libya-Sudan border
Government - Presidential republic
President - Idriss Déby
Prime Minister - Emmanuel Nadingar
Independence from France - August 11, 1960
Currency: Central African CFA franc (XAF)
Internet TLD: .td
Calling code: +235
Al Jazeera English | Plight of Chad families in wake of "child smuggling" row | 2 November 2007
The French charity alleged to be involved in child kidnapping by Chad claims it was rescuing the children who were fleeing war-ravaged Darfur in neighbouring Sudan. Our correspondent, Mohamad Vall, went to the border town of Tine to uncover the plight of families still living there.
BBC News - Chad country profile
Guardian - Chad
Wikipedia - Chad
Chad government, rebels hold Tripoli peace talks
June 22, 2007 (TRIPOLI) — Chad’s government and rebel leaders gathered in Tripoli on Friday for Libyan-brokered peace talks aimed at ending an insurgency against President Idriss Deby’s rule, rebel chiefs and Libyan officials said. A (...)
Kidnapped Chinese engineer released in Sudan’s Darfur
September 17, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — A Chinese engineer kidnapped last week in Chad near Sudan’s border had been released today, Sudanese army and former Darfur rebel group announced Friday. Chadian soldiers riding on armoured vehicles near (...)
Chad says Sudan attacks to export fundamentalism
April 18, 2006 (N’DJAMENA) — Chad President Idriss Deby said on Tuesday Sudan had attacked his country in a drive to export Khartoum’s fundamentalist system to sub-Saharan Africa. Idriss deby Rebels fighting to end Deby’s rule over (...)
Sudan regrets Chadian accusations
Dec 23, 2005 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan has expressed its regret for the complaint lodged by the Chadian government with the UN Security Council accusing Sudan of interfering in Chad’s internal affairs. Idriss Deby meets with Omer el-Bashir, (...)
Killers of Chadian president’s son caught on video
July 3, 2007 (PARIS) — The hooded killers of the Chadian president’s son were filmed on video surveillance cameras in the underground car park in France where his body was found, a judicial source said on Tuesday. Brahim Deby was (...)
US warns of new rebel attacks into Chad from Sudan
Dec 20, 2005 (WASHINGTON) — The United States warned that Chadian rebel groups could launch new attacks against their government’s forces across the Sudanese border after a clash on Sunday that the African country said killed hundreds. (...)
Sudan, Chad to compete for World Cup qualifiers in Egypt – FIFA
August 5, 2008 (JOHANNESBURG) – Sudan and Chad Will meet in Egypt for their World Cup qualifying matches next month, said the Soccer’s governing body today. Following an attack on the Sudanese capital by a Darfur rebel group last May, (...)
Chad-Sudan group postpones Khartoum meeting
February 26, 2009 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese foreign ministry announced yesterday the postponement of a ministerial meeting of Dakar contact group tasked with the normalization of Sudan Chad relations. Ali Sadiq, the spokesperson of the (...)
Obstacles to getting peacekeepers in Chad
Feb 17, 2007 (DAKAR/NEW YORK) — As the United Nations Security Council prepares for discussions this week on sending peacekeepers to eastern Chad, aid agencies working there are pressing the humanitarian need for rapid deployment, but (...)
Chad accuses Sudan of planning attack
May 15, 2006 (N’DJAMENA) — Chad’s government on Monday accused neighbouring Sudan of preparing a "fresh attack" on its soil. Chadian rebels stand by their vehicle in a small camp along the Sudan-Chad border in this February 10, 2006. (...)
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CASTALIA: Want Superversive Pulp? Try Eoin Colfer’s “The Wish List”
April 26, 2017 Anthony M 9
The superversive conversation at the moment has more or less centered around two topics (things tend to move in cycles; we’ll move on eventually):
What makes a good “strong female character”
The connection between superversive and pulp
I’m not going to rehash that conversation; if you want to see the relevant posts, try these, and click through the comments for discussion. Instead, I’m going to try to give you an example of a relatively modern superversive novel that seems like it would fit pretty firmly in the pulp tradition: Eoin Colfer’s “The Wish List”.
Colfer is best known for his Artemis Fowl series, which is a ton of fun (and pretty pulpy itself) but leans hard into feminism and environmental politics. And it’s not his best work; that would be “Airman”, which is a superb adventure novel that I may also write about one day.
“The Wish List” is something very different than both of those, and in some ways it’s a remarkable book.
Let me try and make my case in order:
1) It has a clearly and unashamedly Christian cosmology. I’m not sure if any other modern work by a mainstream writer is as overtly and clearly Christian as this one. I’m not talking about Christian themes here. I mean St. Peter and Beelzebub literally debate each other at the gates of Heaven (A brief note: the theology is occasionally fudged somewhat, but it’s still undoubtedly Christian):
Even though the archangel and the demon came from different ends of the spectrum, theologically speaking, they had, over the past few centuries, established something of a rapport…
“So what’s the problem, Bub?” [St. Peter] grinned down the phone line. His opposite number would be spitting fire, but he’d have to swallow it if he wanted a favor.
“The Master is looking for a soul.”
“What about that lawyers’ convention?”
“No. A specific soul. I thought if you had her at the Pearlies, we might trade.”
Awesome. The coolest part of it is that there’s none of that universalist “All religions are true in their own way” crap. “The Wish List” is a novel with a Christian soul, and it tackles its fantasy elements from that perspective.
2) Evil is kicked in the face. In the earlier pulp conversation, Jeffro said this:
I mean the point of a pulp story is to have somebody punch evil and kiss the girl, right?
Good news! Evil might not be punched (Well, sort of, but not really…), but it is kicked in the face. And it’s amazing:
Belch wrapped himself around Meg’s torso. Insane gibberings leaked from between his slobbering lips.
“Finn,” he muttered. “Finn going down.”
That was it for Meg. She’s just about had it…
“Belch,” she screamed, raising down a booted foot, “You can go to Hell!”
She brought the boot down squarely on his wet nose, and the creature that had been Belch Brennan spiraled into the flames, with Meg’s name stretching behind him like a prayer. Or a curse.
3) Yes, the girl is kissed. Not our protagonist in this case, but the deuteragonist gets what surely must be one of the most spectacular kisses in all of fiction:
“Well, Lowrie,” she said, echoes of the teenager in her voice. “Why have you come here?”
It occurred to Lowrie then that he was probably on television.
“Lost love,” he said simply, and kissed her on the lips.
And the crowd went ape, especially when Cicely Ward draped a hand over the dapper old gent’s shoulder and kissed him back. It was fantastic, stupendous.
An ethereal ray of white light exploded from the point of lip contact…
Belch felt it too…”What the hell is that?” he growled, peering over his shoulder.
…”Good,” [Elph] said. “Pure, one hundred percent good.”
Meg felt a rush of blue in her aura.
4) Things get weird. In fine pulp fashion, we get this creation:
Someone, or something, was spinning along beside her. Canine features bubbled under a human skin, poking through like computer animation effects. It was horrible. Grotesque. Yet somehow strangely familiar.
“Belch?” said Meg uncertainly. “Is that you?”
…The dog-boy could only stare in horror as his fingers morphed from stubby digits to pit bull claws. Tears and slobber rolled down his face, dripping in large gobbets from a furry chin.”
5) Genres are mixed. In the middle of the fantasy, we get bits like this:
The computer wizard grinned smugly. “No problem, Beelzebub-San, I can uplink him.”
…Myishi removed a nasty-looking object from his box of tricks. It resembled a small monitor on a metal stake. Without hesitation the programmer plunged it into the morass of Belch’s brain.
…”The brain spike. I love this little baby. The brain’s own electrical impulses provide the power source. Ingenious, if I do say so myself.”
Pure science fiction, baby.
You can’t argue that this one doesn’t hit the pulp beats, right? Unashamedly Christian cosmology? Genre mashing? Weird imagery? Gals getting kissed and demons getting kicked in the face?
It’s all there.
But is it superversive?
You better believe it is.
Remember the infamous redemption story post?
Well, “The Wish List” is that story and more. It’s a redemption story, and it’s a resurrection story. It’s about not giving up, and living without regret, and making up for past wrongs, and all of that other stuff that’s corny when it’s executed badly and amazing when it’s executed well.
“The Wish List” is executed very, very well. It’s not just fun, it’s not just funny, it’s not just inventive, it’s also moving and inspiring. It’s incredibly superversive.
Is it perfect?
No, it’s not. The Chekov’s gun at the beginning is flashed rather obviously, and many of the plot beats are very predictable. The characters sometimes lean a little too far into the stock end. But you’re having so much fun when you read it that you hardly even care!
Isn’t that also the exact thing that folks like Jeffro have been talking about? Those supposedly “cliche” and “predictable” plot beats were used so much because they were incredibly effective?
“The Wish List” is the sort of book that we just don’t see much of anymore, and fans of pulp fiction or superversive fiction owe it to themselves to give it a shot.
The Pinching Shoe That Is Beauty and the Beast
Caption This! week #11
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Rachel’s impact hits Blue Ridge
TOPICS:Blue RidgeRachel's Challenge
Posted By: tpennysaver December 22, 2010
Rachel’s Challenge speaker Jim May asked the Blue Ridge students to close their eyes and picture the people who matter most to them during an assembly Thursday.
Blue Ridge students spent the days leading up to an anti-bullying assembly learning about the program’s namesake, Rachel Joy Scott.
Scott was the first person killed in the April 1999 Columbine school shooting that claimed the life of 13 students and one teacher.
After reading Scott’s personal writing and diaries, her family decided to fulfill Scott’s personal plan “to make an impact on the world.”
It was in those writings that the tenets of what became “Rachel’s Challenge” was born.
In a personal code of ethics written as a class assignment, Scott issued people a challenge to “start a chain reaction of kindness.”
Noting five specific elements, Rachel’s Challenge invites student participants to look for the best in others and eliminate prejudice; set goals; choose positive influences; use kind words and show small acts of kindness; and work for forgiveness.
Jim May, a friend of Scott’s father, Darrel Scott, spoke to Blue Ridge sixth through 12th graders Thursday morning.
But the message of Rachel’s Challenge at Blue Ridge is not ending with the assembly.
The middle and high school students are working on ways to implement the message in the schools – from anti-bullying poster and student-created public service announcement efforts to designing a bracelet emblazoned with a positive, motivating message selected from student entries.
Middle school principal Matthew Nebzydoski said, “Student reaction to the program has been overwhelming.”
Students have approached teachers, guidance counselors and administrators with ideas of how to implement Rachel’s Challenge on a daily basis in the schools.
Nebzydoski said one of the ideas getting off the ground very quickly is the formation of a new-student welcoming committee that would work with the student council to make sure new enrollees have a place to eat at lunch and are made a part of the Blue Ridge community.
“The ideas are coming from the kids – not the adults,” said the principal.
Following the assembly, students were invited to stay for a second session led by May that focused on how they could do little things that could add up to make a big difference in the school culture.
Nevzydoski said, “We already have a group of kids willing to lend a helping hand but this really sparked them even more so.”
“Obviously it was a pretty emotional day for the students,” said the principal. Days later, he said the building was still buzzing. “It really struck a chord – which is what we had hoped for.”
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Q/A Kenneth Goldsmith
How has the internet changed the nature of the event?
The event now takes place in the interval: the instant between page refreshes, that split-second eternity when the feed is paused, a nowness where data spoils in a fraction of a second.
The faster things get, the slower they become. At the eye of the accelerationist storm are vast tundras of frozen data. At the heart of dynamism is the silence of the tomb, a networked digital death drive. When French critical theorists informed us that language was, by its nature, unstable, they couldn’t have anticipated that lurking on the other side of that equation was the epitome of presumed stability: the archive. But the archive isn’t stable at all: in fact, it is always lurching toward decay. Derrida, referencing Freud, writes, “The death drive is above all anarchivic, one could say, or archiviolithic. It will always have been archive-destroying, by silent vocation.” Writing on an electronic platform is a dance of life and death. Digital writing (active/life) doubles as archiving (passive/death).
Every time we save a document (preservation), a ghost of that document is stored in a cache (archive/tomb). Think of how, when your computer crashes (death) andyou restart Word (life), that zombie file is reborn as a full-fledged living document. Continue to work on it, and it proceeds on its life’s journey again, as a double – both figure and shadow. If we email that document, a living copy is zipped along electronically to its recipient while the ghost is sentenced to a sent items folder, entombed, buried, and forgotten. This scene is reenacted every time another computer receives a networked document: open it and the cycle begins anew. Spam a listserv and jumpstart an untold number of lives and deaths. The digital reader is a quantified reader. Every time I “turn” a page in an e-reader, that “turn” is tracked and frozen in a database, the ghost of my reading experience travels on as a mutant strain that succumbs to whatever programming agenda awaits it. A human reader can’t compete with the legions of spiders who silently read the web without ever reading it; for them – the most voracious readers in history – reading is literally archiving; reading as death drive. The spiders themselves are zombies, a robotic death cult whose lifeblood is the network and its tomblike repository, the archive. The cloud itself is littered with dead sites: longforgotten sites built for academic conferences or now-dissolved weddings, unloved and unmaintained, visited only by the occasional spider, who sucks the dead data from these corpses, imprisoning it in far-flung archival necropolises.
We dance upon this desiccated palimpsest of bones, breathlessly huffing as we perform our digital rituals, willfully ignorant that today’s status update is tomorrow’s digital compost. While we have the illusion that things are speeding up, they’ve actually reached a point of stasis, of stillness. Paul Virilio claims that “there is a definite relationship between inertia and absolute speed which is based on the stasis which results from absolute speed. Absolute stasis leads – potentially – to absolute stasis.” When information moves at the speed of light, as it does in our fiber-optic networks, accelerationism has bumped up against its speed limit, thereby ceasing to be accelerationist. Instead, it is static, signifying the end of the technological narrative of speed and the inevitable beginning of another: entropy
Kenneth Goldsmith is an artist and poet who is also the founder and main editor of UbuWeb. He teaches contemporary literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
#45 Autumn 2015
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Jimmy Butler won't play Wednesday for 'precautionary rest' amid trade drama
By Kent Youngblood
October 31, 2018 — 12:42pm
The Wolves will play the Jazz on Wednesday without either Jimmy Butler or Jeff Teague.
Wolves coach Tom Thibodeau said Butler sitting had nothing to do with his much-publicized desire to be traded out of Minnesota, saying his sitting was due to “precautionary rest and general soreness.’’
Asked if Butler would accompany the team on its upcoming five-game road trip – one that starts Friday at Golden State – Thibodeau acted as though he didn’t know. “That’s where we are,’’ Thibodeau said. “Day to day.’’
Teague has left knee soreness after banging knees with LeBron James in the Wolves’ victory over Los Angeles on Monday night. He is having further tests done on the knee this afternoon.
A source told the Star Tribune that Butler's absence is part of a regularly scheduled rest, and he told ESPN's Rachel Nichols via text: "Because my body is hurting and I don't want to go out there and risk an injury, people make stuff up? What are they going to do when I show up and hoop on Friday?"
Still, it’s hard not to view his absence as another step in the process of getting himself out of Minnesota. It will be the second game he’s missed; he didn’t accompany the Wolves to Dallas on Oct. 20, which was the back end of back-to-back games. In this case, the Wolves were off Tuesday and are playing the third of three consecutive home games.
When asked about the ongoing trade drama with Butler, Jazz guard Ricky Rubio -- the subject of numerous trade rumors when he was with the Wolves before being dealt in 2017 to Utah -- said it's all a matter of perspective.
"Every day is different news,'' Rubio said. "But at the end of the day, until it doesn't happen -- I got (rumored to be) traded 10 times when I was here. Until that happened, you can't think about that every day. When it happens, it will happen. The players who are here have got to play to win every time, and that's it.''
Listen: Will Houston offer lead to a Jimmy Butler trade soon?
Chris Hine and Michael Rand discuss Houston's reported offer of four first-round picks for Jimmy Butler, while also wondering if Miami will get back into the mix on a possible deal.
The timing of Butler's absence is interesting given the parameters of a potential Butler trade with Houston. Brandon Knight and Marquese Chriss, two Rockets players acquired from Phoenix in late August, are eligible to have their salaries aggregated as part of a trade package starting Wednesday, per the rules of the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement.
Their availability could help facilitate a deal with the Rockets – who last week reportedly offered both in a package along with four first-round picks in exchange for Butler – or spur other teams to increase their trade offers.
The Wolves are coming off a victory over the Lakers Monday in which Butler scored 32 points, making all five of his three-point attempts in the fourth quarter.
Thibodeau said he hadn’t decided how to replace Butler and Teague in the starting lineup, but rookie Josh Okogie, Tyus Jones and Derrick Rose figure to get a lot of extra minutes.
Teague missed some time last season with a similar injury to his right knee. This time it was the left knee. “I already had a little tendonitis,’’ said Teague, who indicated he’d know more about the extent of the injury – and how much time he might miss – after further tests this afternoon.
Teague said he was frustrated at not being able to play. Given the similarity to the injury he had last season, he has only one solution: “I guess I have to start wearing knee pads,’’ he said.
The good news following the Wolves’ morning shoot Wednesday was that Andrew Wiggins, who missed the last three games with a quad contusion, appears to be ready to make his return against Utah.
*Also on Wednesday, a source confirmed the Timberwolves will not pick up the third-year option on 2017 first-round pick Justin Patton. The deadline for picking up the option is Wednesday night.
Patton, chosen with the No. 16 pick as part of the draft-night deal for Butler, has had his career-to-date derailed by foot injuries. He has appeared in just one NBA game. He'll be an unrestricted free agent next summer.
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2nd Referendum
Post subject: 2nd Referendum
Really dislike the phrase 'People's Vote', FFS who else f***ing well votes bar the people?
That said I was interested to read comments from the Labour Party Chairman.
Ian Lavery, the Labour party chairman, has hit out at a section of pro-remain campaigners for sneering at “ordinary people” with pro-Brexit views and sniping at those who want to see the results of the 2016 poll respected.
As Jeremy Corbyn faces intense pressure to back a “people’s vote” in the wake of the European elections, Lavery argued in an article for the Guardian that Labour would not win a general election “simply by fighting for the biggest share of the 48%”
Struggle to disagree with that.
rayggb
Post subject: Re: 2nd Referendum
And if it's 52% remain 48% leave can we have best out 3 ? Or 5 ?.Apparently 90% of MPs went to university,now that tells me common sense is not their forte !.
bloodnock
I seem to recall the people already had voted, they voted to leave.
And if that shower of liars at Westminster decide to a Add a remain box on the ballot paper to the peoples vote then it's simply just another EU referendum, or if they Add a remain box, a Take the Deal on offer Box or a No deal box on the ballot paper then it's nothing more than a cynical ploy to split the leave vote by enough to ensure we stay, it would be 48% remain and the other 52% leave split to some extent.
They are trying to rig the vote to ensure a remain win...that's why we cannot have another vote.
bloodnock wrote:
Firstly I am against another vote ut if there is one then there would have to be a proviso that if the number who want to leave, with or without a deal outnumber those that want to stay then that is that and the winner would be the highest number of votes for whichever leave deal is on offer.
At this stage I would guess that leave without a deal would be more than leave with a deal.
I think IF they do have a fresh referendum then there should be 4 options to vote for 2 for stay 2 for leave
1) stay as things are
2) stay in customs union only
3) leave with TM's deal
4) leave with no deal
If they vote to remain we want another vote because the first one won.
It's not about whether we leave the EU now or not, it's about whether or not this country is seeing the death of democracy if we have a second vote.
MR T wrote:
Another ref can and will be stopped by civil unrest
trotskys twin wrote:
Your lot are likely to support another referendum.
Theres something wrong with the 2nd vote brigades idea that it is being democratic in wanting a 2nd vote, that idea makes the first vote pointless and by association it makes our electoral majority representational style of democracy worthless.
The 2nd vote bridade (the referendum losers) seems to think that democracy won't be served until we get a result that they want.
Can't they see the absolute absurdity of their argument in denying the democratic will of the electoral majority just to placate a disgruntled minority, would they discount every past election win, By-Election Win, Local council win and even the somewhat dubious vote that took us into the EU way back in 1975? because the result displeased a minority?
Nope....a Second vote is wrong, it kills democracy under the pretence of being democratic. it is minority rule, indeed it's almost mob rule where a minority seeks to overturn a majority vote through non democratic and underhanded means.
They also seek a rigged vote designed to split the leave camp by just enough to ensure the one type of remain option wins.....if that goes ahead it'll be more than just democracy that dies it'll be the end of all trust in UK politics for the next 60 years, indeed it'll change politics and embolden the EU style where they have a pretend democratically elected parliament being run by unelected EU presidents who the EU citizens have no vote in electing, the EU elite do as they please, democracy means as little to them as it does to our pro EU 2nd voter fraternity...........and we cant allow that to happen here.
If this country wants to move on to a successful future we need to implement referendum 1.
If we don't and go for referendum 2 the problems will not end there, they will go on and on and on.
All that said I believe leave will win again.
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By Karen DeJarnette | Published: March 7, 2013
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As stated in my brief Twitter profile, I have been a TdF fans (that’s Tour de France for those not geeky enough to follow the niche sport of professional bicycle racing) for many years. I’ve been following the 3-week, 2,000+ mile TdF as it unfolds every July since the days Greg LeMond was riding and winning (back in the late 1980s). The race is grueling, extremely competitive, tactically fascinating, and the participants, no matter how good or prepared they might be, are subject to momentary external events beyond their control (flat tires, inclement weather, oblivious spectators & their dogs, road furniture, crazy drivers, crazier sprints, and more), which more often than not determines who will not win the race. The winners typically just go with the flow, are highly consistent, and stay out of trouble, but the secret is that they more often than not simply work harder than anyone else (kind of reminiscent of SEO, isn’t it?).
I remember following past great riders like LeMond, Miguel Indurain, Richard Virenque and Jan Ullrich, as well as superstars of today Mark Cavendish, Andy Schleck, Alberto Contador and Thomas Voeckler. Then, of course, there is Lance Armstrong. Even if you’re not a cycling fan, you probably know of Lance.
I remember in the early 1990s hearing about this up-and-coming American kid named Lance when he rode in the Tour DuPont, a now defunct, 12-day stage race held in the United States. He was young, brash, bold, and on fire as a rider. He was also a bit of a wild man, untamed, undisciplined, and a likely candidate to shine bright but burn out fast. I then remember reading he was diagnosed with advanced testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs, abdomen and brain – he was only in his mid-20s. It was horrible news for any young person, when life should be about endless possibilities, not end-of-life mortality. I followed with great interest later news that Lance had miraculously beat back the disease and was even getting back on the bike. He appeared to be a different man at that point. Thinner, more restrained, and much more disciplined. And he had been transformed into one hell of a cyclist. He genuinely trained harder and longer than anyone, sought to leverage every new advance in aerodynamic cycling technology, and brought a new, hardcore discipline to the sport.
I watched with heart-swelling, vicarious pride as he stood on the winner’s podium wearing the famed yellow jersey in his first year back in the TdF at the end of July, 1999. And he then repeated that most incredibly unlikely feat six more times – in a row! I’ll never forget Lance’s iconic TdF moments like “The Look” in 2001, the off-road emergency shortcut down a mountain in 2003, the musette entanglement in 2003, the time trial up the mountain Alpe D’Huez in 2004 – these are just a few of the incredible memories burned forever in the minds of TdF fans. He rode like a man possessed – perhaps even super-human.
Well, not super-human, but certainly not normal, either. Lance Armstrong’s extraordinary performances were the stuff of legend, and rumors of performance-enhancing drugs and blood doping dogged him for years. He vociferously denied them, shrugged them off as sour grapes from jealous competitors, threatened (and sued and won against) people who publicly accused him of such, and defended himself by boasting he had never failed any of the 500+ drug tests he took (while many of his competitors certainly did!).
But did Lance cheat. He lied. He bullied people who knew the truth, and used the weapons of the popular press and aggressive attorneys for endless, expensive legal entanglements to attack his enemies. And lest you accuse me of libel, unless you have not been keeping up with the news, in 2012 the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) produced a report with over 1,000 pages of supporting materials detailing testimony and evidence that showed Lanced cheated. He was subsequently stripped of all of his past professional racing victories starting just after he returned to professional bicycle racing after beating back stage 3 cancer in 1998 and is now banned from competing professionally in any USADA-sanctioned sports events for life. And just recently, he went on the Oprah Winfrey Show and publicly admitted he cheated. And lied. And bullied people.
Up until about a year or two ago, I really wanted to believe Lance when he said he would never do something as foolish as doping to his body after nearly dying of cancer. Because of the many tales of his toughness, his perseverance, and his amazing athleticism (including those I witnessed), Lance had become a hero to me, but no more. Ethics are something I value more than incredible athletic feats, and Lance utterly failed in ethics.
Ethics and SEO
Speaking of ethics, I keep hearing from a specific segment of the SEO population a lot of talk about their peculiar definitions of white hat vs. black hat SEO. I hear accusations made against people who are now known for being white hat but “used to be” black hat. I hear of highly notable people in our industry being attacked as surreptitious black hats. I have no idea if any of that is true. But what I find most interesting is when some of these talkers make such bold pronouncements as “there is no such thing as white hat SEO. All SEO is black hat” or “SEO is SEO and thus it is all white hat”. Right…
How do these folks do it? Are they really unable to understand the difference between right and wrong? Ethical and unethical? Could it be that they are attempting to rationalize some potentially dubious ethical business behavior on their part, or are they just paranoid about being caught?
Lance Armstrong understood the differences between ethical and unethical behavior. He knew the rules, and the rules specified that performance enhancing drugs and blood doping were forbidden. He worked hard to actively cheat while knowing that being caught would ruin his career, but he still cheated anyway. He rationalized it by believing everybody else was cheating.
I believe a penchant toward unethical behavior is a natural human condition among a small segment of humanity. Unfortunately, that behavioral inclination spans across the globe and runs back throughout the course of time. Consider not only modern entities such as organized crime and drug cartels, but ancient ones as well. Tomb robbers were a major concern to ancient Egyptians, and I have seen counterfeit Roman silver coins that were, just after being minted, actually plated with a silver veneer to falsely raise the coin’s value (I own one of those). History is full of tales of thieves, charlatans, usurpers, and scammers.
SEOs are people, too, and some people are sadly inclined toward cheating behavior rather than ethical behavior. It’s a shame, really, and search engines spend huge amounts of resources to manage and mitigate malicious web spam, but it’s a never-ending war. And worst of all, the SEO industry is getting such a bad name because of these few unethical players that some SEOs have decided to rename their work as Inbound Marketing (talk about an urgent need for online reputation management!). If you can’t fix the broken reputation, just change the name (sort of the same way today’s Altria Group, Inc. used to be known as Philip Morris Tobacco).
Clarifying questions to ask
To help those SEOs who just don’t understand the ethical differences between black hat and white hat SEO (or Inbound Marketing), let’s ask ourselves a few questions. I think it’ll help bring some clarity to the issue.
Are you using SEO tactics that you would not admit to publicly because you know they violate the search engines’ webmaster guidelines? If so, you are probably black hat.
Are you adding concise, relevant page descriptions in the <title>, <meta> description and <h1> tags where none (or junk text) existed before? This is white hat.
Are you doing things that you would not dare tell Matt Cutts or Duane Forrester in a face-to-face meeting? If yes, then I’m guessing you lean toward black hat.
Are your pages filled with useful, authoritative, and interesting content to human readers? This is another example of white hat.
Are you hiding text in your webpages with HTML tag attributes “display: none”, using CSS to make the text incredibly small, or formatted in the same font color as the background? If so, it’s looking like you wear a black hat.
Do you write text that describes the subject matter of a digital image file and add it to the <img> tag’s alt text attribute? This is standard white hat work.
Are you sniffing user agent identities and showing the search engine crawlers a different set of content on your pages than you show to common web browser user agents in an attempt to build up artificial keyword relevance? Yes? Then your chapeau is definitely a black hat.
Are you adding more text-based content to a page to fully develop a theme, a topic, or demonstrate your authority of knowledge on a subject? This is reputable white hat behavior.
Are you creating a network of junk blogs or crummy, low-value websites across the Internet for the primary purposes of link farming to create the artificial impression to search engines that the linked site is more popular than it really is? This sounds like more black hat work.
Are you using social media to build a community of people interested in your product/service/content to reach out to them and help them learn more about your site/products/services/content? That’s solid white hat.
Is your intention to dupe or deceive the search engines or users of search engine results page data into believing your site is something that it is not? No question – this is black hat.
Lastly, do you believe because a certain segment of the human population consists of liars, cheaters, thieves, and charlatans that everybody else has (or at least you have) a right to behave in the same way? If so, you should probably think harder about the nature of ethics.
The truth is that most people are ethical by nature, and we can all be thankful about that. This whole black hat vs. white hat distinction is really not that hard to figure out. The bottom line question is this: are you actively working to deceive some entity, be it either the searcher or the search engine algorithms? If so, you are like Lance. No, not as a former world-class athlete, but as a cheat, a liar – a black hat. And one day the game will be up for you, too. You may see some limited success today with a few of those tactics, but the pressure is on you to continue to achieve the cheater’s success, and that’s only getting harder to do. Search engines continue to crack down on web spam, slowly chipping away at your toolbox, your tactics, and your success. If you’re not convinced this is a losing path, just ask Lance how it all worked out for him.
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Mothers, Women And Social Safety Nets
Women protesting in Sokoto, recently.
Social policy in developing countries provides crucial assistance to women, but evidence shows that it is increasingly being limited to women who are mothers.
Associating women with children and families is hardly new in society. What is surprising, however, is how much recent social policy has embraced and reinforced this association, funneling large sums of money into prograams for mothers at the expense of programs furthering women’s socioeconomic empowerment and autonomy.
What has alsao been sidelined — or is entirely nonexistent — are efforts to encourage men’s equal contribution to caregiving and childrearing at home.
Consider, for instance, cash-transfer programs such as Prospera in Latin America. Although widely celebrated for improving children’s health and educational results, many such programs operate on the assumption that mothers hold primary responsibility for child care. Accordingly, they disburse cash to mothers only, not fathers, on condition that their children attend school and get regular health checkups.
India’s huge Janani Suraksha Yojana, or Mother Protection Program, is another major example. Modeled after Latin American programs, it seeks to improve maternal health by giving cash assistance to pregnant women who give birth in health facilities. Women’s receipt of social benefits is contingent on their status as mothers.
The Indian program, which serves more than 10 million women a year and has received an annual allocation of about $280 million in recent years, far outstrips most other social policies for women in its size and financing. But it was not always so.
Thirty years ago, the idea of cash for pregnant mothers was just a sideshow to an important women’s empowerment proposal in the 1989 electoral platform of the Indian National Congress party. Called the Indira Mahila Yojana, or Indira Women’s Program, it promised to overhaul social policy and make unprecedented investments in women’s socioeconomic advances by promoting their entrepreneurship, employment, education and social mobilization.
The program was intended to support women’s autonomy regardless of their marital or parental status. It was trumpeted as the cornerstone of a new progressive and rights-based approach to social policy.
Today, however, that program is defunct after a short, underresourced life of little consequence, and it is the pregnant mothers program that has become one of India’s most generously funded plans for women and one of the largest cash-transfer programs in the world in the number of beneficiaries.
The pro-motherhood trend, or “maternalization,” of social policy can also be seen in the overall character of social programming and expenditure for women in India. Since the late 1980s, the total inflation-adjusted spending by the federal government on programs designed exclusively for adult women (including women-specific spending on programs assisting both women and their children) has prioritized mothers.
As a result, “maternalist” programs, which provide maternal health care and other benefits to mothers, have grown relative to nonmaternalist programs, which seek women’s advancement through initiatives for microcredit, job training, educational assistance, public leadership training and public safety.
What has caused this shift toward maternalism? Although domestic factors undoubtedly contribute to this trend wherever it occurs, a common driver across countries may be found in the international community’s emphasis on maternal health as a key development goal for women. We do not have to look much further than the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to illustrate this pattern.
As many experts have noted, the eight MDGs introduced at the turn of this century incorporated two goals that are explicitly gendered: MDG 3, which called for educational parity between boys and girls, and MDG 5, which promoted better maternal health. Only the latter goal related to adult women. So adult women appeared in the MDGs only as mothers.
Improved maternal health is a worthy objective, and given that the maternal mortality goal proved to be the worst performer of all MDGs by some measures, the international community’s attention to it is understandable. Yet motherhood is only one of women’s roles, and for most women, pregnancy accounts for no more than a fraction of their lifespans. Social protection contingent on maternity status thus fails to provide what most women need during most of their lives. A safety net cannot get more patchy than this.
Nangia writes from Abuja.
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15th Auto Assembly 2009 Guest Announced!
Written by Big Bot on July 23, 2009 | Auto Assembly,Conventions,News | Tags: Auto Assembly 2009 —
The UK and Europe’s largest Transformers convention, Auto Assembly, is getting another special guest for the 2009 convention with comic artist Jon Davis-Hunt, who has worked for Titan Comics in the UK and IDW Comics in North America. He will only be appearing on Sunday, but with be signing you favourite bits of merchandise.
As the date for Auto Assembly 2009 draws nearer, we are still adding to our extensive list of activities throughout the weekend and we are now pleased to announce that we are now being joined by our FIFTEENTH guest for the convention…
Joining us for the SUNDAY ONLY is comic artist Jon Davis-Hunt. Jon has recently joined the team working on Titan Magazine’s Transformers comic as their new regular artist for their UK-originated strip, although he has produced cover artwork for them previously. He has also worked for IDW on the adaptation of Revenge Of The Fallen and was one of the artists for 2000 AD. Prior to switching to the comic industry, Jon previously worked in the video games industry.
Jon will be taking to the stage along with some of our other comic guests on Sunday (our comic panels will be split throughout the weekend) and he will be joining the rest of our comic guests in our guest area to sign autographs and meet fans.
Jon is joining what is the biggest ever line-up of guests seen at a European Transformers event which currently includes our two guests of honour Gregg Berger (G1 Grimlock), Ian James Corlett (Cheetor), and our comic guests – Andrew Wildman (Saturday only), Simon Williams, Staz Johnson, Nick Roche, Liam Shalloo, Lew Stringer (Saturday only), Jason Cardy, Kat Nicholson, Lee Bradley, Lee Sullivan, Mike Collins, and Kris Carter. As we have three guests who will only be able to attend for a single day, the ONLY way you will get to meet all of our guests this year is to attend for the FULL weekend!
We have a very limited number of single tickets available for the Sunday, but plenty of weekend tickets available. More single day passes for Saturday may be released soon but with the convention being less than four weeks away, you need to hurry to pre-register for what will be the biggest ever Transformers convention that Europe has ever seen!
For full details on Auto Assembly 2009 and to book your tickets, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk
Simon Plumbe
Auto Assembly 2009
Auto Assembly 2009 is a non-profit making convention for fans of Transformers and is being held on 15th – 16th August 2009 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England.
Auto Assembly 2009 Non-Attendee Pack Announced!
Written by Big Bot on June 24, 2009 | Auto Assembly,Conventions,News | Tags: Auto Assembly 2009 —
We’ve getting ever closer to Auto Assembly 2009, and for those of you who cannot make it, here is a way to get all the goodies without even being there, the magical non-attendee pack!
Auto Assembly 2009 Non-Attendee Pack Available!
Auto Assembly 2009 is set to break all attendance records once again for a European Transformers convention and we are delighted to say that we are going to be joined by fans from not only all over the UK but from all over Europe and from as far afield as America, Singapore and Japan making Auto Assembly 2009 a truly global event.
However, we appreciate that there are many of you who would love to be able to attend the convention but can’t attend either because of distance of who are unable to get time off work so once again we are offering a non-attendee package which will allow you to get involved in the convention and get your hands on all of this year’s convention goodies and a whole lot more besides…
These non-attendee packages are £60 for anyone living in the UK and £70 for the rest of the world and are fully inclusive of shipping costs. While these are more expensive than passes for the convention, we think they offer exceptional value for money. Why? Well, each non-attendee pack will get you:-
* A Personalised convention pass with your own ticket number
* The FULL Auto Assembly goodie bag containing up to 12 gifts (with more under negotiation)! (the earlier your ticket number, the more gifts will be in your bag. Visit the website to see the full details of what’s on offer this year!)
* Entry into all of the Auto Assembly 2009 Pre-registrant prize draws
* The Cybertronian Times Issue 10, signed by ALL our convention guests
* All Hail Megatron Issue 13 convention exclusive variant cover comic
* Auto Assembly 2009 convention exclusive mug
* Auto Assembly 2009 Grimlock keyring
* Full set of Auto Assembly convention exclusive postcards from 2004-2008
* Proxy bidding rights for the Auto Assembly charity auction
* A personalised sketch from a random Auto Assembly 2009 comic artist guest
* The option to use your non-attendee pass at ANY TIME and become a full weekend attendee during the convention by simply turning up at the convention and showing your pass and collecting all of your items on the day for just an additional
And that’s not all! The first 20 people to buy the non-attendee package will also receive a copy of Apocalypse Comics’ retailer exclusive edition of All Hail Megatron #1 or All Hail Megatron #12! This is quite possibly the best non-attendee package we have EVER put together and is an ideal way for you to get involved with the convention if you can’t make it this year and potentially your ONLY chance to get this year’s convention exclusive comic!
Once you have paid your £60 (or £70 if you live outside the UK) there is nothing more to pay. The only additional charges are for additional postage charges that may be incurred should any competition prizes be won that we may need to ship, or relevant amounts for any auction items that you may win.
To purchase your non-attendee package, visit the Auto Asembly website NOW! If you are able to join us, full weekend tickets are available and are £45 for adults and £35 for children/students/senior citizens with under 5s being FREE. Family tickets (2 adults and 2 children) are just £145 saving £15. Limited numbers of single day passes are also available starting from £18. Don’t miss out on your chance to be a part of what is going to be a great weekend celebrating 25 years of the Transformers!!
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Auto Assembly 2009 Preview on BBC Website
Written by Big Bot on June 15, 2009 | Auto Assembly,Conventions,News | Tags: Auto Assembly 2009, BBC, Simon Plumbe —
Just like last year, Auto Assembly, Europe’s largest Transformers convention, has again been previewed by an article on the BBC website.
The article contains an interview with Simon Plumbe and lots of details for anyone who hasn’t heard about the convention but is interested in attending. Here’s the best quote:
“If you’ve never been to a convention before but you’re passionate about Transformers and want to meet like-minded fans, meet the stars of the series, and just want to enjoy a packed weekend of Transformers-themed activities, then maybe Auto Assembly 2009 is for you!”
This years convention is a 2 day event over the weekend of the 15th and 16th August 2009 in Birmingham.
More Auto Assembly 2009 Info – Another Guest?
Written by Big Bot on June 5, 2009 | Auto Assembly,Conventions,News | Tags: Auto Assembly, Auto Assembly 2009, Simon Plumbe —
Simon Plumbe from Auto Assembly got in touch with TheTransformers.Net again recently and sat down for a follow up to our recent interview.
This time Simon had even more news on the convention, including a potentially massive announcement concerning guest line-up…
So Simon, you’ve confirmed Gregg Berger and Ian James Corlett which is pretty awesome, but from our recent conversations you’ve told me that you’re now talking to a THIRD voice actor for AA 09?
A. Absolutely! I’ll be honest though and say that this is entirely down to the attendees. I have been in talks with different sponsors to try to raise money towards getting more guests for the convention, but ultimately it is going to be a case of everything extra being funded from pre-registrations. I have been talking to an actor for a while who is ready to come over and join Ian and Gregg and at a rough guess I would say that if we can get about 500 pre-registrations then we will be able to afford to get them!
Spill; who’s it gonna be?
A. I can’t say right now, but what I CAN say is that we are looking at trying to bring a former Auto Assembly guest of honour back, but it’s all dependent on YOU guys to make it happen!
*ponders* AA08 was my first convention but I’m sure some of theft.netters will be compiling a list of previous attendees as we speak!
Onto competitions; last year you had a free prize draw for all pre-registrants to win a ticket for this year’s convention. Are you planning on doing the same this year?
A. Yes, infact I’m working on THREE big prize draws this time around… well, it IS the 25th Anniversary so we may as well do things in style!! The first one will be the same as last year and every pre-registrant will be entered into a free prize draw to win a family ticket to Auto Assembly 2010 and possibly some other prizes as well! In addition to that, I’ll be running two more prize draws starting in June until pre-registrations close which I think people may love…
The first of these is what I am calling our “Milestone Draw”. Over the last few years, we have set various attendance records for Auto Assembly, and I want to acknowledge these by rewarding those attendees to help us reach those figures again. Quite simply, when a person registers and their ticket number matches each of these key numbers then they will receive a FREE ticket to Auto Assembly 2010!!
Now that’s ever so slightly awesome! Any news on ticket number 5…
A. No, you booked too early! lol Seriously though, we wanted to look at some of the really big (more…)
Auto Assembly 2009 Exclusive Comic Cover – Coloured Version!
Written by Big Bot on May 27, 2009 | Auto Assembly,Conventions,IDW Publishing,News | Tags: Auto Assembly 2009 —
The guys at Auto Assembly have revealed a full colour version of their exclusive Auto Assembly 2009Auto Assembly 09 Exclusive Cover cover for IDW’s Transformers All Hail Megatron #13.The cover, which is done in association with Apocalypse Comics, and is limited to only 1000 copies, pays homage to Jurassic Park and is done by Nick Roche with colours by Liam Shalloo. Doesn’t it look good?
As you know, we previewed the inks to the convention exclusive comic for Auto Assembly 2009 recently when we were interviewed over at Transformers@TheMoon. Since then, many people have wanted to know what the finished cover for our convention exclusive variant cover to IDW’s All Hail Megatron Issue 13 is going to look like. Well, the wait is over…
Adding the finishing touch to Nick Roche’s pencils is the fantastic colours of Liam Shalloo to bring you this fantastic tribute to Jurassic Park and featuring Grimlock (both of whom will be attending the convention and who can sign the comic for those of you who buy it along with G1 voice actor Gregg Berger)! The comic is being produced for Auto Assembly 2009 by Apocalypse Comics and will be available during the convention weekend from their table. Sales will limited to a maximum of just TWO per attendee while stocks last as there are only 1,000 copies being printed of this book!
Auto Assembly 2009 is set to be a record-breaking convention for European Transformers fans and this is one convention you don’t want to miss!
All Hail Megatron exclusive variant covers, issues #12 and #13
Written by Darren 'Starscream' Jamieson on May 6, 2009 | Auto Assembly,Comics,News |
We’ve just received two images from Mario at Apocalypse Comics for variant All Hail Megatron cover images. They’re for issues #12 and #13 and are both available from Apocalypse Comics.
Issue #12 is a homage to the Amazing Spider-Man issue #50 cover.
If you’re planning on attending the London Film and Comic Con this year you’ll see the cover there, with artist Casey Coller who will be signing for fans.
Issue #13’s cover is a homage to Jurassic Park and will be at Auto Assembly this year, along with the artist Nick Roche, who will be signing for fans. The man behind Grimlock’s voice, Gregg Berger, will also be there signing.
Gregg Berger To Attend Auto Assembly 2009!!
Written by Darren 'Starscream' Jamieson on February 13, 2009 | Auto Assembly,News |
We’ve just been sent this press released from Simon and Sven from Auto Assembly, and it’s big news. Get read for some Decepto-chop munching at AA this summer, as Gregg Berger (AKA Grimlock) will be on hand to munch metal!
After weeks of speculation, Europe’s largest Transformers convention Auto Assembly 2009, is proud to announce it’s second voice actor for it’s convention taking place over the weekend of 15th-16th August 2009…
Joining our first voice actor, Ian James Corlett (the voice of Cheetor from Beast Wars and Beast Machines) will ne none other than Gregg Berger, the voice of Grimlock and Skyfire and a host of other characters from G1!! Fans have been asking us for several years to bring Gregg over to the UK to appear at an Auto Assembly convention and we are excited to be able to make this a reality in the 25th Anniversary year of Transformers!
Gregg will be actively involved with the convention all weekend and for those of you who aren’t sure about whether to book for the weekend or wait until we release single day tickets, when you find out what Gregg will be doing, you won’t want to miss out on the full weekend! As well as signing autographs for fans all weekend, Gregg will be taking to the stage for a talk/Q&A session on one of the days (the exact day to be confirmed), he will be joining Ian James Corlett and comic artist Simon Williams on stage on Saturday evening for the live script reading which is being written by Simon Furman (and the evening programme is exclusive for weekend attendees), and he will be involved in another part of the main programme item during the weekend which will be on the DIFFERENT day to his talk/Q&A session so to see everything Gregg will be doing, you need to be there all weekend!
As is the standard policy for Auto Assembly, Gregg will NOT be charging for autographs but he will be bringing along a selection of items for sale including photos, CDs and DVDs which you can get signed but please feel free to have any of your own items autographed freely… including the Auto Assembly 2009 convention exclusive Grimlock postcard being illustrated by Andrew Wildman!
With a staggering 13 guests, there have never been a better time for you to attend Auto Assembly if you have never been before! Auto Assembly will be a packed weekend running from around 10:00 am until about 6:00 pm each day with a bonus programme on Saturday evening until 1:00 am and a small bonus programme on Friday evening, both for weekend attendees only.
In terms of activities, this will be the biggest and best Auto Assembly yet with dealers tables, guest talks (13 guests so far with at least two different panels each day, splitting our guest talks so no guest will talk more than once over the weekend), live script reading featuring Ian James Corlett and Gregg Berger, autograph sessions, artist sketches, artist workshops, comic colourist workshops, toy displays, art displays, charity auction, charity raffle, fan displays, quiz, video screenings, art, fiction and costume competitions, games area, a party and disco running until 1:00 am on Sunday, a possible cinema screening of Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen and much more besides…
The convention will be taking place right in the heart of Birmingham city centre in England at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Smallbrook Queensway, Birmingham. There is fantastic public transport access from every part of the UK and for those of you travelling from outside of the UK, Birmingham International Airport is just 10 minutes away by train!
For full details and online booking, visit the website NOW at www.autoassembly.org.uk
Anyway, we hope to see many of you there for what we hope will be Europe’s biggest ever Transformers convention!
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Guests 9 and 10 Announced for Auto Assembly 2009
Written by Big Bot on January 8, 2009 | Auto Assembly,Conventions,News | Tags: Auto Assembly 2009, Lee Sullivan, Mike Collins —
Two more guests are now confirmed to be at the UK’s only dedicated Transformers convention, Auto Assembly 2009.
Artists Lee Sullivan and Mike Collins will again be making an appearance, joining in with the comic panel and signing the weird and wonderful things fans tend to bring.
First AA2009 Voice Actor guest Announced!
Written by Big Bot on November 10, 2008 | Auto Assembly,Conventions,News | Tags: Auto Assembly, Auto Assembly 2009, Ian James Corlett —
One half of the Auto Assembly team, Simon Plumbe, has confirmed the first of our two voice actors who are to appear at next years convention.
Ian James Corlett, best known as the voice of Beast Wars and Beast Machines Cheetor, as well as the Maximal defence computer Sentinel, will be attending the 2 day UK convention. AA2009 takes place over the weekend of 15-16th August 2009.
Booking for the convention should start soon.
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IMA membership surpasses 100,000 milestone
Author: Stephanie Wix
The Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) has reached 100,000 members for the first time since its creation 99 years ago, and intends to further expand into India, Saudi Arabia and Brazil.
IMA reported total membership year on year growth of 23% from January 2017 to January 2018. For IMA president and CEO Jeff Thomson, this growth is representative of increased globalisation and especially from businesses in growing economies.
Further, IMA has seen a 75% increase in the number of Certified Management Accountant (CMA) candidates in the last year, and also launched the Certified in Strategy and Competitive Analysis (CSCA) credential in 2017 to build on the CMA credential with a focus on strategic planning and analysis skills.
Thomson added: “Through IMA membership and the CMA certification, our mission is to help professionals prepare and remain competitive in the future as automation impacts our profession.”
Regarding the future of IMA, Thomson told The Accountant that there are plans to have a stronger presence in Indian and Saudi Arabian markets within the next three to 12 months. He added that there is also a long term investment and engagement plan over the next three years in Brazil, in cooperation with the Brazilian management accounting body National Association of Finance, Administration and Accounting Executives (ANEFAC).
“Brazil’s environment is very heavily regulated. As these markets evolve towards managerial accounting - forward looking financial planning and merger and acquisition, not the hard-core technical accounting,” Thomson said.
As automation, artificial intelligence, and blockchain, open up opportunities for higher-level advisory skills, IMA expects its qualification to further gain in relevance and as result membership to continue growing.
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JONES AND FERRY JOIN POPS PARTY AS DONNY OSMOND ADDS EXTRA DATE!
2004 LIVERPOOL SUMMER POPS
THE superstars Tom Jones and Bryan Ferry will be appearing at the 2004 Summer Pops, while Donny Osmond has confirmed an extra show after his first date sold out
in three days. There are now ten shows lined up for the Kings Dock Arena this July. Already confirmed are Busted, The Corrs, Jamie Cullum, Jools Holland and Bonnie
Raitt. The parade of stars flocking to the Pops is set to continue with some
very special announcements to be made in the coming weeks. Tom Jones, who returns to the Pops on Wednesday July 21st as part of his 'Summer Nights' tour, rocked the Kings Dock back in July 2001 for an amazing sold out show where he performed a stunning medley of hits, including 'Sex Bomb', 'It's not Unusual' and 'What's New Pussycat?'. This will be his only Northern show of the summer.
Bryan Ferry will appear on Friday July 23rd. He last performed at the Pops in 2002, the former Roxy Music star putting in a dazzling performance, which had a sold out crowd singing along to hits including 'Love Is The Drug', 'Jealous Guy' and 'Virginia Plain'. "I love coming to Liverpool", he says, "the response is always amazing."
Donny Osmond was delighted to be able to announce a second Pops show on Wednesday July 14th after the first one sold out so quickly. He said:- "I am really excited about returning to the UK to perform, especially Liverpool. I have played many concerts in the UK throughout my career, but I think these Summer Pops dates are going to be especially memorable!"
The Summer Pops is organised jointly between Liverpool City Council and Chas Cole for CMP Entertainment. Mike Storey, leader of Liverpool City Council, said:- "Thousands of music lovers are going to be flocking to the city for the Summer Pops, and it's set to be a great month of entertainment. Some of the biggest names in the business are on their way to the city, underlining once again why we are the World Capital of Pop!"
Chas Cole said:- "The Pops are really hotting up. Two more legends have confirmed their appearance and it's great news about Donny Osmond selling out so fast and adding a show. Look out for more big name announcements".
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Sat 3 July - BONNIE RAITT
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Tue 13 July - DONNY OSMOND - SOLD OUT
Wed 14 July - DONNY OSMOND - EXTRA SHOW
Wed 21 July - TOM JONES
Wed 23 July - BRYAN FERRY
March at the Carling Academy
WELL it was a fantastic run of heats that have lead up to what is promising to be one of the most entertaining semi finals in Southport's music history. With contestants from all over the UK and even South Africa, the next few Thursdays will prove to be highly entertaining, as the contestants fight to get into the finals of Pleasureland's "Fame" Search for a Star held at Casablanca.
If you want to see the Southport Reporter and Mid Week Visitor backed event, it if free to watch from 7:30pm to 11:00pm at Rick's Bar, Casablanca, Pleasureland, Southport.
Semi Finalists on 11 March
Nikki Miller - DOB 11/12/1980 - Wallasey; Sarah Morgan - DOB 15/01/1986 - Holyhead, Anglesey; Kim Clarke - DOB 08/01/1987 - Southport; Wendy Chalke - DOB - 14/07/1987 - Southport; Terri-Ann Devine - DOB 02/09/1984 - Southport; Bethany Greenaway - DOB 25/02/1986 - Southport; Tony Smith - DOB 06/06/1981 - Bolton; Sonya Hurst - DOB 04/01/1986 - Wigan; Clare Lacey - DOB 14/02/1983 - Skelmersdale; Lucy Jackson - DOB 14/05/1985 - Bootle; Jennifer Stryde - DOB 20/03/1984 - Litherland; Michelle Taylor - DOB 15/02/1987 - Blackburn; Anthony Webb - DOB 27/04/1984 - Knotty Ash; Stephanie Webb - DOB 18/09/1987 - Knotty Ash; Heidi McGeough - DOB 30/10/1973 - Hoylake, Wirral; Jonathan Campbell - DOB 05/11/1984 - Birkenhead; Simon Brock - DOB 19/10/1982 - Moreton, Wirral; Lucy Barton - DOB 26/08/1987 - Crosby; Abbie Small - DOB 01/07/1986 - Claughton, Wirral; Gemma Edwards - DOB 24/04/1984 - West Kirby; Gemma Wilson - DOB 23/07/1987 - Bolton; Laura McDonald - DOB 17/12/1986 - Bolton; Emma King - DOB 23/02/1985 - Bootle; Tim Mvula - DOB 06/11/1983 - Liverpool
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The Tulsa Forum by TulsaNow > Talk About Tulsa > Other Tulsa Discussion (Moderator: Admin) > Tulsa County Sheriff shooting of Eric Harris
Author Topic: Tulsa County Sheriff shooting of Eric Harris (Read 68456 times)
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Re: Tulsa County Sheriff shooting of Eric Harris
Quote from: Conan71 on April 28, 2016, 08:03:12 pm
It’s unfortunate there are people who really think an injustice was served with Bates’ conviction. One comment from the open mic on KRMG said he did us a favor because Harris was a convicted felon in commission of another felony so Bates did society a favor.
How much more redneck could someone be?
Mentalities like this and the overwhelming stupidity of the Oklahoma legislature make it less and less likely I’ll spend my retirement years here.
KRMG caters to the lowest common denominator and then dummies them down to the Murdochian World View.
Have started looking at other states. Geez, I just know I ain't gonna fit in Oregon or Washington. Where is there in this country for an extreme moderate to go??
The little bits and pieces I hear about New Hampshire make it sound interesting...and it is a beautiful state! Consider the irony of the people in their prisons making the license tags with the state motto. "Live Free or Die"
"So he brandished a gun, never shot anyone or anything right?" --TeeDub, 17 Feb 2018.
I don’t share my thoughts because I think it will change the minds of people who think differently. I share my thoughts to show the people who already think like me that they are not alone.
Just listening to the religious zealots callers and commenters about the removal of the 10 Commandments on KOTV's call in comments.
http://www.newson6.com/category/121535/video-page?autostart=true&clipId=11644858
Vashta Nerada
Quote from: cynical on April 28, 2016, 10:42:45 pm
I won't criticize him for appealing to traditional views of law enforcement's role in protecting citizens from criminals. it was a good argument, but ineffective in view of the evidence in this case.
Even the staunchest crummegons are waking up to the fact that police now arent what they were 20 years ago.
As for KRMG, they used to be a good news station, but they have fallen so low in ethics, grammar, etc.
Quote from: Vashta Nerada on April 29, 2016, 07:36:02 pm
They never were a very good news station - they had good weather coverage during storms...still do. They were just all we had.
« Reply #304 on: May 02, 2016, 09:40:25 pm »
Bates gets two mugshots while Glanz gets none?
All around good guy.
Quote from: Vashta Nerada on May 02, 2016, 09:40:25 pm
That appears to be accurate. He also still gets special access to the Courthouse and special parking for his criminal hearings.
But Lewis says that perhaps the most egregious example of special consideration is that Glanz never went through the booking process and had his mugshot taken once he was criminally charged.
“That was something the citizens needed to see, that the people in power go through the same process,” Lewis said, adding that someone in a position of authority such as Glanz should be treated in the same manner as any other citizen.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/homepagelatest/stanley-glanz-s-private-courthouse-access-raises-more-questions-about/article_899d0d70-f21e-5b93-872d-eb763095fe8c.html
I crush grooves.
Second shot looks like a DUI booking. He must’ve been smashed.
Just gonna leave this here:
https://www.readfrontier.com/spotlight/bates-testifies-to-harsh-jail-conditions-during-bail-hearing/
Quote from: cannon_fodder on May 04, 2016, 07:05:33 am
Insert 30 second clip of baby crying....
I thought it very big of We The People to publicly sympathize with Moss Jail's mismanagement of Bates (withholding medical treatment, keeping him naked in the cell, etc.)
http://www.newson6.com/story/31877054/bob-bates-in-court-asking-to-be-released-on-bond
-I had figured Bates would arrive in the courtroom in a wheelchair with drool streaming down his chin. The slow shuffle and mussed hair was a nice touch for the cameras though.
-Jail cots don’t come from the DoubleTree, sorry Bob that’s the breaks when you become a convicted felon.
-Sounds like Bates is definitely persona non grata amongst the deputies who are actually paid for a living to watch over someone who foobared up the entire TCSD living out his Walter Mitty fantasy to be a cop.
-Brewster sounded a bit unhinged. Love the part where he’s complaining about poor jail conditions, yet he’s defended the TCSD against allegations like this before.
Tulsa Zephyr
www.sadtrombone.com
"My ambition is handicapped by laziness." Charles Bukowski
Quote from: Conan71 on May 04, 2016, 10:28:26 am
Its not like the Tulsa county jail is someplace they laugh at you as you die naked on the floor.
Well they do seem rather adamant everyone gets a picture taken.
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BattleGoat Studios has been thrilled with the positive response to the Steam Early Access beta of Supreme Ruler 1936, their WWII strategy game currently under development. Originally planned for release late Q1 2014, the changes and additions from player feedback have resulted in a slight delay of the anticipated release date to May 9th 2014.
“We love Early Access! The feedback from players that have participated has been great for both testing the game and making changes to better the gameplay experience. In the three months since we released the Early Access, we’ve pushed nine updates and we expect this rate to continue right up until our official release.” When asked further about the success of their Early Access beta, Thompson replied, “The Early Access sales have been above expectations and this has given us the freedom to incorporate some new ideas and to improve the historical content of the campaigns.” Supreme Ruler 1936 is BattleGoat’s first self-published title, the previous two titles were published by Paradox Interactive. Early Access to the game is available for 25% off the release retail price.
Supreme Ruler 1936 is Real Time Geo-Political Strategy Game for PC and Mac. Take control of a nation in the World War II era and guide it through a significant Military Campaign, or attempt one of many Set-Piece Historical Scenarios. Players can also customize their play experience with the Sandbox Mode and play as any Nation with their own preferred Victory Condition.
Play Multiple Campaigns from either the Axis or Allied perspective.
Take Control of any Nation in Sandbox Mode and impact the outcome of the era.
Challenge yourself with Historical Scenarios for a faster-paced gameplay experience.
The butterfly effect… Influence the timeline and outcome of thousands of historical events.
Use Diplomacy, Trade, Espionage, and Intimidation to influence the policies of other nations.
Research new Technologies to give your nation a significant military advantage.
Modernize your economy to support whatever social and military policies you choose.
Sophisticated Real-Time Strategic and Tactical Control of your Military Forces.
Detailed historically-accurate armies down to the Battalion level.
Choose your level of control. Make all decisions or use your Cabinet Ministers to help.
Battle the elements! Fully integrated weather model influences battlefield outcomes.
Significant graphic improvements to 3D terrain and Graphic User Interface
Up to 16 players in Multiplayer over local network or Internet
BattleGoat will be previewing the game to press and the public at this year’s PAX East in Boston, April 11th – 13th, 2014.
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The DRACHENMOND rises…
Posted on Monday, July 8th, 2019
Ian McDonald fans in Germany rejoice! Today, Heyne publishes DRACHENMOND, the highly-anticipated German edition of the third Luna novel! Here is the synopsis…
Einhundert Jahre in der Zukunft: Die fünf Drachen, die einflussreichen Familienclans, haben die Herrschaft über den Mond unter sich aufgeteilt. Aber jedes Haus will noch ein wenig mehr Macht, ein wenig mehr Einfluss an sich reißen – und dazu ist ihnen jedes Mittel recht: Eheschließungen, Verschwörungen, Erpressung und sogar Mord. Doch dann taucht ein neuer Spieler auf dem politischen Parkett der Mondgesellschaft auf – und aus im Verborgenen geführten Scharmützeln wird offener Krieg…
Heyne has also published the first two novels in the series in Germany: LUNA and WOLFSMOND.
The critically-acclaimed Luna series — NEW MOON, WOLF MOON and MOON RISING — is published in the UK by Gollancz, in North America by Tor Books, and widely in translation. Here’s the English-language synopsis for the third novel…
A hundred years in the future, a war wages between the Five Dragons — five families that control the Moon’s leading industrial companies. Each clan does everything in their power to claw their way to the top of the food chain — marriages of convenience, corporate espionage, kidnapping, and mass assassinations.
Through ingenious political manipulation and sheer force of will, Lucas Cortas rises from the ashes of corporate defeat and seizes control of the Moon. The only person who can stop him is a brilliant lunar lawyer, his sister, Ariel.
Witness the Dragons’ final battle for absolute sovereignty in Ian McDonald’s heart-stopping finale to the Luna trilogy.
Here is just a small selection taken from the fantastic reviews the series has received so far…
‘McDonald concludes his Luna space opera trilogy in triumphant style… The political intrigue never feels too abstract or removed from 21st-century Earth. Readers will appreciate the care McDonald takes with both worldbuilding and characterization, and will enjoy little touches such as giving an assassin the job title of Corporate Conflict Resolution Officer… fans of the prior books will find this wrap-up rewarding.’ — Publishers Weekly on MOON RISING
‘The Luna trilogy is a masterpiece of worldbuilding. Ian McDonald has created an incredibly developed, complex and astonishingly plausible future for the Moon… What stands out, though, are its threads of gorgeous storytelling… as a whole, this is an extraordinary trilogy. Ian McDonald always writes beautifully. I love what he has to say. I’ll always remember his vision of the Moon, which at times is horrifying and violent and yet at others is so heartwarming and wondrous.’ — For Winter Nights on MOON RISING
‘A Howling Good Read… No one builds a world like Ian McDonald does. Piece by piece and brick by brick. Spare, simple, elegant when he needs to be…, deep and meaty when he wants to be…, he does his work like an artisan pulling a sculpture from stone. There are no wasted moves, nothing that isn’t vital because, in the end, everything is vital. Everything matters… it is fascinating, all of it. Because McDonald has made a world that is ruthless in its consistency and living, breathing reality, and then made characters who are not just living in it, but wholly and fully of it… McDonald’s corporate war is a gorgeous thing, fought with every tool available… McDonald is able to wrap the biggest events in constellations of the smallest so that a cocktail party here, a discussion of ’80s retro fashion (all mall-hair and WHAM! T-shirts), a love story and a day at work for a guy who cleans solar panels all build and coalesce to form the background radiation of life in this unstable future. Every moment with his characters makes them precious, real and alive.’ — NPR on WOLF MOON
‘The fights and vengeance that follow are more vicious and intricate than anything in Game of Thrones, full of great acts of self-sacrifice and viciousness alike, brave cavalry charges and last stands, cowardice and avarice. McDonald’s great gift is to hold the micro- and macro-scale in his hand at once. Starting with his debut novel, 1988’s Desolation Road, McDonald has used his intense, finely crafted and small personal stories of his vast casts of characters as the pixels in an unimaginably vast display on which he projects some of the field’s most audacious worldbuilding — never worldbuilding for its own sake, either, but always in the service of slyly parodying, critiquing or lionizing elements of our present-day world.’ — Boing Boing on WOLF MOON
‘Luna: New Moon was a “magnificent bastard of a book,” as I put it in my review. Part two, it’s my pleasure to tell you, is just as awesome, and just as masterfully nasty.’ — Tor.com on WOLF MOON
‘McDonald… begins his superb near-future series… scintillating, violent, and decadent world. McDonald creates a complex and fascinating civilization featuring believable technology, and the characters are fully developed, with individually gripping stories. Watch for this brilliantly constructed family saga on next year’s award ballots.’ — Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) on NEW MOON
‘LUNA: NEW MOON is the best moon novel I’ve seen in many years, but it’s also something of a piece with the recent movement on the part of Paul McAuley, Kim Stanley Robinson, and others to confine novels to the solar system, out of a realistic assessment that this is likely all we’ll have to work with – but McDonald takes this a step further. Possibly the most chilling lines in the book for an SF reader come from Adriana herself, in her own narrative: ‘‘There was no law, no justice,’’ she writes, ‘‘only management. The moon was the frontier, but it was the frontier to nothing. There was nowhere to run.’’ Inasmuch as it challenges one of the cherished master narratives of SF, in which the moon is only a stepping-stone, and despite what it owes to the tropes of ’70s-era social melodrama, McDonald’s novel has some formidable SF stingers not far beneath its densely textured surface.’ — Locus
‘Smart, funny, passionate and at times quite dark, McDonald brings the touch we’ve seen in RIVER OF GODS and DERVISH HOUSE to an entirely new culture as it evolves in a distant hostile place where business or family rules all… it’s terrific. My only complaint: it leaves you wanting the second book right now!’ — Jonathan Strahan on NEW MOON
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Jimmy And Rosalynn Carter Released From The Hospital
Posted 1:44 pm, May 16, 2019, by Tribune Media Wire
Former President Jimmy Carter may have spent three days in the hospital, but the 94 year-old is expected to teach Sunday school at his beloved Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia, this weekend.
Carter was released from the hospital Thursday morning, the Carter Center announced, and will continue to recuperate at home. He was admitted Monday after a fall on his way to go turkey hunting, and later underwent a successful surgery at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Georgia.
“He will undergo physical therapy, as part of his recovery from hip replacement surgery. President Carter plans to teach Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church this weekend,” the Carter Center said in a statement.
In March, Carter became the oldest-living former president in US history. The former president fought cancer in his liver and brain, announcing his cancer was gone in 2015. He was hospitalized briefly in 2017 after becoming dehydrated while working on a Habitat for Humanity project in Canada, but has since been in overall good health.
Carter continues to maintain an active lifestyle, and spoke by phone with President Donald Trump on the topic of China trade negotiations last month.
On Monday, the Carter Center said Carter was more concerned about the impending end of hunting season than the fall.
“President Carter said his main concern is that turkey season ends this week, and he has not reached his limit,” the statement said. “He hopes the State of Georgia will allow him to rollover the unused limit to next year.”
Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, 91, also spent time in the hospital this week.
“(She) felt faint and was admitted overnight to the hospital for observation and testing. She left the hospital with President Carter this morning,” the Carter Center statement said.
The Carters extended their thanks “to the many people who sent their well wishes” this week, which included a tweet from Trump himself.
“Wishing former President Jimmy Carter a speedy recovery from his hip surgery earlier today,” the President wrote, adding, “He was in such good spirits when we spoke last month — he will be fine!”
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Taylor Swift Fans Flood GLAAD With Donations After ‘You Need to Calm Down’ Release
Kelli Pate
Rich Fury, Getty Images for iHeartMedia
Taylor Swift fans are anything but mad after the singer's latest single dropped at midnight Friday (June 14), and they're showing how they really feel in the best way possible.
According to TMZ and other outlets, GLAAD (the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) has experienced an influx of donations in the hours since Swift's "You Need to Calm Down" hit the internet. The pop star gives a shoutout to the organization in the song's second verse.
"Why are you mad when you could be GLAAD? (You could be GLAAD)/ Sunshine on the street at the parade/ But you would rather be in the dark ages/ Makin' that sign must've taken all night," Swift sings on the track (read the full lyrics here).
GLAAD had already set $1,300 as a goal for its Pride Month fundraising drive, in honor of Swift's favorite number (13). Many of the donations that poured in overnight have also been for $13, TMZ reported, and Swift herself gave a "very generous" contribution to GLAAD at the start of Pride Month on June 1.
The Reputation singer further demonstrated her support for the LGBTQ communities in an open letter to Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) earlier this month, urging him to vote "yes" on the Equality Act. The legislation, which has already passed the U.S. House, would "protect LGBTQ Americans from discrimination in employment, housing and other public accommodations," according to GLAAD.
Read her full statement below:
There's no word yet on exactly how much Swifties have contributed to GLAAD so far, but one thing's for sure: If this is the kind of messaging and advocacy we can expect from Taylor's next album, Lover, we couldn't be more excited to hear it.
Controversial Pop Songs That Faced Backlash
Source: Taylor Swift Fans Flood GLAAD With Donations After ‘You Need to Calm Down’ Release
Filed Under: Taylor Swift
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Maggots and dead mouse found in woman's smelly car
PHOENIX, Arizona (KTRK) -- An Arizona woman says she was in agony when she got in her car because of the bad smell.
Judi Miller couldn't determine the source of the smell, but when she pulled up the floor mats, she found maggots.
She said she found a nest in the air cabin filter.
"It's like a dirty diaper that's been sitting and festering for months. It was just the most disgusting thing," Miller said.
Mechanics went high-tech by using a tiny camera to search inside the dash, where they found a dead mouse.
"This is not a 'Stuart Little Christmas Story' right here. It was horrific for all of us," the mechanic said.
Mechanics said you should keep your windows up when parked to avoid an infestation.
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Novel vs. Screenplay
Photo from: Christopher Fowler*’s Blog
‘The differences between a screenplay and a novel are equivalent to the differences between a blueprint and a finished building.’
The idea came to me to search on novel vs. script, without really knowing precisely what I was looking for. Mostly about, Am I writing a novel or a screenplay?, and if others puzzle over and articulate on this. But one thing leads to another.
Rebecca Chace, a published novelist, writing in Publishing Perspectives, did screenplay to novel to screenplay: Literary 360: Rebecca Chace on Going from Screenplay to Novel to Screenplay. Summary: if you write a screenplay then feel like writing the novel, put the script away and write from scratch.
I don’t think I could do that. I’m pretty sure I’d be checking scenes in the script and trying to pad it out with prose and re-jig. Though they say since a script is for a film – sound and vision – how you piece together the story is so radically different in a novel, that’s not going to achieve the result.
True perhaps of the narrative structure, but the scenes you have written in a script can be visualised so well, are bound to be there as you write your novel. After all you sit there seeing the scenes and then you write the script. I can see one particular part of a story I wrote. I can live inside this place, move around it so easily, even ‘film’ extra shots and re-see them edited in where I think they might fit. How to ‘epoché’ the lot written as a script to sit down and write from scratch looks impossible from where I’m sitting.
At the same time, how can you not think of the beginning of a novel, a long, drawn out languorous first few paragraphs, and not see it or attempt to frame it visually? O.K., pick a really hard one to be awkward. Para 1, Book 1, The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil, [Wilkins/Kaiser translation].
There was a depression over the Atlantic. It was traveling eastwards, towards an area of high pressure over Russia, and still showed no tendency to move northwards around it. The isotherms and isotheres were fulfilling their functions. The atmospheric temperature was in proper relation to the average annual temperature, the temperature of the coldest as well as of the hottest month, and the a-periodic monthly variation in temperature. The rising and the setting of the sun and of the moon, the phases of the moon, Venus and Saturn’s rings, and many other important phenomena, were in accordance with the forecasts in the astronomical yearbooks. The vapour in the air was at its highest tension, and the moisture in the air was at its lowest. In short, to use an expression that describes the facts pretty satisfactorily, even though it is somewhat old-fashioned: it was a fine August day in the 1913.
MWQ has never been filmed. Not because of that intro that could be scripted, but it’s an essayist novel. Always had the same trouble with A la Research, though it’s been attempted usually in part such as Time Regained, Raul Ruiz,1999. (Sidenote: BBC radio version of Proust was effective. Pinter’s Proust Play – a screenplay no one would film – was brilliant, but had whole chunks of the book missing. Pinter decided to leave out the Madeline, and use the sound of bells as a linking device. But this is another subject: film script vs. radio script)
How To People all over the place are having their say about novel and script [screenplay]. The Novel vs. The Screenplay: A Practical Guide for Talented Writers by James Bonnet in Storymaking.com. One thing caught my eye:
…the screenplay can be an excellent first draft for a novel.
Anyone who has started writing a story, who is interested in both forms, knows this can go either way. And sometimes there can be such a conflict that a novel and a script are developed in parallel without a final decision about which to finish and which to drop. The advantage of doing both is if you were shifting more to novel – but you’ve been playing with a script – you’re ready to think about the adaptation! Then there’s the thing about writing a novel in a film like way. Common now. But go back to writers like Graham Greene.
From Screenplay to Novel
Peter Bauer says briefly pretty much the same thing (‘The differences between a screenplay and a novel are equivalent to the differences between a blueprint and a finished building.’ ), but shows how the script can’t just be transposed into a novel and why.
All these things are what you work out for yourself but it’s handy to have someone laying it out clearly.
Screenplay vs. Novel in Anatomy of Perceval, 20 July 2013. All sorts of writing things and 6 degrees to.
(Every wonder if a website on writing you are reading is just some guy in a bedroom with a dream? He hasn’t got a published novel nor is he a Hollywood scriptwriter…)
* wiki: Christopher Fowler
September 15, 2013 Posted by adferoafferro | Novel, Pinter, Raúl Ruiz, screenplay, screenwriting | film, Novel, Pinter, Proust, Raoul Ruiz, screenplay, script, scriptwright, scriptwriter | 1 Comment
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Honeywell Adds New Technology Features to Cockpit to Give Pilots Better View in the Air and on the Ground
Primus® Epic offers gate-to-gate technologies to help pilots see runways and taxiways in difficult environments, keeping passengers safe in the air and on the ground
With landing and taxiing being some of the most difficult situations for pilots, Honeywell Aerospace (NYSE: HON) is working on new features to its Primus Epic integrated flight deck product line that will keep pilots better informed and safer in the air and, more important, on the ground.
“You might think that once a pilot lands a plane after an eight-hour trip the workload decreases and the job gets easier, but that’s not always true,” said Sandy Wyatt, test pilot with Honeywell Aerospace Flight Test Operations. “At an unfamiliar airport and especially at night, pilots’ workload may dramatically increase once they land and turn off the runway and begin to taxi. Time demands require getting to the gate expeditiously; onboard tools and electronic airport maps can greatly enhance a pilot’s situational awareness, thereby improving safety for all the passengers.”
The new technology features include Honeywell’s 2-D and 3-D airport moving maps, Honeywell’s SmartView® Synthetic Vision System with updates for lower landing minimums, cockpit display of traffic information, and more.
“Primus Epic is one of the most advanced flight decks available for business and commercial aircraft, and these new features showcase that innovation is at its best at Honeywell,” said Brian Sill, president, Business and General Aviation, Honeywell Aerospace.
“Honeywell created and refined all of these features in its advanced technologies labs and collaborated with numerous aircraft manufacturers and pilots in test flights to ensure the technology provides the best user experience possible.”
These features will provide pilots with an enhanced and safer gate-to-gate experience and will be available for all Primus Epic-supported platforms for certification as early as the next two years.
Primus Epic Enhancements
Honeywell’s SmartView Synthetic Vision: for Lower Landing Minimums. These updates bring SmartView to the Primary Flight Display (PFD) and prepare aircraft to take advantage of updated lower landing minimums, going from 200 to 150 feet.
2-D and 3-D airport moving maps: The 2-D moving map shows runways, taxiways, airport structures, and signs at many airports on the navigation display, while the 3-D moving map upgrades the Synthetic Vision System with an “out-the-window” view of the airport on the PFD.
Cockpit display of traffic information: This feature presents the position of nearby automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) aircraft on the flight deck multifunction display, giving the flight crew better awareness and understanding of airborne and surface traffic.
Touchscreen controls: With an eight-inch diagonal screen, Primus Epic will support touch for functions such as the flight management window, radio tuning, flight planning, checklist, systems control and more.
Flight deck connectivity: Wireless data loading can eliminate cost and effort for implementing upgrades and updates. Pilots will benefit from an “always-up-to-date flight deck” with full-featured graphical worldwide weather, real-time updates of key layers on the navigation display, and just-in-time delivery of relevant location specific information.
Primus Elite Enhancements
Honeywell’s Primus Elite flight deck, an LCD display upgrade for legacy SPZ-8400/8500 and Primus 1000/2000/2000XP flight decks, will introduce several new advanced features in late 2015:
Integrated Primary Flight Display with Synthetic Vision System: This will offer a more graphical and intuitive display for enhanced situation awareness.
XM Meteorological Aviation Report and Terminal Area Forecast: The enhanced map will be upgraded to provide more up-to-date weather information.
Traffic Collision Avoidance System: A new flight awareness layer will be added to the Enhanced Map feature.
On-wing field loading of application software and databases: This provides a significantly improved user experience, allowing all display units to be uploaded at the same time, without removal, using the DL1000 and greatly reducing the total time required for data uploads.
You can see more of these updates and features for Primus Elite and Epic at Honeywell’s NBAA booth 2000 in the South Hall.
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Posts tagged Richard Luthy
Anas Ghadouani
Elmer Avenue Neighborhood Retrofit
Richard Luthy
Sponge City
Turenscape Landscape Architecture
Yanweizhou Park
Yanweizhou Park in Jinhua City by Turenscape
After the first El Niño fueled rainfall landed across California a few weeks ago, concerns about potential flooding across Los Angeles neighborhoods became a popular topic of discussion. Friends, coworkers, and neighbors shared tips for preparing for future storms or floods, recognizing this year’s El Niño had the potential to be one of the strongest on record (though the recent mild and warm weather are a deceptive respite). And when it comes to its peak this February and March, Californians have been trained to expect “mudslides, heavy rainfall, one storm after another like a conveyor belt.”
Despite the El Niño rain expected to hit Central and Southern California by the end of this month, the drought will remain in effect according to the U.S. Drought Outlook. With Los Angeles expected to grow in size and population in the coming years, the threat of the cycle between extreme weather like El Niño and the drought becoming the norm seems reason enough for the city to review and replace its outdated and single-use grey water infrastructure system with something greener and more water re-use efficient. We can look to China for possible solutions.
“China is working to develop several 16 “sponge cities” that utilize multiple ways to capture, filter, store, and distribute rainwater.” (Image: CCTV America)
What is a “Sponge City”?
Since 2008, the number of Chinese cities affected by flooding has more than doubled. Conversely, severe and extreme droughts have also become a serious nationwide issue since late the 1990s.
“The rate of flooding is a national scandal,” said Kongjian Yu, the dean of Peking University’s College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. “We have poured more than enough concrete. It’s time to invest in a new type of green infrastructure.” Sounds very familiar and similar to the challenges we’re facing here in Los Angeles.
China’s solution? Sponge City.
Graphic: NL Urban Solutions
“A sponge city is one that can hold, clean, and drain water in a natural way using an ecological approach,” said Yu, who is helping to coordinate the national project. According to The Guardian, these projects will include developing rooftop gardens, ponds, filtration pools, and wetlands, with permeable roads and public spaces designed to soak rainwater back into the ground.”
A resilient landscape designed by Turenscape: Yanweizhou Park in Jinhua City
“It’s a new way of thinking about stormwater, not as a problem but as an opportunity and a resource to augment our water supply.” – Richard Luthy, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University.
One project that perfectly represents the Sponge City concept is Yanweizhou Park in Jinhua City. Completed by Turenscape Landscape Architecture in 2015, the project is a water resilient development with plantings designed to adapt to seasonal monsoon flooding. A resilient bridge and paths system permits both the flow of water currents and pedestrians, both adaptable as the season changes. The project utilizes the existing riparian sand quarries with minimum intervention to protect the local micro-terrain and natural vegetation. Rather than building high concrete flood walls up and around, the project incorporated floodable pedestrian paths and pavilions, both integrated with planting terraces designed to be closed to the public during periods of flooding. In addition to the terraced river embankment, the inland areas of the park are all permeable thanks to the use of gravel and re-used material across the pedestrian sections, with permeable paving used in the parking lot.
Sponge City ‘s terraced riverbank / gravel pavement are part of the park’s planned permeability. Photo: Turenscape
Is this “Sponge City” concept applicable to Los Angeles?
“Sponge City” seems a novel and catchy idea, yet the strategies and principles are actually an adaption of existing technologies already in play here, solutions inspired and sourced from the Low Impact Development (LID).
Actions have already been taken to make Los Angeles more “spongy”. An example: the Elmer Avenue Neighborhood Retrofit, a transformation of a residential street incorporating storm water best management practices (BMPs) to capture and filter runoff from a 40-acre area. Before the installation, the neighborhood was subjected to frequent flooding, but with vegetated bio swale and rain barrels, trench drain, and permeable pavers on the private driveway, the performance and appearance of the street is highly improved.
Council of Watershed Health – Elmer Ave Retrofit
Moreover, increasingly more single-family homeowners are installing rain barrels to collect rain runoff from roofs to reuse for irrigations or cleaning. And for high-rise residential apartments, green roofs have been installed to reduce the runoff from roof.
AHBE’s own South Park Streetscape project is the first green street in Downtown LA.
While researching the concept of a Sponge City, I thought about the long-term benefits of these water-wise solutions in both China and here in Los Angeles. Even though we’ve already begun “pre-sponging” the city of Los Angeles by adding several green streets and green roofs, I believe we need to begin thinking of the infrastructure network as a whole system rather than individual sections. Site studies and research of both the Los Angeles Watershed and the city itself is required. However, I am optimistic about the idea of making Los Angeles a “Sponge City”, excited about scaling these water-optimization systems across all of Los Angeles.
I believe an important first step is simply spreading public awareness about the concepts behind a Sponge City. Currently, most Angelenos are not aware of these systems and solutions which could in sum alleviate the stresses placed upon Los Angeles by extreme weather fluctuations. Professor Anas Ghadouani, the regional executive director of the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities in Perth, Australia noted, “There is more awareness of the [drought] issue. When you compare it to somewhere like San Diego, I’d say Perth is well ahead; California seems to be shocked when there is a drought, whereas in Perth people are more aware of where water comes from. There’s a focus on diversity of sources that doesn’t surprise people now.”
It’s a notable point worthy of letting “soak in” as we plan for a more water-efficient future.
More resources about Sponge City:
China bets on ‘sponge cities’ to cope with flooding and drought
Why China Wants to Build Something Called ‘Sponge Cities’
Perth’s water worries: how one of the driest cities is fighting climate change
China’s sponge cities: soaking up water to reduce flood risks
China Wants to Build ‘Sponge Cities’
Building Sponge City: Redesigning LA For Long-Term Drought
January 27th by Chuan Ding in Editorial
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