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Soccer v. Headscarf: 0-1
Posted June 10th, 2011 by Lesley Hazleton
More absurdity this week: FIFA, the international governing body of football, banned the Iranian women’s soccer team from an Olympic qualifying event because the players wear hijab — Islamic headscarves. The official reason: safety. Wearing a hijab while playing “could cause choking injuries.”
Yeah, sure. As one commenter noted, Google “hijab soccer choking deaths” and the search engine doesn’t exactly hum.
These aren’t just any hijabs, mind you. They have to be the coolest ones ever. They’re like speed-skaters’ hoods, and the players look like white-clad ninjas. I’ll bet they can move like ninjas too. Clearly FIFA has no sense of style.
Correction: FIFA has no sense, period.
The decision to ban the Iranian team was made by FIFA head Sepp Blatter, who’s apparently one of those Berlusconi-type men who’ll tell you how much he loves women, by which he means how much he loves looking at female flesh. No, I’m not making assumptions. The arrant hypocrisy of this ban is clear when you consider the fact that Blatter proposed in 2004 that women players wear plunging neckines and hot pants on the pitch to boost soccer’s popularity. Tighter shorts, he said, would create “a more female esthetic.”
I guess it was kind of amazing he didn’t propose wet tee-shirts.
And if you believe that Blatter is for a moment concerned about women being injured, his response to requests by human rights organizations to take a stand against the sex trafficking that accompanies the arrival of the World Cup was this: “Prostitution and trafficking of women does not fall within the sphere of responsibility of an international sports federation but in that of the authorities and the lawmakers of any given country.”
No, Blatter’s all about the sport. He’s presumably salivating for more on-field celebrations like Brandi Chastain‘s famous shirtless moment when the U.S. won the 1999 Women’s World Cup. And drooling over women’s sportswear catalogs instead of Victoria’s Secret ones. In which case he’s pathetically misreading that Chastain photo. This was the victory of hard work and muscle over frills and pretty posturing. Serena Williams revolutionized women’s tennis in much the same way, making it a power game (in dress as well as style of play — the black catsuit she wore a couple of years back was dynamite).
What Blatter’s really doing is trying to piggyback on the burqa ban in France and the minaret ban in his native Switzerland. But the good news is that it’s backfiring on him. Badly. Already the focus of multiple accusations of corruption in his 12-year tenure as FIFA president, he probably saw this as an easy way to try to redeem himself by jumping on the anti-Muslim bandwagon. Instead, the storm of criticism might be an indication that Europeans are beginning to realize just how badly they’ve been manipulated by misogynistic xenophobes on such issues as burqa bans.
One further note on that shirtless photo: Chastain herself was amazed when it ran worldwide . “I wasn’t trying to make a statement; I was just carried away, and doing what male players do in the same situation,” she told me when I met her not long after. “I was really surprised there was so much fuss about it. I mean, there’s a much better photo of the victory moment, but nobody ran that one.” Here it is, on the right — the photo they didn’t run, baggy shirt, baggy pants, and all. Which I guess just means the world is full of Blatters.
(Thank to Sarah Hashim for alerting me to this story. I know I was born in England, but soccer’s not my thing. Tennis, though…)
File under: absurd, feminism, Islam | Tagged: Tags: ban, Berlusconi, Brandi Chastain, FIFA, football, headscarves, hijab, Iran, Islamophobia, Olympics, Sepp Blatter, Serena Williams, sex trafficking, soccer, tennis, women, World Cup, xenophobia | 8 Comments
Thank you for your insight and humor, and for posting this. Sanaa
kyo_9 says:
Pity for Iranian Women Soccer team..
But more pity when I heard that it was Bahrain who filed the statement during the match.. Funny when football meets politics and religion.. 😉
Adila says:
Interesting reading!
It is time other players on other teams refused to play if an injustice is done to other players on other teams such as in the case of the Iranian women. The old corrupt men who run FIFA should be embarassed by the athletes for whom the game exists.
Piotr Rozwalka says:
Lesley, thank you for this post. I was quite astonished too when I first saw this information few days ago. When researching the topic further, I found another interesting example of Jewish basketball player Naama Shafir (link below).
I wonder what really lies at the core of this issue. Firstly, we have Western world with its rather strict separation between religion and public life. Since the West has a lot of power over many spheres of international public life it enforces this value of separation on many various parties, being it Iranian footballers or Jewish basketball players. What is important I guess, is that in modern Christianity there is less artifacts which could be affected by such separation so we can accept it easier. But is not it a very effect of centuries-long separation in the first place? Secondly, we have cultures for which such separation is a very unusual concept due to completely different role religion plays in their societies. It seems that the West has no proper understanding of this role and those societies. Is not it the deficiency of modern understanding of cosmopolitanism – us, the West, imposing our values on other cultures in the name of vaguely understood human rights?
Here is a link to the story: http://www.jpost.com/Sports/Article.aspx?id=224734
Here is a great picture of the Iranian footballers taken after they heard the decision, I reckon: http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/254284_10150651695560657_805115656_19225931_1960693_n.jpg
Pity..they look so cool.
I thought diversity and inclusiveness was at the heart of international sport.
Noura says:
“They have to be the coolest ones ever. They’re like speed-skaters’ hoods, and the players look like white-clad ninjas. I’ll bet they can move like ninjas too. Clearly FIFA has no sense of style.” made my day. & by his sex trafficking remark, were you trying to imply that he’s a “consumer”? Cuz I just made a nasty connection. After all, if he’s not a “consumer”, then where do the thousands of trafficked persons go to instead if a Fifa head?
After the Game
Posted September 16th, 2010 by Lesley Hazleton
I’m bucking the “now” imperative and running a forty-year-old photo that was tucked away in the sports pages of today’s NYT. I’m running it because when I saw it, I just sat there gazing at it over my first coffee of the morning and knew that I’d begun the day right.
Taken just after Brazil beat England in the World Cup, it shows the two all-time greats of soccer, Bobby Moore and Pelé, exchanging jerseys:
I think it was Arthur Koestler who once fantasized that sports could bring nations together — an idea that became laughable with the rise of soccer hooliganism and the mad flag-draped patriotism and medal-counting of the modern Olympics. But this was one shining moment when who won and who lost was irrelevant.
Forty years ago, it was the black/white thing that people focused on when they saw this photo. Now, in 2010, some will probably focus on a perceived homoerotic quality. But here’s the thing: Forty years from now, in 2050, this will still be a moving photo, no matter what socio-political concerns of the time people bring to it.
What we see here is the art of living — the art of two people at the height of their powers, in full mutual respect, admiration, and friendship.
I wish there were more photos like it.
(You can read the excellent story behind the photo — on the photographer John Varley, who died last week — here.)
File under: art, existence, sanity | Tagged: Tags: Bobby Moore, Brazil, England, John Varley, Pele, photography, soccer, World Cup | 2 Comments
Thank you Lesley, for the picture & story, but mostly for your perceptive quote which I will put it up on my board to look at everyday…”What we see here is the art of living — the art of two people at the height of their powers, in full mutual respect, admiration, and friendship.” Something to aim for…
Pietra says:
Bravo! Lesley. If I can figure out how to capture it, I’d like to see it every day, too. P.
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Guerschon Yabusele NBA Draft Scouting Report and Video Breakdown
Matt Kamalsky
@MKamalsky
Scouting Report by Matt Kamalsky. Video Analysis by Mike Schmitz
Among the more intriguing international early entrants for the 2016 NBA Draft, Guerschon Yabusele was one of the only players under the age of 21 to see significant action in the French first division (Pro A) this season. Averaging 11.5 points and 6.8 rebounds per game for often outmanned Rouen, who were relegated to the second division after finishing just 6-28, the powerfully built forward became one of just three draft-eligible domestic players this decade to end the year averaging over 10 points and 5 rebounds per game, joining Ludovic Vaty and Mouhammadou Jaiteh.
Born in Dreux, a town of 30,000 an hour west of Paris, Yabusele spent the early part of his career with Roanne, playing exclusively in the Junior League (Espoirs). The thick power forward also played a minor role at a number of international events in his late teens, for example Team Africa at the 2013 adidas Nations, as well as France's U18 and U20 National Teams.
A bit of a late bloomer, Yabusele made his Pro A debut in 2013, but didn't see significant action at the senior level until Roanne was relegated to Pro B during the 2014-2015 season. Averaging 8.5 points and 4.3 rebounds per game as a regular starter, Yabusele began to show some promising signs, albeit against less than stellar competition.
His jump into the collective conscious of NBA decision makers came at the 2015 EuroCamp, where, in front of representatives of every NBA team, including over a dozen General Managers, the then 19-year-old big man scored 20 points per game posting a PER of 48 for France's U20 National Team in three preparation games, thoroughly dominating offensively. Averaging a less impressive 9.2 points and 6.6 rebounds per game at the actual U20 European Championship, Yabusele had nonetheless planted himself firmly on the radar of NBA scouts entering this season, as he made the jump back to Pro A, signing with Rouen (not to be confused with Roanne).
Measured on the NBA workout circuit in recent weeks at 6'8 in shoes with a near-7'2 wingspan and tipping the scales around 270 pounds, it isn't difficult to see what makes him an interesting prospect on first glance. Yabusele has a massive frame that appears to be able to gain and lose weight quickly, and though he is slightly undersized for a power forward, he compensates with his wingspan and nice explosiveness. What makes Yabusele unique, aside from his physical tools, is that he appears very comfortable playing facing the basket offensively and possesses terrific scoring instincts.
Playing a massive role for Rouen, especially down the stretch when he played all 40 minutes on a number of occasions, and enjoyed a huge amount of freedom, the talented big man did around a third of his scoring from the perimeter on spot up or pick and pop opportunities according to Synergy Sports Technology. Contributing in a variety of ways in the paint cutting off the ball, running the floor, crashing the boards, and even creating a bit for himself in the post, Yabusele wasn't overwhelmingly productive in any one area, but did a bit of everything offensively.
Perhaps the most intriguing element of the French forward's game is his jump shot. A reliable shooter with his feet set all the way to the 3-point line, Yabusele shoots a bit of a set shot getting very little elevation, but has a fluid release. He attempted just 1.8 3-pointers per game this season, but made 43% of his attempts and 43% of long twos. Understanding his limitations and shooting very few pull up jumpers, Yabusele seems to have some potential as a legitimate floor spacer, though it will be interesting to see how his shot (and two-handed above the head release point) translates to the NBA 3-point line.
Around the basket, Yabusele is a good, but not great finisher. Shooting 57% around the rim in the half court, the 1995-born forward tries to tear the rim down with dunks when he can elevate in space, and carves out good position bullying opposing players with his frame, but isn't particularly quick off his feet and forces some shots driving to the basket from the mid-post around defenders. Flashing solid footwork, Yabusele tosses in the occasional half hook spinning off of defenders, but has room to improve his left hand and shot selection inside.
Finishing in the top-20 in Pro A in offensive rebounds per 40 minutes pace adjusted, and setting some solid screens to free up teammates, Yabusele does some of the little things as well, but isn't overly physical despite his strength. He has a lot of room to grow as a playmaker, but also flashes solid vision at times. A fairly skilled offensive player with terrific hands who can even put the ball on the floor a bit, Yabusele has some interesting tools to work with offensively.
The challenge for the bruising big man moving forward will be on the defensive end, where Yabusele struggled mightily this season. Rouen was the worst defensive team in Pro A by a comfortable margin, so expectations were fairly low, but Yabusele did little to help matters, frequently seeming to be going through the motions. Lacking great lateral quickness on the perimeter and providing little rim protection, Yabusele's length and strength help him in the post at times when he's competing, but he has a number of significant questions to answer on this end. At this stage, the jury is out on what Yabusele could be capable of in a more demanding environment with a bigger focus on defensive coaching and conditioning. To his credit, he looked far more engaged and showed better feet in other settings than he did at almost any point this season.
Making huge strides over the last two seasons, Guerschon Yabusele is a strong draft and stash candidate who could find his way into the late first or early second round depending on his willingness to stay in Europe for another year (or two). His defensive ability is a huge question mark, but if he can make significant strides on that end, particularly as a rim protector, he could even feasibly have some potential as a small-ball center. He is a little green at this point, but there's plenty to like about his game moving forward.
Yabusele's contract situation is interesting. Rouen bought his rights from Roanne last summer. He has a NBA out clause for this summer, and his team was relegated to Pro B, meaning a change of scenery is obviously coming. If the team drafting Yabusele wants him in the NBA immediately then there is nothing to be seen here, but if a team wants to stash him in Europe this coming season, he'll need to find a way out of his current contract if he wants to move to a more favorable development situation, which may require some creativity.
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Home > Catholic Encyclopedia > P > Paganism
Paganism, in the broadest sense includes all religions other than the true one revealed by God, and, in a narrower sense, all except Christianity, Judaism, and Mohammedanism. The term is also used as the equivalent of Polytheism.
It is derived from the Latin pagus, whence pagani (i.e. those who live in the country), a name given to the country folk who remained heathen after the cities had become Christian. Various forms of Paganism are described in special articles (e.g. Brahminism, Buddhism, Mithraism); the present article deals only with certain aspects of Paganism in general which will be helpful in studying its details and in judging its value.
Claims of paganism to the name of religion. — Influence on public and private life
Historians of religion usually assume that religions developed upwards from some common germ which they call Totemism, Animism, Solar or Astral Myth, Nature Worship in general or Agrarian in particular, or some other name implying a systematic interpretation of the facts. We do not propose to discuss, theologically, philosophically, or even historically, the underlying unity, or universal originating cause, of all religions, if any such there be. History as a matter of fact presents us in each case with a religion already existing, and in a more or less complicated form. Somewhere or other, some one of the human elements offered as universal, necessary, and sufficient germ of the developed religion, can, of course, be found. But we would point out that, in the long run, this element was not rarely a cause of degeneration, not progress; of lower forms of cult and creed, not pure Monotheism. Thus it is almost certain that Totemism went for much in the formation of the Egyptian religion. The animal-standards of the tribes, gradually and partially anthropomorphized, created the jackal-, ibis-, hawk-headed gods familiar to us. But there is no real trace of the evolution from Zoolatry to Polytheism, and thence to Monotheism. The monotheistic records are more sublime, more definite in the earlier dynasties. Atum, the object of a superb worship, has no animal equivalent. Even the repression of popular follies by a learned official caste failed to check the tendency towards gross and unparalleled Zoolatry, which was food for Roman ridicule and Greek bewilderment, and stirred the author of Wisdom (xi, 16) to indignation (Loret, "L'Egypte au temps du totemisme", Paris, 1906; Cappart in "Rev. d'hist. relig.", LI, 1905, p. 192; Clement of Alexandria, The Pedagogue III.2; Diodorus Siculus, I, lxxxiv; Juvenal, "Satires", xv).
Animism also entered largely into the religions of the Semites. Hence, we are taught, came Polyd monism, Polytheism, Monotheism. This is not correct. Polyd monism is undoubtedly a system born of belief in spirits, be these the souls of the dead or the hidden forces of nature. It "never exists alone and is not a 'religious' sentiment at all": it is not a degenerate form of Polytheism any more than its undeveloped antecedent. Animism, which is really a na ve philosophy, played an immense part in the formation of mythologies, and, combined with an already conscious monotheistic belief, undoubtedly gave rise to the complex forms of both Polyd monism and Polytheism. And these, in every Semitic nation save among the Hebrews, defeated even such efforts as were made (e.g. in Babylon and Assyria) to reconstitute or achieve that Monotheism of which Animism is offered as the embryo. These facts are clearly indicated and summed up in Lagrange's "Etudes sur les Religions e mitiques" (2nd ed., Paris, 1904).
Nature Worship generally, and Agrarian in particular, were unable to fulfil the promise they appeared to make. The latter was to a large extent responsible for the Tammuz cult of Babylon, with which the worships of Adonis and Attis, and even of Dionysus, are so unmistakably allied. Much might have been hoped from these religions with their yearly festival of the dying and rising god, and his sorrowful sister or spouse: yet it was precisely in these cults that the worst perversions existed. Ishtar, Astarte, and Cybele had their male and female prostitutes, their Galli: Josiah had to cleanse the temple of Yahweh of their booths (cf. the Qedishim and Kelabim, Deuteronomy 23:17; 2 Samuel 23:7; cf. 1 Samuel 14:24; 15:12), and even in the Greek world, where prostitution was not else regarded as religious, Eryx and Corinth at least were contaminated by Semitic influence, which Greece could not correct. "Although the story of Aphrodite's love", says Dr. Farnell, "is human in tone and very winning, yet there are no moral or spiritual ideas in the worship at all, no conception of a resurrection that might stir human hopes. Adonis personifies merely the life of the fields and gardens that passes away and blooms again. All that Hellenism could do for this Eastern god was to invest him with the grace of idyllic poetry" ("Cults of the Greek States", II, 649, 1896-1909; cf. Lagrange, op. cit., 220, 444 etc.)
Mithraism is usually regarded as a rival to nascent Christianity; but Nature Worship ruined its hopes of perpetuity. "Mithra remained", says S. Dill, "inextricably linked with the nature-worship of the past." This connexion cleft between it and purer faiths "an impassable gulf" which meant its "inevitable defeat" ("Roman Soc. from Nero to Aurel.", London, 1904, pp. 622 sqq.), and, "in place of a divine life instinct with human sympathy, it had only to offer the cold symbolism of a cosmic legend" (ibid.). Its very adaptability, M. Cumont reminds us, "prevented it from shaking itself free from the gross or ridiculous superstitions which complicated its ritual and theology; it was involved, in spite of its austerity, in a questionable alliance with the orgiastic cult of the mistress of Attis, and was obliged to drag behind it all the weight of a chimerical or hateful past. The triumph of Roman Mazdeism would not only have ensured the perpetuity of all the aberrations of pagan mysticism, but of the erroneous physical science on which its dogma rested." We have here an indication why religions, into which the astral element entered largely, were intrinsically doomed. The divine stars that ruled life were themselves subject to absolute law. Hence relentless Fatalism or final Scepticism for those sufficiently educated to see the logical results of their mechanical interpretation of the universe; hence the discrediting of myth, the abandonment of cult, as mendacious and useless; hence the silencing of oracle, ecstasy, and prayer; but, for the vulgar, a riot of superstition, the door new opened to magic which should coerce the stars, the cult of hell, and honour for its ministers — things all descending into the Satanism and witchcraft of not un-recent days. Even the supreme and solar cult reached not Monotheism, but a splendid Pantheism. A sublime philosophy, a gorgeous ritual, the support of the earthly Monocracy which mirrored that of heaven, a liturgy of incomparable solemnity and passionate mysticism, a symbolism so pure and high as to cause endless confusion in the troubled mind of the dying Roman Empire between Sun-worship and the adorers of the Sun of Righteousness — all this failed to counteract the aboriginal lie which left God still linked essentially to creation. (See F. Cumont, "Les religions orientales dans le paganisme romain", 2nd ed., Paris, 1909, especially cc. v, vii-viii; "Le mysticisme astral", Brussels, 1909, invaluable for references and bibliography; "Textes et Monuments . . . relatifs aux Myst resde Mithra", I, 1899, II, 1896; "Théol. solaire du paganisme rom.", Paris, 1909.) We do not hint that these elements which have been assigned as the origin of an upward revolution have always, or only, been a cause of degeneration: it is important to note, however, that they have been at times a germ of death as truly as of life.
Social aspect
Christianity first and alone of religions has preached, as one of its central doctrines, the value of the individual soul. What natural religion already, but ineffectually implied, Christianity asserted, reinforced, and transmuted. The same human nature is responsible at once for the admirable kindnesses of the pagan, and for the deplorable cruelties of Christian men, or groups, or epochs; the pagan religions did little, if anything, to preserve or develop the former, Christianity waged ceaseless battle against the latter. As for woman, the promiscuity which is the surest sign of her degradation never existed as a general or stable characteristic of primitive folk. In China and Japan, Buddhism and Confucianism depressed, not succoured her; in ancient Egypt, her position was far higher than in late; it was high too among the Teutons. Even in historic Greece as in Rome, divorce was difficult and disgraceful, and marriage was hedged about with an elaborate legislation and the sanctions of religion. The glimpses we have of ancient matriarchates speak much for the older, honourable position of women; their peculiar festivals (as in Greece, of the Thesmophoria and Arrephoria; in Rome, of the Bona Dea) and certain worships, as of the local Korai or of Isis, kept their sex within the sphere of religion. As long, however, as their intrinsic value before God was not realized, the brute strength of the male inevitably asserted itself against their weakness; even Plato and Aristotle regarded them more as living instruments than as human souls; in high tragedy (an Alcestis, an Antigone) or history (a Cloelia, a Camilla), there is no figure which can at all compare, for religious and moral influence, with a Sara, a Rachel, an Esther, or a Deborah. It is love for mother, rather than for wife, that Paganism acknowledges (see J. Donaldson, "Woman in anc. Greece and Rome, etc.... among the early Christians", London, 1907; C.S. Devas, "Studies of Family Life", London, 1886; Daremberg and Saglio, "Gynæceum", etc.).
Essentially connected with the fate of women is that of children. Their charm, pathos, possibilities had touched the pagan (Homer, Euripides, Vergil, Horace, Statius), even the claim of their innocence to respect (Juvenal). Yet too often they were considered merely as toys or the destined support of their parents, or as the hope of the State. With Christianity, each becomes a soul, infinitely precious for God's sake and its own. Each has its heavenly guardian, and for each death is better than loss of innocence. Education, in the fullest sense, was created by Christianity. The elaborate schemes of Aristotle and Plato are subordinated to state interest. Though based upon "sacred" books, education in ancient times, when organized, found these highly mythological, as in Greece or Rome, or rationalized, as in Confucian spheres of influence. Both Greeks and Romans attached great importance to a complete education, supported it with state patronage (the Ptolemies) state initiative and direction (the Antonines), and conceived for it high ideals (the "turning of the soul's eye towards the light", Plato, "Republic", 515 b); yet, failing to appreciate the value of the individual soul, they made education in fact merely utilitarian, the formation of a citizen being barely more complete than under the narrow and rigid systems of Sparta and Crete. The restriction, in classical Greece, of education among women to the Hetairai is a fact significant of false ideal and disastrous in results (J. B. Mahaffy, "Old Gk. Educ.", London, 1881; S. S. Laurie, "Historical Survey of Pre-Christian Educ.", London, 1900; L. Grasberger, "Erziehung u. Unterricht im klass. Alterum", Würzburg, 1864-81; G. Boissier, "L'instruct. publique dans l'empire romain." in "Rev. de Deux Mondes", March, 1884; 3. P. Rossignol, "De l'educ. des hommes et des femmes chez les anciens", Paris, 1888).
Error in education was conditioned, we saw, by error of political ideal. No doubt, all the older polities were sanctioned directly by religion. The local god and the local ruler were, for the Semites, each a melek (king), a baal (proprietor), and their attributes and qualification almost fused. Or, the ruling dynasty descended remotely, or immediately, from a god or hero, making the king divine; so the Mikado, the Ionian and Doric overlords. Especially the Orient went this way, most notably Egypt. The Chinese emperor alone might pray to the Sublime Ruler whose son he was. Rome deifies herself and her governors, and the emperor-cult dominates army and province, and welds together aristocracy and the masses (J. G. Frazer, "Early Hist. of the Kingship", London, 1905; Maspero, "Comment Alex. devint Dieu en Egypte"; Cumont, "Testes et Monumentsde Mithra", I, p. ii, c. iii; J. Toutain, "Cultes paiens dans l'emp. rom.", I, Paris, 1907). It is hard to judge of the practical effects; obviously autocracy profited, the development of obedience, loyalty, courage in the governed (Rome; Japan) being undoubted. Yet the system reposed upon a lie. The scandals of the court, the familiarities of the camp, the inevitable accidents of human life, dulled the halo of the god-king. Far more stable were the organizations resulting from the subtle polities devised by Greek experiment and speculation, and embodied in Roman law. Aristotle's political philosophy, almost designed — as Plato's frankly was — for the city state, was carried on through the Stoic vision of the City of Zeus, of world-empire, into the concrete majesty of Rome, which was itself to pass, when confronted in Christianity with that individual conscience it would not recognize, into the Civitas Dei of an Augustine. Aristotle and Plato survived in Aquinas, the Stoic vision in Dante; Gregory VII reproduced, in his age and manner, the effective work of an Augustus. And of it all the soul was that Kingdom, Hebrew-born, which, spiritualized by Christ and preached by Paul, has been a far mightier force for civilization than ever was the polis of the Greeks. As long as the ultimate source of authority, the inalienable rights of conscience, and the equality of all in a Divine sonship were unrealized, no true solution of the antinomy of state and individual, such as Paul could offer (Romans 13 etc.) was possible. [Cf. E. Barker, "Polit. Thought of Plato and Aristotle", London, 1906, esp. pp. 237-50, 281-91, 119-61, 497-515; G. Murray, "Rise of the Gk. Epic.", Cambridge, 1907; P. Allard, "Ten Lectures on the Martyrs", tr. (London, 1907); Idem, "Les Persécutions" (Paris, 1885-90); Sir W. Ramsay's books on St. Paul, esp. "Pauline Studies" (London, 1906); "Paul the Traveller" (1897); "Ancient King Worship", C.C. Lattey, S.J., English C.T.S.]
In these systems, the weakest necessarily went to the wall. Even the good Greek legislation on behalf of orphans, wards, the aged, parents, and the like; even the admirable instinct of aidos which shielded the defenceless, the suppliant, the stranger, the "stricken of God and afflicted", could not (e.g.) stop the exposition of sickly or deformed infants (defended even by Plato), or render poverty not ridiculous, suffering not merely ugly, death not defiling. Yet the sober religion of the Avesta preaches charity and hospitality, and these, the latter especially, were recognized Greek virtues. In proportion as travel widened minds, and ideals became cosmopolitan, the barbarian became a brother; under the Antonines charity became official and organized. Always, in the Greek world, the temples of Æsculapius were hospices for the sick. Yet all this is as different in motive, and therefore in practical effect, from the "mutual ministry of love" obligatory within the great family of God's children, as is the counterpart of Christian self-sacrifice, Buddhist Altruism. (Cf. L. de la V. Poussin, "Bouddhisme", Paris, 1909, especially pp. 7-8, where he quotes Oldenberg, "Buddhismus u. christliche Liebe" in "Deutsche Rundschau", 1908, and "Orientalischen Relig.", pp. 58, 266 sqq., 275 sqq.) In slavery, of course, a chasm is cleft between Paganism and Christianity. By proclaiming the rights of conscience and the brotherhood of men, Christianity did for the slave what could never have been accomplished by demanding the instant and universal abolition of slavery, thereby risking the dislocation of society. In Christ, a new relation of master to man springs up (1 Corinthians 7:21; 1 Timothy 6:2): the Epistle to Philemon becomes possible. Yet while it is true that in many ways the slave's lot might be miserable (the ergastulum), and inhuman (the Roman slave might technically not marry), and immoral (Petronius: "nil turpe quod dominus jubet"), yet here too, human nature has risen above its own philosophies, laws and conventions. Kindness increases steadily: even Cato was kind; social motives (Horace), philosophical considerations (Seneca), sheer legislation (already under Augustus), devotion (at Delphi, slaves are manumitted to Apollo: contrast the beautiful Christian emancipation in Ennodius, P.L., LXIII 257; sentiment, and even law protected the slaves' tomb or loculus) answered the promptings of gentle hearts. The contubernium became parallel to marriage; nationality never of itself meant slavery; education could make friends of master and man ("loco filii habitus", says one inscription); Seneca generalizes: "homo res sacra homini; servi, humiles amici." But not all the sense of the "dignity of man", taught by the Roman comedians and philosophers, could supply even the emancipating principles, far less the force, of Christian equality in the service of God and the fellowship of Christ (H. A. Wallon, "Hist. de l'Esclavage de l'Antiq.", Paris, 1847; Boeckh, "Staatshaushaltung d. Athener.", I, 13; C.S. Devas, "Key en." (1906), 143-150 and c. v; P. Allard, "Les Esclaves chrét.", Paris, 1876; O. Boissier, "Relig. romaine", II, Paris, 1892).
Art and ritual
Omnia plena deo: the nearer God is realized to be, the richer the efflorescence of religious art and ritual; and the purer the concept of His nature, the nobler the sense-worship that greets it. Hence the world's grandest art has grown round Christ's Real Presence, though Christ said no word of art. Thus, heresy has always been iconoclastic; the distant God of Puritanism, the disincarnate Allah of Islam must be worshipped, but not in beauty. To Hindus, gods were near, but vile; and their art went mad. To the Greeks, save to a smaller band of mystics, whose enthusiasm annihilated external beauty in the effort after spiritual loveliness, all comeliness was bodily; hence the splendid soulless statues of gods (though for a few choice perceptions — Pausanias, Plutarch — the Olympian Zeus had "expression", and conveyed divine significance); hence their treatment of the inanimate beauty of Nature was far less successful and profound than was that of the austere Hebrew, to whom, in his struggle against nature worship and idolatry, plastic art was forbidden, but whose nature-psalms rise higher than anything in Greek literature. The pure new spirit breathing in the art of the Catacombs disguises from us, at first, that its categories are all pagan — though in human models little was directly borrowed, the Orpheus, Hercules, Aristeas type are given to Christ; strange symbols (the disguised cross, the dolphin speared on trident) occur sporadically; "pagan" sarcophagi were doubtless bought direct from pagan warehouses; most startlingly is the difference felt in the spiritual treatment by early Christian Art of the nude (E. Müntz, "Etudes s. l'hist. de la peinture et de l'iconographie chrétienne", Paris, 1886; A. Pératé, "L'archéologie chrét.", Paris, 1892; Wilpert, "Roma Sotteranca: le pitture, etc.", Rome, 1903).
Christian ritual developed when, in the third century, the Church left the Catacombs. Many forms of self-expression must needs be identical, in varying times, places, cults, as long as human nature is the same. Water, oil, light, incense, singing, procession, prostration, decoration of altars, vestments of priests, are naturally at the service of universal religious instinct. Little enough, however, was directly borrowed by the Church — nothing, without being "baptized", as was the Pantheon. In all these things, the spirit is the essential: the Church assimilates to herself what she takes, or, if she cannot adapt, she rejects it (cf. Augustine, Epp., xlvii, 3, in P.L., XXXIII, 185; Reply to Faustus XX.23; Jerome, "Epp.", cix, ibid., XXII, 907). Even pagan feasts may be "baptized": certainly our processions of 25 April are the Robigalia; the Rogation days may replace the Ambarualia; the date of Christmas Day may be due to the same instinct which placed on 25 Dec., the Natalis Invicti of the solar cult. But there is little of this; our wonder is, that there is not far more [see Kellner, "Heortologie" (Freiburg, 1906). See CHRISTMAS; EPIPHANY. Also Thurston, "Influence of Paganism on the Christian Calendar" in "Month" (1907), pp. 225 sqq.; Duchesne, "Orig. du Culte chrétien", tr. (London, 1910) passim; Braun, "Die priestlichen Gewänder" (Freiburg, 1897); Idem, "Die pontificalen Gewänder" (Freiburg, 1898); Rouse, "Greek Votive Offerings" (Cambridge, 1902), esp. c.v]. The cult of saints and relics is based on natural instinct and sanctioned by the lives, death, and tombs (in the first instance) of martyrs, and by the dogma of the Communion of Saints; it is not developed from definite instances of hero-worship as a general rule, though often a local martyr-cult was purposely instituted to defeat (e.g.) an oracle tenacious of pagan life (P.G., L, 551; P.L., LXXII 831; Newman, "Essay on Development, etc.", II, cc. ix, xii., etc.; Anrich, "Anfang des Heiligenkults, etc.", Tübingen, 1904; especially Delehaye, "Légendes hagiographiques," Brussels, 1906). Augustine and Jerome (Ep. cii, 8, in P.L., XXXIII, 377; "C. Vigil.", vii, ibid., XXXIII, 361) mark wise tolerance: Duchesne ["Hist. ancienne de l'église", I (Rome, 1308), 640; cf. Sozomen, Church History VII.20] reminds us of the occasional necessary repression: Gregory, writing for Augustine of Canterbury, fixes the Church's principle and practice (Bede, "Hist. eccl.", I, xxx, xxxii, in P.L., XCV, 70, 72). Reciprocal influence there may to some small extent have been; it must have been slight, and quite possibly felt upon the pagan side not least. All know how Julian tried to remodel a pagan hierarchy on the Christian (P. Allard, "Julien l'Apostat", Paris, 1900).
Morality, ascesis, mysticism
For an appreciation of pagan religions in themselves, and for an estimate of their pragmatic value in life, it should be noted that, in proportion as a pagan religion caught glimpses of high spiritual flights, of ecstacy, penance, otherworldliness, the "heroic", it opened the gates of all sorts of moral cataclysms. A frugi religio was that of Numa: the old Roman in his worship was cautissimus et castissimus. For him, Servus says, religion and fear (=awe) went close together. Pietas was a species of justice (filial, no doubt), but never superstitio. The ordinary man "put the whole of religion in doing things", veiling his head in presence of the modest, featureless numina, who filled his world and (as their adjective-names show — Vaticanus, Argentarius, Domiduca) presided over each sub-section of his life. Later the Roman virtues, Fides, Castitas, Virtus (manliness), were canonized, but religion was already becoming stereotyped, and therefore doomed to crumble, though to the end the volatile Greeks (paides aei) marvelled at its stability, dignity, and decency. So too the high abstractions of the Gâthâs (Moral Law, Good Spirit, Prudent Piety etc., the Amesha-spentas of the Avesta to be — Obedience, Silent Submission, and the rest), especially the enormous value set by Persian ethic upon Truth (a virtue dear to Old Rome), witness to lives of sober, quiet citizenship, generous laborious, unimaginative, just to God and man. Exactly opposite, and disastrous, were the tendencies of the idealistic Hindu, losing himself in dreams of Pantheism, self-annihilation, and divine union. Especially the worship of Vishnu (god of divine grace and devotion), of Krishna (the god so strangely assimilated by modern tendency to Christ), and of Siva (whence Saktism and Tantrism) ran riot into a helpless licence, which must modify, one feels, the whole national destiny. We cannot pass conventional judgments on these aberrations. It is easily conceded that pagans constantly lived better than their creed, or, anyhow, than their myth; blind terrors, faulty premisses, warped traditions originated, preserved, or distorted customs pardonable when we know their history: astounding contradictions coexist (the ritual murders and prostitution of Assyria, together with the high moral sense revealed in the self-examination of the second Shurpu tablet; the sanctified incest and gross myth of Egypt, with the superb negative Confession of the Book of the Dead). Even in Greece, the terrifying survivals of the old clithonic cults, the unmoral influence (for the most part) of the Olympian deities, the unexacting and far more popular cult of local or favourite hero (Herakles, Asklepios), are subordinate to the essential instincts of aidos, themis, nemesis (so well analysed by G. Murray, op. cit.), with their taboos and categorical imperatives, reflected back, as by necessity, to the expressed will of God. The religion of the ordinary man is perfectly and finally expressed in Plato's sketch of Cephalus (Republic, init.) whose instincts and traditions had carried him, at life's close, to a goal practically identical with that achieved by the philosophers at the end of their laborious inquiry.
All asceticism is, however, founded on a certain Dualism. In Persia, beyond all others dualist, the fight between Light and Darkness was noble and fruitful till it ran out into Manichæism and its debased allies. Certainly, from the East came much of the mystic Dualism, enjoining penance, focusing attention beyond the grave, preconizing purity of all sorts (even that abstention from thought which leads to ecstacy), which inspired Orphism, Pythagoreanism etc., and transfused the Mysteries. Till Plato, these notions achieved no high literary success. Æschylus preaches a sublime gospel: his austere series — Wealth, Self-sufficiency, Insolence, God-sent Infatuation, Ruin — has echoes of Hebrew prophecy and anticipates the "Exercises"; yet even his stern drasanti pathein is calmed into the pathein mathos — a true wisdom, repose, reconciliation. Even in this life Sophocles sees high laws living eternally in serene heaven, a joy for men of obedience. Euripides, in the chaos of his scepticism, lives in angry bewilderment, not knowing where to place his ideal, since Aphrodite and Artemis and the other world-forces are, for him, essentially at war. It is in Plato, far better than in the nihilist asceticisms of the East, that the note — not even yet quite true — of asceticism is struck. The body is our tomb (soma, sema); we must strip ourselves of the leaden weights, the earthy incrustations of life: the true life is an exercise in death, a homoiosis to theo, as far as may be; like the swans we sing when dying, "going away to God", whose servants we are; "death dawns", and we owe sacrifice to the Healer-hero for the cure of life's fitful fever; "I have flown away", (the Orphic magic tablets will cry) "from the sorrowful weary wheel" of existences.
Directly after Plato, the schools are coloured by his thought, if not its immediate heirs. Stoic and Epicurean really aimed at one thing when they preached their apatheia and ataraxia, respectively Anechou kai apechou: be the autarches, master of your self and fate. In Roman days of imperial persecution, this Stoicism, "touched with emotion", passed into the beautiful, though ill-founded religion of Seneca: all philosophy became practical, an ars vivendi: Life is our ingens negotium, yet not to be despaired of. Heaven is not proud: ascendentibus di manum porrigent. Ano phronein, St. Paul was even then enjoining (Colossians 3:1-2), echoing Plato's phronein athanata kai theia (Tim., 90 c), his tes ano hodou aei hexometha (Rep., 621 c.), his "life must be a flight" apo ton enthende ekeise (529 A), and Aristotle's doctrine that a man must athanatein eph oson endechetai (Eth. N., X, vii), written so long ago. The more acute expressions of this mystical asceticism were much occupied with the future life and much fostered or provoked by the developed Mysteries. Impossible as it seems to find a race which believed in the extinction of the soul by death, survival was often a vague and dismal affair, prolonged in cavernous darkness, dust, and unconsciousness. So Babylon, Assyria, the Hebrews, earlier Greece. Odysseus must make the witless ghosts drink the hot blood before they can think and speak. At best, they depend on human attendance and even companionship; hence certain offerings and human sacrifice on the grave. Or they can, on fixed days, return, harry the living, seek food and blood. Hence expulsion-ceremonies, the Anthesteria, Lemuria, and the like. Kindlier creeds, however, are created, and, at the Cara Cognatio, the souls are welcomed to the places set for them, as for the gods, at the hearth and table, and the family is reconstituted in affection. Hopes and intuitions gather into a full and steady light, even before the inscriptions of the catacombs show that death was by now scarcely reason for tears at all. The "surer bark of a divine doctrine", for which the anxious lad in the "Phædo" had sighed, had been given to carry souls to that "further shore" to which Vergil saw them reaching yearning hands.
But the Mysteries had already fostered, though not created, the conviction of immortality. They gave no revelations, no new and secret doctrine, but powerfully and vividly impressed certain notions (one of them, immortality) upon the imagination. Gradually, however, it was thought that initiation ensured a happy after-life, and atoned for sins that else had been punished, if not in this life, in some place of expiation (Plato, "Rep.", 366; cf. Pindar, Sophocles, Plutarch). These mysteries usually began with the selection of initiandi, their preliminary "baptism", fasting, and (Samothrace) confession. After many sacrifices the Mysteries proper were celebrated, including nearly always a mimetic dance, or "tableaux", showing heaven, hell, purgatory; the soul's destiny; the gods [so in the Isis mysteries. Appuleius (Metamorphoses) tells us his thrilling and profoundly religious experiences]. There was often seen the "passion" of the god (Osiris): the rape and return of Kore and the sorrows of Demeter (Eleusis), the sacred marriage (Here at Cnossus), or divine births (Zeus: Brimos), or renowned incidents of the local myth. There was also the "exhibition" of symbolical objects — statues usually kept veiled, mysterious fruits or emblems (Dionysus), an ear of corn (upheld when Brimos was born). Finally there was usually the meal of mystic foods — grains of all sorts at Eleusis, bread and water in the cult of Mithra, wine (Dionysus), milk and honey (Attis), raw bull's flesh in the Orphic Dionysus-zagreus cult. Sacred formulæ were certainly imparted, of magical value.
There is not much reason to think these mysteries had a directly moral influence on their adepts; but their popularity and impressiveness were enormous, and indirectly reinforced whatever aspiration and belief they found to work on. Naturally, it has been sought to trace a close connexion between these rites and Christianity (Anrich, Pfleiderer). This is inadmissible. Not only was Christianity ruthlessly exclusive, but its apologists (Justin, Tertullian, Clement) inveigh loudest against the mysteries and the myths they enshrine. Moreover, the origin of the Christian rites is historically certain from our documents. Christian baptism (essentially unique) is alien to the repeated dippings of the initiandi, even to the Taurobolium, that bath of bull's blood, whence the dipped emerged renatus in æternum. The totemistic origin and meaning of the sacred meal (which was not a sacrifice) wherein worshippers communicated in the god and with one another (Robertson Smith, Frazer) is too obscure to be discussed here (cf. Lagrange, "Etudes, etc.", pp.257, etc.). The sacred fish of Atergatis have nothing to do with the origin of the Eucharist, nor, even probably, with the Ichthys anagram of the catacombs. (See Fr. J. Dölger: ICHTHYS, das Fischsymbol, etc., Rome, 1910. The anagram does indeed represent Iesous Christos Theou Houios Soter, the usual order of the third and fourth words being inverted owing to the familiar formula of the imperial cult; the propagation of the symbol was often facilitated owing to the popular Syrian fish-cult.) That the terminology of the mysteries was largely transported into Christian use (Paul, Ignatius, Origen, Clement etc.), is certain; that liturgy (especially of baptism), organization (of the catechumenate), disciplina arcani were affected by them, is highly probable. Always the Church has forcefully moulded words, and even concepts (soter, epipsanes, baptismos, photismos, teletes, logos) to suit her own dogma and its expression. But it were contrary to all likelihood, as well as to positive fact, to suppose that the adogmatic, mythic, codeless practices and traditions of Paganism could subdue the rigid ethic and creed of Christianity. [Consult Cumont, opp. cit.; Anrich, "Das antike Mysterienwesen, etc." (Göttingen, 1894); O. Pfleiderer, "Das Christenbild, etc." (Berlin, 1903), tr. (London, 1905). Especially Cabrol, "Orig. liturgiques" (Paris, 1906); Duchesne, "Christian Worship", passim; Blötzer in "Stimmen aus Maria Laach", LXXI, (1906), LXXII, (1907); G. Boissier, "Fin du Paganisme" (Paris, 1907), especially 1, 117 sqq.; "Religion Romaine", passim; Sir S. Dill, op. cit.; C.A. Lobeck, "Aglaophamus" (1829); E. Rohde, "Psyche" (Tübingen, 1907); J. Reville, "Relig. à Rome, s. l. Sevèsres" (Paris, 1886); J. E. Harrison, "Prolegomena" (Cambridge, 1908), especially the appendix; L. R. Farnell, op. cit., and the lexicons.]
As strange historical phenomena, we note therefore the coexistence of the highest with the lowest; the sublime tendency, the exiguum clinamen, and the terrific catastrophe: human nature buffeted by the craving for divine union, prayer, and purity, and by the sense of sin, the need of penance, and helplessness of its own powers. Hence, savagery and blood attend the communion-feasts, grotesque myths accompany the loftiest ideals, sensual reaction follows flagellation and fasting. And we admire how, in the Hebrew nation alone, the teleological ascent was constant; sobriety meant no lowered aim; passion implied no frenzy. In the strong grasp of the Christian discipline alone, the further antimony of self-abnegation and self-realization was practically and spiritually solved, though theoretically no adequate expression may ever be discovered for that solution. As historical problems remain certain connexions yet to be more accurately defined between the "dress" of Christian dogma and rite (whether liturgical, or of formula, or of philosophic category) and the circumambient religions. As historical certainty stands out the impassable gulf, in essence and origin, between the moral and religious systems of contemporary Paganism, especially of the Mysteries, and the Christian dogma and rite, formed on Palestinian soil with extraordinary rapidity, and rigidly exclusive of infection from alien sources. [Cf. L. Friedländer, "Roman Life and Manners, etc." (1909-10), espec. III, 84-313; O. Seeck, "Gesch. des Unterganges der antiken Welt", I (Berlin, 1910), II (1901), III (1909), and appendices, B. Allo, "L'Evangile en face du syncrétisme palen" (Paris, 1910).]
This, we suppose, is the highest form of human reaction upon the religious datum of which the soul finds itself in possession, or at least may provide it with the purest, if not the most imperative, mode of worship. From this point of view the older rationalizing cosmogonies (as of Greece) are of little interest to us, save in so far as they witness already to that distinction between Zeus, supreme, and Fate, to which he yet is subject, an earlier unconscious attempt, perhaps, to reconcile the antinomies easily seized by true religious instinct in the popular traditions as to the gods. The mythological cosmogonies of Babylon and Assyria will, however, be of surpassing interest to the "comparative" student of Semitic religions. Noteworthy is the curve of Greek tendency — starting in Ionia, monistic, static, and anti-religious; grown dynamic in Heraclitus, whose Fire will pass, as Logos, into the Stoic system; transferred after the Persian wars to Attica, and profoundly dualized in Plato and Aristotle, whose concepts, however, of World-soul and of the Immanent Nature-force were powerful for all time. Through the Stoics, expressed in terms borrowed consistently from the exquisite Egyptian mythology, of Thot, of Osiris, and of Isis, this elaborate system of converging currents is synthesized in Plutarch, while from Plutarch's sources Philo had drawn the philosophy in which he strove to see the doctrines of Moses, and in terms of which he struggled to express the Hebrew books.
Thus was it that the Logos, in theory, impersonal, immanent, blindly evolving in the world, became (transfigured on the one hand by pagan myth, and by too close contact, on the other, with the Angel of Yahweh and the ideals of the Alexandrian sapiential literature) so near to personification, that John could take the expression, mould it to his dogma, cut short all perilous speculation among Christians, and assert once and for all that the Word was made flesh and was Jesus Christ. Yet many of the earlier apologists were to make great trouble with their use of Platonic formulæ, and with the Logos. Two principles emerge as governing Greek thought — God must have the first place, ou gar parergou dei poieisthai ton theon, — and yet the nearer we approach Him, the less can we express Him, theon eurein te ergon, euronta de ekpherein en pollois adynaton (Pythagoras, Plato). To how many answers tentatively given does Euripides's sad prayer witness: "O Thou that upholdest earth, and on earth hast Thy Throne, whoe'er Thou be, hard to guess, hard to know — Zeus, be Thou law of nature, or human thought of man, to Thee I pray: for Thou, moving in silent path, in justice guidest all things mortal." To the immanent, supreme Force, consciously exacting service, or, at least, blindly imposing obedience, Greek philosophy almost inevitably came, and, in spite of itself and its sceptical and mechanical premises, amounted to a religion. In the mouth of Epictetus God is still sung triumphantly — "What can I do, I, a lame old man, save sing God's praises, and call on all men to join me in my song?" — till the Stoic current died out in Aurelius, stunned to acquiescence, no more enthusiastically uniting himself to the great law of God in the world.
But into neo-Platonism, coloured with Persian, Jewish, and even Christian language, the movement passed; already, in the "Isis and Osiris" of Plutarch, a pure mysticism and sublimity of emotion barely to be surpassed had been achieved; in the "Metamorphoses" of Apuleius the syncretistic cult of the Egyptian goddess expresses itself in terms of tenderness and majesty that would fit the highest worship, and, in the concluding prayer of the Apuleian Hermes, an ecstatic adoration of God is manifested in language and thought never equalled, still less surpassed, save in the inspired writers of the Church. But all these efforts of pagan religious philosophy, committed nearly always to a rigid Dualism, entangled accordingly in mechanical and magic practices, tricked out in false mythology, risking and losing psychical balance by the use of a nihilist asceticism of sense and thought, died into the miserable systems of Gnosticism, Manichæism, and the later neo-Platonism; and the current of true life, renewed and redirected by Paul and John, passed into the writings of Augustine. [Consult Zeller, "Phil. der Griechen" (Leipzig, 1879), tr. (London, 1881); Idem, "Grundriss, etc." (4th ed., Leipzig, 1908), tr. (London, 1892); Gomperz, "Gr. Denken" (Leipzig, 1903), tr. (London, 1901); cf. Flinders Petrie, "Personal Relig. in Egypt before Christianity" (New York, 1909), unsatisfactory; J. Adam, "Religious Teachers of Greece" (Edinburgh, 1908); Dill, op. cit.; Idem, "Roman Society in the last century of the Western Empire", especially valuable as a picture of the tenacity of the dying pagan cult and thought; Spence, "Early Christianity and Paganism" (London, 1904); L. Habert, "Doctr. Relig. d. Philosophes Grecs" (Paris, 1909); L. Campbell, "Religion in Greek Literature" (London, 1898); E. Caird, "Evolution of Theology in Greek Philosophies" (Glasgow, 1904), "Evolution of Religion" (Glasgow, 1907); H. Pinard in "Revue Apologétique" (1909); S. Lebreton, "Origines du Dogme de la Trinité", I (Paris, 1910), where the summits reached by Greek and Hellenized Jewish religious endeavour are appreciated. On the general question: de Broglie, "Problèmes et Conclusions de l'hist. des Religions", Paris, 1889.]
Relations between paganism and revelation
Ethnology and the comparative history of pagan religions do not impose upon us as an hypothesis that primitive Revelation which Faith ascertains to us. As a hypothesis it would, however, solve many a problem; it was the easier therefore for the Traditionalist of a century ago to detect its traces everywhere, and for Bishop Huet ("Demonstr. evangelica", Paris, 1690, pp. 68, 153, etc.), following Aristobulus, Philo, Josephus, Justin, Tertullian, and many another disciple of the Alexandrians, to see in all pagan law and ritual an immense pillage of Jewish tradition, and, in all the gods, Moses. The opposite school has, in all ages, fallen into worse follies. Celsus saw in Judaism an "Egyptian heresy", and in Christianity a Jewish heresy, on an equality with the cults of Antinous, Trophonius etc. (Against Celsus III.21); Calvin (Instit., IV, x, 12) and Middleton (A letter from Rome, etc., 1729) saw an exact conformity between popery and paganism. Dupuis and Creuze herald the modern race of comparative religionists, who deduce Christianity from pagan rites, or assign to both systems a common source in the human spirit. Far wiser in their generation were those ancient Fathers, who, not always seeing in pagan analogies the trickery of devils (Justin in P.G., VI, 364, 408, 660; Tertullian in P.L., I, 519, 660; II, 66; Firmicus Maternus, ibid., XII, 1026, 1030), disentangle, with a true historic and religious sense, the reasons for which God permitted, or directed, the Chosen People to retain or adapt the rites of their pagan ancestry or environment, on at least, reproaching them with this, recognize the facts (Justin, loc. cit., VI, 517; Tertullian, P.L., II, 333; Jerome, ibid., XXV, 194, XXIV, 733, XXII, 677, is striking; Eusebius, P.G., XXII, 521; especially Chrysostom, ibid., LVII, 66, and Gregory of Nazianzus, ibid., XXXVI, 161, who are remarkable. Cf. St. Thomas, I-II, Q. cii, a. 2). The relation of the Hebrew code and ritual to those of pagan systems need not be discussed here: the facts, and, a fortiori, the comparison and construction of the facts, are not yet satisfactorily determined: the admirable work of the Dominican school (especially the "Religions sémitiques" of M. J. Lagrange; cf. F. Prat, S.J., "Le Codede Sinai", Paris, 1904) is preparing the way for more adequate considerations than are at present possible.
Whether Paganism made straight a path for Christianity may be considered from two points of view. Speaking from the standpoint of pure history, no one will deny that much in the antecedent or environing aspirations and ideals formed a præparatio evangelica of high value. "Christo jam tum venienti", sang Prudentius, "crede, parata via est". The pagan world "saw the road", Augustine could say, from its hilltop. "Et ipse Pileatus Christianus est" said the priest of Attis; while, of Heraclitus and the old philosophers, Justin avers that they were Christians before Christ. Indeed, in their panegyric of the Platonic philosophy, the earlier Apologists go far beyond anything we should wish to say, and indeed made difficulties for their successors. Attention is nowadays directed, not only to the ideas of the Divine nature, the logos-philosophies, popular at the Christian era, but especially to those oriental cults, which, flooding down upon the shrivelled, officialized, and dying worship of the Roman or Hellenic-Roman world, fertilized within it whatever potentialities it yet contained of purity, prayer, emotional religion, other-worldliness generally. A whole new religious language was evolved, betokening a new tendency, ideal, and attitude; here too Christianity did not disdain to use, to transcend, and to transform.
Theologically, moreover, we know that God from the very outset destined man to a supernatural union with Himself. "Pure nature", historically, has never existed. The soul is naturaliter Christiana. The truest man is the Christian. Thus the "human spirit" we have so often mentioned, is no human spirit left to itself, but solicited by, yielding to a resisting grace. Better than Aristotle guessed, mankind echei ti theion. For Christus cogitabatur. Aei ponei to zoon, said the same philosopher: and all creation groans and travails together until the full redemption; "all nations of men" were by God "made of one blood for to dwell on all the face of the earth . . . that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might grope after Him and find Him." They failed, alas, though they had the epignosis of God (Romans 1:32; cf. 1:19): the higher they went, the more terribly they fell: but, alongside of the tragic first chapter of Paul's Epistle, is the second, and we dare not forget that the elect people, the Eldest Son, the heir of oracles and law fell equally or worse, and made the name of God to be blasphemed among the Gentiles it contemned (Romans 2:24). Yet for all that, God used the Jews in his plan, and none will dare to say He did not use the Gentiles. They reveal themselves in history as made for God, and restless till they rest in him. History shows us their effort, and their failure; we thank God for the one, and dare not scorn the other. God's revelation has been in many fragments and in many modes; and to the pagan king, whose right hand He had holden, He declared: "For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou, thou hast not known Me: I am Yahweh, and there is none else; beside Me there is no God: (yet) will I guide thee, though Me thou hast not known (Isaiah 45:4 sq.). For still Cyrus worshipped at the shrine of Ahura.
APA citation. Martindale, C.C. (1911). Paganism. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11388a.htm
MLA citation. Martindale, Cyril Charles. "Paganism." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11388a.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Douglas J. Potter. Dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. February 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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History of Māori in Parramatta
Recently the Interpretations Team at the Heritage and Visitor Information Centre has been working with the Māori community to explore the history of Māori in Parramatta. The resulting publication Māori Trade and Relations in Parramatta reveals several surprising connections and relationships dating back to 1804.
Researched and written by Maarama Kamira it provides a fascinating insight into relationships formed between the visiting Māori and the newly arrived colonists which profoundly shaped Māori life on many fronts;
The most exciting piece of lesser known research was that Parramatta hosted the first international All Blacks Game in the 1890’s. The Captain of the team, Joe Warbrick sold his korowai or cloak to assist in his passage. He received the princely sum of four pounds for it. That cloak is now housed at the Australian Museum. To think, Parramatta was the birthplace of international rugby union!
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You can download an electronic version of the book from the link below , Margaret, or view a copy at the Research Library in the Heritage Centre.
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The Harris family from Motukaraka and Mangamuka in the North of NZ is one of the largest Maori whanau in Aotearoa. We claim a connection to Parramatta as our ancestor Christoper Harris was born there in 1805. He was the son of William Harris and convict Elizabeth Taylor who arrived there in 1804. Christopher came to NZ in the 1820s. He had 13 children to his two Maori wives and he now has an estimated 20,000 descendants. Many have made the pilgrimage to Parramatta and thousands are now living in Australia.
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Gimme Your Answers: An Interview w/ Troumaca
Birmingham quintet Troumaca is comprised of Geoffrey Foulkes, Samuel Baylis, Tom Gregory, James Nayak, and Matthew Campbell. Troumaca excel at creating electronic-indie as layered vocals and airy synths flourish over mellow yet dynamic melodies. Troumaca’s first single Layou will be released August 12th, and their debut record The Grace is set for release on August 26th. To see what’s been keeping Troumaca busy, AMBY caught up with Samuel Baylis of the band to talk about lions surveying territory, filming at their local pool, and how a member is a reptile!
AMBY: Thanks for taking the time to speak with AMBY, TROUMACA! What’s the band been up to?
TROUMACA: Hi AMBY, what’s happenin,
We’ve recently finished recording our debut album – out August 26th! So, for the last month or so we were holed up in our studio most days/nights doing our thing, the process was great though because we demoed a mountain tracks then pick out the ones we were feeling, I’d say the album comes close to what we are trying to achieve.
Other than that we’ve been sipping on Guinness Punch, playing a few shows in between recording and now we’re prepping the live set for our festival shows.
AMBY: Your EP Virgin Island is outstanding. Which song off the EP is your favourite and why?
TROUMACA: Thank you! Wow, my favourite? I’ll go with My Love because on the EP it’s really laid back, but when we play it live it bangs!
AMBY: What’s the story behind your wicked song My Love?
TROUMACA: It’s about having sex and the dreamy hazy, bliss afterwards. We used an island paradise as the metaphor. Writing this down has made me realized how strange it sounds, but who doesn’t love the beach?
AMBY: Between the five of you, what’s the songwriting process like?
TROUMACA: What’s the songwriting process like? It’s like a Lion surveying his territory on the savannah, his pride in view, he glares at the setting sun as if to remind the amber god that this realm is his. His roar resonates through the grass and sings up to the advancing stars, they beat back, glowing in the gloom. For a moment you feel the silence, the infinite space that holds the universe together. And then, in the twilight, you hear the faint, terrible, rumble of drums.
That’s what it’s like in my mind at least.
What actually happens is we get a chord progression and melody together then we flesh out the track and draw out more of the vibe. Then when the mood of the track if solid we look at the lyrics. That’s been the process during the album sessions and it’s worked really well. It’s a rare thing to have five people all feeling the same way, and we feel blessed for that.
AMBY: Does hailing from Birmingham have an influence on your sound? If so, how?
TROUMACA: Yes, definitely. I think it’s impossible not to be influenced by your surroundings. The question is whether you fight what’s around you, or embrace it. We love the city, to soak it up and it seeps through into our music. It’s the home of Black Sabbath, Steel Pulse and UB40. There’s a wonderful mix of musical heritage and a rich underbelly of differing sounds. We are a guitar band that makes bass led electronic music, so we are definitely influenced by what’s around us. Also, we have the best accent in the country.
AMBY: The video for Lady Colour is really neat. What inspired the swimming pool idea?
TROUMACA: Why thank you AMBY. Lady Colour has a dream like quality, the melody floats along, and we wanted to convey that. So we shot it in our local pool. It was quite funny; the life guards were hanging around looking at us in a very bewildered manner.
AMBY: If you weren’t in a band what would you be doing?
TROUMACA: I’d be an architect, designing zero energy social housing.
AMBY: What’s the funniest thing to happen to you at a gig?
TROUMACA: We played a show in London recently, a nice intimate show and there was a group of girls we’d never seen before were at the front. About three songs in one of the girls smile became more intense and her friend was gesturing for her to get on the stage, so she did. No one noticed at first, probably because of the lighting and her strategically placed hair, but this girl had taken her top off. She stayed on stage for a while, just doing her thing. There were a few slack jaws at the front but she didn’t care. That was funny.
AMBY: If you could tour anywhere in the world, where would it be and who would you tour with?
TROUMACA: AMERICA! There are a lot of places we’d like to play and this year we are lucky enough to be doing a tour in France. But we’d love to play in the States.
AMBY: What’s your favourite release of the year so far?
TROUMACA: Inc. – No World. Neo Soul white boy R&B and it’s excellent.
AMBY: And lastly, what’s something about TROUMACA that nobody knows yet?
TROUMACA: Matthew’s a reptile.
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From the Streets to the Stratosphere: An Interview With “Space Artist” Invader
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“Sorry for the late response,” Invader wrote in an email to ANIMAL. “But as you know, I’ve been arrested by the NYPD and it made me lose a lot of time.”
He’s in New York promoting his documentary ART4SPACE and his latest body of mosaic tiles. The signature 8-bit artwork includes a whole host of nostalgia-inducing characters from Snow White to Princes Peach and Donkey Kong, among many others. On Thursday, in the wee hours of the morning, the Paris-based street artist was busted after affixing a tile mosaic to a residential building on Orchard Street and our interview with him was interrupted. ANIMAL caught up with him to talk about his arrest, work with COST and ENX and being labelled “a street artist,” as well as some tips for dealing with the NYPD.
How many invasions do you plan on doing in NYC while you’re here?
The most I can!
What’s the hardest part about putting up work illegally in New York City? Is it harder to avoid fans with camera-phones or the NYPD?
I try to be the most discreet I can be. But sometimes you have no choice. It’s like playing roulette at casino, you can win or lose!..
[LATER…] Three days have passed since I wrote these words and I have since been arrested putting a piece on Orchard Street. They tried to put pressure on me, when they brought me to the police station. A sergeant told me, “I hope that this arrest will be the end of your graffiti career!” and I was thinking, “You should arrest real bad guys and let me do my work which I consider as a gift to NYC.” I’m out now but they kept my cellphone and I guess the vandal squad is working on it now.
How do you choose your locations?
That is the hardest part of the invasion. I don’t have so many pieces because my mosaics are heavy and fragile, I have to find the best spots for them. It is like doing urban acupuncture! When it comes down to it, I’m very subjective in finding spots.
Do you do it all by yourself or do you have a team that helps?
Both. I need sometimes to have one or two persons with me. It can be helpful.
When someone vandalizes one of your tiles do you fix it? Destroy it? Let it be?
Generally, I let it be.
If a property owner decided to remove one of your tiles, wall and all, how would you feel?
If it is because he doesn’t like it, that’s ok. If it’s to sell it on eBay or to put it in his living room, that doesn’t make me happy. Street pieces are made for the street and for the people in the street to enjoy them.
What was it like to collaborate with COST and ENX?
I’m a huge fan of Cost and Revs. I even did a hyperrealistic sculpture of them a few years ago in one of my shows. Last week, I got in touch with Cost and his new partner ENX. In less than one hour, we had the idea to make a “Graffitile” — a graffiti made of tiles — and the day after we did it!
Will you be collaborating with any other legendary NYC artists?
None scheduled for the moment. There are a few artist I would love to collaborate with in NY like Bast, Todd James, Faile, Neck Face, Andy Warhol and obviously Revs.
As you know, Banksy is in town. Have you ever met him in person?
I met him a few times, but not in New York. About being here at the same time? It is just a coincidence. What he did in New York was a nice idea, and he did it pretty well.
I know this is a bit of a sore subject, but… is Thierry Guetta aka Mr. Brainwash really your cousin? Do you remain close to him? Do you have any hostilities towards Banksy for making your cousin look like a buffoon in Exit Through the Gift Shop or is there some sort of secret street art camaraderie that those outside of the circle will never understand?
Yes, Banksy’s movie is a real documentary and Thierry Guetta is really my cousin. We speak sometimes on the phone but I don’t see him so often because he lives in LA and I live in Paris. No, I don’t have any particular animosity about that.
How do you feel about being labelled a street artist?
It’s ok to me. I can’t deny it! Even if I don’t particularly like this kind of labeling. Now that I have worked in space, am I a space artist? You see… this kind of labeling is a bit ridiculous.
What in the hell inspired you send one your mosaics way into space?
I had this idea in mind for a while — to send a space invader back to space! I didn’t know how to do it, but was possible to do it in a very DIY way. The piece went in the stratosphere with a small camera and the images are so amazing that I decided to make a documentary about it. This movie represents one year of work and it shows a lot about me.
Are you otherwise interested in space?
I like the idea that we will soon live there.
At the ART4SPACE New York premiere, you appeared on stage wearing a Guy Fawkes mask. What was the significance of choosing that character?
That is the mask used by the Anonymous movement. In a way, I feel close to this movement and it’s a perfect mask to keep my anonymity.
Do you remain anonymous for legal reasons or for the sense of mystery or both?
What’s the upside of staying anonymous? What’s the downside?
The upside is that you can have a normal life. The downside is that you can’t go in a club as a VIP, but that is ok to me because I don’t like clubs.
Have you ever written graffiti? If so, what was the tag?
No, never.
Are there any tips you’d like to pass along to other street artists since your brush with the NYPD?
My main tip would be: Don’t get caught! Surprisingly, some cops might love you work, but they will still lock you up.
(Photos: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork, COST/Instagram, lostkaws/Instagram)
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Lobster industry pinched by tariffs
State Rep. Ann Margaret Ferrante, D-Gloucester, said the trade wars are hurting not just lobstermen but other sectors of the seafood industry connected to it, such as processors, wholesalers, supermarkets and restaurants. “The lobster is commodity that feeds a chain of industries,” she said. “You’re talking about a supply chain of about five industries that…
Representative Ann-Margaret Ferrante, of Gloucester, said in a June letter that the state’s lobstering industry “has become collateral damage in the Trump Administration’s trade war with China.” Ferrante has proposed a bill that would require state officials to prepare an annual strategic report for the state’s commercial fishing and shellfish industry. The evaluation would come…
Our view: Addiction’s most helpless victims
State Rep. Ann Margaret-Ferrante, D-Gloucester, a cosponsor of the legislation, told Statehouse reporter Christian Wade: “We’re living in a time where I think most people would agree that there’s more of a chance of a fetus being exposed to opioids than alcohol. We really need to have a discussion about what is happening to these…
September 5, 2019 Ann-Margaret FerranteHealth, News
$580K in budget earmarked for Cape Ann
The fiscal year 2020 budget also includes $580,000 in amendments authored by Tarr and state Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante, D-Gloucester, to fund Cape Ann initiatives in public safety, water quality, economic development, marine genomics research, the Blue Economy, as well as community celebrations in Gloucester and Essex. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→
July 26, 2019 Ann-Margaret FerranteCulture, Arts, and Tourism, Economic Development, Education, Fisheries, Local Aid, Marine Science, News
Moulton, Ferrante: Trade war hurting lobstermen
In Boston, state Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante of Gloucester pushed for a hearing in Gloucester by a joint committee of the Massachusetts Legislature on the Trump administration’s trade policies with China “and its effects on the Massachusetts lobster industry and corresponding ports.” In a letter to the leadership of the Joint Committee on Export Development, Ferrante…
July 1, 2019 Ann-Margaret FerranteFarms and Agriculture, Fisheries, News
Lawmakers ask T to shelve fare hikes during Tobin project
A bipartisan group of lawmakers want the MBTA to shelve planned fare hikes until the Tobin Bridge project is completed, arguing that the higher fares will add to traffic woes by deterring commuters from using public transit. In a letter to the T’s fiscal control board, the lawmakers said the 6 percent fare increases, which…
April 10, 2019 Ann-Margaret FerranteNews, Transportation
Ferrante named to development post
State Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante, elected last November for a sixth term of representing Gloucester, Rockport and Essex, was named the new House chairman of the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies. The nomination from House Speaker Robert DeLeo and her election by the full House place her in a key role as the…
February 16, 2019 Ann-Margaret FerranteEconomic Development, News
Growing plants with goldfish: Eighth-graders studying aquaponics in new O’Maley BioLab
Amy Donnelly, the school’s science coordinator and eighth-grade teacher, and David Brown, O’Maley’s engineering specialist, spearheaded the lab’s creation. Funding was secured in 2017 with a $56,998 grant from the Massachusetts Life Science Center. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→
February 5, 2019 Ann-Margaret FerranteEducation, Farms and Agriculture, News
Students to get a leg up on college, trades
For Gloucester school officials, it’s a chance to provide new opportunities for high school students. For those with the Essex North Shore Agricultural & Technical School, it’s a chance to widen access to their programs. And for workers in area construction and labor trades, it’s a step toward building for the future. Read more on…
September 26, 2018 Ann-Margaret FerranteEducation, News
House leaders propose tax incentives for Broadway-bound shows
Representative Ann-Margaret Ferrante pushed for the amendment. She’s emboldened by what she calls a local theater renaissance, as evidenced by the national debuts of “Jagged Little Pill” at A.R.T. in Cambridge and “Moulin Rouge!” at the newly renovated Colonial Theatre in Boston. Read more on the Boston Globe website→
July 13, 2018 Ann-Margaret FerranteCulture, Arts, and Tourism, Economic Development, News
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Chastity Bono starts transition process
Filed By Bil Browning | June 11, 2009 4:30 PM | comments
Filed in: Entertainment, Transgender & Intersex
Tags: Chastity Bono, Chaz Bono, female to male, FTM, transgender, transition
Congratulations to Chaz Bono on his decision to transition from female to male. This is a deeply personal commitment that obviously isn't taken lightly and is probably made even more difficult by his celebrity. Bilerico Project family sends warm wishes and good thoughts his way as he starts his transition.
Bono, the child of legendary entertainers Sonny and Cher, began the process earlier this year, shortly after his 40th birthday
"Yes, it's true -- Chaz, after many years of consideration, has made the courageous decision to honor his true identity," confirmed Bono's publicist, Howard Bragman.
"He is proud of his decision and grateful for the support and respect that has already been shown by his loved ones. It is Chaz's hope that his choice to transition will open the hearts and minds of the public regarding this issue, just as his 'coming out' did nearly 20 years ago.
We ask that the media respect Chaz's privacy during this long process as he will not be doing any interviews at this time."
And congratulations to TMZ.com for correct gender usage. Even most mainstream news outlets screw that part up!
Waymon Hudson | June 11, 2009 4:52 PM
Congrats to Chaz!
MonicaHelms | June 11, 2009 6:36 PM
Chaz,
You will be in my prayers and my thoughts. May your journey be a full of beauty and wonderment.
Rob Barton | June 11, 2009 9:35 PM
Congrats to you Chaz. I hope that you read this post and I'm glad that you are taking this step toward yourself.
Rebecca Juro | June 11, 2009 9:37 PM
Congratulations, Chaz.
Zoe Brain | June 11, 2009 11:26 PM
Chaz was always a guy.
It's possible for a while if you're a straight male lumbered with a female body to pretend to be a butch lesbian.
But it doesn't fit. It itches. And the mismatch becomes more pronounced the older you get.
Eventually you realise that you can't keep up the pretence any longer. You stop fighting, and transition, no matter what the cost.
I don't understand men, be they gay, bi, or straight. But I do understand where Chaz is coming from. I understand transition, and the soul-searching he had to have done before embarking on this. The quest for his true identity. And I wish him every possible blessing.
Sean | June 12, 2009 8:50 AM
Chaz! Chaz meister! Chaz a rama ding dong! Dude! Welcome home to the frat bruh! Chazarenoramaaa....
C.B.!
Megabyte | June 16, 2009 12:59 PM
Congrats, Chaz - what bravery, especially given the public attention this will bring...
In other news, now we have to go out and check the articles for proper usage: looks like TMZ did well (though added little commentary on the release from the rep). I wonder about the phrase "becoming a man" - while it probably drives hits, is this generally considered a respectful phrase?
Setting that phrase aside, ABC News did (IMHO) a nice job, getting all the pronouns right or at least not intentionally wrong. Curious question: there's a line "when he came out as a lesbian" - would the fact that Chaz was presenting as a female at that time mean that you use the female pronouns/name there, or does the contemporary affirmed gender identity dictate? (I'd imagine this is probably personal, since I've seen it done with the mixed pronouns in a respectful way and seemingly no problem) Not looking for a "representative" of course, but opinions would be good to hear.
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/CelebrityCafe/story?id=7817716&page=1
The AP, surprisingly (since don't they have a stylebook partially written by GLAAD that says not to do this?) refers to a "sex change" twice...
In a surprising turn of events (NOT!) FoxNews does the worst version of this news report that I've seen thus far - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525869,00.html
Yes, they changed the gendered pronouns in the news release to feminine ones - yikes!
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Global Warming and Bee Behavior
There are a lot of statements such as: "In the autumn the drones are evicted" or "drones are killed by the workers in the autumn." Are these statements still correct?
On December 14, 2006 the temperature in Grahamsville, NY was unseasonably high and I saw two unusual situations for this period of time: flying Italian and Russian drones and winter eviction of drones.
December 15, 2006 Eviction of Drones
Please click on the pictures to view clips.
Flying Drones(first 2 seconds)
December 14, 2006:
Flying Italian Drones
Winter Eviction of Drones
Possible Explanations:
1. Autumn supersedure impulse: bee colony keeps drones for a new queen. During the spring time, the old or defected queen will lay eggs and then the queen will be replaced by the bees.
2. Autumn queenless colony: bee colony keeps drones with the purpose to resolve this situation during the spring. Bees will steal eggs from other hives or will kidnap a flying queen from another colony.
Such behavior of bees was confirmed by Jim Kile of Woodbourne, NY. He is a part of American beekeeping history in the making - 70 years in the beekeeping business!
But these first two scenarios do not explain the situation when bees evicted more than 200 drones from 5 hives on December 14, December 15 and December 18.
Such unusual behavior of bees repeated on December 24th, 2006 and January 06, 2007.
Perhaps the bees resolved the queen problem during the months of October and November.
3. Global warming: unusual autumn blooming of flowers (goldenrods, wild asters) occurred due to warmer temperature. As a result, bees from five hives may have changed their behavior.
Boris Romanov
Some comments:
"As with many issues of honey bee biology and management, there is the 'text book' answer and then there is the messy reality of nature (as such, it is often said that our bees never read the text book!). While drones are generally evicted in the fall, colonies will not necessarily get rid of all of them. In fact, some beekeepers use drones and drone brood as a sign of colony health and nutritional state, even in the dead of winter. So much for the text book.
"As for your possible scenarios, it is unlikely that colonies keep drones around to mate with replacement queens, as such supersedure queens do not mate with drones from other hives and not those in their own hive (which would be their brothers). It is also unlikely that queenless colonies keep drones 'just in case' (although they may produce them if they have no queen) even if they could steal eggs from other colonies (which they cannot). As far as global warming is concerned, I wouldn't think that this is necessarily evidence for that. Rather, I think it is an excellent example of how plastic nature can be to take advantage of unusual environmental conditions and opportunities (i.e., unusually late or early pollen sources, etc...).
"My guess: you have some very healthy, strong colonies that were nutritionally able to keep their drones around longer than the text book suggests." David R. Tarpy, December 21, 2006
Assistant Professor and Extension Apiculturist
Department of Entomology, Campus Box 7613
Raleigh, NC 27695-7613 TEL: (919) 515-1660
"I am not confident that there is one or possibly even two or three possible reasons for the Drones you have been seeing as of this date right before Christmas, 2006. Drones are a biological imperative for a colony of Honey Bees. Drones are the means to keep alive that genetic component of the queen laying the unfertilized egg to share with virgins as they venture into a Drone Congregation Area (DCA). Drones are important but usually are first or second in removal or destruction when the colony is under stress because they are not strategically valuable enough to devote resources to retaining them under certain conditions. At this time of year we have several things going on that tell these Honey Bees that it is time to consider colony changes. One of these is the shortening of days as fall and winter approach. Honey Bees respond to this change in day length by producing physiologically different workers that are designed to last through a long cold winter for several months. Different winter drones are not produced. Loss of consistent nectar and pollen sources is another change for the colony as winter approaches either from the end of the flowering season or temperature restrictions that prohibit foraging by the colony. The colony’s genetic variability many times determines how aggressively they remove or cull out those individuals that are unimportant for overwintering. The Drones will die eventually even if not physically pulled out as the colony clusters to stay warm. The drones are not fed and succumb to cold temperatures as they are rotated out and excluded from the warmer regions of the cluster. Drones are fragile and the best thing they do is die.
"Now for your questions:
1. Unless there is pollen or nectar coming in drones are too easily raised to keep them over winter. In the South drones are tolerated through winter as there is generally always a little something blooming. In Florida we loose drones in the middle of summer as it is so hot that this is when we have a lack of flowers and no resources available. Drones are dragged out and worker and drone eggs are eaten to conserve resources.
2. Bees do not move eggs around or kidnap queens. I think it was just time in your region for the drag the drones’ impulse to engage.
3. If warming resulted in pollen and nectar sources then drones would be tolerated longer. Honey Bees are highly adaptable and flexible survivors. They exist just about from one Pole to another and every where in-between. If it is warmer or colder in your area they will respond accordingly without fore thought because their species have been through other “Global” warming and cooling periods as this happens regularly according to the record regardless of what the media says. They will be here long after we are gone." G. W. Hayes, Jr. December 21, 2006
Assistant Chief, Bureau of Plant and Apiary Inspection
Apiary Inspection Section, Division of Plant Industry
P.O. Box 147100 Gainesville FL 32614-7100, (352) 372-3505 ext 128
"I confess that I'm not sure whether or not workers actively evict drones in the fall, or when conditions become difficult. This is probably something that needs to be studied more closely."
December 21, 2006, Thomas D. Seeley
Professor of Biology and Chairman
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Ithaca, New York 14853, office 607 254-4301, lab 607 275-9566
"The presence of drones in wintering colonies depends in part on location. Colonies in the south tend to hold more drones than colonies in the north. Certainly Russian colonies hold more drones than Italian colonies. However, stronger colonies and queenless colonies will hold drones. The books are also accurate. The average colony will purge itself of all or most of its drones in the fall."
December 21, 2006, Dr. Thomas E. Rinderer
January 06, 2007 Eviction of Drones
Unsuccessful drones eviction January 06, 2007
Click on the picture to view clip:
January 7-8, 2007: Finally, just before the arrival of winter cold, all remaining drones were evicted. In essence then, the behavior of bees did not change drastically. Drone eviction was merely delayed due to unseasonably warm temperature.
March 2007: First spring colony inspection showed that the queens were alive and were laying eggs. This evidence disproves one of the scenarios proposed above, which suggested that the drones were not evicted in the fall as a result of a dead or damaged queen.
December 2007: Late eviction of drones repeated this winter again! During the second and the third week of the month, approximately 100 Russian drones were evicted from one of the hives:
Hive #9 with Russian bees is here
In addition, on December 29, in the middle of the day, the temperature was unseasonably warm (15C/59F) and approximately 30 Russian drones were evicted from hive # 9 during the course of several hours. Perhaps this was the last massive drone eviction for this winter. Also, I would like to note that a cold front arrived on January 2nd, 2008.
I wonder if the bees anticipated the advance of extremely cold weather when evicting the drones?
"A bitterly cold air mass has taken up residence across the eastern half of the nation." (January 02,2008 - from Accuweather.com)
Very late (for my ares) nectar collection: November 10, 2015
Web www.beebehavior.com
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January – April 2019 Jan – Apr 2019
Colloquium Thesis Defense: Lauren Kahre
Extinction Mapping and Dust-to-Gas Ratios of Nearby Galaxies
Lauren Kahre, NMSU
We present a study of the dust{to{gas ratios in 31 nearby (D >
10 Mpc) galaxies. Using Hubble Space Telescope broad band WFC3/UVIS UV and
optical images from the Treasury program LEGUS (Legacy ExtraGalactic UV
Survey) combined with archival HST/ACS data, we correct thousands of
individual stars for extinction across these galaxies using an
isochrone-matching (reddening-free Q) method. We generate extinction maps
for each galaxy from the individual stellar extinctions using both
adaptive and fixed resolution techniques, and correlate these maps with
neutral HI and CO gas maps from literature, including The HI Nearby Galaxy
Survey (THINGS) and the HERA CO-Line ExtraGalactic Survey (HERACLES). We
calculate dust-to-gas ratios and investigate variations in the dust-to-gas
ratio with galaxy metallicity. We find a power law relationship between
dust-to-gas ratio and metallicity. The single power law is consistent with
other studies of dust-to-gas ratio compared to metallicity, while the
broken power law shows a significantly shallower slope for low metallicity
galaxies than previously observed. We find a change in the relation when
H_2 is not included. This implies that underestimation of N_H2 in
low-metallicity dwarfs from a too-low CO-to-H2 conversion factor X_CO
could have produced too low a slope in the derived relationship between
dust-to-gas ratio and metallicity. We also
compare our extinctions to those derived from fitting the spectral energy
distribution (SED) using the Bayesian Extinction and Stellar Tool (BEAST)
for NGC 7793 and and systematically lower extinctions from SED-fitting as
compared to isochrone matching. Finally, we compare our extinction maps of
NGC 628 to maps of the dust obtained via IR emission from Aniano et al.
(2012) and find a factor of 2 difference in dust-to-gas ratios determined
from the two maps, consistent with previous work.
Categories: Colloquium Talks Thesis proposal Tags: 2019S ISM thesis defense
Colloquium: Dale Frail (Host: Sarah Kovac)
Multi-Messenger EM-GW Astronomy: The View from the Radio End of the EM Spectrum
Dale Frail, NRAO
Abstract: With the discovery of gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation from the binary neutron star merger GW170817, the era of GW multi-messenger astronomy has begun with style. I will describe the discovery, show where progress has been made in several areas, and then move on to describe a controversy regarding the origin of the afterglow emission. After explaining the importance of this issue, I will show how late-time radio observations have decisively resolved the issue. I will end with a discussion of the future, with an emphasis on the role of radio observations in finding and studying EM counterparts.
Categories: Colloquium Talks Tags: 2019S
Planetary Group meeting
Categories: Group meetings Planetary Group Tags: 2019S planetary group
Special Colloquium: Stella Kafka (Host: Karen Kinemuchi)
The AAVSO Program: A Resource for Variable Star Research
Stella Kafka, AAVSO
The AAVSO was formed in 1911 as a group of US-based amateur observers obtaining data in support of professional astronomy projects. Now, it has evolved into an International Organization with members and observers from both the professional and non-professional astronomical community, contributing photometry to a public photometric database of about 25,000 variable objects, and using it for research projects. As such, the AAVSO’s main claim to fame is that it successfully engages backyard Astronomers, educators, students and professional astronomers in astronomical research. I will present the main aspects of the association and how it has evolved with time to become a premium resource for variable star researchers. I will also discuss the various means that the AAVSO is using to support cutting-edge variable star science, and how it engages its members in projects building a stronger international astronomical community.
Dr. Stella Kafka, is the Director of the AAVSO (American Association of Variable Star Observers). Before her tenure at the AAVSO, Dr Kafka held positions at CTIO, Spitzer Science center/Caltech, Carnegie Institution of Washington/DTM and AIP Publishing. The AAVSO is an international non-profit organization of variable star observers whose mission is to enable anyone, anywhere, to participate in scientific discovery through variable star astronomy.
Categories: Colloquium Talks Tags: 2019S variable stars
Colloquium: Jack Burns
Our Future in Space: The Moon and Beyond
Jack Burns, University of Colorado Boulder
Why do we explore space? How do we explore
space? Where should we explore? What are
the tools for space exploration? These questions will be addressed in this talk focused on
the future of human and robotic exploration of
the solar system and beyond. Since the end of
the Apollo program, the justification for the human space program has proven elusive. We will
borrow a page from the computer and new
commercial space companies to argue for an
inspirational approach to the next phase of
exploration beyond Earth orbit. The “how” is
addressed with NASA’s new Orion and Space
Launch Systems along with new launch systems being developed by private companies
such as SpaceX and Blue Origin. We will argue
that both the Moon and Mars can be explored
through a combination of governmental programs, international partnerships, and public-
private partnerships. The tools for exploration
include telerobotics where astronauts aboard
NASA’s Lunar Gateway in orbit of the Moon
will operate rovers and deploy telescopes on
the lunar surface in a new synergy between
robots and humans.
Categories: Colloquium Public Event Talks Tags: 2019S
Colloquium: Ylva Pihlström (Host: Moire Prescott)
A Masing BAaDE’s Window
Ylva Pihlström, University of New Mexico
Evolved, intermediate mass stars are tracers of an intermediate age stellar population. Due to high mass-loss rates, they harbor circumstellar envelopes, in which different types of molecular maser emission can be observed. The maser emission allows not only studies of the physical conditions in the circumstellar envelope itself, but also can be used to test Galactic dynamics. Both these facets are investigated in the Bulge Asymmetries and Dynamical Evolution (BAaDE) survey, using 28,000 SiO maser emitting stars in the Milky Way galaxy observed by the VLA and ALMA. I will give an overview of this survey and discuss a few of our results and challenges: A marginal flux bias exists in our sample due to two different sets of frequencies observed, which could partly be corrected for using longer integration times at ALMA. We have collected an extensive infrared data set for our sample, providing a means of modeling parameters such as bolometric luminosities and mass loss rates. Infrared colors further helps to separate C-rich from O-rich stars, and may also be tied to line ratios, tying back to the conditions in the circumstellar envelope.
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Foxx & Grothman, Sitting in a Tree...
Why did Rep. Virginia Foxx give $5,000 to the campaign of first-time Federal candidate, Wisconsin Republican Glenn Grothman? He won his recent campaign for Congress.
Of course, Virginia Foxx can give money to anyone she pleases, though according to the Federal Elections Commission, which is investigating newly elected Glenn Grothman's election filings, she can't give $5,000 to Grothman, at least not in the name of Foxx PAC, her "leadership PAC."
Definition of "leadership PAC": a legal way, set up by members of Congress, to make friends in Congress while also making money. It's our American form of high-level baksheesh.
Okay, the technical wrongness of the contribution to Grothman is just an understandable foul-up. We'll grant that. But the question remains: Why Wisconsin's Glenn Grothman?
Posted by J.W. Williamson at 12/30/2014 05:44:00 PM 1 comment:
Labels: Virginia Foxx
The Year the World Discovered Climate Change
Pope Francis has declared that 2015 will be the year of the climate, as far as he's concerned. He's gonna encyclicate about the need for a strong climate agreement at the Paris world summit next December.
And then there's this:
...The only group Francis has offended are climate-change deniers .... Here in the U.S., Catholic climate-deniers like House Speaker John Boehner will have to reckon with Francis' call. Evangelical Christians have already warned that they will protest it. “The pope should back off,” Calvin Beisner, spokesman for the conservative Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, said.
Ready for a throw-down over human activity v. the longevity of the Earth? Not many thinking people doubt that global climate change would be a sticky wicket. So let's have that fight. "In this corner, and wearing the hair shirt, Pope Francis, leader of 1 billion Catholics...."
My money's on the scrappy little Argentinian priest, and on the good sense of the majority of the people.
Posted by J.W. Williamson at 12/30/2014 05:19:00 PM No comments:
Labels: environmental issues, Pope Francis
Boone Prevails on ETJ Lawsuit
Wow. The three-judge panel in Raleigh has granted the Town of Boone's motion for preliminary injunction in the case challenging Sen. Dan Soucek's "local" law taking away Boone's ETJ.
The court acknowledged that the Town of Boone is likely to succeed on the merits in this matter.
So Boone's development rules will continue to apply in the ETJ past this Wednesday.
Posted by J.W. Williamson at 12/29/2014 05:52:00 PM 4 comments:
Labels: Dan Soucek, Town of Boone, zoning
Meet Gov. Squishy's New Message Man
Jimmy Broughton, who once upon a time was Sen. Jesse Helms's chief of staff.
He's being paid $130,000 per annum to try to control Pat McCrory's hyper-active mouth. He'll start on the job on January 5, way too late to help McCrory get free of the Tree.com $185K pay-out scandal, among other embarrassments.
Broughton's real job will no doubt include combing the political cockle-burrs out of McCrory's once shiny fur in preparation for the Westminster Dog Show of the 2016 elections.
Posted by J.W. Williamson at 12/28/2014 10:33:00 AM No comments:
Labels: Jimmy Broughton, Pat McCrory
BREAKING: 4th Circuit Finds NC's Anti-Abortion Law Unconstitutional
Hattip: Progressive Pulse
In a unanimous -- unanimous! -- decision released today, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked enforcement of the state’s pre-abortion ultrasound law, finding that it violates the First Amendment rights of physicians who provide abortions.
Labels: abortion rights
The Stubborn Facts vs. Governor McCrory
In a taped interview on WSOC-TV in Charlotte, Governor Pat McCrory made certain claims about his "ethics in government" record, specifically his Statement of Economic Interest, which he is required by law to file with the state's ethics office:
"I followed the instructions on all the questionnaires.""I've been very up front in my documentation."
"I have followed all the rules and regulations required of public officials."
And then Gov. McCrory told WRAL in Raleigh:
"We did nothing improper. We did nothing unethical. We followed all the rules of North Carolina."
"I've been filling those ethics forms out for 20-years."
"We have followed what the form requested. We have been very transparent."
But in fact:
Gov. McCrory failed to report ownership of Duke Energy stock on his 2014 Statement of Economic Interest (SEI).
Gov. McCrory failed to report over $185,000 of dividend income from Tree.com on his 2014 SEI.
And Gov. McCrory failed to report his membership position on the board of directors of Tree.com on his 2013 SEI.
Hattip ProgressNC
Posted by J.W. Williamson at 12/22/2014 09:03:00 AM 1 comment:
Labels: Pat McCrory
McCrory Gets Exposed, Has Hissy Fit
Why is this man laughing?
This was yesterday ... the Associated Press investigation uncovering the fact that Governor McCrory took $185,000 from a company his administration is supposed to regulate after he took office, and he didn't disclose the money when he had the opportunity to do so.
Apparently, the AP story stung, because the governor's office has issued four statements/press releases in the last 24 hours, all of them attacking the press for reporting what is indisputable. One of those press releases was a particularly immature, cherry-picking assault on the AP reporter which attempted to deflect the investigation by ignoring context.
ProgressNC late yesterday issued a fact-check of the governor's self-justifying press release, which, because of its detail, we choose to reproduce in toto here:
In response to AP report, McCrory continues to mislead the public
Governor blames the media instead of himself for report of questionable six-figure payout from controversial mortgage lender, offers misleading “fact-check” of AP story
RALEIGH -- On Tuesday, the Associated Press published an investigation into Gov. Pat McCrory’s $185,000 payout from a controversial mortgage broker shortly after taking office. Just 18 days later, McCrory appointed the director of the State Banking Commission as well as eight Banking Commissioners -- which raises red flags about why the payment was not mentioned on the governor’s ethics disclosure.
In response, Gov. McCrory took the tired approach of blaming the messenger and asking for more money instead of taking responsibility for his conflicts of interest and undisclosed payouts from Tree.com. He also released a “fact-check” of the AP story which attempts to further cloud an already-complicated issue and take the blame off of McCrory. That’s why Progress NC Action is “fact-checking the fact-checkers” to give you the real story -- not just the political spin from a desperate governor facing serious allegations.
[Note: Gov. McCrory’s claims are in italics and indented]
AP CLAIM: “McCrory and Sanford deny they did anything improper by accepting the payments from Tree.com, which were not fully described in their ethics statements.”
WHAT THE AP LEFT OUT: Governor McCrory properly filled out his ethics statement as required by law. That source of income was previously listed in another part of the 2014 SEI form; therefore, the form is in compliance with the State Ethics Act (See NCGS 138A-24A3).
The AP Report Includes the Specific Disclosures McCrory Failed to Make in Contradiction to his Claim it was Left out: “On his forms covering 2013, McCrory didn't disclose his $14,438 in fees and cash dividends from Tree.com. The forms specifically ask officials to include stock dividends and fees exceeding $5,000.” (AP, 12/16/14) Specifically, Question #10 of the 2014 Statement of Economic Interest directs filer to list each source of income over $5,000, and the question specifically lists dividends as a separate source. McCrory does not list receiving fees or dividends from Tree.com in 2013.
McCrory has Previously Admitted to Failing to Properly Disclose Duke Energy Interests on this Form. “On April 15, the day after his sales were complete, McCrory filed an ethics disclosure covering the 2013 calendar year that said he did not own Duke stock as of Dec. 31. That wasn’t the case… This week, McCrory amended the filing to reflect what it asks for, which are his holdings as of Dec. 31. Public officials who “knowingly” do not disclose information on the ethics disclosure form can face criminal penalties. McCrory signed the form as true. He had taken the State Ethics Commission’s required training on the ethics law in July 2013, according to records.” (News & Observer, 8/14/14)
AP CLAIM: “However, more than a dozen securities lawyers and ethics experts told The Associated Press that such stock payouts are uncommon for elected officials, and raise significant concerns. These experts gave differing opinions about whether laws were broken.
WHAT THE AP LEFT OUT: What “securities lawyers” and what “ethics experts?” Name them. Not one “expert” was named. These same “experts” said that such stock payouts are uncommon, but it's the standing board policy of Tree.com to make these payouts. Do these “experts” know that this was Tree.com's policy? Doesn't sound like it.
Cited Sources by the AP Article Include the Chair of the State Ethics Commission that McCrory Appointed and Jacob Frenkel a former Federal Prosecutor and SEC Senior Counsel. “George Wainwright, chairman of the North Carolina Ethics Commission, said he couldn't comment because the issue may become the subject of an ethics complaint.” (AP, 12/16/14)
“But ‘there is no question (this) raises a host of red flags for prosecutors and regulators,’ said Jacob Frenkel, who handled corruption cases as a federal prosecutor and served as senior counsel in the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Enforcement.” (AP, 12/16/14)
AP CLAIM: “AP reported that McCrory, a Duke retiree, held stock in the company as his administration made key regulatory decisions involving his former employer. Those decisions are now the subject of a federal criminal investigation.”
WHAT THE AP LEFT OUT: This is an outrageous accusation and this is absolutely incorrect – it is a false statement and was printed and published with malice. The AP is saying that the governor is under federal investigation and that is 100% false. Neither the governor nor anyone he hired has been subpoenaed as part of this investigation.
Over 20 Members of McCrory’s Administration Have Been Subpoenaed for a Federal Investigation as Reported by Numerous Sources Since February of 2014. “Federal prosecutors widened their investigation triggered by a massive coal ash spill in North Carolina, demanding reams of documents and ordering nearly 20 state environmental agency employees to testify before a grand jury. The subpoenas were made public by the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources on Wednesday. They also ordered state officials to hand over any records pertaining to investments, cash or other items of value they might have received from Duke Energy or its employees… The 20 subpoenas disclosed by the state agency follow two Feb. 10 subpoenas, which were issued the day after a story by The Associated Press raised questions about a proposed deal between state officials and Duke that would have fined Duke $99,111 to settle violations over toxic groundwater contamination at two facilities.” (AP, 2/19/14)
McCrory Administration Hired Ex-Duke Lawyer to Represent Them in Coal Ash Investigation. “The lawyer hired to represent North Carolina's environmental agency during a federal investigation into its regulation of Duke Energy's coal ash dumps once represented the utility company in a different criminal probe. The state Department of Environment and Natural Resources has hired Mark T. Calloway of Charlotte to help respond to 20 grand jury subpoenas the agency and its employees have received after the Feb. 2 spill at Duke's Eden plant, which coated 70 miles of the Dan River in toxic sludge. Duke has been issued at least two subpoenas as part of that investigation.” (AP, 3/24/14)
Republican Lawmakers Claimed McCrory’s Agency Couldn’t Regulate Coal Ash Due to “ongoing criminal investigations.” “The House’s lead negotiator on the measure, Rep. Chuck McGrady, R-Henderson, said the state’s environmental regulators can’t regulate coal ash directly because, ‘There’s ongoing criminal investigations right now.’ A federal grand jury is investigating DENR’s actions related to coal ash.” (News & Observer, 8/20/14)
Republican Senate Leader Sen. Phil Berger Claimed McCrory was Still Attempting to Shield Duke on Coal Ash Cleanup. “But Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger, a Rockingham County Republican, thinks McCrory’s true motive has more to do with Duke Energy. ‘The governor’s primary concern appears to be a desire to control the coal ash commission and avoid an independent barrier between his administration and former employer,’ Berger said in a statement.” (News & Record, 9/14/14)
AP CLAIM: “McCrory declined requests for an interview. In a written statement McCrory spokesman Josh Ellis said the governor fully complied with state law and "continues to uphold high ethical standards."
WHAT THE AP LEFT OUT: The AP reporter who wrote this story had dozens of chances to interview the governor. On one single occasion after letting the governor's office know about this story, he had 15 minutes of the governor's time with 3-4 other reporters where he asked two questions that weren't related to this story.
McCrory has previously “admonished” Reporters for being “disrespectful” when asked about conflicts of interests: “During the question-and-answer period after Friday's winter storm update, McCrory took exception to a reporter's question about whether he had communicated with Duke Energy or its lobbyists about his administration's intervention into those lawsuits. ‘I have had no conversations with Duke Energy about the lawsuits or about the federal action,’ McCrory responded. ‘I think some of the premise of your question is totally inaccurate.’ Visibly irritated, he added that he would ‘have [DENR] Secretary [John] Skvarla give you a call and make some of those corrections.’ Another reporter asked the governor whether his ownership of Duke Energy stock creates a conflict or the appearance of a conflict of interest for him. ‘In my 14 years as mayor of Charlotte and my one year as governor, I separate my job as governor, and I’m very proud of the job we’ve done as governor, and that regards to any company in North Carolina,’ McCrory answered. When a reporter attempted to follow up, McCrory shouted him down. ‘Excuse me, sir! Excuse me, sir! You have not been recognized!’ When the reporter tried again, McCrory admonished him, ‘It's no time to be disrespectful.’” (WRAL, 2/14/14)
AP CLAIM: “North Carolina officials are required to disclose their business dealings and their sources of compensation on annual ethics forms. Knowingly providing false information or concealing sources of income is potentially punishable by removal from office and up to eight months in prison.”
WHAT THE AP LEFT OUT: What the AP fails to mention here is that the governor did nothing wrong, nor has anyone accused him of doing anything wrong, and he fully complied with state ethics laws.
McCrory has Previously Admitted to Failing to Properly Disclose Interests on this Form. “On April 15, the day after his sales were complete, McCrory filed an ethics disclosure covering the 2013 calendar year that said he did not own Duke stock as of Dec. 31. That wasn’t the case… This week, McCrory amended the filing to reflect what it asks for, which are his holdings as of Dec. 31. Public officials who ‘knowingly’ do not disclose information on the ethics disclosure form can face criminal penalties. McCrory signed the form as true. He had taken the State Ethics Commission’s required training on the ethics law in July 2013, according to records.” (News & Observer, 8/14/14)
AP CLAIM: “In a statement, Ellis said that under state law, the governor wasn't required to disclose his cash compensation from Tree.com because he had disclosed his company stock holdings earlier on the form. As for the other omissions, Ellis said the instructions on the ethics forms were unclear.”
WHAT THE AP LEFT OUT: The governor answered the question (19a) correctly as it was plainly written. The State Ethics Commission recognized that the form needed to be changed and voted at the last commission meeting to rephrase the question on the 2015 SEI form.
The AP Report Includes the Specific Disclosures McCrory Failed to Make in Contradiction to his Claim it was “Left Out”: “On his forms covering 2013, McCrory didn't disclose his $14,438 in fees and cash dividends from Tree.com. The forms specifically ask officials to include stock dividends and fees exceeding $5,000.” (AP, 12/16/14)
McCrory Failed to Disclose Six-Figures in Dividends From Tree.com on Question 10 of the State Ethics Form, as Reported by the Associated Press -- it is Unclear Why he is Talking About Question 19a: Question 10 of the Statement of Economic Interest, reads, as plainly written, “List each source of income (not specific amounts) of more than $5,000 received by you, your spouse, or members of your immediate family during the preceding calendar year. Include salary, wages, state/local government retirement, professional fees, honoraria, interest, dividends, rental income, business income, and other types of income required to be reported on your federal tax return.” (NC Statement of Economic Interest, State Ethics Commission, emphasis added)
AP CLAIM: “McCrory also rebuffed calls earlier this year to disclose the full value of Duke Energy stock he owned following the Dan River coal ash spill.”
WHAT THE AP LEFT OUT: The governor properly disclosed what he was required to by state law.
McCrory Improperly Reported Conflicts of Interest Despite Having Completed Required State Ethics Training Explaining the Disclosures. “On April 15, the day after his sales were complete, McCrory filed an ethics disclosure covering the 2013 calendar year that said he did not own Duke stock as of Dec. 31. That wasn’t the case… This week, McCrory amended the filing to reflect what it asks for, which are his holdings as of Dec. 31. Public officials who “knowingly” do not disclose information on the ethics disclosure form can face criminal penalties. McCrory signed the form as true. He had taken the State Ethics Commission’s required training on the ethics law in July 2013, according to records.” (News & Observer, 8/14/14)
McCrory Refused to Disclose Specific Value of State or Timing of Sale. “McCrory will not say how much stock he owned. Duke Energy offers employees company stock among investment choices in its 401(k) retirement plan. The company’s top executives also receive stock grants as part of their compensation. Spokesman Tom Williams said he could not comment on how McCrory obtained his Duke stock. On Wednesday, a spokesman would say only that McCrory had sold the stock sometime between Feb. 14 and April 15. On Thursday, communications director Josh Ellis narrowed that. “The stocks were sold between April 9 and April 14,” Ellis said.” (News & Observer, 8/14/14)
AP CLAIM: “Despite his Tree.com payments, McCrory did not recuse himself from naming the state banking director in the weeks before receiving his special dividend, or from naming eight commissioners to the regulatory agency 18 days later. In addition to licensing mortgage brokers, the commission investigates complaints, which are kept secret under state law unless they result in discipline.”
WHAT THE AP LEFT OUT: The governor didn't need to recuse himself as per state law. Further, the governor re-appointed the chair, which was appointed by a previous Democratic governor, and he has over 40 years of banking experience. See what Governor Bev Perdue had to say about Ray Grace: http://www.nccob.gov/public/docs/News/Press%20Releases/Grace_nomination_press_release.pdf
“The second type of corruption that we must change however is a different type of culture is in that gray area. But I don’t think it’s a gray area in big government. And that’s an area in which we have a conflict – a climate of conflicts of interest.” –Pat McCrory (NC Coalition for Lobbying and Government Reform, 9/16/08)
ASU Research Centers Under Threat of Extinction
A six-person committee of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors (BOG) is weighing the fate of three research centers at Appalachian State University as part of a much larger review of some 34 centers across the entire University of North Carolina system. Savvy observers have noticed that many of the targeted centers study groups and issues that are anathema to Art Pope and the Civitas Institute.
All 32 members of the UNC Board of Governors were appointed by the Republican pooh-bahs in the General Assembly. The six-member "hit squad," drawn from those 32, are all Republicans, save one who is unaffiliated. These six people will issue recommendations next month, at which time the full BOG "could choose to validate these centers, cut their funding, roll them into existing university departments or disband them entirely."
"We have no political agenda," said the chair of the hit squad. (Dearest Mr. Chairman: We may have fallen off the turnip truck yesterday, but we didn't fall on our head.)
Three research centers at Appalachian State University are on the list of 34 for intensive review. Two are housed in the ASU College of Business: Brantley Risk and Insurance Center and the Center for Economic Research and Policy Analysis. The third is much more central to the disdain of the Civitas Institute: the Research Institute for Environment, Energy and Economics, where there's a heavy emphasis on alternative energy and "sustainability," ancient bugbears to the market fundamentalists at the Civitas Institute.
We'll know in January just how free of "political agenda" the hit squad was.
Meanwhile, at other UNC institutions, research centers that focus on women, native Americans, poverty, economic equality, civil rights -- they're also awaiting their fates. As their missions seem "counter to the agenda of the Republican-controlled state legislature," as Sam DeGrave wrote, the personnel at those research centers might best be looking at job openings in other states that haven't yet turned backward.
Labels: Appalachian State University, Art Pope, Civitas Institute, North Carolina General Assembly, sustainable energy
McCrory Got a Big Sloppy Wet Kiss from a Crooked Mortgage Lender
This lead paragraph sums it up:
CHARLOTTE — Soon after taking office, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory and U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford of South Carolina accepted six-figure stock payouts from an online mortgage broker accused by regulators of deceiving its customers....
Don't you just love the smell of sweetheart deals in the morning?
But this is the "money graph":
In the months after receiving his $171,071 payout of stock from Tree.com, McCrory appointed the state's banking director and a majority of the banking commissioners who regulate mortgage brokers.
Some of Tree.com's payments to McCrory and Sanford weren't publicly disclosed until May 2014, when the company filed its 2013 year-end proxy statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
McCrory is now dodging the press. Soon we'll be hearing about how he's out stepping on toes all over the place.
Posted by J.W. Williamson at 12/17/2014 10:05:00 AM 2 comments:
Labels: Mark Sanford, Pat McCrory
It's Now Open-Season on Boone's Steep Slopes
Last night the Watauga County Commission, under a new Republican chair Jimmy Hodges, voted unanimously to impose a 90-day moratorium on the former Boone Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) for the following types of land-uses only:
Electricity Generating Facilities
Propane or Gasoline Bulk Storage Facilities
Chip Mills
Chemical Storage Facilities
Fuel Oil Bulk Storage Facilities
Electric Substations
Cement Mixing Facilities
Commercial/Industrial development with aggregate building footprint 50,000 square feet or greater
Though many ETJ residents who spoke during the public hearing mentioned large college student apartment complexes as a major concern in their ETJ neighborhoods, the moratorium does not apply to large college student apartment complexes, nor to single-family and other multi-family residences.
Perhaps that's why there was no pushback at the public hearing from big developers. None of them are planning to build any of the above, when the big money is to be made from renting space to college students. Even Phil Templeton piously said he was in favor of this particular moratorium, because it clearly does not apply to what he has in mind.
Of course, this moratorium could be quickly mooted by the three-judge panel in Raleigh that is considering the town of Boone's legal challenge to Senator Dan Soucek's ETJ power-grab.
Labels: Dan Soucek, Jimmy Hodges, Phil Templeton, Town of Boone, Watauga County Commission, zoning
Jeb Bush Comes Out of the Closet. But ... Oh My!
Jeb Bush finally 'fessing up that he's "considering" a run for president ... the great promoter of Common Core.
Wait until the folks find out about how he's been laying the groundwork to create "a borderless international society" via Agenda 21.
Labels: Jeb Bush
David Horsey, LA Times
Labels: corporate power, Republican brand
Fat Cats Are Purring This Morning
Merry Christmas, Wall Street!
You rolled the president again, got rid of a part of Dodd-Frank in the "cromnibus" so you can once again take huge risks on derivatives and get a guaranteed government bailout when everything goes south. Sweet!
You bet that Virginia Foxx voted for The Omnibus All-the-Crap-You-Can-Eat Budget Bill. She does not buck the establishment. The rest of the Republicans in the North Carolina delegation voted "yes" too, except for Walter Jones (who does buck the establishment, regularly) and Mark Meadows, the tea-bagger from the NC-11.
Also voting "yes"-- and it's a puzzlement -- was Democrat David Price. The other three Democrats from North Carolina -- Alma Adams, G.K. Butterfield, and even Mike McIntyre -- voted "no." Since the Omnibus Crap Fest needed 218 votes and barely got 219, we've decided to blame everything on David Price. Or Virginia Foxx. Yeah, Foxx is better! The wicked step-mother of woe.
Maybe Price got one of those calls from President Obama last night before the vote. The president was "whipping" Democrats to get them to vote yes, according to Rep. Maxine Waters, along with J.P. Morgan's chief executive Jamie Dimon, who was also whipping Democrats. When it comes to Wall Street, you can successfully whip some Democrats with wet noodles, let alone with CEO Jamie Dimon.
The Democrat who comes out of this colossal cluster-f**k with her integrity intact is Elizabeth Warren, who highlighted what was transpiring and tried to rally the troops. Of course, the Senate will pass this bilge later today over her objections, but as a voice for the people, Warren's standing is only enhanced.
Labels: Alma Adams, Barack Obama, David Price, Elizabeth Warren, G.K. Butterfield, Mark Meadows, Mike McIntyre, Virginia Foxx, Walter Jones
NC Cities: Get Ready For Another Round of Torture
It is no secret that the Republican power-base in North Carolina in mainly rural. The cities generally vote Democratic, and the Republican-dominated General Assembly has shown every willingness to punish certain cities for that sinfulness.
Boone loses its Extraterritorial Jurisdiction. Check! Asheville loses its water system without compensation. Check! Charlotte loses its airport. Check! (All of these laws are being challenged in court, and their final disposition is unclear.)
Now comes advance warning that the General Assembly intends to redistribute sales tax revenues to benefit rural counties and starve the urban. From this morning's News&Observer:
RALEIGH — A redistribution of local sales tax revenue to benefit poor counties is on the agenda for legislative leaders preparing for the session that begins in January.
At a lunch Wednesday sponsored by the N.C. FreeEnterprise Foundation, Senate Majority Leader Harry Brown talked about shifting local tax revenues to help rural counties.
Shades of what Nathan Miller and the Watauga County Commission did to Boone last year. There's always spite and revenge running deep under any professed concern for the plight of The Rural, and there is a plight of The Rural that needs to be addressed. It just needs to be attended to without crippling the urban economic engine that lights the lights.
A comment posted on the N&O article highlights at least one irony:
If you redistribute income tax from the wealthy to the poor that is socialism and punishing the successful. But when you take money from successful counties and give to your poor county, that is considered good tax policy? Well no one said conservatives were consistent.
Labels: Asheville, Charlotte, Nathan Miller, North Carolina General Assembly, Town of Boone
Why Is This Woman Laughing?
Nicole Wallace was President George W. Bush's chief of communications, and now she's a regular panel member on MSNBC's Morning Joe. Yesterday, with the Senate Intelligence Committee’s so-called torture report still hours from public release, Wallace had an emotional tantrum at the very thought that anyone -- well, "liberals" mainly -- would object to what went on during her former boss's regime.
So Wallace led off her tantrum, waving the bloody flag of 9/11: "In the history of this country, I think months after 9/11, there were three people who we thought knew about imminent attacks and we did whatever we had to do.” Three people? Not according to the report. Wallace then did what every conservative does, invoked God on the side of torture and "American exceptionalism": “I pray to God that until the end of time, we do whatever we have to do to find out what’s happening.” It was “asinine” and “dangerous,” she added, to claim that systematic torture “makes America less great,” because God, as we know, supports everything our exceptional nation does.
All that matters, Wallace argued, is whether torture “help[s] us kill people who want to kill us.” But liberals, she complained, want to focus on “political correctness” — i.e., not committing war crimes.
“I don’t care what we did,” Wallace ended, thus admitting, inadvertently and unnecessarily, that she didn't know what she was even talking about.
I don't care what we did. That statement effectively sums up the public stance of her former boss, not to mention his cumulative intellectual acuity.
It also sums up, apparently and unfortunately, the limpness of the Obama administration's decision not to prosecute anything done during the previous administration, from bank fraud to "rectal feeding" of prisoners.
Let's bring I don't care what we did into the present tense: I don't care what we do. Obama pursues his drone-attack program, with all its lovely collateral damage, as though six, seven years from now another Senate Intelligence Committee report won't be detailing how heinous it all in fact was.
Labels: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, torture
Working Poor: You Can Expect No Help From Raleigh
Long, in-depth article published yesterday in the Asheville Citizen-Times delves into the politics of the minimum wage in North Carolina. Over half of the states have already raised the minimum wage (West By-God Virginia among them, for Christ's sake), but introduce that idea to the General Assembly in Raleigh, and all you get are icy stares and the occasional loud guffaw.
Not gonna happen in North Carolina, not with this current bunch running things, since their understanding of good ole American capitalism is that some people -- actually, many people -- need to be starving or at least perpetually hungry to guarantee a large and docile workforce to clean those toilets and mow those lawns.
Many cities across the land have also acted to raise their own local minimum wage, and some North Carolina cities, including Asheville, would love to follow suit, but as you should know, there is no "home rule" in North Carolina. All decision-making of any significance is centrally located in the General Assembly, which enables it to take away Boone's ETJ and Asheville's water system and to deny any North Carolina town from raising the local minimum wage.
Because Republicans believe in huge centralized power rather than local control. Because Republicans believe in the dignity of work and in a living wage. Because Republicans have the welfare of the little guy always uppermost in their minds.
Labels: Asheville, minimum wage, North Carolina General Assembly, Republican brand
The Governor Exhibits Some Body Language
McCrory; Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker, jumping ship; and John Skvarla
Could the Guv be any more uncomfortable? Photo WRAL.
Labels: John Skvarla, Pat McCrory
Interesting Smoke Signals Out of Raleigh
Breaking News: John Skvarla, the man Gov. McCrory put in charge of the NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and who then subsequently presided over Duke Energy's coal ash debacle, is OUT at DENR and will instead take over the Department of Commerce, because his industrial toadying will fit in better there. McCrory never fires anyone. He just shifts them around in various jobs, hoping one of them will draw less press scrutiny.
Skvarla, incidentally, believes that oil/gas are renewable resources (yikes), and he's a climate change skeptic. He'll fit right in with the Commerce Department!
Meanwhile, over at the Department of Health and Human Services, and after 18 months of waiting since the General Assembly passed a new abortion law mandating stringent new rules on abortion clinics, the new rules have been published, and ... meh. Apparently, no clinics will have to close because of them.
Helmet-headed moral scold Tami Fitzgerald is outraged about the laxness of the proposed new rules, so you can bet that the General Assembly will get another crack at blocking off choices open to women. Guaranteed: abortion and women's rights will again be making headlines in NC in 2015:
The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed regulations were formally published in the state register Monday. That begins a process of public comment before the final regulations are adopted. If 10 or more people object, which is common with a controversial set of rules, then the General Assembly will have to make a final determination, and the abortion debates would begin again in the House and Senate.
Makes one wonder, though, if this isn't another one of McCrory's gestures of moderation. He had promised as a candidate that he would do nothing to make abortion more difficult in NC. Then he up and obediently signed the General Assembly's extreme new law. Now his DHHS goes all wobbly over the new rules.
Skvarla out at DENR ... abortion clinics allowed to continue in service ... what's next?
Labels: abortion rights, John Skvarla, Pat McCrory, Tami Fitzgerald
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Market Comment - March 28
(Marco Bonelli) Real rally - fake rally, does anybody care?
The word "accommodation" is getting big attention these days and - like almost all other issues - experiences the whole range of interpretations. In most minds, it was the equivalent of QE3 and was assigned the responsibility for Monday's rally. Or maybe it was just the trigger or excuse to play the catch-up game in performance and secure one of the best first quarters in history, coupled with a little bit of short-covering from all those day-traders who - like many other market participants - expected a short-term pull-back.
But didn't we already see this pull-back? Sure it was short and by the time everybody talked about it earlier this month, the averages already regained the lost ground and even broke out to new highs. More specifically, after two weak days beginning of March, the Nasdaq showed the strongest performance among the major averages while the S&P 400 Mid-cap, Russell 2000 and the broad VGY Value Line Index were only slightly higher compared to a month ago. Since middle of February, the upside was clearly driven by a broad-based rally in financials, helped by technology and consumer stocks. The downside was dominated by the energy and basic material sector but also a wide range of cyclical sub-sectors only showed flat performance over the last six weeks. So yes, there was some consolidation and some industry sectors even experiences the 5 to 10% correction (semiconductors - surprised?), many traders predicted.
So are we good to go? The sustainability of the upside performance so far this week remains doubtful although the question, whether it's a real rally or a fake one cannot be answered, or let's put it this way: Like with almost all other issues, there is a whole range of interpretations - something that was, is and will always be part of the whole game, only that the current environment invites interpretations to all extremes even more.
Macro-economic data favors more the "fake"-side of the rally as per today, 15 out of 17 economic statistics were reported below average expectations. Today's Durable Goods Orders came in slightly lower but underlying inventory levels obviously increased to record levels, where you have to wonder, what happens to all stockpiles if the anticipated recovery and acceleration of demand doesn't materialize. Looking at the Dallas Fed and Richmond Fed Manufacturing Indexes from March, you also wonder how the assessment of the economic situation can deteriorate so sharply from the peachy outlook in February as both indexes showed sharp drops among all categories of the survey (which proves once again that all these indexes are mostly sentiment driven and a stock-market rally or a few positive articles in the newspaper make many managers feel "better" about the current situation and future outlook than without it). Or maybe it's real? Maybe strong quarterly results from LEN mirror the real state of the housing recovery and weaker February housing data (slowing home sales and housing starts) across the board and disappointing results from KBH is the wrong place to look!
Short-term sentiment (cautious) and performance pressure clearly favor a continuation of the rally in the short-term, however without a lot of strong data to back up a continuation of the rally, a re-evaluation of the real economic situation may have already started and more economic data and the famous earnings outlook for Q2 will decide about real or fake!
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TERA’s Kids+Chemical Safety website: On non-profits, objectivity and independence
« Chemicals R Us: New ACC-sponsored website says chemicals are safe and fun for kids!
Variety is the spice of … accurate chemical testing »
By Richard Denison / Bio / Published: December 21, 2012
Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist.
My recent post about the new American Chemistry Council (ACC)-sponsored website, Kids + Chemical Safety, engendered some comments that go directly to the issues of scientific objectivity and independence.
The website says “TERA [Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment, manager of the site] was founded on the belief that an independent non-profit organization can provide a unique function to protect human health by conducting scientific research and development on risk issues in a transparent and collaborative fashion and communicating the results widely.” The “non-profit” descriptor – which TERA uses to describe itself no fewer than eight times on the site, including four times on this one page alone – seems intended to convey that TERA provides information that is purely objective and that it operates in a manner that is independent of who pays it to do its work.
It’s critical to recognize that being a non-profit does not conflate to, or somehow confer the right to claim, objectivity or independence. The National Rifle Association is a non-profit that clearly has strongly held and expressed opinions. EDF is also a non-profit, but I don’t pretend, as does TERA, that we don’t have a particular perspective and position.
So putting the issue of non-profit status entirely aside, we should judge TERA’s claim that its website provides information that is objective and independent based on its content, and that’s where it becomes quite clear that the information is neither.
There are two categories of information provided on the website: 1) topics that are largely outside of the vested interests of the site’s most prominent sponsor, the American Chemistry Council (ACC), and of its member companies; and 2) topics that fall squarely within those vested interests. These categories are treated very differently on the website.
Examples in the first category include pieces addressing lead-based paint in old houses, choking hazards posed by some toys, carbon monoxide poisoning risks in the home, and a new timely piece on minimizing hazards to children during the holiday season. These pieces largely deal with legacy contamination, physical rather than chemical hazards, natural hazards posed by certain foods and plants, and incidental contaminants from malfunctioning furnaces or improper home use of equipment that uses fuels. While all of these risks warrant the attention of parents, they are also quite conspicuous in being far removed from the financial interests of the chemical industry. The essays appear to be reasonably objective, are written mainly by staff at the Cincinnati Drug and Poison Information Center, and point to how serious the risks are and how important it is that they be addressed.
Then there are the other topics covered on the site that do touch directly on chemical risks. Many of these are in the headlines and involve issues in which the chemical and related industries have enormous financial stakes. These address whether chemicals in toys pose risks to children, whether organic food is safer, and asthma and its causes. These topics are treated wholly differently by TERA.
First, these essays are all written either by TERA staff or by staff from other chemical industry consulting firms, such as Exponent, that have a long track record of helping chemical companies avoid regulation. Second, they bend over backward to “put those hazards into context,” noting that many chemicals posing risks are naturally occurring and emphasizing risk factors other than chemicals. Third, they tout the efforts and money expended by companies to ensure the safety of their products, and maintain that extensive regulations are more than adequate to address the problem. Fourth, they ignore or seek to minimize research findings indicating potential or actual risk. Finally, they seek to shift responsibility for ensuring safety to the consumer or parent and away from manufacturers of chemicals or products containing chemicals at issue.
The piece on chemicals in toys is a case in point. Written by two scientists from Exponent, the main advice it offers is this: “The key things parents can do to minimize exposure to their children is to carefully select the toys they play with and follow the warning, if any, on the label.” That’s a handy shift in responsibility away from minimizing the presence of hazardous chemicals in such toys. Here’s the advice offered:
Parents need to consider two things: can the chemicals in the toy result in an exposure, and is this exposure associated with a health risk. In toxicology, this is described in the following equation:
Risk = Exposure x Hazard
In other words, it is important to consider not just the chemical levels in the toy, but also whether they can cause an exposure above a safe level.
How, then, is a parent to understand the risk, say, of their child playing with a toy that contains a phthalate plasticizer? For starters, the chemical won’t be listed on the label. Are these industry scientists really content telling parents they need not worry that a chemical known or suspected to cause development abnormalities is deliberately added to a toy by its manufacturer? And that the keys to their child being able to use the toy safely lie, not in ensuring such chemicals aren’t used in toys, but rather in parents reading the label, minimizing the amount of time the child puts the toy in his or her mouth, and “washing the child’s hands after use”?
As I said in my last post, the new website is very clever. The intermixing of relatively objective pieces written by more independent experts with propaganda pieces written by consultants to the chemical industry is the modern version of the salesman’s classic bait-and-switch.
The remainder of the content of the site – pieces touting risk assessment and peer review – parrots longstanding industry talking points such as how even water is risky at high enough doses. It also reveals the double standards that industry proponents offer up as common fare in debates over chemical safety. To cite but one of many examples, after vociferously arguing that only peer-reviewed studies of chemicals should be deemed credible, the essay on asthma categorically dismisses a large body of peer-reviewed studies linking chemical exposures to asthma and related conditions.
Moreover, the basis on which these studies are dismissed is a spurious argument: that in such studies, “animals are frequently exposed to extremely high concentrations, which do not represent our everyday exposures.” Put aside the fact that the website elsewhere discusses the need to rely on animal studies, and that industry routinely uses the results of such studies to influence regulatory decisions.
Conveniently omitted from this simplistic rendition is the longstanding scientific reason for why toxicologists typically use high doses of chemicals in studies using laboratory animals: Because a) we cannot for ethical reasons test chemicals directly on people, b) lab animals live far shorter lives than do we humans, and c) it is too costly and impractical (and unethical) to use large enough numbers of lab animals in a study to model the human population, such doses are used to ensure that a study will detect an effect, if one occurs, in a relatively short time and in a relatively small number of animals. While there are legitimate scientific debates as to whether such studies may actually obscure or miss effects that occur at low doses of exposure, resorting to such overly simplistic rhetoric does a disservice to the public discourse and reflects an underlying bias that permeates the website.
Why do I question TERA’s independence from its heavy reliance on funding from the chemical and related industries, including for this website? Given its long track record, if TERA were truly independent, it should be able to provide a long list of studies, comments filed with regulatory agencies and other documents wherein it proffers a conclusion or position that is in opposition to those taken by the parties who funded those studies or comments. I have yet to see such a case.
I would have no beef with TERA’s website if it described itself as what it is: a source of information that reflects its own or the industry’s positions and perspective, and is intended to provide a counterpoint to what parents or consumers may be hearing from others, EDF included. I will be the first to acknowledge there are (at least) two sides to this debate.
But it is simply unacceptable for TERA to make the eerily Fox News-like claim that the site is our “best source of balanced, scientifically accurate chemical health information.”
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Escape gene name-mangling with ‘Escape Excel’
27 Feb 2017 | 13:00 GMT | Posted by Jeffrey Perkel | Category: Blog, Technology
It’s been nearly a decade since Eric Welsh first noticed some weirdness with Microsoft Excel. A senior staff scientist in the Cancer Informatics Core at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Florida, Welsh was using Microsoft’s venerable spreadsheet application to view mouse and human gene expression data, the better to sort and understand the numbers. But a quick glance revealed the import hadn’t gone exactly as planned. “Excel would screw them up every time,” he says.
How so? When data are imported into Excel, the program works hard to figure out what kind of value each cell holds. Most of the time, Excel is smart enough to do that correctly, and values like ‘BRCA1’ and ‘12345’ are converted into text and integers, as expected. But “Excel is a little too smart for its own good,” Welsh says. If a cell reads “SEPT7,” the program assumes the author meant to write a date, and converts it automatically. It also sometimes translates what appear be numbers in scientific notation – say, ‘2310009E13’ – into actual scientific notation (‘2.31E+13’). The problem is, those two terms are neither dates nor numbers – they are proper names, scientifically speaking: gene names, sample identifiers or accession numbers. And by autoconverting them, those names are lost, or at least, obscured.
https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2105-5-80
Researchers have been aware of this issue since at least 2004, when the first report was published in BMC Bioinformatics. In 2016, Mark Ziemann of the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues revisited the problem, reporting in Genome Biology that 704 of 3,597 papers from 18 journals that contained gene lists in Excel format contained mangled gene names. That’s nearly one in five. An independent analysis by the editors of Nature Genetics obtained similar results. Fake news site The Allium summed up the problem admirably, writing, “Scientific community capitulates to Microsoft, officially changes all gene names to dates.”
Excel “tries to be helpful but makes the wrong choice and ends up corrupting the data,” Welsh says. “And this can be silent. And there’s no way to properly turn these smart features off.” (It is possible, on a column-by-column basis, to manually control how Excel treats spreadsheets in some cases, he notes.)
Several years ago, Welsh found a workaround online. As it turns out, Excel will ignore text that is embedded in an equation. He encoded that solution in a program called ‘Escape Excel,’ and posted a preprint describing the tool on bioRxiv on 27 January. (ETA: That manuscript was published 27 September in PLOS ONE; it is available here.) The abstract has been read over 2,800 times, according to coauthor Paul Stewart.
Welsh explains the name thusly: “In computer terms, an ‘escape sequence’ is something you put in front of text to keep software from interpreting that text as something other than what you intended it to be.” Executed from the command line or the Galaxy bioinformatics environment, Escape Excel scans tab-delimited text files – a format popular in bioinformatics – for sequences likely to be mangled by Excel, and converts those values into equations, outputting a new datafile that can be safely opened.
Few dyed-in-the-wool computational biologists would bother to do so, of course; they can extract and manipulate the data programmatically using languages like R and Python. But most biologists aren’t fluent in those languages, and Excel is ubiquitous, says Stewart, a postdoc at Moffitt who developed Escape Excel’s Galaxy implementation. “Excel is and still can be a useful tool,” he says.
The fact of the matter is, says Jennifer Bryan, an associate professor of statistics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (currently on leave as a developer at RStudio), researchers need some way to view and sort tabular data. Lightweight alternatives to Excel have been developed, including Comma Chameleon and TableTool. But none is really ready for prime time, Bryan says. Google Sheets can also open tab-delimited files without name-mangling, but it is web-based, and can be relatively slow when handling very large tables.
Ideally, Bryan says, biologists would wean themselves off Excel with bioinformatics training. And funding agencies would sponsor the development of tools to fill the gap. “This is the equivalent of building sewers and highways, but for science,” she says. “These are really unsexy, important projects, and this is what your government should be helping you build.”
That that isn’t happening clearly frustrates the bioinformatics community. Upon hearing the news about Escape Excel, Bryan echoed many when she tweeted, “I applaud the effort to do [something] about this problem, but this is what it sounds like when genomics cries for help.”
9 October 2017: This post has been updated to reflect the publication of the Escape Excel manuscript in PLOS ONE.
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Oct 22, 2013 Galois Tech Talk: Programming Diversity
10:30 – 11:30am Galois, Inc
presented by: Ashe Dryden
abstract: It's been scientifically proven that more diverse communities and workplaces create better products and the solutions to difficult problems are more complete and diverse themselves. Companies are struggling to find adequate talent. So why do we see so few women, people of color, and LGBTQ people at our events and on the about pages of our websites? Even more curiously, why do 60% of women leave the tech industry within 10 years? Why are fewer women choosing to pursue computer science and related degrees than ever before? Why have stories of active discouragement, dismissal, harassment, or worse become regular news?
In this talk we’ll examine the causes behind the lack of diversity in our communities, events, and workplaces. We’ll discuss what we can do as community members, event organizers, and co-workers to not only combat this problem, but to encourage positive change by contributing to an atmosphere of inclusivity.
bio: Ashe Dryden is an indie ruby developer living in Madison, WI. She's been involved with the web in some form or another over the course of the past 12 years. Ashe is an outspoken educator for diversity, inclusiveness, and empathy. She's currently writing a book on increasing diversity within companies, as well as working on a video series and site to serve as a resource to people who want to get involved. When she isn't discussing technology or it’s intersection with culture, she's cycling, tweeting, playing board games, debating the social implications of Star Trek episodes, being that awkward girl at the party, and waiting for her next burrito fix.
Feb 24, 2014 PDX Women Founders Forum
6 – 9pm Portland Development Commission
FEBRUARY 24th EVENT
Hi All - very excited to announce our February event. Vanessa Van Edwards will treat us with a private workshop on body language, especially targeted to women entrepreneurs. Can't wait! See you all there!
Body Language for Female Entrepreneurs
How can body language increase your presence, power and charisma? Vanessa Van Edwards has a special presentation for Female Founders Forum on how female entrepreneurs can use nonverbal to:
Get an edge in negotiations
Rock their elevator pitch
Master networking events
Pitch investors
Vanessa will use the latest research on nonverbal communication to teach women how to increase their success with people in the business world.
Vanessa Van Edwards (Science Of People) Vanessa is a published author and behavioral investigator. Her specialties are human lie detection and body language. She is a Huffington Post columnist and regularly appears on CNN, Forbes, Business Week and the Wall Street Journal to talk about her research. Vanessa is a published Penguin author and regularly gives keynotes and appears in the media. She teaches a popular online class on Body Language for Entrepreneurs about the use of nonverbal communication to increase influence as a business owner. She helps entrepreneurs use body language to pitch investors, fundraise, get in the media, negotiate, increase sales and do effective customer validation.
Feb 9, 2015 FutureTalk with Liz Abinante and Janice Levenhagen
Diversity and Education in Tech
› Please RSVP via Eventbrite HERE
Programming, Education, and the American Dream
The learn to code movement has popularized the idea that coding is a skill everyone can learn. It's the American dream: learn the desirable skill and you'll succeed financially. Liz will discuss the history of the American Dream, how new programming education endeavors have repackaged it, and how the lack of awareness and analysis of this privileged rhetoric is damaging our culture and workforce.
Liz Abinante is an engineer living in Portland working for New Relic. Previously, she has served as co-leader for the Chicago chapter of Girl Develop It, where she taught and organized programming classes for women and minorities. She is infectiously enthusiastic about web development, teaching, learning, and feminism. She enjoys knitting, writing knitting programs and patterns, and hacking away on interesting problems. Her greatest dream in life is to spend her entire day surrounded by puppies while coding.
Women in Today's Tech
At ChickTech, we're often asked exactly why women are so underrepresented in technology. This is a hard question to answer, because it rarely is just one thing. It's a complex mix that we often call "death by a thousand cuts". Janice will guide us through the stats on technical women in various national and local tech companies and then take a dive into anecdotes that help to illustrate some of the reasons why women leave technology at twice the rate of men.
Janice Levenhagen is the Executive Director of ChickTech. She has a BS in Computer Engineering from Oregon State University and an MBA from Willamette University. She believes strongly that the diversity and strengths that women can bring will push high tech to even more impressive heights. Her inspiration for creating ChickTech came from her own experiences in computer engineering and the realization that the percentage of women in engineering isn’t going to get higher by itself.
› Doors will open at 5:30 for a 30-minute networking happy hour! The food, beer and drinks are provided by Bellagios and New Relic.
› The presentation will begin right at 6p.
› FutureTalk is brought to you by New Relic in collaboration with TAO
› Stay tuned for the latest developments and updates on this and upcoming events by joining our Meetup group, New Relic FutureTalks PDX, and following us on Twitter @newrelic.
Feb 23, 2015 ChickTech Indiegogo Campaign Release Party
6 – 9pm AppNexus
Join us at ChickTech to celebrate the release of our Indiegogo Campaign and to participate in spreading the word!
We need your help to make this campaign a success. Join us for some pizza and beer, watch our Indiegogo video, and bring your laptops and smartphones to help us spread the word about this campaign to anyone and everyone.
Feb 26, 2015 Off The Record: The Women of Tech Panel and Big Dream screening
5 – 9pm OMSI Empirical Theater
This event features a candid discussion among women who will share real stories of success and give insight to what it's really like working within the technology industry, with a panel of technologists, executives in other functional areas in tech companies, and a local student.
Following the panel discussion, there will be a screening of Big Dream, a documentary about seven young women breaking barriers to follow their dreams in science, math, computing and engineering. http://ironwayfilms.com/bigdream/
This event should be of interest to anyone who is interested in closing the gender gap in technology, and to students who are considering a career in technology.
Free. Registration required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/off-the-record-women-of-technology-panel-and-big-dream-screening-tickets-15168084148?ref=ebapi
May 6, 2015 Diversity, technology, nonprofits and more (PDXTech4Good)
6 – 8pm Idealist.org
We'll be talking about issues of diversity, accountability and representation in nonprofit technology and technology in general. Presenters will cover topics like:
• Building diversity in tech teams, and why diversity is critical to success whether you're for-profit or nonprofit.
• Local and national projects by nonprofits to broaden the types of people who get involved in technology and programming as young people.
• Local and national efforts by nonprofits to address sexism and racism that often plays out within "tech culture."
• The state of the Portland tech community when it comes to inclusion and accountability, especially as it relates to sexism and racism.
Melissa Chavez is a digital and physical space UX designer who organizes events for tech and nonprofit communities. Open Source Bridge, the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, PyDX, and Portland VegFest are some of the events she helps run. Reading YA novels helps keep her sane. Twitter: @capnleela
Jennifer Davidson works at Intel as a User Experience Researcher and Software Interaction Designer. She recently completed her PhD in Computer Science at Oregon State University, where she researched human-computer interaction, specifically involving older adults in the design and development of open source software. She is Interim Board President of ChickTeck. She strongly believes that everyone should have a say in our technology revolution. Twitter: @jewifer
Robert Raleigh is helping underserved youth build successful careers as technology professionals in the software/IT industries. Robert is a front-end web developer, and the executive director of Log Camp, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) providing technology-focused career-and-technical education for low-income youth, and youth from communities of color. Log Camp's Tech Works Youth Developer Academy and after-school enrichment programming have created a diverse youth talent pipeline. Log Camp works with corporate, nonprofit, government, and educational partners to increase diversity and equitable access to technology, coding, and computer science education for youth in the Portland metro region. Robert is an Alaskan Native (Tlingit), a first-generation college graduate, and a former foster-child. In the past, Robert has worked for the Corvallis Chamber of Commerce, Technology Association of Oregon, and Oregon Health Sciences University. Robert is an active member of the NAYA Family Center Community Leaders Council, and the Portland City Club. Twitter: @RobertGRaleigh
Jennifer Cazares, better known as "Yenni," identifies as a vessel for social change. As a non-binary Queer [email protected], Yenni began the journey in activism at the ripe age of 15 when after taking over the high school Key Club was able to enlist over 70 active volunteers in community events. Despite leaving high school on the suspicion of a queer identity and experiencing fear of coming out due to a [email protected] upbringing, Yenni made it to engineering school in Oregon where due to the lack of support for diversity Yenni was pushed out. Having dedicated the last decade to positive youth development in various arenas of the youth empowerment movement with organizations such as Altamed, Six Rivers Planned Parenthood, ChickTech, Northwest Youth Corps, and currently with LULAC Vancouver. Yenni looks forward to creating change through the power of education and technology. Lover of the outdoors and all things living. "Dropping knowledge and love everywhere I go." (Pronouns: Yenni)
Event: Use the #pdxt4g hashtag, and/or mention @PDXTech4Good
Presenters: @capnleela @jewifer @RobertGRaleigh
Venue host: @idealist
Sponsors: @NTENorg and @NetSquared
Networking and refreshments: 6pm-6:30pm
Presentation: 6:30pm-7:30pm
Q&A: 7:30pm-8pm
WHAT YOU'LL GET OUT OF PDXTECH4GOOD EVENTS
Nonprofit staffers will find a friendly, welcoming atmosphere for those not experienced with technology, and many chances to ask questions of tech-experienced nonprofits and experts.
Techies will find opportunities to hear the real-world stories of nonprofit clients, and put their own expertise to social good — as well as the potential for lasting relationships (be they paid or volunteer) with leading organizations in our community.
Activists and community organizers will see and be given the chance to present on successful uses of technology for social change. We'll explore how technology can help support activism and where activism can push it forward.
Dec 16, 2015 PDXNALTA's Holiday Party!
6 – 9pm QuickLeft
We're planning a holiday party. Please say you'll be here. Let's celebrate the season with good friends & good cheer!
We cordially invite you to a festive holiday celebration! PDX NALTA is a networking group for Native, Afro-Americans & Latinxs in tech, but this event is open to all!
Join up for drinks, hors d'oeuvres & dancing. We'll also be raffling off prizes to raise money for iUrbanTeen!
Wednesday, December 16th, 2015 6-9 pm
Jan 28, 2016 ALPFA Portland Launch
5 – 9pm Jaguar Land Rover Tech Incubator
Meet and network with new and existing members including the ALPFA Board, volunteers, and Latino Entrepreneurs in Portland’s growing Latino Entrepreneur community.
We are kicking off 2016 with a panel "Latino Entrepreneurs Journey and Access to Capital" with Latino Entrepreneurs sharing their journey and experience launching Latino led Startups.
Feb 2, 2016 Designing for Diversity
2 – 3:30pm Portland Development Commission
"In diversity there is beauty and there is strength." - Maya Angelou
Design has the power to permeate every product, moment, and solution in our lives.
At the same time, diversity of thought leads to innovations in design that have the power to transform everyday life.
The question is, how do we design products, services & environments that reflect a diversity of experiences and perspectives, which are shaped by things like race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual identity, ability/disability and location, among other factors?
Please join us and our incredible panel of diversity, design + technology leaders, as we seek to address what diversity means, not only in the world of design and technology, but in the world at large.
About our panelists:
Tyesha Snow has spent more than a decade creating and shaping interactive experiences and successfully managing software products, working with some of the world’s largest agencies to create brand affinity for Fortune 500 companies in multiple industries.
James Pritchett is an award-winning designer, known for delivering out-of-the-box concepts, dynamic visuals and innovative strategies for online and print delivery. His background includes acclaimed work on campaigns for startups to leading Fortune 500 brands. He is currently founder & CEO of The More Company.
Joy Alise Davis is a collaborative design strategist and interdisciplinary social practitioner. She is a founding partner of Design Culture Lab, a research-based social lab dedicated to the transformation of neighborhoods through collaborative design strategies that address complex spatial issues of cultural, racial and ethnic inequality.
An expert in front-end web development and UI, Darren Bruckner has been designing and building quality websites and web applications for major companies for almost 10 years. He’s currently founder and CEO of Workfrom.
About our moderator:
Stephen Green is currently serving as community director of Elevate Capital and has over 10 years of experience connecting small/diverse businesses owners to the resources they need.
Feb 3, 2016 PDX Startup Week: Startup Scene Spotlights
10am – 4:30pm Portland Development Commission
Portland's startup scene is like no other city's. Join us on Wednesday, February 3, as we shine a spotlight on the creatives and entrepreneurs you need to know locally.
You'll hear about local startups through the lenses of design, negotiation, and diversity during this slate of talks:
10 AM — "Sales Before Storytelling"
Paige Hendrix Bruckner, founder at ClientJoy
11 AM — "Design Thinking for Startups"
Amelia Abreu, product designer and UX consultant at Abreu.co
12 PM — Lunch Break
1:30 PM — "What Women Entrepreneurs in Portland Need"
moderated by Paige Hubbell, founder of Women's Tech Radio
Christie Koehler, founder of Stumptown Syndicate and Authentic Engine
Jewel Mlnarik, founder at Workfrom
2:30 PM — "Beyond Leaning In: How to Negotiate to Get What You Want"
Katie Lane, attorney and negotiation consultant at Work Made for Hire
3:30 PM — "Practical Diversity in the Portland Tech Scene"
moderated by Audrey Eschright, founder of The Recompiler
Thursday Bram, founder of Urgency Inc.
Elea Chang, founder of Affect
Sev Leonard, founder of The Data Scout
Please note that no lunch will be provided, though you're encouraged to take one of our speakers out to lunch at one of the many restaurants near the PDC.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 from 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM (PST)
Portland Development Commission - 222 Northwest 5th Avenue Portland, OR 97209
Portland Startup Week: Investing in Justice
6 – 8pm Idealist
There's been a recent shift in how activists are trying to bring about social change, and SJF is at the forefront of this shift.
Come find out how you can get involved!
This article has a great breakdown on this new trend of entrepreneurial activism:
For some activists, being entrepreneurial has meant the following things: treating their activist work like a business, turning to popular social media platforms to put out their own press releases and looking for people to invest in their initiative with money and not just good faith.
More about the hosting organizations:
Social Justice Fund Northwest is a foundation working at the frontlines of social change. They leverage the resources of their members to foster significant, long-term social justice solutions throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana & Wyoming.
PDXNALTA is a networking group for underrepresented people of color in tech.
Idealist is all about connecting idealists - people who want to do good - with opportunities for action and collaboration. With more than 100,000 organizations and 1.4 million monthly visitors to our English, Spanish & French sites, Idealist helps people move from intention to action all over the world.
Apr 16, 2016 Hacking the gender debate in an interactive unconference format
7 – 9:30pm Smarsh
Come see what happens when you hack the gender debate in an interactive unconference format with the help of trained facilitators.
You’ll be talking, laughing, listening and connecting with other Portlanders who care about gender, tech and authentic conversation. You’ll get to:
• Have a real conversation with skilled facilitation.
• Overcome politically correct limitations to conversation.
• Learn to take perspectives fluidly in a conversation.
• Be more empathetic.
• Take risks and be willing to make mistakes.
• Gain confidence in having delicate conversations.
And chances are, you’ll find this experience useful for how you create culture, build better workplace relationships, and lead.
• Wine + cheese + festive atmosphere.
• Professional facilitation, led by master facilitator Diane Hamilton, with a team of Integral Facilitators. Integral Facilitator® is a professional facilitative leadership training program and community, hosted by Ten Directions.
Join us for this enlightening, fun and perspective-enhancing experience.
You can register at http://www.meetup.com/Navigate/events/227512135/ or http://somacollaborations.com/wit/
Sep 17, 2016 My Story: A Non-Snapchatty Conversation with Women in STEM
noon – 1pm Portland State University Engineering Building
Come to be informed and inspired by stories from Women about studying in STEM fields.
Moderated by Janice Levenhagen-Seeley, CEO and Founder of ChickTech Inc. There will be representatives from STEM fields around PSU.
RSVP Required. See link.
NOTE: This event is for Women Only
Oct 12, 2016 4K 4Charity Fun Run PDX 2016
3 – 6pm Naito Legacy Fountain under the Burnside Bridge
The 4K 4Charity Fun Run PDX 2016 is a 4km (2.49-mile) run and walk event that celebrates the achievements of the growing technology community in Portland while promoting diversity, wellness and charitable giving in a fun, casual environment. All proceeds will benefit Rosemary Anderson High School (RAHS), an Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc. (OIC) community-based alternative high school.
The run and walk event is followed by a complimentary after-party at the finish line featuring music, food and beverages, and fun for the whole family. Register today!
Feb 9, 2017 Urban Tech Jobs Open Information Session
10:30 – 11:30am Urban League of Portland
Interested in a job in the tech industry?
The Urban Tech Jobs Program provides: - Free classes & training - Career coaching - Choice in preferred technology training program from Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA, and others - Paid on-the-job training - Connections with local employers
Program Eligibility: - At least 18 years of age - Long-term unemployed or underemployed (lost full time job over 27 weeks ago) - High school diploma or GED
Come to the information session to learn more - open to the public! No registration is required.
We are accepting applications through mid-February so come to learn more about the program and learn about how to apply!!
Feb 21, 2017 Tech + Inclusion: A Community Conversation
6 – 8:30pm Instrument
Portland’s technology community has much to celebrate; however, when it comes to having an inclusive and diverse industry we must improve. Diversifying our workforce to include all from our community is the right thing to do, and the data shows it benefits us in terms of innovation, team functioning, and bottom line results. We know that greater diversity leads to greater innovation. Tech + Inclusion Community Conversation is an opportunity for companies who have joined the PDC Diversity Pledge and the community to come together. This event is open to those working in the tech sector, to students and prospective tech sector workers, and those interested in the tech industry. The Tech + Inclusion event will help create partnerships that can ultimately lead to hiring and career advancement of women and people of color in Portland’s Tech industry.
Mar 14, 2017 Growing a Diverse Audience
11:30am – 1pm BridgePort Brew Pub
Are you losing market share by leaving out segments of potential customers and clients? Join Jeff Selby for AMA PDX’s March 14 luncheon as he introduces you to the concept of equity and the use of an equity lens in your work. By learning more about systemic racism, understanding implicit bias, and adopting an equity lens, we can become more inclusive marketers and discover new audiences.
May 6, 2017 Intro to Programming Workshop
11am – 3pm Epicodus
Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, May 6, 2017, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. No prior experience is necessary. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!
Schedule: Saturday, May 6, 2017 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery
What to bring?:
We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use, but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one. We will also provide a light lunch.
Please register on Eventbrite so we know how much lunch to order!
May 10, 2017 ScoutSavvy Launch Party
5:30 – 7:30pm CENTRL Office
Connect with other business owners, HR professionals, and job seekers that care about the role of diversity in the future of Oregon's economy. You are invited to celebrate the launch of ScoutSavvy, a Portland-based startup that is on a mission to give everyone a fair shot at finding meaningful employment.
Come eat, drink, and party with us!
About ScoutSavvy
ScoutSavvy is a talent finding app that helps recruiters at competitive companies tap into a broader network of qualified candidates with our inclusive career matching technology.
We've been hustling for a year, and many of you are like, "Kathryn . . . when is your app going to be ready? Is this thing even REAL?"
Well party people, ScoutSavvy for iOS, Android, and web will be revealed to the public for the first time at our launch party on May 10th from 5:30 - 7:30pm at CENTRL Office Eastside, 329 NE Couch St, Portland.
In addition to our public launch, we will be celebrating our recognition as one of the finalists for Company of the Year: Pre-Revenue at the Oregon Technology Awards to be held the following evening.
PLEASE RSVP here -> https://impactflow.com/event/scoutsavvy-launch-party-2672
Aug 30, 2017 PitchBlack: Black entrepreneur pitch event
5:30 – 8:30pm Instrument
"411": Ten entrepreneurs will get five minutes to pitch the audience and then three minutes of questions about their idea. After the last pitcher has answered questions from the audience, attendees will then vote for the three (3) winners who will split the prize money equally. When: First pitch will be at 6:00pm with doors opening at 5:30pm and everyone out by 8:00pm Where: Our gracious hosts are the great folks at Instrument. Their amazing HQ is located at the One North development in the heart of inner N/NE Portland on North Williams Ave.
Who: This event is the brainchild of Stephen Green @PDXStepheng, economist, entrepreneur & strong advocate of CHEATING to support small businesses. By day he is the Community Manager for Townsquared where he is engaging area small businesses to support each other and share knowledge. Stephen, along with others in the community have been looking to spread broader narratives about black founders locally. This event wouldn't be possible without the support of some amazing partners; Instrument, Spirit Mountain Community Fund, Silicon Florist, Digital Trends, Built Oregon, ClientJoy, Albina Community Bank, Miller Nash Graham & Dunn LLP, Business For A Better Portland
Why: To connect the region's growing entrepreneurial ecosystem with the increasing number of African-American founders.
Cost: Tickets are $22 with ALL PROCEEDS from ticket sales going directly to the three winners. Bring some extra cash to make sure you leave with some event swag.
Sep 15, 2017 Affect Conf 2017
9:30am through Saturday, September 16 at 5pm Eliot Center (First Unitarian Church)
Affect Conf is a 2-day community conference examining the work, design, and culture of social change. To keep the emphasis on action, Affect also includes a Group Volunteering Half Day for attendees to directly help out local nonprofits.
This year: join us for our second-ever event on Sept 15 and 16 to go behind the scenes of social impact projects like 5 Calls, Code for America's Clear My Record, and We Read Too and get primers on social issues like intersectional disability justice and small-scale wealth redistribution.
Our keynotes Sydette Harry (@Blackamazon) and Shaun Lau (@NoTotally) will bookend Affect. Tickets are available via: https://affectconf.com/register
At Affect, we work hard to prioritize accessibility and will have:
a quiet room
live CART captioning
ASL interpreters
all-gender restrooms (multi-stall and one single stall)
wheelchair-accessible paths
Sep 17, 2017 Festival of Nations
11am – 5pm Division Midway Alliance
The annual Festival of Nations by the Division Midway Alliance is back! Taking place at Dukes Bar & Grill on 146th & Division September 17th from 11:00am-5:00pm. We'd like to invite you, our neighbors, community members, family and friends to celebrate our wonderful community as a whole. In addition, we'd love to have you share a little bit of your culture by becoming a vendor or entertainer! (Info below on these opportunities).
EVENT FEATURES: Live Music & Performances Taste of the Nations’ tent which offers delicious ethnic foods! Over 50 Unique Vendors Huge Model Train Exhibit And More! There's something for everyone!
Dec 7, 2017 Diversity in Tech: Portland Based Solutions (Panel & Happy Hour)
5:30 – 8:30pm eBay
In alignment with the TechTown PDX Diversity Pledge, we too believe it is necessary to do more than just talking about the need for a more diverse tech sector. As tech professionals, we think collective action and accountability are required to address the underrepresentation of women, LGBTQ+, and people of color in our industry.
Sponsored by Thinkful, the #1 coding boot camp in America by Course Report, join panelists from Chick Tech, Free Geek, Out in Tech, Lesbians Who Tech, WeWork and more for a discussion on how some organizations are continuously working to empower diversity and digital inclusion in our community.
Panelists: Justin Hulog - Out in Tech, Portland Chapter Founder Sara Rasmussen - Free Geek, Digital Inclusion Manager Janel Hull - ChickTech, Community Manager Heather Knight - Lesbians Who Tech, Portland Chapter Representative Marianne Moyer - WeWork, Community Manager
Moderator: Emma Holland - Thinkful, Community Manager
Thinkful is a career accelerator that supports graduates seeking high-growth careers in technology. We focus on the flexibility and accessibility offered online with the support and networking opportunities offered in-person. Thinkful grads are job-ready after working alongside professional engineers through 1-on-1 mentorship, in-depth curriculum and a learning model that emphasizes real-world application over theory. Ranked #1 best overall Bootcamp in America by Course Report, 91% of our graduates finding a job within six months. Find out more about Thinkful Portland on our website.
Dec 15, 2017 Liftoff:All-In Applications Due
midnight https://www.launchcode.org/all-in-tech
You’ve studied, worked hard, and racked up lots of long nights learning the latest tech skills. Now you just need that boost of fuel to get your new career off the ground!
In addition to top tech skills, companies need to know that you can mesh well with their team, manage their development cycle, and work within their established processes.
Liftoff: All-In is a targeted program for candidates in the Portland and Seattle areas from traditionally marginalized groups with existing tech skills. Students are selected through an application process and, once selected, can enroll in the program at no cost. Our experienced mentors and teaching fellows will teach you material focused on what local hiring managers are asking for, customized for your needs over three months of programming plus three months of ongoing support.
Mar 7, 2018 Digital Undergrounds: Tools for Radicals and Futurists
6 – 8pm People's Food Co-op
We hear a lot about the entrepreneurs, engineers, and companies that shape the digital landscape. But what about the communities that radicalize and transform the world, enacting power from below, using digital technology?
With a series of guest speakers and artists from Portland’s tech and creative scene, we will examine:
The question of digital globalization and the emergence of tech in Africa, Latin America, and in indigenous communities.
What it means to be an engineer: How do gender, race, and place affect who is recognized as such, and who is not?
The relationship of Black aesthetics, girl culture, and the global arts to the digital world, which draws heavily from this creativity in form and content.
Ways to advocate for distributing digital resources to marginalized groups in the Portland area and beyond.
Instructor: Ali Colleen Neff, Ph.D. is a digital anthropologist, UX researcher, and the founder of CultureEncode, a center for advocacy and consulting for digital diversity.
Learn more and sign up here: https://www.pugspdx.com/march-2018-courses/digital-undergrounds
Jul 25, 2018 Portland Future Leaders In Tech - July Meetup (Diversity and Inclusion Starter Pack)
5:30 – 7:30pm Puppet
July has a reputation for scorching hot temperatures - especially in the afternoons and early evenings. Luckily, you can beat the heat by spending your Wednesday evening with pdxFLIT! This month, our event will revolve around diversity and inclusivity. It will feature a few all-star speakers and some time to mingle and interact outside of speaking time. This month, you'll have a chance to see the following presentations:
Tiberius Hefflin - "The Monster On the Project". Tiberius works for Go Boldly. She will be speaking about working and dealing with toxic coworkers.
Perry Eising - "This Is the Signal You've Been Waiting For: Diversity, Economy, and Messaging". Perry is a former faculty lead from Epicodus. They have contributed a wealth of knowledge to the Portland tech community. Perry's latest Medium article is about making tech events more gender inclusive. You can find it here: https://blog.usejournal.com/gender-inclusive-tech-events-a-hands-on-how-to-guide-ec93ee477035
Marcus Carter - 'Diversity and Inclusion In the Workforce: Themes, Trends, and What We Might Do Differently". Marcus is a recruiter at Cloudability.
This month's event is generously being sponsored by Puppet. Food and drinks will be provided at this event. We're always looking for sponsors to help provide refreshments, catering, and other resources for future events. If you are interested in helping us with this in the future, please contact Masen at [email protected].
pdxFLIT is also looking for volunteers! If you're interested in volunteering with us, there will be information about it at this event. Information about these opportunities will also be coming via Meetup and other online forums (Twitter, Slack) in the coming weeks.
Doors open at 5 30 PM and talks will happen at roughly 6 PM. There will be time for mingling, conversation, and networking outside of the speaking times. If you need to come a bit later, don't worry about getting locked out! Just post on this page and somebody can come downstairs and let you in. This event will be happening at Puppet Labs on SW 2nd Avenue.
Are you interested in speaking at a future pdxFLIT event? We're always looking for speakers - no experience is necessary! If you're interested in giving a talk, please contact Katie at [email protected].
We kindly ask that you abide by our Code of Conduct and Puppet's Code of Conduct when attending this event. They can be found at the following destinations:
Puppet: https://puppet.com/community/community-guidelines#event-code-of-conduct
pdxFLIT: https://www.meetup.com/pdxFLIT-Portland-Future-Leaders-In-Tech/photos/28737494/471776346/
Aug 29, 2018 pdxFLIT August Meetup - Professional Development Workshop
The end of August means that Fall is around the corner. Are you switching careers this season? Are you looking to get into the tech industry for the first time? This month, pdxFLIT is taking a break from presentations to host a special workshop about professional development! We'll be partnering with our friends from Intel to provide a two-hour event featuring a variety of activities. There will be opportunities to turn strengths into interview stories, participate in resume reviews, practice elevator pitches, and practice answering tricky behavioral interview questions. If you're searching for a job, take a night off to work on these valuable skills!
Workshop events will begin at 6 PM. Our event facilitators will cover introductions and elevator pitches, resumés, authentic interviewing, the STAR method, and more! There will be a variety of activities to help you practice these skills so that you can put your best foot forward when you land an interview at your dream company. If you have any questions about various aspects of this event, please contact Masen or Katie via Meetup, Twitter, email, or Slack.
This event will be fully catered thanks to our awesome sponsors at Thinkful. Pizza will be served and there will be vegan and gluten-free options available. Thinkful is an online coding bootcamp that is helping the next generation of software developers transition into the tech industry. They host a variety of events in Portland and are always accepting new students. If you're interested in learning more, be sure to check out their site at https://www.thinkful.com/.
Sep 6, 2018 Affect Conf 2018
9:30am through Friday, September 7 at 5pm University of Oregon Portland
Affect ("effect") is a 2-day conference featuring stories from multiply marginalized activists, creators, and technologists working towards systemic change. To pair words with action, we also partner with local nonprofits to create projects that attendees can dive into.
This year's topics:
The Future Is Accessible, Annie Segarra (keynote)
The Personal is Political #BeingBlackandMuslim, Aïdah Aliyah Rasheed
By and for Us: How Marginalized Communities Are Redesigning Sex Ed Online, Cameron Glover
Consensual Software: Prioritizing User Trust and Safety, Danielle Leong
Queering Mental Health: An Analysis on the Criminalization of Black People and Mental Health, Da’Shaun Harrison
Activism Is Not Accessible: How To Include Disabled and Chronically Ill Folks in Your Movement, Diane Murray
We the Dreamers, Heldáy de la Cruz
How Gabby Antonio is Smashing the Imperialist, White Supremacist, Capitalist Patriarchy, Luann Algoso
Patterns of Digital Gentrification, Lynn Cyrin
Is Wakanda Accessible? And Other Questions from the Intersection of Black Womanhood and Disability., Mallory Thomas
Grassroots Organizing Strategies for Healing Our Black Trans, Nonbinary & Queer Bodies, Neesha Powell-Twagirumukiza
Sep 20, 2018 Thriving in Multicultural Teams
5 – 7pm Daimler Truck Campus,
We will have a panel of professionals from industry-leading companies with considerable experience in multicultural settings (i.e. in different countries, with people from different ethnic groups and sexual orientations, etc.). Through a thought-provoking conversation and questions from our audience, the panelists will share their experiences and insights about multicultural awareness and how to use diversity to maximize the performance of teams.
Nuno Silva - Senior Director, Global Digital Business Lead Nike
Anahita Crawford - Diversity & Inclusion Manager Daimler
Lynette Liwanag - Senior Product Designer Zendesk
EPOP Exclusives are geared toward connecting emerging professionals with established civic and business leaders in the Portland region. EPOP Exclusives include a moderated Q&A session with featured guests as well as an opportunity to network with like-minded emerging professionals.
Fees/Admission: Members $10.00 Non-Members $10.00 Complimentary appetizers, wine and beer. Online registration closes at 2:00 pm on September 20, 2018, but you can still attend by paying at the door.
If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Rachael Arnold at 503-552-6772 or [email protected] for more information.
Oct 1, 2018 POC Professional Networking Event by bit-PDX
Are you a Professional POC in the Portland area? It’s time to make some new connections with other professionals!
Our group, Blacks in Technology - PDX (bit-PDX), wants to see you on October 1st at New Relic for our networking event with food, drinks, fellowship, and brilliant speakers.
Kelsey Hightower has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech but most enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. Kelsey is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile. When he is not slinging Go code, you can catch him giving technical workshops covering everything from programming and system administration, to his favorite Linux distro of the month.
All POCs are welcome and encouraged to attend our inperson events! This is an inclusive event for all professionals in the greater Portland area.
6:00PM - 6:30PM Check-in + Drinks, Food
6:30PM - 6:45PM Welcome and Opening Remarks. Jené (Software Engineer) + Dwayne (Security Engineer)
6:45PM - 6:50PM Sponsorship introductions. New Relic, Jené (Software Engineer). Airbnb, Lieghti (Project Coordinator), Carbon Black, Noah (Manager).
7:00PM - 7:30PM Speaker. Kelsey Hightower (Google Inc. Developer Advocate) + Q&A
7:30PM - 8:30PM Networking + Happy Hour
Oct 3, 2018 ACT-W Evenings
5:30 – 7:30pm CENTRL east
ACT-W (Advancing the Careers of Tech Women) PDX Evenings are events hosted on the 1st Wednesday of the month intended to bring women and allies in technology together for a night of local inspiration!
Every ACT-W PDX Evening will feature a local leader in the women in tech community and offers the opportunity for you to authentically connect with others in the Portland tech community. This event is hosted in the lobby of CENTRL Office Eastside from 5:30-7:30pm, with the talk beginning at 6:15pm and networking before and after. Drinks and appetizers will be served.
Our October ACT-W PDX Evening will feature Maigen Thomas, Chief Motivational Officer of Empowered Women in Tech and UX Designer for Compli, who will share her personal story of pivoting from being a Flight Attendant to Full Stack Developer to UX Designer. Her talk will focus on actionable ways you can get and stay radically motivated to reach your long term goals.
Please make sure you have read and agree to the ACT-W Code of Conduct! (http://www.act-w.org/about-act-w/conduct/)
Nov 1, 2018 Bit-pdx happy hour
5 – 7pm White Owl Social Club
https://www.meetup.com/PDX-Blacks-in-Technology-Meetup/
What we're about Our group supports and celebrates the participation of Black diaspora and POC folk in the Portland professional community. We have frequent public networking social events (every two weeks) and more speaker-focused events (every quarter). Multicultural partners and collaborators are welcome.
Please join us in the private Slack channel as well and--when you're good and ready-- suggest meetup locations.
Nov 7, 2018 SIM-Portland November Meeting: "How Workplace Behaviors Build Successful Organizations”
5:30 – 8:15pm University Club of Portland
Most organizations want to succeed at what they do, right? And an inclusive workplace is a key aspect of successful organizations. What does an inclusive workplace feel like? What behaviors make people feel like they’re part of the team? These questions must be answered if the goal is to create an environment where everyone can grow and thrive. To build such a culture, there are specific strategies that can be employed in any organization.
Join us for the SIM Portland November 2018 meeting when we will discuss the concepts of diversity and inclusion, along with the behaviors that make it possible – or impossible – to achieve true workplace inclusion and highly effective organizations.
Key topics that will be explored include,
• Key aspects of successful organizations
• The concepts of diversity and inclusion
• Strategies that create an inclusive workplace
• What does this all mean to IT leadership? How can you create an environment where everyone can grow and thrive.
The Distinguished Panelists
• Bob Leek, Interim Director and Chief Information Officer, Department of County Assets at Multnomah County, Oregon
• Kory Murphy, Equity and Inclusion Manager, Department of County Assets, Multnomah County, Oregon
5:30 PM Social
6:50 PM Meeting Start
7:00 PM Keynote and Q&A
8:15 PM Close
Nov 14, 2018 ACT-W Career Advance at iovation
5:30 – 7:30pm Iovation
ACT-W (Advancing the Careers of Tech Women) Career Advance is designed to share tangible job search skills for women and allies in technology. We partner with local technology companies to provide interview tips, resume coaching, professional headshot photos and introduce you to hiring managers. Whether you are simply curious about technology careers or looking for a senior role, Career Advance will help you grow your career in an inclusive environment.
Join us on November 14th from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm at iovation. iovation develops software to help companies fight fraud and ensure their customers have a seamless experience. They are currently hiring for roles in engineering, information technology, sales, marketing and more. Please join us for an evening to learn more about iovation and to visit many career advancement themed tables that are listed below:
Interview Tips Resume Tips Headshot Photography Service Reliability Engineering Roles Security Analyst Roles Marketing Roles Sales Roles
5:30-6:00 Networking 6:00-6:15 Welcome from ACT-W and Iovation 6:15-7:30 Rotation to different Career Advance tables including: Service Reliability Engineering Roles, Security Analyst Roles, Marketing Roles, Sales Roles, Interview Tips, Resume Tips, Headshot Photography.
Please make sure you have read and agree to the ACT-W Code of Conduct!
Who should attend? People of all genders interested in learning job skills in technology! Men, nonbinary people, trans people, and women are all welcome.
Is the event 21+? No, minors are welcome to attend.
Is the venue ADA accessible? Yes, elevators are located in the lobby.
Are there gender-neutral bathrooms? Yes, they are located in the hallway.
Nov 29, 2018 PDX Blacks in Technology Next Happy Hour
5 – 7pm Olive or Twist
We usually sit in a circle. We listen, share, encourage: rinse, repeat.
*Friends and any guests are welcome.
Apr 2, 2019 Out in Tech PDX | April Social
6 – 9:30pm Crush Bar
Come join Out in Tech PDX for our April Social at Crush Bar!
If you are interested in connecting with the Out in Tech PDX chapter, want to meet some fabulous people or are a part of / interested in the tech industry, then come mingle with us and have a few drinks. We'll be at Crush Bar on Tuesday, April 2nd from 6:00 pm - 9:30 pm. Please RSVP through Eventbrite using the link above. We are looking forward to seeing everyone there!
Out in Tech unites the LGBTQ+ tech community, empowering aspiring tech leaders to improve our world by showcasing accomplished speakers, producing timely and thought-provoking events, and connecting our members to new opportunities and each other. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit, we provide resources and mentorship to ensure career access for LGBTQ youth and provide web services for LGBTQ activists around the world.
Aug 24, 2019 Women Who Code Portland - Resume Review and Salary Negotiation Workshop
9:30am – 4:30pm Vacasa
Women Who Code Portland is hosting a Resume Review & Salary Negotiation workshop. The goal of this workshop is to provide people with the opportunity to have their resumes reviewed by recruiters from local companies and hear from members in our community about their experiences negotiating their salaries. This event is geared towards helping women, but we welcome everyone who supports our mission of inspiring women to excel in technology careers and follows our code of conduct.
The event cost is $12 for participants and includes lunch. Scholarships: If you are a student, under-employed, or in need of financial assistance, we have full scholarships available for this event. Please submit an application here.
There will be no refunds for this event. If you cannot attend, you can email us to transfer the ticket to another attendee, or we can add it to our scholarship pool.
9:30 - Doors Open, Introductions & Welcome note by WWCode
10:00 - Salary Negotiation Panel
11:00 - Jarvis Sam talk: In the Know - Demystifying Resume Writing and Interviewing
12:00 - Lunch
1:00 - Breakout sessions for resume review with recruiters
4:30 - Finish
By coming to this event, you are agreeing to follow our Code of Conduct. Read the full version
WWCode is an inclusive community, dedicated to providing an empowering experience for everyone who participates in or supports our community, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, ability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, socioeconomic status, caste or creed. Our events are intended to inspire women to excel in technology careers, and anyone who is there for this purpose is welcome. We do not tolerate harassment of members in any form.
Our Code of Conduct applies to all WWCode events and online communities.
If you would like to report an incident, please reach out to one of our volunteers or submit an incident report form.
Sep 23, 2019 Portland Premiere: Chasing Grace Ep #2: Progress & the Power of Community
5 – 8pm Alberta Rose Theatre
Please join the Chasing Grace Project for the Portland premiere of Episode #2: Progress & the Power of Community. It will be screened as a double feature with Episode #1: Eighty Twenty and include the expanding Chasing Grace Project photo exhibit Persistence. Thanks to the generous support of this event's exclusive sponsor New Relic, the event is free to attend. Doors open at 5 p.m., and show begins at 6 p.m. Please arrive early for the best seats and to enjoy the photo exhibit.
This second episode in the series of six originally premiered at the Saturday Night Live studio at 30 Rock in New York but will be seen for the first time by the Portland community at this special event. The Chasing Grace series launched in Portland, Ore., home to the executive producer, writer and director Jennifer Cloer, with the premiere of Episode #1: Eighty Twenty in March 2018. Both episode #1 and #2 feature women from Portland.
Episode #2 explores whether or not we're making progress in the fight for equality in the tech industry and how the role of community is helping to elevate women in their careers and support them in speaking out and challenging the status quo. The trailer can be viewed here: https://vimeo.com/356736419
The Chasing Grace Project is a docuseries of six episodes that seeks to build a more inclusive and transparent culture in tech and to recruit and retain women to help build the future. It was created by Portland-based filmmaker Jennifer Cloer. If we don’t have everyone at the table today, we risk living in a less inclusive world tomorrow. The Project also gives women a platform to be seen and heard for their experiences. Stories are exclusively our own and have the power to change culture and transform others. It is supported by Boeing, Cloud Foundry Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Cloudability, Comcast NBCUniversal, eBay, Gorge Tech Alliance, Intel, New Relic, OpenStack, PDXWIT, Red Hat, The Linux Foundation and Women in Cable & Telecommunications (WICT). It is produced by reTHINKit Media. chasinggracefilm.com
Oct 4, 2019 AgilePDX User Group - Portland Metro - Downtown Pub Lunch: Why don't we just call agile Feminist
noon – 1pm McMenamins Ringlers Pub
Please RSVP here: https://www.meetup.com/AgilePDX-User-Group-Portland-Metro/events/265127438/
Hanna Tomas recently published an article in Medium about Agile. https://medium.com/@Hanna.Thomas/why-dont-we-just-call-agile-what-it-is-feminist-8bdd9193edba
The hypothesis is that Agile is not just a software engineering methodology or framework but it is a set of social values that apply more broadly to people.
The author asserts the following: "Successful organisations aren’t ones that adopt an ‘Agile mindset’. Successful organisations are ones that adopt a feminist, queer, anti-establishment, progressive mindset — one that is flexible, experimental, pushes boundaries, self-organises, and acts in service of community."
Lets all get together at McMenamins Ringlers Pub downtown and discuss this thought. Bring yourself and your friends to our community of purpose and talk with us about this idea. This event is inclusive and open to all.
You can find us in the back under the Crystal Ballroom, ask for the Agile PDX group and you will find us over yummy food and drinks.
Events are made possible by the AgilePDX community and our sponsors, including platinum sponsor ProFocus Technology (https://www.profocustechnology.com/). Learn more about our sponsors at agilepdx.org.
Q: Is the space ADA accessible? A: Yes, McMenamins Ringlers Pub is ADA accessible. Please note, doors are manual but the staff is available to assist should you require assistance.
Q: Will there be gender neutral restrooms? A: McMenamins Ringlers Pub restrooms are designated Men and Women. There are no unisex/family/gender neutral restrooms at this location.
Q: Will there be food and drinks at this event? A: Food & Drink (including alcohol) is available to purchase, and we have table service. Standard pub fare & pub prices.
Q: What is the easiest way to get to the venue? A: Parking downtown is limited, so we recommend public transportation or a ride-share option, or another personal transportation (bicycle, etc). For public transportation options, please visit trimet website to plan your trip to Ringlers at 1332 W Burnside Street in Downtown Portland.
Q: How do I enter the building? A: We are in the side room under the Crystal Ballroom. You can use the entrance on the corner of Burnside & 14th. Let yourself in, and find us at the large table.
Oct 16, 2019 Out in Tech PDX | Equity by Design
5:30 – 8:30pm Swift Agency
Join us for a panel of distinguished QTPOC (Queer/Trans People of Color) designers and illustrators to discuss designing for equity and inclusion! There will a Q&A inviting the community to come up with new solutions, challenge existing systems, and feel empowered to create a world that is designed for all people.
This is a DE&I-focused entered event meant to uplift and center BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Color). This event is all-inclusive. Allies of all identities are welcome.
Heldáy de la Cruz - https://www.heldaydelacruz.com/
Simon Sotelo - http://hiresimon.com/
5:30pm | doors
6:00pm | short presentation
6:30pm | panel + audience Q&A
7:30pm | social + networking
8:30pm | closes
Drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be provided. Must be 21+ to drink. Arrive early to guarantee entrance.
A BIG thank you to our FABULOUS hosts Swift Agency who made this event possible by graciously allowing us to use their space.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
Questions/Concerns? Please email [email protected]
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Civic Ventures
Gov. Jay Inslee stands up against anti-refugee bigotry
November 18, 2015 10:46 am Nick CassellaNick Cassella
Policy, Race
Jay Inslee made a bold and morally brave statement earlier this week, declaring that “Washington will continue to be a state that welcomes those seeking refuge from persecution, regardless of where they come from or the religion they practice.” He scolded over half of the nation’s governors who have publicly stated they do not want refugees in their states, calling such language “of little value except to divide people and foment intolerance.”
Today, Inslee defended his position to NPR: “I think that our nation is tested from time to time, and I think this is one of those times to really dig deep and see what kind of charter our nation and my state has. I’ve always believed my state and the country has always been a place of refuge for those who have been persecuted…”
During the interview, Inslee said he understands the criticism that has been directed his way, claiming, “Fear is a powerful thing and these atrocities strike deep…but I think leadership calls for people to yes, recognize it’s real and act responsibly.”
Inslee pointed out that America has not always been able to overcome the “dark impulses” which fear and death bring about. Specifically, he spoke out about his own state’s experience of “locking up Washington and American citizens” and by that he means when the federal government sent Japanese Americans to internment camps. He noted that during this dark time in our nation’s history, “we lost moorage of who we are as a country.”
You can listen to the full interview here.
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Sports Journalists Doris Burke and Jack McCallum on Women Reporters and the Art of Communication
Bobby Falatyn, Reporter|October 30, 2018
Doris Burke commenting for ESPN.
On Oct. 4th, NBA Hall of Fame broadcaster Doris Burke and former Sports Illustrated reporter Jack McCallum met in Moravian’s Foy Hall to discuss their unique and rich experiences in sports journalism.
Burke’s success in the heavily male-dominated field was among the many topics of conversation.
Burke began by discussing her views on covering sports. She remarked that it is impossible for her to follow all the actions of ten players moving constantly from side to side on the court as if she was an experienced coach.
Her real strength, she said, is her passion for the game. Burke believes that each person is equipped with unique tools for communication and that reporters need to find and develop theirs.
Burke also discussed TNT’s attempt to appeal to the next generation of fans and “cut through the noise” with players’-only broadcasts, remarking that the voice of traditional commentators should not be lost.
She then talked about her roots, beginning with her undergraduate basketball career at Providence College, whose basketball court was “the only place [she] felt confident.”
Both McCallum and Burke reflected on the negativity that journalists encounter on the job. McCallum said that the only recourse is to be as prepared and professional as possible, giving critics “no choice but to respect you.” Burke, agreed, adding that someone will always say that a journalist did not cover the game right, an annoyance all sports journalists just have to accept.
The conversation then moved to reflecting on the moment when women reporters were allowed into locker rooms and how revolutionary it then seemed. McCallum also considered the difficulty of getting information in such a setting, including watching for certain athletes’ cars to arrive just in order to get a statement.
However, both Burke and McCallum agreed that athletes respected the reporters’ strong work ethic, even though McCallum noted, “you’re a pain in the ass to them 90% of the time.”
Later, Burke discussed her transition from radio to television, contrasting the relatively simple medium of radio to television, with its emphasis on appearance, especially a woman’s. Her advice? “Let your hair down, soften your wardrobe, and see what happens,” she said, noting that when she first did that she was immediately assigned better games to cover.
McCallum addressed the nuts and bolts of sports journalism, including the proper etiquette for conducting an interview. Younger journalists should take themselves out of an interview, ask concise questions, and not attempt to relate personally to the athlete. “No one cares that [your] cousin [also] lives in Ohio,” he said.
One of the last questions came from an audience member who asked Burke if she believed that being a woman gave her an advantage in her career. Burke said that sometimes she did get an assignment because of her gender, other times not. Regardless, “I don’t shy away from being a woman, nor from having not coached [basketball],” she said.
Finally, Burke reflected on the nature of competition between women sports reporters. Women are too often willing to pull each other down, she said, but noted that “there’s room for everybody.”
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December 15, 2005 NightgigTim
The Gigcast #16 is now available. MegaCon Orlando update, a Drunk Duck man on the scene report, and Part 1 of our interview with Jennie Breeden of The Devils Panties.
Come on over and check it out! http://gigcast.nightgig.com
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Man in motorized wheelchair gets DUI at Conyers grocery store
Submitted by 11Alive News Staff
Wednesday, October 21st, 2015, 11:51pm
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CONYERS, Ga. -- An area man is facing charges of driving under the influence after he allegedly ran into a grocery store wall and damaged plants with his motorized wheelchair.
Police said the incident happened in the Kroger parking lot in the 1700 block of Highway 138.
The owner of a damaged vehicle said that the suspect ran into the back of her gray Nissan Armada and began to use profanity toward her before leaving the scene.
Though reviews of a surveillance video showed that the vehicle had actually backed into the wheelchair, according to the police report, the driver's accusations that the wheelchair-bound man appeared to be under the influence were later confirmed to be true.
While police interviewed the owner of the damaged vehicle, they saw the suspect in front of the store on the sidewalk backing into the building and over plants in a Rascal brand motorized wheelchair.
Police said they smelled alcohol on the suspect, later identified as Danny Mitchell, and were allowed to administer a portable breath test.
Mitchell admitted to taking Valium and Trazadone along with drinking a pint of alcohol.
He was taken to an area hospital and was issued citations for driving under the influence of combined substance and public drunkenness.
When police ran his record, they also found an active warrant out of Covington for failure to appear on public drunkenness and criminal trespass citations.
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Bootstrap Confidence Intervals
Using the bootstrap to construct confidence intervals
Joses Ho
Sampling from Populations
In a typical scientific experiment, we are interested in two populations (Control and Test), and whether there is a difference between their means (µTest - µControl).
We go about this by collecting observations from the control population, and from the test population.
We can easily compute the mean difference in our observed samples. This is our estimate of the population effect size that we are interested in.
But how do we obtain a measure of precision and confidence about our estimate? Can we get a sense of how it relates to the population mean difference?
Introducing the bootstrap confidence interval
We want to obtain a 95% confidence interval (95% CI) around the our estimate of the mean difference. The 95% indicates that any such confidence interval will capture the population mean difference 95% of the time 1 1 In other words, if we repeated our experiment 100 times, gathering 100 independent sets of observations, and computing a 95% CI for the mean difference each time, 95 of these confidence intervals would capture the population mean difference.. That is to say, we can be 95% confident the interval contains the true mean of the population.
We can calculate the 95% CI of the mean difference by performing bootstrap resampling.
The bootstrap in action
The bootstrap 2 2 The name is derived from the saying “pull oneself by one’s bootstraps”, often used as an exhortation to achieve success without external help. is a simple but powerful technique. It was first described by Bradley Efron.
It creates multiple resamples (with replacement) from a single set of observations, and computes the effect size of interest on each of these resamples. The bootstrap resamples of the effect size can then be used to determine the 95% CI.
With computers, we can perform 5000 resamples very easily.
The resampling distribution of the difference in means approaches a normal distribution. This is due to the Central Limit Theorem: a large number of independent random samples will approach a normal distribution even if the underlying population is not normally distributed.
Bootstrap resampling gives us two important benefits:
Non-parametric statistical analysis. There is no need to assume that our observations, or the underlying populations, are normally distributed. Thanks to the Central Limit Theorem, the resampling distribution of the effect size will approach a normality.
Easy construction of the 95% CI from the resampling distribution. For 1000 bootstrap resamples of the mean difference, one can use the 25th value and the 975th value of the ranked differences as boundaries of the 95% confidence interval. (This captures the central 95% of the distribution.) Such an interval construction is known as a percentile interval.
Adjusting for asymmetrical resampling distributions
While resampling distributions of the difference in means often have a normal distribution, it is not uncommon to encounter a skewed distribution. Thus, Efron developed the bias-corrected and accelerated bootstrap (BCa bootstrap) to account for the skew, and still obtain the central 95% of the distribution. dabestr applies the BCa correction to the resampling bootstrap distributions of the effect size.
Estimation plots incorporate bootstrap resampling
The estimation plot produced by dabest presents the rawdata and the bootstrap confidence interval of the effect size (the difference in means) side-by-side as a single integrated plot. It thus tightly couples visual presentation of the raw data with an indication of the population mean difference, and its confidence interval.
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Indonesia’s Gojek unveils video-streaming service
News, 27 September 2019
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Rail, coach, boat & car rental
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Indonesian tech firm Gojek, which is known principally for its ride-hailing and payment services, is now expanding into video streaming in a move widely seen as a challenge to Netflix and other established players in Southeast Asia.
Having secured the streaming rights to hundreds of recent Indonesian films and shows, the company launched its new mobile-only video streaming platform on Thursday.
Called GoPlay, the service also offers short clips of about three to five minutes in duration and comes with two pricing plans – one at 89,000 rupiah (about US$6) per month, which includes unlimited access, and a second bundle priced at 99,000 rupiah (US$7) per month that also provides users with access to GoFood delivery vouchers.
Edy Sulistyo, CEO of Gojek’s entertainment division, told Reuters in an interview that the company saw a gap in the market where Indonesians want to watch high quality Indonesian content but can only really do so currently by going to the cinema.
“With GoPlay we are here to fill the gap and bridge the millions of Indonesian mobile viewers to the Indonesian film industry,” he said. “Mobile penetration in Indonesia has reached 54%, which is roughly 130-140 million people, so the potential is very big.”
Even though rivals, including Netflix, have produced some Indonesian content, Sulistyo said he expected the breadth and quality of what GoPlay has to offer will give it the edge.
For example, Reuters reported, Gojek launched its own in-house studio in 2018 and has co-financed at least nine original Indonesian language movies and shows, including “Memories of My Body”, which was nominated for the 2019 Academy Awards.
The new GoPlay platform will concentrate on Indonesian content, Sulistyo said, but it also has secured agreement for partial access to the content libraries of some foreign production companies.
However, he added, Gojek has no plans to expand GoPlay beyond Indonesia for the time being. “We want to spend enough to satisfy demand,” he said.
Sourced from Reuters; additional content by WARC staff
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The conductor Charles Hazlewood celebrates the rebellious side of classical music – minimalism. Minimalists in the 20th century, like Steve Reich and Terry Riley, flouted conventions and sought to redraw musical boundaries. But the music was also a direct response to the political and social fervour of the 1960s and 70s.
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Cosby spokesman calls Eddie Murphy 'Hollywood slave' after 'SNL' joke
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Bill Cosby's publicist is lashing out at comedian Eddie Murphy for mocking the disgraced actor on 'Saturday Night Live.' (CNN Newsource)
WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) —
Comedy legend Eddie Murphy’s return to “Saturday Night Live" this weekend left a lot of fans laughing, but actor Bill Cosby apparently was not one of them.
In his opening monologue, the comedian and former “SNL” star joked, “If you would have told me 30 years ago that I would be this boring stay-at-home house dad and Bill Cosby would be in jail, even I wouldn’t have took that bet.”
“Who is America’s Dad now?” Murphy added.
Cosby, who played iconic TV dad Cliff Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” in the 1980s, is serving three to ten years in prison for sexual assault, and he has faced allegations of sexual misconduct by dozens of women dating back decades. He has denied all of those claims.
A Cosby spokesperson lashed out at Murphy on social media after the show aired Saturday night.
“Mr. Cosby broke color barriers in the Entertainment Industry, so that Blacks like Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart and et al., could have an opportunity to showcase their talents for many generations to come,” wrote publicist Andrew Wyatt. “It is sad that Mr. Murphy would take this glorious moment of returning to SNL and make disparaging remarks against Mr. Cosby. One would think that Mr. Murphy was given his freedom to leave the plantation, so that he could make his own decisions; but he decided to sell himself back to being a Hollywood Slave.”
The statement also invited Murphy to a “meeting of the minds conversation”—presumably with the imprisoned Cosby—about how to “enhance Black people rather than bringing all of us down together.”
Wyatt’s post included the hashtags #NotFunnySNL and #FreeBillCosby.
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Sexing up the international
Obendorf, Simon Benjamin (2006) Sexing up the international. PhD thesis, University of Melbourne.
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This thesis takes sexuality as its subject matter and uses a methodology informed by postcolonial studies to explore new possibilities for thinking about the international, its construction, and its contemporary politics. I argue that postcolonial readings of sexuality can impel us to rethink the meanings and politics of international theory and to challenge notions that have come to appear fixed and unchanging. The thesis canvasses how such an intervention might occur – calling especially for a focus on the local and the everyday – and considers both the utility and the limits of the contributions sexuality might make to a rethinking of international theory. My arguments are made with reference to a series of specific examples from contemporary East and Southeast Asia: the nationalistically imbued gendered and sexed figures of the national serviceman and the Singapore Girl in Singapore; the political and social repercussions of the trial of former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on charges of sodomy; newly emerging homosexual identities in Hong Kong; and the connections between sexuality and disease that inform the Thai response to HIV/AIDS. These case studies exemplify some of the ways in which sexuality can work to recast traditional scholarly understandings of the international. They also illuminate a series of aspects that shape the encounter between sexuality and the international, encompassing issues of nationalism, globalization, metaphor, spatiality and knowledge politics. Through my analysis of these issues, I argue for a broadening out of the source materials that inform knowledge about the international and the pursuit of alternative modes of reading processes of international change and exchange. I contend that scholarship of the international needs to pay more attention to instances where the borders separating everyday, national and international spaces break down, and where we might detect new forms of knowledge about the nature, politics and functioning of the international realm.
sexuality, Postcolonial, postcolonialism, homosexuality, international relations, international theory, HIV, AIDS, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia
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Spongebob rom. Dolphin Emulator 4.0.2 2019-05-20
Spongebob rom Rating: 8,5/10 259 reviews
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The game features the same story as the film it was based on - following Spongebob and Patrick as they try to take back the stolen Crown and return it to King Neptune before Mr. The evil Plankton has set in motion his most diabolical plot ever to take over the world and the fate of Bikini Bottom has been put in the hands or small tentacles of three unsuspecting heroes. Game Description Join Spongebob Squarepants and Patrick Star as they try to take back King Neptune's Crown in this fun platformer video game - The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie! Answer : I have played this game and I have rated it which you can see the result below. Now, you can vote for your favorite games and allow them to have their moment of glory. If you enjoyed playing this, then you can find similar games in the category. Explore a huge 3D world, encounter familiar friends and finally out an end to Plankton's evil scheme. Insanely fun action as you and your friends finish Plankton's evil schemes forever! Race for the Gold Cups with your favourite SpongeBob characters.
The only punishment for failure is being set back to the last checkpoint, there is no life count or continues. For example, larger controller compatibility, scheduled control, higher performance, higher quality, easier to modify. All of these things are, of course, themed after references from the hit Nickelodeon cartoon. We use this term more often related to emulators. The game starts off fair, but will get quite challenging toward the end. Nowadays, emulators give us additional features which are not available on the original platforms. Unlike alot of licensed characters spongebob was fortunate enough to get alot of good games this one being the best by far, the graphics and gameplay on the gamecube are absolutely flawless and everything is accurate to the show its based on the bosses are massive and a blast to fight, your new abilities in the games just make it even funner and this game has pretty much every voice actor from the show on board.
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If you are looking for any specific Roms Emulators, please check out our that you can download for free. Puff has opened her tracks for racing! As you progress, you collect goofy goober tokens to unlock abilities required to progress further, and you collect dumbbells and weights to build up your manliness, which allows you to upgrade those abilities. The easiest thing to do is copy the. Nintendo teased that the handheld would first be released in Japan in August of 2000, with the North American and European launch dates slated for the end of the same year. Here, you will be able to find the most popular Rom Games such as: or. Games you may like: Nominate for Retro Game of the Day: If you haven't noticed yet, we have a retro game of the day feature top-right of the screen wherein we feature a new retro title every single day! If you have played this game please use the submission form below to submit your rating.
SpongeBob SquarePants Battle for Bikini Bottom Gamecube Game
Play in your browser Beta : You have the option of playing SpongeBob SquarePants - Battle for Bikini Bottom U Eurasia in your browser, right here at EmuParadise! Feel like a bit less speed and more strategy? Use crazy new maneuvers and power-ups, like the Lasso Copter, Tongue Boarding, and the Bubble Bowl to fight for Bikini Bottom. To be honest this game is almost as addictive as banjo tooie to me maybe its just because i like 3d platformers but this is one game you shouldn't judge only on its main character. Another redesign, the Game Boy Micro, was released in 2005. But this usually takes a lot of time and need special gear or hardware to establish and for few times only. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie game is from the various on the site, and there are more games like this, including SpongeBob SquarePants - Battle for Bikini Bottom, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie and SpongeBob SquarePants - Creature from the Krusty Krab. Imagine how cool to be able to play your favorite games that will bring you the old memories, the games which you used to play a long time ago with your friends and beloved and you probably wish to return these days. Well, this is a great chance for you to refresh your memories and play these old games on your computer, no need to buy other consoles and games, or even look for some extinct consoles anymore.
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Simply, it is one of computer file containing a copy of certain data from a read-only chip, usually from a video game cartridge. Answer : Watch for instructions on what to do. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001, in North America on June 11, 2001, in Australia and Europe on June 22, 2001, and in mainland China on June 8, 2004 as iQue Game Boy Advance. Overall, this game is tons of fun and challenging. As of June 30, 2010, the Game Boy Advance series has sold 81. Throughout the game you must progress through the plot, outplay enemies, complete various challenges, and of course save Bikini Bottom from Plankton. The Game Boy Advance was designed by the French designer Gwénaël Nicolas and his Tokyo-based design studio Curiosity Inc.
Click on the button below to nominate SpongeBob SquarePants - Battle for Bikini Bottom U Eurasia for Retro Game of the Day. Read only memory refers to hard wired memory. On August 24th, Nintendo officially revealed the console to the public in a presentation, revealing the Japanese and North American launch dates, in addition to revealing that 10 games would be available as launch titles for the system. When you download this hack the download will contain a. Nintendo estimated that around 60 games would be made available for the system by the end of 2001. On our website you can find any emulator for any popular console: , , , , , , , ,. The game plays much like the original Super Mario Kart, only with a Spongebob twist.
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ARNOLD, Md.- The temperature may be frigid outside, but the FCC women's basketball team warmed it up on Wednesday night as they cruised to the 83-71 victory over Anne Arundel Community College. The Cougars shot 48% from the field and cashed in at the free throw line by connecting on 11-of-14 (78.6%) in the win. FCC improves to 9-6 overall, including 7-1 in conference play. AACC falls to 6-10 on the year, including 3-7 in the MD JUCO. The Cougars extend their win streak to three games.
The Cougars came out of the locker room on fire! Skylar Robinson had the hot hand in the first half. She scored 18 points in the first twenty minutes of action. In the final 20 minutes of play it was the Jone Ayers show! After a quiet first two quarters, Ayers scored 16 points in the final two quarters. She would finish with a game-high 23 points (9-of-13 FGs). Robinson tallied a total 21 point on 7-of-11 from beyond the arc and pulled down 10 rebounds to register the double-double. Amiah Banks poured in 19 points and Augusta Kamara chipped in with 12 points.
FCC will return to the hardwood on Saturday (1/26) when they play host to the Lakers from Garrett College. Tip is set for 1:00 P.M. in the Athletic Center.
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Dorkbot:23 Technicolour Timekeeping And Ships That Pass In The Night
Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
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John Miles, Equinox: Subverting the Dominant Paradigm in Consumer Electronic Design: When John Miles needed a new alarm clock, he did what any normal person would do: he bought a well-reviewed Sony model from Amazon.com. Its design gave voice to a longtime suspicion: people who work for consumer electronic manufacturers don't actually use their own products, do they? A lesser dork would have mastered the Sony's twenty un-illuminated buttons and gone on with life... but not John. His Tarantino-grade grudge match with Sony consumed four years of basement R&D time and several thousand dollars. But in art, unlike engineering, the end always justifies the means.
John's new clock radio boasts a multiuser client-server architecture worthy of a Kleiner-Perkins IPO. It can pick up everything from submarine communications to baby monitors, track Seattle's police and fire departments better than a 911 supervisor can, and wake John up to the KEXP Morning Show with the world's first tactile Nixie-tube alarm clock. On November 2, John will demonstrate his creation to a skeptical dorkbot audience and try as hard as he can to rationalize it all. But is it art? Maybe; maybe not. What would Akio Morita have said? More about John here and below.
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Chuck Harrison, A Smattering of Colo(u)r Science: How do our eyes respond to color in the environment around us? Electronics/optics designer and tech-art collaborator Chuck Harrison will talk about how the spectral composition of light gives rise to our experience of hue, saturation, and brightness.
Secrets of the arcane CIE horseshoe of color revealed! Bring your favorite luminous or colored object to face the spectrophotometer! More about Chuck below.
Steve Safarik, Room Sonar: Steve Safarik is currently studying Control Systems, which if you don't know is one of the coolest subject areas (really), and at some point will most likely become a professional control freak.
Prior dorkbot presenter of the laser-projected computer game Spacewars, he's just built a fun little project he calls Room Sonar - think air-traffic-controller radar, but instead using a little sonar transducer that measures distance up to about 30 feet and gives you a display of the room you're in.
More about Steve at stevesafarik.net and below.
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Mars Saxman is a veteran of the 2003 People Doing Strange Things With Electricity exhibition. The RAVE-O-MATIC is one of his latest projects: a battery-powered sound-and-light show on wheels: a portable nightclub, a mobile disco. Designed for the harsh conditions and flat terrain at the Nevada desert site of the Burning Man festival, it is battery powered and (just!) light enough to tow behind a bicycle. It exists to spread a dance club experience everywhere, and creates a temporary zone of high-tech multisensory fun, rendered surreal by the contrast with its wilderness environment.
YOU!!! Yes, if you have a project – any project, at any stage of completeness, an idea – any idea, at any stage of bakedness, an artwork – any kind of artwork at any stage of doneness, please do bring it along to the dorkbot meeting and claim your 10 minutes worth of fame after the presenters and before the Rave-O-Matic starts an impromptu dance party!
More about our speakers
John Miles, 37, is an independent software developer and all-around hardware geek. He is the eponymous creator of the Miles Sound System by RAD Game Tools, which has delivered sound-effects and music support for thousands of PC and console game titles since its first release in 1991. Prior to the development of MSS, John worked at Dell Computer Corporation in Austin as a systems software engineer. Going back even farther, he was the lead programmer on Ultima V at Origin Systems, Inc., and contributed to the graphics technology behind Ultima VI and Wing Commander. Although John has achieved a rating of almost 200 on eBay, his mother still wonders if he would have been better off staying in school.
Chuck Harrison is an electronics/optics design engineer whose work has ranged over scientific instruments, motion picture effects gear, visual displays, and tech-art collaborations. His current activities include standards development for color management in Digital Cinema production and display.
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Halo 5 co op matchmaking
Halo 5 campaign co op matchmaking, share your voice
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Which just reminds me of how involved with the community Bungie was. Of course, I don't know what goes into Campaign matchmaing. Want to add to the discussion?
There's no need to give them a response like that, assuming they were referring to the multiplayer or singleplayer. Regardless, maybe we just shouldn't all be downvoting everyone. And I'm pretty sure they confirmed that co-op is in a couple of months ago, but I can't find the link right now. Sad for those that would though.
And irregardless of anything, it's not in the game anymore for whatever reason so you saying it's confirmed is pointless. Going with that condition, if it had been a mistake, pfaff dating two months is way too long to wait correct it. Do what everyone else does. This is seriously disappointing. Bigpappy d ago I never use match making for co-op.
In my experience it was mostly a hassle playing through campaign with people I wasn't friends with. If you need proof of why it didn't work well in matchmaking ask people who played it on reach. Everybody is asking me where I thought I heard they confirmed matchmaking for co-op.
ThrowingDigitalSheep d ago I am sure the campaign and the Warzone mode will be brilliant though. Destiny's Strike playlists not the Nightfall are a close second. This meant you could only use maybe half the available budget at best. Both video sets can be viewed on Halo Waypoint.
And it would have been a waste since, like the person asking the question mentioned, it wasn't used much in Halo Reach. Not everyone has friends who play halo, so it's kind of annoying for them to make a big deal about co-op campaign and then not give an option to match with other players. Halo Wars Definitive Edition. Wait, is this talking about matchmaching people together for the Campaign? This is about campaign matchmaking.
You can build up your Squad now. That's all good and fine I guess. Pretty much every game takes a lot of skill if you play it on the hardest difficulty. That being said he also said the decision was made early on so I have no idea what's up with the statement that said otherwise. But it would've been great to have it.
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OpieWinston d ago Co-op still has Dedicated Servers. Something I occasionally experienced but never to the fullest extent. List of campaign levels and multiplayer maps in the Halo series. Drop in drop out Campaign Co-op is the best option, it always has been.
Regardless, it's still possible that could push an update to the game after its launch that would add the feature at a later date. That is why people are shutting you down. People quit when they don't get the level or difficulty they want, they steal ammo, don't cooperate, and are generally a huge detriment and this is present on every difficulty. Osiris boards a Guardian with the help of Commander Palmer while the Arbiter finishes off the last Covenant troops.
Would rather invite friends or play with A.
But as gamers have gone online, some companies have decided to shed the local multiplayer feature to save on development costs and time.
Without co-op campaign matchmaking, I doubt I'll ever touch it once.
The arrival of a Covenant fleet forces Blue Team to scuttle the station instead.
There may not be enough players to support a game in this playlist.
If the player completes the game on Legendary, an extra cutscene shows an unknown Halo installation powering up while Cortana hums, before cutting to black.
During the sabotage, the Chief receives a cryptic message from Cortana, directing him to the planet Meridian.
Halo 5 has ditched local co-op but it may make a triumphant return
And bonnie ross at the head. To me this is a bigger hit than not having split screen. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. It's a unique experience that would probably be best solo anyways.
Forge World definitely had a lot more room for avoiding those kinds of things. If you really want to find someone to play campaign with in co-op, there are places to search for people. Now it's entirely possible that they were mistaken, but it was confirmed at one time.
Even on Heroic it can be annoying. Credits can't be used for purchases. FlexLuger d ago Ah, indeed! He's a asked a question, says there will be matchmaking and then goes to only describe co-op with friends. The equivalent of terminals also can be found in multiple games.
Osiris manages to transfer control of Genesis back to Exuberant, who wrests the prison from Cortana as she leaves the planet via a Guardian. Sssshhhhh, we're just saying that to downplay the backtracking. Wow, dating sites persian hugely disappointing. Why wouldn't you play on legendary?
Mcc has brought people together here. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. As well, this switch changes all of the audio, and certain animations.
And I mean isn't it so much more convenient to make a post on some website then to press a button? The only real fault seems to be split-screen which does suck for the people who are still a part of that community. Can my and my brother not both play online in the same game on the same system?
Skyforge campaign matchmaking - Gold n Cart
Just brush it off and stop being all too negative. And the team that can roll with the punches, and punch back at the right moments, will have the upper hand. Plus it's just easier to have it in game for me considering I don't have any Halo playing friends. The multiplayer has improved every time, but I just get bored with the single-player campaigns over the last couple of entries. The move reflects a growing trend in the first-person shooter space.
So i cant have someone come over and play halo with me? Chief bests Locke in hand-to-hand combat and flees with the rest of Blue Team as they board a Guardian, one of several colossal Forerunner constructs built as enforcers of entire worlds. Because this conversation is about playing co-op with other people who you most likely won't have any communication with and the success rate of doing so.
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Eagles Looking For Third Win On Trot
By Eagles Admin on 6 November 2015
Geylang International FC are looking to make it three wins on the bounce when they travel to Jalan Besar Stadium, to face Courts Young Lions on Friday night. With identical blockbuster comeback victories, against Home United and current leaders, Brunei DPMM, the Eagles are all charged up to face a gutsy Young Lions’ side to record their first ever third consecutive win this season.
Currently, both teams are in similar situations in the bottom-half of the table, as Geylang are currently sitting in ninth spot, with 23 points. The Eagles have one game in hand and are only three points away from the Young Lions, whom are in eight place with 26 points from 25 games.
Geylang have been working hard this season, but a turn of unfortunate results led them to be the cellar-dwellers for quite some time, until they broke the spell last week after clinching two back-to-back wins. The men in green and white hope that they can finish the season on a high night and climb higher up the table, to overtake the Singapore development squad, with the Bedok-based club’s third win in a row.
Nevertheless, the Eagles and Young Lions share the spoils as both teams outplayed each other on the last two occasions. Geylang had to succumb to a 3-1 defeat, as Jozef Kaplan’s early goal was cancelled out by the assiduous visitors with a comeback victory in August, whilst Bruno Castanheira’s hat-trick sealed 3-2 a comeback victory for Geylang, in October
With that in mind, Jorg Steinebrunner and his charges would be cautious, so as to not repeat the anti-climax and also attempt to gain redemption of some sort by exacting revenge on the Singapore developmental side.
With that said, Geylang also cannot take the threat of Young Lions lightly, as Juergen Raab’s introduction has spurred his charges to clinch 22 points in 18 games, including splendid victories against powerhouses, Tampines Rovers, Albirex Niigata (S) and Warriors.
There is no doubting that their top scorer Jordan Webb, will be the key man in attack, the Canadian having bagged his sixth goal of the season with the winner against Albirex. His goals and efforts in games, truly showcased his aerial capabilities, in addition to his sublime ability with the ball at his feet.
Nippy winger, Sherif El Masri labelled as Singapore’s very own Juan Cuadrado by some, will also be a pesky presence while Afiq Noor and M. Anumanthan will drive the Young Lions on, from central midfield.
Their defence will be helmed by the reliable Sheikh Abdul Hadi, who is a solid wall in the centre as well as a goal threat at set-pieces. He will be in front of goalkeeper Syazwan Buhari, who has earned recognition for his stellar displays this season.
On the other hand, the Geylang’s ‘Samba Boy’, Bruno Castanheira is the Eagles’ in-form man, having struck a stupendous volley to net the winner against the Bruneians and also sealing the victory against Home United with an intelligent tap-in. His skill and poise on the ball makes the former J3.League, Machida Zelvia man, a menace and the Young Lions will have to keep him on a tight leash.
The impressive showings from Hafiz Nor and Shawal Anuar certainly can tarnish any backline in the S.League, if given the space and time. Both wingers, would be looking to add goals to their names before the season concludes and also aid the Eagles’ forwards with pin-point crosses and intelligent one-twos,
Tampines will be depending on Yuki Ichikawa to boss the midfield while Kento Fukuda and Hafiz Osman orchestrates the defence. The Young Lions will need to find a way to get past Ichikawa and the rest of the Eagles defence if they intend to find the back of the net.
Geylang will be keen to make up for a disappointing campaign by winning this fixture. However, the Young Lions will no pushovers with their tails up, and this should be an exciting clash to round off the week.
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637. Cuba Pardons 2,900 Prisoners
Among those receiving pardons are young people who have
received an education in the prison schools and that no longer
represent a threat to society. Photo: Raquel Perez
By Fernando Ravsberg, Havana Times, December 25, 2011
HAVANA TIMES, Dec 25 — President Raul Castro announced in parliament the pardon of 2,900 of prisoners, mostly the sick, elderly, women and youth who — despite not having completed their sentences — have the potential for reintegration into Cuban society.
Among those to be released are some individuals convicted of crimes against national security who have completed parts of their sentences with good behavior, in addition to 86 foreign nationals from 25 countries held in Cuban prisons.
Since 2008 the Cuban courts released 300 political prisoners, including those who were internationally regarded as prisoners of conscience; in addition, the government commuted the death sentences of dozens of other prisoners.
At the same time, an announcement was made concerning preparations to strengthen the prosecution of those involved in “white collar” crime, theft and scams carried out by managers and officials, who, according to Castro, have become the principal enemy of the revolution.
Regarding much awaited immigration law reforms, he said this will continue to be studied and that “the changes required concerning this complex subject” will be introduced gradually, while evaluations will be made of the pros and cons of each step.
INCLUDED AND EXCLUDED
The Cuban president said that this procedure to release inmates would begin taking place every year so that the justice system could release greater numbers of prisoners according to their conduct, the type of crime committed, and their health and family conditions.
In the future the judicial system will make a similiar annual review for releasing thousands of prisoners. Photo: Raquel Perez
Among those pardoned are young people, many of whom are in prison-schools, where their sentences are reduced in proportion to their progress in school as well as the possibility of them going on to college.
Castro explained that “the pardons will exclude those who were convicted of crimes of espionage, terrorism, murder, drug trafficking, violent pederasty, rape, the corruption of minors and armed robbery.”
Apparently this would exclude the possibility of pardons for the Central Americans who in exchange for money planted bombs in Cuban tourist hotels in 1997, causing several injuries and the death of a young Italian.
Nor would it benefit US citizen Alan Gross, sentenced to 15 years for participating in an operation financed by Washington to sneak communications equipment onto the island. Cuba continues to propose a “humanitarian way out” of that case, which includes its five agents (Cuban Five) imprisoned in the US.
THE RELIGIOUS TOUCH
The president explained that the pardon was in response to the requests from relatives of the prisoners, evangelical and Catholic churches, as well as for the Pope’s upcoming visit and the 400th anniversary of the apparition of the Virgin de la Caridad del Cobre, the patroness of Cuba.
Not surprisingly, Castro made these references to the churches as they have in fact become powerful allies. Since the 1990s, the government has developed closer relations with the evangelical churches – some of them even have deputies in parliament.
Relations with the Catholic Church were stormy for decades, but in 1998 — with the arrival of Pope John Paul II — a period of dialogue began, one whose most notable accomplishment was the release of political prisoners in 2010.
The announcement of the trip to Cuba next year by Pope Benedict XVI is another step in convergence of interests between the two sides, with the church seeking to regain its social influence and the government attempting to gain a powerful international ally.
THE PRINCIPAL ENEMY
Prisons will not be left emptied. While political and common prisoners leave through one door, in the other will be entering Castro said dozens of “corrupt bureaucrats under charges of fraud and acts of opportunism that they committed when still occupying positions for amassing fortunes and while counting on the eventual defeat of the Revolution.”
Among those receiving pardons are young people who have received an education in the prison schools and that no longer represente a threat to society. Photo: Raquel Perez
“Corruption is now one of the principal enemies of the Revolution, much more harmful than subversive and interventionist activity by the US government and its allies inside and outside the country,” said the Cuban president to the legislators.
Finally, he announced that these crimes committed by “domestic and foreign managers and officials” would be fought “with all the severity permitted by our laws just like when we successfully faced the emerging drug trafficking.”
Since assuming power, the campaign against corruption has uncovered millions of dollars in embezzlement and fraud in nickel, cigars, telephone services, civil aviation and food importing, with some foreign business executives and dozens of Cuban managers and officials — including a minister — ending up in jail.
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Topic: K’NOSSOS, a Sci Fi Adventure Game
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K’NOSSOS, a Sci Fi Adventure Game
K’NOSSOS, a Classical Point-and-Click Sci Fi Adventure Game by Svarun Entertainment
Svarun Entertainment is an independent group of dedicated individuals committed to creating contemporary 2D adventure game titles in the vein of the most well-known classics of the genre. We tend to view the computer games more as an art form than a form of entertainment, more as a labor of love than the means of earning money. We concentrate on creating atmosphere, immersion and quality storytelling.
Our greatest success so far is the completion of the prologue of our first game title - Vsevolod. Contrary to some rumors, the project is, due to immense problems it presented to our small team at the moment, merely put on hold - we plan to tackle the issue immediately upon completion of K’NOSSOS. Prologue of the game may be downloaded here: http://vsevolod.svarungames.com/Vsevolod-Prologue.zip
K’NOSSOS is an independent game development endeavor run by Svarun Entertainment. With this project we are aiming at creating a contemporary 2D Point n’ Click adventure game with strong emphasis on unique atmosphere, immersing puzzles and gripping storyline.
K’NOSSOS emerged as a result of a collision of several fairly diverse streams of thought. Initially, we were inspired by the old-school adventure games, namely those whose mechanics are based on exploration, dialogue, item handling and object manipulation. Artistically, we wanted to set this game in a hand painted world best described as the marriage of art of Vasily Kandinsky and third dimension. Lonely, unsettling, and at times outright bizarre atmosphere of titles such as Kentucky Route Zero was also desirable. Finally, our favorite sci-fi reads like Dune, Chronicles of Amber, A Stranger in a Strange Land, etc. influenced the storyline which provided the kinetic energy needed to set our hero in motion.
K'NOSSOS Prologue, Tutorial Section (Screenshot)
Even though the project has set out as a labor of love, we hope to move it into commercial arena as soon as possible. Our hopes are naturally directed at one or other form of crowd funding. However, as such an enterprise requires a substantial following, we are still biding our time before moving onto next phase of our plan. When that moment comes - you will naturally be the first to know.
Given the capabilities of the engine we are using, our main objective at the moment is the development of PC version of the game.
Extrasolar Long-Reach Exploration and Colonization Vessel #074, Cryo Deck (Screenshot)
Being a release in the vein of classical adventure games, K’NOSSOS will play much like most of the other titles in the genre. The character, viewed from 3rd person, will traverse the locations presented in side-view.
Left mouse click will be used generally for moving and various interactions (talking, picking up, using, and so on), while the Right mouse click will generally be used for fetching details regarding various items within game world or inventory.
Extrasolar Long-Reach Exploration and Colonization Vessel #074, Shuttle Bay (Screenshot)
The game will feature a classic inventory and an in-game journal, filled out automatically following the important discoveries made by the player.
Player character will at all times be followed by an Orb which, besides being an important plot element, is also a unique gameplay device. Player will have four of Orb’s abilities at his/her disposal: Heat, Melt, Weld and Cut.
Finally, game also features special zoom areas and mini-games tightly connected to the setting of the location in question.
Extrasolar Long-Reach Exploration and Colonization Vessel #074, Bridge Deck (Screenshot)
• classic point-n'-click interface
• abstract 2D expressionist style reminiscent of the art of Wassily Kandinsky
• intricate dark sci fi storyline
• non-linear gameplay
• cross-genre experimental soundtrack
Extrasolar Long-Reach Exploration and Colonization Vessel #074, Cryo Bed (Screenshot)
K'NOSSOS is developed in the WME Engine 1.x, with PC version being the main objective of the team at this point.
The engine, alongside the accompanying documentation, may be freely downloaded at: http://res.dead-code.org/doku.php/wmelite:start
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXCvAkalz7c
K'NOSSOS Prologue Release trailer
IS THERE A WAY A PERSON COULD HELP YOU OUT?
Yes. We are of course in need of certain professions more than others, but in general we would like to hear what each and every one of you has to say and offer. Please write to jobs@svarunentertainment.com
Extrasolar Long-Reach Exploration and Colonization Vessel #074, Service Shuttle (Screenshot)
In order to stay most up-to-date, please visit our social media outlets at:
Website: http://svarunentertainment.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KnossosTheGame/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SvarunEnt
« Last Edit: November 22, 2017, 06:04:52 PM by SvarunGames »
Re: K’nossos, a Point n’ Click Adventure Title by Svarun Games
Phew, almost a year of silence and not much has changed here. Oh well, I guess it's not only us who are lazy with the updates...
What have we been up to with K'NOSSOS in the past twelve months? In short, almost all of the locations are modeled and are now being rendered and painter/processed in 2D; we are well into building the Prologue section of the game, with Tutorial being completed and playable; a video showing Tutorial run is due soon, we are actually completing the SFX and then we are ready to go.
K'NOSSOS, Screenshot (Main Menu)
K'NOSSOS, Screenshot (Tutorial, Section Title Screen)
K'NOSSOS, Screenshot (Tutorial, Lights OFF)
K'NOSSOS, Screenshot (Tutorial, Lights ON)
K'NOSSOS, Screenshot (Tutorial, Zoom Area and Dialogue)
To make sure you don't fall out of the loop even when we mess up (which we promise not to in the future), join us at Facebook and Twitter:
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eborr
I had best start by declaring an interest here, I have been working on this project now for maybe 9 months or so. The reason why I was drawn to it, is that it embodies almost all of what was important to me as devotee of adventure games.
I first came to adventure game through the hitchhikers guide and then the colossal cave, before coming across a Lord of the Rings graphical adventure in 1986 running on a BBC micro.
Then I moved onto to the Sierra Games, Space Quest, Police Quest and then Leisure Suit Larry.
Finally I got hold of Gabriel Knight, and I was in P & C heaven.
I was looking to work with a game that offered the potential for total immersion into the world of the adventure.
Just like any decent science fiction or fantasy novel the world of the adventure game needs to be believable. It can be fantastic, but it needs to be consistent.
Unlike most of the computer games that are around with K'nossos Nikola has accomplished this. He has taken a strong original story and combined this with an otherworldly consistent graphic approach which evokes a feeling of strange sparseness, reminiscent in my opinion of the Sierra interpretation of Arthur C. Clarkes Rama.
If you like playing adventure games, I would encourage you to follow the development of this project which will be updated through the normal channels of facebook, and relevant websites.
On a technical note, the game is being developed in WME, as it is still the best tool for developing 2D games, and though this sadly may be the last project we use the tool for, it is currently handling all the technical challenges thrown at it.
if you want further info about the game, please put up a post in this thread, send me a pm or contact Nikola through the email address in the previous post - and please tell your friends
Enjoy our new Teaser video showing sights and sounds of Prologue section of K'NOSSOS:
https://youtu.be/0RDbpFFCS6k
Full track is available over at our composer's SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/nikolapacekvetnic/knossos-awakening
« Last Edit: October 16, 2016, 09:50:35 PM by SvarunGames »
Another music video [slash] teaser video of K'NOSSOS Prologue section is up:
https://youtu.be/FhY9RCwJDdk
If you don't like videos or your eyes just hurt from too much movie time, the track is up on SoundCloud as well:
https://soundcloud.com/nikolapacekvetnic/knossos-cryonics
We're happy to announce that the very first playthrough video of K'NOSSOS is live on YouTube! Please check out the video via link below:
https://youtu.be/IcbiNvlsezI
mihaipuiucernea
Currently working on Colors on Canvas
Why is there a single passanger onboard a colonization ship? Does the ship have a seed bank or something? Otherwise how is one person going to colonize a planet?
Other than that nitpicking, the game looks fantastic. Hurry up and release it!
Quote from: mihaipuiucernea on December 11, 2016, 08:42:05 PM
Good comments, We have the answers to your questions - but guess what I am not going to tell you, play the game and all will be revealed. Glad you like the look it's a big plus for us to get a positive reaction from another mutie
As eborr said, the answers are there but we are not jerks who would spoil your fun Keep an eye out for such "inconsistencies" in future videos, given that the adventure game players are usually people with an eye for detail all our pre-release teasing is based on one asking such questions.
And thank you for your interest!
We've uploaded more screenshots on our Imgur, have a look: http://imgur.com/a/KxTPO
K'NOSSOS development advances to Chapter I.
Hello there! Official Windows alpha demo release trailer of K'NOSSOS, the game developed by Svarun Entertainment, is live on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXCvAkalz7c
K'NOSSOS Alpha Demo is available for download from our official website: http://www.svarunentertainment.com/setupK'NOSSOS.exe
I have downloaded the Alpha Demo, installed it and played the tutorial for a few seconds, whereas I noticed you have the same issue we have.
I am running the game in Windows 10. I have a high DPI monitor, so in display settings I have scaled up to 150%. Inside the game, it seems that the same scaling is applied to the fonts you use. In both the tutorial window (with the continue button) and in the narration in the beginning, I cannot see the full text.This happens because you use True Type Fonts, and Windows automatically scales them to 150%, without scaling up the window.
We are currently considering a solution with Bitmap Fonts. I am just giving you a heads up, because we received some complaints in Steam, one user even got a refund because of this issue.
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Panther ultimate evolution – Panther Ausf.F
Posted on October 15, 2013 by Silentstalker
there seems to be a lot of confusion about the Panther and its historical properties. Partially, it’s because it’s such a legendary machine and partially simply because it’s German and – for some reason – over the decades since the WW2, numerous hoaxes, legends or simply confusions sprang up about the possible Panther upgrades.
Panther Ausführung F (Ausf.F or Panther F) was to be the ultimate evolution program for the Panther vehicle. Its prominent feature was supposed to be the Schmalturm (narrow turred) depicted above (however, the picture does NOT show Panther Ausf.F, it’s a regular Ausf.G hull with second version of Schmalturm with S.Z.F.1/1b targetting device).
Now would be a good time to actually make a thick line between realistic, designed and proposed upgrades for the Panther. Panther F was a concept incorporating various improvements, but it was NOT to have everything that could be mounted in a Panther. For example, the German GT series gas turbine was also intended for a Panther, but not specifically for Panter F, it was an experimental program only and it was never meant for serial production.
Back to Panther F then: the need to upgrade the Panter goes as far back as 1943, when it was recognized that the thin sides of the Panzer IV and Panther tanks are too vulnerable to the anti-tank rifles, that were punching thru them, wounding or killing crew and destroying internal equipment. Since these AT rifles were issued in huge numbers on the eastern front, the designers thought of way how to counter them. The obvious one was to increase the side hull thickness, which led to the Panther II development – it was later rectified by the Schürzen side armor for much lesser cost (one of the great myths is that Schürzen were to protect against HEAT – they weren’t, they were designed to counter AT rifles) and Panther II project became obsolete, but not before producing some interesting parts, usable for regular Panthers. However, the Schmalturm was not one of them.
The initial idea that Schmalturm was to be used for Panther II came from W.Spielberger – later research by T.Jentz however showed, that the turret that was to be used was a modified Panther Ausf.G turret.
The Schmalturm was developed independently and was considered for both the Panther and Ausf.J Panzer IV
There were several versions and its evolution could cover an entire article by itself, but that’s a story for another time. Its full name was “Turm mit schmale Blendenausführung” and first drawings were dated to 7.11.1943.
This is another spot where we should stop and explain one thing: in the books by Walther Spielberger, otherwise very well renowned author, there’s a drawing of Panther II with 88mm L/71 in a Schmalturm. This was not realistic, it was Spielberger’s mistake (one he later actually rectified) and Tom Jentz (who worked closely with H.Doyle) called him on that. By the time Panther II was projected, not even first Schmalturm design proposals were laid down, Panther II was simply never intended to have this turret or this weapon. The Schmalturm mit 88mm L/71 proposal came in fact much later, in December 1944 and it came from Krupp (but it required some modifications, like 10cm larger turret ring). It is ironic that while the Americans were critisized for putting a regular Ausf.G turret on the Panther II chassis (currently sitting in the Patton Museum in Fort Knox if I recall correctly), it his in fact more historical look than the Schmalturm Panther II. This is how it would have looked in real life, according to T.Jentz:
Back to the Panther Ausf.F.
While the previous new type of turret was developed by Rheinmetall, it was not exactly successful. The turret development was then (in February 1944) moved to Daimler-Benz, where the name “Schmalturm” was invented. There were several goals for the development, as defined by Waffenprüfamt 6:
- to eliminate possible shot trap under the mantlet
- to increase the protection without increasing the weight of the turret
- to reduce the turret frontal plate size as much as possible while keeping enough room for the crew to work in
- to add a stereoscopic rangefinder
- the usual MG34 machinegun was to be replaced by MG42
- to make the turret easy to convert for command tank version (Befehlpanzerausführung) and for IR device installation
- to keep the common Panther turret ring diameter (1650mm)
- to make the whole thing easier and faster to produce
- and, last but not least, to make it cheaper
This new Daimler Benz design was to be mounted on Panther G hull and this combination was to be redesigned to Panther Ausf.F – yet another stop here: there are people on various forums spreading “ideas” that the Panther F was to be some sort of “super Panther” with massive armor increase. It wasn’t. The Schmalturm was a way to actually decrease production time, save money and simplify the production as much as possible. The armor was that of the regular Panther Ausf.G (80mm frontal plate, 50mm lower frontal plate, 40-50mm sides) with Schmalturm mounted on it (150mm mantlet, 120mm turret front, 60mm turret sides and 60mm (Spielberger) or 40mm (Jentz) turret rear). The hull was only slightly modified – the hull top thickness increased to 40mm and the engine cover was 16mm thick.
In order to accomodate the powerful (and completely sufficient for its time!) 75mm L/70 gun, modifications had to be made. Škoda (Czechoslovakia) developed a new version of the KwK 42, designated KwK 44/1 – with shorter recoil mechanism, allowing the Schmalturm to have +20/-8 elevation/depression. The muzzle brake was also removed. The turret was rotated hydraulically, allowing for full traverse in 30 seconds. It had a modified commander’s copula (it was made lower). Originally, T.Z.F. 13 periscope targetting device by Leitz was proposed, but the series vehicles were to recieve the S.F.Z.1 devices (5 prototypes were made by the end of 1944). Furthermore, the Schmalturm was to be equipped by a stereoscopic Zeiss rangefinder (1320mm wide), but the prototypes were not finished before the war was over.
There were some further modifications, like the improvement of the crew hatch shapes. The vehicle was to be powered by a 700hp Maybach HL230 P30 engine, allowing it to go as fast as 50km/h. It carried the FUG 5 radio station and could mount the FG1250 infrared device. In February 1945 it was decided that the vehicle would have only whole-steel roadwheels – no rubber.
The vehicels were to be produced by MAN, DB, Krupp, Niebelungenwerk (Porsche’s playground) and M.N.H (Maschinenfabrik Niedersachsen-Hannover GmbH). Some reports state that several hulls were actually finished in the final days of war by Daimler-Benz in Berlin and (with Ausf.G turrets) actually fought between 20.4. and 23.4.1945 with II./Panzer-Regiment 2, fighting the Soviets near the Daimler Benz factory. Two turret prototypes were captured, one was taken to the USA after the war and one was taken to Great Britain, where it was used for target practice (its remains are in Bovington today).
In World of Tanks
You can’t have Panther F today in World of Tanks, because the Panther hull on tier 7 has unhistorical armor (85mm frontal plate instead of 80mm), but you can get close by mounting the top engine (albeit incorrect designation) and Schmalturm on Panther along with the stock gun (75mm L/70):
Of course, the Panther F would make a fine tier 7 premium vehicle (if it had its historical armor that is). Yes, it would be a copy of one of the Panther variants, but I think it would still be nice.
What is not a Panther Ausf.F
What was described up was the historical Panther Ausf.F, the ultimate historical Panther development. It wasn’t an Ahnenerbe UFO with unproved tech, it was a solid project, that simply came too late.
There however have been various other (more or less – often less – realistic) upgrade proposals for the Panther. These are NOT a part of the Ausf.F program, no prototypes were mostly made or tested and most of them were born of desperation. These upgrades include:
- an automatic loader for the KwK 42 L/70 (planned for April 1945)
- stabilized gunsights (April 1945)
- Biwa infra-red scope and searchlight to be integrated with the rangefinder (May 1945)
- mine clearing variant (utilizing flail)
- 900hp Maybach HL234 (August 1945)
- 700hp Argus LD220 air-cooled diesel engine
- 720hp Simmering Type Sla.16 diesel
Further upgrades were also considered, but even the Germans admitted these were simply a “wish list” and most fall into the “pipe dream” category:
- diesel Deutz engine (unknown hp, presumably over 1000hp)
- stabilized gun
- hydrostatic and hydrodynamic steering units
Furthermore, in January 1945, a Schmalturm for Panther with KwK 43 (88mm L/71) was proposed by Daimler Benz. The first drawing of the DB turret actually comes from 18.10.1944 and based on that, DB recieved a contract to develop this variant and it was in January they presented the results. It was to have a -8/+15 elevation and depression and was to be equipped with SFZ2 or SFZ3 stabilized gunsights. And all that while the whole thing weighted only a ton more than the current Panther turret. However, the work on that never got beyond wooden mockup, that was found in the DB plant after the war.
And last, but not least: the gas turbine. There is a decent article about it on wikipedia. Basically, the Germans developed gas turbines, that could fit into a Panther. GT101 produced 1150 horsepower, but at the cost of high maintenance and almost a double fuel consumption. As such, the project was unreasonable even by German standards.
110 thoughts on “Panther ultimate evolution – Panther Ausf.F”
Daigensui on October 15, 2013 at 10:34 am said:
For some reason, a few Panthers had 85 mm of frontal armor. WG went with the larger number.
imagifyer . on October 15, 2013 at 12:08 pm said:
As far as I know that just has to do with the German production system, apparently there were always some slight variations in the dimensions of their vehicles (ie one panther being a few cm wider or taller than another ect). Although I did have a metallurgist friend of mine speculate that the extra 5mm could be to do with the decreasing quality of German wartime steel alloys
Captian Nemo on October 15, 2013 at 3:27 pm said:
That is part of the reason some of the plates began to creep up in thickness but not exactly in stopping power. Lack of ideal alloys meant that the armor tended to spall more and more often when hit as the war went on and critical alloys went into projects with higher priority’s and could not use alternatives. So that while the armor on the panthers and others got thicker between 43-45 it does not always mean that the armor was actually that much better as the increased thicknesses would lead most people to believe.
Latertimelord on October 15, 2013 at 1:08 pm said:
There’s just so much Panther variants… Even in BF1942 (with FHSW mod) there are 10-12 different Panther variants, including this infamous Panther Ausf. F
FHSW is just crazy fun. Its only downside is the lack of people who know about it.
EmperorSafirius on October 15, 2013 at 10:34 am said:
A very great article :) That 88 in the last picture would seriously have some horrible depression problems :P
lolnope on October 15, 2013 at 2:59 pm said:
did you read? it says -8, in what standards is it horrble?
Anonymous on October 15, 2013 at 4:36 pm said:
that was the project goal, there is nothing in the article to show that the set-up shown has these characteristics
Anonymous on October 16, 2013 at 10:13 am said:
Well at least -8 fits just fine on those images by Doyle. Try it yourself if you don’t believe, copy the barrel, rotate 8 degrees and paste. Even leaves some room to spare.
Tigger3 on October 16, 2013 at 10:39 am said:
And for the breach mechanism inside the turret?
Harder to tell. Would need an image of the complete gun in scale. Also knowing the exact pivot point would be nice. But just by eyballing it might actually fit too.
Anonymous on October 16, 2013 at 12:37 pm said:
Played around some more. Used a tiger 2 drawing for the gun with the breach (also from Doyle) and tried to scale it correctly (kinda messy so no guarantees) but looks like the breach fits too.
Kazomir on October 15, 2013 at 10:38 am said:
As a premium? No, There is allready a premium ersatz Panther, there will be a premium captured T-5 Pantera, too… no need in annother one.
Except if its not a premium turbo-panther at tier 8. That would be interesting.
Silentstalker on October 15, 2013 at 10:43 am said:
SerB actually sort of planned the Turbopanther on tier 9.
crazytony on October 15, 2013 at 11:01 am said:
if that hapens. what gun can we expect at that tier?
Hard to say. Possibly 88mm KwK 44 (redesignated and modified L/71 with historical Panzergranate 40 (subcaliber) as silver ammo).
Haren on October 15, 2013 at 5:58 pm said:
OMG, regular APCR 88mm on a Panther with gas turbine, that would be so troll D:
Serb the king of Poland on October 15, 2013 at 11:14 am said:
8.8cm L/71 most likely, or they give it the 10.5cm
Even a short 10.5cm due to weight issues makes no sense. There is just not a lot of room in the newer 8.8cm turret for a 10.5cm. And besides it would already have a turbine. Use its speed and flank.
Kellomies on October 15, 2013 at 11:08 am said:
“I accidentally a tier 9 Turbopanther, is this bad?”
As a Premium? Nice to train crew with it and make some crew with it. I don’t mind it would be a copy of an already existing variant. Type 62 is also a copy, WZ-131 with that T VII gun. The 85 mm on the Type has the exact same specs as WZ-131′s gun. But with a different name. Further specs are also the same. So no problem if the Panther Ausf. F comes as Premium. But it wouldn’t count on it. Germany has enough Premiums already. Although an arty Premium would be welcome.
lostwingman on October 15, 2013 at 2:36 pm said:
I want that so bad.
Turbopanther is my wet dream.
Kazomir on October 15, 2013 at 4:36 pm said:
Can we call it the Panther Evo IX? :)
Yet half of an entire national tree made up of copies of the T-54 is acceptable?
half?! are you blind or something?
the type 59, the wz-120 and the wz 121 are the only tanks to copy the T54.
only two of these are a part of the Chinese tech tree ,meaning that they make up less than 12% of the Chinese tech tree.
learn 2 maths bro.
Only the WZ-120 (type 59) is a copy of the T-54. Yet their gameplay is worlds apart.
The rest are genuine Chineese models, excepting the T-34, wich is still modified in a way.
Having a THIRD premium tier 7 panther with the 7.5 L/70 would be ridiculous. (Assuming the T-5 will come out sometime, and counting the PzV/M10 Ersatz)
Yes, I would prefer turbo panther T8 premium.
fred on October 15, 2013 at 11:03 am said:
About the DB turret with 88 L/71, would it be possible to mount it on the vk 30.02 DB?
No, definitely not. It wasn’t possible to mount it even on a regular Panther, it required 1750 turret ring. Panther has 1650mm and VK3002 had even smaller (1500?)
shape on October 15, 2013 at 6:51 pm said:
Funny enough the Pz IV had the same turret ring size as the panther depending on the source and Ausf. production letter the tank was (some sources say 1600mm, others 1650mm and yet others 1680mm)
I suppose that would explain why they tried to do the Schmalturm for it.
Zarax on October 15, 2013 at 11:14 am said:
Even if the turret ring was large enough it would make the tank massively front heavy
Vlevs on October 15, 2013 at 11:32 am said:
I doubt the front heaviness. Just compare to T-54, which has equally heavy gun mounted in front on suspension of similar capacity.
Eh, the T-54 turret sits *rather* more in the center of the hull…
It occurs to me that even if the gun fit the ammo load would probably be pretty small – the “Dragonball” isn’t a particularly large vehicle and certainly wasn’t designed to ship shells that big.
Vlevs on October 15, 2013 at 12:08 pm said:
So it’d be just what it’s supposed to be – German remake of a Soviet tank.
For another example, SU-100 has equally heavy gun projecting forwards from front wheel, and seems to work just fine.
sparrow on October 15, 2013 at 1:41 pm said:
Actually it didnt; the soviet SPG/assault guns, between their heavy frontal armour and forward slung guns, were always wearing out their front road wheels and suspension prematurely.
Kellomies on October 17, 2013 at 3:34 pm said:
There’s kind of *reasons* the Soviets started looking into rear-casemate designs.
Less front heavy then you think. But the extra weight of the turret, 1 ton, plus the redistribution of load from the long gun to the front would make the transmission even more of a sad joke then it already was… no real top gear driving with a 8.8 L/71 thats for sure.
Karn on October 15, 2013 at 9:41 pm said:
Actually it was determined that the front of the ISU was not loaded(balanced) well enough) it was proposed to add armor to the front to even it out .
Uhyre on October 15, 2013 at 11:12 am said:
What about 75mm L\100 gun?
It was never seriously considered. In January 1943, Hitler personally demanded the 75mm L/100, but nothing came of it. It was just a thought as far as I know.
DracoArgentum on October 15, 2013 at 1:09 pm said:
If the L100 was no more than a Hitler thought bubble it should really be removed. But what else is there?
Unfortunately nothing, because the L/70 is SERIOUSLY inadequate for a tier 7 medium (and the L/100′s a joke anyway). The only alternative I could think of would be the (non-historically-accurate) 75 mm Konish gun, which has performance similar to the L/100 (except that the premium ammo is VERY expensive by comparison).
J338u5 on October 15, 2013 at 2:26 pm said:
You say the the L/70 is inadequate but look at the Comet’s gun. It’ pretty much the same thing. I agree tho that in order to give the Panther the L/70 and keep it competitive it would need bufs in other areas like camo and mobility.
Liare on October 15, 2013 at 3:18 pm said:
the comet is fucking terrible though!
Atomic Emu on October 15, 2013 at 7:58 pm said:
Panocek on October 16, 2013 at 8:19 am said:
Comet can somewhat make up for lacking penetration with nice mobilty, -13 gun depression and somewhat small profile
BTW. Replace 75mm L/100 with “late 75mm KwK 42 L/70″ firing APCR as default ammo, with some sort of “super APCR” or HEAT with +-240mm pen. Or simply new ammunition with improved dmg/pen over regular L/70, something along 150dmg 170pen
Silentstalker on October 15, 2013 at 4:15 pm said:
It could be replaced by an autoloading L/70 with gold shells as silver ammo and APFSDS shells as gold (both are historical).
Foxtrott on October 15, 2013 at 6:16 pm said:
I’d totally play that!
Vlevs on October 15, 2013 at 8:45 pm said:
German APFSDS? Can we have an article about these? Or link if we already have?
Priory_of_Sion on October 15, 2013 at 11:13 am said:
DB also designed an “alternative” Schmalturm with 100 mm of frontal armor and 50 mm side/rear armor. Can be found in PT 5-4. Diagrams of the Panther II with the Panther II turm can also be found in 5-4 which even compare the Panther II to the Ausf. F.
That was the older design from October 1944 that was rejected, no?
It wasn’t rejected from what I can see. It was modified as late as Jan. ’45.
Let me rephrase that: this 100mm proposal landed DB the Schmalturm development contract, but it was rejected in the sense that WaPrüf said “okay, but make it better”.
GorgeousGeorge on October 15, 2013 at 11:14 am said:
On 1st pic it has bent gun… xD
No it is an awesome tech that makes it posible to shoot at targets under hill.
Charcharo on October 15, 2013 at 11:24 am said:
A TurboPanther as a tier 8 premium would please me :) .
Alex on October 15, 2013 at 1:32 pm said:
You like fireworks?
Charcharo on October 16, 2013 at 9:11 am said:
We already have a real Panther in tier 7, the Panther M10, it is a stock panther, or at least has the stock turret and 75mm L70. Don’t know about armour, engine and other stuff.
Atomic Emu on October 15, 2013 at 12:17 pm said:
Wasn’t the Schmalturm for PzKpfw IV different from the Panther Schmalturm? I remember Tuccy posting in Czech forum section long time ago about it being smaller and with weaker armour.
Silentstalker on October 15, 2013 at 12:29 pm said:
No, it was the same. Strangely enough though, it was proposed by Krupp and not Deimler Benz. It’s possible that it was the 100mm front version, but I think it was the same turret (source: Panzer Tracts 20-1). Maybe someone mixed it up with Vereinfachter Turm (simplified turret proposal for Panzer IV)?
Ah, that’s probably it. Thank you.
Panther Ausf. F was supposed to have 40 rpm
No. That is archievable only with a casette autoloader. This was planned, but not for Ausf.F and the development was never finished.
Daigensui on October 15, 2013 at 12:44 pm said:
No. KwK 42 L/70 was not a specifically Ausf. F project. Now, I wouldn’t say it was never planned for Ausf. F, but it was a separate project related to Panther in general instead of the specific Ausf. F model.
Zarax on October 15, 2013 at 12:58 pm said:
It also had the side effect of exhausting the loader pretty quickly.
How often you need to fire at near full rate of fire? Last Tank Standing near Reichstag?
Tiso on October 15, 2013 at 12:30 pm said:
Škoda (Czechoslovakia) developed a new version of the KwK 42….
There was no Czechoslovakia back then, unless you mean Beneš and I doubt he would be happy about identifying this company contribution for German warfare with his government.
Well, it was Škoda, developing the finest tech all thru the war, something to be proud of :) At least on engineering level.
Mighty Engineers FTW.
yoco93cro on October 15, 2013 at 12:37 pm said:
so, did panther F had increased side armor or schurzen?
Increased armor no. Schürzen – possibly optional.
how thick was that schurzen?
“Turm mit schmale Blendenausführung” it must called “schmaler” not “schmale”, it refers to Turm.
[247]Axel_Foley [EU] on October 15, 2013 at 2:19 pm said:
WG should give the Panther II the Gun 12,8 cm KwK 44 L/55. Why? Easy to say, almost ever battle is like tier 9 and 10. Its almost not possible to penetrate frontplate of heavy targets and Panther II is not mobile enough to get enemies from side. I won’t fight with APCR-ammunition.
Thx for nothing, WG!
wtchftsh on October 15, 2013 at 3:32 pm said:
Yeah you know what, might as well give it the 17cm PaK, autoloaded with a 9 shot clip that reloads in 3 seconds (1 second latency between each shot), silver APCR, buffed to 500 pen, 90° traverse speed, no aim bloom, and an aiming time of 0.5 seconds.
true I play a panther II and to buff it, dont add a 128 gun, but the jadgtiger 8.8′s modified l/71 gun that was supposed to be fitted. Another option is to buff high-tier mediums in general, they contribute too little to the game to make a difference
Anonymous on October 16, 2013 at 1:00 am said:
Buff my AMX-13 so it can fire ATGMs. What? It’s more historically accurate than the Panther II 128mm!
madmatone on October 15, 2013 at 2:47 pm said:
Nice read, thanks!
Ano N. Ymous on October 15, 2013 at 3:07 pm said:
Wouldn’t schurzen help against HEAT as well despite being designed to defeat AT rifle shots? After all similar designs are used against RPG rounds nowadays. Or were HEAT detonators back then too stiff to react to such a “thin” metal sheet?
arkhell on October 15, 2013 at 3:30 pm said:
nope not really, they are really thing and not of armor grade steel. HEAT shell would just knock right trough them without much hindrance.
now a high speed AT rifle bullet would hit them and go out of balance and loose enough speed to not actually penetrate the real armor.
Vlevs on October 16, 2013 at 7:21 am said:
No and no. Even much weaker cage armor will either damage or prematurely fuze HEAT warhead, so skirts would kind of work. Problem is with WW2 slow-acting HEAT, that would need more standoff distance to really neutralize.
Anti-AT-rifle effect of skirts is based on standoff armor separating core of APCR bullets.
So? the Panther in Wot we grinding is fictional?
Depend on which Panther you are talking about. I would say partly fictional would be correct, to a degree.
the vk 3002 is the panther youre looking for
Xelos on October 15, 2013 at 3:40 pm said:
“As such, the project was unreasonable even by German standards.”
Unreasonable is the definition of powerful tanks in WOT, see auto-loading tanks. They get all the benefits with none of the significant drawbacks, for example many of the auto-loading tanks should have a reload penalty while moving or the timer shouldn’t go down unless stopped.
Most of them also had two drums (8-12 shells) loaded before going into battle.
That “many” would amount to the two AMX-13s pretty much. And it’s not like human loaders seem to have any problems wrangling big shells out of racks and into breeches in spite of the tanks going full tilt in rough terrain and probably taking hits to boot…
“The turret was rotated hydraulically, allowing for full traverse in 30 seconds.”
Its sad that I here by note that so many people missed just how important this above line is…
Previously on the Tigers and most of the other German tanks the turret rotation it tied directly.. to the RPM of the engine in the tank. The hydraulics is a big improvement in German tanks. It means that the turret can be rotated by something other then by hand cranks when at idle. I would say that it is more important then any modification to the armor despite the issues that come with high pressure hydraulics…
would make the tank more stealthy for sure, no revving your engine up just so you can turn your turret faster.
IIRC the French postwar assessments also had something to say about turret weight distributions and “rotatability” on inclines…
BTW weren’t most others using electric engines for traverse? Not something the Germans would’ve been big on given their chronic copper shortages granted.
Legiondude on October 15, 2013 at 3:51 pm said:
HL234 was considered after the Germans surrendered? What?
Well… there was plies of engines sitting around and development plans on the books… And then French did take a number of Panthers… If you got the parts and plans for upgrades… why not? Plus the HL234 was still in development it was competitive idea to the proposed/partly developed GT103.
Also with any engine figures from Germany the 900 hp of the HL234 was with NO accessory’s mounted to the engine.
I should also say that the Germans knew the war was lost but on the hopes of a much longer war laid out the plans for future developments and implementation of those developments into actual production runs of future tanks.
No, it was considered before, that date is the planned date for its development to be finished.
Something about a improved final drive of the panther which, according to some sources, broke down every 150km?
There was a plan to improve that, but in defensive war realities, where the vehicles were basically supposed to be stationed in German, it was not as bad a problem as when you used them during mobile warfare.
Given that they still had to be shifted around from one trouble spot to another, and the fact the RAF and USAAF were doing quite a number on the railroad infrastructure, I’d say it was kind of a problem there too.
Just a hunch but I’d guess the practical reason for leaving the final drive design alone, no matter what its problems, oughta been the desire to avoid production interruptions and the overriding need to churn out materiel to replace losses.
If Schurzen was developed to counter AT rifles what is the reasoning behind the “mesh”-style Schurzen? I imagine it would still have a decent effect against most rifle shots (were the Soviet ATRs 7.62, 7.92, 12.7mm?) but surely there must have been some kind of worry amongst the crews? Depending how wide the holes were of course.
I am not actually sure they worked, could have been something the Germans simply tried. But if they worked, the point was to destabilize the bullet, by doing that you lose a lot of penetration potential.
Saved metal and weight for one. Anyways, a dense enough mesh ought to have much the same effect on the bullets and no difference regarding HEAT, which oughta been something of a headache by that point – “skirts” were after all used when fighting the Democracies too, and those had tossed AT rifles a while ago but issued copious amounts of bazookas and PIATs instead.
collimatrix on October 15, 2013 at 6:41 pm said:
Are you sure about the proposed road wheels being all-steel? I had read of the steel-rimmed road wheels, but these have a thin layer of rubber sandwiched under the steel rim and the rest of the wheel.
All-steel road wheels would have done awful things to the tracks and ride quality.
Yes. By the end of the war the Germans were pretty much out of rubber.
chutche2 on October 15, 2013 at 7:43 pm said:
Just as an FYI, the majority of the Patton Museum’s tanks, including the Panther II, have been moved to Ft Benning, GA.
Sotahullu on October 15, 2013 at 9:29 pm said:
Okay, it’s time to invade this blog.
Well i’m kinda intrested in Panther for diffrent reasons but I have always wondered couple of things about model F.
1. Why 75L70 (KwK 42) didn’t have muzzle brake on model F why others had it?
2. Was there really plans to upgrade all (at the time) serving Panthers to model F standards?
3. If model F would started production (well some say that about 5-10 we’re actually made) what would have been rate of production when compared to model G?
1. A muzzle brake is a way to reduce the recoil. If you have a reworked recoil mechanism (KwK 44/1) that can cope with the full recoil, there is no need to reduce it. Potentially it means the KwK 44/1 was more powerful, but I think it was roughly on equal terms with KwK 42 due to other factors
2. There is no direct evidence of such a program and it’s unlikely, as Germany couldn’t well afford to pull back Panthers for upgrades en masse. They were needed at the front.
3. Only a few F hulls were made according to Panzer Tracts and fitted with Ausf.G turret. Ausf.F tanks production was planned to start gradually from April to October 1945 with possibly 50 vehicles completed in March, 150 in April, 400 in May, 520 in June, 570 in July, 610 in August, 670 in September, 730 in October and from November on, 760 vehicles per month. In 1945 however, these plans were pure fantasy.
V1P3RR on October 15, 2013 at 11:56 pm said:
a very nice read , thank you for the article SS
Zatiria on October 17, 2013 at 11:04 am said:
Where did the stock Panther II turret come from? The one with the bulge in the roof?
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Hastings Jumpouts 24 Oct 2017
King Louis and Swiss Precision, both in the John Bary stable, were two of the most impressive winners at today’s Hastings jumpouts.
There were 12 heats held up against the inside rail on the course proper, which provided good footing.
King Louis looked to have plenty in reserve when winning one of the 750-metre heats by a neck from an Ocean Park-Alpine Beauty three-year-old filly and they were well clear of the other two in that heat. The winning time was a good time of 45.5s.
King Louis is an Australian-bred two-year-old colt by Equiano and also won a 400-metre jumpout at Waipukurau last month. He could make his race debut in this Saturday’s Listed $50,000 Wellesley Stakes (1000m) at Trentham.
Swiss Precision was the fastest of the 750-metre heat winners, clocking 44.9s when winning by a length from a three-year-old O’Reilly-Vickezzchardonnay filly in the Lowry/Cullen stable. Swiss Precision is a Swiss Ace filly who was placed as a two-year-old last season but hasn’t raced since July. The O’Reilly filly did well to finish so close after being very slow away from the barrier.
A Showcasing two-year-old filly in the Lowry/Cullen stable was another who showed up well when winning a 750-metre heat. She and a stablemate by Swiss Ace were neck to neck for almost the entire home straight with only a head separating them on the line. The winning time was a respectable 45.7s.
A Roc de Cambes three-year-old filly trained by John Bary was another who impressed when finishing a close second in a 1000-metre heat behind her more experienced stablemate Van Halen. Only a long neck separated the two at the finish and both horses were striding out well at the finish.
The experienced performer Deb clocked the fastest time from the 1000-metre heats when she capitalised on a rails run to get up and win by half a length from Estefania in a time of 60.3s. Chouxperb was close up in third place.
Jumpout results.-
Heat 1, 400m: Faltaat 4yr-old mare (K Murray) 1, Per Incanto-Mint 2yr-old filly 2, Per Incanto-Danareason 2yr-old filly 3. Three starters. Margins: 8 lengths, 1/1/4 lengths. No Time taken. Winner trained by Margaret Harkema, Hastings.
Heat 2, 750m: Showcasing 2yr-old filly (J Bassett) 1, Swiss Ace 2yr-old 2, Citi Habit gelding 3. Four starters. Margins: Head, 7 lengths. Time: 45.7s. Winner trained by Guy Lowry & Grant Cullen, Hastings.
Heat 3, 750m: O’Reilly-Music 3yr-old filly (M Tanaka) 1, Burgundy 2yr-old filly 2, Niagara-Bay Point 3yr-old filly 3. Four starters. Margins: 1/2head, 6 lengths. Time: 47.8s. Winner trained by Guy Lowry & Grant Cullen, Hastings.
Heat 4, 750m: King Louis (D Turner) 1, Ocean Park-Alpine Beauty 3yr-old filly 2, Nom de Jeu 3yr-old gelding 3. Four starters. Margins: Neck, 5-1/2 lengths. Time: 45.5s. Winner trained by John Bary, Hastings.
Heat 5, 750m: Swiss Precision (T Johnson) 1, O’Reilly-Vickezzchardonnay 3yr-old filly 2, Knife 3. Four starters. Margins: 1 length, neck. Time: 44.9s. Winner trained by John Bary, Hastings.
Heat 6, 750m: Myrtle (D Turner) 1, Nadeem 3yr-old filly 2, What Choux Want 3. Four starters. Margins: Nose, 5 lengths. Time: 45.7s. Winner trained by John Bary, Hastings.
Heat 7, 1000m: Van Halen (T Johnson) 1, Roc de Cambes 3yr-old filly 2, Niagara-Tycoon Miss 3yr-old filly 3. Four starters. Margins: Long neck, 1-1/4 lengths. Time: 1:01.6. Winner trained by John Bary, Hastings.
Heat 8, 1000m: Pincanto (H Durrant) 1, Per Incanto-Mal 4yr-old gelding 2, Nom de Jeu 4yr-old gelding 3. Four starters. Margins: Head, 3 lengths. Time: 1:01.8. Winner trained by Penny & Tony Ebbett, Waipukurau.
Heat 9, 1000m: Ifonlynaomi (D Turner) 1, Donardo 2, Happy Hitter 3. Four starters. Margins: Nose, head. Time: 60.8s. Winner trained by John Bary, Hastings.
Heat 10, 1000m: Showcasing 3yr-old filly (J Bassett) 1, Uncle Mo 3yr-old colt 2, Della Rosa 3. Five starters. Margins: Head, head. Time: 1:01.9. Winner trained by Kate Hercock, Hastings.
Heat 11, 1000m: Thelma (T Johnson) 1, Tautu 2, Elston 3. Four starters. Margins: 2 lengths, 2-1/4 lengths. Time: 1:02.5. Winner trained by John Bary, Hastings.
Heat 12, 1000m: Deb (M Tanaka) 1, Estefania 2, Chouxperb 3. Five starters. Margins: ½ length, head. Time: 60.3s. Winner trained by Guy Lowry & Grant Cullen, Hastings.
Hastings Trackwork 18 Oct 2017
(By John Jenkins)
Goodsav and Londaro both recorded excellent gallops on the course proper at Hastings this morning in preparation for Sunday’s Hawke’s Bay meeting.
Permission was granted to work both horses individually, down close to the running rail, to gauge how firm the racing surface is. A penetrometer reading was also taken during the session and came up as a dead-4.
Goodsav had blinkers on when working in from the 1000-metre peg in 1:2.2, running the first 400 metres in 28.7 and coming home the last 600 in a quick 34.5. She is entered for the Rating 75 race over 1400 metres at Hastings with Vinnie Colgan booked to ride her.
Londaro also worked over 1000 metres but went slower, recording 1:7 for the full distance and the last 600 in 37.2. He is entered for the Maiden 1600 at Hastings with Samantha Collett to ride.
Last start winner Vino Blanco was given an easy workout on the plough (good), running 1000 metres in 1:6.4, the last 600 in 39. With no suitable Rating 65 races around for her she may have to line up in the Rating 75 1400 at Hastings on Sunday.
Hunta Pence, preparing for the Rating 85 1600 at Hastings, turned in a good solo gallop on the plough. He clocked 1:1.7 for 1000 metres, the last 600 in 35.
A Nom de Jeu four-year-old gelding looked to be travelling better than Robbie Kapow at the end of 1000 metres in 1:7.5, the last 600 in 38.2 while a Niagara-Tycoon Miss three-year-old filly ended her work on the plough in 39.8.
A Nom de Jeu three-year-old gelding and one by Niagara, both in the Thompson/Brown stable, recorded 54.1 for 800 metres, quickening over the last 600 in 38.5.
An O’Reilly-Music three-year-old filly and one by Niagara clocked 53.2 for 800 metres, the last 600 in 39.5.
Fast 800-metre gallops by Lady Guinness, Scandalo, No Change and Matovani were the highlights in a reasonably busy track session at Hastings this morning.
Fast work was confined to the plough, which was obviously conducive to fast times.
A penetrometer reading was taken on the course proper during the session and came up as a dead-5.
Lady Guinness and Scandalo, both in the Patrick Campbell stable, had the pace worked over 800 metres in 49.9, running the first 200 in 14.1 and then coming home the last 600 in 35.8. Lady Guinness is a likely starter at the Hawke’s Bay meeting on Sunday while there is a chance Scandalo could kick off a fresh campaign at Rotorua on Saturday.
No Change and Matovani, two horses trained by Paul Nelson, also showed good speed when working over 800 metres together in 49.4, the first 400 in 13 and the last 600 in 36.4. Matovani could line up in the Maiden 1600 at Hastings on Sunday.
Whowouldknow, a Rios gelding trained by Kate Hercock, ran an easy 1000 metres on his own and clocked 1:9.7, the last 600 in 39.7 while Red Tiara was also kept up a good hold when running 1000 metres in 1:10.4, the last 600 in 41.2.
Kaipawe, nominated for Thursday’s Woodville meeting, had co-trainer Mick Brown aboard when running 1000 metres in 1:6.6, the last 600 in 37 while an Uncle Mo three-year-old colt and a Niagara-Asaweb three-year-old gelding clocked 52.7 for 800 metres, the last 600 in 39.
Peso and Galapagos, two others in the Paul Nelson stable, worked together over 1000 metres in 1:7.9, the last 600 in 36.6. Galapagos is entered for Thursday’s Woodville meeting while Peso is likely to start at Rotorua on Saturday.
Keilib, another who will be nominated for Hastings on Sun day, ran a solo 1000 metres in 1:5.1, the last 600 in 36.6 and was striding out well at the finish. He went a much improved race for fifth at Awapuni last start.
Real Beach ran a solo 1000 metres in 1:15.4, the last 600 in 40.5 while a Remind eight-year-old gelding clocked 53.8 for 800 metres, the last 600 in 39.5.
A Swiss Ace two-year-old and one by Showcasing, both in the Lowry/Cullen stable, ran an easy 800 metres in 54.6, the last 600m in 40 while Oscar’s Shadow was restricted to just three-quarter pace over 1000 metres, the last 600 in 45.3.
A Per Incanto-Mint two-year-old filly and one by Per Incanto out of Danareason were others kept to just three-quarter pace when running 600 metres in 45.
HB Racing Column 13 Oct 2017
Son Of Surf is appreciating the wet tracks
The connections of last start winner Son Of Surf have welcomed the wet weather that has plagued the New Zealand racing scene this spring.
The three-year-old gelding, who is part-owned by Hastings man Neville Robertson and Central Hawke’s Bay’s Sue Harty, relished the slow-7 track conditions when winning a 1200m maiden race at Waverley on Thursday of last week and a summer break for the horse has now been put on hold.
“He was going to go out for a spell after that race but he likes it wet and, with the way things are at the moment, he will probably have another run somewhere before that happens,” Harty said this week.
Son Of Surf followed up two fourths and a second in his first three starts with a narrow victory at Waverley. Apprentice Danielle Hirini had the horse third and in the perfect trail before they lost a couple of lengths when briefly held up coming to the home turn. Once in the straight Hirini was able to get a gap one off the rails and Son Of Surf drove through to get up and snatch a head victory over Satin Belt.
Son Of Surf is only small in stature and his Awapuni trainer, Mike Breslin, originally feared he wouldn’t be big enough to compete when he first entered his stable.
“But he’s a little horse with a big heart,” Harty said.
“He’s not actually three until the end of this month so he’s still got some growing to do hopefully.”
Son Of Surf is by Any Suggestion out of the Towkay mare Surf Patrol and is both bred and raced by a syndicate that was set up by Neville Robertson. Most of the members live in Wellington.
The same syndicate raced Surf Patrol, who was a Towkay mare that recorded seven wins, seven seconds and four thirds from 49 starts.
Son Of Surf is Surf Patrol’s first foal and the mare has since left an unraced two-year-old filly by Niagara and is now due to foal to Dalghar.
The Niagara filly has been broken in and will be going back into work with Breslin within the next few weeks.
NZ Cup aspirations now
Locally Sauced, part-owned by Hastings woman Irene Downey and her son Josh, took a step towards a possible start in next month’s Group 3 New Zealand Cup when recording a game win in last Saturday’s $35,000 North Canterbury Cup (2000m) at Riccarton.
It was only the six-year-old’s fourth career win but he clearly outstayed several other horses whose connections have New Zealand Cup aspirations.
The $250,000 Christchurch Casino New Zealand Cup (3200m) is run on November 18 and, in recent years, horses with four wins or less to their credit have managed to make the final field. Imperium was only a three race winner when he finished third in the race last year and he was one of the beaten brigade behind Locally Sauced in last Saturday’s race, which was run in driving rain and on a slow8 track.
Locally Sauced trailed the leaders in fourth position in the early stages before moving closer on the home turn and out-finished his rivals in a slog to the line to win by a long neck.
It was the horse’s first success on the Riccarton track, although he had been placed four times from seven previous starts there. He has now had four starts at 2000m for two wins and two minor placings.
Saint Kitt’s change of stable
Well performed Hastings galloper Saint Kitt will be prepared from a new stable when he resumes racing later this season.
The eight-year-old gelding, winner of seven races and more than $170,000 in stakemoney, is owned by Hastings trainer Kelly Burne and her Perth-based son Vinnie Meenehan.
Burne has decided she no longer wants to train the horse so he has been leased to Hastings trainer Grant Cullen and his partner Nikki Lourie and will be trained from Lourie’s farm property, just north of Dannevirke.
Burne said Saint Kitt is still fully sound but she has decided to cut back on the number of horses she is training.
“He’s been a great horse for us and owes us nothing and hopefully Grant and Nikki can get another win or two out of him,” Burne said.
Saint Kitt was bred by Hawke’s Bay’s Don Gordon in partnership with Little Avondale Stud and has been raced on lease by several syndicates throughout his career.
He showed good potential from a young age, finishing a gallant fourth in the 2013 Group 1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) as a three-year-old and followed that up a year later with a sixth in the Group 1 Auckland Cup (3200m).
Burne decided to send the horse to the South Island last spring, where he was put in the care of Riccarton trainer Pam Robson and recorded three wins, three seconds, a third and two fourths in nine starts between October last year and March this year.
Cullen said Saint Kitt has settled in well in his new environment and is undergoing light work around the farm, which will be stepped up as he gets fitter.
“We haven’t got any plans for him at this stage but he looks in great order,” he said.
Livamol Classic on October 22
The Group 1 $250,000 Livamol Classic will be part of a nine race programme Hawke’s Bay Racing will stage at the Hastings racecourse on Sunday, October 22.
The 2040-metre weight-for-age event will be the highlight of a reconstructed premier meeting, which will also include the Group 2 Red Badge Spring Sprint (1400m).
The Livamol and the Spring Sprint were among the five races lost when last Saturday’s premier meeting at Hastings was abandoned mid-way through the programme.
The October 22 race meeting will be run by Hawke’s Bay Racing and replaces the meeting originally scheduled for Otaki that day. An inspection of the Otaki track earlier this week found that it was unlikely to be fit for racing at Labour Weekend.
The Hastings programme will be similar to that originally scheduled for Otaki, apart from the addition of the Livamol.
The $70,000 Red Badge Spring Sprint will replace the Open 1200m and there will be stake increases for three other races. The Rating 85 2100m will increase from $30,000 to $40,000, as will the Rating 85 1600m and the Rating 75 1400m will be raised from $25,000 to $40,000.
There will be free admission, with the gates open from 11.30am and the first race timed to start at 12.50pm.
There will also be free access to the Sasanof Lounge and Committee Lounge in the Members’ Stand with the Desert Gold Lounge reserved for members’ bookings only.
There will also be free children’s entertainment.
Sidelined Danis wins award
A recent award has boosted the spirits of injured apprentice Darren Danis.
The 25-year-old was named the Most Improved Apprentice at the annual Milan Park Waikato Apprentice Jockeys’ Awards.
Employed by Matamata trainer Wayne Hillis, Danis is currently sidelined after a nasty fall at the Phar Lap Raceway in July.
“I’m out for the rest of the year. After surgery to my fractured T3 and T4 vertebrae, doctors told me I had to wait at least until next January to have a better idea if I can resume my riding career,” he said.
Weatherley invited
Last season’s leading apprentice jockey Sam Weatherley will be flying out to Algeria after his rides at Matamata tomorrow to compete in the HH. Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak World apprentice championship.
The Matamata rider, apprenticed to Lance O’Sullivan, will be the first New Zealand jockey to compete in the series after New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing was welcomed into the International Federation of Horse Racing Academies.
It will be a hit and run mission for Weatherley, who will compete in just the one race in the North African country.
“I’ll ride at the races at Matamata on Saturday and fly out to Algeria on Saturday night,” Weatherley said. “We get in on Sunday their time and race on Monday. We’ll then fly back to New Zealand on Tuesday.”
Weatherley will be accompanied by national riding mentor Noel Harris.
Headed for Melbourne
The Cambridge training partnership of Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman are set to add to their Melbourne spring carnival team with lightly raced Victoria Derby hopeful Vin De Dance to be flown to Australia next Wednesday.
The high-profile New Zealand stable already has Group 1 winners Bonneval, Jon Snow and Lizzie L'Amour in Melbourne along with three-year-old Weather With You, who is also on a Derby path.
Vin De Dance races in the colours of OTI Racing and won a 1200m-maiden on debut last month in New Zealand on heavy ground before finishing second in benchmark-65 races over 1400m and 1600m at Te Rapa.
"He's a lightly tried son of Roc De Cambes that is owned by OTI. They want to have a crack at a Derby,” Andrew Forsman said.
"He's run three very good races and if he can stay he'll be competitive."
Son Of Surf (right) finishes strongly against the inside rail to get up and head off Satin Belt in a Maiden 1200 at last week’s Waverley meeting.
Saint Kitt (yellow colours) pictured here on his way to winning the Banks Peninsula Cup (2000m) in October last year. He has now changed stables.
Londaro, a possible starter at next Thursday’s Woodville meeting, looked in great order when working at this morning’s Hastings track session
Fast work was carried out on the plough (slushy) and about half-way out on the No. 1 grass (heavy).
Londaro was not asked for a serious effort when running a solo 1000 metres but looked to be striding out well and clocked 1:13.1, the last 600 in 42. The big four-year-old was to have started in the Special Conditions 1400 at last Saturday’s Hawke’s Bay meeting but that was one of the races abandoned.
Who Would Know had trained Kate Hercock aboard when working in from the 1000-metre peg in 1:9.5 and was let sprint home the final 600 metres in 38.8. He is a three-year-old by Rios and won an 850-metre jumpout at Waipukurau last month.
Hunta Pence was kept to just three-quarter pace in his workout on the plough, running home the last 600 in 43.8. He is another who missed out on a start at Hastings last Saturday.
An O’Reilly-Music three-year-old filly and a Niagara three-year-old, both in the Lowry/Cullen stable, worked together over 800 metres in 54.6, the last 600 in 39.2.
A Nom de Jeu three-year-old gelding and a Niagara three-year-old, both in the Thompson/Brown stable, worked together over 800 metres on the plough in 56.8, the last 600 in 40.9.
A Nadeem three-year-old filly finished ahead of a Remind eight-year-old gelding after a 600-metre sprint in 38.7 while a No Excuse Needed three-year-old filly had trainer Kate Hercock aboard when running an easy 600 metres in 45.4.
Class mare Miss Wilson stretched out nicely in a solo gallop at this morning’s Hastings track session.
Fast work was carried out on the plough (slushy) and about half-way out on the No.1 grass (heavy). More than 70 millimetres of rain has fallen on the Hastings track since Saturday morning.
Miss Wilson worked in from the 1000-metre peg on the plough in 1:4.6, running the first 400 metres in 27.1 before quickening over the final 600 in 37.5. She looked to be working strongly at the finish.
Jonny Russ and an Equiano two-year-old colt, two others in the John Bary stable, took the time honours for the morning when they worked over 800 metres in 51.9, sprinting the last 600 in 36.6. Jonny Russ is a three-year-old by Ocean Park who finished sixth of eight runners when making his debut over 1200 metres at Waipukurau last month.
Gilhoolie was one of the horses timed on the No.1 grass and he started very quickly in his 1000-metre gallop before slowing considerably over the final stages. He clocked 1:4.3 for the full distance, the first 400 in 24.6 and the last 600 in 39.7.
The Cossack ran a solo 1000 metres on the plough in 1:6.2, the last 600 in 37.9 while his stablemate Craggy Range was given a similar assignment and clocked 1:6.5, the last 600 in 37.8.
Kaipawe worked in from the 1200-metre peg at three-quarter pace and quickened over the last 600. She was timed from the 800-metre peg in 53.3, the last 600 in 38.7.
HB Racing Column 6 Oct 2017
Smokin’ Oak provides special success for trainer and jockey
The win by Smokin’ Oak at last week’s Waipukurau meeting held special significance for his Hastings trainer John Bary and jockey Jonathan Riddell as it was their 50th New Zealand victory together.
The Bary and Riddell combination has been a dominant force on New Zealand racetracks in the past eight years and have also joined forces for success in two important races in Australia. They are best remembered for combining with the outstanding performer Jimmy Choux, who was the winner of 12 races from the Bary stable, five at Group 1 level. Riddell was aboard the Thorn Park entire in 11 of his 12 victories and all five of his Group 1 wins.
Jimmy Choux, with Riddell in the saddle, took out the New Zealand 2000 Guineas, New Zealand Derby, Windsor Park Plate, New Zealand Spring Classic and Rosehill Guineas.
Bary and Riddell’s first success together was when The Hombre won a two-year-old race at Hastings in April 2009 and that was also Riddell’s first ever win in a two-year-old race.
The Hombre went on to race in Australia where Riddell rode him to win the Group 3 Rough Habit Plate in Brisbane in May 2010.
Of the 50 wins Bary and Riddell have had together 13 of them have been in black type races.
Smokin’ Oak is a three-year-old by Burgundy out of the Australian-bred mare Silk Slipper and was bought by John Bary for $45,000 at the Select session of the 2016 Karaka yearling sales.
Bary’s racing manager Mike Sanders said this week the horse was bought for a prospective buyer but that person pulled out. Bary then tried to sell the horse at the two-year-old Ready To Run sale later that year but he failed to attract a bid.
Bary and Sanders then set about organising a group to race the horse and he is now owned by the Burger Boys Syndicate, which is managed by Mike Sanders.
Several members of the syndicate are based in Hawke’s Bay including John and Ros Stace, Doug and Jill Callaghan, Michael and Pam Thomson, Johnny and Pauline Campbell, Mike White and Ian McLean. The other members are Peter, Gerard and Paul Gillespie and their Australian-based sister Anne, Narendra Balia and Mike and Christine Phillips.
Smokin Oak started a warm favourite on debut over 1200 metres at Hastings in April this year but he banged his head when he burst through the front of the barrier before the start. He was declared fit to start but was a bit hesitant to jump away when the start was finally made and was caught three-wide throughout before dropping out to finish last of the nine runners.
Bary decided to give the horse a break after that one run and gave him a 1000m Foxton trial and a 1000m Waipukurau jumpout to prepare him for last week’s return and he finished second on both occasions.
Riddell positioned Smokin’ Oak perfectly just behind the leaders in the early stages of last week’s 1200m maiden at Waipukurau and they shot to a clear early in the home straight. The horse then kept up a strong run to the line to win by 3 lengths from Son Of Surf, with Rio Star half a length back in third place.
Sanders said Smokin’ Oak has come through his winning performance in great order and Bary will now plot a path for the horse towards a run in the Three-year-old Karaka Millions (1600m) at Ellerslie on January 27 next year.
First home track win
Do Ya provided her trainer and part-owner Kirsty Lawrence with a personal milestone when she took out the $12,000 Rating 65 race for fillies and mares at last week’s Waipukurau meeting.
Lawrence has been training a small team of horses on the Waipukurau track for a number of years but it was her first ever win on her home course.
Do Ya stunned the punters when she scored a runaway win in the 1400m event at odds of 18 to 1. Jockey Leah Hemi settled the mare midfield in the early stages before improving her position coming to the home turn. Do Ya established a clear lead early in the home straight and raced right away over the final stages to score by 5-1/4 lengths.
Lawrence wasn’t surprised by Do Ya’s winning performance, saying that she has always been an honest mare and had no luck when 11th at Hastings at her previous start, when caught three-wide throughout. She was also dropping back in class.
Lawrence and her husband Steve race Do Ya in partnership with Steve’s Australian-based brother Chris, Gisborne’s Dinah Newman and her Rotorua-based sister Christina and Susan Best, who works in the Lawrence stables.
Kirsty Lawrence acquired Do Ya by pure chance. She was one of several horses owned by the late Lenny Adin, a Palmerston North owner-breeder who raced several from the stable of Kevin Gray.
When Lenny Adin died his estate wanted to get rid of all of his horses and Lawrence was told there were a number of them running in a paddock that needed a good home. She picked out the Howbaddouwantit-Miss Aquarius mare from a photograph and took her sight unseen.
Lawrence is best known as the trainer and part-owner of Intransigent, a horse that won 11 races including the 2014 Hawke’s Bay Cup and had three consecutive wins in the Kiwifruit Cup at Tauranga.
Do Ya is one of eight horses Lawrence has in work at the moment but her and Steve have also taken in retired horses to look after with three time Group 1 winner Sangster one of them.
Dee’s first Group 1 win
Former Hastings apprentice jockey Michael Dee kicked home his first Group 1 winner when successful aboard Foundry in last Saturday’s $A750,000 The Metropolitan in Sydney.
Dee, 21, produced an immaculate ride in the 2400m feature to get Foundry home a half length winner over Big Duke, with New Zealand-trained Chocante 1-1/4 lengths back in third place.
A son of former trainer Richard Dee, Michael started out as a probationary apprentice with Hastings trainers Guy Lowry and Grant Cullen. He then transferred to Wanganui trainer Kevin Myers for a time before completing his apprenticeship with Caulfield trainer Mick Price in Melbourne.
A natural lightweight Dee has been in keen demand in both Victoria and New South Wales in recent months and has been regularly kicking home winners.
His previous best placings in Group 1 events were a third aboard Allergic in last year’s Metropolitan and a second on Rising Red in this year’s New Zealand Derby at Ellerslie.
Chasing Melbourne Cup start
The John Wheeler-trained Pentathlon has arrived in Melbourne ahead of a campaign aimed at gaining a start in the Melbourne Cup (3200m) on November 7, a race he finished ninth in last year.
He is likely to follow a similar path to what he did last year, but Wheeler will wait to see how his runner pulls up after his first Melbourne assignment this tomorrow before setting any plans in stone.
“His first race will be The Bart Cummings (2500m) this Saturday at Flemington and after that I won’t be sure until I see how everything works out,” he said.
“Obviously the long-term goal is the Melbourne Cup. He will have to win a race beforehand to get in, but what happens between now and then I don’t know.”
Wheeler was pleased with Pentathlon’s two lead-up races in the first two days of the Hawke’s Bay spring carnival, where he finished 11th over 1600m and fourth over 2000m.
“They were outstanding runs,” he said. “They were both on tracks that didn’t suit him and he sat three-wide all the way in his last race over 2000m and finished it off really well.
War Affair coming home
Former Singapore Horse of the Year War Affair will be returning to New Zealand for a six-month spell while his connections ponder his future.
The horse’s trainer Bruce Marsh and his owners, the Ong family, are hoping the greener pastures and fresher air can fix the horse’s well-documented wind issues.
War Affair, who was bred in New Zealand, is a $3million earner in Singapore, where he was crowned Horse of the Year in 2014. Whether he can get back to such heights, let alone race again, will depend on how well he spells in New Zealand.
The seven-year-old O’Reilly gelding last raced in the $S200,000 Jumbo Jet Trophy (1400m) on September 10, where he finished sixth.
McKenzie back on NZTR board
Experienced racing administrator Dean McKenzie is to join the New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing Board.
McKenzie will take up the role following the New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing annual general meeting in November. He will replace retiring board member John Stace, who has been a director since a change in the NZTR constitution led to the formation of an independent board in 2011.
Two other current directors - deputy-chair Victoria Carter ONZM and Rick Williams - will retire by rotation at the annual meeting but have been reappointed by the NZTR Members’ Council.
McKenzie has served on the NZTR Board previously and was deputy chairman of the initial six-member independent board. He relinquished his position later that year, when appointed Chief Executive Officer of Addington Raceway.
Jockey Jonathan Riddell and Smokin’ Oak surge clear of their rivals for a 3 length maiden victory at Waipukurau last week. It was Riddell’s 50th win for Hastings trainer John Bary.
A delighted Waipukurau trainer Kirsty Lawrence leads Do Ya away following the horse’s easy win last week. It was Lawrence’s first success on her home track.
Hastings Trackwork 3 Oct 2017
Londaro stretched out well in a solo gallop on the course proper at this morning’s Hastings track session as he prepares for either the Hawke’s Bay meeting this Saturday or Tauherenikau the following Thursday.
Fast work was mainly confined to the plough, which provided soft footing.
A penetrometer reading was taken on the course proper during the session and came up as a dead4.
Londaro was the only horse worked up against the running rail on the course proper and was used as a guide to see how firm the track was. He worked in from the 1000-metre peg at three-quarter pace before quickening over the last 600. He was timed to run the full distance in 1:7.1, taking 31.8s for the first 400 metres before sprinting home the final 600 in 35.3.
The big Lope de Vega four-year-old finished third on debut over 1300 metres at Taupo in August and then spoilt his chances by racing greenly when seventh over the same distance at the last Hawke’s bay meeting. He worked in blinkers this morning and galloped straight and true.
Hunta Pence worked early in the session and was timed to run home last 600 metres on the plough in 39.5. He will be nominated for the Rating 75 race over 1400 metres at Hastings this Saturday but could be border line in getting a start in what is likely to be a very strong field.
A Nom de Jeu four-year-old gelding in the Thompson/Brown stable finished clear of a Niagara three-year-old gelding at the end of 1000 metres in 1:12.9, the last 600 in 39.9 while Shady Lady, preparing for next week’s Taupo meeting, worked in at three-quarter pace from the 1000-metre peg and quickened over the last 400 in 25.9.
Dare To Rock clocked 1:13.2 for an easy 1000 metres, the last 600 in 41.5 while Pakapunch was kept at just three-quarter pace in a solo run over 1000 metres in 1:13.4, the last 600 in 43.3.
A Nom de Jeu three-year-old gelding in the Thompson/Brown stable looked to be travelling better than Robbie Kapow when they sprinted 600 metres in 37.5 while a Niagara-Asaweb three-year-old gelding in the Lowry/Cullen stable ran an easy 600 metres in 43.9.
Carillion worked in from the 1000-metre peg at three-quarter pace, running the last 600 in 44.7 while a Per Incanto-Mal four-year-old gelding did similar work, quickening slightly over the last 600 in 42.4.
A Niagara-Tycoon Miss three-year-old filly and an O’Reilly-Music three-year-old filly worked together in an easy run over 600 metres in 43 while Vino Blanco was another restricted to just three-quarter pace, her last 600 metres taking 45.3.
A Nadeem three-year-old filly and a Remind eight-year-old gelding ended their work together with 400 metres in 27.3.
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Encompassingness: The Essence of Universal Themes
Actions have “consequences”… no,not in the negative sense. Rather, what we do has effects. When you or I act, it sends ripples, impact tremors like the T-Rex in Jurassic Park, into our lives.
All our choices – the thoughts and actions we choose to entertain and embody – shape our lives beyond the personal… they touch others in their lives, giving us the ability to affect things far beyond our own individual experiences.
An action’s permeability – the qualities that allow it to endure space and time & ride the ripples into lives across demographic and distance – speaks to its Encompassingness.
Encompassingness is why millions have Raced for the Cure and, when it comes to working out, “just do it.” The Susan G. Komen and Nike companies understood the power of slogans, ideas, and missions that appeal to everyone. Any good operation should know, value, and exercise that power.
Everyone has a mother. We know women, rather, people with breasts… then, when men were found to have the same type of cancer: people with bodies. We all have bodies. Because, in the same way that cancer doesn’t discriminate, neither do growth-minded objectives that seek to include and encompass.
Leaders who understand this are able to inspire anyone from anywhere as they embody universal themes and truths that every person can feel in their hearts, minds, bones, spirits…
Because there are some things that touch all humanity, and tapping into those themes draws people in, like loving arms in which one can take root in grounding principles, strip away everything that may prevent their transcending to new heights, and connect to something real and raw that will free them to achieve those new heights.
It’s how politicians win votes. It’s why kids can befriend anyone regardless of demographics. Encompassingness is how comedians like Eddie Murphy and Jerry Seinfeld are able to reach unprecedented levels of success. Another famous comedian, Jim Carrey, said:
The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.
The ability to draw people in, to reach and empower them with the humanity of one’s own story, is a strong and powerful force. What you are able to make others conscious of with your ripples will, ultimately, find its way back to its source: you.
Imagine, what a leader could do with the drive to provide the context for people of all walks of life to turn their sights for some common, “positive” goal and engage in Concurrent Good to reach it… because our similarities are so much stronger than our differences.
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Insertion: Dmel\P{GawB}NP5130
Dmel\P{GawB}NP5130
FBti0013268
transposable_element_insertion_site
esg-GAL4, esgGal4, escargot-gal4, esg::Gal4, esgGal4NP5130
Inserted Element
P{GawB}
GAL4 reporter/driver
Affected gene(s)
Scer\GAL4
Viability / fertility
Associated allele(s)
Scer\GAL4NP5130
7 publicly available
NP5130-3-1
2L ( 35D2 )
Sequence Location
2L:15,333,772..15,333,772 [-]
Target / Docking site
GBrowseJBrowse
Member of Large Scale Dataset(s)
TI_set_P{GawB}.NP
A set of transgenic insertion stocks derived by TE mobilization using the P-element construct P{GawB}. The P{GawB} construct carries a w+mW.hs mini-white visible marker and Scer\GAL4 driver/enhancer trap sequences. The GAL4-UAS system is a binary system using Scer\GAL4, a yeast transcription activator protein gene, and Scer\UAS, the DNA binding site for the GAL4 protein. The P{GawB} construct acts as an enhancer trap: expression of the GAL4 is sensitive to enhancers in the genomic region of an insertion. When paired with a construct or insertion carrying a reporter gene downstream of Scer\UAS, the reporter gene is driven by and reflects the expression of the GAL4.
(Hayashi et al., 2002)
Detailed Mapping Data
Chromosome (arm)
(FlyBase, 2007.6)
Cytological location (computed by FlyBase)
35D2 (inferred by FlyBase from sequence location)
Cytological location (reported)
Insertion into Natural transposon
Comments concerning location
Flanking sequence
AG218990
(FlyBase, 2007.6, FlyBase, 1992-)
Location-dependent role
Associated alleles
Scer\GAL4wB
w+mW.hs
Molecular map
Insertion may affect gene
(Gultekin and Steller, 2019, Wang et al., 2019, Lee et al., 2011, Narbonne-Reveau et al., 2011, Biteau et al., 2010, Buchon et al., 2010, Ninov et al., 2010, Park et al., 2010, Ren et al., 2010, Wang et al., 2010, Zeng et al., 2010, Buchon et al., 2009, Chatterjee and Ip, 2009, Lee et al., 2009, Choi et al., 2008, Villányi et al., 2008, Ninov et al., 2007, Martin and Morata, 2006, Micchelli and Perrimon, 2006, Venkei et al., 2006, Kondoh et al., 2003, Lee and Kolodziej, 2002, Goto and Hayashi, 1999)
Alleles and Phenotypes
Reference(s)
(Gultekin and Steller, 2019, Nakano et al., 2019, Wang et al., 2019, Xu et al., 2019, Iatsenko et al., 2018, Obata et al., 2018, Petrovsky and Großhans, 2018, Xu et al., 2018, Yin and Xi, 2018, McClelland et al., 2017, Ngo et al., 2017, Requena et al., 2017, Tian et al., 2017, Nagy et al., 2016, Singh et al., 2016, Wang et al., 2016, Beehler-Evans and Micchelli, 2015, Jin et al., 2015, Kwon et al., 2015, Liu et al., 2015, Lu and Li, 2015, Meng and Biteau, 2015, Nie et al., 2015, Park et al., 2015, Wang et al., 2015, Yu et al., 2015, Zhai et al., 2015, Banerjee and Chinthapalli, 2014, Berns et al., 2014, Cordero et al., 2014, Huang et al., 2014, Huang et al., 2014, Markstein et al., 2014, Montagne and Gonzalez-Gaitan, 2014, Song et al., 2014, Wang et al., 2014, Yu et al., 2014, Buchon et al., 2013, Guo et al., 2013, Jin et al., 2013, Karpac et al., 2013, Kwon et al., 2013, Lin et al., 2013, Ma et al., 2013, Pitsouli and Perrimon, 2013, Quan et al., 2013, Roti et al., 2013, Tang et al., 2013, Wang et al., 2013, Bangi et al., 2012, Bond and Foley, 2012, Osman et al., 2012, Glittenberg et al., 2011, Lee et al., 2011, Narbonne-Reveau et al., 2011, Biteau et al., 2010, Buchon et al., 2010, Ngo et al., 2010, Ninov et al., 2010, Park et al., 2010, Ren et al., 2010, Wang et al., 2010, Zeng et al., 2010, Buchon et al., 2009, Chatterjee and Ip, 2009, Cronin et al., 2009, Lee et al., 2009, McKay et al., 2009, Choi et al., 2008, Villányi et al., 2008, Zmojdzian et al., 2008, Ninov et al., 2007, Martin and Morata, 2006, Micchelli and Perrimon, 2006, Venkei et al., 2006, Kondoh et al., 2003, Lee and Kolodziej, 2002, Goto and Hayashi, 1999)
Phenotype Data
Phenotypic ClassPhenotype Manifest inDetailed Description
distribution deduced from reporter
Tissue/Position (including subcellular localization)
adult stage
intestinal stem cell
(Ma et al., 2013, Choi et al., 2008)
enteroblast
distribution deduced from reporter (Gal4 UAS)
third instar larval stage
ventral thoracic disc | proximal
(Goto and Hayashi, 1999)
second instar larval stage
ventral thoracic disc | restricted
(Guo et al., 2013, Buchon et al., 2010)
(Guo et al., 2013)
larval stage -- pupal stage
histoblast
(Foronda et al., 2012)
histoblast nest
pupal stage | male
anterior dorsal histoblast nest abdominal 6
posterior dorsal histoblast nest abdominal 6
adult stage | female
(Micchelli and Perrimon, 2006)
larval stage
larval imaginal tissue
(Martin and Morata, 2006)
Drives expression in histoblasts and histoblast nests, in enteroblasts, and in intestinal stem cells.
(FlyBase Curators, 2017)
Scer\GAL4NP5130 drives expression in abdominal histoblast nests and histoblasts, but not in cuticular larval epidermal cells.
Scer\GAL4NP5130 expression is observed in 36% of small cells that occupy a basal position within the adult midgut epithelium.
About half of esg-positive (Scer\GAL4NP5130 expression) cells lack N signalling (do not express Ecol\lacZDdc.be2.E(spl)m8-HLH); these exhibit characteristics of intestinal stem cells and enteroblasts.
Expression in second instar leg discs is excluded from the distal-most regions. Third instar expression is observed in the proximal region of the leg discs.
(Lin et al., 2013, Ma et al., 2013, Choi et al., 2008)
(Guo et al., 2013, Lin et al., 2013, Ma et al., 2013, Foronda et al., 2012, Buchon et al., 2010, Martin and Morata, 2006, Micchelli and Perrimon, 2006, Kondoh et al., 2003, Goto and Hayashi, 1999)
Avic\GFPEGFP.nls.UAS.Tag:MYC
Mmus\Cd8aUAS.cLa.EGFP
(Buchon et al., 2010, Micchelli and Perrimon, 2006)
tkvGD2549
Avic\GFPUAS.cUa
Data on Genetic Line
Origin as a multiple insertion line
Progenitor(s) within the Genome
Related Aberration or Balancer
w*; P{GawB}NP5130; P{UAS-VC3Ai}3
w*; P{GawB}NP5130/CyO; P{UAS-GC3Ai}3
w*; P{GawB}NP5130 P{UAS-GFP.U}2/CyO; P{UAS-Cas9.P2}attP2
w*; P{GawB}NP5130 P{UAS-GFP.U}2/CyO; P{UAS-3xFLAG.dCas9.VPR}attP2
w*; P{GawB}NP5130 P{UAS-GFP.U}2; P{UAS-3xFLAG.dCas9.VPR}attP2, P{tubP-GAL80ts}2
y* w*; P{GawB}NP5130 / CyO, P{UAS-lacZ.UW14}UW14
y1 w67c23; P{GawB}NP5130 P{UAS-GFP.S65T}Myo31DFT2 P{UAS-GFP::lacZ.nls}2-1 / CyO
Location 2L:15329700-15329701 refined by FlyBase alignment of dbGSS accession AG218990 to D. melanogaster arm Release_4 and heterochromatin Release_3.2b. Insertion orientation revised.
(FlyBase, 2005)
Synonyms and Secondary IDs (18)
Escargot-Gal4
(Osman et al., 2012, Narbonne-Reveau et al., 2011)
Esg-GAL4
(Cronin et al., 2009, Zmojdzian et al., 2008)
(Petrovsky and Großhans, 2018, Yu et al., 2015, Huang et al., 2014, Zeng et al., 2010, Ninov et al., 2007)
NP5130
(Ninov et al., 2007)
P{GAL4}NP5130
(FlyBase, 1992-)
P{GawB}NP5130
P{GawB}NP5130-3-1
(FlyBase, 2005, FlyBase, 1992-)
escargo Gal4
(Venkei et al., 2006)
(Berns et al., 2014, Cronin et al., 2009)
(Tang et al., 2013)
(Cordero et al., 2014)
(Nakano et al., 2019, Kwon et al., 2015, Park et al., 2015, Banerjee and Chinthapalli, 2014, Jin et al., 2013, Bangi et al., 2012, Glittenberg et al., 2011, Ngo et al., 2010, Park et al., 2010, Choi et al., 2008, Lee and Kolodziej, 2002, Goto and Hayashi, 1999)
(Gultekin and Steller, 2019, Wang et al., 2019, Iatsenko et al., 2018, Obata et al., 2018, Xu et al., 2018, Yin and Xi, 2018, Ngo et al., 2017, Tian et al., 2017, Nagy et al., 2016, Singh et al., 2016, Wang et al., 2016, Beehler-Evans and Micchelli, 2015, Jin et al., 2015, Liu et al., 2015, Yu et al., 2015, Markstein et al., 2014, Montagne and Gonzalez-Gaitan, 2014, Song et al., 2014, Buchon et al., 2013, Guo et al., 2013, Karpac et al., 2013, Ma et al., 2013, Pitsouli and Perrimon, 2013, Tang et al., 2013, Wang et al., 2013, Lee et al., 2011, Biteau et al., 2010, Buchon et al., 2010, Ninov et al., 2010, Ren et al., 2010, Buchon et al., 2009, Chatterjee and Ip, 2009, McKay et al., 2009, Villányi et al., 2008, Martin and Morata, 2006, Micchelli and Perrimon, 2006, Kondoh et al., 2003, Goto and Hayashi, 1999)
(Bond and Foley, 2012)
esg::Gal4
(Wang et al., 2015, Wang et al., 2014)
esgNP5130-Gal4
(Requena et al., 2017)
esgGal4
(Xu et al., 2019, Lu and Li, 2015, Meng and Biteau, 2015, Nie et al., 2015, Huang et al., 2014, Yu et al., 2014, Karpac et al., 2013, Lin et al., 2013, Ma et al., 2013, Quan et al., 2013, Biteau et al., 2010, Wang et al., 2010, Lee et al., 2009)
esgGal4NP5130
(McClelland et al., 2017, Meng and Biteau, 2015)
Progenitor(s)
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Dr Lamis Beshir
Futurist Profile
• Bachelor of medicine and surgery (MBBS)
• Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom, MRCP(UK)
• Currently studying a postgraduate certificate of clinical research ethics at the University of Maryland.
Lamis answered a few questions about her perspective and on being a futures thinker.
ABOUT YOU AS A FUTURES THINKER / PRACTITIONER
You identify yourself as an African futures thinker or practitioner. How would you describe to the woman or man on the street what it is that you do in this regard?
Foresight studies involve critical thinking that concern long-term development, change plans and participatory policies.
I consider myself as a futurist who tries to reject the negative stereotypes about Africa and African people by providing positive and exceptional examples.
How many years have you worked as an African futures thinker / practitioner?
I have practiced foresight studies for much more years but have identified myself as future-practitioner in the past 4 years only.
In which countries or places have you had working experience as an African futures thinker / practitioner?
Sudan, Kenya, Morocco, UK, USA
In what languages have you undertaken futures / foresight related work or research?
Arabic, English, French
What is it that motivates you to work or participate in the foresight / future studies / related field
I am extremely passionate about development. I believe that in order to make a positive social change, we should have a voice as pan-Africanists.
The world has a stereotypical picture of Africa, that would not change unless African themselves advocate for a new future.
The future cannot be shaped unless we understand the past and foresee innovative solutions to tackle it.
I look forward for a prosperous future of Africa that uses its human and natural resources to go forward and build a continent where the wellbeing and dignity of people come first.
What goal/s would you most like to reach with your work as an African futures thinker / practitioner?
I aspire to inspire and mentor other Africans through being a role model in whatever I do.
I would like to see a lot of opportunities for Africans. I look forward that our generations and the future ones can be autonomous, independent and capable of making a positive social change.
Who or what most influenced your thinking as a futures thinker / practitioner, and how?
I think Nelson Mandela is one of the most powerful, revolutionary and inspiring African leader and philanthropist.
What is your main disciplinary background? (i.e. your primary training / qualification)
I am a physician with a membership of the royal college of physicians of the United Kingdom.
I am also training in clinical research ethics.
I think the practice of research ethics and foresight are intertwined as a lot of the research review depends on expectations and risk-benefit assessment, which is also the case of future studies.
How do other people describe you and how do you describe yourself?
Others describe me as… Wise
I describe myself as… Disciplined
YOUR PERSPECTIVE
What is one of your favourite quotes about the future?
"Every life is lived forwards, but can only be clearly understood by looking backwards" - Bev James
“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.” - Nelson Mandela
“Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.” - Margaret Thatcher
How would you describe the state of African futures thinking right now?
Uprising and energising
What is, in your opinion, the main barrier to uptake of futures knowledge by African institutions and organisations?
The perception of leadership in African institutions is limited by a model of authoritarian leadership that sometimes limits creativity and team collaborations.
I think there are also a lot of financial and social pressures that might stand in the way.
If you were to give advice to someone who wants a career in African foresight / future studies, what would you say to him or her?
Learn continuously and think outside the box, have a systematic approach to make a transformational change.
Practice and construct multiple future scenarios. These can be an interim on the way to create a positive change vision. Last but not least, have a clear vision of your goals and objectives.
What are your recommended readings for every African futures thinker / practitioner?
A long walk to freedom, Nelson Mandela remains one of my favourite books.
What are your recommendations for other favourite futures resources: websites, newsfeeds, mailing lists, associations, etc.?
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/technological-forecasting-and-social-change/
The journal of future studies, strategic thinking and policy
http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=fs
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apple-history / iBook (Late 2001)
Family: iBook
Codename: P54, Diesel
Gestalt ID: 406
Minimum OS: 9.2.1
Maximum OS: 10.4.11
Introduced: October 2001
CPU: PowerPC 750CX "G3"
CPU Speed: 600 MHz
FPU: integrated
Bus Speed: 100 MHz
Register Width: 32-bit
Data Bus Width: 64-bit
Level 1 Cache: 32 kB data, 32 kB instruction
Level 2 Cache: 256 kB on-processor
ROM: 1 MB ROM + 3 MB toolbox ROM loaded into RAM
RAM Type: PC100 SO-DIMM
Minimum RAM Speed: 100 MHz
Onboard RAM: 128 MB
RAM slots: 1
Maximum RAM: 640 MB
Screen: 12.1" active matrix
GPU: ATI Rage Mobility (2x AGP)
VRAM: 8 MB
Max Resolution: 1024x768
Video Out: mini-VGA, Composite A/V
Hard Drive: 15 GB
ATA Bus: ATA-66
Optical Drive: 24x CD-ROM, 8x DVD-ROM, 24x/8x/4x CD-RW or 24x/6x/4x/4x CD-RW/DVD-ROM
USB: 2
Firewire: 1
Audio Out: stereo 16 bit mini
Speaker: stereo
Microphone: mono
Modem: 56 kbps
Ethernet: 10/100Base-T
Wi-Fi: optional 802.11b
Power: 45 Watts
Dimensions: 11.2" H x 9.1" W x 1.35" D
The CD-ROM model ran at 500 MHz, with a 66 MHz bus speed. The Combo drive model had a 20 GB hard drive.
Announced in October 2001, the iBook (Late 2001) was a "speed-bump" of the iBook (Dual USB). The processor speed in most configurations was increased to 600 MHz, and the bus speed was increased to 100 MHz. The base RAM on the low-end model was increased to 128 MB, and the size of the internal hard drive was increased to 15 GB in most configurations.
The iBook (Late 2001) was available in four configurations, each with a different optical drive: The CD-ROM model, running at 500 MHz, was $1299, The DVD-ROM model was $1499, the CD-RW model (available only as a BTO option at the Apple Store), $1599, and the "Combo" DVD-ROM/CD-RW Model, with a larger 20 GB hard drive, was $1699 (a $100 reduction from the previous Combo Drive model).
Following the addition of a 14.1" iBook in January 2002, the iBook (Dual USB) was repriced. The CD-ROM model moved to $1199, the CD-RW model was terminated, the DVD-ROM model (now available only as a BTO option) was now $1299, and the "Combo Drive" model was repriced to $1499.
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Reaching the first 90%: Cost-effectiveness of HIV testing services and HIV self-testing in Zambia
By Nuri Ahmed, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
STAR Initiative Health Economists, including Nuri on the far right
HIV self-testing (HIVST) provides an opportunity for people to test and re-test themselves for HIV discreetly and conveniently. HIVST could provide critical tools towards reaching 90% of HIV-positive people knowing their status, which is the first step in achieving the UNAIDS 90-90-90 goals. Reactive HIVST results followed by confirmatory testing at health facilities will facilitate linkage to treatment for HIV positive people and help to prevent new HIV transmission.
Zambia is in the process of developing a national HIVST policy. However, since HIVST is an emerging technology in the country, there is currently insufficient understanding of the use of alternative HIV testing approaches for HIVST distribution, and the costs and the effectiveness of HIVST. Thus, it is critical to understand the cost-effectiveness of alternative HIV testing services to inform the introduction of HIVST to have maximum impact.
As part of my doctoral work at LSHTM, a probabilistic discrete microsimulation on a Markov model (a stochastic model used to model randomly changing systems) has been under development using TreeAge Pr
o 2017. This will be used to examine costs and health effects (quality-adjusted life years – QALYs) of HIV testing using alternative HIVST distribution models from the healthcare payer perspective with a ten-year time horizon. This model will apply the primary observed costing data from the STAR project and extrapolate missing parameters from a systematic review. The target population will include men and women aged 15 years and above; this is done to simulate the heterosexual population at risk of acquiring HIV infection.
The Markov model will use the current HIV testing options used in Zambia to distribute HIVST kits, and these are being compared to the standard HIV testing services at the government health facility. These current testing options are provider-initiated testing and counselling (PITC), voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) and antenatal care HIV testing.
The outcome is estimating the cost per QALY gained. The observed costs and health effects (QALYs gained) related to each of the HIVST distribution models will be compared to inform which one is the most likely to represent the most cost-effective approach.
Furthermore, this study is calculating the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) for adding different HIVST distribution interventions to the standard of HIV testing services. The ICER will be calculated as incremental costs divided by the incremental health benefit (QALYs gained) of each HIVST distribution intervention strategy compared with the next less costly/effective alternative distribution strategy. As a standard practice, economic evaluation applies discounting to account the preferences of people in receiving benefits earlier and paying the costs later.
Deterministic (one-way univariate) and probabilistic sensitivity analyses (PSA) will be performed to ensure the robustness of the input parameters and assumptions in the decision model. The Markov model will be calibrated to match the most recently available HIV prevalence estimates, annual HIV incidence rate and mortality rate, linkage to ART, retention in ART and viral load suppression data from Zambia. The population will be divided by age, gender, and risk of HIV infection. Both HIV specific and other causes of mortality are being incorporated into the model.
The findings are expected to contribute to Zambia’s HIV testing policy by providing evidence on cost-effective modalities and to assist policymakers to formulate informed scale-up plans of HIVST to reach the adult population who are unaware of their HIV status. These applications of decision analytical modelling to inform programmatic decisions based on cost-effective approaches are essential to maximise the uptake and the impact of HIVST scale-up.
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"Hey Jason. How are you going there?"
Luke jumped onto the pier to help Jason bring several bags aboard.
"Not bad. This is about half of my stuff. The rest's still in the car. Scott and Dean will be here soon with their stuff. They're coming in Dean's car."
"Ok, well just dump it all on the aft deck for now. We'll stow it once everything's here. And I still need to check it all."
"Luke?"
"What's up?"
"Are you really going to go through everything?"
"Sure am. Why, you got something you don't want me to see?"
"Well, to be quite honest, yeah. Oh, it's nothing illegal or anything like that, just kind of personal, that's all."
"Ok Jason. I'm going to ask you a question now and I want you to remember our agreement about being open and honest about everything. What have you got in your bags that you're worried about?"
"Um, well, there's some magazines. And, um, well, a thing I use sometimes when I'm wanking."
"Ok. Well I don't see anything wrong with any of that. No secrets remember. Look, don't worry about it. We're all going to see it today, or at some time later, so it might as well be today."
As Luke finished, Dean's car pulled up. Together the four of them unloaded the rest of Jason's belongings and Scott and Dean's from the cars. Scott had only one backpack, Dean had as much as Jason.
"Scott, is there more of yours to come, or are you travelling light?" Luke asked.
"Travelling light. I've just got the essentials, a pair of jeans, couple of T-shirts, a pair of shorts, one pair of underwear, a couple of pairs of socks and another pair of shoes, oh, and a jacket. Plus a few other bits and pieces to fill up the pack. I thought there wasn't much point in bringing heaps if I'm not going to wear any of it on the trip."
"Ok then, I might as well begin the search I guess."
Luke grabbed one of Jason's bags first and opened it in the cabin with the other three watching. "What have we got here, let's see. Ok, clothes, clothes, clothes, smokes, more smokes, toilet bag with, um, soap, toothbrush, toothpaste, razor, condoms, the usual. Ah, what's this? Penthouse, Hustler and another Penthouse. I'm sure those will be borrowed occasionally. Next bag. Clothes, clothes, shit anyone would think you were starting an op shop! What's this at the bottom? I don't know if I want to touch that. What is it?"
Jason reddened.
"I know what that is," said Scott, "it's a wanking sleeve thing. You lube it up and fuck it. I think it's one of those expensive ones with a vibrator in it too. Why didn't you tell us you had one of those then Jase?"
"Yeah right, like you'd tell me if you had one."
"I would. What about when my old man bought me that blow up doll for Christmas last year? I lent that to you for a week man. What a hold out!"
"This isn't the same. I mean you wouldn't want to borrow this after I'd used it would you?"
"I dunno, I've played with Cindy since you borrowed it, and I know for a fact you porked her, half the tube of KY was gone when I got it back."
"Well feel free to use this if you really want, just clean it after Ok?"
Meanwhile Luke had finished looking through Jason's bags and was looking in the last of Dean's.
"Ah, the first booze." said Luke as he withdrew a hip flask of scotch from Dean's bag, looked at it and replaced it. Next he unzipped Scott's pack. Scott had not been lying about what he had in the way of cloths. Just over a third of the pack contained his clothing, the rest was an interesting assortment of bits and pieces.
"Now this is what I was expecting. What have we got here? Beer, vodka, a couple of year's worth of Playboy and Penthouse, complete with the obligatory stuck together pages. What's this in the plastic bag?"
"Trust me Luke, you don't want to open that."
"Ok then, you open it."
"Sure here you go."
From the bag Scott produced a mottled yellow piece of fabric that appeared to be starched almost solid, and very wrinkled. Both Dean and Jason let out a moan.
"Why the hell did you have to bring that Scott? It's really gross."
The tentative look on Luke's face prompted Scott to explain.
"It's my cum rag. You see I've used this rag to wipe myself up every time I come in my room at home for the last, um I guess three or four years. It's kind of scratchy at the moment though, it hasn't ever been washed. But it gets like that about every six months, then it comes right again after a few weeks, sometimes I think it dries out a little bit too much. If you want I could chuck it, it's just kinda' part of me. Literally I guess."
"I don't mind, just so long as you feed it and keep it tied up. Now what else have we got here? What's all this photocopied stuff?"
"Oh that's a bootleg copy of the best of Penthouse Forum for the last twelve years. I got it off a guy at work last week, haven't read much yet, but it's pretty hardon making stuff. And that thing at the bottom there is my special box of toys. If you open it you'll see what I mean. I've been collecting those quietly for the last two years, kinda beats Jason's doesn't it. I only brought them along because I didn't want to throw them away, and I couldn't leave them at home."
In the box was a wide assortment of men's sex toys and devices, from a Super Sleeve for masturbation, to cock rings and testicle stretching weights.
"If any of you guys want to try any of that stuff, feel free."
Luke replaced the box, closed Scott's pack and stood stretching his back.
"Well, I have to say I'm a little disappointed in you guys."
The three young men looked at Luke with worry on their faces.
"We're going to be at sea for quite a while guys, and I'm afraid wanking tools and soft core porn is not going to keep you entertained for all that long. I suggest that if you have any money left you go out now and get something that might keep you interested a bit longer. Remember, my only stipulations are that it's legal and not too big."
Dean asked the other two, "Where shall we go then?"
Scott replied, "There's that really sleazy porno shop down by the old market, I've always been too chicken to go by myself. Let's go there."
"Don't you guys think about anything other than sex?"
Completely seriously Dean turned back to Luke as they leapt off the boat, his reply, "No. What else is there?"
Luke returned to the hotel he had used as a home for the last few weeks and packed the few things he had left in the room then checked out. He was going to spend that night on the boat so he could make final preparations at first light. His crew had been told to be on board and ready by 6am ready for an immediate cast off. Luke still had a few bits and pieces to sort out before he was ready to abandon the land, so returned quickly to the marina, stowed his stuff and headed for town to pick up last minute supplies.
"Dean, go down below and check the oil pressure gauge on engine one will you? Jason, you go down with him and check the waste release valve is closed, it's the one with waste release valve written on it. Scott, come up here and help me raise the antennae. We're out of here in ten minutes guys."
As he was going below decks Dean looked towards the pier and yelled to his parents,
"You might as well go now, we're about to cast off. I'll call you as soon as we make port."
The Andersons did not move. They had no intention of leaving until the Nova was well under way. Steve Stringer looked nervously at his watch.
"Actually, I have to leave in a few minutes, can't afford to be late for work. Hope Luke wasn't just saying ten minutes."
Andrea Cameron just nodded in response, her attention fixed on her son helping raise an antenna mast.
Eight minutes later Luke was satisfied that everything was in order and called the other three to the aft deck and spoke quietly to them so their parents couldn't overhear.
"It's time to cast off. Do you want to go right now, or go ashore for a couple of minutes to say last goodbyes?"
The three unanimously agreed that they wanted to get under way immediately. Luke moved to the deck wheel housing and increased the throttle from a dull thud to a gentle pounding that felt like it was coming from deep in the harbour. Scott jumped to the pier and released the bow rope, he then waved to his mother and untied the aft rope and jumped back aboard.
Slowly the Nova eased away from the pier and nosed its way into the tight channel between millions of dollars worth of yachts and launches heading towards the harbour channel. As they pulled away all four looked back and waved to the five parents who stood on the pier waving. Dean shook his head.
"My bloody mother's blubbing all over dad's shoulder. That's great."
Within half an hour Luke had the throttle at half power and they were making their way rapidly out of the harbour into the Hauraki Gulf and heading north.
"In ten minutes we'll pump her up to three quarters and make a run for open water."
They had left the pier at 7am. By 8 they were ten miles from the coast and heading north. As soon as they crossed the last shipping lane Luke pulled the throttle back to three fifths which was the standard cruising setting. As soon as he did almost all engine noise disappeared. This had been one of his design stipulations. When the Nova was cruising at an optimum long haul speed there was to be as little engine noise as possible. The design had been perfect. The motor could hardly be heard under the sound of the white caps slapping the sides of the hull and the gentle rush of the early morning sea breeze.
By mid morning they were well clear of the shore. The east coast of the North Island could only just be seen on the horizon. Ahead, only clear water. Luke had set the automated course correction system running an hour earlier, but had stayed in the wheel house to make sure it was working properly. It was just after ten and Luke was satisfied everything was running smoothly, and thirst forced him to leave the wheel. He turned and climbed down the short ladder from the wheel house into the main cabin. As he drank a cold can of Coke he stripped off his shirt and shorts and threw them into the storage space under his bunk.
Now naked, Luke walked up the cabin steps onto the aft deck. There Jason and Dean sat, wearing only shorts, reading. Dean was reading a spy novel and Jason was reading a porn comic he had bought the afternoon earlier. Luke couldn't help but notice Jason's erection forming a large bulge in his shorts. There was a packet of cigarettes and a lighter sitting beside Jason.
"So the smokes are for after sex huh?"
Jason looked up at Luke and shaded his eyes from the sun. Immediately his eyes ran down from Luke's face to his groin and quickly flicked back up to his face.
"What's that mean?"
"Well, it looks to me like you're about to come in your shorts. Must be a good comic."
"It's not bad. But I've never come just from reading, well, not yet anyway."
"Where's Scott?"
"Up forward I think. Is there anything you want us to do Luke?"
"Nup, you're right for now dudes."
Luke was a little disappointed, though not surprised, that Dean and Jason had made no move to strip off once they had seen him naked. He had thought that once they saw that he really meant what he had told them that they would quickly follow suit. If they were going to stay dressed it was going to be hard for Luke to feel totally comfortable about being naked.
As he rounded the cabin bulkhead onto the foredeck Luke was pleasantly surprised to see Scott crouched at the bow, facing the oncoming breeze, and naked. From the back it was clear to see that the others had not been lying when they had said he had an all over tan. There was a faint tan line at the base of Scott's back, but there was definitely no major distinction between light and dark.
"How's it going Scott?"
Scott turned his head to look at Luke. He kept his hands on the railing.
"Good thanks. It is ok for me to strip off isn't it? I guess you've already answered that question haven't you."
"Of course it's ok. Beautiful day today isn't it. And doesn't that breeze feel good on the body."
Scott stood and turned towards Luke. He had an erection which stood almost straight up.
"Yeah, well you can see what it's done to mine." And with a laugh he pulled his cock down towards the deck with his thumb and let it spring back up and slap his flat stomach. "What are those other two losers doing?"
"They're reading on the aft deck."
"Have they stripped off yet?"
"Not yet, no."
"Well, let's go tell them they should."
Luke grabbed Scott's shoulder as he strode past, Scott stopped and turned to face him.
"I really don't think we should tell them to. It should really be their decision."
"Oh, don't sweat it man. They will strip eventually. But if nobody says anything it could be days. I'll tell them, no problems."
Luke followed Scott around to the aft deck.
"Why the fuck aren't you two cocksuckers naked yet? Shit Jase, I'm surprised you haven't split your shorts yet! Look at that fuckin' tent!"
"You can talk, look at yourself!"
"Ah, yes, but it feels so good swinging in the breeze. Come on guys, you'll make Luke and me feel underdressed. Go on Dean, you know you want to."
Jason lit a cigarette and Dean scowled at Scott. Scott stood in front of him with a silly smile on his face. His erection had now begun to subside. After a few moments Dean rolled his eyes, sighed and stood up. He reached down and with a quick motion pulled his shorts down and off. He stood with his shorts in his hand and spoke to Scott.
"Happy now?"
Dean dropped his shorts to the deck and sat down again. Scott smiled and nodded.
Jason put down his comic and stood.
"Oh, fuck it, ok, ok, consider them gone."
With that he bent slightly and pulled down his shorts from the waste band, taking care not to snag his hardon as he removed them. As he pulled them the other three all noticed the string of precum stretching from the head of his cock to the inside of the shorts glistening in the sun. After stepping out of the shorts he picked them up and theatrically dropped them to the deck from his outstretched hand. Just as he released them a gust of wind caught the shorts and carried them in a clean arc into the ocean at the stern of the boat.
All four burst into laughter. Through his laughter Dean said; "At least you won't have to worry about cleaning all that precum off them!"
Jason was hanging over the railing watching the white shorts disappearing in the wake. Luke walked over and stood beside him.
"Never mind. Well, you don't really need them anyway, do you? Consider it a symbolic burial at sea for the pointless constraints of society."
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MLB - Do or Die Weekend in the National League (Leave up all weekend)
If you have been betting baseball this week and playing the division leaders figuring they have to win to make the playoffs against a crummy array of teams, any thoughts of a wonderful dinner at Ruth Chris or any other fine steakhouse has been reduced to Campbell�s soup and crackers.
New York Mets backers were feeling comforted after winning last three games in Florida and taking on lowly Washington. The Mets lost the first game of the series, but what the heck, you can�t win them all. Well, quicker than you can say Washington Senators, the Nationals swept the Mets, who also lost a make-up to St. Louis to lose 8.55 units in FOUR games. With three games still to play, New York is 40-38, -19.3 units at Shea Stadium. With five teams within two games of one another, New York could only not lose the division; they could end up out of the playoffs all together.
Pittsburgh was closing the season like they have there bags packed for the off-season losing nine straight games. They come home to finish off another dismal year and face league leading Arizona. Only in 2007 would this happen, the Pirates won the series, taking the first two games, damaging the D-Backs with San Diego and Colorado in hot pursuit. The Rockies are on a Rocky Mountain high having won 11 in a row and setting a franchise record for wins. Colorado has the second best home record in the National League at 48-30 (+12.5 units). Who would have ever guessed in early April, Arizona visiting Coors Field in the last series of the year would help decide a pennant race.
Any Cub fan worth their salt knew this week was going to be similar to having wisdom teeth pulled trying to win Central Division crown. Of the three previous Cubs teams that have made the playoffs in the last 23 years, this is easily the worst of the batch; nonetheless the St. Louis Cardinals of 2006 did not have one recall the 1927 Yankees. After being swept in Florida (0-6 this year against Marlins), it�s off to Cincinnati trying to win a division title.
Two second place teams will compete three more times in Milwaukee trying to hunt down a division crown or more. Milwaukee who lost Thursday night has less options being two games behind Chicago with no chance for wild card. San Diego trails Arizona by one game and is a single game ahead of Philadelphia and Colorado for the wild card. The Phillies have pulled even with the Mets in the NL East and host Washington this weekend.
It�s not going to happen, but wouldn�t it be fun if all seven contending teams ended tied. Let the fun continue as we as bettors try to sort out this craziness called the National League.
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After the disappointing downward trend of quality for this series, this volume was a somewhat refreshing addition. Though the plot was rather basic and a bit nonsensical at times, overall it was a decent enough addition to the series. The artwork is solid and makes the story more engaging. This volume also includes Wonder Woman Annual #2, which as a fan of the Star Sapphires I enjoyed. However, the ending to this arc was incredibly rushed and told in a way that completely removed any sense of su ...more
The screenplay will be co-written by three people: Jenkins, Johns, and The Expendables writer Dave Callaham. Callaham’s involvement was revealed on Sept. 13, disappointing fans who hoped for another woman on the film’s core creative team. That being said, it seems that Callaham was personally recruited by Jenkins herself since they already worked together on a previous project.
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Their first adventure together as a serious couple involved a battle with Doomsday, a monster of Kryptonian legend.[57] Superman, already familiar to the monster, explained that Doomsday was sealed into a pocket dimension called the Phantom Zone. Seeking preparation against enemies that could match them in power, Wonder Woman asked Hephaestus to forge weapons for them.[58] Later, the Justice League intercepted the arrival of General Zod, another Kryptonian survivor. Superman gave him shelter in the Fortress of Solitude, but the couple discovered their relationship was now public knowledge.[59][60]
John Byrne's run included a period in which Diana's mother Hippolyta served as Wonder Woman, having traveled back to the 1940s, while Diana ascended to Mount Olympus as the Goddess of Truth after being killed in issue #124. In addition, Wonder Woman's Amazon ally Nubia was re-introduced as Nu'Bia, scripted by a different author.[40] Byrne posited that Hippolyta had been the Golden Age Wonder Woman. Byrne restored the series' status quo in his last issue.[41]
In order to defeat them, Superman and Wonder Woman collected the magic armor created by Hephaestus and intercepted Zod and Faora while they were building a portal to the Phantom Zone. At first, they defeated Zod and Faora by detonating their armor at point-blank range, but Zod and Faora were revitalized by a beam of sunlight sent by Apollo, which gave the criminals enough strength to beat Superman and Wonder Woman and trap them in an abandoned nuclear reactor. As a last-ditch effort to stop their enemies, Superman and Wonder Woman caused a nuclear explosion, but not before Clark told Diana that he loved her. The explosion trapped Zod and Faora back in the Phantom Zone, and Superman shielded Wonder Woman with his cape.[62] The two heroes barely survived the explosion and Superman took Diana to Hessia, who used a healing crystal to save her.[63]
“As to the ‘advanced femininity,’ what are the activities in comic books which women ‘indulge in on an equal footing with men’? They do not work. They are not homemakers. They do not bring up a family. Mother-love is entirely absent. Even when Wonder Woman adopts a girl there are Lesbian overtones,” he said. At the Senate hearings, Bender testified, too. If anything in American popular culture was bad for girls, she said, it wasn’t Wonder Woman; it was Walt Disney. “The mothers are always killed or sent to the insane asylums in Walt Disney movies,” she said. This argument fell on deaf ears.
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This is it! The final step!
Amara repeated these words under her breath as she sat in front of the vanity table, staring at her artfully made-up face in the mirror. The cosmetician who worked on her face had proven how good she was at her job. Amara’s brows were drawn to perfection, sleek, dark lines that arched over eyes so shadowed and plucked that her hazel eyes were made even more striking than they already were. Her cheeks were so rosy one would think she was blushing, especially given how startling her light complexion was against the rouge. And the swell of her lips, ruby-red and sensual, was rumpled into a moue as she inhaled and exhaled in rapid succession.
Just then, there was a knock on the door – three rapid raps, then a beat before a final tap.
It was her father’s signature knock.
“Come on in!” the twenty-six-year-old called out softly.
Mazi Peters jerked the door open, and his gilt-topped walking stick tapped its way ahead of him into the room. Amara turned to behold her father as he advanced into the room. The man was sixtyish, widowed, and looked very dapper in the tuxedo that held his slight paunch in quite well. His well-trimmed salt-and-pepper hair finished off the stately look the wedding planner had been aiming at for the Father of the Bride.
As Amara rose to meet him, her eyes taking him in, really taking him in, she suddenly realized that his hair was more salt than pepper; her father’s hair was almost completely white. She also found herself wondering if his face had always been so withered with age. When had her father gotten so old? His apparent mortality struck her in that moment, and she felt a tug of melancholy at the thought that she was braced on the cusp of a new life, whilst her father’s was expiring.
“Are you ready?” he said, his Igbo accent thickened around the words.
Amara dredged up a smile, took one last inhalation and upon expelling it, said, “I’ve never been more ready.”
She watched the paternal pride shine through her father’s countenance as he watched her approach him. She knew he was thinking about her mother, about how she probably reminded him of her on the day he stood at the end of an aisle, watching his bride advance. Amara had grown up forever hearing remarks about how she looked too much like her mother. Oyirinneya, some of her aunties had taken to calling her. She watched her father blink rapidly over the moisture she’d spotted in his eyes, saw the delight brimming there, and wondered if perhaps he was more excited about this day than she was.
As she drew up next to him, she stretched out her hand to him, and he took it.
“You look beautiful, Amarachi nwa m,” the man said in a voice made husky with emotion. “Your mother would be so proud!”
Feeling a surge of emotion in her chest, Amara embraced her father briefly, blinking back the tears that threatened. The last thing she needed was to ruin her makeup now. Then she pulled back, and her father beamed at her again, tapping the hand in his comfortingly. She turned and picked up the bouquet that was riotous collection of reds and yellows, and allowed her father to lead her out of the room.
Word travelled ahead of them as they approached the chapel, and just as the father and daughter came up behind the bridal train that was about to proceed into the church, the church organ burst out into the rich melody of ‘Here comes the bride’.
Amara rolled her eyes.
“I know, I hate it too,” Mazi Peters said with a chuckle, apparently catching her fleeting exasperated expression.
They both entered the chapel laughing.
Walking down the aisle felt like the scariest thing Amara had ever done. Even with her father by her side, she felt alone. And it didn’t help that she didn’t know more than half of the guests smiling at her from the pews as she walked past them. Most of these people were her father’s business partners, pompous-looking men and women who no doubt would make nice contributions to the start of her married life.
Her stare soon moved from somewhere ahead of her to the altar and the people standing there with expectant smiles; the priest with his flowing robes flanked by her bridesmaids on one side and her dashing husband-to-be and his groomsmen on the other.
The sight of them waiting should have made her feel just a little bit better, but it didn’t.
Soon, she was standing in front of the man who was going to be her husband, ready to exchange vows with a man whose suit fit him a little too perfectly, whose face was so flawlessly structured and whose bright smile evidenced how sure he was about the choice he’d made to marry her.
Amara found herself wondering why she couldn’t find solace in that, why she didn’t share his confidence in their nuptials.
After a lot of preceding talk, full of verses solemnly dispensed from the bible, the priest began, “Do you, Kareem Musa, take this woman, Amarachi Peters, as your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better and for worse, for richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do you part?”
“I do,” her husband-to-be quickly responded as he looked deeply into her eyes.
The steadiness of his stare caused a niggling of discomfort to flutter inside Amara, and she looked quickly away from him, breaking the eye contact.
“And do you,” the priest said, turning to her, “Amarachi Peters, take this man, Kareem Musa, as your lawfully wedded husband, to have and to hold –”
He was cut off when the bride let out a loud cough, one that startled the entire church into a deeper silence than the one that accompanied the vows.
“Oh, I’m sorry,” she muttered hastily.
“That’s alright,” Kareem murmured, his warm voice drawing her gaze back to his face.
He was still smiling, but the newly self aware Amara noticed how the smile wasn’t properly anchored. She saw the tenseness that ran along the edges of his mouth and observed the wariness that was creeping through his countenance. What was wrong? Was he no longer sure of this – of her?
“Please go one,” she mumbled to the priest, before looking quickly away, sweeping an unfocused look over the seated guests.
Then she stiffened. Her gaze focused on the woman seated way in the back of the chapel. Her wedding guests were a bright dazzle of pomp and pageantry, and still she could distinguish her from everyone else in the room.
You’re here! Oh God, why are you here! She wanted to scream the words, even as a tide of emotions rose within her, threatening to overwhelm her.
“…until death do you part?”
The finishing words of the priest came to her then, and she was startled around, first to look at his face, grave and expectant, and then her groom’s, which was wary and questioning.
I do. You’re supposed to say ‘I do.’
She opened her mouth and the words wouldn’t come. She was struck by a fleeting sense of panic, her hands clenching harder to Kareem’s as they held each other.
What was she doing? she queried herself as her panic rose. She was the same woman who, five years ago, scoffed at the idea of marriage and fulfilling the heteronormative culture of man. She’d been a hard-core feminist, one who was passionate about her commitments.
How did she get from there to marrying a man she didn’t love?
“Amara…” Kareem said her name softly, with a thread of alarm not unlike the one she was feeling.
He tugged at her hands, causing her to suddenly become aware of the slight buzz that had broken out in the chapel. The guests were giving her looks that ranged from bewilderment to speculative interest.
“Baby, are you okay?” Kareem said again, tugging her hands again.
“Amara!” someone hissed behind her, one of her bridesmaids, she presumed.
The murmur from the pews was graduating.
Amara stared up at Kareem. The tenseness was becoming more prominent on his face. Then she turned her face to the pews again, seeking the woman she’d seen just moments ago. But she wasn’t there anymore. She was gone.
Taking in a deep trembly breath, Amara turned back to Kareem and muttered, “I’m sorry…”
“What – babe, what are you talking about?” Kareem stuttered as his eyes widened with shocked realization. “Amara – babe –”
“I’m really sorry,” she said softly again and then yanked her hands from Kareem’s.
She began to move away from him, realized she was tottering on her stilettos and paused to kick them off. Then she gathered her gown into her hands and proceeded down the aisle in a dash, sweeping past the pews and scarcely registering the crescendoing of the shocked hubbub amongst the guests. People were rising from their seats; some were even reaching out in half-hearted attempts to hold her back.
But no one could stop Amara as she sprinted away from her matrimony, each pounding step down the aisle punctuating the pounds of burden that seemed to fall off her shoulders.
For the first time in her life, Amara was throwing caution to the wind.
However, a small part of her unaffected by the elation she was feeling knew this wasn’t going to last; that this joy she felt at her abandonment of everything that was stifling and untrue was going to be fleeting.
She however didn’t realize just how momentaneous it was going to be. She soon did when she heard a sharp uproar cut through the chaos she was leaving behind. She stopped right at the exit and whirled around. Her heart stopped as well, when she saw people gathering around what appeared to be someone on the ground, someone who wasn’t moving, someone beside whose right leg the gilt tip of a walking stick peeked accusingly at her from.
“Thank you so much, Calabar! And good night!”
Demoniker Dawson called out those words sultrily into the crowd of screaming fans as she blew them a kiss seconds before turning and sauntering back out of the impressive stage.
Moments later, the singer was backstage, getting greeted by applauses and whistles from all the people who’d helped make the night possible.
She curtsied before them, genuflecting as she said, “Thank you, thank you.”
“You were absolutely great out there!” someone enthused.
She looked up to see Joshua Bassey approaching her. He had the air about him that was uniquely his, a persona that mixed dapperness with the countenance of one who was perpetually harried. His smile was wide and sincere as he said, “Congrats! You did it! Your first album tour in Nigeria!”
“Couldn’t have done it without you,” Demoniker replied as she reached in for a hug.
Joshua embraced her, and then said as he pulled back, “Nah, I just handled the business. You did all the work. You are the magic.”
Demoniker tossed her head. “Well, what can I say? I slay!”
Both she and her producer burst out into laughter at that.
Then she sobered up at the intrusion of a thought. Without thinking, she gave voice to the thought. “I just wish he was here, you know?”
Josh looked at her, took in the slight despondence of her expression. There was only one person who had been able to get that emotion out of the pop star in recent times.
“Yeah, me too,” he murmured. He paused before adding, “But he made his choice.”
“True,” Demoniker agreed with a short nod.
Just then, Josh received a text message. As he glanced at his phone, he said, “Oh wow. I’m really sorry but I have to –”
“It’s okay, I understand,” Demoniker interrupted graciously. “Duty calls.”
“Yeah, thanks.” They hugged again, and he said, “You know what – since you’re on your way straight away to the hotel, why don’t I just walk with you back to your car?”
“You don’t have to, you know that,” Demoniker said with a smile that betrayed her pleasure at his offer.
The duo were flanked by the singer’s bodyguards as they left the building and made for the section of the parking lot where her vehicular retinue was parked. But it was not to be an easy trip, because photogs and celebrity news reporters swooped down on them the moment they caught sight of the superstar. This was Demoniker’s final show on her album tour, and this amount of press was expected. Their cameras flashed and their questions were hurled ceaselessly as the singer was shepherded toward her car. She ignored the questions, keeping a smile on her face as her people flanked her, forming a protective barrier between her and the news hounds.
And then someone hurled a question that had her tottering to a stop. “Demoniker, it’s been six months now, but sources have it that you once had an affair with record label owner, Ryan Bassey! Care to comment on that?!”
She stopped moving and whirled around. Beside her, she could feel Josh turning with her. Her eyes were blazing and her smile was gone, but that didn’t stop the reporter from pressing what he saw as an advantage.
“Is it true you were sleeping with Chief Bassey while he was still married to Maurine Bassey and while his son was producing your album?”
Demoniker gasped, stricken with overwhelming guilt as she felt Josh stiffen next to her. She turned to him just as he was turning to her. Their stares caught and held. Hers brimmed with contrition while his stayed inscrutable.
The reporter wasn’t finished wreaking havoc. “Tell us, Demoniker, are you a prostitute or was this just the one home you have torn apart?”
This question hit the singer like a bullet, and she staggered back, gasping at the reporter’s audacity. She watched Josh bound forward, his right arm upraised. His fist was clenched as he sent it sailing toward the reporter’s face. The blow connected and the reporter was sent flying backward, to fall into the mass of the members of his trade.
Demoniker wasn’t allowed to see anymore as she was literally shoved into the car that had come to a stop beside her by her security.
Unknown to them, the entire ruckus had been recorded.
I stepped out through the open doors of the building, tugging at my tie as I moved. My backpack slapped slightly against my back as I stalked down the short flight of stairs, away from the building. I was not sure how I felt, but it certainly wasn’t anything that faintly resembled the emotion reflected in Kuddus’s smile as he slid out of the Toyota Camry he’d been waiting inside.
He was smiling at me, and so I had to smile back, even though it was less genuine than his.
“Hey, stranger,” he said warmly.
“Hey,” I responded curtly.
I’d stopped before him and we looked at each other for a while, before Kuddus opened his arms, intending to hug me. That was stretching it. The smile I could reciprocate; this, I couldn’t stand. I stepped away from the hug and started toward the car, blocking out the hurt look that eclipsed his face at my evasion.
“I’m guessing it didn’t go well,” he inquired from behind me.
“You think?” I returned, the curtness ripening my tone. Then contrition pricked me, and I found myself immediately apologizing. “I’m sorry, Kuddus. I’m just a little –”
“Frustrated, I get it.” His interruption caused a small burst of irritation inside me, one which I stifled as he said, “But still…” He paused for a moment and stared beseechingly at me.
I sighed. “Look, it just wasn’t a right fit, okay?”
“You said that about the last two offers. You know you wouldn’t have to be going through this if you just asked Joshua Bassey for your job back, right? I’m sure they need you, especially now.”
I groaned. “Kuddus, I’m not returning to Highland, okay? How many times do you want me to say it?”
“Until you realise it doesn’t make any sense –”
“Oh wow,” I cut him off, feeling the spurt of irritation bubble to life again.
“Come on, Kevin. You know what I mean!”
“No, no, I seriously don’t.”
“Look, all I’m saying is I understand what you’re going through, but –”
“Oh you do, huh?” I exclaimed with mock wonder shining in the sharp gaze I turned to him.
Kuddus hesitated, recognizing my simmering animosity. “Okay maybe not exactly, but it’s been six months already –”
“And so?” I cut him off again sharply. “Does that change anything?”
“Well, no. But –”
“Good! Then we’re on the same page.”
I turned and slipped into the car, picking up the gloss-bound copy of his new book, Those Awkward Moments, and tossing it to the backseat. I heard Kuddus expel a frustrated sigh before he walked over to the driver’s side, got in beside me and turned the ignition. Within moments, he was pulling out through the gate of the compound, over which were gravened the words ‘Mad-House Records’.
The ride home was silent and uneventful. Normally, when I didn’t feel like the devil, Kuddus and I would make a whole thing out of cussing out reckless Lagos drivers who jockeyed for the right of the road with my boyfriend. But today, there was not to be any of that humour. I sat beside him, wearing my cold silence like a shroud so deep, it was impenetrable to him. He didn’t even try. He maintained a surly look on the road ahead for the entire drive to my house.
Soon, Kuddus had pulled up in front of the gate. He turned off the engine, and we remained seated, not saying a word and not leaving the car. I wanted to get out, to rush to the privacy of my home and yell at my walls for all the injustices I’d suffered. But I felt rooted to the car, unsure whether I was ready to leave Kuddus’s presence just yet. I didn’t admit it to myself very often, but there was a certain comfort I derived from being around him, even in my blackest moods.
After what felt like a lifetime of silence, Kuddus finally blurted, “Well, we’re here.”
“Yes, we are,” I replied.
His voice galvanized me into action and I sat up and reached for the door.
“Should I come in?”
Kuddus’s softly-uttered words stopped me. I paused for a moment, and then gave an impudent “Do what you want!”
I could feel his scowl as I exited the car. I slammed the door shut and turned around, expecting to see him coming out of the car after me. But he had started the engine again, and as I watched, he engaged a gear and zoomed off, his exhaust puffing outraged fumes at me.
He is upset with me, I told myself the obvious. But I didn’t care. Remorse may come later, but right now, I wanted to stay mad.
I stalked the rest of the way into my apartment. The house felt empty, a lot like I did these days. I was peeling my clothes off right there in the boxy sitting room, and reached for my phone. I’d refused to answer it during my appointment at the record label, and could now see that I had two voicemail messages.
I tapped on my keypad to listen.
The first message was from Sly. I could hear the faint roar of traffic as his voice came over the tiny speaker. “Hey Kevin, na me Sly…again! Tayo and I don try your phone tire but you no dey gree pick. Anyway, we just wanted to know how you’re holding up. Please call us when you get this, or at least pick up when I call you. Either way sha –”
Before the voicemail was over, I tapped my keypad, erasing the message and giving way for the second message. It was from my mother.
“Emeka, hi,” her voice sailed with some hesitation into my small living quarters. “It’s me – your mother. How are you? Your sisters and I have been trying your line all week, and it’s either switched off or you’re not answering. I hope you’re okay. I just wanted to remind you that you haven’t RSVP’d for your baby brother’s dedication which is next week Sunday. Please don’t forget. I know you’re going through a lot right now with the job search and everything. I understand, but –”
I hated when people used that word – understand. They never really could ever understand.
And just like the last one, I terminated the message. As my mother talked, I’d fetched a bottle of vodka and a tumbler. And so I plopped down on a sofa and poured myself a full glass. My expression was impassive as I took a gulp. My eyes smarted as the drink cut a fiery path down my throat. I welcomed its burn. I hoped it would benumb some of the pain I was feeling. I continued drinking in gulps until I finished the drink in the glass. I was just about to pour myself another round when my cold gaze fell on a small leaflet peeking at me from under the centre table.
I couldn’t make out the words on the paper, but I did know the part that read: Samuel J. Olawale. Gone Too Soon!
A rush of grief washed over me, causing a rise of all the pain I’d just seconds ago tried to bury. I screamed as I hurled the tumbler straight at the wall in front of me. The glass connected with the wall and exploded into pieces that fell in a shattered arc on the floor. I sat there and stared at the wall, unseeing, trembling as the tide of grief rocked my being.
Just then, there was a loud knock on the door – a series of knocks that wouldn’t stop.
“Go away…” I groaned.
Whoever was on the other side of my door must not be telepathic to intuit to my demand. The knocks persisted.
I lumbered to my feet and moved sluggishly to the door, every single part of me suddenly wishing it was Kuddus returned to envelope me in his familiar, comforting hug. I wanted him. I needed him.
But when I jerked the door open, it was someone entirely different at my doorstep.
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ROULETTE OF THE DAMNED 7: Revelations II
I’m almost there… I have to make it…. So close… so close… Andrew raced for the elevator as it was about to close. He was on the 32nd floor of
ROULETTE OF THE DAMNED 20: Make My Heart
Tari tried to get to Abbey, but the intruder grabbed her hair and yanked her hard, making her fall to her knees. The cutlass danced through the air towards Tari,
Those Awkward Moments (Episode 18)
“YOU DID WHAT?! KEVIN, ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!” These were the first words out of Samuel’s mouth the moment I came to the highlight of my narration of
July 12, 06:23 Reply
OHMYGOD! Samuel died? Samuel DIED?! :O The same Samuel who made up Kevin’s mind for him? The Samuel who jumped in front of a bullet for him? OHMYGOD!!!!
Queen Blue Fox
OMG! NOOOOO HOW DID SAMMY DIE
Dennis Macaulay
My favorite fictional series is back
*Cartwheels*
Reverend hot dropping it like it’s hot as usual. Keep it coming ??
ambivalentone
I just took a refresher course in TAW. No place where Sam developed complications like Ngozi. They (Docs) could av got one right at least. I think we shud start blaming our healthcare system if ppl just die when they have no business dying.
The problem with our healthcare system is just an overly complicated one.
Shuga chocolata
And you know this because?
Really like this,
Looking forward to new ones.
I’m trying to keep up ….Guess I missed the beginning?
This is a sequel, Jo.
Samuel died?! Reverend, you let Samuel die?! Oh my God
Welcome back the reverend……..
I felt the wedding settings was a bit too cliché, and the reach for the bride half-heartedly and tugging of the train,
But nice job in between. Loved everything and I’m liking the Kuddus character.
The main character Kevin/Emeka sounds a lot like my person. Nice capturing these effects??
Brian Collins
I had absolutely truly forgotten that the ‘Season 2’ of TAM was going to be named Beautifuls Sinners. I was loving the read wondering who penned such a beautiful thing and then got to where I saw Demoniker Dawson and I screamed.
Very nice entry.
Kevin sure has grown, downing a glass of vodka like that. And how the heck did Samuel die? Amara saw her lover in the crowd and decided to kill her father on her wedding day abi? Well done o.
What a bunch of unlikekable characters.
Hehehee. I quite share the same sentiment.
Pjay
Abi. Especially that Kevin person. So much anger and bottled up bitterness. Make he shift abeg.
For me, the wedding scene was too cliché in a Hollywood movie kind of way. Abi no be naija wedding ni? Anyways what do I know, socially awkward small town brought up critic that I am.
It’s not bitterness. It’s guilt. Have you read the Season 1? You’d understand the origin of his anger.
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La Sorte, F.A.
Nilon, C.H.
Katti, M.
Goddard, M.A.
Lepczyk, C.A.
Warren, P.S.
Williams, W.P.S.
Cilliers, S.
Clarkson, B.
Dobbs, Cynnamon
Dolan, R.
Hedblom, M.
Klotz, S.
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Kühn, I.
MacGregor-Fors, I.
McDonnell, Mark
Mörtberg, Ulla
KTH, Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad (ABE), Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, Mark- och vattenteknik.
Pyšek, P.
Siebert, S.
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Werner, Peter
Winter, M.
A global analysis of the impacts of urbanization on bird and plant diversity reveals key anthropogenic drivers2014Ingår i: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, ISSN 0962-8452, E-ISSN 1471-2954, Vol. 281, nr 1780, s. 20133330-Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
Urbanization contributes to the loss of the world's biodiversity and the homogenization of its biota. However, comparative studies of urban biodiversity leading to robust generalities of the status and drivers of biodiversity in cities at the global scale are lacking. Here, we compiled the largest global dataset to date of two diverse taxa in cities: birds (54 cities) and plants (110 cities). We found that the majority of urban bird and plant species are native in the world's cities. Few plants and birds are cosmopolitan, the most common being Columba livia and Poa annua. The density of bird and plant species (the number of species per km2) has declined substantially: only 8% of native bird and 25% of native plant species are currently present compared with estimates of non-urban density of species. The current density of species in cities and the loss in density of species was best explained by anthropogenic features (landcover, city age) rather than by non-anthropogenic factors (geography, climate, topography). As urbanization continues to expand, efforts directed towards the conservation of intact vegetation within urban landscapes could support higher concentrations of both bird and plant species. Despite declines in the density of species, cities still retain endemic native species, thus providing opportunities for regional and global biodiversity conservation, restoration and education.
Aronsson, Per
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Hannrup, Björn
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Hansson, Per-Anders
Jönsson, Mari
Larsolle, Anders
Lindholm, E.-L.
Möller, J.
KTH, Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad (ABE), Mark- och vattenteknik, Miljöbedömning och -förvaltning.
Nordström, Maria
Olsson, Bengt
Rudolphi, Jörgen
Strömgren, M.
An operational decision support tool for stump harvest2011Konferensbidrag (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
A multi-criteria decision support tool was developed to optimise stump harvesting for energy in Sweden. The decision tool takes account of multiple, sometimes conflicting, criteria relating to stump harvest; energy and climate, economics, biodiversity, and soil and water. Data on harvested stems are used as primary input data in the tool. Such data are routinely collected in harvester computers. The tool effectively deals with mixed sets of data; quantitative harvest data are re-calculated to metric (e.g. stump biomass), and qualitative data (e.g. biodiversity implications) are incorporated. A digital terrain map derived from air-borne laser scanning provides basic data for estimating soil wetness, while digital maps of water courses, key habitats and protected areas, or other sensitive habitats, are used to identify potentially and practically harvestable stumps.
In four sub-models, an index from 0 to 10 is calculated for each stump, with 0 representing ‘Not at all suitable’ and 10 ‘Highly suitable for extraction’. Through this, a stump of high value for wood-living species is assigned a low index in the biodiversity sub-model and a large, easily accessible stump is assigned a high index in the economic sub-model. When calculating the net index, the sub-indices can be weighted according to the preferences of the end-user.
An energy and climate sub-model incorporates greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from forest operations and the effect of advancing GHG emissions when stump biomass is incinerated instead of being left to decompose. In the economic sub-model the potential monetary return from each stump is calculated based on estimated revenue from harvested stump biomass and the costs of stump harvesting and forwarding operations (based on cost functions and GI
S calculations of transport distances).
The biodiversity sub-model considers four types of wood-dependent organisms (lichens, mosses, insects and fungi) in terms of their habitat requirements, vulnerability, sun exposure preferences, locality, etc. A panel of external experts has drawn up a grading scale of stump values for the different taxonomic groups. The proximity to key habitats and exposure to sunlight are derived from a spatial model.
Soil and water issues are handled within a sub-model estimating the consequences for long-term soil fertility (nutrient cycling and soil compaction) and water (leaching of plant nutrients and mercury, and particle transport due to soil damage by heavy machinery).
The tool offers the end-user possibilities to prioritise and plan for cost-effective stump harvesting, while minimising negative environmental impacts.
Azcarate, Juan
Balfors, Berit
Green qualities in transport efficient cities2013Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
A main stream postulation in urban planning is that denser cities enhance energy efficiency and city attractiveness by offering shorter travel distances and a variety of functions that reduce car traffic and facilitate walking, biking and public transit. However, the complex links that exist between city density and its implications for energy efficiency and city attractiveness call for a better understanding of the factors that influence an integrated planning of regional cities. In this context, one factor that could be of interest to study is that of green urban open spaces such as green wedges, parks, wetland areas, shore lines, gardens, cemeteries, golf courses and treed boulevards that provide protection for biodiversity as well as many other valuable ecosystem services. However, discussions on developing compact, energy efficient and attractive regional cities are raising conflicts with policies that aim at conserving green urban open spaces. The aim of this paper is to increase knowledge on and contribute to the development of strategies and measures to best manage the conflicts that are emerging between developing dense, low traffic cities and planning for good quality, valuable and accessible green urban open spaces. To achieve this aim, a conflict mapping exercise is being carried out by identifying, reviewing and assessing literature on the subject. In parallel, relevant examples are being analyzed and seminars, workshops and interviews are taking place with actors of the Stockholm city region. Obtained results are conflicting perceptions on the role that green urban open spaces should play in city development, conflicts of governance and collaboration, conflicts between different objectives at varying decision making scales, and significant limitations to integrated and systemic socio-ecological understandings of the city region and its changing values. The conflict mapping exercise is a valuable starting point to identify the proposal of alternative land use practices, discuss how these can be assessed, and define measures that can enhance compactness, energy efficiency and green qualities in city region planning and development.
Gordon, Sara
CES provision and pressure in compacting Stockholm2015Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
Haas, Jan
KTH, Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad (ABE), Samhällsplanering och miljö, Geoinformatik.
Reaching compact green cities: A study of the provision of and pressure on cultural ecosystem services in StockholmManuskript (preprint) (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
Karlson, Mårten
Odelius Gordon, Sara
Impacts of urban development on biodiversity and ecosystem services2016Ingår i: Handbook on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Impact Assessment / [ed] Davide Geneletti, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016, s. 167-194Kapitel i bok, del av antologi (Refereegranskat)
Global urbanization has increased rapidly and it is expected to continue. Due to the continuing urbanization process, green areas are transformed into areas for housing, industry and infrastructure. As a consequence, ecosystems in urbanizing areas are affected, which results in degradation of habitats, due to fragmentation and disturbances, with significant impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services. In cities, green areas are of primary interest to support biodiversity as well as in their role as producers of ecosystem services; that is, services that ecosystems produce to the benefit of humans often without any costs. In addition, publicly accessible urban green areas enhance life quality for urban citizens. To strengthen biodiversity and ecosystem services considerations in the planning process and contribute to the preservation of biodiversity in the long term, a consistent assessment of potential impacts is required. In particular, a landscape approach in urban planning and assessment is needed to address the scales of ecological processes, to strengthen important landscape structures and functions in urban, regional and infrastructure planning. A landscape approach calls for methods for assessing the impacts of human actions on biodiversity at a landscape level, across administrative borders. Such methods should allow an analysis of cumulative impacts of many single planning decisions. Several of the processes involved have a temporal and spatial dimension and are possible to quantify, analyse, and visualize with geographical information systems (GIS) combined with spatial ecological models. This allows for localization and quantification of predicted effects of urbanization on biodiversity components over landscape and regional scales. This chapter addresses impacts of urbanization on biodiversity and urban green areas’ capacity in providing ecosystem services. A brief description of the role of biodiversity and ecosystem services provides a framework for a landscape approach in biodiversity assessments and for the practical examples from the Stockholm region. Related to the assessment, tools for predicting and assessing biodiversity impacts at a landscape level will be discussed as well as planning and management of urban green areas. The chapter concludes with lessons learned and key recommendations for best practice.
KTH, Tidigare Institutioner, Anläggning och miljö.
Gontier, Mikael
Biodiversity and EIA for roads and railway projects: a review in European Union2004Ingår i: The 24th Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment, Theme: Whose business is it? Impact assessment for industrial development, 24-30 April 2004, Vancouver, Canada., 2004Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
Hammer, Monica
Khoshkar, Sara
KTH, Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad (ABE), Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik.
Ecosystem services and impact assessment: Examples from Swedish municipal planning2016Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
Institutionen för livsvetenskaper, Södertörns högskola.
Quin, Andrew
The role of strategic environmental assessment in the implementation of the Water Framework Directive: Example from Sweden2012Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
Landscape Ecological Assessment: A tool for prediction and assessment of impacts on biodiversity2006Ingår i: Ecological Impact Assessments: Science and Best Practice, 2006Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
Towards a climate resilient society: tools for impact assessment of infrastructure and urban development2010Konferensbidrag (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
During recent years, climate change aspects have received increased attention in urban planning and infrastructure development. In order to effectively address impacts on climate change and measures towards energy efficiency, a strategic approach in the planning process is required. To enable an early appraisal of alternative climate change adaptation scenarios, SEA could provide a suitable framework. The application of SEA in urban planning and infrastructure development entail various challenges so as to address, e.g., cumulative impacts, transboundary and multi-scalar issues. The incorporation of strategic issues related to climate change, call for analytical tools and methodological approaches that facilitate the planning and decision-making process. In this study we focus on the development of prediction tools and decision support systems in order to assist a comprehensive comparison of alternative strategies and identify innovative energy efficient solutions for a climate resilient society.
Geneletti, Davide
University of Trento, Italy.
Landscape ecology for SEA: lessons learned2010Ingår i: Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Impact Assessment, Geneva, 6-11 April 2010, 2010Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) calls for analysis of processes and patterns atlandscape scale, which gives the opportunity to include ecosystem services in decision‐making. In order to understand how planning decisions affect ecosystem services such asbiodiversity, it is necessary to analyse ecological processes on landscape and regionalscales. Landscape ecology provides methods and tools for addressing effects on landscapescale, such as effects of habitat loss and fragmentation, which are caused by a wide arrayof human‐induced changes and pose critical threats to biodiversity and other ecosystemservices. Thus, in order to be able to assess impacts on biodiversity, spatial methods andtools based on landscape ecological principles need to be developed. This paper addressesthe use of spatial methods and tools, scale problems, visualization and communication forincorporating landscape ecological methods in SEA. The study is based on lessons learnedfrom experiences in Sweden and Italy that refer to SEA for different levels of planning,from local to regional. This will lead to increased understanding and a discussion on keyissues on how planning processes can be improved through the use of effective tools foranalyzing landscape and its ecosystem services.
KTH, Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad (ABE), Mark- och vattenteknik (flyttat 20130630), Miljöbedömning och -förvaltning.
Brokking, Peter
KTH, Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad (ABE), Samhällsplanering och miljö, Urbana och regionala studier.
Impacts of region-wide urban development on biodiversity in strategic environmental assessment2005Ingår i: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, ISSN 1464-3332, E-ISSN 1757-5605, Vol. 7, nr 2, s. 229-246Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
In urbanising regions, urban sprawl and infrastructure cause profound alterations of natural habitats. Initial decisions on urban expansion and major infrastructure investments are often made on a strategic level where the long-term development of a region is determined. For these types of decisions a strategic environmental assessment can be prepared. However, the lack of an adequate conceptual and methodological framework can pose a major problem for the prediction of impacts, not least concerning biodiversity. This paper will highlight the need for effective methods for biodiversity analysis at landscape and regional levels, with reference to the long-term urban development of the Stockholm and Mälaren regions. Problems of habitat loss, fragmentation and other impacts related to large-scale urbanisation and infrastructure developments will be addressed. GIS-based methods focusing on predictive ecological modelling will be discussed in a scenario context. The implementation of such methodologies in the strategic environmental assessment process would allow a better integration of biodiversity in planning and decision-making, further promoting a sustainable planning system.
KTH, Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad (ABE), Mark- och vattenteknik.
Wang, Lan
Stockholm University.
Strategic Environmental Assessment of Energy Plans in Sweden2012Ingår i: Proceeding of the 32nd Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment. Energy Future The Role of Impact Assessment, Porto, Portugal, 27 May - 1 June 2012, 2012Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
Brown, Nils
KTH, Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad (ABE), Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, Miljöstrategisk analys (fms).
Sectoral Energy Report: Synthesis Report - ICT for Energy Efficiency in Buildings and Strategic Environmental Assessment for Smart Grids2013Rapport (Refereegranskat)
Byström, Gustaf
KTH, Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad (ABE), Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, Hållbarhet, utvärdering och styrning.
GIS-baserade metoder för hållbar planering av vindkraft - Grön infrastruktur2017Konferensbidrag (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
GIS-metoder för hållbar planering av vindkraft2017Konferensbidrag (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
Johansson, Maya
Stockholms Universitet.
GIS-based methods for sustainable wind power planning2017Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
Research motivation
Renewable energy has great importance in the work to counteract the global climate changes. The Swedish government has seta target that in 2020, 50% of the energy use shall come from renewable energy, and the government has also declared a longterm commitment for Sweden to be independent of fossil fuels. To reach these targets wind power is expected to play a greatpart, and approximately 50 TWh of new wind power is needed to meet this objective, compared to the current annual production of approximately 16 TWh. However, climate change is not the only issue at hand, and there is a risk of conflicts between meetingthe targets for renewable energy and other sustainability objectives, e.g. concerning ecosystem services, such as habitatsupporting biodiversity, recreation and cultural landscapes. Hence to steer towards a sustainable planning of wind power, targets and objectives as well as decision support has to be dealt with systematically, encompassing social, economic, technical and ecological perspectives.
The objective of the project is to develop GIS-based methods that can be used as planning support in sustainable planning of wind power, in cooperation with regional and municipal actors. The method will function as decision support, which will helpplanners and decision makers at local and regional level to systematically handle the different aspects related to wind power localisation.
The project is performed in collaboration with the County Administrative Board of Västernorrland County, which is the study areafor the project. Initially, a literature study is performed to gain knowledge about earlier research in the field and identify importantfactors to include in the methodology. Workshops are held with the included actors, to gain further understanding of what information is relevant when planning for wind power, and to gain local knowledge about the study area; what issues are at hand,and what factors govern wind power planning in the particular area. During the workshops different scenarios related to theplanning process are also developed. The method will include the development of a number of GIS-models to be used in a multicriteria analysis that can be used for design and evaluation of the different planning scenarios.
Preliminary results
The literature study as well as the workshops reveals that the location of wind turbines often can have impact on, and render conflict between, different interests and objectives. Factors of high concern when planning for locating wind turbines in the County of Västernorrland are, besides wind speed and technical considerations; noise impact, visual impact, and impact on certain bird species, reindeer hearding and recreation. In order to handle these factors, multi-criteria decision analysis within a GIS environment can support planning in the face of complex problems, with capabilities to handle multiple and often conflicting objectives, and to find sustainable solutions to decision-making problems.
Management implications
The project will result in a General GIS-based Planning Support (GPS) methodology to integrate important sustainability issuesin wind power planning, which can be applied generally in future spatial planning. The project will contribute to a morepredictable planning process, where disparate sustainability targets will be handled in an integrated and systematic way, therebyincreasing the possibility of reaching the targets.
Wretling, Vincent
GIS-based methods for sustainable wind power planning2016Konferensbidrag (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
21. Dahlberg, Johan
Moritz, Marcel
Rosenqvist, Moa
Jönsson Strandberg, Kristin
Berggren, Eva
Engberg, Tobias
Södertörnsanalysen (The Sodertorn Analysis)2016Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
22. Dawson, Lucas
Persson, Klas
Jarsjö, Jerker
Impacts of the Water Framework Directive on learning and knowledge practices in a Swedish catchment2018Ingår i: Journal of Environmental Management, ISSN 0301-4797, E-ISSN 1095-8630, ISSN 0301-4797, Vol. 223, s. 731-742Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
Catchments are complex social-ecological systems involving multiple, and often competing, interests. Water governance and management regimes are increasingly embracing pluralistic, participatory, and holistic norms as a means to engage with issues of complexity, uncertainty, and value-conflicts. Integrated, participatory approaches are theoretically linked to improved learning amongst stakeholders across sectors and decision-making that is grounded in shared knowledge, experiences and scientific evidence. However, few studies have empirically examined the impacts of an integrated approach to learning and knowledge practices related to water resources.Here, a Swedish sub-catchment that has adopted such an approach in association with implementation of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) is examined. Interview-based analyses show that WFD implementation has both helped and hindered learning and knowledge practices surrounding both water planning and spatial planning. Whilst communities of practice have developed in the study area, a number of important challenges remain. These include the rigid goal-orientation of the WFD, the fragmentation of knowledge caused by an over-reliance on external consultants, as well as a lack of resources to synthesise information from multiple sources. Present results raise questions regarding the efficacy of the WFD to sufficiently enable the development of learning and knowledge practices capable of handling the complexity, uncertainties and value-conflicts facing catchments in Sweden and elsewhere.
De Strasser, Lucia
KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), Energiteknik, Energisystemanalys.
Howells, Mark
Lipponen, Annukka
Destouni, Georgia
Mentis, Dimitris
Water-Food-Energy-Ecosystems Nexus in transboundary river basins2014Konferensbidrag (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
Engström, Emma
Thunvik, Roger
Gaily, Tarig
Mangold, Mikael
Prevalence of microbiological contaminants in groundwater sources and risk factor assessment in Juba, South Sudan2015Ingår i: Science of the Total Environment, ISSN 0048-9697, E-ISSN 1879-1026, Vol. 515-516, s. 181-187Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
In low-income regions, drinking water is often derived from groundwater sources, which might spread diarrheal disease if they are microbiologically polluted. This study aimed to investigate the occurrence of fecal contamination in 147 improved groundwater sources in Juba, South Sudan and to assess potential contributing risk factors, based on bivariate statistical analysis. Thermotolerant coliforms (TTCs) were detected in 66% of the investigated sources, including 95 boreholes, breaching the health-based recommendations for drinking water. A significant association (p<. 0.05) was determined between the presence of TTCs and the depth of cumulative, long-term prior precipitation (both within the previous five days and within the past month). No such link was found to short-term rainfall, the presence of latrines or damages in the borehole apron. However, the risk factor analysis further suggested, to a lesser degree, that the local topography and on-site hygiene were additionally significant. In summary, the analysis indicated that an important contamination mechanism was fecal pollution of the contributing groundwater, which was unlikely due to the presence of latrines; instead, infiltration from contaminated surface water was more probable. The reduction in fecal sources in the environment in Juba is thus recommended, for example, through constructing latrines or designating protection areas near water sources. The study results contribute to the understanding of microbiological contamination of groundwater sources in areas with low incomes and high population densities, tropical climates and weathered basement complex environments, which are common in urban sub-Saharan Africa.
KTH, Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad (ABE), Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, Mark- och vattenteknik. KTH, Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad (ABE), Transportvetenskap.
Karlström, Anders
KTH, Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad (ABE), Transportvetenskap.
Applying spatial regression to evaluate risk factors for microbiological contamination of urban groundwater sources in Juba, South Sudan2017Ingår i: Hydrogeology Journal, ISSN 1431-2174, E-ISSN 1435-0157, Vol. 25, s. 1077-1091Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
This study developed methodology for statistically assessing groundwater contamination mechanisms. It focused on microbial water pollution in low-income regions. Risk factors for faecal contamination of groundwater-fed drinking-water sources were evaluated in a case study in Juba, South Sudan. The study was based on counts of thermotolerant coliforms in water samples from 129 sources, collected by the humanitarian aid organisation M,decins Sans FrontiSres in 2010. The factors included hydrogeological settings, land use and socio-economic characteristics. The results showed that the residuals of a conventional probit regression model had a significant positive spatial autocorrelation (Moran's I = 3.05, I-stat = 9.28); therefore, a spatial model was developed that had better goodness-of-fit to the observations. The most significant factor in this model (p-value 0.005) was the distance from a water source to the nearest Tukul area, an area with informal settlements that lack sanitation services. It is thus recommended that future remediation and monitoring efforts in the city be concentrated in such low-income regions. The spatial model differed from the conventional approach: in contrast with the latter case, lowland topography was not significant at the 5% level, as the p-value was 0.074 in the spatial model and 0.040 in the traditional model. This study showed that statistical risk-factor assessments of groundwater contamination need to consider spatial interactions when the water sources are located close to each other. Future studies might further investigate the cut-off distance that reflects spatial autocorrelation. Particularly, these results advise research on urban groundwater quality.
Engström, Rebecka
Multi‐functionality of nature‐based and other urban sustainability solutions: New York City study2018Ingår i: Land Degradation and Development, ISSN 1085-3278, E-ISSN 1099-145X, Vol. 29, s. 3653-3662Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
In an increasingly urban world, developing sustainable cities is crucial for global sustainability. Urban nature-based solutions (NBS), such as green infrastructure, are often promoted for their potential to provide several urban services. These include storm-water mitigation, improving energy efficiency of buildings and carbon emissions mitigation, but few studies have compared the multi-functionality of NBS to conventional urban solutions providing similar services. Fewer yet have acknowledged the indirect resource (specifically Climate, Land, Energy, Water (CLEW) nexus) impacts that these solutions may have. This paper analyses these aspects, employing a simple CLEW nexus accounting framework, and attempts a consistent comparison across different resource systems. The comparison includes direct and indirect impacts of a set of stylized – and diverse – solutions, each with different primary objectives: green roofs, representing a multi-functional urban NBS; permeable pavements targeting mitigation of storm-water flows; window retrofits targeting energy efficiency; and roof-top PV installations targeting CO2 emissions mitigation. The results highlight both the direct and total (CLEW nexus) impacts of green roofs on storm-water retention, energy use, and CO2 emissions. However, also for the studied conventional solutions with primarily a single direct function, CLEW nexus impacts spread across all measured dimensions (energy, water, CO2) to varying degrees. Although the numerical results are indicative and uncertainty needs to be further assessed, we suggest that the development of this type of multi-functional, multi-system assessment can assist urban sustainability planning, with comprehensive and consistent comparison of diverse (NBS and conventional) solutions.
Freitas, Flavio L M
Antonelli, A
Berndes, Göran
Englund, Oskar
Faurby, Sören
Persson, Martin
Pinto, L F G
Sparovek, Gerd
Strassburg, B B N
Biodiversity values of Brazilian native vegetation – How much is protected by the Forest Act?2018Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
Human-induced land use change (LUC) is the most important driver of biodiversity loss. In Brazil, this process is particularly concerning considering that here are the most extensive tracts of tropical forest and other rare habitat types which host unique biodiversity. The preservation of much of this area is highly dependent on the implementation of the Forest Act, the central legal framework regulating the conservation of native vegetation on private land in Brazil. Recent studies provide a modelling framework for assessing the impacts of the Forest Act on the protection of native vegetation and associated carbon stocks for the entire Brazilian territory. However, there is not sufficient knowledge on the efficiency of this legislation in protecting areas of high and unique biodiversity in Brazil.
This study aims to apply the existing land use governance assessment (LUGA) model to quantify the extent to which the Forest Act protects biodiversity. For this purpose, we construct indicators at fine-scale levels to capture the multiple dimensions of biodiversity (species richness, genetic, and functional diversity) and how these are related to the native vegetation. Using state-of-the-art databases of species distribution data, GIS-based modeling frameworks are developed and adapted to identify values of native vegetation related to the preservation of biodiversity in general, and endangered species in particular, and ecological connectivity. The results are evaluated for Brazilian regions where the LUC pressure is recognized to be most significant. The final model output consists of geoexplicit indicators at a high resolution, which informs about the degree of biodiversity protection provided by the Forest Act. The information provided by this project can support decision-making related to the selection of areas of high importance for biodiversity protection at local and regional levels. Further, it can potentially contribute to efficient use of resources and improved effectiveness of incentive mechanisms in promoting conservation of unprotected native vegetation of high biodiversity value.
Freitas, Flavio L. M.
Chalmers University, Energy and Environment.
University of São Paulo, Soil Dep..
Guidotti, Vinicius
d Institute of Agricultural and Forest Management and Certification – Imaflora.
Who owns the Brazilian carbon?Manuskript (preprint) (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
Who owns the Brazilian carbon?2018Ingår i: Global Change Biology, ISSN 1354-1013, E-ISSN 1365-2486, Vol. 24, s. 2129-2142Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
Brazil is one of the major contributors to land-use change emissions, mostly driven by agricultural expansion for food, feed and bioenergy feedstock. Policies to avoid deforestation related to private commitments, economic incentives, and other support schemes are expected to improve the effectiveness of current command and control mechanisms increasingly. However, until recently, land tenure was unknown for much of the Brazilian territory, which has undermined the governance of native vegetation and challenged support and incentive mechanisms for avoiding deforestation. We assess the total extent of public governance mechanisms protecting aboveground carbon (AGC) stocks. We constructed a land tenure dataset for the entire nation and modeled the effects and uncertainties of major land-use acts on protecting AGC stocks. Roughly 70% of the AGC stock in Brazil is estimated to be under legal protection, and an additional 20% is expected to be protected after areas in the Amazon with currently undesignated land undergo a tenure regularization. About 30% of the AGC stock is on private land, of which roughly two-thirds are protected. The Cerrado, Amazon and Caatinga biomes hold about 40%, 30% and 20% of the unprotected AGC, respectively. Effective conservation of protected and unprotected carbon will depend on successful implementation of the Forest Act, and regularization of land tenure in the Amazon. Policy development that prioritizes unprotected AGC stocks is warranted to promote conservation of native vegetation beyond the legal requirements. However, different biomes and land tenure structures may require different policy settings considering local and regional specifics. Finally, the fate of current AGC stocks relies upon effective implementation of command and control mechanisms, considering that unprotected AGC in native vegetation on private land only accounts for 6.5% of the total AGC stock.
Pinto, Luis F. G.
Legal protection over the Brazilian carbon stocks2018Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
Brazilian native vegetation stands as one of the largest global carbon storages. Here is also where most of the emissions related to land use change take place, mostly driven by agricultural expansion. Policies of incentives and support to avoid deforestation are expected to play a significant role to improve the effectiveness of the prevailing command and control regulation and expand the protection of carbon stocks in the native vegetation. However, the limited available resources require wise targeting policies that maximise the outcomes regarding carbon protection. In this study, we conducted a quantitative assessment of the effect of command and control regulations in the protection of above-ground carbon (AGC) stocks employing a land use policy assessment (LUPA) model. The model enabled the construction of a land tenure dataset of national coverage and modelled the effects of the major pieces of land use legislation in the protection of AGC stocks. The outcomes suggest that roughly 70% of the AGC stock in Brazil is protected and additional 20% is expected to be protected after the tenure regularisation process of undesignated land. Private territory sustains about 30% of the AGC stocks, half within small or medium sized private properties which represent 98% of the Brazilian landholders and the other half in the 2% larger properties. Roughly 20% of the AGC in private land is under command and control protection, and the remaining 10% is unprotected. We argued that targeting policy may prioritise the unprotected AGC stocks; however, different biomes may require different policy settings considering the specificity of each biome.
Faurby, Søren
Chalmers University of Technology, Energy and Environment.
Antonelli, Alexandre
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.
Chalmers University, Department of Space, Earth and Environment.
Verdade, Luciano
University of São Paulo.
Recent political development threaten terrestrial mammal diversity in BrazilManuskript (preprint) (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
Recent political developments may weaken the legal protection of native vegetation in Brazil, which holds large areas of high biodiversity value. We assess the extent to which legislation protects terrestrial mammal species in Brazil. To this end, we quantify the natural population of mammal species in each fragment of native vegetation and relating this quantification to relevant legislation. We also assess the urgency of interventions to improve the protection of the mammal species. The results indicate that the legislation concerning private and public lands protects at least 40%, and about one-third, of the habitats where half of the threatened mammal species live, respectively. In scenarios of full compliance with relevant legislation, at least 40% of habitats supporting about one-third of these species are unprotected or undesignated lacking command and control regulations protecting the native vegetation. The implications of these results are discussed in light of recent policy developments in Brazil.
Additionality of the compensation mechanism of the Brazilian Forest Code2015Konferensbidrag (Övrig (populärvetenskap, debatt, mm))
Towards integrated sustainability assessment of forest bioenergy options in Brazil2015Konferensbidrag (Övrig (populärvetenskap, debatt, mm))
PosteEnergyDialogue
Univ Sao Paulo, Soil Sci Dept, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil.
Chalmers Univ Technol, Dept Space Earth & Environm, Phys Resource Theory, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Chalmers Univ Technol, Dept Space Earth & Environm, Phys Resource Theory, Gothenburg, Sweden ; Mid Sweden Univ, Dept Ecotechnol & Sustainable Bldg Engn, Englund GeoLab, Östersund, Sweden.
Baretto, Alberto
Potential increase of legal deforestation in Brazilian Amazon after Forest Act revision2018Ingår i: Nature Sustainability, Vol. 1, s. 665-670Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
The Brazilian Amazon rainforest is protected largely by command and control regulation of public and private land. The Brazilian Forest Act requires private landholders within the Amazon to set aside 80% of their land as legal reserves for nature protection, but this requirement can be reduced to 50% if more than 65% of a state’s territory is protected public land (for example, public conservation units and indigenous reserves). In the ongoing land designation process in Brazil, some Amazonian states may cross this 65% threshold. We assess the potential reduction in the legal reserve requirement from 80% to 50%, through spatially explicit modelling of scenarios concerning land tenure consolidation, employing up-to-date databases on land ownership. Depending on the outcome of land designation processes and political priorities, some 6.5–15.4 million hectares of private land previously protected as legal reserves may become available for legal deforestation. While protection of public land is crucial for safeguarding the Amazon, revisions of federal and state legislation may be needed to avoid the further extension of protected public land triggering increased legal deforestation on private lands. Zero-deforestation commitments and other initiatives may mitigate impacts in the absence of such revision.
Barretto, Alberto
Potential increase of legal deforestation in Brazilian Amazon after Forest Act revision2018Konferensbidrag (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
Silveira, Semida
KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), Energiteknik, Energi och klimatstudier, ECS.
Klug, Israel
Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations, Nutrition and Food Systems Division.
Offsetting legal deficits of native vegetation among Brazilian landholders: effects on nature protection and socioeconomic developmentManuskript (preprint) (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
Chalmers.
Offsetting legal deficits of native vegetation among Brazilian landholders: Effects on nature protection and socioeconomic development2017Ingår i: Land use policy, ISSN 0264-8377, E-ISSN 1873-5754, Vol. 68, s. 189-199Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
The Brazilian native vegetation supports essential ecosystem services and biodiversity for the global society, whileland use competition may intensify around the increasing needs for food, fibre and bioenergy. The Brazilian Forest Actof 2012 amplified a market-based mechanism for offsetting native vegetation deficits in private farmlands. Thismechanism enables a large-scale trading system allowing landholders to offset their own deficits of native vegetationby purchasing certificates associated with a surplus of native vegetation from other landholders. This mechanism is analternative for the more expensive restoration of native vegetation on own land. The launching of the mechanism nowdepends on specific regulations at state level, which may include geographical restrictions for offsetting deficits. Theaim of this study is to evaluate the effects in nature protection and socio-economic development of different offsettingimplementation alternatives. Our findings suggest that in a business-as-usual scenario the offsetting mechanism mayhave little or no additional effects on protection of native vegetation, because most of the offsetting is likely to takeplace where native vegetation is already protected by prevailing legislations. We concluded that it is possible tomaximise environmental and socio-economic returns from the offsetting mechanism without undermining productiveland. This would be possible if regulations ensure additionality in nature protection while enabling a self-sustainingmechanism for income generation for small-scale family farmers in the poorest region of Brazil, protecting biodiversityand counteracting major trade-offs between ecosystem services.
Furberg, Dorothy
Ban, Yifang
Monitoring Urban Green Infrastructure Changes using High-resolution Satellite DataManuskript (preprint) (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
40. Gardumi, Francesco
Avgerinopoulos, Georgios
Korkmaz, Pinar
Keppo, Ilkka
Montenegro, Roland
Fahl, Ulrich
Pang, Xi
Recipes to facilitate the low-carbon transition2018Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
41. Goldenberg, Romain
Cvetkovic, Vladimir
Deal, Brian
Distinction, quantification and mapping of potential and realized supply-demand of flow-dependent ecosystem services2017Ingår i: Science of the Total Environment, ISSN 0048-9697, E-ISSN 1879-1026, Vol. 593, s. 599-609Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
This study addresses and conceptualizes the possible dependence of ecosystem services on prevailing air and/or water flow processes and conditions, and particularly on the trajectories and associated spatial reach of these flows in carrying services from supply to demand areas in the landscape. The present conceptualization considers and accounts for such flow-dependence in terms of potential and actually realized service supply and demand, which may generally differ and must therefore be distinguished due to and accounting for the prevailing conditions of service carrier flows. We here concretize and quantify such flow-dependence for a specific landscape case (the Stockholm region, Sweden) and for two examples of regulating ecosystem services: local climate regulation and storm water regulation. For these service and landscape examples, we identify, quantify and map key areas of potential and realized service supply and demand, based for the former (potential) on prevailing relatively static types of landscape conditions (such as land-cover/use, soil type and demographics), and for the latter (realized) on relevant carrier air and water flows. These first-order quantification examples constitute first steps towards further development of generally needed such flow-dependence assessments for various types of ecosystem services in different landscapes over the world.
Biodiversity in environmental assessment: current practice and tools for prediction2006Ingår i: Environmental impact assessment review, ISSN 0195-9255, E-ISSN 1873-6432, Vol. 26, nr 3, s. 268-286Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
Habitat loss and fragmentation are major threats to biodiversity. Environmental impact assessment and strategic environmental assessment are essential instruments used in physical planning to address such problems. Yet there are no well-developed methods for quantifying and predicting impacts of fragmentation on biodiversity. In this study, a literature review was conducted on GIS-based ecological models that have potential as prediction tools for biodiversity assessment. Further, a review of environmental impact statements for road and railway projects from four European countries was performed, to study how impact prediction concerning biodiversity issues was addressed. The results of the study showed the existing gap between research in GIS-based ecological modelling and current practice in biodiversity assessment within environmental assessment.
Eggers, Sönke
Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala.
Lindström, Åke
Department of Ecology, Lund University.
Modelling habitat preferences and differences in two Parus species in an urbanising region2008Ingår i: Conservation Biology, ISSN 0888-8892, E-ISSN 1523-1739Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
Comparing GIS-based habitat models for applications in EIA and SEA2010Ingår i: Environmental impact assessment review, ISSN 0195-9255, E-ISSN 1873-6432, Vol. 30, nr 1, s. 8-18Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
Land use changes. urbanisation and infrastructure developments in particular. cause fragmentation of natural habitats and threaten biodiversity. Tools and measures must be adapted to assess and remedy the potential effects on biodiversity caused by human activities and developments. Within physical planning, environmental impact assessment (EIA) and strategic environmental assessment (SEA) play important roles in the prediction and assessment of biodiversity-related impacts from planned developments. However, adapted prediction tools to forecast and quantify potential impacts on biodiversity components are lacking. This study tested and compared four different CIS-based habitat models and assessed their relevance for applications in environmental assessment. The models were implemented in the Stockholm region in central Sweden and applied to data on the crested tit (Parus cristatus), a sedentary bird species of coniferous forest. All four models performed well and allowed the distribution of suitable habitats for the crested tit in the Stockholm region to be predicted. The models were also used to predict and quantify habitat loss for two regional development scenarios. The study highlighted the importance of model selection in impact prediction. Criteria that are relevant for the choice of model for predicting impacts on biodiversity were identified and discussed. Finally, the importance of environmental assessment for the preservation of biodiversity within the general frame of biodiversity conservation is emphasised.
Södertörns Högskola.
Franzén, Frida
Galera, P
Peterson, Mona
Söderqvist, Tore
Andersson, Ingela
Warghagen, Dan
Implementing the EU Water Framework Direcitve: opportunities and challenges for sustainable ecosystem management in the Baltic Sea Region2009Ingår i: The 15th International Symposium on Society and Resources Management: Meet old and new worlds in research, planning and management. Vienna, Austria, 5-8 July 2009, 2009Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
46. Hammer, Monica
Governance of water resources in the phase of change: a case study on the implementation of the EU Water Framework Direcitve in the Baltic Sea Region2009Ingår i: Coping with Uncertainty: A Multidisiplinary Research Conference on Risk Governance in the Baltic Sea Region. Stockholm, 15-17 November 2009, 2009Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
Petersson, Mona
Governance of Water Resources in the Phase of Change: A Case Study of the Implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive in Sweden2011Ingår i: Ambio, ISSN 0044-7447, E-ISSN 1654-7209, Vol. 40, nr 2, s. 210-220Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
In this article, focusing on the ongoing implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive, we analyze some of the opportunities and challenges for a sustainable governance of water resources from an ecosystem management perspective. In the face of uncertainty and change, the ecosystem approach as a holistic and integrated management framework is increasingly recognized. The ongoing implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) could be viewed as a reorganization phase in the process of change in institutional arrangements and ecosystems. In this case study from the Northern Baltic Sea River Basin District, Sweden, we focus in particular on data and information management from a multi-level governance perspective from the local stakeholder to the River Basin level. We apply a document analysis, hydrological mapping, and GIS models to analyze some of the institutional framework created for the implementation of the WFD. The study underlines the importance of institutional arrangements that can handle variability of local situations and trade-offs between solutions and priorities on different hierarchical levels.
Dinnétz, Patrik
Balancing ecosystem services in local and regional water governance: A case study from Lake Mälaren catchment, Sweden2016Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
Ecosystem services and trade-offs in water governance: a case study of the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive in Sweden2012Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
Cross-scale linkages and trade-offs in multilevel water governance: A case study from the Northern Baltic Sea River Basin District2011Ingår i: International Council for the Exploration of the Sea Annual Conference, Copenhagen: International Council for the Exploration of the Sea , 2011, s. ICES CM2011/R:21-Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
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Formula 1 Legend Murray Walker will Make Amazing TV Comeback
Home Tech Audio How Nancy Reagan Gave Glamour and Class to the White House
How Nancy Reagan Gave Glamour and Class to the White House
Thousands of fans have begun to prepare for Oscars parties to find out which actors, actresses, and movies of the 88th Academy Awards will win a gold statue. As part of the celebration, Shutterstock’s company designers have worked again this year to create fascinating pop art-inspired posters for popular films nominated by the Academy.
Like the many of the different types of movies nominated for the Best Picture award, Shutterstock says its posters share a theme of endurance and testing how far you can stretch the lengths of human nature.
“On the surface his work simply looks cool, but this shallow analysis misses the irony behind his cultural representations”
When you think of many of this year’s Best Picture nominees, movies like The Revenant, The Martian, and Mad Max share a common theme of strength, resilience, determination, and power. These themes are stunningly carried over into Shutterstock’s pop-art posters this year. Posters featured include Jordan Roland’s Warhol-inspired Mad Max: Fury Road, which offer a take on Warhol’s “subversive dictator portraits to shape this poster of Immortan Joe,” says the artist. In Cristin Burton’s Flirst-inspired Oscar Pop 2016 The Revenant, the poster includes assembled pieces the artist used to “create a vast, sinister, and lonely landscape.”
People Happily Await the Begining of the Show
The pop-art posters include a fun view of movies but also of topics that aren’t so fun. In Flo Lau’s The Big Short, inspired by Keith Haring, the artist chose a comedic approach to the dark subject of the bursting of the 2008 housing bubble.
Flirst is a collage artist who assembles disparate pieces to explore how he can change the harmony of the whole. For my poster, a homage to The Revenant, I assembled pieces to create a vast, sinister, and lonely landscape. The poster features a figure with very few people on his side; this represents the film’s main character, Hugh Glass, who was brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead in the winter wilderness.
“I wanted to portray the same witty chaotic vibe in my poster”
In his “Barcelona” series, Mario Corea Aiello forms a grungy collage of newspaper and magazine cutouts and heavy paint strokes. I felt this style would parallel the vicious storm that left Mark Watney for dead on Mars in The Martian. For the color scheme, I deferred to Eric White’s cover art from the original novel by Andy Weir to capture the characteristics of an otherworldly storm.
On Set with the Crew
My inspiration for this poster is one part Roy Lichtenstein and one part Stefan Sagmeister. Spotlight is about journalists uncovering a massive scandal in one of Boston’s oldest institutions, and I found that the perfectly contradictory homophone “pray/prey” encapsulates the shock and horror felt by the community when this scandal was made public.
To illustrate this, I pixelated an image of a priest, then tore off his head and replaced it with an image of a wolf. I looked to Warhol’s subversive dictator portraits to shape this poster of Immortan Joe.Warhol had a remarkable ability to distract from the meaning of his art. On the surface his work simply looks “cool”.
Mad Max: Fury Road has the same effect: The stylized nature of the film gets more attention than the meaning behind it.
I chose to feature Immortan Joe because he is a terrible person, but his iconic look makes him instantly recognizable. When I first read the plot summary for Room, I envisioned lonely, sterile characters, who had been institutionalized by their secluded environment.
Of course, when I saw the movie that perception quickly changed; the characters are full of life, love, and joy, and the audience instantly empathizes with them on a raw, human level. KAWS’ statues play on a similar deceit. Initially they have a sterile, robotic feel, but when you view them in their human-scale sizes and see their playful aesthetic, you experience an unexpected sense of connection.
“Welcome to the Oscars, Or as some people like to call it, the white people’s choice awards”
The Big Short takes a comedic approach to a dark subject, and I wanted to portray the same witty, chaotic vibe in my poster. Keith Haring was my inspiration because his high-contrast, brightly colored political work, which touches on grim subjects like rape, death, and war, hinges on the same contrast as the film. The poster is based on the film’s alligator-in-an-abandoned-pool scene; the alligator represents the main characters in the movie, who took advantage of the 2008 housing bubble and left the world in desperation when it burst.
Getting Ready for the Big Night
I chose to focus on the muddy gray areas and loopholes within Bridge of Spies. The Cold War was fueled by each side’s increasingly dire hypotheticals, causing mass paranoia among citizens and governments alike.
A large part of the film’s narrative focuses on the extent of protection under the law, especially for a Soviet spy. I reimagined Lady Justice, mixing her blindfold with the American and Soviet flags to represent how both countries were tied to their individuals’ principles of justice even while locked in an unending battle for the upper hand. Set in the eponymous 1950s borough, Brooklyn features then-contemporary imagery that now exemplifies the commodification of Brooklyn as a global brand.
Just as the Pop Art movement utilized mass advertising and irony to re-contextualize commercial art, I drew from today’s vintage, artisanal design trends, which are inspired by that era and setting.
Telephone Booth Shooting
In that vein, I applied the animated footage and vector elements to illustrate how the contrasting settings of Brooklyn and Ireland re-contextualized the protagonist’s identity through a fluctuating sense of “home.”
The 88th annual Academy Awards are underway, and viewers are anxiously awaiting the ceremony to find out if their favorite flicks and actors win, which categories will see big “upsets,” and which speeches and performances will stand out. Not to mention how host Chris Rock will approach the “Oscars So White” controversy, and who he will target during the opening monologue. Did Leo finally take home a golden statue? The buzz began during the red carpet events prior to the official event.
Jennifer Jason Leigh, nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Hateful Eight, seemed slightly out of it during her interview with Ryan Seacrest on E!’s special. But arguably the biggest surprise was Best Actor nominee Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant) and Best Actress in a Supporting Role nominee Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs) playing to their nostalgic fans by walking the red carpet together. Can you believe it’s been nearly two decades since they starred together in the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic (which took home Best Picture)?
“If hosts were nominated, I wouldn’t be here; instead, you’d have Neil Patrick Harris.”
Rock, who addressed the issues with ease and expected humor, added that he did seriously consider quitting after so many people spoke out and pressured him to do so. “But the last thing I need is to lose another job to Kevin Hart,” he said, as the crowd erupted in laughter (including Hart himself, who was in the audience).
Arguably, the best part of Rock’s monologue was his blatant dig at Jada Pinkett-Smith and her vocal “boycott” of the Oscars. “Isn’t she on a TV show? Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties,” he said.
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[Parliamentary procedure class]
THE AUXILIARY TO THE GUILFORD COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY - GREENSBORO BRANCH
Dear Doctori
The Greensboro Branch of the Medical Auxiliary has arranged a course in Parliamentary
Procedure as a community service. Leaders and potential leaders of the city's civic,
service and professional organizations are invited to participate.
The course will be held on four Monday nights, fr#m CtOO to lOtOO P.M., March 6,
March 13, March 20 and April 3, at King's Inn, 1103 North Elm Street. Jordan J.
Frasrineti, Greensboro attorney, will conduct this course. He plans to lecture for
the first half of each session, and after a coffee break, will divide the participants
into workshop groups.
The tuition fee of $15.00 will include all lectures and workshops, a manual on
Parliamentary Procedure, and three pamphlets on Installation of Officers, Program
Planning and Public Relations. Auxiliary members will be hostesses during the coffee
breaks. Please detach the bottom section of this letter, complete it and mail to
Mrs, Robert Garrard, 101 North Park Drive, Greensboro, no later than February 20.
Auxiliary members may take this course without charge except for the cost of the
printed matter. Therefore, if both you and your wife wish to take the course, please
add $3.00 to your own tuition fee, for a total of $18.00
There is a demonstrated need for such a course, and we are pleased to offer it to the
community leaders and potential leaders in our area* This is not intended as a fund-
raising project, and expenses are being kept to a minimum. If, however, a surplus
should remain after all costs are paid, such funds will be donated to a medically
related charity or service.
We sincerely hope you will support us in this venture.
Mrs, Rufus R. Hambright, President
Mrs. Robert L. Garrard, Course Chairman
PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE COURSE - - - REGISTRATION BLANK
King's Inn, 1103 North Elm Street, Greensboro - 3:00 to 10:00 P.M.
March 6, March 13, March 20 and April 3, 1967
Tuition Fee.........»..,.,......,,,.........*.**.,..,............$15.00
Includes Manual on Parliamentary Procedure, set of 3
pamphlets and lecture material.
No charge to Auxiliary members except $3.00 for cost of books.
K!«p«
Tel,
Please complete Registration Blank and mail with check for $15.00 (or $18.00 for
husband'-and'-wife registration) no later than February 20, to
Mrs. Robert L. Garrard, 101 North Park Dftive, Greensboro, N. C. 27401
Title [Parliamentary procedure class]
Creator (group/organization) Auxiliary to the Guilford County Medical Society, Greensboro branch
Subject headings Medicine -- North Carolina -- Greensboro -- History
Description Materials related to the arrangement of a four week course on parliamentary procedure, open to doctors and Auxiliary members.
Original format correspondence
Contributing institution Cone Health Medical Library
Contact Information Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital
http://www.gahec.org/library/
Source collection Cone 10087 Guilford County Medical Society Collection
Folder [1966-1967 Auxiliary to the Guilford County Medical Society Greensboro branch scrapbook]
Finding aid link http://www.gahec.org/library/ghml/Inventory_of_the_Robert_Phillips_Collection.pdf
Object ID Cone_10087.1966.013
Transcript THE AUXILIARY TO THE GUILFORD COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY - GREENSBORO BRANCH February 7, 1967 Dear Doctori The Greensboro Branch of the Medical Auxiliary has arranged a course in Parliamentary Procedure as a community service. Leaders and potential leaders of the city's civic, service and professional organizations are invited to participate. The course will be held on four Monday nights, fr#m CtOO to lOtOO P.M., March 6, March 13, March 20 and April 3, at King's Inn, 1103 North Elm Street. Jordan J. Frasrineti, Greensboro attorney, will conduct this course. He plans to lecture for the first half of each session, and after a coffee break, will divide the participants into workshop groups. The tuition fee of $15.00 will include all lectures and workshops, a manual on Parliamentary Procedure, and three pamphlets on Installation of Officers, Program Planning and Public Relations. Auxiliary members will be hostesses during the coffee breaks. Please detach the bottom section of this letter, complete it and mail to Mrs, Robert Garrard, 101 North Park Drive, Greensboro, no later than February 20. Auxiliary members may take this course without charge except for the cost of the printed matter. Therefore, if both you and your wife wish to take the course, please add $3.00 to your own tuition fee, for a total of $18.00 There is a demonstrated need for such a course, and we are pleased to offer it to the community leaders and potential leaders in our area* This is not intended as a fund- raising project, and expenses are being kept to a minimum. If, however, a surplus should remain after all costs are paid, such funds will be donated to a medically related charity or service. We sincerely hope you will support us in this venture. Cordially, Mrs, Rufus R. Hambright, President Mrs. Robert L. Garrard, Course Chairman THE AUXILIARY TO THE GUILFORD COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY - GREENSBORO BRANCH PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE COURSE - - - REGISTRATION BLANK King's Inn, 1103 North Elm Street, Greensboro - 3:00 to 10:00 P.M. March 6, March 13, March 20 and April 3, 1967 Tuition Fee.........»..,.,......,,,.........*.**.,..,............$15.00 Includes Manual on Parliamentary Procedure, set of 3 pamphlets and lecture material. No charge to Auxiliary members except $3.00 for cost of books. K!«p« Address Tel, Please complete Registration Blank and mail with check for $15.00 (or $18.00 for husband'-and'-wife registration) no later than February 20, to Mrs. Robert L. Garrard, 101 North Park Dftive, Greensboro, N. C. 27401
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Nadiya Savchenko confirms she was taken to Russia by force (updated)
Journalist covering the Nadya Savchenko case detained in Russia
RUSSIAN FARCE
Oleg Sentsov’s detention extended again
Nikita Mikhalkov also calls for Oleg Sentsov’s release
Prominent film directors express concern over FSB prosecution of Oleg Sentsov
Update: On Wednesday evening the Ukrainian consul Hennadiy Breskalenko was finally able to meet with Nadiya Savchenko, who is being held in a Russian SIZO [detention unit] . Savchenko denied Russia’s claim that she crossed the Russian border pretending to be a refugee. She says that she was taken out of Ukraine with a bag over her head and handcuffed. Her abductors changed cars several times.
Russia’s Investigative Committee has tried to foist a fourth defence lawyer on the case involving the extraordinary charges brought against Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko. The investigators have also prevented Savchenko’s sister Vera from coming to Moscow by effectively threatening that she too will be detained.
Meanwhile Ukrainian lawyer Valentina Telychenko reports that the European Court of Human Rights has given Ukraine’s application over Nadya Savchenko’s abduction and appearance in a Russian SIZO [detention unit] priority attention.
The Ukrainian office of the Polish NGO Open Dialogue reports that one of the three lawyers representing Savchenko in Moscow was told by an Investigative Committee official on Tuesday that a fourth lawyer has been attached to the case.
This is denied by Vera Savchenko who stresses that Mark Feygin is her sister’s lawyer, together with his colleagues Ilya Novikov and Nikolai Polozov.
Feygin comments that this is a standard tactic used to torpedo the defence, to fuel uncertainty and to confuse the public.
Open Dialogue also reports that Vera Savchenko was forced to cancel her planned trip to Russia after the investigator, Dmitry Manshin informed the Ukrainian representative that he planned to interrogate Vera. The defence feared that she could be detained and pressure brought on Nadiya Savchenko if she came to Russia and advised against the trip.
Andriy Valchyshyn from Open Dialogue says that the pressure on Vera Savchenko is only the first stage in a campaign to neutralize Nadya Savchenko’s defence. Open Dialogue anticipates efforts in the near future to discredit and put pressure on Nadiya’s family, Feygin and his colleagues, and also Open Dialogue and other human rights activists.
Valchyshyn says that according to their information, Vladislav Surkov, adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, is in charge of the campaign to discredit Savchenko’s defence. Surkov, he says, is believed to be the organizer of the anti-Ukrainian campaign in the Russian media in general, and coverage of the military action in eastern Ukraine in particular.
Valentina Telychenko has posted the letter she received from the European Court of Human Rights on July 15. The letter says that the case is being given priority status, and that the Russian government has been forwarded questions regarding how Savchenko came to be in a Russian SIZO and why she has not been allowed to meet the Ukrainian consul.
As reported, Nadiya Savchenko was taken prisoner in the Luhansk oblast by Kremlin-backed militants from the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic on June 17 or 18. Two days later a video appeared of her being interrogated by the militants. She demonstrated courage during the interrogation and refused to provide the information the militants demanded.
It is not known when she was taken to Russia, but on July 2 a Russian court remanded her in custody until August 30. An appeal against this detention order on July 1o was rejected.
Russia’s Investigative Committee announced on July 9 that charges had been laid against Savchenko for alleged “complicity in the group killing of two or more people carrying out official activities in a publicly hazardous manner for motives of political hatred”.
The investigators claim that in June, as a member of the Aidar Battalion, Savchenko found out the whereabouts of a group of TV Rossiya journalists and other civilians outside Luhansk, and passed these to fighters who carried out a mortar attack which killed TV Rossiya employees Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin.
They also assert that Savchenko crossed the Russian border, without any documents, pretending to be a refugee. They allege that she was initially detained to establish her identity. “After that it transpired that Savchenko is a suspect in a criminal case over the killing of Russian journalists.”
The version presented by the Russian authorities is demonstrably false as there is evidence that Savchenko was taken captive by militants. The entire case shows an extraordinary disregard for international law, and leaves no doubt about the close collaboration between the militants and Russian authorities.
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Erin Watson-Lynn is a Senior Fellow at Perth USAsia Centre, Australia's leading think tank for strengthening relationships between Australia, the Indo-Pacific and the United States. Erin’s work focuses predominantly on South Asia, Southeast Asia and multilateral fora including the G20, ASEAN, and APEC. Previously Erin spent ten years in think tanks and academia at the University of Melbourne’s Asialink, Monash University, UN ESCAP and Swinburne University of Technology.
Erin is currently Australia’s Head Delegate to the W20 (Saudi Arabia) and previously represented Australia at G20 meetings in Japan, Argentina, China and Turkey. She is regularly invited to speak at conferences, roundtables and dialogues around the world including countries in Europe, the Middle East, South America, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Erin is US Department of State IVLP alumna and recently visited Syrian refugee settlements in Jordan and Lebanon with Save the Children.
Erin has published academic papers and opinion pieces globally in leading publications including the Australian, Australian Outlook, the Interpreter, the Lowy Institute, the Conversation, and Australian Policy Online. She regularly provides foreign affairs commentary on television and radio including across the ABC and SKY News Australia networks such as Q&A, the Drum, Afternoon Briefing, Radio National, the Friday Show, the Bolt Report, and Politics HQ.
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Erin Watson-Lynn, Shaun Star 10 May 2019 12:30
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From Bollywood to cricket heroes, stars can do much more than simply encourage people to vote.
Erin Watson-Lynn 12 Mar 2019 15:00
China’s growing Latin America ties also matter for Australia
Australia should focus on the southern cone of Latin America to strengthen its own ties with China.
Erin Watson-Lynn 12 Apr 2018 13:00
“Presumably, we shall have to call her a Stateswoman”
More positive profiling of women in office will result in more positive perceptions of women in political leadership.
Erin Watson-Lynn 16 Jan 2017 11:24
India: Still blaming victims for violence against women
Despite some increase in gender equality indicators, things are not changing fast enough in India.
Erin Watson-Lynn 2 May 2016 16:28
Modi's panic button for women's safety: Pros and cons
The Modi Government’s quest to ensure women’s safety in India has resulted in a ‘panic button’ policy. From 1 January next year, all mobile phones sold in India must be equipped with panic button technology. From 2018, all mobile phones must have GPS tracking. Indian government ministers were quick to praise Modi’s announcement. Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi, described the built-in panic button as a ‘game changer’.
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robertogreco : accuracy 24
Are We as Doomed as That New York Magazine Article Says? - The Atlantic
"Over the past decade, most researchers have trended away from climate doomsdayism. They cite research suggesting that people respond better to hopeful messages, not fatalistic ones; and they meticulously fact-check public descriptions of global warming, as watchful for unsupported exaggeration as they are for climate-change denial.
They do this not because they think that climate change will be peachy. They do it because they want to be exceptionally careful with facts for such a vital issue. And many of them, too, think that a climate-changed world will look less like a starved wasteland and more like our current home—just more unequal and more impoverished.
What does that world look like? We got a fairly good look late last month, actually, when a new consortium of economists and scientists called the Climate Impact Lab published their first study in the journal Science. Their research looks at how global warming will afflict Americans economically, on a county-by-county level. It tells a frightening but much more mundane story.
Climate change, they say, will not turn us into idiots before broiling us in our sleep. Instead, it will act as a kind of ecological reverse Robin Hood, stealing from the poor and giving to the rich. It will impoverish many of the poorest communities in the country—arrayed across the South and Southwest, and especially along the Gulf Coast—while increasing the fortunes of cities and suburbs on both of the coasts.
“This study—the climate equivalent of being informed that smoking carries serious risk of lung cancer—should be enough to motivate us,” says Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist and professor of political science at Texas Tech University. “The NYMag article is the climate equivalent of being told that everyone in the world’s life will end in the most grisly, worst-case possible scenario if we keep on smoking.”
The Climate Impact Labs’ accounting is a much likelier view of what is “much more likely to occur than the doomsday scenario,” she added.
Other communicators reject Wallace-Wells’s approach for a third reason: He glosses over the many reasons that climate advocates now have hope. Many of these criticisms came not from researchers but from other climate communicators. “Through combo of exaggeration and hopelessness, [the NYMag piece] turns away those in the middle we need to persuade. It makes action harder,” tweeted Ramez Naam, a technologist and novelist. “We’ve made huge climate strides. Business-as-usual used to mean six or seven degrees Celsius or warming. Now it looks like three to four, and [it’s] trending down.”
Chuck Wendig, another novelist, called the story irresponsible. “It leans very hard on the EXTINCTION PORN angle, and almost not at all on the BUT HERE'S WHAT WE DO angle,” he said on Twitter.
I’m not so sure about this last angle. I have been writing about climate change nearly full-time for several years now. I don’t think journalists should frame the truth to better inspire people—that’s not our job.
But I vacillate considerably on the doom versus no-doom question. Consider what Wallace-Wells writes about climate change and war:
Researchers like Marshall Burke and Solomon Hsiang have managed to quantify some of the non-obvious relationships between temperature and violence: For every half-degree of warming, they say, societies will see between a 10 and 20 percent increase in the likelihood of armed conflict. In climate science, nothing is simple, but the arithmetic is harrowing: A planet five degrees warmer would have at least half again as many wars as we do today. Overall, social conflict could more than double this century.
That final sentence is simplistic; we cannot wield careful social science conclusions like an abacus. It is also too certain: While Burke and Hsiang have found links between conflict and climate change, another group of researchers from Oslo have found far weaker connections. They observe a link between natural disaster and war only when a country is divided by ethnicity.
Yet this is worrisome by itself. Consider the world that climate scientists say is more realistic: a place where sea levels cause mass migration within and without the developed world; where the economy is never great but isn’t in shambles either; where voters fear for their livelihoods and superpowers poke at each others’ weaknesses.
Does that world sound like a safe and secure place to live? Does it sound like a workable status quo? And how many small wars need to start in that world before they all fuse together? Who needs planet-killing methane burps when nine different countries have 15,000 nuclear weapons between them? In short, there are plenty of doomsday scenarios to worry about. They don’t need to be catastrophic on their face to induce catastrophe."
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july 2017 by robertogreco
Airbrushing Shittown | Hazlitt
"S-Town isn’t fiction—we can probably assume that the facts, as we are given them, are “accurate.” But mere accuracy doesn’t make it journalism: the private details of private lives have no clear public interest, and Brian Reed never seriously argues that they do. It’s creative non-fiction, then, a category whose very name is composed out of negations: not fiction, but not non-fiction, either; true, but created. And so the fact that he never finds anything—that nothing happened—is what he finds at the end of his investigation, the discovery that the very opposite of something happened. He finds that something didn’t happen, in a half-dozen different ways, and that it didn’t happen for everyone in a variety of fascinating ways: the murder, the gold, and the conspiracy of silence… He finds none of it, only the story of how he set out to look. And then out of this series of negations, he wraps it all up, neatly, so that we can all go home, entertained.
By the end of the podcast, you come to realize that the monologue that opened it—a monologue about clocks and how they are reconstructed—is really about Brian Reed’s own process, about reconstructing a life. “Sometimes entire portions of the original clockwork are missing,” he says, “but you can’t know for sure because there are rarely diagrams of what the clock is supposed to look like. A clock that old doesn’t come with a manual.” John B. McLemore is the clock, and the testimony Reed has gathered, over long years of work, are the “witness marks” a clock-restorer uses to guide their way, “impressions and outlines and discolorations, left inside the clock, of pieces that might’ve once been there.”
“Fixing an old clock can be maddening,” Reed says. “You’re constantly wondering if you’ve just spent hours going down a path that will likely take you nowhere, and all you’ve got are these vague witness marks which might not even mean what you think they mean. So, at every moment along the way you have to decide if you’re wasting your time or not.”
Reed did not waste his time; S-Town was a smash from the start, a career-making triumph. But in their original function, clocks are not made for entertainment. Clocks are tools that make social life possible. A clock makes time, and organizes it, and time is, ultimately, a social medium: we use it to coordinate with others and to communicate; a sense of shared time helps us meet each other and find each other and arrange the stories that we tell about each other—it allows us to take our turns speaking and listening, and it allows us to put things into their proper perspective. Without clocks—or without some sense of shared time, however constructed—society, as we know it, would not be possible.
John lived in his own time zone, literally: as Reed mentions, John B. McLemore’s house did not observe daylight saving time, so depending on the season, the time at his house might be an hour different than the surrounding area. It’s a good reflection of his relation to his world, his insistent eccentricity reflected in his own, personal, zone of time. It’s a good joke, a playful irony, even a self-consciously Faulknerian expression of being southern, a quiet little rebellion against unification under the guise of turning back the clock. It’s also totally ridiculous, which John surely understood: since all time is social, the idea of having your own time zone is absurd, only meaningful in the irony of its meaninglessness.
Moreover, for all his scrupulous attention to reconstructing the original function of a clock, the irony of clock restoration is that John didn’t repair clocks for their original function. His clocks were repaired to be old, to be antiques: the point of “restoring” them was not simply to make them work—that’s easy enough to do—but to make them work exactly as they once did. That’s why John hand-ground a gathering pallet from scratch. “They aren’t trying to simply make the clock work again,” Reed says of the fraternity of horologists. “Their goal is to preserve and reconstruct the original craftsmanship as much as possible.” Recovering and replicating the inspiration of the original clockmaker makes them valuable enough to sell, but it’s the sale that matters.
After all, clock restoration serves no useful function in a world where we all have clocks on our phones (the same phones we might use to listen to a podcast). In a world where networked clocks are everywhere, an antique clock is so big, heavy, and fragile that it isn’t useful in that sense. Instead, an antique clock’s eccentricity becomes valuable because of how odd it is, how particular, and how much work goes into restoring it. When people pay for a restored antique, they are paying for an incredibly laborious lack of useful value: so much work went into making them work again, but because that work is totally superfluous and unnecessary, it is thus, perversely, worth paying for.
If an old clock is valuable because of the perfectly recovered eccentricity of its original intention, the same could be said about John B. McLemore’s own perverse life, and for that matter, this podcast. So much work went into making it, but what, after everything, is this podcast actually for?
When John B. McLemore heard the earliest draft of Reed’s program, the story of the murder of that didn’t happen, his reaction was disappointment: “I can’t believe how much you’ve worked on this son of a bitch and at the same time,” he sighed, “my god.” Reed wanted him to be relieved, to be happy about the work, and is audibly upset that he isn’t. Perhaps John B. was in a bad mood, even a depressive episode; perhaps that was why he wasn’t sufficiently appreciative. Perhaps his original fit of enthusiasm for activist journalism had long passed—it had, after all, been years since he originally contacted Reed—and he had a different perspective on the story Brian Reed was telling. When Reed observes that “I am not saving the world over here,” John’s retort that “You are definitely not saving the world!” is delivered with a peculiar, bitter intensity, the laugh of someone who once thought it was possible, perhaps, but no longer does. What’s the point of all that work if it can’t save the world?
John B. isn’t cruel, though: “I think you’ve done pretty goddamned good,” he says, finally. And he’s absolutely right—one can only admire how well Brian Reed reconstructed his clock. But what is the point of it? What does it do?
I am writing this and you are reading it because we are sharing a moment: we have all listened to this podcast, the timepiece that Brian Reed built to bring us together. But what do we do with this unity? Across the seven hours of Reed’s production, we are told a story in which we all can understand each other, talk to each other, and hear each other: we can unite in admiration for John B., for the genius that was born to Mary Grace, for his voice, and for the power of storytelling. We can hear his voice and be united in our appreciation for his existence. Is this what we need now? Does it tell us our time? Does it bring us together? Does it help us understand what it means to have Donald Trump as president, and Jefferson Beauregard Sessions as the most powerful cop in the land? Or is it simply a nostalgic exercise in anachronism, like a perfectly restored antique? Is it something we value because it does something, or because it feels old and authentic?
I don’t know. In the end, all it offers is questions."
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may 2017 by robertogreco
Why Children's Drawings Matter - YouTube
"Children can’t draw very well in the technical sense - but their art has important value for us nevertheless."
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Cheerful to a Fault: “Positive” Practices with Negative Implications - Alfie Kohn
"We live in a smiley-face, keep-your-chin-up, look-on-the-bright-side culture. At the risk of being labeled a professional party pooper, I’d like to suggest that accentuating the positive isn’t always a wise course of action where children are concerned. I say that not because I’ve joined the conservative chorus whose refrain is that kids today have it too damn easy and ought to be made to experience more failure (and show more “grit”).[1] Rather, my point is that some things that sound positive and upbeat turn out not to be particularly constructive.
1. Praise. The most salient feature of a positive judgment is not that it’s positive but that it’s a judgment. And in the long run, people rarely thrive as a result of being judged. Praise is the mirror image of criticism, not its opposite. Both are ways of doing things to kids as opposed to working with them. Verbal rewards are often more about manipulating than encouraging — a form of sugar-coated control. The main practical effect of offering a reward, whether it’s tangible, symbolic, or verbal, is to provide a source of extrinsic motivation (for example, trying to please the rewarder), and this, according to a considerable body of research, tends to undermine intrinsic motivation (a commitment to the activity or value itself).
While “Good job!” may seem like a supportive thing to say, that support is actually made conditional on the child’s doing what we ask or impressing us. What kids most need from adults, apart from nonjudgmental feedback and guidance, is unconditional support: the antithesis of a patronizing pat on the head for having jumped through our hoops. The solution, therefore, isn’t as simple as praising children’s effort instead of their ability, because the problem isn’t a function of what’s being praised — or, for that matter, how often praise is offered — but of praise itself.[2]
2. Automatic reassurance. Deborah Meier once remarked that if a child says one of her classmates doesn’t like her,
we need to resist reassuring her that it’s not true and getting the classmate to confirm it; then we must ask ourselves what has led to this idea. Probably there is truth to the cry for help, and our refusal to admit it may simply lead the child to hide her hurt more deeply. Do we do too much reassuring – ‘It doesn’t hurt,’ ‘It’ll be okay’ – and not enough exploring, joining with the child’s queries, fears, thoughts?[3]
A reflexive tendency to say soothing things to children in distress may simply communicate that we’re not really listening to them. Perhaps we’re offering reassurance more because that’s what we need to say than because it’s what they need to hear.
3. Happiness as the primary goal. How can we help children grow up to be happy? That’s an important question, but here’s another one: How can we help children grow up to be concerned about whether other people are happy? We don’t want our kids to end up as perpetually miserable social activists, but neither should we root for them to become so focused on their own well-being that they’re indifferent to other people’s suffering. Happiness isn’t a good thing if it’s purchased at the price of being unreflective, complacent, or self-absorbed.
Moreover, as the psychologist Ed Deci reminds us, anger and sadness are sometimes appropriate responses to things that happen to us (and around us). “When people want only happiness, they can actually undermine their own development,” he said, “because the quest for happiness can lead them to suppress other aspects of their experience. . . .The true meaning of being alive is not just to feel happy, but to experience the full range of human emotions.”[4]
And here are four specific cheerful-sounding utterances or slogans that I believe also merit our skepticism:
4. “High(er) expectations.” This phrase, typically heard in discussions about educating low-income or minority students, issues from policy makers with all the thoughtfulness of a sneeze. It derives most of its appeal from a simplistic contrast with low expectations, which obviously no one prefers. But we need to ask some basic questions: Are expectations being raised to the point that students are more demoralized than empowered? Are these expectations being imposed on students rather than developed with them? And most fundamentally: High expectations to do what, exactly? Produce impressive scores on unimpressive tests?
The school reform movement driven by slogans such as “tougher standards,” “accountability,” and “raising the bar” arguably lowers meaningful expectations insofar as it relies on dubious indicators of progress — thereby perpetuating a “bunch o’ facts” model of learning. Expecting poor children to fill in worksheets more accurately just causes them to fall farther behind affluent kids who are offered a more thoughtful curriculum. Indeed, as one study found, such traditional instruction may be associated with lower expectations on the part of their teachers.[5]
5. “Ooh, you’re so close!” (in response to a student’s incorrect answer). My objection here is not, as traditionalists might complain, that we’re failing to demand absolute accuracy. Quite the contrary. The problem is that we’re more focused on getting students to produce right answers than on their understanding of what they’re doing. Even in math, one student’s right answer may not signify the same thing as another’s. The same is true of two wrong answers. A student’s response may have been only one digit off from the correct one, but she may have gotten there by luck (in which case she wasn’t really “close” in a way that matters). Conversely, a student who’s off by an order of magnitude may grasp the underlying principle but have made a simple calculation error.
6. “If you work hard, I’m sure you’ll get a better grade next time.” Again, we may have intended to be encouraging, but the actual message is that what matters in this classroom isn’t learning but performance. It’s not about what kids are doing but how well they’re doing it. Decades’ worth of research has shown that these two emphases tend to pull in opposite directions. Thus, the relevant distinction isn’t between a good grade and a bad grade; it’s leading kids to focus on grades versus inviting them to engage with ideas.
Similarly, if we become preoccupied with effort as opposed to ability as the primary determinant of high marks, we miss the crucial fact that marks are inherently destructive. Like demands to “raise expectations,” a growth mindset isn’t a magic wand. In fact, it can distract us from the harmfulness of certain goals — and of certain ways of teaching and assessing — by suggesting that more effort, like more rigor, is all that’s really needed. Not only is it not sufficient; when the outcome is misconceived, it isn’t even always desirable.[6]
7. “Only Positive Attitudes Allowed Beyond This Point.” I’ve come across this poster slogan in a number of schools, and each time I see it, my heart sinks. Its effect isn’t to create a positive atmosphere but to serve notice that the expression of negative feelings is prohibited: “Have a nice day . . . or else.” It’s a sentiment that’s informative mostly for what it tells us about the needs of the person who put up the poster. It might as well say “My Mental Health Is So Precarious That I Need All of You to Pretend You’re Happy.”
Kids don’t require a classroom that’s relentlessly upbeat; they require a place where it’s safe to express whatever they’re feeling, even if at the moment that happens to be sadness or fear or anger. Bad feelings don’t vanish in an environment of mandatory cheer — they just get swept under the rug where people end up tripping over them, so to speak. Furthermore, students’ “negativity” may be an entirely apt response to an unfair rule, an authoritarian environment, or a series of tasks that seem pointless. To focus on students’ emotions in order to manufacture a positive climate (or in the name of promoting “self-regulation” skills) is to pretend that the problem lies exclusively with their responses rather than with what we may have done that elicited them.[7]"
[Also posted here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/07/14/things-we-say-to-kids-that-sound-positive-but-can-be-detrimental/ ]
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A 6-year-old totally owned the Financial Times over a 'Minecraft' error | Fusion
When you write about Minecraft, you’d better get it right, or millions of kids all over the world will be ready to pounce on your errors.
The Financial Times learned this the hard way. Last weekend, the paper published a story on the Microsoft-owned hit game, titled “The business behind Minecraft.” And this weekend, Zorawar Bhangoo, a 6-year-old from London, wrote in to correct the paper for a graphic it published to accompany the piece.
Bhangoo’s handwritten note, which the FT transcribed and reprinted in its letters section, reads:
Sir, Your big Minecraft picture on the front page of your Life & Arts section (July 4) is wrong.
In Minecraft, smoke does not come out of chimneys and doors cannot be a light colour. Doors need four boxes at the top of them. Trees have to be round and not any other shape and you put the trees a rectangle shape. The clouds have to be 3D. You put the clouds upright. The roof of a house cannot be blue.
Zorawar Bhangoo (age 6)
London SE21, UK
This kid’s got a bright future. And the FT may need to build itself a burn unit in Minecraft, because getting owned by a 6-year-old has got to hurt."
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In fantasy worlds, historical accuracy is a lie - Boing Boing
"The mythical realms of Dragon Age grow beautifully with the telling, including their representation of Earthly minorities. Even so, something's missing..."
"Elves, magic, dragons, shapeshifting and ancient powers of world destruction are somehow totally believable, but the idea that brown people might exist is somehow not. My colleague MedievalPOC's blog uses art, history and other resources to regularly debunk the broad but rarely-questioned misconception that only white people were around in medieval times. So if we know brown folks definitely existed in actual Medieval Europe, why are they absent from a made-up fantasy world only loosely inspired by Medieval Europe? Where are the brown folks in Dragon Age's Thedas?
Let's have a look at the history of representation in my favorite game series."
"I hope the tropes that govern characters like Vivienne de Fer or Mother Giselle are the last we see of these types of things. I hope these missteps simply happen because there aren't many people of color working in the games industry. It's not that anyone on the Dragon Age team is willfully racist or malicious to players; it's simply that someone who doesn't have the lived experience of dealing with racism as a person of color would simply not think about these things.
I want these things to end; I want more people of color working in the games industry. I want more people on the team who can go, "whoa, wait, this isn't okay." I want more people sitting in the room who can bring things like these up when scripts are being written -- or better yet, while characters are still being conceived. These painful jabs hurt people like me as we traverse the fantasy worlds that are supposed to represent the ultimate escape from the real."
[via: http://finalbossform.com/post/114504124240/in-fantasy-worlds-historical-accuracy-is-a-lie ]
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march 2015 by robertogreco
Meta is Murder - Mills Baker's Internet Haus of Cards
"There’s enormous and increasing pressure on humans to achieve reach in their ideas, designs, morals, and policies. Despite having evolved in small groups with small-group habits of cognition and emotion, we now live in a global group and must coordinate hugely complex societies. The problems we face are problems at scale. Thus: reach is mandatory. A taxation, software design, or criminal justice solution that cannot be deployed at scale isn’t useful to us anymore; indeed, even opinions must scale up. For personal, political, governmental, commercial, literary, expediency-oriented, and many other reasons, we must have solutions that work for more human (H) units / instances, and H is always increasing (even as every sub-member of H is determined to be respected according to her or his unpredictable inimitability, range of action, moral agency, autonomy, freedom, etc.).
This pressure often inclines people to accept induction- or correlation-based models or ideas, which are inaccurate to varyingly significant degrees, in lieu of explanatory models. That is: in many situations, we’ll accept aggregates, groups, central plans, reductions, otherings, dehumanizations, short-hand-symbols, and so on because (1) they serve our ends, sometimes without any costs or (2) we have nothing else. In order to have explanations with reach in areas where we have no models, we commit philosophical fraud: we transact with elements and dynamics we cannot predict or understand and we hope for the best (better, it seems, than admitting that “I don’t know”). How we talk about speculative models, reductive schema, and plural entities —peoples, companies, generations, professions, events even— reveals a lot about how much we care for epistemological accuracy. And not caring about it is a kind of brutality; it means we don’t care what happens to the lives inaccurately described, not captured by our model, not helped by our policies, unaided by our designs, not included in our normative plan.
In politics, design, art, philosophy, and even ordinary daily thinking, being consciously aware of this tension, and of the pressure to exchange accuracy for reach, is as important as recognizing the difference between “guessing” and “knowing.” Otherwise, one is likely to adopt ideas with reach without recognizing the increased risk of inaccuracy that comes with it. One will be tempted to ignore the risk even if one knows it, tempted by how nice it is to have tidy conceptions of good and evil, friend and foe, progress and failure.
Reach is innately personally pleasing in part because it privileges the knower, whose single thought describes thousands or millions of people, whose simple position circumscribes civilization’s evolution, the history of religion, the nature of economics, the meaning of life. Exceptions be damned! But in general, if an idea has significant reach, it must be backed by an explanatory model or it will either be too vague or too inaccurate to be useful. And if it’s a political or moral idea, the innocent exceptions will be damned along with the guilty. Hence the immorality of reduction, othering, and inaccurate ideas whose reach makes them popular."
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december 2014 by robertogreco
Medicalskeptic on Twitter: "On numbers being gamed, people can't keep their own score - @EdwardTufte http://t.co/Ps9j1NoBIP Read this carefully and often"
"On numbers being gamed, people can't keep their own score - @EdwardTufte Read this carefully and often":
"People and institutions cannot keep their own score accurately. Metrics soon become targets and then pitches, and are thereby gamed, corrupted, misreported, fudged.
Examples: premature revenue recognition, Libor rates, beating the quarterly forecast by a single penny, terrorist attacks prevented, Weapons of Mass Destruction, number of Twitter followers, all body counts (crowd sizes, civilians blown up).
Sometimes called the Principal of Lake Wobegone, where all children are above average."
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Messages The City Wants Us To Hear – The New Inquiry
"Some excerpts from Timothy “Speed” Levitch’s Speedology (2002)
1. The Fastest Way to Adventure is to Stand Still
Boredom is an illusion. Boredom is the continuous state of not noticing that the unexpected is constantly arriving while the anticipated is never showing up. Boredom is anti-cruise propaganda.
2. The City as Autobiography
We are not visitors, tourists, nor inhabitants of New York City; we are New York City. The city is our moving self-portrait and a living art installation carved out on an island of rock, even the cracks of the sidewalk are crying out on the topic of our lives. The city is a profound opportunity to understand ourselves.
3. This is No Time for Historical Accuracy
Nothing I say can possibly be defended. I am not interested in being right or wrong; my priority is to be joyous.
As a tour guide, I approach history the same way Charlie Parker would approach a jazz standard. I am not here to recapitulate the notes exactly as they were composed but to find myself within the notes and collaborate with what has been before me to chase after everything I could ever be. My study of history is mostly an attempt to impress women.
4. Fear is Joy Paralyzed
Society— the greatest self-hatred the earth has ever witnessed— is a mediocre improv comedy piece we’re all living despite ourselves, one that would be impossible without fear effectively taking on ingenious disguises throughout the adventure of each and every day […] We do not have agendas, agendas have us.
5. Gregariousness is Great
New York City is a summoning of souls and a tribal ceremony of collected ancient agonies and conflicts brought to a new landscape for healing. A New Yorker is someone who runs wild with healing.
6. The Soul is the Only Landmark
Salvation is seeing everything as it already is.
7. Being Alive is Sexy
The world is an involuntary orgy.
8. What is Created is Destroyed
Many decry the destruction of Pennsylvania Station, the great beaux arts railroad terminal that was knocked down and replaced by the fourth Madison Square Garden. They ask, “If the city is a great teacher, why would it destroy a great building and put a lousy one in its place?” the answer: Pennsylvania station was too beautiful. The anecdote may be a catastrophe from a preservationist’s point of view, but it is a masterpiece from a dramatist’s. It’s just the way Tennessee Williams would have written it. Many will then ask, “Why is the city issuing forth these dramas?” The answer: the city wants to entertain us.
9. The Most Significant Thing About Suffering is That We’re All Doing It
10. Our True Selves Are the Greatest Parties Ever Thrown
You are a better party than you have ever been to. […] To live in a city is to realize that life is a procession of different versions of ourselves that we meet over time. Evolving is the meeting between who you were and who you just became.
11. Having Faith in Humanity is Supposed to be Fun
Fun is active faith. Faith is the celebration of “I don’t know.” The city is a bravely unfolding movie entertaining us so effectively we are hypnotized by it. The movie is a comedy about mammals in a movie taking the movie seriously and deciding it is a tragedy.
12. I Am Not Getting Laid
I want to make it clear, from the beginning, that I am not currently getting laid as I write this and this fact colors everything I say. It’s the one statement that makes perfect sense of Nietzsche’s work.
Bennett Miller’s 1998 documentary, The Cruise is one of the greatest films ever made about New York City."
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november 2013 by robertogreco
Dither - Wikipedia
…[O]ne of the earliest [applications] of dither came in World War II. Airplane bombers used mechanical computers to perform navigation and bomb trajectory calculations. Curiously, these computers (boxes filled with hundreds of gears and cogs) performed more accurately when flying on board the aircraft, and less well on ground. Engineers realized that the vibration from the aircraft reduced the error from sticky moving parts. Instead of moving in short jerks, they moved more continuously. Small vibrating motors were built into the computers, and their vibration was called dither from the Middle English verb "didderen," meaning "to tremble." Today, when you tap a mechanical meter to increase its accuracy, you are applying dither, and modern dictionaries define dither as a highly nervous, confused, or agitated state. In minute quantities, dither successfully makes a digitization system a little more analog in the good sense of the word.
—Ken Pohlmann, Principles of Digital Audio[1]
The term "dither" was published in books on analog computation and hydraulically controlled guns shortly after the war.[2][3] The concept of dithering to reduce quantization patterns was first applied by Lawrence G. Roberts[4] in his 1961 MIT master's thesis[5] and 1962 article[6] though he did not use the term dither. By 1964 dither was being used in the modern sense described in this article."
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The Little Mystical - Some Obvious Things About Drawing Maps
"As single-user tools (since we’re talking about personal construction of knowledge), I wonder at the gap between the activity beneath the surface and what a visitor sees – a canonical-looking map or article.
Criticism of Wikipedia’s factual accuracy is often (1) It can change anytime! and (2) Any random person can change it! – which, well, are also the reasons why it works. But the disconnect happens because a unstable work, that’s under constant negotiation, looks stable. How many people look at Wikipedia history frequently? How many people understand – explicitly understand – that this is knowledge construction?
There are some obvious ideas that fall out of making that level of change clearer to people – you could highlight areas that have changed since you last looked at it, you could fade out areas under heavy negotiation and only show the stable parts by default.
Or with personal map-making / map-reading, when you have these layers of structured data, you can do a little paint-by-layers – say you’re drawing a map of your neighborhood, you drag out lines following the path of the main streets you walk on, and Sim-City-style, they get drawn-in using live data. You get both the explicitness of someone’s “drawing out” their map’s contours and the benefit of the latest satellite mapping data."
[Full conversation here: http://storify.com/rogre/legible-maps-of-places-and-infospaces ]
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august 2013 by robertogreco
Admiralty charts (maps) | The National Archives
One of the characteristics of an Admiralty chart is that it is continually updated and corrected.
Dates of survey and compilation are minutely recorded, as are those of the corrections continually made to maintain the accuracy and utility of the chart.
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june 2013 by robertogreco
note found in a copy of The Cosmic Code | the m john harrison blog
"Stop reading. Stop being anxious about your relations with books. Assume your skills are adequate. Assume you don’t know who you are. Go away to another town. When you get there, don’t “write”: instead begin recording what you see. Describe a life you can only be on the edge of. Get those people down. Get down what they do, what they say, how they say it. Aim for observational accuracy but understand that you can only ever proceed from emotional & moral judgements you have already made. Never try to resolve that opposition. Never think beyond the problem of getting things down. Keep everything. After two years go back to where you came from, if you any longer believe that to be possible, or if you believe yourself any longer to be the you that went away. You can start trying to “write” again now."
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february 2013 by robertogreco
Philip Roth and Wikipedia | Non-Commercial Use
"First, this is not a fundamental flaw in Wikipedia’s central precepts – this is one author and his agents being unable to navigate the internet and/or report the truth with any degree of accuracy. This is our attempt to make our information not only accurate, but verifiable – to ensure that readers have a hope in hell of actually checking the accuracy of our information. This is not achieved by enabling subjects to become the oracles of truth for any article that mentions them, or telling readers “we know it’s accurate because Philip Roth said so, and you’ll just have to trust us on that”. We don’t want readers to trust us. We want readers to think and be able to do their own research.
Second, maybe (although I doubt it) we need to have a frank debate over how we handle primary and secondary sourcing…
Third: people should perhaps start having a debate about the way authors are treated in “proper” sources."
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september 2012 by robertogreco
lonelysandwich - Human-computer-human interaction
"As we learn to speak to Siri, we’ll learn more about how we formulate ideas into words, how to express those so that they may be understood with less margin of error, ultimately shortening the gap between intention and comprehension.
It’s safe to assume that as we learn to talk to Siri, Siri learns to listen to us. So we’re not simply assimilating with the robot culture, we’re fostering a new understanding between our vastly different types of intelligence.
Which is to say, Siri will teach us how to talk to Siri but maybe more importantly, how to talk to each other."
[via: http://spiegelman.tumblr.com/post/27082261842/on-the-virtue-of-brevity-in-email ]
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The Lifespan of a Fact | W. W. Norton & Company
"An innovative essayist and his fact-checker do battle about the use of truth and the definition of nonfiction.
How negotiable is a fact in nonfiction? In 2003, an essay by John D’Agata was rejected by the magazine that commissioned it due to factual inaccuracies. That essay—which eventually became the foundation of D’Agata’s critically acclaimed About a Mountain—was accepted by another magazine, The Believer, but not before they handed it to their own fact-checker, Jim Fingal. What resulted from that assignment was seven years of arguments, negotiations, and revisions as D’Agata and Fingal struggled to navigate the boundaries of literary nonfiction.
This book reproduces D’Agata’s essay, along with D’Agata and Fingal’s extensive correspondence. What emerges is a brilliant and eye-opening meditation on the relationship between “truth” and “accuracy” and a penetrating conversation about whether it is appropriate for a writer to substitute one for the other."
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Leonard Cohen, "How to Speak Poetry" - Acephalous
"The poem is nothing but information. It is the Constitution of the inner country. If you declaim it and blow it up with noble intentions then you are no better than the politicians whom you despise. You are just someone waving a flag and making the cheapest kind of appeal to a kind of emotional patriotism. Think of the words as science, not as art. They are a report. You are speaking before a meeting of the Explorers' Club of the National Geographic Society. These people know all the risks of mountain climbing. They honour you by taking this for granted. If you rub their faces in it that is an insult to their hospitality. Tell them about the height of the mountain, the equipment you used, be specific about the surfaces and the time it took to scale it…
Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you're tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty."
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What are the Habits of Mind? | Institute For Habits of Mind
"Habits of Mind are dispositions that are skillfully and mindfully employed by characteristically intelligent, successful people when they are confronted with problems, the solution to which are not immediately apparent.
The Habits of Mind as identified by Costa and Kallick are:
Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision
Managing Impulsivity
Gathering Data Through all Senses
Listening with Understanding and Empathy
Creating, imagining and Innovation
Thinking Flexibly
Responding with Wonderment and Awe
Thinking about Thinking (Metacognition)
Taking Responsible Risks
Striving for Accuracy
Finding Humor
Questioning and Posing Problems
Thinking Interdependently
Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations
Remaining Open to Continuous Learning"
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The Volokh Conspiracy » There Should Be A Name for This One, Too:
"To begin with, how odd is it that they’d invoke Shakespeare in this context? “We need stronger copyright or else we won’t get the next Shakespeare” is like arguing “We need the designated hitter, or how will we ever get the next Babe Ruth?” In a copyright-free world — not that I’m advocating such a thing, but hey, you brought it up — we’ll get the next Shakespeare the way we got the last Shakespeare, in a copyright-free world. The first copyright statute, the Statute of Anne, wasn’t passed until 1709, long after Shakespeare was a-moulderin’ in the grave. [That’s what we need a name for — this kind of absurdly misplaced historical argument]"
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Autism and HIV: when maths can be misleading - Telegraph
"Moreover, the number of people involved was small: 20 with autism, 20 without. With that small a group, it’s hard to tell whether any association that shows up is meaningful. You can train a computer using photos of the family cat, and it will calculate whichever combination of size, colour, and whisker length best detects autism in its owner. There are so many potential combinations that in all likelihood one of them will appear to perform pretty well. But try it on another bunch of people, and the odds are it will fail."
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Yahoo Builds the Nostradamus of Search Engines | Fast Company
"Bold predictions are made every day. We'll reduce our carbon emissions by 50% in 20 years, boast business leaders. No, make that 80% in 15 years. We'll cut the deficit in half by 2015, pandering politicians claim. That leaves us with dozens of conflicting estimates and ballpark figures that are soon forgotten. It's hard to hold experts to their predictions, but that could all change soon thanks to an experimental search engine from Yahoo.
Developed by the company's Barcelona research lab, Time Explorer is a search engine for the past, present, & future. Results are displayed on a timeline that stretches years back *& forward. Move your mouse over the future part of the timeline, & you get predictions for what was supposed to happen in that year from as much as 20 years ago. For example, the timeline for "North Korea" lets us know that the rogue state should have developed some 200 nuclear warheads--according to an inaccurate op-ed in the NY Times by Nicholas Kristof in 2004."
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Ecstatic Truth [.pdf]
"“Ecstatic truth” is a term used by the German director Werner Herzog to describe a filmmaking technique that favors emotional accuracy over detail-oriented accuracy in a documentary context. To achieve a sense of “ecstatic truth,” a filmmaker, instead of attempting to portray characters or events in an objective or factual way, fabricates a situation that plays with the emotional intensity of the subjects and reaches a level of sincerity that the facts alone could not achieve. In Herzog’s manifesto, the Minnesota Declaration: Truth and Fact in Documentary Cinema written in 1999, point five states:
“There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.”"
[from a follow-up search after reading: http://number27.org/today.php?d=20100821 ]
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Ditch that Word
"I've been doing a new blog called Ditch that Word. So, if you are a language geek or you just want an insight into my own strange inner-monologues, feel free to check it out. Here's the premise: Instead of a Word-a-Day blog (which are admittedly cool), I'm thinking of condensing my language - or at least thinking better about how I use it in different contexts.
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Laurent Haug’s blog » "Wikipedia is like a sausageyou might like the taste of it, but you don’t necessarily want to see how it’s made”."
“The problem most people have with Wikipedia’s quality and accuracy seems to have more to do with their knowledge of how it is made, rather than any observed problem with the end results.”
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Stats NZ Home > Browse for statistics > Health > Life expectancy > New Zealand Life Tables: 2005–07
New Zealand Life Tables: 2005–07
Standards and further information
Chapter 1: Background
Chapter 2: National trends in longevity and mortality
Chapter 3: National methodology
Chapter 4: Subnational trends in longevity and mortality
Chapter 5: Subnational methodology
Appendix 1: New Zealand life tables, 2005–07
Appendix 2: Five-year age group mortality and survivorship rates, 2005–07
Appendix 3: Cohort life tables by birth cohort
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Herb Index
Dis-Eases
Rose Mallow
Medicinal Herb Info
The Medicinal Herb Info site was created to help educate visitors about the often forgotten wisdom of the old ways of treating illnesses. Many of today's drugs and medicines were originally derived from natural ingredients, combinations of plants and other items found in nature.
We are not suggesting that you ignore the help of trained medical professionals, simply that you have additional options available for treating illnesses. Often the most effective treatment involves a responsible blend of both modern and traditional treatments.
We wish you peace and health!
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Medicinal Uses
Common Names | Parts Usually Used | Plant(s) & Culture | Where Found | Medicinal Properties
Legends, Myths and Stories | Uses | Formulas or Dosages | Warning | Bibliography
Terebinthine canadensis L.
Abies balsamea L.
Coniferae
Pine family
Canada balsam
Parts Usually Used
Leaves, bark and twigs, resin
Description of Plant(s) and Culture
Balsam fir is an evergreen of the pine family, a spire-shaped tree that grows to 60 feet in height. The flattish needles are up to 1-1 1/2 inches long, in flattened sprays that are stalkless. Needles are rounded at the base, each with 2 lines beneath. The cones are 1 to 4 inches long and erect with purple and green scales, mostly twice as long as broad. The bark is smooth with numerous resin pockets. Cones mature in one season but drop their scales when ripe. The stems of the cones remain on the tree and fir cones are never found on the ground. The male and female flowers occur on branchlets of the previous year’s growth located on different parts of the same tree. The female cones are usually high; the male flowers hang on the lower part of the tree. Both are purplish in color when young. The leaves are sessile and attached singly.
Another variety: the Native Americans used a balsam fir (Abies lasiocarpa), Shoshone name “Wungobe,” they made a tea from the needles and resinous blisters. They also called this variety Sweet Pine. They mixed grease with the resin to make fragrant hair-oil.
There are 9 species of firs in the United States of the genus Abies.
Where Found
Found in moist woods. From Canada south through New England and along the mountains to West Virginia and Virginia; west through Ohio to northeastern Iowa and Michigan. Found in mountainous regions of Europe, Asia, and the Himalayas.
Medicinal Properties
Antiseptic, diuretic, analgesic, expectorant, stimulant
Legends, Myths and Stories
Balsam fir is collected by cutting the bark blisters or pockets in the wood, around July and August. Turpentine and resin are products of the balsam fir.
The oleoresin is pale yellow to greenish yellow, transparent and pleasantly scented.
The oleoresin is primarily used commercially as a sealing agent for mounting microscope slides.
Used as a cream or ointment for piles and root-canal sealers.
Native Americans applied the resin externally to treat burns, sores, bruises, sore muscles, and wounds. The leaf tea used for colds, cough, and asthma. Helps rheumatism, inflammation of the bladder, sciatica, neuralgia, epilepsy, erysipelas, erythema, colic, swollen inguinal glands, jaundice, iritis, dropsy, lumbago, worms, typhoid fever, bronchitis.
Formulas or Dosages
Balsam fir, 1 oz., glycerin 4 oz., honey 4 oz. mixed together thouroughly.
Bark and twigs: standard tea
Resin may cause dermititis in some people.
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Blink-182 - All The Small Things
First All Candidates Meeting Held in Owen Sound Sees Tame Discussion On Climate
Owen Sound | by Cody Misner
Canada's next federal election will be October 21st 2019.
Left to right: Chris Stephens NDP, Micheal Den Tandt Liberal, Alex Ruff PC, William Townsend PPC, Danielle Valiquette Green.
Tuesday night saw five local candidates running to be MP of Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound meet at the Harmony Centre in Owen Sound for a discussion surrounding their various party's stances on climate issues.
All federal candidates were in attendance except Libertarian candidate Dan Little.
They discussed topics such as climate change, party policies and stances on the federal carbon tax and answered questions from the community.
One thing each candidate agreed on was that climate change is a real issue. Where the waters got murky is whether or not we are in a climate emergency.
NDP candidate Chris Stephen, Liberal Michael Den Tandt and the Green Party's Danielle Valiquette all agreed immediate action has to be taken.
Conservative Alex Ruff maintained the Conservative Party agrees climate change is real but he relies on "fact based evidence" to create his opinion on the severity of climate change.
Maxime Bernier’s new federal party, The People's Party of Canada's candidate William Townsend states although climate change is a reality the severity is distorted by various groups and individuals such as the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which he accused of pushing a globalist agenda.
Candidates then answered community questions, some of the topics brought up included homelessness and the opioid crisis as well as affordable housing which resulted in a unanimous agreement that Grey and Bruce should reconsider residential zoning by-laws.
The meeting wasn't without it's share of jabs between parties. Den Tandt referred to the Green Party climate plan as impossible and warned that a conservative government would emanate the actions of Doug Ford and Stephen Harper.
Both the NDP and Conservative candidates picked apart the current liberal carbon tax and the Green Party called out other party's for not going beyond the reduced emissions target outlined in the Paris Accords.
Speaking to each candidate with the exception of Alex Ruff who left before an interview could be done, they all felt that the discussions had been productive and informative.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to kick off the election season today at 10am when he asks the Governor General to dissolve parliament.
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Sashay
Aaron Starkey June 20, 2016 artist-2016
Sashay was born in back alleys and dive bars by Chris and Mike while they were on a wildly successful ten day tour of Japan. Sadly, that band broke up soon after the boys returned home to the United States. With nothing to do and loads of left over cash, Chris and Mike decided to throw all of their free time starting Seattle’s best Queercore band, Sashay. Chris and Mike, two veteran punks who had worked tirelessly honing there skills in Titpig and Deadkill respectively, soon started thrashing out hits in their compound in the Central District. Alas, they still didn’t have a singer or a bass player and depression began to set in and they spent all their money on drugs and burgers. After Chris got out of rehab and Mike finally got a real job a miracle fell into their lap! One day when Mike was a work he noticed tiny prostitute Vincent begging for sex outside the Melrose Market and Instantly fell in love. Sweeping up the tiny tart he ran to the practice space screaming Chris! Chris! Hark! I have found us a singer! Chris was overjoyed and soon the three of them began teaching Vincent english. After four months of hard work Vincent was finally able to speak and Chris and Mike knew it was time to find the final piece, a bass player. After a month of searching and some broken hearts the boys yet again began to receed into darkness. On one particularily drunken night the three heroes were kicked out of Pony for stealing and fighting. Standing in the freezing Seattle rain the three boys had nowhere to go. “What are we going to do now?” wailed Mike “Shut the fuck up you fucking idiot!” Chris demanded. “I have a plan.” Chris fearlessly led the boys to a scary straight bar called Bimbo’s and the heroes plopped they wet and weary asses at the bar. “what do you want to drink?’ The bartender asked as he threatened them with a knife. “Please sir.” Vincent replied. “We are just looking for a bass player for our punk band.” “Punk band!” The bartered screamed “That’s pussy shit! It’s thrash metal motherfuckers! Get the fuck out of my bar posers!” The heroes jumped up and after stealing a bottle of whiskey dashed out the door into the cold dark night. They soon found themselves in a dark alley and decided it was the best place to sleep. But, as soon as they each had their first drink of whiskey and stranger lurked out from behind a dumpster and said, “Give me some whiskey.” He said. The boys looked at each other and said. “ok.” soon the four of them were getting along famously! After an intense six hour lube wrestling battle between Chris and the stranger the boys decided they had found their bass player. The band was complete! “whats your name?” Vincent asked. “Conor.” the stranger replied as he removed his hat and graced the world with the most beautiful hair in the universe. Soon Conor was thrashing out songs with the boys and his decades of having been the front may for Holy Ghost Revival, finally paid off. As word spread of this super band they became so insanely world famous they were forced into hiding, only making appearances in the dreams of fledgling gays. It is said that if you turn all the lights of in your bathroom, stare into the mirror and twerk while singing the words to Atackla by Russian Circles, Sashay will appear behind you wearing white cloaks and holding pictures of Kate Moss. The End
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Home News Exhibitions Rajan Techno Cast anounces participation in Hannover Messe 2008
Rajan Techno Cast anounces participation in Hannover Messe 2008
Written by Chandra
Rajkot: Rajan Techno Cast Pvt.ltd., a leading manufacturer of LOST WAX INVESTMENT CASTINGS in India, located in western India (Rajkot city), will be participating in Hannover Messe 2008, 21 to 25 April at Hall: 3 Stand: C35.
RTCPL is ISO: 9001:2000 certified by Bureau Veritas (BVQI) and PED 97/23/EC, AD 2000 W0 Merkblatt by RWTUV
RTCPCL manufactures Investment Castings for a vide range of applications such as valves, pumps, anchor supports for boilers, defence equipments, aerospace, automobiles, marine applications, building / glass hardwares, medical implants.
RTCPL currently exports their Investment Castings to Germany , Italy, Spain , France and Canada.
Dushyant Patel - Director-Marketing.
RAJAN TECHNO CAST PVT.LTD
Shapar Industrial Area,
Rajkot-Gondal Highway , Dist-Rajkot - 360 002.
Tel : +91-2827-252160 / 61
Fax : +91-2827-252562
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5 Jun, 2015 in Processes tagged 101 / art / cartooning / design / drawing / history / pencils / processes / style / tip / tropes
Cartooning and caricature is the use of simplified forms and lines to represent people, animals and things.
Most Cartooning lives somewhere in the middle zone of the Big Triangle, as i’ve traced in red.
Modern cartooning is diverse, I see it as having three major families or styles, falling along a spectrum from most abstracted to most representational, and on to idealized. All popular styles will fall somewhere along this line.
Typically cartooning is about simplification, as we see with this set of drawings from the Famous Artists Cartooning Course. FYI if you’ve not read it yet I explore this in some depth in ‘What is Cartooning‘.
This great diagram on the right helps illustrate the idea further–it comes from Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics, and shows the range starting on the left with realism in the left bottom corner, the top is where things become reduced to 2 dimensional abstract forms on the picture plane, and the bottom right where meaning becomes symbolic, iconic, including in the end logos and text. Most Cartooning lives somewhere in the middle zone of the Big Triangle, as I’ve traced in red.
The Three major style groups I mentioned, are the very cartoony, over on the right side of the triangle.
Think Adventure Time, The Simpsons, Mickey Mouse or Bugs Bunny. For most of the characters in this range, they typically stand between 2 and 4 heads tall. And can be drawn using basic forms easily. They often don’t’ have clearly defined knees or elbows, but rather vary degrees of rubber or noodle arms instead.
And they will squash and stretch a lot more, and generally distort, to exaggerate their pantomime and employ a dynamic line of action, making them super expressive and often quite silly. These kinds of characters often tend to be utilized for their cuteness as protagonists, though that’s not a rule. By the way the two great examples of dynamic line and squash and stretch here come from Preston Blair’s Advanced Animation, you can check it out here, absolutely one of the best compact instructional books on cartooning.
In the middle of the triangle we transition eventually to Bigfoot style. There’s no real fixed boundary on where these styles end and begin. But It usually features somewhat more representational characters, but with still distorted proportions. Sometimes the faces are more cartoony, sometimes they can be fairly realistic. They can use a fair bit of squash and stretch too, but typically employ it a little less. They also tend to have more clearly defined elbow and knee joints, in many cases quite exaggerated and nobly. The big foot style shows up in the contemporary art of Jack Davis, Ronald Searle, Richard Thompson, and stems from the classic work of Billy DeBeck & E. C. Segar among others.
As the nickname suggests, often the feet are very large. Hands and heads too typically are blown up, making it easier to be expressive with the characters. Bodies may be roughly normal in shape, or may be fairly cartoony still. But mostly they tend to stand taller, at 4 to 6.5 heads tall.
It’s common for cartoonists to mix these first two styles in the same comics, with some characters being more ‘real’ relatively compared to others. Elmer Fudd for example, is pretty much a Big Foot Character, but only 2.5 heads tall. He’s the straight man to Bugs Bunny–who also has big feat but resembles a real rabbit much less than Elmer does a man! He’s 4 heads tall, 5.5 including ears. So clearly it’s a very fluid distinction if any.
Art by Alan Davis from Marvel’s Excalibur
Naturalistic realism for the human figure is on average 7.5 heads tall. Some slight variation but as a rule all humans that don’t have dwarfism or gigantism, will fit that model.
Using those proportions tends to not be seen as cartoony, thought the rendering quality of the lines may still give work a more cartoon feel.
Then Heroic proportions start at 8.5 heads tall, and go on all the way up to 10 and on. We see this most often in superhero comics, though the tradition of depicting idealized figures this way dates back to ancient Greek art. We see 7 to 10 head tall figures in illustration and fine are as well, what tends to define them as cartoony is the kind of rendering used.
Examples of classic heroic comics art from How to Draw the Marvel Way.
Strong contour lines with weight variation emphasising force and power, exaggerated physics and dynamic posing often characterize cartoon art, regardless if the images are realistic or not.
A classic Jack Kirby two page spread.
Often for cartoon art, the contour line is fully enclosed, or very graphic in nature.
Having a looser more sketchy contour tends to be seen as less cartoony, and typically painterly images loose the contour entirely in favour of using colour and form to define things. Notable exceptions of course here too.
Mobius, from The Airtight Garage
If I were king, art by Alex Toth
The art of Alex Toth uses strong design and chiaroscuro contrast to be bold while often breaking the contour line. But still his work otherwise is exemplary of the graphic punch that typified American Comics. And of course, there’s Kirby.
Europeans comics evolved a little differently, with a tendency towards a more ‘illustrative’ line, and early on they aspired to artistic heights that few mainstream American comics did until the 80s or so.
The range of styles that dominated the Franco-Belgian comics is really pretty hard to summarize, it’s huge. I don’t want to try to list them all but Moebius, Hergé, Albert Uderzo, are first among them certainly. But there’s immense diversity. Today europe also hosts many art comics and alternative comics publishers as well. With the EU the mixing of style and genre there has exploded.
Manga and it’s animated cousin Anime, while often looked at as separate styles from western comics but really utilize all of the traits i’ve talked about here as well, from the more cartoony to the heroic. Astro Boy by Osamu Tezuka is often cited as the first Manga/Anime character.
Characters in that show and many others still employ the full range of 2 to 6 heads tall, model with slightly oversized hands and sometimes feet, though those are often small or in the case of Astro, non existent.
What makes them distinct from western cartoon characters are more specific stylistic notes like that. Anatomically notably often the eyes are very large, though sometimes very small too. Figures are mostly very lean. Many follow a very strict stylistic constraint on the shapes of heads, drawing tiny noses, and small chins. Long elongated limbs and child like bodies. There’s similar trends to pretty much everything you’ll see in manga, enough so that many tutorials specialize in the genre specifically now. But to every rule there are exceptions too. There’s a full diverse family of art styles to be found there.
Modern Manga trends are towards much finer line work, and Anime leans to the cute and fantastic. The artists often use halftone screens for values along with hatching. They don’t always but there’s a bias for a more elegant look than with american comics. There are examples of bolder line work for sure though as well. And at this point asian comics and western comics are very actively influencing and cross pollinating art and storytelling styles so while you will probably recognise the styles as distinct, it’s increasingly hard to make any real solid generalizations.
Manga comes in many styles but there’s strong tends that distinguish is.
Cute and colourful Anime influenced art
One of the biggest influences on western comics has been in story pacing. Western comics mostly tended to work towards efficient compression of the storytelling pace. Aiming to get as much covered in as few panels and pages as they could.
Asian comics on the other hand early on adopted a much more decompressed pacing, drawing out time much more in the narrative, and resulting in also much higher page counts, and the popular thick trade paperback format many are published in dominating over shorter pamphlets common in the US [often about 22 pages per monthly booklet] or the mid length BD album [typically around 60 to 80 pages].
One of the outcomes of the cross pollination between regional styles of comic art, and the work of artists in other mediums has been a big growth in experimental comics art. For example, the great teacher, sometimes cartoonist and professional illustrator [site], Barron Storey, taught or influenced an impressive list of very notable Comics creators and pop artists! David Choe, Bill Sienkiewicz, Ted McKeever, Dave McKean, Kent Williams, David Mack, Ashley Wood, George Pratt, and many many more have studied Barron’s use of pattern and abstraction, and his own broad pallet of influences. Certainly though also making an impression on many of them, possibly including Storey himself, is the astounding art of one of his contemporaries in the Italian illustration and comics scene, Sergio Toppi!
I often feel it’s the most exciting time to be involved in cartooning and comics, with the range of work to learn from staggering. Hardly a final list but here’s a few to check out. I recomend you explore all the work samples in this post, and those that follow. Attempt to imitate in order to study and learn from them. First, regard the work of luscious illustrative artists like Takato Yamamoto or their stylistic followers such as the astounding James Jean. The crisp work of modern north american ‘alternative’ cartoonists like Chris Ware, Adrian Tomine, Daniel Clowes, the classic retro and clean storytelling of Seth, brushy but looser Craig Thompson, the elegant design and grace of Jillian Tamaki, the deceptively casual Kate Beaton, and graphically bold Becky Cloonan, and the endearing Moomin of Tove Jansson. Ok, I can’t keep being witty about it. Dive in and look at the art of the Fleischer Studios & Disney, Hanna-Barbera. Carl Barks, Charles M. Schulz, Jim Davis, Reg Smythe, Harvey Kurtzman, Walt Kelly, Matt Baker, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Ronald Searle, Frank King, Milton Caniff, Bernard Krigstein, Hugo Pratt, Gary Panter, Jack Bradbury, Jaime Hernandez, Gene Colan, Frank Frazetta, Art Spiegelman, Jim Steranko, Neal Adams, Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Julie Doucet, Chester Brown, George Herriman, Winsor McCay, Will Eisner, Osamu Tezuka, Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, Pendleton Ward, Wally Wood, Marc Bell, Carson Van Osten, Bill Watterson, E. C. Segar, Katsuhiro Otomo, Sergio Aragonés, Brendan McCarthy, David Mazzucchelli, Gabrielle Bell, Phoebe Gloeckner, Marjane Satrapi, Maitena Burundarena, Nina Bunjevac, Alison Bechdel, Trina Robbins, Hope Larson, Roz Chast, Jon J Muth, Enki Bilal, Renee French, Lynda Barry, Carol Tyler, Matt Groening & Jill Thompson!
This list is one I put together with some help from friends on facebook, of creators who had a noteworthy impact on comics and cartooning. It is hardly an exhaustive analysis of all the cartooning styles out there, that would take a much MUCH longer post. But hopefully I’ve given you an idea of the general landscape and more than a substantial start for your reading and study list!
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SEATTLE – The UK’s celebrated Royal Air Force aerobatic display team, the Red Arrows, will make their first-ever visit to Seattle on Sept. 23 with an 11:15 a.m. estimated arrival over Boeing Field and The Museum of Flight. The Museum stop is part of team’s first major tour of the U.S. and Canada in more than a decade.
The team’s 12 Hawk T-1 fast-jets will make a formation fly-by with smoke trails over the Museum, then head briefly over downtown Seattle and return to land at Boeing Field. Two of the Hawks will taxi directly to the Museum main parking lot and remain there for free public viewings and pilot meet-and-greets from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. Red Arrow flight crews will also meet students at nearby Raisbeck Aviation High School.
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The Red Arrows are on a major tour of North America. It is the biggest-ever visit by the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team to Canada and the United States and the first to the two countries in more than a decade. The tour aims to promote the best of British and deepen partnerships with close friends and allies.
Flying distinctive Hawk T1 fast-jets, the team is made up of pilots, engineers and essential support staff with frontline, operational experience, all showcasing the Best of British. The Red Arrows have performed almost 5,000 times in 57 countries since they were formed in 1965.
The 11-week deployment is an indication of the UK’s continuing commitment to enduring relationships, mutual prosperity and extensive security cooperation.
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After Seattle, the team flies to Vancouver, B.C., and then south to the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, Sept. 27-29.
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ATS3465 - Human rights in the criminal justice sphere - 2017
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This intensively delivered unit is part of our Criminology in Prato programme.
This unit introduces students to the study of human rights in the sphere of criminal justice and criminology. The unit will trace the impact of human rights across the differing phases of the achievement of justice in criminal justice systems. Focusing on a specific rights as case studies it will contrast national and international definitions of human rights in understanding responses to crime: including policing, court processes, prosecution and punishment.
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Twelve credit points of second-year Arts units. It is highly recommended that students only take this unit after they have completed two gateway units in Criminology.
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Effects of moderate eutrophication on saltmarsh food webs
Linda Deegan
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We examine the impacts of moderate nutrient enrichment on the production mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus, as part of a 10-year whole ecosystem experiment in a Plum Island Sound saltmarsh. In the initial stages of nutrient enrichment we observed a classic bottom up stimulation response in fish production. However, after the first six years fish production declined rapidly. The mechanism for the decline is not known but we hypothesize indirect interactions with other saltmarsh consumers may play an important role, as well a habitat alteration. Our results demonstrate that long-term nutrient enrichment can have complex impacts on the production of saltmarsh fish that are not predictable by classic bottom up/ top down control theory. Our findings suggest that eutrophication and climate change induced sea level rise will have synergistic negative effects on the production of saltmarsh fish primarily through habitat alteration and loss. In 2016, we conducted a 15N tracer experiment to test the concept of bottom up vs creek edge and marsh platform control of mummichog production and have been processing and analyzing samples.
Howard, E. M., Forbrich, I, Giblin, A E., Lott, D E III, Cahill, K L, Stanley, R H R. (2018). Using noble gases to compare parameterizations of air-water gas exchange and to constrain oxygen losses by ebullition in a shallow aquatic environment. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 123, 2711–2726. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004441
Langley, J A, Chapman S K, La Pierre K J, Avolio M, Bowman W D, Johnson D S, Isbell F, Wilcox K R, Foster B L, Hovenden M J, Knapp A K, Koerner S E, Lortie C J, Megonigal J P, Newton P C D, Reich P B, Smith M D, Suttle K B, Tilman D. 2018 Ambient changes exceed treatment effects on plant species abundance in global change experiments. Glob Change Biol. 24: 5668– 5679. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14442
Nelson, J.A., Johnson D S, Deegan L A, Spivak A C, and Sommer N R. 2018. Feedbacks Between Nutrient Enrichment and Geomorphology Alter Bottom-Up Control on Food Webs. Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-018-0265-x
Wigand, C., Watson E B Watson, Martin R, Johnson D S, Warren R S, Hanson A, Davey E, Johnson R, Deegan L A. 2018. Discontinuities in soil strength coupled with sea level rise contribute to destabilization of nutrient-enriched creeks. Ecosphere. Vol 9. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2329
Crosby, S. C., Angermeyer A, Adler J M, Bertness M D, Deegan L A, Sibinga N, and Leslie H M. 2017. Spartina alterniflora biomass allocation and temperature: implications for salt marsh persistence with sea level rise. Estuaries and Coasts (2017) 40: 213. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-016-0142-9
Kearney G, W. S., G. Mariotti G, Deegan L A and Fagherazzi, S. 2017. Stage-discharge relationship in tidal channels. Limnol. Oceanogr. Methods. doi:10.1002/lom3.10168
Johnson, D S, Warren, R S, Deegan, L A and Mozdzer, T J. (2016), Saltmarsh plant responses to eutrophication. Ecol Appl, 26: 2649–2661. doi:10.1002/eap.1402
Crosby, S C, Sax D, Palmer M , H. S. Booth, L. A. Deegan, Bertness M D, Leslie H M. 2016. Salt marsh persistence is threatened by predicted sea-level rise. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 181: 93-99
Kearns G, P., J. H. Angell G, E. Howard G, L. A. Deegan, R. H. Stanley, and J. L. Bowen. 2016. Nutrient enrichment induces dormancy and decreases diversity of active bacteria. Nature Communications.
Davis JL, Currin CA, O’Brien C, Raffenburg C, Davis A (2015) Living Shorelines: Coastal Resilience with a Blue Carbon Benefit. PLoS ONE 10(11): e0142595.
Johnson, D.S. 2014. Weeds making waves. Essay. Science 344:255
Johnson, D.S. and M. I. Short. 2013. Chronic nutrient enrichment increases the density and biomass of the eastern mudsnail, Nassarius obsoletus. Estuaries and Coasts 36: 28-35
Pascal, P-Y, J.W. Fleeger, H.T.S. Boshker, H. Mitwally, and D.S. Johnson. 2013. Chronic nutrient-enrichment influence on mudflat food web in a New England (USA) estuary. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 474:27-41
Deegan, L.A. D.S. Johnson, R.S. Warren, B.J. Peterson, J.W. Fleeger, S. Fagherazzi, and W. Wollheim. 2012. Coastal eutrophication as a driver of salt marsh loss. Nature 490:388-392.
Chronic Nutrient Press Differentially Alters Salt Marsh Ecosystem Functions. L. Deegan. Joint Aquatic Science Meeting, Portland, Oregon. May 19-26, 2014.
MBL Undergraduate Research Symposium. The effect of diet on fatty acid content and assimilation efficiencies in Fundulus heteroclitus. Alison Hall (Carelton College Biology Department and Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory Ecosystems Center), James Nelson (Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory Ecosystems Center) and Amanda Spivak (Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute) Aug 20, 2014.
Undergraduate Honors Thesis: Bethany Williams, Florida State University: Sea-level rise effects on the coffee-bean snail, Melampus bidentatus
Nelson, James A., Johnson David S., Deegan Linda A., Spivak Amanda C., Moore Nathalie R. Geomorphology modifies bottom-up control on food webs. Ecological Applications.
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Slutting It Up In the Woods – “I Roved Out Tome 1” Review
Posted on March 15, 2019 March 16, 2019 by MxNillin
I’ve been a HUGE fan of sex comics for as long as I can remember, but truth is that there simply aren’t a lot of them when compared to literally any other genre. Especially if you’re looking for anything with queer and trans positive representation. There are certainly some really great erotica graphic novels out there, of course, but once you’ve read the best sellers like Sex Criminals, Sunstone, Chester 5000, and Yes, Roya, maybe Saga, there just aren’t many more titles to go to.
That is, in terms of shopping at mainstream comics and book stores. But God bless the fucking internet because it has proven to be a pretty great place for artists to crowdfund some truly amazing queer smut.
Out in the vast sea of series’ that have popped into existence is “I Roved Out in Search of Truth and Love” from Alexis Flower, a stunningly illustrated sex comic set in a vibrant, high-fantasy world following two sexy elves on an incomprehensible journey filled with shower room orgies, tentacle monster sex, cultist gangbangs, and wholesome queer fucking.
Full disclosure: I’ve already been reading the series online for well over a year now. So, once I saw that there was a collected works of it, compiling the first 300 pages of the story, that I could hold in my bare hands I just HAD to have it. Last fall I reached out to Alexis about getting a review copy and after having a few months to really enjoy it, I’m finally ready to share my thoughts with y’all here!
Cause here’s the thing, just because it’s enjoyable to read online doesn’t necessarily mean the print copy is going to translate to the same experience. So, let’s look at how I Roved Out stacks up on the reading and writing front in it’s hardcover debut.
Flat out, I Roved Out Tome One is expertly crafted and an absolutely pleasure to read in every regard. Not only is the hardcover print copy itself fucking gorgeous, made of great quality material with solid binding and really nice page quality, but because the webcomic was always written in a full page comic book/graphic novel format from the beginning it translates to print flawlessly.
Each page is just bustling with gorgeous, explicit, sexy art work, that flows really well both in terms of the action depicted and the narrative that frames it. There’s just no confusion here at all, which isn’t something I can’t say of all webcomics I’ve read. You know what I mean? Like, how some of those series, as hot as they are, don’t really flow the greatest when you read it all in a row because they tend to take a more episodic approach with either single page stories or mini-runs, with vastly different panel layouts, that don’t really always make sense together as a full narrative. And sometimes all of that is also framed with big changes in art style as creators hone their skill and find their groove over time, which can be very jarring.
Of course, there is nothing necessarily wrong with artists exploring their style over the course of a project and I’ve read plenty of fun erotic webcomics that follow more of a comic strip format, but it’s really nice to find a series with a complex overarching story too.
Picking up the book, it’s very apparent early on that Alexis has always had a clear artistic vision for the series. The result of this is consistently stunning art across creative, yet coherent pages filled with panels that grab the eye but don’t make reading the story difficult. Panels flow fluidly, depicting action scenes and passionate fucking almost cinematically.
It’s just a REALLY GOOD fucking graphic novel.
Alright, so, it looks great, it’s enjoyable to read, and it functions as a graphic novel but what about the story and characters?
Yeah, that’s right, there’s an actual fucking story here. It’s not just fantasy smut, though it is really smutty, and it’s actually pretty damn engaging!
Set in a realm of perpetual war between the heavens and earth, I Roved Out’s story follows Cinder, a slutty elvish ranger, and Maeryll, her retired-ish assassin friend-with-benefits, as they are both caught up between various shadowy forces desperate to find an unfathomably powerful divine object, known as a “moondrop”, that has recently fallen from the cosmos.
So, I mean, yeah, it’s all just one incredibly wordy fetch-quest story.
But it’s the hottest, sexiest, most cum drenched, orgasm fueled, off-task fetch quest story that I’ve ever fucking read, I’ll tell you what! And while our elvish heroes don’t always stay on track with their quest, in fact they do their best to avoid it no matter what, there still manages to never be a dull moment. Alexis has crafted a fully realized world here complete with a unique history, growing mythology, and a thriving high-fantasy culture, all of which fills the background of these increasingly bizzaro sexual adventures that consistently and humoursly interrupt the “main story”.
And at its core are some truly endearing, funny characters having incredibly sweaty, sloppy, outlandish sex, that have kept me coming back for more since late 2017.
Click here to buy I Roved Out Tome One.
Click here to follow Alexis Flower on Twitter.
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Mx Nillin’s Monthly Refap: August 2017
August was a pretty chill month. Not a lot went …
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N8 Chiropractic and Wellness – Dr. Rachel Settles, D.C. – Tampa, Florida
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What is the Webster Technique?
Chiropractic care in pregnancy is vital to the normal physiological function of both the mother and baby throughout pregnancy and birth. More women and birth providers are discovering the many benefits associated with chiropractic care in pregnancy and recognize this area of expertise through Webster Certification.
The Webster Technique is a specific chiropractic sacral analysis and diversified adjustment. The goal of the adjustment is to reduce the effects of sacral subluxation/ SI joint dysfunction. In doing so, neuro-biomechanical function in the pelvis is facilitated.
Sacral subluxation may contribute to difficult labor for the mother (i.e., dystocia), caused by inadequate uterine function, pelvic contraction, and baby mal-presentation. Correction of sacral subluxation may have a positive effect on all of these causes of dystocia.
Read The Webster Technique: Definition, Application and Implications
History of the Webster Technique
Dr. Larry Webster, founder of ICPA, Logan practitioner and Life College instructor, developed the Webster Technique in response to his daughter, Lucinda’s birth to her daughter, Shannon. Dr. Webster was present at her long and arduous birth and although he adjusted her during the birth, he felt that chiropractic could have a bigger impact in labor with a more specific approach to the pelvis.
After this personal experience with his daughter’s birth, Dr. Webster strove to develop an adjustment “for laboring women to help with the ease of birth.” He felt that there must be a more specific way of addressing subluxations throughout pregnancy that would contribute to safer, easier births for the mother.
Shortly after, Dr. Webster was caring for a family whose mother was pregnant and also presenting breech. He applied his newly discovered approach in hopes of an easier delivery than his daughter had. He saw her once per week for several weeks and they noticed that her baby turned vertex in time for delivery.
Dr. Webster began teaching other chiropractors this adjustment. These doctors reported that when their patient’s babies were not in an optimal position, these babies were turning vertex as well. Thus the title: “Webster Breech Turning Technique” later to be called the “Webster In-Utero Constraint Technique” by Drs. Anrig and Forrester.
When his daughter, Pamela, was pregnant, he insisted that she get regular chiropractic care throughout pregnancy and mailed her a video of his technique to show her chiropractor. She also showed it to her OB, who was quite interested in the pelvic biomechanics and the chiropractic perspective. He too, encouraged her to see her chiropractor regularly for this technique knowing this was out of his obstetric scope.
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Julio M. Ruiz III is an experienced licensed massage therapist (MA80860) certified in Swedish, Deep Tissue, Prenatal, Postpartum, Pre/Post Athletic Events, Oncology Massage, and he has developed his own modality, KĀR RW KAN, the combination of Deep Tissue, Trigger Point, Myofascial Release, and Thai Stretching which helps the receiver reach homeostasis (the balance between mind, body and soul).
Julio has practiced with local chiropractors and spas, but he has mainly engaged in private practice for many years prior to moving to Tampa. Julio’s mission is to support individuals in achieving life balance through personal wellness. He is a firm believer in the inseparable connection between mind, body, and soul. Julio is a proponent of massage for relieving physical as well as emotional stress, and he strongly believes in massage as a viable modality for enhancing overall health and well-being.
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Kinesio Tape Information
Kinesio Tape microscopically lifts the skin away from the muscle and fascia, which decompresses the area and reduces swelling while distributing physical stress and delaying fatigue. The tape signals the central nervous system through the skin’s nerves, which provides powerful feedback to minimize pain and cue form; making it a great addition to enhance the benefits of one of Dr. Rachel Settles’s adjustments.
Turns down the volume on pain
More specifically, it runs interference on pain. Tape on the skin can interfere with painful signals which are directed to the brain.
When the signals arriving to the brain are altered, it does not produce the sensation of pain. When kinesiology tape is properly applied, many customers call it “magic” or think that it fixed their injury instantly. In fact, it helps to change how your body interprets pain, turning down the pain “volume” that your body hears.
Decompresses an area of swelling and inflammation
When the tape is applied to the skin, it has a microscopic lifting effect underneath the skin and between the many layers. This allows the by-products created by inflammation to be removed more quickly.
Delays fatigue
Research has shown that Kinesio Tape on skin can attenuate muscle fatigue. In rehab, this is very important, not only for the parts of your body that are currently hurting, but also for the surrounding areas as they help to pick up the slack for muscles that are currently not working well.
Normalizes muscle tone
When someone is injured, fatigued, sick, or inflamed, the symphony of muscle action that normally takes place with great accuracy often falls out of tune. This can happen all over the body. For instance, research has shown that people who sprain their ankle tend to have altered activity of their hip muscle as a result. Tape helps bring dormant muscle back to life and help calm down the overactive muscles. It helps your body coordinate movement as if it weren’t hurt, hence allowing it to heal properly.
It distributes physical stress
Unlike conventional taping, which prevents movement – the tape used at N8 Chiropractic & Wellness allows for full movement of a taped area. Through elastic properties and quick recoil, the tape that we use can help distribute forces to other nearby areas through the fascia, ligaments, and even bones. Research shows that tape with a 180% elasticity allows the athlete fuller and better range of motion. Most other tapes only offer a 130-150% stretch. When wearing tape with less stretch, you will feel like you’ve been bound – we don’t believe that’s what anyone wants to feel when you’re walking much less being active.
Kinesio Tape Tips
Trim the edges of the tape as it loses its adhesive
Remove gently and naturally by washing with Diluted Citrus Essential Oil (or Lemon Juice) and Baking Soda
Kinesio Tape for Enhancing Your Next Event/Activity
The tape that Dr. Rachel uses on her patients was created for the heat of competition, and it is tested at a lab in the Santa Cruz mountains until it meets the most superior standards.
Kinesio Tape Research Studies
Impact of Kinesio Taping application on pregnant women suffering from pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29303216
The effect of kinesio taping on lower trunk range of motions. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17578750
Kinesio Taping Improves Perceptions of Pain and Function of Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29466081
The Effect of Kinesio Taping on Handgrip and Active Range of Motion of Hand in Children with Cerebral Palsy. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29201123
Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Modality (IASTM)
June 27, 2018 September 4, 2019 n8chiro
What is Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Modality (IASTM)?
A: The IASTM technique incorporates an evidence-based form of instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization that enables clinicians to effectively detect and treat scar tissue and restrictions that affect normal function.
The Technique: Separates and breaks down collagen cross-links, stretches connective tissue and muscle fibers Increases skin temperature. Facilitates reflex changes in the chronic muscle holding pattern Increases the rate and amount of blood flow to and from the area. Increases cellular activity in the region, including fibroblasts and mast cells. Increases histamine response secondary to mast cell activity.
Why is scar tissue a problem?
A: Scar tissue limits range of motion, and in many instances causes pain, which prevents the patient from functioning as he or she did before the injury or overuse of the area.
How is scar tissue different from other tissue?
A: When viewed under a microscope, normal tissue can take a couple of different fashions: dense, regular elongated fibers running in the same direction, such as tendons and ligaments; or dense, irregular and loose with fibers running in multiple directions. In either instance, when tissue is damaged it will heal in a haphazard pattern–or scarring–that results in a restricted range of motion and, very often, pain.
How are the instruments used?
A: The instruments are used to enhance the clinician’s ability to detect adhesions, scar tissue or restrictions in the affected areas. Skilled clinicians use the stainless steel instruments to comb over and “catch” on fibrotic tissue, which immediately identifies the areas of restriction. Once the tissue has been identified, the instruments are used to break up the scar tissue so it can be absorbed by the body.
Is the treatment painful?
A: It is common to experience minor discomfort during the procedure and some bruising afterwards. This is a normal response and part of the healing process.
What is the frequency of treatment?
A: Patients usually receive two treatments per week over 4-5 weeks. Most patients have a positive response by the 3rd to 4th treatment.
Will treatments affect my everyday activities?
A: Most patients are not disabled and continue to perform their regular functions at home or work. IASTM has become standard protocol in universities and hospital-based outpatient facilities as well as industrial on-site treatment settings such as Indiana University and the University of Michigan. The technique is also being used at industrial settings and by NBA, NHL, NFL and Major League Baseball trainers.
What kind of results does IASTM produce?
A: Historically, it has had positive outcomes in 75–90 percent of all conditions treated. It is equally effective in restoring function to acute and chronic injuries, and in pre- and post-surgical patients.
Can anyone obtain the instruments?
A: Only clinicians who have been trained and accredited in the Technique Basic course are qualified to obtain the IASTM instruments and apply the technique to treat patients.
You can book a IASTM Soft Tissue treatment with your chiropractic adjustment or as an individual treatment:
Innate Infant Biotic
June 25, 2018 November 8, 2018 n8chiro
Innate Infant Biotic is a high-potency probiotic supplement specifically designed to safely meet the needs of infants up to the age of 2 years.
The human digestive tract is populated by hundreds of different strains of bacterial microorganisms which are essential for healthy gastrointestinal and immune function. While most microorganisms are beneficial, a small percentage may not be. In a healthy digestive system, these microorganisms coexist in a balanced harmony. Probiotic supplements contain live, “friendly” bacteria that favorably shift the balance of gut microbiota towards more beneficial species.† Probiotics also promote digestion, support immune system function, facilitate nutrient and mineral absorption, and aid in the production of vitamins.† Microbial colonization of the gastrointestinal tract begins at birth and is critical for the development of an infant’s intestinal and immune system. However, this process can be disrupted by cesarean section delivery, hospitalization, formula feeding, antibiotic use, and toxin exposures. If the infant is breastfed, a maternal diet lacking in fresh fruits and vegetables can also affect microbial colonization. Innate Infant Biotic contains select probiotics to promote microbiota balance and support healthy gastrointestinal and immune system maturation in infants.†
Supports optimal gastrointestinal function: Maintaining probiotic balance is important to promote digestion, facilitate bowel regularity, support normal intestinal barrier function, and assist the elimination of by-products from the intestinal tract. By blending together 5 Lactobacillus species that normally predominate in the small intestine with 5 Bifidobacterium species important for the colon, Innate Infant Biotic offers comprehensive benefits for the healthy function of the entire gastrointestinal tract.
Supports healthy immune responses: Innate Infant Biotic supplies 5 essential Lactobacillus species critical to support healthy development of the infant immune system. Five Bifidobacterium species normally predominant in an infant’s gastrointestinal tract are also included to help enhance innate
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Safe for an infant’s metabolism: An infant’s gastrointestinal tract is not fully mature and cannot metabolize the D(-) isomer of lactic acid produced by certain Lactobacillus species often found in
adult probiotics, such as L. acidophilus and L. reuteri. Innate Infant Biotic contains Lactobacillus species that are safe for an infant’s metabolism.
Hypoallergenic ingredients: Probiotics used in Innate Infant Biotic are cultured on proprietary vegetable-based growth media. This product is free of the following common allergens: milk/casein, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat/gluten, and soybeans. Contains no artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives. Inulin, a dietary fiber derived from chicory root, is used as a base ingredient in place of maltodextrin, often used in other probiotic supplements.
Innate Infant Biotic is intended for daily use to provide a broad spectrum of beneficial Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus probiotic species for support of gastrointestinal and immune function in infants up to the age of 2 years.†
Suggested Use: 1⁄4 teaspoon (approximately 1 gram, supplying 10 billion CFUs) daily mixed with expressed breast milk, formula, or solid food at room temperature or as directed by a healthcare professional.
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Innate-Biotic is a high-potency probiotic supplement providing a combination of 12 different strains of beneficial bacteria important to intestinal health and well-being. Probiotic supplements contain live, “friendly” bacteria and/or yeast that promote proper digestion, support immune system function, aid in production of vitamins, and defend against potentially harmful bacteria.
Normally, the human gastrointestinal tract is populated by hundreds of different strains of bacterial microflora important for healthy gastrointestinal function. However, modern Western diets lack the beneficial bacteria that are as important to health as any required vitamin or nutrient. Stress, disease, aging, exposure to toxins, or use of antibiotics and certain medications can reduce the numbers of beneficial bacteria and set the stage for digestive disorders, impaired immune function, increased allergic sensitivity, infection, and inflammation. Innate-Biotic helps replenish and maintain the essential gastrointestinal microflora missing from the diet or disrupted by antibiotic therapy or other medications.
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A synergistic blend of 12 probiotic species: Many of the positive attributes of probiotics are species and strain dependent. Thus, taking just one or two strains may not be enough. The 12 safe, well-studied probiotic lactic acid bacteria in Innate-Biotic provide a broad-spectrum of benefits that help restore intestinal microbalance more effectively compared to single strain formulas. Six colonizing Lactobacillus strains important for the small intestine, four colonizing Bifidobacterium strains that normally reside in the gastrointestinal tract, and two beneficial transient bacteria used as starter cultures in yogurt, provide benefit throughout the GI tract.
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Hypoallergenic ingredients: Probiotics used in Innate-Biotic are cultured on a proprietary vegetable-based growth media. Innate-Biotic is free of the following common allergens: milk/casein, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat/gluten, corn, yeast, and soybeans. Contains no artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives. Inulin, a dietary fiber derived from chicory root, is used as a base ingredient in place of corn or wheat-derived maltodextrin, often used in other probiotic supplements. Innate-Biotic can be used by children or adults as a daily supplement to support gastrointestinal function and provide probiotic support for people with intestinal dysbiosis, increased intestinal permeability (“leaky gut”), viral and bacterial gastroenteritis, diarrhea, constipation, food allergies, sinusitis, eczema, yeast vaginitis, vaginal dysbiosis, or recurrent urinary tract infections. Long-term probiotic supplementation is vital to the maintenance of normal intestinal microflora.
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ODYSSEA > ODYSSEA launches Greek social media platform
ODYSSEA launches Greek social media platform
The Laboratory of Ecological Engineering and Technology of the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH) announced the opening of ODYSSEA-Greece platforms on Facebook and Twitter.
Initially focusing efforts on providing vital information to the mussel farmers located at Keramoti Bay in Kavala Gulf, the ODYSSEA-Greece platforms have added the two other major concentrations of mussel aquaculture in Northern Greece – Nea Makri and Chalastra – within its first ten days.
The platforms are the beginning of a wider effort to bridge the gap between science and local end-users, and serve the data-gathering needs of businesses operating at sea, by sharing real-time data that can help the fishing and aquaculture industries significantly improve their performance.
The Greek platform is essentially a pilot serving as an initial testing ground for the Mediterranean-wide data dissemination framework that the ODYSSEA Project is developing, organisers stressed. Nine regions across the Mediterranean are expected to set up their own social media channels to link with local end-users by September 2017, and the overarching ODYSSEA platform is set to be unveiled in June 2018.
“Similar services may be initiated at all ODYSSEA observatories (and beyond) to cover hot-spot areas of the Mediterranean Sea and develop an active community of end-users ready to use the ODYSSEA Platform once it is ready,” noted ODYSSEA Coordinator Prof. Georgios Sylaios, of Greece’s Democritus University of Thrace.
Only days after launching, the ODYSSEA-Greece Facebook platform has already gathered more than 250 users who have liked or followed it, “and we expect to have more as more areas of interest and more parameters are added,” Prof. Sylaios said.
ODYSSEA-Greece provides sea surface temperature measurements obtained from the EU’s COPERNICUS system satellites, and forecasts about next-week’s sea surface temperature evolution from COPERNICUS system predictive numerical models. Measurements and forecasts of the air temperature (mean, minimum and maximum daily values) are relayed from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Forecast System (GFS). Both the measurements and the forecasts will be presented in the form of a diagram and explanatory text updated daily, together with a summary of wave direction and height and other critical data, for the benefit of mussel farmers and additional end-users. Information on additional parameters, such as waves at sea, currents, concentration of phytoplankton, and more – will follow shortly.
The ODYSSEA-Greece social media initiative has attracted the interest of other local Blue Economy sector stakeholders. After a meeting with the Kavala Port Organization, DUTH has engaged to examine the possibility of providing tailored integrated information services that can support both well-established port activities and newly emerging ones.
Project Coordinator Professor Georgios Sylaios and representatives of the Kaval Port Authority meet to launch the new platform.
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During the recent election Gutierrez campaigned aggressively for President Barack Obama in swing states, but now is complaining the president isn’t actively promoting immigration reform talks in Congress.
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Ball in Beijing's court for Taiwan's WHO entry
by Jeffry Babb
News Weekly, October 25, 2008
China has a thousand missiles aimed at Taiwan and exercises a de facto veto over the island-state's entry into UN-sponsored organisations, writes Jeffry Babb.
The United States has reaffirmed the crucial role of Taiwan in its Asian strategy by approving a multi-billion-dollar arms package to strengthen the island's defences against mainland China.
Washington is required by the Taiwan Relations Act, which governs relations between the two nations, to supply Taiwan sufficient weapons to counter Beijing's armed forces.
When President Jimmy Carter recognised Beijing as the government of all China, such was the outrage in the US Congress over dumping a loyal ally that the US has remained a guarantor of Taiwan's security. Although Washington has no treaty obligation to put its own forces in harm's way to defend Taiwan, in reality the US has repeatedly deployed carrier task forces in waters near Taiwan in times of tension.
The new arms package, which has already been approved by Taiwan's legislature, includes anti-tank weapons, Patriot missiles and attack helicopters.
Taipei has also requested new additions to its submarine fleet to replace its ancient and toothless US vessels, which have been augmented by more modern Dutch-built submarines but need further upgrading. The US has not as yet moved on this request, as submarines are escalatory weapons with the ability to go in for the kill against the Chinese navy.
Action on the arms request had been delayed for several months during the Beijing Olympics. China responded to the US announcement with the usual bluster and cancelled some military confidence-building exercises with the Americans. But apart from producing more verbiage, there is not much more Beijing can do while the US retains its role as paramount power in the East Asian region.
Taiwan also could do with some luck in its diplomatic ventures. The self-governing island is formally recognised as the legitimate government of all China by 23 countries, mainly developing nations in Latin America, the Pacific and Africa.
Beijing insistently campaigns to peel off Taiwan's remaining diplomatic allies and offers substantial economic incentives to those nations which change their allegiances. Shocks such as the loss of long-term African diplomatic ally Malawi earlier in the year have not encouraged Taipei in its efforts to establish international diplomatic "breathing space".
Although new President Ma Ying-jeou promised a "new era" in cross-Taiwan Strait relations, in truth he has little to show for his conciliatory policies towards Beijing. Direct weekend flights from mainland China to Taiwan, which were supposed to save Taiwan's ailing tourism industry, have brought only a trickle of visitors so far. A visit by a high-level mainland official has been stalled over how he should address Taiwan's premier.
China still has over a thousand missiles aimed at Taiwan. Although over a million people from Taiwan live and work in mainland China, and Taiwan is mainland China's largest investor, Taiwan largely missed the bus on the China boom. The eight inward-looking years under former President Chen Shui-bian were an economic disaster for Taiwan. The inevitable slow-down in cross-strait trade and investment, as growth slows in China, can only hurt Taiwan.
As for President Ma, who took office in May this year, his approval rating has slumped to 25 per cent, and the stock market, as elsewhere, is collapsing. Ma needs something to show for his goodwill towards Beijing.
Ma raised expectations that, after Chen's introverted and scandal-ridden rule, things would be better. Chen, who is fighting allegations that his wife shipped over $20 million out of Taiwan to various tax havens, is widely detested, but remains a force. In fact, he is already campaigning vigorously to challenge Ma for the presidency in 2012, even though he was forced out of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) that he helped found.
The atmospherics in Taiwan's politics can change very rapidly. President Ma desperately needs a success if his conciliatory cross-strait policy is to survive. The people of Taiwan could easily swing against him if he cannot deliver on his promises. The economy is weak, and he can only hope to succeed in the international sphere. Will Ma make diplomatic progress and restore some national pride?
The surest way would be for Taiwan to gain admission to an international body like the World Health Organization (WHO). Taiwan has played down its bid for full entry to the United Nations and instead is aiming for membership of UN-sponsored bodies where its participation would be acceptable to Beijing.
De facto veto
At present, Beijing exercises a de facto veto over Taiwan's entry into UN-sponsored organisations. Ma must not be seen to be surrendering to Beijing. Unless Beijing shows some flexibility and goodwill, Ma and Beijing will both suffer - and the possibility of a lasting peace across the Taiwan Strait will retreat for years to come.
Taiwan's representatives are quietly confident of a breakthrough. Any other result would be bad for everyone with a stake in peace in the East Asian region.
- Jeffry Babb was until last year a Taipei-based journalist.
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Iranians Blocked at Astrakhan Port
Aug. 01 2012 00:00
Russia is taking legal action to block companies controlled by Iran from acquiring the strategic Astrakhan port on the Caspian Sea in violation of United Nations sanctions, the Russian competition watchdog chief said.
"We know that these companies, through a certain chain, are under the direct control of the government or structures close to the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran," Igor Artemyev, head of the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service, told reporters Tuesday. "Ports are strategic assets."
After the Russian government blocked a deal two years ago, the Iranian-controlled companies bought a significant stake in the port from its Russian owners and now control at least 25 percent, Artemyev said. Russia is working on annulling the deal, which contravenes United Nations sanctions against Iran imposed over its disputed nuclear program, he said.
Five nations share the Caspian: Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. The five littoral states have failed to agree on the maritime boundaries of the Caspian Sea after the disintegration of the former Soviet Union in 1991.
"The Iranians have provoked Russian anger with their actions here," Alexei Malashenko, a Middle East analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center, said by phone. "Relations are already difficult."
A Russian court has already banned Astrakhan Port from paying dividends and conducting share transactions, the service said in a statement. According to the court decision, the companies affected are Khazar Sea Shipping Lines, South Way Shipping Agency and Azores Shipping. The companies, whose contact details were publicly unavailable, couldn't be reached for comment.
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I have been given express. cessna subject: aircraft keywords: afm, poh, cessna, pdf, pilot operating handbook, airplane flight manual, download, free. It was developed as an alternative to professional flight simulators for pilot training and it is now ready for its maiden public launch. I have zero talent when it comes to visualizing a custom paint job for my plane. anywhere, anytime. Welcome to Cessna Learning Online, the world's leading producer of aviation and pilot training videos and FAA Knowledge Test preparation software. Aero Atlanta's online resource center puts all of the essential paperwork associated with flight training and aircraft rental right at your fingertips. Customers trust our iconic brands such as Cessna Aircraft, Beechcraft, Bell, E-Z-GO, and many more. 58 PPC Recurrent Training from experienced pilots and master flight instructors who are insurance approved. Can I pack that? Flight Safety Australia; Stay. Transition training is best accomplished using a flight simulator prior to flying. As this was my first solo flight in the C172, I spent most of my time in the pattern adjusting over and over, trying to find the right points at which to turn, in order to come in on final using little or no engine power.
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Historical-Markers.org
Chatham County
GA-25-38B Telfair Academy of A…
GA-25-38B Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences
Marker text: Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences
Created under the Will of Miss Mary Telfair (c. 1789-1875, the Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences opened as the first public art museum in the Southeast with a preliminary private showing, February 12, 1885.
After extensive remodeling and additions, with Detlef Lienau of New York as architect, the building was formally dedicated May 3, 1886. Among the prominent persons who attended the dedication were: Jefferson Davis and his daughter, Winnie Davis; Charles C. Jones, historian; Gen. A.R. Lawton; Gen. Henry R. Jackson; Gen. G. Moxley Sorrel; Col. John Screven and Col. Charles Olmstead
Carl L. Brandt, N.A., served as Telfair`s first Director, 1883-1905.
025-38B Georgia historical Commission 1956
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Location: Next to Telfair Square, Barnard and State Streets, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia
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Northwestern Arizona
Heavy Metals in Surface Soils and Streambed Sediments in the Wallapai Mining District, Northwestern Arizona, A Historic Mining District in a Semiarid Region
Rosner, Ulrike
Beginning in the mid-1860s the southwestern US experienced a mining boom, and a large number of mines were developed. They went through alternating phases of economic upswing and decline, but by the end of the 1940s most of the smaller mines had been abandoned for good (Woznicki 1987, Beck and Haase 1989). Nevertheless, their tailing, waste rock dumps and acid mine drainage still represent an environmental hazard because of the heavy metals released from them (Young and Clark 1978, Marcus 1987, Rampe and Runnels 1989, Rosner 1995a, 1996, 1998, Graf et al. 1991, Hyde 1994, Lind and Hem 1993). The metals can either be leached directly into the groundwater and the surface water (Young and Clark 1978, Lind and Hem 1993) or accumulate in soils and sediments (Brummer et al. 1986, Bradley 1989, Moore and Luoma 1990, Schachtschabel et al. 1992). Under certain circumstances they can be redissolved and become available to plants or enter the groundwater with the percolation water (Young and Clark 1978, Bergmann 1989, Herms 1989, Sauerbeck 1989). This article will deal only with heavy metals in fluvial sediments and in soils; the contamination of water and vegetation in the study area (cf. below) was dealt with in recent publications (Rosner 1995b, 1996, 1998).
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Heavy Metals in Surface Soils and Streambed Sediments in the Wallapai Mining District - Report
CR-98-A
Rosner, Ulrike, 1998, Heavy Metals in Surface Soils and Streambed Sediments in the Wallapai Mining District, Northwestern Arizona, A Historic Mining District in a Semiarid Region: Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Report CR-98-A, 46 p.
Paleoseismologic investigations of the Hurricane Fault in northwestern Arizona and southwestern Utah
Stenner, H.D.
Lund, W.R.
Everitt, B.L.
We have completed initial paleoseismologic investigations to evaluate the recency and size of paleoearthquakes and long-term slip rates on the Hurricane fault in southern Utah and northern Arizona (SUNA). The Hurricane fault is a long, west-dipping normal fault with substantial late Cenozoic displacement within the structural and seismic transition between the Colorado Plateau and the Basin and Range province. Previous reconnaissance studies of the fault in northern Arizona and southern Utah had documented evidence of late Quaternary activity. Because of its great length, the Hurricane fault almost certainly ruptures in segments, and abundant geometric and structural characteristics suggestive of fault segmentation exist along its trace. Our efforts have focused on a systematic, detailed reconnaissance of the fault from the Utah-Arizona border north to Cedar City and a detailed investigation of 20 km of the fault from the border southward into Arizona. In addition, we conducted detailed reconnaissance investigations of the fault in Whitmore Canyon north of the Colorado River. ( 137 pages)
Figure 3-8 Log Q2 Trench - Hurricane Fault
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Stenner, H.D., Lund, W.R., Pearthree, P.A., and Everitt, B.L., 1999, Paleoseismologic investigations of the Hurricane Fault in northwestern Arizona and southwestern Utah. Arizona Geological Survey Open File Report, OFR-99-8, 137 p.
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Vacation Rentals in San Telmo
The Depto
The Hideaway
Casa Bohemia
22 2015 March
Definitely Go to Montevideo
I was blown away by Montevideo this past November. It has that bohemian, artsy vibe that I love about San Telmo but you feel like you are in a beach town. I’d been through the city a number of times on my way to the beaches further east, but I...
20 2015 January
In Love with Lima Part 1- Pick Up The Fork
From our favorite food blogger ever, I’m reposting her long and fabulous list of great restaurants in Lima, Peru. Because Allie is our favorite food blogger and because Lima!!! We are dying to go there (and eat there). In Love with Lima Part 1:...
09 2014 July
Where to Watch World Cup Matches in San Telmo
Argentina has made it to the semi-finals of the World Cup for the first time since 1990. Are you going to watch the match against The Netherlands today? If so, find an Argentine flag (that shouldn’t be hard to do since it’s also July 9, w...
22 2014 May
San Telmo Loft Is Expanding
It’s been a year of big changes over here at San Telmo Loft. Not a lot of blogging has happened, but our vacation rentals in Buenos Aires have been running full steam ahead. And we are excited about some fabulous additions coming soon. One ch...
11 2013 June
Soulful One-Bedroom Loft in San Telmo
The iconic Loft, our first vacation rental, is how our story begins. It had to match the vibe of San Telmo, and it does: bohemian, soulful, loved. It's our most romantic spot (honeymoon haven), and, like our other vacation rentals, quiet, stylish, a...
Argentina has made it to the semi-finals of the World Cup for the first time since 1990. Are you going to watch the match against The Netherlands today? If so, find an Argentine flag (that shouldn't be hard to do since it's also July 9, which is Independence Day) or at least wear blue and [...]
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Argentina’s Passion for Soccer
Just what is it about soccer and the World Cup that makes people all over the world go crazy? I think Argentinean commercials do a great job of explaining the madness to those who just don't get what this soccer craze is. Watch these two ads with the ones we posted last week and two weeks ago, and I hope you'll start to feel the craze, too (and root for Argentina on Sunday!)
By Angela - June 25, 2010 8 comments Readmore...
know, speak
Vamos, Argentina!
During World Cup matches, this tenth largest city in the world is silent and ghostlike. Want to know why they love it so much? We translate an ad about Argentinean futball and point out the cultural clues that help you understand why soccer is as great a passion as tango.
By Angela - June 19, 2010 12 comments Readmore...
do, eat, know, see
World Cup Watching in Buenos Aires
You can watch the World Cup matches in Plaza San Martin on the big screen. Bring your blue and white flags or jerseys and join the world's best fans. Vamos, Argentina!
Finding Mabel: A Documentary
Search San Telmo Loft
Boca Tickets
Fake Money in Argentina
Argentinean Asado 102: How do you like your steak?
Vos vs Tú: A Los Pedos
I Love San Telmo
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Franny Bergschneider on Spectacular Three-Bedroom House
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Paula Ferraro on Fun, Hip Loft in Heart of San Telmo
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"We have rented many excellent apartments around the world during our travels, but The Loft may just be our favorite. It is situated perfectly in the heart of San Telmo, where a Bohemian vibe is tangible. Angela was always accessible and extremely helpful. We highly recommend the apartment and can not say enough good things about Angela."
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San Telmo Loft is a boutique vacation rental service in Buenos Aires. We've hand picked each apartment in our small collection so that you don't have to spend hours weeding through the blah and mundane. Quirky and stylish, comfortable and quiet (a big plus in this noisy city), each listing is well-located and comes with our stamp of approval.
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OSIRIS-REx Grabs a Sample
This artist's concept shows the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security - Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft contacting the asteroid Bennu with the Touch-And-Go Sample Arm Mechanism or TAGSAM. The mission aims to return a sample of Bennu's surface coating to Earth for study as well as return detailed information about the asteroid and it's trajectory (Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center).
OSIRIS-REx Mission records
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Australian government’s cat population estimates out by tens of millions
Well this is embarrassing.
A new research project has revealed that the cat population statistics being promoted by our National Government and our National Threatened Species Commissioner, Gregory Andrews - and given literally hundreds of media features by the ABC - are bullshit.
Government estimates of feral cat populations have been found to be off by millions in a new study.
The study, led by Sarah Legge from the University of Queensland, has revised the number of the feral animal from the popularly used figures of 15 million-20 million to 2.1 to 6.3 million, making the government's target to eradicate 2 million of the animals between 2015 and 2020 even more "ambitious".
So the oft-quoted “75 million native animals” number that we already knew was completely squishy, can finally be put to rest.
But the real story is who is behind the research.
Sarah Legge is an Associate Professor at the Australian National University and a Principle Research Fellow with the University of Queensland…. Sarah has a particularly strong background in practical conservation management; she worked for a non-government conservation organization (the Australian Wildlife Conservancy) for over a decade, where she led its Conservation and Science program.
From the website of The $60 million Threatened Species Recovery Hub "... is supported by funding through the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Programme (NESP), and matched by contributions from 10 of the country’s leading academic institutions and the Australian Wildlife Conservancy".
That’s right - they’re ba...aaack!
The Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) were the guys who have been behind all the current hysterical media around cats. Their founder Atticus Fleming created the “75 million native animals” schitic back in 2012 to use in their charity fundraising and have been stirring-up controversy ever since.
Based in Subiaco (it's no coincidence WA has the most draconian cat-ownership laws in the country) the organisation had revenue of $21 million dollars in 2015 - $18 million of which came from donations and government grants.
Being in the media is a very good thing for this charity - and their catchy, cat-demonising ditties really caught hold in 2016.
But things went a bit wrong when Commissioner Andrews started yabbering about commercialising cat bait to kill “2 million cats by 2020” - his self-aggrandising plan which got his maw on the television. And a cat tracker app which mainly revealed inner-city strays like they were Pokemon. Instead of doing what the AWC had desired; promoting fenced reserves for native animals.
So - bless their cotton socks - they hung the Commissioner out to dry. Oh, the cat is out of the bag! (ahem)....
The study... questions the target set by the government and how useful it may be in achieving the goal.
"This particular target may not provide a useful measure of conservation benefit, nor may it be readily measurable, and it may become an example of Goodhart's Law - that once a target is set, management effort becomes focused on achieving the target in the most efficient way rather than solving the problem to which the target relates," the study reads.
What do they suggest instead? I bet you can’t guess…
We collated 91 site-based feral cat density estimates in Australia and examine the influence of environmental and geographic influences on density. We extrapolate from this analysis to estimate that the feral cat population in natural environments….
Our results indicate that the severe losses of Australia's native mammals are not due to exceptionally high densities of feral cats.
Our estimate of the total feral cat population provides context for the high profile Australian Government conservation target to kill two million feral cats by 2020 (Commonwealth of Australia, 2015). It makes this target more challenging, given that such a cull would represent a far higher proportion of the pre-cull cat population than originally envisaged.
To some extent, focus on the cull target and even a population estimate is (not tangible) to the main conservation issue of the role of feral cats as a key factor in the decline - and in some cases, extinction - of Australian animal species, and the mechanisms to manage that impact.
For example, it may be more beneficial for Australian biodiversity if relatively few feral cats are eradicated from small areas of high conservation value while cats remain widespread and abundant elsewhere, than if the feral cat population was more substantially reduced overall but not eradicated from those important areas.
Indeed, many Australian native mammal species occur now only in very small areas in which feral cats have been excluded, or on islands from which feral cats have been eradicated or not yet invaded. Hence, the national population size of feral cats, and the extent of its reduction, is not necessarily an important parameter for conservation management.
Study - Enumerating a continental-scale threat: How many feral cats are in Australia? Biological Conservation (2016)
Small-fenced areas are where we should focus you say? SHOCKER.
So this powerful charity-lobby group has for more than five years promoted the notion that the nation was over-run with cats - as soon as their nominated solution goes out of favour with the government, NOW has reviewed the science and found that there are ten times less cats than speculated. And that rather than national, broad-scale, commercial baiting, we should focus on fenced conservation areas?
How convenients.
Cats really are without a friend in Australia. Cat charities siding with the same organisations who want to see cats exterminated. Cat extermination companies acting in indistinguishable ways to cat charities - the largest killers of cats in the country. And the national government protecting the interests of miners, farmers and developers, while presenting cats as the major danger to the environment.
It really is pretty disgusting. And expensive. Don't forget expensive.
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Entomologica Scandinavica Supplement 50
now changed to Insect Systematics and Evolution Supplement
ESS 50.
SÖLI, G. E. E. On the morphology and phylogeny of Mycetophilidae, with a revision of Coelosia Winnertz (Diptera, Sciaroidea). 1997. 137 pp. SEK 160.
The world fauna of Coelosia Winnertz, 1863 is revised. Descriptions and diagnoses of the genus and all 24 known species are given, together with keys to males and associated females. A hypothesis of the phylogenetic relationship among the species is presented based on a cladistic analysis. The two genera Boletina and Gnoriste combined were used as outgroup in the analysis. The monophyly of the genus is well supported by the data. Despite much homoplasy, two species groups can be recognised. — All available type material of species assigned to Coelosia have been studied. In addition, identified and unidentified specimens were borrowed from 22 museums and institutions.
All known species are redescribed, and lectotypes designated for bicornis Stackelberg, 1946, flava Staeger, 1840, modesta Johannsen, 1912, sapporoensis Okada, 1939, tenella (Zetterstedt, 1852) and truncata Lundström, 1909. Coelosia fusca Bezzi, 1892 was found to be a senior synonym of silvatica Landrock, 1918, modesta Johannsen, 1912 of quadricornis Stackelberg, 1942, and pygophora Coquillett, 1904 of lepida Johannsen, 1912. Three species are transferred from Coelosia to Coelophthinia Edwards, 1941, namely flavithorax Freemann, 1951, neotropica Lane, 1959 and accita Plassmann & Vogel, 1990.
Thirteen new species are described, burmacola and distylata from the Oriental region, and brevilobata, huitzilopochtlii, longilobata, quetzalcoatli, scopariata, succinacea, tezcatlipocai, tlaloci, vockerothi, xochiquetzali and xolotli from the Nearctic region. — Of the 24 species in the genus, 13 are Nearctic, 6 Palaearctic, 3 Holarctic and 2 Oriental. The northernmost and southernmost records originate from 79°N and 16°N, respectively. Judged from the revealed phylogeny and present distribution of the species, an Eurasian origin of the genus appears most likely. The evolution and diversification of the genus is likely to coincide with the Tertiary palaeogeological development of Eurasia and North America.
Scandinavian Entomology 2010
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Cyberoam, a leading global network security appliances provider, today announced the appointment of Sevengate as its distributor for its product NetGenie VDSL2/ADSL2+ Wi-Fi appliances for the Levant region. Mr. Jafar Ahmad of Sevengate said “The advanced and comprehensive features of the NetGenie for both home and SOHO, brings preconfigured security against unauthorized access and misu
The new partnership with the two companies will bring more focus and network security concentrating on the DLP solution, InfoWatch products allow clients to reduce to a minimum the risks associated with the processing, movement and storage of information within the corporate secure area and outside it.
Announced today that it has acquired Cyberoam Technologies, a leading global provider of network security products. The acquisition expands and deepens Sophos’ already significant product portfolio in network security, by combining Cyberoam’s Unified Threat Management (UTM), next-generation firewall and network security expertise with Sophos’ existing award-winning network securi
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Modern Hymns 2017
We should teach it to our church/ and sing it next Oct. THE HYMN LIST: This hymn list is coordinated with the calendar followed by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and suggests hymns related to the lectionary of the church as. Ten top tips on including wedding hymns in your ceremony. Copyright © 2019 Thomas Road Baptist Church. "How Deep the Father's Love for Us" has a distinct tone to it that would make you think it belonged in the 18th or 19th century like many Eastern hymns. Modern was created by Wizards of the Coast in the Spring of 2011 as a response to the increasing popularity of the Legacy format, which although popular proved difficult to access due to the high price of staple cards. com modern calligraphy, typography, Etsy, Etsy shop, hymn print, paper, art print, home decor, gift item, gift for. Posted on Jul 3 2017 by; in News; Hi Everyone! Justin and myself (Joannie) from the Hymn Remix Project will be doing a workshop featuring a paired down set of Hymn Remix arrangements on Wed. Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs are all sung in the praise of God. com is dedicated to providing traditional Catholic information in the modern world. Most congregations in those days sang the Psalter— but most sang it badly. Just has that perfect mix of heavy, riffy, and somewhat eerie while sporting that old-skool death metal feel but with the deeper tones of modern tech. Using choir, soloists, modern instruments, and historical instruments, this varied collection includes well-loved hymns, some Lutheran gems, and. For more information, please visit www. Bloc Party: Hymns Review. All My Hope on God Is Founded 02. com Hymns allow modern worshipers to explore spiritual and musical roots of the past. This week's featured hymn is sung in many churches on All Saints Day, and for good reason. Hymnals are full of rich theology and turns of phrase that we just don't see anymore. These six words communicate so much about how our life is not our own; it is loaned to us for a brief period then returned to its owner – our owner – God himself. George Rutler about his book, The Stories of Hymns: The History Behind 100 of Christianity's Greatest Hymns to find out. Hymn: *We Lift the Light of Hope, v. Package deal of 5 new hymns for $50. Suggestions are posted on Wednesday nights, usually a few weeks in advance of each Sunday. A much-loved text by the Reverend Sir Henry Williams Baker, who was editor of Hymns Ancient and Modern from 1860-77. July 19, 3pm, as one of the sectionals in the conference. New York-based fuzz-pop band Guards (the project of Richie Follin from Cults/Willowz) have announced the release of their new album 'Modern Hymns'. I would like to starts a list of modern hymns written from 1990 on. Aug 24, 2013 · Traditional Hymn and Gospel Renditions of "Rock Of Ages" Edited by Azizi Powell This post features four different genre of the 18th century hymn "Rock Of Ages" (also known as "Rock OF Ages, Cleft For Me". One of the happier musical developments in the Christian world over the past few years has been the resurgence of hymns. Ze older posts. So if you're having a church wedding, we've rounded up some wedding hymns. Hymns for your wedding Hymns are a traditional part of church weddings and there are so many to choose from. Hope this will help you guys as we serve God in the Holy Eucharist through singing. To request free update notes about Carolyn's hymns, send an email message to [email protected] Its 840 items have been specially. Mar 01, 2017 · A UMC. Heirs of the Reformation. This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 9th, 2019 at 8:33 am and tagged with Bryn Terfel, Christian hymns, classic hymns, hyfrydol, hymns, lee's hymn shop, welsh hymns and posted in religion, Video. Hymns: Modern and Ancient. We only sing 11 from your top 30. “The First Noel,” for example, is a popular Christmas hymn, but many biblical scholars object to its fusing of the shepherds, the star, and the Magi into one Bethlehem scene. If you're listening with a smartphone, select the AAC+ stream. Worship Songs and Hymns: For the Modern Christian Church [Arthur Christopher Gorham] on Amazon. Contains Ads. Order 3 items and receive a Free Book!. Posts about 5th century hymns written by prayers4reparation. Hymns Ancient and Modern. Ancient & Modern Hymn Worship - WORSHIP & PRAISE SONGS Please click the link to subscribe for the best of Nigerian Gospel Music https://www. Hymns Ancient & Modern Festival of Preaching 2017 - Playlist. It was written in 1707 by the English Nonconformist preacher Isaac Watts (1674-1748) and has appeared in numerous hymnals since. “I mean, like, a lot of the hymns we know were barroom songs before they became, like, ‘God Bless America,’ or whatever. Because I Got High 3. The word hymn derives from Greek ὕμνος (hymnos), which means "a song of praise". H YMNS A&M is a famous Anglican hymn book containing many praiseworthy melodies and texts later adopted by Catholic hymnals. Get all 6 Wendell Kimbrough releases available on Bandcamp and save 10%. Assistant Professor Sarah Eyerly has won a prestigious collaborative fellowship that will allow her to resurrect about 80 Native American hymns. Such hymns were an essential part of these services. Unforgiving – A Northern Hymn is a first person horror game heavily inspired by Swedish folklore and the Nordic mythology to create the nightmares that’s been haunting Swedish children for many generations. Purcell Partials Pietist – first album sponsored by FPA. This is the text of the hymn as it appears in Hymns Ancient and Modern (1867): Not by the martyr’s … Continue reading →. Quantity: Add To This dynamic collection on Greatest Modern Hymns Vol. It’s just not true. Possess background in food industry (seventeen years production and technical education), I'm able to increase visibility within a technology, to achieve global education goals and use the interdisciplinarity to overcome artificial borders between different fields. It is a book of the Christian Bible and the. with the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Editor, LiturgyTools. (2017) Rev David MacGregor is perhaps Queensland Synod’s most prolific hymn writer. H YMNS A&M is a famous Anglican hymn book containing many praiseworthy melodies and texts later adopted by Catholic hymnals. Modern Hymns, an album by Chris Harwood-Jones on Spotify. "Hymns can be a powerful (and catchy) way of conveying really big truths about God often straight from His Word" Here is a "Top Ten Favorite Hymns" List from the "godmadeknown" blog. Ancient & Modern Hymn Worship - Are You Washed - Latest 2017 Nigerian Gospel Song size. We've gathered a collection of modern and classic hymns we think you and your congregation will love!. The best hymns translate well into today's musical style, while preserving the powerful messages and melodies that have made them classics. " Lasst uns erfreuen herzlich sehr" (Let us rejoice most heartily) is a hymn tune that originated from Germany in 1623, and which found widespread popularity after The English Hymnal published a 1906 version in strong triple meter with new lyrics. The Rigveda (Sanskrit: ऋग्वेद ṛgveda, from ṛc "praise, shine" and veda "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns. Here is a beautiful performance by the Exultate Chamber Choir & Orchestra. Add to Cart. When most people think of hymns they are thinking of older church songs, but they are actually songs that are written in meter. Ten top tips on including wedding hymns in your ceremony. When was the last time you remember singing about God’s wrath? If the modern hymn “In Christ Alone” is in your playlist, then it was probably more recently that you realised. While we have a range of prayer times and liturgies for parishes and schools ready to use as an off the shelf resource, people often like to substitute hymns or create…. Can you help add one to the list? Technically, many songs today are in fact, hymns and once we get past the stylistic differences between these and hymns of old, they are the same structure. This revised version included the song “Couplets des Deux Hommes d’Armes” and is the musical source of The Marines’ Hymn. not like other hymn books that. " Only a single copy of the original book exists. A few months ago I wrote about my ten favorite hymns. Download the poster with the TOP 30 Catholic artists of 2017! We are now presenting our readers with the best-of-the-best Catholic musical acts, in no particular order, from all over the world. And she wrote over eight thousand hymns and gospel songs about her Savior. Well Known Wedding Hymns and Songs for a Church Wedding. Pipe up! Why these modern hymn writers want you and your congregation to sing They're launching a book and a worship conference — both called "Sing!" — in September in hopes of revolutionizing. Ancient & Modern Hymn Worship - WORSHIP & PRAISE SONGS Please click the link to subscribe for the best of Nigerian Gospel Music https://www. net October 31, 2017 at 1:39 AM. Devout/The Modern Hymn, an Album by Scatter the Ashes. Modern Hymn Writing Nashville Christian Songwriters 2 2 J u ly 2 0 1 7 INSTRUCTORS: John Chisum and David Baroni [email protected] Here are 25 of the best modern Christian songs. net October 31, 2017 at 1:39 AM. You Know I Know What You Did Last Summer 7. Zachary Taylor. Discography Getty Kids Hymnal - For the Cause (2017) Getty Kids Hymnal - In Christ Alone (2016) Facing a Task Unfinished (2016) Joy An Irish Christmas (2015 & 2011) Joy An Irish Christmas (2011) the Greengrass Sessions (2014) Live at The Gospel Coalition (2013) Hymns For The Christian Life (2012) Awaken the Dawn (2009) In Christ Alone (2006. You can see the Church Hall to the right of the first picture. We find both in modern contemporary music though it leans more heavily toward the adorational side. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir often sings this hymn that explores the idea of light in the scene of Jesus’ nativity. As I do not have the time or interest to update hundreds of webpages, I have taken the long overdue step of closing down this site. Purcell Partials Pietist – first album sponsored by FPA. 5 Modern Versions Of Hymns That You Have To Hear. "Most traditional hymns are about deliverance and redemption, so all we're doing in some of these secular hymns is finding ways of creating or interpreting that same redemption and deliverance in. List of Top Roman Catholic Songs / Contemporary Hymns. A list of lyrics, artists and songs that contain the term "hymn" - from the Lyrics. Louis: Chalice Press, 1995), which serves the Disciples of Christ, who partake of the Lord's Supper each week. Bill Rauch, Thornville, Ohio, Pastor Emeritus of St. Such songs by current and recent recording artists are also called contemporary songs. Many modern writers are putting new arrangements with old hymns and writing new hymns as well. mars 2017 Little Lives - a modern hymn for Saint Cuthbert Today, March 20, is the feast of Saint Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne who died in 687, and whose body was later moved to Durham after Viking raids. in Culture, Magazine, Uncategorized 30/06/2017 2,686 Views. Add to Wishlist. I’ve lead worship using these songs, or know someone who has. That being said, the sense of momentum permeating Modern Hymns is pretty impressive–especially considering its protracted gestation period. And, some hymns are more conducive to contemporary worship than others. Fred Coleman, Heart Publications is grateful to announce the production of a new songbook, Hymns: Modern and Ancient. Bloc Party: Hymns Review. Rooted and Grounded. Bill Rauch, Thornville, Ohio, Pastor Emeritus of St. Contains Ads. Thankfully, this album works hard to de-stigmatize the concept by reminding us that it is in our tradition and mission to ". Hymn Remix Project @ the Hymn Society Conference, July 16-20, 2017. Released 25 May 2004 on Epitaph (catalog no. The Paramount stage was filled from side to side with a mini orchestra, a choir. Unfortunately, no copies survive, but the contents were repeated in a 1533 edition by Wittenberg publisher Joseph Klug. Hymns: A hymn is a song that’s typically broken up into four or five verses, but no one ever sings the second verse. You Know I Know What You Did Last Summer 7. Read more Audio. Monk wrote the tune in ten minutes, after it came to the realization that there was no tune for the hymn, during a committee meeting for the first edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861) where the tune first appeared paired with the text. Adorna, Sion, Thalamum, Hymn from the Liber Hymnarius (Modern text) “Sequences for the Purification are as rare as Hymns in the Ancient Liturgies. our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. It featured the music of composer Philip Paul Bliss, who had been described as "one of God's gifts to modern Christian music," and was directed by legendary gospel musician Dick Baker of Dallas, Texas. The song gain popularity in North America and was quickly picked up by churches in South East Asia and translated into many languages. On November 3, Norine Brunson posted a recording of " Worthy of My All " to the Andrew and Norine Brunson Facebook page. Paul’s, Daphne, retired editor of Forward Day by Day, and now chaplain to the retired clergy of the Diocese. in Culture, Magazine, Uncategorized 30/06/2017 2,686 Views. I played guitar along with traditional hymns at. Top 80 Modern Hymns For Easter 2016 Posted on February 27, 2016 Here is the quintessential list of modern worship songs to help you get ready for the best Easter season of worship you have ever had at your church. Most modern hymn to be nominated and highest featuring living writers. 3 or *Peace, Peace, Peace, v. A selection of INDEXES are at the bottom of this page and below are details of how else you can search for Singing the Faith hymns. One of the happier musical developments in the Christian world over the past few years has been the resurgence of hymns. Hymns allow modern worshipers to explore spiritual and musical roots of the past. Thankfully, this album works hard to de-stigmatize the concept by reminding us that it is in our tradition and mission to ". Licensed for use on publications wholly owned by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd 3D Issue version 5. The follow-up to 2013 LP In Guards We Trust, was produced by Follin himself and mixed at The Notch in Los Angeles by Sean O'Brien, and will be out on May 22 via Kobalt. Oct 17, 2019 · This is complete Hymns Ancient & Modern app. "Sometimes we would take a hymn and groove it up — maybe put a drumbeat to it, maybe I'll throw a line of chorus to it, and it sounds like a contemporary praise song," said Music Minister Keith Tan. One of these is the composition of St Paulinus, the Patriarch of Aquileia” Postquam Puellae, Monastic Melody. In planning worship, I find that there are some passages of scripture which have few hymns associated with them. On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 7:32 AM, The Reformation wrote:. " Thanks for this. If you’re desperate for an alternative to the thin musical gruel of holiday playlists, then the hymns and carols of Advent offer a remarkable and lovely respite of truth and preparation. with one accord our parting hymn of praise. James, Spanish Place in London posted a verse from a poem/hymn to the Blessed Virgin Mary, "Through the Streets of Heaven" on its Facebook page. Jon Solomon, a legendary former professor of Classics at the University of Arizona, now teaching at the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana. in Culture, Magazine, Uncategorized 30/06/2017 2,686 Views. See more ideas about Hymn art, Lds art and Modern. Posts about Hymns and Songs written by UniChristian. 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They were used following powerful sermons by the evangelist to encourage people to come forward. For the history-deprived, that last piece of mental poison comes to us courtesy of Karl Marx, the long-recognized father of modern socialism. Home Welcome! This web site is the home of the Open Hymnal Project to create a freely distributable, downloadable database of Christian hymns, spiritual songs, and prelude/postlude music. " And with some help from his friends, Matt Maher wrote and and recorded, "Abide With Me. A fine collection of both modern and more traditional hymns some having been given a guitar-based makeover. Divine Mercy Sunday will be observed Sunday beginning at 2 p. com, recently provided a list of 50 contemporary hymn arrangements with familiar melodies and lyrics rooted in the deep history of our faith. Modern song alternatives. Over the years I have accumulated quite a book of worship songs and hymns. Modern Hymns, an album by Chris Harwood-Jones on Spotify. Interestingly, the older the hymn, the easier it is to translate to a praise band. Copyright (C) 2011 Trinity Innovations LTD. It was written while i was in the NYSC Orientation camp. HYMNS Ancient & Modern, the Church Times’s parent charity, this week launched a free e-book service for anyone training for ordained or lay ministry in the Church of England. This week, we are delving into one of my favourite worship songs of late, the radio friendly smash hit “10 000 Reasons”. Praise to the Lord, the Almighty 08. Fleming completed his work in 1834, and Psalms and Hymns for public worship was copyrighted under his name. I must say I am conflicted by this. An associate professor of religion and literature in the Department of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions, at Villanova University, he also serves as poetry editor for Modern Age magazine and as series editor for Colosseum Books, from the Franciscan University at Steubenville Press. We had picked a hymnal based on the hymns it had in it, but with modernizations and verses left out, we weren't really happy with it, and with a growing number of modern hymns we…. "Be Thou My Vision" (Old Irish: Rop tú mo baile or Rob tú mo bhoile) is a traditional Christian hymn of Irish origin. November 13, 2017 Hymns,. Also consider incorporating many of the great hymns of our faith in service planning to use with these modern songs. I hope you find comfort in the words and music of these hymns. Choosing the wedding hymns for your church wedding can often be a frustrating process. Holy God, We Praise Thy Name 04. Advent Worship Sequences; Advent Hymns by Scripture Reference; Advent Hymns by Subtopic; Infant King Musical; Jesus, Gift of Christmas Musical; Lighting the Advent Candles; Also try: Hymns by Scripture Reference; Hymns by Title; Hymns by Tune; Hymns by Meter; Also check out our: Featured Hymn Affiliated with CCLI and OneLicense. This is another fine example of good modern music. This is the second in my series looking at thirty amazing hymns and songs of the Christian faith. I know it's a little early (only by a few weeks), but I couldn't resist but 'air' it now. We currently have information on the 100 Most Popular Christian hymns. PDF Download • "Hymns Ancient & Modern" published 7 August 2017 by Jeff Ostrowski OOGLE HAS UPLOADED a complete copy of H YMNS A NCIENT & M ODERN , and I've included the PDF (41 MB ) toward the end of this article. Smith released his new album Hymns II: Shine On Us, a collection of classic songs and contemporary hymns, and Audrey Assad released Inheritance. Hymns are one of the most popular choices of music for funerals in the U. Ancient And Modern Hymn Book Free Download -> DOWNLOAD. fresh posts…. The Passion movement put out Hymns: Ancient and Modern, and littering all of Crowder’s material are hymns as old as the Greek “Phos Hilaron” and as new as “Heaven Came Down. Major Contributions to Modern Hymnody. Here are some modern songs which can be played as alternatives to hymns or in addition to hymns in Remembrance Day ceremonies. doxologypress. Order 3 items and receive a Free Book!. We had a fellowship anthem but we also had unofficial anthems- songs we sang at almost every meeting and the chief of them was Your Majesty by TD Jakes. PDF Download • “Hymns Ancient & Modern” published 7 August 2017 by Jeff Ostrowski OOGLE HAS UPLOADED a complete copy of H YMNS A NCIENT & M ODERN , and I’ve included the PDF (41 MB ) toward the end of this article. They were used following powerful sermons by the evangelist to encourage people to come forward. For more information, please visit www. We are blended in our worship and only sing two- three modern hymns/choruses per week. Hymns are full of poetic theological language missing in many contemporary songs. Gospel Hymns 2017. net Free-use hymns Hymns for Remembrance Day services generally focus on God as protector in time of death and war, or on themes of peace-making. And I’ve always been fond of “Simple Gifts” with the original lyrics, not the revamped “Lord of the Dance” lyrics. They guided the way to my own path as a singer-songwriter. (Pictures are almost certainly more modern versions. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ!. He died on 12 February 1877, at Monkland, Herefordshire, England. Many English and German Christmas Hymns and Carols and Christian songs have been included featuring the words and lyrics of writers such as Martin Luther and Charles Wesley. These newer compositions show a deep devotion to the doctrines of grace and rich harmony taught in our a cappella singing schools. He is recognized as "the originator of the modern hymn movement in the Like Isaac Watts in England, he in France revitalized hymn singing. 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"Most traditional hymns are about deliverance and redemption, so all we're doing in some of these secular hymns is finding ways of creating or interpreting that same redemption and deliverance in. Nigerian Gospel Songs is a concept of Praise AllStar Channel. Exceptions like the Matins hymn of the Immaculate Conception are quite late. 47 the most unpopular president in modern US history. There are a host of modern worship teams that re-tune hymns this way and it is perfect for bringing new life to a theologically rich hymn. Hymns for Holy Saturday This fine if rugged hymn continually reminds us of two different hymns but the medieval text is the basis of the modern text. Christian Year Songs September 5, 2017 at 1. 5 2017 Reawaken Hymns, Vol. (2017) Rev David MacGregor is perhaps Queensland Synod’s most prolific hymn writer. Skip navigation Sign in. To request free update notes about Carolyn's hymns, send an email message to [email protected] To unify them across Christendom to steel them against the barbarians who are either at the gates, or already inside them. Add to Wish List. English Hymns Audio Preview 2017 Subject: Great Thanks toyou. Zachary Taylor is the founder and lead curator of worshipcurrent. Last year, Amy Grant released Be Still and Know -- Hymns & Faith. Placare Christe Servulis, Vespers Hymn, (Modern text of Christe Redemptor…) 1910 Liber Melody. Many of these songs are covered by CCLI, but I've only included CCLI numbers when you can access the text and/or music on the CCLI website. catholic songs lyrics hymns free download – Hymns and Songs of Zion, Christian Hymns & Songs, Songs and Hymns of Zion, and many more programs. Your monthly donations allow this ministry to be used by God to bless thousands. Here are some modern songs which can be played as alternatives to hymns or in addition to hymns in Remembrance Day ceremonies. This is the second in my series looking at thirty amazing hymns and songs of the Christian faith. Margin of Error; Nigeria, My Beloved Country. here’s a roundup of songs and hymns to sing this Palm Sunday. Whether you opt for a popular tune, or something different, there's a hymn to suit different parts of the service. Hymn writer awarded an OBE. Purcell Partials Pietist – first album sponsored by FPA. Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd Registered Charity No 270060 Registered in England No 1220696. Such hymns were an essential part of these services. Thanksgiving and Harvest Hymns - Start Page and Titles List A Collection of 100+ Traditional Hymns for Harvest Festival and Thanksgiving with PDF for printing. Hymnals are full of rich theology and turns of phrase that we just don't see anymore. Another living legend, Engelbert Humperdinck, returns to PBS with a My Music special, Engelbert Humperdinck in Hawaii, featuring his concert performance at Honolulu’s historic Hawaii Theatre Center in August 2018. Those hymns that are not free verse follow a format that easily sets them apart from other songs. One of the best ways I have found over the years to help to unify the generations is to find good solid modern band arrangements for the classic hymns. Oct 9, 2017- Explore givilashxi's board "Lyuba Yatskiv" on Pinterest. This revised version included the song “Couplets des Deux Hommes d’Armes” and is the musical source of The Marines’ Hymn. A few months ago I wrote about my ten favorite hymns. (Pictures are almost certainly more modern versions. The gospel song “Pass It On”, written by Kurt Kaiser was popular in the 1980s. I enjoyed this post so much. The tab is fairly basic, including only the melody notes, played on strings 1-4. The Reverend Gordon Giles, one of the Anglicans’ leading authorities on hymns, declared that I Vow to Thee My Country should be rewritten if it is to be sung by modern congregations. The link includes a snippet of music from the most popular funeral hymns. Hope this will help you guys as we serve God in the Holy Eucharist through singing. Hymns are a common part of the funeral service across many different denominations of Christianity. We recommend this Hymn App for all Christian and it is free for use. Modern was created by Wizards of the Coast in the Spring of 2011 as a response to the increasing popularity of the Legacy format, which although popular proved difficult to access due to the high price of staple cards. This is the text as it appears in Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861): A hymn for Martyrs sweetly sing; For Innocents your praises bring; Of whom in tears was earth bereaved, Whom heaven with songs of joy received: Whose angels see the…. We had picked a hymnal based on the hymns it had in it, but with modernizations and verses left out, we weren't really happy with it, and with a growing number of modern hymns we…. A rich collection of communion hymns is the Chalice Hymnal (St. He is recognized as "the originator of the modern hymn movement in the Like Isaac Watts in England, he in France revitalized hymn singing. James, Spanish Place in London posted a verse from a poem/hymn to the Blessed Virgin Mary, "Through the Streets of Heaven" on its Facebook page. Not by power: Not by might. This is the second in my series looking at thirty amazing hymns and songs of the Christian faith. Dispelling Inchoate 5. A Times NIE initiative. Or the retooled old hymns might show up on Sunday mornings in the traditional Rite II service. Just stumbled on this archive and I love it!. Within the now decades-old phenomenon known as "contemporary worship," a new generation of young people is discovering (perhaps for the first time) the rich heritage of the old worship practices and the ancient song of the Christian church. Hymns: A hymn is a song that’s typically broken up into four or five verses, but no one ever sings the second verse. Hymns remain a popular choice of music for funerals in the UK, and not just for devoted church-goers. Printable 50 Most Loved Hymns of praise and worship which are suitable for all Christian denominations. Browse our cheap image bank online to find the perfect stock photo for your marketing projects!. We stand to bless thee ere our worship cease, and now, departing, wait thy word of peace. Modern Punk 6. 1 includes twelve of the most popular modern hymns of the. But I learned to listen to my wife. The UK's Favourite Hymn — Songs of Praise. "In Christ Alone" was the first hymn that writers Stuart Townsend and Keith Getty produced together, and to this day, it remains their most well known. Those hymns that are not free verse follow a format that easily sets them apart from other songs. Are you already itching to listen to all of these hymns and more?. Worship Songs and Hymns: For the Modern Christian Church [Arthur Christopher Gorham] on Amazon. In your use of this great hymn app, help us to point out things you want to suggest for. Listen at home or in the office to some of the world's most inspiring music on Hymns and Favorites. How great is the love the Father has lavished on us! (1 John 3:1) This is how God showed His love:. ” Sadly, it is not often sung in Catholic parishes today. general hymns A spendthrift Lover is the Lord Approach, my soul, the mercy-seat Awake, my soul, and with the sun By the Holy Spirit sent Christian, dost thou see them Come down, O Love divine Come, let us to the Lord our God Creator of the earth and skies Dear Lord and Father of mankind Eternal Lord of love, behold your Church. If you're listening with a smartphone, select the AAC+ stream. We hope our work to generate these lists and , unlike many modern. Fair point!. It's a sweet, clever paraphrase of this statement: "from each according to his ability to each according to his need". All copyrights are by the author and Vintage Guitar magazine. 4 2017 You May Also Like. Be Still, My Soul, The Lord Is On Thy Side 03. A hymn is a song that gives praise, honor, or thanksgiving to God. Hymns A&M's distribution arm, Norwich Books and Music, won the prestigious Distributor of the Year 2017 Award at the recent Christian Resources Together annual conference. Share Facebook. Sometimes the best way to fall in love with a classic is to hear a new interpretation of it. Just as it was for the hymn, there are two stories about how the tune “Eventide” came to be. The double-album, which will be released on Feb. Ancient And Modern Hymn Book Free Download -> DOWNLOAD. At the wedding ceremony of the Duchess of Cambrdige & Prince William. Trying to decide on hymns and songs for the wedding singers at your ceremony? Alive Network, the UK's biggest wedding music agency, are here to help! In this blog, we've compiled the ultimate guide to wedding hymns, which includes the rules, lots of advice and even our own 'Top 10 Wedding Hymns' list. We had a fellowship anthem but we also had unofficial anthems- songs we sang at almost every meeting and the chief of them was Your Majesty by TD Jakes. Modern Day Physics and the Vedic Hymn of Creation Posted on November 28, 2018 by ayecapitalist I ran into Andrei Linde a couple of weeks ago at the Breakthrough Awards* Symposium at Berkeley and engaged with him in a fascinating debate at dinner afterwards. In 2017, Keith Getty was made an "Officer of the Order of the British Empire" (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for his contribution to "music and modern hymn writing," marking the first time the award had been given to an individual involved in the world of contemporary church music. R ecently in a conversation with my brother, he mentioned that he had began leading worship for a church and had gotten a great response from a service he had put together because it had a couple of modern hymn arrangements. O Jesus, I have promised to serve thee to the end; be thou for ever near me my Master and my Friend; I shall not fear the battle if thou art by my side, nor wander from the pathway if thou wilt be my guide. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. It is a book of the Christian Bible and the. Best Hymns for Worship in 2017 + Free Song Sheet Downloads. Hymns have been a foundational piece of the songs we since today during our worship services. + Brad Paisley song lyrics. The pages also reflect the name of the Sunday in the Christian calendar, and some hymns from The United Methodist Hymnalare suggested to go along with the Lectionary readings. The experience was so moving, it launched an entire movement of believers and churches that play modern, grunge-inspired worship songs instead of the biblically prescribed hymns. Robert Robinson was a handful. Listen to A Selection of Funeral Service Hymns. ) as well as new hymns based on scripture, including lectionary lessons. Littorali Hymns I-VI Phil Maier’s Littoral Hymns is aptly named – indeed it begins with the sound of the sea; surf and wind flanging through your speakers, ebbing at last into the first set of aleatoric rhythms that stud the hull of this gorgeous EP like. The move is designed to ease the financial burden on poorer students and ordinands. ” He also wrote dozens of hymns, the best-known being “Holy, Holy, Holy. Minimal filigree to offset the high amo Read More. The Core Set Plus makes a good starter: 186 popular traditional hymn accompaniments. What is your favorite hymn or song? Is there a psalm, hymn or spiritual song that cheers and blesses you every time you hear its melody or sing its words? Of modern songs I am blessed every time I hear the Stuart Townend/Keith Getty song, "In Christ Alone. Sample's territory. We hope our work to generate these lists and , unlike many modern. All rights reserved. Hutchins Breed, Lent & Co. Share Facebook. DOM31-L via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Edition of 400 numbered copies Hand stamped sleeve Includes insert with photos, artwork and liner notes Includes unlimited streaming of HYMN - " COMING HOME / TOO MANY LIES " 2017 REF. Darrell Scott's Modern Hymns gets my vote for Best Bluegrass Album of 2008. Psalms is also called the Book of Psalms. English Hymns Audio Preview 2017 Subject: Great Thanks toyou. This dynamic collection on Greatest Modern Hymns Vol.
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Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Deputy Chairperson of national company Uzbektourism Anvar Temirkhodjaev held negotiations with a delegation led by Minister of Tourism and Culture of Malaysia Dato’ Seri Mohamed Nazri bin Abdul Aziz on 24 April 2015, the press service of the Uzbek company said on 1 May.
Uzbektourism said that the meeting was directed at further developing and strengthening bilateral relations in tourism sector.
At the meeting, it was said that Uzbekistan is interested in attracting Malaysian investments into construction of hotel complexes, catering and recreation zones at main tourism routes, including in Samarkand, Bukhara, Khorezm, Tashkent and Surkhandarya region.
The Uzbek side also invited Minister and representative of Ministry of tourism and culture of Malaysia, as well as tourism agency to Tashkent International Tourism Fair, which will be held in October 2015.
Dato’ Seri Mohamed Nazri bin Abdul Aziz, in his turn, expressed gratitude to the reception and expressed interest of Malaysian citizens to visit Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva and Islam monuments.
He said that regular flights of Uzbekistan Havo Yollari from Tashkent to Kuala Lumpur is making travel between two states much easier.
The Malaysian side expressed interest in establishing partnership via informing Malaysian investors on tourism potential. The Malaysian delegation expressed opinion on cooperation in sphere of exchange of specialists in tourism sector.
Malaysian minister said that he is ready to consider signing of international agreement between Uzbektourism and Minister of culture and tourism of Malaysia based on inter-governmental memorandum of understanding, signed in 2005.
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question how can cops stop attackers while treading water They weren’t even armed and are far too occupied just to hang in there Can you visualise 20-odd people finally emerging from the water dripping wet like a gaggle of geese If there were to be potential assassins they would have no problems at all One should also try imagining when did the cops change into dry clothes The fact that they didn’t even take off their clothes before getting into the water makes for even more comedy Why did they not dress for the occasion instead of wearing their uniforms in the water Actually why did the cops need to be in the water in the first place What kind of slavish mentality makes a senior officer force his men into such situations Did they not recognise doing so didn’t enhance safety measures in any way On the contrary having men in the water only reduces their efficacy as far as safety is concerned All this safeguarding of VIPs and the ridiculous lengths to which we go only makes us appear foolish Some of the men taking a dip in the water are probably special forces men the NSG types who have been ordered to tread water to save the political leaders of the state One wonders how many of these security guys can actually swim; in fact one guy to the right is clinging on to the rubber ring as if to save himself from drowning The nonsense that goes on in our inflated VIP syndrome is accentuated by the fact that only last week a report was released by the Bureau of Police Research and Development under the Ministry of Home Affairs indicating the disparity between these sanforised political luminaries and the public whose servants they ostensibly are There are three cops for every exalted individual plus support staff and there is one policeman for 761 Indians which comes to just 31 cops for 100000 of us In dazzling contrast stand 47557 cops protecting 14842 VIPs and that is the official modest estimate because there are never only three policemen around one political luminary Even the United Nations demands that there be one police constable for every 450 citizens and we just about hit 60 percent of that figure even though unemployment is a major hydra-headed monster in the country Any way you hack it the chasm makes no sense If the ministry itself is aware of these anomalies does it not make sense it remove them Get out of the water people and dry up There is a certain amount of predictability in the India-Japan relationship Instead of being a hindrance it is of huge help in a world that is in a state of flux due to the unpredictability injected by the Donald Trump-led US and Xi Jinping’s China Narendra Modi and Shinzo Abe looked relaxed in each other’s company as the Indian prime minister spent more than 48 hours in Japan for the 13th annual bilateral summit and that comfort reflected in the unflashy yet steady strengthening of ties File image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe PTI A quick look at the India-Japan Vision Statement 2018 that was released after the summit-level meeting between the two sides on Monday suggests that all key boxes have been ticked While there has been no big-ticket headline-grabbing announcement a quiet scaling up of strategic cooperation is evident sweetened by Japan’s extending of a line of credit to India through a $75 billion currency swap agreement Such an agreement that involves trading principal and interest payments on a loan made in one currency for principal and interest payments of a loan of equal value in another offers better interest rates than direct borrowing The Bilateral Swap Arrangement (BSA) a marker of greater financial and economic cooperation between the two sides is expected to bring “greater stability to foreign exchange and capital markets in India” and “enable the agreed amount of foreign capital being available to India for use as and when need arises” the Union Ministry of Finance said in a release The BSA should help stabilise the rupee that is struggling to emerge out of a rough patch due to weak global cues and India’s steep import bill Incidentally during Abe’s recent trip to China the first by a Japaneseprime minister in seven years both countries signed a three-year currency exchange arrangement worth up to $30 billion last Friday One of the biggest challenges before Modi and Abe both leaders of middle powers is to synergise their shared interests to maintain the regional normative structure and ensure rule of law in a rapidly changing Indo-Pacific strategic landscape This forms the greater logic behind military cooperation and security ties While China has been instrumental in pushing Japan and India closer the challenge here for both nations is to tide over the indifference that exists towards each other’s immediate security environment Instability in theKorean Peninsula does not hold as much significance for India as terrorism sponsored by Pakistan and vice-versa The vision statement welcomed the three inter-Korean Summits this year “as a step towards the comprehensive resolution of the outstanding issues” and stressed on “North Korea’s complete verifiable and irreversible dismantlement of all weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles of all ranges in accordance with the relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions (UNSCRs) and the importance of addressing concerns related to North Korea’s proliferation linkages” Compared to the 2017 vision statement during Abe’s visit to India the language appears more optimistic India’s concerns on terrorism were also adequately expressed with both countries issuing a sharp nudge to Pakistan to prosecute perpetrators of terrorist attacks “including those of November 2008 in Mumbai and January 2016 in Pathankot” as well as “strengthening cooperation against terrorist threats from groups including Al-Qaida ISIS Jaish-e-Mohammad Lakshar-e-Tayyiba and their affiliates” The joint statement also “called upon all countries to work towards rooting out terrorist safe havens and infrastructure disrupting terrorist networks and financing channels and halting cross-border movement of terrorists” and “underlined the need for all countries to ensure that their territory is not used to launch terrorist attacks on other countries in any manner” These concerns have been expressed in the 2017 document as well and it remains to be seen how both nations transfer their respective urgencies into a joint agenda If this poses a degree of difficulty no such hesitations are visible on the Indo Pacific strategy where Japan and India’s strategic interests are a perfect match Compared to the 2017 vision document we see a greater confidence among Modi and Abe in dovetailing their Act East and Indo-Pacific policies where each neatly segues with the other and presents an alternative vision to China’s military-economic hegemony The vision statement that is less voluminous than the earlier edition lays down the cards quite early and clearly “India and Japan must endeavour to work together for a rules-based and inclusive world order that fosters trust and confidence by enhancing communication and connectivity to ensure rule of law unimpeded trade and flow of people technology and ideas for shared prosperity” This paragraph is followed by one where the synergies are highlighted “Prime Minister Modi recognised that the India-Japan relationship has been transformed into a partnership with great substance and purpose and is a cornerstone of India’s Act East Policy Prime Minister Abe underscored the basic importance of India-Japan relationship for the regional order and is determined to advancing the “new era in India-Japan relations” so as to further cooperate for peace stability and prosperity of Indo-Pacific” The vision statement also emphasized on the centrality of ASEAN nations in Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategy that has been a recurring theme in both Modi and Abe’s speeches In his Shangri-La dialogue for example Modi stressed on ASEAN’s role in “integrating the broader region” While this multilateralism comes naturally to Modi Abe has been equally forthcoming The joint statement notes that “the two leaders also affirmed that ASEAN unity and centrality are at the heart of the Indo-Pacific concept which is inclusive and open to all They shared thewillingness to expand concrete cooperation with the US and other partners The two leaders’ vision for the Indo-Pacific is based on a rules-based order that respects sovereignty and territorial integrity of nations ensures freedom of navigation and overflight as well as unimpeded lawful commerce and seeks peaceful resolution of disputes with full respect for legal and diplomatic processes in accordance with the universally recognised principles of international law including those reflected in the UNCLOS without resorting to threat or use of force” Investment in infrastructure is inextricably linked to the security strategy because China has used its signature Belt and Road Initiative to reshape Eurasia and Indo-Pacific by turning its infrastructure projects into tools of military expansionism Therefore to float an alternative vision for Indo-Pacific India and Japan must offer infrastructure based on responsible and transparent debt-financing This then forms the backbone of “partnership for prosperity” that envisages a slew of connectivity projects via ‘quality infrastructure’ “and other projects including capacity building for shared prosperity carried out bilaterally and with other partners in an open transparent and non-exclusive manner and based on international standards responsible debt financing practices and in alignment with local economic and development strategies and priorities This synergy is embodied in collaborative projects between India and Japan in the Indo-Pacific region including in Sri Lanka Myanmar and Bangladesh as well as in Africa” Elsewhere though media’s expectation was belied of India and Japan signing a mutual logistics sharing agreement (LSA) at this summit to enable each other’s navies to utilise their respective bases for refuelling and replenishment the joint statement notes that “two leaders welcomed the joint exercise between each of the three services and the commencement of negotiations on the Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement (ACSA) which will enhance the strategic depth of bilateral security and defence cooperation” ACSA is the formal name for LSA that India already has in place with countries such as the US France and Singapore While ACSA may enable Indian warships to access the Japanese military bases Japanese navy may similarly get access to Indian bases at Andaman and Nicobar Islands among others While the actual signing may still be some distance away the beginning of negotiations (that Japanese envoy Kenji Hiramatsu had recently hinted at) is quite significant The expansion of joint exercises to tri-services points to a more intense strategic embrace Among the other highlights in security ties Modi and Abe have agreed to add 2+2 dialogue between respective foreign and defence ministers to the existing mechanisms in line with India’s similar such arrangement with the US The joint statement notes that both leaders “reaffirmed their desire to further deepen bilateral security and defence cooperation and institute Foreign and Defence Ministerial Dialogue (2+2) in addition to existing mechanisms including the Annual Defence Ministerial Dialogue Defence Policy Dialogue the National Security Advisers’ Dialogue Staff-level Dialogue of each service” As expected an agreement to expand maritime domain awareness (MDA) was also signed that is expected to enhance exchanges in the Indo-Pacific region and contribute towards regional peace and stability The arrangement for “deeper cooperation between the Indian Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF)” may enable both navies to share sensitive information on mutual areas of interest 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Breaking News: Ship Captain Freed After Firefight
By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY and LARA JAKES
MOMBASA, Kenya — An American ship captain was freed unharmed Sunday in a swift firefight that killed three of the four Somali pirates who had been holding him for days in a lifeboat off the coast of Africa, the ship’s owner said.
A senior U.S. intelligence official said a pirate who had been involved in negotiations to free Capt. Richard Phillips but who was not on the lifeboat was in custody.
Phillips, 53, of Underhill, Vermont, was safely transported to a Navy warship nearby.
Maersk Line Limited President and CEO John Reinhart said in a news release that the U.S. government informed the company around 1:30 p.m. EDT Sunday that Phillips had been rescued.
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Connect with people across the world through a variety of mainstream languages.
Let TRANSHouse take you further afield by opening your offering to a wider market.
Build relationships with business counterparts throughout the world.
We recently used TRANSHouse simultaneous translation services for the 2nd Session of the IRENA Assembly. As the conference officials, we had to ensure every detail went according to plan as there were high level VIPS and international official delegations present. We received only the highest praise and positive feedback from their translation and management services during the conference from our prestigious visitors. We are extremely pleased with the services provided by the TRANSHouse team.
Dr. Thani Al-Zeyoudi
Director of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs
We deal with sensitive information on a daily basis, and put huge stock into accuracy, attention to detail and reliability. NSG – TRANSHouse are integral to our business; providing excellent translations in a fast and hassle-free service, never missing a deadline. We have no reason to go elsewhere.
Forbes Associates (Doha-Qatar) Mr. Farris Bukhari - Director
We are a heavy user of TRANSHouse to translate our news releases from Arabic to English on a daily basis. As a government entity, we have a significant need to bring our stories to the market with very little turnaround time. The translation team provides impeccable content to us in a short amount of time without compromising the quality of the English content. They are also available to us at a moment’s notice due to the nature of our work; we know we can rely on them when it matters the most.
Tactical Affairs & Media Security Department, UAE Ministry of Interior
TRANSHouse doesn't just change the language of your document; the company transforms your content bringing the essence of the language, and all its subtle nuances into your copy ensuring that it resonates with the native speakers. TRANSHouse is my translation service of choice.
Rachid Mtaini, Managing Director, EURO RSCG
Professional and reliable, TRANSHouse delivers impeccable copy every time.
Omar Shehadeh, Director, IRENA, UAE
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 15 July 2013: The translation arm of News Services Group (NSG), TRANSHouse- experts in international translation- recently launched its new website. A long-time provider of translation services in over 40 languages, including English, Arabic, French, and mainstream European and Asian languages, the translation company has been operating as the “go-to” service provider for governmental entities, multi-national businesses, local, regional, and international companies.
“Our services cater to any company or entity that is looking to break into new market segments and increase its competitive edge. With such a diverse translation offering, companies have the opportunity to expand their reach, whether that is into western markets or into eastern regions such as: South Asia, Asia Pacific, Africa, or MENA,” stated group CEO of NSG and managing director of TRANSHouse, Tony AbiHanna.
He continued, “The high level of traffic that we’ve experienced on our former site is the primary reason that we have decided to revamp our website with greater capabilities and a new look. Our new site enables clients to upload content for translation and receive immediate feedback on requests for quotations. We receive a wide-level of interest regarding all of our translation, simultaneous interpretation, and copywriting services; potential clients can also browse a list of testimonials from our clients to learn of the benefit we have offered so many of their counterparts in the region and further afield.”
Currently serving over 90 industries, the translation company can deliver content in over 40 languages, and employs copywriters, editors, and translators to ensure that content in the translated language carries the same sophistication as the original text. TRANSHouse translates, edits, and generates content for many types of communications-oriented documents such as press releases, articles, marketing material, and websites and also translate documents such as contracts, business and personal documents. TRANSHouse also offers expert simultaneous interpretation services with United Nation’s certified interpreters.
About TRANSHouse:
TRANSHouse was founded in 2008 to bring high quality translation and interpretation services to the region and beyond. More than 100 clients around the world including Fortune 500 companies, internationally-known organizations, and main players in the Public Relations industry take advantage of the diverse translation services offered at TRANSHouse. Providing translation in 40 languages including Arabic, English, French, and mainstream European and Asian languages, TRANSHouse enables companies to reach further afield expanding their international market share and increasing their competitive edge.
About NSG: News Services Group:
As the leading news services provider in the Middle East and North Africa, NSG is the parent company to TRANSHouse, ME NewsWire, CNPHub, and MediaDEN. Its operations extend beyond news distribution to include online monitoring, collating, website content management, and customized media technology software development. Backed by a team of seasoned, multi-lingual professionals, possessing valuable industry certifications, years of experience, and substantial credibility to deliver results, NSG team members are experts in their respective fields. Using cutting-edge technology coupled with specially-developed news process management tools, it delivers business news quickly, efficiently, and accurately to the widest, or the most niche audiences.
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Offices 302, 311 & 313
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Union (BD) Consumer Ltd.
Ever Glow
About Rasasi
Rasasi Make Your Presence Felt
Rasasi Perfumes Industry LLC is a family owned business in Dubai, founded in 1979 by visionary Abdul Razzak Kalsekar, who is also the company’s Chairman.
His vision is now been carried forward by his six sons, each dedicated to carry forward a specialized task, yet collectively achieve the core objective of brand growth.
Over almost four decades, the company has built a solid foundation of pioneering entrepreneurial vigor, creating some of the best and most exclusive fragrances, which have established a worldwide reputation for quality, luxury and elegance. Today, Rasasi ranks amongst the UAE’s foremost fragrance companies, driven by global vision. Rasasi’s Oriental and Occidental perfume lines have found wide acceptance and preference within a wide customer base across the world.
Rasasi pioneered the concept of exclusive and dedicated mono brand fragrance store; right after its establishment- an initiative which became a widely emulated trend in the regional perfume retail industry. Strategically located right in the heart of Dubai, the store showcased a profound range of merchandise, ambience and a distinctive level of service.
Another unprecedented milestone was the insurmountable success of its maiden label 'Blue Lady' – the flag bearer of the Rasasi spirit in the Occidental range of perfumes. Rasasi tasted greater success with the introduction of its Oriental perfumes which found instant acceptance and loyalty within the regional customers along with the recognition of Rasasi as master perfumer.
Elegance, quality, competitiveness and innovation are synonymous with Rasasi. Over the last many decades, Rasasi has remained committed to its raison d’être of creating the finest perfumes that epitomize quality and sophistication, and moreover a fine mastery over the art of blending fragrances. This quest for perfection in scent artistry has spurred the evolution of this small family business with humble beginning, into one of the most modern regional industry leader with a global vision. As a regional industry leader with many firsts to its credit, Rasasi has been at the forefront of growth, innovation and evolution of the regional perfume sector into a modern and aggressively growing industry.
Rasasi’s aggressively growing geographical footprint includes 165 elegantly-designed stores in leading malls and prime market locations across the GCC (UAE, KSA, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar). Rasasi products are exported to more than 60 countries across the globe through a strong distribution network, supported by a 16,000 sqm state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai. An additional 5000 sqm have been added to the production facility in Jebel Ali for Occidental fragrances and allied product lines.
Union (BD) Consumer Ltd. is premium on beautification.
75-76 (3rd Floor) Ring Road,
Adhabar, Mohammadpur,
Tel : +88 02 09115405
info@unionconsumer.com
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About Union
UNION (BD) CONSUMER LTD. was established in 2015. This is a Marketing & Distributing Company Comprising with 50+ experienced and motivated professionals. UNION (BD) CONSUMER LTD. has great development capability and competitiveness in the local distribution market
© 2016 Union (BD) Consumer Ltd.
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Beyond Borders: All you need is love?
tedxlondon
As people all over the world prepare to wish those they love a Happy Valentine’s Day, we look at the stark reality that prevents so many from freely showing their affection.
Today, all over London, teenagers are exchanging shy smiles and giant teddy bears; couples are sharing kisses over candlelit dinners; there are first dates and third dates and sofa dates. Today is a day full of eye-rolling cynics and secret smiles, a day which divides us all into romantics and realists. A chance to show your beloved some special affection or pure commercialism dressed up in flowery font?
In other words, today is Valentine’s Day.
At TEDxLondon, we want to use this Valentine’s Day to put the focus on those who really deserve our attention and compassion; those for whom an expression of love is not just a sweet sentiment, but a brave, radical and dangerous act.
Homosexuality is still illegal in 70 countries, with LGBTQI+ people facing limited protection against discrimination in areas such as employment, housing and health.
In January, activists in Russia reported a new crackdown against LGBTQI+ people in Chechnya, with the Russian LGBT Network believing 40 people to have been imprisoned and two to have died under torture since December 2018. Around the same time, a prominent Nigerian police officer announced to her 125,000 Instagram followers that gay people should “leave the country or face prosecution”.
Even in more progressive parts of the world, LGBTQI+ people face disproportionate persecution and the threat of violence daily, with the recent high-profile attack of Jussie Smollett in Chicago highlighting the very real threat to LGBTQI+ individuals, particularly those of colour.
There is positive progress being made, with strides in LGBTQI+ rights taking place across the world every day, but there is still a long way to go before a love ‘beyond borders’ is not only accepted, but celebrated.
“DID YOU KNOW: A quarter of the world’s population believes that being LGBT should be a crime” – Stonewall
What can you do to support LGBTQI+ communities and spread the love to those who need it this Valentine’s Day? The organisations below are a good place to start:
Free & Equal – United Nations for LBGT Equality
Stonewall – campaigns for the equality of lesbian, gay, bi and trans people across Britain.
UKLGIG – charity promoting equality and dignity for LGBTI people seeking asylum in UK.
Gendered Intelligence – increase understandings of gender diversity.
Further Reading: Love on Top
The secret language of lesbian love
Lesbian couples to be able to register as baby’s parents
Trailblazing HIV doctor passes away aged 44
“Love is love is love is love is love”
Ellen Page is not backing down
Stand with LGBT+ Brazilians
Get your facts straight
Why feminists should support trans rights
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Panel Discussion on Human Rights and HIV/AIDS - 30th Meeting, 31st Regular Session Human Rights Council
11 Mar 2016 - Chair: H.E. Mr. Bertrand de Crombrugghe, VP of the Human Rights Council
Opening statement: Ms. Kate Gilmore, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights
UNAIDS video screening: 15 Years of the AIDS Response 2000 - 2015
Keynote speaker: Dr. Luiz Loures, Deputy Executive Director, Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
Moderator: H.E. Mr. Pedro Afonso Comissário, Permanent Representative of Mozambique to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva
• Ms. Ayu Oktariani, Public Campaign Officer, Indonesia AIDS Coalition
• H.E. Ms. Nana Oye Lithur, Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection of Ghana
• Dr. Jorge Bermudez, Vice-President of Health Production and Innovation, Fiocruz, Ministry of Health of Brazil and member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Access to Medicines
• Dr. Mark Dybul, Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
• Mr. Dainius Puras, Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
Ms. Kate Gilmore, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights (Introduction)
Mr. Luis Loures, Deputy Executive Director, UNAIDS (Introduction)
Mr. Pedro Afonso Comissário, Moderator, Permanent Representative of Mozambique (Introduction)
Ms. Ayu Oktariani, Public Campaign Officer, Indonesia AIDS Coalition (Introduction)
Ms. Nana Oye Lithur, Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection of Ghana (Introduction)
Mr. Jorge Bermudez, Vice-President of Health Production and Innovation, Fiocruz, Ministry of Health of Brazil and member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Access to Medicines (Introduction)
Mr. Mark Dybul, Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Introduction)
Mr. Dainius Puras, Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health (Introduction)
Brazil (on behalf a group of States), Ms. Regina Maria Cordeiro Dunlop
Pakistan (on behalf OIC), Mr. Afaq Ahmad
Dominican Republic (on behalf of CELAC), Ms. Katherine Urbaez
Kuwait (on behalf of Arab Group), Mr. Saad Ama Almehaini
European Union, Ms. Radka Sibille
Portugal (on behalf of CPLP), Ms. Manuela Teixeira Pinto
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Ms. Ginelle Adams
Egypt, Mr. Amr Essameldin Sadek Ahmed
Poland, Mr. Jerzy Baurski
Colombia, Ms. Beatriz Londoño Soto
Morocco, Mr. Ahmed Amine Bahnini
India, Mr. Vishnu Reddy
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (Joint statement), Ms. Tamar Gabelnica
Center for Reproductive Rights, Inc., Ms. Rebecca Brown
International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA), Ms. Geneviève Sander
United States of America, Ms. Amanda Wall
World Food Programme, Ms. Fatiha Terki
ILO, Ms. Alice Ouédraogo
Chile, Mr. Jaime Moscoso
Denmark, Ms. Marie-Louise Wegter
Estonia, Ms. Kertu Tenso
Saint Kitts and Nevis, Ms. Thouvia France
Namibia, Ms. Sevelina Etuna Ashipala
El Salvador, Mr. Joaquín Alexander Maza Martelli
Switzerland, Ms. Dimka Stanchev Skeie
Monaco, Ms. Carole Lanteri
International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Mr. David Luis Villafranca
World Young Women's Christian Association, Ms. Sophia Pierre-Antoine
Action Canada for Population and Development, Ms. Trish Dzingirai
Iran (Islamic Republic of), Ms. Zahra Ershadi
Malawi, Mr. Ernest M. Makawa
Panama, Mr. Jorge F. Corrales Hidalgo
Australia, Ms. Lynette Mollay
Austria, Mr. Karl Prummer
Ecuador, Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés
Uruguay, Ms. Cristina González González
Cuba, Ms. Belkis Romeu
Deputy Executive Director, UNAIDS, Mr. Luis Loures
Mr. Dainius Puras, Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health (Final Remarks)
Mr. Mark Dybul, Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Final Remarks)
Mr. Jorge Bermudez, Vice-President of Health Production and Innovation, Fiocruz, Ministry of Health of Brazil and member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Access to Medicines (Final Remarks)
Ms. Nana Oye Lithur, Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection of Ghana (Final Remarks)
Ms. Ayu Oktariani, Public Campaign Officer, Indonesia AIDS Coalition (Final Remarks)
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