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Disney streaming & MCU future
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Subject: Disney streaming & MCU future
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https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/04/11/kevin-feige-details-marvel-disney-offerings-confirms-mcu-tie-ins/
Kevin Feige confirmed some previous rumored things, like the Scarlet Witch and Vision series (now titled WandaVision), the upcoming Falcon & Winter Soldier, the What If series, and Loki.
Elizabeth Olson and Paul Bettany will be reprising their roles of Wanda Maximoff and Vision, respectively, as will Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan as Sam Wilson aka Falcon and Bucky Barnes aka Winter Soldier, also respectively.
Feige revealed that the first episode of What If (which will be an animated series) will focus on What If Agent Peggy Carter took the super soldier serum, and Steve Rogers wore a Howard Stark-built armored suit. While Feige didn’t confirm which of the original cast from the live action Captain America film were coming back, he did say “most” were going to be voicing their animated counterparts.
He also confirmed what we already knew, that Tom Hiddleston is indeed going to be continuing to play Loki in the Disney+ series.
He also spoke about the live-action non-scripted series we told you about earlier this week.
There was also the news that yes, the Disney+ series will be directly influenced and influence the MCU. None of this Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D. “not really” stuff.
Disney+ will launch on November 12th, 2019. Prices were announced at $6.99 a month, or $69.99 annually.
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/04/11/first-look-at-disney-streaming-service-the-mandalorian-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier/
Today during the Investor’s Day Showcase, the official first look at The Mandalorian, and the upcoming live action Marvel Studios series, Falcon & The Winter Soldier.
Each item shown will be available as soon as the service launches.
Playstation 4 and Roku have already been secured as carriers of the service.
Disney+ will allow subscribers to download content and access it offline for as long as they’re subscribing to the service, which is pretty cool.
They’re also teasing additional looks at the service (content, etc.) at additional events this year.
As we’d previously reported, classic animated Disney film titles that had been “locked in the vault” will be available starting on day 1. There will be a documentary about the making of Frozen 2 called “Into the Unknown” which Jennifer Lee revealed is the name of one of the new songs in the film as well.
All 21 Pixar films (including the Pixar shorts) will be available on Disney+ on day one as well.
A video introducing new characters from Toy Story 4 was shown as well, but livestream watchers weren’t privy to it.
Apparently Forky is going to get his own 10-episode series, “Forky Asks a Question”. So will Bo Peep, in a new film called “Lamp Life”.
Details about Monsters World, a brand new series about Monsters Inc. characters was also confirmed. We already knew almost all the original film’s voice cast is returning for that.
And, LucasFilm President Kathleen Kennedy came out to introduce Jon Favreau. She also revealed that Disney+ WILL have the main saga installments and “stories” of Star Wars on launch. No word on if Caravan of Courage or Ewoks: Battle for Endor, or even the Holiday Special will eventually show up. You can read about their presentation here.
NatGEO’s offerings look pretty fabulous as well. Not pictured are the new “The World According to Jeff Goldum ” docu-series and the previously FOX series, Cosmos.
A trailer for High School Musical: The Musical: The Series was shown, but of course we didn’t get to see that.
Including The Simpsons. The first 30 seasons will be available on the service beginning day of launch.
There is also talk about a Renner led Hawkeye show/TV film or whathaveyou.
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Subject: Re:Disney streaming & MCU future
Ouze
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WHAT IF?? Oh snap. Those were some of my absolute favorites growing up. Really jazzed about that. I hope they do What if? Wolverine became Lord of the Vampires, which was a personal favorite.
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Mad Doc Grotsnik
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Sounds pretty funky. The more I hear about Disney+'s content, the more tempted I am to sign up when it makes it to the UK.
I mean, Star Wars and Marvel? That's most evening's viewing sorted!
Fed up of Scalpers? But still want your Exclusives?Why not join us?
AduroT
Revenant Pirate Crew
As much as I’m liking Doom Patrol and Young Justice, it’s sounding much better than DC’s service.
Also, for the inevitable God-Sprog sitting sessions, seems a decent service to stick on and plonk her in front of to give me some rest
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What Disney presented today wasn't just a massive and extensive service that fully leverages their massive back catalogue and willingness to throw money into new high-quality productions, but also a statement of competitiveness.
They could have charged US$10 a month for this. They could have charged US$15. They could have stood up, puffed out their chests, and said that they were the greatest and that what they have is so great that people will pay whatever they tell them do.
But they didn't.
They put up a price that must be seriously scaring Netflix, and makes it a very attractive addition to an existing service, or even a straight up swap. That was very clever of them.
Ouze wrote:
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You've made me cry now :(
But fair point on the price. Even if it's a straight 'swap the $ for a £' when it gets to me, that is a price that's damned hard to refuse.
Gitzbitah
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I'm struck by the scope. They're totally rejecting the niche proprietary streaming service business model, like the network exclusive channels and DC's superhero streaming service, and giving you everything. It would have been so easy to have tiers of pricing- 8 a month for basic, 15 for basic +Star Wars or Kids, 20 for all. HBMC is right, the Mouse means business.
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Can't say I blame them.
Consider. I usually go to see MCU and Star Wars movies in the Cinema. That bags Disney their cut of £15, four times a year - give or take. What that cut is, I dunno, but it won't be the whole shebang.
Here, they're getting a more-or-less guaranteed £6.99 out of me each month. And I'll still be queuing up at the Cinema for the big releases.
That's doubling their revenue, plus a bit from me as an individual. Rinse and repeat by a few hundred thousand households, and they'll be rolling in it.
The only thing it might hit, are physical disc sales and download sales. But then, that depends how much of a lag there is between each stage. Again, I buy MCU and Star Wars discs on release. Always have, always will. Because I'm weird like that. If there is a gap between physical released and Disney+ debut? Guess I'll continue that. Spesh if they up their game with DVD Extras and that.
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Gitzbitah wrote:
Introductory pricing, subject to change later.
It's at least a little about crushing Netflix, which is stupidly raising prices as the entire video streaming industry fractures and they lose shows.
Efficiency is the highest virtue.
There's also the as yet untapped properties Disney owns.
Understandably the push is MCU and Star Wars, plus their Animated Catalogue, all of which are rich veins to be tapped.
But don't forget stuff like Lone Ranger, John Carter of Mars, X-Men, The Simpsons, F***** G**, Alien, Planet of the Apes, American Horror Story, Predator. Loads and loads and loads of others. All of which they can turn into TV series if they so wish.
Disney intends to win (and I think it's biggest competition will come from Apple - seriously check the recently released slate of what Apple's about to bring out, it's no joke), and they spent $70b to buy Fox's entertainment catalogue just to give themselves more stuff to sweeten the deal.
It's interesting to see a big company not do things by halves, not sit around testing the water with as little risk to them. Disney just jumped in head first. No messing about.
Not to mention Walking Dead. Wonder whether they'll pull the plug or make changes there? From what I understand, despite the ratings plunge, it's still a top programme on its channel?
Man. Disney pretty much owns everything now. If Fox disappears off NowTV, with Game of Thrones ending, I'll have no reason to continue that subscription.
If Netflix loses all it's Marvel content, along with American Horror Story, again, I've no reason to maintain that subscription either, as there's nothing else particularly tying me to Netflix.
Amazon Prime will probably survive, only because it's got lots and lots of groovy horror films for me to watch!
But. Yeah. Wow. Disney have gone straight for the Jugular. They're like Thanos, but searching out hot media properties, rather than Infinity Stones. And I do declare they may have just made The Snap?
Turnip Jedi
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A million parental units cried out in terror at the prospect of non-stop Disney eating the last of their sanity
still very much 'wait and see', suspect they'll fling a lot of money in to hook folks but the danger of everything else being 'straight to video' level ala Disney Australia
and are the sticking to the pg-13(ish) level previously mooted ?
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Guess it’ll vary somewhat?
What If? - being animated, I can see that being more family oriented, possibly played for laffs?
Mr Morden
Wight Lord with the Sword of Kings
Some good stuff there
What IF sounds great fun.
Can't say no to Loki fun and games.
Great to hear its not Agents of Shield that are in the MCu but do nothing of importance or shy away from even mentioning stuff.
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https://twitter.com/THR/status/1116482497792049152
Actor @AlanTudyk returning for #StarWars 'Rogue One' Disney+ prequel series http://thr.cm/Slyknk
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-disney-shows-first-mandalorian-footage-1200784?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
Cassian Andor will have his right-hand droid with him for his Star Wars prequel.
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy on Thursday confirmed Alan Tudyk will reprise his role as K-2SO in the upcoming Disney+ series starring Diego Luna. The Rogue One prequel sees him once again play rebel spy Cassian Andor and is set during the early days of the Rebellion, prior to the events of 2016's Rogue One. Stephen Schiff (The Americans) is serving as showrunner.
"It will be a thrilling spy series set in the Star Wars universe," Kennedy said at an investors day focused on Disney+ in Burbank.
The exec also confirmed that Lucasfilm's first live-action series, The Mandalorian, will be available as a launch title for Disney+, as will the first two sets of Star Wars trilogies. The streaming service is set to launch Nov. 12, and Mandalorian's showrunner Jon Favreau continues to put the finishing touches on the project.
"We'e pretty deep into the heavy lifting of turning all of that wonderful photography and all of those stories into one continuous season of eight episodes," Favreau said of where he is in the process.
Favreau also brought the first footage of the series. The clip shows the back of presumably the Mandalorian in a snowy area. He’s holding something in his hand, and he pockets it and walks forward. He wears armor that’s meant to look like a medieval knight. There are shots of new planets, new races, new species and new starships, but, as Favreau said, “we want it to feel completely connected and familiar.”
The series takes place after 1983's The Return of the Jedi and before the villainous First Order rose to replace the Empire. The series stars Pedro Pascal, as well as Gina Carano, Nick Nolte, Giancarlo Esposito and Werner Herzog. The Mandalorian also has booked a number of high-profile directors, including Taika Waititi, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rick Famuyiwa, Deborah Chow and Star Wars: The Clone Saga's Dave Filoni.
In addition to those series, Disney revived in July the fan-favorite animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars for a seventh season on Disney+ after last airing in 2008. Kennedy revealed Thursday there will be a docuseries looking at the craftspeople behind Star Wars.
Star Wars is becoming a key attraction for Disney+ as the studio aims to compete with Netflix and other streaming services. As of now, Disney has no theatrical plans for Star Wars beyond December's Star Wars: Episode IX. Disney and Lucasfilm have released one Star Wars film a year, but last May's Solo: A Star Wars Story disappointed commercially and critically, and Disney CEO Bob Iger has indicated there will be a "slowdown" of Star Wars theatrical releases.
The Disney+ investors day comes in the midst of Star Wars Celebration, the annual fan convention being held in Chicago this year. There will be a Star Wars: Episode IX panel on Friday, when the first trailer for the film is expected to drop, while The Mandalorian has its own panel on Sunday.
https://twitter.com/DisneyParks/status/1117109565898752003
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Last time we heard, Rian Johnson and the GoT blokes were still pressing ahead with their triologies?
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Yodhrin
Moustache-twirling Princeps
We'll find out soon enough eh.
Not any more, Star Wars on the big screen is officially on-hold after 9. How long likely depends on how well 9 is received, and whether it reverses the presently downward trend in merchandise sales.
As to the news: great, K2 was one of the highlights of Rogue One.
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Holy mackrel.
I originally thought "I don't need this, at all, I have netflix, anything Disney I'll buy on disc"
If the price is even nearly this competetive in the UK, and the content is really that good, Netflix may be getting themselves ditched instead....
Yodhrin wrote:
Article quotes as 'a couple of years'.
Now, whether that's a couple of years hiatus for release or production, I'm honestly not sure.
Merchandise sales, if you ask me, aren't down because of the dispute quality of the films, but because a lot of the merchandise is ponk. Compare the 3.3/4" stuff around the Legacy era, with the 'back to the 70's, straight limbed, low detail' stuff released for The Force Awakens. Figures they tried to charge £12 for in the UK. Too pricy for that level of quality, especially when what came before I was objectively better. Example?
The Greatest Falcon toy ever (I restored one before selling it on. It is a beauty)
The Force Awakens - WE'VE PUT A NERF GUN IN BECAUSE REASONS!
Both retailed for broadly similar RRP. One is clearly superior to the other.
Lance845
Horrific Hive Tyrant
Yeah the big issue with the current SW toy lines is the lack of cohesive scale that is conductive to selling space ships your figures can ride in/be play sets.
Instead they have like... 3 different series of various levels of detail and posibility (and scale) with NO space ships.
These are my opinions. This is how I feel. Others may feel differently. This needs to be stated for some reason.
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And the ships they have are ludicrously expensive to boot. To the point where collecting Vintage (not boxed, because I’m not into hyperbole) is probably the better spend for your cash.
It genuinely baffles me that since the very first vintage figures, we’ve seen sculpts and designs advance. Right up to The Force Awakens.
Seriously. This is one of the original figures.
Even within the same range, by the time we roll round to Return of the Jedi, when it was a literal license to print money (look into Kenner’s deal. SHEESH!). When this was one of the background characters.
It’s objectively an improvement. More movie accurate, better accessories, and yes a fluffy skirt. Still one of my faves.
That was pretty much your lot until POTF2 around 1996.
Oh look! It’s Ponda Baba! Again! Clearly yet a further improvement on its predecessors. Same scale, just better proportioned, with a more complex paint job. Lovely. Well doe Hasbro.
Fast forward 15 years or so?
Very movie accurate! Full articulation! All for the same relative, inflation adjusted price! OH ARTOO! WONDERFUL!
Then came the dark days. Then came The Force Awakens range (which for my sins I own all of)
WHAT THE FORCE, HASBRO! You want £13 for that! Yes the body sculpt is quite nice. But where’s the articulation gone? How come his visor is just a solid bit of painted yellow plastic? His skidlid doesn’t even come off. Holster is a nice touch, though. And what’s with the daft accessory you can build into a (not at all Star Wars looking Weapon) if you find the other two figures with the other bits for it? £13 for that. That’s three pints.
Wait....hold on....something is coming through The Holonet
It’s Ello Asty again. But with articulation. And a proper pilot’s helmet. And just a better a figure. Well that’s more like what I’m used to! What? It’s called ‘Black Series’ now? Well, ok, I’ll dig out my £13 and forgo the three pints. Y’what? By Yoda’s teeny nadbag! You want £20 for it, despite it being identical in complexity to the immediately preceding toy series! Why I oughta!
So no. It’s not the films doing it. It’s shonky, slapdash, lazy, greedy application of the license. Shame on you, Hasbro. Shame. On. You.
BobtheInquisitor
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't video game prices been stagnant almost as long as wages have been? And toy prices have risen "with inflation"?
I wonder which one of those industries is doing better.
I/ve got some Star Trek kitbashes now.
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That What If series sounds pretty awesome. I may actually have to get this.....
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The problem with the toy lines is that Hasbro is a gak toy company. Their Marvel Legends generally suck, have worse articulation than their Toybiz predecessors, worse paint jobs, no comic books, cheaper plastic, etc. Hasbro might be a decent-ish games company, but their action figures are god-awful.
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Hmm, reading further on this on the BBC - I think a major influence may be the "lag time" between cinema, Blu-ray and streaming. That'll be tricky to balance. If it's a couple of months after Blu-ray it's an near no-brainer, since I'd probably spend £70 on Disney-produced-content a year ANYWAY...
For me, that depends on the BluRay extras.
MCU tends to have decent stuff on there in my opinion, so could potentially still justify buying it (that and I'm a completest weirdo)
For me, I have little interest in extras in video form, I prefer stuff like companion visual guides if it's a setting or series I care enough about to want more than the film/show itself.
My ideal streaming service would be one that dispensed with the artificial timed exclusivity altogether, because right now people who don't actually want to go to a cinema are being forced to subsidise ticket prices for those who do(because if we don't also go to the cinema and pay for a ticket, thus keeping the price of individual tickets down through volume, then inevitably people who do like the cinema will spoil the story for us before the digital/home media release).
Release all formats on the same day, and let each survive on its own merits and be priced accordingly, IMO. Which is to say, the sooner Disney puts stuff up the better, and sod the cinemas.
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On Balance: How to Nail Long Balances
Few things top that jaw-dropping moment when a ballerina hits a balance—and just stays. And when you’re over your leg and in control, balancing can look (and feel) so easy. But if you’re unsure of yourself and tense, you’ll be facing some nerve-racking moments onstage. Follow these tips from the pros to improve your balances. With strengthening exercises and a strong mental focus, you’ll be on your way to creating showstopping moments of your own.
Lay the Foundation
Give yourself a solid base for long balances by strengthening your ankles and lower legs. Melody Mennite, a Houston Ballet principal, likes to do relevés at the barre to work out her ankles and calves. “Do them on two feet and then on one foot until you feel like it’s getting harder—then push through and do some more,” she says. “Be consistent about doing them every day.”
You’ll also need the support of strong core muscles holding you tight around your middle, like a corset. Regular crunches help, but Boston Ballet principal Misa Kuranaga recommends using an exercise ball to do side sit-ups, too. “It’s hard to get at your obliques without using a tool,” she says. Kuranaga lies on her side over the ball, keeping her feet on the floor, and lifts her torso up towards her hip. If you try this exercise, pull your stomach in at the navel and avoid twisting your body.
Mennite recommends doing back-ups to strengthen the back muscles, too. “While you’re working one side of your body,” she says, “you have to strengthen the other side as well.”
Plus, many balances are held in arabesque or attitude, which require rock-solid back muscles.
Get There and Stay There
How can you make sure you’re over your standing leg from the get-go? If you’re doing a relevé up to pointe, think about aligning yourself over the supporting foot as soon as you plié, so that all you have to do is go straight up. If you’re doing a piqué into the balance, you have more to consider. “The forward motion can make or break it,” says Tina LeBlanc, a teacher and former principal with San Francisco Ballet. “Pull up as you piqué to engage your center, so that it’s not just a lateral movement.” Practice the piqué several times to see how much you need to push from your back foot. Too much force is usually better than too little, because it’s easier to save a balance when you’re falling forward (and can still use your core to steady yourself) than when you’re falling backward.
Once you’re up there, think of pointing your foot hard into the floor. “If you sit into your leg or rely on the pointe shoe,” LeBlanc says, “you’ll have too much play in the ankle, and it won’t be as strong.” Imagine that your standing leg ends at the top of your hip, not at the top of your thigh, so you feel a connection to your core. Try to keep energy moving out through your limbs. That way, your balance will be dynamic and expansive instead of static and brittle.
Find Your Focus
How you use your eyes can help you balance—especially when there’s a partner involved. “Focus is really important,” Kuranaga says. When she dances the Rose Adagio from Sleeping Beauty, which is notorious for its long balances, Kuranaga asks her partners to stand a little to the side of her so they’re not in her line of sight, focusing instead on a wing or a piece of scenery as she balances. “If I see something moving, I get really distracted,” she says.
Houston Ballet’s Melody Mennite holds a long balance as Lise in La Fille Mal Gardée. Photo by Amitava Sarkar.
However, LeBlanc suggests a different strategy: “You’ll look more confident if you make eye contact with your partner, which is what the character you’re playing would realistically do,” she says. Some dancers also find that locking eyes with a partner can be steadying. Try both strategies: Look at your partner during one run-through of a piece, and pick a focal point in the distance the next. See which one works best for you.
Also think about your mental focus. When you’re scared and tense, it’s harder to hold a balance. “If you’re frightened and get stiff, you’re more likely to topple over like a tree,” Mennite says. “But if you’re relaxed, your body can make the minuscule adjustments that help extend the balance.”
Whatever happens, avoid visibly struggling to stay in a pose. No one wants to see the effort behind the balance. If it doesn’t work, find a beautiful way out. “I pull up and try to float my arms a little bit,” Kuranaga says. “That preserves the magic.”
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BACK TO 2008 - 2009 NEWS PAGE
CESAR SCHEME WINS INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AWARD
Equipment and plant theft - estimated in the Construction sector alone to be running at a massive annual total of £300-500m per annum – is a growing problem within the building and civil engineering sectors. To combat this CESAR was originally proposed by the Plant Theft Action Group (PTAG). It has the official support of the Home Office and ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers). The CEA (Construction Equipment Association), the scheme’s promoter, is the leading trade association representing equipment and machinery manufacturers and associated UK industries. The CESAR scheme operator is Datatag, the European market leader in Security Identity Systems within the Construction and Plant sectors and the Leisure and Recreational sectors.
The Peter Leigh Award was presented to Colin Wakeham of Bell Equipment UK Ltd on behalf of the CEA (the CESAR scheme promoter). Also there to collect the award was Kevin Howells of Datatag ID Ltd (the scheme operator) and to Ian Elliot a Crime Prevention Officer for the Metropolitan Police. For Datatag, this was a unique double success, since they had previously won the 2001 Keith English Award for outstanding contribution to automotive crime fighting.
Said Colin Wakeham of Bell Equipment UK "I am Honoured on behalf of the CEA Council to receive this award in recognition of the successful launch and roll out within the Construction Industry of the CESAR scheme. At the recent CEA AGM we announced that over 10,000 CESAR Kits had been sold. Sales have been made to both Original Equipment Manufactures and Major Plant Hire Companies. There are now over 250 trained technicians country wide able to fit the CESAR kits. Being the only plant security marking system approved by the police, together with the service provider Datatag with its 24 7 cover, and all registered plant data on the Police National Computer, we are providing both a deterrent to the thief, and a easy means of identifying stolen plant".
Ken German President of IAATI UK congratulates CESAR in this outstanding achievement: "Much of this country has been built using construction equipment but these valuable machines have always been under threat to theft and vulnerable to organised criminality. The UK authorities have taken speedy and positive action in creating the CESAR identification scheme, a brilliant partnership enterprise that will ensure the theft of these machines is reduced. IAATI recognises this project as a positive and progressive step towards crime reduction and therefore awards our prestigious 'Peter Leigh' trophy to the CEA."
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Prostitution . . . in Brandon?
Brandon Sun, June 30, 2012 - David McConkey
Prostitution occasionally makes the news. Like the recent arrest in Winnipeg of an alleged serial killer who preyed on prostitutes. But I have a hunch that prostitution is a lot more common than we care to let on.
Just take a look at prostitution in the history of Brandon. And a scandal that erupted in the Brandon police department 100 years ago this summer.
Apparently prostitution has been quite usual in Brandon. But you have to read between the lines. We are quite the proper people! We would rather not talk about – uh, ah, you know – prostitutes or sex for money.
Take this description from the Brandon Sun’s recent special feature about the Prince Edward Hotel. There was note of a situation in the 1930s, but “prostitute” or what she actually did was never mentioned. The reference was to “a young woman of easy (perhaps limited) virtue.” And that “she was a favourite of the travelling salesmen” who stayed at the hotel.
We find many such polite accounts of similar goings-on in histories like G.F. Barker’s Brandon: A City . There were plenty of “certain members of the opposite sex, unwanted within Brandon boundaries.” These women operated what were described only by euphemisms, like “disorderly houses,” or – my personal favourite – “beguiling haunts.”
During Brandon’s early days in the 1880s, for instance, “Dandy” French had a “house of ill repute” in the North End. Once, she and four men were arrested for creating a disturbance. The men were let off, but the “haughty and infamous young woman” was fined three dollars. Another time, “Dandy” shot one of her customers in the head; he survived, she left town.
How about this scene in 1910 of men coming into Brandon after spending a season logging in the bush? “Then the lads, after eight months of enforced abstinence and with accumulated savings in their pockets, joyfully invaded bars and houses of forbidden pleasures . . .”
See what’s happening here? We are being treated to not only a sanitized history, but also a sexist history. Good, decent, hard-working men just want to have a little fun. Bad, undesirable, immoral women provide that fun.
Now, what about that scandal exactly a century ago?
The spark was an incident on August 8, 1912. Screams were heard in the night from a house in the 1500 block of Victoria Avenue. A young woman appeared to be held against her will. A neighbour phoned the police, but the police refused to intervene. Perhaps because it was at the home of Watson Boyd, the chief of police? Boyd was out of town, but his adult son Harry was in the house and was at the centre of the commotion.
Other complaints and rumours about the police were circulating in the city. A representative from the “Social and Moral Reform League” spoke at a public meeting and demanded action.
City Council responded by appointing a judge to conduct a public inquiry. The police were accused of being “negligent in the performance of their duties” with regard to “bawdy houses, gambling houses and prostitutes.”
“Evidence of remarkable nature” was heard during the inquiry, according to the Brandon Daily Sun. More light was shed on the ruckus at Chief Boyd’s house. The neighbour testified that he heard young Boyd yelling at a woman, “I won’t let you go, even if I have to kill you to keep you.” (The woman was identified as a prostitute.) But the police, instead of arresting Boyd, gave him money to take the train out of town.
An inquiry witness reported that Chief Boyd himself frequented a “house of ill fame.” Another had “seen women of questionable character coming out of the Chief’s office at irregular hours.” Other witnesses told of payoffs to the police.
Even before the judge presented his report, city leaders knew what they had to do. “Drastic Action is Taken by Council,” read the headline in the Sun on September 25, 1912. Police Chief Boyd was pressured into resigning and eight members of the force were fired. Only one constable, a recent recruit, was spared. He was promoted to sergeant and put in charge until a new chief and officers could be hired.
Prostitution? Sometimes the community just has to take notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 141 (Monday, July 23, 2018)]
Bulk Manufacturer of Controlled Substances Application: Johnson Matthey Inc.
DATES: Registered bulk manufacturers of the affected basic classes, and applicants therefore, may file written comments on or objections to the issuance of the proposed registration on or before September 21, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be sent to: Drug Enforcement Administration, Attention: DEA Federal Register Representative/DRW, 8701 Morrissette Drive, Springfield, Virginia 22152.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Attorney General has delegated his authority under the Controlled Substances Act to the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), 28 CFR 0.100(b). Authority to exercise all necessary functions with respect to the promulgation and implementation of 21 CFR part 1301, incident to the registration of manufacturers, distributors, dispensers, importers, and exporters of controlled substances (other than final orders in connection with suspension, denial, or revocation of registration) has been redelegated to the Assistant Administrator of the DEA Diversion Control Division ("Assistant Administrator") pursuant to section 7 of 28 CFR part 0, appendix to subpart R.
In accordance with 21 CFR 1301.33(a), this is notice that on May 31, 2018, Johnson Matthey Inc., 2003 Nolte Drive, West Deptford, New Jersey 08066-1742 applied to be registered as a bulk manufacturer of the following basic class of controlled substance:
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Mecanoo designs a pavilion with a spiral staircase underneath a garden in Warsaw
Alyn Griffiths | 21 November 2013 2 comments
News: Dutch architects Mecanoo have won a competition to design a garden and an underground pavilion with a corkscrew staircase in the Polish capital, Warsaw (+ slideshow).
The garden and pavilion proposed by Mecanoo will be located in the city's popular Lazienki Park, which was designed around a series of buildings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Called the Garden of the 21st Century, this new addition comprises a triangular sliver of landscaped parkland criss-crossed by an undulating path, with exhibition spaces hidden underneath.
"The Garden of the 21st Century is special, because the design of the pavilion follows from that of the landscape," said the architects.
Mecanoo collaborated with Dutch landscape architect Michael van Gessel, Delva Landscape Architects and Polish firm Jojko Nawrocki Architekci on the design of the landscaping and pavilion.
Entrances in the walls that run along both of the park's long edges lead into the pavilion, which can also be entered from a public plaza that slices into the landscape.
"Two entry points are carved out of the side walls and another one out of the landscape," explained the architects. "All give access to a central hall, which connects two major exhibition spaces and two smaller ones that have modular layouts."
This entrance foyer contains a spiralling staircase connecting two levels and a series of skylights that appear above ground as rounded oculi embedded in the garden.
The pavilion is designed to house temporary exhibitions, while the garden will be used for educational as well as recreational purposes.
Site plan - click for larger image
Here's a brief project description from the architects:
Garden of the 21st Century in Warsaw
A team consisting of Mecanoo, Michael van Gessel, Delva Landscape Architects and Jojko Nawrocki Architekci has won the competition to design the new Garden of the 21st Century with integrated exhibition pavilion in Warsaw. In a ceremony at the Royal Lazienki Museum on Friday 16 November, the Polish Minister of Culture & National Heritage and the Minister of Environment jointly announced the result of an international competition with 80 submissions.
The new 2,5 hectare garden will be part of Lazienki Park, one of the most important touristic destinations in Warsaw that includes many 18th and 19th century buildings such as the Royal Baths, a Roman-inspired theatre and a water tower. The existing gardens in the park were all designed around these historic buildings. The Garden of the 21st Century is special, because the design of the pavilion follows from that of the landscape.
The 1800 m2, underground exhibition pavilion seems to grow out of the undulating walkway that surrounds the garden. Two entry points are carved out of the sidewalls and another one out of the landscape. All give access to a central hall, which connects two major exhibition spaces and two smaller ones that have modular lay-outs. Several oculi, or large round skylights, protrude through the walkway and the vegetation creating a mysterious play of light in the garden, but also providing carefully controlled daylight in the pavilion.
Both the garden and pavilion will provide new cultural life to the park with its many museums. The pavilion will host large temporary exhibitions, whereas the garden will play a role in local environmental education as well as be an example of 21st century landscape architecture.
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Synopsis : Statement from UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake and WHO Director-General Margaret Chan on the cholera outbreak in Yemen as suspected cases exceed 200,000.
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The rapidly spreading cholera outbreak in Yemen has exceeded 200,000 suspected cases, increasing at an average of 5,000 a day. We are now facing the worst cholera outbreak in the world.
Cholera affects an estimated 3 to 5 million people worldwide and causes 28,800–130,000 deaths a year. Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Symptoms start two hours to five days after exposure and may range from none, to mild, to severe. The primary symptoms of cholera are profuse diarrhea and vomiting of clear fluid. These symptoms usually start suddenly, from several hours to five days after ingestion of the bacteria. While the risk of death among those affected is usually less than 5%, it may be as high as 50% among some groups who do not have access to treatment.
In just two months, cholera has spread to almost every governorate of this war-torn country. Already more than 1,300 people have died - one quarter of them children - and the death toll is expected to rise.
UNICEF, WHO and our partners are racing to stop the acceleration of this deadly outbreak.
We are working around the clock to detect and track the spread of disease and to reach people with clean water, adequate sanitation and medical treatment.
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UNICEF and WHO are taking all measures to scale up prevention and treatment interventions. We call on authorities in Yemen to strengthen their internal efforts to stop the outbreak from spreading further.
This deadly cholera outbreak is the direct consequence of two years of heavy conflict.
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A University review (2015) commended the Graduate School for providing excellent support: responsive to student feedback; proactive in helping new postgraduates to adjust to their studies and to life in Scotland; enthusiastic and practical in promoting career development. The postgraduate student committee works closely with the School to make the research student experience the best it can be.
The School of Divinity, one of the largest centres for the study of religion in the United Kingdom, is located in the historic setting of New College, close to Edinburgh Castle and overlooking Princes Street.
Resources for research are excellent. You can draw on the outstanding holdings of New College Library, the University of Edinburgh’s main library, and the nearby National Library of Scotland. New College Library has one of the largest theology collections in the UK, with more than a quarter of a million items and a large and rich manuscript collection. The University library exceeds 2.25 million volumes. The National Library of Scotland – a ‘legal deposit’ library like the British Library in London and the university libraries of Oxford and Cambridge – is just around the corner.
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You can choose from three research programmes: two masters programmes and the PhD. Each takes a different amount of time: the Masters by Research, full-time, takes a year; the MPhil takes two years; a PhD takes at least three.
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If you have academic training in theology or religious studies (or another relevant subject), and would like to develop your interest with a focus on a particular area, the Masters by Research may interest you.
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During the first year you explore your chosen area of research and refine your research proposal. At around the nine-month mark, you will submit a draft chapter for discussion at a Review Board, together with a developed proposal for the whole thesis. On the basis of your progress and the prospects for your research, the Review Board will make recommendations on the continuation of your studies into the second year. After that, you will have an annual review to discuss your progress.
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Jason Cummings' split with girlfriend cause of trashed property
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Jason Cummings has been supported by his Peterborough United manager Steve Evans after footage which emerged showing the former Hibs and Rangers striker apparently smashing up his own property.
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A stream of videos appeared over the weekend of Cummings, who appeared to be drunk, throwing furniture around a property and at windows while being filmed. One of the clips was accompanied by the caption 'smashing up his own gaff'.
Another showed the Scotland international pick up a large TV and throw it at a window which smashed.
The chairman of Peterborough United, where Cummings is on loan from Nottingham Forest, took to social media to label the striker "daft" and say the matter has been dealt with in-house while the club will not be taking any further action against the forward.
It is unsure whether the player is currently living in Peterborough.
Jason Cummings appeared to smash up his own property.
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Darragh MacAnthony tweeted: “Been dealt with in-house & yes he’s made a daft mistake, but let’s calm down. He will learn quickly from moments of stupidity.
“We have a young squad who have an edge to them and at times can be daft. Just have to be careful with level of daftness.”
Speaking to talkSPORT Evans went into greater depth about the incident and the background.
“My own view is that it’s quite upsetting, but when you know the bigger picture – and we know the bigger picture because we’re inside the football club. The kid has just gone through a difficult splitting up from a girlfriend, a partner.
“When everyone who then goes and has a couple of beers, when they shouldn’t do, and gets emotionally upset then sometimes you do things you obviously regret.
“He’ll get internally disciplined as you’d expect, but at the same time he’ll get all our support and love for a difficult situation at this time in his life. As a football club led by our chairman, we made it clear to Jason last night and this morning that we’re here to support him.
“But we expect a better code of conduct, we expect better discipline.
Cummings, one of football's more eccentric characters, is currently the top goalscorer in League One with the Posh top of the table. He featured in the club's 3-2 win over Southend United at the weekend but didn't get on the scoresheet.
The 23-year-old made the loan move from Forest this summer having spent the second half of last season loan at Rangers. He left Hibs for Forest in 2017 after scoring 71 goals in 149 appearances for the Easter Road side.
The player spent Sunday at a local sports even with Evans.
READ MORE: Jason Cummings: I was gutted to leave Hibs but time right for move
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Edmonton is blessed with a number of community organizations and associations whose missions parallel the community league movement in terms of its mission to build healthier, safer neighbourhoods for everyone. Many of these groups are looking to work with community leagues in a number of ways to support the great work leagues do. If you would like to be considered a community partner, please contact colin.johnson@efcl.org.
For those looking to add something a little off the beaten path and slightly wild, consider starting a Nature Club for your community. You will have access to a backpack of activities and online resources that will make getting back to nature fun and exciting. Contact INNOVATE coordinator, Aaron Dublenko, by email for more details and to get your program started today.
Edmonton Neighbourhood Watch (ENW) offers a number of ways to provide passive crime-prevention in communities. If your league is considering a neighbourhood watch program, get in touch with ENW for more information on getting started and to work with ENW to ensure success.
Part of the Alberta Recreation & Parks Association, Communities ChooseWell is all about healthy, active lifestyles. For leagues looking to develop more programming or clubs that revolves around these principles, connect with ChooseWell for ideas, tool kits and much more.
Seniors built the communities we live in today – through their volunteerism, dedication and hard work. Now it’s their turn to have fun. Edmonton Seniors Coordinating Council provides tools and resources that leagues can use to develop or expand their own seniors’ programming.
Inspiration for welcoming everyone in your community
The cultural mosaic of communities is everchanging and the beauty of community leagues is the all-inclusive nature of the community league movement. From hosting multi-ethnic potlucks to entertainment nights, there are a number of ways to invite everyone to be a part of your community league. The EFCL recommends connecting with one of the organizations below!
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In Other News, A North Carolina Republican Compared Lincoln to Hitler
This week in the laboratories of democracy.
(Permanent Musical Accompaniment To This Post)
Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what's goin' down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin' gets done, and where Ma Rainey and Beethoven both unwrap a bedroll.
We begin this week in the newly insane state of North Carolina (Art Pope, Prop.), where their incredible desire to make a bad thing worse continues to amaze and astound. Just recently, the entire government got together and cobbled together a watery "compromise" on the bathroom bill that was lame enough to buy off the NCAA. Undaunted, the state legislature (Art Pope, Prop.) moved ahead with a bill that would…wait for it…make marriage equality illegal. From NBC News:
The Republican-sponsored bill, titled the Uphold Historical Marriage Act, asserts the U.S. Supreme Court "overstepped its constitutional bounds" when it struck down North Carolina's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. "The General Assembly of the State of North Carolina declares that the Obergefell v. Hodges decision of the United States Supreme Court of 2015 is null and void in the State of North Carolina, and that the State of North Carolina shall henceforth uphold and enforce Section 6 of Article XIV of the North Carolina Constitution, the opinion and objection of the United States Supreme Court notwithstanding," the bill reads.
What makes this measure remarkable should be obvious. It is outright nullification, the presentation of an argument that was pretty much settled at Appomattox. It also is an out-and-out refusal to recognize the Supremacy Clause. This is the most naked assertion of these philosophies since Joe Johnston surrendered to Bill Sherman at Bennett Place in Durham. This was obvious even to the Republican party of North Carolina (Art Pope, Prop.), according to CBS News:
House Speaker Tim Moore of Kings Mountain said in a statement Wednesday that the bill introduced this week won't be considered because the nation's highest court "has firmly ruled on the issue."
Still, you may wonder, how does a bill so clearly beyond a pale that's existed for 152 years get brought up at all? Well, perhaps it's because people in the newly insane state of North Carolina go out and actually vote for guys like this. From the News and Observer:
A commenter reminded Pittman that the Supreme Court ruling settled the law on gay marriage and that the lawmaker should "get over it." Pittman's response: "And if Hitler had won, should the world just get over it? Lincoln was the same sort (of) tyrant, and personally responsible for the deaths of over 800,000 Americans in a war that was unnecessary and unconstitutional."
Punchline?
Pittman is the pastor of Ridgecrest Presbyterian Church in Stanly County and has served in the House since 2013.
Old times they are not forgotten, I'm fairly sure.
Look at All These Republican Snowflakes
Let us move along to South Dakota, where the newly energized "war" on drugs has taken an alarming turn. From the Times-Argus:
Through the patterned light, he saw a fifth officer filming the procedure. His pants were loosened and pulled below his waist. Then, pain. A nurse at Avera St. Mary's Hospital in Pierre inserted a pencil-sized tube into Sparks' urethra to drain his bladder. Moments later, an officer with the Pierre Police Department held a cup of Sparks' urine that soon would be sent off for drug testing. "It was degrading," Sparks said. "I was angry. I felt like my civil rights were being violated."
Pretty safe call, I'd say.
Hours earlier, police responded to a domestic dispute at Sparks' home. When officers observed him acting "fidgety," they asked for a urine sample. When Sparks refused, police sought a warrant from a Hughes County judge to obtain a urine sample by "medically accepted means." In Pierre, those means have repeatedly included forcibly catheterizing people who refuse or are unable to provide a sample. Officers subjected a 3-year-old boy to a similar procedure in February as part of a child welfare investigation, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. "Quite frankly, it's cruel and barbaric to forcibly catheterize anyone, let alone a 3-year-old child, and this process raises serious constitutional concerns," said Heather Smith, executive director of the ACLU of South Dakota. The Pierre Police Department and Avera Health declined repeated requests for interviews. The police department deferred questions to the Hughes County State's Attorney's office, which also did not respond to multiple phone calls.
Tell me again that normalizing torture overseas doesn't have a corrosive effect at home. They put a bag over a guy's head and stick a tube up his dick. How is this not torture? And, if somehow it isn't, how about this?
Kirsten Hunter said her 3-year-old son, Aksel, was forcefully catheterized at the Avera hospital in Pierre in late February after her boyfriend failed a urine analysis. Authorities wanted to have her and her two children tested to see if they also had drugs in their system. Pierre police officers and a Department of Social Services employee showed up at her home and said if her kids couldn't produce urine, they would be taken from her. Hunter said her son isn't potty-trained. So while she and her 5-year-old daughter were able to provide a urine sample, her young son couldn't. He was held down and forcibly catheterized by nurses. "They just shoved it right up there, and he screamed so bad," Hunter said. "He's still dealing with a staph infection, and we are still giving him medication."
A three-year-old, forced against his will into a painful medical procedure so as to gather evidence against his mother's boyfriend? There are too goddamn many places in this country where the Constitution doesn't reach because the people who swear to uphold it don't give a damn about it. And with an attorney general committed to ramping this foolishness back up again, god knows when, if ever, they'll start giving a damn about it again. A three-year-old. My god in heaven.
The Murderers\' Row of Voter Suppression Is Here
Let's skip on down to Louisiana, where they're still trying to wind down the many deplorable policies on which "Bobby" Jindal planned to run for president back when that idea didn't make people dissolve into hopeless laughter. One of these "reforms" changed the way worker's compensation claims were handled. A local judge ruled that these "reforms" pretty much were designed to make filing these claims harder, and not easier. From The Louisiana Voice:
Judge Johnson struck down provisions which:
Stipulated that when a carrier/self-insured employer fails to return LWC forms within the five business days it is deemed to have denied such request for authorization;
Provided an automatic "tacit denial" of medical treatment;
Allowed OWC to enforce variances from medical treatment guidelines;
Denied treatment not covered by medical treatment guidelines;
Allowed the OWC a workers compensation carrier to arbitrarily submit—and the OWC medical director to accept—any information it desires without notifying the injured worker of the "evidence."
The suit was brought against the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) in 2013 by attorney Janice Hebert Barber and several physicians and injured workers who were denied benefits under the new law. Baton Rouge attorney J. Arthur Smith III represented each of the plaintiffs. Also named as defendants were LWC Secretary Curt Eysink, Hataway, and former OWC Medical Director Dr. Christopher Rich.
This is what is called a "business-friendly" environment by ambitious Republican governors like "Bobby" Jindal, who warped faster than any other piece of presidential timber this side of Scott Walker.
The State of Alabama Has Fully Lost Its Mind
And we conclude, as is our custom, in the great state of Oklahoma, where Blog Official Sagebrush Topiary Inspector Friedman of the Plains brings us yet another wonderful argument for retrograde policies that are going to pass anyway. From Public Radio Tulsa:
The severity of the diagnosed birth defect does not matter. Women would be prohibited from aborting a fetus expected to live even just a few hours after birth, and there is not exception for the life or health of a mother. House Democrats pressed Faught on why there are no exceptions for cases of rape or incest either, asking whether those are an act of God. "Well, it's an act of sin. We live in a sinful world. Men and women do horrible things, but God can bring beauty out of ashes," Faught said.
These really are the fcking mole people.
This is your democracy, America. Cherish it.
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Local community groups will have a new chance to get involved with one of the garden city’s favourite charities, with Endeavour Foundation growing chrysanthemums in Toowoomba.
General Manager of Commercial Operations, Andrew Donne, visited the garden city to see 2000 chrysanthemum bulbs being planted at Endeavour Foundation’s site in Ramsay St.
Mr Donne said community involvement would be crucial for success, and was an important reason to grow chrysanthemums locally.
“The bulbs we plant today will bloom in time for harvesting next autumn, to be sold in the lead-up to Mother’s Day 2012,” Mr Donne said.
“Growing and harvesting chrysanthemums is one of the many ways we have been able to involve the local community – and offer meaningful employment for people with a disability – in Bundaberg, and we are excited about bringing the project to Toowoomba,” he said.
“Any profits we make will help us to provide services and support for more than 3,350 people with a disability throughout Queensland and in Sydney.
“This is the first year chrysanthemums will be planted at the Toowoomba site following years of successful harvests in Bundaberg.
“We rely on innovative commercial enterprises like the chrysanthemum harvest to continue our services, but there will also be a unique chance for schools and community groups to work alongside people with a disability at harvest time next year,” Mr Donne said.
For many years, Endeavour Foundation has enjoyed wonderful support from generous private donors and businesses in the Darling Downs region.
Mr Donne hopes some local businesses will also consider allowing staff to volunteer a day to join the harvest, providing them the opportunity to “walk a mile in the shoes of someone with a disability”.
More than 40 percent of Endeavour Foundation funding comes from private donors, supporters and businesses.
Endeavour Foundation is also one of the nation’s largest employers of people with a disability.
Supported employees in Toowoomba will also learn how to plant and nurture the crop.
“It’s definitely a large community event in Bundaberg, and we want to develop the same level of involvement here in Toowoomba,” Mr Donne said.
For more information on volunteering for the chrysanthemum harvest call Endeavour Foundation on 3908 7257 or visit www.endeavour.com.au
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Home / Practice Areas / Boston Truck Accidents
Boston Truck Accident Attorneys
Reputable Lawyers Aid Victims of Boston Truck Accidents
The Port of Boston was vital to the American economy even before some rowdy colonists made saltwater tea. Today, around 1,600 New England businesses use the Port of Boston to import and export products. Annually, more than 1.5 million metric tons of cargo pass through Massport’s Conley Terminal for points across the United States. It leaves by truck via a dedicated Haul Road, connecting to Interstates 93, 90, and 95, all less than two miles from the terminal. That makes the trucking industry a major cog in the Boston economy. And that means if you’re injured in a commercial truck accident, your claim will likely be against a large corporation whose only concern is limiting its liability. To fight for the full compensation you are due, you need the experienced legal team at Feinberg & Alban PC For more than 70 years, we’ve helped injured Bostonians recover for their medical bills, lost wages and their pain and suffering. We have the knowledge and resources to level the playing field, even against the most powerful defendant.
Large truck crashes are on the rise across the country
The force of a tractor-trailer at highway speed can easily crush a passenger car, inflicting terrible injuries on its occupants. Unfortunately, the latest statistics from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) indicate that large truck crashes rose 21 percent in 2014, the latest year for which crash statistics are available. The report notes some trends during that year:
The incidence of fatal large truck crashes per one million people in the United States rose one percent.
There were 3,744 large trucks involved in fatal crashes.
There were 88,000 large trucks involved in injury crashes.
There were 346,000 large trucks involved in property-damage-only crashes.
Hazardous materials were present in 3 percent of the large trucks involved in fatal crashes and 2 percent of those in nonfatal crashes.
In 34 percent of fatal crashes, a driver-related factor was recorded. The most frequently cited factors were speeding and distraction/inattention.
Additional driver-related factors include fatigued driving, DUI, aggressive driving, following too closely, and failure to yield the right of way. Boston, unfortunately, has a problem with clearance crashes because drivers ignore low-clearance signs or blindly follow standard GPS rather than using programs designed for commercial truck transport. The clearance problem is especially bad with rental trucks moving residents in and out of the city.
Hazardous materials present additional dangers in large truck crashes
For obvious reasons, Boston prohibits hazardous materials transporters from passing through the downtown area for points south and prohibits them from using the I-93 tunnel system. If you are in an accident with a truck hauling hazardous materials or you are simply in the vicinity of such a crash, you could be at risk of an injury through exposure. Depending on the nature of the materials released, you must be concerned about toxicity, radiation, infection, or burns from caustic chemicals. Obviously affected individuals should seek medical care immediately. If you or someone on your behalf is ready, speak to a personal injury lawyer about your rights.
Contact a Boston truck accident law firm for dedicated legal representation
For more than 70 years, Feinberg & Alban PC has helped victims of commercial truck accidents throughout Greater Boston. Call us today at 617-232-5950 or contact us online to schedule a free consultation. We are conveniently located on Franklin Street, one block east of Leventhal Park in the heart of Boston’s financial district. If your injuries prevent you from visiting us, we can come to you.
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Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez Are Dating
By Zach Seemayer 10:40 PM PST, March 8, 2017
Jennifer Lopez has struck up a romance with a new man.
The "Feel the Light" singer is dating Alex Rodriguez, sources close to the former New York Yankees player tell ET. However, "they don't consider themselves exclusive," one source tells us.
The singer has met A-Rod's family, People reports, adding that they have been seeing each other for a few weeks, are taking things slow and not putting any labels on their relationship.
WATCH: Jennifer Lopez Reunites With Ex Marc Anthony to Celebrate Their Twins' 9th Birthday
Both Rodriguez and Lopez are coming out of high-profile relationships. The MLB star recently called things off with his girlfriend, business and tech mogul Anne Wojcicki, after dating for nearly a year.
Meanwhile, Lopez was romantically linked with rapper Drake starting in December. The pair shared a few cozy, PDA-heavy Instagram pics in their short time together, but never officially confirmed that they were a couple.
Lopez and Rodriguez are also both parents. Rodriguez shares two daughters -- Natasha, 12, and Ella, 8 -- with his ex-wife, Cynthia Scurtis, while the "On the Floor" singer shares 9-year-old twins Max and Emma with her ex-husband, Marc Anthony.
WATCH: Jennifer Lopez Gets Emotional Over Her Twins Max and Emme: 'I Almost Thought It Wasn't Going to Happen for Me'
ET reached out to Lopez's reps, who declined to comment.
While Lopez and Anthony split in 2011, the pair have remained close and dedicated to co-parenting their adorable twins. For more on the pop diva's close friendship with her ex-husband, check out the video below.
Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony Reunite for Twins' 9th Birthday
17 Pics That Prove Jennifer Lopez Doesn't Age
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2010-11Regular SeasonRound 4
Panellinios Athens 66
Galatasaray Istanbul 62
December 07, 2010 CET: 20:00
Local time: 21:00 LAMIA ARENA
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Panellinios BC boosted its Last 16 hopes and handed visiting Galatasaray Café Crown its first loss of the season with a 66-62 win on Tuesday. Manolis Papamakarios and Joe Krabbenhoft each recorded 15 points and 6 rebounds to pace Panellinios, which held off a late Galatasaray rally to get to 2-2 in the standings. Panellinios hosts Bennet Cantu next week in an important game for the Last 16 race. Samo Udrih added 10 points for the winners. Josh Shipp and Preston Shumpert scored 18 points apiece for Galatasaray, which is now 3-1 and hosts GasTerra Flames in Week 4.
Krabbenhoft got things started for Panellinios with a triple before Luksa Andric accounted for Galatasaray’s first points. Shipp’s first two baskets gave the visitors their first lead, 7-8, but in no time Papamakarios and Maurice Bailey put Panellinios back ahead and Rado Rancik’s free throw made it 11-9 at the 10-minute point. Evren tied the score at the start of the second quarter. It stayed even as Papamakarios and Tutku Acik traded threes and played out like that until halftime, with nearly every basket forcing a lead change – 10 in total in the quarter – before Shipp’s second chance basket lifted Galatasaray to a 26-28 halftime edge.
After Papamakarios tied the game early in the third quarter and Shipp and Bailey traded threes, Krabbenhoft connected twice from downtown to make it 37-31. Shumpert answered with a triple as Galatasaray stayed close behind. Acik cut the gap to 1 and Ermal Kuqo tied the score at 42-42. Krabbenhoft and Papamakarios put the hosts back up and Djuro Ostojic made it 48-44 at the end of the quarter. Ostojic and Papamakarios pushed Panellinios to 53-45, but Galatasaray never gave up the fight. Kuqo and Shipp scored clutch baskets, but Papamakarios countered with a dagger-like triple. Shumpert put a fright into the local fans when his three made it 63-60, but he missed his next try from behind the arc and Ostojic and Krabbenhoft sank free throws to restore a 6-point edge and wrap up the victory.
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Referees: ZIEMBLICKI, GRZEGORZ; CIULIN, MARIUS; TRAWICKI, TOMASZ
Attendance: 600 (Tentative)
Panellinios Athens 11 15 22 18
Galatasaray Istanbul 9 19 16 18
End of Quarter
Panellinios Athens
4 XANTHOPOULOS, VASSILIS 14:34 0/1 0/1 1 2 3 -6
5 PAPAMAKARIOS, MANOLIS 33:30 15 2/3 3/8 2/2 6 6 4 1 1 3 2 18
9 KRABBENHOFT, JOSEPH 29:29 15 2/5 3/5 2/2 2 4 6 2 1 5 1 5 3 13
11 KARATHANASIS, IOANNIS 5:30 1 1
12 SKLAVOS, EVANGELOS 12:10 6 1/1 0/2 4/5 1 1 2 1 1 2 3 6
16 OSTOJIC, DJURO 30:23 7 2/5 3/4 1 5 6 2 3 1 2 4 9
18 KOMPODIETAS, DIMITRIOS 4:31 0/1 0/1 1 1 1 1 -3
19 TSAKALERIS, EFTHYMIOS 7:24 6 3/3 1 1 1 1 5
20 BAILEY, MAURICE 30:46 7 1/3 1/3 2/2 4 4 3 1 2 1 6 14
22 UDRIH, SAMO 31:43 10 2/7 2/5 2 3 5 2 1 2 2 6
Team 2 2 4 4
Totals 200:00 66 13/29 9/25 13/15 8 27 35 14 6 17 1 2 21 18 66
44.8% 36% 86.7%
Head coach: SKOURTOPOULOS, ATHANASIOS
Min: Minutes played; Pts: Points; 2FG M-A: 2-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); 3FG M-A: 3-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); FT M-A: Free Throws (Made-Attempted); Rebounds: O (Offensive), D (Defensive), T (Total); As: Assists; St: Steals; To: Turnovers; Bl: Blocks (Fv: In Favor / Ag: Against); Fouls: Cm (Commited), Rv (Received); PIR: Performance Index Rating
4 SHIPP, JOSHUA 29:47 18 5/7 1/2 5/6 3 1 4 1 2 2 5 20
6 MAHMUTOGLU, MELIH 5:49
7 KOKSAL, GOKSENIN DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
8 TOPALOGLU, CANER 9:15 2 1/2 1 1 1 1 2
9 SHUMPERT, PRESTON 26:12 18 3/7 2/8 6/6 4 4 2 1 4 13
10 ROCHESTIE, TAYLOR 16:17 0/1 1 1 1 2 2 2 -1
11 ACIK, TUTKU 22:27 5 1/1 1/2 2 2 3 1 2 2 3 9
12 ANDRIC, LUKSA 18:21 4 1/5 2/2 3 3 1 1 3 2 2
13 RANCIK, RADOSLAV 17:08 3 1/4 0/1 1/2 2 2 1 4 2 2 2 -1
14 YILDIRIM, HALUK 12:46 0/1 3 3 1 1 2
16 BUKER, EVREN 23:39 4 2/3 2 2 7
23 KUQO, ERMAL 18:19 8 4/11 2 5 7 1 2 1 4 3 5
Totals 200:00 62 18/41 4/14 14/16 8 22 30 9 6 15 2 1 18 21 61
Head coach: MAHMUTI, OKTAY
SKOURTOPOULOS, ATHANASIOS
"It was a great night for us. So far we have not played complete. We continue our efforts to acquire a center. In a matter of two or three days we will announce the name. We will do our best. We have built a core of fans and we thank them. They deserved to watch a game of this level."
KOMPODIETAS, DIMITRIOS
"It was a great win for us. We are alive in the Eurocup and with victories in Holland and at home we can qualify. We showed that we are a good team and can be better. Hopefully we can get much better."
REGULAR SEASON LAST 16 QUARTERFINALS FINALS
Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6
Banvit Bandirma 81
EWE Baskets 72
December 7 18:00 CET LIVE FINAL
Le Mans 65
Unics 98
Hemofarm Stada 67
Goettingen 79
Besiktas Istanbul 80
Asvel Basket 74
Siauliai 70
Gran Canaria 2014 89
Buducnost m:tel 69
Budivelnik 54
Azovmash Mariupol 92
Hapoel Gilboa Galil 88
Aris Thessaloniki 85
Cedevita Zagreb 76
Bennet Cantu 81
GasTerra Flames 54
Chorale Roanne 60
PAOK Thessaloniki 72
Benetton Treviso 79
Asefa Estudiantes 72
VEF Riga 83
Cajasol Sevilla 82
Hapoel Jerusalem 91
CEZ Nymburk 82
Anwil Wloclawek 83
Krasnye Krylia 98
Alba Berlin 79
Pepsi Caserta 62
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North-east council accused of trying to ‘tax the dead’ after plans to increase burial charges by more than £200
by Emma Morrice
Aberdeenshire Council is proposing an increase of 25% on burial fees.
Aberdeenshire Council has been accused of trying to “tax the dead” after plans were revealed to increase burial charges.
The authority is proposing an increase of 25%.
It hopes the move could save an extra £525,000 over the next two years – with burial costs jumping up by more than £200 on average.
It currently costs £783 to pay for a burial for a resident of Aberdeenshire, aged 16 and above, however, this could increase by 25% to £978.
For non-residents of the area to be buried in Aberdeenshire, costs would increase from £1,369 to £1,711.
The changes are among of raft of proposals in a bid to save the council money.
They will affect a number of other services, including animal licences, dog warden services, food hygiene courses, tattoo licences and harbour berthing fees.
In a report presented to councillors, infrastructure direction Stephen Archer said: “There was strong support for the general principle that fees charged should cover the cost of service delivery.
“A preference for the phasing of charges over two years was expressed, with some stating significant increases would pose real difficulties to them.
“The greatest level of concerns were expressed about the increases proposed for burial charges and some environmental health charges.”
Critics have warned that increasing the costs of burial could add extra anxiety to grieving families.
MSP for Banffshire and Buchan Coast, Stewart Stevenson, said: “Not only are the Tories trying to tax the lowest earners, they’re now trying to tax the dead.
“For people who have lost a loved one, arranging a funeral and the finances of it are an additional worry at what is already an extremely distressing time.
“What’s important to note is it’s not the principle of increasing costs by a nominal amount, it’s the scale of this increase which will be difficult.”
Aberdeenshire Council’s infrastructure services committee will be discussing the proposals on Thursday.
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Brand Safety on Marketers' Minds; Sublime Skinz Expands in Europe
by Sonja Kroll on 24th Aug 2018 in News
ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Brand Safety Study Reveals Carelessness of Marketers; Sublime Skinz Expands European operations; mediasmart & Brave Partner; Additional Funding for Drawbridge; and Partnership for Eyeota & TwentyCi.
Brand Safety Study Reveals Carelessness of Marketers
A new study by Sizmek on brand safety reveals that 38% of marketers are aware of having delivered adverts on harmful or unsafe web pages. At the same time, only 61% of marketers currently have a third-party brand safety solution/partner in place on their digital campaigns.
Brand safety regulations are still a closed book to many marketers. According to the study, 64% of the marketers polled consider the implementation of an effective brand safety solution a challenge; 57% said that their current solution is too expensive. Almost two-thirds of respondents (64%) are critical of brand safety, as it negatively impacts the performance of campaign content.
“The digital media ecosystem is complex and fragmented, so it is no surprise that marketers are prioritising efficiency and transparency from their partners”, said Hardeep Bindra, VP product management, real-time decisioning services Sizmek. “These survey results confirm what we’ve been hearing from our clients about simplifying the supply chain and the challenges they face with brand safety and a complicated vendor landscape. The results also validate our full-transparency and full-controls strategy; we give marketers clear insight into the media buying process and the tools to take action.”
Regulation such as the GDPR is further complicating matters, with 77% of marketers believing that the new data regulations will make targeting audiences using third-party data increasingly difficult. However, transparency is at the forefront of marketers’ minds with 76% prioritising efforts to achieve more transparency for their digital display inventory; 63% also are critical of the ‘walled gardens’, such as Facebook and Google, believing that they don’t offer enough inventory transparency.
For the study, over 500 decision-making brand marketers across Europe and the U.S. were surveyed.
Sublime Skinz Expands European operations
Programmatic advertising specialists Sublime Skinz are consolidating their foothold in Europe. After establishing themselves in the U.S., the Paris-based company is opening an office for the DACH market in Düsseldorf.
The DACH operations will be headed up by Assen Saraiwanow, commercial director DACH, who is leading the Düsseldorf office. With 20 years’ experience in online marketing, sales and business development, Saraiwanow has moved on to Sublime Skinz from a previous role as sales director at DataXu.
Assen Saraiwanow commented: “Sublime Skinz is about data, impact, and creativity, and our marketplace technology supports all of these inputs – with a particular focus on enhancing the user experience. This allows us to achieve excellent branding results for our customers. I’m looking forward to collaborating with media agencies and trading desks, and with our publishers and ad-tech partners. As the market leader for high-impact ads in France and the UK, we are looking forward to offering our mature portfolio of products to German-speaking countries – especially as brand managers and branding teams in the region have discovered the benefits of programmatic advertising and are realising the rewards of this fast-growing market.”
mediasmart & Brave Partner
Noelia Amoedo, CEO, mediasmart
In order to expand its Connected TV credentials, mediasmart is teaming up with Brave to provide access to publishers including JadooLite and FilmRise. “We are always looking to extend the amount of high-quality inventory and formats we make available to our customers and we were particularly interested in getting more access to Connected TV. We are very pleased to have extended our offering by partnering with Brave”, said Noelia Amoedo, CEO, mediasmart.
Through the new partnership, mediasmart customers receive access to a native, display, and video marketplace supporting both static and dynamic video (VPAID) in the latter. Brave supplies traffic quality monitoring to protect buyers from nonhuman, fraudulent, or incentivised traffic.
The new inventory is being provided to meet demand for increasingly popular mobile advertising formats from digital video advertisers who are turning to Connected TV to extend their audience reach.
Additional Funding for Drawbridge
Drawbridge, a provider of identity resolution solutions, has received additional funding from all of its existing venture capital investors to the tune of USD$15m (£11.67m). The investors are Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and Northgate Capital. The total capital raised by Drawbridge so far amounts to almost USD$70m (£54.46m), including previously unannounced investments from strategic partners.
The new funds are earmarked for further development of Drawbridge’s identity technology, as well as expanding its commercial and engineering teams. The first new hire is Dave Zinman as chief operating officer and commercial leader.
“This commitment gives us further energy to realise the mission ahead of us – to build and democratise identity solutions so businesses can better understand their customers and deliver more personalised and secure experiences”, says Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, founder and CEO, Drawbridge.
Partnership for Eyeota & TwentyCi
In a bid to provide qualified audiences to brands and agencies targeting UK consumers at key stages of home-moving and type of home ownership, Eyeota is partnering with TwentyCi, a data science company specialising in property data. The property data refers to the entire house purchasing cycle, which Eyeota integrates with its online profiles. The property data can be accessed digitally through the Eyeota Audience Marketplace. It is available across various platforms for programmatic advertising campaigns.
Aaron Jackson, MD EMEA, Eyeota
“The demand for real estate audiences is on the rise. In the last 12 months, we have observed a 3.3x growth in demand for real estate audiences in our marketplace”, said Aaron Jackson, managing director, EMEA, Eyeota. “Our partnership with TwentyCi is a critical step in expanding our solution for advertisers looking to accurately identify audiences at different stages along the home-ownership cycle, providing valuable insights into their purchase and lifestyle behaviours.”
TwentyCi tracks the process of sale using more than 4,000 different data points in the UK. The data is derived from GDPR-compliant sources.
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Fingerprint Scanning Is Cool But Facial Recognition Creepy, New RichRelevance Survey Shows
Fiona Briggs Contributor
I cover the retail industry in the U.K.
Consumers consider fingerprint scanning and smart mirrors are ‘cool’ in-store technologies, which improve the shopping experience but facial recognition software is deemed ‘creepy’ and invasive.
Those are the findings of new survey by RichRelevance, a global leader in omni-channel personalisation.
RichRelevance surveyed over 2,000 consumers on both sides of the Atlantic about how technology can impact their in-store shopping experience, highlighting a difference between what shoppers thought was ‘cool’ and ‘creepy’.
The findings show that consumers are happy when technology is used to enhance their decision making processes when purchasing in-store. This includes technologies such as fingerprint scanning to pay for goods and smart mirrors in changing rooms that would allow the user to virtually change outfits.
Despite being open to new things, UK shoppers are less comfortable with more invasive technologies such a facial recognition software that would identify them to a staff member once in-store.
Matthieu Chouard, VP and general manager at RichRelevance, said: “Retailers walk a fine line when innovating with in-store technology. Clearly UK consumers are looking for a more seamless personalised experience that helps them with their decision making progress. However, this can be taken too far – more invasive technologies are seen as ‘creepy’ by UK shoppers and this could have an adverse effect on buying behaviour.”
As well as appreciating fingerprint technology to pay for goods, almost half (47.5%) would welcome the technology if it also allowed them to get automatic home delivery.
Sixty two per cent of shoppers polled want to be able to scan a product on their device to see product reviews and recommendations for other items they may like, researchers found; while 52% of shoppers are open to receiving pop up offers on their mobile device, triggered when they enter a store.
A third of shoppers would like to see product recommendations included on print or email receipts that relate to their purchase and 43% would like to receive a digital coupon for a product they looked at but didn’t buy after leaving the store, RichRelevance reports.
Interactive changing room mirrors that model potential outfits on their image were also rated as ‘cool’ by 42% of shoppers.
In the 'creepy' stakes, 75% of shoppers thought that facial recognition software that would allow them to be targeted in-store with relevant offers was a step too far. The same number also though it ‘creepy’ for a sales assistant to greet them by name in store, if their mobile phone or tablet device had signalled their presence.
Chouard said: “The changing room is one element of the high street shopping experience for fashion retailers that has seen a real dearth of innovation. Smart changing rooms tend to be trialled in far-flung pilot stores, but clearly there is now a real appetite for more ambitious interactive technologies in-store. There’s no reason why the personalised recommendations being given to shoppers via tablet devices on the shop floor can’t be translated to enhance the changing room experience too. By ignoring this changing room, retailers are missing an opportunity to better serve customers and ultimately, sell more product.”
Fiona Briggs
I have more than 20 years’ experience in business to business journalism with over 10 years’ experience of editing at senior level in both print and online media. I am t...
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Next-Gen Educational Tools Deliver A Big Dose Of Fun
Storytelling and expertise from marketers
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By Timothy Beneke
REDWOOD SHORES, CALIF.–Visionary teachers and students from Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship introduced new technologies intended to make education more interactive, individualized, and fun at an event Oracle recently hosted at its headquarters.
The biannual Launch CMU spotlights Carnegie Mellon students, graduates, and professors who combine expertise in cognitive science, computer science, artificial intelligence, educational psychology, and a large dose of creativity to create innovative advancements in education.
Because the research and tech showcase focuses on entrepreneurship, the event included demos by various startups, including Expii, billed as a “community-built textbook that thinks like you do.”
Po-Shen Loh, Carnegie Mellon math professor and founder of Expii.
According to its website, Expii makes it easy to create and rate interactive lessons, which simulate one-on-one tutoring experiences. Think rapid-fire question and answer, video, and more.
Po-Shen Loh, a Carnegie Mellon math professor and founder of Expii, said his objective is to multiply the number of people who love math and science by 10.
"We are creating a product of high value with very low variable and fixed costs, and we charge zero for it. Our team combines expert talent from math, science, and education. As math and science enthusiasts ourselves, we're uniting the enthusiast community to create its unique solution to education," Loh said.
Crowdsourcing is central to Loh's vision. "The best way to learn is to teach, so Expii's contributors deepen their own understanding while sharing their knowledge. It's a win-win situation," he said.
"When I've shown this to teachers, some have remarked that contributing to Expii would be a good extra-credit project, because writing is a learning experience in itself."
Digital Dream Labs, a creation of Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology students, aims to spark curiosity, mixing nostalgia with the technology children love.
The lab’s first product, Puzzlets, uses toy puzzle pieces to control video games. The first Puzzlets game, Cork the Volcano, is designed to enrich logic, sequencing, and fine-motor skills.
Also showcased was the free Learnworld, which claims to build children’s intelligence. The app draws on hundreds of videos, activities, and brain games to cultivate curiosity, creativity, and cognitive skills.
“We offer a lot of different modules that have been found to trigger curiosity in children,” said Learnworld’s Rana Chandradip.
“The objects of curiosity will vary among different children and in the same child over time, so it’s important to offer lots of alternative forms of stimulation.”
LaunchCMU, features entrepreneurship at CMU–cutting-edge research and innovations from students, alumni, faculty and staff–while bringing together the investment community, regional business leaders, and CMU alumni.
Timothy Beneke is a freelance writer and editor.
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MICHAEL PRIME 2 Titles
PRIME, MICHAEL
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"A new album by Michael Prime who is another prolific sound composer for many years. Being an active member of Morphogenesis he also collaborated with among others: David Jackman/Organum, Jim O'Rourke, Eddie Prevost, David Toop, Adam Bohman. He's also one half of Negative Entropy a collaborative project with G. Feyton (Noise Makers Five). Recorded between December 1998 and December 2000 Requiem is one of his most intense works so far and quite different from his more environmental studies. Dedicated to M, H and LL. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl the record is coming in a full color gatefold sleeve. Limited edition of 700 copies."
Micoplazma
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"Micoplazma contains some of the densest music that I've created. It uses a vast range of sound sources, including computer manipulated sounds, field recordings, bioelectrical activity from plants, and vocal and instrumental sounds. I tried to let the organic qualities of these sounds remain evident, while nevertheless building up some very dense textures. Ultimately, the pieces reflect my relationship with nature, while living in a stressful urban environment." -- M. Prime.
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"Golden Ghetto" West Ridge
Jahmal Cole November 2, 2014
Devon Avenue is like little India in Chicago. The community really prides itself on authenticity, or as I would say, "keeping it one-hundred. The Indian food is FULL of FLAVOR, and I do mean flavorful. In one tortilla wrap, I tasted everything from coconut chips to Spearmint gum. Also worth noting, I saw at least four streets named Gandhi something or another. Mahatma Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for Civil Rights and freedom across the world.
I crossed California Avenue in search of a neighborhood in West Ridge called the "Golden Ghetto." This nickname stems from the area having a thriving Jewish population. The heyday of the area is the topic of Adam Langer's "Crossing California" book.
I was fortunate enough to have visited the "Golden Ghetto" on a Sabbath Day. This was a unique experience because as I arrived, I saw about twenty Orthodox Jews walking down the street in tall top hats. I had to engage in conversation. (Please reference the video above for the exchange). Because of the Sabbath Day, nobody would take pictures, shake my hand, or take a M3 business card from me. I was persistent though and talked with a few Jewish Chicagoans. I learned something new and expanded my worldview today. It was awesome!
The main reason I came to West Ridge was to visit the historic Rosehill Cemetery. Not because I have a fetish with graveyards, but because Rosehill Cemetery contains the graves of fourteen Union generals, six drummer boys, and hundreds of Civil War soldiers. Members of the Eighth Illinois Cavalry, the unit that fired the first shots at Gettysburg, are buried at Rosehill.
But Rosehill Cemetery is much more than a graveyard to the people that live nearby. 50th Ward Alderman O'Conner said that all of his kids learned to drive here. It's also a place he used to go and fish. This cemetery is an integral part of the West Ridge Community.
West Ridge was the truth! 77 Communities in 77 Weeks. Please support by grabbing a M3 Hoodie.
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Memphis boy, 9, killed in charter bus crash identified
Updated: Dec 3, 2018 - 9:22 PM
SALINE CO., Ark. - The child who was killed in Monday morning’s charter bus crash in Saline County, Ark. has been identified by the county coroner.
Kameron Johnson, 9 – known by family and friends as Kam Kam – died in the accident.
Saline County Coroner, Kevin Cleghorn, confirms this is the victim of this morning’s fatal bus crash: 9 year-old Kameron Johnson.@FOX13Memphis pic.twitter.com/iVbZkvy4rA
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He was among the nearly 50 children who were on board a charter bus that was traveling back from the Dallas-Fort Worth area to Memphis. The kids, who were part of a youth football team, were in Texas for the Big Tex National Championship.
Forty-five other children were injured in the accident, which happened around 2:40 a.m. on I-30 near the Highway 70 access ramp. Multiple children were trapped at the time of the accident, and victims were taken to nearby hospitals to be treated.
FOR A FULL STORY ON THE CRASH, CLICK HERE
Kameron was a third-grade student at Aspire Coleman Elementary School. The district released the following statement.
It is with a heavy heart that we share unfortunate news about Aspire Public School Memphis scholars who were involved in a tragic accident. This morning, a bus carrying a youth Orange Mound Football team crashed outside of Little Rock, Arkansas. We have confirmed with family members that at least four Aspire scholars were on that bus. The one fatality was an Aspire scholar.
In a news conference Monday afternoon, the district said three of its students were treated at an Arkansas hospital, but one of them lost his life.
“Just full of life. Full of energy. Full of potential,” Aspire Public Schools Supt. Dr. Nickalous Manning said when asked about Kam Kam. “It’s hard to put into words what the future had for him. He’s definitely a young person who is near and dear to our hearts.”
Dr. Manning said the young man made a profound impact on everyone he met, and the loss is hitting those close to him extremely hard.
“You could see it on their face what this young person meant to them, to the community, to teachers, and the adults here,” he said.
The Achievement School District, Aspire Public Schools, and School Seed Foundation are partnering to collect funds to support the family of Johnson.
According to officials, the fund is to help pay for funeral expenses. You can find more information about donating here.
Human remains found in Florida woods identified as teen reported missing one year ago
Texas woman says family vacation picture was ruined by topless photo-bomb
House votes to condemn Trump's tweets attacking congresswomen of color
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Those at risk for diabetes look like you, me and Rev Run, Novo photo campaign shows
by Carly Helfand |
Sep 21, 2016 8:24am
What does a Type 2 diabetes patient look like? They come in all races, ages, shapes and sizes--and 1 in 4 sufferers don’t know they have the disease. That’s a stat Novo Nordisk is looking to change.
The Danish drugmaker is tapping company ambassador and hip-hop legend Rev Run to help it put on a traveling photo exhibit--titled “Am I at Risk?”--that will “illustrate the many different faces of Americans who are at risk of diabetes,” the company said in a statement.
The exhibit--part of Novo’s wider Ask.Screen.Know effort--will also include 12x8 foot double-sided mirrors that’ll help visitors see themselves “among the faces of risk,” symbolizing the millions of Americans out there who don’t know how easily they might develop the malady. It’ll also emphasize the importance of screening, Novo said.
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Rev Run and his wife, Justine Simmons--whose family history, ethnicity and age heighten their chance of developing diabetes--will be featured in the exhibit, along with 10 other adults who identify as having one or more diabetes risk factors, including age, gender, ethnicity, height and weight.
"There's no type when it comes to those at risk of Type 2 diabetes," Simmons said in a statement, with Rev Run adding that “you can’t confront what you don’t know.”
Rev Run and Simmons are just two of many celebrity spokespeople who have teamed up with diabetes powerhouse Novo, which recently signed on Roots actor Ben Vereen and country singer RaeLynn to serve as part of its Patient Ambassador Education program. The company currently counts NBA Hall of Famer Dominique Wilkins, “Top Chef” star Tiffany Derry and former baseball star Lou Brock among its other famous partners, and many may recall the controversial, now-nixed pact it struck with butter maven Paula Deen a few years back.
Meanwhile, Novo is hardly the only pharma player to turn to photo exhibits as a marketing tool. Novartis last month launched its own--Melanoma Through My Lens, a collaboration with the not-for-profit Save Your Skin Foundation that showcased the personal experiences of 6 Canadians living with advanced melanoma. And earlier this year, Baxalta teamed up with photographer Rick Guidotti--who had previously worked with Novartis on a photo campaign about hives and skin plaques--to illustrate the perspectives of rare-cancer patients.
- read Novo's release
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Article of the Month - August 2017
Finnish Permanent GNSS Network, FinnRef
Hannu KOIVULA, Antti LAAKSONEN, Sonja LAHTINEN, Jaakko KUOKKANEN and Simo MARILA, Finland
Hannu Koivula, Antti Laaksonen, Sonja Lahtinen, Jaakko Kuokkanen, Simo Marila
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1) For the first time Commission 5 decided to award the best Commission 5 paper of the FIG Working Week with the NavXperience Award. This year the price was awarded to Hannu Koivula et al. for their contribution. The paper focusing on renewing the FinnRef network. The NRTK service will be improved so that it fulfills the internal surveying needs of the NLS. For this purpose the NLS has initiated a project for 2017-2019 to densify FinnRef with 20-30 new GNSS stations.
The National Land Survey of Finland (NLS) operates a nation-wide GNSS network of 20 stations. All stations, equipped with individually calibrated choke ring antennas and GNSS-receivers, track 1 Hz data from GPS, Glonass, Galileo, Beidou and SBAS. The data are streamed to the processing center of the NLS, where error modeling takes place. DGNSS corrections are transmitted through an IP network using NTRIP protocol and RTCM standards. The RINEX data of all the stations are stored for post processing purposes. Both DGNSS correction and RINEX data are freely available open data.
The Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI), the research unit of the NLS, maintains the coordinate system of Finland, the national ETRS89 realization EUREF-FIN. The time series of daily RINEX data are analyzed for monitoring the deformations of the EUREF-FIN. The frame is mainly deformed due to the postglacial rebound and plate tectonics. Due to the crustal deformation the relation between ITRF (International Terrestrial Reference Frame) and EUREF-FIN is not accurately known without constant monitoring. The FGI can open any GNSS data, including NRTK (Network RTK) corrections for educational, development and research purposes.
The NRTK service will be improved so that it fulfills the internal surveying needs of the NLS. For this purpose the NLS has initiated a project for 2017-2019 to densify FinnRef with 20-30 new GNSS stations. Starting 2019 the FinnRef reference stations will be used as base stations for aerial survey work and the NRTK service by 400 NLS surveyors for RTK.
FinnRef, with 40-50 stations, will be the highest order network of the Finnish coordinate system. All FinnRef stations will be connected to the precise levelling network. The height is further transferred to the ARP of the GNSS antenna by tachymeter with sub mm accuracy. These data together with an accurate geoid model may offer means for accurately maintaining the height system in the future. Concrete pillars will be constructed for absolute gravity measurements at a selection of the FinnRef stations. They will in the future serve as first order gravity network.
The original Finnish Permanent GPS network Finnref was built between 1991 and 1996 by the Finnish Geodetic Institute. It consisted of 13 permanent GPS stations. The network was created to provide a basis for a new national reference frame that would have good connections to international frames. The new national frame was to be consistent with satellite positioning that was becoming an important tool for surveying. Another main task for the network was to observe crustal movements at the GPS stations. This offered, for the first time, a nearly real-time tool for monitoring deformations of the reference system.
The Finnish official reference frame EUREF-FIN is the national realization of the ETRS89 (European Terrestrial Reference System). EUREF-FIN is defined by the coordinates of the 12 FinnRef stations and 100 first order survey markers that were measured as field campaigns in 1996-1997.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry granted funding for renewing the FinnRef network in 2012-2013. The current network consists of 20 GNSS stations and 4 GPS stations. The network offers also open RINEX data and an open DGNSS service with 0.5 m accuracy.
In the beginning of 2015 the Finnish Geodetic Institute was merged into the National Land Survey of Finland (NLS). The Finnish Geodetic Institute continued as a research unit of the NLS under a new name: Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI). In this paper we explain how operations of FinnRef and the related positioning service are organized in the NLS since the merge.
In Section 2 we explain the roles and responsibilities of different units of NLS related to FinnRef. In section 3 we give the current status of the network, its primary use and the open positioning service. In section 4 we explain how the data is available for education, research and development and give as an example the Aurora project that is a test platform for autonomous vehicles in Finnish Lapland. In section 5 we give future perspectives of the network.
2. FINNREF AS PART OF THE NATIONAL LAND SURVEY
The National Land Survey of Finland maintains the cadaster, i.e. registers containing information on e.g. mortgages, registrations of property rights and other property information. The NLS also conducts research and its application as well as data and information system development.
Figure 1. Organization of the National Land Survey of Finland (Jan-1-2017).
The NLS has offices in tens of different locations across Finland. The number of employees is nearly 2,000. The organization (shown in Figure 1) consists of a central administration and four operative units (Production, General Administration, Centre for ICT Services and the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI)).
The FGI is responsible for developing and maintaining the Finnish coordinate and height systems. The task is a basic duty of the department of Geodesy and Geodynamics (FGI-GG). Other units of the NLS support the task with field work etc. The FGI-GG defines the installations and hardware used at the permanent GNSS stations and takes care of the international connections to IGS, EPN and NKG. Any fundamental changes at a FinnRef station should be authorized by the FGI-GG. The FGI-GG processes daily coordinates of the FinnRef stations and monitors the deformation of national reference frame. FGI-GG also creates the transformations between GNSS and national reference frames. All departments of the FGI also perform research related to coordinates and GNSS. The FGI decides all data usage issues related to research and development.
The positioning service is the responsibility of the Centre for ICT Services. Operational work, namely operating the open positioning service, is a task of the ICT production services. They guarantee that the service performs in a defined accuracy and reliability level. They also take care of the maintenance of the stations and data transfers from stations to the processing center and to the end users.
3. Current Status of FinnRef
In 2012-2013 the FinnRef network was completely renewed [Koivula et al., 2012]. The new FinnRef consists of 20 permanent GNSS stations (Fig 2). All stations except SAVU and SODA are founded on bedrock. The stability of the bedrock was tested using a Scintrex CG5 gravimeter as a sensitive seismometer. The standard antenna platform, a 3-meter high steel grid mast, is narrowed from the top (see fig 2). In KEV2 and MET3 a similar, but 6-meter high, mast was used because of the obstacles around the antenna. The masts are anchored straight to the bedrock with screw bars. There are at least 3 survey markers around the mast. The stability of the mast is regularly monitored with respect to the survey markers using tachymeter and levelling instruments.
All antennas are JPL design Javad choke ring antennas with SCIGN radar domes (JAVRINGANT_DM SCIS) to prevent snow accumulating on the choke rings during the winter season. Radomes have an effect on the signal propagation and therefore they influence the estimated coordinates. There are also slight differences between antenna phase patterns even if though similar antennas are used. To minimize the uncertainty all antennas have been individually calibrated at Geo++ in Germany using a calibration robot [Wübbena et al., 2000]. Receivers are Javad Delta-G3T (JAVAD TRE_G3TH DELTA) and they track GPS, Glonass, Galileo, Beidou and SBAS with 1 Hz.
Figure 2. FinnRef is a nation-wide network that consists of 20 continuously operating GNSS stations (left). On the right the TORN station is shown. The antenna is mounted on a 3 m height steel mast that is fixed to the bedrock. The top of the mast is narrowed to minimize reflections from the mast.
Data connections are 3G/4G or fiber connections. For open data products the 1 Hz data are streamed to the GNSS analysis center of the NLS. At the analysis center the GNSMART software is used to perform real-time error analysis of FinnRef allowing us to provide DGNSS corrections for end users. For maintenance of the reference frame the hourly data with 30 s interval are ftp-pushed to the local data center of the FGI, where they are further archived and, in case of international stations, submitted to the data banks of IGS and EPN.
3.2 Maintenance of the national reference frame
The official coordinate system of Finland is the ETRS89 realization called EUREF-FIN. It is defined by the coordinates of 100 first order benchmarks and the 12 original FinnRef stations [Ollikainen et al., 2000]. Four of these original GPS stations are also EPN (EUREF permanent GNSS network) stations. The new FinnRef stations have been proposed in December 2016 to the EPN and the data is already available at the EPN’s regional data centres. The RTCM data will be provided as well. The inclusion of the densified FinnRef network to the EPN provides valuable data for the EUREF community eg. for intraplate deformation analysis.
The FGI contributes to the NKG’s GNSS Analysis Centre by processing FinnRef as a sub-network. The analysis is done on a weekly basis using the Bernese software. This solution is the main tool to monitor deformations of the coordinate system. Long coordinate time series of the FinnRef stations offer reliable velocities of coordinates. These velocities are in a crucial role when coordinates are transferred from ITRF to EUREF-FIN. In order to fully utilize the old and new time-series of FinnRef we gathered overlapping data for roughly three years: 11/2013 (RINEX 2), 2/2014 (binary) - 11/2016 for non EPN-stations. All old EPN stations are still dual stations. Figure 3 shows an example of the time series of dual station VIRO/VIR2.
Figure 3. The detrended time series of the Virolahti stations: VIRO (blue) and VIR2 (green) in mm. For clarity, the time series have been offset from each other 3 and 5 mm in horizontal and vertical, respectively.
Figure 4. Control measurements at the Joensuu GNSS stations. Tripods are on survey markers founded on bedrock. New FinnRef station JOE2 is in the front and old JOEN in the back.
In order to guarantee that the coordinate time series relate to actual movements of the crust and not to the deformation of the mast, we regularly perform control surveys at the stations (Figure 4). All stations are surrounded by at least 3 survey markers. We use tachymeters to control the location of the GNSS antenna (where a miniprism can be attached to the antenna mounting screw as a reference point) with respect to the survey markers. The height difference between the survey markers are precise levelled as well.
The official transformation parameters provided by the IERS are not sufficient to accurately model intra-plate deformations or land uplift [Häkli and Koivula, 2012]. When transforming from ITRF to EUREF-FIN we take the intra-plate deformations between observation epochs into account using the NKG land uplift model, as discussed in detail in Häkli et al. (2016).
It is crucial that all the measurement in Finland are performed in the official EUREF-FIN frame. For this purpose Public recommendations on measuring control markers in EUREF-FIN have been published [JHS, 2017]. Traditionally all the coordinates are classified into different measurement classes. This is the case for EUREF-FIN coordinates as well. The highest class E1 includes the FinnRef stations and survey markers defining EUREF-FIN. Under that there are classes E2-E6. E2 and E3 are typically the highest classes of the municipalities and cities. Traditionally measurements in a certain class had to be tied to the closest benchmarks of the higher class. Our recommendation allows the use of permanent GNSS stations, having official E2 coordinates, instead of survey markers if certain measurement protocols are followed.
Any permanent GNSS station or network can obtain official E2 class coordinates using the E2-Service of the FGI. The owner of the permanent station or network agrees to transfer daily RINEX data to the FGI and as a return gets official EUREF-FIN coordinates for the station. The FGI monitors the quality of the E2 coordinates on a daily basis. If the station is unstable and/or there is too much deviation from the official coordinates the validity of the coordinates and the station will be ended.
3.3 Open Positioning Service and post processing data
The data from all FinnRef stations are streamed to the processing center of the NLS, where error modeling takes place. For this purpose the GNSMART software is used. DGNSS corrections are transmitted free of charge through the IP network using the NTRIP protocol and the RTCM 2.x standards. Currently we are transferring corrections for GPS and Glonass satellites only. It is possible to choose corrections from a desired GNSS station, the closest station or use a Network DGNSS solution where the correction is tailored for the user position taking into account the error modelling of the network. This mode guarantees the most homogenous solution over the country. Also the RINEX files from all the FinnRef stations are openly available. The RINEX data of 1 Hz is guaranteed to be available at least two months after the observations. Users can decide the time span and the observing interval of the downloaded data. For the most accurate use the individual calibration tables are also available.
Differential GNSS service performances have been investigated and published in Marila et al. 2016. Based on practical experiments performed with state-of-the-art geodetic receivers about 0.5 meter accuracy (horizontal even better) can be obtained in a good positioning environment with a static or even a moving platform (car in the tests). The distance from the FinnRef station has minor influence on the accuracy and the Network DGNSS performed slightly better compared to the nearest station corrections. In a challenging environment the positioning accuracy decreases providing most of the time still higher accuracy than with stand-alone GNSS. Relatively high availabilities of DGNSS corrected solutions were obtained in the tests. Breaks occurred mostly due to a very bad positioning environment (no satellites in view) or breaks in the internet connection via which the DGNSS corrections were obtained. Problems with the latter can be minimized by allowing the receiver to use eldering corrections during the breaks. Additionally, the Network RTK solution (open for research purpose only and used as a reference solution during the car tests) performed really well in good signal conditions.
Table 1. Obtained accuracies in m (3d-error, 95 % percentile) under different conditions. *break in internet connection.
Stand-alone GNSS Network DGNSS Network DGNSS Availability
Site 95 % 95 % % of time
FGI Headquarters 5.54 0.62 98.08 %*
FGI Headquarters (Forest) 7.33 3.39 100.00 %
Field Road 0.69 99.38 %
High-/Motorway 4.36 97.29 %
4. Open data for education, research and development
Section 3.2 described the data that is open for anybody to use. The FGI can provide open data or tailor a service for any educational, research or development purpose. We are able to provide data streams from the FinnRef stations and also Network RTK corrections. We can provide PRS, FKP and MAC corrections using RTCM 3.x formats. Our own preliminary studies indicate that in good observing conditions it is possible to reach 5 cm NRTK accuracy even if our network is really sparse (average distance between stations is 200 km).
FinnRef error modeling was successfully used in the P3-service project (https://p3-service.net/) financed by private companies and Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation. Our analysis center offered the error analysis of the FinnRef network as SSR corrections through the IP network in RTCM format. The corrections were utilized in prototype mobile phones that allowed access to raw code and phase data. Raw FinnRef data are also streamed to Kartverket in Norway to support their Ionosphere Scintellation studies (http://sesolstorm.kartverket.no/). Figure 5 shows an example of the tailored FinnRef network for research and development: The Aurora ecosystem in Finnish Lapland gives the opportunity to test new intelligent traffic solutions in extreme weather conditions. Aurora has a closed testing ground but in the future also the whole E8 road will be a test field.
Figure 5: Infrastructure that will provide GNSS correction data for intelligent traffic in Lapland.
5. Future Perspectives
5.1 Improving Positioning Service for the NLS internal use
Currently the NLS is operating the open DGNSS service and NRTK is reserved for research purposes only. The NRTK service will be improved so that it fulfills the internal surveying needs of the NLS. For this purpose the NLS has initiated a project for 2017-2019 to densify FinnRef with 20-30 new GNSS stations (Figure 6). At the same time the quality monitoring of the corrections and data will be improved. Starting 2019 the FinnRef reference stations will be used as base stations for aerial survey work and the NRTK service by 400 NLS surveyors for RTK.
When fully operational in 2019 the positioning service will be located at the Governmental Data Center. All the key components are made redundant and therefore the availability of the service is as high as it can get considering the hardware. Abilities to detect errors of the system in multiple levels are constantly monitored and being developed. In case of a software, data or hardware failure, appropriate measures for recovery have been thought through and are also constantly under development. The entire telecommunication network is built using secured 3G/4G or Fiber optic connections having SLA’s (Service Level Agreement) with local ISP’s (Internet Service Provider). The whole service architecture is designed as secure and scalable as possible taking into account possible future needs. The service is still under heavy development and all effort is put to secure the service and maintaining the required level of accuracy, continuity, integrity and availability in the RTK- and DGNSS-services.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has initiated a project that gives the Parliament of Finland a clarification of spatial data policies by the end of 2017. Typically these kind of clarifications may later lead to legislative changes and may have influence on the open data policy.
5.2 FinnRef as a coordinate, height and gravity reference network
The FGI is maintaining the coordinate, height and gravity reference networks in Finland. The new FinnRef will provide basis for all of them in the future. All new stations will be built as highest order reference stations (as described in section 3.1.). All of these techniques support each other and may give valuable information. For example a slowly growing forest may be seen on long GNSS time series as slow vertical velocity even if the station is not uplifting. Uplift models by repeated levellings or gravity observations may help to notice the anomalies.
FinnRef, with 40-50 stations, will be the highest order network of the Finnish coordinate system. The majority of the stations will be built on bedrock and their stability will be monitored. This dense reference network allows us to consider changing into an active definition of the reference frame. This would mean that the national reference frame would be defined by the permanent GNSS stations instead of a number of fixed benchmarks. Also the E2 class stations could be included in this definition if necessary. The network will also offer a dense velocity field for intra-plate deformation models. This will improve the accuracy of transformations from GNSS coordinates to the national realization. A dense active reference network gives us the possibility to aim for a fully dynamic time dependent reference frame in national measurements. However, deciding to do so means a major change in measurement guidelines, registers, GIS software etc.
All FinnRef stations will be connected to the precise levelling network (Figure 6). The survey markers of every FinnRef station will be precise levelled from the closest pair of stable first order precise levelling benchmarks. The height is further transferred to the ARP of the GNSS antenna by tachymeter with sub mm accuracy. By precise levelling we can offer official normal heights for the stations, long GNSS time series provide ellipsoidal heights and change rates with small uncertainties. These data together with an accurate geoid model may offer means for accurately maintaining the height system in the future. The major height related challenge in Finland is postglacial rebound, meaning that the land is uplifting between a few millimeters up to one centimeter per year.
Figure 6. All FinnRef stations will be connected to the precise levelling network (red lines). Current stations are shown with dots and planned stations with triangles. The final locations of the new stations will be decided in 2017-2018.
The current first order gravity network FOGN consists of 50 gravity points on accessible locations. Traditionally many of these points are locating on concrete or granite stairs in front of churches. These locations were considered to be safe from construction works of the urbanizing society. The points have been re-measured with an A10 absolute gravimeter in 2009-2010. Concrete pillars will be constructed for absolute gravity measurements at a selection of the FinnRef stations. Already today we have time series of absolute gravity measurements from 12 FinnRef stations with FG5. We intend to increase this number by six in order to study the influence of postglacial rebound to our gravity system.
6. concluding remarks
The Finnish Permanent GNSS network and its positioning services are operated together by two units of the National Land Survey. The Centre for ICT Services is responsible for the open services like the DGNSS-service, data transfers etc., while the research unit, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute FGI, concentrates on maintaining the reference frame and research work. Both units are working in close co-operation. The NLS project to improve NRTK services is strongly supported by the FGI with expertise and vision on future reference frames and services. In the near future the improved services will increase the possibilities of the NRTK users to obtain reliable accurate EUREF-FIN coordinates from the service that is maintained by the same organization that maintains the reference frame as well. The new densified FinnRef will bring the definitions of coordinate, height and gravity references to the same geographical location, giving a unique possibility to study phenomena that are common for all reference frames.
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Marila, S., Bhuiyan, M. Z. H, Kuokkanen, J., Koivula, H., and Kuusniemi, H., 2016. “Performance Comparison of Differential GNSS, EGNOS and SDCM in Different User Scenarios in Finland,” Proceedings of ENC’2016, Helsinki, Finland. DOI: 10.1109/EURONAV.2016.7530550 Ollikainen, M., Koivula, H., and Poutanen, M. (2000). The densification of the EUREF network in Finland,” Publications of the Finnish Geodetic Institute, 129, 61 pages, 2000.
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Hannu Koivula is the head of the Reference Systems research group at the FGI. He received his M.Sc. (tech) degree in1994 (Helsinki University of Technology) and Lic. (tech) degree in 2007 (Aalto University), both majoring geodesy. He has 20 years of research experience in high accuracy GNSS applications and GNSS networks. He has studied the accuracy of GNSS applications and lately specialized in metrological traceability of GNSS measurements.
Antti Laaksonen received his Bachelor of Engineering in Telecommunications in 2011 from Lahti University of Applied Sciences. He has worked as an ICT Specialist at the Centre of ICT Services at the National Land Survey since 2015, before that in the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute since 2014. Currently his main responsibility is in development and maintenance of Finland’s Positioning Service and FinnRef network. He also works as the hosting entity manager for Finland’s EGNOS RIMS ground station. He is specialized in telecommunications and information technology architecture and is currently studying for a Master’s degree in Business Informatics at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences.
Sonja Lahtinen is a research scientist at the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI), National Land Survey of Finland. She received her M.Sc. (Tech.) degree from Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, in 2009. She has been analysing the FinnRef data for the maintenance of national coordinate systems as well as operating the FinnRef positioning services. Jaakko Kuokkanen received his Master of Science degree (Geodesy) in 2012 from Aalto University. He has worked as a Research Scientist at the Department of Geodesy and Geodynamics in the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute since 2011. He is specialized in Real Time Kinematic GNSS measurements and GNSS reference station networks.
Simo Marila received his Master of Science degree in 2011 from Aalto University, Finland. His main subject was geodesy. He works now as a Research Scientist at the Department of Geodesy and Geodynamics in the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute. He was involved in renewing the Finnish permanent GNSS network (called FinnRef) and his recent research work has been mainly related to the reliability and accuracy of GNSS positioning.
Hannu Koivula, Antti Laaksonen, Sonja Lahtinen, Simo Marila, Jaakko Kuokkanen
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In a written reply, the government said Swachh Bharat Mission was a demand-driven scheme and hence state-wise funds were not allocated. (PTI)
The government today informed the Rajya Sabha that it had constructed more than 500 lakh toilets under Swachh Bharat Mission. Minister of State for Drinking Water and Sanitation Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi told the Upper House that it built 561.75 lakh toilets under the Swachh Bharat Mission (rural). Nearly 29.08 lakh toilets were constructed under the MGNREGA and seven states/UTs were declared Open Defecation Free (ODF), he added.
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Dooney & Bourke Made A Chef’s Purse For Roxanne Spruance
Jess Kapadia January 21, 2016
In the day and age of well-known fashion labels teaming up with awesome chefs, a bag has emerged to serve the lady cook in your life. Fine accessory maker Dooney & Bourke has a new series of purses inspired by women artisans who work with their hands, including chef Roxanne Spruance of New York City’s contemporary French-American restaurant Kingsley. D&B’s Roxy bag boasts ample space, sturdy leather, several deep pockets and a classic design that transitions seamlessly from lunch service to a private cheffing gig. In fact, that’s where the Roxy bag came from.
“I fell into the relationship with Dooney & Bourke as I was freelancing while getting Kingsley together,” Spruance explains in an email. “I was private-cheffing for Peter Dooney on his yacht in the Virgin Islands, which turned into a couple more events in Bermuda, Greenwich, and Watch Hill, Rhode Island. Both Dooney & Bourke and Kingsley value quality, craftmanship and attention to detail. The Roxy bag is inspired by my quest for the best ingredients.”
Sounds like the gig was a success.
Any chef will tell you that versatility is of the utmost importance with any gear, from coats to footwear to the bags they use to carry their many implements of destruction. Ideally, it shouldn’t force you to compromise your personal style.
“My style is ever-evolving, much like my food,” adds Spruance, “but I always try to be ready for any situation. You never know when you have to go from being in the kitchen to a photo shoot to a meeting with an editor,to TV and then running back to break down a pig.”
And should she have to break down a pig in close quarters with her fabulous accessory, might we recommend the easily wiped-down nylon model?
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Poor Check out the review
Patching post release allow Elemental: War of Magic to live up to it's full potential. And there's a lot to love.
User Rating: 9 | Elemental: War of Magic PC
By Keledron | Review Date: August 26, 2010
When I first heard about E:WoM , my first thoughts ran back to 1995's Microprose release of Master of Magic (I believe it was '95). This comparison is certainly not unwarranted, and Stardock has made no qualms about the inspiration the aforementioned game provided.
The world has been utterly destroyed due to a cataclysmic war between Titans and Mortals, and now rising from the ashes of this disaster are the Channelers, those that are mysteriously able to harness the magic powers that caused the aforementioned destruction. This time, hopefully to rebuild.
Elemental has a very old school feel to it, and in this case its a very good thing. The graphics are decent enough, and they do not stand out because of how flashy or intense they are. There's a sense of style here that you can't deny just works for this game, and it grows on you very, very quickly.
The audio and music is good, standard medieval music faire and weapon clangs. Again, the presentation isn't groundbreaking or mind blowing, but it works and works well for this game.
Where Elemental truly shines though, is it's gameplay. The scope and ambition of Elemental is simply massive. At its core its a 4X turned based strategy with the usual epic goal of world domination. However there's several ways to actually win a game: Conquest (obviously), Diplomacy (make friends with all and win), Research the spell of Making, or complete the ultimate quest. This is definitely a refreshing change from the usual conquest to win. The city building and conquest has a very "Civ" feel to it, but still has enough character and style to stand out on its own. For example, you can choose where you place your buildings and improvements within your city's area of influence, giving each city its own unique look and character. The Tech and Magic Research is extensive as well, and no time games have the same research available.
The game also embraces many RPG principles, with recruiting heroes, raising parties/armies and going questing. Loot and experience is gained, with plenty of equipment and items to make the greatest of loot fiends drool. Throw in you also have manage your actual dynasty (marry, have children, preserve your line).
There really is something for everyone here. Civilization meets Dungeon Keeper meets Dungeons and Dragons. I've barely scratched the surface of all the features this game offers, of which there are enough to keep you busy for months, hell even years if this game is your kind of style. Throw in the complete moddability of every aspect of this game, its going to have quite a lengthy lifespan.
The current complaints are all generally stemming from the 'state' of the initial game release. I would highly recommend any game review site to make sure they get the latest patched version of this game. Granted, Stardock deserves to take a few whacks for this one. The initial release was in a seriously bad state. It wasn't unplayable, but some of the things that were wrong were things that should have been caught in QA. However, a few days and patches later and the game is definitely coming along nicely.
If the game sounds remotely interesting from this mediocre review ;) you really should pick it up. There's 16 player multiplayer as well! This is definitely worth picking up. A few post release patches save this game from a bug ridden oblivion.
That's my take, take it or leave it.
Other Helpful Reviews for Elemental: War of Magic
What have we done to deserve THIS?
By kadatherion | Review Date: Aug 29, 2010 | PC
Stardock has made quite a name in strategy games, especially thanks to the astounding Galciv franchise. Not a surprise, then, that players who love fantasy 4x games were eagerly waiting for Elemental: we thought it would... Read Full Review
35 of 38 users found the following review helpful
Rating:3.5
My first 10 minutes with Elemental.
By deanco | Review Date: Sep 10, 2010 | PC
OK, campaign, new game! I step through the screens and find myself on a beach, shipwrecked. A popup says, 'right click to move'. OK, let's check out my wrecked ship, maybe there's some valuable stuff still on it. I r... Read Full Review
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Hemsida / Carnival Games
by Take Two Interactive Switch
Produktkod Ny: 267110
Genre Arcade
New Super Lucky's Tale
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And with Nintendo Switch, the Carnival Games experience can be enjoyed wherever, whenever!
A FUN VARIETY OF CARNIVAL GAMES FOR EVERYONE: Like a real-life county fair, Carnival Games bursts with exciting mini-games that you can play over and over. Classic mini-games such as shooting basketballs (“Swish”) and taking down unfriendly clowns (“Clowning Around”) are joined by brand new attractions like flying drone racing (“Light Speed”) and cosmic bowling (“Cosmic Strike”). With 20 total games Carnival Games is a fantastic time for all.
CARNIVAL GAMES EVERYWHERE: With Nintendo Switch, Carnival Games is a game for everyone and for everywhere. Whether on the big screen or small screen, Carnival Games can be enjoyed wherever you want to play.
A MULTIPLAYER PARTY: Bring your family and friends in on the fun for a true Carnival Games party. Up to 4 players can participate simultaneously, bumping up the level of excitement and competition in all 20 carnival mini-games.
PLAY, WIN, GET REWARDS: Play games, win tickets, and trade them in for new outfits for your carnival guest characters. Dress them up to match your style or be as wild as you can with wacky headgear, shirts and bottoms.
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ORLANDO, Fla. , October 6, 2015
Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016
Analysts Explore Top Industry Trends at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2015, October 4-8 in Orlando
Gartner, Inc. today highlighted the top 10 technology trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2016. Analysts presented their findings during the sold-out Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, which is taking place here through Thursday.
Gartner defines a strategic technology trend as one with the potential for significant impact on the organization. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to the business, end users or IT, the need for a major investment, or the risk of being late to adopt. These technologies impact the organization's long-term plans, programs and initiatives.
"Gartner's top 10 strategic technology trends will shape digital business opportunities through 2020," said David Cearley, vice president and Gartner Fellow. "The first three trends address merging the physical and virtual worlds and the emergence of the digital mesh. While organizations focus on digital business today, algorithmic business is emerging. Algorithms — relationships and interconnections — define the future of business. In algorithmic business, much happens in the background in which people are not directly involved. This is enabled by smart machines, which our next three trends address. Our final four trends address the new IT reality, the new architecture and platform trends needed to support digital and algorithmic business."
The top 10 strategic technology trends for 2016 are:
The Device Mesh
The device mesh refers to an expanding set of endpoints people use to access applications and information or interact with people, social communities, governments and businesses. The device mesh includes mobile devices, wearable, consumer and home electronic devices, automotive devices and environmental devices — such as sensors in the Internet of Things (IoT).
"In the postmobile world the focus shifts to the mobile user who is surrounded by a mesh of devices extending well beyond traditional mobile devices," said Mr. Cearley.
While devices are increasingly connected to back-end systems through various networks, they have often operated in isolation from one another. As the device mesh evolves, we expect connection models to expand and greater cooperative interaction between devices to emerge.
Ambient User Experience
The device mesh creates the foundation for a new continuous and ambient user experience. Immersive environments delivering augmented and virtual reality hold significant potential but are only one aspect of the experience. The ambient user experience preserves continuity across boundaries of device mesh, time and space. The experience seamlessly flows across a shifting set of devices and interaction channels blending physical, virtual and electronic environment as the user moves from one place to another.
"Designing mobile apps remains an important strategic focus for the enterprise," said Mr. Cearley. "However, the leading edge of that design is focused on providing an experience that flows across and exploits different devices, including IoT sensors, common objects such as automobiles, or even factories. Designing these advanced experiences will be a major differentiator for independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprises alike by 2018."
Advances in 3D printing have already enabled 3D printing to use a wide range of materials, including advanced nickel alloys, carbon fiber, glass, conductive ink, electronics, pharmaceuticals and biological materials. These innovations are driving user demand, as the practical applications for 3D printers expand to more sectors, including aerospace, medical, automotive, energy and the military. The growing range of 3D-printable materials will drive a compound annual growth rate of 64.1 percent for enterprise 3D-printer shipments through 2019. These advances will necessitate a rethinking of assembly line and supply chain processes to exploit 3D printing.
"3D printing will see a steady expansion over the next 20 years of the materials that can be printed, improvement in the speed with which items can be printed and emergence of new models to print and assemble composite parts," said Mr. Cearley.
Information of Everything
Everything in the digital mesh produces, uses and transmits information. This information goes beyond textual, audio and video information to include sensory and contextual information. Information of everything addresses this influx with strategies and technologies to link data from all these different data sources. Information has always existed everywhere but has often been isolated, incomplete, unavailable or unintelligible. Advances in semantic tools such as graph databases as well as other emerging data classification and information analysis techniques will bring meaning to the often chaotic deluge of information.
Advanced Machine Learning
In advanced machine learning, deep neural nets (DNNs) move beyond classic computing and information management to create systems that can autonomously learn to perceive the world, on their own. The explosion of data sources and complexity of information makes manual classification and analysis infeasible and uneconomic. DNNs automate these tasks and make it possible to address key challenges related to the information of everything trend.
DNNs (an advanced form of machine learning particularly applicable to large, complex datasets) is what makes smart machines appear "intelligent." DNNs enable hardware- or software-based machines to learn for themselves all the features in their environment, from the finest details to broad sweeping abstract classes of content. This area is evolving quickly, and organizations must assess how they can apply these technologies to gain competitive advantage.
Autonomous Agents and Things
Machine learning gives rise to a spectrum of smart machine implementations — including robots, autonomous vehicles, virtual personal assistants (VPAs) and smart advisors — that act in an autonomous (or at least semiautonomous) manner. While advances in physical smart machines such as robots get a great deal of attention, the software-based smart machines have a more near-term and broader impact. VPAs such as Google Now, Microsoft's Cortana and Apple's Siri are becoming smarter and are precursors to autonomous agents. The emerging notion of assistance feeds into the ambient user experience in which an autonomous agent becomes the main user interface. Instead of interacting with menus, forms and buttons on a smartphone, the user speaks to an app, which is really an intelligent agent.
"Over the next five years we will evolve to a postapp world with intelligent agents delivering dynamic and contextual actions and interfaces," said Mr. Cearley. "IT leaders should explore how they can use autonomous things and agents to augment human activity and free people for work that only people can do. However, they must recognize that smart agents and things are a long-term phenomenon that will continually evolve and expand their uses for the next 20 years."
Adaptive Security Architecture
The complexities of digital business and the algorithmic economy combined with an emerging "hacker industry" significantly increase the threat surface for an organization. Relying on perimeter defense and rule-based security is inadequate, especially as organizations exploit more cloud-based services and open APIs for customers and partners to integrate with their systems. IT leaders must focus on detecting and responding to threats, as well as more traditional blocking and other measures to prevent attacks. Application self-protection, as well as user and entity behavior analytics, will help fulfill the adaptive security architecture.
Advanced System Architecture
The digital mesh and smart machines require intense computing architecture demands to make them viable for organizations. Providing this required boost are high-powered and ultraefficient neuromorphic architectures. Fueled by field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) as an underlining technology for neuromorphic architectures, there are significant gains to this architecture, such as being able to run at speeds of greater than a teraflop with high-energy efficiency.
"Systems built on GPUs and FPGAs will function more like human brains that are particularly suited to be applied to deep learning and other pattern-matching algorithms that smart machines use," said Mr. Cearley. "FPGA-based architecture will allow further distribution of algorithms into smaller form factors, with considerably less electrical power in the device mesh, thus allowing advanced machine learning capabilities to be proliferated into the tiniest IoT endpoints, such as homes, cars, wristwatches and even human beings."
Mesh App and Service Architecture
Monolithic, linear application designs (e.g., the three-tier architecture) are giving way to a more loosely coupled integrative approach: the apps and services architecture. Enabled by software-defined application services, this new approach enables Web-scale performance, flexibility and agility. Microservice architecture is an emerging pattern for building distributed applications that support agile delivery and scalable deployment, both on-premises and in the cloud. Containers are emerging as a critical technology for enabling agile development and microservice architectures. Bringing mobile and IoT elements into the app and service architecture creates a comprehensive model to address back-end cloud scalability and front-end device mesh experiences. Application teams must create new modern architectures to deliver agile, flexible and dynamic cloud-based applications with agile, flexible and dynamic user experiences that span the digital mesh.
Internet of Things Platforms
IoT platforms complement the mesh app and service architecture. The management, security, integration and other technologies and standards of the IoT platform are the base set of capabilities for building, managing and securing elements in the IoT. IoT platforms constitute the work IT does behind the scenes from an architectural and a technology standpoint to make the IoT a reality. The IoT is an integral part of the digital mesh and ambient user experience and the emerging and dynamic world of IoT platforms is what makes them possible.
"Any enterprise embracing the IoT will need to develop an IoT platform strategy, but incomplete competing vendor approaches will make standardization difficult through 2018," said Mr. Cearley.
Additional analysis can be found in the Gartner report “Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016: At a Glance.”
About Gartner Symposium/ITxpo
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the world's most important gathering of CIOs and senior IT executives. This event delivers independent and objective content with the authority and weight of the world's leading IT research and advisory organization, and provides access to the latest solutions from key technology providers. Gartner's annual Symposium/ITxpo events are key components of attendees' annual planning efforts. IT executives rely on Gartner Symposium/ITxpo to gain insight into how their organizations can use IT to address business challenges and improve operational efficiency.
Video replays of keynotes and sessions are available on Gartner Events on Demand. Follow news, photos and video coming from Gartner Symposium/ITxpo on Smarter With Gartner, on Twitter using #GartnerSYM, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Upcoming dates and locations for Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2015 include:
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Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT), is the world’s leading research and advisory company and a member of the S&P 500. We equip business leaders with indispensable insights, advice and tools to achieve their mission-critical priorities today and build the successful organizations of tomorrow.
Our unmatched combination of expert-led, practitioner-sourced and data-driven research steers clients toward the right decisions on the issues that matter most. We are a trusted advisor and objective resource for more than 15,000 organizations in more than 100 countries — across all major functions, in every industry and enterprise size.
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Review: Borderlands 2
By Russell Holly 09.18.2012 :: 11:27AM EDT 09.18.2012
It takes a lot for a first person shooter to really set itself apart from the swarm nowadays. During the E3 presentations this year it felt like all of the shooters just blended together into one amorphous blob of shipping containers and jungle scenes. Borderlands was an FPS in a league of its own, not so much because it was a superior game in any particularly relevant way, but because you could easily pick the game out of a lineup.
There’s no doubting what game you are looking at when you see a screen from Borderlands. And the original proved so popular that a sequel has been made, bringing four new Vault Hunters back to Pandora in search of a new Vault. Borderlands 2 is a bizarre return to a bizarre world, but done is such a way that old and new fans of the original will love it.
If you played the original Borderlands, this new sequel will feel immediately comfortable. Very little about the actual gameplay has changed. Everything on the HUD is in mostly the same place, save for an infinitely more helpful mini map in the top right corner. Even the story told at the beginning of the game comes right out and says that much of history is repeating itself. You are a Vault Hunter, returning to Pandora to locate the secret treasures and riches found within a new and somehow better vault. Before the actual gameplay starts you are introduced to Handsome Jack, your new villain, as well as the seemingly magical AI that is guiding you to save Pandora. It’s all very familiar to Borderlands players, but that doesn’t stop you from marching right in and killing everything that stands in your way.
Each of the four characters have been tweaked quite a bit from the original types, but still offer fairly similar gameplay experiences. The Siren’s special abilities, for example, have been modified to only work on one enemy at a time. The new Assassin class has taken the position of the Siren in the previous game, focusing on stealth and decoys to make the quick and silent kill. The Gunzerker is a heavier weapons adjustment to the original Beserker, allowing for the occasional dual wielding of just about anything. Finally, the Commando class feels just a bit watered down now that the Turret doesn’t have the ability to shield you until later in the game. It’s clear by playing with each of these characters for a bit that these tweaks are designed to encourage a balanced multiplayer game, instead of four players running the same power build.
Despite looking and feeling very much like the original Borderlands, this sequel is absolutely filled with polish. The animations for Second Wind experiences, as well as the animations for resurrecting into your New-U have been greatly improved. The driving experience when in vehicles has greatly improved as well, allowing you to drive even at high speeds with much greater control of the vehicle. Even the cutscenes look much better than the original Borderlands, but all of this was done without straying from the almost cell shaded animation that has made this game so unique. It’s a really bizarre experience to be able to say that everything feels the same, but at the same time everything has been improved upon.
Borderlands 2 has captured the continuous gameplay experience that the original game stumbled on a bit. The beginning of the game features exactly zero of the “kill x creatures and report back” type of grinding. Instead, the plot offers you what feels like a simple objective and then puts half a dozen smaller challenges in front of you until you reach that original goal. The game flows remarkably well, pitting you against groups of enemies in various stages of difficulty, each time forcing you to think about what weapons you have equipped to take out the bad guy. The slower parts in between these skirmishes are spent either purchasing better equipment, or re-organizing your weapon layout for the next fight. By the time you get to the first real boss fight, you’ve gained a more than appropriate handle on which weapons are the best against which enemy.
Like the original, the scenery in Borderlands 2 is mostly indestructible. While you can benefit from this with the understanding that the tank that just rolled up on you can’t shoot past the 2″ bar in between him and you, it’s more than a little frustrating when a flag waving in the breeze catches your sniper fire. To help add a little balance in this situation, there are new environment variables that can be used both against you and to your advantage. There are exploding tanks that spray fire in every direction, barrels full of corrosive materials that can deal damage through your shields, and trees that behave like Tesla coils when shot or run into. It only takes being affected by these variables once or twice before you pay closer attention to them, but your enemies in game never quite seem to remember not to hide behind them.
Gearbox Studios has pulled off what very few sequels are able to, which is to make the next title just as much fun as the first without messing with the core game. Borderlands 2 is every bit as violent, engaging, and hilariously vulgar as the original. The core game is far from all there is to do, especially since we already know that there are at least four DLC additions being released, and eventually including a whole new player class.
For $60 on PS3, Xbox 360, and PC, Borderlands 2 is well on its way to being one of the best games released this year.
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Cochran resigns Senate seat; Bryant to appoint replacement by Ap
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Mississippi’s senior U.S. Senator, Republican Thad Cochran, just announced he will resign from the Senate effective April 1, 2018.
Mike Espy to run for Thad Cochran's Senate seat
Former U.S. House Representative and Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Mike Espy intends to run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Thad Cochran.
Medicaid's second-in-command resigns
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Chief Financial Officer Margaret King’s retirement is the latest in a series of changes at the state agency
New CEO says hospital can thrive
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William “Bill” Buck has been named the new interim CEO for the University of Mississippi Medical Center-Grenada, and he spent the first full week in the city settling in and preparing to head the hospital.
On Monday, Buck was announced the interim CEO at the hospitals in Grenada and Holmes County.
He will serve, pending the hiring of a permanent leader to succeed Don Hutson, who recently accepted another post after leading the two hospitals for almost two years.
“This is a marvelous facility, and it’s in good shape,” Buck said. “The staff and employees here are great and just super to work with.”
As interim, Buck said he does not plan to be in Grenada for an extended period of time as the recruitment process to hire a new CEO has already begun.
“I understand that the job has already been posted,” Buck said. “I’m here to help keep things going.”
Buck has more than 25 years of senior health system leadership experience with proven results in business optimization and financial stabilization, according to UMMC headquarters in Jackson.
“He is a strategic, proactive leader with the ability to rapidly assess organizational processes, solve complex fiscal and operational challenges, and develop and improve board, medical staff and management teams,” said Kevin Cook, Health System CEO.
Over the past two decades, Buck has served more than two dozen hospitals as their interim leader, shepherding their staffs and overseeing growth and service improvements.
Google announces Cloud Healthcare API to unlock health data
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Using open standards, vendor seeks to address industry’s interoperability challenges, says Eric Schmidt.
Patients Need More Info on Post-Acute Care, MedPAC Says
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But providing facility quality ratings is a sticky wicket
Remarks on Value-Based Transformation to the Federation of American Hospitals
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Secretary Azar talks about the need for HHS to take bolder action and for providers and payers to join with the department to transform the healthcare system.
NEJM survey spotlights payer-provider alignment barriers
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A lack of alignment between payers and providers continues to hamper the drive to deliver high-value care, according to a new NEJM Catalyst survey. Respondents identified integrated payer-provider health systems such as Kaiser Permanente as the lone bright spot for innovation.
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Buried In The Budget Bill Are Belated Gifts For Some Health Care Providers
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How physical and occupational therapists triumphed in a two-decade-long quest to overturn limits on their compensation.
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IAAF World U20 Championships - Day 2
TAMPERE, FINLAND - JULY 11: Hima Das of India in action during heat 1 of the women's 400m semi final on day two of The IAAF World U20 Championships on July 11, 2018 in Tampere, Finland. (Photo by Charlie Crowhurst/Getty Images for IAAF)
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Samsung Heavy Sunk By Shipbuilding Woes
South Korean shipbuilders have been under severe financial strain since 2008 and are suffering from tougher competition from Chinese rivals.
Author: Gilly Wright
Samsung Heavy Industries, one of South Korea’s Big Three shipbuilders, has named Joonou Nam as its new CEO, after Park Dae-young resigned following earnings losses that cost the company nearly a third of its market capitalization.
South Korean shipbuilders have been under severe financial strain since 2008 and are suffering from tougher competition from Chinese rivals. “The silver lining for global shipbuilders does not reach Korea,” says Roger Zbinden, head of Swiss Business Hub South Korea. “The top three builders—Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME)—present a gloomy outlook for 2018.” The past two years were catastrophic for Korean shipping, and all three companies reported heavy losses and unhealthy levels of debt. Zbinden says SHI expects 2018 sales of 5.1 trillion won [$4.7 billion], a drop of 35%; whereas HHI is planning for a sales decline of 11%. DSME already reports a 31% decline in sales for 2017.
The threat from China is hurting South Korea’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier, very large crude carrier and offshore-plant sectors. More worrisome has been the loss to Singapore of offshore-plant orders that South Korean companies were expected to receive. Winning bids from Chinese and Singaporean shipbuilders were much lower than those of Korean shipyards, due to much lower labor costs (Singapore is attracting cheaper labor from Southeast Asia).
“Industry analysts say that the Korean shipbuilding industry should move away from traditional heavy oil combustion to environmentally friendly engines using LNG. Such a technology change might generate some bright spots for components makers,” Zbinden suggests.
Nam will face pressure to reposition Samsung Heavy away from struggling industries such as offshore drilling in favor of more attractive market alternatives. For now, Samsung Heavy has made a $1.4 billion new share issue, following a $1 billion issue in 2016, which will be used to pay down debt and reduce the risk of banks limiting lending due to its weak earnings prospects.
This article appeared in issue January 2018
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IRS Tax Transcripts Now Available Online
Visiting an office or waiting for a physical letter is no longer required for those seeking tax transcripts from the Internal Revenue Service.
by News Staff / January 17, 2014
Tax-payers can now download tax return transcripts instantly from the IRS. Previously the only way to get transcripts from the IRS was to visit a local office and wait in line, or to request the documents by mail. But now, Americans can sign up for an account through the Get Transcript Web app.
“I am very excited to announce that the IRS has just launched, this week, the ‘get transcript’ application which will give taxpayers the ability to view, print and download tax transcripts,” said Katherine Sydor, adviser at the Office of Consumer Policy at the Treasury, in an announcement.
Users can download return transcripts, record of account transcripts, account transcripts, or wage and income transcripts. If users don't know which transcript they need, the IRS has provided a form where they can select why a transcript is needed, and the Web app will help steer them to the correct place.
Users can verify their email address and sign in just once, or go through a six-page sign-up process to create an account that they can use to log in anytime.
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Sally Aitken
Forestry, Master of Applied Science
Forestry, Master of Forestry
Forestry, Master of Science
Forestry, Doctor of Philosophy
Forestry, Master of Sustainable Forest Management
Forestry, Master of International Forestry
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Detecting novel climates in projections of 21st century terrestrial ecosystem change (2018)
The emergence of locally unfamiliar climates due to anthropogenic global warming is compelling scientists and resource managers to seek ecological data and management strategies from non-local climates, known as climate analogs. In this context, novel climates—emerging conditions with no analog in the observational record—represent widening gaps in the ecological knowledge base. Identification of novel climates is essential to climate change adaptation. However, methods to detect novel climates have not kept pace with this necessity. The goal of this dissertation is to advance methods for detection of novel climates in the context of ecology and forest management. I develop a multivariate metric for climatic novelty, sigma dissimilarity, that uses the local historical range of interannual climatic variability as a scale for measuring the ecological significance of climatic differences. I apply this metric at three scales—continental, jurisdictional, and local—each of which offers a distinct perspective on the implications of climatic novelty. At the continental scale, I assess the emergence of novel climates in North America, where they are an important source of extrapolation error in ecological modeling. I demonstrate the potential for novel climates to emerge throughout the continent, particularly at low topographic positions. At the jurisdictional scale, I assess the emergence of novel climates that are not represented in a structured knowledge system for forest management—the Biogeoclimatic Ecosystem Classification for British Columbia. A parallel novelty assessment using sigma dissimilarity and random forest classification indicates a robust pattern of novel climates in BC, for which analogs from outside BC must be identified. At the local scale, I demonstrate that dependencies among climate variables can produce larger and earlier departures from natural variability than is detectable in individual variables. This multivariate departure intensification effect—evident in distinct regions of the planet in global climate models—indicates adaptive challenges for ecological and human communities as their local climates become unfamiliar. The identification of locally unfamiliar and regionally novel climates is an important step in anticipating and adapting to climate change. Further, the challenges presented by novel climates are yet another basis to advocate for global emissions reductions.
Linking demographic history and evolution at the expanding range edge of Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) (2018)
Anthropogenic climate change is shifting species ranges and exerting high selection pressures on populations of all taxa, including trees. Temperate tree species of the northern hemisphere share a history of large-scale postglacial colonization during the Quaternary, providing a natural laboratory for the study of evolutionary responses to climate fluctuations. This dissertation aims at improving our understanding of the mutual influences of demography and evolutionary patterns during range expansions in trees using Picea sitchensis (Sitka spruce) as a focal species.I first focused on the most recent P. sitchensis expansion event in south-central Alaska to study the interplay between demography and population genetics by combining neutral genetic markers and tree ring data. This multidisciplinary approach allowed me to assess the pace of neutral evolution across five centuries of colonization. Allelic richness was efficiently recovered in the colonizing population by early, open-grown colonizers on the Kodiak Archipelago during a long phase of low population growth. However, heterozygosity remains low compared with the nearest mainland populations. These results highlight the long-term importance of early colonizing genotypes in genetics of populations and the influence of pollen dispersal in maintaining standing genetic variation during forest expansion.Local hybridization of P. sitchensis colonizers with foreign pollen from white spruce (Picea glauca) populations occurred repeatedly during the early colonization period. However, introgression was suppressed in subsequent generations growing under a closed canopy. As the two species occupy separate climatic niches, selection against hybrids, intensified by competition, might explain this pattern. Spring precipitation tended to affect hybrid growth more negatively than pure P. sitchensis genotypes, but this effect was nonsignificant.I finally assessed the extent to which demographic parameters of range expansion can be estimated from genomic data through simulations using the approximate Bayesian computation framework. Simple 3-parameter models could be successfully estimated with genetic markers developed from reduced-representation methods currently available for nonmodel species. Models of higher complexity presented challenges, especially when ongoing migration after expansion was considered, and the accuracy of results depended on the time of expansion. The demic expansion models examined here were inadequate to infer the colonization history of P. sitchensis.
Selective breeding of lodgepole pine and interior spruce generates growth gains but maintains phenotypic and genomic adaptation to climate (2017)
Climate change is disrupting local adaptation in temperate and boreal tree species. As climates shift, tree breeding zones are becoming dissociated from their historical climatic optima and no longer represent optimal seed deployment zones. Assisted gene flow (AGF) policies that match reforestation seedlots with future climates require accurate knowledge of genetic variation in climatically adaptive traits in breeding populations. In this thesis I evaluate the effects of selective breeding on climatic adaptation in the two most planted species in western Canada, lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) and interior spruce (Picea glauca, P. engelmanii and their hybrids), to inform provincial AGF prescriptions. I compared natural stand seedlots (n = 105 pine, 154 spruce) with selectively bred seedlots (n = 20 pine, 18 spruce) from across Alberta and British Columbia in common garden experiments. Phenotypic variation among breeding zones was assessed for growth, phenology and cold hardiness in relation to climate. For both species, phenotypic differences between natural and selected seedlings in growth traits were substantial. Height gains resulted from increased growth rate and delayed growth cessation, but autumn cold hardiness was not substantially reduced. Seedlings were also genotyped for ~30,000 candidate single nucleotide polymorphisms for growth and adaptive traits. Selection for growth has shifted interior spruce hybrid ancestry in some breeding populations, but these effects are not consistent across zones. A genome-wide association study of pine identified many trait-associated SNPs. Positive effect allele frequencies among pine breeding zones were strongly associated with climatic variation. Selection has resulted in small increases in the frequency of positive effect alleles in breeding populations. Associations among cold hardiness phenotypes, genotypes and climate dominated signals of local adaptation were preserved in breeding populations. Selection, breeding and progeny testing combined have produced taller pine and spruce seedlings without compromising climatic adaptation. Strong phenotype-genotype-climate associations suggest AGF will be necessary to match breeding populations with future climates, but selectively bred and natural seedlots can be safely redeployed using the same AGF prescriptions. Multi-locus genomic profiles of adaptive traits associated with climate provide an accurate, rapid method to assess climatic adaptation that is independent from long-term provenance trials.
Genetic structure, gene flow and local adaptation in the interior spruce hybrid zone (2012)
Natural hybrid zones provide a great opportunity to study the evolutionary relationshipsbetween closely related species. I have combined ten microsatellites (SSR) and 311 singlenucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers with quantitative data to investigate the geneticstructure, interspecific gene flow and adaptation of the economically and ecologically importantPicea glauca (white spruce) x P. engelmannii (Engelmann spruce) hybrid zone in westernNorth America. Climate modelling and paleoclimate analysis was used to study the historicalevolutionary relationships between hybridizing species; and to predict future patterns of geneticvariation in the zone. This modelling suggests these species may have been in contact for aslong as 21,000 years. Current levels of admixture and introgression are extensive, assuggested by both the SSR and SNP analyses, with populations showing elevational andlatitudinal unimodal clines in admixture. Hybrids occupy intermediate environments in the zoneand show a higher genetic contribution from Engelmann spruce than from white spruce onaverage. Despite a long history of interspecific gene flow, pure species and hybrids areadapted to different environments. Results of the quantitative analysis based on long-term dataon growth and survival, as well as bud phenology and cold hardiness, indicate that the white xEngelmann spruce hybrid zone is maintained by adaptation to the length of growing seasonsand the persistence of the snowpack (exogenous selection), in which hybrids are fitter thanpure species in intermediate environments, fitting the "Bounded hybrid superiority" model of hybrid zone maintenance. I identified 12 outlier SNPs among the 311 SNPs; these were genesresponsible for carbohydrate metabolism, signal transduction and transcription factors. Theseresults have significant implications for forest management and breeding of spruce species inBritish Columbia, where this species complex is managed as one species without consideringthe complexity in population structure and adaptive differences between pure species andhybrids.
Genomic and phenotypic architecture of a spruce hybrid zone (Picea sitchensis x P. glauca) (2012)
Natural hybrid zones may be viewed as important biological systems for examining the role of selection in creating and maintaining species differences. Where ecological differences exist between hybridizing species, these zones may provide useful insight into the genetic architecture of important traits involved in adaptation. I have evaluated the genomic and phenotypic architecture of the economically and ecologically important Picea sitchensis (Sitka spruce) x P. glauca (white spruce) hybrid zone along the Nass and Skeena river valleys in northwestern British Columbia using chloroplast and mitochondrial markers, twelve microsatellite loci (SSRs), and 268 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), in combination with morphological variation, and phenotypic data from a common garden. Maternally- and paternally-inherited organelle markers, in combination with bi-parentally inherited nuclear markers, were used to estimate both the historic and contemporary direction and extent of gene flow within the hybrid zone. Sitka spruce mitotype ‘capture’ throughout the introgression zone point towards asymmetric gene flow, congruent with microsatellites and SNPs, indicating extensive long-term introgression and widespread recombination with more Sitka spruce than white spruce ancestry in hybrid populations. Significant clinal variation was observed for marker-based hybrid indices and morphological traits associated with climate and geography, while growth and cold hardiness traits evaluated in a common garden exhibited weak to non-significant clines. These results indicate extrinsic selection appears to play a strong role in the distribution and structure of this hybrid zone, which fits expectations for the environmentally-determined bounded hybrid superiority model of hybrid zone maintenance. However, intrinsic mechanisms of hybrid zone maintenance could not be ruled out. Finally, broad-scale patterns of variation, combined with fine-scale analysis of candidate SNP-specific patterns of introgression revealed a suite of candidate loci that may be targets of extrinsic or intrinsic selection. These loci may be involved in either adaptation to climate across the zone, particularly precipitation gradients, or involved in the maintenance of species barriers. These results have important implications for genetic conservation of adaptive variation, selection of seed sources for current reforestation within this ecologically transitional area, and appropriate scale and direction of seed transfer relating current genotype-climate associations to future climate predictions for this region.
Establishment and growth responses of whitebark and lodgepole pine populations in a changing climate (2011)
Climate change will affect the regeneration, growth, survival and distribution of trees. Here, I use common gardens to empirically test establishment, growth and the potential for persistence, adaptation and migration for two iconic North American trees, whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) and lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta ssp. latifolia). Whitebark pine is of conservation concern due to range-wide diebacks, while lodgepole pine is critical to forest productivity and carbon sequestration. Whitebark seeds were planted north of the current range in areas predicted to be climatically suitable through the 2050s; these germinated and survived in varying proportions at all locations. Establishment and growth were positively affected by moderate snow-cover durations, heavier seed weights, and warmer provenance temperatures. Whitebark pine seedlings grown from seeds sown in growth chambers spanning current and predicted-future temperatures demonstrated positive responses to warmer growing seasons. Lodgepole pine seedlings in the same chambers outgrew the whitebark pine seedlings at all but the coldest temperatures. Together, these results suggest that whitebark pine may lose its competitive advantage to other species within its narrow alpine-treeline niche as the climate warms, but that it is capable of establishing in climatically-suitable areas north of its current range. Using tree-ring data from long-term lodgepole pine common garden trials, I built universal growth-trend response functions to forecast future growth trends relative to genetics, climate and tree age. The models predict growth reductions for all populations by the end of the 21st century based on middle-of-the-road climate models, except in far northern areas near and within Yukon, Canada. Analogous models built using summer and winter climate indices indicate that the growth declines are primarily caused by warmer summers, and may be offset by growth increases resulting from warmer winters. I found that populations are most sensitive to annual temperatures and summer aridity, but that sensitivity to climate varies due to local adaptation. Overall, my research will help forest professionals and conservationists forecast changes in forest productivity and species growth and survival under warming temperatures.
Genomics of adaptation to local climate in Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) (2009)
Genecological studies in widely distributed tree species have revealed steep genetic clines along environmental gradients for traits related to adaptation to local climate. In the face of a changing climate, the ecological and economic importance of conifers necessitates an appraisal of how molecular genetic variation shapes quantitative trait variation. I have combined transcript profiling with association mapping to better understand the genomic architecture of adaptation to local climate in conifers, using Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) as a model. A microarray study during the fall hardening period revealed wholesale remodeling of the transcriptome within a population originating in the centre of the species range, and substantial variation in the autumn transcriptome was observed when populations from the northern and southern limits of the range were compared. Based on these data, a suite of candidate genes was selected and screened for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a panel of 24 individuals. A diverse array of biological processes were represented among the candidate genes, including stress response, carbohydrate, lipid and phenylpropanoid metabolism, light signal transduction, and transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation. Nucleotide diversity in Sitka spruce was approximately average for a conifer (π = 3.49 x 10⁻³), and linkage disequilibrium decayed rapidly. Tests of selective neutrality suggest widespread purifying selection within these candidate genes, though evidence for positive selection was detected within a few. In addition, I observed evidence for diversifying selection in 8% of the studied genes, which exhibited high population differentiation relative to the genome-wide average FST of 0.12. To identify genetic determinants of phenotypic variation in locally adaptive traits, an Illumina GoldenGate assay was used to genotype 768 SNPs in a mapping population comprised of 410 individuals from 12 geographical populations collected from across the species range. After correcting for population structure and relative kinship, associations were detected in 28 of the candidate genes, which cumulatively explained 28% and 34% of the phenotypic variance in cold hardiness and budset, respectively. Most notable among these associations were five genes putatively involved in light signal transduction, the key pathway regulating autumn growth cessation in perennials. This study represents a significant step toward the goal of characterizing the genomic underpinnings of adaptation to local climate in conifers, and provides a substantial resource for breeding and conservation genetics in a changing climate.
Clinal variation at putatively adaptive polymorphisms in mature populations of Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr.) (2013)
Common garden experiments in widely distributed tree species have demonstrated that phenotypic traits timing of bud set exhibit clinal variation across provenance climatic and geographic gradients, emphasizing the importance of these traits in local adaptation. With rapid advances in molecular techniques, spatial patterns of genomic variation underlying these traits can also be studied. Here I assess whether 17 putatively adaptive single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) previously shown to be statistically associated with cold adaptation phenotypes vary clinally along a temperature gradient in natural, mature populations of Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis). I also test the hypothesis that clinal strength is stronger in mature spruce populations than in seedling populations due to selection. Regressions were run for each of the 17 SNPs with logit-transformed major allele frequency as the dependent variable and provenance mean annual temperature (MAT) as the independent variable. Next, differences in strength of clines between mature and seedling populations were estimated for each SNP separately and for the 17 SNPs as a group. Finally, I ran two alternate analyses – a full analysis that included all seedling populations and a truncated analysis that limited the range of MAT observed in seedling populations to match that of mature populations. My results vary between the full and truncated analyses. In seedlings, the full analysis revealed clines in 11 SNPs (65%) compared to six SNPs (35%) in the truncated analysis. Mature populations had significant clines for five SNPs (29%). For the full analysis, the group test supported the one-sided hypothesis that mature populations have significantly steeper clines than seedlings across SNPs (P=0.027).Parallel clines in seedling and mature populations were observed for a subset of the SNPs, which strengthens their importance for local adaptation. However, low power limited my ability to make conclusive statements about differences in clinal strength between mature and seedling populations. While most SNPs were present in most populations, I also observed that the northern, disjunct population of Kodiak Island, AK was fixed for the highest proportion of SNPs (59%). This suggests that this recently founded population may lack adaptive diversity to respond to rapid climate change in the future.
The changing nature of Canada’s forest supply as fires, bugs, and climate bite (02 January 2019)
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P.E.I. to manage deadstock removal
Newfoundland's ag minister, critic returned in election
P.E.I. dairyman named provincial ag and land minister
Senior P.E.I. ag official to fill deputy minister post
Brian Matheson takes up position on acting basis
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The post of top bureaucrat in Prince Edward Island’s agriculture department now has its third occupant in as many months.
Premier Dennis King on June 7 named Brian Matheson, previously director of policy and agriculture resources at the agriculture and land department, as its acting deputy minister, replacing Laurie Loane.
Loane, who’d been named deputy minister effective May 10, has “tendered her resignation” from the position and is returning to her previous post as executive director of the P.E.I. Agriculture Sector Council, King said.
The vacancy came as King’s new minority Tory government made good on one of its platform promises, separating the agriculture and fisheries department which the previous Liberal government had merged together in 2015.
King last month split the ministry and formed two new departments: agriculture and land, and fisheries and communities, with Bloyce Thompson and Jamie Fox as their respective cabinet ministers.
“We have tremendous respect for Ms. Loane, her depth of knowledge, and her work in the private sector to advance the agriculture industry on the Island,” King said in the June 7 release announcing Matheson’s interim appointment, plus the appointments of five other senior managers.
“We wish her the best of luck in her future endeavours and look forward to continue working with her to strengthen and support the members of our agriculture sector.”
Loane had been named to the deputy post last month as the replacement for John Jamieson, who was later announced as the new CEO for the Guelph-based Canadian Centre for Food Integrity, effective Monday (June 17). — Glacier FarmMedia Network
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Man Hacks Norwich International Airport Website for Passengers Safety
November 10th, 2015 Waqas Hacking News 0 comments
A hacker going by the handle of His Royal Gingerness (HRG) hacked into the official website of Norwich International Airport last month after sending several warning emails to the airport staff to fix vulnerability on their site.
In a YouTube video uploaded on 8th November 2015 the hacker explained everything about the hack, ie. how he did and why?
It all started when HRG found a simple SQL vulnerability in the Norwich International Airport website (City of Norwich within Norfolk, England). He decided to contact the authorities and inform them about the flaw so they can fix it. Initially, he received some feedback claiming the site had been fixed but when HRG checked, the vulnerability was still there and it took him one to two minutes to hack the site again.
According to HRG, when he breached the site he gained access to the airport’s emergency broadcast system, IP addresses, emails, passwords and personal information of several other users including the site’s developers, various high-level staff within the airport including its security department and it’s media centre.
Screenshot shows how hacker was able to breach the airport site:
This screenshot shows hacker has access to a file that contains emails, names and passwords:
The data from the servers also included passenger information, full names, emails and their plain text passwords which were used by the hacker to log into the airport’s media center page as a demonstration.
The hacker also revealed that his friends at the Muslim Electronic Army (another hacking group) contacted him and informed that they have “a good breach” on the Norwich Airport for trading which they plan to “have fun with around Christmas.”
“I was contacted by a friend of mine in the Muslim Electronic Army and he informed me they had a good breach on Norwich Airport to trade which they were planning on having fun with around Christmas which could cause alarm or disruption to many people’s Christmas, knowing the information was genuine I had to trade three very good system breaches and 100 high spec RATed systems from my botnet to get him to leave this site to me which any geek would realise is a shit trade and a pain in the ass,” according to the HRG’s YouTube video.
However, the airport’s general manager, Richard Pace has a different story to tell, while talking to BBC he stressed that physical security had not been compromised and that the hacker breached into the “standalone website which did not compromise operational systems.”
After the slow reply and lack of interest from the airport authorities His Royal Gingerness (HRG) showed disappointment and said:
“A black hat defaces a website or crashes a server and everyone freaks out and changes are made, us greys or whites try to inform people nicely that there are issues and we get ignored or fobbed off so I’ll let the public deal with this.”
“Do you want to fly from an airport that may not have control of their own computers?” the hacker asked.
It was kind of the HRG hacker to inform the airport authorities about the flaw. If it was a criminally minded hacker things would have gone very differently. But, at the same time the lack of interest shown by the airport authorities in fixing a simple vulnerability on their website explains that awareness about online threats should be the key issue of the discussion.
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Indian Government Policy Update: September 2015
First Published: October 5, 2015 | Last Updated:October 5, 2015
Union Cabinet approves Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Rurban mission (SPMRM)
The Union Cabinet has approved Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Rurban mission (SPMRM) for its ambitious bid to spur social, economic and infrastructure development in rural areas.
Prime Minister launches National Integrated Power Development Scheme
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched National Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS) in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh to provide 24×7 power supply to every house.
Union Health Ministry releases National Health Profile (NHP) 2015
Union Ministry Health and Family Welfare has released NHP 2015, which provides comprehensive information related to health sector. The 11th edition of the document has been prepared by Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI).
Union Cabinet approves Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre (ISLRTC)
The Union Cabinet approved the setting up of Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre (ISLRTC). Initially it will be located at the Institute for Physically Handicapped, New Delhi.
Green Highways Policy 2015
Union Government has launched Green Highways (Plantation, Transplantation, Beautification & Maintenance) Policy-2015 to promote greening of National Highway corridors across the country.
Government bans multidose vial of diclofenac
Health Ministry has banned the sale of Diclofenac in multidose vial. Henceforth, it will be sold only in single-dose vial packaging for human use. This ban was imposed on recommendation of Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) in order to save and protect vultures from brink of extinction.
Indian Railways develops Hybrid Vacuum Toilet
Indian Railways has developed a Hybrid Vacuum Toilet design which combines the advantages of Vacuum toilets and those of Biotoilets. The first of its kind system in the world has been developed by the Development Cell of Indian Railway Board.
Key Features of Human Races
World’s first ‘speed breeding’ technique to produce Wheat: Australia
Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2016
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Types of Grants-in-aid in Indian Constitution
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DPS7
Wtf is happening there ?
Hong Kong is hit by another massive rally, with people flooding the streets to demand a backdown on a bill that would allow extradition to mainland China. Tear gas and pepper spray have been used to tackle the unrest.
VIVA LA REVOLUCION !
Death to commies.
I hope they continue to stand their ground.
Pees and Ques
At least they are using tear gas instead of tanks?
Yes, I look at pee for a living.
jt210
So, AOC was walking through the Bronx. She came upon a set of tracks. She said to herself, "Oh look, deer tracks." She looked again and said, "Oh wait, those are bear tracks". Pondered a little more and said, "Oh silly me, those are rabbit...." The train hit her.
Don't Let Them Burn The Bok Choy!!!
DuckNCover
Xi is a hardliner. He will never back down and rescind this bill. This will end up being a repeat to the Tiananmen Square protest. The PLA military, stationed in Hong Kong, will be called out and many protestors will be arrested and killed...
The question arises whether the international community will support the Hong Kong uprising. Will it turn into a Civil War with Hong Kong breaking away from China and becoming its own Country...
If the Bill is enacted, then many Companies will leave for better Rule of Law Countries. If the Bill is enacted, then anyone (including vacationers) could be incarcerated and tried in Beijing for dissidence...
JJ Insane 1
Yep... order out of chaos.
Penny Peppers
There's never a dull moment here on planet earth…
serkok
LIVE: Protesters hit Hong Kong streets as government starts discussing extradition bill
[link to www.youtube.com (secure)]
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell
Bet China can't wait to extradite them for their organs!
Osmium76
God=Father,Jesus=Word,Spirit=TRUTH
Chasing the dream....realizing the Revelation. Intrepid searcher.
"AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE....WE WILL SERVE THE LORD!" [link to www.sabbathtruth.com]
ECCLESIASTES 12:13 LET US HEAR THE CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE MATTER: FEAR GOD, AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS: FOR THIS IS THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN.(KJV)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
"It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?"
Don't be an agent of Satan, instead wouldn't you rather be a scribe of Truth?!
Revelation 14:12Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
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History Repeating - Tin Omen 2
We need a new world hot spot to make some money for the military industrial complex
Hong Kong is a part of China that tries to pretend that it isn't. It was never free, never won its freedom.
I do think the fears of the HK people are real. While the UK had it, a lot of people came there running from Mao Zedong's regime. They have terrible memories of the Cultural Revolution and other bad things in China. HK was a refuge.
But then HK (Kowloon at least) had only been leased to the UK, and China took it back in 1997 when that 150 year lease expired. China took back Hong Kong Island too, because without Kowloon, the island was indefensible.
China had to give up Hong Kong in 1847 due to the Opium War, where the Brits used drugs to weaken China and defeat it with its navy.
Some HK people were granted real UK passports, during the 20 or 30 years before the 1997 handover. Those were about the top 30% of the society: professionals, civil servants, wealthy business owners. The UK took who it wanted. The rest were left.
China has a lot of say in the government there even during this temporary period of a "high degree of autonomy". HK wants its freedom, sure. But it never won its freedom. It was just handed back and forth.
And so it begins.
Bring out the tanks!
Quoting: JJ Insane 1 77706421
no matter how it shakes out, will be a Pyrrhic victory for one side or the other
Live life to the fullest, laugh often, never let fear run your days.
Quoting: Penny Peppers
Wow, lots of people on foot. They really filled up that park.
What will happen now? Well they'll get very hungry in a few hours.
Now if they all could just do the MACARENA in unison...
dogman17
There is nothing to protect the people of Hong Kong. China is unfree.
frp
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ROBIN MAUGHAN COURT CASE UPDATE: Harborough sex offender told his victim had twice attempted suicide
Published: 15:47 Thursday 31 March 2016
Harborough entertainer Robin Maughan was today (Thursday) sentenced to a total of 14 years 10 months in prison for a series of offences involving children.
Maughan (34) of Western Avenue, Market Harborough, was told his victims would be ‘scarred for many years’ by his grooming and exploitation.
Judge Nicholas Dean sentenced Maughan to five years 6 months for offences involving sexual images of children.
He sentenced Maughan to a further four years 8 months for grooming and sex with a boy aged 14 and 15.
And there was a further four years and 8 months for grooming and sex with a girl aged 15.
Mr Alan Murphy, prosecuting, said Maughan had abused the trust of his victims and their families.
In victim impact statements, the victims’ parents said they were devastated.
The boy who Maughan groomed and had sexual relations with said he had twice attempted suicide.
Ms Helen Johnson, defending, said Maughan was of previous good character and had pleaded guilty.
Maughan left the dock in tears on his way to prison.
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The West’s monarch migration is disappearing
Fall counts show a 99 percent decline in the butterfly population since the ‘80s.
Jodi Peterson News Feb. 4, 2019 From the print edition
Since 1980, California's monarch butterfly population has plummeted. This photograph was taken in 2007 in Santa Cruz, California.
John Wright/CC via Flickr
Every fall, monarch butterflies migrate south; Eastern monarch populations head to Mexico, while Western monarchs visit California’s coastal groves. But much of the overwintering habitat on both sides of the border has disappeared, and scientists say that development, along with the loss of the native milkweeds the butterflies rely on, has led to plummeting monarch numbers. In 1997, California’s groves held more than a million butterflies; in 2013, there were fewer than 150,000 (“A native butterfly finds merit in a non-native tree,” HCN, 12/23/13).
A native butterfly finds merit in a nonnative tree
In January, experts announced that Western monarch butterfly populations have hit a new low. Just 28,000 were found in California groves this fall, a 99 percent decline from the 1980s. Scientists blame pesticide use, climate change and habitat destruction from construction, agriculture and wildfires, especially in the state’s Central Valley, coastal foothills and Sierra foothills. Although Eastern monarch populations rebounded a bit this year, over the last four decades their numbers have dropped about 80 percent.
The end of an epic butterfly journey?
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Malcolm (M.K.) Palmore
Mitch Parker
Indiana University Health System
Randy Trzeciak
Euro Security Watch with Mathew J. Schwartz
Tracking security and privacy trends across UK, Europe and beyond
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) , Endpoint Security , Governance
Spectre: The Next Generation
Intel Preps Fixes for Eight New Spectre/Meltdown-Like CPU Flaws, Report Says Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • May 9, 2018
The Spectre and Meltdown flaws were so fun, why don't we do it all again?
See Also: The Application Security Team's Framework For Upgrading Legacy Applications
Last week, German media outlet Heise Security first reported that there is another round of Meltdown and Spectre-like flaws that will need fixing in Intel chips. The flaws are collectively being referred to as "Spectre: The Next Generation."
The first trio of Meltdown and Spectre flaws came to light on Jan. 3. They involve speculative execution, a CPU optimization technique that's widely used in modern processors. But the functionality, which is physically built into processors, can be targeted via a trio of "side-channel attacks" to trigger information leaks (see Intel Faces 32 Spectre/Meltdown Lawsuits).
Intel, AMD and ARM say they first learned of the flaws in June 2017, thanks to a Google research team. The flaws are present in billions of devices made over the past 20 years.
Chipmakers have begun shipping fixes for chips manufactured in recent years, although not all of the flaws can be fully eradicated in all chips, and some fixes have introduced new problems, including the need for frequent rebooting (see Intel: Stop Installing Patches Due to Reboot Problems).
Some of the fixes also carry notable performance problems, especially for servers as well as other devices that do not use the latest CPUs and operating systems (see Intel Confirms Fresh Spectre, Meltdown Patch Problems).
8 New Flaws
Heise has reported that there are eight new flaws, four of which are high risk and one of which poses a much greater danger than any of the three Spectre/Meltdown flaws that have already come to light.
On Monday, Heise reported that Intel has been planning for a coordinated vulnerability announcement with Google Project Zero - and perhaps others - on May 21, although it's attempting to delay it until at least July 10. It's not clear if any other chipmakers might be affected.
Heise reports that the new flaws affect a range of chips used across PCs, laptops, severs, smartphones, tablets and embedded devices. Affected chips include Intel Core i - and Xeon derivatives - built since they were first released in 2010, as well as Atom-based Pentium, Celeron and Atom processors built since 2013. All affected chips will require microcode updates, and operating systems will also need to be updated, according to the report.
An Intel spokeswoman declined to comment on the report or a potential coordinated vulnerability disclosure timeline. Instead, she referred me to a statement released on Thursday by Leslie Culbertson, Intel's general manager of product assurance and security:
"Protecting our customers' data and ensuring the security of our products are critical priorities for us. We routinely work closely with customers, partners, other chipmakers and researchers to understand and mitigate any issues that are identified, and part of this process involves reserving blocks of CVE numbers. We believe strongly in the value of coordinated disclosure and will share additional details on any potential issues as we finalize mitigations. As a best practice, we continue to encourage everyone to keep their systems up-to-date."
In short: Stay tuned.
Follows 'AMD Flaws' Disclosure
News of the eight fresh flaws follows an Israeli firm, CTS, issuing a website and white paper on "AMD Flaws," outlining 13 problems it says it found in AMD's Zen processors, including EPYC, Ryzen, Ryzen Pro and Ryzen Mobile.
Controversially, the company said that while it stood by its research, "we may have, either directly or indirectly, an economic interest in the performance of the securities of the companies whose products are the subject of our reports."
None of those 13 flaws appeared to be speculative execution problems (see AMD Chipset Flaws Are Real, But Experts Question Disclosure).
Cold, Hard Cash for Finding Flaws
Security experts have been predicting that as more Ph.D. students, nation-state attackers, computer scientists and information security researchers begin hammering away at microprocessor security, it's only a matter of time before new chip-level flaws come to light (see Expect More Cybersecurity 'Meltdowns').
To help spur things along, until the end of this year, Intel and Microsoft are offering cold, hard cash to any researchers that find new speculative execution flaws (see Microsoft Offers Payouts for New Spectre, Meltdown Flaws).
Hardware / Chip-level Security
RiskIQ: Magecart Group Targeting Unsecured AWS S3 Buckets
Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) from the Frontlines
https://www.healthcareinfosecurity.com/blogs/spectre-next-generation-p-2626
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Page 2 of 5, best Bachelors 2019 in Asia
A bachelor is an advanced degree that typically takes about four years of schooling to earn. The knowledge and training students receive while earning their degrees may lead to incredible professional opportunities upon graduation.
Bachelor 16-30 (out of 68). Bachelor in Asia
Bachelor in Dental Surgery
RAK College of Dental Sciences (RAKCODS)
Campus Full-time 5 years Request Info United Arab Emirates Ras Al-Khaimah
The program is focused on promoting the acquisition of expertise, attitude, and behavior that facilitate effective and appropriate interaction with patients and colleagues. Its goal is to produce caring, knowledgeable, competent and skillful oral specialists who recognize and accept the obligation to practice in the best interest of patients at all times.
Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences (Honours)
Lakshveer Overseas Solution
Campus Full-time 4 years January 2020 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur
The Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences (Honours) is a comprehensive program which aims at training the students in various disciplines of medical sciences.
Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)
Campus Full-time 5 years Request Info Malaysia Kuala Lumpur
Medical Universities in Malaysia generally offer a five-year undergraduate program for future doctors. It is compulsory for students who have graduated from medical school to work in the Government Hospital under housemanship program for a duration of three years.
MBBS Bachelor of Medicine - Bachelor of Surgery
Melaka-Manipal Medical College
Campus Full-time 5 years Request Info Malaysia Malacca
Phase I (Manipal Campus, India) 2.5 years of Pre-clinical studies
Bachelor of Dental Surgery
The five years Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) programme is conducted in Manipal campus, India for Phase I and Melaka campus, Malaysia for Phase II. Phase I is a two-year preclinical education while Phase II is a three-year clinical training. The effort is a true reflection of the Manipal vision in nurturing students with towering personalities and to strengthen the Manipal value-based education.
Bachelor in Biomedical Engineering
Georgian Technical University
Campus Full-time 4 years Request Info Georgia Tbilisi
The programme educational objectives of Biomedical Engineering programme is giving students knowledge how to apply their fundamental engineering skills to solving problems in medicine and Biology. Programme covered include, medical instrumentation and design, physiology, biomaterials, mass transport, application of computers in medicine, artificial implants, and medical imaging.
Bachelor in Pharmacy
Yarmouk University
Campus Full-time 5 years September 2019 Jordan Irbid
This program aims to accomplish a distinguished pharmaceutical education coping with modern developments in the profession, both locally and regionally, toward a qualified pharmacist in various areas of pharmacy practice, which reflect comprehensive quality practice. The mission of the faculty of pharmacy is to contribute to the comprehensiveness of the university in the education programs and to achieve excellence in academic and applied pharmaceutical programs based on scientific research, that is anticipated to be a complementary to different modern aspects of the profession of pharmacy.
MD Dentistry (Stomatology)
Campus Full-time 5 years September 2019 Azerbaijan Baku
The Stomatology faculty of Azerbaijan Medical University was organized in 1954. The aim of the foundation of the faculty was to provide the population of our Republic with highly skilled dentist specialists.
MD Pharmacology
History of education in pharmacology in Azerbaijan begins with the year of 1938. Our Department of Pharmacology trains highly qualified pharmaceutist with Bachelor’s and Master’s degree to work in health, including pharmacology field.
MD Medicine
Medical staffs are prepared for the ‘Treatment work’ specialty in the faculty. Basic medicine subjects are studied at 1-3 courses, clinical subjects are studied at 4-6 courses.
Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Hons)
AIMST University
Campus Full-time 4 years Request Info Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Alor Setar + 1 more
Physiotherapy is a healthcare profession that assesses, diagnoses, treats, and works to prevent disease and disability through physical means. Physiotherapists are experts in movement and function who work in partnership with their patients, assisting them to overcome movement disorders, which may have been present from birth, acquired through accident or injury, or are the result of aging or life-changing events.
Bachelor of Dental Technology
The Dental Technology programme is the first ever kind of bachelor degree in Malaysia. It is a professional course designed to coach and to nurture the students to equip as skilled dental technologists.
Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm)
Dayananda Sagar University
Campus Full-time 4 years July 2019 India Bengaluru
A 4-year undergraduate course which imparts adequate knowledge & scientific information in broad areas of pharmacy such as pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmaceutics, pharmacology & pharmacognosy.
Bachelor of Nursing Science
St. Theresa International College
Campus Full-time 4 years June 2020 Thailand Nakhon Nayok
Our Bachelors of Nursing Science program shall empower you to make the right decisions for improving the health of your patients. The program shall help you acquire all the skills needed to guide, support, treat and rehabilitate the patients you serve.
Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine
Mongolian University Of Life Sciences
Campus Full-time August 2019 Mongolia Ulaanbaatar
Our Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine was created to develop and create a resourceful environment for veterinary training and research service, through the enhancement of skills training, research, and the educational environment.
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Home Latest Walmart Moves Consumer PR Duties To GolinHarris
Walmart Moves Consumer PR Duties To GolinHarris
Walmart has reshaped its multimillion dollar consumer PR business in favour of GolinHarris following a review, the Holmes Report can reveal.
Arun Sudhaman 07 Mar 2013 // 12:00AM GMT
BENTONVILLE, AK--Walmart has reshaped its multimillion dollar consumer PR mandate in favour of GolinHarris following a review that sees key incumbent Cohn & Wolfe lose its grip on the company's US business.
The Holmes Report can reveal that the consolidation of one of the world's largest consumer PR mandates began at the start of this year. It sees the retail giant dispense with the roster approach that it established in 2009, when it named three PR firms to oversee consumer PR: GolinHarris, Cohn & Wolfe and Porter-Novelli.
Of the trio, Cohn & Wolfe has benefited most over the past four years, growing its business with the client to a substantial level of fee income, estimated at upwards of $5m.
The WPP firm has retained some aspects of Walmart business, including the Walmart Foundation and Sam's Club accounts.
"Cohn and Wolfe helped us successfully communicate a number of Walmart US programs to our customers over the years and they will continue to support areas outside of the Walmart US business, including Sam’s Club PR efforts," said Walmart senior director of corporate communications Deisha Barnett.
GolinHarris now takes charge of the business, after previously focusing on multicultural and youth marketing. Walmart's consumer PR offering includes such areas as food, nutrition, apparel and consumer electronics, along with a broader focus on brand-building, lifestyle marketing and product launches.
Barnett noted that Golin will work alongside Mitchell Communications, the Arkansas agency that also supports Walmart's PR efforts.
"We recently consolidated the number of agencies supporting our Walmart US merchandise and brand public relations efforts," said Barnett. "We will continue to work with Mitchell Communications and are excited to partner more closely with GolinHarris this year."
One source familiar with the situation said that Walmart was "intrigued" with Golin's G4 agency model, after a review that focused on financials and staffing. GolinHarris global CEO Fred Cook told the Holmes Report that "our work with Walmart continues to expand," but referred other queries to the client.
Despite a wave of negative publicity, including a high-profile bribery scandal, Walmart's domestic consumer appeal remains strong. The company has reverted to a stronger focus on its low-price heritage, and has expanded its social media marketing, particularly via Facebook, to good effect.
Edelman continues to support Walmart's corporate and public affairs work, a relationship that has remained in place for more than six years.
Walmart reported slowing topline growth last month, with US store sales changing little in its most recent quarter, thanks in part to the recent payroll tax increase. Fourth-quarter earnings rose to $5.6bn, spurred by tax credits that lowered the company's corporate tax rate.
For the fiscal year ending January 2013, Walmart increased net sales by five percent to $466.1bn, retaining its status as the world's largest retailer.
Cohn & Wolfe global CEO Donna Imperato declined to comment on the development, other than to say: "Walmart is a significant and very important client for us."
Walmart Retail Account moves
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Local slimmer Daniel shines next to TV star Joe Swash after losing 6st 1.5lbs
Daniel Groom met the I'm A Celeb favourite at the finals of Slimming World’s Young Slimmer of the Year 2019 competition
Dylan Wiggan
Joe Swash was blow away by Daniel's transformation
An 18-year-old from Ware has lots to celebrate after losing 6st 1.5lbs to reach the finals of a national slimming competition where he met TV star, Joe Swash.
Daniel Groom was over the moon to make the final 28 of Slimming World’s Young Slimmer of the Year 2019 competition. He represented the 25,500 16 to 21-year-olds attending 19,000 Slimming World groups across the UK and Ireland.
The competition recognises the enormous achievements of young people who are making long-term lifestyle changes to become healthier, happier and more active. Joe, who co-hosts the I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here spin-off show Extra Camp, came along to make the day at Slimming World’s Derbyshire head office extra special.
Growing numbers of young people across the UK and Ireland are putting their health at risk because of obesity. Many young people are so severely overweight that they’re even beginning to suffer serious conditions like Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. Slimming World supports people of all ages to make changes to their lifestyle and develop healthy habits for life. Since 2006, the organisation’s Family Affair programme has provided support free of charge for 11 to 15-year-olds who attend with a parent or guardian.
Since joining the Ware group Daniel has slimmed from 20st 13.5lbs to 14st 12lb, and feels on top of the world. As a result of his incredible achievement, his fellow members in the Ware group voted for him to represent them in the semi-finals of the Young Slimmer of the Year 2019 competition.
Daniel says: “I knew that I had an issue with my weight and that I needed to address it but like many young people I just didn’t know where to start when it came to making healthier choices. I was starting to become more and more self-conscious, and my weight was affecting me in lots of different ways. I was too embarrassed to do any kind of physical activity and would find going out with my friends uncomfortable due to my complete lack of confidence.
Daniel was 20st 13.5lbs when he first joined Slimming World
“I felt nervous at the thought of joining a Slimming World group because I didn’t think people my age did things like that and I was worried I might get judged for being young and overweight. I was wrong though, everyone was so welcoming and there were a few other young people there too – so I felt a lot more at ease.
“My friends and family have all said that they are proud of my achievement – and I’m proud of myself too actually. I discovered that it’s possible to lose weight by satisfying your appetite and without going hungry! I enjoy everything from chicken to steak, pasta to potatoes and pile my plate with loads of veg. My favourite meals are chillis, curries and steak.
“I’ve learned to cook from scratch and just have to make a few healthy swaps, like using low-calorie cooking spray and choosing lean cuts of meat. Now I have a better understanding about the relationship I have with food.
“I also began to think about becoming more active, so I’ve started going to the gym and playing more football and I love it. I’ve learnt so much from my Slimming World group, as well as lots of guidance and support, they’ve helped me to develop healthy habits that will stay with me forever.”
Joe was blown away when he met Daniel at the semi-finals and said: “I honestly can’t believe the difference in Daniel, to have achieved something like this at such a young age is just amazing. I think a lot of people think that losing weight is all about eating less, but everyone I’ve met today loves food just as much as me! It takes a lot to turn your life around like that, so hats off to Daniel for setting his mind to something and actually being strong enough to see it through.”
Jacqui Elliott, who runs the Ware Slimming World group which Daniel attends, agrees: “I’m so proud of Daniel. What he’s achieved is so much more than just losing weight. I’ve watched Daniel transform into a strong and confident person who has the world at his feet. Joining Slimming World has given him the knowledge and skills to make healthy choices and develop new active habits that will stand him in good stead for the rest of his life. Most of all it’s given him the self-belief to achieve whatever he puts his mind to.
“Anyone who wants to lose weight – whatever their age – and wants to know more about the difference that Slimming World can make is welcome to pop along to my group at The Priory or call me on 07791653280.”
Unfortunately, Daniel was not the overall winner of the competition. Slimming World’s Young Slimmer of the Year 2019 was Lucie Hadley from Peterborough who lost 10st.
To join the Ware Slimming World group call Jacqui on 07791653280. For more information, visit slimmingworld.co.uk
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How Significant Was the Battle of Himera?
Tristan Hughes
480 BC is a year widely-celebrated in Greek history – when Leonidas and his core of 300 Spartans heroically defended against a powerful Persian army at Thermopylae and an outnumbered, Athenian-led navy defeated a mighty Persian armada at Salamis.
Yet it was not just off the coast of Athens that one of antiquity’s most determining battles was fought that year. 600 miles to the west of Salamis, supposedly on the same day the decisive naval engagement occurred, another battle was fought: the Battle of Himera.
The ‘Jewel of the Mediterranean’
A painting of ancient Greek ruins in Sicily, with Mount Etna in the background.
Throughout antiquity the rich island of Sicily witnessed waves of peoples arriving on its shores from distant lands and settling – one of the earliest of which were the Greeks.
In 735 BC a group of colonists from Chalcis established the first Hellenic colony on the island. They called it Naxos.
Further Hellenic colonies soon followed and by the beginning of the fifth century BC, powerful Greek cities, or poleis, dominated Sicily’s eastern shoreline.
In the interior of the island, the native Sicilian peoples – the Sicani, Siculi and Elymians – remained prominent. Yet to the west another major, foreign power had also established colonies.
Founded in 814 BC by Phoenician colonists, by the fifth century BC Carthage was a leading force in the western Mediterranean. At its zenith – in the mid-fifth century BC – its power reached far and wide: it sent naval expeditions to distant lands, including the western coast of Africa, the Canary Islands and southern Britain.
Alongside this epic exploration, Carthage also controlled a large empire, owning territory in Libya, Numidia, ancient Africa (modern day Tunisia), Iberia, Sardinia, the Balearic Islands and, most importantly, Sicily.
A map of ancient Sicily, depicting Greek, Sicilian and Carthaginian settlements. The map is accurate except for Mazara, which was founded either by Carthaginians or the native Sicilians. Credit: Jona Lendering / Livius.
Since founding their first colony on the island at Motya back in the eighth century BC, the Carthaginians, like the Greeks, had established further settlements along Sicily’s coasts.
By the beginning of the fifth century BC, they had gained mastery over the island’s northern and western shorelines, included within which were two Greek colonies: Selinus and Himera.
By 483 BC Sicily’s shorelines were thus divided between two major power-blocs. To the south and east was the Hellenic power-bloc led by Gelon, a Greek tyrant who ruled from Syracuse. To the west and north was the power-bloc spearheaded by Carthage.
The archaeological site of Motya today. Credit: Mboesch / Commons.
Himera: the trigger for war
In 483 BC Theron, the Greek tyrant of Acragas and a key ally of Gelon, deposed the Carthaginian-aligned tyrant of Himera, a man called Terillus. Expelled, Terillus duly sought Carthaginian aid to help him recapture his city.
As Himera was a key city within the Punic sphere of Sicily, Hamilcar, the patriarch of the most powerful family in Carthage, obliged.
He gathered a huge army (300,000 according to Diodorus Siculus, although modern estimates place it nearer 50,000), including Carthaginians, Iberians, Libyans and Ligurians and sailed over to Sicily to reinstate Terillus by force.
After defeating Theron and the Himerans in battle, Hamilcar and his army placed Himera under siege midway through 480 BC. In desperate need of aid Theron sought help from Gelon, who duly gathered his army – consisting of Greeks and native eastern Sicilians – and marched to relieve the city.
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The Battle of Himera: 22 September 480 BC
Gelon reached Himera by September 480 BC and soon inflicted a great blow on the Carthaginians when his cavalry surprised and captured many of their soldiers (10,000 according to Diodorus Siculus) who had been raiding the nearby countryside in search of supplies.
Gelon’s cavalry then quickly gained an even greater success when they captured a Greek messenger, hailing from the Carthaginian-allied Greek city of Selinus. He bared a message intended for Hamilcar:
“The people of Selinus would send the cavalry for that day for which Hamilcar had written they dispatch.”
With this vital tactical information, Gelon devised a plan. On the day specified by the letter, before sunrise, he had his cavalry skirt around Himera undetected and, at daybreak, ride up to the Carthaginian naval camp, pretending to be the allied-cavalry expected from Selinus.
The hoax worked. Easily fooled, the Carthaginian guards allowed the cavalry past the palisade and into the camp – a costly mistake.
What followed was a bloodbath. Inside the camp, the horsemen began transfixing surprised Punic soldiers with their spears and setting boats alight. Further success soon followed: during the struggle Gelon’s cavalry located Hamilcar, who they had learnt was then conducting a sacrifice at the camp, and slew him.
The death of Hamilcar, portrayed in the centre of this image by the pyre wielding a standard and sword.
Learning of the horsemen’s success, Gelon and the rest of his army now initiated battle against the Carthaginian land army, based in a separate camp further inland and thus unaware of their comrades’ fate by the sea.
The infantry fight was long and bloody, both sides being primarily-equipped with spear and shield and fighting in tight phalanxes. The breakthrough finally occurred, however, when the Carthaginians saw smoke rising from their ships and learnt of the naval camp disaster.
Disheartened upon hearing of the demise of their comrades, the destruction of their ships and the death of their general, the Carthaginian line collapsed.
A tactical map of the events during the Battle of Himera. Credit: Maglorbd / Commons.
What followed was a slaughter on such a great scale that, according to Diodorus, only a handful of soldiers that ventured to Sicily ever saw Carthage again.
Gelon’s victory at Himera secured peace and prosperity on Sicily for the next eighty years, during which Syracuse transformed into the most powerful Greek city in the west – a title it maintained for over 250 years until its fall to Rome in 212 BC.
Although Greeks had, in fact, been present on both sides, the Battle of Himera soon became intertwined with the other timeless, heroic Hellenic victories that were gained at the beginning of the fifth century BC against all the odds: Marathon, Salamis and Plataea most famously.
This link became even stronger when Herodotus claimed Himera had occurred on the same day as the Battle of Salamis: 22 September 480 BC.
As for Gelon, his successful command at Himera secured him eternal fame as the saviour of Hellenism on Sicily. For all future rulers of Syracuse, Gelon became a role-model: a man to emulate. For the Syracusans, Himera was their finest hour.
A painting showing Gelon’s triumphant return to Syracuse.
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Nuttel
The Anglo-Saxon name Nuttel comes from the family having resided in the settlement of Nuthall in Nottinghamshire, or in the place named Nuttall in the county of Lancashire. The surname Nuttel belongs to the large category of Anglo-Saxon habitation names, which are derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads.
Early Origins of the Nuttel family
The surname Nuttel was first found in Nottinghamshire at Nuthall, parish, in the union of Basford, S. division of the wapentake of Broxtow. Nuthall Temple, occupying a commanding site near the village, is a handsome mansion, built in imitation of the Villa Capra, at Vicenza, in Italy, and surrounded by an extensive park embellished with plantations and an artificial lake. [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print. The place dates back to the Domesday Book of 1086 when it was first listed as Nutehale. [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
Williams, Dr Ann. And G.H. Martin, Eds., Domesday Book A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-141-00523-8) Literally the place name means "nook of land where nut trees grow" from the Old English words "hnutu" + "halh." [3]CITATION[CLOSE]
Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4)
Early History of the Nuttel family
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Nuttel Spelling Variations
Nuttel has been spelled many different ways. Before English spelling became standardized over the last few hundred years, spelling variations in names were a common occurrence. As the English language changed in the Middle Ages, absorbing pieces of Latin and French, as well as other languages, the spelling of people's names also changed considerably, even over a single lifetime. Spelling variants included: Nuttall, Nutthall, Nutshall and others.
Early Notables of the Nuttel family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the Nuttel family to Ireland
Some of the Nuttel family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. More information about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Migration of the Nuttel family to the New World and Oceana
In an attempt to escape the chaos experienced in England, many English families boarded overcrowded and diseased ships sailing for the shores of North America and other British colonies. Those families hardy enough, and lucky enough, to make the passage intact were rewarded with land and a social environment less prone to religious and political persecution. Many of these families became important contributors to the young colonies in which they settled. Early immigration and passenger lists have documented some of the first Nuttels to arrive on North American shores: Richard Nuttall and Thomas Nuttall, who came to Virginia in 1662; Robert Nuttall settled in Virginia in 1635; Edward, John, Joshua, Newton, Robert, Thomas and William Nuttall all arrived in Philadelphia between 1840 and 1860..
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^ Williams, Dr Ann. And G.H. Martin, Eds., Domesday Book A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-141-00523-8)
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RIOT, Radical Queer Pride Fantasy, Presented By The Culture Whore And David Sokolowski
James Nichols
Are you over the annual NYC Pride Parade? Are you sick of the blatant corportization of NYC Pride in general? Are you wondering when Pride became less about queerness and more about blatant homonormativity?
Then we have the Pride party for you.
From art collective and "living magazine" The Culture Whore and promoter David Sokolowski comes RIOT, a radical queer pride fantasy on June 27 in Brooklyn that serves as a response to the nature of mainstream NYC Pride in 2014. Namely, the celebration of conformity, marriage and monogamy -- some the institutionalized systems of power and privilege that historically oppressed queers in the first place.
The Culture Whore and Sokolowski arranged a massive line-up of performers and hosts for this event, including politically-charged pop-culture deconstructionist Chris Tyler, Brooklyn-based rapper Charlie Denverr and 2014 Mr(s) Williamsburg winner Aja. Also slated for the evening are a number of individuals featured in HuffPost Gay Voices Associate Editor James Nichols' series Queer New World, including Chris of Hur, Horrorchata, Macy Rodman, Severely Mame, Merrie Cherry, Untitled Queen, Lady Simon, Trey LaTrash, and Manifestany Squirtz.
If this line up wasn't enough to bring you out to Brooklyn this Friday, let the prospect of drag queen Merrie Cherry wrestling inside of a "moist kiddie pool" of something sticky be the deciding factor.
The Huffington Post chatted with The Culture Whore and Sokolowski this week about RIOT in order to better understand what they are trying to accomplish with this party, how they want it to function in response to mainstream notions of NYC Pride and what exactly attendees can expect.
The Huffington Post: In wake of the corporatization of NYC Pride what do you hope this event accomplishes? The Culture Whore & David Sokolowski: We hope to shake people out of their complacency. We live in a community that is one of the most creative subsections of a forward thinking metropolis, and we want to remind people that all over the world, being queer is something that involves a fight every moment of every day. Pride has always been and always should be a disruptive action against the status quo, but when the world’s leading corporations are the first ones invited to participate in the most integral part of modern pride celebrations, there is a need for an uprising. We need to understand how far we’ve strayed from the radical founding spirit of Pride and call our community to action through art.
How do the performers involved with this event embody the theme of this party? The performers at Riot represent some of the best artists of our underground community, artists who already actively subvert the confines of culture and inspire us to be weirder, louder and bolder. The drag artists performing all drastically push the boundaries of what drag performance can be. The musical acts are high energy and consciously critical of mainstream culture, using their music to invigorate their fellow queers. The theatrical performance artists deconstruct pop culture in different ways, by politicizing it and by manifesting its spiritual undertones. All of this will culminate in a night of empowerment and a better understanding of our past and our legacy.
Why is this event important? The impact of the celebration will extend beyond the people that show up and rage. We’re using this event to initiate a more activist edge of The Culture Whore. A portion of the funds raised will go to benefit New Alternatives, an awesome grassroots organization dedicated to serving homeless LGBT youth that we plan to start consistently volunteering with this summer.
What can attendees expect? Guests can expect to walk into an environment where they are encouraged to be themselves and think for themselves. They'll be given the opportunity to embrace a community of queerdos who have worked countless hours to provide a space that brings people together and gives them access to a better understanding and actualization of what being queer can mean in 2014. We’re not selling brands, and we’re not selling out identity in exchange for profit.
RIOT will take place on Friday, June 27 at the Ivy House in Brooklyn. Head here for more information.
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In 1960, Jean Goldschmidt sets up Cerro International Brussels (subsidiary of Cerro International New-York). His first mandate was to find European markets for non-ferrous metals and concentrates produced in Peru. In this context, he made an in-depth study of the entire non-ferrous metals European industry, visiting all the main plants and sites existing at the time.
Very quickly, he realizes that most of the plants generate residues containing non-ferrous metals in their various processes and for which no real outlet was planned. In the early 1960’s, the first contract for the treatment of a non-ferrous metal residue is signed. This is the starting point of the concept of “having existing residues treated by existing plants”.
In 1982, in the light of a flourishing commercial development, Jean Goldschmidt buys Cerro International Brussels and forms Jean Goldschmidt International s.a. (“JGI”). In 1985, due to the combination of a few favorable factors, Hydrometal s.a. was created on an available former Zinc production site in Engis. This is the start of a recycling adventure which, more than 30 years later, is today booming more than ever! HYDROMETAL is a 100% subsidiary of JGI.
In 1990, JGI sets up Metals & Residues n.v. (“M&R”) in the Netherlands, taking 77% ownership. Their activities are similar to those of JGI with some more emphasis on metal.
The purchase of the JGI Group by Prayon s.a. (a world leader in the chemistry of phosphates) in 1998 enables the Group to acquire a new technical dimension.
In 2002, JGI’s group was moved into SILOX s.a. (a subsidiary from Prayon s.a. and Belgian holding CYBELLE) which is specialized in the chemistry of sulphur and zinc in order to further explore and develop the different companies’ synergies.
In 2008, JGI takes a 35% share in RECUPAC S.A., a French company specialized in the fine-tuning of specific treatments for the recovery of metals. In order to further diversify our metal base, M&R buy Claushuis n.v. in 2009. This company is active in the recovery and refining of mercury as well as in the production of lead ballasts.
In 2011, JGI sells M&R Claushuis N.V.
In 2014, JGI sells its shares in RECUPAC S.A. and gets the license to operate the recycling of EAF dust to produce pigments.
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"Nebraska" Movie Review: 3 Stars
by Michael Phillips
The small and medium towns in the Midwest and the Great Plains region aren't so different from any other part -- rural, urban or in between -- of the United States. Half the people don't talk much, while the other half chatter to fill the silence.
It's a time-honored cliche according to Garrison Keillor, but there's truth in it.
And there truly are a million or more men in this country like Woody Grant, the tight-lipped subject of Alexander Payne's latest film, "Nebraska."
Throughout Bob Nelson's tidy, well-ordered screenplay, Woody's wife, his sons, his distant relations and his old, dubious friends from back home drop little bits of biographical detail regarding the addled, irritable, melancholy soul at the movie's center.
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We learn he's a lifelong alcoholic; a Korean War veteran who saw too much carnage; and he wasn't much of a father. He may also have early-onset dementia.
And now, having received a magazine subscription flier in the mail with his name on it, he believes himself to be the lucky winner of a million-dollar sweepstakes, and he is determined to travel from his home in Billings, Montana, to Lincoln, Nebraska, to collect the grand prize.
This is a road trip story.
Woody, given to wandering off on his own, finds a traveling companion in his younger son, David, who sells electronics in Billings and whose recent breakup has left him in a state of stasis.
Why not, David figures. Why not give the old man a ride and indulge his fantasy?
Eventually Woody's wife, Kate, whose first sentence on screen is a forthright "You dumb cluck!" and his "go-getter" Billings TV anchor son meet up with the men for an uneasy reunion in Hawthorne, Neb., where Woody and Kate grew up and met.
"Nebraska" is less a movie than a feature-length equivalent of a wry comic ballad, observing some ordinary lives.
A lot of Payne's film, his sixth feature, is funny, in that gently sardonic way distinguishing his best work. (I like "Election," "Sideways" and "The Descendants" best so far.) Some of "Nebraska" feels thin and slightly misjudged -- the broadly comic stuff with the idiot cousins, for example. The script, a tiny bit meager, digs only so far underneath anyone's skin. But Payne, shooting in widescreen black and white with cinematographer Phedon Papamichael, elevates the material with images, simply composed, of serious and paradoxically ordinary beauty. This is a movie that treats the lonely street outside a dingy small-town tavern with the same care as Payne shows his actors, beginning and ending with Bruce Dern.
Dern won the best actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival this year for his portrayal -- childlike and frightened one second, flinty and amusingly crusty the next -- of a man who never amounted to much on paper. So much of direction is a matter of politely beating the acting out of an actor and encouraging easy-breathing, in-character behavior instead. Dern here does the least overt and most affecting work of his screen career, a career pockmarked with one too many bug-eyed psychos and head cases. His comic timing remains shrewdly unpredictable. Will Forte plays David, a sad sack eager to find out who's in there, behind his father's glazed eyes. Over beers one night, David broaches the subject of his parents' marriage.
"You must've been in love," David says, hoping for a "yes," regarding his parents' courtship. A quick, puzzled pause, and Dern answers: "Never came up."
Dern and Forte are both effective, but my favorite performances in "Nebraska" belong to the women. As Kate, June Squibb, who played Jack Nicholson's wife in Payne's "About Schmidt," feels authentic and true in every instance. And in the small role of the Hawthorne newspaper owner and editor who knew Woody when, luminous Angela McEwan works wonders in between the lines. Payne knows gold when he sees it: The close-up of McEwan near the end speaks volumes and evokes many things, wordlessly.
Much of "Nebraska" is ordinary prose, but the best parts are plain-spoken comic poetry, including the priceless tableau of a living room full of stoic men, drinking beer, watching a football game. Woody fits right in. Rance Howard (director Ron's father) plays Woody's brother, and the way he performs in this sequence, staring at the off-screen TV, it's as if he'd been sitting in that living room his entire life, holding the same beer, waiting for someone to show up with a camera and mutter: "Action."
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"Nebraska" stars Bruce Dern. It is about a man who is on a road trip because he thinks he won a million dollar sweepstakes. He has to go to Nebraska to get his money. Watch as he makes the journey from Missouri to Nebraska with his son
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Hollywood-Time Continuum
Fifteen summers later, the Men in Black franchise delivers its best film yet.
By Ed Symkus
Look right here and we\'ll take you right back to 1997.
Movies about the alien-hunting, Earth-saving Men in Black don’t come around very often. The 1997 original, which introduced the duo of Agents J and K (Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, respectively), combined a compelling and funny story with dazzling effects and lots of laughs. The 2002 sequel relied far more on just the effects and laughs. It would be a challenge to find someone who could tell you the plot of MIB2.
But that’s all been fixed in MIB3. This second sequel keeps the laughs, keeps the gadgets and creatures, but also spins a good story, one that explores the unexplored relationship between the two protagonists.
First off, though, there’s a spectacular escape from an extremely maximum-security prison on the moon, where malicious and malevolent Boris the Animal (Jemaine Clement) has devised a foolproof cliché of a plan involving something hidden in a cake. Boris, by the way, is a Boglodite assassin, in fact the last of the Boglodites, who lost his arm to and was imprisoned by K some 40 years earlier. In conjunction with his longplanned escape is his vengeful declaration to go back through those years to kill K “before he takes my arm.”
So we get stories of time travel and something going askew with the timespace continuum, and side plots involving “unlicensed extraterrestrial foodstuffs,” a possible alien invasion of Earth, the Chrysler Building and what happened on July 16, 1969 (Google it if that date isn’t ringing any bells).
Boris vanishes, suddenly everyone but J believes that K has been dead for 40 years, and J makes a marvelously filmed leap off the Chrysler Building, which sends him back to just before Boris will do the nasty deed. This introduces us to the much younger version of K, astoundingly played by Josh Brolin who, along with some prosthetic work on his chin, forehead and earlobes, does a spot-on vocal and mannerism imitation of Jones.
One gimmick is that though J knows who K is, K has no knowledge of this young upstart. It’s here that the film starts to explore what happened to him in the ensuing years.
It’s also here, in the summer of 1969, that the filmmakers really get to play. There’s Times Square as it used to look, there are the sounds of the Stones and Status Quo and the Velvet
Underground. We also get a visit to a Be-In at Andy Warhol’s aluminum foil-decked Factory, and even a cameo by Warhol (Bill Hader in a white fright wig).
What’s most amazing is that Smith and Brolin manage to latch on to the same chemistry that Smith and Jones shared in the earlier films. But forget those for now. This one’s the best of the series.
MEN IN BLACK III
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Reality Steve Provides A Few Spoilers For ‘Bachelor In Paradise’ 2019
The guilty pleasure summer reality series will be starring a wide variety of former faces, including some that we haven't seen in years.
The Bachelorette is still far from over and we’ve got quite a few more weeks before we figure out who Hannah Brown will end up with at the end, if she does in fact choose one of the suitors. There’s been some pretty surprising eliminations thus far, including one man who was abruptly sent packing on night one because it was revealed that he had a girlfriend waiting for him at home. There’s also been plenty of drama, particularly between the controversial contestant Luke Parker and the rest of the men in the house, according to Cinema Blend.
The most recent episode left off on quite a cliffhanger as there was no rose ceremony and it’s not yet clear whether Parker is staying or going. Nevertheless, while fans anxiously await next weeks episode, they can enjoy a few hints about the upcoming season of the spinoff show, Bachelor in Paradise. This reality series, which is often referred to as a summer guilty pleasure show, takes place on an actual island and is full of steamy romances, heartbreak, and drama. The cast is composed of fan-favorite contestants from previous seasons of both The Bachelor and The Bachelorette and everyone is given a second chance at finding love.
Life is a beach…and that’s a great thing! #BachelorinParadise is back Aug 5th! pic.twitter.com/xrZuAbv8kh
— Chris Harrison (@chrisbharrison) June 14, 2019
The official cast of Bachelor in Paradise is not expected to be released until Monday, but if you’re not patient you can still check out Reality Steve’s recent spoilers. Reality Steve is essentially a spoiler professional whose blog provides far in advance spoilers for hit television shows, such as the Bachelor franchise. More often than not, his predictions are pretty spot on.
“Ok fine. One hint about Bachelor in Paradise. Through one week of filming, it’s the Blake Horstmann Show and it’s not even close. Nor is it good. And whatever you think it is, it’s worse than that,” Reality Steve wrote on Twitter.
Blake Horstmann was the runner-up on Becca Kufrin’s season of The Bachelorette. Horstmann was a fan favorite and when Kufrin ended things with him, his reaction was one of the most heartbreaking that we’ve seen on the show yet. Now it sounds like he’ll be taking over as the new hot commodity in paradise.
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“No, he’s not the new Dean. Dean only juggled two women,” was Reality Steve’s telling reply.
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Go behind the scenes of Redbridge's buildings this weekend for Open House
PUBLISHED: 17:54 20 September 2013 | UPDATED: 17:54 20 September 2013
Amanda Nunn
Tunnelling and Underground Construction Academy
Ever wondered how the train tunnels deep under London were created? You could go behind the scenes and find out when the Tunnelling and Underground Construction Academy opens its doors for the first time.
The academy is taking part in Open House 2013 this weekend where buildings of are opened up to the wider public.
The academy trains apprentices to work on more than 42km of new tunnels which, Crossrail says, is the largest construction project in Europe.
Gareth Jones, manager of the academy, said: “Visitors will have an opportunity to see a unique training facility purpose-built to support the tunnelling and underground construction industry.”
Over the weekend the academy, in Lugg Approach, Ilford, will be open from 10am-4pm with hourly talks from architects from 10.30am.
■ Christ Church, Wanstead Place, Wanstead
Open: Sat 10am-5pm/Sun 11am-5pm
Architect: Sir George Gilbert Scott
■ Fullwell Cross Library, High Street, Barkingside
Open: Sat 9.30am-4pm
Architect: Frederick Gibberd
■ Ilford War Memorial Hall, Eastern Avenue, Newbury Park
Open: Sat/Sun 11am-4pm
Architect: C J Dawson & Allardyce
■ Redbridge Town Hall, Council Chamber, High Road, Ilford
Open: Sat 10am-5pm
Architect: B Woolard
■ St Mary’s Church, Overton Drive, Wanstead
Open: Sat 10am-4pm/Sun noon-4pm
Architect: Thomas Hardwick
■ St Peter’s Church, Aldborough Road North, Newbury Park
Architect: Arthur Ashpitel
■ The Temple, Wanstead Park, Warren Road, Wanstead
Open: Sat/Sun noon-5pm
Built: 1600s
■ The Chapel, Oaks Lane, Newbury Park
Architect: Refurbished by Balkrishna Savant
Mr Jones added: “A tour will include the specialist workshops, that will involve walking through a 40 metre tunnel mock-up complete with rail tracks and locomotives and a sprayed concrete lining workshop with its robotic equipment and mandrels on static display.”
The building was designed by Capita Symonds and RPS in 2009 and about 3,500 people are expected to be trained there during the Crossrail project.
It cost £15million, with a third coming from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.
So far about 1,500 people have been trained by the academy, which was established to meet a demand for people with specialist skills in tunnelling and underground construction.
Each Crossrail boring machine is like a miniature underground factory weighing a thousand tonnes and measuring 150 metres in length.
Developers hope the first service will start in late 2018, with nine new stations.
Bancroft’s School
Address: High Road, Woodford Green
Open: Sat 10am-2.30pm
Architect: Sir Arthur Blomfield
The school was originally founded in 1737 in Mile End but moved to Woodford Green for a more rural setting. Worth looking at are the chapel, the Great Hall, which had a sloping floor as it was mainly used as a cinema, and the view of east London from the top of the tower. Sir Arthur Blomfield also designed Selwyn College, Cambridge.
Gants Hill Art
Address: Cranbrook Road, Gants Hill
Open: Sat tours at 11am and noon
Architect: Cookson and McNally
The two metre steel column has shelves full of children’s sculptures which were cast in steel or bronze.
It was created in conjunction with pupils from Gearies Infant School, Waremead Road, Gants Hill. Tours will be led by headteacher Bob Drew, who raised half the money for the sculpture himself, and will last an hour.
Ilford Hospital Chapel
Address: Ilford Hill, Ilford
Open: Sat 10am-4pm/Sun 1-5pm
Architect: Various
Built: Mainly 1300s
The Hospital Chapel was founded in 1145 by the Abbess of Barking as a hospice for old and infirm men. It is a Grade II listed building with sections dating back to the 12th century. Worth a look is the monument to John Smith, the master of the hospital, who died in 1475.
Redbridge Central Library
Address: Clements Road, Ilford
Open: Sat 9am-4pm, tours on the hour
Architect: DJ Restick and T Lawson/ inside by Opening the Book
Built: 1986/ interior refurbished in 2012
The £1million refurbishment was completed last year with a completely redesigned interior with large open spaces and lots of new technology. The library was shortlisted for The Bookseller Industry Award for best library earlier this year and has welcomed 15 million people since it opened in 1986.
Mazarin House
Address: Glengall Road, Woodford Green
Open: Sun 10am-5pm, hourly tours
Architect: Arboreal Architecture
Anyone interested in environmentally friendly design should go along to this sustainable block of six flats.
The site has an exposed solid timber structure and solar panels. The extensive use of timber means the flats are very warm and require minimal heating. They are due to be completed next month.
Sukkat Shalom
Address: Victory Road, Wanstead
Open: Sun 10am-5pm
Architect: Somers Clarke
The synagogue was originally the chapel for a merchant seamen orphanage.
It was bought by the synagogue in 1995 and was restored with money from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
It has ornate stained glass windows and the ceiling is modelled on the inside of a boat hull.
Valentines Mansion
Address: Emerson Road, Ilford
The Grade II listed building was used as a home until the early 1900s and was extensively refurbished in 2009 when it was opened up to the public.
Inside are a Victorian kitchen, pantry, interactive rooms and an artists’ studio. Look out for the house’s finest features, which are the main staircase and the Venetian window.
Open: Sun 1-5pm
Architect: William Newton
Formerly Highams Manor, this elegant Georgian manor house was built for the Warner family. During the First World War, the house was converted into a military hospital and in 1919 was rented from the Warner family to become a school for girls by Essex County Council.
The council bought the house outright in 1929.
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Woodford County High School was originallyl a house, then military hospital before it became a school.
Open house Gants hill public art by Cookson and McNally in conjuction with pupils at Gearies infant school
Open house Sukkat Shalom Reform Synagogue in Wanstead
Ilford Hospital Chapel - the town's oldest building
Opening of the refurbished Redbridge Central Library & Museum
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10. Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
PG-13 | 117 min | Drama
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11. American Pie Presents: Band Camp (2005 Video)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Music
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12. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
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13. The Words (2012)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
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Directors: Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde, Zoe Saldana
14. Naughty But Nice (1939)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Musical
Professor Hardwick teaches at Winfield College and detests the new swing music that is the craze. He has written a rhapsody which he takes to New York to be published. Staying with his Aunt... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Dick Powell, Gale Page, Helen Broderick
15. Gulliver's Travels (2010)
Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Lilliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens.
Director: Rob Letterman | Stars: Jack Black, Emily Blunt, Jason Segel, Amanda Peet
16. Handsome Devil (2016)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
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Director: John Butler | Stars: Fionn O'Shea, Ardal O'Hanlon, Amy Huberman, Ruairi O'Connor
17. A Murder of Crows (1998)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
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Director: Rowdy Herrington | Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Berenger, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Eric Stoltz
18. The Squid and the Whale (2005)
R | 81 min | Comedy, Drama
Follows two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.
Director: Noah Baumbach | Stars: Owen Kline, Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg
19. Finding Forrester (2000)
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Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin
20. Youth in Revolt (2009)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Director: Miguel Arteta | Stars: Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Ray Liotta, Jean Smart
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Director: Daniel Sackheim | Stars: Diane Lane, Leelee Sobieski, Stellan Skarsgård, Bruce Dern
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A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Jean Short
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Director: Laurence Dunmore | Stars: Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, John Malkovich, Paul Ritter
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Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin, Gemma Jones
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Passed | 22 min | Short, Fantasy, Music
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43. My Words, My Lies - My Love (2009)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller the real author introduces himself in his life and begins to take-over David's life.
Director: Alain Gsponer | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Hannah Herzsprung, Henry Hübchen, Kirsten Block
44. Beware the Gonzo (2010)
TV-14 | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young muckraker decides to start his own underground newspaper at his high school.
Director: Bryan Goluboff | Stars: Ezra Miller, Zoë Kravitz, Griffin Newman, Stefanie Y. Hong
45. Roman de gare (2007)
A popular novelist researches unlikely sources to find characters for her next bestseller.
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Dominique Pinon, Audrey Dana, Michèle Bernier
46. Messages Deleted (2010)
Not Rated | 92 min | Mystery, Thriller
A screenwriting teacher is forced to live out the plot of a screenplay idea he stole from a student, who now seeks revenge.
Director: Rob Cowan | Stars: Matthew Lillard, Deborah Kara Unger, Gina Holden, Serge Houde
47. Fotograf (2015)
R | 133 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The life and work of internationally renown provocative Czech photographer Jan Saudek.
Director: Irena Pavlásková | Stars: Karel Roden, Marie Málková, Zuzana Vejvodová, Václav Neuzil
48. The Concert for Bangladesh (1972)
G | 103 min | Documentary, Music
The first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise humanitarian relief funds for the refugees of Bangladesh of 1971 war.
Director: Saul Swimmer | Stars: George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Ravi Shankar, Ringo Starr
49. Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen (1990 TV Movie)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The chief suspects in the murder of an author are the numerous colleagues whom he continuously plagiarized.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William R. Moses, Cindy Williams
50. The Artist (2008)
TV-14 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
A male nurse steals some of one of his patient's drawings and makes money with them.
Directors: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat | Stars: Alberto Laiseca, Sergio Pangaro, Andrés Duprat, Enrique Gagliesi
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Immensa Technology Labs partners with Monogram Eyewear to introduce 3D Printed eyewear in Dubai
Immensa Technology Labs (Immensa) has announced its partnership with Dubai-based Monogram Eyewear to present the first high-end, 3D-printed eyewear product line in the UAE. After over a year of internal tests and prototypes, the frames are now market-ready and will represent the first regionally 3D-printed commercial product.
Bassel Kabak, Founder and Managing Director at Monogram Eyewear, commented: “We are delighted and proud to be introducing the first 3D-printed eyewear to Dubai, set to revolutionise the regional optical market. Conceived and created at Immensa, these frames are in line with the ‘Dubai 3D Printing Strategy’ and will offer a sustainable and innovative approach to the age-old industry. These frames will be curated to best suit customers in accordance with their preferences and will be made available in all other cosmopolitan cities, including Singapore, Hong Kong, New York and London.”
Customers purchasing these 3D-printed frames — ranging between AED 1,300 and AED 1,650 — gain the luxury of having personalised, custom-tailored frames that are equally sturdy and light, based on 15 pre-set designs and a choice of four colours. The frames will be printed using industry-established material and a unique blend of titanium alloy that will be handcrafted in monogram lab.
Fahmi Al Shawwa, Chief Executive Officer at Immensa Technology Labs, said: “Monogram Eyewear are ahead of the curve in its optical innovation. Our scientists and engineers tirelessly worked with them to develop revolutionary, 3D-printed eyewear frames that we believe will take the market by storm. Immensa is delighted to be working with resourceful and forward-thinking institutions that support Dubai’s mandate to be fully sustainable and offer products that redefine their respective industries.”
Immensa’s highly specialised, multi-disciplinary engineers collaborate closely with partners to advance their businesses and solve their most complex manufacturing problems by providing integrated digital and mechanical design and multi-material manufacturing solutions. The company also offers full consultation on the integration of 3D printing into manufacturing processes.
This article first appeared in Thomson Reuters Zawya on 10th September, 2018 (https://www.zawya.com/mena/en/press-releases/story/Immensa_Technology_Labs_partners_with_Monogram_Eyewear_to_introduce_3Dprinted_eyewear_to_Dubai-ZAWYA20180910120932/).
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Nicotiana glauca
Nicotiana glauca is a species of wild tobacco known by the common name tree tobacco. Its leaves are attached to the stalk by petioles (many other Nicotiana species have sessile leaves), and its leaves and stems are neither pubescent nor sticky like Nicotiana tabacum. It resembles Cestrum parqui but differs in the form of leaves and fusion of the outer floral parts. It grows to heights of more than two meters.
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"Redemption, Part II"
Written by Ronald D. Moore
Directed by David Carson
TNG's fifth-season kickoff is an entertaining blend of the earnest and the absurd, highlighting the series at perhaps its most eclectically versatile — or tonally schizophrenic, depending on your point of view. With the Duras sisters making their bid against Gowron to take over the Klingon Empire — and the Romulans pulling strings behind the scenes — "Redemption II" rotates through a sprawling A/B/C-story structure.
We have energetic space opera in the form of boisterous Klingons engaging in glorious battle — and then drinking in the same hall in the evenings between engagements. Apparently civil war is a 9-to-5 job. (Amusing detail: arm-wrestling with knives thrown in for good measure.) We have a more grounded storyline where Data is put in command of a ship whose first officer does not think an android is capable of command. And we have the Enterprise on a mission to expose the Romulan involvement in the Duras' attempted takeover. Of course, the wild card here is the relative sci-fi soap opera that is the Sela situation.
Since they are all servicing the same plot, "Redemption II" finds an admirably workable balance between all of these pieces. For my money, the most engaging is Data's command story. While we've been down the road documenting the prejudices against Data before, this one is a suitably engaging retelling. Timothy Carhart as Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Hobson hits the right notes of a wrong-headed jackass whose public disrespect of Data should've landed him in the brig immediately, if not sooner. As always, Data's unflappable nature is the key here. He never gets emotional, although he raises his voice when deemed logically necessary.
As for the nature of the woman who looks exactly like Tasha Yar, that one is a little trickier. On the one hand, I appreciate the commitment of the writers in revealing Sela's backstory and the paradoxical implications that come with it, explicitly referencing "Yesterday's Enterprise" and bringing in Guinan to lend credence to the whole thing. If anything, the writers show a willingness to take a ridiculous idea and try to make it absolutely credible in TNG's sci-fi terms. On the other hand, casting Denise Crosby to play a character who looks exactly like the character's mother is just a dopey soap-opera conceit to begin with. (The paradox here: You can tell this story, but to do it with Crosby is to just remind us all that it's a conceit; but to not use Crosby means you don't have the story's WTF-baiting justification in the first place.)
In the end, the Romulan conspiracy is exposed and the Duras insurrection is put down (though Lursa and B'Etor themselves escape, naturally), thanks to the Enterprise's efforts and Data's ingenuity. Worf finds his two worlds in conflict, as he often does, and makes the choices we expect him to. Still, Worf's return to the Enterprise is handled a bit pat for my tastes. After the big deal that was made of his departure at the end of "Redemption, Part I," this feels like a swift and easy reset. As season-starting TNG cliffhanger resolutions go, this outing would become typical of the model.
Previous episode: Redemption, Part I
Next episode: Darmok
Mentor397
Sat, Apr 2, 2011, 10:05pm (UTC -5)
I didn't have much to say really, I enjoy your take on these episodes, even if I don't always agree with them. I wanted to point out, politely, before anyone else in a mean way might, that it's "brig" not "bring".
Seriously, good work.
Sun, Apr 3, 2011, 7:58pm (UTC -5)
Revisiting TNG gives me a better sense of Ronald D. Moore as a writer, after seeing what he did with BSG. The grittiness, the darkness, the intrigue. Especially where BSG contrasts with what other TNG writers were doing.
Tue, Apr 5, 2011, 10:27am (UTC -5)
Jammer,
If you want to consider Crosby playing her own daughter as a 'soap-opera conceit,' fine, but, based on your other reviews, if this had been a DS9 episode, I have the feeling you'd have given this 4 stars for precisely that reason.
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Tue, Apr 5, 2011, 9:22pm (UTC -5)
I get the feeling the entire idea behind Sela was that Denise Crosby regretted quitting in season one once TNG got famous, and begged to be on the show again. Then they had to come up with a plot to make it happen. In one way it's nice that TNG never forgot the character (she appeared at least once per season after she died), but in another way, it's a pretty transparent attempt by Denise to ride on TNG's coattails.
Thu, Apr 7, 2011, 10:35am (UTC -5)
@ angel: Yeah, except that DS9 would have done it better - and Denise Crosby's performance would never have been allowed to be so over-the-top both here and elsewhere (Reunification).
Fri, Apr 8, 2011, 10:54am (UTC -5)
How the hell do you know DS9 would've done it better?
Knowing that show, we would've gotten a threesome with her, Dukat, & Nurse Ratched
Agreed about Crosby as Sela - what was the point? (I know in real terms, it was "Denise wants to play one more time", but other than that...) What difference does it make to have Tasha's daughter involved in the plot? Momentary confusion for the crew, and then... nothing. She's just another Romulan bureacrat. Her lineage has no significance at all.
Her appearance bugs the hell out of me. Are Romulan genes so recessive that she looks like she sprang direct from her mother's forehead? Couldn't they at least have given her a black wig, or a little prosthetic lump on her forehead, or sallow skin, or something? Lazy and moronic.
Then again I always felt the "unprofessional jackass won't follow Data's orders" plot was pretty dumb too - by-the-numbers and tedious. When Data ignore's Picards orders, why doesn't he just explain what he's doing? He can multitask, we know that. A dumb episode all round.
Thu, May 12, 2011, 11:59pm (UTC -5)
I really dislike this episode in the same sort of way I dislike DS9's O'Brien&Bashir VR Section 31 episode. It had such promise, but the guys at the top really missed the mark here. They abandoned everything that made Part I interesting in favor of stuff that was completely irrelevant to matters at hand.
Part I essentialy had two related storylines: political turmoil in the Klingon Empire and Worf's struggle to regain his family honor. Though the episode wasn't perfect, I think it was a very good culmination of the arc that had been brewing for two years. It is anenjoyable hour, especially when put alongside its great thematic predecessors "Sins of the Father", "Reunion" and "In the Mind's Eye". Part II, though kinda OK when viewed on its own terms, inexplicably drops all this rich backstory.
Klingon political manoeuvring, scheming and backstabbing? Virtually gone, replaced for unknown reasons with Romulans. It's not even Romulan *scheming and backstabbing*, just a random and uninteresting plot involving Romulans smuggling some supplies, without the episode even trying to devote some time to fleshing out their motivation and to delving into political repercussions of this whole affair.
Worf's storyline was especially butchered. The guy spent the whole episode imprisoned; no tough choices, no impact on anything transpiring on the screen. It's obvious screenwriters didn't know what to do with him, so they just eliminated him as a player in the unfolding drama.
Basically, they abandoned the two main storylines of Part I and replaced them with unrelated material that belonged in a completely different episode -- Tash...err, Sela's reveal, Picard's blockade of the border and Data's first command. I'm not saying it's utterly uncompelling, but it simply has no thematic cohesion with the plot points set up in the previous episode.
And lastly, I just have to mention the ridicilous notion that a fleet of twenty ships can blockade (in three dimensions, remeber!) the whole Klingon-Romulan border that is probably dozens upon dozens light years long. It has a similar vibe of nonsensicality :) as the idea in "Unification" that you can conquer a planet with 2000 soldiers.
Yeah, I really didn't like this one...
........ would have done it better
Sun, May 22, 2011, 8:58pm (UTC -5)
never really understood why fans of star trek are become divided over which show was better (ds9, voy, tng, ect.) Why can't you just enjoy all things star trek and leave the petty bickering to the old ladies.
Sun, Sep 25, 2011, 10:15pm (UTC -5)
@ Paul...
Stellar cartography is always ignored. Even if the Romulans had managed to conquer Vulcan, how the hell could they hold it...Vulcan is in the hjeart of the Federation...supply lines would be nonexistent.
Even worse, on DS9, we had for a time the Klingons and the Cardassians at war, never mind the fact that the Cardassian Union and the Klingon Empire are geogr-, er, astrometrically on opposite sides of the vast bulk of the Federation.
Tue, Sep 27, 2011, 3:10am (UTC -5)
@Jay
Sigh... such is the life of a Star Trek fan... what are we to except to fanwank an explanation :)
Sat, Oct 15, 2011, 11:28pm (UTC -5)
Indeed Paul...we should write a novel about a ground war between Canada and Mexico which somehow has absolutely no effect on the United States whatsoever ;)
Wed, Apr 25, 2012, 2:30pm (UTC -5)
@Jay - while I love your analogy, a ground war between Mexico and Canada IS possible without affecting the US, if they both bought a huge number of tomahawk missiles to use on the other. Tomahawk is ground-to-ground missiles. But of course, without boots on the ground, no territory would change hands. U.S might be a bit annoyed about so much missiles flying over its territory.
As for the episode, I'm with Jammer, the Data command subplot was the most intriguing. But it did seem rather silly for Worf to resign, just to be captured until the end of the war!
I'm not sure why everyone are attacking Data's first officer, even today, we have people suspect of various technologies (e.g., anyone want screensavers free, that also come with malware?). Data is the ONLY sentient android in the entire federation, it would take time to get over people's misconceptions. At least Data's first officer's concerns made much more sense, than Engineer Logan abandoning his post in battle just to argue with Geordi in the episode, "Arsenal of Freedom".
Wed, Feb 6, 2013, 4:00pm (UTC -5)
I've always really liked this one, though I grant most of the flaws mentioned above. And I couldn't care less about the "geographic" nitpicking. Snooze.
The main problem is that a Klingon Civil War storyline could have covered more than a simple two-parter, perhaps even a brief arc with Worf's scenes intercut with goings-on aboard the Enterprise.
Unfortunately TNG never really departed from its episodic format sufficiently for such ambitious storytelling. I don't know if it's a flaw in the show, really, but it certainly didn't allow for the full realization of plots like Redemption and related episodes like Sins of a Father, Reunion, and The Mind's Eye.
Wed, Mar 6, 2013, 10:38am (UTC -5)
I got a little weary of the tachyon net tedium. Just set the damn thing up and let's get this story going already. Ultimately it made the starship scenes another excerise in LaForgian technopoop. Thank God Wesley wasn't around to explain it all to us. I for one don't mind the operatic excesses of Klingon dialogue. Lursa and B'Etor are deliciously decietful and selfish. And please God somebody kill or breast feed that little poser Toral. His voice hurt my ears.
PeteTongLaw
The bridge for the USS Sutherland is sad, especially for a season opener. If they didn't have the cash to build a good set, the least they could have done was redressed the Enterprise Bridge a bit, or even the Enterprise battle bridge.
I think the Sela being Tasha's daughter plot is fanstastic. Compare with Voyager's Year of Hell, in which they decided to RESET BUTTON the whole thing with no consequences. The fact that the alternate universe of Yesterday's Enterprise has consequences for future episodes is very exciting, and makes Yesterday's Enterprise even more exciting.
As you pointed out, the use of Denise Crosby was meant solely as a surprise factor, but unlike you and others, I enjoyed the heck out of it. As far as Denise riding ST's coattails, fact is they used each other and for me and many fans, it was a treat. It provided a concrete completion to the Tasha Yar character.
I do agree on the issue of Worf's reinstatement. The way it was handled was the only weak point of the episode for me. He was clearly denied extended leave so to let him back in Starfleet with no repercussions is unbelievable.
I give this saga four and a half stars.
Sun, Jul 14, 2013, 3:16am (UTC -5)
I agree with Paul about much of how this episode comes across, though I think I still like it for what it is in spite of its...strangeness, is perhaps the best term to use. This episode is indeed bizarre -- really, it's not even a sprawling A/B/C plot structure but more like an A/B/C/D/E plot structure, where A is Worf's attempts to reconcile his moral views with Klingondom (and his adventures in getting captured), B is Picard's blockade, C is Data's first command, D is Sela's Tasha backstory, and E is, um, the Klingon Civil War, which is rather surprisingly backgrounded in a lot of ways. Obviously everything relates back to the Klingon civil war, but understandably the focus is kept on the role of current-or-past-opening-credits-characters, which means that the Civil War which seems to mostly be Gowron and Kurn fighting with ships that are supplied by Lursa and B'Etor mostly gets filtered through Worf hanging around not quite enjoying himself with Kurn and Gowron and scenes of the Duras Sisters trying to seduce a regular and/or talking to Sela.
It is of course the right decision not to focus on the Civil War at the expense of Worf and Picard's decisions, which are the most important thing here -- the outcome of the war and how it is fought is of little concern narratively except in what it says about the human condition. Still, I have no idea what is accomplished by having Worf be captured by the Duras Sisters for the story -- of all the choices Worf has to make, whether or not he should marry the Romulan-allied sister of the guy who killed his mate is not exactly a mystery. More on Worf later. Meanwhile, the blockade plotline reduces Picard's delicate balancing act to a matter of mechanics -- Picard has already decided exactly what he needs to do as of the teaser or act one (I forget when exactly) and just needs to implement it. The introduction of Sela
IF I were to try to find a common thematic thread to everything, I would say that ultimately the single most important moment of this episode is Worf's sparing Toral (and then using Klingon custom to protect Toral's life by arguing that Gowron gave Worf Toral's life, and so cannot give it to Kurn afterward). This moment relies on Worf recognizing, finally, 1) that he cannot just follow custom from Klingon culture and has to walk his own path, and 2) that the children are not their parents, no matter how similar they might appear; children should not pay for the sins of their fathers. (1) has a thematic mirror in the Data storyline, in which Data defies Picard's orders and, by his very existence as a captain, defies Hobson's expectations of what a commander can be. (2) has a thematic mirror in Sela -- who is Tasha's daughter, but has none of Tasha's virtues; that Sela is not like Tasha despite being so genetically and visually similar suggests that Toral may indeed not be like Duras. The second point ties in with the first by suggesting that Worf has a choice to be something other than what his blood dictates -- he is a Klingon, but the Klingon way need not be his way, anymore than Data needs to be confined to being "an android" or Sela needs to honour her half-human parentage. Or, maybe not.
It is interesting that in a plot that repeatedly has B'Etor trying to seduce main characters into betraying their principles, and in which the plot hinges on Duras and his father and his sisters having conspired/conspiring with the Romulans, that we are told that Tasha Yar, held up as a model of virtue and honour, became a Romulan consort, and like B'Etor tries to do, used the fact that someone wanted her as a mate to help her cause, and, indeed, it seems to me as if Tasha was right to do so. Actions should be judged on a case-by-case basis; motives matter (compare, for example, Ambassador Kell saying to Worf in "The Mind's Eye" that only humans care about motives).
Anyway: the Sela plot is bizarre for any number of reasons, some of which are listed above. Rather depressingly (or amusingly, depending on your mood), after "Yesterday's Enterprise" gave Tasha a meaningful death after her pointless death in "Skin of Evil," we find out that alternate-Tasha *actually* was executed by Romulans for trying to escape from being a consort. The weird, almost sickening tragedy is that Yar, who apparently ran around away from rape gangs and whose first "centric" episode was about her nearly being "forced into marriage" in exchange for a vaccine ended up trading her body for other people's lives, and then was killed when she tried to leave. Somehow, there are other resonances here and there -- Sela refusing to go along with Tasha to what most people would obviously consider a better world, preferring to stay in her dystopia, seems a lot like Ishara's story, with Turkana IV and Romulus interchanged. If you take the plot seriously, it suggests that Tasha did something even more heroic than we had learned -- in that her actions saved many lives -- and more tragic, all just to justify the mere fact of a Romulan looking like Yar. And then Guinan tells Picard that *he* sent Yar into the past and so what is happening with Sela is his fault, which is a stretch by any reasonable means of "his fault" and even more so because I wasn't particularly sold by this episode that Sela herself is a mastermind of such proportions that the Romulans would be utterly incapable of supplying weapons to Klingons discreetly or threatening Federation starships if Sela didn't exist. I do like the idea, in principle, that even small actions, even actions one is unaware of doing, can have profound repercussions; Picard learning that the decision of an alternate version of himself could profoundly affect the quadrant lends a seriousness to everything he does, and emphasizes how important each choice is.
The Data story, taken on its own terms, is generally enjoyable; it's a good story for Data himself, I think, though Hobson is needlessly obtuse. I was talking with my girlfriend about Pulaski's bonding with Worf in season two, and she mentioned that there was some care taken to demonstrate that Pulaski's anti-android prejudice was not evidence of a more systemic racism. Hobson seems to be a racist; his comment about how androids are not suited to command just as Klingons are not suited to being ship's counsellors and [some race I have already forgotten] don't make good engineers is particularly funny, especially when you consider that surely every warp-capable society should be able to have some citizens who could potentially be engineers. Still, while Hobson is insubordinate to the point where he should have been relieved of duty and probably demoted, it is a bit strange that a story partly about Data "defying orders" to find a flaw in the grid, leading to Picard saying that it's good for Data not to blindly follow orders, also has Data making no effort to explain his orders to his first officer, whom he expects to blindly follow orders. While I can imagine numerous reasons why Data might not have wanted to tell Picard what he was doing (maybe the Romulans could hear transmissions, or something?), none were stated, so that it's hard to know whether his choice not to tell Picard was justified; in practice it seems as if Data not telling Picard outright what he is doing is a complication to make drama (and perhaps the thematic point mentioned earlier). This does suggest that it is not just Hobson's bigotry but Data's deprioritization of communication and relations with both his inferior and superior officers that causes conflict, and should ideally be something he works on.
I will perhaps write about Worf's story later. This episode really is crammed in with enough stories for a short arc.
Tue, Dec 24, 2013, 8:47pm (UTC -5)
"No one would suggest that a Klingon would be a good ship's councellor, or a Berellian could be an engineer."
So apparently its RDM that decided to paint entire species with wide, discriminatory brushes, any of which would make it nearly impossible for any of these species to be diverse enough to be technologically advanced and warp capable.
I also couldn't accept these middle-aged Romulan officers taking orders from Sela, who is all of 22. If I wanted to see that I'd watch Doogie Hauser.
IntrinsicRandomEvent
Mon, Feb 3, 2014, 1:39am (UTC -5)
Just re-watched this 2-parter... enjoyed it... but, here's what really stood out to me this time:
About half-way through, when Lursa and B'Etor are flirtatiously offering Worf the chance to marry and join houses, and he understandably rejects them, Sela (Tasha's daughter) appears on a viewscreen and says "Enough! I need to know the strengths and positions of the Federation fleet, I don't have time for this..."
Worf is clearly looking right at that viewscreen, and there is no reaction. No reaction to the fact that he is looking at a Romulan that looks like Tasha, his former fellow officer. No perplexed look, no "Wha... Tasha?!? What is this Romulan trickery!?"
Bit of a mistake there... I can understand why the writers may have overlooked that, but in retrospect they ought to have been more careful. Or at least, pointed the viewscreen the other way on the set...
But, yeah, this 2-parter is a classic.
The problem with part 2 can be summed up in one word: Sela. Regardless of whether the idea of a daughter of YE Tasha was a good idea or not, it simply wasn't a good idea for this episode, as it sucked almost all the life out of what I thought was an excellent setup. And honestly, methinks the writers knew this as well. The problem with her is lampshaded practically every time she appears"
[Sela appears on viewscreen for the first time]
Picard: Tasha?
Sela: No, Tasha was my mom. Blah blah blah... But that's not so important at the moment. Leave this space!
[Senior officers meet in the conference room]
Picard: So, let's talk about Sela's ancestry. Blah blah blah. But that's not what I came to talk about so much... let's talk about the blockade.
[Guinan talks to Picard, so Picard invites Sela over]
Sela: Stop the blockade! But really, let's talk about mommy. Blah blah blah.... But that's not important. Blockade!
So yeah, the story knew it didn't fit in, but because she was introduced it kinda had to fit in somehow.
And because of that, the rest of the stories were compressed unfairly. Data's first command, for example, had to take a bunch of shortcuts. Because of that, the first officer was relegated to the role of jerkwad buffoon, which isn't fair to him or to the story. And also, to amp up the conflict, Data had to act like a bit of a buffoon as well. As others have noted, he could have easily told his first officer what he was doing; in fact he was communicating when he was discovering what was going on (of course, that makes the XO look even more doltish. He saw that Data had seen something in the inverse tachyon cloud, but instead of trusting Data he goes all contrarian on everyone). But then he stopped talking just to increase the dramatic tension. But there was also his first scene. The XO starts giving orders, some particularly related to safety, and Data gets all pissy about it. While XO may have overstepped his boundaries, Riker gives auxiliary orders regarding safety several times over the course of the show, with Picard right there, and Picard never complains. Data really should know better than to have to micromanage.
Sad to say, but I think freakin Wesley's first command was dealt with better than this.
And, of course, the whole point of the show (Worf coming to the realization that he doesn't belong in Klingon society any more than a human one) was compressed nearly to the point of nonexistence. Still, his scenes were pretty great. Complaining about the drunken revelry, complaining about the challenges to Gowron's authority, and just plain complaining in general. He clearly is a man uncomfortable with others. But it was so small. His scene with Guinan in Part 1 was so good, but he had to get freakin captured just so we could see B'Etor in heat. And in the end, what could have been interesting (seeing Worf in Klingon society) was cut short.
Still a good episode, but a disappointing conclusion.
The problem with Sela in this episode was not that she contributed nothing interesting to the Klingon Civil War. She didn't have to.
What WOULD have been interesting would be to have her appearance her PAY OFF somewhere down the line.
She showed up again in Unification, but then... gone? This could have been an interesting character to explore. We could have had Sela as the Romulan in "The Chase", or instead of Senator Cretak on DS9 or in place of Donatra in ST10 (my top choice). I think the total dropping of this thread lowers her appearance in Redemption from interesting setup to gratuitous cameo.
Fri, Jun 20, 2014, 5:26pm (UTC -5)
Robert, I think Sela reappearing in any of those roles would've been just as gratuitous. They don't advance Sela's story at all (save for Donatra's inexplicable sympathetic turn). Now, if she had turned out to be one of the defector-sicles in "Face of the Enemy," that would've opened up an interesting two-parter.
The other dropped thread from this episode was Worf's departure from Starfleet: a big deal in part 1, easily reversed in part 2. Now, if resigning his commission meant working back up the ranks as a security grunt, he would've had somewhere to go. Plus, that opens up Tactical for someone like, say, O'Brien (still pipped as a lt.) to do Worf's button-pushing.
Paul M.
Speaking of O'Brien... how in hell did he get from tactical officer on Rutledge to a poor little transporter chief on the Enterprise? He must have really pissed someone off.
Either that or the Rutledge had a crew of like 6 people.
Sat, Jun 21, 2014, 6:12pm (UTC -5)
Glorious adventures of runabout Rutledge! Sounds cool!
Mon, Jun 23, 2014, 10:29am (UTC -5)
I don't know... a Cretak kind of role where her wish to explore her human side led her to choose the assignment on DS9, would have been interesting. Especially if she was still very loyal to Romulus. They could even have had her character replace Dax to spare us Ezri.
I guess I feel like my point was not that future appearances would not have been gratuitous, but that the lack of any eventual payoff for this character makes these seem MORE gratuitous in retrospect.
Ian G
Mon, Jul 14, 2014, 5:22pm (UTC -5)
I agree with you that Sela went nowhere as a character. Her appearances were pretty pointless other than providing a nice conclusion to the Tasha storyline. It would have been nice if she was used in DS9 or Nemesis, but Star Trek has a bad habit of creating entirely new characters to fill a role, when an established character would make much more sense and contribute more to the story. Nemesis totally bungled its Romulan political plot and it had literally no connection to or characters from DS9 or TNG.
I enjoyed Crosby as Sela (different enough from Tasha and also plausible enough as a Romulan leader) although Guinan trying to pressure/guilt Picard felt out of place. A big problem with both parts is that there's too little reason for why Picard, Worf and the viewers favor Gowron other than disliking Duras (and Toral coming off as ridiculous).
Mon, Sep 15, 2014, 9:19am (UTC -5)
"A big problem with both parts is that there's too little reason for why Picard, Worf and the viewers favor Gowron other than disliking Duras (and Toral coming off as ridiculous)."
Immediately after telling Gowron the Federation couldn't support him in a civil war Picard says this
"PICARD: The Duras family are preparing to move against Gowron.
RIKER: Backed by Romulans?
PICARD: I don't know. But there is too much history between the Duras and the Romulans to discount the possibility. "
Due to previous alliances' between the Duras family and the Romulans (see the following scene from the recent "Reunion"
"PICARD: How could the Romulans plant a bomb on board a Klingon attack cruiser?
WORF: It would be impossible.
K'EHLEYR: Not if the Romulans had help from one of the Klingons.
LAFORGE: Klingons and Romulans working together? They've been blood enemies for seventy five years.
PICARD: Perhaps Duras or Gowron wishes to improve that relationship.
RIKER: A new Klingon alliance with the Romulans?
DATA: If true, it would represent a fundamental shift of power in the quadrant. "
Picard is rightfully freaked out by the possibility of a Romulan backed Klingon faction winning the civil war. It was just a little more serious than not liking Duras and Toral coming off as ridiculous. They'd just spent 2 whole seasons painting the Duras family as traitors and Romulan sympathizers.
Mon, Dec 15, 2014, 12:29pm (UTC -5)
We the fans know Data and his abilities and character from previous episodes and therefore we trust him. Hobson didn't seem to know anything about him except that he is a legit 2nd officer on the Flagship. So it's true Hobson is being biased and prejudiced but he also had no experience with Data and his abilities. He also may have resented Picard advancing Data over him. It must be tough having to submit to a CO you don't have history with. If Hobson had been less jerky it would have made for a more intriguing story.
Fri, Jan 2, 2015, 12:48pm (UTC -5)
Speaking as someone who never believed Voyager's Doctor was actually a sentient being, I can understand Hobson's point of view regarding Data. To be clear, I do think Data was a sentient being, but he was still a machine, and I think it's perfectly legitimate for other Starfleet officers who have never worked with him before to not want to be under his direct command. When Riker first met Data he assumed Data's Lt. Commander rank was "honorary" because Data was a machine, and I can see lots of Starfleet people assuming Data was on the Enterprise mostly as a mobile extension of the ship's computer rather than as a "real" officer. And Hobson did realize his mistake in the end, even calling Data "Captain" with real respect in their last scene.
Fri, Feb 27, 2015, 10:20pm (UTC -5)
I agree with SkepticalMI that Sela's appearance caused the episode to be unfairly compressed. This was probably something that was decided by higher ups, and it sucks that she basically ruined part 2 of what could have been a really great 2 parter. I never liked her when she was on the show and now she comes back from the grave to hurt the series once more.
I also agree that Worf getting kidnapped didn't add anything to the plot. And it did feel like there were way too many storylines going on at the same time. This might have worked better as a 3 part episode, but I don't think they ever did a 3 part episode.
Still enjoyable despite everything.
Sun, Mar 1, 2015, 10:02am (UTC -5)
Sela... the "I really screwed up pursuing a movie career, can I have a job?" character.
I didn't enjoy her as Tasha and everything about "Sela" was blah, blah.
Data: "Perhaps she should try a different job."
In all seriousness though, I enjoy Crosby as Sela. In my opinion, she's better off playing an impatient, overconfident alien jerk than she is playing a human with complicated, conflicting emotions (Yesterday's Enterprise). Her whining about Vulcans in Unification2 is one of my favorite scenes in the series. 'Funny because it's sort of true', works for me because of Crosby's delivery as much as because of the writing.
Mon, Mar 2, 2015, 12:29pm (UTC -5)
@Tom: I don't think there was a 3-part ST episode until the 'Homecoming / Circle / Siege' episodes to kick off DS9's season 2, if that counts.
dave in nc
Mon, Mar 2, 2015, 1:53pm (UTC -5)
What about BOBW Parts I & II and Family?
For an episode that attempts to handle three separate plot-lines, "Redemption, Part II" does a surprising job of handling one well, one badly and one okay.
What is handled well? The A plot with Worf and the Klingon Civil War. For a two-parter that covers the entirely of an epic war, it's surprising that we only see three small battles. And yet, it still feels epic. The political intrigue, the dynamic between Worf and Kurn, excellent performances by Barbara March and Gwynyth Walsh and all the political/military maneuvers surrounding the blockade make this the sure fire winner of the episode.
What doesn't work? Well, I have to completely disagree with Jammer on this, but the C plot with Data just does not work for me. While I do appreciate that they took another swipe at the "Roddenberry utopia" by making Hobson a (well, let's just call it like it is) racist ass, that's the only thing this subplot has going for it. Other than providing us with a darker, more complicated humanity through Hobson, this served no point other than to give Data something to do this episode (and was that really necessary?). Also, why did Data keep Hobson as his First Officer after he openly revealed his hostility? I get that the fleet was under-manned, but couldn't the Sutherland and another ship in the fleet simply trade First Officers? It makes Data look kind of foolish. But the biggest problem with the C plot is that it detracts from the B plot.
And so, it's the B plot with Sela that is handled moderately okay. Look, I'll just say it - I like the idea of the character of Sela. I just wish they had used her properly. Back in the comments for "Yesterday's Enterprise" I said that I've never considered that episode to be among the best of the best specifically because they brought back Yar. But, if we're going to have her back, let's at least do something interesting with her. Bringing in her half-Romulan daughter was a brilliant idea (and, just to say it - I don't mind that Denise Crosby plays her). But, unfortunately, here in the first true appearance of Sela, they completely fuck it up! We get one scene (just one scene!) that deals with Sela's backstory. What were they thinking?! You can't just drop alternate-Yar's Romulan daughter into the mix and then only give us this! But, I guess they needed time to show Data dealing with an idiotic racist. Seriously, this is what they thought needed to be shown instead of Sela?! All the time spent on the C plot would have been much better spent developing the B-plot. I mean, my god, did Gene Roddenberry just have a massive stick up his ass about Denise Crosby or something. They decide to bring her back for the "not shit" era of TNG and then do the same thing they did to her in Season One - not doing anything with her character? Seriously, what were they thinking?!
So, I'm kind of up-in-the-air as to how I feel about "Redemption, Part II." The Klingon elements work really well but most of the rest either falls flat or simply doesn't work. But, I guess I'm feeling generous so....
This is a big favourite of mine, which for me really kicks up the size of what TNG is trying to portray. Yes, undoubtedly it packs a lot in, and perhaps not all of the themes are fully explored. But for its sense of depth and scale it does reach a new level.
What's not to like? We get Klingon space battles and Klingon bar fights, we get Data as a captain, we get Sela and Picard matching wits, we get Worf reconciling his human and Klingon sides. Yes, I appreciate that the Sela story could easily have been parachuted into another episode. But for me it makes for an effective "what the hell happened here" story-line and at least it is grounded in Yesterday's Enterprise. 3.5 stars.
dirtyharry2
Wed, Nov 18, 2015, 1:07pm (UTC -5)
The scene of the klingons from the 2 warring houses, alternately drinking and brawling together during their "off-time" from the war, is an entertaining one, and paints a cool cultural image. Unfortunately, it's COMPLETELY contrary to Worf, in season 1, pouring Q's drink out per the "Klingon code ... drink not with thine enemy". (and yes, I remembered the conflict, but had to look fairly hard to find the precise source lol)
Mon, Feb 22, 2016, 6:43am (UTC -5)
So much nonsense, so little time.
A "blockade" in three dimensional space of 20 ships. I just wanted to scream at Sela: GO AROUND THEM!
Then there's the Klingon civil war where Duras is basically winning non stop until the * instant * the Romulans are delayed for a a couple days they are basically defeated. WOW. The Duras really really sucked...
Then there's my personal favourite, Picard's speech at the end to Data.
"Well now Data old chap you're completely right the ends don't justify the means.... errr hmmm ahem but you know lots of people did some bad stuff claiming to follow orders so ummm, yeah ends justify the means! Good job Data!"
Fri, Sep 2, 2016, 11:56pm (UTC -5)
I thought the Data story was to show that he actually does have emotion, that he does have buttons that can be pushed, and one of them was being subjected to the kind of bigotry that challenged his authority based on him being an android. I thought his yelling at Hobson was genuine. That's why I hated the emotion chip storyline. It totally stepped on this story.
Sat, Sep 3, 2016, 12:40pm (UTC -5)
Knowing Data, I don't think it was genuine emotion on Data's part causing him to yell at Hobson- it felt to me like a calculated response - I.e Data logically deduced that since Hobson wasn't responding to his commands and he needed to fire the torpedoes quickly, the surest way to elicit a response was to assert command, raise his voice and change his facial expression. So his yelling at Hobson was "genuine", just not genuine in the way we would think of yelling as a purely emotional response.
Peter G.
Sat, Sep 3, 2016, 1:30pm (UTC -5)
For my part I'm completely certain that Data employed a calculated tactic and felt nothing about it. But the reason the writing is so ingenious is that we were already feeling indignant for Data at what was essentially racial bigotry, and when Data produced the effect of an emotional outburst it in fact mirrored what we were already feeling, and so the audience became the actors feeling the emotion for the character! And since that was by design I give Ron Moore and the director full credit there.
Maybe Hobson heard about the events of Brothers and was rightfully concerned that Data couldn't be trusted not to freak out at any moment.
So Sela is twenty-three years old and already a commander, which is equal to captain in the Romulan military hierarchy? Either Romulans mature much earlier than humans or being a general's daughter pays big dividends in the Empire.
Also, Guinan needs to check her alternate history facts. It was Guinan pushing Picard to order the Enterprise-C to return through the temporal anomaly even though he was against the idea and Guinan telling the alternate Yar that she was dead in the primary timeline and that her death there was empty that caused Yar to request a transfer to the Enterprise-C thus leading to the situation in this episode, not Picard.
@R.
Ahh, but Picard did not have to approve the transfer. If, even after her impassioned plea, he had told her "No, I'm not going to take the chance of polluting the timeline. We've fixed their ship the best we can, and it is the most we are going to do. You are staying.", then she would have stayed. But Picard approved the transfer. Though I thought Guinan basically telling him it was his fault seemed a bit much, as it Did happen in an alternate time and this Picard had nothing to do with it. Guinan did not have all of the alternate facts.
Heh, I totally agree on Sela being so high up the chain of command at such a young age (don't forget, her birth would not have been immediate, a period of time would have to pass before that happened), and she was also half human, which I don't believe would have helped her any.
Crewperson: "They don't get me. Blah blah blah. They are mean to me."
Klingon Counselor: Writes on little pad, thoughtfully taps stylus against forhead ridge. "Please continue."
Crewperson: "Blah blah blah. I am so unhappy."
Klingon Counselor: Gently sets down pad. "JUST SUCK IT UP AND GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE I RIP OFF ONE OF YOUR ARMS AND BEAT YOU TO DEATH WITH IT!"
Klingon Counselor: Leans back, smiling. "I hope this session has been helpful for you. Do not come back."
Mon, Feb 6, 2017, 2:08pm (UTC -5)
RandomThoughts, I found Guinan really self-righteous in that scene. I'm surprised Picard stood there and took it.
As for a Klingon counsellor, I imagine it would go something like that therapy scene in Voyager's 'Barge of the Dead'. :)
Great pacing, plenty of tactics, Data getting his command challenged and handling it expertly, and the reference to "Yesterday's Enterprise" all work together to make "Redemption, Part II" an excellent conclusion. A solid start to S5.
Obviously we're left wondering what Denise Crosby is doing after Part I but the YE references work although Sela looking so much like Yar is a bit of a stretch. But not a big deal -- the part with Guinan and her non-linear time memory and the story of Yar becoming a consort to a Romulan general work for me. Can't go too wrong with a sort of cameo from an excellent episode like YE.
I think we can all learn from Data how he handles insubordination. I think the average person would be tempted to kick the other commander's ass but Data's patience is to be admired. He finds a good solution and proves he's an excellent commander.
As for the Klingons hamming it up after Kurn tries the ol' warping away from the sun trick was maybe the only weak part of the episode. The Klingons aren't portrayed as too bright as they depend on the Federation and are being used by the Romulans. Not sure where Duras' sisters beam off to in the end.
Worf all of a sudden switching sides again was a bit abrupt but the episode builds up how his philosophy doesn't work with Klingons' honor/duty etc. It's obvious it's coming.
Part II is good enough for 3.5 stars -- a really good story with many moving parts all fitting together and decent to excellent on their own. The best part for me was the matching of wits between Picard and Sela commanding fleets. One would imagine we'll see more of Denise Crosby going forward spearheading the Romulan threat and the Klingon volatile political situation is an ongoing fountain of stories with Duras' son's life spared.
Sun, Oct 15, 2017, 2:14pm (UTC -5)
Not understanding all the hate on the Sela character. It was an obvious conceit, to get Crosby back on the show, but so what? My hate is reserved for the writers, who wasted a character that could have been more fully explored (particularly in the movies, Nemesis should have resembled The Undiscovered Country and Sela/Crosby should have been front and center) and whom they turned into a one dimensional Scooby-Doo villain in her next installment (Reunification).
Anyhow, I digress. Came here to say that I've always felt the ending here was a bit ham ended, where Worf decides to spare Toral while giving a "This is why we're better than you" Kirk/Picard speech to the assembled Klingons. I would have done the scene with Worf taking the knife, looking at Toral, who is ready to die, looking at Kern, who is impatiently waiting for him to do it, then looking at Picard and seeing the disapproval on his face, and an idea comes to mind....
"No! I will not kill him. He does not deserve that honor. Let him live with the shame of his dishonor, as I was forced to do. I can think of no worse punishment."
*drops the knife, slaps Toral across the face, looks at Picard who gives an almost imperceptible nod, looks at Kern who grins with approval*
Gowron, "Very well." *turns his back on Toral, as do the other assembled Klingons in turn*
Seems like that would have been more in-character for Worf than to give a Federation lecture to his fellow Klingons.
uillceal
Wed, Nov 1, 2017, 8:20pm (UTC -5)
I'm not so much put off by some of the problems with the plot as I am with the writing. Picard starts out encouraging Worf to confront the council to get back his family name and then almost refuses to let him have the evidence he needs to do it. Then he gets all confrontational with Worf in the meeting with Kurn seemingly to force Worf to resign, then gets all lovey-dovey when he sees him off.
Later Data can't seem to take 5 secs to say "Hold on, Captain. I have a plan." Which is all just a set-up for a lecture by Picard on how officers shouldn't blindly follow orders. Duh? Is this Vietnam 101?
The whole plot of Sela could only make sense if we were somehow led to believe that by being part human she would have some special insight into Human/Picard behavior and had a grudge against him and that is why she was put in command OR maybe the above plus as a half-human she would be expendable if/when things went south.
TOTALLY agree with Timothy from 10/15/17....1st part was FAR better than the 2nd....it's like the writers got you hooked, then fed you a trivial piece of mostly nonsense.....where did the Duras sisters go? Worf was gone for most of this episode. Guinan is a tad pretentious...even by her worthless character's standards. When and why would any Romulan commander willingly just beam aboard the Enterprise (or ANY Federation ship) for a tete a tete? I give this episode MAYBE 2.5 stars at BEST!
Jim Sondergeld
Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 5:17pm (UTC -5)
One track at a time....
1) Lursa and B'Etor are jaw-droppingly incompetent at corruption. How they could believe that the two individuals to try and bribe/seduce, respectively, over to their side were Picard (in Part I) and Worf beggars belief. If they were truly that stupid, it's no wonder Sela was so contemptuous of them. Ditto their belief the Toral could have served as their figurehead on the Klingon High Council, given that they themselves beamed out and abandoned him after their forces had lost.
2) The writers pretty much had to use Denise Crosby in the Sela role. Nobody else could have conveyed the consequences of Picard sending Tasha Yar to the Enterprise-C in the closed Federation-Klingon war timeline. She had a nice three episode arc (beginning in "Mind's Eye") and was an effective, if conventional, Romulan antagonist. Though her capitulation after Data's exposure of her fleet did seem awfully belated, as though written that way to conform to the episode's time constraints. And I never did understand how her failure here wasn't punished, such that she was able to fail again even more spectacularly in "Unification" several episodes later.
3) Hobson could have been written with more depth - as less of a "wrong-headed jackass" - given that the point he makes to Data when requesting his transfer about androids not being suited to starship command did have some validity. Is that not the seed of franchises like "Terminator" and "The Matrix" and even the TOS episode "The Ultimate Computer"? The fear of artificial intelligences taking over? The reason, of course, why Hobson wasn't written this way was because this story thread wasn't about Hobson, it was about Data. And it worked as written, particularly Data's initiative in exposing Sela's fleet being acknowledged by Hobson after the fact by acknowledging the android as "captain".
I didn't think much of Worf sparing Toral's life in the final scene (I seem to recall the latter reappearing on a later TNG episode or an episode of DS9 to attack Worf, illustrating Kahless's parable about never leaving live enemies behind you on the battlefield) and his justification - not punishing the son for the sins of his father and grandfather as a parallel to the unjust discommendation he endured for his own father's alleged crime at Khitomer - made no sense because Mogh was framed for that BY the Duras, whereas Toral was complicit in it. I also questioned how Worf could just abruptly blow off his duties and responsibilities with/to the Klingon Defense Force and return to Starfleet, especially after having insulted Chancellor Gowron by leaving a potential enemy to his rule alive. I attribute that to the episode's time constraints as well.
Worf-I am a Klingon-but only when it suits me.
Sela-what,why?-no hang on Picard cannot now be confronted with the other timeline he didn't stay in or something-I don't know and my brain hurts.No doubt The Doctor could sort all this timey wimey stuff out by waving his sonic screwdriver a bit.
Data versus a jerk-hmm-getting a bit old-someone above comments Data never gets emotional-that is cos his emotion chip is in the jam jar in his quarters.
Problem solving with technobullshit as usual-why is that nicely done,Data-it is just lazy writing.
Yep part two failing to live up to part one -business as usual.
You might want tro translate that apparent diatribe....do you get drunk and THEN post?
I agrre with a lot of those who posted earlier that Pert 2 is trash compared to Part 1...a real let down! 2.5 stars at best!
Sarjenka's Little Brother
Tue, Jul 24, 2018, 7:18pm (UTC -5)
I'm with Rahul. I like this just fine. 3.5 stars from me too.
What would have been better: A two-parter with the same material, with much more fleshing out of Sela.
It would have been nice to see a transition in Sela over the course of two-parter to a more complex character, perhaps used a few more times to be redeemed.
Dave in MN
I'd always hoped that Sela was lying about her mother and TNG would bring her back in a Very Special Episode: Rescuing old alt-Tasha from Romulus would've been a lot of fun.
@Dave: That could have been interesting. Although the anti-Denise crowd would have had ministrokes!
JerJer
Fri, Aug 3, 2018, 9:17am (UTC -5)
Was bored to death with Part 1.
Part 2 was a tolerable mess.
Klingons get so annoying with their barbaric stupidity.
There was the "someone doesn't like Data" trope.
Klingons doing random things.
Endless long story about where Tasha 2.0 came from, and the excuse to shove Crosby into a story for a paycheque.
And next comes Darmok. Great idea, but a slog to watch.
Datalore
The Sela/Tasha Yar arch was not worthless at all. The Romulans were genius, by showing an offspring into the scene, it sent the Enterprise into confusion. This is the reason why Guinan had to talk to Picard because accdg to her "news travel fast". You can infer from this statement that the crew is into confusion. In fact it would have been better if TNG pursued the matter further and should have shown how DATA should have responded. Alas it just doesn't have the luxury of time in such an era of television.
This episode actually juggled 4 archs in a single throw. Pretty slick and exciting!
Wed, Oct 3, 2018, 9:48pm (UTC -5)
The silly thing here is that the net that is mapped is 2D in a 3D space.The Romulans can easily fly around the net if they want to. Such a silly premise!
SELA YAR IS A DOUCHEBAG
Fri, Nov 23, 2018, 12:51am (UTC -5)
SELA YAR EATS DA POOP. SELA KILLED TASHA (AGAIN), SELA KILLED HER MOTHER, SELA IS A LIAR... SELA IS ARMUS' DAUGHTER.
SELA... PLOS, I POOPED IN THE LOO. HAVE A CUP OF POOP.
HUE HUE HUE HUE HUE :-DDD
Berellian Engineer Mwaaah' Tol
I sent a formal protest to the Federation's Council and Starfleet's Hq. Mr Christopher Hobson, how dare you to show this barbarian XXth century's prejudice against us? Where is your 'evolved sensibility'?
I expect your formal apologies, mr Hobson. Otherwise, using the "engineering equipment techbabble blabbity 4747.47", built and conceived by MYSELF, I'll contact Q and tell him that you, Earthlings, are still barbarians.
D'anna, Klingon Starfleet's Counselor
Lt. Comdr. D'anna, daughter of L-Waqxan'ha, Klingon Starfleet's Counselor...
Personal diary, note:
RAAAAAWR!!! You Chris Hobson dishonored mak'dar will drown in your blood!!! I'll drink bloodwine from your emptied skull and throw your corpse to the targs you filthy petaQ!!! And... Comdr. Hobson, do not forget your appointment on Tuesday, at 11:30 am, thaaaaaanks xxxxxs :-)
William B Thank you for your reviews. I got more out of the episode after reading it. The episode did seem to have a lot of potential but either needed to edit and focus, or superhuman finesse in bringing all those themes together.
Joyfatis
Tue, Jun 11, 2019, 9:28am (UTC -5)
Little did we know back then but Worf's decision to spare Toral's life would come back to bite him BIG TIME.
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Fate/EXTRA Review
Fate/stay Night is a visual novel that’s fairly popular in Japan. It deals with deeper themes such as the self as an ideal and the importance of ambition and sincerity. Visual novels, by definition, are games that have very little interaction from the player, bringing itself just above Choose Your Own Adventure Books in the who’s who of interactivity. Fate/EXTRA is a parallel universe game that takes place in a computerized version of a school where students must fight week after week to watch each other die and prove they have a right to exist. With such an interesting premise in place, can Fate/EXTRA get some value out of the rapidly dying PSP or is this dungeon-crawler a case of over-ambition? Check out the HOTs and NOTs of Fate/EXTRA.
Without spoiling anything, the game takes heavily after the Persona series, being set in a Japanese High School with just a slight twist on the unreal. However, within the first thirty minutes to an hour, the game takes a hard left-turn into crazy-ville, taking a detour down insanity-street and coming out the other side in nutty-bonkers town. With a twist crazy enough to grab even the most jaded RPG player’s attention happening within the first hour, it could be enough to instantly pop most cynical eyes on the game inside out and force your attention on the game’s happenings.
After the fact, the game starts to delve into it’s true nature, where it was a visual novel before, taking after it’s spiritual successor Fate/stay Night, players will begin learning about the game’s mechanics and learning the truth of the world, not, however, without a heavy dose of amnesia to sprinkle on the strange-new-world cake. For some, the story might actually be enough to see the main character to the end of this 30+ hour game.
Aksys proved their localization and writing prowess with the BlazBlue games, a series of fighters with enough style and character to make up for the paltry presentation of it’s strangely deep storyline. The characters in Fate/EXTRA often use western phrases and figures of speech that will sound oddly natural and real. While the Japanese probably don’t use lines like “act like a tool” or “boring as sh**”, the writing stands out enough to be enjoyable on it’s own. The characters you are supposed to like, you will like. The characters you are supposed to hate, you will despise.
While the art style may not resign itself to any pre-dispositions of newness or uniqueness, the art is clean, nicely styled, well-rendered and often a joy to behold. If you’re an anime fan, keep your eyes peeled, because these are exactly the kinds of styles, renders and expressions that should be in your visual novel. While not unique by any standard, each character uses it’s design to speak to their personality and the characters don’t feel interchangeable or bogged down by the usual anime stereotypes. Instead of breaking off from the formula or resigning itself to samey art, Aksys held down the anime style, wrestled with it a bit and forced it into making something feel unique and magical about the world around them, even if the art is fairly common.
Stylish Battles
In each battle, the turns play out for six iterations after you’ve chosen them. This means once the actions are done, the player can sit back and watch the battle play out in front of them. These battle scenes use over-the-top animations and crazy super-power scenes to good effect, creating a look that’s somewhere between a Marvel Vs. Capcom fight and a pokemon game. It serves the game well to watch your character’s actions play out in a way other than the sterile looking “Two characters on either side of the screen take turns.”
Well Realized Interface
One thing that has always bogged down the better JRPGs as a medium is the tedious nature of battles early on. Much of this can be attributed to battles that last too long to stay engaging in the beginning. Fate/EXTRA does what it can to avert these problems by making the battle system quick and simple, so that battles can come and go and never stay too long. It’s a small touch, but it helps the entire game in it’s wake, making it feel like a game that has actually been thought out, whatever it’s limitations might be… which leads me to…
The Battle System
Consider every praise I’ve just given the game as a soft, gentle and reassuring coo to relax and comfort Fate/EXTRA before executing the killing blow and putting a bullet through it’s innocent, blue-tinted head. Fate/EXTRA’s battle system is, without ambiguity or the slightest doubt, a deal breaker.
The game runs on what is shamelessly a tarted-up version of Rock-Paper-Scissors. Each person in battle can Attack, Block or Break. These are put into a pre-set series of six, in which each combatant chooses what will happen in the six slots. Then they are compared, where Attack beats Break, Break beats Block and Block beats Attack. The stat-building and RPG elements come into play around this system, though not integrated into it. Stats effect the amount of health and mana the players get and how many moves you can accurately predict in the enemy. The idea in this system is not entirely guessing, it also plays around with pattern recognition, which is irrelevant because even with a well thought out strategy, the game never plays with pattern recognition enough to keep the game from feeling like a game of “What Number Am I Thinking?” except in this one, if you die, you revert to your last save instead of continuing to guess numbers.
In the end, it feels as though the developers almost knew that the system was flawed and broken, so they did everything they could to make it bearable but to no avail. The battle system is beyond help. This is not well-designed difficulty, Demon’s Souls is well designed difficulty, Devil May Cry is well designed difficulty. In a difficult game, the reason any person continues playing is that they feel they can do better than they did before, but with so much of the game designed around luck and guessing, it falls flat. While long-term strategy can pay off, it never does enough. You can buy new equipment and grind stats (though you don’t get to choose how you level stats) and use spells and skills, it’s never enough to make the game feel fair. Even if taking notes could potentially help you through the game, it’s no excuse for bad design.
Indistinct Dungeons
Every dungeon wall has the same blue-tint and cyber-space void theme (which they call ocean-themed for whatever reason), which would look cool by itself, but it means every dungeon room and hallway is entirely the same, so it’s easy to get lost in the bigger dungeons, though the enemy respawning isn’t horrid enough to make this a truly reprehensible flaw. It does, however, tie into the above complaint. Playing through the battle system is so annoying and tiring that you’ll want to make absolutely sure that you get everything the first time and not replay any battles so you can move right back into the story-line.
Fate/EXTRA is a waste of some truly beautiful potential. With a storyline that not only attempts, but succeeds at going above and beyond the cliches of it’s genre and manage to squeeze out some wow moments and an art style and interface that’s easy on the eyes and fun to look at and engage, it’s a shame that the battle system falls so flat. Even a typical, samey-if-not-functional battle system could have carried the game’s flow and storyline, but in it’s attempts to innovate, Fate/EXTRA is the rare game that so drastically excels in some areas and disappoints so thoroughly in others. It breaks out of mediocrity as a corpse with stars in its eyes, a game that dreamed of the stars and ended up drowning in mire. In the end, though, Fate/EXTRA isn’t worth it’s own trouble.
[Editor’s Note: Fate/EXTRA was played on a PSP handheld. The game was provided to us by the publisher for review purposes.]
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My name is Wil Taylor, an ex-rabid Nintendo fanboy until only a few years ago, a crazy man in a crazy hat showed me that games could be much more than Mario. I buckled up tight and gripped my respective controllers and decided that I was going to come up along-side the new wave of gaming and focus on the interactive mediums. Because seriously, how often does humanity discover an entirely new medium for art? Also, blowing up things is neat too. My favorite games are Bastion, Portal, BlazBlue, Street Fighter, Super Meat Boy and Saints Row.
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Discussion Questions for "The Boys in the Bunkhouse"
The following questions can be used to facilitate group discussions on the 2018 All Iowa Reads selection, The Boys in the Bunkhouse by Dan Barry.
How did the braceros program relate to Henry’s Turkey Service?
Early on, the program at Henry’s Turkey service won awards for providing employment to the men. What happened to make this situation deteriorate?
How did the high number of previously institutionalized adults (after 1965) contribute to what happened?
Who should be responsible for protecting people with disabilities and other vulnerable populations? Who was ultimately to blame?
The people of Atalissa said they did not know how bad things were at the bunkhouse. Does this exonerate them from the blame for what happened? How did the people of the town view the “Boys”?
In 1979, two Des Moines Register journalists wrote of the appalling conditions in which the men lived and worked. These articles were ignored. What changed between those articles in the 1970s and the story that broke in the Des Moines Register in 2009?
Who were the real heroes in this story?
Why did some people in this story claim to care for and still abuse the “Boys”?
Can you think of other situations where abusive treatment of vulnerable people regularly occurs? What can be done to prevent this from happening?
Could the Boys in the Bunkhouse have had a different ending?
How would a program like Henry’s Turkey Service work today?
Should disabled adults have to work? Should disabled adults be given the opportunity to work? Why or why not?
Should developmentally disabled adults get to make decisions for themselves? Should this be limited at all?
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New York Times Documentaries (2014) “The Men of Atilissa” https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000002757071/the-men-of-atalissa.html
New York Times (2014) “The ‘Boys’ in the Bunkhouse”
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Eventbrite signs YouTube for in-video gig listings
Eventbrite has added YouTube to its ever-growing list of distribution partners, with US fans now able to buy tickets through YouTube
By Jon Chapple on 18 Oct 2018
The integration works with both the YouTube desktop and the mobile app
YouTube has become Eventbrite’s first video distribution partner, in a deal that will see concert dates from Eventbrite partners listed next to YouTube videos of the artist in question.
Similar to the ticketing platform’s partnership with Facebook, the YouTube integration goes live in the US first, with other markets following at a later date. As of today (18 October), Eventbrite’s US partner venues and festivals (the majority of which it inherited from Ticketfly) will be eligible for listing next to videos on artists’ official channels, both on desktop and in the YouTube app.
This turns the area underneath the video into an ‘on tour’ section, which shows concerts geographically closest to the user, as can be seen in this handy gif. A ‘tickets’ button then directs to an Eventbrite purchase page.
Other Eventbrite integrations include Instagram, Spotify, Twickets, Bandsintown and Songkick.
“Together with YouTube, we’re excited to leverage the power of video discovery to help our clients drive ticket sales”
“Over a million artists use YouTube to share their talents with the world, and this new integration brings those artists together with some of North America’s top independent clubs, venues and festivals,” reads an Eventbrite statement, “whether it’s New England’s indie pop duo Tune-Yards playing the Knockdown Center in Queens, NY, or indie act of Montreal performing a string of shows at awesome independent venues across the US, including Neumos in Seattle.
“YouTube is an incredible place for potential fans to discover emerging artists and musicians that are unique, edgy and pushing creative boundaries. For example, YouTube’s Artist on the Rise programme features new music videos from emerging music artists weekly – an initiative we feel equally passionate about, as these are often the acts that perform on the stages of the independent live venues and promoters we partner with.
“We’re proud to form partnerships that play a part in bringing artists, fans and promoters together online, and to support connections built offline through live shows. YouTube joins a suite of over 50 distribution partners that helped the promoters, event managers producers, and creators that chose Eventbrite as their ticketing and event technology partner to reach wider audiences. And now, together with YouTube, we’re excited to leverage the power of video discovery to help our clients drive ticket sales, support artists that play their venues and give fans the kinds of live music experiences they’ll never forget.”
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Irish GPs not ready to carry out abortions by 2019, claims specialist
A number of doctors staged a walkout at a three-hour extraordinary general meeting on Sunday
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General practitioners are not ready to carry out abortions at the start of next year, it has been claimed.
Dr Illona Duffy, a GP who specialises in gynaecology and paediatrics, said that there were several “unanswered questions and concerns” regarding the GP-led abortion service which is expected to be introduced next year.
Her comments came after a number of doctors staged a walkout at a three-hour extraordinary general meeting in Malahide, Dublin, attended by more than 300 members of the Irish College of General Practitioners on Sunday.
She said: “The Minister for Health and the Taoiseach are insisting that this will be rolled out on January 1 yet we know our obstetricians and the maternity hospitals have said that they are not going to ready to provide this service.”
A woman considering an abortion (Stock)
Over 250,000 patients did not show up for appointments at Irish hospitals in the first six months of 2018
Some of the doctors who walked out were conscientious objectors who do not want to carry out terminations, while others were concerned about the extra workload.
Dr Duffy said: “We still don’t have details of the helpline, the website, and how all of this is going to be run so there’s this feeling that come January 1 the only people who are going to be at the frontline with the expectation that they will provide the service will be the GPs.”
It is believed that the 24-hour helpline and website will provide details of where women can access termination of pregnancy services.
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Dr Duffy added that the self-referral option needs to be highlighted to make it easy for women to access these services.
She said that patients in many countries, including Australia and England, can self-refer to abortion clinics without having to go to a GP.
She told Sean O’Rourke on RTE on Monday: “There was a concern that perhaps this is being done because we’re seen as the cheapest port of call.
Woman at abortion clinic (stock image) (Image: Getty)
Eighth Amendment repealed as President Michael D Higgins signs bill ending ban on abortion in Ireland
“They don’t have to hire new staff, they don’t have to hire premises.”
She added that this was done without “any true consultation” with the GPs.
Speaking about the protest, Dr Duffy said that it was regrettable that people felt like they weren’t being listened to.
She said GPs are also concerned about the extra workload which is being added at a time when they are under huge stress.
“When we know that we’re seeing the loss of a same day service for our patients, when we know that GPs who’re retiring aren’t being replaced and GPs moving to many towns throughout the country can’t find a new GP, here we are with the government saying, ‘Here you go. Here’s another service for you to provide’.”
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Messen und Konferenzen
Hugely successful Macao Gaming Show looks to the future with ambition and confidence
Jay Chun, Chairman, Macau Gaming Equipment Manufacturers Association (MGEMA)
Macao – 01 December 2014: The 2nd edition of the Macao Gaming Show, (MGS) which attracted an international audience of C-Level gaming professionals to the Venetian Macao on 18–20 November, has been declared a major success with all Key Performance Indicators (KPI) utilised by the organisers showing a positive year-on-year trend. The attendance figure jumped from 8,634 in 2013 to 11,987, an increase of 39%, the number of exhibiting companies rose 30% to 146, and the number of exhibiting countries represented at MGS jumped from 11 to 20.
MGS opened in style with an address by Jay Chun, Chairman of Macau Gaming Equipment Manufacturers Association (MGEMA), the organiser of the show. The opening ceremony was attended by international gaming community and members of the world’s media. Besides MGEMA, officiating guests from show co-organisers, supporting organisations, and diamond sponsors graced the opening ceremony, including Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ), Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), Macao Foundation, Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO), General Association of Administrators and Promoters for Macau Gaming Industry, Associao de Mediadores de Jogos e Entretenimento de Macau, Macau Jockey Club, Macau Slot, Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Company, and representatives from all six gaming concessionaires of Macao.
Jay Chun believes that the success of MGS has sent out a clear message to the international gaming community. He stated: „Gaming professionals from throughout the world as well as from the domestic industry here in Macao took the opportunity to visit our exhibitors, to network with industry colleagues, and to listen to the key note speakers we assembled as part of the co-located Macao Gaming Summit which debated key topics impacting gaming in Asia. The show floor went beyond just gaming. We have a broader exhibitor base showcasing top gaming and non-gaming products and services, even luxury cars, including one worth HKD30 million.“
„Our international guests who came to Macao have witnessed the tremendously exciting projects that are taking place here. They saw at first hand the economic development of the city which has been made possible through the support of the government. I am delighted that MGS has been able to play a part in assisting international gaming delegates to understand the dynamics of the city and the uniquely progressive vision of our government.“
He continued: „Our survey showed that over 96% of attendees are likely to return to MGS in 2015 and that 94% would recommend MGS to work colleagues or industry peers. Based on these findings and other show statistics, it is clear that MGS has built on the momentum generated following its launch in 2013 when many similar events struggle in their second year. We are now busy preparing for year three and putting an ambitious but deliverable strategy in place to take Asia’s number 1 gaming exhibition to the next level.“
„On a personal note I am very grateful for the hard work of our organising team, for the contributions made by the MGS supporting organisations, to our Diamond Sponsors comprising: Galaxy Entertainment Group, Melco Crown Entertainment, MGM, Sands China Ltd, SJM and Wynn Macau as well as the international media for their fantastic coverage and support. MGS is the only show that is truly representative of the Asian gaming industry and I look forward to continuing the success story at the Venetian on 17–19 November 2015.“
Quelle: GB Media Corporation Ltd
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It's been a while since I've done this so I'm past due for an overview of recent books I enjoyed, including, yes, one about cruciverbalists in love. Click the images to buy on Amazon if you feel so moved, or tell me why you disagree.
The Girls by Emma Cline
It's amazing how much advanced publicity this book by a first-time novelist received. I read several stories about it a month before it became available. Having read it, I understand. Sure, it's the standard girl grows up and joins a murderous cult plot, but this is brave writing. It made me think of Updike’s Rabbit stories in its shamelessly raw insights into human feelings. I've never been a young girl but reading this makes me feel like I might understand their journey a little better. This story packs a punch so perhaps not the best reading for the beach.
The Regional Office is Under Attack! By Manuel Gonzales
I'm not a fan of super-hero stories or magical power stories or good vs. evil epic struggles but this book is all three and I love it. The plot is impossible to describe so I won't bother except to say that it’s packed with thrills, chills, action and adventure and it’s beautifully written. It seems simultaneously made for a summer blockbuster and impossible to imagine as a movie. Someone will try. Strange read but oodles of fun.
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
I tend to avoid sci-fi epics too but this showed up on a recent Bill Gates list so I thought I’d give it a try. (Whatever you think of that print driver bug in MS-DOS 2.1 or whatever other beef you have with the man, he regularly promotes thought-provoking books that might otherwise escape your notice.)
Like the Hitchhiker series, the story starts with the imminent destruction of the earth but it's unlike Hitchhiker in every other way. For one thing, it's obsessively science-based, kind of like The Martian but actually serious. It accomplishes what sci-fi does at its best, exploring the big issues as a way to focus on what it means to be human.
You’ll be three-quarters of the way through before you know what the title means or even how to pronounce it. Some reviewers believe the story fades in that last quarter. To me, it's both a bit of a mess, and the essential part that makes the whole thing worth reading.
Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
Updating Jane Austen has become a bit of a thing, since the brilliant film Clueless, I suppose. Without having to introduce a single vampire, Ms. Sittenfeld re-imagines The Bennet sisters and Mr. Darcy in modern day Cincinnati with a plot revolving around a TV dating show. Reviews of this are all over the map.
Here’s my theory. If you’ve never read Pride and Prejudice, then much of the humor will escape you. If you have P&P on your nightstand and re-read it at least once a year because you revere every word, then this bastardization will annoy the hell out of you. If, however, like me, you read it years ago, have fond memories of it, and vaguely remember most of the important scenes, this might strike you as brilliantly comic. I laughed several times.
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
Similarly, Ms. Tyler tackles updating that most difficult of the Shakespeare plays for modern audiences, Taming of the Shrew. I've probably seen more different productions of this than any other play. Artistic Directors love to program it because it ensures controversy. Directors love to try to find a way to rationalize or contextualize the ending which, left as is, will crush the hearts of feminists everywhere. Does Ms. Tyler succeed? It helps that she's a hell of a writer. I think her solution is brilliant.
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
You’ve already been hearing a lot about this – a curmudgeonly old man whose life is a disaster and who poisons everyone else’s, gradually grows on you. More flashbacks to Rabbit Angstrom for me as a jerk transforms into something a little bit noble before your eyes, only Mr. Backman can do it in only one book. You might choke up a little but you’ll be glad you read it.
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
The people who most need to read this book never will but if you have enough humility to question your most deeply held beliefs, and if math doesn't scare you, read this book. It's an eye-opener in the same way The Selfish Gene changed how you thought about evolution. There isn't a lot of actual math but if you're not comfortable with statistical concepts like Bayesian Inference, parts of this will be a bit of a slog. But worth it!
Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization by Parag Khanna
This one was on a recent John Ludwig list. If you're not a map geek, you won’t get it. If you are, it's heaven. Geopolitical concepts are drawn up in fascinating new ways. Get the hard cover.
The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built by Jack Viertel
I expected to enjoy this book but not learn a lot in a subject I like to think of myself as well versed in. I've directed or music directed or conducted many musicals and studied the scores of many more. It turns out Mr. Viertel knows more than I do. His step-by-step breakdown of how musicals are constructed and how they have evolved over time is a joy for anyone who loves this art form. It covers musicals from the early days up to Book of Mormon and Hamilton.
Understanding more will make you appreciate more. Here’s an example. Knowing that every musical has an “I Wish” song, typically as the second number, will make you appreciate how the literal “I Wish” that opens Into the Woods not only accomplishes the necessary goals of laying out the drivers for each character, it’s a subtle joke about musical tradition. I wish to go to the Festival…
Two Across by Jeffrey Bartsch
Finally we come to the Cruciverbalists in Love. What my crossword friends (I still have one or two of those) want to know is, how good is the book?
Nah, I'm kidding. Crossword people want to nitpick the details. What does Mr. Bartsch get right and more importantly, wrong, about the construction, editing and distribution of American crosswords?
The surprising answer is that he’s surprisingly accurate. He knows basic facts about symmetry and themes, and even historical facts about when NYT puzzles did or didn’t have constructor bylines. Of course there are a few details that might cause insiders to wince. For both technical and traditional reasons, constructors are unlikely to start a new grid by placing the first two themers (symmetrically!) as down answers in the first and fifteenth columns. The role of editor, in particular the amount of changes editors might make, is downplayed. You’ll find a few more.
But otherwise, is it worth reading? Sure. It gets stuck somewhere between trying to be both genre fiction and, by way of a gratuitous ending, literary fiction, but it mostly works and crossword romance as a literary device is not yet overdone.
This isn’t a book. Until Danny Glasser mentioned it to me recently, I had never heard of this brilliant TV show and it's now 4 or 5 years old. How is it possible that I'm so out of touch?
Word Lists and More -- XWord Info in 2016
It's been two and a half years since I turned over XWord Info to Jeff Chen and my, how things have changed! He added several new features to the website starting with his inimitable daily commentary, but the biggest news of all has been the introduction of his downloadable scored word lists. I thought I'd take a look at the site and provide some details on the word lists in particular because several people have been curious, and talk a little about the future.
The XWord Info Word List
We got a couple of nice blurbs from Matt Gaffney about this list. One is on our site: "It's fitting that GAME-CHANGER appears on this word list. That's what we've got here for crossword constructors."
I rather like his other quote better: "I turned this monster loose on a few test grids and was blown away by the quality of the fills it achieved. As a lifelong graph-paper constructor I'm filled with rage and bitterness, but perhaps drinking heavily will help."
Let's take a closer look. There are two word lists available which I think of as the Basic and Premium versions. The basic version, cleverly called The XWord Info Word List starts with every useful answer word from Shortz-Era NYT puzzles. By "useful" I mean Jeff has manually culled all the so-called thematic entries. (Also called bogus entries or, more simply, crap.) In other words, wacky answers that only fit a particular theme are removed.
Jeff goes a step further than other lists that cull bad words. First, rebus entries are fully expanded so they make sense. Second, answers that go backwards or turn corners or do other odd tricks are straightened out. Finally, words from Cryptic, Diagramless, PandAs, and even Acrostics are included! This is a rich source of extra content. Acrostics in particular have some awesome entries.
If you're keeping track at home, that makes over 98,000 words already, each of which at least has been deemed worthy by at least one major crossword editor. (Will Shortz also provided a nice blurb on our site, endorsing Jeff's list.)
The list doesn't stop there, though. Jeff added over 67,000 additional words that he's collected over the years to that basic list.
What makes this list particularly valuable is that the 3- to 5-letter words are scored, so you and your software can make better choices when filling grids. If you're a constructor, give it a try. Anyone with Angel access ($50 a year) can download the latest version of this ever-growing list any time. (Jeff is still working on scoring the longer words too but the short-word scores are the most important for avoiding bad fill.)
There's a lot more details about all this in Jeff's Word List FAQ.
Jeff Chen's Personal List
If you're more ambitious, you might want to try Jeff's Personal List. This includes nearly 33,000 additional high-value words that Jeff has collected over many years, all scored at his maximum value. Many could anchor a great themeless grid. All are intended to be at least above average entries.
Jeff is, understandably, a little protective of this premium list, and the price reflects that. For a one-time fee of $200, Angels can download the latest version any time. As with the basic list, Jeff will continuously update it as he discovers new outstanding entries.
Puzzles of the Week
Another Jeff innovation is his Puzzle of the Week award. Nobody else votes; it's a completely personal opinion, based on whatever neurons happen to be firing in Jeff's brain at the time.
If you're looking for a few good puzzles, this page of Across Lite links to POW winners is worth keeping handy. If you're not up to date on NYT puzzles, print out a few before your next plane trip.
This page of POW winners organized by constructor is interesting. It will shock no one that, despite Jeff's best efforts to spread the award around, Patrick Berry has by far the most. The day-of-week distribution at the top of that page shows a remarkably even spread. Jeff assures me this wasn't intentional.
Refer a Friend and get 3 Months Added to your own XWord Info account
Jeff's other new feature hasn't yet been heavily advertised. Tell your friends about XWord Info. When they create a new account, they'll get a chance to mention your name, and Jeff will extend your account for an additional 3 months for free.
XWord Info is not a simple site. It relies heavily on new technology which the major modern browsers more or less support, but there are always differences between browsers. Part of the pain of managing any sophisticated website is dealing with those differences.
If you're using Microsoft Edge, Safari, Chrome, or Firefox, you'll be fine. The latest version of Internet Explorer (version 11) will continue to be supported because lots of our Windows users haven't yet upgraded to Windows 10. But older versions of Internet Explorer will be dropped from our supported list. (Microsoft itself doesn't support them anymore either.)
Those older browsers will still mostly work, but we won't be fixing bugs for them. You can download other browsers for free if you need to.
Angel speed
Jeff Chen and I have been doing some work on XWord Info to improve the performance of the site, and now many of the pages load 10 times faster than they did before. This makes it easier to, for example, click the Next and Previous links to jump quickly from puzzle to puzzle.
If you donated at the Angel level, you get an even greater speed increase because we don't show ads for you on any of the most used pages. Whether you're looking at the home page, viewing puzzle solutions or the calendar or thumbnail lists, working on acrostics, or using our Finder page, you now get a slicker ad-free experience. It's one of the nice perqs of being an Angel. (Yes, I know Americans spell it "perk" but it's short for perquisite, so I like the Canadian spelling.)
Early next year, we're going to be rolling out a major new feature of interest to crossword constructors and it's only available to Angels, that is, to customers who donated at the $50 level or above. If you are an Angel, make sure you're getting proper credit. Angels get a special note at the top right of the home page. If you don't see one and you should, please let us know.
If you upgrade to an Angel level by making an early donation, you'll be an Angel for the entire time of your current subscription plus an additional year, so that's a hell of an Angel deal.
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America in Crosswords
Crossword constructors are very patriotic.
Thanks to work done by David Steinberg and Jeff Chen, it's now possible to ask interesting questions about NYT crosswords going back to the beginning of time, that is 1942. XWord Info has always provided data about Shortz Era words, for example, but we can now consider all-time stats.
Because they span a standard daily grid, 15-letter answers are particularly interesting. What are the most common 15-letter answers all time? The answer is here. STARS AND STRIPES, MIDDLE OF THE ROAD and GONE WITH THE WIND are the top three. Next is STATUE OF LIBERTY, charmingly first clued in 1954 as "Symbol on new 8-cent stamp."
If you're curious, A FAREWELL TO ARMS is more than twice as popular as OLD MAN AND THE SEA but both are eclipsed (ha!) by THE SUN ALSO RISES. Also, and I know you want to know, A LOT ON ONE'S PLATE and SCARLET TANAGERS are tied, both just edging out A TEENAGER IN LOVE.
You may have detected a bit of patriotism in the top answers. That's a trend that carries over to other word lengths as well. Two of the top three 8-letter answers are AMERICAN and SENATORS. The top two 9-letter answers are TENNESSEE and AMERICANA with ROOSEVELT not far behind. The top two 10-letter answer words are both presidents: EISENHOWER and WASHINGTON. ABRAHAM LINCOLN is the second most popular 14-letter answer. THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS leads all 21-letter answers.
Is pride of country on constructors' minds, or is this what editors think will sell? Or are such topics somehow crossword convenient?
Some XWord Info Stats Now Slightly Less Bogus
Close observers of XWord Info will notice some recent changes in how puzzles are displayed, particularly around how debut words are reported. Now that we have the entire NYT history, we can more accurately display results.
Debut words are now truly debut words
The simplest definition of a debut answer word is one that has never before appeared in any NYT puzzle, old or new, daily, Sunday, or Variety. That's what we show now. Each puzzle has an Answer Summary at the bottom of its page where you'll see up to three different counts: number of words unique to that puzzle, number that debuted in that puzzle but were reused later, and number of words that only appeared in pre-Shortz puzzles. Details are provided when you click the Analyze button.
So, for the very first NYT crossword in 1942, every single word is a debut. Nine are still unique and in most cases it's easy to see why they weren't reused.
Interestingly, the very second NYT crossword already reused four answers. ABLE and TEMPO aren't too surprising, but who can explain why TASSO and LASSITUDE repeated immediately?
By comparison, the first Shortz-Era puzzle, Spectral Analysis by Peter Gordon, contains 6 words that are still unique, and an additional 8 words that debuted in that puzzle and were later reused, so Peter Gordon gets credit for introducing 14 new words there.
What words has your favorite constructor debuted?
The Crossword Innovators page sorts constructors by number of words they debuted. Because we count only true debuts now, these counts have dropped, sometimes drastically, but clicking on names to see the list of debuted words can be fascinating. I like to think it's possible to learn something about a constructor's interests and personality. Here are a few examples: Karen Tracey, David Steinberg, Lynn Lempel, and Kameron Austin Collins.
The top three innovators are impressive if only for the sheer number of words they contributed: Patrick Berry, Manny Nosowsky, and Elizabeth C. Gorski.
(The fine print at the bottom of each of those pages notes that the per-constructor stats count only for Shortz Era words debuted by Shortz Era constructors. We had to draw the line there while pre-Shortz credits are still unreliable and incomplete.)
If we're going to report stats like debut words, they might as well be as accurate as we can make them. While this may or may not be of interest to you, Jeff and I are always surprised at the mail we get whenever we remove or change a feature. Even Freshness Factor generates a lot of feedback. Speaking of which, Freshness Factor still considers only other Shortz Era puzzles (since older words are less likely to be relevant) but it does now consider Variety puzzles which led to some erosion. Percentiles mostly stay the same and that's what's most useful to look at anyway.
Doing all this work required big changes to the underlying software, so we also took the opportunity to do some performance tuning and most pages should load faster, sometimes significantly faster, than before. Any big code change is likely to introduce bugs so please let us know if you find anything amiss.
Will Shortz picks his Favorite Constructors
For his latest published puzzle collection, Will Shortz picked his 10 favorite constructors and had each one pick 10 of their favorite puzzles -- 8 dailies and 2 Sundays. XWord Info has all the details.
So, it seems clear that if you're a constructor and you're not on this list, Will doesn't like you. Sorry, Jeff.
Seriously, it's a terrific collection. The main list has a series of Across Lite links if you'd like to catch up on some of these by printing them out yourself. (NYT Puzzle Subscription required.)
Or if you just want to see the whole list of thumbnails organized, as in the book, by constructor, here's the thumbnail view.
Congratulations to the two women and eight men selected. All are fine choices. In addition, a few other constructors sneak in by virtue of being co-constructors: Andrea Carla Michaels, George Barany, and the J.A.S.A. Crossword Class.
Oh, and Gene Newman sneaks into the book too by mistake. The XWord Info list replaces Puzzle #65 with the intended one by Patrick Merrell.
[Edit: apparently in at least some cases, the constructors did not, in fact, get to choose the puzzles themselves, despite what the Introduction in the book says.]
Yet Another XWord Info Update
It's been a while since Jeff Chen and I gave our last update but that doesn't mean we haven't been hard at work. We're not quite ready for our upcoming Big Announcement (although you'll see some hints in this post) but there is some news and I wanted to answer some questions we've been getting.
We're starting to roll out new features
Our Finder Page is becoming an increasingly popular way to look up words or clues. It provides unique features especially useful for constructors so it's no surprise that it now accounts for most of our web traffic. If you search for a word, you see all the clues used for that word (going back to 1942 now!) but if you search for a pattern, that is if you use the ? or * symbols, you see all the words we know that fit, including entries from variety puzzles, acrostics, and a large external dictionary. Pattern searches now sometimes include grayed-out results in the Shortz Era list. These are words that are identified as "bogus" or, more charitably, "thematic." They're unlikely to help you fill a grid. We show them anyway since you may be looking to see if a theme has been used before, or maybe you want to find a puzzle you remember, but we identify them as unlikely to be useful.
Identifying such entries is a manual process, of course, and it's just the beginning of how we are going to be able to help constructors think about their craft. We happen to have a successful and innovative constructor on staff (hi, Jeff!) and together we're going to help you build better crosswords. We still have work to do before the full feature set is ready to go live, but it's coming.
We now have every known NYT crossword going back to the very first one
You've probably already seen that David Steinberg and his army of volunteers known collectively as the Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project have digitized and edited every known NYT daily crossword, and they're all available on XWord Info. You can view them or even solve them online, even without an XWord Info account. Who cares? It turns out they're fascinating. They reflect the culture of their time. The war-years ones are particularly interesting, although you and your fancy modern sensibilities will likely cringe now and then. Crosswords, like any art form, can be better understood by knowing a little about the history. We put the entire history from one major publisher at your fingertips.
We're getting a better picture of who the most prolific NYT constructors are
Before Will Shortz took over as editor, constructor bylines were usually missing. As pre-Shortz crosswords trickled in, David Steinberg and his team did a lot of work to identify authorship of these older puzzles, and we now have a better list of who the big guns really were. For years, our list was headed by Manny Nosowsky, Elizabeth C. Gorski, and Patrick Berry. Then we decided to count Variety puzzles so Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon shot to the top. Adding the PSPP stats paints a more accurate picture. Eugene T. Maleska himself now sits in third spot with 410 known puzzles. William Lutwiniak (a major talent you can check out online) is next but with 100 fewer, and then it's Jack Luzzatto, Manny, and A. J. Santora. You can see the list here.
These number are far from the final count. There are still many years worth of unidentified puzzles, but the top contributors are likely all on that list.
Ok, enough of that. Time for another Rude Q & A.
Why do I have to pay XWord Info for access when I already pay the NYT for access?
XWord Info is completely independent. We operate under an agreement with the NYT which allows us to provide information about their copyrighted crosswords, but that's all. We run ads and ask for donations to cover the cost of running the site.
What's the difference between contributing at the Casual, Regular, or Angel levels?
Currently there is no difference. People can pay what they think the site is worth. We have several Angel donors and we hugely appreciate each of them. XWord Info wouldn't exist without them.
Currently? You mean there might be differences in the future?
There will be differences in the future. We expect that existing pages will remain open to everyone with an account at any level but some new features will require higher-level accounts.
We tell you what we think your support level is on the top right of our home page. If you paid using PayPal and if you were logged on last time you renewed, we probably guessed right. If you didn't get credit for a high enough donation level or if you're listed as unknown, you'll be able to contact Jeff and we can fix that up manually. Again, it doesn't matter yet, but it will in the future.
I don't want to pay you people anything. What can I get for free?
The site is quite useful even if you don't pay. Full details are available for all puzzles in the past 45 days, and all the pre-Shortz ones. You can get a few samples of any of the other pages without paying. We hope you'll be interested enough to support us but you don't have to if all you want is answers to recent puzzles.
I'm a programmer. What happened to my JSON access, damn it?
Wow, we had no idea how many people were using our JSON data for purposes well beyond what was intended. Let me explain for the non-geeks. We provided a way to get data directly from our private database so that bloggers could add interactive puzzles to their blog posts. This blog has three examples in the left-hand column.
It turns out some people used that access to build up their own database of NYT crossword information. There are two problems with this. One is that we've spent about a million hours of work to edit, massage, and correctly display all these puzzles, including the weird and wacky ones that require manual fixes, so we don't want to just give all that away.
More importantly, we can't give it away even if we wanted to. As mentioned before, XWord Info gets access to copyrighted NYT data through a contractual agreement I signed just before I started the Wordplay blog on nytimes.com back in 2008. (You didn't know I started that blog, did you!) One of the provisions is that we can't make it easy for people without a legal agreement from the Times to extract that information. Fair enough, it's their data.
If you currently use our JSON access to display puzzles on a blog or other website, that still works. If you want to add these puzzles to your own blog, contact us and we can make that happen. But we can't just open up our database to the world. Sorry about that.
XWord Info Survey Results
We ran an anonymous survey in early January to find out what people really thought about XWord Info. Some of what we learned was predictable, some was surprising, some was baffling. We got specific suggestions about what we could do better (a couple have already been implemented) and we learned some things about the crossword community along the way.
I need to start with the usual caveat: this was not a statistically valid survey because participants were not selected randomly. They volunteered to offer their opinions. Those who weren’t interested never came to the site or found a link.
It’s not surprising, then, that those who chose to participate were overwhelmingly positive. 74% were extremely satisfied and another 18% were somewhat satisfied. Two participants declared that they were extremely dissatisfied but neither explained. Two-thirds of the respondents solved at least one puzzle a day. Perhaps surprisingly, the more people constructed, the less they solved.
The single most popular feature on the site is one that appears only occasionally – commentary from Will Shortz. Other high-scoring features were data organized by constructor, stats about record-setting puzzles, Jeff Chen’s commentary, and our Finder Page. (We knew the Finder was popular. It’s been used well over a million times already!) The Grid Art and Visual Puzzles pages are also widely loved.
The least popular feature is the Acrostic solver, although we know that solvers who use it are passionate about it. The rest of the Variety puzzles are nearly as unpopular. This continues to surprise me because I think that the cryptics and diagramlesses in particular are gems.
Jeff’s comments rated highly overall but had some low votes too. Some people though he was either “a buzz kill because he was too nitpicky” or “not enough like Rex” to be entertaining. Opinions also diverged on Jeff’s Puzzle of the Week with most liking it but some not. Personally, I think Jeff's comments are the best part of the website.
On the question of payments, the most common (and most adamant) comment was that everything should be free. Why not? Most constructors would consider paying for features that could help them create better puzzles.
As often happens in surveys, the most valuable feedback comes in what are called the verbatims, the free-form comments you type in. Here are some with our responses:
It’s too hard to find, say, 15-letter words that contain a certain string of letters inside. DONE! You can now specify the length of words you want returned, so for example, you can find all 10-letter words that contain CAT by searching for *CAT* and specifying length 10. I don’t know why we didn’t think of this before.
The “Constructors by Year” page would be easier to read if the order of the years was reversed. DONE!
The home page is too confusing. We heard this a lot. A professional designer did the original design but our home page has now grown into a sea of hyperlinks that would scare anyone off. We’ll have to figure out what to do about that. One commenter complained that unlike Cruciverb's friendly user interface, ours felt too slick and "professional." We're not sure what to do about that.
It should be possible to search for puzzles that contain a list of words, say *SLEEPY*, *DOPEY*, *DOC*, etc. to see if a theme has been used before. Interesting idea! This could never be 100% accurate but we’ll think about how to provide that functionality.
Allow users to comment on Jeff’s blog posts. We don’t plan to do this. It turns out, though, that there are lots of other places on the web to comment about puzzles.
XWord Info should come free with an NYT subscription. Not possible – we’re independent.
Check for duplication of letter strings. I presume this means in uploaded puzzles. Good idea.
Show number of times each answer word has appeared right on the Crossword page, that is, without having to click through each word. Probably won’t do that because it would clutter the page. That information is nicely available in one place when you click the Analyze button.
Answers to Split Decisions and other PDF-only puzzles. We should do a better job linking to the NYT answers for these. We can’t add them to our database for analysis because parsing the PDFs is not simple, and answers that have no clues (like Split Decisions) are probably not so interesting.
Create a page showing puzzles that have non-contiguous grids. Interesting idea.
Improve the mobile experience. Yeah, our site works best with a mouse and keyboard. The crossword solver page and the Acrostics page both absolutely require them. Doing a great job for mobile is a lot of work and we’re unlikely to do this soon but it’s something we’ll consider. If you just want to check answers on your phone, www.xwordinfo.com/mobile/ works well.
Link to Wiktionary or Wikipedia pages for Finder results. Another interesting idea. Did you notice that when you find a word or phrase in the Finder page, it links to a dictionary definition as well as to all the published clues for that word?
More constructor photos! Solvers love to see what the constructors look like. If we’re missing yours, don’t be shy. Send something in. We can crop and edit and make you look your best.
We got so many responses that it’s going to take a while to sort through all the data, but those are the initial highlights. Most feedback was positive and many of the suggestions are helpful. One main learning is that we should have asked your opinion long ago. We wouldn't have spent so much time on features like pop-up grid tooltips when you hover over dates or Baseball Card views of constructors (nobody mentioned either in the survey) and concentrated more on Constructor features.
Thank you so much to everyone who participated. Feel free to comment here, send us mail (link on home page) or if you prefer to be completely anonymous, you can still take the survey at www.xwordinfo.com/Survey.
Posted at 08:36 AM in Crosswords | Permalink | Comments (1)
Notable Puzzles of 2014
Every year I compile some observations about NYT puzzles from the past 12 months. As usual, I'll pick a Puzzle and Constructor of the Year, but not as usual, I'll end with some more wide-ranging general thoughts.
Note that all XWord Info links in blogs, including this one, bypass access checks so you can view all the pages I mention here whether or not you have an XWord Info account.
I begin each year with a list of puzzles that caught my eye.
Crossword people like all kinds of puzzles and this chopped-up grid by Alan Derkazarian was a trip down memory lane for anyone who ever played Clue.
Speaking of strange grids, Patrick Berry gave us one of the weirder looking ones I've seen in this outstanding crossword.
I was very taken with Lynn Lempel's ONE AND ALL grid.
Daniel A. Finan relied on the relative positions of answers in this clever puzzle. Later in the year, Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen went a different direction and crossed answers.
If you're old enough to remember Sgt. Pepper, the phrase "It was 50 years ago today" strikes a chord, and to play that chord, you need a guitar. Charles Deber provides one in this Beatles tribute.
Ruth Margolin added IST to common phrases in a way that made me laugh, and we haven't heard from her since that NYT debut.
Bruce Haight and Peter A. Collins told us to go fly a kite.
I really liked this parking lot full of cars from Liz Gorski. Jeff Chen and I had a big discussion about this puzzle which you can read about by clicking through and then expanding Jeff's notes. To most constructors, circles just highlight squares. To Liz, they're visual elements to exploit, in this case turning into wheels. She transformed them into bubbles back in 2009.
David Steinberg gave us a zesty grid shaped like a Z, and full of Zs.
Anna Schechtman constructed an Ode to the Octothorpe which absolutely delighted me. Plus, TWITTERHASHTAG is awesome.
This was a banner year for Acrostics with several I loved. Here's one to try if you're not caught up.
Patrick Berry came up with an original gimmick in this standout strikeout puzzle.
This questionable grid by Timothy Polin honored an old game show, but this Gorski Grid makes more cents.
In his comments here, Jeff Chen tries to quantify what makes Patrick Berry's puzzles so good.
I always appreciate musical crosswords and this one had me singing out loud, and in one of the best Aha! moments of the year, David Phillips invited us to PAINT IT BLACK.
Paula Gamache wrote my favorite diagramless of the year. I know, I know, you're too busy speed-solving to work these, but you really ought to try them. Worst case, open them up in Across Lite and solve them as regular crosswords.
Another great Aha! appeared shortly after. Mr. Polin was back, this time with a themed Saturday puzzle full of clues, none of which many any sense. This came close to being my Puzzle of the Year.
One of the best puzzles of September, this All-Encompassing crossword, didn't even get a Puzzle of the Week award. The lesson here is clear. If you want a POW, never ever collaborate with Jeff Chen. Those crosswords never win. This reduces the pool significantly because Jeff is becoming a big-time collaborator. Nearly half of his 35 NYT puzzles required help from someone else.
I like puns, so Celebrity Spoonerisms by Tony Orbach and Patrick Blindauer was a big winner for me.
Joe Krozel continues to amaze me. That man innovates in surprising new ways every time out. In this puzzle, the answer to 20 Down is spelled out in Morse Code. By reading the black squares! In a grid that still has the usual rotational crossword symmetry. Yikes. I loved his Fill-in-the-Blanks puzzle later in the year too.
We got a fun "uniclue" puzzle from Joel Fagliano. No more convenient Across and Down lists.
Patrick Blindauer created this year's contest, a six-part meta puzzle starting here. It was very satisfying when it all came together.
Non-square grids are becoming more common (there were 12 in 2014) but non-rectangular ones are rare in the NYT. David Woolf baked up a chocolate chip cookie.
Trip Payne helped us kill an extra Daylight Savings Time hour with this particularly tough 17x17 crossword.
Another of the best themeless puzzles of the year came from Peter Wentz. He is by far the Scrabbliest NYT constructor but you'd never guess from his smooth grids.
I like rhymes even more than puns. Surround Sound is an awesome title too.
Kevin G. Der and Ian Livengood combined to create this stellar themeless puzzle. As a bonus treat, Will Shortz chose this puzzle to do a clue-by-clue explanation of how he edits a crossword. If you ever want a submit a puzzle to the Times, this is worth careful reading.
Notable accomplishments
Bernice Gordon had a couple of puzzles published in 2014, both constructed after she turned 100. The first one was a solo, and the second was a collaboration with young David Steinberg.
There were three single-quad-stack puzzles and three double-quads (thumbs) in 2014, all by Martin Ashwood-Smith. Two of the six were collaborations.
We got a new record for most Schrödinger puzzles in one year with three. Is it a thing now, or just a fad?
Caleb Emmons gets the record for shortest answer word in my database. The clue for 65-Across in this puzzle is "___-square". The answer is T.
Congratulations to the 5 women and 22 men who made their NYT debut in 2014. In order, they are Andrew Chaikin, Jared Banta, Michael Hawkins, Jeff Stillman, Dick Shlakman, Matthew E. Paronto, Ruth B. Margolin, Douglas Taillon, John E. Bennett, Mary Lou Guizzo, Jim Modney, Brandon Hensley, Alex Bajcz, Dan Margolis, Kameron Austin Collins, Heather Valadez, Luke Vaughn, Matt Fuchs, Howard Barkin, David Phillips, Katie Livengood, Sam Buchbinder, Gerry Wildenberg, Eric Sydney Phillips, Evans Clinchy, Kacey Walker and Dennis Ryall.
Puzzle and Constructor of the Year
At a time when so much new talent is coming into the world of crosswords and young indie constructors are becoming rock stars (well, within certain circles) I find myself drawn to the people who surprise and delight me with new voices. Constructor of the Year Tom McCoy is a name I can't wait to see on more bylines and his Colorful Characters is my Puzzle of the Year. I like all kinds of puzzles and when crosswords expand to find new ways to twist their logic, I'm usually excited. This one delighted me from beginning to end.
I didn't think until after I settled on my choice that maybe I just like colors. My very first Puzzle of the Year went to Francis Heaney's ingenious Flag Day crossword.
This is the last one of these annual posts I'm going to do so here are some more wide-ranging opinions you can argue about.
The best constructor currently working: I know the general consensus is that nobody tops Patrick Berry, but remember, this is always a subjective question. There is no algorithm that can definitively answer such a question. The fact that I always look forward to seeing Paula Gamache or Joe Krozel in a byline represents my own personal opinions. The fact that Elizabeth Gorski and I have similar musical interests colors my solving experience. It's hard for me to separate the fact that I like Jeff Chen from the fact that I enjoy his puzzles. Still, I'll take the dangerous step of actually naming the constructor I consider to be the best. It's Patrick Berry.
My favorite constructor of all time: XWord Info came into being largely because I started noticing that many of my favorite crosswords were all written by the same person, the great Manny Nosowsky. Or, here's an even better link: go to my favorite page on XWord Info, Across Lite files sorted by constructor, click N, scroll down to Manny's name, and pick a few at random to solve.
My favorite crossword puzzle of all time: When Patrick Berry's 2011 "Cross Word" Contest wrapped up, I called it my favorite ever, and I haven't changed my mind since.
The most amazing constructor I know nothing about: At XWord Info, we try to carefully track stats by constructor. This is not so simple. Constructor names get represented in different ways, and sometimes they change completely, but we do our best. We also do our best to combine stats to include Shortz Era, pre-Shortz, and Variety puzzles. Putting all that together, we created the Baseball Cards -- Most prolific constructors page. So who are the most prolific NYT constructors? Manny Nosowsky is at the top, right? Well, no. Remember Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon crank out an acrostic every fortnight on top of their other occasional contributions, so they're tied for number one. Nobody else is close.
Including pre-Shortz puzzles drops Manny to number 4 behind William Lutwiniak. I've found no information at all about Mr. Lutwiniak but he was a crossword construction monster. Right now, I have his count at 295, well ahead of Manny's 254, but the true answer is surely much higher. I only have pre-Shortz data back to 1966 (more is coming!) so it drops off during Lutwiniak's prime. Plus, most puzzles from 1966 to 1973 are by constructor Unknown. Surely some, and probably many of these are by him.
Here's something we do know about him. He loved pangrams. I realize pangrams are currently unfashionable in some circles but Lutwiniak was a pangram master. Take a look at this chart. He gets credit for 70 pangrams, beat out only by, you got it, constructor Unknown. I'm sure we can guess the authorship of most of those.
I will have some future observations about the Business of Crosswords, and that ties into another upcoming post you already know about if you were an early subscriber to the XWord Info mailing list. (Yes, we have a mailing list, it's free, we promise no spam.) Jeff Chen who now runs XWord Info has lots of ideas about how we can help puzzle makers create crosswords, and maybe even help them make more money. I know, I know, you do it for the sake of the art.
Each December I take a look back at the most memorable NYT crosswords of the previous 12 months and name my Puzzle and Person of the Year. Crosswords, unlike novels and short stories, are journeys we actively participate in, so here’s my annual travelogue. As usual we’ll start with a few puzzles that caught my eye.
Note: XWord Info links work from any blog including this one, even if you don’t have a subscription.
Elizabeth C. Gorski provided a treat for math geeks everywhere with this puzzle that celebrates magic squares.
Kevan Choset's clever WH__L OF FORTUN_ grid required us to BUY AN E in order to finish the puzzle.
Milo Beckman implored us to MIND THE GAP in this clever grid.
This themeless from David Quarfoot introduced JESUSFISH, at 1 Across no less, but more importantly marked the 8,000th NYT puzzle edited by Will Shortz, including 1,000 Variety puzzles. That’s a remarkable accomplishment. Congratulations, Mr. Shortz!
Ian Livengood and J.A.S.A. Crossword Class gave us this punctuated crossword. It shared an answer with one of my favorite clues of the year, Letter A in this acrostic
I really enjoyed this inquisitive collaboration between Barry Franklin and Sara Kaplan.
Raymond C. Young became the first constructor to squeeze a quadruple pangram into a standard 15x15 grid.
Corey Rubin’s LARGE PRINT grid caused a lot of extra work for software programmers.
Derek Bowman became the first constructor to triple-stack 16s.
Brendan Emmett Quigley and Elizabeth Donovan had us scribble outside the box in this puzzle that was easier for Canadians because they’re more likely to know Pierre Trudeau’s middle name.
This grid by David Levinson Wilk had an innovative use of circles in the grid. Click to read my note.
This color-mixing puzzle by Elizabeth C. Gorski was one of my favorites. It was great fun animating the mix of red and blue, and then seeing the Color Purple emerge on its own.
A little later, I got to animate this grid by Mel Rosen to demonstrate the two equally-valid central answers.
When this puzzle was published on June 26, the two co-constructors were aged 16 and 99 – a difference of 83 years. Thanks to David Steinberg’s Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project, we can now see far more of Bernice Gordon’s contributions to crosswords.
Overlapping I and S or I and C is a neat visual gimmick I’ve never seen before. I’m not sure it was completely successful but the idea is cool.
Speaking of unique, I’ve never seen anything like Patrick Blindauer’s DOUBLE FEATURE grid before either.
Sarah Keller doesn’t get the press that some of the flashier constructors do, but this year she quietly accumulated her 50th published NYT puzzle. She’s a solid puzzle maker.
Jeff Chen’s phrases that describe letters in words concept was clever. I particularly recall feeling smug when I sussed out this theme.
Ian Livengood won the first ever XWord Info POW award, marking the date that Jeff Chen truly took over XWord Info and made it his own.
John Farmer continued his string of innovative grid ideas with his Persons of Note theme. It’s a rebus puzzle where numbers in the Down answers have to be interpreted as the names of people on the corresponding American banknotes for the Across answers.
Damon Gulczynski created the fifth Shortz-era Schrödinger puzzle. While perhaps not as memorable as some of its quantum predecessors, it’s still a remarkable accomplishment.
Another high-concept idea came from famous puzzle maker Mike Selinker in this year’s contest puzzle, Letterboxes. Letter O’s had to be interpreted as braille bumps to spell the secret phrase.
Kevin Christian crammed a huge amount of theme entries into this tribute to the movie E. T.
Tom Pepper and Victor Barocas hid the numbers on their clock face. Solvers had to supply them to make the entries around the outside border make sense.
This themeless from Byron Walden was one of my most satisfying solves of the year.
Toe Tags is an awesome name for what turned out to be a terrific puzzle.
Jeff Chen said constructing Taken to Task was harder than pushing a boulder up a hill. After all that work, he colored all the nicely symmetric theme entries so you’d be sure to appreciate them.
Jean O’Conor fit a PESTO recipe into a 15x15 grid. Delightful!
I really like this visual GAS GAUGE grid from Peter A. Collins. Note the two unchecked squares, E and F for Empty and Full, on opposite sides of the ninth row.
BACK IN BLACK was a nifty trick that required reinterpreting four squares we usually don’t have to write in.
Patrick Berry casually demonstrated his complete mastery of crosswords once again with Two Outs. Each theme clue described two answers, with and without two circled letters.
A different subtraction idea came from David Steinberg with his ERASE RS puzzle.
Jeff Chen struck again with A Cut Above the Rest. You had to color in the theme squares at the top to make sense of the vertical theme answers below.
Heavy bars separating answer words are common in some other venues but George Barany and Michael Shteyman introduced them to NYT daily puzzles this year. Across Lite can’t handle grids like this so XWord Info provided a web-based solver page for online solvers who wanted to try the puzzle as intended. That puzzle also has another of my favorite clues of 2013: “Two- or four-seater, maybe”.
Unusual grids and words
Joe Krozel constructed the puzzle with the fewest blocks this year, as well as the one with the most. I particularly like the latter. He also broke the record for lowest word count, albeit by using lots of blocks.
Andrea Carla Michaels had a Monday pangram for the third year in a row, this time co-written with Michael Blake.
Four puzzles had unchecked squares including Patrick Merrell’s HI MOM.
Looking at the Stacks page on XWord Info, there were two grids this year with double quad-stacks, both by Martin Ashwood-Smith. There were four grids with single quad stacks, all by Martin Ashwood-Smith. I have no idea how he does it but I enjoy tackling these huge seas of white.
Joe Krozel’s 18-block grid has four sets of double stacks, and this puzzle by Mr. Krozel tied the record for most grid-spanning 15-letter entries: twelve!
Year 2013 saw records broken for most H’s, I’s, M’s, and V’s in a 15x15 grid.
Words introduced this year included CRYPTOZOOLOGIST, PAUL RYAN, FRENEMY, COSMO GIRL, HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS, BACKHANDED COMPLIMENTS, MANUAL TRANSMISSION, FACEBOOK STALKING, CRONYISM, SUCKS TO BE YOU, POGO STICK, BOOMERANG EFFECT, SODIUM PENTOTHAL, and these three all from the same puzzle: ASHKENAZI, CALVIN AND HOBBES, and DJANGO UNCHAINED.
Congratulations to the 6 women and 31 men who made their NYT debut in 2013. In order, they are Bruce Haight, Jim Peredo, David Ben-Merre, Jaime Hutchison, Bruce Sutphin, J. R. Leopold, Daniel Landman, Adam Prince, Michael Wiesenberg, Steve Blais, Peter Broda, Severin T. Nelson, John Lieb, Elizabeth Donovan, Jean O'Conor, Kevin Christian, Mark Bickham, Richard F. Mausser, Robert Seminara, Tracy Bennett, H. David Goering, Jacob McDermott, Sue Keefer, Mangesh Ghogre, long-time puzzle maker Mike Selinker, Evan Birnholz, Amy Johnson, Jason Flinn, D. Scott Nichols, Andy Kravis, Alan Derkazarian, Mike Doran, Tom McCoy, David Woolf, Loren Muse Smith, Greg Johnson, and Jacob Stulberg.
The most prolific constructors again this year were Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon who, as usual, had an Acrostic published every fortnight, along with two Cryptics. Fred Piscop was the Variety runner-up with four Diagramless puzzles. Looking at daily puzzles, David Steinberg led with 15. Others in double digits were Ian Livengood with 12, Patrick Berry with 11, and Elizabeth C. Gorski, Joel Fagliano, and Jeff Chen with 10.
Long time constructors who dropped off the NYT grid in 2013 include Nancy Salomon, Robert H. Wolfe, Mark Diehl, Mike Nothnagel, Nancy Kavanaugh, Tony Orbach, and Natan Last.
Before I get to the awards, a few personal observations.
My post earlier this month on the state of crossword blogging struck a note with many readers. It generated about 30 insightful comments before the open comment period ended, and it also inspired more private correspondence than anything else I’ve ever written. Passionate mail flooded my inbox, some agreeing with me and some not. I’ve encouraged the best writers on all sides to consider publishing their thoughts. I don’t know if any will. Writing a daily blog is incredibly hard work. NYT crosswords are lucky to have so many points of view being expressed every day.
I may have mentioned this already but I have to once again thank Jeff Chen for taking over XWord Info. He not only kept it alive, he turned it into a must-visit site for crossword enthusiasts with his daily commentary.
Also, thank you to the NYT Puzzle Staff who continue to go out of their way to help both XWord Info and the Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project. None of this would be possible without ongoing help from Will Shortz, Ellen Ripstein, Deb Amlen, and the rest.
Ok, on to the awards!
Puzzle of the Year
This choice is often hard for me but this year, there’s one puzzle that clearly stands out. It’s the one that gave me the most pure Aha! joy when I solved it, the one I keep coming back to, the one I tell all my friends about. It’s more than a puzzle; it’s a magic trick published, appropriately, on Halloween.
The constructor David Kwong is a professional magician whose signature puzzle performance trick is mind blowing.
If you somehow missed it, try solving this crossword in Across Lite, or you can go straight to the Solution.
By the way, I’m not sure how many people noticed this but Mr. Kwong’s other puzzle this year included a reference to his amazing trick.
Constructor of the Year
There was also a clear 2013 winner for me in this category. I’ve been a fan of Elizabeth C. Gorski for a while but this year, she outdid herself. She’s my Constructor of the Year.
Her ten puzzles include the fantastic Magic Squares, the chocolate-themed My Treat, the beautifully clever Color Purple, the POOR to RICH word ladder for the lucky INSTANT WINNER, the ambitious Edginess (similar themes have been tried before but never on a big Sunday grid), her Lincoln Highway centennial tribute, the beautifully executed Alexander Pope quote, and a challenging themeless that introduced HARAJUKU GIRLS.
Even better, there were a couple of connect-the-dots puzzles, and they’re both lovely. In December we got to draw an angel in Good One! Note how the slight asymmetry gives an impression of fluttering motion in the wings. I like Fast One from June even more. There’s plenty of theme action and the final drawing is a thing of beauty. It might be the most successful connect-the-dots puzzle ever.
If you’re a fan too, there are plenty more Elizabeth Gorski NYT puzzles available for NYT Premium Puzzle subscribers to download in Across Lite format here. Click the G box and scroll down until you see her name.
Even better, check out her blog Crossword Nation where you can get a weekly subscription to brand new crosswords sent by email.
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The Writing Style of Saint Athanasius the Great
"I myself visited this same Abba Kosmas when he was in the Lavra of Pharan, and I stayed there for twelve years. He was talking to me once for my soul's health and mentioned something from the sayings of holy Athanasius, Archbishop of Alexandria.
'If you come across something from the works of Athanasius,' he said, 'and you haven't got any paper with you to write it down on, write it on your clothing.' This was typical of how great was the zeal which this old man had for our holy fathers and teachers."
- John Moschos, The Spiritual Meadow, Ch. 40
"Read the same holy man's Against Arius and his Doctrines, in five books. The style, as in all his works, is clear, free from redundancies and simple, but vehement and deep, and the arguments, of which he has an abundant store, are extremely forceful. He uses logical arguments, not with the very words taken straight from them, after the fashion of children and those whose knowledge of a subject is recent, who are always eager to make a childish display, but in the imposing and dignified manner of a philosopher, using simple ideas and these well set forth. He also strongly fortifies himself with evidence and proofs from Holy Writ. In a word, this work alone is a complete refutation of Arianism. If any one were to say that Gregory the Theologian and the holy Basil drew from it as from a fountain the limpid and beautiful stream of their own works written against the same heresy, he would not be far wrong."
- Photios the Great, Myriobiblon 140
"He speaks plainly, he is intelligent, sensible and conscientious, in a word he is ideally qualified to be a teacher. He has none of the heaviness that offends in Tertullian; there is nothing flashy as in Jerome; nothing labored as in Hilary; nothing redundant as there is in Augustine and even in Chrysostom; nothing that smacks of the cadences of Isocrates or the studied artistry of Lysias such as one finds in Gregory of Nazianzus. Instead he concentrates wholly on making his meaning clear."
- Erasmus, Letter 1790, March 3, 1527
"Photios observes, that the diction and style of St. Athanasius is clear, majestic, full of deep sense, strength, and solid reasoning, without any thing redundant or superfluous. He seems to hold the next place in eloquence after St. Basil, St. Gregory Nazianzen, and St. Chrysostom. Erasmus even admires his style above that of all the other fathers, saying, it hath nothing rugged or difficult, like that of Tertullian, nothing laboured or embarrassed, like that of St. Hilary, nothing studied, like that of St. Gregory Nazianzen; no windings and turnings, like that of St. Augustine, or of St. Chrysostom: for it is everywhere beautiful, elegant, easy, florid, and admirably adapted to whatever subject he treats: though in some of his works it wants the finishings which more leisure would have given it. Kosmas, an ancient monk, used to say, 'When you find any thing of the works of St. Athanasius, if you have no paper, write it on your clothes.'"
- Rev. Alban Butler, Lives of Saints, May 2
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Why Some Kansas Citians Spend The Winter Passing On An Ancient Ukrainian Folk Art
By Julie Denesha • Jan 4, 2019
Frieda Kossyk holds an ostrich egg she decorated with vivid poppies and wheat. It's one of several she made as keepsakes for her grandchildren.
Julie Denesha / KCUR 89.3FM
The Ukrainian art of decorating eggs began centuries ago in the heart of Eastern Europe. Once considered a protection against evil, these days, in Kansas City, Kansas, at least, the colorful eggs are a sign of springtime renewal.
“I usually start in January after Christmas when all the hustle and bustle is over with," says Irene Thompson, who spends the coldest days of winter hunched over eggs at the kitchen counter of her Roeland Park home.
"January is such a dull, cold month that just sitting and working on an egg is a lot of fun," Thompson says as she heats her cone-tipped tool, called a kistka, over a candle flame before filling it with beeswax and drawing a fine line of wax on the fragile surface.
At left, one of Frieda Kossyk's finished eggs hangs from a stand in her home. At right, Kossyk and her daughter Irene Thompson are dressed in Ukrainian folk costume at a Slavic festival.
Credit Julie Denesha / KCUR 89.3FM
The craft is called pysanky, after the Ukrainian pysaty, which means "to write." Designs are created by creating patterns with wax and then submerging each egg in colored dye, one layer at a time, beginning with the lightest color and ending with the deepest black.
“Most Ukrainian families they did this because it was an art form that was very inexpensive," Thompson says. "They had eggs on the farm. They had wax and all they needed was just a real primitive tool and they were able to make a beautiful piece of art.”
Traditionally the eggs were embellished with pagan symbols, but they later took on Christian meanings. The triangle once represented the elements of earth, fire and water. Now it symbolizes the Holy Trinity.
Thompson’s father was Ukrainian, but she didn’t learn to make pysanky from him. She took a class in the 1970s and has been making eggs ever since.
A student heats her cone-tipped tool, called a kistka, over a candle flame before filling it with beeswax.
For the past seven years, Thompson has taught several workshops a year at the Strawberry Hill Museum in Kansas City, Kansas, where she's helped out by her mother, Frieda Kossyk.
“I used to make them all different," says Kossyk. "I made reindeers on them. I made birds on them, you know, and all kind of bunny rabbits for Easter, you know. I made all kind of different eggs.”
Three hours of work is rewarded as 15-year-old Bethany Bockelman removes the wax from her Ukrainian egg during a pysanky class at the Strawberry Hill Museum.
Both of Thompson’s parents were among the millions of refugees displaced in the aftermath of World War II. Kossyk was an ethnic-German born in East Prussia, who fled Russian troops pouring in from the East.
“Oh God, I had an awful time. When Russian troops came forward, we had to leave our home and go into Germany and we had quite a bad time there," Kossyk says. "I came out with the train. I came out with an airplane. I came out on top of a tank. So I did not have an easy time. My whole youth was not easy. You know, I was a young girl at this time.”
Kossyk met her Ukrainian husband near Munich, where Irene was born. They had a chance to move to the United States after the war, later settling in the Strawberry Hill area.
In those early years in America, Kossyk didn’t have time to make eggs. Even a simple one can take more than three hours. Once her children were grown, however, Kossyk decorated an egg every day.
Bright, geometric patterns adorn eggs on display in Thompson's Roeland Park home.
Lately her failing eyesight has kept her from her own creations, but she still enjoys helping teach students with her daughter at the Strawberry Hill Museum's popular pysanky class.
“I have always wanted to take this workshop," Ronda Barker said at one recent session. "I’ve tried for four years and it’s always full. It was not full this time so that’s why I’m here. I am just fascinated with these eggs.”
After waxing and dying her egg, Barker was about to see the design she'd created. Thompson used a little lighter fluid to remove the wax.
Gathered around the table, Thompson (from left) shares a laugh with pysanky student Joan Sormanti and another teaching assistant Merna Upp as other students work on their eggs.
"I think it’s going to be prettier than I thought it would be," Barker said as she waited.
Once the lighter fluid does its work, it's time to remove the wax. Barker gently rubbed her egg and a delicate, orange and green star emerged.
Each egg is a revelation, and the other students gather around to take a look and congratulate each other before they face a new challenge: How to get the egg home without breaking it.
That, and waiting for spring.
Julie Denesha is a freelance photographer and reporter for KCUR. Follow her on Twitter, @juliedenesha.
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Strawberry Hill Neighborhood Reflects Demographic Shifts In Kansas City, Kansas
By Michelle Tyrene Johnson • Apr 3, 2018
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The next U.S. census will happen in 2020, and it promises to reveal shifting demographics and changing communities. One neighborhood to watch is Strawberry Hill, a vibrant Kansas City, Kansas community that has long been home to immigrants from around the globe.
Croatia's World Cup Run Energizes Immigrant Community In Kansas City, Kansas
By Sophia Tulp • Jul 14, 2018
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St. John the Baptist Catholic Church has been a little rowdier than you might expect a church to be this summer.
Every time the Croatian national team has played a World Cup match, generations of Croatian families have crammed inside a small bar in the basement. Hundreds more take seats throughout the building, spilling over into the bowling alley one room over and filling the gym upstairs.
Why Pope John Paul II's Airplane Bed Is In Kansas City, Kansas
By Alex Smith • Sep 22, 2015
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For many Catholics, Pope Francis' visit to the United States provides a thrilling chance to see the church’s highest leader in the flesh.
But in Kansas City, Kansas, the Strawberry Hill Museum and Cultural Center still celebrates and remembers a previous pope’s trip to the United States — specifically how he rested during the trip.
On display is the former air travel bed of Pope John Paul II, which is now classified as a relic.
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Amaranto Restaurant Four Seasons Hotel London At Park Lane
Like every good hotel in London, Four Seasons at Park Lane offers afternoon tea daily between 3pm. Restaurant Tip: Amaranto Restaurant & Lounge, London.
By Rebecca Lipkin on May 19, 2017 London Restaurants. You know. Amaranto at Four Seasons Hotel Park Lane, Hamilton Place, Mayfair, London W1J 7DR.
Four Seasons Hotel London at Park Lane is a luxury 5-star hotel in London, England. costing an estimated £125 million. The work included a new floor, Italian restaurant Amaranto, and an interior redesign by Pierre-Yves Rochon.
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Key developments: Along with the Upper King Street corridor, Ravenel points New Yorkers toward Halsey Park. $7 million. Four Seasons — which is a big draw for New Yorkers — handles all the services.
Amaranto Bar. At this smart, lounge-style meeting spot on Park Lane, you can choose from a variety of innovative cocktails, light dining options and an extensive wine list.
In celebration of the grand opening of Four Seasons Hotel London. exclusive concert in Seething Lane Gardens by Placido Domingo and a section of the London Symphony Orchestra, followed by a dinner.
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Columbia School Board to Discuss Safety
6 years 2 months 3 days ago Monday, May 13 2013 May 13, 2013 Monday, May 13, 2013 1:15:00 PM CDT May 13, 2013 in News
By: Marie Mandelberg
COLUMBIA - The Columbia School Board will have its first reading Monday night of a proposed update to the district's building and grounds security policy. This update would allow two safety and security officers to carry firearms on Columbia school grounds. These two officers would be for the entire district and would include the safety and security director and assistant safety and security director.
Columbia School Board President Christine King said this is not meant to be an intimidation factor, but would allow the two directors to protect the schools as first responders in emergency situations.
This proposal will be voted on at the next school board meeting in June.
In other business, the board will vote Monday night on updates to teacher contracts. These updates come from the Columbia Missouri National Education Association requests and negotiation. The CMNEA is the teachers' independent representation for these discussions.
The changes include a raise in the per hour rate for teacher professional development to 27 dollars. They also create committees for teachers to address and resolve issues teachers face throughout the district.
King said she doesn't anticipate any problems to arise about this issue.
Along with the teacher contracts, the board will vote on increasing school lunch prices by ten cents. This increase is the result of federal mandates requiring healthier lunches in schools. Last year, the board increased lunch prices by nine cents.
The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m.
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Small Yard Transformation
How a small backyard in Boise was maximized for entertaining and relaxation
Many outdoor living features were included in the 690 square foot yard.
A seating area centered around a combined fire and water feature was created as a destination at the end of the yard.
When burning, the natural gas fire feature emits 35,000 BTUs of heat.
Prior to the transformation, this small yard was unattractive, unused and felt boxed in.
A before shot of the covered patio.
The Challenge:Design an outdoor living space, with a kitchen, hot tub, dining area, sitting area, fire for warmth and a water feature all in a 690 square foot townhome backyard. “Despite the limited space, my client wanted many entertaining features. My goal was to include all their requests while ensuring that the yard would appear expansive and uncluttered,” says Terry Sims of The Garden Artist in Boise, ID.
The Client:The owners of this 1980s contemporary townhome are empty-nesters who entertain often and travel frequently. They were looking for a low-maintenance design that would extend their living space outdoors. Their original budget was $30,000, but this was later increased to $52,000.
Terry selected plants for four season interest, focusing mainly on evergreens and perennials with nice texture and color. Three trees were also planted: two weeping cherries and a thunder cloud plum for its deep color. Drip irrigation was installed as an efficient and low-maintenance way to keep the plants watered.
The Design: Terry used many design tricks to make this small backyard feel large. “When taking up the challenge of a small yard you are forced to really think about the design,” she notes. Here are some of the techniques she used to maximize the space:
The kitchen and hot tub were angled to avoid crowding and funnel the eye to the sitting area at the end of the yard.
An “s” curve path, created with tumbled concrete cobblestone pavers, elongates the yard.
To eliminate the boxed in feeling, the fence was painted blue/grey, which helps it fade into the background and transition smoothly into the sky.
The requested water and fire features were combined into one double duty design element. Aside from saving space, Terry enjoys designing these combinations because they are a one-of-a-kind novelty that no one else has in Boise.
For budget reasons, a custom hot tub was not an option. Instead a portable tub was sunk halfway below ground level, which reduces its overall mass and provides unobstructed views of the seating area. A freestanding pergola with an open roof covers the hot tub, helping to create privacy from the neighbors’ second story windows and a comfortable, protected atmosphere for those using the tub.
The outdoor kitchen was designed to leave a small footprint. The structure features a 36 inch natural gas grill with a stainless steel cabinet and drawer. Two feet of counter space on one side allows for prep space, while three feet of counter on the other side provides room for buffet style dining. The countertops are made of poured concrete that has been stained and sealed.
A visual flow was created throughout the yard by restricting the number of hardscape materials. “Consistent repetition of the materials throughout the yard was essential for making the design work in such a small space,” Terry explains. Pavers and a decorative concrete overlay were used for paving, while a stone veneer clads the BBQ and seating area. Natural boulders break up the lines around the hot tub and the combined water and fire feature.
Additionally, the existing covered patio was transformed into the dining area the clients desired. Since the extension of the roof line was not up to code, Terry and her crew had to make modifications. “The footings were too shallow and had cracked due to frost and the height was only six feet, which was too low for comfort and safety,” explains Terry, “So we repositioned the beam, adding an extra eight inches of height and dug down to repair the footings, ensuring they were 24 inches deep.” The existing concrete was resurfaced with an overlay that was stamped with a slate texture and colored to tie in with the pavers, veneer and natural stone used in the rest of the yard.
Since it can get quite cold in Idaho, Terry also had to consider ways to tailor the design to the climate. The natural gas fire feature puts out 35,000 BTUs of heat, which allows the homeowners to use the space 9 months out of the year. Additionally, the hot tub was placed close to the back door so that it could be easily accessed during the snowy months.
The Result:In spite of the limited space Terry says, “The improvements extended the client’s home beyond their four walls and what was once an unattractive and unused yard is now the center point for entertaining and relaxation.”
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Ask an Expert: Q & A with Rachel Calemmo
Courtney Muraczewski
04/30/2019 in Know How
Rachel Calemmo, LC LEED® AP
The stars aligned and lit up both a dream and reality of lighting design for Rachel Calemmo. In our Q&A session, Rachel addresses unique factors and capabilities of light in planning & design, how to face common lighting challenges, and more fresh insights.
An expert in balancing aesthetics and energy efficiency, Rachel plans for and creates visually appealing environments that also function to enhance lifestyles in today’s technology-focused world. As cofounder of Christian Rae Studio, LLC in Southport, CT, she plays a role in all aspects of project design, construction and management. Her vision is focused on collaboration with clients, architects, designers and engineers from the onset of a project integrating the lighting seamlessly with architecture. And here’s a glimpse at Rachel’s beliefs and thought processes behind its fruition:
Q: What are your thoughts on lighting control?
A: Lighting control is essential. Yes, you could just put on/off switches on the walls, but that just leaves so much on the table. What’s nice is a more personalized and intuitive lighting system that even follows daylight rhythms for natural health benefits. And since LEDs now have RGBW, warm dimming and all different layers of lighting options within single fixtures, the only way to really take advantage of that is with extra control. Then you can have smooth dimming or follow daylight rhythms in living spaces with proper scheduling and controls. I really like that [with Loxone] you could have all your spaces communicate together or separate. Then having all the control in one location is a huge benefit.
Q: What are your thoughts on the evolution of the light switch in regard to today’s Touch Pure by Loxone?
A: I don’t think light switches have really evolved much until the Touch Pure. I love how it cleans up the wall and puts all home control into a stylish package.
“I don’t think light switches have really evolved much until the Touch Pure.”
Q: What are some unique uses for light that you’ve had to implement in past projects? Provide detail on how this affected your choices in planning & design.
A: What I’ve encountered in the health care and commercial realm, but I’m also starting to see in residential, is the need to time lighting at specific times of day. LED lighting technology puts us in a position where we can now create personalized lighting to mitigate circadian disruption, optimize mood and visual experience and improve our sense of well-being in better ways than ever before.
Now that I work on high-end residential projects, timed lighting has been common for spa spaces or yoga rooms. Whereas now, it’s becoming more common throughout the whole house which requires more advanced fixtures. When planning and designing these projects, I select fixtures that have smart drivers and offer a full range of dimming 100% as well as color tuning to create the right rhythmic temperatures with naturally occurring light outside. The most requests for this are especially from people who have trouble sleeping or relaxing, so it will reinforce their bodies’ natural circadian rhythms. It’s critical that the smart drivers and LED fixtures communicate so nothing is disrupted. Then, I work with integrators and manufacturers [such as Loxone] that offer lighting control solutions that allow these fixtures to operate according to specific schedules according to time clocks as well as user interfaces.
“LED lighting technology puts us in a position where we can now create personalized lighting to mitigate circadian disruption, optimize mood and visual experience and improve our sense of well-being in better ways than ever before.”
Q: What are some challenges you’ve faced in past projects?
A: One of the biggest challenges is matching up fixers and drivers with control systems. This has been a common challenge for lighting designers in the past two years because of constant changes and variety of products out there. So you really have to make sure your systems are compatible for smooth dimming, etc.
If there’s an integrator, I make sure we’re working in tandem as early on as possible, as well as the rest of the team. And with Loxone, all products are small, in the sense that you don’t face the complexity of some control systems. They don’t take up a huge amount of real estate.
Now, I definitely try to work smarter. I get anyone who’s going to touch a specific project along the way involved as early as possible. We can work through issues before products are purchased and we get too far along in design and construction process.
Q: How does Tree wiring change the lighting design process?
A: Tree wiring makes it easier because I don’t have to spend time working on circuiting. There’s more time to think about lighting scenes as the spaces develop instead of planning it out on paper. I don’t have to worry about that, and I can do any programming later.
Q: What factors do you consider when planning for commercial vs. residential design?
A: Commercial and residential can be very similar. But with commercial, my main concerns are mostly energy savings and tasks. Although occupant well-being is up there, productivity is usually number one. But they go hand-in-hand. Both require a focus on color temperature and color rendering of light sources as well as the ability for end users to maximize control of lighting and coordinate it with daylight.
For example, in retail I’ll think about how to get shoppers to buy more. Or in a school or office, how to keep people alert and focused. I tackle situations with color temperature and color rendering, which highlights the things I want people to focus on and pay attention to. I also make sure fixtures are used in a way that’s energy efficient and task focused.
Then with residential, it’s more about comfort, feeling welcomed and relaxed. For me, that’s where dimming control plays a large role. Personalizing space comes down to lighting control and scenes that can be set to how a homeowner likes them to be. It’s all intuitive.
“I tackle situations with color temperature and color rendering, which highlights the things I want people to focus on and pay attention to. I also make sure fixtures are used in a way that’s energy efficient and task focused.”
Q: If you could transform the lighting of any existing space or building what would the space or building be, and why? How would you transform it?
A: I would tackle the next big challenge for lighting designers, outdoor streetscape and lighting. Light pollution is a major issue for humans and animals alike. With improvements to lighting technologies, we are able to control light better than ever before, so we need to be more responsible with how we use our outdoor lighting.
I would like to transform it by making sure that any lighting used from dusk to dawn be Dark-Sky compliant. I love the natural lighting design of the stars and we don’t see enough of them! However, as a lighting designer, I also love a well-lit nighttime environment. There is something beautiful about an up-lit tree or a bridge with RGBW illumination. I believe that we can achieve exciting lighting designs and increase public safety at night by using light when and where it’s needed by specifying the proper fixture for the job, not over-lighting and controlling lights with timers to ensure we are not disrupting the circadian rhythms of people or animals.
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California Court Ushers in Sweeping Changes for Scheduling Policies
A California Court of Appeal recently issued its decision in Ward v. Tilly’s, instituting a sweeping change in California’s reporting-time pay rules and now prohibiting a common scheduling practice used by employers throughout the state.
By Shaun J. Voigt, Aaron D. Langberg and Anthony Guzman | February 20, 2019 at 11:20 AM
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A California Court of Appeal recently issued its decision in Ward v. Tilly’s, instituting a sweeping change in California’s reporting-time pay rules and now prohibiting a common scheduling practice used by employers throughout the state. Following the Feb. 4 decision, California employers who require employees to call in two hours before a shift to determine whether or not they are needed, and report to work if called in, are now obligated to pay that employee, at a minimum, for two hours of work even if the employee is informed that there is no need to come in to work that day. As a result of this decision, employers should be careful to craft scheduling policies that avoid the same pitfalls seen in this case.
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Accelerated Forest Habitat Enhancement, Phase 2
This program of on-the-ground conservation projects increased the wildlife and ecological values of forest communities on Minnesota's public forestlands. Restoration and enhancement projects in this program enhanced more than 10,000 acres of forest.
Amity Creek Stressor Identification
South Saint Louis County Soil and Water Conservation District
The goal of this project is to develop a stream restoration opportunities matrix for the Amity Creek watershed, which will prioritize the various protection and restoration options in the watershed for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and local partners.
Funds are to be used to protect, enhance and restore water quality in lakes, rivers and streams and to protect groundwater and drinking water. Activities include structural and vegetative practices to reduce runoff and retain water on the land, feedlot water quality projects, SSTS abatement grants for low income individuals, and stream bank, stream channel and shoreline protection projects. For the fiscal year 2012, BWSR awarded 12 local governments with funds.
Cold Water River and Stream Restoration, Protection, and Enhancement
Minnesota Trout Unlimited
This program will restore and enhance in-stream and riparian fish and wildlife habitat in 11 watersheds across the state of Minnesota. The proposed projects will improve habitat for both game and non-game fish and wildlife species uniquely associated with cold water trout streams and provide expanded recreational opportunities for Minnesota anglers.
Coldwater Fish Habitat Enhancement Program, Phase 3
Minnesota Trout Unlimited enhanced in-stream and riparian fish and wildlife habitat in and along coldwater streams located on public lands and Aquatic Management Areas. We completed all 9 projects originally proposed and three additional. Contracting efficiencies and leveraging of other funding allowed us to add two habitat enhancement projects in southeast Minnesota and another segment on the Sucker River in northeast Minnesota. We enhanced 10 more acres of habitat than originally proposed and increased leverage by $121,700 (67%).
DNR Aquatic Habitat Restoration and Enhancement
Good habitat is critical to sustaining quality fish populations in both lakes and rivers. DNR proposes to restore or enhance aquatic habitat under two programs: stream restoration, and Aquatic Management Area (AMA) enhancement. Stream restoration includes major channel restorations and fish passage projects such as dam removals intended to improve or provide access to critical aquatic habitats.
DNR Stream Habitat
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will restore or enhance habitat to facilitate fish passage, restore degraded streams, and enhance habitat critical to fish and other aquatic life. Projects are prioritized based on ecological benefit, urgency, feasibility, and stakeholder support.
Duluth Streams Urban Watershed Restoration And Protection Strategy (WRAPS)
This project is for the Duluth Streams Urban Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS). The project is a core part of the WRAPS and Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) development for the Duluth Metropolitan Area (DMA).
Duluth Urban Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS)
The principal goal of this project is to fill critical data gaps and to establish a participatory watershed management framework for the Duluth Metropolitan Area (DMA) that mimics the statewide Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) process.
Funds Transfer for County Programs
Board of Water & Soil Resources
BWSR will administer funding to eligible County projects that provide funds and other assistance to low income property owners to upgrade or replace Noncompliant Septic Systems. BWSR will also manage annual reporting completed by each County.
Knife River Sediment Reduction
South St. Louis Soil & Water Conservation District
The Knife River is a popular trout fishing river along the North Shore of Lake Superior. In 1998, it was listed as "impaired" by the MPCA for turbidity (being too muddy). In 2010, a Total Maximum Daily Load, or, water clean-up plan was approved. The major recommendations were to address peak flows (fast
Knife River Habitat Restoration
Lake Superior Steelhead Association
Phase I work was conducted on the main Knife River and its Main West Branch tributary. Primary goals were met and these goals include: stream connectivity, riparian zone tree planting, stream assessment and black ash stand identification.
• Stream Connectivity - repaired Second Falls on the main Knife River.
• Tree Planting - two volunteer and one CCM projects where several thousand trees were planted.
Knife River Habitat Rehabilitation Phase II
Degradation to trout habitat in the Knife River Watershed has occurred from past clear-cut forestry practices resulting in uncontrolled beaver colonization. This project will continue work on the West Branch and begin work on other Knife River tributaries.
Knowlton Creek Watershed Erosion Control Project - St. Louis River Area of Concern
Project between Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and United States Army Corp of Engineers at Knowlton Creek Watershed to address a large amount of sediment deposited into the St. Louis River Area of Concern (AOC).
Lake Superior Civic Engagement and Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) Support
Improved levels of civic engagement and community participation in support for the Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) processes in the St. Louis River, Lake Superior South, and Cloquet River Watersheds. Monitoring plans and compiled field data will be provided and summarized that will aid in the future completion of Total Maximum Daily Load Reports (TMDLs) in these watersheds and in the Lake Superior North Watershed.
St. Louis River Restoration Initiative, Ph. V
MNDNR’s St. Louis River Restoration Initiative (SLRRI) applies a collaborative approach to restore sites impacted by legacy habitat alterations of wood waste, wetland loss and sedimentation to establish ecologically resilient aquatic and riparian fish and wildlife habitat that will establish the St. Louis River Estuary as a premier fishing and outdoor recreation destination. MNDNR will restore 181 acres of priority aquatic and riparian habitat at multiple sites in the lower St. Louis River in partnership with the Minnesota Land Trust.
St. Louis River Restoration Initiative
MDNR will implement a programmatic approach to complete prioritized aquatic habitat restoration projects in the Lower St. Louis River Estuary through a partnership between Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and OHF to recover this nationally important fishery and migratory bird corridor.
Lower St. Louis River Habitat Restoration
Radio Tower Bay: 115,000 cubic yards of wood material was removed to increase water depth, provide greater habitat diversity, promote native aquatic vegetation and increase recreational access.Knowlton Creek: 6,500 linear feet of degraded stream was restored by reshaping and creating new stream channels; constructing instream structures; and native planting and seeding to stabilize the stream and minimize sediment into the Estuary.21st Ave W/Interstate Island: Restored 2 acres of critical nesting habitat for the Common Tern and Piping Plover.Wild Rice: Restored 133 acres of wild rice in the
Minnesota Moose Habitat Collaborative - Phase III
MN Deer Hunters Association
The Minnesota Deer Hunters Association (MDHA), in collaboration with county, state, federal, tribal, university and non-governmental organizational (NGO) partners, seeks to continue the successful work of the Moose Habitat Collaborative (Collaborative) by improving nearly 10,000 acres of foraging habitat for moose in northeast Minnesota. The project builds on the Collaborative’s previous efforts to enhance forest habitat by increasing stand complexity and production while maintaining thermal components of the landscape with variable enhancement methods.
Minnesota Trout Unlimited Coldwater Fish Habitat Enhancement and Restoration, Phase 10
Minnesota Trout Unlimited will enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife in and along priority coldwater streams located on existing Aquatic Management Areas and public lands around the state. Accelerating habitat work to reduce the backlog of degraded streams is urgent given the increasing threats to these scarce coldwater fisheries. Population outcomes will be maximized by improving the connectivity of habitat and fish and wildlife populations, and building upon earlier work on adjacent stream segments.
Minnesota Moose Habitat Collaborative
Minnesota Deer Hunters Association
The Minnesota Moose Collaborative (Collaborative) has implemented a variety of habitat enhancement treatments across the core of moose range in Northeast Minnesota on County, State, Federal, and Tribal lands since 2013. Moose browse has been improved through treatments that regenerate preferred brush and tree species. The Collaborative has also planted over two million trees including white spruce, white pine, jack pine, and white cedar.
Minnesota Elevation Mapping Project (LiDAR)
This project will create a high accuracy elevation dataset - critical for effectively planning and implementing water quality projects - for the state of Minnesota using LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) and geospatial mapping technologies. Although some areas of the state have been mapped previously, many counties remain unmapped or have insufficient or inadequate data. This multi-year project, to be completed in 2012, is a collaborative effort of Minnesota's Digital Elevation Committee and partners with county surveyors to ensure accuracy with ground-truthing.
Minnesota Trout Unlimited Coldwater Fish Habitat Enhancement and Restoration, Phase 9
Minnesota Trout Unlimited Coldwater Fish Habitat Enhancement & Restoration
Minnesota Trout Unlimited and our volunteers, chapters and partners will directly enhance habitat for fish and wildlife in and along thirteen coldwater streams located in existing Aquatic Management Areas and on existing public lands around the state.
Minnesota Trout Unlimited Coldwater Fish Habitat Enhancement & Restoration, Phase VI
Minnesota Trout Unlimited and its volunteers, chapters and partners will directly enhance habitat for fish, game and wildlife in and along twelve or more coldwater streams located on existing Aquatic Management Areas and other existing public lands around the state.
Minnesota Trout Unlimited Coldwater Fish Habitat Enhancement and Restoration - Phase VII
Minnesota Trout Unlimited volunteers, chapters and partners will enhance habitat for fish, game and wildlife in and along numerous coldwater streams on existing Aquatic Management Areas and other public lands around the state, while leveraging approximately $3 million for this.
MN Moose Habitat Collaborative Phase II
The Minnesota Moose Habitat Collaborative enhanced approximately 7349 acres of moose habitat in northern forests of Northeastern Minnesota within Cook, Lake and St. Louis counties on county, state, and federal land.
Northeast Minnesota White Cedar Plant Community Restoration
Northeastern Minnesota Sharp-tailed Grouse Habitat Partnership
Pheasants Forever with MN Sharp-tailed Grouse Society
This partnership will protect, restore and enhance 2,769 acres, primarily brushland, in northeastern Minnesota. Habitat will be added to the WMA system and enhanced on existing public lands for species in greatest conservation need, outdoor recreation, and environmental benefits.
Port Authority Stormwater Study and Concept Design - Clean Water Partnership (CWP)
Duluth Seaway Port Authority
The project’s first phase includes development and implementation of a sampling plan to investigate stormwater quality within impervious areas; soil borings to determine the soil type; a topographical survey to determine drainage patterns and infrastructure locations; and data gathering of existing infrastructure. A season-long stormwater quality monitoring program will monitor stormwater within the drainage areas that flow directly to the storm sewer, including monitoring of roof runoff and overland flow to determine potential pollutant sources and mitigation options.
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The St. Louis River Area of Concern (SLRAOC) conservation partners are focused on removing Beneficial Use Impairments (BUI) in the estuary and eventually delisting the SLRAOC. Cooperative efforts between multiple resource agencies and regional stakeholders have identified a host of restoration objectives, developed project support activities, and partially secured funding that includes a state commitment through the Minnesota Clean Water Fund.
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This Partnership Agreement is a 5-year effort that will provide the technical, planning and engineering assistance for implementation of the 2013 St. Louis River Area of Concern Remedial Action Plan. Through this agreement the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and MPCA will develop detailed work plans and construction design plans for numerous sites in the project AOC and assist with critical AOC-wide issues. • 21st Avenue West Restoration Site. Outcome will be preliminary to final engineering designs and costs ready for bid package development. • Knowlton Creek Site.
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St. Louis River Area of Concern Contaminated Sediment Sampling and Characterization
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This project will provide technical, planning and engineering assistance to the MPCA for the development and implementation of the St. Louis River Remedial Action Plan (RAP). USACE and USEPA in partnership with the MPCA will administer work plans to complete a sediment assessment for Minnesota areas within Superior Bay, St. Louis Bay, Lower St. Louis River and the Upper St. Louis River, encompassing approximately 5,349 acres of the St. Louis River and Estuary.
St. Louis River Bioavailability BUI Removal Protocol
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This project will provide a protocol for prioritizing sites in the St. Louis Area of Concern (AOC ) for restoration based on site-specific bioavailability considerations. Despite large data collection efforts focused on sediment chemistry, the extent to which sediment with moderate levels of contamination is available for uptake into biota and therefore contributing to Beneficial Use Impairments (BUI)s is still largely unknown.
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Space Invaders Skill-Based Slots at AC Harrah’s & Bally’s
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The classic arcade game Space Invaders is coming to Atlantic City. Scientific Games Corporation signed a deal this week to place a skill-based slot machine in Caesars Entertainment’s Atlantic City casinos.
Space Invaders Slots has a bonus game based on Space Invaders, the classic arcade and Atari game. The normal gameplay will play like a classic slot machine. When players trigger the bonus mode, the bonus game is Space Invaders.
If the slots gambler plays the bonus game well, it translates to real bonus money and then lowers the house edge.
Scientific Games has not released the exact payout chart for the Space Invaders skill-based slot, but previous discussions noted that the return-to-player can be as high as 98%.
Space Invaders at Harrah’s and Bally’s Atlantic City
Rich Broome of Caesars Entertainment Corporation told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the gaming machine will debut in Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City and Bally’s Atlantic City.Broome said the game debuts this week in Atlantic City, but it will appear “in addictional jurisdictions” later in the year. Since Nevada is the only other state which has legalized skill-based slots, Caesars properties in Nevada should have Space Invaders soon.
Where to Find Space Invaders Slots
Susan Cartwright of Scientific Games Corporation said in a recent interview that Space Invaders would appear at land venues in Las Vegas sometime this summer. Readers should expect those venues to be Caesars Entertainment properties.
Scientific Games becomes the fourth company in the past 7 months to release a skill-based gaming machine. Younger generation casino goers are less interested in slot machines than Baby Boomers. Generation X casino gamblers showed a 10% to 15% decline in interest in slot machines compared to Baby Boomers, while millennials showed a marked decline in interest compared to Gen X gamblers. To convince players to visit slots row, gaming machine firms lobbied for the right to offer skill-based slots.
Companies Producing Skill Slots
At the moment, GameCo, Gamblit, Konami, and Scientific Games are the four companies producing skill slots. The companies have taken very different approaches. For instance, GameCo produces games which do not have a traditional slots mode, but instead offers something more like a traditional arcade game. Reviews on the GameCo gaming machines (found at Tropicana Atlantic City) have been mixed, because players have complained of gameplay or asked whether such games are truly skill-based. Such games are still in the development phase and players can expect them to improve rapidly in the coming months.
Scientific Games, which owns traditional slot machine companies like Bally Technologies and WMS Industries, is taking a more conservative approach. They combine an already-proven slot machine game mechanic with a bonus game based on Space Invaders, an iconic game from the Atari Age.
Space Invaders Slot Machine
Space Invaders Slots is a 6-reel, 60-payline slot machine in the main game. Once the bonus game is active, Scientific Games describes an “authentic alien shooter bonus game”.
The original Space Invaders video game is a third-person shooter in which the player character sits at the bottom of the screen and fires at rows of aliens which slowly march towards the bottom of the ground, as if they’re aliens coming from the sky. Space Invaders was one of the first arcade games and it inspired countless game designers since then (Galaga/Galaxian, Centipede, Missile Command).
The game is housed in Scientific Games’ s32 game cabinet, so it has the look and feel of a classic slot machine. Players who have no interest in gambling on the slots have the option to skip the slots mode and go directly to the arcade game, with higher level credit wins.
Derik Mooberry on Space Invaders
Derik Mooberry, Gaming CEO for Scientific Games Corporation, said in a press release, “Space Invaders is one of the true classic video arcade games and a childhood favorite for many who grew up in the era of video games. We are thrilled to bring this iconic game to casino slot gameplay.”
“Our development team worked diligently to ensure that our first skill-based game featured authentic Space Invaders gameplay, complete with its familiar alien symbols and correlative music, and we are certain that players are going to be captivated with this compelling new game.”
The next few years should bring a lot of creativity to the skill-based gaming machine market. Eventually, one title or type of game is going to emerge as the leader in the genre. Until the breakout skill-based slot emerges, it should be entertaining to see what GameCo, Scientific Games, and Konami produces.
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What Is Infrared Networking and How Does It Work?
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IR technology preceded Bluetooth and Wi-Fi for transferring files
by Bradley Mitchell
An MIT graduate who brings years of technical experience to articles on SEO, computers, and wireless networking.
In its prime during the 1990s, infrared (IR) technology allowed computers and other electronic devices to communicate via short-range wireless signals. Using IR, computers could transfer files and other digital data bidirectionally as long as both devices were equipped with an IR sensor. The infrared transmission technology used in computers was similar to that used in consumer-oriented TV remote control units. Since then, the much faster and far more versatile Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies replaced IR.
Installation and Usage
Computer infrared network adapters both transmit and receive data through ports on the rear or side of a device. Infrared adapters were installed in many laptops and personal hand-held devices. In Microsoft Windows, infrared connections were created through the same method as other local area network connections.
Infrared networks were designed to support direct two-computer connections only, and those were created temporarily as the need arose. Extensions to infrared technology, however, supported more than two computers and semipermanent networks.
IR Range
Infrared communications span only short distances. When networking two infrared devices, they must be within a few feet of each other. Unlike Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technologies, infrared network signals cannot penetrate walls or other obstructions and work only within a direct line of sight. Anything that blocks that direct line between two IR devices also blocks IR communication.
Infrared technology used in local networks exists in three forms that are recognized by the Infrared Data Association (IrDA):
IrDA-SIR: Slow-speed infrared that supports data rates up to 115 Kbps.
IrDA-MIR: Medium-speed infrared that supports data rates up to 1.15 Mbps.
IrDA-FIR: High-speed infrared that supports data rates up to 4 Mbps.
Other Uses for Infrared Technology
Although IR no longer plays a role in transferring files from one computer to another, it is still a valuable technology in other fields. Among them are:
Night vision: Infrared amplifies light in low-light situations.
Art history: IR technology is used to peek through layers of paint on works of art to see what lies beneath.
Heating: Infrared generates and conducts heat, so it's popular in saunas, restaurant food-warming stations, and cooking appliances such as grills.
Thermography: IR technology determines the relative temperature of objects.
Weather forecasting: IR technology is used by weather satellites to determine temperature and cloud formations.
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June 18, 2019 by Nora Lee Mandel
Barbara Rubin, Who Influenced Dylan, Ginsberg and Lou Reed, Gets Her Due
Barbara Rubin introduced Andy Warhol to the band the Velvet Underground, Allen Ginsberg to the Beatles, London to “Happenings,” Bob Dylan to Kabbalah, and female eroticism to film. So why don’t we know about her? In his feature length documentary “Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground,” director Chuck Smith reanimates the young Jewish woman who challenged the men of the 60s underground–an alt-culture was known for glorifying the phallus—with her vulva images, charisma, and artistic matchmaking.
At 14 years old in 1960, Rubin was a school dropout and cross-country runaway. Her Queens, NY parents committed her to a mental hospital as incorrigible—and overweight. She quickly tripped on double doses of diet pills and implored an uncle in the film distribution business to get her a job to qualify for release. So Jonas Mekas, “the godfather of avant-garde cinema” hired her at his Filmmakers Cooperative downtown Manhattan hangout, where her amphetamine expertise impressed her colleagues.
For the film, Smith extensively interviewed Mekas (he died earlier this year), who opened up his collection of seemingly everything Rubin touched. Circumspect about their relationship, he reads her letters with tender emotion. Smith locates other visual traces of Rubin. There she is ruffling Dylan’s hair on the “Bringing It All Back Home” cover. Here, a Warhol Factory photographer snapped her and Dylan schlepping a “Double Elvis” painting to his car. Digging into Warhol’s archives, Smith discovered she ran the camera for his early 3.5-minute, black-and-white silent “Screen Tests”, including Dylan’s. (Selections are in the Warhol retrospective at SF MOMA through 9/2/2019). In “The Kiss” (1963), she smooched with Naomi Levine, his first star.
Rubin borrowed Mekas’s 16mm camera in 1963, and got five friends together for an orgy; Debra Feiner describes her painting their bodies white and black for the opening scene. As a multi-media exhibition, she showed the resulting 29-minute “Christmas on Earth” on two projectors at different speeds, with color filters, on walls and ceilings, and overlapping images. Her close-ups of vaginas made the cool crowd more uncomfortable than the gay male sex. (Drummer Maureen Tucker says she objected to the projections behind her at the Velvet Underground’s first club gig). All this was before “Our Bodies, Ourselves” rallied women to self-examine with mirrors, or Judy Chicago celebrated the moment of crowning during birth. Rubin scholar Ara Osterweil, at McGill, calls her live interaction with the screen a kind of pioneering performance art. Rubin also flamboyantly promoted her artist friends abroad.
Later, she she got fed up with the scene’s heroin use, urged spiritual rehab, and convinced Ginsberg to buy a Catskills farm for their retreat. But by 23 years old, she was frustrated with Ginsberg’s minimizing her desire for a child and her art. Her spiritual search drew her to Rabbi Shlomo Freifeld, who encouraged baalei teshuva (secular Jews to become Orthodox). The singing and dancing at her traditional wedding in Far Rockaway, Queens was all her downtown crew could fathom.
The film reveals that many are still shocked at the way she subsumed her forceful personality. She did divorce, then joined other artists in the Brooklyn Breslov Hasidic community, where she married a Judaica painter. The couple moved to an enclave in the south of France , but in 1980 she died of a post-natal infection after their fifth child. She was 35.
To explain the sharp turn Rubin took, Smith found and interviewed a female cousin and a friend who shared her religious path, but these are not very revealing about her Jewish life. Even more confusing, he contacted her second husband, now in Israel, and had male voices read her husband’s (unidentified) writings on Hasidic mysticism over Rubin’s abstract footage.
It’s an imperfect look at a compelling life, but at least with “Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground,” Smith tries to integrate Rubin’s disparate lives, and assures her feats will not be forgotten.
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LH Mediation offers a London based family mediation practice in Clapham High Street, South West London.
Family mediation is a process which enables a couple to resolve issues that arise following the breakdown of a relationship, marriage, civil partnership and same sex partnerships. The process focuses on the way forward. It is both voluntary and confidential, and it is independent of the courts.
Mediation Coverage
Mediation works hand in hand with legal advice at all stages of the separation and divorce process:
Financial issues: how to sort out income, capital, liabilities and pensions.
Property: what happens to the family home and working out future living arrangements?
Child contact and maintenance arrangements: working on the best arrangements for the children.
Communication between the parents.
Mediation v The Courts
Advantages of Mediation include:
The decision reached is the couple’s decision. They do not have a decision imposed upon them by a judge.
Mediation resolves a couple’s confidence in their ability to communicate, and to work things out between them. This has a positive effect on the whole family.
Parents are helped to move towards a good working relationship in their role as “co-parents”.
It is all about the future.
In time and money, mediation is far less costly.
How Family Mediation Works
Family mediation breaks down into three distinct stages:
Stage One – Initial Assessment. (Also called a Mediation Information and Assessment Meeting (MIAM).) Since the Family Law change in April 2014, it is a requirement for clients to actively consider mediation. Your mediator will meet with you separately to explain the mediation process, what your alternative options are, to answer any questions you may have, and to assess whether mediation is suitable.
A referral form is emailed out for you to fill in and sign and bring to the MIAM.
Stage Two – Mediation Process. It starts with your mediator working with you both to identify the issues you wish to discuss, your hopes and concerns about future outcomes. The number of sessions will vary according to the issues and progress that can be made. Generally it takes between 1-6 sessions depending on the complexity and progress made. Your mediator will give their view on progress at the end of each mediation session and record what has been achieved through a session summary report.
Stage Three – Reaching Agreement. Moving forwards, towards the end of mediation, your mediator will draft up a record of areas covered and agreed proposals. This is called a Memorandum of Understanding. If both agree, this can be discussed with your solicitor who can provide you with independent advice and guidance. If the matters covered includes property and finance – an Open Financial Summary is produced which will set out the details of how you have reached agreement over financial issues. These documents can be used by your solicitor to write a Consent Order that makes agreements reached into a legally binding court order.
Contact us to find out further information, availability and fees which are specific to each case.
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About Libervis.com
By memenode on 22 May 2008
Note: This needs to be updated. -- DM
In its five years of existence Libervis.com has always been a place where technology enthusiasts discuss both technology and larger social, ethical and political issues. This never changed even as the site went through multiple revisions in form and scope.
Today, the focus is on raising awareness of the challenges that current and upcoming advanced technologies pose to the way we live and interact with each other and the surroundings as well as promoting a healthy and responsible approach to the use of such technologies.
Advancing technologies and their proliferation inevitably change the social, economic and cultural dynamics. Not only do advancing technologies provide its users with increasing powers, but they could also merge with the users or become the users themselves. We take a serious look not only at the existing technologies which are reshaping the human world as we speak, but technologies which are being anticipated in the relatively near future, namely advanced nano, bio, info and cogno technologies (NBIC).
The primary problem is our readiness to take on the responsibilities these technologies require. The way we think affects the way we act and therefore the way we use technology. Since technology empowers our acting capacities it would effectively amplify the consequences of prevalent mentality in human societies. Those who long for war will be more effective at waging war. Those who long for peace will be more effective at promoting peaceful ideas. The conflict between the mentality that supports destruction and tyranny and a mentality that supports enlightenment and freedom potentially turns into an existential battle that could determine the fate of the human race.
We explore this issue from many different angles and on multiple levels from the ongoing challenges of now widespread digital technology to the awe inspired by exotic technologies of the near future. We also explore related concerns increasingly raised in the popular culture aptly represented by such movies as The Matrix, The Terminator, I Robot, Star Trek and so on.
The ideal promoted is an evolution of the way we think about ourselves, each other and our future. We need to get to the point at which we wont even be tempted to use technology maliciously, as means to subvert or destroy, but rather strive to use it for creation, liberation and sustainable expansion.
The logo of a rising sun represents an emergence of a bright future that could be brought about by new possibilities enabled by technologies should we have only good uses of them. "Libervis" means "most free" from latin, representing the expansion of individual liberties that could also be empowered by technology given its ability to give those who previously didn't have a chance, the power to make a difference for themselves and the world (as is so aptly shown in the example of internet).
I founded Libervis.com in August 2004 as a community site meant to serve discussions about any topic related to Free and Open Source Software, whether philosophical or technical. While the project was nominally a success it grew slower than I had hoped for which pushed me to make multiple revisions to the site in hopes of attracting greater growth. Being still fairly inexperienced with web publishing and community building at the time I made a mistake of making the site's scope too broad. First the scope was expanded to include discussions of Free Culture (like Free Open Source Software, but relevant to digital media as well) and ultimately it covered all technology and its relation to freedom.
While the expansion of its scope turned out to be fairly counterproductive in the long term Libervis community, even if small, spawned quite a few interesting projects.
Some of our articles and projects were widely featured, such as our cooperative article on Free Software model applied to other areas of economy and the FUDZilla Project (an Anti-Disinformation project now retired and archived). We've also cooperated with Mozdex.com (sold and changed spirit due to previous owner's personal issues taking too much time), an open search engine, by hosting their official blog for a while, discussing improvements to the engine, doing an interview with the founder and helping create current Mozdex.com design. You can read our Libervis 2005 summary here.
From many of the ideas discussed on Libervis.com, other projects such as Libervis Blogs (now discontinued) and Nuxified.org were born to create what was called a "Libervis Network" characterized by the mission to promote freedom with technology and by its unique Advertising Policy).
In 2008 and 2009 significant worldview changes, departing from some of the opinions I passionately expressed before on this very site, have led my focus away from Libervis Network and to other efforts as I revised my goals as a web publisher. The results are the founding of DoublePlusHuman.com, consolidation of all of my web work under the brand of Memeverse Media and subsequent revival of Libervis.com and Nuxified.org by streamlining their purpose and making them complementary to the new big picture.
You can find my personal blog and online home at Memeverse.com.
If you are interested in content from the old Libervis.com (sections which have been discontinued in summer 2006) check out our legacy page. There you will find links to FUDZilla, a gallery of some nice images, old preserved blogs etc.
Daniel Memenode
Re: About Libervis.com
by keeling | Tue, 2010-08-03 05:04
Damn, the one poster to this page is a spammer. Sigh.
I'm glad you're all out there doin' what you do. Keep on keepin on.
by memenode | Tue, 2010-08-03 11:40
I unpublished that. Potential advertisers should use the contact form instead.
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Jackie O on the day she had to call a mental health hotline and ask for help.
Jessica Staveley
Radio presenter Jackie O opened up about her struggles with mental health on the Kyle and Jackie O Show this morning.
Discussing Bachelor presenter Osher Günsberg’s past struggles with psychosis with her co-host Kyle Sandilands, the 43-year-old brought up how she once called an emergency mental health hotline for advice during her “Gold Coast nightclubbing days”.
“I don’t know if I called the Lifeline number or a different line once,” Jackie O recalled.
Although Jackie O couldn’t remember exactly why she called, she recalled the hotline being unable to provide the advice she was looking for in that particular situation.
“I do remember them saying we can’t give you advice, we just have to listen. And I was like, ‘oh okay, I didn’t realise that’,” she explained.
Kyle chimed in, urging listeners to always call mental health hotlines, like Lifeline and beyondblue, if they are struggling to cope.
“If you are having troubles then the best thing to do is speak to someone,” he added.
A post shared by Jackie O (@jackieo_official) on May 5, 2018 at 8:39pm PDT
Earlier this month, Jackie O was forced to respond the widespread criticism after sharing the details of her diet on-air.
After sharing how she lost 10kg by skipping breakfast and having chicken and vegetables for dinner, the mum-of-one was met with prompt backlash from dietitians and nutritionists.
The radio presenter initially defender her comments on air, but soon addressed the criticism again after the backlash continued.
Speaking to the Daily Telegraph , she said “I hated the idea that people thought I was promoting the fact that people should be starving themselves to lose weight.”
“I have a daughter and that kind of message concerns me and I would never want to see her do something like that,” she added.
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Schottel, Ulstein Team on Automation
Posted by Michelle Howard July 12, 2019
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Ulstein and Schottel announced that they will start cooperating to take the next step in automation and digitalization within marine operations. The former Ulstein subsidiary, Ulstein Blue CTRL, will continue as an independent company under the name Blue CTRL. Both Ulstein and Schottel will own 50 percent of the shares in the company.
X-CONNECT is a universal digital platform for marine automation, control and monitoring. All functionality in the system is predefined and configurable supporting the work philosophy; configure, plug and play. Besides systems for newbuilding projects the new cooperation will also offer systems suitable for vessel upgrades.
Traditionally Schottel is already present on the vessel’s bridge with propulsion control systems. Propulsion controls together with the recent development of further assistance and positioning systems have always been a strategic focus for Schottel.
The X-CONNECT platform is the backbone for a range of products; Alarm and Monitoring System, Integrated Automation System (IAS), Energy Management, Power Management System and the BLUE BOX.
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Go big or go home: Davis gives her all
Wisconsin Rapids woman brings passion, enthusiasm to everything she does
Go big or go home: Davis gives her all Wisconsin Rapids woman brings passion, enthusiasm to everything she does Check out this story on marshfieldnewsherald.com: http://mnhne.ws/1jvs0ZR
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To meet Carol Davis is to meet a bundle of non-ending energy, someone always willing to lend a hand or try something new.
The married mom of three sons will celebrate her 10-year anniversary with Incourage Community Foundation in April. Prior to joining the Incourage team, Davis, 50, worked at Consolidated — Stora Enso for 13 years.
“And enjoyed it thoroughly,” said Davis, who lives with her husband Tom in Grand Rapids.
The couple — Assumption High School grads and sweethearts — moved around a bit after marrying, thanks to Tom’s military gigs. They spent time in Germany, Kentucky, and Texas, but ultimately, all roads led to home.
“You get out and see the world, and you see that Rapids is actually a wonderful place to live,” Davis said.
Carol Davis poses with her bass drum in the Incourage Community Foundation's studio in Wisconsin Rapids. (Photo: Megan McCormick/Daily Tribune Media)
A wonderful place to live with great opportunities to give back to the community, which is exactly what Davis thrives on. With Davis and her husband both employed at the paper mill, they thought it best to not have all their “eggs in one basket,” Davis said.
So, when Kelly Ryan, Incourage Community Foundation CEO chatted with Davis about an opportunity at the nonprofit, Davis was all ears.
“To be able to be such a part of the community — and do that everyday — it’s a dream job,” Davis said. “that’s what I tell people: It’s my dream job.
“I like seeing that what you do makes a difference,” Davis said.
And it’s not just talk for Davis. Whatever she does, she does with heart, soul and enthusiasm.
“I’m not a CEO, I’m not a high-level manager, but if I’m doing something, I do it with great love,” Davis said.
That might include making cotton candy for community fundraisers, entertaining nursing home residents with polkas (Davis on drums, Tom on accordion), or just connecting with residents. In September, Davis showed off her dance skills and personality when she was part of the womens troupe dance for Locals on Stage, a fundraiser for Opportunity Development Centers.
Davis is adamant people use the gifts they are given.
“I have certain gifts that I am given, and it is my responsibility to use these gifts to make a difference,” Davis said.■
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Get the most out of working with an executive coach
Get the most out of working with an executive coach. Learn how to drive your development and challenge your coach—and yourself—as you work to become a more effective leader.
- Many years ago, the singer Ruth Casey said, it only takes one person to change your life, you. Well, that's fundamentally true, but there's more. In professional life, if you're willing and able to change, you can change faster, more effectively, more sustainably, more visibly to your stakeholders, and more enjoyably too, by working with an executive coach. I'm John Ullmen. As an executive coach over the past two decades, I've coached hundreds of leaders in dozens of organizations, across industries, around the world.
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If you're motivated to change the way you lead, executive coaches can help you accelerate your growth, guiding you as you make smart changes that stick. In this course, UCLA professor and executive coach John Ullmen, PhD provides key steps that can help you get the most out of working with an executive coach. John shares insights gleaned from social science—as well as inspiring leaders he's worked with over the years—as he shares how to drive your development, challenge your coach, and challenge yourself. Learn how to correctly set development priorities, choose a coach that's a good fit for your particular situation and preferences, drive for lasting change, and more.
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Merritt Properties plans new office tower near the Canton waterfront
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By Meredith Cohn The Baltimore Sun
Baltimore developer Merritt Properties plans to build a 20-story office tower in Canton that will continue the transformation of the area’s industrial waterfront.
Merritt and its architects showed preliminary plans Thursday for what would be a $70 million building fronting Boston Street, the thoroughfare that parallels the Inner Harbor, to the city’s Urban Design and Architectural Review Panel. It would be built on a parking lot between the street and the Canton Merritt Club fitness center.
Merritt has announced no tenants for the new building but hopes to begin construction this year and finish in 2021, said Gary Swatko, Merritt’s director of development and construction, who was among those representing the developer.
The structure will stack many floors of offices on top of multiple levels of parking and first-floor retail stores, according to renderings developed by Hord Coplan Macht architects.
The development will abut the Shops at Canton Crossing shopping center anchored by a Target, a Harris Teeter grocery store and, soon, a Nordstrom Rack. On the other side stands the 17-story CareFirst office building developed more than a decade ago by a 1st Mariner Bank executive who saw commercial potential along the working waterfront.
But that tower remains largely surrounded by parking lots and low-lying buildings. The Columbia-based real estate investment trust Corporate Office Properties Trust bought a harborfront parking lot just east of the CareFirst building in 2014 and proposed a large office project with four buildings, shops and restaurants, but not much has happened there since.
COPT could not say when the project might begin because it is seeking tenants before committing to construction.
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If Crack Babies Are a Myth, Why Are We Still Falling For It?
By Dani McClain
Last month, national media elevated the case of Nina Buckhalter. The Mississippi woman has been charged with manslaughter for the stillbirth of a child authorities say was exposed to methamphetamines while in the womb. Prosecutors there are using Buckhalter to test whether they can contort the state’s laws as their neighbors in Alabama have done. The case is the latest to reveal how statutes put in place to protect children from being raised in meth labs or pregnant women from their abusers are being used instead to advance the idea that a fertilized egg is a person whose rights outweigh those of the woman carrying it.
Buckhalter lost a child she had planned to parent and faces prison if the state Supreme Court upholds the charge and forces her to stand trial. Her lawyers say she has kicked her meth habit and is piecing together a future despite becoming the latest target of a strategy that marries the war on drugs with the war on women’s bodies. Nothing conjures public judgment and disgust like the thought of a woman prioritizing her addiction over the safety of her pregnancy. But, as an amicus brief submitted on behalf of the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and other public health groups makes clear, science doesn’t support the prosecution’s argument that Buckhalter’s use of meth caused the stillbirth. It doesn’t support the prosecutors who are going after fellow Mississippian Rennie Gibbs or who succeeded in convicting Alabamians Amanda Kimbrough and Hope Ankrom either.
There’s rarely been room for rigorous research or scientific fact in conversations about drug-using pregnant women. Three days before Buckhalter’s case hit national headlines, the New York Times released a mini-documentary titled “Revisiting the ‘crack babies’ epidemic that was not.” The video echoes the findings of an article the outlet published four years ago and holds 1980s news media responsible for validating and disseminating predictions that infants born to women who used crack were hard-wired for abnormality. Too few questions were asked about the details of what turned out to be shoddy research. The researcher who got the ball rolling on the crack baby narrative drew his conclusions from a study of just 23 infants.
From these two dozen babies grew the story that others like them would develop into children destined to disrupt classrooms and overwhelm social services, “a potential human plague almost too horrible to imagine,” as one Washington Post columnist put it. The crack baby was judged and feared alongside its mother. Today’s drug-exposed fetus, on the other hand, is a blameless victim, an innocent on whose behalf the state must seek justice.
Prosecutors in these recent cases may want today’s journalists to do what too many did 30 years ago: Let their instinct to condemn override their professional skepticism. But really those who'd like to make an example of these women by putting them behind bars are less dependent on how news media frame specific cases. Unlike the drug warriors and faux science-spreading Cassandras of the ‘80s, today’s prosecutions have the wind of a vibrant, states-focused anti-choice movement at their back. In Mississippi in particular, jurors, judges, and observers have heard debates around the failed personhood amendment and new regulations on abortion clinics. They have a context for understanding prosecutors’ arguments that a fetus has more rights than the woman carrying it. What may have once seemed a far-fetched notion has been mainstreamed as a legitimate perspective.
It's a tall order to make the science compelling and clear enough to compete with simple story lines about depraved and selfish women whose moral failings keep them from prioritizing their pregnancies over their addictions. Thirty years ago, race-based assumptions were the primary obstacles to truth telling. Today, anti-choice rhetoric has paved the way for myth-making.
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What Bob Filner and Ariel Castro Have in Common
By Vicky Plestis
Last Thursday, a straight-faced Ariel Castro told his judge: “I am not a monster. I’m a normal person. I’m sick.”
Many, I venture, would disagree. Castro, with 937 counts and a life sentence now against him, has pleaded guilty to holding three women — Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight — for over 10 years against their will in his carefully crafted house of horrors: boarded windows, rusted chains, alarm trips. But as the world watched Castro explain himself Thursday, stunned by his self-assurance if not by his actions, his words shockingly evoked the distant echo of another man: of all people, San Diego Mayor Bob Filner.
Filner is neither a kidnapper nor a rapist — far, far, far from either. But this month he too is reckoning with charges of his own: a whirl of sexual harassment claims from now over 10 women, one of whom is a former military rape survivor. The allegations range from goading employees to work without panties on to forcing himself onto women in what is now the infamous “Filner headlock.”
Undeniably, the character, form, and magnitude of abuse from these two men are starkly different. Castro has created one of the most visceral horror stories to rock our country in recent years. By comparison, Filner is embroiled in what, at least these days, seems like political routine.
But their justifications ex post facto strike a remarkably similar undertone. Just as Ariel Castro hid behind claims of sickness and addiction when confronted with his past actions, so too is Bob Filner now, at least implicitly. On Monday, amidst fervent calls for him to resign, Filner instead checked in for two weeks of “intensive therapy” at an unnamed behavioral counseling clinic. The only assumption we are left to draw is that in two weeks’ time Bob Filner will magically emerge a cured man from whatever illness or condition is conveniently responsible for sexual harassment.
To the farsighted, however, this story does not end with Filner either. His statement is in fact another echo of other men. As psychologist Dr. David J Ley wrote last year, “Sex addiction is the psychological disorder du jour.” It has percolated through the celebrity world, a trademark playbook now for powerful people confronting marital infidelity — Tiger Woods most obviously among them.
I do not deny the possibility of sex addiction, and I do not want to discount the weightiness of mental illness either, which is very much real and can be very much debilitating. But when either is appropriated as a cop-out for sexist behavior, for violence, or for sexual abuse, it is dangerous. It shifts the subject of focus from the person to the disease. It absolves the culprit of any responsibility — veils them, in fact, as a victim. And in the worst blow, it makes their actions more palatable to the American imagination.
When Castro justifies torturing three women for 10 years by declaring himself a porn addict, we are floored. We know he is not sick, he is a monster. But when Filner justifies his own actions with a similar excuse we are only disgusted, and when Woods says it we are bemused.
The truth, however, is that while neither Filner nor Woods are monsters in the sense that Castro is, social discourse works like nesting dolls: The logic Woods lays down a month ago becomes the center for Filner’s logic two weeks later, which becomes the center for Castro’s logic today. They support each other and form the infrastructure that allows people to validate — or at least explain away — actions that should under no circumstance be tolerated.
And so it is not enough to be outraged by Castro. It is not enough that Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight finally found their much-deserved justice. Complete justice would be finding a new way of thinking. The problem, then, is much, much deeper than Ariel Castro, and the deeper we dig, the more subtle it becomes — and the harder it will be for us to find it. But undeniably it is there, and if we listen to the echoes, eventually it cannot hide.
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At the upcoming Budget Teach-In, we'll review what's on the mayor's proposed budget and will prepare for the evening budget hearing. Click Here to RSVP
The Community Budget Alliance (CBA) is a coalition of community residents, faith leaders, policy advocates and working families coming together to ensure that the San Diego city budget reflects the needs of all San Diegans. As part of the CBA, Mid-City CAN advocates for funding and policy changes that will have a major impact on the quality of life of the most negatively impacted individuals, families, and communities.
Mid-City CAN commends Mayor Faulconer for his proposed budget which allocates funding for the creation of a new sustainability department to implement the Climate Action Plan, for designating $18 million towards the Vision Zero mission of making streets safe for pedestrians, and for not cutting funding to services like parks and recreation and libraries. We also call on the mayor to fund infrastructure that makes the busiest and most dangerous intersections in District 9 safer.
The City of San Diego’s 2014 Citywide Pedestrian Collision Analysis found that people in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods are 10 times more likely to be hit by cars while walking than people in other neighborhoods. Improving lighting, sidewalks, crossings, and bike lanes increases active transportation safety.
Mid-City CAN and our CBA partners are working hand in hand with residents from various communities to host a series of educational Budget workshops and we're currently meeting with councilmembers to ensure they listen to our communities' needs. Councilmembers have the opportunity to review the mayor's budget in May and advocate for CBA priorities before Mayor Faulconer presents his final budget for a vote by the council in June.
We met with the new chief of police, Chief Nisleit, who supports our ask for $300 thousand for Restorative Justice training for SDPD, in particular, for officers serving the mid-city region. We urge our councilmembers and Mayor Faulconer to listen to law enforcement partners that are part of the Restorative Community Conferencing Steering Committee and youth to fund training for SDPD to more effectively work to keep youth out of jail through our restorative community conferencing program.
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Office 365 Goes Down for Third Summer in a Row
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Cyberattack Protection For Small Businesses
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Is this the reincarnation of Jesus? Meet the former traffic policeman turned cult leader being worshipped by Russians
Sergey Anatolyevitch Toro is a 56-year-old former Red Army soldier now styles himself as Vissarion - a reincarnated Jesus Christ
Steve MyallDeputy Features Editor
It's an unlikely turn of events to say the least.
Jesus Christ returned to the earth after reincarnation to work first as a soldier in the Red Army and then as a traffic policeman before revealing his true self.
Thousands of Russians think it's true and worship 56-year-old Sergey Anatolyevitch Toro, who calls himself Vissarion and lives with his two wives.
He teaches reincarnation, vegetarianism, and apocalypse.
His worshippers include the residents of a network of villages in Kuraginsk, in southern Siberia. His followers observe strict rules and are vegetarians. They are allowed no vices such as smoking or drinking alcohol and money is banned.
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'Russian soldiers' captured by ISIS seen battered, bruised and handcuffed after being held in Syria
The aim of the group is to unite all religions on Earth.
Vissarion has managed to attract some five thousand followers to the network of villages that make up his Siberian utopia.
Many of these followers abandoned successful careers to follow the man they call ‘the teacher’, and village schools are now raising a new generation of Vissarionites.
Vissarion came to prominence in 1990 after the fall of the Soviet Union and established a community in Tiberkul, which has been likened to a cult.
He apparently has two wives, and six children from two marriages. After he rejected his first wife he married a 19-year-old woman, who had lived with him since the age of seven.
Among his teachings are a prediction that a great flood is coming and he promises salvation and spiritual perfection to his followers.
He features in the BBC documentary Russia with Simon Reeve where Simon interviews him and talks to a school teacher in a village where the followers of Vissarion live.
The teacher told Simon: "We have a school of noble maidens here. We’re preparing girls to become future wives, future brides for worthy men. She has to understand not to rise above the man, not to be proud of her independence but to be shy, inconspicuous and weak."
Simon responded: "Scary stuff. I genuinely felt like I should be calling social services. They’re teaching Vissarion’s ten volume sequel to the bible."
Simon interviewed a cult leader in Russia (Image: 3)
Simon Reeve has been travelling around Russia (Image: 2)
This is Vissarion interview with Simon in full.
Simon: Can I ask who you are? Are you a teacher, a guru, the son of God? Are you a reincarnation of Jesus?
Vissarion: This isn’t an interesting question and it’s better not to answer. The tree isn’t judged by its looks but by its fruit.
Simon: You emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and that was a very difficult time I think for many Russians.
Vissarion: This was a significant moment and the most appropriate time in the universe for me to emerge.
Simon: Are Russians uniquely open to different beliefs and new ways of thinking?
Vissarion: Yes, that was clearly seen, very clearly. People were grabbing everything that came with spirituality.
Simon: You lived among us for a number of years; you did normal jobs didn’t you?
Vissarion: I tried many things in my path.
Simon: You were a traffic policeman I think, is that right? And did that help you to understand who we are?
Vissarion: I got into different professions because my friends asked me to.
Simon: Critics have accused you of brainwashing and embezzling your followers. What do you say to the critics?
Vissarion: Sad, what else can I feel? This is unavoidable. I’ll put down the basis that will change all humanity.
Simon (voiceover): Before he can change all of humanity, Vissarion asks his followers to donate money and provide labour for his profit making businesses. Not surprisingly, there’s one or two accusations he’s exploiting his disciples.
Russia with Simon Reeve is on BBC Two on Thursday evening.
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Home MMO News Nexon Announces New MMO With Aerial Combat: Riders of Icarus
Nexon Announces New MMO With Aerial Combat: Riders of Icarus
Nexon and WeMade Entertainment are adding a new game to their free-to-play lineup. Riders of Icarus is a new MMORPG featuring aerial combat using flying mounts.
Riders of Icarus is designed by WeMade to make aerial combat the focus of the game while allowing players to collect a wide variety of flying mounts. WeMade Producer Seok Hoon stated in a press release that the company wants “to bring an all-new element to MMORPGs: aerial combat.” He goes on to say:
“There are many games with dragons and other flying mounts, but they hardly ever impact battles in a meaningful and entertaining way. In Riders of Icarus, mounts truly add another level of challenge and excitement, delivering expansive vertical gameplay in addition to action-oriented ground mount combat.”
Mounts include, but are definitely not limited to, dragons, pegasi, owls, bears, and more.
Those interested in checking the game out can sign up for a local server beta test (North America and Mexico) — which will run from Thursday, Jan 28 to Tuesday, Feb 2. A larger closed beta test for North America, Mexico, Europe, and Australia/New Zealand will be announced at a later time.
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anip January 27, 2016 at 6:41 pm
I been trying to do the Beta Sign Up, but I keep on getting a weird Captcha error.
I have ADblock disabled, all script is allowed, and it still gives me error…
It says “Unknow error occured”
And if I click NEXT
It says “Captcha failed. Reload”
Then I Reload and do the “I’m not a robot” again…
And same things happen… it’s a never ending loop.
After a while it gives me a “Too many Request”…
Guess I won’t be playing this game.
James January 26, 2016 at 7:09 pm
Personally, I refuse to play any new games by Nexon after my experience with their games in the past.
Domingo January 26, 2016 at 4:21 pm
Can you play riders of icarus in a mac ?
Wat January 26, 2016 at 5:24 pm
Who let you on this website
Uvi January 25, 2016 at 4:42 pm
GUNS OF ICARUS?
theflyingbear January 25, 2016 at 10:50 pm
The Macho Madness January 25, 2016 at 2:30 pm
>Flying Mounts.
>Mounts include bears
I know that’s not meant to say there will be flying bears…But I want flying bears…
theflyingbear January 25, 2016 at 4:37 pm
a flying bear that would be awesome
LAMBDA471 January 26, 2016 at 4:00 am
Flying pigs will be so much better.
GetG00d January 26, 2016 at 5:25 pm
Deos that mean your mom is in this game?
GETMooreGooD January 26, 2016 at 7:39 pm
no but you sis is…
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Boston Medical Center offers Sleepio app, tracking program to employees
By Aditi Pai
Boston Medical Center has added a mobile-enabled sleep tracking program from London-based company Big Health to its benefits package, according to Beta Boston.
Since launching the program in December, Beta Boston reports more than 1,000 of Boston Medical Center’s 5,800 employees, about 17 percent of its staff, have started to use the app. Boston Medical Center currently has a one-year contract with Big Health.
Big Health’s offering, Sleepio, aims to help users fix their sleeping issues. Sleepio creates a personalized program for the user to follow. "The Prof", an online persona built into Sleepio, leads users through the program to help them learn cognitive behavioral techniques that will ideally improve their sleep schedules. The system also offers various tools including a daily schedule, relaxation music, email reminders, an in-depth sleep test, a progress tracker, and integration with a number of activity tracking devices including Jawbone and Fitbit.
"Sleep is something that affects pretty much every aspect of our mental and physical wellbeing," cofounder Peter Hames told MobiHealthNews in April 2014 when Big Health raised $3.3 million. "We have decades of evidence about these non-drug interventions to help overcome it, yet almost nobody can access anything but pills and self-help materials.”
While Boston Medical Center covers the cost of the program for its employees, anyone is able to purchase the sleep app and its companion program for an ongoing subscription fee. Sleepio’s weekly plan costs $9.99 for the week-to-week option. The company also offers a 12-week course that costs $6.66 per week and a one-year plan that costs $4.80 per week.
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Maxwell Health raises $22M to scale its employee benefits offering
By Aditi Pai March 21, 2016
Boston, Massachusetts-based employee benefits navigator company Maxwell Health raised $22 million from GIS Strategic Ventures, Sun Life Financial, and Cendana Capital as well as existing investors Adams Street Partners, Cambia Health Solutions, Catalyst Health Ventures, Industry Ventures, and more. This brings the company's total funding to at least $56.4 million. The company raised its last...
Keas launches Health Hub to move into health benefits management
By Jonah Comstock March 18, 2015
Corporate wellness platform Keas has launched a new product for self-insured employers, called Health Hub. It aims to be a comprehensive health benefits management platform that incorporates Keas's existing employee wellness offering as well as health management and reporting, disease management programs, smoking cessation programs, gym memberships, cost transparency tools, and more. "The irony...
Maxwell Health raises $26.4M for employee benefits platform
By Aditi Pai December 8, 2014
Boston, Massachusetts-based employee benefits platform company Maxwell Health raised $26.4 million in a round led by Adams Street Partners with participation from Cambia Health Solutions, Schooner Capital, Brothers Brook, and Annox Capital. Existing investors Vaizra Investments, Tribeca Venture Partners, Catalyst Health Ventures, Serious Change, and Lerer Hippeau Ventures also contributed. This...
Maxwell nets $6M for mobile benefits management
By Jonah Comstock December 18, 2013
Maxwell Health, a web- and mobile-based "employee benefits operating system" has raised $6 million, bringing its total first round funding to $8 million. The round was led by existing investor Vaizra Investments, with contributions from new investor Catalyst Ventures and other previous investors Tribeca Venture Partners, Serious Change, Lerer Ventures, and BoxGroup, as well as undisclosed angels...
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Samsung, 3M test Spotify's podcast audience targeting
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Samsung and 3M are the first brands to test out podcast listener targeting on Spotify, the streaming audio platform with 123 million users of its ad-supported service worldwide, according to an announcement shared with Mobile Marketer. Before adding podcast targeting, Spotify had segmented audiences based on their music streaming habits.
Samsung tested listener targeting to promote its Galaxy Buds wearables, while 3M sponsored the Spotify Original Podcast, Dope Labs, per the announcement. Podcast listener targeting is available in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Australia, The Drum reported.
Brands can reach users who listen to specific podcast categories, including comedy, lifestyle and health and business and technology. The streaming audio company's podcast consumption hours surged 250% in 2018, with 49% of its millennial audience listening at least once a week, per the announcement.
Spotify's podcast listener targeting feature comes as the streaming-audio company seeks to lure more advertisers, like Samsung and 3M, to its burgeoning podcast platform and to make spoken-word content easier to find. The company last week reformatted its app to separate podcasts from music tracks in the audio libraries of premium subscribers to improve discoverability, The Verge reported. Podcasting is a key part of Spotify's goal to become the world's biggest audio platform, according to researcher WARC, and the company is expanding its library of original content to appeal to a growing audience.
Spotify has been actively expanding its podcast and advertising options. The company this month partnered with Higher Ground, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company, to produce exclusive podcasts, per an announcement. The company also has invested in original podcast content with its in-house Spotify Studios unit. Its recent acquisitions of Gimlet Media, Anchor and Parcast give the company more expertise to support its ad business. Spotify also has experimented with new audio ad formats, as seen in its collaboration with Unilever on voice-powered ads.
These efforts come as podcast ad spend increases overall. U.S. spending on podcast ads jumped 53% in 2018, according to a study by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. U.S. podcast advertising will rise to $678.7 million this year and reach more than $1 billion by 2021, the report forecast. While Spotify mostly depends on subscription revenue from the 100 million users of its ad-free service, its ad revenue rose 24% in Q1 compared to Q1 2018, as the platform expanded ad inserts.
As the market expands, brands are experimenting with podcasting in a various ways, including sponsorships of originally produced episodic shows. In February, BMW collaborated with The New York Times' branded content studio to create a six-episode podcast for foodies. Sporting goods retailer Intersport also partnered with Nike on an educational, training-focused podcast about long-distance running. Brands also are creating their own shows that are relatively low-cost and give them full creative control over how to engage with audiences through audio. Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey, Giant Food and Sephora are among the brands that have created their own podcasts to reach target audiences with exclusive content.
Spotify's targeted audience podcasting can differentiate its service from rivals like Apple Music, Amazon Prime Music, Pandora and YouTube Music in a competitive market. Half of all podcast listeners tune into Google's YouTube, according to WARC, and both Spotify and Apple compete to hold roughly one-quarter of podcast listeners. Apple Music reportedly had overtaken Spotify in U.S. subscribers by last year. That growth has fueled greater friction between the companies. Spotify this year filed an antitrust complaint against Apple in the European Union, leading regulators to formally open an investigation last month. Spotify claimed Apple had abused its App Store dominance to favor its own Apple Music service, per the Financial Times.
The Drum Spotify now lets advertisers target podcast listeners
Yahoo Spotify separates music and podcasts with 'Your Library' update
Mobile Marketer US podcast ad spend surged 53% in 2018, IAB and PwC find
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EYE-SYNC Concussion Assessment System May Become Standard of Care
Medgadget Editors Neurology, Sports Medicine
Traumatic concussions can produce a variety of symptoms, but there’s no way to objectively diagnose their impact, particularly mild cases. SyncThink is a Silicon Valley company that has developed a technology that may become a standard way of care to diagnose concussions.
The FDA has granted Breakthrough Device Designation to the company’s EYE-SYNC system, which uses a pair of virtual reality goggles outfitted with eye trackers to assess whether an individual is experiencing a concussion. It has been known that seriously concussed individuals experience difficulty tracking objects in their field of view. This is relatively easy to tell in acute cases, but when less apparent, unusual eye movements are very difficult to gauge with the naked eye.
The EYE-SYNC system involves the user following the movements of a spot moving around a circle. The system tracks how the eyes perform the task and provides an easy to read chart of the eye activity. We tried this for ourselves a few years ago while learning more from Dr. Jamshid Ghajar, one of the inventors of the system.
Three years ago, EYE-SYNC was given clearance by the FDA for “recording, viewing, and analyzing eye movements in support of identifying visual tracking impairment in human subjects,” but the new designation may lead to a true diagnostic product that is considered objective by neurologists.
Flashback: How Stanford Uses Eye-Tracking Virtual Reality Headset to Detect Concussions in Athletes…; EYE-SYNC Virtual Reality Eye Tracker to Assess Concussions Gets U.S. Clearance…; Training Athletes’ Dynamic Vision with System Originally Designed to Detect Brain Injuries…
Product page: EYE-SYNC…
Via: SyncThink…
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