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Gilbert, AR Demographics
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Gilbert demographics profile
Statistic Gilbert Arkansas National
Population 15 2,968,472 318,558,162
Population density (sq mi) 41 55 91
Gilbert, AR has a population of 15 and is the 28,875th largest city in the United States. The population density is 41 per sq mi which is 26% lower than the Arkansas average and 55% lower than the national average. The median age in Gilbert is 65 which is approximately 72% higher than the Arkansas average of 38. In Gilbert, 80% of the population over 15 years of age are married, 100% speak English and 0% speak Spanish. 13% of Gilbert residents were born in Arkansas, 87% were born out of state, 0% were born outside of the United States and 0% were foreign born.
The population density in Gilbert is 26% lower than Arkansas.
The median age in Gilbert is 72% higher than Arkansas.
In Gilbert 86.67% of the population is White.
In Gilbert 0.00% of the population is Black or African American.
In Gilbert 0.00% of the population is Asian.
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Gilbert population breakdown by race
Race Gilbert Arkansas National
Mixed race 13.33% 2.23% 3.06%
In Gilbert, 0.0% of people are of Hispanic or Latino origin.
Gilbert age breakdown
Source: The Gilbert, AR demographics data displayed above is derived from the 2016 United States Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS).
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Rated PG 13
Scott Pilgrim has never had a problem getting a girlfriend. It's getting rid of them that proves difficult. From the girl who broke his heart-and now is back… More Details »
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J. Miles Dale, Eric Gitter, Lisa Gitter
Michael Bacall, Edgar Wright, Bryan Lee O'Malley
Scott Pilgrim has never had a problem getting a girlfriend. It's getting rid of them that proves difficult. From the girl who broke his heart-and now is back in town-to the teenage distraction he's trying to shake when Ramona rollerblades into his world, love hasn't been easy. He soon discovers, however, his new crush has the most unusual baggage of all: a nefarious league of exes controls her love life and will do whatever it takes to eliminate him as a suitor.
In 2009 Edgar Wright started a year long photo blog where he would take at least one picture every day and post it on his website. Much of the cast and crew appeared in this daily photo blog while they were shooting, most of the time with no direct credit given and their faces partially obscured in some way.
Near the end, when Scott sits on the swing with his sister, she calls him "little brother." Stacey is 18; Scott is 22. This is a semi-repeating joke from the original comic; Stacey is seen as the more mature, "older" sibling.
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This is a discouragingly limp movie in which nothing is at stake.
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With Scott Pilgrim, Wright leaps over the line from chattery cleverness to all-out self-consciousness.
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Handily beats back the evils of boredom.
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David McCabe, Sara Fischer Jan 8, 2019
Amazon's new ad strategy: Free samples based on what it knows about you
Illustration: Rebecca Zisser/Axios
Amazon is quietly piloting a program to let brands like Maybelline and Folgers pay to send free samples to consumers — all based on what the retail giant already knows they're likely to buy.
Why it matters: Turning free samples into new targeted ads plays to Amazon's strength as a trusted delivery service of everyday goods, something Americans already expect from the company. Amazon is betting the sample strategy is something its biggest competitors — Google and Facebook — can't match.
The big picture: Analysts see this as a big advantage for Amazon in its efforts to take on Google and Facebook's ad dominance. The tech giant has the purchasing data and logistics infrastructure to offer samples of actual products, which could be more effective than display ads on Facebook or search ads on Google for certain kinds of consumer packaged goods brands.
Display ads are currently how Amazon makes the majority of its roughly $5 billion in ad revenue. But Amazon says that marrying old-school samples with its customer data will provide brands "a higher likelihood of conversion than display ads,” according to a summer job posting.
Amazon has more than 100 million subscribers to its Prime services alone, meaning it has established long-term relationships with users. Millions more purchase goods regularly from the company, even without a Prime subscription.
"Having this huge installed base of users, or really Prime subscribers, and putting something in the box that people will have a high proclivity for liking — that seems like a brilliant Amazon strategy," said Rich Greenfield, a managing director and media analyst at BTIG.
How it works: Samples of new products are sent to customers selected using machine learning based on Amazon's data about consumer habits, according to recent job postings and details listed on its site.
In a November listing for a “BizTech Leader” position, the company says that it is an “advertising product that leverages Amazon’s customer data to allow brands to put their products in the hands of the right customers to drive product awareness and conversion.” ("Conversion" is an industry term for when a person goes from seeing an ad to buying the product in the ad.)
Amazon doesn’t publicize the offering among its other ad products, but its legal terms for advertisers include details about how its sample program functions.
“No later than the date specified by Amazon, Advertiser will deliver to Amazon at the location(s) designated by Amazon and at Advertiser’s expense, all Samples to be delivered or distributed by Amazon,” the terms say.
Amazon declined to comment. The company has experimented with different approaches to samples, including one where Prime members can buy samples and get a credit for a later purchase.
Between the lines: Analysts predict that offering consumers samples of products in the convenience of their homes also opens up opportunities for Amazon to sell more packaged goods and products.
"I would think this would play in well to Amazon’s efforts to capture more activity from packaged goods companies," says Pivotal Research Group's senior advertising analyst Brian Wieser. "To the extent that this sort of an initiative would capitalize on co-op/trade promotion budgets (rather than brand advertising) it’s probably helpful."
Yes, but: There could be privacy concerns. Customers are getting items that Amazon’s vast trove of customer data predicts they'll want to buy. But some customers could feel violated when something they haven't ordered shows up unexpectedly on their doorstep.
On social media, consumers have acknowledged receiving samples of products from major brands, including mascara from L’Oreal’s Maybelline brand and Folgers coffee. But it doesn't appear as though all of them know why they were selected.
“Amazon sent me a random coffee sample!” said one Twitter user in August. “Is it because I have like 15 [different] types of coffee in my cart 😂😂😂.” A package pictured in the tweet included both Amazon and Folgers branding and a link to a website devoted to the new coffee offering.
Amazon tells consumers that it “surprises select customers with samples that we think will be delightful and helpful,” sent to their account’s default address.
Customers can opt out of receiving samples through the settings section of their Amazon account. When Axios created a new Amazon account on Monday, it was automatically opted in to receive the samples.
What’s next? “Ultimately, this product leader will develop a suite of sampling products and unify Amazon’s sampling offering, establishing core differentiated capabilities and effectively monetize this Ad format,” says the November job listing.
A software developer job listing also says the unit’s tech team works to automate the ad campaigns with the ultimate goal of enabling “self-service,” which means brands can run the ad campaigns without the assistance of a human sales representative.
Our thought bubble: Facebook and Google built their ad empires through precise targeting and platforms where companies can spend millions without dealing with a human salesperson.
Amazon could leapfrog its competitors by combining that approach with its delivery prowess — bringing samples, and data-based ad targeting, to doorsteps in a visceral way.
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Jasmine - Meaning of Jasmine
What does Jasmine mean?
[ 2 syll. ja-smi-ne, jas-m-ine ] The baby girl name Jasmine is also used as a boy name, though it is far more popular for girls. It is pronounced JHAEZMihN †. Jasmine is of Old Persian origin. It is used mainly in English and French. An older form of the name is Jasamin (Old Persian). The first name is derived from the name of the fragrant flower which is used to make perfume. The flower name is itself derived via Old French from the Persian element yasmin. The first name was taken up by English speakers in the late 19th century during the period of enthusiasm for flower and plant names. In modern times, the Arabic forms such as Yasmin and Yasmine have also been adopted by English speakers. Jasmine is the feminine form of the French Jasmin.
What are the Variant Forms of Jasmine?
Partial List of VariantsFull List of Variants
Jasmine is a widely used name; it has 90 forms that are used in English and foreign languages. English forms of Jasmine include Jasamine, Jaslyn, Jaslynn, Jasmain, Jasmaine, Jasme, Jasmeen, Jasmeena, Jasmeet, Jasmen, Jasmene, Jasmina (also used in German and Slavic), Jasminda, Jasmira, Jasmit, Jasmyna, Jasmyne, Jassamayn, Jassma, Jassmain, Jassmaine, Jassmin, Jassmine, Jassmit, Jassmon, Jassmyn, Jazan, Jazman, Jazmin (also used in Spanish), and Jazmín (also used in Arabic and Spanish). Other English forms include the contracted forms Jas and Jasma, the familiar form Jassi, and the spelling variants Chazmin, Jasman, Jasmin (also used in German), Jasmon, Jasmyn, and Jazmine.
Forms used in foreign languages include Gelsomina (Italian), Jasmijn (Dutch), Jasminka (Slavic), Jazmina (Spanish), Jessamy (Hebrew), Yasamin (Iranian), and Yasemin (Turkish).
See also the related forms, the name Jasmarie and the Italian Gelsomino.
See also the related categories, plant (forest), enthusiasm (life), persian, element, perfume (smell), fragrant, french, flower, and arabic.
Jasmine is popular as a baby girl name. The name increased in popularity from the 1970s up to the 1990s; prior to that, it was of only infrequent use. At the height of its usage in 1993, 0.612% of baby girls were named Jasmine. It was #23 in rank then. The baby name has seen a drop in popularity since then. In 2018, it ranked at #136 with a usage of 0.116%, but it was nevertheless the most popular within all girl names in its family. Jasmine was used 4 times more than the 2nd ranked name, Jazmin, in 2018. Jasmine has in the last century been primarily given to baby girls. In 1989, 67 times more baby girls than boys were given the name Jasmine.
Baby names that sound like Jasmine include Jasmen, Jasmin, Jasmyn, Jasmyne, Jazmin, Jazmine, Jazmyn, Jazmyne, Jazzmin, Jachan, Jachane, Jachann, Jachanne, Jacksen, Jacksin, Jackson, Jacqueine, Jacquine, Jacson, and Jahan.
† Pronunciation for Jasmine: JH as in "joy (JH.OY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; Z as in "zoo (Z.UW)" ; M as in "me (M.IY)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"
A famous person named Jasmine is Animated Character Princess Jasmine, born 25 November 1992.
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W Fest, Amougies, Belgium 15-19/08/2018
Briandroid — August 25, 2018
W Fest in deepest Belgium, sits 30km from the French border, and now in its third year is becoming a major draw for music fans of all ages with a dark side (with a strong showing of 50-somethings). My failed attempts to land the job of stage presenter resulted in me being offered campsite manager, a role new to me but nothing ventured etc. so I accepted.
“Goths” have been picked on and derided since day-one, because basically they’re an easy target, and this undeserved vilification has if anything, just galvanised their resolve, creating a brotherhood (and sisterhood) of outsiders. Most generations believe their adolescent music was the best; the difference with this group is they know it.
Many put up tents but the majority occupy motorhomes, caravans and festihuts. it’s not glamping as such, more just common sense and for some the onset of middle-age. My role requires me to be up and at ’em by eight ‘o clock and the place is already becoming a hive of activity. At ten a DJ arrives and plays Die Krupps, Ultravox and Xmal Deutchland until the festival site opens at noon.
The feeling of inclusion and kinship is enormous. Younger festival-goers are warmly accepted, the old guard are respected, and whilst receding hairlines and ageing bodies attempt (and fail) to stem this rebellious yet benign spirit, the black t-shirt reigns glorious as the ubiquitous freak-flag code. Every band allegiance is proudly displayed, admired and acknowledged – the more obscure the better. I’m beginning to regret packing so many hawaiian shirts.
Onsite, the industrial electro-body music crowd are catered for in the Wave Cave, while the Synth Scene plays host to 80s popstars with a mostly electronic hue. Two identical multi turreted marquees nestling in the countryside. From a distance it looks like The Great British Batcave Off.
So what attracts people here from the UK, the States and mainland Europe? The bands of course, groups they saw as teenagers, who were back then as lean, taut and wickedly subversive as themselves. An eternal love-affair consumated on the ruined altar of chorus-guitar, hairspray, make-up and snakebite & black. But also for the older throng here, it’s a giant playground where they can re-live those days surrounded by like-minded people. It’s quite intoxicating, and as a Goth myself in 1981, at the age of 17, I feel like I’ve been welcomed back into the fold.
A massive coup for this year is the addition of an extra night with the stand-alone show ‘40 Years of Bauhaus with Peter Murphy and David J’. You would imagine that many would forgo this extra expense on top of the initial festival outlay, but Murphy is the poster boy of the entire movement (literally – his participation in the Memorex ad campaign – much to the chagrin of his bandmates – featuring him sat in an armchair bombarded by sound, remains hauntingly iconic even still) so the event is well attended. Despite a slightly shaky start with ‘Double Dare’, things soon pick up a gear, Murphy’s voice as commanding and timeless as the music. He’s always been a gaunt figure, and now with waxed moustache and Van Dyke beard, he comes across as a malevolent impish shaman, though he’s still surprisingly nimble despite his advancing years.
David J, in Ray-Bans and with a bass simply looks the same, but his basslines are sublime as ever. Accompanied by an accomplished guitarist and drummer, they fire through a gamut of classics, reminding everyone of just how fabulous they were. It’s hard to pick a standout track, but the stark simplicity of ‘Boys’ is majestic, and of course ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’, a song like no other before or since, by anyone. It’s an electrifying performance, culminating in the covers ‘Telegram Sam’ and ‘Ziggy Stardust’. They could have served up a mediocre rehash and this crowd would’ve lapped it up, but instead it’s incendiary. So, things are off to a good start.
The first official day of the festival is a real mixed bag (in a good way). My duties prevent me from seeing The Wedding Present and Wang Chung but I catch A Split Second, just in time to hear ‘Flesh’, a track that when famously played at the wrong speed (33 instead of 45), single handedly launched the Belgian New Beat movement.
What do God and Midge Ure have in common? They both crucified their only son. His version of ‘Vienna’ is butchered by superfluous guitar histrionics, and such is his colossal ego that his guitar and voice are massively over-loud in the mix, making the rest of his band sound like they’re playing in the next field. Gleefully rewriting history in his own name, he claims sole songwriting credit for ‘Fade to Grey’ (which he also mangles), and makes constant references to “really really auld Ultravox tracks”, conveniently airbrushing John Foxx’s superior predecessors out of the picture. I decide to hightail it in case he breaks into ‘Do They Know it’s Christmas?’
Chameleons Vox in the Wave Cave deliver a faultless set, Mark Burgess’ voice still a thing of Northern beauty, and over on the other stage DAF, now consisting solely of singer Gabi Delgado is a disappointment. The backing tracks are impeccable and his voice also, but the whole thing reeks a little of desperate cabaret.
Day two for me starts with Anabella’s Bow Wow Wow. She’s no longer 15 and we all get that, but the way she tugs nervously at her mini-skirt while voicing the fact unnerves a little. She plays too little in the way of her old group’s repertoire, instead focusing on new or solo material, and bless this crowd they give it so much appreciation. But despite her looking fab, the omission of ‘Chihuahua’ and ‘Go Wild in the Country’ is a step too far at an event like this in my opinion, ‘I Want Candy’ being her parting gift.
Slightly later,Die Krupps really bring the noise, the singer knocking the hell out of what looks like a giant xylophone made out of rusty drainpipes. It’s loud, aggressive and German and in these parts that’s a winning combination. If that’s your thing (and it seems to be most people’s thing) then I imagine few bands are better at it. My heart leaps to hear their big hit ‘Wahre Arbeit Wahrer Lohn’ as it really is the icepick in the forehead, so it’s quite a juxtaposition to venture to the other tent.
The sinking feeling of has-been indulgence could be a risk, but at the end of the day it’s anybody’s game; if they’re willing to raise it, so pleasant surprises lurk at every corner. A case in point being ABC. They could’ve gone down the “dust off an old suit and stick on a backing tape” route but instead they choose the smarter option. Namely hire top-flight musicians, rehearse ’til you drop and give those old songs the setting they deserve, so classics like ‘Poison Arrow’, ‘All of My Heart’ and ‘The Look of Love’ are magnificent. Slick is an understatement, this is masterclass.
Not long after, it’s Kim Wilde, who it’s scientifically proven it’s impossible not to love, and who like Anabella before her, is un-necessarilly apologetic for the sin of getting older. Poppycock, both ladies are like fine wine in that department. It’s a warm, genuine performance, littered with hits (‘Cambodia’, ‘Water on Glass’) and the tenner down the back of the sofa feeling that hits us all with ‘Kids in America’ is worth the ticket stub alone.
Day three I catch some Katrina (of The Waves…they wrote ‘Going Down to Liverpool’!) and a little Department S, before returning to the campsite, where lovely couples who could be my sister’s neighbours (but secretly harbouring black hearts wrapped in barbed wire) engage me in conversation about Fad Gadget, then buy me beers.
A late dash back ensues, where Heaven 17 are opening their set with The Human League song ‘Circus of Death’, flanked by two girl backing singers who dance in a strangely un-choreographed manner. Hhhhmm. Kudos for all dressing in W-Fest t-shirts however. Marsh and Ware probably thought they were doing something slick and jolly clever in 1980, pulling the rug from under Oakey, leaving him with naught but a slide projectionist and an impending breach of contract, little realising that if you look up “charisma” in a dictionary, there’s a picture of Phil. They’ve been playing catch-up ever since, and as their ex-band member tours the globe to resounding acclaim, they come across as chancers, blowing their redundancy money on booze and fags. ‘Facist Groove Thang’ and ‘Temptation’ aside, the deepest dig into their back catalogue can’t hold a candle to what they threw away. Karma’s a bitch.
LImahl looks genuinely surprised to be here, like someone’s woken him up in a mid-transatlantic flight, but he can still work a crowd. The one Kajagoogoo album and a brace of solo singles isn’t enough to carry an hour set, so raids the coffers of his 80s contemporaries, Duran Duran, Soft Cell and Joe Jackson. It’s well executed but it’s all padding until he gets to the big money shot that is ‘Too Shy’.
Over on the dark side, Turkish band She Past Away play an accomplished and melodic set, that’s musically entrenched in The Cure’s ‘Charlotte Sometimes’, and sometimes that’s just what you need. It goes down a storm and deservedly so.
They’re followed by Front Line Assembly, who should be awesome, as onstage they have enough firepower to reduce a small village to rubble. But despite this juggernaut, they never really get out of second gear, when if they’d only hit the throttle they could slice everyone’s brains into coleslaw. The lightshow and projections elevate the madness somewhat, but I leave feeling slightly shortchanged on the psychological bruising.
Sunday morning and hats off to Captain Sensible, he’s a delight as ever. Punk’s most under-rated guitarist, he’s juggling extensive tour dates with The Damned but still squeezes in this appearance, and his set features some of their numbers. Opening with the MC5 cover from ‘Machine Gun Etiquette’, ‘Looking at You’, he fires into an incendiary ‘Neat Neat Neat’, then ‘Jet Boy Jet Girl’, which of course is an anglophone version of ‘Ca Plane Pour Moi’. His shrewd morphing of one into the other wins over the Belgian crowd even further, and ‘Wot’ and ‘Glad it’s all Over’ seal the deal. He claims to have found his backing band the day before, and it’s fair to say they look a motley crew, with a Lemmy-esque bassist and foxy 60s chick on synth but they deliver the goods.
The day continues to unfold with solid sets from Marc Almond, Duel (ex-Propaganda) and Vive La Fete, and no doubt many others but one can’t be everywhere at once, and suddenly it’s all over.
W Fest is a winning formula. Either immerse yourself in leather-clad throbbing industrial beats, or bask in 80s nostalgia. Next years line-up is already semi-confirmed with equally big hitters onboard (Stranglers, Killing Joke, The Human League) so there’s a real chance in a very short time of it becoming the gothic Tomorrowland.
I could include pictures of the bands with this review, but you can find them easily online. For me the real stars of this festival were the crowd (and a tip of the hat to the organisers for creating something it was a privilege to be part of, that’s only going to get better and better).
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COLBY, MARK
The Japan Healthcare Debate Diverse Perspectives
Folkestone. Global Oriental Ltd, 2004. 176pp. Hardback. Provides a suggestion that countries with socialized healthcare systems should be closely watching Japan as it attempts to balance social needs with economic viability. This book examines this critical certainty. It is for anyone whose work or interests are concerned with Japanese healthcare..... More
COLON HASEGAWA, CHRISTY.
Maido. A Gaijin's Guide to Japanese Gestures and Culture.
United States: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2016. 76 colour photos, paperback. Maido (my-dough, not to be confused with that childhood favourite, Play-Doh) describes the most common Japanese gestures and defines their meanings and the cultural contexts that surround them. Japanese gestures are a world of their own, much the way the..... More
CORDIER, HENRI.
Bibliotheca Japonica.
Mansfield Center. Martino. (1997). Reprint. xii + 762pp, index. French text. First published in 1912. This important annotated bibliography contains listings of 3,500 works on Japan published in European languages through to the year 1870. The appendix also lists principal works published from 1870 to 1912. (When referring to this..... More
[DANIEL STRUVE].
Autour de Saikaku. Le roman en Chine et au Japon aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles.
Paris. Les Indes Savantes. 2004. Text in French. 145pp, bibliography, index, paperback. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 89896). More
DENSON, ABBY.
Cool Japan Guide. Fun in the Land of Manga, Lucky Cats and Ramen.
Japan: Tuttle Shokai Inc., 2015. Illustrated throughout with manga style coloured illustrations, 125pp, large format paperback. Travelling to Japan has never been so much fun - visit the land of anime, manga, cosplay, hot springs and sushi! This full-color graphic novel guidebook is the first of its kind exploring Japanese..... More
Cool Tokyo Guide Adventures in the City of Kawaii Fashion, Train Sushi and Godzilla
Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 2018. Colour illustrations, 128pp, large format paperback. Tokyo is an amazing world unto itself-a city for lovers of manga and anime, great food and fashion that mixes the best of old and new. In Cool Tokyo Guide renowned graphic artist Abby Denson takes you on a personal..... More
DOUGILL, JOHN.
Japan's World Heritage Sites.
Tokyo. Tuttle Publishing. 2019. Maps, photographic illustrations throughout, 208pp, index, hardback in dustjacket. Japan's World Heritage Sites presents the exquisite temples, shrines, gardens, castles and natural wonders found throughout Japan which have now been declared UNESCO World Heritage Sites. This new edition has more convenient size and includes many newly-designated..... More
DURET, THEODORE.
Livres & Albums Illustres du Japon. Reunis et Catalogues.
Mansfield Center. Martino. (2000). Black and white line illustrations, ix + 322pp, index. Originally published in Paris in 1900. Describes over 500 early Japanese books in the Bibliotheque Nationale, plus information on the history of engraving of Japanese books, and on individual artists. (When referring to this item please quote..... More
FOLAN, LUCIE.
Stars of the Tokyo Stage. Natori Shunsen's Kabuki Actor Prints.
Australia. National Library of Australia. 2012. Colour photographic illustrations, 144 pages, index, square quarto, paperback. Stars of the Tokyo stage celebrates the glamour of kabuki theatre amid the dynamic atmosphere of Japan in the 1920s and 30s. Drawn from the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Natori Shunsens superb..... More
GLORIA, LUISA AND ALAN WELLER.
Japanese Design.
United States. Dover Publications. 2006. Colour illustrations, 128 pages, accompanying CD-ROM, paperback. Superb collection of authentic Japanese art and design reproduced directly from rare and costly sources includes birds, florals, animals, fish, crests, geometric designs, and patterns. An invaluable resource for professional and amateur artists and craftspeople. Over 260 color..... More
HANNEMAN, MARY.
Hasegawa Nyozekan and Liberalism in Modern Japan.
Folkestone. Global Oriental. 2007. 139pp, bibliography, index, dustjacket. Presents a study of Hasegawa Nyozekan (1895-1969), which examines his life and intellectual contributions as a pre-eminent liberal reformer through his role as a journalist and social critic, particularly in pre-war and wartime Japan. (When referring to this item please quote stockid..... More
HARDING, CHRISTOPHER.
Japan Story. In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present.
United Kingdom. Penguin Books. 2019. Maps, 504pp, index, bibliography, paperback. Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid 19th century to the present, through the eyes of people who always had their doubts about modernity - who greeted..... More
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Autocar's best pictures of 2013
As the shutters come down on another year, our photographers pick their favourite images that they've captured from the past 12 months
We only got one crack at shooting this Mercedes A45 AMG, but flying cars always look good
This 'grab shot' of the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta through the tress in Italy was taken as the car was turning around
The picture only paints a part of the story, and this Caterham Seven 620R has quite a story to tell - shame you can't hear it
The only time we don't mind snapping in the snow is when we're in Sweden, especially when we're with the Volvo V60
Ford boss Alan Mulally was on animated form when he met Steve Cropley earlier this year
The Oxfordshire location for this shot of the MG LE50 was perfect for shooting this glorious machine
The Mercedes G63 AMG 6x6 makes quite an entrance wherever it goes
The Ferrari 458 Speciale - a truly special car driven in an appropriate manner by Steve Sutcliffe in Italy
Our Lamborghini Aventador coupé versus roadster generated plenty of buzz online, and plenty of tyre smoke too
The Bertone Jet 2+2 was shot in the superb surroundings of Bologna - please make this wonderful car, Aston
One of our favourite images of the year is of the Jaguar F-type, completing a large drift with Steve Sutcliffe at the wheel
We enjoyed driving the Eagle Speedster at the Longcross test track, and hope the pictures do this gorgeous car justice
Our Toyota GT86 versus Ford Fiesta ST battle at the Handling Day provided plenty of entertainment
One of the greatest challenges of the year - the McLaren 12C versus a Ducati Panigale superbike
A combination of some of the best roads in the UK make a 650-mile round trip in the Evoque worthwhile
This brilliant photo of the Porsche 911 was taken in the car park adjacent to Autocar's home in Teddington Studios
This picture of an upturned R8 is a reminder that, sometimes, things go wrong - thankfully there were no serious injuries
The McLaren P1 was shot in our Teddington studio, and with the lights turned down low the car was silhouetted perfectly
Shooting one of Autocar's kit car tests at Blyton Park
Off to Colorado for the Pikes Peak race
This job can sometimes leave you on the floor
Running with the bulls in Milan as part of Lamborghini's 50th anniversary celebrations
Autocar's team of photographers are some of the best in the business.
Throughout the past year they've taken tens of thousands of photos, featuring over 500 cars.
Whether it's photographing Steve Sutcliffe at the wheel of a Ferrari 458 Speciale in Italy, snapping a Volvo V60 in the snow-covered hills of Sweden, or even taking a 650-mile round trip in a Range Rover Evoque in search of the perfect picture, this year our snappers have done it all.
After a year spent capturing pictures of some of the fastest and rarest cars in the world, and talking to the people who made them, our in-house photographers Stan Papior and Stuart Price have counted down their top photos, and their best memories of 2013.
Stan Papior: "Spending three days in early May driving from Milan to Rome with Mark Tisshaw in a Lamborghini Gallardo as part of the company's 50th anniversary celebrations was pretty special, with quite a collection of cars too (the Miura had to be my favourite) and what scenery! That and meeting Usain Bolt at the LA motor show were but two highlights of the year."
Stuart Price: "From the Detroit and Tokyo motor shows, to sunny Pikes Peak to freezing Welsh mountains, 2013 has again been an incredible year. If I could pick out three main highlights (and in no particular order) it would be driving a Porsche 911 GT3 across the UK, winning a prestigous 'Photographer of the Year' award and travelling to shoot the Pikes Peak race in Colorado."
Jaguar F-Type Convertible
The Jaguar F-Type convertible provides direct competition to the 718 Boxster and the 911 Cabriolet, but can the big cat take a bite out of its Porsche rivals?
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Meet the Prosthetics Startup Aiding Amputees in Rural India With Helping Hands
by Rina Diane Caballar
Manufacturing - Oct 9 2019 - 4 min read
Social Hardware’s prosthetics are purpose-built using generative design to be affordable for agricultural and construction workers in rural India. Images courtesy of Social Hardware.
“There is a gaping hole in the prosthetic market,” says Abhit Kumar, cofounder of Indian prosthetics startup Social Hardware. “Our aim is to fill that hole with prosthetic devices designed specifically for low-income rural amputees from the agricultural or construction industry, as this is where most of the casualties occur.”
According to a report from India’s Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, 2.21% of the country’s population lives with a disability. Of that population, 20% have a disability of movement, and most live in rural areas. The highest rate of amputation occurs in these rural settings, where the main employment is in agriculture and construction. Prosthetics are typically imported from overseas and can cost more than six times the average monthly income of a rural Indian family.
After researching existing solutions, Social Hardware cofounders Kumar and Cameron Norris saw a need for a new approach to upper-limb prosthesis design. The pair met through the online community Reddit, where they contributed to an open-source prosthesis project to help a fellow user with a disability. Kumar came from a biomedical and robotics background; Norris worked in the UK startup world.
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The latest Social Hardware prosthetic arm with a farming tool attached. Courtesy of Social Hardware.
Alternate render of the prosthetic arm with a farming tool attached. Courtesy of Social Hardware.
The latest Social Hardware assembly with a prosthetic hand attached. Courtesy of Social Hardware.
Alternate render of the Social Hardware assembly with a prosthetic hand. Courtesy of Social Hardware.
Prosthetic arm with both the hand and farming tool attached to the wrist connector. Courtesy of Social Hardware.
Finding a Path Forward
As a recognized startup under the Startup India initiative and a technical partner of Bengaluru-based nonprofit Association of People with Disability (APD), Social Hardware works toward outfitting amputees in rural India with prosthetic devices and providing rehab opportunities—at no cost to the recipients.
Through partnerships with APD and other disability rehab centers, Social Hardware will provide rural amputees access to a rehab program that includes physiotherapy and training to effectively use an assistive device in their daily lives. The startup wants to keep the retail price under ₹20,000 (about $280) for each prosthetic hand; those who successfully complete the program will be fitted with Social Hardware’s prosthetics for free.
“By speaking directly with amputees and those working within the prosthetics and orthotics industries, we learned that most devices are unsuitable for end users in rural India,” Norris says. “In particular, durability and hygiene are two major issues not being addressed appropriately.”
Working prototypes of Social Hardware’s latest wrist connectors. Courtesy of Social Hardware.
3D renders of Social Hardware’s latest wrist connectors. Courtesy of Social Hardware.
The flip side of the wrist connectors. Courtesy of Social Hardware.
It’s All in the Wrist
Once Social Hardware developed a suitable electric prosthetic arm, the team created the Avocado Wrist Connector, an assistive device used to securely attach agricultural and construction tools to their prosthetics. “We took inspiration from the ruggedness of military hardware design,” Norris says. “We looked through old patents to help us understand how different attachments were mounted in military settings.”
They also wanted it to be compatible with the existing anchor system of connectors and sockets made by ALIMCO, one of India’s largest manufacturers of prosthetic and orthotic devices. “Instead of replacing what was already available in the prosthetics market, we wanted to support and supplement it,” Norris says. “We wanted to create an add-on device that fits between the bionic hand and the socket, which can be used to attach different tools such as a small hammer or a trowel or whatever tool the individual may need.”
But first, the team had to address the issues with existing prosthetic devices. Externally powered prosthetic limbs don’t rely on a user’s strength but, instead, have limited battery life and typically aren’t sturdy enough for high-intensity work. Body-powered prosthetic limbs are generally much more durable and do not require batteries, but they are heavy and have limited functionality. Kumar and Norris wanted to combine the two: the lightweight, feature-rich approach of an externally powered prosthetic limb with the durability and reliability of a body-powered device. “The end goal is to provide the best of both worlds,” Norris says.
To achieve this balance, Social Hardware turned to generative design. With measurements from traditionally fabricated sockets, the team used Autodesk Fusion 360 and a five-stage generative design process to bring down the weight of its Avocado Wrist Connector and speed up the development process. “Generative design enabled us to reduce the weight from 300 grams to 96 grams while maintaining the durability we needed,” Kumar says. “These results would have taken months of trial and error to achieve through traditional means.”
Generative design also helped Social Hardware tackle the challenges amputees experience with their prosthetic sockets and to improve their appearance. “There are issues with sweat and heat, especially in humid environments or if you’re working at a high intensity,” Norris says. “We used generative design to create a lightweight, breathable socket with a unique aesthetic. Although we’re targeting low-income communities, we want them to feel like they have the latest cutting-edge technology.”
Social Hardware used generative design to bring down the Avocado Wrist Connector’s weight while maintaining its strength. Courtesy of Social Hardware.
Prosthetics for the Masses
As part of their future plan, Kumar and Norris want to transition from a working prototype to an end product ready for mass production. Preparing for clinical trials before releasing their product as a medically certified prosthesis, they plan to work with international aid agencies and humanitarian organizations to bring their devices to other APEC countries that need them.
Moreover, Social Hardware’s founders want to provide the first commercial version of their device for preorder as a prosthesis development kit for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education. The kit will include everything hobbyists, researchers, and students need to build their own prosthetic hands.
“We’re providing the kit to raise awareness of India’s rural amputee population, encourage others to participate in the development of assistive technologies, and for young graduates to understand the concept of design engineering and fabrication,” Kumar says. “It also builds on our foundation: frugal innovation and participatory design.”
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BMW holds Joyfest from November 18-27
2011 Xpo event to offers special deals on BMW vehicles at dealerships
BMW Press November 19, 2011 01:45
40 years of BMW M
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To celebrate its BMW brand leadership, Asian Carmakers Corporation (ACC) will be staging a ten-day long celebration with BMW Joyfest - happening from November 18-27 at BMW dealerships nationwide. During the Joyfest ACC will be offering exclusive financing rates for brand new and pre-owned BMW vehicles.
"BMW buyers can expect a variety of models on-hand that they can avail through a 0% interest for 60 months payment scheme. Suffice to say, this is the best time to buy with the best offer available. There's definitely joy when you choose a BMW," said Glen P. Dasig, Executive Director, Sales & Marketing of Asian Carmakers Corporation.
As an added bonus, customers who purchase during this event will also get the chance to see the BMW Vision Concept Car at the December 14 world premiere of Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol in Singapore through a raffle. Ten (10) winners with their companion will fly to Singapore for a three-day trip inclusive of hotel accommodations and airfare, courtesy of ACC.
The BMW Vision Concept Car epitomizes the future of sheer driving pleasure. Its cutting-edge technology embodies BMW's strong commitment to improved performance and less fuel consumption. It accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in an impressive 4.8 seconds and consumes a mere 3.8l/100 km. What used to be impossible is now accomplished without compromising Sheer Driving Pleasure which BMW is known for.
AVID maintains growth in October 2011
The Association of Vehicle Importers and Distributors, or AVID, has just released their sales figures from the month of October 2011, clocking in 18% growth compared to Oct 2011. AVID still remains positive with 0.1% growth YTD compared to the same period in 2011.
The BMW Car Club of the Philippines celebrates 10 years
One of the country's leading auto clubs has just turned 10 years old, and the BMW Car Club of the Philippines celebrated their 10 year anniversary with a day of camaraderie and a good, old fashioned fun run.
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Clint Bowyer Toyota Prius - lower than a Sprint Cup car
Posted by Victor Ivanov on 22 October 2012, 02:22 PM
Toyota will reveal a custom Clint Bowyer Prius at the 2012 SEMA. Bowyer, whose Prius was modified under his direction by RKM Performance Center in Mooresville, N.C., believes that taking the high technology for which the Prius is already famous to extremes will pave the way to victory.
"When you think of a hot rod, you don't think of a Prius," Bowyer said. "A young, sophisticated global thinker meets a connected, socially conscious traveler - that's the theme of the Tekked-Out Prius."
It comes with a nice hi-tech version featuring a 17" custom touch screen with built-in Windows 7 computer, two ASUS 12" tablets, and a side-view camera system that replaces the factory mirrors. A staggering 45 feet of fiber optic lighting and a thumping 16-speaker JBL audio system with two amplifiers and six crossovers brighten the mood inside of the sinister-looking black-on-black Prius.
The special edition Prius also has a 16-speaker audio system from JBL with six crossovers and two amplifiers, while the interior has received custom leather and suede upholstery, electric blue stitching accents and imported German carpet.
The final vehicle builds will be unveiled during a press conference at the Toyota display at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas on Oct. 30 at 11 a.m. local time. Fans will be able to tune in live to watch the entire press conference on the Toyota Racing Facebook page or LiveStream.com/Toyota and see the winner announced in real time.
Clint Bowyer Toyota Prius
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Skoda Auto Achieves Remarkable Sales Growth Worldwide
Posted by Zahari Mladenov on 20 May 2008, 10:11 AM
Skoda Auto registered impressive growth in worldwide sales during April. The company's total sales for the month reached 63,726 vehicles – a 23.3 per cent increase on the same period last year.
In the first four months of the year, Skoda sold 237,200 cars – up 17.7 per cent on January-April 2007. The fastest-growing markets were Russia (14,231 vehicles, up 75.3% compared to last year), India (6,396 vehicles, up 50.4%) and China (22,032 vehicles, start-up period).
The new Fabia Estate, which is now available in all equipment levels, sold very well. At 9,623 vehicles, worldwide sales of the new model are 24.5 per cent higher than those of its predecessor. April sales of the Fabia Hatch reached 13,267 vehicles, 25.8 per cent more than in the same period last year.
Skoda's best selling model is the Octavia, with 25,475 vehicles, up by 42.9 per cent on April last year. A total of 7,500 Octavia Estates were sold in the month, a rise of 16.3 per cent on last April.
"We are very happy about the positive sales trends, especially as we are now waiting for the launch of the new Superb, which will soon be available to customers in all major markets," said Fred Kappler, Skoda Auto's Head of sales and marketing. "We are mainly growing in the new markets – Russia, China and India. These countries accounted for 11 per cent of Skoda Auto's total sales in 2007. Considering the first four months of this year, the trend is likely to continue in 2008."
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Rights at Risk: The Observatory on the Universality of Rights Trends Report 2017
The trend is unmistakable and deeply alarming:
In international human rights spaces, religious fundamentalists are now operating with increased impact, frequency, coordination, resources, and support.
Anti-rights actors are chipping away at the very content and structure of our human rights concepts, institutions, and protections, with disastrous consequences for human rights and gender justice. Their aim is to erode the very basis on which we can claim our rights.
This report is the first of a series on human rights trends produced by the Observatory on the Universality of Rights (OURs) initiative, a collaborative and multi-organizational project that aims to monitor, analyze, and share information on anti-rights initiatives.
The report analyzes key trends and developments mapped over 2015 to late 2016 in order to inform and support our collective advocacy.
A sneak peek in the report
Anti-rights mobilization at the international level constitutes a response to the significant feminist and progressive organizing and impact therein over the past three decades. It also represents ultra-conservative actors’ new commitment to multilateral processes as a space of influence. Today we are witnessing a set of interlocking factors that paint an unsettling picture of our human rights system under attack: increased coordination of religious fundamentalists across regional, institutional, and religious lines in human rights spaces, and the strategic and proactive undermining and co-optation of our human rights framework.
Key opposition actors
Imperatives for the future include…[t]o take energetic action within the NGO process to blunt or prevent new assaults on family integrity; to identify, protect, and help advance existing "friends of the family" within the U.N. Secretariat; to "place" such friends in positions of current or potential influence within the U.N. Secretariat; and to build an international movement of "religiously grounded family morality systems" that can influence and eventually shape social policy at the United Nations. - Allan Carlson, founder of the World Congress of Families
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Key opposition discourses
Actors using arguments based on anti-rights interpretations of religion, culture, tradition, and rhetoric linked to State sovereignty have made significant strides in implementing and institutionalizing their regressive agenda at the UN in recent years. As any participant or witness of policy negotiations will note, the ‘battle for rights’ is fought in large part on the level of language and rhetoric. Many conservative actors have creatively and effectively regrouped in this area, with increased success towards achieving their goal of undermining rights related to gender and sexuality.
Key opposition strategies and tactics
Influence and impact are not won by rhetoric alone. Anti-rights actors are making inroads into our human rights standards not only because of their increased numbers and networks, or their imaginative and sustained re-conceptions of what human rights norms should and do mean. The success of any movement is also integrally driven by its organizing tactics.
Like their shifts and feints in discursive strategy, the religious right active in international human rights policy spaces has not remained static in their organizing. This landscape reflects several overarching trends: learning from their opposition, namely feminists and other progressives and their strategies at United Nations conferences in the 1990s; mirroring successful tactics developed in partnership with powerful elites from the domestic level to the international; and moving from a paradigm of symbolic protest to ‘insiders’, with the attendant changes in opportunity mapping and approach.
Key impacts on the international human rights system
Anti-rights actors’ discourses and strategies have had a substantive impact on our human rights framework and the progressive interpretation of human rights standards, and especially rights related to gender and sexuality.
Over 2015 and 2016, we have witnessed the watering down of existing agreements and commitments; deadlock and conservatism in negotiations; sustained undermining of UN agencies, treaty monitoring bodies, and special procedures; and success in pushing through regressive language in international human rights documents.
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UK Fines Dixons Carphone for Massive Breach
Jeremy Kirk • January 10, 2020
British regulators have fined Dixons Carphone $653,000 for a breach that exposed millions of payment card details and personal data due to point-of-sale malware. The retailer's lack of security contributed to a "careless loss of data," the Information Commissioner's Office says.
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Job Search: Head of UK's National Cyber Security Center
Mathew J. Schwartz • December 30, 2019
Wanted: A new chief executive to assume command of Britain's growing National Cyber Security Center, part of GCHQ. As Ciaran Martin departs, the successful NCSC model he helped create is being widely emulated in many countries. But the U.S. remains a notable holdout.
Apple and Google Stop Distributing ToTok Messaging App
Apple and Google have stopped distributing a popular messaging app marketed to English and Arabic speakers called ToTok. The New York Times has reported that U.S. intelligence agencies believe ToTok was developed by the United Arab Emirates government to spy on its citizens. The government bans rival offerings.
GDPR Violation: German Privacy Regulator Fines 1&1 Telecom
One of the largest fines to date for violating the EU's General Data Protection Regulation has been announced by Germany's federal privacy and data protection watchdog, the BfDI, against 1 & 1 Telecommunications, in part for inadequate authentication mechanisms. The company plans to appeal.
Infosys CISO Describes Approach to Privacy
Suparna Goswami • November 20, 2019
Multinational companies that must comply with widely varying privacy laws around the world should focus on a broad privacy strategy rather than a compliance strategy, says Vishal Salvi, CISO at Infosys.
Analysis: Instagram's Major Problem With Minors' Data
Nick Holland • November 15, 2019
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report offers an in-depth analysis of whether Instagram is doing enough to protect the contact information of minors. Plus: Compliance updates on GDPR and PCI DSS.
Take Two: Why Organizations Are Reviewing GDPR Efforts
Mathew J. Schwartz • November 11, 2019
The EU's General Data Protection Regulation rewrote the rules of the data privacy and breach notification game when it went into full effect last year. Now, however, numerous organizations are revisiting and refining their GDPR compliance efforts around preparation and remediation, says PwC's Polly Ralph.
Privacy Nirvana: Some Assembly Still Required
Data privacy discussions must focus not just on collecting, storing and securing data, but also the impetus for doing so - and whether it is being done in an ethical manner, says consultant Thom Lagford, a former CISO, who addresses GDPR compliance issues.
Fresh Privacy Legislation Would Jail CEOs for Violations
Suparna Goswami • October 18, 2019
New legislation introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., would "bring meaningful punishments for companies that violate people's data privacy, including larger fines and potential jail time for CEOs," he says. But can Congress agree on a privacy law?
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Data protection officers are assuming a more strategic role that goes beyond ensuring compliance with laws and regulations, including GDPR, says Rob Masson, CEO of the DPO Center.
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Beautiful Darkness (Paperback)
By Kerascoët, Fabien Vehlmann, Helge Dascher (Translated by)
On Our Shelves Now. (If this title isn't on hand at your preferred store, please call.)
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A group of little people find themselves without a home in this horror fantasy classic
Newly homeless, a group of fairies find themselves trying to adapt to their new life in the forest. As they dodge dangers from both without and within, optimistic Aurora steps forward to organize and help build a new community. Slowly, the world around them becomes more treacherous as petty rivalries and factions form.
Beautiful Darkness became a bestseller and an instant classic when it was released in 2014. This paperback edition of the modern horror classic contains added material, preparatory sketches, and unused art. While Kerascoët mix gorgeous watercolors and spritely cartoon characters, Fabien Vehlmann takes the story into bleaker territory as the seasons change and the darkness descends. As with any great horror, there are moments of calm and jarring shocks while a looming dread hangs over the forest.
Kerascoët is a husband-and-wife cartooning team who have produced several less terrifying comics for the French market as well as making recent forays into North American children’s books.
Fabien Vehlmann is a French comics writer who has been nominated for the Angoulême International Comics Festival Award a number of times. He is best known to North American audiences for his collaboration with the Norwegian cartoonist Jason on Isle of 100,000 Graves.
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary
Young Adult Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy
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Senior citizens: Using Clipper card is a breeze – and keeps us active and on the move
By MELISSA JORDAN
BART Senior Web Producer
This Friday, May 20, senior citizens from around San Leandro will gather at the Senior Community Center for a New Orleans Jazz-themed wellness fair where BART is one of the agencies spreading information about how to let the good times roll -- in BART's case, by using Senior Clipper cards.
BART has used outreach events like the upcoming senior fair to spread the word about the Senior Clipper, an all-in-one smartcard that automatically gives the 62.5% senior discount on BART and other transit systems. N early three-quarters of senior citizens who ride BART use Clipper.
“I love my Senior Clipper card,” said Carol Sugimura, one of dozens of seniors who stopped by an outreach table being staffed by Samson Wong of BART’s customer services department at another health and wellness fair in Castro Valley recently. (At right, Wong helps a customer read a discount fare chart).
“I appreciate the versatility; it’s easy to load; and you get a great discount,” said Sugimura, who picked up one of the table giveaways – an artsy. adhesive-backed Clipper sleeve to protect the card and keep it within easy reach on a mobile phone, wallet or purse. Wong talked with others who had not yet heard about the benefits of Clipper; many of them stopped right there on the spot to fill out an application.
Rudy Chin heard Wong’s spiel and was giving serious thought to applying for the card. “I just might try it,” he said. “It sounds like a good deal.”
Wong pulled out a fare chart and used Castro Valley to Embarcadero stations as an example when showing seniors the difference in costs, in case they wanted to hop down to the Ferry Building and pick up some gourmet foods, or take in the view of the Bay Bridge.
“For someone my age to do that round-trip,” Wong said, “It would be 10 dollars. For you, it would be 3 dollars and 70 cents.”
Most of those stopping by the booth either had one already, or wanted to get one once they heard about it. The card, plastic like a credit card, is used to simply “tap” on faregates, so you don’t have to keep up with paper tickets or worry about small balances.
”It’s so much easier,” said Maria Mesa of Castro Valley. “You don’t have to worry about pulling out money all the time to add fare because you can already have it loaded onto the same card every time. I load mine up when I go to Walgreens.”
It’s clear seniors are on the move with Clipper and BART: They talked about going places like Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco to hear musical performances, taking transit to volunteer at venues such as the Asian Art Museum, and using BART to connect to airports for visits to grandchildren – or on vacation adventures. (Above, a customer stopping by Wong's table shows off the pen with pull-out map she received as a free goodie from BART.)
Wong said BART does outreach to help seniors understand the significance of signing up for the Senior Clipper, with benefits including saving money through the discount, and the convenience of being able to use the same card on 20 or more different transit systems.
"Once they know the significance, then the mechanics of signing up are easier," he said.
Wong assures seniors that green senior discount paper tickets are still around, however, there are fewer locations at which to buy them, so transitioning to Clipper makes a lot of sense.
Wong also tells his outreach visitors about the BART field trip program for senior citizens, where he takes groups out on a trip to show them how to use their newly minted Senior Clipper cards as they visit popular destinations such as shopping centers and museums.
The Senior Field Trip program started in spring 2014 as part of an effort to promote the use of Senior Clipper cards and encourage senior green discount ticket users to apply. Since then, BART Customer Services has conducted scores of field trips and helped to add hundreds of new seniors to the Clipper rolls.
It’s a good feeling to be able to share with senior citizens all the possibilities at their fingertips once they are comfortable using transit and see all of its benefits, Wong said.
"It's the same feeling when I use to register voters years ago before I came to BART. It's empowering seniors to travel independently while saving money."
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Jackie Robinson General Thread
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Honus Wagner Rules
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There are a few Jackie Robinson threads but not a "general" thread. So here it is. Let's talk Jackie! I just finished reading Arnold Rampersad's 1997 book Jackie Robinson: A Biography. This book, with significant input from Rachel Robinson, covers Jackie's entire life. There was a lot of about Jackie's post baseball career that I didn't know about especially his his deep involvement in politics. I new some of it before but didn't know the extent that was involved.
Here's a short mini biography that hits the key highlights of Robinson's life and career.
http://www.biography.com/people/jackie-robinson-9460813
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Rampersad's bio of Robinson is one of the best baseball bio's out there. Eig's Opening Day is an eye opening account of Robinson's rookie season. It takes on some of the stories from books like Golenbock's Bums.
Originally posted by EdTarbusz View Post
I liked the book as well. It was quite detailed and riveting. Have you read Jules Tygiel's Robinson biography?
Originally posted by Honus Wagner Rules View Post
A while back. I'd probably have to re-read it to comment about it.
ol' aches and pains
A Gametime Decision
I have, it's titled Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson And His Legacy. It's more than a biography, it's a well-researched and well-written history of the integration of baseball. It's my go-to source for any question on the subject. I highly recommend it.
They call me Mr. Baseball. Not because of my love for the game; because of all the stitches in my head.
I'll have to read it as well, aches.
The 1950 film, The Jackie Robinson Story.
I thought the guy who played him was very convincing.
Originally posted by ol' aches and pains View Post
He was ok. But he doesn't look anything like the real Jackie Robinson.
That movie ruined what should have been one of its scenes. Negro League bus at gas station. Station owner won't sell food to the players. Robinson: Get back on the bus. Owner relents when he realizes he will lose a big sale in gas. Instead the movie shows a very meek Robinson.
Did he talk nasally like Robinson did?
"No matter how great you were once upon a time — the years go by, and men forget,” - W. A. Phelon in Baseball Magazine in 1915. “Ross Barnes, forty years ago, was as great as Cobb or Wagner ever dared to be. Had scores been kept then as now, he would have seemed incomparably marvelous.”
Orioles5
Isn't the pitcher who balks Jackie Robinson home at the 47:33 mark Dick Williams?
This movie is obviously a product of its time; a sanitized, feel-good, lets-skip-a-lot-of-details, type of film. At least it's way better than the William Bendix Babe Ruth film that was a total wreck. This film didn't capture Jackie's true personality at all. But there was no way that a film in 1950 was going to portray, a strong, powerful, sometimes angry, black man who spoke his mind often. There was no mention of Robinson's court martial and no mention of Robinson's 1945 tryout with the Red Sox. And did they really have to use the stereotypical heavy set "mammy" for Jackie's mother? Seriously?! Jackie's mother, Mallie, didn't look anything like the actress that protrayed her.
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Early Baseball Fan
Would you guys put Robinson as the best player on the Dodgers teams during his "prime". I mean, he does have competition from Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, and (some would argue) Gil Hodges.
“There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.” Walter Lippmann
"I don't care if the guy is yellow or black, or if he has stripes like a ******* zebra. I'm the manager of this team and I say he [Robinson] plays." - Leo Durocher
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Snooky Pryor And The Country Blues
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(1972 'Today') SNOOKY PRYOR - hca/voc, FRED BELOW - drums, HOMESICK JAMES – slide gtr, DAVE MYERS... more
Snooky Pryor: And The Country Blues
(1972 'Today') SNOOKY PRYOR - hca/voc, FRED BELOW - drums, HOMESICK JAMES – slide gtr, DAVE MYERS - bass, JOE YOUNG - rhythm gtr.
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Even before Little Walter revolutionized the role of the harmonica on the postwar Chicago blues scene with his astonishing solos, Snooky Pryor was amplifying his harp on Maxwell Street. Born September 15, 1921 in Lambert, Mississippi, James Edward Pryor began playing as a youth (Jimmy Rogers was a childhood buddy). 78s by Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton, and John Lee Williamson caught his ear, but Sonny Boy #2 knocked the lad for a loop. As he watched Williamson blow his harp on the streets of Vance, Miss., Pryor knew what he wanted to do with his life.
"An old clothing store had burned down in the town where I lived at. There was an old big money chest in there, in what was left of the store. And he used to stand up on that old money chest and play his harmonica. People would be giving him money. I liked that from a kid. I always did want to play harmonica, and that was my start there," said the late Pryor. "I think he was about one of the greatest harmonica players that ever lived."
Pryor started amplifying his harp in the early '40s while serving his country. "I was in the South Pacific, in a little place called New Caledonia," he said. "I got to be a bugler boy, on account of my music. I used to blow the calls, taps and stuff like that. After I was through with my calls and things, then I would take my harmonica and come through this big p.a., this big Army p.a. It sounded like a saxophone to me.
"After I was discharged out of the Army back in Chicago on November 16, 1945, that's when I went down on 504 South State Street. I never will forget it. That's where I picked me up a p.a. system with two speakers and a little mic that looked like one of these old-time snuff boxes. And I went to Maxwell Street with it. That's when the big sound started," he said. "People were surprised to hear a harmonica sound like that, so much noise!"
Teamed with cousins Floyd and Moody Jones (Floyd gave the harpist his 'Snooky' moniker), Pryor played on Maxwell Street, leading to Snooky and Moody's debut 78 for the Planet label in late '48. "There was a guy that had a radio shop and records and stuff like that all together. His name was Chester Scales," said Snooky. "By me getting out of the Army, he told me I was so good, asked me, did I want to make a record? Well, you know, at 24 years old, sure! I'd have done anything to get on record then." In early 1950, Pryor made a J.O.B. single, encored in '52, and in late 1954 blew amplified harp on his lowdown J.O.B. release Cryin' Shame at Universal with Eddie Taylor manning one guitar. Pryor then made mid-'50s singles for Parrot and Vee-Jay. "That was nothing but small labels," said Snooky. "By me young and dumb and wanting to record so bad, I just went on and took a chance with 'em."
The blues lost their allure for Pryor at one point during the '60s, but he came back stronger than ever, recording prolifically in the 1990s and right up to his October 18, 2006 death. He remained adamant about who first amplified a harmonica in the Windy City. "They want to say Little Walter amplified the harp, but that's a lie," he said. "When I did that, Little Walter was still in Louisiana shooting marbles!"
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Bible > Psalms > Chapter 9 > Verse 5
◄ Psalm 9:5 ►
You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked; Thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.
Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one hath perished: thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.
Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.
Psalm 9:5 Parallel
(Heb.: 8:7-9) Man is a king, and not a king without territory; the world around, with the works of creative wisdom which fill it, is his kingdom. The words "put under his feet" sound like a paraphrase of the רדה in Genesis 1:26, Genesis 1:28, כּל is unlimited, as in Job 13:1; Job 42:2; Isaiah 44:24. But the expansion of the expression in Psalm 8:8, Psalm 8:9 extends only to the earth, and is limited even there to the different classes of creatures in the regions of land, air, and water. The poet is enthusiastic in his survey of this province of man's dominion. And his lofty poetic language corresponds to this enthusiasm. The enumeration begins with the domestic animals and passes on from these to the wild beasts-together the creatures that dwell on terra firma. צנה (צנא Numbers 32:24) from צנה (צנא) Arab. dnâ (dn'), as also Arab. dân, fut. o., proliferum esse is, in poetry, equivalent to צאן, which is otherwise the usual name for small cattle. אלפים (in Aramaic, as the name of the letter shows, a prose word) is in Hebrew poetically equivalent to בּקר; the oxen which willingly accommodate themselves to the service of man, especially of the husbandman, are so called from אלף to yield to. Wild animals, which in prose are called חיּת הארץ, (השּׂדה) here bear the poetical name בּהמות שׂדי, as in Joel 2:22, cf. Joel 1:20, 1 Samuel 17:44. שׂדי (in pause שׂדי) is the primitive form of שׂדה, which is not declined, and has thereby obtained a collective signification. From the land animals the description passes on to the fowls of the air and the fishes of the water. צפּור is the softer word, instead of עוף; and שׁמים is water. צפּור is the softer word, instead of עוף; and שׁמים is used without the art. according to poetical usage, whereas היּם without the art. would have sounded too scanty and not sufficiently measured. In connection with ימּים the article may be again omitted, just as with שׁמים. עבר is a collective participle. If the following were intended: he (or: since he), viz., man, passes through the paths of the sea (Bttcher, Cassel, and even Aben-Ezra and Kimchi), then it would not have been expressed in such a monostich, and in a form so liable to lead one astray. The words may be a comprehensive designation of that portion of the animal kingdom which is found in the sea; and this also intended to include all from the smallest worm to the gigantic leviathan: ὁππόσα ποντοπόρους παρεπιστείβουσι κελεύθους (Apollinaris). If man thus rules over every living thing that is round about him from the nearest to the most remote, even that which is apparently the most untameable: then it is clear that every lifeless created thing in his vicinity must serve him as its king. The poet regards man in the light of the purpose for which he was created.
Psalm 9:5 Parallel Commentaries
rebuked
Psalm 2:1,8,9 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing...
Psalm 78:55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line...
Psalm 79:10 Why should the heathen say, Where is their God?...
Psalm 149:7 To execute vengeance on the heathen, and punishments on the people;
1 Samuel 17:45-51 Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield...
2 Samuel 5:6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem to the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spoke to David, saying...
2 Samuel 8:1-15 And after this it came to pass that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them...
2 Samuel 10:6-9 And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David...
2 Samuel 21:15-22 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him...
2 Samuel 22:44-46 You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people, you have kept me to be head of the heathen...
Revelation 19:15 And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron...
Psalm 5:6 You shall destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
1 Samuel 25:32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent you this day to meet me:
1 Samuel 31:4 Then said Saul to his armor bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me through therewith...
2 Samuel 17:23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got him home to his house, to his city...
Malachi 4:3 And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this...
Deuteronomy 9:14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven...
Proverbs 10:7 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Proverbs 13:9 The light of the righteous rejoices: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
But the LORD said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of my book.
Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'
He strikes them for their wickedness in a place for all to see,
for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
Arise, O LORD! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before you!
You, LORD God of hosts, are God of Israel. Rouse yourself to punish all the nations; spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. Selah
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.
Age Blotted Destroyed Destruction End Forever Heathen Nations Rebuked Sharp Sinners Wicked Words
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An Eye is Upon You - 202: Back To School...
Published: 22 August, 2011 - Featured in Skin Deep 202, August, 2011
There are two trains of thought when it comes to the ‘ink’ shows on TV, but is the latest addition to the genre that fateful step too far?
Tattoo television has become a mainstream phenomenon, The Learning Channels’ ‘Ink’ franchise has spread from Miami to London and these shows have undoubtedly provided a new accessibility, introducing new aspects of tattooing to a wider public and sated those curious about the interior of the tattoo shop and the process of obtaining a tattoo. But not all of the ‘Miami Ink Effect’ is positive – the need for a dramatic narrative overshadows the art, inviting criticism of the reality format in general.
The problem with ‘reality’ television is partly one of language, the ‘realness’ is constantly reinforced by the name of the genre, the close-up camera angles and the use of 'real people' rather than actors, but the actuality of tattooing is rather different to what is depicted on screen. Television collapses time and this makes large-scale tattoos seem a far less arduous task for both customers and artists, a task that doesn't involve waiting lists, multiple appointments and many hours spent under the needle. Also unacknowledged, the monetary commitment required and the time spent healing tattoos. On the other side of the tattoo machine we don't see the labour of drawing and re–drawing, the hours of concentration, the backaches, the endless waiting for late and cancelled appointments, nor any of the necessary health and safety and business protocols.
In short, tattoo television promotes lifestyle over life experience. It emphasises the ‘why’ over the ‘what’ and instead of art we are given narrative, or worse still, drama.
The short lived series Ink Wars took the narrative away from the customers and gave it to the artists by following a tattoo from conception to completion. Ink Wars featured some truly fantastic tattoo artists but placed them into an artificially competitive and time restricted environment – with each tattoo executed in a single sitting at a tattoo convention and subsequently entered into a public vote.
In TLC's latest offering, Tattoo School, the television imposed time restraints are not just inaccurate but also dangerous. Yet to be aired in the UK, the channels’ official website describes Tattoo School as “where students from all walks of life learn how to tattoo in just two weeks. Rookie students, models risking their skin to first-time body artists, a rebellious instructor and unconventional training... who will bear the drama of competition and survive?”
Those with respect for tattooing are well aware that the knowledge required to become a tattoo artist cannot be obtained in a two-week period and that the required skill set takes years to develop. Still, sadly, tattoo schools exist all over the world, not to teach tattooing, but to make quick and easy money from the impatient, the untalented and the uninformed; creating ‘students’ who graduate with a dangerously small amount of information and even less health and safety experience. Television viewers whose experience of the tattoo world is limited to what they have witnessed on screen may believe that tattoo schools are a legitimate path to becoming a tattoo artist, so for TLC to broadcast this unethical practice is unquestionably irresponsible.
A petition against the broadcast of Tattoo School can be found at: www.ipetitions.com/petition/boycotttattooschool/
Interestingly, web TV – cheaper to produce and easier to distribute – is also turning its attention to tattooing. Two new programmes, the Vice Magazine sponsored 'Tattoo Age', a documentary series featuring portraits and tattoo artists and their art, and tattooer Marcus Kuhn’s tattoo travelogue The Gypsy Gentleman are now available online. Both of these fascinating projects are in their infancy, but hopefully, their focus on the ‘what’ rather than the ‘why’ will set new televisual standards and prove that tattoo ‘reality’ doesn’t have to
be dramatic.
Regretfully, this month I cannot go without mentioning the tragically early death of Amy Winehouse.
A modern day Billie Holiday, as well known for her difficult personal life as her rich contralto voice, Amy was one of Britain’s best known tattooed women. Mainstream media commentators have assumed a correlation between Winehouse's bodily decorations and her self-destructive behaviour, but at this sad time, searching for negatives seems both overly simplistic and incredibly unkind.
Perhaps those of us with a personal understanding of being tattooed, Amy's brothers and sisters of ink, can make different connections. We can trace the lines between Winehouse's inner self and her outward appearance and find the signs of the artist on her skin, as colourful, as unpredictable and as fleeting as a butterfly.
[Tattoos are] “A way of suffering for the things that mean a lot to you”
Text: Paula Hardy Kangelos
Skin Deep 202
An Eye is Upon You - 201: T.L.N.D.
An Eye Is Upon You - 203: Secret Signs
Skin Deep 202 On Sale: 23 August 2011 Issue: 202
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Inkoming - 202
Flash Art Supplement - 202
Think! - 202: Only Women Bleed...
Smallman Syndrome - 202
Reader Profile: Rich Smith
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Appeal to fund vital spine operation for Florence, aged 10
The family of Burntwood girl Florence Seager, who has scoliosis, are trying to raise £50,000 to pay for specialist surgery
A BURNTWOOD mum is making a heartfelt plea to the community for help in raising funds for a vital operation to her daughter’s spine.
Florence Seager suffers from Scoliosis, a sideways curvature of the spine, and without surgery, the condition will continue to worsen putting pressure on her heart and lungs, seriously impacting on her health, education and career.
The ten year-old, one of triplets - thankfully sisters Alice and Evie don’t have the condition, is forced to wear a brace 23 hours a day and endure pain, and her mum, Corinne, is trying to do all she can to raise the £50,000 needed to pay for the surgery abroad where it would be performed.
Florence Seager and her mum Corinne.
“She is my daughter and like any mum I want her to have the best treatment available,” said Corinne (45) who considers her girls “miracles” as they were conceived after cycles of IVF.
“We have tears sometimes, but day to day she is upbeat and does not let the condition get in her way.”
Corinne first suspected something was wrong three years ago when she noticed Florence did not sit up straight.
A visit to the doctor followed by X-rays resulted in the scoliosis diagnosis. Since then Florence has been under 6 monthly review. By June 2017 it was established she needed a back brace.
“It was made especially for her,” said Corinne. “It is pulled as tight as possible and holds the spine in place.
“In the summer it is hot and uncomfortable and it sweats.
“Florence has to wear a vest underneath so that it does not rub her skin but she can get sores and rashes.”
The brace comes off to enable Florence, a Ridgeway Primary School pupil, to wash and sometimes for PE.
An x-ray in November showed that the curvature to her spine has worsened significantly. The Seager family is “immensely grateful” for the care Florence has received through the NHS but the surgery she needs is only available privately abroad.
Florence needs surgery to treat her scoliosis, curvature of her spine.
It is called Vertebral Body Tethering and involves putting screws into the spine which are connected by a flexible cord rather than a metal rod - rods are conventionally used for scoliosis treatment.
The system works by compressing (squeezing) one side of the curved spine which aims to change the growth of that part of the spine and slowly improve the curve.
The system can only be used in children with enough growth left in their skeleton and are above the age of 8 years and the advantage of VBT is that it should leave the spine flexible rather than stiff.
Last month Corinne was told that a Turkish surgeon able to perform the operation was visiting London, so she travelled down to the capital to meet him.
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Corinne met people who had benefited from the procedure and the surgeon told Corinne that Florence would be a perfect candidate because VBT “relies on growth”.
“Without surgery Florence is likely to experience serious health problems in the future,” said Corinne.
“This is what we want to avoid if we can.”
Fundraising events are in the pipeline including a “Run For Flo” organised by the football team Florence’s sister Evie plays for - Burntwood Dragons and Phoenix.
“But time is against us,” said Corinne.
“If Florence has a growth spurt the curve will get rapidly worse.
“If we had the money the operation could be done straight away.
“She just wants to be like her two sisters; out of pain and with a bright future.
“We would be extremely grateful for any help that people can give, whether this be money, or ideas for fundraising.”
Anyone able to help with a donation can visit www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/fixflorencesspine
or google search ‘justgiving Corinne Seager’.
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All Your Favorite Balls [Ranked by a Boudin Ball Expert]
On a mission to find the best boudin balls in Baton Rouge
by Sydney "Brown Nose" Blanchard, intern
It may not seem obvious, but here at Bite and Booze, we work hard.
Day in and day out, we shovel mountains of food into our face holes, forcing down bite after agonizing bite, analyzing and articulating flavor, texture and taste.
Eating and drinking Louisiana's best food and beverages is not for those of weak constitutions. Just ask me. I can't hang.
"In the three weeks I have interned at Bite and Booze, I have overeaten to the point of vomiting twice."
We make it look easy, but it's grueling. And someone's gotta do it.
That's why we decided to get to the bottom of one of Baton Rouge's most pressing matters. Not higher education budget cuts, not our quickly-deteriorating ecosystem, not the salt-water intrusion threatening to cause the collapse of the city as we know it.
We decided to investigate Baton Rouge's Best Boudin Balls.
Baton Rouge has a number of delectable balls in an astonishing range of shapes, textures and sizes.
And they're all beautiful, each and every one. And that's says a lot coming from me.
We rounded up seven of our favorite balls from across the city, and left the deciding up to one man.
Mr. Loup (progenitor of Blair Loup, Bite and Booze's Chief Confusion Coordinator) is a mustachioed, Opelous-born, Sulphur-raised Southern gentleman. Having grown up in "Boudin Country" and being accustomed to eating the best boudin the world has to offer, we felt Mr. Loup would be the perfect person to rank Baton Rouge ball scene. As an extra qualifier, he had never once eaten a Baton Rouge boudin ball before, so his opinion ethically lacked any preconceived notions.
Jay, Blair and I spent an afternoon venturing across the city to the restaurants listed below, acquiring an order of boudin balls at each location. At Blair's apartment, we incubated our boudin babies under a heat lamp to keep them warm, and had Mr. Loup do a blind taste test. Perfectly scientific.
Here's what he came up with. Now go out and eat!
7. Dempsey's, 13580 Coursey Blvd.
Dempsey's is one of our favorite eateries, but Mr. Loup wasn't too keen on their boudin balls. He observed that these were some of the smallest balls. They were light in color, tinged maybe yellow or orange, and had a fair amount of rice inside. Overall, according to Mr. Loup, "There's not really much to say."
Ranking: *
6. Beausoleil Restaurant and Bar, 7731 Jefferson Hwy.
Beausoleil is newer to the game, and they bring a certain style to boudin balls. These balls were more cylindrical than round. Mr. Loup noted they were finely ground on the inside, but bland for his taste. In fact, he said in comparison, "There's no taste to them." However, after the taste test, we all tried them with the red bean puree which accompanies the balls at the restaurant, and Mr. Loup agreed that the puree added something unique to these balls.
Ranking: **
5. Ronnie's Boudin & Cracklins, 9830 Florida Blvd.
Ronnie's is a Baton Rouge institution. Mr. Loup first commented on the fullness of these balls. He pointed out they were more brown than gold and were more finely ground. These balls are huge, and Mr. Loup picked up on the heavier pork flavor of these balls. But Mr. Loup didn't like how finely ground they were as they were lacking the internal texture of the whole grain rice.
4. Bergeron's, 790 Highway 415 in Port Allen
Outside the Baton Rouge city limits, actually, across the Mighty Mississippi, lies Bergeron's. Mr. Loup instantly became a fan of Bergeron's boudin ball crust. He again wasn't in love with how finely ground the boudin was, and he felt it needed more green onion. Overall he felt this one was somewhat bland compared to the others.
Ranking: ***
3. The Chimes East, 10870 Coursey Blvd.
Chimes is a local staple, and they're known for the boudin balls on their appetizer menu. The liver flavor was predominant in these balls, according to Mr. Loup. He liked that he could see the grains of rice in the ball, just like real boudin. The pepper flavor was there, but not overwhelming. He also felt, aesthetically, this was one of the best looking balls.
Ranking: ****
2. Tony's Seafood, 5215 Plank Road
Much to Jay and Blair's glee, Mr. Loup ranked Tony's balls second in the lineup. It has been well-documented that Tony's boudin balls are the only thing Blair lives for. Mr. Loup said these smaller boudin balls resembled marshmallows, and said the taste was better than the previous balls. He liked that they were crunchy and peppery, and they were easy to eat for on-the-go consumption.
1. Days Smokehouse & Specialty Meats, 35770 Old La Highway 16 in Denham Springs
Days Smokehouse out in Denham/Watson came out on top. Mr. Loup ranked it No. 1 mainly because of the smoky flavor. They are darker in color than some of the other balls, and again, he noted their fullness and robust size. He thought the flavors were great, and that they were just spicy enough for him.
Ranking: *****
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BB18RD
FM/CD/MP3/USB/AUX Boombox
Music accompanies us every day. We listen to it at home, when preparing meals, in the car, at work, when learning, or at a picnic. A day filled with the sounds of your favourite songs is a very-pleasant one! Among the devices on which listening to music are extremely popular are boombox CD/MP3/Radio players. You can see them in a teenager's room, in classrooms, or at a hairdresser's. Wherever you want some subtle background music, or need to listen to training materials, they are there. Their ease of use and versatile features make them very popular among children, teenagers, and adults.
All those who cannot imagine a day without their favourite music or radio station will be interested in the BB18RD CD/MP3/Radio Player by Blaupunkt.
This model allows you to play audio files from a range of sources. It is equipped with a CD player which reads MP3 files, so that users can listen not only to their favourite music, but also to audiobooks.
The built-in FM tuner features in its storage memory up to 40 radio stations, which those who listen every day to their favourite broadcast from various radio stations will surely appreciate. Thanks to its PLL feature for the automatic search and saving of available radio stations, tuning the radio is very easy, and takes little time.
The BB18RD comes with a USB port, which allows you to connect to the device compatible media with stored MP3 and WMA files. The side housing is also fitted with an AUX input for connecting to the boombox any external devices with analogue audio output. Simply connect your external device to the player and enjoy far-better sound!
The CD/MP3/Radio Player also comes with a 3.5mm mini-jack headphone input to ensure you don’t disturb other household members when you plug in your headphones to listen to your favourite music or audiobooks.
The BB18RD has an alarm clock – to be appreciated by even the most-extreme late risers! It is so nice to wake up to the sounds of your favourite radio station, isn’t it? A morning like this will make the whole day perfect!
The Boombox can be supplied with both mains power and six replaceable R14 batteries. This ensures the device will be perfect not only as a stationary player, but also as a portable source of fun, which you can, for example, take along to a picnic.
To add to your convenience of use, the player features a clear LCD display, which shows the frequency of the selected radio station, the track number, or the current time.
CD Player with MP3 Reader
PLL FM Radio with a 40-station storage memory
USB input for playing music in MP3/WMA formats
Output power 2 x 2 Watt RMS
Telescopic radio antenna
3.5 mm audio mini-jack input
3.5 mm headphone output minijack
Battery power supply 6×1.5 V / R14 (battery not included)
Mains power supply AC 230 V~50 Hz
Dimensions 298 (W) x 128 (H) x 230 (D) mm
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February 04, 2019 Food & Drink » Swirl
Perfectly Claret
The dusty old wine term behind bright and fresh wines
By James Knight
When you're not completely clear on claret, you're already halfway to getting it. And you're not alone in posing the question: what's a claret?
"Well, first off, let me congratulate you on pronouncing it correctly," winemaker David Ramey replies (well, thank you, Mr. Ramey) when I ask him if visitors to his Healdsburg tasting room want for some clarification on the topic. "That's the first order of education. It's an English word: it's clare-et, not clare-ay!" It's meant 'wine from Bordeaux' to them for a long time."
That's not to say there isn't a similar word sporting a silent t, says Ramey, noting that claret derives from a French word meaning "clear and light," which describes the style of wine that—summing up a brief history of Bordeaux wine from the era of Eleanor of Aquitaine on up through contemporary modifications to the Tax and Trade Bureau's labeling requirements for U.S. wines—English wine drinkers expected from the region for many years: a pleasant, ruby quaff that generally contains Cabernet Sauvignon with friends Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Malbec.
When Ramey made his first red for his own label, his distributors balked at his idea to call it "Petite Rouge." So claret it was, and with good timing: soon afterward, the heavies from the EU stepped in, claiming claret for exclusive use by French vintners. Ramey objects, noting that it's not even a proper noun: "You cannot find it on a map of Bordeaux; it's not a place."
In any case, Ramey's 2016 Napa Valley Claret ($42) has a grandfathered right to the label, and earns it squarely with light cherry color, red licorice aroma and sharp red currant flavor. Dry, tart and lightly tannic, with a slight dark roasted coffee top note, it's an upscale "bistro wine" to be sure. But wait, what's this? The back label says there's eight percent Syrah in the blend. Is it still claret?
Of course, and there's method to the admixture, says Ramey: "It's a tip of the hat to the 1800s," when some Bordeaux wineries carted in barrels of Syrah from Hermitage, in southeastern France, to boost their limpid blends—as you know, claret and rosé just don't rhyme together.
Budget and claret go together in Francis Ford Coppola's 2016 Black Label Claret ($21), which is Cabernet Sauvignon in the main, and a deeper—nay, opaque—ruby hue in the glass (no rules for claret, remember), but a buoyant little breeze of sweet, raspberry-soaked, creamy oak on the palate.
Ramey Wine Cellars, 25 Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg. By appointment, Monday–Saturday, 10am–2pm. 707.433.0870. Francis Fort Coppola Winery, 300 Via Archimedes, Geyserville. Daily, 11am–6pm. 707.857.1471.
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Experts' Expert: Broadway belter Sutton Foster on how to get immediate moisture in your mouth
Wrote Anthony Tommasini in a May 11, 2011 New York Times story about the singer (above), "Sometimes, when your mouth gets dry, you can bite your tongue. [Said Foster] 'You get immediate moisture in your mouth.'"
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Poison Apple Trinket Box
By New York artist Michiko Shimada.
Porcelain apple container in black with clear glaze accent.
2.75"H x 2.4"W with 2"Ø opening.
True: Gmail was once Garfieldmail
According to Wikipedia, "Before its acquisition by Google, the gmail.com domain name was used by a free e-mail service offered by Garfield.com, online home of the comic strip 'Garfield.'"
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Instant Sumo Suit — "Get big fast"
Sounds like I'm channeling Jeff Bezos' early days — but I'm not.
For thousands of years the noble art of Sumo Wrestling has been practised in Japan. For years candidates slave and sweat under the vigilant tuition of their stable master. With a combination of speed, dexterity, a high level of balance and above all a sense of humility, Sumo wrestlers can rise to fame and fortune.
Now you too can experience the roar of the crowd (or perhaps in this case laughter) with this ludicrously funny Instant Sumo Wrestling Suit. No years of training, no binge eating, just step in and inflate, and in a matter of seconds you'll attain the bulk and stature of a mighty warrior — kind of.
This really is a superbly daft and fun costume, guaranteed to win "best costume" at any party, and with the added attraction of you being able to whip it off when you've had enough, and return to normal — as long as you remember to take off the comedy headpiece!
The Sumo Suit comes with a fan which slips into a vented pocket in the back, that at the flick of a button will inflate you to impressive proportions. The thing about a really good costume is that everybody wants a try, which is what makes this one so great, as it's easy to get on and off. Join the noble breed, and you can be sure to get more laughs than anyone else.
• Inflates in seconds
• Suitable for age 10+
• Comes with suit and hat
• 100% nylon — hand wash cold, line dry; do not iron
• Battery operated fan requires 4 AA batteries (not included)
• One-size-fits-all (unless you are already a Sumo wrestler, in which case what are you doing?)
£14.99.
10+ means half my readers are left out of the fun.
That doesn't make me happy.
Have you ever seen my Sumo wrestler impersonation?
You have?
That's funny — because I've never done one.
Sounds like a little reality checkage is in order, what?
"Is your religion your financial destiny?"
How is it possible to doubt that conclusion after viewing the graphic above, which accompanied David Leonhardt's essay in Sunday's New York Times magazine?
Wrote Leonhardt, "The economic differences among the country’s various religions are strikingly large, much larger than the differences among states and even larger than those among racial groups."
"Many factors are behind the discrepancies among religions, but one stands out. The relationship between education and income is so strong that you can almost draw a line through the points on this graph."
Kroil: World's best penetrating oil — "and it smells funny too"
Is the video above fo' shizzle or what?
Here is John Todd's review of Kroil Penetrating Oil as it appears in the latest edition of Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools, edited by Oliver Hulland:
Kroil is an extremely effective penetrating lubricant. Almost every professional machine shop I've been in has a bottle of this sitting prominently beside the workbench. I first saw it about eight years ago and asked the mechanic why he used it. His words are the same I now say to those who ask me: It will unstick ANYTHING.
I frequently take apart antique machinery or general equipment. There is almost always rust, grime, burned grease, metal shavings, and the wear of decades that prevent me from separating bolts from nuts and pins from holes, or keep sliding surfaces from moving. I've used every possible penetrating lubricant on the market. Some worked OK, but nothing really was "magic" until I found Kroil. Not many products make me laugh with glee. But the satisfying twist of an otherwise impossible-to-remove bolt or the turn of a shaft that was rusted solid now make me smile, all because of this little orange can.
Kroil doesn't work instantly. It takes between a few minutes and a few days (for extremely large bearing surfaces) to work its magic. I once let it sit for a week on a 300-pound flywheel that was being very stubborn, and it came right off.
Kroil is not for general lubrication purposes. It's very thin (which is part of how it works) and is not very sticky. But that's not the reason I use it; I use it to get things apart. Kroil has a weird creeping capability, it finds its way up and across metal surfaces like some sort of strange science fiction amoeba. After I use Kroil to separate things, I'll typically clean them completely (dip in mineral spirits) air-blast to remove residue, and then re-oil with a more permanent lubricant. The Kroil won't hurt anything if it stays, but I like to get a thicker material in everywhere to avoid having to fix the problem again in a few years.
It's somewhat hard to find in a retail setting. I've never seen it in a hardware store, but that doesn't mean some don't carry it. (The label on my bottle says "For industrial use only — not for retail sale," which is somewhat antiquated.) I typically get it directly from kanolabs.com, though eBay also might have some good deals. There are now several variants of Kroil including graphite and silicone, but I stick with the old-fashioned stuff since I haven't read the data enough on the other mixtures to figure out if it's worth changing.
If someone asked me what critical items I'd want for my toolbox, this would be among them. It comes at an even higher value than general-purpose sprays like WD-40. Simply put, Kroil is the most useful lubricant I know of.
8 oz.: $8.95.
Excerpt from another review:
A recent example of when I have used Kroil came when I bought an Ideal #3 Stencil machine on eBay, which is used for cutting out cardboard or paper letters and numbers for making paint stencils. I purchased the machine for $40, which is about 1/5th the normal price, because the machine was rusty and jammed [below].
I took the risk because I knew Kroil would work. Indeed, when I opened up the box, the rust was pretty severe. All of the vertical punch letters were rusted in place, and the dial didn't even spin at all to change letters. I liberally dosed all of the moving component interface areas I could see with Kroil, and then started to take it apart. After an hour or so of time, I was able to get all of the moving components back into fully operational condition after slowly working them through a few gritty and then progressively smoother cycles with the Kroil finding its way into the nooks and crannies.
Even the central shaft [below]
which was frozen solid with several hundred pounds of turning force, after two hours or so I was able to feel a little movement, and after another hour and some huffing and puffing I was able to get the assembly off the shaft.
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Snail Doorstop
"Bright pink
paint job
over weighty
cast iron."
5.5"H x 9.5L.
$24.99.
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As you head to the coast remember the plans for South Africa’s blue economy
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By Trudie Nichols Wednesday, December 09, 2015
As the holiday season begins in South Africa, those tourists heading to the coast might be interested to know that the country's National Development Plan (NDP) recently recognised the potential for developing South Africa’s valuable ocean economy. South Africa is a maritime nation with over 3000 km of coastline straddling a major strategic shipping route. Since close to 80% of trade is by sea, the country is suitably placed to exploit this asset. While many South Africans take time out to stare at the ocean on the country's scenic beaches, they might be thinking about the ocean economy's role as one of the key drivers in the elimination of poverty and reduction of inequality in South Africa.
The White Paper on the National Environmental Management of the Ocean (NEMO), which was published in May 2014, is an additional initiative which recognised that the ocean represents a significant asset for the current and future generations of South Africans, and that the various marine resources in our ocean space provided significant potential for the unlocking of further economic development opportunities.
Phakisa, which is Sesotho for “hurry up”, is a programme which is modelled on the Malaysian government’s big fast results programme and which entails convening laboratories to bring together specific role players to develop detailed practical plans which include setting targets or key performance indicators and monitoring progress. The programme is intended to deal with the development challenges highlighted in government’s NDP.
The oceans economy is the first of possibly many sector-based Phakisa programmes initiated by government and others already being implemented include those covering Health; Mining, and ICT in Education. The oceans economy was launched in July 2014 and implementation of the lab initiatives was announced in October 2014.
Four priority potential growth areas were identified within the oceans economy, namely marine transport and manufacturing; offshore oil and gas exploration; aquaculture and marine protection services and ocean governance. Two additional further growth areas were subsequently added, namely small harbours development; and coastal and marine tourism.
Tourism was also recognised by the 2050 Africa’s integrated maritime (AIM) strategy as promising but under-appreciated notwithstanding the tremendous power and potential that tourism can unlock. Tourism creates jobs and opportunities for entrepreneurship, reduces poverty, promotes stability, and preserves heritage and culture and build global connections. Tourism is estimated to contribute over 9% to South Africa’s GDP and this sector supports 1.4 million job opportunities in the country.
Operation Phakisa's marine transport and manufacturing plans have subsequently been announced for unlocking economic potential and they include developing oil and gas port infrastructure; maintaining and refurbishing existing port and ship repair facilities; fast-tracking decisions on issuing of licences; reforming the port tariff structure; developing the port facilities for boat, ship repair and rig repair; and establishing a supporting funding model for infrastructure development in ports.
Industry and other stakeholders have identified legislative and regulatory uncertainty as a major stumbling block to the oil and gas sector’s progress. Some of the problem stems from the proposed changes in an amendment bill to the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA).
Many oil and gas industry players and stakeholders have lobbied extensively for the sector to be legislated separately from mining. These processes will have serious implications for operation Phakisa and the extent to which it can hasten the development of this sector. Current market conditions are also a challenge for this sector.
The plummeting oil and gas price limits the likelihood of further investment in this sector by oil companies. Aquaculture is relatively underdeveloped in South Africa despite being an increasingly important contributor to food security globally. Plans announced for unlocking economic potential include finalising legislative reform (a draft Bill has already been prepared) to promote aquaculture development; addressing access to land and sea/port infrastructure, including leases; streamlining authorisations through the establishment of an inter-departmental authorisations committee; addressing funding arrangements and market access; initiating implementation of 24 prioritised aquaculture projects; and initiating the process to proclaim 28 new harbours by mid-2016.
The South African government also recognised the need to continuously balance the economic exploitation of the oceans with the maintenance of their environmental integrity. Plans announced for unlocking economic potential include addressing ocean governance through the development of overarching, integrated ocean governance framework for the sustainable growth of the ocean economy; establishing an enhanced and coordinated programme to protect South Africa’s ocean and coastal resources as well as its sovereignty; embarking on marine spatial panning to designate special use zones within the ocean space; and implementing science platforms for monitoring and surveillance.
Notwithstanding some of the key advantages of the oceans economy, the sector also faces particular challenges such as monopolies and lack of competition; poor and sometimes non-existent infrastructure; maintenance, operational efficiencies, congestion and turnaround time, a poor ship register, a lack of skills and expertise; a lack of funding and a poor regulatory framework.
While there is no doubt that our coastline is a much loved national treasure, there is much work to be done to ensure that the blue economy is sufficiently up and running to be able to work to address the country's needs, while at the same time remaining a protected and beautiful natural resource for future generations.
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Home > England > Northumberland > Ancient Sites > Ad Gefrin (Yeavering)
Ad Gefrin (Yeavering)
History, tourist information, and nearby accommodation
BY DAVID ROSS, EDITOR
HERITAGE HIGHLIGHTS: Site a 6th-century royal township
Ad Gefrin is one of the most important archaeological sites in early medieval Britain, yet it is one that few members of the public are aware of. There has been a settlement here on the valley floor under the shadow of Yeavering Bell since the Bronze Age, about 5,000 years ago.
The real importance of Ad Gefrin began in the 6th century when the newly-established Anglo-Saxon kings of Northumbria built a royal residence here. The royal family did not have a central seat of power, but rather the kings established royal halls in several locations throughout their territory and moved from one to the other, administering justice and receiving tribute from the local area.
Ad Gefrin was one of these regional administrative centres, a place where the royal court would live for a period before moving on to the next royal settlement. For over 100 years Ad Gefrin was the focal point for important historical events.
In the 7th century, Bishop Paulinus preached to the king and queen of Northumbria at their hall in Ad Gefrin. His visit is recorded by the Venerable Bede in his 'History of the English Church and People', where Bede says Paulinus preached for 36 days and baptised his converts in the nearby River Glen.
The view to Yeavering Bell
Bede goes on to say that Ad Gefrin was deserted by later kings in favour of a new residence at nearby Milfield called Maelmin.
Before Maelmin, however, ad Gefrin was home to some of the most famous Northumbrian rulers such as Aethelfrith, Edwin and Oswald, who was later canonised as St Oswald.
The palace was attacked and destroyed by Cadwallon, King of the Britons, and again by King Penda of Mercia. By the 8th century Ad Gefrin was no more, and for over a thousand years the site was lost. It was only rediscovered in 1949 when aerial photography revealed the outlines of 6th-century buildings.
The Ad Gefrin memorial
Ad Gefrin Timeline
AD 580 - the first settlement at Yeavering takes shape, with rectangular huts and a large timber enclosure at the eastern end of the site. This takes place during the reign of the Anglo-Saxon King Ida. Ida's capital was at Bamburgh, on the coast.
AD 600 - Ida's grandson Aethelfrith (reigned 593-616) extends his territory. The settlement is now a royal township with residences suitable for the monarch and his court. A tiered seating area is built with seats for 150 people.
AD 627 - Aethelfrith is followed by King Edwin and Queen Aethelburgha, a Kentish princess who brings with her a Christian bishop named Paulinus. Paulinus converts large numbers of Northumbrians to Christianity. At Ad Gefrin the tiered seating area is expanded to accommodate 320 people. This is the high point of Ad Gerfin's development.
AD 633 - The southern kings Cadwallon of Wales and Penda of Mercia attack Northumbria. The settlement at Ad Gefrin is destroyed by fire.
AD 640 - King Oswald (634-642) extends Northumbrian territory north to the Firth of Forth. The settlement is rebuilt, with a large cemetery and a church.
AD 651 - King Penda of Mercia attacks again. Ad Gefrin is destroyed by fire once more.
AD 655 - Oswald's brother Oswy takes the Northumbrian throne. Ad Gefrin is rebuilt but on a much smaller scale. The few buildings that remain are eventually abandoned and left to decay.
King Arthur’s first battle
An ancient record suggests that King Arthur’s first battle took place at the mouth of the River Glen. Unfortunately, there are two River Glens; one here in Northumberland and one in Lincolnshire. Which one is 'King Arthur's river?
If it is the Northumberland version then the mouth of the river is just a stone's throw from Ad Gefrin. Could the legend of King Arthur be a folk memory of the 7th-century battles here that destroyed Ad Gefrin?
Looking west across the royal township
The Gefrin site is extremely easy to find. It is located under the shadow of Yeavering Bell, on the north side of the B6351 between Wooler and Kirknewton, just west of Yeavering. There is a layby on the north side of the road (the eastbound lane).
There is no easy way to park if you are westbound, from Wooler. We had to drive past the site and turn around at the next junction, then retrace our route eastward to the layby.
There is a large memorial with several very useful information panels. A trail takes you along the field boundary to some of the most important locations, with more information panels to help you understand the layout of the site and its historical significance.
There is very little to see above ground, which is not surprising when you consider that Ad Gefrin lay hidden from view for over 1300 years and was only rediscovered with the aid of aerial photography.
It is still a fascinating site, especially when you realise how close it is to the ancient hillfort of Yeavering Bell on the hilltop above. This has obviously been a place of great importance for many thousands of years.
About Ad Gefrin (Yeavering)
Address: B6351, Wooler, Northumberland, England, NE71 6HF
Attraction Type: Prehistoric Site
Location: On the B6351 immediately west of Yeavering. Layby on the north side of the road (eastbound).
Website: Ad Gefrin (Yeavering)
OS: NT927304
Photo Credit: David Ross and Britain Express
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NEARBY HISTORIC ATTRACTIONS
Heritage Rated from 1- 5 (low to exceptional) on historic interest
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RemoteUtilities Review
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The 3 plays in sports everybody will be talking about today
Warren Little/Getty ImagesSergio Garcia waves to the crowd after hitting a hole-in-one at the Players Championship.
Good morning! Here are the plays everybody will be talking about Friday:
The Sergio Garcia ace. Garcia is having quite a season. One month after winning his first major at the Masters, Garcia became just the 8th player to hit a hole-in-one at the famous No. 17 island green during the Players Championship.
The Dustin Johnson putt. Johnson finished second at least week’s Well Fargo Championship, his first tournament since having to pull out of the Masters because of an injury. That, and his No. 1 ranking made him the betting favourite at the Players Championship even though he has never performed well at TPC Sawgrass. It doesn’t help when he has putts like this. DJ shot 1-under and is four shots back after the first round.
The John Guidetti miss. In the second leg of the semifinal of the Europa League, Celta Vigo was tied with Manchester United in stoppage time. Vigo needed one goal to advance to the final. In the 96th minute, with just seconds to go until the final whistle, Guidetti missed an empty net and Manchester United is on to face Ajax in the final.
The Little League home run bonus. Rays center fielder Kevin Kiermaier has a reputation as one of the best fielders in baseball. And yet, for the second time this week, Kiermaier overran a ground ball allowing the batter to circle the bases and score, also known as a “Little League home run.”
Oh come on …
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— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) May 11, 2017
Probably pop that in the net, if I was you m8. pic.twitter.com/2UUbicNdYq
— Mundial Magazine (@MundialMag) May 11, 2017
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What you need to know on Wall Street right now
an Iranian pharmacist arranges medicine on shelves at a pharmacy in central Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012.
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It's easy to see why EpiPen has become the focus of America's fury over drug prices. But while it's easy to jump all over drugmakers, like EpiPen's maker, Mylan, other actors in the healthcare system ought to draw as much scrutiny.
One group of companies, called pharmaceutical-benefit managers, or PBMs, serve as middlemen, and they touch every part of the purchase of a prescription drug.
And now there's a growing realization, from Washington to Wall Street, that PBMs have been a big beneficiary of soaring drug prices burdening Americans — profits of the largest companies have doubled in recent years — even as they pitch their services as critical to controlling costs.
Volatility is back in markets after a dead-quiet summer. US Treasurys are selling off, and Goldman Sachs' equity strategists expect that the next move for the S&P 500 will be down.
Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan and Agrium are merging to create the largest crop nutrient company in the world. The deal could net investment banks working on the deal close to $100 million in fees. It's not all good news for dealmakers, however. The German industrial-gases group Linde and US rival Praxair said on Monday they have ended talks to create a $60-billion-plus market leader.
Donald Trump has continued his recent attacks on Janet Yellen and the Federal Reserve. Mark Cuban is continuing his crusade against Trump. Meanwhile, Home Depot cofounder Bernie Marcus says "America will go down the drain" if Hillary Clinton is elected president.
Lastly, here's how Tesla's cars have changed over the years.
Here are the top Wall Street headlines at midday:
A record number of renters are renewing their leases to avoid a crazy house hunt - A record number of renters in the US are choosing to renew their leases, according to RealPage.
The toxic asset made famous by 'The Big Short' might actually be a good investment - A lot has changed since the housing- and global-financial crisis that roiled the world economy from 2007 to 2009 (and still impacts it now).
One group is hurting wage growth in some of the world's biggest economies - Wage growth has been stagnating in Europe and Japan recently.
One of the biggest signs of a recession isn't going away - Joe LaVorgna, chief US economist at Deutsche Bank, is again raising warnings about a corporate profit-led recession.
The one question prominent Silicon Valley investor Bill Gurley asked Warren Buffett when they met - Venture capitalist Bill Gurley has, for awhile, been one of the most prominent voices in Silicon Valley warning of a tech bubble,especially in on-demand companies.
American Apparel founder Dov Charney is back with a new T-shirt business he says is already worth $30 million - Dov Charney, the founder of American Apparel who was forced out of the company in a 2014 boardroom coup, has a new gig: He has started a T-shirt company with some of his old colleagues from American Apparel and is already shipping merchandise.
PICTURES: Tom Hardy, Lindsay Lohan, and Pippa Middleton raise money in memory of 9/11 - Every year broker BGC, which used to be part of Cantor Fitzgerald, holds a charity day to honor the memory of the 658 Cantor employees and 61 Eurobrokers employees who lost their lives in the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks.
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The History Of Culottes Goes Beyond Those Weird Stretchy Capris You Wore In High School
By Jade Melise Herrin
What are culottes and where on earth did they come from? Over the past few years, they've become about the coolest pants trend ever, but the history of culottes goes way back before those spandex versions we wore in the '90s. Recently, I found myself just staring at a pair one day, wondering how exactly we should classify this quirky piece of fashion art. Are they shorts, pants, a skirt, or all of the above? Or are they none of those things at all? Precisely. Culottes are 100 percent their very own thing.
These peculiar pant-like bottoms made their debut in the early 1900s, but they have stood the course of time by making an appearance in just about every decade since then, as demonstrated below. While we first saw a glimpse in the 1920s, culottes weren't an actual fashion statement until 1931, when women basically decided to be boss ladies and try their hand in sports. Feminism at it's finest, am I right? According to The Guardian, these trousers were "initially known as 'split' or 'divided skirts'." Seriously, could they get any less original? Somewhere along the line, they better became known as culottes. I haven't decided if that sounds like a fancy foreign drink or a disease the New York transit system carries. Regardless, I like it. And it fits these funky trousers.
As you contemplate adding a couple pairs of culottes to your closet, take a peek back at their history.
According to Vogue , designer Elsa Schiaparelli "created the revolutionary divided skirt, a forerunner of shorts, which was worn by Lili de Alvarez at Wimbledon in 1931 and shocked the tennis world," essentially bringing culottes to the world.
Ladies strolling through the streets loving their culottes! Two-piece outfits were popular in this decade because there was a rationing on fabric due to the war. Women could mix and match their culottes with other tops and have multiple outfits to choose from.
Claire McCardell, fashion designer, sports the spunky pants. Although this particular pair may not have been her own design, McCardell created "clothes that a woman could adapt to her body in all sorts of ways," according to the New York Times. Culottes included.
These culottes were featured in Harper's Bazaar in 1966. They were the work of designer, Anne Fogarty.
Bianca Jagger, a human rights advocate and actress, in a culottes jumpsuit sometimes in the '70s.
This is a pattern from 1982 for the girls who wanted to create their own culottes.
This was a standard look in the '90s. Gotta love the culotte jumpsuit!
Now, we find ourselves well into the new millennium where culottes are still all the rage. Here's how some of our favorite stylish celebs are rocking the look.
Come on, you know you want a pair too.
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What Are You Girls Doing Here?
Penny Pilkington & Wendy Olsoff with Lucy Ives
Lucy Ives is the author of many books of poetry and prose, including The Hermit (2016), the novella nineties (2013), and, most recently, the novel Impossible Views of the World (2017, published by Penguin Press. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, Lapham’s Quarterly, Bomb, Conjunctions, The New Yorker, and Triple Canopy, where she was an editor for several years.
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By Penny Pilkington & Wendy Olsoff with Lucy Ives
A portrait of Penny Pilkington and Wendy Olsoff by Sue Coe from 1984.
For issue fourteen, Triple Canopy senior editor Lucy Ives sifted through the loose photographs, tickets, clippings, and roughly thirty spiral notebooks that constitute the David Wojnarowicz Collection, sharing excerpts of his journals in “Years Ago Before the Nation Went Bankrupt.” Ives sat down with Penny Pilkington and Wendy Olsoff, the cofounders and owners of PPOW Gallery, which represents the Wojnarowicz estate, and discussed an influential Avery Label sheet, inventing an agenda, and their seven gallery spaces.
Lucy Ives: Maybe we could start with the day you met.
Wendy Olsoff: Penny and I met working in a gallery on Madison Avenue, in 1981. Penny has a charming story. I showed her the bathroom, I think.
Penny Pilkington: I thought it was very strange that you would show me the bathroom. We became roommates, probably in 1982.
LI: So, a conversation came out of living together?
WO: We were twenty-three.
PP: We would discuss being able to work with artists we liked, whom we chose. Our rent was $750, and we talked about finding a loft and doing exhibitions and being open on Thursday and Friday nights and Saturday and Sunday and having jobs at the same time. We found an apartment on Tenth Street and a storefront, and together the rent was $1,000.
LI: So the space happened, and then you found the identity of the gallery?
WO: That’s something that evolves all the time, but yes.
PP: That was in August 1983.
WO: We were very much fetuses at that time.
LI: But presumably able to walk and feed yourselves?
WO: Barely.
PP: What we brought to opening the gallery that was slightly different from the other East Village galleries—I mean, we didn’t actually know that the East Village was going to take off at that point—was we had worked in galleries.
WO: The others were artists and less trained in the paperwork aspect of a gallery. We had worked for very tyrannical people, who instilled good systems in our brains.
LI: Were there artists you had in mind to show right away?
PP: While we were renovating the space we were going out in the evenings and on the weekends, visiting as many artists’ studios as possible.
WO: Neither one of us had very much information about contemporary art. I had studied art history as a minor, at William Smith College, Renaissance, Rococo, Baroque art. Penny’s parents owned a gallery, and she studied sociology. We kind of knew what we liked when we saw it, but we didn’t have anything articulate to say about it. Which is kind of amazing, I think, sitting here thirty years later. When we opened, we’d just meet people and say, “Tell us what artist to go see.” One person gave us a list that was an Avery Label sheet with thirty-three names on it, and we’d just go. I would not do that today! But it was fun. In fact, as we were painting the apartment upstairs, the East Village suddenly became “hot,” and the Voice in those days was something everyone wanted to read, or I did, and Kim Levin was the writer, and Penny answered the phone one day and said, “Kim Levin’s on the phone. She wants to know what our agenda is.” And I didn’t even know what that word meant.
LI: What were the first shows like?
PP: The first show that was documented, in a sense, was Sue Coe. And Sue Coe was very important to us. We spent a lot of time with her. She steered us in a more political way. That was our first proper show. We had an opening, and we made sales, and we had a review in Artforum.
WO: Sue was an inspiring person; she was such a huge influence on so many people. And she was friends with Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly from RAW, so we got drawn into that whole community of people.
PP: Then we moved to Eighth Street, and we showed Erika Rothenberg.
WO: She was one of the original Guerrilla Girls.
PP: On Eighth Street we had a very beautiful, very minimal space.
WO: John Pawson designed the space. He was a very young, very scrappy architect. People would come in and go, “What are you girls doing here?” We’d be like, “Come in. Relax.” [Speaking in voice of visitor] “How do I get out of here?” And we’d be, “I don’t know! You have to walk really far. On the subway.” And then, that space, we stayed for?
PP: For barely two years.
WO: No one was coming to the East Village anymore. You could get bigger spaces in SoHo, on Broadway. Nothing was on Broadway but sweatshops, where all those shops are now, like American Eagle and all that.
PP: With high ceilings, those nice cast-iron columns and so on. We were moving to SoHo the summer that the riots took place, and our street, Eighth Street, was closed off for three months. Had we stayed, we would never have survived. But we were lucky, very lucky. We moved in ’88, and that’s the first year that we showed Bo Bartlett and David Wojnarowicz and Carrie Mae Weems.
WO: And in that space, we stayed there for?
PP: Nine years.
WO: Nine years! I had two children in those years. And we also had a recession. Galleries were closed all over the place. We were open, and all around us were empty spaces. And friends died. A lot of friends died in those years.
PP: And that’s when we started showing Martin Wong. Our first show with him was ’91.
WO: And then people started moving to Chelsea. Matthew Marks, Barbara Gladstone, Pat Hearn, those early galleries, and we’d come here and go, “Oh my God. It’s so barren here.”
PP: And so far away.
WO: So we moved into a space that was completely renovated on Broome Street, closer to Jeffrey Deitch, when there were still galleries down there. Josh Baer was there, and he had put a lot of money into the space, and he went out of business, and we took over his 7,500-square-foot space on Broome Street. We were in that space on Broome Street during September 11. It was another really terrible, terrible time, as you can imagine. We would do shows in that space and have press and do fantastic openings and no one would come. SoHo was totally dead. So we rented a small space on Twenty-Fifth Street as a secondary space. Then we realized that was a very stupid idea.
PP: It was very hard to be in two places, even when you thought you could do it with a computer, with remote access. You were never in the right place. But we stayed, we sublet the Broome Street space for five years, and we moved completely to Chelsea, which—we moved from a 7,500-square-foot space to like a 2,000-square-foot space, so it was very tight.
WO: We didn’t have a viewing room where we could sit, and our offices were teeny.
PP: Then we had a fire, and we moved to 555 on the same street. And then the recession. And now we’re here.
LI: This particular space is space number…
WO: Is the seventh space.
LI: You’ve had it for?
PP: Just over a year.
LI: How would you characterize it?
PP: We designed it so you could have these different smaller spaces, so things could be more intimate, or you could have more than one thing going on at a time. If we designed the space, it fits in with what we want to show rather than the space determining what we show.
WO: You know, I have to say, it sounds ridiculously corny, but our first storefront in the East Village, with the metal gates across it, had fantastic shows, but it was really small, and I think our artists do not need to have huge spaces. Mega-giant macho spaces, it’s not our thing.
LI: So what kind of space is this?
WO: This is a feminine space. It’s a girlie space.
PP: It’s a girlie space, with the white floors?
WO: This is a less expensive space. You know, the younger artists we show, it really didn’t help them, when we were in that big space on Twenty-Fifth. You’d stretch to fill the whole thing, and the power of the work is dissolved.
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The House Turned Upside Down in Episode 21
The craziest competition of the summer so far put a Houseguest in a bad position in the game.
Competing in the HoH
Nicole and Cody compete in the "Hindsight's 20/20" HOH competition on BIG BROTHER, Sunday, August 10 (8:00 -- 9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Lisette M. Azar/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Victoria and Derrick compete
Victoria and Derrick compete in the "Hindsight's 20/20" HOH competition on BIG BROTHER, Sunday, August 10 (8:00 -- 9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Lisette M. Azar/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
"Hindsight's 20/20"
Frankie and Zach compete in the "Hindsight's 20/20" HOH competition on BIG BROTHER, Sunday, August 10 (8:00 -- 9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Lisette M. Azar/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Outgoing HoH Caleb
Caleb during the "Hindsight's 20/20" HOH competition on BIG BROTHER, Sunday, August 10 (8:00 -- 9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Lisette M. Azar/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Victoria and Cody
Houseguests, Victoria and Cody on BIG BROTHER, Sunday, August 10 (8:00 -- 9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Winning HoHs
Houseguests, Christine and Nicole on BIG BROTHER, Sunday, August 10 (8:00 -- 9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Houseguests, Zach and Frankie on BIG BROTHER, Sunday, August 10 (8:00 -- 9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Talking strategy
Houseguests, Derrick, Cody, Caleb, Zach, and Frankie on BIG BROTHER, Sunday, August 10 (8:00 -- 9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Who's calling who out?
Houseguests, Cody, Zach, Caleb, and Frankie on BIG BROTHER, Sunday, August 10 (8:00 -- 9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Christine contemplates her decision
Houseguest Christine on BIG BROTHER, Sunday, August 10 (8:00 -- 9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Beast Mode Cowboy
Houseguest Caleb on BIG BROTHER, Sunday, August 10 (8:00 -- 9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Cody and Zach
Houseguests, Cody and Zach on BIG BROTHER, Sunday, August 10 (8:00 -- 9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Lisette M. Azar/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Competition set-up
Houseguests compete in the "Hindsight's 20/20" HOH competition on BIG BROTHER, Sunday, August 10 (8:00 -- 9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Lisette M. Azar/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
HoH Set-up
Nicole in tears
Houseguest Nicole on BIG BROTHER, Sunday, August 10 (8:00 -- 9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Lisette M. Azar/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Houseguest Frankie on BIG BROTHER, Sunday, August 10 (8:00 -- 9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Lisette M. Azar/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Feeling the love?
Houseguests, Nicole and Zach on BIG BROTHER, Sunday, August 10 (8:00 -- 9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Lisette M. Azar/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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“That’s not Eucharistic” • Why We Sing the Communion Antiphons
Richard J. Clark · August 11, 2017 ·
NE SUDAY I received (through a third party, of course) a complaint about what the choir had been singing during communion. We frequently included the proper communion antiphon. The criticism was terse: “That’s not Eucharistic.” Correct. It was not. Well, not directly or in an obvious manner.
But it was.
During the 1990s, my choir had been singing the Communion antiphons from the Graduale Romanum nearly every week, often in addition to another sacred liturgical work. I not only became addicted to singing chant, I was also deeply drawn to the texts. Always from scripture, these texts have been sung during communion for well over a millennium. I always provided translations and the scripture references in a worship aid so that all could meditate on the Word.
The edition we were reading from was Solesmes’ Gregorian Missal for Sundays. Published in 1990, this book provided the propers from the Graduale Romanum, the translations in English, and were adjusted to the Novus Ordo three-year cycle of readings. This publication absolutely transformed my life.
S CHRISTIANS, WE BELIEVE in something rather unusual and perhaps very strange. We believe in the Incarnation—that God “lowered” Himself to dwell among us. (Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; Phil 2:7) The Word of God took human form—the Word made Flesh. We take these words for granted. Do not.
What does this have to do with the Communion Procession? A great deal. The Communion Antiphons, whether from the Gradual Romanum or The Roman Missal (there is a great deal of overlap and some variation) most always point back to the Gospel reading of the Day or Feast.
The Body and Blood of Jesus is made present not only from the bread and wine, but also in the Word. By receiving the Word, we receive Jesus. The Gospel, which is the Good News proclaimed by Jesus who is the Word made Flesh—is in itself an encounter with Jesus.
• Saint Cecilia and Why the Word is Preeminent
To sing or meditate on the Gospel and the Word of God while receiving the Body and Blood of Jesus is precisely what the Church intends today, tomorrow, and has intended for over a thousand years. If Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, so too do we embrace the Gospel—the Word while in His presence.
T IS WORTH REMEMBERING that during the early Church, Gregorian Chant and the Roman Rite grew up side by side. Chant is simply elevated text (if highly evolved over a millennium). Just as the Hebrew People sang the Torah for thousands of years (and not simply their favorite songs), so too is the Mass ideally sung.
As a Church, we have become accustomed to singing our favorite songs that comfort us. We have become accustomed to singing exclusively about bread and wine during the Communion Procession—a very good thing! But I would propose that we occasionally dig deeper into the Word of God as sung and prayed by our ancestors in faith. Receive the Word made Flesh. Receive Jesus.
UCH OF THIS was inspired by conversation with Alan Hommerding, Senior Liturgy Publications Editor at World Library Publications. During his visit to Boston for WLP’s “Sing the Seasons” we had time to trade stories, chat about music, life, liturgy, theology, etc. During the choral reading of beautiful and varied new works from WLP, he kindly highlighted the liturgical and theological connection between scripture and Eucharist, and the Church’s need to revisit these Antiphons.
To this end, World Library Publications has published, to date, the following collection of Communion Antiphons with texts from the English translation of The Roman Missal, Third Edition:
Communion Antiphons for Advent • SATB, Organ, Assembly
Communion Antiphons for the Christmas Season • SATB, Organ, Trumpet, Assembly
Communion Antiphons for Lent • SATB, Organ, Assembly
Communion Antiphons for Easter • SATB, Organ, Assembly
In addition, I have composed antiphons for all of Ordinary Time including Feasts and Solemnities that replace a Sunday. WLP is currently looking at these.
HAVE COMPOSED THESE AS A BRIDGE in two directions. First, I hope these settings in English can be an introduction to many who have not encountered the propers at Mass. While maintaining the traditional form, these sometimes modal, chant-based works are set with contemporary sensibilities in mind. Furthermore, I hope these settings can be a bridge to inspire more composition in various liturgical styles.
Secondly, my most sincere hope is that some may put my settings down and consider singing the antiphons from the Graduale Romanum and in doing so, rediscover the transcendent beauty of our traditions. (See Richard Rice’s book Communio.) This music is truly the music of the Roman Catholic Church. It has lived on for centuries upon centuries, gave birth to nearly all of Western Music (although its roots are shared with the East!), and reflects the wisdom of the ages.
As musicians of the Church, may we all live to serve.
About Richard J. Clark
Richard J. Clark is the Director of Music of the Archdiocese of Boston and the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. He is also Chapel Organist (Saint Mary’s Chapel) at Boston College. His compositions have been performed worldwide.
The People’s Hymnal suffers from a too literal and awkward translation. And even in the lovely Slovak “Memorare” in The Saint Gregory Hymnal we are still asked to sing “that anyone who sought thee, or made to thee his moan.” Why not “groan” or “bone” or even “phone?” The only thing necessary, it seems, is that it rhyme with “known.”
— Mons. Francis P. Schmitt (1958)
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Reactions: Sean McVay, Los Angeles Rams agree to multi-year extension
The 33-year-old McVay remains the youngest NFL head coach.
Reactions: Sean McVay, Los Angeles Rams agree to multi-year extension The 33-year-old McVay remains the youngest NFL head coach. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/college/miami-university/2019/07/26/sean-mcvay-los-angeles-rams-agree-multi-year-extension/1839903001/
Dave Clark, Cincinnati Enquirer Published 2:23 p.m. ET July 26, 2019
The Los Angeles Rams announced Friday that they agreed to contract extensions with head coach Sean McVay - a former Miami University RedHawks receiver - and general manager Les Snead through the 2023 season.
Dec 17, 2017; Seattle, WA, USA; Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay reacts following a touchdown against the Seattle Seahawks during the second quarter at CenturyLink Field. Mandatory Credit: Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports (Photo: Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports)
Reactions via Twitter:
Rams extended the contracts of HC Sean McVay and GM Les Snead through the 2023 season, as @LindseyThiry reported. Rams continue to solidify their future as they prepare to move into their new stadium.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) July 26, 2019
The #Rams have locked up their top tandem — coach Sean McVay and GM Les Snead — on lucrative multi-year extensions that keep them together for many years deep into when the new stadium opens. Well-deserved for both.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) July 26, 2019
WOOOO! Les get to work!
McVay + Snead are extended through 2023! 🙌
— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) July 26, 2019
The Rams have signed head coach Sean McVay and GM Les Snead to contract extensions through the 2023 season. Building something special in LA together.
— Field Yates (@FieldYates) July 26, 2019
Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor spent last season as the Rams' quarterbacks coach and the previous season as the team's assistant wide receivers coach.
The 33-year-old McVay acknowledged after his team's Super Bowl LIII loss to the New England Patriots that he was outcoached by the opposition in the game.
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Watch The Rock Confirm A Major Baywatch Cast Member As Only He Could
Mar. 3. 2016 7:16 AM
If you're serious, and we mean deadly serious, about making a Baywatch film, there's one man you need in your cast list in order to make it official. As of tonight, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has that man in his crew, seeing as he's just confirmed that David Hasselhoff will be hitting the beach once more. Watch Johnson and The Hoff ham it up in the name of the fans below!
"I WAS BORN READY!" Pleasure to officially welcome the original #BAYWATCH gangsta himself David Hasselhoff to our movie! #BAYWATCH is the most successful TV show of all time and from the day we announced we were turning it into a movie, "The Hoff" has been our greatest supporter. Especially once he knew our RATED R movie was going to be a combination of AVENGERS meets ANCHORMAN....????????????Hoff's a cool dude who's down to have fun and here's the best part.. He's been training his ass off and gotten in the best shape he's been in in years! (cue slo-mo running and glistening chest hair.. wait, why the f*ck am I even thinking about Hoff's chest hair!?) World get ready.. #RockAndHoff #ThereAintNoBay #WithoutTheHoff ????????????
A video posted by therock (@therock) on Mar 2, 2016 at 6:45pm PST
Showing off the fact that he's the king of the Instagram, Dwayne Johnson dropped the video above showing his video call with David Hasselhoff, the man who was "born ready" for a Baywatch motion picture. And judging by how Johnson pitched him the project as an R-rated "Avengers meets Anchorman" fun fest, we can't imagine there being any other answer coming from The Hoff than, "Yes, when do you need my ass in shape?" In shape he will be, as Hasselhoff has allegedly been hitting the gym to get himself into bathing suit condition for the currently in production film.
Now right there, you've got a hint as to how David Hasselhoff will be playing into Baywatch's plans, as getting him into swimsuit shape means that the original Mitch Buchannon will be slow-motion running from the darkness into the light with the new breed of lifeguards keeping the beaches of Los Angeles County safe from the forces of evil. While we have no character details about who Hasselhoff will be playing, it can be assumed that he'll be the Nick Fury of the Baywatch crew if Dwayne Johnson's analogy is to be believed. Which would be pretty damned funny, considering his previous role as the TV movie version of that same character, and the character of Ben Edwards pretty much served a similar purpose in the original series.
There's also the possibility that, through a stroke of meta magic and humor, David Hasselhoff could be playing Mitch Buchannon Sr. to Dwayne Johnson's Mitch Buchannon Jr. Though, considering how most of, if not all of the roles specified are sticking to the pre-established cast of Baywatch characters, this seems like a hard sell. Unless the writers decided to forego continuity for one really funny callback to a gag from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, in which Johnson's "Mitch" turns out to actually be Hobie - Mitch's son from the show. In that case, all would be forgiven in the name of laughter. Out of all of the possibilities that are stacking up for Hasselhoff's return to the beach, there isn't a clear front-runner, but it doesn't matter because The Hoff is back! And as Johnson said himself in the video above, "There ain't no Bay without The Hoff."
Of course, now that David Hasselhoff is Baywatch bound, you know what we have to do. That's right, folks! Prepare to slip into full throwback mode and partake in the original Baywatch theme song!
Baywatch is scheduled for release on May 19, 2017. Try to contain your enthusiasm for a hypothetical Baywatch Nights film until then.
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ARE YOU SERIES 2019
Crítica serie: Les Sauvages
por Aurore Engelen
13/12/2019 - Rebecca Zlotowski ofrece una ambiciosa e impactante adaptación de la novela de Sabri Louatah, un auténtico retrato social y político que se ha proyectado en el Are You Series? de Bruselas
Roschdy Zem en Les Sauvages
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Just like the work by Sabri Louatah, a modern version of the 19th-century multi-tome novel, which the series is an adaptation of, Savages is a sprawling social and political fresco, a human comedy that confronts French society with all its divides and contradictions. What makes France the country it is today? What does it mean to be French? And what of that much-vaunted concept of "living together"? The audience at Are You Series?, the Brussels-based festival that airs the best that the small screen has to offer, but on the big screen, will be pondering these questions this weekend, thanks to filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski, the director behind this adaptation.
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On the eve of the second round of the presidential election, a landmark date in national politics, the country holds its breath as France is poised to elect its first-ever president to have previously been an immigrant in the nation. The country shudders, agitated just as much by this promise of a new dawn as it is by the barely concealed racism exhibited by part of the population. Lady luck seems to be smiling upon Fouad Nerrouche, a popular young actor who stars in a hugely successful TV series and who is also engaged to Jasmine, the daughter of the favourite candidate in the presidential election, Idder Chaouch. But while out mingling with the crowds, Chaouch is targeted by a sniper – a gunman whom Fouad knows only too well…
With great skill, the director paints a portrait of the different, and constantly interweaving, members of these two families – that of the president, and the Nerrouche family, in which two brothers are facing off: Fouad, the actor who’s made it big, a social success story, and Nazir, the unsettling gang leader previously convicted for inciting racial hatred.
The story stirs up some significant fears. Festering terrorism and racism are corrupting a country in a state of emergency, and yet there is definitely still hope for a more inclusive society. The series turns its attention to minorities that it treats as majorities. While the tale trundles out various different situations full of unsubtle clichés concerning French people who got into the country by immigrating from North Africa – inevitably either religious or atheists, integrated or communitarian, extremists or seemingly indifferent – the characters that bear the brunt of the contradictions in society, and indeed their own contradictions, actually break the stereotypes and create fictional figures fuelled by complexity and diversity.
"Evil lurks deep down in every one of us. We are capable of the very best and the very worst. We are the most civilised of men, and complete and utter savages." Before uttering these words during his swearing-in speech, Idder Chaouch (an impressive Roschdy Zem as a kind of French Barack Obama) endures, over the course of just a few days, a personal and political whirlwind that functions as a national identity crisis afflicting the entire country. These contradictions, as personal as they are societal, are brought to fever pitch by the fratricidal conflict between Fouad and Nazir. The dichotomies are never-ending in this fractured France, pitting the upper class against the lower, Paris against the provinces, the city centre against the abandoned industrial sites, believers against non-believers, and “native” French people paralysed by their fear of anything foreign against a perfect blend of mixed-race France.
Fully aware of the power of fiction when it comes to enriching imaginations, as well as its capacity to pre-empt and even encourage changes in sociological paradigms, the director delivers an epic, lyrical and ultra-modern story. The series represents an all-encompassing attempt to deconstruct stereotypes, from its provocative title right down to the most minor supporting characters.
Just like the young female president in Baron Noir (or US series such as 24 and West Wing), the immigrant president in Savages offers an exemplary fictional character in a French-language audiovisual landscape that is still struggling to reflect the diversity found within its population.
Savages is a mini-series consisting of six 52-minute episodes. It was produced by Canal+, CPB Films and Scarlett Production, directed by Rebecca Zlotowski (Planetarium [+lee también:
entrevista: Rebecca Zlotowski
ficha del filme], An Easy Girl [+lee también:
ficha del filme]), and co-written by the filmmaker and Sabri Louatah, the author of the four-tome novel that it is adapted from.
(Traducción del francés)
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Smithville Texas Veterans Memorial Park
311 NW 2nd Street / Smithville, Texas
Photo by Fran Hunter
For up-to-date information about Park Progress and Events, visit the Veterans Memorial Park Facebook Page
The Veterans Memorial Park in Smithville, TX combines a children’s water recreation area, a memorial space and a monument to honor the brave men and women who have served the USA since the Texas War for Independence in 1836. The concept for the park developed during a conversation about the fallen heroes from Smithville and the Bastrop County area. By 2010, the Smithville area had lost more soldiers per capita during the War on Terror than any other community in the US. The concept for a children’s splash pad area as part of the memorial came directly from families of the fallen who expressed the desire to have youthful energy and joy as part of this tribute to their children.
Veterans Memorial Park honors everyone who has worn a uniform with pride and dignity: anyone who is currently serving our great country, anyone who has served in the past during war or peace, and anyone who survived conflict or perished in it. In short, anyone from anywhere who has signed up for service in any of the military branches at any time can find a place in this Memorial. Anyone wishing to honor a family member, friend, mentor, or colleague who is serving or has served is welcome to add that person’s name to the plaques, the pavers, and the catalogue of heroes.
Smithville's Veterans Memorial Park Beginnings
During the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan (2001 to 2012), Bastrop County mourned seven military service personnel who had gone to the conflict overseas and paid the ultimate sacrifice:
Pfc. Tina Marie Priest (March 1, 2006 Taji, Iraq)
Spc. Joshua Ray Farris (July 9, 2009 Afghanistan)
Captain Joshua Meadows (11/5/2009 Afghanistan)
Lance Cpl. Cody R. Stanley, (10/28/2009 Afghanistan)
Sgt. Mario Rodriguez, Jr. (6/11/2010 Afghanistan)
Navy Seal Member Matthew Mills from Seal Team 6 (8/6/2011, Afghanistan)
Staff Sergeant Joe Altmann (12/25/2011, Afghanistan)
They were the initial inspiration for this Park, and Bill McGlaun’s beautiful 15-foot tall statue of an angel holds the dog tags of the seven fallen (“Homeward”); a cherub is writing their names in the Book of Life. The angel represents the sacrifice they and others have made in defending this country and her principles of democracy and freedom. Beyond her are the walls of service, on which are plaques with a continually growing list of names as more veterans are identified. These walls will be an ongoing project, and more names will be added over time. Past the walls, the splash pad represents the reason people join the armed forces—the children who play in its waters represent the freedom they serve to protect and the future of this great nation.
Artist Bill McGlaun with the head of the Angel during the casting process / Children play at the Splash Pad on a hot summer day
Veterans Memorial Park was dedicated on Memorial Day, May 27, 2013 in front of an estimated 1,100 people. It is now open to the public from about 8AM to about dusk. A button activates the splash pad; children can push it as they play. The splash pad is open during regular Park hours.
The Next Phase: Archival Database
This vision includes providing an internet archive of as many individuals as possible so that people may learn more about the history of the veterans memorialized in the Park. Having accurate records to add veterans’ names and to describe their personal stories will be an integral part of this process. The resulting database will become a great boon to people doing research on these heroes. Volunteers are needed to help research the biographies of the veterans listed at the Veterans Memorial Park, and information from family and friends is welcome.
The Smithville Public Library will house the database, striving to ensure that every name in the Memorial Park is complete with rank and branch of service and other information such as written and oral histories from the veterans themselves or their family and other electronic data, such as scanned copies of photos or newspaper clippings. This database will be available to the public and will serve as a link to each individual for genealogical or other research.
A Heartfelt THANK YOU to our Sponsors and Volunteers
At its dedication in 2013, the Veterans Memorial Park was valued at an estimated $720,000, including the value of the land, in-kind materials and labor, and the cost of the plaques, the splash pad, and other features of the Park. It would not have been possible to build this park without the dedication and commitment of many individuals and businesses, and we are eternally grateful for each and every one of them.
Thanks to the many volunteers and people who have donated materials and funds to bring this project together. We could not have created this without you!
Continuing the Legacy
Although the main fundraising efforts are over and the Park is now open, the continuing need to install plaques as more names are submitted, the development of the database, and ongoing maintenance will require additional funding. Please contact us to learn about pavers or family plaques, and to provide information about veterans (512-237-3282).
The Paver program is one means by which we can continue to raise funds to take care of the Park. Download the Paver Order Form.
"Family Plaques" are designed to call attention to the many families who can proudly honor multiple generations of military service, or other groups with several members, to recognize them together. Download the Family Plaque Form.
Please return donation form with payment to:
Cynthia White
City of Smithville
Smithville, TX 78957
or drop it off at Smithville City Hall at 317 Main Street.
We thank you for your support!
Information about the StoryCorp @ Your Library and theVeterans Park
StoryCorp’s mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected and archived more than 40,000 interviews from nearly 80,000 participants. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
In February of 2012, Smithville’s Mayor Mark Bunte contacted the StoryCorp office to find out if they would be interested in recording veterans’ stories in relation to the Smithville Texas Veterans Memorial Park and was pleased to learn that they were starting to work on a special project for post 9/11 military experience called "Military Voices Initiative." At that time, 18 stories were collected in Smithville, Bastrop, and Elgin.
Since then, the Smithville Public Library was awarded the "StoryCorps @ Your Library" program, a pilot program whereby 10 libraries were selected to get the recording equipment and training to provide a StoryCorps experience for people within the community. Other recipients include Chicago, San Franciso, and Nashville.
As a part of this effort, the Smithville Public Library hosted a "Listening Event" on Veterans Day, November 11, 2013. The stories that veterans had already recorded were playing in the park near each of the walls that represented the conflicts during which they had served.
The Library still strongly encourages the veterans in our area to schedule a time to tell their stories. In addition, anyone who has a story to tell is very welcome to make an appointment. The recording equipment is mobile, and therefore can be taken out of the library if need be. Call 512-237-3282 x 6 to make an appointment.
Thank you, CMS Tony Sandoval, for all you have done in such a short time on this project, and for your dedication and service throughout your too-short lifetime. We all will miss your sense of humor and reason, your generous spirit, and your ability to get ‘er done.
CMS Anthony Sandoval, US Army, (Ret). Born: 01/16/1957, Died: 9/15/2011
Thank you, William (Bill) Harvey McGlaun, for your talents, your generosity, and you friendship. The angel and the cherub will forever be a testament to your love for this community. Thank you for sharing your artistic vision of the world and for choosing to be part of Smithville's history. Your legacy will live on through your artwork in this park, at Independence Park (the bust of Dr. Thomas J. Gazley) and at MLK Park (the relief of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.). Born: 09.09/1948, Died: 01/17/2015
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Since completing my Bachelor of Arts (Journalism) at Curtin University, Australia in 2013, I have been working as a freelance journalist for publications such as X-Press Magazine, The Music, The Western Independent, and writing on my own blog, Gin in a Teacup. Much of my experience lies in the areas of music and fashion journalism, however I am always eager to write about as many different topics as possible!
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Concerto HealthAI Raises $150 Million in Series B Funding
Developer of Real-World Data and enterprise AI technology for Precision Oncology
Funding will power next-generation clinical research, accelerate breakthrough therapies, and improve patient outcomes
Boston, MA – January 13, 2020 – Concerto HealthAI, the market leader for Real-World Data (RWD) and enterprise AI technology solutions for Precision Oncology, announced today it has raised $150 million in aggregate Series B financing. The round of financing was led by Declaration Partners with participation from Maverick Ventures, AllianceBernstein PCI, and SymphonyAI Group. As part of the transaction, Andrew Goldfarb, partner at Declaration Partners, and Leif Pedersen, senior operating partner at SymphonyAI Group, will join Concerto HealthAI’s board. Romesh Wadhwani, founder and CEO of SymphonyAI Group, will continue as executive chairman, and Jeff Elton, PhD, CEO of Concerto HealthAI as board member.
Click to Tweet: @ConcertoHealthAI CEO Jeff Elton speaks at JPM in San Francisco Jan 13, 2020, announces eurekaHealth 3.0, new partnerships with @Janssen, and Series B funding.
With 90 percent year-over-year revenue growth, Concerto HealthAI has an expanding list of partners and customers: three of the world’s major biopharmaceutical and oncology organizations have deployed eurekaHealth, and 19 out of the top 25 biopharma are customers of Concerto HealthAI technologies and services.
The Series B funding will support Concerto HealthAI’s continued innovation in RWD and technology products and services for regulatory and non-regulatory applications, expansion into adjacent therapy areas, and commercial patient solutions.
Concerto HealthAI today also launched a new version of eurekaHealth that for the first time combines integrated RWD and advanced AI machine learning. With these announcements, Concerto HealthAI is developing the industry standard for high-performance real-world evidence (RWE) for precision oncology. The company’s mission is to transform healthcare by revolutionizing clinical research models, accelerating insights benefitting patients, and introducing technology solutions that support the entire patient treatment journey.
Concerto HealthAI has assembled the broadest and most representative clinical network in the industry, through partnerships with the foremost community oncology networks and exclusive licensing with CancerLinQ LLC, a nonprofit subsidiary of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). These partnerships and relationships are across all major Electronic Medical Record environments, inclusive of next generation sequencing diagnostic information and Patient Reported Outcomes. Concerto HealthAI engineers use case-aligned, AI-enriched, validated, and production-ready RWD products and complementary AI-enabled cloud technologies for precision research and patient solutions.
“The significant commitment and life sciences expertise of our investors validates and accelerates our strategy,” said Jeff Elton, PhD, CEO of Concerto HealthAI. “This investment underscores the amazing team and talent we have brought together with a common purpose of advancing Precision Oncology solutions for the most devastating cancers based on our engineered RWD, AI-enabled technologies, and advanced scientific services.”
“We are pleased to partner with industry visionaries and proven business leaders like Romesh Wadhwani and Jeff Elton to bring a range of forward-looking data and technology solutions to the market,” said Andrew Goldfarb of Declaration Partners. “We are impressed with Concerto HealthAI’s innovative culture, technology leadership, and significant runway for growth. Concerto HealthAI is positioned to empower next-generation clinical research, accelerate breakthrough therapies, and improve patient outcomes.”
“Concerto HealthAI is delivering significant customer value today and is poised to drive substantial AI innovation in healthcare and life sciences. I am very pleased with the company’s progress to date and look forward to continuing rapid innovation in technology solutions to accelerate drug development, optimize clinical trials, and improve patient outcomes for Precision Oncology,” said Dr. Wadhwani of SymphonyAI Group.
About Concerto HealthAI
Concerto HealthAI is a technology leader in Real-World Data (RWD) and AI solutions for precision oncology. Our mission is to bring together unique data assets, leading AI-based technologies, and the world’s top outcomes research and data science talent. Our focus is on revolutionizing clinical and outcomes research to accelerate the insights benefitting patient treatment. For more information, visit us at http://www.concertohealthai.com.
About Declaration Partners
Declaration Partners is the investment firm backed by the family office of David M. Rubenstein, the Co-Founder of The Carlyle Group. Declaration Partners makes direct private equity and real estate investments, including building platform businesses, providing growth equity capital, seeding early stage private funds and venture studios, and partnering with family-owned businesses.
About Maverick Ventures
Maverick Ventures is the venture arm of Maverick Capital, an investment firm managing more than $10 billion. Combining the resources of a global firm with the benefits of an agile, focused team, Maverick Ventures supports entrepreneurs through an evergreen structure from seed through maturity. With over 25 years of early-stage investment experience, the Maverick Ventures team has funded more than 80 companies in the healthcare, software and deep technology sectors. Learn more about San Francisco-based Maverick Ventures at www.maverickventures.com.
About Alliance Bernstein PCI
AB Private Credit Investors is the middle market direct lending platform of AllianceBernstein L.P (AB). AB-PCI manages approximately $9.2 billion in capital available for investment and offers a range of financing solutions to middle market companies, including having the capacity to invest up to $150 million of credit to a single borrower while also making sizeable growth equity investments.
The investment in ConcertoHealthAI was executed as part of AB-PCI’s Growth Stage Capital initiative (AB-GSC). AB-GSC caters to high growth technology companies backed by leading venture capital and growth equity firms. Other recent AB-GSC investments include companies such as Rubrik, Workfront, Degreed, Fuze and DataRobot.
About SymphonyAI
SymphonyAI Group is the fastest-growing private group of B2B AI companies, backed by a $1 billion commitment to deliver next-generation AI solutions for transforming the enterprise. Since its founding in 2017, SymphonyAI Group has grown rapidly to a group of six companies with a combined revenue run rate approaching $300 million. Over 1,600 talented leaders, data scientists, and other professionals operate the group under the leadership of one of Silicon Valley’s most successful serial entrepreneurs, Dr. Romesh Wadhwani. Website: www.symphonyai.com
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Cases of Indians committing suicide in Gulf nations on the rise
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CtoI News Desk Thursday, July 19th 2018
There has been a spurt in the number of Indians committing suicide in the Gulf nations pointing to the pathetic conditions of Indian workers in these countries, revealed a Right to Information (RTI) query.
About 322 Indians committed suicide in 2017, revealed the Indian embassies in Dubai, Muscat, Kuwait and Riyadh in the RTI query. The highest number of suicides were recorded in Saudi Arabia at 117, followed closely by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with 116. In Oman, 46 Indians took their lives and 43 committed suicide in Kuwait.
In 2017, about 322 Indians committed suicide in four Gulf nations of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Kuwait. Photo courtesy: Wikimedia
In 2016, the number of total Indian suicides stood at 303 in the four Gulf nations. Even the present year has brought no respite as 156 Indians have committed suicide so far.
The RTI reply, while giving figures up to June 10, 2018, said that 32 Indians committed suicide in Oman, 55 in UAE, 20 in Kuwait and 49 in Saudi Arabia.
Social workers believe that there could be a number of factors responsible for this trend including financial mismanagement, family issues back home and unstable job conditions.
“Migrant workers are under tremendous stress at present. There are difficulties in a foreign land. Those who migrate should be mentally ready to face it. Even a small issue disturbs them a lot. They forget the fact that they are in a foreign land and have to adjust accordingly,” said Shaji Sebastian, who has been a social worker in Oman for the past three decades.
The current economic condition of the Gulf is also one of the reasons for the rise in the number of suicides. Many companies are falling apart due to the shaky oil prices and tense political conditions. Hundreds of workers are left in the lurch every week.
In addition to this, Gulf countries are consistently following policy of nationalisation which is aimed at promoting job opportunities for local residents and is believed to be the reason for the fall in jobs for expats.
Even the number of people going to Gulf particularly Saudi Arabia have decreased. The number of emigration clearances granted to Indians heading to the Gulf for employment halved to 370,000 in 2017 from 760,000 in 2015.
Number of Indian workers going to Gulf particularly Saudi Arabia have decreased. Photo courtesy: Wikimedia
Saudi Arabia relinquished its status as the most-preferred destination among Indian workers with around 78,000 emigration clearances in 2017, a 74 per cent drop from around 300,000 in 2015.
UAE was the most-preferred destination for Indian workers in 2017, with nearly 150,000 emigration clearance.
However, MC Luther, Protector General of Emigrants under the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), said that many of these suicides were result of illegal immigration through touts.
MEA has detailed the process of taking corrective measures to bring relief to the emigrants living in the country. In reply to a question raised in Parliament, MEA had said that the government often receives complaints from emigrants and their family members in the Gulf of being cheated by illegal recruitment agencies.
“Such complaints are forwarded to the concerned state governments and police authorities, urging them to apprehend illegal agents and prosecute them. Since illegal and fake agencies operate from the territories within the states, the state governments must promptly stop the illegal activities of such fake agencies and prosecute them, after investigations,” said MEA.
After receiving requests from state governments, the MEA issues prosecution sanctions. “Wherever required, such complaints are also referred to missions and posts abroad to provide immediate relief and rescue distressed emigrants who were recruited by such fake agencies,” the reply added.
In addition to this, to raise awareness of safe and legal emigration, the MEA has launched a media awareness campaign in both print and visual media in different languages with the tagline Surakshit Jao, Parishikshit Jao (Go safely, go fully trained) which also highlights the fact that emigrants for overseas jobs must go only through registered recruitment agents and not fake agencies.
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Another nine service providers have been added to the government's cloud panel.
The second tranche of suppliers added to the whole-of-government cloud services panel comprised Dimension Data Australia, Emantra, Envisian, Hypernode, iiNet, Infront Systems, RXP Services, SMS Consulting Group, and Cloud Solutions Group.
The panel's initial line-up of 49 providers was unveiled last week by finance minister Mathias Cormann.
The panel covers software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service, as well as services such as optimisation and integration of cloud services.
The panel has an initial two year term, but could be extended by another four years, a statement issued by the office of the minister said.
"The panel enables Government to deliver services more efficiently, as well as provide services that are more responsive to business and community needs," the statement said.
The establishment of the whole-of-government panel follows the launch last year of an updated government cloud policy.
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Election Projection Selection for CT
The BBC contracted CT to project imagery and data onto Broadcasting House as part of the official Election Special programme.
As the General Election campaign drew to a close, and the drama unfolded as to who would govern the UK for the next few years, the BBC results programme used the BBC Broadcasting House as a canvas to display the exit polls and results as they came in.
Following the success of the 2015 election and 2016 EU referendum programmes, the BBC once again contracted Creative Technology (CT) to project imagery and data onto the Art Deco building as part of the official BBC General Election Special programme’s backdrop. As in previous years, CT worked through the night to display the figures as they were verified and announced, utilising six of the latest additions to CT’s projector fleet, the 30K lumen Panasonic PT-DZ31K projectors. These were situated in two locations; three in Regent Street’s St George Hotel and three at The Langham.
Featuring 3D visuals as well as key live updates on statistics and data throughout the evening, the content was created by the BBC News team on the night. The live data captured from the BBC’s VIS engine was pulled directly into CT’s four Photon media servers placed within The Langham, with the onsite team translating it into the visual graphics projected on the building.
CT used their MediorNet signal transport system to pass all of the content and projection data through a single run of fibre cable, which was also able to carry all of the communication links between the BBC News team within Broadcasting House and the CT team who were split between the two hotels.
CT’s project manager, Paul Seeger was delighted to bring the BBC’s Broadcasting House to life: “Yes, the set-up is a challenge but for the third year running delivered reliable and impressive results. It always looks fantastic and provides a pretty stunning backdrop to the programme, whichever way the public votes!”
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Christie's South Kensington Vintage Film Posters, 27 March 2001.
Illustrated card covers with some slight edgewear but otherwise in Very Good condition. First edition, pp 96, colour illustrations.
Title: Christie's South Kensington Vintage Film Posters, 27 March 2001.
Categories: Art, Antiques & Collectables, Entertainment,
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Publisher: Christie's South Kensington: 2001
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Deeside Books is a bookshop located in the centre of the village of Ballater on Royal Deeside, and we are on the main A93 Aberdeen to Braemar road. We are predominantly an out of print bookshop with a stock of about 10,000 titles covering a wide selection of subjects.
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Family of Caoimhin Cassidy angry his ‘so-called friends’ have not come forward
written by John July 5, 2019
Caoimhin Cassidy had not been seriously injured in the crash, police have said.
THE family of an 18-year-old whose body was found inside a burning car have said they are angry that his “so-called friends” have not come forward with information about his death.
And they say that if “they had a conscience they would come forward”
Caoimhin Cassidy died in Derry on Saturday, June 1 after the vehicle crashed into a lamp post.
His great-uncle, Charles Tierney, said those who attended the funeral have not helped with the police investigation.
“They haven’t come forward, they aren’t friends,” Mr Tierney said.
“If they had a conscience, they will come forward.
“We don’t want young people to go to prison. We just want to know what happened.”
A post mortem examination revealed Mr Cassidy had not been seriously injured in the crash and died after the car caught fire on Fairview Road.
The police said the car, a read Mazda 6, was stolen from a house in Oakfield Crescent earlier in the day.
Mr Tierney said people who have been posting on social media the names of people who they believe were involved are “disrupting the investigation”.
“If people think they know who is involved, just come forward.”
Caoimhin Cassidy’s body was found inside the Mazda 6 car in the Galliagh area of Derry on June 1
Detectives investigating Mr Cassidy’s death renewed their appeal for information.
Detective Inspector Michael Winters said police believed Mr Cassidy was not travelling alone in the vehicle.
“We’ve received a report of two males running away from where the vehicle came to a final halt,” he said.
“We’ve also been made aware of sightings of a male, possibly injured, walking on the Buncrana Road, past the Skeoge Link Road, towards the border a short time later.
“If you can cast your mind back and remember anything about Caoimhin’s movements, or the red Mazda 6 car, please get in touch,” added DI Winters.
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Traditional awnings at Soho House Farmhouse, Oxfordshire
Traditional awnings have been installed by us over the years at numerous Soho House premises. and these three traditional awnings are the latest additional to an extensive portfolio of work we have carried out for the iconic Soho House International private members club. Installed at The Soho Farmhouse, near Great Tew in Oxfordshire, the three new awnings, supplemented by junction covers for complete protection, complement the three similar awnings we installed on the opposite side of this rustic courtyard feature in the centre of the complex. The awnings are constructed from hardwoods sympathetically finished to blend in with the distressed timber finishes favoured on this extensive one hundred and ten acre complex in the heart of the Cotswolds. Whilst giving the appearance of old fashioned sail cloth canvas the striking green and white block strip of the awning fabric is in fact woven from a modern yarn which has both fade fee and anti-soil properties. The steel and iron parts on the traditional awnings have been powder coated in traditional black to give a robust, long lasting, finish .
This Soho House member’s club is set in the magnificent Oxfordshire countryside and comprises ten garden rooms, 40 cabins, a four-bedroom cottage and a seven-bedroom farm house. Club spaces include the Hay Barn, Main Barn and Mill Room for eating and drinking, a Boathouse with outdoor and indoor heated pools, Cowshed Relax spa with Steam and Sauna Island, and Cowshed Active with gym and studio. There is also an Electric Barn cinema, tennis courts, a five-a-side football pitch, horse stables, clay pigeon shooting and a Teeny Barn and Camp.
Nearby the village of Great Tew is most certainly a ‘picture postcard’ village but it is not a traditional Cotswold village: here, on the edge of the Cotswolds, the stone is a much darker red – ironstone – and the cottages are thatched, not a particularly common feature in the Cotswolds, where slate roofs are more common.
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OOPEAA's floating sea pools offer new swimming facilities to waterside cities
Katie de Klee | 10 July 2018 Leave a comment
Architecture studio OOPEAA plans to introduce waterborne swimming pools to coastal and riverside cities around the world, with the first set to be built in Oulu, Finland.
Finland-based OOPEAA, short for Office for Peripheral Architecture, won a competition to develop the global concept for the Allas Sea Pool.
The studio's vision is to create a worldwide family of public saunas, spas, pools and public facilities that embrace the Nordic tradition for bathing and swimming outdoors all year around.
OOPEAA's vision is to create a worldwide family of floating public saunas, spas, pools and public facilities
Some elements, such as the pools, will be built as floating structures while others will be anchored to dry land.
"The intention is to build a family of floating sea pools in coastal cities in different parts of the world," explained OOPEAA founder Anssi Lassila.
"Quiet retreat from the hectic everyday is one of the key functions of the Finnish sauna culture," he told Dezeen. "It is traditionally also associated with a sense of contemplation of nature."
The structures will be created using cross-laminated timber, which offers flexibility and sustainability
The design competition was organised by city development group Töölö Urban, following the success of a pilot sea pool built in Helsinki by Huttunen-Lipasti-Pakkanen Architects in 2016. Initially intended to be temporary, it had its permit extended and it still operates today.
The challenge for OOPEAA was to develop this concept to be both scaleable and adaptable, so that it can be tailored to any global site.
OOPEAA builds wood and zinc sauna on the shore of a tiny Finnish island
The studio's design is for a modular system that can be changed to suit local requirements and seasonal changes. The structures will be created using cross-laminated timber, which offers flexibility and sustainability.
Each site will also be provided with a pre-fabricated custom toolbox of amenities, including a water slide, diving platform, periscope sauna and event stage, which can be added or removed at will.
Externally, the complex will be organised across two separate structures, with a large open space between them
OOPEAA's first Allas Sea Pool will be built in Oulu, a city in northern Finland, in late summer 2019.
"It is an interesting opportunity for us to build an all-year-round floating outdoor pool in such northern conditions," said Lassila.
Each complex will be organised across two separate structures, with a large open space between them. One structure contains the saunas and spas, as well as a public area and rooms that can be rented for private events. The other structure contains the restaurant and cafe.
Internally, they will contain an assortment of public leisure facilities
Both feature large open staircases that create spaces where people can gather and observe the views of both sea and city as well as observe the activities. Both volumes also include sheltered spaces for colder weather.
The different areas will be connected in a series of open-air spaces and vistas, as well as semi-open and enclosed spaces, all joined by pathways of transition.
Saunas will be located at loft level, so visitors can enjoy views over the sea, without compromising their privacy.
Each site will also be provided with a prefabricated custom toolbox of amenities that can be added or removed at will
Lassila founded OOPEAA in 2004. He is known as a champion of cross-laminated timber in architecture, as a more sustainable alternative to steel.
Past projects include a cabin-style wood and zinc sauna on an island in Helsinki's archipelago and a wooden Periscope Tower on the edge of a rural lake, allowing visitors to enjoy the view without climbing up.
The architect describes his concept for the Allas Sea Pool as "New Nordic Urban".
"The New Nordic Urban is essentially about bringing together the social sense of the urban – to see and to be seen and to share in the company of others – and a chance to enjoy nature and the element of water: contemplation, physical activity and sports," he said.
Project credits:
Architect in charge: Anssi Lassila
Competition team: Kazunori Yamaguchi, Tomoya Nishimura, Liuxin Yang, Teemu Leppälä
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Denise Richards mourns the loss of her dog Louie in heartfelt post after returning home from Spain... after Brandi Glanville affair was exposed
By Glenn Garner For Dailymail.com
Denise Richards has been facing a wave of drama from her Real Housewives of Beverly Hills co-stars.
But the actress seems focus on a personal tragedy, which she recently shared on social media.
She took to Instagram Sunday to mourn the loss of her dog Louie in a heartfelt post after returning home from Spain.
Sad news: Denise Richards took to Instagram Sunday to mourn the loss of her dog Louie in a heartfelt post after returning home from Spain
The 48-year-old posted a few photos of the brown Shih Tzu mix, which she rescued 10 years ago.
She wrote: 'Heartbroken. Came home from Spain to say goodbye to our Louie.... did everything to keep him here. Sadly for us, it was his time to cross the rainbow bridge.
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'We rescued him 10yrs ago and he’s one of the funniest & most animated furry babies. I’m so grateful he waited until I got home so I could be with him.
'I know he’s now with some of his siblings & his nana (my mom) but it still hurts. Louie you are so loved & will be missed terribly. Thank you for blessing us with your unconditional love & effervescent beautiful spirit my [heart emoji].'
RIP: The 48-year-old posted a few photos of the brown Shih Tzu mix, which she rescued 10 years ago
Puppy love: The sad news comes just days after Richards posted an update on the dog's health: 'Hopefully he’ll make a positive recovery'
The sad news comes just days after Richards posted an update on the dog's health, in which she tried to remain optimistic.
She wrote: 'Praying for our #louie I love this guy so much... It’s so hard when they enter their senior years. He’s so loved by all of us & hopefully he’ll make a positive recovery.'
The Wild Things star posted a photo of herself Saturday on a plane as she returned home from Spain, where she was working on a project.
While she was gone, some drama was brewing with her RHOBH co-stars, particularly Brandi Glanville, 47, with whom she allegedly had an affair.
An insider told DailyMail.com: 'Denise claimed to Brandi that she was in an open marriage, but she wasn't and this has hurt Denise's husband Aaron very much.'
Another source told Page Six that Richards' co-stars confronted her during a trip to Rome about the affair.
They said: 'They confronted her in Rome because she was also s***-talking the girls to Brandi.'
Home sweet home: The Wild Things star posted a photo of herself Saturday on a plane as she returned home from Spain, where she was working on a project
Scandal vibes: While she was gone, some drama was brewing with her RHOBH co-stars, particularly Brandi Glanville, 47, with whom she allegedly had an affair
Jumping ship: Richards reportedly hasn't filmed anything since a confrontation went down between her and her co-stars over the alleged affair
Mum's the word: Glanville has since responded with an Instagram post, captioned: 'When you want to respond but are not “allowed” to...'
The source added: 'Brandi has always been honest from the get-go. She’s never been the one to deny anything. Apparently, she has receipts too.'
Richards reportedly hasn't filmed anything since the confrontation went down, and she skipped co-star Teddi Mellencamp's baby shower.
The Drop Dead Gorgeous star's publicist has since provided a comment to People: 'It isn't true.'
Another source told them that the whole ordeal will play out in the upcoming season 10, for which a premiere date has not yet been announced.
Glanville has since responded with an Instagram post, captioned: 'When you want to respond but are not “allowed” to...'
Richards has been married to Aaron Phypers since 2018, and they share daughter Eloise, eight, whom Richards adopted as a single parent in 2011.
She also shares daughters Sam, 15, and Lola, 14, with ex-husband Charlie Sheen, to whom she was married from 2002 to 2006.
Glanville was married to Eddie Cibrian from 2001 to 2010, sharing sons Mason, 16, and Jake, 12.
Happy family: Richards has been married to Aaron Phypers since 2018, and they share daughter Eloise, eight, whom Richards adopted as a single parent in 2011
Denise Richards feuding with 'RHOBH' cast amid rumors of affair
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Home Editor's Choice SHAKING THE KOP: Liverpool Embraces a New Breed of Heroes
SHAKING THE KOP: Liverpool Embraces a New Breed of Heroes
Outside Old Trafford stands the triune statue of three Britons — George Best, Bobby Charlton, and Denis Law — reckoned among the best to ever turn out for Manchester United, but most fans could almost swear to the enduring excellence of Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo (voted their greatest Premier League player) or Frenchman Eric Cantona (‘King’, they still call him).
Rivals Chelsea hail English icons Frank Lampard and John Terry at nearly every game, though both have long retired. Yet only in 2012 did the club’s fans pick Didier Drogba as the finest they’d seen in blue; if the poll had been conducted before that year’s Uefa Champions League final in which the Ivorian spun Ol’ Big Ears Chelsea’s way, Gianfranco Zola of Italy may just have nicked top spot.
At Arsenal, the admirably multicultural Arsene Wenger era spawned a wide pool of imports from which fans could pick an all-time great. When offered the chance to do so not many years ago, record scorer Thierry Henry was the choice, with former Netherlands star Dennis Bergkamp right behind.
Back in Manchester, nouveau riche City have seen their latter-day ascent achieved by some of the finest sides that could be assembled, illuminated by the likes of Sergio Aguero (Argentina), Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast), Vincent Kompany (Belgium), and David Silva (Spain).
Then comes the short trip to Liverpool — still in England’s North-West — where the 18-time top-flight champions have had some remarkable players over the years. One suspects, though, that — unlike the clubs previously discussed — the attachment of Liverpool’s faithful to even their most distinguished foreign acquisitions isn’t so strong. In the most recent version of the ‘100 Players Who Shook The Kop’ (2013), all but five of the top 20 were from the British Isles — the first of those exceptions, Luis Suarez, only came fifth.
It’s not like the club hasn’t had many outstanding expatriates. Even before recruiting non-British players became fashionable, Liverpool had Zimbabwean Bruce Grobbelaar in goal and winning European Cups. Gems like Xabi Alonso and Dirk Kuyt still resonate with the Kop but — for quite a few reasons — it’s hard to recall any who enjoy the sort of cult following that borders on apotheosis.
The legacies of the aforementioned ‘idols’ — Cantona, Henry, Zola, Kompany, et al — are tied to periods of consistent success or evolution at the respective clubs where they remain adored, a luxury that those on Liverpool’s own roster barely had. Suarez’s three-season blur of goalscoring brilliance only brought Liverpool a League Cup, and the years of Alonso and Kuyt on Merseyside also yielded treasurable moments but fewer titles than their immense loyalty and industry merited.
Some of the best memories created at Anfield by imports, however, have been banished by fans, given the manner of those players’ exits. The departures of Suarez, Fernando Torres, and Philippe Coutinho — all, at some point, firm fan favorites — left the club’s sentimental supporters with a bitter aftertaste, and it didn’t take too long for them to be spat out, memories and all.
Now, though, there is a chance to fix that. Liverpool are challenging for top honors again, under the command of German manager Jurgen Klopp. A sixth European Cup was won last year — setting the club on course to win the Uefa Super Cup and Fifa Club World Cup, which they have — and it’s increasingly probable that maiden Premier League triumph would arrive by May 2020, possibly ushering in their most sustained stream of silverware since the golden eighties if Liverpool keep up their current imperious form.
Britons – notably full-backs Andy Robertson and Trent Alexander-Arnold, and skipper Jordan Henderson — have had starring roles, but other major influences have come from overseas: Egypt, Senegal, Brazil, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Should the trophies flow in subsequent years while these players remain Reds — and provided, when it’s finally time to say their goodbyes, they leave with no acrimony — their feats would be etched in the annals of Liverpool’s history deeper than any before them.
From Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane to Virgil van Dijk and Divock Origi, the next ‘100 Players Who Shook The Kop’ honor roll could look very different — oh, and very exotic, too.
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Auteri wins grand prix, runs sub 3-hour marathon
Karen Auteri of Liberty Township won the New Balance Grand Prix and finished a marathon in less than 3 hours.
Auteri wins grand prix, runs sub 3-hour marathon Karen Auteri of Liberty Township won the New Balance Grand Prix and finished a marathon in less than 3 hours. Check out this story on dailyrecord.com: http://dailyre.co/2mvX1R9
Columnits Published 2:00 a.m. ET Jan. 14, 2018 | Updated 10:01 a.m. ET Jan. 14, 2018
Karen Auteri of Liberty Township won the 2017 New Jersey New Balance Grand Prix.(Photo: Daily Record file photo)Buy Photo
Let’s see. Win the New Jersey New Balance Grand Prix. Check. Break three hours for the marathon. Check.
Karen Auteri of Liberty Township with a mailing address of Belvidere has bragging rights to both accomplishments. And it all started with an invite from her father, Peter, of Pompton Lakes.
When Peter Auteri asked her in 2004 if she wanted to run the Walt Disney marathon with him, the answer was quick and emphatic.
“Absolutely not! I never want to run a marathon. Ever in my life!”
Back then, fresh out of college and used to running short distances, with only one 10K under her belt, the marathon seemed like an impossible and distasteful distance.
The aversion didn’t last long. Auteri found herself running a half marathon that fall.
“It was so hard. I couldn’t imagine running it twice,” she said. But the following January she did join her father to run in the Disney marathon and finished in 3:48.18. She ran it again the next year and the next year, and this year, in her 23rd marathon, she placed fourth overall at Disney on Jan. 7 and broke the three-hour barrier with her 2:59:15
Although the Disney course is basically flat, Auteri relied on her training with Gary Leaman of Hardwick to power up each incline on the overpasses.
“On every tiny incline, I did power up them because I have been training,” said Auteri. “Gary taught me to run up the hills and then maintain a seven-minute pace. With Gary you run hard all the time.”
Winning the New Balance Grand Prix might have seemed destined in 2017. With Randolph’s Roberta Groner now affiliated with the New York Athletic Club and not eligible in New Jersey, the game was wide open, and especially for someone who loves to race. Getting to enough races would not be all that difficult for Auteri.
Races are chosen based on what her training dictates as well as what races she needs in the grand prix. She was in the lead from early in the fall but kept racing and improved her Category One score to 500 points at one of the last races of the season, the hugely popular Doughnut Run on Dec. 10. She was first runner overall to finish in the East Brunswick 10K in October.
Auteri is making a big move in 2018. After seeing the improvements that Groner and Sam Tiegen of Hawthorne had in running the California International Marathon in December after hiring Hector Matos as their coach, she wondered if he could help her to reach another milestone, the B standard for the Olympic Trials Marathon.
“I just see such results – someone like Roberta who you can’t imagine her getting any faster than she is and taking six minutes off her already unbelievable times,” said Auteri.
Auteri referenced the double amputee, Brian Reynolds of Clifton, who now holds the world record for below the knee amputees.
“He started training with Hector and he went from a 1:28 half to a 1:21,” she said. “He also took an extreme amount of time off his marathon.”
It was Tiegen that planted the seed to reach out to Matos. He told her that he thought she had the potential to qualify for the Olympic Trials B standard of 2:45.
She knows that she will have to make big changes to her training. Even training for the marathon, her highest mileage may have been only 48 miles. Under Matos she expects that to nearly double and could include doubles on some days. She runs only five days a week and does no workouts on the track.
“My races take the place of workout’s,” she said.
“I just run on “feels”. If I feel good, I’ll run a little faster,” she said. "Sometimes I’ll hit a marathon pace just because I’m feeling good.”
Although she had broken the 3:05 marathon barrier with a 3:01 at the Pocono Marathon in May 2016 Auteri said she was lacking confidence ahead of the Disney marathon. Her talisman showed up in the form of a running shoe. Nike athletes Geoffry Kirui, and Galen Rupp among other elite athletes have been running in the Nike Zoom Vaporfly. With the same shoes on her feet, Auteri was ready to go, confidence restored and 2:59:15 her prize.
With her new magical shoes and a bone fide coach, 2018 is looking good for this talented runner.
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Suicide hotline calls spike in N.J.
Robin Williams’ death has prompted a surge in calls to suicide prevention hotline
Suicide hotline calls spike in N.J. Robin Williams’ death has prompted a surge in calls to suicide prevention hotline Check out this story on courierpostonline.com: http://on.cpsj.com/1ovPIpG
Asbury Park Press Published 9:31 p.m. ET Aug. 13, 2014
Robin Williams had been seeking treatment for depression and had dealt with periodic bouts of substance abuse. (Photo: Associated Press file )
The average number of daily calls to NJ Hopeline (1-855-654-6735) is between 60 and 66, but activity generated since the dealth of comedian and actor Robin Williams has pushed the number close to 100 daily
New Jersey sees closes to 700 suicides annually but the suicide rate here is lower than many states. That’s partly due to a seasonality factor in suicide rates, said Moustafa Shafey, a psychiatrist and medical director of CentraState Medical Center's Mental Health Department in Freehold Township.
Williams, who was 63, hanged himself with a belt in a bedroom of his San Francisco Bay Area home, authorities said. Williams had been seeking treatment for depression and had dealt with periodic bouts of substance abuse, announcing last month he was returning to a 12-step treatment program.
TRENTON – New Jersey officials say the number of calls to a suicide prevention hotline has spiked since the death of comedian and actor Robin Williams.
The average number of daily calls to NJ Hopeline, (855) 654-6735, is between 60 and 66, but Wednesday’s volume was expected to top 100 calls.
“It looks like we have been receiving more calls since Robin Williams’ death,” said Ellen Lovejoy, spokeswoman for the state Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services.
New Jersey sees closes to 700 suicides annually, but the suicide rate here is lower than many states.
That’s partly because of a seasonality factor in suicide rates, said Moustafa Shafey, a psychiatrist and medical director of the Mental Health Department at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold Township.
“New Jersey’s four-season weather has less extremes than found in other regions,” Shafey said.
Calls to the state hotline began to jump Monday, the day Williams died. There were 76 that day.
Tuesday’s call volume climbed to 96.
On Wednesday, as of noon, there were 49.
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A strong field of contenders want the SIAC volleyball title. Who is the favorite?
The SIAC will be strong again in volleyball. Can any of the contenders knock off defending champion Castle?
A strong field of contenders want the SIAC volleyball title. Who is the favorite? The SIAC will be strong again in volleyball. Can any of the contenders knock off defending champion Castle? Check out this story on courierpress.com: https://www.courierpress.com/story/sports/high-school/2019/08/19/strong-field-contenders-eyeing-siac-volleyball-title/2015680001/
Kyle Sokeland, Evansville Courier & Press Published 3:19 p.m. CT Aug. 19, 2019 | Updated 6:15 p.m. CT Aug. 20, 2019
Castle's Hannah Rae Kivett sets the ball in the first set against Jasper. The Knights won 35 games last year and return several contributors. (Photo: Brittney Lohmiller/The Herald)
EVANSVILLE – Dan Watson believes there was a misconception about his team last season.
Castle volleyball was by all measures one of the best teams in the state. The Knights won 35 matches, a Southern Indiana Athletic Conference title and their state-record 25th straight sectional championship. They also had a program-defining player in Jessica Nunge.
The 6-foot-3 outside hitter, who is now at Florida State, was truly elite. Because of her skills, Watson thinks people thought the team was a one-player juggernaut. The reality was a roster deep with talent.
The first post-Nunge season should show it. Castle is considered one of the preseason favorites to win another SIAC title.
“It’s going to take a collective effort from everybody,” said Watson. “I think that was a strength last year. The perception was that we were dominated by (Nunge) because she got the headlines. You’re going to see that collective effort even more personified. They realize for them to accomplish anything, they have to put in their work.”
Castle has the roster primed not only for this season but several to come. Senior outside hitter Carly Harpenau (255 kills), senior setter Hannah Rae Kivett (1,069 assists, Florida Gulf Coast) and senior middle hitter Jayden Roach (135 blocks) will be three-year varsity contributors.
They will find help up and down the roster.
Castle's Carly Harpenau (2) hits one down the line away from North defender Haley Bradley (12) during their semifinal match in the Class 4A Volleyball Sectionals at Harrison High School. (Photo: DENNY SIMMONS / COURIER & PRESS)
The Knights had two freshman see action last fall in libero Keira Moore (217 digs) and outside hitter Lizzie Bailey (130 kills). Both were named to the IHSVCA preseason watchlist. How far Castle can go this season will depend on its sophomores and others who saw time on junior varsity last year.
“We lost a few important players but we have a good lower class coming in,” said Harpenau. “Having Hannah still here keeps that mesh with the hitters still together. Our focus is to not the let the end of the season get too far ahead of us.”
The Knights, ranked No. 12 in the preseason coaches poll, are still far from a finished product ahead of their season opener against Jasper on Tuesday. Watson preaches to his group to take it one day at a time and don’t focus on the potential future.
Volleyball is a serve and pass game. The Knights have benchmarks to hit in both categories in order to find their optimal level of winning. This is a new team in Newburgh but still one that is accustomed to success.
“We will be a lot different than we were last year,” said Kivett. “We are going to be more diverse. Everyone is going to share an equal part in this. The game flows through our passing. If we don’t pass well, we can’t run an offense.”
Memorial has eyes on a great prize
Andi Alford admits it's a great problem to have.
By all accounts, Memorial had a good season last year with 28 victories and an appearance in the regional championship. Its four-member senior class played an integral part. But Alford can’t help but feel excited about the group that is still here.
Memorial senior Tatum Tornatta (Photo: Kyle Sokeland)
The Tigers return their top four hitters and several contributors from the backline for what could be a banner year. If the pieces fall into place, who says Memorial can’t dream of something bigger than the sectional?
“Our girls are so versatile and we can utilize them in several different positions,” said Alford. “Bringing back a lot of talent is helpful. Our goal is to focus on ourselves, not necessarily our opponent. Play our game to our potential. Anyone who we face, we want to focus on us.”
It starts with a deep, six-player senior class that includes some of the best players in the SIAC. Tatum Tornatta (393 kills, recently committed to Southern Illinois) was voted the City Player of the Year as a junior by the coaches. Emily Weinzapfel (248 kills, 213 digs), Rachel Basinski (300 digs, University of ), Alyssa Blessinger and Ainsley Neighbors all played key roles as juniors.
Throw in younger players like sophomore Trae McCutchan (108 kills) and you have a strong, balanced lineup. It’s easy to see why others around the SIAC are high on the Tigers.
“It’s pretty exciting,” said Tornatta. “We are so comfortable with each other and constructive criticism will help us. We want to really go out with a bang. We’ve been anticipating this season since sophomore year for most of us.”
Memorial senior Emily Weinzapfel (Photo: Kyle Sokeland)
The mantra right now is focusing on their weaknesses and staying near-sighted. Castle has won seven straight SIAC titles, and Memorial believes it could have a team worthy of the crown. But the season is a marathon, not a sprint.
Alford was still trying to find a lineup going into the Brebeuf Tournament last weekend – the 3A No. 12 Tigers went undefeated – because of the team’s depth. The talent and drive is there. Memorial isn’t planning to waste this opportunity.
“It’s about teamwork and trusting each other,” said Weinzapfel. “We put in so much work in practice that I think it will pay off. The stuff coach implements in practice like discipline, communicating, being good teammates. That is what will set us apart.”
A lot of new at Mater Dei
New coach. New players. Same expectations?
The West Side has seen good volleyball come out of Mater Dei. The program is fourth all-time in sectional championships (35) and has taken home the Class 2A title in eight of the last nine seasons. The Wildcats continued that tradition with an appearance in the regional final.
But it feels like a new era at Mater Dei for two reasons: that 20-win group was very senior dependent and there is someone new calling the shots.
Amy Nussmeier takes over the Wildcats and sees a young but eager team on the court. Mater Dei only has two seniors on the roster.
“We just have to put it all together,” said Nussmeier. “I have only a few players that played varsity last year that are on the floor right now. They have to get used to the pace of play. It’s really fast at this level.”
The Mater Dei volleyball team listens to new coach Amy Nussmeier during a scrimmage against Gibson Southern. (Photo: Kyle Sokeland)
The six seniors gone represented a bulk of the team’s offense and defense. Not all of the experience left Mater Dei, though.
Junior Rachel Luigs (137 kills), senior Addy Nosko (79 kills) and senior Rachel Folz (116 digs) all contributed to last year’s sectional title. Junior Mariah Dickerson has also returned to the floor after a knee injury sidelined her during the fall.
The Wildcats have a large junior class and several sophomores willing to step up.
“Once they figure out how the game is played, they will be smart about where to place the ball,” said Nussmeier. “That’s the next level. Now the girls are starting to notice what’s on the other side. Where are the holes and who am I attacking? Communication.”
Nussmeier isn’t a stranger to the SIAC. She previously coached three years at Central and two at Memorial before coming to the West Side. She knows the history behind the program.
Opposing coaches still see a contender this fall. The Wildcats were ranked No. 5 in the preseason Class 2A poll. Mater Dei will certainly have its youth tested throughout the season with another strong SIAC slate.
North eyeing a move to the top
Is there another team out there who could disrupt the hierarchy of Castle, Memorial and Mater Dei?
Those programs have ruled the SIAC in recent memory. But there is another who could make a strong case to be included. It would be the North Huskies.
North senior Lindsey Grayson (Photo: Kyle Sokeland)
Now in her eighth season since coming from the Chicago area, coach Julia Hudson returns several starters from an 18-win campaign last fall. The talent is evenly distributed between the frontline, backline and hitters.
“I really do think it could be a good year,” said senior Lindsey Grayson. “We’re going to be scrappy. We are all hard workers and won’t let a ball drop without someone going for it.”
Offense should be a strength at North with seven of its top eight hitters back in the rotation. Grayson (278 kills, 298 digs) and sophomore Katie Pogue (271 kills, 333 digs) rank among the best in the conference. Senior Savannah Strieter (184 kills, 109 blocks) is a strong middle hitter at 6-foot-3. Their setter returns too with senior Evan Hammett (403 assists).
The biggest loss comes on the backline with Kyla Tecson and Brooklyn Woolsey having graduated. Outside hitter Allie Pogue is now at IUPUI. Defense has been a focus in practice leading into the Huskies’ season opener on Monday.
“Our strength is going to be offense,” said Hudson. “What we are really working on is passing and defense. If you don’t pass, you don’t play. We really have to work hard on that and get our bodies in a good position. But we have some good athletes.”
North senior Evan Hammett (Photo: Kyle Sokeland)
The Huskies have risen as high as fourth in the conference pecking order with this group. It will still be tough to make that next breakthrough in the conference or even in the sectional against Castle or Jasper.
North does have a fire to make it happen. This is the last chance for most of this roster.
“A lot of us have played together for many years,” said Hammett. “This year we have great chemistry and that could take us a long way this season. We are ready. We love playing great competitors and it makes us better as a team. We are chasing the wins here.”
Other players to watch: Reitz sophomore Kaleigh Merritt, Bosse senior Millai Madison, Central junior Katey Goodwin, Reitz junior Catie Shane, Bosse junior Mallory Lander.
10 years later, Jeron Lewis' legacy lives on
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Uber Drivers’ Case on Track Despite Appeal
December 23, 2015 MARIA DINZEO
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – A federal judge said he will not rule on whether a class of Uber drivers should be treated like employees until after the Ninth Circuit resolves a legal dispute over his decision to add 100,000 drivers to the class.
Uber appealed U.S. District Judge Edward Chen’s ruling on Dec. 9 that expanded the sweeping class action to include drivers who had signed contracts with Uber in 2014 and 2015, but didn’t opt out of the arbitration agreement.
He also found the arbitration agreement unenforceable because it contains a non-severable provision barring employees from acting as state representatives in labor lawsuits under California’s Private Attorneys General Act.
Uber immediately appealed the decision, arguing that the unenforceable provision could still be severed.
Chen said that while he didn’t find it likely that Uber would win its appeal, “a serious legal question has been raised by Uber.”
In their 2013 lawsuit, former drivers claimed they were misclassified as independent contractors and therefore required to pay for their own gas, vehicles and maintenance. They also said Uber falsely told riders that a 20 percent gratuity is included in the fare, but failed to pass along the full share of tips to drivers.
Chen also declined to delay trial in the case – set for June 20, 2016 – finding the minimal hardship to Uber outweighed by the class’ interest in getting their nearly three year-old claims resolved.
“In its motion to stay, Uber has arguably raised serious legal questions,” Chen wrote. “However, Uber has not demonstrated that the balance of the hardships absent a stay tips sharply in its favor so as to warrant a complete stay.”
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Fab Writer Friday - Meet Katie Schickel
Featured writer today is Katie Schickel, author of Housewitch and the upcoming The Mermaid's Secret. I can personally recommmend Housewitch. It's a captivating read that I couldn't put down! Here's more about Katie:
Tell us a bit about yourself. Who are you as a person?
I’m a mom and a writer. I’m a fresh-air enthusiast, adventurer, and ocean lover. I’d take a weekend camping over a weekend at the spa anytime. I get cranky if I’m away from the ocean for too long. Surfing is my latest passion. I’ve hitchhiked across Australia, been marooned in Panama, surrounded by thousands of barracuda in Key West, and I can name every country in Africa. I love to tell stories.
How did you know you wanted to be a writer?
When I was in college, I had no idea what I wanted to do in life (rather, I had LOTS of ideas, but couldn’t narrow it down). Last semester of senior year, I took a class called Intro to Journalism that blew my mind. The professor was a staff writer for TIME Magazine and a former reporter for The Washington Post. He sent us on assignments around the city, got us interviewing people from all walks of life, and I was hooked. My first job out of college was with a daily newspaper as a reporter on the police beat. I’ve written and edited for several magazines as well. I came into fiction writing late in life.
What is your favorite of all the things you’ve written?
That’s tough. There’s a scene in my next book, The Mermaid’s Secret, that makes me giggle every time I read it. My main character, who is sometimes a mermaid sometimes a human, encounters a young girl dressed up as a fairy. The two mystical creatures have a charming conversation about being magical.
What are you working on right now?
I’m working on a novel about a cupid who has lost his faith in love.
What is your best memory from your childhood?
Playing in the treehouse with my brother and sister in our backyard. In my memory is was the tallest treehouse in the world with many levels and secret hideouts. In reality, I’m fairly certain it was a piece of plywood stuck in an apple tree.
Tell us about a book you’d recommend. Why do you love it?
Euphoria by Lily King. The writing is gorgeous, the story is riveting, and the characters are deep and complex.
How do you come up with ideas for your books?
I keep a folder that I stock with notes, interesting articles, dreams, and impressions. I’m lucky in that I have a husband who is a great brainstorm partner.
Describe a perfect writing day.
At the computer at 8 a.m. Internet is down, so I can’t go online. Bang out 1,000 words by 10 a.m. Go to the gym. Come back, write another 500 words. Walk the dog. Get a call from my agent telling me I’ve just landed a contract. Celebrate that evening with kale salad and steaming bowl of parsnip soup. Go to bed at a reasonable hour.
Describe a terrible writing day.
At the computer at 8:00. Futz around on twitter and Facebook for a couple hours. Have a snack. Write a sentence. Spend an hour putting things into my shopping cart on Athleta. Write another sentence. Eat. Nap. Get one more sentence in before kids come home. Snack. Tell myself I can get work done after dinner. Heat up some leftover mac-and-cheese. Sit on the couch watching reality TV til 11 p.m. Beat myself up for being such a useless slacker.
Do you ever make public appearances? Where can we meet you in person?
My appearances are between Boston and Portland, Maine. I post my appearances on my website, katieschickel.com.
Where can we find your titles?
Independent bookstores, Barnes & Noble stores, and Books-a-Million stores. Online, I’m on amazon, B&N, BAM, Powells, Indie Bound, Kobo, and Indigo.
Click on the book cover below to link straight to Amazon and get your copy today!
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PASS releases new guidelines for K-12 security
category: Privilege Control, Security
The Partner Alliance for Safer Schools (PASS) has released the fourth edition of its Safety and Security Guidelines for K-12 schools. PASS’ primary mission is to provide school boards, administrators, and public safety and security professionals with a framework for implementing a layered, tiered approach to enhancing the safety of K-12 campuses.
The fourth edition of the PASS Guidelines has been completely revised under a more simplified structure and has been greatly expanded to now cover security best practices at a district-wide level. The new guidelines have also included additional areas of focus including school transportation, cybersecurity, network infrastructure, architectural features and emergency communications.
“The safety and security challenges schools face today are more multifaceted and complex than ever before, and protecting students and staff requires a comprehensive approach to these challenges,” says Guy Grace, PASS chairman and director of security and emergency planning for Littleton Public Schools. “We are proud to build on the PASS guidelines, which present the most comprehensive information available on best practices for securing school facilities, an essential component supporting all-hazards approaches to school safety.”
The PASS Guidelines and its specified best practices for securing K-12 facilities are based on responses to urgent needs for information identified by the education community itself. The guidelines aim to answer two key questions: “What should we do?” and “How do we prioritize?”
The guidelines also cover the following security aspects:
Specific actions that can effectively raise the baseline of security
Vetted security practices specific to K-12 environments
Objective, reliable information on available safety and security technology
Assessment of current security measures against nationwide best practices
Multiple options for addressing security needs identified
How to distinguish needed and effective solutions from sales pitches on unnecessary products.
PASS guidelines describe approaches within five physical layers for school facilities: district-wide, the property perimeter, the parking lot perimeter, the building perimeter and the classroom/interior perimeter. Within each layer, PASS then outlines key safety and security components, such as policies and procedures, personnel (roles and training), architectural components, communication, access control, video surveillance, detection and alarms.
“We believe this approach provides a simplified way for administrators to effectively evaluate their security infrastructure, prioritize investment and maximize security in ways that are consistent with longstanding security practices and ensure a baseline of facility security measures appropriate for school facilities,” says Mark Williams, PASS vice chairman.
Established in 2014, PASS brings together expertise from the education community, law enforcement and the security industry to develop and support a coordinated approach that can assist school administrators in making effective use of proven security practices specific to K-12 environments, including elementary, middle and high schools. Learn more about PASS on its newly redesigned website.
The latest guidelines are available to the public on the PASS website at no cost. PASS encourages all education professionals, public safety personnel and security solutions providers to take full advantage of these valuable, free resources.
PASS’ guidelines for school s... Helping schools prioritize security... Report recommends ways to make NJ s...
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Aiden Coxhead
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Aiden is a role model not just for his peers, but for the whole community.
A fundraising hero
When bikes were stolen from children with complex learning disabilities and physical disabilities, Aiden saw an opportunity.
Meet Aiden
Aiden’s life isn’t easy. He suffers from cystic fibrosis, anxiety and various challenges presented by his autism. Despite this, Aiden insists on finding time to put other people first.
One example of Aiden’s giving nature is his participation in Time to Shine, an initiative run by Cornwall Accessible Activities Program. Time to Shine helps young people develop their employment skills. After joining Time to Shine, Aiden has used his skills to support the people at CAAP events.
He also completed a Sports Leadership Award and volunteers at his old school, Pencalenick, to deliver physical education classes to children with complex learning disabilities and physical disabilities.
Rising to the challenge
Unfortunately, not everyone is as kind as Aiden. Earlier this year some bikes, specially adapted for the pupils of Pencalenick School, were stolen.
Sport and physical activity can be of huge benefit for all young people, but especially those with additional needs. Aiden saw firsthand how important the bikes were to the children and was heartbroken to hear of the theft.
So, Aiden decided to take matters into his own hands.
Aiden set up a GoFundMe page online – with the first donation being his own pocket money – to replace the bikes. He also made and sold dog treats to contribute to the fund. Aiden worked tirelessly to raise awareness of the fund, even sharing the story on local radio stations around Cornwall.
Ultimately, Aiden raised £2,100 to help Pencalenick School replace the bikes. Even though Aiden has since left the school and won’t be using the bikes himself, he showed true determination and selflessness by making sure new pupils wouldn’t miss out.
An example for others
Aiden is a role model not just for his peers, but for the whole community. He refuses to be defined by his conditions, takes pride in giving back to his local community and is always looking for ways to help others.
“I would love to know more about him. I think he’s very brave to work outside his comfort zone so much for the good of others, expecting nothing in return. I understand how hard it is to speak up when you find it so difficult to do so.” – Leaders’ List 2019 Judge
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St Paul Charitable Vehicle Donations
If you want to donate your used automobile in St Paul, Minnesota, you might need to read the information described here so you are aware of the vehicle donation steps. There are thousands of charities that will take a vehicle as a donation. Accepting cars, trucks, or other vehicles is a simple technique for the charities to get funds to help the cause.
Many national charitable organizations operate in-house vehicle donation programs that will sell cars to generate money to give to less fortunate individuals in St Paul and surrounding areas. Shown below are a few of the top U.S. based charitable organizations that welcome car donations in Minnesota.
Donate a Car in St Paul
The American Diabetes Association works to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. Your donation will help to further this mission.
The March of Dimes researches causes of premature birth and birth defects. Vehicle Donations will help to continue this work.
Your donation to the National Kidney Foundation will help to fight kidney disease and provide valuable funds for research and education.
Donating a Vehicle in St Paul, MN
Along with running and non-running cars and trucks, several non-profit organizations in St Paul, MN will also accept old motorhomes, motorcycles, boats, ATVs, trailers, and other machinery in order to raise funds for the good of the charity.
A question to get answered if you want to get a deduction on your taxes is if your chosen non-profit organization is a registered charity with the IRS. The most common type of organization that is approved to take in donations of vehicles is a section 501(c)(3) organization. You will want to check the website of your favorite charity and find out if the charity is an IRS approved charitable organization. Several charitable organizations around St Paul happen to be approved that are able to take your car or truck as a donation.
Some regional charitable organizations in Minnesota may not have a vehicle donation department set up, but it might be possible for you to donate your non-running car to them. You need to talk with the person that handles raising funds to discover if they will gain from you making a donation.
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Charitable organizations in St Paul, Minnesota will generally accept the following items along with some others for donation.
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Nikon Z7 Mirrorless Digital Camera with 24-70mm Lens
Nikon Z6 Mirrorless Digital Camera with 24-70mm Lens with FTZ Mount Adapter Kit $3,895.00
VOK010XA
Mirrorless reinvented through the Nikon Z mount system
The Z mount system comprises mirrorless cameras featuring a new, larger-diameter mount, and compatible NIKKOR Z lenses and accessories. This system has been realized through the pursuit of a new dimension in optical performance. It has inherited Nikon's tradition of quality, superior imaging technology, great operability, and high reliability, all innovated from its digital SLR cameras.
At the heart of the new Z mount system is the new, larger-diameter mount, which unlocks further possibilities of lens design, greatly increasing capabilities in optical performance. The Z mount system will offer a variety of high-performance lenses, including the fastest lens in Nikon history, with f/0.95*. Additionally, the new mount adapter will enable compatibility with NIKKOR F mount lenses, adding to the range of choices for photographers.
The letter "Z" represents the culmination of Nikon's relentless pursuit of ultimate optical performance, and a bridge to a new chapter. It is about redefining possibilities to provide image-makers with tools to realize greater creativity.
Nikon will expand the value of mirrorless cameras through the pursuit of a new dimension in optical performance, and by upholding Nikon's tradition of quality while responding to the evolution of imaging technology. By providing image-makers with stimulating new products, Nikon will continue to lead imaging culture.
Z 7 and Z 6 product overview
The Z 7 and Z 6 are equipped with a new backside illumination, Nikon FX-format CMOS sensor with focal-plane phase-detection AF pixels, and the latest image-processing engine, EXPEED 6.
The Z 7 has 45.7 effective megapixels, and supports a standard sensitivity range of ISO 64-25600. In combination with NIKKOR Z lenses, the camera achieves an outstanding level of sharpness and detail, all the way to the edges of the image.
The Z 6 is an all-purpose FX-format camera with 24.5 effective megapixels, and supports the wide range of ISO 100-51200 standard sensitivities. With superior performance at high sensitivities and full-frame 4K UHD movie recording with full pixel readout, the Z 6 responds to a variety of needs, such as shooting in dimly lit environments, and movie recording.
TOKYO - Nikon Corporation (Nikon) is pleased to announce the release of three new lenses compatible with the Nikon Z mount system's full-frame (Nikon FX format) mirrorless cameras, for which a new larger-diameter mount has been adopted, as well as the Mount Adapter FTZ. The three new lenses are the standard zoom NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/4 S, the wide-angle prime NIKKOR Z 35mm f/1.8 S, and the standard prime NIKKOR Z 50mm f/1.8 S.
NIKKOR Z lenses pursue a new dimension in optical performance, by taking advantage of the superior design flexibility made possible by the combination of the larger Z mount with its inner diameter of 55 mm, and a short flange focal distance of 16 mm. The lenses offer sharp resolution with both still-image and movie recording capability, and are equipped with functions that include: compensation for focus breathing (the shifting of the angle of view when focus is adjusted), quiet operation, smooth exposure control, a control ring, and performance that are all well suited to movie recording.
24.5MP FX-Format BSI CMOS Sensor and EXPEED 6 Processor
A 24.5MP BSI CMOS sensor is used for all-around shooting, impressive low-light quality, and fast readout speeds to benefit continuous shooting, movies, and time-lapse recording. The back-illuminated design of the sensor affords noticeably cleaner high-sensitivity output for reduced noise when working at high ISO values, up to a native ISO 51200, as well as vivid and smooth quality at sensitivities as low as ISO 100. Benefitting the sensor is the apt EXPEED 6 image processor, which affords a wealth of speed throughout the camera system, including the ability to shoot continuously at 12 fps in raw.
4K UHD Video Recording
Utilizing the sensor and processor attributes for more than just still imagery, the Z6 is also a more-than-capable multimedia camera. Video recording is possible at UHD 4K (3840 x 2160) using either the full-frame area or a DX crop area in 30p, 25, or 24p frame rates. Full HD 1080p video recording is also supported at up to 120p for slow motion playback, and video files can be saved to the in-camera memory cards or as an uncompressed file to an optional external recorder via HDMI out.
Advanced video functionalities have been added with the Z6. This includes the N-Log gamma for capturing flat-looking footage that maximizes dynamic range. Other additions are the ability to output high-quality 10-bit data over HDMI and an Electronic VR function for smooth handheld shooting. Focus Peaking can be used to benefit manual focus control and a Zebra Stripes option is also available to help detect over-exposed areas within the frame. Audio recording can be handled using the built-in stereo microphone or an optional external mic can be added via the 3.5mm stereo jack for greater control over quality, and live monitoring is possible via the headphone jack.
273-Point Phase-Detect AF System
Located on the sensor is an array of 273 phase-detect autofocus points covering 90% of the image area both vertically and horizontally. This provides fast and accurate focusing for both stills and video and with a wide coverage area, subject tracking will work out to near the edges of the frame. Hybrid AF is available for video, which will automatically switch between phase- and contrast-detect systems to provide smooth focus during shooting. Additionally, the latest NIKKOR Z lenses are optimized for silent operation.
Primary features of the Z 7 and Z 6
1.Equipped with a new backside illumination Nikon FX-format CMOS sensor with focal-plane phase-detection AF pixels
A backside illumination CMOS sensor, with focal-plane phase-detection AF pixels, has been adopted for both the Z 7 and the Z 6. The Z 7 has 45.7 effective megapixels, and supports the ISO 64-25600 range of standard sensitivities (reduction to the equivalent of ISO 32 and expansion to the equivalent of ISO 102400 is also possible). The Z 6 has a 24.5 effective megapixels, and supports a broad range of standard sensitivities, from ISO 100-51200 (additional reduction to the equivalent of ISO 50 and expansion to the equivalent of ISO 204800).
2.A hybrid AF system with focus points covering approximately 90% of the imaging area
The Z 7 has 493 focus points* and the Z 6 has 273 focus points*, enabling broad coverage of approximately 90% of the imaging area both horizontally and vertically. This hybrid AF system uses an algorithm optimized for the FX-format sensor, and automatically switches between focal-plane phase-detection AF and contrast-detect AF to achieve focus. The use of NIKKOR Z lenses further increases AF accuracy with both still images and movies.
*With FX (36x24) format and single-point AF.
3.The new EXPEED 6 image-processing engine for sharp and clear imaging, and new functions that support creative imaging expression
The Z 7 and Z 6 are equipped with the new EXPEED 6 image-processing engine. Employing the superior resolving power of NIKKOR Z and NIKKOR F lenses, subjects are rendered more sharply than ever before. Noise is also effectively reduced.
Additionally, a mid-range sharpening option has been added to Picture Control sharpness parameters. This option, along with existing sharpening and clarity parameters, allows users to make various textures within the screen sharper or softer, for both still images and movies*. The cameras also offer 20 options of Creative Picture Control, supporting creative imaging expression. The effect level is adjustable from 0 to 100.
4.An electronic viewfinder that utilizes Nikon's superior optical and image-processing technologies to offer a clear and natural view
*Mid-range sharpness adjustment is only possible at "High quality" movie setting.
The electronic viewfinder adopted for the Z 7 and Z 6 is comfortable and easy to use, comparable to optical viewfinders. Both cameras are equipped with an electronic viewfinder for which an approximately 3690k-dot OLED panel has been adopted. The electronic viewfinder has, respectively, frame coverage and magnification of approximately 100% and 0.8x, as well as an approximately 37.0° diagonal viewing angle. It draws on Nikon's superior optical and image-processing technologies, ensuring a clear and comfortable view comparable to that of optical viewfinders, with reduced aberration and minimum eyestrain, even during extended shoots. Furthermore, a fluorine coat that effectively repels dirt has been applied to the eyepiece protection window. In addition, the <i> menu can be displayed in the electronic viewfinder, allowing users to quickly view and adjust a variety of shooting settings, including ISO sensitivity, AF-area mode, and Picture Control, all while looking through the viewfinder.
5.An ergonomic design unique to Nikon that enables intuitive operation
The Z 7 and Z 6 have inherited the superior operability that Nikon has cultivated over the years through its development of cameras. The bodies are compact, while boasting a firm grip that is easy to hold, and buttons such as that for the sub-selector, AF-ON, ISO, and exposure compensation are all placed so that they can be operated swiftly and easily. Additionally, a display panel has been positioned on the top part of the camera, where information about settings can be displayed, the same as with high-end digital SLR camera models.
6.Movie functions such as 10-bit N-Log that captures a wide dynamic range, and timecoding, responding to professional needs
The Z 7 and Z 6 support recording of not only full-frame 4K UHD (3840 x 2160)/30p movies using the FX-based movie format, but also Full-HD/120p movies. Sharper 4K UHD movies are made possible, using the full-pixel readout.*1 Additionally, Active D-Lighting, electronic vibration reduction, and focus peaking can be used with 4K UHD and Full-HD movie recording. Nikon's original N-Log can also be used with 10-bit*2 HDMI output. The cameras utilize extensive color depth and twelve-stop, 1300% dynamic range to record a wealth of tone information from highlights and shadows for more effective color grading. Timecode support*3 makes synchronizing video and sound from multiple devices easier. Additionally, the control ring built into NIKKOR Z lenses can be used to quietly and smoothly adjust settings such as aperture and exposure compensation.
7.Nikon's first*1 in-camera vibration reduction with approx. 5.0-stop*2 effectiveness
*1DX-based movie format with the Z 7.
*2Simultaneous recording of 4K UHD movies with 10-bit output to the camera's memory card is not possible.
*3Not available when shooting slow-motion movies.
The Z 7 and Z 6 are equipped with in-camera vibration reduction (VR). The VR unit provides compensation for movement along five axes. The effects of vibration reduction are equivalent to a shutter speed up to approximately 5.0 stops*2. This function can also be used effectively with NIKKOR F lenses, including those not equipped with a VR function, with the Mount Adapter FTZ (sold separately)*3.
8.Other features
Same level of strength and durability, as well as dust- and drip-resistance, as the Nikon D850, offered in a compact body
An 8-cm/3.2-in., approximately 2100k-dot touch-sensitive LCD monitor, with a tilting mechanism
Silent photography function eliminates shake and noise caused by shutter release
Peaking stack image function*1 enables confirmation of the area in focus after shooting using focus shift, which is convenient for focus stacking*2
High-speed continuous shooting (extended)*3 at approximately 9 fps (Z 7) and 12 fps (Z 6) captures fast motion
Interval timer photography that makes 8K (Z 7) time-lapse movie creation*2 possible
An extended low-light metering range*4 allows users to easily capture scenes such as the transition from sunset to starry night sky, using aperture-priority auto mode
Built-in Wi-Fi® for direct connection to a smart device using SnapBridge
Built-in Wi-Fi® makes the transfer of images and movies to a computer possible
Support for existing digital SLR camera accessories such as the WT-7/A/B/C Wireless Transmitter (available separately) for transferring images and movies at high speed over a wired or wireless LAN, and radio-controlled Advanced Wireless Lighting, which makes flexible multi-flash photography possible
*1Can only be confirmed using the camera with which focus shift was performed.
*2Third-party software is required.
*3Continuous H (extended) in 12-bit RAW, JPEG, or TIFF format.
*4With interval timer shooting or time-lapse movie recording with silent photography and exposure smoothing enabled.
Development of the MB-N10 Multi-Power Battery Pack
The MB-N10 Multi-Power Battery Pack that is currently in development will hold two EN-EL15b batteries, effectively increasing the number of shots possible and/or movie recording time by approximately 1.8x. It will provide the same level of dust- and drip-resistance as the Z 7 and Z 6, and will support USB charging using the EH-7P Charging AC Adapter.
Rangefinder-style mirrorless
Full frame (35.9 x 23.9 mm)
Auto, 64-25600 (expands to 32-102400)
Lens mount:
MPEG-4, H.264
USB 3.1 Gen 1 (5 GBit/sec)
Yes (micro HDMI)
Wi Fi-Bluetooth
675 g (1.49 lb / 23.81 oz)
134 x 101 x 68 mm (5.28 x 3.98 x 2.68″)
EN-EL15b lithium-ion battery & charger
Click the button below to add the Nikon Z7 Mirrorless Digital Camera with 24-70mm Lens to your wish list.
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A blog about my travels, tours, visits and the people I've met.
NAFEST 2019 - THE BEAUTY OF NIGERIA IN HER MULTI-ETHNIC AND MULTI-CULTURE SOCIETY
The 2019 National Festival for Arts and Culture (NAFEST), has come and gone from October 19th to 26th in Benin City. It was the biggest Arts and Culture event in Nigeria, the Benin edition was the 32nd edition since inception but it was the first time NAFEST program was hosted in Edo State in the last 40 years. Interestingly, the festival coincided with the 3rd coronation anniversary of the Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpokpolo, the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II.
declaring NAFEST 2019 open
In preparation of the event, some of us who were accustomed to different parts of Benin City, noticed that the city was adorned with bright colours and landmark cultural artworks. The State Governor His Excellency Godwin Obaseki led top government dignitaries, artistes including: Seventy-eight-year-old legendary musician - Professor Sir Victor Uwaifo; Nigerian pop star Innocent Idibia, aka 2Baba to the officially opening of the event for NAFEST 2019 on the 19th of October 27, 2019. Also there were displays performances by the Combatant team of the Nigerian Army Women Corp, Silent Drill Platoon and the Guard Brigade Band of the Army, the Nigerian Army Women Corps stole the show. About twenty-six states participated in this year’s opening parade, all the states that participated displayed their various traditional dances and in traditional attires.
The Oba of Benin and the Governor of Edo State
Governor Obaseki, in his opening address, described the hosting of NAFEST 40 years after it started as “a return to the home of culture” in the country. In his words: “Today, we are celebrating Edo State because, 40 years after this festival had been born, it is coming to the home of culture. He also noted that Edo State is not only the home of culture in Nigeria but the entire African continent. We are very happy because this festival is a source of unity for Nigeria. Culture is a means of uniting our people,”
Prof Victor Uwaifo and Otunba Runsewe
The Director General of National Council for Arts and Culture, Otunba Olusegun Runsewe, said the display of the rich culture of Nigeria at the opening ceremony of NAFEST was an indication that God loves Nigeria. Speaking further at the University of Benin Sports Complex, Ugbowo, Benin, Otunba Olusegun Runsewe said that National Council for Arts and Culture was determined to use empowerment programme to take teeming unemployed youths off the streets and make them productive members of the society. He said that this was part of the vision of the council to make culture a key player in the nation’s economic growth. He further explained that culture was capable of creating mass employment and empowering the people in line with the economic diversification policy of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. “It is in the light of this that we have expanded the scope of the festival to include skills acquisition programmes. “The essence of this is to train youths, women, the physically challenged and other vulnerable members of the society in various skills in arts and crafts. He described NAFESTE as “The platform for talent hunt, identifying, nurturing and training of young Nigerians who have exhibited unique expertise in various areas in our competitive events,”
Otunba Segun Runsuwe glad in his Oba's Coronation outfit
The State Commissioner for Arts, Culture and Tourism, Mr. Osemwengie Ero, in his welcome address, promised that the festival would provide further cultural integration among the states of the federation, and it sure did.
Oba Akenzua Cultural Center
Several sites were selected for the event based on their historic as well as captivating importance, they included the Oba Akenzua Cultural Center, Igun Street, the University of Benin Sports Complex, Oba’s Palace and Benin Golf Club.
Oba of Benin playing golf at the Benin Golf Club
At the Benin Golf Club, His Royal Majesty Oba Ewuare II, Oba of Benin, the Director General of National Council for Arts and Culture Otunba Runsewe and other dignitaries were seen playing the Royal Golf Tourney.
The people of Benin City came out en-mass to contribute to the successful hosting of the event, very friendly with almost everybody we met at the event and outside in the town.
Dr Raphael James at the National Museum
As the explorer that I am, I could not stay in place as I criss-crossed round Benin, I visited areas like: Five Junction, Urubi, Iyaro, Akpakpava Road, Ring Road, Ogba Zoo, the National Museum and even sneaked to Sapele in Delta State.
Dr. Lizi Ben Iheanocho with the the Amayanabo of Mbanmiri and his Queen
From my observation, I may want to put the capacity of crowd for the 6 days program to an estimated 30,000 visitors, cutting across tourists and guests from different parts of Nigeria and neighbouring countries. The list of guests are commendable, I may not know all that attended but I was able to pick up some few faces like: His Excellency, The Vice President of Nigeria Prof Yemi Osibanjo, Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, Deputy Governor of Edo state, The wife of the Enugu Governor, Hon Commissioner for Arts, Culture and Diaspora Affairs of Edo State - Hon. Osaze Osemwengie-Ero, Prof the legendary musician Victor Uwaifo, Innocent Idibia, aka 2face, Amb Lancelot, Princess Patricia Eweka of the Benin Royal House, the Amayanabo of Mbanmiri and his Queen.
Town hall meeting with the Vice President
The vice president and other dignitaries reacts at the Town Hall meeting
Vice President enjoying the hospitality of NAFEST 2019
The event covered different cultural activities showcasing and celebrating Nigeria’s rich and diverse culture as a united people, including: Children's Essay Writing Competition, which focused on "Five Reasons why I'm proud of my Royalty" 17 States participated in it. There was the Children's Crafts Competition, Celebration of Royal Splendor, and Poetry in our local tongues. Also there were competitive and non-competitive events like Culture Quiz Competition for Secondary Schools, Indigenous Fabrics in Royal Apparel Competition, Free Skills Acquisition, Drama Competition on the theme ‘Our Royalty, Our Pride’. There was a traditional wrestling competition.
Dr. Lizi Ben Iheanacho cross checking the traditional dishes
Dress making, as part of the skill training
traditional wrestling
The non-competitive events were the Stakeholders Roundtable on Entrepreneurship of which my 14 years old son was one of the Resources persons. He spoke on “Photography – Hobby to a Profession”. The young man walked up on stage with so much confidence, opened his presentation with a musical rendition by Ed Sheeran, titled ‘Photograph’ in which he sang the lyrics and played his guitar alongside. His presentation which was on slide for easy comprehension lasted for about 30 minutes, as he talked, he demonstrated with his camera. His presentation started with the definition of Photography, which he described as “as the art, application and practice of creating durable images with a camera”. He told his audience that “there is no photography without a camera”. Then he defined a camera, using the Oxford English Dictionary definition that, “a camera is a device that produce an image on film, paper, or another medium”. He went on to tell the crowd how in about 2, 300 years ago Aristotle wrote about the camera obscura, as being a device that produced only light without image, and how in 1827, Joseph Niépce modified the camera to be able to produce a photographic plate, making him the inventor of the first camera to produce an actual photo. He also informed them how Niepce had refused to disclose the process he was using to produce images and how in 1829, that is about 190 years ago, he went into partnership with Louis Mandé and they made the first commercial camera. The crowd was amazed when he displayed a sample of Niepce vintage camera which is dated 1892, about 127 years old. He also explained the difference between Niepce 1892 camera and Mr. Russell of the USA 1957 first digital camera. The young photographer also had some of his works on display at the venue
Ikemsinachukwu got a handshake from the DG Otunba Runsewe
Ikemsinachukwu Jordan James got a standing ovation after his talk, in fact in the words of Dr. Elizabeth Ben Iheanacho – The Director of Research and Documentation of National Council for Arts and Culture, she described him thus: “A young boy who clicking his way into national and world reckoning. Dubbed "The Youngest Professional Photographer" by the highland influential Guardian Newspaper, Ikemsinachukwu Jordan James was one of the three resources persons at the NAFEST 2019 Roundtable on Entrepreneurship. The young boy challenged his peers to find a hobby they can honestly turn into a skill and turn into a profession like he's doing while getting on with education, living life and making money as he smiles. His performance so thrilled and wowed his audience that the Director General of NCAC pronounced him the official photographer of INAC 2019. INAC is the International Arts and Crafts Expo, a major platform for networking Nigerian crafts to the world. It attracts participation from all foreign embassies in Nigeria”. Ikemsinachukwu received the “Outstanding Young Entrepreneur Award at the Closing Ceremony of NAFEST 2019 on Saturday, 26th October, 2019. “
Dr Lizi Ben Iheanacho with the young Ikemsinachukwu after his presentation
There was a woman who was referred to as mama akara. Madam Robinson told us her story in order to encourage other women and young ladies, she has been frying akara for years and use it to train her children through higher institutions all the way from Kano to Benin. She explained thus "From Kano, we come return to Benin. Ehn no easy at all. I first try sell rice but I come see say na akara I fit do well. I come change, get my things ready, I will wake up wash mortar very well and boil oil well, well because different oil dey but na good ones I dey use. I mean red oil. Some people dey run for fire but if you get money, make you use gas instead way you go try to go cross desert and die for there."
Madam Robinson frying her akara at the venue, courtesy of Otumba Runsewe who asked her to fry
for everybody who cares to eat and he will pay
There was also Ambassador Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen, the director and producer, known for ABCs of Death 2, Home in Exile, Invasion 1897 and Isakaaba 1-4. His presentation was most captivating and straight from the heart.
Ambassador Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen with Ikemsinachukwu
There were free medical screening such as eye screening, body massage index, blood sugar test and more.
I noticed that the Society of Nigerian Artists (SNA) were fully represented at the NAFEST with art exhibition, conference, talk shop, paper presentation, cultural carnival, and workshop. The Art Exhibition themed was ‘Multidisciplinary Approach to the Issue of Societal Egalitarianism’ and it was held at the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Benin, Benin City, and the Oba Akenzua Cultural Centre. The Edo state children contingent performed a stage dance drama where they showcased cultural and historical values of the Oba of Benin. NAFEST brought out the best of Arts and Culture and these were displayed through dozens of means including: paintings, sculptures, graphics, ceramics, prints, digital art, photography, metal design, textiles, drawings, mixed media and installations, culinary celebration among others. Even the Food Court and Live Band Stand areas displayed our culture with lots of traditional Cuisines and music of years to year. The Vice president of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo took advantage of NAFEST and held a Town hall meeting and interface with the artists and creative sector, including market women. He encouraged the audience to use culture to empower people and also to grow the state economy among other issue on development.
Benin royalty on display female
Benin Royalty on display make
Ambassador Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen decorates Mr. Soni Irabor
Otunba Segun Runsewe, the tourism giant
On the 21st I had walked into the auditorium of Oba Akenzua 11 Cultural Center and behold I witnessed a drama “The fall of Nekighidi a Benin historical drama by Osa Earliece” I was impressed with what I saw on stage.
A play in action at NAFEST 2019
The event came to an end in a colorful ceremony on the 26th of September. By all indications, it was obvious that the 2019 edition of the NAFEST, consolidate Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration’s reforms in boosting tourism through arts and culture, which is one of the six thematic pillars of his administration in Edo State.
Colourful display of beauties
Rivers state team
River State was judged the overall winner of NAFEST 2019, the Ogun State Council of Arts and Culture won 4 awards in various categories as participant. Certificates of participation were presented to the participants of the 4 Days Skills Acquisitions Programme organised by NCAC at the Cultural Centre, this was done by Otunba Segun Runsewe - the Director General, National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC).
Ekiti state team with Dr Lizi Ben Iheanacho
I agree totally with the Director General of National Council for Arts and Culture, Otunba Segun Runsewe, that: “There is no reason for us to disagree on anything. The beauty of Nigeria is in her multi-ethnic and multi-culture society.”
My humble self with the Tourism Giant Otunba Runsewe, the man with great tourism foresight
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Ste. Genevieve, MO
Injury Attorneys in Ste. Genevieve, MO
Personal Injury Lawyers in Ste. Genevieve, MO. Drummond Law offers legal counsel to injury victims and their families in Missouri and Illinois. It’s our goal to make sure that those injured at home, on the job, by a product, or even in a car accident get the support they need. Don’t hesitate to contact Drummond Law’s Ste. Genevieve, MO, Personal Injury Attorneys today to speak directly to a lawyer.
Practicing law for more than four decades, our legal team has the resources and experience needed to help clients through these difficult situations. You can be looking at serious financial implications f you or someone in your family has an injury, including lost wages, medical expenses, pain and suffering, funeral expenses, and other damages that could be compensated. You can become injured in any number of ways. As personal injury lawyers in Ste. Genevieve, MO, we recommend that victims look for legal counsel as soon as possible to help you get the compensation you deserve.
Common Personal Injury Claims
In one second, your entire life can change because of an injury. Personal Injury lawyers handle a wide swathe of cases and claims. Below is a brief list of the most common types of claims:
Car and Truck Accidents
Scars and Burns
Neck and Spine Injuries
Get in touch with one of our Ste. Genevieve, MO, personal injury lawyers now to learn more about our capabilities and legal services if you’re disabled or hurt at work, in a car accident, at a store, or even at home. We provide free, no-obligation case reviews and consultations.
Compensation for Personal Injury Claims
Our personal injury lawyers in Ste. Genevieve, MO, have the experience and dedication you need to fight your case and get the reimbursement you deserve if you are injured. Even if an injury seems small, like a burn or slight back pain, they can turn into a lasting condition with major implications. It’s important to keep track of any ongoing pain. Here are a few of the financial implications that may be considered for a personal injury case:
Medical Care: Usually, insurance covers partial to full medical care. x-rays, surgery, rehab, and other hospital bills. It’s essential to collect all of your medical documentation.
Pain and Suffering: If you have a life-altering injury, you may be able to collect damages for continued pain and suffering. In addition, benefits can be awarded to family members (i.e. survivors) in the case of wrongful death.
Punitive Damages: Different states have different laws for punitive damages. These are based on compensation for any harm caused by a breach or negligent party, and usually don’t add up to much in the reimbursement total.
Lost Income: If you’re unable to work for several weeks because of a car accident or slip and fall, you may be able to recover losses for lost wages. All financial implications after an injury are considered.
Other Expenses: Other financial burdens caused by an accident may include mileage for driving to and from a hospital, paying for a rental car, childcare, prescriptions, and other “out-of-pocket” expenses are also evaluated.
The personal injury lawyers at Drummond Law help Ste. Genevieve, MO, victims and their families through the entire legal process. We will consider loss of consortium, emotional distress, and other general and special damages. Learn more about our Ste. Genevieve, MO, personal injury attorneys and how we can help you with your case.
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An injury can change your life in a heartbeat. Financial implications will always be a factor after a medical malpractice case or automobile accident. By getting an experienced law firm, you can get free legal representation. One of the first things you should do after an accident is to call a local firm.
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Trails of Early Idaho, The Pioneer Life of George W. Goodhart
Anderson, Abraham C.
The Caxton Printers, Ltd. (USA) (1940) first printing. Item #48979.
Story Teller's Story, A
Anderson, Sherwood
B. W. Huebsch, Inc. (USA) (1924) first printing. Item #4218.
"Commy": The Life Story of Charles A. Comiskey
Axelson, G. W.
Reilly & Lee (USA) (1919) first printing. Item #5492.
Baker, G. P.
Dodd, Mead & Company (USA) (1929) first printing. Item #5493.
Greenwood Hat, The
Barrie, J. M.
Peter Davies (UK) (1937) first printing. Item #11148.
Bast, William
Ballantine Books (USA) (1956) first printing. Item #48492.
Beerbohm, Max
E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. (USA) (1920) first printing. Item #5499.
Bennett, Dorothy Cheston
Kendall & Sharp (USA) (1935) first printing. Item #5501.
You Can't Win
Black, Jack
The Macmillan Company (USA) (1926) first printing. Item #6682.
Sherlock Holmes: Fact or Fiction?
Blakeney, Thomas S.
John Murray (UK) (1932) first printing. Item #7178.
G. P. Putnam's Sons (UK) (1937) first printing. Item #6687.
Stealing Through Life
Booth, Ernest
Alfred A. Knopf (USA) (1929) first printing. Item #5505.
Without Stopping
Bowles, Paul
As God Made Them
Bradford, Gamaliel
Houghton Mifflin Company (USA) (1929) first printing. Item #5506.
Soul of Samuel Pepys, The
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Poet of His People
Brawley, Benjamin
Bartolome de Las Casas (Father of the Indians)
Brion, Marcel
Brittain, Vera
Manchild in the Promised Land
Brown, Claude
Hard Years, The
Brown, Joe
Fighting Angel
Buck, Pearl S.
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Wind and the Rain, The
Burke, Thomas
George H. Doran Company (USA) (1924) first printing. Item #4284.
Thornton Butterworth Limited (UK) (1924) first printing. Item #4285.
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Louis A. Derry
4140 Snee Hall
derry@cornell.edu
Louis Derry received a B.A. in Geology from Colorado College in 1981 and a Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from Harvard University in 1990. He also worked in the mineral exploration (Homestake Mining Co.) and petroleum (Chevron) industries. Following his doctoral work, Derry was a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CNRS) Nancy, France. He came to Cornell as a Snee Research Fellow in 1994 and joined the faculty in 1996. Derry is a Senior Scientist with the Kohala Center, Hawaii, and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
Derry's research includes studying biogeochemical processes at multiple time scales, from modern environments to the evolution of couple biogeochemical cycles over Earth history. Recent work includes elemental speciation and cycling in soil-plant-water systems, and the role of atmospheric deposition. Longer time scale problems include work to quantify CO2 and elemental fluxes in the Himalayan and island arc systems. Derry is actively involved in developing models for the interpretation of carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and strontium isotopic variations in the ancient oceans and how those can be used to constrain critical environmental conditions during major evolutionary and/or extinction events.
Earth and Atmospheric Science
Climate and Paleoclimate
Geochemistry, Petrology and Volcanology
Paleontology, Sedimentary Basins & Surface Processes
Biogeochemistry and Climate Interactions
Energy, Mineral and Water Resources
Research Group Members
Teaching Interests
I teach biogeochemistry at the undergraduate and graduate levels. In both cases I seek to integrate observation and a system-level understanding of coupled processes with quantitative models (both analytical and numerical) to allow the students to deepen their understanding of biogeochemical processes. By integrating quantitative methods with observations in the field, laboratory, and from the literature, students develop both a better understanding of biogeochemical phenomena as well as a more intuitive understanding of the use of mathematics and simulations to solve diverse problems. I have taught in the undergraduate field EES program each spring, a very valuable living-learning experience for students and faculty.
Service Interests
Derry is involved in both University service and service to the larger scientific community and public. University service includes committees in the SES Major, Faculty DSR for Snee Hall, ACSF Faculty Fellow, and teaching in the Cornell Adult University program. Derry was Director of the IGERT Biogeochemistry program at Cornell from 2003-09. Current service to the academic community includes Editor for Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (AGU), Special Topics Editor for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Director of the Critical Zone Observatory National Office. Public outreach includes frequent interaction with the reporters and blogs at the New York Times on climate change and the recent nuclear crisis in Japan.
McIntosh, J. C., C. Porter, J. Perdrial, A. Harpold, A. Vázquez-Ortega, C. Rasmussen, D. Vinson, X. Zapata-Rios, P. D. Brooks, T. Meixner, J. Pelletier, Louis A. Derry, J. Chorover. 2017."Geochemical evolution of the Critical Zone on variable time scales informs concentration-discharge relationships: Jemez River Basin Critical Zone Observatory.."Water Resources Research53(5): 4169-4196.
Aguirre, A. A., Louis A. Derry, T. J. Mills, S. P. Anderson. 2017."Colloidal transport in the Gordon Gulch catchment of the Boulder Creek CZO and its effect on C-Q relationships for silicon, germanium, aluminum and iron.."Water Resources Research53: 16.
Li, G., J. Hartmann, Louis A. Derry, A. J. West, C-F You, X. Long, T. Zhan, L. Li, W. Oiu, T. Li, L. Liu, Y. Chen, J. Ji, L. Zhao, J. Chen. 2016."Temperature dependence of basalt weathering.."Earth and Planetary Science Letters443: 59-69.
Derry, Louis A. 2015."Causes and Consequences of mid-Proterozoic anoxia.."Geophysical Research Letters42: 8538-8546.
Myrow, Paul M., Nigel C. Hughes, Louis A. Derry, C. M. Fanning, D M. Banerjee, G-J Jiang, J A. DiPietro, T S Paulsen. 2015."The Onset of Uplift of the Lesser Himalaya: Depositional and Erosional History of the North Indian Margin."Earth and Planetary Science Letters417: 142-150.
Selected Awards and Honors
Senior Fellow(Canadian Institute for Advanced Research)2009
Top 1 percent of most-cited geoscientists from January 1999 to October 2009(Thompson-Reuter's Essential Science Indicators (Sciencewatch.com))2000
Fellow(Canadian Institute for Advanced Research)1999
BA(Geology),Colorado College,1981
Ph D(Geology),Harvard University,1989
Low-Temperature Geochemistry at Cornell University
Zhihong Huang
zh372@cornell.edu
Mark LaPan
mdl272@cornell.edu
Alida Perez Fodich
ap868@cornell.edu
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Fun Man FUNG
Assistant Director (Education) at the Institute for Application of Learning Science and Educational Technology, National University of Singapore
Fun Man is a Core Faculty (Education) at the Institute for Application of Learning Science and Educational Technology at the National University of Singapore and holds a joint appointment as an IT-for-Teaching Chemistry Instructor at the Department of Chemistry.
Fun Man serves as a board member of the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) Steering Committee (elected 2014—2016, re-elected 2016—2018). He was formerly the Head Mentor of the Singapore National IChO Team.
He leads the NUS Faculty of Science Laboratory-Video IT Taskforce and trail-blazes novel filming methods using Instructor’s Point of View #IPOV technique, 360-videos and social media.
Fun Man has authored eleven peer-reviewed ACS publications on Technology-Enhanced Education #TEBLE and written 13 EdTech articles for universities.
Institute for Application of Learning Science and Educational Technology, NUS
Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Technische Universität München-Asia, Singapore
–present Core Faculty (Education) at the Institute for Application of Learning Science and Educational Technology, National University of Singapore
NUS Society Gold Medal for Outstanding Achievement
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Egypt Exploration Society
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The “iron” bones of Seth
Petrie and Brunton discovered large quantities of fossils in burial shafts during excavations at Qau el-Kebir, Middle Egypt, 1923-1925. Our scientific study of this collection, held at the Natural History Museum, aims to guide our understanding of the role fossils had in this cemetery and possible links to Seth worship.
Published: 25th August, 2017
Author: Carl Graves
Previous Fieldwork
Biography in ancient Egypt
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Explore the processes of archiving within archaeology and the afterlife of records once their initial purpose is fulfilled with Dr Carl Graves (EES).
Gold, deserts, and nomads
an exploration and reconnaissance of threatened archaeological sites in the Eastern Desert of Sudan. Project director: Julien Cooper, Faculty of History, University of Oxford.
The tomb of Usermontu (TT382)
A re-discovered tomb in Qurnet Murei. Project director: Sayed Mamdouh.
The Abydos Temple Paper Archive Project
(Centenary Award). Project director: Nora Shalaby.
Archeological Survey of Coptos
The development of the Hellenistic and Roman city. Project director: Laure Pantalacci, University of Lyon 2.
Sesebi and Amara West: Temple towns of Nubia
A guide to the Society's work at the sites of Sesebi and Amara West during the 1930s and 1940s
Buhen: An Egyptian fortress in Nubia
A guide to the Society's work at the site of Buhen during the 1950s and 1960s
Armant: the sacred bull catacombs
A guide to the Society's work at the site of Armant during the early twentieth century
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A guide to the Society's work at the site of Abydos during the early twentieth century
Amarna: Capital of the heretic pharaoh
A guide to the Society's work at the site of Tell el-Amarna during the twentieth century
Pottery Analysis and Embalming Secrets
A view from the cemetery of Qubbet el-Hawa, Aswan (Centenary Award). Project director: Eman Khalifa, Cairo University.
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An annual publication of translations of papyri discovered by Grenfell and Hunt at Oxyrhynchus, as well as other papyri and Graeco-Roman material held by the Society.
Lucy Gura Archive
A unique record of the Society’s contribution to the field of Egyptology from the founding of the EEF in 1882, including thousands of items relating to the history of Egypt and the exploration of its heritage.
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Deeplinks Blog by Derek Slater | June 20, 2006
Major Hearing on AT&T & Illegal Spying This Friday; Judge Previews 11 Questions
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Sen. Feingold "Absolutely Convinced" NSA Spying Program Is Illegal
Having had an initial briefing on the NSA's massive spying program, Sen. Russell Feingold today fired off a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte demanding that they "provide additional information to all the members of the Judiciary Committee so that these Senators...
Deeplinks Blog by Gwen Hinze | June 13, 2006
Beware of the Leopard: WIPO pushes Broadcasting Treaty at covert meeting
What does WIPO do when it's trying to secure agreement on an important treaty, but is facing fierce resistance? It organizes a meeting outside of home base in Geneva, with "experts" and businessmen to "educate" select countries on the need for the new treaty and try to shore up support...
EFF Launches New Animation - Stop Hollywood's Corruptibles!
In 2006 the entertainment industry asked the government to give it incredible new powers -- the broadcast flag, digital radio restrictions, and control over all analog-to-digital devices. But in the future, those super powers will become the Corruptibles, three villains that invade your home, break your...
Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | June 9, 2006
Line Noise talks S1RA: a new EFF Podcast
The second edition of Line Noise, the only* EFF podcast is online for your weekend listening pleasure. This episode, we spend a few minutes walking through the Section 115 Reform Act controversy in the company of EFF's Fred von Lohmann. Hear today's episode in your browser or player here...
Deeplinks Blog by Fred von Lohmann | June 9, 2006
S1RA Update: Encouraging Signs from DC
Yesterday, the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property simultaneously introduced and approved H.R. 5553, the Section 115 Reform Act (S1RA, aka SIRA). Although the measure still contains dangerous language that threatens fair use, Representatives Boucher (D-Va.) and Lofgren (D-Ca.) both explicitly stated at the hearing...
Brangelina, Shiloh, and Fair Use
It looks like Gawker has found itself on the receiving end of legal bluster for publishing this thumbnail image of Brad and Angelina's baby, Shiloh. This is yet another example of lawyers invoking copyright as a pretext for censorship. Gawker posted the thumbnail-sized image as part of...
Deeplinks Blog by Derek Slater | June 6, 2006
Coalition Letter Opposing SIRA
A broad coalition has now sent a letter [PDF] to Reps. Lamar Smith and Howard Berman opposing SIRA. The signatories are: American Association of Law Libraries BellSouth Corporation Bonneville International Corp. Computer & Communications Industry Association Consumer Electronics Association Consumer Project on Technology Cox Radio, Inc. Electronic Frontier...
Yes, Slashdotters, SIRA Really Is Bad
After our post about and call to stop the Section 115 Reform Act, some people have pointed to the Copyright Office's preliminary report and asked us to clarify why the bill's language making incidental copies license-able is a bad thing. As we said in our post...
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EFF Asks San Bernardino Court to Review Cell-Site Simulator and Digital Search Warrants That Are Likely Improperly Sealed
Since the California legislature passed a 2015 law requiring cops to get a search warrant before probing our devices, rifling through our online accounts, or tracking our phones, EFF has been on a quest to examine court filings to determine whether law enforcement agencies are following the new rules. We have been especially concerned that cops and the courts have been disregarding the transparency measures baked into the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA).
As it turns out, our suspicions were well warranted. A lawsuit we filed last year against the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office has turned up evidence that potentially hundreds of digital search warrants have been improperly and indefinitely sealed, blocking the public’s right to inspect court records.
EFF, represented by the Law Office of Michael T. Risher, has filed a formal request with the Presiding Judge of the San Bernardino County Superior Court to review and unseal 22 search warrants that appear to be sealed in violation of California’s penal code. We are also asking that the court “take whatever steps are necessary to ensure that similar files—both in the past and in the future—are open to the public as required by law.”
Read EFF’s letter to the San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge John P. Vander Feer.
When CalECPA was passed, it was hailed as the “Nation’s Best Digital Privacy Law” by outlets such as Wired, because it prevents the government from forcing companies to hand over electronic communications, files, or metadata, without first obtaining a warrant. It similarly requires the government to obtain a warrant before searching our devices or tracking our location through our devices. This includes the use of cell-site simulators, a surveillance technology that masquerades as a fake cell phone tower to connect to a target’s phone. The law also included several accountability measures, such as requiring agencies to file public disclosures with the California Department of Justice, which EFF uses to identify search warrants across the state that deserve greater scrutiny deserving of great scrutiny.
Last year, EFF picked out six suspicious warrants filed by the San Bernardino Sheriff for a deeper dive, since they all referred to the use of a “cell-site stimulator” (a misspelling guaranteed to make privacy advocates snicker). Those were the only warrants to directly make reference to the technology, even though the sheriff had separately disclosed to EFF that it had used a cell-site simulator 231 times in 2017 alone. The sheriff refused to turn over these warrants, and so EFF took the agency to court. We subsequently filed requests for 18 other CalECPA warrants, including searches of devices and accounts and phone surveillance techniques known as a pen register or a trap and trace. Again, San Bernardino County officials resisted handing over the records.
In many cases, San Bernardino County claimed the records could not be released since they had been indefinitely sealed by the court. San Bernardino only provided copies of two search warrant applications, which include sealing requests that were rejected by a judge. Based on these documents, we advise the court that it appears “the Sheriff’s Department requests indefinite sealing orders as part of every application for a warrant or court order under these statutes.”
The problem is that this isn’t how the system is supposed to work.
In 2016, the legislature changed state law to require that when an order for a pen register or trap and trace expires, so does any sealing order. Similarly, CalECPA requires that after a search warrant has been executed and “returned” to the court, the records can only be held secret for 10 days. After that the search warrants must be open to the public.
The passage of CalECPA represented a fundamental breakthrough for civil liberties in the digital age. But a law is only as good as its enforcement. If the San Bernardino courts and sheriff keep these records secret, then not only does that violate the will of the people of California, but it blocks the ability of the public to ensure that other elements of the law are also being obeyed.
San Bernardino may just be the tip of the iceberg. We hope courts in other jurisdictions take notice and also examine their CalECPA warrants to ensure the law is being followed.
Street-Level Surveillance
Cell Tracking
California's Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA) - SB 178
Deeplinks Blog by Nathan Sheard | December 31, 2019
The Fight Against Government Face Surveillance: 2019 Year in Review
Vendors woo law enforcement with a seemingly inexhaustible flow of new spy tech. This places concerned community members, civil society, and lawmakers in a seemingly Sisyphean struggle of trying to keep up with new technological threats to privacy, and to shepard the adoption of enforceable policy to protect essential civil...
Deeplinks Blog by Hayley Tsukayama | December 23, 2019
Legislative Victories in the States: 2019 Year in Review
Thanks to your support, this year EFF was able to take a stand in state legislatures across the country to fight well-funded industry efforts to encroach on your data privacy rights, to push back against government use of face surveillance, and to support bills that improve your digital rights. Here...
Victory: Brookline Votes to Ban Face Surveillance
With the passage of Article 25 on December 11, the town of Brookline, Massachusetts, became the fifth municipality in the nation to ban its government agencies from using face surveillance. Brookline joins nearby Somerville as the two Massachusetts municipalities to have banned face surveillance. The two Metro-Boston area...
Deeplinks Blog by Saira Hussain | December 18, 2019
California DOJ Cuts Off ICE Deportation Officers from State Law Enforcement Database
Marking a big win for privacy and immigrant rights, the California Department of Justice (CADOJ) has cut off deportation agents from access to the state’s law enforcement network. Earlier this year, the Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was required to sign an...
Deeplinks Blog by Jennifer Lynch | December 10, 2019
Genetic Genealogy Company GEDmatch Acquired by Company With Ties to FBI & Law Enforcement—Why You Should Be Worried
This week, GEDmatch, a genetic genealogy company that gained notoriety for giving law enforcement access to its customers’ DNA data, quietly informed its users it is now operated by Verogen, Inc., a company expressly formed two years ago to market “next-generation [DNA] sequencing” technology to crime labs...
Deeplinks Blog by Nathan Sheard | November 22, 2019
About Face: Ending Government Use of Face Surveillance
EFF wants to help end government use of face surveillance in your community. To aid in that effort, we’ve partnered with community-based organizations in the Electronic Frontier Alliance—and other concerned civil society organizations—in launching About Face. Our About Face campaign is a way for residents in communities throughout...
Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | October 23, 2019
San Diego’s Face Recognition Program and Collaboration with ICE Needs to Stop
Law enforcement officials across San Diego County, California have run more than 65,500 face recognition scans over the last three years, including thousands of queries by federal agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the U.S. Marshals. According to records obtained by EFF, the Tactical...
Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia, Jason Kelley | October 21, 2019
EFF Challenges Ring Spokesperson Shaq Over Privacy Concerns
EFF is asking Ring spokesman Shaquille O’Neal to cancel his appearance at a party hosted by the company at the upcoming International Association of Chiefs of Police conference on October 27. Instead, we’re challenging Shaq to a one-on-one: not on the basketball court, but across the table, so we can...
Deeplinks Blog by Hayley Tsukayama | October 17, 2019
Massachusetts: Tell Your Lawmakers to Press Pause on Government Face Surveillance
Face surveillance by government poses a threat to our privacy, chills protest in public places, and amplifies historical biases in our criminal justice system. Massachusetts has the opportunity to become the first state to stop government use of this troubling technology, from Provincetown to Pittsfield. Massachusetts residents: tell your legislature...
Press Release | October 3, 2019
Victory! EFF Wins Access to License Plate Reader Data to Study How Law Enforcement Uses the Privacy Invasive Technology
San Francisco—Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California (ACLU SoCal) have reached an agreement with Los Angeles law enforcement agencies under which the police and sheriff’s departments will turn over license plate data they indiscriminately collected on millions of law-abiding drivers in Southern...
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Authors: Elaine Jaffe Daniel A. Arber Elias Campo Nancy Lee Harris Leticia Quintanilla-Fend
Page Count: 1216
The world's leading reference in hematopathology returns with this completely updated second edition. Authored by international experts in the field, it covers a broad range of hematologic disorders -- both benign and malignant -- with information on the pathogenesis, clinical and pathologic diagnosis, and treatment for each. Comprehensive in scope, it's a must-have resource for both residents and practicing pathologists alike.
Authored by the chief architects of the WHO classification in neoplasms of hematopoietic and lymphoid tissue.
Covers the newest diagnostic techniques, including molecular, immunohistochemical, and genetic studies.
Confirm or challenge your diagnostic interpretations by comparing specimens to over 1,000 high-quality color images.
Part I: TECHNICAL ASPECTS
1. Processing of the Lymph Node Biopsy Specimen
2. Fine Needle Aspiration of Lymph Nodes
3. Collection, Processing, and Examination of Bone Marrow Specimens
4. Immunohistochemistry for the Hematopathology Laboratory
5. Flow Cytometry
6. Molecular Diagnosis in Hematopathology
7. Important Chromosomal Aberrations in Hematologic Neoplasms and Key Techniques to Diagnose Them
Part II: NORMAL and REACTIVE CONDTIONS of HEMATOPOIETIC TISSUES
8. Normal Lymphoid Organs and Tissues
9. The Reactive Lymphadenopathies
10. The Normal Bone Marrow
11. Evaluation of Anemia, Leukopenia, and Thrombocytopenia
12. Bone Marrow Findings in Inflammatory, Infectious, and Metabolic Disorders
Part III: LYMPHOID NEOPLASMS
13. Principles of Classification of Lymphoid Neoplasms
Section 1: Mature B-Cell Neoplasms
14. Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma and B-Cell Prolymphocytic Leukemia
15. Lymphoplasmacytic Lymphoma and Waldenström Macroglobulinemia
16. Hairy Cell Leukemia
17. Splenic Marginal Zone Lymphoma and Other Small B-Cell Neoplasms in the Spleen
18. Follicular Lymphoma
19. Extranodal Marginal Zone Lymphoma: MALT Lymphoma
20. Primary Cutaneous B-Cell Lymphomas
21. Nodal Marginal Zone Lymphoma
22. Mantle Cell Lymphoma
23. Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma
24. Burkitt Lymphoma and its Mimics
25. Plasmablastic Neoplasms Other Than Plasma Cell Myeloma
26. Plasma Cell Neoplasms
27. Nodular Lymphocyte-Predominant Hodgkin's Lymphoma
28. Classical Hodgkin's Lymphoma and Related Lesions
29. Virally Associated B-Cell Lymphoproliferative Disease
Section 2: MATURE T-CELL AND NK-CELL NEOPLASMS
30. Virally Associated T-Cell and NK-Cell Neoplasms
31. T-Cell and NK-Cell Large Granular Lymphocyte Proliferations
32. T-Cell Prolymphocytic Leukemia
33. Adult T-Cell Leukemia/Lymphoma
34. Hepatosplenic T-Cell Lymphoma
35. Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma, Not Otherwise Specified
36. Angioimmunoblastic T-Cell Lymphoma
37. Anaplastic Large-Cell Lymphoma, ALK Positive and ALK Negative
38. Enteropathy-Associated T-Cell Lymphoma and Other Primary Intestinal T-Cell Lymphomas
39. Mycosis Fungoides and Sézary Syndrome
40. Primary Cutaneous CD30-Positive T-Cell Lymphoproliferative Disorders
41. Primary Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphomas: Rare Subtypes
Section 3: Precursor B- and T-Cell Neoplasms
42. Precursor B- and T-Cell Neoplasms
43. Acute Leukemias of Ambiguous Lineage
Part IV: MYELOID NEOPLASMS
44. Principles of Classification of Myeloid Neoplasms
45. The Myelodysplastic Syndromes
46. Acute Myeloid Leukemia
47. Myeloproliferative Neoplasms
48. Myelodysplastic/Myeloproliferative Neoplasms
49. Mastocytosis
50. Eosinophilia and Chronic Eosinophilic Leukemia, Including Myeloid/Lymphoid Neoplasms with Eosinophilia and Rearrangement of PDGFRA, PDGFRB, FGFR1, or JAK2
51. Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm
Part V: HISTIOCYTIC PROLIFERATIONS
52. Nonneoplastic Histiocytic Proliferations of Lymph Nodes and Bone Marrow
53. Histiocytic and Dendritic Cell Neoplasms Including Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis and Langerhans Cell Sarcoma
Part VI: IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISORDERS
54. The Pathology of Primary Immunodeficiencies
55. Iatrogenic Immunodeficiency-Associated Lymphoproliferative Disorder
Part VII: SITE-SPECIFIC ISSUES in the DIAGNOSIS of LYMPHOMA and LEUKEMIA
56. Bone Marrow Evaluation for Lymphoma
57. Evaluation of the Bone Marrow After Therapy
58. Non-Hematopoietic Neoplasms of the Bone Marrow
59. Nonlymphoid Lesions of the Lymph Nodes
60. Spleen: Normal Architecture and Neoplastic and Nonneoplastic Lesions
61. Diagnosis of Lymphoma in Extranodal Sites Other Than Skin
Elaine Jaffe
Chief, Hematopathology Section, Laboratory of Pathology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health; Clinical Professor of Pathology, George Washington University School of Medicine; Series Editor, World Health Organization Classification of Tumours 4th Edition, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Bethesda, Maryland
Daniel A. Arber
Professor and Associate Chair for Pathology, Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford CA USA
Elias Campo
Chief, Hematopathology Unit, Professor of Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Director, Center for Biomedical Diagnosis, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Nancy Lee Harris
Editor, Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital, New England Journal of Medicine; Austin L. Vickery Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School; Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Leticia Quintanilla-Fend
Associate Professor, Institute of Pathology, Eberhard-Karls-University; Senior Staff, Institute of Pathology, University Hospital and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Tübingen, Germany
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Whole-body vibration may be as effective as regular exercise
Washington, DC March 15, 2017
Mouse study is the first to show less strenuous alternative can benefit bone health
A less strenuous form of exercise known as whole-body vibration (WBV) can mimic the muscle and bone health benefits of regular exercise in mice, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s journal Endocrinology.
WBV consists of a person sitting, standing or lying on a machine with a vibrating platform. When the machine vibrates, it transmits energy to the body, and muscles contract and relax multiple times during each second.
Many people find it challenging to exercise regularly and that is contributing to the obesity and diabetes epidemics. These disorders can increase the risk of bone fractures. Physical activity can help to decrease this risk and reduce the negative metabolic effects of each condition.
“Our study is the first to show that whole-body vibration may be just as effective as exercise at combating some of the negative consequences of obesity and diabetes,” said the study’s first author, Meghan E. McGee-Lawrence, Ph.D., of Augusta University in Augusta, Ga. “While WBV did not fully address the defects in bone mass of the obese mice in our study, it did increase global bone formation, suggesting longer-term treatments could hold promise for preventing bone loss as well.”
To conduct the study, researchers examined two groups of 5-week-old male mice. One group consisted of normal mice, while the other group was genetically unresponsive to the hormone leptin, which promotes feelings of fullness after eating. Mice from each group were assigned to sedentary, WBV or treadmill exercise conditions.
After a week-long period to grow used to the exercise equipment, the groups of mice began a 12-week exercise program. The mice in the WBV group underwent 20 minutes of WBV at a frequency of 32 Hz with 0.5g acceleration each day. Mice in the treadmill group walked for 45 minutes daily at a slight incline. For comparison, the third group did not exercise. Mice were weighed weekly during the study.
The genetically obese and diabetic mice showed similar metabolic benefits from both WBV and exercising on the treadmill. Obese mice gained less weight after exercise or WBV than obese mice in the sedentary group, although they remained heavier than normal mice. Exercise and WBV also enhanced muscle mass and insulin sensitivity in the genetically obese mice. Although there were no significant effects in the young healthy mice, the low-intensity exercise and WBV protocols were designed for successful completion by obese mice. These findings suggest that WBV may be a useful supplemental therapy to combat metabolic dysfunction in individuals with morbid obesity.
“These results are encouraging,” McGee-Lawrence said. “However, because our study was conducted in mice, this idea needs to be rigorously tested in humans to see if the results would be applicable to people.”
The study, “Whole-body Vibration Mimics the Metabolic Effects of Exercise in Male Leptin Receptor Deficient Mice,” will be published online at https://academic.oup.com/endo/article-lookup/doi/10.1210/en.2016-1250 ahead of print.
Other authors of the study include: Karl H. Wenger, Supdita Misra, Catherine L. Davis, Norman K. Pollock, Mohammand Elsalanty, Kehong Ding, Carlos M. Isales, Mark W. Hamrick, Joanna R. Erion, Marlena Wosiski-Kuhn, Phonepasong Arounleut, Alexis M. Stranahan, and Jack C. Yu of Augusta University in Augusta, Ga., and Mark P. Mattson and Roy G. Cutler of the National Institute of Health’s National Institute of Aging (NIA) in Baltimore, MD.
McGee-Lawrence received funding for the study from the American Diabetes Association. Stranahan received funding from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases. The NIA provided funding to Mattson and Isales.
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Chapter 1 Summary and Analysis
Chapters 5 and 6 Summary and Analysis
Chapter 10 Summary and Analysis
Chapters 27 and 28 Summary and Analysis
Edna Pontellier
Leonce Pontellier
Robert Lebrun
Mademoiselle Reisz
Themes and Characters
Key Plot Points
History of the Text
Chapter XXVI
Chapter XXVII
Chapter XXVIII
Chapter XXIX
Chapter XXX
Chapter XXXI
Chapter XXXII
Chapter XXXIII
Chapter XXXIV
Chapter XXXV
Chapter XXXVI
Chapter XXXVII
Chapter XXXVIII
Chapter XXXIX
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So you’re going to teach Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. Whether it’s your first or hundredth time, this classic text has been a mainstay of English classrooms for generations. While it has its challenging spots, teaching this text to your class will be rewarding for you and your students. It will give them unique insight into conflict, symbolism, and realism in an influential work of fiction, as well as important themes surrounding free will, sexism, and the search for self. This guide highlights the text's most salient aspects to keep in mind before you begin teaching.
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Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level: 7
Approximate Word Count: 46,000
Author: Kate Chopin
Literary Period: Realism, American Regionalism
Conflict: Person vs. Society, Person vs. Self
Narration: Third-Person Objective
Setting: Grand Isle and New Orleans, Louisiana; late 1800s
Structure: Prose Novel
Mood: Emotional, Meditative, Weighty
Texts That Go Well With The Awakening
A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen. In Ibsen’s 1879 play, Nora Helmer is married to Torvald and they have three children. Her husband expects her to be happy for him at all times, as well as keep house and manage the children. Nora finds this existence to be insufferable and longs to find personal fulfillment. The only way she can find out of her situation is to leave her husband and children behind.
The Stranger, by Albert Camus. Camus’s 1942 novel tells the story of a man who, like Edna Pontellier, defies societal rules and pays the ultimate price. The protagonist, Mersault, is an outsider who longs to live his life the way he wants to live it. He succeeds, for the most part, until he murders an Arab man on a beach and is called to account for every action he has taken in his life.
The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath. Plath’s 1963 novel centers on Esther Greenwood, a young woman from the suburbs of Boston who, upon completing her degree, moves to New York City to write for the magazine Ladies’ Day. As one who has always been a scholar and thus knows what is expected of her, Esther finds the working world incomprehensible. Roles for women are limited: it’s wife and mother or the steno-pool. Esther slips into a depression that puts her under psychological care. She eventually pulls through the debilitating depression and lives her life on her own terms.
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John: Ella’s husband and also a part of the Underground Railroad
Janey Wagon: a free black woman who washes and cooks for the Bodwins
Paul D is forced out of the house by Beloved. He moves from Sethe’s bed to the rocker, from the rocker to Baby Suggs’ bed, from Baby Suggs’ bed to the storeroom, and finally from the storeroom to the coldhouse. It is in the coldhouse that Beloved succeeds in seducing him over a three-week-period during which he feels his heart come back to life. Denver becomes certain that Beloved was the white dress she saw holding Sethe’s waist in the vision she’d had before Beloved’s arrival. She feels she must continuously entertain Beloved with stories and songs or Beloved will go back from whence she came.
Paul D doesn’t understand why he is having sex with Beloved when he loves Sethe more each day. He decides to meet Sethe after her workday to tell her, but asks her to have his baby instead. She decides, after having brought Paul D back to her bed, that another baby is not a good idea.
In flashback, Baby Suggs remembers the feast for 90 people that had started with Stamp Paid bringing pail after pail of black berries to her and ending with the community agreeing that she is too “uppity”—which they claimed was caused by her abundance of good fortune.
It seems there was no winning for freed slaves. Baby Suggs’ community decided she is too “uppity” since she has her daughter-in-law and grandchildren with her and her son had bought her out of slavery, not to mention the Bodwins’ two-story house (where she lives) and the abundance of food and good times at the feast. They seem to have forgotten the seven sold children she could not locate despite two years of inquiries, and the daily pain of her hip, which had been broken while doing field work. There is no mention of the husband (who taught her cobbling and gave her his name) she hoped had fled to freedom, nor of her 60 years as a slave before Halle bought her freedom, nor is her spiritual calling, her assistance, or her house being used as a meeting place remembered. She’s had these feelings of unease before but they were related to white people, not her own people.
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Emily Dickinson American Literature Analysis
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Dickinson, Emily (Elizabeth)
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Critics of Dickinson’s verse generally note that the poems incorporate one or more of the following themes: death, love, religion, nature, eternity. This observation, of itself, does not take into account the amazing thematic combinations she managed or the extraordinary variety of poetic voices she employed. These range from the almost embarrassing cuteness of poems such as 61 (“Papa above!”) or 288 (“I’m Nobody! Who are you?”) to the skepticism of 338 (“I know that He exists.”) and the passion, with intended or accidental double meaning, of 249 (“Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”).
Some of her poems are high serious meditations, such as 258 (“There’s a certain Slant of light”); others amount to waspish commentary, such as 401 (“What Soft—Cherubic Creatures—”). That she could see herself as a nobody, a seething volcano, a mouse, or a loaded gun all within the compass of several hundred poems is an indication of the variety of unconventional metaphor she used.
Even more astonishing is the fact that her style undergoes no linear development. Many of the early poems are as excellent as the later ones; bathetic and coy elements also appear throughout the collection. Absence of end-line punctuation creates enjambments that run for full stanzas, while dashes often create a hiatus at mid-line or end.
Early critics ascribed these eccentricities to Dickinson’s inability or unwillingness to punctuate (a characteristic her correspondence shares). Others see Dickinson’s unconventional style as a flouting of convention, particularly as most nineteenth century verse written by women was conservative in both form and theme. Still others, noting the lyric configuration of the dashes, compare her poems to the lyric measures of nursery rhymes or to the hymnal melodies then sung in Trinitarian churches. These interpretations do not necessarily exclude one another. What is important is that the irregular rhythms these dashes create almost always improve the poetry.
Dickinson neither titled nor dated her poems, and this is one problem that Johnson faced when preparing the 1955 major edition. The result is that he assigned the poems numbers, arranging them in what appeared a likely chronological order. Sometimes he arrived at relatively secure dating, as when a poem appears in dated letters, on dated billheads, or on postmarked envelopes. Unfortunately, this precludes neither prior nor subsequent composition. Furthermore, because the poems show no radical shifts in style, the task of firm dating remains even more daunting.
A related curiosity of Dickinson’s poems is their nearly complete exclusion of reference to external specifics. Number 61 (“Papa above!”) might appear to imply her father’s death, yet the Johnson chronology posits 1859 as its year of composition. Because Dickinson’s father died in 1874, accepting the Johnson dating means having to limit application of the first line to the poet’s divine father alone. The poem becomes merely a coy parody of The Lord’s Prayer rather than a simultaneous hope that the poet’s own father might remember his little mouse.
The complete run of Dickinson’s poems is so marked by genius that one tends to forget the occasional lapses of obviously unsuccessful works. These seem to occur most often when she reaches beyond the microcosm of her immediate world. A good example of this is poem 196 (“We don t cry—Tim and I,”). Dickinson here attempts to parallel the pathetic condition of the poet’s persona and that of Tiny Tim, the patient crippled child of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (1843). Unfortunately, the effect is so cloying and sentimental that the poem descends to the bathetic, almost becoming parody.
Similarly, poem 127 “’Houses’—so the wise Men tell me—”), though it begins with a biblical simplicity akin to that of William Blake’s child songs, strains to such an extent to evoke sympathy that the verse becomes flaccid. What began as the...
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Verizon's (NYSE: VZ) Q4 earnings may have missed Wall Street's expectations, but in the wireline segment it did report a rise in both broadband and business revenues.
For the quarter, Verizon's profit was $4.65 billion, or 93 cents per share, up from $2.37 billion, or 22 cents per share, in Q4 2009. However, revenue was down 2.6 percent from Q4 09, a result it attributes to its sale of its rural lines to Frontier.
These results slightly missed Wall Street analysts polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S of $26.48 billion.
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Wireline revenues: Verizon's wireline operating revenue was $10.3 billion, down 2.8 percent from Q4 09, while cash operating expenses (non-GAAP) also declined 3.9 percent to $7.9 billion. Consumer ARPU for wireline services was $88.85 in fourth-quarter 2010, up 10.7 percent compared with fourth-quarter 2009.
Broadband growth: Total wireline broadband and video revenues--including FiOS Internet, FiOS TV and HSI (DSL-based high-speed Internet)--were $1.8 billion in the quarter, up 18.4 percent from 4Q 2009. During the fourth quarter Verizon added 197,000 net FiOS Internet and 182,000 net FiOS TV customer additions, 4.1 million total FiOS Internet customers and 3.5 million total FiOS TV customers. As of the end of 2010, Verizon had 4.1 million FiOS Internet and 3.5 million FiOS TV customers. Overall broadband subscriber connections totaled 8.4 million at the end of the fourth quarter 2010, a 2.8 percent year-over-year increase.
Business Services: Buoyed by a number of key multinational corporations (MNC) wins including Carlsberg and National grid, Verizon's global enterprise revenues rose 1.3 percent to $4.0 billion. During the fourth quarter, the sale of new strategic enterprise services such as security and IT solutions, as well as strategic networking were up 7.5 percent over Q4 09. Going forward, Verizon plans to continue to honing its cloud services strategy, in addition to developing platforms to deliver enterprise mobility applications and new unified communications professional services to MNCs. Outside of business services, Verizon is also upping its wholesale operations to address wireless backhaul needs with 22 nodes in its Switched Ethernet Service network to support an unnamed fiber-to-the-cell-site initiative in the U.S.
With a drive this year to increase their focus on cloud and fiber-based services, Ivan Seidenberg, CEO and Chairman of Verizon said that he sees opportunity to increase the profitability of the wireline business.
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Here are the 10 times show creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss got it wrong in the last season
by Pratim D. Gupta
It’s over now. There will never be another new Game of Thrones episode. But the way the curtains came down could have been more graceful, more felicitous for a show which had us glued to the screens for more than eight years. There are those few who feel that the HBO series ended just right but the popular feeling is that the last season did a lot of disservice to brand GoT. I am one of them who was very disappointed with the way things unfolded. The characters’ individual journeys might have found the perfect destinations – Jon at the Wall, Sansa the Queen, Arya the explorer – but the way they reached there didn’t make a whole lot of sense. Here are the 10 times D & D (show creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss) got it wrong in the last season.
Dany out of her element
The mad streak in Daenerys Targaryen has been hinted at – and even shown – at certain times in the first seven seasons but the way she reacted in King’s Landing in the penultimate episode just didn’t cut it. The writers must have thought that the beheading of Missandei and everyone’s love for Jon had done enough for the Mother of Drogon to feel so angered and alienated that her continuous chanting of Dracarys would make sense. Sadly, it didn’t.
Long Night was too dark
Let’s be honest, we saw nothing. Maybe we could make out whether the dragons were dancing or the humans were prancing but that’s about it. How does it matter that the episode was shot over 55 nights if we just couldn’t see things? The cinematographer claiming later that we audiences across the world don’t know how to tune our television sets was the dumbest defence ever.
Awkward blocking
Blocking is how the characters are physically placed in a particular scene. It’s usually a director’s call. And this Season 8 had some really poor blocking which really affected our viewing of important scenes. Like just before the Mountain and the Hound dived into Cleganebowl, Cersei was stuck in the stairs between them and she had to make the most awkward of exits. Again, Jon and Arya popping up at strange positions in the finale when Dany is asserting her reign is quite inexplicable. And if you think about it, no one in the Night King’s posse standing behind him stopped Arya when she crept up on him!
Terrible battle strategy
Where were the Dothraki running in the dark? Why was the trench made so close to the castle and why was it so narrow? Why couldn’t the dragons be alerted when they needed to unload their fire? Jon had three weeks to prepare for the battle against the undead and he really messed it up. Remember how we laughed at the way Rickon ran in the Battle of the Bastards? Well, this entire episode was equally laughable in the suicidal strategies of the living.
Jon the confused
The man says different variations of the same line – “I don’t want to be King” – many, many times through the season. It’s unclear, though, what he really wants. He wanted to save the realm from the White Walkers and so he got everyone together for the last many seasons. Now, once that was taken care of, the writers didn’t know what they wanted to do with Jon Snow, except that he would kill Dany in the end. That too without any build-up whatsoever.
The cup and the bottle
It just didn’t help that a Starbucks cup showed up on the desk in front of Daenerys in Episode 4 and then a water bottle surfaced next to Sam’s chair in the finale. Just the thought that hundreds of cast and crew members didn’t spot the unwanted props during shooting and then hundreds of others missed them during the post makes you cringe. Was this season really made over two years?
Uneven pacing
That there was no buildup for events and characters and everything seemed to be rushing towards a quick ending is because of the peculiar pacing. Why did the season have to be of six episodes? If four of the episodes ran for close to 80 minutes each, couldn’t it be a more conventional season of 10 episodes of the usual 50-odd minutes which is the standard GoT episode length? Why break viewing habits? The Long Night was tiring and even the Finale seemed overlong.
Cersei needed a bigger exit
So if you feel that the battle for the throne was a more important episode than the battle against the White Walkers – that’s why you kept it for later – then the main villain should have had a grander sign-off. A pile of bricks to finish the Lioness? Fine that she was clinging on to Jaime in those final moments but that meant much more to him and for him than her.
Two people kissing and one of them sticking a dagger in the gut of the other. Two people falling together from a height into the fire. The main moments of the final season of Game of Thrones are images you have seen before in other films and television work. That was never the case for the series which has always created fresh, original and enduring visual memories.
Bran the useless
What was he exactly doing during the Long Night? Playing bait for the Night King? When was he planning to use his warging skills and help the Army of the Living? And he turned out to be the King? His story was better than Jon Snow’s who came back from the dead? Even in the council meeting towards the end of the finale, Bran hardly has any wisdom to impart. Sanjay in Mahabharata was better; at least he relayed things to Dhritarashtra.
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TORCH OF FREEDOM — Snippet 25
It took no more than three days in the presence of Elfride Margarete Butre for Hugh Arai to figure out how the woman had managed to keep her clan together for half a century, in the face of tremendous adversity. Not just intact, either, but reasonably healthy and well-educated — so long as you were prepared to allow that “well-educated” was a broad enough phrase to include very uneven knowledge, eccentric methods of training, and wildly imbalanced fields of study.
Ganny El’s clan were probably the best practical mechanics Hugh had ever encountered, for instance, but their grasp of the underlying theory of some of the machines they kept running was often fuzzy and sometimes bizarre. The first time Hugh had seen one of Butre’s many grand-nephews sprinkle what he called an “encouragement libation” over a machine he was about to repair, Hugh had been startled. But, some hours later, after the mechanic finished with the ensuing work, the machine came back to life and ran as smoothly as you could ask for. And however superstitious the notion of an “encouragement libation” might be, Hugh hadn’t missed the underlying practicality. The “libation” was actually some homemade alcoholic brew that hadn’t turned out too well. Unfit for human consumption, even by the Butre clan’s none-too-finicky standards, the fluid had been set aside for the “encouragement” of cranky machinery.
Hugh had asked the nephew — Andrew Artlett was his name — whether the “encouragement” was because the machine viewed the rotgut liquor as a treat or because it was an implied threat of still worse liquids should the machine remain recalcitrant. Artlett’s snorted reply had been: “How the hell am I supposed to know what a machine thinks? It’s just a lot of metal and plastic and such, you know. No brains at all. But the libation works, it surely does.”
Ganny Butre would have made a pretty good empress, Hugh thought, if one given to some odd quirks. She’d have made a pretty good tyrant, for that matter, except she had an affectionate streak about a kilometer wide.
There wasn’t any sigh of that affection right now, though.
“– still don’t see why you” — here came a word Hugh didn’t know, but it didn’t sound affectionate at all — “can’t just go on your way and leave us alone. It’s not like we asked you to come here. What happened to respect for property rights?”
“Parmley Station hasn’t really been your property for a long time, Ganny,” Hugh said mildly, “and you know it as well as I do. If we just leave, it won’t be more than six or eight months — a year, tops — before another gang of slavers has set up shop here and you have to accommodate them. Whether you like it or not.”
Butre glared at him. It was an impressive glare, too, for all that it came from a woman not much more than a hundred and forty centimeters tall. What made the glare all the more impressive was that, somehow, Butre managed to convey the sense that she was a tough old biddy despite — going simply by her physical appearance — looking like a woman no older than her late thirties or very early (and well preserved) forties.
That was the effect of prolong, of course. First generation prolong, that was, which stopped the physical aging cycle at a considerably later stage than the more recent therapies. Hugh knew that Butre’s own family had been quite wealthy to begin with and her husband Richard Parmley had made his first fortune as a young man. So, even with the expense involved in those early days of the treatment, they’d been able to afford prolong for themselves and their immediate offspring.
But after her husband’s last financial debacle — it had been the third or fourth in his career, Hugh wasn’t sure which — and the long isolation of Butre’s clan here on Parmley Station . . .
For all that it was generally a blessing, prolong could sometimes produce real tragedies. And Hugh knew he was looking at one, right here — with quite possibly a still greater tragedy in the making.
Ganny El, the matriarch of the clan, would live for centuries. So would the two dozen or so relatives on the station who were her siblings, cousins or children, and who’d gotten the treatments before the clan fell on hard times. But the next generation in the clan, people of an age with Ganny’s great-nephew Andrew Artlett — there were at least three dozen of them — were simply going to be a lost generation, as far as prolong was concerned. Even if the clan could suddenly afford the treatments, they were already too old. Their parents — even their grandparents — faced the horror that they’d outlive their own offspring.
And the same fate would fall on the next generation, if the clan’s fortunes didn’t improve. And they had to improve drastically, and most of all, quickly. People like Sarah Armstrong and Michael Alsobrook were already into their twenties, and twenty-five years of age was generally considered the outside limit for starting prolong treatments.
If there was no real sign of Butre’s age in her face, there was in her eyes. Those weren’t the eyes of a young woman, for sure. They were colored a green so dark they were almost black, and when Ganny was in a temper they looked more like agates or pieces of obsidian than human eyes.
Hugh had gotten to know her fairly well over the past several days, though, and he didn’t think Butre was really in a temper today. She was just putting on a act. A very well-done performance, true — she’d have made as good an actress as an empress — but still a performance. There was a practical streak in the woman that was even wider than affection, and a lot harder than any mineral. If Butre hadn’t been able to accept reality for what it was, her clan never would have survived at all. As it was, at least within the limits given, you could even say they’d prospered.
A very scruffy sort of prosperity, granted, and one that couldn’t afford anything like prolong. But the absence of prolong had been the standard condition of the human race throughout its existence until very recently. All Hugh had to do was look at the little mob of enthusiastic and self-confident great-great-nephews and nieces who were always in attendance on Ganny to recognize that these were hardly people who’d been beaten down by hardships. Some of them, like Brice Miller and his friends, carried that self-confidence into outright brashness.
“– so fine,” she concluded the little tirade she’d been on. “I can see that you’re not giving me any choice. You” — here came another word in a language Hugh didn’t know. It sounded like a different language altogether than the one from which she’d extracted a curse just a couple of minutes earlier. Ganny was an accomplished linguist, among her other skills. Hugh was a good linguist himself, but Butre was in a different league altogether.
“You’re always welcome to cuss me in a language I know, Ganny,” said Hugh. “I’m really not thin-skinned.”
“No kidding. You’re a troll.”
She went back to glaring, but now at some of her great-great-grandchildren. “There’s no way I’m letting anyone else except me dicker with the Ballroom. If the murderous bastards are going to kill anyone, they can kill an old woman. And her most problematic offspring.”
Her little forefinger started jabbing at the crowd. “Andrew, you’re coming. So are you, Sarah and Michael.”
The finger moved on to point to a pleasant-looking young woman named Oddny Ann Rødne. She was the offspring of a marriage between one of the Butre clan’s women and an ex-slave who’d been freed in the first battle between the clan and the slavers, decades earlier. “Oddny, I’ll need a sane female to keep me from going batty myself. Stop pouting, Sarah, you’re already batty and you brag about it. And . . . ”
The finger moved on and settled on a tightly clustered trio. “You three, for sure, or there won’t be a station left when I get back.”
Hugh did his best not to wince. Brice Miller, Ed Hartman and James Lewis were not people he’d have chosen to include on a chancy mission to negotiate with the galaxy’s most notorious assassins. Less than a day after making their acquaintance, Marti Garner had bestowed upon them the monicker of “the three teenagers of the Apocalypse.” Nor would Hugh have included Andrew Artlett, whom Marti had singled out as the missing fourth disaster.
Apparently, Butre was confident enough that she’d been able to cut a deal with the Ballroom that she was more concerned with removing the most rambunctious members of her clan from whatever havoc they could wreak in her absence, than she was about how Jeremy X would react to them. Although . . .
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saladin says:
although….
ballroom the next generation ™
If the authors did not write the confrontation between Jeremy X and Granny B. in full. to the bitter end, I will be sorely disappointed IN THE WHOLE BOOK!!!
I don’t really have any idea where this is going, but I hope the getting there is as much fun as this Snippet.
Maxim says:
@2 Tranquilo Robert, I’m sure the meeting between Jeremy and Granny will take place.
This snippet was really fun to read. It answered also a question which I asked myself after DW described the financial difficulties the clan had. I mean the issue of prolong.
I have to say the prolong treatment is a powerful motivator to achieve financial success.
Though I ask myself if it wouldn’t be possible to achieve similar results with nanotechnology. Especially if you look at the stand of these technology used as weapon by Alignment.
@3 Maxim, your comment is interesting. I had always thought that prolong was like getting a smallpox inoculation in childhood. That is, that the costs were modest and available to the entire planetary population in a modern civilized society. Clearly the Parmleys would not have such amenities (not even schools or medicine), just as Grayson, in its long isolation, didn’t. Another interesting point is that the genetic slaves, like Hugh, even had prolong, as that was one of his first concerns – the tragedy of the Parmley generations. Except a little bit in the case of Grayson – having prolong, not having prolong – Weber has never, to my knowledge, explored the social AND political implications of prolong. And I wonder how bottom-of-the-heap people like Berry and Lars, before their rescue, received prolong. Or did they?
Prolong nanites! You have been reading Van Name! Jon Moore, Hamlet in an AI spaceship! Now both he and his ship have angst/guilt.
In “Storm From the Shadows” it says prolong is a constitutional right for Manticore citizens and efforts were underway to get it into the general population of the Talbot Quadrent. Talk about an incentive to vote for the annexation.
Summercat says:
Prolong sounds like an expensive treatment that, in a society and economy that is relatively rich and vibrant (First World), fairly well priced and more than likely state-subsidized.
In a Third-Worldesque society, Prolong would be a huge expense, a luxury that even the tin-pot dictators wouldn’t be able to afford. In SoS, the whats-his-nammer from Rembrant managed to afford it for himself and his wife(although his wife was unable to do it), but he was also one of the leaders of a huge multi-stellar trade union.
It’s interesting to see the implications of Prolong in a society – It’s a two-edged sword. On the one paw, you get to keep the best in their jobs for longer, and have time to consider what would be radical changes. On the other paw, changes slow, and if the birthrate doesn’t stay similar to the deathrate, you have a population explosion – and the people from three, four generations back are still in power.
Elizabeth Moon does a very good treatment on the effect of Prolong-style treatments in her Familias Regnant series, especially the second half of the series.
John Roth says:
@6 Summercat
In Shadow of Saganami, chapter 38, Bernardus van Dort tells Helen Zilwiki that he lived with his father aboard ship until he was 16, and that his father had him given the Prolong treatments in the Solarian league. They were not available anywhere in the Talbot cluster at the time. Suzanne was too old for the therapies when they got married, but they didn’t discover it until later.
There are probably a gazillion ways of handling life extension, depending on what the author wants to do with it.
Weber himself has used about half of those gazillion ways in his stories. It’s obviously a hot-button issue for him, because pretty much every story features soem sort of life extension treatment. In Apocalypse Troll, for instance, the life extension was the accidental side effect of what was intended to be a deadly bioweapon.
In these books, it is clear that prolong is something like pulser weapons — something the more rich and modern societies can afford fairly easily, but something the more backward societies don’t have much access too.
It seems to be expensive, but not unaffordably so. Perhaps on the order of college tuition. Something that in some places is treated as a basic right, and in other places is available only to certain segments of the population.
I think I recall that the expense of the treatment is related to the fact that it must be individually tailored to your genes. It’s not like just getting a diptheria shot.
i think prolong itself isn´t THAT expensive but it is difficult to create the infrastructure needed for prolong (instruments, knowledge, the scientific/medical stuff)
think cancer treatment – in western europe you get it everywhere without big problems
in the usa most people get it too but if you are living somewhere in sibiria or the amazonforest you have a problem – even with money
@8 It is an interesting observation Mike. For me this topic and the way David Weber handles it is a big part why I like his books.
@9 I think you have summed it pretty well up, the problem of the availability of the prolong treatment.
.. For me the topic of prolong is so interesting, because of the technological changes which happen in our time (and which will happen in the next 50 years) I have even a small hope, that our generation (I’m 30 now) will profit from the technological developement in this direction.
Probably it won’t be possible for us to live 200-300 years, but as the saying goes the hope dies as last.
If you think about the changes which happened in the last 30 years, then anything seems possible. Perhaps you heard about the theory that the knowledge of the humankind accumulates and the development goes on in the faster pace.
Now days it is not science fiction anymore that computers can be manipulated with the thoughts, the nano, bio, information technology progress at an amazing pace.
(At this hopeful not I stop my comment, I am a little drunk and very good mood now, therefore I ignore the possible difficulties and problems which can arise along the way)
“note” and not “not”
@10 Drunk and happy on a Thursday evening. Dolce far niente…
I am on vacation right now :)
And it is early morning here already (4:22 am)
Thirdbase says:
@#4 Berry and Lars would never have gotten Prolong had they not been rescued. They certainly didn’t have the money to afford the treatment themselves, and they didn’t even exist to the government, so they weren’t going to get it free.
Interestingly the society, at least in the Star Empire, is just starting to hit the point where they have to worry about the effects of Prolong. The people that received the first generation version of Prolong are getting to the point where they would be retiring/dying. The current generations will have it the hardest, as the distance between will be relatively short. What should/would happen is that generations will get longer, instead of 20-30 years, perhaps 60-80 years apart, cultural pressure to not have children “young” will help extend the length of generations. Age gap would also begin to mean less, marriages such as Honor’s and Hamish’s will become more common and acceptable. “Childhood” may also be extended, as there is less pressure to go and establish yourself and start a family.
@15 Thirdbase.
Spoiler Alert – there’s some info on the jiltanith site about prolong that was just added a week or so ago; there’s quite a bit about costs, infrastructure requirements, the Talbot cluster, Beowulf and so on and so forth. It mentions a few things that are upcoming in the book, so if you’re interested in not looking at spoilers, you don’t want to go there.
If you do, it’s at jiltanith.thefifthimperium.com. Go to the bottom of the page, click on “infodump”, select the Honorverse and enter “prolong” in the search box.
“There wasn’t any sigh of that affection right now, though.” It should be “There wasn’t any sign of that affection right now, though.”
@16 Thank you John. I have not read the eARC and do not remember any discussions of prolong in Shadow of Saganami or Storm/Shadows, but clearly I was way off with my “inoculation” estimate. Someone said something like the cost of a college education–I would amend that to less than Stanford, more like out-of-state tuition at a UC campus (if any are left after the current batch of politicos gets done with mangling the State).
I really don’t want to get into this because it is a touchy political issue right now, but in his August 13th piece on prolong, Weber implicitly (and later, in the piece you cited, explicitly) assumes governmental responsibility for the implementation of prolong and its infrastructure. And he justifies it with an argument based solely on the economic value of maintaining a healthy, er, oops, scratch that–long-lived populace. So I was even wrong to say that Weber did not address the social and political issues of prolong. Well, he didn’t in his books, but he does address the economic issues in the BAR posting. Good enough. Even though he missed the full implications of infrastructure re MRIs, which include the medical and staff training and their pay and benefits, facilities, etc. Not just equipment costs.
Peter Z says:
Robert, depending on the operational leverage involved, personnel costs may approach those of fixed costs. That is a facility requires 50 staff members minimum but that facility is so automated that it could handle a maximum capicity of patients with the same 50 staff members.
In this situation the staff is effectively part of the equipment costs. They are the quality control element in the system.
Now, if you are referring to a more basic level of education, part of those costs would be gladly borne by the motivated individuals who want to enter such fields. Attached Universities/Colleges/Tech Schools to these prolong clinics and more full featured medical facilities would be financed by the students. Government grants may not even be required in Talbot for such things as institutions like the Queen’s College expand their campuses.
@19 Peter, I kinda disagree. The costs of higher education are either
(1) born by the state, in full, or
(2) by the state and the student in full, or
(3) by a huge charitable tax-free endowment and a tax-free institutional status (the state again) and the student in full.
Even if tuition and books are free, students have to live somewhere and usually eat something (a vivid digestion-destroying memory). For-profit institutions of learning (ha) require a subsequent investment in REAL training by an employer who usually gets a tax break for doing that. It ends up being a complex, back scratching legislative mess. And there are real social costs, as well.
George Phillies says:
It is an extremely long time since college endowments except at a tiny number of schools were a substantial part of the school’s income. One of the issues that has affected private schools a great deal is that the expense structure has significantly outrun the growth in endowments, so tuition is not the only income stream, but it is much closer than some people think. If you are curious, you can pull down university IRS 990 filings off the web and read the details.
@21 An argument for options 1 or 2, as I see it. I have attended both a private, ivy league university where my family paid what was a whopping tuition, room and board bill, and a totally free public university, and a state-supported university where I paid relatively modest non-resident tuition. If we had prolong, I would have gone to work for 10 years first, saved my money and had my choice. As I see it, one would have to re-school oneself every 50 years or even less just to avoid boredom or to avoid obsolescence.
Is boredom the down side of prolong? Does the suicide rate go up when prolong has been around for a couple of hundred years? Does the divorce rate go up, despite late marriages? Etc.
@20 Robert, in a situation of extreme unmet demand participants will pay very high sums to get what they need. Prospective students will pay prodigous amounts for an effective education. Employers will pay similar amounts (tax credit or no) to get a trained workforce. The government does not have to step in.
Our (the reader’s) experience with higher education came at a time where the supply of education (Universities and Colleges)available was closer to equilibrium withn demand than is the case in Talbot. So where the reader sees the cost of education available to him/her as being high relative to the rewards, the Talbotter just after annexation would see the massive returns on his investment in education. Going into debt for something that will generate such a high return is smart. Banks would see the potential benefit quicker than either students or employers. After all they can lend to both for the same education (student and employer); loan the tuition money to the student and loan the funds to set up the program to the employer.
After an equilibrium sets in higher education will be seen more as a means of self improvement rather than an incredibly profitable investment. So intil that time both prospective students and prospective employers will be incentivized to create schools. Just think about the RMN’s need to set up classes for old talbotter military personnel to get up to speed. Translate that to the Talbot private sector which is much bigger and has far more diverse needs to fulfill. The result will be a massive boom in private education as the government run schools get swamped by people who want to get current with the newly expanded knowledge base. People qualified in modern theory and practice who choose to relocate to Talbot can set their own price and the students and prospective employers will consider themselves lucky to have such a qualified individual even when paying such high wages/fees.
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Update! Photo of men behind the Brazillian plane crash that killed footballers
Bolivian authorities have jailed the second suspect accused of wrongdoing in the air crash that wiped out Brazil's Chapacoense soccer team last month, prosecutors said on Saturday.
Gustavo Vargas Villegas, a former official with Bolivia's aviation authority was arrested and will be held until trial on charges that he misused his influence in authorizing the license of the Bolivian plane that crashed in Colombia while taking the team to Medellin for the Copa Sudamericana.
His father, Gustavo Vargas Gamboa, former chief executive of the LaMia charter airline company, was jailed Thursday pending trial on charges including manslaughter over the Nov. 28 crash.
Both have said they are innocent.
"I am innocent. I did not authorize the operating licenses," Vargas Villegas told reporters on Friday. Vargas Gamboa said on Thursday: "The prosecutors are a bunch of liars
The accident killed 71 people after the plane apparently ran out of fuel, shocking the global soccer community and sparking questions about why the aircraft would have tried to make the international flight with what looks to have been less than the required amount of fuel in its tanks.
By Unknown - December 10, 2016
Read story of Nollywood actress Regina Chukwu who shares story on how she almost aborted her son...
Beautiful Nollywood actress, Regina Chukwu became a widow 13 years ago when she suddenly lost her husband and was faced with the task of taking care of their 2 kids alone.
Today is her only son Maduabuchi Richard Nwafor's birthday and she has shared a touching story of how she almost aborted him because of poverty. Read her story...
Ring the bell sound the alarm for on this very day 14yrs ago a prince was born Am I going to write an epistle this year AGAIN? Of cos I will. This young man here reminds me so much of his late father *mixfeelings* Come with me as I travel down memory lane;
On this faithful day, I walked into my then pastor's office (I had come for counseling) after exchanging pleasantries, the pastor showed me to a seat N as made to seat comfortably he said nd I quote 'sister the lord will visit you with a male child soon' on hearing that my eyes went straight to the calendar that was hung on the wall of his office, and I realised I was 2 weeks late
there and then, the world around me collapsed, I am supposed to be happy but I was not, why? You do ask..... as at that time, we were living from hand to mouth, my husband was sick and to crown it all Racheal was just like a year.
At that spot I decided abortion was the solution but I made sure not to betray my emotion in the presence of our pastor. I got home and I said to my husband 'I think I am pregnant' and like I had envisaged he said it to me point blank 'we are getting rid of it' how do we have another child in this condition
I said okay but that the pastor said it's a male child o and like the typical Igbo man that my husband is now, his face brightened up at the mention of a MALE child, so he said to me 'chi maybe we should leave it, God will provide' he was from zero to 100 in less than a min
to cut the long story short Maduabuchi Richard Nwafor came into our lives after nine months and the father left us when he was just 4months (he waited for him) a lot of things happened in that space of 13 months but it's a story for another day
my son thank God I kept you, you and your sister have been a great source of strength to me this past years. Sunday left me with the most beautiful gift which is the both of you, and I love that you are my kids cos no one understands me like the both of you I pray this will not be your last birthday on earth your father died young you will live to be very old I will never have any cause to cry over U both happy birthday son momma loves u scarra N ur sister loves you too.
On how her young son was able to carry her up, Reg said:
So as the photoshoot was going on, the photographer @salaamjamiu jamiu asked if I could pls lift @richardnwafor up and pose for a shoot and I was like 'of cos I can carry him' that was how I tried lifting him up o, alas! I couldn't even get his two feets off the ground like I almost fell o and am like Biko nu' so I can't carry this small buchi *the boy yaf big finish*
Everyone present was rolling on the floor, now they suggested that he should carry me instead and I shouted 'he can't carry me o' but Buchi was like 'mummy haba I can carry you now' and before I could say JACK my feet were off the ground ***unbelievable*** I love you so much Maduabuchi Ricahard Nwafor.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A PHILANTHROPIST QUEEN BUNMI AJEIGE_EWE YI NOONI
Esabod Herbs & Roots fans are wishing you Happy Birthday.
May your coming year surprise you with the happiness of smiles, the feeling of love and so on. I hope you will find plenty of sweet memories to cherish forever. Happy birthday.
By Goddess Esther Aboderin - December 10, 2016
Wow! Check out new photos from Nollywood actress, Bimbo Thomas
The actress and mum one shared these beautiful photos recently...we like!
Russia tried to help Donald Trump win Election- CIA
The CIA has concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help President-elect Donald Trump win the White House, and not just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.
U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed that as the 2016 presidential campaign drew on, Russian government officials devoted increasing attention to assisting Donald Trump's effort to win the election, the U.S. official familiar with the finding told Reuters on Friday night on condition of anonymity.
Citing U.S. officials briefed on the matter, the Washington Post reported on Friday that intelligence agencies had identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including the chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, to WikiLeaks.
U.S. President Barack Obama ordered intelligence agencies to review cyber attacks and foreign intervention into the 2016 election and deliver a report before he leaves office on Jan. 20, the White House said on Friday.
As summer turned to fall, Russian hackers turned almost all their attention to the Democrats. Virtually all the emails they released publicly were potentially damaging to Clinton and the Democrats, the official told Reuters.
"That was a major clue to their intent," the official said. "If all they wanted to do was discredit our political system, why publicize the failings of just one party, especially when you have a target like Trump?"
A second official familiar with the report said the intelligence analysts' conclusion about Russia's motives does not mean the intelligence community believes that Moscow's efforts altered or significantly affected the outcome of the election.
Russian officials have denied all accusations of interference in the U.S. election.
A CIA spokeswoman said the agency had no comment on the matter.
The hacked emails passed to WikiLeaks were a regular source of embarrassment to the Clinton campaign during the race for the presidency.
U.S. intelligence analysts have assessed "with high confidence" that at some point in the extended presidential campaign Russian President Vladimir Putin's government had decided to try to bolster Trump's chances of winning.
The Russians appear to have concluded that Trump had a shot at winning and that he would be much friendlier to Russia than Clinton would be, especially on issues such as maintaining economic sanctions and imposing additional ones, the official said.
Update! 56 killed, 177 injured in the Madagali bomb blast ...photo
Mr. Yusuf Muhammed, Chairman, Madagali Local Government, Adamawa State, has said 56 persons died and 177 injured in the twin blasts that that hit Madagali Market on Friday in Adamawa.
Muhammed, who confirmed the development to NAN in a telephone interview, said 57 of the injured were critical and 120 minor.
He said the critically injured were rushed to Mubi General Hospital and Yola Specialists Hospital, while those that sustained minor injuries were treated and discharged.
NAN reports that the Madagali Market operates on Fridays and the two blasts occurred at the grains and second hand clothes sections of the market.
The council boss appealed to the federal, state governments, relevant donors and humanitarian agencies to come to the aid of the people. The situation is critical.
He said such a gesture would help them in alleviating the pain and loss from the blasts.
FG to pay Swiss Government $79m discretely for Abacha loot
The Federal Government may have agreed to pay the Government of Switzerland $79m (N25.2bn) as part of conditions for the repatriation of almost $400m (N128bn) recovered from the family of the late military ruler, General Sani Abacha.
The Chairman of the Civil Society Network Against Corruption, Olanrewaju Suraj, said this during a seminar to commemorate the 2016 International Anti-Corruption Day in Abuja on Friday.
The event was jointly organised by Nigerian anti-corruption agencies, the European Union, the United States and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and had in attendance senior diplomats and politicians.
It will be recalled that the Swiss Ambassador to Nigeria, Eric Mayoraz, said in July that his country would return $321m out of the Abacha loot to Nigeria.
However, Suraj, who was a member of a panel of discussants, said the original figure that was meant to be returned to Nigeria was about $400million.
He said the Nigerian Government had secretly agreed to forfeit $79m as part of negotiations.
Suraj said this was disgraceful as the Swiss Government was meant to pay Nigeria an interest instead of dictating the terms of agreement.
He said, “Unfortunately, the government goes to beg countries to get our money back rather than making demands, we appeal for the money and beg them to return it. We are fed with half information such that we even assume that we actually recover the amount stolen.
“I had a very funny experience and it is still ongoing. The $321m that the Swiss Government is meant to return to Nigeria, we discovered three weeks ago that the original money was about $400m. The legal process in Switzerland actually charged the Nigerian Government about $79m and that is why we are receiving $321m.
“The $321m is now to be returned to Nigeria with the condition that the World Bank will monitor how the funds will be spent. I cannot imagine anything more insulting.”
Obasanjo’s son and others promoted by Army Authorities ...photo
The Nigerian Army Council has approved the promotion of Adeboye Obasanjo, son of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, and its spokesman, Sani Usman, in a far-reaching exercise that saw no fewer than 227 officers elevated.
According to details of an internal memo, the promotion will take effect from as far back as March 2014 for some officers and as recent as December 2016 for many others.
The memo, dated December 9, 2016, said the officers were considered for promotion by the Army Council in strict compliance with the provisions of the Armed Forces Act.
In the latest rounds, 21 officers were promoted to the position of Major-General.
Amongst them is Chukwunedum Abraham, the General Officer Commanding of the Nigerian Army 2nd Division in Ibadan, whose elevation from the position of a Brigadier-General took effect from January 24, 2016.
Ninety-three were elevated to the rank of Brigadier-General, of which 20 were direct regular commission while the rest were regular combatants.
These include Sani Usman, the spokesman for the Army, whose promotion from the rank of colonel took effect from September 5, 2016.
One hundred and thirteen officers became colonels.
Amongst them is the junior Obasanjo who was promoted from the position of a lieutenant colonel.
Obasanjo’s promotion, effective August 27, 2016, came several months after he sustained serious injuries in a shootout with Boko Haram insurgents in Adamawa State.
Below are names posted by PT of the some of the senior officers:
Photo of Graduate murdered by boyfriend in Lagos hotel ...photo
What truly transpired between a 27-year-old Computer Science graduate of the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, Okonikhere Joy, and her boyfriend on the night of Sunday, December 4, 2016 causing the former’s death may never be known.
But this much is clear: That night, there was a scuffle between them at a hotel in Orile area of Lagos. By morning, Joy’s corpse was discovered by workers at the hotel, prompting them to alert the police. But the unidentified boyfriend was in the wind.
Saturday Punch learnt that when the workers at the hotel made the discovery, they recalled noticing that there was a scuffle inside the hotel room where Joy and her boyfriend lodged the night before. When the case was reported to the police, a manhunt was instantly launched for the suspect.
Two suspects have been arrested by the police. One of them is the purported boyfriend, who has not been identified by the police.
A police source told Punch that a CCTV showed the suspect leaving the hotel.
One of Joy’s friends, May Ebute, said, “I just spoke with her brother and he confirmed the news. The murderer is presently cooling off in a police cell. I wish l could find the words to express the anger l am feeling right now,” she said.
The suspect told the police that he indeed had a fight with the deceased, Saturday Punch learnt.
He explained during interrogation that he grabbed the neck of his girlfriend during the disagreement and that he did not mean to kill her.
“I just put my hands on her neck to scare her, but she stopped breathing,” he was quoted as saying.
Joy, an Edo State indigene, was said to have graduated in 2014 and came to Lagos to look for a job.
When Saturday Punch spoke with the father of the deceased on the phone , Mr. Friday Okonikhere, there was no doubt that he was still grief-stricken.
He said, “I have never heard of the boy before. I think they must have met in Lagos. The police said they had acquired a CCTV footage that showed the perpetrator of the crime. But they have not shown it to me.
“She told me she was working in Lagos. Joy came to Lagos in search of a job. Her mother died four years ago. My daughter’s life is like a total waste now. At the moment when her life would have started becoming a glory, she was wasted.
“I feel very bitter and angry. I am looking at myself as a failure right now because I don’t know what I could have done to prevent my first daughter from being killed in such a way. I have been told there is going to be an autopsy soon. Once the autopsy is done, hopefully they would release the body to us.”
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Dolapo Badmos, said investigation was still ongoing in the case but confirmed that two suspects are currently in police custody.
Update! Nollywood actor, Yomi Fabiyi's British ex wife, reveals why their marriage broke down
Fran, the estranged British wife of actor, Yomi Fabiyi, has said that the actor didn’t marry her in order to get his green card.
Before now, Yomi Fabiyi had announced via his social media pages that he was divorcing Fran, whom he had been with for about four years.
The actor stated among other things that the main reason he was separating from his wife was because they could not agree on where to live together as husband and wife.
According to Fabiyi, the plan they had before marriage was that his wife would move to Nigeria but she later developed cold feet and this led to a crack in their relationship.
He posted on his Instagram page, “It’s so sad that a lot of people never give me the benefit of the doubt. Only a handful think it is right to respect my freedom of choice. I have been unlucky in life, most of what I do normally have opposite impression irrespective of my positive mindset. I cannot help it and will rather prefer to continue to be as real as possible, I am used to being misinterpreted my entire adult life. I never aim to hurt anybody in words or actions before them or behind them. I am never raised that way. Hopefully Fran accepts my proposition to end this marriage now as I cannot continue this way, I am not happy anymore as we edge close to the 4th year anniversary. Fran is such a beautiful woman, supportive and wish I come live in England, take up employment and study. I have used her documents to renew my normal visa only, so no question she is not willing, I never said that. With all humility, if she never promised me she was coming to take up employment in Nigeria and live with me, maybe we might not have secured the dating. I have made it abundantly clear I am not prepared to live abroad as my career was just gathering shape then. I am focused on my career and keeping my fans and admirers entertained. I have an absolute right to do whatever makes me happy provided it is nothing criminal, illegal, immoral or anti-social. I am NOT interested in the reason two adults came together. It’s crude and an uncivilised thing to do for me. I hope to find true love again while I push for a hitch-free divorce as soon as possible. I will be fine guys.”
Both friends and foes had insinuated that the actor married his oyinbo wife in order to legalise his stay in the UK.
However, when Saturday Beats placed a call across to Fran in England, she sounded unhappy about the divorce but seemed to have resigned to fate. She told Saturday Beats that she was very sure her husband did not marry her because of a green card. When asked if she was still in love with her husband, she replied in the affirmative.
“I am still in love with my husband but we cannot keep living this way. I wish there was another way we could go about it but there is none. It is true that I agreed to relocate to Nigeria after marriage but plans changed and I cannot relocate from England. I understand that my husband cannot also move to England but we cannot keep living like this for the rest of our lives. I am very sure that he married me because he loved me and not for any green card. If he wanted a green card, he could have married a British-Nigerian or any other race,” she said.
Gambian President rejects election result after initially conceding defeat
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has said that he has rejected the outcome of last week's election that he lost to opposition leader Adama Barrow, only few days after he conceded defeat to him in a public address.
The fresh announcement he made on state television on Friday throws the future of the West African country into doubt after the unexpected election results ended Jammeh's 22-year rule.
Jammeh had conceded defeat on state TV last week, prompting wild celebrations over the ending of a government that human-rights groups accused of detaining, torturing and killing opponents.
"After a thorough investigation, I have decided to reject the outcome of the recent election. I lament serious and unacceptable abnormalities which have reportedly transpired during the electoral process," Jammeh said, changing his position on the election results.
"I recommend fresh and transparent elections which will be officiated by a god-fearing and independent electoral commission," he said.
15 suspected members of rival cult groups arrested in Osun state during reprisal attack ...photo
15 suspected members of rival cult groups were arrested in Ede, Osun state, during a reprisal attack.
It was gathered that the cultists were allegedly planning to disrupt the Ede day celebration. The suspects have been charged to court.
Photo credit: Mamuda
120 year old virgin man credits his long life to celibacy ...photo
Swami Sivananda, a monk who claims to be the oldest man alive at 120yrs old says his long life is down to celibacy.
He claims he has never had sex. He was born on August 8, 1896, according to details in his passport and is now applying to Guinness World Records to verify his claim as the oldest man alive.
He believes he is the oldest person after Japan's Jiroemon Kimura died June 2013 aged 116 years and 54 days.
Despite his advanced years, he lives with no help and no medical aid, performing yoga for hours every day. He gives all the credit for his longevity to yoga, food with no spices and no sex. He said:
"Discipline is the most important thing is life. "One can conquer anything with discipline in food habits, exercise, and sexual desires. "Control over your needs is the biggest gain in life. I have lived for so long because material things don't make me happy."
Sivananda believes that times have changed but he is still the same.
"Because I was born in poverty, I have never had great demands from life. "Nowadays, people are unhappy, unhealthy and have become dishonest, which pains me a lot." "I just want people to be happy, healthy and peaceful."
The ascetic monk who has never slept in a bed or used a pillow in his life, sleeps on the floor with a jute mat beneath him and uses a stone brick as a pillow. Thanks to his lifestyle, he is now a local celebrity, he travels to give interviews and lectures on life and people from all over the country flock to him in search of peace and the secret to his longevity.
"My followers persuaded me to come forward to claim the record. "Previously I was worried about inviting publicity into my life as these things don't serve any purpose in life." "Though my followers would be happy to see my name in the Guinness Book of World Records."
Amid tax evasion allegations, Cristiano Ronaldo's agent releases tax documents showing footballer earned £191m last year (£500k per day)
Cristiano Ronaldo's management agency/ legal team have released tax documents showing the footballer earned £191m in 2015, over £500,000 per day, £3.7m a week and £15.9m a month- after a French paper alleged recently that the Real Madrid star avoided paying tax to Spanish authorities by using offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands.
According to the tax documents, released by Gestifute- the Sports agency owned by Super agent Jorge Mendes,
1. Ronaldo has always co operated with Spanish tax authorities and has never hidden tax records.
2. The 31-year-old Portugal international declared just €23.5m (£19.8m) of income from inside Spain, where he works with Real Madrid and made €203.7m (£171m) from other countries.
The company's statement titled 'Model 720' read:
'This document confirms that Spain's Tax Agency is knowledgeable of all of Cristiano Ronaldo's assets and income. From now on, the player will not make any further statement on this subject.
'As reported in recent days, the player has been aware of his tax obligations right away from the beginning of his professional career in all of the countries in which he has resided, and has not and has never had any issue with the tax authorities of any of those countries.
'This communication, which was not required by law, constitutes irrefutable proof that Cristiano Ronaldo and his representatives are in good faith and cooperate with the authorities in a spirit of transparency and compliance with legality.'
Earlier this month Cristiano Ronaldo and Jose Mourinho were accused of avoiding paying tax on millions of dollars of earnings by channelling money abroad, according to claims based on a huge document leak. They allegedly moved large sums to the British Virgin
Real Madrid Footballer Raphael Varane's home burgled, thieves make away with £60k worth of valuables
Spanish newspaper El Mundo has revealed that Real Madrid and France defender Raphael Varane lost about £60,000 worth of valuables to burglars who attacked his Madrid home on Wednesday night while he was away playing football for his club side against Borussia Dortmund in the UEFA champions league.
The robbers made away with 12 watches, cash, jewelry and clothes, and the footballer upon returning to the house, called police and the club's security team, informing them that he didn't put on his security alarm before leaving his house.
According to Spanish newspaper El Mundo, 'the burglars entered the property through an annex which was being renovated before entering the house by forcing the front door open.'
Police have informed Varane that they have a couple of leads for their investigation, with an Audi A4 seen outside the annex and a witness has also come forward to say they saw 'three or four people taking a case out of the house and putting it in the car'.
Police believe the gang responsible had been watching the house for several days and knew Varane was away on Wednesday when they struck.
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ESAIM: COCV 8 (2002) 467-487
Non-autonomous 2D Navier–Stokes system with a simple global attractor and some averaging problems
V. V. Chepyzhov and M. I. Vishik
Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, B. Karetniy 19, Moscow 101447, GSP-4, Russia; vishik@iitp.ru.
Received: 3 March 2002
We study the global attractor of the non-autonomous 2D Navier–Stokes system with time-dependent external force g(x,t). We assume that g(x,t) is a translation compact function and the corresponding Grashof number is small. Then the global attractor has a simple structure: it is the closure of all the values of the unique bounded complete trajectory of the Navier–Stokes system. In particular, if g(x,t) is a quasiperiodic function with respect to t, then the attractor is a continuous image of a torus. Moreover the global attractor attracts all the solutions of the NS system with exponential rate, that is, the attractor is exponential. We also consider the 2D Navier–Stokes system with rapidly oscillating external force g(x,t,t/ε), which has the average as ε → 0+. We assume that the function g(x,t,z) has a bounded primitive with respect to z and the averaged NS system has a small Grashof number that provides a simple structure of the averaged global attractor. Then we prove that the distance from the global attractor of the original NS system to the attractor of the averaged NS system is less than a small power of ε.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 35B40 / 35Q30 / 34C29
Key words: Non-autonomous Navier–Stokes system / global attractor / time averaging.
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The World Anti-Doping Agency has imposed a four-year ban on Russia using its flag, anthem and team names at Olympic and other major sports events.
The ban means Russia will be unable to formally compete in next summer's Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo and the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing.
Other major events that fall during the four-year period include world championships and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
WADA's executive committee voted in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Monday and concluded that officials in a Moscow anti-doping laboratory had tampered with data.
The tampering -- before and while the data was being forensically copied by WADA -- included planting fake evidence and deleting files linked to positive doping tests that could have helped identify drug cheats. System messages were also fabricated in an effort to hamper the work of WADA investigators.
The executive committee's decision to punish Russia with a ban was unanimous, an agency spokesperson said. The punishment, however, leaves the door open for clean Russian athletes to compete at major international sporting events without their flag or anthem, as was the case during the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
When asked for clarification on Russia's participation in qualifying for the 2022 World Cup and the tournament itself, a FIFA spokesperson told ESPN: "FIFA has taken note of the decision taken by WADA's Executive Committee today. FIFA is in contact with WADA and the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations to clarify the extent of the decision in regards to football."
ESPN also reached out to the International Olympic Committee, which responded that it supports WADA's decision.
The Russian Anti-Doping Agency has 21 days to appeal the sanctions, and if it does so, the case will be referred to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, WADA has said.
"The position of Russia's Olympic Committee remains unchanged -- sanctions are inadequate, illogical and excessive," Russia's Olympic Committee President Stanislav Pozdnyakov said in response to the sanctions.
"Of course, we are disappointed, but we initially assumed that the recommendations of the WADA Executive Committee would be approved without change, especially after the main points were made public."
Russia, which has tried to showcase itself as a global sports power, has been embroiled in doping scandals, notably since a 2015 report commissioned by WADA found evidence of mass doping in Russian athletics.
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Its doping woes have grown since, with many of its athletes banned from the past two Olympics and the country stripped of its flag altogether at last year's Winter Games as punishment for state-sponsored doping cover-ups at the 2014 Sochi Games.
Monday's sanctions had been recommended by WADA's compliance review committee in response to the doctored laboratory data provided by Moscow earlier this year.
One of the conditions for the reinstatement of RUSADA, which was suspended in 2015 in the wake of the athletics doping scandal but was reinstated last year, had been that Moscow provide an authentic copy of the laboratory data.
Sports minister Pavel Kolobkov last month attributed the discrepancies in the lab data to technical issues and on Monday told reporters that "everything possible was done to resolve this situation."
The consequences of WADA's ruling dictate that no Russian government representatives may participate in or attend any Olympic or other sports event put on by a major event organisation over the four-year period. As such, Russian president Vladimir Putin will not be able to attend the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, nor the 2022 World Cup -- should the ban affect that tournament.
Additionally, Russia may not host any major event in the four-year period, and where the right to host such an event has already been awarded to Russia, that right must be withdrawn and re-assigned to another country as far as is legally or practically possible.
The 2020 European Championship football tournament, in which Russia's Saint Petersburg Stadium is set to host several games, is not considered a major event by WADA, therefore Russian participation and hosting will not be affected.
As part of Monday's ruling, Russia also is not permitted to bid for the right to host the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, irrespective of whether the bidding takes place during or after the four-year period.
Some Russian officials have branded the call for sanctions unfair and likened it to broader Western attempts to hold back the country.
But WADA president Craig Reedie said: "The ExCo's strong decision today shows WADA's determination to act resolutely in the face of the Russian doping crisis.
"For too long, Russian doping has detracted from clean sport. The blatant breach by the Russian authorities of RUSADA's reinstatement conditions ... demanded a robust response. That is exactly what has been delivered today.
"Russia was afforded every opportunity to get its house in order and re-join the global anti-doping community for the good of its athletes and of the integrity of sport, but it chose instead to continue in its stance of deception and denial.
"As a result, the WADA ExCo has responded in the strongest possible terms, while protecting the rights of Russian athletes that can prove that they were not involved and did not benefit from these fraudulent acts."
Information from Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Kabsat Restaurant is the Easygoing Destination for Day-Trippers of La Union
Offering sea-and-sky views and an abundance of food and drink, the new restaurant and bar is the best place to unwind.
By John A. Magsaysay | Dec 13, 2019
IMAGE JOHNEARTH PALMA/MONTY ANTONIO
Despite being lined with shiny new hotels and hostels, San Juan in La Union is also a great destination for day-trippers. Some local tourists opt to ride the midnight bus headed north, spend the whole day riding the waves, getting a tan, mending a broken heart, visiting the food and drink options of the famous surf town, and then head back once they've had their fill of everything. This travel phenomenon is what Kabsat Restaurant & Bar, San Juan's new dining and drinking dive, addresses.
Kabsat, the four-month-old restaurant and bar in La Union, offers everything you need: good food, great drinks, and the best views.
Photo by JOHNEARTH PALMA/MONTY ANTONIO.
Kabsat has an easygoing vibe for friends and family.
“Just like a relative's beach house, we wanted a place where tourists or locals can drop by and spend the rest of the day—where they have everything they need: good food, a great assortment of drinks, and the best views in San Juan,” says its general manager Vincent Labeña.
Kabsat roughly translates to “sibling” in the Ilocano vernacular, and it is this strong bond of kinship or companionship that the restaurant’s sibling owners want to impart to its patrons. “We just want to make everyone to feel welcome, sunbathe on the deck, or lounge in our dining area, without having to worry about the passing time—hopefully, with a cocktail or two,” says Labeña of the Kabsat experience, which is a novelty among the more notoriously exclusive establishments in the area.
These rattan chairs on the deck are the choicest seats for happy hour and the best place to view the beach's famed sunsets.
Its space maximizes North Shore’s sea-and-sky views.
Found in San Juan surf coast's North Shore, where the surfing beach meets the more serene swimming beach, Kabsat capitalizes on its generous seafront view by installing a wooden deck furnished with comfortable rattan loungers and cocktail tables—the choicest seats for the surf town’s happy hour and also the best spot to catch its famed sunset.
Seaside views can be enjoyed throughout the restaurant's 1,500-square-meter space. Employing mostly wood, metal, and concrete in a tropical modern style, Kabsat uses wooden louvers in lieu of walls to let natural light and sea breeze in. “We took inspiration from the traditional nipa hut, which is a type of stilt house indigenous to the Philippines. We evolved it to feature a solid base with a slightly overhanging, wooden upper-storey, like the “bahay na bato,” shares the restaurant’s chief architect Paul Cahanding.
Reclaimed hardwood and rattan furniture and accents, all built on-site, are also a testament to the owners' concern for sustainability. On its massive second-floor dining area, a wrap-around table looks out into the famous shoreline, cashing in on the site's greatest asset.
The two-storey space is an organic structure that maximizes North Shore's view.
The traditional menu is for the very hungry.
Though the San Juan dining scene thrives on the new and trendy, Kabsat opted for a more traditional menu, in hearty, family-sized servings. “We are trying to serve the niche of family travelers or those who come in big groups, especially those who are hungry after a good run of surfing,” says Labeña.
Hence, the kitchen service starts as early as breakfast, where they put an elevated spin on the usual Filipino breakfast bowls. Regional favorites such as the Ilokano Pinakbet, Kalderetang Tagalog, Southern Tuna Panga (a gigantic slab of grilled tuna jaw), and the Wagyu Beef Sisig can sate anyone's dining preference during lunch, supper, beer matches, or hangovers, too.
The menu is built for all-day appetite and best enjoyed with craft beer.
Pinakbet with Liempo
Stuffed Squid
Kabsat's array of drinks addresses happiness.
However, judging from Kabsat’s bamboo bar, which is stocked with countless spirits, it is the booze that takes center stage. Specially crafted cocktails come in twos during happy hour, while local craft beers flow from the tap. “We're in the business of serving happiness, after all,” quips Labeña, before handing me a glass (or two) of its signature rum-coconut-lychee concoction Headwind.
Though already situated well and stocked full of food and drinks, the four-month-old Kabsat has plans for more good things. “While we want our guests to spend their whole day here, we would also want them to spend the night soon,” Labeña teases. Right beside the restaurant and bar, Kabsat is building a six-villa resort topped by an infinity pool slated to open next year.
Whether you stay for the day or, soon, the whole weekend, Kabsat serves the warm hospitality the north is known for. “Here, we treat everyone like family. Here, we eat as one and we drink as one," says Labeña. Indeed, just like brothers.
During happy hour, signature cocktails are served in doubles. This one is the Ritz, a mix of watermelon gin.
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Holy Family excited that school is back
Gwen Keith
The Holy Family Roman Catholic Separate School Division is excited to have another school year underway.
Director of education Gwen Keith said enrolments are up this year, although she didn’t provide specifics, as the figures still need to be presented to the division’s board at its Sept. 11 meeting. The final registration numbers won’t be released until Sept. 30.
As for the two schools in Estevan, St. Mary’s School and Sacred Heart School/École SacréCoeur, Keith characterized those numbers as “status quo.”
Holy Family also has schools in Weyburn, Radville and Wilcox.
“We always take a look at our schools and what it means for staffing and what it means for the whole school’s progress going forward,” said Keith.
The enrolment numbers mean the division hasn’t had to make any changes due to staffing.
Keith said when they look at the school year, they always start with a theme, and focus on a sense of the word community. The theme for this year is Sharing our Learning Story One and Many.
“Last year each one of the schools kept a recording of special learning stories, and so this year we continued to do that, and we weave our values into it, and recognize those stories,” said Keith.
Academic excellence is what they’re striving for, but they also have an extra emphasis around Deep Learning and 21st century competency.
The division also has stability for this year, with the same trustees at the board table, the same central office supports and the same principals in each school.
“It’s looking very good and positive as we move forward,” said Keith.
The biggest challenge for the division this school year will be implementing a new student information system to communicate with parents and the province. It’s been a major planning and training piece for the division.
“It’s a management piece, really. It’s not a leadership piece, but it has to work properly, and so that’s been taking a lot of time. But as far as the provincial curriculum and the subject areas, our goals are very much into the areas of readiness and reading and writing and math, and into engagement.”
Holy Family will use a new reading assessment to measure reading in primary grades, so teachers will have to learn different skill sets.
With engagement, they use a different assessment process by getting feedback from kids in the fall, and then doing a followup in the spring.
“From the outside, it looks like pretty well status quo, but inside, there’s some minor adjustments to help us be more precise and go deeper with what it is we’re showing as student progress.”
Keith said she always loves starting a new school year and the development of bringing people back into the field.
An annual opening mass was held at St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church in Estevan before the start of the school year.
“It was really, really well received, and so that was a great sendoff. That one had all of our schools and all of our staff there.”
Then there was a full-day session with the teachers and a math expert, since math is an area they are monitoring.
Teachers then lent their expertise for sessions that dealt with skills training and technology.
“It’s quite something else to actually have practitioners teach each other,” said Keith. “I have to commend my staff because school is starting and they have lots of things to do, and yet they spent time learning from each other and guiding their peers.”
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Self-Knowledge of Sri Sankaracarya (Shankaracharya's Atmabodha)
Publisher’s Note This volume is a reprint of the American edition of Self Knowledge an English translation of Sankaracarya’s atmabodha with notes comments and an elaborate introduction by Swami Nikhilananda of the Ramakrishna Vivekananda centre of New York. The free and metrical renderings of some of acarya Sankara’s devotional hymns which have been appended to his short treatise on Advaita Vedanta serve to draw the attention of the readers to the less well known aspect ...
This volume is a reprint of the American edition of Self Knowledge an English translation of Sankaracarya’s atmabodha with notes comments and an elaborate introduction by Swami Nikhilananda of the Ramakrishna Vivekananda centre of New York. The free and metrical renderings of some of acarya Sankara’s devotional hymns which have been appended to his short treatise on Advaita Vedanta serve to draw the attention of the readers to the less well known aspect of Sankara’s personality his deep devotional approach to the gods and goddess of popular religion.
In this Indian edition the original Sanskrit texts have been added which we hope will be useful to the Sanskrit knowing readers.
The Atmabodha or Self-Knowledge, is a short treatise on Advaita Vedanta, the philosophy of Non-dualistic Vedanta. It consists of only sixty eight verses in melodious Sanskrit, and is believed to have been composed by Sankaracarya, the great philosopher of Non-dualism.
According to the generally accepted modern view, Sankaracarya, or Sankara, was born during the eighth century after Christ, in the village of Kalai on the west coast of South India. He belonged to the simple, scholarly, and industrious Namagdri sect of brähmins of Malabar. After completing the study of the Vedas, he renounced the world at an early age in quest of Truth and was initiated into the monastic life by the great ascetic Govindapda. Presently he devoted himself to the practice of spiritual austerities, meditation, and yoga. Before long Sankara’s spiritual genius and intellectual acumen were acknowledged by the leading philosophers of India. He engaged himself in reforming the Samoana Dharma, the Eternal Religion of the Hindus, and with that end in view wrote commentaries on the Bhagavadgita, the Brahma-sütras, and the principal (Upanisads. He became the personification of the wisdom of the Vedas. He traveled the length and breadth of India, preaching the divinity of the soul and the oneness of existence. Before hi death at the age of thirty-two at Kedarnäth, in the Himalayas, Sankara had established monasteries at Sringeri (Mysore) in the south, Purl in the east, Dvarakà (Kathiawad) in the west, and J0Ø Math (the Himalayas) in the north, and had placed four of his gifted disciples, each well-versed in one of the four Vedas, in charge of them. He reorganized the ancient Vedic order of sannyasis and assigned to if the spiritual leadership of Hindu society.
Sankara lived during the decadent period of Buddhism. Hinduism was beginning to reassert itself but true leadership was lacking. The country was honey-combed with conflicting sects; a spiritual confusion reigned everywhere and people were perplexed. Sankara’s work, at this critical time, was the salvation of the Vedic culture. He met opponents from other schools in open debates, refuted their views, and re-established the supremacy of Non-dualistic Vedänta. In the midst of his ceaseless activities he found time to write small philosophical treatises and compose hymns in praise of the Hindu deities in order to quicken the longing of aspirants after the spiritual life. In him one finds the unusual combination of philosopher and poet, savant and saint, mystic and religious reformer, debater of rare forensic power and passionate lover of God.
There exist three great misconceptions regarding Sankara’s philosophy, both in India and in the West. The first of these is that he discourages the performance of duties and advocates the discipline of non-action for the realization of Truth. Sankara’s position regarding action and the performance of duties may be briefly stated. The nature of Atman, or the Soul, is Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute. It is the very embodiment of Peace, Desirelessness, Perfection, Truth, Beauty, Infinity, and Eternity. On account of mãyä, or ignorance, man has forgotten his true nature and finds himself entangled in the relative world of good and evil, pain and pleasure, life and death, and the other pairs of opposites. From the cradle to the grave, the unlimited soul engages in ceaseless action, striving to shun evil and realize the good. But his activities are influenced by love and hate, attachment and aversion, and he hopes to experience, through action, infinite and eternal happiness in the outside world. He roams aimlessly in samsara, the world of change and becoming, rising or falling according to the results of his action. Only gradually does he discover the impossibility of attaining abiding happiness through work associated with I-consciousness and the desire for results. Infinite blessedness is not possible through any finite action governed by the law of cause and effect. Then he learns from his teacher and the scriptures that karma (work), in order to produce a spiritual effect, must be performed as yoga; that is to say, the doer must regard himself as an instrument in the hand of God, surrender to God the results of action, and remain unruffled by love or hate. Work performed in this spirit purifies the heart and makes it inclined to the cultivation of meditation and Self-Knowledge. Gradually, outer action drops away, reduced to a minimum sufficient only for the maintenance of the body. The actor remains satisfied with what comes of its own accord, without feeling attachment to the agreeable or aversion for the disagreeable, devoting himself heart and soul to the contemplation of Atman, which is the sole Reality. By means of Knowledge, or jtlãna, he at last realizes the true nature of the Soul, attains peace, and is liberated from the endless suffering of the world. The liberated man engages in service to humanity, but his activities are quite different from those of an unlimited person. He is free from I-consciousness and the longing for results. He never loses the Knowledge of Atman. in his actions he recognizes the influence of the gunas, which constitute man’s physical nature. At their bidding the organs perform actions; but the soul is always immersed in peace. Thus, though appearing to be active, he is really action less. He sees non- action in action. If the Soul is identified with action even to the slightest degree, It has not realized its true nature.
Secondly, it is contended, especially in the West, that because of Sankara’s staunch loyalty to the Non-dualistic ideal of Brahman, or the Absolute, he is an enemy of the gods and goddesses of popular religion. Undoubtedly he held Ultimate Reality to be beyond name and form and of the nature of Pure Consciousness. He also stated that the direct method for realization of Brahman is. not worship, but the path of knowledge, which consists in hearing the instruction of a teacher, reflecting on its meaning, and lastly, meditating on Truth with single-minded devotion. Philosophical discrimination (viveka) and renunciation of the unreal (vairagya) constitute for Sankara the basic disciplines for realization of Brahman. Yet he was aware that few aspirants are strong enough to climb this steep path. The majority require a tangible symbol of Truth, anthropomorphic or otherwise, and also a human relationship with a Personal God. For them prayer and supplication form an indispensable part of worship. Out of compassion for these seekers Sankara composed many hymns in praise of such popular deities of Hinduism as Siva, Viz, and the Divine Mother, As one reads these hymns, one is impressed by the magnanimity of Sankara, who, having attained the highest vision of the Absolute, brought himself down to the level of ordinary worshippers smitten with the idea of many transgressions, assumed their attitude of insignificance and helplessness, and prayed to the Lord for grace to attain liberation from the many miseries of earthly life. These hymns are recited daily by countless devotees all over India at times of prayer and worship. A few of them are given in the Appendix of the present volume, along with several others of a Non- dualistic nature. They will demonstrate the grand sweep of Sankara’s mind. Through all the hymns, dualistic or monistic, is expressed the longing of the devotee for freedom from ignorance, which alone is responsible for suffering in all its forms.
Even in his theistic hymns Sankara never permits one to forget that Brahman alone is the foundation of all relative ideas and that the effulgence of Pure Consciousness radiates through the vesture of name and form. The devotee catches a glimpse of the Absolute through the form of the Personal God, who is the highest manifestation of the Infinite that a finite mind can comprehend on the relative plane. Sankara reiterates this principle in his philosophy. The beginner learns the art of concentration through worship of the Personal God (Saguna Brahman) and acquires purity of heart through performance of unselfish duties. Endowed then with concentration and purity, he sets himself to the task of acquiring the Knowledge of Brahman and realizes, in the end, the Impersonal Absolute. Sankara initiated the worship of Sakti, or the Divine Mother, in his monasteries.
Thirdly, it is said by some of Sankara’s Western critics that he moved away from the teachings of (he seers of the Upanisads. The Upanisads, these critics contend, hold forth an optimistic and affirmative view of life, whereas Sankara, through his doctrine of mäyä, describes the world as a snare and a delusion. His philosophy is regarded by them as pessimistic and negative. That this charge is without foundation will be realized by readers of the introduction and the text of this book. It is to Sankara’s everlasting glory that he points out through unimpeachable reasoning the spiritual nature of the world and he individual soul. Sankata takes every opportunity to insist that the true essence of man and universe is existence knowledge bliss absolute. It is only when the individual sees a difference between Brahman and himself and the universe that he becomes a victim deluding names and forms as maya and the injunction to renounce the unreal as a means to realization of truth are not new ideas of Sankara’s but are both explicit and implicit in the Upanisads.
I have deemed it necessary to write a rather lengthy introduction to the present book in order to give an outline of Non dualistic Vedanta philosophy. Many things discussed therein may be unfamiliar to the average western reader and therefore difficult to comprehend but with a little labor and concentration the contents will become intelligible. It will be helpful to understand the method by which the starting conclusions of Vedanta have been reached. Some of these such as the ideas of the divinity of the soul and the reality of the absolute have become part of common human knowledge. Yet western scholars often think that Brahman is either a dogma of the Hindu theologians or the private experience of the Vedantic mystics and that it can never be proved by the rational and experimental methods of philosophy. Vedantists on the other hand contend that Brahman is either a dogma of the Hindu theologians or the private experience of the Vedantic Mystics and that it can never be proved by the rational and experimental methods of philosophy. Vedantists on the other hand contend that Brahman is neither a dogma of religion nor a private mystical experience but a metaphysical truth based upon universal reason and experience. Vedanta is a systematic philosophy and aims at the demonstration of ultimate reality with us much reason as can possibly be brought to the understanding of the problems of transcendental truth. A careful study of Vedanta will reveal that it not only makes room for many conflicting opinions of intellectual philosophers but also dares to indicate their ultimate synthesis.
Vedanta is the foundation of the spiritual culture of India. It has kept Hindu society alive for the past seven thousand years. It is the philosophy of all the important religious seets and groups. In its various phases Vedanta represents the progressive thought of man beginning with Dualims passing through qualified Non Dualism and ending in absolute non dualism the doctrine of the total identify of the subject and object beyond which human reason thought and experience cannot go.
The conclusions of the non dualistic philosophy are epitomized in four statements the importance of which is felt as keenly today as when they were first revealed tot eh ancient Indo Aryan seers living on the banks of the Indus and the Ganges. They are namely the divinity of the soul the unity of existence the oneness of the Godhead and the harmony of religions.
Every soul is divine though during the state of ignorance it remains oblivious of its spiritual nature. While sojourning in the relative world it assumes various bodies and identifies itself with them. It is then regarded as a finite creature. But in the heart of every individual the divine light shines with undiminished lustre. Hence all men are entitled to out respect. The divinity of the should is the unshakable spiritual basis of democracy self determinatives, freedom, and other aspirations of modern minds. Even a noble human ideal when guided only be expediency can be an instrument of oppression and exploitation.
The unity of existence is the foundation of all ethical codes. Properly understood it widens the bounds of charity beyond humanity to include the animal world as well. Self love is the mainspring of man’s action and the raison d’etre of his love for others. We learn from Non dualistic Vedanta that the true self of man is the self of all beings. Therefore self love finds its expressions and fulfillment in love for all. The golden rule of Christianity can be rationally understood and appreciated only when it is realized that by hurting others can really hurts oneself and conversely that by making other happy one brings happiness to oneself. Without consciousness of the unity of existence ethics becomes a mere device for makeshift adjustments among conflicting interests and when these interests are at any time seriously threatened the ethical codes down. Without a spiritual sanction justice is in the interest of the strong.
The oneness of the Godhead is well emphasized in the statement of the Vedas truth is one but the sages call it by various names. These names honored and worshipped by the various religions are but symbols which enable finite minds to grasp the infinite. The deities they designate are so many facets of the ineffable reality which is one. What is needed is steadfast to one’s own ideal and positive respect not mere toleration for the ideals of others.
Religion is not the goal but only a path by means of which the aspirant attains ultimate perfection. Different religions are necessary to suit different minds at varying levels of evolution. All religious are working for the good of mankind. Each religion takes up as it were one part of the great universal truth and spends its whole force in embodying and typifying it. The much sought for universal religion has always been in existence. It runs through all the various religions in the form of God Consciousness which is the foundation of them all. Truth is the thread that holds together the pearls of the different faiths. Therefore religion should emphasize harmony and not dissension unity and not discord love and not hate friendship and not enmity.
The introduction that I have written is based on the Vedantasara by Sadananda who probably lived during the middle of the fifteenth century. Important materials have also been taken from the drg-dysya Viveka and Sankara’s immortal Vivekacudamani of discrimination. I have used the English translation of the latter by Swami Madhavananda. All these books are considered by orthodox Hindus to be authoritative treatises on Non dualistic Vedanta.
The notes and explanations given with the text are based on the traditional interpretation of Vedanta. Vedanta writers have always used analogies and illustrations to explain their points for the subject matter is of a super sensuous nature and cannot always be adequately explained by reason. These illustrations called from the daily experiences of life help to bring home the truth.
I am indebted to Mr. Joseph Campbell for revising and editing the manuscript and to Mr. John Moffitt, Jr. for assistance in translating the hymns given in the appendix. I am also grateful to Swami Satprakasananada for many valuable suggestions.
The very name of the book atmabodha or self knowledge suggests its perennial interest and universal value self knowledge is vital. All other forms of knowledge are of secondary importance for a man’s action feeling reasoning and thinking are dependent upon his idea of the self. His view of life will be either materialistic or spiritual according to his conception of himself. It he regards himself as a physical creature and his soul as subservient to material happiness devoting himself to the attainment of power and the enjoyment of material pleasures. Whenever a large number of people follow such an ideal society becomes materialistic and there ensure bloodshed war and destruction. If on the other hand a man regards himself as a spiritual entity and believes that his material body should be utilized to serve a spiritual end then he is spiritual. He follows the path of unselfishness consecration and love and thus becomes a force to promote peace and happiness for all. Therefore it behaves everyone to cultivate self knowledge at all times. Self knowledge serves the practical purpose of destroying pain and suffering and also the positive end of helping everyone enjoy supreme peace and blessedness here and always.
(Vedanta : Its Theory and Practice)
THE ORIGIN OF HINDU PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT
A STUDY of the early philosophical and religious writings of the Hindus indicates that the Indo-Aryans, who lived in ancient times in the valleys of the Indus and the Ganges, were keen and thoughtful observers of both the outer and the inner world. One of the things that greatly impressed them was the changeability of everything in nature. Oceans, mountains, rivers; trees, plants, herbs; birds, animals, insects; the sun, the moon, the stars-in short, all animate and inanimate objects-are subject to the law of change. And this is equally true of the states of the mind. Happiness is followed by suffering, joy by sorrow, serenity by restlessness, courage by fear, exaltation by depression. Of every experi- ence, both subjective and objective, it may be truly said, "Even this shall pass away". And so a question naturally was raised: Is change itself the ultimate reality, or is there an unchanging essence, the ground of all change?
Like change, suffering too, was observed to be a univer- sal phenomenon. No one escapes its cruel jaws. Rich and poor, high and low, old and young, learned and ignorant, righteous and unrighteous: all embodied beings suffer. Asked by a king about the meaning of life, a sage once replied, "A man is born, he suffers, and he dies."
Sorrow, indeed, is the price of our birth on earth. It afflicts a man's body or his mind. It may he caused by other human beings, by the denizens of the animal world, or by such uncontrollable cosmic phenomena as rain and drought, heat and cold, earthquake and storm. Twenty-five hundred years ago a great Indian seer-Buddha, the Enlight- ened One-declared that if all the tears that had flowed from human eyes since the beginning of creation were gathered together, they would exceed the waters of the ocean. The four Noble Truths which he discovered and announced as the basis of his religion are all related to suffering: its exist- ence, the cause of its existence, its cessation, and the way leading to its cessation. Any glimpses of happiness that may seem to brighten our days on earth are both fugitive and deceptive. Every enjoyment is marred by a haunting fear. The rich are afraid of thieves, the beautiful of deformity, the healthy of disease, the learned of rivals, the aristocrats of dishonour, the virtuous of slander. Yet man somehow forgets this truth in the rhapsody of his fear-haunted and momentary happiness.
To illustrate the illusive nature of human happiness Buddha narrated the vivid story of a man who, while roaming in the forest, was discovered and hotly pursued by a tiger. He suddenly came to the brink of a deep precipice. The ugly beast was about to pounce. With only a split second for decision, the man perceived a vine hanging down the cliff and, catching hold of it, gave a jump. But the creeper was not long enough to land him on the ground. Looking down, he beheld, just below him, a second tiger, almost within reach, viewing him with glowering eyes. The first, meanwhile, was still roaring at him from above. And then as though his circumstances were not precarious enough, two mice, one black and one white, began to gnaw at the vine that he was clutching for his very life. It was then that he spied a strawberry growing on the side of the cliff, ripe and luscious, and just within his reach. He stretched forth his hand, plucked the fruit, put it in his mouth, and exclaimed with delight, "Ah! How perfectly delicious!"
If all our joy on earth is momentary and illusory, what is the basis of the illusion? Can there be illusion without a background or substratum? And how may one put an end to the, suffering and attain peace? Or is there any peace?
The ubiquitous presence of death stirred the thoughts of the ancient Hindus. Does death mean the complete annihilation of a man, or is there something within him that survives the destruction of his body? And if death puts an end to the whole man, then why is he born at all? What purpose does one serve on earth, if the flame of life is snuffed out at a tender age? What is the meaning of death and how is it related to life? Is there any way to overcome it?
The early Indo-Aryans had an insatiable appetite for knowledge. Nothing short of omniscience would satisfy them. One reads in the Vedas of a disciple who asked his teacher, "What is it, revered sir, by the knowing of which everything in the universe can be known?" Like the Greek philosophers the Hindus first hoped to win knowledge by the analysis of external Nature. Extraordinarily detailed and poetical descriptions of the objects of nature appear in the ancient Vedic literature. But after a time the futility of such an effort to gain omniscience became apparent. One cannot adequately know an infinitesimal part of the earth through the study even of a whole lifetime. And there spread before our vision the sun, the moon, and the stars without number.
Presently, however, a clue was found to the solution of the mystery of knowledge. The Hindu philosophers observed that by knowing the nature of clay one knows the nature of everything made of clay, by knowing the nature of iron or gold one knows the nature of everything made of iron or gold. Is there not likewise, they asked, something that is the basic material of the universe, by the knowing of which everything in the universe will be known?
The Chandogya Upanishad describes a dialogue between Narada and Sanatkumara, Narada approached Sanat- kumara and said, "Teach me, sir." Sanatkumara said to him, "Please tell me what you know; afterwards I shall tell you what is beyond." Narada said: "1 know the Rg-Veda, the Yajur-Veda, the Sama-Veda, the Atharva-Veda, history and mythology, grammar, the rules for the sacrifices for the ancestors, the science of numbers, the science of portents, the science of time, logic, ethics, etymology, the science of elementals, the science of war, astronomy, the science of snake-charming, and the fine arts. All this I know, sir. But, sir, with all this I am like one who knows only the words, the sacred books. I do not know the Self. I have heard from men like you that he who knows the Self overcomes grief. Do, sir, help me over this grief of mine". San at- kumara said to him, "Whatever you have read is only a name."
The search for the Great Cause is linked with the search into the nature of man himself. Is man only a physical being, or has he a spiritual basis? The study of man opened before the Hindus a new vista. How does the mind think? Is the power to think inherent in the mind itself or does another extraneous power impel it to think? What has set in motion the life-breath? Who engages the tongue to speak, and the ears and eyes to hear and see?
The ancient Hindus wondered whether there was a First Principle or Ultimate Reality underlying the outside world, and also whether there was such a thing underlying man himself. If so, were the two the same?
It was apparent that the question that agitated the Hindus, living on the banks of the Ganges and the Indus in that prehistoric time, could be adequately answered only by a true knowledge of man, the universe, and Ultimate Reality. These, then, engaged their attention and formed the subject-matter of their philosophical systems. For centuries hey discussed these problems-in conferences and assem- olies, in royal courts and sylvan retreats, around the sacred fires of the householders and in the hermitages of monks. They tried to work out answers through the most rigorous reasoning. They sought light in the depths of meditation- Some, inquiring about the First Cause and the ultimate explanations of things in the outside world, thought that the gods, the different personified forms of Universal Con- sciousness, held the key to knowledge and happiness. So they worshipped with elaborate rituals the sun, the moon, the sky, and other deities, and sought to propitiate them with appropriate oblations. But it did not take them long to discover that as everything existing in time and space is doomed to die, the gods too, must die; and as all beings living in time and space are limited, the gods too, must be limited. It is said in one of the hymns of the Rg-Veda. concerning the creation and its cause:
Who verily knows and who can here declare it, whence it was born and whence comes this creation?
The gods are later than this world's production. Who knows, then, whence it first came into being?
He, the First Origin of this creation, whether He formed it all, or did not form it,
Whose eye controls this world in highest Heaven, He verily knows it, or perhaps He knows not.
So it was clear to the Hindus that the gods cannot re- move man's ignorance nor show him the way to blessedness and immortality. The problem of Ultimate Reality cannot be solved through study of, or devotion to, anything in the visible outside universe.
Other seekers directed their attention to a different world, the inner world within man himself. By means of such spiritual disciplines as severe self-control and con- centration they discovered that the realm of the mind was infinitely more real, interesting, and deep than the realm of gross physical matter. There, after patient search, they at last discovered the clue to the supersensuous truths relating to the Self, the hereafter, man's destiny, and Ultimate Reality.
Publisher's Note vii
Preface ix
Self-Knowledge 123
Eight Stanzas in Praise of the Guru 193
Hymn to Sri Daksinamurti 196
Eight Stanzas to Bhavani 203
Hymn to Annapurna 205
Six Stanzas to Visnu 211
Hymn to Ganga 213
Hymn to the Divine Mother of Forgiveness of Transgressions 218
Hymn to Siva 223
Hymn to Mahadeva 228
Hymn to Siva for Forgiveness 231
Five Stanzas on the Kaupina 239
Hymn of Renunciation 241
A Cudgel for Delusion 250
Six Stanzas on Nirvana 254
Item Code: IDE165 Author: Swami Nikhilananda Cover: Paperback Edition: 2004 Publisher: Sri Ramakrishna Math ISBN: 8171209726 Language: English Size: 7.0" X 4.8" Pages: 292 Other Details: Weight of the Book: 197 gms
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Microsoft Frantically Downplays Plan to Put Ads in Windows Email App
By Joel Hruska on November 19, 2018 at 8:15 am
When Microsoft committed to developing Windows as a service, it declared that users could look forward to an unending stream of feature improvements and updates over time as the OS evolved. The company has kept that promise for most of the past three years — each new major Windows update has introduced its own set of features and improvements. Recent developments, however, have pointed in a different direction. We’re starting to think the Big Idea Person presumably responsible for pitching and developing new Windows 10 features may actually hate Microsoft.
Microsoft’s next big idea is, or possibly was, ads. Specifically, embedding ads into the Windows 10 Mail application that comes free with the OS. Now, in the time since this story started breaking, Microsoft has reversed course. It now claims that this was a simple A/B test that was never meant to be exposed to Windows Insiders.
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Claptrap. We know so, because Microsoft published an entire FAQ for people who saw ads in Windows Mail and wanted to know what the heck was going on. Microsoft has taken the FAQ offline, but fortunately Google cache still had a copy. We’ve also screenshotted the relevant text (Click on the image below to see a full-size version).
Relevant quotes include:
Currently, we have a pilot running in Brazil, Canada, Australia, and India to get user feedback on ads in Mail.
Ads will be visible on Windows Home and Windows Pro but not on Windows Enterprise or Windows EDU.
Ads will be visible for non-work accounts, such as Outlook.com, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Ads will not be visible for non-work accounts with an Office 365 subscription tied to their email address, or when viewing your work email accounts like Exchange Online or Exchange Server.
And my favorite:
Can I Dismiss Ads?
You can temporarily dismiss an ad using the trash can when hovering over the ad. You can permanently remove ads by buying an Office 365 Home or Office 365 Personal subscription.
Microsoft’s official response is to claim everyone got all excited about nothing.
This was an experimental feature that was never intended to be tested broadly and it is being turned off.
— Frank X. Shaw (@fxshaw) November 16, 2018
I have no doubt that Microsoft tests many features that it doesn’t roll out to customers. I highly doubt they bother to create FAQ documents spelling out exactly how the feature works, which customers it impacts, which OS versions it applies to, which countries are currently enrolled in pilot testing, and the exact rules for when and how ads will be shown for a feature they have no intention of deploying. Saying something was never intended to be tested broadly could simply mean the test was intended to be confined to the countries listed above as opposed to rolling out to Windows Insiders in general.
If you think about it, you can tell the difference. When people’s Windows 10 Pro installations were erroneously flagged as Windows 10 Home earlier this month, there wasn’t an initial Microsoft response. The company eventually released a quick “Hey, we’re working to fix the problem.” When a company has an FAQ drawn up with this kind of information on it, it means that feature and its implementation have been thoroughly discussed already, even if a rollout or public announcement hasn’t been set yet.
Earlier this year, Microsoft tried to scare people away from using Chrome. The Verge points out one change I missed — in March, Microsoft tested a feature in which clicking on links in Mail would open them in Edge rather than the system default browser, bypassing your own browser preference. Now, it wants to bury ads in Mail as a way of shoving people into using Office 365.
Microsoft needs to step back and consider how its aggressive and unwelcome intrusions are changing the perceived dynamic between the company and its users. After several poor update experiences, I find myself unconsciously thinking about a major Windows update the same way I’d think about the chore of minding a child I had to watch, constantly. Updates don’t mean nifty new features, they mean trudging through the OS to find whatever defaults Microsoft has changed to favor its own preferences as opposed to mine. This, of course, assumes I’m not spending several hours trying to fix whatever bugs Microsoft introduced via the update process.
It would be nice, at least, if Microsoft was honest about its own intentions. “We introduced scary language to push users away from Chrome because no one likes our browser,” would be a good start. So would “We put ads in Mail hoping to annoy more of you into giving us money.”
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Litigants in person research report
Date:8 DEC 2014
The research report, Litigants in person in private family law cases by Liz Trinder, Rosemary Hunter, Emma Hitchings, Joanna Miles, Richard Moorhead, Leanne Smith, Mark Sefton, Victoria Hinchly, Kay Bader and Julia Pearce was published by the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) at the end of November 2014. The report was completed and submitted to the MOJ in September 2013.
This report presents findings from a study commissioned by the MOJ to provide evidence of the experiences and support needs of litigants in person (LiPs) in private family law cases. The study focuses on the experience of LiPs prior to the legal aid reforms in April 2013. It was designed to inform policy and practice responses to LiPs following the legal aid changes.
The below implications and recommendations have been taken from the report.
The available evidence suggested that the majority of represented parties in the sample who were in receipt of legal aid would no longer be eligible for legal aid after the LASPO reforms.
In comparison with the observed pre-LASPO LiPs, the researchers would expect that LiPs post-LASPO would be less likely to be partially represented and more likely to present with vulnerabilities which affect their capacity to represent themselves effectively and create challenges for the courts in terms of safety at court, testing, disclosure and safeguarding children.
The adoption of coordinated information strategies by MoJ and the Family Court is required to meet LiPs’ information needs.
LiPs’ needs for emotional support can best be met by the admission of ‘volunteer’ (family member/friends/third sector) McKenzie Friends.
Strategies to meet LiPs’ needs for practical support and legal advice should include the consistent adoption of a more active/inquisitorial role by family judges, universal availability of initial legal advice, and wider availability of legal representation in court proceedings where required in the interests of (individual or collective) justice.
This report has identified that LiPs have considerable needs for support across several dimensions. It has also identified what the researchers consider to be best practices for meeting those needs, based on the team’s review of the literature and the observations and interviews with LiPs and family justice system professionals. It has not been part of the research team’s brief, however, to analyse the cost-benefit of these proposals or to produce a fully worked-up blueprint for change. This section, therefore, summarises the broad recommendations arising from the team’s analysis of the literature and the research data. Further detailed policy and operational consideration will of course be required to determine how these recommendations could be implemented.
That all relevant family justice communications, including forms, leaflets, practice directions, templates and pro forma, are re-evaluated from the perspective of LIPs and (if necessary) redesigned with their various needs in mind.
That a single authoritative ‘official’ family court website is established with all the resources that a LIP needs in one place.
That the court’s communication with parties prior to the first hearing is used more effectively to convey important information to LIPs.
That judges are encouraged to give LIPs clear verbal instructions and guidance on process and procedure.
That the court service provides increased opportunity for face-to-face inquiries with relevant court staff and that guidelines and training for court staff are devised to facilitate information-giving whilst avoiding giving advice.
Emotional/moral support
That there is a presumption that a single family member, friend or volunteer may accompany a LIP in court to offer emotional/moral support without the need to submit a formal CV.
That consideration is given to the development of a code of conduct, practice guidance or regulatory framework for paid/’professional’ McKenzie Friends.
Practical support and legal knowledge
That initial legal advice to facilitate dispute resolution and, where necessary, for initial preparation for court proceedings is made universally available.
That providing support for LiPs in a consistent way in both semi-represented and non-represented cases is understood as a key element of the judicial role; and that judicial officers receive appropriate guidance and training to do so.
That measures are introduced to ensure greater availability of and access to exceptional case funding in private family law matters.
That a mechanism is introduced to enable judicial recommendation for the provision of publicly funded representation in the interests of justice.
That the MoJ consider which other forms of legal and procedural assistance outlined in this Chapter for LIPs engaged in court proceedings can feasibly be supported or implemented.
Follow up independent research is needed to examine the impact of the legal aid reforms on the types and experiences of LiPs, their impact on the court system and the effectiveness of innovations and services to support LiPs.
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Cherokee History Museum and Visitors Center’s New Location
The Cherokee County History Museum and Visitors Center recently relocated to a new building in downtown Canton.
Members of the Cherokee County Historical Society moved the offices, archives, artifacts, and museum exhibits to 221 E. Marietta Street, which is the former Canton Police Department building, adjacent to Brown Park. The Historical Society had been based in the Cherokee County Historic Courthouse building for more than 15 years.
The move to the new space marks an important milestone for the group dedicated to preserving Cherokee County’s heritage and culture.
“This new space offers an opportunity to provide a permanent home to our collections and expand our cultural and educational offerings to our community,” said Historical Society Executive Director Stefanie Joyner.
The museum has an expanded gift shop and Visitors Center, along with a small exhibit space detailing the history of Cherokee County. The gift shop features handmade and locally sourced gifts, which will be continually updated to reflect the communities that make up Cherokee County. The museum’s collections and archives are also available by appointment, Monday through Friday.
Further expansion is on the horizon with plans underway for a capital campaign to enhance the space as a cultural hub and history center that will include interactive historical exhibits, retail space, research, and office space. Projected completion is estimated in 2022.
Admission is free, and museum hours will remain the same: Wednesday through Friday, 10:00am-5:00pm and Saturday 10:00am-3:00pm.
For more information, please contact Executive Director Stefanie Joyner, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 770-345-3288.
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India Women Complete the T20I Series Against West Indies with a Whitewash
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India won their 5th and final T20 against West Indies in Guyana by 61 runs and sealed the series 5-0. A splendid 100 runs partnership between Jemimah Rodrigues and Veda Krishnamurthy was all it took for India women to get the game on their side, followed by Anuja Patil’s breathtaking bowling spell (3-1-3-2).
The Winning streak continued as soon as India won the toss and choose to bat. The team had an off start though, where Smriti and shafali were sent back to the pavilion within 3.1 overs, giving the Windies a hope of win as they had a 17/2 score too soon. However, it was then Rodrigues and Krishnamurthy came in together and reduced the milestone by putting 117 runs on board by 17th over.
Jemimah scored 50 off 56 which included three boundaries and Veda scored 57 off 48 balls not out. Despite a slow pitch, Veda’s four boundaries help India reach 134 in 20 overs, something that seemed challenging for the Windies. However, West Indies were at a similar position as India with a score of 13 for 2 getting off Natasha McLean and Kyshona Knight too soon.
It was Shemaine Campbelle alone who struggles to remain not out on 19 off 23 but her only effort couldn’t stand strong against the Indian spinners. Anuja bagged 3 wickets, whereas Radha Yadav, Poonam Yadav, and Harleen Deol picked a wicket each to put a halt to the hosts. The climax for the Caribbean was worse as they had only 73 runs in 20 overs, with a loss of seven wickets.
Overall, it was a good tour for the blues, who lost the opening ODI by one run but had the rest of the series in a winning note. They won the ODI series 2-1 and T20 5-0.
Brief scores: India women 134/3 (Veda Krishnamurthy 57*, Jemimah Rodrigues 50; Hayley Matthews 1/23) beat West Indies women 73/7(Kyshona Knight 22, Shemaine Campbelle 19; Anuja Patil 2/3) by 61 runs.
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Album: Laura Marling — I Speak Because I Can
by Lynn Roberts • 22 March 2010
Laura Marling’s new album makes me come over all Jo Wiley. I could very happily voice an advert calling it “breathtaking”, “astonishing” or “sublime”. Because unlike Keane or U2 or Coldplay’s more recent offerings, it is all of those things.
The most surprising aspect of I Speak Because I Can is just how robust the once painfully shy Laura now sounds. With rousingly primal tracks like opener Devil’s Spoke, she has extended her repertoire from the meeker sounds of Alas I Cannot Swim. In fact, this LP is in danger of totally overshadowing her Mercury-nominated debut.
Although her lyrics haven’t returned to the frankness of her pre-Alas, days, neither are they as guarded as those of her debut. She sings defiantly on Rambling Man, “If I sit here and weep, I’ll be blown over by the slightest of breeze”. What’s more Laura’s delivery is more deliberate and her songwriting stronger. Even the album’s artwork, shows a poised and elegant Marling, a picture of composure.
The track that would feel most at home on Alas is Blackberry Stone, which Laura has been playing live for the best part of two years. It is the middle part of a game of lyric ping pong with Charlie Fink of Noah & the Whale. On debut NATW album Peaceful the World Lays Me Down, Charlie sings “Hold my hand as I’m lowered/And please don’t see me as a coward”. Laura replies with “I’m sorry that I never held your hand as you were lowered”, on Blackberry Stone but adds “I have no reason to reason with you”. Charlie came back with an entire album about their break up — First Days of Spring — on which he sings “Well I heard you been singing I was what I am/Well I never tried to change you/Honey I’m your biggest fan”.
Fans who’ve seen Laura live in the past 18 months will recognise many of the songs, Rambling Man, Hope in the Air and Made by Maid being particularly well-aired examples. What’s exciting on first listen, then, is the studio arrangements. On Rambling Man Laura’s vocals are doubled up in swoony harmonies and Marcus Mumford provides backing vocals on Hope in the Air. The Mumford lads’ presence is felt throughout the album’s orchestration and particularly on Darkness Descends, which really should be attributed to Marling & Sons.
Laura addresses female oppression in Goodbye England with the lines “Tried to be a girl who likes to be used/i’m too good for that, there’s a mind under this hat” but to say I Speak Because I Can is all about womanhood is to do it a disservice. Its reach is much broader. The imagery is all pastoral idyll – riding bikes to the sea, England covered in snow. And the album’s themes cover history, family, independence, desire, sadness, optimism, pride and hopelessness. I Speak Because I Can is the most exciting thing this reviewer has heard in a long time.
Words: Lynn Roberts
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I love this album, she’s wonderful. (:
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I can’t believe I haven’t heard this yet! Great review, you’ve made me even more irritated with myself for not having got off my arse and bought it yet…
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Ferrari working to solve race pace deficit at Silverstone
They may have lost out on victory, but Ferrari's race pace in Austria was electric. So will that form be transferred from the Styrian mountains to the fast sweeps of Silverstone? Not on the evidence of Day 1, with Charles Leclerc and Team Principal Mattia Binotto saying the team have plenty of work to do to get on terms with rivals Mercedes over longer runs...
A gap of 0.128s from Leclerc to FP2 runner-up Lewis Hamilton didn’t tell the whole story in FP2, with our analysis showing that Ferrari's deficit to Mercedes could be as much as 0.7s per lap in race trim.
The main issue? According to the man behind the wheel it's understeer, which could be costing Ferrari as much as 0.2s in slow corners compared to the Silver Arrows.
“It was quite a difficult day for us,” Leclerc said. “We tested quite a lot of things [in practice]. I think our quali pace is not too bad, but [with] race pace we have been struggling quite a lot. We need to be working on that, trying to help the front-left especially, but the front tyres in general, and hopefully tomorrow we will do a significant step.”
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Team Principal Mattia Binotto echoed Leclerc’s summary, adding that Ferrari was “quite strong in the first and second sectors but somehow weak on the last one.” The last sector of Silverstone including the low-speed left-right chicane that leads onto the final corner.
“There was so much understeer,” he explained, “and that understeer was… damaging the tyres on high fuel pace. So I think we will be focused on this overnight, [the problem of] our front tyre wear.”
Two races ago in France, Ferrari brought in a raft of upgrades, including new front and rear wings, front brake ducts and a new floor that was eventually swapped back for the standard one. Ferrari will continue to use its standard floor this weekend, although it has found the root of the upgraded floor’s problem.
“At Paul Ricard we had a new floor that didn’t work but other components [that we tested] were positive. In Austria, we did some measurements to try and understand the issue and tried to understand what was wrong with the floor.
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“From now on, at least we understood why it didn’t work, from now on we will make some progress and improve. So there is nothing here. We are still here with the floor that we had in Paul Ricard and in Austria.”
For Vettel, fourth in FP2, it comes down to Ferrari picking “the right cards” before Saturday’s qualifying battle against Mercedes.
“We still have a bit of time until Sunday so there is more we can do, definitely,” said Vettel. “The Friday also does give us the opportunity to try some stuff. I think we did that today and some stuff didn’t work, so now we have to pick the right cards for tomorrow.”
So it’ll be a full house at Ferrari tonight then, as they try and solve the race pace conundrum.
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Father dies after leaping from bridge with sons in his arms; boys survive
(AP) WANAQUE, N.J. – A man died after jumping off a highway bridge with his two toddler sons in his arms, yet the boys survived the 100-foot plunge into a wooded area and are expected to make a full recovery.
John Spincken was holding the boys, ages 1 and 3, when he leaped from the Wanaque Bridge on Interstate 287 on Monday night, state police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene; the boys were found nearby, near the Wanaque River, police said.
"When the officers found the children conscious and alert it was nothing short of a miracle, that's for sure," Pequannock Township police Capt. Christopher DePuyt said on Tuesday.
Spincken's actions appear a far cry from the smiling man who, on social media, called fatherhood the "best feeling in the world" and described the panic and then relief that washed over him moments after a health scare threated his younger son's life.
"You see, we all have good days and bad days but at the end of the day we are BREATHING! Do not take life for granted, you never know when you will take your last breathe," he wrote.
The incident began Monday night with a call from a friend of Spincken's wife, who said Spincken had taken the toddlers and threatened to harm them. DePuyt says Spincken was tracked through his cellphone and police found his unoccupied car on the bridge.
Spincken apparently climbed on top of his car and then scaled a 12-foot-high fence meant to prevent people from jumping off the bridge, DePuyt said.
Police believe tree branches helped cushion the boys' fall.
The boys, whose injuries weren't disclosed, were hospitalized in fair condition on Tuesday.
"I was expecting the worst outcome when I arrived at the scene, and I was amazed last night and even this morning on the condition of the children," DePuyt said.
The 37-year-old, who was from Pequannock, was listed as the owner of an auto detailing company. He listed family, health and cars among his interests on his Instagram account and shared pictures of his young family on Facebook.
A young boy is shown hitting baseballs in one video, and, in another, Spincken holds his son on his lap as they pretend to drive together.
"Not a day goes by that I don't feel grateful and appreciative," Spincken wrote in comments on a collage he posted in August of his boys.
Police were trying to gather more information and better understand what may have triggered Spincken, DePuyt said. Investigators had not been contacted by anyone who had previous concerns about Spincken, and township police did not have a history of any contact with the family, which previously lived elsewhere in the state, he said.
Spincken pleaded guilty in 2003 to violating a domestic violence restraining order. Additional information about that case was not available.
Neighbors were in shock at the news and said that nothing seemed amiss.
"Something really had to go wrong. They looked loving. They really did," neighbor Abe Balasis told reporters.
A community group from Kean University came to the family's home to leave teddy bears for the children.
"A lot of people know about mental health issues, and they wanted to reach out do something right away for the family," said Kean's Dr. Norma Bowe.
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