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Super Dragon Ball Heroes World Mission (Switch) Review
Japanese arcade gaming on the go.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/review/50434/super-dragon-ball-heroes-world-mission-switch-review
For a card game based on a Japanese arcade game that’s nearly a decade old, Super Dragon Ball Heroes World Mission is a big game. It’s got an Arcade mode, a fully-featured Story Mode, and other such challenges that offer dozens and dozens of playtime when put together. A big Dragon Ball game is usually something worthy of applause, and while that’s mostly true in this case, there are some things worth knowing before making a commitment.
Because it’s fully-featured but built out of an arcade game, the gameplay is fairly simplistic. You choose up to seven fighters to face your opponent’s up-to-seven fighters, and unlike many other card games, all of your cards are “on the field” at the same time. The way it works is that you have all of your fighters on the field, and they can either be at the front of the pack, in the middle of the pack, in the back of the pack, or resting. Being at the back of the pack means that your attacks hit less hard, but you spend less stamina. Being at the front of the pack means that you are hitting harder, but it drains your limited stamina quickly.
Over the course of five rounds, the object of the game is to reduce your opponent’s HP to 0. Each card has a number of special attacks and abilities that activate under certain conditions, like it being a Round 2 or having enough Hero Energy (a resource that builds the more aggressive you get). The gameplay strategy is knowing when to be aggressive and when to back off to allow your cards to recharge.
It’s also worth knowing that the gameplay here is more passive. While there is a ton of fanservice, with over 1,000 cards (not counting the crazy cool mode where you can create your own cards) based on DB characters and forms, characters exclusive to Heroes, and versions of heroes not seen in the original manga and anime (SSJ4 Gohan anyone?), this is no fighting game. You set up your field of fighters, and the round plays itself out. There are sometimes little minigames where you charge up a super attack by rubbing the screen (in handheld mode) or making controller inputs, but for the most part, it’s setting up your field and watching fights play out. It’s fun building a team with two Jirens, a Frieza, and an Ultra Instinct Goku and watching them fight characters like Cell and Super Saiyan Blue Vegeta, but it can also get repetitive once you find a team you like and see a lot of the same battles play out).
For Story (which is fine and involves a plot where Dragon Ball Heroes characters show up in the real world), I’ve been using my same team, with the same strategies, winning in three rounds or less, which made the early part of the game a slog. It does get a bit more challenging with time, but if you want the hard battles, you need to go to the Arcade mode, which features a number of arcs (some are original to Dragon Ball Heroes; some are versions of actual DB canon), a few more challenging levels, and fun-yet-hard boss battles.
Overall, I’d say I like World Mission as a fun game to pick up once in a while, watch DB characters beat each other up, and enjoy a Japanese arcade experience on the go. For longer play sessions, the game can sometimes dip into monotony, but as far as fanservice-powered Dragon Ball spin-offs go, you could do a lot worse.
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Wednesday night I was in a familiar space, but with a different role. After parking in the OES upper lot, I walked down SPARC hill with my 2nd grade daughter Rhiannon. We were early, but the tennis courts already had dozens of Aardvarks dribbling basketballs. Rhiannon sprinted away after seeing her teammates, leaving me standing with the rest of the parents. Since Cindy McEnroe retired last spring, it was up to Missy Smith to calm everyone down. Each team gathered in a small circle and the coaches started the practice with several mindfulness activities. Nine circles of lower schoolers, nine teams, all led by parent volunteer coaches. I remember Year 1. Mindfulness? Not really. The first practice felt more like organized chaos. This year, Year 5, things ran smoothly thanks to Missy's leadership and so many veteran coaching volunteers. As I watched the 2nd grade girls start their dribbling exercises I was grateful for the three parent coaches that were patiently working with the 13 future WNBA stars. Two coaches were back from last season and they had added a rookie. The three of them made sure each player was hearing her name. Before you could say Double Dribble the hour was up and SPARC emptied out. As we walked back up the hill Rhiannon was re-sharing every detail of the practice. Her energy was off the charts.
HS basketball had the week off. It was ideal timing as our student-athletes prepare for finals next week . Coaches continued to remind their players to use the down time to prepare. Similar to an athletic season, the work has to be done ahead of time. You can't cram everything you need to get done at the last second and expect to be successful. Next week basketball and dryland training will be the healthy escape for many of our students as they spend Tuesday through Friday demonstrating what they have learned during the first semester.
The Ski Team will head out again this Friday. Last weekend the race was cancelled due to high winds. The stormy conditions were a bummer, but they also dropped a lot of snow to set up the rest of the season. The Ski Team is excited to defend their Metro Championship this Saturday!
The Athletic Department is slowly packing up the gym. In March construction for the new Athletic Center will start. We are packing up closets and preparing for 15 months of construction. Everyone in Fariss Hall is going to need to be flexible. Peter Kraft stepped up to model this. Lower School PE will move into his office. We will rely on the Fariss Hall Conference Room and Movement Room for changing spaces for our student-athletes. The AD office will also be used for a changing room along with storage.
You will not hear any complaints from us though. This new building will be the community space that we have needed for a very long time. All three divisions will live there on a daily basis. We can't wait!
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I am guilty of it just like everyone else. You watch a game and you are ready to make predictions with the same certainty of the sports show hosts. "No way are we going to win a game this year!" "Get to the store and buy the champagne, we are destined for a championship!" There is no sport at OES that has to deal with immediate responses more than basketball. No one watches the first cross country meet and declares that this squad will not get faster! I have never heard a tennis parent make declarations in March before Coach Davis or Coach Collie can work their magic. But basketball is a little different. There is no sport that allows the fan in as much. We almost sit on the bench with the team. The players are feet away and we can see every grimace, smile, or cold stare. We can transcribe what the coaches say in the huddle. It is also a really simple game, right?
Not at all. As I walk around SPARC or the gym I am reminded on a daily basis how much work the student-athletes put in. It doesn't matter if it is 6th grade girls or Varsity boys. The coaches continue to teach knowing that the best way for someone to grow as a player is to fail first. It is no different in math class. I sometimes imagine the parents sitting in the bleachers with Karen Seder or Gabe Edge teaching their children in front of them. "What is she doing calling on Billy? There is no way he is ready to answer this question!" It doesn't matter that Billy's parents are close enough to hear. "Why would Susie give Jill the white board pen instead of writing the answer herself?!" We need this answer!"
I remember our MS boys B coach, Ray Kellstrom drawing up the end of the game play during a timeout. OES was down 1. The team broke the huddle and the four boys hustled to their spots on the floor with purpose and focus. The boy who was passing the ball inbounds received it from the referee. He slapped the ball and yelled, "Break!" just like Ray told him. The other four boys orchestrated the play perfectly. And then the young man holding the ball passed it directly to the other team. Ray had the opportunity a week later to do the same thing. Again he gave the same young man the job of passing the ball inbounds. Again, the same thing happened. I walked over to Ray after the game and told him how much I appreciated how he handled the situation. "Ray, that young man may never get that chance again to be responsible for a big play. Thanks for giving him another chance." Ray looked at me and said, "Oh, he is going to get another chance." For the final game of the year the hoopster made the correct pass and the boys won.
I hope everyone makes it to a game early in the season. I wish every teacher got to see the first game of their advisee. So often we catch the final game or senior night. But when you get to watch the first one and then you continue with the team, you see the growth. It doesn't mean the team always wins, because the other programs are committed to the same thing, getting better every day.
Girls Varsity remains undefeated after defeating Amity and Rainier at home. They are 5-0 and currently ranked #2 in the state. The boys suffered a tough defeat to Amity 44-42, but rebounded with a home victory over Rainier 56-48. Their record is 2-3.
Lauren H'21 led all scorers against Rainier with 23 points. She hit 7 three-pointers!
Congratulations to junior Charles W on earning All PIL honors for Lincoln HS football. Charles was 1st Team All Utility Back on offense and 2nd Team Defensive Back on defense. #Caardvarks!
We will announce All State soccer and volleyball next week!
Read More about Growth Mindset
Stress levels were high in the AD office as Missy and I went over the injury report. There is nothing more helpless than an athletic director two days before opening night of the basketball season. Everything is scheduled and you are just anxiously waiting to see what the character of the team will be when they step on to the floor. We tried to busy ourselves with spring scheduling, stalking middle school soccer players who haven't returned their jerseys, and reviewing the fall 2020 calendar one more time, but in our minds we stressed about ankle sprains, shin splints and a fever that was running through the Upper School and had hit one of my favorite student-athletes Rachel H'20.
The basketball teams traveled to Salem Academy on Wednesday and Rachel was dressed and ready to lead the girls team. The reason Rachel always stands out to me is I love kids that have great fundamentals. Rachel does all of the little things. Instead swiping at the ball, she moves her feet on defense! Instead of trying to block a shot and fouling, she hustles to the spot and draws a charge. She boxes out her opponent every time there is a shot! On offense she doesn't waste her dribble and although it sometimes seems like she is allergic to shooting the ball, it is often more likely that she sees a teammate that is moving to a better spot, so she throws a bounce pass that would make Pete Carril beam with pride. She sweats the small stuff that no longer gets noticed on Instagram or other self curated highlight shows. She is just a winner that focuses on playing a complete game.
The girls jumped out on Salem Academy. On offense the girls set great shoulder to shoulder screens, and they attacked the boards. You know a team has established its culture when the freshmen get thrown into the first game and you see them doing the hard things also. When Cayton S lost the ball on a breakaway, she didn't hang her head. She sprinted back to the defensive end and was in the right spot to get a steal. Hollis H stepped in at center due to captain Ava C getting in early foul trouble, and Hollis stood tall, she closed out on shooters and she boxed out. And Rachel H? Two days removed from being home in her PJ's with a 102 fever? She played every single minute. She finished with 10 points, 3 rebounds, 1 deflection. But when you watch the film you would see her on every rep doing the little things that lead to the team's 32-20 victory.
The boys struggled during their first game against Salem Academy losing 54-36. The coaches were in the film room early the next day identifying what they need to improve on. After watching both of our teams on film after one game I know there is a lot of basketball left this season. The coaches will continue to stress the importance of taking pride in doing the little things that lead to success.
I am fortunate to be one of the 5th grade boys coaches. We had our first practice on Wednesday and the drills that I was in charge of were all about what I saw from our varsity teams. As I wrapped up my drill on closing out and moving your feet instead of trying to block shots or steal the ball, I huddled up the boys and told them I hope some day they are on this court playing for a league championship. And maybe they will be as good as Rachel H.
Congratulations to Emma W! Emma recently competed in the Pan American Climbing Championship with the USA Climbing Team in Ibarra, Ecuador. After two qualifying rounds and four knockout rounds, Emma brought home the silver medal and two PRs.
Thank you! Sitting in an office all day can really suck the life out of you. That is why Thursday was so amazing. As I sat in front of my computer, alum Stephen London'09 stopped by to donate his old ski racing equipment to the team. I hadn't seen Stephen since 2009 and it was so amazing to reconnect. He shared with me how much skiing, soccer, his teachers and coaches positively affected him and how he had started to coach soccer so he could pass it on. It was like rocket fuel to get back behind the desk and keep working. Our alumni are amazing. They come back to cheer on their former teammates, like Stephen, they donate gear to the program, but more importantly they take the what they learned here at OES and share it with the greater community.
https://www.oes.edu/support-oes/game-changer-campaign/join-the-alumni-challenge
Read More about The Fundamentals
Choose To Lead
For four years of high school I had to walk across a small pedestrian bridge that connected my high school campus to the football practice field. Before you could cross over Saddle Brook River to practice you saw the same words painted on the pavement, "Choose To Lead." Every year Coach Johnson freshly painted those words in white paint so that they popped off the grey pavement.
Five years ago Missy Smith chose to lead. After hearing multiple times from colleagues from around the state that no one was doing anything to help develop the leadership skills of Oregon female student-athletes, she announced she would create a program. This weekend will be the 4th Oregon Girls Sports Leadership Summit. Over six hundred young women from all over Oregon will arrive on campus to develop new skills, attend workshops, network, and listen to other women share their stories of discovering and developing their leadership skills. It is an amazing day and our OES student-athletes not only attend but lead discussions and break out activities. How often do you hear people talk about developing leaders, but can't explain how they do it? Missy created an event that provides the instruction, mentorship, and inspiration but most importantly provides hands-on experience for a female student-athlete to develop her leadership voice. To learn more about this amazing event check out the information online: https://www.oes.edu/athletics/girls-leadership-summit
Last Saturday our girls and boys soccer teams competed in the OSAA State Championship game. The girls loss 2-1 to Catlin and our boys fell 3-1 to Catlin also. It was a special day. There were so many moments that filled me with pride. Watching Sophie C play her final HS match after fracturing her knee earlier this season, attending the Tailgate Crew's parking lot party between matches and seeing a senior class focused on celebrating their classmates' achievements, watching both teams handle defeat with such character and respect. Congratulations to Catlin Gabel on their championship seasons. Thank you to our student-athletes for doing such an amazing job representing OES. Seniors thank you for four inspiring years of fall sports.
Sko Varks!
More photos from the Championships: https://holloran.smugmug.com/School/State-Finals-Soccer-Games/ and https://jimfitzhenry.smugmug.com/2019-Boys-Varsity-Soccer/State-Championship-Game-v-Catlin-Gable and https://jimfitzhenry.smugmug.com/2019-Boys-Varsity-Soccer/Girls-State-Championship-Game-v-Catlin-Gable
Thank you to John Holloran, Kate Lieber, Donna Morrow and Jim Fitzhenry for taking photos this fall! Thank you to Todd Mansfield for broadcasting soccer matches on Mixlr. Thank you to all of our team parents who helped organize team dinners, extra snacks for road trips, and everything else that makes the season so special! Lastly, thank you to our bus drivers for getting the student-athletes to and from events safely.
Congratulations to 8th graders, Mia G and Jackson R for competing at the USATF Oregon Association Junior Olympics Championships on Saturday. Moving from a 3,000M to a 4K both 8th graders had exceptional performances. Jackson finished 35th and Mia finished 24th. Mia's younger brother Mateo(4th grade) entered for his age division and finished 11th. Way to go Aardvarks!
Alex Slusher'19 spent last weekend in Columbus, Ohio with the U-19 USA mens lacrosse team. Team USA had two scrimmages and then they had to cut their roster down from 32 to 26. Alex served as captain for the second scrimmage and made the latest round of cuts. The next training session will be in January in San Antonio for Team USA. Alex is currently a freshman at Princeton University and will play lacrosse for the Tigers this spring.
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The Final Match of the Season and Observations from an Epic Road Trip!
The Final Match
They have done it again. Our boys and girls varsity soccer teams will play in the State Championships tomorrow at Liberty HS. The girls kick-off at 10:30am and the boys follow at 1:00PM. I went back to see what the last 10 years have looked like. Our boys have made it to the final game 5 times during that span. Seven different Oregon programs have made it to the championship since 2010 with five different champions. The OES girls soccer team have played in the final game 9 years in a row. That is a staggering accomplishment. They have the opportunity to win their 8th state championship in a row!
At the same time I never plan to take it for granted. Their success comes from hard work, commitment, and sacrifice. As soon as our student-athletes assume they are entitled to make it to this day is when it all falls apart. It is going to be great weather for soccer. Be sure to join us to cheer on the Aardvarks as both teams face Catlin Gabel. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students/seniors.
Tuesday Road Trip!
Sometimes being a teacher, a coach, and definitely an athletic director can make you feel like you are doing the same thing over and over again. Missy and I talk about the Groundhog Day feeling. If you do not know what I am referring to then you need to watch the Bill Murray film, Groundhog Day. It was filmed in my wife’s hometown of Woodstock, Illinois and it is about a weather broadcaster who wakes up every morning doomed to live the same day over again. The same people say the same thing. The same events happen at the same time. At first Bill Murray spends the first half of the film feeling trapped and bored. But as the movie progresses, he starts to see the amazing opportunities that present themselves, and each time he wakes up to the same Sonny and Cher song on his clock radio he does his best to embrace the day with a renewed positivity. It sounds hokey, but when I woke up to my alarm, “Doctor My Eyes” covered by the Jackson 5, I told myself I needed that same positivity as Bill Murray. The road trip to Medford and back can seem long, but there is no guarantee that I am going to have another one. I also know that this is the only one I get with this team. So I figured I would keep my laptop open and I would try to write down the magical moments. Driving south on I-5 I experienced a Groundhog Day moment. One year ago to the day I was in the same seat on a Charter Bus heading south to Medford with the girls varsity soccer team. He tries to see all of the beautiful things that happen and connect with each person. He strives to make the day better for everyone else which makes his experience better.
Below are my notes:
We are four hours from Medford. The girls are relaxing as best as they can and their laughter is infectious. It is the kind of laughter that I don’t hear at OES when I eat with colleagues or talk with parents. It is pure joy. No one is telling jokes. They are jut sharing daily stories and retelling past adventures. It is just teammates, friends excited to be with each other, finding joy in their shared experiences. I don’t think I paid attention to this part of the trip last season. I was focused on answering emails and prepping basketball practice schedules. I was so focused on the logistics of the event I didn’t realize the power of the journey.
Oregon is a big state. The girls continue to laugh and tell stories. Some move seats to retell or share something specific, but mostly the stories are for everyone. No one is wearing headphones now. We are still a ways away, but the music is started to play a little louder. Does any parent like their child’s music?
I just got a text from a ’19 OES parent. “One year ago today! Go ‘varks!” She let me know how much she misses being on the sideline cheering with other families, team dinners, watching her daughter compete. I remember how much my own dad and mom were a little lost after I was done playing. I had moved to California to teach and they didn’t have something on the calendar for every Saturday of the spring season. When I returned to NJ to coach football and lacrosse, my dad was always in the stands. Upon surveying the bus I notice the only ones with their laptops open are the seniors. They are working on the essays and applications that will help them find their next adventure.
Head Coach Justan Wolvert has the game film on in the seat behind me. Every once in a while he will call one of the girls up to his seat. He will show them 5 seconds of a St Mary’s film. Those five seconds are magic. He uses the film to affirm what our OES athlete does well, or he points out an opportunity to try something new. He never belittles the opponent. He always makes it about the OES player and why they are going to be successful. He quietly builds the confidence of each player one at a time. It is masterful how he does it.
This team has experienced adversity. There are several girls who won’t be able to dress today. But I wouldn’t be able to tell you which ones by how they are acting. They are all in. That is obvious. When I first got to OES in 2004 I had a student-athlete tell me that he wasn’t going to come to practice because it was his second sport. He had club soccer and that was his top sport. I told him to quit. If he wasn’t going to commit to his teammates, he didn’t deserve a spot on the roster. It upset a lot of my colleagues. They told me we had a no-cut program. I told them that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have responsibilities to his team. Our girls soccer program doesn’t have any issues about girls understanding that they are accountable to each other. For the last 17 years I have watched leaders like Molly Nakayama'90, Alyssa Gregg'95 Ashley Berman'96, Amy Green'96, Annie Warner'98, Jessica Tsao'05, Carling Leon'09 Hannah Dugoni'12, Hannah Huston'13, Catherine Leon’15 Carolyn Ruoff’15 Mikaleah McKinney-Griggs”16, Ruby Aaron'18, Annika Lovestrand'18, Megan Ruoff'18, Stephanie Finley'19, Joanna Cloutier'19 and countless others ensure that the team holds itself accountable on and off the field. Our captains this year, Sophie and Harper, have continued this commitment to accountability, hard work, and selflessness.
Lunch time! There are blue skies at the rest stop. It is time to fuel. The girls gather at two picnic tables and eat everything from bacon to salad rolls. For the fast eaters, boredom leads to dance sessions. We are two hours from game time and the texts from last year’s seniors start to roll in. Joanna, Maya, Olivia, etc. The class of 2019 lets the current squad know that they are with them both figuratively and digitally. The NFHS network will be streaming in New Hampshire, Maine, California, and Oregon and our college Aardvarks will be watching this year’s rematch with St Mary’s in the semifinals. Our college freshmen have already learned that there is nothing like high school sports. Maybe it is due to the distance from home, or the added independence, or some other reason, but college athletics are not the same. One more hour until we arrive. Back to the bus.
At exit 66 I realize that we are still in Oregon, but this doesn’t look at all like Portland. There is no time for a side trip to Hugo or the Pottsville Museum. Four hours in a bus where I grew up meant you were either in Vermont or Virginia.
Our three freshmen mix up with all of the classes and they separate and return to each other more because they enjoy each other rather than security. They aren’t really freshmen anymore. They are playing in the semifinals of a state tournament. They are critical to the team’s success and they are treated accordingly. It is unique to OES and their experience will shape how they treat next year’s freshmen.
I turn on Todd Mansfield’s broadcast of the boy’s game and the entire bus hangs on his play by play call. Olivia finds the live stream on FACEBOOK, but we decide to rely on Todd’s commentary. We pull in to the field complex and as the girls change and set up their bench area they listen intently on their phones. It is great to see the girls and the boys support each other. Both programs support each other and make the effort to attend each other's games.
With only minutes until the National Anthem and introductions, a group of parents arrive. They let me know they went to the school instead of the game location. I remind them the game location is on the website. Another set of parents arrive and say the same thing. 5 minutes into the game another two parents arrive. Same story. I realize that our website may suck.
The girls begin the game with amazing energy. They line up passes and senior Zoe S fires a rocket to make it OES 1 St Mary’s 0! The dozen Aardvark fans erupt. At the 15 minute mark it hits. All of a sudden we look like we drove 5 hours before the game. The girls continue to make plays, but they look tired. St Mary’s doesn’t adjust and they continue to keep 9 back with the goalie and hope they can create something in transition. The first half ends and the parents shift uncomfortably. OES has dominated possession, and St Mary’s seems content to sit back on defense. But will we have enough in the tank to win this match?
In the second half OES continues to dominate possession, but St Mary’s doesn’t allow the girls to create easy opportunities. Our girls remain poised, but then it happens. The counter attack! St Mary’s transitions to offense. They have the uneven match-up. OES goalie Izzy comes out to confront the attacker who deftly lobs it over her head. The St Mary’s fans begin to scream and the OES fans bellow, “No!” when Grace A'21 sprints in from the backside wing and makes a sliding kick at the goal line to clear the ball away.
OES earns the 1-0 victory. They are going back to the State Championship for the 9th year in a row. It is In and Out time. Burgers and milkshakes, music, and retelling of Grace’s play, Zoe’s goal and countless other moments in the game.
Finally we get on the bus and head north on I-5. Ice packs are handed out. When you play for this long, the body takes a beating. Lights go on and off, but the conversations and the laughter continue steadily for the final 5 hours. It is the final road trip of the season and it seems the girls don’t want to waste a minute of their time together. I am so grateful that I was able to watch the day unfold.
Our two soccer teams will not be the only OES competitors tomorrow. Good luck to 8th graders Mia G and Jackson R as they compete at the USATF-Oregon Junior Olympic Meet at Western Oregon University.
High school basketball and ski racing season begins Monday. Girls basketball will be in the gym and the boys will start in SPARC. Dryland training will meet in the weight room. The best part of playing in the final game is not having to wait around before the next season begins.
Read More about The Final Match of the Season and Observations from an Epic Road Trip!
All District, Soccer Quarterfinals, and MS Success!
Last Friday rocked! It was a cold beautiful autumn day. I had Quinn and Rhiannon in the back seat heading to Tualatin High School for the XC Districts. Our boys and girls ran their final race of the season. Congratulations to our seniors, Ashok and Asa. The only thing more inspiring than watching a student-athlete run as hard as they can for 5KM, is to see their genuine excitement for their teammate's success. The entire running community is racing the clock and collectively they are all focused on racing their best race.
All League and All District teams have been announced:
Volleyball All League
Lewis and Clark Player of the Year
Maxine Matheson-Lieber
1st Team All Lewis and Clark
Ava Casalino
2nd Team All Lewis and Clark
Cayton Smith
Paige Morrow
Becca Perry
Girls Soccer All District
1st Team All Special District 1
Olivia McCoog
Nadia Schwartz
Olivia Faucera
Wylly Wilmott
2nd Team All Special District 1
Grace Armstrong
Honorable Mention All Special District 1
Macy O'Hara
Zoe Strothkamp
Maggie Bankowski
Bella Kellogg
Izzy Ponce
Boys Soccer All Special District 1
Mason Lee
Jonah Song
James Lawliss
Kennedy Balandi
Connor Mansfield
Congratulations to 8th graders Jackson R and Mia G!
8th graders Mia G and Jackson R extended their XC season and raced in the PDXC State Meet at Western Oregon University! Over 500 runners raced. Mia finished 75th in the Girls Super Champ Division and Jackson finished 48th for the boys Super Champs Division.
This weekend boys and girls varsity soccer host state quarterfinal matches!
OES boys soccer vs Riverside 2:00PM on the turf
OES girls soccer vs Blanchet Catholic 5:30PM on the turf
Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for studenta and seniors. OES athletics will cover the admission for all OES students and OES employees!
One more time! OES MS Girls Soccer celebrate after winning the MS Championships last Wednesday! Congratulations girls and thank you Coach James and Coach Malia!
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Senior Night means things are wrapping up for the fall!
Senior Night is always a special evening for our student-athletes and their families. It doesn't mean the season is over, but we take the time to make sure we show our appreciation for the commitment and sacrifice seniors and their families have made. For the parents it means they won't be standing on the sidelines in the rain or sitting on wooden bleachers for extended periods of time. That is a good thing, but it also means that their child is getting closer to leaving for college and there won't be a reason on weekday nights to gather with their friends and fellow parents to cheer on the Aardvarks. For the seniors it means that the playoffs are near and their is a greater sense of urgency to soak up the fun and friendship while maximizing the effort and preparation. Each victory means your high school career lasts a little longer and more importantly, you get to spend more time with your teammates.
Congratulations to our MS Programs! Wednesday was a busy day for our MS teams. Volleyball lost in 3 sets to Corbett MS in the semifinals. The MS Boys Green Soccer lost to Southwest Christian 1-0. The only goal was a penalty kick awarded to the other team in the early minutes. MS Boys Central controlled possession and had multiple opportunities, but loss to Catlin 1-0. And MS Girls soccer won 3-0. Ending on a loss is always tougher than finishing on a win. No one wants to pose for that team photo after losing while the winning team never wants to leave the field. But we are proud of all of our MS fall sports teams! They did an amazing job representing OES to the greater community. They demonstrated class and poise in victory and defeat all season long.
MS Girls pose after winning the MCL Championship by defeating Riverdale 3-0.
OSAA Playoffs!
OES Volleyball at South Umpqua 3PM Saturday November 2
Pack the van and head south to support our girls volleyball players as they take on South Umpqua in the first round of the State Playoffs! Tickets $8 for adults $5 for students. Go Varks!
Good luck Cross Country! Our boys and girls cross country teams head to Tualatin High School this afternoon for the District Championships! The girls race is 3:25 PM. Boys run at 4:05PM.
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Rocket Fuel for the Soul
The coaches, players, students and parents can get caught up in the moment, but the Athletic Director is supposed to remain objective. It can be hard. Especially when the game is on the line. I remember the exact moment the above picture was taken. OES was playing inspired basketball against our rival and we were set to win. Instead of cheering and focusing on the student-athletes I was watching a group of lower schoolers who were getting too close to the court. As I continue to serve in this role I know that many of my evenings are going to look like this. Even though I maintain my poker face, the best part of my job is getting to watch OES student-athletes experience moments that they will hold on to for the rest of their lives.
Here is a list of a few magic moments from the past week:
Last Friday I hustled over to Southwest Christian for the MS Cross Country District Meet. Jon, Kiah, and Ben do an amazing job coaching our MS cross country team. This year we had more lower schoolers join this team than ever before. At first I was opposed to the idea, but then I had the chance to watch our 8th graders leading this group. Jackson, Mia and Sean were amazing. They were patient with their younger teammates and they made everyone feel like they were important. Before the big race the XC team was having so much fun being together. They were laughing and encouraging each other. It was so great to see student-athletes from five different grade levels supporting each other. I wish faculty meetings were this positive.
During the boys race Jackson R'24 came out of the woods in the lead. On his heels was his rival from St Stephens. It was going to be a dramatic finish. Jackson had the lead and he was emptying the tank. As he headed toward the final 100M I was a wreck. Sitting in front of a computer scheduling basketball seasons doesn't teach me anything about myself, but right in front of me I was watching a young man figure out his own limits and then stretch beyond. At the finish line Jackson was just edged out by the other runner. It was heart breaking and beautiful at the same time because Jackson had not won the race, yet he had run his best race of the season. Then Jackson who was just as wobbly as the other runner, put out his hand and congratulated the winner. It was so classy.
The next evening I got to watch the MS Boys Green Soccer Team return from their match. Down 4-1 with fifteen minutes left, the team had rallied to score 4 goals in the final fifteen minutes. The joy these boys showed was infectious! Each an everyone of them was talking a million miles per minute sharing each detail of the game. Peter M'25 summed it up best, "That is why you never stop competing until the final whistle."
We had two senior nights where I had to start processing that another class is going to be leaving in June. Families that I have seen on a daily basis for 4-14 years will be gone. Our girls volleyball team thanked Aim, Maxine, Paige and Ava while the boys soccer program celebrated Cameron, Matthew, Daniel, Andre, Oliver, Hugh, John, Kennedy, Jonah, Alex, and Mason.
I watched Milo, Matthew, Ethan and other seniors organize and host a BBQ to make sure our Thursday soccer and our girls league playoff matches would have a well-fed crowd of students to support the Aardvarks. It was a difference maker and their leadership is appreciated.
It is back to the desk and the computer, but we have girls soccer senior night and MS soccer and volleyball playoffs next week. I know that those events will fuel my soul enough to make it easier to be in the office.
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Why No Cut?
It happens every season, but it still catches us by surprise. We are entering the final weeks of the fall season. US Volleyball finished #2 in the Lewis and Clark League and will host the first round of the league playoffs next Tuesday. Cross country heads to Warner Pacific tomorrow and then sets their sights on the District Championship November 1. Both soccer teams will close out the regular seasons over the next two weeks and both are heading to the postseason. While our varsity teams are focused on the second season, our JV programs are wrapping up. OES has a no cut program, so there is a spot for every student who is committed to the team. Many of our underclassmen on the JV teams aspire to make varsity. As the season wraps they renew their goals for next year. Next August they will be on varsity! However, we have numerous seniors that play on our JV teams. If they were at other schools their high school athletic careers would have ended earlier, but at OES they are still playing the games they love to play.
Some seniors also take the risk of trying a new sport during their final school year at OES. This is the case for Aim Poonbunkhong. Aim is a senior residential student who came out for volleyball in September. On Tuesday like every other senior volleyball player she was honored. As Missy read each player's favorite memories, big matches stood out. For Aim, her favorite memory was a bit different. Her answer was, "During the Homecoming JV game against De La Salle, I set the ball to my teammate and we scored the first point of the match. I was so happy that day because it was the first point of the game and I helped earn it. I was so excited I had to call my parents in Thailand to tell them what I had accomplished. Thank you, everyone, on my team!" The entire JV team was cheering her on as she was honored. I love championships and dramatic wins and losses, but these are the moments that always inspire the Athletic Department to step up their game.
Congrats Aim and all of our seniors as you finish up the fall season.
Important Games and Matches
Friday 10/18 . OES MS Boys Blue Soccer vs OES MS Boys Green Soccer We have three boys teams. The Central team plays in a different league. These two compete in the same league and this game always brings out their best. This is a great opportunity to see 2/3 of our boys MS soccer players battle against their best friends.
Tuesday 10/22 6PM . #2 OES Varsity Volleyball hosts the opening round of the Lewis and Clark League Playoffs. $6 for adults $3 for students. OES will cover the costs of all OES employees and students.
Thursday 10/24 6:15PM OES Boys Varsity Soccer hosts Westside Christian on Senior Night Come celebrate the 10 seniors as they play their final regular season game at OES.
Tuesday 10/29 6:15PM OES Girls Varsity Soccer hosts Portland Christian on Senior Night. Come celebrate the 6 seniors as they play their final regular season game at OES.
Friday November 1 3:30PM OES Cross Country Sneak out of work early and meet me at Tualatin HS for the XC District Championships! This is always an amazing event.
Good luck to our Alumni!
Good luck to Grace McGee'15 tonight as Connecticut College Women's Volleyball host the Coast Guard Academy!
Good luck to Jack Casalino as he and the Vassar XC team visit Connecticut College for the CC Invite. Be sure to say hi to Grace!
Good luck to Alex Slusher'19 this weekend at the American Boy Fall Brawl in Virginia where Princeton will face Colgate and Notre Dame.
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October-Time to work!
The beginning of school is so wonderful. Everyone is ready to make this year the best one yet. Outfits are planned, folders are organized, alarms are set so the teachers, students and coaches are all ready to take on the world. But it is now October. The newness of the school year or the season starts to wan. That first day of school outfit is replaced by gym shorts or leggings. The perfectly organized folder starts to resemble the junk drawer in the kitchen. Waking up is tougher. The darkness of the autumn morning makes it harder, but so does having to stay up late to study for that Economics test or that Physics quiz. Everyone likes to talk about grit and resilience. October is the month where our student-athletes will show their grit and resilience. How do they handle the academic and athletic workload over the next three weeks?
We ended September with Homecoming. Thank you to Homecoming Chair Tricia Edwards and all the parent volunteers for organizing an amazing evening. The food was delicious and our teams battled on the turf and the wood court. I loved the parade and seeing the joy of the lower schoolers marching with their older classmates. Check out some amazing photos from the morning Pep Rally and the evening taken by US teacher John Holloran.
Boys Soccer travels to Catlin Gabel tonight for their second meeting. After losing to Catlin last Friday 3-0, they defeated Portland Christian 10-0 on Tuesday.
Girls Soccer also travels to Catlin Gabel. They hope to win tonight's rematch after losing 2-0 last Friday.
Girls Volleyball defeated De La Salle North 3-0 last Friday. On Tuesday they went on the road and defeated #5 Horizon Christian 3-0 putting them in first place in the Lewis and Clark League. On Thursday they won again in three sets against Riverdale. The girls travel to Cresswell this weekend for their final non league tournament and then face Rainier and Catlin Gabel on the road next week.
Cross Country travels to Joe Danner Park for the Flat and Fast Invitational tonight.
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Ann Arbor Michigan – September 17, 2018. The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) Board of Directors is pleased to announce Lisa Strama will become the fifth NCMS President and CEO of this 32-year organization created by Executive Order to assist U.S. manufacturing. Lisa will succeed Rick Jarman who has led NCMS to an exciting period of sustainable growth and “we expect Lisa’s leadership to enhance our role in building and strengthening US manufacturing” said Courtney Hill, NCMS Chairman of the Board.
Lisa joined the NCMS in May 2016 to serve as a Director on the NCMS Board. Announcing Lisa’s new role, Courtney Hill, NCMS Chairman of the Board, noted, “Lisa is eminently qualified to follow in Rick’s footsteps as the new NCMS President and CEO. Among her many accomplishments in industry, Lisa brings broad and diverse leadership experience for a wide variety of functional roles. Her leadership and experience have fostered extensive business transformation in manufacturing.”
Prior to joining NCMS, Lisa was the Senior Director of Business Development for Aerospace and Defense for Siemens’ PLM Software. In this role, she represented the global Aerospace and Defense industry and was responsible for providing integrated product and application lifecycle management solutions, strategy and execution leadership. Prior to joining Siemens, Lisa was a senior director for a Fortune 500 global security company where she provided leadership and strategic direction and execution for an affordable, enterprise-wide, integrated and common engineering environment. She served as a director for manufacturing operations, where she grew and led a portfolio worth more than $1 billion in manufacturing sales for highly technical and complex products.
Announcing his retirement plan to NCMS’s staff, Rick stated that, “he is proud of the continuous collaboration and innovation achieved by NCMS during his tenure”. Rick will remain actively engaged with NCMS as a senior advisor to Lisa providing executive transition support in the coming months. NCMS staff, members and partners are grateful for Rick’s leadership and wish Rick the very best.
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Terror Raid: Who Was the Female Suicide Bomber?
Published at 5:20 pm on November 19, 2015
The woman who blew herself up during an anti-terror police raid outside of Paris has been identified as a Moroccan immigrant named Hasna Aitboulahcen.
French authorities have not publicly identified her but the Associated Press cited three anonymous police officials.
As police raided an apartment building in Saint-Denis to search for suspects responsible for planning the Paris massacre last week, the woman detonated a suicide vest.
The mayor of Creutzwalk, where Aitboulahcen lived for some time, told NBC News her family arrived in the region in 1973 before she was born in 1989. The mayor told the Associated Press that Aitboulahcen and her two brothers and sister spent some time in foster care.
Former neighbors told Reuters she'd been mistreated as a child, renounced Islam, and was seen drinking, smoking and doing drugs.
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In Case You Missed It – Apr 8, 2019
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Have We Stolen A Generation's Independent Thought?
We're teaching students not to think...and standardized tests are part of the problem.
From Peter Greene in Forbes
"Kids these days," the complaint begins. "They cannot think for themselves." The complaint has come across my desk three times this week, voiced by someone in the higher education world complaining about the quality of student arriving in their ivy-covered halls.
It's worth noting that the observation itself has no particular objective, evidence-based support. There's no college student independent thought index we can consult to check for a dip. Just the subjective judgment of some people who work at the college level. So the whole business could simply be the time-honored dismay of an older generation contemplating the younger one.
ALEC STRIKES AGAIN
Bombshell Report About Copycat Legislation Written by ALEC but Adopted by Your State
From Diane Ravitch
ALEC and corporate America are churning out legislation that is introduced in your state under false pretenses as “reform.” Every one of these bills is meant to protect corporations and profiteers, whether in health care or any other industry.
You may have noticed a sudden mushrooming of voucher legislation in state after state. It was not written by your legislators. It was written by the rightwing corporate funded American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC.
Not only is ALEC funded by corporations, it is funded by the DeVos family and the Koch brothers.
Need to learn more about ALEC?
Bill Moyers: The United States of ALEC
United States of ALEC September 28, 2012 Full Show from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.
• ALEC Exposed
• ALEC & Education
INDIANA FOSTER CHILDREN
Indiana foster children are less likely to graduate, more likely to be suspended, a new report shows
It would be nice if on seeing a report like this if our Hoosier legislators would make it a mission to support public schools so that they’d have the resources to support these children. Instead, the General Assembly would rather give to charters and vouchers who don’t have to accept or keep children who need intense support.
From Chalkbeat
Indiana now has its first look at how well the state is educating the 9,000 school-age children in foster care, and the findings are discouraging. Foster children are more likely than their peers to attend underperforming schools, and only 64 percent graduate from high school.
INDIANA TEACHER LICENSING
Indiana could scrap test seen as a barrier to training more teachers of color
Of course we need more teachers of color in Indiana! And we also need a way to vet qualified candidates for teachers. This test just is not it.
A panel of Indiana House lawmakers took steps to get rid of a teacher preparation test that some educators say keeps teachers of color out of the classroom.
The House Education Committee unanimously voted on Wednesday to remove the state requirement that students pass the basic reading, writing, and math skills test known as “CASA” as freshmen or sophomores before they enter college teacher preparation programs. The provision was added to a bill that would change some rules about alternative teacher licenses, which passed the committee unanimously as well.
INDIANA SCHOOL FUNDING FALLS SHORT
Ongoing neglect hits rural schools hardest
From Southwest Allen County Schools Superintendent, Phil Downs, in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
If Indiana is to pursue the noble goal of funding all its children's educations, it should do that. Since the voucher program began in 2011, no additional money has been added to the budget to fund the vouchers, and the program has created a de facto final step in the school funding process which is hurting most communities in Indiana.
Funding falls short on effort, fairness
From School Matters
Indiana’s highest-poverty school districts spend only 65 percent of what’s needed for their students to achieve modest academic success, according to a new education finance report from the Rutgers Graduate School of Education and the Albert Shanker Institute.
Is it because we can’t afford to do better? Not at all. Indiana is near the bottom of the states when it comes to funding “effort,” the percentage of gross state product spent on schools.
It’s more compelling evidence that state legislators should be thinking a lot bigger as they decide how much of the two-year state budget to spend on K-12 education.
State blamed as teacher pay stalls
From the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Most seem to agree that Indiana teachers don't get paid enough.
But the disconnect comes in where the blame lies. Is the legislature not providing enough money? Or are school districts spending too much on administration and too little on teacher salaries?
CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOLS NO HELP
Federal study finds charter middle schools didn’t help students earn college degrees
So why are we allowing our legislators to misuse our tax dollars to support charters?
Attending a sought-after charter middle school didn’t increase a student’s chance of attending or graduating college, a new U.S. Department of Education study showed.
The report, released Monday, also found little connection between charter school quality, as measured by test scores, and college outcomes.
“The overall conclusion that there is little difference between charter schools and non-charter schools is not shocking to me,” said Sarah Cohodes, a professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College. She pointed to prior research showing charters perform comparably to district schools nearby.
A VIRTUAL MESS -- PAID FOR WITH YOUR TAX DOLLARS
Indiana: Virtual School Scams Taxpayers and Students
In every state that has authorized virtual charter schools, these schools are marked by two characteristics:
1. They are very profitable.
2. The “education” they provide is abysmal.
Typically, they have high attrition, low graduation rates, and low scores on state tests. The state fails to monitor them for quality. Students and taxpayers are fleeced.
Some parents say getting help was like ‘pulling teeth’ as troubled Indiana virtual schools grew
Morrice’s portrayal, which he documented in a complaint to the state education department two years ago, lines up with some accusations leveled against the 8-year-old online school and its sister school by its authorizer last month: that thousands of students for whom the schools received millions of dollars in state funding didn’t complete or sign up for classes. The schools say the allegations, which could lead to the revocation of their charters and eventually their closure, are false and based on incomplete information.
Some virtual school students and parents who spoke with Chalkbeat also echoed Morrice’s description of how the school often didn’t give students enough attention, including not returning phone calls and emails. The parents and students said they struggled to get teachers and school staff to communicate, transfer records, provide educational advice, or ensure credits were processed.
INDIANA VOTERS LOSE A VOICE
Hoosiers lose direct say over state school chief
House Bill 1005 was signed by the Indiana Senate president pro tem on April Fool's Day and quickly moved to Gov. Eric Holcomb's desk. With his signature Wednesday, the governor claimed appointment authority for the state superintendent of public instruction.
Holcomb scores a victory for his Next Level Agenda, which called for removing the post from statewide ballots. State Superintendent Jennifer McCormick cleared the way to move up the 2025 appointment date when she announced last October that she would not seek reelection. But she also suggested there were behind-the-scenes efforts to do so regardless of her plans.
Who pushed appointed-superintendent law?
McCormick, a Republican, was elected in 2016 after a campaign in which she received a lot of support from advocates for charter schools and vouchers, including the Chamber of Commerce and, especially, the advocacy group Hoosiers for Quality Education. But the former Yorktown, Indiana, school superintendent turned out to be a forceful and effective advocate for public schools.
You can imagine that some of her backers were disappointed and wanted her out, sooner rather than later.
DEVOS CONTINUES TO DO DAMAGE TO PUBLIC EDUCATION
The Special Olympics funding outcry is over, but it’s been crickets over some of DeVos’s other proposed education budget cuts. Think civics, history, arts...
From the Answer Sheet
The Trump administration has proposed eliminating a $4.8 million program to enhance American civics and history education. It has also called for making these cuts that would eliminate programs:
• $1.2 billion for programs that help boost student academic achievement before and after school and during the summer.
• $190 million to boost literacy instruction from birth to age 20...
• $27 million for arts education programs for children from low-income families and students with disabilities.
• $10 million to boost community schools...
• More than $207 billion over 10 years from student loan programs...
DeVos, Class Size, and the Reformistan Bubble
From Curmudgucation
...The shock and scandal and outrage is not that DeVos would offer up this class size bullshit on the Hill, but that she stands on top of a whole pile of educational amateurs who have been pushing this bullshit for at least a decade, despite the mountain of evidence and the actual teachers who speak against it.
Why I was Shaking My Head at Betsy DeVos
From Living in Dialogue
I can only shake my head in disbelief.
The problem for DeVos is that there is ample research that shows just the opposite – that class size matters very much. My friend Leonie Haimson has worked for years with a group called Class Size Matters, and they provide here a set of studies supporting this..
Another friend, Nancy Flanagan, attributes the source of the idea that larger classes are just fine to every billionaire’s favorite education researcher, Eric Hanushek. Way back in 1998, Hanushek suggested there was no real value in reducing class sizes– using test scores, of course. In 2011, Bill Gates urged policymakers to stop worrying about class size.
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Knoxville, TN (Shannondale / Villa Gardens)
Shannondale / Villa Gardens
About Knoxville, TN (Shannondale / Villa Gardens)
Shannondale / Villa Gardens median real estate price is $270,680, which is more expensive than 81.9% of the neighborhoods in Tennessee and 60.5% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Shannondale / Villa Gardens is currently $1,354, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 75.7% of the neighborhoods in Tennessee.
Shannondale / Villa Gardens is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Shannondale / Villa Gardens real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Shannondale / Villa Gardens neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.
Real estate vacancies in Shannondale / Villa Gardens are 4.9%, which is lower than one will find in 74.8% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Shannondale / Villa Gardens is above average for the U.S., and may signal some demand for either price increases or new construction of residential product for this neighborhood.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Knoxville, the Shannondale / Villa Gardens neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
If you are an executive or professional seeking a neighborhood affording an executive lifestyle, or just wanting to find where other executives live in the area, the Shannondale / Villa Gardens neighborhood should be on your list. It has an enviable mix of spacious homes, relatively stable real estate values, and residents that include a number of wealthy executives, managers, and professionals. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis places it as one of the top 11.9% executive lifestyle neighborhoods in the state of Tennessee. In addition to being an excellent choice for highly educated executives, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for active retirees.
Did you know that the Shannondale / Villa Gardens neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and Haitian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 2.3% have Haitian ancestry.
The neighbors in the Shannondale / Villa Gardens neighborhood in Knoxville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 76.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.6% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 80.0% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the Shannondale / Villa Gardens neighborhood, 54.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 21.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.3%), and 9.0% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Shannondale / Villa Gardens neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the Shannondale / Villa Gardens neighborhood in Knoxville, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.9%), and residents who report English roots (13.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (7.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.6%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in Shannondale / Villa Gardens neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
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Microsoft offers 33% off Dell Inspiron 13 2-in-1 with Intel Kaby Lake processor
By Andy Weir Senior News Editor Neowin @gcaweir · Mar 20, 2017 08:36 EDT with 3 comments
Microsoft is offering a substantial discount on a mid-range Dell 2-in-1 in the United States, slashing a third off its regular price.
From today until March 28, you can get $250 off the Dell Inspiron 13 5378 at the Microsoft Store, reducing its price from $749 to $499. The device comes with one of Intel's newest 7th-generation ('Kaby Lake') processors.
Its key specs include:
13.3-inch LED-backlit touchscreen with Full HD (1920x1080px) resolution
2.50GHz Intel Core i5-7200U processor
802.11ac Wi-Fi with Miracast support
3.5mm headphone/microphone combo port
Precision touchpad
325 x 224 x 19.5mm (20mm at thickest point); 1.54kg
If your budget doesn't stretch quite far enough to get the Inspiron 13, you might be interested in another deal currently available at the Microsoft Store. Until March 28, Microsoft is offering 29% off the ASUS Transformer Mini, a 10.1-inch Windows 10 tablet. It's now available for just $249, which includes a detachable keyboard, pen, and Windows Hello fingerprint recognition.
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Study points to possible targets for therapeutic intervention in the fight against ALS
Scientists at the University of Alberta may have found possible targets for therapeutic interventions in the fight against Lou Gehrig's disease.
Biophysicist Michael Woodside and his research team conducted the first single-molecule study of folding in the protein superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD1), an antioxidant whose misfolding is linked to the neurodegenerative disease ALS. They found that it has much more complex folding than previously thought.
The results suggest an explanation for the protein's propensity to misfold similarly to proteins in prion diseases.
"When we pulled the protein apart, we were expecting its structure to come apart all at once based on what was previously known, but what we found instead was a mess," said Woodside, professor in the U of A's Department of Physics. "But clearer patterns started to emerge after unfolding and refolding it several thousand times. You get a lot more detail working at this single-molecule scale, and it allows us to start piecing the whole picture together."
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Best known for his work on prion diseases such as mad cow disease and the associated human form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob, Woodside said he and his colleagues were drawn to the problem based on the protein's prion-like characteristics, noting that the behavior in the misfolding is reminiscent of mad cow disease.
Woodside used similar techniques from his previous work to better understand SOD1, using laser tweezers to measure the unfolding and refolding of single molecules.
He explained that there was a stable core of the protein that was the last to unfold and the first to refold.
"What we are finding is that when it folds up to an incorrect state, it actually always starts off making the same stable core that you find when it goes into the correct state. It just takes a wrong turn partway down that pathway," he noted.
It was in the misfolding around this core where he and his team were trying to pinpoint the wrong turns of the folding pathways of the protein. They identified several types of misfolded pathways and resolved numerous previously undetected intermediate states en route to a more complete map.
"When you don't understand why something is misfolding, it becomes difficult to target therapeutic treatments. So understanding where things are going wrong helps the targeting process become more rational rather than leaning on random screening," said Woodside.
Woodside said the next challenges are to scale up the findings, connecting single molecules to an entire cell and then finally to a full organism. He is now working with a leading ALS clinician out of the University of British Columbia to advance future work, focusing on how mutations that lead to inherited forms of ALS can cause misfolding to spread from molecule to molecule and cell to cell.
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Gaganyaan: If something goes wrong seconds before launch. . .
oi-Vikas SV
By Vikas Sv
| Updated: Thursday, October 31, 2019, 3:52 [IST]
New Delhi, Oct 25: Gaganyaan is India's first-ever human spaceflight mission and undoubtedly the most challenging project the ISRO has ever undertaken. ISRO would be aiming to showcase the ability to develop technologies to launch humans into space which only three countries have done so far.
Chandrayaan-2 lifts off onboard GSLV Mk III-M1 launch vehicle
Gaganyaan is scheduled for 2022 and three astronauts have also been selected for the mission. The only Indian to have entered the space is Rakesh Sharma which was in 1984 aboard the Russian space mission Soyuz 11.
[What ISRO stands to gain from Gaganyaan?]
Critical technologies that the ISRO must perfect are the capability of module re-entering the earth, a crew escape system, configured crew modules and a thermal protection system, mastered deceleration and flotation systems, and built sub-systems of life support required to survive in space.
A view of the first Moon image captured by Chandrayaan 2
All these technologies are complex and present a big technological challenge. Our focus here is on the crew escape mechanism which is extremely vital. The crew escape system is an emergency escape measure designed to quickly pull the crew module along with the astronauts to a safe distance from the launch vehicle in the event of a launch abort.
If something goes wrong at any point during the launch, then there has to be a way for the crew to escape so that lives can be saved.
ISRO chief K Sivan
The mechanism ensures the crew module gets an advance warning of anything going wrong with the rocket, and pulls it away to a safe distance, after which it can be landed either on sea or on land with the help of attached parachutes. The system is typically controlled by a combination of automatic rocket failure detection, and a manual backup for the crew commander's use.
[In what way is Gaganyaan far more complex than Chandrayaan-2?]
ISRO in July last year carried out the first in a series of tests to qualify a crew escape system. According to the ISRO, the five-hour countdown was smooth.
ISRO control room, Shriharikota
The crew escape system along with the simulated crew module with a mass of 12.6 tonnes, lifted off at 7 am at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
The test was over in 259 seconds, during which the crew escape system along with crew module soared skyward, then arced out over the Bay of Bengal and floated back to Earth under its parachutes about 2.9 km from Sriharikota.
When crew escape system saved lives:
There has only been one occurrence of a launch escape system being used during an active mission: In 1983, the crew of the Soviet Soyuz T-10-1 were carried away from their launch vehicle via their LES two seconds before the launch vehicle exploded due to a pad fire. The crew survived.'
In 2018, the crew of Soyuz MS-10 separated from their launch vehicle after a booster rocket separation failure occurred at an altitude of 50 km during the ascent. However, at this point in the mission, the LES had already been ejected and was not used to separate the crew capsule from the rest of the launch vehicle.
Backup motors were utilized to separate the crew capsule resulting in the crew landing safely and uninjured approximately 19 minutes after launch.
What is the 'Apollo 1 disaster':
Planned as the first low Earth orbital test of the Apollo command and service module with a crew, to launch on February 21, 1967, the mission never flew; a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 on January 27 killed all three crew members. Apollo was the name of the program to land the first men on the Moon.
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By Alyssa Fikse | Celebrity | May 13, 2018 |
Let’s be real: the Battle of the Chrises has been a bright spot in the darkness that has clouded just about everything for the last year and a half. Everyone has their favorite (I do not endorse Pajiba’s Official Stance. Team Evans 5 ever.) However, I feel like the Chrisening of Internet Boyfriend Discourse has caused us to neglect some other crushes that used to burn brightly.
Benedict Cumberbatch, who really came into his own as Doctor Strange in Infinity War, is one such crush. In the heyday of Sherlock, Cumberbatch was everyone’s favorite sexy alien, mostly because of that voice. While the internet is collectively a bit less horny for him these days, Cumberbatch is here to remind you that he is still quite crush-worthy. In a new interview with Radio Times, Cumberbatch got candid about equal pay and the importance of representation over lip service.
“It’s about implementation… Equal pay and a place at the table are the central tenets of feminism. Look at your quotas. Ask what women are being paid, and say: ‘If she’s not paid the same as the men, I’m not doing it.’
I’m proud that Adam [Ackland] and I are the only men in our production company; our next project is a female story with a female lens about motherhood, in a time of environmental disaster. If it’s centered around my name, to get investors, then we can use that attention for a raft of female projects. Half the audience is female! And, in terms of diversity, Black Panther is now the third most successful film of all time! The audience is there! It’s about facilitating platforms for talent. If you do that, the combination is combustible - world-beating. That’s what we want to do.”
While a majority of men in Hollywood are relatively silent on the #MeToo movement or parroting back platitudes about the importance of women in film, it’s really refreshing to see someone actually doing the work. Maybe Cumberbatch is truly the best Chris.
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Flashback: A Return to the Hardwood
Doug Lange
I have covered prep basketball in Whatcom County for well over two decades, but Tuesday, January 9th felt like a daunting trip in the wayback machine. It felt like I was starting all over again. In a way I was.
Not much had changed at my destination. Jake Mayberry gymnasium was the same. I saw many familiar faces and launched into plenty of sports talk as soon as I hit the bleachers. No...the change was with me.
Back in late October I found myself without a job. My position was eliminated after nearly 22 years with the company. After 27 years in the radio business I was without a game to call, a show to prep for, employees to supervise, stories to write and so much more. Like so many in the industry these days a casualty of "strictly an economic decision". What 's a workaholic radio-lifer to do?
First you take solace in all of the well wishes from long-time listeners, coaches, AD's, colleagues, friends and family. I can't even begin to properly thank all of you. Please know that the texts, e-mails, social media posts and face to face contact was much needed and appreciated!
Then it gets dark. You fight off the nervous breakdown. You question how stiff the penalty for 401k early withdrawal really is. And then as you battle another sleepless night, the realization of who really is in your corner (and not) comes. What an epiphany! You tackle the next challenge!
So on that January night as the Squalicum and Lynden girls battled it out at The Jake, The DLN was making it's debut. That's The Doug Lange Network (the name just came to me 😜). And today, January 16th the website OnTheDLN.com follows!
My wife had been urging me to retire for the last couple of years. "Pick up a hobby, " she would say. "Get rid of the stress and find your joy." So let's call this my "forced retirement" hobby. A project for me and hopefully one that's well received by you.
One of my great joys in the radio business was building the first all sports station in Whatcom County. From securing the shows and building the guest lists and contacts to expanding local coverage and finding/growing local talent it was truly a labor of love! It was also challenging, exciting and most of all...FUN!
Now a chance to build a new local sports outlet for Whatcom County? You bet!
As a Seattle native, I have always marveled at the sports scene here in the 4th corner. Great success and tradition with amazing community support, that you don't see rivaled anywhere else in the Evergreen State. An opportunity to add to that sounds like fun to me.
That's the thing. Sports should be challenging, exciting and fun! Hopefully The Doug Lange Network will provide all of that for you. Please check out the videos, photos, interviews and more on the website and join me for streaming game broadcasts. Where this all goes from here...who knows? Remember it's a hobby!
Way back when, I had no idea what an all sports station in Whatcom County would look or sound like. A old boss of mine from almost a quarter century ago laughed and mocked me back when I said we should look into all sports programming and a local sports talk show. It sure ticked me off at the time. He thought he knew better and wasn't interested in any input from me. What did I know anyway. I was so mad, but it turned out he was doing me a huge favor. It stoked the creative fire within and I think you know how it all turned out.
It's funny how something I thought was so crappy at the time, ended up being such a great turning point in my life. Thinking about it now, after life delivered another shot to the solar plexus, this is really a no-brainer. A return to the hardwood doesn't seems so daunting...it actually feels liberating!
Now...Get Off The Rope and OnTheDLN.com!
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Lena Dunham's 'Psychotic Rage' After Trump's Election (Photo)
David Bonner
Lena Dunham, who writes and stars in the HBO series "Girls," says that she was so traumatized by the election of President Donald Trump that she flew into a "psychotic rage."
She made the comment while interviewing Samantha Bee, host of the TBS program "Full Frontal," reports the Daily Mail.
In the interview, which was published by The Hollywood Reporter, Dunham confessed: "After the election, instead of rage at Donald Trump, I had, like, two weeks where all my rage was directed at every female movie star who never said anything. It was psychotic. I was just full of hot rage and finally, [Jenni Konner, "Girls"'co-creator] had to point out to me, 'You know, the problem isn't female movie stars who didn't talk about [Democratic presidential nominee] Hillary Clinton. You need to f***ing chill out.'"
Dunham referred to herself as a "Hillary surrogate," who "was just working my butt off and tap-dancing as fast as I could for this woman whom I have always really believed in."
With Trump's unexpected victory creating "more material than you can shake a stick at" for Bee's satirical show, Dunham asked: "How do you deal with trying to create satire and comedy out of something that has real terror to it?"
To which Bee replied: "It's too much. There's too much to talk about. Everything is a potential tragedy. The news is changing so quickly, you think that the show's going to look one way on a Monday morning, and by Tuesday afternoon, the whole world has shifted, and everything is different, and you can't tell that story anymore, or everything has just moved on and no one would care. Every time I turn my phone off, something terrible happens in the world. It's insane."
Dunham, who did more speaking than questioning in the interview, also described her experience attending the final goodbye party for the Obamas at the White House. "They seemed to want to party. And I had to [leave] because I was like, 'I can only cry.'"
On a more lighthearted note, she explained that the guests had to check their cell phones at the door, which led to a humorous comment. "And I was like, 'Things that I'll never see again: celebrities not staring at their phones and checking their Twitter mentions, [and] this many black and gay people in the White House.'"
The interview ended on a non-political note, with both participants appreciating their fans. Bee made special mention of the "young girls and old ladies" in her fan base, while Dunham said, "For me, it's old ladies and gay teenage boys." To which Bee concurred, "Yeah, gay teenage boys, too."
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Intel CEO on employees' layoff anxiety: 'This is the way a meritocracy works'
Updated Jan 09, 2019; Posted Jul 16, 2015
By Mike Rogoway | The Oregonian/OregonLive
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Intel CEO Brian Krzanich: "I know from my email people feel like they got caught or surprised."
(Intel photo, 2013)
Wall Street analysts treated Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich pretty gently on Wednesday's quarterly conference call, peppering him with arcane questions about inventory forecasts, capital-spending allocations and the outlook for the PC market.
After he hung up the phone with Wall Street, though, Krzanich faced a tougher audience: His own workers.
Some workers at Oregon's largest private employer are upset about last month's layoffs. It's not the cutbacks themselves that have them anxious - Intel has laid off people several times over the past decade and workers are growing accustomed to the ups and downs.
Rather, employees say they were confused because the layoffs weren't disclosed in advance, and because Intel seemed to change its criteria for deciding who would stay and who would go. They're also unhappy that Intel made laid-off workers ineligible to be rehired if and when things improve.
In jeans and a blue, V-neck sweater, Krzanich stood before a room of employees Wednesday and acknowledged the unhappiness. But he stood by the company's decisions.
"I know from my email people feel like they got caught or surprised," Krzanich told workers in a quarterly update with employees. "But this is the way a meritocracy works. Expect that in the future we'll probably do similar types of things."
Intel hasn't commented on the layoffs, first reported by The Oregonian/OregonLive last month. But an employee involved in managing the cuts said they amount to roughly 3 percent of the company's work force. Intel has 18,600 employees in Oregon.
The chipmaker is cutting jobs in response to declining sales. After initially forecasting 5 percent growth in 2015, the company said Wednesday it expects annual revenue will be down 1 percent this year.
In a memo to employees last month, Krzanich indicated Intel will offset the cuts with hires in other parts of the company. He said the chipmaker expects its global work force will remain unchanged at roughly 106,000 this year.
Intel declined to elaborate on Krzanich's remarks to employees Wednesday, made during the CEO's quarterly Business Update Meeting, an internal review of the company's performance. The Oregonian obtained a recording of his responses to employees' questions.
In their questions Wednesday, and in postings on internal Intel blogs obtained by The Oregonian, employees complain that Intel seemed to change the way it conducts layoffs this time around.
Previously, employees say, workers became eligible for layoffs when they received substandard ratings in the company's rigorous annual-review process. But according to documents obtained by The Oregonian, Intel selected some employees for last month's layoffs based instead on the level of performance-based stock grants they received last year.
And workers say they were surprised Intel made those laid-off ineligible for rehire as regular, full-time "blue badge" employees.
In his comments Wednesday, Krzanich acknowledged workers' surprise. But he said both policies were already in place.
"That same philosophy, that if you're let go for performance reasons that you're not eligible for rehire, has actually been a guideline for Intel for years," he said. "The problem is we haven't, with discipline, applied it. So we said: We're trying to build a different company. You don't orchestrate change by doing things the same way."
He did not explain why those guidelines exist, and Intel declined to elaborate.
Krzanich also acknowledged that some employees weren't laid off for performance reasons at all.
"Some of the separations are fundamental redeployments that are just moving people from areas where we're disinvesting." he told employees.
"If we're selling fewer PCs, if the PC market's shrinking at a faster rate, we should spend less money there," Krzanich said. With desktop PC volumes down 22 percent last quarter, he told employees Intel is shifting jobs away from that declining market and into Intel's thriving data-center business, the emerging Internet of Things and NAND flash memory.
"It's just the right thing to do for our shareholders," Krzanich said. "We're trying to move that spending into areas of growth."
-- Mike Rogoway
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‘Ten Thousand Shades of Ocean’
Last week has seen two private screenings of Lakshen’s fresh-off-the-press documentary here in Corfu. A few notes and impressions by Punya (and friends).
We watched the first part, that covers Osho’s life from his birth to his grandfather’s death; school years, university years, his travels across India to give talks to large audiences; initiating his first orange sannyasins, the creation of his chaotic/dynamic meditation, his time at Woodland in Mumbai, the move to Pune in 1974 – the influx of Western seekers, the introduction of therapy as a step to meditation, the discourses in Buddha Hall, the knife attack, the energy darshans in Chuang Tzu, Laxmi’s search for a new commune – and Osho’s sudden departure to the USA.
The second part of the documentary is a work in process. It will cover the time at the castle in New Jersey, the foundation of Rajneeshpuram, the struggle with local politics, Osho’s World Tour and the struggle with global politics, the talks in Mumbai before settling in Pune. It also includes snippets from sannyas life today, showing how the movement is still alive and attracting new people through the meditations Osho has created, his wisdom and vision of life.
During these last few years, Lakshen travelled across Europe and India to interview ‘key’ personalities, asking them questions about their life with Osho. Among them are well-known names like Sheela, Shunyo, Radha, Rashid, Keerti, Ageh Bharti, Turiya, Dharm Jyoti – and less familiar names like Laheru, Ganga (the guide at Khajuraho), Osho’s younger brother Niklank, and the screenwriter Kamlesh Pandey.
Lakshen also interviewed sannyasins who have distanced themselves from the sannyas movement, giving them space to explain the reasons why they did so, e.g. Michael Barnett and Hugh Milne.
The documentary is composed of intercalations of short sections from archive footage of events around Osho, discourse and darshan videos, photos, Yatri’s comics, snippets of the interviews Lakshen filmed on his own world tour – while historical footage, and new footage taken on location in India by his crew – are underscoring the spoken word – sometimes with brilliantly accurate timing. The audio track starts with the voice of the narrator who comes in from time to time to bridge events; then there are the voices of the interviewees, of Osho talking in discourse, and a music track chosen among Madhuro, Narayani and Subodha’s heartful songs, as well as Manish Vyas’s traditional Indian ones; a kirtan by Anadi and music from Joshua, Shastro, Ramadhan, Shantam Arjun.
This first part lasted over one and a half hours. I was glued to the screen from beginning to finish, although I was familiar with most events. It was beautiful to see contemporary footage of places Osho had talked about, the spot on the bank and the bridge from where he used to jump into the river. Anand Divya, the daughter of Osho’s childhood friend Sukraj, telling the story of how Osho threw away the flute after his best friend had drowned. The short snippets of the house he grew up in, the school and colleges he was allowed to attend under the condition he did not attend classes – only the exams! We found ourselves in Khajuraho, guided by Ganga, silently looking at the reliefs of the temple walls.
Sitting on the edge of my seat, intent of not letting any detail get past me, I enjoyed in particular one piece of footage: an evening Sufi Dance in Buddha Hall. Those joyous faces, twirling orange-red robes, the celebration in the air… just to mention one of the jewels I found.
Lakshen’s documentary comes across like a mosaic of tiny half-inch square multi-coloured tiles shining in a spotlight. As so often happens with Osho’s words, we hear a quote – we know we have heard him say that so very often before – but – while watching the film, suddenly something sinks in: surrender, ego, finding oneself.
Another subject discussed and commented upon is sex (of course).
When the credits rolled I realised my face had taken on the expression of WOW: eyes wide open, O-shaped mouth. What a great job Lakshen did! shouted my mind – Well done! After he had freed himself from the many huggers after the showing, I said to Lakshen: It’s rolling – with the hands gesturing (we are Italians after all!) a quick little stream elegantly jumping from pebble to pebble, kept within its banks by the various comments and interviews.
Someone who had seen the film in the first screening mentioned to me that they had felt thrown about by the quick succession of images, the many people interviewed. It did not have this effect on me, I felt the cuts were very delicate and poetic in places; there was a clear thread: Osho’s presence. Driving down home I felt his soft presence very clearly, very soothing. With me.
As this documentary (what we have seen is still in advanced draft form) is meant to be seen by the general public, in a kind of ‘rebuttal’ to the docu-series Wild Wild Country that came out two years ago on Netflix, I have also asked a few friends who were there the other night, people who did not know much about Osho or at least not about those early years, to give their comments:
“It is really a good film, it shows very well who Osho was, his background, his liberation, his lightness, his love for his people, his magnetism, his divine intelligence, his generosity, and the way he guided and helped his people. And I was touched to see the deep respect and love of those close to him already in the early days; his school friends, university professors and colleagues. Of all the films about Osho, it’s my favorite!” S.
“Crazy man!” F.
“I think there are a bit too many interviews from too many people; I would have rather liked to see and hear a bit more of Osho himself. I do like the controversy and also the criticisms as this is a good journalistic approach to show both sides.” A.
“I feel that I did get some new information, learned some things I didn’t know, but also I cannot really capture Osho himself or his main message. But I suppose this is maybe anyway difficult – to try to capture an enlightened being.” N. M.
“I thought the film was exciting, and historically I could follow it very well. But, in a film about Osho I wouldn’t have taken interviews from people who are expressing their resistance.” B.
I am now anxiously waiting for the second part, and also curious to see what Lakshen will make out of the footage he has already had in his kitty for many years. There will certainly be the same interviewees who will take the story further and continue the thread. I see that it would be best to offer both pieces to the public in one go, if Lakshen gets the funding together quickly. It will only be a 3-hour+ bingewatch. I would be in for it!
If you wish to sponsor the second part you can contact Lakshen and write to him on sucameli@libero.it
Punya
Punya is the founder of Osho News, author of many interviews and of her memoir On the Edge.
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OSTI.GOV Technical Report: Implementation of an anisotropic mechanical model for shale in Geodyn
Title: Implementation of an anisotropic mechanical model for shale in Geodyn
The purpose of this report is to present the implementation of a shale model in the Geodyn code, based on published rock material models and properties that can help a petroleum engineer in his design of various strategies for oil/gas recovery from shale rock formation.
Attaia, A. [1]; Vorobiev, O. [1]; Walsh, S. [1]
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
LLNL-TR-671138
DE-AC52-07NA27344
42 ENGINEERING; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 58 GEOSCIENCES
Attaia, A., Vorobiev, O., and Walsh, S. Implementation of an anisotropic mechanical model for shale in Geodyn. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.2172/1184733.
Attaia, A., Vorobiev, O., & Walsh, S. Implementation of an anisotropic mechanical model for shale in Geodyn. United States. doi:10.2172/1184733.
Attaia, A., Vorobiev, O., and Walsh, S. Fri . "Implementation of an anisotropic mechanical model for shale in Geodyn". United States. doi:10.2172/1184733. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1184733.
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MAJOR OIL PLAYS IN UTAH AND VICINITY
Technical Report Thomas C. Chidsey ; Craig D. Morgan ; Kevin McClure ; ...
Utah oil fields have produced over 1.2 billion barrels (191 million m{sup 3}). However, the 13.7 million barrels (2.2 million m{sup 3}) of production in 2002 was the lowest level in over 40 years and continued the steady decline that began in the mid-1980s. The Utah Geological Survey believes this trend can be reversed by providing play portfolios for the major oil-producing provinces (Paradox Basin, Uinta Basin, and thrust belt) in Utah and adjacent areas in Colorado and Wyoming. Oil plays are geographic areas with petroleum potential caused by favorable combinations of source rock, migration paths, reservoir rock characteristics, andmore » other factors. The play portfolios will include: descriptions and maps of the major oil plays by reservoir; production and reservoir data; case-study field evaluations; summaries of the state-of-the-art drilling, completion, and secondary/tertiary techniques for each play; locations of major oil pipelines; descriptions of reservoir outcrop analogs; and identification and discussion of land use constraints. All play maps, reports, databases, and so forth, produced for the project will be published in interactive, menu-driven digital (web-based and compact disc) and hard-copy formats. This report covers research activities for the fourth quarter of the first project year (April 1 through June 30, 2003). This work included describing outcrop analogs to the Jurassic Nugget Sandstone and Pennsylvanian Paradox Formation, the major oil producers in the thrust belt and Paradox Basin, respectively. Production-scale outcrop analogs provide an excellent view, often in three dimensions, of reservoir-facies characteristics and boundaries contributing to the overall heterogeneity of reservoir rocks. They can be used as a ''template'' for evaluation of data from conventional core, geophysical and petrophysical logs, and seismic surveys. The Nugget Sandstone was deposited in an extensive dune field that extended from Wyoming to Arizona. Outcrop analogs are found in the stratigraphically equivalent Navajo Sandstone of southern Utah which displays large-scale dunal cross-strata with excellent reservoir properties and interdunal features such as oases, wadi, and playa lithofacies with poor reservoir properties. Hydrocarbons in the Paradox Formation are stratigraphically trapped in carbonate buildups (or phylloid-algal mounds). Similar carbonate buildups are exposed in the Paradox along the San Juan River of southeastern Utah. Reservoir-quality porosity may develop in the types of facies associated with buildups such as troughs, detrital wedges, and fans, identified from these outcrops. When combined with subsurface geological and production data, these outcrop analogs can improve (1) development drilling and production strategies such as horizontal drilling, (2) reservoir-simulation models, (3) reserve calculations, and (4) design and implementation of secondary/tertiary oil recovery programs and other best practices used in the oil fields of Utah and vicinity. During this quarter, technology transfer activities consisted of exhibiting the project plans, objectives, and products at a booth at the 2003 annual convention of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. The project home page was updated on the Utah Geological Survey Internet web site.« less
Testing of constitutive models in LAME.
Technical Report Hammerand, Daniel Carl ; Scherzinger, William Mark
Constitutive models for computational solid mechanics codes are in LAME--the Library of Advanced Materials for Engineering. These models describe complex material behavior and are used in our finite deformation solid mechanics codes. To ensure the correct implementation of these models, regression tests have been created for constitutive models in LAME. A selection of these tests is documented here. Constitutive models are an important part of any solid mechanics code. If an analysis code is meant to provide accurate results, the constitutive models that describe the material behavior need to be implemented correctly. Ensuring the correct implementation of constitutive models ismore » the goal of a testing procedure that is used with the Library of Advanced Materials for Engineering (LAME) (see [1] and [2]). A test suite for constitutive models can serve three purposes. First, the test problems provide the constitutive model developer a means to test the model implementation. This is an activity that is always done by any responsible constitutive model developer. Retaining the test problem in a repository where the problem can be run periodically is an excellent means of ensuring that the model continues to behave correctly. A second purpose of a test suite for constitutive models is that it gives application code developers confidence that the constitutive models work correctly. This is extremely important since any analyst that uses an application code for an engineering analysis will associate a constitutive model in LAME with the application code, not LAME. Therefore, ensuring the correct implementation of constitutive models is essential for application code teams. A third purpose of a constitutive model test suite is that it provides analysts with example problems that they can look at to understand the behavior of a specific model. Since the choice of a constitutive model, and the properties that are used in that model, have an enormous effect on the results of an analysis, providing problems that highlight the behavior of various constitutive models to the engineer can be of great benefit. LAME is currently implemented in the Sierra based solid mechanics codes Adagio [3] and Presto [4]. The constitutive models in LAME are available in both codes. Due to the nature of a transient dynamics code--e.g. Presto--it is difficult to test a constitutive model due to inertia effects that show up in the solution. Therefore the testing of constitutive models is primarily done in Adagio. All of the test problems detailed in this report are run in Adagio. It is the goal of the constitutive model test suite to provide a useful service for the constitutive model developer, application code developer and engineer that uses the application code. Due to the conflicting needs and tight time constraints on solid mechanics code development, no requirements exist for implementing test problems for constitutive models. Model developers are strongly encouraged to provide test problems and document those problems, but given the choice of having a model without a test problem or no model at all, certain requirements must be kept loose. A flexible code development environment, especially with regards to research and development in constitutive modeling, is essential to the success of such an environment. This report provides documentation of a number of tests for the constitutive models in LAME. Each section documents a separate test with a brief description of the model, the test problem and the results. This report is meant to be updated periodically as more test problems are created and put into the test suite.« less
Geomechanical and Fluid Transport Properties
Technical Report Glauser, Walter
Complex changes to fluid and mechanical properties of a pyrolyzing formation could lead to significant subsidence. Capturing subsidence requires accounting for changes in porosity due to generation and drainage of fluid. Pores, permeability and pore pressure are generated during pyrolysis of kerogen into oil and gas. In a series reaction scheme, oil is an intermediate product of pyrolysis. A large portion of oil-range fluids may be lost in an in-situ operation if the oil produced cannot be drained quickly enough. Petroleum fluid quality and production are highly dependent on the relative rates of creation, destruction, and transport of oil andmore » gas in a given volume. All of these are dependent on the heating rate of oil shale. If oil shale is heated quickly, fluid flow may increase, but at a cost to the amount of oil that is finally extracted. To account for the effect of pore fluid on mechanical deformation, an elastic model was combined with a Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion and Biot’s linear consolidation model. The overall model is poroelastic, because it accounts for rock deforming by considering the response of the bulk system and the pore fluids it contains. Biot’s linear model includes all ways that pore fluid volume can change in a system, including stress-strain interactions between pores and the bulk material. Additionally, the model captures the distinction between fluid and solid matrix compression and describes how bulk deformation is affected by fluid drainage. The fluid response to changing stress is affected by changes in pore pressure, while the bulk material responds to effective stress changes. To capture all of these effects, a number of theoretical and empirical models were employed in FLAC3D™, a rock-mechanics software package produced by Itasca Consulting Group. The basic capabilities of FLAC3D™ have been supplemented by customized algorithms for the simulation package. The most important contribution has been to develop a methodology for describing poro-thermo-mechanical properties of oil shale across the complete chronology of in situ pyrolysis. This report highlights those methods and results for inferring realistic oil shale properties.« less
NEAR FIELD MODELING OF SPE1 EXPERIMENT AND PREDICTION OF THE SECOND SOURCE PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS (SPE2)
Technical Report Antoun, T ; Xu, H ; Vorobiev, O ; ...
Motion along joints and fractures in the rock has been proposed as one of the sources of near-source shear wave generation, and demonstrating the validity of this hypothesis is a focal scientific objective of the source physics experimental campaign in the Climax Stock granitic outcrop. A modeling effort has been undertaken by LLNL to complement the experimental campaign, and over the long term provide a validated computation capability for the nuclear explosion monitoring community. The approach involves performing the near-field nonlinear modeling with hydrodynamic codes (e.g., GEODYN, GEODYN-L), and the far-field seismic propagation with an elastic wave propagation code (e.g.,more » WPP). the codes will be coupled together to provide a comprehensive source-to-sensor modeling capability. The technical approach involves pre-test predictions of each of the SPE experiments using their state of the art modeling capabilities, followed by code improvements to alleviate deficiencies identified in the pre-test predictions. This spiral development cycle wherein simulations are used to guide experimental design and the data from the experiment used to improve the models is the most effective approach to enable a transition from the descriptive phenomenological models in current use to the predictive, hybrid physics models needed for a science-based modeling capability for nuclear explosion monitoring. The objective of this report is to describe initial results of non-linear motion predictions of the first two SPE shots in the Climax Stock: a 220-lb shot at a depth of 180 ft (SPE No.1), and a 2570-lb shot at a depth of 150 ft (SPE No.2). The simulations were performed using the LLNL ensemble granite model, a model developed to match velocity and displacement attenuation from HARDHAT, PILE DRIVER, and SHOAL, as well as Russian and French nuclear test data in granitic rocks. This model represents the state of the art modeling capabilities as they existed when the SPE campaign was launched in 2010, and the simulation results presented here will establish a baseline that will be used for gauging progress as planned modeling improvements are implemented during the remainder of the SPE program. The initial simulations were performed under 2D axisymmetric conditions assuming the geologic medium to be a homogeneous half space. However, logging data obtained from the emplacement hole reveal two major faults that intersect the borehole at two different depth intervals (NSTec report, 2011) and four major joint sets. To evaluate the effect of these discrete structures on the wave forms generated they have performed 2D and 3D analysis with a Lagrangian hydrocode, GEODYN-L that shares the same material models with GEODYN but can explicitly take joints and fault into consideration. They discuss results obtained using these two different approaches in this report.« less
FY-09 Summary Report to the Office of Petroleum Reserves on the Western Energy Corridor Initiative Activities and Accomplishments
Technical Report Thomas R. Wood
To meet its programmatic obligations under the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Office of Naval Petroleum and Shale Oil Reserves (NPSOR) has initiated the Western Energy Corridor Initiative (WECI). The WECI will implement the Unconventional Strategic Fuels Task Force recommendations for accelerating and promoting the development of domestic unconventional fuels to help meet the nations’ energy needs. The mission of the WECI is to bolster America’s future fuel security by facilitating socially and environmentally responsible development of unconventional fuels resources in the Western Energy Corridor, using sound engineering principles and science-based methods to define and assess benefits, impacts, uncertainties,more » and mitigation options and to resolve impediments. The Task Force proposed a three-year program in its commercialization plan. The work described herein represents work performed by Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in support of the DOE’s WECI. This effort represents an interim phase of work, designed to initiate only select portions of the initiative, limited by available funding resources within NPOSR. Specifically, the work presented here addresses what was accomplished in FY-09 with the remaining carryover (~$420K) from NPOSR FY-08 funds. It was the intent of the NPOSR program to seek additional funding for full implementation of the full scope of work; however, the original tasks were reduced in scope, terminated, or eliminated (as noted below). An effort is ongoing to obtain funding to continue the tasks initiated under this project. This study will focus on the integrated development of multiple energy resources in a carbon-neutral and environmentally acceptable manner. Emphasis will be placed on analyses of the interrelationships of various energy-resource development plans and the infrastructure, employment, training, fiscal, and economic demands placed on the region as a result of various development scenarios. The interactions at build-out during the design, permitting, and construction of individual and multiple energy developments are not fully considered at the local, state, regional, or national levels. The net impacts to the Western Energy Corridor cannot be understood and the design optimized under the current approach. A regional development plan is needed to model cumulative impacts, determine the carrying capacity of the basin, and provide valuable technically based information to both skeptics and advocates. The INL scope of work for FY-09 involved six tasks: 1. Evaluation of the ASPEN Code as a dynamic systems model for application and use under the WECI and communications with Alberta Oil Sands Research Institutions as an “analog” resource development in the Western Energy Corridor 2. Application of the Aspen Plus computer model to several oil shale processes to consider energy balances and inputs and outputs (e.g. water consumption, CO2 production, etc.) 3. Development of a regulatory roadmap for oil shale developments 4. Defining of the physiographic extent of the natural resource reserves that comprise the Western Energy Corridor 5. A review of the Unconventional Fuels Task Force Report to Congress for ideas, concepts and recommendations that crosscutting plans 6. Program development with stakeholders, including industry, academics, state and federal agencies, and non government organizations. This task also includes project management, strategic development and reporting.« less
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How Is The Fake News Factory Structured?
Political parties of all hues are twisting facts, figures and photographs to lure voters as India gets ready for Elections 2019
Siddhartha Mishra 17 December 2018
After Congress president Rahul Gandhi said the recently-unveiled statue of Sardar Patel was made in China, Congressmen circulated a photograph of an old statue of the freedom fighter erected in 2008.
Siddhartha Mishra December 06, 2018 00:00 IST How Is The Fake News Factory Structured?
‘Deepfakes’ With Artificial Intelligence
Prime Minister Narendra Modi picks up a child, who leans towards two microphones in front of her and appears to utter a derogatory phrase often used by the BJP to mock Congress president Rahul Gandhi. That’s all there is in the 23-second video clip. But wait. There is another clip. The same clip, in fact. Only this time the child ridicules Modi himself, as she repeats what appears to be a Twitter campaign launched by the Congress. It later emerges that the original clip, dating back to 2016, was of a differently-abled child, Gauri Shardul, reciting a shloka from the Ramayana during one of Modi’s visits to his home state, Gujarat.
The two versions of the video clip, both doctored and widely circulated through social media and WhatsApp in India, is a classic case study of “fake news”, that new global menace described by Collins dictionary last year as a “very real word”. Over the past few years, fake news has moved beyond its conventional description of “false, often sensational, information disseminated under the guise of news reporting”. It’s now mostly a political tool, used to nail rival parties with doctored audios and videos and morphed photographs.
And with general elections in India scheduled for early next year, there are growing indications that fake news will play a big role over the next few months as parties of all hues twist facts and figures to try and influence the voters. And India is one of 48 countries where political parties have “formally organised social media manipulation campaigns”, an Oxford study said in July. Many experts believe the BJP harnessed the power of WhatsApp and social media in the run-up to the 2014 general elections that catapulted it to power with an overwhelming majority. Other parties, including the Congress, got into the high-stakes game very late; now all parties have separate social media groups but the BJP’s team, known as the ‘IT Cell’, is said to be far more organised and with greater reach than all others. It also allegedly dishes out more fake news than the others.
“The right is more systematic and they have a better protocol in place,” says Sagar Kaul, founding CEO of MetaFact, an AI-based fact-checker. “For example, if there is a post which has popped up for a right-wing influencer, chances of that being picked up is much higher,” he adds, explaining that their distribution networks are much stronger. A highly-controversial recent survey by the BBC, titled ‘Beyond fake news’, also says that “right-wing networks are much more organised than on the left, pushing nationalistic fake stories further. There was also an overlap of fake news sources on Twitter and support networks of Prime Minister Narendra Modi”. Angry right-wing groups trashed the survey’s findings, especially on its sample size.
Shreya Rajagopalan, a researcher who worked for a fortnight in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, agrees that the “BJP has a stronger team, a larger support system, more spread out strategy, more FB pages and more followers”. Rajagopalan, who researched fake news and the actors and audience involved, says that parties are pushing memes and videos and microtargeting voters who are part-disillusioned and part-distanced from mainstream media due to the ease of swiping through apps on smartphones. “They (BJP) started much earlier and had more research to do this. I wouldn’t say the Congress is not doing it though.”
Some of the numbers are staggering. BJP insiders say the party has close to 15,000 WhatsApp groups in Uttar Pradesh, the most politically-important state for any party hoping to grab power at the Centre. During the assembly polls in Karnataka earlier this year, the party had created 20,000 such groups. India’s population and the number of social media users turn these platforms into happy hunting grounds for political parties. WhatsApp has over 200 million users in India and counting. The country is also home to over 30 million Twitter accounts and close to 294 million on Facebook.
This is precisely the reason the Congress is re-inventing itself on social media with Rahul Gandhi scaling up his visibility on Twitter and Facebook as he leads the party’s campaign against Modi. The Congress’ social media team, led by former MP Divya Spandana, regularly posts memes and spoofs mocking the Modi government and its policies. And the cell is also accused of its bit of mischief, by tinkering with photos and videos. “If you notice our stories, you’ll see there is now more misinformation from the non right-wing side as well, especially pages and accounts that seem to support the Congress,” says Pratik Sinha, co-founder of Alt News, an online platform which debunks fake news. He says the change in patterns has become more evident in the past six months. Sinha cites a recent example when photograph of a Sardar Patel statue erected in 2008 went viral with Congress supporters circulating it as that of the world’s tallest statue unveiled in Gujarat recently. It was after Rahul Gandhi said Modi’s pet project was ‘Made in China’. “It is very political in nature. The same thing emanates from the right-wing as well, but the right-wing has this additional misinformation component, which is very significant, of a constant attack on minorities and the demonisation of the minority community using misinformation,” Sinha, 36, adds.
But how does the well-oiled ecosystem work? It is a concoction of fake news, social media and data, says Shivam Shankar Singh, a political consultant formerly associated with election strategist Prashant Kishor’s IPAC and the BJP until June this year. “What I handled was data analytics. The spread of fake news and (the work of) Whatsapp groups were based on the work that we did,” he says, adding that “misinformation” was fired with the ammunition of data. Singh says he quit the scene as he did not want to be a part of an upcoming campaign which will be “divisive” and that every party is out to “push a narrative” which thrives on confirmation bias and cherry-picking data to suit their agenda.
He cites an example of the right-wing assertion that the “growing Muslim population” is leading to increase in crimes. Singh says there would be stories in mainstream social media backing the argument. “So they pick up these news stories and mix it up with fake news. News does not intend to incite, the language is not hysterical, so they’ll pick up a video from Syria and put it in the copy,” he says.
Shivam says those who forward or share these messages do not realise, in most cases, that they are fake. “(But) those who make them, those who design the graphics know that they are fake. These messages are then sent to 500 WhatsApp groups, the people in those groups think these are real…and they spread them as they want to spread the message, not because they want to spread fake news,” he adds. Jency Jacob, managing editor of fake news-buster BOOMLive, says the misinformation campaign is not confined to the right-wing. “Parties on both sides of the divide are putting out images and videos with the wrong context and wrong narrative. A lot of these then starts circulating on WhatsApp groups,” adds Jacob. BOOMLive was the first in India to work with Facebook to counter misinformation prior to elections.
There is big money involved too. Shivam Shankar Singh recounts his days on the rolls of a right-wing think-tank close to the BJP. He says that if the BJP had to pay someone Rs 20,000-30,000 for social media work it was an informal arrangement. “But if someone has to get a monthly salary of Rs 1.5-2 lakh, there’s no other way for the party but to do it formally”, which is done by recruiting the person into any of the alaied think-tanks.
Pratik Sinha cites the example of “about five-six FB pages” which purportedly backs the BJP. These pages, he says, regularly posts “graphics which seem to be professionally done, all of which are sponsored posts which means somebody is pouring in the money”. The page ‘Nation with Namo’, for example, with nearly 8.70 lakh followers put out a post on November 1 looking to hire “content writers, graphic designers, and video editors”. “You’ll see the graphics are similar, this is not the work of an amateur,” Sinha adds.
Currently, there are even Facebook pages up for sale. Some of these were formed by former BJP supporters who are charging anything between Rs 3 to Rs 5 lakh for a page, depending on the number of ‘likes’ it had garnered. As these pages already have millions of followers, the new owner can simply start pushing any content. Shivam says these pages thrive because people rarely ‘unfollow’ pages once they ‘like’ them on Facebook. “The thing is it’s not a bad business model to create FB pages supporting the BJP. You create a website behind it and you keep posting links. So you make a decent amount of money just from advertisers’ revenue,” he adds. To generate a decent number of likes, posts are often paid for in the initial days for greater visibility. He says that the promotion money is sometimes raised from supporters. In others, the party or administrators make the payment.
The latest country to have battled and, some believe, lost the battle with fake news is Brazil. Results on October 28 declared that the land of samba and soccer voted for PSL’s right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro, a day when WhatsApp banned more than 1,00,000 accounts. The Brazilian president is infamous for the cringe-worthy comment, “I’m not going to rape you, because you’re very ugly”, to Maria do Rosario, the former minister for human rights. Expectedly, the nature of the rhetoric during the campaign wasn’t exactly civil. “We got a lot of dirty stuff and people believed the dirtiest things in the world,” says Rio de Janeiro-based Cristina Tardáguila, director of Agencia Lupa, one of the largest fact-checkers in the country. “Since it was dirty it spread very fast and it’s amazing that people decided to believe the dirtiest things just to sustain their position.”
Barely six months later, an estimated 850 million people in India—about six times the size of Brazil’s electorate—will vote across 29 states in the biggest democratic exercise in the world. How messy it will be with an avalanche of fake news is anybody’s guess. Former chief election commissioner S.Y. Quraishi says fake news spread through WhatsApp groups, with so many members, is “1000 thousand times more dangerous than rumours going out word-of-mouth”. He feels that social media platforms need to take measures and EC should sit with them and monitor certain content during election time. “The law and order implications are great,” he adds.
Several right-wing websites, including IndusScrolls and Postcard News, said that an activist was planning to carry sanitary napkins inside Sabarimala.
Jency Jacob of BOOMLive says there is “much more action” now in Facebook. “And coming closer to the elections, we will see more and more people (profiles) come in and share stuff which will go viral overnight,” Jacob adds. One of the biggest challenges for fact-checkers are content in regional languages. Last month, Union minister Smriti Irani waded into the raging debate over the entry of women into Sabarimala temple in Kerala. “Would you take sanitary napkins seeped in menstrual blood and walk into a friend’s home? You would not. Would you think it is respectful to do the same thing and walk into house of God?” Her comment was apparently in response to news reports about activists’ plans on carrying sanitary napkins inside the temple. BoomLive traced the rumour back to right-wing news websites such as Postcard news and IndusScrolls. Jacob and Pratik Sinha agree that a lot of people will be required regionally to do these fact checks in the future. Hindustan Times recently carried a report which showed that regional social media ShareChat’s story attributing a false quote to preacher Zakir Naik was their most read.
Social media platforms say they are aware of the rot. WhatsApp, for example, has limited the number of users a message can be forwarded in India to five. But for Twitter it is a much more challenging job. “It is not possible for us to distinguish whether every single tweet from every single person is truthful or not. We also believe that taking down content simply because it is incorrect would ultimately undermine the open democratic debate that our platform is intended to facilitate,” a spokesperson of the microblogging platform says.
A recent case underlines the fault lines and fallibility of social media. Ankit Lal, the head of Aam Aadmi Party’s social media team, posted an image from a bridge in Rotterdam, tagging it as the recently-constructed Signature Bridge in Delhi, and was called out on Twitter. “That was a mistake on my part, it’s human. I picked it up from a journalist and later I saw the journalist had himself deleted it,” Lal tells Outlook.
While social media can be as ugly as it gets, WhatsApp forwards can be lethal. Last year, several people were lynched in separate incidents in India by mobs incited by messages about child-lifters on the prowl. It takes just one word taken out of context, one morphed photograph to light the fire. And there are hundreds, if not thousands, of people working behind the scenes to create chaos and confusion for someone else to reap the benefits.
The Numbers Game: Too Many To Ignore
The BJP has over 15,000 WhatsApp groups in UP
There were close to 20,000 in Karnataka during the assembly elections.
The Congress and JD-S had 30,000 WhatsApp groups
WhatsApp has over 200 million users in India and counting
India has over 30 million Twitter accounts and close to 294 million people on Facebook
There are growing indications that fake news will play a big role in the run up to the 2019 general elections.
Ex-CEC S.Y. Quraishi says fake news spread through WhatsApp is “1000 thousand times more dangerous”.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Chapter I: In Which Phileas Fogg And Passepartout Accept Each Other, The One As Master, The Other As Man
Chapter II: In Which Passepartout Is Convinced That He Has At Last Found His Ideal
Chapter III: In Which A Conversation Takes Place Which Seems Likely To Cost Phileas Fogg Dear
Chapter IV: In Which Phileas Fogg Astounds Passepartout, His Servant
Chapter V: In Which A New Species Of Funds, Unknown To The Moneyed Men, Appears On 'Change
Chapter VI: In Which Fix, The Detective, Betrays A Very Natural Impatience
Chapter VII: In Which Once More Demonstrates The Uselessness Of Passports As Aids To Detectives
Chapter VIII: In Which Passepartout Talks Rather More, Perhaps, Than Is Prudent
Chapter IX. IN WHICH THE RED SEA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN PROVE PROPITIOUS TO THE DESIGNS OF PHILEAS FOGG
Chapter X. IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS ONLY TOO GLAD TO GET OFF WITH THE LOSS OF HIS SHOES
Chapter XI. IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG SECURES A CURIOUS MEANS OF CONVEYANCE AT A FABULOUS PRICE
Chapter XII. IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND HIS COMPANIONS VENTURE ACROSS THE INDIAN FORESTS, AND WHAT ENSUED
Chapter XIII. IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT RECEIVES A NEW PROOF THAT FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE
Chapter XIV. IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG DESCENDS THE WHOLE LENGTH OF THE BEAUTIFUL VALLEY OF THE GANGES WITHOUT EVER THINKING OF SEEING IT
Chapter XV. IN WHICH THE BAG OF BANKNOTES DISGORGES SOME THOUSANDS OF POUNDS MORE
Chapter XVI. IN WHICH FIX DOES NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND IN THE LEAST WHAT IS SAID TO HIM
Chapter XVII. SHOWING WHAT HAPPENED ON THE VOYAGE FROM SINGAPORE TO HONG KONG
Chapter XVIII. IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG, PASSEPARTOUT, AND FIX GO EACH ABOUT HIS BUSINESS
Chapter XIX. IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT TAKES A TOO GREAT INTEREST IN HIS MASTER, AND WHAT COMES OF IT
Chapter XX. IN WHICH FIX COMES FACE TO FACE WITH PHILEAS FOGG
Chapter XXI. IN WHICH THE MASTER OF THE "TANKADERE" RUNS GREAT RISK OF LOSING A REWARD OF TWO HUNDRED POUNDS
Chapter XXII. IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT FINDS OUT THAT, EVEN AT THE ANTIPODES, IT IS CONVENIENT TO HAVE SOME MONEY IN ONE'S POCKET
Chapter XXIII. IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT'S NOSE BECOMES OUTRAGEOUSLY LONG
Chapter XXIV. DURING WHICH MR. FOGG AND PARTY CROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN
Chapter XXV. IN WHICH A SLIGHT GLIMPSE IS HAD OF SAN FRANCISCO
Chapter XXVI. IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PARTY TRAVEL BY THE PACIFIC RAILROAD
Chapter XXVII. IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT UNDERGOES, AT A SPEED OF TWENTY MILES AN HOUR, A COURSE OF MORMON HISTORY
Chapter XXVIII. IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT DOES NOT SUCCEED IN MAKING ANYBODY LISTEN TO REASON
Chapter XXIX. IN WHICH CERTAIN INCIDENTS ARE NARRATED WHICH ARE ONLY TO BE MET WITH ON AMERICAN RAILROADS
Chapter XXX. IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG SIMPLY DOES HIS DUTY
Chapter XXXI. IN WHICH FIX, THE DETECTIVE, CONSIDERABLY FURTHERS THE INTERESTS OF PHILEAS FOGG
Chapter XXXII. IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG ENGAGES IN A DIRECT STRUGGLE WITH BAD FORTUNE
Chapter XXXIII. IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG SHOWS HIMSELF EQUAL TO THE OCCASION
Chapter XXXIV. IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AT LAST REACHES LONDON
Chapter XXXV. IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG DOES NOT HAVE TO REPEAT HIS ORDERS TO PASSEPARTOUT TWICE
Chapter XXXVI. IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG'S NAME IS ONCE MORE AT A PREMIUM ON 'CHANGE
Chapter XXXVII. IN WHICH IT IS SHOWN THAT PHILEAS FOGG GAINED NOTHING BY HIS TOUR AROUND THE WORLD, UNLESS IT WERE HAPPINESS
The train pursued its course, that evening, without interruption, passing Fort Saunders, crossing Cheyne Pass, and reaching Evans Pass. The road here attained the highest elevation of the journey, eight thousand and ninety-two feet above the level of the sea. The travellers had now only to descend to the Atlantic by limitless plains, levelled by nature. A branch of the "grand trunk" led off southward to Denver, the capital of Colorado. The country round about is rich in gold and silver, and more than fifty thousand inhabitants are already settled there.
Thirteen hundred and eighty-two miles had been passed over from San Francisco, in three days and three nights; four days and nights more would probably bring them to New York. Phileas Fogg was not as yet behind-hand.
During the night Camp Walbach was passed on the left; Lodge Pole Creek ran parallel with the road, marking the boundary between the territories of Wyoming and Colorado. They entered Nebraska at eleven, passed near Sedgwick, and touched at Julesburg, on the southern branch of the Platte River.
It was here that the Union Pacific Railroad was inaugurated on the 23rd of October, 1867, by the chief engineer, General Dodge. Two powerful locomotives, carrying nine cars of invited guests, amongst whom was Thomas C. Durant, vice-president of the road, stopped at this point; cheers were given, the Sioux and Pawnees performed an imitation Indian battle, fireworks were let off, and the first number of the Railway Pioneer was printed by a press brought on the train. Thus was celebrated the inauguration of this great railroad, a mighty instrument of progress and civilisation, thrown across the desert, and destined to link together cities and towns which do not yet exist. The whistle of the locomotive, more powerful than Amphion's lyre, was about to bid them rise from American soil.
Fort McPherson was left behind at eight in the morning, and three hundred and fifty-seven miles had yet to be traversed before reaching Omaha. The road followed the capricious windings of the southern branch of the Platte River, on its left bank. At nine the train stopped at the important town of North Platte, built between the two arms of the river, which rejoin each other around it and form a single artery, a large tributary, whose waters empty into the Missouri a little above Omaha.
The one hundred and first meridian was passed.
Mr. Fogg and his partners had resumed their game; no one—not even the dummy—complained of the length of the trip. Fix had begun by winning several guineas, which he seemed likely to lose; but he showed himself a not less eager whist-player than Mr. Fogg. During the morning, chance distinctly favoured that gentleman. Trumps and honours were showered upon his hands.
Once, having resolved on a bold stroke, he was on the point of playing a spade, when a voice behind him said, "I should play a diamond."
Mr. Fogg, Aouda, and Fix raised their heads, and beheld Colonel Proctor.
Stamp Proctor and Phileas Fogg recognised each other at once.
"Ah! it's you, is it, Englishman?" cried the colonel; "it's you who are going to play a spade!"
"And who plays it," replied Phileas Fogg coolly, throwing down the ten of spades.
"Well, it pleases me to have it diamonds," replied Colonel Proctor, in an insolent tone.
He made a movement as if to seize the card which had just been played, adding, "You don't understand anything about whist."
"Perhaps I do, as well as another," said Phileas Fogg, rising.
"You have only to try, son of John Bull," replied the colonel.
Aouda turned pale, and her blood ran cold. She seized Mr. Fogg's arm and gently pulled him back. Passepartout was ready to pounce upon the American, who was staring insolently at his opponent. But Fix got up, and, going to Colonel Proctor said, "You forget that it is I with whom you have to deal, sir; for it was I whom you not only insulted, but struck!"
"Mr. Fix," said Mr. Fogg, "pardon me, but this affair is mine, and mine only. The colonel has again insulted me, by insisting that I should not play a spade, and he shall give me satisfaction for it."
"When and where you will," replied the American, "and with whatever weapon you choose."
Aouda in vain attempted to retain Mr. Fogg; as vainly did the detective endeavour to make the quarrel his. Passepartout wished to throw the colonel out of the window, but a sign from his master checked him. Phileas Fogg left the car, and the American followed him upon the platform. "Sir," said Mr. Fogg to his adversary, "I am in a great hurry to get back to Europe, and any delay whatever will be greatly to my disadvantage."
"Well, what's that to me?" replied Colonel Proctor.
"Sir," said Mr. Fogg, very politely, "after our meeting at San Francisco, I determined to return to America and find you as soon as I had completed the business which called me to England."
"Really!"
"Will you appoint a meeting for six months hence?"
"Why not ten years hence?"
"I say six months," returned Phileas Fogg; "and I shall be at the place of meeting promptly."
"All this is an evasion," cried Stamp Proctor. "Now or never!"
"Very good. You are going to New York?"
"To Chicago?"
"To Omaha?"
"What difference is it to you? Do you know Plum Creek?"
"No," replied Mr. Fogg.
"It's the next station. The train will be there in an hour, and will stop there ten minutes. In ten minutes several revolver-shots could be exchanged."
"Very well," said Mr. Fogg. "I will stop at Plum Creek."
"And I guess you'll stay there too," added the American insolently.
"Who knows?" replied Mr. Fogg, returning to the car as coolly as usual. He began to reassure Aouda, telling her that blusterers were never to be feared, and begged Fix to be his second at the approaching duel, a request which the detective could not refuse. Mr. Fogg resumed the interrupted game with perfect calmness.
At eleven o'clock the locomotive's whistle announced that they were approaching Plum Creek station. Mr. Fogg rose, and, followed by Fix, went out upon the platform. Passepartout accompanied him, carrying a pair of revolvers. Aouda remained in the car, as pale as death.
The door of the next car opened, and Colonel Proctor appeared on the platform, attended by a Yankee of his own stamp as his second. But just as the combatants were about to step from the train, the conductor hurried up, and shouted, "You can't get off, gentlemen!"
"Why not?" asked the colonel.
"We are twenty minutes late, and we shall not stop."
"But I am going to fight a duel with this gentleman."
"I am sorry," said the conductor; "but we shall be off at once. There's the bell ringing now."
The train started.
"I'm really very sorry, gentlemen," said the conductor. "Under any other circumstances I should have been happy to oblige you. But, after all, as you have not had time to fight here, why not fight as we go along?"
"That wouldn't be convenient, perhaps, for this gentleman," said the colonel, in a jeering tone.
"It would be perfectly so," replied Phileas Fogg.
"Well, we are really in America," thought Passepartout, "and the conductor is a gentleman of the first order!"
So muttering, he followed his master.
The two combatants, their seconds, and the conductor passed through the cars to the rear of the train. The last car was only occupied by a dozen passengers, whom the conductor politely asked if they would not be so kind as to leave it vacant for a few moments, as two gentlemen had an affair of honour to settle. The passengers granted the request with alacrity, and straightway disappeared on the platform.
The car, which was some fifty feet long, was very convenient for their purpose. The adversaries might march on each other in the aisle, and fire at their ease. Never was duel more easily arranged. Mr. Fogg and Colonel Proctor, each provided with two six-barrelled revolvers, entered the car. The seconds, remaining outside, shut them in. They were to begin firing at the first whistle of the locomotive. After an interval of two minutes, what remained of the two gentlemen would be taken from the car.
Nothing could be more simple. Indeed, it was all so simple that Fix and Passepartout felt their hearts beating as if they would crack. They were listening for the whistle agreed upon, when suddenly savage cries resounded in the air, accompanied by reports which certainly did not issue from the car where the duellists were. The reports continued in front and the whole length of the train. Cries of terror proceeded from the interior of the cars.
Colonel Proctor and Mr. Fogg, revolvers in hand, hastily quitted their prison, and rushed forward where the noise was most clamorous. They then perceived that the train was attacked by a band of Sioux.
This was not the first attempt of these daring Indians, for more than once they had waylaid trains on the road. A hundred of them had, according to their habit, jumped upon the steps without stopping the train, with the ease of a clown mounting a horse at full gallop.
The Sioux were armed with guns, from which came the reports, to which the passengers, who were almost all armed, responded by revolver-shots.
The Indians had first mounted the engine, and half stunned the engineer and stoker with blows from their muskets. A Sioux chief, wishing to stop the train, but not knowing how to work the regulator, had opened wide instead of closing the steam-valve, and the locomotive was plunging forward with terrific velocity.
The Sioux had at the same time invaded the cars, skipping like enraged monkeys over the roofs, thrusting open the doors, and fighting hand to hand with the passengers. Penetrating the baggage-car, they pillaged it, throwing the trunks out of the train. The cries and shots were constant. The travellers defended themselves bravely; some of the cars were barricaded, and sustained a siege, like moving forts, carried along at a speed of a hundred miles an hour.
Aouda behaved courageously from the first. She defended herself like a true heroine with a revolver, which she shot through the broken windows whenever a savage made his appearance. Twenty Sioux had fallen mortally wounded to the ground, and the wheels crushed those who fell upon the rails as if they had been worms. Several passengers, shot or stunned, lay on the seats.
It was necessary to put an end to the struggle, which had lasted for ten minutes, and which would result in the triumph of the Sioux if the train was not stopped. Fort Kearney station, where there was a garrison, was only two miles distant; but, that once passed, the Sioux would be masters of the train between Fort Kearney and the station beyond.
The conductor was fighting beside Mr. Fogg, when he was shot and fell. At the same moment he cried, "Unless the train is stopped in five minutes, we are lost!"
"It shall be stopped," said Phileas Fogg, preparing to rush from the car.
"Stay, monsieur," cried Passepartout; "I will go."
Mr. Fogg had not time to stop the brave fellow, who, opening a door unperceived by the Indians, succeeded in slipping under the car; and while the struggle continued and the balls whizzed across each other over his head, he made use of his old acrobatic experience, and with amazing agility worked his way under the cars, holding on to the chains, aiding himself by the brakes and edges of the sashes, creeping from one car to another with marvellous skill, and thus gaining the forward end of the train.
There, suspended by one hand between the baggage-car and the tender, with the other he loosened the safety chains; but, owing to the traction, he would never have succeeded in unscrewing the yoking-bar, had not a violent concussion jolted this bar out. The train, now detached from the engine, remained a little behind, whilst the locomotive rushed forward with increased speed.
Carried on by the force already acquired, the train still moved for several minutes; but the brakes were worked and at last they stopped, less than a hundred feet from Kearney station.
The soldiers of the fort, attracted by the shots, hurried up; the Sioux had not expected them, and decamped in a body before the train entirely stopped.
But when the passengers counted each other on the station platform several were found missing; among others the courageous Frenchman, whose devotion had just saved them.
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Mind and Body for Women
Eye On The Prize
How to keep your head in the game when you’re stuck on the sidelines.
Karen Asp
Every fitness enthusiast knows this inevitable truth: At some point, injury will strike. And being told to lay off training for a while can send your spirits plummeting.
If you want to recover more quickly and effectively from an injury (speaking here of a non-life-altering one), you’ve got to work on that mental game. “Your psychological mind and physical body are intertwined, and when you lack healthy outlets for your emotional content, your body can suffer,” says Allison Belger, Psy.D., licensed psychologist and owner of TJ’s Gyms in Marin County, California.
To get through this tough time, take the two-pronged approach below.
Use Your Mind
Mental imagery is nothing new in the world of sports. Athletes use it all the time to prep themselves for competition. Now fascinating research shows that if you’re laid up with an injury, simply picturing yourself exercising could help prevent strength loss.
The idea sounds too simple to be true. Yet when college-aged young adults wore a fake cast on a non-dominant arm and then underwent four weeks of mental imagery in which they visualized themselves contracting those muscles five times a week, they lost less strength than another group who wore fake casts but didn’t do visualization. While the non-imagery group lost 45 percent of their strength, the imagery group experienced only a 24 percent loss, according to a study in the Journal of Neurophysiology.
What’s going on? It comes down to brain stimulation. “When you do imagined contractions like this, parts of the brain involved in motor skills light up,” says Brian C. Clark, Ph.D., lead study author and professor of physiology and neuroscience at Ohio University. “Imagery helps the brain remember how to activate the muscles maximally.”
To make it work, picture yourself doing the moves. “Although there’s evidence that you can learn tasks by watching other people, mentally seeing yourself do a move is more effective in activating the part of the brain responsible for motor-task performance,” Clark says.
No question injury can be a serious setback to the fitness-minded, not only physically but also psychologically. As a result, it’s normal to feel emotions like anxiety, isolation and depression.
Some individuals, though, can suffer more than others. “People whose identities and social lives are significantly linked with their fitness are more likely to experience a great deal of sadness when they can’t participate,” says Belger, adding that they may feel left out of their social group, even envious of non-injured friends.
If these feelings lead to obsessive rumination about the injury, serious feelings of isolation, pronounced thoughts of worthlessness or depressive symptoms that affect your work, relationships or other aspects of your life, seek professional help. You can take care of that psychological self and help maintain a positive attitude to bolster your recovery with three simple strategies:
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2. Keep a journal: The more negative your feelings, the more crucial it is to get them out. “Research has shown that these feelings can pose problems when managing injuries,” Belger says. Use that journal to set and record recovery goals, too.
3. Diversify: Fitness fanatics can be guilty of getting caught up in busy workout routines and placing social lives second to fitness. Yet as Belger cautions, “Putting all your eggs in one basket is risky, as your whole world is then affected by injury.” In addition to training your body, cultivate other aspects of yourself so you’ll have something else to focus on while your injury heals.
Plain and simple, injury can be a real bummer. Fight back by putting your brain to work while you’re recouping, and you might find yourself back in action sooner than expected.
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Annotated Game #78: Chess is 99% Calculation
This fourth-round tournament game continued my woes and ended rather quickly due to a calculation mistake. Eerily I made a very similar mistake in yesterday's game against Rocky Rook during our first game of the Double My Egg Nog tourney, involving a miscalculation that dropped a pawn after ...Ne4 (see move 17 in this game). Had I fully analyzed this game beforehand, I probably could have avoided that mistake. Losing twice in that manner should be incentive enough to avoid doing so again, however.
The opening is similar to the Colle that made an appearance in Annotated Game #75 (and in the Rocky Rook game). White, rather than going for the b-pawn on move 6, instead transposes into a Stonewall Attack formation. White's early unusual move order choices (2. c3 and 3. e3) indicated that was a strong possibility from the start. Black has no troubles in the opening, despite helping White's cause by prematurely exchanging pawns on d4 and then trading off White's bad dark-square bishop. It's pretty obvious from these moves that I had no idea at the time how to play a Stonewall formation. Nevertheless, Black was equal coming out of the opening.
It's the early middlegame where Black's lack of understanding becomes even more obvious and hurtful. Pieces are moved incoherently and there is no real plan. Had White been more quick to exploit this, he could have had an excellent game, for example with 17. Rc7. However, it wasn't good play by White, but rather a miscalculation by Black that ends the game, in the sequence starting with 17...Ne4.
This game is an excellent example of where it's not enough to see a tactical theme, one must calculate and visualize its consequences. The saying that Chess is 99% tactics isn't quite true; it's 99% calculation. Black in this case wasn't forced into the sequence; rather, it was chosen based on faulty calculation and judgment (why do it at all?) A good lesson for the future, both for this particular middlegame structure and in general.
[Event "?"] [Site "?"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Class B"] [Black "ChessAdmin"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D00"] [Annotator "ChessAdmin/Fritz/Houdini"] [PlyCount "45"] [EventDate "2006.??.??"] {D00:1 d4 d5: Unusual lines} 1. d4 d5 2. c3 Nf6 3. e3 {one way to get to a Stonewall Attack type formation.} Bf5 4. Bd3 Bxd3 5. Qxd3 e6 $146 {as pointed out in Annotated Game 75 in a similar position, this involves a pawn sacrifice if White follows with Qb5+. Black scores well with the other two main moves, for example:} (5... Nbd7 6. Nf3 e6 7. Nbd2 c5 8. O-O cxd4 9. exd4 Bd6 10. Re1 O-O 11. Ne5 Qb8 12. f4 b5 13. Re3 Rc8 14. Rh3 Nf8 15. g4 Bxe5 16. fxe5 Nxg4 17. Nf3 f6 18. Bf4 Ng6 19. Bg3 Qb6 20. exf6 {Prymula,R-Jirovsky,M/CSR 1990/EXT 2002/0-1 (40)}) (5... c6 6. Nd2 Nbd7 7. f4 e6 8. Ngf3 Be7 9. O-O O-O 10. Kh1 Rc8 11. g3 c5 12. h3 c4 13. Qc2 b5 14. a3 a5 15. g4 b4 16. Rg1 b3 17. Qb1 g6 18. Rg2 Qc7 19. g5 Nh5 20. Nf1 {Nykanen,O-Hodokainen,J/Mikkeli 1998/EXT 2000/ 0-1 (59)}) 6. f4 (6. Qb5+ $5 {is noteworthy, says Fritz.} Nbd7 7. Qxb7 $11 { Nonetheless Black's better development and piece activity will compensate for the pawn.}) 6... c5 7. Nf3 {Now the Stonewall Attack formation has appeared.} cxd4 {typical amateur move, Black is in a rush to release the tension. Further development with Bd6 or Nc6 would be better.} 8. cxd4 Bb4+ {Black helps White here by exchanging off White's bad bishop.} 9. Bd2 Bxd2+ 10. Nbxd2 O-O 11. O-O Re8 {poor developing move, as what exactly is the rook going to do on the e-file?} 12. Rac1 Nbd7 {this isn't bad, but putting the knight on c6 would have been a little more active placement.} 13. Rc2 (13. Ne5 {if White is going to play the Stonewall Attack, he really should go for this move, which thematically uses the e5 outpost.}) 13... Rc8 14. Rfc1 Rxc2 15. Rxc2 Qa5 { this starts an unsupported, unproductive demonstration against White's position by the queen. The better plan would be to clear the c-file immediately, for example with Qb8 followed by Rc8.} 16. a3 Qa4 17. h3 (17. Rc7 {would punish Black for his inattention to the c-file.}) 17... Ne4 $2 {this simply loses a pawn, due to miscalculation of the following sequence.} (17... Nb6 $142 $5 $14 {is a viable option, notes Fritz.}) 18. Nxe4 $16 dxe4 19. Qxe4 Nf6 20. Qd3 Nd5 {I had seen things to this point and thought that Black would be able to recover the pawn by force.} 21. Ng5 h6 22. Ne4 Nxe3 $2 {the key miscalculation. The deflection theme was there, of course, but I simply overlooked the blocking move with threat to the queen.} 23. b3 $18 1-0
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Annotated Game #213: Charting your own path
During this next tournament game, my opponent and I chart our own path early on, outside of what is covered in opening books. But it's not really new ground, once you start looking in the databases. In what is ostensibly a rather offbeat sideline of a Caro-Kann Two Knights, you can find super-GM level games by Carlsen and Topalov on the Black side, which are given below. (And the next Commentary game to be posted will feature a very recent game in the same line, from the 2019 Women's Candidates tournament.)
These days, especially with Carlsen as a model, players seem less obligated to try to duel for a theoretical advantage in main lines, although there's still a lot of opening theory that continues to evolve. I used to have an unhelpful attitude towards opening "deviations", thinking that they should always be punished. Now, I think it's more important to know the key elements of an opening position, both static and dynamic, which will then be your guide - regardless of whether the line you're in is popular or even known. Analyzing your own games when you enter unfamiliar territory is always a good learning experience, since both your knowledge base and insights should grow as a result.
In this game, the main insight for me from Carlsen's different choice on move 5 is how to take advantage of White's Qe2 blocking the standard bishop development. Later on, the queen's early sally on the kingside also offers opportunities for Black on the queenside. I decide to follow a more aggressive plan with opposite-side castling, which offered the clear idea of advancing pawns on the kingside to pressure White. This isn't done in the most effective way, and I also miss some key ideas repeatedly (...Qd5!?), which I'll remember for the future. There's a lot of back-and-forth and White was dangerous in the endgame, but I finally managed to get a draw. My opponent was rated about 100 points above me, so not a bad outcome of an interesting game.
[Event "?"] [Site "?"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Class B"] [Black "ChessAdmin"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "B11"] [Annotator "ChessAdmin/Komodo 11.2"] [PlyCount "108"] {[%mdl 8192] B11: Caro-Kann: Two Knights Variation} 1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 {this is not in any book variation of the Caro-Kann, but is a legitimate if offbeat choice by White. Here there is a quick transposition into a Two Knights Variation.} d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 {this offers another transposition into a main line Caro-Kann variation, if White takes on f6.} 5. Qe2 {a surprise here, but it's actually the third most popular choice in the database. Black players always need to be aware of the potential threat of a discovered pin by White's queen on the e-pawn after an early Qe2 is played.} Nxe4 {while exchanging is an obvious move, this is actually not the choice of top-rated Black players. Here's a (very!) high-level illustrative game, with Magnus Carlsen as Black:} (5... Bf5 6. Nxf6+ gxf6 7. d3 Nd7 8. g3 Ne5 9. Nxe5 Qa5+ 10. Bd2 Qxe5 11. Qxe5 fxe5 12. Bg2 h5 13. O-O h4 14. Rae1 f6 15. f4 hxg3 16. hxg3 exf4 17. Rxf4 Bh6 18. Rh4 Bg7 19. Rb4 Bc8 20. d4 Bf8 21. Rc4 Bh3 22. Bf3 Rd8 23. d5 cxd5 24. Rc7 Rd7 25. Rxd7 Bxd7 26. Bxd5 b6 27. c4 e5 28. b4 Ke7 29. c5 Be6 30. Bf3 Bh6 31. Bxh6 Rxh6 32. cxb6 axb6 33. a4 Rh7 34. Rc1 f5 35. Rc6 Bd7 36. Rxb6 Bxa4 37. b5 Rh8 38. Bd5 Rc8 39. Re6+ Kd7 40. Rxe5 Bxb5 41. Rxf5 Rc1+ 42. Kg2 Kd6 43. Be4 Bd7 44. Rf2 Ke5 45. Bf3 Bf5 46. g4 Rc2 47. gxf5 Rxf2+ 48. Kxf2 Kxf5 {1/2-1/2 (48) Vachier Lagrave,M (2783)-Carlsen,M (2851) Leuven 2017}) 6. Qxe4 {now White's queen is no longer blocking the development of the light-squared bishop, which is why immediately exchanging is not the preferred choice.} Nd7 {a standard developing move, but Black can also immediately challenge the centralized queen:} (6... Qd5 7. Qh4 Qe6+ 8. Be2 Qg4 9. Qg3 Qxg3 10. hxg3 g6 11. d4 Bg7 12. Bh6 Bf6 13. Ne5 Be6 14. O-O-O Nd7 15. f4 Rg8 16. g4 Rd8 17. c4 Bxe5 18. fxe5 Nb6 19. b3 g5 20. Kc2 f6 21. exf6 exf6 22. Kc3 Kf7 23. Rdf1 Rg6 24. Bd3 Bxg4 25. Bxg6+ Kxg6 26. Re1 Nc8 27. c5 Rg8 28. a4 a5 29. b4 axb4+ 30. Kxb4 Rd8 31. Kc3 b6 32. Kc4 Bf5 33. Re3 Bc2 34. Bxg5 Kxg5 35. Rg3+ Kf5 36. Rxh7 Bxa4 37. Rh5+ Ke6 38. Re3+ Kf7 39. Rh7+ Kg6 40. Rc7 Bb5+ 41. Kc3 bxc5 42. dxc5 Kf5 43. g3 Kg6 44. Kb4 Rd4+ 45. Kc3 Rd8 46. Kb4 Rd4+ {1/2-1/2 (46) Bacrot,E (2708)-Topalov,V (2749) Paris 2017}) 7. d4 Nf6 8. Qh4 Bf5 { targeting the weak c-pawn and also preventing the usual development of the White bishop to d3. Without the queen's presence on d1 the doubled d-pawns that would be inflicting on White after a bishop exchange would be a serious weakness.} 9. c3 e6 10. Be2 Be7 11. Bg5 h6 {although this is not actually an immediate threat to the Bg5, because the unprotected Rh8 prevents Black from capturing on g5, it still puts additional latent pressure on White. At least that was my thinking.} (11... Qb6 $5 {is favored by the engines, as Black is in a good position to take advantage of the lack of queenside defenders. For example} 12. b3 Qa5 13. Bd2 Ne4 14. Qf4 Nxc3 $17) 12. Rd1 $146 {it wasn't clear to me what the rook is doing on the d-file. Although the rook is lined up against the queen, the d-pawn in front of it is not going anywhere.} Nd5 { an overly passive approach, aiming for piece exchanges and equality.} (12... Qd5 {is a thematic seizure of the center by Black's queen, and it can't be chased away easily.} 13. a3 (13. c4 $2 Qa5+ $19) 13... O-O $15) (12... O-O { immediately is also good, also essentially forcing the exchange on f6.}) 13. Bxe7 $11 {forced} Qxe7 14. Qg3 {here I thought for a while and decided to take a more aggressive path by castling queenside, since White had declined the queen trade.} (14. Qxe7+ Kxe7 $11) 14... O-O-O {with the dark-squared bishops gone, Black's king is secure on the queenside, allowing kingside expansion.} 15. O-O (15. Qxg7 $2 Rdg8 16. Qe5 f6 {trapping the queen.}) 15... g5 { advancing and protecting the pawn at the same time. Black has only a slightly better position, but it's easier to play and my plan is clear, to do everything I can to try and break through on the kingside.} 16. Rfe1 Nf4 { here I advance my own plan, but allow White to get in a relatively more impactful move.} (16... f6 $5 {takes away the e5 square.}) 17. Ne5 h5 18. Nd3 ( 18. Bd3 Nxd3 19. Nxd3 Rhg8 $11) 18... Nxe2+ {here I should maintain the tension on the kingside, since I have some initiative, rather than help White relieve it.} (18... h4 19. Qf3 Nd5 $15 {here the Be2 is bottled up by White's other pieces and the Re1 is also blocked by it.}) 19. Rxe2 h4 {now this move has less impact.} (19... f6 20. Qe3 $11) 20. Qf3 Qd6 {moving the queen away from the e-file, both to get on the h2-b8 diagonal and to get off the e-file.} 21. Ne5 Rdf8 22. Rde1 f6 {at the time, I judged this to be weakening but not too much so, with that outweighed by the benefit of kicking White's well-placed knight.} (22... Qd5 $5 {is a more solid approach, but I was still thinking more aggressively about a kingside attack.} 23. Qxd5 cxd5 24. h3 $11) 23. Nc4 Qd7 24. Re3 {I thought this was a wasted move.} (24. h3 {would have prevented my next idea.}) 24... g4 25. Qf4 Rd8 {addressing in a simple manner the new threat of Nd6+ by adding to the protection of the d6 square.} (25... Qc7 {also is fine, but is much more complicated, because if} 26. Nd6+ $2 (26. Qxc7+ $11) 26... Kd7 27. Qxf5 exf5 28. Re7+ Kxd6 29. R1e6+ Kd5 30. c4+ Kxc4 31. Rxc7 Re8 32. Rce7 Rxe7 33. Rxe7 {and Black is a pawn up in the rook ending.}) 26. a4 {now White shows interest in getting his own pawns going against my king.} h3 {I thought for a long time here, since it wasn't clear to me how best to continue on the kingside. I don't in fact have any breakthrough possibilities, though.} (26... Rh5 $11 {is suggested by the engine, with the point that the rook can now move along the 5th rank to good effect, prior to committing with ...h3.}) (26... Qc7 {admitting that the position is even would also be a solid approach.}) 27. Qg3 $6 {other reasonable moves by White lead to equality. The text now allows me to open the h-file and get attacking chances.} (27. Rg3 $5 $14 {must definitely be considered}) 27... hxg2 $15 28. Qxg2 Rh3 {another significant think here, as there were several good-looking options. Naturally I'd like to double on the h-file.} 29. Rxh3 $2 (29. a5 $5) 29... gxh3 $19 {now I have a real advantage, but can't figure out the best way to proceed.} 30. Qg3 {forced} Qd5 $2 {this one-move threat against the Nc4 does nothing for me.} (30... e5 {this pawn lever is the key, although it is not easy to see the consequences.} 31. dxe5 (31. Ne3 Be6 32. Qh4 f5 $19) 31... Qe6 $1 {a subtle move that pins White's e-pawn, attacks the Nc4 and simultaneously threatens Rg8.} 32. Qf3 Qg8+ 33. Kh1 Bg4 34. Qf4 Be6 35. Ne3 fxe5 $19) (30... Qh7 {would also be good, again now enabling Rg8.}) 31. Ne3 $11 {now I'm forced into an awkward sequence to maintain equality.} Qe4 32. f3 Qd3 33. Nxf5 Qxf5 34. Re4 Rh8 {here I was thinking in too much of a static defensive fashion. Activity and counter-threats are better to pursue here.} ( 34... c5 $5) (34... Qh7 {also is good, because if} 35. Rh4 $2 Qb1+ 36. Kf2 Qxb2+ 37. Kf1 Qxc3 $19) 35. Qg4 (35. Kf2 Qh7 $11) 35... Qxg4+ {at this point I judged that I would be better off in a rook endgame.} (35... Rh5 $5) 36. Rxg4 { the rook endgame looks generally balanced, although my advanced h-pawn is a weakness.} Rh7 (36... Kc7 37. Rg7+ Kd6 38. Rxb7 Rg8+ 39. Kh1 Rg2 $11) 37. Kf2 Kd7 38. Kg3 Kd6 39. Rh4 Rg7+ 40. Kxh3 e5 {not a good choice.} (40... f5 41. a5 $14) 41. dxe5+ Kxe5 42. Rg4 $16 {now exchanging would give White a won pawn ending.} Rh7+ 43. Kg3 Kf5 (43... f5 44. Rg5 $14) 44. b4 Re7 45. h4 {passed pawns must be pushed!} Rh7 {I'm trying to protect the 7th rank and stop the h-pawn at the same time.} 46. c4 (46. a5 {would put more pressure on the queenside.}) 46... Ke5 {at least my king is centralized and fighting.} 47. Kf2 $2 {this allows me to force the rook away from protecting the h-pawn.} (47. Re4+ Kf5 48. a5 $16) 47... f5 $11 {now my opponent realized what he had done.} 48. Rg8 Rxh4 $15 49. Rg7 Rxc4 {this rushed move is not optimal, as it would have been better to preserve the two queenside pawns together.} (49... b6 $5 50. Rxa7 Rxc4 51. b5 cxb5 52. axb5 Rb4 53. Rb7 Rxb5 $15 {technically speaking this should still be a draw with best play, but I'd rather be Black.}) 50. Rxb7 $11 {now we're back to equality.} a5 51. b5 (51. bxa5 Rxa4 52. Ra7 Kd4 $11) 51... Kf4 {here I play it safe.} (51... c5 $5 52. Rc7 Kd6 53. Rc6+ Kd5 54. Rf6 f4 55. b6 Rxa4 56. b7 Rb4 57. Rxf4 Rxb7 $17) 52. bxc6 Rxa4 53. Rb5 Rc4 54. Rxa5 Rxc6 1/2-1/2
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Having Fun At Book Signings (And Selling Books in the Process!)
April 19, 2015 Books, Marketing, Murder on Sagebrush Lane, The Easter Egg Murder, Writing9th Annual Authors for Literacy Event, Dan Goss, Easter Egg Murder, Jill Lane, Joe Badal, Moriarty, Murder on Sagebrush Lane, mysteries, Rio Grande Press, Travelin' Jack, Treasure House BooksPatricia Smith Wood
Easter Sunday 2015 with award-winning author Joe Badal
In anticipation of my latest mystery, Murder on Sagebrush Lane, I scheduled a book signing at Treasure House Books & Gifts in Old Town, Albuquerque. For the past three years now I’ve been welcomed at Treasure House to sign copies of my first mystery, The Easter Egg Murder. With that title, and that particular holiday, it’s been a logical pairing. This year the focus was to be on the new book.Imagine my dismay when I discovered Sagebrush Lane would be delayed in shipping due to a couple of glitches along the way. Notice had already appeared in the Albuquerque Journal announcing the debut and signing of the new book. It was too late to rectify that, so now what? Well, the amazing John Hoffsis, owner and proprietor of Treasure House Books, just happened to have an available opening the Sunday after Easter, and he offered me the opportunity to do both days: Easter Egg on Easter Sunday, and Sagebrush Lane on the following Sunday. I readily agreed, of course. Now the story becomes populated with more incredible people.
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Amber Foxx Interview With Patricia Smith Wood
December 2, 2014 Musings, Opinions, Reviews, The Easter Egg Murder, WritingPatricia Smith Wood
A New Mexico Mystery Author Interview: Patricia Smith Wood
Patricia Smith Wood’s father, first as a police officer, and later as a career FBI agent, sparked her own interest in law, solving crime, and mystery. After retiring from a varied and successful business career (including eighteen months working at the FBI, being a security officer at a savings & loan, and owning her own computer business) she attended writing seminars, conferences, and in 2009 graduated from the FBI Citizens’ Academy. Aakenbaaken & Kent published her first mystery, The Easter Egg Murder, on February 14, 2013. Murder on Sagebrush Lane, the second in the series, is finished and awaiting publication.
Last week I reviewed her book and this week she’s here to talk with me about it.
AF: The Easter Egg Murder has one of the most complicated plots I’ve ever read. How did you keep track of it as you wrote? (I picture you with a wall-sized chart covered with color-coded diagrams, or moving some sort of double-layered chess-board of characters around.)
PSW: It really wasn’t a problem for me. I’m a “pantster” and I didn’t map it out. The story simply developed as I wrote. Sometimes I’d start a chapter with a vague idea of it going one way, but it ended up completely different. I would finish and think, “Well, now what?” Then the next idea would just be there, and I’d go with it. I routinely found myself surprised at the twists that came out.
AF: Was there a historical event similar to the murder of Chipper Finn that inspired this book? Are any of the characters from that 1950 part of the plot based, even loosely, on actual people in New Mexico history?
PSW: Definitely! The actual murder of Cricket Coogler happened in Las Cruces, NM in 1949. But her body wasn’t discovered in the desert until sixteen days after she disappeared. Four young men (17-18) found her partially buried body in the desert on the Saturday before Easter when they went rabbit hunting. I used the basics, but changed the details to suit my version. Many of the actual people make an appearance (usually in disguise) in my version. And of course, Cricket’s murder was never solved.
AF: 21st century Albuquerque is the main setting in your book, and easily recognizable. Tell me about Los Huevos. I looked it up and found a rock-climbing site of some apparent difficulty, but no town. Is it based on a real place? Do you have any connection with a little town like that?
PSW: Los Huevos is a completely made up town, located conveniently at the foot of Los Huevos Peak (also fictional). Since the body in my story is discovered on Easter Sunday morning at the foot of Los Huevos Peak, that would be a natural reason to call it The Easter Egg Murder. I had been told I should have a title that stood out, and that seemed to me to fit the bill. I have no connection with such a town, but I suppose the small town of Los Lunas (which is actually southwest of Albuquerque about 20 miles) might have given me the idea.
AF: The story of the murder in 1950 and all the events around it, all the characters involved, could have been a book by itself. Did you ever consider writing it that way? How did you decide to make it a story within the story?
PSW: The story of the actual murder (in 1949) has already been written. In fact, I read everything I could get my hands on about Cricket Coogler’s murder. An excellent book by Paula Moore, titled Cricket in The Web, came out in 2008, right about the time I finished my first draft. I wanted to use some actual things, but ended up fictionalizing most of it. No one in New Mexico who knows about this murder wants to say, on the record, who they think was responsible. It was much more fun (and safer) to make it up.
AF: Harrie has precognitive dreams which add a sense of foreboding to the early part of the story. Was there any additional reason behind your decision to integrate this into the plot? I have this kind of dream myself so I liked that you treat it as only a little unusual. Also, it seemed true to “the woo” of New Mexico to have it in there but not make big deal of it.
PSW: I know several people who have some form of precognition, or “knowing”, about events. It’s always fascinated me and seemed like an interesting story-telling tool to use in fiction. I hoped to convey the mystical atmosphere that weaves its way through New Mexico’s history and culture, from the Anasazi and Chaco Canyon ruins to present day native practices.
AF: Tell me about your research. The illegal gambling and the political corruption in New Mexico back in the fifties were things I really hadn’t heard that much about, and I found them fascinating.
PSW: My father was an FBI agent who was transferred to the Albuquerque Office in 1951, two years after the murder. Events were still transpiring when he arrived here, and he later told me what he knew about the case. I also interviewed many people who lived through that era in New Mexico politics during the period 1949-1950. That included former FBI agents, former residents of Las Cruces, a couple of newspaper men who were around at the time, and even the former governor of New Mexico, who was elected mostly because of the Cricket Coogler murder. I also read books, and watched a film made on the subject: The Silence of Cricket Coogler. The book Cricket in The Web goes into the gambling issue in great detail, but I had also heard a lot about that from the people I interviewed.
AF: I know you have a good background in law enforcement, but you chose to give major roles in solving the mysteries to the two amateur sleuths, though you do include police and FBI. I’d love to know how you made that choice, and how you came around to casting two editors in the role of sleuths.
PSW: I have been a fan of the “cozy” mystery genre since I was a teenager. The cozy requires the sleuth (or sleuths) to be amateur, so it was always my intention to follow that basic rule. My favorite series at that age was the Judy Bolton mystery series by Margaret Sutton. In the early books, she was a teenager like me, and her boyfriend, Peter, helped her solve the mysteries. When they grew up, Peter became an FBI agent. Since my dad was an FBI agent, I thought that was a cool thing to do. Toward the end of the series, Judy and Peter eventually married, and she still managed to help him solve crimes.
As for making my sleuths editors, it seemed the best way to get them involved in a half-century old murder. By editing Senator Lawrence’s book about the murder, it gave them an excuse to become embroiled in digging out the answers. I didn’t stop to think how that might play out over a series, but in the beginning, I didn’t know it would be a series!
AF: Just for fun, I have to include this “outtake.” I made the mistake of asking Pat a question about some other books, and here’s the answer.
PSW: If you “Googled” my name, you might have run across a different Patricia Wood (which is why I insert my maiden name into the mix: Patricia Smith Wood) who has written at least one book (The Lottery) and perhaps more by now. She lives on a boat in Hawaii (which I obviously don’t). But that didn’t stop a local magazine from running a small piece about The Easter Egg Murder in which they stated that the author, Patricia Wood, lives on a boat in Hawaii!
It turns out Patricia Wood is a pretty common name. One day in 2012 I received a phone call from a local television station asking if I was Patricia Wood. I agreed that was me, and they then asked if I was the Patricia Wood who had stolen jewels from luggage at American Airlines and was I headed for federal prison in two weeks. Once I recovered my senses I assured them I was not that particular Patricia Wood, they thanked me and hung up.
AF: Tell me about your newest project.
PSW: My newly finished second book in the series is Murder on Sagebrush Lane. In the first chapter, Harrie McKinsey goes out to retrieve her newspaper at 5 a.m. on a summer morning and finds a small girl playing in her flower beds. She notices a dark stain on the child’s pajamas and teddy bear, and when she realizes it’s blood, her journey to find the child’s parents gets her involved in another murder. Of course, Harrie’s life is never that simple, and before it’s over there’s another murder, a race to uncover a plot to steal top secret data, an attempted kidnapping, and a desperate killer who intends to make Harrie his final victim.
AF: It sounds exciting. I’m glad to know there will be more of Harrie in the future. Let me know when the book comes out. Thanks so much for being my guest.
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Paul Craig Roberts Interviewed by King World News
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Guest Column by Gerald Celente
By: pcr3|27 May, 2015|Categories: Gerald Celente . Guest Contributions
Neo-feudal USA: The death of democracy — Gerald Celente May 27, 2015 Neither a conspiracy nor conjecture: By every quantitative measure, 21st century America has degenerated from being the beacon of democracy to a neo-feudal state.
From crime and punishment to the vast wealth and income-inequality gap, the rules are different for the political elite and economic nobility than they are for…
Israel Is A Discredit To America — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|26 May, 2015|Categories: Articles & Columns
Israel Is A Discredit To America You Are Judged By The Company You Keep Paul Craig Roberts The Israel Lobby tries to prevent reports and criticism of Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians by branding every critic of every policy of the extreme right-wing Israeli government an “anti-semite.” In other words, if you object to Israeli armed forces shooting down Palestinian…
Guest Column by Thierry Meyssan–The Failure of the US Coup in Macedonia
Washington’s Coup In Macedonia Was Blocked Thierry Meyssan reports on the failure of Washington’s armed overthrow of the Macedonian Government. Originally published here: http://www.voltairenet.org/article187685.html Macedonia has just neutralised an armed group whose sponsors had been under surveillance for at least eight months. By doing so, it has prevented a new attempt at a coup d’État, planned by Washington for the…
Free Financial Markets Are A Hoax — Paul Craig Roberts
Free Financial Markets Are A Hoax Paul Craig Roberts There are no free financial markets in America, or for that matter anywhere in the Western world, and few, if any, free markets of any other kind. The financial markets are rigged by the big banks, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury in the interests of the profits of the few…
Washington Protects Its Lies With More Lies — Paul Craig Roberts
Washington Protects Its Lies With More Lies Paul Craig Roberts My distrust has deepened of Seymour Hersh’s retelling of the Obama regime’s extra-judicial murder of Osama bin Laden by operating illegally inside a sovereign country. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/05/11/seymour-hersh-succumbs-disinformation-paul-craig-roberts/ That Hersh’s story, which is of very little inherent interest, received such a large amount of attention, is almost proof of orchestration in order…
Guest Column by Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky Holds the New York Times to Account Paul Craig Roberts I can remember when the New York Times was only partly a CIA asset using its ink in support of Washington’s lies. The other part of the paper was the upper class paternalistic liberalism of that time. The New York Times helped to destroy America. Washington has taken…
Clinton and the Bankers — Guest Column by Nomi Prins
Clinton Destroyed The Financial System Nomi Prins points out how Wall Street and the Big Banks used money to seduce the Clintons and then used the Clintons to remake the US financial system in the interest of the maximum profits of the Big Banks. Try to imagine your fate if the Clintons get a second crack at your wellbeing. Read…
More Lies From Your Government
By: pcr3|22 May, 2015|Categories: Dave Kranzler . Guest Contributions
More Lies From Your Government guest column by Dave Kranzler The Government Fraudulently Reported April Inflation Numbers http://investmentresearchdynamics.com/the-government-fraudulently-reported-april-inflation-numbers/
A Color Revolution for Macedonia — Paul Craig Roberts
A Color Revolution for Macedonia Paul Craig Roberts During the Cold War Washington was concerned about communists fomenting street protests that they could turn into revolutions, with groomed politicians waiting in the wings to take over the new government, thus expanding the Soviet empire. Today this is precisely what Washington does. We recently witnessed this operation in Ukraine and now…
Memorial Day Is A Hoax — Paul Craig Roberts
Memorial Day Is A Hoax Paul Craig Roberts Memorial Day commemorates soldiers killed in war. We are told that the war dead died for us and our freedom. US Marine General Smedley Butler challenged this view. He said that our soldiers died for the profits of the bankers, Wall Street, Standard Oil, and the United Fruit Company. Here is an…
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Is Washington Coming To Its Senses? — Paul Craig Roberts
Is Washington Coming To Its Senses? Paul Craig Roberts There is much speculation about US Secretary of State John Kerry’s rush visit to Russia in the wake of Russia’s successful Victory Day celebration on May 9. On May 11, Kerry, who was snubbing Russia on the 9th, was on his way to Russia, and Putin consented to see him on…
Hell Unleashed — Paul Craig Roberts
Hell Unleashed Paul Craig Roberts This is what the arrogant morons who comprise the US government have stirred up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrSzCnz9Sic#t=2141 Watch this video for its entire 1 hour 20 minutes, and then ask yourself if Washington is making a good decision by driving us into conflict with Russia. (You might have to use your cursor to push the circle with…
Seymour Hersh Succumbs To Disinformation — Paul Craig Roberts
Seymour Hersh Succumbs To Disinformation Paul Craig Roberts Seymour Hersh has published a long account of the homicide of Osama bin Laden: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden Hersh concludes that the Obama regime’s account of the killing of bin Laden is a total fabrication except for the fact that bin Laden was killed. I do not believe Hersh’s story for three reasons. One reason…
War Threat Rises As Economy Declines — Paul Craig Roberts,
War Threat Rises As Economy Declines Paul Craig Roberts, Keynote Address to the Annual Conference of the Financial West Group, New Orleans, May 7, 2015 The defining events of our time are the collapse of the Soviet Union, 9/11, jobs offshoring, and financial deregulation. In these events we find the basis of our foreign policy problems and our economic problems.…
Economic Disinformation Keeps Financial Markets Up — Paul Craig Roberts
Economic Disinformation Keeps Financial Markets Up Paul Craig Roberts May 8. Today’s payroll jobs report is more of the same. The Bureau of Labor Statistics claims that 223,000 new jobs were created in April. Let’s accept the claim and see where the jobs are. Specialty trade contractors are credited with 41,000 jobs equally split between residential and nonresidential. I believe…
It Is Time to Call Radio “Liberty” What It Is: Radio Gestapo Amerika — Paul Craig Roberts
It Is Time to Call Radio “Liberty” What It Is: Radio Gestapo Amerika Paul Craig Roberts Radio “Liberty” has always been a propaganda ministry. Formerly its propaganda was directed against the Soviet Union. Today it is directed against distinguished Americans who are known and respected for their allegiance to the truth. Radio Liberty’s latest target is an American scholar who…
This is what happens to truth-tellers in America The propaganda arm of Washington, DC known as Radio Free Europe is running a hatchet job on Stephen Cohen, one of America’s preeminent Russia scholars, for standing up to U.S. establishment propaganda about Russia. It happens to all of us. Read: http://www.rferl.org/content/stephen-cohen-us-scholar-controversial-putin-apologist/26997584.html
How the Police Became Aristocrats
By: pcr3|06 May, 2015|Categories: Guest Contributions . John W. Whitehead
How the Police Became Aristocrats During the time that Western legal norms were evolving in the direction of equality under law, which means the application of the same laws to all social classes, aristocrats answered to different laws than did commoners. Some offenses were not punished at all and others had lighter penalties. Holding everyone, including the government, to account…
The Choice Before Europe — Paul Craig Roberts
The Choice Before Europe Paul Craig Roberts Washington continues to drive Europe toward one or the other of the two most likely outcomes of the orchestrated conflict with Russia. Either Europe or some European Union member government will break from Washington over the issue of Russian sanctions, thereby forcing the EU off of the path of conflict with Russia, or…
Pam and Russ Martens explain how the media misleads Americans about the economy
Pam and Russ Martens explain how the media misleads Americans about the economy http://wallstreetonparade.com/2015/04/why-the-fed-will-crash-the-economy-if-it-hikes-rates-in-three-charts/
WASHINGTON IS A GREAT DANGER TO THE WORLD
WASHINGTON IS A GREAT DANGER TO THE WORLD Guest column by Dana Visalli “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience.” Howard Zinn “If…
Is Merkel A CIA Asset?
Is Merkel A CIA Asset? guest column by Finian Cunningham http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41728.htm
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The Clergy Project…...so what is it?
Thursday 31st January 2019
“rituals are symbolic celebrations of life, illustrated with strange and wonderful myths that can inspire us to live better lives”…...
“Ideally, individual churches or whole denominations might quite forthrightly forsake the double-talk and hypocrisy and make it clear to young and old within the church that these rituals are symbolic celebrations of life, illustrated with strange and wonderful myths that can inspire us to live better lives, and that there is no obligation to try to believe in their literal truth. Then church services could evolve into a new kind of theater, intended to refocus folks’ attention on things more important than their mundane projects, and inspiring them to contribute their time, effort, and yes, money to making the world a better place.”
Daniel C. Dennet Interview. As recorded by Catherine Dunphy in From Apostle to Apostate: The Story of the Clergy Project. Durham: Pitchstone, 2015. Pg 47.
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Connected - worship ideas from PCN USA
As progressive Christians create new liturgies, they often build on treasures from the past...
We are all connected, not only across nations and cultures and religions, but across time. Even as we head into the future, we carry with us our ties to the past. It’s how we orient ourselves and keep from getting lost, like Ariadne’s thread in the labyrinth. As progressive Christians create new liturgies, they often build on treasures from the past — new lyrics to a well-known hymn-tune, a new setting of words from an ancient psalm. Just another form of evolution.
Washington DC Church To Hold Time of Fasting and Prayer For The Peaceful Removal of Donald Trump From Office
The church is seeking both the religious and non-religious to join in with them in their time of fasting and prayer. A local meetup group has…...
Washington, DC, January 22, 2019—
Church For Black Men and Families has announced that they will be dedicating a sustained time and prayer and fasting (abstinence from food) to seek God for the peaceful removal of Donald Trump from Presidential office. The church’s decision was motivated by the effects of the government shutdown on federal workers.
Proclaiming the contents of the Catechism more loudly and in more detail not the answer says Tablet correspondent
In news from Britain and Ireland (19 January), The Catholic weekly “The Tablet” reported that the Bishop of Dunkeld has launched…...
If they did, it would reveal some fundamental details of Christian belief that require revision, as they are just not credible in today’s world, and that modern theologians provide alternative, helpful insights. It would also reveal that going to Mass is not always a very fulfilling experience for many people, for a variety of reasons.
Getting people into Mass seems a poor objective for a programme of evangelisation.
The Resistance Bible Study Podcast
Friend and frequent contributor to ProgressiveChristianity.org, Rabbi Brian, has compiled conversations with 12 of his Biblically literate…...
Join Rabbi Brian as he talks to Reverend Jim Burklo, Dr. Tracy Hartman, Rev. Irene Monroe, Pastor John Pavlovitz and more as he seeks to find out what the bible is and how to use it to fight oppression.
Find the podcast here: The Resistance Bible Study Podcast
Confessions - Mary Warnock interviewed by Giles Fraser
Wednesday 16th January 2019
Giles Fraser talks to distinguished philosopher Baroness Warnock about morality, being an atheist Anglican...
Find the series of “Confessions” on the Unherd website - including the discussion with Mary Warnock
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Creationist Christians and Science - news from PCN USA
Recently, Arizona’s state school board narrowly defeated the effort of creationist Christians to alter science standards and open the door…...
Dear Readers, Believe it or not, “Young Earthers” are folks who are convinced that the earth (and all of creation) is only 6,022 years old (as of 2018). How did they arrive at this remarkably specific date?
It seems that back in the 17th century, a Renaissance Bishop (James Ussher, 1581-1656) figured that he could use the Bible to calculate the date of creation. Taking note of genealogies, events, and the number of candles on Methuselah’s birthday cake (all of which he took as literally as possible), he counted backwards to arrive at the exact day of creation: October 23rd 4004 BCE. He wasn’t clear on the exact time (or the time zone), but suggested that it was in the morning.
Today, a big chunk of American Christians attend churches that claim the Bible is inerrant (without error) and infallible (a safe and reliable source in all matters). I want to believe that most of them don’t actually believe this – considering that they live in the 21st century – but enough of them do believe it to make it a problem for the rest of us.
And you’ve got to feel a little sorry for them. Literalists are taught to expect that the Bible does not waiver from objective truth in the matter of history and science – and despite advances in biology, cosmology, archaeology, geology – and evidence in the Bible itself – they continue to double-down on inerrancy. As an outside observer of this phenomenon, it appears that they believe that “real” Christians are somehow spiritually superior for their ability to, despite evidence to the contrary, deny reality. Obviously, this has clear parallels in our current political reality.
Coalition Against Misuse of the Blasphemy Laws
an international coalition with a common aim: an end to the way Pakistan’s blasphemy law is currently being abused....
CAMBL asks for PCN members support -
Coalition Against Misuse of the Blasphemy Laws is an international coalition with a common aim: an end to the way Pakistan’s blasphemy law is currently being abused.
Along with opportunities to advocate for change, we will provide key legal resources regarding the Coalition Against Misuse of the Blasphemy Laws and its status in international law. Also we will keep you updated on all developments as the future of the Blasphemy Law is discussed, within Pakistan and around the world.
The coalition was founded by the Christian charity CLAAS, who have dedicated to helping persecuted Christians in Pakistan since 1998. We have been offering legal assistance to those accused of committing blasphemy and, when necessary, giving safe refuge to those in fear of reprisals.
However, Coalition Against Misuse of the Blasphemy Laws is open to both religious and nonreligious organisations, including both Christians and Muslims, who feel the law should not be abused in this way.
The voice of opposition grows louder every day. Together, change is possible.
Applications are invited for the position of Minister of the Word St Michael’s Uniting Church, Melbourne, Australia
An opportunity exists to lead and guide a receptive congregation, in a prestigious city church to its next phase of spiritual growth and development....
The congregation of St Michael’s is looking for a minister who embraces contemporary, progressive Christian theology.
St Michael’s enjoys a vibrant arts and music program which is integral to Sunday services and other scheduled events.
“I am the church, and this is my confession.
Tuesday 1st January 2019
My last confession was 500 years ago....
Church Confession
by James Burklo on December 29, 2018 - published by Progressive Christianity USA
“I am the church, and this is my confession. My last confession was 500 years ago. I have oppressed women and kept them out of leadership positions. I have oppressed gay and lesbian people. I have judged people pointlessly for having normal sexual urges and relationships, treating sex like a disease instead of lifting it up as a precious gift from God. I have failed to see the absurd irony of being the church of Jesus, a humble servant, while pridefully claiming that my religion is the only true faith.
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From Peckham Vision
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Peckham Vision is a resident-led local community consortium of individuals who live, work or run a business in Peckham. Its vision is to support Peckham town centre as a thriving and sustainable social and commercial centre, and to contribute to Peckham being a good place for all in which to live, work and visit. The objects of the Group are to:
Promote and encourage citizen action to revitalise Peckham town centre so that it is an integrated and resilient place and links past, present and future for the benefit of all who live and work there.
Create and nurture ways of connecting people in Peckham who share enthusiasm and desire to help develop and realise the potential of Peckham, and to make the lessons available beyond Peckham.
1 An integrated town centre
2 Pioneering new approaches to citizen engagement
3 Working arrangements
4 The nature of community
An integrated town centre
Since 2005 we have encouraged informed discussion about the development plans for Peckham Town Centre, and stimulated a variety of ideas for transforming the central area of Rye Lane around Peckham Rye station, Copeland Cultural Quarter, and the Bussey building. Some material from this work since 2006 is on this website; see especially Transforming Central Rye Lane and An alternative vision for Rye Lane Central.
We have taken a lead to demonstrate the role of historical buildings restoration from an integrated view of Peckham town centre:
promoted the idea of recreating the public square in front of Peckham Rye station, to transform the pedestrian experience in that central part of Rye Lane. This is now a key part of the Council’s Gateway to Peckham project to realise the potential of Peckham Rye station, and its location.
[photo historic station]
led the way in developing the vision and its implementation to restore the station Old Waiting Room, and the Victorian staircase as a town centre function space, run as a community enterprise.]
made the proposal to the Heritage Lottery Fund which resulted in a successful first round Council application for a Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) to restore selected historic buildings in the town centre. [photo historic buildings]
We work with and link people and enterprises from the parallel local economies of local independent traders, creative enterprises, main stream retailers, the historic restoration work and the faith and religious world. The early years of this work stimulated the emergence of a Peckham Town Centre Forum which first met in December 2009. It has facilitated many events and interactions since then.
Pioneering new approaches to citizen engagement
Underpinning the historic restoration work is Peckham Vision’s development of a history and heritage learning project to link all Peckham educational ages to the restoration work and the way that connects with wider issues and aspects of town centre life. [LINK to new page summarising this]Peckham Vision is committed to developing good quality information to distribute in a variety of ways to local people, and to create innovative ways for them to become engaged in the work. There are
continuing events, including seminars, guided walkabouts in the town centre, public meetings in the Bussey building and in the Old Waiting Room.
exhibitions such as the 3 day exhibition in the Old Waiting Room, the exhibition displays in the ground floor foyer of Peckham library and mobile exhibitions at local community fairs.
regular emails to a mailing list of over 2500 local people on topical matters relating to the town centre and to the wider Peckham community and posted in the PRN blog.
Facebook and twitter and local web discussion forums.
new ways to cater for 'pop-up' volunteering to tap into the enthusiasm of hundreds of potential volunteers able to volunteer only for ad hoc opportunities.
developing and nurturing relationships and working together with traders and with faith groups.
Working arrangements
Peckham Vision works very closely with local organisations, particularly with the Peckham Society, the Bellenden Residents Group, the Peckham Residents Network, the Rye Lane Traders' Association (RLTA), and Benedict O’Looney Architects.
There are working contacts with Southwark Council, and the rail companies - Network Rail and Southern Rail. [ In addition, the Peckham Rye Station Partnership [LINK] formalises the working relationship between Peckham Vision and Southern Rail who manage the operational use of the railway station.]
Peckham Vision is a constituted community association. The work is conducted by a small team of five residents who form the Management Board, supported by a range of local people who volunteer for particular events and activities. A Friends organisation is being planned for such supporters, and for fund raising to support and pay for the considerable work that residents are carrying out unpaid.
Contact us through our contact page or email: info@peckhamvision.org
The nature of community
Underlying the work of Peckham Vision is the understanding that the strength of a community lies in the connections between people who live, work and run businesses there. Peckham Vision is dedicated to exploring and nurturing those connections, and ways to link into their energy and enthusiasm on behalf of our neighbourhood. This work is influenced by the two systems approach developed by Eileen Conn, long time resident of Peckham, co-ordinator and founder of Peckham Vision and associate research fellow of the TSRC (Third Sector Research Centre). Further information about the two systems ‘social eco-systems dance’ model can be found here.
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Now a Major Film Starring Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen
Nicholas Searle
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING HELEN MIRREN AND IAN MCKELLEN
This is a life told back to front.
This is a man who has lied all his life.
Roy is a conman living in a leafy English suburb, about to pull off the final coup of his career. He is going to meet and woo a beautiful woman and slip away with her life savings.
But who is the man behind the con and what has he had to do to survive this life of lies?
And why is this beautiful woman so willing to be his next victim?
'You will have your socks knocked, nay, blown off' Stylist
'An assured thriller in the footsteps of le Carré, Highsmith and Rendell' Guardian
'A part-thriller, part-human condition novel that packs a tremendous punch' Financial Times
An assured thriller debut in the footsteps of le Carré, Highsmith and Rendell...The Good Liar makes you want to experience Nicholas Searle's next trick
This is set to be one of the books of the year that will get everyone talking....If you go in with absolutely no preconceptions, you will have your socks knocked, nay, blown off
A part-thriller, part-human condition novel that packs a tremendous punch
The Good Liar is a taut, compulsive thriller with a dark, intriguing heart. A Mr Ripley for our time
All the ingredients are in this book...You're in safe hands with Searle's elegant writing
An incredibly dark, taut thriller...it deserves to be a bestseller. Think of Ruth Rendell morphing into John le Carré
Searle shows a gift for complex plotting. The Good Liar is packed with secrets and surprises, bluffs and double-bluffs
A perfectly entertaining way to spend a few hours
A confident debut...an easy page-turner
A cracking read
Graham Norton, BBC Radio 2
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Nicholas Searle is the author of three novels. His first novel, The Good Liar, was a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger for the best debut crime novel. Before becoming a writer, Nicholas worked in British intelligence for more than twenty-five years. He lives in Yorkshire.
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Joe Hockey defends the culture of entitlement, which he opposes
On Radio National today:
"We don’t support blanket cuts because the Government has determined that’s the way they are going to do it... There are a million Australians earning $24,000 or less that have private health insurance. I don’t see that as middle class and they’re overwhelmingly people who are trying to pay their way in their older years. The changes to the Baby Bonus are not means tested changes, they’re just blanket changes. So, frankly, I think the suggestion that it is about middle class welfare is actually inaccurate, because they are widespread cuts, but there’s no sense in it"
At the Institute of Economic Affairs, London, 17 April:
"The entitlements bestowed on tens of millions of people by successive governments, fuelled by short-term electoral cycles and the politics of outbidding your opponents are, in essence, undermining our ability to ensure democracy, fair representation and economic sustainability for future generations... The age of unlimited and unfunded entitlement to government services and income support is over. It’s as over in Greece as it is in Italy, in Spain, and in the USA."
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Richard Mitchell
RICHARD MITCHELL, RIGHT HANDED PITCHER
Signed: Int’l Free Agent, 2011, Pittsburgh Pirates
How Acquired: International Free Agent
Mitchell throws in the low-90s, with a curve and change. He received a reasonably large bonus, so he’s a guy the Pirates hoped would turn into a prospect. So far he’s missed very few bats.
DSL: 2-0-0, 5.46 ERA, 1.61 WHIP, 28.0 IP, 4.8 BB, 5.1 K/9
Mitchell pitched in relief in his debut season, struggling with his control.
DSL: 4-4-0, 4.74 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 38.0 IP, 5.9 BB/9, 5.0 K/9
Mitchell stayed in the bullpen, but had even more trouble with the strike zone.
The Pirates moved Mitchell to the rotation and he made significant progress drastically improving his control. He did, however, have a near-nonexistent K rate.
R: 2-2-0, 3.38 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 21.1 IP, 3.8 BB/9, 5.9 K/9
Mitchell moved up to the GCL, where he pitched in relief. He got decent results with a higher but still very low K rate.
Mitchell has been progressing very slowly. He could be a candidate for Bristol in 2016.
MLB Debut: N/A
MLB FA Eligible: N/A
Added to 40-Man: N/A
2011: Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an international free agent.
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Man arrested for two guns
Police confiscated this pistol at the weekend.
A 32-year-old man, was due to appear in the Mitchell’s Plain Magistrate’s Court on Monday February 26 after police confiscated two pistols, a Norinco 9mm and a CZ 9mm and 18 live rounds of ammunition. He was arrested during a routine police crime prevention patrol in Zebra Crescent, in Eastridge, on Saturday February 24, at about 10am.
A Tafelsig man was due in the Mitchell’s Plain Magistrate’s Court in connection with dealing in drugs. The man, 38, was arrested on Wednesday February 21 at about 2pm, when police executed search warrants at a house in Huisrivier Street.
During the search, they found four bankies containing 122 packets of tik in the house.
On the same day, Mitchell’s Plain police confiscated 26 9mm live rounds of ammunition from a man, 27, in Tafelsig, on Wednesday February 21 at about 6pm. He was one of two men the police stopped and searched during patrols in Kamiesberg Street.
The men walked faster, when they realised the police van was following them, and the police officers stopped them and asked to search them.
Four men, two aged 38, 25 and 18, were due to appear in Mitchell’s Plain Magistrate’s Court after the police confiscated 53 whole mandrax tablets, and half mandrax tables. They were arrested in Assegaaibos Street, in Tafelsig, on Tuesday February 20, after police followed up on a tip-off.
Mitchell’s Plain police station commander, Brigadier Cass Goolam, said they and crime-fighting community members are committed to reducing crime.
“Residents are urged to join the community structures, in their respective communities,” he said.
Anyone with information about crime, can call Crime Stop on 08600 10111 or their local police station on 021 370 1600 or 021 370 1706 (Mitchell’s Plain), 021 377 5042 (Lentegeur) or 021 370 1500 (Strandfontein).
“All information will be treated as highly confidential,” Brigadier Goolam said.
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New online flexible membership scheme promises 1000s of new members for UK golf clubs
A new campaign which simplifies and encourages golf club membership will get Britons golfing again.
That’s the aim of PlayMoreGolf, a new and innovative, flexible, online points-based membership concept created from a proven model which attracted 18,000 new members to 12 golf clubs over just a four-year period.
Golf clubs sign up to PlayMoreGolf and the experienced team behind it – which previously developed the successful De Vere Club flexible membership product – carry out all the arduous marketing and administrative tasks on behalf of partner clubs.
Launched on 1st November 2015, PlayMoreGolf helps reduce flexible membership overheads for the clubs, adding new members with the innovative online scheme and bringing in additional revenue from other partner venues. The points-based programme has the option of no upfront cost from golf clubs*, and provides a no-risk growth opportunity.
Potentially, membership revenue can grow by as much as 50 per cent inside just three years, while increasing the traditional membership base and reducing the average age of members by up to 20 years at the same time.
PlayMoreGolf director Jamie Carroll explained: ‘It is now widely accepted that flexible points-based membership is the way to get people playing golf again in this country. And we believe PlayMoreGolf’s creative and innovative approach will, not only encourage people back into the game – and get newcomers started – but also see them retained within the game over a longer period of time, particularly young and occasional golfers.
‘As a team, we learned previously how to create and administer the country’s most successful flexible membership scheme, and we are now able to utilise this experience to help grow other clubs’ flexible membership numbers and revenues, while simultaneously improving the experience for golfers.
‘In essence, we will build a partnership proposal to suit each individual golf club. We believe the bespoke options available will allow each club to structure the relationship in a way that is cost effective for its business.
‘The previous model was, naturally, limited to the clubs within the group – but this is inclusive, meaning 100s of golf clubs can join and each can benefit.’
PlayMoreGolf also provides its member clubs with bespoke sales training support, member acquisition marketing campaign support, a fully integrated customer relationship management programme (CRM), and a web-booking engine that interfaces with the club’s booking requirements.
For the golfer, membership starts at £325 per year and gives the member a minimum of 100 points – 80 to be utilised at the ‘home’ club and 20 reserved for rounds at other participating clubs. Clubs simply need to determine how many points are redeemed for a round, and, once a member’s points run out, they simply purchase more. And, at renewal, any unused home points can be carried forward, free of charge.
With more than 80 years combined experience in the golf and leisure industry, the founders of PlayMoreGolf are the same team which launched and ran the hugely successful De Vere Club membership scheme in 2010, which was even adopted by four-time Ryder Cup venue The Belfry.
For a no-obligation proposal, simply contact the team on 07825 057448 or email [email protected].
*Different partnership packages are available to suit all types of golf club
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Dead animal with its head missing dumped in Plymouth street
The RSPCA have confirmed they are investigating how the deer died
The discovery, made just off Pike Road, followed a similar incident in Lincolnshire last year (inset) (Image: Google/Lincolnshire Live)
Horrified residents have found a dead deer dumped in their Plymouth street - missing its head.
The RSPCA has confirmed it has been alerted to the grim discovery, which was made in the Efford area on Friday.
Horrified residents say they stumbled across the body of the animal while walking their dogs.
Initially it was feared the animal was a greyhound or lurcher dog - and social media posts have begun circulating accusing an "evil scumbag" of decapitating it.
But experts have confirmed the animal, which was found just off Pike Road, is in fact a deer and that it is not clear how it came to lose its head.
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A spokeswoman for the RSPCA said: "We were contacted on Friday (27 April) by a concerned member of the public who had found the body of an animal dumped in Pike Road, Plymouth.
"Vets confirmed that the body - which was missing its head - was a deer and we suspect it had been dead for a few days.
"It's not clear how the deer was killed, why its head was missing or whether any offences have been committed."
One woman, posting on Facebook, had issued a warning to other residents earlier.
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A similar discovery was made in Lincolnshire last year (Image: Lincolnshire Live)
She wrote: "Can anyone especially in Efford area of Plymouth help to track down the owner or the perpetrator/s please?
"Large dog possibly a lurcher or greyhound had been dumped within the last 24hrs with its head missing.
"Some evil scumbag has just dumped it by the garages at the end of Manor Farm and Manor cottages just off Pike road Efford.
"If anybody knows of someone who had a old lurcher or greyhound in the area please let us know. Such a horrible sight to see whilst walking with my dogs."
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Temporally defined neocortical translation and polysome assembly are determined by the RNA-binding protein Hu antigen R
Matthew L. Kraushar, Kevin Thompson, H. R. Sagara Wijeratne, Barbara Viljetic, Kristina Sakers, Justin W. Marson, Dimitris L. Kontoyiannis, Steven Buyske, Ronald P. Hart, and Mladen-Roko Rasin
PNAS September 9, 2014 111 (36) E3815-E3824; first published August 25, 2014 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1408305111
Matthew L. Kraushar
aDepartment of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Rutgers University, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ 08854;
H. R. Sagara Wijeratne
Barbara Viljetic
Kristina Sakers
Justin W. Marson
Dimitris L. Kontoyiannis
bDivision of Immunology, Biomedical Sciences Research Center Alexander Fleming, 16672 Vari, Greece; and
Steven Buyske
Departments of cStatistics and Biostatistics and
Ronald P. Hart
dCell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854
Mladen-Roko Rasin
For correspondence: roko.rasin@rutgers.edu
Edited by Pasko Rakic, Yale University, New Haven, CT, and approved August 1, 2014 (received for review May 6, 2014)
The neocortex is an intricate and diverse cellular network in the brain, generating complex thought and voluntary motor behavior. Although recent attention has focused on the genome and transcriptome, our goal is to study the role of posttranscriptional processing and mRNA translation in neocortical development. In this work, we show that the protein components of actively translating ribosomes and their mRNA cargo in the developing neocortex depend on the temporally specific action of an RNA-binding protein, Hu antigen R (HuR). We further show that HuR is required for the development of neocortical neurons and structure. This study contributes to our overall understanding of how the regulation of functional gene expression influences neocortical development.
Precise spatiotemporal control of mRNA translation machinery is essential to the development of highly complex systems like the neocortex. However, spatiotemporal regulation of translation machinery in the developing neocortex remains poorly understood. Here, we show that an RNA-binding protein, Hu antigen R (HuR), regulates both neocorticogenesis and specificity of neocortical translation machinery in a developmental stage-dependent manner in mice. Neocortical absence of HuR alters the phosphorylation states of initiation and elongation factors in the core translation machinery. In addition, HuR regulates the temporally specific positioning of functionally related mRNAs into the active translation sites, the polysomes. HuR also determines the specificity of neocortical polysomes by defining their combinatorial composition of ribosomal proteins and initiation and elongation factors. For some HuR-dependent proteins, the association with polysomes likewise depends on the eukaryotic initiation factor 2 alpha kinase 4, which associates with HuR in prenatal developing neocortices. Finally, we found that deletion of HuR before embryonic day 10 disrupts both neocortical lamination and formation of the main neocortical commissure, the corpus callosum. Our study identifies a crucial role for HuR in neocortical development as a translational gatekeeper for functionally related mRNA subgroups and polysomal protein specificity.
posttranscriptional regulation
GCN2
Development of the mammalian neocortex follows a precise sequence of events and generates a remarkably diverse network of local and long-range circuits that mediate complex cognitive and motor functions (1⇓⇓⇓–5). First, neuroepithelial stem cells lining the lateral ventricles of the nascent dorsal telencephalon undergo symmetrical cell division to expand the pool of stem cells before neurogenesis. The neurogenic phase begins when these neuroepithelial cells develop into a glial-like progenitor called radial glia (RG) and express the Paired box protein 6 (Pax6) transcription factor. Next, RG shift from symmetrical cell divisions to asymmetrical divisions and directly generate either T-box brain protein 2 (Tbr2)-expressing intermediate progenitor cells (IPCs) or doublecortin-expressing neuroblasts that populate cortical plate (CP) layers. The first neuroblasts generated from RG or IPCs populate the lower CP layers, express characteristic transcription factors (e.g., Bcl11b and Tle4 transcription factors), and differentiate to project subcortically via tracts to the thalamus, brainstem, or spinal cord. The neuroblasts generated later migrate past the first ones, express different transcription factors (e.g., Cdp and Satb2), and differentiate into upper-layer neurons that project intracortically, either to the contralateral hemisphere that forms the corpus callosum or ipsilaterally. Therefore, neocortical layers develop from RG progenitors to projection neurons in an inside-out fashion, which depends on transcriptional control (1, 4, 6, 7). Posttranscriptional mRNA regulation is also involved in determining the remarkable diversity of cellular subtypes and unique circuits, but this regulatory mechanism is poorly understood in complex systems like the neocortex (5, 8⇓⇓⇓–12).
Because of the temporal delay between mRNA transcript processing and the production of functional proteins, mRNA transcript levels may not accurately reflect protein levels, and vice versa. This discrepancy has been documented globally in mammalian cells (13) and specifically in the neocortex (5, 14), where there can be a long time lag between the appearance of an mRNA and the production of its protein. Key to the spatiotemporal orchestration of mRNA fate is regulation by RNA-binding proteins (RBPs), which mediate transcript splicing, transport, stability, and ultimately several distinct and tightly controlled steps of translation (5, 12, 15⇓⇓–18). Translation is a particularly complex and highly regulated process (17, 19). Briefly, mRNA is first activated by binding of its 5′ untranslated region to the eukaryotic initiation factor 4F eukaryotic initiation cap complex. The activated mRNA then joins the 43S preinitiation complex, which contains a small 40S ribosomal subunit and a eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (eIF2)–GTP–tRNAMet ternary complex. During initiation, the ternary complex is removed from the 40S subunit, and the 60S ribosomal subunit is recruited to form the 80S ribosome. Actively translated mRNAs accumulate multiple 80S ribosomes per transcript, called polysomes, where active elongation occurs. Peptide elongation occurs via eukaryotic elongation factor 2 (eEF2)-dependent translocation. Eventually, translation is terminated, and ribosomes are recycled. The 40S and 60S subunits contain distinct ribosomal proteins, designated as ribosomal proteins small (e.g., RPS26 and RPS27) or ribosomal proteins large (e.g., RPL5 and RPL7), respectively. The regulators of 80S assembly, polysome accumulation, and ribosomal protein components are largely unknown in complex, developing systems such as the neocortex.
RBP-regulated posttranscriptional processing, including translation, is crucial for proper formation of the central nervous system (5). The RBP, Hu antigen R (HuR; also called ELAVL1), is estimated to have 26,000 transcriptome-wide targets in different cell lines and is implicated in multiple steps of posttranscriptional processing, including splicing, stability, and translation (20⇓–22). However, the molecular mechanisms of HuR-mediated posttranscriptional mRNA processing, polysome specificity, and its specific role in neocortical development are currently unknown.
Here, we reveal HuR's role in the temporally specific association of functionally related mRNAs in polysomes of the developing neocortex. HuR regulates the translation of numerous mRNA transcripts that encode members of transcriptional and translational regulatory pathways. HuR associates with the eIF2-alpha kinase 4 (eIF2ak4, also known as GCN2), influencing the presence of initiation and elongation factors and determining the specificity of ribosomal proteins in neocortical polysomes. These results suggest that RBPs dynamically regulate ribosome assembly, polysome specificity, and the temporal translation of functionally related mRNA subgroups in complex developing systems such as the neocortex.
HuR Is Expressed in Neurogenic RG, IPCs, and Postmitotic Projection Neurons.
Previous work using microarray analyses coupled with bioinformatics revealed that neocortical HuR mRNA was strongly expressed in the developing mice and human neocortices (5, 23, 24). In mice, HuR was found to be expressed at the following key neurogenic stages in the developing neocortex: embryonic day 11 (E11), onset of projection neuron neurogenesis; E13, predominantly lower layer projection neuron genesis; E15, predominantly upper-layer projection neuron genesis; and E18, the termination of projection neuron neurogenesis. Distinct cell types and layers of the developing neocortex have compartmentalized functions (1, 2, 4, 5, 25); therefore, it was necessary to determine the cell-type-specific expression of HuR.
We performed coimmunohistochemical staining for HuR and distinct cell-type-specific markers at stages E13, E16, and postnatal day 0 (P0) (Fig. 1A). We identified HuR protein in the neocortical ventricular zone (VZ) at E13 and E16, where it was highly enriched in cycling RG as determined by colocalization with Pax6 (specific for cycling RG) and phosphorylated histone 3 (pH3; M-phase cells) (Fig. 1A). These results suggest that HuR may be required for neocortical RG proliferation and/or differentiation, consistent with previously described roles for HuR in the cell cycle of tumor stem cells and in facilitating the exposure of neuronal precursors to Delta/Notch signals (26, 27). In the embryonic CP at E16 and later at P0, strong HuR expression was observed in differentiating deep-layer subcortically projecting neurons, as determined by colocalization with Bcl11b, and in upper-layer intracortically projecting neurons, as determined by colocalization with Satb2 and Cdp/Cux1 (1, 4, 5) (Fig. 1A). This expression pattern suggests that HuR may be involved in the specification of postmitotic identity of different projection-neuron subpopulations. Taken together, these developmental expression patterns suggest a key role for HuR as an RBP in early proliferative neocortical RG and postmitotic neocortical neurons, and possibly in neocortical circuit formation.
HuR regulates mRNA translation in mitotic neural stem cells and differentiating projection neurons of the developing neocortex. (A) Representative coronal confocal images of immunostained developing neocortices. HuR immunohistochemistry (red) shows that HuR is expressed in RG neural progenitors colabeled with Pax6 (green) and pH3 (green) at E13 and E16 in the ventricular zone (VZ). HuR is also expressed in postmitotic differentiated Bcl11b-positive lower-layer neurons (green) and in upper-layer neurons labeled with Satb2 and Cdp/Cux1 (green) at E16 and P0. CP, cortical plate; DL, deep layers; L2/3, layer 2/3; L5, layer 5; LV, lateral ventricle; SVZ, subventricular zone; UL, upper layers. (B) Schematic of sucrose density gradient fractionation and isolation of 40S–60S–80S and polysome cytoplasmic components for analysis. (C) E13 and P0 WT and Emx1–HuR-cKO neocortices were fractionated into 40S–60S–80S and polysomes, then subjected to RNAseq coupled with bioinformatics analysis. Volcano plots show gene-expression levels relative to WT; blue dots represent higher expression in HuR-cKO; red dots represent lower expression in HuR-cKO; and gray dots represent unchanged levels at a false-discovery rate ≤5%. Venn diagrams show the number of genes that change with HuR-cKO in 40S–60S–80S and polysomal fractions, with respect to total mRNA expression levels (whether changed or unchanged), analyzed by RNAseq at E13 and P0. (D) Venn diagrams show total, 40S–60S–80S, and polysome-associated mRNAs that change in abundance in response to HuR deletion. The mRNAs are unique to E13, unique to P0, or present at both developmental stages.
HuR Determines Temporally Distinct mRNA Enrichment in 40S–60S–80S and Polysomal Fractions of Developing Neocortices.
To identify candidate mRNAs regulated at the translational level by HuR in developing neocortices in an unbiased fashion, we performed sucrose density-gradient (10−50%) ultracentrifugation and fractionation (28, 29) coupled to RNA sequencing (RNAseq) and bioinformatics analysis (30) of combined fractions representing 40S–60S–80S and polysomes at E13 and P0 from wild-type (WT) and Emx1–Cre × HuRf/f conditional-knockout (HuR-cKO) mice (31, 32) (Fig. 1 B–D and Fig. S1). This cKO line harbors a selective deletion of HuR at approximately E11 in RG, resulting in HuR depletion in all primary projection neurons in the neocortex. The mRNA identity and levels in 40S–60S–80S and polysomal fractions were measured against total levels by RNAseq coupled to bioinformatics, where 40S–60S–80S and polysomal fractions were determined by using an RNA absorbance curve monitored during fractionation (Fig. 1B and Fig. S1A). First, results indicated that a small fraction of mRNAs’ total levels were affected in HuR-cKOs at E13 and P0 compared with WT mRNAs (Fig. 1C). At E13, we detected a total of 656 genes that were affected (2.83% of expressed genes); the levels of 433 mRNAs were lower in HuR-cKO and 223 mRNAs were higher in HuR-cKO compared with those of WT mice. At P0, we detected a total of 192 genes that were affected (0.83% of expressed genes); the levels of 56 mRNAs were lower in HuR-cKO and 136 mRNAs were higher in HuR-cKO compared with those of WT. Most of the mRNAs affected by HuR-cKO at E13 differed from those that were affected at P0 (Fig. 1D), suggesting that the absence of HuR differentially alters mRNA transcripts at different developmental stages.
Although the total levels of many mRNAs did not change, a significant number had altered levels in the distinct 40S–60S–80S and polysomal fractions at both E13 and P0 (Fig. 1C). This result suggests that HuR regulates the translation of numerous neocortical mRNAs. At E13, the total levels of 22,628 mRNAs did not significantly differ between WT and HuR-cKO; however, 542 of these were significantly different in the 40S–60S–80S fraction, and 1,400 were significantly different in the polysomal fraction of HuR-cKO compared with those of WT. At P0, the total levels of 23,092 mRNAs did not significantly differ between WT and HuR-cKO; however, 368 of these were significantly different in the 40S–60S–80S fraction, and 875 were significantly different in the polysomal fraction of HuR-cKO compared with those of WT.
Only a small number of mRNAs were regulated by HuR at both E13 and P0 in these ribosomal fractions (Fig. 1D). In the 40S–60S–80S fraction, 24 genes were regulated by HuR at both E13 and P0 (4.4% of genes affected at E13; 6.5% of genes affected at P0). In the polysomal fraction, 130 genes were regulated by HuR at both E13 and P0 (9.3% of genes affected at E13; 21.5% of genes affected at P0), suggesting a greater consistency in HuR regulation of polysomal mRNAs. Collectively, these results suggest that HuR is required for appropriate translation of a large number of distinct mRNAs in a temporally specific manner.
HuR Regulates mRNAs Encoding Distinct Members of Transcriptional, Translational, and Layer-Specific Pathways at E13 and P0.
To determine whether particular pathways are regulated by HuR in the 40S–60S–80S and polysomal fractions of developing neocortices, we performed gene ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) analysis (33, 34) of mRNAs that were identified to be differentially distributed in 40S–60S–80S and/or polysomal fractions at E13 and P0 (Fig. 2A and Fig. S1B). All distinct mRNAs are represented as colored dots on the volcano plots in Fig. 1C, which illustrates their relationship to other expressed genes. By highlighting distinct functional groups or pathways, the analyses revealed that HuR regulates subgroups of neocortical mRNAs with similar functions. At E13, GO analysis revealed that, among transcripts unchanged in total levels, mRNAs encoding proteins regulating transcription were down-regulated in polysomal fractions of HuR-cKO compared with those of WT (Fig. 2A and Fig. S1B), whereas mRNAs encoding proteins involved in translation regulation were up-regulated in polysomal fractions of HuR-cKO compared with those of WT. KEGG pathway analysis indicated that a large number of mRNAs encoding ribosomal proteins and those associated with the cell cycle were affected in HuR-cKO compared with those of WT (Fig. 2A and Fig. S1B). These data suggest that HuR regulates the active translation of mRNAs in specific pathways in the polysomal fraction at E13.
HuR regulates the polysomal positioning of functionally related mRNAs in the developing neocortex. (A) KEGG and GO bioinformatics analyses indicate that, among mRNAs stable in total levels with HuR-cKO, those altered in 40S–60S–80S and polysomal fractions are functionally related transcripts. Venn diagrams present the number of mRNAs within each functional group (e.g., regulation of transcription) that differ in either 40S–60S–80S or polysomal fractions at E13 (Left) and P0 (Right) in HuR-cKO. Developmental-stage-dependent changes in each functional group are shown as a comparison between E13 and P0. Each Venn circle sums to the total number of mRNAs that undergo changes in abundance; the changes for each functional group are highlighted as subsets of WT and HuR-cKO. (B) The mRNA candidates revealed by RNAseq were confirmed with qRT-PCR of WT (filled bars) and HuR-cKO (open bars). Fractions corresponding to the nontranslating free, 40S/60S, and 80S vs. translating light and heavy polysomes are highlighted. (C) Quantification and statistical analysis of the nontranslating and translating fractions are shown comparing WT and HuR-cKO (n = 4 cortices in two fractionations; qRT-PCRs were performed in duplicate for each fraction). Statistical significance between WT and cKO for each category with t test is indicated in red text in Right (P < 0.05). (D) Bioinformatic analysis of the number of neocortical layer-specific mRNAs increased or decreased by HuR-cKO in the 40S–60S–80S and polysome at E13 and P0, showing a particularly strong effect on layer-2/3 and -5 polysome mRNAs at both ages.
We observed that HuR plays a substantial role in positioning the mRNAs localized to the 40S–60S–80S fraction, which represents the late stage of the translation initiation/preelongation phase. Control at this level may rapidly move mRNAs into or out of a position poised for translation, whereas the total mRNA levels are unchanged. Among the mRNAs that did not change in total levels, those found in the 40S–60S–80S fraction that encoded transcriptional regulators had higher levels in HuR-cKO at E13 compared with those in WT (Fig. 2A and Fig. S1B). However, the polysome-depleted mRNAs encoding transcriptional regulators at E13 were not the same as those that were enriched in 40S–60S–80S at E13 in HuR-cKO, suggesting specificity within subgroups of HuR-regulated mRNAs in developing neocortices. These data indicate that HuR influences polysomal translation of large subsets of functionally related cytoplasmic mRNAs in developing neocortices at E13, whereas it prevents others from becoming positioned for translation within the 40S–60S–80S fraction.
GO analysis of functionally related neocortical mRNAs at P0 identified substantial changes in HuR-influenced mRNA partitioning in the 40S–60S–80S and polysomal fractions among transcripts unchanged in total levels (Fig. 2A and Fig. S1B). At P0, HuR still regulates mRNAs encoding members of transcriptional and translational control pathways, although the number is somewhat lower, and the subsets differ from those at E13. At P0, a large number of mRNAs encoding proteins involved in cell adhesion were regulated by HuR. KEGG analysis indicated that ribosomal mRNAs were affected by conditional HuR knockout, but the HuR-regulated mRNAs differed at E13 and P0. Together, these results suggest that HuR differentially regulates distinct mRNA subgroups at the 40S–60S–80S and polysomal levels of translation during development, but has a comparatively smaller effect on total mRNA levels. The particular role of HuR in influencing translational and ribosomal genes suggests an autoregulatory process at the level of translation.
We next performed quantitative RT-PCR (qRT-PCR) on fractionated WT and HuR-cKO neocortices at P0 to confirm candidates identified in Figs. 1C and 2A that did not change in total mRNA levels but exhibited differential distributions among cytoplasmic (i.e., free), 40S–60S–80S, and polysomal fractions (Fig. 2 B and C and Fig. S2). Satb2 is an example of an unaffected transcript (Fig. S2). For example, ribosomal proteins Rplp0 and Rps26 mRNAs became substantially enriched in polysome fractions of the HuR-cKO compared to WT (Fig. 2 B and C). The deep-layer neocortical transcription factor Bcl11b mRNA displayed redistribution into the 40S–60S fraction in the HuR-cKO compared with that of WT (Fig. S2). We further confirmed these results with more stringent statistical testing via simulation. Monte Carlo-based tests of significance for pairwise differences showed that Rps26 had significant shifts (P < 0.05) in free, 40S–60S, 80S, and heavy polysomes, whereas Rps27 had a significant pairwise difference in the 80S fraction in HuR cKOs. These results reinforced our previous observation that mRNAs display HuR-influenced shifts into and out of 40S–60S, 80S, and polysomal fractions in developing neocortices, whereas the total levels of many of these HuR-regulated mRNAs do not change significantly at E13 or P0.
Finally, we extended our bioinformatic analysis to assess whether HuR-regulated mRNAs are associated with distinct neocortical layers in development (35). We found that HuR-cKO had a particular influence on a large number of layer 2/3- and 5-specific mRNAs by either increasing or decreasing their association with polysomes at E13 and P0 (Fig. 2D). In this way, HuR may potentially play a role in the transition from specifying subcortically projecting lower-layer neurons to later-born intracortically projecting upper-layer neurons. Together, our data suggest that there may be temporally specific cofactors for HuR in developing neocortices, which modulate HuR-dependent translation of functionally related mRNAs.
HuR Knockout Disrupts eIF2-Alpha and eEF2 Phosphorylation.
To further investigate how HuR influences mRNA translation, we examined the integrity of the core translational components in HuR-cKO neocortices at E13 and P0. Consistent with translational dysregulation in HuR-cKO neocortices at E13, we detected increased phosphorylation of the translation initiation factor eIF2-alpha (eIF2a), in contrast to decreased eEF2 phosphorylation in the cKO compared with WT (Fig. 3A). At P0, we observed increased eIF2a phosphorylation in HuR-cKO neocortices, but eEF2 phosphorylation was also increased at this stage (Fig. 3A). However, the overall levels of eIF2a and eEF2 were largely unaffected at both stages. The observed HuR-dependent effects on core translation machinery and mRNA translation suggest that HuR specifically and temporally interacts with members of the translational machinery.
HuR associates with eIF2ak4 and influences translation factor phosphorylation in the developing neocortex. (A, Left) Western blot analysis of total neocortical lysates collected from WT and HuR-cKO at E13 and P0. (Right) Quantification is shown (n = 3). *P < 0.05 (t test normalized with respect to GAPDH loading control). (B) HuR was immunoprecipitated (IP) from E18 neocortical lysates and analyzed by Western blot for interaction with translation factor candidates. HuR was used as the positive control. (C) HuR and eIF2ak4 reverse coimmunoprecipitation from HuR-cKO and eIF2ak4 kinase-domain mutant (eIF2ak4mut). (D) Immunohistochemistry for HuR (red) and eIF2ak4 (green) in E13 and E16 neocortical coronal sections showed their colocalization in cytoplasmic puncta (white arrows) of VZ RG and differentiating CP neurons. DAPI is shown in blue.
HuR Associates with eIF2ak4 in Developing Neocortices.
To test for temporally distinct interactions of HuR with members regulating neocortical translation machinery, we performed protein coimmunoprecipitation (co-IP) with HuR and corresponding IgG antibodies from E12 and E18 neocortices, then analyzed the precipitates using mass spectrometry (Fig. S3). We considered proteins to be candidate HuR-interacting partners if the log(e) was ≤80, and spectral count was >12 for HuR co-IP and <1 for IgG. We detected a particularly high level of HuR interaction with eIF2ak4 at E18, but less at E12. Therefore, eIF2ak4 was identified as a candidate translation factor that interacts with HuR in a temporally dependent manner during neocortical development and a putative target involved in HuR-dependent translational regulation. HuR co-IP lysates were subjected to RNase treatment (to exclude RNA-mediated binding) and Western blotting, which confirmed that HuR directly interacted with eIF2ak4 but did not interact with eIF4G, eIF2a, eIF3, Pabp, eEF2, or Rpl7 at E18 (Fig. 3B).
Reverse co-IPs from P0 HuR-cKO and eIF2ak4 kinase-domain mutant (eIF2ak4mut) neocortices confirmed the specificity of interaction between HuR and eIF2ak4 (Fig. 3C) and suggested that the eIF2ak4 kinase domain is crucial for the HuR–eIF2ak4 interaction in developing neocortices. Immunostaining analysis determined that HuR and eIF2ak4 colocalize in cytoplasmic puncta (white arrows) of neural stem cells and postmitotic cells of developing neocortices at E13 and E16 (Fig. 3D). Collectively, these data suggest that HuR and eIF2ak4 are positioned to dynamically interact in differentiating neural stem cells during neocortical development and influence neocortical mRNA translation in a spatiotemporally dependent manner.
HuR and eIF2ak4 Regulate the Specificity of Initiation and Elongation Factors and Ribosomal Proteins in Neocortical 40S–60S–80S and Polysomal Fractions.
The phosphorylation of initiation and elongation factors affects their position within polysomes (36), and eIF2ak4 directly associates with the 60S subunit in yeast (37). Therefore, we hypothesized that HuR knockout would disrupt the constituent proteins of neocortical 40S–60S–80S and polysomal fractions (Fig. 4A). To identify proteins in an unbiased fashion, we performed mass spectrometry coupled with bioinformatics analysis of 40S–60S–80S and polysomal fractions isolated from HuR-cKO and WT neocortices at E13 and P0 (Fig. S4A). Mass spectrometry bioinformatic analysis (33, 34) indicated that similar targets were disrupted at E13 and P0 in HuR-cKO 40S–60S–80S and polysomal fractions, which included a number of initiation (e.g., eIF5) and elongation (e.g., eEF1A1) factors. The partitioning of numerous ribosomal proteins in both fractions was also disrupted (e.g., Rpl5 and Rpl7). The total levels of translation factors eIF5, eEF1A1, Rpl5, and Rpl7 in HuR-cKO neocortical lysates were not significantly altered at P0 compared with WT as determined by Western blot (Fig. 4B). In contrast, the fractionated HuR-cKO and WT neocortices did display changes in the protein levels of specific fractions as determined by mass spectrometry and Western blot analysis of neocortical lysates at P0 and E13 (Fig. 4 B and C and Fig. S4). In HuR-cKO neocortices at P0, we detected a dramatic decrease in the levels of eIF5 and eEF1A1 associated with the 40S–60S–80S fraction and a reduction of Rpl5 and Rpl7 associated with the polysomal fraction (Fig. 4C). Deletion of HuR did not affect eIF2a at P0; however, eIF2a prematurely entered into polysomal fractions in the HuR-cKO at E13 (Fig. S4B). These data suggest that proper neocortical polysome assembly is disrupted by HuR deletion in developing neocortices.
HuR and eIF2ak4 regulate specificity of translation factors and ribosomal proteins in neocortical polysomes. (A) Schematic of our model for how HuR and eIF2ak4 may interact in polysomes to influence mRNA translation. (B, Left) Western blot analysis of P0 neocortical lysates (n = 3 cortices) from WT and HuR-cKO shows unchanged total levels of translation factors and ribosomal proteins. (Right) Western blot analysis of P0 neocortical density-gradient fractionations shows that eIF2ak4mut disrupts HuR polysome enrichment, and both HuR-cKO and eIF2ak4mut disrupt eIF2ak4 polysome enrichment. The levels of eIF2a remain stable. (C) Western blot analysis (Left) and quantification (Right) of P0 WT, HuR-cKO, and eIF2ak4mut neocortices to measure the association of eIF5, eEF1A1, Rpl5, and Rpl7 with 40S-60S-80S and polysomal fractions.
To determine whether eIF2ak4 function is required for polysome assembly similar to the requirement for HuR, we performed Western blot analysis on fractionated eIF2ak4mut neocortices at P0 (Fig. 4 B and C). We observed that HuR expression decreased in polysomal fractions isolated from eIF2ak4mut neocortices, and the polysomal positioning of eIF2ak4 was severely compromised in both HuR-cKO and eIF2ak4mut (Fig. 4B). We observed that mutating the eIF2ak4 kinase domain mimicked HuR knockout with respect to the partitioning of eIF5, eEF1A1, Rpl5, and Rpl7 into the neocortical polysome (Fig. 4C), whereas the overall level of eIF2a was unaffected (Fig. 4B). These data further corroborate the preceding observation that HuR–eIF2ak4 interaction is necessary for proper assembly of the neocortical polysome. At P0, eIF2ak4 and HuR appear in both 40S–60S–80S and polysomal fractions (Fig. 4B), further suggesting a mutually interacting role in mRNA translation.
Embryonic HuR Deletion Disrupts Neocortical Lamination and Corpus Callosum Formation.
HuR is expressed in cycling RG and postmitotic differentiating projection neurons of developing neocortices (Fig. 1A). HuR knockout disrupts the polysomal association of cell-cycle mRNAs at E13, cell-adhesion mRNAs at P0, and transcription/translation-factor mRNAs at both E13 and P0 (Fig. 2 A–C). Furthermore, HuR may play a particular role in the translation of mRNAs specific to layer-2/3 and -5 neocortical neurons (Fig. 2D). Therefore, we hypothesized that loss of HuR in the developing neocortex would result in abnormal lamination and disrupt neuronal differentiation assessed in the postnatal neocortex. HuR was conditionally deleted at two different time points during neocortical development: HuRf/f × Foxg1–Cre targets neuroepithelial cells at E9, and HuRf/f × Emx1–Cre targets RG neural progenitors at E11 (38). WT and HuR-cKO brains were isolated at P0, and coronal sections were analyzed by using immunohistochemistry followed by confocal microscopy and software-based measurement. When CP thickness was measured in 4′,6′-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI)-stained images, both Foxg1–HuR-cKO and Emx1–HuR-cKO animals had significantly thinner cortices than those of WT (Fig. 5A). This result suggests that HuR deletion in the developing neocortex disrupts cycling neural progenitors that generate postmitotic neurons.
HuR deletion in neuroepithelial cells and RG disrupts postnatal neocortical lamination and corpus callosum formation. (A) Immunohistochemistry on P0 coronal sections from WT, Foxg1–HuR-cKO (E9 HuR knockout, neuroepithelial stage), and Emx1–HuR-cKO (E11 HuR knockout, RG stage)-representative images (Left) and quantification (Right) of lateral, mid, and medial CP thickness (n ≥ 20 hemispheres/condition). *P ≤ 0.005 [MANOVA and ANOVA, followed by post hoc Tukey’s honest significant difference (HSD)]. (B) Immunohistochemical analysis for markers Cdp and Satb2 (green) in upper-layer differentiated neurons compared to markers Tle4 and Bcl11b (red) in lower-layer differentiated neurons of P0 coronal sections from WT, Foxg1–HuR-cKO, and Emx1–HuR-cKO. Confocal images were divided into 10 equal bins spanning from the VZ to superficial layer 2/3 (L2/3) and quantified for the presence of these markers. (C) Quantification of the distribution of each marker in WT, Foxg1-HuR-cKO, and Emx1-HuR-cKO neocortices, determined as a percentage of the total number of marker-positive cells (n = 2−4 biological replicates and 6−12 technical replicates). *P < 0.05 (MANOVA and ANOVA, followed by Tukey’s HSD post hoc if Levene statistic P ≥ 0.05 or by Games–Howell post hoc if Levene statistic P < 0.05). (D) Serial coronal sections matched for anterior-posterior level at the corpus callosum were immunostained and imaged for axonal marker L1 (green) and dendritic marker Map2 (red), showing agenesis of the corpus callosum in P0 Foxg1–HuR-cKO, but not in Emx1–HuR-cKO. Immunohistochemical analysis for calbindin-positive interneurons (red) and GFAP (green) show disruption of the glial wedge in P0 Foxg1–HuR-cKO coronal sections. DAPI is in blue.
We next assessed the distribution of postmitotic neurons within distinct neocortical layer subpopulations in Foxg1–HuR-cKO, Emx1–HuR-cKO, and WT mice at P0. We observed that Bcl11b- and Tle4-positive lower-layer neurons were ectopically redistributed into upper neocortical layers in Foxg1–HuR-cKOs, with a concurrent decrease in Cdp-positive neurons typically localized to upper layers (Fig. 5 B and C). Later deletion of HuR in Emx1–HuR-cKO RG resulted in significant redistribution of Bcl11b-positive neurons into deeper layers (Fig. 5 B and C). These data suggest that differentiation of neural stem cells and lamination of the neocortex into functionally distinct layers are disrupted in a temporally dependent manner by embryonic HuR deletion.
Upper-layer-2/3 neocortical neurons project solely intracortically, either within the ipsilateral hemisphere or to the contralateral hemisphere forming the corpus callosum. In contrast, lower-layer neurons project to subcortical targets. Because we observed significant disruption in the placement and/or identity of both upper- and lower-layer neurons in HuR-cKO, we assessed whether embryonic knockout of HuR disrupted neocortical projections at P0. Strikingly, Foxg1–HuR-cKO animals completely lacked a corpus callosum, as determined by immunostaining for L1 neural cell-adhesion molecule (L1-CAM) (Fig. 5D; serial sections matched for anterior-posterior level). In contrast, Emx1–HuR-cKO animals, which deplete HuR later in neural progenitors, maintained the intercortical connections. Although interneurons appeared to appropriately target to this midline structure in HuR-cKO, the glial wedge was largely absent in Foxg1–HuR-cKO (Fig. 5D) (39, 40). These data corroborate our finding that HuR deletion has a pronounced effect on layer-2/3-associated mRNAs in polysomes (Fig. 2D) and strongly suggest that HuR acts in a temporally specific manner to influence neocortical projection neuron differentiation, lamination, and circuit formation.
This study indicates that absence of a neocortical RBP, HuR, alters the association of functionally related mRNAs and proteins in actively translating polysomes and influences neocorticogenesis in a stage-specific manner. We observed that HuR knockout disrupts phosphorylation of the translation factors eIF2a and eEF2, the 40S-60S-80S positioning of initiation and elongation factors, and the specificity of ribosomal proteins in polysomes. These perturbations prevent proper polysome formation and result in abnormal mRNA localization. The magnitude of the HuR-regulated transcript population suggests that HuR orchestrates a highly complex set of pathways involved in neocortical development.
The data show that HuR directly associates with eIF2ak4, which likewise influences neocortical polysome assembly. The association of eIF2ak4 with ribosomes determines the phosphorylation status of eIF2 (37). eIF2 phosphorylation, in turn, modulates the translation rate because of its association with Met–tRNA in a ternary complex and defines the 40S subunit position with respect to the initiation codon (16, 17). We found that HuR knockout increases eIF2a phosphorylation. Mutation of the eIF2ak4 kinase domain mimics HuR deletion-mediated disruption of polysome assembly, including the elimination of Rpl7- and Rpl5-positive 80S polysomes. Although eIF2 phosphorylation is generally believed to decrease translation, it promotes the translation of some transcription factors (41, 42). Our results are consistent with these reports, because HuR knockout shifted some mRNA subsets out of polysomes, whereas others were shifted into polysomes. Together, these results suggest that HuR and eIF2ak4 cooperatively determine ribosome specificity, which influences mRNA translation in developing neocortices.
Our data show that HuR regulates multiple stages of neocortical development, including the lamination of projection neurons and formation of the corpus callosum. These results suggest a mechanism for HuR-mediated regulation of a complex developing system at the level of posttranscriptional control, where temporally sensitive HuR–eIF2ak4 interaction influences polysome assembly and translation of distinct, but functionally related, mRNA members (Fig. 6). We propose a developmental model in which an RBP regulates the rapid and coordinated translation of specific sets of functionally related mRNAs, which is essential for the formation of complex neocortical circuits. These developmental changes at the level of mRNA translation in dynamic polysomes may occur with the temporal control of intrinsic interactions, possibly driven by temporally determined extracellular signaling molecules yet to be determined.
Model for dynamic RBP regulation of polysome specificity in neocortical development. HuR differentially binds distinct mRNA subsets in early vs. late neocortical neurogenesis, influencing their active polysomal translation in a temporally dependent manner. The HuR–eIF2ak4 interaction depends on the eIF2ak4 kinase domain and determines the combinatorial composition of polysomal proteins required for the temporally dependent translation of transcripts that specify neocortical circuits.
All procedures and mouse husbandry were performed according to the Rutgers–RWJMS Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee guidelines (protocols I09-065 and I12-065-10). Generation of HuR conditional-deletion and WT littermate control animals was accomplished by using Jackson Laboratory Emx1–Cre mice [strain name: B6.129S2-Emx1tm1(cre)Krj/J; stock no. 005628] or Foxg1-Cre mice [strain name: B6.129P2(Cg)-Foxg1tm1(cre)Skm/J; stock no. 006084], crossed with HuRf/f mice (32). HuR protein depletion in genotyped HuR-cKOs was confirmed by HuR immunohistochemistry (Fig. S5). For generation of embryonic HuR deletion mice, we performed timed pregnancies in which plugs found the next day were considered E1. CD1 WT mice (Charles River) were also used for Western blot polysome analysis, along with Emx1–HuR WT littermates, compared with HuR cKOs. eIF2ak4 kinase-domain mutants (eIF2ak4mut) were obtained from the Jackson Laboratory (Strain name: B6.129S6-Eif2ak4tm1.2Dron/J; stock no. 008240).
Immunohistochemistry.
Embryonic and postnatal brains were dissected in 1× PBS and postfixed in 4% (wt/vol) paraformaldehyde (pH 7.4) overnight at 4 °C. Fixed brains were coronally sectioned on a Leica vibratome at 70 μm and prepared for immunohistochemistry as described (3, 43). Primary antibodies and concentrations used are shown in Fig. S6, and all secondary antibodies were used at 1:250 dilution in probing solution (Jackson ImmunoResearch; cy2, cy3, and cy5). Confocal imaging was performed with an FV1000MPE microscope (Olympus) by using 4×, 10×, 20×, and 60× objectives.
Polysome Fractionation.
One day before performing fractionation, sucrose density gradient columns were prepared in 11- or 2-mL ultracentrifuge polyallomer tubes (Beckman Coulter; no. 331372 or 347357). The 10–50% gradients were constructed by underlaying 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, and 50% sucrose solutions (20 mM Tris⋅HCl, 100 mM NaCl, 10 mM MgCl2) supplemented with EDTA-free protease inhibitor (Santa Cruz Biotechnology; no. sc-29131), RNase inhibitor (Invitrogen; no. 100000840), 20 mM DTT (Invitrogen; no. NP0009), and 0.1 mg/mL cyclohexamide (Santa Cruz Biotechnology; no. sc-3508A). Columns were stored at 4 °C overnight.
E13, E16, and P0 neocortices (n ≥ 2 biological replicates per fractionation) were previously dissected and flash-frozen on dry ice. For fractionation, samples were resuspended for 10 min on ice with continuous pipetting in 250 μL of polysome extraction buffer (PEB, pH 7.4) consisting of 20 mM Tris⋅HCl, 100 mM KCl, 10 mM MgCl2, and 0.3% Igepal (Sigma-Aldrich; no. CA-630) supplemented with EDTA-free protease inhibitor (Santa Cruz Biotechnology; no. sc-29131), RNase inhibitor (Invitrogen; no. 100000840), 20 mM DTT (Invitrogen; no. NP0009), and 0.1 mg/mL cyclohexamide (Santa Cruz Biotechnology; no. sc-3508A) to homogenize the tissue. Lysates were then cleared by centrifugation (Sorvall Biofuge fresco) for 10 min at 4 °C. Total lysate RNA level was determined by using a spectrophotometer (NanoDrop ND-1000) by loading 250 or 50 μg of total RNA weight onto 11- or 2-mL columns, respectively.
Ultracentrifugation was performed at 39,000 rpm for 90 min (Sorvall Discovery 100 with Beckman Coulter SW41 rotor, UNSPSC#41103909, and buckets, #333790) for 11-mL tubes or 39,000 rpm for 50 min (Sorvall Discovery M120SE with Sorvall S-55-S rotor and buckets, #18507) for 2-mL tubes. Samples were then inserted into a tube piercer (Brandel; no. 621140007) connected to a syringe pump (Brandel) and fractionated into 14 equal-volume fractions. Total RNA absorbance was recorded throughout the fractionation (Brandel UA-6). Samples were then frozen at −80 °C. RNA was isolated from fractions by TRIzol-LS (Life Technologies; no. 10296028) extraction according to the manufacturer’s protocol, or protein analysis was performed directly from fractionated lysates with Western blot.
RNAseq and Bioinformatics.
RNA was isolated from fractionation input (total) and polysome fractions by using TRIzol LS (Life Technologies; no. 10296028) as described above. Next, equal volumes of RNA extracted from fractions 4–7 were pooled together for analysis of 40S–60S–80S-associated cytoplasmic RNA, whereas equal volumes of RNA extracted from fractions 9–12 were pooled together for polysome-associated cytoplasmic RNA. Two to three biological replicates for total, 40S–60S–80S, and polysome RNA at E13 and P0 in WT and Emx1–HuR cKO littermates, totaling 15 samples, were analyzed. Sequencing libraries were prepared by using the Illumina TruSeq RNA Sample Preparation Kit v2 according to the manufacturer's protocol. Libraries were quantified by using the Library Quantification Kit Illumina/Universal (KAPA Biosystems) and then diluted and symmetrically pooled. We performed 2 × 100-bp paired-end sequencing using the Illumina Hiseq2500 in rapid-run mode. Sequencing data have been deposited in the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo (accession no. GSE50809).
Results were aligned with the mm10 mouse genome using the University of California Santa Cruz transcript map (Illumina iGenomes) using TopHat, and comparisons between groups were made in Cufflinks and cummeRbund (30). Significant differences were judged using a 5% false discovery rate. Lists of regulated genes were assessed for enrichment of functional groups or pathways by using DAVID (33, 34). For neocortical layer-specific analysis, data from ref. 35 were used.
qRT-PCR.
RNA was isolated from sucrose gradient fractions by using TRIzol-LS (Life Technologies; no. 10296028) following the manufacturer’s protocol. qRT-PCR was performed in 10-μL reactions (equivalent fraction volumes, duplicate technical replicates for each reaction) by using the Applied Biosystems StepOne Real-Time PCR system with Step-one software (Version 2.1; no. 4376373) and the RNA-Ct 1-Step Taqman kit (no. 4392653) with Taqman probes (see Fig. S6 for catalog numbers). For each probe, n ≥ 4 neocortices were analyzed in n ≥ 2 fractionations, resulting in n ≥ 4 qRT-PCR technical replicates.
Western Blot.
Neocortical protein lysates were prepared by using either tissue-protein extraction reagent (for total protein levels; T-PER; Thermo Scientific; no. 78510) with protease inhibitor (Santa Cruz Biotechnology; no. sc29131) or taken directly from isolated polysome fractionations (PEB applied to sucrose gradients). Lysates were cleared by centrifugation for 10 min at ∼13,000 × g and analyzed for total RNA/protein content by using a spectrophotometer (NanoDrop ND-1000). The Invitrogen SureLock Western blot system with Bis-Tris 4–12% gradient gels was used with transfer onto nitrocellulose membranes (BioRad; no. 162-0214). Membranes were blocked in 5% milk, 10% FBS, and 0.3% Triton-X 100 in PBS for 1-h shaking at room temperature. Membranes were then placed in probing solution (0.3% Triton-X 100 and 10% FBS in PBS) with primary antibodies shown in Fig. S6 overnight or up to two nights while shaking at 4 °C. Blots were then washed in 0.3% Triton-X 100 in PBS three times for 5 min and placed in probing solution with corresponding HRP-conjugated secondary antibody (Jackson ImmunoResearch; 1:2,500) for 1 h at room temperature. Blots were developed (Protein Simple ChemiGlow; no. 60-12596-00) and imaged and quantified with Genesnap software and a Syngene G:Box imager.
Quantification and Analysis of qRT-PCR and Western Blot.
For the statistics of polysome fractionation qRT-PCR analyses, the raw CT value for each of the individual fractions was transformed to 2−CT and normalized to the sum total for all fractions, generating a percentage of total transcript within each fraction. For Western blot quantification, the band intensity was measured above background with Genesnap software and a Syngene G:Box imager and was similarly normalized to percentage total protein within each fraction. In both cases, each fraction's values were aggregated into different categories corresponding to different phases of polysome assembly on a total RNA absorbance curve. For qRT-PCR analysis, fractions 1–3 were summed into “free”; fractions 4 and 5 were summed into “40S–60S”; fractions 6 and 7 were summed into “80S”; fractions 8 and 9 were summed into “light”; and fractions 10–13 were summed into “heavy”—corresponding to peaks on total RNA absorbance curves monitored during fractionation. For Western blot analysis, fractions 1–3 were summed into free; fractions 4–7 were summed into “40S–60S–80S”; and fractions 8–14 were summed into “polysome.” For significance testing of qRT-PCR data, t tests were conducted between WT and HuR-cKO in each category, with P < 0.05 considered significant. SEM is shown as error bars in figures.
Further, more-stringent statistical testing of qRT-PCR data via simulation occurred as follows. Overall significance of differences in fraction means was determined by first forming a test statistic of the ratio of the sums of squares across groups (WT and cKO) to the sum of squares for error (i.e., sum of squares within groups), using the Euclidean metric across the five categories (free, 40S–60S, 80S, light polysome, and heavy polysome). This statistic is analogous to the F statistic in ordinary ANOVA, but because the response is not normally distributed, the statistic does not have a simple distribution. The sample sizes were not large enough to use permutation testing to assess significance, as was done in refs. 44 and 45, so instead we used a Monte Carlo approach. As a null distribution, we began by matching the number of biological replicates with the actual data. For each biological replicate, we averaged repeated draws of multinomial random variables with probabilities matching the observed overall means. The number of draws was selected so that the expected sum of squares for error in the simulated data matched the sum of squares for error in the observed data. The resulting test statistic was recorded, and the procedure was repeated. In the case of the overall significance test, the null distribution of the test statistics was not dependent on the number of draws per biological replicate. To test for significant pairwise free, 40S–60S, 80S, light polysome, and heavy polysome differences between groups, we used the same Monte Carlo framework but recorded the largest pairwise difference across all of the categories. Differences in the observed data were considered significant if they exceeded the 95th percentile of this “maximum pairwise difference” null distribution. Importantly, this procedure adjusts for multiple comparisons of means in the experiment. The distribution was sensitive to the number of draws per biological replicate, so all significant results were verified with sensitivity analysis for the number of draws.
IP.
HuR and eIF2ak4 IP was performed by using the Pierce Crosslink IP kit according to the manufacturer’s protocol. A total of 10 µg of GtαHuR (Santa Cruz; no. sc-5483), RbαeIF2ak4 (Cell Signaling; no. 3302S), and Gt/Rb IgG controls were applied to each column. Four neocortices were resuspended in Pierce lysis buffer, and 300 μL was applied to the column in each condition. The eluate was analyzed by Western blot as described.
CP Measurements and Layer Marker Quantification.
CP thickness was measured at three points (medial, mid, and lateral) in DAPI-stained 4× confocal images of neocortical coronal sections with Neurolucida software. Layer-marker positive cells and their distribution was quantified by drawing a grid of standard width (300 pixels) between the ventricular surface and the superficial surface of neocortical layers 2/3, dividing the grid into 10 bins of equal height as shown in Fig. 5A. Multivariate ANOVA (MANOVA) was conducted with ANOVA proceeding it if MANOVA was P < 0.05. ANOVA was then conducted followed by post hoc analysis if ANOVA was P < 0.05. Post hoc analysis depended on the equality of variances. If Levene's statistic proved that a given group had equal variances (P ≥ 0.05), Tukey’s honest significant difference (HSD) was used for multiple comparisons, whereas for unequal variances (P < 0.05), Games–Howell was used. SEM is shown as the error bars in figures.
We thank all current and previous members of the M.-R.R. laboratory as well as many colleagues on the Rutgers/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) campus for comments. We thank the laboratories of Darnell, Kinzy, and Copeland for support in developing the polysome protocol. This work was supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grants NS064303 and NS075367 and RWJMS start-up funds (to M.-R.R.). R.P.H. was supported by NIH Grants DA032984 and DA035594. K.T. was supported by National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program Fellowship DGE0801620.
↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: roko.rasin{at}rutgers.edu.
Author contributions: M.L.K. and M.-R.R. designed research; M.L.K., K.T., H.R.S.W., B.V., K.S., J.W.M., and M.-R.R. performed research; M.L.K., K.T., B.V., D.L.K., S.B., R.P.H., and M.-R.R. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; M.L.K., K.T., H.R.S.W., B.V., J.W.M., S.B., R.P.H., and M.-R.R. analyzed data; and M.L.K., S.B., R.P.H., and M.-R.R. wrote the paper.
Data deposition: The data reported in this paper have been deposited in the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo (accession no. GSE50809).
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New AI Model Tries to Synthesize Patient Data Like Doctors Do
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Molecular Mayhem at Root of Battery Breakdown
PNNL researchers demonstrate how the excitation of oxygen atoms that contributes to better performance of a lithium-ion battery also triggers a process that leads to damage, explaining a phenomenon that has been a mystery to scientists.
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Network Collapse, a virtual reality science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) app developed by PNNL researchers, has won a Gold Award from the 2019 International Serious Play Award.
High-Tech Damage Assessment Speeds Disaster Recovery
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You may have been toying with the idea of quitting employment and starting your own business for a long time. Well, self-employment is not for the faint-hearted, but some options may give you an upper hand in the pursuit of freedom and financial independence. Franchising is one of the best ways of learning the ropes of self-employment. While there are several franchising opportunities in the market, magazine franchises are some of the cheapest. Several magazine franchises are available at costs ranging from £1,000 to £20,000, which is much lower than the industry average.
Some of the most popular magazines in the UK offer franchising opportunities. On the lower side, we have the likes of My World and I and Vision going for £999 and £5,500 respectively. On the upper side, the likes of Family Magazine and Just Regional go for £12,500 and £15,995 respectively. As you may have guessed, the franchises on the upper end of the scale command a better market presence and higher income potential than those on the lower end.
Why you should try magazine franchising
The UK has a vibrant magazine publication sector valued at over £10.2 billion which grows at an annual rate of 2.8%. The publishing industry has a ready market with over 67% of the UK population accessing a published news source on a daily basis. Magazines are a major source of news and entertainment for many readers, especially women. Market research indicates that franchising is one of the most lucrative ventures with an astounding 97% of the franchises in the UK being profitable. Most of the franchisees as satisfied with their business and have high hopes for the future.
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A recent survey indicated that most people choose to franchise because it confers them independence while moderating the risks of starting a new business. Franchising allows you to make an income while fulfilling other household commitments. Magazine franchising allows you to have fun and make money while you're at it. As a franchise, you get to engage with the community and loyal readers while gathering content and distributing magazines on the ground.
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Houston Police Officer, Civilian Injured in Vehicle Collision
October 18, 2019 • by POL Staff
An officer with the Houston Police Department and an unidentified citizen were injured when their vehicles collided in southwest Houston Thursday morning.
The department said on Twitter that the officer entered an intersection with emergency lights activated when the patrol vehicle was struck by a Chevy Tahoe.
Both the officer and the civilian driver were transported to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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Which Star Wars Ships Have the Best (and Worst) Aerodynamics?
Spoilers: None of them are very good.
By Eric Limer
Look, we all love Star Wars, and part of that love is picking apart all of the ways it's dumb. The walking tanks make absolutely no sense. The capital ships? Questionably designed. The fighters? Not a whole lot better. And to explore that last bit in even more detail, one endeavoring YouTuber took to analyzing the aerodynamics of some of the series' classic ships to see exactly how they'd fare in atmospheric flight.
Using Autodesk Flow Design, EC Henry calculated the drag coefficient for a number of ships, including the X-Wing and the TIE Fighter, using 3D models. For reference, he compared the drag coefficient of each of these ships against some basic shapes for a baseline, and one actual real-life fighter jet.
The results? Star Wars fighters on average have a drag coefficient somewhere around that of a flying sphere, which is to say: not great. The original X-Wing's drag coefficient is .45 to a sphere's .47. The T-70 from the current trilogy fares a bit better, with a coefficient of .24, a pretty significant improvement.
Of all the ships, the TIE Fighter is by far the worst, with a coefficient of .98 which makes it only very slightly better than a literal flying brick. As for the best of all? Well, the prequels got something right here, but even the Naboo N-1's impressive .1 drag coefficient pales in comparison to the .02 achieved by an actual fighter jet like the F-4 Phantom, which existed at the time of the original trilogy.
Nitpicking is a fun little hobby but there are a few points to consider in Star Wars' defense. A bad drag coefficient means literally nothing in the vacuum of space, though many of these fighters can be spotted pulling maneuvers in atmosphere as well in various films. To explain that, the fiction offers up anti-gravity repulsorlift technology and the possibility of using deflector shields to give ungainly ships a better, invisible flight profile.
Though if that's the case, why not cut down on production costs by just making a bunch of easily manufactured flying cubes? Well, maybe we shouldn't think about it too hard.
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Crime Briefs: Snowmobiler with ‘anger isusesh’ rams Ford
Rifle | February 17, 2017
A 32-year-old man snowmobiling at Marian Gulch near Carbondale in January returned to the trailhead to find his truck had been battered and a note that read “Sorryy anger isusesh,” according to a police report.
Two witnesses said a 53-year-old man who they’d been snowmobiling with who had been drinking all day had smashed up the truck with a baseball bat.
The truck owner had parked behind the man’s vehicle and a friend of his parked in front, though he said they’d left plenty of room to get out.
Both the witnesses heard whacking sounds; one saw him swinging a baseball bat around. They insisted that he leave a note to pay for the damage.
The owner found multiple dents in the truck and his trailer. The plastic bug shield on the hood and the Ford emblem were broken. The license plate was dented. One door appeared to have been kicked in.
One of the witnesses added that the 53-year-old was able to back up a little and get out of the spot without a problem.
He was arrested Feb. 7 on a felony charge of criminal mischief.
Homeless man charged in CAR BREAK-INS
A 48-year-old homeless man from Oregon picked up three felony cases in about 10 days after police tied him to multiple vehicle trespassing cases.
On Feb. 4, a woman’s wallet was stolen from her vehicle in the St. Stephen’s Catholic Church parking lot. And in the following days transactions started showing up from City Market, then for drinks from the Hotel Colorado.
The woman’s purse was found a couple days later at a construction site on 19th Street, where the suspect was captured on security camera footage. Likewise, police were able to spot him on City Market cameras, and a Hotel Colorado bartender identified him.
He was eventually arrested on charges of felony first-degree criminal trespass, along with theft and unauthorized use of a financial transaction device, both misdemeanors.
On Feb. 9, Rifle police responded to a theft at Blush Hair Salon. The owner reported that a man attempted to steal a necklace from the store, but the owner confronted him quickly and he eventually gave it back. An officer found this man at the Rifle library and arrested him in the theft.
Officers later responded to two vehicle trespasses in Rifle, one right outside of the salon.
A woman in a hurry near the salon had left her keys in her car door. She returned to find her keys missing, and her car appeared to have been rummaged through. Officers found on the man a set of Ford keys that the woman identified as hers.
Another woman reported that as she was leaving the Rifle City Market earlier that day she found a man sitting in the driver’s seat of her car. She didn’t positively identify him in a photo lineup, but her description of the man and some of the items he was wearing convinced the officer that he was the same man.
He was arrested in this case on two felony counts of first-degree criminal trespassing, another felony count of first-degree introduction of contraband, along with misdemeanor theft and petty offense theft.
In a third case, an Alpine Bank employee in Rifle reported on Feb. 15 that someone had entered his vehicle and taken several items.
Security footage from the building showed a man entering a red Dodge Dakota and rummaging through it for about a minute. A Rifle officer recognized the man as the same 48-year-old who was arrested about a week prior. He was arrested on charges of felony first-degree trespass and misdemeanor theft.
Revoked driver found with cocaine
Just past midnight Jan. 21, a Carbondale police officer spotted a red Subaru Legacy with a license plate he recognized from a stop earlier in the month. He knew the 31-year-old to which the license plate was registered had a revoked licensed and that the plate was registered to a Land Rover.
The officer stopped the vehicle and arrested the 31-year-old driver.
In the vehicle, in a loose compartment below the radio, officers also found five small bags containing a total of up to 5 grams of cocaine.
The 31-year-old said he had just bought the Legacy and there might be some marijuana inside. He denied any knowledge of the cocaine.
He was arrested on distribution/manufacturing a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance, both drug felonies, along with misdemeanor driving under revocation.
man tased at Rifle Kum & Go
Rifle police responded to reports on Tuesday that a man with a Mesa County warrant for fraud/forgery of checks was spotted at Wal-Mart.
An officer found him in a nearby Kum & Go parking lot, rummaging through the passenger side of his truck.
An officer identified him and informed him he was under arrest. The man began to pull away and started to put his hands in his pockets. The officer pulled his Taser and commanded the 29-year-old to keep his hands out, but the man continued to try to put his hands in his pockets and in the vehicle.
The officer eventually fired his Taser and reactivated it multiple times to gain compliance.
The officer believed the man was under the influence of a stimulant.
The 29-year-old’s brother later told police that he’d spotted his brother in his truck that morning, where their mother’s credit card had been. Officers found in the 29-year-old’s wallet receipts for gift cards for a total of $550 purchased with the credit card.
In his truck they found a digital scale with methamphetamine residue, a used syringe, another man’s checkbook and a backpack containing multiple “slim jims” used for breaking into vehicles.
He was arrested on possession of a controlled substance, a drug felony, along with criminal trespass and possession of burglary tools, which are both felonies. His misdemeanor arresting charges also included resisting arrest.
Shoplifter found with meth pipe
Glenwood Springs officers were dispatched to Wal-Mart for a report of theft the evening of Feb. 10. A woman had stolen a purse, which she had also filled with other merchandise she hadn’t paid for, according to Wal-Mart’s loss prevention officer.
She took these items into the restroom, and when she came out a police officer was waiting for her.
In the purse, which she claimed as her own, the officer found $48.11 worth of items matching what the Wal-Mart employee described. The woman said she had taken the tags off these items and thrown them in the trash in the restroom.
The officer searched her and also found a glass methamphetamine pipe with a substantial amount of residue still inside and a torch lighter, according to an affidavit.
She was arrested on charges of possession of a controlled substance, a drug felony, along with possession of drug paraphernalia and theft, both petty offenses.
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New York Jets: Over/Under Season Wins Total
by Loot Levinson | Jul 28, 2019 | nfl
In this regular-season wins total bet, we turn our attention to the New York Jets, a team some feel might be on the upswing. They made some interesting additions, including getting a new head coach. MyBookie.ag has released totals on all teams. Let’s take a look at the total for the Jets.
New York Jets – Regular Season Wins
Over 7 Wins (-145)
Under 7 Wins (+115)
We see the line in the sand is seven wins. Six or fewer wins would be “under,” while eight or more would qualify as “over.” And seven wins would be a push. We see the “over” part of the equation is a decent-sized favorite at -145, with “under” getting an underdog price of +115. Let’s examine which side might be the better move.
After a surprise ten-win season in 2015, the Jets have fallen on tough times. Things haven’t panned out personnel-wise, and they enter this season with a revamped coaching staff. In the last three seasons, they have won a total of 14 games, bottoming out with a 4-12 mark in 2018. Therefore, a seven-win total for 2019 suggests that a lot of people fancy the Jets as a squad on the rise. With growing youth, some key acquisitions, and a head coach who has shown a knack working with young quarterbacks, maybe that’s in the cards.
Personnel and Other Changes
Adam Gase is in as the new head coach. It didn’t really work in Miami, though going 23-25 and having a ten-win season in his first year isn’t bad, considering all the issues the ‘Fins had during that period. He has two good coordinators, with Dowell Loggains helping Gase on offense, with Gregg Williams taking over a “D” that could be pretty tough. This coaching staff could hit the ground running if they catch a couple of breaks.
The Jets added a lot of firepower. Second-year quarterback Sam Darnold has more tools with which to work, namely game-changing running back Le’ Veon Bell, who after a year off, looks to re-establish his brand. His presence and excellence as a runner and pass-catcher could open things up. They also added WR Jamison Crowder, who joins a receiver crew that could be decent with Robby Anderson and Quincy Enunwa. Up-front, they added Kelechi Osemele and third-round pick Chuma Edoga to hopefully boost a line that was substandard in 2018.
The “D” added some interesting pieces that could yield positive results. They spent their third overall pick on Quinnen Williams, a defensive tackle that should immediately make the Jets more-robust inside. The acquisition of linebacker CJ Mosley should also pay off well, as he is one of the best sideline-to-sideline guys in the league. Some other draft picks could also pan out well. It’s a unit on the rise. Then again, after being at the bottom of most defensive categories in 2018, they have nowhere to go but up. Were all the changes enough to turn it around?
How Hard is the Schedule
Playing the Patriots twice isn’t easy, but the rest of the AFC East isn’t that tough, though it has been for the Jets in recent seasons. And getting an easier schedule from wining so few games hasn’t paid off the last few years. Outside the division, they get home games against the Browns, Cowboys, Giants, Raiders, and Steelers (NFL Strength of Schedule). On the road, they face the Eagles, Jaguars, Redskins, Bengals, and Ravens. To go over, you need eight wins. Well, they probably won’t be the favorite eight times in this schedule, meaning they will have to over-perform in some spots.
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Are They Being Overlooked?
A lot of us weren’t alive the last time they made the Super Bowl. Most of us are just inclined on a guttural level to expect a substandard Jets team to surface, primarily based on recent history. But we see a changing complexion of the league, with a pronounced power-shift. Can the Jets be part of that? With some better breaks on the injury front, the coming along of promising youngsters, and certain acquisitions panning out, it’s not hard to make a case for a Jets resurgence.
Making a Case for “Over” 7 Wins
On paper, it’s easy to make a case for a .500 team. Let’s assume Darnold sees a boost in his form in his second year. He has the fresh legs of Bell upon which to rely. Defenses can no longer sleep on the Jets’ ground game. That brings receivers Crowder, Anderson, and Enunwa more into play and that could be an underrated trio of receivers heading into 2019. A few additions on the O-line could have it come together under the tutelage and guidance of Gase. Quarterbacks typically have enjoyed some of their better success under coach Gase. Maybe Darnold can follow suit. With some growth among youngsters and the additions of Mosley and Williams, their front-seven on defense should see a surge.
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Making a Case for “Under” 7 Wins
New faces notwithstanding, the Jets have a long way to travel. Last season, their offense was ranked 29th, with their defense 25th. Getting Le’ Veon Bell, CJ Mosley, and Quinnen Williams has to help, but it’s not enough to orchestrate anything resembling an about-face. For this to go “over,” you’d basically be projecting this team to double their previous season’s win total. Has the optimism run amok? That would seem to be a pretty rosy outlook for this team. They were substandard across almost every area last season. Youth and health played a definite role, but will all those problems go away?
There’s also an issue with the numbers-game here. Let’s say they go 3-3 in their division. They still have to avoid losing 5 or more games with the Browns, Cowboys, Steelers, Eagles, and Ravens on their schedule. Not a ton of wiggle-room to hit that number. They would basically have to win every game they’re supposed to win while springing a big upset or two. And while there are some less-than-difficult stretches to the season schedule-wise, this bet will come down to the end of the season, where two of their last three are on the road, with the high-urgency duo of the Ravens and Steelers in that stretch.
Final Verdict: Under 7 wins at +115 odds. While one can certainly make a case for the Jets being a rising commodity, eight wins could be the high-end of the range, and at -145, there isn’t a ton of value in predicting that this team doubles their wins from last season.
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U.S. SEC rewards whistleblower with $4 million
September 20, 2016 Press Release
The American Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday announced an award of more than $4 million to a whistleblower whose original information alerted the agency to a fraud.
The SEC’s whistleblower programme has awarded more than $111 million to 34 whistleblowers since its inception in 2011.
“Our programme continues to incentivize whistleblowers to come forward with solid information that helps us bring violators to justice before more wrongdoing can occur,” said Jane Norberg, Acting Chief of the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower.
By law, the SEC protects the confidentiality of whistleblowers and does not disclose information that might directly or indirectly reveal a whistleblower’s identity.
Whistleblowers may be eligible for an award when they voluntarily provide the SEC with unique and useful information that leads to a successful enforcement action. Whistleblower awards can range from 10 percent to 30 percent of the money collected when the monetary sanctions exceed $1 million.
All payments are made out of an investor protection fund established by Congress that is financed through monetary sanctions paid to the SEC by securities law violators.
No money has been taken or withheld from harmed investors to pay whistleblower awards.
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Niger govt seeks N675 million loan for community projects
July 31, 2018 Agency Report
Governor Abubakar Bello [Photo credit: National Trail Newspaers]
The Niger government is to source N675m loan for Community Social Services Projects across the 27 constituencies in the state.
Abubakar Zakari, the state’s Commissioner for Finance, made this known during a news briefing in Minna on Monday.
Mr Zakari said the different development projects vary from one community to another depending on their need but did not name them.
“The Ministry of Finance presented a memo of N675 million for the execution of community social services project and it was approved by the State Executive Council,’’ he said.
He explained that the loan which would be sourced from Zenith Bank would attract 18 per cent interest rate per annum.
“The loan will be repaid over 18 months and due process, which was followed in applying for it will also be followed in executing the projects,’’ he said.
Meanwhile, Mundi Mohammed, the state’s Commissioner for Commerce, Investment, Industry and Corporative, also told journalists that government has sold the uncompleted Niger State Development Company shopping mall at the cost of N110 million to JAIZ Bank.
Mr Mohammed said that the shopping complex measuring 4,300 square meters was built by the immediate past government of the state led by Babangida Aliyu.
He said that the company decided to sell the shopping mall because members of the public were not interested in doing business there.
“Instead of the complex to be depreciating we decided to sell it because the more you leave it the more the value depreciates,’’ he said.
The commissioner said that part of the agreement with Jaiz bank was that it would complete the edifice, take over the complex and employ 80 per cent of indigenes of the state before starting operations.
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Tidal expands to Amazon Echo devices, here's how to make it your default music service
by Adrian Diaconescu / Nov 16, 2018, 3:10 AM
The 2014-founded Tidal music streaming platform made a lot of headlines after being acquired by Jay-Z the following year, with a marketing blitz billing the app as the first of its kind to be owned by artists including Beyoncé, Rihanna, Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, Madonna, Alicia Keys, and Usher.
But after Apple confirmed it had no interest in merging its own then-fledgling music streaming service with Tidal, the latter’s appeal gradually declined until Sprint saved it from the brink of extinction.
Fast forward to today, and Tidal appears to be employing an entirely different strategy in its quest for relevance, toning down the publicity stunts while organically seeking new users. After launching on Samsung wearable devices earlier this month, the service is now available on Amazon’s increasingly popular (and diverse) Echo lineup.
We’re talking full integration with Alexa voice commands, although Tidal will not be automatically set as your default streaming platform on your hot new Echo, Echo Dot, or Echo Plus.
Instead, you’ll need to open the Amazon Alexa app on your phone, go to the “Skills & Games” menu, search for Tidal, enable its respective skill, then link your account, and select Tidal under “Choose default music services” in Settings.
That doesn’t sound very complicated, and if you’re not a Tidal subscriber yet, you can get a gratis 30-day trial to see how you like this particular ad-free music streaming experience with a vast catalog of “over 60 million songs and over 240,000 videos.”
In essence, Tidal does everything Apple Music and Spotify are capable of, fetching $9.99 a month for a Premium account and $19.99 with “lossless” HiFi technology. Of course, Spotify plays nicely with both Echos and Google Homes, while Apple Music remains the exclusive provider of audio content on the not-so-popular but extremely lucrative HomePod.
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Home Projects Science Laboratory Technology ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERIURIA AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN ATTENDING ANTENATAL CLINIC OF GENERAL HOSPITAL
ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERIURIA AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN ATTENDING ANTENATAL CLINIC OF GENERAL HOSPITAL
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ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERIURIA AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN ATTENDING ANTENATAL CLINIC OF GENERAL HOSPITAL EKWULOBIA
PREVALENCE OF ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERIURIA IN PREGNANCY
COMPLICATION OF ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERIURIA IN PREGNANCY
EXPECTATION (PROGNOSIS)
TREATMENT OF ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERIURIA
Studies on asymptomatic bacteriuria among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic of the General Hospital Ekwulobia was undertaken, hundred urine samples were collected then centrifuged and 1 ml of the supernatant was inoculated on the prepared Nutrient Agar and Macconkey agar then incubated at 370c for 48 hours. Pure colonies were obtained by sub culturing. Morphological and biochemical characterization of the isolates identified bacteria of the general Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Proteus and Escherichia. The result showed that 72(72%) of the pregnant women are asymptomatic. E. coli was sensitive to Reflacine but resistant to Tarivid, Staphylococcus aureus was sensitive to gentamicin and resistant to Nalidixic acid. There is need for routine screening of urine of pregnant women as part of antenatal health care for pregnant women in Nigeria.
Asymptomatic bacteriuria refers to the presence of bacteria in Urine. It is a conduction in which urine reveals a significant growth of pathogens that is greater than 105 bacteria/ml, but without the patient showing symptoms of urinary tract infection (UTI) (Girbert et al; 2005).
This common during pregnancy. The apparent reduction in immunity of pregnant women appears to encourage the growth of both commensal and non-commensal microorganism (Scott et al; 1990).
The physiological increase in plasma volume during pregnancy decrease urine concentration and up to 70% pregnant women develop glycosuria, which encourage bacteria growth in urine (Patterson et al; 1987 luces et al; 1993).
Pregnancy enhances the progression from asymptomatic bacteriuria which could lead to pyelonephritis and adverse obstetric out comes such as prematurity, low birth weight (Connolly et al; 1999) and higher foetal mortality rates (Nicolle, 1994, Delzell et al; 2000) the adverse effects of undiagnosed asymptomatic bacteriuria on mother and child have made researchers to suggest routine culture screening for all pregnant women attending antenatal clinic (Kirlam, 2005) in order to prevent mother and child from any form of complication that may arise due to infection.
However, in many hospitals in developing countries including Nigeria, routine urine culture test is not carried out for antenatal patients. Probably due to cost implication and time factors for culture result (Usually 48 hour period) instead many clinicians opt for the strip urinalysis method for accessing urine in pregnant women.
The true picture of such urine specimen cannot be fully accessed as the strip cannot qualify the extent of infection in such a patient as well as provide antimicrobial therapy which is usually seen in the case of culture test. In many health centers in developing countries. The attention of clinicians and health care providers is usually on the presence of glucose and protein in urine specimens with less attention on possible asymptomatic infection.
The incidence of asymptomatic bacteriuria is reported as 2-4% during pregnancy. Pregnant women and their unborn foetuses may be at risk of complication Guyton, 1996, Lindsay, 2003, Blumberg etal; 2005).
Quantitative criteria for identifying significant bacteriuria in an asymptomatic person is at least 100 cfu/mc of urine from a catheterized specimen (Warren et al; 1982, husky et al; 1987, saint et al; 2003). According to the infections disease society of America (IDSA) guideline. The diagnosis of asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnant women is appropriate only if the same species is present in quantities at least 10 cfu/ml in at least two consecutive voided specimens (Nicolle, 2003, Nicolle et al; 2005).
AIM OF STUDY
Asymptomatic bacteriuria is common in pregnant women and if untreated could lead to serious complications. Although asymptomatic bacteriuria could also lead to such complications, this fact is not well known.
This study is to determining the prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic at the General Hospital Ekwulobia.
SIGNIFICANCE OF STDY
The importance of this study is to determine the bacterial load, kinds or species that would be recovered from urine samples of pregnant women attending antenatal at General Hospital Ekwulobia.
SCOPE OF STUDY
This study is therefore undertaken to determine the prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnant women attending antenatal clinic at General Hospital Ekwulobia and to identify the microorganism involved, determine their relative proportions and their antibiotic sensitive.
Asymptomatic bacteriuria is common, with varying prevalence by age sex, sexual activity and prevalence of genitourinary abnormalities (Bakke, et al: 1999, Weities et al; 1993, Chaudhry et al (1993). Escherichia coli is the most common organism isolated from patients with asymptomatic bacteriuria.
Infecting organisms are diverse and include: Enterobacteriaceae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Enterococcus species and the group of Streptococcus. Organisms isolated in patient with asymptomatic bacteriuria will be influenced by patient variable. Healthy person will likely have E. Coli, where as a nursing home resident with a catheter is more likely to have multidrug resistant polymicrobial flora (e.g P. aeruginosa).
Some studies have postulated that since asymptomatic bacteriuria, usually caused by aerobic gram-negative bacilli or staphylococcus haemolyticus can lead to urinary tract infection (UTI), a urine culture should be stained from all women early in pregnancy even in the absence of urinary tract infection symptoms (Connolly et al; 1999, Delzell et al; 2000).
In Ghana, Turpin et al; (2007) reported a prevalence of 7.3% at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. The predominant organism were Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. Akerele et al; (2001) also reported 8.6.6% in Benin City. A prevalence rate of 7% in pregnant women has been reported in Ethiopia (Gebre-Selsassic 1998). In Canada the prevalence rate varies from 4-7%. The prevalence is higher among individual in lower socioeconomic classes and those with a past history of asymptomatic urinary tract infection (Nicolle, 1994).
In Nigeria, Olusanya et al: (1993) reported prevalence rate of 23.9% in Sagamu. Also in research paper published by (Onyeagba et al; 2007) on asymptomatic bacteriuria among pregnant women attending antenatal in Abakaliki Ebonyi State, out of the 150 subjects screened 78.7% (118) had asymptomatic bacteriuria while 21.3%(32) had none. Thirty (30% )of the subjects had one type of bacteria. The frequency of isolation of bacteria. The frequency of isolation of organism was Staphylococcus aureus (27.1%). Escherichia coli (25.2%), klebsiella (23.7%), Proteus (10.2%), Streptococcus (8,.5%) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (5.1%) pregnant woman in their third trimester had the higher prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria (36.4%, the age group 31-35 years had the highest prevalence with respect to age while farmers had the highest (90%) with respect to occupation.
More so, the incidence of asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnant women attending antenatal clinic in Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching hospital Sokoto state revealed that (8.0%) was significant, mainly caused by Escherichia coli
The apparent reduction in immunity of pregnant women appears to encourage the growth of both commensal and non-commensal microorganism (Scott et al; 1990). Other factors to be considered include, age of the mother, gestational age, socio-economic factors ( occupation), parity, kidney transplant patients, pregnant mother, patients with cord injuries,. Patient with indwelling urethral catheters.
In healthy women, the prevalence of bacteriuria increase with age, from 1% in females 5-14 years of age to more than 20% in women at least 80 years of age living in the community (Nicolle, 2003).
Studies of women with diabetes show no difference between initially asymptomatic bacteriuria and non-bacteriuria women in the incidence of urinary tract infection mortality progression to diabetic complications at 18 months or 14 years (semet kowska et al; 1995, Geerlings et al; 2001)
Patients with chronic indwelling foley catheters are uniformly bacteriuric, but catheters are warranted only if the patients is symptomatic (warren et al; 1982).
The highest prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria was observed among women in their third trimester (33.1%) and least in first trimester (30.5%) (Onyeagba et al; 2007).
Also based on occupation, farmers had the highest prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria (90%). Olusanya et al; (1993) observed that most pregnant women with significant bacteriuria belong low socio-economic group.
By definition, asymptomatic bacteriuria showing no symptoms. The symptoms of a urinary tract infection (UTI) include burning during urination, an increased urgency to urinate and increase frequency to urination (Richard et al; 2006).
Acute pyelonephritis, foetal growth restriction and stillbirth in pregnant women have been associated with asymptomatic bacteriuria (Ryan et al; 1990, Zhao and Wu 2014, Hill et al; 2005).
Individuals in high risks group have a significant risk of progressing to a true kidney infection if a bacteria is not treated. In certain case, such as renal transplant recipient, kidney infection may lead to loss of kidney functions (warren et al; 1999).
Women with asymptomatic bacteriuria during pregnancy are more likely to deliver premature or low-birth infants and have a 20 to 30 fold increase risk of developing pyelonephritis during pregnancy compared with women without bacteriuria (Kincaid et al; 1965).
Most pregnant women with asymptomatic bacteriuria who do not have risk factors for complications do extremely well, and do not have any increased rates of symptoms, infection or decrease in kidney function or (Warren et al; 1999).
The prognosis for treatment in the high risk group category is good if the infection is detected early, but the outlook depends on the asymptomatic person underlying conditions or illnesses.
Not all patients with asymptomatic bacteriuria respond to treatment or even need treatment. The infections disease society of America (IDSA) recommends a course of 3-7 days of antimicrobial therapy for pregnant women with asymptomatic bacteriuria (Nicole et al; 2005).
Because leucocyte esterase and nitrite test have low sensitivity for identifying bacteriuria in women who are pregnant, these patient should be screened with urine culture (Bachman et al; 1993). However the optimal frequency of urine culture screening has not been established.
A single urine culture of the end of the first trimester generally is recommended based on clinical outcome and cast effectiveness (Stenguist et al; 1989, Wadland et al; 1989).
Women with asymptomatic bacteriuria or asymptomatic urinary tract infection during pregnancy should be treated and should undergo periodic screening for the during of their pregnancy. Urine that is cloudy or fowl smelling often prompts a call from along term care facility to the physical with an expectation that an evaluation, if an antibiotic therapy, will be ordered.
However, in the asymptomatic patient cloudy or foul smelling urine is not an indication for urinalysis, culture, or antimicrobial treatment. A study of residents in long-term care facilities wit chronic indwelling catheters and bacteriuria who were treated with cephalexin (keflex) or no therapy showed no difference in the incidence of fever or reinfection, however, patients who received antibiotic therapy had twice the incident of subsequent microbial resistance to cephalexin (warren et al;1982). When possible, the indwelling catheter should be removed, and the patient should receive clean intermittent catheterization to reduce the risk of symptomatic urinary tract infection. The replacement of a chronic indwelling foley catheter is associated with a low risk for bacteriuria and antimicrobial treatment or prophylaxis is not indicated for this procedure (Bregenzer et al; 1997). A study in young women with short term catheterization reported increased symptomatic infection over two weeks following catheter removal, when asymptomatic bacteriuria persisted 48hours after the removal of the indwelling catheter (Harding et al; 1991).
According, the IDSA recommended that symptomatic bacteriuria should not be screened for or treated in patients with an indwelling urethral catheter, but that treatment of women with persistence catheter-acquired bacteriuria at least 48hours after catheter removal may be considered (Nicolle et al; 2005).
The presence of simultaneous pyuria does not warrant treatment by its itself.
Screening for asymptomatic bacterium with urine culture and treatment with antibiotics is recommended during pregnancy, because it significantly reduces symptomatic urinary tract infections, low birth weight, and preterm delivery (Lin 2008, Smaill et al; 2007).
This has not been proven for older people or people with diabetes, bladder catheters or spinal cord injuries (Colgan et al; 2005).
Kidney transplant recipients children with vesicoureteral reflux or others with structural abnormalities of the urinary tracts, people with infected kidney stones and those who are having urological procedures might be more likely to benefit from treatment with antibiotics for asymptomatic bacteriuria (Nicolle et al; 2005).
Bacteria can be detected with a urine dipstick test for urinary microscopy, although bacterial culture remains the most specific and formal tact (the gold standard). Bacteriuria can be confirmed if a single bacterial species is isolated in a concentration greater than 100,000 colony forming units per milliliter of urine in clean-catch midstream urine specimen (one for men, two consecutive specimens with the same bacteriuria for women). For urine collected via bladder catheterization, the threshold is 100 colony forming units of a single species per millilitre for women displaying urinary tract infection symptoms(sam et al;1991).
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The Hysteria surrounding the Alabama Human Life Protection Act
I was happy to hear the news that Alabama passed the Human Life Protection Act, AKA the
"Alabama Abortion Ban". Although in the current legal environment, the likelihood of it immediately saving any lives seems small as long as the law of the land is still Roe v. Wade. Indeed, the Alabama governor who signed the bill into law admitted: “No matter one’s personal view on abortion, we can all recognize that, at least for the short term, this bill may similarly be unenforceable.”
Regardless of this reality, an unhinged hysteria has let loose, aided and abetted by those who seek profit or power from abortion like Planned Parenthood, the many politicians it funds, and the media that enables them both. Fear and manipulation have taken the place of facts and discourse. In hopes of turning back (or at least standing against) that tide, I offer the following facts in response to the most prevalent myths.
Abortion is now illegal in Alabama: While the intent of The Alabama Human Life Protection Act is to make abortion illegal, it will not go into effect by its own terms for 6 months, during which time, legal challenges will no doubt be filed, potentially staying the law until the courts decide its constitutionality. Until then, abortion remains legal in Alabama.
Legal abortion is safe abortion: Contrary to the claims of Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers, abortion is not safe. It brings with it a multitude of serious physical risks from infection and bleeding to perorated uteruses and even death; as well as mental health risks, such as depression, sexual dysfunction, eating disorders, and even suicide. Moreover, attempts to regulate the health standards of this procedure and insure informed consent are continually challenged by the abortion industry.
Only men voted to ban abortion: The reference to 25 men voting for the new Alabama law that is circling the internet is referring to the state senators who voted for the ban. This claim conveniently leaves out the woman, Rep. Terri Collins, who sponsored the bill, the women in the Alabama House of Representatives who voted for the bill, and the female governor who signed it into law.
Women do not support the Alabama law: Before duly elected, women and men in the Alabama legislature voted to ban abortion, the citizens of Alabama (52% of whom are women) voted to amend the state constitution to “declare and otherwise affirm that it is the public policy of the state to recognize and support the sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children ... and to provide that the constitution of this state does not protect the right to abortion or require the funding of abortion.”
The new law will punish women: The Alabama law only criminalizes abortionists who perform abortions when and if the law goes into effect. There are NO penalties against the women seeking or procuring an abortion. The law states (and then restates two more times): “a woman who receives an abortion will not be held criminally culpable or civilly liable for receiving the abortion.”
Alabama is an outlier; most other states support abortion: Forty-three states prohibit abortion after a certain point in the pregnancy, including 17 states which ban abortion at viability (when the child can medically survive outside the womb), six states that ban abortion after 24 weeks, 19 states which ban abortion after 20 weeks (when the unborn child may experience pain). Six states have passed, but not yet implemented, 6-week bans (when the heartbeat is detectable), and 11 more are considering similar laws.
The law and others like it seek to control a woman’s body: The Alabama law explicitly applies to two people – the unborn child and the abortionist who seeks to kill the child. No one else. Yes, a woman is involved as she is carrying the child in utero, but the law specifically exempts her from its scope. At its core, the main purpose of the Alabama “Human Life Protection Act,” is to protect human beings who are distinct and unique (with their own DNA, body parts, organs and systems, etc) from their mother’s body, and thus entitled to their own human rights.
The law and others like it undermine “reproductive rights:” At the time this law applies, the woman and her partner have already made the choice to engage in the behavior that produced a child. This law does not regulate that choice in any way; rather it protects the human who may innocently come into existence as a consequence of that choice.
The new law needs exceptions for rape and incest: In the event the sexual act was not the choice of the woman, separate criminal statues will apply to afford her the justice such a heinous act requires; this criminal act, however, does not nullify the humanity of the innocent child that may result from the act. The circumstances of conception, however tragic, do not make the child any less human and therefore entitled to protection under the “Human Life Protection Act.”
Supporters of abortion bans do not care about women: Being pro-life is not contrary to being pro-woman. Abortion brings with it a host of physical and psychological risks to women, many of whom are coerced by family, friends, or circumstance to succumb to abortion. A multitude of pro-life organizations and ministries provide the support and resources necessary to ensure women have real choices, better choices than abortion. Whether it’s parenting or placing for adoption, these non-profit organizations allow a woman to consider all her options rather than capitalizing on her fear to further the for-profit agenda of the abortion industry.
This law and others like it seek to control a woman’s body: The Alabama law explicitly applies to two people – the unborn child and the abortionist who seeks to kill the child. No one else. Yes, a woman is involved as she is carrying the child in utero, but the law specifically exempts her from its scope. At its core, the main purpose of the Alabama “Human Life Protection Act,” is to protect human beings who are distinct and unique (with their own DNA, body parts, organs and systems, etc) from their mother’s body, and thus entitled to their own human rights.
This law and others like it undermine “reproductive rights:” At the time this law applies, the woman and her partner have already made the choice to engage in the behavior that produced a child. This law does not regulate that choice in any way; rather it protects the human who may innocently come into existence as a consequence of that choice.
The new law needs exceptions for rape and incest: In the event the sexual act was not the choice of the woman, separate criminal statues will apply to afford her the justice such a heinous act requires; this criminal act, however, does not nullify the humanity of the innocent child that may result from the act. The circumstances of conception, however tragic, do not make the child any less human and therefore entitled to protection under the “Human Life Protection Act".
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The Japanese salaryman has moved over for its new incarnation, the herbivore man.
Better known as “grass-eating men”, Herbivore men do not desire to live up to traditional social expectations of them, with regards to both careers and romance. Instead, they are known to potter around the house, vacationing in Japan instead of overseas, and spending time with their mothers and female friends. We can contrast this to the earlier forms of masculinity that are tied to the form of economy Japan was experiencing:
Samurai: in the age of feudal kingdoms, samurais were warrior nobles that embodied the ideal of Japanese “knighthood”. They held virtues such as duty, loyalty, self-sacrifice and mental and physical endurance.
Salaryman: office workers who brought Samurai virtues into the workplace as loyal “corporate warriors”. They continued displaying traditional notions of patriarchy and masculinity within a system of long-term employment.
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The Herbivore man, in contrast, emerged as a response to the economic downturn of the 1990s and the changing job structure in Japan. It is a direct resistance to the earlier notions of being an “ideal man” and the masculine responsibilities that follow within a structured and strict culture. It is a shift from “sacrifice” to “self-indulgence”.
It turns traditional values eschewed by the Samurai and Salaryman cultures on its head, and escapes by embracing all that isn’t traditionally masculine.
An important reason for this shift is possibly a shifting locus of control for Japanese men. In a slow-growing economy where it is difficult to accumulate accoutrements of traditional masculine success such as automobiles, houses, shoes (and national success), Herbivore men are choosing to turn inward to control one’s beauty and body.
A slender and muscular body, smooth skin, and styled hair have become the new markers of this masculine identity — a veritable display of power and control over a smaller and more personal domain.
This resistance to the machinery of the salaryman culture is also one that reveals a deep desire to express the self in individualised ways. This impulse is already consistently seen in Japan’s famous sub-cultures that continuously emerge on the fringes of mainstream society. What is different now is that the emergence of the Herbivore man might have begun as a process of resistance, but is now slowly becoming the mainstream with 20 percent of 20 to 30-year-old males identifying as such.
It is thus no surprise that a result of this resistance and rise of the Herbivore man, the luxury boom in Japan created by the now-declining office lady (OL) culture is giving way to strong metrosexual-related consumer sub-segments such as male cosmetics and patterned underwear.
It remains to be seen how masculinity will continue to be redefined by Herbivore men as the Japanese economy improves. Will the next evolutionary step be to balance inherited responsibilities with personal pursuits of passion? Will it result in a balancing out of gendered roles in the home and workplace? Or will it be to increasingly move towards an amoeba-like notion of masculinity, and into hermitage?
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Liberian ore line to spur Guinea revival
AFRICA: A revival of passenger and general freight services on the 662 km Chemins de fer de Guinée line is among commitments the BSG Resources (Guinea) Ltd mining joint venture has made in return for permission from the governments of Guinea and Liberia to build a new iron ore export line from the Simandou area of southeast Guinea to Didia on the Liberian coast.
Brazilian mining firm Vale announced a US$2·5bn deal in April under which it has acquired a 51% interest in BSGR, which holds half the concession rights to significant undeveloped sources of high-grade iron ore that could support a long-term mining project. Simandou is in Guinea but the closest coast is in Liberia, and Vale has signed agreements with the two governments for construction of a railway to Didia.
In return for the right to ship through Liberia rather than Guinea, BSGR will renovate the century-old metre gauge Trans-Guinea railway which runs from the coastal capital of Conakry to the Upper Niger and Kankan regions. Other than occasional trains on the first 36 km the line has been out of action since 1995.
Rights to exploit ore at Simandou are also held by Rio Tinto, which in March signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Chinalco to establish a joint venture covering the development and operation of mines plus associated rail and port infrastructure.
Metrolink marks $32m modernisation of Van Nuys station
USA: California commuter operator Metrolink has held a ceremony to mark the $32m rebuilding of Van Nuys station in Los Angeles under a two-year project which is nearing completion. The station is on Metrolink’s Ventura Line, a Union Pacific route which is also served by Amtrak ...
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250 km/h ‘high speed metro’ in Guangzhou urban rail plan
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Farandou reshapes SNCF leadership team
FRANCE: A new management structure for the ‘unified’ SNCF group was unveiled by President & CEO Jean-Pierre Farandou on January 16, following the first board meeting of the national railway group since the 2018 reforms came into effect on January 1.
Cuomo proposes southern extension to New York Penn Station
The congestion at New York Penn Station has become a major political issue in recent years. USA: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo used an address at the Association for a Better New York on January 6 to announce plans for a locally funded expansion of Penn ...
Vinkovci – Vukovar electrification contract signed
CROATIA: The contract for modernisation, resignalling, electrification, level crossing upgrading and station modernisation on the Vinkovci – Vukovar line was signed by HŽ Infra, Comsa SA and Comsa Instalaciones Y Sistemas Industriales SA in Vukovar on December 20. The 18·7 km line connects the Zagreb – ...
Tenders called to rebuild San Sebastián station
SPAIN: Tenders were issued on December 12 for reconstruction of the main line station in San Sebastián as part of the ‘Basque Y’ high speed programme. The result will be the partial integration of the existing station with the adjacent, underground, bus station, and the incorporation in the finished ...
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The DaVinci Group Appoints Rep Firms in Four Key Territories
The DaVinci Group (TDG), has appointed sales representative firms in four major market areas.
RS Staff ⋅ Apr 4, 2016
The DaVinci Group (TDG), has appointed sales representative firms in four major market areas. TDG dealers in these markets can expect to experience an upgrade in their support from these new sales firms in their trading areas. The new representative firms appointed by The DaVinci Group are: Redwood Marketing (Northern California), L.P. Hench (Florida), AR Distribution (the Southeast), and The Jarmac Group (New England).
The DaVinci Group management recently conducted a comprehensive talent search in each region, seeking the sales team that best represented the company’s dealer-focused approach. TDG professes its belief that the key to its success is a deeper understanding of the needs of the local integrator – and the execution of quickly and effectively addressing these needs in-market.
These four firms, who are those local sales representative organizations that best meet TDG’s standard for dealer support focus, were the result of that search. These new regional sales appointments by TDG sales management take effect immediately.
“We are extremely pleased with these new sales representative appointments,” said TDG president Jeff Francisco. “Each of these firms are well-known in their respective markets for providing superior dealer support activities and we believe that TDG dealers will immediately notice a substantial uptick in quick and effective dispatch of their immediate needs. Furthermore, we remain pleased to note that when word is out that TDG is seeking local representatives, we are attracting a veritable ‘Who’s Who’ of some of the biggest and best known firms competing to become the TDG rep in their area.”
Redwood Marketing was founded in 2004 and maintains a focus on superior customer support, product training and dealer development in both the residential and commercial markets. In addition to The DaVinci Group, Redwood Marketing represents several other lines such as: Denon, Boston Acoustics, Artison, Epson, HEOS, iRoom, JL Audio, Just Add Power, Master & Dynamic, and Parasound. Principal Jim Knight and his team cover Northern California, Northern Nevada, and Hawaii. Dealers in this region interested in TDG products should contact Redwood Marketing online.
One of the most prominent rep firms in Florida, L.P. Hench was launched in 1968 by Les Hench and is now run by his son Michael. Over their decades in business, L.P. Hench has earned a reputation for providing high-level service to both dealers and manufacturers. The firm also represents: Onkyo, Key Digital, iRoom, Just Add Power, Metra Home Theater Group, Torus Power, Triad, URC, and BDI. The L.P. Hench Company covers the entire state of Florida and Puerto Rico. Dealers in the territory interested in TDG products can visit L.P. Hench online.
According to principal Christopher Robinson, AR Distribution is a 30-year old start-up – implying that while the company is brand new, the people behind it have 30-years of experience representing and selling low-voltage products in the Southeast territory. AR is customer-focused and partners with its customers to help them maximize all available opportunities to grow their business. AR Distribution covers the entire Southeast region, including: North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Dealers in this region interested in TDG products can visit AR Distribution online.
Covering the New England market, The Jarmac Group has been providing solutions to its clients for almost thirty years. The company prides itself on forming strong bonds, with the region’s dealers, architects, designers, and builders. In addition to TDG, Jarmac represents Sony, Klipsch, Vantage, QMotion, Access Networks, JL Audio, and Bryston. Dealers in New England interested in purchasing TDG products can visit Jarmac online.
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Watchdogs to IRS: Reject Rove Group’s Tax Application
Recognition by the IRS would allow Crossroads GPS, one of the biggest outside spenders of the 2012 elections, to keep its donors secret
by Justin Elliott
Jan. 2, 2013, 6:43 p.m. EST
Two watchdog groups are calling on the IRS to reject Crossroads GPS’ request to be recognized as a social welfare nonprofit.
Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center, nonpartisan outfits that favor tighter campaign finance regulations, wrote a letter to the tax agency today citing ProPublica’s recent reporting on Crossroads’ 2010 IRS application. The application said that the group’s activities seeking to influence elections would be “limited in amount, and will not constitute the organization's primary purpose.”
In today’s letter, Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center called those statements by Crossroads GPS “simply not credible, in light of the actual practices of the organization and the tens of millions of dollars Crossroads GPS spent on campaign ads since then.”
Conceived by Karl Rove, Crossroads GPS was one of the biggest outside spenders in the 2012 elections, reporting more than $70 million in expenditures to the Federal Election Commission.
Recognition as a social welfare nonprofit is important for Crossroads because it allows the group to shield the identity of its donors. Under tax rules, such groups are allowed to spend money on political campaigns but must be primarily engaged in promoting social welfare.
Campaign Legal Center Executive Director Gerald Hebert said in a statement accompanying today’s letter, “The application filed with the IRS by Crossroads GPS is laughable in the face of the growing body of evidence against the pretense that Crossroads GPS is a ‘social welfare’ organization.”
Crossroads GPS spokesman Jonathan Collegio responded: “This sounds like the 25th identical letter that the partisans and ideologues at the Campaign Legal Center have sent to the IRS, and it doesn’t merit anyone’s attention.”
We’ve inquired with the IRS as to whether Crossroads’ has been recognized as a social welfare nonprofit — as of mid-December it had not — and we will update this post if we hear back.
Justin Elliott
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Cases on International Law, Charles G. Fenwick
Reviewed by Philip C. Jessup
Park Avenue Diplomacy--Ending the Berlin Blockade, Philip C. Jessup
Civilization and Foreign Policy: An Inquiry for Americans, Louis J. Halle ; Common Sense and World Affairs, Dorothy Fosdick Reviewed by Philip C. Jessup
Realities of American Foreign Policy, George F. Kennan Reviewed by Philip C. Jessup
Elihu Root and the Conservative Tradition, Oscar Handlin and Richard W. Leopold Reviewed by Philip C. Jessup
The Crime of Aggression and the Future of International Law, Philip C. Jessup
The Equality of States as Dogma and Reality, Philip C. Jessup
International Tribunals: Past and Future, Manley O. Hudson ; The United States and the World Court, Denna Frank Fleming
Fontes Juris Gentium: Tomus 2: Digest of the Diplomatic Correspondence of the European States, 1871-1878, Viktor Bruns ; Politische Vertrage: Eine Sammlung von Urkunden. Traites Politiques: Recueil de Documents. Tome ler: Garantiepakte, Bundnisse, Abkommen uber politische Zusammenarbeit, Nichtangriffs- und Neutralitatsver-trage der Nachkriegszeit. Traites de garantie, d'Alliance, de Collaboration politique, de non-Agression et de Neutralite conclus apres la guerre. Tome II: Materialien zur Entwicklung der Sicherheitsfrage im Rahmen des Volkerbundes. Documentation relative au developpement de la question de la securite dans le cadre de la Societe des Nations, Viktor Bruns
Great Britain and the Law of Nations: A Selection of Documents Illustrating the Views of the Government in the United Kingdom upon Matters of International Law. Volume II: Territory, Herbert Arthur Smith
World Court Reports. Volume I, 1934, Volume II, 1935, Manley O. Hudson ; Fontes Juris Gentium: Series A. Tomus 3: Digest of the Decisions of the Permanent Court of International Justice, 1931-1934, Viktor Bruns and Carl Heymanns Verlag
The Function of Law in the International Community, H. Lauterpacht
The Eighteenth Amendment and Our Foreign Relations, Robert L. Jones
The Early Development of the Law of Contraband of War III, Philip C. Jessup and Francis Deak
Fontes Juris Gentium. Series B. Digest of the diplomatic Correspondence of the European States, 1856-1871, Viktor Bruns
Great Britain and the Law of Nations: A Selection of Documents Illustrating the Views of the Government in the United Kingdom upon Matters of International Law. Volume I: States, Herbert Arthur Smith
International Adjudications: Volume IV: Compensation for Losses and Damages Caused by the Violation of Neutral Rights, and by the Failure to Perform Neutral Duties, John Bassett Moore
The Early Development of the Law of Contraband of War II, Philip C. Jessup and Francis Deák
The Early Development of the Law of Contraband of War I, Philip C. Jessup and Francis Deák
Fontes Juris Gentium. Series A. Sectio 1, Tomus 1: Digest of the Decisions of the Permanent Court of International Justice, 1922-1930; Tomus 2: Digest of the Decisions of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, 1902-1928. Sectio 2, Tomus 1: Decisions of the German Supreme Court Relating to International Law, 1879-1929, Viktor Bruns and Carl Heymanns Verlag
International Adjudications, John Bassett Moore
The Early Development of the Law of Neutral Rights, Philip C. Jessup and Francis Deák
A Selection of Cases and Other Readings on the Law of Nations, Edwin DeWitt Dickinson
Prize Law During the World War. A Study of the Jurisprudence of the Prize Courts, 1914-1924, James Wilford Garner
Private Law Sources and Analogies of International Law, H. Lauterpacht
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Guest Column: Postage Rates Rising
The industry braces for potentially devastating rate hikes if the PRC approves the USPS’ “exigent increase.”
By Eddie Mayhew
The outlook for changes in publishers' postage costs next year ranges from virtually zero to the potential for double-digit increases that would put many publications out of business. It all depends upon the outcome of an unprecedented proposal that the United States Postal Service (USPS) has presented to the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC).
As you likely have heard, the USPS filed a proposed pricing increase with the PRC on July 6. The proposal would raise postage an average of 5 percent to 5.5 percent for most market dominant mail classes. However, periodicals would see average increases of 8 percent, with more publishers reporting increases greater than 8 percent. The increases are relatively similar for most periodicals rates, except for 20-plus-percent increases for certain types of pallets, and Standard Mail parcels will go up 23 percent.
These changes would take place on Jan. 2, 2011, and would include some regulation modifications as incentives.
Before detailing some of the incentives and changes, the increase amount must be addressed. The USPS is requesting the increase under the "exigent clause" in the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, which allows changes in postage rates to exceed the rate of inflation (above Consumer Price Index parameters) under extraordinary circumstances.
Several mailer organizations and a newly formed alliance (Affordable Mail Alliance) are challenging the exigent increase as not meeting the criteria for which the clause was created. They believe that legitimate criteria would be a natural or man-made disaster that disrupted service capability for an extended period of time or disabled the Postal Service's ability to operate under optimum conditions. The exigent clause was added after 9/11 and the anthrax problems, and reinforced by damage from Hurricane Katrina. These organizations do not believe that poor USPS financial conditions meet the criteria.
Even more concerns emanate from the PRC. The PRC will be holding several hearings over the next 90 days and analyzing the request for higher rates. It can determine that the proposal is acceptable as submitted, modify it to reflect its economic analyses or reject it as unacceptable.
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Ed Mayhew worked for the Postal Service for 37 years, becoming one of the most recognized experts on periodicals mail in the country. Ed was a part of the Rates and Classification Service Center (RCSC), ending his career as a Classification Specialist in the New Pricing and Classification Service Center in New York City. He has written rulings, instructions and articles for postal publications, appeared as an expert witness in court, a rebuttal witness for the Postal service at the Postal Rate Commission, co-authored postal handbooks and applications, and was the RCSC coordinator for six postage rate cases.
He is the 2002 winner of the Angelo R. Venizian award for contributions to the publishing industry, the first postal winner of that award in its history.
Ed has made training videos appearing on radio and TV, speaks at numerous seminars and is an 11-time top National Postal Forum speaker. He is founder and president of consultancy Eddie Mayhew’s Classification Station. Contact Ed at 973-462-5662, E-Mail at eddie@emclass.com or Twitter @eddiemclass.
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Sealants are liquid coatings that harden on the chewing surfaces of teeth and are showing a great deal of effectiveness in preventing cavities—even on teeth where decay has begun.
The pits and grooves of your teeth are prime areas for opportunistic decay. Even regular brushing sometimes misses these intricate structures on the chewing surfaces of your teeth.
The sealants are applied to the chewing surfaces and are designed to prevent the intrusion of bacteria and other debris into the deep crevices on the tops of teeth.
Sealants actually were developed about 50 years ago, but didn't become commonly used until the 1970s. Today, sealants are becoming widely popular and effective; young children are great candidates for preventative measures like sealants (especially on molars) because in many cases, decay has not set in. Even on teeth where decay is present, sealants have been shown to fight additional damage.
Sealants are applied by first cleaning the tooth surface. The procedure is followed by "etching" the tooth with a chemical substance, which allows the sealant to better adhere. After the sealant is applied, a warm light source is directed to the site to promote faster drying. Sealants usually need re-application every five to 10 years.
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Rediff.com » News » AOL event should be held on Yamuna's banks again and again, says Delhi minister
AOL event should be held on Yamuna's banks again and again, says Delhi minister
April 13, 2017 12:02 IST
Delhi Water Minister Kapil Mishra on Thursday mocked the findings of an expert panel that the world culture festival ravaged the Yamuna floodplains, asserting that the event should be held again and ‘only on its banks’.
He invited Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, who had organised the cultural extravaganza last year, for holding the event again.
Unfazed by the alarming contents of the report, including that the restoration of the floodplains may take up to 10 years, Mishra said the festival should be organised on the banks of the Yamuna ‘again and again’.
‘It is almost as if Dolphins used to swim in the Yamuna before the world culture festival...At that point Sri Sri came and poured gutters into the pristine river.’
‘It is almost as if Dolphins used to swim in the Yamuna before the world culture festival. Tourists from all over the world used to come marvel at it. At that point Sri Sri came and poured gutters into the pristine river. He damaged it so much that it will take 10 years to restore it (sic),’ Mishra wrote.
Yamuna’s dissolved oxygen level, that supports aquatic life, has plummeted to zero at different points in the river’s journey through the national capital, a Delhi Pollution Control Committee study found last year.
Based on his ‘12 years of Yamuna activism’, he hit out at people ‘who believe’ that the river can be revived by ‘keeping it untouchable’.
‘History says whenever people and societies are linked to rivers, festivals are organised, rivers remain clean and pristine.
‘My take is that world culture festival should be held only the banks of the Yamuna. Again and again. I reinvite Shri Shri for holding the event again (sic),’ he said.
A whopping Rs 42.02 crore would be required to restore Yamuna floodplains which were ravaged due to the festival, an expert committee has told the National Green Tribunal.
The expert panel has suggested that there would be two components of rehabilitation plan -- physical and biological, and they would cost Rs 28.73 crore and Rs l3.29 crore respectively, besides additional ancillary expenses.
Related News: Yamuna, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Kapil Mishra, Delhi Pollution Control Committee, AOL
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Agony Unrated Promises to be Everything the Original Wasn’t
by CJ Melendez - Website | cjmelendez_
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The hellish saga of Madmind Studio’s Agony continues with today’s formal announcement of Agony Unrated — an uncensored and improved version of the original game made as an act of redemption for the developer.
Agony Unrated‘s official announcement comes after the expiration of legal binding contracts that prevented the developer from previously releasing Adult-rated cut content. Now that those contracts are no longer in the way, Madmind Studio claims that they have “the freedom to create the world we’ve come up with.” This new and improved version won’t just have more sexual and violent content; the developer has also acknowledged the “numerous technical errors” and the frustrating game design that plagues Agony. Additional modes, content additions, gameplay changes, and even graphical improvements will be included. Here’s the full list:
Improved quality of character models and textures,
New types of threats – Traps,
New types of environmental threats,
New types of static opponents,
A new, more extensive and useful character development system,
Volumetric lighting,
Normal Mode and Hard Mode with more opponents and puzzles,
Completely new type of environment – the Forest, added to the procedurally generated Agony Mode, which now also includes additional traps and boss fights,
8 different endings in the Story Mode,
Possibility to follow the story mode as a Sukkub,
Sukkub Mode and Agony Mode are unlocked at the first start of the game,
Many new, uncensored scenes,
Black and red image filter, inspired by the Agony trailers,
World map and minimap,
The possibility of setting up a fire and killing some opponents as a martyr,
Sacrificial altars,
New and modified paths for the player,
Numerous technical improvements to the basic version of the game and much more.
Agony Unrated is set for release on October 31st on Steam for $14.99. Kickstarter backers of the original game will get a copy for free, and existing owners will receive a 90% off discount from the Steam store. Console owners — including those waiting for the game’s Switch release slated for the end of 2018 — should not expect to receive Agony Unrated unless it performs exceptionally well. According to the developer, the only way Agony Unrated will appear on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 is if a publisher agrees to print a limited number of physical copies. A digital release on either console will not be possible due to rules set by the platform holders.
Last June, I gave Agony a 3.5/10 review score, writing “Agony is bloated with ideas and Madmind’s aspiration to create a big budget title; somewhere along the line, they forgot many fundamental elements of good game design. Agony is inconsistent and, worst of all, boring. I take no pleasure in seeing yet another promising horror game miss the mark, but I’m simply disappointed.” Despite this, I’m willing to give this new version a shot, because the developers clearly seem passionate.
Will you give Agony another chance? Let us know in the comments.
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How Smart Are Bees? How Do They Perform Clever Counting Task?
Varun KumarDecember 27, 20183 min read
Researchers simulate a miniature brain to analyze how bees count things.
They found that bees can count up to 5 items with just four brain cells.
The study shows that intelligence doesn’t necessarily require large-size brains.
Many experiments demonstrate that animals possess a similar “number sense”. Not only large-brained animals or birds, but also frogs, fish, and even insects with tiny brains were shown to be able to make decisions on the basis of numbers. In particular, bees exhibit incredible counting-like abilities.
While bees have relatively simple brains compared to human brains, they can perform complex learning tasks like remembering the best locations to collect pollen and nectar. In the earlier studies, researchers were able to teach bees to identify several different colors.
Recently, a research team at the Queen Mary University of London simulated a simple miniature brain to understand how bees count things. They found that bees can count small quantities with just four brain cells.
How Bee’s Brain Counts Number of Items?
The human brain takes a quick look at all the items (small quantity) and counts them together. However, a bee’s brain functions in a different way: to count a small number of items, it inspects one item closely, and then it inspects the next one closely and so on.
This type of behavior makes a complex counting task much easier, enabling bees to exhibit magistic cognitive abilities with minimum brainpower.
Earlier researches have proved that bees can count up to 5 items and can select the larger or the smaller number from a set. They can even choose 0 (none) from a set, if trained to select ‘less’.
Reference: ScienceDirect | doi:10.1016/j.isci.2018.12.009 | Queen Mary University of London
Actually, bees don’t understand numerical concepts: they use certain flight movements to inspect items closely. This shapes their visual input and makes it easier to perform a task (i.e. count the number of items) using minimal brainpower.
Courtesy of researchers
The study shows that the intelligence of insects and small animals could be mediated by fewer nerve cells, as long as these cells are connected together in an efficient manner.
Implications for AI
Employing such insect-inspired scanning behaviors could enhance artificial intelligence (AI) applications because the efficiency of AI systems such as autonomous robots and facial recognition or pattern matching apps, relies on robust, computationally inexpensive algorithms.
The human brain contains 86 billion nerve cells that receive, process, and transmit information through chemical and electrical signals. In comparison, bees contain only 1 million nerve cells, thus they have little brainpower. To solve tasks, a bee’s brain has to implement computational algorithm very efficiently.
Researchers modeled the input to the simulated brain by examining the bee’s point of view as it flies close to items and inspects each item at a time. As per the report, the simulated brain accurately determined the number of items on display.
Read: The First Brain-to-Brain Interface Lets 3 People Share Thoughts Directly To Each Other’s Head
Overall, the study suggests that intelligence doesn’t necessarily require large-size brains, but can be achieved with small neural networks embedded in the microprocessor that is the bee brain.
Varun Kumar
Varun Kumar is a professional science and technology journalist and a big fan of AI, machines, and space exploration. He received a Master's degree in computer science from Indraprastha University. To find out about his latest projects, feel free to directly email him at [email protected]
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THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS OF AFRICAN AND SOUTH AMERICAN CICHLIDS
Written by Kate Barrington Published October 31, 2008
Learn about and how to recreate the natural environments of African and South American Cichlids
Many people are interested in the natural environment of their cichlids. They may want to try and emulate the natural environment or they may just be curious about where the fish they love originate. Each of the major regions where cichlids live in Africa and South America will be described. Note that some African cichlids live outside of the three main lakes and some also live in rivers, but the three main cichlid lakes will be focused on.
African Lake Cichlids
Lake Malawi is part of the East African Rift valley system (meaning it lies in the East African rift caused by the African tectonic plate splitting in two) and is located in southern Africa. It is the ninth largest lake in the world and the third largest in Africa with a surface area around 29,600 km. It is situated between the countries of Malawi, Tanzania, and Mozambique. The lake is often called Lake Nyssa as there is still a debate between bordering countries. Lake Malawi consists of a single large basin that is approximately 506 km long and 75 km wide at the widest point. The lake’s maximum depth is 700 m and it has a mean depth of around 292 m. Lake Malawi is unusual because it does not have tides or currents.
The lake is fairly warm with a deep level temperature of around 72o and with a surface temperature of 75 – 84o. The reason for the 9o Ffluctuation in temperature is that Lake Malawi lies far enough south of the equator to experience definite seasonal variations in temperature. The pH ranges from 7.7 – 8.6, the gH ranges from 4-6 dH, and the kH ranges from 6-8 dH.
There are several main cichlid habitats within the lake. The first is the sandy shoreline that makes up about 70% of the coast. Some plants live in this area, but not many. Haps and peacocks use this as their habitat. The second area is the rocky shoreline that makes up the remaining 30% of the coast. Here there is no vegetation and rocks are piled on top of each other. The rocky areas tend to be where the shores have a steep drop off. Mbunas make this their habitat (hence their name which means “rock-dweller”). The third area is the river mouths and area close to shore that are highly vegetated. These areas tend to be shallow and can also be fairly muddy. Lastly, the deep water zones that go from 30 m to 250 m deep are inhabited by some of the larger predatory cichlids.
Lake Tanganyika is the second largest lake in Africa and is the world’s longest lake at 420 miles. It is the world’s second deepest with a maximum depth of 4,710 feet. It is 45 miles wide at its widest point and overall, it contains 1/6 of the world’s freshwater supply. It is situated between Tanzania, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia and is part of the western branch of the African Rift valley system.
Unlike Lake Malawi, Lake Tanganyika is actually formed from three basins. These used to be separate, but as the water rose in each, they eventually formed one giant lake.
The water is much harder and more alkaline than Lake Malawi. Its pH ranges from 8.6 - 9.5 while its gH ranges from 11 – 17 dH and its kH from 16 – 19 dH. The oxygen content in the upper section of the lake is very oxygen rich and the lake is extremely clear. The temperature of the surface will vary from 76 – 82o while the deep water temperature is around 70o.
The majority of the lake is composed of a sandy bottom and little rock “islands”. These rock islands are where many of the cichlid species live. Cichlids do not typically venture between the different rock areas as this would force them to head out to open waters where predators are abundant. Therefore, each cichlid group is sheltered from others. You can find very different species in two rock islands separated by less than 300 feet.
Lake Victoria does not lie in the two branches of the African Rift valley, but instead is directly between them. It is known locally as Lake Nyanza and is bordered by Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. It is the world’s second largest freshwater lake and has an average depth of 120 feet. The deepest it reaches is 250 feet.
The diversity of cichlids in this lake has been cut in half since the 1950s. Nile perch were introduced to the lake by people for a food source and to start commercial fishing. The problem was that these fish get up to six feet in length and soon wiped out whole species of cichlids. This is a sad example of the problems inherent to introducing foreign species to lakes and rivers.
Lake Victoria is much less clear than Lake Malawi and Lake Tanganyika. For instance, visibility is around 4 – 10 feet in inshore regions while the visibility can be up to 70 feet in Lake Tanganyika and Lake Malawi. The pH ranges from 7.2 – 8.6 and the kH ranges from 2 – 8 dH. The surface temperature has a large range of 70 – 81o F due to the disparity caused by a dry and a wet season.
The shallow areas have vegetation and can be quite muddy. There are also habitats similar to Lake Malawi (large rocks/sand) in other parts of the lake. Overall, the pollution that has been caused in the lake has made algae run rampant throughout.
Many of the cichlids found in South America live in the blackwater streams, creeks, and rivers in the Amazon River Basin. These bodies of water generally have acidic “black” water. The black water refers to the water being stained by humic acid from decaying plants and leaves. If you have ever seen an aquarium with slightly tea colored water then you have a mental picture. There is usually dense vegetation and a large amount of driftwood/bogwood in the water as well. The wood is typically tangled together as it gets hung up as it floats downstream. There is very little current and the bottom is composed of fine clay or sand covered in decaying leaves that fall in the water from the trees overhead.
The pH ranges from 6.0 – 6.9 while the gH ranges from 3 – 7 dH and the kH ranges from 2 – 4 dH. The temperature of the water is between 74 – 78o F.
Knowing what your cichlids’ natural environment looks like can help you establish an aquarium that mimics it. Also, realizing the natural water parameters can assist you in raising healthy fish. Overall, knowing where your cichlids come from can make you a much better cichlid owner.
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Spike: hidden fun in Spacebar
May 23, 2011 /0 Comments/in Game Analysis, Games /by Javi Sanz
It’s a recurring habit to try to make things more ellaborated and complex in the pursuit for quality. We tend to add features to enhance gameplay trying to create a memorable experience, but sometimes, the opposite way works far better to achieve that. It’s well known that when your constraints are tight, you seek for bolder and more creative solutions, struggling to get more from less.
In the case of this game: “Spike: a love story“, you’ll just need to push the Spacebar. Not even in a frenzy mode, and even though, the result obtained is quite impressive: the game turns out to be challenging, entertaining, memorable and above all extremely funny. Don’t wait, stop reading. Play it now!!! (shall you?)
How can you squeeze all that from just a key pressing? The answer comes by blending wisely some winning features. First of all there’s the undelaying humour, there’s a different sketch each 10 seconds or less. Each comic sketch plays with the unexpected, a classic comic formula. You may be waiting for something, and then… you just got busted!!!
From the many different behaviours shown in the game, emanates illusion of life, the sensation you are playing with a living toy. You don’t know what to expect from it and that’s certainly engaging.
Finally, black sense of humour, the morbid fascination of being the bad guy in the movie. Feeling that you are being wicked also keeps you sticked to the Spacebar.
So rather than playability, here we have a great game because of it’s “script”, specially its sense of humour. They say in war and love everything’s allowed, but also in game development! It’s stimulating finding games that create their own formula. It may not be a game for playing for several days, but we’ve learnt a great lesson of humility, and inventiveness from it. Thanks Matzerath for this little great gem!
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Game review. Every day the same dream
April 21, 2011 /0 Comments/in Game Analysis, Games /by Javi Sanz
Finishing our current project Apocalypse Dunk is taking a bit longer than we expected. We are still working hard polishing it and improving its gameplay.
In Ravalmatic, at the office, we love to analyze and review the games that for some reason we find interesting. I would like to talk about Apocalypse Dunk but since is not ready I’ll have to wait.
This week we discovered a brilliant little game that impressed us much.
Alarm buzzes!! Wake up, get dressed, kiss your wife, fight traffic, and go to work. Day in, day out, it’s always the same and nothing you can ever do will change that. Or will it?
Made in 2009 by Paolo Pedercini of Molleindustria, Every day the same dream is a game with a simple gameplay. The player just needs the left and right arrow keys for movement, and the space bar to interact with people and items when their name pops up at the bottom of the screen.
There is not a tutorial or any guiding on how to play. On other game that would account as a weakness and provoque players to quit. However, this lack of instructions is exactly what makes this game so appealing. The player himself needs to find out how to break the vicious circle.
The protagonist has no face, no personality, and yet there’s something about his situation that makes him instantly identifiable, someone to feel sympathy for. I almost felt a sense of desperation the longer I played as I tried to find something, anything, that would change his life for the better… or even at all.
Maybe if you play this original game and have the capacity to think out of the box you will discover its denouement. That can make your day unique too…
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Russia successfully test-fires RS-12M Topol ICBM
An intercontinental ballistic missile has been test-fired from the Kapustin Yar range in Russia.
"A crew of the Strategic Missile Forces test-fired an RS-12M Topol intercontinental ballistic missile from the Kapustin Yar state central multi-service range in the Astrakhan region at 6:13 p.m. Moscow time on August 22, 2015," Russian Defense Ministry spokesman for the Strategic Missile Forces Col. Igor Yegorov told Interfax.
"The launch aimed to test a prospective warhead of intercontinental ballistic missiles," he said.
"The training warhead of the missile hit a simulated target at the Sary-Shagan range [in the Republic of Kazakhstan] with the required precision," Yegorov said.
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Xarelto Lawsuit
The blood thinner medication Xarelto (generic: rivaroxaban) has recently been linked to irreversible and potentially fatal bleeding events, hemorrhage, blood clots and other serious side effects.
Update: J&J, Bayer Ordered to Pay $28 Million in Xarelto GI Bleeding Lawsuit
December 6, 2017 – Bayer AG and J&J have been found liable and ordered to pay nearly $28 million to a woman who claimed Xarelto caused her to develop severe internal bleeding injuries. Plaintiffs secured a much-needed win the Xarelto litigation, as Bayer and J&J had emerged victorious in the previous 3 bellwether trials.
What is Xarelto?
Manufactured and marketed in a joint partnership between Jansen Pharmaceuticals (a Johnson & Johnson company) and Bayer HealthCare AG, Xarelto is an anticoagulant blood thinner designed to prevent the formation of blood clots. Xarelto was approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) in July 2011 for the prevention of a type of blood clot known as deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a condition that commonly occurs after certain types of surgeries. The drug is also commonly prescribed to reduce the risk of stroke in patients with a certain type of heart rhythm disorder. Xarelto belongs to a class of drugs known as factor Xa inhibitors, which includes the much-troubled Pradaxa (generic: dabigatran).
‘ROCKET’ Safety Study
The largest clinical trial conducted to date on Xarelto was ROCKET (Rivaroxaban Once daily oral direct Factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial). This study looked at data on over 14,000 patients and compared Xarelto to warfarin. ROCKET determined that Xarelto was no more effective than warfarin, and that the health risks associated with the drugs were similar. The most commonly reported side effect was internal bleeding, with rates similar to that of warfarin. However, Xarelto caused fewer brain bleeds and more bleeding events in the stomach and intestines.
Many experts have questioned the safety of Xarelto as a result of internal bleeding reports and the lack of antidote when these events occur. The FDA staff gave a negative review of Xarelto for patients with atrial fibrillation (afib), citing multiple problems with the ROCKET study. The agency requested that Janssen conduct additional research to better understand the link between Xarelto, internal bleeding and stroke.
In January 2012, Reuters reported that the U.K.’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) had refused to recommend or approve Xarelto for use in state health services until Bayer can provide more safety data on the drug. Other medications battling with Xarelto for dominance in the highly lucrative anticoagulant market include:
Eliquis (generic: apixaban), made by Pfizer and Bristol-Myers Squibb. In September 2011, data was released which found that Eliquis causes fewer deaths and less bleeding than warfarin.
Pradaxa (generic: dabigatran), manufactured by Boehringer Ingelheim.
Lixiana (edoxaban), manufactured by Daiichi Sankyo.
Xarelto & Stroke
Blood clots in the brain can cause a transient ischemia attack (TIA), also known as a “mini-stroke,” which may precede a stroke. If blood flow is obstructed for more than a few seconds, the brain begins being deprived of blood and oxygen. Brain cells can die, causing permanent damage to the organ. Xarelto labels contain a boxed warning indicating that there is an increased risk of stroke after discontinuing use of the drug for the treatment of non-valvular afib. Increased stroke rates were observed during the transition from Xarelto to warfarin in clinical trials in afib patients.
Signs and symptoms of a Xarelto stroke may include:
One side of the face may droop or become numb
Sudden numbness or weakness in an arm or a leg
Slurred speech or speech that is difficult to understand
Sudden trouble walking
Sudden dizziness, loss of balance or coordination
Internal Bleeding
Xarelto has been linked to an increased risk for internal bleeding events. Signs and symptoms of Xarelto-induced internal bleeding may vary, depending on the location of the bleeding, and what body functions are affected. Symptoms of internal bleeding may include:
discolored urine (blood in the urine)
red or black-colored stool
vomiting blood that looks like coffee grounds
frequent nose bleed or gum bleeding
weakness and swelling in the extremities
According to a new study conducted by researchers in Australia, Xarelto presents less of a risk of bleeding in the brain than Coumadin (warfarin) when given to patients with atrial fibrillation, but like Pradaxa, Xarelto may cause more serious bleeding events that could be difficult to treat. The FDA has announced that it is currently in the process of evaluating bleeding events in patients being treated with Xarelto to determine whether the risks outweigh the benefits of the drug.
Although excessive bleeding events are the most commonly reported serious side effect associated with Xarelto, there has been increasing concern about the development of blood clots in patients who are administered Xarelto as a prophylaxis. These patients tended to be a younger group [median age 66] who took Xarelto after hip or knee replacement surgery. According to a report issued by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), of the 356 adverse events reported in the first quarter of 2012, at least 158 cases of blood clots or thromboembolic events were reported to the FDA.
Signs and symptoms of a Xarelto blood clot may include:
exhaustion or unexplained fatigue
redness, inflammation or varicose veins
chest pain or pain with deep breathing
fever or sweats
dizziness or fainting
unexplained cough
asymptomatic (no symptoms)
bloody mucus with worsening cough
JAMA Study Investigates Blood Clot Treatment Strategies
A September 2014 study published in the Journal of the American medical Association (JAMA) found that most treatment options for blood clots in veins (venous thromboembolism) were equally safe and effective, yet major bleeding events occurred more often in patients treated with anticoagulants like Xarelto. Researchers conducted 45 randomized trials on 44,989 test subjects, and found that 0.49% of Xarelto users suffered a major bleeding event during the first three months of treatment, compared to just 0.29% with Eliquis. The study’s authors concluded that, except for a UFH-vitamin K antagonist combination, all other treatment strategies had similar bleeding risks.
Xarelto Side Effects
In addition to having the potential to cause blood clots and serious internal bleeding events, Xarelto has also been associated with a number of other side effects including:
brain hemorrhage
severe allergic reactions
bloody or black, tarry stools
pain or new drainage at wound sites
pink or red urine
red, swollen, blistered, or peeling skin
stiff, sore, hot, or painful joint
unexplained swelling
unusual or prolonged bruising or bleeding
vomit that looks like coffee grounds
yellowing of the skin or eyes (jaundice)
Xarelto Bleeding Risk Increased in Acutely Ill, ACS Patients: Study
In November 2013, a study published in Medscape identified a link between Xarelto and a nearly 3-fold increased risk of bleeding in acutely ill patients, as well as a 4-fold increased risk of major bleeding in patients diagnosed with Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS). These findings were based on data from four dozen clinical trials involving Xarelto, Pradaxa, Eliquis, Lixiana and darexaban, all of which have been approved since 2010. The study’s authors wanted to know how these drugs performed against each other, as well as how they compared to warfarin and heparin, staple anticoagulants that have been in use for more than 50 years in the U.S.
Bleeding events associated with the new drugs included:
Hip surgery – 1.43-fold increased rate of major bleeding
ACS – 3.27-fold increased rate of major bleeding
Medically ill thromboprophylaxis – 2.79-fold increased rate of major bleeding
Are Xarelto Lawsuits Being Filed?
February 2014: a lawsuit was filed on behalf of Virginia G. Stuntebeck, a Kentucky woman who allegedly experienced severe internal bleeding after taking Xarelto. That case is: Stuntebeck v. Janssen Research & Development LLC et al, Case Number 140201754; Court: Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.
May 2014: a wrongful death lawsuit was filed against Janssen and Bayer which stated that Xarelto caused the death of Mattie Edgin, who allegedly died after taking the drug. Edgin’s niece Della Wise, who filed the complaint, said that Xarelto was “fervently marketed … with no regard to the accuracy and misrepresentations of their misleading marketing.”
Wise accuses the companies of falsely claiming that Xarelto users do not need to undergo routine testing for internal bleeding or blood clots. She also noted that Xarelto does not have a reversal agent, unlike warfarin, which can be counteracted with a single dose of Vitamin K when bleeding events occur. The lawsuit seeks punitive damages, including fraud, wrongful death, consumer law violations, negligence, failure to warn, product liability, unreasonable marketing of a dangerous drug, and breach of warranty.
June 2014: The wife of a man who allegedly bled to death after taking Xarelto filed a lawsuit against Janssen for failing to warn that the drug can cause uncontrollable bleeding events. The complaint was filed in federal court in Florida by Nancy Packard, on behalf of her husband, William N. Packard, Jr., who started taking Xarelto in January 2012 for the treatment of afib.
After using the drug for approximately 6 months, Mr. Packard developed bleeding in his brain and was hospitalized. Doctors were unable to stop the bleeding, even after drilling a burr hole in his skull, and Packard died on June 28, 2012. According to the complaint:
“Defendants failed to adequately warn about the lack of an antidote to reverse uncontrolled bleeding caused by Xarelto. Defendants merely indicated that there was a risk for bleeding and side-stepped the important issue of reversing the effects of Xarelto should a bleed occur. Other safer alternatives to Xarelto® have an antidote that can reverse uncontrolled bleeding.”
That case is: Nancy Packard v. Janssen Research & Development LLC et al; Case Number 9:14cv80831; U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
October 9, 2014: An 87-year-old man who allegedly experienced severe internal bleeding after taking Xarelto filed a lawsuit against Janssen and Bayer. The plaintiff began using the drug on his doctor’s advice in early 2012, and suffered a gastrointestinal bleed on October 15, 2012. The lawsuit claims his injury was a direct result of Xarelto side effects, and seeks compensation for personal injuries, pain and suffering, and emotional distress.
ISMP QuarterWatch Links Xarelto to 15,000 Adverse Event Reports in 2016
July 18, 2017 – Xarelto was linked to at least 15,043 adverse event reports last year, according to the latest ISMP QuarterWatch Report. A total of 21,996 injuries were associated with the entire class of blood-thinners, nearly 70% of which were tied to Xarelto.
Bayer, J&J Misrepresented Xarelto Risks, Lawsuits Claim
July 12, 2017 – Two men from New York have filed separate lawsuits against Bayer and Janssen Pharmaceuticals alleging that Xarelto caused “life-threatening bleeding” and “other severe and personal injuries.” Plaintiffs Thomas Walsh and Joseph Roman further allege that Bayer and Janssen hid their knowledge of these “serious and dangerous side effects,” including life-threatening bleeding events, which were caused by a lack of adequate clinical trials and studies.
First Xarelto Trial Kicks Off in New Orleans
April 24, 2017 – The first of 4 bellwether trials alleging bleeding side effects from Xarelto is now underway in Louisiana federal court. The complaint was filed by Joseph Boudreaux, who claims he experienced severe internal bleeding less than a month after taking Xarelto for the first time. His injuries required a week-long stay in an ICU, numerous blood transfusions and heart procedures, according to the lawsuit.
Xarelto Bellwether Trials Begin in Louisiana
April 4, 2017 – Judge Eldon Fallon is set to begin hearing the first Xarelto bellwether trials later this month, and the cases are being watched very closely as outcomes could help to determine future rulings. The first trial is scheduled to begin on April 24, with another beginning each month until July. Since the cases involve complex pharmaceutical litigation, each trial could last up to 8 weeks before a jury returns a verdict.
Xarelto Multidistrict Litigation
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) has agreed to centralize all federally-filed Xarelto Lawsuits into a single proceeding to be established in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana. At least 21 lawsuits have been filed in federal court alleging that Xarelto caused plaintiffs to suffer life-threatening internal bleeding events and other serious complications, according to a transfer order issued Dec. 12.
Xarelto Associated with Increased Bleeding, Mortality Compared to Pradaxa
October 7, 2016 – Xarelto has been linked to an increased risk of bleeding in elderly patients treated for nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (a-fib) compared with Pradaxa (diabigatran), according to a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. In addition to the increased bleeding associated with Xarelto, the study found that the drug reduced risk of thromboembolic stroke and increased risk for mortality compared to Pradaxa. However, the increase in intracranial hemorrhage with Xarelto outweighed reductions in stroke, according to David J. Graham, MD, MPH, from the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
Xarelto Bleeding Lawsuit Filed in Illinois
September 6, 2016 – A group of 10 people who claim Xarelto caused severe bleeding have filed a products liability lawsuit against Bayer and Janssen Pharmaceuticals. Plaintiffs have charged the defendants with 9 counts of misconduct ranging from fraud to wrongful death for failing to adequately warn about the risk of Xarelto side effects. The complaint was filed in St. Clair County Circuit Court, Illinois, under case number 15-L670.
European Labels Updated to Include Guidance for A-Fib Cardioversion
Jan. 20, 2015 – Bayer today announced changes to Xarelto product information in Europe, according to the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The label update provides doctors with information regarding the clinical utility of Xarelto in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation who require cardioversion, and is based on the CHMP opinion issued Dec. 2014.
Xarelto Reversal
While there is currently no known antidote or reversal agent to stop bleeding events with Xarelto, a drug called Andexanet alfa is being developed that may serve this purpose. The drug is now undergoing late-stage clinical trials, and is expected to gain approval from the FDA in mid-2016.
Has There Been a Recall?
Although many lawsuits have called for Xarelto to be pulled off the market until an antidote or reversal agent to stop bleeding events can be developed, it does not appear likely that the FDA will require the manufactures to recall the drug. Instead, a black box warning may be added to Xarelto labels informing users about the risk of hemorrhage associated with its use. Informing potential users and the medical community about the lack of an antidote and the importance of monitoring users during treatment to evaluate their risk of hemorrhages may have prevented many injuries and deaths among Xarelto users.
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van den Brink, A., Gerritsen, D. L., de Valk, M. M. H., Oude Voshaar, R. & Koopmans, R., 2-Jan-2020, In : AGING & MENTAL HEALTH. 24, 1, p. 155-161 7 p.
van den Brink, A., Gerritsen, D. L., de Valk, M. M. H., Oude Voshaar, R., & Koopmans, R. (2020). Natural course of neuropsychiatric symptoms in nursing home patients with mental-physical multimorbidity in the first eight months after admission. AGING & MENTAL HEALTH, 24(1), 155-161. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2018.1531384
van den Brink, Anne ; Gerritsen, Debby L ; de Valk, Miranda M H ; Oude Voshaar, Richard ; Koopmans, Raymond. / Natural course of neuropsychiatric symptoms in nursing home patients with mental-physical multimorbidity in the first eight months after admission. In: AGING & MENTAL HEALTH. 2020 ; Vol. 24, No. 1. pp. 155-161.
van den Brink, A, Gerritsen, DL, de Valk, MMH, Oude Voshaar, R & Koopmans, R 2020, 'Natural course of neuropsychiatric symptoms in nursing home patients with mental-physical multimorbidity in the first eight months after admission', AGING & MENTAL HEALTH, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 155-161. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2018.1531384
Natural course of neuropsychiatric symptoms in nursing home patients with mental-physical multimorbidity in the first eight months after admission. / van den Brink, Anne; Gerritsen, Debby L; de Valk, Miranda M H; Oude Voshaar, Richard; Koopmans, Raymond.
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van den Brink A, Gerritsen DL, de Valk MMH, Oude Voshaar R, Koopmans R. Natural course of neuropsychiatric symptoms in nursing home patients with mental-physical multimorbidity in the first eight months after admission. AGING & MENTAL HEALTH. 2020 Jan 2;24(1):155-161. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2018.1531384
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RVC Animal Welfare Science and Ethics
Ethics of evidence based veterinary medicine
People: Madeleine Campbell, David Mills, Adrian Boswood
The research into the ethics of evidence based veterinary medicine (EBVM) has a strong comparative theme, investigating whether ethical/societal issues already identified in evidence based human medicine are likely to occur in veterinary practice. It also has an international theme, researching whether difficulties in implementing EBVM in less economically developed countries (LEDCs) result from or cause healthcare inequalities.
Key goals of the research include increasing awareness amongst veterinarians of the ethical dimension to EBVM; setting EBVM within an accessible ethical framework; using collaborative exchange of information and expertise between academics, stakeholders and the public to provide possible solutions for cultural and societal issues surrounding the introduction of EBVM, and public engagement which will inform decision-making processes about policy and practice by providers of veterinary care, regulators, stakeholders, and those responsible for implementing public health decisions which link veterinary and human healthcare.
Madeleine Campbell is particularly interested in investigating the ethical/societal issues relating to data gathering in economically developed and less economically developed countries; diagnostic decision making (in private, charity and corporate models); how evidence-based treatment may be constrained, by society, by science, or by policy, and how adoption of EBVM will affect regulation of the veterinary profession, and the role of the veterinary profession within society.
David Mills is undertaking a PhD with a focus on looking at ethical issues associated with the practice of EBVM in his particular areas of clinical interest, small animal cardiology and emergency and critical care. David is co-supervised by Madeleine Campbell and Adrian Boswood of the RVC, and Michael Reiss of the Institute of Education.
To hear Madeleine speaking at the RCVS Knowledge conference on evidence based veterinary medicine about some of the ethical issues which can arise in EBVM, click: Ethics and evidence-based veterinary medicine
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KfW and Asian Development Bank lift support for Asia Pacific region
Lola Evans
MANILA, Philippines - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and KfW, the German state-owned development bank, on Friday agreed to expand their existing co-financing partnership with an additional $2 billion over the next 4 years, to support continued economic development in the Asia and Pacific region.
The revised MOU was signed by ADB Vice-President Ahmed M. Saeed, KfW Management Committee for Europe and Asia member Stephan Opitz, and KfW Regional Manager for East and Southeast Asia Ulrike Lassmann at ADB headquarters in Manila.
"Germany is one of ADB's original shareholders, and we have long had a very productive partnership with KfW, together financing more than $5 billion in energy, climate, and urban infrastructure projects over the last 5 years," ADB Vice President Saeed said Friday. "Our new MOU builds on this good work and commits us to a deepening of our partnership in support of inclusive and sustainable development across Asia and the Pacific."
"The relationship between KfW and ADB is an important pillar of KfW's strategy in Asia," Mr. Opitz added. "This new agreement reflects the successful cooperation that we were able to set up to the benefit of our Asian partners in recent years. I would like to emphasize that the success of such a collaboration is not only the co-financing as such, but also the openness and trust to work together from all parties."
The additional funds add to the $2 billion co-financing partnership ADB and KfW launched in 2014 and renewed in 2017 for an additional $2 billion. The partnership (20142019) yielded 14 co-financed projects focused on education, energy, health, industry and trade, and public sector management. The $4 billion provided by KfW for these projects was complemented with $5.8 billion from ADB.
At the signing event, ADB and KfW also signed an MOU for a collaborative co-financing arrangement for an additional €200 million ($221 million) for the Fiscal and Public Expenditure Management Program, Subprogram 3, in Indonesia. An earlier MOU was signed for the project for €300 million on the sidelines of the 52nd Annual Meeting of ADB's Board of Governors in Fiji.
"The need for investment in Asia is enormous. That is why the signing of what is now the third agreement between KfW and ADB signifies the correct and consistent continuation of a successful partnership," Executive Director for Germany at ADB Helmut Fischer, who witnessed the signing said Friday. "With this agreement, KfW is providing on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany a further $2 billion in German co-financing contributions, which will be used to fund infrastructure in Asia to promote sustainable economic development, a cleaner environment, and renewable energy. I also welcome the new agreement for cooperation with Indonesia, a strategically important partner for German development cooperation in Asia and for development worldwide."
Germany is the second largest bilateral co-financier of ADB projects. The additional cofinancing from KfW ADB says will help it address the region's vast infrastructure needs, estimated by ADB at $1.7 trillion annually until 2030 including climate adaptation and mitigation costs.
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Robotics Case Studies
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A Measuring Robot Ensures “Just-in-Time” Assembly
Universal Robots A/S Posted 12/28/2012
In automotive supplier Lear Corporation’s demand-led production, robot arms from Universal Robots play a crucial role: The lightweight robots assemble car seats by locating, measuring and tightening screws on car seats resulting in shorter throughput time and greater process reliability.
Just-in-time assembly is an established production model in the supplier industry enabling considerable cost savings on the part of the customer. For the supplier, however, this means superlative flexibility as the company must be in a state of constant preparedness for deliveries while also meeting strict quality requirements. When it comes to safeguarding all of this and avoiding errors, reliable production processes are imperative.
The Lear Corporation is an international automotive supplier specializing in seat systems and on-board electronics. At its production facility in Besigheim, Germany, car seats are assembled “just-in-time” by workers operating in a shift pattern. The key is to work quickly and flexibly while guaranteeing high-quality products. The employees had only limited experience with robot technology, which is why the desired automation technology had to be low-maintenance and easy to control and program.
One particular challenge on this project came from the limited space availability inside the production hall where the individual production steps take place one after the other on a conveyor belt. Lear needed a small, mobile robot which could be used directly alongside humans.
Side by side with colleague robot
The systems integrator Faude Automatisierungstechnik was able to provide a solution satisfying all of the requirements: the six-axis lightweight UR5 robot from Danish manufacturer Universal Robots. The small robot, which weighs just 18 kilo, has a reach of 85 cm and a lifting force of five kilos. A key advantage to Lear is the robot’s intuitive user interface; Programming is done by either pressing arrow keys on a touchpad, indicating where the robot should move – or by simply grabbing the robot arm and showing it how to perform a certain action. Lear needed just a single day of training to familiarize employees with the robots. Unlike room-sized, heavy automation technology, the robot can be used directly alongside humans without any safety shielding: As soon as an employee comes in contact with the robot arm and a force of at least 150 Newton or more is exerted, the robot arm will automatically stop operating. This safety mode has been certified in accordance with the European ISO standard. Faude also checked the robots’ individual applications on all projects in order to rule out any safety risks.
Contribution to quality assurance
Since January 2011, the robot from Universal Robots has been responsible for screwing together the seat and rest frames, the final and most important stage of production before final assembly at Lear’s plant in Besigheim. It is used in three-shift operation, completing around 8,500 screwing actions every day. The UR5 is installed above the conveyor belt on which the seats, which have already been pre-screwed by hand, move. These are equipped with a transponder containing individual identification data. As soon as the seat arrives underneath the robot, the transponder is read and the robot tightens several screws on both sides of the car seat with a torque of up to 35 Newton metres at a pre-specified rotational angle. The entire process is documented using the electric screwdriver attached to the robot.
Since the seats can be in slightly different positions as a result of the previous manual stages in the process, the robot must be able to detect within a grid of 50 x 50 mm where the relevant screw is. This has been accomplished using the Flexvision image processing system, developed by Faude, which communicates with the UR5. Using 2D measurements with a camera, the robot is positioned precisely so that it can position the screw bit exactly on the head of the screw. Because of the UR5’s six axes, it is so mobile that it can quickly assume the correct angle of rotation. Before being integrated into live production, Faude and Lear tested the interfaces with the robot and the influences of light in order to determine the best possible camera settings.
Since the screwing processes are monitored digitally, the robot can immediately spot errors via its image processing system. The automation of this key stage ensures increased process reliability. If, for example, there are screws missing on a seat, the robot picks this product out and issues a warning signal by way of error notification. The Lear employee will then add this manually at a reworking station. Since the robot tightens and monitors a high number of screws before final assembly, it is making a crucial contribution to quality assurance and the prevention of errors.
Cost-effective investment with potential for expansion
The procurement costs of this system solution, including the robot, were around 50,000 Euro and was recouped after just a few months. Instead of expensive sensor technology, the UR5 robotic arm utilizes a patented technology to measure electrical current in its joints to determine force and movement. The innovation enables the robot to undercut the price of other automated solutions.
Thanks to the UR5’s energy-efficient operation, even the ongoing operating costs are manageable. The German auto supplier is currently examining whether the fully automatic screwing of car seats can be integrated into production across the whole of Europe. Other application uses, such as in joining, bonding and sawing processes are being researched as well.
Closing the Asian “Automation Gap”
As the cost of labor in traditional low wage countries in Asia is on the rise, it’s not only in Europe employing a robot makes sense. What is paramount, however, is the robot’s ability to increase productivity and optimize production standards.
One area, where the UR robot has proven its success, is in closing the “Automation Gap”, which describes the challenge of transferring a semi-completed product to the next automation line or to feed work pieces for further process. In these cases, the UR robot has been easy to implement, while also freeing up workers to perform more challenging tasks. Examples of these applications within the Asian region include CNC feeding and Injection Moulding Machine tending.
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We have a number of programmes that have been implemented over time and are proudly affiliated with the following partners:
1. Sophakama Primary School
The school is based in Dunoon, Milnerton and currently has over 1 600 learners, with 40 teaching staff. Having spent two years in prefabricated buildings, learners now have the benefit of a new school building, which was officially opened in March 2015. Sabelo Makubalo, the Principal, has embraced the Partners for Possibility Programme, which has seen many positive changes at the school. Sophakama Primary School was selected as one of only eight schools in the Western Cape to participate in the Year Beyond Programme, launched by the Western Cape Premier’s Office.
2. Western Cape Government
We value our ongoing relationships with both the Western Cape Premier’s Office and the Western Cape Education Department.
Our team began working together with the Western Cape Education Department early on in our journey, so as to make sure that we aligned our goals with their goal of seeing a well-performing Sophakama Primary School. We continue to stay in regular touch with their representatives who work with Sabelo and his teaching team.
The Western Cape Premier’s Office launched the Year Beyond Programme and Sophakama was chosen as one of the eight schools from the Western Cape to participate on the programme. We hope to see this partnership go from strength to strength as the Year Beyond Programme grows.
3. PfP (Partners for Possibility)
The Partners for Possibility Programme, the flagship programme of Symphonia for South Africa, has as their bold vision: Quality education for all children in South Africa by 2025 (i.e. significantly improved education outcomes by 2025). By partnering school principals with business citizens, they hope to promote social cohesion and empower principals to become change leaders in their schools and communities.
This programme is the one that was the initial inspiration for the whole team and we believe it offers a creative solution to South Africa’s education crisis. Principals are partnered with business leaders who bring their knowledge and skills to the school. With the cooperation of both partners, a relationship of mutual learning and interactive sharing develops over time into one of trust and friendship. The PfP programme works to lead change, starting with promoting confidence and energy in the principal; an aligned School Management Team; an energised and engaged team of teachers; and an involved community of parents and other citizens around the school. We believe that our team is following an implementation process of the PfP programme at Sophakama that is realising these aspirations.
4. Rogz
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Started by the existing directors in 1995, Rogz is a leading premium brand in the pet market, Rogz develops, manufactures, markets and sells pet product accessories.
Rogz is represented in over 74 countries through a network of subsidiaries, customers and distributers and continues to expand its reach within these markets and across the globe.
Rogz currently employs over 150 staff members some of which are the parents of school learners at Sophakama Primary School.
5. NAL'IBALI
Nal’ibali (isiXhosa for “here’s the story”) is a national campaign that promotes reading for enjoyment and develops children’s potential through storytelling and reading. Nal’ibali deliver over 300 newspaper supplements (found in the Sunday Times Express newspaper) regularly to the school.
6. Number Sense
This is the numeracy programme currently used on the Year Beyond Programme. Number Sense is a series of workbooks that have been developed to provide independent written numeracy activities for learners.
7. Brain Boosters
As many of the Grade 1 learners have not completed Grade R and/or enter Grade 1 without a proper foundation, this programme offers a catch-up programme to Grade 1s. The programme complements the CAPS curriculum and focuses on literacy and numeracy.
8. The Click Foundation
This is the online phonetics-based English literacy programme used by the learners on the Year Beyond Programme. The primary aim of the programme is to assist learners achieve English literacy proficiency at an age-appropriate level. Learners work at their own pace on the technology, facilitated by the volunteers. They are provided with visual and auditory instructions to make learning fun using reading games, songs and activities.
9. Greenshoots
This online numeracy programme provides learners with individual log-ins and passwords to a Maths Curriculum Online. They complete weekly online exercises that are aligned to the CAPS curriculum, for the entire school year. This also forms part of the Year Beyond Programme offerings.
10. Shine Literacy
The methodology used in the morning English literacy programme is based on Shine Literacy’s long-established model. Their Shine Centres provide individualised support to learners in Grades 2 and 3 to strengthen their English reading, writing and speaking skills. Learners work with trained volunteers once or twice a week, during the school day, for at least one year. A range of activities are covered in a session, including paired and shared reading, have-a-go writing and fun language games. Shine uses assessments to select learners for the programme and to track progress. The Year Beyond Programme also uses the Shine Literacy programme.
11. Volunteers
The morning English literacy programme has attracted a diverse group of volunteers ranging from older, retired people to moms with children. We currently have 28 volunteers in total, but continue to grow. Volunteers are drawn to this programme by the learners’ enthusiasm and willingness to learn. It’s heartwarming to arrive at the school and have the learners run up to you for hugs and high fives or ask to read a special story or play a favourite game. This volunteering experience has even inspired some of the volunteers to learn basic isiXhosa to facilitate their sessions with the learners. We cannot over-emphasise the value we place on the time and effort offered by all our volunteers!
The Year Beyond volunteers are the young people who teach on the Year Beyond Programme in the afternoons. They apply to participate on the programme and must fulfil certain criteria, with particular strengths in English and Maths.
12. ELKANAH HOUSE (School of Creative Learning)
Elkanah House is a school committed to empowering their students to become skilled and confident individuals, who understand that living significantly is about making a difference in the world and in the lives of others. This resonates with our team’s desire to make a difference in our communities. Elkanah continues to be a huge support and resource for our work at Sophakama. We hope for more interaction between Elkanah House and Sophakama in the future.
13. Mothers that Care
Mothers That Care is an organisation whose motto is “Passionate about feeding hungry children and keeping them warm”. They started in 2010 with five volunteers and now they make about 5 000 sandwiches per week in total! They provide sandwiches on a weekly basis to the Grade R classes at Sophakama.
14. The Bookery
South Africa currently has 90% of public schools without a functional school library. An organisation committed to “Bringing the School Library to Life”, The Bookery sets up and supports functional school libraries across the country. Their previous sponsorship of a library assistant at Sophakama meant that the school library has more resources and can stay open for longer hours.
15. QUANTUM GROWTH (Self and Team Development - Lumina Learning)
Bryan Opert from Quantum Growth, will be assisting Sophakama’s teachers in a self-evaluation process. Quantum Growth believes that people can change and develop into their most potent beings. Quantum Growth’s foundations required for accessing potential are self knowledge, underpinning effective relationships, which then grows into leadership. The team is looking forward to the impact of Quantum Growth’s self and team development process on the Sophakama teaching team.
16. Boost Africa Foundation
Boost Africa Foundation assists learners to stay in school. They believe that education counteracts crime and poverty and has long-term social development benefits. The foundation provides learners with the basic requirements necessary to attend school and aims to establish a sustainable learning centre with resources to improve numeracy, literacy and skills development of the youth.
17. Salt
SALT’s vision is that all people in South Africa have their human rights met in the areas of education, food security, and human dignity. The SALT team has offered advice and support to our team, as we have developed our programmes and grown our projects.
18. UCT
Our main focus this year has been the School Management, Curriculum and Teacher Support Programme. We are working closely with the University of Cape Town’s School Development Unit (SDU), and WCED, to achieve the objectives for this programme. In this way, we hope to touch all the learners of Sophakama Primary School. We believe our partnership with the SDU has brought expertise and well-founded research to our implementation of this programme. The SDU promote quality teaching and learning across all grades, with a specific focus on mathematics, the sciences and languages and contribute to the continuing professional development of teachers and school managers.
The SDU team conducted a ‘case study’ at the school (using observations/interviews/focus groups) and a written report was submitted to the school. This was used to assist the Principal and the School Management Team in prioritising the recommendations made by the SDU team. We look forward to addressing these in 2019 and are excited about how this will positively impact the teachers of Sophakama. The SDU team have been very complimentary about how Sophakama has embraced this opportunity and have given our team useful perspectives on projects of this nature.
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Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
The exhibition offered the opportunity to trace the development of Lambie’s exuberantly intelligent and visually arresting sculptural language. The exhibition was part of Edinburgh Art Festival 2014 and GENERATION, a Scotland-wide celebration of the last 25 years of contemporary art.
Exhibition Dates: 27 June – 19 October 2014
Exhibition view, Jim Lambie, Zero Concerto, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (13 August — 26 September 2015)
Jim Lambie Metal Box (Queen of Orchids), 2015; Aluminium and polished steel sheets, household paint; Each: 62.5 x 62.5 x 15 cm, Overall dimensions: 125 x 125 x 15
Jim Lambie Other Side of the Sun, 2015; Potato bags, acrylic paint, expanding foam on canvas; 210 x 178 x 60 cm
Jim Lambie Purple Night, 2015; Potato bags, acrylic paint, expanding foam on canvas; 171 x 124 x 64 cm
Jim Lambie Love in Outer Space, 2015; Potato bags, acrylic paint, expanding foam on canvas; 203 x 185 x 69 cm
Jim Lambie Metal Box (Underground Orchid), 2015 (detail); Aluminium and polished steel sheets, household paint; Each: 125 x 125 x 26 cm, Overall dimensions: 250 x 750 x 26; Exhibition view, Zero Concerto, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (13 August — 26 September 2015)
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Born 1964 in Scotland, UK
Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Wild Is The Wind, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Skin Shape, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Totally Wired, Franco Noero, Turin
Spiral Scratch, Pacific Place, Admiralty, Hong Kong
Both Ends Burning, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf
Zobop (Viridescent), Anton Kern Gallery, New York (permanent installation)
Electrolux, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, United Kingdom
I am A Laser, VoidoidARCHIVE, Glasgow, Scotland
Le scala, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
Derrick Alexis Coard, Glasgow International, Project Ability gallery, Trongate 103, Glasgow (Installed in collaboration with Jim Lambie)
Train in Vein, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Zero Concerto, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Sun Rise Sun Ra Sun Set, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Answer Machine, Sadie Coles HQ, London
The Flowers of Romance, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong
Shaved Ice, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin (Gallery Weekend Berlin)
you drunken me, Arch Six, Glasgow (with Richard Hell), UK
Everything Louder Than Everything Else, Franco Noero, Turin
Spiritualized, Anton Kern Gallery, New York (NY)
JIM LAMBIE BEACH BOY, The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, UK
Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas (TX), USA
Boyzilian, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
Metal Urbain, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
Atelier Hermes, Seoul, Korea
Jim Lambie: Selected works 1999-2006, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels
TELEVISION, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
8 Miles High, ACCA Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Secret Affair, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
Rowche Rumble, c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
RSVP: Jim Lambie, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MA), USA
Forever Changes, (Part of Glasgow International 2008), Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
The Prismatics, Anton Kern Gallery, New York (NY)
Directions, Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Museum, Washington (DC), USA
Anton Kern Gallery, New York (NY)
P.I.L, Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo
Adidas Originals Store, London
The Kinks( Turner Prize 2005), Tate Britain, London
The Byrds, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
Thirteenth Floor Elevator, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (TX), USA
Shoulder Pad, Sadie Coles HQ, London
My Boyfriend's Back, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Mars Hotel, Galleria Franco Noero / Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin, Italy
Mental Oyster, Anton Kern, New York (NY)
Grand Funk, OPA, Guadalajara, Mexico
Jim Lambie: Male Stripper, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK (cat.)
Kebabylon, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Paradise Garage, The Moore Space, Miami (FL), USA
Hot Butter, Anton Kern, New York (NY)
Acid Trails?? Statements, Miami Basel, Miami (FL), USA
Salon Unisex, Sadie Coles HQ, London
The Breeder Projects, Athens
Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Boy Hairdresser, Anton Kern Gallery, New York (NY)
Blank Generation, Jack Hanley, San Francisco (CA), USA
Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany
Galleria Sonia Rosso, Pordenone, Italy (cat.)
Fictional, Triangle, Paris
Black Gloss, Anton Kern, New York (NY)
Weird Glow, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Voidoid, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (cat.)
ZOBOP, The Showroom Gallery, London
Ultralow, The Modern Institute Video Screening Carnival, London
Chairs Beyond Right and Wrong, R & Company, New York
Surface Tension, Carolina Nitsch, New York (screening)
Frieze London 2019, Sadie Coles HQ
Art Basel 2019, Sadie Coles HQ
Art Basel Hong Kong 2019, Sadie Coles HQ
The TURNER, The Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Glasgow
Cut & Paste: 400 Years of Collage, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Alan Kane’s 4 Bed Detached Home of MetaL, The New Art Gallery Walsall
Eurovisions: Contemporary art from the Goldberg collection, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
Glasgow International at SUNDAY 2018, Glasgow International
Art Basel 2018, Anton Kern Gallery
Innovative Printmaking, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
If I go there, I won’t stay there, Ltd Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Op Art in Focus, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
The Anthropologist in me, Fórum Braga, Portugal
Five plus Five: Sculptures of China and Great Britain, Haikou Hainan Airlines Sun & Moon Plaza, Hainan, China
Open House, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
ISelf Collection, Whitechapel, London
An Eyeful of Wry, Brynmor Jones Library gallery, University of Hull (Government Art Collection)
EUROVISIONS: Contemporary art from the Goldberg Collection, National Art School, Sydney, Touring to Heidie Museum, Melbourne and Canberra Regional Museum, 2018
COLORI: L'emozione dei COLORI nell'arte', GAM - Galleria Civica D'Arte Moderna E Contemporanea, Turin
Artistic Differences, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
GROUP SHOW, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh
Collected, Pier 24, San Francisco (CA), USA
Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco (CA), USA (curated by Anton Kern and Andrew Kreps)
Artificial Realities, East Wing Biennial, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
The Revolutionary Suicide Mechanised Regiment Band, Rob Tufnell, Cologne
I still believe in miracles, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
Jennifer Herrema & Jim Lambie, VoidoidARCHIVE, Glasgow
Generosity. The Art of Giving, National Gallery of Prague, Prague
Artificial Realities, East Wing Biennial, The Courtauld Gallery
Devils In The Making: Glasgow School of Art & The Collection, Glasgow, Scotland
Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Summer Exhibition 2015, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
Zabludowicz Collection: 20 Years, Zabludowicz Collection, London
2015 White Columns Benefit Exhibition + Auction, White Columns, New York (NY)
A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family Collection, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York (NY)
Works from the British Council Collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
Sleepless-The Bed in History and Contemporary Art, 21er Haus, Osterreichische
Private Utopia: Contemporary Works from the British Council Collection, Tokyo
Station Gallery, Tokyo; Itami City Museum of Art / The Museum of Arts & Crafts, Itami, Japan; The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan; Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
On The Devolution Of Culture, Rob Tufnell, London
Urs Fischer curated show, Sadie Coles HQ, London
DISCORDIA, Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
That Petreolemotion, Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut
A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family Collection, The Contemporary Austin, Austin (TX), USA
Mutant Moments and Memorabilia, Voidoid Archive, 2014 Glasgow International, Glasgow, Scotland
You Imagine What You Desire, 19th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Alexander McQueen, women's store, London
Fading Nights, Gerhardsen Gerner Berlin, Berlin
Somos Libres, curated by Neville Wakefield, MATE, Lima
Sculpture in the City 2013, various sites, City of London, London
Beg Borrow and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Desert, CA
Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles (CA), USA
Reliefs, Objects and Sculptures from the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany
AKA PEACE, ICA, London
Take off your silver spurs and help me pass the time, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
Untitled (Works from the Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg Collection), Riverview School, Cape Cod (MA) USA
The Sculpture Show, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Sculpted Matter, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (NY)
Look Now: Modern and Contemporary Art from Private Collections, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair (NJ), USA
Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
Accrocharge, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
Home Alone, curated by Sarah Aibel, Sender Collection, Miami (FL), USA
Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence (RI), USA
Industrial Aesthetics: Environmental Influences on Recent Art from Scotland, HunterCollege, Times Square Gallery, New York (NY)
Vanishing Points: Paint and Paintings from the Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection, Bass Museum of Art, Miami (FL), USA
Terrible Beauty - Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, Dublin Contemporary, Dublin
Government Art Collection: Selected by Cornelia Parker: Richard of York Gave battle in Vain, Whitechapel Gallery, London
At Work, Government Art Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Nothing in the World but Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
The 4th Edition: Lustwarande `11 - Raw, park De Oude Warande, Tilburg, Netherlands
Space Oddity, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca
Compass, Gropius Bau, Berlin
Dwelling, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York (NY)
Missing Beat, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Highlights From The Collection, Goss Michael Foundation, Dallas
Nature, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
Altogether Elsewhere, Rodeo, Istanbul
Selections from the Hara Museum, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Toyko
Undone: Making and Unmaking in Contemporary Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
At Home / Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (NY)
The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London
Languages and Experimentations, MART, Rovereto, Italy
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London
Peeping Tom (curated by Keith Coventry), VEGAS Gallery, London
SHAZAM!, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
TONITE, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
Le sang d'un poete, Hanger a bananes, ile de Nantes, Nantes
Running Time: Artists Films in Scotland 1960 to Now, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh
The Kaleidoscopic Eye: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today, Tate Liverpool, UK
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York (NY)
Malcolm Mclaren: Musical paintings, ScheiblerMitte, Berlin
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (QC), Canada
Internationell Konstfilm Utställning (screening), Jönköping, Sweden
Towada Art Project, Towada Art Centre, Towada, Japan
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, MOMA, New York (NY)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection as Aleph, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
FILMS, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican, London
Fit to Print: printed media in recent collage, Gagosian Gallery, New York (NY)
Wild West, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin
Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, New Museum, New York (NY)
Passion Complex: Selected Works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Melting Point, Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build Forever, BALTIC, Gateshead, UK
Reconstruction #2, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, UK
Collezione La Gaia, CeSAC, Caraglio, Italy
Ironie der Objekte, Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Bozen, Italy
Domestic Irony. A curious glance at private Italian collections, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Substance & Surface, Bortolami, New York (NY)
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (IL), USA
BREAKING STEP / U RASKORAKU, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
Echo Room, Alcalá 31, Madrid
Half Square, Half Crazy, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Off the Wall, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
This is Not For You : Sculptural Discourses, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
All Hawaii Entrées/Lunar Reggae, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
How to Improve the World, Hayward Gallery, London
Frontiers - Collecting the Art of Our Time, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester (MA), USA
Having New Eyes, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (CO), USA
JaGGy-edge, The Travelling Gallery (touring), Scotland, UK
Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires, Ancient and Modern, London
Life's a Beach, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Strange Powers, Creative Time, New York (NY)
IMPLOSION, Anton Kern Gallery, New York (NY)
Gregor Schneider: Totalschaden / Total Damage, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn,Germany
If it didn't exist you'd have to Invent it: a Partial Showroom History, The Showroom, London
abstract art now - strictly geometrical?, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am, Rhein, Germany
In the darkest hour there may be light: works from Damien Hirst's murderme collection, Serpentine Gallery / Other Criteria, London
Experiencing Duration, Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
Omaggio al Quadrato, Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
Minimalism and After IV, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin
Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York (NY)
Prisms & Shadows (curated by Toby Paterson), Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
About Beauty, The House of World Cultures, Berlin
Works from the Boros Collection (Werke aus der Sammlung Boros), Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany (cat.)
54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg (PA), USA
From Aural Sculpture to Sound by Ink, Galerie Art: Concept, Paris
Brand New and Retro, Up Empire, London
Collage, Bloomberg SPACE, London
Synth, Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig, Germany
Into My World, Recent British Sculpture, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut (CT), USA
Stalemate, MCA, Chicago (IL), USA
Sodium & Asphalt, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo and Museo de Arte Contemporaro de Monterrey, Mexico City, Mexico
Ouroboros, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Last Winter Spring Never Came, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
Genesis Sculpture - Experience Pommery #1, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
Basic Instinct: Minimalism Past, Present, and Future, MCA, Chicago (IL), USA
Scottish Pavillon (with Simon Starling and Clare Barclay), 50th International Biennale of Arts, Venice, Italy (cat.)
Days Like These - Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London (cat.)
The Fourth Sex, Fondazione Pitti Immagine, Florence, Italy
Painting Not Painting, Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK (cat.)
Il racconto del filo. Cucito e ricamo nell'arte Contemporanea (The Tale of the Other Thread: Sewing and Embroidery in Contemporary Art), MART - Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy
Object in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, Badischer Kunstverien, Karlsruhe, Germany
Architecture Schmarchitecture, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Cut Out, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
The Moderns, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
Love Over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
OUTLOOK, Athens
I Got Ants in My Pants, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
Plunder, Culture as Material, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, UK
Bad Behaviour from the Arts Council Collection (touring), Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK; Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, UK; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, UK; The Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, UK; Tullie House, Carlisle, UK
The Unhomely, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
VIP, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland (cat.)
EU2, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Greyscale/CMYK, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland and Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland (organized by NIFCA, Helsinki, Norway) (cat.)
New - Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary British Art, Scottish Museum of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (cat.)
Jim, Jonathan, Kenny, Francis and Sol, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam
Roma Roma Roma, project by Gavin Brown, Toby Webster and Franco Noero, Rome
Early One Morning, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (cat.)
Early One Morning - Five Young British Sculptors, Presentation at Tate Britain, London
My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love, Charlottenberg Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark (cat.)
Hello, My Name Is…, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (PA), USA (cat.)
Superlounge, Gale Gates et al, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York (NY)
Electric Dreams, Barbican Gallery, London
Painted, Printed & Produced in Great Britain, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York (NY)
Life Is Beautiful, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
There is a Light That Never Goes Out, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Pordenone, Italy
Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (MI), USA (cat.)
SchattenRisse/Shadows, Silhouettes and Cut-outs, Lenbbachaus Kunstbau, Munich, Germany (cat.)
Here and Now, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland and Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK (cat.)
2001 Between Object and Arabesque, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark (cat.)
Funktional Fictional, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany (cat.)
Tailsliding, British Council (touring) (cat.)
Hoxton HQ, Sadie Coles HQ at Hoxton House, London
British Art Show 5, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (Hayward Touring Exhibition) (cat.)
Dream Machines, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, UK
Mapin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK and Camden Arts Centre, London (cat.)
Grant Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles (CA), USA
Electric City, The Lighthouse, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Off the Record, Bucknell Art Gallery, Lewisburg (PA), USA
Raumkörper, Basel Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
Parking Meters, Cologne, Germany
What If, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Black Gloss, Anton Kern Gallery, New York (NY)
Heart and Soul, Los Angeles (CA), USA
Papermake, Modern Art Inc., London
Creeping Revolution, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
To be Continued…, The New Gallery, UK (cat.)
Dots and Loops, MK Expositeruimte, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The Queen is Dead, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (cat.)
Heart and Soul, 60 Long Lane, London
Silk Purse, Waygood gallery, Newcastle, UK
Galerie Krinzinger (curated by Mathew Higgs), Vienna
Lovecraft, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK (cat.)
All or Nothing, La Friche Gallery Triangle, Marseille, France
Slant6, Jacob Javit's Center, New York (NY)
Ultralow (solo video screening), Carnival Cinema, Soho, London
The Modern Institute @ Sadie Coles HQ, London
Host, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (cat.)
Two Up, Property Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
This is…These are (curated by Kirsty Ogg), Norwich Gallery, at Norwich School of Art & Design, Norwich, UK
European Couples and Others, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
The World of Ponce, Southpark, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Brain Mail, Broad Studio 17, Cal Arts, Valencia (CA), USA
Girls High, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (cat.)
Insanestupidphatfuctpervert, Cubitt, London
Sick building, Globe Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Insanestupidphatfuctpervert, Concrete Skates, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Art for People, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
1996 Kilt ou Double, La Vigie Gallery, Nimes, France
In Stereo, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Mary Redmond & Jim Lambie, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Jonnie Wilkes & Jim Lambie, 115 Dalriada, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Michael Fitzgerald, 'Making sunshine: Jim Lambie’s ‘Wild Is The Wind’ at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery', Art Monthly, 16 November, 2019
Elizabeth Fortescue, 'Serving Up Artistic Surprises with A Serve of Vegetables,' The Daily Telegraph, 31 October 2019
‘Sydney Arts: Japan Supernatural at AGNSW, Jim Lambie at Roslyn Oxley9, and Sculpture by the Sea, The Daily Telegraph, October 2019
Galleries Now, ‘Jim Lambie – Wild Is The Wind’, October 2019
Fateman, Johann, ‘Jim Lambie’, The New Yorker, 20 April 2019
'The LISTE Interviews: Toby Webster’, Art Review, June 2018
65 Chapters for Knowing about Scotland, Mizuma Art Gallery
Creating Ourselves: The Self in Art, Whitechapel Gallery, London
‘Perceptions of Domesticity’, Aesthetica, 28 November 2016
Andrew Burns, 'Jim Lambie among eminent artists creating unique work for The Big Issue', The Big Issue, 23 November 2015.
Sammy Preston, 'Inside Jim Lambie's Zero Concerto', Broadsheet Sydney, 14 August 2015
Gina Fairley, 'Jim Lambie's earned his stripes, now to sell them', Visual Arts Hub, 13 August 2015
Jane O'Sullivan, 'Lambie show speaks to rising collecgor interest,' Australian Financial Review, 13 August 2015
Nicholas Forrest, 'Video: The Genius of Jim Lambie's 'Zero Concerto' at Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney', Blouin Artinfo, 1 Sep 2015
Wise, Louise. “The Doors of Perception,” The Sunday Times, June 7, 2015. Black, Paul. “Review: The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2015 - Michael Craig Martin Delivers Pop Arty Hues” artlyst, June 12 2015.
Rutkowski, Laura. “12 artworks you need to see at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, GQ, June 9, 2015.
Gayford, Martin. “Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition reviewed: A jumbo sale with pizazz,
The Spectator, June 6, 2015.
Ellis-Petersen, Hannah. “Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition goes on a candy cavalcade,”
The Guardian, June 5, 2015.
Downes, Sarah. “Masses on Display at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition,” The Wall Street Journal, June 4, 2015.
Luke, Ben. “Summer Exhibition 2015, Royal Academy: How to brighten up art's Groundhog Day,” The London Evening Standard, June 4, 2015.
Smart, Alistair. “Summer Exhibition 2015: Royal Academy, Review: `a high-end junk shop',”
The Telegraph, June 4, 2015.
Sherwin, Skye. “The Zabludowicz Collection Celebrates 20 Years,” W Magazine, April 30, 2015.
Forrest, Nicholas. “Zabludowicz Collection celebrates 20 Years of Art in London,” Artinfo,
May 5, 2015.
“Month Review: Setting art and music in coloured concrete,” Creative Review, Summer 2014.
Gyorody, Andrea. “Critics' Picks: Jim Lambie,” Artforum, September 2014.
Hamilton, Adriana. “Exhibition of Scottish art shows the characteristics of the artists work with with, populish, and colour,” The Independent, August 17, 2014.
Sooke, Alastair. “Edinburgh Art Festival round-up: patchy yet enterprising,” The Telegraph, August 11, 2014.
Buck, Louisa. “Best of the Edinburgh Art Festival,” The Telegraph, August 8, 2014.
Spence, Rachel. “Jim Lambie: maestro of a material world,” The Financial Times, August 8, 2014.
Sinclair, Mark. “The making of the Barrowland Park album pathway,” CreativeReview, July 30, 2014.
“Jim Lambie 'Answering Machine' and Urs Fischer at Sadie Coles HQ, London,” Mousse Magazine, July 27, 2014.
Wagley, Catherine. “5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including an Art Talk Show,” LA Weekly, July 23, 2014.
Love, Nicola. “Barrowland Park opens with pathway tribute to iconic east end venue” stv Glasgow, July 18, 2014.
Jones, Jonathan. “Why Scotland should follow its art and vote no to independence,” The Guardian, July 21, 2014.
“Album Pathway intended as a homage to city's Barrowland,” The Herald Scotland, June 23, 2014.
Wright, Karen. “Jim Lambie, artist: `I like the idea that people would be inside this kind of permanent installation',”The Independent, June 19, 2014.
Fox, Dan. “Then & Now” Frieze, No. 159, November 2013.
Sherwin, Skye and Robert Clark. “Claire Woods, Laura Knight, Sarah Morris: the week's art shows in pictures,” Review of A Conspiracy of Detail, The Guardian, July 12, 2013.
Russeth, Andrew. “Jim Lambie Talks Music, DJing and His Glasgow Club,” Gallerist NY, May 8, 2013.
“Jim Lambie at The Modern Institute,” Contemporary Art Daily, March 5, 2013.
“Blurring the Sense,” Review of Shaved Ice. Aesthetica, February 2013.
Amazeen, Lauren Dyer. “Critics' Picks: Jim Lambie,” Art Forum, December-January 2013.
Clark, Robert. “Jim Lambie: Shaved Ice,” The Guardian Guide, December 14, 2012.
Patience, Jan. “Gallery round-up,” The Herald, December 1, 2012.
“You Drunken Me,” www.richardhell.com, April 2012.
Decter, Joshua. “Jim Lambie,” Art Forum, February 2012. p.228-229.
Asfour, Nana. “Jim Lambie, `Spirtualized',” Time Out NY November 29, 2011.
Baker, R.C..The Village Voice. November 23, 2011
Herbert, Martin. “Now See This,” Art Review, Issue 52, September 2011.
Lima, Benjamin. “Critic's Picks Dallas,” Art Forum, July 23, 2011.
Kyung-yun, Ho. “Visual DJ: Jim Lambie,” Asiana, June 2011.
Simek, Peter. “Techno Colored: Jim Lambie at Goss-Michael,” D Magazine, May 4, 2011.
Griffin, Jonathan. “Jim Lambie -Artreview,” ArtReview, April 27, 2011.
Lowndes, Sarah. “Slow Dazzle,” Spike Art Quarterly, February 1, 2011.
“Interview,” Frieze, October 2010.
Amazeen, Lauren Dyer. “Jim Lambie,” Artforum, September 1, 2010.
Coles, Alex. “The New Décor,” Art Montly, Issue 339, September 2010.
Kotzé, Talitha. “Jim Lambie: Metal Urbain,” The List, Issue 657, May 18, 2010.
“Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art: various venus Glasgow,” Art Review, Issue 42, May 2010.
Bain, Alice, Neil Cooper, Isla Leaver-Yap and John Quinn. “Review: Glasgow International Festival,” Map, Issue 22, May 2010.
Wullschlager, Jackie. “Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today, The Financial Times,
Searle, Adrian. “Pump up the Volume,” The Guardian, May 28, 2009.
Davis, Laura. “Tate is awash with colour,” The Daily Post, May 28, 2009.
Jones, Catherine. “Tate of the Art,” Liverpool Echo, May 28, 2009.
Brown, Christopher. “Art Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today,” Metro, May 26, 2009.
“Going out: Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today,” The Independent, May 23, 2009.
Davis, Laura. “We Won't Colour You Response,” Daily Post, May 22, 2009.
Richardson, Anna. “Wild hues,” Design Week, May 21, 2009.
Campbell-Johnston, Rachel. “Breaking the Colour Code,” The Times, May 19, 2009.
Campbell-Johnston, Rachel. “Does Colour have a meaning in art?” The Times, May 19, 2009.
Kremier, Julian. “Learning Through Colour,” Art in America, May 2009.
Smith, Roberta. “MoMA Pushes the Envelope in Works on Paper,” The New York Times, April 24, 2009, p.C27,C29.
Schafer, Owen. “Jim Lambie Makes Himself at Home,” Weekender, Vo.40, No.2, January 23, 2009.
Ukawa, Naohiro. “Jim Lambie: Unknown Pleasures,” Art iT, No.22, January 17, 2009.
Gombrich, Marius. “In the space,” The Japan Times, January 9, 2009.
“Here Comes the Sun,” Art of England,
Philippa, Lewis. “Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today,” Studio International,
Cumming, Laura. “Custard yellow, sky blue, pea green...,” The Observer, June 14, 2009.
Lubbock, Tom. “Powerful Pigments,” The Independent, June 8, 2009.
McLean-Ferris, Laura. “Exhibitionist: The best art shows to see this week,” The Guardian,
June 5, 2009.
Park, Min-young. “Optical Illusions at Atelier Hermes,” Korea Herald, June 5, 2009.
Jones, Catherine. “Colour Chart (Review),” Liverpool Echo, June 1, 2009.
Musgrove, Jennie. “A Splash of Colour,” Concept for Living, Issue 127, June 2009.
Phillips, Sam. “Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today,” World of Interiors, June 2009.
Barachon, Charles. “Jim Lambie Passe En 22 Tours,” Technikart, June 2009.
Maerkle, Andrew. “Jim Lambie: Unknown Pleasures,” Art World, Issue 11, June 2009.
“Talking Points,” Harper's Bazaar, June 2009.
Darwent, Charles, “Slap on the Dulux and let there be light,” The Independent, May 31, 2009
Searle, Adrian. “What not to miss in 2009,” The Guardian, December 30, 2008.
Higgs, Matthew. “Kim Lambie, `Forever Changes',”Artforum, Issue XLVII, December 2008.
Seo, Jung-im.“Zobop, Jim Lambie's All That Record,” Public Art:The Monthly Public Art Magazine, November 2008.
Amazeen, Lauren Dyer. “Jim Lambie” Artforum International, September 2008.
Völzke, Daniel. “Der Scott Jim Lambie setzt sich in Glasgow gegen die Konsumwelt durch,”
Monopol, June 2008.
McLean-Ferris, Laura. “Glasgow International Festival,” Art Review, Issue 23, June 2008.
Lesso, Rose. “Jim Lambie: Forever Changes,” The List, Issue 601, April 24, 2008.
Burton, Johanna. “Primary Sources,” Artforum, April 2008.
Chie, Sumiyoshi. “JimLambie,” Time Out NY, May 17, 2007.
Churchill, Abbye. TokionV.2, Issue 2 Spring 2008, p.30. The New York Sun, February 2008. Front page.
Smith, Roberta, “A nervy Opening Volley,” The New York Times November 30, 2007
Armetta, Amoreen. “Jim Lambie at Anton Kern Gallery, ”Time Out New York, May 17-23, p.71
“Jim Lambie,” The New Yorker, May 21, 2007, p.15
Rosenberg, Karen “An Afternoon in Chelsea-Jim Lambie,” New York Magazine,
May 7, 2007, p.79.
Feaver, William. “Turner Prize 2005,” Art News, February 2006, vol.105 no.2.
Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review: Strange Powers.” The New York Times, September 8, 2006.
Velasco, David ”Critic's Pick -Jim Lambie,” Artforum, September 2006.
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Brian Calvin/Jim Lambie,”The New Yorker, October 2, 2006, p.21.
Pham Do, Katherine. “Jim Lambie -P.I.L.,” The Japan Times, May 4, 2006.
Calcutt, John. Jim Lambie,” The Guardian, February 5, 2006.
Williams, Eiza. “Headline Headline Headline...,” Creative Review,December 2005.
Macmillan, Duncan. “Confronting an art scene...,” The Scotsman, October 25, 2005.
Kennedy, Alexander. “Caught on Tape,” The List, October 6, 2005.
Moos, David. “Extreme Abstraction,”ArtUS, October-November 2005.
“The House that Simon Built (after Sailing it a Few Miles Down the Rhine).” The Guardian October 18, 2005.
Kutner, Janet. “Yipes Stripes!” The Dallas Morning News, August 8, 2005
“Review Jim Lambie -Dallas,” The Art Newspaper, No. 158, May 2005, p.3.
MacMillan, Ian. “
Awop Bopa Loopbop Zobop Bam Boom,” Modern Painters, May 2005.
Sholis, Brian. “Jim Lambie -Sadie Coles HQ,” Artforum, April 2005.
Volk, Gregory. “Report From Pittsburgh. Let's Get Metaphysical Terranova,” Art in America, March 2005.
Charissa N. “From Classical to Candy -Colored New,”Dallas Observer, Vol. 25, No. 28, 2005.
Bracewell, Michael, and Luisa Buck. “Turner Prize 2005: Jim Lambie, audio transcripts,”
Mulholland, Neil. “Use Your Illusions,” Tate etc., Issue 4, 2005.
Jeffrey, Moira. “Mexican Lights,” Review of “Sodium & Asphalt” at Museo Tamayo, Map, Issue 1, January 2004.
Below another sky, Scotland
Triangle, New York (NY)
Triangle, Marseille, France
COMMISSIONS AND AWARDS
Zobop (Cerulean) Stairs, Central Museum, Utrecht
Spiral Scratch, commission for Swire Properties, Pacific Place, Hong Kong
A Forest, commission for Jupiter Artland
Korea Hermés
BBC Underground 2003 Award
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists, London
British Council award for residency at Triangle, Marseille, France
'Ultralow' commission for the Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
Aberdeen City Art Gallery Collection, UK
Arts Council Collection, London, UK
British Council Collection, London, UK
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Contemporary Art Society, UK
Damier Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Edinburgh National Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK
Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Government Art Collection, London, United Kingdom
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Instituto Horizontes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, UK
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK
Mora Foundation, London, UK
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, UK
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX
Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, UK
Rhode Island School of Design, RI
Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, Miami, FL
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Scottish National Gallery of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
TATE, London, UK
Towada Art Center, Towada, Aomori, Japan
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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Report: Ship detects 'signal' in Indian Ocean
The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has reached nearly one month with no results.
Report: Ship detects 'signal' in Indian Ocean The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has reached nearly one month with no results. Check out this story on rgj.com: http://on.rgj.com/1gx8pzM
USA Today Published 8:27 a.m. PT April 5, 2014 | Updated 8:34 a.m. PT April 5, 2014
Relatives of Chinese passengers who were onboard Malaysia Airlines MH370 pray in a prayer room in Beijing, China on Friday, April 4, 2014. (Photo: Ng Han Guan/Associated Press )
As the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 reached nearly one month with no results, Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein announced the creation of a new multinational investigation team Saturday, adding the hunt would continue with "vigor and intensity."
His statements came the same day China's official news agency Xinhua said a "black box detector" deployed by Chinese ship Haixun 01 "detected a pulse signal" in southern Indian Ocean waters. Xinhua said it has not yet determined if the signal was related to the missing jet. The signal was picked up around 25 degrees south latitude and 101 degrees east longitude.
The Australian government agency coordinating the search would not immediately comment on the report of the pings, The Associated Press reported.
Also on Saturday, Xinhau reported a Chinese air force plane spotted a number of white floating objects in the search area, which is northwest of the western Australian city of Perth.
Malaysia Airlines' Beijing-bound Flight 370, with 239 people aboard, lost communication with civilian air controllers soon after it took off early March 8 from Kuala Lumpur International Airport. No emergency signals or distress messages were received before the plane vanished from radar.
"The search operation has been difficult, challenging and complex," Hussein said in a press briefing Saturday. "In spite of all this, our determination remains undiminished."
Malaysia will continue to lead the investigation, yet an independent "investigator in charge" would be appointed to head a new investigation team, Hussein said.
That mulitnational team will examine three main areas related to the missing jetliner. It will look at airworthiness, including maintenance, structures and systems; operations, such as flight recorders and meteorology; and medical and human factors such as "psychology, pathology and survival factors," he said.
The team will include representatives from Australia, as well as China, the United States, Britain and France, Hussein said.
Hussein also announced three new committees. A "next of kin committee," will provide families of passengers with information on the search operation and provide support after the search operation concludes, he said. Another committee will oversee the formation of the new investigation team. And a third committee work with other countries, such as Australia, on the deployment of assets for the search operation.
On Saturday, up to 10 military planes, three civilian jets and 11 ships assisted in the hunt for the plane, according to the Australian government agency coordinating the search efforts. The overall search area is an 84,000-square-mile zone in the southern Indian Ocean.
Military and civilian planes, ships with deep-sea searching equipment and a British nuclear submarine scoured the waters for debris, as well as any clues that could lead to the "black box" recorders that hold vital information about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370's last hours.
One big issue as time goes on: The sound-emitting beacons in the flight and voice recorders could soon fall silent as their batteries die after sounding electronic "pings" after about a month.
Two ships, the Australian navy's Ocean Shield and the British HMS Echo, carrying sophisticated equipment that can hear the recorders' pings, returned Saturday to an area investigators hope is close to where the plane went down.
Australian Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, head of the joint agency coordinating the operation, acknowledged the search area was essentially a best guess, and noted the time when the plane's locator beacons would shut down was "getting pretty close."
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Caretaker accused of abuse after toddler suffers head injury
On behalf of Ronald W. Ramirez, Attorney at Law | Aug 30, 2018 | Child Injuries
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Swarovski Sparks Experimentation
A sponsored RISD studio by global fine crystal manufacturer Swarovski kicks off its visiting artist lecture series with contemporary artist Rashaad Newsome.
Rashaad Newsome (second from left) speaks with students in the Swarovski sponsored studio.
Rashaad Newsome, a rising star whose work was included in the most recent Venice and Whitney biennials, brought his unique take on both fine art and street bling to RISD last week. He was the first of three compelling artists invited to campus as part of a Wintersession fine arts lecture series and studio sponsored by Swarovski, the global manufacturer of fine crystals.
Building on a long tradition of collaboration between RISD and Swarovski, the studio invites students from a wide range of majors to explore the properties and possibilities of Swarovski ELEMENTS, the company’s premium brand of fine crystals.
Over the course of six weeks, students are working with Painting Critic Mary Jones to explore new techniques for incorporating Swarovski ELEMENTS such as chandelier materials, beads, crystal thread and crystal appliqué into innovative new work. The studio will culminate in a curated exhibition of student work to be shown at the company’s US headquarters in Cranston, RI.
“We are delighted to collaborate with Swarovski on this studio and this series of public lectures with world-class visiting artists,” says RISD’s Interim Dean of Fine Arts Anais Missakian. “The partnership will enable fine arts students to explore the possibilities of using this multifaceted material in new and innovative ways.”
“Ranging from hip-hop bling to the sublime geometry of abstraction—all can be encompassed with Swarovski ELEMENTS,” notes Professor Holly Hughes, head of the Painting Department, who introduced the lecture series as a critical component designed to “fire the imaginations of the students enrolled in the sponsored studio.” This month the series will also bring contemporary artists Heather Rowe and Alyson Shotz to campus on January 12 and January 19, respectively, to share ideas with students in the studio, as well as for 6 pm lectures in the Chace Center’s Metcalf Auditorium that are open to the public.
A New Orleans native steeped in street culture and hip-hop’s tradition of sampling, jousting, status and bling, Newsome is represented by Marlborough Gallery in Chelsea, where his fall solo show Herald featured his latest work. In creating work for the show, he found himself gravitating to a centuries-old visual language that incorporated many of the same elements as hip-hop: the medieval European tradition of heraldry and armorial achievements, which used highly symbolic coats of arms to represent status.
With seals, crests, mottos and other insignia combined and recombined in endless designs, Newsome says he began to see coats of arms as a kind of medieval collage. In his own work, he creates contemporary coats of arms using status symbols from black culture—hair weaves, car rims, Rolex watches and dueling hip-hop stars like Lil’ Kim and Nicki Minaj. The result is a “modern-day take on heraldry, centuries of European tradition mashed up with hip-hop’s latest swagger,” as a recent review in the New York Times put it.
“An overarching theme in all my work is language,” Newsome told the students who came to hear him speak. “I like the way that heraldry functions like a language.”
—photo by Micah Barrett 12 GD
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Recap of Fourth of July activities in our area
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013 4:55 PM
By Maria Murzyn
Fun, free and inexpensive events blogger
Forest Park may not have fireworks this year but it is hosting "Independence Day Activities" in the park on Harrison on Wednesday, July 3. The pool will be open and from noon until 10pm, there'll be food, music, games for kids, games for adults, and more. All Forest Parkers are encouraged to attend this Free Event.
Oak Park starts celebrating at 10am on July 4th with its annual parade from Longfellow Park then north on Ridgeland to Augusta, and ending at Whittier Elementary School. At dusk, come to OPRF High School for the traditional fireworks.
Riverside also has an early start on the holiday. On July 3 in Guthrie Park, across from the train station, hear 80s music from "Brat Pack" and on July 4, it's the 35th Independence 5k. Don't miss the parade which starts at the Big Ball Park at 845am on July 4 and ends back in Gurthrie Park with food, music, and more.
Brookfield's parade on July 4 starts at Grand and Cleveland at 10am and ends at Village Hall. There's a village picnic at Kiwanis Park with all day music starting at 1230pm and going through early evening.
North Riverside's Fourth of July parade begins at 10am at 24th and 14th Streets and ends at Veteran's Park. This is followed by a softball and a Little Legue Tournement with food, games, and more.
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Bicyclist killed in collision with vehicle in Vallejo
Bay City News Service
Published 6:56 am PDT, Saturday, September 21, 2019
A 66-year-old bicyclist was killed when he was struck by a vehicle in Vallejo early Saturday morning.
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VALLEJO (BCN) — A bicyclist was killed Saturday morning in Vallejo following a collision with a vehicle.
Officers with the Vallejo Police Department responded at 1:20 a.m. to Fairgrounds Drive north of Gateway Drive on a call about collision involving a vehicle and a bicycle.
Arriving officers located an orange 2012 Toyota Prius that had collided with a bicyclist.
The bicyclist, a 66-year-old Vallejo resident, was transported to a hospital, where he died as a result of the injuries suffered in the collision.
The name of the bicyclist was not immediately available Saturday morning.
Police said the vehicle was traveling north on Fairgrounds Drive, and the bicyclist was traveling west across the northbound lanes of the roadway when the collision occurred.
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The bicyclist was wearing dark clothing and was riding a dark blue bicycle that did not have lights and had a single reflector in the rear wheel, according to police.
A preliminary toxicology screen revealed the bicyclist had alcohol and a variety of drugs in his system, police said.
The driver of the vehicle was a 25-year-old man from American Canyon.
Police said the fatality marks the seventh vehicle-related death in 2019 in Vallejo.
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The Art of the Humble Brag
Self-promotion doesn't have to be so shameful! Use these seven strategies to bolster your confidence on social media without ticking people off
By Mirel Ketchiff
If you haven't heard the word humble-bragging before, you've definitely seen it in action. It was recently coined to label the type of boasting-slash-complaining that's so common on social media. (Think: "Just rolled out of bed from a nap, hair in a ponytail, wearing sweats, and some guy at the supermarket still asked for my number. Really??") In fact, researchers from Harvard University even studied why people seem to hate it so much. Their finding: Humble-bragging is seen as insincere, deceptive, and annoying. No surprises there. So why can't we stop doing it?
Well, for one, it feels good. Celebrating your accomplishments lights up the reward centers of your brain, making you feel good, earlier Harvard research shows. Bragging can also help boost your self-esteem, and even get you ahead at work. The following strategies will help you reap the rewards of self-promotion, without ticking off your entire friends list.
There's a big difference between calling up your BFF and gushing about a promotion, and doing the same thing to someone you just met at a party, says Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D., a professor of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. We know-duh. But that's why you should exercise caution when you're thinking about posting a self-congratulatory social media post, she says. There's a good chance that your friend list includes close friends, casual acquaintances, professional contacts, and maybe even total strangers. When bragging on social media, consider adjusting the privacy settings on that post to only let your closer connections see it, or be extra-aware of your language. (Psst… Did you know there was a scientific reason you're so addicted to social media?)
Too often, people try to defuse their brag by couching it in a self-deprecating remark, like "These thunder thighs actually managed to carry me 13.1 miles-not bad!" (Whitbourne says she often sees this happen when parents want to brag about their kids' accomplishments-eek!) But that's just comes off as a one-two punch of negativity.
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Saying outright that you're thankful for your good fortune helps you avoid falling into the humble-bragging trap. People are going to be happier for you when you're acknowledging you're fortunate for your good fortune. Plus, showing gratitude can improve your mental and physical health.
Be Upfront
Let's face it: Sometimes, we want to brag about things that are straight-up shallow. If you've been working hard at the gym and your abs look great, maybe you want to take a six-pack shot and share it with the world. Honestly, who wouldn't want to document that? Saying you're thankful or grateful might feel a little awkward too. In that case, just own it! Acknowledge that you're about to brag by saying, "Sorry, but I'm too proud of myself not to share… I've been killing it at CrossFit and haven't touched refined sugar in weeks, and it's finally paying off!" Then share the snap. Showing that kind of self-awareness feels honest, which people appreciate.
Be Honest (with Yourself)
Social media has fostered the mindset of, "If I don't document it, it didn't happen." One of the dangers with that is that how you experience events can be impacted by how people respond to your posts about them. Meaning: If you post a picture of your travels (or your marathon) to Instagram and it garners a measly five likes, suddenly you're obsessing about that rather than savoring the joy you felt that prompted you to take and post the picture in the first place. Ask yourself, "Is this really something worth bragging about? Or would I be happier keeping it to myself?"
Fact: We love to talk about ourselves. In fact, we spend about 60 percent of all conversations talking about number one, and up to 80 percent of social media posts are about ourselves. So share the wealth. Talk up your friends' and coworkers' big achievements. You can even help promote people you don't know personally, but follow for whatever reason (like bands, blogs, or brands you love). Getting happy about other people's success makes them happy, but it also feels good.
Show, Don't Tell
In certain situations, like a performance review at work, you have to brag. But that kind of self-promotion makes women feel anxious, research from Montana State University shows. Rather than just saying that you're a team player or take initiative, tell a brief story that illustrates that, suggests Whitbourne. Sounds 101, but this move will help bolster your confidence by reminding you (as well as your boss) that, yeah, you have done some pretty noteworthy things. (4 More Ways to Ace an On-The-Fly Performance Review.)
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Tallaght bed closures “devastating” – Crowe
7 January, 2012 - by Seán Crowe TD
Tallaght based TD Seán Crowe has described the closure of 62 beds in Tallaght hospital as “devastating”.
Deputy Crowe said:
“The revelation by the Irish Nurses’ and Midwives’ Organisation that Tallaght Hospital is to close 62 beds before the end of January, including a 31-bed ward, is a devastating blow to hospital care in this region which is served by one of the country's busiest trauma hospitals.
“The closure of these beds is taking place without any consultation with staff and in an unplanned and arbitrary way.
“These bed closures should not be happening. Because of the devastating health cuts imposed by the Fine Gael/Labour Government in Budget 2012, these closures will no doubt be the first of many in 2012.
“No consultation has been carried out regarding these closures and no assessment has been made. Closing beds in this haphazard way seriously undermines the quality of healthcare available to the general population in this region.
“2,000 public hospital beds are currently closed due to cutbacks and 3,100 nursing and midwifery posts have been lost due to the recruitment embargo.
“These closures will have a devastating impact on waiting times, including in emergency departments.
“Tallaght Hospital is already under serious and sustained pressure with additional beds being placed on inpatient wards. Overcrowding compromises patient care and leads to increased risk of infection and infectious conditions including the winter vomiting bug and MRSA. The closure of 62 beds in Tallaght will inevitably lead to greater pressure and expose the hospital to more overcrowding in the future.
“In October Minister Reilly said in reply to questions that he did not agree that more beds closed meant more patients on trolleys and more people waiting for vital operations and treatment. The Minister needs to get his act together and start visiting the hospitals where these bed closures are happening and see for himself.”
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Kashmiri Pandits or Muslims: Modi could impress neither
Reaching out to Kashmiri with messages of hope and optimism, Prime Minister Modi on Thursday assured them of all-round development
New Delhi: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday defended his government’s decision to revoke provisions of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, a section of residents alleged the way it was done was “extremely undemocratic”. Some even claimed the Centre only wanted to “win lands and not hearts of Kashmiri”.
From students to professionals, belonging to both Jammu and Kashmir regions, many were apprehensive that taking away the special status will render the “ecologically sensitive” province “vulnerable” to exploitation due to infrastructure-related activities.
“With revoking of the Article, floodgates will be opened for the corporate sector to invest in big projects like hotels, flyovers and other big buildings. It will harm our pristine environment, which had so far been left largely unharmed due to the restrictions that come under the Article,” said a Kashmiri journalist, who did not wish to be identified. He cited the example of Uttarakhand to support his claim, saying the country saw how houses and hotels built close to rivers damaged the environment in the state. “We do not want that to happen in our homeland,” he said.
Ajaz Ahmed, a Delhi-based physiotherapist who is in his 30s, alleged, “They (the government) only want the land of Kashmir, they do not want to win the hearts of Kashmiri”. “If they wanted to win our trust, they should have taken us into confidence, discussed the pros and cons of the exercise and made us feel secure. Our families are living under siege there. If an emergency arises, our families won’t even have access to an ambulance,” he said.
Reaching out to Kashmiri with messages of hope and optimism, Prime Minister Modi had on Thursday assured them of all-round development, early and transparent elections and end to terrorism. He defended his government’s move scrapping the provisions of Article 370 and asserted they only gave separatism, corruption, family rule and were used by Pakistan as a tool to spread terror in Jammu and Kashmir.
In a nearly 40-minute televised address to the nation, three days after the far-reaching decision, Modi also sought to assuage concerns of the people after his government split the state into Union Territories, saying Jammu and Kashmir will not remain a UT for long. With the Kashmir Valley reeling under security clampdown, Modi promised the government is making all sincere efforts to ensure that the people in the region have no difficulties in celebrating Eid which is on Monday.
But not many residents of the Jammu or Kashmir region were impressed with the prime minister’s speech. “I think his speech was redundant, verbose and lacking substance, and linking scrapping of Article 370 with development of the state, was misplaced,” a Delhi-based Kashmiri Pandit journalist said, who did not wish to be identified alleged.
“Whatever the prime minister suggested bringing development, selling Kashmiri shawls and apples and herbs around the world, is anything stopping that? Why link the growth to the revoking if Article 370. Besides, our state is better than other sates in many indices, be it literacy rate or health indicators, plus people are well-off, very few people live off the streets,” the Kashmiri Hindu journalist said.
Aejaz Ahmad Rather, Jawaharlal Nehru Students’ Union general secretary said, “They are saying that it has been done with an agenda to bring development. But according to figures, Gujarat is lacking in development as opposed to Jammu and Kashmir in many indices”. He alleged, “What the government has done is a grave mistake, and they will regret it later. They have taken away our identity.” He alleged the situation in Kashmir was the “worst form of Emergency” and the move is a “travesty of justice”.
Many Jammu residents were not enthused by Modi’s speech either, in which he spoke about the benefits that will accrue to the people of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. “These people, including the youth of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, who have been denied a lot of opportunities and benefits, unlike their counterparts in other parts of the country, will now come out of the negative impact of this article and grow,” Modi said, adding that the provision had not given anything except separatism, corruption and family rule to the state, and Pakistan has used it as a tool to spread terrorism.
Shah Rukh Ali, 25, an MBA graduate, from Jammu, “The Centre should have taken the people or at least the mainstream politicians into confidence”.”How can you put the J-K leaders under house arrest and, decide on the fate of people of Jammu and Kashmir, without asking the local people Is that a democracy?” he asked, adding, this complete communication cut off in the Valley needs to end.
A Delhi-based university student from Jammu, said, she thought the revoking of the article and its repercussions are debatable, but the way in which it was scrapped is “extremely undemocratic”. She alleged, “Besides, the environmental impact on the state of such a move would be catastrophic. Moreover, if this is seen as a gateway to development, it would only be beneficial to the capital-owning bourgeoisie, who can buy land and open up their businesses, and would not really benefit the common masses. The gap between the rich and the poor would increase.”
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Los Angeles Times, March 11, 1994
The Israeli government’s concern about settler violence in response to the Hebron massacre fails to address the underlying issue: Why is the peace process so vulnerable? If it barely can survive this incident, how will it survive the next and the one after that? For, make no mistake about it, no amount of gun control will prevent future horrors by political terrorists who are willing to die.
The core problem is structural. The Declaration of Principles signed on the White House lawn did not address the key issues of the conflict. Instead it called for the quick negotiation of withdrawal from Gaza and Jericho and then, it is widely but erroneously understood, for the initiation of a five-year transition period, during the third year of which final status negotiations are to begin.
A long interim period and the delay of final status negotiations is an invitation to extremist violence. Essentially, the message to Palestinians is: “Demonstrate that you can live in peace with us, that you can harmoniously run your affairs and control attacks on Israelis and then we’ll talk about final status.” It is no surprise if extremists on both sides respond with attacks intended to create a climate of violence and hatred so intense that no final status agreement can be reached. There will be Palestinian retaliation for Hebron, and it can be predicted that Yasser Arafat will not respond in a way that is adequate to the demands of Israeli public opinion. Thus will peacemakers on both sides be further weakened.
Rather than pecking at the Declaration of Principles for not addressing final status issues, it is useful to read it more closely. It contains strengths that can assist in responding to what has happened in Hebron.
The declaration has been seriously misrepresented in the press and by various government spokespersons. For example, it does not set final status negotiations three years into the process. The declaration states that “they will commence as soon as possible, but not later than the beginning of the third year of the interim period.” And with respect to the transition period itself, the declaration describes it not as five years long but a period “not exceeding five years.”
Not only is the declaration consistent with moving rapidly to final status negotiations; it also calls for that to occur. And it is fully consistent with a greatly truncated interim period of, say, two or three years.
The advantages of quickly moving into final status negotiation are multiple.
For one thing, there would be much less reason for extensive haggling over the interim accord, since that would soon be superseded.
The onset of final status talks also would greatly strengthen the position of the Palestinian moderates who supported the declaration. Arafat’s credibility with the Palestinians has sunk to an all-time low; he is accused of having led the Palestinians into a tunnel with no end, and of having negotiated an agreement with no content.
If the United States were to call for starting final status talks within 60 days of concluding the details of a Gaza-Jericho withdrawal, this would bring the Palestinians back to the negotiations, and it would give them an incentive to resolve the outstanding issues, perhaps within two weeks.
It is time for the Israeli government to drop the fig leaf. As the Israeli right wing has pointed out, Yitzhak Rabin and other leaders know full well that a final agreement with the Palestinians means a Palestinian state. There is much to be gained by saying so. Rabin should announce that Israel accepts that as the Palestinian objective and sees the negotiations as a search for a way to ensure that such a state is compatible with Israel’s security needs.
Final status negotiations will also bring the Israelis to the decision point on settlers and settlements. If there is to be peace, either the settlements will have to be abandoned or the settlers will have to live as foreign nationals under Palestinian law. According to Israeli polls, 30% of the settlers would willingly leave if they were compensated for their property. Were Israel, with the help of U.S. loan guarantees, to announce a limited-time-only compensation program, it would produce a stampede of people seeking to leave.
By moving boldly, it is possible not merely to give the peace process one more chance, but to turn the Hebron massacre into a pivotal moment that brings peace a giant step closer.
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Where's The Google Logo For Steve Jobs?
Oct 6, 2011 • 8:21 am | (28) by Barry Schwartz | Filed Under Other Google Topics
Last night, the world heard the sad news that Steve Jobs has died. Apple and the world has lost one of the most visionary people to ever live. Most of you know, I grew up on Apples and am one of the largest Apple users out there - people think I am a bit cultish. So yea, the news was very sad for me personally.
There is no doubt the impact Steve Jobs had on the world. But yea, he lead Apple, a company that he directed in changing the world. That company and his leadership also shaped Google, Yahoo, Microsoft in many ways.
Larry Page posted a message on Gogle + as did Sergey Brin on Google + on just how much of an impact Apple and Steve Jobs had on Google:
From the earliest days of Google, whenever Larry and I sought inspiration for vision and leadership, we needed to look no farther than Cupertino. Steve, your passion for excellence is felt by anyone who has ever touched an Apple product (including the macbook I am writing this on right now). And I have witnessed it in person the few times we have met.
Apple.com has an iconic image of Jobs on the home page leading to a message at apple.com/stevejobs, here are pictures:
Google rushed last night to put up a small text link under the Google search box that links Steve Jobs to Apple. Here is a picture:
But Google users want and expected more - they wanted a logo that honored and remembered his legacy. I have no doubt there will be one on October 5, 2012 - but for now, Google did not want to do a logo. They don't like doing logos for sad occasions and instead, they used the plain text link approach - which works for me but not for many.
There is a petition in the Google Web Search Help forums to make a Google logo. I doubt we will see one today, but I'd be surprised if we didn't see one next year.
Anyway, I sit with many of the world in mourning the loss.
Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help , Google Blogoscoped Forums and WebmasterWorld.
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NEWS BRIEFING: Healthy diet may help fight depression
Embargoed until: Publicly released: 2019-02-06 00:01
Eating a healthy diet may ease symptoms of depression, according to an analysis of data from almost 46,000 people. The study pooled the results of 16 randomised controlled trials that looked at the effects of dietary interventions on symptoms of depression and anxiety. They found weight loss, nutrition boosting and fat reduction diets were all linked to reduced symptoms of depression, mainly in women.
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Dr Joseph Firth is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the NICM Health Research Institute at Western Sydney University
Our analysis of the overall evidence shows that adopting a healthier diet can boost peoples’ mood. However, it has no clear effects on anxiety.
The evidence so far mostly shows that eating healthier reduces mild depression in the general population. Future research should now focus on the effects of dietary interventions in people with clinically-diagnosed psychiatric conditions.
The study also found that all types of dietary improvement appeared to have equal effects on mental health, with weight loss, fat reduction or nutrient-improving diets all having similar benefits for depressive symptoms.
This is actually good news. The similar effects from any type of dietary improvement suggests that highly-specific or specialised diets are unnecessary for the average individual.
Instead, just making simple changes is equally beneficial for mental health. In particular, eating more nutrient-dense meals that are high in fibre and vegetables, while cutting back on fast-foods and refined sugars, appears to be sufficient for avoiding the potentially negative psychological effects of a ‘junk food’ diet.
Last updated: 04 Feb 2019 1:02pm
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Dr Carly Moores, research assistant at Flinders University
The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports that in 2017-18, 13.1% of Australians had an anxiety-related condition while 10.4% had depression or feelings of depression, and the prevalence for both has increased from 2014-15. At the same time, we know that Australians have room to improve their diets as just 5.4% of adults meet the recommendations for the number daily serves of fruits and vegetables as per the Australian Dietary Guidelines. Fruits and vegetables contain many important nutrients including fibre, vitamins and minerals, as well as phytochemicals like polyphenols, and a variety of these foods should be consumed daily for good health.
This study is a meta-analysis which has combined data from a number of independent studies in order to gain greater statistical power and assess whether there is a common effect of diet interventions on mental health outcomes. All 16 included studies of randomised controlled trials reported measures of depressive symptoms, and 11 also reported anxiety outcomes. Notably, only one study comprised a sample which had a primary diagnosis of clinical depression. The analysis showed a significant effect of diet interventions on reducing symptoms of depression compared to control treatment, however there was no overall effect of diet interventions on anxiety outcomes when compared to changes in control groups. Interestingly, there appeared to be gender differences as consistent positive and larger effects were observed for both depression and anxiety outcomes following diet intervention studies with predominantly (>75%) or all female participants.
Mental health is a growing issue in Australia and this research makes an important contribution to what we know about the effects of diet on mental health outcomes. However, the exact mechanisms by which diet can influence mental health are not yet fully understood. Further investigations are required to identify what diet changes are most beneficial and should be recommended as an adjunct to treatment and part of self-management of mental health symptoms.
ABS source: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/4364.0.55.001
Alfred Deakin Professor of Psychiatry Michael Berk is from the School of Medicine, Deakin University and Barwon Health, and Director at IMPACT Strategic Research Centre (Innovation in Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Treatment)
This important study pools information from a group of studies that explored whether changing diet can improve symptoms of depression. Importantly most of the studies were not targeted at people with clinical depression.
The study found improved, although modestly improved, symptoms of depression in people who improved their diet. This confirms previous studies that showed associations between diet quality and depression risk.
Clinical trials are the most robust form of evidence and they provide guidance to clinicians and to people with depression. This suggests that improving diet may make a small yet meaningful contribution to the reduction of depression.
This also suggests that dietary advice could provide additional benefit to people over and above that provided by medication and psychotherapy. Diet could be added to exercise and smoking cessation as strategies to augment usual treatment.
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Protest in Hong Kong against the killing of Maori
Monday, 8 May 2000, 8:36 am
Press Release: Unknown
Solidarity Protest in Hong Kong against the killing of Maori youth Stephen Wallace
Reference: Helen Te Hira Regional Secretary
ASA holds protest against murder of Maori youth in New Zealand
The Asian Students Association, together with members of peoples organizations and NGOs in Hong Kong, held a protest action inside the New Zealand Consulate to condemn the brutal killing of Stephen Wallace, a Maori youth, by the New Zealand Police. The protesters presented a letter signed by 14 regional and local groups in Hong Kong to New Zealand Consul General Dr. James Kember.
"The killing of the unarmed Wallace, deserves our most legitimate condemnation. We condemn the New Zealand Police oppressive racial attacks against Maori, the indigenous people of Aotearoa/ New Zealand. We condemn the New Zealand government for its inaction against these increasing cases of attacks," said Helen Te Hira, Regional Secretary of ASA from New Zealand.
She added that the ongoing investigation of the murder case being conducted by the New Zealand Police Authority is farcical for it is acting as the perpetrator, the prosecutor and the judge. This is the reason why there is an increasing clamor in New Zealand for the formation of an independent investigating body not only to look into the Wallace case but on the whole history of institutional violence and discrimination by the police against the Maori people.
"We are one with the Maori community and concerned people of New Zealand in mourning the senseless murder of Wallace. We are one with them in our indignation. We are one with them in our call for justice for Stephen Wallace and all victims of New Zealand state violence. We demand the immediate and appropriate actions against the guilty police officer. The death of Wallace is not an isolated incidence but an integral part of a whole system of discrimination and violence against Maori which must end," she concluded.
Justice for Stephen Wallace! - End State Violence !
To The New Zealand Government
C/o New Zealand Consulate General Hong Kong S.A.R
Last Sunday April 30, 2000 New Zealand police gunned down an unarmed Maori youth. Stephen Wallace was shot five times by the police and left unattended lying in the street for 20 minutes before being given medical attention, he later died in hospital due to the injuries he received. Mr Wallace had taken a baseball bat and damaged shop windows in the small town of Waitara where he was subsequently shot. The murder of this unarmed Maori youth hits deeply amongst Maori and non-Maori alike in New Zealand. It is the latest in daily experience of police violence against Maori individuals and communities.
Following this incident it has emerged the government of New Zealand has refused to make public it’s own reports commissioned since 1998 on the relationship of police with Maori. The report is said to confirm that the Police force is racist with strong anti-Maori attitudes and practices. Although the government goes to great pains to project New Zealand in the Asia-Pacific as a peaceful democratic society, it continues to hide behind the fist of the state. Police harassment and brutality is a part of the 160 years colonial legacy which continues up to the present day.
The police shooting is to be investigated by the Police Complaints Authority. However the authority cannot be expected to offer true justice as it places the police in the position of judge juror and witness.
We demand immediate action! Assembled here as international witnesses we:
1) Support the call for the creation of independent body to investigate the killing of Stephen Wallace and operations of the New Zealand Police force 2) Condemn the New Zealand Government for oppressing indigenous peoples through its racist police force
3) Express international solidarity and condolences for family of Steven Wallace and all other victims of violence administered at the hands of the NZ state.
Justice for Stephen Wallace!
Down with the Racist Police Force of New Zealand !
Uphold the Dignity and Rights of Indigenous People of Aotearoa!
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Kent Papineau, Nedrick Ashton, Clay Rockwell, Abilene Rockwell, Houston Rockwell, Onenhaida Rockwell and Juanita Lewis, Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants, Shawn Jones, Andrew Jones, Stonehorse Goeman, Marie Peters, Wealthy Bucktooth, Individually and as Guardian Ad Litem for Holly Lyons, Robert E. Bucktooth Jr., Cheryl Bucktooth, Individually and as Guardian Ad Litem for Nadine and Rob Bucktooth, Martha Bucktooth, Roberta Bucktooth, Jordan Bucktooth, Robert Bucktooth, Ronald Jones Sr., Ruth Jones, Debby Jones, Karen Jones, Nikki Jones, Karoniakata Jones, Tracy Kappelmeier, Individually and as Guardian Ad Litem for Adam Kappelmeier and Matthew Kappelmeier, Shirley Snyder, Andrea Potter, Samantha Thompson, Martha J. Skye, Steven Lee Skye, Cara Skye, Andrew Skye, Stormy Skye, Verna Montour, Sesiley R. Snyder, Alice Thompson, Minnie Garrow, Frances Dione, Wentawawi Dione, Joely Vandommelen, Daronhiokwas Horn, A'anase Horn, Tekahawakwen Rice, Kahente Horn Miller, Kahentinetha Horn, Karonhioko'h
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Kent PAPINEAU, Plaintiff,
Nedrick Ashton, Clay Rockwell, Abilene Rockwell, Houston
Rockwell, Onenhaida Rockwell and Juanita Lewis, PlaintiffsCounter-Defendants,
Shawn Jones, Andrew Jones, Stonehorse Goeman, Marie
Peters, Wealthy Bucktooth, individually and as guardian ad
litem for Holly Lyons, Robert E. Bucktooth Jr., Cheryl
Bucktooth, individually and as guardian ad litem for Nadine
and Rob Bucktooth, Martha Bucktooth, Roberta Bucktooth,
Jordan Bucktooth, Robert Bucktooth, Ronald Jones Sr., Ruth
Jones, Debby Jones, Karen Jones, Nikki Jones, Karoniakata
Jones, Tracy Kappelmeier, individually and as guardian ad
litem for Adam Kappelmeier and Matthew Kappelmeier,
Shirley Snyder, Andrea Potter, Samantha Thompson, Martha
J. Skye, Steven Lee Skye, Cara Skye, Andrew Skye, Stormy
Skye, Verna Montour, Sesiley R. Snyder, Alice Thompson,
Minnie Garrow, Frances Dione, Wentawawi Dione, Joely
Vandommelen, Daronhiokwas Horn, A'Anase Horn,
Tekahawakwen Rice, Kahente Horn Miller, Kahentinetha
Horn, Karonhioko'He Horn, Malcolm Hill, Kathy Melissa
Smith, William Green III, Kevin Henhawk, Dyhyneyyks, Mona
Logan, Gerald Logan,
Anthony Kloch Jr., Frank Bistrovich, Brent Lyons, Brad
Cooke, Janet Cornelius, Jina Jimerson, Duane Beckman, Chad
Hill, Donna Hill, Steve Stacy, Dale Dione, Robin Wanatee,
Joshua Wanatee, Ally M. Wanatee, Esther Sundown, Shelley
George, Sheena Green, Shiela Fish, Garrett Bucktooth, Joe
Stefanovich, Tyler Hemlock, Hayden Hemlock, Skroniati
Stacy, Kakwirakeron, Tekarontake, Teyonienkwataseh, Daniel
Moses, Andrew Moses, Ross John, Barry Buckshot, Seth
Tarbell, Deirdre M. Tarbell and Andrew Buckshot, PlaintiffsCounter-Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants,
James J. PARMLEY, George Beach, Pamela R. Morris, Dennis
J. Blythe, John F. Ahern, Joseph W. Smith, Jeffrey D. Sergott,
Michael S. Slade, James D. Moynihan, James J. Jecko, Robert
Haumann, Mark E. Chaffee, Christopher J. Clark, Paul K.
Kunzwiler, Douglas W. Shetler, Patrick M. Dipirro, Gregory
Eberl, Gary A. Barlow, Mark E. Lepczyk, Martin Zubrzycko,
Glenn Miner, Gary Darstein, Kevin Buttenschon, Chris A.
Smith, Norman J. Mattice, John E. Wood, Thomas P. Connelly,
Jerry Brown, Harry Schleiser, Norman Ashbarry, Peter S.
Leadley, Martin J. Williams, Gloria L. Wood, David G.
Bonner, Dennis J. Burgos, John P. Dougherty, David v. Dye,
Daryl O. Free, James J. Greenwood, Andrew Halinski, Robert
B. Heath, Robert H. Hovey Jr., Robert A. Jureller, Stephen P.
Kealy, Troy D. Little, Edward J. Marecek, Ronald G. Morse,
Paul M. Murray, Anthony Randazzo, Allen Riley, Frederick A.
Smith and Steven B. Kruth, Defendants-Cross-DefendantsAppellants-Cross-Appellees,
County of Onondaga, Onondaga County Sheriff's Department,
Kevin Walsh, Onondaga County Sheriff, in his official and
personal capacity, Defendants-Cross-Appellees,
James W. McMahon, Superintendent of New York State Police,
in his official and personal capacity, Town of Onondaga, and
the following persons in their personal and official capacities as
New York State Troopers, Allen v. Svitak Jr., Michael L.
Delorenzo, James A. Armstrong, Mark Williams, Clifford A.
Heaslip, Edward C. Fillingham, Kimberly A. Fillingham,
Jeffrey D. Raub, Mark Bender, Peter Obrist, Eric D. Parsons,
Robin Palmer, Michael Grandy, Thomas Irwin, George
Mercado, Frank Jerome, James Rogers, Art Brocolli, John Doe,
William M. Agan, William M. Ambler, Donald W. Barker,
Mark A. Caporuscio, Michael G. Conroy, Peter A. Kalin,
Matthew J. Navin, William J. Armstrong, George M.
Atanasoff, David R. Barry, Peter J. Beratta, Steven M.
Bourgeois, George W. Brownsell, Robert M. Burney, Rodney
W. Campbell, Mary A. Clark, Mark Dembrow, Gerald J.
Deruby Jr., Michael L. Downey, Gary W. Duncan, John Evans,
John J. Fitzgerald, Robert Gardner, John E. Giddings, Douglas
R. Gilmore, Gary L. Greene, Andrew A. Lucey, James Martin,
James W. O'Brien, Gary Oelkers, Derrick A. O'Meara,
Richard J. Sauer, Michael H. Scheibel, Gary S. Schultz,
Timothy G. Siddall, Robert J. Simpson, Katherine Smith, Jay
Strait, Michael R. Tinkler, Michael J. White, Donald M.
Dattler, Thomas E. Elthorp, Harrison Greeney, Matthew A.
Turrie, Dennis J. Cimbal and Kenneth Kotwas, DefendantsCross-Defendants.
Docket No. 05-1830-cv (L)
Docket No. 05-2035-cv (XAP).
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Argued: June 5, 2006.
Decided: October 4, 2006.
COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED COPYRIGHT MATERIAL
OMITTED Frank Brady, Assistant Solicitor General (Eliot Spitzer,
Attorney General of the State of New York, Daniel Smirlock, Peter H.
Schiff, Nancy A. Spiegel, on the brief), Albany, NY, for defendantscross-defendants-appellants-cross-appellees.
Jodi Peikin, Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason & Silberberg, P.C.
(Robert J. Anello, on the brief), New York, NY, for plaintiffs-counterdefendants-appellees-cross-appellants.
Anthony P. Rivizzigno, County Attorney (Carol L. Rhinehart, on the
brief), Syracuse, NY, submitted brief for defendants-cross-appellees.
Before WALKER, Chief Judge, NEWMAN and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit
SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge.
Individual state defendants-cross-defendants-appellants-cross-appellees James
J. Parmley et al. (the "defendants") appeal from the March 28, 2005 order of
the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Scullin,
C.J.), Jones v. McMahon, No. 98-CV-374, 2005 WL 928667 (N.D.N.Y. Mar.
28, 2005), which denied defendants' summary judgment motion for qualified
immunity on plaintiffs-counter-defendants-appellees-cross-appellants Andrew
Jones et al.'s (the "plaintiffs") claims of First and Fourth Amendment violations
stemming from defendants' alleged misconduct in dispersing plaintiffs'
demonstration in May 1997. Specifically, defendants contend the district court's
denial was flawed because (1) even under plaintiffs' facts, it was objectively
reasonable as a matter of law for defendants to believe that the demonstration
presented a "clear and present danger" after several protesters had entered the
roadway of an interstate freeway and (2) the court misconstrued our precedent
in Atkins v. New York City, 143 F.3d 100 (2d Cir.1998), in holding that any
force used in connection with an arrest that lacked probable cause is by
definition excessive. Defendants also appeal the district court's refusal to
recognize their assertion of qualified immunity on plaintiffs' state-law claims.
Plaintiffs cross-appeal the district court's March 28 and April 20, 2005 rulings
that granted summary judgment to all defendants on some of their claims and to
defendants New York State Police ("NYSP") Superintendent James W.
McMahon and Onondaga County Sheriff Kevin Walsh on all claims; granted
sua sponte summary judgment on all claims to the County of Onondaga, the
Onondaga County Sheriff's Department ("Sheriff's Department"), and NYSP
troopers Mark Bender and Peter Obrist; and denied plaintiffs Marissa Horton
and Verna Montour's motion for reconsideration of the dismissal of their
excessive force claims.
For the reasons that follow, we AFFIRM the district court's decision denying
qualified immunity to defendants, and DISMISS plaintiffs' cross-appeal for
lack of jurisdiction because it presents no issues that are "inextricably
intertwined" with defendants' appeal.
On October 7, 2005, this Court denied plaintiffs' motion to dismiss this appeal,
which had contended that the order appealed from was a non-final denial of a
motion for summary judgment. We held that although the district court's
rejection of the defendants' motion for summary judgment on qualified
immunity grounds was based on the court's determination that there were
genuine issues of material fact still to be resolved, this appeal could go forward
because defendants had stipulated to plaintiffs' facts for the purposes of this
appeal. See Salim v. Proulx, 93 F.3d 86, 89 (2d Cir.1996) (holding that, where a
district court rejects a defense of qualified immunity based on disputed issues of
fact, "an appeal is available where the defendant accepts, for purposes of the
appeal, the facts as alleged by the plaintiff"). Thus, for the purposes of this
appeal, we accept the facts as alleged by the plaintiffs.
In May 1997, plaintiffs, several dozen members of the Onondaga Nation and
their supporters, organized a protest to express their opposition to an agreement
between the chiefs of the Onondaga Nation and the State of New York that
would permit the State to tax tobacco products sold to non-Native Americans
on land belonging to the Onondagas. The protest was held on private property
belonging to plaintiff Andrew Jones, an Onondaga who opposed the
agreement. Jones's property includes the paved portion of Interstate 81 ("I-81"
or the "Interstate"), which the State has a non-exclusive right to use under a
limited easement granted to the Department of Public Works, as well as acreage
adjacent to the highway on which his house and yard are located.
The protest began on May 8, 1997, with the lighting of a ceremonial fire.
Shortly thereafter, law enforcement officers from the Sheriff's Department
visited the protest and allowed it to proceed. The protest continued, peacefully
and with the consent of the Sheriff's Department, for ten days; the protesters
were at all times orderly and peaceful and did not disturb nor harass neighbors,
motorists or passersby who witnessed the demonstration. On May 18, the
protesters circulated a flyer announcing that a "media event" would be held that
day to protest the tobacco agreement. The Sheriff's Department became aware
of these plans, and heard rumors that the protesters planned to block I-81
temporarily to draw attention to their cause.
The May 18 gathering was attended by men, women and children of all ages. At
approximately 1:45 p.m., a small group of Onondaga protesters, possibly
including some plaintiffs,1 briefly entered the I-81 roadway to distribute
literature pertaining to their protest; the group's presence on the highway
caused traffic to slow down. Meanwhile, the NYSP took over the job of
monitoring the protest from the Sheriff's Department, and at a at a "staging
area" north of Jones's property on I-81, they began assembling what they
referred to as the "Indian Detail." This group consisted of seventy State troopers
dressed in full riot gear and bearing riot batons. A videotape made at the time
reveals some troopers joking about their "sticks" and how every trooper has
"gotta have a stick." One trooper is heard loudly informing another that the
protesters needed "to get their asses kicked." Another trooper is recorded saying
that he intended to stay behind because "no one's getting me on some federal
process."2 Troopers in the "Indian Detail" had removed their name tags, even
though the State Police Manual requires name tags to be worn at all times.
As the NYSP began leaving the staging area, plaintiff Stonehorse Goeman, a
leader of the protest and resident of the Onondaga reservation, attempted to
persuade those on the roadway to leave the Interstate and return to the main
demonstration on Jones's private property. Goeman also attempted to
communicate the protesters' peaceful intentions to NYSP officers at the scene,
but his attempts were met by silence or threats of arrest. After the Onondagas
had left the highway, the NYSP closed off the northbound lanes of I-81 for
several hundred feet. The State troopers began marching towards Jones's
property, where they assembled on the eastern shoulder of the roadway,
forming a "skirmish line" facing the protesters, who were gathered
approximately seventy feet off the highway. At the time the troopers formed
their skirmish line, none of the protesters was located on or near the highway;
they were all peacefully assembled around the ceremonial fire on Jones's
private property. They allege they made no threats, engaged in no violent
behavior, displayed no weapons and made no effort to move toward the line of
troopers.
The NYSP troopers remained on the skirmish line for no more than thirty-five
seconds, at which point they received a "go ahead" order from Major Parmley.
Parmley acknowledges that at the time he gave this order, he was located at the
staging area north of Jones's property, where he could not see the protesters and
did not know what they were doing. As soon as the troopers received the "go
ahead" order, the defendants charged into the demonstration and began
arresting protesters allegedly indiscriminately, assaulting plaintiffs, beating
them with their riot batons, dragging them by their hair and kicking them.
Defendants also allegedly threw one man, who was praying, to the ground and
choked him. Plaintiffs further assert that the police manhandled an eleven-yearold girl and an elderly medicine woman and even tossed an infant in a double
leg cast from his stroller.
Prior to these actions, the troopers allegedly did not order the protesters to
disperse or provide them with any warning or justification for their actions.
Defendants concede that they had no idea, when making these arrests, which of
the protesters had entered the roadway. Much of what plaintiffs allege was
captured on videotape, although, plaintiffs assert, the NYSP attempted to
prevent people with cameras from recording all of the events by putting their
hands over the lenses and threatening cameramen with arrest.
II. Litigation Resulting from the May 18 Arrests
The demonstrators who were arrested were charged with various state law
crimes, and in a September 9, 1997 decision, Justice Philip Miller of the Town
of Onondaga Justice Court dismissed all charges against plaintiffs except for a
disorderly conduct charge against medicine woman Marie Peters, finding the
informations legally insufficient to establish the charged offenses and raising
"serious questions" about the troopers' hearsay testimony that several plaintiffs
refused to move from the roadway, were intentionally or recklessly creating a
risk of public inconvenience or disregarded a lawful order of the police to
disperse. Justice Miller subsequently dismissed the remaining claim against
Peters on the merits.
Similarly, on March 5, 1998, Onondaga County Court Judge William Burke
dismissed all of the State's initial charges against plaintiff Kenneth
Kappelmeier, rejecting defendants' allegation that Kappelmeier was acting with
intent to cause public disruption or interfere with the troopers; finding that no
evidence supported defendants' allegation that Kappelmeier was on the
roadway; and holding that the evidence showed that the confrontation between
Kappelmeier and the troopers occurred not on the roadway but on Jones's
property, which Jones's invitees had a right to use. The State thereafter
produced new facts and new charges against Kappelmeier, largely supported by
testimony from a NYSP trooper who testified for the first time before a second
grand jury that Kappelmeier was running back and forth in a provocative
manner. The jury subsequently acquitted Kappelmeier of all charges.
The case now before us originated in the United States District Court for the
Northern District of New York. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants, inter
alia, violated their rights to freedom of speech, religion and assembly, used
excessive force, engaged in a conspiracy to violate their rights, violated their
right to equal protection, were deliberately indifferent to plaintiffs' medical
needs and inflicted severe emotional distress. They also filed claims against
NYSP Superintendent James W. McMahon, Onondaga County Sheriff Kevin
Walsh, the County of Onondaga and the Sheriff's Department.
After several years of litigation, the district court denied the defendants'
motions for summary judgment on the basis of qualified immunity on plaintiffs'
First Amendment and excessive force claims, finding that disputed factual
issues remained to be resolved before the court could rule on the qualified
immunity issue. Jones, 2005 WL 928667, at *9-*12. The court granted Walsh
and McMahon's respective motions for summary judgment. Id. at *6. The court
also granted summary judgment sua sponte in favor of Onondaga County and
its Sheriff's Department, dismissed several of plaintiffs' other claims and
dismissed several defendants from the lawsuit. Id. at *2-*7. The defendants
timely appeal from the district court's denial of their motions for summary
judgment based on qualified immunity and its decision not to apply the
qualified immunity defense to dismiss plaintiffs' state-law claims.
The plaintiffs timely cross-appeal from the district court's grant of summary
judgment to Walsh and McMahon, the court's dismissal of their equal
protection, conspiracy, indifference to medical needs and infliction of
emotional distress claims, and the court's sua sponte dismissal of several
defendants and other legal claims.
I. Jurisdiction over Defendants' Appeal
The denial of a motion for summary judgment is normally not "immediately
appealable because such a decision is not a final judgment." O'Bert ex rel.
Estate of O'Bert v. Vargo, 331 F.3d 29, 38 (2d Cir.2003) (citing 28 U.S.C.
1291). "Under the collateral order doctrine, however, the denial of a qualifiedimmunity-based motion for summary judgment is immediately appealable to
the extent that the district court has denied the motion as a matter of law,
although not to the extent that the defense turns solely on the resolution of
questions of fact." Id. (citing Behrens v. Pelletier, 516 U.S. 299, 313, 116 S.Ct.
834, 133 L.Ed.2d 773 (1996)). Indeed, where, as here, defendants have
accepted the plaintiffs' version of the facts for purposes of the appeal, they may
challenge the district court's rejection of a qualified-immunity-based motion for
summary judgment by arguing that the facts asserted by the plaintiffs "entitle
[them] to the defense of qualified immunity as a matter of law." Salim v.
Proulx, 93 F.3d 86, 91 (2d Cir.1996). We accordingly have appellate
jurisdiction over the limited question of law presented by defendants' appeal.
II. Qualified Immunity
Against this backdrop, we review de novo a district court's denial of a summary
judgment motion based on a defense of qualified immunity. Savino v. City of
New York, 331 F.3d 63, 71 (2d Cir.2003). Our review at this juncture is limited
to "circumstances where the qualified immunity defense may be established as
a matter of law." Cartier v. Lussier, 955 F.2d 841, 844 (2d Cir.1992). Although
we must examine "whether a given factual dispute is `material' for summary
judgment purposes, we may not review whether a dispute of fact identified by
the district court is `genuine.'" Escalera v. Lunn, 361 F.3d 737, 743 (2d
Cir.2004) (internal citation omitted).
Qualified immunity "shields police officers acting in their official capacity from
suits for damages ... unless their actions violate clearly-established rights of
which an objectively reasonable official would have known." Thomas v. Roach,
165 F.3d 137, 142 (2d Cir.1999). This is a doctrine that seeks to balance the
twin facts that civil actions for damages may "offer the only realistic avenue for
vindication of constitutional guarantees," and that such suits nevertheless "can
entail substantial social costs, including the risk that fear of personal monetary
liability and harassing litigation will unduly inhibit officials in the discharge of
their duties." Anderson v. Creighton, 483 U.S. 635, 638, 107 S.Ct. 3034, 97
L.Ed.2d 523 (1987) (internal citation omitted); Gregoire v. Biddle, 177 F.2d
579, 581 (2d Cir.1949) (Hand, J.) ("There must indeed be means of punishing
public officers who have been truant to their duties; but that is quite another
matter from exposing such as have been honestly mistaken to suit by anyone
who has suffered from their errors. As is so often the case, the answer must be
found in a balance between the evils inevitable in either alternative.").
The Supreme Court has established a two-part inquiry to determine when a
district court should hold that the doctrine of qualified immunity bars a suit
against government officials: (1) the court must first consider whether the facts
alleged, when taken in the light most favorable to the party asserting the injury,
demonstrate a violation of a constitutional right, Saucier v. Katz, 533 U.S. 194,
201, 121 S.Ct. 2151, 150 L.Ed.2d 272 (2001); and (2) the court must then
consider whether the officials' actions violated "clearly established statutory or
constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known," Hope v.
Pelzer, 536 U.S. 730, 739, 122 S.Ct. 2508, 153 L.Ed.2d 666 (2002).
Defendants have assumed, for the purposes of this appeal that "as a threshold
matter, plaintiffs have shown a deprivation of a constitutional right." We need
only, therefore, concern ourselves with the second part of the qualified
immunity inquiry the determination whether "[t]he contours of the right
[allegedly violated are] sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would
understand that what he [or she] is doing violates that right." Anderson, 483
U.S. at 640, 107 S.Ct. 3034; Luna v. Pico, 356 F.3d 481, 490 (2d Cir.2004) ("
[E]ven assuming a state official violates a plaintiff's constitutional rights, the
official is protected nonetheless if he objectively and reasonably believed that
he was acting lawfully."). Finally, we are mindful that the right at issue in a
qualified immunity case need not be limited to the specific factual situation in
which that right was articulated. Indeed, "the Supreme Court has declined to say
that `an official action is protected by qualified immunity unless the very action
in question has previously been held unlawful,' and has, instead, chosen a
standard that excludes such immunity if `in the light of pre-existing law the
unlawfulness [is] apparent.'" Back v. Hastings on Hudson Union Free Sch.
Dist., 365 F.3d 107, 129 (2d Cir.2004) (quoting Hope, 536 U.S. at 739, 122
S.Ct. 2508).
A. The First Amendment
The First Amendment declares in part that "Congress shall make no law ...
abridging the freedom of speech ... or the right of the people peaceably to
assemble." U.S. Const. amend. I. The Amendment embodies and encourages
our national commitment to "robust political debate," Hustler Magazine v.
Falwell, 485 U.S. 46, 51, 108 S.Ct. 876, 99 L.Ed.2d 41 (1988), by protecting
both free speech and associational rights. See, e.g., id. (freedom of speech);
NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Patterson, 357 U.S. 449, 460-61, 78 S.Ct. 1163, 2
L.Ed.2d 1488 (1958) (freedom of association); De Jonge v. Oregon, 299 U.S.
353, 364, 57 S.Ct. 255, 81 L.Ed. 278 (1937) ("The right of peaceable assembly
is a right cognate to ... free speech and ... is equally fundamental.").
The Supreme Court has declared that the First Amendment protects political
demonstrations and protests activities at the heart of what the Bill of Rights
was designed to safeguard. See Boos v. Barry, 485 U.S. 312, 318, 108 S.Ct.
1157, 99 L.Ed.2d 333 (1988) (calling organized political protest "classically
political speech" which "operates at the core of the First Amendment"). Indeed,
the Court has repeatedly held that police may not interfere with orderly,
nonviolent protests merely because they disagree with the content of the speech
or because they simply fear possible disorder. See Cox v. Louisiana, 379 U.S.
536, 550, 85 S.Ct. 453, 13 L.Ed.2d 471 (1965) ("Cox I") (noting that
"constitutional rights may not be denied simply because of hostility to their
assertion or exercise" and overturning convictions of individuals protesting
arrest of civil rights activists) (quoting Watson v. City of Memphis, 373 U.S.
526, 535, 83 S.Ct. 1314, 10 L.Ed.2d 529 (1963) (internal quotation marks
omitted)); Edwards v. South Carolina, 372 U.S. 229, 237, 83 S.Ct. 680, 9
L.Ed.2d 697 (1963) (political protest speech is protected even though it invites
dispute and may stir people to anger). First Amendment protections,
furthermore, are especially strong where an individual engages in speech
activity from his or her own private property. See, e.g., City of Ladue v. Gilleo,
512 U.S. 43, 58, 114 S.Ct. 2038, 129 L.Ed.2d 36 (1994) (striking down a city
ordinance that banned nearly all residential signs, noting that "[a] special
respect for individual liberty in the home has long been part of our culture and
our law" and "has special resonance when the government seeks to constrain a
person's ability to speak there") (emphasis in original).
That said, First Amendment protections, while broad, are not absolute. Regan v.
Boogertman, 984 F.2d 577, 579 (2d Cir.1993) (citing Elrod v. Burns, 427 U.S.
347, 360, 96 S.Ct. 2673, 49 L.Ed.2d 547 (1976)). It is axiomatic, for instance,
that government officials may stop or disperse public demonstrations or
protests where "clear and present danger of riot, disorder, interference with
traffic upon the public streets, or other immediate threat to public safety, peace,
or order, appears." Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296, 308, 60 S.Ct. 900, 84
L.Ed. 1213 (1940). Indeed, where a public gathering threatened to escalate into
racial violence and members of a hostile crowd began voicing physical threats,
the Supreme Court expressly sanctioned police action that ended the
demonstration and arrested the speaker, who defied police orders to cease and
desist. Feiner v. New York, 340 U.S. 315, 317-21, 71 S.Ct. 303, 95 L.Ed. 295
(1951). The police, the Court reasoned, were not "powerless to prevent a breach
of the peace" in light of the "imminence of greater disorder" that the situation
created. Id. at 321, 71 S.Ct. 303.
1) Plaintiffs' Free Speech Rights Were Clearly Established.
Defendants concede that plaintiffs had a constitutional right to protest but
instead argue that the contours of the right were not sufficiently clear because
of the absence of "decisional law supporting the existence of a right to continue
with a demonstration after some of the participants create a public safety
hazard." While we recognize that to be clearly established, the right "must have
been recognized in a particularized rather than a general sense," Sira v. Morton,
380 F.3d 57, 81 (2d Cir.2004), we disagree for the reasons that follow with
defendants' contention that the right at issue in this case was too general to be
clearly established.
Defendants misapprehend the nature of the inquiry here. They essentially argue
that we should find qualified immunity unless a Supreme Court or Second
Circuit case expressly denies it, but that standard was rejected by the Supreme
Court in favor of one in which courts must examine whether in "the light of preexisting law the unlawfulness [is] apparent." Back, 365 F.3d at 129 (quoting
Hope, 536 U.S. at 739, 122 S.Ct. 2508). As we established in the previous
section, the Supreme Court has long applied the "clear and present danger" test
to protest cases to determine when police interference is constitutional.
Moreover, although defendants make much of the fact that some demonstrators
had allegedly violated the law, transforming the peaceful demonstration into a
potentially disruptive one, the Supreme Court has expressly held that "[t]he
right to associate does not lose all constitutional protection merely because
some members of the group may have participated in conduct or advocated
doctrine that itself is not protected." NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458
U.S. 886, 908, 102 S.Ct. 3409, 73 L.Ed.2d 1215 (1982). Were we to accept
defendants' view of the First Amendment, we see little that would prevent the
police from ending a demonstration without notice for the slightest
transgression by a single protester (or even a mere rabble rouser, wholly
unconnected to the lawful protest). We see no need to deviate from the "clear
and present danger" analysis as established by the Supreme Court.3
In the protest context, the Supreme Court has already well articulated the
contours of the right and made clear that the police may not interfere with
demonstrations unless there is a "clear and present danger" of riot, imminent
violence, interference with traffic or other immediate threat to public safety.
Cantwell, 310 U.S. at 308-309, 60 S.Ct. 900 (finding no imminent violence
where anti-Catholic diatribe angered listener and provoked suggestion of
violence). Neither energetic, even raucous, protesters who annoy or anger
audiences, nor demonstrations that slow traffic or inconvenience pedestrians,
justify police stopping or interrupting a public protest. Cox I, 379 U.S. at 54647, 549 n. 12, 85 S.Ct. 453 (group of protesters who provoked a visceral,
angered response and slowed traffic did not jeopardize their speech rights);
Edwards, 372 U.S. at 232, 237, 83 S.Ct. 680 ("clear and present danger" means
more than annoyance, inviting dispute or slowing traffic).
Plaintiffs allege that they posed no "clear and present danger" of immediate
harm or violence at the time the police arrested them. Plaintiffs also allege that
they made no threats of physical harm to police or members of the public, did
not incite violence or disorder and displayed no dangerous weapons. See Cox I,
379 U.S. at 546-47, 85 S.Ct. 453. They claim instead to have gathered on
private property to exercise their speech rights peaceably, see Ladue, 512 U.S.
at 58, 114 S.Ct. 2038, a fact that the police knew (because they had monitored
the protest from May 8) and implicitly condoned. Members of the protest had
even attempted to speak to the NYSP to let them know of their intentions, but
the troopers ignored them. Finally, plaintiffs contend that only a few protesters
demonstrated on the Interstate; that their activities did not affect the peaceful
tenor of the main protest; and that the few protesters who did enter the highway
desisted from their conduct before the police broke up the demonstration.
Taken as a whole, the facts as alleged by plaintiffs reveal an orderly, peaceful
crowd, the overwhelming majority of whose members had not entered the I-81
roadway. Given the above, it is clear to this Court that a reasonable factfinder
could determine under plaintiffs' version of events that the demonstration did
not constitute a "clear and present danger" and thus that the NYSP's actions
violated a clearly established constitutional right to protest.
2) No objectively reasonable officer would have believed that he or she could
have as a matter of law dispersed the demonstration under plaintiffs' facts.
Even if the protesters' First Amendment rights in this case are clearly
established, defendants argue that an objectively reasonable officer would not
have known that his dispersal of the demonstration was unlawful because the
demonstration "had transformed from a peaceful gathering into one posing a
clear and present danger to public safety, ... that was harboring several
unidentified persons who had just committed ... criminal offense[s]."
Defendants contend that through that lens, the facts, even as asserted by
plaintiffs, required the district court to have granted them summary judgment as
a matter of law. We disagree.
We have already concluded that we cannot say as a matter of law that under
plaintiffs' facts, their actions presented a "clear and present" danger or
immediate harm such that a reasonable officer would have believed he or she
could have dispersed the protest. We are mindful that the First Amendment
does not insulate individuals from criminal sanction merely because they are
simultaneously engaged in expressive activity. See Cox I, 379 U.S. at 554, 85
S.Ct. 453 ("One would not be justified in ignoring the familiar red light because
this was thought to be a means of social protest."). Defendants have alleged that
it was reasonable for them to disperse the crowd after members of the crowd
had committed crimes on the public highway. As the district court noted,
however, there remain questions of material fact regarding whether defendants'
purported bases for dispersing the crowd that some protestors had violated
state law that forbids unlawful assembly, N.Y. Penal Law 240. 10, and
disorderly conduct, N.Y. Penal Law 240.20(5) actually justified their
actions. Indeed, under plaintiffs' facts, it is clear that plaintiffs had not violated
the law forbidding unlawful assembly. It is equally clear that a serious issue
remained as to whether the protesters had engaged in disorderly conduct and
whether even if some had, the police could identify those who had entered the
roadway in contravention of the disorderly conduct statute. We examine each
law in turn as well as the evidence relating to the alleged violation of that law.
Section 240.10 of the Penal Law states that four or more persons assembled for
purposes of engaging in violent and tumultuous conduct likely to cause public
alarm constitutes an unlawful assemblage. N.Y. Penal Law 240.10.
Conviction under this law requires "an incitement which is both directed
towards and likely to produce imminent violent and tumultuous conduct."
Jones, 2005 WL 928667, at * 10 (citation omitted). Plaintiffs acknowledge that
some protesters entered the roadway to distribute literature to passing motorists.
The facts plaintiffs allege, however, show no incitement to, or threat of,
imminent violence and they deny that they were involved in, or intended, such
conduct. We therefore cannot say that a reasonable police officer would as a
matter of law have believed that anyone in the crowd had violated this law or
that this law gave him or her the right to disperse the demonstrators.4
Section 240.20(5) of the Penal Law states that "[a] person is guilty of
disorderly conduct when, with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance
or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, [h]e [or she] obstructs vehicular
or pedestrian traffic." N.Y. Penal Law 240.20(5). New York courts have
interpreted this statute to permit punishment only where the conduct at issue
does more than merely inconvenience pedestrian or vehicular traffic. People v.
Pearl, 66 Misc.2d 502, 321 N.Y.S.2d 986, 987 (1st Dep't 1971) ("Something
more than the temporary inconvenience caused to pedestrians by the
demonstrators' blocking of the west crosswalk, requiring them to enter the
roadway to get to the other side, was required to sustain a conviction for
obstructing pedestrian traffic."); see also People v. Nixon, 248 N.Y. 182, 185,
187, 161 N.E. 463 (1928) (overturning disorderly conduct conviction where
protesters who occupied the entire sidewalk forced pedestrians out into the
street), overruled on other grounds by People v. Santos, 86 N.Y.2d 869, 871,
635 N.Y.S.2d 168, 658 N.E.2d 1041 (1995). There is, then, a serious question
of fact whether the protesters, who allege that they merely walked onto the
Interstate to distribute leaflets explaining their protest, had the intent to obstruct
or in fact obstructed traffic in such manner as to have violated state law.
Assuming, arguendo, that the individuals who protested on I-81's roadway had
violated 240.20, an issue of fact also nevertheless exists as to whether a
reasonable police officer would have believed that he or she could disperse the
otherwise peaceable demonstration because a few individuals within that crowd
had violated the law at an earlier time and desisted before the dispersal. This is
especially the case where, as here, the officers concede for purposes of this
appeal that "[n]one of the troopers could identify any person at the gathering as
having been on the road." Defendants could not, then, have reasonably thought
that indiscriminate mass arrests without probable cause were lawful under these
circumstances. See United States v. Perea, 986 F.2d 633, 642-43 (2d Cir.1993)
("A warrantless arrest is unlawful absent probable cause."). Without the ability
to identify those individuals who had entered the I-81 roadway, defendants
cannot rely on 240.20 to justify their actions.
Quite simply, on the facts alleged, we cannot say as a matter of law that the
police had an objectively reasonable basis to conclude that the plaintiffs
presented a clear and present danger of imminent harm or other threat to the
public at the time of the arrests. Defendants were accordingly not entitled to
qualified immunity.
3) The absence of a dispersal order violated First Amendment rights.
Plaintiffs' facts, as alleged, would also give rise to a separate First Amendment
violation even if the NYSP had a lawful basis to interfere with the
demonstration. Indeed, while defendants repeatedly invoke the need to disperse
the crowd as their coup de grce even claiming that "dispersal [is] the
essence of plaintiffs' First Amendment claims" they completely ignore an
important predicate of their defense: the order to disperse. Here, defendants
concede that they issued no dispersal order and instead stood in a "skirmish
line," waited thirty-five seconds, and then charged into the crowd, arresting
protesters indiscriminately.5 They further concede that most demonstrators
(including many, if not all, of the plaintiffs) had not ventured out onto the
Interstate and that they could not identify any of the demonstrators who had. As
we noted earlier, plaintiffs had an undeniable right to continue their peaceable
protest activities, even when some in the demonstration might have
transgressed the law. Claiborne Hardware, 458 U.S. at 908, 102 S.Ct. 3409.
Plaintiffs still enjoyed First Amendment protection, and absent imminent harm,
the troopers could not simply disperse them without giving fair warning. City of
Chicago v. Morales, 527 U.S. 41, 58, 119 S.Ct. 1849, 144 L.Ed.2d 67 (1999) ("
[T]he purpose of the fair notice requirement [in disorderly conduct statutes] is
to enable the ordinary citizen to conform his or her conduct to the law.");
Feiner, 340 U.S. at 321, 71 S.Ct. 303 (finding no First Amendment violation
where imminence of disorder was "coupled with petitioner's deliberate defiance
of the police" and their orders to disperse); N.Y. Penal Law 240.20(6) (failure
to heed lawful police order to disperse gathering in public place constitutes
disorderly conduct); accord Dellums v. Powell, 566 F.2d 167, 181 n. 31
(D.C.Cir.1977) (Where "[t]he record ... indicates that not all of the arrestees
were violent or obstructive or noisy ... [and] only a small minority of the
demonstrators were involved in any mischief," notice and time to comply with a
dispersal order is required.).6 To the extent there was no imminent harm,
plaintiffs' version of facts does not give rise to circumstances that would have
suggested police need not have given a dispersal order as a matter of law.
In the end, the district court properly concluded that the facts as alleged by
plaintiffs demonstrate that defendants violated plaintiffs' clearly established
First Amendment rights "of which a reasonable person would have known."
Hope, 536 U.S. at 739, 122 S.Ct. 2508. Accordingly, defendants are not entitled
to qualified immunity as a matter of law on plaintiffs' First Amendment claim.
B. The Fourth Amendment
The Fourth Amendment protects individuals from the government's use of
excessive force when detaining or arresting individuals. See Thomas, 165 F.3d
at 143. When determining whether police officers have employed excessive
force in the arrest context, the Supreme Court has instructed that courts should
examine whether the use of force is objectively unreasonable "in light of the
facts and circumstances confronting them, without regard to [the officers']
underlying intent or motivation." Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386, 397, 109
S.Ct. 1865, 104 L.Ed.2d 443 (1989). The touchstone of the inquiry, then, is
reasonableness, and in measuring it, "we consider the facts and circumstances
of each particular case, including the crime committed, its severity, the threat of
danger to the officer and society, and whether the suspect is resisting or
attempting to evade arrest." Thomas, 165 F.3d at 143. We are, of course,
mindful that the reasonableness inquiry does not allow us to substitute our own
viewpoint; we must judge the officer's actions "from the perspective of a
reasonable officer on the scene, rather than with the 20/20 vision of hindsight."
Graham, 490 U.S. at 396, 109 S.Ct. 1865, 104 L.Ed.2d 443. Indeed, the
Supreme Court has cautioned that in analyzing excessive force claims, courts
must make "allowance for the fact that police officers are often forced to make
split-second judgments in circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and
rapidly evolving about the amount of force that is necessary in a particular
situation." Id. at 397, 109 S.Ct. 1865.
At the outset, defendants argue that the district court did not apply the
reasonableness test as announced in Graham in evaluating whether they were
entitled to qualified immunity on plaintiffs' excessive force claims, but rather
examined only whether defendants had probable cause to arrest plaintiffs. The
court's analysis was based, defendants contend, on a misreading of this Court's
decision in Atkins v. New York City, 143 F.3d 100 (2d Cir.1998). The court
below appears to have extrapolated from Atkins the legal proposition that
"unless State Defendants had probable cause for the arrests that they made, any
force that they used in making those arrests was excessive." Jones, 2005 WL
928667, at *9. Because factual questions regarding whether the NYSP had
probable cause to arrest defendants remained in dispute, the court denied
summary judgment on plaintiff's excessive force claims. Defendants claim that
given this misreading of Atkins, the district court's analysis was flawed and the
issue of qualified immunity for plaintiffs' excessive force claim should be
remanded for determination under the reasonableness test.
There has been disagreement among the lower courts about the breadth and
scope of our Atkins decision.7 In that case, the jury returned a verdict in favor of
the plaintiff on both his excessive force and false arrest claims and awarded
him $1 in nominal damages, but nothing in compensatory damages despite the
undisputed fact that plaintiff had been hurt during the arrest. Atkins, 143 F.3d at
102. The Court determined that Atkins would be entitled to compensatory
damages for his excessive force claim only if he could prove that his "injuries
were proximately caused by the constitutional violation." Id. at 103. Because
"there was never a moment when force applied by [the police officer] could
have been found to be lawful," given the jury's verdict on excessive force and
false arrest, this Court reasoned, Atkins was entitled to some amount of
compensatory damages for his injuries. Id. In explaining this reasoning, the
Court suggested that "if the jury believed Atkins started to swing at [the officer]
(for which he was arrested), the force used in connection with the arrest was
unlawful because the arrest was found to be unlawful." Id.
This latter sentence has engendered undue confusion. See supra at n. 7. The
issue in Atkins was the incongruity between the jury verdict and the damages
awarded. Given the jury's determination that Atkins did not use force sufficient
to justify the police using force against him and that he had in fact suffered
injuries during his encounter with the police, the primary and necessary holding
in our decision was that Atkins' injuries were at least in part proximately caused
by the unconstitutional application of force by the police. As such, Atkins was
entitled to some award of compensatory, rather than nominal, damages. There
was accordingly no need for this Court in Atkins to reach the question of
whether any force used in an arrest lacking probable cause is per se excessive.
Such a construction would read the highly fact-specific situation in which
Atkins arose too broadly because it would appear to suggest that any force
employed by a police officer would be unlawful so long as probable cause did
not exist, even if the detainee had threatened the officer with significant harm.
We are further mindful that the Supreme Court held in Graham that "all claims
that law enforcement officers have used excessive force ... should be analyzed
under the ... `reasonableness' standard" of the Fourth Amendment, thereby
establishing a general requirement. 490 U.S. at 395, 109 S.Ct. 1865 (emphasis
in original). The Atkins court clearly did not intend to create or substitute a new
standard for arrests lacking probable cause, and the reasonableness test
established in Graham remains the applicable test for determining when
excessive force has been used, including those cases where officers allegedly
lack probable cause to arrest.
This Court has remanded cases where a district court failed to reach an issue of
qualified immunity, see Francis v. Coughlin, 849 F.2d 778, 780 (2d Cir.1988),
but we have also addressed the merits of the issue itself on appeal, especially
"where the record plainly reveals the existence of genuine issues of material
fact relating to the qualified immunity defense." Hurlman v. Rice, 927 F.2d 74,
82 (2d Cir.1991). Because the extensive factual record reveals that material
issues already exist concerning the excessive force claims which the district
court did not dismiss,8 we see no reason to remand this issue here, where as a
matter of law, defendants would not be entitled to qualified immunity on the
facts as alleged by plaintiffs.
Because no party has contested that plaintiffs' version, if true, would establish a
constitutional deprivation, our analysis on the qualified immunity defense for
the excessive force claim rests solely on the reasonableness of defendants'
actions. Under plaintiffs' view of the record, the State troopers indiscriminately
arrested some, but not all, plaintiffs and broke up the May 18 demonstration on
private property; in the course of these actions, they allegedly employed
excessive force against certain plaintiffs, some of whom were arrested and
some of whom were not. Our review of the record shows that each plaintiff
who has brought an excessive force claim has alleged sufficient facts from
which a reasonable factfinder could find that the NYSP employed excessive
force in arresting and dispersing members of the demonstration. For example,
plaintiffs allege that without provocation, the NYSP threw several plaintiffs to
the ground, including an eleven-year-old girl and an elderly medicine woman;
beat various plaintiffs with batons; kicked and punched several of them; and
pushed at least one man, who was praying, to the ground and choked him.
In sum, after conducting a de novo review, we hold that the district court's
ultimate determination in denying defendants' motion for summary judgment
on the excessive force claims was correct despite its understandable reliance on
dicta in Atkins.
III. Qualified Immunity under State Law
The district court held that because "state law governs a defendant's entitlement
to qualified immunity with respect to state-law claims, see Napolitano v. Flynn,
949 F.2d 617, 621 (2d Cir.1991) (citation omitted), and current New York law
does not provide police defendants with a qualified immunity defense with
respect to state-law claims, the Court may only consider the issue of qualified
immunity with regard to Plaintiffs' federal-law claims." Jones, 2005 WL
928667, at *6 n. 8. New York law, however, does grant government officials
qualified immunity on state-law claims except where the officials' actions are
undertaken in bad faith or without a reasonable basis. See Blouin ex rel. Estate
of Pouliot v. Spitzer, 356 F.3d 348, 364 (2d Cir.2004) ("The New York courts
recognize the defense of qualified immunity to shield the government official
from liability unless that action is taken in bad faith or without a reasonable
basis."); Arteaga v. State, 72 N.Y.2d 212, 216-17, 532 N.Y.S.2d 57, 527 N.E.2d
1194 (1988). The district court thus erred in holding the contrary.
Plaintiffs do not attempt to defend the district court's interpretation of New
York law, but rather contend that "[e]ven if the [qualified immunity] defense
did apply to Plaintiffs' state claims, defendants' defense would necessarily
depend on the same `reasonableness' at issue with respect to Plaintiffs' federal
claims." We agree.
As with our determination on defendants' assertion of qualified immunity on
plaintiffs' excessive force claims, we see no reason to remand where, as here,
"the record plainly reveals the existence of genuine issues of material fact
relating to the qualified immunity defense." Hurlman, 927 F.2d at 82. New
York courts are no different in this regard. Simpkin v. City of Troy, 224 A.D.2d
897, 638 N.Y.S.2d 231, 232 (3d Dep't 1996) ("Clearly, without a factual
resolution of the sharply conflicting versions of these events, it is not possible
to determine whether defendants are qualifiedly immune."); Hayes v. City of
Amsterdam, 2 A.D.3d 1139, 770 N.Y.S.2d 138, 141 (3d Dep't 2003) (same).
Plaintiffs' remaining state-law claims focus on the reasonableness of the State
troopers in arresting and detaining them, including whether the defendants'
actions resulted in false arrest and imprisonment, malicious prosecution,
assault, battery or the intentional or negligent infliction of emotional distress.
The resolution of these claims rests heavily on the same facts that form the
heart of the federal claims. For instance, under New York law, qualified
immunity in the context of a claim of false arrest depends on whether it was
objectively reasonable for the police to believe that they had probable cause to
arrest. Simpkin, 638 N.Y.S.2d at 232; see also Boyd v. City of New York, 336
F.3d 72, 75 (2d Cir.2003). This question was at the center of the district court's
Fourth Amendment excessive force analysis, see Jones, 2005 WL 928667, at
*9-*12, and that court's conclusions were correct: the numerous disputed
material facts precluded the grant of qualified immunity. This analysis also
applies to, and controls, the qualified immunity questions presented under New
York law.
Because the remaining state-law claims present similar unresolved issues, we
need not remand the state-law qualified immunity question here.
IV. Pendant Jurisdiction over Plaintiffs' Cross-Appeal
Having dealt with the merits of defendants' appeal, we turn now to plaintiffs'
cross-appeal. Plaintiffs ask this Court to exercise pendent jurisdiction over a
number of claims, including the dismissal of their First Amendment conspiracy,
equal protection and Fourth Amendment false arrest and imprisonment claims;
the grants of summary judgment to defendants Walsh and NYSP
Superintendent McMahon; the sua sponte rulings dismissing all claims against
Onondaga County, its Sheriff's Department, and NYSP troopers Bender and
Obrist; and the grant of summary judgment to all defendants with respect to
plaintiffs Marissa Horton and Verna Montour's excessive force claims. Under
the collateral order doctrine, "a district court's denial of a claim of qualified
immunity, to the extent that it turns on an issue of law [and not of fact], is an
appealable `final decision' within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. 1291
notwithstanding the absence of a final judgment." Mitchell v. Forsyth, 472 U.S.
511, 530, 105 S.Ct. 2806, 86 L.Ed.2d 411 (1985). When we take such an
appeal, we may exercise pendent jurisdiction over other issues that are not
ordinarily subject to interlocutory review only when: (1) they are "inextricably
intertwined" with the determination of qualified immunity; or (2) their
resolution is "necessary to ensure meaningful review" of the district court's
ruling on qualified immunity. Swint v. Chambers County Comm'n, 514 U.S. 35,
51, 115 S.Ct. 1203, 131 L.Ed.2d 60 (1995); see also id. at 4, 115 S.Ct. 12039
(cautioning that "a rule loosely allowing pendent appellate jurisdiction would
encourage parties to parlay [appealable] collateral orders into multi-issue
interlocutory appeal tickets"). Finally, we are mindful that "[p]endent appellate
jurisdiction is a procedural device that rarely should be used because of the
danger of abuse" and that accordingly, we must exercise such jurisdiction "
[o]nly in exceptional circumstances." Natale v. Town of Ridgefield, 927 F.2d
101, 104 (2d Cir.1991) (citation omitted).
Each finding on which plaintiffs seek to cross appeal involves issues entirely
separate and distinct from the qualified immunity analysis at issue here,
including the district court's determinations on the subjective intent in plaintiffs'
conspiracy claims, see Crawford-El v. Britton, 523 U.S. 574, 588, 118 S.Ct.
1584, 140 L.Ed.2d 759 (1998) (articulating a "single objective standard" for
evaluating qualified immunity and stating that "[e]vidence concerning the
defendant's subjective intent is simply irrelevant to that defense"); on plaintiffs'
failure properly to include defendants in their captions; on claims of parties
who are not before this court on appeal, see Kaluczky v. City of White Plains,
57 F.3d 202, 207 (2d Cir.1995) ("[A] claim involving a `pendent party' is an
`unrelated question' that cannot be resolved under pendent jurisdiction."); and
on issues of respondeat superior and supervisor liability, see Swint, 514 U.S. at
51, 115 S.Ct. 1203 (finding no pendent jurisdiction over county commission's
appeal where "[t]he individual defendants' qualified immunity turns on whether
they violated clearly established federal law [while] the county commission's
liability turns on the allocation of law enforcement power in Alabama"). Thus,
we have no jurisdiction over plaintiffs' cross-appeal because there are no issues
before us "inextricably intertwined" with our qualified immunity analysis.
For the foregoing reasons, we AFFIRM the judgment of the district court
denying qualified immunity and DISMISS plaintiffs' cross-appeal for lack of
As the district court correctly noted, it is a material issue of fact which, if any,
of the plaintiffs actually entered the roadwayJones, 2005 WL 928667, at * 11.
It is undisputed that the majority of people at the demonstration did not enter
the roadway.
The Onondagas allege that this hostility was due in part to an earlier and
unrelated incident in which Native American demonstrators injured several
NYSP troopers during a protest in Buffalo
This approach would still provide police officers ample authority in certain
circumstances to stop or prevent demonstrations that had turned, or threatened
to turn, unduly disruptive or violent
As plaintiffs note, both sections of the Penal Law were considered and rejected
by Justices Miller and Burke when they dismissed the State's charges against
some of the plaintiffs for alleged misconduct during the May 18 demonstration
The NYSP argues that they confronted a situation of imminent harm. As we
have repeatedly stated, however, our limited appellate jurisdiction here
precludes us from viewing the facts as defendants assert them. We thus have no
occasion to determine whether police would be permitted to disperse without
warning a crowd more akin to a mob than the peaceful protest plaintiffs
In some cases, the Supreme Court has recognized that even an order to disperse
would not divest demonstrators of their right to protest. InCox v. Louisiana, 379
U.S. 559, 85 S.Ct. 476, 13 L.Ed.2d 487 (1965) ("Cox II"), the police knew of
and explicitly permitted a civil rights demonstration to gather near the
municipal courthouse. Minutes after the protest had started, however, officials
attempted to disperse the crowd and arrested those who did not comply with the
order. The Cox II court reversed the convictions of those arrested, noting "it is
clear that the dispersal order did not remove the protection accorded appellant
by the original grant of permission." Id. at 573, 85 S.Ct. 476.
Compare Zellner v. Summerlin, 399 F.Supp.2d 154, 164 (E.D.N.Y.2005)
(finding no bright-line rule in Atkins that any force used in an arrest that lacked
probable cause is excessive) with Frobel v. County of Broome, 419 F.Supp.2d
212, 220 (N.D.N.Y.2005) ("Any force used in effecting an unlawful seizure of
the person is considered excessive and unlawful."); Black v. Town of Harrison,
No. 02 Civ.2097, 2002 WL 31002824, at *6 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 5, 2002) (same);
LaLonde v. Bates, 166 F.Supp.2d 713, 719 (N.D.N.Y. 2001) (same); Scott v.
Sinagra, 167 F.Supp.2d 509, 515 (N.D.N.Y.2001) (same).
The district court dismissed plaintiffs Marissa Horton and Verna Montour's
excessive force claims in its March 28 decisionJones, 2005 WL 928667, at *1
n. 1, reconsideration denied, 2005 WL 928666, at *2 (N.D.N.Y. Apr.20, 2005).
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Sea Shepherd Founder Captain Paul Watson looks back on all that Sea Shepherd has accomplished in our Southern Ocean Whale Defense campaigns over the past 12 years despite the incredible odds, and why the recent changes in Japan's illegal whaling tactics mean we have to change our strategy for future campaigns.
Captain Paul Watson on the Farley Mowat for the 2005-2006 Whale Defense Campaign in Antarctica.
Sea Shepherd has accomplished something absolutely remarkable over the last 12 years.
In 2005 we set out to tackle the world’s largest and most destructive whaling fleet. We were told it was impossible by some governments and a few NGO’s.
Hardly anyone even knew about Japan’s illegal slaughter in the Southern Ocean. It was out of sight and out of mind. They were targeting 1,035 whales a year including a yearly quota of 50 endangered Humpbacks and 50 endangered Fin whales.
We had few resources but we took our one battered and slow vessel, the Farley Mowat and we chased the whalers across the Southern Ocean, catching them only for a few hours at a time until they sped away from us.
In 2006 we were able to purchase the Steve Irwin and the tables began to turn as each year we became stronger and more effective. We brought in the Bob Barker, the Sam Simon, the Brigitte Bardot and the Ocean Warrior.
Sea Shepherd was relentless in reducing the yearly quotas significantly and in 2012/2013 the Japanese whalers went home with only about 10% of their intended kills. We did this at the same time the U.S. Federal Court put significant legal obstacles in our path.
The results speak for themselves. Over 6,000 whales saved. Not a single endangered Humpback killed and only 10 endangered Fin whales killed in a decade where 500 were slated to die. In addition, the Japanese whalers lost tens of millions of dollars.
We exposed Japan’s illegal activities to the world with our TV show Whale Wars and our documentation.
We helped to push Australia into taking Japan to the International Court of Justice where their operations were ruled to be unlawful. Japan was ordered by the ICJ to cease and desist.
They did so for a year and then returned with a new program (also illegal) that reduced their bogus self-allocated kill quota to 333 each year. This means that since 2015 another 1400 whales were spared the lethal harpoons. This means that 702 whales will continue to be saved every year.
Captain Paul Watson and then Second Mate Peter Hammarstedt in pursuit of the Japanese harpoon ship in 2008 on Operation Musashi. Photo Adam Lau/Sea Shepherd.
"The Japanese whalers have been exposed, humiliated and most importantly have been denied thousands of lives that we have spared from their deadly harpoons. Thousands of whales are now swimming and reproducing that would now be dead if not for our interventions."
Unfortunately, in an effort to prevent Sea Shepherd interventions, they doubled their killing grounds which means that they have more time and more area to kill their lowered quota.
Despite that, Sea Shepherd sent the Steve Irwin and the Ocean Warrior in pursuit of the whalers in 2016/2017 and although it took them longer and cost them much more, the Japanese whalers managed to get their quota.
What we discovered is that Japan is now employing military surveillance to watch Sea Shepherd ship movements in real time by satellite and if they know where our ships are at any given moment, they can easily avoid us. During Operation Nemesis, the Sea Shepherd ships did get close and our helicopter even managed to get evidence of their illegal whaling operations but we could not physically close the gap. We cannot compete with their military grade technology.
This year Japan escalated their resistance with the passing of new anti-terrorism laws, some of which are specifically designed to condemn Sea Shepherd tactics. For the first time ever, they have stated they may send their military to defend their illegal whaling activities.
The Japanese whalers not only have all the resources and subsidies their government can provide, they also have the powerful political backing of a major economic super-power. Sea Shepherd however is limited in resources and we have hostile governments against us in Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
The decision we have had to face is: do we spend our limited resources on another campaign to the Southern Ocean that will have little chance of a successful intervention OR do we regroup with different strategies and tactics? If something is not working the only recourse is to look for a better plan, because when a plan no longer works, the only alternative is an improved course of action.
The Japanese factory ship with a slaughtered whale documented on Operation Nemesis in January 2017. Photo Glenn Lockitch/Sea Shepherd.
We need to formulate this new plan and we will.
We will not be sending ships to the Southern Ocean this year, but are not abandoning the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. We need to cultivate the resources, the tactics and the ability to significantly shut down the illegal whaling operations of the Japanese whaling fleet. In the meantime, it’s time for the Australian government to live up to their promises. Sea Shepherd has been down in the Southern Ocean doing what the Australian government has the responsibility to do, but has refused to do, and that is upholding international and Australian conservation law. Instead of supporting Sea Shepherd the Australian government has been supporting the Japanese whalers by harassing Sea Shepherd and obstructing Sea Shepherd’s ability to raise funds by denying our charitable status.
What Sea Shepherd has accomplished over the last 12 years demonstrates what people of passion can accomplish with few resources despite heavy multi-government opposition.
The Japanese whalers have been exposed, humiliated and most importantly have been denied thousands of lives that we have spared from their deadly harpoons. Thousands of whales are now swimming and reproducing that would now be dead if not for our interventions,
And perhaps more significantly than anything else, there are now voices in the Japanese government opposing the continuation of whaling. Our efforts have been like acupuncture needles stuck into Japanese society, probing and provoking responses. We have exposed the incredible waste of money, the corruption and the shame this dirty business has brought to all the Japanese people. Our efforts have been so significant that one Japanese official said that Japan has two enemies – China and Sea Shepherd!
Sea Shepherd’s continuing efforts to go after and shut down whalers will continue, and not only against Japanese whaling, but also against Norwegian, Danish, and Icelandic whaling. This is what we have been doing for forty years. We will never quit until the abomination of whaling is abolished forever by anyone, anywhere, for any reason.
Sea Shepherd is doing incredible things on the Ocean with limited resources, in addition to tackling illegal whaling activities. The endangered Vaquita would now be extinct if not for our intervention. We shut down the entire Southern Ocean pirate toothfish fleet. We have intercepted and stopped poachers off West Africa, in the marine reserves of the Galapagos, Sicily and Panama. We have removed hundreds of tons of ghost nets and plastics from the sea, and most importantly we have shown the world what a few passionate and courageous people can do.
Our objective is to continue to serve and protect all life in the Ocean from illegal and greedy exploitation by destructive humans.
Sea Shepherd is guided by this one reality: If the Ocean dies, we die!
"Sea Shepherd’s continuing efforts to go after and shut down whalers will continue, and not only against Japanese whaling, but also against Norwegian, Danish, and Icelandic whaling. This is what we have been doing for forty years. We will never quit until the abomination of whaling is abolished forever by anyone, anywhere, for any reason."
The Steve Irwin watches over the whales in the Southern Ocean during the 2009/2010 Operation Waltzing Matilda. Photo Marianna Baldo/SeaShepherd.
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Home News Hollyport collects $1bn for tail-end secondaries – exclusive
Hollyport collects $1bn for tail-end secondaries – exclusive
Hollyport Secondary Opportunities VII has raised double the amount collected by its 2017-vintage predecessor.
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Hollyport Capital has held the final close on its latest secondaries fund after less than one year in market.
The London-headquartered tail-end specialist has hit the $1 billion hard-cap for Hollyport Secondary Opportunities Fund VII, a spokesman for the firm told Secondaries Investor. This is double the amount raised for 2017-vintage Fund VI, which closed on its hard-cap in 2017, as Secondaries Investor reported.
Secondaries Investor had reported in February that Hollyport was back in market targeting $750 million for Fund VII.
Fund VII launched in January last year and held a first close at the end of the first quarter and final close on 31 December. The fund is already 25 percent invested, having made its first investment at the end of June. It has a two-year investment period.
The investor base for Fund VII is more institutional in make-up than previous funds and counts on new limited partners from Asia, the Middle East and the US. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Fund was mulling a $75 million commitment to the fund, with a final decision expected at its January 2020 investment advisory committee meeting, a contact at the pension confirmed to Secondaries Investor.
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Further delays announced for Crossrail
georger@baylismedia.co.uk
11:35AM, Friday 08 November 2019
The Elizabeth Line will not run through central London until 2021 after further delays to the Crossrail project were announced.
Transport for London revealed today (Friday) that the section of the Elizabeth Line in central London will not be completed until the end of 2020.
It says that the central parts of the line – Custom House, Farringdon and Tottenham Court Station – will be opened ‘as soon as practically possible’ in 2021.
The line was initially supposed to be completed in 2018.
Mark Wild, Crossrail Ltd chief executive, said: ”We are doing everything we can to complete the Elizabeth line as quickly as we can but there are no short-cuts to delivering this hugely complex railway. The Elizabeth line must be completed to the highest safety and quality standards.”
“Our latest assessment is that the opening of the central section will not occur in 2020, which was the first part of our previously declared opening window.
“The Elizabeth line will open as soon as practically possible in 2021. We will provide Londoners with further certainty about when the Elizabeth line will open early in 2020.”
Transport for London has also announced there will be an increase in costs of about £400million to £650million.
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New Justice League Featurette Focuses On Ben Affleck’s Batman
Edward Lauder
on 31st October 2017 at 10:32 am
There’s a new featurette for Justice League which focuses on Ben Affleck’s Batman and how he’s come to the realisation that he needs to work in a team.
These Justice League promo videos have all been pretty special. We’ve already seen ones for Aquaman, The Flash, Wonder Woman and Cyborg. This week it’s the big guy’s turn. I’m talking about Batman of course. Ben Affleck first played the role in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and even though the film received mixed reviews, everybody agreed that Ben Affleck’s performance as the Dark Knight was spot on. In my humble opinion, Ben Affleck is one of the best versions of Batman we’ve ever had. It’s just a shame he wasn’t in a slightly better film. The same could be said of Henry Cavill’s Superman, who is perfect for the role. The character has just been poorly written. That said, Justice League could change all of this. Check out the promo video below, courtesy of AT&T.
Batman’s always been a bit of a loner. He prefers to work alone, and if he does work in a team, it’s usually with heroes that he’s properly groomed and trained, such as Robin, Nightwing or Batgirl. However, this version of Batman has gone through some stuff. We already know that Robin was killed, probably at the hands of the Joker. It’s natural that he might be averse to working in a team again, for fear of losing yet another ally, or God forbid, a friend. However, with a threat like Steppenwolf on the horizon, Batman quickly realises that he needs help, and in this case, it has to be of the superpowered variety.
Batman may be great, but he has no superpowers (unless you count his bank balance as a superpower, which according to this promo video he does). By bringing together Wonder Woman, The Flash and Aquaman, the world might just have a chance against Steppenwolf and his army of parademons. Batman will serve as a leader and tactician. I for one cannot wait to see how it all unfolds.
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ShoutMeLoud >> Entrepreneurship & Startup >> Jack Ma – The Inspirational Story of Alibaba Founder
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Jack Ma – The Inspirational Story of Alibaba Founder
18th Apr, 2019 Srikanth AN 37 Comments
We are all social creatures always looking for fantasy in real life to trigger our thought process and seek inspiration from them. On a daily basis we come across a lot of strangers but we seek inspiration from only a few of them, and what sets them apart is the stories that they have to tell. Even as a child, we grow up listening to stories of how a hero comes to the rescue of his people and his family, we find solace in such stories. Studies have also found that such inspirational stories have a positive effect on our brains and helps us become more emphatic, generous and improve our overall outlook on life.
So, today we’ll talk about a story. The story of the life of a man who has impacted the entire economy and internet industry of China almost single-handedly. His life is nothing less than the story of Robert, The Bruce and the Spider, that we were taught as kindergartens. That’s is the story of Jack Ma.
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Jack Ma is the founder of the E-commerce giant Alibaba and is a stakeholder at Alipay, it’s sister company which is an e-payment portal. He is now officially the richest man in China with an estimated net worth of $25 Billion, on the back of the recent world record $150 Billion IPO filing of his company. Given all of this, Jack Ma only holds a 7.8% stake in Alibaba and a 50% stake in Alipay. Alibaba and Jack Ma, although are not household names out of China, you must know that Alibaba is worth more than Facebook, and processes goods more than eBay and Amazon combined!
This might be beginning to seem like the story of an arrogant and rich billionaire who hasn’t seen the dark. But don’t be mistaken by the numbers that you see above, they can fool anyone. Although as simple as it may sound, Jack Ma has had it hard in his life to get to where he is today. A true rags-to-riches story and definitely a one which will inspire you even in your darkest days.
Ma Yun a.k.a. Jack Ma is one of those self-made billionaires with humble beginnings. Jack Ma was born in Hangzhou, located in the south-eastern part of China. He was born and raised along with an elder brother and a younger sister during the rise of communist China and its isolation from the Western regions. His parents were traditional Musicians-Storytellers and they didn’t make enough to be even considered as middle class during those days.
Former US president Richard Nixon’s visit to Hangzhou in 1972 improved the situation of tourism in his home-town and Jack wanted to make the most of this opportunity. Jack always wanted to learn English as a kid and he spent his early mornings riding on his bike to a nearby park, giving English tours to foreigners for free. It was then he met a foreign girl who gave him the nickname ‘Jack’ for his name was hard to spell for her.
Jack, after graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in English, worked as an English teacher at Hangzhou Dianzi University with a pay of $12 a month! Now here comes the part where it gets more interesting, even before he has received that degree and became an English teacher.
Jack Ma as an extremely lucky bloke who just became a billionaire in a snap. But it is safe to know that Rejections are synonymous with Jack Ma. You wouldn’t believe the number of times this man has been rejected and failed.
In his early childhood, Jack Ma Failed in his Primary School examinations, not once, but Twice! He Failed Thrice during his Middle School exams. When applying to universities after his High school, Jack failed the entrance exams thrice, before finally joining Hangzhou Normal University. He even applied and wrote to Harvard University ten times about being admitted – and got rejected each time. This was only during his education!
During and after his Bachelor’s degree Jack tried and failed to get a job at a multitude of places. After spending three years to get into a University, Jack failed to land a job after applying to them 30 times! He recollects in his interview, “When KFC came to China, 24 people went for the job. Twenty-three people were accepted. I was the only guy who wasn’t.” He also one of the 5 applicants to a job in Police force and was the only one getting rejected after being told, “No, you’re no good.”
Also, on his Entrepreneurial undertakings, Jack Ma went on to fail on two of his initial ventures. But that didn’t stop him in any way of dreaming bigger.
Down, but not Out!
In one of his interviews, when asked about his rejections, this is what he had to say, “Well, I think we have to get used to it. We’re not that good.” Overcoming the pain of rejections and treating rejections as opportunities to learn and grow was what Jack Ma made of it.
After finally coming to terms with all of his rejections and failures, Jack Ma visited US in 1995, for a Government undertaking project related to the building of highways. It was then that Jack Ma was first introduced to the Internet and Computers. Computers were pretty rare in China then, given the high costs associated with them and Internet or E-mails were non-existent. The first word he searched on the Mosaic browser was ‘Beer’, and it popped out results from different countries, but signs of China anywhere. He then searched ‘China’ and not a single result popped out! He decided it was time for China and its people to get on the Internet.
Finally, after persuading 17 of his other friends to invest and join him in his new e-commerce startup – Alibaba, the company began from his apartment. Initially, Alibaba didn’t had a single penny in investment from outside investors, but they later raised $20 Million from SoftBank and another $5 Million from Goldman Sachs in 1999. Building trust among the people of China that an online system of payment and package transfers is safe was the biggest challenge Jack Ma and Alibaba faced, a challenge that Jack will cherish for his lifetime.
Having started his first successful company at the age of 31 and even after never having written a single line of code or selling something to anyone, Jack Ma runs one of the biggest E-commerce networks in the world. The company went on to grow rapidly, expanding all across the world, quickly growing out of its China shell. Only second to Walmart now in terms of sales per year, Alibaba has become the E-commerce giant that Jack Ma has envisioned for it.
The Key Takeaway here
What does all of this lead to? With a positive and childlike demeanor to him, the one who himself draws inspiration from is the real-life ‘Forrest Gump,’ who never considers himself disadvantaged due to events occurred to him.
“We keep fighting. We keep changing ourselves. We don’t complain.” -Jack Ma
Believing in yourself, Being Persistent in the face of adversities and treating rejections and failures as opportunities to propel yourselves ahead is what Jack Ma’s extraordinary life speaks out to the world. Here are some of my favorite quotes by Jack Ma:
Go big or Go home – Jack Ma
Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine. -Jack Ma
You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy, and you die. Jack Ma
This is the story of the exceptionally optimistic and determined Entrepreneur who has changed the face of business and Internet in China and across the world.
So what do you think about Jack Ma and his Entrepreneurial journey so for with Alibaba? Shout out your thoughts and comments about this business tycoon below.
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Authored By Srikanth AN
A Shouter whose articles got mentions from the likes of The New York Times, Kissmetrics and AllTopStories. He writes articles, novels and poems; spends most of his time reading everything he could get his hands on. Srikanth is currently pursuing his Masters from The University of Illinois and holds a Bachelors in Electronics Engineering from the University of Mumbai. He is a programmer, a motivational writer and speaker.
Thanks shoutmeloud for the inspirational story. Jack Ma is ruling e-commerce industry. A great re bounce from failures. Thanks once again.
Chitizz Sharma says:
Really its a inspirational story how one can succeed in their life instead he faced failure many times during his life.
Thanks a lot for this story which teach us how to succeed in life and dont get demotivated by your failures.And never give up.
otobong says:
I’m really feeling inspired by this story right now. It pays to be. hardworking and smart.
ajay chopra says:
It was a great story about jack ma and become a great story of those who never tired from mind ,failure don’t mean end of life ,it is a way to get a great success with great. Thoughts
Radhika Bhardwaj says:
Such a great inspiration He is for us. True Lines .. we never fail either we win or we learn..
Ayandip Roy says:
Thank you so much for this inspirational post. JackMa is really the inspiration for the youth and. Will also request you to share all other great person’s inspirational story …….
iaan says:
Really Inspiring Story and a great entrepreneur. he is a really inspirer and motivation for others. Thanks for sharing his journey.
Hajur Mishra says:
I am not very good at study , but when i am in trouble i have bound to do cheat in exams and get better marks . And i know that’s totally bad , but as for my family status i have to get good marks in every exams . But my mind is always in a entrepreneurial state , i wanna be a business man and Jack Ma is such a huge inspiration of me. According to him he said that always learn but do not copy even after many failures . So i have only one question- shall i work hard in study or business . If i keep my eyes only on business then i have to do cheat it exams . So suggest me the better way . Please . Thank you.
Jerry Rozita says:
Really Inspired me the Story of JackMa. He is a great entrepreneur and motivation for me. Thanks for sharing his journey with us. Want to know more about jack ma.
Ajay chander R. says:
He is definitely the inspirational person that i have to take a note of. I just started up my entrepreneurship few years back and i should learn a lot from him . Thank you for bringing this inspirational and motivational article.
Lakshmi says:
Really Amazing !!!!! What a gentleman. He is so optimistic, that he found some opportunity in each failure. It needs to be really courageous to welcome so many failures in life with a smile and get up next time with more rigor. NOT AT ALL EASY !!!!! I remember the statement of Thomas Edison when he was interviewed “I now definitely know 9000 ways an electric light bulb would not work. Success is almost in my grasp”
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‘I love it out here’: Riders battle for dual slalom glory at Truckee Bike Park
Justin Scacco
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Collegiate mountain biker Sumi Yuki rides to a first-place finish at Truckee Bike Park on Saturday, July 27.
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George Stephenson (center) celebrates Saturday’s win at the Truckee Bike Park with his 6-year-old son Alister.
The season opener for competition at Truckee Bike Park was held on Saturday, July 27.
The tension begins to build in a pair of young riders as they sit atop the dual slalom course at Truckee Bike Park, awaiting the gate to drop on the season’s first competition.
Soon they launch down the course, racing in adjacent lines, pushing faster and faster through rollers and berms before one pulls slightly ahead as they reach the finish line at the bottom.
“I beat you again,” one youngster says to another as they bump fists after the first-round matchup. “But it was a good race — a really good race.”
The battle was one of many at the Truckee Bike Park last Saturday afternoon as riders ranging from ages 6 to adults gathered for the year’s first competitive event at the park, dual slalom racing. The format featured riders going head-to-head in an elimination-style bracket.
“I always knew they had a slalom course, and since I was here for the summer I could actually race it,” said Sacramento’s Sumi Yuki, who made the trip to Truckee and outpaced a handful of riders to capture first place in the women’s division. “It’s definitely something I wanted to try.”
Yuki, who races collegiately at Lindsey Wilson College in Kentucky, said the competition was her first at Truckee Bike Park.
“You have to really believe and have faith in your tires going into those turns,” she said on the course, which takes riders from the start line to the finish in less than 30 seconds.
“I thought this was a really nice course,” she added. “Skill-wise, it was close.”
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For the past several years one man has ruled over the competitions at the bike park.
The dominance of George Stephenson has resulted in Truckee Bike Park co-founder Brooks McMullin reaching out to other competitors via the BeatGeorge hashtag on the bike park’s Facebook page ahead of competitions. Still, no athlete would be able to answer the call as Stephenson again took home first place.
“I’ve had about three or four seasons out here and I’ve won almost every one of them,” said Stephenson on racing at the park. “Every time I go out here, (McMullin) throws up the challenge for anybody and everybody to come out and beat me.”
Stephenson outlasted the field in Saturday’s season opener, taking advantage of the No. 1 seed as he topped his opponent in the semifinals before outpacing pro mountain biker Danny Manning in the finals to take the win.
“It’s such a short course, I mean you’re talking 20 to 22 seconds,” said Stephenson on being fast on the dual slalom course. “Everything from the gate start to hitting the corners in the perfect spot is key. There’s such a small margin for error that you have to be dialed. Getting a good snap out of the gate, I think what that does is kind of gets in the head of the guy next to you. If you’re ahead of him, he’s kind of chasing the rabbit.
“It was sick, I love it out here. I’ve got my 6-year-old son Alister here, and it’s cool to see him come here and watch his dad win.”
Going forward, the next generation of riders will have to contend with Stephenson’s son, who was itching to make his competitive debut.
“He was actually bugging me to race … he’s always been afraid of the gate start, but today all of a sudden he was just sending it. So, he would’ve been ready today, but next time he’s definitely going to start racing.”
The day’s dual slalom event featured racing in the amateur division as well, which was won by 14-year-old Kai Morgan, who moved up out of the 11-14 age group to top four other racers for first place. There were also brackets for ages 6-10 and 11-14, which brought in roughly a dozen youngsters for the year’s first competition.
The competitive season at the bike park will now move to the straight rhythm section for a round of racing, which will be held on Saturday, Aug. 10. The bike park will then host its biggest event of the year, the Little Big Bike Festival and Skills Clinic, on Sept. 21-22. The annual event, which usually is held in spring, was moved to late summer this year due to the amount of snowfall leftover from winter, and features skills clinics for all levels of mountain biking and a variety of competitive events.
For more information or to register for upcoming events at the bike park, visit TruckeeBikePark.org.
“I’m just stoked that (Cortney Knudson and McMullin) maintain this place,” said Stephenson. “This is the best bike park … I’m stoked to have this here.”
Justin Scacco is a reporter for the Sierra Sun. Contact him at jscacco@sierrasun.com.
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Omid Shiraji, CIO of London Borough of Camden, reveals how the council is mapping data to help vulnerable people
What is the biggest challenge for you as a council CIO?
From a local authority point of view, if you think about what the big challenges are, they’re in helping people in really complex social situations with very complex needs. And also making sure that you’re borough or town or city runs well – the bins are collected, parks are clean and all that kind of stuff.
We did something really interesting at Camden. It’s a pretty heartbreaking story, but we mapped a journey of a lady who was in a violent domestic relationship and she had two children. We mapped her journey with the council over the course of 10 years.
She’d gone through multiple d rug and mental health issues, and ended up with five children from three different partners. This was a manual mapping and we showed all of the touch points with different parts of the council and other agencies.
What you could see was a pattern that showed we had offered a lot of reactive and responsive care at our end but if we had seen a trigger earlier we could have intervened earlier in a different way.
This is how data could be really different. We, in the council, replaced a door a number of times in her property. We saw that as a repair but actually that’s a great indicator for domestic violence. If we were joining those things up that’s where data can really do some incredible things. That’s where we see the art of possible.
How important is it to share data in order to spot triggers like that?
I can speak on behalf of London because Camden is a London borough – one of 33. Camden’s population is about 250,000 so we have a lot of data on 250,000 people. London has 7-8 million people so that’s a very different data set.
We’re working with the Greater London Authority (GLA), the Mayor’s Office and other boroughs to figure out how we can share data across London to help tackle some of these challenges that I’ve described. We’re actually not focusing on the technology.
Cloud computing is completely irrelevant to the conversation to us. It’s about getting rid of some of the restrictions in place – perceptions or reality – and find out how we can come together across common outcomes we want to achieve, and what data we need in order to achieve that.
To what extent does legislation and compliance affect your ability to have a proactive use of data?
For local authorities there’s a whole bunch of information governance statutes, freedom of information and data protection issues that surround how we use data. Part of my challenge is trying to move the organisation from a risk averse culture to a risk appetite one that allows us to exploit the data. The way we’ve done that, and it’s a long journey, is to pick pockets of people who actually get what we can do with the data and then challenge perception. Most of the problem is perception.
If you start scratching under the surface of your legal people or information governance people who say “don’t do that”. Ask them why and ask them to show you the law that says you shouldn’t do something. You begin to peel away some of the perception challenges.
Start small, challenge and show value quickly. That’s what we’ve started to do. It gets a bit more complicated when you start working with other agencies, such as the police and the fire service. What we’ve tried to do is find like-minded people and try to collaborate in small ways. We’ve found that to be quit useful.
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Digitising Human Capital: How AI is Transforming HR
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David Howell, October 15, 2019, 8:00 am
One of the first areas of your business that will see a significant impact by AI is recruitment and HR. Already, companies are using AI to help their HR departments improve efficiency, but also, support the more extensive strategic planning across the company.
What did it cost your business to hire your last employee? Is your business making the most of the human capital it contains? The time it takes to process applications and hold interviews can be a significant drain on even large corporations. And without a structured staff development plan, your business won’t be able to reap the benefits of a well-trained workforce. Developing an AI strategy for your HR function can support your business’s overall development.
There is a strong business case for using more AI across your HR function. Indeed, AI is impacting HR not only on a process level but as a strategic level too, allowing HR to help resolve core business challenges. Using AI to assess application forms quickly, has evolved into a business support mechanism, every enterprise can now make use of.
IBM in its report into the business case for AI in HR clearly states: “AI enables HR organizations to deliver new insights and services at scale without ballooning headcount or cost. Persistent challenges, like having the people resources to deliver on the business strategy and allocating financial resources, accordingly, can be addressed through the thoughtful application of AI solutions.”
For example, the global beauty brand L’Oréal receives over five million visits to its website each year just for job applications. Each vacancy gets an average of 134 applicants. Using AI and the algorithms it contains, the company has been able to accelerate its recruitment time a factor of ten and, 25% more candidates are interviewed resulting in a 25% increase in staff retention. Also, using AI, Unilever has cut 80,000 hours from their interview time. And now give unsuccessful candidates detailed feedback on why they were not successful – information they can use when they apply for their next job.
Robert Bolton, Head of People and Change Center of Excellence Partner KPMG in the UK, said: “Those that ‘get it’ are acting decisively, viewing HR as a new value driver and turning to data, predictive insights and AI. The rest are either limiting themselves to changes that show some progress, perhaps through data and analytics initiatives, or only clinging to a static approach that’s perilous.”
Adopting more AI technologies into your HR function isn’t just making cost savings and efficiency gains. AI can bring with it a change in company culture. This focus on culture is often cited as the core driver behind business transformation and digitisation. HR becomes an enabler of business strategy.
Matthew Buskell, Area Vice President at Skillsoft – a global provider of cloud-based learning and performance support resources, told Silicon: “AI is being used in pockets of the HR function and is still somewhat experimental. This means its primarily larger companies who have the time and budget to experiment. One of the most impactful areas is recruitment, where AI chatbots and AI Natural Language Processing is being used to uncover talent and skills in large volumes of unstructured data. This is especially useful when trying to find female talent. AI, like Textio, is capable of reviewing a job description and determining if it will appeal to a female or male audience with a very high degree of accuracy.”
Smart HR
Using AI across your HR function will mean CTOs and CIOs need to understand their goals for implementing these systems. Also, it’s vital to clearly define how the AI system will interface with other aspects of their businesses. Successfully applying AI in an HR environment can’t be done in isolation.
In their overview of AI in HR, Sage concludes: “Right now, 89% of HR teams are determined to be perceived as adding strategic value to their business. By championing advances in analytics, AI and the cloud, forward-thinking HR and People leaders can shape the future of their company—and demonstrate the ROI that can be derived by investing in people.”
One vital consideration when using AI with your business’s HR function is to ensure security and privacy are maintained. As the AI would be using what will be highly personal information about a member of staff or will collect personal information about potential new employees, appropriate governance must be in place across your AI deployments. This governance includes the data that a chatbot would base its responses upon.
PwC advises how HR should define its use of AI: “Such guidelines should address not only the overall technical and data-inputting processes but also a number of legal and ethical issues. Organizations must get proper consent to avoid additional issues due to the complexities of AI and the training data involved. In some instances, it may not be apparent to individuals that their data is being collected, and this lack of transparency can mean that businesses miss out on gaining employee trust.”
Mike Young, Group Chief Information Officer, Centrica, notes: “With our HR team, we looked at how we could help them in terms of talent recruitment, then unpicked how AI could work for them specifically. Our use of AI is disseminated across the group and across teams, so we’ve tried to illuminate its benefits and reinforce that it’s here to stay.”
The smart use of AI within your HR department can be used to remove much of their repetitive duties. This frees HR to support the wider strategic planning of your business. Today, this means developing the culture within your enterprise, which promotes training, skills development and wellbeing.
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The use of AI within HR will clearly begin with recruitment. Bernard Marr, author of Artificial Intelligence in Practice outlined to Silicon how to build a case for using AI within HR: “Any business case should start with the customer (the person the HR team is providing a service to, be this an internal employee or an external job candidate). AI initiatives should improve the customer experience and reduce costs.
Marr continued: “I have seen many AI project fail because they only focused on the cost element and forgot the customer experience. If the AI project can improve the candidate experience (such as with Unilever), reduce bias, and significantly reduce costs, you have a winning business case. When I work with HR teams to help them identify their strategic use cases we start with their strategic HR and business goals and then explore where technology such as AI and machine learning could deliver the best improvements. We don’t start with the technology.”
One area of AI that CIOs and CTOs must pay close attention to is bias. Developing AI within HR can easily be prone to bias. This is often unintentional but must be mitigated.
Dean Sadler, CEO of TribePad – a leading recruitment software developer, explained to Silicon how potential bias should be managed: “AI can also help to remove unconscious biases that may be present during the application process. Just as with blind CV’s, these filters programmed into AI can ensure your workforce is diverse, inclusive, and that the employees can cohesively work together.
“For example, at TribePad, we work with our clients to host anonymous video interviews. The candidate will take part in a recorded video interview, which the recruiter won’t see. All they will be given is the audio transcript and their personality profile from it. AI has been built into the personality profiling process, helping us to find candidates that are the perfect cultural fit, without any of the unconscious bias that may be present during a physical interview. If the recruiter likes the look of the candidate, it’s only then that they can review the video itself.”
What is vital as HR expands its use of AI technologies is to remember that the ultimate goal is not an exercise in data analysis but using AI as supporting services for staff and their broader goals within your business.
The ‘human’ in HR’s function should never be forgotten. AI techniques can remove much of the repetitive tasks that have defined HR for decades. HR then becomes a critical component of your enterprise’s broader business strategy – a strategy that is ultimately delivered by your people.
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Andi Britt, Vice President, IBM Talent & Engagement Europe.
Andi Britt leads IBM’s Talent and Engagement Practice for Europe – covering all aspects of Cloud, Cognitive and Digital HR Transformation, Organisational Change Management and Learning.
What is the business case for using AI across the HR function?
“Like all industries, HR is undergoing a transformation as a result of the current digital revolution. AI is changing the way businesses operate and the way people work within them. It will redefine jobs, enhance employee productivity and accelerate workforce development. In fact, skills and culture – not technology – are the most significant barriers to business growth in the AI era. This means CEOs are looking to their CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer) to lead culture change, manage talent and drive down costs. The three main business cases we see are:
AI has the potential to reduce the cost of running HR
Routine employee queries that are traditionally answered by HR agents in a Shared Service Centre can now be handled 24/7 by virtual assistants. In some cases, up to 80% of the queries can promptly be answered by AI, freeing up HR resources to focus on more strategic workforce planning issues.
AI has the potential to make employees and managers more productive and effective
AI can help select the optimum candidates for a role; it can help new joiners onboard faster, it can recommend learning that will help staff perform better, it can help managers make better salary and reward decisions to incentivise and retain top performers.
AI has the potential to surface hidden insights into workforce performance
AI can identify what makes a high performer, or what makes an employee likely to leave; it can identify what skills are most likely to help someone succeed and progress, and what skills are in decline or obsolete.
How can good ROI with AI investment be shown by HR as they build their case for using this technology?
“Smart CHROs see AI is a fundamental ally. That’s because it absorbs huge amounts of data at speed to make objective recommendations based on the data to supplement human instinct. From automating basic transactions – which frees up HR teams to think strategically, finding and recruiting the best talent for a role while addressing unconscious bias, to AI-enabled apps that enhance employee performance, there are very few aspects of the employee experience that won’t be touched by technological innovation.
“One example of where we are seeing this today is with a major global client who introduced a new employee chatbot to help with onboarding and performance management. In the first 28 days of operation, the chatbot answered 500,000 questions and achieved a return on investment in one week.”
What are the current pressure points when designing and implementing an AI function in the HR process?
“It’s essential to see AI as an enabler, not as a threat to the HR function. This kind of transformative technology works best when designed and implemented with humans at the centre. For most organisations, it is the fear of the unknown and how their employees will react to the application of AI. However, used smartly, AI will empower HR people to drive business decisions. It will complement and inform human decision-making, but it cannot replace human emotional intelligence and judgement. Great AI harnesses data analytics and predictive capabilities to make work processes more efficient.
“When designing and implementing AI, it is important to keep the scope realistic – while it is tempting to start with a chatbot that will answer employee queries, most organisations start with a defined and limited scope, such as answering questions on ‘Performance Management’ or ‘Travel & Expenses’. Starting with a Minimal Viable Proposition (MVP) and piloting fast, is the most effective means of proving the use case and testing out the solution with your employee and manager community.”
How should different department across a company support the use of more AI within the HR function?
“Increasingly, organisations start the cognification of their back office in the HR function; HR processes lend themselves to early reinvention with AI. As a result, other functions can learn from HR’s journey with AI, not just the experimentation with new AI technology, like IBM Watson, and the integration with existing IT platforms but also with the behavioural elements, including staff responses and user adoption.”
How are businesses funding their development of AI within their HR processes?
“The good news is that AI investments have the potential to be self-funding, often within a financial year. Employee support assistants or chatbots have a concise payback period and deliver long term savings by reducing the need for HR agents or admin assistants. Unlike many of the larger investments HR has had to make, e.g. implementing enterprise-wide Cloud HR and Talent platforms, most AI investments are relatively small-scale MVPs (minimal viable propositions).”
Who are the key players that must drive the business case for using AI in HR?
“We’re at the start of a long journey with AI in the workplace, and it’s impossible to predict where we will end up. But one thing is for sure: The CHRO plays a crucial role in enabling people and processes that embrace new technology and business models. No longer head of a back-office function, the CHRO must step up to become a critical member of the board, responsible for driving the success of the business, as well as the guardian of the employee experience.
“With the HR Function more likely to change fundamentally in the next three years than it has in the last 30 – the CHRO must emerge as a strategic, growth-focused leader and implement an HR strategy that incorporates future-facing technology, to attract, retain and engage people critical to the organisation’s growth.
“Cutting costs while upping revenue and productivity are a fact of life for most business leaders today. AI is merely raising the stakes: demanding the right type of leadership skills, creative vision, strategic mindset and empathy to get the best out of intelligent machines. The winners in this new era will be those who embrace data to introduce efficiencies and respond predictively, not reactively, to the need to attract, retain and engage people with the skills to drive the business into the future.
“This is no longer a future, what-if scenario: it’s happening now.”
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Author: David Howell
Dave Howell is a freelance journalist and writer. His work has appeared across the national press and in industry-leading magazines and websites. He specialises in technology and business.
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New parent Governor
Mrs Sarah-Louise Fellows has been successful in her application for the Parent Governor position. We are extremely pleased to welcome her onto our Governing Body.
What does our Governing Body do?
Annual Governors' Statement
Our British Values
Teaching Schools & school to school support
Behaviour and Anti-Bullying
Equal Opportunities and Special Needs
Admissions and Attendance
Visitors, Students and Volunteers
Safeguarding is everyone's business
Who cares about bullying?
South Normanton Nursery School - Inclusion and SEND Information
South Normanton Nursery School - Policy for Inclusion and Special Educational Needs
Derbyshire Local SEND Offer
Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum
Communication and Language and Literacy
Understanding of the World
Tracking & Assessing
Applying for a Nursery Place
Makaton Friendly School
Save Maintained Nursery Schools campaign
20/12/19: A busy run up to Christmas. Our very own democratic vote, Christmas stories, Christmas lunch, A lovely Christmas concert and a party to remember.
06/12/19: Learning about the traditions of Christmas, decorating our very own tree, concert preparations, rhymes and rhyming and role modelling for our new children
29/11/19: Decorating the South Normanton Church Christmas tree, Learning how to save electricity for switch off fortnight, Online safety, problem solving in the nursery garden and exploring new toys in nursery!
25/11/19: World Nursery Rhyme Week. Sharing our rhymes with the whole world!!
22/11/19: Our Reading Activity Day was a fabulous occasion!
22/11/19: Learning this week. World Nursery Rhyme Week, practising routines and rules to keep us safe and a very special Rights Respecting Promise.
15/11/19: Learning this week. Remembrance Day reflections, Anti- Bullying week and the importance of being friendly, making and delivering decorations for the Postmill in South Normanton, surprise flooding and raising money for BBC Children in Need.
08/11/19: Our first learning of the new term. Bonfire night fun, sounds and safety, recalling our half term experiences, discussing the local flooding and starting to learn about Remembrance Day.
28/10/19: Willow lopping and weaving....What a productive start to half term! Fabulous teamwork and an amazing impact on the nursery garden.
25/10/19: Learning in our final week. Learning about the festival of light, E-safety with a very smart penguin, extending our physical and cooperative skills and practising our counting
18/10/19: This weeks learning. Run, run as fast as you can, counting all sorts of things, safe pathways around the nursery garden and Jackson Pollock poppies
11/10/19: A Mentally Healthy Week at Nursery
04/10/19: This weeks learning. Composting and learning not to be wasteful, adding to our Identity Tree, nursery rhymes and beginning to use words, expressions and signs to show our feelings
27/09/19: This weeks learning. Harvesting, helping the homeless, being re-cycling superheros, celbrating similarities and differences and raining money for MacMillan
20/09/19: This weeks learning. Our right to our identity, keeping safe in nursery and digging out some tyres!
13/09/19: Welcome back to nursery everyone...what a great start to the new year
Time to say goodbye: 19/07/19
Sports Day excitement and some surprizzzzzzze visitors: 03/07/19
An Open Day to celebrate our outstanding nursery: 22/06/19
Farmyard Fun, Nursery trips to Chatsworth Farm Park: 20 & 21/ 06/ 19
Today we were all artists! Creating a nursery art installation for the Ofton Festival: 18/06/19
Heathy Eating Week and our Soccer Aid Playground Challenge to raise money for UNICEF and defend every child's right to play: 14/06/19
Term 6. Week 1. Some of our learning this week: 07/06/19
Bidiversity Day: 22/05/19
A Busy Term for Eco Schools: Spring 2019
A Celebration to Remember: 30 Outstanding Years: 01.05.19
The Next Steps for Nursery: 29/04/19
PANTS. Learning about staying safe, keeping our private parts private and respecting the right to privacy - supported by content from NSPCC: 04/19
Charity Fundraising for Comic Relief: 15/03/19
World Book Day. Special Story-tellers and our 'Favourite Book Photo Booth' : 07/03/19
Learning about other cultures and celebrations - Japanese Girls' Day 03/03/19
Pancake Day Antics - Learning about Shrove Tuesday: 05/03/19
Learning about Chinese New Year...the year of the pig: 05/02/19
Healthy Inside and Out. Children's Mental Health Week 2019: 04-10/02/19
Safer Internet Day 2019 - Together for a Better Internet: 05/02/19
RSPB Big Bird Watch Week and helping the birds in winter: January & February 2019
Learning about Martin Luther King Junior - a Rights Respecting Hero: 21/01/19
Remembering a very Merry Christmas and a very sad goodbye: 12/18
A Lantern Parade to remember: 10/12/18
The start of celebrating Christmas with our Christmas Crafts Activity Day: 03/12/18
Learning About St Andrews Day; 30/11/18
PANTS. Learning about staying safe, keeping our private parts private and respecting the right to privacy - supported by content from NSPCC: 30/11/18
World Children's Day 2018: 20/11/18
National Anti-Bullying Week: 19/11/18
Our Rights Respecting Superhero posters will help us with our ongoing learning: 16/11/18
Fudraising for Children in Need and Learning about the Rights of Every Child: 16/11/18
Remembrance Day 2018. One Hundred Years since the end of World War One: 09/11/18
Bonfire Night Celebrations: 05/11/18
Learning about Diwali Celebrations: 08/11/18
A glance at some of this week's learning: 26/10/18
Autumn Harvest Activity Day and a Rights Respecting Promise: 24/10/18
We've had some new signs at nursery: 10/18
National Eye Health Week and the importance of looking after our eyes: 24-30/09/18
Charity Support. Taking part in The World's Biggest Coffee Morning for MacMillan Cancer Research: 28/09/18
New members of the South Normanton Nursery School community and adding to our Identity Tree: 09/19
End of term circus fun with Captain Splat! 18/07/18
Mud is Good. It's International Mud Day; 29/06/18
We could be life savers...even though we're only little. Learning the basics of First Aid with Barry and Flat Stan: 28/06/18
It's HOT, HOT, HOT...and we're all Sun Safe Superstars! 29/06/18
World Cup Fever at Nursery: 29/06/18
Healthy Eating Week, a focus on positive mental health and wellbeing and a Sports Day to remember! 15/06/18
Scoot at nursery day- reinforcing learning about road safety: 23/05/18
Royal Wedding Celebration Day. Getting ready for the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle: 18/05/18
Another busy week of playing and learning at nursery:18/05/18
A Rainbow Activity Day to celebrate National Children's Day and some of our own very special achievements: 11/05/18
Everyone has a RIGHT to clean water. Learning on World Water Day 2018:22/03/18
Respecting our world by taking part in The Great British Spring Clean 2018: 22/03/18
PANTS & The Underwear Rule. Learning about staying safe, keeping our private parts private and respecting the right to privacy - supported by content from NSPCC: 21/03/18
Learning through Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths for British Science Week 2018: 12-16/03/18
A successful Open Day...Spreading the word about our outstanding nursery school: 10/03/18
World Book Day...snow and potato character fun: 01/03/18
Mixing, whisking, flipping Pancake Fun! 13.02.18
Children's Mental Health Week: 05-09/02/18
Safer Internet Day 2018: 06/02/18
Lots of Learning at Nursery this Week: 02/02/18
We're Adding to our Identity Tree: 28/01/18
An Activity Day to celebrate the New Year...and prepare for Chinese New Year too: 26/01/18
What a busy few weeks: 19/01/18
A Christmas Party to Remember: 19/12/17
What a Wonderful Nativity: 19/12/17
Changes in the nursery garden...we'll be climbing to new heights! 11-15/12/17
Christmas Jumper Day to raise money for Save the Children: 15/12/17
Let It Snow! 11/12/17
Yum! What a Delicious Christmas Dinner: 08/12/17
Family Christmas Craft Experience...and a Special Visitor: 06/12/17
What a Wonderful Lantern Parade: 04/12/17
World Children's Day 20/11/17
National Anti-Bullying Week 13-17/11/17
Poppy Rocks. 'Let's Remember' with the village of South Normanton 10/11/17
Some of this week's learning shared: 03/11/17
The success of 'Food Drop Friday' continues...Helping the homeless in collaboration with Gears of Goodwill: 10/17
Some of our learning this week: 10/11/17
Our learning last week and the start of Christmas celebrations: 01/11/17
This Week's Really Important Learning 13/10/17
Some of last week's important and exciting learning: 20/10/17
We're Adding to Our Identity Tree: 10/2017
World Animal Day: 04/10/17
Taking part in 'The World's Biggest Coffee Morning' and raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support: 29/09/17
Autumn Harvest Activity Day Fun: 26/09/17
Learning and Celebration: International Peace Day: 21/09/17
Our exciting Nursery Open Day...with a very special visitor: 15/07/17
Mud is Good, fun and learning to celebrate International Mud Day: 30/06/17
Everybody has the right to vote...make yours count. Our Nursery General Election: 08/06/17
Wildlife Workshop Fun and Learning: 26/05/17
We Are All Sun-Safe Superheroes! 26/05/17
Learning How to be Fantastic First Aiders with Barry and Flat Stan: 17/05/17
Supporting Your Child's Learning at Home: 14/04/17
PANTS & The Underwear Rule. Learning about staying safe, keeping our private parts private and respecting privacy - supported by content from NSPCC: 05/04/17
An Activity Day Packed with Learning...Respecting Rights and Water. 22/03/17
The Culture and Traditions of St Patrick's Day: 17/03/17
Great British Spring Clean: 06-10/03/17
World Book Day: 02/03/17
Flipping Good Fun on Pancake Day/ Shrove Tuesday: 28/02/17
Learning About Chinese New Year...The Year of the Rooster: 27/01/17
A Special Invite to The South Normanton COOP Re-launch:24/02/17
Our Identity Tree has Some New Additions: 11/02/17
Bring your Scooter to Nursery Day. Learning about scooter skills and road safety:08/02/17
A Visit from the Police and a Special Vehicle in our Nursery Car Park: 06/02/17
ROAD SAFETY. A visit from Eileen, our Local Crossing Patrol Person: 02/02/17
Continuing Our Friendships with Our International School in Missouri USA. Update: 02/02/17
Our First FOOD DROP FRIDAY. Supporting the homeless people of Derby in collaboration with Gears of Goodwill: 22/09/17
Nursery Trip to the Tropical Butterfly House: 06 and 07/ 07/ 2017
Our Blogs Archive
'Time to Say Goodbye'. An End of Year Musical Extravaganza...Celebrating Outstanding Progress! 24/07/15
Yum Strawberries! Our First Fruit of the Summer.
We are Sun Safe Superstars!
Nursery Trips to the Tropical Butterfly House. 18/06 & 19/06 2015
Wildlife Workshop. 22/05/15
Our Frozen Open Day: 09/05/15
A word from the Head - settling in!
Onwards and Upwards...A New Door Opens.
Spring/ Easter Activity Day: 23/03/15
Re-cycling Walk: 26/02/15
kung hei fat choy - Learning About Chinese New Year: 19/02/15
Mix, Stir, Fry, Toss, Catch...Pancake Day Fun! 17/02/15
'Stranger Danger' and the important job that the police do - A visit from Barry Thacker: 23/01/15
Yum! Jam Tarts...Baking Fun at Nursery
A Visit From Lindsey, A Veterinary Nurse: 16/01/15
It's Cold for Chickens...
Thank You for your Christmas Generosity
Welcome, Welcome back and a Very Special Birthday...
Christmas Party Fun with Santa and Goodbye to our Headteacher Angela 19/12/14
Our Christmas concerts have moved to the next level! 18/12/14
A Visit from Olaf! 12/12/14
Wear a Christmas Jumper to nursery Day...Christmas Cheer with Jazzy Jumpers and Festive Knits! 12/12/14
A Lovely Lantern Parade 08/12/14
Christmas Activity Day and Sensory Room Opening: 03/12/14
South Normanton Lantern Parade Concert Songs
Splash, Drip, Dribble…A Wonderful Water Wall!
Fantastic Fireworks!
Tesco Visit (Farm to Fork Project): 24/10/14
Exciting News! Our New Multi-Sensory Room Has Arrived.
Harvest/ Autumn Activity Day: 23/10/14
One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Four...
'New Look' Climbing Frame
Microcephaly Awareness Day: 01/10/14
Flowers, Fruit, Veg and a Lick of Paint!
Welcome and Welcome Back
Leavers Concert 2014. Audio Files
Multi-Sensory Room...Coming soon!
Leavers Parties and Concerts: 22/07/14
Anniversary Celebration and Activity Day: 14/07/14
Summer time at Nursery
Fun at the Farm: 26 & 27/ 07/14
New Baby Chicks!
Waiting for Hatch Day
06/06/14: Tesco Farm to Fork Project
Brigg/ Green Staff Visits
Talent Tree
Welcome Back Debra
Wildlife Workshop 2014
Our New Outdoor Sand Pit
Mud is Good!
Nursery Open Day Success!
02/05/14: African Ark
Welcome to Our New Staff
Easter/ Spring Activity Day: 06/04/14
Winter at Nursery
Christmas Activity Day: 12/12/12
Children in Need Fundraising Day: 16/11/12
Half term for our animals too!... 29/10/12
Bear and Giraffe group visit to the library in South Normanton: 10th & 11th/ 10/ 12
Jeans for Genes Activity Day: 05/10/12
Breaking News...Cracker and Lilly: 17/09/12
Arial & Cindy: 10/09/12
Welcome Back: 05/09/12
Olympic Activity Day: July 2012
Nursery Trips to Chatsworth Farm: 28 & 29/ 06/12
Look at our wonderful new stepping stones, plaque and Royal Oak tree: June 2012
Jubilee Activity Day: June 2012
In the Garden: June 2012
Hot, hot, hot! June 2012
Visit from Wildlife Workshop: 22/05/12
Pets: 30/04/12
The chickens are back: 08/03/12
Willow weaving in the nursery garden: 23/02/12
A word from the Head - our new website! 12.10.15
Fun and Learning at the Autumn/ Harvest Activity Day. 22/10/15
Learning About Diwali: 12/11/15
Supporting Children in Need: 13/11/15
Anti-bullying Week:16-20/11/15
Singing in the village...it's nearly Christmas now! 21/11/15
Christmas Craft Activity Day. 03/12/15
Lantern Parade Fun: 07/12/15
Christmas Dinner...Yum! 09/12/15
Text Santa - Charity Fund Raising Day. Wear a Christmas Jumper to Nursery: 11/12/15
How Exciting! A Letter From Santa: 14/12/15
Watching the Tim Peake Space Launch: 15/12/15
Christmas party fun 18/12/15
How Exciting!...We're Hatching Chicks. 20/01/16
Learning About Chinese New Year. Kung Hei Fat Choy: 08/02/16
Safer Internet Day: 09/02/16
World Book Day 2016: 03/03/16
'Guess How Much I Love You' Themed Activity Day: 04/03/16
African Ark: Creative Expression: 16/03/16
Sports Relief:18/03/16
Learning About Saint Patrick's Day: 17/03/16
Orange Phonics group trip to the Library 14/4/16
The Queen is 90!...Happy Birthday Your Majesty. 21/04/16
Learning Through the Story of Monkey Puzzle. 29/04/16
Learning about staying safe, keeping our private parts private - supported by content from NSPCC - The Underwear Rule 29/04/16
Learning Through the Story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar: 06/05/16
LOOK at all the fun we've had learning in our opticians role play area: 13/05/16
A trip to the Opticians 23/05/16
Wonderful Fun and Learning at The Wildlife Workshops: 27/05/16
Forest Schools Fun: (Term 5. 2015.16) 10/06/16
Finger Exercising Fun on International Disco Dough Day: 09/06/16
Sports and Healthy Eating Week: 13-17/06/16.
Your Vote Counts: European Referendum: 23/06/16
Learning About and Celebrating the Culture and Traditions of Nigeria: 01/07/16
Splats Circus Day. Fun and Learning New Skills with our Children and Families: 22/07/16
Harvest and Autumn Activity Day: 18/10/16
Learning About Remembrance Day: 11/11/16
Anti-Bullying Week 2016: 14- 18/11/16
Charity Fund Raising for Children in Need 2016: 18/11/16
Celebrating Our OUTSTANDING OFSTED Achievement: 25.11.16
Learning About St Andrews Day: 30/11/16
Community Lantern Parade Fun: 05/12/16
A Christmas Themed Craft Activity Day: 08/12/16
Saying Goodbye: 02/12/16
Christmas Party Fun: 16/12/16
SNNS Nativity 2016: 20/12/16
Changes at nursery.
Summer Concert: Audio Files
Update: Nursery Rhyme Ramble
End of Year Musical Celebration: 17/07/13
ECO Activity Day
Nursery Rhyme Ramble
Fun at the Farm
ECO Award Success
Springtime at Nursery
Tutti Fruitti Theatre company: Hue Boy
Wildlife Workshop: May 2013
Celebration/ Easter & Spring Activity Day
Snack Money Table
OFSTED 'OUTSTANDING'...Third in a row!
SAVE ELECTRICITY...Switch off the lights
OFSTED REPORT...Coming soon
Re-Cycling Walk to South Normanton
A Visit from Barry the Police Officer
Knitted Santa/ Snowmen
Bags2School Fundraiser
Snowy Weather
Winter time for our animals
Christmas Concerts: 18 & 19/12/12
A visit from Uncle Michael the Clown: 17/12/12
Community Lantern Parade in South Normanton: 10/12/12
Let's Remember. Thinking about Remembrance Day: 11/11/15
Tia Ten is coming soon to Ten Town
The Nursery Garden is Evolving!
Worm Savers!
First Egg of the Year...Welcome Back Chickens
Bags2School Success
Reach for the Stars!
Wanted! Diggers & Planters, Seeds & Plants
Signing is fun!
Ten Town Log Ons Now Available
Ten Town Update
Growing numbers...welcome new staff
Nanyuki Preparatory School Kenya...Thank you
Check out Ten Town
It's Cold for Chickens
Wow! A Willow Dome!
Christmas Concert 2013. Audio Files
Lantern Parade Success!
It's cold for chickens too!...
Christmas at Nursery
We've been making lanterns...
Thanks for supporting BBC 'Children in Need'
Yoga Fun!
the 'Trim Trail' is complete.
Harvest Activity Day: 14/10/2013
'Trim Trail' -coming soon
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRAN!
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Education Guide 2020–21
What you need to know to plan for the 2020–21 school year
Southwest Journal / editor@mnpubs.com
Updated: October 4, 2019 - 9:37 am
Students in the Hale Elementary School choir perform during a 45th-anniversary celebration of the Hale and Field school pairing in November 2017. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
The beginning of the 2020–21 school year is a long way off, but deadlines to tour and register for schools are already approaching. In the Southwest Journal’s annual Education Guide, we help parents find the school or early childhood education program that best suits their child.
You’ll learn how to navigate Minneapolis Public Schools’ school-placement process and find listings of preschools, charter schools and private schools in and around Southwest Minneapolis.
Students in Janee Rivard-Johnson’s fifth-grade class at Kenny Community School work together to solve a worksheet during a March math lesson. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
Choosing a district school
Southwest Minneapolis parents have two overarching options when it comes to K–12 education: publicly funded and privately funded schools.
Publicly funded schools receive their operating revenue from the state and are open to any student for no cost. Privately funded schools receive operating funds from private sources and can choose whom they admit.
Eighteen of Southwest Minneapolis’ 22 publicly funded schools are part of Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS), which as of last spring had 33,700 K–12 students in over 70 buildings. Four are charters.
MPS operates two high schools, three middle schools, eight elementary schools, one alternative school and four combined elementary-middle schools in Southwest Minneapolis. Space permitting, any student is free to enroll in any MPS school.
To determine placement, the district asks families to fill out a school request form generally due in early February. It asks families of all upcoming kindergarteners and ninth-graders to fill out the form, along with families who wish to send their child to a new school.
The district considers requests submitted after the deadline on a space-available basis.
When a school gets more requests than it has spots available, the district generally prioritizes students who live in the school’s “attendance zone.” Typically, those zones include areas within several miles of the school and are bounded by major roads.
The protocol is slightly different for specialty or “magnet” schools, which have larger attendance zones. For those, the district prioritizes students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and live in a specific high-concentration area of poverty over students who live in the immediate area.
Open enrollment is also an option for families, though they need to provide their own transportation. To apply to schools in districts outside of MPS, families must submit an application to the respective district by Jan. 15.
Families are not required to submit a new open-enrollment application each year once their children are accepted.
Lyndale Community School students prepare for a May 2018 assembly to celebrate their school’s becoming a School of Excellence, as designated by the Minnesota Elementary School Principals’ Association. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
Minneapolis Public Schools enrollment
MPS hasn’t yet updated its student placement website with information for the 2020–21 school year. Generally, the district’s schools lottery opens in mid-November and closes in early February. Look for more information to come at studentplacement.mpls.k12.mn.us.
Kids in Mount Olivet’s day services program get splashed as a staffer falls into the dunk tank during the facility’s first-ever “state fair” celebration on Aug. 28. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
Academia Elze
4 W. Franklin Ave.
academiaelze.com
Ages/Programs: 16 months–5 years/Toddler and preschool dual language immersion
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 29/4.5:1, toddler; 6:1, preschool
Administrator: Karina Elze and Nandi Solórzano
Tuition: $290–$360 per week, CCAP accepted
Berry Patch [Preschool]–Calvary
5300 France Ave. S.
berrypatchschool.com
Ages/Programs: 18 months–5 years/Play-based morning program with afternoon options and enrichment programs that emphasize love, joy, respect, creativity and fun.
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 300/7:1, 18–month to 2-year-olds; 10:1, ages 3–5
Administrator: Molly Lounsberry Dykstra
Tuition: Fee schedule varies; call or see website for more information.
5835 Lyndale Ave. S.
cfcrumc.org
Ages/Programs: 6 weeks–5 years/Non-profit childcare center serving families
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 65/4:1, infants; 7:1, toddhttp://cfcrumc.org/lers; 10:1, 3- to 4-year-olds
Administrator: Andrea Patton
Tuition: Call for more information.
Casa de Corazón Intercultural Early Learning
3928 Nicollet Ave.
casaearlylearning.com
Ages/Programs: 6 weeks–pre-K/Full-day, year-round bilingual childcare and preschool
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 150/4:1, infants; 7:1, toddlers; 7:1, preschool A; 10:1, preschool B and pre-K
Administrator: Daniela Tablada
Child Garden Total Environment Montessori
1601 Laurel Ave.
childgardenmontessori.com
Ages/Program: 6 weeks–6 years/All day, full-time programs
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 200/3:1, infants; 5:1, toddlers; 10:1, preschool
Administrator: Jennifer Bowron
Tuition: $1,848/month, infants; $1,646/month, toddlers; $1,346/month, preschool
City of Lakes Waldorf School
2344 Nicollet Ave. S.
clws.org
Ages/Program: 3–5 and potty trained/Half day or full day, two, three or five days per week with extended day available until 5:30 p.m.; parent/tot classes for children ages 6 months–3 years; Toddler Childcare Program (year-round licensed daycare), ages 18–36 months certified Waldorf programs
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 45/8:1, preschool; 6:1, toddler
Administrator: Marti Stewart
Tuition: Preschool starts at $382/month; parent/tot classes are about $300 for 8–10-week sessions: fall, winter, spring. Call for more information.
Community Child Care Center
8 W. 60th St.
ccccmpls.org
Ages/Program: 6 weeks–11 years/Preschool; before- and after-school education for school-age children; enrichment; breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack provided; additional extracurricular activities available
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 106/3:1, infants; 5:1, toddlers; 8:1, preschool; 10:1, school-age children
Administrator: Lynn Hoskins
Edina Morningside Preschool
4201 Morningside Road
emcucc.org
Ages/Programs: 3–5/Half-day (9 a.m.–11:30 a.m.) and extended day (9 a.m.–1 p.m.), play-based program focused on social development two to four days per week, Tuesday through Friday.
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 40/8:1
Administrator: Jessie Holly and Destiny Rock
Tuition: $205 for two half days to $345 for four half days; $283 for two extended days to $495 for four extended days. Programs are priced by number of days and by half or extended days. Full and partial scholarships available.
Golden Years Montessori School
4100 W. 42nd St.
tinyurl.com/Golden-Years-Montessori-School
Ages/Programs: 4–5/Half day (9 a.m.–noon) and full day (9 a.m.–3 p.m.) before school (7:45 a.m.–9 a.m.) after school (3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.)
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 129/10:1
Administrator: Terri Recke and Christine Oberstar
Tuition: $7,450/year for half day; $8,400/year for full day
Grace Neighborhood Nursery School
gracenns.com
Ages/Program: 33 months–6 years/ Child-centered, play-based curriculum focused on the whole child; Preschool classes two, three or five mornings (9 a.m.–noon) or three afternoons (1 p.m.–3:30 p.m.); Options for Early Risers (8 a.m.–9 a.m.); Lunch Bunch (noon–2 p.m.); enrichment and extended day (Monday, noon–2:30 p.m. and Friday, noon–3 p.m.). Eclectic model drawing from Reggio, Montessori, Waldorf and High Scope. Bus service offered in a three-mile radius.
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 100/10:1 or less
Administrator: Barb Murphy
Tuition: $206, two-day; $346, three-day; $552, five-day. Additional cost for bus service, extended day and enrichment class.
Grandma’s House Children’s Center
625 W. 31st St.
grandmashousechildrenscenter.org
Ages/Programs: 6 weeks–10 years/Group family daycare located on first floor of Redeemer Health & Rehab, featuring intergenerational activities with senior residents.
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 14/3:1, infants; 4:1, toddlers; 6:1, preschool and school-age
Administrator: Elissa Rislov
Tuition: Infants and toddlers $1,490/month; preschool $1,310/month
Joyce Bilingual Preschool
joycepreschool.org
Ages/programs: 3–5/Bilingual Spanish and English preschool, plus Family Fridays, an optional multicultural parent-child class each Friday. Morning and afternoon part-time programs two or four days/week at Park Avenue and Windom sites. New full-time preschool program at Joyce-Hiawatha site, 1611 E. 46th St., for ages 3–5. Joyce parents shape the community through the Comité de Padres en Liderazgo (Parent Leadership Committee), and support each other as part of the monthly Asociación de Padres de Familia. August Spanish-immersion camp sessions for children 3–8. June summer camps at Hiawatha.
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 115/8:1 or 9:1 with additional support staff
Administrator: Laura Tompkins
Tuition: Part-time tuition is $250 per month for two days and $475 per month for four days. Full-time program tuition is $1,435 per month. Eligible site for Pathways scholarships (4-star Parent Aware rating).
Judson Preschool
4101 Harriet Ave.
judsonpreschool.com
Ages/Programs: 2 years, 9 months–5 years/Play-based preschool. Non-sectarian educational philosophy. Judson Preschool is dedicated to bringing together children and early childhood educators in an environment of self-growth, achieved through socialization and spontaneous learning. School year is September–May.
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 112, Tue–Thu; 26, Fri/10:1
Administrator: Kelly Hollis
Tuition: Mornings (9 a.m.–11:45 a.m.) are $300/month and afternoons (12:45 p.m.–3:15 p.m.) are $280/month for Tue–Wed. Add Fridays (9 a.m.–1 p.m.) for $750 per year.
Kinderstube German Immersion Preschool c/o Mayflower Church
106 E. Diamond Lake Rd.
kinderstubepreschool.org
Ages/Programs: 3–5 years/German immersion preschool, half-day and full-day options
Administrator: Babett Larimer, director
Tuition: Varies
Kumi’s House of Children
3450 Irving Ave. S.
kumishouseofchildren.com
Ages/Programs: 16 months–5 years/Montessori preschool
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 27/10:2, toddlers; 17:2, preschoolers
Administrator: Kumi Gunasekera
Tuition: $300–$1,000 depending on age and schedule
Lake Area Discovery Center at Annunciation Catholic School
ladcfamilies.org
Ages/Programs: 3–5 years/Non-profit Christian-based early childhood program staffed by licensed teachers; part- and full-time schedules available; summer program begins in June
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 88/10:1
Administrator: Janet Miller, executive director
Tuition: Call for more information
Lake Harriet Christian Child Care Center
5009 Beard Ave. S.
lhccc.org
Ages/Programs: 6 weeks–6 years/Full-day childcare and education
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 55/3:1, infant; 5:1, toddler; 9:1, preschooler
Administrator: Meredith LaCount
Tuition: Infants $347/week; toddlers $315/week; preschool $268/week. Tuition includes breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack, as well as all field trips.
Lake Harriet Montessori School
lhms.org
Ages/Programs: 33 months–6 years/Traditional Montessori, hands-on learning
Administrator: Gay Luise
Tuition: $235/week full-time, $54/day part-time (3-day minimum)
Lake Harriet United Methodist Preschool
4901 Chowen Ave. S.
lakeharrietumpreschool.org
Ages/Programs: 3–entering K/9 a.m.–11:30 a.m., 9 a.m.–1 p.m.; Enrichment programs available
Administrator: Andrea Wright
Linden Hills Child Care Center
4201 Sheridan Ave. S.
lindenhillschildcare.com
Ages/Programs: 6 weeks–6 years/Full or half day, five days per week
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 81/12:3, infants; 7:1, toddlers; 10:1, preschoolers; 9:2, pre-K
Administrator: Robin Anderson
Mayflower Early Childhood Center — Montessori Learning Environments
106 E. Diamond Lake Road
mayflowerchildren.org
Ages/Programs: 16 months–6 years/Toddler Community; Children’s House; Before and After Care; Summer Program
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 95/7:1; 10:1 child care
Administrator: Amy Kennedy
Tuition: $715-$1250, depending on program and hours. Tuition assistance available. Mayflower is dedicated to economic diversity, currently offering $190,000 in financial aid based on need.
Mount Olivet Preschool
5025 Knox Ave. S.
mtolivet.org/education/preschool
Ages/Programs: 3–5/Christian preschool
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 100/6:1
Administrator: Linda Healy
Tuition: $225/month (two days/week); $280/month (three days/week)
New Horizon Academy — Uptown
2431 Hennepin Ave. S.
newhorizonacademy.net/location/minneapolis-uptown-hennepin-avenue
Ages/Programs: 6 weeks–fourth grade/Learning programs for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, pre-kindergartners and school-aged kids; summer camps also available
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: Enrollment varies/4:1, infants; 6:1, toddlers; 10:1, preschool; 15:1, school-aged kids
Administrator: Becky Selzer
Tuition: Call for rates
New Horizon Academy — Lake Street
newhorizonacademy.net/location/minneapolis-lake-street
Administrator: Noah Jacobs
Southwest KinderCare
kindercare.com/our-centers/minneapolis/mn/000721
Ages/Programs: 6 weeks–6 years/Part-time and full-time programs designed for learning through play
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 87/4:1, infant; 7:1, toddler; 10:1, preschool and pre-K
Administrator: Amanda Korolchuk, center director
Southwest Montessori School
5000 Washburn Ave. S.
southwestmontessorischool.com
Ages/Programs: 3–6/Montessori pre-school, pre-kindergarten and kindergarten; before- and after-school child care
Administrator: Heather Ollila
Tuition: Varies according to schedule; call or email southwestmontessorischool@gmail.com for information.
St. John’s Child Care Center
stjohnsmpls.org/child-care
Ages/Programs: 16 months–fourth grade/Preschool, day care and after-school programming
Child-to-staff ratio: 7:1, toddler; 10:1, preschool; 15:1, school-age
Administrator: Tina Shear
Tuition: $20/day for after-school care; Preschool is $240/month for three days per week and $215/month for two days per week; $292/week for toddlers; Preschool child care is $255/week for five days a week full-time.
St. Peter’s Edina Early Childhood Center
stpetersedina.org/ecec
Ages/Programs: 6 weeks–5 years/Infants, waddlers (12–16 months), toddlers, early preschool, preschool, pre-kindergarten and High-5. Full-time care with education component
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 4:1, infants and waddlers; 7:1, toddlers and early preschool; 10:1, preschool, pre-kindergarten and High-5
Administrator: Tosca Grimm
Sunshine Montessori School
4557 Colfax Ave. S.
sunshinemontessori.net
Ages/Programs: 16 months–6 years/Toddler House (16 months–38 months); Children’s House (33 months–6 years); before and after care; summer program
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 54/1:5, toddlers; 1:8, preschool
Administrator: Alanna Nelson
Tuition: Rates vary by age; visit sunshinemontessori.net/tuition for more information.
Tayo Child Care Inc
312 W. Lake St., Suite 2931
Ages/Programs: Infant through kindergarten/Part-time, full-time and after-school programs.
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 45/varies by age
Administrator: Brenda Felizarte
Tuition: Varies by age and length of school day
Temple Israel Early Childhood Center
2323 Fremont Ave. S.
templeisrael.com/ecc
Ages/Programs: 16 months–5 years/ Two-, three- and five-day programs; early and afternoon care. Open until 6 p.m. Starts accepting applications in January for the following year.
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 107/6:1, toddler; 8:1, preschool
Administrator: Sharon Rosenberg-Scholl
Tuition: Pricing available on the website
Tierra Encantada – Windom
5750 Wentworth Ave.
tierraencantada.com
Ages/Programs: 6 weeks–5 years/Spanish immersion
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 210/range 3:1 to 10:1, depending on age
Administrator: Alba Segura, center director
Tuition: Varies depending on age and schedule. Email windom@tierraencantada.com for tuition rate sheet.
Whittier Wildflowers Preschool
2608 Blaisdell Ave.
whittierwildflowers.org
Ages/Programs: Morning preschool for ages 2–5/9 a.m.–noon, 1-5 days/week with some early afternoons.
Enrollment/Child-to-staff ratio: 12 toddlers/6:1; 15 preschool and 15 pre-K/7:1
Administrator: Ann Hotz, director
Tuition: Fair-share model based on family size and incomes
Lyndale Community School fifth-grader Sage Bergren hovers in the air during a Rope Power competition held March 19 at Southwest High School. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
CHARTER SCHOOLS AND PRIVATE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS
6600 Nicollet Ave. S., Richfield
academyofholyangels.org
Grades/Program: 9–12
Enrollment/Average class size: 650/22
Administrators: Thomas Shipley, president; Heidi Foley, principal; Mark Melhorn, assistant principal/activities director
Tuition and Fees: Call or visit website
Tours/Open houses: Call admissions to schedule a tour. Open house from 6 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Oct. 25 (starts with activities fair).
Annunciation Catholic School
annunciationmsp.org
Grades/Program: Pre-K–8 (see also early childhood listing for Lake Area Discovery Center at Annunciation Catholic School)
Enrollment/Average class size: 430/20 (K-8)
Principal: Jennifer Cassidy
Tuition: $5,400 (Parish Investment Rate); $6,400 (Standard Rate); family discounts and financial aid available
Tours/Open house: Call the school office to arrange a tour. Preview night Nov. 7 in the evening and Nov. 8 in the morning. Call for times.
School day: 8 a.m.–2:45 p.m. (K–8)
Extended day: 7 a.m.–6 p.m.
Avail Academy — Edina Campus (Formerly Calvin Christian School)
4015 Inglewood Ave. S., Edina
availacademy.org
Grades/Program: K–8
Principal: Steve Groen
Tuition: $7,675 three-day kindergarten; $9,200 four/five-day kindergarten; $10,295 grades 1–5; $10,510 grades 6-8; $750 building and debt fee per family; financial aid available
Tours/Open house: Call for a tour
Extended day: Before- and after-school care available on Thursday and Friday mornings beginning at 7:15 a.m. The after-school program runs until 5:30 p.m. Partners with Lake Area Discovery Center for preschool
Benilde-St. Margaret’s
2501 Highway 100, St. Louis Park
bsmschool.org
Enrollment/Average class size: 1,166/23 (junior high) 21 (senior high)
Administrators: Adam Ehrmantraut, president; Susan Skinner, senior high principal; Claire Shea, junior high principal.
Tuition and Fees: Junior High: $12,980; Senior High: $15,150; International Students: $20,150; Technology Fee: $400; Registration Fee: $200; Graduation Fee: $150 (applied only to graduating seniors). Information reflects the tuition for the current school year.
Priority application deadline: Jan. 18
Tours/Open houses: Open houses: Oct. 14 (6 p.m.–8:30 p.m.), Jan. 6 (6 p.m.–8:30 p.m.), March 12 (8:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m.), April 30 (8:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m.). Learn more about visiting at bsmschool.org/admissions/visiting-campus
School day: 8 a.m.–2:40 p.m.
The Blake School
110 Blake Road S., Hopkins (Blake Campus — lower and middle school)
301 Peavey Lane, Wayzata (Highcroft Campus — lower school)
511 Kenwood Parkway, Minneapolis (Northrop Campus — upper school)
blakeschool.org
Ages/Program: Pre-K–12
Enrollment/Average class size: 1,368/16
Administrator: Anne Stavney, head of school
Tuition: Go to website for more information.
Tours/Admission events: Call to schedule a tour. Admissions events: Blake Campus: 9 a.m.–noon Oct. 26, 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m. Jan. 14; Highcroft Campus: 9 a.m.–noon Nov. 2, 10:00 a.m.–12 p.m. Jan. 25; Northrop Campus: 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Nov. 3, 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Jan. 13. Admissions events also scheduled throughout October at local libraries (more info at blakeschool.org). Affording Blake-Financial Aid Meeting Jan. 4 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
School day: Varies by division
Extended day: Available, call for more information
123 Ottawa Ave. N., Golden Valley
breckschool.org
Grades: Pre-K–12, all on one campus
Enrollment/Average class size: 1,150/16 (lower school), 16–18 (grades 5–12)
Administrators: Dr. Natalia Rico Hernández, head of school; Peg Bailey, lower school director; Sky Fauver, middle school director; Thomas Taylor, upper school director
Tuition and Fees: $20,755 half-day preschool; $26,980 full-day preschool; $26,975 three/two-day kindergarten program; $27,870 full-day kindergarten; $30,385 grades 1–4; $31,535 grades 5–8; $31,980 grades 9–11; $32,120 grade 12. Need-based financial aid available
Application deadline: Feb. 1 (Feb. 15 for financial aid)
Tours/Open houses: For individual tours or more information, call the admissions office (763-381-8200)./Open houses: 9 a.m.–noon Nov. 9, 5:30 p.m.–8 p.m. Jan. 16; Parent/Students Spend a Morning at Breck from 9:30 a.m.–11 a.m. Oct. 10; preschool–grade 12 curriculum information session from 6 p.m.–8 p.m. Dec. 4; financial aid workshops 10 a.m.–11 a.m. Dec. 7 and 11 a.m.–noon Jan. 11.
School day: 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m. After-school care and door-to-door busing available.
Grades: Toddler, pre-K/K–8
Enrollment/Average class size: 285/20 (kindergarten); 24 (grades 1–8)
Tuition: Rates vary for preschool, kindergarten, grades 1–5 and grades 6–8; email the admissions office at admissions@clws.org to request a tuition schedule or make inquiries about the tuition-assistance program.
Application period: Nov. 1–Feb. 1; tuition-assistance applications due Feb. 15
Tours/Open Houses: Individual and group tours available daily (email the admissions office or visit clws.org/schedule-a-tour)
Extended day pre-K-grade 8: Available 3 p.m.–5:30 p.m. ($8.50/hour); before care (grades K–8) 7:30 a.m. ($5/day)
School day: 8:30 a.m.–12:15/1:00 p.m. (Pre-K/kindergarten), with optional afternoons until 3 p.m.; 8:30 a.m.–3:20 p.m. (grades 1–8)
Carondelet Catholic School
2900 W. 44th St. (Lower Campus — pre-K–grade 2); 3210 W. 51st St. (Upper Campus — grades 3–8)
920-9075 (Lower Campus); 927-8673 (Upper Campus)
carondeletcatholicschool.com
Grades: Pre-K–8
Principal: Mary Yamoah
Tuition: Ranges from $4,995 for half-day kindergarten to $7,570 for full-day kindergarten–grade 8. Discounted rate available for parishioners of Christ the King and St. Thomas the Apostle. School will give multi-student discount to parents of two or more children enrolled, with the discount increasing per child. Financial aid is available to eligible families, with priority given to active members of the parishes of Christ the King of St. Thomas the Apostle. Visit carondeletcatholicschool.com/tuition-financial-aid for more information.
Application deadline: Jan. 18
Tours/Open house: Contact the school anytime for a personal tour./Open house Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. at the Lower Campus
School day: 9:20 a.m.–12:30 p.m. (half-day kindergarten); 9:20 a.m.–3:45 p.m. (Lower Campus); 9:10 a.m.–3:55 p.m. (Upper Campus). Before- and after-school care available to registered Carondelet students in K–5 (located on the Lower Campus)
DeLaSalle High School
1 DeLaSalle Drive
delasalle.com
Grades: 9–12
Administrators: Barry Lieske, president; James Benson, principal
Tuition and fees: Visit delasalle.com/about/business-office/tuition-financial-aid for more info.
Application deadline: Feb. 14 for ninth-grade admission; financial-aid applications due Feb. 25
Tours/Open houses: Contact the Office of Admission at 676-7679 to schedule a personal tour. Open house scheduled from 7 p.m.–9 p.m. Oct. 28 and Jan. 8
School day: 8:30 a.m.–3 p.m.
Hennepin Elementary and Middle Schools (charter)
2123 Clinton Ave. S. (Hennepin Elementary School — grades K–4)
3109 50th St. E. (Hennepin Middle School — grades 5–7)
hennepinelementaryschool.org
Grades: K–4, 5–7
Administrator: Julie Henderson, executive director
Tours/Open houses: Call to schedule a tour.
Extended day: Girls on the Run, Let Me Run, Snapology, etc.
Lake Country School (Montessori)
3755 Pleasant Ave. S.
lakecountryschool.org
Grades: Preschool–8. Children’s House (ages 3–6); elementary (grades 1–6); junior high (grades 7–8)
Principal: Ben Moudry
Tuition: Ranges from $10,130 (half-day children’s house) to $18,290 (junior high). $175 yearly community fee. Tuition assistance available (information at lakecountryschool.org/tuition-assistance). Application fee $75
Application deadline: Feb. 1
Tours/Open Houses: Lake Country hosts visits for parents, without their children, from 9:30 a.m.–12 p.m. on Tuesdays (sign up at lakecountryschool.org/request-an-observation). Admissions information night scheduled for Nov. 1 from 7 p.m.–9 p.m. at the school
School Day: 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Half day 9 a.m.–noon. Extended day programs available for students of all ages (information at lakecountryschool.org/extended)
1345 Mendota Heights Road, Mendota Heights, 55120 (Upper Campus — grades 9–12)
4200 W. River Parkway (Lower & Middle School — Pre-K–grade 8)
729-8321 (Upper Campus)
721-3359 (Lower & Middle School)
minnehahaacademy.net
Grades/Program: Pre-K–12
Enrollment/Average class size: Varies depending on grade and class
Administrators: Donna Harris, president; Jason Wenschlag, Upper School principal; Karen Balmer, Lower & Middle School principal
Tuition: $15,360–$22,610 K–12
Applications deadline: The school will accept applications until openings in each grade level are filled; financial aid application priority deadline is Feb. 15.
Tours/Open houses: Call the office of admission at 728-7722 or email the office at admission@MinnehahaAcademy.net to schedule a tour. Tours can also be scheduled online at info.minnehahaacademy.net/personal-tour-request. Lower & Middle School Open House: Oct. 24 and Jan. 30 at 6:45 p.m.; Upper School Open House: Oct. 29 and Jan. 27 at 6:45 p.m. More information can be found at minnehahaacademy.net/admissions/visitcampus
School day: Upper School: 8:15 a.m.–2:35 p.m.; Lower and Middle School:
Stonebridge World School (charter)
stonebridgeworldschool.org
Ages/Program: K–7; Global and arts focus; hallmarks of the school include small class sizes, full-day kindergarten, extended school day, art, technology and gym
Enrollment/Average class size: 290/20–25
Principal: Barbara Novy, executive director
Tours: Call to schedule a tour and ask for Shannon Lawler.
School day: 9 a.m.–4 p.m.
Extended day: Free before-school drop-off program starts at 7:15 a.m.
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Looking for storage or RV parking at reasonable rates? Look no further! StaxUp Storage – El Centro is located in El Centro, California, one mile east of Dogwood Road. Our East Evan Hewes Highway address is right on the corner of Earls Street and East Main Street. We proudly serve the surrounding areas of Brawley, Imperial, Heber, Seeley, Holtville, and Calexico.
Our friendly, experienced resident manager and bilingual staff are happy to assist you with all your storage needs! Our storage unit sizes range from 20 to 300 square feet. We also have parking for RVs, boats, and other large vehicles, so you don’t have to drag them all the way home. Spaces are large with easy access, making large vehicle storage a breeze! We also have packing and moving supplies available right here at our office. For your convenience, we're an authorized U-Haul Dealer!
Our facility is equipped with 24-hour security cameras, and we do whatever we can to maintain a safe environment on our property. We are proud to offer a senior discount, and to show our appreciation to military personnel, we offer a military discount. We appreciate your service! Come visit us and we’ll show you around!
SELF STORAGE MILESTONE: HAPPY 2-YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO MONICA RAMIREZ
Here at StaxUP Storage, we know our success is due to our wonderful team. The care they give our renters is unparalleled and we want to highlight their milestones along the way. Below is an interview with El Centro, CA team member Monica Ramirez, who is celebrating her 2-year anniversary with StaxUP Storage.
Monica Ramirez has been a manager at StaxUP Storage for 2 years and currently runs a facility in El Cajon, CA.
You can meet Monica at StaxUP Storage in El Centro, CA.
Peter: How long will it be here for your anniversary at StaxUP?
Monica: It’ll be 2 years now on February second.
Peter: That’s a long time for any job nowadays. How did you get started with StaxUP?
Monica: I applied part-time for the assistant manager, so then from there they transferred me and in a few weeks at El Centro, they made me the manager.
Peter: Movin up quick, that’s great, Why do you think you moved up so quickly?
Monica: The manager that was here before me she was having some family matters that needed her attention and I filled the position.
Peter: Well, I’m glad you were there to step in and do a good job.
Monica: Thank you, I really have been. It’s been changing a lot honestly. I’ve just been trying to learn a lot.
Peter: What would you say are some of the big things you’ve learned since starting with StaxUP Storage?
Monica: A lot of patience and to treat everyone as if they were your family, you just have to be really patient.
Peter: Why is that?
The front entrance at StaxUP Storage in El Centro, CA.
Monica: A lot of customers are on a fixed income, maybe receiving money once per month, so you have to work with them financially. If you’re willing to work with them they’re willing to work with you.
Peter: I’ve heard that StaxUP as a whole is really good about working with people no matter what their situation is.
Monica At the end of the day they really thank you for it. I had someone bring me a hat with a Christmas card and she was really thankful because I was so patient with her.
Peter: That’s awesome!
Peter: You’re at the El Centro self storage facility right now?
Monica: That is correct.
Peter: Would you mind describing some of the defining features of the El Centro self storage facility?
Monica: The main thing is that there’s the Imperial Valley Mall about 5-10 minutes away depending on traffic.
Peter: Are all of the units drive up?
Monica: There are some hallway ones but most are drive up, and there are some parking spaces in the back. It’s pretty small here, to be honest. There are only about 300 storage units.
Peter: That sounds like a nice, homey place.
Monica: Exactly. It’s easier to maintain and know who your customers are. It makes it a little bit more convenient.
Peter: Do you have any hobbies outside of work?
Monica: I like to spend a lot of my time with my family. My husband also works for StaxUP and we have the same days off, so it makes it really convenient. If we’re not being homebodies, we take our kids to Heber Dunes its outdoorsy and they can ride bikes and stuff. It’s a state off-road vehicle park. It’s really nice and quiet. We really like it because they have security, so we like to bring our kids because of that.
Wide lanes and drive-up access at StaxUP Storage in El Centro, CA.
Peter: I’ve never been offroading before.
Monica: I only recently got into it with my husband, so I’m learning a lot haha.
Peter: Do you guys like to go out to eat or do you cook at home?
Monica: Actually we like to grill out a lot almost every weekend. If not here in El Centro, then back home with my family. Especially on the weekends.
Peter: Is it the same dishes or is it different every time?
Monica: It’s pretty much whatever we’re in the mood for. We really don’t like to eat the same thing over and over.
Peter: Is there anything else that I haven’t asked that you want people to know?
Monica: I’m just really surprised with how fast this has gone by. I was just talking with my husband about how I started part-time and now it’ll be two whole years. It just goes by really fast.
Peter: At the end of these I like to ask if there’s anyone at the company who has helped you in the past that deserves a shout out. Does anyone on the team deserve a shout out from you?
Monica: Actually, besides my Imperial Valley team, Chad and Brandy. They pretty much took me under their wing and taught me what I know today. Them more than anyone really.
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SEAL Team - The Strength of the Wolf - Review
Posted by Prpleight at October 29, 2019 0 Comments
JH Reviews SEAL Team
I didn't want to watch the episode. It wasn’t because I thought it wouldn’t be good. It was because I just didn't want to see conflict within Bravo Team.
It was indeed unpleasant. The worst moment for me was when Jason attacked Sonny for something he was doing when they were off duty. That was a low blow, in my opinion. We’ve seen Jason treat the people he cares about badly before. It’s his least attractive trait.
His reaction to Ray’s announcement about applying to be a warrant officer was, at least, more reasonable....and expected given the earlier scene when Ray was seeking a sponsor.
Man, Jason dug in his heels about Bravo Team conducting the mission his way, despite the fact that his plan never worked during training. He wasn't willing to give up on his plan until--
--Sonny talked some sense into him. How bad do things have to be for Sonny to be the voice of reason? Perhaps it was the fact that it was Sonny speaking the reason that made Jason actually hear what was being said.
Jason, as usual, delivered a pretty good apology. When he kept them rehearsing his plan I knew that, when the mission started to go bad, he would enact Ray's plan and he did, which led to the success of the mission.
Aside: I was wondering, for a moment there, if they were going to leave the other hostages behind and rescue only the Americans. I was really happy when Jason told another woman (since the only other Americans were men) that they were here to free them.
Thank you to the writers for clarifying what the new position would mean to Ray's career. Between Ray speaking with the officer who agreed to sponsor him and his conversation with Jason, it's clear that Ray will still be able to be part of Bravo Team, but he can be called on, at any time, do other missions the Navy needs done.
Odd as it seems, it looks like Ray's career could get more interesting.
I do like the way the show is handling changes in the main character’s careers while still keeping the characters on the canvas. The way the show is going I’m assuming we’ll be a season 4. This approach means that Ray’s character can remain relevant and interesting even as the canvas changes.
Jason was tasked with adding a new person to Bravo Team. In case anyone was wondering, Clay is being groomed to take over Bravo Team years from now.
Clay's never made a secret of his career goals. Interesting that Jason and Ray were taking that into consideration as they discussed the candidates.
Since Clay was pushing for one of the candidates, he was a little sulky when the new guy was introduced. Snotty Clay was back again.
I hope Snotty Clay doesn’t stay around for long. I prefer the Clay I spent season 2 getting to know.
Ray's point was excellent though. Over the last 2 seasons we've seen the success of the contrasting personalities in the top two positions on the team.
As the writers have been hinting, Lisa was the one to break things off with Sonny.
I can't say that I think she was wrong. (That's aside from my wish they hadn't taken the characters down that road in the first place.)
But man-o-man, did I want to give Sonny a hug as he drove away. Sonny is a guy who deserves a Naima.
I still think we're going to hit the point where Lisa will have to struggle after sending her friends into a really bad situation. The new CO, Captain Lindell, earned some points with me when he reacted to Lisa kicking herself.
When she does have to send Bravo Team into a bad mission, do you think she'll handle it better or worse than Mandy did last season?
Lisa is Navy so she won't be hampered by the same agendas Mandy was, but what do you think?
Lindell kept his word about the physiologist. He introduced her to Bravo Team and we were treated with Jason telling his CO to FOff.
Luckily he didn't use those exact words, but he did let his displeasure be known. That moment was expected.
Luckily Dr. Pierce is used to working with tier one operators. These guys don’t intimidate her.
I liked the fact that she didn't let the opportunity of Jason icing his knee with beer cans pass her by. I like that scene and think I'm going to like her.
As upsetting as some parts of the episode were for me, I thought it was another excellent episode.
What did you guys think?
Clay’s Nicknames:
Golden Girl (E1)
Blonde Columbo(E2)
Blonde Rickles(E4)
Platinum Wonder(E4)
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St Annes Old Links
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Welcome to ‘St Annes Old Links’
Here at St Annes Old Links, we are justly proud of our 6941 yard Par 72 Championship links course and welcome the opportunity to share it with golfers from around the world.
Founded in 1901, St Annes Old Links is one of the fine championship links of England’s north west coast and hosted the Local Final Qualifying for The Open in July 2012 held at nearby Royal Lytham & St Annes, the Ladies' Golf Union Girl’s Home International Matches in August 2013, the English Women's Open Amateur Strokeplay Championship in August 2015, the Boys' Home Internationals in early August 2017 and the UK Seniors Golf Association North West Championship at the end of August 2017.
In 2018 we were proud to become the first venue to host final qualifying for both the Open Championship and Ricoh Women’s British Open in the same year.
We are proud to be continuing to host Final Qualifying for the Open Championship from 2019 - 2021, and also hosted Final Qualifying for the Senior Open in 2019.
The Old Links has been voted in Golf World's January 2019's issue one of the"Top 100 Courses in England 2019" and also one of "England's Top 100 courses 2018" by National Club Golfer.
Our signature 9th hole was voted by Golf World in the May 2010 issue as the Top 9th Hole in Great Britain and Ireland. The great Bobby Jones is quoted as saying "it's difficult to see how you could improve on this". Enough said!
Like all great links, the course is designed to test your patience and resilience so whether you are a budding professional or an enthusiastic beginner, we look forward to your visit.
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No. 4 Kansas holds off Dayton in Maui Invitational final
No. 4 Kansas shrugged off its ongoing off-court problems and on-court defenders alike in winning 90-84 in overtime to claim the Maui Jim Maui Invitational championship at the raucous Lahaina Civic Center. Read more
LAHAINA >> Chew on that, haters.
No one Wednesday — not a dangerous opponent in Dayton, nor the Flyers’ vocal fans, nor the NCAA itself — could stop a troubled blue blood from hoisting another trophy in paradise.
No. 4 Kansas shrugged off its ongoing off-court problems and on-court defenders alike in winning 90-84 in overtime to claim the Maui Jim Maui Invitational championship at the raucous Lahaina Civic Center.
Kansas (6-1), one of college basketball’s premier programs, is under active investigation by the NCAA. It was served a notice of allegations in September for high-level recruiting violations, and a rare responsibility clause was levied at the Jayhawks’ big-name coach, Bill Self. Self has vigorously denied the allegations.
“I think there’s been some haters about maybe our program, because we have been under a microscope or under some scrutiny, obviously, the last 18 months or so,” Self, still d amp from the team’s celebration, said at the postgame interview podium. “So, but that doesn’t have anything to do with this particular group and we don’t even talk — I’ll be honest, we don’t even talk about that with our guys.”
The “guys” soldiered on against an explosive foe in claiming the Wayne Duke Trophy for a second straight appearance, and third (1996, 2015) in seven trips to the 36-year-old event. Point guard Devon Dotson led Kansas’ charge from eight points down in the second half and 7-foot senior center Udoka Azubuike was an emphatic finisher, both around the rim and in scoring his team’s first nine points of overtime.
The two combined for 60 points as each logged a career scoring high, Dotson finishing with 31 and Azubuike contributing 29. They were named co-MVPs, the first time that happened on Maui since KU’s Wayne Selden and Frank Mason III shared honors in 2015.
“I’m keeping it,” an expressionless Azubuike said of the wooden MVP trophy, sliding it away from Dotson at the podium.
Dotson, smiling, did not argue.
Some big-boy basketball was warranted in the Jayhawks’ first tight game of the tournament; they’d rolled over Chaminade and BYU the first two days. KU compiled 52 paint points to Dayton’s 22, countering the Flyers’ 16 3-pointers. They shot 55.9% from the floor, led by Azubuike’s 12-for-15 effort.
“I mean, when he has it going and the attention is on him that opens up for other players,” said Dotson, whose drives and bankers high off the glass were tough for even bouncy 6-9 forward Obi Toppin to contend with. He shot 11-for-16.
“So it’s just kind of a 1-2 punch. We read the defense, take what’s given to us. We know that if we can get the ball down low, we’re going to go there every time.”
Self said he thought it was the best two-player combo “we’ve seen with anybody in a while in our program.”
KU, which saw Dayton guard Jalen Crutcher hit a tying 3-pointer in the final seconds of regulation, shot 5-for-5 from the field and 7-for-9 from the free-throw line in overtime.
Dayton (5-1) of the Atlantic 10 was denied its second Maui title (2003) in its fourth appearance.
The Flyers’ fans were outnumbered by the Jayhawks diehards in the 2,400-seat Civic Center, but their noise was comparable.
Dayton dominated inside in beating Georgia and Virginia Tech on the first two days, but the going was much tougher Wednesday against the hulking Azubuike. Toppin, his matchup, exerted himself for his 18 points and nine boards.
It was an impressive run for Dayton, which could be ranked next week.
“We competed for three days straight,” said forward Ryan Mikesell, who led the Flyers with 19 points, but missed a pair of free throws late that sealed the outcome. “We kind of showed people what we can do on more of a national level.”
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