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Kenya risks missing 2022 universal electricity target–expert
This comes amid poor main grid electricity transmission network in rural areas which remain potential areas for off-grid solar and mini-grid investments.
•OGLA, the global association for the off-grid solar energy industry, says the government must support penetration of off-grid solar to help meet its target.
•Kenya is second after India in the top ten countries globally on acquisition of solar products.
by MARTIN MWITA Business Writer
The government's plan to connect every Kenyan home to electricity by 2022 could fail unless focus is given to off-grid, according to a global energy association.
This is due poor main grid electricity transmission network in rural areas, mainly Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs), which remain potential areas for off-grid solar and mini-grid investments.
GOGLA, the global association for the off-grid solar energy industry yesterday said the government must support penetration of off-grid solar, including working with counties under the Kenya Off-Grid Solar Access Project(KOSAP), to meet its targets.
“If we are talking about only grid extension, it won't happen. said Patrick Tonui, GOGLA East Africa regional representative.
The said there is need for development of an integrated mix, subsidies and support from the public sector and development partners to reach those who are difficult to connect on the main grid.
“There are key hurdles that need to be addressed. We don't have an integrated energy mix, which means some communities will be served through grid, some through mini-grid and some through stand-alone systems,” he said.
This comes amid growing demand and uptake of off-grid solar products in ASAL counties.
A recent report shared by GOGLA yesterday indicates Kenya tops Sub-Saharan Africa in the acquisition of solar energy products.
The report dubbed 'powering opportunity in East Africa' shows volume of products sold in Kenya in the first half of 2018 totaled 450,000. Uganda was second taking up about 180,000 solar equipment while Tanzania acquired 100,000 units.
Kenya is second after India in the top ten countries globally on acquisition of solar products with India accounting for close to 1.4 million units.
“This(Kenya) is where the market is. This is where people are benefiting from off-grid solar products,” Tonui said during a media round-table in Nairobi.
The high demand for solar products in remote areas comes amid rising electricity costs on the main grid, which has seen urban dwellers dig deeper into their pockets to meet high tariff charges.
Kenya Power has been accused of manipulating main grid dependents whom have seen month-on-month rise in power bills.
The utility firm recently sought the approval of the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) to increase electricity prices by up to a fifth, a move that if approved, will hurt households while raising the cost of doing business in Kenya especially on manufacturing.
While solar energy allow users to enjoy pay-as-you-go terms , main grid tariffs are to the range of Sh10 to Sh21 per kilowatt hour depending on utility , which is on the higher end compared to countries such as Ethiopia where rates as low as Sh3 per kilowatt hour.
The proposal by Kenya Power will see those using less than 100 kilowatts per month pay Sh12.50 a unit, up from the current Sh10.
The government in December last year launched the Kenya National Electrification Strategy (KNES) n partnership with the World Bank, which provides a roadmap to achieving universal access to electricity for all Kenyans by 2022.
“Tremendous achievement in scaling up connectivity has been made over the last few years. Total access to electricity now stands at 75 per cent. However, there was a need to come up with a new National Electrification Strategy to deal with the challenges of bringing the entire country under electrification in an economically viable manner,” Energy CS Charles Keter said.
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Theme Parks! Roller Coasters! Fun!
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Six Flags Over Georgia (SFOG) Discussion Thread
https://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18656
Re: Six Flags Over Georgia (SFOG) Discussion Thread
by Password121
AnonymousReed wrote:
Password121 wrote: ^^Thats just... Weird. I just don't get why it's necessary.
If it's legit though it's also really weird. Two new areas? An Aqua Twist played off as a kiddie ride? What's with the drop tower too large for young kids but too small for adults?
Stop complaining.
I think sometimes people like to call out complainers as often as they can.
I'm not complaining. I said it's a strange addition because it is unusual--when was the last time a SF park announced two new kiddie areas with rides like these? I just don't fully understand the reasoning behind it, and I was in no way complaining.
by Manic Monte
The reasoning is more things for families. ..that simple.
by HARLEYGUYJB
That's looks awesome! I love the DC Comics theme instead of Looney Tunes.
by Rollercoaster Rider
This is very needed at Six Flags Over Georgia. The area hasn't really been expanded since 1993-1994?
by robbalvey
World’s First DC Super Friends Kids’ Area to Headline Major Park Renovation for 2016 Season
12 Rides and Attractions within Two New Themed Areas at Six Flags Over Georgia
AUSTELL, Ga. — September 3, 2015 — Thrilling family fun is in the works, as Six Flags Over Georgia today announced the all-new DC SUPER FRIENDS themed area and the all-new Bugs Bunny Boomtown for the 2016 season. The two new areas will feature 12 rides and attractions, in what will become the perfect family destination spot within the Thrill Capital of the South.
“These two new sections of the park will offer families hours and hours of fun with attractions mom, dad and the kids can experience together,” said Park President Dale Kaetzel. “This latest expansion continues our multi-year plan to provide thrills for guests of all ages and includes the addition of Hurricane Harbor in 2014, two new devious rides in Gotham City in 2015 and other additions planned for the future.”
The original Dolphin Show area, which has remained at the park since the 1990’s, will be transformed into the epicenter for the all-new DC Super Friends kids’ area and will feature 5 new attractions, including:
· Superman Tower of Power, which releases the dare devil in the bravest of souls throughout this 65-foot tall bouncing thrill ride;
· The Batcopters, an opportunity to help save the City of Gotham by flying high in the sky;
· Wonder Woman Flight School, where pilots can take flight and control their own invisible jet;
· Harley Quinn Mirror Maze, filled with disproportioned mirrors and devious stares; and
· The Joker Funhouse Coaster, the ultimate family thrill ride to show no fear and conquer the Super-Villain through 900 feet of track at 30 miles per hour.
The park’s current children’s area, Bugs Bunny World, will be re-themed to Bugs Bunny Boomtown and feature seven attractions, including:
· Daffy Ducks Bucket Blasters, a wild and crazy family water battle;
· Speedy Gonzales Speed Boats, where guests will be screaming “Andale Andale” on six speed boats;
· Bugs Bunny High Sea Adventure, a chance to fly through the air on a junior sea-worthy quest;
· Yosemite Sam’s Wacky Wagons, an old western spin on a junior ferris wheel perfect for junior cowpokes;
· Looney Tunes Adventure Camp, an interactive playground with Bugs Bunny and all the Looney Tunes characters;
· Acme Trucking Company, a monster truck driving voyage to help Wile E. Coyote try to capture the Road Runner; and
· Tweety’s Tweehouse, a 20-foot up and down journey into the little chirping bird’s nest.
Bugs Bunny Boomtown is scheduled to open for the 2016 season in early spring and the DC Super Friends themed area is scheduled to open Memorial Day weekend.
For more information about upcoming 2016 Six Flags rides and attractions, including a video highlighting the new rides, visit http://www.sixflags.com/2016news.
Six Flags White Water!
It is off to the races to see who is the fastest in the family, as Six Flags White Water adds the new 60-foot tall exhilarating Wahoo Racer water slide. The multi-lane mat racing slide complex is the largest slide of its kind in the world at the South’s Most Thrilling Water Park. Riders will experience the thrill of racing against their friends and family members reaching speeds of up to 40 feet per second on six aero-dynamic designed water toboggans.
by CoasterGuy06
Love that the park is finally getting new flats the past couple of years!
Intense and Snake-Like Mega Water Slide Complex to Debut in 2016
Pits Six Riders Against Each Other and Stands Nearly 60-Feet Tall at Six Flags White Water
MARIETTA, Ga. — September 3, 2015 — Recently named one of the Top 10 Amusement and Water Parks in the country, Six Flags White Water is off to the races in 2016 with the addition of the all-new Wahoo Racer. The thrilling multi-lane water slide complex will be the largest in the world and add to the park’s impressive line-up of more than 50 slides and attractions at the South’s Most Thrilling Water Park.
“This new massive water slide complex will provide our guests the chance to challenge friends and family members for the ultimate crown of Wahoo Racer champion,” said Six Flags Atlanta Properties Park President Dale Kaetzel. “Our new slide complex continues our commitment of providing Six Flags White Water guests with the best water park in the Southeast.”
The two-tiered mat slider will send racers through an intense, snake-like stretch of multi-colored tubes and then into track-like style sprinting lanes and will feature:
A tower standing nearly 60-feet and easily visible from Interstate 75 where the park is located;
Speeds of up to 40 feet per second; and
Six aero-dynamic designed water toboggans for the ultimate competing thrill.
Six Flags White Water and Wahoo Racer will open for the 2016 season in mid-May. For more information about Wahoo Racer, the recently added 100-foot tall Dive Bomber and other exciting attractions at White Water, visit sixflags.com/whitewater.
- See more at: https://www.sixflags.com/whitewater/attractions/new-2016/news-release#sthash.e2J4nKl7.dpuf
by laqueefa
Wow, this park is getting some love!
by josephcissell
I really like what I see here. Seems like a very well thought out kids/family expansion with some great rides. Does anyone see any more specific information on Superman Tower of Power? It looks like a sized down S&S space shot to me, which would be awesome!
by coasterkid124
I don't know if anybody shares my opinion; but I feel like this is one of the better additions. Adding some flats to a park that really needs them, and giving them a fresh theme as well. The DC Super Friends area will be a hit.
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Alberta NDP flyers claim that voters can be “vouched for” without IDs
Travis Gladue-Beauregard, 9 months ago 3 min read
ALBERTA – Local Slave Lake resident Sharon Nahachick spoke to the Post Millennial about her concerns with an MLA featured on a Whitefish First Nation Voting poster for the advanced polling stations on April 9th to April 13th.
The NDP poster in question suggests that voters can vote without identification if they are “vouched for” by the band office.
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Alberta company that turns garbage into fuel expanding operations
Sam McGriskin
An Alberta company that makes diesel from garbage is planning to take the company a step further by adding three new plants—all in southern Alberta.
Cielo Waste Solutions and Renewable Energy currently operates near Lethbridge, AB and plans to make the expansion later this year. So far they’ve started a trial plant in Aldersyde, AB.
The company produces biodiesel fuel by mixing waste and motor oil that has already been recycled. The end product is meant to be a high-grade fuel at a low cost.
CTV reported that the fuel has been used in both vehicles and jets.
Since the recent success of the company, they want to bring the new plants to Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, and Brooks.
Director at the company, Lionel Robins said, “Any kind of wood waste, plastics – all seven types, not just a few plastics—all the clamshell plastics that just been buried in the past, rubber, municipal sod waste. Basically everything but rock, metal and glass.”
By next summer, the company is planning to have all of their new plants in full operation.
They have started construction on an additional plant in Grande Prairie, Alberta.
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New 'Value of Alberta' conference to explore autonomy for province
Roberto Wakerell-Cruz
A one-day “Value of Alberta” conference examining Alberta’s place in Confederation is taking place next week, as tensions in the province remain high following the province’s overwhelming anti-Liberal and anti-Trudeau vote, which saw nearly 70 percent of the province vote solely for the Conservative Party.
Event spokesperson Becca Polak see the event will help Albertans look at the ways the Canadian government is stunting Alberta’s growth as a province.
“Every day we hear from members of the Alberta Proud community debating what is possible with Alberta’s future. Most of our community wants a Canada that values Alberta. We want both Alberta and Canada to succeed, but we also feel that many elements of Canada are blockading Alberta and holding our future at ransom,” Polak said of the tensions. “Our members wanted to know what was possible and what can be done. So we decided to host this conference to further the discussion.”
The event, which is hosted by Alberta Proud, a group that strives to celebrate Alberta while creating a conversation about Alberta and its relationship with the other provinces, will seek to “examine Alberta’s place in Confederation and the feasibility of Alberta becoming more autonomous.
The tune of autonomy isn’t one being sung by Alberta alone.
One month ago, Moe stated publicly that he believed his province should have more of a say over their immigration system, drawing direct comparison to Quebec.
Moe says he wants control over the growth of Saskatchewan’s population, which aims to increase by 300,000 residents over the next 10 years by adding 100,000 new jobs, increasing the province’s population to 1.4 million.
“The goal is not to say what the percentages would be. The goal is to have the flexibility to make the percentages work for the people and the industries in this province,” said Moe to The Canadian Press.
“In many cases, like climate policy, the provinces are most connected with the needs of the industries that are operating in our communities across the province.”
Speakers include Conrad Black and author Dr. Ted Morton.
“We think that all Albertans who are concerned about these issues will benefit from this conference,” said Polak. “No matter how you feel about separation or more autonomy for Alberta it is useful to understand where Alberta stands today, how we got here, and the options that are available to us in the future.”
Polls have also revealed that the west, and Alberta specifically, feel as though the nation is fracturing due to alienation. The majority of those surveyed in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and in the Maritimes believe that Canada is “more divided than ever,” and according to Ipsos vice-president Kyle Braid, those numbers have reached “historic” heights, specifically in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
The conference is set for January 18 at the Calgary Telus Convention Centre. More conference details will be announced at www.AlbertaProud.org.
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U of A professors, at least 30 Albertans among those dead in Iran plane crash
At least 30 Edmontonians are believed to be among the 63 Canadians who died after the crash of a Ukrainian passenger flight only minutes after departing from Tehran’s airport yesterday.
According to Payman Parseyan, a member of the Iranian-Canadian community in Edmonton, 27 Iranian-Canadians were on Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752.
Among the 63 dead were two University of Alberta professors, married and with their two daughters.
Pedram Mousavi and Mojgan Daneshmand—both professors in the faculty of engineering—and their two daughters, Daria and Dorina, passed away in the plane crash, according to Masoud Ardakani of the University of Alberta.
Parseyan went on to tell CBC Radio that the flight was not an organized trip, and the large number of Iranian-Canadians on the flight was coincidence, due largely to international students’ inability to travel to the United States, which led them to take European connections.
Parseyan says a small group of roughly 100 people has committed to helping make arrangements for the victim’s families.
“Edmonton’s Iranian community isn’t Canada’s largest Iranian community, but we are working together to ensure all members of the community are supported during this difficult time.”
“Many were expecting their friends and [family] members to come back … [and] were well aware what flight they were on,” said Parseyan.
Parseyan told a story of a man who called in disbelief to ask him if there could have been a different flight to Kyiv.
“He called and said, ‘Hey, is there any chance there’s a second flight to Kyiv, this is a mistake? This can’t be real.’ He’s devastated.”
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Business owners in rural Alberta are experiencing ATM thefts
Two men were seen on camera stealing an ATM from a Petro Canada in Whitecourt, Alberta.
The footage shows one man jumping into the store through the broken door. He brings a tow strap with him and hooks it up to the store’s ATM.
When it is hooked to a vehicle outside, the men attempt to drive away with the ATM but it becomes stuck in the doorway. They are eventually able to lift the ATM through the doorway and leave the scene.
Megan Reutman, the manager of the gas station was notified about the break in by the security system, when she received a message on her cellphone.
According to CBC, Reutman called the police around 4 a.m. The police were unable to make it to the scene on time, and the theft cost Reutman and her family losses of about $25,000.
RCMP spokesperson, Fraser Logan said, “Attacks upon ATMs inside businesses, including the theft of these machines, continue to be an ongoing issue.”
According to the RCMP, there have been 51 attempts at stealing ATMs in 2019 from January to October. Some successful thefts and some unsuccessful. Police say this is about average for Alberta.
The president of the chamber of commerce in High Prairie, Barry Sharkawi noted, “Business people, they’re calling me, you know, saying ‘This is enough, we can’t take this anymore.’”
“They are upset,” He added, “Not just that they are scared about the break-and-enters, but they’re asking, ‘Who’s next?'”
Sharkawi posted another image of a Circle K that had similar damages on Nov. 21.
In a Facebook post, Sharkawi said, “Something has to happen regarding security of the town,” he added, “If this keeps happening, it will scare anybody to come and invest in High Prairie.”
Some business owners are unsure if owning an ATM is worth all of the trouble.
Reutman noted, “We haven’t replaced it. We’re still deciding if we want an ATM back in our store.” she added, “Things are not cheap.”
“[Replacing] the garbage cans, like, you just think it’s a garbage can, but because you have to get specific ones from Petro Canada, they’re $150 each.”
Sharkawi said, “We need to be saved, that’s all,”
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Editorial: Culture and something else too
July 9, 2018 The Goat Opinion
by Andru McCracken, Editor
It was the first show that charmed me in that way for a very long time. Scott Cook’s performance at the Valemount Royal Canadian Legion Branch No 266 was bewitching.
It’s what he does and he does it well. But there was something special going on that night.
I’m not talking about his band, the Second Chances. I mean, they were stellar: the standup bass moved the room, the banjo was incredible and their vocal harmonies were gorgeous, the rhythm infectious and the result was stunning.
But it wasn’t just that, and it wasn’t the mix.
Although the mix was great. I’ve never heard a mix like that at the legion, certainly not one where the musicians stood fully three feet in front of the main speakers, just begging for feedback… somehow, the soundman didn’t make a single adjustment all night. Every growl and bend from that big double bass reverberated through the room, and the banjo rang true, from scratchy rhythms to fast fingered solos.
What was it, that made that show so special, so moving and memorable?
It was us.
The key ingredient that has been missing in our concerts for so long was the rapt attention of the audience.
Despite the many fine looking ladies in the audience and the presence of some handsome guys, flirting, chatting and fighting didn’t disrupt the room. There wasn’t a clinking glass to be heard.They were listening, phones off, as if in a cathedral.
A line of eight chairs four feet in front of the performers turned concert goers into misty eyed congregants.
We came to listen to what Scott had to say.
And it wasn’t text from a book assembled in 300 AD that we appreciated, is was more like gems served from Herman Hesse’s Glass Bead Game.
We appreciated the music to be sure. How Scott said what he said, with rhythm and dance, was really fine.
But we listened to the meanings therein. We listened to the traveller’s words taken not from a book but from lived experience.
On queue, when the celebration required it, we sang along too.
It’s reminiscent of a set of rituals I once knew well. Next time you see a concert advertised in Valemount that is designed for listening, get there and listen to what the preacher has to say.
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July 2 2019, 12:01am, The Times
For fairness vote against first past the post elections
Stephen Kinnock
Today I have joined MPs and political parties from across the political spectrum in backing a cross-party initiative to change the UK’s voting system.
The Good Systems Agreement, brokered by the campaign group Make Votes Matter, calls for a proportional voting system in which seats match votes — and crucially for a citizens’ assembly process to choose it.
Labour has nothing to fear from a voting system that ensures parliament reflects the votes cast by the British people. Indeed, such a system is both demanded by the principles we hold and beneficial to the outcomes that we fight for.
Labour is the party of equality. Yet first past the post guarantees inequality at the ballot box. Notoriously, a vote for one party can on average…
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The Hut Group score goal with launch of INTERSPORT store online
INTERSPORT, the World’s largest independent sports retailer, has selected The Hut Group to power an end-to-end online retail store at INTERSPORT.co.uk
Launching in September 2010, the store will meet the ecommerce needs of consumers across a wide range of sports including Football, Cricket, Running, Rugby and Racket Sports. Furthermore, INTERSPORT.co.uk will bring sport to the people from leading brands like adidas Group, Nike, Speedo, Umbro, Wilson and many more.
Sports is a key market for The Hut Group, which intends to deliver a market leading retail proposition based around product range, service and retail experience. INTERSPORT.co.uk will deliver to consumers a better experience than is currently available online including free delivery as standard, a completely unique offer against existing competitors.
Using The Hut Group’s existing technology platform, infrastructure and marketing methodology, INTERSPORT.co.uk is expected to quickly become one of the largest online retailers within the sports market.
“We’re really excited to be working with The Hut Group. They’ve successfully demonstrated their ability to market the INTERSPORT.co.uk store within the brand guidelines and with our suppliers. The Hut Group is one of Europe’s largest online retailers with multiple product categories offered across multiple websites. It is this ecommerce experience, coupled with INTERSPORT’s sporting pedigree, which will ensure that INTERSPORT.co.uk delivers an outstanding online proposition for its customers.” Barry Mellis, General Manager.
The Hut Group’s Commercial Director, Richard Chapple, commented: “The Hut Group’s ethos is to deliver market beating service and experience to the consumer. The exciting launch of INTERSPORT.co.uk is a further step in our expansion in to a broad range of fast moving consumer sectors including Health & Beauty, Footwear, Fashion, Toys and Gadgets.”
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5 Big Companies Sued for Racial Discrimination
Understanding Race & Racism
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by Nadra Kareem Nittle
Nadra Kareem Nittle is a journalist with bylines in The Atlantic, Vox, and The New York Times. Her reporting focuses education, race, and public policy.
Racial discrimination lawsuits against big-name companies such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Abercrombie & Fitch, and General Electric have focused national attention on the indignities that minority employees suffer on the job. Not only have such lawsuits pointed out common forms of discrimination that workers of color face they also serve as cautionary tales to companies seeking to foster diversity and eradicate racism in the workplace.
Although a black man landed the nation’s top job in 2008, many workers of color aren’t so lucky. Because of racial discrimination in the workplace, they earn less pay than their white counterparts, miss out on promotions and even lose their jobs.
Racial Slurs and Harassment at General Electric
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General Electric came under fire in 2010 when 60 African American workers filed suit against the company for racial discrimination. The black workers say GE supervisor Lynn Dyer called them racial slurs such as the N-word, “monkey,” and “lazy blacks.”
The suit also alleged that Dyer denied bathroom breaks and medical attention to black workers and fired black workers because of their race. In addition, the suit alleged that higher-ups knew about the supervisor’s inappropriate behavior but delayed investigating the matter.
In 2005, GE faced a lawsuit for discriminating against black managers. The suit accused the company of paying black managers less than whites, denying them promotions and using offensive terms to describe blacks. It settled in 2006.
Southern California Edison's History of Discrimination Lawsuits
Southern California Edison is no stranger to racial discrimination lawsuits. In 2010, a group of black workers sued the company for discrimination. The workers accused the company of consistently denying them promotions, not paying them fairly, biased job assignments and not upholding two consent decrees stemming from class action discrimination suits filed against Southern California Edison in 1974 and 1994.
The suit also pointed out that the number of black employees at the company had dropped by 40 percent since the last discrimination lawsuit was filed. The 1994 suit included a settlement for more than $11 million and a mandate for diversity training.
Wal-Mart Stores vs. Black Truck Drivers
Approximately 4,500 black truck drivers who applied to work for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. between 2001 and 2008 filed a class action suit against the corporation for racial discrimination. They said Wal-Mart turned them away in disproportionate numbers.
The company denied any wrongdoing but agreed to settle for $17.5 million. Wal-Mart Stores have been subject to several dozen discrimination lawsuits since the 1990s. In 2010, a group of the company’s West African employees in Colorado sued Wal-Mart because they say they were fired by supervisors who sought to give their jobs to locals.
Workers at an Avon, Colo., store allege a new manager told them, “I don’t like some of the faces I see here. There are people in Eagle County who need jobs.”
Abercrombie's Classic American Look
Clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch made headlines in 2003 after it was sued for discriminating against African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos. In particular, Latinos and Asians accused the company of steering them to jobs in the stock room rather than on the sales floor because Abercrombie & Fitch wanted to be represented by workers who looked “classically American.”
Minority employees also complained that they’d been fired and replaced by white workers. A&F ended up settling the lawsuit for $50 million.
“The retail industry and other industries need to know that businesses cannot discriminate against individuals under the auspice of a marketing strategy or a particular ‘look.’ Race and sex discrimination in employment are unlawful,” Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawyer Eric Drieband stated upon the lawsuit’s resolution.
Black Diners Sue Denny's
In 1994, Denny’s restaurants settled a $54.4-million suit for allegedly discriminating against black diners at its then 1,400 eateries across the United States. Black customers said that they were singled out at Denny’s—asked to prepay for meals or charged a cover before dining.
Then, a group of black Secret Service agents said they waited for more than an hour to be served as they watched whites be waited on several times during that same time period. In addition, a former restaurant manager said supervisors told him to shut down his restaurant if it attracted too many black diners.
A decade later, the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain faced a discrimination lawsuit for allegedly delaying to wait on black customers, following them around and racially segregating customers in different sections of restaurants.
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Watch Video - Deeper Purple - Perfect Strangers Tour 2020
Thu Mar 5 2020
8:00 PM (Doors 8:00 PM)
South Meadow Lane Preston PR1 8JP
A classic rock tribute show to one of the world’s most influential rock bands, the international tribute Deeper Purple are on the road as a ‘Highway Star’ and guaranteed to take you back to the classic 1970s with memories of a ‘Child in Time’. So, if you like your music loud and proud it’s time for a ‘Black Night’ at the Deeper Purple show.
Featuring Paul Morris (Rainbow, Yngwie Malmsteen and Purpendicular) and comprising of seasoned professionals from New York, Spain and the UK who, deliver the most authentic tribute to these Classic Rock giants! After all, it takes some doing to encapsulate the music of a band that have been going for over forty years and worked through so many different line ups!
Deeper Purple - Perfect Strangers Tour 2020
Deeper Purple
A classic rock tribute show to one of the world’s most influential rock bands, the Anglo-Spanish tribute Deeper Purple are on the road as a ‘Highway Star’ and guaranteed to take you back to the classic 1970s with memories of a ‘Child in Time’. So, if you like your music loud and proud it’s time for a ‘Black Night’ at the Deeper Purple show.
With a blistering set consisting of all the classics the Anglo-Spanish tribute band Deeper Purple feature the best reproduction of the Deep Purple live sound you’re ever likely to hear, delivering the ultimate rock experience!
FREE Hold at venue box office.
This event is 18 and over. Any Ticket holder unable to present valid identification indicating that they are at least 18 years of age will not be admitted to this event, and will not be eligible for a refund.
Thu Mar 5 2020 8:00 PM
The Continental Preston
£13.20 Ages 18+
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Sessions: US prosecutors will help addiction-ravaged cities
Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the Columbus Police Academy about the opioid epidemic Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio. [JAY LAPRETE/ASSOCIATED PRESS]
By Andrew Welsh Huggins The Associated Press
Posted Aug 2, 2017 at 6:21 PM Updated Aug 2, 2017 at 6:21 PM
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Justice Department will dispatch 12 federal prosecutors to cities ravaged by addiction who will focus exclusively on investigating health care fraud and opioid scams that are fueling the nation's drug abuse epidemic, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday.
He unveiled the pilot program during a speech in hard-hit Ohio, where eight people a day die of accidental overdoses.
"In recent years some of the government officials in our country I think have mistakenly sent mixed messages about the harmfulness of drugs," Sessions said. "So let me say: We cannot capitulate intellectually or morally unto this kind of rampant drug abuse. We must create a culture that's hostile to drug abuse."
Sessions said the group of prosecutors he has dubbed the "opioid fraud and abuse detection unit" will rely on data in their efforts to root out pill mills and track down doctors and other health care providers who illegally prescribe or distribute narcotics such as fentanyl and other powerful painkillers.
Such prescription opioids are behind the deadliest drug overdose epidemic in U.S. history. More than 52,000 Americans died of overdoses in 2015 — a record — and experts believe the numbers have continued to rise. Sessions has made aggressive prosecutions of drug crime a top priority, saying the deadly overdoses necessitate a return to tougher tactics.
The Health Department says opioid-related overdoses killed 3,050 Ohioans in 2015, with that number expected to jump sharply for 2016.
In June, the coroner serving the greater Columbus area said overdose deaths through April of this year rose to 173, a 66 percent jump from a year ago.
"That's 173 mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, sisters, brothers," said Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther, a Democrat who said state and federal help is needed to fight the epidemic.
The prosecutors will be based in U.S. attorney's offices in the Middle District of Florida; the Eastern District of Michigan; the Northern District of Alabama; the Eastern District of Tennessee; Nevada; the Eastern District of Kentucky; Maryland; the Western District of Pennsylvania; the Southern District of Ohio; the Eastern District of California; the Middle District of North Carolina; and the Southern District of West Virginia.
Some Democrats criticized Sessions' proposal, saying more treatment options are needed to fight the epidemic.
The budget proposals of President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans and efforts to repeal Obamacare, including the expansion of Medicaid, "would likely make the opioid epidemic worse," said Mandy McClure, a spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee.
In May, Sessions instructed the nation's federal prosecutors to bring the toughest charges possible against most crime suspects. Critics assailed the move as a return to failed drug-war policies that unduly affected minorities and filled prisons with nonviolent offenders.
The announcement was a reversal of Obama-era policies that is sure to send more people to prison and for much longer terms.
Advocates warned the shift would crowd federal prisons and strain Justice Department resources. Some involved in criminal justice during the drug war feared the human impact would look similar.
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P R E S S C O V E R A G E
XXY Magazine
Feature on Tom Ross-Williams
OutThere magazine
Tennessee Williams feature
The Jewish Chronicle
"Young, Gifted and Making their mark"
" O N E O F T H E U K ' S M O S T P R O M I S I N G Y O U N G A C T O R S "
OutThere Magazine
R U N - Vaults Festival
"Tom Ross-Williams is superb in the role, never trying to smooth out the different sides of this unassuming, engaging teenager, but rather letting moods swing and interests shift. It's a performance that's comfortable with inconstancy - no mean feat - held together by a contagious energy. An hour in his presence is an enlivening thing, and he moves beautifully, punctuating the text with religious rituals set to rhythmic beats."
What's On Stage ****
“one superb performer, who manages to keep the audience absolutely engrossed throughout…Tom Ross-Williams who is fantastic as the young Yonni, despite being alone he seems to take up the whole stage…a performance that, like his characters adopted planetary personality, really is out of this world.”
Theatre Weekly *****
"Quite simply this is a young man to watch. There was no aspect of his entire monologue that felt like a performance... Tom’s delivery is spot on."
LondonTheatre1 *****
"Tom Ross-Williams achieves this with a complex mix of intensity, subtlety and overt self-awareness that inhabits the skin of the 17-year-old North London gay Jewish teenager he energetically plays.
Attitude ****
“…fresh, sharp and essential to British theatre…Ross-Williams is an energetic force on stage…It’s a hard task for any actor to hold the stamina to perform an hour long monologue of this calibre but Ross-Williams achieves this with such rigour he leaves the audience hooked, it is easy to see why he’s an up-and-coming star of the stage.”
Theatre Full Stop ****
“Tom Ross-Williams is able to enact each scene change with ease…He succeeds in conveying various things at once: he is funny, serious, realistic as a 17-year-old, both young and old, and his portrayal is deeply moving. The play is worth watching for his performance alone.”
The Upcoming****
R U N - The Bunker
"Ross-Williams never lets the audience’s attention wander away from him for a moment, with his impressive ability at physical theatre and dance complimenting his naturalistic character work as Yonni."
Exeunt Magazine
"Tom Ross-Williams brings to role to life with an earnest and endearing portrayal of Yonni... He physicalises elements of the story in such a way that the text and movement connect as one; we follow Yonni’s dance, and get caught by Tom’s mesmerising way of moving."
LGBTQ Arts ****
Ross-Williams fully immerses himself in the space with a fluidity of movement, carrying the play with an undulating pace...Laughton is a superb writer and coupled with Ross-Williams disarming performance Run is a triumph.
JEWISH NEWS *****
V I E U X C A R R É - King's Head / West End Transfer
"Up and coming Tom Ross-Williams is an unstoppable force in Run, embodying a youthful and electric energy that ricochets around the auditorium. Ross-Williams has a spitting, tripping, and dexterous hold over Laughton’s language and delivers it in loquacious and liquid torrents. But what’s utterly fantastic about Ross-Williams' performance is just effortlessly they tap into Yonni’s anxieties and emotions. You can almost taste any feeling Ross-Williams exudes, often to the point that you’re left figuratively winded by their performance. You exit the auditorium feeling you’re taking with you an intimate part of Yonni’s character, all down to witnessing Ross-William’s absolutely dazzling presence and ability"
GRUMPY GAY CRITIC *****
"At the centre is a lovely, sweet-natured performance from Tom Ross-Williams as the author's alter ego. He and everyone else involved do Williams proud."
The Times ****
“The young writer, beautifully played by Tom Ross-Williams”
Independent Critic's Choice (Theatre Highlight of the Week) ****
"Tom Ross-Williams captivates in the role with his gentle stage presence and deliciously thick, stuttering St. Louis accent, his every line a moment of calm amid the chaos around him."
Entertainment Focus ****
"I was especially impressed by Tom Ross-Williams as the Writer who is trying to do the right thing, struggling with his sexuality and longing for approval from his late grandmother who raised him."
uktheatrenet
"The evening however belongs to Tom Ross-Williams and it his character that metamorphoses as he questions his lot in life and breaks free of his insecurities…Ross-Williams is someone I will keeping a watchful eye on, he even sang a bit, so fingers crossed that we get to see him in a musical."
Front Row Dress
“He is a future star – a young man whose mobile features reflect every emotion showing us a man who cares about the people he is forced to spend his time with"
Ham & High *****
TH E F O R E S T & T H E F I E L D - Chirs Goode & Co (UK Tour)
"Tom Ross-Williams has so much to offer as a performer and adds plenty of beautiful movement pieces, monologues and singing to help bring body to Goode’s poetic words."
Everything Theatre *****
"The Forest & the Field deploys a witty bibliography of ‘forest’ texts, which are given an often strikingly beautiful life by Ross-Williams. His Miranda in her brave new world pouts and slouches like a smack-woozy Kurt Cobain, his naked Caliban sliding down a stream of Bacofoil is full of primal wonder."
Exeunt *****
N E G R I L B E A C H - Bush Theatre
"The acting is sharp and emotionally charged from ‘posh-boy’ Tom Ross-Williams"
What's Peen Seen ****
T H R E E S I S T E R S - Southwark Playhouse
"Tom Ross-Williams is enormously sympathetic as Kulygin"
"A fine performance from Tom Ross-Williams"
The London Magazine
"It is Tom Ross-Williams' performance, restrained until it comes to cracking point, that makes the closest bridge between the two families."
British Theatre Guide
"The cast also double up and out of a terrific cast Tom Ross-Williams was virtually unrecognisable from the bookish 1930s Morrie to the stunning but sexually awkward Noah."
Docklands24
S H A L O M B A B Y - Theatre Royal Stratford East
T O M R O S S - W I L L I A M S
THEATRE-MAKING
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Foyle College
Foyle College - AQE Transfer Test intake scores
In 1976, Foyle College and Londonderry High School merged to form Foyle College and the new school operates as a co-educational school on two sites.
Foyle College can trace its origins a long way back - over 400 years to 1617 when it was founded as a Free Grammar School on Society Street, Londonderry. It was founded by the Merchant Taylor Mathias Springham. The original Foyle College school was inside the city walls but in 1814 the school moved to a site outside the city walls. Londonderry High School also has a long tradition and was set up in 1877 by the Misses McKillip – who were pioneers in the movement for higher education for women in Ireland.
Foyle College uses the AQE Transfer Test results as part of its year 8 intake procedure.
Foyle College Intake Information for 2018
Browse AQE practice tests >
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Nigeria observes national mourning day for Benue victims
Church attack in Burkina Faso kills 6
Cameroonian refugees in daily struggle for survival in Nigeria
Nigeria’s herder-farmer conflict affects future of thousands of children
'Attacks' plot foiled on eve of crucial Mali vote
Northern Nigeria's #MeToo movement
A national day of mourning has been declared in Nigeria on May 28, where people are calling for government intervention to end the violence between farmers and herders.
Clergymen gather beside white coffins containing the bodies of priests allegedly killed by Fulani herdsmen, as they pray ahead of their burial at Ayati-Ikpayongo in Gwer East district of Benue State, north-central Nigeria on May 22, 2018. (AFP)
In Nigeria, a national day of mourning is being observed on Monday by the Joint Nigeria Crisis Action Committee and is being held the day before Nigeria's Democracy Day.
Hundreds have been killed in continuing violence between farmers and nomadic Fulani herdsmen since violence broke out in 2011 over shrinking resources.
Fighting between herdsmen and farmers escalated in January and the lives of 21 other people were also taken when a group attacked a church in April, as Catholics took to the streets calling for an end to the spiral of violence.
The people of Benue believe Fulani herdsmen are allegedly responsible for the attack and are calling for government intervention to put an end to the bloodshed.
TRT World's Wendy Agbo travelled to Benue state to find out more about this deadly conflict.
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Sailor Moon Editor Fumio “Osabu” Osano Discusses the Series’ Creation (Part 3)
Posted in Articles, Interview, Making Of, Manga
Sailor Moon: The Next Generation
In this third and final installment, Ms. Takeuchi’s friend, editor, and partner-in-crime Fumio “Osabu” Osano goes deep and discusses the inspiration behind some of Sailor Moon‘s most pivotal scenes and the impact the series has had on society as a whole!
Don’t miss out on this rare behind-the-scenes look into the history of our favorite series!1
If you haven’t read the first two parts, check them out here:
Hotaru: “Maybe it’s a little strange… we’re both girls and all… but it feels like fate that we met.”
Would you say that the friendship between ChibiUsa and Hotaru Tomoe (Sailor Saturn) was an important story element in the third arc?
Though she tends to get lost in Sailor Uranus and Neptune’s shadow, Hotaru was actually an incredibly popular character, especially among male fans. That slight sense of hopelessness must have been what drew them in. There are even stories that her name is the source of the word moe.
Editor’s comment: I feel like he kind of missed the point of the question here on the importance of the friendship between ChibiUsa and Hotaru and refocused the question on Hotaru’s impact on the series’ fans. All the same, though, he is right in saying that Hotaru was an incredibly popular character, especially among manga fans. However, it’s unlikely that she is the source of the otaku word moe.
Uranus and Neptune are incredibly popular and certainly need no introduction. The “girls’ love” aspect of their characters really draws you in.
There are actually quite a few people who say that seeing the two of them together when they were a child has led them to follow in Uranus and Neptune’s footsteps as they grew older. (laugh) Ms. Takeuchi was constantly mindful of the fact that she wanted to introduce a wide variety of women across all ages, from the childish to those who were more mature. I guess you could say that these two characters were necessary to the series.
Editor’s comment: In case it’s not obvious, he’s stating in a roundabout way in the very first sentence that Haruka and Michiru’s lesbian relationship inspired a lot of people to pursue an LGBT lifestyle once they became adults.
At the time, I imagine that there weren’t a lot of lesbian relationships depicted in kids’ magazines. Did the lead editor or anyone else try to put a stop to this?
Not really. In fact, there were quite a few characters like them in shojo manga by that point.
Sailor Uranus: “All I wanted was to keep her safe!!”
To be honest, when I was reading through the manga as an elementary schooler in real time as it came out, I had a hard time understanding what Sailor Uranus was feeling during her emotional outburst in Act 38.
I was thinking, “but doesn’t Uranus love Neptune? Does she like Usagi too?” Kids are quick to associate everything with a sense of romance. (laugh)
In 2016, I had a chance to interview Junko Minagawa and Sayaka Ohara (Sailor Moon Crystal’s Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune, respectively) and asked them about this scene. They interpreted this to mean that “Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune are both soldiers and view the Princess as someone they must protect above all else.” That helped make the scene click for me.
Interview with Fumio “Osabu” Osano
It wasn’t clear back then? Huh, I guess that it must have been a difficult scene for the readers then. The feeling that Uranus was expressing went beyond gender. I’m sure there must have been a lot of other difficult scenes, though I’m impressed at how kids nowadays really just get it. (laugh)
Minako / Makoto: “Aww, I want a boyfriend!!”
(laugh) There’s a lot for me to rediscover as I read through the series again as an adult. Moving onto the fourth story arc, where ChibiUsa takes a lead role, there are a series of stories that depict each of the Sailor Soldiers’ respective dreams. It was really nice to just see who these girls that are always putting their lives on the line in epic battles really are.
Scenes like this are where Ms. Takeuchi really shines, matching the tempo and beat perfectly. She’s really good at just hunkering down and getting things done in one go. Around this time she was pretty much just locked up and drawing manga all the time, so I’m sure that she was contending with her feelings of just wanting to get out and run around. (laugh) If we had a little more leeway, I would have loved to put in more scenes like that.
“There’s a celestial object in everyone’s heart, Mamoru.”
I’m sure everyone knows the famous scene that I’m talking about, but Usagi suddenly came off as really mature here.
I suspect that Ms. Takeuchi had already decided on this scene as she was drafting up the concept for the end of the story. The concept of a celestial body existing within your own heart was an important part of the fifth story arc.
Finally, that brings us to the fifth and final chapter of the story.
To be totally honest, I don’t remember a thing about the fifth story arc. All I remember is little flashes, like eating leftover gyoza the next day, due to how busy we were. (laugh)
I think this famous exchange with Rei and Minako did a lot to change how people thought about the way women lived their lives. They just laid it all out there that they would rather put their lives on the line to protect someone over thinking about romance.
It left a rather strong impression on fans as well. I’ve even been told by some that no matter how many times they read through the manga, the always look forward to reading through the lead up to this scene.
“We don’t need boys. Do you have a problem with that?”
In contrast to the desire to go out and get a boyfriend like was depicted in the fourth story arc, here we can feel how passionate they are about their decision to protect Usagi above all else.
There’s definitely a lot to be said about this gap. While Usagi may be modeled after Ms. Takeuchi, I believe that she also breathed a bit of herself into all of the other characters as well. She has both a really bright and cheerful side along with a dark side as well.
Was it already decided in the beginning that there would only be five story arcs?
There was no clear decision. Around the third story arc, Ms. Takeuchi felt that she had done all she could with the story. However, considering ChibiUsa’s popularity, she felt that if the story were to go on, then there could be some sort of story with Usagi falling away and ChibiUsa taking up the reins – a story of passing on to a new generation. But I think from the beginning she had always planned for the story to end with Usagi and Mamoru’s marriage.
I thought that maybe it would be good to do it after a climactic end in the fifth story arc, so ultimately we had the fourth arc feature ChibiUsa as the main character and then led up to the wedding in the fifth.
I distantly recall having some sort of conversation about the cauldron and such that ultimately appeared at the end of the series was in the beginning with her. Actually, wait, no. I definitely remember that. (laugh)
ChibiUsa – Latchkey Kid
In the interest of full disclosure, there is a little more to the interview after this, but it deviates from the “behind the scenes” look at the manga and goes on to discuss questions relating to the some of the announcements made during the June 30, 2019 Usagi / ChibiUsa Birthday celebration. While interesting as Sailor Moon news, there’s little in the way of interesting new insights and didn’t merit a fourth part to this series.
Read also: What Were Some of the Inspirations Behind Tuxedo Mask?
With that being said, I’m glad that not only did Osabu open up so much in these interviews, but that the interviewer actually seemed to be a Sailor Moon fan at heart, asking some really great and pointed questions. It still amazes me that there’s so many new tidbits still left to be revealed even 25+ years later.
Maybe someday we’ll be saying the same about Sailor Moon Crystal!
See 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」特集 小佐野文雄（おさBU）インタビュー – コミックナタリー 特集・インタビュー ↩
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4 thoughts on “Sailor Moon Editor Fumio “Osabu” Osano Discusses the Series’ Creation (Part 3)”
Posted 2019-07-10 at 1:19 am by Nino
Avoid the answer is very japanese. Lol. Thank you for this translation.
Posted 2019-07-10 at 2:15 am by Saintfighteraqua
These were fun to read and gives us a few new things to think about.
I do feel slightly skeptical about some of it, but we all romanticize our pasts to an extent, I suppose.
I also see that there are probably hundreds of more secrets that could be revealed given time. It would be nice if they would write a book or have more interviewers like this do the asking.
I personally never saw what Hotaru and Chibi Usa had as romantic (at least not in a sexual way) which I feel is what Osabu might have feared was coming in the questions.
I think Hotaru was a kindred spirit that Chibi Usa was finally able to relate to in some ways, both had been trapped in their own way and both had suffered loneliness. Given time, I suppose it could have bloomed into something else, but in the contexts we were given, I believe it was a pure friendship where walls were falling away.
Uranus and Neptune did help me understand more about love, even though so little was actually shown. The scene in the anime before they go to the cathedral is such a powerful one and it has some of the best animation and emotion in the series.
I didn’t really see Uranus crying out as a sign she was in love with Usagi. While in some ways I think Haruka was an abusive, predatory character in the manga, I do not think she had ill intentions and I believe what she truly wanted was to protect Usagi.
As calm, collected and mature as Michiru and Haruka appear, they are still teenage girls with many of the same insecurities as the inner senshi. They have just managed to cover that up and lean on one another since they are both strong young women.
Posted 2019-07-10 at 2:20 am by Diagnosed
Omg this quote just made my day T^T. I can’t explain why just… It’s such a deep and key concept and the fact that it was in the back of her mind from the beginning really lends it some strength somehow…
Posted 2019-07-15 at 1:25 am by Meru
“At the time, I imagine that there weren’t a lot of lesbian relationships depicted in kids’ magazines” – regarding this line, I think it sounds just a little bit more evasive in the original Japanese version (the interviewer says 百合っぽい関係, or ‘yuri-like relationships’, and earlier in the text she says ガールズラブ的な要素 ‘girls’ love-like elements’). I don’t disagree with your translation (it’s great!), just saying that their conversation is pretty roundabout, haha.
What's the Current Status of the Sailor Moon Eternal Movie?
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Travel To Sarawak - An Introduction
If your next holiday is a travel to Sarawak, then this is a must to read for you. We will tell you everything you need to know for your travel to Sarawak.
Your Sarawak vacation should be planned prior to your visit to Malaysia to ensure a smooth experience.
Malaysia is divided in two portions, east Malaysia and west Malaysia; Sarawak is located at east Malaysia together with Sabah.
Sarawak is the largest state in Malaysia, with most parts of the state underpopulated
The state of Sarawak is located on the Borneo Island, which is shares with again another Malaysian state, Sabah, and also Brunei and Kalimantan of Indonesia.
Sarawak is divided into 11 divisions; Kuching, Samarahan, Sri Aman, Betong, Sarikei, Sibu, Mukah, Bintulu, Kapit, Miri and Limbang. Your travel to Sarawak in incomplete without visiting its capital Kuching, which when translated into Bahasa Malaysia means cat. You will find monuments built of cats all around the city.
Sarawak in Malaysia has an important role in terms of logging and its agricultural supply.
It supplies Malaysia with timber, oil and gas, and many other agricultural products.
Sarawak in Malaysia is also known as the Land of The Hornbills.
The Great Hornbill is one of the largest birds in the world and the one that you would find in Sarawak has an orange beak.
Your Sarawak vacation would become truly one of those unforgettable moments in life if you were to see this beautiful creature sitting on a tree and even more spectacular would be the sight of The Great Hornbill flap its wings and fly away. Truly, unforgettable.
Sarawak Natives
With more than 40 ethnic groups in Sarawak, Sarawak has the most number of ethnic groups in comparison to any of the other 13 Malaysian states.
The Sarawak natives are made up of mostly the Iban, followed by Chinese, Malay, the Melanau, The Bidayuh, Orang Ulu and many more.
The Ibans form the largest ethnic group in the Island of Borneo and are mostly Christians. Although so, they still celebrate festivals such as the Harvest festival Hari Gawai and many more.
These people speak the Iban language and during festivals are fully attired in their traditional Iban attire.
There is a saying, every 5th person in this world is a Chinese. This is probably true since they form the second largest ethnic groups in Sarawak. They came in as traders and today form a large number of Sarawak’s business community.
Then there are the Melanau, who are Sarawak natives. They mostly practice Islam and Christians, but some still celebrate animist festivals. Their native language being Melanau, most of them also speak Malay.
With so many ethnic groups in Sarawak, the food is a diverse mixture of all these cultures.
There is the Sarawak laksa, a bowl of creamy and spicy noodles, and also the famous tomato Kueh Teow.
Then there is the famous Kek Lapis, or also known as layer cake, which has so many variations that one is not just spoilt for choice but utterly confused.
So, with these tit-bits about Sarawak, I hope you will be able to plan your travel to Sarawak well.
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Security Council briefing on the situation in Syria by the Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura
Thank you Mr Secretary-General for your strong and supportive introduction to this debate,
Your Excellency Foreign Minister McCully, Mr. President, Members of the Security Council,
1. It is precisely the immensity of the human suffering as just described by the Secretary-General and yesterday by our colleague USG O'Brien that commands us to seek out even the remotest possibility for a political solution, even if, and we heard it, sadly the logic of assuming a military victory by anyone, which is impossible, continues. And barrel bombs and other indiscriminate weapons continue to kill Syrian civilians.
2. On 5 May, based on instructions from the Secretary-General, we unrolled the Geneva Consultations. It’s a new form of avoiding getting cornered in a conference which then gets us straight-jacketed, it is a set of structured separate discussions with Syrian and non-Syrian players aimed at "stress testing" any willingness, if there is any, of narrowing the gaps in interpretation of the principles contained in the Geneva Communiqué, which is still, let’s be frank, the internationally only recognized framework for a settlement, even if still ambiguous in some parts. To-date Consultations with over 200 different individuals, actually 216, -Syrians and non-Syrians- in Geneva and in capitals, reveal a generally shared sense of urgency given especially the recent gains by Daesh and al-Nusra Front, the talk of some de facto fragmentation, radicalization and sectarianism. There is thus growing reference to the need for a managed, phased, gradual controlled transition, to avoid a repeat of what no one in this Council would like to se, the problems we have had in Libya and in Iraq.
3. Consultations too have reaffirmed that most Syrians and international actors agree on what Syria should look like, and the relevance of the principles and content of the Geneva Communique. It was three years ago, and it is still valid. Syrians overall emphasize their own vision for a united, sovereign, independent -they’re very proud people-, non-sectarian, multi-confessional, all-inclusive state with territorial integrity, preserved but reformed state institutions, such as the Ministries -as we have seen in Iraq that was the biggest problem we faced when suddenly many institutions disappeared in one moment of the change-, including the political, security and judiciary sectors led by those who can inspire public confidence and trust.
4. Yet, there is disagreement -Mr Secretary-General said it very clearly- on how to get there much based on the different narratives, one as to the root causes of the conflict and emerging priorities. The fear of black flags over Damascus is driving many to consider reassessing their own earlier positions. Yet, many continue to consider also that the conflict continues to be about the Arab Spring calls for a change. There is a firm recognition that counter-terrorism is now definitely a priority. However, many are also wondering -both Syrians and member states- that n order to assert that type of counter-terrorism, there is a need for a credible new government with whom they can partner in that effort.
5. While common ground exists, the question over the devolution of executive authority to a transitional body -let’s be honest with ourselves- remains the most polarizing element of the Communique. For some, this means that the TGB -transitional governing body- is an instrument to hand over power. Some political and armed opposition groups generally reject any notion of power-sharing with the current government in Damascus. The Syrian government has accepted in theory to discuss the TGB at the Geneva II Conference but continues to reject the concept as unconstitutional.
6. It is still broadly understood that, whatever the solution, it should ensure the "meaningfulness and irreversibility of the transition" and a widely acceptable process, without causing an abrupt jolt, shock, trauma, catastrophe, in the system in Syria - we cannot afford that. And that should also include assurances for Syrian communities -and there are many minorities who have been under threat- and regional stakeholders and guarantees that the Syrian people are part of the decision-making - including, let me stress it, especially women. We met remarkable Syrian women in our Geneva Consultations who haver been giving us often the most powerful concept and analysis we have heard.
7. Sadly there is still no consensus on the way forward on the Communique or yet a formalized even negotiation - we would not be discussing it here otherwise, we would be working on the negotiation. At the same time, given the deepening tragedy- the UN is obliged -and all of us are- to keep the issue alive, to not leave any stone unturned, also attuned to ongoing serious conversations and discussions which are taking place, and we are hearing them, around the region and elsewhere, which may require perhaps more time, and may be linked with developments that the Secretary-General just referred to.
8. We have thus strived to develop recommendations, guided by the views and analysis shared with us during the Consultations. This is the first time by the way that the Syrian people have been given a chance, they told us, to be deeply and intensely consulted - after all we always say this is a Syrian-led , Syrian-involved process, well this was the opportunity. Our recommendations are predicated on the need for a regional and international consensus - and sustained engagement- on a way forward.
9. In responding to the Secretary-General's instruction therefore that we should try to "operationalise the Geneva Communique", together with my team we have consulted widely inside and around; and verified if there was critical mass for common action, and ultimately tried to visualize, from a technical point of view, the implementation of the Geneva Communique, in all its aspects, including the TGB. And we have come up with a detailed formula for the phased implementation of the Geneva Communique, so there is no alibi in case there was -and there will be- a political consensus, including on the TGB, which could assume the functions of a government, a definition of mutual consent, which was in the Geneva Communiqué, the functioning of a military council and Syrian National Congress for national dialogue and constitutional reform, combined with confidence-building measures.
10. Ours is a straightforward interpretation formula for the implementation of the Communique. Regretfully, the Consultations also confirmed that achieving an agreement on this is difficult in the current Syrian context. In fact, many urged us not convene a Geneva III conference yet, because we are not yet there.
11. But, we cannot let the situation in Syria continue to drift. And that’s why based on the appeal and the urge of the Secretary-General, we need to move in a direction where Syrians come together to stop the violence and set out an irreversible path towards a genuine political transition. Which leads us to our main Recommendation.
12. The Geneva Consultations got Syrians to again start talking to each other, sometimes indirectly through us, but they did. What I am today proposing is actually a deepening, getting much deeper, of those issues in the Geneva Communiqué which are not so controversial, and analyzing those that can be controversial. I now intend to invite therefore Syrians to parallel, simultaneous, thematic discussions through intra-Syrian working groups addressing the key aspects of the Geneva Communique, as identified by them in the first phase of the Consultations:
Safety and Protection for All: which means including ending sieges, how to do so, ensuring medical access and releasing detainees;
Political and Constitutional Issues: including the essential principles, transitional governing body and elections;
Military and Security Issues: including combatting terrorism in an effective inclusive way, cease-fires, and integration;
Public Institutions, Reconstruction and Development: which means we should to try to avoid as we said what happened in Iraq and elsewhere where suddenly institutions disappeared and the country got into a major difficulty. Those institutions should continue to deliver public services under a top leadership acceptable to all, and acting in accordance with principles of good government and human rights.
13. These working groups will start generating movement, we believe, towards a Syrian-owned Framework Document on the implementation of the Geneva Communique. These efforts can build on the very useful meetings that took place in Moscow, in Cairo, in Paris, and even in Astana recently and many track II initiatives. This effort should be led by a Steering committee and the Framework Document will also provide for a transitional governing body, procedures for a national dialogue, and so on. Such an international initiative will require the support of a Contact Group, and we will get there at the right time.
14. In all of the above I seek this Council's support, as the Secretary-General has said, and stand ready to regularly report to you and to the Secretary-General, on progress or challenges, which we will definitively have.
Mr Secretary-General, Mr. President, Members of the Security Council,
15. The Consultations have gone some way towards identifying existing common ground. They also still hold the promise that a set of formal negotiations could convene after preparing the ground, if there is a political will. The Geneva Consultations have been loud and clear on the profound risks of failing to act now, including the increasing risk of a multi-generational conflict that, with each passing month, reduces the prospects of ever restoring Syria as a unified state, let alone making it even harder to establish a political process.
16. In closing Mr. President, let me thank the Secretary-General again for being with us today, showing his strong commitment about the issue that is in front of us, and the Secretariat, and the members of the Security Council for their continuous support for our difficult, uphill, difficult, but needed mission. I am obviously ready to go into details more in a separate meeting later on.
Thank you.
Within the framework of the Geneva Consultations, Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura met with leaders of the Syrian tribes yesterday. They briefed Mr. de Mistura on their assessments of the situation on the ground and concerns of their respective communities. They also discussed perspectives for a political solution to the Syrian conflict.
Today, Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy met with Ms. Rajaa Altalli and Mr. Renas Sino of the Centre for Civil Society and Democracy in Syria. They briefed Mr. Ramzy on the escalating conflict and deteriorating situation on the ground as well as on the work of the Centre. They also shared their perspectives for a political solution in Syria and for ways civil society organizations could contribute to efforts for ending the Syrian conflict.
في إطار مشاورات جنيف، التقى المبعوث الخاص أمس ستيفان دي مستورا مع زعماء القبائل السورية الذين أطلعوا السيد دي مستورا على تقييمهم للوضع على الأرض واهتمامات مجتمعاتهم. كما ناقش الطرفان آفاق التوصل إلى حل سياسي للصراع السوري.
أمّا اليوم، فالتقى نائب المبعوث الخاص لسورية رمزي عز الدين رمزي مع السيدة رجاء التلّي والسيد ريناس سينو من مركز المجتمع المدني والديمقراطية في سوريا اللذين اطلعا السيد رمزي على حالة الصراع المتصاعد وتدهور الوضع على الارض فضلا عن أعمال المركز. كما تقاسم الطرفان وجهات النظر حول حل سياسي في سوريا والسبل التي يمكن لمنظمات المجتمع المدني أن تساهم فيها من أجل إنهاء النزاع السوري.
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Schwartzel leads Memorial by a shot
DUBLIN, Ohio, May 30 (UPI) -- Former Masters champion Charl Schwartzel overcame a late double bogey Thursday to fire a 7-under 65 that put him in front at The Memorial Tournament.
Tiger Woods found himself six shots behind after the opening round at the Muirfield Village Golf Club and Rory McIlroy fired the highest first-round score, a 76, that he has ever posted in a tournament held in the United States.
Schwartzel suffered the double bogey at the par-3 eighth, his 17th of the day, but rebounded to birdie the ninth hole and seize a one-shot lead over Scott Piercy.
Josh Teater, Kyle Stanley, Charlie Wi and Russell Henley all turned in a 67 to share third place. Henley is one of this year's PGA Tour winners, having captured the Sony Open in what was his debut as a tour member.
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Budgetary pressures—from the expanding national debt to the rapidly rising cost of entitlement programs—are forcing policymakers to look for ways to reduce spending and increase tax revenue. The debate is increasingly involving changes to the tax code that could have a significant impact on the charitable sector. Proposals to reduce or eliminate the charitable deduction have raised serious questions about how tax incentives affect giving. Possible changes to the estate tax, the state and local property-tax exemption for nonprofits, and other tax provisions that affect charities are also on the table. With charities already struggling to meet greater demands with fewer donations, it is vital to understand how they’ll be affected by different types of proposals.
The Tax Policy and Charities initiative analyzes these interactions between the tax system and the charitable sector, with special emphasis on federal and state fiscal debates. Researchers study income and estate tax deductions for charitable giving, income- and property-tax exemptions for nonprofits, and private foundation excise taxes, among other issues. We inform the debate as it evolves, unpacking the controversy over donor-advised funds and analyzing the IRS scandal regarding social welfare 501(c)(4) organizations. We show how some proposals can strengthen the charitable sector at little or no cost to the government and how revenues can be raised without harming charitable giving.
We leverage the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center’s modeling capabilities and the Urban Institute’s expertise on nonprofits and philanthropy to evaluate proposed policy alternatives. Beyond studying the consequences for giving as a whole, we dig deep to estimate which charities—hospitals, universities, food banks, job-training programs, or foundations—would be put at greatest risk and how changes in tax policy would affect the services that individual nonprofits provide. These specifics ground the debate and give lawmakers the knowledge they need to make informed decisions.
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Can Pay for Success Scale Supportive Housing for a Reentry Population?
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Research shows that permanent supportive housing (PSH) is an effective approach to addressing homelessness. In the PSH model, affordable housing with no time limit is created through rental subsidies, and supportive services focus on areas such as mental health, substance abuse treatment, and employment. Providing people with a home and the option for services ensures they receive the care they need and that they aren’t relying on costly public services, such as emergency rooms, to survive.
In some jurisdictions, creating more PSH can be cost neutral or could even create cost savings because costs of expensive public services, including criminal justice and health care, decrease as people move off the streets. But any potential savings may accrue gradually or go to systems other than the one footing the bill for the intervention. Because of these qualities, PSH can be difficult to scale or implement in new communities.
Because of its ability to cover up-front costs for a demonstrably effective program before savings kick in, pay for success (PFS) has emerged as one potential financing strategy to bring PSH to more communities and increase existing PSH capacity to serve new people. In June 2016, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that they were awarding $8.7 million to seven demonstration sites across the country to use PFS to expand PSH.
The Urban Institute is conducting a national evaluation of the demonstration to understand how PFS is implemented in the different demonstration sites, capture the lessons learned across sites, and examine the feasibility of using PFS for a high-need, high-cost, homeless, reentry population. Through the national evaluation, HUD and DOJ seek to assess whether PFS is a viable financing model for increasing the scale of supportive housing for a reentry population. The evaluation seeks to document the reality on the ground as each community began its PFS project, describe the projects that develop in each site, and, in hindsight, understand how each community’s unique context may have affected the PFS project as it moved through each phase.
Evaluation of the HUD-DOJ Pay for Success Permanent Supportive Housing Demonstration: Baseline Report
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Welcome to the Subs bassist's 2010 tour blog, in which Paul will be detailing what daily life is like whilst touring.
In his blog you will find descriptions of venues, support bands, and of the various people that Paul meets along the way. Interwoven in all this is the fascinating story of Paul's comeback into music, after over two decades of being parted from his bass!
Paul will also share various photos from his travels with the bands he plays with, which at the moment is Monica and The Explosion and The Flying Padovanis...
The first entry for this month is at the foot of the page, with the latest entry at the top!
KEEP CHECKING THIS PAGE...
October 25th - Henry Padovani's X-Factor
I am very pleased to announce that my dear friend Henry Padovani will be one of the new judges in Series 2 of the French version of the X-Factor. That's selling out I hear you cry, and I realise that the X-Factor is a blight on the music industry, producing a torrent on unpalatable crap and deflecting a spotlight away from truly talented musicians and poisoning the already feeble minds of the great unwashed… But hey I’d sell out too, in a heartbeat and fuck the rest… and I hope you would too.
Look, it’s not really selling out, as long as he remains true to his beliefs and tells it as it is. But what role will he take on? Will it be the cruel but honest Cowell, the affable idiot Walsh, or perhaps the sexy slapper Cole. My guess knowing Henry is that he’ll opt for the sexy slapper character, a role he’s tried to play throughout his life; with mixed results I’m told.
Whatever, it’s going to prove fascinating viewing I’m sure. Although I think he’ll have a tough time trying to unearth the next great French talent. Someone the equal of, say, Johnny Hallyday, Sacha Distel, Charles Aznavour or even the mighty Plastic Bertand. Oh no! I forgot Plastic is Belgian, bad luck France…
I also understand that Henry now has his own stylist, although I doubt they’ll be able to improve on the rustic clapped-out farmer chic that Henry likes to adopt when relaxing at home. (see picture right)
If this all sounds a bit of a heavy- handed piss take, then you’d be right! I can only do this because Henry likes to dish it out himself from time to time. Besides, I love him like a brother, and am truly pleased for him, and wish him all the best for the challenge that lies ahead.
October 2nd - The Flying Padovanis in Grenoble
Chris and I had flown out to join our “brother” Henry Padovani the day before. We’d caught the 7.15 am flight to Lyon out of Gatwick. This was no fucking joke as I had to drag my weary arse out of bed at 4am and drive myself to the airport. No time for breakfast, although I did manage a beer on the plane just after we took off - even impressing myself with that one. And for the record Chris had a cup of tea… the fricking lightweight ;-)
This being a European date, we were met at the airport by Breeze, one of the promoters and driven to our hotel in the centre of Grenoble. You see, that’s how things are done outside the UK. I know I’ve said it before, but musicians are treated with greater respect virtually everywhere else other than Britain. None of this paid to play bollocks. Here we were being properly looked after, all expenses paid.
I loved Grenoble from the moment we arrived. Not since Monica and I were in Amsterdam had I felt that here was somewhere I could quite easily live. Situated at the foot of the French Alps, where the river Drac joins the Isère, Grenoble, located in the Rhône-Alpes region, is the capital of the department of Isère. The proximity of the mountains has led to the city being known as the "Capital of Alps."
Apparently, Grenoble is famous for its walnuts, although nobody offered me any.
Henry wasn’t due to arrive until 2pm, so Chris and I took the opportunity to have a wander around, then park our arses outside one on the numerous bars near our hotel.
I love a drink at lunch time, and what could be better than sitting in the sun (and it was seriously hot, around 26 degrees) sipping a cold beer or two with good friends. OK, it’s a bit like the Last of the Summer Wine, especially when Chris and Henry start arguing about who’s reading glasses belong to who! But we do go a long way back.
After lunch, the three of us were driven to the venue, which turned out to be a Harley Davidson showroom where we were also going to rehearse. Pretty cool I reckon. The Padovanis do a lot of motorbike related gigs, and every time we come away from one I’m filled with the urge to buy one of the damn things.
The gig was a lot of fun, although it was slightly disconcerting to be surrounded by Hells Angels and Rough Riders, sipping white wine and nibbling canapés. I was expecting beer to be thrown around, accompanied by the sound of gunfire. ;-)
October 2nd was also my daughter Katie’s birthday, and I was sorry to have missed the day. She wants an electric ukulele, her newest hero being Itch from the King Blues.
Below: Blog picture mix by Paul Slack
Saturday 9th October - How I became a U.K. Sub
The early punk scene was very DIY. Yes there were a few seasoned musicians around like Charlie, Nicky and Pete who’d been in bands before, but until I joined the Subs I’d never played any kind of instrument.
I sort of became a UK Sub by default really. I was studying art at St Martins* and I used to go and watch the Marauders play at the Castle in Tooting. At the time, my brother Steve was playing bass for them. This would have been in 1977, when the punk movement was really kicking off. I think it’s true to say that Steve never really embraced the punk scene, and it was soon obvious that he wanted to follow a different musical path.
I thought this was a great mistake. I couldn’t really understand why he wanted to leave. Things were happening so quickly and there was great excitement in the air, a real buzz. The whole music scene that had been so limp for years was suddenly bursting into life. Not only that, but there was general political unrest and punk was an outpouring of the sense of injustice felt by many of Britain’s youth. Punk became the focal point of rebellion against a system that had let so many down. Suddenly there where new bands springing up everywhere, bringing with them a tremendous burst of creative energy and I wanted to be part of it.
I tried to encourage Steve to stay but his mind was made up. I remember one evening having a big argument about it, which culminated in him saying, “Well if you’re so convinced, why the fuck don’t you play bass?”
So we sat up for the next few nights, while he taught me how to play. It has to be said that I wasn’t what you’d call a “natural”, but I was determined to prove him wrong about the Subs.
I still had to audition, but as I was already friends with Charlie I had a big advantage over the others. I reckon that I was pretty hopeless, but what I lacked in talent I made up for in enthusiasm.
Well I got the gig. Although at the time I was convinced that the Subs would make a valuable contribution to the burgeoning music scene, I had little idea of what an impact they would have on my life.
When I started my blog, I said that I believed that as you travel through life from time to time, you’ll find yourself at a crossroad with no indication of which way to go. Well I’d arrived at one and luckily for me I took the right turning.
* Footnote:
I never finished my art school diploma, although while I was there, and way before I joined the Subs, I went to the first ever Sex Pistols gig on November 6th 1975, more by luck than judgement, as I’d gone to see my mate play drums for Bazooka Joe. So you could say I was there right from the start. I wish I could say that with incredible insight that, as I stood there watching them, I recognised the significance of the moment, but I came away from that gig thinking the Pistols were a bunch of complete wankers ;-)
Wednesday 6th October - A thank you Blog!
Things have been going pretty well for Monica and The Explosion recently. Gigs have been coming in on a regular basis and reviews have been great. So we’d like to take this opportunity to thank all of the many wonderful friends we have, who have been working on our behalf for no personal gain, just through kindness.
Monica and The Explosion go from strength to strength, so this isn’t some sort of valedictory message, it’s just that now and again you have to stop and acknowledge those who are helping you along the way.
But where to begin?
OK, firstly we have Mark Chadderton and Rob Cook, who run this amazing website. Their enthusiasm and encouragement has been invaluable right from the start. It seems that no sooner have we thought of something to put on the site - then it’s already done! Brilliant work lads - keep it up!
Then we have all the photographers who have given their time and work free of charge. Ken Sharp, Fishbones Glover (and Alison), Gemma “Librasnake” Eggle, Craig Lovell and Dod Morrison; you have all produced some fantastic photographs which have been so useful to us.
We’d also like to send a big thanks to all the smaller independent promoters and venues up and down the land. People like Adam “Waddy” Wood in Birmingham, Lee Evans in Stoke, Barnet Mark at the 12 Bar, Ivor Wilkins at the Flower Pot, Steve Alridge at Karn’s in Hinckley, Dave Marshall in Sheppy and everyone else involved in promoting shows, without your efforts new bands would struggle even more than they do.
We’ve also worked with some amazing drummers; we’d like to thank Rob Baylis for his outstanding work on the album, Jamie Oliver (U.K. Subs), Wilco Van Eijk (The Penny Black Remedy), Dave Marshall (All Flags Burn) and JP Morer (Hooligan). JP also promoted our Irish tour and has worked tirelessly on our behalf ever since. So to JP we owe special thanks.
In Europe, we have some very cool people helping us find shows in their respective countries. In Sweden we have Katarina from the band Disciplin, Crossler Roger from Smash It Up! in Gothenburg and Peter Johansson in Sundsvall . We’re receiving help for France from Luc Vergier, Richard Royce (El Royce) and Pascal Montoureur in Chartres.
In other parts of Europe we have Torsten Schilling championing our cause in Germany and Gwynn in Holland, as well as Rob Cole (OrientXpress) in the Czech Republic and the lads from Setting Off Sirens from Ireland.
In America, we’ve been talking to Colleen Caffeine from Choking Susan about doing some gigs together, and Honey Bane is helping us with PR in America and is also setting up a Twitter page for us.
We want to thank TV Smith and Texas Terri for their advice and willingness to pass on contact details of promoters and venues, that they’ve worked with in the past.
And Dun 2 Def for being mates. And all the other great bands we've worked with.
A special thank you to our old friend Charlie Harper also, who is always ready to listen, and to help with advice gathered from all those years in the business.
On a personal level, I’d like to thank my old friends Chris and Henry from the Flying Padovanis. They have always stuck by me, no matter what.
Of course, the danger with something like this is that you miss someone out. And I know I have, because there are lots of other people who have done what they can to help us. If I haven’t mentioned you by name I’m sorry - but we thank you anyway.
PS Colin Dogz UK Sub you’re a star…
Monica and The Explosion are now setting off on a 10 date tour of the UK, starting tomorrow. The story moves on!
How did I become a UK Sub? Find out in the next blog…
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THIS IS THE ONLY U.K. OUTLET FOR THE CD, WITH A SMALL DONATION ALSO GOING TO CHARLIE'S CHARITABLE CAUSE.
Go on - you know it makes sense - give yourself a real new musical treat!
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Long Weekend: Belgrade
The cliches state that in Belgrade you will eat royally well and end up on a riverboat dancing to Turbo Folk amongst the impossibly tall and good-looking Serbian people. Sometimes it’s nice to discover the stereotypes are true…
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Beograd, the “White City,” is the capital of east-west-Grecian-Balkan culture. If you think that is as clear as the Danube’s muddy waters than you’re not alone. This dynamic city was once the capitol of Yugoslavia, a much larger country that included Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Kosovo and Macedonia (not the Greek one). But much like the car that bears its name, the country split apart after a few good miles down the red road.
The Cathedral of Saint Sava (Photo byy: George M. Groutas).
The fall of communism meant a resurrection of old grudges that led to a brutal war over territory. Serbia became much smaller and less well-liked. But despite the bad blood Belgrade remains the main metropolis of the region attracting people from all over former-Yugoslavia for work and play. Factor in 500 years of Ottoman rule, a 30-year emperor, the Austrian-Hungarian empire and the Romans, what you’ve got is a melting pot of Europe’s greatest empires and greatest failures. More importantly you’ve got a place that’s seen the dark side and is ready to party.
Best of the Beaten Track
The most obvious place to start any Belgrade tour is Republic Square, recognizable by the loiterers who are either waiting for someone or waiting for something to happen. The square is abutted by the National Theater on the east and the Serbian National Museum on the north. But, before you sequester yourself from the common man inside these fine art institutions, take a walk down Knez Mihailova (Prince Michael) pedestrian street. Brand names stores and cafes catering to tourists line the boulevard, but the architecture is the real thing to see as it is one of the only sections of town where the glory of the Kingdom of Serbia maintains its magnificence. Remember to look up so you don’t miss out on the details of the Viennese-like structures on either side, then look down again to avoid tripping on that accordion player.
River views from the fortress walls. (Photo by: Martin Hendrikx).
The boulevard will lead you straight for Kalemegdan Park and the Belgrade Fortress. Kalemegdan is a landscaped park with Danube views on the northwest side and booths selling trinkets, keep walking through and you’ll find yourself at the entrance to the Belgrade Fortress. This maze of trenches and walls safeguarded the city for hundreds of years, and now acts as a memorial to the Turkish, Roman and Serbian leaders buried there.
Next stop the Nikola Tesla Museum in Vracar (pronounced Vrachar). Check the museum’s website for English tour times. You can wander the place without a guide, but you’ll need him to turn the machines on, that’s the fun part. The whole tour, film included, takes less than an hour and you’ll be electrified (sorry, couldn’t help myself) by the results.
Skadarlija, or the old Bohemian quarter, ends the day well. Outdoor bass players, low-lighting and flowers inspire love in the most stoic of souls.
Hipster’s Guide
Friendly communism, that is what Yugoslavia was known for back in the day, and the leader of this utopian dictatorship was Tito. He had a full name but much like other pop-culture icons, i.e. Cher, Madonna, Prince – he just goes by Tito. Many claim he found the balance between totalitarian rule and the free market – many, but certainly not all. While the jury may still be out on Tito, a foreign visitor can still enjoy his cult of personality without being part of it with a visit to the Tito Mausoleum, or “the house of flowers.”
A dead dictator’s hand me downs on display. (Photo by: Jorge Láscar).
After a flashback to the good ‘ole days of block housing go and visit one. See what happened in a communist printing house at BIGZ. The building is still owned by the same people who ran it as a printing press, but instead of publishing treatises by Marx today they are renting the space to all and sundry… which usually means artists. Now it acts as a giant studio and party house with groups occupying almost every corner: artists, theater, bars, bands, film crews and everything in-between roam the halls in search of the next happening. The place has become so popular that security has been placed at the front door for crowd control, which annoys the residents something fierce, so like all good fringe scenes they’ve snuck out the backdoor and found a way to circumvent authority. There are rumors of a BIGZ alternative house opening on the other side of the city, but the underground crowd is doing it’s best to keep it secret.
Make a trek outside the underground scene to see and be seen at the Mikser House. The new hotspot hosts events, a restaurant with modern, international cuisine and a shop hustling the wares of local designers. Mikser House is the new kid on the block and meant to give an alternative to the posh Supermarket Concept Store in the trendy Dorcol (pronounced Dorchul) neighborhood.
Experience & Events
The Serbian economy is in a transitory phase. Well, it’s been in a transitory phase since the lift of the embargo. So, there hasn’t been much investment in festivals and the like: but there are still some events that attract the attention of an international audience. The months of March and April offer a series of film festivals, beginning with the largest, the Belgrade International Film Festival. Many of the screenings are help at the Sava Centar, Tito’s pet project for the non-allied nations.
A concert at the Sava Cantar. (Photo by: sinisamars).
The Bitef Festival was one of the foremost performance art festivals in Europe in its heyday. The fest still attracts some of the biggest names in live performance.
Exit Fest in Novi Sad is the most popular annual event in the region. It is an international music festival held inside historical sites across Novi Sad, that draws clubbers and rock kids from around Europe.
Mikser House, the one and the same, holds an annual festival of designers, film, lectures and even activities for the wee ones.
You outdoorsy types will have a ball in the many parks, especially Tasmajdan and Ada. And if you’re feeling lazy then hop on a boat for a Danube tour.
Lodging in Belgrade runs the gambit from luxury hotels to mattresses in alcoves. But most people choose the middle ground and opt for furnished apartments. No two interiors are alike in a Belgrade apartment; while you may have skylights in one, another will give you a loft and still another will surprise you with green shag carpet and sturdy Yugoslavian furniture. If you are travelling solo, or don’t fancy a flat, then consider the Green Studio Hostel. It was rated the best hostel in Belgrade by Lonely Planet. And no wonder when you get a free welcome beer, all you can drink coffee and tea, free laundry and a place to sleep for a handful of euros. Got money to burn? Swank it up at the Metropol Palace Hotel which has played host to some of Belgrade’s more distinguished guests, such as Elizabeth Taylor. The newly remodeled building pulses with a steady rhythm of well-dressed folk night and day.
Fork Out
Every Serb will ask you: do you like our food? Really, everyone. The traditional fare combines the best of the region’s meat and polenta recipes with the spices from Turkish cuisine. Try it out at any kafana (Serbian tavern); really I haven’t found a bad one, and then answer the friendly Serb: yes, I do. The hip Supermarket Concept Store offers a selection of non-Serbian eating, such as sushi. And while you’re in the neighborhood of Dorcol check out the new cafe Sestre for a vegetarian menu. Sestre means ‘sisters’ and by some weird coincidence the place is owned by two sisters… who would have guessed? The portion of their menu that’s vegetarian was compiled by asking their veggie friends to each make a recipe; they kept the best on the menu. Far from the maddening crowd you’ll find some brilliant pizza. The place is on Kraljice Marije street, behind the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, for the life of me I can’t find any signage. Look for a white awning the says ‘pekara’ (wood oven) and has a line of people outside. They sell pizza by the ample slice for €1. Ask for a slice with paprika sauce instead of the traditional ketchup, it’ll set you straight.
People claim that one of Belgrade’s few assets is its extraordinary nightlife. I think it’s one of the many, but truly the experience is a unique one. Begin the evening’s rhythm back in the Dorcol neighborhood at the Blaznavac Kafe. The house was once the residence of one of Serbia’s prime ministers but one can barely recognize it from all the psychedelic murals. Next on the list is an underground nightclub, Klub Geca. It’s dirty-rocking-electric-80’s pop-metal fun. Now it’s time to head to the riverboats. Cross the bridge and go down the stairs. Those ripples on the water aren’t just the current, they’re the non-stop bumping of the boats’ sound-systems. For some serious clubbing look to Lucas with its Turbo Folk scene on the water. Klub 20/44 is a cheaper, more casual alternative. Watch the sun come up over the cityscape as you shake it to the progressive beats, then think to yourself – wow! Why haven’t I come here before? Still haven’t had enough? Ask someone to tell you how to find Mama’s. Technically it doesn’t exist, but everyone knows where it is; the place never closes.
Some of the river boat clubs could do with a revamp
Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla international airport offers direct flights from most European capitals, but Budapest is the nearest international airport offering cheap flights for longer distances. The Budapest-Belgrade train runs three times a day. Another option is to look for flight deals to/from Timisoara in Romania; the train to and from Timisoara runs twice daily.
Once in the city, buses run often and go pretty much everywhere. You can buy a bus card from an kiosk. People often don’t pay for the bus at all, but occasionally you’ll see the inspectors pop on with their machines and you’ll pay a fine if you get caught without a ticket. Cabs are easy to catch, but be careful they will try to rip you off, especially if you’re catching one at the train station. A cab from the train station to the center of the city should only run 300-400 Din. Prices are a bit more expensive after midnight.
More Juice
The Tourist Organization of Belgrade offers comprehensive info, whilst the city’s official website is a reliable resource for locations and website addresses or popular sights, tourist offices and emergency services.
Lonely Planet has the best city guide. To get a feel for the city’s tumultuous history check out Borislav Pekic’s The Houses of Belgrade, where the author tells the city’s story through its uprisings.
Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus was filmed in Belgrade in 2011. Emir Kusturica is a Serbian who made it big and who become an accidental Nationalist icon, and it’s worth checking out his filmography. Vice.com’s guide to the Balkans visits Belgrade, showcasing the Turbo Folk scene. The Fall of Rock and Roll directed by Goran Gajic and Zoran Pezo is a comic relief after so much heaviness. Both directors quit the industry and a friend of mine tells me that he thinks one of them is driving a cab in Chicago.
Soundtrack to the City
Pump It – Eyesburn
Flooded Grass – Dandi Wind
Dirty Old Town – The Pogues
Tragovi Proslosti – Van Gogh
Feature image by Jaime Silva.
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Current version updated on November 17th, 2015
First published on June 28th, 2013
Posted in City Guide with destination tags Belgrade, Serbia
7 thoughts on “Long Weekend: Belgrade”
I guess you are a hater of Belgrade!, its clear just reading your blog and seeing these pawfull illustrations of Belgrade you have uploaded on your “Blog”, makes me wonder would you post ugly pictures of your city !!? You should be ashamed!!!
Duncan Rhodes says:
Just saw your comment which got caught in the spam filters. I have no idea what you’re talking about regarding the article, as it’s pretty fulsome in its praise of the city (…I guess you didn’t stop to actually read it before you commented!?)… however have changed some of the “darker” photos that you objected to, to show Belgrade newbies some of the beauty of the city instead. Cheers, D.
I’ll be in Belgrade for the first time in two months–so excited! I’ve been farther north in eastern Europe, but never to the Balkans.
I’m having a tough time figuring out transportation from Belgrade to Sarajevo… any thoughts? It seems to boil down to the Lasta bus (lots of people, slow border crossing) or the GEA Tours people (who’ve been unresponsive by email and therefore make me worried).
Belgrade Modern Hostel says:
Wow, great review Constance! Would you like to visit Belgrade again? We will be happy to be your host, at Belgrade Modern Hostel.
Thanks guys, actually Constance lives in Belgrade, but maybe I or one of the other writers for UTB will come by at some point for more adventures… will be sure to look you up.
MMS says:
Me and Belgrade – 7 days stay: Good food (nobody ask me if I liked) good booze, nice girls, nice and hospitable people, solid hostel (with some insects in the room), bad traffic, lot of noise deep in the night, interesting architecture, few museums, solid theaters, and awful taxi drivers, Be aware of them
Mice says:
My favorite is Skadarlija !
The old bohemian quarter of Belgrade dates back to late 19th and early 20th century, and its taverns and restaurants were (and still are) a meeting place for many of the greatest figures of the cultural scene of Belgrade and Serbia. Skadarlija offers vibrant spirit and unique atmosphere. Everyone who visit to Belgrade and not visited Skadarlija, is the same as it did not come.
A unique experience!
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Home » Entertainment » Andy Ruiz reveals why he lost to Anthony Joshua (Video)
Andy Ruiz reveals why he lost to Anthony Joshua (Video)
On December 8, 2019 6:28 pmIn Entertainment, Sportsby David O Royal
…says he should’ve listened to his coach and dad
Mexican-American boxer, Andy Ruiz Jr believes that putting on too much weight due to “partying” contributed to his defeat to Anthony Joshua.
Ruiz Jr conceded the IBF, WBA and WBO heavyweight titles back to Joshua six months after shockingly beating him, and put on over a stone between fights. He weighed in at 20st 3lbs, three stone more than Joshua.
Giving several excuses for his loss, at a post-match conference, Ruiz said he partied, became overweight and undertrained for the rematch which took place in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, December 7.
Andy Ruiz said: “Three months of partying and celebrating affected me, what can I say?
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“Being overweight, I wasn’t fluid enough, I wasn’t moving the way I wanted to move.
“I think if I’m lighter I’m going to let my hands go and be a completely different fighter.”
When asked what he would have done differently if granted a rematch against Anthony Joshua, he said;
“Listen to my coach. Listen to my dad. And take it more seriously.
“I’m OK, I’m just a little disappointed. I should have listened to them.
“I tried to do the training on my own. I should have listened to them more.
“There’s no excuses…the partying and all that stuff got the best of me.
“For being out of shape I did pretty good, I took all his shots.”
Ruiz recognized that he lost a wide decision to Joshua but said he holds a victory too.
He said the scores are tied with one win apiece and he wants a trilogy bout.
“I know for the third one I’m going to be a lot better.”
He added: “There’s a lot of responsibility being a champion of the world. I think the partying and all that stuff got the best of me. Next time it’ll be a lot better.”
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Addiewell Bing
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To the north of West Calder in West Lothian, this oil-shale bing now supports valuable wildlife habitat including woodland, scrub and flower-rich grassland
To the north of West Calder in West Lothian, this oil-shale bing now supports valuable wildlife habitat including woodland, scrub and flower-rich grassland.
A good example of how a former industrial site can be transformed into a haven for wildlife.
Parking is limited to a small area for about 2 vehicles in front of the entrance gate off the B792.
You can also encounter these following species- so keep your eyes open!
Brown Hare
To download the Reserve's Features Map- click here
Within Scotland's varied landscape lies the Scottish Wildlife Trust's wildlife reserves which have provided a secure haven for wildlife for 50 years. We have 120 reserves covering an area of more than 20,000 hectares.
Our reserves support:
168 UK Biodiversity Action Plan Priority Species
204 species from the Scottish Biodiversity List
15 species from the SNH Species Action Framework plus many others
Blackburn Road
Best time to visit:
March- June for breeding birds
June and July for wildflowers
A path runs through the reserve between the 2 access stiles off the B792. It is recommended that visitors wear footwear with a good grip suitable for the wet, muddy and uneven ground encountered on the reserve
From West Calder take the B792 towards Blackburn.
After about 1 mile you will find Addiewell Bing on the right (north) of the B792.
Getting onto the reserve
Addiewell Bing lies north of the B792. There is a stile into the reserve at the south-west corner of the reserve, about 200 metres east of the village of Addiewell.
0.5 miles to the east of this stile there is another stile (next to a field gate).
There is a small parking space in front of the field gate for about 2 vehicles.
West Lothian has changed enormously over the last 330 million years. Evidence of these changes is all around you... if you just know what to look for.
Blawhorn Moss National Nature Reserve
An oasis of open windswept moors hidden in the lowlands, Blawhorn is a site full of secrets- discover 8000 years of history!
Bogburn Flood Lagoons
Located in Bathgate, Bogburn Flood Lagoons consists of three open freshwater pools surrounded by marshy grassland and swamp, a habitat favoured by wildfowl
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Aviation Biofuels: More Hype Than Hope?
Author: Dave DemerjianDave Demerjian
The commercial aviation industry, hammered by rising fuel costs and increased pressure to curb emissions, is racing to find cleaner alternatives based on everything from coconut oil to pond scum. But a British aviation watchdog group warns that biofuels do not necessarily offer the salvation airlines seek.
Jeff Gazzard of the Aviation Environment Federation raises serious questions about the safety and viability of aviation biofuels touted by the likes of Virgin Atlantic and, just this week, Continental. He says the push to develop them is at least in part corporate greenwashing by an industry desperate to appease its critics.
"For us, the jury is still well and truly out as to whether either synthetic or biofuels are yet capable of being either entirely fail-safe for aviation use or environmentally sustainable in the longer term," Gazzard writes in his report, Bio-Fueled or Bio-Fooled (.pdf).
The critical examination of aviation biofuel development comes as a growing number of airlines and aircraft manufacturers join energy firms in the hunt for alternatives to kerosene. The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which represents 93 percent of the world's carriers, has set a goal of drawing 10 percent of its fuel from renewable sources by 2017.
But Gazzard says a lack of comprehensive safety standards poses a serious threat as increasing amounts of biofuel and other alternatives flow through an infrastructure designed for petroleum. He points to a British airport where conventional aviation fuel was contaminated by biofuel that had moved through the same pipeline. That's problematic because unlike petroleum, untreated biofuels can freeze at low temperatures and damage seals in aircraft fuel systems.
The IATA says the example cited in Gazzard's report isn't relevant. "The AEF article quotes widely from Petroleum Review and faithfully recycles the view of big oil on the biofuels subject," IATA spokesman Steve Lott told Wired.com. "Their examples of contamination in the jet fuel supply are of first-generation biodiesels. Aviation is not even looking at these types of fuels."
Instead, Lott says, the IATA and its members are concentrating on second generation biofuels that are almost chemically identical to conventional jet fuel (Jet-A1), and therefore can be "dropped in" to existing fuel supplies, eliminating contamination concerns.
"The concept of biofuels in aviation has moved on very rapidly from even two years ago," Lott says. "Test results so far are very encouraging."
Encouraging or not, Gazzard is underwhelmed by the high-profile alt-fuel tests we've seen to far. Like others, he dismisses as a publicity stunt Virgin's much-ballyhooed test flight of a Boeing 747 that flew from London to Amsterdam with one of its four fuel tanks carrying a 20 percent mix of biofuel. The plane, which used a mixture of coconut and babassu oils, would have needed some 3 million coconuts had it made the flight entirely on biofuel, he says.
That's not stopping the industry from squeezing as much good PR out of its biofuel activities as possible. On Wednesday, Continental made a two-hour test flight of a Boeing 737 fueled by a 50-50 mix of jet fuel and a biofuel blended from algae and jatropha. It was the first test by an American carrier, and it came one week after Air New Zealand made a test flight with a plane fueled partly by a jatropha-based fuel. Later this month, Japan Airlines plans a test flight using fuel refined from camelina, a flowering plant grown in the high plains.
"This demonstration flight represents another step in Continental's ongoing commitment to fuel efficiency and environmental responsibility," Larry Kellner, the airline's chairman and CEO, said in a statement. "The technical knowledge we gain today will contribute to a wider understanding of the future for transportation fuels."
Boeing says aviation biofuel could be fueling commercial flights within three years. "We've been pleasantly surprised by how smoothly these tests are going," Billy Glover, Boeing's managing director of environmental strategy, says, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Gazzard argues the aviation industry and governments are more interested in appeasing critics than finding alternatives to oil.
"Much of this (activity) we feel is political positioning by industry and friendly governments to manufacture consent to keep expanding aviation in the face of growing demands for environmental limits," he writes in the report, "particularly in respect of the worrying increase in aviation's greenhouse gas and wholly negative climate change impacts."
The report also poses a question others have raised with regard to using biofuels in the transportation sector: Is there enough plant material to meet demand? Although the aviation industry is betting heavily on algal fuels and non-food crops like jatropha, thereby largely avoiding the food-for-fuel debate associated with ethanol and other biofuels, its an open question whether it's possible to produce enough of it. The aviation industry currently burns about 240 million tons of kerosene a year, a figure that will only rise as countries like India and
China ramp up their aviation operations. China alone is expected to buy 2,230 new planes between now and 2025.
Petroleum Week estimates that producing that much fuel from jatropha, one of the more promising bio-fuel prospects, would require planting 1.4 million square kilometers of it, an area twice the size of
France. And that's bad news for governments who see alternative fuels as a way to tell Middle Eastern oil barons to shove off. Because as oil supplies dwindle, you can bet your bottom petrol-dollar that the Saudi Arabias of the world ill invest heavily in helophytes and other alt-fuel plants that thrive in the deserts of the Middle East and Africa. Gazzard's report says that raises the possibility of an OPEC-style biofuel cartel.
He also wonders which of the bio-fuel partnerships announced when oil was going for $150 a barrel will remain now that prices are below $50 a barrel. With the world locked in a global recession, it's going to be cheaper for airlines to burn jet fuel than invest in alternatives.
Photo / Boeing.
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Inside Nokia’s Super-Fun Feature-Phone Nostalgia Trip
With HMD Global reviving the Nokia 3310 and 8110, feature phones are back and better than ever.
The iconic Nokia 3310 got a refresh, inside and out, last year.Nokia
Let’s all agree that this has not been a year of feel-good stories in tech. Whether it’s Facebook privacy or YouTube algorithms, the headlines out of Silicon Valley have been a dismal parade of lapses and letdowns. So let’s take a moment to appreciate the one thread development everyone can get behind: Nokia’s perfect throwback party.
You may not know the Nokia 3310 or 8110 by name, but you’d recognize them in a heartbeat. They’re two of the phones that made Nokia the dominant cell phone seller of the oughts, the candy bar and banana form factors that defined the pre-iPhone era.
Over the last year, as you’ve likely seen, a company called HMD Global has resurrected both, upgrading and updating them just-so for a world that still needs feature phones aplenty. What could have been a lazy cash-grab reboot—looking at you, Michael Bay’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles—has instead turned out two thoughtfully designed and executed devices. And they couldn’t have come at a better time.
Retro Magic
A quick clarification: HMD is a company that makes the phones—both smart and feature—sold under the Nokia brand, so this isn't technically the same company that dominated the cell phone landscape through the turn of the millennium. But HMD resides in the same building as Nokia’s headquarters, and was founded by former Nokia employees—including chief product officer Juho Sarvikas, who shepherded the return of the 3310 and 8110, and started at Nokia over a decade ago. Everything about it is Nokia DNA.
That shows in its feature phone revivals. Take last year’s 3310, released nearly two decades after its namesake. It looks just enough like the original for instant recognition, but has just enough new design touches and feature improvements—smoothed over edges, a 2-megapixel camera, a web browser—to be viable today. Oh, and its battery still lasts a month.
That balance took more work than you might think.
The 3310 runs a minimal suite of apps for communications. And yes, it still has the game Snake.
“We actually took a long time to deconstruct the original 3310,” says Sarvikas. As it turned out, recreation required a certain degree of invention. “One of the most difficult things with the 3310 was to make the corner of the display so close to the edge of the physical enclosure. That was one area where we had to develop a completely new solution that did not exist in this space.”
And the reason it didn’t exist is fairly simple: Feature phones are cheap, which means they’re made with cheap parts. They all look basically the same, because the companies that make them typically buy in bulk from the same suppliers.
“Having attractive feature phones, standing out on design, when the other vendors who are doing feature phones are really plain vanilla, is a smart strategy,” says Avi Greengart, tech analyst with GlobalData.
That’s partly why the 3310 stood out so much; it was as much a familiar face as it was a rethinking of a whole category of devices grown stale.
A refined exterior also required some serious interior engineering; the original 3310 hadn’t had to accommodate internals for 2G or 3G signals; the 2017 model launched with the former, and got a network upgrade last fall. “It’s not about simply throwing together a nice-looking shape for the design. There’s a lot of very advanced engineering and asset development that you need to do. It’s amazing how much a couple of millimeters matter,” says Sarvikas.
This year’s 8110—that’s the banana phone, which you’ll remember best from The Matrix—presented an even more daunting challenge both inside and out. Start with the shape, which outside of an ill-fated dalliance with curvature from LG in 2013 simply doesn’t exist any more. The phone doesn’t just curve; part of it slides open.
The 8110, aka the banana phone, was popular in the late '90s. Nokia's modern version comes with 4G connectivity and Google Assistant.
“How do you configure the length versus the thickness versus the actual physical curvature of the banana,” says Sarvikas. “As you’re building the inner blocks and designing the electromechanics around that, it becomes a really intriguing exercise. You could not modify one dimension without throwing the whole thing around and reconfiguring from the beginning.”
The slider mechanism, too, requires balance. It needs to travel smoothly from open to shut; it needs to lock firmly but be easy to open; it needs not to wiggle when extended. And Sarvikas points to one last consideration: You absolutely must be able to spin it like a top. “The spinning is the ultimate party trick,” he says.
The 8110 also represents a more ambitious effort under the hood; it comes with both 4G and Google Assistant on board. And yes, even with that gilding, the battery life still nudges up against a full month.
It might seem odd, in 2018, to focus so closely on a company’s feature phone efforts. Smartphones, after all, rule much of the world. In the US and Western Europe, feature phones account for less than 7 percent of sales. But in regions with limited broadband or resources generally, Nokia—again, really HMD—has become once again a dominant player.
HMD sold 59.2 million Nokia feature phones in 2017, a 70 percent bump over the previous year. That’s still nowhere near iPhone territory; Apple sold 77 million of those in its most recent quarter alone. But think what it must take to actually grow feature phone sales, to nearly double them, in a day and age when they’re in a decade-long decline. And because the 3310 and 8110 stand out so much, they can command a higher price than the competition.
“Is this going to make them number one? Obviously I don’t think that’s going to happen,” says Tuong Nguyen, a mobile analyst with Gartner. “But it gives them a better foothold than some of their competitors, the guys who are focusing on features or security or a super low price.”
'The spinning is the ultimate party trick.'
Juho Sarvikas, HMD
Some of that resurgence comes, too, from people who see the 3310 and 8110 not just as a nostalgia trip, but a legitimate chance to disconnect from the always-on lifestyle amid mounting concerns over smartphone addiction. The 8110, in particular, connects just enough that you don’t feel unmoored, but not enough to keep you glued to its 2.4-inch display.
“I think there’s an increasing number of people who want to buy a secondary device,” says Sarvikas. “Most often it’s something you want to use to switch off a bit.”
A second phone, Sarvikas argues, still needs to offer what he calls “lifeline communications,” particularly messenger services that have gradually subsumed SMS. But maybe you don’t need Instagram or Candy Crush while you’re taking a long weekend. Maybe you just need a banana phone and Snake.
“For me as a tech geek, I’m a little bit excited about the Nokia products,” says Nguyen. “I’m OK with giving up many of those smartphone features to have less of a cognitive load on a daily basis. I definitely feel that I would be a lot happier."
The success of the retreads has also had a halo effect for Nokia smartphones, largely by reminding people that the Nokia brand, well, still exists.
And they’ll continue to. A ton of iconic Nokia designs await revitalization; Greengart has his fingers crossed for the 8800, which features prominently in John Wick Chapter 2. And Sarvikas says they’re nowhere near done.
“There’s so much to draw from, and there are so many cool emerging technologies,” he says. “I don’t think we’ll run out of fun things to do any time soon.”
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Brian Barrett is the digital director at WIRED, covering security, consumer technology, and anything else that seems interesting. Prior to WIRED he was the editor in chief of the tech and culture site Gizmodo and was a business reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest daily newspaper.
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320-Pound Woman in ‘Dangerous’ Health Turns Her Life Around After Losing More Than Half Her Body Weight
By Jaclyn Anglis July 23, 2018
A Florida woman in her 20s named Jessica Beniquez had struggled with her weight her whole life. By the end of her teen years, she tipped the scales at 320 pounds. Eating fast food nearly every day and regularly binge-watching shows on Netflix certainly didn’t help. Before long, her weight had become a literal physical burden.
“Getting out of bed was hard,” the now 22-year-old said in an interview with People. “I knew I needed to lose weight because I had high blood pressure, but it took me over a year to realize how dangerous that is — and to do something about it.”
"There will be days where you're not motivated, the motivation comes AFTER you show up. Don't start with the motivation, start with doing!" #weightloss #weightlosswednesday #weightlossmotivation #motivation #weightlosstransformation
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But during the first couple months of 2016, Beniquez decided it was finally time to change her life and take control of her health. One big step she took was changing the types of food that she ate. She replaced chicken nuggets and fries with healthier choices like grilled chicken salads and carrots with hummus.
Then, she started taking regular walks at night and trying out exercises she saw on YouTube before joining a gym. Now, she’s able to do two-hour sessions of workouts.
When you work hard you'll see results Thinking about doing it, isn't going to get you anywhere. The second you start to think about losing weight, get up in that moment and do something about it! You won't regret it😊 (March 2016-now) #throwbackthursday #throwback #weightloss #weightlossjourney #weightlossmotivation #weightlosstransformation
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Beniquez now weighs in at a much healthier 145 pounds. After more than two years of taking control of her health, she’s documented her ongoing progress on Instagram, which she says has been a big help in keeping her focused on reaching her goals.
“People would come up to me at the gym and say, ‘Wow, congratulations — you’ve come such a long way,'” Beniquez said.
@camerondallas Where you at?! I think we need an updated transformation pic 😂
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She hopes to become a certified trainer someday. But in the meantime, she continues to inspire countless people by sharing her story and her tips on her page.
“I wanted to show them that I could do it, and that they can, too,” Beniquez said. “I never expected to be where I am today. I was shy, but now I have so much more confidence, I have so much more energy.”
My name is Jessica and I’m 21. I’m 5’4 and I have lost over 170 lbs with diet and exercise. Starting at over 320 lbs and currently between 145-148. It wasn’t easy to get where I am today. There were and still are obstacles that get in the way, but that’s just the way it is and I have to deal with it. Did I let me give up? NEVER. One thing I will NEVER do is go back to my old ways. Everything that I did to get where I am today was BEYOND worth it, the sweat, the soreness, the pain of not being able to breath after a good cardio sesh. ALL WORTH IT. You will never know your limits until you push yourself to them. If you want it bad enough, you’ll do something about it and that’s all the motivation you’ll need. Not I or anyone else can make you want it. YOU have to make the decision and YOU have to be the one to work for it! #motivationmonday #motivationalmonday #iammotiv8 #motiv8monday #weightloss #weightlossjourney #weightlosstransformation #beforeandafter #beforeandduring
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Most Americans don’t know Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp, among other digital basics
Only 2% aced a Pew Research Center digital-knowledge quiz
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Marie C. Baca
Breaking news technology and business reporter
October 9, 2019 at 10:00 AM EDT
Most Americans don’t know that social media giant Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp.
They also don’t know that private browsing modes hide online activities only from someone else using the same computer. And few can correctly identify an example of true two-factor authentication, a security measure experts say is one of the most important ways users can protect sensitive information.
Just 2 percent of the adults in a Pew Research Center study were able to answer all 10 digital-knowledge questions correctly. The questions covered data privacy, cybersecurity and the business of social media topics.
Pretty much everyone these days has a smartphone, a laptop and some kind of online social media presence. But few users fully understand the implications of using that tech or the related potential privacy and security concerns. Ads follow users around online, phones spy on us while we’re sleeping and even our TVs are tracking us.
More than 1 in 4 American users have deleted Facebook, Pew survey finds
That makes it difficult for average tech users to make the right decisions about what data to share, what information to believe and how to protect themselves online.
Fred Turner, a communications professor at Stanford University, said the country’s technological literacy has struggled to keep pace with the speed with which digital tools have grown increasingly complex and opaque.
“What you see is not at all what you get,” he said, calling for better digital education.
Users are grappling with these issues as social media giants have been rocked by privacy scandals. In September, Facebook said that tens of thousands of apps were suspended from its platform for possibly mishandling user data. That followed last year’s revelation that political consultancy Cambridge Analytica had improperly accessed personal data from 87 million Facebook users.
Roughly 40 state attorneys general plan to take part in Facebook antitrust probe
And on Tuesday, Twitter said it may have mishandled an unknown number of users’ email addresses and phone numbers, allowing them to be used “inadvertently” for advertising purposes.
Only 15 percent of the 4,272 surveyed participants could identify a photo of Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive.
Facebook did not respond to requests for comment. Twitter declined to comment.
Pew found that people with more education had greater digital knowledge. Younger people fared better on the quiz than older people, but the gaps were less stark than those found with educational attainment.
Twitter says users’ phone numbers provided for security ‘inadvertently’ used for ad purposes
Monica Anderson, a co-author of the report, said previous Pew studies have found that the majority of Americans use social media websites, primarily Facebook. Yet the June survey showed that only 29 percent of those surveyed knew that Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp.
Facebook purchased the Instagram photo- and video-sharing service in 2012 for $1 billion and acquired messaging company WhatsApp for $16 billion two years later. In August, Facebook confirmed a report by the online outlet the Information that said the company was renaming the two services “Instagram from Facebook” and “WhatsApp from Facebook.”
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McCain: Wrinkly white-haired guy
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By Stephen Dinan The Washington Times - August 5, 2008, 08:05PM
I don’t even know where to begin with this. I guess the McCain campaign invited it by running the celebrity ad against Barack Obama, but now Paris Hilton has responded with her own Web video. Be warned, in addition to terminal vapidity it’s got a naughty word or two.
As if that’s not enough, the McCain campaign has decided to respond.
“It sounds like Paris Hilton supports John McCain’s ‘all of the above’ approach to America’s energy crisis — including both alternatives and drilling,” said spokesman Tucker Bounds. “Paris Hilton might not be as big a celebrity as Barack Obama, but she obviously has a better energy plan.”
So let’s get this straight — McCain insults Obama by comparing him to Hilton, now he says Hilton is better than Obama, and in essence claims her video is an endorsement.
Now don’t tell Paris, but even though McCain may be wrinkly, he’s at least old enough to run for president. The Constitution doesn’t really mention being “hot” as a prerequisite.
Still, dare we ask what Britney’s response will be?
— Stephen Dinan, national political correspondent, The Washington Times
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Report: Former Packers WR Jordy Nelson Retiring
by: Eric Boynton
After an 11 year career, most of which spent in Green Bay, former Packers wide receiver Jordy Nelson is reportedly calling it a career.
Fellow Green Bay wide out James Jones posted on twitter on Wednesday that Nelson had made the decision to step away from football. Jones now works for the NFL Network, and played alongside Nelson for six seasons.
🚨After more than a decade in the NFL, my brother, former #Packers & #Raiders WR @JordyRNelson is calling it a career. He’s stepping away from the game with more than 8,500 yards…72+ TD’s and as a SB Champion! I’m proud of him and happy for him and his family! #Ese’ #Respect— James Jones (@89JonesNTAF) March 27, 2019
Nelson’s time with the Packers came to an end suddenly last offseason when he was released by the club. He later signed with the Oakland Raiders, where he played the final year of his NFL career.
Nelson undoubtedly left his mark on Packers history. His 69 touchdowns in the green and gold are second all time in franchise history. That includes one in the first quarter of the Packers’ Super Bowl XLV win against the Steelers. He also finished his career third in receptions.
As for his best single season, it may be hard to pass 2016. After returning from a torn ACL that cost him all of the 2015 campaign, Nelson caught 14 touchdowns and racked up 1,257 yards. That performance earned in the Comeback Player of the Year Award.
A fan favorite in Green Bay, Nelson was active in the local community. Most notably taking over the charity softball game from Donald Driver back in 2014. Proceeds went mostly to Young Life Green Bay, a charity benefiting local kids during his time as the face of the event.
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Would You Rewatch The Revenant? A New Criterion for Best Picture
By Adam Sternbergh
Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant. Photo: Kimberley French/Twentieth Century Fox
There’s a consistent annual complaint about the nominations for Best Picture that goes something like this: How are we supposed to compare such disparate films, let alone decide which one is “best”? By what criteria do you compare The Revenant to Room? Or Brooklyn to The Martian? Or a bonkers fever-dream like Mad Max: Fury Road to an understated but devastating drama like Spotlight? By what measure is a comedy like Trainwreck supposed to be compared against a grueling epic like The Revenant? (Well, it’s not, apparently, as Trainwreck, like nearly every comedy every year, has been left out of the Oscar conversation — in large part because it’s presumably so difficult to assess comedies in competition with dramas.) In other words: If different films employ wildly different aesthetic intentions and techniques, in order to achieve wildly different emotional and intellectual effects, how then can we possibly hope to determine which film was the “most” successful?
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Some might contend this is an argument to do away with awards altogether. I reject those people, if only because I treasure long winter nights spent making fun of celebrity outfits on Twitter. Also, fixing awards by getting rid of them seems like an inherently defeatist — nay, un-American — attitude. (Make Oscar Season Great Again.) Especially when there is one very straightforward and increasingly intriguing and useful criterion by which we can judge every movie, all the time, across every genre, every year: Would you rewatch it?
For example: Would you rewatch Argo? (Have you, in fact, rewatched it?) That movie, after all, won the Best Picture Oscar in 2012. (Really! It did! You can Google it.) Argo was widely acclaimed, with a 96 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Yet not too long ago, L.A. Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson asked rhetorically, as part of an argument for the superiority of Django Unchained: “When’s the last time anyone rewatched Argo?” It’s a fair question. There are many critically successful, highly polished, artistically admirable films that come out every year that I think the average viewer is happy to watch once, but never twice. In fact, that description — artistically polished films you never need to watch again — is a pretty useful definition of many Best Picture winners in recent years. Which in turn might help explain why so many recent Best Picture winners seem so pale and uninspired in hindsight.
Or maybe you are, in fact, a rabid rewatcher of The Artist? Maybe you’ve revisited The King’s Speech a half-dozen gleeful times since 2011? Maybe you keep a copy of Slumdog Millionaire on your hard drive, to be booted up and re-enjoyed at any moment? A film’s rewatchability is not its definitive merit, but the extent to which some of these films — Best Picture winners, all! — have vanished from our cultural consciousness suggests that rewatchability is a useful indicator for some sort of lingering impact. Of course, rewatchability is in the eye of the re-beholder: When Nicholson made her claim about Argo, another critic, Nick Pinkerton, responded: “No fucking way anyone rewatches Django Unchained.” But at least we now have a solid point of comparison between two very different movies — let the rewatchability debates begin!
Though it’s hard to recall, not that long ago, rewatching a movie was very difficult. Before the advent of the VCR, your best chance at rewatching a classic was either finding it on late-night TV or studiously checking the tattered rep-cinema schedule that you’d magnetically affixed to your fridge. You couldn’t simply stream any movie whenever you like, which now, more or less, you can. The O. Henry–style irony, of course, is that now that you can rewatch any movie you like, no one has any time to rewatch anything. So rewatching, while increasingly possible, has also become, in our age of notorious overabundance, a particularly precious and specific kind of endorsement.
The idea that you might rewatch something no longer suggests a baseline level of intrigue — it suggests an engagement so vital that you’re willing to allocate precious future hours to revisiting something you’ve already checked off your overstuffed cultural agenda. And no, this is not a suggestion that “easy” entertainment, of the type that might prompt cultish revisiting, somehow trumps “difficult” entertainment, of the type doesn’t go down quite so smoothly. In fact, difficult films are often the ones that prompt revisiting, precisely because their pleasures require multiple viewings to be fully appreciated. And easy entertainment often feels disposable precisely because everything it has to offer can be absorbed in one sitting.
So using this sole criterion — rewatchability — how would this year’s Oscar contenders fare? The artfully crafted Bridge of Spies, for example, strikes me as the quintessential Quality Movie™ that few viewers will ever feel moved to watch again. The Revenant has proved hard for many people to sit through once, let alone twice. The Martian is exactly the kind of film you watch once on the big screen, then later rewatch the last half of when you stumble on it on TNT. By contrast, Spotlight, perhaps objectively the quietest film in contention, is a film I couldn’t wait to see again, even as I was watching it for the first time — in part to better understand how such an understated film delivers such an emotional wallop. (Also: Ruffalo.) Mad Max: Fury Road, of course, has its vocal chorus of supporters, and I’ll confess it’s the only film among this year’s nominees that I willingly paid to see in the theater twice. That might not mean it’s the greatest film among the Oscar contenders, but it definitely wins this year’s Rewatchie trophy, hands down. In a very funny, tongue-in-cheek look at this year’s Best Picture nominees, Alexandra Petri of the Washington Post nods to this idea that a willingness to rewatch something has become a kind of ultimate endorsement. “I saw this movie four times in theaters,” she writes of Mad Max: Fury Road. “I would see it again right now.” I suspect that’s a sentiment no one’s ever expressed about The Artist.
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Rapper T-Pain On Smackdown Rap Battle, If It Got Too Personal, & Who Won
Amusingly, rapper T-Pain commented on the Smackdown rap battle between New Day and The Usos seeing as how he has been teaming up with Xavier Woods lately on Twitch:
“I felt like they should have had me instead of Wale. I love Wale to death, that’s my brother. But I felt like I could’ve had a little more insight on that thing. I think the reason they didn’t get me is because I would’ve been a little biased. Not going to lie.”
He also talked about if he felt that New Day truly won the battle:
“I feel like they held it down. They did their thing. Kofi got a little confused at a couple points. But Big E held it down. Xavier always holds it down, me and him are always rapping on the phone so that’s always cool. But I’ve got to say man, Usos, they didn’t disappoint at all. They had it together. I think they had to watch some battles on YouTube beforehand, just so they can see how that works. And like Wale said, I don’t think it was fair because they’re twins and they share the same brain.”
Finally, T-Pain mentioned the reference that was made by Jimmy Uso to the Paige sex tape (that has since been removed from their video by WWE):
“Everything got a little personal after a while. But that’s what battles are. When you get into a battle, if you mess around and start losing a little bit then you know it’s starting to get personal. Things are going to get way deep into the history.”
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Book Showcase: See by Lee Ann Ward
Title: See
Author: Lee Ann Ward
**SEE was voted The TBR Pile Review Site's Book of the Year for 2017!**
Carlie Henson is pretty, popular, and an All-American girl. She has a gorgeous boyfriend and a mother who lives to keep her safe. Probably because everyone is drawn to Carlie…including the murderers she has the ability to identify when she looks in the eyes of their victims.
Keeping Carlie’s secret is pretty simple when all she has to do is avoid dead people. But when a cheerleader at her high school is murdered and the killer seems to have gotten away with it, Carlie knows what she has to do. With the help of her boyfriend, Dillon, she devises a plan to see what she must, no matter her personal safety.
But when Dillon is the one who’s injured in the showdown with the killer, Carlie vows to never help anyone again…until the next young woman attacked is her best friend, Jenna.
Lee Ann Ward is an award-winning fiction author with a background in journalism and mass communications. She is also the former Senior Editor of Champagne Books. Her love of books started at the age of three, and she's been addicted ever since. She's published six novels with her seventh and eighth on the way (SEE a YA paranormal by Evernight Teen in June 2017 and GLIMPSES OF WILDERNESS a YA romance by Inkspell Publishing in December 2017) and has written several more. When she's not writing, she's reading, singing, baking designer cakes, bowling and dreaming. She's married to Joe (who also happens to be her publicist) and they have 4 sons whom they adore, and a granddaughter who is the love of their life. They make their home in the small fishing community of Bayou La Batre, Alabama.
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In the north of England, single women are beginning to disappear from weddings. A pattern soon becomes clear: Someone is luring the women away, only to leave the victims’ bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations. Tony and Carol are called upon to investigate but this may be the toughest case they’ve ever had to face. Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Paula McIntyre and her partner Elinor must deal with a cruel cyber-blackmailer targeting their teenage ward, Torin.
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Ben Carson: A New Black Face or the Same Old Blackface?
by JY on April 1, 2013 at 1:52 am
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Dr. Benjamin Carson is black. Did you know this?
This fact has eluded many people, but it cannot be denied. In Ben Carson’s genome, the continent of Africa is being forcefully expressed. And yet amazingly, this new political media darling, whose name may well be forgotten three memes from now, is the newest hero not of the Democratic party, who will presumably one day found the United Federation of Planets, but of the Republicans, who would probably prefer the future envisioned in Gattaca, with its routine genetic purity tests (as long as they are performed by nice, sanitary corporations and not a federal bureaucracy).
What a difference two Novembers make! Obama’s re-election is now universally recognized as the triumph of demographics over race baiting, and the Intelligent Design of conservatism is being annihilated by census-driven Darwinism. It is time to adapt or die. Whether they are hyping Marco Rubio or Bobby Jindal (not to forget plucky pizza mogul Herman Cain), the Republicans are embarking on a full court press to make their cricket league look more like a basketball team, and Dr. Carson, the genial Christian neurosurgeon, is the latest draft pick for the Washington Elephants. (How’s that for an over-extended metaphor? Take a lesson, Tom Friedman!)
Carson has been around for a while. He has authored five books and inspired documentaries and movies about his life’s work in medicine, and advances what appears to be a convivial evangelism that nonetheless contains many of the tropes of the radical right. But his coming-out party was in February when he spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast. There, in an overexposed address, and with Barack Obama sitting mere feet away, Ben Carson politely rebuked some of the Democrats’ platform, while humping for the Republicans by telling the President that God Almighty wants a 10% flat tax.
Ben Carson has gone on dazzle the right wing press through one talk show love-in after another, touting his spitting and roasting of the President as a thumb in the eye to “political correctness” (what could be more politically correct, however, than Obama’s obligatory appearance at a national religious spectacle founded and run by fascists?).
But can Carson aid the GOP’s effort to re-brand itself as a political Snickers bar, becoming the chocolate coating on a pasty white interior wrapped around a core of nuts?
Despite being a celebrated surgeon who performed the first successful separation of conjoined twins joined at the head , the plain fact is that but for his skin color, Carson might rise to the heights of a keynote speaker at CPAC, but little higher. Intelligent and friendly, Carson’s contribution to the political dialogue at the national level is not awe-inspiring. Republicans, preferring as they do firebrands like Texas senator Ted Cruz (who recently endorsed skinning endangered lizards for which to make his boots) would be the first to toss mild-mannered Carson out with the soup bones if he didn’t serve a convenient role at this point in time, which is that he can wag his finger in Obama’s face and get away with it in a way that a blonde Arizona governor cannot.
If I sound like I am reducing Ben Carson to a piece of Machiavellian PR, then I am coming through clearly. No one can pretend that the biggest transformation happening in politics today isn’t the white power structure’s haphazzard attempts to share authority with those who came over on the Amistad and not the Mayflower (I’d include a vessel from the Mariel Boat Lift if I could name one). This is part of a long evolution in American politics to be sure, but Obama clearly upped the ante. Even black pop culture was dispirited about the chances for a black President in this century right up until Obama’s first nomination (all that “elected on a Friday/assassinated on a Saturday” jive). With the last hopes of the revanchist right and its billionaire generals exhausted by  the 2010 Tea Party putsch that sabotaged Republican hopes of reclaiming the White House, the entire Republican party is in play. And the first honest wind to blow through their think tanks is the recognition that the day of racial reckoning has arrived.
Things had to get pretty FUBAR to inspire that brainwave, however. The public face of conservatism is now safely in the clutches of the Joe Arpaios and Donald Trumps, and new conservative media is caught in a vicious circle jerk where founding journals like National Review compete with upstarts like Breitbart.com to out nasty each other, all in service of scoring the most picayune victories over the middling Left. Meanwhile, Rome continues to burn, and establishment Republicans must find a way to work with establishment Dems to avoid the next blow to the nation which, as the Cyprus debacle shows, could arrive at any moment. All this while the plutonium of the of the GOP base continues its meltdown, burning ever hotter as it does.
So the GOP is not merely reevaluating itself, it is faced with a self-inflicted existential threat, and they realize it. But can the institutional GOP conduct a Renaissance while its conservatives continue their jihad?
Possibly. The GOP is too big to vaporize overnight, and if nothing else, they love a good gimmick. That is why they will continue to position men like Ben Carson front and center. He is their new Sarah Palin. Carson even tickles the Republicans balls with hints that he might run for president, a joke which everyone enjoys, and which lets the GOP remind itself that when they aren’t organizing nationwide efforts to discredit a black man’s birth certificate, they can toy with being progressive too.
Carson’s day in the sun as poster child for a self-reflective Republican party is complimented by RNC chairman Reince Priebus’ freshly minted $10 million dollar initiative for GOP outreach into previously untapped minority communities. But this effort is at least half a generation late, with half as many dollars being pledged as needed (Jesus, when you think of the $20 million alone that shrunken apple doll Sheldon Adelson dumped into Newt Gingrich’s campaign to keep that turd afloat…!), and with the wrong chairman in charge of the task (should Michael Steele not have been permitted to launch this effort rather than being forced to drop and give Rush Limbaugh 20?)
The Republicans have tried every trick in the book to make themselves look like the party of inclusivity instead of the party of Voter ID laws, all of them shams. Now the real heavy lifting begins. When it does–if it does– the Republicans will come face to face with the reality of school lunches and public housing and migrant labor, issues they have only observed from the owner’s box until now. Conservatism will confront the final limits of its rhetoric as it tries to sell bootstrapping door to door, and the Democrats will not feel the effects of this for some time. After all, when you ask a white Republican to name a black Republican, they list names like Colin Powell and Condi Rice, struggling for a moment before they come up with Alan Keyes. When you ask a white Democrat to name a black Democrat, they list their friends.
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Legendary drag racer Bob ‘The Quarter-Mile Smile’ Shepherd
By David Cook | Photos: David Cook, Grant Stephens, Joe Maday, John Baremans, John Bosher, 11 Jan 2020 Features
People's hero Bob Shepherd, aka the Quarter-mile smile, reviews nearly 50 years of living dangerously
DRAG racing is an unusual activity. At its heart it’s a blue-collar motorsport, but it creates opportunities for some people to become more than the sum of their parts, to rise above the world around them and forge a persona that carries them to a place they never dreamed possible.
This article was first published in Street Machine's Hot Rod Magazine #20, 2019
Bob Shepherd – aka the Masked Hero, the Quarter-Mile Smile – is just such a character. But don’t let those light-hearted monikers fool you; Bob is nobody’s fool, and when he was on a race track he’d be giving his all to beat opponents into submission – even though he reckons he has the world record for the longest racing losing streak. But win or lose, he (almost always) was having a ball.
Bob and drag racing were made for each other, and with his long-serving crew (or Buccaneers as Bob calls them), he was a part of the quarter-mile scene for nearly 50 years.
“The first meeting I went to got me in,” he recalls. “Thinking about the thrill of staging a drag car, it’s raising the hairs on the back of my neck just talking about it. Unless you’ve done it, you can’t understand. It doesn’t matter whether you’re driving a 24-second car or a four-second car, there’s something about staging a drag car that you’ve got to do to understand that you’ve got to do it again.”
Bob drove this wheelstanding Thames van at the Castlereagh strip in the late 60s. It was built without knowing that there was even a rulebook
Bob’s racing career is divided into two halves. The first half began at the wheel of his street-driven EH sedan, before, as a member of the new Marigold Drag Team, he took the driving spot of a wheelstanding Thames van in 1967.
“The ‘Sinner’ Thames van had signwriting for Singer sewing machines; we called it Sinner because we only had to change the one letter,” Bob says. “We built it without knowing there was a rulebook. When we got it to the track we found that the engine was too far back and we couldn’t run in any class, so they called it a ‘funny car’. Then we discovered that if we put this big box full of steel on the back it would wheelstand.
Bob’s first serious crash was at Calder Park, where he was knocked unconscious. Bob remembers nothing of the incident, but it was serious enough for rescuers to have to cut the body off the car to get him out
“We were taking it to Calder and on the way the body fell apart because I’d only just learned to weld – it was all done with an arc welder – and the heavy box was on a trailer belonging to the Renfrew brothers, and that trailer fell apart and had to be left on the side of the road.”
In 1971 Bob ran a Holden six rail with a blower off a Commer truck.
Bob’s first outing in the ex-Graeme Cowin ‘Psycho III’ Fuel Altered was at Oran Park in December 1975, but he finished up in the concrete wall in the braking area
“I don’t know where we got the blower from, but it was used to pump oil or something and it was full of this black shit. We cleaned it up and it worked – when the belts stayed on. We put SU carbies on the top and I made my own manifold. For a blow-off plate I cut a hole in the manifold, welded two long bolts to the bottom and attached a 6mm flat plate with springs. Bingo! Instant blow-off plate!
“At the track, the engine backfired and broke the weld on one bolt. The next night, in the garage under the flats I was living in, I took the plate off and got ready to re-weld the bolt. I attached the earth and put the arc welding rod in the manifold. The explosion was like a small bomb as fuel fumes ignited. Luckily I had my welding mask on, because it blew me off the trailer and up the garage wall. Nothing caught fire, but my ego was bruised.”
Bob puts this incident, and countless others, down to a malady he calls ‘dickheaditis’. This is, according to Bob, a theme of his life.
“I’m not allowed to set the fire at home because I’ll burn the joint down,” he says. “I’m just very clumsy. I live on five acres, and I had to saw a branch off a big gum tree. It’s probably only two metres up, so I got a ladder, got my chainsaw, cut the branch off and it fell just the way it should, but the bushy bit on the end acted just like a trampoline and it bounced back up, hit the side of the ladder and took it and me out – dickheaditis!”
In 1975 Bob bought and campaigned Graeme Cowin’s ‘Psycho III’ Fuel Altered.
“It never blew up until I put a gearbox in the car,” he says. “Castlereagh track manager Dave Andrew said he didn’t want us pushing the car back after burnouts anymore, so we had to put a reverser in the car. While I was at it I put a Lenco gearbox in too, and in the garage I could reach everything but, of course, I never put my suit on, never strapped myself in, so when I took off in first gear and went for second gear I couldn’t reach it. By the time I realised, the engine blew up!
At the wheel of the ex-Graeme Cowin ‘Psycho III’ Fuel Altered. Bob loved the idea of crossed-up, out-of-shape burnouts to entertain the crowd, something he now laments has been lost to the sport
“When I first bought the Fuel car I put front wings on it, and on the first run one of them had kicked over and pushed the car off-line. Across the finish line I went for the parachute release and missed it, went for it again and missed again and had to go for it again. Once again, it had worked in the garage but not on the quarter-mile.
“So I went into the net, and that is the most frightening event you can imagine, because in a Fuel car the front goes under the net and the net stops, instantly, five centimetres off your nose because it’s the rollcage that stops it. If the rollbar came off, so would your head. That is the most frightening thing I have ever experienced.”
Bob had a fascination with twin-engined cars. This twin Holden six-powered car constantly broke the dual-chain drive link between the two engines. At one event he took the link out at and ran it in C/Dragster on just the back engine
In 1978 Bob’s Funny Car was engulfed in flames at Castlereagh – his first fire.
“I had been under my car at home doing the bearings when I was called to the phone. You should never do that. I came back and put the sump on, but I’d undone a cap and hadn’t done it back up. So when I got to three-quarter track it let go. The fire was so bad and I was getting so hot that I undid my belt and I jumped up on my haunches because I was getting out. I thought the car had gone into the bush on the right, so I bailed out the left window, but the car had gone in on the left and I’m running around covered in burning oil setting the bush on fire. The fire crew guy who got to me put the fire out and carried me out, getting burns all over his belly. They laid me on the ground and were peeling my firesuit off when Ken, my crewman, got there, and he thought they were peeling my skin off! It wasn’t widely reported, but I nearly burnt to death!”
At the end of 1978 Bob scored a drive in Ed Stipanovich’s ‘Sindicate’ Mustang nitro Funny Car. The car had great potential, but Bob had only limited success at the wheel.
“The problem we had was that nobody knew how to tune the clutch, so I’d be laying rubber and smoking the tyres all over the track,” he says.
Bob called time on the first phase of his drag racing career in 1979.
“It was just money that stopped us in 1979,” he says. “All those years that I raced, I’d worked nights pulling beers and my wife worked as a hairdresser, and every cent we ever had went into it. I had nothing, but we had a race car. We were well past the stage of thinking that maybe we ought to buy some furniture, or caring that we had an oven door that wouldn’t close properly.
“After we stopped racing the marriage fell apart too, so the marriage was all about what we did at Castlereagh, I think.”
Bob drove Ed Stipanovich’s ‘Sindicate’ Mustang in 1979, but was hamstrung by a lack of knowledge in the team on how to tune the clutch. Graeme Cowin had those skills and took over the driving
But Bob came back for big second act when drag racing returned to Sydney at Eastern Creek in 1990, piloting a series of Funny Cars, including a nitro-fuelled one that seriously injured and burnt him in a crash at Calder Park in 1998.
Bob bought this Barracuda alcohol Funny Car from Adelaide racer Kevin Christerson after a $10,000 win on the pokies, hence the name The Gambler. Bob was always a favourite with the crowds and had a never-ending string of T-shirts with current messages about his racing
“The fuel tank split off the startline and I hit the wall, knocking me unconscious,” he says. “The car continued down the track at about 70mph, burning badly, and came to a stop past the finish line when it veered across the strip into the other wall.
“I woke up in the helicopter on the way to hospital, and then again at hospital as they were cutting off my ex-John Force firesuit. I had a red, burnt, swollen face, no eyebrows and second-degree burns to my hands [the gloves had melted in the fire]. My brother, who lives in Melbourne, put me on a plane for home and told me: ‘Look down because if anybody sees your face you’ll frighten them.’ These are the consequence of an amateur – me – trying to race on nitro.”
Bob’s biggest moment came when he ran his first four-second quarter-mile pass, in February 2006.
“That was unbelievable and easy; that’s the silly part about it,” he says. “We’d run 5.0 maybe 30 times and it felt like another 5.0. I didn’t know I’d run a 4.97 until the fire crew told me. What got me was that the track and all the spectators there understood how important it was for us. The fact that they stopped the meeting to celebrate with us was amazing.”
In 2007 Bob surprised the drag racing world by offering his Top Fuel driving seat to his 19-year-old daughter Amanda.
“When she asked I said: ‘Look, you’re too young, you can’t reach the pedals, the answer is no.’ I can’t remember why I changed my mind. It nearly cost me my [second] marriage; my wife Lee and I split up for four months, she just couldn’t hack it. I thought it was a lot safer than she did, and obviously she was just worried about her daughter.
“I took Amanda to the Sydney track in a 15-second ute and took her up and down until she knew the place backwards. We took her to Ken Lowe’s driving school and she got her licence. Her first pass was a launch; that scared the crap out of her, but from that point on it was easy, which I don’t understand, because it’s not easy. Maybe it was her age.”
Bob jokes about losing streaks, but he has two gold Christmas tree trophies, this one while in ‘Masked Hero’ disguise for winning Competition Eliminator at the 1995 Winternationals
Bob’s last pass, in 2011 at Sydney Dragway, was also his quickest, running a 4.93 in qualifying at 295mph, but he hurt the car and didn’t have the parts to fix it properly.
“In the end we simply ran out of money,” he says. “In those days I had seven or eight guys working here and this factory paid for it, because you could do that then. They’ve changed the tax rules now where you can’t sponsor yourself, and my accountant said: ‘This has to stop.’”
If there’s been one unique facet to Bob’s racing career, it’s his capacity to finance race cars through all manner of sources, from wins on the pokies to hire car purchases.
“We bought the Cowin Fuel Altered with a car loan, and that’s what we did – bought a car,” he says. “I’ve always had a reputation of paying back whatever I borrow, so my credit rating with the banks was excellent. Those were the days when interest rates were sky-high, and if you didn’t meet the payments they’d come out and repossess it. I don’t know how they would have driven the Fuel Altered away!
“Kevin Christerson’s Funny Car was bought in 1992 out of, I think, nine dollars that I had in my pocket as we were being hustled out of a club at Penrith as it was closing. I put it through a machine and won $10,000,” he continues. “It was a one in hundred bazillion chance. I honestly believe that everything in your life is written in the book when you’re born, and it was written that on this day I’d win that money and tomorrow I’d borrow some more and buy a Funny Car, which is exactly what happened. I borrowed another $20,000-plus to get the car and spares.”
It’s been very important to Bob that his racing operation has been a family concern.
“To have a favourable impression on your family, it’s important that they admire you, if that’s the word,” he says. “They need to respect you, and drag racing gave me more respect with my children – Mathew, Rachel and Amanda – than anything else ever could. I think drag racing is important to every family that’s involved.”
At the end of the day, Bob has been such a widely liked and popular racer because of his philosophy: ‘If you can’t beat ’em, entertain ’em’.
“We’ve been in the entertainment business, because we weren’t really winners,” he says. “I think the whole deal is about entertaining the crowd. They’ve only got two people to watch; it’s not as though they’re having to track a whole crowd of you. I go to be there, to race. Winning is just a major, major bonus, because we never won many.
“I think I’d have a world record for the number of losses,” he laughs. “At one time I went from 1978 to 1995 between winning races [though they were both major events: the Grand Finals and the Winternationals], and with the Fuel car it was 10 years of never ever winning a meeting. Yet we were there, and smiling, and I’d do it all again tomorrow.”
The view from the crew
FOR Bob’s daughter Amanda, witnessing her dad’s first four-second pass in 2006 at Sydney Dragway will always be one of her most cherished memories.
“As soon as Dad hit the throttle, the golden flames reached high into the sky,” she recalls. “I got excited when the flames were still alight at half-track, and things were really good when the flames were still high at 1000ft, but when Dad went through the finish line and I looked at the timing board and saw 4.97, I honestly have never jumped as high as I did that night. I screamed with excitement, threw my fist in the air a thousand times and burst into tears.
“I remember running and jumping into the tow vehicle so fast and hard that I knocked my knee on the tow bar and almost didn’t make it into the back of the ute. The adrenalin stopped it from hurting instantly. The crew and I were hugging each other the entire way down to the bottom end. As soon as I reached Dad, I gave him the biggest hug I have ever given him and he hugged me back (this was a bonus considering he doesn’t like to be touched – he was on cloud nine).
“As we were driving back up the return road, the crew were all still going ballistic and Dad and I were hanging out of the Fuel car going crazy and celebrating along with the crowd. The track officials stopped us and did a massive interview with Dad in front of the crowd on the burnout pad – this made his night! To think that they all thought so much of my dad to stop the meeting and congratulate him on such a milestone was unbelievable.
“I’ve never been more proud of my dad than I was that night. He showed us all that we didn’t need the best of the best to hit this milestone – all we needed was perseverance, determination and a crew that would work hard and stick together like glue, and that’s exactly what we had!
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The project site consists of 5.5 acres of property and is slated to feature 199 rental residential units along the anticipated extension of the MMTA's Greenline through the city's Davis Square. Construction is expected to commence in May and be complete by 2015."
It's still a new topic, and so I wasn't able to find any more details online about the development, but it's still exciting!
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Boston Real Estate in the Movies...and free parking!
By The Charles Realty
Posted Thursday, Mar 24, 2011
As we all know, with the passing of Elizabeth Taylor yesterday we lost a true legend in Hollywood. Boston was truly blessed to not only watch her on our local movie screens but to see her grace Boston's theatre stage. This is just one early example of Boston's ties with Hollywood. But never before has the city been so highlighted in Hollywood then in recent years. The Town, The Fighter, The Departed, The Women, The Social Network, 21, Knight and Day, to name just a few. Take the good with the bad, the scenes in recent movies, haven't always been so favorable, but all in all movie goers have gained a wonderful appreciation for the architecture of Boston's Back Bay and South End classic brownstones and cafes, the sweeping views of the Charles River, of Cambridge and Harvard's famous campus, the charming streets of Charlestown and the bustling streets of South Boston. And of course, who can forget the insider sneak peaks at Fenway Park during The Town. If you have walked the Back Bay, South End, Cambridge, Downtown Boston, Charlestown, South Boston, the Waterfron and the Fenway, in the last few years, you were bound to run into the equipment, wardrobe and catering trucks as well as those non-sensical directional signs pointing the way to set. All creating quite the buzz in our small often underappreciated city.
Thanks to Hollywood's latest "IT" guy and Boston bad boy turned legend-in-the making, Mark Wahlberg, we have a new movie coming to Boston's South End. This movie, set to film here in May, is a Seth McFarlane creation about a man whose teddy bear comes alive due to a wish made during his childhood. Wahlberg and Black Swan star Mila Kunis star in this movie. The scenes will be shot in and around Chandler and St. Charles streets. Areas around Columbus Ave, Clarendon St/Appleton St/Berkeley St, will be blocked off for film equipment.
But don't worry residents...Hollywood is picking up your parking bill...just look for flyers to be passed out before filming. If only they would have supplied parking during the blizzards.
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Kellogg's targets youth market with 'The Quest for the Chocovore Idol' integrated campaign for Krave cereal
By Gillian West-11 February 2014 14:15pm
Kellogg's chocolate cereal brand Krave/Tresor is leveraging the power of mobile media to engage young audiences with a new multi-platform pan-European campaign created with Carat, Isobar and Leo Burnett.
'The Quest for the Chocovore Idol' commences with mobile game - Pitfall!Krave - and culminates in a MTV-hosted real-world event staged in Malta.
Running across eight European markets, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK, the three agencies have devised a campaign that aims to strengthen the cereal brand's relationship with the youth audience, all the while boost sales across the key European markets.
The mobile game at the core of the campaign has been developed in partnership with Activision Publishing Inc. with Carat extending the digital experience into the real-world through the MTV partnership.
The activity sees consumers invited to download the game through their relevant app store and completing all six levels, four winning players will then be selected to win the ultimate 'idol' prize worth £10,000 by participating in a real-life quest. Daily prizes will also be on offer for those purchasing Krave promotional packs during the campaign period.
"Mobile games have a great resonance among our key audience and are the perfect platform through which teens can directly experience the brand. ‘The Quest for the Chocovore Idol’ campaign immerses teens in a virtual fun branded experience, which goes beyond the realm of the digital world and expands seamlessly into the real one. This fully integrated campaign sees MTV, a key teen brand, become the nexus between the real and virtual world, and reflects consumer insights on the most relevant channels to drive brand engagement and sales," remarked Kellogg's European brand manager, Laura Bryant.
Ad agency Leo Burnett created the 'Quest' idea to immerse teenage fans in the digital world where they have to work to get their hands on the 'Chocovore Idol', the ultimate source of all chocolate.
Carat Global has since developed The Quest for the Chocovore Idol's overarching strategy and communications architecture, with a three-month integrated campaign, spanning multiple markets, touch points, media partners and platforms - TV, digital display and search. Carat has also overseen the development of the mobile app with Activision and the MTV media partnership.
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There’s no room in the modern workplace for bullying and intimidating work colleagues.
Companies should have anti bullying practices in place and in most countries around the world there are laws to protect people who are being bullied.
The Oxford dictionary defines bullying as seeking to “harm, intimidate, or coerce someone perceived as vulnerable” but in some situations it’s difficult to decide whether or not an activity is actually bullying.
Over in Australia a worker claimed that he was bullied by a colleague who repeatedly broke wind at him.
David Hingst claimed that his ex-colleague Greg Short would “lift his bum and fart” on him up to 6 times a day.
Mr Hingst didn’t take this well and sued his former employer for A$1.8m (nearly £1m).
Now, let’s pause here for a moment and hold our breath.
Bullying in the workplace is clearly wrong but claiming damages of nearly £1 million when somebody breaks wind in front of you does seem a bit steep.
Mr Hingst was adamant though and last year took his case to the Supreme Court of Victoria.
The Court found that there was no bullying.
Mr Hingst didn’t agree with the decision and appealed against it and last week the appeal was heard by the Court of Appeal.
Mr Hingst reportedly told the Australian Associated Press that “I would be sitting with my face to the wall and he would come into the room, which was small and had no windows. He would fart behind me and walk away. He would do this five or six times a day”.
Mr Short, the alleged perpetrator of this “crime” had said that he may “have done it once or twice” but denied doing it with the intention of distressing or harassing Mr Hingst.
Alas for Mr Hingst, the Court of Appeal rejected his appeal and found there was no bullying.
Mr Hingst though isn’t taking this sitting down and reportedly has said that he plans to appeal to the High Court.
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Working for the NHS was miserable so I started dance classes on my ward
After we’d all hip-hopped in front of the patients things changed – boundaries between doctors and nurses were gone and people smiled more
Guddi Singh
Paediatric doctor
Thu 3 Nov 2016 03.30 EDT Last modified on Tue 17 Jul 2018 03.51 EDT
Barnet Bopping is a pilot project I developed with colleagues to bring dance to the paediatric ward of Barnet hospital.
Things are not going well in the NHS right now. It is under sustained attack day after day; the media bad-mouths it, while the people who work for it are being asked to do more and more with fewer and fewer resources.
In my 15 years of study and training, I have watched cuts immiserate the services we can offer children and their parents all over the country. Fewer funded paediatric nurse training spots; local closures leading to clogged emergency departments; and £80bn slashed from mental health services resulting in ever more troubled young people occupying acute hospital beds, because there’s simply nowhere else for them to go.
Working in a health service under pressure – one that is low in finances, low in staff and low in morale – is hard. And things are only going to get worse. The current political climate actively pits health workers and patients against each other, the opposite of what caring relationships are supposed to look like. Under this kind of pressure, it’s not only the patients who need healing, it’s also the staff.
I felt this myself. I would see my colleagues, hungry and thirsty from lack of breaks with circles under their eyes, struggle to do their jobs. Being in hospital can be scary and alienating for sick children at the best of times – how much worse when the staff looking after them are too tired and busy even to smile?
I've never felt prouder of the NHS than when my grandmother died
I decided to do something about it. Barnet Bopping is a pilot project I developed with colleagues that brings dance to the paediatric ward of Barnet hospital, in north London. The aim is to help patients, parents and staff feel happier, healthier, less stressed and more connected by doing physical activity together that’s mood lifting and fun.
One morning, we gathered some of the kids and staff in the playroom and I asked a friend – who happens to be a nurse on the ward – to lead a hip-hop dance class. At first it felt a bit awkward; here we were, in the middle of the working day, my colleagues and I, swaying our hips with the consultant. And in front of the parents. But with every new move, and with every song, we all got more and more into it. Before long we forgot who we were, and even where we were. It didn’t matter whether we were a doctor, nurse, patient, parent or cleaner – all that mattered was the music. By the end, the atmosphere on the ward was really, well, happy.
I noticed how things changed after that. The boundaries between the nurses and doctors were gone. People smiled more. The team communicated better. It made us all wonder why we didn’t do things like that more often.
On its own this will not fix the NHS. But it is a way for us, in our local general hospital, to take matters back into our own hands, to resist the destruction of our health service and try to offer the best care we can to our patients.
Wellbeing should be for all of us. Health workers operate under huge stress, all while feeling as if we aren’t really doing justice to our patients. We need take care of each other – health workers and patients alike. Whether it’s standing up for patient safety or being creative at work, we stand with our patients. Cuts or no cuts, this is the kind of spirit that hasn’t yet been crushed in the NHS.
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Microsoft, Facebook to help tame internet ahead of Canada's election, official says
Published: May 27, 2019 at 7:42 a.m.
Updated: May 27, 2019 at 9:11 p.m.
By Kelsey Johnson and David Ljunggren
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and Facebook Inc have agreed to help boost the security of Canada's October election by removing fake accounts and cracking down on bots, a top government official said on Monday.
Last month the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau complained that the world's major social media companies were not doing enough to help combat potential foreign meddling in the vote and said Ottawa might have to regulate them.
Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould told legislators that the two companies had made commitments in a voluntary declaration on electoral integrity.
"The Wild West online era cannot continue - inaction is not an option. Disinformation must not stand," said Gould, repeating the threat to crack down on the firms if necessary.
Government officials say they fear bad actors - some linked to Russia - will try to interfere in the vote.
"The malicious, multi-faceted and ever-evolving tactics constitute a serious strategic threat," said Gould.
Microsoft and Facebook had also agreed to intensify efforts to combat disinformation, promote safeguards to address cyber security incidents and explain their rules about accepting political advertising, Gould said.
"I urge other platforms to follow suit in the coming days," she added in a clear reference to Twitter Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google.
Asked how she could ensure compliance given that the declaration is non-binding, Gould said the keen interest of the public, media and political parties would hold these platforms to account in the short term.
"I think they have an absolute interest to be good actors in the Canadian democratic space, and if that is not the case then we will be coming back with stronger regulatory reforms," she told reporters, without giving further details.
Sources told Reuters earlier this month that Canadian security services were alarmed by what they see as a potential weakness in political parties' cyber networks.
Polls suggest the Liberals could lose the election to the official opposition Conservatives.
(Reporting by David Ljunggren and Kelsey Johnson in Ottawa; Editing by Matthew Lewis and Sonya Hepinstall)
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Imaged Words & Worded Images
Kostelanetz, Richard, ed.
New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1970. First edition. Small 4to in blue paper covered boards with yellow titling on spine inside dust jacket. 102 pp. A profusely illustrated survey edited by Kostelanetz (who also contributes) dissecting the overlap of concrete and visual poetry. Designed without divider pages, the sequencing of.....
Mann und Frau
Rühm, Gerhard
Darmstadt und Neuwied: Hermann Luchterhand Verlag, 1972. Large 8vo softcover in printed black paper wrappers. Unpaginated. Text in German. A striking artists’ book by Rühm in which he explores the intimacy between ‘man and woman’ through letterforms, abstract geometric design elements, and typography. Words carefully placed on each page are.....
Agam, Yaacov, Wim Crouwel, Daphne Duijvelshoff (design)
Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum (SM), 1973. Saddle-stapled 4to in printed wrappers with black and white plates, some in color. Unpaginated. Text in Dutch. Exhibition catalog published on the occasion of Agam’s 1973 exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Profusely illustrated with photographs of Agam’s kinetic paintings, sculptures, installations, and prints.....
Enclosures / Light Pieces
Amsterdam: Edition Galerie Jurka, 1975. Horizontal 8vo in stiff pictorial wrappers. Unpaginated (30 pp). A photographically illustrated catalog issued on the occasion of Hoover’s exhibition at Galerie Jurka in Amsterdam featuring a series of still photographs by Koos Baay from two videos titled ‘Enclosures’ and ‘Light Pieces’ produced 1974 and.....
Edward Kienholz: 11 + 11 Tableaux
Hultén, K. G. P., Katja Waldén, eds.
Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 1970. Stab-stapled 4to with a cloth covered spine against a chipboard back cover. Unpaginated (ca. 120 pp. with 12 two-panel fold-outs). Parallel text in Swedish and English. A handsome art catalog published on the occasion of Kienholz’ solo exhibition at Moderna Museet in Stockholm which ran January.....
Konkretes von A. Stankowski: Malerei und visuelle Information
Stankowski, Anton, Eugen Gomringer, Günther Wirth
Stuttgart: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1974. Small 4to hardcover in foil stamped gray linen boards, inside dust jacket printed in five colors. 156 pp. Text in German. A profusely illustrated anthology of Stankowski’s artwork from 1928 – 1974 which includes painting, collage, geometric design, visual information, and experimental photography. Complete with.....
tekeningen 1971 / 1974
Dekkers, Ad
Otterlo: Rijksmuseum Krölle-Müller, 1977. Saddle-sewn horizontal 4to printed in alternating sheets of white card stock and translucent vellum. Unpaginated (16 pp). Text in Dutch. A catalog published on the occasion of Dekkers’ exhibition of transparent drawings at the Rijksmuseum Krölle-Müller June 11 – July 31, 1977. The translucent sheets are.....
Dokumente / Documents / Documenti
Hamburg: Merlin Verlag, 1971. Small 4to with eight folded brown paper envelopes bound into two foil stamped hardcover panels with a ribbon enclosure. Each envelope with a different item – 1. stab-stapled and folded 4 pp document printed in black and white on recto sides only; 2. softcover 8vo in.....
Ockerse, Thomas
Bloomington, Indiana: Thomas Ockerse, 1970. Edition of 500, of which this is no. 265. White cardboard box 8.875 x 11.3125 x 0.75" in size with affixed label in three colors containing an unbound eight-page pamphlet printed in black and white and fifty-four 8.5 x 11" plates printed in color and.....
Forty-six pieces of mail art, appropriated ephemera, and documents
Np: Np, 1970’s. Thirty-three offset printed and appropriated postcards in various sizes, to which is added three letter-sized envelopes with letters, two letter-sized posters, and eight appropriated cable telegrams. Text in English, Dutch, and French. A collection of printed, rubber-stamped, and handwritten mail art from one of the more conceptual.....
a V TRE EXTRA No.11: Maciunas Dies
Maciunas, George, Ben Vautier, Geoffrey Hendricks, et al.
New York: Fluxus Editorial Council, 1979. First edition. 11.5 x 15" (29.2 x 38 cm) tabloid newspaper. Unpaginated (16 pp.) To which is added an illustration sheet printed on beige paper. Eleventh issue of the v TRE Fluxus newspaper published as a tribute to George Maciunas. With contributions by Robert.....
Daniel Spoerri presents Eat Art: Richard Lindner
Richard Lindner and Daniel Spoerri
Düsseldorf: Eat Art Gallery, 1970. 29.5 x 42.5 cm (11.6 x 16.73") poster printed in black and white on one side only. Text in German English, and French. Announcement poster for Lindner’s exhibition at Spoerri’s long running Eat Art Gallery which opened in 1970 above his restaurant and featured artists.....
Daniel Spoerri presents Eat Art: César
César and Daniel Spoerri
Düsseldorf: Eat Art Gallery, [1971]. 30 x 43.5 x cm (11.8 x 17.125") poster printed in black and white on one side only. Text in German. Announcement poster for César’s exhibition at Spoerri’s long running Eat Art Gallery which opened in 1970 above his restaurant and featured artists such as.....
Daniel Spoerri presents Eat Art: Robin Page
Page, Robin and Daniel Spoerri
Düsseldorf: Eat Art Gallery, [1971]. 30.5 x 43.5 x cm (12 x 17.125") poster printed in black and white on one side only. Text in German English, and French. Announcement poster for Page’s exhibition at Spoerri’s long running Eat Art Gallery which opened in 1970 above his restaurant and featured.....
Fluxshoe
Friedman, Ken, Mike Weaver, David Mayor, Ay-O, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, Ugo Carrera, Henri Chopin, Felipe Ehrenberg, Robert Filliou, Jochen Gerz, Davi Det Hompson, Per Kirkeby, John Lennon, George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneeman, Endre Tot, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Bob Watts, et al.
Cullompton: Beau Geste Press, 1972. Softcover 4to in pictorial red and yellow wrappers. 144 pp. A traveling exhibition catalog in the form of a profusely illustrated artists’ book featuring work by well know and lesser known artists associated to Fluxus. With contributions by Ay-O, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, Ugo Carrera.....
konkrete poezie uit tsjechoslowakije
Grögerová, Bohumila, Josef Hiršal, Josef Honys, Jirí Kolár, Dana Konecná, Karel Milota, Ladislav Nebesky, Ladislav Novák, Jindrich Procházka, Karel Trinkewitz, Jirí Valoch
Amsterdam: Np, [1970]. Tall green paper portfolio 28.2 x 35.5 cm (11.125 x 14") in size with eleven loose plates of the same size measuring 26.8 x 34.9 cm (10.5 x 13.75") printed in color and black and white, and a single sheet of rubber stamped toilet paper. A striking.....
Hayward Gallery, Martha Boto, Alexander Calder, Lily Greenham, Enzo Mari, Bruno Munari, Nam June Paik, Jean Tinguely, Stephen Willats, et al.
London: Hayward Gallery / The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1970. Tall 8vo card stock folder containing seventy-three loose and folded plates printed in black and white. Unbound. Designed by Crosby / Fletcher / Forbes, a catalog issued on the occasion of the exhibit ‘Kinetics’ at the Hayward Gallery, September.....
South of the Slot
Alpert, Richard and K. P. Costello, Alan Scarritt, Jim Pomeroy, Joel Glassman, Paul Demarinis, John Gillen, Robert Ashley, Bill Morrison, Jock Reynolds, Pat Ferrero, Allie Light, Jack Ogden, Jimmy Suzuki, Jim Melchert, Irv Tepper, Terry Fox, Stephen Laub, Dong & Sharon, Tom Marion, Paul Kos, Beth Anderson, Peg Ahrens, Linda Montano, Suzanne Hellmuth, Vaea, Jeffrey Weiss, Simone Forti
San Francisco: Richard Alpert, 1975. Saddle-stapled 4to in printed wrappers. Unpaginated (24 pp.) A photographically illustrated catalog issued on the occasion of a group show titled ‘South of the Slot’ which took place October – November, 1974 at 63 Bluxome Street in San Francisco. Each artist was given a time.....
Pop Art? die Wirklichkeit in neuer Sicht
Beuys, Joseph, Peter Brüning, Gernot Bubenik, Winfred Gaul, Konrad Lueg, Herbert Kaufman, Siegfried Kischo, Ferdinand Kriwet, Gerhard Richter, Lambert Maria Wintersberger
Bamberg: studio b, 1967. Saddle-stapled 4to in pictorial wrappers. Printed in black and white with two plates in color. Unpaginated (12 pp.) Text in German. A rare catalog of the so-called ‘German pop art’ published on the occasion of the 1967 exhibition at the studio b gallery in Bamberg. Each.....
Ögon-Blickar / New Media 1
Ahlstrand, Jan Torsten ed., John Baldessari, Didier Bay, Bernhard and Hilla Becher, Christian Boltanski, Jacques Charlier, Ger Dekkers, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Fred Forest, Jochen Gerz, Paul-Armand Gette, Joel Glassman, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Nancy Kitchel, Jean Le Gac, Barbara and Michael Leisgen, Anthony Mccall, Annette Messager, Edward Ruscha, Katharina Sieverding, David Tremlett
Malmö: Malmö Konsthall / The Arts Centre of Malmö, 1975. Perfect bound softcover 4to in pictorial wrappers. 96 pp. Parallel text in Swedish and English. An art catalog published on the occasion of Malmö Konsthall’s 1975 exhibition with a focus on new media featuring a range of artists from Europe.....
Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art, 1971. First edition. Unbound folio 22 x 16.5" in size (folded) printed in black and white. Unpaginated (12 pp.) An oversized catalog in the form of an artists’ book published on the occasion of Ono’s exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse.....
Yoshida, Hideki
Cranleigh, Surrey: Beau Geste Press, 1976. Edition of 850. Saddle-stapled 8vo in pictorial wrappers with text printed on yellow paper. Unpaginated. An artists’ book of photographs by Yoshida depicting a rectangle of sand on a beach slowly being engulfed by a wave. A handsome publication, meant to be read sideways.....
Leerer Gedankengang
Brand, Heinz
Bern: Erika + Otto Friedrich, 1978. Edition of 400, of which this is no. 238. Saddle-stapled 8vo in card stock wrappers with a 0.4 cm die cut hole at center. Unpaginated (16 pp.) Text in German. A conceptual artists’ book with a German title that translates into ‘Empty Thought’ in.....
fernsehen in nahsicht – statistik des fernsehbildes – 1968
Göttingen: Verlag *) – Udo Breger, 1970. Edition of 1,000. Horizontal softcover 8vo in pictorial wrappers with pages printed on recto sides only. Unpaginated. Text in German. A conceptual artists’ book with a title that translates into ‘television in close-up – statistics of the television picture’ in which Ulrichs examines.....
Research at the Stedelijk, Nov. 5 – Dec. 5 1971.
Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1971. Saddle-stapled 4to in green paper wraps. Unpaginated (ca. 24 pp.) Text in English, Dutch, German, and French. A collection of research, documents, photographs, drawings, findings, and material related to Filliou’s art project titled ‘Territory of the Genial Republic’ which took place at the Stedelijk Museum in.....
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Supported by our families and community, the Puyallup School District Title VI Indian Education Program strives to improve academic achievement, attendance, and graduation rates of American Indian and Alaska Native students while also enhancing their social and cultural awareness.
The Puyallup School District Indian Education Program was established in 1973, and is funded by a formula grant from the Office of Indian Education under the Department of Education (Title VI of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).
The Indian Education program currently serves 326 students in 32 schools representing 626 Native American tribes, bands, or groups in the Puyallup School District and continues to grow. The top five tribes represented among Puyallup students are:
To enroll in the Puyallup School District Title VI Indian Education Program:
Student must be enrolled in the Puyallup School District and
Parents/guardians must complete a Title VI Student Eligibility Certification Form (ED 506 form) for students to receive program benefits and services. For a list of program benefits and services and how to request them, please click here.
506 forms may be obtained from your child's school, the Title VI Indian Education Program office, or click links for a fillable ED 506 form or a print and complete ED 506 form.
Eligibility requires the student, parent, or grandparent have Tribal membership (membership/enrollment number or other proof) with a Federally Recognized Tribe. For list of Federally Recognized Tribes, please click here or click here for the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory, click here. For the National Congress of American Indians Tribal Directory list, click here.
If you have questions about the ED 506 form, need assistance in completing this form, or have questions about Tribes, Bands or Organized Indian Groups, please contact the Indian Education Specialist Michelle Marcoe by email marcoma@puyallup.k12.wa.us or phone at 253-840-8852.
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Definition: Indian means any individual who is:
- a member (as defined by the Indian tribe or band) of an Indian tribe or band, including those Indian tribe or bands terminated since1940, and those recognized by the State in which the tribe or band reside; or
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- considered by the Secretary of the Interior to be an Indian for any purpose; or
- an Eskimo or Aleut or other Alaska Native; or
- member of an organized Indian group that received a grant under the Indian Education Act of 1988 as it was in effect October 19, 1994.
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ZFF Masters: Markus Imhoof
Born 1941 in Winterthur, director Markus Imhoof has been responsible for several of the most important productions in Swiss film history, including the Oscar-nominated feature film DAS BOOT IST VOLL. His large collection of accolades includes the Swiss Film Award, the German Film Award and a Berlinale Silver Bear. His documentary film MORE THAN HONEY went on to become the most successful Swiss cinema film of 2012. Markus Imhoof speaks at the ZFF MASTERS about his activities as a director and his passion for writing. How do documentaries differ from feature films with regard to directing? How does he find new ideas and implement them successfully?
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New Endeavor Takes Innovative Approach to the Healthcare Reform Dialog
For Immediate Release January 6, 2017
Contact: Mark Zitter, Chair Contact Info: (415) 712-1906 mzitter@zetemaproject.org
The Zetema Project Brings Together Distinguished, Diverse Panel in a Novel Way to Inform the Healthcare Discussion
January 9, 2017 (SAN FRANCISCO, CA) – In an era of unprecedented national polarization, why would anyone want to highlight disagreement? One new initiative has an answer: use constructive expert debate to help the public better understand opposing views on controversial topics – in this case, US healthcare. Launching today, The Zetema Project has assembled an unusually diverse group of healthcare leaders that includes officials from both Democratic and Republican administrations and Capitol Hill, as well as senior executives from health systems, insurers, pharma, organized medicine, and patient advocacy groups.
Among the panelists are Dr. Mark McClellan, former Bush Administration FDA Commission and CMS Administrator; Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, former special advisory on health policy to President Obama; Drew Altman, President and CEO, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation; Dr. David Blumenthal, President, The Commonwealth Fund; Dr. James Madara, CEO/EVP of the American Medical Association; Karen Ignagni, President/CEO of EmblemHealth and former President/CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP); Jack Bailey, President, US Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline; and Dr. Penny Wheeler, President/CEO, Allina Health. They are joined by other household names in health policy. The entire panel can be seen here.
Founded by healthcare entrepreneur and philanthropist Mark Zitter, the group will gather on January 17, just three days prior to the Inauguration of President-Elect Trump, to exchange views about the problems in US healthcare and their possible solutions. With a focus on the roles of government and private companies, and markets and regulation, “Issues related to repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act will be high on the agenda,” says Zitter. However, he points out, “Unlike other groups, the goal is not to reach consensus, but to illustrate the pros and cons of various policy options.” Conversations about contentious healthcare issues are available on the Zetema Project’s website in a debate format so visitors can evaluate the arguments for themselves. The public can join the debates through comments and surveys on the site, www.zetemaproject.org.
As a first step in exploring the panelists’ priorities and differences, The Zetema Project challenged each panelist to provide a single recommendation for the incoming Trump Administration. Initial responses, posted on the Project’s website, reflect ideas as diverse as the panelists themselves.
Several panelists made recommendations directly related to repeal and replace. Emanuel, a key architect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) who has been consulted by the Trump team, warned “Maintain Stability in the Exchanges to Avoid Chaos.” The head of the nation’s largest state-based exchange, Peter Lee of Covered California, detailed the successes his exchange has had and suggested “Apply Real-World Lessons to Health Reform.” Another former Obama advisor, Venrock partner Dr. Bob Kocher, wrote “Focus on Lowering Premiums – Not Re-Litigating the ACA.” And Allina’s Wheeler implored the incoming Administration to avoid upending the current system with “It Was Broken! Please Don’t Stop Us From Fixing It!”
Other panelists focused on the delivery system, especially the substantial problem of wasteful healthcare spending. Walmart’s Senior Vice President for Global Benefits, Sally Welborn, wrote “Eliminate the Care That Doesn’t Help Patients.” Noted healthcare improvement leader, Dr. Brent James of Intermountain Health Care, suggested “Look Beyond Coverage Expansion to Improve Healthcare.” Leading patient advocate Debra Ness of the National Partnership for Women and Families encouraged the new Administration to “Make Value the Priority.” American Nurses Association President Pamela Cipriano was quite specific: “Link Payments to Quality – Sound the Death Knell for Fee-for-Service Medicine.”
Many panelists offered patient-focused recommendations, albeit from different angles. Molina Healthcare CEO Dr. Mario Molina suggested “Focus on the Patients, Not the Politics.” The AMA’s Madara made a similar point from the physician’s standpoint with “Allow Physicians to Refocus on Patient Care.” Vocera chief medical officer Dr. Bridget Duffy, the nation’s first chief experience officer, posed the intriguing idea of appointing such a leader for the nation: “Create a Chief Experience Officer (CXO) for the US.” Kaiser Family Foundation’s Altman encouraged the President-elect to combat rising out-of-pocket costs in “Prioritize the Consumer Agenda in Healthcare.”
In response to the nation’s political polarization, there were calls for better communication and collaboration. Lilly USA president and former Medicare official (under George W. Bush) Alex Azar recommended “Listen to Healthcare Leaders, Strengthen What Works.” Former Medicare chief (under George H.W. Bush) Gail Wilensky encouraged the President-elect to “Build Consensus to Replace the ACA While Maintaining Coverage.” And GlaxoSmithKline’s Bailey contributed “Collaborate to Build a Successful Market-Based System that Works for Patients.”
Not every blog post dealt directly with the healthcare delivery and financing system. Panelists also were concerned with medical innovation and technology. Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, President of Brigham and Women’s Healthcare and the former Director of the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute, requested that the new Administration “Maintain NIH Funding to Enable Life-Changing Medical Breakthroughs.”
The Zetema Project will continue publishing its series of blogs and debates on key healthcare policy questions following this month’s meeting, with particular focus on the options lawmakers discuss for healthcare reform.
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Lavazza Coffee awards India PR mandate to Hill+Knowlton Strategies
by H+K India | August 11, 2017
India – The iconic Italian coffee brand Lavazza has selected Hill+Knowlton Strategies as their communication consultant for India.
Lavazza is a Turin-based company founded in 1895 by Luigi Lavazza, and is now led by fourth generation Lavazza family members. As one of the world’s leading coffee brands, it offers premium products for at home, away from home and at office segments. H+K Strategies’ objective will be to continue to position Lavazza as a premium coffee brand amongst its diverse stakeholders. The consultancy will leverage Lavazza’s multiple assets in India including the LavazzaTraining Center in Chennai, which is its largest such center in the world, to drive the PR campaign.
Confirming the appointment, Silvio Zaccareo, Managing Director, Lavazza India stated, “We are proud to have H+K Strategies as our new strategic PR partner. As a key growth market for Lavazza, we are keen to continue to communicate our products and initiatives in India and are looking forward to see the results this new partnership will bring about.”
Chetan Mahajan, President-India & South Asia, Hill+Knowlton Strategies, on winning the mandate, said, “Going Digital first in storytelling is now the approach used by most companies to engage better with their stakeholders and at H+K India that is a core thought process. Lavazza is an iconic Italian coffee brand with a very high commitment to sustainability. We are extremely honoured and delighted to be chosen as their partners to take forth their PR vision in the country.”
We have a strong demonstrated track record in managing communication campaigns in the FMCG and luxury product sector. We will leverage our strengths – creativity, wide network, and strong media relations to further build a strong and positive brand-equity for Lavazza in the country.”
H+K Strategies has deep expertise in consumer facing clients and have won multiple industry recognitions for Marking Communication campaigns.
About Lavazza
Established in 1895 in Turin, the Italian roaster has been owned by the Lavazza family for four generations. Among the world’s most important roasters, the Group currently operates in more than 90 countries through subsidiaries and distributors, exporting 60% of its production. Lavazza employs a total of about 3,000 people with a turnover of more than €1.9 billion in 2016. Lavazza invented the concept of blending — or in other words the art of combining different types of coffee from different geographical areas — in its early years and this continues to be a distinctive feature of most of its products.
The company also has over 25 years’ experience in production and sale of portioned coffee systems and products. It was the first Italian business to offer capsule espresso systems.
Lavazza operates in all business segments: at home, away-from-home and office coffee service, always with a focus on innovation in consumption technologies and systems. Lavazza has been able to develop its brand awareness through important partnerships perfectly in tune with its brand internationalization strategy, such as those in the world of sport with the Grand Slam tennis tournaments, and those in fields of art and culture with prestigious museums like New York’s Guggenheim Museum, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice, and The Hermitage State Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.
About Hill+Knowlton Strategies
Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Inc. is a leading international communications consultancy, providing services to local, multinational and global clients. The firm is headquartered in New York, with 87 offices in 50 countries as well as an extensive associate network. The agency is part of WPP, the world leader in communications services. For more information please visit www.hkstrategies.com
In India, Hill+Knowlton Strategies has more than 135 consultants and operations in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru and Kolkata, plus local affiliations that reach more than 100 cities nationwide. The agency specializes in corporate communications, public affairs, marketing communications, crisis, finance, technology, media & entertainment, and digital communications. For more information please visit www.hkstrategies.in
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Oracle under fire over ethics again: Feds investigating bribery for business in Africa
Oracle is under investigation by the Feds for bribery in its West Africa business dealings. The region is a tough place to do business and poverty causes corruption just as corruption causes poverty. But the entire sector is vulnerable to the problem and along with Oracle HP and IBM also have become entangled.
By James Farrar for On Sustainability | August 31, 2011 -- 19:56 GMT (12:56 PDT) | Topic: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
The Wall Street Journal reports that Oracle is under investigation by the US Department of Justice, the SEC and the FBI for bribery in West and Central Africa. Oracle could face stiff penalties of up to $2 million per incident under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act which makes it illegal to bribe a government official anywhere in the world. In 2008 Siemens settled its FCPA case with the Feds for an unprecedented $1.6 billion in fines and disgorgement of profits. Expect Oracle to cooperate fully and quickly with investigators because Federal sentencing guidelines allow for a reduction in penalties in the event of wrong doing if the firm can demonstrate the incident was an anomaly and that it gnerally has an effective compliance and ethics program in place. But avoiding a fine maybe only half the battle. The biggest bottom line impact could be the potential loss of business upon conviction if Oracle is banned from public sector contracting in many countries. Such was the fate of Siemens.
Important to note we just don't know the scale of the alleged offences under investigation nor the strength of the government's case at this point in time. However, we do know a bit more about the broader scale of the corruption problem in Africa and its consequences. Take Oracle's West Africa base Cote d'Ivoire - it ranks an alarming 146th as one of the most corrupt countries on earth in the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index , life expectancy is a miserable 58 years with an average of 3.3 years of education provision and 23% of the population living on less than $1.25 per day. In fact, Larry Ellison's personal net worth of $39.5 billion according to Forbes exceeds Cote d'Ivoire's GNP of $34.5 billion as estimated by the World Bank. Clearly, West African countries such as Cote d'Ivoire are economically vulnerable and create a vortex of social pressure for anyone doing business there. Under conditions of weak local enforcement and weak internal controls, companies can equally be pressured to succumb to the apparent norm of bribing (demand) or they can take their own permission to do so (supply). The results can be tragic as the German Ministry for International development puts it:
Corruption is one cause of poverty. It impedes poverty reduction.
Poverty is one cause of corruption. It impedes the fight against corruption.
News of the investigation comes after a run of high profile challenges to Oracle's reputation including removal from the Nasdaq OMX Sustainability index for lack of sustainability reporting, removal from the FTSE4Good Index for lack of Human Rights protections and a hostile shareholder resolution demanding a board sub committee for sustainability to ensure Oracle 'walks its talk' on sustainability. However, the issues at stake here can in no way be isolated to Oracle. In fact, HP is currently under investigation for alleged bribery in Russia and IBM settled its FCPA case earlier this year for $10 million. IBM was accused of bribing for business in China and Korea and was found by the SEC to have had 'deficient internal controls'. According to FTSE4Good criteria the entire tech industry, if engaged in public contracting in high risk countries, must be rated as high risk for bribery. The leading NGO/ think tank on the issue, Transparency International describes the problem of public contracting in high risk countries in its most recent annual report:
The enormous amounts of money flowing from government budgets through procurement create ideal opportunities for corruption. Contracts can be awarded without fair competition and politically connected companies can be favoured over competitors. Companies within the same industry can rig their bids, so each company gets a piece of the pie. Our research shows that corruption can add on as much as 50 per cent of a contract’s value. Corruption in public procurement is not just about money though, it can cost lives. Incidences of collapsed buildings and counterfeit medicines have happened in many countries.
The curious thing about the tech sector's vulnerability to the risk of corruption is that of late it has celebrated the motherhood and apple pie virtues of sustainability for value creation. Its hard then to square up the problems at IBM, HP and Oracle with the promise of a Smarter Planet, A Connected World and an Eco Enterprise respectively. In recent years sustainability has become something of a gold rush though innovators would do well to remember to also take care of the basic hygiene factors. Recently Harvard's Michael Porter has led the charge with his idea of Creating Shared Value (CSV) - a sort of reformed Economic Value Added doctrine for the new age. But the ever brilliant John Elkington, father of sustainability accounting, challenged Porter on the importance of first principles:
Michael Porter has made immense contributions in such fields as the five-forces and business-cluster theory, but we should honour – not diss – the work of the pioneers who opened up the new social and environmental horizons, even as we begin to build new, more opportunity-based approaches. Aiming for a target no-one else can yet see doesn't mean that we have to kick over visible targets designed for those still trying to improve their aim. Recognise, too, that CSV is unlikely to pick up some of the really thorny Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) issues, including human rights or bribery and corruption, and – in that context – we should beware of kicking out the bottom rungs of the evolutionary ladder just as emerging market companies are waking up to CSR.
Right on.
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Test Code 25HDN 25-Hydroxyvitamin D2 and D3, Serum
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25-Hydroxyvitamin D2 and D3, S
Diagnosis of vitamin D deficiency
Differential diagnosis of causes of rickets and osteomalacia
Monitoring vitamin D replacement therapy
Diagnosis of hypervitaminosis D
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TOTAL 25-HYDROXYVITAMIN D2 AND D3 (25-OH-VitD)
<10 ng/mL (severe deficiency)*
10-19 ng/mL (mild to moderate deficiency)**
20-50 ng/mL (optimum levels)***
51-80 ng/mL (increased risk of hypercalciuria)****
>80 ng/mL (toxicity possible)*****
*Could be associated with osteomalacia or rickets
**May be associated with increased risk of osteoporosis or secondary hyperparathyroidism
***Optimum levels in the healthy population; patients with bone disease may benefit from higher levels within this range
****Sustained levels >50 ng/mL 25OH-VitD along with prolonged calcium supplementation may lead to hypercalciuria and decreased renal function
*****80 ng/mL is the lowest reported level associated with toxicity in patients without primary hyperparathyroidism who have normal renal function. Most patients with toxicity have levels >150 ng/mL. Patients with renal failure can have very high 25-OH-VitD levels without any signs of toxicity, as renal conversion to the active hormone 1,25-OH-VitD is impaired or absent.
These reference ranges represent clinical decision values, based on the 2011 Institute of Medicine report, that apply to males and females of all ages, rather than population-based reference values. Population reference ranges for 25-OH-VitD vary widely depending on ethnic background, age, geographic location of the studied populations, and the sampling season. Population-based ranges correlate poorly with serum 25-OH-VitD concentrations that are associated with biologically and clinically relevant vitamin D effects and are therefore of limited clinical value.
For SI unit Reference Values, see https://www.mayocliniclabs.com/order-tests/si-unit-conversion.html
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Specimens on patients who are less than 1 year old are only performed on Tuesday and Friday.
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25HDN 25-Hydroxyvitamin D2 and D3, S 49590-3
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2897 25-Hydroxy D2 49054-0
2898 25-Hydroxy D3 1989-3
83670 25-Hydroxy D Total 62292-8
Vitamin D is a generic designation for a group of fat-soluble, structurally similar sterols, which act as hormones. This test is the preferred initial test for assessing vitamin D status and most accurately reflects the body's vitamin D stores.
In the presence of renal disease, testing 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (DHVD) levels might be needed to adequately assess vitamin D status. DHVD testing alone may not clearly indicate deficiencies of vitamin D stores.
Vitamin D compounds in the body are exogenously derived by dietary means; from plants as 25-hydroxyvitamin D2 (ergocalciferol or calciferol) or from animal products as 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (cholecalciferol or calcidiol). Vitamin D may also be endogenously derived by conversion of 7-dihydrocholesterol to 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 in the skin upon ultraviolet exposure.
25HDN is subsequently formed by hydroxylation (CYP2R1) in the liver. 25HDN is a prohormone that represents the main reservoir and transport form of vitamin D, being stored in adipose tissue and tightly bound by a transport protein while in circulation. Biological activity is expressed in the form of DHVD, the active metabolite of 25HDN. 1-Alpha-hydroxylation (CYP27B1) occurs on demand, primarily in the kidneys, under the control of parathyroid hormone (PTH) before expressing biological activity. Like other steroid hormones, DHVD binds to a nuclear receptor, influencing gene transcription patterns in target organs.
25HDN may also be converted into the inactive metabolite 24,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (24,25D) by (CYP24A1) hydroxylation. This process, regulated by PTH, might increase DHVD synthesis at the expense of the alternative hydroxylation (CYP24A1) product 24,25D. Inactivation of 25HDN and DHVD by CYP24A1 is a crucial process that prevents over production of DHVD and resultant vitamin D toxicity.
Based on these considerations circulating 25HDN is the best indicator of optimal vitamin D body stores. The exact levels of optimal circulating 25HDN concentrations remain a matter of debate. Mild-to-modest deficiency can be associated with osteoporosis or secondary hyperparathyroidism. Severe deficiency may lead to failure to mineralize newly formed osteoid in bone, resulting in rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults. The consequences of vitamin D deficiency on organs other than bone are not fully known, but might include increased susceptibility to infections, muscular discomfort, and an increased risk of colon, breast, and prostate cancer.
Modest 25HDN deficiency is common; in institutionalized elderly, its prevalence may be greater than 50%. Although much less common, severe deficiency is not rare either. Reasons for suboptimal 25HDN levels include lack of sunshine exposure, a particular problem in Northern latitudes during winter; inadequate intake; malabsorption (eg, due to celiac disease); depressed hepatic vitamin D 25-hydroxylase activity, secondary to advanced liver disease; and enzyme-inducing drugs, in particular many antiepileptic drugs, including phenytoin, phenobarbital, and carbamazepine, which increase 25HDN metabolism.
Based on animal studies and large human epidemiological studies, 25-hydroxyvitamin D2 and D3 (25-OH-VitD) levels below 25 ng/mL are associated with an increased risk of secondary hyperparathyroidism, reduced bone mineral density, and fractures, particularly in the elderly. Intervention studies support this clinical cutoff, showing a reduction of fracture risk with 25-OH-VitD replacement.
Levels less than 10 ng/mL may be associated with more severe abnormalities and can lead to inadequate mineralization of newly formed osteoid, resulting in rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults. In these individuals, serum calcium levels may be marginally low, and parathyroid hormone (PTH) and serum alkaline phosphatase are usually elevated. Definitive diagnosis rests on the typical radiographic findings or bone biopsy/histomorphometry.
Baseline biochemical work-up of suspected cases of rickets and osteomalacia should include measurement of serum calcium, phosphorus, PTH, and 25-OH-VitD. In patients where testing is not completely consistent with the suspected diagnosis, in particular, if serum 25-OH-VitD levels are greater than 10 ng/mL, an alternative cause for impaired mineralization should be considered. Possible differential diagnosis includes: partly treated vitamin D deficiency, extremely poor calcium intake, vitamin D resistant rickets, renal failure, renal tubular mineral loss with or without renal tubular acidosis, hypophosphatemic disorders (eg, X-linked or autosomal dominant hypophosphatemic rickets), congenital hypoparathyroidism, activating calcium sensing receptor mutations, and osteopetrosis. Measurement of serum urea, creatinine, magnesium, and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (DHVD) is recommended as a minimal additional workup for these patients.
25-OH-VitD replacement in the United States typically consists of vitamin D2. Lack of clinical improvement and no reduction in PTH or alkaline phosphatase may indicate patient noncompliance, malabsorption, resistance to 25-OH-VitD, or additional factors contributing to the clinical disease. Measurement of serum 25-OH-VitD levels can assist in further evaluation, in particular as the liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry methodology allows separate measurement of 25-OH-VitD3 and of 25-OH-VitD2, which is derived entirely from dietary sources or supplements.
Patients who present with hypercalcemia, hyperphosphatemia, and low PTH may suffer either from ectopic, unregulated conversion of 25-OH-VitD to 1,25-OH-VitD, as can occur in granulomatous diseases, particular sarcoid, or from nutritionally-induced hypervitaminosis D. Serum 1,25-OH-VitD levels will be high in both groups, but only patients with hypervitaminosis D will have serum 25-OH-VitD concentrations of greater than 80 ng/mL, typically greater than 150 ng/mL.
Clinical Reference
1. Jones G, Strugnell SA, DeLuca HF: Current understanding of the molecular actions of vitamin D. Physiol Rev 1998 Oct;78(4):1193-1231
2. Miller WL, Portale AA: Genetic causes of rickets. Curr Opin Pediatr 1999 Aug;11(4):333-339
3. Vieth R: Vitamin D supplementation, 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations, and safety. Am J Clin Nutr 1999 May;69(5):842-856
4. Vieth R, Ladak Y, Walfish PG: Age-related changes in the 25-hydroxyvitamin D versus parathyroid hormone relationship suggest a different reason why older adults require more vitamin D. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2003 Jan;88(1):185-191
5. Wharton B, Bishop N: Rickets. Lancet 2003 Oct 25;362(9393):1389-1400
6. Institute of Medicine (US) Committee to Review Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin D and Calcium; Edited by AC Ross, CL Taylor, AL Yaktine, HB Del Valle. Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium and Vitamin D. Washington, DC. National Academies Press (US), 2011 Available from: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK56070
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Home For Researchers Research Projects Negotiating Gender Roles In Global Virtual Teams: Middleastern Executives At The Crossroads
Negotiating Gender Roles In Global Virtual Teams: Middleastern Executives At The Crossroads
Cyber-bullying in GVTs
Gender Roles in GVT
Positive Effects of Free-Riders on GVT performance
Seeing Status through Different Lenses: Status Disagreement in Culturally Diverse Teams
The Clash of Different Conflict Management Styles in Multinational Teams
Lead Author: Djamel Eddine Laouisset (d.laouisset@alhosnu.ae)
Gender role negotiation in the MENA region has emerged as the result of interacting with culturally-diverse global teams while working on similar projects (Chang, Duck, & Bordia, 2006). It has been widely noticed that team members with different cultural backgrounds value different models of teamwork (Gibson & Zellmer-Bruhn, 2002). From a Middle Eastern perspective, this unexpected external context has created unexpected challenges, and imposed unwanted adjustments as a prerequisite to involvement in international work environments. GVTs have de facto invaded local comfort zones by introducing diversity and hence ambiguity (Argote, 1989; Amason & Sapienza, 1997; Ehrhardt & Naumann, 2004; Hackman, 1976; Hackman & Walton, 1986; Marks, Mathieu, & Zaccaro, 2001; McGrath, 1984). Again globalization has imposed a radical re-negotiation of gender roles in the Middle East working scene.
Main Hypothesis
The overall unique aim and originality of this paper lies therefore in investigating this ongoing trading-off process of the classical cultural relativism view of gender roles, hence involuntarily feeding the development of a hybrid GVT organizational culture view (Graham, 2003; Hinds & Bailey, 2003; Mark 2002; Mortensen & Hinds, 2001).
We will use the c-culture available data; moreover we will run a questionnaire and interviews of x-past and current culture participants from the Middle East.
Mixed methodology (quantitative & qualitative).
Co-authors selection
Co-authors will be involved in the development of the theoretical framework, hypotheses and methodology. This call is strictly open to co-authors who have already published in good journals, and therefore are highly skilled in theory as well as data analysis. Co-authors will write up the literature review, the method section, perform the quantitative and qualitative analysis, write the results section, and collectively revise and edit the final manuscript.
Target journal
Open, so please suggest alternative good specialized journals.
§ Erbe, N. D. (2014).Approaches to Managing Organizational Diversity and Innovation. IGI Global.
§ Rajasekar,J, Beh.L.S. (2013). Culture and Gender in Leadership: Perspectives from the Middle East and Asia. Palgrave Macmillan.
§ Koehler.T. (2009).What Role Do Norms Play in Global Teamwork? The Influence of Cultural Communication and Coordination Norms on Team Processes in Internationally Distributed Teams. Mason.
§ Cramton, C.D. (2001). The mutual knowledge problem and its consequences for dispersed collaboration. Organization Science, 12 (3): 346-371.
§ Dekker, D., Rutte, C., & van den Berg, P. (2008).Cultural differences in the perception of interactions in virtual teams. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology in San Francisco, CA.
§ Delamont, S. (2004). Ethnography and participant observation. In C. Seale, G. Gobo, J/Gubrium, & D. Silverman (Eds.),Qualitative Research Practice(pp.217-229).London, UK: Sage.
§ Duarte, D., & Snyder, N. (1999).Mastering distributed teams: Strategies, tools, and techniques that succeed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
§ Earley, P.C., & Gibson, C.B. (2002).Multinational Work Teams: A New Perspective. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
§ Early, P.C., & Mosakowski, E. (2000). Creating hybrid team cultures: An empirical test of transnational team functioning. Academy of Management Journal, 43 (1), 26-49.
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A ‘Grease’ Spinoff Series Is Headed to HBO Max
The streaming content arms race continues — and so do the revivals of classic movies and shows (or, in this case both).
Per TVLine, the 1978 musical Grease is coming to WarnerMedia’s HBO Max streaming service in an all new form. Grease: Rydell High is a new series “inspired by” the John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John movie, and “will also be set in the 1950s, when ‘the Pink Ladies and the T-Birds still rule the school.” It will reportedly include “some characters you already know, and a whole lot more you will soon meet.” (Since John Travolta looks like this now, we’re assuming if Danny is one of the regulars, the role will be recast.)
The show, like the film (and the Broadway show it was based on) will be a musical:
The musical numbers will include hit songs from the time period along with original compositions, all as it explores ‘the peer pressures of high school, the horrors of puberty and the rollercoaster of life in middle America with a modern sensibility that will bring it to life for today’s musical lovers.’
The other time someone tried to expand the Grease Cinematic Universe, the results were Grease 2, a sequel with a mostly new cast of characters starring a very young Michelle Pfeiffer. It did not connect with audiences the way the first Grease did, but it steadily built a cult fandom, some of whom even prefer it to the original film. That said, I imagine HBO Max is hoping Grease: Rydell High will reach a much wider audience, and much more quickly. The streaming service is expected to launch early in 2020.
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Netflix Doesn’t Have the Market Cornered on Binge TV: Zombies + Walter White Help AMC Win the Fall VOD War
Peter Kafka in News on December 20, 2013 at 8:00 am PT
You have to work (relatively) hard to get video on demand out of your pay-TV provider. But lots of you are doing it.
How to Sell Songs on iTunes if You’re Not Miley Cyrus or Katy Perry
Peter Kafka in Media on October 3, 2013 at 10:04 am PT
Hint: Find a really popular TV show.
Apple Makes Good on “Breaking Bad” Split Season Silliness
John Paczkowski in News on September 24, 2013 at 11:08 am PT
$22.99 refund.
“The Walking Dead” Inspires a MOOC
Liz Gannes in News on September 3, 2013 at 9:07 pm PT
The eight-week “Society, Science, Survival: Lessons from AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead'” starts Oct. 14.
The Disequilibrium of Power: How Retransmission Consent Went So Wrong, and How to Fix It
Richard Greenfield, Media and Tech Analyst at BTIG in Voices on August 27, 2013 at 9:01 am PT
Local broadcast retransmission consent legislation was never intended to fund NFL rights acquisition and prime-time network programming.
“Breaking Bad” Is Big on Twitter, Facebook — And TV, Too
Peter Kafka in Media on August 12, 2013 at 12:09 pm PT
TV ratings: Up 2x. “Social TV” ratings: Up 4x.
TV Networks Play to “Second Screen”
Amol Sharma, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on May 31, 2013 at 11:20 am PT
Last weekend, members of the cast and crew of AMC Networks Inc.’s crime drama “The Killing” were on location in Vancouver, British Columbia, shooting material for Sunday’s season premiere. What they produced won’t be shown on television, though. It is meant for smartphones, tablets and laptops.
Netflix Still Says “House of Cards” Did Great, but Still Won’t Talk Ratings
Peter Kafka in Media on May 23, 2013 at 11:25 am PT
It would be pretty amazing if the company said its first original show did as well as “The Walking Dead.” But Netflix says it didn’t say that.
TV Is Changing Before Our Eyes
David Pakman, Partner, Venrock in Voices on March 6, 2013 at 8:26 am PT
I believe we live in a show-based world, and that shows delivered over IP allow for the slow unbundling of television.
Spogo App Lets You Bet on Live Sports (Sort Of)
Eric Johnson in Mobile on December 19, 2012 at 2:31 pm PT
But what are the odds that sports fans will go for it?
No Cable? No Problem, AMC Tells “Breaking Bad” Fans.
Peter Kafka in Media, July 16, 2012 at 6:02 am PT
Zou Bisou! Netflix Says It Brought a Million New Viewers to “Mad Men.”
Peter Kafka in Media, May 23, 2012 at 9:01 am PT
Netflix to Stream "Mad Men"
Lauren A.E. Schuker and Jessica E. Vascellaro, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News, April 6, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
Telltale Signs That Videogames Will Be Downloaded, Not Sold at Retail
Tricia Duryee in Commerce, February 17, 2011 at 11:00 am PT
Want to Watch TV on Your iPad? Pay Up.
Peter Kafka in Media, April 6, 2010 at 8:51 am PT
Another iPhone Ad That Asks You to Shake It Up
Peter Kafka in Media, March 17, 2010 at 7:21 am PT
Yahoo’s $100 Million TV Ad
Peter Kafka in Media, September 28, 2009 at 8:58 am PT
Viral Video: Mad (Wo)Men
Kara Swisher in News, September 1, 2009 at 2:10 pm PT
"I'm Peggy Olson and I Want to Smoke Some Marijuana."
John Paczkowski in News, August 19, 2009 at 10:36 am PT
HP Keeps the Ink Flowing
Scripps, Rainbow Join the Authentication Bandwagon
Peter Kafka in Media, June 24, 2009 at 3:17 pm PT
Not Coming to Hulu: Last Week’s “Saturday Night Live” Highlight*
Peter Kafka in Media, January 14, 2009 at 4:36 am PT
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« Notiothemis Ris, 1919
Orthetrum Newman, 1833 »
Genus Olpogastra Karsch, 1895
bottletails
Type species: Olpogastra lugubris Karsch, 1895
Monotypic and endemic to tropical Africa, the genus is unmistakeable by its large size (hindwing 37-42 mm), very elongate abdomen with bulbous base, and glossy black body with bold yellow spots. O. lugubris perches conspicuously along open rivers (sometimes streams and lakes), being very aggressive towards other dragonflies. [Adapted from Dijkstra & Clausnitzer 2014]
Male of genus is similar to Zygonoides by (a) size, Hw 37-45 mm; (b) occipital triangle smaller with rather concave borders, eyes touching over distance of at least half its length; (c) frons and vertex of different colour (e.g. brown or red), more uniform (e.g. less contrasting yellowish dorsally and brown ventrally), or dorsum darkest; (d) Pt never black-and-white and wings at most with dark tips or bases or with overall yellowish infusion; (e) Fw triangle of 2-3 cells; subtriangle of 3-6 cells and without cross-veins; (f) Fw discoidal field of 3-4 rows at base; (g) 11½-17½ Ax in Fw; (h) all wings with 2-8 cell-doublings in radial planate; count those cells touching Rspl, but not IR3. However, differs by (1) subtriangle of 5 rather than 3 cells [4-6]; (2) anterior lamina anteriorly bare, rather than with long hairs; genital lobe sickle-shaped rather than rounded; (3) Abd longer than Hw, S1-3 bulbous, S4-10 slender, cylindrical and of even width: S3 much deeper than long, S4 about 8x longer than wide. [Adapted from Dijkstra & Clausnitzer 2014; this diagnosis not yet verified by author]
Olpogastra lugubris Karsch, 1895. Male © KD Dijkstra
Map citation: Clausnitzer, V., K.-D.B. Dijkstra, R. Koch, J.-P. Boudot, W.R.T. Darwall, J. Kipping, B. Samraoui, M.J. Samways, J.P. Simaika & F. Suhling, 2012. Focus on African Freshwaters: hotspots of dragonfly diversity and conservation concern. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10: 129-134.
Dijkstra, K.-D.B., Suhling, F., and Müller, O. (2006). Review of the genus Zygonoides, with description of the larvae and notes on ‘zygonychine’ Libellulidae (Odonata). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 149, 275-292. [PDF file]
Dijkstra, K.-D.B, and Clausnitzer, V. (2014). The Dragonflies and Damselflies of Eastern Africa: handbook for all Odonata from Sudan to Zimbabwe. Studies in Afrotropical Zoology, 298, 1-264.
Ris, F. (1921). The Odonata or Dragonflies of South Africa. Annals South African Museum, XVIII, 245-452. [PDF file]
Pinhey, E.C.G. (1961). Dragonflies (Odonata) of Central Africa. Occasional Papers Rhodes-Livingstone Museum, 14, 1-97. [PDF file]
Fraser, F.C. (1955). Odonata. Exploration Parc National Upemba. Mission G F de Witte, 38, 1-34. [PDF file]
Schouteden, H. (1934). Annales Musee Congo belge Zoologie 3 Section 2, 3, 1-84. [PDF file]
Citation: Dijkstra, K.-D.B (editor). African Dragonflies and Damselflies Online. http://addo.adu.org.za/ [2020-01-18].
Order ODONATA
Suborder ANISOPTERA
Family Libellulidae
Genus Olpogastra
Olpogastra lugubris
Learning more about Odonata
Odonata study in the field
Identification and morphology
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By combining Conservation Ecology and Entomology, our department at Stellenbosch University brings together a considerable body of teaching and research expertise in the rapidly growing important field of conservation in agricultural and development landscapes.
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Nothing Is Weaker Than Strong Brussels’ Rules
by Matus Posvancon March 13, 2013 August 31, 2017
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The Governing Council of the ECB decided that main interest rates will remain unchanged. The reasons behind the decision were such facts as the repayment of 22% of the LTRO program, which reflects an increase in financial market confidence, weak GDP outcomes in 2012, and anchored inflation with estimation of 1.8% in February.
The Bank of England held its target for bond purchases at $ 564 billion, or, in other words, the bank policy did not change as well. The policy could be changed by the new coming governor of the bank, Mark Carney. David Cameron already called for a new monetary activism of the BoE, which must support recovery of the country, and which probably means that the BoE will purchase government bonds on bigger pace than today.
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It seems that the strong German hands will lose its squeeze. Italy’s election, France’s refusal to make budget cuts and anti-austerity protests across southern Europe; these are just a few reasons why rules crumble like a house of cards. And the wording behind it is excellent. “If our rules are intelligent, they are also flexible. We have to find the right rhythm and the right balance without weakening the little growth left,” said French Finance Minister or “We must leave the austerity cage,” said Pier Luigi Bersani responding to Italy’s election outcome by upending his pre-election program. It is more than clear that we have two blocks in the EU – the austerity block, lead by Germans supported by Finland, Austria or Luxemburg, and the anti-austerity block, lead by France supported by Spain, Italy, and Portugal. Who will win? What do you think?
The Fitch has downgraded Italy from ‘A-‘ to ‘BBB+’ with negative outlook, which could also have future impact on the ESM rating because Italy is one of the shareholders. The reasons behind were election outcome, and consequently higher probability of week government reactions to economic shock, recession in Italy and Europe, and an estimate of bigger debt close to or over 130 % of GDP.
What is the most dangerous investment in China? Housing project. Do people of China realize that? Of course not. The situation of the real estate market in China has started to be on the radar of mainstream media and rightfully so. China building industry represents 20-30% of the whole economy. They are able to build 12 to 24 new cities every single year. It was the government that has spent more than $2 trillion to get these cities built. The outcome? Emptiness. And if you want to see how empty shopping malls, apartments, or whole cities look like, just watch video below:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50142079n
There is one crucial point in the video. The bursting of the bubble is described in the same way as the so called Austrian school explains the business cycle as a malinvestment process. New investments are not finished because of lack of funds, which slowly caused bigger unemployment and first bankruptcies.
The new governor of Bank of Japan meets the expectations and maybe goes beyond. On Monday he introduced what he described as monetary easing. He said that the BOJ’s current policies were not powerful enough to boost inflation to 2% and he thinks that the best way to ramp up the central bank’s stimulus for the economy would be through huge purchases of longer-dated government bonds as soon as possible without waiting for the scheduled start date of 2014. If Kuroda’s nomination is approved, his first regularly scheduled policy review would be on April 3-4, so until that day we could just speculate about real monetary measures of the BoJ.
The U.S. nonfarm payroll employment increased by 236,000 in February (more than expectations 165,000), and the unemployment rate was down to 7.7% according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This has been the lowest unemployment rate since December of 2008. And Americans must be absolutely appeased now. It is more than just better unemployment data. The U.S. largest bank companies have passed hypothetical stress tests. They are allegedly in a much stronger position than before the financial crisis. The stress tests consist of scenarios such as unemployment rate of 12.1%, a 50% drop in equity prices, 20% decline in housing prices or projected loses of a total of $462 billion during the nine quarters of the hypothetical stress scenario. But hopefully they will not experience the scenario in reality very soon.
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Italy posts income details on web
BBC News | Mayn 1, 2008
There has been outrage in Italy after the outgoing government published every Italian's declared earnings and tax contributions on the internet.
The tax authority's website was inundated by people curious to know how much their neighbours, celebrities or sports stars were making.
The Italian treasury suspended the website after a formal complaint from the country's privacy watchdog.
The information was put on the site with no warning for nearly 24 hours.
Sour grapes?
The release of the information was one of the last acts of the outgoing centre-left government and has shocked many tax-shy Italians, says the BBC's Mark Duff in Milan.
But it was also hugely popular, and within hours the site was overwhelmed and impossible to access.
The finance ministry described the move as a bid to improve transparency.
Deputy Economic Minister Vincenzo Visco said he could not understand what all the fuss was about.
"I can't understand what the problem is," he is quoted as telling Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper.
"This already exists all around the world, you just have to watch any American soap to see that. We had the system ready by January but we delayed publication to avoid arguments during the election campaign."
But critics condemned it as an outrageous breach of privacy.
The timing of the move, just days before the current administration hands over to incoming Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, was intriguing too, says our correspondent.
The outgoing government came to power promising to tackle Italians' notoriously lax approach to paying tax.
According to an Italian government report from 2007, the amount of unpaid tax in the country is equivalent to 7% of gross domestic product.
Some sceptics have seen the move as just end of term sour grapes, our correspondent adds.
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Gamilons Freebie
Ray at Kool Kat is making The Gamilons EP which I reviewed the other day free with any purchase. So pick up one of the fine discs I've reviewed recently (or any other of your choice), and get The Gamilons throw in for free. Too bad Billy Mays isn't around to pitch this.
Labels: Kool Kat, The Gamilons
Two for Thursday, 1/28/10
Research Turtles-Research Turtles. Classic rock lovers, here's your band. Louisiana's Research Turtles (a literal band of brothers) manage to capture the art of the riff (one track is even titled "The Riff Song") while remaining tuneful enough to appeal to power poppers. Opener "Let's Get Carried Away" is the epitome of this balancing act, mixing heavy guitar riffs with an indelible melody. "Mission" is another winner, a raveup with cojones that has another chorus that'll stick in your head. Elsewhere, "Kiss Her Goodbye" is the kind of power ballad that's de rigeur on albums like this, but it works; the aforementioned "Riff Song" recalls Zeppelin, and "Tomorrow" is another display of their pop smarts. One could call them a Southern-fried Oasis, and like those Brits did in their 90s heyday, they manage to make the old sound new again, and that's no easy feat.
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Research Turtles
Dino-Fool's Gold. Here at Absolute Powerpop, we scour the globe for power pop artists that deserve recognition, and our latest international power popper of mystery is Sweden's Dino. He remains a bit of a real mystery since I can't find a MySpace or a bio, but the album speaks for itself, a mix of ELO with 70s pop sounds not unlike similarly-minded artists like Pop Is Art! and AlternativA. "I Don't Believe in Love Anymore" bears the Jeff Lynne influence (in fact, it reminds me a bit of Kelly Groucutt's solo minor hit "Am I a Dreamer"). "Love is the Drug" is not a Roxy Music cover, but he does borrow from ELO again with the lyrics "do ya, do ya want my love" with another driving pop melody, and "The World Where You Live" (not a Crowded House cover) is another pop gem with bombastic backing. Other highlights include "California Blue Skies", which sounds as ebullient as its title, "Mrs. Frost", which has a bit of Fountains of Wayne about it, and the Lynnesque (or LEO-esque) ballad "Someone by Your Side". With a nondescript moniker like Dino, he's hard to Google, but easy on the ears.
Fool`s Gold
Labels: Dino, Research Turtles
Another Best of 09 Power Pop List.
The Brazilian site Power Pop Station has unveiled its Top 100 of 2009 (and its top 10 EPs). My only quibble is that Plasticsoul's Peacock Swagger is completely absent.
Dig in here.
The Gamilons-Blue Whispers EP. Had it come across my desk upon its fall 2009 release date, this Delaware band's debut EP would have made the year-end EP list. As it stands, better late than never for this Cliff Hillis-produced 3-song gem. Fans of Hillis and his work in Starbelly will be at home here, from the hook-filled Beatlesque opener "Blue Shadows" to the acoustic-based "Whisper in a World" to the sublime and sweet melodies of "Summer Surfer Girl". We always say "bring on the full length" in these instances but I'll gladly settle for an EP with more tracks if they're going to be this good.
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The 88-This Must Be Love. LA's The 88 have a higher profile than most acts I review on this site - their songs have been featured in countless TV shows and films (see here), and they had their 2008 album Not Only...But Also released on Island Records with big-name producers Matt Wallace and Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds in charge. This came on the heels of their brilliant self-released album Over and Over (which placed #6 on my 2005 year-end list) and there was quite a bit of expectation associated with the followup. Not Only...But Also turned out to be a decent album, but lacked the sharpness and cohesion of Over and Over, another example of an indie band losing its identity on a major label. So it was a pleasant surprise to see them back, without fanfare and barely a year later, with a self-released digital-only album that doesn't quite match Over and Over's peaks, but sounds like The 88 again.
True to its title, This Must Be Love's main theme is L-O-V-E, and their pop smarts are on full display here. "Go to Heaven" opens the disc with what might be the power pop equivalent of "You Can't Hurry Love"; the title track is pop goodness; "Love is the Thing" is a 2:19 blast of slinky hooks; "One of These Days" recalls "Hide Another Mistake", their all-time greatest tune; and "Let Me Go" is one of those tearjerker ballads that stays with you. It's good to have The 88 back.
MySpace | iTunes
Labels: The 88, The Gamilons
Two for TGIF, 1/22/10
Andy Lehman & The Night Moves-Lowcountry. Lehman's 2007 debut Landline was a Butch Walker-styled power pop disc, but on his followup with The Night Moves, he opts for a more atmospheric pop sound that comes down somewhere between Steven Mark and Coldplay. Lowcountry is a loose concept album about a South Carolina boy who falls in love with a girl, can't commit, loses her, stalks her, and then kills her new boyfriend. But despite the Southern Gothic subject matter, the concept is done with a light touch, allowing the songs to stand on their own. Highlights include the midtempo "You Can Leave The Light On", the poppy "Million to One", and the absolutely gorgeous "All Along the Roads We Walked", which takes on added resonance once the album's concept is grasped. A rewarding listen.
Prattle On, Rick-Communion Bread. This amusingly-titled act consists of Nashville singer-songwriter Patrick Rickelton and whoever happens to be backing him at the moment. His debut EP is a folk-pop delight, evoking Elliott Smith and Simon & Garfunkel in equal parts. "My Holiday" is gracefully tuneful, "Lift Up" does just that, and "Lately" sounds like an instant classic. Prattle on all you'd like, Rick.
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Labels: Andy Lehman, Prattle On Rick
Chris Abad-No Glory. This NYC rocker and ex-member of Dough has given us the first great power pop disc of 2010. Mixing in influences from Elvis Costello to Squeeze to Weezer, Abad has cooked up 8 tracks of power pop goodness from the rocking "All in My Head" to the clean midtempo melodies of "Downer". Others standouts in this lean all-killer/no-filler collection include the title track power ballad, the anthemic "Living Without You" and the irresistible "Trouble", perhaps the disc's best track. Stop what you're doing and give it a listen below.
Anny Celsi-Tangle-Free World. Anny Celsi's new disc may be a "tangle-free world" but it's certainly not a jangle-free one as she evokes a Byrds-by-way-of-Beach-Boys sound here. The LA jangle-pop mafia is out in full force on this, with Nelson Bragg producing and the likes of The Wondermints, Robbie Rist and Adam Marsland contributing. The opening title track captures the sound here, 12-string guitars and sitars galore, with Celsi's voice a perfect match for the proceedings. "Thanksgiving in Hollywood" has just the kind of noir-ish jangle feel that recalls "King of the Hill", Roger McGuinn's team-up with Tom Petty. Bragg steps out from behind the mixing board to contribute vocals to Celsi's tres cool cover of Nancy Sinatra's "One Velvet Morning", making Sweet & Hoffs sound like kids by comparison, and Evie Sands joins for a cover of the 1963 Jaynetts classic "Sally Go Round the Roses" that sounds completely in place here. Retro yet original, this disc is one world in which there's nothing wrong in getting tangled.
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I've decided to start using my Twitter feed to bring to your attention discs that I've liked (usually enough to put on my iPod) but don't anticipate getting around to reviewing on the site. I'll try to do one a day for now. So if you're not already doing so, follow me on Twitter (@AbPow), or if you'd prefer, view the feed on the widget over to the right.
EP Thursday.
After filibustering with lists and videos, it's time to break out some new music. Here are 3 EPs that recently came across my desk that are worth a listen:
Kevin Lee & The Kings-Dusk Till Dawn. Some of you may remember Lee from his 2006 solo effort Flip the Switch, and for those who don't, Lee is a classic rocker/power popper in the Cheap Trick mold and the new EP with his backing band gets us off to a nice 2010 start. Opener "The Other Side" takes no prisoners with its driving rock style and big hooks, "Next Best Thing" rocks with attitude, and if this were the 80s, the power ballad par excellence "Invisible" would launch a thousand cigarette lighters. Rock on!
Dan Payson-Lewis-Hearts and Minds. Adam Merrin of The 88 brought this SoCal singer-songwriter to my attention and I'm glad he did. He does share a similar pop sensibility to Merrin and his band, and these four songs make quite an auspicious debut. I hear bits of everyone from David Mead to Coldplay in the mix, from the power poppin' opener "It's a Long Way Down" to the lovely title track ballad. It's always a cliche to include the phrase "can't wait for the full length" in an EP review, but it really applies for this one.
Michael Gross & The Statuettes-Impulse & Exports. Last summer Gross & his band put out the fine EP Dust & Daylight and together with this new EP, they've released the equivalent of one kick-ass full-length. If you liked Dust & Daylight, you'll love this one and Gross & Co. have further refined their heartland-rock-with-a-touch-of-Americana sound. The noirish "Keep Driving" sets the tone with its late-period Replacements rock style, and the moody yet urgent "On and On" is equally outstanding. And for those familiar with Gross and his earlier solo disc Tales From a Country Home, he offers up a full-band version of that disc's "No Good", and it's anything but. I can wait for a full-length if Gross & Co. are content to crank out a top-notch EP every six months or so.
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New Maple Mars video.
Maple Mars has a new album coming out on Kool Kat in March, titled Galaxyland, and here's a video for "New Day", one of the new tracks. It's not exactly a visual spectacle, but the song is pretty darned good.
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David Bash's Top 100 of 2009, #1-50
UPDATE: In a bit of power pop blogging synergy, Aaron at Powerpopaholic has posted an interview with Mr. Bash.
The top half of David Bash's Top 100 of 2009:
1. The Madd-The Madd Are Pretty Quick (Excelsior)
2. Mark & The Spies-Give Me A Look (Screaming Apple)
3. Philip John-Master The Monster (Self-Released)
4. The Tomorrows-Jupiter Optimus Maximus (Kool Kat)
5. Throwback Suburbia-Throwback Suburbia (Self-Released)
6. The Resonars-That Evil Drone (Burger)
7. The Lovedays-The Lovedays (Self-Released)
8. David Brookings-Glass Half Full (Self-Released)
9. Curtains For You-What A Lovely Surprise To Wake Up Here (Spark & Shine)
10. The Humbugs-On The Upside (Oddvious)
11. The Telepathic Butterflies-Wow & Flutter (Rainbow Quartz)
12. Wiretree-Luck (Self-Released)
13. Paul Steel-Moonrock (Ray Gun)
14. Valley Lodge-Semester At Sea (Explosive Industries)
15. White Star Liners-The Rural Electrification (Self-Released)
16. Roger Klug-More Help For Your Nerves (Mental Giant)
17. Dennis Diken With Bell Sounds-Late Music (Crypto Vision)
18. High Child-Yesterday Today (Self-Released)
19. Tony Cox-Unpublished (Self-Released)
20. Brendan Benson-My Old, Familiar Friend (ATO)
21. Rabbit Childen-Thou Shalt Have A Time Machine (Clutter Bear)
22. Jason Falkner-All Quiet On The Noise Floor (Noise McCartney)
23. The Chymes-The Chymes (Monophonic)
24. Secret Powers-And The Electric Family Choir (Self-Released)
25. The Laureates-There Are No More Gentlemen (Funambulist)
26. The Fore-Run & Hide (Self-Released)
27. Parallax Project-I Hate Girls (Kool Kat)
28. Jeremy-Journey To The Center Of The Heart (Jam)
29. Chris Richards And The Subtractions-Sad Sounds Of The Summer (Self-Released)
30. The Junior League-Smile Shoot Smile (Last Resort)
31. Jamie & Steve-English Afterthoughts (Loaded Goat)
32. Michael Carpenter-Redemption #39 (Self-Released)
33. Lannie Flowers-Same Old Story (Aaron Ave.)
34. Cheap Trick-The Latest (Self-Released)
35. The Pictures-Kicking Indifference (High Spot)
36. Deleted Waveform Gatherings-Ghost She Said (Rainbow Quartz)
37. Marykate O’Neil-Underground (Self-Released)
38. Grand Atlantic-How We Survive (Laughing Outlaw)
39. The Generous Days-These Are The Generous Days (GD)
40. The Webstirs-So Long (Ginger)
41. The Anydays-Beat Songs (Self-Released)
42. True Margrit-The Jugglers Progress (Youdjinni)
43. The Shadow Kabinet-Smiling Worlds Apart (Sound Good)
44. El Goodo-Coyote (Grease)
45. Plasticsoul-Peacock Swagger (Self-Released)
46. The Mayflowers-Bremen Rock (Rooster)
47. Magic Christian-Evolver (Wizard’s Den)
48. The June-Magic Circles (Rainbow Quartz)
49. Steven Lawrenson-Somewhere Else (Shoestring)
50. The Shazam-Meteor (Not Lame)
David Bash's Top 100 of 2009, #51-100
The bottom half of Mr. Bash's Top 100 of 2009:
51. The Corner Laughers-Ultraviolet Garden (Self-Released)
52. Evan Hillhouse-Transition (Self-Released)
53. The Brigadier-Time Is A Wound (Self-Released)
54. The Higher State-Darker By The Day (13 O’Clock)
55. Green Day-21st Century Breakdown (Warner Brothers)
56. The Tangerines-In Season (Self-Released)
57. The Grande-The Grande (Self-Released)
58. Your Gracious Host-Easy Red (Self-Released)
59. The Naomi Star-Through The Eyes (Self-Released)
60. The Dukes Jetty-Fine And Dandy (Self-Released)
61. The Yum Yums-…Whatever Rhymes With Baby (Pop Detective)
62. John Lefler-Better By Design! (Goodhang)
63. Steven Deal-Radio Twelve (Seditionary Kitten)
64. The Duckworth Lewis Method-The Duckworth Lewis Method (1969)
65. Rumor 2-Rumor 2 (Rock Indiana)
66. Philip Vandermost-The Long Path (Self-Released)
67. Kyle Vincent-Where You Are (Songtree)
68. Lamar Holley-Confessions Of A College Student (Self-Released)
69. The Leftovers-Eager To Please (Oglio)
70. Tinted Windows-Tinted Windows (Curve)
71. Beagle Hat-Orange Groove (Halftonic)
72. The Black Hollies-Softly Towards The Light (Ernest Jenning)
73. The Milk & Honey Band-Dog Eared Moonlight (Ape House)
74. Zender-Acid Avenue (Sandy Hills)
75. Dennis Schocket-The Cinderblock Mansion (National)
76. Jeff Litman-Postscript (Self-Released)
77. Simon Felton-Failing In Biology (Pink Hedgehog)
78. Shplang-My Big Thee Wheeler (Jam)
79. Tenniscourts-Dig The New Sounds Of Tenniscourts (Sweet Science)
80. The Alice Rose-All Haunt’s Sound (Emerald Wood)
81. The Beat Rats-A Cellarfull Of Rats! (Kool Kat)
82. Madness-The Liberty Of Norton Folgate (Lucky Seven)
83. Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey-Here And Now (Bar None)
84. The Setting Son-Spring Of Hate (Bad Afro)
85. The Help Desk-Peel The Sun (Self-Released)
86. Adam Marsland-Go West (Karma Frog)
87. Hathaway Brown-Keep Moving Forward (Self-Released)
88. The Kavanaughs-The Kavanaughs (Eternal Sunday)
89. The Jetnicks-The Jetnicks (Self-Released)
90. The Tripwires-House To House (Spark & Shine)
91. The Campbell Stokes Sunshine Recorder-Makes Your Ears Smile (Jack O The Green)
92. Mark Carroll-Dust Of Rumour (High Noon)
93. Johan-4 (Excelsior)
94. Dreaming In Stereo-Dreaming In Stereo (Dying Van Gogh)
95. Jason Karaban-Sobriety Kills (Ascend)
96. Peter & The Penguins-How To Choose A Sweetheart (Not Lame)
97. Pointed Sticks-Three Lefts Make A Right (Northern Electric)
98. Navy Blue-At Home (Bendi)
99. The Reckless Hearts-Get Up And Run (Off The Hip)
100. Strangefinger-Into The Blue (SideB)
The David Bash 2009 lists, part 2.
II. Top Reissue Of Recent Vintage
Paranoid Lovesick-Suburban Pop Allegro (Self-Released)
III. Top 5 Eps
1. Greg Pope-Pete (Octoberville)
2. The Parties-Cryin’ Shame (Rainbow Quartz)
3. The Offbeat-To The Rescue EP (Self-Released)
4. The Peppermint Apes-The Miracle EP (4 Real)
5. Los Glosters-Canciones (Florinata)
IV. Top 5 Compilations-Single Artists
1. Pugwash-Giddy (Ape House)
2. The Ace-Awhamalambambang: Recordings & Demos 2005-2008 (Self-Released)
3. The Anything People-Anthology: 2004-2010 (Self-Released)
4. Paranoid Lovesick-Tuxedo Avenue Breakdown (Self-Released)
5. The Mighty Uptight-Technicolour TV Head: Recordings & Demos 1999-2003 (Self-Released)
V. Top 4 Compilations-Various Artists
1. International Pop Overthrow, Vol. 12 (Not Lame)
2. Charlotte Pop Fest ’09 (Deem)
3. The Paisley Polka Dot Picnic Party (Brand Medway)
4. Shindig! Presents-It’s Happening!
VI. Top Tribute Disc-Single Artist
The Smithereens-Rock Tommy (E1 Entertainment)
VII. Top 2 Tribute Discs-Various Artists
Do You Wanna Be In The Show?-A Pop Tribute To The Jetset (Twist)
Forty One Sixty-The Songs Of The Shambles (Blindspot)
Let the Bash-ing begin!
Once again, Absolute Powerpop is proud to present the year-end lists of the inestimable David Bash, Mr. International Pop Overthrow. David puts me to shame as not only does he have a top 100 and top EP list, he has lists for compilations, reissues, etc. Tonight we'll start with the reissues and work our way to the main list proper. There's so much to check into with these lists (even on my end) that it's best not to unveil them all at once. So without further ado, here are his comprehensive Best of 2009 Reissues lists:
There are still some reissues I haven't heard which would probably make the list, but there's only so much time and $$.ok, mainly $$; I'll always somehow find the time. :) - David Bash
1. The Bee Gees-Odessa (Rhino)
2. The Who-The Who Sell Out: Deluxe Edition (Universal)
3. Duncan Browne-Give Me, Take You (Grapefruit)
4. The Dukes Of Stratosphear-Psonic Psunspot (Ape House)
5. Starbelly-Lemon Fresh: Tenth Anniversary Reissue (National)
6. The Peppermint Trolley Company-Beautiful Sun (Now Sounds)
7. Chilliwack-Riding High (Pacemaker)
8. The Golden Earrings-Winter Harvest (RPM)
9. Pilot-Morin Heights (RPM)
10. Mark Eric-A Midsummer’s Daydream (Now Sounds)
11. The Dukes Of Stratosphear-25 O’Clock (Ape House)
12. Status Quo-Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From Status Quo: Deluxe Edition (Universal)
13. Sagittarius-Present Tense (Rev-Ola)
14. R.E.M.-Reckoning: Deluxe Edition (Universal)
15. Chris Bell-I Am The Cosmos (Rhino Handmade)
16. Pilot-From The Album Of The Same Name (RPM)
17. The Stone Roses-The Stone Roses: Legacy Edition (Silvertone/Legacy)
18. The Icicle Works-Permanent Damage (Cherry Red)
19. The Cowsills-Captain Sad And His Ship Of Fools (Now Sounds)
20. Makin’ Time-No Lumps Of Fat Or Gristle Guaranteed (Big Beat)
21. Piccadilly Line-The Huge World Of Emily Small (Grapefruit)
22. The American Breed-Bend Me, Shape Me (Magic)
23. Pilot-Second Flight (RPM)
24. Salt Water Taffy-Finders Keepers (Rev-ola)
25. Rod Stewart-A Night On The Town: Deluxe Edition (Warner Brothers)
26. The Guess Who-Wheatfield Soul (Sony Music)
27. Chad & Jeremy-The Ark (Rev-Ola)
28. David Bowie-David Bowie: Deluxe Edition (EMI)
29. Thunderclap Newman-Hollywood Dream (Esoteric)
30. The Golden Earrings-Miracle Mirror (RPM)
31. Gary Walker & The Rain-Album No. 1 (Universal)
32. Terry McManus-Sunshine Pop (Bullseye)
33. Status Quo-Spare Parts: Deluxe Edition (Universal)
34. Procol Harum-Shine On Brightly (Salvo)
35. Earth And Fire-Atlantis (Esoteric)
36. Amazing Blondel-Mulgrave Street (Talking Elephant)
37. Horslips-The Man Who Built America (Horslips)
38. Tinkerbell’s Fairydust-Tinkerbell’s Fairydust (Grapefruit)
39. Doug Randle-Songs For The New Industrial State (Light In The Attic)
40. Chris Clark-Soul Sounds (Universal)
41. Edward’s Hand-Edward’s Hand (Grapefruit)
42. Natural Gas-Natural Gas (Renaissance)
43. Rod Stewart-Atlantic Crossing: Deluxe Edition (Warner Brothers)
44. Amazing Blondel-Inspiration (Talking Elephant)
45. Roxette-Tourism (Capitol)
46. The Undertones-The Undertones (Salvo)
47. The Beat Boys-The Beat Boys (Lion)
48. Procol Harum-Procol Harum (Salvo)
49. Bill Fox-Shelter From The Smoke (Scat)
50. Bulldog Breed-Made In England (Grapefruit)
II. Top 10 Two-Fers (and Three-Fers): Proper Albums
1. Flo & Eddie-Illegal, Immoral and Fattening/Moving Targets (Sony)
2. Tommy James & The Shondells-Crimson And Clover/Cellophane Symphony (Rev-Ola)
3. Big Star-#1 Record/Radio City (Fantasy)
4. Paisley Dreams: The Pop-Psych Sounds of Tommy Roe, featuring It’s Now Winter’s Day/Phantasy (Rev-Ola)
5. Chairmen Of The Board-Give Me Just A Little More Time/In Session (Edsel)
6. The Raiders-Indian Reservation/Collage (Raven)
7. Three Dog Night-It Ain’t Easy/Naturally (BGO)
8. Buddy Holly & The Crickets-The Chirping Crickets/Buddy Holly/That’ll Be The Day (Fantasic Voyage)
9. Three Dog Night-Three Dog Night/Suitable For Framing (BGO)
10. The Undertones-Positive Touch/The Sin Of Pride (Salvo)
III. Top 15 Compilations, Single Artist
1. Emitt Rhodes-The Emitt Rhodes Recordings 1969-1973 (Hip-O Select)
2. The Staccatos/Five Man Electrical Band-First Sparks: The Anthology 1965-1969 (Pacemaker)
3. John Pantry-The Upside Down World Of John Pantry (Wooden Hill)
4. The Majority-The Decca Years 1965-68 (Rev-Ola)
5. The Sixpentz-Summer Girl: The Complete Recordings (Now Sounds)
6. Wondermints-Kaleidoscopin’: Exploring Prisms Of The Past (Now Sounds)
7. Gary Lewis & The Playboys-The Complete Liberty Singles (Collector’s Choice)
8. The Onyx-Kaleidoscope Of Colours: The Onyx Demo Sessions 1967 (Wooden Hill)
9. Klaatu-Solology (Bullseye)
10. Clifford T. Ward-Path Through The Forest: The Secret World Of Clifford T. Ward 1964-71 (Wooden Hill)
11. The Breakaways-Walking Out On Love: The Lost Sessions (Alive)
12. Starry Eyed & Laughing-All Their Best (Broadside)
13. Jay & The Americans-The Complete United Artists Singles (Collector’s Choice)
14. Spooky Tooth-Lost In My Dream: An Anthology 1968-1974 (Esoteric)
15. Radio City-Recorded 1977-1980 New York (Radio Heartbeat)
IV. Top 15 Compilations, Various Artists
1. Glitter And Gold: Words And Music By Barry Mann And Cynthia Weil (Ace)
2. Piccadilly Sunshine Part Two: British Pop/Psych And Other Flavours 1966-1971 (Past & Present)
3. Piccadilly Sunshine Part One: British Pop/Psych And Other Flavours 1965-1970 (Past & Present)
4. Clap Your Hands And Stamp Your Feet: 24 Nederglam Tracks From The Early 70s (Excelsior)
5. Chartbusters USA Special Edition: Sunshine Pop (Ace)
6. Mike Hurst-Producers Archives Vol. 3: 1964-1979 (Angel Air)
7. Sweet Surrender: Ember Pop 1970-1978 (Fantastic Voyage)
8. We’re Gonna Change The World!: The ‘60s Chicago Garage Sound Of Quill Productions (Sundazed)
9. After Tonight: Ember Beat Vol. 3 1966-67 (Fantastic Voyage)
10. Wild Thing: The Songs Of Chip Taylor (Ace)
11. Mr. Toytown Presents…Vol. 3 (Toytown)
12. Honey & Wine: Another Gerry Goffin & Carole King Song Collection (Ace)
13. A Solitary Man: The Early Songs Of Neil Diamond (Ace)
14. Shapes & Sounds Vol. Three: Techincolour Dreams From The BBC Archives 1967-1971 (Top Sounds)
15. Wednesday Morning Dew: Realistic Patterns 2-Orchestrated Psychedelia From The U.S.A. (Pyschic Circle)
V. Top 10 Box Sets: Single Artist
1. The Beatles-The Mono Box (Capitol/Apple)
2. The Beatles-The Stereo Box (Capitol/Apple)
3. Buddy Holly-Not Fade Away: The Complete Studio Recordings And More (Hip-O Select)
4. Neil Young-Archives Vol. 1 1963-1972 (Reprise)
5. Big Star-Keep An Eye On The Sky (Rhino)
6. Daryl Hall/John Oates-Do What You Want, Be What You Are (RCA Legacy)
7. Michael Jackson-Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection (Hip-O Select)
8. Shakin’ Stevens-The Epic Masters (Sony/Epic)
9. Procol Harum-All This And More…Procul Harum: A 4 Disc Compendium (Salvo)
9. Richard Thompson-Walking On A Wire 1968-2009 (Shout Factory)
10. Steeleye Span-A Parcel Of Steeleye Span: Their First Five Chrysalis Albums 1972-1975 (EMI)
1. The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 11B: 1971 (Hip-O Select)
2. Where The Action Is!: 1965-1968 Los Angeles Nuggets (Rhino)
3. Meet On The Ledge: An Island Records Folk/Rock Anthology (Universal)
4. Woodstock: 40 Years On Back To Yasgur’s Farm (Rhino)
5. A Complete Introduction To Northern Soul (Universal)
New Year's Roundup.
A few discs that fell through the cracks in December, two of which made the top 100 list:
Joseph Logsdon-Just This Once. Yet another Nashvillian graces the pages of Absolute Powerpop. Logsdon is a pop stylist in the vein of David Mead, Josh Rouse and Freedy Johnston, and his debut album will be a treat for fans of those artists (the first two of whom made Nashville their home as well). The spare but catchy "The Future" is a fine kickoff to the proceedings, and the buoyant "Girl Named Rae" recalls Mead's "Make it Right". Other standouts include the vaguely jazzy "I Wish You Were Here", and the Jon Brionesque "I Don't". This one came a bit late for my 2009 list, but a place on 2010's is a strong possibility.
La Fleur Fatale-Silent Revolution. This Swedish band's second album was a late 2009 pleasant surprise and was impressive enough to finish in the top half of my year-end list. Quite reminiscent of Soundtrack of Our Lives, La Fleur Fatale manages to blend pop hooks, rock arrangements, and psychedelic flourishes into a heady brew. "Mellow My Mind" and "Release the Colors in Me" are as hooky and trippy as you might expect, and the mid-period Moody Blues of "The Winding Stairs to Dawn" hits the right base. But the real winner here is "Hung Up on a Dream", which finds just the right mix of psych and pop and features a chorus that I haven't been able to get out of my head. A great mix of the 60s and 70s.
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The Pollocks-Wine Diamonds. This husband and wife band's third disc is the charm, as it was also a late entrant into the upper half of the year end list. Reminiscent of Georgie James and The Cheeksters, they have a pleasing indie pop sound. Standouts include the saucy "Coquette", the boy/girl harmonies of "Monday Morning Goodbye", the bouncy "Kiss" and the power pop of "Girls Only Want to Dance". These Pollocks are certainly artful.
Wine Diamonds
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[POSTDOC] Postdoc (filled, deadline 2019/12/02)
University of California, Santa Barbara, KITP
[EPIQS_PD20] KITP - Moore Postdoctoral Scholars in Quantum Materials Theory (deadline 2020/01/01)
[PDOC3] Astrophysics Postdoc - UCSB (2020/03/01)
[PDSTELLARASTRO_2021] Postdoctoral Position in Stellar Astrophysics (accepting applications, deadline 2019/01/01)
[PD_2021] Postdoctoral Scholars (accepting applications, deadline 2020/01/01)
California State University, Northridge, Physics and Astronomy
[RESEARCHSCIENTIST1] Postdoctoral fellow (deadline 2019/07/31)
Harvey Mudd College, Department of Biology
[VAP] Visiting Assistant Professor (Molecular Biology) (2020/02/15)
Harvey Mudd College, Physics
[TTPHYS] Assistant Professor of Physics (deadline 2019/11/01)
Harvey Mudd College, Postdoc Program (PIC)
[PIC] Post-doctoral position in Interdisciplinary Computing (accepting applications)
Claremont McKenna College, Mathematical Sciences
[CMCVAPIS2020] Visiting Assistant Professor in Statistics 2020 (2020/05/22)
Pomona College, Computer Science
[ASSTPROF] Assistant Professor (deadline 2019/12/01)
Pomona College, Philosophy
[AP] Assistant Professor Tenure Track (deadline 2019/11/15*)
University of Redlands, Political Science
[POLI] Assistant Professor (2020/02/03)
University of Redlands, Writing Across the Curriculum
[JOHNANDLINDASEITERCHAIROFWRITING] John and Linda Seiter Chair of Writing (2020/01/30)
University of Redlands, TEST CAS (DO NOT APPLY)
[TEST] TEST CAS (DO NOT APPLY) (deadline 2019/09/30)
California State University, Long Beach, Asian and Asian American Studies/CLA
[ASSTPROFESSOR] Assistant Professor (2020/02/29)
California State University, Long Beach, Computer Engineering Computer Science
[TTCE] Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science in Computer Engineering System Design (deadline 2020/01/06)
[TTGAME] Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science in Game Development and Extended Reality (deadline 2020/01/06)
[TTSDE] Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science in Software and Data Engineering (deadline 2020/01/06)
California State University, Long Beach, Department of English
California State University, Long Beach, Anthropology
[ASSTPROFESSOR] Assistant Professor (accepting applications, deadline 2019/12/31)
California State University, Long Beach, ASLD Program-Linguistics
[ASSTPROFESSOR1] Assistant Professor Linguistics-ASL Linguistics and Deaf Cultures (2020/02/29)
California State University, Long Beach, Bio Medical Eng
[APBME] Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering (deadline 2020/01/06)
California State University, Long Beach, ChE
[ASSISTANTPROFESSOROFCHEMICALENGINEERING] Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering (accepting applications, deadline 2020/01/06)
California State University, Long Beach, Chicano and Latino Studies/ College of Liberal Arts
[ASSTPROFESSOR] Assistant Professor (deadline 2019/12/31)
[ASSTPROFESSOR1] Assistant Professor (2020/01/21)
California State University, Long Beach, Communication Studies
California State University, Long Beach, Department of Economics/AA/College of Liberal Arts
[BEACHECON] Assistant Professor of Economics (deadline 2019/12/31)
California State University, Long Beach, Electrical Engineering
[APET] Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering (deadline 2020/01/06)
California State University, Long Beach, HISTORY
California State University, Long Beach, Human Development / College of Liberal Arts
[2547ASSTPROFESSOR] Assistant Professor of Human Development (accepting applications)
California State University, Long Beach, Journalism and Public Relations-College of Liberal Arts
[ASSTPROFESSOR] Assistant Professor of Journalism (2020/01/31)
California State University, Long Beach, LINGUISTICS/College of Liberal Arts
[ASSTPROFESSOR] Assistant Professor Sociolinguistics/Language and Culture (2020/02/29)
California State University, Long Beach, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
[AP] Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering/Aerospace Systems Design (deadline 2020/01/10)
[AP1] Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering/Thermal-Fluids Engineering (deadline 2020/01/10)
California State University, Long Beach, Political Science/AA/College of Liberal Arts
California State University, Long Beach, RGRLL/CLA
California State University, Long Beach, Sociology/ AA/ CLA
[ASSTPROFESSOR] Assistant Professor of Global Sociology (deadline 2019/12/31)
California State University, Long Beach, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies
[ASSTPROFESSOR] Assistant Professor Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2020/02/29)
California State University, Long Beach, Civil and Construction Engineering Management
[TT] Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering (Water Resources) (deadline 2020/01/06)
Chapman University, Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences
[PANTT] Clinical Assistant/Associate Professor of Physician Assistant Studies, Non-Tenure Track, Spring 2020 (filled)
[PSYNTT] Instructional Assistant Professor of Psychology, Non-Tenure Track, August 2020
Chapman University, Dodge College of Film and Media Arts
[APFP] Assistant Professor of Film Production
[APP] Assistant Professor of Producing
[APPD] Assistant Professor of Production Design
[APSW] Assistant or Associate Professor of Screenwriting
Chapman University, Schmid College of Science and Technology
[F20BIOLNTT] Assistant Professor of Biology, Non-Tenure Track (deadline 2019/10/15)
[F20ESPTT] Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy (deadline 2019/12/01)
[F20GCIPD] Grand Challenges Initiative Teaching and Research Fellows (2020/02/01)
[MFT] Clinical Assistant Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy-Fall 2020 (deadline 2019/12/31)
[NTTHS] Instructional Assistant Professor of Health Science, Non-Tenure Track, August 2020
[CSDTT] Associate or Full Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
University of California, Irvine, Department of Physics & Astronomy
[POSTDOCTORAL1] Postdoctoral Researcher position in theoretical particle physics or astroparticle physics (deadline 2020/01/15)
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division, T-2
[HEPPD20] Postdoctoral Research Associate in Elementary Particle Theory (deadline 2019/12/02)
[NTPD] Postdoctoral Research Associate in Basic Nuclear Theory (deadline 2019/12/06)
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division
[ANTP] Applied Nuclear Theory Postdocs (2020/03/01)
Macalester College, Art and Art History
[DRAWING] Studio Art Specialist in Drawing (deadline 2019/11/01)
Macalester College, Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science
[STATPOSTDOC] 2-Year Teaching Postdoc in Statistics
Macalester College, Psychology 2020-2021
[VAPPSYCHD1] Visiting Assistant Professor-Developmental Psychology (2020/02/17)
[VAPPSYCHN1] Visiting Assistant Professor of Neuroscience (2020/02/17)
[VAPPSYCHS1] Visiting Assistant Professor - Social Psychology (2020/02/17)
University of California, San Diego, Theoretical Physics
[CMBPDOC] Postdoctoral Researcher
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Researcher (deadline 2019/12/01)
Arizona State University, School of Politics and Global Studies
[MAGSLECT] Lecturer, FSC (deadline 2019/10/11)
Oklahoma State University, Physics/Arts & Sciences
[PD] Post Doctoral Fellow (deadline 2019/12/08)
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Department of Physics, High Energy Theory
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Dept. of Computer Sciences
[FAC100562] Professor (Assistant, Associate or Full) (deadline 2019/12/01)
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Department of Chemistry
[PROFCHEMISTRY1] Professor of Chemistry (deadline 2019/11/17)
Northern Illinois University, Physics
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Research Associate (deadline 2019/09/06)
[REURET] Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) and Teachers (RET) in Physics (2020/02/02)
Fermilab, CMS
[LGS] LPC Graduate Scholar (deadline 2019/10/04*)
American Physical Society, Division of Particles and Fields
[DPFINST2019] DPF Instrumentation Award 2019 (deadline 2019/11/06)
[DPFMENT2020] DPF Mentoring Award 2020 (2020/03/01)
Fermilab, Fermilab Quantum Institute
[PAQP] Postdoctoral Research Associate(Quantum Physics) (deadline 2019/11/19)
Fermilab, Theoretical Physics Group
[QISRA] Theoretical Physics Research Associate (deadline 2019/12/27)
Fermilab, Summer Internship Program
[HE2021] Helen Edwards Summer Internship (deadline 2020/01/13*)
[TRAC2020] Teacher Research Associates (TRAC) (2020/02/16)
Fermilab, Accelerator Division
[HEPQIS] Research Associate (HEP-QIS) (2020/02/07)
Benedictine University, Biology
[ASTPROFBIOSCI100222019] Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
[ASTPROFBIOSCI10072019] Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Benedictine University, History, Philosophy & Religious Studies
[ASSTPROFOFTHEOLOGY] Assistant Professor of Theology
Benedictine University, MPH
[ASTPROFOFMPH10222019] Assistant Professor - Professional Clinical Faculty
Benedictine University, Nutrition
[ASSTASSOCPROFOFNUT11082019] Assistant/Associate Professor of Nutrition
Benedictine University, Physical Sciences
[ASTPROFBIOCHEM10072019] Assistant Professor of Bio-chemistry
Northwestern University, CIERA - Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics
[REU] CIERA REU Student
Northwestern University, High Energy Theory Group
[FELLOWS] CIERA Postdoctoral Fellowship Positions in Astronomy & Astrophysics (deadline 2019/12/01)
[MARGUTTI] Postdoctoral Position in Time-Domain and Multi-messenger Astrophysics (deadline 2019/12/01)
[OBSERVING] Postdoctoral Associate Positions in Observational Astronomy & Astrophysics (deadline 2019/12/01)
[THEORY] Postdoctoral Associate Positions in Theoretical Astronomy & Astrophysics (deadline 2019/12/01)
[MPI] Four-year Postdoctoral Positions in Gravitational-Wave Theory and Astrophysics (deadline 2019/12/01)
Radix Trading LLC, Research
[QR] Quantitative Researcher
Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science
[DSPC] Master of Data Science Program Coordinator/Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (2020/04/30)
University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute
[FELLOW19] Fermi/McCormick/Oehme Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Chicago, Kadanoff Center
[POSTDOC] Kadanoff Center Postdoctoral Fellowship (deadline 2019/12/01)
University of Chicago, Institute for Molecular Engineering
[AASH2019A] Postdoctoral Scholar - Clerk Group
[QTPDF] Chicago Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theoretical Quantum Science (2020/01/20)
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
[RAP] Assistant/Associate Professor of Econometrics and Statistics
Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
[CSEFAC] Open Faculty Position (deadline 2019/12/15)
Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering
[ESEFACULTY] Open Faculty Position (deadline 2019/12/15)
[TEACHINGFACULTY] Open Position: Teaching Faculty (2020/05/15)
Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
[FP] Faculty Position (deadline 2019/12/01)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Physics
[NUCTH] Nuclear Theory Postdoc Positions Available (deadline 2019/12/01)
[PD_HEPLAT] Postdoctoral research position in high energy theory (lattice and QIS) (deadline 2019/12/15)
[PD_HEPPH] Postdoctoral research position in high-energy theory and cosmology (reviewing applications, deadline 2019/12/01)
[PD_QGQI] Postdoctoral research position in quantum gravity and quantum information (deadline 2019/12/01)
University of Notre Dame, Department of Physics
[PDCMSCERN] Postdoctoral Associate - Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (deadline 2019/12/31)
[PDCREPP] Postdoctoral Research Associate - Experimental Observational Astrophysics (deadline 2020/01/10)
[PDCREPPEXP] Postdoctoral Research Associate in Experimental Physics (2020/02/07)
University of Notre Dame, Quantum and Nonlinear Optoelectronics Group
[PDA] Postdoctoral associate
University of Texas at Arlington, High Energy Physics Intensity Frontier
[POSTDOCTORALFELLOW] Postdoctoral Fellow on SBN and DUNE at U. Texas Arlington (accepting applications, deadline 2019/11/15)
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Internal Medicine/Center for Autophagy Research
[RAP1] Assistant Professor of Autophagy
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Physiology
[ASSISTANTPROFESSOR] UT Southwestern Tenure-Track Position - Physiology (2020/05/29)
Michigan State University, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
[POSTDOC] Particle Theory Postdoc (deadline 2019/12/14)
University of Michigan, High Energy Theory and Cosmology Groups
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Research Fellow (deadline 2019/12/01)
University of Cincinnati, Theoretical Physics
[HEPPD] Postdoctoral Researcher in Theoretical High-Energy Physics (deadline 2019/12/15)
Xavier University, Department of Computer Science
[AP] Assistant Professor - Computer Science (deadline 2019/11/01)
Oberlin College, Computer Science Department
[2YRAP] Two-Year Faculty Position in Computer Science (deadline 2020/01/13)
[CSCITTF2020] Computer Science Tenure Tack Fall 2020 (accepting applications, deadline 2019/12/02)
The Ohio State University, Biomedical Engineering
[AY20BME1CAP] Clinical Assistant/Associate Professor of Practice (deadline 2019/12/01)
The Ohio State University, Knowlton School of Architecture
[AY20KSA2] Tenure Faculty Position (2020/02/23)
The Ohio State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering
[AY20ECE2ESL] Open Tenure-Track Faculty Position - ElectroScience Laboratory (ESL) (2020/03/31*)
Ohio State University, Microbiology
[ASSISTPROFMICRO] Assistant Professor (2020/02/28)
The Ohio State University, Integrated Systems Engineering
[ISE1CLINICAL] Non-Tenure-Track Clinical Faculty Position, Operational Excellence: Integrated Lean Six Sigma (2020/04/01)
Ohio State University, Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics
[POSTDOC] CCAPP Postdoctoral Fellows (deadline 2019/11/15)
Ohio State University, College of Pharmacy
[GENRX] Non tenure-track faculty - GenRX (2020/02/29)
Ohio State University, College of Public Health
[HBHPCAP] Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Promotion (2020/05/31)
[HSMPCLIN] Health Services Management and Policy Clinical Track Faculty (2020/11/01)
The Ohio State University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
[AY19MAE7] Experimental Aerodynamics - Research Assistant Professor or Research Scientist (accepting applications)
Ohio State University, Sociology
[APOPEN] Assistant Professor - Open (2020/01/21)
Ohio State University, Department of Psychology
[BN] Open Faculty Rank (deadline 2019/11/22)
[PSCDIRECTOR] Psychological Services Center (PSC) Director (deadline 2019/12/01)
Ohio State University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
[CHM_ASST_PROF] Biochemistry Assistant Professor
Ohio State University, School of Communication
[UXCOMMTECH] Assistant Professor - User Experience and Communication Technologies (deadline 2020/01/15)
[OPENRANKDIVERSITY] Open Rank (Assistant to Full) - Understanding Race, Ethnicity, Gender/Sex and Disparities in Modern Society (deadline 2019/10/15)
Ohio State University, The Department of Political Science
[API] American Political Institutions (deadline 2019/10/01)
[RGE] Politics of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in American Politics (deadline 2019/10/01)
Ohio State University, Design
[IDAP] Assistant Professor
The Ohio State University, The College of Education and Human Ecology, Teaching and Learning
[HUCK] Charlotte S. Huck Endowed Professor of Children's Literature (2020/01/28)
[SCIEDU] Assistant Professor in Science Education (2020/01/31)
[TLCHAIR] Chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning (T&L) (2020/01/30)
Ohio State University, Economics
[AP2] Assistant or Associate Prof4essor
Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences
[TTAP] Assistant Professor (deadline 2019/12/16)
Ohio State University, Department of French & Italian
[IF] Assistant Professor in Italian Film and Media Studies (2020/01/27)
Ohio State University, Arts Administration, Education and Policy
[APAM] Assistant Professor in Arts Management (deadline 2019/11/15)
Ohio State University, Mershon Center for International Security Studies
[HAYESCHAIR] Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies (deadline 2020/01/15)
University of Kentucky, Nuclear & Particle Theory, Department of Physics & Astronomy
[PD] Postdoctoral Fellow in Nuclear/Particle Theory (deadline 2019/12/31)
The University of Texas at Austin, Research Institute-Weinberg/Theory Group
[POSTDOC1] postdoctoral fellow in cosmology/astrophysics (deadline 2019/12/02*)
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Fellow (deadline 2019/12/02*)
Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Position - Theoretical Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology Group (deadline 2019/12/07)
Texas A&M University, Department of Statistics
[FACULTY] Head, Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University, Department of Chemistry
[2020TTF] Assistant Professor (deadline 2019/10/01)
University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science
[UTMASSNT] Assistant Professor, Robotics (deadline 2019/12/09)
York University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
York University, Chemistry
[CLA] Contractually Limited Appointment in Biochemistry (2020/02/14*)
University of Toronto, Statistical Sciences
[APDATA] Assistant Professor, Data Science (deadline 2019/11/25)
[ASSISBIO] Assistant Professor, Statistics and Biosciences (deadline 2019/11/25)
[ASSISTEACH] Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream Statistical Sciences (deadline 2019/11/25)
[ASSISTSI] Assistant Professor, Statistical Information (deadline 2019/11/25)
[ASSOCSI] Associate Professor, Statistical Information (deadline 2019/11/25)
[CANSSI] Associate Professor or Professor - Regional Director of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (deadline 2020/01/08)
[STAPSY] Assistant Professor, Psychology and Statistical Sciences (deadline 2019/11/18)
[STATENVIRON] Assistant Professor, Statistical Methods for Environmental Sciences (deadline 2019/11/25)
University of Toronto, High energy phenomenology group
[JOINTPD] Postdoctoral Research Associate (Joint UofT/Perimeter) (deadline 2019/12/01)
[APHCI] Assistant Professor (2020/01/30)
[CSA] csa2
[MLCSC] Associate/Full Professor - Machine Learning (2020/01/30)
[MLCSCLMP1] Assistant Professor - Computational Medicine (2020/01/30)
[MLCSCLMP2] Associate/Full Professor - Computational Medicine (2020/01/30)
[MLCSECE1] Associate/Full Professor - Machine Learning (2020/01/30)
[MLCSECE2] Assistant Professor - Machine Learning (2020/01/30)
University of Toronto, Computer & Mathematical Sciences
[CSMENDELZON] Assistant Professor – Contractually Limited Term (2020/02/10)
Rice University, Cosmology & High Energy Astrophysics
[PD] Postdoctoral Research Associate (deadline 2019/12/01)
Rice University, Rice Center for Quantum Materials
[PD] Postdoc (deadline 2019/11/01)
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Position in Theoretical and Computational Cosmology, Astroparticle Physics and Gravitation (deadline 2019/12/20)
University of Pittsburgh, PITT PACC
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Associate (deadline 2019/12/07)
[POSTDOCTORALFELLOW] Langley Postdoctoral Fellow (deadline 2019/12/16)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
[3AORAP] Three (3) Assistant or Associate Professor Positions in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (2020/03/01)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
[ASSISTANTPROFESSOR] Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (2020/03/02)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering
[GENERAL] Assistant Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering (2020/08/01)
[MATERIALS] Assistant Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering (deadline 2019/12/15)
[ROBOTICS] Assistant Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering (2020/02/15)
[THERMAL] Assistant/Associate Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering (2020/02/15)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Engineering Fundamentals Program
[EFLEC] Engineering Fundamentals Lecturer (deadline 2020/01/06)
Cornell University, Section of Horticulture - Geneva
[AAP] Physiology of Fruit Crop Adaptation to Climate Change Assistant/Associate Professor (deadline 2019/12/23)
Cornell University, Department of Food Science
[PSASP] Produce Safety Alliance (PSA) Spanish Language Extension Associate (deadline 2019/12/31)
[SEREA] Southeast Extension Associate - Produce Safety Alliance (Southeast Regional) (deadline 2019/12/31)
Cornell University, Department of Entomology - Geneva
[DIGSYSENT] Digital System Entomologist (2020/01/20)
Queen's University, Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute
[PDF] Postdoctoral Fellow-Data science applied to astrophysics and particle astrophysics (2020/03/31)
Queen's University, Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy
[PF] Postdoctoral Fellow (deadline 2019/12/09)
Pennsylvania State University, Computer Science and Engineering
[CSE] Multiple Tenure Track Positions in CSE (deadline 2020/01/01)
Pennsylvania State University, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos
[AMPLITUDES] Postdoctoral Scholar (deadline 2020/01/06)
The Pennsylvania State University, College of Information Sciences and Technology
[ADUGDEAN] Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Graduate Studies
[AI] Faculty Postions Artifical Intelligence
[AIDSTEACHFAC] Teaching Faculty Positions Articial Intelligence & Data Sciences
[CYBER] Faculty Positions Cybersecurity
[CYBERTEACHFAC] Teaching Faculty Positions Cybersecurity
[HCDTEACHFAC] Teaching Faculty Positions Human Centered Design & Development
The Pennsylvania State University, Institute for CyberScience
[ECOSICSCOHIRE] Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty Positions in Data Science for Large Astronomical Surveys (Arranging first set of campus visits)
The Pennsylvania State University, Chemistry
[DIRGENCHEM19] Director of General CHemistry Lab
[FACOPEN19] Tenure-Track Faculty - Chemistry (deadline 2019/09/16)
Pennsylvania State University, Physics Department
[ASSOCFULL] Associate or Full Professor of Physics
[ASSTPROF] Assistant Professor of Physics
Carleton University, Physics Department
[PD] Postdoc in high-energy theory/phenomenology (deadline 2019/12/01)
[THPROF] Assistant Professor in Theoretical Physics (deadline 2019/12/15)
Georgia Institute of Technology, Materials Science and Engineering
[MSEJR] Assistant Professor Opening in Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (deadline 2019/11/15)
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Physics
[FPTTQCMP] Faculty Position - Tenured/Tenure Track Quantum Condensed Matter Physics (2020/02/29)
Georgia State University, Computer Science
[AI] Associate Professor/Professor
[DATASCIENCE] Assistant Professor (2020/01/30)
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Computational Science and Engineering
[CSEPOSTDOC] Postdoctoral Fellow (deadline 2019/10/15)
[SCHOOLCHAIR] Chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) (2020/03/01)
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Computer Science
[SCHOOLCHAIR] Chair of the School of Computer Science (CS)
[TTFAC] Tenure-Track Faculty Positions (2020/04/19)
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
[FARMERCHAIR] Rhesa "Ray" S. Farmer Distinguished Chair in Emebedded Computer Systems (2020/05/30)
[TTA] GT-ECE - Autonomy
[TTACC] GT-ECE - Advanced Computing Concepts
[TTAE] GT-ECE - Advanced Electronics
[TTC] GT-ECE - Cybersecurity
[TTLE] GT-ECE - Leading Edge
[TTML] GT-ECE - Machine Learning
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Building Construction
[RED] Professor of the Practice in Real Estate Development (deadline 2019/11/15)
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Aerospace Engineering
[PROFSHS] Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Design
[DBL] Professor or Associate Professor and Director of the Digital Building Laboratory (2021/01/07)
[ID] Chair of the School of Industrial Design (deadline 2019/11/01)
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Architecture
[NEXT1] Ventulett NEXT Generation Teaching Fellowship (deadline 2019/12/01)
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of City & Regional Planning
[EDP] Assistant or Associate Professor in Economic Development Planning (deadline 2019/10/15)
[HCD] Assistant or Associate Professor in Housing and Community Development (deadline 2019/11/08)
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Interactive Computing
[TTF20192020] Tenure-Track Faculty
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Public Policy
[FINANCE] Assistant Professor (deadline 2019/12/15)
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Psychology
[PDF1] Postdoctoral Fellowship
[ENG] Engineering Psychology Faculty (deadline 2019/10/31)
[FAC19] CSE Tenure-Track Faculty (deadline 2019/12/15)
[LEC] Lecturer
[POP] Professor of the Practice
[PROFESSOR] Professor
Georgia State University, Managerial Sciences
[NTT] Operations and Supply Chain Management-Non-Tenure Track/Clinical Faculty
[NTT1] Business Analysis - Non Tenure Track/Clinical Faculty
[TT] Operations and Supply Chain Management - Tenure Track
Georgia State University, Department of Computer Information Systems
[NEXTGENAI] NextGen Artificial Intelligence (2020/04/30)
[NEXTGENCYBER] Tenure Track / Tenured Position (2020/04/15)
Georgia State University, Finance
[LECTURER] Lecturer in Finance (non-tenure track) (2020/04/23)
[TCVECYBER] Assistant/Associate Professor (Cybersecurity) (2020/02/01)
Georgia State University, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
[ASSOP] Associate Professor/Professor (deadline 2019/11/30)
[LEC] Lecturer (2020/01/31)
Georgia State University, Risk Management and Insurance
[AS] Actuarial Science TT Faculty Position (2020/04/01)
[RMIENDOWED] Endowed Chair TT or NTT Faculty Position in Risk Management and Insurance
Cornell University, Design + Environmental Analysis
[TTAAP2019] Tenure-Track Assistant or Associate Professor - Design and Environmental Analysis
Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Cornell University, AAP Department of Art
[PROFINART] Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Art (deadline 2020/01/06)
[PROFINARTDM] Tenure-Track Assistant Professor or early Associate Professor in Art: Digital Media Practice and Theory (deadline 2020/01/06*)
Cornell University, Government Department
[TTPIR] Open Rank Tenure-track Position in International Relations (deadline 2019/09/16)
Cornell University, Anthropology
[RAP] Economic Anthropologist (deadline 2019/10/15)
Cornell University, City and Regional Planning
[PROFINCRP] Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Community Development (deadline 2020/01/06)
Cornell University, English
[VAP] Visiting Assistant Professor (deadline 2020/01/17)
Cornell University, School of Criticism and Theory
[SCT2020] School of Criticism and Theory (2020/03/01)
Cornell University, Law School
[CLARKE] Clarke Professorship & Directorship - Cornell Law School (2020/02/29)
[DPCBL] Distinguished Professor of Corporate and Business Law - Cornell Law School (2020/02/29)
[ENTRF] Entrepreneurship Law Clinic Fellow (2020/02/01*)
[VAPLAW] Visiting Assistant Professor of Law (2020/01/31*)
Cornell University, Romance Studies
[FRLEC] Lecturer/Senior Lecturer of French Language (2020/02/09*)
[LECSPAN] Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (deadline 2019/10/15*)
Cornell University, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
[TTF] Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (2020/03/01)
Cornell University, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
[POSTDOC_TRANSYS1] Postdoctoral Associate_Integrated On-Demand Transit Systems
Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences/College of Engineering
[COAST] Assistant Professor (deadline 2019/11/20)
Cornell University, Society for the Humanities
[HSP_POSTDOC] Humanities Scholars Program Postdoctoral Fellows (2020/02/16)
Cornell University, Research Division
[DEANANDVPGE] Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate Education (2020/02/03)
[SRA] Senior Research Associate (deadline 2020/01/15)
Cornell University, Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education
[MUONG2POSTDOC] MuonG-2 Postdoc (2020/01/31*)
[REU2020] REU2020 (2020/01/24)
[SERCCS2020] SERCCS2020
[STRINGTHEORYPOSTDOC] STRINGTHEORYPOSTDOC
Cornell University, Music Department
[CMP] Asst or Assoc Prof of Composition (deadline 2020/01/15)
Cornell University, School of Integrative Plant Science - Section of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology
[FUNGALBIOLOGY] Assistant Professor; Fungal Biology; tenure track, academic year appointment (9-month) (2020/04/15)
Cornell University, The Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution
[SCHEINCONF] Assistant or Associate Professor or Extension Research Associate in Conflict Resolution - ILR School, Cornell University
Cornell University, Materials Science & Engineering
[TTP] Tenure Track Faculty Position-Soft Materials
Cornell University, LASSP/Physics
[POSTDOC1] Postdoctoral Position: X-ray and Electron Based Methods for Probing Biomolecular Structure and Function (2020/01/31)
Cornell University, Economics
[AP] Assistant Professor (deadline 2019/12/02)
Cornell University, Sociology
[AP1] Robert and Ann Rosenthal Assistant Professorship of Sociology (deadline 2019/10/01)
[RA] PARADIM-Research Associate ARPES
Cornell University, College of Business
[DACCTRTETTLECPROF1920] Lecturer/Sr. Lecturer or Assistant/Associate/Professor of the Practice in Accounting (2020/06/30*)
[DMMCRTELEC1920] Lecturer of Marketing and Management Communication (2020/06/30*)
[DMOSBETTPROF19_20] Bruce F. Failing, Sr. Professorship of Personal Enterprise and Small Business Management (2020/03/15)
[HMMCRTELEC1920] Lecturer/Sr. Lecturer of Marketing & Management Communication - SC Johnson College of Business (2020/06/30*)
[HMMCTTPROF19] Associate or Full Professor - Michael D. Johnson Family Professorship of Services Marketing (2020/01/31)
[HMOSBETTPROF1920] The Lewis G. Schaeneman Professor of Innovation & Dynamic Management (2020/06/30)
[HMOTTPROF1920] Assistant, Associate or Full Professor of Management and Organizations: Specializing in Human Resources Management or Labor Relations (2020/06/30)
[JMOLEC1920] Part-Time Lecturer/Senior Lecturer Position, SC Johnson College of Business and Cornell Tech MBA Program (deadline 2020/01/15)
[JOHNSONFAC] Faculty Positions SC Johnson College of Business and Cornell Tech (All Ranks) (2020/03/15)
[SHALECOTIM] Lecturer of Property Development & Management, School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University (2020/03/15)
Cornell University, Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science
[UNDERGRADUATE] Research Experience for Undergraduates (2020/02/03*)
Cornell University, Division of Nutritional Sciences
[EXTASSOCEFNEP] Extension Associate - Division of Nutritional Sciences
[NUTRHEALTHINEQ] Nutrition and Health - Assistant/Associate/Full Professor
[NUTRIHEALTHINEQ_EXTENSION] Nutrition and Health - Associate/Full Professor
[POSTDOCMOLENUTR] Postdoctoral Associate
[SI1] WHO/Cochrane/Cornell Summer Institute (2020/04/01)
Cornell University, Electrical and Computer Engineering
[ECE20192020] ECE tenure-track Faculty
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Researcher - Optimization and Machine Learning Power Systems
Cornell University, Cornell Population Center
[CPCPOSTDOC2020] The Cornell Population Centr (CPC) Postdoctoral Associate
Cornell University, Fiber Science and Apparel Design
[POSTDOCWEARABLETECH] Postdoctoral Associate - Smart Clothing and Wearable Technology
Cornell University, Policy Analysis and Management
[ASSTPROFAPMICROECON] Assistant Professor in Policy Analysis and Management
[PDABIGDATA] Postdoctoral Associate - Big Data/Data Science
Cornell University, Computer Science
[FACITHACA] Tenured, Tenure-Track (deadline 2019/12/01)
[LECT] Lecturer (deadline 2019/10/15)
Cornell University, Information Science
[FACITHACAIS2020] TENURE-TRACK FACULTY SEARCH, ITHACA CAMPUS (deadline 2019/11/01)
[LEC] FULL-TIME TEACHING FACULTY SEARCH (LECTURER OR SENIOR LECTURER TITLE), ITHACA CAMPUS (deadline 2019/10/15)
Cornell University, Molecular Biology & Genetics
[POSTDOC_KELLOGG] Postdoctoral Associate (deadline 2019/12/13)
Cornell University, Yang Tan Institute
[SREXTENTRANS] Senior Extension Associate - Senior Transition Associate - Yang-Tan Institute
[SRRESEARCH] Senior Research Associate - Yang-Tan Institute - ILR School, Cornell University
Cornell University, Operations Research and Information Engineering
[MORGANCHAIR] Operations Research and Information Engineering, Eleanor and Howard Morgan Professorship
[TENUREDTENURETRACK] Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty
[RAP] Research Assistant Professor (2020/02/15)
Cornell University, Systems Engineering
[POPSENG] Professor of Practice/Lecturer – Software Engineering
[SELECTURER] Systems Engineering Lecturer
[ECELECSRLEC] Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (2020/05/01)
Cornell University, Landscape Architecture
[APTT] Assistant Professor, Tenure Track (2020/03/24)
Cornell University, Cornell Institute of Host-Microbe Interactions and Disease (CIHMID)
[POSTDOCLAZZARODEC2019] PostDoc in CIHMID Dec2019 (2020/01/31)
Cornell University, Statistics and Data Science
[FP] Faculty Position - Assistant/Associate/Visiting Professor (deadline 2019/11/30)
[PD1] Cornell University Multiple Postdoctoral Positions in Foundational Data Science (NSF HDR TRIPODS) (2020/02/15)
[PD2] Cornell University Postdoctoral Position in Data Science, Machine Learning and Climate: PRISM Cooperative Institute (NSF HDR) (2020/02/15)
[PD3] Cornell University Postdoctoral Position in Data Science and Machine Learning: Catalysts Cooperative Institute (NSF HDR) (2020/02/15)
Cornell University, Neurobiology and Behavior
[ASST_PROF_BEHAV] Assistant Professor: Evolution of Behavior (deadline 2019/09/30)
[ASST_PROF_NEURO] Assistant Professor: Systems Neuroscience (deadline 2019/11/01)
Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
[ORGANISMALBIO] Organismal Biology (deadline 2019/10/20)
[POSTDOCASSOC1] Postdoctoral Associate (2020/03/01)
Cornell University, Institute of Biotechnology
[BIBIOINFORMATICS] Bioinformatics Coordinator Research Associate, Breeding Insight Program (deadline 2019/10/30)
[PHENOM] Phenomics Coordinator Research Associate, Breeding Insight Program (2020/02/28)
Cornell University, School of Integrative Plant Science
[SL] Senior Lecturer (deadline 2019/11/15)
[TPA] Teaching Postdoctoral Associate (deadline 2019/12/15)
Cornell University, School of Integrative Plant Science – Section of Plant Breeding and Genetics
[POSTDOC] Machine Learning Genetics of Oat Composition (2020/03/15)
[POSTDOC1] Genetic Variation of Oat Seed Metabolome (2020/03/15)
Cornell University, Section of Horticulture
[BAUERLEPOSTDOC] Postdoctoral Associate (deadline 2020/01/01)
Cornell University, Biomedical Engineering
[FACULTYPOSITION] Faculty Position in Biomedical Engineering (deadline 2019/11/15)
[LECTURER] Lecturer (2020/03/01)
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Research Position (Genomic-based Medicine)
[RESEARCHASSOCIATE] Research Associate (Genomics-based Medicine Technologies)
[RESEARCHASSOCIATE1] Heart-Assist Research Associate - Biomedical Engineering
Cornell University, School of Integrative Plant Science - Section of Plant Biology
[SYNTHETICBIOLOGY] Assistant/Associate Professor (deadline 2019/10/21)
Cornell University, Asian Studies
[JLEC] Japanese Language Lecturer (2020/02/15*)
[SEAIFS] Senior Extension Associate Institute for Food Safety (deadline 2020/01/01)
[POSTDOCTORALASSOCIATE] Postdoctoral Associate (deadline 2019/11/15)
[ASSTASSOCPROF] Breeding for Sustainable Cropping Systems (2020/05/05)
[RUFF] Lecturer in Business (Non-tenure track) (2020/04/30)
Cornell University, BEE/CALS
[PRASL] Postdoctoral Associate
[BAE] Biological and Agricultural Engineering Assistant Professor
[BESE] Biological and Environmental Systems Engineering Assistant Professor
Cornell University, Animal Science
[AP] Assistant or Associate Professor of Functional Genetics (2020/06/04*)
[PDASSOC] Postdoctoral Associate in Canine Genetics (deadline 2019/09/30)
Cornell University, CALS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
[LIMNOLOGY] Limnology/Freshwater Biology (deadline 2019/10/20)
Cornell University, CVM Department of Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences
[AMBUL] Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Ambulatory and Production Medicine (deadline 2019/12/01)
[CLINPATH] Assistant, Associate, or Full Clinical Professor of Clinical Pathology, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences and Clinical Pathology Laboratory, Animal Health Diagnostic Center Col (deadline 2019/11/15)
Cornell University, Baker Institute for Animal Health
[RAP] Tenure Track Faculty Position at the Baker Institute for Animal Health (accepting applications, deadline 2019/12/06)
Cornell University, Biomedical Sciences
[ACP1] Assistant or Associate Clinical Professor of Anatomic Pathology
Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine
[CDD] Lecturer or Senior Lecturer Position in Veterinary Curriculum Design and Development, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine (deadline 2019/11/15)
Cornell University, Microbiology & Immunology
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Associate in Chemical Biology (2020/06/30)
[CLASSEDIRECTOR] Director - Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education (2020/03/31)
Colgate University, Department of Economics
[EDTS] Economic Development
[GETS] Gender Economics
Colgate University, University Libraries
[LAP] Special Collections Librarian; Assistant Professor in the Libraries
Colgate University, Department of Art and Art History
[VIDEO] Studio Art, Video Artist. (deadline 2019/11/22)
Colgate University, Department of Chemistry
[BIOCAP] Assistant Professor Biochemistry/Chemical Biology (deadline 2019/09/13)
Colgate University, Department of Geography
[VAP] Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography (2020/02/14)
Colgate University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
[POSTDOC] Microsoft Quantum Program-sponsored Postdoctoral Associate position at Colgate University in Superconducting Neuromorphic Computing (deadline 2020/01/03)
Colgate University, Department of Theater
[VAP] Visiting Assistant Professor in Theater History and Theory (2020/02/20)
Colgate University, Department of Writing and Rhetoric
[VAP] Visiting Assistant Professor in Rhetoric and Composition (2020/01/30)
Colgate University, Department of Philosophy
[VAP] Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy (2020/02/20)
Colgate University, Department of Computer Science
[TSAP] Assistant Professor (deadline 2019/10/15)
Colgate University, Jewish Studies Program
[VAP] Visiting Assistant Professor Pre- Modern Judaism
Colgate University, Department of English
[AAL] African American Literature, Assistant Professor (deadline 2019/12/13)
[CW] Creative Writing Fellows
[TSPHAS19] Tenure Track Position in Experimental Physics (deadline 2019/11/15)
University of Virginia, Biology
[BIOLOGYRESEARCHSCIENTIST] Research Scientist in Biology (2020/08/31)
Wake Forest University, Sociology
University of South Alabama, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
[POP] Professor of Practice
Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
[ADF] American Druze Foundation Fellowship (2020/02/01*)
[QPD] Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2020/02/01*)
Georgetown University, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
[DATA] Assistant Professor (2020/01/31)
Georgetown University, Government
[NTLGOVERNMENT] Assistant Professor of Teaching--Government (reviewing applications, deadline 2020/01/03*)
Duke University, Margolis Health Policy Center
[RASSOC_BIOMED_DC_NC] Research Associate - Biomed (DC or NC) (2020/04/07)
[RASSOC_WS1_NC] Research Associate (2020/03/20)
[SRRASST_BIOMED_DC_NC] Sr. Research Assistant - Biomed (DC or NC) (2020/04/07)
University of Maryland, Joint Quantum Institute
[JQIFAC] Faculty Member, Joint Quantum Institute (deadline 2019/12/15)
[PD] JQI Experimental Postdoctoral Fellowship (2020/01/31)
[PDT1] JQI Theoretical Postdoctoral Fellowship (deadline 2019/11/15)
[QUICSLPSTPD] QuICS/LPS Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Near-Term Quantum Advantage in Tensor Network-Inspired Machine Learning (2020/04/01)
[CMTCPF] CMTC Postdoctoral Fellowship (deadline 2019/12/01)
[HPF] QuICS Hartree Postdoctoral Fellowship (deadline 2019/12/01)
University of Maryland, Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics
[POSTDOC] Joint UMD/JHU postdoctoral position (deadline 2019/12/01)
[POSTDOC1] Post-doc research associate in the interface of nuclear theory and quantum information science (deadline 2019/11/15)
[POSTDOC2] UMD Postdoctoral Position (deadline 2019/12/01)
Johns Hopkins University, Electrical & Computer Engineering
[REU2020] JHU-ECE-REU 2020 (accepting applications)
Johns Hopkins University, Particle Theory / Cosmology
[POSTDOC] Particle Theory Postdoctoral Position (deadline 2019/12/01)
Johns Hopkins University, Physics and Astronomy - HyGAL
[PD] Postdoctoral position - Interstellar Medium Studies (2020/02/02)
McGill University, Department of Linguistics
[PROF_LING] Indigenous Languages (making offers, deadline 2019/10/01)
McGill University, Physics
[HEPPDF2019] Postdoctoral Positions in High Energy Theory and Cosmology (deadline 2019/12/01)
[PDCMT] Postdoctoral position in Condensed Matter Theory (2020/02/20)
[NUCLTHPDF] Postdoc in Theoretical Nuclear Physics (deadline 2019/12/13)
McGill University, Centre d'enseignement du français/French Language Centre
[FACLEC] Faculty Lecturer (deadline 2019/11/01*)
McGill University, Department of Political Science
[ASSTPROFINDPOL] Assistant or Associate Professor, Indigenous Politics (deadline 2019/10/01)
McGill University, School of Information Studies
[APHII] Assistant Professor Human Information Interaction (deadline 2019/11/30)
McGill University, Institute of Islamic Studies
[ASSTPISLA] Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies (deadline 2019/11/01)
Lehigh University, Industrial and Systems Engineering - Assistant Professor
[ASST] Assistant Professor- Industrial and Systems Engineering (deadline 2019/10/15)
Lehigh University, Population Health - College of Health
[ASSOC] Population Health - Associate and Full Professor
[ASST] Population Health - Assistant Professor
Lehigh University, Electrical and Computer Engineering
[APCE] Assistant Professor Computer Engineering (deadline 2019/12/01)
[POPCE] Professor of Practice in Computer Engineering (deadline 2019/12/01)
Lehigh University, Engineering Interdisciplinary Search
[ADEL] Associate Dean for Experiential Learning (deadline 2019/11/15)
Lehigh University, Civil and Environmental Engineering
[CEEDEPTCHAIR] Department Chair
Lehigh University, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology
[APUA] Assistant Professor of Urban Anthropology (deadline 2019/11/15)
Lehigh University, Department of Management
[DATA] Department Chair and Dean's Chair in Business Information Systems (2020/02/29)
Lehigh University, Economics
[APPLIED] Assistant Professor-Applied Economics (deadline 2019/12/01)
[HEALTH] Assistant Professor-Health Economics (deadline 2019/12/01)
Lehigh University, Computer Science and Engineering
[CSEPOP] Professor of Practice
[JRFACULTY] Associate/Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering (deadline 2020/01/06*)
[POSTDOCUTC] Postdoctoral Researcher
[SRFACULTY] Senior Faculty Positions (deadline 2020/01/03*)
Lehigh University, Bioengineering
[BIOEDEPTCHAIR] Department Chair
Lehigh University, Chemical Engineering
[ANDERSON] Anderson Endowed Chair in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Lehigh University, Department of Bio-Engineering
[BIOET] Tenured Position in Bioengineering (deadline 2019/11/15)
[BIOETT] Tenure-track Position in Bioengineering (deadline 2019/11/15)
Lehigh University, Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics
[APR] Assistant Professor in Robotics and Controls (deadline 2019/11/15)
[DEPTCHAIRMEM] Department Chair (deadline 2019/10/31)
Duke University, Duke University Libraries
[CADA] Curator of the Archive of Documentary Arts (2020/04/01)
[JAPSL] Librarian for Japanese Studies
Duke University, Civil and Environmental Engineering
[BARROSAIS2] Associate in Research (2020/01/20*)
[DESHUSSES] Post Doctoral Associate (deadline 2019/09/30*)
[ENERGY] Adjunct Faculty Appointment (deadline 2019/09/03*)
Duke University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
[AI] Duke University Faculty Position on AI.Health
[ARP] Assistant Research Faculty
[CPS] Open Rank Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Position at Duke ECE
[PDP] Postdoctoral position
Duke University, Electrical and Computer Engineering
[AIR] Associate in Research (deadline 2019/09/30)
Duke University, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
[AP] Assistant Professor (2020/02/07)
[POSTDOC] Postdoc Associate (2020/02/28)
Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment - Durham
[POSTORRS_SHINDELL] Postdoctoral Associate or Research Scientist
Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment - Faculty
[NSOESEARCH] Two tenure-track faculty positions in the Nicholas School
Duke University, Philosophy
Duke University, Statistical Science
[PDERC] Postdoctoral Associates in High-Dimensional Modeling
Duke University, Physics
[PAMEHEN] Postdoctoral Research Associate in Physics (deadline 2020/01/01)
[PASPRINGER] Postdoctoral Research Associate in Physics (deadline 2019/12/15)
[PDGAO] Postdoctoral Research Associate in Medium Energy Physics (2020/01/31)
Duke University, Sanford School of Public Policy
[AGSINSTRUCTOR] American Grand Strategy Instructor
Duke University, Fuqua School of Business
[ADJUNCT] Adjunct Professor
[DS] Decision Sciences Faculty Position
[ECON] Assistant Professor
[FIN] Tenure Track Professors in Finance
Duke University, Neurobiology
[DUKENEUROBIOLOGY1] FACULTY APPOINTMENT IN NEUROBIOLOGY
Duke University, Computer Science
[AIR_PANI_2] Associate in Research
[POP20] Professor of the Practice Positions in Computer Science (deadline 2019/12/15)
[TTFACULTY20] Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Computer Science (deadline 2019/12/15)
Duke University Medical Center, Biochemistry
[POSTDOC] Yang Lab Postdoctoral Associate (accepting applications)
Duke University, Cell Biology/Duke University Medical Center
[AP] Faculty Positions in Cell Biology (deadline 2019/10/01)
Duke University, Evolutionary Anthropology
[SCHMITT_AIR] Schmitt_Associate in Research (deadline 2019/12/10*)
Duke University, Biology
[BAUGH2020_ANR] Associate in Research (2020/01/31)
[MOPD] Postdoctoral Associate (2020/05/31)
Duke University, Pratt Masters Programs
[ADJASSOC] Adjunct Associate Professor
[ADJASST] Adjunct Assistant Professor
[EIRTECHCOMP] Executive in Residence
Duke University, Pratt School of Engineering
[CAGT] Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies TT Position (deadline 2019/10/20)
[RD] RESEARCH & DEV ENGINEER III, Cryo-EM Facility Team Leader
[RA] Associate in Research (2020/06/01)
[PROF_OF_MED_HEALTHPOLICY] Professor of Medicine in Health Policy (2020/02/14*)
Duke University, Sanford School of Public Policy - NRR
[HART] Hart Leadership (deadline 2019/10/31)
[SSPPECONAPOP] Associate POP in Economics (deadline 2020/01/05)
[SSPPECONLEC] Lecturer in Economics (deadline 2020/01/05)
[AIR] Associate In Research (2020/12/20)
Duke University, Biomedical Engineering
[ASSISTPROFAIDATA] Assistant Professor - Tenure-Track - Biomedical Engineering (2020/02/29)
Duke University, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
[AP] Assistant Professor of the Practice of Hebrew Language (2020/02/17)
Duke University, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
[FAC25MLDS] Tenure Track Faculty Positions - Machine Learning and Data Science (2020/03/31)
[FAC26ALL] Open Rank Faculty Positions - Biostatistics and Biomedical Informatics (2020/05/30)
[FAC27QI] Tenure Track Faculty Position - Quantitative Immunology (2020/05/30)
[FAC28CBG] Tenure Track Faculty Position - Cancer Bioinformatics and Genomics (2020/05/30)
Duke University, Asian American and Diaspora Studies Program
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Associate in Asian American & Diaspora Studies (2020/03/02*)
Duke University, Department of Population Health Sciences
[ASSOCRES] Associate in Research (2020/02/28)
[DREAPOSTDOC2019] Postdoctoral Associate (2020/03/31*)
Duke University, Duke Global Health Institute
[DGHISP] Multiple faculty openings (2020/01/31)
Duke University Medical Center, Employee Occupational Health & Wellness
[CLIFAC] OEM Clinical Faculty
Duke University, Economics
[AIRFIELDRA1] Research Associate
[CONNOLLY] Associate in Research (offers accepted, filled, deadline 2019/09/14*)
[THOMAS] Associate in Research (deadline 2019/10/21*)
Duke Kunshan University, DSRC and iAPSE
[FACULTY] Faculty Position in Electrical and Computer Engineering (deadline 2019/12/31)
[SHAW_PD] Plant Systematics Postdoc Shaw Lab (deadline 2019/11/15)
[AIR103119] Associate in Research
[AIR8119] Associate in Research (deadline 2019/09/30)
[ARSHEN] Associate in Research (2020/03/31)
[ASGRILL] Associate in Research
[ASSOCINRESBURSAC] Associate in Research (2020/12/31)
[ASSOCINRESEARCHIZATT] Associate in Research
[PAGONG] Postdoctoral Associate (2020/03/31)
[PD5] Postdoctoral Fellow in Human Skeletal Muscle Disease Modeling and Therapy
[PD6] Postdoctoral Fellow in Cell and Gene Therapies for Cardiac Arrhythmias and Heart Failure (2020/12/31)
[PDAMEEHAN] Postdoctoral Associate (2020/05/31)
[POSTDOC2DUP] Postdoctoral Associate
[POSTDOC7] Postdoctoral Associate (2020/02/29)
[POSTDOCASSOC8919] Postdoctoral Associate (deadline 2019/12/31)
[POSTDOCASSOCKRIEGER] Postdoctoral Associate (2020/03/30)
[POSTDOCGERSBACH] Postdoctoral Associate (2020/05/31)
[POSTDOCGRILL92519] Postdoctoral Research Associate (deadline 2019/11/30)
[RAHENRIQUEZ121819] Research Associate (2020/03/30)
[RARB121219] Research Associate
[RSGRILL] Research Scientist
[RSSCHILKOTI] Research Scientist Senior
[SRSGERSBACK121219] Senior Research Scientist (2020/05/31)
[VAP72519] Visiting Assistant Professor (deadline 2019/09/30)
[VRS8519] Visiting Research Scholar (deadline 2019/09/30)
Duke University, Duke Center for Jewish Studies
[POSTDOC] Perilman Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Jewish Studies (deadline 2020/01/15)
[ASSTRESPROF2020] Assistant Research Professor (2020/03/31*)
Duke University, Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South
Duke University, Social Science Research Institute
[CAHBRII0120] Behavioral Researcher II, Center for Advanced Hindsight (2020/03/31*)
[CAHSBRC0120] Senior Behavioral Researcher (CCL), Center for Advanced Hindsight (2020/03/31*)
[CAHSBRW0120] Senior Behavioral Researcher (World), Center for Advanced Hindsight (2020/03/31*)
[POSTDOCGRID] GRID Postdoctoral Associate (2020/01/31*)
Duke University, Thompson Writing Program
[LECTURER] Thompson Writing Program Writing Studio Assistant Director (2020/03/01)
[TWPLFFY21] Lecturing Fellow (2020/02/15*)
Duke University, Psychology and Neuroscience
[DEVPP] Professor in Developmental Psychology (2020/09/30)
[RESSCI] Research Scientist (2020/02/28)
Duke University, Sociology
[FP] Advanced Associate/Full Professor (deadline 2019/11/15)
Duke University Medical Center, Department of Community and Family Medicine
[RESEARCHASSISTANTASSOCIATEFULLPROFESSOR1] Assistant/ Associate /Full Professor (2020/12/31)
[RESEARCHASSISTANTASSOCIATEFULLPROFESSOR2] Associate /Full Professor (2020/12/31)
James McKeen Cattell Fund
[CAT] Cattell Sabbatical Award (deadline 2020/01/15)
Duke University, Dance Program
[APP] Assistant Professor of the Practice in Ballet (2020/02/01)
Duke University, Music Department
[PROFPRAC] Assistant/Associate Professor of the Practice of Music (deadline 2019/11/12)
Duke University, Franklin Humanities Institute
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Fellowship, Asian/Comparative Environmental Humanities (2020/03/15)
[POSTDOC1] Postdoctoral Fellowship, Black/African Diasporic Performance (2020/03/15)
Duke University, Duke University Talent Identification Program
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Associate-Research and Evaluation (deadline 2020/01/06)
[AB_AINR] Associate in Research-Bejsovec Lab
[ALBPD] Postdoctoral Associate (deadline 2019/08/31)
[EB_AINR] Associate in Research-Bernhardt Lab (2020/05/31)
[EB_PD] Postdoctoral Associate-Bernhardt Lab (2020/04/30)
[GILPA] Postdoctoral Associate (deadline 2019/09/24)
[PPB] Postdoctoral Associate
Duke University, Department of Romance Studies
[FLP] Instructor (2020/02/15)
[AIR4] Associate In Research (deadline 2019/08/30)
Duke University, Linguistics Program
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Fellow
Duke University, The Department of Religious Studies
[INST] Part-Time Instructor (NRR) (deadline 2019/11/30*)
University of Vermont, Department of Physics
[PRANASA] Postdoctoral Research Associate (deadline 2019/12/15)
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Research Position in High Energy Theory,
Temple University, Department of Chemistry
[OFS] Faculty Search
Temple University, Civil and Environmental Engineering
[TTNTT1] Assistant or Associate Professor (2020/05/30)
Temple University, Computer and Information Sciences
[TT20192020] Tenure-Track Faculty Positions (Asst/Assoc/Full) in Computer and Information Sciences at Temple (deadline 2019/11/15)
Temple University, Electrical and Computer Engineering
[AP] 2020 Tenure Track Assistant Professor at Temple University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New High Energy Theory Center
[ASSTP] Assistant Professor (2020/01/31)
[POSTDOC] Post-Doctoral Research Associate (deadline 2019/12/01)
IBM Research, Mathematical Sciences
[GOLDSTINE] Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mathematical Sciences (accepting applications)
Stevens Institute of Technology, Computer Science
[LEC] Lecturer (accepting applications)
[NTT2020] Teaching Faculty Position in Computer Science (accepting applications, deadline 2020/01/15)
[TT2020] Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Computer Science (accepting applications, deadline 2020/01/15)
[TTF1] Professor and Director of Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence (accepting applications)
Columbia University, High Energy Physics Theory Group
[2020POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Research Associate
[LATTICE2019] Postdoctoral Research Asssociate
City University of New York, Advanced Science Research Center
[MACRO] Macromolecular Crystallization Facility Manager (Research Assistant Professor) – Structural Biology Initiative – Advanced Science Research Center (2020/01/31)
New York University, Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics
[PD] POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS (deadline 2019/12/01)
Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations
[EXECDIROUTREACH] Executive Director for Outreach - Senior Extension Associate - ILR School, Cornell University
[EXECDIRCONVO] Executive Director of the New Conversations Project: Towards Sustainable Labor Practices in Global Supply Chains - Senior Extension Associate - ILR School, Cornell University
[PTSREXTASSOC] Part-Time Senior Extension Associate - Scheinman Institute
Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute
[CSJTCI] Faculty position in Computer Science at the Jacobs Institute at Cornell Tech NYC (2020/03/05)
[ORIEJTCI] Faculty position in Operations Research and Information Engineering at the Jacobs Institute at Cornell Tech NYC (2020/03/05)
[CTECH20192020] Cornell Tech ECE Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty (deadline 2019/12/15)
[SECUNDA] Professor of Practice in Data Science, Machine Learning
[SEAURBANGRASSLAND] Urban Grassland Integrated Nutrient and Pest Management - Senior Extension Associate (2020/02/01)
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Jefferson Lab
[PD] Postdoctoral Position in Nuclear Theory (deadline 2019/12/01)
[PD1] Postdoctoral Research Position in Lattice Gauge Theory (deadline 2019/12/01)
[THPD] Postdoctoral Position in Nuclear Theory (2020/02/01)
University of Connecticut, Computer Science & Engineering
[2020272] Lecturer or Assistant/Associate Professor in Residence
University of Connecticut, Department of Communication
[2020071] Assistant Professor in Marketing, Advertising, Public Relations
University of Connecticut, Psychological Sciences
[2020209] Assistant Professor in Residence, Psychological Sciences
[2020212] Associate Professor, Psychological Sciences
University of Connecticut, School of Law
[2020094] Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Yale University, School of Medicine, Ob/Gyn and Reproductive Sciences
[DTC] Discovery To Cure Summer Internship (2020/03/01*)
Yale University, Department of Physics
Yale University, Physics - Elementary Particle Theory
[MOSSMAN] Yale Mossman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Particle Theory (deadline 2019/11/01)
Stony Brook University, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
[POSTDOC] Research Assistant Professors/Postdocs - Theoretical Physics (multiple positions) (accepting applications, deadline 2019/11/30*)
Stony Brook University, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
[EIPCME2019] Associate/Full Professor (tenure track) in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics with an emphasis on QuIST - Stony Brook University
Simons Bootstrap Collaboration
[POSTDOC] Simons Bootstrap Collaboration
Stony Brook University, Department of Chemistry
[APASSOCP] Assistant/Associate Professor in Organic Synthesis & PET Radiotracer Synthesis Chemistry in Department of Chemistry at Stony Brook University
Stony Brook University, C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics
[APROF20] Faculty Position in Theoretical Physics (deadline 2019/12/02)
[POSTDOC20] Postdoctoral Positions (deadline 2019/12/10)
Stony Brook University, Department of Civil Engineering
[PROFESSOR_CYBER_SYSTEMS] Assistant/Associate Professor (2020/02/01)
[PROFESSOR_GEO] Assistant/Associate Professor (2020/02/01)
[PROFESSOR_MATERIALS] Assistant/Associate Professor (2020/02/01)
Stony Brook University, Geosciences
[GEOAP] Assistant Professor (tenure-track) (deadline 2020/01/16*)
Stony Brook University, Music
[GUITAR] Artist in Residence
[HTE] Assistant Professor
[VOCALCOACH] Artist in Residence
[VOICE] Artist in Residence
Stony Brook University, Department of Linguistics
[COMPLING] Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics (accepting applications, deadline 2019/12/01)
Stony Brook University, Department of Political Science
[AMPOL] Associate/Full Professor (deadline 2019/10/28)
University of Connecticut, Public Policy
[2020124] Assistant Professor, Nonprofit Management
University of Connecticut, School of Social Work
[2020194] Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Social Work
University of Connecticut, Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science
[2020248] Director of the CT Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, Associate/Full Professor, Pathobiology
University of Connecticut, Neag School of Education
[2020170] Neag Endowed Professorship
University of Connecticut, Nutritional Sciences
[2020185] Assistant Professor in Nutrigenomics
University of Connecticut, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
[2020018] Assistant Professor in Residence
University of Connecticut, Eversource Energy Center
[2020220] Assistant Research Professor
[494182] Assistant or Associate Professor, AI-based Prediction for Power and Environmental Systems
University of Connecticut, Institute of Materials Science
[2020253] Assistant, Associate or Full Professor
University of Connecticut, Physics
[2020217] Assistant Professor in Residence, Physics - Avery Point Campus
University of Connecticut, Connecticut State Museum of Natural History
[2020195] Connecticut State Archaeologist
University of Connecticut, Physiology and Neurobiology
[2020138] Assistant or Associate Professors in Neurobiology or Physiology
[2020233] Visiting Assistant Professor, Physiology - Stamford
University of Connecticut, Institute for Systems Genomics
[494203] Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, Institute for Systems Genomics
University of Connecticut, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
[2020288] Assistant/Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
University of Connecticut, Mechanical Engineering (School of Engineering)
[2020056] Assistant/Associate Professor in Residence
[2020182] Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor, Mechanical Engineering
University of Connecticut, Chemistry
[2020116] Assistant Professor in Residence, Chemistry
[2020133] Assistant Professor, Chemistry
University of Connecticut, Department of Kinesiology
[2020165] Assistant Professor, Athletic Training Program
[2020166] Assistant Professor, Doctor of Physical Therapy Program
University of Connecticut, Educational Leadership (Neag School of Education)
[2020181] Assistant Professor in Residence in Higher Education and Student Affairs
University of Connecticut, Educational Psychology (Neag School of Education)
[2020172] Associate/Full Professor in School Counseling
[2020175] Assistant/Associate Professor in Learning Sciences
[2020222] Assistant Professor in School Psychology
[2020257] Assistant Clinical Professor of Special Education
University of Connecticut, Nursing
[2019012] Professor (Tenure Track) or Clinical Professor (Non-Tenure Track) REVISED REPOST
[2020218] Director of Simulation-Based Education as an Clinical Instructor/Assistant, Associate or Full Clinical Professor
[2020228] Assistant, Associate or Full Professor (Tenure/Tenure Track)
University of Connecticut, History
[2020240] Assistant Professor in Early Modern Global History, 1400-1750
University of Connecticut, Accounting
[2019035] Instructor, Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor In-Residence
[2020196] Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor, Accounting
University of Connecticut, Finance
[2020241] Assistant/Associate Professor of Finance, Storrs
[2020242] Assistant/Associate Professor of Finance – Stamford
University of Connecticut, Management Department
[2020009] Assistant/Associate Professor of Management, Organizational Behavior/Human Resources (OB/HR)
[2020246] Assistant/Associate Professor of Management, Entrepreneurship
University of Connecticut, Operations & Information Management Department
[2020183] Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Operations and Information Management
[2020187] Full Professor and Cizik Chair in Manufacturing and Technology Management
[494224] Instructor/Assistant Professor In-Residence
University of Connecticut, English
[2020208] Associate/Full Professor, Composition, Rhetoric, and Writing Studies
[2020284] Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, Artificial Intelligence and/or Machine Learning
[2020285] Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Computer Science and Engineering
University of Connecticut, Electrical and Computer Engineering (School of Engineering)
[2020199] Nicholas E. Madonna Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Associate/Full Professor
University of Connecticut, Geography
[2020174] Assistant Professor in Geographic Information Science
University of Connecticut, Allied Health Sciences
[2020040] Assistant Professor in Residence, Allied Health Sciences
[2020249] Assistant Professor in Residence, Avery Point
University of Connecticut, Psychology
[2020128] Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, Diversity Science REVISED
University of Connecticut, Linguistics
[2020190] Associate or Full Professor in Syntax
University of Connecticut, UConn Extension
[2020237] Assistant/Associate Extension Educator, Extension Diversified Livestock
University of Connecticut, Human Development and Family Sciences
[2020032] Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences
University of Connecticut, Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Prevention
[2020144] Postdoctoral Research Associate, Food Marketing
[2020301] Associate or Full Professor – Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy
University of Connecticut, Department of Sociology
[2020151] Assistant Professor
University of Connecticut, Philosophy
[2020164] Associate/Full Professor in Science Communication
University of Connecticut, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
University of Connecticut, Art and Art History
[2020315] Assistant Professor of Art, Photography (Tenure Track)
University of Connecticut, Digital Media & Design
[494185] Assistant Professor in Digital Film/Video Production (Tenure Track)
[494206] Assistant Professor in Game Art/3D Modeling (Tenure Track or In-Residence)
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Program in Molecular Medicine
[INSTRUCTOR] Instructor-Non-Tenure-Track (deadline 2019/10/18*)
[INSTRUCTOR1] Instructor Bioinformatics (2020/02/29)
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences
[19066] Associate/Full Professor (2020/09/13)
[20040E] Associate Professor (2020/04/24)
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Fellow (2020/03/09)
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Pathology Department
[RES] Assistant, Associate, Full Professor level (deadline 2019/12/31)
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology
[PROF1] Tenure-track or Senior Tenured Professor (2020/03/01)
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Psychiatry
[FORPSYPUBSEC] Public Sector Forensic Psychiatrist
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology
[FACULTY2019] Faculty Position Dept. Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology (deadline 2020/01/01)
[INSTRUCTOR2019] Instructor (accepting applications, deadline 2019/12/20)
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Animal Medicine
[ANIMED] Associate Director of Veterinary Services/Associate/Professor (2020/03/26)
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Medicine
[INS2] Instructor (deadline 2020/01/04*)
[FMDPOC] Facility Medical Director
[PSYCHTAUNT1] Staff Psychiatrist
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Radiology/Nuclear Medicine
[PHARM1] Assistant, Associate, Full Professor Level
[BROCKPSY] Attending Psychiatrist
[BRUDNICK] Brudnick Fellowship Position
[FORPSYCH] Forensic Psychologist
[POCPSYCH] Attending Psychiatrist
[PSYWRCH] Staff Psychiatrist
[PTFTCHILD] Part time-Full Time Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist (filled)
[PTFTCORR] Part-Time to Full-Time Psychiatrist
[PTWRCH] Attending Psychiatrist -- Part Time
University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences Department
[2019655] Postdoctoral Research Associate, Marine Sciences
[2020219] Assistant Professor of Marine Sciences
[2019365] Assistant Professor in Residence and Director of the Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery
Brandeis University, Anthropology
[ASSTPROF] Assistant Professor in Historical Archaeology (deadline 2019/10/01)
Brandeis University, Chemistry Department
[ASST_ASSC] Tenure-line Faculty Position in Chemistry (deadline 2019/10/15)
Brandeis University, Classical Studies, and Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
[KAY_LECT] Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Hebrew Bible and Mediterranean Cross-Cultural Textual Traditions (2020/01/30)
Brandeis University, Computer Science Department
[ASST_ASSC] Tenure-line Faculty Position in Computer Science (deadline 2019/12/10)
Brandeis University, Economics and Computer Science
[ASSTASCP] Assistant Professor or Associate Professor (deadline 2019/11/25)
Brandeis University, Environmental Studies Program
[ASST] Assistant Professor of Climate Science (deadline 2019/12/01)
Brandeis University, HEP/Astro Experiment
[PDRA] Postdoctoral Research Associate (accepting applications, deadline 2020/01/15)
Brandeis University, Ottoman, Mizrahi, and Sephardic Jewish Studies - Marash and Ocuin Chair
[OCUINCHAIR] Marash and Ocuin Chair in Ottoman, Mizrahi, and Sephardic Jewish Studies (deadline 2019/10/07)
Brandeis University, Physics Department
[ASST] Assistant Professor of Physics (deadline 2020/01/01)
Brandeis University, Psychology
Brandeis University, Robert and Myra Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Chair in Christian Studies
[KRAFT_HIATT_CHAIR] Robert and Myra Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Chair in Christian Studies (deadline 2019/10/25)
Brandeis University, Romance Studies, and Latin American and Latino Studies
[ASST] Assistant Professor of Latinx Literatures/Cultural Studies (deadline 2019/11/01)
Brandeis University, University Writing Program
[LECT] Lecturer in University Writing (deadline 2019/10/15)
Merrimack College, Accounting and Finance
[ASSOCIATEPROFESSORPROFESSORACCOUNTING] Associate Professor/Professor, Accounting
Merrimack College, Computer Science
[ASSISTANTPROFESSORCOMPUTERSCIENCE] Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Merrimack College, Nursing
[ASSISTANTASSOCIATECLINICALPROFESSORNURSI] Assistant/Associate Clinical Professor, Nursing and Clinical Coordinator
[ASSISTANTASSOCIATECLINICALPROFESSORSIMUL] Assistant/Associate Clinical Professor & Simulation Lab Director
Merrimack College, School of Education & Social Policy
[ASSISTANTASSOCIATEPROFESSOROFPRACTICEHUM] Assistant/Associate Professor of Practice, Human Development and Human Services
[ASSISTANTASSOCIATEPROFESSOROFPRACTICEINT] Assistant/Associate Professor of Practice in Teacher Education and Fellowship
[ASSOCIATEPROFESSOROFPRACTICEINTEACHEREDU] Associate Professor of Practice in Teacher Education
Merrimack College, Criminology & Criminal Justice Department
[CRIMINOLOGYCRIMINALJUSTICEASSISTANTPROFE] Assistant Professor, Criminology & Criminal Justice (deadline 2020/01/06)
Merrimack College, Department of Communication and Media
[ASSISTANTPROFESSORCOMMUNICATIONS] Assistant Professor, Communications
Merrimack College, Electrical Engineering
[ASSOCIATEPROFESSORPROFESSORELECTRICALENG] Associate Professor/Professor, Electrical Engineering
[ASSOCIATEPROFESSORPROFESSORMECHANICALORE] Associate Professor/Professor, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering-Robotics
Merrimack College, Management Department, Girard School of Business
[ASSISTANTPROFESSORMANAGEMENTINFORMATIONS] Assistant Professor, Management Information Systems
Merrimack College, Sport Management
[ASSISTANTPROFESSORSPORTSMANAGEMENT] Assistant Professor, Sports Management
Brown University, HEP Physics
[PRA] HEP Postdoctoral
Boston College, Physics
[POSTDOCTORAL] Postdoctoral Associate (2020/02/01)
Harvard University, Department of Physics
[ACMEPD2] ACME POSTDOC
[CMT_POSTDOC2020] Postdoctoral Research Position in Condensed Matter Theory (deadline 2019/11/01)
[HETGPOSTDOC] Postdoctoral Position in Theoretical Physics (deadline 2019/12/02)
[HQIPD2019] Postdoctoral Fellowships in Quantum Science and Engineering (deadline 2019/11/01)
[MPHQPD2019] MPHQ Postdoctoral Fellowships in Quantum Optics (deadline 2019/11/15)
[PD_UQM] Postdoctoral Fellow - Simons Collaboration on Ultra-Quantum Matter
[POSTDOC1] Postdoctoral position in Neutrino Physics at Harvard University (2020/01/31)
Harvard University, CMSA
[MATHFINANCE] Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mathematical Finance (2020/05/01)
[PD1] Postdoctoral Fellow (2020/10/01)
Boston University, Department of Philosophy
[VSPROF] Visiting Professor (2020/02/07)
Boston University, World Languages & Literatures
[ASTP] Assistant Professor (deadline 2019/12/15*)
Boston University, Engineering Divisions
[SEPOSTDOC] Postdoctoral Associate (accepting applications)
Boston University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
[NEWPOSTDOCFELLOW] Distinguished Educator-Scholar Postdoctoral Fellowship (2020/06/01)
Boston University, Department of Economics
[ASCP] Associate/Full Professor (deadline 2019/11/01)
[ASCP1] Associate/Full Professor (deadline 2019/11/01)
[ASTP] Assistant Professor (deadline 2019/11/01)
Boston University, Mechanical Engineering Department
[ASTPEA] Assistant Professor (2020/01/31*)
[TAPCSS20] Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computer Systems and Software
[TAPIDSSE20] Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Information and Data Science and Systems Engineering (deadline 2019/12/31)
[TAPOPTE20] Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Optics and Photonics
Boston University, Department of Earth & Environment
[ASTPS] Assistant Professor (deadline 2019/11/01)
Boston University, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
[DIPLOMACY] Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy (deadline 2019/12/01)
[LAWANDORG] Assistant Professor, International Law & Organization (deadline 2019/10/31)
[TECHNOLOGY] Assistant Professor, Technology & International Relations (deadline 2019/10/31)
Boston University, Department of Computer Science
[ASCPPP] Associate Professor of the Practice (deadline 2019/11/01)
Boston University, American & New England Studies Program
[PDOCFEL] Postdoctoral Fellow (deadline 2020/01/17)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Boston University, Department of Biology
[ASTP1] Assistant Professor (deadline 2019/12/01)
Boston University, Wheelock College of Education and Human Development
[ASCP_CP] Associate Professor, Counseling Psychology
[CAP_TESOL] Clinical Assistant Professor of TESOL
[LEC_SPED] Lecturer in Special Education
[POSTDOC] AACTE Holmes Postdoctoral Program in Education and Human Development (deadline 2020/01/15)
Boston University, Department of Physics
Boston University, Questrom School of Business
[ASTP] ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, BUSINESS ANALYTICS
[CLASTP] CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, BUSINESS ANALYTICS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Theoretical Physics
[PDOCRES] Postdoctoral Researcher: FGPAs for lattice QCD (deadline 2019/10/01)
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Position in Quantum Information/Quantum Computing (deadline 2019/12/01)
[POSTDOC1] Postdoctoral Position in Nuclear Theory (deadline 2019/12/01)
[POSTDOC2] Postdoctoral Position in High Energy Theory (deadline 2019/12/01)
Boston University, Arts & Sciences Writing Program
[DIRLECT] Director of ESL (deadline 2019/12/15)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, IDSS
[PDA] Norbert Wiener Postdoctoral Fellowship in Statistics (2020/02/01)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Linguistics and Philosophy
[PHILOSOPHYASSISTANTPROFESSOR] Assistant Professor of Philosophy, tenure track (deadline 2019/11/16)
[PHILOSOPHYPROFESSOR] Professor of Philosophy, tenure track or tenured (deadline 2019/11/16)
[SCCPROFESSOR] Professor of Philosophy, tenure track (2020/01/31*)
[STALNAKERPOSTDOC] Stalnaker Postdoctoral Associate in Philosophy (deadline 2019/11/16)
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
[APBROADML] Assistant Professor - Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Broad Institute (2020/03/15)
Kent State University, Physics
[POSTDOC1] Postdoctoral Researcher (deadline 2019/12/15)
Northeastern University, High Energy Theory, Physics
[POSTDOCTORALRESEARCHASSOCIATE] Postdoctoral Research Associate in High Energy Theory (deadline 2019/12/01)
Massachusetts General Hospital, Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit
[ASSTPROFESSOR1] Assistant or Associate Professor (HMS;MGH) (2020/03/01)
Boston University, School of Public Health
[AP] Faculty Positions in Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health (accepting applications)
Boston University School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology
[EPIFAC] OPEN RANK - Full-Time Faculty (accepting applications)
Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment - ML
[MCCURDYSCHOLAR] Mary Derrickson McCurdy Visiting Scholar (2020/02/20)
Marine Biological Laboratory, Ecosystems
[SCIENTIST] Faculty - Ecosystems (accepting applications)
University of Florida, Department of Physics
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Research Associate (offers accepted)
University of Central Florida, Physics & CREOL
[PD] Postdoctoral Fellow (deadline 2019/09/15)
[PSYCTT] Industrial/Organizational Psychology (deadline 2020/01/06)
University of Hawaii at Manoa, School of Life Sciences
[CONBIO] Assistant Professor of Applied Conservation and Professional MS Coordinator (deadline 2020/01/17)
[GLOBALCHANGEBOTANIST] Assistant Professor (Global Change Biology/ Ecology, with emphasis in Botany) (2020/01/31)
[MARBIO] Assistant Professor (Marine Biologist) (2020/01/31)
[SLSDIR] Director and Professor (2020/02/20)
University of Hawaii, Physics & Astronomy
[ASSTPROF] Assistant Professor (2020/03/15)
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Physics/High Energy Physics/Theory
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral position in cosmology and gravitation (deadline 2019/12/01)
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Psychology
[DCT] Associate/Full Professor and Director of Clinical Training (deadline 2019/11/27)
KEK, Theory Center, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies
[PDKAKENHI2020] Postdoctoral Position on field theory/particle physics/cosmology/lattice (deadline 2019/12/10)
[PDNEUTRINO2020] Postdoctoral Position on particle physics theory (deadline 2019/12/17)
University of Tokyo, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
[PD2019] Postdoctoral Position (deadline 2019/12/01)
University of Tokyo, High Energy Physics Theory Group, Department of Physics, Facultiy of Science
[PD] Postdoctoral Fellows
RIKEN, interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program (iTHEMS)
[PDAST] Postdoctoral Researcher
[RSAI] Research Scientist or Senior Research Scientist (deadline 2019/12/06)
[PDEVO] Postdoctoral Researcher
APCTP, APCTP-POSTECH Quantum Field Theory and String Theory Group
Korea Institute for Advanced Study, School of Physics
[RFAP3] Research Fellows and KIAS Assistant Professors (2020/06/01)
Seoul National University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
[PD] Quantum field theory / String theory Post-doc position at Seoul National University (deadline 2020/01/15)
Institute for Basic Science, Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe (CTPU)/Particle theory and cosmology (PTC)
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Positions in Particle Theory, Cosmology and String Phenomenology (deadline 2019/12/15)
Seoul National University, Center for Theoretical Physics
[PD] Postdoctoral researcher (deadline 2020/01/10)
Stony Brook University, College of Business
[OPMGMG] SUNY Korea Operations Management Faculty (accepting applications)
University of Santiago de Compostela, IGFAE - Galician Institute of High Energy Physics
[GTALENT2020] Global Talent 2020 - Research Associate
[IGNITE_DUNE] Development of next-generation high pressure TPCs with optical readout (2020/01/20)
[YOCTOPOSTDOC] Several postdoctoral positions - ERC AdG YoctoLHC (deadline 2019/12/01)
Trinity College Dublin, Hamilton Mathematics Institute
[HMIPOSTDOCM] Simons Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Hamilton Mathematics Institute - Mathematics (deadline 2019/12/01)
[HMIPOSTDOCTP] Simons Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Hamilton Mathematics Institute - Theoretical Physics (deadline 2019/12/01)
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Theory of Quantum Matter Unit
[PD] Postdoctoral Scholar (deadline 2019/12/15)
[QLCPD] Postdoctoral Scholar within Quantum Liquid Crystal Program
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Gravity, Quantum Geometry and Field Theory
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Qubits and Spacetime Unit
Swansea University, Physics
[PDRA] Postdoctoral Researcher Lattice Gauge Theory (deadline 2019/12/22)
[PDRA1] Postdoctoral Reseacher Dualities/Integrability (deadline 2019/12/22)
[PDRA2] Postdoctoral Researcher Theoretical Cosmology (deadline 2019/12/22)
Fudan University, Department of Physics
[PD] Post-Doctoral position(s) in HEPTH and CMT (deadline 2019/12/31)
Tsung-Dao Lee Institute
[FACULTYPOSITION] Faculty-Fellow,Particle and Nuclear Division, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute,SJTU (2020/06/01)
Tongji University, The College of Electronics and Information Engineering
[POSTDOCTORALASSISTANTASSOCIATEFULLPROFES] Tongji University/Assistant, Associate, Full Professors and Postdoctoral (2020/10/01)
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute
[FPA] Faculty Position in Astrophysics, T.D.Lee Institute (deadline 2019/11/20)
[PFA] Prize Postdoctoral Fellowships in Astrophysics, T.D.Lee Institute, Shanghai
[POSTDOCTORALFELLOWSHIP] Postdoctoral Fellowship in Quantum Physics at the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (Shanghai)
[TDLEEFELLOW] Tsung-Dao Lee Fellow Position in Quantum Physics
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School Of Physics
[POSAMG1] Postdoctoral Position in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Shanghai Jiao Tong University (deadline 2019/12/31)
[POSAMG2] Postdoctoral Position in High Energy Theory, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (deadline 2019/12/31)
[POSTDOCEXPPOSITION] Postdoc-Experiment,Particle and Nuclear Division, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute,SJTU (2020/04/30)
Duke Kunshan University, Language and Culture Center
[19FCSLFACULTY1] Faculty Position in Chinese as a Second Language
[19FEAPFACULTY] EAP faculty positions
Duke Kunshan University
[19FAHCHINESEHISTORY] Faculty Positions (rank open) in Transnational Asian History
[19FMFAFELLOWSHIP] Duke-DKU MFA Fellowship (2020/01/31)
[19FNSBIOGEOCHEMISTRY] Faculty Positions (rank open) in Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Science
[19FNSBIOLOGY] Faculty Positions (rank open) in Biology
[19FNSCHEMISTRY] Faculty Positions (rank open) in Chemistry
[19FNSDCS] Faculty Positions (rank open) in Data and Computational Science
[19FNSECOLOGY] Faculty Positions (rank open) in Ecology
[19FNSENVSCI] Faculty Positions (rank open) in Environmental Science
[19FNSMATERIALSCI] Faculty Positions (rank open) in Material Science
[19FNSMATH] Faculty Positions (rank open) in Applied and Theoretical Mathematics
[19FNSNEUROSCI] Faculty Positions (rank open) in Neuroscience
[19FNSPHYSICS] Faculty Positions (rank open) in Physics
[19FSSBEHAVIORALSCIENCE] Faculty Positions (rank open) in Behavioral Science
[19FSSETHICSLEADERSHIP] Faculty Positions (rank open) in Ethics and Leadership
[19FSSETHICSPUBPOL] Faculty Positions (rank open) in Ethics and Public Policy
[19FSSIPE] Faculty Positions (rank open) in International Political Economy
[19FSSPSYCHOLOGY] Faculty Positions (rank open) in Psychology
[19FSSPUBLICPOLICY] Faculty Positions (rank open) in Public Policy
Durham University, IPPP
Tsinghua University, Institute for Advanced Study
[PFHEPTH] POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW (HIGH ENERGY THEORY) (deadline 2019/12/15)
Peking University, China, Department of Biostatistics
[TENURETRACKORTENUREDPOSITIONSATPKU] Multiple Open Rank Tenure track or Tenured Positions in Biostatistics at Peking University (deadline 2019/12/01)
[POSTDOCTORALFELLOW] Postdoctoral Fellow Positions at the IAS,Tsinghua University (2020/01/31)
Tsinghua University, Yau Mathematical Sciences Center
[POSTDOC] String Theory (deadline 2019/12/01)
The Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Particle physics and cosmology
[RP] The Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Particle physics and cosmology (deadline 2020/01/15)
Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications（BIMSA）
[BIMSARESEARCHFELLOWSHIP] BIMSA Research Fellowship (2021/01/13)
[FACULTYNUMBER] Distinguished Research Professor; Research Professor; Associate Research Professor; Assistant Research Professor (tenure-track); Visiting Research Professor
[FACULTY] Distinguished Professor; Professor; Associate Professor; Assistant Professor (tenure-track) (deadline 2019/12/31)
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences (Kavli ITS)
[KITSPOSTDOCFELLOWS] Postdoc fellows in high energy theory at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences (KITS), Beijing (deadline 2019/12/01)
[KITS_ASTRO_FACULTY] Faculty position in astro-particle physics/cosmology at KITS Beijing (2020/04/30)
Peking University, China, Center for Statistical Science
[TENURETRACKTENUREDPOSITIONSATPKU] Multiple Tenure-track/Tenured Positions in Statistics/Data Science and Related Fields at Peking University (deadline 2019/12/01)
Imperial College London, Theoretical Physics
[RA1] Research Associate in Theoretical Physics (deadline 2019/12/13)
[RASTFC2019COSMO] Research Assistant/Associate in Theoretical Physics
King's College London, TPPC Physics
[STFCCON2Y] Postdoctoral Position in Astroparticle Physics/Cosmology Theory (deadline 2019/12/08)
Zhejiang University, China, Physics
[RESEARCHASSISTANTPROFESSOR] Tenure Track Faculty in astrophysics (2020/04/01)
Southeast University, Shing-Tung Yau Center of Southeast University
[PD] Postdoctoral fellow
Nanjing University, Physics
[POSTDOC] HEP postdoc position at Nanjing University
IFIC, Univ. Valencia-CSIC, Physics Department
[PHD2] Ph.D. position in experimental particle physics (deadline 2020/01/15)
CEA-Saclay, Institut de Physique Theorique
[JPPTQ] Junior researcher permanent position in Theory of Quantum Physics and Quantum Information (2020/03/31)
[PDCOSPART] Postdoctoral position in Particle/Nuclear/Cosmology Theory (deadline 2019/12/01)
[PDPHTH] Postdoctoral Position in Theoretical Particle Physics (deadline 2019/12/02)
[PDSPCMT] Postdoctoral position in statistical physics and condensed matter theory (deadline 2019/12/31)
[POSTDOCMATHPHYS] Post-doctoral position in Mathematical Physics (deadline 2019/12/01)
Academia Sinica, Administration Office of Institute of physics
[FACULTYPOSITIONS2] FACULTY POSITIONS (2020/02/28)
[FACULTYPOSITIONS3] FACULTY POSITION (2020/02/28)
Academia Sinica, Institute of Physics
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Positions in theoretical particle, astroparticle, nuclear physics, and cosmology (deadline 2019/12/20)
National Taiwan University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences
[NTUAS] Faculty Positions – Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University (deadline 2019/12/31)
National Taiwan University, Physics Department
[PD] Postdoctoral Researcher at String Theory group in NTU (accepting applications, deadline 2020/01/17)
National Taiwan University, International Degree Program in Climate Change and Sustainable Development
[IPCS] The International Degree Program of Climate Change & Sustainable Development (IPCS) at National Taiwan University invites applications for a faculty member at the rank of Assistant professor or above (2020/01/31)
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Department of Physics
[POSTDOC_CM] Postdoctoral Position in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics (accepting applications, deadline 2019/12/31)
[PMEYERPOSTDOC] Philippe Meyer Junior Research Chairs in Theoretical Physics (deadline 2019/11/08)
[ZAMPHIGHDCORR] Postdoc on non-perturbative effects at the glass transition at ENS, Paris (accepting applications)
[ZAMPLOWTGLASS] Postdoc on low-temperature glass physics at ENS, Paris (accepting applications)
CNRS, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC)
[POSTDOC] Postdoc positon at APC on “Cosmology with LISA” (2020/01/20)
National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Physics Division
[POSTDOC2019] Postdocs and Research Scholars (2020/02/01)
National Tsing Hua University, Physics Department, Condensed Matter Theory
[POSTDOC] Postdoc in Condensed Matter Theory (2020/03/30)
University of Mons, Physics of the Universe, Fields and Gravitation
[POSTDOC] Postdoc in Theoretical Physics (hep-th) (2020/01/18)
University of Amsterdam, GRAPPA
[PD] Postdoctoral position in Theoretical Astroparticle Physics (deadline 2019/12/21)
[PD1] Two Postdoc Positions in Particle Astrophysics - Dark Matter / Machine Learning (deadline 2020/01/03)
University of Amsterdam, String Theory Group, Institute of Physics
[PHD] PhD candidate in Theoretical High Energy Physics (String Theory) (2020/03/02)
University of Liege, Astrophysics, geophysics and oceanography
[IISN] 2-year postdoctoral fellowship (2020/03/31)
University of Geneva, Cosmology and Astroparticle physics group (DPT unige)
[PHD] Ph.D Position in Cosmology (deadline 2020/01/15)
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral researcher in Cosmology (deadline 2020/01/15)
University of Geneva, Department of quantum matter physics - DQMP
[PHD] Doctoral student (accepting applications)
University of Geneva, DQMP - Theory of Quantum Matter group
[PDOC] Postdoctoral Scholar (deadline 2019/12/20)
University of Geneva, Cosmology and Astroparticle physics group (DPT)
[PD] Postdoctoral Position in Cosmology (deadline 2019/12/15)
Bonn University, Theoretical Physics, Physikalisches Inst.
[PDTHBN] Postdoc Theory Group Bonn - CheckMATE (deadline 2019/12/15)
University of Bern, Albert Einstein Center for fundamental Physics
[POSTDOC] postdoc
University of Basel, Department of Physics
[QCQTPHDFELLOW] PhD School Quantum Computing & Quantum Technology (2020/10/31)
University of Basel, Endress Postdoc Cluster
[PD3] Georg H. Endress Postdoctoral Fellows in Quantum Science and Quantum Computing (2020/03/06)
University of Torino, Particle Theory, Department of Physics and Astronomy
[PDRA] Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Theoretical Particle Physics (deadline 2019/12/15)
Freiburg University, Particle Physics Theory
[JUNFACULTY] Particle Physics Theory (3+3) (deadline 2019/12/15)
Freiburg University, RTG 2044
[SPP] Senior Postdoc Position in Particle Theory / Astroparticle Theory (deadline 2019/12/08)
University of Münster, Institute for Theoretical Physics
[POSTDOC] Postdoc Position in Theoretical Particle Physics (accepting applications, deadline 2019/12/15)
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Institute for Physics - Theoretical High Energy Physics Group
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral positions
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Nuclear Physics
[KITTAP19] Postdoc position in theoretical astroparticle physics (deadline 2019/12/01)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Collaborative Research Center TRR 257
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral and Ph.D. positions in theoretical particle physics (deadline 2019/12/08)
University of Zurich, Center for Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology
[PDPLANET] Postdoc Position in Planetary Science (2020/01/18)
University of Zurich, Department of Physics
[PDRA1] Postdoctoral research associate - particle theory
[PDRA2] Postdoctoral research associate - experimental particle physics
University of Heidelberg, Theoretical Physics
[POSTDOC] Postdoc_2020
University of Genoa, Physics Department
[PDHEPGE19] Postdoc positions in High Energy Theory and Phenomenology (deadline 2019/12/01*)
University of Milano Bicocca, Physics Department "G. Occhialini"
[PD] Postdoctoral Research Assistant (deadline 2019/12/15)
Wurzburg University, Theoretical Physics IV (Hankiewicz's group)
[CONDENSEDMATTER] Postdoctoral Researcher or Ph.D. student in theoretical condensed matter physics (2020/01/31)
INFN and SISSA, Pisa, Trieste, Roma
[POSTDOC] Postdoc in Theoretical Particle Physics (deadline 2019/12/15)
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Chemical and Biological Engineering
[JOBID3544] Faculty Positions
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Li Ka Shing Institute of Synthetic Biology (in preparation)
[FACULTYPOSITIONS] Faculty Positions
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Physics
[PTCC] Tenure-Track Faculty Positions (PHYS1017C)
[PTCH] Tenure-Track Faculty Positions (PHYS1017H)
[PTCP] Tenure-Track Faculty Positions (PHYS1017P)
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Institute for Advanced Study
[PDF] HKUST IAS Postdoctoral Fellow (2020/08/31)
Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School
[TBSI] Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute Faculty Recruitment (2020/06/05)
[TSIGS] Faculty Positions at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (2020/06/05)
[CMP] Tenure-Track Faculty Position (PHYS2509)
University of Southern Denmark, Centre for Particle Physics Phenomenology, CP3-Origins.
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Opportunities in quantum gravity
INFN, Firenze, Physics Department
[POSTDOC] Postdoc in Theoretical Physics in Florence (deadline 2019/12/15)
Technische Universität München, Department of Physics
[PHD] TUMAstroParticlePhD (2020/02/15)
Technische Universität München, Physik-Department T30f
[POSTDOC] Particleeffective (2020/02/12)
University of Padova and Padova INFN section, Theoretical Physics Group
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Position in AstroParticle Phenomenology (deadline 2019/12/01)
[POSTDOC1] Postdoctoral Position in Particle Phenomenology (deadline 2019/12/01)
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Sofja Kovalevskaja Research Group
[PD] Postdoc
[PDRNAWORLD] Postdoc (2020/03/01)
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity
[POSTDOC] Four-year Postdoctoral Position in Scattering Amplitudes and Gravitational Waves (deadline 2019/11/15)
[POSTDOC1] Four-year Postdoctoral Positions in Gravitational-Wave Theory and Astrophysics (deadline 2019/12/01)
Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Quark Matter Research Center
[RA] Postdoc in Nuclear Experiment (2020/03/31)
[RA1] Postdoc in Nuclear Theory (deadline 2020/01/15)
Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Light-front QCD Group
[POSTDOC_R] Postdoctoral Positions in nuc-th/hep-ph/hep-th (2020/02/01)
University of Copenhagen, Niels Bohr International Academy
[HEP_PDRF] Postdoctoral Fellowships in High Energy Physics (deadline 2019/12/01)
[PDRF] Post-doctoral Fellowship in Particle Astrophysics
[APP_PDRF] Postdoctoral Fellowship in Astroparticle Physics (deadline 2019/12/15)
[AST_GW] Postdoctoral Fellowships in Gravitational Astrophysics (2020/01/31)
ICTP, Trieste, HECAP
[PD] Junior and Senior Postdoctoral Fellow (deadline 2019/11/24)
SISSA, Physics Area
[IFPUPD] Postdocs at the Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe, Trieste, Italy (deadline 2019/12/12)
[PDTPPINFN] Postdoc in Theoretical Particle Physics and Astro-particle physics at INFN/SISSA (deadline 2019/12/21)
[SP_POSTDOC] StatPhys_PostDoc (deadline 2020/01/15)
[TTPPDTH] Postdocs in Theoretical High Energy Physics at SISSA (deadline 2019/12/20)
University of Ljubljana, Nonequilibrium quantum and statistical physics group
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral position in quantum many-body physics (2020/01/30)
IST Austria (Institute of Science and Technology Austria), Group of M. Serbyn
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Position in Quantum Many-Body Physics/Condensed Matter Theory at IST Austria (deadline 2020/01/01)
IST Austria (Institute of Science and Technology Austria), Lemeshko Group
[POSTDOC1] Postdoctoral position in the Lemeshko group at IST Austria
[POSTDOCHAUSELLEMESHKO] Postdoctoral position in the Hausel and Lemeshko groups at IST Austria
Eotvos University, Institute of Physics
[PDCMS] POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR ON THE CMS EXPERIMENT (2020/01/20)
[PROFHEP] PROFESSOR IN PHYSICS (2020/01/20)
Uppsala University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
[PD5] Three or more post-docs in theoretical physics (deadline 2019/12/02)
NORDITA-Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Nordita
[PDTWN20] Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theoretical Physics at the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute and the Wilczek Quantum Center (Shanghai), and Nordita (Stockholm) (2020/01/31*)
The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Theoretical Physics
[POSTDOC6] Postdoctoral Reseacher (2020/02/01)
[POSTDOC7] Postdoctoral Researcher in theoretical quantum many-body physics in application to neutron stars (2020/02/01)
Koç University, Dept. of Physics
[POSTDOC] Post-Doc Position
Boğaziçi University, International Trade
[ASSISPROF] Assistant Professor, Marketing/Finance- Bogazici University, Istanbul, TURKEY (accepting applications)
Koç University, Academic Writing
[ACWRINSTRUCTOR] Academic Writing Instructor (accepting applications)
Koç University, Dept. of Chemical and Biological Eng.
[CHBI2019] Open Faculty Positions (Assistant/Assocociate/Full Professor) in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Koç University, Istanbul (2020/06/01)
Koç University, Dept. of Computer Engineering
[COMP2019] Open Faculty Positions (Assistant/Assocociate/Full Professor) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Engineering, Koç University, Istanbul (2020/06/01)
[PYTHON2019] Koc University, Python Instructor in Department of Computer Engineering, İstanbul, Turkey (deadline 2019/12/31)
Koç University, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng.
[ELEC2019] Open Faculty Positions (Assistant/Assocociate/Full Professor) in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Koç University, Istanbul (2020/01/31)
Koç University, Dept. of Industrial Engineering
[INDR2019] Open Faculty Positions (Assistant/Assocociate/Full Professor) in the Department of Industrial Engineering, Koç University, Istanbul (2020/03/13)
Koç University, Dept. of Mechanical Eng.
[MECH2019] Open Faculty Positions (Assistant/Assocociate/Full Professor) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Koç University, Istanbul (2020/06/01)
Koç University, College of Engineering
[KUTEMFACULTY2018] Faculty Position in Energy Systems at Koç University College of Engineering in Istanbul, Turkey (2020/02/03)
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Cosmic Rays and Chronology Departament
[PD4] Postdoc in Neutrino Physics (deadline 2020/01/06)
[PD6] Postdoc for experimental neutrino physics (2020/02/07)
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Physics
[POSTDOC] Postdoc (deadline 2019/12/01)
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, The Helen Diller Quantum Center
[PROF] Faculty Positions in Experimental Quantum Science and Technology
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, theoretical high energy physics
[POSTDOC] postdoc in high energy particle physics (QCD)/high. energy nuclear physics (2020/01/31)
Tel Aviv University, Particle Physics
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Fellow in Phenomenology (deadline 2019/12/10)
Bar Ilan University, physics department, condensed matter theory
[POSTDOC] Postdoc in condensed matter theory
[POSTST] Postdoctoral Fellow in Theoretical High Energy (deadline 2019/12/10)
Weizmann Inst. of Sci., Particle Physics and Astrophysics
[4YRWWPCPOST] Weizmann-Wolfgang-Pauli-Center Joint Postdoc (2020/02/01)
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Meidan Group, Department of Physics
[POSTDOCBGU] Postdoctoral fellowship (2020/02/01)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Racah Institute of Physics
[PDRI] Postdoctoral position at the Racah Institute for Physics, Condensed Matter Theory (2020/02/01)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, High Energy Physics
[POSTDOC] Postdocs in High Energy Phenomenology (accepting applications, deadline 2019/12/15)
M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Institute for Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (ITMP)
[POSTDOC] PostDoc in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
National University of Singapore, Computer Architecture Lab
[EENA] Postdoc Energy-Efficient AI/Neuromorphic Hardware Accelerators
[SSCA] Researcher (postdoc) in Secure Systems-on-a-Chip Architectures
Yale-NUS College, Humanities
[YKHCRS] Endowed Chair in Comparative Religious Studies (2020/01/31)
[PHI] Endowed Chair in Philosophy (2020/01/31)
Yale-NUS College, Science Division
[CS] Tenured or Tenure-track (Open rank) Faculty Position in Computer Science (deadline 2020/01/01)
[MCS] Tenured or Tenure-track (Open rank) Faculty Position in Data Science
[WNL] Wong Ngit Liong Professorship in Science (deadline 2020/01/02)
Yale-NUS College, Social Science Division
[JYP_SS] J.Y. Pillay Chairs in Social Sciences
[TTT_GAPPE] Tenure-Track or Tenured (open rank: assistant, associate, full and endowed professors) faculty positions in Global Affairs/Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE)
[TT_ECON] Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Economics
National University of Singapore, FASS-Communications and New Media
[CNMTTDJ] Assistant Professor in Data Journalism (2020/02/29*)
National University of Singapore, FASS-Sociology
[LECTURER] EDUCATOR TRACK POSITION (LECTURER/SENIOR LECTURER), TO BEGIN IN JULY 2020 (2020/02/01)
National University of Singapore, Philosophy
[OPENOPEN2] Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor (deadline 2019/11/10)
Nanyang Technological University, Qiao Lab/Chemistry and Biological Chemistry/School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
[POSTDOC1] Postdoc Position in Protein Biochemistry and Engineering
[POSTDOC] Postdoc Position in Microbiome Metabolomics Research (2020/03/01)
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Department of Theoretical Physics
[VF1] Visiting Fellow (deadline 2019/11/15)
University of New South Wales, School of Physics, Theory Group
[RA] Research Associate in Theoretical Particle Physics (deadline 2020/01/15)
University of the Witwatersrand, Center for Theoretical Physics/School of Physics
[WITS2020] Post-doctoral research associate (deadline 2019/12/15)
Argonne National Laboratory, Physical Sciences and Engineering Directorate
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Appointee - High Energy Physics Theory Group
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, CMT physics
[POSTDOC] Postdoc - Non-equilibrium physics, MBL... (deadline 2020/01/06)
Chapman University, Fowler School of Engineering
[F19FSENTT] Open Rank/Professor of Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering
[PTLEC] Lecturer of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Neuroscience
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral position in computational neuroscience at CSHL
Cornell University, CALS Molecular Biology and Genetics
[CHR] Department Chair (deadline 2019/11/15)
Cornell University, Vice Provost Units
[LSCMATHLEC] Mathmatics Lecturer
Duke University, Trinity College
[PROFESSOR] Tenure-track Professor (deadline 2019/11/01)
Georgia State University, School of Accountancy
[NONTCAP] Clinical Assistant Professor
[TENUREAP] Assistant Professor
Global Viral, Department of Medicine & Public Health
[EPI] Open Scientist/Epidemiologist position at Global Viral (deadline 2019/12/16)
Harvard University, Black Hole Initiative
[BHI] Postdoctoral Research Position in The Black Hole Institute at Harvard University (deadline 2020/01/01)
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, High energy theory
[POSTDOC] Joint HEP postdoc position at ITP-CAS and Michigan State University (2020/01/25)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Biomedical Engineering - Biomedical Engineering EDUCATION
[DTFP] Director - Tenured Faculty Position
Milwaukee School of Engineering, Human Resources
[CSSE] Computer Science and Software Engineering Faculty
National Taiwan University, QCD group, Department of Physics
[POSTDOC] Postdoc in Lattice QCD (2020/07/01)
Northern Illinois University, Physics/ATLAS
[POSTDOC] Post-doctoral Research Associate (2020/02/03)
[PD] Postdoctoral Scholar - Theoretical High Energy Physics (deadline 2019/12/15)
[PDOCTHEORY] Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics (deadline 2019/12/08)
RWTH Aachen University, Research Training Group (RTG) 2497
[PHD] several doctoral positions (deadline 2019/11/15)
Scuola Normale Superiore, Theoretical Physics
[SNSTHEORY] Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theoretical Physics at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (deadline 2019/12/15)
Southern Methodist University, Department of Physics, Theoretical Cosmology Group
[COSMOPD] Postdoctoral Researcher, Theoretical Cosmology (deadline 2019/12/31)
Stanford University, Bits and Watts Initiative
[BWPDF] Electric Grid Digitization (Smart Grid) Postdoctoral Fellowship (2020/01/31*)
[EV50PD] EV50 Overlay Network (EON) Software Lead (2020/01/31)
Stanford University, The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
[DOR2002] Fixed-Term Assistant Professor (Research) (deadline 2020/01/17)
Stanford University / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Technology Innovation Directorate
[POSTDOC] Research Associate - TID ATR (2020/05/30)
[POSTDOC] POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP
[PROF1] Faculty Positions in the Theory of Quantum Science and Technology
Tsinghua University, Department of Earth Systems Science
[PHDOPPORTUNITY1] International Ph.D. fellowship on Global Change Economics at Tsinghua University
[POSTDOC2020] Tsinghua Postdoc fellowship on Global Change Economics for year 2020 (deadline 2019/12/31)
Universite de Montreal, Youth Mental Health Services
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity - University of Montreal | Opportunité de bourse postdoctorale - Université de Montréal
University of California, Los Angeles, Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics
[PDF] Postdoctoral Fellow in Condensed Matter Physics (2020/04/15)
[POSTDOC1] Postdoctoral position in theoretical high energy physics (deadline 2019/11/15)
University of California, San Diego, Halicioglu Data Science Institute
[POSTDOC1] Postdoctoral Scholar (deadline 2019/12/31)
University of California, Santa Barbara, Campas Lab
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral position on the Physics of Active Multicellular Systems (deadline 2019/09/15)
University of Geneva, Mathematical Physics Group
[PHDRN] PhD student (2020/03/02)
University of Georgia, Computational Plant Science Lab
[PDR] Postdoctoral Researcher: Plant Phenotyping Software
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Bioengineering
[POSTDOCSYNBIO] Postdoctoral Researcher
[POSTDOC_COMP] Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Maryland Baltimore, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Fellow – Vaccines for Diarrheal Diseases (deadline 2019/09/03)
[POSTDOCIMMUNOLOGY] Postdoctoral Fellow in Adjuvant Development (deadline 2019/09/03)
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Ophthalmology
[ASSTASSOCPROF] Statistical Geneticist/Genetic Epidemiologist -Ophthalmology
[ASSTPROF] Faculty Clinician Scientist in Medical Retina- Ophthalmology
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA, Human Resources
[NTTFPCEP] Non-Tenure Track Faculty Positions in Chemical Engineering Program
University of New Hampshire, Condensed Matter Theory Group
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Research Associate in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics (accepting applications)
University of Torino, Phenomenology Group at Torino Univ.
[POSTDOC] Postdoc in elementary particle phenomenology
University of Torino, Theoretical Physics
Zhejiang University, China, School of Mechancial Engineering
[POSTDOC] Postdoctoral Fellow (accepting applications)
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Avogadro's contribution to chemisty was not appreciated in his own lifetime. The importance and truth of the theory was unrecognized until 1860 when his fellow Italian. Stanislao CANNIZZARO, forcefully restated it at the Karlsruhe Conference and demonstrated that it was the key needed to unlock the problem of atomic and molecular weights. The number of particles in one mole of a substance was named Avogadro's constant or number in his honor. 022 52 × 1023. Axelrod, Julius (1912- ) American Neuropharmacologist Axelrod was born in New York City and educated there at the City College.
From 1909 he worked mainly with the 33-inch (84-cm) refracting telescope at the observatory at Meudon. He became a French citizen in 1928. In his two works La Planète Mars (1930) and La Planète Mercure (1934). Antoniadi published the results of many years' observations and presented the best maps of Mars and Mercury to appear until the space probes of recent times. With regard to Mars he took the strong line: "Nobody has ever seen a genuine canal on Mars," attributing the "completely illusory canals," seen by astronomers such as Percival Lowell and Flammarion, to irregular natural features of the Martian surface.
Besides his post at Bell Laboratories (where he was consulting director for physics research) Anderson worked as a parttime visiting professor in England at Cambridge and from 1975 held a professorship at Princeton In the late 1980s Anderson became a controversial figure in the physics community by arguing before Congress that the proposed SSC (Superconducting Super Collider) to be built in Texas at a cost of $8 billion would yield neither practical benefits nor any fundamental truths that could not be gained elsewhere and more cheaply.
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News for May 2006
Jolie Holland takes "Springtime" on tour this summer
Highly-Lauded Springtime Can Kill You Elicits Poetic Responses From Critics In support of her new, highly praised Anti- album, Springtime Can Kill You acclaimed singer/songwriter Jolie Holland will embark on a seven-week North American tour on June 14th. Launching in Eugene, Oregon and running through July 28th in Madison ...
Ramblin' Jack Elliott triumphs at All Tomorrow's Parties
“Gruff, Hobo Folker” Hand-Picked By Devandra Banhart Conquers U.K., Sets U.S. Appearances Two months ahead of his long awaited Anti- Records debut, I Stand Alone, American folk icon Ramblin’ Jack Elliott has already captured the heart of U.K. folk aficionados. On the strength of his recent, stellar ...
TimeOut London talks Ramblin' Jack Elliott live!
Ramblin' Jack Elliott + Jack Staggers + The Velvet Roots Recommended - Fri May 19, Borderline This gruff, hobo folker – whom Mama Cass once declared the sexiest man alive – has one hell of a story. He left home at 14 to join the rodeo, where he learnt to play guitar from a clown ...
Neko Case CD review to air on NPR's Fresh Air!
Today, critic Ken Tucker will read his outstanding review of the new Neko Case album, Fox Confessor Brings The Flood, on NPR's Fresh Air! Air times vary, so use the link below to see when you can catch this show and review. href="http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13" target="_blank">NPR's Fresh Air Website
Monday, May 22nd, 2006
Neko Case to be featured as KCRW.com "daily download" artist!
KCRW has recently started a new feature on their new music stream, kcrwmusic.com, it’s a daily download they are calling "today’s top tune." Each day, a new song is featured for just 24 hours on kcrwmusic.com, aol and itunes. On June 9th, 2006, "Hold On, Hold ...
Boston Globe covers Ramblin' Jack Elliot show
Elliott's a ramblin' man, and his fans are much better for it: Ramblin' Jack Elliott isn't just a folk icon who's been around since Woody Guthrie and inspired five decades of fellow musicians. At nearly 75, he's the coolest grandfather you never had. Consider: Jack went ...
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Tagged with Transportation Funding
Raise The Gas Tax Already
Regular readers know that I have written any number of similar posts over the years…often as former Governor Scott Walker and the GOP legislative leadership struggled with funding Wisconsin’s transportation needs (i.e. highways).
And the problem hasn’t gone away but the players have changed. In his 2019 – 2021 budget proposal, Governor Tony Evers proposes an 8 to 10 cent per gallon (depending on the media outlet) gasoline tax hike. But GOP leadership immediately said no without even taking a breath.
Now at least they have taken a step to address the issue and raise revenues. But boy have they taken a long circuitous path. They want to raise fees instead…big time.
Now I don’t quite understand their reluctance to raise the gas tax. Is it the word tax? Although I’ll argue that a fee is still a tax, it still has a thorn despite smelling like a rose to no taxers. Or is it the fact that a Democrat is proposing the change and they need to be against all things Democratic.
Well, here is what they are proposing instead:
Republicans on the Legislature’s budget committee voted Thursday night to increase vehicle title fees by $95 and registration fees by $10 to generate hundreds of millions for Wisconsin road projects in the next state budget.
Altogether, the moves would generate $393 million in new revenue for transportation, a total about $200 million less than Gov. Tony Evers wanted, but more than in any budget signed by former Republican Gov. Scott Walker. Republicans would also use another $90 million from the state’s general fund to pay for road projects, bringing the total new funding to $484 million.
Evers also called for increasing fees on heavy trucks, which do the most damage to Wisconsin roads, which would have generated about $72 million.
Republicans rejected the gas tax increase and the fee on heavy trucks.
Instead, they voted to raise the current vehicle registration fee from $75 to $85 per year and increase the vehicle title fee from $69.50 to $164.50 — an increase of 137 percent.
I stated my reasons for increasing the gas tax a number of times…but it won’t hurt to refresh the points here.
First, it is a usage tax. Those who drive the most generally buy the most gas and would pay the most to build and maintain the state’s roads and highways.
Second, nearly every user would pay the gas tax including out of state visitors and travelers who are simply traversing the state to go elsewhere. They contribute to the wear and tear on the highways and should shoulder some of the burden.
Third, although the GOP will tell you that the gas tax is regressive…and it is…at some point the base belief is those able to travel more are more likely those most able to afford the taxes.
Fourth, I thought the GOP loved pay as you go kinda stuff.
One thing missing from a gas tax…is how do you handle hybrids and pure electric cars that use little or no gasoline. That supposedly is one of the reasons the GOP went down their road. (see footnote below)
Now a 137% increase in the title fee and an increase in the licensing fees is truly regressive. Every car would pay the same fees. No matter their age or their value or how much they are driven. And someone buying a 1998 Toyota Corolla is less likely able to pay $164.50 for their title than the purchaser of a 2019 Honda Accord. And they are probably not putting up the same mileage numbers either. I think the gas tax is the more affordable way to go for many.
Here’s one thing coming out of the GOP bill that I don’t quite understand
Annual fees for light trucks would be set at $100 — a $25 increase for trucks weighing 4,500 pounds, and a $55 cut for trucks weighing 10,000 pounds.
Why would we cut fees on the vehicles who do the most damage to Wisconsin highways? Whose pocket is getting lined here? Which business group is filling campaign coffers? Is the GOP once again adding to the burden of the average citizen to the advantage of a special interest group? It certainly isn’t to support sales of larger vehicles which are already at record levels. I think that fee should be left where it is.
There would appear to be a lot of room for compromise here. A small increase in fees plus a gas tax increase somewhere between zero and ten cents…or gas tax increases implemented in parcels over the two year budget. But that’s not likely to happen in the Madison legislature’s policy of scorched earth responses to all thing Democratic.
“This is the most significant investment of new revenues into our transportation system in more than a generation,” said GOP Rep. John Nygren of Marinette, co-chairman of the committee.
Let me remind Rep. Nygren, that his party was in complete control of state government in Wisconsin for nearly half of that period. Any shortcomings in support of Wisconsin infrastructure falls heavily on their hands.
btw: Here’s a sadly humorous aside from one of ‘prominent’ state senators:
“In general we’re listening to our constituents who all over this state said, ‘Fix these damn roads,’” said Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills. “They feel like their roads are deteriorating, and they want us to address rehab.”
They feel like their roads are deteriorating? How does she get from River Hills to Madison without noticing the condition of Wisconsin’s roads and highways? Man oh man, you can’t make this stuff up.
FOOTNOTE on Hybrids:
Hybrid vehicles. Lawmakers two years ago established surcharges of $100 for electric vehicles and $75 for hybrid vehicles, but the Department of Transportation wasn’t able to impose them on hybrid vehicles because legislators wrote the measure in a way that made it difficult to identify which vehicles owed them.
Republicans went along with a plan by Evers to tweak the phrasing of the measure so the department can start collecting those fees.
June 11, 2019 4 Replies
Wisconsin GOP Endorses Taxation Without Representation!
Yeah, here we go:
Sixteen lawmakers on their own could impose fees of any amount to help pay for roads under a plan Republican legislators advanced late Thursday.
The proposal would allow the Joint Finance Committee to establish new fees based on how many miles vehicles drove, starting in 2023. The rest of the Legislature wouldn’t get a say in the matter under the plan.
Republicans on the committee included the provision in a massive transportation package they added to the state budget Thursday.
After years of being unable to put together comprehensive transportation plans…even in years that the Republicans held not only both houses of the legislature but also the governor’s office…they still can’t pull it off. Even when they should supposedly be unified against a Democratic governor.
But who would have expected that they’d pull another all out power grab and deny representation to their constituents and the residents of the state. Oh yeah…I know they are calling these ‘fees’…but when the state collects revenues from citizens and businesses for any purpose they are actually taxes.
But this is really egregious…Wisconsin has 33 state senators and 99 members of the assembly but are ready to allow 16 committee members to determine taxes to be levied against Wisconsinites. With barely any controls…they can demand millions of dollars for transportation without the other 116 representatives weighing in on it.
Taxes and fees should always…always…be discussed openly in the legislature. Every representative should have an opportunity to weigh in and have their vote recorded. Every resident should have their chance to weigh in with their assembly representative and their state senator. Every resident should know how their reps voted so they can decide how to vote during the next election cycle.
I don’t even know if this would pass constitutional muster but it shouldn’t even get that far. If you are concerned about this newest power grab, let your state representatives know. If this actually makes it into the GOP’s Frankenstein budget I don’t think it will survive the governor’s veto pen.
June 9, 2019 Leave a reply
State Rejects Double Deck I-94 Plan But:
Today the Wisconsin Department of Transportation said they were rejecting their totally unpopular proposal to expand I-94 from 16th Street to 70th Street by creating a double decker freeway:
The proposed expansion of the I-94 east-west freeway between 16th and 70th streets in Milwaukee will be accomplished in the traditional way by adding a lane of traffic in each direction, state transportation officials said Tuesday.
Transportation Secretary Mark Gottlieb said the state has rejected a costly double-deck option for 2,000 feet of the corridor through the cemetery area immediately west of the Stadium Interchange.
The revised cost of the eight-lane expansion is estimated at $850 million — less than the $1.5 billion estimate for the most expensive option, Gottlieb said.
For the short stretch west of the Stadium Interchange, the department has proposed converting the outside shoulder to a fourth lane in each direction.
So we are still getting a fourth lane in each direction but losing an emergency shoulder lane instead. How completely unimaginative.
Has anybody from DOT actually ever visited other urban freeways? Didn’t anyone ever consider reversible express lanes? Sounds like a perfect solution for traffic flows that are pretty ‘time of day’ sensitive.
Those goofy movable center strips work just fine to move traffic one way or the other depending on time of day needs for the Hoan Bridge reconstruction. I wouldn’t advocate that method for this expansion but typical reversible express lanes would just be the thing!
And did they really decide it was the wrong thing to do or did the thought of additional borrowing to pay for highway construction dissuade them? I am not sure that even the Republican legislature has the stomach for more highway borrowing.
P.S. My original thoughts on the rebuild!
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by: Mark Frost (author)
From the co-creator of the landmark television series Twin Peaks comes a novel that deepens the mysteries of that iconic town in ways that not only enrich the original series but readies fans for the upcoming Showtime episodes.
Publisher: Flatiron Books
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A strange book, befitting a very strange TV show. The book purports to be a dossier of documents relating to the town of Twin Peaks, assembled by "the Archivist" with his commentary and with further annotation by an FBI agent assigned to analyze the dossier after its discovery. The first section of ...
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Mackenzie Davis On ‘What If,’ Working With Adam Driver, and Dissolving Meat
Arya Stark and Other #Teens Watch ‘Saved By the Bell’ For the First Time
Holy Hell This Clip of the ‘Saved By the Bell’ TV Movie Is Everything
HBO and Nic Pizzolatto Respond to ‘True Detective’ Plagiarism Accusations
This Weekend In LA, NEXT Fest Merges Movies and Music
Zoe Kazan On ‘What If,’ Skinny Dipping, and Los Angeles vs. New York
Wu-Tang Clan Made An Epic Appearance on ‘The Daily Show’ Last Night
James Franco Is Great at Responding to Gay Rumors
‘Theory of Everything’ Trailer: Eddie Redmayne Books Himself a Seat at the Oscars
Jared Leto Got Shamed Into Deleting His Douchiest Tweet Yet
Chris Pratt Raps Eminem and Insults Orlando Bloom Perfectly
Christina Hendricks On Why Her Agent Dropped Her For Taking ‘Mad Men’ Role
‘Sad Full House’ Is Funny and Depressing
Review: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Needs More Faith In Itself
A Visual Timeline of Chris Pratt Going From Schlubby Goofball to Total Babe
August 11, 2014 5:55 pm By Paige Silveria
Three years ago, Mackenzie Davis was an unknown actress planning to leave her New York life behind for a crack at L.A.’s audition circuit. Then, just before her departure date, the director Drake Doremus cast Davis in his stormy family drama, Breathe In, opposite Guy Pearce, Amy Ryan, and Felicity Jones. Needless to say, it was a game changer. The 27-year-old Vancouver native still moved to L.A., but now she had an agent and interest among casting directors was high. Davis soon landed roles in rapid-fire succession, opposite Zac Efron in That Awkward Moment, in the upcoming horror comedy The Kitchen Sink, and as one of the stars of the AMC tech drama Halt and Catch Fire. Davis’ latest role is a supporting turn in the refreshing romantic comedy What If, where she stars opposite Adam Driver as a gaga couple who are the more free spirited counterparts to the film’s central couple, played by Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan. We spoke to Davis last week about the movie, smoking a bunch of cigarettes in row, and that horrible stench you get from dissolving meat.
What did you initially like about the script?
I thought it was very funny. Everybody felt quite real to me. I laughed a lot when I read it—that’s a good barometer, I think, if something’s good.
Do you think you’re similar to your character?
I think I give very good advice like she does. She does give good advice, it just sounds bad when it comes out of her mouth. But it’s good. It’s very go-follow-your-dreams.
How was Toronto to shoot in?
It’s really pretty. It’s on a lake. I actually have family in Toronto, so I’ve visited there many times but I never actually got to the beach area where we shot a bunch. And on all my days off we’d go to this island in the middle of Lake Ontario. I know they’re called Great Lakes, but they’re fucking enormous. Like, it really feels like you’re on the ocean. That’s a side of Toronto that I just hadn’t been to since my family lives deep in the suburbs. So yeah, it was really a lovely place to spend a couple of weeks.
So you mostly went to the beach in your time off?
Well I’d shoot my stuff in a condensed period of time and I had a couple of friends in Toronto, so I’d just go and meet them for dinner and drinks.
Tell me about the cigarette scene. That looked difficult.
Well, the way that El wrote it in the script was that he wrote a trick that I don’t think he’s ever seen a human do. But I was intent on mastering it even though I quit smoking. I was just like, “Well, I’m going to learn.” And I just spent so much time mastering this trick and then in the end they were just like, “It’s fine. Just smoke three cigarettes at once.” And I was like, “I just spent all this time.” But I don’t think a real human can do it.
What was it originally?
It was like having the three cigarettes in your mouth and them all lit and having to inhale each one in a row. But it takes so much precision and coordination that I just couldn’t muster in the three or whatever weeks that I had to learn it.
What was working with Adam Driver like? I think people are very intrigued as to what he’s like in real life because his characters are usually very polarizing.
Yeah, and he’s really brash on Girls. I kind of thought he had some part of that when I met him, and he’s not at all. He was very tall when I met him and he just seemed like very small and shy and polite, and he’s very gentle and lovely and not at all like Adam on Girls, which is funny because he’s so good at that that you’d think there’s no chance that it’s not just him being himself, but its actually that he’s just a really good actor.
So I came across the interview of you speaking about using road kill for arts and crafts. I saw some similar stuff in Florida recently—people making jewelry and lamps out of what was left of these animals. What did you make exactly?
I don’t actually use road kill actually, that was just something I was trying to do, but then I couldn’t find a way to dissolve the meat. But I did learn a lot about dissolving meat.
Well, you can buy these beetles online that eat off the carcass and you just have them in a terrarium, or you can dissolve it in bleach, or you can do a hot water thing. In all scenarios, it becomes this horrific smell—even with the beetles that eat the meat off of the bones. The gases that they release as they’re digesting is just rancid. I mean, it’s really just rotting carcasses in your house.
When did you know you wanted to act?
Since I was born. I never wanted to do anything else. I wish I had all these different lives but, I’ve only started acting professionally fairly recently, but I’ve done plays my entire life. I almost moved to New York to go to theater school right after high school but my parents thought it would be a good idea for me to get my degree first, which I’m so happy I did.
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No-One Talks About It
Recently the Christian interwebs were set a-twitter by a few high profile leaders saying that they had lost, or were losing, their faith. I was particularly struck by Marty Sampson's story. He was a worship leader at Hillsong church, and a big figure in the Pentecostal world. You can read what he has to say about his faith at Relevant Magazine (the original Instagram post seems to have been taken down.)
It's a common story. What seemed so solid, so trustworthy gradually evaporates into air. It's a story a lot of Cafechurch people have wrestled with, and so reading Marty's story made me feel quite sad. I'm sorry that his experience of faith and his formation as a bigh profile church leader didn't equip him better to engage them. Because these are very, very good questions. They open us up to a lot of really important theological questions that you really need to address to be a Christian in our culture.What does it mean that the church is led by fallible people? What sort of book is the Bible - and, given that there are in fact contradictions, what does that tell us? Does God really send people to Hell if they dont' hold a certain set of theological beliefs? Does science destroy religion? And, best question of all: What actually is "genuine truth"?
This whole thing is a a great gift to groups like Cafechurch who actively seek to engage people who are coming out of Pentecostal, Evangelical, and Charismatic churches in exactly this sort of conversation.
So we're going to turn Marty's excellent questions into a little curriculum for September and October 2019. We'll link to any resources we develop here.
Leaders fail - Let's start with Saul and all the long, depressing history of the disastrous Christian leaders. See the washup here
There are contradictions in the Bible if we grant that there are indeed contradictions in then Bible, then what? What sort of book is the Bible, and what is our faith based on if not Biblical Inerrancy? See the washup here
How can God send people to Hell because they don’t believe? See the washup here
Science keeps piercing the truth of all religions
“I want genuine truth. Not the “I just believe it” kind of truth."
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The Way, the Truth, & the Dice
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RPG-ology #24: An Amusing Dungeon
This is RPG-ology #24: An Amusing Dungeon, for November 2019.
On June 1, 2001, Gaming Outpost began publishing Game Ideas Unlimited with an introduction to the author and the series plan. The following week this article appeared, only slightly edited for republication here, under the title
Game Ideas Unlimited: An Amusing Dungeon.
Photo by flickr user Waldo Jacquith under Creative Commons 2.0 license, no changes were made.
Some years ago I was the dungeon master for a new group of novice AD&D players. After a hiatus, I found myself back in the dungeon design business, and this time for a bunch of teenagers who did not know me. I wanted to do something good, fun, interesting. But I also wanted to apply the lessons of previous games to the new one. One of those was that dungeons had to make sense: there had to be a reason why this underground structure had been built. And that meant that I needed to create history, a story which explained what had happened in the past.
The story I invented was fairly simple. Eons before (when dealing with elves who live for millennia, ancient history must be defined in eons) an elf had a crazy notion of establishing trade with the underdark, possibly even negotiating peace between the surface elves and their estranged drow brethren. It was he who designed the original dungeon and financed its construction. The tension between his dream and his fear that he might be unleashing a great evil on the world made him a bit crazy. The original designs included some levels which were safe havens, places for travelers to rest and even be entertained, interspersed with levels which were deadly, laced with traps or fierce beasts, intended to kill anyone not privy to the safe path.
The builder died, and was buried in the depths of his creation; that which he built fell into disrepair, and was discovered and occupied by others. The newcomers made changes, making this their homes. Some areas lost all trace of their original purpose and design, while others were untouched.
Among those discovering the abandoned rooms and tunnels was a traveling troupe of entertainers. They saw in the upper levels the opportunity to build a home, a place to practice their crafts. A secret door provided a wonderful entrance to the area they picked–the second level of the dungeon–and behind it they began making changes. One of their number, a young wizard, began to construct something here that would be the wonder of the age. Yet as his companions died, the troupe and their work would fade into oblivion, leaving their magical showplace buried and forgotten.
And so it was that the character party stumbled into something none of them could possibly understand, something so strange and frightening it would leave them bewildered and terrified; yet so awesome they kept returning, trying to fathom its mysteries. For the thing that had been built eons before into which my characters now blundered was something unknown to their age.
It was an amusement park.
It wasn’t difficult to design. I had to throw a lot of continual light spells around, and extrapolate some spell research into locomotion. There were some things I couldn’t include–I wished there were a way to do a Ferris wheel, but the underground setting limited the vertical dimension of my designs. Still, I managed to create a very real collection of attractions.
Some of these were very straightforward. There was a stone zoo, in which petrified specimens of a number of fantastic creatures had been caged for display. Two stages were illumined with light spells in reflective containers; one of these was for plays, and had prop and costume supplies behind it, while the other was the sideshow where the magician kept his tricks and gear. A betting wheel would spin automatically when a bet was placed, and if the d6 matched the player’s number it paid five to one. A small cafe included a floor where some ancient musical instruments still sat. And there was a quiet boat ride through a dark tunnel, the boats magically teleporting back to their starting point once the passengers had disembarked. I even included vending machines which could create food and drink when activated by a coin. But there was so much more.
The merry-go-round had carved figures of horses, but also of fantastic beasts; and they were enspelled such that once riders mounted all would move in a circle with the same gait they would have if alive. The cavalier in the party loved this, using it to train herself on gryphons and dragons and pegasi. The funhouse had mechanical shifting stairs and floors and slides, vents of air blasts from below, distorted mirrors, and an entrance to the vast maze on the next level. The strong-man bell was extensively magic-mouthed such that on a die roll (adjusted for strength) it would hurl insults or compliments at the characters. And the shooting gallery provided five bolts to fire from the tethered light crossbows (sites suitably misaligned), again charging a coin to play and rewarding victory with a few coins returned.
My favorite trap–that is, ride–was the tilt-a-whirl. The characters entered a room; it was perfectly round, with two doors, one to the north and one to the south. The room had a thirty foot ceiling. There was a sort of statue, more like an obelisk, in the center–shapely and not unpleasant, but with no feature that would distinguish the front. The floor was metal, and this smooth metal continued up the first ten feet of wall. A few minutes after characters stopped entering the room, all doors would close and then vanish, and the metal floor and wall would suddenly shift, slowly turning. As it turned, it increased in velocity, and characters were forced to the outside wall; but as everything was told from their perspective, they were told that as they were moving, some magic drew them against that wall. Then, as they were pinned helplessly against this wall, they saw the obelisk slowly drop into the floor; at the same time, the ceiling descended toward them, inexorably threatening to crush them. This took only a couple minutes, and the ceiling stopped descending when it reached the top of the metal part of the wall. But then the truly terrifying happened: the metal floor beneath them dropped twenty feet, down to the obelisk below. They were now suspended by the magic which pressed them against the wall as it spun. Then, slowly, the metal wall began to drop toward the floor below, and once it was there it slowed to a stop. One door–randomly selected–opened to permit the dizzy characters to stumble back to the halls, uncertain of whether they were north or south, or whether they had descended to a lower level of the dungeon. Of course, they had not–they had been lifted twenty feet and then lowered back to their original depth. But their perception of the situation left them quite bewildered.
But their favorite was probably the roller coaster. This began as a bench at the end of a hall. If anyone sat on the bench or stood in front of it, suddenly a low wall would appear creating a sort of cart around it, and it shot straight up thirty feet, and then moved forward–at the same time leaving behind an identical looking bench at the end of the hall. I mapped out a course that carried them three hundred feet per round (a minute); along the way there was one straight stretch where a group of piercers would attempt to drop into the cart, and another where large spiders sprang at them. But the true terror was in hurtling through alternately light and dark tunnels, sometimes bound straight for a wall only to have the cart turn at the last instant. Of course, once two of the party members had been swept away by this trap–I mean, ride–others had to follow in the hope of rescuing them. The carts would depart at one minute intervals. And in the midst of the ride was a section where one cart would leap over another. I think one of the players may actually have screamed. I know that at least one of the characters leapt from the cart onto the track to escape.
I’ve run thousands of hours of fantasy games; yet this is the adventure people best remember. They all agree it was an insane idea, a concept which never should have worked, never should have been tried. Yet it was among the most fun and most memorable adventures they ever had. Almost fifteen years later they still spoke of it.
I never imagined when I thought of it that it would really work. It was just an idea for an adventure, something to fill space in a dungeon map. Two levels down I had a luxury hotel; two levels below that was a dragon lair; below that was a race war. This was just part of the show. What made it so wonderful was that it was so totally out of place, and all the players realized that whatever they thought it was, to their characters it was completely inexplicable and clearly very dangerous, even demented.
A substantial part of creative thinking involves taking two things that have not been put together before and asking whether they can be combined. This adventure placed a modern amusement park in a medieval fantasy dungeon. I often find my ideas by looking at what to me are perfectly ordinary things and asking how they would be perceived by someone with an entirely different understanding of reality. I find a way to make it work in that reality, and then attempt to describe it to the players through the filters of the characters’ mindsets and presuppositions. The result is always strange to the point of alien, to the level of magical. By taking the ordinary and shifting it until it is out of place, you can create something quite original.
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Gaming Outpost
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Christ and the Dice
Exploration of Isenwald
Faith in Play
Lands in the Clouds
Magic Symposium
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Sessions to Remember
The D&Degenerate
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Hysteria admin 2017-06-21T13:17:29+00:00
Hysteria has disappeared from contemporary culture only insofar as it has been subjected to a repression through the popular diagnosis of ‘borderline personality disorder’.
In Hysteria the distinguished psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas offers an original and illuminating theory of hysteria that weaves its well-known features – repressed sexual ideas; indifference to conversion; over-identification with the other – into the hysteric form.
Through a rereading of Freud, Bollas argues that sexuality in itself is traumatic to all children, as it ‘destroys’ the relation to the mother, transfiguring her from ‘mamma’, the infant’s caregiver, to ‘mother’, the child’s and father’s sex object. For the hysteric this recognition is endlessly traumatic and the hysterical personality forms itself into an organised opposition to this knowledge.
True to his earlier writings, Bollas’ vision is thought provoking and mind expanding. Hysteria brings new perspectives to long-standing ideas, making enlightening reading for students and professionals involved in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy alike, as well as the lay reader who takes an interest in the formation of personality in western culture.
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HORN LAKE, Miss. (FOX13) – Circle G Ranch, the Horn Lake ranch where Elvis and Priscilla Presley honeymooned, is being restored. Phase one for restoration was unveiled this week. Part of the plan for the ranch is to rustle up a lot of money, for a lot of good causes.
According to Mayor Allen Latimer the development at Circle G ranch will certainly have the city of Horn Lake saying thank you, thank you very much for your tax dollars.
FOX13 News, WHBQ FOX 13
“I am hoping that when they come in to pay their respects to Mr. Presley that they will remember that he and Priscilla spent their honeymoon night in Horn Lake and visit us,” Latimer said.
MORE: Florida firm buys former Elvis ranch
MORE: Foundation wants to build Elvis statue at ranch
But beyond any dollars generated by tourists Mayor Latimer says he is impressed by plans to use the ranch to raise money for charitable causes, including helping veterans and special needs children with disabilities.
“Not only will it provide retail space but there will be talks about Elvis’ heritage in the area and my understanding is they will hold events on a permanent basis to help those with disabilities,” the mayor said. “So not only is this an economic boom and a cultural boom but it will do a lot to help a lot of people in a lot of ways also.”
As for Elvis fans and whether they will visit Circle G, they already do. Alexandra and Irina made the 27-hour flight from Romania.
“I want to see everything about Elvis we were in Tupelo and Graceland and we want to see more,” the two said.
Here is a sneak peak of what’s to come for the Circle G: plans include the relocation and restoration of Elvis’ honeymoon cottage; an arena will be created next to the stables for horse shows; Elvis’ barbecue pit will be recreated in its existing location, using the remaining original bricks; and a new water feature will be added to a lake on the property.
Phase one of restoration is expected to be complete by Summer 2015.
This article originally appeared on myfoxmemphis.com.
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Tool Time: Cory Arcangel at The Whitney
Jacob Gaboury | Tue Jun 21st, 2011 11:24 a.m.
Cory Arcangel (b. 1978), Various Self Playing Bowling Games (aka Beat the Champ), 2011. Hacked video game controllers, game consoles, cartridges, disks, and video, dimensions variable. [image via Artforum]
In many ways Cory Arcangel's solo show, on view now at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is about the failure of art and technology. This isn't to say the show is a failure; far from it in fact. Instead it's the way in which Arcangel's work frustrates the expectation that art, particularly art that engages with technology, somehow demonstrate a kind of expertise that justifies its elevation to the status of art. If the purpose of technology, broadly speaking, lies in its use-value, then it is his decided refusal of the kind of productive functionality that one expects from technical objects that makes many of the pieces on view so frustrating. Equally frustrated is the desire for an artfully crafted object expressing a unique critical vision. Instead Arcangel offers us objects that have been hacked and broken, that refuse or distort our interaction, or whose simplicity, effortlessness, nostalgia, and humor mask complex socio-technical systems. As Ed Halter noted in an interview with the artist for Rhizome in 2008, Arcangel's work seems to operate in two extremes:
You either introduce a ridiculously enormous and therefore pointless amount of work into it, or you reduce the work by using automation, or defaults, or outsourcing. So you either extend the amount of work to an enormous extent that makes it absurd, or you reduce it to nothing which undercuts its legitimacy.
Arcangel exerts incredible effort to accomplish the most banal of tasks, or produces aesthetic works that require little if any effort to manufacture — on the part of the artist, at least. In this way the works reflect on the process by which both art and technology are produced, and the means through which we ascribe value to artistic and technological objects.
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Indian National Security Advisor to meet President, PM
Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval is on a day-long visit to Sri Lanka. MORE..
India assures USD 50 Mn for Sri Lanka s defence equipment purchases
India s National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval has told Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa that it is important that India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives review the Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) regime and include other regional countries as observers. MORE..
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Tag: Forests
[Image: Photo by Charles Ray, via the New York Times].
Apparently, dystopian near-future climate change fiction doesn’t have enough wasps. When a colony survives one year to the next, due to a mild winter, its nest “can grow to be as big as a Volkswagen Beetle and can have 15,000 wasps.”
In a regular year in the U.S. state of Alabama, for example, there are apparently only two or three such “super nests,” but, according to an entomologist interviewed by the New York Times, in 2019 there could be as many as ninety.
First of all, it’s weirdly fascinating to learn that there is an official tally of super nests at all, let alone that there might be as many as 90 of them in Alabama alone.
However, what’s more striking, at least for me, is that the scenes depicted in this brief New York Times piece read more like something from a Cormac McCarthy novel. One man didn’t enter his outdoor toolshed for two months only to discover that it now housed a sprawling super nest housing as many as 18,000 wasps; he and his son still scurry past it now and again as they grab tools, unsure of how exactly to eliminate the threat.
It’s like Alien meets The Road: unwary climate refugees of the near-future hike through the forests of a superheated American South, unbeknownst to them approaching a super nest the size of a train yard, its buzzing mistaken for the hopeful drone of distant machinery.
Author Geoff ManaughPosted on June 30, 2019 August 14, 2019 Categories BLDGBLOGTags Alabama, Alien, Architecture, Climate Change, Climate Change Fiction, Cormac McCarthy, Entomology, Forests, Science Fiction, The Road, WaspsLeave a comment on Supernester
Computational Landscape Architecture
[Image: An otherwise unrelated photo, via FNN/Colossal].
In 2017, researchers attending the annual Cable-Tec Expo presented a paper looking at the effect certain trees can have on wireless-signal propagation in the landscape.
In “North America in general,” the researchers wrote, “large swathes of geography are dominated by trees and other foliage which, depending on seasonal growth and longitude, can interrupt a good many LOS [line of sight] apertures between BS [a base station] and client and present performance challenges.”
That is to say, parts of North America are heavily forested enough that the landscape itself has a negative effect on signal performance, including domestic and regional WiFi.
Their presentation included a graph analyzing the effects that particular tree species—pine, spruce, maple—can have on wireless signals. “The impact of deciduous and conifer trees (under gusty wind conditions) suggest that the leaf density from the conifer more frequently produces heavy link losses and these,” they explain.
In other words, for the sake of signals, plant deciduous.
[Image: From “Can a Fixed Wireless Last 100m Connection Really Compete with a Wired Connection and Will 5G Really Enable this Opportunity?”]
What interests me here is the possibility that we might someday begin landscaping our suburbs, our corporate campuses, our urban business parks, according to which species of vegetation are less likely to block WiFi.
There is already a move toward xeriscaping, for example—or planting indigenous species tolerant of arid climates in cities such as Phoenix and Los Angeles—but what about WiFi-scaping, landscapes sown specifically for their electromagnetic-propagation effects?
One of my favorite studies of the last decade looked at whether trees planted around a fuel-storage depot in England known as Buncefield might have inadvertently caused a massive gas explosion. In this case, though, a site’s landscaping might instead cause data-propagation errors.
You can imagine, for example, vindictive foreign governments purposefully surrounding an American embassy with trees unpermissive of signal propagation, even deliberately donating specific indoor plant species known for their negative effects on electromagnetic signals. A kind of living, vegetative Faraday cage.
Hostile houseplant-gifting networks. Like the plot of some future David Cronenberg film.
[Image: Lucian Freud, “Interior in Paddington” (1951), via Tate Britain].
In any case, this brings to mind many things.
A recent study published in the MIT Technology Review, for example, suggested that WiFi could be used to spy on human movements inside architecture. The paper documents how researchers used WiFi “to work out the position, actions, and movement of individuals” inside otherwise sealed rooms.
It’s worth recalling the use of WiFi as a burglar alarm, whereby unexpected human intruders can be detected when their bodies perturb the local WiFi field. Is that someone walking toward you in the dark…? Your router might see them before you do, as their movement cause bulges and malformations in your home’s WiFi.
The more relevant implication, however, is that you could potentially use WiFi to spy on movements in the broader landscape. Deciduous forests would be easier than coniferous, it seems.
You could soak a forest in electromagnetic signals—yes, I know this is not the greatest idea—and measure those signals’ reflection to count, say, active birds, beetles, badgers, or other participants in the wilderness. It’s WiFi as a tool for ecological analysis: you set up a router and watch as its signals reverberate through the forests and fields. Animal radar.
Finally, consider a study published last year that suggested WiFi signals could be turned into a computational device. According to researchers Philipp del Hougne and Geoffroy Lerose, you can “perform analog computation with Wi-Fi waves reverberating in a room.”
Read their paper to find out more, but what seems so interesting in the present context is the idea that forested landscapes could be grown to cultivate their WiFi computational ability. Like botanical pinball machines, you could design, plant, and grow entire forests based on their ability to reflect future WiFi signals in very specific ways, artificial landscapes destined to perform computational tasks.
A bitcoin forest. WiFi forestry.
Or forest supercomputers, pruned for their ability to plumb the mathematical sublime.
(Thanks to Jameson Zimmer for the tip re: WiFI and trees. Earlier on BLDGBLOG: The Design Forest of the Sacred Grove, Forest Tone, and many others.)
Author Geoff ManaughPosted on February 1, 2019 February 1, 2019 Categories BLDGBLOGTags Botanical Pinball Machines, Botany, Computation, Data, David Cronenberg, Electromagnetism, Forestry, Forests, Landscape, Los Angeles, Lucian Freud, Phoenix, Plantlife, Supercomputers, Trees, Vegetation, WiFi, Xeriscaping4 Comments on Computational Landscape Architecture
Patent Diagrams for Artificial Trees
At least, after we’ve cut down every last tree and forest, once we’ve rid the world of natural species, we’ll know how to build their replacements. Here are some diagrams for artificial trees, signed by their inventors, down to specific tufting techniques and mechanisms for branch attachments. Our future forests will be colorfast and fade-resistant—perhaps machine-washable—filled with recordings of historical birdsong, the world a puzzle we took apart believing someone else would know how to put it back together.
(All via Google Patents.)
Author Geoff ManaughPosted on July 8, 2018 Categories BLDGBLOGTags Anthropocene, Artificial Nature, Artificial Trees, Botany, Forestry, Forests, Plants, Replicants, Synthetic Botany, Trees6 Comments on Patent Diagrams for Artificial Trees
Opens Coat, Flashes Links
[Image: The “former constellation” Argo Navis, via Wikipedia].
Taps mic… Is this thing still on…
1. Hidden Charms was a conference on “the magical protection of buildings,” organized by Brian Hoggard. The one-day symposium looked at everything from ritual “protection marks” to dead cats stored in glass jars, put there “to keep the witches away.”
2. Amazon wants to put robots in every home. “The retail and cloud computing giant has embarked on an ambitious, top-secret plan to build a domestic robot, according to people familiar with the plans. Codenamed ‘Vesta,’ after the Roman goddess of the hearth, home and family,” the robot “could be a sort of mobile Alexa,” Businessweek speculates, “accompanying customers in parts of their home where they don’t have Echo devices. Prototypes of the robots have advanced cameras and computer vision software and can navigate through homes like a self-driving car.”
3. A woman in Austin, Texas, went missing in 2015. Without monthly payments, her house was eventually seized and sold by the bank—but the home’s new owners found the skeletal remains of a body inside one of the walls back in March. It was the missing woman. “In the attic, there was a broken board that led down to the space” where the skeleton was found, a coroner’s spokesperson explained. “Law enforcement thinks she may have been up in the attic and fell through the attic floor.” Horrifically, whether she was killed by the fall or remained alive, trapped inside the wall, is unclear.
4. At an event here in Los Angeles a few weeks ago, artist and writer Julia Christensen drew my attention to officially recognized “former constellations,” or named star groups that are no longer considered referentially viable.
5. The Roman monetary system left a planetary-archaeological trace in Greenland’s ice sheet, according to Rob Meyer of The Atlantic. “A team of archaeologists, historians, and climate scientists have constructed a history of Rome’s lead pollution,” Meyer explains, “which allows them to approximate Mediterranean economic activity from 1,100 b.c. to 800 a.d. They found it hiding thousands of miles from the Roman Forum: deep in the Greenland Ice Sheet, the enormous, miles-thick plate of ice that entombs the North Atlantic island.” With this data, they have “reconstructed year-by-year economic data documenting the rise and fall of the Roman Republic and Empire.” Oddly enough, this means the Greenland Ice Sheet is a landscape-scale archive of Roman financial data.
6. Speaking of economic data mined from indirect sources, “satellite imagery that tracks changes in the level of nighttime lighting within and between countries over time” might also reveal whether countries are lying about the strengths of their economies. According to researcher Luis R. Martinez, “increases in nighttime lighting generally track with increases in GDP,” and this becomes of interest when lighting levels don’t correspond with officially given numbers. Of course, this is not the first time that satellite imagery has been used to estimate economic data.
7. “Today our experience of the night differs significantly from that of our ancestors,” Nancy Gonlin and April Nowell write for Sapiens. “Before they mastered fire, early humans lived roughly half their lives in the dark.” Cue the rise of “archaeological inquiries into the night,” or what Gonlin and Nowell have evocatively named the “archaeology of night.”
8. There was an amazing article by Jake Halpern published in The New Yorker two years ago about Nazi gold fever in Poland and the incredible amount of amateur detective operations there dedicated to finding an alleged buried fortune. It’s a wild mix of abandoned WWII bunkers, secret underground cities in the forest, and urban legends of untold wealth. It turns out, however, there is a (vaguely) similar obsession with lost or buried gold in northwestern Pennsylvania: “For decades, treasure hunters in Pennsylvania have suspected that there is a trove of Civil War gold lost in a rural forest in the northwestern part of the state,” the New York Times reports. “The story of the gold bars was pieced together from old documents, a map and even a mysterious note found decades ago in a hiding place on the back of a bed post in Caledonia,” the paper explains.
9. People are drawn to forests for all sorts of reasons. As Alex Mar wrote last autumn for the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Slender Man phenomenon—that inspired two young girls to try to murder a classmate—also had a forest element. “Girls lured out into the dark woods—this is the stuff of folk tales from so many countries,” Mar writes, “a New World fear of the Puritans, an image at the heart of witchcraft and the occult, timeless.” Mar points out that, after the attempted murder, the two girls began heading “to Wisconsin’s Nicolet National Forest on foot, nearly 200 miles north. They were convinced that, once there, if they pushed farther and farther into the nearly 700,000-acre forest, they would find the mansion in which their monster [Slender Man] dwells and he would welcome them.” The whole article is an interesting look at childhood, folklore, and the sometimes dark allure of the wild.
10. More treasure hunts: is there a cache of buried armaments, stolen from a National Guard armory in 1970, hidden somewhere in Amesbury, Massachusetts? According to a commenter on the Cast Boolits forum, William Gilday, who once “led an assault on a National Guard armory in Newburyport” and who spent nearly half of his life in prison for killing a police officer, confessed on his death bed that he buried guns and ammunition stolen from the armory somewhere in his hometown of Amesbury. “It’s one of those ‘what if’ things,” the commenter continues. “I’ve known about the confession for years, and I walk my dog in the ‘suspected’ vicinity just about every day. The problem is that the ‘authorities’ claim that everything that was stolen was recovered. But, a few weeks ago, I emailed a local radio talk show host who was involved in the death bed confession and I asked her if she thought that stolen items really had been buried in my town and she replied, ‘Yes…do you know where they are?’”
11. “A dispute between Serbia and Kosovo has disrupted the electric power grid for most of the Continent, making certain kinds of clocks—many of those on ovens, in heating systems and on radios—run up to six minutes slow,” the New York Times reported back in March. “The fluctuation in the power supply is infinitesimally small—not nearly enough to make a meaningful difference for most powered devices—and if it were a brief disturbance, the effect on clocks might be too little to worry about.” But this six-minute lag is enough to cause subtle effects in people’s lives. A bad first novel could be written about slow clocks, distant political disputes, and some sort of disastrous event—a missed train, a skipped meeting—in the narrator’s personal life.
12. The above story reminds me of the suspicion last year that Russia was using some sort of large-scale GPS jamming device in the Black Sea. “Reports of satellite navigation problems in the Black Sea suggest that Russia may be testing a new system for spoofing GPS,” David Hambling reported for New Scientist. “This could be the first hint of a new form of electronic warfare available to everyone from rogue nation states to petty criminals.” The reason I say this is because you can easily imagine a scenario where someone is driving around, totally lost, receiving contradictory if not frankly nonsensical navigation instructions, and it’s because they are an unwitting, long-distance victim of geographic weaponry being used in a war zone far away.
13. The legendary music fest Sónar has been sending music to “a potentially habitable exoplanet” called GJ273b, attempting to contact alien intelligence with transmissions of electronic music. Transmission 1 was sent back in October; Transmission 2 ended today. The transmissions should arrive at the planet in November 2030.
Author Geoff ManaughPosted on May 16, 2018 May 16, 2018 Categories BLDGBLOG, Quick LinksTags Alex Mar, Alien Intelligence, Amazon, Amesbury, Apotropaic Markings, April Nowell, Archaeology, Archaeology of Night, Austin, Brian Hoggard, Burglary, Buried Treasure, Civil War Gold, Constellations, David Hambling, Economics, Folklore, Forests, Former Constellations, GPS Jamming, Greenland, Jake Halpern, Julia Christensen, Magic, Money, Music, Myths, Nancy Gonlin, National Guard Armory, Navigation, Nazi Gold, Night, Pennsylvania, Poland, Pollution, Preservation, Protection Marks, Robinson Meyer, Rome, Russia, Satellites, Slender Man, Sonar, Texas, Urban Legends, Vesta, WWII BunkersLeave a comment on Opens Coat, Flashes Links
Drainscaping Nevada’s Gold
Excavatory Improv
Demolition Sculptures, or: Sandblasting Manhattan
Building Lifter
Gossamer Systems
Architectural Sustainability
Mirny Mine, pt. 2
London’s Secret Circuitry
Monuments of Misdirection
Tokyo Revelation
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Capoeira Senzala Berlin
Mestre Caracu
Grupo Senzala
Capoeira Senzala
Group Senzala's history begins in 1963 in Rio de Janeiro. Paulo, Rafael and Gilberto Flores, three brothers, originally from Bahia (homeland of Capoeira) had moved to Rio de Janeiro. They began to study Capoeira, during their school vacations, back in Salvador, Bahia. They trained with two of the most famous masters that ever lived, namely Master Bimba and Master Pastinha. Capoeira had become an important part of their lives that they began to train on a regular basis. Paulo got in touch with other capoeira teachers in Rio de Janeiro and started to lead weekly training sessions in the terrace of their apartment building located at Laranjeiras neighbourhood, in the city of Rio de Janeiro.In 1963, the first of the now famous masters joined the three brothers in practising Capoeira. That master was Fernando C.C. Albuquerque, who was given the Capoeira name, Gato. Gato became friends with Paulo Flores on his return from Bahia, but did not know of Paulos knowledge of Capoeira. One night, whilst at a party, a fight broke out. Paulo become involved. His antagonist tried to front kick him, Paulo dodged the attack and retaliated with a reverse spinning kick, striking his opponent on the temple, knocking him out. After seeing this display, Gato badgered Paulo to train him, Paulo insisted that he was not a master, or even a teacher, "I am only a student so how can I teach you?". After days of persistent nagging Paulo agreed to show Gato a few of Capoeira's basic techniques. Gato began to train with Paulo, his two brothers, and some other teenagers at the Laranjeiras.
You learn a few moves and then a few more and then try to use what you had just learned, in the roda. Mestre Gato recalls the games he played as very physical and with lots of contact so that you learnt to defend yourself quickly. Soon, another joined the group by the name of Claudio Jose Queiroz, followed by his friends Peixinho and Itamar. Two 8 years boys from favela Santa Marta, used to see and train as well, called Garrincha and Sorriso. After a while Gato brought his younger brother Gil to take part of the sessions. The group was growing. Among the people who joined were, Mosquito, Borracha, Sanfona, Bigode, Jimmy, William and Antero. Gato started to get in touch with other capoeira players in Rio de Janeiro, like Mestre Artur Emidio the main capoeira mestre of Rio de Janeiro at that time. He had some training sessions with some capoeira de Sinhô students and with a formado of Mestre Bimba´s academy called Grande. In 1965 a folk show called Vem Camara performed at Teatro Jovem, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro. The show was directed by Bira Almeida, called Acordeon, a legend in the world of capoeira and one of the best Mestre Bimba's students at his time. Acordeon brought in his group some extraordinary capoeiras players like Camisa Roxa, Sacy, Cabeludo, and a young formado from Mestre Bimba´s called Preguica. Paulo and Rafael Flores knew Acordeon from their training at Bimba´s academy and brought their friends to see the show and all became astonished with such good capoeira. Later Acordeon visited the terrace and taught some movements to that young capoeira thirsty group. When Acordeon left Rio de Janeiro he lost one of his comrades who decided to stay in Rio, the young Preguica who joined that young group.
In late 1966 the group was asked to leave the apartment building due to the increase in noise generated by the group. They manage to crack one of the walls where bencaos were practised, plus the neighbours couldn't take anymore the noise and shakings on Saturdays evenings...
Finding new premises for the group would cost money. The group set about trying to raise funds by performing at shows. Finally, they were able to rent premises for the group, which now consisted of around 15 core members and about 20 people training occasionally. The group moved into the Largo de Machado in 1966. During 1966, whilst at a demonstration at a German Club, the group introduced themselves as Grupo Senzala. The group became known, and with new premises, new people joined.
In the late 60's there were very few competitions open to Capoeiristas. In 1964 a tournament called Berimbau de Prata happened at Santa Teresa and few groups took part of it. The Academia Santana, leaded by Mestre Valdo Santana, asked Paulo Flores and Gato to represent the academy and they did. With surprise as young capoeiristas they were they featured the third place after Bonfim and Mestre Artur Emidio groups.
In 1967 another capoeira group competition was organized supported by an entity called Amigos do Folclore (Friends of Folklore), the Berimbau de Ouro. Each group should perform a group demonstration and present a pair of capoeiristas playing during five minutes. The performances were judged by a committee of masters and folklore experts and the pair performance had a bigger weight in the judgement. With the help of other capoeiristas like Tabosa and Fritz, both from Brasilia and friends of Claudio Danadinho, the group entered the competition. On the first attempt at the tournament the team featuring Gato and Preguica won, and did so again the following year, helping establish Group Senzala. On the third attempt Gato and Preguica were stopped from taking part by the event organization. They were told that the competition were not open to the masters, only students. Gato and Preguica protested that they were students, not masters. The association then replied, saying that their record over the past two years has had them recognised as master grades.
As Gato and Preguica were unable to enter the Berimbau de Ouro they began to train another team from the Group Senzala to enter into the tournament. This new team featured Mosquito and Barracha, which won; third year in succession. News of this spread throughout Brazilian Capoeira. Many people travelled to see, train and try out this new group of capoeiristas.
Due to the groups growing reputation and memberships they had to relocate again. A student of the group offered the use of a large barn, situated on his property, to the group, which they gratefully accepted and moved into Cosme Velho. During 1968 and 1971 many masters and students travelled to Cosme Veiho and Master Gato recalls it was a "place of great energy".
That location became the meeting point for many years to come where most of that generation of capoeiristas took part in the famous rodas on Saturday evenings. It was there where Senzala group was forged. It was there where new members of the group got their red cords and became part of the group like Baiano Anzol, another formado from Mestre Bimba´s, Lua, from Salvador street capoeira, Nestor Capoeira and Bermuda, both got their capoeira initialization with Mestre Leopoldina, many years before they left the group following their own ways. Capoeira at the early sixties was still quite underground, badly seen by society. In their search the south zone kids had to go to the suburbs where at the rodas they had to prove their selves, earn the respect and after go for a beer. Although tough the Capoeira environment always had a strong sense of friendship. Originally the group trained according to the teaching's of Master Bimba but soon began to incorporate influences from Rio de Janeiro but mainly from Bahia. By this time the group was the premier Capoeira group in Rio de Janeiro and one of the most widely known in the whole of Brazil. In the following years the group grew in size and influenced many other groups in various states. The 12 initial members went in different directions, new mestres were graduated and Capoeira started spreading to the USA and Europe in early eighties.
Senzala in the '60
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What We Learned at House Appropriations This Week
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On Thursday the House Appropriations committee heard from the Legislative Budget Board and the Comptroller of Public Accounts on state budget, economic, and revenue developments affecting the 2014-15 and 2016-17 two-year spending packages. Though membership of the Appropriations committee will change somewhat in January 2015, the group of lawmakers drafts the House of Representatives’ version of state investments in public and higher education, health and human services, highways, state employee benefits, and other key parts of the state budget. By the end of the general session, the House and Senate versions of the budget will morph into a final compromise appropriations and tax package that takes effect September 1, 2015.
The first order of business was a briefing on the four constitutional spending limits that apply to the state budget. One of the limits has already been set: the Article VIII, Section 22 limit on the rate of growth of appropriations from state tax revenues not dedicated by the constitution. A personal income growth rate of 11.68 percent, which allows about $10 billion in new spending, was approved by LBB officials earlier this week. It was the lowest of the four options considered as estimates of economic growth in 2016-17. If the LBB had chosen the highest forecast of 15.71 percent growth, an extra $3.4 billion would have been available to Texas schools, higher education systems, health care programs, public safety, or other critical areas. Instead, a simple majority vote will be needed in both chambers to exceed the growth limit if more than $10 billion is needed to maintain current services and fix the school finance system. Committee members also found out that lawmakers could add $1.1 billion in investments to the 2014-15 budget before reaching its cap. This is enough to cover an anticipated health and human services supplemental budget need for $1 billion in state General Revenue, most of it for Medicaid health care services.
Chief Revenue Estimator John Heleman confirmed that the amount of school property tax revenue lost because of the mandatory rate cuts enacted in the 2006 special session continues to be at least $14 billion every two years. Meanwhile the revenue to the Property Tax Relief Fund, which was created to receive money from the franchise and cigarette tax changes made in that session, is still only about $6 billion per biennium. The resulting continuing structural deficit of $8 billion forces the state to choose between cutting public education, cutting other state services, or creating new sources of revenue. So far, the Legislature has chosen to squeeze the state budget.
LBB staff also testified that local school property values grew at more than twice the rate anticipated when the current state budget was written. Based on data in the testimony, CPPP calculates that this unexpected value growth generates enough local property tax revenue to save the state $875 million in General Revenue that would otherwise have been needed for state formula aid to schools.
CPPP will monitor major state budget developments and how they affect local communities and taxpayers throughout the 84th Legislative Session. Follow CPPP on Twitter for more on what state officials could do to address our growing state’s needs and expand opportunities for all Texans.
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Nomos; Germany
Constructing Images of the Enlargging EU: The European Common House Metaphor in the Australasian News Media
Chaban, N.; Bain, J.; Stats, K.
Fonte: Nomos; Germany Publicador: Nomos; Germany
Tipo: Parte de Livro
Publicado em //2007 Português
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/35385500
Under construction: images of the enlarging EU in the Australasian news media
Fonte: CADAAD Publicador: CADAAD
Tipo: Artigo de Revista Científica
#EU enlargement#Common European House metaphor#Australia and New Zealand news media
Institutionalised metaphors are an everyday feature of the EU’s internal discursive constructions. The relevant literature argues that one of the most well-established and frequently employed metaphors describing the EU in EU discourses is that of the ‘Common European House’. This paper suggests that this metaphor is also prolific in external discourses depicting the EU. Easily comprehensible and intimately familiar to the international public, the ‘common house’ metaphor is argued to serve as an efficient means of organising thoughts and observations about unfamiliar and complex global phenomena such as European integration. Exploring a case study of Australasian (Australian and New Zealand) daily news coverage of the 2004 EU enlargement, we found that the popular ‘house’ metaphor delivered imagery dominated by negativity and contradiction, portraying the enlarging EU as an unstable, divided and overcrowded entity. Taking into account the power of metaphors to raise the awareness of key EU concepts, policy issues and events, the imagery resulting from the media’s use of the ‘house’ metaphor is problematic. The continued employment of negative and contradictory portrayals of an important economic and political counterpart may have concerning effects on the perceptions that the publics and decision-makers of Australasia hold of the EU as a global actor...
Constitutionalism, multilevel trade governance and international economic law
Fonte: Hart Publicador: Hart
This is a book about the ever more complex legal networks of transnational economic governance structures and their legitimacy problems. It takes up the challenge of the editors' earlier pioneering works which have called for more cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary analyses by scholars of international law, European and international economic law, conflict of laws, international relations theory and social philosophy to examine the interdependences of multilevel governance in transnational economic, social, environmental and legal relations. Two complementary strands of theorising are expounded. One argues that globalisation and the universal recognition of human rights are transforming the intergovernmental 'society of states' into a cosmopolitan community of citizens which requires more effective constitutional safeguards for protecting human rights and consumer welfare in the national and international governance and legal regulation of international trade. The second emphasises the dependence of the functioning of international markets and liberal trade on governance arrangements that respond credibly to safety and environmental concerns of consumers, traders, political and non-governmental actors. Enquiries into the generation of international standards and empirical analyses of legalisation and judicialisation practices form part of this agenda. The perspectives and conclusions of the more than 20 contributors from Europe and North-America cannot be uniform. But they converge in their search for a constitutional architecture which limits...
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Spring warblers that might have been
This spring, warbler migration was painfully dull both in our part of south Florida and near our second home in northeastern Illinois. We departed for Illinois at the beginning of May, just when numbers of warblers had started building up there in previous years. Now that summer has arrived and it is a rainy day, all I can do is remember last year and look forward to fall migration.
The Prairie Warbler was quite common in Florida this spring, but we have never yet seen one in Illinois.
Some of the warblers we saw this spring both in Florida and in Illinois were…
Yellow-rumped Warbler (photographed in Illinois)
This Western subspecies of Palm Warbler, common in Florida, is the dull-colored form…
…as compared to this Eastern “Yellow” Palm Warbler, photographed in Illinois
Black-and-white Warbler (in Florida)
Yellow Warbler (in Illinois)
Now I’m remembering some warblers we had hoped to see– but didn’t see at all this spring, either in Florida or Illinois.
Past spring migrations in Florida, we have seen…
During past spring migrations in Illinois we have gotten…
Here is another view of a Bay-breasted Warbler
This Nashville Warbler is actually flying– I accidentally caught him at an instant when his wings were closed
Nighthawk distraction display
During the couple of weeks that we were back at our permanent south Florida home, we were only able to walk out into the restored Everglades wetlands on three mornings. Threatening weather and clustered appointments kept us otherwise occupied. Yet these few encounters provided some surprises– a small band of deer that heretofore had never ventured so close to our home, second broods being raised in the heron rookery, including discovery of a third Green Heron nest, and our first sighting of a Gray Fox. The latter stared out at us from the edge of the unpaved roadway. Not sure of whether I might be seeing an alley cat or a Raccoon, I got great binocular views of the fox’s large ears, dark muzzle, and white underparts fringed in red. I should have raised my camera first, as when I reached for it the fox scampered away too quickly for a photo op. And, that wasn’t all…
What started my fascination with birds? When I delve deeply into the recesses of my memory, I find no sudden epiphany. I recall looking out the back window of our second story apartment onto the flat roof of the dry cleaner’s store, where a nighthawk was sitting on its eggs. My father had discovered it and pointed it out to me. It was interesting to see that the eggs were laid directly on the roof pebbles, without any semblance of a nest. A few days later, the eggs suddenly disappeared. In their place, unbelievably well-camouflaged, were two chicks. Knowing the date we moved away, I was no older than four years. It sticks in my memory, but did it light a flame? (From my review of Avian Architecture)
Nighthawks are masters of erratic flight. Their wing beats have no regular cadence, speeding up and slowing down, dipping and diving. Seeing a choice insect, they can make a right angle turn with no warning. Getting one in the camera viewfinder is a challenge, much less than keeping it there and depressing the shutter at the right instant. My flight shots of nighthawks are usually 90% sky and clouds, with perhaps a snippet of tail-feathers or wingtips.
Since nighthawks are most active at the ends of the day, I am lucky when one banks to catch the rays of sunrise on a wing surface.
Nighthawks usually land on the ground, but may perch lengthwise along a branch or even a utility line.
This past week, a few days before we returned to Illinois from Florida for the second time this year, we found the nest of a Common Nighthawk. A nighthawk flew up some distance ahead of us as we walked along the edge of the gravel road that leads into our local wetlands patch. I fixed my eyes on the exact spot where it had been resting, and, standing back on the road several feet away, we methodically searched for its nest.
Nighthawk eggs and chicks blend in perfectly with the pattern of pebbles and stones, and it would be very easy to step on them if we did not place each step very carefully. I found the nesting site (it cannot be called a “nest” as it had no visible structure) next to a small tuft of grass, quite dangerously near the tracks of deer, raccoons, bicycles and joggers.
The eggs were set apart from each other, suggesting that the adult may have been shading them from the sun rather than incubating them.
The next morning the eggs were close together. Nighthawks have been known to move their eggs some distance, clearing larger stones out of their path as they rolled them. In his classic Life Histories of Familiar North American Birds, Arthur C. Bent writes:
The eggs do not necessarily remain in the position in which they are first laid, especially when the nesting site is on a comparatively level surface such as that provided by graveled roofs. During the period of incubation of two nests under daily observation, the eggs were gradually moved a distance of 5 to 6 feet. This shift in position comes about by the habit of the female pulling or pushing the eggs under her breast, thus moving them a short distance each time she settled on the eggs. As the direction of the bird’s approach was more or less constant, the eggs were moved in the same general direction. This resulted in a distinct trail being formed, giving an appearance that one would expect to see if a giant snail had traveled over the graveled surface and forced the larger pebbles to one side. B. H. Warren (1890) writes that the eggs of a nighthawk in one instance were moved 200 feet by the bird, which carried them in her mouth. I have never been able to verify this extraordinary behavior of a nighthawk transporting an object as large as an egg in its mouth. (http://birdsbybent.netfirms.com/ch11-20/nighthawk.html)
We retreated as the parent bird returned to shelter the eggs, and photographed her (or him, as both sexes take part in incubation) on the nest site.
The next morning, Mary Lou was ahead of me as we walked along the gravel road. Suddenly she was startled when a nighthawk flew up right in front of her. It actually flew towards her, then fell to the ground, flopping and rolling as if in agony. It was obviously performing a distraction display, and the amount of energy that went into it suggested that Mary Lou had nearly stepped on the eggs (or more likely young birds). I had to set the camera on macro to get these shots, as the bird allowed a very close approach before moving away. We briefly examined the area from a safe distance but did not see any eggs or young– not surprising, as they are well camouflaged.
The bird was obviously under great stress, so we did not remain there very long. As we walked away it resumed a more normal posture and flew back to the nesting area. In the meantime, its mate had been flying back and forth on the opposite side of the road, issuing soft calls that sounded like “kwoo,” quite unlike the familiar loud and shrill “peent” that we often hear from flying nighthawks.
Back in Florida
Today’s photos are evidence that we have returned to Florida. We were greeted with rain almost every morning. This and the need to catch up on doctor and dentist visits curtailed our time in the field. However, we did not have to look very far to enjoy the bird life.
A Great Blue Heron provided us with quite a show as it swallowed a very large exotic catfish.
View the entire swallowing sequence as a slide show here: http://www.flickr.com//photos/rosyfinch/sets/72157630069020920/show/
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Hypostomus plecostomus, also known as Algae Eater or “Pleco,” is a popular aquarium fish from South America that has been introduced into Florida waters. They are not poisonous, though they do have sharp spines that could cause injury if they are handled carelessly. This is the second time I have photographed a Great Blue Heron eating one. Mary Lou spied this heron in the act of spearing its prey on our back yard lawn next to the lake. We do not know how long it had been since it was caught, but these photos span a period of eight minutes. The photos are of poor quality, as I took them from inside the house through the glass of our rear door.
A Great Egret marched along the edge of the lake (again taken through the window)
This has been a great year for White Ibises. There are many immature birds with varying amounts of dark coloration.
Some of the adult ibises seem to have a grayish or “dirty” cast to their feathers, probably stains from foraging in muddy puddles, of which there are many. These two were taking advantage of the shade in our next door neighbor’s back yard.
The profile of a Tricolored Heron stood out against the reflection from a neighbor’s fence.
A Green Heron protested my attempt to move in closer for a better shot.
Two Wood Storks have been foraging along the shore of our small lake.
This Wood Stork moved nearer and stirred the water with its bubble-gum pink foot.
Since the banner year of 2009, we have seen few to no immature Wood Storks in our local lake. Although I do not know where these particular birds are nesting, this correlates with their failure to nest at all at Corkscrew Swamp during the past three seasons. At Corkscrew, where they historically turned the rookery trees white during the breeding season, the census has shown no nesting pairs at all in 2007, 2010, 2011 and 2012. There were 1120 in 2009 and 600 in 2006. This spring I did see a few immature storks in Palm Beach County, where several pairs are nesting. They are also extending their breeding range northward into Georgia and South Carolina.
The stork extended its wing to provide a shady spot where small fish might congregate and blunder into its open jaws.
We were free of chores one morning when the rain held off.We watched the sunrise from our back patio.
We got a late start, and were surprised to find a group of deer that included at least two bucks and two does. They were only about 5-6 houses up the gravel road that leads into the wetlands. A neighbor saw an additional two spotted fawns. The buck is usually more secretive. It is an 8-pointer, still in velvet.
One of the couples struck a nice pose.
We visited the local heron rookery after an absence of over six weeks. I had hoped to compare nesting success of herons which nested in the defoliated trees that were treated with herbicide against those with nests in untreated trees. The lack of observations while we were away greatly limits any conclusions that might be drawn, but Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Nest #9 (herbicide treated) had hatched out at least 2 chicks that I last photographed on April 22. My neighbor Scott said he did subsequently see fledglings near that nest. Interestingly, after Nest #9.5, which was located rather high in an adjacent non-treated tree, fell apart in a windstorm, that pair apparently took over the vacant nest #9. Today there was an adult incubating on Nest #9. The three chicks in #10 non-HT, the next nest to the south, were all in the nest.
This is my photo of the same nest taken back on on April 18, about three days before the eggs hatched.
This is the heron now incubating on Nest #9, an herbicide-treated tree.
Two Green Heron nests, one in an herbicide-treated and the other in a non-treated tree, were both successful in fledging young. This is one of the fledglings from the non-treated tree.
Great Blue Heron swallows big Pleco:
A chilly Bird Fest in Chicagoland
We are “reverse snowbirds,” permanent Florida residents who follow the birds north to our Illinois condo in the spring. We reverse the process and return to catch up with them in the fall as they stream back across Florida. This spring was particularly unproductive near our home in interior southeast Florida, as strong easterly wind flow across the peninsula caused neotropical migrants northbound from Cuba to follow the west coast or fly directly across the Gulf of Mexico. However, when we arrived in Illinois in early May, we were greeted with cold and rainy weather for the first two weeks of our stay, and again were disappointed at a poor turnout of warblers. By the end of the month, the weather turned sunny, windy and hotter than back home in Florida.
The vagaries of Chicagoland weather reminded me that just the opposite happened late last May, nearly at the end our stay in Illinois, when I was pretty much side-lined. The weather had taken a nasty turn, with cold rain and light frost two mornings the previous week. On top of that I came down with a nasty sinus infection that turned into bronchitis and wheezes. Waiting for the antibiotics and inhalers to kick in gave me time to reflect upon a recent good birding experience.
I can credit Mary Lou for finding the best bird of last spring’s Illinois visit, her 506th North American life bird. We were walking in the Aurora West Forest Preserve in Kane County, when we heard some loud cackling and squawking noises that persisted for about 10 seconds. They seemed to be from a bird, but were like nothing I had ever heard before. The nearest I could imagine would be a chicken-like species, but did not think that bobwhites or pheasants ever made sounds like that. Then, she spied a fairly large bird low in a tree right next to the trail. As it was partially hidden among the leaves, I almost dismissed it as a thrasher or a grackle. It flew a few yards to another tree and we noted its white undersides, plain brown back, and drooping tail. It lacked rufous in its wings, which are characteristic of the more common Yellow-billed Cuckoo.
Then it softly called “ku-ku-ku…ku-ku-ku…” and I recognized its call as that of a Black-billed Cuckoo:
In addition to its all-black bill, it also had small under-tail spots and a red ring around its eye:
We also encountered a Swainson’s Thrush, with is drab brown back and tail and prominent eye-ring:
I felt well enough to celebrate International Migratory Bird Day the next weekend by helping staff the Kane County Audubon Society booth at the Bird Fest. In anticipation of leading a bird walk, Mary Lou and I scouted out the planned route, located at Peck Farm Park in Geneva, Illinois. On a sunny and warm morning, two days before the Fest, we found lots of birds, some of which were seen up close and personal– just the kind of views that we hoped would enthrall the anticipated (mostly young) participants.
As we entered the path for the bird walk, we saw that Tree Swallows had occupied one half of a double-sided bluebird house:
The second member of the Tree Swallow pair stood guard in a small tree next to the nest:
For my forthcoming walk, I planned to provide my interpretation of the reason why the bluebird houses were placed back-to-back. Tree Swallows aggressively defend their nesting territory against all other bird species, but especially other Tree Swallows. It has been shown that pairing of bluebird houses, either back-to-back or only a few feet apart, and then leaving a space of some 100 yards before erecting another pair of boxes, may provide bluebirds a better chance at nesting in one of the paired boxes.
It seems that the Tree Swallows are more tolerant of other species if they are able to successfully defend their territories against other Tree Swallows, and perhaps the two species assist each other in this defense. House Sparrows can disturb this plan, as they claim the boxes earlier in the spring, and usually are able to evict bluebirds. The sparrows should generally be removed if they begin to colonize the bird houses, as they can eventually displace all other species.
Indeed, the other half of the bird house had already been taken over by House Sparrows. The male was perched nearby:
The kids love robins and they were singing all around the trails. I decided it would be fun if I asked them to close their eyes and try to identify all the sounds around them:
I hoped the kids would be astonished by the sound and beauty of an Eastern Meadowlark:
Red-winged Blackbirds are so easy to identify by sight and sound, were also abundant:
American Goldfinches were numerous:
An Indigo Bunting sang from the lower branches of a tree next to the lake:
Among the Little Brown Birds (LBBs) were a Song Sparrow…
…a Swamp Sparrow…
…and a partially hidden Savannah Sparrow, all readily distinguishable to a beginner by voice, if not appearance:
We heard the “CHE-BEK” calls of three Least Flycatchers:
On the way back, we identified the “FITZ-BYEW” calls of two Willow Flycatchers in the small willows along a creek (the red barn is out of focus behind the bird):
A territorial Common Yellowthroat, singing one of the endless varieties of its “WICHITY-WICHITY-WICHITY” song peered up at us from beneath a shrub that we were sure would soon be a nesting site:
We had seen 32 bird species in the course of an hour, and I looked forward to the Bird Fest, only two days away. Unfortunately, a strong cold front rolled in the next day, and temperatures dropped from near 80 degrees into the 40s that afternoon. It rained during the night, and in the morning we set up our booth on the porch of the Peck Farm Park interpretive center, fighting high winds from the north and a wind chill in the low 30s that kept the crowds away. I led the 10:30 AM bird walk for five hardy participants. One was a little girl who wore a flimsy fleece jacket but who participated enthusiastically. After 15 minutes the others gave up, yet she and her father kept with me as we tallied a paltry count of 13 species over a half hour. By then I was miserable with chills and fever, but her spirit was heartwarming!
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Submit your theatre production featuring women writers, directors or designers to Works by Women! Don’t forget to include our code to let them know that we sent you. You can get September’s Opportunity Code by emailing specialoppscode@gmail.com and it’ll come directly to your inbox!
If your production (no readings or free events) has a creative team (writers, directors, designers) of at least 50% women and has a run of at least two weeks in a New York City venue, Works by Women would love to include it on our website and maybe even bring our group to see it. Submit your information here: http://www.worksbywomen.org/suggest-a-show.html
Don’t meet those requirements? Members of Works by Women can share their productions in our weekly updates by emailing info@worksbywomen.org with the subject "Member Corner and Title of Your Show” by Monday at noon. How do you become a member? Simply join our mailing list: http://www.worksbywomen.org/join-our-mailing-list.html
Are you part of a theatre company or advocacy organization that is committed to actively working towards gender parity in theatre?
Check out Works by Women's list of theatre companies (http://www.worksbywomen.org/womens-theatre-companies.html) and advocacy groups (http://www.worksbywomen.org/advocacy.html) and if you’re not listed, email us atinfo@worksbywomen.org with the subject “Theatre Organization for Works by Women Website.”
Project Submissions
Variations Theatre Group Harvest Theatre Festival – No Fee to submit, but $300 Deposit if Selected
Seeking plays of 30 minutes or shorter with a maximum cast size of 20. Festival will run for three weeks, with a winner being chosen each round. The winner of the final round will receive a $1,000 prize and the opportunity to develop the play into a full length production with VTG next season. 2 submissions per playwright. Each play must have it’s own production team. Submit completed application form (available on website), character breakdown, and your script in PDF or doc format by e-mail.NOTE: Electronic submissions only. Email: harvest@variationstheatregroup.com, or visit: http://variationstheatregroup.com/newsite/harvest-theatre-festival-2014/. Deadline: September 21, 2014
American Blues Theater Blue Ink Playwriting Award – Fee: $5
Seeking submissions of original, unpublished, unproduced full-length plays written in English. Winner receives $500 and a staged reading. Open to all styles and genres. Submit script with title page containing author’s name, full contact information, and page count. A second page should list only the title of the play, list of characters, and a list of acts and scenes. Include playwright’s bio or resume in a separate attachment. One submission per playwright. Submit script by e-mail only, as a PDF or doc file. Submit fee by postal mail. FEE: $5. American Blues Theater c/o Blue Ink: 800 W. Cornelia, Ste. 204, Chicago, IL 60657
blueink@americanbluestheater.com, http://www.americanbluestheater.com/get-involved/work-with-us/. Deadline: September 1, 2014
Alumnae Theatre Company New Ideas Festival (March 11-29, 2015, Toronto, OT) - The Alumnae Theatre Company is dedicated to the production of adventurous, high-quality theatre not readily seen elsewhere, and to the promotion and skill development of women in theatre. Alumnae Theatre Company’s New Ideas Festival (NIF) is an annual, three-week juried festival of new plays, works-in-progress and experimental theatre. Each week a different program of up to four plays, as well as a workshopped reading on Saturday at noon, is presented.Scripts must be original works that have not been previously performed outside of a workshop. They may be in any genre or style, with a running time of 10 to 40 minutes; one act of a full-length play may also be accepted for production. Please include a cover page with the script/proposal, providing the play title, a list and description of characters (including age), and a short play synopsis. Send a separate contact page with the play title, playwright’s name and contact information, and a short bio (75 words or less). NIF does not provide feedback on submissions or return scripts. NIF will confirm receipt of submissions within two weeks, and scripts/proposals will be sent to the NIF reading committee. The 2015 festival lineup will be announced in early November, followed by cold reads of all chosen plays in early December. NO FEE. Scripts or proposals should be submitted electronically in PDF or Word format to NIFscripts@gmail.com. Deadline: September 5, 2014
Exit 7 Players New Short Play Contest (February 20-22, 2015, Ludlow, MA) - The Exit 7 New Short Play Contest will produce short plays by twelve playwrights in an exciting audience-participation format, awarding two winning writers a prize of $150 each. NO FEE. You may submit either one or two plays. Visit http://www.exit7players.org/shows/theexit7newshortpl/ for submission guidelines and to submit. Deadline: September 13, 2014
Long Beach Playhouse 24th Annual New Works Festival (Summer 2014, Long Beach, CA) – FEE: $10
Seeking unproduced, non-musical, full-length plays. Included in the application: signed and completed submission form, check for reading fee, copy of the script (in a three prong folder or similar, not held together with brads), brief synopsis of the play, character breakdown. Check made out to “Long Beach Playhouse”. Plays can be submitted to: Literary Comittee, Long Beach Playhouse, 5021 East Anaheim St., Long Beach, CA 90804, http://www.lbplayhouse.org/. Deadline: September 30, 2013
Theatre Three One-Act Festival – NO FEE
Seeking plays of a maximum of 35 minutes that are unproduced and have a maximum cast size of 9 and minimal set requirements. No adaptations, musicals, or children’s plays. Multiple submissions OK. Submit one copy of script with a cover sheet containing author’s name and full contact information, SASE, cover letter, synopsis, and resume. Selected plays will be presented for 10 performances and playwrights will receive a small stipend. NOTE: No e-mail submissions. NO FEE. 15th Annual Festival of One-Act Plays, Attn: Jeffrey Sanzel, Artistic Director, Theatre Three, PO Box 512, Port Jefferson, NY 11777-0512
http://www.theatrethree.com/jcd_site/one_act_fest.html#guide. Deadline: September 30, 2014
Y.E.S. Festival (April 16-26, Northern Kentucky University) - Submissions (ONE per playwright) must be full-length and should include a one-page synopsis and a cast list with brief character descriptions. A Y.E.S. entry form must accompany a submitted script. Selections will be made and winners notified no later than December 31, 2014. Returnable scripts will be mailed back after the winners have been notified. An honorarium of $500 will be awarded to each selected playwright as well as travel expenses and housing while attending the festival. NO FEE. Visit http://artscience.nku.edu/departments/theatre.html to download the form to submit. Deadline: September 30, 2014
Landing Theatre Company (March 13-15, 2015, Houston, TX) - Seeking full-length plays for the New American Voices Play Reading Series. Four plays will be selected for staged readings during the Landing Theatre Company’s Spring Festival in Houston, Texas. Selected playwrights must attend the readings. A stipend of $100 will be awarded to each winning playwright. Playwrights must cover their own travel expenses. Visit http://www.landingtheatre.org/#!play-submission-form/c24jx to submit. NO FEE. Deadline: September 30, 2014
Acadia University Theatre Company’s 22nd Annual Mini-Festival (January 2015, Acadia, Nova Scotia) - AUTC is looking for fresh new plays from new or experienced playwrights to stage at Acadia University Theatre Company’s 22nd Annual International MiniFest. This is a student-run festival coming up soon and would provide an excellent opportunity for playwrights to see their one act plays performed. NO FEE. For submission guidelines, please visit http://theatre.acadiau.ca/minifest.html. Deadline: October 15, 2014
Ensemble Studio Theatre/ Sloan Project (2015- 2016 Season, NYC) - The EST/Sloan Project commissions, develops and presents new works delving into how we view and are affected by the scientific world. These plays examine the struggles and challenges scientists and engineers face from moral issues to the consequences of their discoveries. Commissions will be awarded to individuals, groups and creative teams for full-length and one-act plays and musicals. Commissions range from $1000 to $10,000. Commission amounts are determined on a case-by-case basis, as are deadlines for drafts, finished work, and research support (if appropriate). Extant, full-length works may be submitted and are judged on a script-by-script basis by the EST/Sloan Project staff. Rewrite commissions for existing scripts range from $1,000 to $5,000.The EST/Sloan Project is open to a broad range of topics related to the issues, people, ideas, processes, leading-edge discoveries, inventions, and/or history of the "hard" sciences and technology. NO FEE. For information on submission guidelines, visit http://ensemblestudiotheatre.org/node/28. Deadline: November 1, 2014
*Artemisia’s Fall Festival* (Fall 2015, Chicago) - Seeking plays that are full length and must be carried by a woman. We require a leading, female protagonist. Artemisia produces plays that empower women. Due to the number of submissions we receive, submission is limited to ONE play per writer. If you submit more than one play, your submissions will NOT be considered. Full-length is defined by a playing time of 90 minutes or more. Published plays and one-acts DO NOT meet Artemisia’s guidelines and will NOT be accepted. We are unable to accept snail mail submissions. Please submit your play as a single file PDF attachment (no other format will be accepted) to submissionsartemisia@yahoo.com. $10 FEE. Deadline: January 15, 2015
365 Women a Year: A Playwriting Project (Facebook Group Project) – Visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/429235263876823/ or search “365 Women a Year” on Facebook to request to join this writer’s group. They are seeking female identifying playwrights who want to join in their quest to write one acts about 365 women in history. A consolidated list of the historical women to choose from are listed at the top of page thread, and may be claimed by commenting on the post. Guidelines for submission can be found under the “files” tab on the group page. For questions, join the group and post a query.Deadline has been posted but historical figures are already being claimed, so join now if you want in on the fun! Deadline: December 31, 2014
Special Opportunities coming your way! If you are a theatre, production company, casting office or agency looking to fill gaps in your talent, please send us an email to specialoppssubmission@gmail.com, and we can feature you in our monthly #StageOpps.
House Technician (Currently Open, Begins Immediately) - HB Studio, the historic acting school in the West Village, is looking for a full time House Technician to begin immediately. Working with the production manager, the House Technician will be responsible for a wide range of duties. Responsibilities/skills needed include: strong carpentry skills, budgeting (time and resources), hand or CAD drafting, electrician skills, audio engineering, stage management, projections, scenic painting, and experience with MAC computers. HB Studio is looking for a highly organized person that works well with professionals as well as interns, students, and volunteers. The best candidate for this position will be helping in taking HB Theatre to the next level of professionalism while being comfortable with present environment.The House Technician must be very resourceful with stock materials, personnel, and vendors, must keep all storage, work and venue areas safe, well organized, and running smoothly. Be able to efficiently move between carpentry, facility care, shopping, clerical, prop, costume organization, and electrics. Sewing skills are a plus.Extensive hands on experience necessary in many areas of theatre, BA or BFA with production emphasis very desirable. HB Studio, located on Bank Street, has a venue that seats seventy-three. The stage is 19’ wide x 15’ deep x 11’ -8 “tall (to a dead-hung grid). There is a separate construction space upstage with an adequate stock of power and hand tools. This is in a newly reorganized facility. Please e-mail your resume and salary requirements to: mkobak@hbstudio.org. Mark Kobak, Production Manager, HB Studio, 120 Bank Street NY, NY 10014.
Production Manager (Sept. 15, 2014- Jan. 31, 2015, $4000 flat fee) - Reporting to and working closely with the Curator/Producer and Associate Producer, the Production Manager is responsible for coordinating the technical and production needs for festival productions and projects in American Realness, taking place at the Abrons Arts Center. American Realness is a festival of contemporary dance presented in January in NYC. The festival includes approximately fifteen productions in three theater spaces, three exhibitions in three gallery spaces and general coordination for festival pop-up caf+eacute; and bookshop. The Production Manager will report to the Associate Producer on production budget and purchasing. A strong lighting background and interest in contemporary dance is preferred. For more information and a more detailed job description, contact Natalie Robin americanrealness@gmail.com
Stage Managers, Kentuckey Stages 2014-15 Season (Bowling Green, KY; Pays: $401/wk. Equity SPT Tier 4 Contract) Seeking Equity Stage Managers for individual shows for Kentucky Stage(s)' 2014-15 season. Company states: "While we are seeking individual Stage Managers, we would also make strong consideration for a single person in residency for the whole season." Season includes: "A Streetcar Named Desire" (Stage Manager contract starts Aug. 25; runs Sept. 18-Oct. 5); "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" (Stage Manager contract starts Sept. 13; runs Nov. 6-23); "A Kentucky Christmas Carol" (Stage Manager contract starts Nov. 10; runs Dec. 4-21); "The Mystery of Irma Vep" (Stage Manager contract starts Feb. 16, 2015; runs Mar. 12-29); and "Floyd Collins" (Stage Manager contract starts Apr. 16; runs Apr. 30-May 17). Apply via Backstage.com: http://www.backstage.com/casting/kentucky-stages-2014-15-season-stage-managers-43166/
*Kentucky Foundation for Women Artist Enrichment Grant Program* – NO FEE
Provides opportunities for feminist artists and arts organizations to enhance their abilities and skills to create art for progressive social change in Kentucky. Grants range from $1,000 – $7,500 (typical award is between $3,000 – $5,000). Applicants may request funds for a range of activities including: artistic development, artist residencies, the exploration of new areas or techniques, or to build a body of work. Open to individual artists and nonprofit arts organizations. Applicants must have resided in Kentucky at least one year prior to application. See website for complete guidelines and application forms. Rae Strobel, Grant Program and Community Building Coordinator, The Kentucky Foundation for Women, 33http://www.sfperformingarts.org/temp-cat/adult-resident-company2 West Broadway, Suite 1215, Louisville, KY 40202, rae@kfw.org, http://www.kfw.org. Deadline: September 5, 2014
Guggenheim Fellowships – NO FEE
For advanced professionals in all fields, including the creative arts (in the field of performing arts, artists must perform their own original material to be eligible), to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions. Grants are to individuals only (but are not available to students) and have been averaging $43,200 for U.S./Canadian fellowships – amounts are adjusted to the needs of the fellows, considering their resources and the purpose and scope of their plans. Appointments ordinarily made for one year and always for at least six consecutive months. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 90 Park Ave., New York, NY 10016, fellowships@jsgmf.org; http://www.gf.org. Deadline: September 19, 2014
Cullman Fellowship - The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers supports projects that draw on the research collections at The New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (formerly the Humanities and Social Sciences Library). The Center looks for top-quality writing from academics as well as from creative writers and independent scholars. It aims to promote dynamic conversation about the humanities, social sciences, and scholarship at the very highest level — within the Center, in public forums throughout the Library, and in the Fellows’ published work. Fellows are required to work at the Cullman Center, on the project for which they applied, for the duration of the fellowship term. Fellows may have a few prior brief commitments, but must limit research trips, attendance at scholarly meetings, and speaking engagements, and may not accept other major work obligations during the course of this fellowship. Anyone who needs to be away for more than two days must notify the Director or Deputy Director in advance. The Library will pro-rate stipends for Fellows who spend too much time away from the Center. Notification: March 2015. Award Period: September 8, 2015 - May 27, 2016. Stipend: $70,000 Deadline: September 26, 2014, 5 p.m. EST
The Emily List Fund for Performing Arts Therapy – Supports theatre, dance, and music projects aimed at helping the sick and disadvantaged in the interest of making their lives better and brighter through the performing arts. Grants of up to $1,000 to fund instruments or equipment for a music therapist working in a hospital; scholarships for young people to attend theatre camp; travel expenses for a chorus or theatre group; space for a dancer working with disabled or elderly people; payment for an instructor teaching arts to patients; tickets for groups to attend theatre performances they otherwise could not… and any other proposal along those lines. Grants are focused in the Pioneer Valley and at Mass General Hospital. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis year-round. Download and complete application form (available on website) and submit by e-mail or postal mail. Emily List Fund for Performing Arts Therapy, Karen List, klist@journ.umass.edu. Visit http://emilylistfund.com/about.html for more details. Deadline: Rolling
Hawthornden Castle (Midlothian, Scotland) – International 1-month retreats for creative writers of all types from anywhere in the world to work without disturbance. Residency provides individual room/study in shared house and meals. Artist responsible for travel. Applicants must be published writers. Contact them for application instructions. NO FEE. Hawthornden Castle, Lasswade, Midlothian, EH18 1EG Scotland, United Kingdom, T: +44 131 4402180, FAX: +44 131 440 1989, http://www.transartists.org/air/hawthornden-castle. Deadline: Ongoing
Recology Artist in Residence Program (2015, San Francisco Bay Area, CA) – Provides local artists working in all media the opportunity to create art using materials they gather from San Francisco’s refuse. Four-month residency includes 24-hour access to a 2,000-sq. ft. art studio, a monthly stipend, and an exhibit at the end of each residency. Open to professional artists who reside within one hour’s drive of San Francisco; students ineligible. Prior to applying, artists must take a tour of the recycling facilities, art studio, and sculpture garden (tours held on the third Saturday of each month at 10am). To reserve a spot and for more information, call Micah Gibson (number below). See website for complete guidelines and application instructions. NO FEE. AIR Program, Recology San Francisco, 501 Tunnel Ave., San Francisco, CA 94134, Contact: Micah Gibson, T: (415) 330-1414, mgibson@recology.com,
http://sunsetscavenger.com/AIR/apply.htm. Deadline: September 1, 2014
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency (January-June, 2015, Nebraska City, NE) – Two, four, six, or eight-week residencies between July and December for visual artists, writers, composers, interdisciplinary artists, and arts and arts education scholars. Some “transitional” residencies reserved for recent masters degree program graduates. Residents receive free housing and a studio as well as a $100 per week stipend. FEE: $35. See website for application form and requirements. Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, 801 3rd Corso, Nebraska City, NE 68410, T: 402-874-9600, info@khncenterforthearts.org,http://www.khncenterforthearts.org. Deadline: September 1, 2014
MacDowell Colony (Up to eight weeks between February 1 – May 31, 2015, Peterborough, New Hampshire) – Residencies of up to eight weeks (average stay is five weeks) providing artists with time and space to create lasting works of the imagination. Artists in the disciplines of Architecture, Film/Video Arts, Interdisciplinary Arts, Literature, Music Composition, Theatre, and Visual Arts encouraged to apply. Artists collaborating on a project must submit individual application forms and appropriate work samples, but may submit a joint description of the work they intend to do at the Colony. In addition, you may submit an example of a collaborative work (either completed or a work in progress); specify workspace needs (i.e. separate studios). Submit application form (available on website), work sample, project description, and two references. Note: No e-mail applications. FEE: $30. The Admissions Coordinator, The MacDowell Colony, 100 High St., Peterborough, NH 03458, T: (603) 924-3886, admissions@macdowellcolony.org, www.macdowellcolony.org/apply.html. Receipt Deadline: September 15, 2014
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (February-May, 2015, Amherst, VA) – Residencies for playwrights, screenwriters, performance artists, and video artists. Average stay is 4 weeks. Residents receive housing, all meals, and studios. Residents responsible for travel, materials, suggested contribution ($30 per day), and deposit ($50). Occasional full funding available. See website for application. FEE: $30. Virginia Center for the Arts, 154, San Angelo Dr., Amherst, VA 24521, T: (434) 946-7236, FAX: (434) 946-7239, vcca@vcca.com, www.vcca.com. Deadline: September 15, 2014
Jentel Artist Residency (January 15 – May 13, 2015, Banner, WY) – Residencies of an average of one month for visual artists and writers, including playwrights and screenwriters, who are 25 and older and live in the U.S. (citizenship not required). Organization provides housing, studio facilities, and a $400 stipend toward the cost of food and travel. Artists are responsible for travel, materials, and deposit ($100). Outreach opportunities are available, though not required. FEE: $20. Jentel Artist Residency, 130 Lower Piney Creek Rd., Banner, WY 82832, T: (307) 737-2311, FAX: (307) 737-2305, jentel@jentelarts.org, www.jentelarts.org. Deadline: September 15, 2014
The Millay Colony for the Arts (April-November, 2014, Austerlitz, NY) – Residencies of an average of 1 month for visual artists, composers, and writers (including playwrights and screenwriters). Residency provides housing, food, and studio. Artist responsible for travel and materials. Application available online. FEE: $35. Calliope Nicholas, Residency Director, Millay Colony for the Arts, 454 East Hill Rd., PO Box 3, Austerlitz, NY 12017, T: (518) 392-3103, FAX: (518) 392-4144, apply@millaycolony.org, www.millaycolony.org. Deadline: October 1, 2014
Vermont Studio Center (year-round, Johnson, VT) – 2-12 week residencies for writers (including screenwriters and playwrights) and visual artists (excluding filmmakers). Organization provides housing, meals, and studios. Resident responsible for residency fee ($3,500 per month) and travel. Full and partial fellowships, as well as work-exchange fellowships, are available to offset residency costs; some fellowships include travel reimbursement and materials stipend. See website for application and information about fellowships. FEE: $25. Vermont Studio Center, PO Box 613, Johnson, VT 05656, T: (802) 635-2727, FAX: (802) 635-2730, info@vermontstudiocenter.org, www.vermontstudiocenter.org.Receipt Deadline: October 1, 2014
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Garmin Vivosmart 4: £119.99, Garmin
With its giant range of sports watches and fitness trackers, Garmin has smashed it out of the park over the past few years and this latest slim line update to the Vivosmart is no exception.
In terms of design, it’s not a million miles away from the Fitbit Alta HR, with a basic but subtle style that’s lightweight and comfortable enough to be worn 24/7. Like the Alta HR, it also lacks built-in GPS, which might be a deal-breaker for some.
The Vivosmart 4’s bright screen automatically adjusts to the light, so it’s readable in all conditions, though at 6.6 mm x 17.7 mm, the amount of useful data you can see on your wrist is a bit limited. That’s a shame, because the range of fitness stats it collects is impressive.
In addition to the usual daily activity tracking, there’s also a built-in optical heart rate for keeping tabs on your BPM day and night, and a Pulse Ox sensor that estimates blood oxygen saturation, to add a layer of detail to your sleep tracking. You get VO2 Max as a guide to your fitness levels and a new Body Battery feature that assesses your energy levels to help you identify when you’re primed to be active or when you need to hit the sofa.
If you’re a regular in the weights section at the gym, you’ll also enjoy automatic reps, sets and rest counting, though it’s not always 100 per cent accurate. Those in search of calm can also monitor their mood with all-day stress tracking.
All your data is synced wirelessly and automatically to the hugely capable, but sometimes complicated, Garmin Connect app.
Unlike its closest rival the Fitbit Alta HR, the Vivosmart is waterproof to 5ATM, meaning you can take it for a dip in the pool. You also get an Alta-matching seven days battery life between charges.
Fitbit Alta HR: £119.99, John Lewis
The Fitbit Alta HR is an old-school fitness band with an updated sense of style and sophistication. The simple, slim line design – with five colour combinations – makes this a great choice for anyone who wants a comfortable and understated way to track their fitness. The addition of a built-in heart rate monitor also means it’s a far more serious fitness tool than its predecessor the Fitbit Alta.
The heart rate sensor provides heart rate zone training, more accurate calorie burn stats and resting heart rate tracking. Fitbit using the latter generates a Cardio Fitness Score so you can monitor your fitness progress.
Other neat features we loved included automatic workout recognition that spots when you start a session and what activity you’re up to, whether that’s walking, running or cycling. Swimmers are in luck, too, as this device is sweat, rain and water resistant, rather than just waterproof.
Fitbit’s sleep tracking has always been solid and the Alta HR doesn’t disappoint with automatic sleep tracking that splits your nightly zeds into stages. During the day, handy move reminders urge you to reach hourly step targets, plus you get all of your text, calls and calendars alerts, though these aren’t the easiest to read on the screen.
There’s a nicely competitive seven-day battery life, so you don’t have to charge it too frequently. All your stats sync wirelessly and automatically to the Fitbit app, which is also one of the best for ease of use, presentation and community, if sharing and competing floats your motivational boat.
Fitbit Versa: £159, Amazon
The Versa is the second fitness-focussed smartwatch in the Fitbit range and sports a much more pleasing Apple Watch-esque design than the square-faced, angular Ionic that came before. It’s also incredibly light, with a bright 1.34-inch colour display that’s crisp and easy to read.
Appearances are a little deceiving, however, as the Versa isn’t quite Apple Watch quality. That said, Fitbit has taken care with the Versa styling, including the ability to personalise it with interchangeable straps and customisable watch faces.
As with the Alta HR, there’s built in heart rate tracking on the wrist for deeper fitness insights across 15 sports modes. Sleep tracking is automatic and uses the heart rate monitor to accurately break your nightly rest into sleep stages, plus you get those useful hourly move reminders too.
Where the Versa starts to stand out is with health tracking features specifically for women that enables users to log periods, track your menstrual cycle and gauge ovulation.
Unlike the Apple Watch and other dedicated sports watches like the Polar Vantage M or the Garmin Forerunner 235, there’s no built-in GPS, so if you want to track runs and rides you’ll need your phone in tow. It is waterproof to 50m, however, and tracks swimming along with yoga.
The Versa also includes a free, three-session taster of Fitbit Coach, a premium service that offers personalised guided workouts and coaching plans to help you hit your goals.
Beyond fitness, the Versa’s smarts extend to call, text and app alerts from your paired smartphone and there’s also Fitbit Pay contactless payments. You can download third party apps, with Strava and Starbucks pre-loaded – just don’t expect a huge choice. It also comes with storage and wireless playback for 300 songs, though this feels a bit redundant when you’re running or cycling as you still need to carry your phone.
Battery life stretches to a healthy four days, making this is a solid, wallet-friendly alternative for Android users who want a smartwatch, but can’t use the Apple Watch.
Apple Watch 4: £399.99, Apple
It seems a little unfair to compare Apple’s flagship timepiece with the more traditional fitness trackers but if you’re considering the smartwatch end of the spectrum – and you’ve got the bank balance to back it up – the latest generation of the Apple Watch is unrivalled.
It’s undoubtedly the best looking device on this list with a clear, crisp colour touchscreen that’s now virtually edge-to-edge. The well-stocked app store is teeming with third party fitness tools for almost every activity, from mindfulness to Hiit training, and Apple’s own Workout and Activity apps continue to improve.
The addictive Apple Activity rings – that track your movement, how often you stand and your minutes of exercise each day – now come with a feature that lets you challenge your friends. While Apple’s Workout app offers neat sport-specific touches like automatic stroke detection for swimming, new metrics for running, such as rolling mile pace, and single tap transitions to make it easier for triathletes to track sessions that move between the water, two wheels and the road.
It’s serious health monitoring credentials have been boosted with the introduction of an Electrocardiogram, or EKG, sensor that takes reliable heart rate readings that can help spot potentially life-threatening heart anomalies.
Beyond fitness, its smart skills are also second to none, particularly if you opt for the cellular 4G version that enables a multitude of phone-free services, including calls, music streaming and contactless payments.
One complaint about this device used to be battery life, but you’ll now get at least 18 hours on a single charge depending on which of the Watch’s features you use.
Xiaomi Mi Band 3: £24.99, AppliancesDirect
The Xiaomi Mi Band series is all about delivering fitness tracking to those on tighter budgets. As such, it’s not the most robust and reliable fitness tracker, but if you’re looking for an activity band that does some of the basics well for under £50, this is it.
At just 20g, the third generation Mi Band is nice and lightweight, despite boasting a bigger curved OLED touchscreen display than its predecessor. Despite this upgrade, however, it can still be quite hard to read your stats in brighter daylight conditions and, like the Vivosmart, there’s not a huge amount of space for your data to be displayed.
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NBC Exec Behind Hillary Series Put ‘Historically Questionable’ anti-Reagan Film On Air in 2003
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By John Fund
Yesterday, CNN announced it was joining the parade of film projects on Hillary Clinton in the run-up to her likely campaign for president in 2016. It will produce a feature-length documentary, directed by liberal filmmaker Charles Ferguson, for release in theaters and then later show it on the network.
It joins two other projects on Hillary that have been announced recently: a theatrical film called Rodham about Hillary’s days as a young lawyer on the Nixon House impeachment committee and a four-hour mini-series on Hillary starring Diane Lane that will appear on NBC. Politico reported that the sudden pile-on to produce Hillary projects even prompted a source close to Clinton to accuse CNN of focusing on Hillary to simply turn a fast buck. “I don’t know if I’m appalled or impressed,” the source told Politico. “Either way, they have some explaining to do on how they’re going to manage the conflict between news standards and the profit imperative. I’m not sure they know.”
Many people aren’t sure if the makers of the Hillary projects know the many minefields they will have to cross.
What caught my eye when NBC announced its mini-series last Saturday was that it would only be covering Hillary’s life from the Monica Lewinsky scandal in 1998 onwards. So Lane, who is eye-stoppingly beautiful at 48 years old, will only be portraying Hillary from the age of 50 to her current age of 66 and later. It didn’t make any sense till I realized that airbrushing the first half-century of the former First Lady’s life away meant the pro-Hillary filmmakers wouldn’t have to deal with the messy collection of scandals she was involved in during her husband’s first term, from Whitewater to Travelgate to FBI Filegate to controversies over what a federal judge called a “cover-up” of her health-care task force’s records.
Bob Greenblatt, the head of NBC Entertainment, is promising his mini-series will be “even-handed” in covering Hillary, telling reporters: “I don’t think she will endorse it.”
But he certainly doesn’t want to talk more about how he will ensure that. He didn’t respond to my request for an interview, just as he declined to talk with me back in 2003 when he was director of entertainment at Showtime, the pay cable network.
Back then, the controversy I wanted to talk with him about was his decision to have Showtime air The Reagans, a TV movie on Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s life originally bought by CBS. The New York Timesobtained a copy of the script and pointed out several scenes the Times called “historically questionable.” Ronald Reagan was depicted more or less acknowledging he was an informer for the Hollywood blacklist during the McCarthy era. Another showed Nancy Reagan begging her husband to help AIDS patients only to be told, “They that live in sin shall die in sin.” Lou Cannon, Reagan’s most prolific biographer and no right-winger, scoffed at the film saying the blacklisting charge was “really wrong” and that “Reagan was not intolerant.”
The backlash promoted Barbra Streisand — whose husband, James Brolin, played Reagan in the film — to claim the ensuing controversy had been whipped up by the Drudge Report and Republicans who couldn’t stomach the exposure of “the more unpleasant truths about his character and presidency.”
But CBS couldn’t defend the film against charges it was pure, nasty fiction. CBS president Les Moonves maintained the rough cut he saw wasn’t the version the network had promised viewers. “We thought it had a very specific point of view that we thought was contrary to what we planned to air.” He told Daily Variety that his decision not to use it “was a moral decision, not an economic or a political one.” He dumped the film in the lap of CBS-owned Showtime, where Greenblatt agreed to air it.
Greenblatt held firm against requests he edit the “historically questionable” parts of the film, whose plot line can be summarized as “President Fuddy Duddy Dominated by Mommie Dearest.” His one concession was to take out the mean-spirited AIDS line attributed to Reagan. “That is the one political give that we agreed to,” Greenblatt told the Boston Globe. He also arranged for a panel discussion to follow the film that featured both Lou Cannon and AIDS activist Hilary Rosen.
The Reagans garnered mediocre ratings, failing to break the top 40 cable shows the week it aired. But at least at 180 minutes it covered all of Reagan’s life from young actor to his dotage. At the same 180 minutes, NBC’s mini-series on Hillary will cover just 15 years of her tumultuous life.
I have no doubt that NBC’s Hillary epic will do far better than The Reagans. Let’s just hope that Greenblatt sticks to his commitment that the film will be “even-handed.” The last time he green-lighted a film on a controversial political subject he fell well short of that mark.
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I could not WAIT to make this list, considering I’ve always been on a little bit of a “hermit hero” kick. 2019 and 2020 List of All Bhojpuri movie Actors With Photo List of All Bhojpuri Male/Female Singers List of Top 10 Best Bhojpuri movie Actress List of Top 10 Best Bhojpuri movie Actors List of Top 10 Best Bhojpuri movies of All Times Bhojpuri Movies Box Hero pandey king 1 April 2019 at 00:34. Thank you so much for your hard work and I can’t wait to see more of each one of you. Like a splendid hero. Armed Robbery Heroine 3. Sworn to the cause of Caliana, an ancient heroine, they tend to roam the lands in packs. Via Latin herōīna from late Ancient Greek ἡρωΐνη (hērōḯnē) (2nd century), a feminine equivalent of ἥρως (hḗrōs, "hero, demigod"), equivalent to hero + -ine. Faith and Jeff discuss the recently canceled television series "Last Man on Earth" after they attended a special screening of the show along with a panel Q&A with the show's cast (Will Forte, Kristen Schaal, Mary Steenburgen, Mel Rodriguez) and writers (Rich Blomquist and John Solomon). a woman who, in the opinion of others, has special achievements, abilities, or personal qualities and is regarded as a role model or ideal: Name two women who have been heroines in your life. The hero dragging his feet with his ex and the heroine's tendency to brush everyone off frustrated me. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2011 CD release of Hero & Heroine In Ascencia on Discogs. But the release of Avengers: Infinity War provides the most extreme example of just how far the Marvel Cinematic Universe has come in the past 10. Because there are many serials where the lead female develops crush on second leads first which might mean second leads win them at first(eg. This book is a keeper for me. Band: Boys Like Girls Song: Hero/Heroine WITH LYRICS i do not claim to down anything to do with boys like girls and or their producers or record labels. The 76 best things to do in Baltimore this fall. Последние твиты от Heroine Universe (@HeroineUniverse). I could not WAIT to make this list, considering I’ve always been on a little bit of a “hermit hero” kick. She has requests for her help in ground water contamination complaints in every state of the US, Australia and other international hot spots. Miss Lucy Simian is the secondary antagonist-turned-anti-villain of the animated series The Amazing World of Gumball. Insider TV. And they'll do it, thus earning their happy ending. cd 982 xat-1245497583 bird of ill omen. Her ambition led her into the hellish world of Crimean warfare and, as a result, on a journey that would transform nursing and hospitals in Britain. Armed Robbery Heroine 3. Gather a collection of exclusive talents and create an army of unbeatable heroes. The heroine was a dancer. au Videos and Breaking News and Featured Entertainment Videos online at. "All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged after all, what's good enough for Jane Austen ought to be good. They took parts, not even the best parts just parts, and left the rest in the trash. 4,114 likes · 17 talking about this · 51 were here. I was the hero, not heroine, hero. I must post this review in protest. After he’s injured, it only gets worse and maybe it’s time for him to hang up the hero mask. The idea of a loop, but on the wrong date. Click to listen to Avril Lavigne on Spotify: http://smarturl. Via Latin herōīna from late Ancient Greek ἡρωΐνη (hērōḯnē) (2nd century), a feminine equivalent of ἥρως (hḗrōs, "hero, demigod"), equivalent to hero + -ine. It was not that she could not say "I have done no wickedness;" let us place this heroine in no false light. So JK confronts Tae but he denies everything, that's when their friendship takes a turn for the worst. Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/17/2013 Tonight’s news feed is unusually fat, due to the inclusion of last night’s items, which were never used because of the Blogger outage. She had a lumpectomy with adjacent lymph node sampling in February of 1996. A unique universe combines fierce session battles with the development of your own castle. The terms "hero" and "protagonist" have become nearly interchangeable. I loved movies growing up but hated the way women were always portrayed as weak and needing a man to be strong or whole, bull* (i say as I cough into my hand). Parents need to know that Insurgent-- the second installment in a dystopian trilogy that began with the best-selling Divergent-- follows a brave young heroine and her equally fierce, devoted boyfriend. The modern-day reimagining of Sherlock Holmes attracted a large and adoring online fandom, composed in part by three groups—women, LGBQT people, and. These are the best Hong Kong movies ever. This should. In honor of my upcoming First 50 Pages Workshop, here's an excerpt to help you hone your hero/heroine The Key Ingredient in Your First 50 Pages The key ingredients that you must include in those first 50 pages to wow even your toughest readers isa hero/heroine readers care about, can relate/attach to, and can root for through thick and thin. The building where she became one of a few girls in her village to attend school is a mound of papers and dust. Deviant King is book one of Royal Elite Series. Heroes—in myth, literature, and real life—take journeys, confront Having taken the Soul Journey, the client (Hero) returns to the community to share her gifts and enter a What's Good and What's Bad About Narcissism? Opportunity or Dysfunction?. Middle-Aged Heroine Worst Smell Hell. If the wing tips are getting too brown, cover them up with foil. ) Best New Fall TV Shows. The Heroine by Unwoman, released 16 August 2012 The city is war-torn And nearly impassable I act the lovelorn Dramatically laughable You said you'd come see me Here underground Now it's closing I play the heroine I play to their sympathies I say the sweetest things To command their empathy. Remember, better safe in the crate, than injured or dead. 9GAG is your best source of FUN! Explore 9GAG for the most popular memes, breaking stories, awesome GIFs, and viral videos on the internet!. That night, Rapunzel performs her incantation on Eugene's injured hand, healing it, and making Eugene babble maniacally. Not to be confused with heroin, as it's common for stupid people to tack an "e" on the end when 'I decided to relieve my pain with Heroine for a walloping 3 whole weeks' - Kurt Cobain's Journals. Original lyrics of Hero / Heroine song by Boys Like Girls. I won't try to philosophize I'll just take a deep breath and I'll look in your eyes This is how I feel And it's so surreal I got a closet filled up to the brim With the ghosts of my past and their skeletons And I don't know why. The way the Mayor keeps signing up people to be city Marshal, perhaps echoes the military recruiting found in other Arthur Lubin films. Sworn to the cause of Caliana, an ancient heroine, they tend to roam the lands in packs. Remember, better safe in the crate, than injured or dead. A Thomson World War II veteran was honored last week in Washington. She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers and writes from her family farm in central Illinois where she resides with her husband of twenty-five years and two college-aged sons. Aeneas is the epic hero in the Roman epic The Aeneid--in which he embodies the pietas, patriotism, and the four cardinal virtues the Romans admired. Heroin is an addictive narcotic derived from morphine. Motley Crue + Netflix Sued by Injured 'The Dirt' Crew Member. To create powerful suspense, make your hero face her greatest fear – and risk losing the thing that matters most to her. It has betrayal, sacrifice, romance, sweet sensuality, angst,turmoil, survival, redemption and learning to live again. And she was a hero to girls like me. Like its predecessor, the new novel features a very villainous villain and an almost saintly best friend who commits an act of enormous self-sacrifice to aid the hero/heroine. Best Seller. Her Forbidden Hero finds Alyssa having fallen long ago for her older brother's best friend, Marco. Giant Heroine Sigma Lady. Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin. Sridevi also featured in the Mid Day list of 'Challenging Roles played by Bollywood Actors' describing her act in the film as "her best performance ever". Susanna Dickinson was only 21 and the mother of a baby daughter when she sought shelter inside the walls of the. Rodents and bugs scurried past them. These girl names were at the peak of their popularity during 1920-1929 (USAGE OF 8. Best Love was consistent, for me, with its humor and angst and metaphor usage. Unfortunately, the original was clearly intended for men and not women. On May 23, 1983 Governor Michael J. Keeping busy is a habit he can’t quit, but when Jamie—so wild and beautiful—bursts into his life, working himself into the ground starts to become less appealing. the badly injured agent receives help from an. The sub-characters and plot were really entertaining but the hero's bullying and the heroines lack of spine drove me nuts. Best Seller. Two years in the making, HBO Max is being designed to go head to head with Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and. The winner of France's prestigious Prix de Flore, "Report on Myself" is a study in raw angst and mortifying self-disclosure: a portrait of the artist as a lover who just can't catch a break. Inspiring Inmates 6. With the heroin problem came yet another "non-addictive" substitute—the drug now known as methadone. The extended figurative sense of the term, and the only one commonly heard today, has been in use since at least 1948. Heroines in shōnen manga tend to be nice girls, sometimes with combat abilities, who usually end up falling in love with the hero. NONFICTION. Every DC Extended Universe Movie Ranked from Worst to Best - Slant. If you have a vehicle you wish to donate, visit the link below or call (866) 203-1686. Kansas City tied up the game and I went to bed so I could write this blog in the morning and good thing - the game remained tied until the 12th inning where the Royals scored the winning hit at the bottom of the inning, far. Yahoo Sports. Thank you so much for your hard work and I can’t wait to see more of each one of you. This is a dark high school bully romance, mature new adult, and contains dubious situations that some readers might find offensive. Heroines save their heroes in the best new romance novels ‘Lady Hallion’ (Joanna Shupe/Joanna Shupe) tall, handsome hero riding in on white horse to save the heroine. An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works. Visitez le nouveau site web de Salut Bonjour! pour découvrir une panoplie de contenus intéressants qui touchent la cuisine, les sorties, la santé, les voyages, la mode, la décoration et plusieurs autres domaines. Translated by Hillel Halkin. People get hurt because the hero and heroine are both terrible characters. From time to time the krougs strike back, descending upon the Crystalline Palace in droves. Victoria Dahl, Taking the Heat It would hardly feel like a best of RNFF list without a book by Victoria Dahl. Hero/Heroine is found on the album Boys Like Girls. The film and corresponding materials provide tools, resources and above all, hope. As the first of five. Texans will get another bad taste of life without J. Heroin overdose can come on quickly and be fatal if not quickly addressed. a woman who, in the opinion of others, has special achievements, abilities, or personal qualities and is regarded as a role model or ideal: Name two women who have been heroines in your life. As nouns the difference between hero and heroine is that hero is a real or mythical person of great bravery who carries out extraordinary deeds while heroine is a female hero. The mission of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is to end drunk driving, help fight drugged driving, support the victims of these violent crimes, and prevent underage drinking. Attenberg, it depresses me to no end that the gritty, credible, less kissed-by-God heroine of your book the single woman at her best. The injured marshals are treated in beds set up in a hotel lobby (at the film's end). At the urging of a family friend, Secretary of War Sidney Herbert, Nightingale volunteered to take a group of female nurses to Turkey. Somehow, Yamato likes Mei and one day, Yamato saves Mei from a stalker by kissing her. The journal publishes scholarly research articles in economics by Illinois Wesleyan University undergraduates. cd us 1280 1006863309 birds in row. Director: Madhur Bhandarkar. It was not that she could not say "I have done no wickedness;" let us place this heroine in no false light. This is a complete book, not a cliff-hanger. The Heroic Life: Awakening the Hero/Heroine. Most likely will focus on Wally a lot of the time :) Also will have the best of the Young Justice/Teen Titans Crossovers. This year's entry features a unconventional (at least for Dahl) heroine, one distinctly lacking in self-confidence, in spite of her new job as a tell-it-like-it-is sex columnist. The National Vital Statistics System is the oldest and most successful example of inter-governmental data sharing in Public Health and the shared relationships, standards, and procedures form the mechanism by which NCHS collects and disseminates the Nation’s official vital statistics. Their home is a palace on top of Mount Kyrus, and you will often find them in the foothills, organizing raiding parties against their main enemies - the krougs. Click to see the original lyrics. [Verse 1] It's too late baby, there's no turning around I got my hands in my pocket and my head in a cloud This is how I do [Chorus] You caught me off guard Now I'm running and screaming I feel like a hero and you are my heroine Do you know that your love is the sweetest sin?. This provides plenty of angst, but doesn't fit the heroine's persona and becomes annoying after a while. 10 Best Historical Romance Novels. Currently I am very engaged in working for the "bremer shakespeare company", doing my best to help them establishing a German section of the "International Shakespeare Globe Centre", which is supposed to keep contact with the Globe Theatre in London and thus bringing together two sides of the same coin, namely "performance" and "literary theory". View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2011 CD release of Hero & Heroine In Ascencia on Discogs. Ann Hornaday. I had to stop the sun from crashing into the earth in a certain amount of time, and I had to “battle” it with the Pokemon I had. I was the hero, not heroine, hero. His Peter is less anxious, more awkward and equally as sweet as the last two. He may only r*pe one girl, but he does it repeatedly, and everyone around him not only condones this, but plays along with the lunacy. Although heroine is traditionally the feminine equivalent of hero , hero is now a gender-neutral term for a person who acts with extraordinary courage. Some Differences Between Hero and Heroine Journeys. To bail her out of a tough fix, he’s persuaded to step in as her groom, and both find themselves acting the part of the loving newlywed couple to deflect suspicion. Victoria Dahl, Taking the Heat It would hardly feel like a best of RNFF list without a book by Victoria Dahl. Books shelved as hero-hears-or-sees-heroine-injured: Pleasure of a Dark Prince by Kresley Cole, Highland Wishes by Leanne Burroughs, The Reluctant Reform. au Videos and Breaking News and Featured Entertainment Videos online at. He has grown detached to his surroundings and has never shown interest in girls. Miss Lucy Simian is the secondary antagonist-turned-anti-villain of the animated series The Amazing World of Gumball. With Allu Arjun, Anu Emmanuel, Elli Avrram, Joy Badlani. Everything revolves around the worst romantic leads I have ever had the misfortune of coming across. A short tempered soldier aspiring to serve at the borders is tasked with getting clearance signature from his estranged father, a professor, who in turn challenges him to give up anger. Aiden isn’t the normal romance hero. Disaster Names Names that mean accident, blizzard, cataclysm, destruction, disaster, Celtic legend name of a tragic heroine who committed ill-fated. Displaying 100000 results out of 737142. Ashes hero Ben Stokes says his 'brilliant' wife is his secret weapon after big win. There are related clues (shown below. a woman who, in the opinion of others, has special achievements, abilities, or personal qualities and is regarded as a role model or ideal: Name two women who have been heroines in your life. Supergirl is the biggest female superhero on television and here's a few of the DC Comics heroine's best moments. Like its predecessor, the new novel features a very villainous villain and an almost saintly best friend who commits an act of enormous self-sacrifice to aid the hero/heroine. Starring: Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Randeep Hooda, Shahana For a country obsessed with films and film stars, Heroine will take audiences on a voyeuristic journey to see what really goes on behind the closed. Rodents and bugs scurried past them. Many of my favorite books and movies proved, again and again, that relationships were "best" (read: the most entertaining) when men wouldn't take "no" for an answer, when men became "obsessed" with women, when men accused women of "torturing" them by not returning their love. Keep your life in balance with daily tips and advice on the best that life has to offer. Chatham Daily News - a place for remembering loved ones; a space for sharing memories, life stories, milestones, to express condolences, and celebrate life of your loved ones. Giant Heroine Sigma Lady. The scale is set to also work well for turn-based games (tactics, rogue-likes). In fact, the audience is really the main character in many of these films. The mission of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is to end drunk driving, help fight drugged driving, support the victims of these violent crimes, and prevent underage drinking. The injured marshals are treated in beds set up in a hotel lobby (at the film's end). Heroine (주인공). But as Majili plays out, you sympathise with the protagonist, feel his angst and relate to his pain. It is just a glimpse, but there is surviving footage of Borzage. The ultimate news source for music, celebrity, entertainment, movies, and current events on the web. With the help of two of Lucy's suitors, a brilliant old professor, and a new-found incentive to protect Mina, Jonathon sets off back to Transylvania to destroy the monster. Aiden isn’t the normal romance hero. a woman noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: Esther and other biblical heroines. At the International Association of Chiefs of Police annual conference, Director Christopher Wray discussed how the FBI’s commitment to work collaboratively with its law enforcement partners is. Something in Okinawa reeks, and it isn't long before Kaori and her friends realize that the smell is coming from dead fish, which are walking out of the sea. The TV series Screen Directors Playhouse featured both Frank Borzage and Allan Dwan, among many other. The term was originally applied to a serial film in which each episode ended with the hero or heroine left in a perilous plight, such as hanging from a cliff, so that the viewers anxiously awaited the next installment. "All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged after all, what's good enough for Jane Austen ought to be good. May cause a villain or bystander to express Sympathy for the Hero. He’s there to show the OMGEVIL of the person who cut his tongue out. Reuniting with Martina Topley-Bird on single, “When We Die. Cases in order: 1. Watch Heroine 2012 Full Hindi Movie Free Online. Times is a leading source of breaking news, entertainment, sports, politics, and more for Southern California and the world. View more News. Yahoo Sports. (Heroin Hero is originally from South Park). The Park Place Economist is one of just a handful of undergraduate journals of economics in the world. Watch the Latest News. Unsavory Heroes October 14, 2011 By Lou 8 Comments I recently read a book where the hero at times was a loathsome cruel bastard that treated the heroine in such an appalling way. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Whip Wilson was born Roland Charles Meyers on June 16, 1911, in Granite, Illinois. Two news services stated this was. Clue: Verdi opera. A teenage girl is either a victim or a false accuser in this dark-humored novel of psychoanalysis and prep school angst. To enlarge or reduce text or photo size, please use "ctrl+" or "ctrl-". The heroine is an actress, moving in the same theatrical world as the hero; both seem equally refined. Report: Adidas working on buyout of $25 million John Wall deal amid injuries. Six years ago: Heroine has always been in love with her brother’s best friend. 4,114 likes · 17 talking about this · 51 were here. Marco, a tortured war hero who's changed from when Alyssa knew him. Yesterday a group of Al Qaeda terrorists assaulted a natural gas plant in Algeria and killed two foreigners while taking 41 other hostage. If you have a vehicle you wish to donate, visit the link below or call (866) 203-1686. Heroin Hero TurflamicGaming420. This echoes the scenes in other Lubin, where travelers camp out in lobbies of otherwise full hotels. Brantford Expositor - a place for remembering loved ones; a space for sharing memories, life stories, milestones, to express condolences, and celebrate life of your loved ones. Once, Midoriya Izuku wanted nothing more than to be a hero, but heartbreak, time, and his idol's betrayal have changed that. Faith and Jeff discuss the recently canceled television series "Last Man on Earth" after they attended a special screening of the show along with a panel Q&A with the show's cast (Will Forte, Kristen Schaal, Mary Steenburgen, Mel Rodriguez) and writers (Rich Blomquist and John Solomon). Loading Unsubscribe from TurflamicGaming420? Trailer Park Boys - The Best of Ray - Duration: 8:36. The term was originally applied to a serial film in which each episode ended with the hero or heroine left in a perilous plight, such as hanging from a cliff, so that the viewers anxiously awaited the next installment. Director: Madhur Bhandarkar. As ridiculous as the devilishly handsome Kylo Ren can be with his lightsaber tantrums, creepy threats, and overall bratty behavior, his kinks are nowhere near as insulting as the aforementioned “hero” of those fanfiction-turned-best-selling novels. He is the grandfather of Drayton, Chop Top, Nubbins, and Leatherface. Loading Unsubscribe from Brando2600? Cancel Unsubscribe. EMAIL: casey_fairfax[at]yahoo[dot]com. These data. cd 1000 1006863307 birds in row. cd 982 xat-1245497583 bird of ill omen. Reuniting with Martina Topley-Bird on single, “When We Die. WarnerMedia will charge $14. Included are players in professional and college football who have died of any cause, natural or unnatural, without regard to whether their deaths were related to football. A WOMAN IN JERUSALEM. Even water needed to be rationed. The journal publishes scholarly research articles in economics by Illinois Wesleyan University undergraduates. In this thread on heroes so far, I called Hercules the brute and primal archetype of a hero and Theseus the more sophisticated classical archetype. Stories where Harry is hurt, sick, or messed up in some way. After he’s injured, it only gets worse and maybe it’s time for him to hang up the hero mask. Hopefully the winner of the Shonen Jump heroine audition will fare better than poor Ochako; the application deadline was August 26. The term was originally applied to a serial film in which each episode ended with the hero or heroine left in a perilous plight, such as hanging from a cliff, so that the viewers anxiously awaited the next installment. Once, Midoriya Izuku wanted nothing more than to be a hero, but heartbreak, time, and his idol's betrayal have changed that. The ultimate news source for music, celebrity, entertainment, movies, and current events on the web. The Heroic Life: Awakening the Hero/Heroine. The male lead is a rapist. After a lot of angst, Kirk Cousins wins NFC Offensive Player of the Month. Angst definition is - a feeling of anxiety, apprehension, or insecurity. The villain reincarnates, tries his best with domestic affairs, research cheats, and captures the heroines. In honor of my upcoming First 50 Pages Workshop, here's an excerpt to help you hone your hero/heroine The Key Ingredient in Your First 50 Pages The key ingredients that you must include in those first 50 pages to wow even your toughest readers isa hero/heroine readers care about, can relate/attach to, and can root for through thick and thin. Learn more. com with free online thesaurus, antonyms, and definitions. She is smart, courageous and spirited enough to stand up for herself. A large cast of colorful and well-developed characters round out Vega's world, which is richly imagined and vividly realized. Giant Heroine Sigma Lady. Hatori also believed that one day she would get married to her childhood friend, Rita. The legend of the saintly nurse has long obscured the truth – that her mathematical genius was what really saved so many lives. Canton Massachusetts Historical Society. For simplicity I refer to ‘the character’ or ‘the hero’, though many stories will have a number of viewpoint characters and more than one hero or heroine. AFP is a global news agency delivering fast, accurate, in-depth coverage of the events shaping our world from conflicts to politics, economics, sports, entertainment and the latest breakthroughs. Currently I am very engaged in working for the "bremer shakespeare company", doing my best to help them establishing a German section of the "International Shakespeare Globe Centre", which is supposed to keep contact with the Globe Theatre in London and thus bringing together two sides of the same coin, namely "performance" and "literary theory". NONFICTION. The Heroic Life: Awakening the Hero/Heroine. When I read the blurb for this, it sounded like there would be some angst with a deeply troubled hero who needed rescuing by a loving woman, and I guess that was what Linden was going for, but, unfortunately, the hero Sebastian didn't come across so much tortured and brooding as sulky and defeatist. Hero with Bad Publicity - TV Tropes. a woman who is admired for having done something very brave or having achieved something great…. His Peter is less anxious, more awkward and equally as sweet as the last two. The incantation makes its final appearance when Rapunzel tries to convince Eugene to let her heal his stabbing injury from Mother Gothel but is astonished when Eugene cuts off nearly all of Rapunzel's 70ft long hair. Reuniting with Martina Topley-Bird on single, “When We Die. But as Majili plays out, you sympathise with the protagonist, feel his angst and relate to his pain. It is just a glimpse, but there is surviving footage of Borzage. Angst screens in schools, communities and theaters around the world. Their home is a palace on top of Mount Kyrus, and you will often find them in the foothills, organizing raiding parties against their main enemies - the krougs. A dog with separation anxiety will chew anything and everything, eat plants or at least drag them through the house, mark territory, and otherwise engage in behavior that could seriously injure him and damage your house. Busting the myth. Whip Wilson was born Roland Charles Meyers on June 16, 1911, in Granite, Illinois. Neither has ever acted on his/her feelings. View more News. Worth Of A Duke is book 1 of the Lords Of Fate Series but can be read as a standalone. Find descriptive alternatives for heroine. She is smart, courageous and spirited enough to stand up for herself. Hammond recovered to his fighting position. 99 a month for HBO Max, which will debut in May. Historical fiction writer Sherry Jones has a new book out inspired by Baker’s remarkable life and is headed to her late heroine’s hometown this week to discuss it at Left Bank Books. Heroine Shikkaku scans. Mystery Fireman (Thomas Artiaga) 2. All of the men in the film are equally well dressed in good but quiet and dignified suits. Giant Heroine Sigma Lady. The injured marshals are treated in beds set up in a hotel lobby (at the film's end). Hero/Heroine of Dragon Quest IX is a male or female Celestrian who, under an unexpected turn of events, loses his/her Celestrian nature and becomes human. Select the images to display more information. Gordon, the director of The Amazing Colossal Man and others, The Magic Sword may also be the best overall movie that ever got the MST3k treatment. {FOOTNOTE: as neminem points out: indeed furthermore, 'hero' is today, indeed, often used for the. He keeps leading Hatori on even though he has a girlfriend: Adachi. Read the latest Scottish news covering Glasgow and Edinburgh. Teachers can use these lessons to introduce or examine in depth the concept of heroism through discussions of heroic actions and. Susanna Dickinson was only 21 and the mother of a baby daughter when she sought shelter inside the walls of the. They are academic, and absent minded or highly organized. Shin heard that the Mizukoshi Hospital is the best in the treatment of disease which his daughter has, so he came to the Hatsune Island together with Yuzu, hoping that she will be saved there. Their home is a palace on top of Mount Kyrus, and you will often find them in the foothills, organizing raiding parties against their main enemies - the krougs. Verdi opera is a crossword puzzle clue. Yet he had the extraordinary ability to put the greater good above his own survival. And they'll do it, thus earning their happy ending. Sadly, Susan lost the fight against cancer in August of 2006. 12 injured in shooting Chopra was directing Aadmi Aur Insaan at the time when the heroine, Saira Banu, fell ill and had to. Find and follow posts tagged fighting on Tumblr. ) This novel's hero journeys to return a woman's body to her family in a remote former Soviet Republic. Hong Kong cinema among the finest in the world, a home to icons like Bruce Lee, John Woo and Wong Kar-wai. Welcome to Hero Heroine, where the best hair artists can be found in Toronto! We truly believe there is a Hero and Heroine inside every man and woman, waiting to be discovered! Top hairstylists will unravel your inner Hero and Heroine, and put the spotlight back on you!. The ultimate news source for music, celebrity, entertainment, movies, and current events on the web. This is the place to list those books which are HEA and which have the best dramatic injured or ill heroine scenes where the hero is distrought, thinking he is about to lose her.
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Big Guy at his best – when he’s losing
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Big Guy had just gotten his little butt beaten badly, but he’d come up grinning so it was safe to broach the subject.
“So what did you learn today?” I asked. It’s my standard question when someone’s wiped up a karate mat with him.
“I learned that T is a lot stronger than she looks,” he said, his face still red from exertion.
Why, yes she is.
If you judged the T book by the cover, you’d dismiss her as a delicate pixie-princess, a graceful little puffball. But Big Guy had sparred with her enough to beware of her lightning feet and strong kicks. He didn’t have enough grappling experience, though, to translate “strong kicks” to “legs that will grip your waist like a vise and not let go.” And she’s a brown belt who was testing for black, so she had the mental edge as well.
Technically speaking Big Guy has plenty of grappling experience, though it’s largely consisted of rolling around the mat with a buddy and giggling. He’s never taken it seriously, just as he didn’t take kicks seriously as a sparring tool until a classmate consistently beat him by refusing to engage in a boxing match.
“So how is this going to make you better?” I asked.
“Well, I figured out how to get away from her by doing a push up,” he said, demonstrating how he forced his arms between hers and her waist then pried her arms off and created enough leverage to escape.
“Good idea,” I said. “Your upper body is strong. You can use that as an advantage next time.”
It was just one more example in a long list of events that make me oh-so grateful that I signed him up for karate two years ago. The martial arts he’s learned is almost incidental. It’s the life lessons that come with the class that really matter. Add grappling with T to the curriculum.
He learned that what you blow off today can become an important detail tomorrow – “I’m going to pay more attention to grappling.”
He learned to figure out solutions on the fly – his technique for escaping T. He hasn’t figured out yet how to turn a defensive move into an offensive advantage but that will come, just as it did in sparring.
He learned how to be inspired by going up against someone who is better than him.
About an hour later he was back at it again, sparring one of his dearest friends in a karate demonstration – really, don’t these kids get enough? Though his friend is a belt lower, he has a serious reach advantage with both his arms and legs, so it was a fairly even match.
Seconds after lightly pummeling each other on stage, Big Guy took off running after his friend. “I haven’t seen him all summer. I need to play with him!”
There’s yet another lesson: The opponent is not the enemy. You can do your best to try to defeat someone then run from water slide to water slide with him for the rest of the day.
I think that might be the most important thing Big Guy’s learned so far from karate.
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The Juteback Poetry Film Festival 2018: a review and compilation
October 21, 2018 Pam Falkenberg
The power and importance of curation is once again demonstrated by the eclectic and compelling selections included in the 2018 Juteback Poetry Film Festival. R.W. Perkins and Matt Mullins have put together a program that surveys the breadth and depth of film poetry rather than attempting to construct or validate some narrow canon. Continue Reading →
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Juteback Poetry Film Festival 2017 announces new date, location
May 14, 2017 Dave Bonta
Juteback Productions announced two days ago on Instagram and Facebook that this year’s festival is set for June 23 at 7:00 PM at the Wolverine Farm Publishing’s Letterpress & Publick House, Fort Collins, Colorado (USA). Continue Reading →
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Call for Entries: Juteback Poetry Film Festival 2017
January 21, 2017 Dave Bonta
The late, lamented Body Electric Poetry Film Festival is back with a new name! The Juteback Poetry Film Festival will take place on May 20th at the Lyric Cinema Cafe in Fort Collins, Colorado. Festival director R.W. Perkins will collaborate with Matt Mullins to program the festival. Continue Reading →
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Call for submissions: Atticus Review
August 27, 2016 Matt Mullins
The Mixed Media section of the Atticus Review seeks videopoems/filmpoems/cinepoems and short or experimental films of all lengths, shapes, sizes and types. We’re also interested in remixes, mashups and interactive/digital literature. Continue Reading →
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The Art of Poetry Film with Cheryl Gross: “Highway Coda”
January 28, 2015 Cheryl Gross
I usually look for collaborations between a video artist and poet, but in the case of Highway Coda, the poet Matt Mullins wears both hats. The visuals are a perfect setting for his poetry. The music by Michael Pounds complements the splendor of this piece. Continue Reading →
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Call for videopoetry submissions: Atticus Review
The Atticus Review, an online literary/mixed media magazine, seeks filmpoems/videopoems of between one and eight minutes in length for publication. Continue Reading →
New Third Form, Swoon’s View columns
September 7, 2014 Dave Bonta
Two new columns on videopoetry focus on poet Gaia Holmes, poet-filmmaker Matt Mullins, and the animator-poet team of Sandra Salter and Benedict Newbery. Continue Reading →
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New videopoetry-related links: “Swoon’s View” at Awkword Paper Cut and more
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I had heard that Swoon (AKA Marc Neys), the fantastically productive Belgian filmmaker and musician, was the new videopoetry editor at Awkword Paper Cut. What I didn’t realize was that he’d be writing a monthly column on videopoetry for the… Continue Reading →
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Some thoughts on collage videopoetry
September 30, 2013 Dave Bonta
Over at Via Negativa, I shared a new videopoem I made on a whim last night. This morning I added some process notes, which led to a few further reflections of possible interest to writers and poetry teachers looking for… Continue Reading →
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Two-part interview with “ambassador of cinepoetry” George Aguilar in the Atticus Review
February 1, 2013 Dave Bonta
This is not to be missed: Matt Mullins interviews George Aguilar at Atticus Review: Part 1 and Part 2. From Part 1, here’s Aguilar’s take on what makes a compelling videopoem: The core elements I find most compelling are works… Continue Reading →
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Marie Craven
Marie has been an independent film-maker for 35 years. Most of her 70+ short films have been video poems made since 2014. A longer bio is here.
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Pam Falkenberg is an independent filmmaker who received her PhD from the University of Iowa and taught at Northern Illinois University, St.Mary's Coll...
Erica Goss
Erica Goss served as Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, CA from 2013-2016. She is the author of Night Court, winner of the 2016 Lyrebird Award, Wild Place and ...
As a board member of the Literary Society of Thuringia e.V. in Weimar, Guido Naschert organizes and moderates readings and discussions on contempo...
Lucy English is a poet and novelist, co-creator of the Bristol-based poetry film festival Liberated Words, and a Reader in Creative Writing at Bath...
Stevie Ronnie
Stevie Ronnie (website) is a UK-based freelance artist and writer with a background in computing. His work crosses art forms to produce pieces...
Lori H. Ersolmaz
Lori H. Ersolmaz (website) is a multidisciplinary filmmaker with a strong focus on social and political issues. Her company Voices of Hope Productions w...
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Alexandre spent his childhood in music education before going on to study 'communication & film studies' in his home town of São Paulo - Brasil. He l...
Cheryl Gross
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Cheryl Gross (website, blog) is an illustrator, painter, writer, and motion graphic artist living and working in...
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Matt Mullins writes and makes videopoems, music, and digital/interactive literature. His work has been screened at conferences and film festivals in...
Born in Budapest, based in Montreal until 1983, Tom Konyves is one of the original seven poets dubbed The Vehicule Poets; his work is distinguishe...
John D. Scott is a filmmaker and professor who teaches in the Media Arts Sciences and Studies department at Ithaca College. He is currently working tow...
Sigrun Höllrigl studied literature and philosophy at the University of Vienna. She practiced journalism in the arts and media, then had a business ca...
Alastair Cook is an artist working with lens-based media, principally as a photographer concentrating on wet-plate collodion and film technology and ...
Martina Pfeiler is an Assistant Professor in American Studies, currently teaching at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany. She is working on a new ...
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Alice Lyons
Alice Lyons’s poems have appeared in publications such as Tygodnik Powszechny (Kraków) and Poetry (Chicago) and as poetry films in cinema and gal...
J.P. Sipilä
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Robert Peake is a British-American poet living near London. He created the Transatlantic Poetry on Air reading series. His video poem "Buttons" won...
Heather Haley
Poet, singer, performer, writer, media artist, organizer of Vancouver's long-running Visible Verse Poetry Film Festival... see Heather's full bio on...
Jordan Stempleman
Jordan Stempleman's most recent collections of poetry are Doubled Over (BlazeVOX Books, 2009) and No, Not Today (Magic Helicopter Press, 2012). He co-e...
Ren Powell
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Paul Casey has published poems in journals and anthologies in Ireland and worldwide, in five of his six spoken languages. His most recent collection is ...
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On 5th Edition Advancement
Posted on 25 April 2013 by MssngrDeath
Aaaaaaand themes are gone.
When 5th Edition was first a thing (in a playtest I didn’t play that may never have actually happened thanks to an NDA), there are a few things that were awkward but that really excited me. I like having a bunch of different builds of a base class, something I got used to in 4E and Pathfinder and wholeheartedly endorse. I liked having static DCs, something that 4th Edition failed at with its “hills get steeper” mechanic. I liked having static attack and defenses, so that a CR 3 monster isn’t a total joke by the time the party is L6.
But the neatest addition by far was a theme, something that all editions of D&D should have, forever. The idea was that you had a class, but that wasn’t really your whole character. You were also something else that was relevant in some way to adventuring. For example, you were a fighter and you hit things really hard. But you were also an alchemist who was good with potions, or a farmer who knew how to handle livestock, or a spy who was good as disguises. These weren’t tied to classes, so an acrobat could be an elven rogue or a dwarven wizard. It made characters different and interesting and it showed that your entire life wasn’t defined by your feat list.
Over time, a lot of the things I liked about 5th Edition have been whittled away. Before, the worst offense was that escalating bonuses came back (Wizards says they’re trying to prevent this while increasing the ways players can do it, so yeah). But in this week’s This Week in D&D, it became clear that themes had been replaced by backgrounds. These represent a character’s past rather than their present, so all of the bonuses and abilities are conferred at L1.
That is, you were a farmer, but now you’re a fighter so you can never improve at farming. That is, unless they introduce farming feats, except that feats aren’t allowed if the DM doesn’t like them. If they do, training in farming comes at the expense of training in weapons, or spellcasting, or whatever else you have. It’s designed to be a small but direct decrease in power for the sake of personality, and suddenly we’re back to a world where power and personality are at odds. Before, themes and classes could live in harmony, both improving and changing as the character advances. Now every fun option is at the expense of an option that keeps the character alive.
On the other hand, perhaps this isn’t required. Wizards is making it clear that they don’t expect characters to always take the “best” option. They want a game where a character can still be competitive even if they’ve neglected most of the powerful feats. Which means that a character who has selected the best feats blows the game wide open by being too far beyond the expected curve, and we’re back to the balance problems of every other edition.
I liked themes, a lot. I liked them in 4th Edition too. Seeing that they’re going away for backgrounds, a mechanic that by definition is backstory rather than something that can and should be a focus, is another note in the “5th Edition isn’t for me” column.
Don’t even get me started on the notion that skills and backgrounds are “a DM’s tool” rather than a player’s. I’m starting to become convinced that 5th Edition isn’t for players at all.
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One Response to On 5th Edition Advancement
Emanoel says:
That’s why I keep saying “D&D is NOT a system for interpretation, but dungeon crawling”. A few DMs encourage players to have a CHARACTER, but most just care about the NUMBERS.
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Innermost Asia : vol.2
極奥アジア : vol.2
84o FROM KUCHA TO KASHGAR [Chap. XXIV
locations, which general topographical considerations suggest to me, must be considered as partly conjectural.
Location of I should be inclined to seek Chi-cho Kuan, the ` inn ' OR of Chi-cho 7 4, near Chilan,
Chi-cho a point which the road was bound to pass at all times, and which, owing to its assured water-supply,
Kuan and
Yeh-chê must always have formed an important halting-place on a stretch of the route passing arid wastes
Kuan. on either side. The mention of the old city of Ta-kan A tL beyond it suggests a site even then
abandoned to the desert. The distance of 120 li indicated to the next stage, Yeh-chê Kuan
i * (` the visitors' inn '), and the significant term of Kuan occurring in its designation
seem to point to the site of Chong-tim on the ancient and more direct road line. If this location
were right, the ` city of Chü-shih-tê' k it, situated 6o li farther on, might well be sought
to the south-west of the ruins of Lâl-tâgh, where ` Tati ' remains indicate the former existence of a settlement of some size.23 The distance recorded would agree well with this location ; for the direct distance between the two last-named sites is, as the Map No. 7. B, C. 4, shows, just one half of that from Chilan to Chong-tim. But the reference made to Chü-shih-tê as a place ` on the boundary
line of Kuchâ', i. e. Ch`iu-tzû #, is rather puzzling. It is difficult to believe that the territory
of Kuchâ could have extended so far westwards, or that, if reference to Chü-shih-tê as a border town were intended, the text would have been worded as it is ; for the usual practice in these itineraries is to mention the first place in the new territory reached and not the last of the territory left behind.238 If it were permissible to assume that some mistake has crept into the text here one might suggest that the name of Ch`iu-tzû (Kuchâ) has replaced that of Ch`ü-sha or Chia-sha
I a rendering of the local designation of Kâshgar recorded by Hsüan-tsang and the
Tank-shu.24
Mention of That the Tang itinerary has here brought us to the immediate vicinity of the hills east and
` Red north-east of Marâl-bâshi is made quite clear by what it next tells us about ` Yü-t`ou Chou
KâshgarRive i. e~ on the Ku-shih Hill at on the north bank of the Ch`ih Ho tff (Red River)'. It appears
daryà. to me very probable that this refers to the extensive site to the north-west of Tumshuk, marked by
the ruins of large Buddhist shrines, an ancient circumvallation and numerous dwellings found on, and close to, the southern end of the rocky hill chain known as Chöl-tâgh.25 Through the wide gap between it and the smaller Tumshuk-tâgh to the south there passes a dry river-bed, which finds its continuation partly in the Ghôra-akin, and which undoubtedly represents an old terminal branch of the Kâshgar river. Considering the general direction which the ancient route must have followed past Marâl-bâshi and the isolated hills to the east of it, there seems to me to be little doubt that the Kâshgar-daryâ is meant by the ` Red River '. The identical name, in the form of Kizil-su, is still borne nowadays by the main branch of the Kâshgar river, which passes to the south .of the ` Old Town ' of Kâshgar and by the river as a whole higher up (Map No. 2. D. 2).
` Mount We have another definite topographical indication as to the line of the ancient road where we
Ch`i' are told that it ` crosses the Red River and passes Mount Ch` . I believe this mountain
with ified may safely be identified with the Mazâr-tâgh, the highest and by far the most conspicuous of
Mazàr- the hills which rise above the flat alluvial plain in this region. Its rugged mass stands up to a height
tagh. of over 2,500 feet above the Marâl-bâshi oasis, and culminates in two easily distinguished peaks,
for which our clinometrical readings indicated elevations of 6,33o and 5,910 feet respectively. These peaks attract the traveller's attention from a very considerable distance, and obviously
23 See above, i. p. 78.
23a Cf. Chavannes, Turcs occid., pp. 6, 9, 13 ; Serindia, iii. p. 1335.
24 See Chavannes, Turcs occid., p. 121 ; for other Chinese
renderings, cf. Anc. Khotan, i. p. 48.
25 See Map No. 8. B. s. Regarding this site, repeatedly visited by European travellers and partially explored by M. Pelliot, cf. Serindia, iii. p. 1309.
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New workers and their social networks in Astana
Economics & Class | Kazakhstan September 2013 January 2018
As I leave work, I see one of the maintenance men leaving, and catch a ride across town with him. We wait for his nephew, as the country’s flags whip back and forth on the flagpole.
“Once, you Americans were the enemy,” wrinkly-faced Bekbolat nods to me in Russian. “Fight the capitalist oppressor, give them no quarter! It was our duty,” he says, as a blue flag blows behind him in the cold wind.
“And we wanted to go fight in Afghanistan, to do our international duty” in the Soviet Army, he explains. (It reminds me of the documentary, The Last Soviet in Afghanistan.)
Bekbolat pauses. “My friend went and came back, his leg was gone. But I wanted to do it, to go.”
“And after he came back, you still wanted to go?” I ask.
“No, not now,” he shakes his head, “but then.”
Bekbolat’s nephew drives up, and we start across town. I learn that my colleague is in his early forties, the nephew in his late teens. Over ten years ago, they moved here from the old capital, Almaty. Bekbolat tells me that he learned a little English is school, but never needed it—it was the Soviet Union then.
“Then we needed German,” he says. “We saw the wall fall, east and west. During that time there was not rich or poor, and everyone had work. They had holidays, for one month we went to the sanatoria (resort). But now…” he says as his nephew peels the car around a corner, glass skyscrapers flying by.
“People work too much?” I ask.
He shakes his head, “No, they can’t find work, amal jok, they can’t do anything. But they have to work, even though the money is poor. So if the jobs are bad, they stay.”
I’m surprised, though. I thought that everyone comes to Astana for work – it’s certainly why I’m here.
Air Astana airplane (by happyrelm, Flickr)
Some time earlier. Vika and I meet over tea one weary weekend day, and she tells me she’s looking for another job. She’s gotten tired of this one, managing a local university department. When we chat about our long hours, she tells me the joke about government workers here, who are renowned for working 9-9 at low pay, even though local labor laws limit our work to 40 hours a week:
A guy comes into work early on a Monday morning and works until six pm, packs up his bags, and heads home. His coworkers make eye contact and shrug – he must have something important to do. Next day, he comes in at nine, works till six, and again leaves. They raise their eyebrows and gossip. Third day, he comes in, works all day, and gets ready to leave at six. His coworkers intervene, “Hey, whaddaya think you’re doing?”
“Rebyata!” he tells them, “Vy shto, eta zhe moi otpusk!”
That is: “Hey guys… what the hell, I’m on vacation!”
It’s taken me a while to adjust to this working culture, as I’m used to the American ideal of flexible hours for working professionals: hustling sixty hours a week, sure, but in flexible ways, at home or in the café.
And it’s also taken me a while to understand the difference between small-town social life and the social networks of a city. I remember hitting the end of my first year and feeling bewildered: I had worked hard, met with friends, gone for drinks… but didn’t feel connected. I had plenty of vague friends, but friendship with one person only ever seemed to translate into… occasional meetings with that one person.
Young woman in downtown Astana (picture by World Bank, Flickr)
Perhaps it came from growing up in small towns and suburbs, where meeting one person leads to meeting their friends. If you all get along, you start to hang out in groups. If someone’s new, you invite them along with your friends. This has been my experience in Ohio, in Indiana, and in Texas.
But it wasn’t working for me here. I took stock of my workmates: Katya with her husband and handful of classmates; Leila who lived alone and had a platonic relationship with a guy several years younger; Darina with two boyfriends who don’t know each other, and Ayagul who sat at home alone each evening to call her mother (and her secret boyfriend, back in the village). Most of these young women were borrowing family money to buy a small flat, choosing to pay $800 (120,000 tenge) each month in mortgage payments rather than $600 (90,000 tenge) for rent, taken out of their $1000 monthly salary.
“I’d love to visit my daughter,” Darina says, “but there are no jobs back home.” She tells me that she plans to work ten years here, then move back to live with her parents and young daughter in her hometown. Each woman wants to live with family, but her parents don’t want to uproot and move here. And after living in the city, it would be hard to move home: they wouldn’t quite belong; they would miss their independence, their salaries, their career prospects, their manicures and pedicures.
How We Extend Social Groups and Networks
But society isn’t all atomized. For all the closely-clustered social networks of home and work, I also see broader connections. And the presence of these networks is just as interesting to me as their absence of networks in the lives of others. Most often the well-networked person seems to be involved in:
a) religious groups. Actively attending a church or mosque may provide people with a way to meet other new residents, be encouraged, and have casual social contact with co-religionists – sometimes the very people who can help you learn a new language, get a job, or travel abroad (to Arabia, India, Europe, or America).
b) multi-level sales groups like NEWAYS, Tienshi, Mary Kay, or Avon. MLM groups offer regular training, inspirational sales retreats, feel-good mantras, small-scale businesses, and social contact. Many sellers seem to be young women with ambition, but facing a glass ceiling at their official desk, school, or medical job.
c) the Astana Alumni Club (for former study-abroad students), American Corner, Toastmasters, business network, InterNations, FryDay, Couch Surfing meets, Astana International Club (for expats) and other deliberate, official attempts at networking.
All in all, it’s easiest to meet new people in these type of voluntary organizations, where networks are loose and people come and go.
Of course officials sometimes get concerned with people who start connecting into religious groups, or who join companies that sell dubious health remedies ‘from America’. But I also think these groups grow when they meet a need residents can’t fill another way: when Bekbolat is left with nostalgia for the social connections and economic assistance of the Soviet Union, when young migrants like Leila feel isolated and spiritually empty, when ambitious young professionals like Arzhan want to start a business but don’t have the right “connections” to rent a café or kiosk at a bazaar.
And looking back, I realize that when I first moved to Astana, I was welcomed by people in a) churches and b) multi-level marketing groups. These environments felt warm and energetic, with people who offered to help, not jut people asking for more overtime at a workplace. I felt at home with these people, even if sometimes they were a little weird.
A few years ago, I read Tom Wolfe’s massive new novel, I am Charlotte Simmons. Although somewhat overdone, I was struck by his portrayal of the American college experience, and of a young Appalachian woman who gets swallowed up in the partying and sex and sports and political manipulations of big campus life.
The picture of university was accurate, but I also felt that there was something missing. I’d felt Charlotte’s disorientation when starting university– but I found a place not in sports and drugs, but in philosophy groups, the honors house, the volunteer groups who sorted dented boxes at the food pantry, the girls who visited the elderly in awkwardly cheerful and sterile nursing homes. No one forced us to show up, but choosing to do so let me meet other (introverted) people who were also looking to meet a wider circle of friends. (Actch, now that I think about it, introversion could explain a lot of things in this post!)
Developing a New Civil Society
And some of that, I think, is what people talk about when they talk about civil society. It brings to mind a book called Habits of the Heart. It’s a book which I should have read ten years ago, but… when our freshmen group of honors students (!) asked for less work, the professor let us fill up the semester with articles from The Onion (!) instead.
At any rate, author Robert Bellah summarizes his book in this speech. Roughly, he says that Americans in the 19th century experienced the striving of a new nation. This new country, America, told itself the story that it was about individuals leaving the family and going to the big city or the gold mine or the prairie, and striking it rich. Such a modern hero became prosperous, successful, wealthy… and mostly alone.
Yet Bellah – and he cites French thinker Alexis de Tocqueville in this – critiques this type of individualism that looks only to our own friends and family, that of a man “forever thrown back on himself alone” (de Tocqueville). Bellah uses de Tocqueville’s travel writing on early America to ask what makes us citizens, what habits of the heart would cause people to voluntarily connect with each other and peacefully build a democratic society. Both ultimately recommend things like voluntary community associations, religious groups, and strong family ties as ways to counteract this individualism. That resembles much of what I see in how people connect here in Astana.
Now that I’m living in a country that’s building an ambitious new city from scratch (as many American cities were doing 150 years ago), I think this is an interesting question to be asking. The religious and marketing and expat social clubs are great for providing connections for some, but what about everyone else? What other types of low-cost and voluntary associations are possible: Writer’s groups? Reader’s clubs? Makerspaces (yes please!)? Community gardens? Informal football clubs in open fields?
I’d love to know where this is already going on in Astana, and how much it has the potential to cross social lines. Can you connect a fruit-stand seller with a young professional who studied abroad, with an expat businessman, women at the market, men who drive taxis, and wealthy property owners?
Another shot of Astana (by SMAC, Flickr)
I’m hoping this is possible, and soon to happen. I imagine that as people connect online and in-person, informal initiatives and volunteer ways of helping will continue to grow in an otherwise very work-focused city. I’d love to meet more than just the expats, and I’d love to see social networks in Astana expand and deepen for everyone, as I’m sure they will do in time.
Post-notes:
1) Can you see my American cultural values? I can see it in Bellah’s article, although he’s glad to have Canadian and Japanese scholars checking his facts. This makes me wonder what I’m missing, though, and I’d love to see what you see.
2) My colleague Alima Bissenova is quoted in a new article (in German?) that references the high population of ambitious young workers in the city, and the need for more development of the city’s ‘soul’: http://deutsche-allgemeine-zeitung.de/de/content/view/2786/1/
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Results are determined automatically by the software by comparing the electrochemiluminescence signal obtained from the reaction product of the sample with the signal of the cutoff value previously obtained by calibration. There are all sorts of interesting applications for chemiluminescence. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine | April 12, 2016. ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) is a plate-based assay technique designed for detecting and quantifying substances such as peptides, proteins, antibodies and hormones. electrochemiluminescence using the Bio-Rad Gel Doc XR instrument (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, USA). The assay has within run imprecision of 3. Non-transference of biological reference interval of TSH by electrochemiluminescence immunoassay : an Indian population perspective. 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Data are presented as endpoint log titers (log2) (the reciprocal of the serial dilution at which the sample response would be equal to the cut point of the assay). Sample cell Housed in a light tight chamber 2. Three-dimensionally patterned Ag–Pt alloy catalyst on planar Si photocathodes for photoelectrochemic… Read more. We are not just providing a service, we are pioneers in the development of new methods and applying new technologies. Know Your Test: PSA Standardization Dilemma. The most important applications are in the diagnostic field where a number of different biologically-relevant molecules (e. **sweeping** ECL (electrochemiluminescence) of rubrene nanocrystals Login or register (free and only takes a few minutes) to participate in this question. 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First the test reagents react to the substance to be detected (measurand) in a controlled process, forming a chemical complex. Experimental results are presented showing the effects of the parameters on the intensity of the glow. In electrogenerated chemiluminescence, electrochemically generated intermediates undergo a highly exergonic reaction to produce an electronically excited state that then emits light upon relaxation to a lower-level state. The electrochemiluminescence immunoassay method according to claim 1, characterized in that the protein to be tested is a tumor marker protein. Electricity is applied to the plate electrodes by an MSD instrument leading to light. A new approach to examine electrochemiluminescence (ECL), in which. The ARCHITECT i1000SR immunoassay analyzer meets your laboratory’s high standards by delivering STAT results when you need them. instrument includes a graphical user interface for analysis of results and an on-board database for storage of results. 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Particularly, by labeling bio-molecules with Ru(bpy) 3 2+ derivatives, highly competitive ECL immunoassay and DNA probing have been employed in clinical and research laboratories and are now becoming standard met. Electrochemiluminescence High binding carbon electrodes in the bottom of MULTI-ARRAY and MULTI-SPOT microplates allow MSD assays use electrochemiluminescent labels that are conjugated to detection antibodies. The instrument utilizes reusable optically pure plastic reaction cells that are changed on a monthly basis. Electricity is applied to the plate electrodes by an MSD instrument leading to light emission by SULFO-TAG labels. Miniaturized analytical instrumentation for electrochemiluminescence assays: a spectrometer and a photodiode-based device Glyphosate and AMPA Detection Rapid and sensitive spectroelectrochemical and electrochemical detection of glyphosate and AMPA with screen-printed electrodes. Materials [Ru(bpy)2(PICH)2]2+ was synthesized using a previously published procedure (Pellegrin et al. ECL (ElectroChemiLuminescence) is Roche’s technology for immunoassay detection. The electrochemiluminescence immunoassay method according to claim 1, characterized in that the protein to be tested is a tumor marker protein. Endotoxin Testing (LAL) Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) are bacterial endotoxins, and are components of Gram-negative bacterial walls known to cause fevers and diseases. Are there any other machines or assays that use ECL in the clinical lab that aren't shown on google?. Read "Evaluation of electrochemiluminescence‐ and bioluminescence‐based assays for quantitating specific DNA, Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis" on DeepDyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. The assay utilizes a 2-step 18-min incubation process. A rapid single step assay suitable for the detection or quantification of β-lactam antibiotics and β-lactamases. Patterned arrays of vertically aligned single walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) forests were printed on indium tin oxide (ITO) electrodes. The touch-screen provides the user with access to all instrument functionalities, including run setup, system status over-view and result reports. Electrogenerated chemiluminescence allows to perform luminescence detection triggered by electrochemical reactions. In an ELISA, an antigen must. federal the heard small. • Handled immunochemistry instruments working in Electrochemiluminescence principle like e411 • Was responsible for pre-installation, installation, commissioning, operator training, and breakdown support activities • Performed preventive maintenance protocols • Followed customer call logging and closing procedure. Howland, G. In other words, it is a device to measure the brightness of various portions of a spectra. Immunoassays are highly sensitive and specific. The touch-screen provides the user with access to all instrument functionalities, including run setup, system status over-view and result reports. Metrohm offers a unique collection of spectroelectrochemistry instruments for your applications. You appear to be using incognito/private browsing mode or an ad blocker, which may adversely affect your experience on the site. The resulting chemiluminescence was measured in relative units on a SECTOR Imager 6000™ instrument. The study of electrochemiluminescence (ECL) involves photophysical and electrochemical aspects. Published in the topical collection Analytical Electrochemiluminescence with guest editors Hua Cui, Francesco Paolucci, Neso Sojic, and Guobao Xu. Compared to chemiluminescence and bioluminescence immunoassays, electrochemiluminescence (ECL)- based immunoassay offers some advantages. 2+ -based anodic electrochemiluminescence (ECL) system utilizing nitrogen-doped graphene quantum dots (NGQDs) as a novel co-reactant was firstly constructed to detect PCP. Departmental representative for establishing process for analytical laboratory instrument validation/qualification procedures.
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Wonder Woman’s Gal Gadot Wins at Teen Choice Awards 2017 – Comicbook.com
Comicbook.comBased on recent rumors, the Teen Choice Awards won’t be the only award show that Wonder Woman could dominate at. Warner Bros. is reportedly planning a groundbreaking campaign for the film at next year’s Academy Awards, with the film itself and …‘You will make the world better’! Zendaya gives inspirational speech to young people as […]
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Joe Bologna Dies: Oscar-Nominated Screenwriter And ‘Blame It On Rio’, ‘Big Daddy’ Actor Was 82 – Deadline
DeadlineThey adapted it for the film and it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. They continued their writing streak and wrote and starred in the acclaimed Made for Each Other, which won a Writer’s Guild Award. They also went on to win an … and more …read more Source:: Academy Awards News […]
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Dhol Foundation :: Drum-Believable
[tdf records] review from ravi
The Dhol Foundation was started with the mission of taking the dhol to the wider world. Holding classes for over 200 people in London, TDF is fulfilling its mission locally. Their releases like Big Drum, Small World and now Drum-Believable are taking the dhol and familiarizing the world with its style. Johnny Kalsi, head of TDF and lead drummer of Afro-Celt Sound System [now Afro-Celts] definitely follows up on this mission statement with Drum-Believable. Kalsi's background with various music groups explains some of the influences on the music in this album.
Providing vocals and sarangi to "Palace of Love," Ustad Sultan Khan brings a familiar sound to the album. The accompanying dhol rhythms by Kalsi and string arrangements via Salim Merchant [Liberation, Adnan Sami] are mixed to perfection in this track as the album starts off on a high note. Following in the steps of Big Drum, Small World, TDF's latest work mirrors many of the Afro Celt's songs. Mairead Nesbitt - a guest fiddler for Afro Celts- provides her fiddle in the ambient "Simply H," a lead-in for the next track. One of the most exciting and involved songs on the album featuring many members from the Afro Celts, "After the Rain" is one of those tracks that reminds you of Riverdance, but on steroids with an Indian flavour.
"Fistful of Dhollars" is the epitome of drums and beats on this album, where melody is not a necessity because distorted tablas and dhols carry the song. More relaxing melodies start off both "After Life" and "Anyana Duniya," which are reminiscent of Talvin Singh's "It's Not Over" from Ha, but with dhols, and eventually lead to a stronger beat. After straying from bhangra in the previous tracks, "Dark Star" excites senses with Kalsi, 7 TDF drummers, and Sonia Panesar on vocals bringing the song style back to India. The very-catchy "Jingo" thrives on a techno-ish repetition of beats, melody and the phrase "Jingo."
In another successful incorporation of foreign influence on TDF's music, "Breathe" features Spanish guitars and lyrics. This track does not necessarily focus on TDF's drums, but during the slow transitions in the song, one can hear Kalsi intertwining tablas with the Spanish guitar. The end of the album does not disappoint. For those not able to hear TDF live, they have included a 5-minute track that shows the musical prowess of the dhol.
Traversing musical ground spanning India, Ireland, and Spain, Drum-Believable envelopes the Dhol Foundation's mission statement of taking the dhol to a wider world. Though no song stands out as a "must-listen" song, this album is worth having because of its wide sonic palette. The dhol is a fascinating instrument and its power is demonstrated by Johnny Kalsi and the TDF drummers.
Palace of Love (pick)
Simple H
After the Rain (pick)
Ajaa Nach Lai
Holy Thug
Fistful of Dhollars (pick)
Spirit East
After Life (pick)
Anyana Duniya (pick)
Dhol Dark & Handsome (TDF Live Jam)
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Member of Doctors' Syndicate freedom committee detained, investigated for 'calling for 25 Jan protests'
Taher Mokhtar, 30, is a long-time Revolutionary Socialist activist
Ahram Online , Saturday 16 Jan 2016
Screenshot of leftist activist and member of Doctors syndicate Taher Mokhtar
Egyptian Doctors Syndicate activist Taher Mokhtar arrested
2 Egyptian Facebook admins arrested after 'calling for protests' on 25 Jan
Egypt's current conditions remind me of days before 25 January revolution, says Sawiris
Egypt arrests 3 Facebook pages admins ahead of 25 Jan anniversary
Egypt’s prosecution ordered Friday the detention of doctor Taher Mokhtar for four days, along with two others, pending investigations for the possession of flyers that call for the overthrow of the current regime and protests on the 25 January 2011 uprising’s fifth anniversary.
Mokhtar, 30, is a long-time Revolutionary Socialist activist, according to ‘Freedom for the Brave,’ a grassroots campaign for the release of political prisoners in Egypt.
According to a statement released on the campaign’s Facebook page, security forces stormed Taher’s apartment in Downtown Cairo, arresting him and a friend and taking them to the Abdeen Police Station.
No official calls have been made for protests on the anniversary of the 25 January Revolution that ousted long-time autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Yet Egyptian security forces have arrested a number of activists as well as Facebook page administrators on charges of calling for protests.
A protest law issued in November 2013 mandates that any demonstration give the police at least three-days notice. The law also stipulates that the interior ministry has full discretion on whether to grant demonstrations permits or not.
Violators of the protest law face hefty fines and prison sentences of up to five years.
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The 11 Most Inspiring 20-Something Female Celebrities Of 2016
by Taylor Engle
Time has taught me that it’s tough being a 20-something. I’m in that awkward transition between living with my parents and being completely independent (or so I tell myself), and sometimes it’s difficult to know what the hell I’m actually doing with your life. Thankfully, us millennials have a plethora of female celebrities that have forged their own paths in order to inspire us to similar greatness.
While it’s a struggle to get through college, pick a major, and then actually apply that major to a real life career, here is a list of women who figured out what they wanted and didn’t stop until they achieved it. These women give me hope that the terrifying future might just work out after all.
1. Emma Watson – 26
Need I elaborate? When it comes to inspiring female celebrities in their twenties, Emma Watson is tough to beat. From the moment she came onto our radar as the quirky but lovable Hermione Granger, Watson has grown as an actress, model, student (Brown University), and activist (UN Goodwill for Women).
2. Rihanna – 28
Who else watched Bring It On: All Or Nothing and was instantly inspired by Rihanna’s powerful words: “I’ve learned that a lot of talented people come out of the ghetto.” This line was gold to every little girl watching at home and aspiring to…be a cheerleader? While Rihanna wasn’t born in the ghetto herself, she did come out of Barbados to become an international pop sensation, fashion icon, and mononym amongst players like Cher, Madonna, and Prince. With experience in acting, dancing, singing, and now fashion design, Rihanna inspires us to pursue anything we’re passionate about.
3. Tavi Gevinson – 20
I’m just thrilled Tavi is finally old enough to make it to this list. While she’s a newly-minted twenty-something-year-old, Gevinson has been an inspiration since she was only 12. She became a public figure through her style blog, Style Rookie, and has gone onto become editor-in-chief of Rookie Magazine (which she also founded) and appears regularly with fashion icons such as Anna Wintour and Andre Leon Talley. Today Gevinson is a writer, a feminist, and a reminder that we’re never too young or irrelevant to start a conversation.
4. Emily Ratajkowski – 25
Although she rose to fame simply for being “that hot girl” in Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” music video, Ratajkowski has made waves among third-generation feminists like herself. She actively speaks out for women’s rights, starting with her essay published in Lena Dunham’s Lenny Letter addressing how her sexuality has been used against her and how she refuses to apologize for it. Ratajkowski is proud of what makes her a woman, something we are told to hide and be ashamed of.
5. Taylor Swift – 26
She’s notorious for being the girl who whines every time she gets dumped, but Taylor Swift is so much more than just the “scorned ex-girlfriend.” She’s a brave singer and songwriter, one who bares it all with her lyrics, and this has earned her the spot as one of the most popular female performers of our generation. We’ve watched her transform from sweet little country girl to badass feminist with a covetable group of friends and a killer fashion sense.
6. Demi Lovato – 24
Demi Lovato went from child actress to singer, but the most inspiring thing about this woman is what she’s overcome. Lovato is famous for battling with eating disorders, depression, self-harm, drug abuse, and bipolar disorder, but the fact that she openly speaks about her past and encourages others to be strong is much more relevant.
7. Dakota Fanning – 22
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been jealous of Dakota Fanning since we were both 7 and she was nominated for a SAG while I was nominated to be hall monitor (and lost). She’s a truly talented actress, someone who has been perfecting the craft since she was old enough to walk. Along with being one of the most accomplished actresses of our time, she’s a model and an NYU graduate. And I’m sitting here in my sweatpants eating yogurt.
8. Kimiko Glenn – 27
Glenn portrayed Dawn in Broadway musical Waitress, but the rest of the world knows her as Brooke Soso, Poussey’s annoying but cute girlfriend on Orange Is the New Black. Glenn has both brought attention to the LGBTQ community and garnered much needed attention for Asian-American actresses.
9. Samira Wiley – 29
Since we were already talking about OITNB (and I love talking about OITNB), Wiley portrays the aforementioned Poussey, the black lesbian daughter of a military leader serving time for drug possession. Wiley, a lesbian in real life, just got engaged to her girlfriend and is an LGBTQ rights activist.
10. Shay Mitchell – 29
Another onscreen lesbian is Shay Mitchell, who plays Emily Fields on Pretty Little Liars and can charm even the straightest girl in the room with her coy smile. While not a lesbian in real life, Mitchell has spoken out for LGBTQ rights and has helped progress gay rights through her powerful depiction of Emily.
11. Jennifer Lawrence – 26
Perhaps the most inspiring female celebrity of 2016 is Jennifer Lawrence, the first female actress to make more than her male counterpart because she had the balls to come out and state that she deserved it. While the glass ceiling pitifully remains intact, Lawrence poked a hole in it when she demanded she get what she had earned—because why are women supposed to be quiet and gracious? Why can’t we get what we deserve without being thought of as whiny or a bitch? Thank you Jennifer, for paving the way for females everywhere!
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What is OpenBazaar?
Milestone 3 Developer Release for OpenBazaar v2.0
July 28, 2017 July 31, 2017 OB1 Team
The OB1 team is proud to announce that OpenBazaar 2 has reached Milestone 3. This means development has reached a point where the server and client have the minimum functionality required for a working e-commerce platform.
Below is a list of the features that are now working. Not all of them are complete, most still have minor polish or secondary features that need to be completed before our full release.
When you start OpenBazaar for the first time, you will go through a simple process to enter your base settings.
Creating Listings
All significant aspects of creating a listing are now available. You can create a listing with multiple photos, variants (color, size, etc.), inventory (including variants), shipping with multiple options per set of shipping regions, discount coupons and more.
Purchasing and Transactions
The purchase flow is functional, with almost all parts of it in a working state. You can buy a listing with or without a moderator, pay for that listing with the internal wallet or an external one, complete the transaction as a buyer or seller, and leave a review when the transaction is complete. Reviews will appear on the listing’s page, and can be anonymous. Transactions can be disputed, and moderators can resolve the disputes.
We have also implemented a timeout system, where orders that are abandoned by buyers after the buyer has paid will move their funds to the seller after approximately 45 days.
You can search for listings on the network using the default OB1 search engine. The search engine can be changed in your settings. We’ll be making improvements to how you can select search engines and the overall search experience in Milestone 4.
Tor Integration
As of Milestone 3, OpenBazaar has optional Tor integration. If you are running Tor, and you choose to use OpenBazaar with it, your OpenBazaar traffic will go through Tor.
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Why We Need Alternatives to Ecommerce Giants Like Amazon
July 7, 2017 July 7, 2017 Sam Patterson
Amazon has seen incredible growth since its founding in 1994. Originally focused on books, the online marketplace is now the largest retailer in the US, and the fourth most valuable public company in the world. With its recent acquisition of Whole Foods, it becomes even more valuable.
Shopping with Amazon is quick and convenient, so much so that it’s starting to become the default method of shopping for many people, just as Google became the default method to search the internet. And just like Google, Amazon collects a staggering amount of information about everyone that uses their platform.
Unfortunately, if Amazon (or any retailer) gains the status of default shopping method for a majority of people, they then have an enormous potential to abuse their power. While it’s possible that they might be responsible stewards of their power, there should always be alternatives to using Amazon that protect a user’s privacy and place commerce transactions outside of Amazon’s control.
What could Amazon do?
It might not be readily apparent how a large retailer could abuse their power, but consider how much information about buyers and sellers Amazon collects, taken directly from their site:
Phone number(s)
Credit card(s) information
People to whom purchases have been shipped, including addresses and phone number
E-mail addresses of your friends and other people
Content of reviews and e-mails to Amazon
Personal description and photograph in Amazon Profile
Financial information, including Social Security and driver’s license numbers
Location while using Kindle or other Amazon apps
Searches and browsing while on Amazon
Purchases and sales of products
Your voice if using Alexa or other voice services
That’s only the information that you voluntarily give them. They also collect information automatically when you visit the site:
Examples of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information such as browser type, version, and time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform; purchase history, which we sometimes aggregate with similar information from other customers to create features like Top Sellers ; the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our Web site, including date and time; cookie number; products you viewed or searched for; and the phone number you used to call our 800 number. We may also use browser data such as cookies, Flash cookies (also known as Flash Local Shared Objects), or similar data on certain parts of our Web site for fraud prevention and other purposes. During some visits we may use software tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect session information, including page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page. We may also collect technical information to help us identify your device for fraud prevention and diagnostic purposes.
If you use Amazon, they know who you are, where you live, what you buy or sell, even what you want to buy or sell. They know your payment information and history, they know your friends and family, they know details about your web browsers, computers, mobile devices.
At any given moment this is a lot of information, but when tracked over years it becomes a detailed look into an individual’s life. With this much data, inferences can be made about nearly every facet of someone’s life.
The most innocuous thing Amazon could do with this information is to lose control of it. Breaches of company databases are constantly occurring. With the sheer amount of user information, Amazon’s servers are a highly valuable target for any malicious party.
If you trust Amazon to keep your data secure from unauthorized access, then you still be to be concerned about who they authorize to access your information. If Amazon becomes the default shopping method for most people, then it becomes the ultimate tool for oppressive governments to conduct surveillance and control commerce. Amazon already censors their marketplace heavily, and there’s nothing preventing Amazon from reporting users who attempt to sell or search for items that are prohibited by the authorities in various jurisdictions.
If Amazon were willing to share their data with governments – or compelled to do so – those authorities could abuse that information in numerous ways. They could cross-reference the sales figures of a store with tax filings to enforce tax compliance. They could access user location information to track individuals. They could look at purchases and search history – particularly their media consumption – to determine someone’s ideological or political affiliations.
What Amazon Has Done
There are many ways Amazon could abuse their power, but not all of them are theoretical. Amazon has taken advantage of their ecommerce giant status in the past.
In 2009, Amazon deleted copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from user’s devices without their permission.
In 2010, Amazon kicked Wikileaks off of its servers following political pressure from the US government.
Various Amazon users have had their accounts closed, and gift card balances taken, without any clarification from Amazon itself.
Amazon has continually been under fire for how it treats its own employees.
A 2016 investigation from ProPublica showed that Amazon’s search promoted their own products over competitors – even when competitors were higher ranked and cheaper.
This year, Amazon handed over the Alexa voice recordings of a suspect undergoing an investigation to Arkansas prosecutors (to their credit, Amazon fought this in court first).
This is what’s known about how Amazon behaves, but we don’t know how they behave outside the public’s eye. We can only speculate how they will behave in the future.
We Need Private Alternatives to Amazon
It’s possible that if Amazon becomes too onerous that people would switch platforms to another company that was more friendly to their users. However, switching to another platform controlled by any company or organization is no guarantee that the new platform would be any better long term.
Is there any way to really break out of this cycle?
Yes. Now, instead of just hoping that Amazon (or another company) will respect its users’ privacy and not abuse their power, users can exchange goods online in an environment free from centralized companies entirely.
How is it possible to transact online with no company at the center, controlling it?
Removing the middleman entirely from the picture is the only way to ensure that no one is even capable of gaining a position of power over others in an open marketplace. A decentralized marketplace, such as OpenBazaar, doesn’t have any company or organization that collects and stores users’ data or censors their trade. It works because of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, which are also decentralized and don’t require third parties to facilitate the exchange, and because of the power of our own personal computers.
In this new environment people’s information and transactions are secure and users are the ones who are in control; they trade directly with each other and don’t need to trust any company or organization with their data.
It’s important to have choices in what you are going to buy as well as the networks you are going to use. We have built a marketplace that aligns with our core values of giving choices to individuals who want to control more of their information online.
If you’re looking for a new way to buy and sell goods online that is completely different than anything you’ve seen before, check out OpenBazaar.
First Look: Super Fast Checkout Process In OpenBazaar 2.0
June 30, 2017 July 3, 2017 OB1 Team
Yesterday our designer, Mike Wolf, shared this great tweet about the speed of the purchasing time within OpenBazaar 2.0:
Purchasing on @OpenBazaar 2.0 takes as little as 10s with the new internal wallet $crypto $BTC 😮😮 pic.twitter.com/nLgKNUh5wg
— Mike Wolf (@thee_wolf) June 29, 2017
We want to be clear that this is an example of how fast it can be to get through the checkout process within the application, not the time it takes the transaction to clear on Bitcoin. That will still be dependent on the bitcoin network itself.
Why is the checkout process this fast, now?
Because of the internal wallet!
In the current version of OpenBazaar there is no built-in wallet so users need to use a wallet external to the app in order to make purchases. This gif shows the new process for OpenBazaar 2.0, launching soon, which has a wallet built into the application. Instead of being forced to use an external wallet, you will be able to pay bitcoin into the OpenBazaar wallet–where you still control your own keys locally–and then make payments as shown in the gif.
This new wallet is an SPV wallet where each user owns their own keys. Users will have this wallet by default though they can swap it out for bitcoind if they prefer. The wallet talks directly to the Bitcoin network, meaning all transactions are on-chain and there are no servers.
Okay…but what’s an SPV wallet?
The most secure way to use Bitcoin is to run a “full node” which means you have the entire copy of the blockchain and you verify all new transactions in new blocks yourself. However, running a full node is inconvenient, requiring a significant amount of disk space and other resources. The average user isn’t going to download the entire blockchain.
That’s where Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) wallets come in.
The basic idea is that an SPV wallet doesn’t verify everything in blocks as accurate, so it doesn’t need to download the entire chain. It relies on a trusted node for verification.
We’re very excited about this new internal wallet because it offers a greater level of convenience and access to users that is reflected in this checkout time. The whole purchasing flow is smooth and we cannot wait to get OpenBazaar 2.0 into users hands this summer.
Are you ready to check it out?
Sign up for our newsletter here for opportunities to be one of the first users of version 2.0
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And of course, you can still download OpenBazaar v.1 to shop right now!
Why Is Decentralization Important?
June 23, 2017 June 23, 2017 OB1 Team
In a recent post we talked about how “decentralization is guiding the ship.” While the definition of the word can be guessed easily enough, the concept is nuanced and takes some time to understand the costs and benefits of decentralization.
Decentralization is a concept in politics, business, technology, and other fields. In a nutshell, it means a central authority doesn’t have control over a system, but control is distributed among the participants in the system. For example:
A centralized political system has a central authority with most (or all) of the power. In a decentralized political system the power rests closer to the individual or their representatives.
A centralized business structure has a central authority with most (or all) the power. In a decentralized business structure the power to make decisions is distributed between individuals and teams.
There are costs and benefits to these approaches in political and business settings.
The centralized approach allows for more rapid and decisive decision-making, as well as giving participants in the system a sense of clarity about the rules and their own role within it. It also sets up a structure to enforce those rules.
Unfortunately, this also highlights one of the primary drawbacks of centralized systems: what if the central authority acts in ways that are harmful to the participants in the system? There are innumerable examples of tyrannical governments abusing their power. There are also many examples of the leadership teams of companies making poor decisions and refusing to delegate power such that their decisions destroyed the company.
Decentralization avoids the abuse of power from central authorities. However, this comes at the cost of every participant taking on some responsibility themselves.
When we speak about OpenBazaar being decentralized, we are specifically referring to the architecture of the network itself. There is no central point of control in OpenBazaar, unlike Amazon or eBay. All participants in the network have equal power and can’t be forced by anyone else to do anything. This is radically different from the standard centralized model of ecommerce, and it has both costs and benefits.
Making trade free is the purpose of OpenBazaar. Decentralization is the method OpenBazaar uses to make trade free.
Beyond just being able to use cryptocurrencies easily, decentralization is what allows for all of the other benefits of the marketplace, such as:
There are no fees to use the platform
There is no central authority collecting data
There is no central authority able to take down a store or force a user to follow their terms and conditions
Users have total control of all of their trade
Centralized marketplaces can’t offer these guarantees because their revenue models require that they do things to impose on users in one or all of these areas.
If they didn’t charge fees, they’d need to monetize with user data
If they didn’t want to monetize user data, they’d need to charge fees
If they didn’t censor transactions and take down stores, they’d be forced to do so by governments (or be shut down themselves)
There’s really no possible way to run a permissionless marketplace unless it’s based on decentralized architecture.
On the internet, everything you see is based on files that “live” on a server somewhere. A server is just a name for another computer. Most servers are owned (or rented) by the central authority than runs the website you’re visiting, usually a company. When you use Amazon for shopping, you are connecting to Amazon’s servers, just like everyone else using Amazon. This is a centralized system.
The decentralized system – like OpenBazaar – means computers aren’t connecting to a central location. They connect directly to each other. Basically, each user becomes their own server.
This is one of the costs of using a decentralized system. Each participant in a decentralized system takes on some of the power that the centralized authority would normally have, which leads to the benefits mentioned above. It also means that they will have to take extra steps they wouldn’t need to take in a centralized system. In a decentralized political or business structure, this might mean people are forced to direct themselves instead of just taking orders. Their success or failure is then dependent on their own actions instead of the decisions of the central authority.
In a decentralized network, it means the participants need to be running the program themselves on their computer instead of relying on the central authority to do that for them. In OpenBazaar version 1.0, this meant users would need to run the software 24/7 in order to engage in trade with other people on the network. In the upcoming version 2.0, we have built on IPFS, allowing stores to go offline and still be available to other users if their store has been seeded. Even though this reduces the costs for users to access OpenBazaar, it’s still not as convenient as using the centralized ecommerce options.
Every user must weigh the costs and benefits of the different systems and determine which they prefer.
Centralized systems are abundant and widely used for ecommerce today. A usable decentralized ecommerce system didn’t exist until OpenBazaar, and for those that prefer it, we welcome them.
Why OpenBazaar Token Doesn’t Exist
June 16, 2017 Sam Patterson
If you’re even remotely interested in the world of cryptocurrencies, then you’re aware of a relatively recent phenomenon called ICOs (also called token sales). These ICOs happen when developers of a project announce their intention to create a new coin / token and then allow the public to purchase it. Recent ICOs have been making headlines for raising tens of millions of dollars in only hours or even minutes.
Many projects that focus on building the infrastructure for a decentralized internet have launched, or are launching, their own tokens. IPFS will use Filecoin. Blockstack announced they will use a token. Storj recently had an ICO. All these projects claim to need a new token in order for their products to function properly.
OpenBazaar is also focused on building a decentralized application, so why is there no OpenBazaar Token?
There are multiple reasons why we haven’t issued a token and this post is meant to explain them. These reasons aren’t necessarily set in stone; we are continually re-evaluating whether or not a token makes sense given the rapidly changing cryptocurrency landscape.
1. OpenBazaar Doesn’t Need a Token to Work
The first reason is the most compelling: We don’t need a token in order for OpenBazaar to work as intended in its current design.
OpenBazaar is a protocol and network for decentralized trade. People download software to their own computer or mobile phone and directly connect with other people running the same software, and they then engage in trade without any middleman involved. The OpenBazaar network has existed since April 2016 with hundreds of thousands of downloads and users in countries all over the world engaging in trade with each other using Bitcoin.
It’s not immediately clear how an OpenBazaar Token improves on this process.
It’s true that Bitcoin fees are very high right now, which causes problems for a marketplace built on Bitcoin. We hope that fees will return to a reasonable level in the near future, but if not then the solution is to allow users to pay in other widely-used cryptocurrencies, not create a new one.
It’s possible that there might be a unique way a token could provide utility to OpenBazaar users even though it’s not necessary for the core functionality of the application. We welcome such ideas, but haven’t yet heard any compelling ones.
2. Tokens are a New and Unproven Model
With ICOs and token sales quickly garnering huge attention – and investment – it’s easy to forget that they are a relatively new phenomenon. This is particularly true for token sales on Ethereum.
It’s clear that they are able to gain interest from investors, but that’s where the clarity ends. There are many areas of uncertainty about how these projects will manage and utilize these tokens moving forward, and how the token holders will behave as well.
I’m sure that some – perhaps many – investors in these tokens are true believers in the underlying projects themselves. However, it’s obvious that a substantial proportion of investors are speculating on the tokens. During a period of “good times” the speculation on the tokens benefits the token creators, and right now it seems hard to argue against the massive raises these projects have accumulated.
Anyone who has been involved in the cryptocurrency market – or any financial market – knows that the “good times” don’t last forever.
When speculators choose to take their gains from a token and cash out, there needs to be a buyer available. If there is genuine demand for the underlying project and people want the token in order to use the network, then there’s no problem. However, if most of the demand has come from speculators instead, then at some point there will be no further speculators available, and there is the risk of token holders attempting to exit en masse, rapidly driving the price of the token down.
The ever-present threat of people selling their tokens could be considered a positive pressure on the project developers to deliver on their promises. Unfortunately it’s not always clear that the incentives of the project leaders and those of the token speculators are always aligned. Speculators may act similarly to public shareholders in companies, pressuring the executives in the company to make decisions based on short-term profits instead of what is best for the company long-term.
Since OpenBazaar started in 2014, we’ve had an engaged community of people all over the world who believe in decentralization and free trade. We’re certain that issuing an OpenBazaar Token would increase the size of those interested in the project, but we fear that it would also change the composition of the community from people who agree with our core ideals to a group of people who want to see a return on their investment. We don’t want to make decisions based on what would be best for the price of our token, but instead focus on how we can make trade free for the world.
3. A Token could Increase the Barriers to Entry
OpenBazaar is all about lowering the barriers to trade for everyone. All you need is an internet connection, a computer, and Bitcoin to engage in trade with anyone else in the world, at no cost.
Introducing a token could increase the barriers to entry into the OpenBazaar ecosystem.
We want permissionless, frictionless trade to always be possible on our network. OpenBazaar currently relies on the most widely used cryptocurrency in existence – Bitcoin – and we are building the 2.0 version of the software so users can choose to use other popular cryptocurrencies as well.
The on-ramps into Bitcoin are well-established, as are the wallets to store and spend them. This isn’t true for new coins and tokens. Only knowledgeable cryptocurrency users are able to purchase these tokens and use them. Forcing users into a new token ecosystem reduces the possible number of people the platform can reach.
As mentioned in #1, it’s possible to issue a token that isn’t necessary to use the network, but thus far we haven’t heard any compelling ideas.
4. Tokens Sales are a Regulatory Unknown
There is still significant uncertainty how governments will regulate ICOs / token sales.
If they choose to take a lax approach, the token creators may have little to fear. But if they choose to apply strict regulations instead, the regulatory compliance costs could soon become unbearable, especially if the technology itself needed to change in order to fully comply.
Also, scrutiny from agencies doesn’t only apply to token sales moving forward, but can apply to sales that have already occurred. This creates a situation where there is a “Sword of Damocles” hanging over these projects until regulatory guidance is issued.
Not all token creators are just crossing their fingers and hoping for the best. The Protocol Labs team joined with AngelList to launch CoinList, a platform to launch tokens which attempts to comply with know-your-customer (KYC) regulations and generally assure the tokens are issued in a manner compliant with relevant rules. This may work well for some tokens, but compliance comes at the cost of exclusivity. Only accredited investors have access to the initial sale, creating huge barriers to entry. Accredited investors are more likely to be interested in speculation than using the tokens, emphasizing the potential problems raised in #2 above.
Conditions for Token Issuance
It’s possible that an OpenBazaar Token may be issued at some point, but it would only happen if the following conditions were met:
A new token is needed to provide utility to OpenBazaar users that cannot be provided by Bitcoin or any existing token.
The token sale would be an opportunity to distribute tokens to users of OpenBazaar who believe in decentralization and free trade and are not solely focused on speculation.
The token would not increase the barriers to entry into the OpenBazaar network.
If government agencies issued strict regulatory guidelines it wouldn’t significantly disrupt the OpenBazaar ecosystem due to a reliance on the token.
These conditions may or may not be able to ever be satisfied but OpenBazaar is open-source and we love to hear feedback on our ideas. If you believe an OpenBazaar Token is good idea (or not), please let us know why. Join our Slack or message us on Twitter.
Download OpenBazaar and check it out!
10 Great Father’s Day Gifts on OpenBazaar
OpenBazaar has what you need for the crypto-loving dad in your life–AND/OR to put your favorite coin into action as the crypto-evangelist that you are!
Check out these items & note a quick pro tip: before you make a purchase make sure you choose a good moderator and if shipping is needed, read the shipping details to see if you can get your items shipped in time from the seller’s location.
For the fidgeter
Wooden fidget spinner: View // Buy on OpenBazaar
0.002 BTC
For the multitasker
Swiss army knife: View // Buy on OpenBazaar
For the world traveler
Apartment for rent in Barcelona, Spain: View // Buy on OpenBazaar
For the beardly man
All-natural, handmade beard oil: View // Buy on OpenBazaar
For the Bitcoin enthusiast
Orange Bitcoin tee: View // Buy on OpenBazaar
For the comic collector
Pretty much anything from CryptoCollectibles: View // Buy on OpenBazaar
BTC varies
For the crypto-newbie
The Internet of Money book: View // Buy on OpenBazaar
For the artful accessorizer
Hand Crafted Wooden Ring: View // Buy on OpenBazaar
For the tasteful organizer
Handmade leather wallet: View // Buy on OpenBazaar
For the guy who has it all:
LED Endoscope Waterproof Borescope Inspection Camera: View // Buy on OpenBazaar
Would you like to have a store on OpenBazaar?
Becoming a vendor is easy and completely free! Check out our Vendor’s Guide to OpenBazaar
OpenBazaar’s Bigger Picture in The Bitcoin Debates
June 7, 2017 June 9, 2017 OB1 Team
You could get whiplash trying to track the what’s-what and the who’s-who of Bitcoin. Just as the value is regularly breaking records now the debates are hotter than ever over the future of this blockchain that spawned a thousand blockchains.
No doubt Bitcoin is an important development in technology–some would say as important as the internet itself. Many also liken the energy around it to the time when the internet was developing for users and forward-thinkers knew it would be big, but not yet what all it could actually do. Now we can see the tools it birthed such as email and mobile and today we can see the impact those things have had.
We know enough about it now to know that it’s a pretty big deal but the questions of why, how and for whom still hang in our digital air.
How is a company who wants to build applications that use Bitcoin supposed to keep up?
Bitcoin is still king in this space but it is just the beginning of a huge new way of connecting, creating and sharing value online. It represents, we believe, the advent of a new internet. And that vision sparks technology which, in turn, sparks more vision.
Or as, allegedly, Marshall McLuhan stated in 1967:
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.”
The initial vision for Bitcoin was simply a peer-to-peer digital currency that would allow people to exchange payments without middlemen. Now it’s spawned many offshoots that are basically ideological playgrounds for what this sort of public ledger technology can really do. Each of these now are like puzzle pieces, microorganisms that are co-evolving in technology much like they do in nature.
We have experienced this personally with OpenBazaar where a new file storage protocol that didn’t materially exist just 3 years ago emerged with incredible implications for the protocol that we had built around that time. The choice to build version 2.0 on IPFS was pretty easy as it was an exact piece that was missing from our own puzzle. But it wasn’t shoved in the couch cushions, it simply didn’t exist yet. And that is awesome. It resulted in a lot of new work but we didn’t begrudge it. We transitioned with excitement and anticipation because we know why we’re doing what we’re doing.
We keep up by focusing on the bigger picture.
OpenBazaar is a marketplace that makes it easy for users to exchange goods and services for a cryptocurrency. And as the name itself implies, we believe in cryptocurrencies that can be used as a currency, a medium of everyday types of purchases.
We believe this because we want to live in a world with fewer barriers. We want to see a world where people can build what they want and where beautiful things happen when their work and tools overlap and complement one another. We believe in people making choices for themselves and taking ownership and control of what they do.
From code to lifestyle, we want to create tools that provide access, tools that allow everyone to figure out the kind of life they’d like to build, from wherever they are in the world.
Right now the path we need is paved with Bitcoin, which we love continue to champion, but it’s really about the vision of what Bitcoin represents–not the specific technology. Bitcoin may fail, but decentralization is guiding the ship for us.
We believe in faster, cheaper, better technology that connects more people with fewer barriers.
The only way through is through. That means boots-on-the-ground, roll-up-the-sleeves through. If you’re curious what the future looks like, then build it with us.
A free marketplace. No fees. No restrictions. Earn bitcoin.
Consensus 2017 — The Immediate Future of Bitcoin & ICO Madness
Wow, what a wild week it has been! Between attending the blockchain industry’s biggest event and the skyrocketing prices of just about every cryptocurrency — especially Bitcoin — capped with a holiday weekend, we are still reeling. We are all back at our desks though and finally had a chance to unpack some of our thoughts about CoinDesk’s annual event, Consensus, in beautiful New York City!
10,000 Foot View
First, the event was huge. Tickets were sold out and almost 3,000 people were in attendance across 4-5 floors. Speakers & panels were often down to standing room only and some great topics were covered like Can Bitcoin Scale? and Chasing Privacy in Blockchains among many other discussions & presentations on the business & technical applications of blockchain.
Second, you couldn’t help but realize that cryptocurrencies besides Bitcoin are gaining fast in their validity and tokens/Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) may still be controversial, but they are big business at the moment with a lot of money to show for it. Everyone was interested in learning about ICO case studies and their future as a serious business model beneath the looming cloud of regulation.
Third, it seems that Bitcoin still has some battles ahead of it still as miners, developers and users continue to wrestle with the best way to scale it. Fundamentally it will come down to the question of defining what BTC really is—a currency or a security — either by declaration or action.
We have our own thoughts about this and were also excited to soft launch a new campaign we are working on as the OB1 team to share them. Check out Crypto Is Currency Day coming up this September and join us if you believe in the mission of digital currencies we can actually acquire & spend easily & efficiently.
To conclude, we also wanted to share few other exciting thing that were shared by some of our excellent partners at the event!
Prism is a new service from Shapeshift that uses Ethereum to allow users to invest in a basket of cryptocurrencies of their choosing. In their words, “Prism is a platform upon which humans and machines can acquire exposure to portfolios of digital assets without trusting a counterparty.” We think non-custodian exchanges like this is a big step in the right direction to protect users and provide more privacy and security to traders. More details here
Protocol Labs, the company behind IPFS, teamed up with AngelList to create a new platform for token sales, called CoinList. We’re interested to see more of their work here which is aiming to legitimize crowdfunding crypto projects through ICOs within the United States and providing opportunities for them to stay here instead of moving offshore. More details here
Next, we are proud to announce our newest partnership with Digital Currency Group (DCG) as a strategic investor! This is very exciting for us as DCG is the most active investor and business incubator in the bitcoin and blockchain industry and they share a vision for the future of commerce where digital currencies are more accessible and usable for everyone. See our press release for more information.
Finally, for more of our thoughts on the event, check out this brief YouTube Live video we recorded this week with another partner of ours, Jeremy, CEO of Never Stop Marketing.
We are really energized by the members of our community who are working hard to build the financial future they want to see and we are privileged to be working with them. It’s really a gift to be surrounded by smart, driven people who are building excellent products and companies and we can’t wait to tell you more about the irons we have in the fire with them soon!
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May 19, 2017 May 19, 2017 OB1 Team
Development of the OpenBazaar 2.0 software continues according to our roadmap, and today we publish the Milestone 2 developer release. Please note that this release is not yet feature complete, and cannot be used for real transactions yet.
Milestone 2 focuses on discoverability of listings / stores, as well as communication. Third party search is now accessible within the client. Chat is also fully functional. Channels were planned for Milestone 2, but have been moved to later in development. Full release notes below.
Server changes:
Added wallet tests. Made profile caching smarter. Various bug fixes.
Client changes:
The transactions screen is now viewable with partial functionality.
The purchasing screen is now viewable with partial functionality.
The context menu will now appear on a right click.
The context menu has commands for zooming the screen in and out.
The screen can also be zoomed in and out using the keyboard (command or control plus – or =).
The message button in the moderator details screen is now functional.
Default User Name
The default user name is now a shorter random string of characters.
Transactions are shown as confirmed on the 6th confirmation now, instead of the 7th.
The profile now uses a local url instead of a ipns url.
Cached Profiles
A new functionality was added to use cached profile data in situations were it is not critical that the data be fresh. This has been implemented in the chat sidebar.
A bug where radio buttons were not always sized the same was fixed. #434
A bug that caused the QR code in about/donate to be horizontally compressed was fixed. #433
The contentBox style was set to break and wrap very long words so they would not extend past their container. #396
A bug was fixed where old profiles were identified as moderators, but did not have moderation data.
The handling of emojis was made more flexible and consistent.
The QR code in the wallet is now correct.
The sort by drop down in search now works correctly.
Layout bugs with the filter labels and emojis in the search screen were fixed.
A bug where the categories parameter in a store page can be null was fixed.
A bug with routing to a listing address was fixed.
The server name is now shown correctly in the page navigation menu. #454
OpenBazaar 2.0 – New Developer Release – 2.0.3
April 22, 2017 April 22, 2017 OB1 Team
This is the third release according to our new schedule of publishing releases on a two week sprint cycle. As a reminder, these releases are for developers and those looking to test only; the product is not ready for real transactions yet!
Yesterday we released a new developer release – version 2.0.3 – of OpenBazaar. Here is a brief overview of the new features available:
Back End:
We’ve done some housecleaning, making the code more consistent and robust.
The ability to use images for variants was added. This is not yet supported in the reference client.
An API was added to get an estimate of the fee for a transaction.
An API was added to get the estimated total for a transaction.
Accepted currency was added to the moderator information.
The listing format was updated to return an object instead of an array.
Endpoints were added to get the avatar and header of a user via their peerID.
Search has been added to the reference client. It defaults to use the OB1 search service (this can be changed in the user’s settings).
The wallet can now send and receive funds. Make sure to set your node to use the testnet if you use the wallet.
The wallet will show a list of your transactions now.
Various bugs were fixed.
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Drug Abuse Trajectories in the Transition to Adulthood: Risk Factors and Outcomes
Arria, Amelia M.
University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
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An estimated 21 percent of the nation's 7.5 million full-time college students have used an illicit drug in the past month. Moreover, our work over the past three years has documented that concurrent nonmedical prescription drug use, other illicit drug use, and heavy drinking can all potentially affect the health, safety and well-being of college students. Unfortunately, most prior research on college students has focused solely on alcohol;the few studies on college student drug use and associated problems have had limited explanatory power or have not covered a wide scope of risk factors and consequences. Questions regarding the persistence of drug problems, (including substance use disorder) and their sequelae after college remain unanswered. This knowledge gap has severely hampered drug prevention efforts and preventive health care services for young adults. In 2003, our investigative team began an unprecedented NIDA- funded initiative to address this gap-and learn more about the natural history and consequences of illicit drug use among college students. Systematic sampling yielded a cohort of 1253 students for a longitudinal prospective study, of which 95 percent are still active in the study after 3 years of follow-up. In-depth annual interviews have yielded a rich dataset containing a wide array risk factors and outcomes. All students, regardless of academic status, are still being studied. This renewal application builds on our previous findings and proposes to continue our follow-up of this valuable cohort to answer new questions about psychosocial and physical health outcomes as they transition to adulthood. Specifically, it aims to: 1) study the persistence of drug use trajectories, including the resolution of drug problems and development of dependence;2) understand how college drug use might interfere with achieving developmental milestones such as occupational goals and adaptive social support structures;3) examine the reciprocal relationships over time of drug use and mental health in relation to physical health (including high-risk sexual behaviors) and quality of life;and, 4) examine potential adverse long-term consequences of cocaine and nonmedical prescription drug use, which have both significantly increased over time in our sample. This renewal offers the field a rare opportunity to probe into new transdisciplinary areas of research, and will use prospective multidimensional modeling that will take advantage of ten years of data to understand their health and functioning in the post-college period. The continuation of this study will maximize the return on NIDA's earlier investment in the project. Ultimately, the results will lead to innovative drug abuse intervention strategies, shape clinical decision-making, and improve health service delivery systems for young adults. Our ambitious and comprehensive approach ensures that this longitudinal prospective study will answer major questions about how to reduce the long-term personal and family turmoil associated with drug abuse, enable young adults to fulfill their individual potential, and reduce unnecessary economic costs to society.
This renewal application to continue following a longitudinal cohort of 1253 college students has broad public health implications in that it focuses on three of the most significant health outcomes affecting young adults (i.e., drug abuse, mental disorders, and sexually transmitted diseases). The project will continue to measure a wide array of risk and protective factors, and is informed by a longitudinal developmental perspective;therefore, it has great potential for elucidating targets for drug abuse prevention in particular, and the delivery of health care services in general for young adults. Our ambitious and comprehensive approach will enable us to identify points at which problematic trajectories can be changed to avoid long-term consequences, enable young adults to fulfill their individual potential, and reduce unnecessary economic costs to society.
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5R01DA014845-10
Behavioral Genetics and Epidemiology Study Section (BGES)
Obrien, Moira
University of Maryland College Park
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Arria, Amelia M; Geisner, Irene M; Cimini, M Dolores et al. (2018) Perceived academic benefit is associated with nonmedical prescription stimulant use among college students. Addict Behav 76:27-33
Arria, Amelia M; Jernigan, David H (2018) Addressing College Drinking as a Statewide Public Health Problem: Key Findings From the Maryland Collaborative. Health Promot Pract 19:303-313
Ross, Melissa M; Arria, Amelia M; Brown, Jessica P et al. (2018) College students' perceived benefit-to-risk tradeoffs for nonmedical use of prescription stimulants: Implications for intervention designs. Addict Behav 79:45-51
Payne-Sturges, Devon C; Tjaden, Allison; Caldeira, Kimberly M et al. (2018) Student Hunger on Campus: Food Insecurity Among College Students and Implications for Academic Institutions. Am J Health Promot 32:349-354
Morioka, Christine K; Howard, Donna E; Caldeira, Kimberly M et al. (2018) Affective dysregulation predicts incident nonmedical prescription analgesic use among college students. Addict Behav 76:328-334
Caldeira, Kimberly M; Arria, Amelia M; Allen, Hannah K et al. (2017) Continuity of drunk and drugged driving behaviors four years post-college. Drug Alcohol Depend 180:332-339
Arria, Amelia M; Caldeira, Kimberly M; Vincent, Kathryn B et al. (2017) Do college students improve their grades by using prescription stimulants nonmedically? Addict Behav 65:245-249
Arria, Amelia M; Caldeira, Kimberly M; Bugbee, Brittany A et al. (2017) Trajectories of energy drink consumption and subsequent drug use during young adulthood. Drug Alcohol Depend 179:424-432
Allen, Hannah K; Caldeira, Kimberly M; Bugbee, Brittany A et al. (2017) Drug involvement during and after college: Estimates of opportunity and use given opportunity. Drug Alcohol Depend 174:150-157
Caldeira, Kimberly M; Arria, Amelia M; O'Grady, Kevin E et al. (2017) Risk factors for gambling and substance use among recent college students. Drug Alcohol Depend 179:280-290
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