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Analysis: Bank Sues Insurer for Fraud Coverage, Wins
Experts Size Up the Impact of Appellate Court Decision on Other Cases Tracy Kitten (FraudBlogger) • June 6, 2016
A federal appellate court ruling in favor of a Minnesota bank that sued its insurer for coverage of costs associated with a fraudulent wire transfer, is significant. But it may not have a substantial impact on other bank cases, financial fraud experts say.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recently upheld a Minnesota district court's ruling that fraud losses suffered by the State Bank of Bellingham should be covered by the bank's insurance provider, BancInsure, an Oklahoma-based company that in November 2013 changed its name to Red Rock Insurance Co. The district court awarded State Bank $620,187, plus attorney's fees.
BancInsure appealed the ruling, arguing that Minnesota law governing insurance contracts do not apply to financial institution bonds. But the appellate court disagreed.
The lawsuit was filed in the aftermath of an October 2011 incident in which a computer the bank used to conduct wire transfers through the Federal Reserve's FedLine Advantage Plus system was infected with malware, according to court records. The computer was infected after one of the bank's five employees neglected to remove two physical tokens from the PC used after conducting a legitimate wire transfer, court filings state.
"It's very significant and is right on the mark," says financial fraud expert Avivah Litan, a Gartner analyst. "Hackers can usually find a way into an enterprise, and insurers shouldn't insure if they aren't prepared to deal with that fact. ... So yes, this decision is a win, but not a big win, because I expect insurance companies to continue challenging this type of ruling in future cases."
Litan predicts insurance companies will increasingly include cyberattack coverage exclusions in their policies for banks. "It's a little ... like homeowners' insurance. There are so many exclusions that most occurrences of damage to a house, short of a catastrophic fire, are not covered. And if consumers do file claims, their rates go up while they get little insurance coverage in return."
Other fraud experts predict the Minnesota case won't have much of an impact on other legal disputes between banks and insurers because it focused primarily on one state's laws.
Court Rules Cyberheist Covered by Policy
In the Bellingham case, the tokens were left in the PC overnight, the court records show. When the employee returned the next day, she saw that two unauthorized wire transfers had successfully been sent to two different banks in Poland; the bank was only able to reverse one of the unauthorized wires after contacting the Fed. The other wire, totaling $485,000, could not be reversed, court records show.
"In order to complete a wire transfer via FedLine, two Bellingham employees had to enter their individual user names, insert individual physical tokens into the computer, and type in individual passwords and passphrases," according to court records.
In 2010, State Bank purchased a financial institution bond from BancInsure. The bond, a type of insurance, provided coverage for losses, such as those caused by an employee's dishonesty and forgery, as well as computer-system fraud.
State Bank sued BancInsure when BancInsure denied the bank's claim, saying BancInsure breached its contract. The bank's coverage was not sold as cyber insurance.
BancInsure said it denied the bank's claim, according to court records, because the bank's fraud loss resulted from an employee's mistake, and not because of the theft of confidential information, mechanical breakdowns or the deterioration of computer systems.
But the district court agreed with the bank that the fraud loss should be covered by bond, noting that "the computer system's fraud was the efficient and proximate cause of [Bellingham's] loss," and ultimately resulted because hackers broke in, not because an employee approved a fraudulent wire or maliciously scheduled one.
"Neither the employees' violations of policies and practices (no matter how numerous), the taking of confidential passwords, nor the failure to update the computer's anti-virus software was the efficient and proximate cause of [Bellingham's] loss," the district court found.
The insurer appealed the decision, but the appellate court upheld the lower court's ruling. "We find that Minnesota courts would adhere to the general rule of treating financial institution bonds as insurance policies and interpreting those bonds in accordance with the principles of insurance law," the appellate court notes in its ruling. "We agree with the district court's conclusion that 'the efficient and proximate cause' of the loss in this situation was the illegal transfer of the money and not the employees' violations of policies and procedures."
Neither BancInsure nor State Bank replied to Information Security Media Group's request for comment.
Ruling's Impact Likely To Be Limited
Cybersecurity attorney Chris Pierson, CISO and general counsel at invoicing and payments provider Viewpost, questions whether the ruling will have much of an impact on other cases because of its focus on Minnesota law.
"Since this determination is based on the specific language of the policy and state law, it is not a broad brush to all insurance cases," he says. "The court's perspective that failing to remove a dual-factor and tokenized authentication medium is not 'a reasonably foreseeable event likely to cause the exploitation of an illegal money transfer' is hard to swallow. A lot more remains to be seen of this case."
Attorney Stan Orszula, a partner at the law firm Barack Ferrazzano Financial Institutions Group, notes that insurance companies closely watch case law and adjust their contracts after rulings like this one to ensure they don't have to cover big payouts for losses going forward.
"This type of incident could happen to anybody - an employee leaving a token behind or in a computer - so the insurance companies will adjust what they cover," he predicts.
But the court recognized that the fraud loss was tied to a malware infection, Orzsula says. "This loss would not have happened were it not for the criminal. You obviously have to be diligent about your security; but there are limits, and no one can be expected to cover every attack."
Looking ahead, Orzsula predicts insurers sued by banks in similar cases might ask courts to use the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council's Cybersecurity Assessment Tool to help determine if a bank took reasonable security precautions to prevent fraud (see Gartner's Litan: FFIEC Assessment Tool Falls Short).
"Could that tool be used in litigation to prove whether a bank had reasonable security in place?" Orszula asks. "Could insurance companies use it to ask, 'How was your cybersecurity at the time of the attack? Did you assess your security properly? Did you take certain steps to mitigate risks?'"
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A veteran journalist with more than 20 years' experience, Kitten has covered the financial sector for the last 13 years. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2010, where she now serves as director of global events content and executive editor of BankInfoSecurity and CUInfoSecurity, she covered the financial self-service industry as the senior editor of ATMmarketplace, part of Networld Media. Kitten has been a regular speaker at domestic and international conferences, and was the keynote at ATMIA's U.S. and Canadian conferences in 2009. She has been quoted by CNN.com, ABC News, Bankrate.com and MSN Money.
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How to Protect Sensitive Financial Data from Ransomware with Next-Gen Cloud Infrastructure
It’s been one year since Equifax and has anything changed?
Written by Josh Pasqualini, Account Development Representative NanoVMs
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If you’re in the financial sector chances are your answer to this question is a resounding “No.”
You see, many of the attacks from the past few years, including those against companies like Equifax, Target, Anthem Health, Under Armour, to name a few, stem from vulnerabilities deep within the Linux operating system. Invented back in 1991, Linux is the operating system that runs the lion's share of the world's cloud servers and cyber-attackers have had decades to school up on what are known as "remote code execution exploits" to wreak havoc.
Remote code execution exploits allow bad actors to tap into what is effectively the central nervous system of a company's cloud infrastructure (which all run on VM technology), execute remote code (read: malware) and then steal or encrypt a company's data, including but not limited to customer addresses, phone numbers, credit card details and perhaps even footsteps, as might be the case with a company such as Uber.
Assuming you're familiar with software container solutions such as Kubernetes, you understand that while these fast, lightweight systems are touted by many as the next major step for cloud infrastructure, they fall far short of delivering the security required to prevent the next major breach. The need for speed and media attention driving their popularity has only led to a false sense of security that I fear may only exacerbate existing systemic vulnerabilities. Recent Kubernetes data breaches at Tesla and Weight Watchers are just two examples of this.
The Problem with Existing Cloud Infrastructure? Linux.
Whereas the majority of tools today focus on endpoint security (phishing, intrusion detection and mobile device management), companies must recognize a need for more modern server-side operating system architecture than Linux if they truly wish to secure their data and deploy agile systems at the same time.
How do we do this? I believe the answer lies within the benefits of a little-known and often misunderstood technology called the “unikernel.”
Widely considered to be the next generation of cloud infrastructure, a unikernel is an application that has been boiled down to a small, secure, light-weight virtual machine. Typically weighing in at ~30mb in size, unikernels rely on a single-process system, feature no operating system, no users and no shell, rendering ransomware, remote code executions and ‘in memory’ attacks effectively useless.
Explore A Single-process System
Linux and Windows are both multiple process systems that were designed decades ago and could not envision the cloud environment we live and work in today.
Unikernels, on the other hand, are single process systems. They only build the necessary functions from the OS in at the time of compilation, rather than during startup. In terms of infrastructure performance and security, this means that not only do unikernels empower servers to run 20-30% faster, they also can not run code that was not intended to run.
Remove User Access
Enterprise organizations are only as strong as their weakest link. In the case of financial institutions, and enterprises alike, these weaknesses arrive in the form of millions of admins, clients, executives and partners engaging with vast amounts of potentially sensitive data from many parts of the world. Traditional operating systems like Linux and Windows provide user logins that make it possible for these transactions to happen, enabling would-be bad actors to find vulnerabilities, break into insecure system frameworks and carry out malicious attacks.
A unikernel, on the other hand, offer no user login. This simple design change prevents hackers from logging in and executing arbitrary code into a server operating system, eliminating many of the vulnerabilities that come along with user access.
Scrap the Shell
In simple terms, shells are the program that allow ad-hoc commands from a user to an operating system. One needs to look no further than the data breaches mentioned previously to recognize that the shell is an antiquated concept that only lends its’ hands towards those who want to do your company harm.
Unikernels minimize the size of an application to a fraction of it’s usual surface, denying bad actors of the very tools they’ve been using to deploy ransomware in the first place.
A Reduced Attack Surface
A Linux system that has hundreds of millions of lines of code with drivers for everything from USB drives to audio drivers to libraries such as libxslt that have FTP servers embedded in them.
Unlike Linux, unikernels use a fraction of the code of the operating system, relying on only the most critical elements to the processes required by the application. As a result, unikernels are able to provide a greatly reduced attack surface that significantly limits the amount of code that can be exploited.
Ultimately, if financial institutions hope to avoid another Equifax we need to strip cyber-attackers of the very tools they’re using to infiltrate our cloud infrastructure. By adopting unikernel cloud infrastructure, financial institutions have an opportunity to better protect their sensitive data stores and prevent the next major data breach from taking place.
Josh Pasqualiniis the Account Development Representative atNanoVMs
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BASF has launched its first Palm Progress Report. The report documents the company’s roadmap for sustainable palm, its collaboration along the value chain and the progress it is making in driving physical transformation in oleoderivatives.
Natural Helpers for pest control
Nematoden as a biological pest control
Biological crop protection effectively complements the use of chemical products. Farmers use natural organisms to protect their crops from pests. BASF uses a variety of living organisms for targeted pest control, for example tiny worms, called Nematodes. These tiny worms are a remarkably diverse species, with up to 20,000 different strains described to date. Some attack crops and are pests in their own right but others have an attribute
that can be harnessed for good: they burrow their way into insects and snails and put a stop to their greedy antics. Nematodes are therefore used alongside useful bacteria,
viruses, insects and plant extracts for biological pest control. The basic idea: Harmless organisms kill or displace crop pests such as locusts, harmful insects, bacteria, molds and slugs that cause diseases and threaten harvests. Although these natural helpers can never fully replace chemical agents, biological pest control provides effective support. Vegetable and fruit farmers particularly appreciate their effects shortly before harvesting, as they protect the crops and fruits without leaving any chemical residues behind.
"Biological pesticides are effective in combating low to mode-rate levels of infestation," said Burghard Liebmann, group leader biological crop protection at BASF research. "In most cases, however, the level of infestation and pest exposure is so high that a combination of chemical and biological agents is necessary to provide effective control." Precisely therein lies BASF's strength: "With our very broad product spectrum, we can offer an individual and flexible solution tailored to meet the particular problem and local conditions. This is also a very important consideration in counteracting and preventing insect pests and plant pathogenic fungi from becoming resistant to certain chemical crop protection agents," Liebmann pointed out.
BASF is a world leader in biological pest control. In April 2016, the company launched a brand new research and development center for biological crop protection and seed solutions at the headquarter of the Crop Protection division in Limburgerhof. near Ludwigshafen, Germany. The new center is the hub of BASF's global network of research and development sites and test centers for biological crop protection and seed solutions, with facilities in Brazil, France, China, the United States and Canada.
Targeted culturing breeds helpful organisms
BASF's portfolio already contains biological crop protection products to combat all sorts of plant pathogenic fungi, insects and slugs that cause problems in agriculture and horticulture. The process leading to the production of a biological pest control agent always begins in nature. Researchers identify and isolate natural microorganisms from soil samples or plants, and collect them in a microorganism strain library. BASF has its own strain library which houses thousands of microorganisms awaiting their potential mission. When scientists want to develop a new biological crop protection product, they will look here to find exactly the right organism for the job, for example, to fight a certain fungus or insect pest. Once it has been identified, the real work begins: Sufficient amounts of this organism need to be grown in equipment called fermenters. The creatures can be quite picky, too: "Nutrients, temperature, oxygen levels – all impact their well-being and ability to reproduce," the biologist revealed.
To ensure survival, storability and ease of use for farmers, the microorganisms are formulated and turned into a product with good performance properties. Again, specialist expertise is called for. "The microorganisms must be transformed into a kind of resting state but without letting them dry out and die. And since every organism reacts differently to environmental influences, it takes a lot of experience and know-how to develop a good product," Liebmann said. The result is a powder or liquid product that farmers dissolve in water or dilute before spraying them on crops or soil.
If slugs are the foe, Nemaslug® is a good choice – a mulluscicidal powder containing nematodes of the species Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita. When the nematodes encounter a slug, they burrow into its body through their breathing orifice. The slug loses its appetite within two days and dies in about a week.
Simple principles, originating in nature and highly effective: this is what makes biological pest control so very interesting. "We plan to explore a lot more new applications for biological crop protection in the future." One example is using beneficial nematodes to protect citrus trees. BASF is now launching Nemasys® R in Florida. Nematodes of the species Steinernema riobravae contained in the product attack beetle larvae that burrow their way into the roots of citrus trees and threaten the livelihoods of Florida's orange growers. Liebmann is confident: "We have not yet reached the end of our options in biological crop protection. Not by a long shot."
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Mixing & Mastering ITB II: Triple Shot of Classic Waves Plugins
Whether it's a hardware unit or ensconced within our DAW, things needn't be fancy to win our hearts at BB4. Our primary requirements: Have a distinct sound and/or do things brilliantly.
We’re focusing this month on a trio of classic plugins from Waves that have become weapons-of-choice for us. There’s nothing secret about anything from Waves, but it can be easy to overlook some of their more surgical tools in the midst of their many all-Star releases.
One plugin that we plug into again and again is the Waves S1 Stereo Imager. It's an oldie but a goodie, dating all the way back to 1995. But hidden away in that plain-Jane interface is something special: a spatial imaging tool that takes control of that always elusive stereo separation.
“You can use this in the mix if you want to give a certain instrument a little more depth, like horns," says BB4 Studio Manager/Engineer Kiara Mudd. "Adjusting the ‘Asymmetry’ control is terrific for mixing in more depth. The S1 is also useful for those times when you want to bring the signal closer to mono. Meanwhile, the 'Rotation' control is like a pan tool that can be automated."
Mudd doesn’t stop at using the S1 for mixing – it also gets used for mastering at BB4. “This is a perfect tool for tightening up a delay,” she explains. “The S1 can bring a signal that’s too wide closer together. You can tighten it up, but all of the auditory information is still there.”
Next we hone in on the Q10 Equalizer, which is as old as Waves itself dating back to 1993. A 10-band precision EQ, it's intended for both mixing and mastering. "This is a fairly transparent, surgical EQ," Mudd says. "I like how narrow the Q can get, to really dial in and make specific surgical cuts. We also appreciate how all of the bands can span the entire length of the frequency: That makes it really easy to sweep and hear what you don't like about a certain sound. From there you know to either boost or cut it."
Now here's a cool tip for those whose ears are open to it: The EQ10 can be perfect for a sharpening up dynamic control, adding extra flexibility for when an engineer intends to use sidechain compression.
Mudd's technique starts with applying a pair of Waves EQ10's to the source, when the situation calls for it. "To do this sidechain, duplicate the track, then set up a high pass filter on one, and the low pass filter on the other,” she says. “Then you can keep all that low frequency information, and compress it individually from the high frequency information. This way, if you want to compress those low frequencies in a different way, you have the option to do that. I’ll often use this technique for EDM and pop tracks.”
From there, the compressor that Mudd is feeding is often the famed Waves Renaissance compressor. It’s an Old Skool plugin all right, released in 1999, and it keeps on truckin’ because it still sounds great. “The Renaissance has options for the type of compression, including ‘Electro’ for electro-optical style, warm or smooth,” she says. “This compressor is part of my standard template for mixing, especially kick drum. It’s a great sidechain compressor – the way the attack and release translate onto the sound is the best that I’ve used. It imparts a very smooth character.”
Want to have your own way-to-go-Waves moment? Join us as we apply these plugins – and a whole lot more -- next time you mix or master at BB4.
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Cricket World Cup: 'England proved they are the benchmark' - Australia captain Aaron Finch
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Highlights: England reach World Cup final
England proved why they are the "benchmark" in one-day cricket in their dominant World Cup semi-final victory, says Australia captain Aaron Finch.
The hosts beat Australia by eight wickets at Edgbaston to set up Sunday's final against New Zealand at Lord's.
After winning the toss and electing to bat, Australia were bowled out for 223, with England reaching their target with 17.5 overs to spare.
"We were just totally outplayed by a very good England side," said Finch.
"They have been the benchmark in one-day cricket for a fair while now and they proved it today under pressure."
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England opening bowlers Chris Woakes (3-20) and Jofra Archer (2-32) reduced Australia to 14-3 inside the first 10 overs, including Archer removing Finch lbw with his first delivery.
Alex Carey (46) and Steve Smith (85) fought back with a stand of 103 before Adil Rashid (3-54) picked the wickets of Carey and Marcus Stoinis in the same over.
"To start the way they did under pressure with the ball was right on the money and really put us on the back foot from the start," Finch told Test Match Special.
"It didn't surprise me. When guys present the seam as well as Woakes and Archer do you expect the ball to move off the seam.
"We lost a couple early and had to rebuild for a while and just when we were building towards that 35-40 over mark we lost a couple of key wickets at the wrong time."
Megs! Smith run out through his legs
Prior to this match, 64% of the games in the tournament had been won by the side batting first but England openers Jason Roy and Jonny Bairstow ensured it was not a nervous chase with a tremendous partnership of 124 off just 104 balls.
"On a ground like this against such an aggressive side you have to take wickets," said Finch.
"We looked to do that and when you're aggressive with the ball and they're aggressive with the bat it can go one of two ways pretty quick."
Finch added he was pleased with his side's one-day resurgence, having been whitewashed 5-0 by hosts England in an ODI series last year.
"Over the last six months or so we've come a long way from where we were when people were writing us off, so I'm really proud but disappointed at the same time," he said.
BBC Test Match Special commentator Jim Maxwell
England exposed Australia's weakness in the middle order, which has been there all tournament.
Looking to the Ashes, Australia can go gung-ho with their pace attack and play Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and James Pattinson, but if they don't get it right on these grounds they will go around the park.
Australia may need to look at bowlers like Peter Siddle to hold the game up.
If Jason Roy plays in the Test series - I'm sure they'll pick him - and gets a start, look out folks! It's going to be dynamic to watch England play if it comes off like it has in the World Cup.
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PSNI Assistant Chief Constable Stephen Martin has described the dissident threat as "severe"
Police in Northern Ireland are stepping up patrols and increasing check points in a bid to counter the dissident republican threat.
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Dissidents have been blamed for a spate of recent attacks including the discovery of two partially exploded bombs at an Army reserve base in Londonderry yesterday.
Last week, police in Belfast escaped injury when a blast bomb type device was thrown at their vehicle and detonated in mid air.
Assistant Chief Constable Stephen Martin described the threat as "severe".
He said: "This is not a decision we take lightly and we will endeavour to ensure that the balance of how we police this threat is right, as well as trying to keep disruption to a minimum. However, please be assured we will always prioritise public safety.
"There is no perfect security solution to terrorism. Long term success against the small group of people intent on causing disruption and harm to the community needs a combination of policing, community and political efforts and it is vital we all play our part."
Dissident republican extremists, opposed to the peace process, have been responsible for the murders of two soldiers, a police officer and a prison guard in recent years.
A group calling itself the New IRA is also believed to have been behind a number of other vigilante-style attacks.
Security sources say the groups are small in number, have little support and are heavily infiltrated.
A number of attacks including a mortar bomb bid on Londonderry's main police station have been thwarted.
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McGuinness and Hickman team-up for 2018 Lightweight TT | 2018 Isle of Man TT
McGuinness and Hickman team-up for 2018 Bennetts Lightweight TT
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Peter Hickman, on his way to third place in the 2017 Bennetts Lightweight TT race
23-time TT winner John McGuinness is to partner Peter Hickman at KMR/IEG Kawasaki for the Bennetts Lightweight Race at the 2018 Isle of Man TT Race. Riding identical ER650cc machines Hickman and McGuinness will represent three time TT winner Ryan Farquhar, as he tries to better his team's third placed finish at last year's event.
McGuinness, who’s first TT win was aboard a two-stroke Lightweight machine back in 1999, will be making his debut in the revamped four-stroke Supertwin class. Previous factory obligations to Honda prevented him from riding in the Lightweight TT but this year the ‘Morecombe Missile’ rides for Norton, meaning the path is clear to compete once again.
A fresh-faced McGuinness after his first TT win in 1999
McGuinness said: “I’ve never had the chance to ride the Lightweight class on a Supertwin bike before, but when the opportunity came around, I knew that my first choice would be to ride one of Ryan Farquhar’s bikes. I raced against Ryan for many years and I know how driven he is to win and his machine preparation is second to none. So when he gave me the chance to join his team for the TT I didn’t need to think twice before saying yes and I am really looking forward to making my debut.”
McGuinness might not have it all his own way this year as his team-mate Hickman finished third in last year’s race. Clocking an average speed of 119.151mph mean the Burton-on-Trent rider is the sixth fastest rider of all-time at the TT on a Supertwin machine.
TT and Bennetts British Superbike ace Hickman had this to say: “I really enjoyed riding for KMR Kawasaki last year. I didn’t have much experience of riding the bike and qualifying was ruined by the weather so we went into the race on the back foot a little bit, but it is a testament to Ryan and his team that we were able to bring the bike home on the podium. Ryan has been developing the bike through the winter and with a bit more time on it I’d like to think we can stand a step or two higher up on the podium this time around.”
Joining Hickman and McGuinness in Farquhar’s stable will be Derek McGee who makes a return to the TT after a year absence and Danny Webb who finished in tenth place in the 2015 race. The Tunbridge Wells rider has ridden for KMR Kawasaki every year since making his TT debut in 2014.
Speaking about the deal, Ryan Farquhar said: “Over the years I’ve joked with John many times about riding one of my bikes but with his Honda contract it was never going to materialise. He has moved on from Honda and he sees the twin as giving him a realistic chance of getting back on the top step of the podium. For me, as a privateer running a small team, I am over the moon to have him and Peter Hickman on KMR/IEG Kawasaki’s.”
The Isle of Man TT races begin on 26th May and the racing concludes on the 8th June. For more information head to www.iomtt.com.
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Chelsea vs West Ham – Predictions Match Analysis & Football Betting Tips
Chelsea take on rivals West Ham at Stamford Bridge in the latest London derby meeting between these two clubs. Chelsea are back in the race for a top four finish after a string of good results put them within a point off Spurs in the third place. Chelsea were also able to open a two-point…
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Chelsea take on rivals West Ham at Stamford Bridge in the latest London derby meeting between these two clubs. Chelsea are back in the race for a top four finish after a string of good results put them within a point off Spurs in the third place. Chelsea were also able to open a two-point advantage over Manchester United after the midweek results. Meanwhile, West Ham remain with an outside chance of finishing in Europe with the team five points behind Wolves. Follow all our predictions, odds, football bets and betting tips below.
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Chelsea FC vs West Ham United FC – Betting Tips for the game
Chelsea were able to come up with a 3-0 success over Brighton in one of the best league performances over the last few weeks. This happens to be the second successive victory for Chelsea in the space of a few days.
West Ham’s inconsistent spell continued with the team losing 2-0 against Everton at home. This prevented the club from picking up five successive Premier League victories at home for the first time in almost 2 decades.
The reverse meeting between West Ham and Chelsea produced a goalless draw back in September when the home team frustrated Maurizio Sarri’s men with high pressing across the pitch. The last game between the two clubs at Stamford Bridge also ended in a draw but with a 1-1 score. Our betting tips and predictions would back a win for Chelsea.
Chelsea win at 1.30
Chelsea FC vs West Ham United FC – Match odds
West Ham come into the game with little to play for in the remainder of the campaign and it was displayed in the manner of the performance against Everton. The Hammers were poor in various sections of the pitch and they committed too many mistakes. Meanwhile, Chelsea appear to have put behind the difficult form of a few weeks ago. The club are playing brilliant football and players like Eden Hazard are getting back on form. Our preview would pick a win for Chelsea.
Match Prediction:
Chelsea vs West Ham draw odds: 5.50
West Ham win odds: 8.50
Chelsea FC vs West Ham United FC – Correct Score odds
The games between West Ham and Chelsea have been very tight in recent years and it is to be expected from a feisty London derby. The two teams have managed an aggregate score of 6-6 over the last six meetings in all competitions with 2-1 being a favourite score – occurring in 50% of the last six encounters. Our correct score prediction would go with a 2-1 win for Chelsea.
Chelsea 2-1 win at 8.50
Chelsea FC vs West Ham United FC – Over/Under 2.5 Goals odds
The Blues have been able to come up with a decent return of goals (10) in the last six matches. West Ham have been let down by too many individual mistakes and Chelsea have the same kind of players to exploit the channels, where West Ham were found wanting in the recent clash against Everton. Our total goals prediction would opt for a game with over 2.5 goals.
Goals odds and prediction:
Total goals over 2.5 at 1.53
Chelsea FC vs West Ham United FC – First Goalscorer odds
Eden Hazard came up with his 14th league goal of the campaign in the 3-0 win over Brighton. The Belgian international has now come up with two goals in his last four games for Chelsea. Crucially, he has been playing much better and his ability to find spaces is once again back. Even though Hazard has not scored in his last three games against West Ham, our first goalscorer prediction would back the Belgian international.
Eden Hazard at 4.33
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We are always looking to buy new billboards throughout the UK and in Stapleford NG9 3 because would like to own many geographically nationwide. We could also look at selling some existing billboards if the price was right for us because might allow us to scale our boards out to more location or to build new ones.
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Throughout England, local planning authorities in Stapleford are responsible for the day-to-day operation of the advertisement control system, and for deciding whether a particular advertisement should be permitted or not. For this purpose, the local planning authority for your area will normally be the district council, the County Council or the London borough council if you live in the Greater London area.
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Some advertisers would prefer to purchase a number of billboards countrywide to keep their message in the public eye. Do you have the capacity to do this? If not, are there other billboard advertising companies you can partner with to fulfil the wishes of the client? Keep in touch with other professionals in the field and work out agreements in the event that such a scenario occurs.
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Disney refuses grieving dad's request for Spider-Man on son's grave
Disney said the decision was to preserve the character's "innocence"
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Disney has refused a grieving dad's request to put an image of Spider-Man on his son's grave.
Ollie Jones' family gave the four-year-old a superhero-themed funeral after he died from a rare genetic disorder last year, and they wanted Spider-Man to feature on the tombstone.
However, Disney which owns the Marvel franchise has refused their wish in order to preserve the character's "innocence", reports the Independent .
Lloyd Jones wanted the Spider-Man image to remind him of his son whenever he visits his grave in Kent and was baffled by the movie giant's decision.
Ollie Jones died in December (Image: SWNS)
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He said: "I really wasn’t expecting this – it’s another massive blow. I felt sure they would allow it."
The father-of-six believes the company is trying to "dissociate its characters with death" but said it made no sense because "characters die in their films all the time."
The policy is said to have begun "with Walt Disney himself".
A representative from The Walt Disney Company’s permissions department wrote: “We extend our sincere condolences. If we played a small part in Ollie’s happiness we are honoured.
“Generations of fans have responded to our characters with the same wonder and delight that Ollie did. In fact, many believe the characters to be real.
Ollie Jones had a superhero themed funeral (Image: SWNS)
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“We have striven to preserve the same innocence and magic around our characters that brought Ollie such joy.
“For that reason, we follow a policy that began with Walt Disney himself that does not permit the use of characters on headstones, cemetery or other memorial markers or funeral urns.
“Although we cannot grant the family’s request, we would be pleased to commemorate your nephew with a hand-inked, hand-painted, personalised celluloid that recognises his love for Spider-Man, which will read: ‘For your _______ (nephew’s name), Thank you for letting us share in the magic of your life. Your friends at the Walt Disney Company.
“We feel privileged to have had him as a fan.’”
Little Ollie died in December after a two-year struggle with leukodystrophy - an illness his six-year-old sister Laillah also shares.
Disney has refused to give permission for the gravestone (Image: SWNS)
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It affects one in 40,000 people in the UK and is brought on by a genetic fault affecting the brain, spinal cord and surrounding nerves.
His funeral was led by Spider-Man and a horse drawn carriage was decorated with red and blue balloons.
Ollie's uncle, Jason Jones communicated with Disney on behalf of the family and he said they "can't move on until we have his headstone done".
"I didn't expect it to be an issue – my funeral director, who’s also my friend called me and told me they can’t do it. I thought he was joking at first.
“We understand copyright but I don’t see why Marvel would have any issues with this.”
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An online petition by Lloyd’s old school friend Michael Farrow urging Disney to change its mind has since gained more than 1600 signatures.
Maidstone building firm Gallaghers has also offered to donate the headstone if permission is granted.
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What Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists Do
Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists provide social services to assist in rehabilitation of law offenders in custody or on probation or parole.
Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists work with probationers and parolees. Workers may be assigned to fieldwork in high-crime areas or in institutions. As a result, the work can be stressful and dangerous.
How to Become a Probation Officer or Correctional Treatment Specialist
Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists usually need a bachelor’s degree. In addition, most employers require candidates to pass oral, written, and psychological exams.
The median annual wage for probation officers and correctional treatment specialists was $53,020 in May 2018.
Employment of probation officers and correctional treatment specialists is projected to grow 6 percent from 2016 to 2026, about as fast as the average for all occupations. Job openings should remain plentiful because many people leave the occupation each year.
Explore resources for employment and wages by state and area for probation officers and correctional treatment specialists.
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Correctional treatment specialists counsel law offenders and create rehabilitation plans for them to follow when they are no longer in prison.
Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists typically do the following:
Interview with probationers and parolees, their friends, and their relatives in an office or at a residence to assess progress
Evaluate probationers and parolees to determine the best course of rehabilitation
Provide probationers and parolees with resources, such as job training
Test offenders for drugs and offer substance abuse counseling
Complete prehearing investigations and testify in court regarding offender’s backgrounds
Write reports and maintain case files on offenders
The following are examples of types of probation officers and correctional treatment specialists:
Probation officers, who are sometimes referred to as community supervision officers, supervise people who have been placed on probation instead of sent to prison. They work to ensure that the probationer is not a danger to the community and to help in their rehabilitation through frequent visits with the probationer. Probation officers write reports that detail each probationer’s treatment plan and their progress since being put on probation. Most work exclusively with either adults or juveniles.
Parole officers work with people who have been released from prison and are serving parole, helping them re-enter society. Parole officers monitor post-release parolees and provide them with information on various resources, such as substance abuse counseling or job training, to aid in their rehabilitation. By doing so, the officers try to change the parolee’s behavior and thus reduce the risk of that person committing another crime and having to return to prison.
Both probation and parole officers supervise probationers and parolees through personal contact with them and their families (also known as community supervision). Probation and parole officers require regularly scheduled contact with parolees and probationers by telephone or through office visits, and they also check on them at their homes or places of work. When making home visits, probation and parole officers take into account the safety of the neighborhood in which the probationers and parolees live and any mental health considerations that may be pertinent. Probation and parole officers also oversee drug testing and electronic monitoring of those under supervision. In some states, workers perform the duties of both probation and parole officers.
Pretrial services officers investigate a pretrial defendant’s background to determine if the defendant can be safely allowed back into the community before his or her trial date. Officers must assess the risk and make a recommendation to a judge, who decides on the appropriate sentencing (in settled cases with no trial) or bond amount. When pretrial defendants are allowed back into the community, pretrial officers supervise them to make sure that they stay within the terms of their release and appear at their trials.
Correctional treatment specialists, also known as case managers or correctional counselors, advise probationers and parolees and develop rehabilitation plans for them to follow. They may evaluate inmates using questionnaires and psychological tests. They also work with inmates, parole officers, and staff of other agencies to develop parole and release plans. For example, they may plan education and training programs to improve probationers’ job skills.
Correctional treatment specialists write case reports that cover the inmate’s history and the likelihood that he or she will commit another crime. When inmates are eligible for release, the case reports are given to the appropriate parole board. The specialist may help set up counseling for the parolees and their families, find substance abuse or mental health treatment options, aid in job placement, and find housing. Correctional treatment specialists also explain the terms and conditions of the prisoner’s release and keep detailed written accounts of each parolee’s progress.
The number of cases a probation officer or correctional treatment specialist handles at one time depends on the needs of individuals under supervision and the risks associated with each individual. Higher risk probationers usually command more of an officer’s time and resources. Caseload size also varies by agency.
Improved tests for drug screening and electronic devices to monitor clients help probation officers and correctional treatment specialists supervise and counsel probationers.
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Extensive travel and paperwork can also contribute to more hours of work.
Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists held about 91,300 jobs in 2016. The largest employers of probation officers and correctional treatment specialists were as follows:
State government, excluding education and hospitals 54%
Local government, excluding education and hospitals 43
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Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists work with probationers and parolees. While supervising individuals, they may interact with others, such as family members and friends of their clients, who may be upset or difficult to work with. Workers may be assigned to fieldwork in high-crime areas or in institutions where there is a risk of violence.
Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists may have court deadlines imposed by the statute of limitations. In addition, many officers travel to perform home and employment checks and property searches. Because of the hostile environments they may encounter, some may carry a firearm or pepper spray for protection.
All of these factors, in addition to the challenge some officers experience in dealing with probationers and parolees who violate the terms of their release, can contribute to a stressful work environment. Although the high stress levels can make the job difficult at times, this work can also be rewarding. Many officers and specialists receive personal satisfaction from counseling members of their community and helping them become productive citizens.
Work Schedules
Although many officers and specialists work full time, the demands of the job sometimes lead to working overtime and variable hours. For example, many agencies rotate an on-call officer position. When these workers are on-call, they must respond to any issues with probationers, parolees, or law enforcement 24 hours a day.
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Probation officers may go on to specialize in a certain type of casework, such as working with juvenile law offenders.
Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists usually need a bachelor’s degree. In addition, most employers require candidates to pass competency exams, drug testing, and a criminal background check.
A valid driver’s license is often required, and most agencies require applicants to be at least 21 years old.
A bachelor’s degree in social work, criminal justice, behavioral sciences, or a related field is usually required. Requirements vary by jurisdiction.
Most probation officers and correctional treatment specialists must complete a training program sponsored by their state government or the federal government, after which they may have to pass a certification test. In addition, they may be required to work as trainees for up to 1 year before being offered a permanent position.
Some probation officers and correctional treatment specialists specialize in a certain type of casework. For example, an officer may work only with domestic violence probationers or deal only with substance abuse cases. Some may work only cases involving juvenile offenders. Officers receive the appropriate specific training so that they are better prepared to help that type of probationer.
Other Experience
Although job requirements vary, work experience obtained by way of internships in courthouses or with probationers in the criminal justice field can be helpful for some positions.
Advancement to supervisory positions is primarily based on experience and performance. A master’s degree in criminal justice, social work, or psychology may be required for advancement.
Important Qualities
Communication skills. Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists must be able to effectively interact with probationers, probationers’ family members, lawyers, judges, treatment providers, and law enforcement.
Critical-thinking skills. Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists must be able to assess the needs of individual probationers before determining the best resources for helping them.
Decisionmaking skills. Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists must consider the best rehabilitation plan for offenders.
Emotional stability. Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists cope with hostile individuals or otherwise upsetting circumstances on the job.
Organizational skills. Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists manage multiple cases at the same time.
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Median annual wages, May 2018
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Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment Statistics
The median annual wage for probation officers and correctional treatment specialists was $53,020 in May 2018. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $34,630, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $94,770.
In May 2018, the median annual wages for probation officers and correctional treatment specialists in the top industries in which they worked were as follows:
Local government, excluding education and hospitals $58,040
State government, excluding education and hospitals 50,120
Social assistance 33,540
Although many officers and specialists work full time, the demands of the job sometimes lead to working overtime and variable hours. For example, many agencies rotate an on-call officer position. When these workers are on-call, they must respond to any issues with probationers or law enforcement 24 hours a day.
Compared with workers in all occupations, probation officers and correctional treatment specialists had a higher percentage of workers who belonged to a union in 2016.
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Percent change in employment, projected 2016-26
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections program
Employment of probation officers and correctional treatment specialists is projected to grow 6 percent from 2016 to 2026, about as fast as the average for all occupations.
Employment growth depends primarily on the amount of state and local government funding for corrections, especially the amount allocated to probation and parole systems.
Because community corrections is viewed as an economically viable alternative to incarceration in some cases, demand for probation officers and correctional treatment specialists should continue. Parole officers will continue to be needed to supervise individuals who will be released from prison in the future.
Many job openings will result from the need to replace those who leave the occupation each year due to the heavy workloads and high job-related stress. Job opportunities should be plentiful for those who qualify. The ability to speak Spanish is also desirable in this occupation and may present better job prospects.
Employment projections data for probation officers and correctional treatment specialists, 2016-26
SOC Code
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Correctional Officers and Bailiffs
Correctional officers are responsible for overseeing individuals who have been arrested and are awaiting trial or who have been sentenced to serve time in jail or prison. Bailiffs are law enforcement officers who maintain safety and order in courtrooms.
High school diploma or equivalent $44,400
Police and Detectives
Police officers protect lives and property. Detectives and criminal investigators, who are sometimes called agents or special agents, gather facts and collect evidence of possible crimes.
See How to Become One $63,380
Social and Human Service Assistants
Social and human service assistants provide client services, including support for families, in a wide variety of fields, such as psychology, rehabilitation, and social work. They assist other workers, such as social workers, and they help clients find benefits or community services.
Social workers help people solve and cope with problems in their everyday lives. Clinical social workers also diagnose and treat mental, behavioral, and emotional issues.
Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors
Substance abuse, behavioral disorder, and mental health counselors advise people who suffer from alcoholism, drug addiction, eating disorders, mental health issues, or other mental or behavioral problems. They provide treatment and support to help clients recover from addiction or modify problem behaviors.
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Motorcycle Musings
Prescription pain drug user or abuser? Who knows?
Lots to see and do on a busy Floyd weekend
Happy Birthday to the woman of my life
All the news that’s no longer fit for newsprint
Crime increasing in Floyd County
By DOUG THOMPSON
Armed robbers storm into a Willis convenience store.
A 15-year-old Floyd County girl is lured via the Internet into a car and abducted to Pennsylvania by a predatory couple.
A county woman flees an abusive husband in South Boston and comes home. She returns to retrieve her daughter and is gunned down by the husband who then turns the shotgun on himself.
A county man gets out of jail after serving time for a third DWI offense and brutally rapes the pre-teen-aged daughter and then claims the attack was justifiable revenge because the father, he said, slept with his girlfriend.
What is happening to our quiet little community?
The front page of The Fl0yd Press 10 days ago was dominated with stories about crime. Home and business break-ins are up. So is vandalism. A sheriff’s department investigator says Roanoke area gangs are operating in the county.
Sheriff’s deputies recently descended on a crystal meth lab. Many cops say the explosive growth of the highly-addictive drug is responsible for much of the increase in crime.
“According to the National Association of Counties, forty-seven percent of county sheriffs report meth as their number one drug problem,” says a press release by the U.S. Department of Justice. “Sixty-two percent of counties with populations less than 25,000 reported an increase in meth abuse by women. Forty-five states show a ninety percent increase in meth-related crime in the past three years.”
Many of the drug cases I cover in Floyd County Circuit Court involve production, sale and/or use of crystal meth. Use of the drug is growing to epidemic proportions among both adults and teen-agers.
“The methamphetamine crisis, which began more than 20 years ago in western and southwestern regions of the country, is now affecting all areas of the United States, especially rural communities,” says Mary Lou Leary, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Justice Programs.
Murder and violent death used to be rare in Floyd County. Juries had to deliver a verdict on two shooting death cases last year and another jury will deal with a murder case later this year. Sexual abuse cases — many involving attacks on family members — have become regular parts of the Circuit Court docket.
This increase in drug use and crimes associated with it could not come at a worse time for Floyd County and other rural areas. Budget cuts have hurt the ability of both the Floyd County Sheriff’s Department and Commonwealth’s Attorney to deal with the explosive growth in cases.
Have you seen Danielle Wade? (blueridgemuse.com)
Crime-time in Floyd County (blueridgemuse.com)
A bad sign of the times (blueridgemuse.com)
Sexual predators and monsters (blueridgemuse.com)
DOUG THOMPSON
Long-time newspaperman, photographer and videographer who, at age 71, still shoots photos and covers government and courts for a BH Media newspaper, shoots video for TV and documentary use and owns websites that include Blue Ridge Muse and Capitol Hill Blue.
2 thoughts on “Crime increasing in Floyd County”
Morris Fleischer
These stories are alarming! I’m glad you’ve shared them as there are probably many folks in the area who may be in some sort of denial about these kinds of things happening in their neck of the woods. Meth labs are extremely dangerous…and very expensive to clean up. Often, the cost to clean up just one meth lab is in the tens of thousands of our tax dollars. If folks won’t pay attention to the headlines, perhaps they’ll pay attention to their own pocketbook.
Yes Doug when people are broke many turn to easy ways to make profits and Drugs are one turned t often, it’s a real shame, because so many children get involved in it.
The biggest problem, I see around here is there is absolutely nothing for the kids to do, most here do not want the little town atmosphere to disappear, so , hence no growth, and no nothing going on for the kids , so this opens a door for them to get into trouble, or find something to do which is usually not a good thing.
Biggest problem I’ve seen living in different parts of the USA, GANGS, Americas number one problem and explodes out of control if not handled immediately.
From gangs and not dealing with the problem comes Robberies ,Drugs ,and break In’s especially in an area as here where people do not educate themselves, about the gangs and how to deal with them.
I saw a Wall of war started on the village green and was so very surprised to see that in Floyd, it was a serious penalty to leave this on a building more then 24 hours in a lot of cities, there was a big fine for the owner to not get it off the business, for good reason it usually did start a war over who was going to control that area.
We’ll the gangs will move in and make life VERY bad for all of Floyd if it’s not dealt with, and if people don’t have meetings on how to control it, and the police need to have, what I was told was just called selective enforcement to let them know there not at all welcome here, if they even looked like bangers there car was totally gone through and checked just from driving in the town, I loved it , they knew they were not welcome.
we’ll hope Floydanites deal with it or it will get MUCH worse.
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Remembering Mikey
Two years ago to the day the windsurfing world lost a young and talented windsurfer – Mikey Clancy. More than that Mikey was a friend to so many in the sport and a true friend to the whole team at Boardseeker. Mikey Clancy will be sadly and greatly missed by us all, so in memory of Mikey here is a little story about a memorable day we had with him. Followed by a throwback to a video produced by our very own Alfie Hart.
It was the day before the 2009 BWA Tiree event and the wind had been howling all night, the forecast was big, very very big. No one really knew what to expect but there was a lot of talk about where to head to for a ‘sheltered session’, purely because many beaches would physically be blown out. The waves were predicted to be too gnarly and the wind too strong.
As we are sitting around the table making a plan of action, the phone vibrates next to us, no one touches it, we continue talking for another ten minutes, it vibrates again – “Mikey’s launching at Balephuil” someone shouts, “he sent a message ten minutes ago saying that he’s rigging up, are we going to join“. At the same moment we all think the same thing – What The F***! In this forecast it’s supposed to be side to side-on shore and that is square to the oncoming swell, this spot had been ruled out without anyone even mentioning it.
15 minutes later we are driving up the wet muddy field towards the back of Timo Mullen’s van, he’s just shut his doors and is running like a madmen down to the beach with what could potentially be a kids rig. We say he was running, in fact he had his shoulders low and looked like he was charging down a rugby teams scrum. It takes us a couple of attempts to drive up the steep grass bank to park on top so we can watch down over the beach to see what’s going on. As we wheel spin our way up, creeping closer to the top the same sight greets the three of us sat in the front of the packed Ford Transit, Mikey Clancy some 40ft+ in the air and still going up. It was like when you watch a plane from far away, it appears to be moving in slow motion, as Mikey reached the top of this insane jump, the highest we’ve ever witnessed, he tilts his head and spots his landing for a backloop, the kit follows his vision and then he simply aborts, free falling for a considerable amount of time we even have a moment to let out a few choice words before he hits the water. Meanwhile his kit is spinning in the air downwind and it appears to be travelling faster with the wind then actually falling from the sky, we notice Mikey’s head pop up from the surface and him looking around to see his kit still falling and then slam into the water not far from the beach. Eventually the wind is so strong it flips his gear up on to the beach and in position as if ready to go back out again.
So what does Mikey do, well he swims a very long way in (we’ve all done it) then walks an even longer distance down this massive beach, picks up his gear, launches and heads straight back out for more. Making his way upwind he shows us a masterclass of high wind sailing, like he would have spent years training in somewhere like Pozo. Perfect backloops one after the other, one footed, one handed, pushloops, forwards, everything seemed to be there. However, with that crash in our heads we decided to opt for slightly more manageable conditions with more riding than jumping and didn’t catch up with Mikey until that evening.
One of his first double forwards caught on camera
“I was using my smallest sail, my 3.3 and actually the landing in the water was so hard after that crash I hurt my ankle quite bad, but I just wanted to keep windsurfing so I sailed on through, I’m hobbling a bit on it now but I’m sure it is fine for tomorrow” Mikey told us. However, he had hurt his ankle pretty bad and it was to be the start of a long and tiring rehabilitation year for him. The fact is, that session said everything about him, he was so addicted to the sport, so passionate that he even continued to windsurf despite immense pain. Why, because conditions were good for him, 50 knots+ with mast high waves, we sure hope you are smashing plenty of that where you are now.
Rest In Peace Mikey.
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Philosophy: Epistemology & Theory Of Knowledge
Globalization and the Decolonial Option
4.66 (3 ratings by Goodreads)
Edited by Walter D. Mignolo , Edited by Arturo Escobar
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This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of "coloniality", understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the United States. The project called for an understanding of modernity not from modernity itself but from its darker side, coloniality, and proposes the de-colonization of knowledge as an epistemological restitution with political and ethical implications.
Epistemic decolonization, or de-coloniality, becomes the horizon to imagine and act toward global futures in which the notion of a political enemy is replaced by intercultural communication and towards an-other rationality that puts life first and that places institutions at its service, rather than the other way around.
The volume is profoundly inter- and trans-disciplinary, with authors writing from many intellectual, transdisciplinary, and institutional spaces.
This book was published as a special issue of Cultural Studies.
Dimensions 159 x 235 x 25.4mm | 612g
Publication date 15 Apr 2013
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Bestsellers rank 622,701
1. Introduction: Coloniality of Power and De-Colonial Thinking Walter D. Mignolo I The Emergence of An-Other-Paradigm 2. Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality Anibal Quijano 3. Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise: The Latin American Modernity/Coloniality Research Program Arturo Escobar 4. The Epistemic Decolonial Turn: Beyond Political-Economy Paradigms Ramon Grosfoguel 5. Shifting the Geopolitics of Critical Knowledge: Decolonial Thought and Cultural Studies `Others' in the Andes Catherine Walsh II (De)Colonization of Knowledges and of Beings 6. On the Coloniality of Being: Contributions to the Development of a Concept Nelson Maldonado-Torres 7. Decolonization and the Question of Subjectivity: Gender, Race, and Binary Thinking Freya Schiwy III The Colonial Nation-States and the Imperial Racial Matrix 8. The Nation: An Imagined Community? Javier Sanjines 9. Decolonial Moves: Trans-locating African Diaspora Spaces Agustin Lao-Montes 10. Unsettling Race, Coloniality, and Caste: Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera, Martinez's 'Parrot in the Oven', and Roy's 'The God of Small Things' Jose David Saldivar IV (De)Coloniality at Large 11. The Eastern Margins of Empire: Coloniality in 19th Century Romania Manuela Boatca 12. (In)edible Nature: New World Food and Coloniality Zilkia Janer 13. The Imperial-Colonial Chronotype: Istanbul-Baku-Khurramabad Madina Tlostanova V On Empires and Colonial/Imperial Differences 14. The Missing Chapter of Empire: Postmodern Reorganization of Coloniality and Post-Fordist Capitalism Santiago Castro-Gomez 15. Delinking: The Rhetoric of Modernity, the Logic of Coloniality and the Grammar of De-Coloniality Walter D. Mignolo 16. The Coloniality of Gender Maria Lugones 17. Afterword Arturo Escobar
"Overall, the book is a valuable contribution to understanding the force of coloniality in shaping the modern state, the production of subjectivity and knowledge, and global political economy and could become a significant source for the project of decolonizing sociology." - Roger Merino, University of Bath, UK
About Walter D. Mignolo
Walter D. Mignolo is William H. Wannamaker Professor of Romance Studies, Professor in the Program of Literature and Adjunct in Cultural Anthropology. He is also Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University.
Arturo Escobar is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, and Adjunct in the Department of Geography and of Communication, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
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Surprisingly, "getting bored" wasn't one of them
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There are 45 possible lunch-ride routes from Bicycling’s headquarters in eastern Pennsylvania, each anywhere from 10 to 26 miles long, and all on our signature rolling, rural roads. Over the years the routes have been named, and I've ticked each one off at some point.
Of all 45, only Stonesthrow got to me.
At 22 miles, it's not the longest ride or even the highest elevation gain. But there's just something about its steep, straight double climb that always feels like a sucker punch on an otherwise slothful workday. (That, and the fantasy-novel name “Stonesthrow” sounds like you have to summon a fellowship and fight a goblin horde to conquer it.)
Somehow I became convinced that if I could master Stonesthrow, I could also master Bicycling’s lunch ride in general—by which I mean “stop getting dropped” on an ostensibly casual, no-drop ride. I also wanted to see what happens when you try the same dreaded climb every day for a month. Can you actually get faster at it in that amount of time? Would it start to feel easier, or would it become a spirit-crushing slog?
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“I love a stupid quest,” said my boss.
The gauntlet had been thrown. For 30 days, I would battle Stonesthrow and whatever inner demons kept me from climbing it without an inhaler dangling from the side of my mouth like an old-timey cigar. Actually, once I thought about it, 30 days sounded a bit untenable. Let's try again: For 14 straight days I would do battle with Stonesthrow, and find out what happens when you throw yourself at the same route, on tired legs, over and over again. Here’s what I learned from riding the same damned climb every day for two straight weeks:
I rode more. I had to—when you swear before the universe and all of social media that you’ll tackle the same climb every day, you stop making excuses not to get on your bike and just do it. No agonizing over the weather forecast, no bailing when you can’t find your arm warmers (secret hack: just cut off the ends of long socks), and no deciding you don’t have the time to step away from your desk for an hour and a half. I just came into work earlier, left later, and did what I had to do to get the mileage in, without question. That’s one of the upsides to doing any kind of ride streak—it takes all the guesswork out of whether you’re going to ride.
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I experienced nearly every possible emotion. When I started this challenge, I assumed it would feel monotonous. Instead the miles felt vastly different depending on my mood each day. I laughed, I cursed, I lamented layering choices, I felt overcome with the beauty of fall—and on one particularly rough day, I got some bad family news and sobbed in that full-body way that makes you sound like a dying animal. But I just kept rolling, and channeled my pain into digging deeper when the road pointed up. It worked. The only feeling I didn’t experience on that god-forsaken hill was regret that I was out on my bike.
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Everyone joined the party. Turns out, my boss isn’t alone—everyone seems to love a stupid quest. Once it got out that I was riding Stonesthrow on a regular schedule, I had a new supporting cast of characters—many of whom I’d never ridden with before. And on days when the weather looked questionable, I just applied a little guilt: “You know you’re the only person on staff who hasn’t done Stonesthrow with me yet?” If they fired back with a “wait, what’s the point of this, again?” I just sent them down a spiral of existential angst (“What’s the point of any of it?”) or ended the conversation on a solemn, cryptic “I’ll know when I’m done.”
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The challenge both added and eased stress. Riding before work wasn't always convenient for me because of the unpredictability (and road-rage factor) of rush-hour traffic. That meant I sometimes had to ride at lunch, which made my morning feel hurried. On the other hand, getting the chance to push away from my desk and pedal into an autumnal wonderland of changing fall colors made my workload feel more manageable every time I returned. Turns out, endorphins are a real thing and they can be a huge benefit to productivity. Plus, it was nice to not have to puzzle over whether I would run or ride at lunch, or which of the 45 routes I would take. I never worried about making the wrong decision because there wasn’t any decision to make. Of course I would ride every day, and of course I would ride Stonesthrow.
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It’s nice to really get to know a route. There are few joys as immediate as riding somewhere new and experiencing new terrain and sights. But familiarity has its own unsung appeal. The more I rode Stonesthrow, the more I found little things to appreciate. The exact moment I had to rise out of the saddle. A sudden dip in the descent that gives the sensation of bottoming out on a rollercoaster. All the smoothest lines. The topless, bearded fellow by the edge of the road who yells, “Watch out for snakes!” if you’re lucky enough to ride past him at the right time. (Seriously—he even has his own Strava segment.) I got to know all the best dogs along the route and witness a timelapse of autumn’s progression in the brilliantly colored leaves. It was less like Groundhog Day than you would expect, and more like learning new things about a significant other long after you’d assumed you knew all their best stories.
I got faster at the climb—and stronger in general. When it came to speed, initially my efforts were pretty discouraging: I felt fast and confident on my first morning up the hill—and then watched myself progressively take on more of the qualities of molasses with each day that passed. But somewhere around Day 6 I hit a turning point, and began to speed up, even on segments that I wasn’t trying to work on. It wasn't long before I was pacing myself betterup the climb, and soon I was riding more comfortably in pacelines and with the group. On my final 14th ascent I captured the second-place QOM on my nemesis climb—and I had 13 people to join me; my own little “Fellowship of the Chainring” on a road worthy of its mythical name.
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Roundup: Mountaineers topple North Adams, 7-3
Vermont a win away from NECBL championship series.
Roundup: Mountaineers topple North Adams, 7-3 Vermont a win away from NECBL championship series. Check out this story on burlingtonfreepress.com: http://bfpne.ws/1NdBEcY
Free Press Sports Staff Published 10:32 p.m. ET Aug. 6, 2015 | Updated 10:42 p.m. ET Aug. 6, 2015
Essex's Charlotte Stuart (right) pressures South Burlington's Sarah Fisher in Essex Junction during a game in April 2014.(Photo: GLENN RUSSELL/FREE PRESS)Buy Photo
MONTPELIER – Tom Cosgrove tossed six innings of three-hit ball and the Vermont Mountaineers remained unbeaten in the postseason, topping the North Adams SteepleCats 7-3 in the first game of their NECBL divisional championship series.
Jack Parenty went 2-for-4 and scored three times and Isaiah Pasteur added two hits for the Mountaineers, who could complete the series sweep with a win in North Adams tonight. First pitch is slated for 6:30.
Vermont broke free with a three-run seventh inning to stretch its lead to 6-1.
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•Vermont Lake Monsters 2, Brooklyn 1: Three Vermont pitchers combined to hold visiting Brooklyn to just four hits as the Lake Monsters rode two second-inning tallies to victory at Centennial field.
Nick Collins rapped an RBI double and Steven Pallares (two hits) followed with an RBI triple to plate the only runs Vermont (19-26) needed.
Starter Bubba Derby tossed three scoreless innings, Corey Miller allowed one unearned run in four innings of relief to earn the win and John Gorman closed out the Cyclones (23-22) to secure the victory.
The result was just Vermont's fifth win in the last 22 games against Brooklyn and snapped an eight-game home losing streak to the Cyclones.
•Pittsfield Post 68 (Mass.) 10, Colchester Cannons 3: The Colchester Cannons were eliminated after going 0-2 in the Northeast regional American Legion baseball tournament held in Bristol, Conn.
Kevin Domati went 2-for-3 with a two-run double to pace Pittsfield.
Brandon Arel had three hits, Cory Hemingway had a hit and a run and Jordan Bell drew three walks and scored once for the Cannons (18-15). Losing pitcher Jacob Cunningham went 5 1/3 innings.
•South Burlington's Fisher among freshman recruiting class at UVM: Former South Burlington multisport standout Sarah Fisher is one of 14 newcomers to the University of Vermont women's lacrosse team, the school announced Thursday.
Fisher, who also played soccer and hockey at SBHS, finished her career with a program-best 98 assists and was team MVP three times.
"We are excited about the addition of such a talented class of student-athletes and are eagerly awaiting the start of another season," UVM coach Jen Johnson said in a news release. "We will be young, but this incoming class adds speed, skill, grit and depth to the program. This class will help us build on the momentum we have going after reaching the America East Semifinals for the third straight year last season."
For details on the freshman class, visit uvmathletics.com.
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By: Robert J. Allison
Paperback Published: 31st July 2015
Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution.
Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new form of government based on the idea that people have the right to govern themselves. In this lively account, Robert Allison provides a cohesive synthesis of the military, diplomatic, political, social, and intellectual aspects of the Revolution, paying special attention to the Revolution's causes and consequences. The book recreates the tumultuous events of the 1760s and 1770s that led to revolution, such as the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party, as well as the role the Sons of Liberty played in turning resistance into full-scale revolt. Allison explains how and why Americans changed their ideas of government and society so profoundly in these years and how the War for Independence was fought and won. He highlights the major battles and commanders on both sides--with a particular focus on George Washington and the extraordinary strategies he developed to defeat Britain's superior forces--as well as the impact of French military support on the American cause. In the final chapter, Allison explores the aftermath of the American Revolution: how the newly independent states created governments based on the principles for which they had fought, and how those principles challenged their own institutions, such as slavery, in the new republic. He considers as well the Revolution's legacy, the many ways its essential ideals influenced other struggles against oppressive power or colonial systems in France, Latin America, and Asia.
Sharply written and highly readable, The American Revolution: A Very Short Introduction offers a concise introduction to this seminal event in American history.
About the Series:
Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects--from Islam to Sociology, Politics to Classics, Literary Theory to History, and Archaeology to the Bible. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume in this series provides trenchant and provocative--yet always balanced and complete--discussions of the central issues in a given discipline or field. Every Very Short Introduction gives a readable evolution of the subject in question, demonstrating how the subject has developed and how it has influenced society. Eventually, the series will encompass every major academic discipline, offering all students an accessible and abundant reference library. Whatever the area of study that one deems important or appealing, whatever the topic that fascinates the general reader, the Very Short Introductions series has a handy and affordable guide that will likely prove indispensable.
"[Authors] have produced centuries of works on this subject, but none of the comprehensive descriptions are as surprisingly crisp as Robert J. Allison's version...Allison's organization of the book is excellent...Only outdone by his excellent organization is Allison's experience with this subject, which is qualitively displayed throughout the book...Allison is an effect writer, and has produced a summary that captures most prevailing historical accounts in good form." --Army History "Robert Allison's volume serves as an ideal introduction to the American Revolution. All the central events and participants come alive in this brisk narrative that illuminates the origins and meaning of the War for Independence." --Louis P. Masur, Trinity College "Anyone looking for a compact, highly conceptualized, readable history of the American Revolution and its aftermath needs to look no further than The American Revolution: A Concise History. I would never have imagined that so big a picture could be conveyed in so few words, but Bob Allison has done it. That he has accomplished this feat without losing the voices and the character of individual people is an amazement indeed. A fine book." --Fred Anderson, University of Colorado, Boulder "This highly readable account is ideal for general readers and can also be utilized for college survey courses in U.S. history." --Booklist "A scholar has to master a lot of material to present it so concisely and authoritatively, and Allison's book is one of the best places to get a reliable introduction to the Revolution and the Constitution." --Thomas S. Kidd, Books and Culture
List of Illustrations American Revolutionary Chronology Preface Ch 1 Background to Revolution Ch 2 Rebellion in the Colonies Ch 3 Independence Ch 4 War Ch 5 Was America Different? Further Reading Index
Series: Very Short Introductions
Published: 31st July 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
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The Hereafter Trilogy
The Book That Removes All Doubt
By: Miles Edward Allen
Paperback Published: 24th March 2015
Three books in one. Get the complete story for one low price. This volume includes two previously published books: The Survival Files and The Afterlife Confirmed, plus a new volume titled Top-40 Remains, each by author Miles Edward Allen. They have been united in one book to ensure a wider distribution of a complete set of the very strongest evidence for the Survival of the human personality beyond the demise of the physical body.
The Survival Files, subtitled: The Most Convincing Evidence Yet Compiled For The Survival Of Your Soul, was published in 2007 to rave reviews. Critics hailed it as "A masterful job," "A must read," "Insightful," "Profound," "Provocative," and "Stunning," among other accolades. This book was the stimulus for the creation of the Survival Top 40 [www.survivaltop40.com].
Many of the new cases collected for the Top 40 were publishedin 2012 in The Afterlife Confirmed subtitled: Even More Convincing Cases From The Survival Files.
As of the beginning of 2015, there were 16 cases in the Survival Top 40 that had not been published in book form. These have now been combined into a new book titled Top 40 Remains and added as the third volume to The Hereafter Trilogy: The Book That Removes All Doubt.
In order to make this book a more manageable size, the appendices of the various volumes have been removed, except for an extensive, combined, reference section. All of the excised content may be downloaded for free at www.SurvivalTop40.com.
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Cascara (with recipes!)
Written By Shopify API - June 20 2014
If you google “cascara,” the first hits relate to a plant called Rhamnus purshiana, which you’ll quickly learn is a natural laxative.
We’re not talking about that cascara.
Instead, we’re talking about Coffea arabica, though not in the form we usually talk about it. Cascara is the name given to the dried fruit of the coffee plant. The seed is the part we roast, grind, and brew, and the fruit is usually discarded or composted.
There is a tradition, in some coffee growing countries, of drying these fruits into a husk, then steeping that husk and making it into a tea-like beverage.
That’s the cascara that we’re talking about.
Soon, Bow Truss will offer cascara in our retail stores, and we’ll sell 4oz. bags of Cascara for you to brew at home.
The beverage varies based on the qualities of the cascara being used, but in general, it makes a sweet, spicy, fruity tea. The cascara that we have available (from the Las Lajas mill in Costa Rica — learn more) is very sweet — notes of honey and honeysuckle dominate, and the gingery, cinnamon-spice notes take a back seat.
One more quick note before we get to the recipes: Cascara’s caffeine content is mysterious. It definitely gives a caffeine-like buzz, though a well-respected roastery in the UK recently sent their cascara to a caffeine lab and found that it contains very little caffeine — as little as a quarter to an eighth of a cup of brewed coffee. There’s no consensus in the coffee world on why this is, so we’ve just been treating cascara like coffee: Not drinking it too late in the day, unless we’re gearing up for a big night.
OK, recipes.
CASCARA COLD BREW
Soak 60g cascara in 1 gallon of cold, filtered water for 12 hours. Decant through a filter, strainer, or cheesecloth. Serve over ice. Makes a sweet, light-bodied beverage. Try it on its own or as a mixer in sodas & cocktails!
HOT CASCARA TEA
Prepare as you would a black tea, steeping 3g of cascara in 100ml of just-off-boil water for 4 minutes. Strain & drink hot.
So Much Coffee From Ethiopia!
Written By Shopify API - May 07 2014
So we just rolled out a new Ethiopia, and it’s got quite a name: Washed Ethiopia Sidama Yerga Alem.
I’ll break it down bit by bit, and then describe how it differs from the other Ethiopias in our lineup.
Ethiopia: The country where the coffee was grown.
Washed: We’ll come back to this, I promise. It’s the only non-geographic part of this coffee’s name.
Sidama: Sidama is a geograhic distinction that is similar to a U.S. state. There are some important differences, but for our purposes, it’s the next layer down from country.
Yerga Alem: The town. Now, coffee is not grown in town, but the farmers who grew this coffee brought it to the nearest town, Yerga Alem, for collection and processing.
OK, back to Washed. Coffee “beans” are the seeds of the fruit of the coffee tree. For us to get these “green” (raw, not roasted) seeds, someone has to pick the fruit, and remove the seed. This happens in a lot of different ways, and they all fall into the basket of “processing methods.”
Washing (or wet processing) is one such processing method. The fruit is removed using a mill and water soaks almost as soon as the coffee has been picked. These coffees are very common in Central America, East Africa, and another famous region of Ethiopia, Yirgacheffe. Our Ethiopia Kochere is one such coffee.
Sidama, though, is known for Natural (or dry processed) coffees. The fruit, with the seed inside, is allowed to sit and dry in the sun for a longer period of time. These coffees have an intense, fruit-forward, winey character. Our Decaf is a decaffeinated Natural from Sidama. And Sidama isn’t the only place known for nautral processing. Our Natural Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Aricha is, as the name indicates, a Natural from Yirgacheffe.
This new coffee, a Washed Sidama, is unusual, because its processing method is uncommon for its region. Knowing about geography and processing lets us highlight why this coffee is so special.
So there, in a nutshell, is the name of our newest coffee, and how it is different from our other offerings from Ethiopia, coffee’s genetic home.
For extra credit, taste the Ethiopia Washed Sidama Yerga Alem, and discuss with your barista how its flavor reflects its origin and/or its processing method.
Exciting Announcements
Written By Shopify API - April 02 2014
From the education department:
Our account was hacked by an April Fool yesterday.
Disregard any “important coffee findings.” To learn real coffee knowledge and techniques, please consider attending our Manual Brew Class: https://bowtruss.myshopify.com/products/manual-coffee-brewing-class
The Flavor Wheel: Specialty Coffee's Best-Kept Secret
On each bag of Bow Truss coffee, you will find three carefully selected flavor notes. Other coffee companies present similar notes on their bags.
Today, we are making public a long-held trade secret: these flavor notes are generated by a very peculiar coffee industry ritual, invented by Hills Brothers coffee company in San Francisco in the early 1900s: the flavor wheel.
To be more precise, it is now flavor wheels — the recent explosion of specialty roasters means that the SCAA had to develop extra wheels.
Here’s how it works: at the annual US Barista Champonship, the competitors, in order of their score, spin a large game show wheel. Whatever flavor note the wheel ends on belongs to that company for the coming year. No one else may use it. Baristas spin the wheel (now wheels, as there are so many competitors) to earn good tasting notes for their companies’ packaging.
Bow Truss is proud to increase transparency by sharing the existence of this practice.
The Green Coffee Diet: Fact or Fiction?
In short: fact. Our newest hire, as his first work responsibility, was instructed to eat only raw, green coffee beans for his first month of employment. This led to significant weight loss, and we can confirm many “weird old tips” about reducing your weight: eat green coffee!
Cozier
This isn’t coffee science, but it’s common sense:
We at Bow Truss love to make things more cozy. Well now, you can be cozy despite this unusually long winter. Just pick up one of our new full-body-cozy sweaters. These fashionable, innovative garments are available at our Lakeview location for only $1!
Where Does Green Coffee Come From?
Much of the current specialty coffee industry is focused on origin. Knowing what country, region, and farm your coffee came from has been seen as an important part of roasting and serving coffee. Curious to do some of our own origin research, we got on our bikes and followed a green coffee delivery truck. We were shocked at what we found: not just one, but every coffee delivery comes from within the US (we didn’t think those trucks could get all the way to Ethiopia!). Our labels will begin to reflect these findings. Look for Minneapolis, Oakland, and New York coffee showing up on our shelves soon!
Grinding: Necessary or Optional?
We, and others in the specialty coffee industry, have long been proponents of freshly ground coffee. The more recent the grind, the thinking goes, the more flavor will make its way Ito the finished product. We’ve taken this philosophy to its logical conclusion, and are proud to be the first specialty coffee company to advocate for no-grind brewing. Just measure your coffee, put it into the filter, and be amazed: the intact coffee bean, robbed of NO volatile aromatics or gases, will brew a delicious cup of coffee!
Here at Bow Truss we are always pushing specialty coffee to be more delicious, more approachable, and more cozy. We’ve been hard at work doing some serious coffee science, and now, after months of work, we’re ready to present some of our findings.
Some of these new ideas fly in the face of what we’ve been taught, but rest assured, we have tested these assertions extensively.
As Barista Educator, I am proud to be presenting the findings that our team has worked so hard to bring to light. Stay tuned to Bow Truss social media all day for these important announcements.
Greg Loring-Albright, Barista Educator
TEDCoffee 2014 [March 17-21]
Written By Shopify API - March 14 2014
TEDCoffee 2014 [March 17-21]:
Don’t forget to follow Bow Truss on twitter and instagram to see our baristas Talya Strader and Greg Albright serve coffee at Ted Active in Whistler this year!
Introducing our Pop-Up Vendors: An Extension of the Bow Truss Family
Written By Shopify API - February 20 2014
It all started when Stephanie Lock of Rustic Tart inquired about selling her pie at our Flagship store in Lakeview. It wasn’t that we didn’t find her pie absolutely delightful, it’s that we believed that something happens when an artisanal product leaves the hands of its maker. We are coffee professionals, but leave the baking at home. The next day, Stephanie came back with the idea of pop-ups. Since then, we have had different pastry vendors come in to sell their products to our customers every Saturday and Sunday in Lakeview, as well as Mon-Fri in our River North location. We have seen awesome relationships grow out of this, and have benefitted in the cross over of our vendor’s loyal fans.
What is a pop-up? Essentially, it’s a store within a store. In our case, our vendors are very independent from us. They handle all of their own payment procedures, and do not pay us to be in our space. We give them coffee, they give us treats, and we sell to the same customers. This simple idea has given us the chance to meet with all different types of people and expand our market.
We want to take the chance, now, to introduce you to our lovely vendors!
Très Jolie Pâtisserie!
Jillian has been passionate about baking and cooking for as long as she can remember. Growing up with an Austrian grandmother who always made everything from scratch, there were ample opportunities for Jillian to play the role of sous chef - and she did so with gusto. Jillian decided to study French in junior high school, fell in love with the language, and continued pursuing French all the way through college, spending her final semester in Paris. There, she spent every free moment roaming the enchanting streets, soaking in the culture and amazing food.
Back in the U.S., Jillian embarked on a lengthy copywriting career, working at a number of ad agencies in Chicago. It wasn’t until 2010 that she decided to trade in her high heels for kitchen clogs, enrolling in The French Pastry School, and following her culinary passion. Shortly after, Très Jolie Pâtisserie was born.
Working out of Kitchen Chicago, a commercially licensed shared-use kitchen, Jillian is right at home, experimenting with new recipes, ideas and flavors. Its where her creativity shines. Everything is made by hand, by Jillian. Even her croissants (her personal fave) are hand-laminated and hand-rolled - no machines involved! It’s a labor of love, but one she attends to with a smile on her face, as it brings back memories of working alongside her grandmother.
Currently, Jillian only sells her rotating menu of products through her website (tresjoliepatisserie.com), at the Nettlehorst Farmer’s Market, and when she pops up at both Bowtruss locations. Jillian loves to put together custom sweet tables and favors for clients - her products are a huge hit at weddings, birthdays, showers and corporate events. If you have a special event coming up, definitely bend her ear.
Photo credit: Très Awesome Events
Spend Valentine’s Day at our River North location!
Tony overseeing a roast in progress. Bow Truss is pleased to welcome the newest addition to our...
Tony overseeing a roast in progress.
Bow Truss is pleased to welcome the newest addition to our team, Tony Grewing! Tony is a new Chicago transplant, most currently from Seattle, where he roasted coffee for specialty coffee luminary Stumptown Coffee. Tony will be joining Dennis, our Master Roaster at the controls of the Probat. We asked Tony a few questions about himself:
What do you believe good coffee should taste like? I think good cup of coffee should have a balanced and integrated profile in a way that fully represents that particular coffee. Not balanced as in, all coffees need to have equal levels of sweetness, acidity, and body, but all three should at least be present and working together to fully express everything the coffee has to offer.
What’s your favorite brew method and why? Recently I’ve been using an AeroPress, its quick, simple and travels well(it’s especially nice for camping). Chemex is a close second though, because I consistently get great, well-balanced coffee out of it without a painstaking brew process.
Why do you think you and Dennis will make a great team? I think we have fairly different histories and experiences with roasting and with coffee in general, and I think that that will help prevent us from only approaching coffees from single mindset, which can happen occasionally. Basically, roasting will be more of a conversation with both of us working with the coffees and roast profiles everyday.
What do you hope to bring to Bow Truss as a growing roasting company? I’ve worked at a new small coffee company before and just left a larger, more established, company, and I think I have a good perspective on where we’re coming from and, generally speaking, where we want to be. I hope I can take my past experience and apply it in a way that helps keep things going as smoothly as possible as Bow Truss continues to grow and expand.
What excites you most about living in Chicago? Probably the variety and quality of food, followed by the sheer amount of stuff there is to do. There was always stuff going on in Seattle for sure, but I’m excited to see what Chicago has to offer being a bigger city and all. Also I just recently found out Liverpool is supposedly going to be playing a friendly [exhibition soccer/football match] here this summer, so that would be pretty awesome too.
What must-have albums do we need in our record collection at Bow Truss? My answer to this question changes pretty frequently, but right now I’d say the top 5 must-haves are: Bob Dylan: Desire, Radiohead: Kid A, Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Black Keys: Rubber Factory and… the last pick is always the toughest… I’ll go with Led Zeppelin: III.
Don’t say hi to Tony if you see him roasting—it’s an intense process requiring lots of concentration. But if you see him around town, welcome him to Chicago!
Gingersnap!
Gingersnap is one of our customer’s favorite vendors and have been asked to cater a number of our their work meetings and events. They pop-up most Wednesdays in River North and occasionally on Saturdays in Lakeview. Try their whirlaways… they’re delicious.
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We’re growing Bow Truss. Grow with us. We’ve grown...
We’re growing Bow Truss. Grow with us.
We’ve grown like crazy. Opened a second location, made our coffee available at more restaurants and cafés, and brought you select and transparently-sourced single origin coffees (and a few exciting blends, too!). For us to continue on our path of expansion and innovation, we will need to increase our roasting capacity.
The demands of our growing customer base at our coffeebars and our wholesale partners’ establishments, motivated the decision to expand. We’re seeking out a larger roaster to allow us to keep our coffee quality as high as possible. This machine will greatly increase our roasting capacity allowing more and more people to taste the delicious coffees we create.
We want you to be involved and to be a part of our growth, as so many of you have been already. We love what we do, and we think that you will too!
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Written By Shopify API - January 29 2014
Glazed & Infused!
Glazed and Infused is a flavorful re-invention of the Iconic American doughnut. Handcrafted and uniquely imagined for your delight.
This relationship has been so magical for both parties involved. Our customers love them, their customers love us, and the rest is just a party. Glazed & Infused has been a staple for our Friday River North pop-ups, and truly make the end of each week feel like a holiday. You know what we do for holidays, right? Eat doughnuts!
Introducing the Pop-Up Vendors: An Extension of the Bow Truss Family
It all started when Stephanie Lock of Rustic Tart inquired about selling her pie at our Flagship store in Lakeview. It wasn’t that we didn’t find her pie absolutely delightful, it’s that we believed that something happens when an artisanal product leaves the hands of its maker. We are coffee professionals, but leave the baking at home. The next day, Stephanie came back with the idea of pop-ups. Since then, we have had different pastry vendors come in to sell their products to our customers every Saturday and Sunday in Lakeview. We have seen awesome relationships grow out of this, and have benefitted in the cross over our vendor’s loyal fans.
Firstly, Rustic Tart.
Stephanie Lock has been creating delicious tarts, savory and sweet, for us since the July after we opened our doors to the Lakeview East community. She introduced us to the idea of pop-up shops, and we can’t be more grateful! As we opened our second location that next February, Stephanie was ready to set-up shop there, as well, and has helped us with our Annual Holiday Market. She is known by the community for her friendliness, charming family, and delicious creations. We now carry Rustic Tart daily at our Lakeview location in the form of pies and ready to roll dough.
Join us for the 2nd Annual Holiday Market!
Written By Shopify API - December 05 2013
Introducing the Bow Truss Barista Team! Part Seven.
Written By Shopify API - November 26 2013
Here at Bow Truss, we recognize our baristas as the first point of contact for all of our customers. Without their friendly demeanor, passion for coffee, and ambitious initiation on new projects, we would not have been able to grow as quickly and with the same quality standards as we have to this point. So, we want to take a moment to introduce you to the stellar crew that work, day in and day out, at the front lines, for the love of Bow Truss Coffee Roasters!
The barista we would like to recognize next is Brian Ensminger who you might know as the extremely friendly face who greets and engages you with sincere joy and friendliness.
Q: How long have you worked for Bow Truss?
A: Somewhere around four or five months.
Q: Why did you want to start working for Bow Truss?
A: I was really impressed with the way the staff balanced their knowledge coffee and kindness in service. Working as a barista, it’s easy to focus on one or the other, but at Bow Truss, I saw professionals who did both really well.
Q: What is your favorite aspect of working for Bow Truss?
A: Other than the staff, I really love working with our customers. I think its amazing to have so many people who come to us that are just as excited about great coffee as our baristas.
Q: What is the most valuable lesson, coffee related or not, that you have learned while working for Bow Truss?
A: Whether it’s dialing in espresso, or shifting between confidence and humility, I think the most valuable lesson I’m continuing to learn is balance. I’m learning that balance is something that you have to focus on and work to understand, but it’s definitely not a mystery, nor impossible. Also, balance will look like different things to different people and that can be frustrating, exciting, and wonderful all at once.
Q: What do you do outside of working at Bow Truss?
A: Mostly drink coffee, spend time with my lovely girlfriend Molly, drink beers, watch movies, read stuff on the internet.
Q: What are your hobbies?
A: I enjoy nerding out about movies and television over drinks. Really nerding out about anything: coffee, books, music. Any chance I get to learn, and act like a know-it-all, I’m all about.
Q: Who is your role model and why?
A: Honestly, I have a few. I look to different people for different things, and I’m lucky to have a lot of awesome people around me (both at work and in my personal life) who provide fantastic examples of how to be great people.
Q: Tell me a strange fact about yourself!
A: Despite knowing it’s totally wrong, I pronounce the word “pillow” as “pell-oh.” I have no idea why.
While Bow Truss and Brian have been friends for a while, he just recently joined our team recently. You know him for his big smile, memory of your drink, and willingness to talk with you all day. We appreciate his dedication to quality coffee, quality service, and desire to make himself better each day.
Introducing the Bow Truss Barista Team! Part Six.
The barista we would like to recognize next is Jason DeLong who you might recognize as the dude with the bright hair that is constantly changing colors.
A: 6 months
A: I really wanted to learn about coffee in a well rounded way.
A: My favorite aspect would be working with a great coffee product
A: I learned there definitely is such a thing as too much caffeine.
A:Party.
A: Drawing and other various forms of expression.
A: Kurt Cobain because he did what he wanted to.
Q: Tell me a strange fact about yourself.
A: I like saying business signs out loud as I see them.
Jason was referred to us by a dear coffee friend who said, “You’ve got to hire this guy. He has such a positive attitude! I wish that I could hire him.” You know him for his up beat greetings, courageous style, and his willingness to talk to you all day. We appreciate his unbeatable cheer, how great he works with a team, and his desire to continue learning.
Today! Come grab your 1st of many pounds of Hearth Blend!
Posted on May 07 2014
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Home Bushie blog July 2015 Recognition as a Nature Refuge Area boosts Yourka's conservation capabilities
Recognition as a Nature Refuge Area boosts Yourka's conservation capabilities
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about Yourka Reserve
Water Lillies. Photo Wayne Lawler/EcoPix.
Cattle mustered for shipping off the reserve. Photo Leanne Hales.
Granite outcrop on the floodplain of the Herbert River in river paddock, Yourka Reserve. Photo Wayne Lawler/EcoPix.
Yourka Gorge. Photo Jen Grindrod.
One year since its declaration as a Nature Refuge Area, Bush Heritage Australia’s Yourka Reserve has completed all NatureAssist funded projects on the property, significantly boosting the Reserve’s conservation capabilities and allowing Yourka to continue on a trajectory of sustainable land management independent of project funding.
The projects were funded by the Queensland Department of Environment Heritage and Protection (EHP) and totalled almost $300,000. Activities undertaken included:
weed control;
improving road access and quality;
dam filling;
construction of between 12-15 km of fencing to complete the property’s southern boundary and to assist in cattle removal;
building of approximately 120km of firebreaks and installation of drains;
Construction of three pig and cattle exclusion zones.
Yourka Reserve manager Paul Hales says that the dam filling immediately worked to address the problem of overstocking on the land.
“Six dams that were attractive to cattle and pigs were filled in. Immediately after we started this work, cattle started to show up, which allowed us to muster approximately 100 head of cattle within a month.”
“The funding has allowed us to complete in 12 months important conservation work that would usually take between 3 and 4 years, with the benefits being felt by neighbouring properties as well,” he says.
NatureAssist’s support meant that Paul and his reserve management staff – including contractors and volunteers – could continue working on the dam project, independent of the project funding.
“Yourka has approximately 16 dams in total. We have about another half a dozen to fill in, which we can now do ourselves,” says Paul.
Yourka was chosen as a Nature Refuge Area by EHP in recognition of its significant conservation value and its predicted resilience to a changing climate. NatureAssist funding was provided for projects that had clear conservation outcomes and would contribute towards sustainable management of the property.
EHP’s decision was informed by data from James Cook University, where researchers from the Centre for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change were investigating areas that promote species persistence and ecosystem resilience in the face of global climate change. Yourka was the first property to be declared a Nature Refuge Area as a result of this data.
Yourka Reserve is a stronghold for 39 regional ecosystems and protects north Queensland forests and woodlands west of the Great Dividing Range. Yourka also protects a mix of relatively dry forests and woodlands in the rain-shadow of the Great Dividing Range that are under-represented in the National Reserve System, as well as moist forests abutting the World Heritage Wet Tropics Area.
Bush Heritage Australia purchased Yourka Reserve in late 2007 to safeguard a tract of remnant vegetation in a biodiversity hotspot in Queensland’s Einasleigh Uplands on the edge of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area.
Bush Heritage Australia is the largest Nature Refuge landholder in Queensland, with eight Bush Heritage Reserves covering more than 500,000 hectares of high-conservation land signed to Nature Refuge Agreements.
Yourka facts
Endangered and vulnerable species: Yourka Reserve is home to the red goshawk, Australia's rarest bird of prey; there remain only 700 breeding pairs. The goshawk is endangered under the Queensland Nature Conservation Act 1992 and vulnerable under the Federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act 1999. The Mareeba rock-wallaby, found on Yourka Reserve, is listed as near threatened under the Queensland Nature Conservation Act 1992.
Wildlife corridor: The conservation of Yourka Reserve completes a second east-west corridor across the southern Wet Tropics – from Japoon National Park through to Tully Gorge National Park, Koombooloomba Forest Reserve and Yourka Reserve.
In August 2014, Yourka Reserve was declared a Nature Refuge Area.
Yourka Reserve contains several permanent creeks and natural billabongs, as well as many seasonal creeks and streams. Forming its western boundary, the Herbert River is flanked with tall red gum and paperbark forests. The reserve protects habitat for a diverse range of wildlife, including the red goshawk, and mammals such as gliders, possums, bettongs, bandicoots and rock wallabies.
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Our supporters and our partners are the keys to our success. Without the support of thousands of Australians who contribute through their donations or their time as volunteers we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have.
Our founder, Dr Bob Brown, started Bush Heritage. “I was walking in Tasmania’s Liffey Valley on a sunny day in 1990 when I made a decision that began the journey we now know as Bush Heritage Australia... I was walking high above two beautiful bush blocks that had come up for sale and that logging companies were keen to buy... I thought about what might happen if someone didn’t protect that land."
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Dr Spindler has over 20 years of conservation science experience, working to improve the reproduction, health and conservation of rare and endangered species. She has managed extensive science programs in China, Brazil and the United States through the Smithsonian Institution.
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The actor behind the 'Veep' fan favourite Richard explains what makes him so funny
Jason Guerrasio
Justin M. Lubin/HBOSam Richardson as Richard Splett in ‘Veep.’
Sam Richardson quickly became a fan favourite on the HBO series “Veep” when he came on in season three as Richard Splett, the good-natured campaign aide to Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) who seems to be unfazed by all the insulting and backstabbing that goes on around him.
Richardson has since become a series regular on the show. Last season, Richard hilariously assisted Jonah Ryan’s (Timothy Simons) congressional campaign, and in the premiere episode of season six (which aired Sunday), we now find him as the chief of staff to now ex-president Meyer, who’s trying to figure out her next move.
Richard is ready with incredible responses for the rest of the cast’s sarcastic style, taking every single outlandish comment at face value and responding with a monotone, sincere response that has made the character so memorable.
Richardson talked to Business Insider about Richard’s new position on the show, how pulling off the perfect Richard response is harder than it looks, and why it’s challenging for him to go into an Apple store anymore.
Jason Guerrasio: You’ve said in the past that Richard is the only character in the “Veep” universe that isn’t working an angle. But do you think he has aspirations beyond what he’s doing?
Sam Richardson: I don’t know. I think he would be happy to go up or down the ladder. I think if he got bumped down to something else he would be like, “Well, at least I have experience at this.” And if he goes up he would be, “Oh, ok. Well, a new challenge.” So the thing with Richard is he has no specific ambition. It’s like, he has two doctorates, but he doesn’t seek out to follow those paths. He just does whatever he flows to.
Guerrasio: In the first episode of the new season, Richard has some amazing responses to things Selina says. She says she should get a spot on Showtime at the Apollo, and Richard says, “I’ll check on that.” Or when she talks about getting food stamps, he says, “I’ll look into an application.” The delivery is crucial. It always seems to be a beat after Selina says it. Do you practice that delivery?
Richardson: Part of what Richard does is there’s no time to filter for him. So everything is at face value. With his responses he’s saying it before even thinking about what was said. I have worked mostly with Tim Simons but I think Julia and I have a rhythm that we can play off of. So whatever is in the script, we can add that timing.
HBO‘Veep.’
Guerrasio: Is that timing developed at the table read or not until you are about to shoot?
Richardson: The table read gives you an idea of what the jokes are. It’s more, “Let’s see the jokes work,” so that timing doesn’t actually come in until you’re doing it [on set].
Guerrasio: And when it comes to nailing the jokes, do you guys just do a couple of takes?
Richardson: We’ll do a bunch of takes because along with shooting all the angles, the scenes can be long and the problem I have is I’ve made this character speak so quickly that I’ll marble-mouth sometimes some of those bits. So it takes a few to get it where it needs to go.
Guerrasio: How has the Richard character evolved? Did you play him differently when you auditioned?
Richardson: When I went in to audition I think I played him, not wily, but I played him like he was covering his own a– a little bit. Just a touch more of that. From the audition I saw him as this person who was a step behind but is fortunate enough to be on the same page as everyone else. If that makes sense.
Guerrasio: Well if I had never seen the character before, that wouldn’t.
Richardson: [Laughs]
Guerrasio: But when you see the character on the show it makes total sense.
Richardson: Yeah. Honestly, we never really had many conversations about him early on. When I first came on the show I was a one-episode guest. So at the table read I just did my interpretation. Then when we improvised some of the scenes I just played what I thought felt right. Little quips here and there. And the writers and [series creator] Armando [Iannucci], they liked that direction and then wrote those things into the script. I think we’re all in agreement on what Richard is like.
Guerrasio: Is there still an aspect of doing the Richard character or being on this show that’s the most challenging for you? That you will always have to work on no matter how long you are on it?
Richardson: The pattern that Richard speaks in. Specific details that he’s got to say. And I have really set myself up because everything I’m saying is so fast already that when I have to say the names of magazines, or a kind of list of things I have to say it’s like, “OK, you’ve done this to yourself, Sam.” That’s really the challenge, keeping up with the rhythm of speak that Richard has.
Guerrasio: Give me your craziest fan experience.
Richardson: When I wear glasses it happens often. And I’m always recognised when I go to the Apple store. It’s always a black guy wearing glasses. It’s like, “Hey man, love you on the show.” [Laughs] Every time. I’m like, ok, guess this is my audience.
Comedy Central‘Detroiters.’
Guerrasio: You are also the star on the new Comedy Central series “Detroiters,” which you cocreated. Is that your first time writing a series as opposed to bits?
Richardson: It is.
Guerrasio: What’s that been like?
Richardson: It’s been a learning experience, for sure. Joe Kelly, who is another cocreator and writer on the show, has written for sitcoms before, so we follow his guidance on narrative structure and how to piece together a half-hour TV show. It’s been fun to see that and then do our own thing off of that. Our instinct is funny first, but obviously you also have to tell a story. And we’re from Detroit so we’re telling the story while also giving the city a shoutout.
Guerrasio: And then for you, it was a conscious decision to make sure your character doesn’t wear glasses and speaks a different way from Richard.
Richardson: Yes, exactly. And it’s fun to do new things. And I hope I get to continue to do that.
Guerrasio: So last question: Do you have a favourite Richard line so far?
Richardson: I think it’s when he introduced himself to Tom James [Hugh Laurie] and he says, “I’m Richard T. Splett. I don’t know why I said ‘T’ — my middle name is John.” That one follows me the most and I love that line.
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’RHONY' Star Jill Zarin's Tributes To Her Late Dog Will Make You Sob — PHOTOS
By Kristie Rohwedder
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The Bravoverse said goodbye to a very special four-legged friend this week. In heartbreaking news, The Real Housewives of New York City alum Jill Zarin put Ginger, her 14-year-old Chihuahua, down Monday evening. Jill Zarin's late dog was a big part of the Jill Zarin era of RHONY, and an even bigger part of her family. The pup endured a series of serious health issues this year, and unfortunately, her condition did not improve.
Before she had the dog put down, Jill told People, “I didn’t want her to suffer. I know it’s the right thing to do but I’m just so sad.” After Ginger’s passing, Jill shared a memorial slideshow in honor of her longtime sidekick. She wrote on Instagram,
“We love you so much but knowing that you will be with daddy brings us peace. You will always be with me my sweet Ginger. I love you”
Jill’s daughter, Ally Shapiro, also posted a slideshow, writing,
“Although we didn’t always get along, I already miss your growl and your cuddles. Thank you for being the best sister for 15 years. Bobby needs you more right now”
And here is the tribute to Ginger that went up on Jill's dog Bossi's Instagram account on Tuesday:
The former RHONY star knew her dog’s time was coming, and so she made the most of their final days together. The weekend before Ginger died, Jill wrote on IG,
“I spent the last 5 days 24/7 in my apartment with Ginger, Bossi and Chicken. I want Gingers last days alone with me. I will never forget you my Ginger girl. I’ve been off social media and didn’t go to any fashion shows or parties because I know this is Gingers time to go be with her Daddy. He left her here for me to help me so I wouldn’t be alone. Bobby knows I am ok and we can’t let her suffer. She had a stroke, went blind, almost drowned twice and now has metastatic cancer. She can’t keep her food down. Her left front paw is limp from the stroke and we can’t let her suffer anymore. She will be surrounded with love from us and all of you who have prayed for her and my family and I will never be able to repay the favor but know how grateful we are.”
Oof, how gut-wrenching. Go ahead and let those tears flow.
What a devastating year it’s been for Jill. Her husband, Bobby Zarin, passed away on Jan. 13 after a long and difficult battle with cancer. For the next eight months, she watched her beloved Chihuahua’s health decline. Jill told People,
“I thought she was going to die a few months ago. Bobby made sure she stayed with me long enough to make sure I’m OK. She’s going to go to heaven tonight. She’s going home to be with her Daddy.”
Ginger, that little nostril-licking sweetheart, was and will forever be a Bravo icon. All of the love to Jill and her family.
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Husband Who Walked Miles With 'Need Kidney 4 Wife' Sign Finally Finds a Donor
Ian Anglin May 7th 2018 Inspiration
This is a story about a 74-year old man, who had to walk on busy streets, highways, and intersections for miles and hours at a time, hoping to find a suitable kidney donor for his wife, Deanne Winters. She was diagnosed with stage 5 kidney failure and was in dire need of an organ transplant. After many tries, Wayne's story became viral news, and he received between 700 and 800 organ donation offers afterward - meaning it wasn't a problem to find a suitable match for his wife of 26 years.
He Finally Found a Kidney for His Wife
Wayne Winters is a 74-year old man who walked for miles every day, in a bid to find a kidney for his ill wife. He was married to 26-year to Deanne Winters, who was diagnosed with stage 5 kidney failure - one of the worst types of kidney diagnosis there is. However, due to Wayne's persistence and the willingness of strangers, his wife now has a new chance in life.
However, it was not easy to find a donor - it actually took over two years of waiting for Wayne and Deanne for them to finally get the call they were waiting for - the one from a person that had agreed to donate his kidney to Wayne's wife. "I was just so overwhelmed, I didn't know what to think," Walter said during a recent interview with a local media team.
Finding a Donor Is Not Easy
Many people know that finding a donor for any kind of organ is no small feat - it takes many years to do so, although in many cases people don't succeed in finding a proper genetic match, meaning their lives could be at risk and even eventually end due to not finding a suitable or willing person for an organ transplant. Another problem is that so many people are on waiting lists, that it is very hard to come next on the list.
At the moment, there are 3,000 new patients added to kidney waiting lists every month (in the US alone), and 13 people actually die every day - while waiting on the list, due to not being able to find a donor on time. No one knows how long a person is going to end up on the waiting list, because some people are luckier due to having a more common genetic type.
Her Husband Saved her Life
Wayne Winters had to walk for miles every day, on busy roads and intersections, hoping that a driver is going to see his sign, remember his number, and call him in order to set up a transplantation. While this seems future on first thought, Wayne was right in thinking that if he did the same thing for a long enough time period, that finding a donor was bound to happen - and that is exactly what happened.
No one contacted Wayne until his story became viral, which was just a few days ago. After his story became national news, he received hundreds of offers for organ donations. He said that he was contacted between 700 and 800 times - his phone got literally filled up with potential donors, which means that finding a suitable match wasn't a problem anymore.
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The C40 Blog provides a platform for sharing important, diverse perspectives on current issues from C40 mayors, experts, partners and international thought leaders.
Houston Mayor Wins Climate Award
Houston Mayor Annise Parker has been honored for her city’s innovative work to improve the energy efficiency of the city’s public and private building stock. The C40 City mayor received a first place award in the large city category of the 2011 Mayors’ Climate Protection Awards, an initiative sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors and Walmart.
Spotlight on Public Engagement
More and more cities are making public engagement a key tactic in delivering their climate change strategies. The recent C40 Cities Mayors Summit in Sao Paulo featured a session on this topic, with panelists from New York, Tokyo and Seattle. Here, Emma Berndt, director of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) Outdoor Lighting program, which was originally developed and executed by the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI), shares her observations on the discussion that took place.
C40 Mayors Summit
WRI: “C40 Shows How Cities Can Lead on Climate Change Solutions”
Manish Bapna, Executive Vice President and Managing Director at WRI, has a great about his experience at the C40 Cities Mayors Summit in Sao Paulo and the importance of accurately measuring greenhouse gas emissions from cities. C40 and ICLEI announced during the Summit their plan to jointly develop a new GHG accounting and reporting program.
Mayors Voices: Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle
“Focusing on sustainability makes for a more livable city, Lord Mayor of Melbourne Robert Doyle told the C40 News Team. Watch more from his interview during the C40 Cities Mayors Summit in Sao Paulo.
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Expert Voices: Nigel Topping, Chief Innovation Officer at CDP
New greenhouse gas emissions data collected from C40 cities can help drive innovation, Nigel Topping, Chief Innovation Officer at the Carbon Disclosure Project, told the C40 News Team. CDP released a report during the Summit showing how cities are leading in implementing climate change strategies.
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by amna-mishal / Dec 10, 2014
In the previous two posts we briefly learned about the expansions in translation and translation business in the last millennium. Now we shall enlighten ourselves with the latest and the striking new characteristics in the history of translation today.
Before wireless internet came into existence there were barriers to enter the translating profession. Both translators and translation agencies had to overcome these barriers to be able to compete and produce quality translations. Translators now had to have industry-specific experience, for instance someone translating a patent needs to have relevant information regarding patent terms such as “claims” and “prior art”.
To a certain extent, we can exclaim that these barriers to entrance helped keep them unskilled or those who lacked skills out of the translation business hence maintaining quality.
Now translation agencies had grown keen to know and learn about the languages the catered in, they had to make a reasonable investment into infra-structure and logistics of the business. Before the internet became as accessible as air, it was also necessary for entrepreneurs to have a know-how about how to start-up and run a business in order to run a translation agency.
Although in the internet-age, the barriers to enter a translation business for both translators and translation agency has basically disappeared. Hypothetically, anybody can translate now with little or no knowledge about the foreign language with the kind of automation provided. But the ability to be able to translate does not conclude that you will be able to produce technically accurate rendition of the context. This is why it is necessary to choose a medium of translation which offers at least native-speakers, industry-specific experienced linguists and a project manager who can assure the technical aspects of content.
In the modern-times the main requirement to set up a business translating agency is to have access to internet. It is amazing how a smooth and well-maintained website can run a translation agency in the 21st century. It is inexpensive compared to old-times or at least the 20th century; saves office space rent, expensive stationary expense etc. All hail to internet, thousands of translators have made a sound career who only had a limited access to clients. Small Language service providers, grew into established translating agencies targeting new market capacities and also creating jobs for translators.
Compared to the 20th century where the only focus was to provide quality work, today the competition has increased. It is now as vital to compete in the industry on the basis of price, time take to deliver, incorporating latest technology to translate etc, as it is to deliver the best. The business model of translation agencies clearly shows and emphasis on providing a linguist on the basis of education, experience and other qualification of a human translator. Earlier, if there was an error in the translation prepared the entire blame was on the translator, whereas now a new level hierarchy has been introduced for project managers who play the middle man between client and translator ensuring quality check of the content reproduced. Everything is more formal now, with a record keeping system since each interaction is made through e-mail.
In the last century, client had to wait quite some time for lengthy content; with the combination of human and machine translation the turnabout has reduced to an unimaginable extent. Millions of words are translated in a few weeks, owing to technology like API. Another factor which supports the efficiency of modern times’ translation service is the “round the clock service”. Agencies have hired translations in all parts of the world, who work in different time zones hence a translator is available to provide service 24/7. Internet has made bulk translation possible, although to maintain quality delivery it is essential to take sufficient amount of time for dissemination.
It is amazing how new standards of translations were announced for quality assurance. Translation agencies also have to ascertain quality to maintain standards and legal legislations of translation to remain an authorized translation agency. Translation regulatory authorities and translation agencies go hand in hand to ensure quality remains the paramount of business. Clients have become sharper and well aware now, you cannot sell them whatever material you translated. The know consumer rights and serious ways of suing companies since translating is a serious business and a single technical error can cause major losses; for instance a translating error in the label of a medicine can cost a pharmaceutical company their license.
Where technology has made it easy for translation agencies to translate, it has also become a much more serious business than it previously was. Barriers to entry might have reduced to an extent but the business comes with huge responsibility and is not everyone’s cup of tea.
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Stopping the spread of hatred on social media
Bertie Vidgen - The Conversation
20 Mar 2019, 02:49 GMT+10
Versions of the livestream Christchurch attack video stayed online for a worrying amount of time
The toxic, hate-filled content went viral and was seen by millions
So what can platforms do to take down extremist and hateful content immediately?
The deadly attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which 50 people were killed and many others critically injured, was streamed live on Facebook by the man accused of carrying it out. It was then quickly shared across social media platforms.
Versions of the livestream attack video stayed online for a worrying amount of time. A report by the Guardian found that one video stayed on Facebook for six hours and another on YouTube for three. For many, the quick and seemingly unstoppable spread of this video typifies everything that is wrong with social media: toxic, hate-filled content which goes viral and is seen by millions.
But we should avoid scapegoating the big platforms. All of them (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google, Snapchat) are signed up to the European Commission's #NoPlace4Hateprogramme. They are committed to removing illegal hateful content within 24 hours, a time period which is likely to come down to just one hour.
Aside from anything else, they are aware of the reputational risks of being associated with terrorism and other harmful content (such as pornography, suicide, paedophilia) and are increasingly devoting considerable resources to removing it. Within 24 hours of the Christchurch attack, Facebook had banned 1.5m versions of the attack video – of which 1.2m it stopped from being uploaded at all.
Monitoring hateful content is always difficult and even the most advanced systems accidentally miss some. But during terrorist attacks the big platforms face particularly significant challenges. As research has shown, terrorist attacks precipitate huge spikes in online hate, overrunning platforms' reporting systems. Lots of the people who upload and share this content also know how to deceive the platforms and get round their existing checks.
So what can platforms do to take down extremist and hateful content immediately after terrorist attacks? I propose four special measures which are needed to specifically target the short term influx of hate.
1. Adjust the sensitivity of the hate detection tools
All tools for hate detection have a margin of error. The designers have to decide how many false negatives and false positives they are happy with. False negatives are bits of content which are allowed online even though they are hateful and false positives are bits of content which are blocked even though they are non-hateful. There is always a trade off between the two when implementing any hate detection system.
The only way to truly ensure that no hateful content goes online is to ban all content from being uploaded – but this would be a mistake. Far better to adjust the sensitivity of the algorithms so that people are allowed to share content but platforms catch a lot more of the hateful stuff.
2. Enable easier takedowns
Hateful content which does get onto the big platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, can be flagged by users. It is then sent for manual review by a content moderator, who checks it using predefined guidelines. Content moderation is a fundamentally difficult business, and the platforms aim to minimise inaccurate reviews. Often this is by using the "stick": according to some investigative journalists, moderators working on behalf of Facebook risk losing their jobs unless they maintain high moderation accuracy scores.
During attacks, platforms could introduce special procedures so that staff can quickly work through content without fear of low performance evaluation. They could also introduce temporary quarantines so that content is flagged for immediate removal but then re-examined at a later date.
3. Limit the ability of users to share
Sharing is a fundamental part of social media, and platforms actively encourage sharing both on their sites (which is crucial to their business models) and between them, as it means that none of them miss out when anything goes viral. But easy sharing also brings with it risks: research shows that extreme and hateful content is imported from niche far-right sites and dumped into the mainstream where it can quickly spread to large audiences. And during attacks it means that anything which gets past one platform's hate detection software can be quickly shared across all of the platforms.
Platforms should limit the number of times that content can be shared within their site and potentially ban shares between sites. This tactic has already been adopted by WhatsApp, which now limits the number of times content can be shared to just five.
4. Create shared databases of content
All of the big platforms have very similar guidelines on what constitutes "hate" and will be trying to take down largely the same content following attacks. Creating a shared database of hateful content would ensure that content removed from one site is automatically banned from another. This would not only avoid needless duplication but enable the platforms to quickly devote resources to the really challenging content that is hard to detect.
Removing hateful content should be seen as an industry-wide effort and not a problem each platform faces individually. Shared databases like this do also exist in a limited way but efforts need to be hugely stepped up and their scope broadened.
In the long term, platforms need to keep investing in content moderation and developing advanced systems which integrate human checks with machine learning. But there is also a pressing need for special measures to handle the short-term influx of hate following terrorist attacks.
(Bertie Vidgen PhD Candidate, Alan Turing Institute, University of Oxford).
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How this Norwegian studio crafts subsea visualizations
by Henry Winchester February 28, 2019 Design 0 comments
Who knew deep sea machinery could be this hypnotic? Rendering.no shows us a pipeline for pipelines and talks us through creating a stormy ocean in Phoenix FD
Founded by Ambrozie Pura in 2013, Rendering.no has made a name for itself with beautiful animations of machinery operating somewhere we rarely see: the ocean floor. It’s an inhospitable and alien environment where few have ventured, but the company’s animations look and feel natural, and even eerily mesmeric.
Effects are key to the success of Rendering.no’s projects, and the team makes use of V-Ray for 3ds Max, Phoenix FD for 3ds Max, V-Ray for Houdini and Chaos Cloud to add depth to the deep. We invited Ambrozie aboard the good ship Chaos for a chat about his incredible subaquatic work.
Could you give us a bit of background on yourself and how you founded Rendering.no?
I’m 36 years old, originally from Cluj-Napoca, Romania (aka Transylvania!), but I’ve lived in Stavanger, Norway since 2012. I’m a trained engineer, but I’ve always been attracted by the artistic side of things and chose to focus on the visuals. I’ve been working in 3D since 2005; I started with furniture, interior design, product and then architectural visualizations.
In 2007, I founded Ambrozoom3D and by 2009 we were mainly insourcing work from other studios and architects around the world and the occasional local project. In December 2012, I moved to Norway to work for a company in Stavanger, but animation and 3D was not their focus, so after a few months I left and started Rendering.no.
At the end of 2015, I decided to re-open a secondary office in Romania and I’m patiently building up a dedicated team of artists and engineers across both offices. The plan for the future of the studio is always the same: enjoy work; develop naturally.
How did you get involved with undersea visualizations?
Our very first project at Rendering.no was a subsea product visualization. The engineer in me was intrigued by its technical complexity, while my artistic side was fascinated by the extraterrestrial look and feel of it. Underwater technology has to withstand the extreme conditions of the deep ocean, which are similar to those found in space. It’s like doing VFX and animation for sci-fi movies — but this stuff actually gets built and used in the real world!
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You also do more conventional, landlubbering arch viz — are underwater shots easier or harder?
Technically speaking, the workflow is similar, but underwater visuals are trickier due to the small number of accurate references. There’s a huge difference in how these shots can look based on location, weather, depth — and the customer’s expectations. It’s easy to experience landscapes and cityscapes every day; we can travel and take photos for inspiration, but it's not so easy when you’re researching underwater reference — unless you’re James Cameron!
What are your clients’ requirements and why do they come to you?
Most of our projects are to create visuals — stills or animations — for new concepts, solutions or tools that solve demanding problems within the oil and gas industry, so it’s understandable that customers usually keep the focus on the technical aspects and how things work.
I’ve always kept a focus on the way things look while keeping the technical aspects accurate, of course. Our customers now understand and appreciate the importance of good-looking visuals, respecting the technical specifications — and I think that’s why they keep coming back.
I’m glad that V-Ray Next for Houdini exists — it’s so much easier to get the desired result with a renderer I know.
Ambrozie Pura, Rendering.no
What’s your software pipeline?
We do most of our work in 3ds Max and render with V-Ray Next for 3ds Max. We use Phoenix FD for 3ds Max for oceans, fire and so on; the Substance Suite is used for texturing; Photoshop and After Effects are brought in for post-production.
We’re also increasingly using Houdini in our pipeline. I’m fairly new to it, but I’ve caught the bug! I’m glad that V-Ray Next for Houdini exists — it’s so much easier to get the desired result with a renderer I know.
Your work features some very cool and complicated underwater tech — how do you accurately model it?
Most of the time we receive the 3D files from the customer, but occasionally one of our engineers will design and create the 3D model from scratch. Since the models are exported from engineering software they can be pretty messy to animate. We’ve tried several ways around the issue and we now remodel most if not all of the components to be able to properly texture and rig them. Therefore, we use either the original 3D model, or blueprints and photos, or a combination of them all to create new 3D models.
For the particles, we’ve just switched from 3ds Max to Houdini. And with Chaos Cloud at our fingertips, the pipeline just got smarter.
Particle effects and fluid dynamics are key to realistic underwater scenes — what do you use to create them?
We push ourselves so that every new project looks better than ever before. We make small changes to improve the workflow and its output, and Phoenix FD is always around for the fluid dynamics. For the particles, we’ve just switched from 3ds Max to Houdini. And with Chaos Cloud at our fingertips, the pipeline just got smarter.
Do you have any tips for good-looking underwater scenes?
From what I’ve learned so far, my advice is to always get as much real-world reference as possible: research the location and its particularities, besides the usual light and object behavior in water. For instance, don’t add corals in the North Sea, they just don’t exist there.
Chaos Cloud is seamlessly integrated, and its job-submission process is the smartest and most efficient I’ve seen.
How much time do you think Chaos Cloud saved you?
Actual rendering time? Weeks!
Has Chaos Cloud helped you do anything you couldn’t have done before?
Time-saving is the key feature that convinced me to use a render farm in the first place. Being able to render animations within a few hours is so valuable. Aside from the overall performance boost, Chaos Cloud is seamlessly integrated, and its job-submission process is the smartest and most efficient I’ve seen.
The stormy sea looks incredible in your “Offshore Harsh Weather” animation. Could you tell us about the project, and how you set up the stormy sea in Phoenix?
For the intro shots, which show the underwater vehicle being deployed, we were asked to create a harsh offshore environment to highlight the launching system’s capabilities in choppy water. We started by building the vessel and animating the deployment system, then I found and analyzed footage of rough seas online. With these in mind, I experimented with Phoenix FD, combining my own ideas with online tutorials.
Phoenix FD is highly intuitive, and once you understand how to use the parameters it’s easy to achieve the look you want. For example, I used the Beach Waves tutorial on ChaosGroupTV to learn how to use the wave force — although obviously, this was not on a beach.
There were a few challenges in research and design and finding the right balance between a high- detail simulation and reasonable rendering time. Each sim frame was about 2GB, so even after deleting unused frames, we were dealing with almost 4TB of data. I found the Resimulation option extremely useful; the wet map in the close-up shot was not acting as I expected it to, but it only took a couple of hours to re-simulate it.
What are you working on next?
We have some of the most exciting projects ever on the table at the moment, including a private submarine. As soon as the design and modeling are finished we’ll create a cool animation for marketing it.
We’re also working with a film company on an animation to show the different stages of upgrading the seabed infrastructure for an existing oil field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. That will stress our machines with a lot of highly realistic simulation. It will be our next best work!
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"Fake news" is now part of the American vernacular, and wordsmiths have Donald Trump to thank.
President Trump recently handed out the 2017 "Fake News Awards" for the 11 most irresponsible examples of reporting. And the headlines, ranging from ice cream to pecan pie, bordered on—if not crossed—the ridiculous. Trump's "favorite" media outlet, CNN, garnered four of the awards.
But long before last week's awards, Donald Trump was calling out those who just plain didn't get the story straight, even on the campaign trail. And his boldness resonated with voters, says Stephen E. Strang, author of the best-selling book, God and Donald Trump.
Strang, who was a guest on Fox & Friends this past Sunday, said that when then-candidate Trump began responding to his critics at all hours of the day and night on Twitter, he surprised and embarrassed a lot of his detractors, tweeting strongly worded comments no one had expected.
"He had already waged highly publicized verbal battles with Meryl Streep and other celebrities such as Rosie O'Donnell and Oprah Winfrey, but this would be an altogether different kind of war," Strang wrote. "With a level of technical savvy uncommon for a man of his generation, Trump was able to counterattack within minutes whenever his opponents made scurrilous charges against him. This was something new, and it delighted his fans and the public at large, even as it infuriated the increasingly volatile resistance.
"Before long, Trump was a serial tweeter, and he provided the media with some riveting sound bites," he continued. "Not everyone, of course, was thrilled by this new development. Liberal news organizations compiled exhaustive catalogs of Trump's tweets to show how insensitive, ignorant and wrong-headed he could be. But they couldn't ignore them, and they followed his tweets faithfully, hoping to catch him in some word or deed that would be his undoing."
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Strang fully acknowledges that some of Trump's comments were tactless and crude, often attacking his detractors with salty schoolyard taunts.
"But Trump's use of Twitter gave him a way around the mainstream media and his political opponents who had been getting free access to the media and were able to insult and demean him with impunity," Strang wrote. "Suddenly, those same people were being held accountable in real time, and news hawks on both sides didn't want to miss a word of it.
"Trump hasn't slowed his Twitter storm since moving into the White House," the author added. "At one point, he had said there would have been 'ZERO chance of winning WH' if he had relied on the 'Fake News' being churned out by the mainstream media. But his candid and unfiltered Twitter feeds helped turn the tables on his foes."
Strang is an award-winning journalist and successful businessman who began his career as a newspaper reporter at the Orlando Sentinel. He later founded a Christian publishing house and media company while interviewing and writing about nearly every Christian leader in the country over the past four decades.
For more information on God and Donald Trump, visit GodandDonaldTrump.com and view the book's video. Visitors to the site can also download a free chapter and order the book.
God and Donald Trump is published by Frontline, an imprint of Charisma House, which has published books that challenge, encourage, teach and equip Christians, including 14 New York Times best-sellers.
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The Charleston Library Society, Charleston Museum and College of Charleston Libraries have sponsored related displays or events. And Gibbes Museum of Art, which opened last weekend after a two-year renovation, has mounted “Beyond Catfish Row: The Art of Porgy and Bess,” an exhibit of drawings and paintings related to the opera since it opened in 1935. (You’ll find composer George Gershwin’s canvases there.)
The city has had a thorny relationship with the opera set on its now-extinct Catfish Row – which, in reality, was named Cabbage Row and ran off Church Street, south of Queen. A proposed production during the segregated 1950s never happened. A 1970 version with local performers did the city credit but made no splash beyond it.
“Porgy and Bess” had to wait 40 years for Spoleto to give it the attention it deserved. (Well, almost all the attention: The festival chose not to use supertitles, so anyone who doesn’t know DuBose Heyward’s libretto will frequently be lost.) Small sections have been cut, notably Porgy’s “Buzzard Song,” and one of the two intermissions has been dropped to shorten your stay in Gaillard Center. What’s left flies by over more than three hours, giving pleasure in every scene.
The terrific Lester Lynch sets the tone as Porgy with excellent diction, jovial humor and a sense of deep pathos that belongs to the crippled beggar called “a piece of a man” by Sportin’ Life (cheerfully sleazy Victor Ryan Robertson, a fine Almaviva in Opera Carolina’s “Barber of Seville” seven years ago).
There’s no weak link in the cast, from Alyson Cambridge’s poignant Bess and Eric Greene’s malevolently sexy Crown down to street criers selling honey, strawberries and deviled crabs. The Johnson C. Smith University Concert Choir, which makes up half the chorus, sing and act with beauty and conviction.
Director David Herskovits and painter Green, who designed both set and costumes, can claim a large share of the triumph. They let the region’s Gullah influences creep into the show slowly, until those take over at last in a riot of color that gives Catfish Row a sense of unity.
That setting begins as an enclave tucked away from white Charleston, invaded occasionally by authorities who usually mean no good to the black residents. History’s inescapable here: Even Archdale, the genial chap who helps Peter the Honey Man get out of jail on an unfair charge, explains himself to Porgy by saying, “His folks used to belong to my fam’ly.”
Yet over the course of time, the clothes and buildings become transformed. Only Sportin’ Life and Crown, both of whom finally leave the community, and the completely assimilated Christian Serena remain untouched by Sea Island elements. By the end, when Porgy settles in a wheelchair with feathers and cloth decorations, he has the unforced dignity of an African king climbing onto his throne.
Such ideas probably never occurred to Heyward, who used the story of local beggar Sammy Smalls as the basis for his 1925 novel “Porgy.” Heyward’s life comes up frequently on that worthwhile walking tour, which turns out to be a two-hour look at almost 350 years of Charleston’s history. (Soon after the city incorporated in 1670, slaves arrived. They made up the majority of the population by 1708.)
The guide leads you slowly around the bottom of the Charleston Peninsula, explaining the interaction among Heyward, wife Dorothy (who turned his novel into a play in 1927, writing with her husband) and George Gershwin, who came to Folly Beach seven years later to study black residents and hear their music.
Yet you also learn about the Rev. Daniel Joseph Jenkins, who was born into slavery but created an orphanage in 1891. He started bands three years later, hoping tubercular students might improve their health by playing instruments. Some folks think Jenkins Band cornettist Gus Aitken created the “wah-wah” brass flutter that became the distinctive sound of the Duke Ellington orchestra.
One of those Jenkins bands even played in the pit for the 1927 Broadway run of “Porgy,” where Gershwin may have heard it. That’s the kind of stuff you’ll learn if you let yourself be Porgified at Spoleto this spring.
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Lester Lynch sings “Bess, You Is My Woman Now” to Alyson Cambridge in Spoleto Festival USA’s “Porgy and Bess.” Julia Lynn ©Julia Lynn
Sportin’ Life (Victor Ryan Robertson, in pink suit) extols the virtues of “happy dust” to the people of Catfish Row in Spoleto Festival USA’s “Porgy and Bess.” Julia Lynn ©Julia Lynn
Porgy (Lester Lynch, center) prepares to make an unimaginably long journey at the end of Spoleto Festival USA’s “Porgy and Bess.” Julia Lynn ©Julia Lynn
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How to Use Psychology to Refresh the Rebrand Experience
May 30, 2019 / in Comms Best Practices / by Cision Contributor
How could a brand as well-known as Coca-Cola disappear from the face of the internet? In mid-November 2018, the king of soft drinks basically did just that for an entire weekend. Coca-Cola wiped its social media accounts clean so it could relaunch on World Kindness Day, kick-starting a rebrand rooted in optimism. But what spurred the change in the first place? Coca-Cola’s Social Center found that its fans preferred uplifting content— think inspiring quotes and graphics— and the brand refresh positioned Coca-Cola to better align with good vibes.
Coca-Cola hasn’t always gotten it right, though. Remember New Coke? This was the result of Coca-Cola’s marketers and product creators underestimating the loyalty their consumers already felt to their existing product. This kind of misstep is especially prevalent in rebranding, where artistic choices sometimes have little value beyond their initial flair. Rebrands are powerful things, though, and brand leaders should not waste an opportunity to forge a deeper audience connection.
To do that, they must tap into the power of emotion.
The Psychological Road Map to Better Rebrands
Emotion is the most potent connector in the world, particularly where brand storytelling is concerned. The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising found that brand campaigns that appeal purely to emotions perform approximately twice as well as those that appeal primarily to logic. We don’t have to look far to see how these findings translate to real life.
While Nike didn’t launch a full rebrand, its powerful 30th-anniversary campaign featuring politically polarizing Colin Kaepernick offers a great example. Nike made a bold but strategic business decision to ignite a cultural firestorm with the outspoken quarterback’s presence and the headline: “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.” And while the campaign caused some consumers to swear off Nike forever, the emotional creative clearly resonated with others. The campaign increased sales and customer engagement, adding an impressive $6 billion to Nike’s overall market value.
Pressing psychological buttons like Nike did is less about manipulation than it is about tapping into biological drivers. In their book “Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices,” Harvard Business School professors Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria posit that humans are motivated by four primary biological drivers: the drive to acquire, defend, bond, and learn. Each drive operates independently from the others. So while the drive to acquire encourages people to collect everything from status to resources, the drive to bond spurs social connections.
The brands with the most faithful followers know how to tap into all four drivers in their rebrands, activating “cult loyalty” — the strongest expression of a customer relationship. Marketers and PR professionals can lead a rebrand that inspires cult loyalty by leaning on psychology in three distinct areas:
1. Leverage social proof
Consumers choose to patronize certain brands because they signify who they are as people. Fans of the brand aren’t just those who prefer the product but members of a group that shares their values. We can find examples of this everywhere we look: Mercedes-Benz enthusiasts feel a camaraderie different from that of BMW loyalists, just as iPhone users swear they’ll never switch to an Android.
Marketers can leverage the power of social proof to encourage consumers to see their brand as an extension of themselves. Research by social psychologist and neuroscientist Matthew Lieberman showed that our brains are wired to prioritize social interactions, suggesting that people may be more likely to follow a brand if they see evidence that others are already on board.
So show consumers how engagement with the new brand is not just what they should do— but what others already do. This sounds complicated, but it might manifest in strategies as simple as reframing messaging from “you should love our rebrand” to “your social group loves it already.”
2. Feed consumers’ wants until brand alignment feels like a need
Desire is a powerful emotion, and in life, it often feels spontaneous: “I simply can’t live without this thing.” In rebranding, however, marketers need to direct desire systematically, unraveling their brand’s distinct source of desirability and cultivating it. Don’t misunderstand: This isn’t about manipulation. Consumers want to be in on the joke, not the butt of one.
Instead, use your rebrand to represent something that consumers can’t live without. Feed that desire until the line between the perceived need to align with the brand and the real need of personal fulfillment begins to blur. E-Trade’s “Don’t Get Mad” campaign is a good example. The ads connect not just to consumers’ desire to earn more money, but also to their need to win the game of capitalism (especially within personal circles). When people don’t just like certain brands but need them, they’ll follow these brands to the ends of the earth.
3. Appeal to status
As humans, we’re constantly aware of our position within the pack. Marketers can help consumers along during the rebrand by showing them how the brand increases an individual’s status within the hierarchy.
Dior offers a lesson in the power of status. A few years back, the brand began to offer handbags at more accessible prices, but the move had the unintended effect of drawing both mid- and high-income buyers to the lower price point. Rather than spread the brand thin across multiple price points while losing market share, Dior did away with the lower-priced bags and was able to recapture its luxury buyers. By selling a true luxury product, Dior maintained the aspirational prestige of the brand— and sales numbers jumped, too.
People don’t want to belong just anywhere; they want to feel special and better. And they use their connections to brands to accomplish that. Use your rebrand to feed that and encourage people to adopt brand loyalty as a personality trait.
In our “always on” world, consumers are mired in rebrands. If brands can capture even a few seconds with consumers, that matters. But if they fail to do so in a meaningful way, all they’ve done is waste money and time. We know how powerful emotions are, so rather than use your next rebrand opportunity to appeal to your customers’ surface impulses, lean on the science of psychology to forge deeper bonds. If people can see themselves in your brand in a way they didn’t before, you have the opportunity to connect with them for a lifetime.
Kevin Thompson is CMO of Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates LLC, where he oversees and implements marketing, interactive, digital, advertising, and PR initiatives for the brand. Kevin has an extensive background working with globally recognized luxury brands. He’s passionate about creating an unparalleled customer experience through exceptional marketing and brand management.
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Differential Diagnosis: Hypercholesterolemia
Julie Allen, BVMS, MS, MRCVS, DACVIM (SAIM), DACVP, Cornell University
Julie Allen
BVMS, MS, MRCVS, DACVIM (SAIM), DACVP Cornell University
Julie Allen, BVMS, MS, MRCVS, DACVIM (SAIM), DACVP, is a clinical assistant professor of clinical pathology at Cornell University. She earned her veterinary degree from University of Glasgow and her master’s degree from Iowa State University. She completed a rotating internship in small animal medicine and surgery and a residency in small animal internal medicine. She also completed a residency in clinical pathology at North Carolina State University. Dr. Allen focuses on cachexia/anorexia, endocrinology, hepatobiliary, and pancreatic disease and has committed her career to improving the diagnosis of disease.
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Following are differential diagnoses, listed in order of likelihood, for patients presented with hypercholesterolemia.
Hemolysis (false increase with marked hemolysis)
Postprandial (mild, typically does not exceed the reference interval)
Certain high-fat diets (dogs only; meat-based diets only)
Hyperadrenocorticism
Pancreatitis (hypertriglyceridemia more common)
Familial hyperlipidemia of miniature schnauzers (primarily hypertriglyceridemia)
Nephrotic syndrome (in combination with hypoalbuminemia, proteinuria, and edema)
Familial hypercholesterolemia (Briards, rottweilers, Doberman pinschers, rough collies, Shetland sheepdogs)
Inherited hyperchylomicronemia (in cats; primarily hypertriglyceridemia)
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Village Roadshow wants to sue pirates, block 40 piracy sites
The Aussie film distributor is not one to pull its punches on piracy, but this year it's got an aggressive five-point plan to tackle the problem (and it's got its eyes on you).
Claire Reilly
February 16, 2017 8:12 PM PST
Village Roadshow has a big plan to stop piracy this year, and one of its goals could have a massive impact on you.
The Aussie film distributor has announced plans to go after individual pirates this year, saying it will start "suing infringers" as part of an aggressive five-point anti-piracy program.
But the company isn't just going after internet users. After successfully petitioning to block Australians from accessing The Pirate Bay, the company has also revealed it will try to block a further 40 websites this year, targeting "90 percent of the flow" of copyright-infringing content.
As well as suing internet users and chasing site-blocks, Roadshow's plan also includes "Google take-downs and site ranking demotions," a "major PR campaign" and a commitment to "availability of legal product."
That last point may rankle some Australians, who are currently going through a month-and-a-half-long wait to see one of Roadshow's new films "The Lego Batman Movie" after the distributor made the decision to release the film in Australia 48 days after the US.
Village, which has long been an outspoken industry voice on the state of piracy in Australia, spent a good part of 2016 in the Federal Court as part of a petition by rights holders to get Australian internet service providers to block sites including The Pirate Bay and Solar Movie.
Success on this case has opened the door for more blocks under Australia's site-blocking legislation, and with many of the legal questions sorted out in the Pirate Bay case, it could be a quicker process for the 40 sites Roadshow is targeting.
But if you're a regular torrenter, it's unclear how the company plans on coming after you.
The major piracy case brought by the producers of "Dallas Buyers Club" showed us that rights holders will have difficulty compelling ISPs to reveal the personal details of customers accused of piracy. The judge in that case refused to release details of iiNet customers to match to IP addresses found torrenting the film.
Either way, 2017 looks set to be a busy year on the piracy front once again.
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Josh McNeil speaks out against the PennEast pipeline
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Cigarette sales go up in smoke
Cigarette sales in England and Wales are experiencing a sharp fall following the ban on smoking in public places.
Lambert & Butler maker Imperial Tobacco said that sales in the UK had fallen by 4% to £47bn in the year to December.
Meanwhile, figures from the Information Centre for Health and Social Care revealed that almost 165,000 smokers kicked the habit between April and September last year. The figures represent a 28% rise in the number of people giving up compared with the same period in 2006.
Alex Andrews, manager of Newport Village Stores in Essex, said he had noticed a significant drop in sales since the ban was introduced in England last July. "We have taken £1,500 less in cigarette sales this January compared with last year," he said.
October's rise in the legal smoking age had also contributed to the fall, he believed. "However, I have noticed that many of the teenagers who used to smoke are buying confectionery instead; chocolate sales have soared," he said.
Tim Lake, of Redlands Stores in Fareham, Hampshire, agreed, but added: "I was expecting the smoking ban to prompt a rise in alcohol sales, but there has been very little noticeable change there."
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Cook The Books
Everlasting Feast: A Treasury of Recipes and Culinary Adventures
Author(s): Lauraine Jacobs
New Zealand | Food Writing | Memoir | General Cookery
Favourite recipes and stories of a life in food come together in a beautiful cookbook by one of New Zealand's best-known food writers Lauraine Jacobs is a New Zealand food legend. Whether it's through her hundreds of recipes written over the years for Cuisine magazine, her weekly column in the Listener or her cooking demonstrations at the Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch Food Shows, New Zealand cooks know that her recipes are utterly reliable and totally delicious. There are few food writers more experienced or more expert. Lauraine trained at the Cordon Bleu school in Paris, and for over 40 years since she has travelled widely, championed New Zealand food and wine producers, judged restaurant awards, been president of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, sat on government advisory panels, written several cookbooks and eaten at some of the world's finest restaurants. Above all, she has never stopped loving cooking and exploring new ways to bring beautifully prepared meals to the table. It's been an everlasting feast. Whether it's traditional baking or a glamorous dinner-party menu, Lauraine has the recipes homecooks can count on. She shares 100 of them with her fans in this gorgeous new cookbook that tells the fascinating stories of her life in food and showcases her favourite recipes and cooking tips and techniques.
Lauraine Jacobs is one of New Zealand's most experienced and best-known food writers. Trained at the Cordon Bleu School in Paris, she went on to become a long-serving food editor at Cuisine magazine and she now writes a weekly food column for the New Zealand Listener. She is a restaurant awards judge, broadcaster, cooking teacher and ardent advocate for New Zealand food and wine producers. Lauraine is a past president of the IACP and the New Zealand Food Writers Guild. She also runs a very popular blog www.laurainejacobs.co.nz/blog/ Lauraine lives in Auckland and at Omaha with her husband, Murray Jacobs.
Publisher : Random House New Zealand Ltd
Imprint : Random House New Zealand Ltd
Dimensions : 245 x 175 mm
Produced in : New Zealand
Availability date : September 2012
Out of Print Date : November 2016
Author : Lauraine Jacobs
Illustrator : Elizabeth Clarkson
Illustrations : Colour
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Published on: November 8, 2013
Indiana Supreme Court Rejects Claim That Lawyer Violated Rule 8.2(a) In A Motion For Change of Judge
The case is captioned In the Matter of Thomas M. Dixon, 71S00-1104-D1-196.
The Indiana Supreme Court dismissed all charges against Thomas Dixon, an attorney who represented 85 pro-life protestors in proceedings before Judge Jenny Pitts Manier. Judge Manier is married “to Professor Edward Manier, who was a tenured professor at Notre Dame and taught there for 48 years.”
Dixon filed a motion for a change of judge. He sought Judge Manier’s recusal “based on her husband’s alleged advocacy in favor of pro-choice causes and academic freedom for Notre Dame, along with Judge Manier’s failure to disclose this alleged advocacy. [Dixon] argued that his clients were arrested because they acted on beliefs about abortion and academic freedom for Notre Dame that were directly contrary to the beliefs allegedly advocated by Professor Manier during her career….In addition [Dixon] cited Judge Manier’s allegedly erroneous rulings in [a prior case involving abortion-rights protestors.].”
The Rule at issue is Rule 8.2(a) which provides:
RULE 8.2: JUDICIAL AND LEGAL OFFICIALS
(a) A lawyer shall not make a statement that the lawyer knows to be false or with reckless disregard as to its truth or falsity concerning the qualifications or integrity of a judge, adjudicatory officer or public legal officer, or of a candidate for election or appointment to judicial or legal office.
In this case the charge was that Dixon made statements “with reckless disregard as to [their] truth or falsity.” The Indiana Supreme Court held that it would “expressly adopt an objective standard for determining when a statement made by an Indiana attorney about a judicial officer violates Rule 8.2(a).
The court further clarified its discussion. “Even though Rule 8.2 holds attorneys to a higher disciplinary standard than New York Times does in defamation cases, we also recognize that attorneys need wide latitude in engaging in robust and effective advocacy on behalf of their clients-particularly on issues, as here, that require criticism of a judge or a judge’s ruling. …A motion for a change of judge due to personal bias is inherently sensitive, but it implicates the client’s fundamental due process right to a neutral decision maker. Counsel’s advocacy on such matters must not be chilled by an overly restrictive interpretation of Rule 8.2(a).”
Under that objective standard, the charge was dismissed. There was no evidence that Dixon had a bad motive or that he suggested that Judge Manier was acting based upon improper motives. The court held that none of the statements made by Dixon in his motion for change of judge violated Rule 8.2(a) and thus the case was dismissed.
Comment: This case is a victory for free speech in advocacy. The lawyer acted appropriately in seeking to change the judge. The Indiana Supreme Court got this one right.
Posted in: Attorney-Client Relationship and Legal Ethics
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UCH Neuro ICU wins Gold Beacon Award for Excellence
Honor highlights Neurological Intensive Care Unit for exceptional patient care
Dan Weaver
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AURORA, Colo. – The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) recently conferred a gold-level Beacon Award for Excellence on the Neuro ICU at the University of Colorado Hospital (UCH).
The Beacon Award for Excellence — a significant milestone on the path to exceptional patient care and healthy work environments — recognizes caregivers who successfully improve patient outcomes and work environments. Units that achieve this three-year, three-level award with gold, silver and bronze designations meet national criteria consistent with Magnet Recognition, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and the National Quality Healthcare Award.
AACN President Mary Stahl, RN, MSN, ACNS-BC, CCNS-CMC, CCRN, applauds the commitment of this unit for working together to meet and exceed the high standards set forth by the Beacon Award for Excellence. These dedicated healthcare professionals set the standard for optimal patient care.
“The Beacon Award for Excellence recognizes caregivers in stellar units whose consistent and systematic approach to evidence-based care optimizes patient outcomes. Units that receive this national recognition serve as role models to others on their journey to excellent patient and family care,” said Stahl.
UCH Vice President of Patient Services and Chief Nursing Officer Carolyn Sanders, RN, PhD, NEA-BC, congratulates the Neuro ICU staff on this top-level award. “Our nurses work incredibly hard every day to make sure we deliver the best possible patient care, and the UCH Neuro ICU should be extremely proud of this national recognition.”
The gold-level Beacon Award for Excellence earned by UCH’s Neuro ICU signifies excellent and sustained unit performance and patient outcomes. The unit earned a gold award by meeting the following criteria:
Leadership Structures and Systems
Appropriate Staffing and Staff Engagement
Effective Communication, Knowledge Management, Learning and Development, Best Practices
Evidence-Based Practice and Processes
AACN honors Beacon Award for Excellence recipients with announcements in AACN Bold Voices, the monthly award-winning member magazine distributed to more than 90,000 acute and critical care nurses nationwide. AACN also honors awardees at the National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition, the world’s largest educational conference and trade show for nurses who care for acutely and critically ill patients and their families.
About the Beacon Award for Excellence: Established in 2003, the Beacon Award for Excellence offers a road map to help guide exceptional care through improved outcomes and greater overall patient satisfaction. U.S. or Canadian units where patients receive their principal nursing care after hospital admission qualify for this excellence award. To learn more, visit www.aacn.org/beacon or call (800) 899-2226. The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) is the largest specialty nursing organization in the world. AACN joins together the interests of more than 500,000 acute and critical care nurses and claims more than 235 chapters worldwide. To learn more about AACN, visit www.aacn.org, connect with the organization on Facebook at facebook.com/aacnface or follow AACN on Twitter at twitter.com/aacnme.
About University of Colorado Hospital
University of Colorado Hospital is the Rocky Mountain region’s leading academic medical center. It is recognized as the highest-performing academic hospital in the United States for delivering quality health care by the University HealthSystem Consortium, and is ranked as the best hospital in the Denver metro area and one of the best in the country by U.S. News & World Report. UCH is best known as an innovator in patient care and often as one of the first hospitals to bring new medicine to the patients’ bedside. The hospital’s physicians are affiliated with the University of Colorado School of Medicine, part of the University of Colorado system. Based on the expansive Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, CO, the hospital is where patient care, research and education converge to establish the future of health care delivery. For additional information, please visit the University of Colorado Hospital media page.
Contact: dan.weaver@ucdenver.edu
Written by: Dan Weaver
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Men's Swim & Dive
Cal emerges victorious from shootout against USC
Isabella Ko/Staff
By Joey Patton | Staff
Last Updated February 11, 2019
Sparks to fly as Cal men’s swim hosts undefeated Trojans
Cal men’s swim sustains perfect record in split-squad competitions
Cal men’s swim traveling separately for split-squad competitions
In a stormy Friday afternoon showdown that could leave only one team undefeated, the Cal men’s swim team bested USC and prevented the Trojan horse from knocking down the walls of Berkeley’s Spieker Aquatics Complex.
The Bears set the tone right out of the gate, as two Cal quartets claimed the top spots in the 200-yard medley relay. The group consisting of Daniel Carr, Carson Sand, Pawel Sendyk and Ryan Hoffer claimed first with a final time of 1:25.37, while teammates Bryce Mefford, Reece Whitley, Andrew Seliskar and Michael Jensen finished shortly behind, at 1:26.16.
As the meet transitioned into the 1,000-yard freestyle, fans likely expected to see a shootout between Cal sophomore Trenton Julian and USC freshman Victor Johansson. Despite these expectations, however, Julian did not compete in the event, and Johansson stalled to a third-place finish. In the end, it was Cal sophomore Sean Grieshop who emerged from the water as the event’s victor with a stellar 9:03.04.
Cal kept its foot on the gas and piled on the damage in the 200-yard freestyle, as superstars Seliskar and Julian finished one-two with respective times of 1:33.77 and 1:35.95. Immediately thereafter, sophomore Mefford took first in the 100-yard backstroke at 46.94, giving Cal its fourth victory in as many events.
The day’s first shake-up came when USC sophomore Carsten Vissering beat out Cal freshman Whitley in the 100-yard breaststroke. What was highlighted as the meet’s marquee matchup lived up to every bit of excitement, as Vissering’s 52.34 barely edged out Whitley’s 52.77. Considering each swimmer’s young age, Whitley versus Vissering may shape up to be an exciting rivalry for Pac-12 swimming fans to enjoy for years to come.
Cal showed excellent resiliency and immediately bounced back from its first loss of the day, as Bears Zheng Wen Quah, Mike Thomas and Jack Xie claimed the top three spots in the 200-yard butterfly. From that point on, the two teams battled back and forth and split the next 10 events at 5-5. But when it was all said and done, Cal brought home a 156-126 victory and maintained its perfect record on the season.
“We stayed aggressive in our races from start to finish,” said Cal head coach David Durden. “There was no complaining, and on a day like today, there is a lot to complain about. I just thought whether a guy was racing one or racing four times, they stayed aggressive in all of their races.”
With their closest competition of the year now in hindsight, the Bears can turn their attention to a rematch against archrival Stanford that will bring an end to their regular season. And once that’s in the books, the team can finally set its sights on March’s NCAA championships.
If Cal continues to fight as it did against USC, there’s no reason the team can’t capture its first national championship since 2014 and truly live up to the team’s status as the “Golden” Bears.
Joey Patton covers men’s swimming and diving. Contact him at [email protected].
Carsten Vissering, David Durden, Pac-12, Reece Whitley, USC
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Italy defeats England in penalty kicks
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) � After two hours of clever, often dominating but in the end fruitless play, Italy found the answer against England.
Penalty kicks.
Alessandro Diamanti scored the decisive kick yesterday to send Italy through to the European Championship semifinals with a 4-2 win in the shootout after a 0-0 tie with England.
Italy will next play Germany in the semifinals Thursday in Warsaw, Poland. Defending champion Spain plays Portugal on Wednesday in Donetsk, Ukraine.
"We deserved this victory," Diamanti said. "The penalties rewarded our dominance during the match. It's only fair. We played a great match and battled from the first to the last minute."
But not until penalties by Mario Balotelli, Andrea Pirlo � with an audacious slow chip-shot down the middle of the goal � and Antonio Nocerino did the Azzurri find the net. Steven Gerrard and Wayne Rooney scored England's penalties.
The difference: Ashley Young hit the crossbar with England's third, and Ashley Cole's attempt was saved by Gianluigi Buffon.
For England, it was yet another exit from a major tournament in the quarterfinals after a penalty shootout. England lost to Portugal in the same manner at Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup.
"It's obviously a hard way to go out," Rooney said. "And it's maybe happened too many times now."
England briefly led the shootout after Riccardo Montolivo missed Italy's second penalty. His shot went wide of Joe Hart's right post as the England goalkeeper guessed correctly.
Rooney then sent Buffon the wrong way, firing in his spot kick to the keeper's right to give England a 2-1 lead.
The momentum shifted after Pirlo's bold piece of skill leveled it 2-2.
"I just saw that the goalkeeper was moving a bit earlier, so I decided to play it the other way," Pirlo said. "It just comes to you at that moment, and it went well."
Not for England.
"We have done the country proud. But again we go home with heartbreak, and it's difficult to take," said Gerrard, who played in both those previous shootout losses.
The match ended 0-0 after 120 minutes. The Italians twice hit the post but were also let down by poor composure in front of the net. Diamanti clipped the post with a curling cross in the 101st minute and swept a shot wide in the clearest chance of the second period of extra time.
Nocerino, another substitute, thought he had scored from Diamanti's cross in the 115th but was offside.
Daniele De Rossi hit the post in the third minute, and Buffon saved a shot from Glen Johnson in the fifth.
The first scoreless match at Euro 2012 was neither dull nor lacking good soccer.
Italy's attacking desire and creativity under Coach Cesare Prandelli had playmaker Pirlo at its heart. Italy had 35 shots, compared to only nine for England.
An intriguing match almost demanded that Balotelli take center stage. The Italy forward ran clear in the 25th but hesitated and allowed John Terry to block his chipped shot.
Balotelli forced Hart, his teammate at Manchester City, to save an acrobatic shot then surged between England's central defenders before putting a half-volley over the crossbar. He kicked the goal post in frustration.
Three rapid-fire chances in the 52nd saw Hart beat away De Rossi's long-range shot, block Balotelli's follow-up and watch Montolivo lash the loose ball high.
England Coach Roy Hodgson had to react to Italy's dominance and sent on substitutes Andy Carroll and Theo Walcott, who both scored in a 3-2 win over Sweden.
Carroll's muscular presence created a shooting chance for Young, but England still failed to convert. Rooney made little impression after an early diving header.
Deep into injury time, Italian defensive jitters created a chance for Rooney, but his overhead kick sailed high.
Then it was on to penalties. And Diamante's heroics.
"Getting to this point is a huge satisfaction," Diamanti said. "I always believed I would, even when I played in the inter-regional division."
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Future: "There Is No Third Album"
Image via Reebok
On Thursday, Reebok released the ZOKU Runner—a new silhouette that mixes elements from the Aztec in the ‘70s, the Classic Leather in the ‘80s, and the Dual Pump Runner in the ‘90s. The ZOKU Runner also incorporates the crosscheck, a knit upper, and DMX foam that makes the shoe extremely lightweight and comfortable.
To celebrate, Reebok held a 3-day trip to London for select media, including Complex, and a very special guest—Future, who is the “face” of the campaign and a Reebok creative partner. While there, Complex was able to speak with Future about the ZOKU and, of course, the Atlanta rapper's musical endeavors.
Future kicked things off on our second day with a Q&A with DJ Semtex, where the two talked about the rapper’s partnership with Reebok. “It’s a classic brand,” Future said during the Q&A. “I want to be part of a classic brand.”
Later that night, Future performed at Village Underground—a small, popular club in London. He ran through hits like “Karate Chop,” “I’m the Plug,” and “I Serve the Base.” Seeing Future perform live in a small venue was an out-of-body experience. I thought I was going to die.
On the final day, I hopped on a private jet with the rapper for an interview. Here, he explains what he likes about the new Reebok ZOKU runner, what he and Nicki Minaj shot in Miami, and denies the rumors that he has a third follow-up to FUTURE and HNDRXX on the way. We also spoke about those hilarious “Mask Off” memes and LeBron James rapping to “I’m So Groovy.”
What do you like about Reebok's new ZOKU Runner?
It’s super comfortable, lightweight, easy to move around in.
Do you think rappers can be the new athletes when it comes to sneaker deals?
Artists can most definitely control the culture of fashion. Kids and different fans look up to us for dressing pointers. It’s good to have these brands come to us and ask us to be the face.
Are you a fan of other rapper sneaker deals? What did you think about Jay Z's S. Carters?
I’m always a fan of good business moves. I’m more into great business moves than the shoe.
How do you feel about the response to FUTURE and HNDRXX? It’s the only thing I’ve been listening to.
Ayyyyy. You’re not listening to other shit? [Laughs.] It’s good. I’ve gotten a great response. It’s a great time... being able to do something different and stepping outside the zone people normally see me in. I think that’s what’s most special about it.
Why did you decide to release two albums?
It was just about how to get the fans to receive the music.
There's talk you're dropping a third album. Is there a third album coming?
There is no third album.
Have you seen the video of LeBron James dancing to “I’m So Groovy”?
I wish I could show you right now, but there’s no wi-fi on this plane. Basically, he posted a video on Snapchat of him holding a glass of wine in his hand and doing the "Mhm" on "I'm So Groovy." It's all over the internet.
It's on Snapchat? It's probably erased by now, right? I’ll make sure to look at it. It’s LeBron holding wine?
Yeah, and people have been making memes for the flute part of "Mask Off."
[Laughs.] That’s amazing.
You and Nicki Minaj have been posting photos from what looked like a video shoot in Miami. What’s up with that?
Just expect greatness.
Reebok's new ZOKU Runner is available in stores and online now for $115.
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IT Business Features
British Airways parent IAG deploys group IT optimisation system
International Airlines Group (IAG), the parent company of British Airways, Iberia and Vueling, has deployed Apptio’s IT Cost Transparency system to optimise the measurement of the cost and consumption of its enterprise IT services.
Antony Savvas May 6, 2014
As a result, said IAG, the group is developing "full visibility of its IT cost base", to "enable service optimisation" to its key business partners and supporting future growth initiatives.
IAG has a total fleet of 431 aircraft, flying to 243 destinations and carrying 67.2 million passengers each year. The Apptio system, said IAG, will help the group harmonise systems, and provide consistent information across multiple IT groups within each of its operating companies.
Nigel Underwood, IAG CIO, said: “This solution will allow us to measure our IT capabilities, costs and volumes in a more refined way and facilitate cultural change across our IT team, by delivering modern working practices and services.
"We are identifying and leveraging areas of good performance across the group to generate value for the business through IT cost efficiencies."
In March, IAG said British Airways was planning to implement a new customer management system this year, which may cause some "disruption".
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Dave and Buster’s Deals – $10 Free Game and 20% OFF Coupon
Browse the Dave and Buster’s Coupons & Promo Codes for this week. Also check the current Dave and Buster’s Promo Codes, and the best promotions & sales for beverages, wraps, pretzel dogs, Buffalo wings, appetizers, soups, quesadillas.
Take advantage of the restaurants loyalty program and enjoy $10 free Game Play with $10 game play purchase for joining.
Also receive a $10 free Game Play for every $100 spent in-store, monthly email savings and other great benefits.
2 For Tuesday: $2 Tacos, $2 Coronas & 2 Free Game Plays with $10 Power Card purchase. Valid every Tuesday.
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20% Military Discount on Food and Game Play for You and Up to Four Guests. With military ID.
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Game Day Specials: $4 22 oz Coors Light, $3 Select Hitches, $5 Bar Bites.
Eat & Play Combo: Choose From 17 Menu Items and Get a $10 Power Card Starting at $17.99.
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Nothing like a great rewards program to help customers save money and Dave and Buster’s has a load of benefits included: $10 free game play with the purchase of $10 free game play, monthly email savings, $10 free game play for every $100 spent in-store among other benefits.
In-app savings
Take a look in-app to see what you can save on because Dave and Buster’s includes special app offers for game play and food so that you can enjoy everything that you like at a great price. App is available for Apple phones and Android.
Every day of the week, Dave and Buster’s runs special offers like half price games, 20% off food & game play for military members with valid ID, unlimited video games for an entire hour for just $10 and similar. Check on the website for currently available deals.
Happy hour prices
Eat and play at Dave & Buster’s during their happy hours and you’ll get the best bang for your buck. Visit after work every Monday to Friday from 3:45PM to 7:00PM or late at night Sunday through Thursday from 9:00PM to 11:PM and enjoy!
Events at Dave and Buster’s can be a money-saving machine because that’s when the restaurant is having their biggest flow of customers, so they usually run specials and discounts at participating locations that you can enjoy.
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How Kentucky football is replacing Benny Snell and Josh Allen this spring
In a spring of transition, Kentucky football is looking to a cast of characters to replace program legends Benny Snell and Josh Allen.
How Kentucky football is replacing Benny Snell and Josh Allen this spring In a spring of transition, Kentucky football is looking to a cast of characters to replace program legends Benny Snell and Josh Allen. Check out this story on courier-journal.com: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/college/kentucky/2019/04/05/kentucky-football-offseason-task-replacing-stars-josh-allen-benny-snell/3350868002/
Jon Hale, Louisville Courier Journal Published 11:01 a.m. ET April 5, 2019
Mark Stoops updates his team's progress through 10 spring practices. Jon Hale, Louisville Courier Journal
LEXINGTON – This was always going to be a spring of transition for Kentucky football.
Gone are 14 starters, including National Defensive Player of the Year Josh Allen and the program’s all-time leading rusher, Benny Snell. In their place, Kentucky will turn to a group of unproven but talented options at outside linebacker and running back.
So, defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach Brad White had to expect a question about the progress of those young outside linebackers when he stepped to the interview podium after spring practice No. 11.
The pause before his answer was telling then.
“We’re clearly not where we need to be,” he said. “We’ve got a lot of steps to take. That’s really the bottom the line. To play in a 3-4 defense, you’ve got to have dominant outside edge guys. Every 3-4 team that you think about that is a really good defense, one of the first names that pop in your head is an outside backer. We need to find some guys that can step up, and right now that’s one of the positions we really need to grind hard.”
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Among the five scholarship outside linebackers on the roster this spring, only junior Jamar “Boogie” Watson has significant game experience on defense. He started opposite of Allen at strongside linebacker last season and will be needed to carry a large load with the likely top-five NFL draft pick gone.
Sophomore Alex King, who appeared in nine games mostly on special teams last season, is projected to back up Watson. Sophomore Jordan Wright, who totaled two quarterback hurries as Allen’s backup in 2018, and former Ballard star Jared Casey, a 2019 signee who enrolled at UK for the spring semester, are competing for Allen’s former job as the starting “Jack” linebacker.
Junior-college transfer Marquez Bembry is on campus this semester and could compete for a spot in the rotation this fall but is not practicing this spring as he recovers from an offseason surgery.
“It’s big shoes to fill in because of everything Josh did,” Wright said. “We’ve just got to come out and play our best and just try to take on that role.”
Josh Allen (left) and Benny Snell celebrate after UK's Citrus Bowl win vs. Penn State. Kentucky faces a tough task in replacing the record-breaking duo this spring. (Photo: Reinhold Matay, USA TODAY Sports)
In the offensive meeting rooms, the task of replacing Snell is at least a little less daunting because junior A.J. Rose totaled 71 carries for 442 yards and five touchdowns as his backup last season. Redshirt freshmen Kavosiey Smoke and Chris Rodriguez also impressed in cameos while taking advantage of the NCAA’s new redshirt rules that allow players to appear in up to four games while preserving the year of eligibility.
Snell left Kentucky with the second-most rushing attempts in program history, having averaged 245.7 carries per season. Kentucky is almost certain to feature more of a timeshare at the position in the fall instead of having Rose carry a similar load.
“I’ve done it every way,” UK offensive coordinator and running backs coach Eddie Gran said. “I’ve been at Auburn where we’ve had two or three. Florida State, two or three. So, it’s pretty unique here when you had Benny taking all that load. We’ll see. Right now, A.J. is holding up pretty well, but I like where the other two are coming. I think we’ve got an opportunity to play a couple this year.”
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The returning running backs and outside linebackers credit the lessons they learned from watching Snell and Allen up close in giving them confidence they will be able to make an impact in their absence.
And while a player like Wright, who found snaps hard to come by with Allen on the field for almost every important down last season, might lack game experience, White was adamant that should not be an excuse for any spring struggles.
“A lot of guys, they just want to play early,” White said. “You talk to young guys all the time, ‘I want to play early, I want to play as a freshman.’ I try to sit down with every one of them and tell them, ‘Listen, there is nothing more valuable than a redshirt year if you do the redshirt year right.’ Because you get to go against a No. 1 offense every single day in practice. Our No. 1 offensive tackle, our No. 1 right tackle, our No. 1 right tackle. Interior, guard, center. If you’re a DB, you’re going against our top wide outs every single day. So, you can either take that as, ‘OK, this is going to get me SEC ready,’ or you can take it as, ‘Oh man, I’ve never done this in my life,’ and you put your head down and you just sort of slump in practice and you give half-effort.
“If you do that while you’re redshirting, guess what? You’re not going to play as a redshirt freshman, because you didn’t get yourself better. But if you take it as, ‘OK, I’m going to take each practice day while I’m redshirting as a game situation and I’m going against an SEC opponent,’ guess what? Now, you’re going to be ready to play the next year.”
With three more spring practices and the annual Blue-White scrimmage left, and a full summer of offseason conditioning and preseason camp in August still ahead, there is still time for the young replacements to step up in time for the regular season.
As White was quick to note, the outside linebacker position will receive additional reinforcements this summer from the 2019 signing class – most notably from four-star Moore linebacker J.J. Weaver.
“I’m not going to be afraid,” White said. “The best guy is going to play. … Some of that comes from time and experience, but the one thing we tell the guys, ‘You don’t have time. We’re in the business of winning ball games, so we’re going to find a guy.’ I’m confident it will shake itself out come time, but until that time I don’t know who that guy is going to be.”
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TCP/IP and Advanced Topics
University of Colorado System
Course 4 of 4 in the Computer Communications Specialization
In this course, we give an in-depth study of the TCP/IP protocols. We examine the details of how IP enables communications across a collection of networks. We pay particular attention to the hierarchical structure of IP addresses and explain their role in ensuring scalability of the Internet. The role of address prefixes and the uses of masks are explained in details. We review in details about TCP three-way handshake, flow control, and congestion control. Furthermore, we provide an introduction to some advanced topics, including Multicast, SDN and security
This module examines class-less inter-domain routing CIDR technique that can efficiently utilize IP address space, discusses how IP is complemented by DHCP and ARP protocols, and motivations for introducing a new version of IPv6.
Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR)8:40
ARP, Fragmentation and Reassembly6:06
DHCP, NAT5:33
IPv66:54
Xiaobo Zhou
Professor, Interim Dean
We discuss IPv6 in today's lesson.
IPv4 has played an essential role in the internet working for many years.
However, 32 bits of the IPv4 address
eventually cannot accommodate its explosive growth.
New version IPv6 was designed to interoperate with IPv4 since it
would take years to complete the transition from v4 to v6.
Two major changes from IPv4 to IPv6 a longer
address field and the simplified header format.
IPv6 uses 128 bits for addressing that can support 3.4x10 to the 36 hosts.
IPv6 also simplifies header format.
So as to speed to a processing of each packet header,
all fields are of fixed size in IPv6.
Let's take an overview of IPv4 and IPv6 comparison.
Both keep the version, IPv6 jumps header length, ID,
flags, offset and a header checksum.
IPv6 further replace the datagram length by payload length.
Protocol type by next header,
time to leave by Hop limit and type of service by traffic class.
It also created a new field, flow field.
The IPv6 header consists of a header and optional extension header.
The format of the basic header is shown in the figure.
So, traffic class is intended to support a differentiated of services.
The flow label field can be used to identify quality of service
requested by the packet.
The IPv6, a flow is defined as a sequence of packets
from particular source to a particular destination for
which source requires special handling by the intervening routers.
Payload length indicates the length of date excluding header
with 16 piece allocated to this field.
The payload at length is limited to 64K bytes, but it
is possible to send it larger payloads by using the option in the extension header.
To support extra functionalities that are not provided by the basic header,
IPv6 allows an arbitrary number of extension headers
to be placed between the basic header and the payload.
The extension headers are chained up by the next header field.
Extension headers act like options in IPv4, but are more efficient and flexible.
IPV6 allows a payload size of more than 64K bytes called
a Jumbo packet by using an extension header.
The use of larger payload size is promoted by high speed networks,
by bigger data applications and by super computing applications.
The figure shows the format of the extension header for
a packet with a Jumbo Payload.
The next header field identifies the type of header immediately
following this header.
The value 194 defines the Jumbo Payload option.
The payload lengths in the basic header must be set to zero.
The option lengths field specifies the size of the Jumbo Payload
lengths field in the bytes.
Finally, the 32-bit Jumbo Payload lengths field specifies
that payload size which can be as large as 4 gigabytes.
IPv6 allows only the source host to perform fragmentation.
Intermediate routers no longer perform fragmentations.
The rationale is to speed up routing under the intermediate routers.
If the packeting lengths is greater than the max of transfer unit,
MTU of the network, a router simply discards the packet and
it sends an SMP error message back to the source.
A source hold can find a minimal MTU along the path from the source
to the destination by performing a path MTU discovery procedure.
One disadvantage is that the path between a source and
destination must remain reasonably static.
So that as a path, MTU discovery doesn't make that updated information.
If a source was to fragment a packet, the source will include a fragment
extension header as shown in the figure for each fragment of the packet.
Like IPv4, IPv6 allows a soft host to specify the sequence of
routers to be visited up by a packet to reach the destination.
This option is defined by a routing extension header shown in this figure.
IPv6 addresses are divided into three categories.
Unicast addresses, multicast addresses and anycast addresses.
So, don't leave the decimal notation would have been right along when applied to IPv6
long addresses.
A more compact notation to use is hexadecimal notation.
Because IPv4 networks and hosts widely deployed, migration
issues need to be resolved to insure that the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is small.
Current solutions are mainly based on the dual IP layer or
dual stack approach whereby both IPv4 and IPv6 functions are present.
Routers support both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols, and
can forward both types of packets.
When islands of IPv6 networks are separated by IPv4 networks,
one approach is to build a tunnel across an IPv4 network
connecting two IPv6 networks.
As shown you this figure, a tunnel is a path created between two nodes,
so that a tunnel appears as a single link to the users.
A tunnel is typically realized by encapsulating each user packet and
another packet that can be forwarded along the tunnel.
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Home Bitcoin Crypto Exchanges Must Register With Financial Watchdog Next June
Crypto Exchanges Must Register With Financial Watchdog Next June
Cryptocurrency exchanges in Canada will be legally required to register with the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FinTRAC) as of June 1, 2020, according to a notice published on July 10.
This requirement will come into effect along with other amendments to Canada’s new anti-money-laundering (AML) laws next year.
Crypto exchanges will also reportedly be required to observe Know Your Customer policies and report any suspicious transactions to the Canadian watchdog; this also includes keeping records of their clients and hiring a compliance officer for their platform.
A report by The Globe and Mail notes that up until now, compliance with these policies has been voluntary, but some exchanges have chosen to do so anyway.
The motivation for implementing the new policies is reportedly to get Canadian banks onboard and in cooperation with cryptocurrency exchanges.
According to Lori Stein, a partner at business law firm Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, Canadian financial institutions have historically been concerned about the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing via crypto exchanges. Stein said:
“The hope is that now that there is going to be a requirement to register and comply, and oversight by FinTRAC, that banks and other financial entities are going to be more open to providing services to and dealing with virtual-currency businesses.”
However, Stein points out that some international exchanges may not be willing to comply with the new Canadian rules. Some other experts reportedly agree, saying that having mandatory regulation requirements could result in cryptocurrency exchanges opting to exit from the Canadian marketplace.
The CEO of blockchain startup Bitaccess, Moe Adham, told The Globe and Mail, “I expect to see a number of firms relocate outside of Canada, as well as international firms limiting access to Canadians.”
The new regulatory policies may also drive crypto exchange customers away, some say. “This has the potential to drive cryptocurrency underground again,” said Canadian crypto exchange Coinsquare’s AML officer, Charlene Cieslik. Cieslik said that customers who do not want to reveal their information to exchanges, would likely just transact with each other directly.
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List of Releases & Principle Works
Detweiler Fnksmble
Contact and Booking
Scott Detweiler
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Born - New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 16, 1962
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA (1979 - 1985)
Folk Guitar - 1979-80 private study with Ellen Simon
Musical Theatre - Tulane University (with Anthony Laciura)
Jazz Guitar - Loyola University (private study with Bill Huntington)
Improvisation - Loyola University (Masterclass with John Scofield)
Music Business - Loyola University
Music Composition - University of New Orleans (UNO)
Orchestration - private study with Ellis Marsalis
Vocal Technique - private study with Barbara Bernard
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (1985 to present)
Lyric Writing/Music Business - with K.A. Parker, BMI Insitute
Song Writing - with Harriet Schock
Writing for Strings - with Henry Mancini
Orchestration - private study with Dr. Albert Harris
Song Writing - private study with John Braheny
Vocal Microphone Technique - private study with Brad Chapman
Film Scoring - with Earle Hagen
Jazz Guitar - under the tutelage of Robert Conti
Mentors: Ellis Marsalis, Bill Huntington and Anthony Laciura
As collaborating composer, SD has composed music for the following dance companies:
Gabriel Masson Dance (New York, NY)
Martin Dancers (North Hollywood, CA)
Ballet Memphis (Memphis, TN)
He has opened for Gregg Allman, The Neville Brothers, Woodenhead, Arlo Guthre, David Bromberg, The New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Kelly's Lot. Scott has worked with members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and New Orleans Symphony. He has also worked with Orgone, Allen Toussaint, Aaron Neville, Pete Fountain, Albert Trepagnier, Jr, Jim Goodall, Bernie Dresel, Dale Jennings, John "Spazz" Hatton, Bill Johnston, Ed Cogan and many others. He has performed as guest guitarist with Chamber Players of Los Angeles and as guest vocalist with Donny Most's Big Band.
Scott has performed in Asia, Europe, South America and throughout the United States.
His orchestral premiere as a composer/orchestrator (his own "On Christmas Day") was with the New Orleans Symphony.
The music of SD has been honored by Billboard Music Awards, Utah Symphony, Nashville City Song Festival and the Los Angeles Songwriter's Showcase. His work has been eligible for the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' Grammy Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Mr. Detweiler was also awarded the Congressional Certificate of Recognition for his contribution to the arts in California.
Scott serves as a jury member and sits on the board of directors for the annual Gohar & Ovanes Andriassian Classical Guitar Competition at California State University Los Angeles.
He is an endorsing artist for AMI Guitars USA, Robert Conti Guitars, Gomez Amplification, Olympia Strings, Fishman Electronics, Blue Microphones and KTS Bridges. He also serves as a consultant, providing product R&D feedback and evaluations, for several leading music equipment and instrument manufacturers.
SD is active with the music ministry at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church in Encino, California, both as guitarist, composer, arranger and cantor, as well as an active performer in the California prison system with the Los Angeles Archdiocese Office of Administrative Justice.
© 2019 Detweiler Music. All Rights Reserved ♫ scottdetweiler@hotmail.com 818-800-5899 ♫ VENMO: @Scott-Detweiler-2
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School bus crashes into Greece elementary school
The driver accidentally stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brake, and the bus damaged the school's art room windows.
School bus crashes into Greece elementary school The driver accidentally stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brake, and the bus damaged the school's art room windows. Check out this story on DemocratandChronicle.com: https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2019/01/03/greece-school-bus-crash-into-holmes-road-elementary/2471254002/
Georgie Silvarole, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Published 10:09 a.m. ET Jan. 3, 2019 | Updated 10:45 a.m. ET Jan. 3, 2019
School Bus(Photo: zmina, Getty Images/iStockphoto)
A school bus driver who accidentally stepped on the gas pedal drove a bus into a Greece elementary school Thursday morning.
While lining up to drop off students at Holmes Road Elementary, the driver of Bus No. 365 accidentally pressed the gas instead of the brake pedal and drove the bus into the side of the school, said Laurel Heiden, the district's spokeswoman.
Two students and a bus monitor were also on board, though no one was injured, Heiden said.
The bus drove into the school's art room and damaged windows and a heating component, Heiden said. Students will take art classes in the library until the damage is repaired.
Per state regulations, the unidentified driver will take a drug and alcohol screening, Heiden said. The incident is believed to be an accident, she added.
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TD bank’s float makes its way down Yonge Street at Toronto Pride 2017. Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra
How Pride became a business — and lost its soul along the way
Here’s what Canadian Prides are doing to vet sponsors. Is it enough?
By Rebecca Rose Nov 02, 2017, 2:59 PM EDT
Tim McCaskell remembers the first time businesses were approached to sponsor Toronto Pride. Those early ads in the 1980s “seemed relatively benign,” he says.
The first Pride in Toronto was a one-day affair in 1981 full of information, entertainment and speakers — a celebratory space-claiming event after community protests against the Toronto police’s bathhouse raids.
That day, a march stopped in front of one of Toronto’s downtown police divisions for an “exorcism” performed by drag nuns from the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
Pride wouldn’t include advertisements until 1984, when organizers solicited local businesses for support, says McCaskell, a long-time activist and author of Queer Progress: From Homophobia to Homonationalism. Larger corporate ads for beer and condoms arrived in 1987.
Even then, McCaskell says, some organizers tried to limit the size of corporate signs, to no avail.
Thirty years later, in protests across North America, queer and trans activists spent the summer calling for Pride festivals to go back to their corporate-free roots.
On June 10, 2017, a group of LGBT activists organized No Justice No Pride, a march against the corporatization of Washington DC’s Pride, which includes sponsors such as weapons manufacturer Northrop Grumman and Maryland Live Casino (whose parent company has ties to the Trump administration.)
The next day, the People’s Pride March in Pittsburgh objected to selling the naming rights of their city’s Pride parade to Equitable Gas (EQT), a company criticized for fracking, by holding their own march after the “EQT Equality March.” Meanwhile in Saskatoon, the two-spirit–led Treaty 6 Real Pride March aimed to uphold “ the spirit of the first Pride marches” with a corporation– and police–free event.
Two weeks later in Vancouver, Black Lives Matter held a March on Pride open to “everyone except institutions that criminalize, brutalize and kill Black people and other marginalized groups,” according to its Facebook page. Corporations were not permitted to march.
“What is the message we are sending as the queer community?” asks Fatima Jaffer, a longtime community organizer and founder of Trikone Vancouver, an organization for South Asian LGBT people.
“Corporate sponsorship has a lot to do with how queers are educating the community about who we are,” explains Jaffer, who has been participating in and photographing Vancouver Pride for more than 25 years.
“By privileging the banks, the police, the RCMP, Winners/Homesense and corporate entities like that, we’re sending a certain message of respectability, of fitting into the nation, of being a good citizen — instead of really celebrating our queerness,” she says.
People stand in Toronto’s gay Village with anti-corporate sponsorship signs during Pride 2015. Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra
“Commercialization produces a set of deeper problems and issues for how queer people of colour, Black queers, and Indigenous queers think about what it means to be a part of queer community,” adds Rinaldo Walcott, director of the Women and Gender Studies Institute at University of Toronto and author of Queer Returns: Essays On Multiculturalism, Diaspora and Black Studies.
When the idea of Pride becomes so entwined with consuming, it leaves little room for members of our community who live close to the poverty line, he says. “It continues to frame a deep and profound outsiderness.”
But Pride organizations across Canada say they need both corporate and government money if they are to continue to grow and offer large-scale events and feature big names.
In an attempt to balance their perceived need for corporate sponsorship with community concerns, some Pride organizations have now begun to vet their sponsors. But can a balance be struck?
One of Vancouver’s corporate sponsors include TJX Canada, which owns Winners, Marshalls and Homesense. Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra
In May 2017, the Vancouver Pride Society (VPS) released the results of its 2016–2017 community consultation. The results show that some of the 320 participants welcome support from businesses, while others say the corporate presence overshadows the community and they want to see less of it. Others want corporations eliminated altogether from the parade. Some community members urged Pride to better vet its sponsors.
Vancouver’s corporate sponsors include TD, Microsoft, BMW, TJX Canada (which owns Winners, Marshalls and Homesense), Bud Light, Stoli, Trojan, Starbucks (its Pride Alliance Network) and Walmart.
According to Kieran Burgess, the organization’s former executive director of operations, who resigned after this year’s festival to return to his home in Australia, the Vancouver Pride Society has been working to “revamp how we approach sponsorship and partnerships and parade entries.”
In 2015, the VPS required all groups marching in the parade to sign a mandatory pledge supporting the addition of trans protection to human rights legislation. In March 2017, the VPS implemented a matrix to screen new sponsors.
“We want to make sure that people that are investing in us aren’t just pinkwashing or buying corporate social responsibility,” Burgess told Xtra in an interview in June.
“Their intent must be to fully support the community,” he said, “and we must make sure that their values align with ours.”
The matrix, scored by a parade working group of five to eight volunteers plus Pride’s co-executive director, assesses each sponsor and parade applicant’s policies, values and support for the LGBT community. It’s also intended to encourage sponsors to do better and “serve the community in the best way that they can,” Burgess said.
Some of the questions include whether the group has been previously involved in Pride, if it has policies that “promote diversity based on sexual orientation, gender identity and expression,” if it has a record of homophobia or transphobia, or if it sells products that harm the community.
An applicant’s score can lead to automatic rejection, board review, or approval.
As the VPS vetted potential sponsors, it also raised funds to help “marginalized or vulnerable groups” participate in Pride (or hold their own events), and reserved the last 20 parade spots for community groups — even if that meant putting corporations on a waitlist as the parade filled up.
In 2017, Pride also asked corporate entries, media and the City of Vancouver to reduce the number of vehicles they entered in the parade, and asked police to limit the number of uniformed officers.
Jazz Aviation is a sponsor of Halifax Pride, pictured at the parade in 2013. Credit: Paul B/Flickr Creative Commons
Three years of community pushback against a sponsored campaign at Halifax Pride’s community fair to promote Israel to the LGBT community culminated in an acrimonious Pride annual general meeting in October 2016. Halifax Pride apologized four months later and acknowledged the meeting was “full of racism, misogyny and hate.”
In its wake, Pride hired its first executive director, former sponsorship coordinator Adam Reid, who promptly introduced a survey for potential Pride sponsors.
Released in April 2017, the survey pilot project is meant to “both educate our festival-goers about the work being done by the organizations we partner with and offer [sponsors] an opportunity to be self-reflective,” Reid says.
Survey questions focus on potential sponsors’ workplace initiatives, LGBT-inclusive health benefits, queer– and trans–related staff training, gender neutral washrooms, support for people transitioning, as well as public expressions of support for the community.
There is however, no language in the survey saying that groups must meet a certain threshold in order to become or remain a sponsor, Reid says. “We don’t want to turn away folks who are trying to do better.”
Rebecca Stuckey, outreach and education coordinator for the sexual and gender resource centre South House, calls the survey “surface-level.”
“Where’s the analysis around the other work that [these corporations are] doing and how that’s harmful for queer and trans communities?” she asks.
Stuckey would like Halifax Pride to stop accepting money from corporations and groups that use gay support to bolster their image. South House boycotted Halifax Pride this year, in part, it said, because of Pride’s handling of the previous years’ complaints and its failure to acknowledge the pinkwashing within its events.
Calgary, AB and Regina, SK
A participant at Calgary Pride 2016 wearing an ATB Financial shirt, one of the parade’s corporate sponsors, on Sept 4, 2016. Credit: Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta via Flickr Creative Commons
According to its website, Calgary Pride organizers encourage sponsors to “think seriously about their motivation to be involved in this event, and to treat it as more than ‘just another marketing opportunity.’”
“It’s our goal to ensure that we have presented to the community authentic genuine allyship,” says Calgary Pride’s newly-hired executive director Laurissa Chapple. “We want it to be authentic for them as well and true to their corporate culture, but the first step is ensuring our values align.”
Calgary Pride is sponsored by Imperial Oil and Enmax Energy, Aurora Cannabis, and TJX Canada. ATB Financial is the festival’s presenting sponsor.
Organizers also expect the sponsors to reach out to the community. Chapple points to ATB’s public outreach table on a busy downtown street as a recent example. Politicians and political parties who want a contingent in the parade must submit a document describing how they “have advocated for, supported, and represented the community in the past 12 months.”
In the lead-up to the August 2017 festival, Calgary Pride denied the new United Conservative Party’s application to take part in the parade, due to the party’s inability to meet this requirement.
In Regina, Queen City Pride retains the right to cancel a sponsorship agreement if the sponsor expresses discriminatory sentiments or has “practices discriminatory to the LGBTQ community,” says co-chair Dan Shier. Their vetting process is more of an internal discussion, says Shier, adding that the majority of their sponsors are local.
In 2016, Queen City Pride introduced the option for sponsors to pay to be a presenting sponsor of several signature events, Shier adds. RBC now presents the parade.
This year, they added an extra $1,000 funding requirement to be eligible for the presenting level sponsorship package, in addition to the $1,000 to $2,500 it costs to attach a name to a signature event. Presenting sponsors must also have sponsored Pride for two years.
“One thing we’re not prepared to do,” Shier says, “is allow a sponsor to take the presenting title of the festival itself.”
Montreal, QB
Fierté Montreal has been presented by Pfizer’s Viagra since 2011 (pictured at WorldPride 2014 in Toronto). Credit: Can Pac Swire/Flickr Creative Commons
Fierté Montreal does not have specific criteria for sponsors but relies on in-house research to see if “they have done anything for or against the LGBTQ community,” says vice-president Jean-Sébastien Boudreault.
It is important, he says, that sponsors are “not only giving money to look good,” but to support the community all year. Organizers meet with each sponsor twice annually.
Boudreault says Fierté Montréal turned down some potential sponsors this year because they didn’t align with Pride’s core values or demonstrate that they were “good for” the LGBT community.
But he emphasizes the importance of corporate sponsorship. “Pride would not be Pride, with all of the free shows and activities, without the help and support of our partners,” he stresses.
Fierté Montréal, which this year featured 250 activities over 11 days, takes place in a city of festivals, Boudreault points out, and has to compete with the likes of Just for Laughs and the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal. “We want to be one of the biggest LGBTQ festivals in the world” — and that requires funding, he says.
Still, the 2017 Pride festival featured sponsor-free zones and free parade entries for groups with a budget under $100,000, with additional bursaries to cover materials.
TD has been the presenting sponsor of the festival overall since 2010, and the parade has been presented by Pfizer’s Viagra since 2011. Boudreault says Fierté Montréal allows sponsors to present the festival, parade, and Community Day in order to expand Pride’s budget (which he describes as limited), to ensure they are not completely reliant on government funds, and to keep events free.
Fierté Montréal does not publicly disclose how much individual sponsors, such as TD and Pfizer, contribute.
TD bank decorates its Church-Wellesley Village branch for Toronto Pride. TD sponsors 63 Pride parades across North America. Credit: Can Pac Swire/Flickr Creative Commons
Toronto Pride is one of 63 Pride festivals across North America that TD bank sponsors.
In 2010, Pride Toronto was a year into the fierce debate around the participation and subsequent attempts to censor Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) when TD entered the fray.
In a letter dated March 30, 2010, then-TD vice-president Scott Mullin wrote that while TD supports Pride Toronto, it had become harder to do so after Pride reversed its (short-lived and controversial) decision to screen all parade signs, a policy implemented in response to criticism over QuAIA’s 2009 contingent and its signs challenging Israeli policy towards Palestinians.
Pride Toronto drew criticism during WorldPride 2014 after signing an exclusivity agreement with Trojan, which prevented groups from handing out any non-Trojan condoms at the parade or street fair. Credit: Kyle Burton/Xtra
Mullin’s letter heightened community concerns about corporate influence over Pride decision-making, and in February 2011, Toronto Pride’s Community Advisory Panel recommended that Pride decrease its reliance on government and corporate sponsorship.
In 2014 during WorldPride, Pride Toronto drew more community criticism when it signed an exclusivity agreement with Trojan, preventing groups from handing out any non-Trojan condoms at the parade or street fair. HIV activists said the deal interfered with their efforts to support safer sex.
Seven years earlier, according to McCaskell’s book Queer Progress, Pride had also bumped Blockorama, organized by the queer and trans Black group Blackness Yes!, from its prime location in favour of a TD-sponsored stage and beer garden.
In 2016, Pride Toronto brought over $2.2 million in sponsorship.
Its website lists just over 20 official sponsors — including TD, Mercedes Benz, Bud Light, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, Stoli, Viagra, TJX Canada, Loblaws, Manulife and Crest. At least 20 percent of the approximately 140 contingents in the 2017 parade were corporations, including the Bank of Nova Scotia, CIBC, RBC, TD and Capital One credit card, tech giants Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Linkedin, Pfizer, and Procter and Gamble. The Canadian Armed Forces also marched, but Pride banned uniformed police from marching in Pride 2017.
Pride Toronto does not have a formalized process for vetting sponsors. But sponsorship contracts include a clause requiring they “operate in a manner consistent with the celebration of Pride and positive value of diversity in the LGBTTIQQ2SA communities,” Pride Toronto told Xtra in a June 29, 2017 email.
Sponsors are also required to have both non-discrimination and equal opportunity policies, and are not permitted to “promote or condone . . . violence, hatred, degradation or negative stereotypes.”
Sponsors must also commit to respecting “the right of all members and supporters of the LGBTTIQQ2S communities to participate in Pride Month 2017.”
Does Pride even need corporate sponsorship?
“I don’t think there’s any going back to a Pride that is not commercial,” says Rinaldo Walcott from the University of Toronto’s gender studies institute.
“Toronto Pride now represents too much the financial interest of retail capitalism, and the hotel and hospitality industry, for it to return to a non-commercial entity,” he says.
Pride chose its path when it promoted itself to the City of Toronto as a diverse festival worth funding in the late 1990s, he says, when it angled to scoop up some of the support given to the Caribbean festival Caribana (now the Toronto Caribbean Carnival).
By 2016, Pride was injecting $600 million into Toronto’s economy, according to co-chair Aaron GlynWilliams.
“You can’t have a party without balloons, and somebody’s got to pay for the balloons,” says McCaskell.
“But I think that we could do a lot better job of making sure that corporate support is serving our interests,” he says, “rather than serving theirs.”
When Pride organizers vet sponsors, who does the vetting makes a difference, says Fatima Jaffer from Trikone in Vancouver.
If it’s a Pride board setting the sponsorship standards and vetting the applicants, that board must truly represent all aspects of our community, especially marginalized members, she says, but notes that Pride boards often aren’t made up of the most progressive community voices.
Whether they’re vetting a sponsor’s local, national or international record can also make a difference, Walcott points out. A sponsor like TD bank can seem very progressive and even diverse on a local level, for example, but Walcott questions where the bank makes and invests its profits, and who is impacted.
And then there’s the deeper question that big Pride festivals should ask themselves. “They almost never address the question that getting bigger and bigger is not necessarily getting better,” Walcott says. “Why does it need to be bigger?”
“Bigger in service of who and for what? What has Pride becoming bigger and bigger actually produced for queer people in their everyday lives when the festival is over?”
Black Lives Matter Toronto marches in Pride on June 25, 2017. Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra
In the early years of Pride, McCaskell remembers scanning the papers for articles, and thinking, ‘yes, we’re finally having an impact’ as the coverage grew. But if Pride is serving the community’s purposes then it doesn’t need to keep growing now, he says.
“Even a smaller festival that focused on community building would still have a profile in the city as a whole,” he says.
Instead of focusing on shrinking Pride Toronto’s already large corporate footprint, McCaskell thinks it’s likely more useful to expand Pride’s progressive footprint. He says there are plenty of pre-existing community groups who could inject progressive politics into Pride, such as Black Lives Matter Toronto’s contingent in the 2016 parade which held a sit-in in 2016.
McCaskell suggests that some sponsors could even be harnessed to help more community groups participate in Pride by funding their parade contingents. This could reduce the corporate presence, increase the visibility of more marginalized community groups, and paint a more accurate picture of who is part of our communities, he says.
In theory, Jaffer says she’s 100 percent for the full withdrawal of corporate funding from Prides, but she acknowledges that in practical terms that would mean “going back to the drawing board”of figuring out what Pride should look like.
“I do think that as we’re doing that work — of trying not to be quite so complicit in that corporate agenda, and not be used by them quite as much — along the way, we start to change our imagination of what Pride means,” she says.
For Jaffer, the 2017 March on Pride organized by Black Lives Matter Vancouver to centre the voices of queer people of colour and reclaim community space in the gay village, is what Pride should be: smaller, more politicized, and less commercialized.
March on Pride was organized by Black Lives Matter Vancouver and took place June 25, 2017. Credit: Janet Rerecich/Xtra
Alternative events like these need to keep creating space while mainstream Pride festivities consider their future path, she says. “I think to change society you have to take people with you. And the more people that participate and see what a non-commercialized and truly inclusive Pride parade can be, the more they will want to change the main one.”
As mainstream Prides consider what changes to make, they need to actively include, and centre, community members who have not yet fully benefited from recently won LGBT rights, Walcott says.
“Those who are outside of all of the forms of respectability that queers can now inhabit, their vision of what it means to be queer, their sense of what it means to be queer has been drowned out by the celebratory moment of ‘we’ve now all got our rights and everything is fine,’” he says.
“So I think a radical Pride would not be turning to those of us that think we’ve got our rights and everything is fine — it would be turning to the people who continue to say that there is much to do,” he says.
“My radical vision would be that we would have a Pride where the people who are seen to be the most marginalized are front and centre,” he continues.
“That they’re the ones that are articulating what our themes are going to be, they’re the ones articulating who we’re going to honour, they’re the ones who are giving us the sense of what it means to be queer now.”
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Officer hailed as hero for protecting photographer as shots rained down in Dallas
Filed under Dallas Ambush at Jul 2016
Naheed Rajwani, Staff writer
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A 25-year-old Dallas police officer is being hailed a hero for protecting a photographer who became stranded in Dallas' West End after the first shots were fired Thursday night.
Officer James Dylan Smith's bravery, in Dallas' darkest hours, is captured in a set of photos that has gone viral on social media.
At first, most of the people who saw and shared his photo didn't know his name. Neither did Robert Moore, the photographer and former publisher of the Dallas Voice.
"I don't know his name, but I won't forget him," Moore wrote in his caption for the photos.
They show Smith crouching behind a car with a weapon in his hand. The officer's face is covered in sweat and his brows are raised.
"That photo is not technically perfect. But emotionally, it's there," Moore said.
Smith's family did not respond to The News' request for comment on Saturday.
Ashley Boling, a family friend, said Smith grew up in Rowlett and has been on the Dallas police force for only a few years.
His teenage sister was at Boling's apartment in downtown Dallas at the time of the shooting, unaware that her brother was under fire with his fellow officers, Boling said.
"We just knew that he was going to be OK," Boling said.
By Friday night, Smith had become a social media sensation.
Moore, who was photographing Thursday night's rally, took cover behind cars after the shots rang out about 8:40 p.m.
Officers rushed toward the pops, and Moore wanted to get away.
But police cordoned off the area and weren't letting people in or out. They weren't sure who was shooting or where the shots were coming from.
"Automatic fire, automatic fire," the officers shouted at each other.
They told Moore and other civilians to "get small" and stay down.
A Dallas police officer crouched behind a squad car as shots rang out Thursday night in downtown Dallas. (Smiley N. Pool/Staff Photographer)
The photographer suggested ways he could get to his condo a few blocks away, but Smith urged him to stay put.
"You cannot get into the open, sir," said Smith, holding a gun, his eyes fixed on the street.
Moore, whose brother is the chief of police in Hurst, photographed the officer while he waited for permission to leave.
"I am shoulder to shoulder with somebody who is calm, who is collected," Moore said, referring to Smith. "He's on. He's very much professional."
Moore got the OK to leave after two hours of crouching behind a car. But he didn't have to do it alone.
Smith shielded Moore by standing in front of him, gun still in hand, as they walked about a half block to the edge of the police perimeter.
He put his life on the line to ensure Moore's safety.
"This is a guy in a situation none of us would want to be in, but he signed up to be in it and he's doing it," Moore said.
A Dallas officer took cover behind a police motorcycle during the sniper attack. (Smiley N. Pool/Staff Photographer)
Moore's photographs of Smith are so popular, police departments from all over the country are contacting him to ask whether they can display them in their conference rooms.
"So people can see what other guys have done," Moore said.
Someone recognized Smith in the photos that went viral and shared his name with Moore.
If Moore ever meets Smith again, he knows what he'll tell the officer:
"Chief Brown said Friday that, 'We don't feel much support most days, let's not make today most days.' But I hope that you feel supported.
"I appreciate what you did for me, and I hope everyone else appreciates it."
Photographer Robert Moore was once the publisher of the Dallas Voice. He is now retired and sells his work to galleries. (Ashley Landis/Staff Photographer)
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Newcomer Fez Might Be the Best Part of 'Euphoria'
Everyone's talking about HBO's series Euphoria, which follows a group of high school students as they navigate sex, drugs, love, and friendship in today's social media landscape. And while we can all agree that Euphoria is unlike any show that's ever been on TV, we especially love the move to cast a majority of unknowns.
Aside from protagonist Zendaya, most of her character Rue’s friends are actors and models with little to no on-screen experience. Angus Cloud, who plays Rue's drug dealer Fez (full name Fezco), is an incredible up-and-coming talent who we can't wait to see around more.
Here's everything you need to know about actor Angus Cloud on Euphoria.
For Oakland native Angus Cloud, Fez is his first on-screen role.
Angus hasn't been in anything on TV before Euphoria, and in case you thought you recognized him from somewhere, chances are you might be confusing him with the late Mac Miller.
Fans of the show found the resemblance uncanny. "The actor who plays Fezco on Euphoria looks and sounds a lot like Mac Miller," one viewer wrote on Twitter, adding that the similarity between the two struck a deep emotional chord.
The actor who plays Fezco on #Euphoria looks and sounds a lot like Mac Miller I started crying watching Fez take care of Rue knowing that Mac died from a fentanyl OD. pic.twitter.com/gphoXPcfKq
— Shego (@spkhp) June 24, 2019
"I started crying watching Fez take care of Rue knowing that Mac died from a fentanyl OD," the fan continued. Many are even clamoring for Angus to portray Mac in a biopic down the road.
Like Zendaya, Angus graduated from the Oakland School for the Arts.
It looks as though Angus was keeping a very low profile until he started working on the hit HBO series, because both his Twitter and Instagram accounts seem to have begun just around the time of the show. Additionally, he uses the platforms almost exclusively to promote the series.
And although not much about Angus or his personal life is known because of his low profile, his alma mater, Oakland School of the Arts, did take the time to congratulate him ahead of his on-screen debut. "OSA Alum Angus Cloud, Class of 2016, is set to star along other OSA Alum Zendaya in an upcoming HBO pilot, Euphoria," the school tweeted. "OSA keeps producing stars in both academics and arts!"
Follow Angus on social media before the rest of the world catches onto his talent.
If you can't get enough of how tender of a drug dealer Fez is, you can get an inside look at his life through the behind-the-scenes shots and Euphoria memes he shared on Instagram. Follow his account, @anguscloud.
Fez is the most likable character on Euphoria.
On Twitter, he's also @anguscloud, and though he doesn't share much in the way of news on the platform, Angus is supportive of the rest of his co-stars and often retweets their posts.
🗣🗣🗣 I’m here to say I have a crush on Fezco and I need more of him ASAP #EuphoriaHBO pic.twitter.com/l4UgCBjUsl
— Natalie Elena (@NatalieElenaN) June 24, 2019
Despite his profession as a drug dealer, most fans of the series agree Fez is the "most likable character." Rather than the stereotypical drug dealer we typical see on TV, Fez is truly tender and caring toward Rue, whom he even tried to dissuade from buying drugs after her return from rehab.
"If anything bad happens to Fezco throughout this season," wrote one fan on Twitter, "we ride at dawn." Another echoed, "Fezco really held it down as a loyal friend who protects his own."
We love Fez on the show and are so happy for Angus to have scored this breakthrough role. New episodes of Euphoria air Sundays at 10 p.m. on HBO.
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Doom General
More goodies from Romero (DoomEd source, maps, graphics)
By Romero, November 20, 2011 in Doom General
Randy87
Got DoomEd running.
Dragonsbrethren
I batch converted all the LBMs in the textures / sprites zip to PNGs
Thanks Ling.
/statpix/pic2.png -- has that UAFF logo with the ship bombing a planet that Tom Hall was talking about in some interview.
Lots of other cool bits in here.
fraggle
The Kevin Bacon of Doom
Randy87 said:
Awesome work. Although I had the source I never thought to actually try running it in an emulator. With hindsight that was the obvious first thing to do.
Dear lazy Doomworld: anyone have any ideas about where cygnus.lbm comes from?
Heavy metal album cover? D&D manual? Looks a bit like the Doom big box cover.
TinEye and Google Image search give nothing.
fraggle said:
Looks like it's something Adrian drew:
Maybe, though there are some subtle differences in the space ship design that make me think cygnus.lbm was the original image and he was copying it.
It's certainly very Doom II-like with the building silhouettes in the background.
pagb
How do I get those .udmfs to a playable wad? I'm going nuts and google doesn't seem to help >_<
I also made a browseable thumbnail webpage of all the images for those interested
Armaetus
Let me tell you how I don't like Brutal Doom
It makes me wonder when we can see Windows and Linux versions of DoomEd..
dobu gabu maru
Midtex Wizard
Thanks John!
Maes
Here's an old post I made on the subject,
So all that's left now is the Source Code...not the linuxdoom one, but the One True Code Of Doom The Way Id Did It.
Fuzzball
Mernber
...what about music? I know there was some unreleased stuff...but perhaps more? What about sounds too? :D
Glaice said:
You're more likely to see an OS X version first.
EffinghamHuffnagel
FYI: Don't forget to check the wads for new stuff, too. I found this in the sprites.wad
STMIA0
It's not from an alpha and the file date of 11/93 indicates it's from Doom 1 not 2.
Edit: Never mind. I just found the sprite sheet that has this image. Doh!
david_a
zapper.png is intriguing...
^^ heh, that eventually got promoted (or demoted, depending on how one sees it) to the E3 sky. Also on the title screen, I think.
Other than the language (Objective-C) being "native" for OS X, is there anything in OS X itself or the Cocoa API that would make it closer to the original NeXTStep environment or preferable to, e.g. using GCC's implementation of Objective C on Windows?
Memfis
i_dont_like_thing.jpg
http://www.doomworld.com/linguica/doom-textures/wall65.html
Hmmm, so was FIREBLU originally a photograph of a stone or something?
Da Werecat
Maes said:
heh, that eventually got promoted (or demoted, depending on how one sees it) to the E3 sky.
I had the impression that it was cut from the sky. Not the best sprite material, to be honest, no wonder it was dropped.
LogicDeLuxe
FuzzballFox said:
What about sounds too? :D
If those selfmade sounds have high quality versions before they were downgraded to 8bit, 11025Hz would be very useful for sure.
It's less about the language and more about the API. It doesn't really matter that there's an Objective C compiler that works on Windows. Sure, it's a bare minimum first step if you want to port DoomEd to Windows but ultimately it doesn't get you very far at all.
OS X basically is NeXTStep as far as I can tell. It's evolved a lot but that's its history. If you're curious check out Rhapsody that is halfway between the two.
The Cocoa API used for developing OS X applications is descended from the original NeXTStep GUI API. That's not to say that they're not identical by any means: there are some huge differences. From what I can tell, this is the basic history:
In the late '90s NeXT gave up on producing hardware and instead refocused on becoming a pure software company. Everyone had loved the NeXTStep interface and development environment and they wanted to make something that was more widely available. For example there was some plan that the NeXTStep interface was going to be the standard GUI for Sun workstations. As part of this, they released the OpenStep API which was intended to be a kind of cross-platform standard.
Cocoa is an implementation of the OpenStep API. GNUstep is another, open source implementation. OpenStep is something like a formalization of the old NeXTStep API that Romero programmed against when writing DoomEd. It's similar but there are a lot of minor differences. You can see this if you check through my commits: class names all renamed to start with 'NS', instance variables better encapsulated, method names renamed to have nicer names, etc.
With some more work it should be possible to get it running on OS X. It's a long, tedious process of fixing all these little things to take account of API changes, but in the end it should be possible. I've made quite a bit of progress already.
OS X is by far the easiest in terms of a port. As mentioned, GNUstep is also an implementation of the OpenStep API, so a Linux port may be the next-easiest on the list.
A Windows port might be the most hardest / the least likely to ever happen. You need an OpenStep API that runs on Windows. I think it may be possible to run GNUstep on Windows but I have no idea how well it's supported. A better option might be Cocotron but I don't know how well that works.
Heh, all things considered, it's ironic that the game itself which was written in a "no frills", barebone language like C, was eventually ported to everything, while its original editor, written in the time's most cutting edge language and development environment, ended up being nearly unaccessible, at least without some kind soul doing a lot of tedious groundwork pro bono. Been there, done that :-/
Pinchy
';,,;'
glenzinho
Well hello good morning and thank you John Romero!
Graf Zahl
Salty Member
What's ironic about it?
Actually it's one of the cold hard facts many programmers who try to appear 'cool' and 'modern' tend to forget:
All those modern things are just a short-lived thing, they'll all die quickly along with the platforms they were designed for.
On the other hand, code that was mostly written platform-independently and does not depend on a specific OS's idiosyncracies will still be worth something in 20 years.
As someone working in game development it's sometimes astonishing how short sighted many developers are. They start developing a new game, using each and every feature their favorite platform supplies but when the moment of truth arrives and a potential buyer of their games tells them that 'we also need a port to platform xyz' they have to fold.
TimeOfDeath
Pretty awesome how this stuff has never been lost over the past 20+ years and we get to see it!
Blastfrog
Formerly Sodaholic
MAP01's original start room seems to serve as a quite direct transition from E3M8! I also like how those weird switches were set up, even if it was a bit messy.
Overall, I actually kinda like these "Doom 1" feeling maps better, though the high-tier Doom 2 exclusive monsters in early levels is a bit weird. I imagine they were being tested at the time and that was just a quick way to try them out without warping to a later map.
It's kinda fun to run through them with the beta executable and have Ultimate Doom's SKY4 as Doom 2's RSKY1.
ETTiNGRiNDER
A few of the pics (e.g. stuff.png) look corrupt, were they that way originally or did something mess up in the conversion?
Curious if any of the stuff I was earlier given is in there. So far I've not seen any of it.
http://doomwiki.imgur.com/ just for reference. If you're still around John, any comment on "the Blob" monster?
Vorpal
Romero is a rock star in my book, that he'd continue to interact with the community after all this time, and that he was a custodian of this content for so long... just really cool. Never seen anything like it in any other communities.
Maybe some Wing Commander (1990 game) concept art? Looks a bit like a Dralthi fighter
Incredible, we have piece of doom history here!
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Genesis plans Tesla rival, hydrogen car, and massive SUV rollout
Aus set to see Tesla rival from Genesis within two years
Hyundai’s luxury brand Genesis is poised to launch an electric car to take on Tesla – and it will be on Australian roads within two years.
The still-secret electric vehicle is just one of a vast range of new models Genesis is ready to roll out in Australia, one of its key new markets globally.
Although the brand got off to a stalled start in Australia – the first showroom was meant to open late last year – it is ready to ramp up its dealer network and model range, with a new model each year for the next five years.
The Genesis G70 sports sedan (review here) and G80 limousine officially went on sale in Sydney this week, with showrooms in Brisbane and Melbourne due to follow in 2020.
The next model to arrive locally is the new-generation G80 sedan. It is yet to be unveiled globally but is due in early 2020 ahead of a wave of new SUVs and electrified vehicles.
The next Genesis due after the all-new G80 is a large three-row (or seven-seater) SUV called GV80, previewed by the concept shown above and below, followed by a medium five-seat SUV similar in size to a Porsche Macan.
Then in 2021, Genesis will launch its first pure electric car globally – and in Australia – based on the brand’s all-new EV architecture.
The first-ever electric Genesis is yet to be revealed but the company is understood to be working on both a sedan and SUV to compete with Tesla head-on.
Genesis is also still pursuing a production version of the Mint concept car – a city hatchback, pictured below – unveiled at this year’s New York motor show.
While Genesis is yet to officially confirm what will be its first model based on Hyundai’s world-leading hydrogen technology, the global boss of the brand, Manfred Fitzgerald, said: “We are absolutely committed to alternative propulsion. I think you will see that Genesis will have every alternative covered in a relatively short space of time.”
That means Genesis is likely to quickly follow in the tyre tracks of its parent company Hyundai with a choice of hybrid, plug-in hybrid, pure electric and hydrogen-powered “fuel cell” vehicles.
Mr Fitzgerald, in Australia this week to launch the Genesis brand locally, added: “We are very well positioned with alternative technologies. For now we are focused on the near term. In 2021 we have our first fully dedicated new EV platform and that is the timeframe where we will also enter into Australia with a full EV, only a couple of years away. We are moving very fast on this.”
The truth — 26 Jun 2019 01:25
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Steki tis Loxantras
https://www.e-tablecyprus.com.cy/en/restaurant/steki-tis-loxantras
<< Homemade that the cornerstone is not under the kitchen, it is not a good foundation >>, wrote Maria Iordanidou in her well-known book << Loxantra >>. The same doctrine also applies to the homonym tavern that placed its cornerstone in good cuisine and was firmly established. For twenty-two years after it opened, it grew up and became a fame, a clientele and a place, it was three times bigger than a small shop because it kept a perfect kitchen. The environment is thoughtful, decorated with character and has strong references to the city, which revives memories of an era "now that the grass of forgetfulness is beginning to grow".
67 Faneromenis St. Nicosia
Monday to Saturday 19:00 - 00:00
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What’s Selling: Le Petit Kids – New York, NY
For American parents looking to discover luxurious childrenswear labels from across Europe, Rebecca Butman is here to help—no plane ticket required.
Aleda Johnson | March 6, 2018
For American parents looking to discover luxurious childrenswear labels from across Europe, Rebeca Butman is here to help—no plane ticket required. Nearly 13 years ago, the Estonia native opened a two-story, 2,000-square-foot boutique on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Citing the bustling locale as great for forming new relationships, Butman stocks a wide selection of play clothes to party dresses in sizes newborn to 16, from high-end labels like Stella McCartney, Petit Bateau, Jean Bourget, Little Marc Jacobs and IKKS, to name a few.
“My customer base contains lots of grandmothers who want beautiful unique gifts for their grandchildren, as well as hip, young Upper West Side moms who buy mostly generic brands but come to me for special items to mix in,” Butman says, noting the difference between American and European parents’ shopping behavior. “Europeans go to the store and buy 10 things their kids will wear for the whole season,” she says. “In the U.S., shoppers buy lots of lower priced clothing in lieu of budgeting for more high-end pieces.”
Le Petit Kids’ unique selection of quality, refreshing styling and friendly customer service is its formula for success, according to Butman. “It’s nice to offer something different,” she says, adding that European designers are known for being experimental, never shy to try new colors, prints, appliqués and trimmings. “But it’s important as a buyer to remember that not all European styles translate well to the American consumer,” Butman adds, giving the color fuchsia in a boys’ print as an example.
Butman’s practiced understanding of international trends keeps the business thriving season after season. So much so Le Petit Kids’ breakdown is evenly split between boys’ and girls’. “A lot of retailers do a 70/30 split because it’s risky to invest in boys’ clothes,” she says. Butman credits her ability to educate customers over the seasons on the value and craftsmanship of upscale boyswear. “It’s a challenge to capture the American audience with what I have to offer,” she says. “But sometimes it’s worth breaking away from your familiar shorts and sweatpants.”
How’s business? It’s great! I find it very important for us to stock a range of price points. We have gifts and clothing around $30, but we also have beautiful formal dresses up to $200. Customers initially think our clothing must all be expensive because of how beautiful it is, so I tell my staff to point out that we carry more affordable items, too. Another note of advice is to stock comparable items because parents will be more likely to buy a dress if it’s lovely but less expensive than another in the store.
What are your best-selling labels? Molo, from Denmark, is a very cool, trendy brand. Catimini is another very bright and colorful choice. Tartine et Chocolat is wonderful for traditional French clothing—hasn’t changed a bit but is somehow still current. Paul Smith Junior is always a hit with boys, pulling inspiration from the adult collection. Jean Bouget’s conservative, French-chic appeal also performs exceptionally well.
Any new brands added to the mix this past year? Leo & Zachary, which is now our only U.S. brand. We needed good quality dress shirts and suits for summer when locals go to the Hamptons or country clubs. The European brands couldn’t provide enough colors for what customers were asking for.
What are some of your popular accessories? Bari Lynn hair accessories sell well because of the wonderful variety. The beautiful crystals and fur always appeal to little girls. For boys, ties and bowties from Paul Smith and Leo & Zachary are popular because of all the bright colors. Customers also buy hats from Molo quite often.
What’s the smartest business move you’ve made of late? Partnering with Kidiliz Group, a French firm of ready-to-wear brands, which allows us to go deeper with those labels. We used to stock lots of brands, but that can become very stagnant and repetitive. It’s hard to expand that way, so this new approach should be helpful going forward.
Where do you envision Le Petit Kids in five years? We hope to continue to educate our customer about our brands and their values. I do a lot of price research to make sure we stay competitive. I’ve even gone to the Gap and see my European items priced similarly—but of course mine have more detail and much higher quality. I hope more consumers begin to realize that.
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Standardising the Osprey
12/06/2019 Olga Ruzhelnyk Boeing, Osprey, V-22
By Paolo Valpolini
Definitely the most innovative vertical take-off and landing aircraft produced in the past years by Boeing, together with Bell, is the Osprey, the tilt-rotor aircraft that flew for the first time 40 years ago, in March 1989. A new concept, the V-22 needed some time to reach the required reliability, and it was deployed over 25 years after its maiden flight, however it is now a fully combat proven machine. “There are now over 360 Ospreys operating with the US Marine Corps and Air Force, and they have totalled over 450,000 flight hours, the delivery of the first one to the US Navy being planned in Q3 2019,” Rick Lemaster, Director Global Sales and Marketing at Boeing Defense Systems International Programs says.
The assembly line at Philadelphia produced until now only airframes, which were then sent to Amarillo, Texas, at the Bell Helicopter Textron facility, to be coupled with wings and to have engines and rotors installed. The assembly line was recently moved from the northern side to the southern side of Boeing’s facility in Pennsylvania and is now hosted in Building 3-57.1, recently renovated with an investment of 100 million US$. For the first time Philadelphia will see complete Ospreys leaving the line: the constant evolution of the V-22 led the US Marine Corps to bring all Block B aircraft to the same configuration, in order to reduce logistic and training issues. Known as CC RAM (Common Configuration Readiness And Modernization), it will take those aircraft to a certain Block C configuration, identified by one of the latest Ospreys delivered, evolution continuing. In mid-May three Block B were present on the lines and were being upgraded wile a fourth had arrived a few days earlier. “We will deliver the first CC RAM aircraft before year end,” says Lemaster. Overall 129 Block B should undergo CC RAM over a 5+ years timeframe, while it is not clear if Block A aircraft can and will be submitted to the upgrade.
Two lines are now dedicated to the CC RAM programme while one continues producing airframes, although at a slower pace in order to extend the line activity; currently 1.5 fuselages per months are produced, compared to three some time ago, this ensuring two more years of work. “We are looking at new orders,” Lemaster says, “and we consider 12 potential international customers, while the number of V-22s ordered by the US military might also increase.” To ensure those possible orders to link-up with the current production, Letters of Authorisation must be filed by Q3 2020, all export orders coming through the Foreign Military Sales pipeline, the prime customer being thus the US Navy.
Boeing looks with interest at F-35B users, as the V-22 is capable to ferry on board a power module with no shock due to hard landing on an aircraft carrier. The Osprey compatibility has been demonstrated on a number of foreign naval platforms belonging to the navies of France, the Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
Numerous studies were carried out for weaponising the Osprey, a chin gun was developed while rocket pods were also considered. Sonobuoys data linked to an on-board console for anti-submarine warfare missions as well as weapons installed on the ramp or integrated in the fuselage, also for antisurface missions, were taken in consideration, as well as a radar version with a sensor mounted under the ramp, but for the time being the US Navy is concentrating on the long-range resupply version. “We are however talking with the Navy on possible future configurations,” Rick Lemaster concludes.
Photos courtesy Boeing
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Electromagnetics, Signal Processing and Communications
Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics
Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, Volume 129
Calculus of Finite Differences in Quantum Electrodynamics
Authors: Beate Meffert Henning Harmuth
Series Editors: Peter W. Hawkes
View all volumes in this series: Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics
Future contributions
List of Frequently used symbols
1: Introduction
1.1 MODIFIED MAXWELL EQUATIONS
1.2 SUMMARY OF RESULTS IN CLASSICAL PHYSICS
1.3 BASIC RELATIONS FOR QUANTUM MECHANICS
1.4 DIPOLE CURRENTS
1.5 INFINITESIMAL AND FINITE DIFFERENCES FOR SPACE AND TIME
2: Differential Equations for the Pure Radiation Field
2.1 PURE RADIATION FIELD
2.2 DIFFERENTIAL SOLUTION FOR w(ζ, θ)
2.3 HAMILTON FUNCTION FOR PLANAR WAVE
2.4 QUANTIZATION OF THE DIFFERENTIAL SOLUTION
2.5 COMPUTER PLOTS FOR THE DIFFERENTIAL THEORY
3: Difference Equations for the Pure Radiation Field
3.1 Basic Difference Equations
3.2 Time Dependent Solution of Ve(ζ, θ)
3.3 Solution for Aev(ζ, θ)
3.4 Magnetic Potential Amv(ζ, θ)
3.5 HAMILTON FUNCTION FOR FINITE DIFFERENCES
3.6 QUANTIZATION OF THE DIFFERENCE SOLUTION
3.7 COMPUTER PLOTS FOR THE DIFFERENCE THEORY
4: Differential Equation for the Klein-Gordon Field
4.1 KLEIN-GORDON EQUATION WITH MAGNETIC CURRENT DENSITY
4.2 STEP FUNCTION EXCITATION
4.3 EXPONENTIAL RAMP FUNCTION EXCITATION
4.4 HAMILTON FUNCTION AND QUANTIZATION
4.5 PLOTS FOR THE DIFFERENTIAL THEORY
5: Difference Equation for the Klein-Gordon Field
5.1 KLEIN-GORDON DIFFERENCE EQUATION
5.2 TIME DEPENDENT SOLUTION OF Ψ(ζ, θ)
5.3 EXPONENTIAL RAMP FUNCTION AS BOUNDARY CONDITION
5.4 HAMILTON FUNCTION FOR DIFFERENCE EQUATION
5.5 PLOTS FOR THE DIFFERENCE THEORY
6: Appendix
6.1 CALCULATIONS FOR SECTION 2.2
6.2 INHOMOGENEOUS DIFFERENCE WAVE EQAUATION
6.3 DIFFERENTIAL DERIVATION OF Aev(ζ,θ)
Among the subjects reviewed in these Advances, the properties and computation of electromagnetic fields have been considered on several occasions. In particular, the early work of H.F. Harmuth on Maxwell's equations, which was highly controversial at the time, formed a supplement to the series.
This volume, unlike previous volumes in the series concentrates solely on the research of professors' Harmuth and Meffert.
These studies raise important and fundamental questions concerning some of the basic areas of physics: electromagnetic theory and quantum mechanics. They deserve careful study and reflection for although the authors do not attempt to provide the definitive answer to the questions, their work is undoubtedly a major step towards such an answer. This volume essential reading for those researchers and academics working applied mathematicians or theoretical physics
Unlike previous volumes, this book concentrates solely on the new research of professors Harmuth and Meffert
Raises important and fundamental questions concerning electromagnetism theory and quantum mechanics
Provides the steps in finding answers for the highly debated questions
Researchers, academics, physicists and engineers working in the field of image and electron physics or applied mathematicians
Beate Meffert Author
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Henning Harmuth Author
Retired, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA
About the Series Editors
Peter W. Hawkes Series Editor
Peter Hawkes graduated from the University of Cambridge and subsequently obtained his PhD in the Electron Microscopy Section of the Cavendish Laboratory. He remained there for several years, working on electron optics and digital image processing before taking up a research position in the CNRS Laboratory of Electron Optics (now CEMES-CNRS) in Toulouse, of which he was Director in 1987. During the Cambridge years, he was a Research Fellow of Peterhouse and a Senior Research fellow of Churchill College. He has published extensively, both books and scientific journal articles, and is a member of the editorial boards of Ultramicroscopy and the Journal of Microscopy. He was the founder-president of the European Microscopy Society, CNRS Silver Medallist in 1983 and is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and of the Microscopy Society of America (Distinguished Scientist, Physics, 2015), Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society and Honorary Member of the French Microscopy Society. In 1982, he was awarded the ScD degree by the University of Cambridge.
In 1982, he took over editorship of the Advances in Electronics & Electron Physics (now Advances in Imaging & Electron Physics) from Claire Marton (widow of the first editor, Bill Marton) and followed Marton's example in maintaining a wide range of subject matter. He added mathematical morphology to the topics regularly covered; Jean Serra and Gerhard Ritter are among those who have contributed.
In 1980, he joined Professor Wollnik (Giessen University) and Karl Brown (SLAC) in organising the first international conference on charged-particle optics, designed to bring together opticians from the worlds of electron optics, accelerator optics and spectrometer optics. This was so successful that similar meetings have been held at four-year intervals from 1986 to the present day. Peter Hawkes organised the 1990 meeting in Toulouse and has been a member of the organising committee of all the meetings. He has also participated in the organization of other microscopy-related congresses, notably EMAG in the UK and some of the International and European Congresses on electron microscopy as well as three Pfefferkorn conferences.
He is very interested in the history of optics and microscopy, and recently wrote long historical articles on the correction of electron lens aberrations, the first based on a lecture delivered at a meeting of the Royal Society. He likewise sponsored biographical articles for the Advances on such major figures as Ernst Ruska (Nobel Prize 1986), Helmut Ruska, Bodo von Borries, Jan Le Poole and Dennis Gabor (Nobel Prize, 1971). Two substantial volumes of the series were devoted to 'The Beginnings of Electron Microscopy' and 'The Growth of Electron Microscopy'. and others have covered 'Cold Field Emission Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy' and 'Aberration-corrected Electron Microscopy', with contributions by all the main personalities of the subject.
Laboratoire d'Optique Electronique du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CEMES), Toulouse, France
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Despite the great strides society has made to combat discrimination, it can still be seen in a wide range of situations. Every day, people face barriers to adequate housing and education. In some cases they are disrespected as customers of certain businesses or are not given equal employment opportunities.
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navy recruitment - submarine
EA combined photography, retouching & 3D imagery to bring to life GPY&R's Navy recruitment campaign. The concept aims to encourage people to join the Australian Navy as Submariners, with the headline asking "Have you got what it takes"? The first step was to model a Royal Australian Navy Collins class submarine and then compare the rough typography against the real submarine to see what topographical tricks & morphs were required to make the type look like a submarine, yet still be readable. Different lighting & oceanic conditions appear in each execution & various angles were explored. EA Creative Director Bruce Bigelow explains "The Challenge with this job was to create something that was readable, realistic, involving, atmospheric & beautiful all at the same time. The Navy job is a great example of how you can create something out of nothing. This campaign demonstrates perfectly how art directors & retouchers can work together to achieve the best possible result, and is a great window into our world at Electric Art."
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agency: GPY&R Melbourne
ecd: Ben Coulson
art director: Ant Simmons
copywriter: Alex Wadelton
creative services: Sam Joy
EA combined photography, retouching & CGI imagery to bring to life GPY&R's Navy recruitment campaign. The concept aims to encourage people to join the Australian Navy as Submariners, with the headline asking "Have you got what it takes"?
The first step was to model a Royal Australian Navy Collins class submarine and then compare the rough typography against the real submarine to see what topographical tricks & morphs were required to make the type look like a submarine, yet still be readable. Different lighting & oceanic conditions appear in each execution & various angles were explored.
EA Creative Director Bruce Bigelow explains "The Challenge with this job was to create something that was readable, realistic, involving, atmospheric & beautiful all at the same time. The Navy job is a great example of how you can create something out of nothing. This campaign demonstrates perfectly how art directors & retouchers can work together to achieve the best possible result, and is a great window into our world at Electric Art."
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Proposal to change provincial representation on Executive Council draws questions
By Mike Patterson
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] The Governance and Structure Committee on July 5 struggled with the question of how to ensure that the geographical areas covered by the Episcopal Church’s nine provinces receive adequate representation on Executive Council under a proposed resolution submitted for its consideration.
Resolution A075 proposes to ensure “diverse representation on Executive Council” by including representatives from the provinces but allowing the election of the representatives to be held at General Convention rather than as part of provincial elections.
Full ENS coverage of the 79th meeting of General Convention is available here.
“I’m troubled by all elections going through one centralized committee,” said Colorado Deputy Lawrence Hitt II, a committee member. “I don’t think it’s healthy for the church.” Currently, two representatives to Executive Council are elected by each of the nine provinces.
The resolution was submitted by the Task Force to Study Provinces. The task force was enabled by a resolution to eliminate provinces that was presented at the 78th General Convention. Resolution D011 charged the task force with studying the potential effects of eliminating the provinces and to consider what structures might replace them that would support the ministry and mission of the church.
In its report to the 79th General Convention, the task force said that restructuring how representatives to Executive Council are selected is an effort to refocus the energy of the provinces “on the mission of the church and relax their focus on the polity of the Episcopal Church.”
The Very Rev. Craig Loya, Diocese Nebraska deputy and a member of the committee, said that if representatives are elected at General Convention, “it’s unlikely that anyone from Nebraska would ever be elected. My issue is not who is elected from Province VI but that someone from our neighborhood is elected.”
Several committee members also shared their thoughts about whether the provincial system is even effective anymore. “Is the current provincial system viable?” asked North Carolina Deputy Joseph Farrell. “If we don’t agree on the concept, I don’t see how we can move forward.”
Earlier in the day, the Governance and Structure Committee held a joint hearing with the Congregational and Diocesan Vitality Committee, which is considering additional resolutions submitted by the Task Force to Study Provinces. The joint hearing was scheduled to allow members of both committees to hear comments on overlapping issues.
During a general discussion, members of both committees grappled with a series of proposed resolutions relating to provinces, including their purpose, representation and funding.
The Governance and Structure Committee made no immediate decision on whether to approve those resolutions before it, including Resolution A075. Subcommittees were formed to review the resolutions in more detail and report back to the entire committee on its recommendations.
Other proposals included Resolution A076, which would remove representatives from each province from the process of selecting a location for General Conventions because “approving the site of General Convention does not seem to relate to the mission of the church.”
Resolution A072 asks dioceses over the 2019-21 triennium to “review, consider and align with whichever province best serves their identify and needs.”
In its report, the task force concluded that key advantages to the province system are they foster collaboration throughout the church, they facilitate the preparation of deputies for the General Convention and they enable small ministries to find individuals and resources to carry out their mission. “To remove this structure would jeopardize these advantages,” the task force reported.
The task force said that “the pattern of having some type of structure connecting the diocesan level with the church is important. Rather than invent something new, the recommendation is to look at what already exists and maximize what is working, as well as shifting what may not be working in each of the provinces.”
It also suggested a shift in emphasis from provinces helping to maintain the structure of the church. “The energy in the system needs to support the mission of the church, not be used in maintaining the structure,” the task force said. “The task force sought to focus the work of the provinces on supporting the mission of the church rather than on maintain parts of the system focused only on the organization of the system itself.”
This shift in emphasis led to the proposed resolution to amend how provincial representatives are elected to Executive Council.
— Mike Patterson is a San Antonio-based freelance writer and correspondent for the Episcopal News Service. He is a member of ENS General Convention reporting team and can be reached at rmp231@gmail.com.
Executive Council,
General Convention,
General Convention 2018
Randy Marks says:
I think our church has too much bureaucracy. Drop the provincial synods. Change the name to regions (to avoid confusion with Anglican provinces);and do the elections at convention.
Of course, I can say that because I have no role in TEC polity. 😀
Lawrence Hitt II says:
Mike Patterson, you quoted me but incorrectly reported my name: Lawrence Hitt II, not Hill please correct, thanks
mfschjonberg says:
Corrected with our apologies.
Kit Wang says:
I think it’s important to gather representation wider than the folks who show up at General Convention and who have access those elections. The election process is VERY different when managed by the folks at 815 than when it happens at the provincial level.
The Rev. Kit Wang, Maine
(A colleague in Maine who is an Asian-American woman rector under 50 was told by folks at 815 that she wasn’t diverse enough to be nominated for an Exec Ctte seat from Province 1.)
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Ontario's Special Needs Strategy
About Us Newsroom ErinoakKids receives approval for three new state-of-the-art facilities
ErinoakKids receives approval for three new state-of-the-art facilities
On May 24, 2011, Minister of Children and Youth Services, Laurel Broten, came to ErinoakKids to announce and celebrate the news that the Ontario government will be investing in three new ErinoakKids facilities that will better serve children and youth with special needs and support their families.
ErinoakKids serves more than 11,700 children and youth with disabilities and their families each year with a comprehensive range of family-centred services and supports in the areas of autism, hearing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language, and vision.
The new ErinoakKids facilities will be located in Brampton, Halton and Mississauga, and will consolidate and replace eight current locations. This investment in new facilities means that ErinoakKids will be able to serve approximately 1,000 more children and youth in optimal clinical settings each year.
"Once complete, these three new state-of-the-art facilities will help ErinoakKids meet the needs of kids with disabilities and their families - now and into the future," said Broten.
Minister Broten was joined by ErinoakKids clients, families and staff, and by her colleagues Members of the Provincial Parliament (MPPs) Bob Delaney, Kevin Flynn, the Honourable Charles Sousa (Minister of Labour), the Honourable Harinder Takhar (Minister of Government Services) and Peel regional chair Emil V. Kolb in celebrating this significant announcement. Unable to attend but also instrumental in advancing this investment in the future of children with disabilities were the Honourable Linda Jeffrey (Minister of Natural Resources), MPPs Vic Dhillon and Amrit Mangat, and Halton regional chair Gary Carr.
"This marks a momentous occasion in both the history and the future of ErinoakKids and the children and families we are privileged to serve," said Bridget Fewtrell, president and chief executive officer of ErinoakKids. "By responding to this critical need for new facilities, the Government of Ontario and our stalwart supporters have assured a brighter future with more and better access to critical services and supports for generations of children with disabilities to come. Our gratitude is enormous."
Planning and design of the new facilities is underway and they are expected to open in 2016.
Did you know that having your child seated on a low stool, bench or step (versus on the floor), can facilitate the learning of dressing skills? By doing this you are increasing his or her postural stability and visual view of his or her hands.
Read about Occupational Therapy at ErinoakKids
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Unilever To Close Henderson Ice Cream Manufacturing Unit In Nevada
Published on Jun 26 2019 10:20 AM in A-Brands tagged: Unilever / Ice Cream / Nevada / Henderson
Unilever said on Tuesday it would close its ice cream manufacturing facility in Henderson in Nevada, resulting in 300 people losing their jobs.
The plant manufactures ice cream and frozen novelties for brands including Ben and Jerry's, Breyers, Magnum, Popsicle, Good Humor and Klondike, said Catherine Reynolds, a Unilever spokeswoman.
'In Best Long-Term Interest'
"The closure of our Henderson facility is in the best long-term interest of our business," she said, adding that the facility's production will be transferred to factories in Sikeston, Missouri; Covington, Tennesse and Vermont.
Unilever, which also makes household goods ranging from Dove soaps to Knorr packet soups, said the Henderson facility's production would cease at the end of August.
Employees at the plant can apply for open positions at other sites.
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Robert A. Iger
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In 2018, Robert A. Iger earned a total compensation of $65.6M as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Walt Disney, a 81% increase compared to previous year.
Compensation breakdown
Non-Equity Incentive Plan
Option Awards
Stock Awards
Iger received $35.4M in stock awards, accounting for 53.85% of the total pay in 2018.
Iger also received $18M in non-equity incentive plan, $8.3M in option awards, $2.9M in salary and $1.1M in other compensation.
out of 11,130
Robert A. Iger's 2018 compensation ranked 13th out of 11,130 executive pay records tracked by us this year.
Iger earned more than 99.9% of all executives tracked by us in 2018.
Ranking in industry group
Industry group
Cable And Other Pay Television Services
In the industry group of Cable And Other Pay Television Services, Iger's pay ranked 2nd out of 71 executive pay records tracked by us in 2018.
Iger earned more than 97.2% of executives in this group.
Source: SEC filing on January 11, 2019.
Overview2017
Iger's colleagues
We found five more compensation records of executives who worked with Robert A. Iger at Walt Disney in 2018.
Kevin Mayer
Alan Braverman
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Zenia Mucha
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Communications Officer
Walt Disney CEO Robert Iger's 2018 pay jumps 81% to $65.6M
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Welcome to the LGBTQ+ Staff Network web page.
We believe it's important to help create an inclusive environment for all sexual orientations and gender identities within the University.
We also want to offer a visible and accessible source of support as whilst many people may be comfortable with their own sexual orientation and gender identities and that of others, this may be not be the case for everyone.
Upcoming events and meetings
Lunch social: the first working day of every month
Northcott Theatre Cafe 12:00 - 13:00
Follow us on Twitter @ExeLGBTQStaff
We believe it is really important to have accessible LGBTQ+ contacts and role models within the University. We have specific roles within the network for areas of support, but if you would like general support, or would like to speak to someone else confidentially within the network please write to LGBTQPlusStaff@exeter.ac.uk.
Stephen Clifford - Chair
Madi Pollard-Shore - Trans Support
Tom Caro - Bi Support
Thekla Morgenroth - Non-binary Support
Claire Davies - College of Engineering, Mathematics & Physical Sciences Support
Sharon Dixon - College of Life and Environmental Sciences Support
Claire Dunlop - College of Social Sciences & International Studies Support
Rob Tinley - Policy Advisor
To join the network please e-mail LGBTQPlusStaff@exeter.ac.uk.
You can also follow us on Twitter: @ExeLGBTQStaff
There is a closed Facebook group for members of the network, please request to join at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/UoELGBTQStaff
What does LGBTQ+ mean?
LGBTQ stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (including non-binary identities), and Queer/Questioning. The '+' covers all other types of sexual and gender identities such as asexual, intersex and genderqueer.
You can find a more detailed list of terms relating to sexual orientation and gender identity here.
Who is the network for?
The Network is open to all staff and PGR students of all sexual orientations and gender identities who would like a secure space to fully express their sexual orientation and/or gender identity without fear of intimidation or harassment. We also welcome those who do not identify as LGBTQ+ but would like to show their support for the LGBTQ+ community by being an ally, to join the allies mailing list, please contact LGBTQPlusStaff@exeter.ac.uk.
What does the network do?
We run and promote a number of events, including a monthly Coffee Morning, and Pride on Campus.
Most events are open to all but some may be specifically for those that identify as LGBTQ+, and some may be just for allies.
The network is organised by a group of volunteer co-ordinators who:
provide advice and input into the University's inclusivity agenda, training, policies and guidelines
represent the Network at the University's Inclusivity Group
review survey results that tell us about how we are performing as a LGBT-inclusive workplace, such as the Employee Engagement Survey and Stonewall's Workplace Equality Index
work with other LGBTQ+ groups outside the University.
If you have any ideas for events or would like to become network co-ordinator, please do get in touch.
Joining the staff LGBTQ+ network
LGBTQ+ Staff: please contact LGBTQPlusStaff@exeter.ac.uk and we will add you to our mailing list. From the mailing list, you will hear about all upcoming events and opportunities to get involved.
Allies: We are running a separate mailing list for allies, so if you would like to be kept informed on LGBTQ+ inclusivity matters and events then please contact LGBTQPlusStaff@exeter.ac.uk to be added to our allies mailing list.
Both mailing lists are closed lists which means that only members can send and receive emails to the group. The lists are only visible to our mailing list co-ordinator.
What about students?
Postgraduate students are very welcome to join the network. There is also a Student LGBTQ+ Society which is open to all undergraduate and postgraduate students, and we work together to support our common aim of making the University an inclusive environment.
Local events and organisations
Exeter has an ever growing LGBTQ+ community and many members of staff are involved with these events and organisations outside of work. For more information, please use the following links:
ActiveOut Exeter
Devon Lions FC
The Eddystone Trust
Exeter Pride
The Intercom Trust
Non-Binary South West
Spectrum Choir
Transfigurations
TransUnite
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Tierney edges closer to Arsenal deal
Arsenal and Celtic have moved one step closer to an agreement for the transfer of left-back Kieran Tierney to North London. The Gunners had previously had their bid of £14 million rejected, and have since upped their offer to £18.75 million which has been accepted by the Scottish Premiership champions.
The 22-year-old Manx-born defender, who has 12 caps for Scotland, will travel to London this week to discuss personal terms with Unai Emery's side and is expected to agree a five-year contract at the Emirates Stadium.
Arsenal have been chasing Tierney for over 18 months and will be delighted to have finally secured the player's signature, seemingly putting the future of Sead Kolasinac and Nacho Monreal in some doubt, with at least one of those two players set to leave the Emirates this summer. Monreal is reportedly ready to return to his homeland of Spain whilst Kolasinac is wanted by German giants Borussia Dortmund.
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CareerBridge: Just the Beginning
By Faith Network of the East Bay
September 2nd,2015
By Margena Wade-Green
CareerBridge students, supervisors, mentors, family, and Faith Network staff.
CareerBridge has reached an important milestone. We served twenty students this summer, helping each to get an internship. Ten students also signed up to be paired with an adult mentor. All students received stipends through partnering agencies as well as through Faith Network’s Caroline Yee Future Scientist Fund*.
Building upon relationships and making new ones has proven to be one of CareerBridge’s best assets. Over the course of twelve weeks, mentors walked alongside students before and during their internships. They took time to engage mentees in conversation and various self-help and career path development, all the while giving support and advice as students mapped possible career paths. Meanwhile, dedicated employers trained and coached their interns, providing meaningful hands-on job experience.
At the CareerBridge Wrap-up event on August 1, students presented an oral summation of their experience. Many expressed gratitude to CareerBridge and Faith Network. Some students had never thought they could be successful at a “real job”. Other sentiments were “I learned so much” and “It felt good to get a real paycheck with my name on it.”
A big thanks to the mentors, employers, and the supervisors who stepped up in such a stellar way to create entry points for students to discover their potential. We’d like to thank the following companies for providing CareerBridge students with enriching work experiences:
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To find out how you or a student can get involved with CareerBridge, contact Margena Wade-Green at margena@faith-network.com.
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President’s Corner: Abraham Wordsworth — Replanted and Flourishing
Abraham was born in 1996 during a series of brutal civil wars in Liberia. His father was killed and his young mother, unable to care for him during the chaos, sent him to live with his aunt, Theresa Lamadine. At age three Abraham and his aunt, along with other family members, made the journey from Liberia to the Ivory Coast, where they lived in a refugee camp for four years. They arrived in East Oakland in 2003, thanks to the International Rescue Committee.
Six years of displacement, fear, violence, and hunger did not stop young Abraham from putting down roots. At Burckhalter Elementary, he seized every opportunity to learn and grow. By his side were his angelic aunt Theresa, Refugee Transitions tutor Rick Marliave, and Faith Network mentors Bill and Nancy Branagh.
In the spring of 2011 Abraham applied to several Oakland public high schools. In addition, Bill and Nancy took Abraham for a site visit at Head-Royce, a college prep private school. It was a longshot, not to mention the financial aid he would need for a $30,000 per year tuition, but wonders never cease. Abraham was indeed accepted and also awarded a 95% scholarship. At Head-Royce, Abraham spread his wings, joining the track team, becoming a thespian and a campus newspaper reporter, all the while excelling academically.
left to right: Bill, Abraham, Theresa, Nancy at graduation
Fastforward four years to August 2015: Abraham has graduated from Head-Royce and is now off to Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. (Bill and Nancy flew out to Boston to help get him replanted.) For the first time in his life, Abraham’s move is not a desperate gamble for survival but a choice to continue thriving and to help others thrive.
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Chronic Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
What is Chronic CO Poisoning?
Definitions of Types of CO Exposure
Definition of Word "Chronic"
A Paradox of CO Physiology
Table of Indoor Air Pollutant Concentrations
Non-Fatal vs. Fatal CO Poisonings
Symptoms of Occult CO Poisoning
Symptoms Before During and After Poisoning
Characteristics of CO
Clues to Discovery of CO
Differences from Acute CO Poisoning
Common Misdiagnoses
Problems in Dealing With CO Poisoning
Why Not Better Recognized by the Medical Profession?
Long Term Effects of CO Poisoning
Problems with CO: U.K. vs. U.S.
Hypothetical Case Report
Chronic CO poisoning usually involves lower levels of the gas in the air and lower blood CO (COHb) concentrations. Exposure usually continues for many days to months. The boundary limit between acute and chronic exposure is indistinct.
The word chronic should be reserved to describe the type of exposure, not the subsequent condition or effect! A damaging effect of CO poisoning, or in fact, any change which persists, should be referred to as a residual effect.
Chronic CO poisoning may not elicit the typical symptoms of (acute) CO poisoning such as headache, nausea, weakness, dizziness, etc. Mucous membranes of the body will almost never be cherry pink. Chronic CO poisoning is often misdiagnosed as chronic fatigue syndrome, a viral or bacterial pulmonary or gastrointestinal infection, a "run-down" condition, immune deficiency, etc. Patients may occasionally present with polycythemia, increased hematocrit, etc.
Chronic CO poisoning is, in fact, difficult to diagnose by those not skilled in its presentation. As stated above, it is often mistaken for chronic fatigue syndrome, viral or bacterial pulmonary or gastrointestinal infection, excessive heat, etc. Similar symptoms seen simultaneously in more than one person, and which disappear upon removal from an environment are tip-offs that CO is involved. COHb is usually not excessively elevated. More often than not, by the time air CO or blood CO levels are measured, the presence of CO in the environment has been corrected, making measurement impossible. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) generally show no lesion, even when psychological/psychiatric and neurologic evaluations may detect functional deficits.
This is a subject about which many exciting new data have become available during the past 2 years. Summaries of some of these date are seen on this website. A body of animal data are also available which is of some value in understanding and predicting human responses. See the very useful British study by CO Support and the other studies contained in the section called Chronic CO Poisoning.
Acute CO Poisoning - Exposure to CO occurs only once and lasts no longer than 24 hrs.
Chronic CO Poisoning -
Exposure to CO occurs more than once and lasts longer than 24 hrs.
Usually involves lower CO levels / lower COHb saturations
Exposure usually continues for many days to months
Boundary limit between acute and chronic exposure indistinct
Definition of the Word 'Chronic
Chronic -
(Gk.) khronos = time | (Lat.) chronicus | (Fr.) chronique
1) Of long duration
2) Subject to a habit or disease for a lengthy period
Syn. continuing, lingering, persistent, prolonged, protracted
Webster's New College Dictionary, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1986.
The term chronic is sometimes used as in definition #2 - "A history of CO inhalation and an awareness of the typical distributions of lesions are important for recognition of the effects of CO poisoning, especially when patients are in the chronic stage." (Uchino et al., 1994, Neuroradiology, 36, 399-401)
Note: In this condition, ie. chronic CO poisoning, we are concerned with how long the insult (exposure) lasts, not how long the resulting effects last.
A Paradox of CO Physiology:
Deleterious:
It limits oxygen delivery, binds to intracellular energy generating system, kills cells, causes damage to tissues and organs, and kills people.
Natural / Helpful:
It is generated by the human body as a by-product of hemoglobin metabolism
Along with NO (nitric oxide), it is an integral part of the vascular control mechanism.
Most blood vessels dilate as COHb increases, allowing more blood to flow through.
Elevated CO Concentrations are More Likely in:
Smaller multi-unit dwellings
Households using gas ranges for cooking
Dwellings heated by gas wall furnaces
Low(er) CO Concentrations are More Likely in:
Single family dwellings
Homes with forced-air furnaces
Residences with electric cooking appliances
Location / Condition
Carbon Dioxide 860 ppm Lecture Hall
Carbon Dioxide 600 - 2500 ppm School room
Carbon Dioxide 9000 ppm Nuclear submarines
Carbon Monoxide 2.04 +/- 2.55 ppm U.S. homes
Carbon Monoxide 2.5 - 28 ppm Offices, restaurants, bars, arenas
Carbon Monoxide 3.1 - 7.8 ppm Home kitchens with gas stoves
Carbon Monoxide 1 - 5 ppm median outdoor concentration in cities, 1979
Carbon Monoxide 0 - 3 -27 ppm Max. 1 hr. average outdoor concentration
Carbon Monoxide 0 - 3 - 22 ppm max. 1 hr. average indoor concentration
Carbon Monoxide 20 ppm Room polluted with cigarette smoke
Hydrogen Cyanide 56 ppb Room polluted with cigarette smoke
Nitric Oxide 1.05 ppm Room polluted with cigarette smoke
Nitrogen Dioxide 5 - 110 ppb U.S. homes with gas stoves
Nitrogen Dioxide 5 - 317 ppb English homes with gas cookers
Nitrogen Dioxide 20 - 66 ppb Median outdoor concentration in cities, 1979
Nitrogen Dioxide 25 - 177 ppb Homes, 48 hr. average
Nitrogen Dioxide 200 ppb Room polluted with cigarette smoke
Ozone 2 - 68 ppb Photocopying room
Ozone 2 - 18 ppb Homes with electrostatic air cleaners
Ozone 7 - 60 ppb Median outdoor concentration in cities, 1979
Ozone 0 - 700 ppb Using an electronic air cleaner
Sulfur Dioxide 8 - 37 ppb Yearly averages in Chicago & NY
Methane 2 ppm Atmospheric air
All 4.6
Vehicular 3.0
Furnaces (non-vehicular) 19
Thus, for every CO death due to a malfunctioning furnace, there are 20 non-fatal CO poisonings.
Estimates Based on Statistical Data: 2
5,700 - 10,000 people seen in emergency rooms for suspected CO poisoning, 1992-94.
200 CO-related fatalities during same period.
7850 / 200 = 39.25
Thus, for every CO death, this suggests there are 39.25 people who present to the ER for CO poisoning. How many more people with CO poisoning don't go to the ER, and thus are not found in the record?
Paresthesias
Palpitations
Visual Disturbances
Occult - "hidden from view, secret, concealed". Most chronic CO poisoning is of this type, at least at first.
Paresthesias - "abnormal or morbid sensation, as with burning, prickling, etc., but without objective symptoms.
Subjective Symptoms
Frequency %
Headache 87
Sleep Disturbances 66
Cardiac Symptoms 62
Apathy 54
Nausea, vomiting 42
Memory Disturbances 40
Reduced Libido 22
Loss of Appetite 17
From: Jain, K.K. (1990) Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Warren H. Green, Inc., St. Louis, MO
Chronic CO poisoning often masquerades as lethargy, listlessness, lack of motivation, sleepiness, etc. and is often characterized as chronic fatigue syndrome, clinical depression, or an endocrine disorder. The changes are frequently subtle and only recognized as being related to CO exposure after a period of time. Recognition of CO involvement often only occurs by accident or by happen-stance and documentation of abnormally elevated CO in the air and blood is frequently not possible.
Source: From Study A, Penney, D.G. Carbon Monoxide Toxicity, D.G. Penney, ed., CRC Press, 2000. Back to Top
Often goes long undetected
Masquerades as flu, fatigue, etc.
Often many people "sick" simultaneously
May go away upon leaving poisoning site (to work, on vacation, etc.)
Nearly always misdiagnosed by physicians
May involve pets "sick", dead at same time
Rarely involves sinus congestion, cough (when present, it may be due to other compounds {eg., NOx, SO2} in exhaust gases)
Clues to Discovery
Lethargy, headache, etc. of long duration
Long-standing "illness" intractable to medical solutions
"Illness" that suddenly improves when leaving site
Multiple cases at one location
Morbidity / mortality of pets
CO alarm sounding, once or repeatedly
Presence of malfunctioning furnace, water heater, etc.
Differences From Acute Poisoning
may not elicit the typical symptoms of (acute) CO poisoning:
mucous membranes almost never cherry pink
COHb is usually not excessively elevated
CT and MRI generally not useful
Viral or bacterial pulmonary or GI infection
"Run-down" condition
Endocrine problem
Psychiatric/psychosomatic problem
Bad/tainted food
Problems in Dealing With Chronic CO Poisoning
Fact of exposure usually recognized only later
Good COHb level measurements usually not obtained
Air CO level measurements often not obtained
Residual effects commonly occur, but often subtle; thus usually unrecognized by physicians.
Less medical/scientific literature available than for acute CO poisoning
Seldom produces damage recognizable by high-tech scanning techniques (MRI, CT, SPECT)
Changes seen by neuropsychological testing usually most useful
Considerable variability of effects from one inpidual to the next
Why is CO Poisoning Not Better Recognized by the Medical Profession?
It almost invariably presents with too many disparate, seemingly unrelated and often non-specific symptoms. This tends to confuse physicians who act mainly on pattern recognition of one or a few symptoms to come up with a probable diagnosis, or at least a "short list". The result of being presented with 5, 10, 15 or more symptoms is likely to yield a diagnosis of hypochondriasis (faking), psychiatric condition, or both.
Presentation in urgent care settings is such that it usually appears not to require emergency measures - absence of unconsciousness, no obvious provoking agent, low or normal COHb values, skin/mucous membranes not pink, etc.
It has been difficult to study in animal models because rats, mice, etc. are far more resistant to CO than humans, and also are unable to report the many psychological, cognitive and emotional changes that result. Thus we have little understanding the underlying cellular mechanisms at play.
Lack of training in the area, thus a low index of suspicion for the condition and the resultant shockingly high rate of misdiagnosis.
Long Term Effects (Based on CO Support Data)
Tiredness, weakness
Pains, cramps
Nausea, sickness
Loss of Concentration
Cardiac Problems
Flu Symptoms
Pins & Needles, Stiffness
Personality, Emotional Problems
Mouth/Throat Problems
Unable to Walk / Work
Hallucinations, Zombie-like State
Furnace Concerns – U.K. vs. U.S.
Chronic carbon monoxide problems are potentially worse in the U.K. than in the USA, because of the many very old buildings and the past and present construction approach which consists of building solid walls, floors and ceilings. This usually precludes the use of ducted forced air heating/cooling. Instead, building are fitted with "gas fires", ie. gas heaters that are usually located in old fireplaces, exhausting into the fireplace chimney.
Problems with Gas Fires/Fireplaces
Most use air from within living space for combustion
Inadequate installation / maintenance
Possible exposure of inhabitants to heat, flame and fumes
Possible leakage of unburned heating gas into living space
Other Specific Problems With Gas Fires
Chimney outlet too low
Cold chimney, leading to water condensation, then rusting of metal parts
Exhaust fan creating negative pressure in living / combustion space
Unusual geography near chimney
Wind conditions around chimney
Doors/windows open, additions to structure
Exhaust Gas Removal
Leakage of fumes from flue - masonry/metal/plastic (lined/unlined)
Partial/complete blockage of flue - cement, condensates, birds nests, etc.
Age of fire/furnace, flue and chimney
Mrs. Betty Jones is a 35 year old homemaker. She and her husband George, 37 years old, live in a city in the mid-west. She has an Associates degree in accounting, while her husband has a Masters degree in Business Administration. Neither of them are smokers.
In early 1995, they purchased a home in a suburban community through a real estate brokerage company. The home was built in 1958. It was inspected and major appliances in the home were guaranteed for 5 years. The home has three bedrooms, a living room, family room and a glassed in back porch. It is heated by a forced-air, natural gas furnace in the basement. Hot water is provided by a gas-fired water heater, also in the basement.
Beginning in the autumn of 1995, Betty Jones began having headaches and feeling very tired. Her two children, John (12 years of age) and Cathy (9 years of age), and her husband George occasionally awoke in the morning with headaches, dizziness, and nausea. They believed that they all had a touch of "flu" or had eaten tainted food.
Mrs. Jones continued to feel "out of it" for the remainder of 1995 and into the spring of 1996. Her physician, Dr. Blackstone, gave her a "physical", obtaining chest X-rays, blood for complete CBC, and samples for a Pap smear test. He found nothing wrong, saying that "flu" has been going around. A furnace company who regularly serviced the heating system found "everything in good working order."
During the summer of 1996, Betty Jones and the whole family felt much better, although she and the children continued to have frequent headaches and to feel slightly fatigued. They felt better when they went away for vacation for two weeks.
In late October, 1996, Betty Jones again began to have frequent severe headaches and to become extremely fatigued. She was becoming so lethargic that she could not accomplish her normal housework. She was forgetting tasks that needed doing, and finding it increasingly difficult to maintain the family checkbook. She was also feeling depressed and defeated in her daily life.
On several visits to Dr. Blackstone she was told that there was nothing wrong with her. He said her perceived state was psychosomatic, and that she should seek counseling or schedule regular visits with a psychiatrist.
By spring 1997, the Jones' children John and Cathy, previously excellent students, were on academic probation at school. John, a 7th grader, was in danger of failing and being held back a year. Cathy was now getting C's and D's in her classes in elementary school and her teachers were concerned. Mr. Jones, who all his life had been an ambitious and successful employee at a national insurance company, believed he now was in danger of being fired.
To gain extra space in their modest 1300 square foot home, the Jones family contracted to have a fourth bedroom added during the summer of 1997. Because the old furnace in the home was the original unit and would not be adequate to heat the new larger house, the contractor installed a new one. In doing so, he discovered that the heat exchanger in the old furnace was badly rusted through, that the near horizontal run of flue pipe to the chimney was also rusted through, and that the old brick chimney was oversize, unlined, and partially blocked near the top.
Upon learning of these problems, Mr. Jones asked that the old furnace be fired up and measurements of CO made by the gas company. He had recently seen a program on TV about the dangers of CO and wanted to be sure. With the family safely outside, CO levels in the house were observed to attain 176 ppm after one hour. The whole family then went to see Dr. Blackstone, who drew blood for the measurement of carboxyhemoglobin. COHb levels came back at between 0.5% and 1.4%. The physician, not familiar with the effects of the gas, told them that since the CO was now out of their bodies, they would be well again.
Mrs. Jones continued to suffer from severe headaches, fatigue, depression, and irritability. She also continued to have cognitive and memory problems, and began to develop muscle and joint pain, to hear a buzzing sound in her head (Tinnitus), and to have various visual problems. Mr. Jones continued to find it difficult to do his job. He could not make decisions (loss of executive functioning) and lost track of details in his work. The children continued to struggle academically and socially - cognitive testing at school suggested recent significant declines in I.Q. in both children.
As of early 1999, the Jones family is attempting to recover from the health problems caused by their old, leaking furnace. They have been seen by a number of health professionals with varying results: neurologists, toxicologists, and neuropsychologists. To the Jones', it appears that few people in the medical community have much understanding of the long-term health effects of chronic CO exposure. They have retained legal counsel and are discussing options which might lead to compensation from responsible parties. Fortuitously, they have kept the old furnace, flue and other parts as evidence.
What Important Points does this Case Illustrate?
Have a thorough inspection when you buy a house, especially an older house.
The multiple symptoms reported (headache, dizziness, nausea) should have increased suspicion of CO poisoning.
Similar symptoms in several people should also increase suspicion of CO poisoning.
A CO detector should have been purchased and installed in home.
The physician should have been strongly encouraged to promptly order COHb tests.
Furnace and "gas" inspectors should always test for CO.
Fatigue and lethargy combined with headache are strong indicators of CO presence.
If you can't get satisfaction with one physician, see another - a G.P. or a specialist with experience in CO poisoning.
While the leaking furnace, flue ducts and faulty chimney were discovered by chance, Mr. Jones did the right thing to immediately have the house tested for CO.
Blood samples for COHb measurement were taken way too late, ie. they must be done within 2-4 hrs. after leaving the site of the poisoning).
The residual effects elicited by all members of the Jones family are consistent with chronic CO poisoning.
The health effects of the CO poisoning continue at least 1-1/2 years after the CO poisoning was discovered/ended.
Mr. Jones was wise to have kept the faulty furnace, flues, and other parts, should legal action be necessary.
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How to become a Sports Coach
What is a sports coach?
Schools, sports coaching companies, school sport providers, holiday camps, sports clubs, activity clubs, cruise and holiday companies, local communities and a wide variety of organisations employ sports coaches to plan and provide sports coaching to their members in their sessions. Some Sports Coaches coach specific specialist sports whilst others coach a variety of sports to children and adults in a wide variety of settings, from grass roots to the elite.
What qualifications do I need to become a sports coach?
The qualification requirements vary according to the needs of each position but some sports coaching qualifications are vital whether they are non-specific or in a particular sport. A level 2 Sports Coaching qualification from a National Governing Body (NGB) or UKCC is regularly required as a minimum. Sports Coaches with Level 3 are particularly sought after as are Sports Coaches with a number of Sports Coaching qualifications and Sports to offer.
More information regarding Sports Coaching training and qualifications including UKCC (a United Kingdom Coaching Certificate) are available via Sports Coach UK.
In addition, a DBS check will normally be required to work with children and a up to date First Aid certificate is an added bonus for any potential candidate.
What skills/experience will an employer look for?
Sports coaches always need to be confident and able to display excellent leadership skills within a team environment. As well as experience of working in sports or with children, a proven history of being able to build relationships with a variety of people and engage them in working towards a collective goal is important. Sports coaches also need to be organised, able to plan effectively and make their sessions fun for all concerned.
Who might employ a sports coach?
-Schools – Primary and Secondary – Independent, State, Free Schools and Academies
-School Sports providers – Primary and Secondary
-After School Clubs and Half Term and Holiday Activity Clubs and Camps
-Sports Clubs
-Leisure Centres
-Health and fitness centres
-Local communities
-US Summer camps
-Holiday Companies and Resorts UK and Worldwide
-Cruise Companies
What salary can I expect?
A sports coach’s salary will vary depending on the exact job specification. Quite often they will be paid an hourly or daily rate, which might be around £75-£100 per day.
What is my career progression?
Someone in a sports coach role can choose to specialise in a particular area of coaching or use the experience as a stepping stone towards a management role. In particular the skills gained from building relationships and adapting to the needs of a range of different people are useful for someone seeking out a sports development role in the future.
What are the best things about being a sports coach?
Working as a Sports Coach in your specialist sport can bring huge rewards from introducing your sport to new people, helping other to improve their performance or simply to improve the health, fitness and well being of the people you coach. A general coaching role could gives you the opportunity to sample a range of sports and activities which may inspire you in a particular direction later on. It allows you to meet people and work with children for their own benefit. You’ll also have a lot of fun and feel a real sense of achievement as a result of your efforts. There are also excellent opportunities to travel abroad and take part in national and international sporting events and sports tours etc.
Are there any drawbacks?
Depending on your employer ad contract working as a Sports Coach could require a lot of travel, particularly if you are coaching a various locations each week and also at weekends and evenings.
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How Character Progression Works In Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
by Suriel Vazquez on Jan 08, 2019 at 11:02 AM
Watch Dan and Suriel break down how Sekiro's skill tree changes the way character progression works in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.
One of the ways Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice marks a departure for From Software is in how your character becomes stronger. In other From games, you tailor your character by pouring points into different stats like strength, dexterity, and intelligence, depending on whether you want to fight as a brute, archer, or wizard, respectively. Shadows Die Twice won’t have that breadth of customization, as your character, The Wolf, is a shinobi through and through. That doesn’t mean you can’t tailor him to fit your playstyle, though.
A major departure hardcore From fans may scoff at is the lack of corpse runs. Though you gain experience from defeating foes in Shadows Die Twice, that experience is now divorced from currency; gold now drops from enemies as well, and you won’t lose either when you die. If you’re afraid that change might upset the balance of tension and accomplishment that have come define From games, there’s hope: Director Hidetaka Miyazaki says death will have a detrimental effect, but wasn’t willing to tell us what that might be.
Instead, progression in Shadows Die Twice is slow but steady, as the experience points you gain from killing enemies fill a bar that eventually provides you with a skill point that, you guessed it, you can spend in a skill tree. But it wouldn’t be a From game if there wasn’t a catch: Before you can invest in a skill tree, you have to unlock it by finding a particular item as you explore the world.
Once you’ve unlocked a skill tree, you can invest skill points at Sculptor’s Idols (Shadows Die Twice’s take on bonfires). From showed us a few skill trees for The Wolf; one based on shinobi arts, one around samurai arts, and another based on building up the prosthetic arm. Along with passive buffs and improvements to your basic moveset, you can also unlock special moves called combat arts, activated by pressing both front shoulder buttons and which must be equipped separately. These moves are meant to be periodic rewards that let you invest in a particular playstyle “just to give you something to make you feel like you’re roleplaying in a certain way,” says Yasuhiro Kitao, manager of marketing and communications at From Software.
Each of these trees is catered to a different playstyle. The samurai skill tree, for example, resembles the common warrior archetype, which relies on overt, grounded aggression. The shinobi tree is more evasive and lets you control crowds, with skills like a spinning slice attack that deals damage in an area and the ability to step over enemy spears. Finally, the prosthetic tree offers multiple more ways to approach different encounters, with the option to upgrade your shuriken throw with a follow-up attack that closes the distance between you and your opponent, or to let you throw multiple shuriken.
What we saw of these trees was fairly simple, though they weren’t final. We saw about three or four pathways to take our skill tree, with the final tier of skills requiring four skill points. How long these skill points will take to earn is still up in the air, however. The goal is to allow you to be “more creative and find your preferred ninja style, so you’ll have to specialize and think [about] which path you want to take,” Kitao says.
While the skill tree lets you build out The Wolf in various ways, upgrading his other stats will require more attentive eyes. As you venture through Shadows Die Twice, slay enemies and bosses, and find hidden rooms, be on the lookout for prayer beads, four of which will increase your overall health and posture (The Legend of Zelda’s heart pieces come to mind). You might also find tools to upgrade your prosthetic arm with new abilities, such as a shuriken launcher, an axe, or a flame vent, granting you access to new abilities to take with you on the battlefield. There might even be ways to build on the resurrection mechanic, From tells us.
All of these options make for one well-equipped character instead of several kinds of specialized warriors. From says this style of progression, which streamlines options at the cost of variety compared to Dark Souls and even Bloodborne, lets them focus on offering more overall depth to individual encounters, as From can more easily tailor encounters around your character’s skillset. “This is actually using Miyazaki-san’s own words – You could think of the previous Souls games as more expanding laterally, and adding breadth to these various options and builds,” Kitao says. “While you are a fixed shinobi protagonist, you do feel like there’s a sense of progression, there’s a sense of building your own character and finding your own playstyle, and experimenting with this throughout the game.”
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Suriel plays a lot of Dota and fighting games and likes to watch other people play them. He's more or less made a career out of doing both for the past few years. He likes other games, too, though. Promise.
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Is Your Choice Of Food A Fundamental Right?
You grow a garden; you expect to be able to harvest the food from that garden and eat it. You raise a cow; you expect to be able to milk that cow and consume the milk. You raise chickens; you expect to gather eggs and eat them. It’s uncomplicated, simple, a fundamental right. Perhaps you wouldn’t feel this way if you lived under some other form of government, but here, now, in America and other democratized countries, this is what you expect.
According to Wisconsin Judge Patrick J. Fiedler, you do not have a fundamental right to consume the food you grow or own or raise. The Farm To Consumer Legal Defense Fund, the pioneers in defending food sovereignty and freedom, recently argued before Judge Fiedler that you and I have a constitutional right to consume the foods of our choice. Judge Fiedler saw no merit to the argument and ruled against the FTCLDF. When they asked him to clarify his statement, these were his words:
“no, Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to own and use a dairy cow or a dairy herd;”
“no, Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to consume the milk from their own cow;”
“no, Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of their choice…”
Talk about hammering a point home.
Sometimes I think I’ve woken up in a surreal alternate reality. I was raised in a patriotic glow where the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” was a well-defined, well-reasoned expectation. America is the “land of the free.” I do not think this means what I once thought it meant, particularly if we have no fundamental right to drink the milk from our own cows.
Constitutional law is not my thing, but perhaps it should be. That way I could develop a more cogent argument against the likes of Judge Fielder. As it is, I simply say, “But what of liberty? What of privacy? What of the right to do with my body and my property what I see fit, so long as I do no harm to others?”
How is it that I could have lived this long, and assumed that I had a right to eat the foods of my choosing?
I know how. It is our collective experience. In our day to day experience, we choose. In our day to day experience, we sow a garden and we harvest its fruit. In our day to day experience, we feed and milk our cows. In our day to day experience, we visit our local farms and buy foods from people we trust. In our day to day experience, we walk down the aisles of our grocery stores, and we choose. In our day to day experience, we open our pantry doors, let imaginary flavors roll over our tongues, and we choose.
We choose. We choose. We choose.
It’s like breathing. It is so common an experience, so personal, so much a part of our everyday existence, that I had (silly me!) come to assume that it was a fundamental right.
I certainly act like it is. And is that not, in the end, the measure of what is true? Is not truth that which matches our experience, that which is in accordance with reality?
If so, then food freedom and food sovereignty can’t be so casually stripped away, even by zealous judges.
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Amber Caudell via Facebook says
yes it is a fundamental right!
BoBo from Texas says
This is the Hope&Change! that you voted for.
Julie Kay says
Come on. That judge in Wisconsin doesn’t have anything to do with Obama. This comment doesn’t address the issue at all.
tilting@windbags says
Ron Paul 2012! The only candidate addressing this issue! Food freedom = economic freedom!
Just say NO to the NWO!
Why? It is not expressed specifically in the constitution as such. The judge quoted in this article seems to simply be saying that he does not find this in the constitution and therefor has no basis to state that it is a “right” protected by our constitution.
This is the type of judge that conservatives want. We don’t want judges who see things like abortion in between the lines of the constitution.
If you want protection in the law to consume the food you grow… work to get a law passed, but don’t beat up a judge who can’t find something that doesn’t exist.
Randy says
Yeah, cuz everyone knows liberals are down with the 9th and 10th amendments. And of course, that’s were these rights are protected, or are supposed to be.
And wasn’t it the liberals on the SC that all voted with the gov’t in Raisch v Gonzalez, the medical NJ case a few years back? So much for liberals for protecting our rights. It was 3 conservatives that voted for the plaintiff on this case.
In truth, both the Dems and Repubs are authoritarians, just on differing issues. And they’ve both done plenty to restrict our liberties.
Oops, make that the medical MJ case… so sorry..
The short version; You are not the master of my body, you shall not make choices regarding my body. Only I am the master of my body as per the word of my GOD and my religion. Stand Down, NOW! heathen. Quit trying to trump the authority of my GOD and my religious freedom.
Squid says
The Constitution does not spell out the rights of individuals; it spells out the powers of government. If a particular right of the people is not listed in the document, then it is assumed to remain with the people.
The “Where in the Constitution does it say you can stay up late?” question is popular with frustrated parents, but it has no place in discussions of policy.
Art says
I disagree Our Constitution protects Common law When our Forefathers wrote the Constitution they wanted to protect the rights they already had (“The Rights of Englishmen”)now called common law I’m sure under common law you have the right to consume food you raise!
Don Rodrigo says
You think that the Constitution has to spell out everything so that a lame-brained clueless judge can find somenthing that mentions FOOD?
ARE YOU FRIKKIN’ SERIOUS?
“This is the kind of judge conservatives want?” SHows how much you don’t know, which could fill the Grand Canyon. “Pass a law?” Are you saying the Constitution in this case isn’t suficient? Really? Read much?
Before Judge Fiedler, before the FDA, EVEN before the Constitution there is God. HE says in Proverbs 27:23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds.
24 For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation?
25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
26 The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field.
27 And [thou shalt have] goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and [for] the maintenance for thy maidens.
dcgirl says
doug you are wrong in your interpretation of the constitution. It does not have to spell out ALL of your rights. The constitution puts limits on the GOVERNMENT, not the people. Does it say in the constitution that you cannot grow your own food? No. Therefore you CAN.
You need to study the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and its Amendments. I DO have the right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. You are very mistaken to believe the Constitution must list every individual right. Our founding fathers declared what rights they were fighting for, then went into a bloody war to gain those rights. After which, they created to the Constitution which is meant to LIMIT government control of our lives. Our forefathers grew their own food. Many of them were farmers! They ate their own food, including the dairy products from their cows/goats. This particular Right falls under Life, Liberty AND the Pursuit of Happiness!
Abortion goes against the right to life, completely and utterly. You see YOUR rights stop when they infringe on another’s.
Mike Brabo via Facebook says
If only a fundamental right then it is based upon “law” or a governments whim and may be taken away. There is a reason why our nation’s founders called them inalienable rights.
Windy says
You mean Unalienable not Inalienable. Fundamental and unalienable are pretty much synonyms. Fundamental rights equate to unalienable rights, not to statutory nor case law. These right predate government and law.
If you want to keep your rights from being further restricted and, even better have those which have been stolen and limited by government all back, in full again, then your only hope is to help get Ron Paul nominated as the GOP candidate for President and then help him get elected. If necessary in your State, change party affiliation to do so. Become a delegate for Ron Paul at the local, State and national conventions. This is the one candidate who knows the Constitution and the Founding Father’s intent inside out. He has never voted for an unconstitutional law, and has introduced many bills that would require a return to Constitutional government (which have all been held up “in committee” by those who oppose such a turnaround, they like the power they have and are not willing to give it up, but Constitutionally they are NOT authorized the powers they have usurped from the States and the People. He is man of peace and liberty and he WILL get he federal government out of your life.
While I am a Ron Paul supporter, I don’t think he is our only hope. It’s very unlikely he’ll be nominated and even more unlikely that he’ll then be elected. I think it’s more likely that we’ll have to revolt. 🙂
He is our best hope at this time, the person around whom we can rally this revolution of ideas…the ideas can, will, must outlive Ron Paul, but right now he is our best choice and as long as he continues to do the incredibly hard work he is doing, patiently trying to educate the public about the perils of fiat currency and interventionist foreign policy in the 60 sec. sound-bytes he is allotted, the best WE can do is continue to chip away at the tenaciously held misconceptions held by the majority of people in our culture who have succumbed to the fluoride, the psy-ops and general brainwashing by repetition that is ongoing to those of us who see…we need to stay the course…find each other in the wildernesses of our isolated existences and know that we’re working together toward a common goal…liberty and justice for all is not a cliche to us, it is a guiding principle.
David in Atlanta says
How does predicting that Ron Paul will not be nominated make you a supporter of his? In my view, it makes you just another naysayer. If enough people like you perpetuate this prediction, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Supporters work toward making it likely that he will win the nomination. If he wins the nomination, I hear it said that pollsters are now predicting he will win over Obama. In the long run, he may not be our only hope, but right here and now, he is! I, for one, would much rather help make it happen than wait for circumstances to deteriorate to the point where revolt (whatever that is) is the only alternative.
Yes, this is VERY important!! thank you.
JQP says
Windy and Sam, I do like Ron Paul’s support of the Constitution. The problem runs deeper than the President! 2010 was shot across the bow, as the tide reverses to removing the ‘old guard’, Progressive +Socialist=Communists from elected positions of authority. Expose them, isolate them and vote them out of office! Who ever wins the Nomination will be a better choice than the Marxist Obama. The House and the Congress needs to be cleaned out. This also included your State down to your local level…Freedomworks.org Find and unite with others of like mind!
Michelle Stahnke via Facebook says
ummm he needs fired!
gullyborg says
more like tarred and feathered and run out on a rail.
This is not some isolated judge, the firing of whom will eliminate the problem. We will also need to fire the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In another lawsuit by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF), the FDA countered that “Even if there were some plausible argument that people have rights guaranteed under the Constitution to eat or drink anything they want (and there is not), such rights would not trump the government’s paramount interest in protecting public health.” (Quoted in a report by the president of the FTCLDF, and published in “Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts”, Summer 2011)
They also said similar rubbish previously in the same lawsuit, which I don’t remember but saw in the recently released documentary ‘Farmageddon’, which you will want to see on the big screen if it comes to a city near you, or on DVD when it comes out in late autumn/winter. Get notices by signing up at http://farmageddonmovie.com.
Marissa Joilette via Facebook says
agree!!!
Peg Danek via Facebook says
Maybe he is expecting us to revert to the English feudal system.
Patty B says
Perhaps we are trending back to a feudal system of sorts–one where agribusiness owns all the food, corporations own the means for acquiring income and power over our hours, media, managers, and advertisers give fealty to the corporate lords for the privilege of serving them thus gaining higher status and income, and the peasants can take or glean what they may.
notsure says
Patty, why do you default to the “big corporations are evil” meme? It wasn’t agribusiness that shut down the right to drink your own milk, it was the government. Corporations only have the power to sell you something. Government has the power to take things away from you.
Unfortunately the corporations and banks have bought most of the members of government and government passes the legislation the corporations and banks want, so Patty is correct in that the agribusinesses have influenced the legislation that protects themselves from competition even from the home food producers; they may even have written the legislation themselves. This judge is either ignorant of the Constitution he made an oath to uphold and defend, or he’s been bought.
mad libertarian guy says
And do you consider industry buying politicians a failure of industry or a failure of government? Do you somehow think that industry money has the ability to capture an official who doesn’t want capturing? Or that it somehow isn’t the officials who have created the system in which they can be captured?
Government makes the rules.
AP² says
Both? If I pay a guy to rob you, I’m still guilty even if he’s the one accepting the “job”.
Quin says
Simple answer to both sides of the crony capitalism equation. The dems want to eliminate the corporations and the republicans want to hire the right politician who is pure enough to resist the temptation. Get rid of the temptation by reducing the scope and scale of government regulation and massive subsidies and the pigs stop feeding at the trough.
Matty_J says
Prove it. Prove that the corporations have bought the government. Don’t give me your opinion, because it’s as good as my opinion, and my opinion is you’re another idiot hiding behind the delusional thinking of others.
TMLutas says
The literature on regulatory capture is pretty well developed. There really isn’t any cure to it other than limiting what can be regulated. If there’s nothing to capture, the companies surviving off regulatory capture get eaten up by new entrants that are better organized.
Fearsome Tycoon says
Exactly. Politicians can’t sell power that they don’t have.
The Burger King says
So well developed you can’t drop even a single reference on request, apparently.
Translation: “It’s true because I really, really want to believe it is.”
Anna Keppa says
How about googling “regulatory capture” and “crony capitalism”? You might actually learn something.
See also: Regulatory Capture: (ISBN: 6130913761) Editor: Surhone, Lambert M. Timpledon, Miriam T. Marseken, Susan F.
Oh and btw: have you ever given a thought as to what corporation pushed through the incandescent bulb ban? Free clue: its initials are G E.
EcoDude says
Regulatory capture is well developed with literally hundereds of theoretical and empirical studies to back the assertion up. Look at the Stigler reference here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Your comment has no basis in reality.
Greg F says
I view the government like the mob and the large corporations like the corner store that pays protection money. If the corner store pays the protection money the mob insures he will face no competition. If the corner store fails to pay the protection money the mob will replace him with someone that is more cooperative. The power clearly rests with the mob.
Denan says
Windy: While you may not like it, corporations have every moral and legal right to attempt to influence legislation that may help or hinder their business as long as it does so in legally and ethically acceptable ways.
Corporate executives and board members are required by law and regulations to act in the best interests of shareholders. They can lose their job and in some cases even be held personally and legally liable for choosing not to do so.
Further, given the massively volatile, complex and ever-growing regulatory environment businesses must contend with, companies who do not lobby and/or attempt to influence legislation can/will be hurt or even put out of business by the action of a politician/bureaucrat who may have been swayed by others on the issue, or who is simply ignorant of all the facts and seen/unseen economic effects of their vote or both.
And as another commenter rightly politicians can only be bought if they are for sale – and further, they literally are the ‘government’ who makes the rules under which a politician can even consider putting themselves up for sale.
Pettifogger says
Windy said: “This judge is either ignorant of the Constitution he made an oath to uphold and defend, or he’s been bought.”
Not so. I find his decision lamentable, but it follows from the leftist principles that began to be enshrined in the Constitution. In Wickard v. Filburn, the Supreme Court upheld the feds right to prosecute a farmer for producing wheat on his own farm for his own consumption.
That is a New Deal case and is considered a pillar of enlightened judicial thinking, at least by Leftist legal scholars. Leftists believe the feds can tell you what to buy and what not to buy and then are flabbergasted at the result? The operative word is schadenfreude.
Tom Perkins says
“Unfortunately the corporations and banks have bought most of the members of government and government passes the legislation the corporations and banks want, so Patty is correct in that the agribusinesses have influenced the legislation that protects themselves from competition even from the home food producers”
The regulations you are complaining about were all out into place to “protect” the “little guy” from the food produced by bug-agribusiness. How’s that working out for the “progressive” chumps? The corporations wouldn’t spend any money on politicians if there wasn’t something there worth the money, and what it is is the unconstitutional power to legislate the competition out of business.
Make government smaller, so it’s not worth buying.
Unfortunately, notsure, it IS the big Ag Corp’s that do not want us to grow our own food. Because if they don’t control the food, they can’t make any money off of it. It’s all about the money.
@Mike — I think the judge was arguing that the choice of food isn’t even an unalienable right. Rather, he specifically argues that it’s a state-given right, subject to proper license, etc.
Melany Vorass says
So, let me get this straight – eating a plum from a tree I’ve grown in my front yard can only be eaten if the state grants me the right.
As a kid, I remember thinking, “can’t wait to be an adult so I don’t have to eat my liver and can eat dessert before my meals.” Instead, I am being force fed unhealthy food while being denied the right to eat something healthy. Bizarre times.
Melany Vorass said: “So, let me get this straight – eating a plum from a tree I’ve grown in my front yard can only be eaten if the state grants me the right.”
No. That is not the judge’s point. You can eat that plum as long as the government does not say that you cannot eat the plum. The assumption is that you can eat the plum, but the government may restrict your eating the plum, if it chooses. This is a reflection of the American conception of negative liberties rather than positive liberties.
This is a standard conservative legal approach; in other words, it avoids (the much reviled) substantive due process.
That is not to say this is good policy. But is policy that should be changed by the legislature, not by a judge making up fundamental rights.
We’ve just gone through a surreal regulatory moment where pollutants were almost regulated to a level beyond our ability to control them. In other words, we would not have had the engineering capacity to meet the new standards and thus we’d have had to close down entire industries and export them wholesale to jurisdictions that did not have our rules. Net pollution would worsen but we’d be getting it as it drifted to us internationally.
If the state can control my food, there’s nothing preventing them from simply not allowing me to eat other than their good will. That erases a fundamental difference between the US and the regime that produced the Ukrainian famine.
Kev Sa via Facebook says
Who gave this judge the authority to designate a fundamental, natural, human, inalienable right, and responsibility to feed myself. They are using legalese for a specific situation in which the government is involved.
koblog says
Think what our nation would look like if we didn’t have the Bill Of Rights — the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
If we didn’t have a First Amendment, would we have free speech or freedom of religion?
If we didn’t have a Second Amendment, would we be able to own firearms? And so on.
Our forefathers feared that if certain rights weren’t specifically written into the new Constitution — a Constitution that specifically states that if it’s not in the Constitution, the Federal government doesn’t control it — that newly formed Federal government might try to take the rights away.
The writers, of course, could not conceive of those rights being taken away. That’s why they didn’t feel the need to put them in in the first place. They relied on the “if it’s not in here, the rights revert to the states or the people” clause.
Today, our judiciary and the Nancy Pelosi/Harry Reid congress ignore the Constitution. Pelosi: “Is Obamacare Constitutional? Are you serious? Are you serious?” Meaning, “If we pass it, I don’t care about the Constitution.”
Today, our Federal government from Obama on down feel if it’s not in the Constitution, the feds have the power to do and decree whatever they want.
It was supposed to be a limited Federal government. It’s anything but.
So we get judges saying, “I don’t see a fundamental right allowing you to consume the food you grow in the Constitution, so I decree you don’t have that right.”
I guess we needed an 11th amendment in 1789: “The right of the people to eat the food they grow shall not be infringed.”
It’s so ridiculous that it was not conceived. Yet a judge today can seriously state it’s not a right.
Jennifer McGonagill via Facebook says
You might just want to move to Texas.
class factotum says
Of course I want to move to Texas! Who doesn’t?
Kitty McIlhenney Baker via Facebook says
Right! So if we don’t have the right, then who does? We the people have spoken, and its about time our servants do as they are told.
Foodies for Paul says
This is serious stuff. I’m glad the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund is out there.
There’s only 1 presidential candidate for 2012 that I know of who takes our food freedom seriously.
Hear, hear! Beat that drum loudly and often. For those who don’t know how to support this candidate, please scroll up to my first response (higher on this page).
Kylie Wilcox via Facebook says
Why is this not on the law/politics news circuit as well? This is more than just a food issue.
That was my point…. They’ve already taken away the right. I used to live in Eastern Europe. Centralized, government control over the entire food system ain’t pretty… unless you like sawdust in your bread and a life expectancy in the low 60s.
AmandaZ says
I think the most dangerous thing about the judge’s comments is his implications that food choice is not a fundamental right, but one granted by the state. The reverse of that is, it is a right the state can take away at any time.
Carry that too far, and the state is mandating we all drink UHT milk & coke and nothing else.
Slippery, slippery slope. I want my Constitution back!
Slippery slope, indeed!
What floored me is that people in some states aren’t allowed to collect rain water that falls on their own land. By law the water is owned by the ranchers not property owners. This strikes me kinda the same thing.
Dennis Cronin via Facebook says
Who have these people sold their souls too? The koch’s, corporations or the devil? Who wins? I really don’t know?
Tamara says
Way to smear. I think any judge who is claiming government control over what people choose to eat, including produce from their own gardens and milk from their own cows, is aligned with ideological groups that demonized the Koches.
Bringing up the Koch brothers is the new bringing up Hitler
You win the thread!
seguin says
You got that backward. The Kochs are libertarians…this is the sort of abuse of power that they spend money fighting against.
Mark Turner says
How about George Soros? The Koches are Libertarians. Soros actually has holding in a big Agro company, as opposed to the Koches.
“Here are George Soros’ top 10 holdings at the end of June:
1. Adecoagro S A (AGRO): Adecoagro was Soros’ biggest investment at the end of June 2011. Adecoagro is one of the leading companies in the production of food and renewable energy in South America. AGRO recently traded at $8.9 and has a market cap of $1.1 billion. Soros had $295 million invested in AGRO shares.”
Joshua Allen Donini via Facebook says
obviously bought out by the dairy board.
Tod Faassé via Facebook says
You can clearly see where this administration wants to go. First they devalue human life with senseless wars, then they control it with drugs. Mercury, fluoride, lead and now forced vaccinations and genetically manipulated food sources . . . every lawn should be a garden.
Seriously, though. Has anyone looked into or know of any funding, lobbying, etc. that may have influenced this? What else can explain that ruling?!?
Heather Brown via Facebook says
This type of infrigement of rights is the outgrowth of progressivism. I’m not talking left or right here, the first progressives were on the right. This type of government control is a baby step into fascism. The government and large corporations working so closely together to manage the economy, and through it our lives, is the end result of the policies we have seen in the federal government since George H.W. Bush got elected–from both sides. It’s finally picking up speed now.
Actually, that particular snowball began a long time ago. It has been rolling inexorably ever since, it gained a great deal of mass and speed in FDR years and has been growing exponentially ever since. And the only hope we have of blowing that snowball to smithereens in our lifetimes is to get Ron Paul nominated as the GOP candidate for President and then get him elected.
Greg Campbell says
The sad thing in this case is that the judge implicates his own lack of impartiality but doesn’t at all seem concerned about this. I wonder why we call it a justice system when it seems that judges favor the rich and powerful.
Sue Carver says
Judge Fielder needs to brush up on the Bill of Rights. This is why people are occupying Wall Street in New York.
Rob Crawford says
By “occupy” do you mean the people who work there? If so, I agree.
If you mean the children throwing temper tantrums in the street, then I disagree. Those people are the vanguard of the “mind”-set that leads to decisions like this one.
Exactly – the second amendment is a big issue for protestors today.
Svetlana Birthisel via Facebook says
I’ve been considering whether by supporting drug control (eg marijuana) it gives rise to these sort of opinions. It has caused me strongly question my position on legalizing drugs, which I’ve never been for.
Good for you, you SHOULD question prohibition, it denies the idea that you own your own body, it tries to make the government the owner of your body and talk about slippery slopes, that one is a real humdinger, which of course has led us to this point where a judge says we do not have the unalienable right to choose which foods/herbs/intoxicants we put into our bodies.
Rhayader says
Yes, support of drug prohibition is essentially the same from a philosophical standpoint as support of food prohibition. There is no fundamental difference between the choice to drink milk from a cow you own and the choice to smoke flowers from a plant you own.
allison burgueno says
the fundamental problem is that they brought this to court.
the fundamental problem is that government wants to be involved in every “financial” transaction.
the fundamental problem is that people who sell or trade dairy to others are in business – and therefore subject to the laws of commerce.
yes, you can do whatever you want with your own cow, however, when you talk to the law about it – then you are subject to their rectal inversion of the head.
Juanita Franke via Facebook says
I was just thinking the same thing, Svetlana. Never been a big fan of marijuana legalization, but thinking about the food question has changed that for me, I think,
Mandy Maranda Naylor-Graybeal via Facebook says
It’s amazing all the other things we have the freedom to choose – we can smoke and drink excessively (as long as it doesn’t hurt others). We can also eat unhealthy junk food without legal consequence. But we can’t produce our own healthy food and consume it. I guess our own healthy food doesn’t generate tax revenue like tobacco and alcohol…nor does it line the pockets of the food industry.
DHM says
Heather Brown has it exactly right. This is the natural outcome of progressive politics. If the government can meddle in any aspect of food production, it can meddle in all of it- and clearly does.
It’s not the mythical bogeyman the left has manufactured of the Koch brothers that should be scaring us- it’s the crony capitalists of left and right. The smaller the government, the less opportunity it has to meddle, and the less incentive there is for corporations or nanny minded activist groups to lobby for government favor.
Kudos to you, that comment gets a big +100 from me.
Holly Marie Meadows via Facebook says
If I don’t own my own body and cannot even engage freely in EATING (what is more fundamental?), then what rights does this man think I actually have inherent to my HUMANITY? Clearly he thinks there is no such thing as an “inalienable right” and has no concept of Constitutional liberty, and so utterly lacks a Biblical worldview that it is frightening!
And you, also, +100!
I disagree, in the Bible people were forbidden from eating food too. It’s very similar, in fact. Control and despotism.
I’m a big fan of raw milk, and the consumer freedom it’s ubiquitous availability implies. With that said, it looks like I am the only one so far, including the author, who took the trouble to read the court decision.
A district court judge is a publicly elected position. The judge’s job is to interpret the law, not make it or change it. As much as I hate to admit it, the judge’s arguments are solid and at first glance correct. First, according to WI law, they are operating a dairy farm, even though they are only distributing to themselves. The problem here isn’t the court, it’s the law. Fight to change the law.
Second, the FTCLDF’s arguments were underdeveloped, unfortunately. They should have taken a different tack.
Third, the use of private property may be the closest constitutional argument we can use for raw milk, but you still have to have a better argument than what FTCLDF had, and when you begin to distribute the milk, according to WI law, then you are defined as a dairy farm. That’s just the way WI sees it. Best way to change that? Lobby to change the law.
Fourth, a thought for most commenters here: while I would like to change the milk laws too, we in the US do not have the right to do anything we want. We have voluntarily granted many of our rights to our governing officials to steward for us. That’s what a democratic republic does. This concept is especially apparent with individual behaviors which affect public welfare. Like it or not, because of its sorted past, raw milk consumption has become one of those public welfare issues. We would do better, instead of trying to “assert our rights”, to educate the general public and change consumer behavior (which is why I like this blog), which can change both government, and industry.
I understand what you’re saying, and have had many of the same thoughts. This post isn’t about the judge’s decision regarding the legality of herdshares in WI, though. That’s a convoluted mess and the FTCLDF has quite the challenge in WI.
What this post is specifically about is the fact that the judge actually said that we do not have a fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of our choice, that we do not have a fundamental right to consume the milk from our own cow.
He said this in his original decision, so the FTCLDF asked him to clarify. Did he really mean to say that? Or were there qualifications? Perhaps he meant that in this particular case there were other laws and rights that took precedence? Did he mean to make such a blanket statement? Or was he merely trying to address the circumstances of this particular case?
So, the judge clarified, and it turns out he DID mean to make a blanket statement. In his opinion, no one has the fundamental right to consume the foods of their choice, even if they produced those foods.
That blanket statement is what’s bothering me.
Augie says
Though still future the government and their partners at the UN (Agenda 21) will determine what food is “safe and healthy” for us. Oh there will be local organic for those who can afford it but controlled by the controllers for our “safety and security”–small corporate farms with foreign guest workers. The rest will eat formulated K-type rations.The current danger is what we feed our children–raw milk fed to children has been suggested to be criminal.
The word is “sordid”.
You are right about the judge abiding by the State law. And right about educating the public (something our public schools fall severely short on doing) about their rights and their power as consumers.
You are wrong about holding off on asserting our rights. If rights are not exercised they are lost. We do NOT have to ask permission from government to assert, exercise or act upon our unalienable rights.
sa'ada says
+100 for that comment 😉
Matt said
“Fourth, a thought for most commenters here: while I would like to change the milk laws too, we in the US do not have the right to do anything we want. We have voluntarily granted many of our rights to our governing officials to steward for us. That’s what a democratic republic does.”
that may be what a democratic republic does IN THEORY, but that is not what is happening in the US. the inherently aristocratic process of elections allows those with the most money, corporations, to buy candidates, offices, votes, laws and therefore legal judgements in their favor. we live in a corporatocracy.
as good as ron paul’s positions sound, i’m wary of a savior complex developing. we, the people, do not need a presidential candidate to GIVE us back our rights. we need to TAKE them back. how long will the american people watch parents being locked up for feeding their children raw milk?
on second thought, don’t answer that question. i think it’s got a really depressing answer.
off topic a bit but one possible solution, for the politically minded to consider, is sortition. the electoral system doesn’t work. even if ron paul was elected how long would it take a successor to undo any good that paul MIGHT have been able to do?
“The judge’s job is to interpret the law, not make it or change it. ”
It is exactly a judge’s job to get rid of such idiocies by observing the fact the constitutions involved make such a law null and void. This judge did his job wrong, so he shouldn’t keep it.
“We have voluntarily granted many of our rights to our governing officials to steward for us. That’s what a democratic republic does.”
You’ve got that all wrong. If what you say correct, then “just following orders” is in fact not even dodging personal responsibility for crimes committed under law, it is in fact all that that is legitimate to do. Yours is the state where all that is not explicitly permitted is prohibited, and you’re claiming that’s right. Yours is a wrong and reprehensible view of the proper relationship between the people, the state, and the law.
It is not possible to separate the individual from the least of their rights, even voluntarily–the proper exercise of such is not a burden which can be laid down. The social contract is not that powers are actually surrendered to the state for the legislative representatives’ disposition, but merely that an openly arrived at covenant exists between the sovereign individual people and the individual people hired by them to do the jobs the people give to the government; that is it is commonly understood and popularly agreed to–by implicit supermajorities which are very large–what merits the attention of the heavy hand of the state.
Mere law exists to settle the details of what is already commonly agreed to.
You’ll find little agreement with what this overbearing idiot has said, and less with the puerile vehemence with which he has put it.
Chaya says
You criminal! How dare you eat your own food, drink your own milk!
If you have ever studied European block communism, we are seeing the beginnings of such total control in our own nation.
Pam Mercier via Facebook says
The Constitution has been relegated to the antiquities department it seems; looked at more or less like a curiosity, instead of the core document that it is.
Agreed. Incidentally, the relevant Constitutional argument is based on the 10th Amendment, which states that all powers not delegated to the Federal government nor prohibited to the States are retained by either the States or the People.
There may be some question as to whether the States could pass such laws, but the 10th nevertheless states an important principle: that the delegation of some rights to government does not imply that the People do not retain their inherent rights. I am sure the authors did not consider explicitly noting the right of individuals to eat their own food, build their own homes, till their own fields, or breathe their own air because it seemed obvious to them that no one would question these rights. Though they had no naive view of humanity, they could not conceive of the depravity and stupidity of our modern politicians.
Ordinary Bob says
If a human has a fundamental right to eat what they want, do they have a right to end their life? This food debate does help illuminate the hypocrisy of government.
Absolutely, ownership of one’s body includes the right to dispose of your body at any time and in any way that does not violate the unalienable rights of another. This is also why, up until a fetus is capable of living outside the mother’s body without medical aid, abortion should legally be avialable on demand.
Pam Maltzman says
Ummmm, if I remember correctly, this country was supposed to be a constitutional republic, not a democracy. Those two forms of government are not the same thing. You might want to look it up.
This is what happens when ppl do not believe in the God of the Bible. They think they are gods. They don’t believe the God of the Bible gave you inalienable rights. They believe they are gods who have the right to control you denying you all rights.
Rachel Bush says
Laura, I think you mean well, but not everyone believes in the same God/s. I don’t believe in that God you speak of, I have a different but equally “good” belief, yet I don’t think I am a god. I think I am but a tiny part of the whole of creation. We do have inalienable rights which are inherent, but it is those who are immoral regardless of what God/s they may or may not follow, and by that I mean greedy and self-serving, who seek to take that away for their own benefit. Good knows not the difference between religions or deities, but neither does evil… both are found in all, because they are all made up of people who are free to make their own choices. I was never and will never be a Christian, but that does not stop me in any way from being a good, moral, and fair human being.
Think on that a little if you will.
Very soon ,it’ll be your right after paying Monsanto.
People have a right to their OWN food, no matter what. I’d love to see dear ol’ Judgey try and stop me growing my own food. If a certain faction of our government keeps it up with taking food away, there’s going to be one heck of a resistance, and I for one hope that they will be set on their rumps! This country is the People, not the jerks we have currently running it, and they would do well to remember it!
Everyone should awaken and join the infowar. Check out Alex Jones on infowars.com. Mike Adams of Natural News guest hosts on Alex’s radio show sometimes as well.
Our liberties and justice are being taken away each day in the United States. We need to awaken the public. Thanks for the post! Even if one person is awakened–that is progress.
Thanks so much for this post!
His statements are so absurd. I have no idea what color the sky is in his universe. And, this sort of thing is happening over and over again.
I continue to eat the product of my garden. And I’m thinking of getting a cow … for milk!
Ron Paul!!
Pavil, the Uber Noob says
What would a constitutional amendment that establishes food rights look like?
Ciao, Pavil
Such an amendment is unnecessary. All that is needed is to elect people who understand unalienable rights and the Constitution.
Rhonnie says
Ok… so… I’m allergic to just about everything on the market, and pretty much only eat whole foods. Without the additives that I have trouble with. And only certain ones. Which it sounds like I don’t have the right to have…
(deep breath)
I’m really, really trying to behave, here.
Ditto – it it wasn’t pulled from the ground, plucked from a tree (and even then not always), or walked around at some point…I’m probably allergic to it.
Can’t wait to have my health ripped to shreds because someone else gets to dictate what I am and am not allowed to eat.
But hey, on the plus side, I’ll get to support the economy by spending all my money on food that makes me sick and to high insurance premiums for my pre-existing condition and to repare the damage with big pharma!!
Nursing Mother says
So what’s next? Are they going to forbid me from breastfeeding my baby since my breastmilk is unregulated, untaxable, and unprofitable to corporations?? Politics are just getting too surreal these days. I feel like I’m waiting to wake up to a world that makes sense…
Vanessa Hill says
This seems to be the trend now. There is legislation that is trying to make the food we eat more like pharmaceuticals, where large corporations and big pharma can profit off of it. It if isn’t able to be patented or profited off of, it must be banned. This is why raw milk and supplements are threatening to these conglomerates. Why isn’t government coming to our rescue? Oh that’s right, because everyone is scratching someone else’s back.
The YARD! via Facebook says
I think this is nonsense. Makes me wonder what pocket his hand is in to make this ruling.
“We choose, we choose, we choose.” Bravo.
Tina, you said:
” Can’t wait to have my health ripped to shreds because someone else gets to dictate what I am and am not allowed to eat.”
It’s pretty scary. We know our own bodies, and don’t need government stepping in telling us what we can’t consume. Are we sure this is the USA?
Perhaps the case should be argued with milk CONSUMERS as the plaintiffs – not the person who boards the cows.
JLynn says
I have to agree with others who have already said it:
>>> Ron Paul <<<
perlhaqr says
Welcome to Libertarianism. 🙂
Nicolas says
Ron Paul, the only presidential candidate who grows his own organic food, firmly disagrees with this judge.
Richard Popkin says
I live in the city and don’t have a garden or a cow. But if I had a cow and grew my own vegetables and someone tried to stop me from consuming my own produce and dairy products, they would surely be picking the buckshot, from the gun I have a fundamental right to own, out of their ass.
mac says
Mr. Popkin,
I am fully in accord with your views. However, in my case it wouldn’t be buckshot. I’d have sent him at least three 150 gr. “notices to cease and desist.” Arriving at the intended locations traveling at roughly 2700 fps, I’d say they would probably be pretty certain to change both his intellectual and visceral attitudes toward this issue.
I’m a believer in the Mozambique drill.
karrde says
It is a twisted world.
You have a right to privacy, if that right means that a court can strike down a state law restricting birth control.
You do not have a right to privacy, if that right means that a court cannot fine or punish you for consuming milk in a way that the FDA (or State Dept. of Agriculture, or whatever StateGovAgency) disapproves.
Is the FDA supposed to keep charlatans from selling tainted/unsafe milk, or is it supposed to keep you from drinking any milk that they disapprove of (no matter how closely you were involved in its production)?
What is happening is that Constitutional Law has mistakes in it, and things that are forgotten or get little traction.
During the 1930’s and early 1940’s, there were several Supreme Court cases about the laws of the New Deal relating to agriculture. One of them struck down Federal controls on how a meat-market handled its wares and dealt with consumers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schechter_v._United_States
Another such court case had the end result of forbidding a farmer from growing corn on his own land for his own consumption, because the FedGov had capped wheat grown per acre.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
I don’t know much more about nationwide laws and court cases involving farming, but I do know that this means the Federal Government successfully argued that a farmer growing things for his own use (and not for sale) can be limited by Federal Laws about interstate commerce.
Constitutional Law sometimes produces weird results, and the Court agrees for…some reason. Social pressure? Political pressure? Skilful argument?
Or just a pre-disposition to agree with laws that produce more work for lawyers?
Excellent point, STOP voting for lawyers for legislative and executive positions, limit the lawyers to the judicial branch of government (at ALL levels of government).
One argument in response to this you always hear is “show me in the constitution where it says that you have a right to drink your own milk.” I always respond with, “show me in the constitution where the government has the authority to prevent you from drinking your own milk.”
Maybe that is just my quaint way of thinking, but I don’t think so. Our government is supposed to be limited to specific numerated powers. I think we have forgotten that lesson.
Not all of us, and most certainly NOT Ron Paul.
blounttruth says
This is the very reason we need Ron Paul in 2012! I love to read the awakenings of people who see the true writing on the wall, I just hope that many more wake to the reality that not one single candidate other than Ron Paul, or Gary Johnson has any intention of helping Americans as they have all sold out to the world banking cartel and wall street elitists. They say Ron Paul is crazy, too old, to disillusioned? I say Ron Paul is ripe for the picking and people had better wake up and realize that he is honest, has integrity, and loves the Us aside from the fact he has been eerily correct about most pf the things that have hurt us as a nation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvlUx5ECD2w
delurking says
I wonder how many of the above commenters, who feel that choosing what you eat is a fundamental right, have thought out the logical extension of that belief.
Anyone would be free to cultivate and consume marijuana, coca, opium poppies, psilocybin-producing mushrooms, etc. The FDA and DEA would no longer be allowed to prevent you from taking any drug you choose.
I’d like to see the above commenters return and endorse these freedoms or moderate their outrage.
basic human needs are water, food, shelter, clothing. fulfilling those needs = inalienable right
i don’t see why, if we are allowed to fulfill our basic human needs, that means that recreational drug use has to be allowed also. following your logic, if choosing what you eat is a fundamental right then so is taking recreational drugs and so is enriching uranium. after all, you can take it out of the ground and do whatever you want to with it, right?
not to mention that they don’t do a very good job of preventing people from taking drugs anyway.
i’d like to see this commenter return and explain their jump in logic or moderate their complacency.
Hi Sa’ada,
If the government can regulate your growing and eating of one plant, they can regulate your growing and eating of any plant or animal. You can’t say it is a fundamental right to grow and eat wheat, but not a fundamental right to grow and eat coca. If you give the government the power to draw the line somewhere, then they can draw the line between raw and pasteurized milk, rather than between coca and wheat.
So, yes, following my logic (and the judge’s, obviously), if choosing what you eat is a fundamental right then so is taking drugs. How could it be otherwise?
Enriching uranium is another matter altogether.
damaged justice says
Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in defense of liberty is no virtue.
What you describe sounds much better than imprisoning and murdering people because you disapprove of what they choose to put into their bodies. Except you don’t have the moral fortitude and the courage of your convictions that would be required to go around toting a six-gun, putting it to people’s heads and blowing them away. You’ll just send men with guns to do that dirty work for you. Clean hands!
Fine by me if people can use marijuana, coca, opium, etc. Coca especially, when it hasn’t been concentrated, has a very good use: it prevents altitude sickness.
I’m fine with the FDA ensuring that food and drugs that are sold are pure and unadulterated (I’ve read “The Jungle”), but I don’t see where they have any authority to decide whether a food or drug can be sold or consumed.
May I also suggest that as a very bare minimum, we should consider anything in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to be covered by a Right to Life and Liberty?
I say yes to all of them. For every snake oil salesmen, there’ll be a wonderdrug that wasn’t crushed by the ridiculous red tape of the FDA. It would make drugs for lesser ailments more profitable, and therefore, worth producing for drug companies.
I’ll support all of that and then some.
perry says
unfortunately this case parallels the infamous wickard filburn commerce clause case, where the supreme court already ruled some 70 years ago that we don’t have the right to consume what we grow. the same powers that justify what you can and can’t consume from your farm also justify the power to force you to purchase a private insurance product as a precondition of being a citizen.
either we have the rights to determine what is in our own economic best interests or we don’t – you can’t have it both ways.
Yes of course it is a fundamental right, but it is no surprise that our government is seeking to suppress it — none of us have ever spent a day in a world in which we had the right to do with our own bodies as we choose.
For this we can thank that great beacon of bodily oppression, the War on Drugs. In a world where the government can tell you what you can’t smoke or snort or inject, there’s no reason it can’t tell you what you’re not allowed to eat or drink either.
Always On Watch says
I’ll be linking to this information at my site on September 28.
Larken Rose says
As long as the people treat the parasite class (“government”) as if it has the RIGHT to control us, it will. Who cares what a god-complex nutcase in a black dress thinks? It only matters because the people IMAGINE that it matters. Stop worshiping the narcissistic megalomaniacs, stop calling their decrees “laws,” stop begging them for permission to do anything–including milking your own cow. (Holy smokes!) Stop hallucinating that mythical thing called “authority.” Every scrap of power these intrusive, obnoxious, parasitic jackasses have comes from the public’s PERCEPTION of them as our rightful lords and masters. If we stop treating them like masters, one way or another they will stop treating us like slaves.
Anna D says
Can’t you people just vote him out at the next opportunity, if possible, or elect legislators who will replace him with someone who respects liberty – not someone who wants to be a food Nazi? I bet he’s a liberal….
The very concept of rights has been so mutilated and twisted by regulations, politics and ‘interests’ that the only ‘rights’ we have left are to an abortion if we want one, to ‘marriage’ if we are gay, and to embrace political correctness, and therefore our minds, to the ‘superior’ reasoning of someone else. No, our country isn’t what it used to be, and as it appears now, it never will be again.
Gunship Cowboy says
The better way to argue this point, is to ask, “Which of the enumerated powers in the Constitution prohibits the consumption of our own produce. The Constitution provides for “limited” government and lists what the Federal government can “do”. If its not listed, they can’t do it. Granted, Congress has played pretty loosely with the so-called commerce clause. Now is the time to get the arguments straight and fight on the interpretations of the definitions of the enumerated powers.
tom beebe st louis says
Time for civil disobediance
Thucydides says
Raising and eating your own produce is a subset of property rights, so this ruleing is an attack not just on free choice but also you ability to have unencumbered use of your property.
This case and others like it must be fought on the legal, political and social battlefields, and members of the TEA Party movement need to consider this as the next “downline” area to be addressed after capturing municipal and State governments from the progressives.
It will be a long, hard, war.
Tom Bri says
Libertarianism is looking better and better.
Billy D says
If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you weren’t a racist, please vote for someone else in 2012 to prove you’re not an idiot!
patch says
What a dumbass…
Zelsdorf Ragshaft III says
IMHO, a group of citizens, lets call them vigilantes, should gather together, visit that judge, drag him out to a tree. Read the constitution to him and hang his ass from that tree.
alvah halle says
…for the love of God.
one’s own food!!!!
are you freakin’ kidding me.
It has come to THIS.
sweet JAY-SUS.
as the J. Geils band summed many years ago “…somebody help me…”
KMarx says
Most foodies I know are rabid liberals. Serves them right. Hope their beloved communist rulers continue to make decisions like this, it makes their stupidity even more evident.
… And they say the same about us, whenever someone’s shot over a barrel a quarter inch too short.
And so the noose tightens ’round *all* our necks.
ThomasD says
Telling a person they have no right to consume the food they create is despotism writ plain and simple. Shame on us if we do not stand against this abuse.
It seems to me, based on the article that this story linked to, that the judge was hearing a case from a dairy farmer. The dairy farmer was trying to sell raw milk. Personally, I agree that if you won your own cow you have a right to use the raw milk in anyway you see fit. However, the dairy farmer’s lawyer tried to make it into a bigger issue, poorly argued, and improperly used incorrect case law to back up the suit. This seems more to me like a judge saying “you didn’t do your homework and argued badly so I’m smacking you for it.”
To me, it looks like better communication skills and more skillful and fact based arguments were called for on all sides and this screed here is just noise on the signal. If my HOA says I can’t own livestock, then I do not have a fundamental right to do so because I chose to live where livestock was not permitted. Therefore I have to live with the consequences. The noise and hoopla interferes with the REAL argument. The real argument of course being how much regulation we the people will tolerate and how do we get rid of some it. We certainly do NOT do it via specious lawsuits based on roe v wade when we are talking about caws and milk.
Bad lawyer…no milk with your cookies.
STONE DOME says
doesn’t this man realize that the citizenry is well armed?…i don’t think the government realizes the spirit that exists within the majority of people in this country and how they would use whatever force is necessary to preserve their liberty granted by their creator. the only reason some people are still walking around is that it is illegal to kill them. the trend that this judge espouses, which is a road to eventual government totalitarianism, may soon invalidate that statement…
We are headed toward “Idiocracy”… soon we will all have to consume “Brawndo” because it has electrolytes.
David Mastio says
You might want to read this:
AD says
The Impeachment, and Conviction, of this Judge should be a high priority in the next session of the WI Legislature.
Chuck Pelto says
RE: Judge Fiedler
This person is obviously NOT a christian. And how the hell they got to be a judge is a matter of interesting import. Let alone the significance of their being able to divide the law of the land in such an outrageous manner.
Chuck(le)
Seerak says
That’s right, Chuck. Christians have always been pro-choice. So obviously this judge can’t be a Christian, and that’s why we still yearn for the freedom we had for the thousand years of Christian rule after Rome fell.
TO: Seerak
RE: Pro-Choice
Not so much ‘pro-choice’ as it is written that a man should be able to rest under the shade of his own fig tree and eat the fruit thereof. As well as drinking the wine of his own vineyard.
[Do not muzzle the oxen as it treads out the grain.]
Archangel13G says
Hi-larious. A question for all you foodies cheering Mayor Bloomberg’s crusade against the twinkie: how does the sauce taste now that it’s been liberally applied to both goose and gander?
Jhn1 says
The judge is simply stating that you only may choose between the choices our benevolent government allows us to choose between.
TO: Jhn1, et al.
RE: Heh
Welcome to the world of THX 1138.
[The road to Hell is lined with ‘good’ intentions.]
P.S. The question becomes WHO decides what is ‘good’ and on WHAT do they base their decision?
If the road leads to hell, by what measure were the intentions good?
Dantes says
Progressivism marches on. Hey, what are you so upset about. I bet you think the government choosing what health care you get is ok too!
blackpoodle says
This may have originated in a case similar to one in Ann Arbor. A collective of people there bought a dairy herd so they could get unpasteurized milk. I believe there was a court case/regulatory ruling that they could not have the milk because it went through an organization — therefore commerce, even though the didn’t pay directly for the milk — and since commerce is a state interest and public health is a state interest, they would not be permitted to obtain milk that they might give to their their children that, because unpasteurized, might contain harmful bacteria, etc.
ch3cooh says
Owning your own dairy cow and consuming it’s milk changes the amount of milk demanded on the open market
Therefore it is an act of interstate commerce
Therefore is subject to governmental regulation and oversight according to the commerce clause of the constitution.
Pretty much the same issue as Wickard v. Filburn and is also the current justification for the constitutionality of Obamacare.
At least this statist judge is retired on the 30th. None too soon.
Demosthenes says
Welcome to a world where the Commerce Clause is expansive. Yes, your growing food could potentially affect the interstate market for those types of food. Therefore, under the Commerce Clause, the federal government believes it has a right to regulate your behavior. It’s the same principle that underlies the individual mandate in PPACA.
Brahma says
If you eat what you grow, there is no room in the transaction for taxation, regulation, or SEIU integration (lest you think I’m crazy see legislating away your ability to send lunch with your child to school.) It also opens up the opportunity for me to bring an apple pie to your house, and return with a gallon of milk and some tomatoes.
Zexufang says
Impeach Wisconsin Judge Patrick J. Fiedler.
THAT is the only way to send a message to like-minded wimpy noodle brained judges.
Tyranny must be confronted with ACTION; and not with web-wide mumbling indignant blather.
Synova says
The regulations and laws that favor corporations weren’t passed with the purpose of favoring corporations.
They were passed to protect people from corporations.
Think about this. We (the people) have demanded that the government protect us from bad products and profit motivated businesses. We demand regulations about every little thing so that we don’t have to think about the safety of our food.
That this hurts the individual and small businesses and benefits corporations and big business is because they can afford to comply to the rules.
But please let us not mistake who it is demanding laws and regulations and why they did so.
CHOICE is a fundamental (i.e. Individual) right. Period.
Warren Bonesteel says
Peaceful version:
Work with your state legislators…and get the law changed.
Non-peaceful version:
Where’s Wisconsin’s version of Concord Bridge?
iow, how far are you willing to go, and what are you willing to sacrifice, in order to defend and protect your rghts?
Vote Libertarian.
And if you can’t, vote Tea Party.
Now you understand.
Fernando de Saracho says
why is this person even a judge? he may barely qualify to be outside a mental asylum now he decides what goes?
Let’s help him Get some tratment and out of that position quick!
Valerie Rega Rhodes via Facebook says
smacks of centralized planning
Dougger says
Wow, y’all have gone totally off the rails.
First off, this is not an issue of Federal powers under the constitution.
This is a Wisconsin law. If you want to avoid the restrictions of Wisconsin law, move to another state that allows you to consume milk from your own cow. Just make sure that that state considers collectively owned cows to be your own and not just a cover for a dairy farm that can be regulated as in this case.
The Ninth Amendment to the US Constitution is the one that concerns your rights:
“The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
The challenge here is to determine what rights are retained by the people. This is what we elect judges to decide. This must be balanced against the Tenth Amendment to the US constitution:
This means that the State of Wisconsin has the power to regulate what WISCONSIN RESIDENTS eat (since the US Constitution does not delegate this power to the federal govt).
Bottom Line, your choices are:
Move out of Wisconsin.
Amended the Wisconsin Constitution to provide a right to eat your home grown food.
Pass a law in Wisconsin to exempt dairy co-ops from the law in question.
Wow, you’re so totally wrong I can’t pick where to begin first. For one, that isn’t the only amendment applying here, there’s also the 5th and 14th protecting a general right to property from state interference.
Lettuce prey!
John C. Randolph says
Our rights do not come from the government, we created the government to secure our rights. When the government fails to do so, it should be disregarded. This judge, in the meantime, should be bounced off the public payroll, and disbarred for his contempt of the rights of a free people.
-jcr
John Primmer says
Obviouosly, Fiedler, J., is not old enough to have lived during World War II. At the time, encouraged by a progressive President, our parents cultivated “Liberty Gardens.” As our fathers, uncles and older brothers were fighting and dying for our freedoms, and Judge Fiedler’s, we were supporting the effort to retain our freedoms by, among other things, planting vegetable gardens. Of course we had the fundamental right to harvest and eat the results. We also made sure that our neighbors, who might not have been able to raise vegetables, got plenty to eat. This is what today’s liberals really want to obliterate. Not only should we not be able to milk our own cow, we shouldn’t have the right to share the milk with our neighbor. That’s the government’s function.
I don’t know the facts of the case Judge Fiedler screwed up, but there can be no facts that would allow a judge to rule against a citizen’s right to consume the product of his labor. Any other conclusion is slavery. Anyone within driving distance of his court should show up with vegetables, cheese, milk, fruit and anything else they’ve produced and dump it in his chambers. If he controls it, let him deal with it. It’s well beyond time that those of us who believe in these fundamental, God-given rights assert them. Aggressively. The way the union bosses have asserted theirs.
Concerned Citizen says
Actually, that “progressive” president who encouraged the Victory Gardens prevailed in the Supreme Court case against a farmer’s right to feed his own crops to his own animals. Lunacy is found throughout the court system. (from Wikipedia)
Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942), was a U.S. Supreme Court decision that recognized the power of the federal government to regulate economic activity. A farmer, Roscoe Filburn, was growing wheat for on-farm consumption. The U.S. government established limits on wheat production based on acreage owned by a farmer, in order to drive up wheat prices during the Great Depression, and Filburn was growing more than the limits permitted. Filburn was ordered to destroy his crops and pay a fine, even though he was producing the excess wheat for his own use and had no intention of selling it.
The Supreme Court, interpreting the United States Constitution’s Commerce Clause under Article 1 Section 8 (which permits the United States Congress “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;”) decided that, because Filburn’s wheat growing activities reduced the amount of wheat he would buy for chicken feed on the open market, and because wheat was traded nationally, Filburn’s production of more wheat than he was allotted was affecting interstate commerce, and so could be regulated by the federal government.
cbinflux says
SEN. Lamar Alexander (RINO-TN) strongly agrees with the judge.
Smarty says
Those of you who vote democrat need to ask your best friend to kick you in the nuts. This is what happens when you elect marxist do-gooders.
PD Quig says
Just try and take away my right to grow and eat my own vegetables, Judge. And I’ll introduce your sphincter to one of my 10-lb. zucchini…
Well, let us step back a moment. The government prevents more than just growing your own garden.
The poor and jobless are precluded from entering many lower skilled professions or starting their own business. The poor can not open their own taxi service, or style hair, or provide patrons the benefits of their extra rooms or cooking skills. Governments have effectively cut off all available entrepreneurial activity for the poor through expensive licensing, zoning and tax laws, and then ongoing overhead for ‘quality’ and suitability, and transactional tax and legal overhead which long ago stopped adding marginal value and became another tax layer to society.
Name one activity a jobless person can undertake to earn a living without government barrier.
SS also keeps the poor down. It precludes compounding and significant survivor nest eggs, two of the principal methods the rich use to become richer. But SS has neither!
Archie1954 says
Judge Fiedler like many judges in the US is definitely not a Constitutional scholar. His judgement should be appealed to a higher authority, perhaps where an educated judiciary reigns. There is always the possibility of course that he is simply another corrupt individual who is paid under the table by big agri.
Walter Jeffries says
Yes, it is a fundamental. Just because one idiot says otherwise doesn’t change anything. Fortunately the Supreme Court will disagree with him should this get that far.
Tatiana Covington says
I don’t have such a right? Why not? Because he says so? He’s just another man. What about him? Who cares what he thinks? Will he abide by my decisions for myself? No? Then I shall not abide by his for me.
I decide what rights I have, he does not. I never appointed him or anyone else. I do not even recognize him as having any authority at all.
I wonder how well he would fare, if he walked up to a gang of street toughs, seized their hot dogs, and said: “I have the right to tell you what you will eat.” Very likely they would beat him six feet into the ground, and rightly so.
If he doesn’t like it, let him go fuck himself.
Nobody *cares* what he thinks! Or even should!
RogerSmith says
The judge does not need fire – he needs to be shown the most patriotic use for a length of hemp rope and as street lamp.
Is it any wonder everyone sees this country is becoming LAWLESS???
Not only are there too many laws, no one follows the laws we have, including this judge. When people don’t follow laws, things are settled with a gunfight in the street.
Is that really what we want? Yikes!
Ernest Adams says
Choosing whether or not to be pregnant should be a fundamental right too, but there are LOADS of people trying to control what you can do with your own womb. In view of that, this one doesn’t particularly surprise me.
butch says
The Kulaks were unavailable for comment.
Mike Mahiney says
Giving the judge a great big benefit of the doubt. Bear with this a minute. He upheld a supreme court precedent set in that WWII era case that ruled a wheat farmer could not consume his own wheat. If he is half smart as I hope he is, he expects this case could wend it’s way back to the Metamucil Nine and let them digest this stomach churner. He is daring the Metamucil Nine.
If not, find Ye an olden oaken tree and stout chord, well fitted to said judge.
GetSkinny GoVegan says
So So Crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!! Since when is a Kale Garden illegal!
I can’t seem to find it anywhere in the constitution that says government has the right to tell you what or what not to eat.
In other words, citizens shouldn’t have to claim and then prove the source of their rights. The critical question should be whether there is any legal basis for restricting citizen’s rights.
ID says
Guess what, Judge Fiedler, you have no fundamental right to be a judge of others. Society gave you this extraordinary power and it can be taken away as quickly as it was given to you.
haha says
“as quickly” …. hmm… i don’t unfortunately i do not think that is the case.
Dan III says
Don’t know if it’s been mentioned, but the words “…necessary to a free state…” keep coming to mind.
There’s no shortage of domestic enemies.
richard40 says
Don’t blame the judge, he was following the law, as a judge should do, blame yourself. If you voted for any politician who continues to support the FDA, then you yourself voted to take that fundamental right away from yourself. The FDA has the authority, given to them by us, to ban any food that it deems unsafe, regardless of our wishes, in this case it is unpasturized milk. A right is only fundamental if you stand up for yourself when it is taken away, and oppose the people that took it away. Since most natural food types are also political leftists, you have probably voted for politicos that fully support the FDA, and the ban you now so detest. If you want the right to decide completely for yourself what you eat and drink, even if most of the rest of society thinks it is unsafe, only the libertarians, and some libertarian leaning repubs, now support you, no dems do.
Finley says
In 1965, the U.S. Supreme Court established the “right of privacy” under the 14th Amendment — the only time the 14th has been used in U.S. history to decide a ruling. The ruling claimed that freedom and the right to privacy were part of the right to due process. Unfortunately, as I learned from 10 years of bitter experience in the Alabama judicial system, many judges do not even recognize the right to due process — just doing whatever they want because they are judges, the Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court rulings be damned.
This case could well come under the 14th Amendment if there were anyone willing to try it.
Jaytee says
Keep electing liberals (progressives) and watch this once fine nation turn into a socialist garbage bin – because that’s what’s happening. The liberals don’t believe in the limitations of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The liberals believe in “social justice” and “wealth redistribution.” The liberals believe they know better than everyone else. The liberals believe they can tell you how to live and how to eat and how to die. They want what you have unless you have nothing, in which case they’ll give you just enough to enslave you to their system. Yup, keep electing liberals, people.
John O'Neill says
Do you know how to respond to Wisconsin Judge Patrick J. Fiedler’s Nazi Ruling? GROWN MORE FOOD. These scumbags are actually making me grow my own food!!! Keep it up Judge Fiedler and all you other Nazi control freaks – keep it up – it just makes me want to plant MORE!!!!! And by the way Judge Fiedler – YOU CAN GO STRAIGHT TO HELL YOU SON OF A BITCH.
Malcolm Jensen says
Just so everybody can be sure about that to which I’m responding, here it is –
From Tod Faassé via Facebook
on September 20, 2011 | 12:27 pm
Well, Todd,
Are your “senseless wars” Bush’s war of choice in Iraq? Eliminating Bin Laden and his Taliban base?
Did you, just learn about fluoride, or do you think this administration brought us fluoride decades ago?
It’s a shame that you’re probably not a candidate for cervical cancer . . . you may well deserve it.
What about mercury and lead? Do you just name anything that comes to mind and blame it on this administration?
You think that Wisconsin judge is part of this administration?
Any other brilliant observations?
Lennox says
Wow. I don’t know what’s more disturbing: this Judge’s declaration or a good deal of the comments here.
Beyond the justified outrage of this ruling and it’s implications, it also seems this question of food rights acts as a virtual ink blot test that reveals the readers own agendas and biases here in the comments.
Rather than regard this information as the fellow human beings we all are, the fellow citizens of this country I assume most readers are, who ALL have the unalienable right to the food of our choice – rather than look at the commonality we share about this – we scramble to blame our favorite bogey men of choice: whether it be the “commies”, the corporations or Satan himself.
I tend to see the old culprits of greed (especially), stupidity, misguided do-gooders and group-think behind much of the struggles we are having with over-regulation (most problems, generally), rather than massive ideological conspiracies of a single bent.
Please note: This situation did not spring, fully borne, from any one administration/political party. This is not solely left or right created. Both sides have crossed the lines and trampled our rights to suit whatever given “greater good” they saw fit at the time. Whether wire taps on the general public or this current FDA foolishness of SWAT-like teams on a farm family’s doorstep.
People. Stop just objecting when it’s not “your side” doing this. Quit acting like this is somebody else’s fault. WE are at fault because we play right into Divide and Conquer politics and are so busy spitting at each other the big stuff goes right past us.
WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER. We need to knock this off, or we will truly get the reality we deserve (But hey, at least we’ll be able to blame the other guy…).
paita says
Is this not against the ;law???To restrict anyone in the united states of a america from the diet of there choice,ie ,food and beverage of there choice.This country or wisconsin is sounding more and more like Russia in the 1940,who do these republican,rich,arrogant,abuse of power,unhumane peoiple in position of power think they are,god??Wow,that democracy for u right??What happen to our constition?our rights??where are they going folks?Evil thrives when good men/women do NOTHING!!!!PAITA
Stuper Man says
The only problem is, we do not have this right: “What of the right to do with my body and my property what I see fit, so long as I do no harm to others?” You can’t run a meth lab – it is against the law. I understand where this judge landed – he is not going to cede to Americans as ‘constitutional’ the right to do whatever they want on their private property. It is well established the government has the right to regulate that. Question is, how do we keep it from being unreasonable. I do not know about you, but if I lived in a downtown NY highrise, I would not want my neighbor to be allowed to move in a dozen head of cattle to slaughter in his living room, because it is his private property and right to do so.
cali says
You do not have a fundamental right to own an animal. You should not be able to raise a cow/pig/chicken and use their bodies for what ever purpose. It’s slavery.
But plants, sure. You grow ’em. You own ’em. You choose who eats ’em. 🙂
Wayne says
But plants have feelings to!!! You need to read the “Secret Life of Plants”. When you get that digested think about how a plant feels being owned and eaten by yourself. How inhumane!!!
I hope the good people of Wisconsin get off their backsides and remove this person from the bench immediately! His ruling flies in the face of reason. A person has EVERY right to produce or raise his own food and NEVER have to rely on someone else for sustenance! It is incontrovertible and axiomatic! This judge is obviously in the pocket of corporate “farmers.”
J Clarkson says
Okay so the US Constitution is pants. The AMericans would have been better staying with the British Crown. We in Britain have the right to grow and eat our own food. No-one, no laws, nothing can stop this right! Your country is led by a President and a Constitution but surely it would be better to be ruled by a Prime Minister and a monarch? Come on, vote to join up with us and we can rule the world.
T Petty says
Really, do you have that right? Can you grow any of the following: marijuana, coca, peyote, mescal, tobacco, grapes, barley, hemp, opium poppies, salvia?
All these plants or the products made from them, were once or still are prohibited by government order, several of which I am sure are banned by the British Parliament.
Wayne Craig says
Here is an update re: Fiedler. He has left his judgeship, sometime in August, before his term ended and taken a job at a Madison law firm which has done work for Monsanto. You can’t make this stuff up!!! He left two motions re: this case unaddressed. What a stand up guy!!!
Anthony Rowe says
so I can walk onto any dairy in wisconsin and take any cow I choose then right? I mean the dairy owner has no right to own those cows right?
Unfortunately, our “rights” are determined by the government. It’s been that way ever since the bill of rights and the constitution. So the judge was right. His interpretation of the law, is law. And if he says they have no “rights”, he is correct. It’s the system we all buy into when we vote. With this system in place, we will never truly have “rights”.
Matthew Graybosch says
You need to start hammering on the Ninth Amendment, which states that, “The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” We possess the right to do anything we please, but the government’s authority is limited by law.
Are you guys knowledgeable about cooperatively raising grass fed beef? I’d like to get a program like that going.
Law grad says
First, a few basics about fundamental rights:
Courts have clarified that a limited number of fundamental rights flow from the Fourteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution, and thus legislation affecting these rights are subject to “strict scrutiny” rather than the rational basis or intermediate scrutiny tests:
Under the Equal Protection Clause, voting and travel.
Under the Due Process Clause, bodily integrity, family, and reproduction.
I did not see the brief on behalf of the people who want to drink the milk, but according to the judge’s order, they cited no legal authority to support the proposition that what they want to do is a fundamental right.
If these people don’t like Wisconsin’s laws, they can elect people who will change them. The laws they challenge are state laws, subject to the will of the state legislature and executive enforcement. Plaintiffs appear to be asking the court to engage in judicial activism by creating a federal constitutional right where none exists, based on no legal authority. This defies our system based on the rule of law.
To clarify, the above was offered only as a basic primer and for discussion purposes, not as legal advice. Anyone seeking legal advice should consult an attorney qualified to practice in the relevant jurisdiction.
I never realized that consumption choice was an issue. I see the judges point, in that this is actually so fundamental of a right that the framers of the constitution probably didn’t even imagine it needed to be addressed, just as they didn’t realize that a another fundamental right wasn’t addressed, that is the right to plant and grow anything we want.
So basic are these rights that it was like the air we breathe, so no, they were never written down as rights.
Time for a couple new constitutional amendments, I’d say!
Penney says
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something to do with Girl gaga! Your own stuffs excellent.
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Nereida says
I went to McDonalds and chic filets today to buy a cinnamon roll, you know the ones with yummy butter melted on top,. Well guess what, neither place had one because they no longer carry them! Probably because they “the governmet” thinks they are bad for you. Please let me make that decision!! Government stay out of my life!!
Kennelmouth says
I read the actual court transcript of the case in question, and I have to say that I am disappointed by the gross mischaracterization of what happened in court that day. The court had repeatedly stated, as you can see in the transcript, that the right to own a cow or drink pasteurized milk was never at issue in the case. The exact quote in P25 was this: “In response, DATCP does not challenge the Zinniker plaintiffs’ claims that a person is permitted to own cows and board those cows at a dairy farm. DATCP also does not take issue with the Zinniker plaintiffs’ claim that a person may consume unpasteurized milk.”
What was at issue is the status of the milk producers. They weren’t merely milking their own cows to drink the milk over lunch…one of the Plaintiffs were engaged in Dairy Farming, and were doing so without a license. The other Plaintiff was misusing their dairy license in a manner that was in clear violation of the law. In both instances the court said that questions of the licensure took precedence over any other questions in the case, and those licensing issues were the key issues for both plaintiffs’ cases.
The transcript is available here: https://wicourts.gov/ca/opinion/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&seqNo=119002
…I’ve also been unable to find *any* transcripts that show judge Fiedler having made the quotes that you have attributed to him here. While I applaud you for providing a link to your source, I wish two things; 1, that you had linked to that source and checked it out, and 2) that your source had provided links. Your source was one David Gumpert at Complete Patient, a nice looking, well-composed blog that unfortunately appears to have made up a story, with quotes, from whole cloth. What is worse is that every single other blog or news outlet online that is also running this story all seems to link back to Gumperts original uncited blog, or possibly to a source that precedes him (there’s no way to know, without citations).
I appreciate what you’re trying to do here, but in this day and age we need to be more careful than ever that we are doing our due dilligence and not merely forwarding more “fake news.”
Thank you for your time…despite my nitpicking I really appreciated the info that you provided on raw milk, and the other topics you tackle here. But let’s be better skeptics.
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HomeResources3 Business Innovations That Are Changing Women Entrepreneurs’ Lives
3 Business Innovations That Are Changing Women Entrepreneurs’ Lives
Alexandra Levit
Independent Consultant and Author, Alexandra Levit Consulting
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In the business world, women haven't always had it easy. Until the end of the 20th century, it was uncommon for women to work at all. And even once we entered the hallowed halls of American companies, we struggled with unconscious bias and pay disparities. Fortunately, though, 21st-century business innovation is benefiting women in an unprecedented fashion. Let's explore a few recent innovations that have changed working women's lives for the better.
Business Innovation #1: Flexibility Drivers
Werk is an analytics dashboard that helps organizations offer targeted flexibility options to their workforces. The company's proprietary assessment methodology uncovers how well an organization is meeting its employees' needs and the flexibility programs that will drive the greatest impact and return on investment. Werk aims to make flexibility access equitable across gender lines and invests in individual employee success by offering personalized flex reports with the exact information working women need to perform their best at work and at home.
Also, women's flexwork thought leader Kathryn Sollmann recently launched The Flexwork for Women Alliance. It's a community of recruitment and career firms that partner with progressive employers to offer U.S. women better work/life integration opportunities ranging from job sharing and flexjob creation to returning to the workforce after a long absence and changing your career. The Alliance aims to help greater numbers of women stay in the workforce in a less life-consuming way as they care for both children and aging parents—and achieve professional fulfillment and long-term financial security in the process.
Business Innovation #2: Women-First Networks
Bumble made headlines a few years ago when it became the first dating app to mandate that women had to make the first move. Now, the company behind Bumble is spreading its wings to offer Bumble Bizz, an online network in which women can take the initiative to make professional connections on their own terms. Just like the original Bumble sought to make dating less uncomfortable for women, its younger sibling Bumble Bizz wants to provide a safe forum for working women to collaborate, share and learn alongside one another.
21st-century business innovation is benefiting women in an unprecedented fashion.
Next, if you were a working woman without an office, you headed to a coffee shop or took a seat alongside tech dudes at co-working spaces. The Wing's mission is a lofty one: advance women professionally, civically, socially and economically through community. Aiming to create new opportunities, ideas and conversations that lead to greater prosperity for smart women, the membership-based Wing provides access to cozy workspaces, phone booths, conference rooms, cafes, and personal grooming areas in more than a dozen cities around the world.
Finally, Women Who Startup is a special learning platform serving a global group of female entrepreneurs invested in business innovation. The founders understand that launching a business is hard work and that women are often balancing multiple personal and professional priorities at the same time. Whether you need a particular type of developer, are in search of a growth strategy that actually works, or are on the hunt for a co-founder, Women Who Startup is a valuable support network.
Business Innovation #3: Bias-Busting Software
GapJumpers is recruitment software that allows companies to screen job applicants without showing employers any biographical information to start. Known as blind hiring, GapJumpers' process involves creating a list of skills required for the job and designing an online test for each applicant. The client selects candidates to interview based on those test scores, and only then sees their names and resumes. How does this help working women?
Another business innovation in the software category is interviewing.io, an app that helps employers conduct less-biased technology job interviews by disguising candidates' voices so interviewers can't tell if they're male or female.
Business innovations like flexibility drivers, women-first networks, and bias-busting software are essential as working women seek new challenges and opportunities in a competitive entrepreneurial climate. By helping to level the playing field, these products and services help women overcome well-known obstacles to achieve their goals.
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Surprisingly for a body of work of more than five hundred television episodes, a substantial chunk of which dealt with science fiction concepts, there were very few occasions where a Gerry Anderson series explored time travel and associated concepts – but whenever they did, it was usually pretty good! Here are five Gerry Anderson time travel episodes that are well …
5 Gerry Anderson filming locations that still exist today!
Visiting locations used in your favourite show is a must for fans of many classic television series around the world. For Gerry Anderson fans that’s an almost impossible task for the Supermarionation series, since the worlds of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the rest were created almost entirely in studio – yet many locations used in the live action series still …
It’s a Mindbender – why so many Gerry Anderson episode orders?
One question we see crop up frequently in relation to the various Anderson series (although not quite as often as “what does F.A.B. mean?”) is why are there so many different broadcast and home video Gerry Anderson episode orders out there for each show? Most of the Anderson shows were produced in an era where it was common practice for …
Top 5 worst Gerry Anderson dream episodes!
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Last time we examined our five favourite “it was all a dream!” episodes from the various Gerry Anderson shows, and now it’s time to do the opposite! Let’s dive to the bottom of the barrel in search of five episodes best described as “a terrible horrible nightmare!” #5 – Errand of Mercy The Secret Service was mad to start with, …
Dirk Maggs Interview on the Gerry Anderson Podcast (Part 2)
Dirk Maggs is back again – revealing for the first time, a previously unknown Gerry Anderson production – Ape Man. As listeners to part one will remember – Dirk is a freelance writer and director and has been a fan of Gerry Anderson from an early age. In part two of our Dirk Maggs Interview, he reveals how he created …
Dirk Maggs on the Gerry Anderson Podcast
Dirk Maggs is a freelance writer and director and is principally known for his work in radio, where he evolved radio drama into “Audio Movies,” a near-visual approach combining scripts, layered sound effects, cinematic music and cutting edge technology. Dirk has been a fan of Gerry Anderson from an early age. In part one of this chat, he talks about …
Forces TV on the Gerry Anderson Podcast
Forces TV have brought two classic Gerry Anderson series back to UK TV with UFO and Space:1999. Head of Television Adam Hardwick joins us to discuss the shows, Forces TV’s potential future plans, and yes… we talk about #Breakawaygate too! Plus we take a look at some of our international listeners around the globe, Chris is back with a classic …
UFO Production Manager Ken Holt Has Died
We’re very sad to report that Ken Holt has died. Ken was production manager on UFO, having joined Century 21 in the late 1960s. He was also production manager (albeit uncredited) on Thunderbirds Are Go and Thunderbird 6. He was a regular convention attendee over the last few years, and we are all very glad to have known him. Our …
Licence To Thrill – Anderson Actors In James Bond Films!
Licence To Thrill – Anderson Actors In James Bond Films When you think of legendary television series’, the chances are that a Gerry Anderson series will feature somewhere in your musings. Whether you love Thunderbirds, Space:1999 or any of the others, each series contributes something special to the Anderson Legacy. When it comes to legendary films, you might well think …
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Even 'Safe Haven' Assets Start to Look Risky
Published August 26, 2011 Reuters
This year's heady bout of risk aversion on financial markets has ratcheted up demand for gold, U.S. Treasuries and the Swiss franc to levels that suggest they may no longer be the "safe havens" they are billed as.
Some investors see all three as vulnerable to a sharp sell-off should the global economic environment improve over the coming months, or simply because prices are too high in the absence of outright financial catastrophe.
"A safe asset is something that is going to be safe across economic environments," said William De Vijlder, chief investment officer at BNP Paribas Investment Partners. "It means you'd better make sure your forecast is right."
There are already signs the demand froth is coming off, at least in gold and the Swiss franc.
All three safe havens highlighted have distinct features, so losses from renewed demand for riskier assets would not hit each equally. Gold, for one, might fare better given that underlying demand for the metal is not all based on risk aversion.
But none are "safe" in all circumstances, and their remarkable rises this year may now pose some risk for those holding them.
Ten-year U.S. Treasuries recently traded with yields below 2% -- their lowest in generations -- and, according to Merrill Lynch data, have returned some 11% over the summer.
The Swiss franc has risen by 15.3% and 8.5%, respectively, to record highs against the dollar and euro , prompting moves from the Swiss National Bank to rein its currency in.
Perhaps most spectacularly, gold has risen as much as 33%, taking it to just below $2,000 an ounce -- a startling performance on top of a decade-long rally that has seen the metal's price rise more than 600%.
In the last few days, however, there has been a sharp sell-off -- nothing really to dent the asset's major gains, but a reminder of how quickly heady gains can run out of steam.
"It is not difficult to believe that gold could correct a reasonably good amount," said Ashok Shah, chief investment officer at London & Capital, adding that this would not necessarily undermine its long-term bullish trend.
DIFFERENT RISKS
Of the three assets benefiting richly from the slowing global economy, lower interest rates and debt crises in the euro zone and elsewhere, gold is arguably the least vulnerable to a huge reversal.
It offers no yield or dividend and can rise and fall rapidly based on investor fear alone.
But the drivers behind its rise are diverse and it may hold up better than others when economic conditions change.
Demand has been bolstered by central banks buying the metal as part of their diversification of foreign reserves. Even more significant may be the buying of bars and coins by newly wealthy Asian consumers, notably those in China.
The World Gold Council estimates there was a roughly 25% rise in demand for gold from Chinese consumers between the second quarters of 2010 and 2011,
Gold is also not particularly subject to what BNP Paribas' De Vijlder calls the "feedback loop", which occurs when a significant price rise begins to affect economies and prompts policy changes by governments.
The same cannot be said for the Swiss franc, which has also wobbled recently courtesy of the SNB's moves to cap its gains.
The SNB has cut official rates to near zero and pumped out more money to lower the franc's value. It has also sold francs in the forwards market to drive rates lower and make it expensive to hold the currency.
This is only a part of what it could do, meaning investors will have to battle to protect gains -- something that detracts strongly from the concept of a "safe haven".
Charlie Morris, head of absolute returns at HSBC Global Asset Management, believes investors have been treating the Swiss franc as something that it is not.
"It is easy to forget that the Swissie is a relatively minor currency and not the global liquidity pool that it is cracked up to be," he said.
'POINTLESS AND DANGEROUS'?
U.S. Treasuries, meanwhile, are at the point where investing in them is only slightly more lucrative than putting money under the mattress.
They are supported, like gold, by outside-the-market factors such as Federal Reserve buying and huge inflows from China. Some of that will change as the U.S. economy improves or as Beijing diversifies.
Mainly, though, yields of around 0.2% for short paper and only 2% for long, offer little. It would not take much of an inflationary spike or economic rebound to prompt a rush to the exit.
"Treasuries are either pointless at the short end or dangerous at the long end," Morris said. "Either we have deflation and bonds deliver paltry yields ... or, more likely, inflation resurges and investors in bonds lose their shirts."
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29 October 2015 By Abbey Zorzi In Archive Blog
Face of Addiction, Face of Hope
Note from Dr. Junlei Li, Co-Director and Associate Professor: This blog post is written by Abbey Zorzi, an undergraduate psychology student at Saint Vincent College, the academic home of the Fred Rogers Center. Abbey was in my Child Development class in the fall of 2014. In her class essays, she relayed tidbits of her powerful personal story about addiction and...
26 October 2015 By FRC In Events Press
Fred Rogers Center Kicks Off Digital Library Initiative
LATROBE, PA -- Tanya Baronti, left, digital media and learning project manager for the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media at Saint Vincent College, shared tips with Gilbert Cardenas, an early childhood educator interested in the Center’s new digital mentoring and lending partnership with the Westmoreland Library Network. Baronti and Cardenas were among the educators who attended...
20 October 2015 By Junlei Li In Blog Imagination Social-Emotional Learning
What Nourishes the Imagination?
“Imagining something may be the first step in making it happen,” Fred wrote, “but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.” At the start of the school year, we shared this whimsical illustration by the artist (and orthodontist!) Grant Snider on “how to grow...
15 October 2015 By Hedda Sharapan In E-newsletters What We Can Continue to Learn from Fred Rogers
Meta-Cognition: The Follow-Up Questions
I wonder if you've heard of "meta-cognition"? It's a relatively new concept in education, and it literally means "thinking beyond" or "thinking about what you're thinking." People are just now starting to talk about it in early childhood, but I'll bet you've been encouraging it without realizing it. The focus in education used to be about asking questions to get children...
14 October 2015 By FRC In E-newsletters Staying Connected
Staying Connected: October 2015
Throughout my life I have been very fortunate to be at the right place at the right time. I will say it again as I raise two young children and have the incredible good fortune to work at the Fred Rogers Center. You can't help but feel inspired by Fred's words and actions. Working with and meeting some of the most...
05 October 2015 By Rick Fernandes In Blog Mission
What Would Fred Rogers Do? 2.0
Sometimes it takes staying true to your roots to discover your voice. By focusing on the themes that were central to Fred Rogers’ life we’re connecting with people in news ways to advance his legacy. On January 2, 2014, I walked through the doors of the Fred Rogers Center at Saint Vincent College to start my role as Executive Director. It...
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130 foreign nationals held in 4-hour operation
Members of the team check the documents of foreigners during the operation last night. (Bernama pic.)
KAJANG: A total of 130 foreign nationals were detained for various offences in an operation by the Immigration Department in Kajang and Puchong last night.
In a raid on 53 condominium units in Kajang, 78 Nigerians, six Filipinos, an Indian and a Pakistani and four children aged between one and three years were detained, Immigration Director-General Khairul Dzaimee Daud said
Another 40 foreigners from Nepal, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Tanzania and Kenya were detained in a residential area in Puchong.
“They were found to have committed various offences including not having personal travel documents, overstaying, abuse of passes, expiry of student and tourist passes and indulging in business.
“Some are also suspected to be involved in online scamming activities following the discovery of laptops containing doubtful information.
“They will be handed over to the police for further action,” Khairul told reporters.
Ninety-six immigration officers, 15 personnel from the National Registration Department and five members of the Civil Defence Force took part in the four-hour operation from 10.30pm.
Khairul said members of the party had to break open several doors of houses occupied by the foreigners as they refused to cooperate.
He said those detained were taken to the immigration lock-up in Putrajaya before being sent to the immigration detention depot in Bukit Jalil or Semenyih, Selangor.
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Alloimmunity and Transplantation
Hans-Jochem Kolb
Kolb Consulting UG, Germany
Utrecht University, Netherlands
Jakob Nilsson
University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland
AS-qPCR
Methods ARTICLE
Front. Immunol., 04 June 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2019.01226
Rapid Multiplex Genotyping of 20 HLA-A*02:01 Restricted Minor Histocompatibility Antigens
Dmitrii S. Romaniuk, Anna M. Postovskaya, Alexandra A. Khmelevskaya, Dmitry B. Malko and Grigory A. Efimov*
Laboratory for Transplantation Immunology, National Research Center for Hematology, Moscow, Russia
A subset of MHC-associated self-peptides presented by the recipient's cells and immunologically foreign to the donor can induce an allogeneic immune response after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). These immunogenic peptides originate from the genomic polymorphisms and are known as minor histocompatibility antigens (MiHA). MiHA mismatches trigger the post-transplant immune response, which could manifest in both the deleterious “graft-vs.-host” disease and the beneficial “graft-vs.-leukemia” effect. Importantly, some MiHAs are considered to be promising targets for posttransplant T-cell immunotherapy of hematopoietic malignancies. This creates a demand for a robust and fast approach to genotyping MiHA-encoding polymorphisms. We report a multiplex real-time PCR method for the genotyping of 20 polymorphisms that are encoding HLA-A*02:01-restricted MiHAs. This method uses allele-specific primers and gene-specific hydrolysis probes. In 1 h it allows for the detection of MiHA mismatches in a donor-recipient pair without the need for electrophoresis, sequencing, or other time-consuming techniques. We validated the method with Sanger and NGS sequencing and demonstrated good performance over a wide range of DNA concentrations. We propose our protocol as a fast and accurate method of identifying mismatched MiHAs. The information on the MiHA mismatches is useful for studying the allogeneic immune response following HSCT and for selecting the targets for post-transplant T-cell therapy.
Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) is commonly used as a treatment for acute leukemias, lymphomas and other malignant hematopoietic diseases. The therapeutic efficiency of HSCT is determined by immune recognition and subsequent elimination of the remaining malignant clone by the infused lymphocytes of the donor origin, or so-called “graft-vs.-leukemia” (GvL) effect (1). Unfortunately, donor lymphocytes can also recognize and target some healthy non-hematopoietic tissue antigens, triggering potentially lethal “graft-vs.-host” disease (GvHD) (2).
The targets of the alloreactive immune response in the HLA-matched allo-HSCT are the minor histocompatibility antigens (MiHA). MiHAs are endogenous polymorphic peptides, presented by MHC molecules on the cell surface (3, 4). Donor T cells were not selected to tolerate the recipient's MiHA alleles, thus some transplanted T-cell clones may recognize them as foreign antigens (5, 6). Most MiHAs originate from non-synonymous single-nucleotide polymorphisms (nsSNP), however, they can be derived from other polymorphism types. Frameshifts and nonsense mutations result in the expression of truncated proteins, so only one of the allelic variants encodes a peptide, presented by MHC (7). Even a single amino acid substitution, caused by missense SNP, can affect peptide cleavage by the proteasome (8) or the antigen processing, resulting in the unilateral presentation of one of the allelic variants (9). The SNP variants encoding the presented and non-presented peptides are denoted as the immunogenic (dominant) and non-immunogenic (recessive) alleles, respectively. For the immune reaction to develop, the recipient should have at least one dominant allele, while the donor needs to have two copies of the recessive allele. For some MiHAs both alleles encode MHC-presented peptides, potentially making them immunogenic in both directions (co-dominant). In this case, T-cells discriminate peptides by a single amino acid difference (10). Up to date over 60 MiHAs have been discovered. For the majority of their respective allelic counterparts, in vivo immunogenicity has not yet been confirmed; although for 36 alternative allelic variants of MiHAs, predicted HLA, HLA class I binding affinity is similar to the affinity of the respective MiHA (11). For a comprehensive review of currently known MiHAs and mechanisms of their immunogenicity see Griffioen et al. (12).
With a few exceptions, each MiHA is presented by only one HLA allele. Thus, for the immune response to occur, the donor and the recipient should not only differ in the allelic variants of MiHA-coding nsSNP but also have the restricting HLA allele. HLA-A*02:01 is the most frequent MHC class I allele in Caucasians, with up to 50% of individuals bearing this allele (13). Therefore, a substantial part of the patients undergoing HSCT in Europe and North America are HLA-A*02:01 positive. Approximately a third of the MiHAs discovered so far are restricted by the HLA-A*02:01. We selected 20 HLA-A*02:01-restricted MiHAs for our study (Table 1).
Table 1. HLA-A*02:01 restricted MiHAs, selected for genotyping panel.
Nonsynonymous SNPs can be genotyped by a vast arsenal of SNP-genotyping methods, with each having its limitations. The allele-specific PCR (AS-PCR) (28) and the analysis of restriction fragments length polymorphism (RFLP) (29) require an electrophoresis step to make the allele call. High resolution melting PCR (HRM-PCR) is hard to multiplex, could be unsuitable to certain SNP types and is prone to inaccuracies (30). qPCR with hydrolysis probes is accurate and fast, but the probe binding depends on the SNP allele. Most of the commercially available qPCR-based SNP genotyping kits are designed to genotype one SNP per test.
Sequence-based methods are expensive and time-consuming. The Sanger sequencing is the most accurate method, yet it lacks multiplexing. SNP genotyping could be scaled up by a single nucleotide extension reaction or by next-generation sequencing (NGS). Although NGS could be used to genotype many SNPs simultaneously, it is excessive for the small panel of known MiHAs. However, the NGS has been used for novel MiHA discovery (22, 31). SNP genotyping techniques are reviewed in Kim and Misra (32). The genotyping of MiHAs is reviewed in Spierings and Goulmy (33).
Because the number of discovered MiHAs is limited, it is not practical to either genotype SNPs one by one or to use NGS. Besides, due to the HLA restriction, it is preferable to develop the genotyping panels grouped by the HLA allele. In this study, we aimed to design a straightforward, yet robust genotyping method based on a combination of the AS-PCR and the qPCR, for the largest group of MiHA-encoding polymorphisms, restricted by HLA-A*02:01. We designated it AS-qPCR. Our method is a significant improvement over the previously suggested panel for MiHA genotyping (28).
DNA Samples
Peripheral blood samples for genotyping were obtained from HSC recipients and their corresponding donors. Blood samples of healthy volunteers were used for cloning the control plasmids. All participants signed the informed consent approved by the ethical committee at the National Research Center for Hematology, Moscow, Russia. DNA was extracted using the Wizard Genomic DNA Purification Kit (Promega, USA).
Primers and Probes Design
Sequences spanning 500 bp on either side of a target SNP were extracted from the Ensembl database (http://ensembl.org, Human genome assembly GRCh38) using in house made Perl script. Other polymorphisms with frequencies more than 1% according to the dbSNP database (http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SNP/, build 150) were mapped to these sequences. The Geneious gene browser 4.8 (34) was used to manage sequences and for the primers and probes design. The ASP direction was picked according to the optimal GC content, Tm, low dimer and hairpin probability. The hydrolysis probes, when possible, were designed to anneal to the same strand as the ASP, between the ASP and the common primer. We tried to position the probe as close to the ASP 3′-end as possible, guanines at the 5′-end of the probe were avoided. Several ASP variants were designed for every MiHA with introduced deliberate mismatches 1 or 2 nucleotides from the 3′-end (35, 36). We tested all ASPs together with the gene-specific probes and the gene-specific primers using the control plasmids. For each MiHA we picked the ASPs with largest qPCR Cq difference between the target allele and the opposite allele. To avoid UGT2B17 paralog amplification both selected primers were sequence-specific, they flank the exon 6 fragment of the gene which encodes UGT2B17/A02 MiHA. All other SNPs, except MiHA-coding, were avoided during the primer and probe design. In the case of HA-8, it was impossible to avoid SNP at the probe binding site, so degenerate nucleotide was introduced. Also, for HA-1 and CCL-4 obstructive SNPs (rs3764653 and rs1049807, respectively) were in close proximity to the target SNPs and they had to be included in the ASP. We checked the linkage disequilibrium for the SNPs of interest and the obstructing SNPs and found that in both cases adjacent SNPs were linked, so we designed the ASPs accordingly. All primers and probes were tested in silico for dimer and hairpin formation using the IDT OligoAnalyzer tool with “qPCR” parameters setting (http://idtdna.com/calc/analyzer). All primers were designed to have a Tm in the range of 63–68°C and the probes—in the range of 70–74°C according to the Multiple Primer Analyzer tool. Resulting primer pairs and probes were checked for mispriming on the human genome with the Primer-BLAST tool (http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/primer-blast/). Several primers were adapted from other studies studies, to some we introduced mismatches. The set of primers and probe, specific for beta-2 microglobulin (B2M), was used as the internal qPCR control. See Supplementary Table 1 for oligonucleotide sets and their source (if applicable). Overview of the primer positioning scheme is presented in Figure 1A.
Figure 1. Assay principle. (A) Schematic representation of the MiHA-coding locus with all the utilized oligonucleotides. SBT, sequence-based typing primers used for Sanger sequencing and for control plasmids cloning; ASP, allele-specific primers used for the AS-qPCR genotyping, complementary with the 3′-end nucleotide to each of the SNP alleles (indicated by red line); Probe, a hydrolysis probe, bearing fluorescent dye and quencher; Com, common primer, used for both SNP alleles AS-qPCRs (for some SNPs common primer was used as the second SBT primer). For UGT2B17/A2 the ASP primers were used as the SBT primers. (B) Schematic representation of the AS-qPCR reaction. The assay is performed in 2 separate tubes with different ASPs for the same SNP. Each tube contains the common gene-specific primer (not shown) and the gene-specific fluorescent probe. Here is represented the genotyping of a DNA sample homozygous for a reference allele. (C) Schematic representation of the possible outcomes of the AS-qPCR and their interpretation. Allele calls are listed below the graphs.
Control Plasmids
The NCBI Primer-BLAST tool was used to design primers flanking the genotyping primers for cloning and sequence-based typing. In several cases, the common AS-qPCR primer was used for cloning. To clone the UGT2B17 exon six fragment we used the genotyping ASPs. First, we genotyped volunteers using AS-PCR without established positive control. For each cloning, preferably, homozygous DNA samples were selected. PCR for cloning was performed using the AccuPrime Pfx DNA polymerase (Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA) according to manufacturer's instructions. The list of cloning primers provided in Supplementary Table 2. The PCR products were purified using agarose gel electrophoresis and the GeneJET Gel Extraction Kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA) and ligated into the pJet1.2 blunt vector with the CloneJET PCR Cloning Kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA). The plasmid DNA from the transformed DH5α cells was extracted with the GeneJET Plasmid Miniprep kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA). For the rare TRIM22 MiHA coding SNP allele we used mutagenic primers and cloning primers to perform two-step overlap extension PCR, its product was cloned as described (see Supplementary Table 3 for primer sets). All control plasmids were Sanger sequenced using standard pJet1.2 primers. The plasmids were mixed in the groups of 4 in a panel-wise manner (see below) with the concentrations equalized at 0.5–1 pg/μl to be used as the control for the genotyping panels.
The primers and probe set combinations were tested for heterodimer formation using the Multiple Primer Analyzer tool (Thermo Fisher Scientific, https://www.lifetechnologies.com) with the default settings. Genotyping sets were pooled into 5 panels of 4 least cross-reactive primer sets. The control set for B2M was included in each pool. All panels were divided into 2 groups: with the ASPs for the reference and for the alternative SNP alleles, according to the reference human genome (http://ensembl.org, Human genome assembly GRCh38). The UGT2B17/A02 MiHA primers were the same for both oligonucleotide mixes. Table 2 shows the color channels assignment and the pooling scheme. For the CFX96 real-time PCR detection system (Bio-Rad, USA), used for the study, we have chosen FAM, HEX, ROX, Cy5, and Cy5,5 hydrolysis probe dyes for color channels 1–5, respectively. The BHQ-1 quencher was used for the FAM and HEX labeled probes and the BHQ-2 for the remaining dyes. Primers and probes were synthesized by EvroGen or Syntol (Russia).
Table 2. MiHA genotyping mixes. Primer sets are grouped into 5 multiplex panels.
300 nM of each primer and 200 nM of each probe (150 and 100 nM for the control set, respectively) were used for the reaction. Ready-made 5x qPCRmix-HS PCR mix (EvroGen, Russia) containing Taq polymerase was used to make the stock reaction solutions. The qPCRmix-HS qPCR mix provides 3 mM Mg2+ and 0.2 mM of each dNTP in the final 10 μl reaction. The AS-qPCRs were performed using two-step qPCR protocol: for 2 min, then 40 cycles of alternated 98°C for 10 s and 61°C for 30 s with plate read. The method scheme is shown in Figure 1B.
The SNP calling was performed using the CFX Manager 3.1 software (Bio-Rad, USA). Quantification cycle (Cq) was used to evaluate the AS-qPCR results, the Cq < 30 was considered as positive (37). We also evaluated the B2M fluorescence curve shape to check for possible evaporation. Related wells for the same sample and for the same MiHAs were evaluated simultaneously, target by target, starting with the internal control evaluation—respective B2M Cqs should be < 1.5 cycles apart. The SNP allele calling was performed according to the scheme in Figure 1C. If both PCRs were positive—the sample was marked as heterozygous, if only one well had positive signal or the signal plot crossed the threshold two or more cycles ahead of the other well—the sample was designated homozygous. Samples with the fluorescence level below 300 relative fluorescence units (RFU) were not taken into account. Both wells for the UGT2B17 locus contain the same oligo set for that gene, so only the bi-allelic deletion will render both reactions negative.
For plots in Figure 2 raw qPCR data were extracted in the CSV format, fluorescent curves were plotted using GraphPad Prism version 5.03 (GraphPad Software, USA, www.graphpad.com), it was also used for Supplementary Figures 1–3.
Figure 2. Validation of MiHA AS-qPCR genotyping for a representative subject (p909). For better visualization data from the multiplex was separated: each row corresponds to the MiHA group and each column corresponds to the color channel. Each plot shows the combined data for the two AS-qPCRs performed in the separate wells, the AS-qPCR-based SNP allele call is denoted above each plot, Sanger sequence-based allele call is shown in the insert. The fluorescent curves are in green and orange for the reference and alternative alleles, respectively. It was confirmed by Sanger sequencing that UGT2B17 gene, and not its paralogs, is amplified in the AS-qPCR. The curves for the AS-qPCR internal control are omitted.
The probability of MiHA Mismatch (PMM) for related and unrelated donor-recipient pairs was calculated using the SNP allele frequencies for European population from the reference genome database (http://ensembl.org, Human Genome Assembly GRCh38) according to the formulas provided in Bykova et al. (38), Armistead et al. (23). The distribution of the number of the mismatches was calculated by 107 iterations of simulation with an in-house python script.
The PCRs were performed with the 5x qPCRmix-HS PCR mix (EvroGen, Russia) or the Phusion Hot Start II DNA Polymerase (Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA) using the cloning primers. The product was checked with agarose gel electrophoresis and PCR was enzymatically cleaned using the Illustra ExoStar kit (GE Healthcare, USA) or with electrophoresis and the gel-extraction Cleanup kit (EvroGen, Russia). The sequencing reactions were performed with the BigDye 1.1 or 3.1 chemistry, purified with the BigDye XTerminator (Applied Biosystems, USA) and sequenced using the Nanophor-05 (Syntol, Russia) or the ABI PRISM 3100 (Applied Biosystems, USA) machines. Base calling was performed using the Sequencing analysis software version 5.3 (Applied Biosystems, USA). Obtained reads were aligned with the respective reference sequences, described above, using the Geneious software version 4.8. Chromatogram images were made using Geneious version R11 (34).
The exome libraries were made using the Ion AmpliSeq Exome RDY Kit 1 × 8 (Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA) for 8 donor-recipient pairs. Exome sequencing was performed at the Research Center for Medical Genetics, Moscow, Russia using the Ion S5 system (Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA). Exome assembly was performed using the Torrent Suite software (Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA). The MiHA coding polymorphisms were analyzed using the Integrative Genomics Viewer (39). The data points with coverage below 15 reads were excluded, MiHAs C19ORF48 and LB-NDC80-1P were fully excluded due to this criterion. For the UGT2B17 exon six coverage was analyzed.
HLA-A*02:01-Restricted MiHA Panel
For our study, we have selected 20 previously described HLA-A*02:01 restricted MiHAs (Table 1). Most of them were discovered by the forward immunology approaches, so their ability to induce the in vivo immune response was confirmed. To our best knowledge, for HER2/Neu, HIVEP1-1S, NISCH-1A, UGT2B17/A2, and WDR27-1L only the in vitro immunogenicity was shown. UGT2B17/A2 MiHA is caused by gene deletion, so it lacks an allelic counterpart, for the other MiHAs, encoded by SNPs, both peptides are translated. For HA-1, HA-2 and HA-8 it was shown that the alternative peptides are not presented by the MHC due to impaired HLA-A*02:01 binding or altered antigen processing (9, 15, 29). For LB-CLYBL-1Y, LB-SSR1-1S, NDC80-1P, and LB-NISCH-1A it was demonstrated by mass-spectrometry that the allelic counterpart was presented by HLA-A*02:01 molecules (10, 27). If mismatched, they may elicit an immune response, but in the current study we called mismatch only in the cases where the recipient had the allele known to be immunogenic in vivo and the donor was homozygous for the alternative allele. Although UGT2B17/A2 was initially reported to be presented by HLA-A*02:06 (40), it is assumed that it may also be presented by HLA-A*02:01, as these alleles have similar peptide binding motifs (41). The peptide was labeled as a weak binder for both HLA-A*02:01 and A*02:06 alleles by the NetMHC 4.0 algorithm (42).
The probability of a donor and recipient to have a MiHA mismatch (PMM) for a particular MiHA depends on the allele frequencies (23, 38). PMM in the European population ranges from 2% for TRIM22 to 25% for LB-ADIR-1F (Table 1). Using PMM for each MiHA, we have calculated the distribution of the number of mismatches in related and unrelated pairs for the 20 MiHAs considered in this paper (Supplementary Figure 1). Related allo-HSCT-pairs were most likely to have 2 mismatches (28.8%), while the number of mismatches in unrelated pairs peaks at 3 (22.9%). This confirms the clinical relevance of the genotyping for the selected panel, as most transplantations would be mismatched for one or more of the studied MiHAs.
AS-qPCR Assay Design
To achieve PCR multiplexing and to reduce the analysis time we used the combination of allele-specific PCR and real-time PCR: the allele-specific primers were used to discriminate SNP alleles while the fluorescently labeled hydrolysis probes distinguished the loci (Figure 1). With the proposed design, the genotyping of four SNPs required two separate wells: one for the detection of the reference and other for the alternative alleles. Each had the fifth, common oligonucleotide set, serving as the internal control. This design allowed for the 4-fold reduction of the number of reactions compared to a singleplex AS-PCR and the 2-fold reduction compared to a singleplex qPCR with allele-specific probes.
The ΔCq between the specific and the non-specific reaction for ASPs of our design was at least 4.9 (Supplementary Figure 2). Using the plasmid mixes, we checked the sensitivity of the allele discrimination to the amount of input DNA across the series of dilutions from 100 pg to 10 fg of plasmid DNA (pDNA) per test, which approximated to 80 μg and 0.8 ng of human genomic DNA (gDNA), respectively. We found that although in the multiplex reaction with the 5x qPCRmix-HS qPCR mix some MiHAs can be genotyped using as low as 10 fg of pDNA, reliable results were obtained with at least 1 pg of pDNA (Supplementary Figure 3). This corresponds to 80 ng of human gDNA.
Method Validation
To validate the genotyping panel, we selected 5 HLA-matched HSCT donor-recipient pairs bearing the HLA-A*02:01 allele (1 sibling donor and 4 unrelated donors). All samples were genotyped in a blind manner with the reported method and using Sanger sequencing. In all of the 200 tested data points, Sanger sequencing confirmed the allele calls made with the AS-qPCR. Figure 2 shows qPCR curves and Sanger sequencing data for a representative subject, the rest of the genotyping data could be found in the Supplementary Dataset.
To further test our approach, we performed the full exome sequencing for 8 additional HLA-matched HSCT donor-recipient pairs on the Ion S5 platform. We found that some SNPs in our panel were poorly covered by the full exome sequencing (Supplementary Figure 4). Altogether, 42 points had to be excluded from the analysis due to low coverage, including all data points for C19ORF48 and LB-NDC80-1P. The remaining 278 points were compared to AS-qPCR genotyping data. We found the discrepancies in 5 cases. The SNP encoding the LB-WNK1-1I was wrongly genotyped in subject p1032 due to the rare SNP rs56245971 located 7 nucleotides upstream from the target SNP, which interfered with the ASP binding, leading to the wrong allele call. The interfering SNP was not taken into account during the design process, due to its low frequency of 0.005% (according to The Exome Aggregation Consortium, http://exac.broadinstitute.org). The remaining 4 genotyping errors were contained in panel 4 (3 for HA-8, and 1 for LB-HIVEP1-1S). We assume that they were caused by the mistake in the preparation of the genotyping mixes resulting in low signal levels. We repeated the AS-qPCR for this panel in the same blind manner and found no discrepancies. Taking this into consideration we propose that the test results with the signal level below 300 RFU should not be taken into account.
Sibling pairs have 0–5 mismatches and unrelated pairs–0 to 8 mismatches. The donor-recipient genotypes and the imputed mismatches are listed in Table 3.
Table 3. MiHA genotyping for 13 HLA-matched HSCT pairs.
Here we report the method for genotyping 20 MiHA-encoding polymorphisms based on AS-PCR combined with qPCR. This approach is faster than the conventional AS-PCR, lacks the electrophoresis step and could be multiplexed. We demonstrated that up to 4 AS-qPCRs, plus the internal control, can be performed in a single tube without the loss of accuracy, and the test is robust on the wide range of gDNA concentrations.
Current work describes the genotyping of all currently known HLA-A*02:01-restricted MiHAs. There could be other MiHAs presented by HLA-A*02:01 yet to be discovered. Besides, other alleles, including HLA-A*01:01, A*03:01, A*24:02, B*07:02, B*08:01, and B*44:02, which are common in the European population, have associated MiHAs. We believe that this approach could be further extended to all immunogenic polymorphisms. Designing the genotyping kits based on the MiHA-restricting HLA allele, in our opinion, is more practical than whole exome sequencing or large SNP-genotyping panels.
The limitation of the reported approach is shared with other methods that use ASPs, i.e., previously unknown or rare polymorphisms falling into primer binding sites may affect the results. Indeed, using Sanger sequencing, we discovered a novel SNP in the ASP binding site for SNP rs9876490 (T4A1) in the sibling pair p908/p909. However, as both donor and patient were homozygous for the genotyped SNP, the novel polymorphism did not preclude the correct allele call. In subject p1032 analyzed by NGS, we found a rare SNP in the ASP binding site for LB-WNK1-1I. This SNP led to the wrong allele call by our method. These risks should be taken into consideration, but due to the high number of rare variants, it seems impractical to consider them during ASP design.
We aimed to identify mismatches that could induce the immune response in the genotyped donor-recipient pairs. For HA-1, HA-2, and HA-8 (9, 15, 29) it was demonstrated that only one of the allelic variants yielded an MHC-associated peptide, other MiHAs in this work may be immunogenic in both directions (co-dominant). In a recent study using quantitative mass-spectrometry, it was demonstrated that the allelic counterparts of LB-CLYBL-1Y, LB-NISCH-1A, and LB-SSR1-1S were presented by the MHC at comparable levels to the MiHA-encoding alleles (10). The in vivo immunogenicity of the alternative allelic variants still needs to be confirmed. In our assay the allelic variants are grouped according to the reference human genome and not by immunogenicity. In this way, the proposed method would remain applicable irrespective of the notion of MiHA-immunogenicity.
MiHA can contribute to the outcome of HSCT. Autosomal MiHA mismatches increased the incidence of relapse-free survival after HLA-matched sibling transplantations (43). It was recently reported that mismatches for two HLA-A*02:01-restricted MiHAs: HA-1 and HA-8 increased the incidence of severe acute GvHD when the donor had A/A genotype in rs231775 of CTLA4 gene (44). The contribution of mismatches of the other MiHAs to the clinical outcome has not yet been demonstrated. The availability of the assay allowing for rapid MiHA genotyping of donor-recipient pairs should facilitate the study of the allogeneic immune response directed against MiHAs. Besides, the proposed approach can be easily adapted for genotyping other DNA polymorphisms, including SNPs in immunoregulatory genes.
Another possible application of MiHA genotyping is a selection of therapeutic targets for post-transplant immunotherapy. Up to 58% of patients relapse post-HSCT (45). MiHAs represent the attractive targets for posttransplant cell therapy as, unlike tumor neoantigens, they are germline-encoded and relatively common in the population, so all cancer cells, expressing MiHA-encoding gene, can be targeted. To avoid the potential off-tumor toxicity, immune therapy should be restricted only to MiHAs encoded by the genes selectively or predominantly expressed in the hematopoietic tissue (5). The AS-qPCR could be used for the preliminary patient and donor screening for the targetable MiHA mismatches.
We hope that the reported method will foster research of the allogeneic immune response and development of the novel immunotherapies.
The study was conducted in accord with the Declaration of Helsinki (1964). All subjects participated in the study signed a written informed consent approved by the ethical committee at the National Research Center for Hematology, Moscow, Russia.
DR designed the method. DR, AP, and AK performed method validation and genotyping. DM performed statistical calculations and data analysis. DR and GE wrote the manuscript. All authors read and reviewed the manuscript.
Patent application No.2017122175 describing the current method was filed with the Russian Patent Office. DR, AP, and GE had filed a Russian patent application, RU 2 675 597 C1 describing the current method.
The work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation grant 17-15-01512. The bioinformatics was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research project No.17-04-02186. Authors would like to thank Vladimir V. Strelnikov and Alexander S. Tanas for help with performing the NGS, and Nadia A. Bykova, and Dasha Efimova for the critical reading of the manuscript.
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Keywords: multiplex qPCR, minor histocompatibility antigens, MiHA, SNP genotyping, allele-specific primer, AS-PCR, HSCT, AS-qPCR
Citation: Romaniuk DS, Postovskaya AM, Khmelevskaya AA, Malko DB and Efimov GA (2019) Rapid Multiplex Genotyping of 20 HLA-A*02:01 Restricted Minor Histocompatibility Antigens. Front. Immunol. 10:1226. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.01226
Received: 20 July 2018; Accepted: 14 May 2019;
Published: 04 June 2019.
Hans-Jochem Kolb, Kolb Consulting UG, Germany
Eric Spierings, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Jakob Nilsson, University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland
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Barclays banker insists sex joke shows he is innocent
By Court Reporter
A banker who joked about trying to avoid prison because "the food sucks and the sex is worse", claimed the comment revealed his commitment to upholding the law.
Ex-head of wealth management at Barclays Tom Kalaris, 63, is accused alongside former chief executive John Varley, 62, and colleagues Roger Jenkins, 63, and Richard Boath, 60, of fraudulently covering up a deal worth billions at the height of the financial crisis.
Prosecutors allege that the gang of high-ranking execs managed to raise £11.8bn in emergency fundraising from Qatar in 2008 by making secret payments to the Gulf state in a separate deal called an advisory services agreement or ASA.
The full extent of the deal - which allowed the bank to avoid taking a taxpayer bailout - was allegedly covered up by the defendants in order to protect their enormous bonuses.
Southwark Crown Court has today (March 1) heard how Kalaris justified his jokes about the deal potentially landing him in jail, telling investigators at the Serious Fraud Office that the comments would make up part of his defence.
In a call between Boath and Kalaris played before the jury at an earlier hearing, the pair discuss how the services agreement, supposedly for advice from the Qataris, would be kept distinct from the investment fees, called the subscription agreement.
In the recording, Boath explains to Kalaris that the bank’s position would be that: "Whatever we do will not be related to this subscription agreement, but frankly we all know that whatever we enter into we are entering into in exchange for the subscription agreement."
Kalaris replies: "Yeah, yeah that’s right. None of us wants to go to jail here."
"It ain’t worth it and apparently the food sucks," continues Boath.
"No, the food sucks and the sex is worse," jokes Kalaris.
Today, prosecutor Philip Stott told how Kalaris explained to investigators: "We were not prepared to act unlawfully - I was stressing that the legal department and Barclays’ commercial lawyers needed to be sure.
"By saying 'none of us want to go to jail', I certainly did not mean that the matter should be disguised or hidden.
"We had no desire to be swept up in something that could be deemed illegal.
"I maintain that the transaction had to be legal, I was anxious to ensure just that the transaction had to be legal," Kalaris told the financial inspector.
"I was satisfied that the decision was fully in the hands of the lawyers. It was not my role to ensure that disclosure was made and in what form.
"Mr Boath and I were clearly aware of the sensitivities around this aspect of the deal. It was important for us that Ms Hardy [the bank’s layer] had complete oversight.
"Advice to the bank was clear and acted upon.
"For the avoidance of doubt, I am certain that the bank’s in house and external lawyers were given accurate and complete information about the nature of the ASA."
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Weekend Fun Hero Quest
by Martin Brinkmann on September 02, 2007 in Games - Last Update: December 06, 2012 - 2 comments
I remember when the Hero Quest boardgame came out. We, some friends and I, immediately grabbed a copy of the game and began to play it several weekends in a row creating our own adventures after a while.
Hero Quest is a faithful adaption of the boardgame with a few extras that make the game worthwhile. First, it ships with an editor and several homemade scenarios and campaigns which will surely entertain the player for a handful of evenings. More scenarios and campaigns can be downloaded from the developer's website.
The editor lets you create your own adventures which you can in turn publish so that other players can play them and give you feedback. The game lets you typically choose between one and four characters each with their distinctive strengths and weaknesses.
The barbarian for instance is great on offense but a little bit slow when it comes to thinking while the elf is a fast lad and the wizard a man of the mind. A dwarf with good defense is the last character.
Depending on the game that you choose you play either with only one character which increases the difficulty of the game a lot or with up to four characters which is pure fun if you play the game with a few friends in hot seat mode.
The levels are tile based and every character has a Walk feat that determines the amount of tiles that he can walk per turn. The fog of war reveals only those parts of the map that the character is able to see which means that you never know what awaits around the next corner or behind a door.
Characters have a life setting which gets reduced by many means. Enemies successfully attack, you walk into traps or open poisoned chests. Potions replenish life again, they can be found in chests and barrels or bought from the merchant who charges money for them.
You should probably read the manual first before you start playing because it can be quite frustrating to die during the first rounds. If you do play a lot of turn based computer games you should be fine to hop right into the action though.
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It looks like Dungeons & Dragons.
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As I'm sure you're all aware, Anne Hathaway confirmed late last year that script for Princess Diaries 3 has been written and the entire cast is on board to star in it.
While we've heard little since then about the third instalment, over the weekend Hathaway gave a minor update on the status of the flick, telling Hollywood Life that the ball's in Disney's court.
"It's in Disney's hands... we're just going to have to see what Disney does next," said Hathaway who played Mia Thermopolis in the Disney classics.
While she shied away from providing any further details, The Hustle star said she can't believe the impact the first Princess Diaries film still has on people.
"I never imagined that it would be as significant 20 years later but, I have little girls coming up to me all the time and they watch it in their sleepovers and I have girls in their twenties come up to me and say 'oh my God, this was my favourite movie growing up' and it's such a gift and I can't believe that was kind of... my first go at it."
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GISMA Business School appoints Hon. Dr. Ivo Matser as President
GISMA Business School today announced the appointment of Hon. Dr. Ivo Matser to the position of President. He will work closely with Dr. Thorsten Thiel, GISMA’s Managing Director, to support the institution in its expansion and growth.
Ivo Master has almost 30 years of experience in international business and education, holding leading roles in numerous institutions and associations across Europe. He has previously served as the CEO of Twente School of Management, and is currently Vice-Chairman of the institutional accreditations committee for the Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation (FIBAA) and was CEO at ISM University of Management and Economics.
He is also a member of the board of the Academy of Management and Society (ABIS), whilst consulting for companies in various industries holding senior management positions in business. Ivo Matser is a specialist in managing and leading organisational change and the development of private higher education institutions. At GISMA, he will lead the school’s efforts to obtain degree awarding powers and launch its own accredited programmes.
Commenting on his new appointment, Ivo Matser said: “GISMA’s ambitions are driven by the purpose of making an impact on the lives and careers of our students, through innovation, internationalisation and change. Joining GISMA to implement this vision is a real honour and pleasure.
“I believe in a business school focused on what really matters in the world around us. Giving students the opportunity to grow personally and professionally and bring an entrepreneurial spirit to the institution is what inspires me every day. The degree programmes in business and management we will offer in the near future will help our students make their mark in business as well as in society.”
GISMA Business School is part of Global University Systems (GUS), an international network of higher-education institutions. Professor Maurits Van Rooijen, Chief Academic Officer of GUS, said: “We are delighted to welcome Ivo Matser to our team. His long experience in higher education will help us to better position GISMA Business School in a regional and international context, as part of our commitment to further develop our ties with the local labour market whilst connecting to a wider business community.”
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The OnePlus TV is currently in the works, and a listing for a companion Bluetooth remote has been spotted over on Bluetooth SIG, the standard and licensing group for the technology.
The TV is reported to be launching soon with a possible 2020 release date in India. Of course, we expect it to ship with a remote, but the Bluetooth capability is an unexpected addition that suggests further compatibility with other doodads. Those doodads could be anything from a range of devices like tablet, smartphones, and PCs, but all we know for sure is that the remote utilises Bluetooth 4.2.
Just last year, CEO and founder Pete Lau made a point of saying that connectivity would be a big feature of the TV, so the addition of Bluetooth makes sense in that context.
A western release hasn't been confirmed for the telly, but the company is keen to stress that it will be a worthy rival to its competitors.
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Goal setting and a five year plan
It’s crazy to think how much things have changed in the last five years and it’s almost like dipping my toes into the unknown to think about where I’ll be in another half a decade. The last five years have seen me become an entirely different person, so I’ll definitely be interested to reflect on my mid-twenties when I hit the big 3-0 in five years time. At 20 I was grieving the sudden loss of my dad, juggling a degree and part time job and had absolutely no idea what I would do after leaving education. At 25, I’m working a career that I adore, living in a new city and have found my voice both on and offline. But where do I want to be at 30?
1. I want to have moved out. I love my city centre shoebox flat but moving up a ring on the property ladder in the next five years is most certainly on my radar.
2. Be in a better financial position. I want to be someone who has a chunk of savings that’s there, not just as a house or holiday fund, but just because. It’ll take a lot of hard work and saving but by 30 I would like to have some solid savings going on.
3. Fall in love. Oh I know, I was nearly sick in my mouth as I typed that too, but whether it’s Mr Right or Mr Right now, I’m at a point in my life where I’m ready for a little settling down. Is this the start of a whole new me who’s no longer as scared of commitment as I am of spiders? Maybe.
4. Travel further. I conquered my fear of flying with a few solo trips away but I’m desperate to go further afield. Once Trump is voted out/sacked/gets abducted by aliens, New York is absolutely a plan I’d like to make but I think I’ll have to win the Powerball Lottery before I afford the luxury trip I’m planning on Pinterest. Or y’know, I’ll have those savings that I’m planning and I’ll spend that instead. #YOLO etc.
5. Keep doing what I love. I really want to get to 30 and still be in a job I love and be spending my free time doing what I love too. It’s so easy to get into both personal and professional ruts and I’m lucky to be in neither – I never want to be that person who doesn’t feel excited for their work or goes home and just doesn’t ever do anything fun. I want feel make sure that at 30 I still feel fulfilled.
So, that’s my five year plan, what’s on yours? Let me know in the comments.
*This post was written in collaboration with Multilotto but all thoughts, opinions and five year plans are my own.
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Akhtar Mengal: Baloch reformer or soft face for Baloch Militants?
Jan Achakzai, Baloch insurgency & Geostrategic expert, observes that Akhtar Mengal’s six-point agenda and missing person’s issues is nothing but a bid to exert pressure upon the federal government and military establishment. Achakzai underscores that Akhtar Mengal is the soft-face for Baloch militants in the guise of a Baloch reformer.
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Akhtar Mengal, President of the Balochistan National Party-Mengal, has reinstated that he will not be willing to comprise with the PTI-led federal government if it fails to show tangible progress on the BNP-M’s six-point demands that seeks to address the grievances of the people of Baluchistan.
BNP-M President Akhtar Mengal made it clear that he has not “asked the center for high-level posts and ministries in exchange for political support, but instead, we are demanding justice for the people of my province.”
The state of Pakistan and the current system does not encourage and support to middle classes to join politics. Hence, all government perks and money of corruption make these vested Sardars more powerful.
Mengal, also a member of the National Assembly, tweeted from his account earlier on Sunday, “Blackmailing is if we asked for ministries and high level posts. We are not asking for anything that will benefit my party and myself personally. What I’ve asked for is justice that people of my province really deserve after years of neglect and oppression.”
Blackmailing is if we asked we ministries and high level posts. We are not asking for anything that will benefit my party and myself personally. What I’ve asked for is justice that people of my province really deserve after years of neglect and oppression.
— Akhtar Mengal (@sakhtarmengal) June 15, 2019
Akhtar Mengal further added, “It will be extremely difficult for peace to prevail in Baluchistan if a political solution is not tackled. It should have been a priority for every government regardless of a vote.”
It will be extremely difficult for peace to prevail in Balochistan if a political solution is not tackled. It should have been a priority for every government regardless of a vote.
Since its emergence in the National Assembly after the 2018 General Election, the BNP-M President has been urging the government to address the six-point agenda, which demands the recovery of missing persons from Baluchistan.
Earlier, Mengal had tweeted, “My main priority are the political issues which include missing persons, legislation of demographic areas affected by CPEC, Afghan Refugees honorably sent back to their country, 6% quota of Baluchistan in federal & foreign services.”
My main priority are the political issues which include missing persons, legislation of demographic areas affected by CPEC, Afghan Refugees honourably sent back to their country, 6% quota of Balochistan in federal & foreign services. Pt 2/3
Mengal said, “If these problems aren’t resolved no government in Baluchistan will able to successfully govern. Our demands were the same yesterday and are the same today. Nor have I comprised nor will I.”
If these problems aren’t resolved no government in Balochistan will able to successfully govern. Our demands were the same yesterday and are the same today. Nor have I comprised nor will I.
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Missing Persons: A Political Leverage?
Jan Achakzai, Baloch geostrategic analyst with vast expertise on Baluchistan’s ethnic insurgency, observed that BNP-M President Akhtar Mengal is using the issue of missing persons as a leverage to exert pressure on the military establishment and the Imran Khan-led government as he believes the issue can be used to gain political influence, not only in the province, but also in the federal government.
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Speaking to Global Village Space, Achakzai noted, “Federal government is despondent for his support on legislation, therefore, it gets easily blackmailed. Baluchistan is unfortunate that these Sardars and Nawabs have represented it throughout history”.
Referring to the issue of missing persons as a “lever to blackmail army and federal government”, Achakzai stated, “The claims of missing persons have never been verified, as they cannot account for relatives of the missing person to establish the real IDs as per practices worldwide.”
Mengal: Supporter of Baloch Militants?
Recalling Akhtar Mengal’s family “anti-national credentials”, the Baloch insurgency expert noted, “He (Akhtar Mengal) is a soft face of Baloch militants. One of his brothers, Javed Mengal, is a militant and separatist leader, whom he never condemned.” Achakzai added, “His family’s anti-national credentials are established. Yet the state is so kind to them. He was once CM Baluchistan and now wants the coveted slot again.”
Lamenting the lack of political leadership from middle and low-income classes of Baluchistan, Jan Achakzai noted, “The state of Pakistan and the current system does not encourage and support to middle classes to join politics. Hence, all government perks and money of corruption make these vested Sardars more powerful.”
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He added, “This is why there is no chance the current form of democracy may even be able to deliver even after 3 assemblies (i.e. 2023-2028-3033). Same families and same Sardars and Nawabs selling ethnic grievances and blackmailing the federal government and establishment.”
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Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist’s curse which slowly crystallizes her body. In order to save herself, and indeed, all of humanity, she must battle her way through a demon-infested castle summoned by Gebel, her old friend whose body and mind has become more crystal than flesh.
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Three playable characters, two of which have yet to be revealed...
Literally a metric ton of weapons and spells, which you can upgrade, level up and visually customize.
Beautiful 2.5D graphics: 3D models crafted with a lot of love and care on a 2D game environment. That means lots of cool tricks that "regular" 2D can't do...
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Wednesday, October 5th 2016, 5:00pm
Join us for a panel discussion on "Spiritual Ecology" featuring Dr. Cynthia Moe Lobeda (Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary), Dr. Riess Potterveld (GTU), Dr. Rita Sherma (Center for Dharma Studies), and Dr. Devin Zuber (Center for Swedenborgian Studies). Where: CARe's Doug Adams Gallery, 2465 LeConte Avenue, Berkeley
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Pastoral Care for Victims of Sexual Abuse Session 1
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The Pastoral Circle in the African Contexts of Zambia and Malawi
Peter Henriot, S.J., went to Africa in the late 1980s, well-trained in theology and social development, though unprepared for African realities of inculturated faith and post-colonial politics. He worked at the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection in Lusaka, Zambia, and Loyola Jesuit Secondary School in Kasungu, Malawi. In this presentation, he will discuss what he learned in the Zambian and Malawian contexts through experience, analysis, faith and action – the elements of the “Pastoral Circle.” A native of Tacoma, WA, Peter Henriot, S.J. studied at Santa Clara University, St. Louis...
"Following the Road of Fire": The Emergence of Teilhard de Chardin's Panchristic Mysticism during the First World War by Ursula King
Please join us for an exciting lecture about Teilhard de Chardin. Sixty years after the death of the great Jesuit paleontologist and theologian, Dr. Ursula King will present an examination of his roots, of his mysticism, and of his importance for contemporary issues of science and religion. Location: Gesù Chapel 1735 Leroy Avenue, Berkeley CA Time: 7:00pm Download Flyer
Schedules may be abbreviated or changed, especially during the January term and the summer. Please contact each school to confirm changes. American Baptist Seminary of the West Clayborne M. Hill Chapel 2606 Dwight Way, Berkeley 510/841-1905 Service of the Word Monday 6 - 6:45 pm Church Divinity School of the Pacific All Saints Chapel 2451 Ridge Road, Berkeley 510/204-0700 Morning Prayer Monday-Friday 7:30 am - 8:00 am Eucharist Monday, Tuesday, Friday...
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PLTS Student Chosen for Summer Ethics Program at Auschwitz
Erin Armstrong, a second-year Master of Divinity student at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, is one of twelve seminary and divinity students chosen to participate in a summer program sponsored by Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE). Armstrong will participate in a two-week program designed for future clergy that includes travel to New York, Poland, and Germany. FASPE, now in its fifth year of operation, is a unique international program that explores the history of the Holocaust as a way to engage graduate students from four specific fields (journalism...
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The Changing Landscape of Theological Education
How Seminaries Are Adapting to New Realities by Stuart J. Moore The handwriting is on the wall. As Americans distance themselves from the label of Christian, preferring “spiritual” or no affiliation, attendance continues to slip across mainline denominations. Schools for ministerial formation are struggling with lower enrollments and less denominational financial support. The composition of the Christian Church is changing and the seminaries must change with it. Why does this shift matter to the Graduate Theological Union? Sometimes we focus so much on the academic programs, M.A. and Ph.D...
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Naomi Seidman Awarded Inaugural Borsch-Rast Book Prize and Lectureship
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For Immediate Release - January 23, 2018 Berkeley, CA - The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) is pleased to announce that Dr. Naomi Seidman, Koret Professor of Jewish Culture at the GTU’s Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies, has been awarded the inaugural Borsch-Rast Book Prize and Lectureship for her 2016 book, The Marriage Plot, Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature (Stanford University Press). The newly established Borsch-Rast Book Prize will be awarded annually and carries a prize of $10,000. The award seeks to encourage innovative and creative theological...
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GTU Celebrates Commencement 2015 (includes Video)
On May 7, forty-four graduates were honored at the GTU's 2015 commencement ceremony at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary's Chapel of the Cross in Berkeley, California. (See video.) Twenty-four graduates received the Master of Arts degree, three the Master of Arts with a concentration in Biblical Languages, and seventeen the Doctor of Philosophy degree. Each of these students completed their programs in Fall 2014 or Spring 2015. Sr. Marianne Farsina CSC, Associate Professor of Catholic Theology and Philosophical Ethics at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, spoke on behalf...
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Joint Faculty Appointments at CDSP and PLTS
Borroughs Davidson Beginning July 1, Steed V. Davidson and Bradley B. Burroughs will hold joint appointments on the faculties of Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP) and Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (PLTS); both are founding members of the GTU. Davidson already serves as a professor at PLTS, while Burroughs is new to both seminaries. Burroughs most recently taught courses in contemporary theology at Duke Divinity School's Course of Study for Ordained Ministry in Durham, North Carolina, where he also served as a writing tutor, both at the divinity school and at the ...
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From the Fall 2018 issue of Skylight View PDF article here Gestures to the Divine: Works by Hagit Cohen Doug Adams Gallery, Center for the Arts & Religion 2465 LeConte Avenue, Berkeley This fall, nature is on display at the Center for the Arts & Religion’s Doug Adams Gallery. In “Gestures to the Divine,” artist Hagit Cohen encourages us to focus on the world around us, presenting photographs that stretch the imagination. Images of seed pods, large in size but minimalist in aesthetic, draw us in with the detail of their textures and the mystery of their shadows. An altar, suspended in...
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Lemurs celebrate Wimbledon by Djok-ing around at nearby Woburn Safari Park
As the Wimbledon tennis tournament enters its second week, the Ring-tailed lemurs at Woburn Safari Park in Bedfordshire have been joining in the fun with masks of some of the sport’s biggest stars, including Rafael ‘Rafa’ Nadal and Novak Djokovic.
What's on at Waddesdon Manor this summer here's everything you need to know about the schedule in July and August
Waddesdon Manor in Aylesbury Vale, Bucks, is a popular destination across the Home Counties.
Principal cast announced for Addams Family Stage Experience at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre
Principal cast have been announced for Aylesbury Waterside Theatre’s Stage Experience production of The Addams Family taking place this summer.
'True protest goes very undetected': Sleaford Mods speak out ahead of gigs in Leamington, Northampton, Leicester and Hitchin
Sleaford Mods are back in the region this month as part of a huge 32-date UK tour.
From Avenue Q to Jimmy Carr, Jason Manford, Michael Parkinson and Madagascar The Musical: All the shows coming to Aylesbury Waterside Theatre this summer
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‘Don’t be yourself tomorrow’: Side-splitting West End show is as much brilliant as it is resilient
The belly laughs at Everybody’s Talking About Jamie were as long as Layton Williams’ leg extensions. Gloriously drawn out and never ending.
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Slam Dunk complete Jagermeister stage line up in Hatfield with US metallers
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Mary Poppins returns with just enough magic
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Aladdin at Prince Edward Threatre, London: A seven-year-old's review of a family favourite
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The Secret to Success for Hanging Secrets Founder
In Accelerator, Alumnae Profile, Entrepreneurship, Startup, Strategic Growth
The Secret to Success for Hanging Secrets Founder2017-03-292018-04-04https://www.stellalabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/stella-labs-logo.pngStella Labs Business Acceleratorhttps://www.stellalabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/stella-labs-logo.png200px200px
Frances Prado, CEO and Inventor of Hanging Secrets, has arrived at success and credits this success in part to lessons she learned through the Stella Labs business accelerator.
Stella Labs assisted Prado when she was at the launch stage of her business. Through Stella Labs, which addresses the needs of female entrepreneurs, Prado learned how to assess the features and benefits of the product she invented and patented.
What surprises many about the Hanging Secrets organizer is that the product didn’t already exist – it seems like such an obvious and necessary clothing organization tool that should be as ubiquitous as a shoe tree or a coat rack.
Hanging Secrets, which offers women a new solution to hang, organize, protect and find their lingerie at home or on go is now available on HSN through Project American Dreams, a business competition for Latina/Latino entrepreneurs. Frances’s passion for the product she invented is contagious.
“Create your dreams, crave your dreams, and cultivate your dreams.” – Frances Prado
Hanging Secrets lets you say goodbye to cluttered underwear drawers for good. The organizer takes intimates out of the drawer and visibly showcases them in the closet (or from a closet door) through clear storage windows that allow bras to maintain their intended shape. The organizer can accommodate up to 12 bras and 24 panties per holder with pockets that store matching panties or removable bra straps as well as bathing suits and athletic wear.
When Hanging Secrets launched in 2015, the first recipients of the organizer were breast cancer survivors who could benefit from the storage solution’s ability to hold both bras and prosthetics in one place. Hanging Secrets donates a percentage of sales to the Virginia Ann Scheunemann Memorial Fund, which started in 2003 to provide free products and service to low income or uninsured women with breast cancer. The cause is close to France’s heart as she lost her mother to cancer in 2001.
Frances’s parents were immigrant field workers and the family struggled. At one point, Frances and her family were homeless. Today, she is among the 7 percent of sole female inventors in the United States and one of the 0.3 percent of sole Latinas that have ever been granted a patent in the United States. In 2016, she was named one of Hispanic Lifestyle’s 2016 Latinas of Influence.
“I am passionate about my business because it has allowed me the satisfaction of contributing to both the U.S. economy and to women’s charitable causes, which is, for me, the true meaning of living the American Dream.” – Frances Prado
Frances’s success is due in part to her 22 years with Costco where she worked as a production manager. Through this experience, she developed the ability to identify who and what’s needed to achieve success in any circumstance. She learned how to communicate with people across multiple disciplines and to balance their often competing needs. She also learned how to activate a team.
Frances invented the product at a critical moment – when she found herself in an empty nest. With the kids out of the house, she submerged herself in a cleaning frenzy and, starting with her bureau, she realized that there must be a better way to organize intimates. She translated the vision in her head onto a sketchpad and the idea was patented in 2015.
“My son was in Afghanistan and my daughter was studying in Guatemala, so I started cleaning and organizing in my downtime,” says Prado. “I wanted to create something that would look nice, maximize space, and protect and sustain my intimate apparel.” – Frances Prado
Here are just a few things people like about Hanging Secrets:
“I really like how…it protects the bras. I have a favorite bra and I have to go back and buy it over and over again because I constantly am ruining them.”
“This is so beautiful and so practical. The cups are so sturdy, it’s not gonna crush anything.”
“I like that I can see all the bras. I’m not struggling in the dark, rifling through a messy drawer.”
After a 6-month nationwide search for inventions created by Latinos, HSN discovered Hanging Secrets and Frances and she became part of the HSN Project Dreams. Frances entered the semi-finals where she met with business and financial experts and pitched her product, a skill she had developed through Stella Labs and its Fast Pitch business pitching contest.
Naturally, she was selected as one of five winners and she presented her product on live TV in mid-March. According to The Huffington Post, this was the first time the stories and inventions of Hispanic entrepreneurs would be featured on mainstream American TV.
For more information about Hanging Secrets and Frances Prado, you can watch her appearance on HSN: https://youtu.be/1TcCovA8UWk. A travel-size version of her Hanging Secrets lingerie organizer can be purchased now on HSN.com!
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More than 20 arrested in human-trafficking sweep
The extensive investigation involves members of a Somali gang. The arrests appear to be focused in Minneapolis, Richfield, Brooklyn Park, St. Paul and several southern suburbs.
By JAMES WALSH, DAVID CHANEN and ALLIE SHAH, Star Tribune Staff Writers
Federal and local investigators swept through the Twin Cities area Monday and arrested more than 20 suspects in connection to an extensive human trafficking investigation involving members of a Somali gang, sources confirmed.
The arrests appear to be focused in Minneapolis, Richfield, Brooklyn Park, St. Paul and several southern suburbs in an operation led by the U.S. attorney's office in Nashville, Tenn. Indictments against nearly 30 suspects were expected to be unsealed later Monday. The U.S. attorney was expected to issue a statement regarding the case later Monday morning.
The case is connected to a Somali girl w
ho, according to court documents, was forced to work as prostitute by members of a Somali gang. Sources say the investigation, however, goes beyond human trafficking.
A leader in the local Somali community said he had heard around 7 a.m Monday that the FBI "went to the individuals' houses."
"We don't have the names [of the people arrested]," said Dahir Jibreel, executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center. "We are very interested to know the names of these people."
Investigators from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the FBI and several local police departments were part of the action.
The U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee scheduled at 11 a.m. news conference, to be joined by ICE Director John Morton and other local, state and federal law enforcement officials, announcing "significant developments and arrests in an ongoing criminal investigation."
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Mahiigaan @ 11/8/2010 6:02 PM EST
The girls were 12 and 13 years old. They are not Pimps
they are freaking pedophile peddlers. I like to see
their faces and names splashed on every Somali website
so in the future these filth should be kept away from
the society. they came to USA and they are still
doing crimes, why don't they stay their homes and
be criminals there. I hope ICE dumps them on the
Indian Ocean the Somali side, that way they can honestly
say they did deliver them to Somalia.
these are 3 gangs two male and female gang!
were the heck are these miscreants' parents?
somalijaceeyl @ 11/8/2010 4:29 PM EST
let them rot in jail & then deport the "gawaadyaasha" ( the pimps)
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When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
By: Gal Beckerman
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“Beckerman recounts the historic trajectory of this grand assertion of human rights with passionate clarity and pellucid conviction.”—Cynthia Ozick
AT THE END OF WORLD WAR II, NEARLY THREE MILLION JEWS WERE TRAPPED INSIDE THE SOVIET UNION. They lived a paradox—unwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to leave. When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone is the astonishing and inspiring story of their rescue. Drawing on newly released Soviet government documents and hundreds of interviews, Beckerman shows how the movement led to a mass exodus in 1989 and forced human rights into the center of American foreign policy. In cinematic detail, this multigenerational saga, filled with suspense and revelations, provides an essential missing piece of Cold War and Jewish history.
“Fresh, surprising and exceedingly well-researched.”—Anne Applebaum, Washington Post Best Nonfiction 2010
“A riveting work of reporting and a magisterial history of one of the twentieth century’s great dramas of liberation.”—Commentary
Gal Beckerman
Gal Beckerman is a reporter at The Forward. He was a longtime editor and staff writer at the Columbia Journalism Review and has also written for the New York Times Book Review, Jerusalem Post, and Utne Reader, among other publications. He was a Fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Berlin and the recipient of a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
"Gal Beckerman has written the definitive account of what might be the most successful human rights campaign of our time. This is a wonderful book: The narrative is thrilling and propulsive; the writing is beautiful; and the research absolutely authoritative. The movement to free Soviet Jewry will be studied for years to come as a model of non-violent civil disobedience, and Gal Beckerman’s book will be read years from now as the masterwork on the subject."
—Jeffrey Goldberg, National Correspondent, The Atlantic, and author of Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror
"Gal Beckerman’s book shines a long-needed spotlight on one of the great human rights struggles of the past century. It is dramatic, revelatory and deeply inspiring."
—Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler and The Shakespeare Wars
"Among the great liberation strivings of the twentieth century — civil rights in America, the end of apartheid in South Africa, the independence of India — one of the most painfully achieved was the exodus of Jews from Soviet oppression. Gal Beckerman recounts the historic trajectory of this grand assertion of human rights with passionate clarity and pellucid conviction. His tireless persistence in pursuit of a stirring heroic chronicle is itself a form of heroism."
"Gal Beckerman has written the Parting the Waters of the Jewish experience. In this stirring epic — intellectually brilliant, historically authoritative and emotionally heartfelt in equal measure — he has chronicled one of the great liberation struggles of modern times. And he has placed himself at the apex of his generation of nonfiction writers."
—Samuel G. Freedman, author of Jew vs. Jew
"A beautifully written book with both depth and cinematic qualities."
—Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook and Absurdistan
"A fascinating, deeply researched, and revealing account of the brave Jews in the Soviet Union and of those in the West who worked tirelessly on their behalf."
—Sir Martin Gilbert, author of Churchill: A Life
"At last, the Soviet Jewry movement has found its chronicler. To read this book is to relive the heroism and the heartache, the desperation and the jubilation that marked the long struggle to free Soviet Jews. This is a moving, reliable and memorable narrative of one of the greatest human rights dramas of our time."
—Jonathan D. Sarna, Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University, and author of American Judaism: A History
"Colorfully fleshes out personal stories within the headlines . . . A comprehensive, contextually rich study." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Absorbing and inspiring . . . An outstanding chronicle of a great effort conducted by determined and courageous men and women." -- Booklist, starred review
"Enthralling . . . A must read." -- Russian Life
"Masterful and highly readable history."' -- The Forward
"Comprehensive and readable . . .it's Beckerman's intimate portrait of the U.S. and Soviet outsiders that makes us care about their struggle." -- Newsday
"Remarkable... The author is gifted at weaving this very human and very political tale together." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A brief review can scarcely compass the breadth and richness of Beckerman's narrative or do justice to the unimaginable physical and moral courage and the resourcefulness of the dissidents and refuseniks crowding his pages. His honest recounting of their human failings and rivalries makes their achievement all the more remarkable. Beckerman also reminds us of the extent to which contemporary American Jewry was shaped by this history. Struggles create leaders and the Soviet Jewry movement was no exception. His book constitutes a veritable who's who of American Jewish leaders, who early in their professional lives came of age, in one way or another, in the movement." -- Jewish Review of Books
"Wide-ranging and often moving." -- The New Yorker
"Beckerman’s riveting and important book shows that it took the grass-roots efforts of Jews around the world, as well as the power of the American government, to bring this story to a happy ending. If the movement to 'save Soviet Jewry' is not well remembered, Beckerman writes, it is because 'it is a victim of its own success.' Now that he has told the story so well, however, it will surely take its rightful place as one of the greatest dramas in modern Jewish history." -- Tablet
"When They Come for Us will be a standard text about the Soviet-Jewry movement for scholars, students, and general readers alike." --The Jewish Week
"Fresh, surprising and exceedingly well-researched... Beckerman wants to ensure that the story of this epic struggle isn't forgotten, and I hope that, with this excellent book, he succeeds." -- Anne Applebaum, Washington Post
Beneath the Earth
Yosef Mendelevich was sixteen when he saw the killing grounds for the first time. It was the fall of 1963. He had heard about the place: just outside of Riga, in the vast woods of tall fir trees and sprawling brush that the locals called Rumbuli. All one had to do was follow the train tracks east, toward Moscow. There, underneath the black soil, in five narrow ditches, lay twenty-five thousand bodies, Jewish bodies, killed by the Nazis and their Latvian collaborators in ten days at the end of 1941. Mendelevich knew this. All the Jews of Riga did. And they knew too about the small group of Jews -- Zionists, they were calling themselves -- who had searched the year before under the dark shadow of those trees for the exact place of the massacre. In the end, it hadn't been so hard to find. Poking out of the earth were fragments of charred bone, the shriveled brown leather of a child's shoe, a broken Star of David on a necklace.
Mendelevich was a shy, withdrawn boy with pale, pimply skin and thick, horn-rimmed glasses. Most days when he wasn't in school he was alone inside his parents' house in a poor section of Riga. The outside world entered mainly through its brutal noises -- the shouts of his Latvian neighbors stumbling home full of vodka; glass breaking; drunken fathers beating their children. Like any sensitive teenage introvert, he found his home, his only comfort, in his imaginings. In Yosef's case, the world he escaped to in his mind was a real place, though a rather fantastical destination for a young Soviet boy. It was a country so far away, so obscured and unknown, it might as well have existed under a different sun. That place was Israel. And he constructed his idea of it with what he had at hand. His aunt Fanya, one of the rare Soviet citizens allowed to immigrate in the late fifties, had once sent a color postcard of a swimming pool at Kfar Giladi, a kibbutz in the northern Galilee. Mendelevich took a magnifying glass to it, counting all the people, scrutinizing the shape and shade of every tree. The sight of so many Jews gathered together wearing swimming trunks seemed unreal. Fanya had also written his family a letter in which she recounted the history of the one-armed Joseph Trumpeldor and his last stand at Tel Chai, not far from Kfar Giladi, where he was killed in 1920 while defending the settlement from local Arabs. He became a legend for his famous dying words: "Never mind, it is good to die for our country." At night, Mendelevich's father would tune their shortwave radio to Kol Israel, the Voice of Israel, and hold the receiver close to his ear, translating the news from Hebrew to Russian. Before the war, his father had studied in a cheder, a Jewish religious school, and so he understood the language. But to Mendelevich the sounds were unfamiliar, a mystical, warm tongue from a better place, one he knew little about but felt, even as a teenager, that he was destined to go to.
Mendelevich didn't exactly trust the person who'd first told him about Rumbuli, a boy who sat next to him at the college he attended at night and who seemed to be a bit of a daydreamer. Still, if what the boy whispered to him was true, that young people were gathering on Sundays to clean up Rumbuli and make it a proper memorial ground, then Yosef wanted to go. So the next weekend, he set out with a friend.
What he found there, at the place he began referring to as Little Israel, startled him. Jews, most of them young but some in their sixties, were on their knees, digging their hands into the earth, lifting it up and dumping it clump by clump into homemade crates. Others were filling in the spaces with sand from two enormous mounds. Dozens of people with shovels and pails, rakes, and baskets, working. Some of the men had their shirts off.
In the middle of it all, static amid the activity, stood a huge wooden obelisk, taller than a man, painted pitch-black with a splattering of red at its top. On the obelisk's face, framed and behind glass, hung what looked like a large photograph of an oil painting. In somber browns and grays, it depicted a long line of tearful women, babies clinging to their breasts, followed by ashen-faced, downtrodden men, all marching under a threatening sky - Jews being led to the slaughter.
The scene actually before him was altogether different. The only time Mendelevich had ever witnessed so many Jews in one place was when he'd gone with his father to the synagogue on Peitaves Street in the old town. But those were old men. Here were young people, young Jews, sweating together under the sun. One man in particular caught his eye. He was tanned, strong, straight backed, just what Mendelevich thought an Israeli would look like. In the shock of the moment, he was willing to believe that such a miracle - an Israeli in Riga - might have occurred.
Mendelevich quickly grabbed a crate, got down on his knees, and began moving the earth with his bare hands. He rarely missed a Sunday after that. He would spend the week looking forward to Little Israel and to the bus rides from Riga. The group of young people grew through 1963 and into 1964, and eventually they took up almost all the seats on the bus leaving the city. And they sang. Mendelevich learned Israeli songs, such as the rousing anthem of the Palmach, the scruffy, pre-state paramilitary force in British Mandate Palestine:
All around us the storm rages
But we will not lower our heads
We are always ready to follow the orders
We are the Palmach.
From Metulla to the Negev
From the sea to the desert
Every fine young man to arms
Every young man on guard.
Though he understood not a word of the Hebrew, for the first time in his life, Mendelevich felt like part of a group. And when he listened to himself singing along with the whole bus filled with Jewish youth, he also felt, strangely, like a fighter.
Passengers faced with a busload of young Jews singing vociferously in a foreign language would often get off. One day, the driver stopped Mendelevich as he was exiting the bus. "Where do you come from like this?" he asked with a mixture of shock and contempt. Mendelevich didn't answer. He knew that the driver was bewildered and perhaps a little threatened by the loud group. Jews did not generally comport themselves like this, unabashedly strident and unafraid. But on the way to Rumbuli, they did.
It was strange but not entirely unexpected that in the early 1960s the Jews of Riga felt compelled to claw at the earth in search of their recent past. Most people living in the Baltic States were afflicted with a deep nostalgia. Until the summer of 1940, when they lost their independence and were forcibly annexed by the Soviet Union, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia had spent over two decades as free, prosperous, and democratic countries. The devastation of the war and then the total subjugation by Moscow's overbearing regime made for a defeated and demoralized population. In the early 1960s, most middle-aged people had a strong memory of and longing for the world they had lost.
For Jews, this tear through history was even more brutal and dramatic. They had seen their entire universe erased, and what they'd lost was a diverse and rich Jewish life.
To judge from population and emigration numbers, the interwar years were good ones for Jews in Latvia. Riga's Jewish population nearly doubled between 1920 and 1935, going from twenty-four thousand to forty-four thousand. Even at the height of the Zionist movement's popularity, few of these Jews opted to go to Palestine - only seventyfi ve went in 1931. Latvia, which gained its independence and established a parliamentary democracy following World War I, accepted and even to some extent encouraged a Jewish presence. Jews served in
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Port of Vancouver USA’s fourth consecutive record year
For the fourth year in a row, the Port of Vancouver USA has logged record-breaking cargo tonnage, with 2017 coming in at 7.5 million metric tons, up slightly from the 2016 record of 7.49 million metric tons.
“Our sustained growth is a testament to the investments we and our partners have made in world-class rail and marine services, access to efficient transportation and excellent customer service,” said port CEO Julianna Marler. “I’m very proud of our continued success and the hard work of everyone who makes it happen, year after year.”
2017 was great year for imports, which climbed to 1.24 million metric tons from 1.17 million metric tons in 2016 – a 6.5 percent increase overall. Steel and dry-bulk commodities continue to be the largest imports at the Port of Vancouver by volume, and in 2017 these cargoes increased 14.8 percent and 47 percent, respectively.
Some exports, such as wheat and soybeans, increased in 2017, but overall exports were down one percent over 2016.
Fluctuations in currency and the global economy had an impact in 2017, but the port’s continued tonnage growth contributed to a slight increase in operating revenue from $35.9 million to $36 million.
2018 is shaping up to be another good year for the Port of Vancouver USA. Cargoes like autos, steel, minerals, wind energy components and grain continue to bring in solid numbers, making the future look bright for the port and our community.
The Port of Vancouver USA is one of the major ports on the Pacific Coast. Its competitive strengths include available land, versatile cargo handling capabilities, vast transportation networks and a skilled labor force.
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Quincy Promes doubtful for Spartak Moscow vs Liverpool clash due to calf injury
Massimo Carrera admits Pedro Rocha more likely to feature in CL tie than influential Dutch winger.
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Liverpool could be handed a sizeable boost for their Champions League clash against Spartak Moscow on Tuesday evening (26 September), with influential winger Quincy Promes a key doubt for the hosts due to injury.
The 23-cap Netherlands international scored both goals for Spartak in a 2-0 Russian Cup fifth-round victory over Kuban Krasnodar last Wednesday, but sustained a calf problem later in the same game.
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He was ruled out of the subsequent 2-2 draw with Anzhi Makhachkala at the weekend and manager Massimo Carrera appears pessimistic that he will be in a position to return for the Group E meeting with Liverpool at the Otkrytiye Arena.
Indeed, it seems as if Brazilian forward Pedro Rocha, who was similarly sidelined against Anzhi after also picking up a knock in the win over Krasnodar, is more likely to make his comeback against Jurgen Klopp's side.
"It's still uncertain if Quincy Promes will play tomorrow," Carrera told reporters at his pre-match press conference, as relayed by Goal.com. "I'll have to discuss it with our doctors tonight. I can only say that Pedro Rocha has more chance to feature."
Netherlands winger Quincy Promes is one of Spartak Moscow's most influential players
Promes's absence for a game of such magnitude would come as quite a blow to Spartak, with the former FC Twente attacker having scored 52 goals and registering 26 assists in 103 total appearances since arriving in the Russian capital back in 2014.
The 25-year-old is a close friend of Liverpool midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum and has previously been mentioned in connection with a potential move to Anfield. However, a frustrated Klopp did not dwell on that subject for too long during a shambolic 11-minute press conference held on Monday evening that he dubbed a waste of time.
"He's a good player, a very good player but there's nothing else to say," he said, per the Liverpool Echo. "There are a lot of good players that we have already. We already have a Dutch player who knows him really well so obviously they are good friends but this is not the place to talk about this. He's a good player but a Spartak player."
On his potential absence, Klopp added: "He didn't play in the last game or two, I'm not sure. He's a very good player. He has speed, he's good on one v one situations and all that stuff, so of course that's a weakness. It's the same for each team, we played the last three games without Sadio Mane, also a very good player.
"He's not the only good player in the Spartak team but he's a very good one. But it's how I said it always affects performances but we will not win because one player is out and Spartak won't win because one player is in on our side. We have to play together and that's what we try. I don't know if Quincy can play or not but the analysis we did was already without him as he didn't play in the last game."
Captain Denis Glushakov is also set to be missing for Spartak, while Georgi Tigiev, Jano Ananidze, Roman Zobnin, Ze Luis and Denis Davydov have been dealing with injuries. The club won their first domestic title for 16 years last term, although have won just three of their first 11 matches in 2017-18 and currently sit ninth. They were held to a 1-1 draw by Maribor in their opening Champions League group game, while 10-man Liverpool drew 2-2 at home to Sevilla.
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"When your challenger raises more money than an incumbent in a quarter, it's evidence that Bunning does not have a lot of support and he does not have the money to run the kind of race that he needs," said Jennifer Duffy, a senior editor with the Cook Political Report. "He either tries to have a significantly better second quarter or he gives long, hard thought as to whether he really wants to run again."
Bunning is widely considered the most vulnerable incumbent senator in the 2010 election cycle. His first quarter fundraising performance is seen as a key indicator of his party’s support in what will likely prove one of the nation’s most closely watched races.
According to Bunning's most recent campaign filings, the senator's largest contributors include a $5,000 donation from defense contractor Raytheon’s political action committee, $4,000 from the Coal PAC, and thousands from the energy, insurance and business sectors. Most individual donations hovered in the low three- to four-figure range.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is scheduled to attend a private fundraiser for Bunning in Prospect, Ky., Thursday evening, and the senator recently hosted a fundraiser with baseball legend Tommy Lasorda.
Still, political analysts say Bunning will have to crank up his fundraising efforts over the next year. Experts estimate that, should the 2010 Kentucky Senate race prove high profile, Bunning will need roughly $1 million a month in order to mount a competitive campaign.
Not an easy task for a candidate whose campaign woes began early.
Bunning has openly battled with members of the Republican Party in recent weeks, accusing fellow Kentuckian Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, of being misleading when he told reporters at a gathering at the National Press Club that he was unsure whether Bunning would run for re-election. He also accused McConnell of stocking his own campaign war chest in the midst of the junior senator’s fundraising efforts for the 2010 race, stymieing Bunning's efforts.
McConnell has since remained largely mum on Bunning's campaign efforts.
Bunning sparred with National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and accused the NRSC of trying to court a primary challenger when members of that group met with state Senate President David Williams, R-Burkesville, in February. Cornyn said the meeting was a "courtesy visit" and that the party “would back Bunning in a contested primary.”
Bunning said he has not since spoken with Cornyn and only exchanged a brief greeting with McConnell during a recent political dinner.
According to reports in several publications, Bunning told lobbyists at a National Mining Association fundraiser in February in Washington that he would resign if he is unable to raise money and garner broader support in his campaign for a third term. Bunning denied the reports and calls the current fundraising climate "lousy."
Fellow Republican and former Ohio congressman Rob Portman raised $1.7 million this quarter in his bid to win a Senate seat. Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Arlen Specter, who often faces primary challenges, raised just under $1.3 million this quarter and has a $6.7 million war chest.
Comparatively, Bunning's numbers fall far short.
"Right now Cornyn is taking two Advil and McConnell is taking four," Duffy said. "On paper this was the most vulnerable seat. Now that we have some figures, it is Republicans' most vulnerable seat by a lot."
Bunning has also had run-ins with the media. On several occasions, Bunning lashed out at and cursed reporters for questioning whether he would meet fundraising goals.
Such public squabbles are unsettling to would-be campaign donors, notes Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
In the meantime, there are potential GOP candidates waiting in the wings.
Republicans "would be better served with the Secretary of State Trey Grayson. He's younger and more vigorous," Sabato said. "He clearly wants to run if Bunning steps aside."
Grayson has described Bunning as a friend and mentor and refuses to run against him in a primary.
However, "If (Bunning) were to change his mind, I would definitely be interested in the race," Grayson said.
Bunning recently told reporters that he considered July 1 a much better fundraising benchmark and acknowledged that he has a tough road ahead.
"There's nobody to blame for bad fundraising but the candidate," Duffy said. "It comes down to Senator Bunning and whether he wants to spend the next 18 months trying to raise $20 million."
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