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Updated Jan-12-2018, 13:40:51 GMT
Silicon Valley siphons our data like oil. But the deepest drilling has just begun
#artificialintelligence Aug-24-2017, 10:30:04 GMT
Customers in the UK will soon find out. Recent reports suggest that three of the country's largest supermarket chains are rolling out surge pricing in select stores. This means that prices will rise and fall over the course of the day in response to demand. Buying lunch at lunchtime will be like ordering an Uber at rush hour. This may sound pretty drastic, but far more radical changes are on the horizon.
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The Guardian Aug-23-2017, 08:40:26 GMT
Customers in the UK will soon find out. Recent reports suggest that three of the country's largest supermarket chains are rolling out surge-pricing in select stores. This means that prices will rise and fall over the course of the day in response to demand. Buying lunch at lunchtime will be like ordering an Uber at rush hour. This may sound pretty drastic, but far more radical changes are on the horizon.
Data mining, text mining, natural language processing, and computational linguistics: some definitions
#artificialintelligence May-7-2016, 19:10:48 GMT
Every once in a while an innocuous technical term suddenly enters public discourse with a bizarrely negative connotation. I first noticed the phenomenon some years ago, when I saw a Republican politician accusing Hillary Clinton of "parsing." From the disgust with which he said it, he clearly seemed to feel that parsing was morally equivalent to puppy-drowning. It seemed quite odd to me, since I'd only ever heard the word "parse" used to refer to the computer analysis of sentence structures. The most recent word to suddenly find itself stigmatized by Republicans (yes, it does somehow always seem to be Republican politicians who are involved in this particular kind of linguistic bullshittery) is "encryption."
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23-bit Metaknowledge Template Towards Big Data Knowledge Discovery and Management
Bari, Nima, Vichr, Roman, Kowsari, Kamran, Berkovich, Simon Y.
arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence Mar-1-2015
The global influence of Big Data is not only growing but seemingly endless. The trend is leaning towards knowledge that is attained easily and quickly from massive pools of Big Data. Today we are living in the technological world that Dr. Usama Fayyad and his distinguished research fellows discussed in the introductory explanations of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) predicted nearly two decades ago. Indeed, they were precise in their outlook on Big Data analytics. In fact, the continued improvement of the interoperability of machine learning, statistics, database building and querying fused to create this increasingly popular science- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. The next generation computational theories are geared towards helping to extract insightful knowledge from even larger volumes of data at higher rates of speed. As the trend increases in popularity, the need for a highly adaptive solution for knowledge discovery will be necessary. In this research paper, we are introducing the investigation and development of 23 bit-questions for a Metaknowledge template for Big Data Processing and clustering purposes. This research aims to demonstrate the construction of this methodology and proves the validity and the beneficial utilization that brings Knowledge Discovery from Big Data.
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How Industrial IOT is Influenced by Cognitive Anomaly Detection
@machinelearnbot Jan-12-2018, 13:40:51 GMT
The progress of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its industrial usage has been nothing short of amazing. The IoT as we know it has been aided through the help of organizations owning up the process and implementing the results to garner a more efficient system. Since I have been associated with Big Data, Machine Learning, and Data Science over an extensive period of time, the implications in IoT and how most industrial giants need external assistance is nothing new for me. In fact, you can take a look at the IoT sphere of today through an eye as experienced as mine, and you will be able to gauge what the implication is all about it.
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Frightening Prophetic Dream: 'Son, I'm Not Coming Back Yet'
DeVon Franklin to Produce NBC's New Drama Based on 'Conflict and Secrets' of Gospel Music Industry
5:00PM EST 12/5/2019 Jenny Rose Spaudo
DeVon Franklin and his wife, Meagan Good (Facebook/DeVon Franklin)
Christian movie producer DeVon Franklin is excited to co-produce NBC's new faith-based drama Kingdom Business.
Kingdom Business will offer a behind-the-scenes peek at the gospel music industry—without the sugar coating. The TV drama portrays the "conflict and secrets that come with money, fame and success," according to Deadline.
Franklin shared his excitement with his Instagram followers on Tuesday, saying, "Can't wait for y'all to see this!!!"
Can't wait for y'all to see this!!! EXCLUSIVE: NBC has put in development Kingdom Business, a gospel music industry drama produced by DeVon Franklin's Franklin Entertainment, Holly Carter's Relevé Entertainment, Kirk Franklin and Fo Yo Soul Entertainment, Michael Van Dyck's Inspired Entertainment and Universal TV, a division of NBCUniversal Content Studios. Written by John Sakmar and Kerry Lenhart (Reign, The Glades), Kingdom Business is a behind-the-scenes look into the world of the gospel music industry and all of the conflict and secrets that come with money, fame and success. #franklinentertainment #releve #foyosoul #wonthedoit
A post shared by DeVon Franklin (@devonfranklin) on Dec 2, 2019 at 5:11pm PST
This isn't the first faith-based production Franklin has been involved in. His Christian films include Miracles From Heaven (starring Jennifer Garner and Queen Latifah) and Breakthrough, which stars Chrissy Metz and highlights the true story of John Smith, a young boy who came back to life after being dead over an hour. Franklin is currently working on Flamin' Hot (directed by Eva Longoria), which follows the life of the man who created the spicy snack food Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
Kingdom Business is written by John Sakmar and Kerry Lenhart, who helped produce the drama, as did gospel singer Kirk Franklin and media producer Holly Carter.
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Distribution and Abundance of Phytoplankton, Zooplankton, Ichthyoplankton, and Micronekton in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico
Douglas C. Biggs, Texas A&M University
Patrick H. Ressler, Texas A&M University
Expeditions in the 1960s and 1970s are the basis for the general paradigm that standing stocks and productivity of phytoplankton are both low ( <0.1 mg chl·m-3; <150 mg C.m-2·d-1) seaward of the shelf-slope break in the Gulf of Mexico. The present review supports this description of the mean (stable) state but also shows "hot spots" in primary production (>2 g C·m-2·d-1) occur when/where nutrient availability is locally enhanced seaward of the shelf-slope break. Recent collections with Bongo and MOCNESS nets, midwater trawls, and bioacoustic surveys of the Loop Current and associated cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies in the Gulf of Mexico show that these deepwater "hot spots" have higher stocks of zooplankton and micronekton as well. The local aggregations ranged in size from coarse- to meso- spatial scales (10s to 100s of kilometers) though locations of such "oases" were spatially variable along the continental margin.
Biggs, D. C. and P. H. Ressler. 2001. Distribution and Abundance of Phytoplankton, Zooplankton, Ichthyoplankton, and Micronekton in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Gulf of Mexico Science 19 (1).
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Middlebury's fro-yo shop adds bubble tea
Tue, 07/09/2019 - 2:30pm admin
Nora Peachin
ANDY AND BINGBING Li opened Yogurt City in Middlebury four years ago. This summer they’re offering a Taiwanese specialty drink that’s all the rage these days — bubble tea. It’s a sweet concoction of a variety of flavors punctuated with tapioca balls. Independent photo/Steve James
MIDDLEBURY — It’s Fourth of July – time for parades, barbecues, fireworks. Of course, nothing goes better with this trio than a refreshing sweet treat. But, instead of a classic creemee, why not try something a little different this year?
Something that’s sweet, milky, has a variety of flavors and the thrill of slurping one jelly ball after the next through probably the widest straw you’ve ever seen.
What is this magical concoction? Bubble tea, a tea-based drink typically mixed with milk or fruits, sugar, and topped off with tapioca balls. The drink, first created in Taiwan in the mid-1980s, has now made it all the way to downtown Middlebury.
Husband and wife team Andy and BingBing Li have been serving frozen yogurt at Yogurt City for four seasons. This summer will be their first offering bubble tea, along with milkshakes, smoothies and other beverages.
The Main Street shop, next to the Marquis Theater, has always attracted locals and college students alike. Now, customers are flocking to the store to experience the expansive new menu. The Lis sell bubble teas in traditional flavors like green or black tea, but the options also extend to more original flavors like chocolate or strawberry.
Li and his family first immigrated from China in 1997 to join his family’s restaurant business in Burlington — originally No. 1 Chinese Restaurant, now renamed Fuda. After living in the Queen City for a few years, the couple searched for a location to open a second restaurant, and found a space on Seymour Street where they opened China House.
In May 2014, the family made the transition from Chinese cuisine to frozen yogurt; they closed China House and opened Yogurt City. Li cited demand from college students as the main reason for the addition of bubble tea this March.
Don Wyatt, Director of East Asian Studies at Middlebury College, sees this demand as a reflection of how Middlebury College students influence the town.
“The college is an international institution, which has contributed to the local community becoming more international,” he said.
Li was also inspired by a new bubble tea shop in Burlington at the time, that found great success in selling the beverage. “And, the combination seemed to be good — frozen yogurt and bubble tea,” he added.
So, Li and his wife drove down to New York City in February to partake in a professional bubble tea-making course. They learned about the traditional flavors and preparations, and now order all their bubble tea supplies directly from the company they trained with.
At the time of their training, bubble tea had already spread from Taiwan to cities like New York and San Francisco, and become a global phenomenon.
The drink is an emblem of national pride for Taiwan, “largely because it is definitively Taiwanese,” explained Wyatt. “It has become an important symbol for youth culture worldwide, as well,” he continued.
The tea is “something that people of a small island nation can give to the broader world,” Wyatt said. Wyatt personally enjoys the matcha flavor — the finely ground powder of Japanese green tea leaves. “Among the things I appreciate about it is that it is usually made with something other than cow’s milk… and also its versatility, being equally tasty whether hot or cold, in winter or in summer.”
“I want to share bubble tea with people,” said Li — plain and simple. “Some people have never even heard of it, and it’s so popular in Asia.”
Li added that he feels he is bringing something new and different to Middlebury with his business; he provides curious customers with samples and has found that “a lot of people try it and love it.”
Middlebury College student Jackson Evans is one of many appreciative customers. “I come from a place (Melbourne, Australia) that has a large southeast Asian influence, and being able to connect back to home through bubble tea is something that is very impactful on my wellbeing at Middlebury,” Evans said.
“The vegan options and well cooked bubbles remind me of home and the staff is incredibly friendly, and willing to help me with my Chinese,” he added.
“Cuisine is one of those areas where we are seeing the greatest amount of cultural convergence worldwide,” Wyatt said. “People are at ease, even eager, to sample the cuisines of what in earlier times would have been alien cultures. To me, as a historian, that’s something I view as progress.”
For a long time, Chinese restaurants and businesses were ghettoized to particular areas like Chinatowns, Wyatt recounted. “But we have moved beyond that now, such that many Asian cuisines have become part of the national landscape.” Wyatt sees this as indicative of a convergence of cultures, and a step in the right direction.
Beyond the cultural significance of the store, it also serves as a gathering spot day-to-day for locals to enjoy something delicious. Li is proud that his business makes the downtown of “a very quiet town, more lively.”
The new beverages have brought more business to the store. “We’re doing very well — a lot better than when we were just selling frozen yogurt,” Li said, adding that he hopes to continue broadening customer’s culinary horizons and serving refreshing drinks through the hot summer months.
Never had bubble tea before? Stop in and slurp down some sweet tapioca balls with a side of cultural convergence.
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Dog the Bounty Hunter's Colorado store burglarized, wife Beth Chapman's gear stolen
EDGEWATER, Colo. -- Reality TV star Duane "Dog" Chapman is calling on the person who broke into a Colorado business he owns and stole show merchandise and items belonging to his late wife to turn himself in.
Chapman told reporters in the Denver suburb of Edgewater on Friday that he'll ask police not to press charges if the person surrenders in the next 48 hours.
Chapman spoke outside his damaged storefront as police released surveillance video of a man suspected in Monday night's burglary.
Chapman said the stolen items included the bounty-hunting gear of his late wife, Beth Chapman, who died in June after battling cancer. But the star of the "Dog the Bounty Hunter" franchise said he's leaving the case to police.
"The guy has 48 hours to call me and ask for forgiveness," Chapman said.
Chapman's business is on a busy street that borders Denver.
Police Chief John Mackey said the suspect had a large backpack, was in the store for a short amount of time and left without anything in his hands. Police believe some of the merchandise may already be being sold on online.
A passerby discovered a broken glass door early Tuesday at the business. Police Cpl. Bob Brink said earlier Friday that officers boarded the door after they couldn't reach anyone affiliated with the business, called "Free as a Bird Bail Bond."
Someone with the firm reported the burglary on Thursday, Brink said. The business is not open to the public.
Employees were still putting together an inventory of what was taken. Inside the store, some racks for hoodies and T-shirts were empty. A computer and cash register were dumped in a pile behind a front counter, and a "Dog the Bounty Hunter" mug was smashed in a nearby case holding mugs and books.
As Chapman spoke on a narrow sidewalk outside the store, some passing motorists yelled out their support. Chapman said he cried after touring the store and that the one thing he wants back the most is a Taser used by Beth Chapman.
Funeral services were held July 13 in Beth Chapman's home state of Colorado.
The Chapmans starred in the A&E show for eight seasons until it was canceled in 2012. The show followed the couple as they apprehended people who avoided arrest warrants.
They later starred in Country Music Television's "Dog & Beth: On the Hunt." WGN America is in production on a new series featuring the couple called "Dog's Most Wanted," set to premiere Sept. 4.
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Fresno County deputy resigns after being arrested for second time in 2 months
By Cory James
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A former Fresno County sheriff's deputy is in jail for violating a restraining order filed after he allegedly attacked his girlfriend.
That incident happened back in May at 51-year-old David Raquenio's home in Clovis.
RELATED: Fresno Co. Sheriff's deputy arrested, charged with felony domestic violence
His neighbors in his Harlan Ranch community say the news of the arrest on Thursday is unsettling and shocking.
They say they were shocked to learn their law enforcement neighbor was arrested for the second time in less than three months.
The restraining order was put into place after Raquenio allegedly got into a fight with his girlfriend back in May, leaving multiple bruises on her body.
Sgt. Jim Munro with Clovis Police says officers arrested Raquenio near Me 'N Eds Pizza on Fowler and Ashlan.
He tells us evidence revealed Raquenio disregarded the protective order.
Raquenio joined the Fresno County Sheriff's Office nearly 20 years ago.
In 2016, he was given the Top Cop award for helping save the life of a car crash victim.
This January, he was also part of a rescue in a remote area near Shaver Lake.
The Fresno County Sheriff's Office speaking out about the recent arrest says, "David Raquenio is no longer an employee with the Fresno County Sheriff's Office. We are aware of his rearrest and continue to take appropriate action to deal with the matter."
Raquenio's bail is set at $305,000.
He is currently in a protected area of the jail.
After he was placed on unpaid administrative leave, authorities say Raquenio resigned from his job as a Fresno County Sheriff's deputy.
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BREAKING NEWSWatch ABC7 Eyewitness News live
LA's Measure W would charge property owners to help recycle rainwater
By Carlos Granda
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Proponents say it's all about rainwater.
"Traditionally every drop that drops here we've engineered to wash out to the ocean so we need to capture and clean the water that falls here and put it to good use," says Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
To pay for all this Measure W would place a new tax on property. The tax would be on what is called "impermeable area" such as your house your driveway, concrete patios. Anything that stops rainwater from going into the ground.
"The people who can least afford this are paying this... Los Angeles County residents. Right now we are facing a housing crisis and an affordability crisis and right now we cant afford it," says D'Andre Valencia from the L.A. County Business Federation.
How much will this cost you? There is a calculator on the Measure W website to help you figure it out. We went to one neighborhood and found Greg Smith. We put in the numbers and for his home in Burbank the additional tax would be about $64 a year.
"In politicians' minds we aren't collecting enough because we have to fix this, we have to adjust that. I'm for putting them on a diet and getting a little control over their spending," says Smith.
All together the tax would raise about $300 million a year. Opponents say a big problem is there is no plan on what to do with the money.
According to Valencia "They're asking for the money up front and saying they're going to do due diligence and get it right."
"We are going to pay for this one way or another. I would rather pay it upfront than pay for it later," says Garcetti.
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Rod Blagojevich convictions vacated on 5 counts; Not eligible for release during re-trial
By ABC 7 Eyewitness News Team Coverage
CHICAGO (WLS) -- An appeals court vacated five convictions and threw out the sentence of former Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday afternoon. The rest of Blagojevich's convictions were affirmed by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago.
"He's optimistic that justice will prevail eventually," said Patti Blagojevich, his wife.
The Blagojevich family and his legal team were hoping for more, calling the ruling "disappointing" and "shocking". Though the appeals court threw out five counts, they said the long-awaited decision "is not justice."
FULL VIDEO: BLAGOJEVICH FAMILY, ATTORNEY ON RULING
Blagojevich family 'disappointed'
"We are very disappointed," Patti Blagojevich said from the family's Ravenswood Manor home.
"My advice to the governor is he should fight on," said Leonard Goodman, Blagojevich appellate attorney.
If Blagojevich chooses to appeal, he must tell the court within the next two weeks. But with five counts thrown out, the former governor will at some point be re-sentenced, and his attorneys will argue that his 14 years be dramatically reduced.
"Most people would look at this and say 'Wow, if a quarter of his counts were reversed, and so a quarter of his sentence should be taken off' - but that's not the way that it works," said Lauren Kaeseberg, Blagojevich attorney.
Trial Judge James Zagel could reduce the sentence, but guidelines also would permit him to leave it unchanged. The Blagojevich family hopes the former is the case.
"There's been so much over the last three-and-a-half years that Rod's missed: high school graduations, proms, birthdays. If there's any silver lining perhaps this is a step in the right direction in getting him home with us," Patti Blagojevich said.
OVERTURNED COUNTS INVOLVE U.S. SENATE SEAT
Blagojevich was convicted on 18 corruption counts over two trials. The five vacated counts involve Blagojevich's attempt to sell an appointment to President Barack Obama's old Senate seat for campaign money or a job.
The vacated counts are:
-Counts 5, 6 wire fraud;
-Count 21, extortion conspiracy;
-Count 22, attempted extortion;
-and Count 23, bribery conspiracy.
The ruling finds faults with the jury instructions for treating "all proposals alike. We conclude, however, that they are legally different: a proposal to trade one public act for another, a form of logrolling, is fundamentally unlike the swap of an official act for a private payment... Because the instructions do not enable us to be sure that the jury found that Blagojevich offered to trade the appointment for a private salary after leaving the Governorship, these convictions cannot stand."
If the prosecutor elects to drop the vacated charges, the district court could proceed directly to re-sentencing on the remaining 13 convictions only, according to the court document USA v. Rod Blagojevich.
"The sentence is VACATED, and REMANDED for retrial on the vacated counts," according to the ruling, which was filed by Judge Frank H. Easterbrook on Tuesday afternoon. The ruling also indicated that even without those five convictions, Blagojevich's 14-year sentence was appropriate, so he "is not entitled to be released pending further proceedings," according to the document.
VIDEO: ANOTHER BLAGOJEVICH TRIAL UNLIKELY, EXPERT SAYS
Ex- Blagojevich attorney speaks
Prosecutors are not expected to retry Rod Blagojevich on the five convictions that were overturned by an appeals court Tuesday, a former prosecutor said.
Prosecutors have not said if they will retry Blagojevich, who is currently serving time in a Colorado prison. However, experts say it's unlikely.
"They have two choices. They can retry the counts or just go to sentencing. And when you look at the three prosecutors that led this charge: two of them have already left the office... the last one just got appointed a state judge the other day. So it's safe to say they're not going to retry those counts," former prosecutor Jeff Cramer said.
Resentencing Blagojevich, who has maintained he was engaged in legal, run-of-the-mill politics, will fall to Judge James Zagel. In the appeal, Blagojevich blamed Judge Zagel for a litany or errors.
"I'm just very encouraged and uplifted by the possibility that my brother will get some justice and relief from what to me was an extremely harsh sentence. I'm hopeful that this signal from the appellate court to Judge Zagel and also public reaction to the overly harsh sentence that Rod received, will be noted by Judge Zagel and he'll take some positive action. Give my brother some relief. It's long overdue," Robert Blagojevich said.
Robert Blagojevich was chief fundraiser for his brother. Originally charged in the case, those charges against him were dropped after the first trial ended in a hung jury. Only Rod Blagojevich went on to a second trial.
"Time has passed. And Judge Zagel is a fair man. And I would expect that having those counts thrown out will cause the judge to reconsider the sentence," Goodman said.
In 2011, Judge Zagel said, "When it is the governor who goes bad, the fabric of Illinois is torn and disfigured."
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• Contact Spitzer to Sign Pension Bill
• Campaign of Outrage Update
• Clarion Wins Awards
To let us know what’s going on in your chapter, click here to send an e-mail to PSC Communications Coordinator Dorothee Benz
Contact Governor Spitzer Today to Sign Pension Equity Bill
The ORP pension equity bill that the union has worked seven years to pass is on the governor’s desk, and we need your help to secure his signature and seal the victory on this crucial legislation. You can send a letter to Governor Spitzer right now through the PSC website. You can also write a personal letter to the governor.
The bill (A.8447 and S.5208) was passed by both houses of the State Legislature on June 21. It will, if the governor signs it, give eligible Optional Retirement Plan (ORP) participants (largely those in TIAA-CREF) an effective increase of up to 3% in take-home pay after 10 years of service. This legislation would affect faculty, HEOs, CLTs, Researchers and Continuing Education Teachers—any eligible member in ORP.
At the time of ORP’s creation, the Legislature was explicit in its intent to ensure the equitable treatment of all public retirement systems. Legislation in 2000 gave members of the Employees' Retirement System (ERS) and the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) who had ten years of membership or credited service in the pension system relief from contributions. The bill just passed allows ORP members in Tiers III and IV to catch up with their TRS brethren. If signed by the Governor, it would eliminate the 3% deductions from paychecks (1% each year over three years) and thereby would put an extra 3% in eligible members’ pockets.
The involvement of hundreds of PSC members over the years was critical in getting the bill this far—phone calls, faxes, e-mails to legislators, lobbying trips to Albany and more, it all made a difference. Now we all need to push one last time to get it signed.
Please take a moment now to write a personal letter to Governor Eliot Spitzer. Or, if you prefer, go to the PSC website to send a letter to the governor.
Campaign of Outrage Update
On Wednesday, PSC members took the “Campaign of Outrage” to prospective students on three campuses where the colleges were holding open houses. As “This Week” readers know, the union has mounted pressure on CUNY to change the policy at five colleges that pay teaching adjuncts only two hours during finals week for time they spend proctoring exams rather than the three hours pay rate they receive during the rest of the semester. The reality is that adjuncts, like other faculty, teach as much during finals week as in any other. Shortchanging adjuncts during finals week is not just cheap, it’s blatantly unfair and it’s an insult to our professionalism. At Wednesday’s open house events at Bronx, Queensborough and Kingsborough, members handed out hundreds of flyers and talked to dozens of students; students were generally very responsive and supportive. This action followed the May demonstrations during finals week where PSC members protested outside the administration buildings on all five campuses (the other two campuses are Baruch and Staten Island) and delivered 2,000 petition signatures demanding an end to this embarrassing practice. For more information on the Campaign of Outrage, visit the PSC website.
Clarion Recognized for Excellence
The PSC’s newspaper, Clarion, was recognized once again last week when it won a “best news story” award from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT, our national parent union) in its annual journalism competition. In June, Clarion also won several awards from the Metro New York Labor Communications Council, including first place for “best reporting.”
“We are pushing for a significant legislative victory for PSC members, one that will translate into real economic gains. The pension equity bill now on the governor’s desk represents years of work by PSC members. Getting it passed and signed also demonstrates the union’s growing political clout and recognition in Albany. But first we have to make sure it’s signed! If you can, please take a moment to write a personal letter and send it to the governor here. Or, if you only have a minute, use the PSC website’s 'Act Now' feature to send a pre-written letter; it will literally take only a minute.” ~Steve London, First Vice President
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Categorie archief: Justice
Geplaatst door Anarcho NL op 8 december 2017
Trump’s move on Jerusalem:
“Shedding a mask that every
US president has worn for decades”
Ramzy Baroud, Middle East Monitor, December 7, 2017
“America stands with Israel because her cause is our cause,
her values are our values and her fight is our fight.”
Mike Pence (Christian Zionist), 28-11-2017
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Geplaatst door Anarcho NL op 12 juni 2017
Dome of the Rock – The Praetorium:
A holy place for Christians & Muslims
Josephus then said that Fort Antonia itself was built around a notable “Rock” that was viewed as the centerpiece feature of the interior of the Fort (which was also known as the Praetorium).
This well-recognized “Rock” in the Praetorium around which Fort Antonia was built was called the lithostrotos in the Gospel of John (19:13) and Christ stood on it when judged by Pilate.
O People of the Book! Do not exaggerate in your religion
The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was only a Messenger of God, and His Word,
which He conveyed unto Mary, and a spirit from Him.
(Dome of the Rock inscription)
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Don’t infantilize the people
Only Rational Thinking Can Save The World
Andre Vltchek, Dissident Voice, April 14th, 2017
The West has brought the world to the brink of total collapse, but its citizens, even its intellectuals, are stubbornly refusing to grasp the urgency. Like ostriches, many are hiding their heads in the sand.
There seems to be an acute lack of rational thinking, and especially of people’s ability to grasp the proportions of global occurrences and events.
For years I have been arguing that destroying the ability to compare and to see things from the universal perspective has been one of the most successful endeavors of the Western indoctrination drive (dispersed through education, media/disinformation and ‘culture’).
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Palestine-Israel: Justice versus Security
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Poll: 70% of Israelis prefer right-wing government
Andrew Tobin, Arutz Sheva, 4/04/2017
According to the latest monthly Peace Index, published Tuesday by the Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University, 70% of Israelis prefer a right-wing government. Only 24 percent of the country prefers a left-wing or center-left government.
Fully 81 percent of Jews said they think a right-wing or center-right government is likely to be elected, compared to just 8 percent who said they see a left-wing or center-left government coming to power.
Among Arab Israelis, 58 percent said they want a left-wing government, but only 10 percent predicted this would happen if elections were held in the near future.
A series of polls in recent months have shown Yair Lapid, the head of the centrist Yesh Atid party, challenging Netanyahu for the premiership in snap elections.
Known to read the public mood, Lapid last week said he would try to form a national unity government if given the opportunity.
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Donald Trump Should Embrace a Realist Foreign Policy
John J. Mearsheimer, The National Interest, November 27, 2016
If Donald Trump makes the right choices, he could fundamentally alter U.S. foreign policy for the better.
Trump campaigned against America’s powerful foreign policy community… He accused them of producing “one foreign policy disaster after another,” and promised to “develop a new foreign policy direction for our country.”
This was precisely the message many voters wanted to hear, and the president-elect now has the opportunity to change how the United States deploys its power around the world.
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Israel’s attack on the BDS movement
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Right Wing Israel: ‘BDS supporters are modern Nazis’
By Nitsan Keidar, Arutz Sheva, 4-6-2016
Last week, communication and strategy consultant Roni Rimon attended a conference focused on fighting BDS, which was organized by Israeli ambassador to the UN Danny Danon. While there, he guided groups of students in how to oppose the phenomenon.
“We need to actively go after members of BDS,” he told Arutz Sheva, adding: “We need to fight against them and any group, university or company that boycotts Israel. We need to denounce them, expose them and shame them.” He explained that anyone who gives in to BDS should be revealed as someone who wants to destroy Jews around the world.
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Zionism & Jewish Values
Former UK Chief Rabbi: Anti-Zionism is the new anti-Semitism
By Ari Soffer, Aritz Sheva, 4/4/2016
Britain’s former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has written a blistering oped slamming modern-day anti-Zionism as the “new anti-Semitism.” In his Newsweek article, published Sunday, Rabbi Sacks refers to figures showing how escalating anti-Semitism has left many Jews considering leaving Europe and noted that the phenomenon was quickly spreading to the US, specifically via university campuses.
“Much of the intimidation on campus is stirred by “Israel Apartheid” weeks and the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) campaign against Israel. These have become what Easter was in the Middle Ages, a time for attacks against Jews,” he writes.
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Aussie start-up Tablo, which is shaking up the publishing industry, secures $400,000 seed funding
Gerald Ainomugisha
Australian start-up Tablo, a cloud based e-book publishing platform and writing community, recently secured a $400,000 seed funding round from investors.
Lead investor Paul Reining, former CEO of the Catch Group (Catch of the Day), has also joined Tablo as a Director and Advisor. Reining’s strong background in finance and business development will definitely come in handy for this promising start-up.
Other investors include Kevin Hale, Partner at Y Combinator, and John Buck, one of Tablo’s most successful authors, who has chosen to reinvest his book’s earnings into the business.
This is big news for Tablo: the seed funding follows astonishing organic growth within the company, with 10,000 authors from 100 different countries already signing up.
This funding round will be used to further grow the team and develop new features.
Tablo now intends to turn its attention to building social community features on the platform, making it easy for authors to connect with each other, share their writing with passionate fans, and make writing a less lonely pursuit.
What is the story behind Tablo?
At the age of 19, Melbournian Ash Davies founded Tablo in 2012, with the aim of shaking up the traditional publishing model, after struggling to get his own eBook published.
“A lot of people think that because publishing has gone digital, it’s simple. It’s still incredibly complicated and expensive though, and it’s even harder for an author to have their work discovered,” Davies shared.
He describes Tablo as “a place where you can create, share and discover new books: an online publishing community that allows authors to connect with readers while they write”.
Davies is confident that they have built the best publishing tool in the world, where publishing a book to major bookstores is as easy as publishing a blog. “Authors can drop in a document or write in the cloud and reach the iBookstore and Amazon with a single click.”
Davies explained that the key piece of Tablo though is the underlying social network – the profiles, groups and online communities – that help authors build a following for their work. “The next bestseller can now be discovered before it’s been published,” he remarked.
He also highlighted that because Tablo lives in the cloud, writers can create their next masterpiece from any browser window or mobile device, anywhere, whenever.
Davies further pointed out that best of all; with Tablo, authors get to receive 100 per cent of the royalties and have complete control over who can view their work.
“Ash has already proven he has the innovative ability to solve problems and create real commercial opportunities with Tablo”, lead investor Reining remarked about Davies.
“What really impressed me is his longer term vision for the writing and publishing industry and importantly his ability to execute upon this vision,” he added.
In 2013, Tablo was selected to take part in AngelCube, a mentor-driven start-up accelerator program, which only accepts 10 start-ups a year. In the same year, Davies also managed to make it to the list of Anthill 30under30 winners.
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Tag Archives: STING
Get out your calendars and make a date (or six)
FRESH-AIR FILM FESTIVAL: Yonge-Dundas Square’s weekly line-up this summer features a Tuesday night outdoor film series of heist movies, Safecracker Cinema,
OCEAN'S 11: The original
presented by Cineplex Entertainment. And yes, we’re talking about Free outdoor heist film screenings. “At this price, it’s a steal!” The new series starts June 30, and highlights include special back-to-back screenings of both the original and re-make versions of Ocean’s Eleven, The Thomas Crown Affair and The Italian Job. Other titles include Grand Slam (1967, The Hot Rock (1972), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Out of Sight (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002) and Inside Man (2006) … and good news for Toronto filmfest fans: TiFF types have confirmed that the upcoming 35th (!!!) festival will once again feature a full day of public screenings on the final Sunday September 19.
CALENDAR JOTTINGS: In aid of using music to help street kids change their tune, John McDermott, Jean Stilwell, the Paul Hoffert Jazz Trio and Moshe Hammer and his Hammer Band are set to headline the May 19 fundraiser From Violence To Violins
STILLWELL: pro-Violins
at Integral House … DanceWorks presents the world premiere of Isolated Incidents, a full-length solo work choreographed and performed by Nova Bhattacharya, tomorrow through Saturday at Harbourfront Centre’s Enwave Theatre. Also coming to the Enwave: Gregory Hoskins performing covers of Paul Simon, Nick Cave, Gordon Lightfoot, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Jane Siberry, Cole Porter, Tom Waits, Radiohead and Leonard Cohen, re-imagined for the Art of Time Ensemble on May 25 & 26 … with ash from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano disrupting airline schedules in Europe once again, the North American premiere of The Volcano that Stopped the World couldn’t be much more timely. The special report airs on CBC”s Passionate Eye on this coming Sunday .., Cuban jazz impresarios the Hilario Duran Trio will kick off Esprit Orchestra‘s May 27 Bene Fête (love it!) at the Gardiner Museum … and dance Immersion celebrates its 16th anniversary with a Showcase Presentation of up-and-coming dancers of African descent May 27- 29 at Harbourfront’s Fleck Dance Theatre.
FALLON: hosting
FUTURE SHOCKS: “My Big Fat Greek Wedding meets Sex and the City — with a masala twist!” Okay, not your average tag line. Fenulla Jiwani’s crowd-pleasing comedy 30 Dates returns to T.O. for a limited run June 2-12 at the Berkeley Street Theatre Upstairs … no host announced so far, but expect a lot of star power on stage for the 2010 Tony Awards on June 13 at Radio City Music Hall … it’s official — Sting is set to serenade Torontonians July 23 at the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre … the 11th annual Scotiabank BuskerFest, North America’s largest busker festival and one of Ontario’s Top 100 Festivals, is set to fill our city with street performers August 26-29 … Jimmy Fallon hosts the 2010 Emmy Awards on Sunday Aug. 29 … and talk about advance magazine deadlines: The Walrus publisher Shelley Ambrose and editor John Macfarlane confirm that the award-garnering monthly’s 3rd annual Walrus Foundation Gala is now set for January 19, 2011.
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Tagged 30 Dates, A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Art Of Time Ensemble, Berkeley Street Theatre Upstairs, Catch Me If You Can (2002), CBC Television, Cole Porter, dance immersion, DanceWorks, Emmy Awards, Fenulla Jiwani, Gordon Lightfoot, Grand Slam (1967, Gregory Hoskins Isolated Incidents, Hammer Band, Hilario Duran Trio, Inside Man (2006), Jane Siberry, Jean Stilwell, JIMMY FALLON, John Macfarlane, John McDermott, LEONARD COHEN, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Molson Amphitheatre, Moshe Hammer, Nick Cave, Nova Bhattacharya, Ocean's Eleven, Out of Sight (1998), Paul Simon, Radiohead, Safecracker Cinema, Scotiabank Buskerfest, Shelley Ambrose, STING, the Esprit Orchestra, The Hot Rock (1972), The Italian Job, The Passionate Eye, the Paul Hoffert Jazz Trio, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Volcano That Stopped The World, The Walrus magazine, Tom Waits, Tony Awards, Yonge-Dundas Square
Rachel and Marion love Woody, Jeanne and Barry love to Scrabble, Jerry loves La Cage, and Conan loves Twitter
NO PEOPLE LIKE SHOW PEOPLE: Whatever he’s got, he’s still got it. Woody Allen is set to shoot another film in Paris this summer — mais oui, they love him in France — and
MCADAMS: To Paris with Woody
Rachel McAdams and Marion Cotillard have already signed on … flamboyant figure skater Johnny Weir, the Winter Olympics’ favourite bad boy, is now set to guest with Ice Theatre Of New York at the company’s 2010 Home Season stint April 29-May 1 at Chelsea Pier … John Tory, the new Chair of the TIFF Bell Lightbox campaign, is seeking $17.5 million in gifts needed to complete the TIFF Bell Lightbox between now and the opening of the building, which is still scheduled for this fall … Kelsey Grammer is back on Broadway, currently in previews at the Longacre Theatre for the Olivier Award-winning revival of La Cage Aux Folles that took London by storn. Composer Jerry Herman says this new version “is hysterical, touching, outrageous, ingenious — a revelation from curtain to curtain.” This we gotta see … Channing Tatum and Al Pacino are teaming up for a new screen drama, Son Of No One … and Sebastian Stan, best known for his roles on Gossip Girl and Kings, has joined the cast of Captain America as leading man Chris Evan’s sidekick.
MARCUS TRIO: at Smiling Buddha tonight
SHARPS ‘N’ FLATS: Talk about a musical coup d’etat! Sting, Elton John, Lady Gaga and Dame Shirley Bassey will perform together at Carnegie Hall at a Rainforest Fund benefit concert on May 13. The event will mark the 21st birthday of the charitable organization founded by Sting and Trudie Styler to help protect and preserve the world’s threatened rainforest areas and the pricey tickets includes a gala post-performance dinner at the Plaza … Jann Arden, Tom Cochrane and NHL legend Darryl Sittler are set to join Anne Murray at her 2010 Charity Golf Classic in support of Colon Cancer Canada on May 18 at Angus Glen Golf Club in Markham … at last! Hypnotic singer-songwriter Jane Ford has finally released a new album, All I’ve Needed Most, a five-song EP featuring “some great new tunes I know you’re going to love.” Count me in. Her new album is available on iTunes in the US and Canada. “And Europe. Everywhere actually!” … Justin Bieber pop-rocks tomorrow night on SNL … and professional crowd-pleasers The Marcus Trio return to one of their favourite haunts, The Smiling Buddha Bar on College Street, tonight at 10 pm.
O'BRIEN: networking
TWITTERBUG: Deposed late-night prince Conan O’Brien wasn’t a great believer in social networking until NBC bounced him off his Tonight Show throne. But after being hounded by both his friends and personal Followers (read, Employees) O’Brien finally saw the light. He now has close to a million followers on both Facebook and Twitter. Which is how, with a few well-placed wisecracks, he has managed to almost completely sell out his 30-city comedy tour which kicks off on Monday night. “Five days to the opening of my tour,” he tweeted yesterday. “I don’t want to over-hype this thing, but attendance will cure all known diseases.” His first stop on his sweep of North American cities? Eugene, Oregon.
(Now that’s funny.)
BEKER: all-star Scrabble soiree
SCRABBLE RABBLE: Autograph collectors should have a field day Monday night at the 6th annual Scrabble® With The Stars soiree at the King Suites. Returning hosts Jeanne Beker and Barry Flatman will welcome so many marquee names that I can’t possible mention them all here. Suffice it to say that the glamourous role call includes Angela Asher, Jaymz Bee, Mark Breslin, Dave Broadfoot, Dinah Christie, Arlene Duncan, Jayne Eastwood, Lili Francks, Graham Greene, C. David Johnson, Deb McGrath, Sheila McCarthy, Colin Mochrie, Micki Moore, Eric Peterson, Leah Pinsent, Avery Saltzman, Elizabeth Shepherd, Paul Soles, Amy Sky, Theresa Tova, Robin Ward, Sara Waxman and enduring entertainment icons Sharon, Lois & Bram, all in aid of the Performing Arts Lodge (PAL) of Toronto. Tickets include dinner, a game of Scrabble with a celebrity and a tax receipt, and as usual there’s only a handful of tickets left. So if you want to play, don’t delay — just click here!
And have a great weekend.
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Now where was I? … ah yes, as I was saying …
Can’t say I wasn’t warned.
I believe the Latin term for it is bloggus interruptus.
It’s that peculiar brand of self-delusion that makes you believe you can still blog while you’re 30,000 feet up in the air, or on a train speeding through Switzerland, or, or …
GARBER: winner
You can’t. Well, at least, I can’t. And so I’ve finally learned. (I hope.) I didn’t run out of steam. I didn’t run out of things to blog about. I just ran out of time to blog ’em. Time-management is not my strong suit. Never has been, Never will be. I still make a daily To Do lists that Hercules himself would need a week to accomplish, and at the end of the day I am still mystified because, despite the dozens that may already be crossed off, so many items still remain To Do.
Rationally, of course, I fully expect to miss a blog deadline every now and then. But not for 10 days in a row!!
My bad. And mine to correct.
RIVERS: roastee
TO THIS VICTOR GO THE SPOILS: Four-time Tony nominee and six-time Emmy nominee Victor Garber (Alias, Milk,) who received a big welcome home from Broadway when he moved back to New York from L.A., will miss the Tony Awards this year. On Sunday June 7 Garber will be in Alberta to receive the Cineflix Award of Excellence at the 30th edition of the Banff World Television Festival … Robin Williams has rescheduled his cancelled March stint at Casino Rama and will now do two nights on Nov 11 & Nov 12 … triumphant 75-year-old Celebrity Apprentice Joan Rivers — “just think of me as Joan Of AARP!” she told Larry King earlier this week – will be alternately feted and fricasseed by her comedy contemporaries at her very own Comedy Central Roast on July 26, slated for telecast two weeks later on Aug. 9. She’s also picked up another Emmy nomination,this time for her voiceover work on the PBS animated series ARTHUR … and what’s this? A new music group from Bollywood called Ruby Dhalla & The Nannies? No doubt about it, Double Exposure are back on the case. And you can check it out right here.
DOANE: glory-voiced
ALL THAT JAZZ: Glory-voiced Melanie Doane is set to sing new arrangements of songs by Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman, Tom Waits, Hank Snow and more, May 26 & 27 at Harbourfront Centre’s Enwave Theatre … still-vibrant song virtuoso Stevie Wonder is set to open the 30th annual Montreal Jazz Festival with a free outdoor concert on June 30. Wonder will give the inaugural concert at La Place des festivals, the Montreal festival site whose official opening is not scheduled until September. Also scheduled to celebrate the three-decade jamfest: Oliver Jones, Dave Brubeck and Tony Bennett … and Ray Parker Jr., Kool & The Gang and Earth, Wind & Fire are set to shake up the 43rd Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland on July 15.
NIXON: closing
PEOPLE: Law & Order alumnus Chris Noth, aka Carrie Bradshaw’s Mr. Big in Sex & The City, hosts One Night Live, a once in a lifetime concert with Sting, Sheryl Crow and the Canadian Tenors to benefit the Women & Babies Program at Sunnybrook Hospital,next Thursday at the Air Canada Centre … perennially popular ivory-tickler Ken Lindsay continues to win new fans Thursdays and Fridays at Statler’s on Church street … and Cynthia Nixon (aka Carrie’s Bradshaw confidante Miranda) closes on Broadway this Sunday in Lisa Loomer’s disarmingly funny look at parenting in the age of the Internet and Ritalin, Distracted.
FOOTLIGHTS: The artistic Director of Toronto’s newest South Asian theatre company, Anand Rajaram kicks off Dishoom!, a new South Asian performance
WONDER: Montreal-bound
festival, anchored by a remount of his Summerworks hit Cowboys & Indians (with music maven Bob Wiseman) on May 23 at the Factory Theatre …two diverse dance companies, Toronto’s COBA and Britain’s Tavaziva Dance, collaborate to present City of Tribes May 28-30 at Harbourfront’s Fleck Dance Theatre … it’s an ill wind that blows no good. The current recession is proving to be a bonanza for theatre lovers who seldom have the dough to purchase top-dollar ducats. Reduced prices abound from here to Broadway – e.g., buy one full-price ticket for Guys & Dolls and buy a second one for only $7.77, buy an adult ticket to Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas spectacular, ticket, get a free ticket for a child under 12 — and closer to home summer seat sales are sparking box office at both Stratford and Shaw.
Have a great long weekend.
See you Tuesday!
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Tagged ANAND RAJARAM, Banff World Television Festival, BOB WISEMAN, Casino Rama, Celebrity Apprentice, CHRIS NOTH, City Of Tribes, COBA, Comedy Central, Cowboys & Indians, CYNTHIA NIXON, DAVE BRUBECK, Dishoom!, Distracted, Double Exposure, Enwave Theatre, Factory Theatre, Fleck Dance Theatre, Guys & Dolls, HANK SNOW, Harbourfront, KEN LINDSAY, LARRY KING, Law & Order, LEONARD COHEN, LISA LOOMER, MELANIE DOANE, Montreal Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, OLIVER JONES, Radio City Music Hall, RANDY NEWMAN, ROBIN WILLIAMS, RUBY DHALLA, Sex And The City, Shaw Festival, SHERYL CROW, Statler's, STEVIE WONDER, STING, Stratford Festival, Summerworks, Tavaziva Dance, The Canadian Tenors, TOM WAITTS, Tony Awards, TONY BENNETT, VICTOR GARBER. JOAN RIVERS
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As for brand partnerships and branded content, Allison partnered with AOL and T-mobile to create the original music travel series, “Signature Sounds with Allison Hagendorf,” which showcased past and present music scenes across the country. She also launched lifestyle series “Steve Madden Music” with shoe guru, Steve Madden, in which each episode Allison sits down with artists like Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, and discusses how fashion and music go hand-in-hand. Allison also penned her own music/advice column “Sound Advice” for Maxim, and produced and hosted her own live show on SiriusXM “Cosmo For Guys With Allison,” on which she guided live callers on dating and relationships.
An established voiceover artist, Allison is the Live Announcer for various award shows and concerts including both the MTV Music Awards and Movie Awards, and the Z100 Jingle Ball. She has also served as the voice of the Oxygen Network, as well as the voice of national TV commercials for major consumer brands including TJ Maxx, Jergens Naturals, Gillette, and Verizon. She has also provided the promotional voice for the MTV shows, “The Real World,” “Teen Mom,” and “16 and Pregnant.”
Allison is also a nationally certified Health Coach and Behavior Change Specialist. She guides her clients on nutrition, fitness, and behavior modification, is a regular contributor for the American Council on Exercise, and is a fitness model. Allison is an avid CrossFitter, marathoner, snowboarder, and pole dancer. She loves deadlifts and desserts equally.
Interviewed for Variety about the "Return of Rock"
Featured in Fast Company as Spotify's Rock Music Impresario
Featured in Marie Claire's "Taking On The Boys" Story
Partners with ASICS for a feature in Runner's World Magazine
Becomes new host for X Games Aspen on ESPN and ABC
Celebrates One Year as Spotify's Global Head Of Rock
Featured in The Wall Street Journal as The Music Industry's New Gatekeepers
Curated Spotify Playlist, #RockThis, Hits 4 Million Subscribers
Allison is Hired as the Global Head of Rock at Spotify, responsible for creating and curating all of the Rock/Alternative playlists on the streaming platform
Launches First Fitness App "Time To Tone" which incorporates the 3 pillars of her coaching: Nutrition, Fitness, and Behavior Modification. Featured on Bodybuilding.com
Co-hosts The CrossFit Games Live Show
Hosts Direct TV's "Live From Austin" Special and conducts exclusive, sit-down interview with the likes of Cypress Hill, 2 Chainz, and Flo Rida
Becomes The Live Announcer for the MTV Movie Awards
Hosts the Refinery29 Series, "Be A Badass"
Featured in Oxygen Magazine
Becomes a Nationally Accredited Health Coach with the American Council on Exercise, focusing on nutrition, fitness, and behavior modification.
Co-Hosts the Premiere of VH1's Big Morning Buzz Live with Nick Lachey
Hosts the Launch of Reebok's Quickest Sneaker with Olympic Gold Gymnast Aly Raisman
Rings in 2014 as Official Host of Times Square New Year's Eve
Co-Hosts VH1's "Big Morning Buzz Live" with Guest Guy Fieri
Co-Hosts VH1's "Big Morning Buzz Live" with Food Network's Rocco DiSpirito
Co-Hosts VH1's "Big Morning Buzz Live" with Carrie Keagan & Jason Dundas
Hosts Coachella's Stagecoach Music Festival for AXS
Hosts Direct TV's premiere of its original series "Rogue" starring Thandie Newton
Hosts New Orleans' Jazzfest for AXS
Becomes Official Host of Times Square New Year's Eve
Guest Hosts VH1 Big Morning Buzz
Hosts the Live Grammys Special on Fuse
Guest Co-hosts The Cooking Channel's, "Not My Mama's Meals", with Paula Deen's son, Bobby Deen. #HealthyCooking
Hosts The CW's primetime music competition show, "The Next", with celebrity mentors Gloria Estefan, Nelly, Joe Jonas, and John Rich.
Partners with NCM Fathom Events and AEG Network LIVE to host "Bon Jovi Inside Out", the first-ever interactive theater event, where Bon Jovi fans from across the country have the opportunity to submit their questions via text/twitter for Allison to incorporate into her exclusive LIVE broadcast interview with the iconic band.
Co-hosts CES event with Justin Bieber in Vegas
Partners with AOL and TMobile to host the original series "Signature Sounds with Allison Hagendorf" which explores the culture of some of the biggest music cities across the country
Partners with DirectTV to Host "The Damages" Premiere to conduct interviews with the show's stars Glenn Close, Ted Danson, Rose Byrne, William Hurt, et al
Joins SiriusXM to host/produce her own 2-hour live talk show for CosmoRadio, "Cosmo For Guys with Allison", giving relationship/dating advice to men straight from the source. Anything goes.
Joins MSG Network to host "Music Fridays" along with Super Model Kate Upton. It's a good thing I have a great personality ;-)
Secures exclusive interview with Eminem at his monumental comeback show for 80,000 fans at Bonnaroo.
Runs the NYC Marathon in 3hr 57 min
Partners with HP/Intel to host original series "Summer Beats" featuring One Republic, Train, and Weezer. Live in Times Square.
Becomes Music Writer for MAXIM Magazine
Meets her hero, Betty White, while Betty hosts the iconic SNL episode
Partners with global shoe designer Steve Madden to host all Steve Madden events and to model and help launch new shoe styles
Joins National Music Television Network, FUSE, to host various shows including the channel's #1 rated show, "Top 20 Countdown", "The Pop Show", "Grammys Live", & "Backstage Live at Z100 Jingle Ball".
Launches "Steve Madden Music" profiling artists who influence both music & fashion; kicks off the program with an exclusive full-day shoot with Lady Gaga.
Becomes official voice of The Oxygen Network, providing all promo voiceover for the network.
Shoots National NIKE Campaign
Receives Grammy nomination for overseeing production of Lamb of God's "Redneck" single, which is up for Best Metal Performance.
Establishes voiceover career by becoming the official voice of all TJ Maxx commercials
Discovers/Signs/Develops Juliet Simms to Epic Records who will later go on to dominate NBC's "The Voice" on Team CeeLo and release an album on Universal Republic
Wins coveted title, "Sony Marketing Rep of the Year" for her innovative marketing campaigns promoting Sony Music artists, ie Train.
Partners up with MTV VJ/Music Encyclopedia Matt Pinfield to scout unsigned talent around the globe and to make albums with artists like David Bowie & Cypress Hill for Columbia Records
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KONNI is a Windows remote administration too that has been seen in use since 2014 and evolved in its capabilities through at least 2017. KONNI has been linked to several campaigns involving North Korean themes.[1] KONNI has significant code overlap with the NOKKI malware family. There is some evidence potentially linking KONNI to APT37.[2][3]
Enterprise T1115 Clipboard Data
KONNI had a feature to steal data from the clipboard.[1]
KONNI can execute arbitrary commands on the infected host using cmd.exe.[1]
Enterprise T1003 Credential Dumping
KONNI can steal profiles (containing credential information) from Firefox, Chrome, and Opera.[1]
Enterprise T1503 Credentials from Web Browsers
A version of KONNI searches for filenames created with a previous version of the malware, suggesting different versions targeted the same victims and the versions may work together.[1]
KONNI can delete files.[1]
KONNI has the capability to perform keylogging.[1]
KONNI creates a shortcut called "Anti virus service.lnk" in an apparent attempt to masquerade as a legitimate file.[1]
KONNI used PowerShell to download and execute a specific 64-bit version of the malware.[1]
A version of KONNI drops a Windows shortcut into the Startup folder to establish persistence.[1]
KONNI can download files and execute them on the victim’s machine.[1]
Enterprise T1113 Screen Capture
KONNI can take screenshots of the victim’s machine.[1]
Enterprise T1023 Shortcut Modification
A version of KONNI drops a Windows shortcut on the victim’s machine to establish persistence.[1]
KONNI has used HTTP for C2.[1]
KONNI can gather the OS version, architecture information, connected drives, hostname, and computer name from the victim’s machine.[1]
KONNI can collect the IP address from the victim’s machine.[1]
KONNI can collect the username from the victim’s machine.[1]
Rascagneres, P. (2017, May 03). KONNI: A Malware Under The Radar For Years. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
Grunzweig, J., Lee, B. (2018, September 27). New KONNI Malware attacking Eurasia and Southeast Asia. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
Grunzweig, J. (2018, October 01). NOKKI Almost Ties the Knot with DOGCALL: Reaper Group Uses New Malware to Deploy RAT. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
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Constipation Overview
It is normal to have a bowel movement (defecate) anywhere from three times a day to three times a week, as long as the stool (fecal matter) is soft and comfortable to pass. A person experiencing constipation has hard or lumpy stool, which is difficult to pass. Chronic constipation affects 15-30% of Canadians, and is commonly found in young children and the elderly, occurring more frequently in females than in males.
Transit time is the duration between when food enters the mouth and when leftover waste finally passes out as stool. A meal could take anywhere from 12-72 hours to travel through the digestive tract. Each person is unique; a normal bowel movement pattern for one person may be very different from those of family members or friends. Some individuals have an irregular pattern, never knowing what to expect. Usually, before food enters the colon, most of the nutrients have been absorbed into the body and the colon’s role is to remove water. If someone has a long transit time, meaning food passes slowly through the colon, then too much water is absorbed, hardening the stool.
Factors that can contribute to constipation, often by altering transit time, include:
medication side effects (e.g., some narcotics, antidepressants, codeine, calcium or iron supplements, and medications that affect the nervous system),
diseases in which there is a physiological change to some tissue or organ of the body (e.g., radiation therapy, inflammatory bowel disease, colon cancer, diabetes, stroke, hypothyroidism, or Parkinson’s disease),
functional disorders, such as irritable bowel syndrome, intestinal obstructions or strictures resulting from surgery, and
diet and lifestyle choices, such as consuming a diet too low in fibre and fluid, insufficient physical activity, and chronic use of laxatives, suppositories, or enemas.
Constipation Symptoms
The increased length of time during which stool remains in the colon causes increased pressure on the bowels, leading to abdominal cramping and bloating. Bowel movements may occur infrequently, resulting in hard, lumpy, dry stool, looking like either many small pellets or one solid, hard, sausage-shaped piece. Rectal pressure or fullness, bloating, abdominal pain, and a sensation of incomplete evacuation are common symptoms of constipation. The slowdown in the digestive tract may also cause poor appetite, back pain, and general malaise.
Most complications result from the intense straining needed to pass stool. These include hemorrhoids, anal fissures, diverticular disease, bright red streaks on the stool (rectal bleeding), and a condition in which the rectal wall pushes out through the anus (rectal prolapse).
Diagnosing Constipation
A panel of experts developed the main diagnostic criteria for functional constipation, and update them regularly. Below are the current Rome IV diagnostic criteria*.
Must include two or more of the following:
straining during more than one-fourth (25%) of defecations
lumpy or hard stools (Bristol stool form scale 1 or 2) more than one-fourth (25%) of defecations
sensation of incomplete evacuation more than one-fourth (25%) of defecations
sensation of anorectal obstruction/blockage more than one-fourth (25%) of defecations
manual maneuvers to facilitate more than one-fourth (25%) of defecations (such as digital evacuation, or support of the pelvic floor)
Loose stools are rarely present without the use of laxatives
Insufficient criteria for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
*Criteria fulfilled for the last 3 months with symptom onset at least 6 months prior to diagnosis
A physician may order a number of tests, including blood analysis, to check for abnormal levels of thyroid hormone, electrolytes, or glucose, and a stool sample to examine for hidden (occult) blood. Other tests include a sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy, which are examinations involving an instrument that allows a physician to see the inside of the rectum and colon. Colorectal screening is recommended in persons older than 50 years of age.
It is important to differentiate between temporary (acute) constipation and chronic constipation, as the treatments and recommendations may differ.
Constipation Management
Always check with your health care provider before making major changes, to be sure these actions won’t interfere with other conditions you might have.
Dietary and Lifestyle Modifications
Diet: Eating regular well-balanced meals and snacks with high-fibre content, as outlined in Canada’s Food Guide, available from Health Canada, and maintaining an adequate fluid intake, is the recommended approach to prevent and manage constipation.
Exercise: Exercise helps to move food through the colon more quickly. Aerobic exercise, such as brisk walking, accelerates your heart and breathing rates, and helps to stimulate the natural contractions of intestinal muscles.
Physiotherapy: Pelvic dysfunction physiotherapy may include bowel retraining, electrical stimulation, and posture correction.
Medication Therapy
If constipation does not improve with diet and lifestyle changes, then there are supplements and medications available.
Bulk Forming Agents: These are made of indigestible fibre, which absorbs and retains fluid and helps to form a soft, bulky stool (e.g., Metamucil®, Prodiem®). While not quick-acting, they are safe for long-term use. Add these to your diet gradually and increase your fluid intake at the same time.
Enemas: An enema involves insertion of a liquid, usually water, into the rectum via the anus. Typically, after holding the liquid in place for a few minutes, there is an intense urgency to move the bowels.
Stool Softeners: These products work by holding water in the stool (e.g., Colace®). They are safe for long-term use and for pregnant women and the elderly.
Lubricants: Lubricant laxatives coat the colon and stool in a waterproof film, allowing it to remain soft and slip easily through the intestine, usually within 6-8 hours. Don’t use these products for longer than a week, as some have been shown to cause vitamin deficiencies and medication interactions. An example of a lubricant laxative is mineral oil. Not recommended for pregnant women or for persons who have difficulty swallowing.
Stimulants: These laxatives increase muscle contractions to move food along the digestive tract more quickly (e.g., Ex-lax®, Dulcolax®, castor oil, senna tea, and Senokot®). Stimulants are typically recommended for short-term use. However, in some individuals, constipation does not resolve with dietary adjustments, exercise, or short-term laxative use. For those with persistent or difficult constipation, physicians might suggest long-term laxative use. These are not recommended for pregnant women.
Hyperosmotics: Osmotic laxatives encourage bowel movements by drawing water into the bowel from nearby tissue (intestinal lumen), thereby softening stool. Some of these laxatives can cause electrolyte imbalances if they draw out too many nutrients and other substances with the water. They can increase thirst and dehydration. There are four main types of hyperosmotics:
Saline laxatives are salts dissolved in liquid; they rapidly empty all contents of the bowel, usually working within 30 minutes to 3 hours. Examples of saline laxatives are citrate salts (e.g., Royvac®), magnesium preparations (e.g., Phillips’® Milk of Magnesia), sulfate salts, and sodium phosphate. Not intended for long-term use or for pregnant women.
Lactulose laxatives are sugar-like agents that work similarly to saline laxatives but at a much slower rate, and are sometimes used to treat chronic constipation. They take 6 hours to 2 days to produce results.
Polymer laxatives consist of large molecules that cause the stool to hold and retain water. They are usually non-gritty, tasteless, and are well tolerated for occasional constipation. Results can be expected within 6 hours, but it can take longer depending on the dose. An example of a polymer laxative is polyethylene glycol (e.g., PegaLAX®).
Glycerine is available as a suppository and mainly has a hyperosmotic effect, but it may also have a stimulant effect from the sodium stearate used in the preparation. Glycerine is available through several manufacturers.
Enterokinetic: Prucalopride succinate (Resotran®) works by targeting the serotonin (5-HT4) receptors in the digestive tract to stimulate motility (muscle movement) and has Health Canada approval for the treatment of chronic idiopathic constipation in women for whom laxative treatment has failed to provide relief. Resotran® usually produces a bowel movement within 2-3 hours and then spontaneous complete bowel movements typically begin occurring within 4-5 days of starting treatment. Side effects may include nausea, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and headache, mostly following the initial dose and then subsiding with ongoing treatment.
Guanylate cyclase-C agonist: Linaclotide (Constella®) works by increasing intestinal fluid secretion, which helps ease the passage of stool through the digestive tract, relieving associated symptoms and has Health Canada approval for the treatment of chronic idiopathic constipation in men and women. In clinical trials, Constella® showed a statistically significant improvement compared with placebo for complete spontaneous bowel movements. The results occurred within the first week, often on the first day, of dosing and were sustained over the 12-week treatment period. Diarrhea is the most commonly noted side effect.
Constipation Outlook
Constipation can occur for many reasons, so treatment often requires trial and error. An individual may experience a short bout of constipation and return to a normal routine, or it may be an ongoing health issue. With diet and lifestyle changes, and the proper use of supplements and medications, most forms of constipation are manageable. If your bowel habits change drastically for no apparent reason, be sure to consult your physician.
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Simon Lynch is an autistic child with a brain to solve puzzles. Art Jefferies is an FBI agent on the outs with the bureau. Their worlds collide when Simon inadvertently cracks a top secret government code and ends up in the crosshairs of government assassins. Can Art keep Simon safe and take out the bad guys (and maybe get the girl)? Find out in… Mercury Rising.
How?! Art is an FBI agent extraordinaire and he don’t take no guff from nobody. This of course gets him in hot water with his boss after a big undercover job goes south in South Dakota. Sent to desk duty he refuses to quit and boy howdy are we glad he did. That’s because poor little Simon, a boy with autism, is about to crack a new uncrackable government code that a couple of very smart dopes decide to put in a puzzle magazine for funsies. But when Simon cracks it with his beautiful mind, shit hits the fan and the bad guys start coming after Simon. A government hitman kills his parents but is spooked before getting Simon. Enter Art who uses his own beautiful mind to find Simon and figure out that something just isn’t right. Dead set on protecting the kid he foils the government hitman at every turn while dealing with a kid who he doesn’t understand and who doesn’t understand him (it’s touching). Soon people are dropping like flies and Bruce Willis builds a group of friends and strangers who realize that what seemed like paranoid delusions might actually be real and might actually go all the way to the top of the NSA. Oh no! In a climactic final scene they are able to foil the head of the NSA as he tries one last time to kidnap Simon and he totally murders him and everyone is like “good.” Soon Art finds himself visiting Simon in his new school and scores that big hug from Simon. Awwww. THE END. Big Question: How big a news story would this be? The head of the NSA is killed by police and falls off a skyscraper in Chicago… or would they use their spooky powers to hide it? GASP.
Why?! Our boy Bruce just can’t stay out of the action. He just does what’s right and what’s necessary without all that bureaucratic bullshit. The bad guy is just covering his ass and the child is just a child who loves puzzles (I identify).
Who?! Huh… how weird. I mean, we watched this film for Alec Baldwin and his bevy of brothers, but without realizing it we also picked a film with a sibling of another famous actor in it. Believe it or not John Travolta’s sister Margaret has a speaking role in this film! She’s a nurse that explains autism to Bruce Willis. We see you working Margaret Travolta.
What?! There is a shocking amount of product placement in this guy (Swiss Miss, sip it slowleeeeeee). Probably my favorite is the number of times that Starbucks shows up, culminating in the Starbucks meet-cute between our boy Bruce Willis and Stacy. What’s even crazier is that the Starbucks that they meet in is still in that exact same location in Chicago! It feels like there is still an opportunity to corner the market on Mercury Rising walking tours.
Where?! This is a super Chicago setting, although the film could be set almost anywhere. Lots of sights and sounds of Chicago. We also have part of the film set in DC and some brief scenes in South Dakota and Thailand. If we had done the mapl.de.map when BMT was more mature I am almost certain that this would have been the South Dakota setting. Not major, but very clear. B+.
When?! They botch the timing of this slight as we get a clear “June 9” on a security camera that Bruce Willis looks at, but then we also get a “June 9th” on the whistleblower letter one of the characters writes… but those two things can’t possibly have happened the same day. So basically an F… JK. Solid B.
We occasionally claim a BMT film is not that bad (not that bad), but it’s much rarer for us to make the call that a film is not just not that bad, but in fact maybe even kinda sorta good. I’m making that call! I think Mercury rising is a good thriller (and it’s got a little heart to boot). I enjoyed Bruce Willis. I enjoyed Alec Baldwin. I enjoyed the concept. Is it perfect? No. It lags a bit in the middle, goes heavy on Willis trying to connect with Simon, and shoehorns in a completely unnecessary love interest at the last minute. But it made me feel some emotions and thrilled me at all the right time. At the very least we can all agree that the 17% RT score it holds is a crazy underestimation of the merits of this film. As for the Bring a Friends we brought along, we really ran the gamut this week. Fallout was actually kinda a fun, dumb space action film that seemed at times like Daniel Baldwin was edited in from a different movie. Weirdly, it also had a shockingly strong female lead… better than almost all Hollywood films you’d watch. Backdraft 2 is a sad joke given that the original film is quite enjoyable. It feels like a two-part pilot for a television series that never got off the ground, but by all accounts it was always intended to be a film… not sure I believe it. Laughably inadequate. Finally, Dead Weekend… oh Stephen Baldwin… did you lose a bet? This is barely a film that is excruciating and at times uncomfortable to watch. There are only three explanations: 1) Stephen read the script and saw the words “sex alien” and was like “I’m in.” 2) Stephen knew the director and did him a favor after hashing out the plot over beers. 3) Stephen overheard someone talking about the upcoming film Species and thought “I gotta get in on that sex alien action” and found whoever would let him make a sex alien picture ASAP. It is one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. Patrick?
‘Ello everyone! So I have all of this mercury, and the darnest thing is happening to it … its rising! We watched Mercury Rising, let’s go!
P’s View on the Preview – Watching the trailer and reading up on the film made me wonder … is this actually a bad film? It seems like critics were just annoyed that it was so predictable and Bruce-Willis-y. But does that a bad thriller make? It was a big question, I was ready to be annoyed by Bruce-Willis-ness. What were my expectations? Honestly, I figured this would end up being a fine thriller which I would like. The 90s thriller is pretty good, and that might be a bit of nostalgia speaking, but hey, maybe I just like 90s thrillers.
The Good – I think this is a fine 90s thriller. Bruce Willis is silly, but if you like Bruce Willis it is fine. Alec Baldwin is a scene-chewing villain who might as well have had a giant moustache, but again, if you like Alec Baldwin it is fine. The storyline is silly, but if you let it wash over you and not think about it too much then (say it with me) it is fine. You picking up what I’m putting down? This movie is a fine 90s thriller. I would gladly watch it again right then. Fight me. I did genuinely like the Chicago setting. Just works for thriller, reminded me of The Fugitive.
The Bad – Having one of the two main characters be a severely autistic child makes the film a bit tough to handle, just because there isn’t much of a dialogue for extended periods of time. The directing kind of sucks, and it relies a bit on flashbacks and characters expositing at you every few scenes. It is a bit sad that the main female lead is just a random person Willis finds in a coffee shop an hour into the film. It would have been a decent opportunity to introduce an ex-girlfriend / ex-wife character for Willis, but maybe that would make it too close to Die Hard.
The BMT – I mean … it’ll go down as a good film in BMT basically. An example of how critics can sometimes fatigue on a particular lazy style of storytelling, and they just ruin a film for being tired and boring. But I liked the film and would gladly watch it again, what can I say. Did it meet my expectations? Yes, but that is kind of a bad thing. Something being surprisingly good is amusing (e.g. Freddy Got Fingered), but something being 90s-Bruce-Willis-Thriller is just a film I would show someone if they wanted to watch a film like this. Nothing more, nothing less.
Roast-radamus – Very minor Setting as a Character (Where?) for Chicago. It is a very Chicago film, but it could probably be set in NYC as well. Some great Product Placement (What?), but my personal favorite is Swiss Miss (It’s hooooooot, sip it slowleeeeeeeeeeee) which our autistic boy hero drinks every day when he gets home from school. You can make a decent argument the child himself is a MacGuffin (Why?) as well which is pretty fun. And finally, it will definitely be on my shortlist for Good, not least because I think good BMT film examples are pretty few and far between.
StreetCreditReport.com – There is really nothing about this film beyond that critics really didn’t like it. It actually seemed like some reviews enjoy the premise (and Alec Baldwin in particular), but then find it not very thrilling and pretty dumb. Agree to disagree. I do think this could be the worst film with a severely autistic main character, and it’ll be in the mix for an extended list for worst films set in Chicago (maybe).
Bring a Friend Analysis – Alongside Mercury Rising we watched (gasp) three other Baldwin brother films! First up was Dead Weekend starring Stephen Baldwin. And this film is wild. A sci-fi art film all dressed up as a straight-to-Starz erotic thriller of some kind? Legend has it Alec told Stephen not to do Bio-Dome because it would destroy his career … but this came out a year prior. Something tells me Stephen’s career was already in trouble. Second was Fallout starring Daniel Baldwin. This film, on the other hand, is one of the classic straight-to-video films focusing on “one cool thing”, in this case “spaceships”. Baldwin plays a down and out astronaut who ends up having to save the world from a group of Russian separatists (kind of, let’s not get into the politics) who have taken over an international space station and satellite network. It was actually really good looking. The main issue is Daniel Baldwin who is genuinely out of shape and a bad actor. A random guy like Michael Dudikoff would have been less distracting. But maybe the best one-cool-thing videos I’ve seen thus far, which is saying something. And finally we watched Backdraft 2 starring William Baldwin. Somehow they managed to get Donald Sutherland and William Baldwin to come back for this ill-fated direct-to-VOD sequel to the Kurt Russell classic. Jamie nailed it on this one, it is more like a television pilot than anything else. Complete with the streetwise partner and the magic-mathematian girlfriend for our main character to utilize in all his arson hunting glory. As a pilot it is passable for an 8pm CBS drama, as a film it is a sad example of the worst that streaming has to offer.
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Trombones Part 2 – Trombones in the Band
On January 19, 2014 By Bret NewtonIn Trombone
Trombone in the Band
The traditional trombone section is comprised of three parts. Usually, this is two Tenors and one Bass. Occasionally, a fourth part is used. If a fourth part is included, it is another Tenor part. This is the standard section in an orchestra as well. In a band, there can be more than one player on a part, whereas in an orchestra it is strictly one on a part. Like I’ve said in other places, let’s use these extra players to our advantage.
The only works that I know that use Alto in a wind band setting are works from the 19th Century like Mendelssohn’s Trauermarsch. I know of no reason the Alto shouldn’t be part of a wind band setting.
1 Alto Trombone
2 Tenor Trombones
1 Bass Trombone
This would be a very easy section to form assuming you have a player that is competent on the Alto. Add to this a Contrabass, and we have a large section of five players with a huge range.
The sheer power of the trombone hit me full force when I started to study the score to the film Inception. The composer Hans Zimmer uses a trombone section of 6 Tenors and 6 Basses/Contrabass. Wow! The sound is immense, powerful, and frightening! I can imagine this sound in a band, and I like it.
We can think of a think of a large band section like this:
2 Bass Trombones
1 Contrabass Trombone
This will give us a full section of 8 players. Doublings are not needed here, but one might be made for the Contrabass player and have them take up a Bass or Tenor to save them from tiring from this exhausting instrument. Very rarely does a Contrabass player play the Contrabass instrument for the entirety of a concert or work. The Alto player might also take up the Tenor if needed.
I leave out the Soprano Trombone from the section, as I find it rather useless in the context of a trombone ensemble. Its small sound won’t make an impact against a mass of Tenors and Basses. Even the Alto has a small sound that might not cut through the mass.
The eight member ensemble can be both powerful and solemn at the same time. Go listen to some trombone choir music, and you can hear the possibilities available from this majestic instrument. In harmony, we get the majestic solemnity, in unison, we get the tremendous power.
A Bruckner chorale for 8 trombones (Tenor, Bass, and Contrabass).
Excerpts from Strauss’ Alpensymphonie for 10 trombones (Tenor, Bass, and Contrabass).
Bach’s Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor for Trombones (Tenor and Bass)
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On May 30, 2015 September 29, 2015 By Bret NewtonIn Brass, Cornet, Historical Winds, Tuba
I’ve purposely skirted around the subject of Saxhorns throughout my run of this blog. Saxhorns are really a complete mess of a family. Adolphe Sax intended them to be a homogeneous family of valved brass instruments. However, to say that these instruments are wholly his invention would be false. All he did was make them uniform and slap his name on the family.
There are usually thought to be 7 members of the family
E-flat Sopranino
B-flat Soprano
E-flat Alto/Tenor
B-flat Tenor/Baritone
B-flat Bass
E-flat Bass/Contrabass
B-flat Contrabass
In addition to this, there are references to a B-flat Piccolo and E-flat and B-flat Subcontrabasses or Bourdons.
A performance and explanation (in German) of Adolphe Sax’s instruments using original instruments from Sax.
Numbers 1 through 4 can be thought of as one family, while numbers 5 though 7 can be thought of as a second. Numbers 5, 6, and 7 are the easiest to deal with, so I shall tackle them first.
The Whole-Tube Saxhorns
A whole-tube instrument is a brass instrument that is able to play the fundamental (i.e. pedal) note with ease. These are usually wide-bore conical instruments. Today, we call these tubas. Saxhorns number 5, 6, and 7 are simply nothing more than today’s Euphonium, E-flat Tuba, and B-flat Tuba, which Sax standardized and somewhat perfected. Numbers 5 and 6 had four valves, while number 7 had only 3.
The Half-Tube Saxhorns
A half-tube instrument is a brass instrument that cannot play its fundamental pitch easily. Saxhorns 1 through 4 can usually be placed in the half-tube grouping. These instruments all have three valves. Numbers 3 and 4 are virtually identical to today’s Alto/Tenor Horn and Baritone Horn. In fact, in France, these are still sometimes referred to as Saxhorns. Numbers 1 and 2 are a little trickier. Some say that they are closer to cornets while others say they are closer to flügelhorns. The truth is, they are probably somewhere in between cornets and flügelhorns. A cornet is firmly a half-tube instrument while a flügelhorn is firmly a whole-tube instrument. Sax’s original instruments probably could play the fundamental, but not easily. What seems likely is the the early instrument, and most of those made by Sax himself were closer to cornets, while later instruments, notably those by other manufacturers, were closer to flügelhorns.
A later Sax-made Sopranino Saxhorn in flügelhorn style
A later Sax-made Soprano Saxhorn in flügelhorn style
Over-The-Shoulder Instruments
OTS saxhorns were a purely American take on the instrument. These became popular during the Civil War when bands would march in front of the troops going in to battle. These instruments had bells that pointed backward so that the sound pointed towards the marching troops. There are several modern groups that use these instruments in Civil War reenactments.
Today, the saxhorns are still with us, but mostly under different names.
E-flat Sopranino – E-flat Cornet
B-flat Soprano – B-flat Cornet
E-flat Alto – Alto Horn
B-flat Tenor – Baritone Horn
B-flat Bass – Euphonium
E-flat Bass – E-flat Tuba
B-flat Contrabass – B-flat Tuba
This is the standard make up of 80% of the modern British brass band, something that Adolphe Sax would immediately recognize. The name Saxhorn has completely fallen out of use – save in one instance…
The French Orchestral Saxhorn
In France, there is still an instrument called simply the Saxhorn. It is a bass instrument pitched in C a step above the modern Euphonium. It has a minimum or four valves, though as many as six are common. This was the standard French tuba for a large part of the 20th Century and the sound that many French composers, including Ravel, had in mind. Due to the instrument being a whole-tube instrument and having extra valves, it is able to play most of the tuba repertoire despite being the smallest of the bass tuba instruments.
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AR:T RURAL ROUTE BLUE
On December 6, 2019 December 6, 2019 By Michelle Loughery ARTISTIn AR:T Route Blue, ART ROUTE Gold Country, FRIENDS OF ROUTE BLUE, Lorrie Flemming, ROUTE BLUE JOURNALS
BUILDING CROSSROADS IN 2020
AR:T RURAL
An All-Inclusive Greenway Enriched in Blue & Gold
Written By: Lorrie Fleming, Member of ‘The Blue Team’
Going Back to Our Roots … “Where were you in 1962”? Our revered Trans Canada Highway was officially opened on September 3, 1962, building a Nation to link Victoria, BC to St. John’s Newfoundland. Spanning Coast-to-Coast and Rural-to-Town, the introduction of a nation-wide transportation corridor woven into the tapestry of a ‘National Dream’ laced the stories together in the true spirit of our Confederation Founding Fathers. At the time of its completion in 1971, this 7,821-kilometre epic journey was “the longest (uninterrupted) highway on earth”!
Michelle, A Pioneering Visionary, has brilliantly sculpted a futuristic, eco-cultural and all-inclusive movement that extends far beyond our ‘Canadian National Dream’. In her adept wisdom, creative thinking and articulate language in the expression of Art, Michelle, by way of the Rural Route Blue initiative, transforms far outreaching spaces of our national highway into a vast multi-cultured platform of connectivity.
Keeping in mind the vast lineage shaped by the legendary “Mother Road” with bloodlines that launched in 1926, she held the heart of America for nearly a century and changed the course of a nation by a powerful force in moving humanity. Today, 2020 is approaching in our near vision and Michelle has set her sights on Rural Route Blue as an extension of the Mother Road, to move with the times in perfect harmony. Driven by Michelle, Canada’s Mother Road is turning a corner toward a cultural rebirth with her deep-rooted sense of story telling via outdoor galleries encompassing a revolutionary evolving enhanced system of sight, sound & voice over technology.
Walls Will Talk… History has a brand-new lens to the future by way of a dimensional eco-force that extends into the transportation tapestry of humankind along a timeless and connective corridor that’s alive within our “cross-by-car” lifestyle. Retrace an epic journey to rediscover and traverse our footpaths through the windshield to explore vehicular experiences that carved two nations in a cross-boundary trajectory of friendship.
Through the vivid eyes of a gifted Artist, Michelle injects color into this new dimension using a dynamic mix of blue ‘n green with a dusting of Gold freshly picked from nature’s toolbox. She has created a ubiquitous guideway for generations to learn & grow. A new E-Highway paved with the aggregate of people, place & purpose awaits along ‘Rural Route Blue’ with arteries that connect a multi-directional, cultural and “art-in-motion & destination-mural-town” journey.
See you soon “down the road” in 2020. Meantime may the spirit of our ‘Mother Roads’ carry you to amazing places full of awe inspiring and multi-colored faces. Now you can hear their voices!
Writer’s Footnote:
In my viewpoint, the patriarch link that connects Canada & USA is Great Britain’s Hudson’s Bay Company. It cannot be understated the value of the footpaths that these brigades forged, alongside Aboriginal Americans who guided the expeditions to discover and delve deeper into the heart & soul of this vast new land called North America. “Trapping Furs & Turning Gold” …Our history speaks through a land of braided trails with a renewed “Rush to Riches”! Lorrie
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Wowwwwwwwwwwwww! Michelle and Lorrie I am blessed to have a seat in the bluemobile with you! To be on a journey that will touch so many lives…fill so many hearts…bring smiles to so many faces is truly magical…thank you!
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17 Things School Nurses Wish You Knew
They probably have more than one job, for one.
By Sarah Crow August 27, 2019
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They're the folks who bandage kids up when they skin their knees on the playground, the ones who call caregivers when students get sick, and the ones who occasionally give stressed out kids a place to recharge between classes. However, despite the amount of face time many parents and students have with school nurses, there are countless things about the profession that most of us don't know. From just how much school they've been through to who else they're treating on the job, this is everything school nurses want you to know.
They're likely more educated than a nurse you'd find in a hospital.
School nurses typically have credentials and experience that are, at the very least, on par with any nurse you'd find in a hospital setting or doctor's office. "I have a bachelor's of science in nursing degree from a four-year university, and then took my boards to receive my RN and public health nursing license," says Jen Kohorst, a school nurse and the founder of parenting website Minnesota Momma.
According to the National Association of School Nurses (NASN), all school nurses should have a baccalaureate degree and an RN license to practice. But there's also a good chance your local school nurse has logged even more hours in the classroom: The NASN reports that 12.5 percent of school nurses hold master's degrees, compared to just 10.3 percent of RNs nationally.
And they continue their education long after they've earned their degree.
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Think school nurses can rest on their laurels once they've completed their licensing requirements? Think again. "It is actually a requirement in my state that RNs have 24-plus hours of continuing education every two years," says Kohorst. "And as a school nurse you need an additional 125 hours in five years." In fact, there are only 11 states that don't require RNs—including school nurses—to complete some form of continuing education after becoming licensed.
Private schools aren't mandated to have nurses.
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According to the NASN, you're less likely to find a nurse in a private school: Just 34.6 percent of private schools employ school nurses, compared to 81.9 percent of public schools. That's because, according to the State Regulation of Private Schools, "there is not an explicit law or regulation requiring a private school to have a school nurse."
They typically need consent from a kid's doctor and parents before handing out so much as Ibuprofen.
Unfortunately, if a student doesn't have a note from a doctor and a parent saying they can receive a specific medication from the school nurse—even if it's an OTC one—they won't be getting it. In fact, Kohorst says that she can't even hand out prescription medication to the student it's prescribed to without specific instructions, either.
Only some school nurses are allowed to provide condoms to students.
Whether or not students in need of prophylactics should be able to turn to their school nurse is a hotly contested issue—and it's a decision that's ultimately made on a district-by-district basis, according to Kohorst.
Though some say having condoms available will encourage more sex, a 2019 study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health found that making condoms available to students in school only boosts the frequency with which students have sex with protection, but it doesn't increase the rate of sexual activity itself.
Only some school nurses can administer vaccines.
If you haven't found time to get your kid vaccinated before school starts, don't expect that the school nurse will be able to handle it for you. "While RNs certainly can administer vaccines, this would be…decided by each district," says Kohorst, who notes that separate public health nurses come to schools in her district to provide vaccines.
There is a massive shortage of school nurses nationwide.
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According to the National Educational Association, the school nursing shortage is so severe that, in 29 states, there are more than 1,000 students per school nurse. In Utah, the state with the greatest school nurse shortage, there's just one school nurse for every 4,893 students.
Many schools don't have a dedicated school nurse.
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Most schools have just one nurse, but, in some cases, a single nurse serves multiple student populations. "I actually share my time between several schools," explains Kohorst. And she's by no means alone. Per recent figures released by the NASN, 35.3 percent of U.S. schools don't have a full-time nurse on staff—and 25.2 percent of schools don't have one at all.
Finding a substitute is no easy feat.
Having to deal with sick people day in and day out, it's inevitable that school nurses will catch a bug from time to time. Unfortunately, finding coverage in those cases is seemingly impossible. "It can be difficult to find substitute school nurses, [but] we do have a few that are able to help out if I'm sick," says Kohorst.
Many school nurses teach as part of their job.
Some school nurses get the ability to flex their muscles as educators on the job, too. In Kohorst's case, she teaches growth and development to elementary school students, while many school nurses are involved in teaching subjects like their school's sex ed curriculum, too.
They are frequently tasked with helping teachers, too.
While their ability to treat teachers varies by district, school nurses "do have teachers fill out forms of who to contact in case of an emergency," noting that she wouldn't hesitate to treat an in injured teacher if the situation arose.
However, Kohorst says that, for the most part, when teachers come into her office, they're typically just looking for advice, like whether or not their symptoms merit a trip to the doctor.
There is a surprising amount of mobility in the field.
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Though it may seem as though being a school nurse means you stay in the same position for years, there's actually a surprising amount of upward mobility. "If you work in a larger district, you could start as a school nurse, become the director of health and wellness, or work as a State School Nurse Consultant," explains Kohorst.
They can usually tell when kids are faking.
If you think your kid's school nurse gets fooled by a fake cough, think again. "There are occasionally easy give aways that a student might not be telling the full truth when it comes to feeling sick," says Kohorst. That said, there are frequently other legitimate reasons a kid might be faking ill. "By asking the right questions, we can usually pinpoint a potential reason for 'feeling sick,' such as anxiety about a test, missing a parent, or feeling overwhelmed by their school work."
They see mental health issues almost as frequently as they see physical ones.
In fact, Kohorst says that anxiety and depression are among the two most common complaints students come in with. "School nursing is so much more than just the physical health of a student," she explains. "It includes their mental and emotional health that sometimes spills over and may portray itself as a physical symptom."
According to one 2005 Department of Health and Human Services report on school mental health services in the United States, approximately 32 percent of school nurses' time is spent addressing students' mental health concerns.
They work in tandem with school counselors.
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While many kids will show up at the nurse's office to have their mental health concerns addressed, those issues fall under the purview of the school counselor, with whom the nurse is usually working in tandem. "We try to utilize our school counselors in situations where a mental health condition would be better treated by them," says Kohorst. "We'll walk with students to the counselor's office, help them make an appointment, or if the counselor is unavailable, we talk with the student about what's going on."
They're on the frontlines in terms of managing ongoing student health issues.
School nurses play an integral role in terms of managing chronic health issues for students and are on their toes should a medical emergency arise. "A plan is created (and updated) every school year and communicated with those that need to know," says Kohorst.
School nursing often provides a better work-life balance than other forms of nursing.
Those long hospital shifts and overnights just aren't part of the job description for school nurses, meaning it's often a role that offers more work-life balance, according to Kohorst. And to achieve your own happy equilibrium, discover The Top 50 Secrets of a Perfect Work-Life Balance.
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◄ 1 John 4:18 ►
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love.
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1 John 4:18.
John has been speaking of boldness, and that naturally suggests its opposite--fear. He has been saying that perfect love produces courage in the day of judgment, because it produces likeness to Christ, who is the Judge. In my text he explains and enlarges that statement. For there is another way in which love produces boldness, and that is by its casting out fear. These two are mutually exclusive. The entrance of the one is for the other a notice to quit. We cannot both love and fear the same person or thing, and where love comes in, the darker form slips out at the door; and where Love comes in, it brings hand in hand with itself Courage with her radiant face. But boldness is the companion of love, only when love is perfect. For, inconsistent as the two emotions are, love, in its earlier stages and lower degrees, is often perturbed and dashed by apprehension and dread.
Now John is speaking about the two emotions in themselves, irrespective, so far as his language goes, of the objects to which they are directed. What he is saying is true about love and fear, whatever or whosoever may be loved or dreaded. But the context suggests the application in his mind, for it is ‘boldness before him’ about which he has been speaking; and so it is love and fear directed towards God which are meant in my text. The experience of hosts of professing Christians is only too forcible a comment upon the possibility of a partial Love lodging in the heart side by side with a fellow-lodger, Fear, whom it ought to have expelled. So there are three things here that I wish to notice--the empire of fear, the mission of fear, and the expulsion of fear.
I. The empire of fear.
Fear is a shrinking apprehension of evil as befalling us, from the person or thing which we dread. My text brings us face to face with that solemn thought that there are conditions of human nature, in which the God who ought to be our dearest joy and most ardent desire becomes our ghastliest dread. The root of such an unnatural perversion of all that a creature ought to feel towards its loving Creator lies in the simple consciousness of discordance between God and man, which is the shadow cast over the heart by the fact of sin. God is righteous; God righteously administers His universe. God enters into relations of approval or disapproval with His responsible creature. Therefore there lies, dormant for the most part, but present in every heart, and active in the measure in which that heart is informed as to itself, the slumbering, cold dread that between it and God things are not as they ought to be.
I believe, for my part, that such a dumb, dim consciousness of discord attaches to all men, though it is often smothered, often ignored, and often denied. But there it is; the snake hibernates, but it is coiled in the heart all the same; and warmth will awake it. Then it lifts its crested head, and shoots out its forked tongue, and venom passes into the veins. A dread of God is the ghastliest thing in the world, the most unnatural, but universal, unless expelled by perfect love.
Arising from that discomforting consciousness of discord there come, likewise, other forms and objects of dread. For if I am out of harmony with Him, what will be my fate in the midst of a universe administered by Him, and in which all are His servants? Oh! I sometimes wonder how it is that godless men front the facts of human life and do not go mad. For here are we, naked, feeble, alone, plunged into a whirlpool, from the awful vortices of which we cannot extricate ourselves. There foam and swirl all manner of evils, some of them certain, some of them probable, any of them possible, since we are at discord with Him who wields all the forces of the universe, and wields them all with a righteous hand. ‘The stars in their courses fight against’ the man that does not fight for God. Whilst all things serve the soul that serve Him, all are embattled against the man that is against, or not for, God and His will.
Then there arises up another object of dread, which, in like manner, derives all its power to terrify and to hurt from the fact of our discordance with God; and that is ‘the shadow feared of man,’ that stands shrouded by the path, and waits for each of us.
God; God’s universe; God’s messenger, Death--these are facts with which we stand in relation, and if our relations with Him are out of gear, then He and all of these are legitimate objects of dread to us.
But now there is something else that casts out fear than perfect love, and that is--perfect levity. For it is the explanation of the fact that so many of us know nothing of this fear of which I speak, and fancy that I am exaggerating, or putting forward false views. There is a type of man, and I have no doubt there are some of its representatives among my hearers, who are below both fear and love as directed towards God; for they never think about Him, or trouble their heads concerning either Him or their relations to Him or anything that flows therefrom. It is a strange faculty that we all have, of forgetting unwelcome thoughts and shutting our eyes to the things that we do not want to see, like Nelson when he puts the telescope to his blind eye at Copenhagen, because he would not obey the signal of recall. But surely it is an ignoble thing that men should ignore or shuffle out of sight with inconsiderateness the real facts of their condition, like boys whistling in a churchyard to keep their spirits up, and saying, ‘Who’s afraid?’ just because they are so very much afraid. Ah, dear friends, do not rest until you face the facts, and having faced them, have found the way to reverse them! Surely, surely it is not worthy of men to turn away from anything so certain as that between a sin-loving man and God there must exist such a relation as will bring evil and sorrow to that man, as surely as God is and he is. I beseech you, take to heart these things, and do not turn away from them with a shake of your shoulders, and say, ‘He is preaching the narrow, old-fashioned doctrine of a religion of fear.’ No! I am not. But I am preaching this plain fact, that a man who is in discord with God has reason to be afraid, and I come to you with the old exhortation of the prophet, ‘Be troubled, ye careless ones.’ For there is nothing more ignoble or irrational than security which is only made possible by covering over unwelcome facts. ‘Be troubled’; and let the trouble lead you to the Refuge.
II. That brings me to the second point--viz., the mission of fear.
John uses a rare word in my text when he says ‘fear hath torment.’ ‘Torment’ does not convey the whole idea of the word. It means suffering, but suffering for a purpose; suffering which is correction; suffering which is disciplinary; suffering which is intended to lead to something beyond itself. Fear, the apprehension of personal evil, has the same function in the moral world as pain has in the physical. It is a symptom of disease, and is intended to bid us look for the remedy and the Physician. What is an alarm bell for but to rouse the sleepers, and to hurry them to the refuge? And so this wholesome, manly dread of the certain issue of discord with God is meant to do for us what the angels did for Lot--to lay a mercifully violent hand on the shoulder of the sleeper, and shake him into aroused wakefulness, and hasten him out of Sodom, before the fire bursts through the ground, and is met by the fire from above. The intention of fear is to lead to that which shall annihilate it by taking away its cause.
There is nothing more ridiculous, nothing more likely to destroy a man, than the indulgence in an idle fear which does nothing to prevent its own fulfilment. Horses in a burning stable are so paralysed by dread that they cannot stir, and get burnt to death. And for a man to be afraid--as every one ought to be who is conscious of unforgiven sin--for a man to be afraid and there an end, is absolute insanity. I fear; then what do I do? Nothing. That is true about hosts of us.
What ought I to do? Let the dread direct me to its source, my own sinfulness. Let the discovery of my own sinfulness direct me to its remedy, the righteousness and the Cross of Jesus Christ. He, and He alone, can deal with the disturbing element in my relation to God. He can ‘deliver me from my enemies, for they are too strong for me.’ It is Christ and His work, Christ and His sacrifice, Christ and His indwelling Spirit that will grapple with and overcome sin and all its consequences, in any man and in every man; taking away its penalty, lightening the heart of the burden of its guilt, delivering from its love and dominion--all three of which things are the barbs of the arrows with which fear riddles heart and conscience. So my fear should proclaim to me the merciful ‘Name that is above every name,’ and drive me as well as draw me to Christ, the Conqueror of sin, and the Antagonist of all dread.
Brethren, I said I was not preaching the religion of Fear. But I think we shall scarcely understand the religion of Love unless we recognise that dread is a legitimate part of an unforgiven man’s attitude towards God. My fear should be to me like the misshapen guide that may lead me to the fortress where I shall be safe. Oh, do not tamper with the wholesome sense of dread! Do not let it lie, generally sleeping, and now and then waking in your hearts, and bringing about nothing. Sailors that crash on with all sails set--stunsails and all--whilst the barometer is rapidly falling, and boding clouds are on the horizon, and the line of the approaching gale is ruffling the sea yonder, have themselves to blame if they founder. Look to the falling barometer, and make ready for the coming storm, and remember that the mission of fear is to lead you to the Christ who will take it away.
III. Lastly, the expulsion of fear.
My text points out the natural antagonism, and mutual exclusiveness, of these two emotions. If I go to Jesus Christ as a sinful man, and get His love bestowed upon me, then, as the next verse to my text says, my love springs in response to His to me, and in the measure in which that love rises in my heart will it frustrate its antagonistic dread.
As I said, you cannot love and fear the same person, unless the love is of a very rudimentary and imperfect character. But just as when you pour pure water into a bladder, the poisonous gases that it may have contained will be driven out before it, so when love comes in, dread goes out. The river, turned into the foul Augean stables of the heart, will sweep out all the filth and leave everything clean. The black, greasy smoke-wreath, touched by the fire of Christ’s love, will flash out into ruddy flames, like that which has kindled them; and Christ’s love will kindle in your hearts, if you accept it and apprehend it aright, a love which shall burn up and turn into fuel for itself the now useless dread.
But, brethren, remember that it is ‘perfect love’ which ‘casts out fear.’
Inconsistent as the two emotions are in themselves, in practice, they may be united, by reason of the imperfection of the nobler. And in the Christian life they are united with terrible frequency. There are many professing Christian people who live all their days with a burden of shivering dread upon their shoulders, and an icy cold fear in their hearts, just because they have not got close enough to Jesus Christ, nor kept their hearts with sufficient steadfastness under the quickening influences of His love, to have shaken off their dread as a sick man’s distempered fancies. A little love has not mass enough in it to drive out thick, clustering fears. There are hundreds of professing Christians who know very little indeed of that joyous love of God which swallows up and makes impossible all dread, who, because they have not a loving present consciousness of a loving Father’s loving will, tremble when they front in imagination, and still more when they meet in reality, the evils that must come, and who cannot face the thought of death with anything but shrinking apprehension. There is far too much of the old leaven of selfish dread left in the experiences of many Christians. ‘I feared thee, because thou wert an austere man, and so, because I was afraid, I went and hid my talent, and did nothing for thee’ is a transcript of the experience of far too many of us. The one way to get deliverance is to go to Jesus Christ and keep close by Him.
And my last word to you is, see that you resort only to the sane, sound way of getting rid of the wholesome, rational dread of which I have been speaking. You can ignore it; and buy immunity at the price of leaving in full operation the causes of your dread--and that is stupid. There is only one wise thing to do, and that is, to make sure work of getting rid of the occasion of dread, which is the fact of sin. Take all your sin to Jesus Christ; He will--and He only can--deal with it. He will lay His hand on you, as He did of old, with the characteristic word that was so often upon His lips, and which He alone is competent to speak in its deepest meaning. ‘Fear not, it is I,’ and He will give you the courage that He commands.
‘God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.’ ‘Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, Father,’ and cling to Him, as a child who knows his father’s heart too well to be afraid of anything in his father, or of anything that his father’s hand can send.
Benson Commentary
1 John 4:18-19. There is no fear in love — No slavish or tormenting fear, diffidence, or distrust, can be where love reigns; but perfect, mature love casteth out such fear, because such fear hath torment — And so is inconsistent with the happiness of love. He that feareth is not made perfect in love — In the sense above explained. Study therefore to increase more and more in that noble affection of love to God, and you will find your happiness increasing in proportion to it. Observe, reader, a mere natural man has neither the fear nor love of God; one that is awakened and convinced of sin, has fear without love; a babe in Christ, love and fear; a father in Christ, love without fear. We love him, because he first loved us — This is the sum of all religion, the genuine model of Christianity. None can say more; why should any one say less, or speak less intelligibly?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
4:14-21 The Father sent the Son, he willed his coming into this world. The apostle attests this. And whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. This confession includes faith in the heart as the foundation; makes acknowledgment with the mouth to the glory of God and Christ, and profession in the life and conduct, against the flatteries and frowns of the world. There must be a day of universal judgment. Happy those who shall have holy boldness before the Judge at that day; knowing he is their Friend and Advocate! Happy those who have holy boldness in the prospect of that day, who look and wait for it, and for the Judge's appearance! True love to God assures believers of God's love to them. Love teaches us to suffer for him and with him; therefore we may trust that we shall also be glorified with him, 2Ti 2:12. We must distinguish between the fear of God and being afraid of him; the fear of God imports high regard and veneration for God. Obedience and good works, done from the principle of love, are not like the servile toil of one who unwillingly labours from dread of a master's anger. They are like that of a dutiful child, who does services to a beloved father, which benefit his brethren, and are done willingly. It is a sign that our love is far from perfect, when our doubts, fears, and apprehensions of God, are many. Let heaven and earth stand amazed at his love. He sent his word to invite sinners to partake of this great salvation. Let them take the comfort of the happy change wrought in them, while they give him the glory. The love of God in Christ, in the hearts of Christians from the Spirit of adoption, is the great proof of conversion. This must be tried by its effects on their temper, and their conduct to their brethren. If a man professes to love God, and yet indulges anger or revenge, or shows a selfish disposition, he gives his profession the lie. But if it is plain that our natural enmity is changed into affection and gratitude, let us bless the name of our God for this seal and earnest of eternal happiness. Then we differ from the false professors, who pretend to love God, whom they have not seen, yet hate their brethren, whom they have seen.
There is no fear in love - Love is not an affection which produces fear. In the love which we have for a parent, a child, a friend, there is no fear. If a man had perfect love to God, he would have no fear of anything - for what would he have to dread? He would have no fear of death, for he would have nothing to dread beyond the grave. It is guilt that makes people fear what is to come; but he whose sins are pardoned, and whose heart is filled with the love of God, has nothing to dread in this world or the world to come. The angels in heaven, who have always loved God and one another, have no fear, for they have nothing to dread in the future; the redeemed in heaven, rescued from all danger, and filled with the love of God, have nothing to dread; and as far as that same loves operates on earth, it delivers the soul now from all apprehension of what is to come.
But perfect love casteth out fear - That is, love that is complete, or that is allowed to exert its proper influence on the soul. As far as it exists, its tendency is to deliver the mind from alarms. If it should exist in any soul in an absolutely perfect state, that soul would be entirely free from all dread in regard to the future.
Because fear hath torment - It is a painful and distressing emotion. Thus men suffer from the fear of poverty, of losses, of bereavement, of sickness, of death, and of future woe. From all these distressing apprehensions, that love of God which furnishes an evidence of true piety delivers us.
He that feareth, is not made perfect in love - He about whose mind there lingers the apprehension of future wrath, shows that love in his soul has not accomplished its full work. Perhaps it never will on any soul until we reach the heavenly world, though there are many minds so full of love to God, as to be prevailingly delivered from fear.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
18. Fear has no place in love. Bold confidence (1Jo 4:17), based on love, cannot coexist with fear. Love, which, when perfected, gives bold confidence, casts out fear (compare Heb 2:14, 15). The design of Christ's propitiatory death was to deliver from this bondage of fear.
but—"nay" [Alford].
fear hath torment—Greek, "punishment." Fear is always revolving in the mind the punishment deserved [Estius]. Fear, by anticipating punishment (through consciousness of deserving it), has it even now, that is, the foretaste of it. Perfect love is incompatible with such a self-punishing fear. Godly fear of offending God is quite distinct from slavish fear of consciously deserved punishment. The latter fear is natural to us all until love casts it out. "Men's states vary: one is without fear and love; another, with fear without love; another, with fear and love; another, without fear with love" [Bengel].
Matthew Poole's Commentary
That he proveth from the contrary natures of fear and love. The fear which is of the baser kind, viz. that is servile, and depresses the spirit, hath no place with love, but is excluded by it, by the same degrees by which that love grows up to perfection, and shall be quite excluded by that love fully perfected: inasmuch as love is a pleasant, fear a tormenting, passion, which, as such, while it remains, shows the imperfection of love.
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
There is no fear in love,.... In the love of the brethren; where that is, there is no fear: so far as that prevails and gains ground, fear removes; not the filial fear of God, the new covenant grace of fear, which is the beginning of wisdom, and is consistent with faith, hope, love, and spiritual joy; but either the fear of men, which brings a snare: those that truly love Christ, his Gospel, and his people, they are not afraid of men; the spirit of power, love, and of a sound mind, is opposite to a spirit of fear, nor can they stand together; and such strength there is sometimes in brotherly love, that the saints are not afraid of death itself, but freely lay down their lives for one another; see 1 John 3:16; or it may be rather, that they are not afraid of the day of judgment, and of hell and damnation; where hatred of the brethren has place, there is a fear and dread of these things, as were in Cain; but those that love the brethren, they know they are passed from death to life, and shall not enter into condemnation, and therefore are in no fear of any of these things:
but perfect love casteth out fear; when love to the brethren appears to be perfect, that is, genuine and sincere, and a man knows that from the bottom of his heart he sincerely loves the saints, he concludes from hence, as he may, the truth of his faith, which works in this way; and this frees him from the fears of men and devils, and of the future judgment and wrath to come. The Jews have a saying (w),
"worthy is his portion that rules over the place of fear, for lo, there is nothing that rules over the degree of "fear" but "love".''
Because fear hath torment: it distresses a man, fills him with anguish, and makes him restless and uneasy, and keeps him in servitude; through the fear of men, of the devil, death, judgment, and hell, he is all his lifetime, or as long as this fear lasts, subject to bondage: or "fear has punishment", as it may be rendered, and is by the Vulgate Latin version; it is a punishment itself to a man; and its being criminal deserves punishment, and is punishable; see Revelation 21:8;
he that feareth is not made perfect in love; or "by love"; that is, he that is possessed, and under the power of a servile fear of punishment, is one who is not, by the love to the brethren, made to appear to himself to be a sincere lover of God, and true believer in Christ; for was he, he would not be in fear of destruction and death, since whoever truly loves God, and believes in Christ, shall certainly be saved; though such persons, at times, may not be without their doubts and fears.
(w) Zohar in Exod. fol. 87. 1.
There is no {k} fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
(k) If we understand by love, that we are in God, and God in us, that we are sons, and that we know God, and that everlasting life is in us: he concludes correctly, that we may well gather peace and quietness by this.
EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)
Meyer's NT Commentary
1 John 4:18 serves to establish the preceding thought, that love has its perfection in παῤῥησία.
φόβος οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ] The thought is quite general in its character: “where love is, there is no fear” (Ebrard); φόβος is therefore not specially the fear of God, and by ἀγάπη we are not to understand specially love to God, but at the same time this general thought is certainly expressed here in reference to the relationship to God. It is quite erroneous to explain ἀγάπη here, with Calvin, Calovius, Flacius, Spener, etc., as “the love of God to us;”[280] but it is also incorrect, with Lücke and others, to understand by it, specially, brotherly love.[281]
The preposition ἐν is not = with (à Mons: ne se trouve avec la charité); Luther correctly: “Fear is not in love;” i.e. it is not an element in love, it is something utterly foreign to it, which only exists outside it. By the following words: ἀλλʼ ἡ τελεία ἀγάπη ἔξω βάλλει τὸν φόβον, the preceding thought is confirmed and expanded: love not only has no fear in it, but it does not even endure it; where it enters, there must fear completely vanish. Beza inadequately paraphrases the adjective τελεία by: sincera, opposita simulationi; it is not love in its first beginnings, love which is still feeble, but love in its perfection, that completely casts out fear. The reason why love does not suffer fear to be along with it is: ὅτι ὁ φόβος κόλασιν ἔχει. The word κόλασις (besides here, only in Matthew 25:46; comp. Wis 11:14; Wis 16:2; Wis 16:24; Wis 19:4) has always the meaning of “punishment” (also LXX. Ezekiel 14:3-4; Ezekiel 14:7; Ezekiel 18:30; Ezekiel 44:12, as incorrect translation of מִכְשַׁוֹל); if we adhere to this meaning, that expression can only mean: fear has punishment, in which case that which it has to expect is regarded as inherent in it, just as on the other hand it could be said: Ἡ ἈΓΆΠΗ ἜΧΕΙ ΖΩῊΝ ΑἸΏΝΙΟΝ (this being considered as future happiness, as in Matthew 25:46); this idea has nothing against it, for fear, as rooted in unbelief, is in itself deserving of punishment, and therein lies the reason (ὍΤΙ) why perfect love casteth out fear.[282] Several commentators, however, explain κόλασις by “pain,” thinking that “here causa is put pro effectu” (Ebrard), or, in more correspondence with the thought, by “pain of punishment” (Besser, Braune, so also previously in this comm.); similarly Lücke explains κόλασις = “consciousness of punishment.” The thought that then results is indeed right in itself, for “certainly this having of κόλασις does actually show itself in the consciousness or the pain of the expectation of punishment” (Brückner); but such a change in the meaning of the idea κόλασις cannot be grammatically justified. The following sentence: ὁ δὲ φοβούμενος οὐ τετελείωται ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ, which is not connected with the subordinate clause ὅτι ὁ φόβος κ.τ.λ., but with the preceding principal clause, does not contain a conclusion from this (δέ is not = οὖν), but (as Braune also thinks) expresses the same thought in negative form (hence the connection by δέ); only with this difference, that what was there expressed in an objective way, here receives a subjective aspect. It needs no proof that the apostle has in view in this verse no other fear than that of which Paul says, Romans 8:15 : οὐκ ἐλάβετε πνεῦμα δουλείας πάλιν εἰς φόβον, and therefore not the childlike awe of God arising from the consciousness of God’s glory, which forms an essential element of love to God.[283] The conjectures of Grotius, instead of κόλασιν: κόλουσιν (i.e. mutilationem; so that the sense is: “metus amorem mutilat atque infringit, aut prohibet, ne se exserat”), and instead of φοβούμενος: κολουόμενος (“qui mutilatur aut impeditur in dilectione, is in ea perfectus non est”); and that of Lamb. Bos: instead of κόλασιν, κώλυσιν, are not merely useless, but even rob the thought of the apostle of its peculiar force.
[280] Calovius interprets: charitas divina, quae apprehensa per fidem, omnem servilem timorem expellit, whereby a reference foreign to the context is plainly introduced.
[281] For justification of this interpretation Lücke refers to the words: ἔξω βάλλει τὸν φόβον, and remarks: “it cannot be said of the love of God in its perfection, that it casts out fear of God, for it has not got any.” But John does not say that love casts out fear out of itself; the idea rather is: it drives fear out of the heart in which it dwells before it (love) obtains its entrance. If ἀγάπη and φόβος ere meant to have different references, the apostle would certainly have indicated this.
[282] It is unnecessary to take the abstract (ὁ φόβος) for the concrete (ὁ φοβούμενος), as de Wette and Düsterdieck do; de Wette incorrectly interprets ἔχει by “receives,” and Baumgarten-Crusius by “keeps, tenet, thinks of … punishment” (so that the sense is: “Fear knows nothing of mercy, of love”).
[283] That the fear which the apostle means has its necessary place also in the development of the spiritual life, Augustine strikingly expresses thus: Timor quasi locum praeparat charitati. Si autem nullus timor, non est qua intret charitas. Timor Dei sic vulnerat quomodo mediei ferramentum. Timor medicamentum, charitas sanitas. Timor servus est charitatis. Timor est custos et paedagogus legis, donee veniat charitas.—The different steps are thus stated by Bengel: varius hominum status: sine timore et amore; cum timore sine amore; cum timore et amore; sine timore cum amore.
1 John 4:18. Bern.: “Amor reverentiam nescit”. φόβος, the opposite of παρρησία. κόλασιν ἔχει, “implies punishment,” the portion of slaves. The portion of slaves is punishment (κόλασις) and their spirit fear; the portion of sons is chastisement (παιδεία) and their spirit boldness (παρρησία). Cf. Hebrews 12:7, Clem. Alex.: “Perfectio fidelis hominis caritas est”. Aug.: “Major charitas, minor timor; minor charitas, major timor”. Bengel has here one of his untranslatable comments: “Varius hominum status: sine timore et amore; cum timore sine amore; cum timore et amore; sine timore cum amore”.
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
18. Proof of the preceding statement that perfect love will give us boldness, by shewing the mutually exclusive nature of love and fear. Love moves towards others in the spirit of self-sacrifice: fear shrinks from others in the spirit of self-preservation. The two are to be understood quite generally; neither love of God nor fear of God is specially meant. In all relations whatever, perfect love excludes fear, and fear prevents love from being perfect. And the two vary inversely: the more perfect the love, the less possibility of fear, and the more the fear, the less perfect the love. But, though as certain as any physical law, the principle, that perfect love excludes all fear, is an ideal that has never been verified in fact. Like the first law of motion, it is verified by the approximations made to it. No believer’s love has ever been so perfect as entirely to banish fear; but every believer experiences that as his love increases his fear diminishes. It is worthy of note that S. John here abandons his antithetic method. He does not go on to state anything about him that feareth not. And rightly, for the absence of fear proves nothing: it may be the result of ignorance, or presumption, or indifference, or unbelief, or inveterate wickedness.
Tertullian quotes this verse in insisting on the duty of suffering martyrdom, adding “What fear would it be better to understand than that which gives rise to denial (of Christ)? What love does he assert to be perfect, but that which puts fear to flight, and gives courage to confess (Christ)? What penalty will he appoint as the punishment of fear, but that which he who denies is to pay, who has to be slain, body and soul, in hell” (Scorp. xii.). Simon Magus is said to have “freed his disciples from the danger of death” by martyrdom, “by teaching them to regard idolatry as a matter of indifference” (Origen c. Celsum VI. xi).
because fear hath torment] Better, as R. V., because fear hath punishment. The word for ‘punishment’ (κόλασις) occurs nowhere else in N. T., excepting Matthew 25:46, but it is not uncommon in LXX. nor in classical Greek. Its radical signification is ‘pruning’, and hence it gets the notions of ‘checking, correcting, punishing’. ‘Torment’ as distinct from ‘punishment’ is expressed by a different word (βάσανος), which occurs Matthew 4:24; Luke 16:23; Luke 16:28. Both words are found together in Wis 19:4; ‘That they might fulfil the punishment which was wanting to their torments.’ Wiclif has ‘peyne’ representing poena in the Vulgate: other English Versions have ‘painfulness’. ‘Fear hath punishment’ is true in two ways; (1) fear involves the idea of punishment; (2) fear is a foretaste of punishment.
He that feareth] With Wiclif we must prefix ‘but’, or with Genevan, Rhemish, and R. V. ‘and’, to represent the Greek conjunction: and he that feareth (ὁ δὲ φοβούμενος). The main sentence is here resumed, ‘but perfect love … punishment’ being parenthetical. The present tense indicates a constant condition: the habitual fearer is necessarily imperfect in his love.
S. Paul teaches the same doctrine; ‘Ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father’ (Romans 8:15). The servile fear, which perfect love excludes, is therefore altogether different from the childlike awe, which is a necessary element in the creature’s love for its Creator. Even servile fear is necessary as a preparation for perfect love. ‘The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom’; and it is also the beginning of love. The sinner must begin by fearing the God against whom he has sinned. Bengel gives the various stages thus: ‘neither love nor fear; fear without love; both fear and love; love without fear’. Fear is the child of bondage; love of freedom. In this case also the bondwoman and her son must be cast out (Galatians 4:30).
Bengel's Gnomen
1 John 4:18. Φόβος, fear) which shrinks from God and the day of judgment. The condition of men is varied: without fear and love; with fear without love; with fear and love; without fear with love.—ἀγάπῃ, love) towards God.—τελεία, perfect) To this refers, is brought to its consummation.—κόλασιν ἔχει, has torment) For it distrusts: it imagines to itself and sets forth all things as unfriendly and opposed to it; it flees from and hates them.
Pulpit Commentary
Verse 18. - Love implies attraction, fear repulsion; therefore fear exists not in love. Love here means the principle of love in general; it must not be limited to God's love to us, or our love to God, or our love of the brethren. Love and fear coexist only where love is not yet perfect. Perfect love will absolutely exclude fear as surely as perfect union excludes all separation. It is self-interested love that fears; pure and unselfish love has no fear. Yet nothing but perfect love must be allowed to cast out fear. Otherwise this text might be made an excuse for taking the most unwarrantable liberties with Almighty God. To cease to fear without attaining to perfect love is to be irreverent and presumptuous. Hence the apostle is once more pointing out an ideal to which Christians must aspire, but to which no one attains in this life. There is a fear, as Bede points out, which prepares the way for love, and which comes only to depart again when its work is done. Because fear hath punishment. Κόλασις must not be rendered indefinitely "suffering" or "torment" (Matthew 25:46; Ezekiel 43:11; Wisd. 11:14; 2 Macc. 4:38). But κόλασιν ἔχει does not mean "deserves" or "will receive punishment," but quite literally "has it." It is the day of judgment and fear in reference to that day that is under consideration; and fear of punishment is in itself punishment by anticipation. Note the ἀλλά and the δέ, introducing a contrary and then a contrast back again: "There is no fear in love; nay, perfect love casteth out fear: but he that habitually feareth [present participle] is not made perfect in love." The dread of punishment may deter men from sin; but it cannot lead them to righteousness. For that we need either the sense of duty or the feeling of love.
Vincent's Word Studies
There is no fear in love (φόβος οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ)
Lit., fear is not. It has no existence. The fear is that spoken of in 1 Peter 1:17; Hebrews 12:28; godly fear; filial reverence; not slavish fear, as Romans 8:15. In love, lit., the love, that perfected love of which John has been speaking.
Perfect (τελεία)
Not perfected, as 1 John 4:17 but perfect as the result of having been perfected. Compare Hebrews 5:14; James 1:4; James 3:2.
Casteth out (ἔξω βάλλει)
A strong expression: turneth out of doors. Fear is cast out of the sphere of the fellowship of love. See the phrase in John 6:37; John 9:34, John 9:35; John 12:31; John 15:6.
Hath torment (κόλασιν ἔχει)
Torment is a faulty translation. The word means punishment, penalty. It occurs in the New Testament only here and Matthew 25:46. The kindred verb, κολάζομαι to punish, is found Acts 4:21; 2 Peter 2:9. Note the present tense, hath. The punishment is present. Fear by anticipating punishment has it even now. The phrase hath punishment (see on John 16:22) indicates that the punishment is inherent in the fear. Fear carries its own punishment. Augustine, commenting on the expulsion of fear by love, says: "As in sewing, we see the thread passed through by the needle. The needle is first pushed in, but the thread cannot be introduced until the needle is brought out. So fear first occupies the mind, but does not remain permanently, because it entered for the purpose of introducing love." The words because fear hath punishment are parenthetical.
He that feareth
The A.V. omits and (δὲ), which is important as closely connecting this clause with there is no fear in love, etc. That is an abstract statement; this is personal; two modes of stating the same truth. Rev. "and he that feareth."
Is not made perfect
"Men's condition is varied; without fear and love; with fear without love; with fear and love; without fear with love" (Bengel).
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Police Bureau will give extra attention to cycle track
Posted by Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) on September 2nd, 2009 at 12:17 pm
It might take some time, and
enforcement, before the lane is
this clear all the time.
(Photos © J. Maus)
Almost immediately after the thermoplastic cooled on the new cycle track on SW Broadway, reports came in that some folks were parking and driving their cars in the bike-only travel lane (one of them even ended up on the evening news).
Since the cycle track is new, this behavior is to be expected and there’s sure to be a learning curve for everyone. (Whether PBOT could have done more in terms of signage, markings, bollards, and so on, is a separate conversation.)
The situation reminded us of how the City rolled out their bike box campaign. When those were installed back in March of 2008, the City partnered up ahead of time with the Police Bureau’s Traffic Division for a strategic enforcement plan at each bike box location.
The bike boxes were experimental as well, but we should remember that they came in response to two very high-profile fatal bike crashes, so it’s likely that the bureaucratic momentum/political support/public enthusiam index was quite different. Regardless, with all this in mind, we wondered if PBOT had similar enforcement plans for the cycle track.
The police played a large role
in the rollout of the bike boxes.
According to PBOT traffic safety specialist Greg Raisman, there is no such plan in place for the cycle track. He said the City’s parking enforcement crews have been monitoring the area. “They started yesterday by passing out information and giving warnings, but they will do regular parking enforcement immediately.”
As for the Police Bureau, Raisman said they too will focus first on education. Officers patrolling the area have been given stacks of PBOT’s new cycle track brochures. Raisman added that the Traffic Division is definitely aware of the project. “They will pay some extra attention to this area, especially early on when its in it’s still in the evaluation period, in order to make sure it works well.”
In general, PBOT sees the cycle track as more of a standard treatment than the bike boxes were. Raisman pointed out that all the traffic control elements associated with the cycle track — like no right turn on red and the buffer striping — are standard and people should “be used to using them”. The bike box, on the other hand, was totally new, not to mention they encouraged people on bikes to align themselves squarely in the roadway in front of motor vehicles.
I have yet to observe the cycle track at length, but according to sources at PBOT, things are going well and compliance with the new design is high. The true test — both of the cycle track itself and the compliance issues — will be when thousands of students and staff flock to Portland State at the end of this month to begin the fall term.
If you’ve ridden through or observed traffic on the new cycle track, we’d love to know what you’ve seen.
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Grimm September 2, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Im glad the city recognizes the issues with putting in something drivers are not used and could make hazards for bikes. Now if only they would realize how little of a hazard Ladd’s circle is…
And out of curiosity, if you observe a vehicle in the bike lane, is there anything you can do? Besides attempt to talk to the driver assuming they have not walked off. Say… take a photo of it and submit it electronically somewhere? Just an idea. I dont even want to get them a ticket, just a nicely worded official letter saying ‘please don’t do this again’.
Dave September 2, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Considering that I still see people driving in the Bus Only lanes in the mall at least once a day. I’d say it will take a while before people figure this out. I haven’t taken a look at the signage yet but I’ll be interested to see how clearly it’s marked that the new lane is bike only.
T.Schwartz September 2, 2009 at 12:50 pm
I have yet to ride the cycle track, but I do live right by the new, extra wide Holgate bike lane. If the signage for the cycle track is as non-existent as Holgate’s then I’m not surprised that people don’t get it. All they need are more of the painted on bikes in the lanes.
Q`ztal September 2, 2009 at 1:19 pm
What’s the reason the city doesn’t just put in ONE steel bollard in the middle of the cycle track at the beginning and end of every block?
It’ll stop UPS & FedEx from entering to use it as a loading zone, as so often happens in NYC, and anyone foolish enough to enter through an open parking slot will soon find themselves trapped as they can’t exit at the end of the block.
gregg woodlawn September 2, 2009 at 1:19 pm
I rode the cycle track yesterday. It is a nice start. It is smart to place this at PSU.
It would have been nice to get the cycle track all of the way from the broadway bridge to PSU (especially through the hotel district where I hate having to deal with all of the parked cars in the bike lane.)
I know that this is experimental and that PBOT loves taking its time to be REALLY careful with changes. The cycle track is going to be a hit (Like bike boxes.) I’m sure we’ll see more cycle tracks really soon.
I was hoping that when Sam got into office, we would see big changes overnight (like in Curitiba, Brazil.) http://www.sustainablecitiesnet.com/models/sustainable-city-curitiba-brazil/
I know that this is just another step, along with the new Bicycle Boulevards, and the Foster bicycle separation. I’m looking forward to more improvements to come.
LoneHeckler September 2, 2009 at 1:19 pm
There was a huge concrete truck blocking the bike lane this morning, jutting so far out that to go around meant entering back into the auto traffic lane — poking out from behind the parked cars to do so. It was a little hairy, but a driver let me in front of her.
Actually, the first portion of the cycle track seems to be blocked off due to construction on the PSU sidewalk. It’s a bit confusing: you enter the cycle track, then are shuttled back out to the left in a temporary “bike lane” for a block or so; then back to the cycle track.
Mick September 2, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Parking in a bike lane is already illegal and people should be ticketed for it, not warned.
Mick #7
Also, if a driver gets a warning from a cop that behavior “X” is illegal then the next time they do this they cop needs to be required to give a ticket instead of a warning.
3rd time: license gets suspended until the driver successfully completes state administered drivers ed.
4th time: driver has displayed inability or outright unwillingness to learn or change. Permanently revoke drivers license and give the driver, now a pedestrian, a free lifetime transit pass.
BURR September 2, 2009 at 2:01 pm
There was a Motorcycle cop working the NE Flint and Broadway intersection when I went by at 11 AM today.
Andrew Holtz September 2, 2009 at 2:03 pm
When I rode the cycle track Tuesday, there was one van in the cycle lane picking up a passenger and a few cars that weren’t quite in their spaces. I think it probably is a bit strange to try to park in a space distant from the curb.
As for extending the track further north, it’d be nice… but downtown Broadway is often clogged with cars, so I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for a lane to be transferred to cyclists. Removing a parking lane or trimming the sidewalk to make room for bikes also wouldn’t be easy because of the high demand.
Has anyone considered putting traffic lights on SW 9th and SW Park… and turning those streets into bike boulevards? As with SE Lincoln, cars could be allowed access for a block or two before they’d have to turn, while cyclists would be able to continue straight. These streets have low vehicle use as is and a nice view of the park blocks. The only thing that discourages cyclists now is that you have a stop sign at every cross street.
Phoenix September 2, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Q`ztak #8
Agree w/ each point ‘cept the free transit pass… Screw ’em. Make ’em pay just like everybody else…
Q’ztal,
Would these rules apply to cycling scoff laws?
Run a stop sign a warning.
Second instance get a ticket.
Third instance suspended library card?
Fourth instance cyclist has displayed inability or outright unwillingness to learn or change. Bicycle permanently impounded and give the cyclist, now a pedestrian, a free lifetime transit pass.
Of course this isn’t about being fair it’s about punishing drivers and giving cyclists a free pass.
Juia September 2, 2009 at 3:03 pm
What “bus only lanes?” I drive along the MAX tracks everyday. I find this comment more than a tad offensive…
Q’ztak #8: I agree with the free transit pass for all. Drivers license fees should be increased by an extra 100 bucks to pay for free public transit.
Fewer restrictions on using public transit (including having to pay to use) makes sense. More people out of cars and walking/ using transit makes for a healthier community.
Dan September 2, 2009 at 3:50 pm
@Anonymous, #12.
You probably didn’t know this, but actually there’s no warning for running a stop sign/stoplight on a bike (or at least, it’s not SOP). If the cop is not in a good mood that day, the first offence is a “failure to obey traffic control device” ticket, which runs close to $300.
In other words, Q’ztal suggesting that cars in the cycle track receive a warning rather than a ticket on their first offense is actually more lenient treatment than cyclists get.
Finally, I might point out that it’s actually in our national interest to “punish” drivers. Less driving means fewer American dollars going into the pockets of the various oil-rich but anti-US regimes around the world. Anyone who supports driving over biking is supporting terrorism.
the 40,000 American citizens killed each year by motorists, and the countless additional Americans injured in motor vehicle accidents would seem to indicate that, at the least, American motorists need some more training, and that significant additional enforcement against motorists might actually do some good as far as safety for all road users is concerned.
Marie September 2, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Juia #13:
I’m curious why you find “Bus Only Lanes” offensive?
In Downtown, along 5th & 6th avenues where the new Max line went in(also known as the Transit Mall) there are 2 traffic lanes. One for cars and one for buses/Max. The lane for buses/Max are clearly marked “Bus Lane Only”
Driver September 2, 2009 at 5:30 pm
I know it sounds great to punish drivers and force all to ride bikes to save the world. But the reality is, its not going to happen. Personally, Im not going to ride a bike downtown, in a suit, in the rain.
The self righteousness and sense of entitlement that riders display is getting very old.
Im all for people riding bikes for whatever reason, but, this is America, we cant force others to believe the same thing you do.
Just because your saving the world, doesnt give you the right to break traffic laws.
Sure driving kills, so does flying, or bike riding, or mountain climbing, etc… We could save many lives if everyone stayed home all day. But thats not a reality. Life is dangerous.
My advise to bikers would be, when you ride, if you commit blatant illegalities, you forfeit the right to complain about people being upset with your behavior.
@ driver #18 – cyclists may be self righteous, but entitlement belongs almost entirely to the motorists, lock, stock and barrel.
My advice to motorists would be, when you drive, if you commit blatant illegalities, you forfeit the right to complain about people being upset by your behaviour.
old&slow September 2, 2009 at 7:34 pm
I rode this again today and I have to say, it is the worst example of spending for no reason I have ever seen in this city. 1 block out of the 3 or 4 was closed. There were construction guys standing and having a chat on another block, 2 or 3 car doors open in the lane. This whole project which is just a white line cost $88,000 dollars! What a waste of money! What is wrong with the bike community here you would think this is a good use of resources?
f5 September 2, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Good lord. Are all the naysayers listening to yourselves? The amount of venom and vitriol being spewed about four blocks of bicycle and traffic lane adjustments is pathetic. I can’t believe how many rants there are here on both sides of the parking strip that have little to nothing to do with this actual specifics of article. But I guess it wouldn’t be an internet forum if there weren’t downward spiraling tangents, insults, misinformation, and pointless bickering.
Portland has a huge cycling populace, industry, and economy. That, in and of itself, shouldn’t offend anyone. It’s a bike friendly city. Portland transportation is at (or near) the forefront of cycling infrastructure in the US, and like it or not that is a good thing. You should try dealing with it, because currently it’s one of the few GROWING million-dollar industries in town, and that benefits everyone.
The US by and large has absurdly conservative traffic designs (roundabouts, anyone?) and drafting off of other cities and countries proven methods is a perfectly reasonable approach, which is exactly what is happening with the cycle track. This site covered some of the transportation planners trips abroad to for these studies well over a year ago.
No one gets to line-item veto what their taxes to to, so let’s all stop focusing on the nebulous ’88k’ figure and move on. This is a pilot plan that will affect in one way or another, what the transportation does across the city from here on out. It’s not just 88k to repaint a street.
A balanced perspective is your friend.
old and slow:
It’s already been widely reported that the first block of the track is still closed while PSU finishes that construction project.
old&slow September 2, 2009 at 10:02 pm
f5, So $88,000 dollars is fine with you for painting a white stripe for 4 blocks? Are you and the rest of the bike crowd here nuts? I ride 5000 miles a year in this city, appreciate some of the bike lanes and bike paths, am totally supportive of making this a bike friendly city, but this project is so insanely expensive for what it accomplishes, is already the target of the anti-bike crowd, and does nothing to help cycling on this stretch of road. How does the koolaid taste?
f5 September 2, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Traffic studies, research, marketing materials, salaried time for city employees involved in the project, etc. etc. You think they’re going to design and print pamphlets each time they revamp 4-block sections of bike/auto traffic? please.
I don’t claim to know what municipalities should or should not reasonably spend on (fill in the blank), but I do know that complaining AS IF it cost 88k for a few shlubs to simply repaint a street for a half day is in no way indicative of what’s going on. Research, design, and testing cost money, no matter the type of project or arena . let’s not go out of our way to skew facts and assume 88k is just a golden toilet plunger. You could most likely look at any city/transportation project ever undertaken and factor the costs involved and cry tax-money hemorraging quite easily. That doesn’t mean it is so.
f5, You still don’t address my complaint. The money is one thing and you can’t really defend that. I ride broadway almost every day and have done so for years. This does nothing! It makes is no safer, easier, nothing! It is the least difficult part of bike riding in town, doesn’t have that much traffic and has hardly any through streets because of the campus. Just a ridiculous project for no real improvement. If you want to defend this amount of money for no improvement, go ahead, but the cycling community is just going to have a harder time getting money for other projects that need it because of the backlash that is going to happen over this. Hope you enjoy this 4 blocks!
Q`ztal September 2, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Phoenix #11, while I agree with the whole “Screw em” mantra I see a larger picture where these people aren’t just angry but are now desperate in that they can no longer get to their job. These people might just be too poor to afford a bus pass; I have this unfounded idea that the act of removing this dangerous demographic of drivers from the road would could be funded by the reduction in health care expenditures. The reduction in hospital E-room costs could fund it directly instead of charging $10 for a Tylenol. Unfortunately equal and opposite reaction turns in to equal and absurd over over-reaction when dealing with politics.
Anon #12, my use of the word “drivers” does imply only automobile operators but I do think the only way cyclists will get respect is with equity in enforcement and punishment. The most “common sense” way to do this is by licensing cyclists. I have no philosophical problem with licensing cyclists, just with wasting taxpayer’s money. A program of licensing cyclists is costly to administer and discriminatory towards the poor and homeless. The “down trodden” auto driver won’t see any benefit; police already have the right to ticket cyclists.
As for the “suspended library card” crack: America woefully under prepares it’s children for driving automobiles and riding bicycles in traffic. Our auto related death rate bear this out. Some people might be able to learn on their own to behave responsibly in traffic. If a valid road user (just a bit more cumbersome to use in conversation) can’t figure it out on their own, for the sake of public safety, they need more thorough training. For the sake of public safety drivers of tractor-trailers require more training and pay more for licensing because their failure presents a greater risk to the public. This is also why civilized nations license auto drivers. Unless a cyclist hits a pedestrian the only person that gets injured in any way a bicycle crash is the cyclist. Cyclist, driver and pedestrian training can exist quite well without the extra bureaucracy of licensing. All road users need training: it’s a public space and everyone’s actions therein affect
everyone else’s right to use the road without fear of harm.
Ishkabibble September 3, 2009 at 6:07 am
Could you please stop quoting Greg Raisman for a while? He’s overbearing and full of himself and is not actually an engineer. There are actual engineers (who have degrees in engineering, and stuff) who work for PDOT presumably. Why not hear from them?
The last time I talked to Greg he told me traffic engineers didn’t know what they were talking about. This is the same kind of attitude that leads to “bike wars” stories and really has no place here.
Stig September 3, 2009 at 7:01 am
Yes, it’s only 4 blocks, but it could be the first of many if it works. It’s experimental.
Yes, if you’re an experienced cyclist who zooms along at 25mph with or without bike lanes, you might think that $88k is a waste of money ‘just some paint’. However, there are actually some cyclists that don’t feel all that comfortable riding in a regular bike lane and putting complete trust in motorists not to him them from behind.
The more safe it looks, feels and actually is, the faster cycling will grow.
Maybe in a few years we’ll see cycle tracks that span several miles. It starts here with this pilot project if it’s successful so consider supporting the city.
k. September 3, 2009 at 9:01 am
I think a lot of you are having a hard time putting this into perspective. The City is trying to be fairly progressive with bike facilities and as such they are willing to try a lot of different things out. They fully realize that not everything they try is going to be a home run but they are willing to experiment a bit and I think they should be lauded for doing so.
Many of these projects like the cycle track, are being done on a limited scale so that their functionality can be assessed. If stuff works.. you can probably expect to see more of it, if not..those things will be abandoned or modified.
Few things are perfect. At least we live in a City that’s willing to accommodate cyclists. And many of you just bitch about it. Get real.
jen September 3, 2009 at 9:30 am
I ride this way every morning to get up to OHSU. The first day, with no signs I ended up riding in the car lane trying to figure out where my bike lane had gone. Then I found the bike lane…. but unfortunately a news crew was parked there.
the next day it was being used a nice wide unloading zone for some trucks. And then the construction had me back in the car lane.
Playing leapfrog with the bus on this new cycle track is also now a little more difficult since instead of being able to just swing around the bus when it pulls in and parks in my lane of travel, I now have to wait until I am fairly close because of the parked cars. Most of the drivers are pretty nice about not pulling in right in front of me…. but a few seem to take malicious glee at cutting me off as close as possible.
I love the idea, but am not impressed right now with how it has been rolled out. Right now it has only served to make my commute MORE dangerous and difficult. I have hope that it will get better as the construction ends and there is more enforcement of proper usage, but I can understand the anger and frustration I see in so many posts here.
f5 September 3, 2009 at 9:37 am
Old and Slow-
I ride Broadway almost every day also. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been walked into by parked car drivers and by student who couldn’t see my lane through the parking lane. I’ve almost been doored 11 times (I’ve counted), and almost been ‘pulled into/out to’ by cars entering and leaving the old parking strip countless times.
I think it’s an upgrade, and I welcome it. I also welcome the pilot project as a whole and the resources the city is putting towards it, so I’m not inclined to look at arbitrary numbers out of context and pass judgement.
I have no idea what the cities associated costs of re-designing traffic patterns is or should be, and you’ve done nothing factual or statistical to provide a basis for your judgement.
But I can tell you love your ‘koolaide’.
feralcow September 3, 2009 at 10:08 am
maybe they can also enforce cars blocking the crosswalk on the onramp from Naito going east on the Hawthorne bridge where the dude in the rabbit ears always sits. Cars tend to stay behind the stop sign, but the crosswalk seems to always get blocked by the second car in line.
Matt Picio September 3, 2009 at 10:09 am
Ishkabibble (#27) – it’s easy to bash a city employee from behind an alias – care to share your real name?
Greg Raisman is a competent and conscientious city employee. As for being an engineer – what’s his title? There are plenty of “actual” engineers who don’t have a degree in engineering, so that argument is not relevant in the context you’re using it in.
Let’s tackle the issues rather than the personalities. What exactly do you disagree with, other than the fact that it was voiced by Greg Raisman?
Todd Boulanger September 3, 2009 at 10:35 am
For this demo period…and perhaps as a way to ease parkers initial concerns arising out of change…has there been any consideration of adding supplementary striping (6″ striped box vs. parking tees to outline the parking space) or stenciling (added a big “P” for parking in the middle of each space? – perhaps in chalk paint so as to vanish in the fall?)
John Beaston September 3, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Yesterday I rode Broadway from the bridge to past 405. I found the difference in the ease of biking between the regular bike lane and the cycle track stunning. Regular bike lane = tense and constantly on the alert for a potential doorer. Cycle track = enjoying the ride. I’m sold. I want more.
Paul Tay September 3, 2009 at 2:55 pm
How would cyclists make left turns from the track?
Alec September 3, 2009 at 3:35 pm
It may be a demonstration project, but since the new track is only .3 miles, it seems that painting the curb beside the Bike Track red (if this isn’t already slated to happen) would go a long way toward keeping people from parking there.
As for the bike track itself (since it is shared by buses only), painting something on the track like “NO STOPPING” or “BIKES BUSES ONLY” would be huge. An alternative is that since parking regulation signs and signposts already exist on the curb, the city place “No stopping or standing” signs on the posts whether in place of or in addition to the current signage.
Jeff P September 3, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Paul – cyclists must pass through the intersection to the ar siode; reorient their bike to the direction of the cross street; wait for the light to change; and proceed.
Alternatively – leave the cycle track one block PRIOR to where you wish to turn left – negotiate across the lanes and execute a normal left turn.
I’ve ridden it several days in a row and my perception is not anything like John B/#35:
I have found more peds milling about in the cycle track;
just as many dorrs thrown open – only from the passenger side who are not programmed to look for bicycles;
cars missing the parking spot since they have no curb to ‘feel for’ and certainly have no idea how big their car is and where it actually ends.
just as many right hooks from people trying to turn into PSU parking but now cannot see a bicycle because of the parked cars…
Sorry – but I’m leaning to the old&slow end of things on this one…still trying it out though.
jon September 3, 2009 at 6:09 pm
get city repair project to paint the whole lane green, that would make it clearer to bikes, peds, cars. put in a temporary curb of railroad ties (driven into the pavement). this would keep the cars out of the lane and give cars a curb to park against. having a curb would make it feel less like one is parking in the middle of the road.
why not also make the cycle track two way since theres not really anything in the other direction with broadway being one way and 5th & 6th being transit mall. it would be great to extend the cycle track to main and madison for psu traffic coming from SE portland via the hawthorne bridge (plus theres no hotel drop offs in this clay-main extension whereas there are drop offs in the blocks north of that).
mateo September 4, 2009 at 5:11 pm
I have several theories on why cycle-tracks should be on the left side of most one-way streets rather than the right:
1) Drivers are less likely to left-hook a cyclist than to right-hook because there is usually better rear-view mirror coverage on the left side and it is easier for drivers to turn their heads and see left than to see well across the inside of their car.
2) The left is also the side where drivers are accustomed to being overtaken by another vehicle and therefore are not as likely to make a turn without checking.
3) A left-side track would be out of the way of buses making stops.
4) A driver, having just parked in the buffer, is less likely to hop out and into the path of a bike than a passenger would because the driver has had to be aware of what’s going on around in him in order to park the car.
5) In heavy traffic where a cyclist might need to stop at a cross street in order to make a right turn from the left-side cycle track, it would be natural just to use the near side crosswalk as a bike box (near the curb out of the way of other bikers riding through).
tom September 7, 2009 at 6:36 pm
I rode the cycle track on Sept. 2, and while it’s a neat concept, I don’t think PSU is the best place to demonstrate it. Here’s why (based on my ride that day): at one corner, a pack of pedestrians was using the cycle track as their waiting area to cross Broadway, effectively blocking the cycle track. As anyone who’s spent time around PSU knows, pedestrians there don’t like to wait on the sidewalk to cross the street (if they wait for a red light at all!). People standing in the road will be a consistently bigger problem than vehicles misusing the lane.
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Mark Wahlberg Is Still In UNCHARTED
Sorry guys. Mark Wahlberg still insists he’s in the UNCHARTED movie, despite what some guy at a video game company says.
A week or two ago the internet was ablaze with a ‘debunk’ story: one of the guys who was working on the next Uncharted video game had shrugged off reports that Mark Wahlberg was starring in the film and that the movie itself would feature the family of Drake Fortune.Nathan Drake
I didn’t run this story because what the hell does some guy working on the video game know? The reality here is that when your favorite video game, comic or toaster oven are being adapted into a movie you will often know more about what’s happening with that movie than the people involved with the original property. Hell, often the people writing movies know less about what’s happening with them than you do.
The people who know the most are the producers, then the directors, then the studio execs. Somewhere down the line - further down than the head of marketing but further up than the guy who is working on the video game - are the actors. And Mark Wahlberg, the actor in question, reconfirmed yesterday that he’s in Uncharted, and he’s not alone.
”David O’Russell is writing right now and hopes to direct”, Wahlberg told Moviehole. “It’s myself, Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro.”
Now, we can parse this. David O Russell is not yet definitely directing, it seems. That’s up in the air. I don’t think we’ll know for sure until after the Oscars, and that’s partially because he’s keeping his options open. Of course the fact that he’s not fully signed on to direct means that it’s probably that none of the actors are signed on, either. There have surely been talks (and it isn’t like De Niro is so hard to get), but nothing is in stone. So the good news for you folks hating this casting and this story concept still have some hope. Some slight hope.
But unless Russell opting not to direct changes the whole project I would expect that his script remains the basis for what goes on in the film, which means the family element remains. And the studio may love this casting and stick with it. But as of right now, January 7, 2011, Mark Wahlberg is still the star of Uncharted, and he’s bringing his dad and uncle with him.
Congrats To Ruben Fleischer On Being The Latest Person Who Might Direct The UNCHARTED Movie
Believe It Or Not, The UNCHARTED Movie Just Lost Yet Another Director
Mark Wahlberg Will Play Sully In The UNCHARTED Movie
By Scott Wampler, Jan 13, 2020
It's time once again for the Neverending UNCHARTED Timeline.
By Scott Wampler, Dec 30, 2019
In the future, everyone will be the director of UNCHARTED for 15 minutes.
We're starting to think this movie might actually happen.
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World-First Eden Park Double Header
The Vodafone Warriors and the Blues have today united the once-deeply-divided codes by jointly announcing what is believed to be a world-first rugby league-rugby union blockbuster double header to be played at Eden Park in Auckland on Saturday, March 21 next year.
The mouth-watering back-to-back games will not only bring the NRL and Super Rugby competitions together on the same day and stage, but it will also pit Auckland’s two oval ball clubs against their Australian capital counterparts.
The “Codes of Auckland” event will kick off with the Vodafone Warriors facing beaten NRL grand finalists the Canberra Raiders at 5pm followed by the Blues taking on Super Rugby semi-finalists the Brumbies at 7.35pm.
Months of discussions between the Vodafone Warriors, the Blues, Auckland Tourism Events and Economic Development (ATEED), the NRL and NZ Rugby have resulted in the two codes combining in a manner previously thought impossible.
“We have much in common as professional teams in international competition and we know that we have fans that follow both clubs,” Vodafone Warriors CEO Cameron George and Blues chairman Don Mackinnon said in a joint statement.
“Both clubs have worked together in recent years when the opportunity has arisen, and we have been trying to make this idea work for a couple of years.
“This year we trialled a single ticket promotion to both of our games on the same weekend and fans from both codes absolutely loved it.
“With both clubs playing Canberra teams on the same weekend, it was the perfect chance to give it a go. It’s exciting and innovative and gives the Vodafone Warriors and the Blues the unique opportunity to celebrate some of the best sporting entertainment that Auckland has to offer.”
The Codes of Auckland announcement is another example of Auckland leading the way with innovative sporting events for both locals and visitors to enjoy, and was welcomed by Auckland city authorities as well chiefs from both codes and Eden Park management.
ATEED General Manager – Destination, Steve Armitage, says the event will offer the whole region something different.
“This day is one example of how Auckland seeks to offer its residents and domestic and international visitors a unique experience.
“Last year, ATEED supported the rugby league double header at Mt Smart Stadium as part of our focus on stimulating increased visitation out of Australia, and we hope that this event will prompt a strong contingent of Brumbies and Raiders supporters to hop across the ditch.”
Eden Park CEO Nick Sautner said the innovative event would give sports fans a special incentive to be at the stadium on March 21 next year.
“New Zealand’s national stadium was built for crowds of all sizes and demographics so an opportunity to host fans of both the Blues and the Vodafone Warriors in our 116-year old home is inspiring. We look forward to showcasing the stadium’s diversity and providing Kiwis with another great reason to visit Eden Park,” he said.
Tickets for the Codes of Auckland will start at $30 for adults and are set to go on sale to the general public at Ticketmaster.co.nz from 4pm today. Members of both clubs will be able to access a special pre-sale from midday.
The match against the Raiders will be one of the Vodafone Warriors’ 10 home games played in Auckland next season – the other nine at Mount Smart Stadium – while their other two home fixtures have been confirmed for the NRL’s Magic Round at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane and at SKY Stadium in Wellington on June 27 where they’ll take on the North Queensland Cowboys.
The encounter with the Raiders will be the Vodafone Warriors’ seventh home game at Eden Park, six years after their last there which was also against Canberra. Their first was against Parramatta in 2011 followed by Manly in 2012 and the Sydney Roosters in 2013 before three games there in 2014.
Meanwhile, the Blues will host eight home games in Investec Super Rugby in 2020 with the “Codes of Auckland” clash their fourth of seven games at Eden Park with Whangarei hosting the game against the Jaguares.
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Eh, what the hell. →
Now that the first year is in the books…
I’m curious to hear from you about something.
If the spectrum of expectations for Georgia’s 2017 season runs from “another throwaway season” at one end to “great leap” at the other, where do yours fall?
185 responses to “Now that the first year is in the books…”
“Regression to the mean” is a phrase in use here a bit recently. I’d think that in year 2, regression to our 15 year mean of 10 wins is a reasonable expectation.
I’m cautiously optimistic, expecting 10-2 and winning the East not being off the table.
Better be a great leap. Don’t the metrics all indicate if the new guy doesn’t have it going by year 2, he probably will never get it going? Either way, next year UGA will have 2 stellar recruiting classes in the bag, almost 2 years of The Process, continuity at QB and with the staff (it appears). As Big Ed Bookman says in Texas, “It’s time to stop talking about the picture of the dog.” I don’t expect a national championship next year, or even an SEC title, but I expect to see something a lot better than what I saw this year.
I’m with you. If it’s not a great leap, we did not get our man, IMO.
Dabo would disagree, but yes, for the most part he who doesn’t win early in his tenure doesn’t stay long enough to right the ship.
You mean Deshaun would disagree with you. 😉
Tahj Boyd got Clemson to 11-2 and beat Ohio State in the Orange Bowl. People keep sleeping on Dabo like he’s some chump…the dude can build a staff and recruit. Clemson isn’t good because of Deshaun alone.
How good can he be? After all, that bum Mark Richt beat the pants off of him in Athens, and nearly did the same at Clemson.
I will admit that Dabo has built a pretty strong team around Watson. It wouldn’t surprise me to see them win tonight.
Todd Gurley did a lot of the heavy lifting in those games
Who recruited him again? eh oh yea Mark did.
Yes, he did. CMR recruited his share of incredible players. Depth of recruiting was an issue though, and Kirby fixed that in a hurry (assuming the class signs and doesn’t implode once it gets to Athens).
in fact, didn’t MR beat Dabo for Gurley? Dabo seemed to think they were getting him right up to the end, or pretty close.
No, but if Watson and Venebales left after this season, I’d be very skeptical of Auburn with a Lake next year.
Venables isn’t going anywhere as nothing is open worth his time. And Clemson might dip to 9-3 next year, but that’ll be because they’re in between QBs. If 9-3 is a bad year you’re doing something right.
You could maybe say that about Jimbo too. His 2nd year was pretty underwhelming. Then he got rolling downhill and smoked fools.
Agree Parrish. I don’t understand the reluctance to give credit where it is due where Dabo is concerned. I also don’t understand the tendency people have to or the need they seem to have to characterize him as buffoonish and not to be taken seriously. They can do that if they want t to but they do it at their own risk of being made fools of themselves. I don’t have real strong feelings about the guy either way but dude is legit as a coach. Some of the self styled intellectuals may not think he’s cool enough for them but he did t trip and fall into the success he’s had. Clemson was a perennial “close but not quite” sort of team for what seemed like forever. Dabo has made them into the real thing.
Dabo seems to be an outlier, metrics wise, which I guess goes to show that metrics aren’t everything. For the record, I think Dabo is a hell of a good recruiter and coach, and it wont surprise me one bit to see Alabama go after him when Saban decides to hang it up. A school could do (and has done) much worse than to hire a guy with a proven track record as a head coach at a Power 5 school if they want to be a national power.
A school could do (and has done) much worse than to hire a guy with a proven track record as a head coach at a Power 5 school if they want to be a national power.
Can you imagine a guy like Dabo with the unlimited resources and administration support he’d get at Alabama? Me, I hope they hire another Mike Shula or Ray Perkins.
Saban has transformed the culture. They’re more likely to hire Bill Belichick than Mike Shula for their next coach.
well, Belichik is a great coach, but he’s getting old, isn’t he? Can Bama boosters offer him eternal youth or something? Talk about attention to detail.
Rpcpisme
How good was UGA the last time Clemson made a run at the national title?
Perhaps the Dawgs can get something going next season?
Georgia was not a good team in 2015.
But they won 10 games
Yeah – but the question was how good was Georgia the last time Clemson contended for a national title which was a whole year ago.
FWIW – that 2015 team was better than this 2016 team by nearly any objective measure you want to use.
I don’t argue that. 2015 had 2 5 year SR tackles, Malcom Mitchell, Leonard Floyd, and Jordan Jenkins. It was still the worse 10 win team you’ll ever see.
You must have missed that Iowa team that went to the Rose Bowl last year. Absolutely mediocre team that got lucky it missed Ohio State, Michigan, and Michigan State in the regular season. Hell – Northwestern won 10 games last year and got obliterated by Tennessee in its bowl game. There’s plenty of average as grits 10 win teams in the modern era of CFB with 12 game schedules. You keep acting like Georgia 2015 is unique in this respect.
bing good call on Iowa last year.
In all seriousness – there’s like 3 Power 5 teams that finished with 10 wins last year that fell below Georgia’s #32 in S&P+. I just don’t see why people feel the need to continuously shit on the 2015 team. As far as I’m concerned, 2016 was a far more unenjoyable viewing experience. At least that 2015 team put Spurrier in the retirement home. That’s a redeeming quality for an average season in and of itself.
To each their own. I’m not saying 2016 set the world on fire, bc God knows it didn’t, but 2015 was the most miserable season I had as a UGA fan since the 2000 disappointment. Probably just me.
Tri, you have a warped perspective. How much did you like the 2010 6-7 team? ’09? The ’09 team looked all season like a it would have a losing record but pulled the fat out of the fire at the end to go 8-5. The 2015 team was a decent albeit not great team that actually could have won the SEC East if Chubb hadn’t gotten hurt in the UT game and CMR had not made the biggest game-planning blunder of his career in the FU game.
OK, you got me…I was referring to early 1980s. My attempt was making a correlation between Clemson national title run and UGA national title run. Just looking for a silver lining to UGAs benefit from the CU run. Their QB is special, it will be interesting to see how they look next searon.
I was just being a smartass, but I knew what you meant.
Jack Klompus
As would Mike Macintyre.
Agree. Not winning the East, considering the schedule and the state of our division, would be a colossal failure
Grathams replacement
10-4,11-3. Defense improves to 17-20 ppg, even more improvement if a dominant pass rusher emerges. OL,WR, and Eason improve as the season goes on. Kicker is the wildcard with the Blankenship drama.
Kicker has been the wild card for the last two years, and not just because of the befuddling situation with Blankenship. For a program with a long long history of great kicking and punting to have come to this is some kind of existential bitch-slap. Its like we done pissed somebody off, there.
Well.. since you asked.. Our weakest points were first, an undersized and out maneuvered O line who had difficulty run blocking. And if we can run with Chubb, Michel et al in the backfield we are in trouble. Second, Eason wasn’t quite up to the hype he came with. He is a great talent and a nice young man. But, he overthrew a lot of open recievers or didn’t see them at all. He did show some promise in the Liberty Bowl by running when flushed out of the pocket instead of getting sacked or throwing the ball away. We have a favorable schedule next year, but we had that this year too. If we get the O line organized and BEAT FLORIDA who knows?
Derek Dooley 2.0
You mean an undersized and improperly coached Offensive Line. I see improvement coming in with this new OL class. I’m not certain we have the coaches in place to capitalize. Let’s hope so.
Be in the SEC championship game. That is the bar for me and anything less would be a disappointment. No reason to not run the table in the East with the amount of talent returning AND coming into the Fall.
Chi-town Dawg
+1 agree completely!
yep better compete for the big prize this year not be out of it in October
I don’t know how it will go, but it better go to the SECCG and an east division title.
9-3. Losses to Notre Dame, UF and Auburn.
Auburn. If you had said any other team, I could be on board. But AU.
I like how we just chuck up a loss to Florida, naturally (I do too)
But hey, frat beach! Barbara Jean’s in October! Good times, I guess.
Well he is saying Losses and naming teams, losing to ND at their house, could see. Losing to UF, 50-50 ok. But in the last 10 years, UGA has owned AU. So there I draw the line.
I would consider the program being on schedule the East coming down to the WLOCP win or loss in a 4Qtr game. Smart needs to get the program to a point where is .500 or slightly better against UF.
The UF QB situation will be interesting to watch. McElwain catches flack for the QB situation but he was having a solid 1st yr before the QB was ruled ineligible, and a good 2nd yr when the starter was injured. They red shirted a QB who was ranked just behind Eason and Del Rio is back. UF should be favored to win the East again.
GT is a must win or Smart hot seat talk starts. UGA coaches don’t start 0-3 to the nerds.
Year 3 is the big year. Smart recruited OL heavy this year, Hopefully they sign and then develop in year 2. Chubb and Sony are great but they can’t create miracles with a mediocre OL.
I was thinking ND but I’ll take a SEC loss over a non conference loss any day.
Middlin
If anyone says Kirby will succeed, they’re lying. No one knows. Any throwaway season will only be excused in hindsight… if he actually builds something. The caveat I’ll give is that I’m not going to bitch too much about his 1st year, despite some real head scratching moments (games). 2nd year doesn’t get a pass. I can’t put a number on that, but all I can say today is I need to see significant progress
rchris
If you look at raw athletic talent on hand, the only teams that will be remotely close to us are Notre Dame (coming off a losing record), and Auburn (who we beat). Unfortunately we have to play them both on the road as well as Tennessee, and we play the Gators in Jax. If Kirby can get as much out of his talent as the opposing coaches do theirs, then we should win at least 2 of those 4. 10-2 in the regular season is a reasonable expectation.
Also, if Kirby & Co. weren’t killing it on the recruiting trail, I think there’d be a lot more restlessness amongst the natives.
He better recruit well. To compensate for coaching.
Win the east, beat Florida, lose pretty handily in the champ game, but not by five TDs
I think that all the indicators will point to an East title or 9-3, 10-2 a top 15 type of team.
What I would be more interested in is being able to pull up Bill C stats at the end of the season and seeing 2+ games in 90+ range, 5-6 games in the 75-90 range and maybe 4 games in the 60-75 range. No games in the single digits. No game below 50th percentile.
Regardless of the wins and losses that would indicate that this team was moving towards being a competitive national title team. Maybe a team that ends the year better than they started.
My guess is that we see something a little better than a throwaway season, but the drive home is still nothing but guys telling you that we just dont have the players and talent in athens to beat Mizzou.
So , basically, get back to where CMR / Bobo left us
Year 2 yes, Year 3 I would want a WLOCP W, and a SEC CG trip playing closer than our last meeting with Bama.
…and by Year 2 yes I would say 2011-2012 Richt/Bobo not ’13+ Richt/Bobo.
I was let down because Smart was so rigid in his philosophy that he didn’t go after the wins. I think he learned a lot though, and I bet we see more out of the offense next year. I expect there to be changes in the OL if someone gets beat like Catalina, I expect Eason to be under center as much as he can handle, I expect to see Mr Chubb and M Michel to get the ball more often.
I still think Smart will be successful. His recruiting is incredible, the East sucks, and I’m an eternal optimist.
Starbreaker
Looks like I’m on the same page as most others…win the East and be competitive in the SEC championship game, at least. It’s not as much about our team, but the competition and next year is looking like an even more down year for the SEC East (if that was even possible). Also, the offense is going to have to pass the eye test and appear more in sync and fluid in Chaney’s offense. No doubt there will still be struggles with a new OL, but I need to feel better about the offense and see improvement.
I feel like 2017 is going to have a lot of similarities to 1997. So I’ll go with 10-2. Whether that’s good enough to get to Atlanta or not, idk. Obviously it depends on how the rest of the conference shakes out.
I want to see two things (drastically) improve next season.
1: Eason has to get better and take advantage of the gimme plays. I don’t need him threading the needle 25 yards down the field with regularity, but I need him to hit the open receiver for the big play. He failed to do so far too often this year, but since he’s a true freshman learning a complicated system I’ll give him a one-year pass. That pass expired Dec. 30th, however.
2: Kirby’s in-game coaching has got to get better. I expected there to be some issues and he didn’t disappoint. His time out usage is awful for the most part and truth be told his demeanor is too up and down. I know we all wanted Richt to be a little bit more emotional, but Kirby seems to be a classic overcorrection to that. He needs to settle himself down a bit while keeping some of the emotion that makes him who he is. That’s not an easy thing to manage but it’s part of the gig.
As for the season outlook, it’s just so hard to tell this early. Players will be hurt. Players will transfer. While I’m somewhat bullish on the offensive line, I still think UGA is one year away before contending for anything special. That doesn’t mean UGA can’t win the SEC East. In fact I would be disappointed if it didn’t. But it could very well be a sacrificial lamb should Bama find itself in Atlanta again a la Florida the past two years. I think 10-2 is a very real possibility with 9-3 being more realistic. Road games at Auburn (who will be much better next year), Tennessee and Notre Dam plus Florida in Jax isn’t an easy 4 game deal. Then you have to worry about losing to a team you shouldn’t, because UGA showed it was more than capable of doing that this year.
The first team to 15-0 ever!
I’ll second that. LOL.
As many have pointed out, if a new coach doesn’t win big by Year 2, they usually don’t end up winning big at all. I’m not saying I’m expecting it, but anything less than an East title isn’t going to look good for the future. And I would add at least being competitive in the SECCG too. Barely winning a weak East division then getting blown out in the SECCG wouldn’t be a huge step forward in my opinion.
I mean… UGA went 7-5 this year, so winning the East and playing in Atlanta would most definitely be a major improvement. Doesn’t matter if UGA gets blasted in Atlanta or not.
I see your point……I’m just saying that let’s say we swapped places with UF this year – I wouldn’t feel drastically more optimistic about the future if we’d had their season instead of ours.
I think thats why so many people here see getting to Atlanta as the baseline. UF has been a very bad team and still won the east two years running. We should at least be able to do that.
Bulldog Gemes
A great throwaway season
Win the East or have compelling reasons why not. Demonstrate a willingness to use our talent to their best advantage.
Bill Glennon
I look at Kirby this year like I would a true freshman QB in the SEC. I think he will make good progress this year, and the game will slow down for him. However, he might not yet be seasoned enough.
Kirby is absolutely lights out in the “off the field” coaching aspects like recruiting and building enthusiasm. He has experience in these areas. His “on the field” coaching has been bad, although the D has been OK. His media and press dealings have been bad. His bad coaching areas are those that that he never handled under Saban.
Kirby has the right personality. He is a motivated, intelligent grinder. A gym rat. Those types of people are resourceful and learn from their mistakes. They figure out how to win over time. I expect we will see steady progress but not a championship for a few years.
He won’t get a “few” years
7-5 gets him at least 3-4, IMHO..
He better because no other SEC team may win a championship while Saban is still coaching. I don’t consider the SECE a championship. UGA might go to the SEC Championship game but lose to Alabama. If they do that, I will accept it till Saban retires.
Improved with flashes of greatness, hitting on all cylinders by whatever Florida bowl we go to. SEC East Champs or missed by a thin margin and added depth another top 5 recruiting class.
The O-Line could be a liability as it will be super young but with leadership in the RB position, more experience at QB and a more talented receiving corps, we should be much improved on offense. Next year’s line will have more upside but still be mighty young to motor-grade but now that Eason is possibly 1/3 through his career, the game should be slower for him so playbook should open up and its reasonable to expect he have the command of the offense and be better able to make changes at the line away from doomed plays.
No one is asking for an all shotgun, 5 wide, air raid spread attack. UGA can still be the pro-style, run first, wear down the defense, play action team it wants to be but Mr. Cheney will have no excuse but to adapt or die until the motor-grader is ready.
I guess I’d ask what’s going to be different? Our OL was a huge problem, will freshmen from this lights out recruiting class be enough to fix that problem? As this blog has noted, our general offensive approach has been… undynamic. Is there reason to think that will change? Is there someone in-house who can help develop Eason into the QB we all want to see? For everyone calling for the 10/11 win season this year, I’d ask why specifically you think you’ll see improvement?
Because we won’t be playing a true freshman, 18 year old QB?
it’s reasonable to expect an improvement between year 1 and 2 as everyone becomes more comfortable with everything. It ain’t like UGA’s offense was prolific or dynamic before Cheney got there and he wrecked it.
FarmerDawg
So yur sayn there’s a chance?
RCBRick
Talent improves, but Chaney is still calling the O and Kirby is still in over his head. 50/50 shot we win a bad east, and could win anywhere between 4 and 11 games, because that is just how football is, but it would be surprising if UGA finishes top 15 in S&P+. I’m guessing somewhere around 30th.
I don’t expect anything. If they take a leap forward, Smart may end up being a good hire. If not, he’ll probably be fired a year or two later.
SEC East champs and at least nine wins in the regular season. Anything less is going to put Kirby and staff on the hotseat – and considering the 2017 schedule, rightfully so.
I think we need to see some dramatic improvement. Having said that, we could easily still lose three games while playing vastly better than last year. We need to see the things we were promised THIS year: no face plants, attention to detail and a team that gives it’s best effort on every play of every game. It would also be nice NOT to see the coaches stubbornly insisting on pounding square pegs into round holes.
There’s not a loss on that schedule, but there are 5 tough games. We would have expected not less than 10 – 2 with an East Division title pre-Kirby. Given all of the issues this coaching staff needs to overcome, I think they come up one game short at 9 – 3 and miss winning the East again.
I don’t expect an SEC championship next season because (1) Jim Chaney will still be calling the plays and developing the offensive game plan and (2) I’m not bullish on the offensive line play being championship quality. After saying that, I expect what we got in year 2 of the previous guy … an appearance in Atlanta and a team that fights like mad and lets the chips fall where they may. If there’s not an appearance in Mercedes Benz Stadium on the first week of December, someone’s seat is going to be hot entering 2018.
I think with our talent and schedule 9-3 would the expectation given a perfectly average coaching job. So I expect we’ll go 8-4. I expect we’ll be unhappy with that.
Beat Tech and don’t ruin my trip to Chicago.
We are going to ND as well. I sure hope the restaurants aren’t the highlight of the trip.
Ditto. Already booked our house in South Bend for the weekend.
Have you been to South Bend? It’s not Athens.
We’re flying to Chicago Thursday, Cubs day game on Friday, partybus to and from ND on Saturday, Chicago fun until Wednesday. Is there a Ferris Bueller tour?
We’re staying in Chicago as well. South Bend is a beautiful campus but rather isolated.
I’ve not been to South Bend, but have a few alumni friends here in Atlanta recommending things to do. If nothing else, we’ve got a large enough crowd to have a good time in our house before and after the game.
We’re flying into Chicago on Thursday and thinking about catching that Cubs game on Friday as well. Haven’t decided if we’re renting a car or taking a train to South Bend from Chicago. I’m certain there’s got to be a Ferris Bueller tour if you search for it. The wife and I are heading back to Chicago later that month for a wedding so not planning on spending much time there after the game other than to fly home.
More Arizona, Less Colorado.
soccerdawg
To you South Bend Travelers, I am looking to go in on a house for my UGA Junior son and myself.
Saltwater Dawg
Beat Florida
Win the SEC East.
Beat Tech
Competitive game in SEC Championship
Seems like most folks would be happy if we got to the SEC Championship game…and got beat.
If that’s the happy spot, wtf did we go through all this drama and pain for?
I more or less understand the process, that next year should be better than this year and I can almost guarantee that next year will be better than this year.
But that’s hardly the point, is it?
I will not be happy next year or any year we are not playing in the national championship game and winning it.
Oh, silly Scorpio, don’t you know Smart needs to time to purge the losing mentality that Richt instilled in the program for all those years?
Its not a losing mentality Kirby is trying to correct, it’s a mentality of doing just enough to get by is what he’s trying to root out of program.
Yep, fourth-most wins in the nation from 2001-2015 = just barely scraping by. Kirby has indeed put a stop the mentality that produced those results, whatever it was.
How many championships of any kind do we have to show for all of those years?
Two SECS, five east titles, but yeah, no rings.
About the same as any team not coached by guys named Meyer or Saban
2 SEC titles in 15 years while sitting in the 4th best recruiting state in the country. Yeah that’s really lighting it up there champ. Keep dancing to that 10 win drumbeat.
Yeah I’d take 10 wins in a heartbeat right now. You?
Most of them wouldn’t. For a lot of people, an 11 win season with a 3-1 or 4-0 record against rivals that doesn’t result in a title might as well be a 0 win season. I don’t get it personally, seems like a miserable way to live your life, but they’re calling the shots for our program now.
Tim in Sav
Rick……he’s gone, get over it. He had 15 years to get the job done and he didn’t(notice I didn’t say couldn’t) Mark Richt is a great man and a good coach but he’s gone. Lets give Kirby at least three or four years and see what he can do.
Of course we can and should give Kirby time, but I don’t see a point in faking optimism for a situation that looked bad when the staff was hired and has only gotten worse (other than recruiting, which is going gangbusters). We’re likely to be looking for a new coach in a couple years, so we might as well remember how monstrous of a fuck-up this was and who is responsible. If that means I am not ‘letting it go’, so be it. It will be great if Kirby defies the odds, otherwise I am stoked about the guy we hire after McG is sent to the un-hireable purgatory he so richly deserves.
Not all championship game appearances are created equally. If they go 9-3 and squeak in only to be blown out, that’s a far different thing from going 12-0 or 11-1 and losing a competitive game. The latter will still only get him to a fifth year (barring a dropoff of Muschampian proportions) if he doesn’t follow it up with anything.
losing a competitive game in the SECC? You mean like 2012?
I see you didn’t read beyond that to my pointing out it wouldn’t buy him much time.
Your last sentence would make for a pretty miserable year most of the time. You’re not very happy are you? 🙂
No I am pretty happy most of the time because I don’t have unrealistic expectations about my football team.
To want any other result than a national championship for my football team is kinda stupid, no?
I am bored with all this bullshit about what is acceptable.
If 10+ wins a year for 15 years is not acceptable, then by God I want the big enchilada, the glass do hickey, the confetti bath…
To want, or expect, anything else is stupid.
It is possible to develop the right strategy, coach players to be great and play great as a team, to have the right game plan, and still lose. Consistently playing down to or losing to teams with inferior talent has been the UGA way recently. I believe we all expect that to change quickly, and starting next year.
I have seem many teams in many sports get to a championship game for the first time (players and/or coaches – not ever), play extremely well, and not quite have that secret sauce to win while playing under that pressure. I’ve also seen those teams and coaches come back the second time and kill it.
From my own comment, that’s what I meant by competitive in the championship game.
Guess we will know more about the secret sauce tonight, huh?
Looks like they found it.
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.”
-Jean Luc Picard.
Picard was the defensive coordinator at one of those Mississippi junior colleges, right?
Picard was no James T. Kirk! And he had drenched accent. Not that there is anything wrong with that. 🙂
Well, we were in the driver seat for that in 13 14 and 15 but flunked even that test.
If we could get a little improvement along the O line, I don’t see why we shouldn’t be able to beat anyone on the schedule. I expect we lose a game or two but get to Atlanta and play a competitive game. I don’t “expect” to win in Atlanta, but even if its Bama we play, it should be competitive into the fourth quarter.
Compete in every game. Beat Florida. Win the SEC East. Finish the year looking like 2018 will be special. This is what I expect.
Those are pretty reasonable expectations. Well stated.
We really, really have to get back to beating Florida on a regular basis. The importance of that cannot be overstated.
Totally agree … 1990 was a long time ago.
I think that is the key as well. Not only do we need to beat them, but we need to kick the shit out them and get used to doing it. The road to Atlanta for us always runs through Jacksonville.
Absolutely … The OBS brought that mentality to Gainesville when he showed up. We need to kick them in the teeth. I’m still not sure Kirby gets it based on his team’s performance in Jacksonville this year, but it was a throwaway year.
All of you predicting or wanting big years forget we play at UT this year and you can expect some devastating injury to come out of that,
We should take a forfeit in K ‘Ville, either that or refuse to play anyone on the two deep. They’ll be fighting hard to defend their 2016 Life Championship and we can’t risk the knees of our kids.
I expect UGA to be a strong favorite to win the East, and would be disappointed if they don’t make it to Atlanta. While I don’t expect any/many more votes for us to be in the Top 10 next year, we should start somewhere around 15th as a consensus rating, and could be competitive with all teams by the end of the year. Biggest question marks are OC deficiency, whether Eason makes good strides, and whether we get better with in-game management issues (timeouts, challenge communication issues, and personnel groupings.)
Last year I was overly optimistic at 8 1/2 wins, but next year I see 10-2 as the most likely record, assuming no surprise changes before September. This is based on returning personnel, and a soft schedule of opponents, more than us having closed the gap from a team rated in the 60s last year to a Top 15 team by September.
What is a ‘great leap’? I don’t know, but I fully expect us win the East. Can we compete with the West in the SECCG? If compete means not get embarrassed then I think we might be able to do that. Win it all the next year (2018). By the way, if we can get tickets, we’re going to South Bend – I actually think we are going to win that one.
The mythical Year 2. Key juniors on offense a defense returning, coupled with a slew of talented, experienced freshmen & sophomores who have shown great early promise. Back-to-back elite recruiting classes to add depth. A weak division and a relatively easy schedule. Everything is set-up to make this another in a long line of national championship caliber “Year 2’s”.
Given the uninspiring performance of the coaching staff and the fact that this is Georgia, I’m certainly not predicting that it will be, merely thinking that the ingredients and environment dictate that it should be a SEC-title / BCS playoff type of year. Anything less will be a disappointment. Anything less will be what Mark Richt delivered for 15-years.
Unfortunately for Kirby, he is the victim of expectations raised not by his own hand, but by the way in which he was hired and the man he replaced. Another 10-2 season where we wind up on the outside of the national championship race and again pointing to next-year might be realistic, but it is not what Kirby was hired to deliver. He was hired to be better than CMR, not simply a younger, more irritable version with very, very good, but not elite, results.
In short, 2017 is exactly the type of year, and the type of team that Kirby was hired to turn from really good-to-great. Anything less should be viewed as a huge disappointment and the cause for many tough questions to be directed at not only Coach Smart, but also our beloved AD and his cronies in the hydration business.
With next year’s schedule? Win the East is the bar.
drewh07
10-2 and an SEC Championship game appearance. If Kirby doesn’t deliver that then I don’t think we have our guy.
I personally want to see the coaching staff focus on winning games over “establishing an identity”. I want to see reins loosened on Eason so he takes a few more chances, like throwing a deep ball that his receiver can catch rather than worrying too much about a turnover. I want to see CPJ make excuses of why he can’t beat Georgia in Mark Richt field. I want to see Gator tears after the Cocktail Party. I want to see Auburn smoked so badly that Gus has to answer lots of hard questions about his leadership. And I want to see the Fighting Irish get their asses whipped by the Dawgs (I hope to witness that one personally). They’ll still be a top ten team after the loss by the way. If those things happen I am pretty secure in thinking that would mean a good season.
My heart: We’ll beat Florida, Auburn and Tech, plus Notre Dame at South Bend, win a weak SEC East and give Bama all it can handle in Atlanta.
My head: this is CKS’s second year, following a spotty first season, and nobody should expect miracles. But it would be nice to get back at least to where Richt left us. I truly felt we regressed last season. That was a major disappointment. A repeat of that will portend a short stay in Athens for CKS.
Another throwaway. Btw, no former Saban assistant has beaten him head to head. Still.
Keep beating that drum while ignoring that Jimbo is a badass. Saban hasn’t played an assistant that has had the time, support, recruiting, etc. to build a program that can complete with him. That certainly doesn’t mean it’s not possible. It means he hasn’t run into it yet.
MLB2
Season opener in 2017. Dome christening.
I doubt there is any school in the known universe that supports its football program with the gusto of the University of Ala by God Bama…really. What other school would have the consummate gall to put “having championship football” in its mission statement?
Hell, Jimbo can’t even get out of the ACC.
Except in 2013 when he won an NC with a team where every single starter was drafted. All 22.
Gawd, yer right, how quickly I chose to forget. I am suitably chastened.
Georgia is one of 3 teams in the East that expect to compete for the SECE Title most every year. Next year is no exception.
Kirby’s going to get it done.
You’re being optimistic PTC, seems like that’s not a very popular view to have around here nowadays.
Medium leap tripped up by occasional coaching learning curve events:
-Clock management trip up
– ‘Impose your will’ mentality that ends up playing against personnel strengths
– Critical bad call on offense
– Over coaching on D that leads to a devastating penalty
I expect an SEC east championship, but with perhaps some needed help from other east teams.
I expect a loss to UF until I see the rise of a game changer like Jarvis Jones. UT will be a shootout and I’ll be left wondering what happened to the high octane offense a few weeks later when they struggle due to the ‘impose your will’ mentality.
We will see flashes of greatness from the new kids that will leave us wanting more in 2018.
That’s what I expect. Would be ecstatic to be proven wrong on any or all of the above statements (except the SEC east prediction of course).
Let me add that a Group of Six Bowl would be a nice touch..we haven’t been to a bowl of that magnitude since the 07 Season…unless my memory is failing me.
Expecting a step in the right direction. The main concer being that, yes we have some awesome recruits coming in on the O-Line….but does anyone really expect them the perform at an elite level until year two?
The defense will be as nasty as we’ve seen in 10 years.
Eason will make a significant jump in year two.
Chubb and Michel are an obvious advantage.
Receiving corps will have more experience.
But that O-Line????
Expect 9-10 wins with a good shot at winning the East and a close loss in the SECCG due to a nasty Defense and an Ine that just can’t push us over the finish line. 2018 will be the year I expect a slot in the playoffs.
South FL Dawg
Max 1 loss
Win the weak SEC east
Don’t get embarrassed in the Dome
Expect much improvement and making it to Atlanta unless there’s some major implosion. I still think Kirby’s model will yield results so I won’t be jumping off the wagon though if this doesn’t happen.
The wild card is Eason. I want to see him improve on accuracy and check downs. I can do without another season of Sony and/or Chubb jumping up and down in the flat waiving their arms with nobody with 30 yds of them.
No expectations or opinions until Jacksonville 2018. We’ll know for sure by then. As far as getting to Atlanta and losing this year or any year, there is no bigger screwover in college football than to be the loser of the SECCG. If you don’t play in it and are the next highest ranked team, you get a New Year’s 6 bowl. The SEC gives no shits about teams that aren’t from Florida or Alabama. Thus I give no shits about any teams that aren’t UGA.
The suspense of the season is one of the things that makes college football so great.
I believe we should be equal or better in all areas of the team.
QB – will be more experienced and possibly pushed by the next guy.
DL – will be more experienced and should be better
DB – many coming back with experience and pushed with new talent coming
WR – see DB
RB – needs no comment
OL – here is the big question and concern – we would have to expect to be better just because we stuck so bad this year. Pittman will have another year with the current players and the influx of all the new-improved talent coming. This will be were the offensive coaches prove they earned their pay.
K – who knows. it’s such a fickle part of the game.
We should be able to claim wins against App St and Samford now (hope I don’t regret saying that)
The trip to South Bend could be tricky but they didn’t have the best year themselves. Their best win was against Miami.
I won’t claim a win at UF until I see one.
Even though we struggled with UK and Mizzu and lost to Vandy this year I expect us to be MORE improved than they will ber next year.
USC and MissSt had bad years and I didn’t see anything to make me think they’ll improve by more than UGA.
Auburn, GaTech and UT seem to be the 3 games that could make or break the season…although I expect UT to struggle with the change at QB and we seem to have Auburn’s number. Tech is Tech.
I will go with a 10-win season but don’t know which 2 to pick as losses. All are winnable but many are lose-able. September can’t get here quick enough.
Ken Dorfman
•SECE
•SECC
•NATTY
•Heisman
•Bronko Nagurski Trophy
•Chuck Bednarik Award
•Dave Rimington Trophy
•Davey O’Brien Award
•Dick Butkus Award
•Doak Walker Award
•Fred Biletnikoff Award
•Jim Thorpe Award
We should win the east. We didn’t fire a 9-10 win/coach, and excellent human being, for a 4-5 year rebuilding job. Considering the state of the east, winning the division isn’t expecting too much, either.
We were in a rebuilding job either way.
artful codger
If offensive philosophy and offensive line play jell, and if better supported by sideline management, I would expect to play in the new dome in early December. And that would suit me just fine heading into ’18.
If we lose to any team from the State of TN next year ,I’m going to be harder on Smart than I already am. (2) I thought we hired Smart so we could compete with the Process not just concede that we’ll never beat them in the Championship game. (3)The goal is to win the SEC and let everything else take care of itself…that has been the goal since Dooley.
lightbud
right now the SEC East pecking order is:
Until Smart starts beating those guys, he’s third tier.
9-3. It takes time to develop an OL, and the verdict has not yet been rendered regarding Chaney/Pittman.
9-3 would be great, I’d take it.
But how do we go from 7-5 to 9-3 with largely the same coaches, same schedule, and same players?
doiknowu
We won’t have to, Consider that UF, UT, and UGA won’t be returning their 2016 lineups intact.
Sorry, hit “enter” before adding that our returning players look to be better than UF’s and UT’s, and our entering class appears (on paper) to be better than theirs.
If UT gets Helfrich for OC, they’ll be the favorite for sure.
I’m surprised the Viles haven’t fired Booch to hire Chip Kelly.
Waiting on Gruden and Peyton to sign on.
I feel we are looking at a 6-6 or 7-5 season. Here’s why I say that.
We are a non-championship team trying to change the entire culture
without any Championships since 1980.
1- Saban struggled at Mich St to do that going 6 or 7 wins for 4 years.
2- Sweeney went from 9 wins down to 6 wins in 2nd year at Clemson.
3- Dantonio went from 7 wins down to 4 in his 2nd year.
4- Harbaugh won 9 games in his first 2 years at Stanford.
My point is it’s tough changing a culture used to non-championships, even for great coaches.
Here’s how most see it:
Top 25 finish in 2017
top 10 in 2018
Win Natl Champ in 2019
Sorry, show me a list of coach’s with that 3 year pattern.
More likely will be like:
6-8 wins in 2017
I don’t see how the heck we could lose the sec east in 2017. It would be a fail of epic proportions.
fu lost their best coach (Collins) and much of their talent. ut lost their entire offensive backfield and a few of their best defensive players. We have 7 returning starters on O, 10 on D, all the ST players except Imac, most of the backups return, and we have a huge recruiting class.
If any other team in cfb was this stocked they’d be in the top 5. But at underachievement U the nation has come to expect screw ups. If we don’t win 10 the whole organization should be scrapped.
Returning players don’t mean a lot if they don’t win but 8 games together.
Saban lost his DC and went undefeated the next season.
Oklahoma, FSU, Michigan, LSU, has good recruits every year and rarely wins a Championship.
It depends on whether Kirby Smart is the HC B-M thought he would be when they hired him or if he is the bozo he looked like during certain games this season. I am hoping for the former but I fear the latter. The former is 10-2 regular season next year. The latter is 6-6.
6-6, yep.
The losses to Vandy, Tech, and Tenn are puzzling, as were some of the close wins.
Could have easily gone 5-7.
Smart did not achieve anything in his first year in wins, for sure.
I don’t know what his record should or would be in 2017 but I do know that any UGA coach that starts his career 0-2 to Florida and 0-2 to GT will not have a long career. If by some total freak of the fates he should also lose to Vanderbilt again, he will not get to 2018. He took a team that lost some good players and was 10-3 and managed to totally waste the best backfield tandem we have had since Worley and Henderson and through stupid play calling on offense and the worst red zone defense in college football win 8. Tell me when the damn OC finally called the right runs for our offensive line in the TCU game it didn’t make you slap your forehead. 2015 and 2016 were the worst offenses since Ray Goff but at least 2015 won 10 and beat Tech.
Kirby is a stubborn guy with the sideline demeanor of Will Muschamp but apparently not the vocabulary. He better take self control lessons or he will continue to be a great assist coach for somebody sooner rather than later. He can’t continue to “coach the defense” it confuses the players. Why are we paying Tucker?
I know he’s a great recruiter but if he can’t win damn games he is just insuring that his successor will have a great lineup.
By the way Fromm has a better touch on his passes than Jacob. He does not try to knock the receiver down with the ball. Chaney better go back to QB school because I was not impressed with Eason’s matriculation of the ball down field.
I’d say with this AD, Smart could survive a 6-6 season with losses to UF, Tenn, GT, and Vanderbilt.
It’s not an AD who really knows what he’s doing.
Agree on recruiting, so what, 7-5 sux.
Agree on Fromm, hope he gets a real chance, those Stafford/Eason types get a lot of drops trying to impress people with their arm.
The AD will do what the money says do.
Senator, when are you going to post a post-mortem on the entire season?
Sometime in January.
Don’t lose to tech. Ever.
Never ever lose to Tech!
2016 we averaged 3 touchdowns and a field goal per game. In 2017 if we average 4 touchdowns and a field goal per game we should win the east and have a good year. With the talent we have coming back on both sides of the ball and the easiest schedule in memory, anything less will get Chaney fired and put Kirby on the proverbial hot seat in 2018.
I’m not overly optimistic.
I thought they should have gone 9-3 regular season. Should have won 2 of these 3 home games(UT,Vandy,GT). 10 wins should be doable next year.
Regular season expectation is 9-3 with a good bowl bid.
I will be pretty disappointed if we don’t win the east.
I will be satisfied if nick and Sony have noteworthy success, they deserve to be treated to quality football.
I will be surprised if we win the east being undefeated, but honestly, there is no reason to lose any of our conference games looking at our roster. Kirby needs to embrace the pressure.
The oline will be worse, losing 3 starters and special teams will be worse without IMac.
Same QB, RB’s, TE’s, and WR’s (No All SEC winners this year) who only went 7-5 and average 24 points a game.
Nothing I saw showed me Kirby knows how to play defense in the red zone. Virtually no improvement there all season.
Here’s the 6 potential losses:
Notre Dame,UT, Vandy, Auburn, UF, GT.
And that assumes you get through App State, Miss St, Mizzou, and South Carolina.
Pit Dawg
I know I’m late to the game here, folks, but we need to come to grips with a few things. As I type this, I’m watching Clemson get theirs for the first time in 35 years- and here we collectively sit- still waiting.
I am so sick and tired of the “CMR and the 10 win season argument”. Wins and losses do not tell the whole story here. Since 2008- his teams to put it mildly-underperformed and to be completely honest-sucked with the exception of one year (2012) and he chose not to spike the ball-thus losing all of his capital with the majority of constituents. His teams failed to finish in the top 25 in 4 of his last 7 seasons in Athens. The numbers of players drafted before 09 and after 09 are staggering. The 2013 recruiting class has one NFL player and he went pro in 2015. There’s this incredible misconception that the program was in good shape. It wasn’t. I know The Senator may rip me for this, but we need more realism in our fandom. Most likely another throwaway year may be headed our way- only because what we EXPECT as fans and what the players and coaches are CAPABLE of at this moment are not parallel. This team lost to Vanderbilt and Tech at home, and almost lost to Missouri, Nichols St and Kentucky. Realism stings sometimes. But what I have seen for the last 4-6 years is a collective team that was not all that good. Yes, we’ve had some great individual players who have won us some games. But generally speaking I saw nothing that gave me a confidence in our overall ability to win games we are supposed to, put inferior opponents away early, and compete with superior opponents and occasionally steal a win against them.
I get that there is a glimmer of optimism to hold onto (19 returning starters- easy schedule- the clown circus that is the SEC East to name a few olive branches). But a realistic win total for 2017 is 8-9. In other words, more football purgatory.
The Smart hire is about a total reconstruction of the football program- not some magical quick fix. There were just too many massive deficiencies to expect an immediate turnaround. How fast the program improves is going to be based on how well he accumulates talent and develops the talent into elite players. He learned this “process” from one of the best. If he can’t perform, he will be excused and we will find another poor sucker to try to get us back to the glory days. But the further I grow away from the 10 year old who watched us play on that glorious New Year’s Day I become less and less convinced that it’s possible. Nevertheless, it ain’t next year.
I know The Senator may rip me for this, but we need more realism in our fandom.
Quite the contrary. I’ve noted the “we’re Georgia” attitude that a substantial portion of the fan base subscribes to and found it unrealistic.
That being said, I think you’re overcompensating. Richt certainly had his flaws, some of which were of a magnitude that justified a change, but “massive deficiencies” over the past 4-6 years? Come on, man, there were two trips to the SECCG in that time period and the 2013 team would have made a third but for the rash of injuries on offense.
Unless you mean by that phrase “not in the same league as Alabama”. But it’s not like Georgia was alone in that regard.
Don'tStandSo
Next year will be a disappointment and the year after and the year after that and so forth and so on until Kirby is fired. Kirby has no clue what he is doing. Hopefully, we will hire a proven head coach from a smaller school next time, not another untested coordinator.
Improvement–possibly an Eastern Division title–but no conference title. At least 10 wins. It is year 3 of the Kirby era that I say championship or bust.
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Strengths. For job interviews, make sure that the beginning of your response includes 2-3 key features about you that would be compelling to that employer. Here's an example:
Q. Tell me about yourself.
A. I'm a career relauncher and project manager with 10 years of experience in pharmaceutical marketing. I've always loved project management work because I can use my excellent organizational and technological skills to make sure that all the moving parts of a project sync. During my 7 year career break, I became a trustee for my local public library and chaired our technology committee so I've been able to continue to use and hone those skills. Also, I was a four year DI college athlete, and when I worked at Rose & Whitney as a project manager, I was consistently recognized for my strong team orientation, and how I coordinated and communicated well with all team members, regardless of seniority.
Relauncher Status. It may be okay in some circumstances to explain that you're exploring, researching or considering more than one relaunch career path. Usually, this will likely be in a social or casual situation or in informational interviews, but not in job interviews. An example of how to explain your 'undecided' status as part of a TMAY response to a networking or social contact who might be able to help you is:
I'm a relauncher and before my 10 year career break, I practiced as a health law attorney at a large law firm for 5 years. I'm planning to return to work as a practicing attorney. I'm currently exploring either a path to a hospital legal department position or practicing elder law at a small firm. I've always been interested in health care and was pre-med in college. I became interested in elder law when I helped my parents navigate some challenging long term care, Medicare and estate planning issues.
No Chronologies. Your response to TMAY should never be a chronological story that starts with where you were born or what you did after grad school. Instead, it should highlight who you are now and what your strengths, 'value adds' and/or career relaunch plans are.
Mind the Time. Your TMAY response should be between 30 seconds and 90 seconds long -- at the most. You'll lose your listener's interest and attention after that.
Fluid Not Static. Your TMAY response will change over time, as your goals and targets do. Check in on your TMAY response periodically to be sure that it's still doing the job of conveying an accurate picture of you.
3. Practice Delivering with Confidence. Your listener in some cases may remember how you delivered your TMAY response more than what you've actually said! Practice with a friend, in front of a mirror and/or with the recording feature on your phone. If you're not feeling particularly confident about your TMAY response at first, pretend! With repeated delivery, you'll get better.
Many job searchers and relaunchers flounder when asked to tell about themselves. By nailing this question and making it a positive part of how you market yourself, you'll become more memorable and compelling as a relaunch candidate.
This article originally appeared on the iRelaunch blog. iRelaunch is the pioneering company in the career re-entry space with a global community of over 65,000 individuals who are in all stages of returning to work after a career break. We also work directly with more than 55 blue chip companies to create career re-entry programs. Sign up to learn more about how we can help you return to a rewarding career.
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What to Write in a Farewell Card to a Leaving Coworker: Quotes and Examples
For the boss you loved, the coworker you hated, and everyone in between
Two things are inevitable when someone leaves your team at work: there will be an abundance of sweet treats (I'm partial to those giant cookie cakes from the mall) and there will be a card passed around for everyone to scrawl the professional version of sweet nothings in. Depending on the "importance" of the person, you may get the bonus activities of farewell gifts and/or an all-team champagne toast.
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If you are a New York based tech professional and you'd like to attend this event, please email your name and LinkedIn URL to events@powertofly.com.
Whether you are a software engineer, fitness enthusiast or both, you won't want to miss PowerToFly's evening of product demos and networking with the women tech leaders and allies at Peloton.
Founded in 2012, Peloton brought top talent together in its Silicon Alley headquarters to create a new concept in fitness. In their words, "We loved cycling but had a hard time finding a workout that consistently fit our schedules, and our at-home workouts never felt quite up to par. So, we set out to create a world-class indoor cycling studio experience on your time, and in the comfort of your own home."
This event is your chance to hear directly from the women tech leaders and allies who make their revolutionary products like the Peloton Bike, Peloton Tread and Peloton App possible. We'll be devoting a large portion of the event to taking your questions and I know the Peloton team wants to hear from you!
The unique evening will take place on Wednesday, February 12th from 6pm to 8:30pm at 125 W 25th Street.
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Some Men Get a Pay Bump When They Enter Female-Dominated Jobs — How Can Women Benefit Too?
These Researchers Argue It Could Lead to Traditionally Female Jobs Becoming More Valued
Studies have found that as women take over male-dominated fields, the pay drops. So what happens when men start joining female-dominated fields?
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How Inclusion Can Help You Attract and Retain Top Talent
There's a lot more to building an inclusive company than just hiring more people from diverse backgrounds. So, how can you build an inclusive culture that will help you attract and retain a diverse group of employees?
How This Sales Coach Found Success—And A Career Path—at the Intersection of Tech, Construction, & Sales
A few months ago, Lily Zintak found herself at a crossroads.
She'd been working as a Sales Development Representative in construction management software company Procore Technologies' Austin, Texas office for the better part of 18 months. She'd watched the office grow from less than 200 people to more than 400—and even cut the ribbon when they opened a new floor of offices. She'd made 50-plus sales calls a day, honed an approach to prospecting and connecting with clients that worked for her, and found success. It was at this point in her career, where she had to make a tough decision.
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PRODUCT: Cluck ‘n Moo Burgers
July 31, 2014 at 8:36 am · Filed under Healthier Options, Meat & Poultry
Cluck ’n Moo is an appealing hybrid burger: the first (and as of now, only) half-chicken, half-beef burger. The all natural, antibiotic, hormone free and gluten free burger is made with meat from humanely raised chickens and grass-fed cows. You find it in the meat department next to the other fresh burgers.
The combination of chicken and beef along with an innovative “smashed burger” preparation method seals in the juiciness and makes Cluck ’n Moo Burgers napkin-wiping delicious.
When we first learned of it, we were attracted to the ideas of cutting back on cholesterol and saving a bit of the rainforest, which is constantly being cut down to provide more land for ranching beef cattle.
Compared to a regular beef burger, a Cluck ’n Moo burger has 52% less fat, 57% less saturated fat and 34% fewer calories.
But if you’re into saving money, it costs less too—chicken being less expensive than beef, and especially the better-for-you grass-fed beef used by the brand.
Look for the bright green box next to the other burgers. Photo courtesy Cluck ’n Moo.
In the grass fed category, Cluck ’n Moo burgers could cost about $2.00/pound less. The product retail varies from $5.99-7.99 pound; regular grass fed ground beef retails from $7.99-48.99/pound.
The burgers are sold in packages of four, four-ounce burgers that are 190 calories each and contain 21 grams of protein.
IT TASTES GREAT
If you don’t tell them, most people won’t realize that Cluck ’n Moo is a blend of meats. In a side-by-side test, 100% beef will, of course, taste beefier. But Cluck ’n Moo delivers beef flavor even plain. With ketchup and garnishes, you can’t really tell.
Steve Gold, a 20 year veteran of the industry, most recently of Murray’s Chicken (a NIBBLE favorite), created the product to combat the rising costs of beef, without sacrificing taste.
Fresh off the grill. Photo courtesy Cluck ’n
Moo.
The brand is new, but retailers are responding.
Cluck ’n Moo is currently available in Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Look for it at Balducci’s, DeCicco Food Markets, Fairway, Kings, Publix, ShopRite and West Side Markets.
Or, buy it online through Rastelli Direct.
Learn more at ClucknMooBurger.com.
Dark meat chicken is used in the Cluck ’n Moo burger because it is moister than dark meat turkey. Cluck ’n Moo burgers will soon be joined by other customized mixes of meat and poultry including “Gobble ’n Moo” burgers.
Cooking tips are printed on each box, but Cluck ’n Moo wants to remind you that, for any burgers:
An internal food thermometer should be used to check that the burgers have been cooked to an internal temperature of 165°F.
The burgers should rest for two minutes before serving.
FREEZING TIPS
If you want to stock up and freeze the burgers:
REMOVE the plastic package from the box.
WRAP it in heavy-duty plastic wrap, aluminum foil, freezer paper or plastic bags made specifically for freezing.
DATE the package and used it within four months for optimal taste.
THAW in the refrigerator.
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And then He did something even more powerful.After three days, He rose from the grave. The Roman soldiers saw a bright light, early in the morning and ran for their lives, terrified. They knew they would be killed for their panic, because they left their posts. The Roman punishment for leaving your post was death. Yet they fled, in terror. Because of the majesty that suddenly surrounded them. The supernatural, blinding, overwhelmingly powerful light of God shone on them. They fled…. And the angels rolled away the huge stone, that no single man could ever roll. Too heavy even for several men. Goodnews Art
He measured the length of the building along the front of the separate area behind it, with a gallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner nave and the porches of the court. The thresholds, the latticed windows and the galleries round about their three stories, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered), over the entrance, and to the inner house, and on the outside, and on all the wall all around inside and outside, by measurement.read more. Goodnews Art
Many Christians are so busy and tired from their daily work, that prayer and worship often seems ore like a burden than a joy. Still it is trough prayer that we build our relationship with God, our great Father and Friend. When we enter into His presence through praise and worship, He transforms us, strengthens us and gives us new vision and hope. Only in His presence are we filled with new life, love and peace. Scripture Verse Christian Image
He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat; one cherub at the one end and one cherub at the other end; he made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at the two ends. The cherubim had their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward each other; the faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat. Goodnews Art
and in the cutting of stones for settings and in the carving of wood, so as to perform in every inventive work. "He also has put in his heart to teach, both he and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. "He has filled them with skill to perform every work of an engraver and of a designer and of an embroiderer, in blue and in purple and in scarlet material, and in fine linen, and of a weaver, as performers of every work and makers of designs. Scripture Art
Fifteen years ago I was struggling with a very serious sleeping disorder. One day the Lord spoke to me, through a prophetic ministry, and He said: ‘David, you will start experiencing the resurrection power of Jesus Christ. Rise up ands live again!’ The following months I indeed felt an inner strength to stop with the horrible sleeping medication. With His power in my heart I could overcome the addiction to the bad medicine and learn to sleep naturally again. It was a struggle, but His power enabled me to do it.
I like to have a few areas in my house that I change out when the mood strikes me. The kitchen message board I have is one of those places and adding a new bible verse here always brightens my day. Maybe you have a spot that could use something new? You can visit any of the sites below to download a FREE piece of scripture art!!! I suggest downloading the pieces you like and having them printed on heavy cardstock. Go ahead and print a few at a time, then you have them on hand to change out. If you are a frequent visitor to the blog you know I provide a new free printable scripture download every month, so be sure to get yours here! Now on to some more freebies from some of my favorites bloggers on the internet (plus a few more from me!)! Scripture Art
"You shall take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel, six of their names on the one stone and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, according to their birth. "As a jeweler engraves a signet, you shall engrave the two stones according to the names of the sons of Israel; you shall set them in filigree settings of gold.read more. Scripture Verse Christian Image
He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat; one cherub at the one end and one cherub at the other end; he made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at the two ends. The cherubim had their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward each other; the faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.
"You shall have no other gods before Me. "You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,read more. Goodnews Art
"Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch. "This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. "You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks. Scripture Verse Art
"Now I am sending Huram-abi, a skilled man, endowed with understanding, the son of a Danite woman and a Tyrian father, who knows how to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone and wood, and in purple, violet, linen and crimson fabrics, and who knows how to make all kinds of engravings and to execute any design which may be assigned to him, to work with your skilled men and with those of my lord David your father.
Now King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. He was a widow's son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill for doing any work in bronze So he came to King Solomon and performed all his work. He fashioned the two pillars of bronze; eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of both. read more. Goodnews Art
Millions of people turn to scripture every day for inspiration and guidance. Its timeless lessons help show us the way in a world that may seem complicated and confusing. The powerful words of scripture lend themselves easily to art, music, and other creative endeavors. You can use our collection of scripture art to highlight a favorite quotation or display the grace of a life guided by God's words. Scripture Verse Christian Image
"Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and her harlotries were more than the harlotries of her sister. "She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and officials, the ones near, magnificently dressed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. "I saw that she had defiled herself; they both took the same way.read more.
65 years ago today, the U.S. Senate voted 65 to 22 to censure Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the Republican from Wisconsin, for “abusing” colleagues during his four-year anti-Communist crusade—a witch hunt that ruined the careers of many writers and artists. It was U.S. Army counsel Joseph Welch (pictured, left) who finally confronted McCarthy six months earlier, during the Senate hearings investigating Communist activity in America, by saying, “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” At that point, the Senate gallery erupted in applause for the only brave soul to have finally stood up in the Congressional hearings against the “Red Scare” that had paralyzed the nation’s psyche. (1954)
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Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed. It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people, and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived. And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. ... Scripture Art
All mankind and all of heaven and hell has been transformed by this. Nothing is like it. Nothing is such great and wonderful news as this. What is it? Read on and I’ll explain it to you… God became a human being, just like you and me. He came down in our darkness, our suffering, our pain and our sin. He descended from the glorious heights of the highest heavens, into the deepest depths of earth and mankind. Why? Scripture Verse Christian Image
And then He did something even more powerful.After three days, He rose from the grave. The Roman soldiers saw a bright light, early in the morning and ran for their lives, terrified. They knew they would be killed for their panic, because they left their posts. The Roman punishment for leaving your post was death. Yet they fled, in terror. Because of the majesty that suddenly surrounded them. The supernatural, blinding, overwhelmingly powerful light of God shone on them. They fled…. And the angels rolled away the huge stone, that no single man could ever roll. Too heavy even for several men. Goodnews Art
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Goodnews Art
I encourage you to invest a few dollars, to have an eternal and life changing impact. God changes lives and hearts, through Christian wall art that has been created by His Spirit, who works in a human being. He wants to reach out to you. He wants to break through the darkness and sin. He sees your, wherever you are. And He is not holding Himself back, but He reaches out to you. Scripture Verse Art
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"Now I am sending Huram-abi, a skilled man, endowed with understanding, the son of a Danite woman and a Tyrian father, who knows how to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone and wood, and in purple, violet, linen and crimson fabrics, and who knows how to make all kinds of engravings and to execute any design which may be assigned to him, to work with your skilled men and with those of my lord David your father. Scripture Verse Art
Save A Penny Campaign The SAVE A PENNY campaign exists to employ those transitioning out of homelessness. Each penny is unique representing individuals in need, in America its very hard to do anything with a penny but with millions of pennies it creates much more opportunity. With every purchase you donate 1,000 pennies for opportunity and purpose to this individual. As a for purpose company (Non Profit) Seed House Project is here to change that one penny at a time. We believe in the power of unity, and even though 1 penny is worth .01 cent; we see the asset in millions of pennies coming together. Save A Penny Campaign represents the change that we can do together as a community for our homeless victims. Scripture Verse Christian Image
Now King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. He was a widow's son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill for doing any work in bronze So he came to King Solomon and performed all his work. He fashioned the two pillars of bronze; eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of both. read more. Scripture Art
He made 300 shields of beaten gold, using three minas of gold on each shield, and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with refined gold. There were six steps to the throne and a round top to the throne at its rear, and arms on each side of the seat, and two lions standing beside the arms. Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps on the one side and on the other; nothing like it was made for any other kingdom. All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None was of silver; it was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon. Scripture Verse Art
Solomon made all the furniture which was in the house of the LORD: the golden altar and the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence; and the lampstands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs, of gold; and the cups and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and the firepans, of pure gold; and the hinges both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, that is, of the nave, of gold.
Millions of people turn to scripture every day for inspiration and guidance. Its timeless lessons help show us the way in a world that may seem complicated and confusing. The powerful words of scripture lend themselves easily to art, music, and other creative endeavors. You can use our collection of scripture art to highlight a favorite quotation or display the grace of a life guided by God's words. Goodnews Art
Many Christians are so busy and tired from their daily work, that prayer and worship often seems ore like a burden than a joy. Still it is trough prayer that we build our relationship with God, our great Father and Friend. When we enter into His presence through praise and worship, He transforms us, strengthens us and gives us new vision and hope. Only in His presence are we filled with new life, love and peace.
And it will come about in that day, that every place where there used to be a thousand vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will become briars and thorns. People will come there with bows and arrows because all the land will be briars and thorns. As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place for pasturing oxen and for sheep to trample. Goodnews Art
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How patient acceptability affects access to breast reconstruction: a qualitative study
Helene Retrouvey1,
Toni Zhong2,
Anna R Gagliardi3,
Nancy N Baxter MD PhD4,
Fiona Webster5
1 Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2 Department of surgery, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3 Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
4 Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
5 Faculty of Health Sciences, Arthur Labatt School of Nursing, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
Correspondence to Dr Helene Retrouvey; helene.retrouvey{at}mail.utoronto.ca
Objectives There has been limited research on the acceptability of breast reconstruction (BR) to breast cancer patients. We performed interviews to explore breast cancer patients’ acceptability of BR.
Design Qualitative study.
Setting Recruitment from six Ontario hospitals across the province (Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, London, Thunder Bay and Windsor) as well as key breast cancer organisations between November 2017 and June 2018.
Participants Women of any age with a diagnosis of breast cancer planning to undergo or having undergone a mastectomy with or without BR.
Intervention Sixty-minute semi-structured interviews were analysed using qualitative descriptive methodology that draws on inductive thematic analysis.
Outcome In the telephone interviews, participants discussed their experience with breast cancer and accessing BR, focusing on the acceptability of BR as a surgical option post-mastectomy.
Results Of the 28 participants, 11 had undergone BR at the time of the interview, 5 at the time of mastectomy and 6 at a later date. Four inter-related themes were identified that reflected women’s evolving ideas about BR as they progressed through different stages of their disease and treatment. The themes we developed were: (1) cancer survival before BR, (2) the influence of physicians on BR acceptability, (3) patient’s shift to BR acceptance and (4) women’s need to justify BR. For many women, access to BR surgery became more salient over time, thus adding a temporal element to the existing access framework.
Conclusion In our study, women’s access to BR was negatively influenced by the poor acceptability of this surgical procedure. The acceptability of BR was a complex process taking place over time, from the moment of breast cancer diagnosis to BR consideration. BR access may be improved through enhancing patient acceptability of BR. We suggest adapting the current access to care frameworks by further developing the concept of acceptability.
Strength and limitations of this study
Qualitative research was performed as it allowed for in-depth exploration of barriers to access breast reconstruction (BR).
Our manuscript focused on increasing our understanding of broad barriers to BR; it thus lacks a detailed review of specific barriers to immediate versus delayed BR and of autologous versus prosthetic-based BR.
The sample size of the study was limited by our choice of qualitative methodology; despite this, we recruited a high number of participants for qualitative standards (above the recommended 12), achieved data saturation and interviewed 28 women of varying ages, with different breast cancer pathology from across the province to incorporate a wide variety of perspectives.
We selected qualitative descriptive methodologies which encouraged the production of a manuscript with findings easily translated to clinical practice.
Our choice of qualitative descriptive methodology limited the depth of interpretation, but the inclusion of mid-level theory and the congruence in onto-epistemology ensured rigour and quality of this manuscript.
Many women require mastectomy or the removal of the entire breast to treat breast cancer.1 2 Breast reconstruction (BR) aims to surgically restore the shape of the breasts after tumour removal and can be performed at the same time (immediate BR (IBR)) or after mastectomy (delayed BR (DBR)).2 In Canada, general surgeons perform the mastectomy while plastic surgeons perform the reconstruction.3 BR can provide long-term quality of life and psychosocial benefits, improving the physical and psychological damage from mastectomy for women who chose this procedure.3–10 Despite its benefits for some women, studies have found that BR is not consistently integrated into treatment of breast cancer patients.3 11–16 In Canada, BR rates are low, reported as 16% in 2012.3 Rates are similarly low in Ontario, quoted at 7.6% between 2004 and 2010.3 While it is difficult to ascertain if these low rates are appropriate (ie, if they reflect the fact that mastectomy patients do not want BR), they certainly do not reflect the finding by Ananian et al that 81% of mastectomy patients would want BR if offered the choice.17
Access is defined by Penchansky and Thomas as the ‘degree of fit between the users and the system’.18 Access may be reduced for BR due to patient/physician/system-level barriers.18 Studies have found that patient age and socioeconomic status, physician’s beliefs and values, availability of plastic surgeons at institutions and geographic location are common barriers to BR access.3 6 19–28 These factors act as barriers in the six access to care domains presented by Penchansky and Thomas, specifically availability, accessibility, awareness, affordability, accommodation and acceptability.
Acceptability has been poorly evaluated in the context of access to BR, a preference sensitivity procedure. A ‘preference sensitivity’ procedure is a treatment where multiple options exist with heterogenous trade-offs.29 The published literature on BR acceptability only evaluates the association between patient factors, physician view and rates of BR.21 25 26 30–34 Certain patient characteristics have been associated with increased likelihood of BR discussion/referral by physicians; these included younger, more educated, English speaking, Caucasian patients with higher income.25–27 33–38 In Canada, immigrant women and women who live in neighbourhoods with lower median income have significantly lower odds of BR.3 These highlight barriers to BR access despite universal healthcare coverage where all patients should have equal access to BR.3 6 39 These studies denote potential acceptability barriers to BR access but fail to capture patient’s opinions of the acceptability of this surgical procedure and how these may impact access to BR. Furthermore, the published literature does not evaluate the impact of gender on acceptability; women may feel hesitant to accept an additional surgery which would temporarily remove their ability to partake in activities.40–43 Given that the acceptability of BR by patients has not yet been examined, the purpose of our study was to conduct qualitative interviews with women to explore their experiences with BR and improve our understanding of this phenomenon. Qualitative research allowed for in-depth exploration of patient-level barriers and had the potential to increase our understanding of the role of patient acceptability in women’s access to BR.
The study is guided by the social constructivism paradigm and a qualitative descriptive methodology.44 45 Qualitative descriptive methodology is an inductive methodology which ‘stays close to the data’, facilitating the understanding of a selected phenomenon and generating practical and clinically applicable knowledge for healthcare providers.44 46 47 We use the consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research checklist to guide the reporting of this research to optimise rigour.48
Sampling and recruitment
Women with a diagnosis of breast cancer planning to undergo or having undergone a mastectomy were sampled purposively. We recruited patients from three groups: (1) not having undergone BR (no BR), (2) having undergone IBR or (3) DBR.
Plastic surgeons working at six centres across the province of Ontario (Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, London, Thunder Bay and Windsor) recruited, via telephone, breast cancer patients.
Plastic surgeons purposively selected breast cancer patients before or after their BR consultation for participation in the study. These patients were selected as they had the potential to generate information rich data, that is, they could provide detailed and meaningful perspectives on barriers to BR access.49 Convenience sampling was also used; poster advertisement was used to sample breast cancer patients involved with breast cancer organisations from across Ontario (Rethink Breast Cancer, Wellspring Cancer Support Network, Willow Breast Cancer Support Canada and the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation).
Through these diverse recruitment strategies, we aimed to include women of varying sociodemographic backgrounds (age and income quintile) and geographical locations within the province of Ontario, Canada.50 Breast cancer patients who agreed to participate were then enrolled.
Semi-structured individual telephone interviews were conducted by HR. The research team developed an interview guide thorough a detailed review of the literature and access to care frameworks (online supplementary appendix 1).18 51 The access to care framework by Andersen and Penchansky was used as mid-level theory in this study, providing a conceptual framework to define access.18 51–56 The interview guide was pilot tested and iteratively refined by HR to improve interview flow and add prompts. The guide was then consistently used during the interviews. The telephone interviews were conducted by HR (a clinician and graduate student) under the mentorship of FW (expert qualitative researcher). After informed consent was obtained, participants were asked to provide information on their age as well as reconstructive status before the interview. The interviews discussed women’s experience with breast cancer, their views and opinions about BR and their experience trying to access BR. Telephone interviews were chosen as they generate similarly rich data to in-person interviews and allowed for feasible interviews of participants from across Ontario.57–64 Interviews averaged 45–60 min in length. Interviews were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. Interviews were conducted until saturation was achieved, and no new information was forthcoming. Saturation was reached at 20 interviews, but additional interviews with patients from a variety of geographical and clinical settings were conducted to ensure no new themes emerged as patients.
Approach to data analysis
Our analysis was performed in a stepwise iterative fashion as described by Saldana, from the development of codes to the generation of themes.65 66 The first five interviews were independently reviewed and two authors (HR and FW) performed initial coding. These two investigators then met to compare codes, thus enabling the process to be reflexive as each author discussed their own perspectives and assumptions. Through a series of meetings and discussions, a coding framework was developed and HR applied second cycle coding to interviews as they were performed.66–69 The coding framework was revised as necessary based on new findings. Coding software was used to organise the data (NVivo V.12.0, QSR International). This process allowed for the development of preliminary categories and themes. These were shared with all members of the research team which independently reviewed the themes and, through discussion, refined them. All authors provided methodological and content expertise to ensure trustworthiness of the study.70 71 All authors critically reviewed the data and its interpretation to ensure confirmability as well as the analytical process to ensure rigour and congruence. We interpreted the meaning of the data through thematic analysis.44 72 73
Patients were not involved in the design of this study; the research team will actively engage patients in the next phase of the study, the development of targeted interventions that address the acceptability barriers identified in this study.
Thirty-one women were approached to participate in the study and 28 women agreed to participate in the interviews (table 1). Three women selected not to participate because of the 1-hour time commitment required. Women were on average 49 years old. Patients were either waiting for a mastectomy (pending mastectomy (PM)—eight patients) or had undergone mastectomy (M—19 patients). Some patients underwent neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemo (C—13 patients) or radiation (R—5 patients) therapy. Of the 28 participants, 11 underwent BR with 5 at the time of mastectomy (IBR) and 6 in a delayed fashion (DBR). All participants who agreed to participate had some level of interest in BR. We identified four inter-related themes that reflected women’s evolving ideas about the acceptability of BR as they progressed through different stages of their disease and treatment. These were: (1) cancer survival before BR, (2) the influence of physicians on BR acceptability, (3) patient’s shift to BR acceptance and (4) women’s need to justify BR (figure 1). Additional quotes are presented in table 2. The poor acceptability of BR by patients was found to be the main barriers affecting women’s decision-making, and ultimately negatively impacted BR access (figure 2).
Acceptability barriers to access to breast reconstruction.
Dynamic nature of access: transition from access domains to patient decision-making to service utilisation.
Table of supplementary quotes
Theme 1: cancer survival before BR
Women in the study described their experience with breast cancer diagnosis and most reported significant distress on learning about their initial diagnosis. During this distressing period, women often could not consider BR as they were overwhelmed by their new diagnosis. Women were often shaken and traumatised by this information and described being surprised, shocked and angered with this unexpected and life changing diagnosis. One woman stated, ‘Having cancer, it’s like 1 day you’re walking along and you think you’re living your life and you’re living it the best you can and you feel like you just get run over by a Mack truck, right? It’s a pretty scary and daunting kind of event that transpires.’ (ID 113—M, IBR). During this initial period, women were overwhelmed and experienced difficulty processing this diagnosis. Some women feared death, ‘I just felt like I was full of cancer and I thought I was going to die’ (ID 125—PM, no BR). This initial period was challenging for women; before women could start evaluating BR, they first needed to process their diagnosis.
During this process, many women focused only on treatments aimed at curing their breast cancer, avoiding thinking of other treatments such as BR that did not improve survival. Women reported not thinking about BR at that time, as only concern was to ‘get the cancer out’ (ID 115—M, C, no BR). Some women chose not to undergo BR at the time of their breast cancer surgery because it was seen as an optional surgery and was not perceived as an essential component of their oncological treatment plan. One participant noted, ‘In order to get rid of the cancer, the chemo, the radiation, the surgery was needed, and the breast reconstruction is an option’ (ID 110—M, chemoradiation (CR), no BR). Therefore, early in the journey of breast cancer, some patients focused on their cancer diagnosis and associated curative treatments, avoiding thinking of BR. The acceptability of BR only came to play once patients considered the option of BR.
Theme 2: the influence of physicians on Br acceptability
Women relied significantly on their physician to guide them through their breast cancer diagnosis and provide advice regarding the most appropriate treatment plan. A woman stated, ‘I let him guide it, I let him guide it. Because at that point, when someone tells you, you have cancer, the person’s voice all of a sudden turn into Charlie Brown’s teacher, you know waa, waa, waa.’ (ID 122—M, C, no BR). The physician’s guidance regarding BR could influence the patient’s acceptability of this surgical procedure.
The options presented by the physicians to the patients impacted their ability to consider BR. In the interviews, we noted a wide variation in how physicians communicated treatment options to patients. Some women reported that their physician ‘laid out all kinds of options for (them)’ (ID 107—M, DBR) and ‘explaining everything in detail’ (ID 130—M, IBR). A patient stated, ‘I was given a choice, you can either go this path with the lumpectomy with radiation or you can go this path with the mastectomy and no radiation. And it was totally up to me, there was no pressure to make a decision at the time’ (ID 108, M, IBR). Other patients were not offered the options of BR by their surgeon. A participant reported, ‘I wasn’t given that option, okay, and I wasn’t given that option. […] I accepted that she, (the surgeon), said that, no, this is the process that will … I didn’t fight for … I didn’t say, no, I want reconstruction at the same time. I accepted, I accepted that her recommendation and the process for me to follow was the process for me to follow’ (ID 110, M, CR). Another added, ‘If that would have been an option for me, I would have done it then. But, that was not even mentioned’ (ID 115—M, C, no BR). Hence, if BR was not discussed or recommended by physicians, patients did not consider it as an option in their treatment plan.
When looking specifically at BR, the physician’s views and opinions of this surgical procedure as well as the timing of discussion influenced patient’s ability to select the option of IBR or DBR. In our interviews, patients’ descriptions of the discussion of BR by breast surgeon varied widely, in some cases discussions were brief, ‘(the surgeon) didn’t really discuss pros and cons of the surgery with me’ (ID 114—C, PM, no BR), while others described lengthy and detailed discussions, ‘(the surgeon) went through all the options there was to do’ (ID 111—M, DBR). Also, physicians offered their opinion on the procedure, encouraging or dissuading patients from seeking BR. One patient reported that her breast surgeon was very adamant to say, ‘Don’t worry, yes, you get a mastectomy, […] but you get a reconstruction’ (ID 121—C, PM, no BR). Another patient reported that her oncologist said that the detection of cancer recurrences is more difficult after BR, leading the patient to ‘forget (the option of BR) for now’ (ID 122—M, C, no BR). Patients offered BR by their physician were more likely to consider integrating BR in their breast cancer treatment plan. Thus, physicians who had positive views of BR and who integrated BR in the oncological treatment plan had a positive influence on the patient’s acceptability of BR.
Theme 3: patient’s shift to BR acceptance
BR as regaining control
While each patient had a unique experience with cancer, women were similar in that they perceived that they had no control over their breast cancer. Women could not predict their diagnosis and had limited influence on the most appropriate curative treatments offered, but they had control on the receipt of BR. One woman stated, ‘I had some measure of control in a situation that I really had no control over’ (ID 113—M, IBR). She added, ‘Whereas sometimes if you make a decision, it feels like you’ve got some measure of control for some people. But that’s good, right? You don’t feel like everything is spiralling on you.’ If BR was seen positively as offering control, it could be perceived to be an acceptable option by patients.
Women felt they could actively participate in the process of BR, being able to voice their opinion on when to undergo BR. One woman commented that it was the element of decision that made her feel in control. Women viewed positively this feeling of control as it allowed them to feel empowered. A participant stated, ‘I’m not going to look in the mirror every day and see what I see, which is cancer took that from me. So part of it is, you know, a bit of a mental thing that I’m not going to let cancer deform my body, I’m not going to look in the mirror and see what used to be is no longer there because of cancer. […] Just kind of regaining control and having my body back’ (ID 119—M, CR, no BR). Therefore, during the process of BR, women felt they were in control and felt empowered with the ability to choose to undergo a surgery which could bring their pre-breast cancer ‘body back’. As women realised that BR was a way of regaining control, this surgical procedure gained acceptability.
Closure through BR
BR not only allowed women to feel in control, it was often seen as the final step in their breast cancer journey. A participant noted, ‘I had the surgery, I had the cancer removed, I had the treatments to make sure it won’t come back and then now, I have the reconstruction’ (ID 105—M, C, DBR). As the final step in the breast cancer path, BR was an option that could ‘repair (the) damage’ caused by the various breast cancer treatments.
In addition to ‘repairing the damage’ of breast cancer, BR often helped women feel better after a period of difficult treatments. BR was an opportunity for women to ‘(get) back’ what they had lost from their breast cancer. A participant valued BR because, ‘having the opportunity to have, I think for it to give you back something that cancer has taken from you, I think there’s value to that’ (ID 119—M, CR, no BR). Another women stated, ‘But to me, having the reconstruction was, and that’s hard to explain to everybody when people were asking me, I would say, that’s the last step, that’s the final step, is the repair of all the damage that has been done over the last 2 years. It’s like, let’s repair this and then I can move on with my life.’ She added, ‘It’s like, okay, well, now it’s time to make me completely healthy. It’s almost like closing a door. You can close your door, and then get on with the rest of your life’ (ID 111, M, DBR). BR helped women transition from the breast cancer chapter of their lives to their survivorship period. As one woman stated, ‘But I also looked on it as sort of a way to move forward past the cancer diagnosis and further into my life after cancer in a hopeful way’ (ID 128—M, C, no BR). Thus, women who viewed BR as offering the opportunity for closure had an increased acceptability of this surgical procedure.
Theme 4: women’s need to justify BR
One pervasive theme that spanned throughout the interview was women’s need to justify BR. Women’s need to repeatedly justify their desire to undergo BR highlighted a lack of BR acceptability. In their justification, women discussed the need for breasts and the role of a surgery to recreate them. A participant stated, ‘Having or not having a breast is (a matter of debate) … I could live either way and then the whole aspect around vanity’ (ID 107—M, DBR). Women worried that choosing BR was vain, ‘I’m not looking for reconstructive to … so I can strut around topless, you know what I mean, that’s not it… it’s not for vain reasons’ (ID 122—M, C, no BR). Therefore, the acceptability of BR was affected by the worries women experienced when considering a surgery perceived to promote vanity.
Women used vivid metaphors and comparisons in their justification of BR. Women compared the loss of breast to the loss of another body part, debating the need for breasts, their function in the female body, and the role of a surgery to recreate them. A woman compared the option BR to options available after the loss of a limb, ‘It would be like removing a leg, I guess. You need to have that leg. How do you feel if that leg wasn’t there and you put a prosthesis there? Probably that’s more extreme, but you know, that leg mean anything to you?’ (ID 114—C, PM, no BR). The vivid metaphors depicted women’s need to justify BR and highlighted that women sometimes felt misunderstood in their rationale for wanting the surgery. Women’s need to continually justify BR suggested poor acceptability of this procedure by patients themselves and their surroundings.
Many women did not seem to be able to state that breasts were important to them and that they could undergo, without judgement, a reconstructive surgery to recreate them. A participant stated, ‘It took me a while, but then I finally decided … I needed it for me’ (ID 111—M, DBR). Women were constantly justifying to themselves and to their surroundings that they ‘needed’ or ‘deserved’ BR. A participant reported that she found it difficult to express the desire for BR, stating ‘I’m having a hard time saying this, but I came to the realisation that by having a reconstruction that I deserved it. I guess that’s my sort of thing, that I deserved to have breasts and to feel more feminine’. She added, ‘There’s also the barrier in terms of, and I’ve sort of had to deal with this a little bit, there may be perceptions out there that this is sort of an undeserving use of healthcare resources’ (ID 107—M, DBR). Women thought the choice to undergo BR was a ‘very personal decision’; a choice that only they, as breast cancer patients, could fully understand. A participant said, ‘I know everybody thinks, well, just, why is it a big deal. It’s like, well, for me, it is a big deal because that’s what makes me … to me, that’s what makes a woman a woman, in a way’ (ID 111, M, DBR). The constant need for justification of women’s choice to undergo BR highlighted the tension that some patients experienced when considering BR, which may be related to perceived external disapproval and/or lack of acceptance of a procedure aimed at recreating breasts.
Women were also conflicted when considering undergoing an additional ‘optional’ ‘cosmetic’ surgery to recreate their breasts, a procedure which would temporarily make them unable to perform their usual roles (ID 118—no BR). Women worried that the well-being of their surroundings would be compromised during their absence. Another women, who the main caregiver in the house, had to offload this responsibility onto others prior to undergoing surgery; she stated that there had to be a ‘reversal of roles’ (ID 112—no BR). Specifically, she reported, ‘You know how it is, the mothers are always in charge of the house. Now I’m not in charge of the house, they’re in charge’. Women thus faced challenges when thinking of undergoing BR, a procedure which would render them incapable of performing their usual roles. Therefore, the acceptability of BR was affected by the worries women experienced when considering a surgery perceived to promote vanity while also impairing women’s ability to perform their traditional roles.
Our interviews with breast cancer patients highlighted a novel barrier to BR access in the universal Canadian healthcare system, the acceptability of this surgical procedure by patients. As BR is a preference-sensitive decision, an important aspect of access experienced by our interviewees was their perception of the acceptability of the surgical procedure. Our qualitative research also emphasised the dynamic and temporal nature of access to BR, with barriers present from diagnosis of breast cancer to receipt of BR. Patients first needed to process their life changing diagnosis of breast cancer before considering the different treatment options available to them. During this process, they relied heavily on physician recommendations in terms of the next steps. Patients who valued BR saw it as regaining control and as the final step in their cancer journey. During this process, women repeatedly justified their decision to consider BR, highlighting that some women felt that undergoing a surgery to recreate breasts may not be acceptable to themselves or their surroundings. Access to BR was therefore a complex process taking place over time with multiple factors affecting patients’ acceptability of the procedure, including patient themselves, their immediate surrounding and healthcare professionals.
The well-accepted access to care frameworks by Penchansky and Thomas as well as Andersen has a limited description of acceptability.18 51 As highlighted in our findings, our study indicated that these frameworks do not capture all elements of acceptability. We hypothesise that this may be related to the fact that these frameworks were not developed for access to preference sensitivity procedure. These frameworks assume that the nature of the procedure is acceptable; that patients are looking to access a service after the decision has been made that the procedure is needed. We propose adapting the two frameworks by emphasising the concept of acceptability in the context of preference sensitivity procedures such as BR, to include individual and societal values of the health problems and its associated treatments.
In relation to this need to justify BR, social values around female gender roles may have informed participants’ experience in our study and created tension for women considering BR. Many women in our interviews accepted gender roles of being responsible for the well-being of their surroundings, rather than caring solely for themselves.40–43 74–76 Women reported feeling a sense of discomfort when thinking about taking time to care for oneself. Similarly, in other fields, women report this feeling of guilt when deciding to undergo a procedure which may take time away from their traditional household duties.40 77 78 The repeated justification of our participants towards their decision to pursue BR may highlight the gendered nature of acceptability. Furthermore, in our interviews, many women believed that valuing breasts and having surgery to improve their feminine identity reflected a superficial female vanity and was therefore not necessary or ‘optional’.79 At the same time, many women described not feeling ‘whole’ or feminine without breasts. Perhaps as reflective of this tension, women who opted for BR felt they needed to justify their rationale for wanting this procedure. Other authors have described the benefits of BR for some women, allowing them to feel ‘normal’, whole or feminine again, but have not previously reported acceptability concerns.32 80 81 Societal gender roles may therefore have influenced women’s views of the acceptability of BR, a surgical procedure aimed at recreating breasts.81 These findings suggest that gender may play a role in access to certain procedures.
The Penchansky and Andersen frameworks present access as a static concept, whereas access was seen as a dynamic process in our study. Through discussions with breast cancer patients, access to BR was found to evolve over time from the moment of breast cancer diagnosis to the receipt of BR and issues were different for patients seeking IBR and DBR. For some women, this process was short with minimal barriers, while for others the process was lengthy and, in many cases, evolved over time. Similarly, authors have noted that access is a dynamic process which balances patient need and service provision.82 Access to care frameworks should be revised to illustrate the everchanging concept of access as patients move through their care pathway.
Currently, access is measured through assessment of referral patterns and rates, availability of services, wait times or waitlists and rates of utilisation of a procedure.83–87 However, wait times or waitlists and rates of utilisation may not accurately measure BR access as they do not account for individual patient opportunity and preference.52 87 Rates of utilisation may not be appropriate to measure access for preference-sensitive care, as a low rate of utilisation may not reflect poor access but instead may reflect patient preference or acceptability. Thus, some of the current measures of access do not allow for accurate measurement of BR access. Future research should address this limitation; without proper measurement, interventions cannot be designed to improve access to care.
Practically, our findings suggest that the pathway to accessing BR can be improved through enhancing the acceptability of BR by patients. From the moment of the initial breast cancer diagnosis, patients could benefit from support to mitigate the distress they experience.88 89 This support system should ensure that women are given the opportunity to access all treatment options for breast cancer including IBR and DBR, as appropriate based on their pathology. Tools such as the BRECONDA could be effective in providing decisional support during this process.90 Healthcare providers should also present BR as a valuable option in the breast cancer pathway.88 This could be achieved through enhanced buy-in from oncologists, including surgical oncologists (which usually perform the cancer resection surgery), which would help patients consider BR as an acceptable option. Women should be encouraged to explore their physical, emotional and spiritual well-being and the role BR may play for them.89 Throughout this process, by optimising the acceptability of the option of BR, women could select in an informed manner a treatment plan which may or may not include BR that best fits their desires and needs.89 91 Ensuring that patients and providers consider BR as an acceptable part of care for women with breast cancer will likely improve access to BR; future research is needed to evaluate this hypothesis.
Our study is limited by the population interviewed, specifically, the inclusion of women considering BR. Although our sampling strategy aimed to recruit a diverse sample of women with breast cancer having or not undergone BR, all women in our study thought about BR and considering undergoing it. Despite this limitation, our study was able to identify the acceptability barriers to BR access, which are likely reflective of the general breast cancer population. This study is limited by the lack of detailed review of specific barriers to IBR versus DBR and of autologous versus prosthetic-based BR. However, our focus in this exploratory study was to increase the understanding of broad barriers to BR access, acknowledging that these may not be applicable to all subtypes of BR. Future research should aim to refine the understanding of barriers to specific types of BR. Our study is also limited by the assumption that low rates of utilisation of BR in Ontario are attributed to existing barriers to access BR. Although we do not know the most appropriate rate of receipt of BR, our interviews highlight that patients seeking BR experience acceptability barriers to access.
In conclusion, our interviews with breast cancer patients revealed that the acceptability of BR by patients influenced access to this surgical procedure. The acceptability of BR was dynamic as it evolved over time, from cancer diagnosis to consideration of BR. Although BR was viewed positively by some women as giving control and as providing closure, participants repeatedly justified their desire to undergo this procedure, highlighting the presence of acceptability barriers to BR access. This also potentially illustrates the interplay between gender roles and women’s acceptability of BR. Improving access to BR needs to consider the important role of patient acceptability of surgery on access to care for progress to be made.
We would like to acknowledge the contributions of Dr Jing Zhang, Dr Chris Doherty, Dr Ronen Avram, Dr Sanjay Azad and Dr Kristina Lutz for helping with recruitment. We would like to thank breast cancer organisations (Rethink Breast Cancer, Wellspring Cancer Support Network, Willow Breast Cancer Support Canada and the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation) for helping with patient recruitment.
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Contributors HR: substantial contributions to study conception and design; manuscript drafting; final approval of version to be published; agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work. NNB and FW: substantial contributions to study conception; critical review of study content; final approval of version to be published; agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work. ARG and TZ: substantial contributions to study conception and design; critical review of study content; final approval of version to be published; agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work.
Funding The sponsors provided financial support to conduct the study and peer reviewed the project proposal, but were not involved in data collection, analysis or interpretation. TZ is the Belinda Stronach Chair in Breast Cancer Reconstructive Surgery of University Health Network and the recipient of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Foundation Scheme Live Pilot. HR is supported by the Canadian Graduate Scholarship from the CIHR to pursue this research. Support from the Clinical Outcome Study Grant, Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons and the Resident Research Grant, Physicians’ Services Incorporated Foundation was also received. FW is partially supported in this work by a New Investigator Award from the CIHR.
Ethics approval Institutional ethics board approval was obtained from the University of Toronto.
Data availability statement Data are available upon reasonable request.
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Heavy's Concepts Take 2 - St Louis Expansions **76/??**
By heavybassX, April 4, 2019 in Concepts
expansion team
heavybassX 233
So just to be absolute sure....no one can see these images apart from myself?
darkpiranha 361
It's giving a NO circle where each image should be.
And the headache inducing ruiner of the day goes to... well Google cause **** them.
EDIT: It's back to Imgur because I was using them for a while... until people *****ed and I went to Google and its now produced this mess.
Tygers09 125
Location:Port Huron, MI
Favourite Logos:Denver Broncos, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Houston Texans, Toronto Argonauts (football with sails), BC Lions, San jose Sharks, Minnesota Wild,
22 hours ago, heavybassX said:
Wait what how can you not see them?
It shows a minus symbol in the middle where the image is suppose to be. And I can see images on others posts.
Ok I did some alterings and turned on the share option so it should work now... otherwise I'll be uploading imgur links.
And now to hold over... The Phillie Eagles hosted from Imgur!
Ok now I'm seeing them
The uniforms of the Philadelphia Eagles have always been a catch 22 for me. I like the current Midnight green color scheme, but also feel they should revert back to the kelly green, just because I feel their uniforms break up the monotony of other franchises that feature either black, navy, red, etc..
50 minutes ago, Tygers09 said:
Midnight Green is probably be associated with their Super Bowl success now so it won't go away anytime soon... so I mixed the Kelly Green and Midnight Green to make my own mix to which I call "Eagle Green."
So I've made some big changes now to the index, the version 3's that have been revealed are now the default whilst the ones that haven't been revealed to still be version 2's... when the version 3 of a team is made it will replace the version 2.... except for the expansion teams, they are defaulted as version 2's.
Next up in the version 3's is essentially the Jets.
And now for those that won't like the alternate kit.... I essentially give you the best iteration of the Jets.... the Kelly Green Jets!
Decided to use the mid 80's one with the added black lines from the 90's... essentially it's a tribute.
And I figure I keep the imgur links rolling with the AFC East! ((Now with Jets)).
I don't see how uniform colors are the basis for how succesful a team is in a Super Bowl, that is purely a matter of speculation and personal opinion. The Bills made it to 4 Super Bowls with all resulting in a loss with their red helmets, yet never made it with their white ones. Successful coaches and players are the true factors in determining whether a team makes it to the Super Bowl or not.
3 hours ago, Tygers09 said:
And a good look.
MCM0313 2,137
Favourite Logos:Indianapolis Colts; Kansas City Chiefs; Green Bay Packers; Tampa Bay Buccaneers (nothing below the neck, just the logo and helmet); Ohio State; UCLA script; Tulane; Portland Trail Blazers; most of MLB's "interlocking letters" logos; Seattle Mariners.
11 hours ago, Tygers09 said:
The uniforms aren't the basis for success; they're associated with success. Like, Bill and Tom would've been successful together in New England whether or not the team had updated its look to feature every single early-aughts uniform trend, but now that they've won six Super Bowls in that dated and dull set it's associated with the greatest dynasty in NFL history. Otherwise they would no doubt have changed it (see: 2011 Buffalo Bills).
Which is going to be the basis for my redesign of the Patriots post Bill and Tom.
Good! The Bills' 2011 refresh was a home run; going in a similar direction could really benefit the Pats.
Bit of a heads up, I will be redesigning the Panthers as well... i've discovered that their kit needs a revamp so there is that.
Packers is already well done so they aren't going to change... and neither are the Raiders or the Redskins.
When we get past the Titans, I'll be continuing on with the West teams of San Francisco and Denver.
And now I present to you all... my newly redesigned Carolina Panthers.... version 3!
And now for the explanation as to why I did this. The Panthers have only ever had 2 designs in their history and whilst one has become a traditional classic look, the other is something that needs a creative edge... a sort of spark like when the Bucs went to Pewter for the first time which won them the Super Bowl, they needed that extra look and so one day I decided to see what would happen if you darkened Carolina Blue... and that is how the spark was created.
This is a Black that technically counts as a dark blue, thus I created Panther Black.
And now for the next 4 teams... so here are the refreshments aka v3s for the Packers, Raiders, Rams and Skins.
With that we only have 3 teams left to be updated to Version 3's and then I get to upload the final two teams remaining in this third batch before I go ahead to update the last four expansion teams and then the next 8 fun teams before doing the final group of 8 teams.
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The outcasts, p.10
Arndak saw the pirate’s bow angle slightly away from his own as the ship came on. He wasn’t going to ram, then. He probably suspected that there was a cash chest somewhere on board the lead ship and he didn’t want to lose it. Instead, the pirate aimed to meet Spraydancer bow to bow, at an oblique angle.
“Let him come,” Arndak said grimly.
There was a grinding crash as the pirate ship ran alongside. Spraydancer lurched violently under the impact but the crew, long accustomed to sudden movement underfoot, kept their balance easily. Then, with a chorus of yells and screams, the pirates leapt over the port bow in a swarm.
Several of them lost their footing as they hit the decks of the Skandian trader. But they recovered quickly and moved aft, their comrades pressing from behind.
And found themselves facing a shield wall of seven grim-faced Skandian warriors.
They hesitated then, shoving back against the mounting pressure from behind, eyeing the massive axes in their enemies’ hands. For a moment, the two forces eyed each other, then Arndak bellowed the time-honored Skandian battle command.
“Let’s get ’em!”
The seven Skandian warriors surged forward. As they went, they instinctively formed a wedge shape, with Arndak at the point and three men on either side. They smashed into the disorganized pirates, their heavy oaken shields used as weapons of offense, slamming into the pirates and hurling them to either side.
Then the deadly Skandian axes went to work, rising and falling, smashing through thin armor, beating down their opponents’ weapons by sheer force, cutting, hacking, biting into flesh and bone.
The first rank of the pirates fell before that massive onslaught. The deck ran red with their blood and the Skandians trod them underfoot as they surged forward, driving the rest of the boarding party back toward the bows.
For a moment, it seemed that they might succeed in forcing the pirates back onto their own ship. But the numbers against them were too great. A spear slammed into the warrior on Arndak’s left and he fell back with a strangled cry. Then a pirate slid forward on hand and knees, under the massive oaken shields, and stabbed upward into the thigh of another Skandian. He fell with a cry of pain, and in a moment, the Skandian wedge was disrupted.
Arndak fought on grimly, protected by his shield and the whistling arc carved by his massive war ax. Any who ventured inside it were cut down, tossed aside like rag dolls. But in spite of it all, he was wounded several times. In the heat of the moment, he felt no pain. He continued to hack and slash at the hated enemy. He saw another of his men go down, tripped by a spear shaft thrust between his feet, and a pack of pirates swarmed over him. Snarling with rage, he aimed an overhead blow at a pirate in front of him. The terrified man saw death descending on him and tried to parry the ax with his sword.
He might as well have used a piece of straw. The ax smashed the blade in half, then cut deep into the man’s shoulder. Arndak heaved to free his weapon and finally jerked it loose. The sudden release caused him to stagger back several paces. At the same time, the attacking pirates stepped back as well, surrounding the bleeding, heavy-breathing figure, but unwilling to come within reach of that terrible ax.
Arndak shook his head and looked around. His comrades were all down—either dead or dying. He was alone.
But he wasn’t finished, and the dead and maimed pirates on the deck of his ship were testimony to the fact that he was still a dangerous enemy. He brandished the ax aloft and yelled an inarticulate challenge at the pirates. Vaguely, he sensed he was on the edge of madness—the berserker’s rage that sometimes overtook Skandian warriors at the height of a battle.
The pirates took another involuntary step backward. Then their ranks parted and a slim, tall figure stepped forward.
He was olive skinned, with long, black hair that hung in ringlets. The face was handsome, and he was smiling. But there was an unmistakable gleam of malice in his eyes. He had a round metal shield and a long, curved sword, held carelessly, point down. Studying him, Arndak sensed that both shield and sword could spring into action in the flicker of an eye. This was a warrior—and a very dangerous one.
“Skandian,” the pirate said, “my name is Zavac, captain of the Raven.”
He jerked his head toward the black ship alongside Spraydancer’s bow.
“Leader of this band of murdering scum, more like it,” Arndak said, with the utmost contempt. Zavac seemed unmoved by the insult.
“As you wish,” he said. “In any case …”
“In any case, you’re going to be the next one to die here,” Arndak told him. “And I’ll be delighted to send you to the netherworld.”
Zavac’s smile widened. “I’d expect no less of such a brave fighter,” he said. “But before you dispatch me, I suggest you look behind you.”
Arndak gave a hollow laugh. “Do you think I’ll fall for an old trick like that?” he said scornfully. “I didn’t come down in the last shower of rain, you know—”
His voice was cut off by a shrill cry of pain from behind him and his heart sank. He turned and saw his nephew, Ernak, held fast by a pirate. During the brief, bloody fight, the Sea Lion had come up astern of Spraydancer and several pirates had boarded. Now one of them held Ernak firmly in his grasp, a curved knife thrust against the skin of his throat. A small trickle of blood ran down from where the blade touched the boy’s skin. That must have caused Ernak’s unwitting cry of pain, Arndak thought dully.
“Now drop your weapons,” Zavac said smoothly. For a moment, the Skandian debated whether he had time to strike down the pirate and rescue his nephew. But he realized it was hopeless.
“The boy will die,” Zavac said softly, divining his thoughts. Arndak emitted a long groan and released his grip on the ax. It fell heavily to the deck.
“And the shield,” prompted Zavac. He let the shield drop from his arm. It struck the deck and rolled into the rowing benches.
“Now tie them both up,” Zavac said to his crew.
Half a dozen of the pirates leapt upon Arndak, forcing his hands behind him, lashing them with leather cords, then dragging him to the stern. They kicked his feet from under him and secured him to one of the frames that formed the hull shape. His nephew was similarly restrained.
Zavac watched, then pulled a small stool close to them and sat on it. He tossed an order over his shoulder to his men.
“Search the ship. He’ll have a cash chest somewhere on board.”
His men hurried away to do his bidding. Arndak, his eyes fixed on the pirate leader, heard the sound of axes smashing into wood as the pirates tore up the deck planking in search of the cash chest. After a few minutes, there was a cry of triumph.
“Bring it here,” Zavac called, without looking.
Two of his men lugged the heavy chest to him and let it fall to the deck. He threw back the lid and smiled at the pile of gold and silver inside.
“Very nice,” he said. “A good day’s work.”
“It was months of work for me and my men,” Arndak told him bitterly and Zavac turned that humorless smile on him once more.
“Yes. But they’re all dead, aren’t they?”
“And I soon will be,” Arndak told him. He said it without any sign of fear. He had accepted his fate. “But spare the boy, I beg you.” He had no hope that the pirate would agree, but he had to make the attempt, for his sister’s sake. Surprisingly, Zavac nodded his head thoughtfully.
“You know, that might be possible. But I’d want something from you in return.”
“Name it,” Arndak said.
The pirate leaned forward on his stool, bringing his face closer to the skirl.
“I’ve heard rumors of a fabulous treasure in your home port of Hallasholm,” he said softly and Arndak caught his breath.
He could only be referring to one thing—the Andomal.
The Andomal was Hallasholm’s most treasured, and valuable, artifact. Nobody was really sure how the Andomal had come to ex
ist. It had been hauled up in a fishing net several hundred years before. It appeared to be a giant piece of amber, some twenty-five centimeters in diameter. It had been worn into an almost perfect globe by the action of the ocean over many decades.
Its sheer size alone made it valuable. But embedded deep inside it was a blackened, wizened claw of some kind of giant lizard—popular legend had it that it was a dragon’s foot. That was what made the Andomal priceless. It was unique and awe-inspiring. There was nothing else like it in the known world.
The uncertainty about its origin led to its name. In the old tongue, andomal meant “thing.”
Zavac, watching keenly, saw Arndak’s fleeting reaction.
“I see you know what I’m talking about,” he said. But, as Arndak refused to say anything, the pirate looked at the boy beside him. “It’s a strange treasure that’s worth more than a boy’s life,” he said.
Ernak glared at him, then turned to his uncle.
“Don’t tell him, Uncle,” he said fiercely and Zavac’s smile widened.
“Uncle?” he said. “This boy is your nephew? And you have it in your power to save him. Tell me about this treasure and I swear I’ll take him with us. And I’ll set him ashore safely somewhere on the Skandian coast.”
Arndak’s thoughts were racing. The Andomal was a great treasure. The shrine that held it was set at the top of a steep hill above the town, and it was securely guarded day and night by a rotating honor guard of six warriors, men specially chosen for their courage and prowess in battle. Only the finest warriors could aspire to guard the Andomal.
There was only one path leading up to the shrine and it was easily defensible. A large alarm bell was in place. If the shrine was under attack, its defenders could rouse the entire town in seconds. Arndak turned his scornful gaze on the pirates who had invaded his vessel. If he and his crew could hold them at bay as long as they had done, they would have little chance against six hand-picked warriors in a perfectly constructed defensive position. He took a deep breath.
“It’s called the Andomal … ,” he began.
He saw the light of greed in Zavac’s eyes when he finished telling him. Of course, he left out the details of how the Andomal was protected, although he knew the pirate would expect something of the kind. He merely said that it was guarded day and night.
Zavac sat back. He had unconsciously leaned farther and farther forward as Arndak told him about the Andomal.
“Yes,” he said slowly. “That sounds like a great treasure indeed. It must be priceless.”
“The Skandian Oberjarl would pay anything to have it returned if it were stolen,” Arndak said. He had no qualms about encouraging Zavac to steal the treasure. You’ll never get near it, he thought. And with any luck, one of the guards will take your thieving head off.
Zavac stood abruptly and called to his men.
“Get this chest on board the Raven,” he ordered. “Then sink this ship. We’ll burn the others. No sense leaving any evidence behind.”
Two of his men seized the chest and began to lug it forward. Others leapt down into the rowing benches and began to smash holes in the hull, below the waterline.
Zavac looked quizzically at the skirl and his nephew.
“It’s been nice talking to you,” he said. “Although I’m sure you didn’t tell me quite everything.”
He turned on his heel and Arndak called out to stop him.
“Wait! Take the boy with you! You gave me your word!”
Zavac turned back to him. There was no sign of the smile now. “So I did. But we all know that the word of a pirate is worth nothing.”
Then he turned and left the Spraydancer, leaping nimbly across to his own ship.
“Be brave,” Arndak told his nephew as the ship began to settle. He was proud of the boy. He held his chin high and endured the fear as he waited to die, without complaint or whimpering.
As the water closed over them, it occurred to Arndak that there was one night in the year when the Andomal was not so securely guarded.
But it was too late to do anything about it.
BROTHERBANDS
Twenty-eight boys assembled outside the town in a small field set aside as a training ground. They were the boys who were turning sixteen that year and it was an unusually large number. In an average year, there might be sixteen to twenty boys selected into their brotherbands.
The brotherbands were a unique Skandian concept, born of the fact that Skandians were traditionally seafarers. Many years ago, they had created a training system in which boys were placed in small groups to practice and learn together. Each group was called a brotherband. Its members would bond as a team while they learned tactics, weapon skills, seamanship, ship handling and navigation.
The brotherbands replicated the concept of a ship’s crew—shipmates had to work together and trust their companions, sometimes with their lives. Quite often, boys who trained in a brotherband together would be recruited into the same ship’s crew, and would serve and work and relax together for the rest of their lives. Brotherbands formed bonds and lifelong friendships.
And they taught their members the value of combining their varying skills to best advantage.
Since a successful ship’s crew required a captain, or skirl, to command it, the brotherband system also developed another vital skill: leadership. Natural leaders tended to come to the fore in the bands. They were the boys with that little extra, that indefinable quality that caused the others to look to them for ideas and direction. Sometimes, at the beginning of their training, a band would elect its most popular member as leader. But popularity wasn’t always the most important part of leadership, and quite often, before the training period was over, that leader would have been replaced by someone else—someone who had shown that he had the necessary confidence and ability to command.
Hal and Stig arrived at the assembly ground together. They were early and there were only a half dozen or so other boys already there. Most of them greeted Stig, and some nodded vaguely to Hal. He looked around nervously. Tursgud, with his band of followers, hadn’t arrived yet. Knowing Tursgud, he’d swagger up at the last possible minute, Hal thought. He rubbed his knuckles absentmindedly. After dinner with his mam the previous night, he’d headed back to the shelter where he’d hung Thorn’s sack. He’d hammered away at it for several hours, working to perfect the sequence of punches that Thorn had shown him, doing them over and over again in sequence so that they became instinctive. Finally, shoulders aching and knuckles reddened by the rough canvas, he’d called it a night, trudged back up the hill to his mam’s house and fallen into bed, exhausted.
“Hope we’re picked in the same band,” Stig said eagerly. Hal nodded, although he doubted that it would happen. With twenty-eight boys, he suspected there would be three bands formed today. He knew that each brotherband needed at least eight members in order to be able to row the ships they were being trained on.
Stig was shifting eagerly from one foot to the other, looking around at the other boys as they gradually drifted into the assembly area, waving and responding to their greetings. He was filled with nervous energy and anticipation. Brotherband selection was a big day in any boy’s life and he was looking forward to it. He didn’t see that Hal would have any problem being picked. Hal was smart and intelligent and inventive, he thought—and a good friend. But then, Stig was an optimist.
Hal, on the other hand, faced the day with a certain sense of resignation. Stig was big and athletic and, perhaps most important, a Skandian. Any brotherband would welcome him as a member despite his hot temper. Whereas Hal knew he would be one of the last to be chosen. It would be embarrassing to stand waiting, while other boys’ names were called and they moved to join their bands.
And he knew that any band who did choose him would do so reluctantly, probably resenting that they had to. He wouldn’t be surprised, he thought gloomily, if his was the las
t name to be called. And then he could look forward to three months of being mocked, insulted, ordered around and given the most boring and menial tasks to carry out.
“What’s Erak doing here?” Stig said, breaking through his gloomy thoughts.
Hal looked up. This was a surprise. Normally, the Oberjarl took no part in the selection of the brotherbands. From time to time he might visit the training ground and check on progress. But the first day was usually something that didn’t concern him.
Yet here he came, striding alongside Sigurd, the former ship’s skirl who had been given the overall responsibility for training the brotherbands. Sigurd had a reputation as a hard taskmaster and a strict disciplinarian. Boys coming under his control usually did so with a distinct sense of nervousness. He was short-tempered and had no patience for those who were lazy or foolish. Yet most agreed that he was fair and didn’t play favorites.
Sigurd and Erak were deep in conversation as they made their way through the gaggle of expectant boys to the small platform set on one side of the training ground. The boys drifted along behind them, as if drawn by some invisible force, gradually forming a loose half circle in front of the two men, three ranks deep.
And now, of course, Tursgud and three of his close companions swaggered in, thrusting their way through to the front row, regardless of the occasional angry glances they drew. Hal, in the back row, noticed that Erak looked up and nodded a greeting to Tursgud. The boy nodded back confidently, standing with his legs braced apart, hands thrust into his belt.
Thursgud’s father was the Maktig, of course. As his son, Hal supposed Tursgud was afforded a certain familiarity with Erak. Tursgud made no bones about the fact that he intended to follow in his father’s footsteps and become the Maktig one day. And there was every likelihood that he would.
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Tag Archives: Robert Kroetsch
Pumpkins, Playpens, Poetry, and Pies
Posted on October 30, 2017 by Shelley Boyd
Pumpkins have countless uses: pies, muffins, soups, cheesecakes, and playpens. Yes, playpens! And eventually those playpens lead to poetry… or to pies.
Pumpkin Use #1: Playpen
When the corn crop is ready to harvest and no childcare is available, simply take your infant with you to the field and surround him or her with a circle of pumpkins. This orange fence will happily entertain your child for hours. At least that’s Catharine Parr Traill’s advice in The Female Emigrant’s Guide (121).
Catharine Parr Traill
Pumpkin Use #2: Story
Traill’s pumpkin plot, or story, highlights settler ingenuity and the need to re-write gender roles in the Canadian backwoods. Intense physical labour was entirely unfamiliar to refined 19th-century middle-class emigrants, yet Traill recommends that in a new place, one must adopt new perspectives and practices. The story she tells, then, is about a female emigrant who single-handedly harvests an entire crop while her husband, who is ill in bed, remains indoors. The story’s lesson is that backwoods femininity can include “a tone of energy and manly independence” that directly benefits one’s children (Traill 121).
Pumpkin Use #3: Poem
Traill’s story is about crossing “physical and ideological boundaries” by reframing “the feminine sphere, pushing outward into the masculine domain” (Boyd 91). The unconventional nature of this female emigrant character eventually inspired Canadian poet Robert Kroetsch to write a tribute to Traill in his “Pumpkin: A Love Poem.”
Rather than writing from the female emigrant’s perspective, Kroetsch assumes the position of the pumpkin-encircled infant, and even takes the scenario one step further by placing the child “Inside the pumpkin” (1). Is the pumpkin now a cradle? Is it a womb? Is it a head? Perhaps it is all of those things and more.
From inside his orange globe, the young male speaker carves outward, forming a jack-o-lantern face with genitalia-like features. His sensual orange face is ambiguous in terms of sex and is clearly inspired by Traill’s own 19th-century re-imaginings of the feminine and the masculine (Boyd 92-93). While the carved pumpkin signals fertility and creativity, it is also a chance to create a new identity. The young poet-speaker attempts to “lift the old eye to its new vision” (13) and to “cut the new mouth” (25) while he “slice[s] out the old” (29).
Thus, just as the female emigrant’s pumpkins served as a playpen for her child, Kroetsch uses his single vegetable to create a new space for the next generation of Canadian writers who want to challenge their own boundaries and conventions.
Kroetsch once described Canada as “as relatively young country with few of its own literary models,” which meant “literal objects” had to become the sources of poetic inspiration (Brown 7). As a playpen, a story, and a poem, the pumpkin becomes the site of colonial and post-colonial Canadian literary traditions responding to each other across time. How fortunate for us that during October, this vegetable is capable of appealing to all our senses!
Pumpkin Use #4: Pies
In The Female Emigrant’s Guide, Parr Traill writes of pumpkin pie that there is “not a better dish eaten” and proceeds to give readers a number of tips on the making of this cross between “a custard and a cheese-cake” (133).
Her instructions are loose: soft pumpkin, new milk, two or three eggs, with grated ginger and “as much sugar as will make it sweet enough to be pleasant”(134).
I (Alexia here) have used Anna Olsen’s recipe for pate sucree and a Williams Sonoma recipe for the pie. This because I require a little more precision in the way of ingredients and measurements, not being a terribly deft baker, (as anyone examining my crust will quickly discover). Using a small, sweet pumpkin from our farm share gave this pie a lovely yellow colour. The taste, the result of this fresh pumpkin is light and subtle.
Text Credits: Shelley Boyd and Alexia Moyer
Photo Credit (except where indicated): Alexia Moyer
Boyd, Shelley. Garden Plots: Canadian Women Writers and Their Literary Gardens. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013.
Brown, Russell. “An Interview with Robert Kroetsch.” University of Windsor Review 7.2 (1972): 1-18.
Dodge, Abigail J, Chuck Williams, and Maren Maruso. Williams-Sonoma: Dessert. New York: Simon & Schuster Source, 2002. 58.
Kroetsch, Robert. “Pumpkin: A Love Poem.” The Stone Hammer Poems, 1960-1975. Lantzville: Oolichan Books, 1976. 26-27.
Traill, Catharine Parr. The Female Emigrant’s Guide: Cooking with a Canadian Classic. Ed. Nathalie Cooke and Fiona Lucas. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017.
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National Labor Relations Board v. Murphy Oil USA, Inc., et al.
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JUDGMENT ISSUED.
Adjudged to be AFFIRMED. Gorsuch, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., filed a concurring opinion. Ginsburg, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan, JJ., joined. VIDED.
Letter of NLRB regarding oral argument filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Argued. For petitioners in Nos. 16-285 & 16-300: Paul D. Clement, Washington, D. C.; and Jeffrey B. Wall, Principal Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.) For petitioner, acting as respondent, in No. 16-307: Richard F. Griffin, Jr., Washington, D. C. For respondents in Nos. 16-285 & 16-300: Daniel R. Ortiz, Charlottesville, Va. VIDED.
Motion for divided argument filed by NLRB GRANTED.
Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED.
Reply of petitioner Epic Systems Corporation and respondent Murphy Oil USA, Inc. filed. VIDED (Distributed)
Motion of the Acting Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed. VIDED.
Motion for divided argument filed by NLRB. VIDED.
Brief amicus curiae of Constitutional Accountability Center filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Brief amici curiae of Labor Law Professors filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Statement of amici in support of motion of NLRB for divided argument filed. VIDED.
Brief amici curiae of Maryland, et al. filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Brief amicus curiae of New York Taxi Workers Alliance filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Brief amicus curiae of Susan Fowler filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Brief amicus curiae of Public Citizen, Inc. filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Brief amicus curiae of American Association for Justice filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Brief amici curiae of Main Street Alliance, et al. filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Brief amici curiae of NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., et al. filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Brief amici curiae of Ten International Labor Unions, et al. filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
CIRCULATED.
Record received from the U.S.C.A. 5th Circuit is electronic.
Brief amicus curiae of National Academy of Arbitrators filed. VIDED.
Brief of National Labor Relations Board filed.
Brief of respondent Sheila Hobson in support of NLRB filed.
Record requested from the U.S.C.A. 5th Circuit.
SET FOR ARGUMENT on Monday, October 2, 2017. VIDED.
Brief amicus curiae of The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America filed. VIDED.
Brief amicus curiae of New England Legal Foundation filed. VIDED.
Brief amici curiae of Mortgage Bankers Association and State Mortgage Lending Association filed. VIDED.
Brief amicus curiae of Bristol Farms filed. VIDED.
Brief amici curiae of American Staffing Association, et al. filed. VIDED.
Brief amicus curiae of International Association of Defense Counsel filed. VIDED.
Brief amicus curiae of DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar filed. VIDED.
Brief amici curiae of Law Professors filed. VIDED.
Brief amicus curiae of Atlantic Legal Foundation filed. VIDED.
Brief amicus curiae of HR Policy Association filed. VIDED.
Brief amicus curiae of Retail Litigation Center, Inc. in support of Petitioners in Nos. 16-285 and 16-300 and Respondent in No.16-307 filed.
Brief amicus curiae of Washington Legal Foundation in support of Petitioners in Nos. 16-285 and 16-300 and Respondent Murphy Oil USA, Inc. in No. 16-307 filed.
Brief amicus curiae of The Employers Group in support of Petitioners in Nos. 16-285 and 16-300 and Respondent Murphy Oil in No.16-307 filed. VIDED.
Brief amicus curiae of The Business Roundtable supporting Epic Systems Corp., Ernst & Young LLP, and Murphy Oil USA, Inc. filed. VIDED.
Brief amicus curiae of United States supporting Petitioners in Nos. 16-285 and 16-300 and supporting Respondents in No. 307 filed. VIDED.
Brief amici curiae of National Association of Manufacturers, et al. filed. VIDED.
Brief amici curiae of Council on Labor Law Equality, et al. filed. VIDED.
Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs in support of either party or neither party from counsel for National Labor Relations Board.
Joint appendix for Murphy Oil USA, Inc., et al. filed. (Statement of costs filed.)
Brief of Petitioner Epic Systems Corporation and Respondent Murphy Oil USA, Inc. filed. VIDED.
The time to file the response briefs is further extended to and including August 9, 2017. VIDED.
The time to file the joint appendix and the opening briefs is further extended to and including June 9, 2017. VIDED.
Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs in support of either party or neither party from counsel for respondent in support Sheila M. Hobson.
Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs in support of either party or neither party from counsel for respondents filed.
The time to file the response briefs is extended to and including July 27, 2017. VIDED.
The time to file the joint appendix and the opening briefs is extended to and including April 28, 2017. VIDED.
The following briefing schedule is adopted: Petitioners in Nos. 16-285 and 16-300 and respondents in No. 16-307 will file opening and reply briefs under the schedule set forth in Rules 25.1 and 25.3. Respondents in Nos. 16-285 and 16-300 and petitioner in No. 16-307 will file response briefs under the schedule set forth in Rule 25.2. VIDED.
Petition GRANTED The petition for a writ of certiorari in Nos. 16-285 and 16-300 are granted. The cases are consolidated and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument.
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of January 13, 2017.
Reply of petitioner National Labor Relations Board filed. (Distributed)
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of January 6, 2017.
Brief of respondent Murphy Oil USA, Inc. in opposition filed.
Brief amicus curiae of The Chamber of Commerce of the United States filed.
Brief amicus curiae of Public Citizen, Inc. filed.
Order extending time to file response to petition to and including November 10, 2016.
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 11, 2016)
Application (16A112) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until September 9, 2016.
Application (16A112) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from August 11, 2016 to September 9, 2016, submitted to Justice Thomas.
National Labor Relations Board, Petitioner, represented by Edwin S. Kneedler
National Labor Relations Board, Petitioner, represented by John H. Ferguson
NLRB, Petitioner, represented by Linda J. Dreeben
Murphy Oil USA, Inc., Respondent, represented by Jeffrey A. Schwartz
Sheila Hobson in support, Respondent, represented by Harold Craig Becker
American Staffing Association, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by John B. Lewis
Atlantic Legal Foundation, Amicus Curiae, represented by Martin S. Kaufman
Bristol Farms, Amicus Curiae, represented by Steven B. Katz
Constitutional Accountablility Center, Amicus Curiae, represented by Brianne Gorod
Council on Labor Law Equality, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Christopher Charles Murray
DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar, Amicus Curiae, represented by David M. Axelrad
HR Policy Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by Samuel Scott Shaulson
International Association of Defense Counsel, Amicus Curiae, represented by Mary-Christine Sungaila
Law Professors, Amicus Curiae, represented by Thomas R. McCarthy
Mortgage Bankers Association and State Mortgage Lending Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by Stephen Andrew Fogdall
National Academy of Arbitrators, Amicus Curiae, represented by Matthew Finkin
National Association of Manufacturers, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Edward Fouad Berbarie
New England Legal Foundation, Amicus Curiae, represented by Benjamin G. Robbins
Public Citizen, Inc., Amicus Curiae, represented by Scott L. Nelson
Retail Litigation Center, Inc. in support of Petitioners in Nos. 16-285 and 16-300 and Respondent in No.16-307, Amicus Curiae, represented by Adam G. Unikowsky
Ten International Labor Unions, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Michael Rubin
The Business Roundtable supporting Epic Systems Corp., Ernst & Young LLP, and Murphy Oil USA, Inc., Amicus Curiae, represented by William M. Jay
The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, Amicus Curiae, represented by Andrew J. Pincus
The Employers Group in support of Petitioners in Nos. 16-285 and 16-300 and Respondent Murphy Oil in No.16-307, Amicus Curiae, represented by Beth Heifetz
Washington Legal Foundation in support of Petitioners in Nos. 16-285 and 16-300 and Respondent Murphy Oil USA, Inc. in No. 307, Amicus Curiae, represented by Richard A. Samp
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Kameron Chatman
Michigan’s Chatman transferring
By Travis HinesMay 3, 2016, 5:51 PM EDT
Kameron Chatman is leaving the Michigan program after two seasons, the school announced Tuesday.
The 6-foot-8 forward will transfer following a sophomore season in which his minutes were halved from his freshman campaign.
“I am incredibly grateful for my two years at Michigan,” Chatman said in a statement released by Michigan. “I would like to thank coach (John) Beilein and his entire staff for taking a chance on a small town kid out of Portland. I know my experience has inspired others as I will take all of my lessons learned to continue my pursuit of becoming the best man and player I can.”
Chatman is now the fourth Wolverine to transfer this spring, as Spike Albrecht (Purdue), Aubrey Dawkins (Central Florida) and Ricky Doyle have already departed. The Wolverines, who still have not announced replacements for assistant coaches LaVall Jordan (Milwaukee) and Bacari Alexander (Detroit), have been active in graduate transfer market as they look to rebuild much of their depth on the perimeter.
Chatman, who was a top-50 recruit out of high school, averaged 3.2 points and 2.0 rebounds per game for Michigan. He made 15 starts as a freshman, but only two as a sophomore.
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Top 25 Countdown: No. 19 Michigan Wolverines
By Rob DausterOct 14, 2014, 9:00 AM EDT
Caris LeVert (Getty Images)
Beginning on October 3rd and running up until November 14th, the first day of the season, College Basketball Talk will be unveiling the 2014-2015 NBCSports.com college hoops preview package. We continue our countdown today with No. 19 Michigan.
MORE: 2014-2015 Season Preview Coverage | NBCSports Preseason Top 25 | Preview Schedule
Last Season: 28-9, 15-3 Big Ten (1st); lost in the Elite 8 to Kentucky
Head Coach: John Beilein
Key Losses: Nik Stauskas, Glenn Robinson III, Mitch McGary, Jordan Morgan, Jon Horford
Newcomers: Kam Chatman, Mark Donnal, Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman, Aubrey Dawkins, Austin Hatch, Ricky Doyle, D.J. Wilson
Projected Lineup
– G: Derrick Walton, So.
– G: Caris LeVert, Jr.
– F: Zak Irvin, So.
– F: Kam Chatman, Fr.
– C: Mark Donnal, Fr.
– Bench: Spike Albrecht, Jr.; Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman, Fr.; Aubrey Dawkins, Fr.; Ricky Doyle, Fr.; D.J. Wilson, Fr.; Max Bielfeldt, Sr.
They’ll be good because … : The Wolverines are quite talented on their perimeter. It starts with Caris LeVert, a guy who is going find his name on a lot of preseason all-america teams. A 6-foot-6 guard, LeVert averaged 12.9 points and 2.9 assists in what was somewhat of a breakout sophomore season. A complimentary player a season ago, LeVert is going to be asked to do a lot more as the sole upperclassman in Michigan’s starting lineup. He’ll have to be a go-to scorer and a leader, and it will be fun to see if he can evolve into the role.
John Beilein (Getty Images)
The other two starters in Michigan’s back court will be point guard Derrick Walton and sharp-shooter Zak Irvin, both sophomores. We’ll start with Irvin, shot 42.5% from three last season and averaged 6.7 points in just over 15 minutes. He’ll find himself in a much bigger role this year, but given the abilities of LeVert and Walton in pick-and-roll actions, he will still likely be primarily a jump-shooter and floor-spacer. Walton will be the x-factor with this group. The past two seasons, John Beilein’s offense has turned Trey Burke and Nik Stauskas into all-americans — in Burke’s case, the National Player of the Year — and Walton is the guy that will inherit that role this season. He had moments as a freshman, particularly later in the year, which is why Michigan is optimistic about what they will see from his as a sophomore.
Junior Spike Albrecht is back to backup Walton, while the rest of the Wolverine’s back court rotation will be freshmen. Kam Chatman, a top 30 recruit, will likely start at the four, but he’s skilled enough that he can play anywhere on the perimeter. Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman and Aubrey Dawkins — the son of Johnny Dawkins — will see time as well.
But they might disappoint because … : Michigan’s will have one of the youngest rosters in the country, as they have just a single senior in the program — Max Bielfeldt — and he averaged a grand total of 0.8 points as a junior. 12 of the 15 players on the roster are underclassmen and six of the ten players expected to be in the rotation are freshmen, if you include Mark Donnal in that conversation.
Donnal, a redshirt freshman big man that sat out last season even after Mitch McGary injured his back, has had a year to add the strength and athleticism needed to be an anchor in the paint in the Big Ten, and it just so happens that he’s the key to this Wolverine team. With McGary off to the NBA, Jon Horford transferring to Florida and Jordan Morgan graduating, Donnal will be the most experienced low-post player on the roster outside of Bielfeldt. He’s a former Rivals top 150 recruit that entered the program with the reputation for being an elite shooter at the four spot. He’ll now be asked to be Michigan’s answer to the likes of Frank Kaminsky and Branden Dawson. That won’t be easy.
He’ll be joined up front by a pair of true freshmen in Ricky Doyle and D.J. Wilson, both of whom have some promise but ideally would need a year or two before becoming major contributors. They won’t get that luxury.
Outlook: Michigan played in the national title game in 2013 — all of 18 months ago — with a team that started a junior, a sophomore and three freshmen. Every player from that starting lineup has since declared for the NBA Draft with eligibility remaining, and when losing a senior big man to a graduate transfer, you can see why John Beilein has been left in a position where 80% of his roster is made up with underclassmen.
The Wolverines have plenty of question marks this season, a typical by-product of a young roster. But they have quite a bit of talent, particularly on their perimeter, and they have the John Beilein factor; he’s as good of a coach as there is. There may be some growing pains, but the Wolverines should once again finish in the top half of the Big Ten and have a chance to win a couple games in the NCAA tournament.
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Tags: 2014-2015 Season Preview, Caris LeVert, Derrick Walton, John Beilein, Kameron Chatman, Mark Donnal, Michigan Wolverines, Zak Irvin
Michigan gets a commitment from top 30 wing Kameron Chatman
By Rob DausterOct 2, 2013, 10:48 AM EDT
Michigan shocked the college basketball world on Tuesday night when they picked up a commitment from Kameron Chatman, a top 30 recruit, according to Rivals.
Chatman, a Portland, OR, native, picked the Wolverines over Oregon, USC and Arizona, among others. He had just taken his final official visit to Arizona this past weekend, but John Beilein scheduled an in-home visit for Tuesday night and brought his entire staff — Bacari Alexander, LaVall Jordan and Jeff Meyer — with him. That was enough to convince Chatman to pledge to Michigan.
Chatman is a 6-foot-7 wing forward with a pretty solid all-around game. He can score off the dribble, he has range to the three-point line and he’s an impressive passer for someone his size. His athleticism isn’t quite there yet and you can still see a bit of the awkwardness in his gait that comes with a teenager growing into his body, but the potential and the talent is evident.
This is a good pickup for the Wolverines.
This past season was not one that Chatman would want to remember. He transferred to Long Beach Poly to play for his Godfather who just so happens to be his AAU coach, but a rule in California HS basketball is that transferring to play for a travel team coach means you have to sit out for a year. Chatman did that. He also stirred up a bit of controversy when he coach subbed him into a game in which Poly was losing by 20 with a minute left to prove a point.
Chatman joins Ricky Doyle and Austin Hatch in Michigan’s Class of 2014.
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Tags: John Beilein, Kameron Chatman, Michigan Wolverines, recruiting
Michigan’s Chatman transferring May 3, 2016 5:51 pm Top 25 Countdown: No. 19 Michigan Wolverines October 14, 2014 9:00 am Michigan gets a commitment from top 30 wing Kameron Chatman October 2, 2013 10:48 am
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Sir Cumference
lol! real book? havent seen it before. if you enjoyed that, try this too, or his earlier one :)
Sep 2 at 15:56, by vzn
oh wow missed his recent book blurb. am sold, gotta buy this asap. borderline radical povs very similar to many espoused by me, great minds think alike, the naysayers/ skeptics are gonna freak/ flip out/ have seizure :) :P Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution—THE SEARCH FOR WHAT LIES BEYOND THE QUANTUM / By LEE SMOLIN https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316818/einsteins-unfinished-revolution-by-lee-smolin/9781594206191/
Aaron Stevens
@SirCumference Big chapter 7 test coming up?
Abhas Kumar Sinha
I find String Theory pretty crap....
The worst thing is that you can always choose the solutions you want to appear (wiki criticism)
If any real theory exists on unifying all the physics, then it must start with assumptions different from QM, GR (not strings....) and should be able to explain all the constants of the universe, (not take those constants as assumptions.... I mean it is not the way it is now.
John Rennie
I think you should be cautious about criticising a theory unless you understand it. If you don't understand it you are not in a position to judge the assumptions upon which it is based.
@JohnRennie Wikipedia criticisms...
@JohnRennie former is mine...
The criticism is justified by taking account of Bohr's Model (before QM) and it was found that it was wrong because of wrong assumptions, the same happened with Newton which was corrected by Einstein... So, that's the same thing. Although, I don't know String Theory/M Theory myself.
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Q: Are negative mass questions on topic?
I searched for the question about negative mass and they aren't closed as off-topic. But recently I posted this question and somebody voted to close this as off-topic(non-mainstream). So I want to know what's our policy on questions of negative mass and such. (Though as for me I would consider...
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Q: Why is the multiverse argument preferred in science show on TV
I saw a science show on TV and there they interviewed a researcher that explained that in order to get a habitable universe the parameters in the standard model cannot change much. This was an argument in the show for a multiverse where the parameters where as they where because we live and has t...
cosmology standard-model
I wonder what is the record time for a question being closed after it is posted? I am sure this is not the fastest, but wow haha.
Kyle Kanos
If you also consider it was done by 5 users instead of a mod, that was fast
@KyleKanos Yes that too. There were 3 votes to close and then when I went to click to close it said there were 4. Very fast
This one is somewhat unfortunate to me because I feel like the OP could have asked the question in s different way to make it on topic
Like the information before the final two questions wasn't horrible. But then they ended it with a subjective question and then a broad question.
Not sure, could be on topic, but might be a dupe off another, depends on phrasing
Terran Swett
@AaronStevens Funny enough, the same thing happened to me with the 4th vote. It said 2, then 3 by the time I clicked it. You must have been right behind me, as I was right behind Giorgio.
@AaronStevens And don't worry about closing it too early, it's "On Hold" to give OP a chance to fix it, that's how the system is supposed to work.
So, in a rotating frame of reference, objects at rest experience a fictitious force; that fictitious force is called centrifugal force. Likewise, in a linearly accelerating frame of reference, objects experience a fictitious force. Is there a common name for that force, or is it just called "the fictitious force in a linearly accelerating frame of reference"?
@JMac Yeah I know that. I was more commenting on my thoughts reading it. "Ah this isn't horrible...oh nevermind"
@TerranSwett Maybe "The trivial one?" Many texts kind of treat it as a trivial case and just focus on rotating frames. I don't think I have heard a name for it (or at least I cannot recall one)
It's basically worked directly into newton's laws. I don't think I've ever heard it given a name either.
@JMac I talked to that one teacher who was thinking of putting a question on a test that had an incorrect solution and asked the students to find an error, if any
Novalium Company
When we say a CEO is worth 5 billion for example, does this mean he has the amount of money right away to spend and invest, or that 5 billion is simply the large percentage he owns of his company and therefore would have to sacrifice a part of his ownership to buy let's say a yacht?
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@NovaliumCompany The assets - liabilities
@NovaliumCompany see dis - moneycrashers.com/calculate-personal-net-worth
So is a CEO's share in his company an asset? And therefore part of his net worth?
Also, if he wants to buy a yacht, does he have to give up a part of his ownership?
bolbteppa
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@NovaliumCompany If he wanted to pay cash he might have to do that; but I doubt many people buy yacht's straight up if they didn't already have the cash to cover it. There might not be many situations where selling your shares so you can pay cash makes sense; when instead you could finance it some other way.
@JMac What other way?
@NovaliumCompany The same way most people buy things they don't have the cash to buy outright. You get some sort of loan.
@JMac How do I pay it out. My salary as a CEO is 1$/year cuz my company shares are worth 5 bil.
So most billionares actually cannot spend a lot of money because they'll be loosing a part ownership of their company?
@NovaliumCompany Presumably your CEO still has some form of income, or else he wouldn't buy the yacht. Perhaps by selling some company shares they are given, or from company "bonuses" which are not reflected in the salary. Regardless, if they had no income, and no cash; just a bunch of shares, and they weren't going to sell them, I don't think they could "afford" a yacht. All their net worth would be tied up in assets that they would need to start selling (or they could take loans and manage debt)
Maybe a CEO could sell a small part of his shares and then invest it in something that will make him money...?
I mean, those company billionares don't actually have the billions but have the potential to withdraw them out for the expense of ownership?
@NovaliumCompany Presumably the CEO expects their shares to increase in value, or else they aren't doing a very good job, and will have to answer to shareholders. Selling off some of your shares to invest in "something that will make him money" is a delicate topic; though selling a small amount of shares probably isn't abnormal or too frowned upon.
@NovaliumCompany They have a "net worth" of billions. If they converted asset they had to cash and paid off everything owed, that's the estimate of how much money they would have. Realistically, you're going to have a hard time converting all your assets back to cash for their full value most likely; and there's no real reason to have billions in cash when you have nothing to spend it on, and it increases value over time if you invest it.
What can a CEO do if his company shares are going up to increase his money or something? I mean, so it turns out billionares are actually just millionares.
If I wanted to buy an island for 2.5 billion, and my shares are 5 billion, does that mean I'll have to give up 50% of my company?
(ignoring taxes)
@NovaliumCompany If you wanted to pay upfront cash and had nothing else, sure. But most people wouldn't do that AFAIK. You could probably work out some sort of loan instead (though maybe not a loan worth as much as half your shares).
@JMac My final question. What is it that people would do in that scenario instead of giving up half of their ownership over the company?
MartianCactus
hey I so if black holes have infinite gravity, do they have 0 volume?
so some mass into 0 volume?
PM 2Ring
@MartianCactus Black holes don't have infinite gravity. If you replaced the Sun with a black hole of the same mass, the planets' orbits wouldn't change.
the notable thing about black holes is that their gravity becomes infinite at their center of mass
the same cannot be said about e.g. the sun, by the shell theorem
Ok, but that's only because you can get so much closer to their centre of mass.
yep, i'm just assuming that's what he was talking about
but if its infinite at center of mass, won't it be infinite everywhere according to gravity equation?
And to be honest, we can't really say what happens at the exact centre of a BH until we have a theory of quantum gravity.
ya that makes sense..
@MartianCactus gravity drops with 1/r^2, so although it will go to infinity as you get closer to the BH (i.e. as r goes to zero), it is not infinite if you're at a nonzero distance
i'm using newtonian gravity here but it should give a decent intuition
wait but if its zero, it would become non defined not infinite?
that's a good point. in math, we call points that are undefined "singularities"
the idea is that if we start at a finite distance and get closer to r=0 (i.e. the singularity), then the gravity will rise up to infinity
we can't say what happens exactly at the singularity, i.e. r=0, without a better theory of physics
@MartianCactus As r approaches zero, the gravitational force approaches infinity. It's a limit thing, as is usual in calculus.
@MartianCactus if you're familiar with asymptotes, then what i'm saying is that gravity asymptotes at r=0. so the gravity can become ever stronger as you get close enough
but at 0 distance it is indeed undefined, so we can't make any statements about that with current physics
OTOH, we're pretty confident that quantum gravity effects only become significant around the Planck length scale, give or take a few orders of magnitude. So a semi-classical theory of standard GR augmented with some quantum stuff should be fairly accurate down to the size of a proton, and probably even a few bit smaller. The Planck length is really tiny.
IOW, we can say that the core of a BH is at least as small as a proton, and possibly smaller. In pure GR, you get a mathematical singularity of zero size, but that seems unphysical, and quantum effects probably stop that from happening.
Ultradark
What does a 3D Penrose diagram look like?
DanielSank
Quick, someone teach me something cool.
@DanielSank quasi stars
basically hypothetical stars in the early universe, thousands of times bigger and brighter than the sun
they're so massive that their centers contain black holes, which eventually eat the star, possibly explaining where supermassive black holes come from
that black hole's accretion disk powers the star, instead of nuclear fusion
comparison with the biggest stars observed today
Whenever I'm at a mcdonalds, I turn into a black hole :p
Ain't no marginal utility decrease in that Big Mac.
Red Floyd
Hola Amigos! My professor today asked us to think about applying Poynting theorem to static fields. I am not sure whether it makes sense or not. Hoping someone here can explain if we can indeed apply Poynting theorem to static fields.
Intuitively I feel there should be no power transfer
But I am not sure :P
ohh ok thx!
It feels like most of the emails I send nowadays are "please remove me from your mailing list"
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Scientist Smith YT
I need to calculate for the force in newtons for a magnetic field on an arc of plasma under vaccuume. How do I do this?
I'm generating an arc under lower atmospheric pressure. Then,using a medium of helium gas instead of air.
I'm putting a hallback array of neo magnets to control the arc of plasma and direct it. I need to calculate the force the magnetic field will have on the electrons. This will help me determine the degree of deflection.
I've looked at Lorentz force law and I thought it would give me the best straight foward shot into solving it. But I'm not getting numbers and values that are possible.
Could someone help me with this? I'm completely lost.
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College Basketball Cheerleaders
By Lori Soard Cheer Coach
College basketball cheerleaders have to be proficient at many skills, from tumbling, to dancing to basic cheer skills. In fact, many college basketball cheerleaders are more dance team members than anything, performing during time-outs, quarter breaks and for halftime shows.
What It Takes to Cheer for College Basketball
Cheering for college basketball is a bit different than cheering for your local high school team. While every squad is different, and some do more sideline cheers and floor cheers than others, some of the main differences typically include:
More focus on dance and athleticism
Sexier uniforms (midriffs are typically bared)
A bigger focus on dance
Pom poms are almost always used
Cheerleaders are more likely to attend away games
Highly competitive at bigger schools
Extremely demanding practice schedule
College University Cheerleaders
Sideline Basketball Cheers
Crowd Chants for Basketball
In addition, many college basketball dance teams and/or cheerleaders must learn new routines each and every week. The University of Louisville (UofL) Ladybirds must learn a brand new dance routine each and every week. This means the spirit squad must practice often and rigorously to get the new routine before game time.
Best Known College Basketball Cheerleaders
There are some schools whose cheerleaders seem to stand out above the crowd. These coveted cheerleading spots are highly competitive and the cheerleaders get a lot of recognition. A few of these squads include:
University of Kansas: Jayhawks cheerleaders are known for being very attractive, but more than that their builds, stunts and routines are nearly flawless.
University of Tennessee: This university has a "spirit" program that works closely with both the cheerleading squads and dance teams to create motivating school spirit that rouses their teams to victory. Both teams compete on a national level as well.
University of Kentucky: UK Wildcats cheerleaders are used to winning awards and getting glory for their abilities. To say that tryouts for this team are competitive would be a huge understatement. UK cheer tryouts are brutal, but those who make this squad will be part of a national championship cheer team. Because they win titles, the UK cheerleaders also get a lot of media exposure.
University of California, Los Angeles: The UCLA Spirit Squad does both dance and cheer. The uniforms are just as cute and fashionable as you'd expect for L.A. and these cheerleaders get tons of publicity.
Trying Out for College Basketball Cheer
If you are thinking about trying out for a college basketball cheerleading squad, then you'll want to prepare by doing some or all of the following:
Spend some time at the website for the university for which you want to try out. Many sites offer tips for tryouts, schedules and even clinics, which can be invaluable to would-be cheerleaders for that school.
Try to attend at least one game at which the cheerleaders will be performing, so you can take notes on the skills they feature during their routines and make sure you have similar skills before tryouts.
If at all possible, view videos of the cheer squad performing. These are often available on the cheerleading website for the university or even on sites like YouTube.
Try to find someone who has cheered for that squad to coach or mentor you. A cheerleader who has cheered for the school you want to try out for will know all the ins and outs of being on that particular team and may be able to give you tips you otherwise wouldn't get.
As it is with any cheerleading tryouts, a great attitude, beautiful smile and peppy spirit are all musts.
College Cheerleading Is Always Changing
Don't feel limited to what college cheerleaders have always done in the past. Cheerleading is a fluid sport. New stunts and skills are developed from time to time. Be flexible both when serving as a fan of a particular cheer squad or when trying out for a squad and you're certain to experience a true passion for college basketball spirit squads.
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Good Songs for Cheerleaders of all Ages By Gabrielle Applebury
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Commemorative speech about mom
They remained married until his death in Ronald and Michael aged 5 and 2 at the time of the wedding inwhom he adopted. Courageous - if you doubt it, remember his fight against cancer, or the way he faced heart surgery.
I thought this was the last chance to set the record straight. Prior to induction, he flew in a private plane to California and the next day braved a large crowd of female admirers to board a Los Angeles trolley car that took him and other draftees off to be inducted for a year hitch in the Army.
Very few Commemorative speech about mom institutions in that day preserved black history. If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men had - their comradeship, loyalty, and physical courage. She had a minor role in the Carole Lombard—Frederic March film Nothing Sacredin which she played the wife of a shoeshine man Troy Brown masquerading as a sultan.
While filming The Big Sleep in AugustStewart appeared to be much older than his actual age of 69 at the time as the rich, wheelchair-bound General Sternwood. She also suggested that a new generation of caretakers may have failed to realize the historic significance of the award.
Historically, black colleges had been where such artifacts were placed. A year later Mann shot Man of the Westregarded by many as his greatest western of all and totally suited to Stewart, but with Gary Cooper in the lead role.
Racism was still prevalent in the United States, and he had difficulty finding work. Remember, I am not a politician, but remember that the President did not send me a message of congratulations because, people said, he was too busy. United States athletic officials were furious and withdrew his amateur status, which immediately ended his career.
Campaigned for Richard Nixon in the and Presidential elections. I have my own rules and adhere to them. Owens was angry, saying, "A fellow desires something for himself. The military was segregated, and black entertainers were not allowed to serve on white entertainment committees.
He wore the same hat in all of his westerns. Often played honest, average middle class individuals who are unwittingly drawn into some kind of crisis. Directing two deaf hairpieces! Judge Clarke threw the case out of court. And this is the way he wanted it.
However, it was in fact Stewart Grangerwhose real name was James Stewart, who was considered - but ultimately rejected as being too old. Little did I know that the shelf had broke inside my cupboard and was leaning against the door.
I looked on with a heart which beat proudly as the lad who was crowned king of the meters event, get an ovation the like of which I have never heard before.
Ed McMahon was also commissioned as a brigadier general in the California Air National Guard inand he continued to serve after he began his acting career.
Naoto TajimaOwens, Lutz Long. His daughter Judy married the banker Steven Merritt inbut they later divorced. The consensus was that Hitler had to continue to be painted in a bad light in relation to Owens.
Since Owens worked in a shoe repair shop after school, Riley allowed him to practice before school instead. While this may seem ordinary, it was rare in Hollywood for male stars to stay devoted to their wives, with many of his colleagues, such as Gary CooperJohn Wayneand his friend Henry Fondahaving had a series of infidelities.
He was six foot four, towered over all the others, and looked uncomfortable as hell. When you were under contract, you had no chance to relax. But I saw it, I saw him shaking Hitler's hand! I suspect that - like me - she befriended most of you by offering to help you in some way.
That is just the type of connection that Dan had to me.The Funeral Speech.
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Transcript of Commemorative Speech, Mom.
My mother is cooler than yours. Kristy Lynn Parks My mother was a premi-baby. She was born on September 8, instead of the expected October. She had to undergo a complete blood transfusion and every doctor involved didn't think she was going to make it.
A Eulogy for Mom: The passing of your mother is a difficult experience. There is confusion even if her death was expected and then the planning of the funeral. It is customary for children to give eulogies in honor of their parents. Ahmet Eryilmaz Commemorative Speech Outline First of all, before I start talking about my mom, I want to talk about mothers in general Mom ; the meaning of mother is the most important thing in the world.
Dec 13, · Blog Post Five: Commemorative Speech Manuscipt Dani Bentz. Commemorative Speech: Tribute to My Mother Growing up that was a phrase I would read on almost every birthday card I received from my mother. My mother is a one of a kind mother. She is crazy, smart, a perfectionist, and makes up her own dance moves.
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Multi-junction fault-tolerance Architecture for Nanoscale Crossbar Memories (2008)
[prophesy.cse.tamu.edu]
by Ayodeji Coker , Valerie Taylor , Debayan Bhaduri , Eep Shukla , Arijit Raychowdhury , Kaushik Roy
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
231 PRISM: Probabilistic symbolic model checker - Kwiatkowska, Norman, et al. - 2001 (Show Context)
... and reliability analysis of the MSJ scheme. The commercial simulator HSPICE [1] was used to create the parameterized nanomemory circuit model used in this work. The probabilistic model checker PRISM =-=[2]-=- was used for the reliability analysis. Results show that for increasing degrees of redundancy, the reliability of the MSJ scheme improves with acceptable delay, power, and area overheads. The novelty...
75 Nanoscale molecular-switch crossbar circuits - Chen, Jung, et al. - 2003 (Show Context)
... in the crossbar memory. Crossbar nanomemory architectures have been demonstrated as a proof of concept and are gaining widespread acceptance as a viable design paradigm for constructing nanomemories =-=[3]-=-, [4]. Manuscript received August 31, 2006. This work was supported by NASA under Award NCC 2-1363. The review of this paper was arranged by Associate Editor P. Solomon. A. Coker and V. Taylor are wit...
43 Luttinger Liquid Theory as a Model of the Gigahertz Electrical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes - Burke - 2002
42 Nanowire crossbar arrays as address decoders for integrated nanosystems - Zhong, Wang, et al. - 2003 (Show Context)
...he crossbar memory. Crossbar nanomemory architectures have been demonstrated as a proof of concept and are gaining widespread acceptance as a viable design paradigm for constructing nanomemories [3], =-=[4]-=-. Manuscript received August 31, 2006. This work was supported by NASA under Award NCC 2-1363. The review of this paper was arranged by Associate Editor P. Solomon. A. Coker and V. Taylor are with the...
34 A bus delay reduction technique considering crosstalk - Hirose, Yasuura
18 Scalable Interconnection and Integration of Nanowire Devices without Registration - Jin, Whang, et al. (Show Context)
...shown that by taking advantage of the quantized nature of the separation between NWs, which are assembled via the Langmuir-Blodgett method, the ratio of the number of NWs per electrode can be defined =-=[7]-=-. The MSJ scheme also has the added advantage of not requiring additional peripheral circuitry for implementation. In this work, we evaluate the effects of having (which represents the redundancy in t...
10 Scaling constraints in nanoelectronic random-access memories - Amsinck, Spigna, et al. - 2005 (Show Context)
..., as is shown in (6). (5) Fig. 8. Area configuration of a crossbar nanomemory banking scheme used to implement fault tolerance. to larger array sizes. At , if the nanomemory is partitioned into banks =-=[10]-=-, and peripheral circuitry introduced, signal delay would increase, along with hardware cost. The MSJ scheme, however, can be used to enhance the banking scheme. This would be a necessary consideratio...
6 A nanoscale scalable memory architecture for molecular electronics - Choi, Kim - 2004
4 A probabilistic approach to fault-tolerant routing algorithm on mesh networks - Wang, Chen (Show Context)
... sets when a break in their natural connection path occurs. In this work, each node is considered to be a molecular switch junction. Mesh networks with these characteristics have already been studied =-=[8]-=-, [9]. In the MSJ scheme, the boundary nodes of the subset of switch junctions are considered to be the first nodes of each row and column in the network. Defects are thus tolerated when a connection ...
2 Probabilistic analysis of connectivity on mesh networks - Wang, Chen (Show Context)
... when a break in their natural connection path occurs. In this work, each node is considered to be a molecular switch junction. Mesh networks with these characteristics have already been studied [8], =-=[9]-=-. In the MSJ scheme, the boundary nodes of the subset of switch junctions are considered to be the first nodes of each row and column in the network. Defects are thus tolerated when a connection exist...
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1 8 olic model checker - Chen, Jung, et al.
1 Nanoscale molecularr::0.00 2-22 _44 303 -x10106 switch crossbar circuits",anotechnology 14,i462 - Nielsen, Stoddart, et al. - 2003
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Bruce Armstrong fonds
This fonds consists of a tax notice and redemption receipt relating to tax arrears owed by Bruce Armstrong on Lot 31 Blk 5 SW21, City of Strathcona and two photographs, one of the D.P. Muir Harness Shop (the Armstrong family lived in rooms over the shop in 1910) and a work crew at the Alberta Legislature Building (Bruce Armstrong worked as a carpenter on the building construction).
File 1: 1911 Tax notice and redemption receipt
Armstrong, Bruce
McCauley Family fonds
1887-1908, [ca. 1961], 1974, 1977, 1978, [ca.1985]-1992
The fonds consists of personal papers and business records of some members of the McCauley family, including Matthew McCauley, his children Alexander James Henry McCauley and Julia Alberta McCauley Norquay, and his grandson William Alexander McCauley. There are also records of Matthew’s brothers Samuel and Alexander.
The records include family trees and a family history narrative of the McCauley family 1824 to 1965. There are also records from the businesses run by Matthew, Samuel and Alexander.
The photographs include the children of Matthew and Matilda McCauley, as well as photographs showing some of the construction and hauling work done by Samuel McCauley and his crew.
The fonds is arranged in five series:
Series 1: Matthew McCauley Family
Series 2: Alexander J.H. McCauley Family
Series 3: Julia Alberta McCauley Norquay Family
Series 4: Samuel McCauley Family
Series 5: Alexander McCauley Family
McCauley Family
Beatrice Dunn fonds
The fonds consists of materials collected by Beatrice Dunn, including cards, hand written financial contracts, insurance policy and coupons. The photographs include farming in High River, most likely her father’s farm, and the family home where Beatrice grew up. There is also a baby photo of Beatrice’s older brother Herbert (1901).
File 1: Bond – Henry Cressman, Waterloo, Canada West – Jacob Hagey and Isaac Dingy, blacksmiths, Waterloo, Canada West, 7 Apr 1851.
includes record of payments 1 Jan 1852 – 22 Sep 1853.
File 2: Land sale agreement – Henry Cressman, Waterloo, Canada West, and Conrad Ludolph, Waterloo, Canada, 28 Mar 1862.
west half, lot 147, German Company Tract, lower block, Waterloo Township.
File 3: Insurance Policy – British Crown Assurance Corporation Limited and Directors of Alberta College, 6 Oct 1932.
File 4: Christmas note cards, Nettie Burkholder – ‘Miss Gremm’ and ‘Mr. and Mrs. Dunn’, 1925-1948
pen and ink drawings by Nettie Burkholder with notes on reverse of most cards; sketches relate to Alberta College.
File 5: Advertising coupons – Blue Ribbon, Sunlight Soap, Sunny Boy, Nabob, etc. n.d.
File 6: Booklet – The Reward of Life, Robert Louis Stevenson, published by Hayes Lithographing Co., Buffalo, New York, 20pp illustrated. 1911
Dunn, Beatrice Gremm
Homes & Garden Real Estate Ltd. fonds
The fonds consists of the publication, "About ... Homes and Gardens Magazine" (March/April 1960) which was created and published by the Homes & Garden Real Estate Ltd. of Jasper Place.
Homes & Garden Real Estate Ltd.
Louis Lucas fonds
The fonds consists of records the Alberta Hotel and Queen's Hotel including hotel registers, license and inspection certificates and ledgers of accounts.
Lucas, Louis
James Oakland Valleau fonds
The fonds consists of records collected by James Valleau, presumably once living in Edmonton. They relate to different events in Edmonton, often prior to James' own birth or living in Edmonton. As such, his relation to the documents is uncertain. It is assumed that Valleau collected them in pursuit of an interest in the history of the city. The records are divided into three main topics - the Edmonton Industrial Association and its 1914 promotional trip, 'The Edmonton Spirit'; the early theatrical scene in Edmonton; and miscellaneous.
Edmonton Industrial Association
The Edmonton Industrial Association, which operated under the aegis of the Edmonton Board of Trade, was created to promote Edmonton and industrial opportunities to a wider national and international audience. In June 1914, a two week promotional train excursion named 'Edmonton Spirit' was made from Edmonton to Toronto, with stops in Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Stratford and Guelph. The train journey was interspersed with civic receptions and tours of local facilities. Among the passengers were some of Edmonton's leading businessmen. A twice-daily newsletter was published each day of the journey.
The records include itineraries, notes, articles, newsletters, announcements and accounts of the 'Edmonton Spirit' train excursion. There are also two panorama photographs of the excursion participants, taken in Winnipeg and Milwaukee.
Theatrical Programmes
The theatrical programmes include material that was originally created by Kenneth A. Ross. Mr. Ross came to Edmonton from Ontario around 1913 and appears to have had ambitions of being a concert impresario. He was manager or presenter of some concerts in 1916. Then in 1917, Ross, with the cooperation of the Edmonton Women's Musical Club, arranged the 'Edmonton Concert Series', to be held in the 1917-1918 season, and produced a brochure with biographies of the upcoming performers in order to promote sales.
In 1920, Ross was promoted to manager of the Musical Merchandise Sales Co., who was the Canadian distributor of Brunswick phonographs. However in 1923, Ross was convicted in Calgary of the theft of 133 gramophones from the McLaran Gramophone Corp. of Stratford, Ontario, and sentenced to three years in the Prince Albert penitentiary.
The theatrical records of Kenneth A. Ross include handbills, programmes including the brochure for the 'Edmonton Concert Series' produced by Mr. Ross, photographs and album. The photographs, most of which are in the photo album, are portraits of several of the concert performers, many with salutations addressed to Kenneth A. Ross or his wife. The Ross theatrical records also include a handbill for a play, 'The Temple of Fame', in which both Kenneth Ross and his wife are listed as performers. Accompanying the handbill is a handwritten document, 'Red Cross Nurse', which is likely the script for Mrs. Ross' address in the play.
There are also other theatrical programmes that are likely not associated with Kenneth Ross as they are for concerts either before his arrival in Edmonton, or after his 1923 conviction. It is not known if these programmes were originally used by Valleau, or by someone else and collected by Valleau.
The miscellaneous material includes a commencement programme for the Misericordia Hospital School of Nursing, an advertisement for Thompson & Dynes women's wear shop in Edmonton, and newspaper clippings.
Valleau, James Oakland
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre fonds
The fonds consists of records sent from the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre to the City of Edmonton Archives.
The photographs include various buildings and street scenes in Strathcona (1910) and an aerial view of the University of Alberta area (1920).
File 1: promotional brochure – Strathcona, Alberta, Canada – The Railway, Industrial and Educational Centre of the Province, by Strathcona and District Board of Trade, 1910.
File 2: air mail envelope – The King Edward Hotel, Edmonton,
File 3: pamphlets – North West Tent & Awning Company Catalogue [ca. 1940], North West Tent & Awning Company Price List, 1940.
File 4: typed manuscript – History Of The Edmonton Airport, n.d. (photocopy), nb – no author identified
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
Edmonton Electric Light & Power Company fonds
The fonds consists of the minute books of the Edmonton Electric Light & Power Company Limited, 1891-1902 and other papers relating to the operation of the company.
File 1: Minute book, September 23, 1891 – December 12, 1899. Includes minutes of organizational meeting (pp 1-2) and by-laws (pp. 16-28).
File 2: Documents extracted from Minute Book (file 1), includes list of shareholders (inside front cover) and By-law – re: borrowing, January 30, 1894 (pp. 79-80).
File 3: Minute book, January 2, 1900 – May 8 1902. Includes list of shareholders 1902 (inside back cover).
File 4: Letters and notes 1900-1902, includes: Jackson& Grierson, proprietors Alberta Hotel to Manager, Electric Light Co., May 5, 1900; and notes, re: share values, 1902 (on note pad of St. George Jellett, Secretary-Treasurer).
File 5: Letters of Patent for Edmonton Electric Light & Power, Northwest Territories, granted by His Honour Joseph Royal for Queen Victoria, 23 October 1891; granting one thousand shares of ten dollars each ($10,000.00).
Includes names of shareholders: Arsemous Delton Osborne (Postmaster), Richard Secord (Merchants Clerk), Donald Ross (Hotel Keeper), Alexander Taylor (Government Telegraph Operator), John Alexander McDougall (Merchant), William Johnston Walker (Merchant), Stanislas Larve (Merchant), Joseph Henri Picard (Merchant), Alexis Francois Degagne (Carpenter), Herbert Charles Wilson (Physician), Frederick Ross (Merchant), Luke Kelly (Hotel Keeper), Alfred Everard Johnston (Forest Ranger), Daniel Robert Fraser (Lumber Merchant), Sydney Stockton Taylor (Advocate), Xavier St. Jean (Hotel Keeper), Luke Arthur (Carpenter), John Walters (Ferryman), Kenneth Archibald McLeod (Carpenter), Colin Ferrie Strang (Financial Agent), James Ross (Merchant), George Robert Foster Kirkpatrick (Bank Manager), George Thompson (Druggist), Emmanuel Raymer (Jeweler), William Fielders (Implement Agent), Campbell Young (Insurance Agent), Frederick Sache (Merchants Clerk), Nicholas Dominic Beck (Adovcate) and Patrick McNamara (Adovcate), all of Edmonton in the District of Alberta; Henry Goodbridge, of Miners Flats near Edmonton aforesaid; Charles Bremner of Clover Bar near Edmonton aforesaid, and Richard George Hardisty of Sturgeon River near Edmonton aforesaid.
(o/s folder in map cabinet)
Edmonton Electric Light & Power Company
Nicholas D. Beck fonds
The fonds consists of personal papers of Nicholas Beck, including:
8 pages of Beck's account with John Cameron General Wholesale and Retail, from 9 Feb 1893 to 1 Aug1894 (itemized list with the prices each item)
2 pages of Beck's account with John Cameron General Wholesale and Retail for August & September 1894 (itemized list with the prices each item);
2 cancelled cheques, Imperial Bank of Canada, 1906;
employment contract between the Town of Edmonton and Nicholas Beck, as Solicitor and Advocate for the Town of Edmonton, dated 28 Feb 1900.
Beck, Nicholas D.
Frederick J. Marshall fonds
The fonds consists of material created or collected by Frederick Marshall, including records on McDougall Church, Rev. Rundle’s Mission in Alberta, patient newsletters from the Royal Alexandria Hospital, some promotional material for Edmonton and Fort Saskatchewan, and handwritten reminiscences by Frederick Marshall.
The photographs include several photos of Indigenous men, women and children, including Chief Full Moon, Chief Duck and Chief Hector Crawler, and a photograph of George T. Montgomery, Mayor of Fort Saskatchewan.
The fonds also includes books and periodicals: St. Paul’s United Church Edmonton (287.9 PAU 1956), Canadian Born and Other Western Verse (819 AND 1913), Mission Among the Buffalo: The Labours of the Reverends George M. and John C. McDougall in the Canadian Northwest 1860-1876 (266.71 NIX) and Moccasin Telegraph: Magazine for HBC Fur Traders (1949 December, 1951 Winter, 1952 December).
Marshall, Frederick J.
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Apex Legends has 50 Million Players after just a Month
As recently as 12 February, Apex Legends boasted 25 million players worldwide but that’s already doubled to 50 million. That represents a faster rate of growth than Fortnite, although that’s not an entirely fair comparison as Fortnite Battle Royale didn’t really become a monster hit until early 2018 – despite being launched in autumn 2017. Apex Legends was a hit from the very first day though and so it’s difficult to tell how far it might still have to go and whether it can unseat Fortnite by the end of it all.
Fortnite is estimated to have around 200 million players worldwide, although it does have the advantage of being on more platforms than Apex Legends. On Twitch the two games are more or less neck and neck in terms of viewers, with Apex Legends benefitting from a purposefully esports-friendly design.
The next big milestone for Apex Legends will be the start of its first season and battle pass, both ideas taken straight from Fortnite – which isn’t surprising as that’s where all the money is made.
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Judith Curry Does a Roy Spencer
Judith Curry has chosen the low road, recently traveled by Roy Spencer. She writes:
Scientists can shift their attention from religious adherence to consensus science and get on with the real work of trying to understand the dynamics of climate variability and change.
Again, this is another very unprofessional statement, written only to instigate conflict with other scientists with whom she disagrees but hasn't been able to best in the journals -- as if she's the only one doing science, and the rest are just practicing religion. That's just low. It's Anthony Watts-level baiting, and to me it's simply incompatible with the decorum and respect scientists have always given to one another.
It is sad to see. And it is telling -- the lack of scientific protest against Obama's speech this week says that the scientific arguments have essentially won the day. The oceans are warming, ice continues to melt, sea levels continue to rise -- denying such macroscopic indicators is simply no longer believable.
By all means, argue about the economics and the cheapest way to address the problem. But cheap shots from scientific quarters are unseemly and completely unnecessary.
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Peak Water?
Here's a very interesting graph of water usage in the US, versus Gross National Product, from the Pacific Institute:
Via Peter Gleick on Twitter.
"Fanatical Minorities...Getting Smaller All the Time"
Paul Krugman on today's Supreme Court decisions:
This is really amazing when you bear in mind that this very issue was used to mobilize the right-wing base in 2004. The change in attitudes in such a short period is awesome.
I haven’t seen a good analysis of this transformation. But whatever caused it, it’s a testament to American tolerance and open-mindedness. We have our fanatical minorities — but they are minorities, and they’re getting smaller all the time.
Stock Market Not Impressed with Obama's Speech
The market, at least, doesn't seem very impressed with Obama's speech on climate change. Here's the stock price of Arch Coal, the second largest US coal supplier:
(Though it's still down about 10% from a week ago.) And here is the price of ANR, the largest US coal producer:
"We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society."
Best line in Obama's speech:
Where to Watch Today's Address on Climate Change
President Obama's address on climate change is at 1:55 pm EDT.
You can watch it live here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/live
Andrew Revkin has a good preview.
Study: Fracking is Affecting Some Water Quality
Update: Here's an AP story.
Due to an embargo break (which tells you someone thinks this is a hot story), PNAS just lifted the embargo on the paper “Increased stray gas abundance in a subset of drinking water wells near Marcellus shale gas extraction,” by Robert B. Jackson of Duke University, et al.
They looked at water wells within 1 kilometer of trhe Marcellus shale gas wells in northeastern Pennsylvania and southeastern New York, and found that
"...82% of the wells analyzed contained methane; on average, methane concentrations were 6-times higher for homes located less than 1 km from drilling sites than for homes farther away. Concentrations of ethane and propane were also higher for homes located within 1 km of drilling sites. Furthermore, the authors found that distance to gas wells was the most significant factor to influence drinking water methane and ethane concentrations. In some cases, the chemical signature of the gases in drinking water was characteristic of a Marcellus-like source, according to the authors."
It will be interesting to see how this plays out....
About the Pause
Re: The Pause
Raise your hands -- who here would judge the Medieval Warm Period based solely on what happened from 1002 A.D. to 1013 A.D.?
From 998 A.D. to 1013 A.D.?
Speaking of Surprises....
Speaking of surprises: Who predicted the ozone hole?
No one, that's who.
What other surprises are out there, especially in an enhanced-greenhouse world?
We Live on Land, Not in the Oceans
Judith Curry writes:
Exactly how does focusing on the mean surface temperature miss the point? Global warming is pretty much defined in context of the mean surface temperature. People live on the surface, not in the ocean below 700 m.
OK. But people don't live on the surface of the ocean either, which is warming much slower than is the surface of the land.
The 30-yr trend of CRUTEM4, which only includes land measurements, is 0.28°C/decade -- 1.5°F of warming in just three decades.
The 15-yr trend is 0.11°C/decade.
By contrast, the 30-yr trend for HadCRUT4, which measures the entire surface, land + ocean, is 0.17°C/decade. The 15-year trend is 0.05°C/decade.
Clearly land is warming much faster than the ocean. Where does this fit in the calculations?
It seems to me the real question is: does the Earth system have an energy imbalance? If so -- if more energy is coming in than leaving at the top of the atmosphere, then there will be warming. Sometimes it will be mostly in the oceans, sometimes larger on land, almost always melting ice and raising sea level.
That's the real question. And if it's a mystery why the ocean has lately been taking up more heat than it was before, how is that comforting? What other unexpected and unforeseen changes lie in our future? Will the next one be to our benefit, or our detriment?
WUWT: Ocean Misunderstanding and Confusion
Willis Eschenbach has a post at WUWT that is a masterpiece of misunderstanding and befuddlement.
In their never-ending quest to show that all findings of standard climate science are wrong, Willis tackles ocean warming, in "Forcing the Ocean to Confess."
Now, even my cats could look at the plot to the right and see the top half of the ocean is strongly and steadily gaining heat:
But not Willis. His work leads him to the following conclusion:
"...neither the average forcing, nor the trend in that forcing, are significantly different from zero. It’s somewhat of a surprise.
"The third is that in addition to the mean not being significantly different from zero, only a few of the individual years have a forcing that is distinguishable from zero.
"Those were a surprise because with all of the hollering about Trenberth’s missing heat and the Levitus ocean data, I’d expected to find that we could tell something from the Levitus’s numbers."
What was Willis able to whip up in a little spreadsheet that disproves what all the professionals have determined? Some bad physics, that's what.
To see if ocean heat content (OHC) is increasing, most people would just calculate its trend, which is an approximate for its first derivative d(OHC)/dt, where t is time.
Instead, Willis first takes the annual difference in OHC, calls that the forcing (which it isn't really, but that's another story), and calculates the trend of that. He finds it slightly positive, though not significant at the 95% confidence level:
But that's equivalent to calculating the second derivative of OHC, i.e. the acceleration of the ocean's heat gain.
Willis gets himself all confused including autocorrelation in the statistics of the trend, which is a topic for another day. What's more relevant is that he doesn't understand what he's calculating, and why it says little about ocean heat content.
The trend of a function and the trend of its first derivative can have very different uncertainties, because the latter is a difference of differences, which often can fluctuate more than a first difference.
Here is an clean example that makes Willis's error explicit, without the malarky of all the statistics. Suppose the ocean heat content for year Y is
OHC(Y) = kY
where k is a positive constant. Obviously this ocean is gaining heat year after year, with a slope of k units per year.
Then what Willis is calling the "forcing" (again, it isn't really), and what he's plotting above using the real OHC data, is
F(Y) = {OHC(Y) - OHC(Y-1)}/A
where A is the area of the ocean. In this example F(Y) = k/A for all years, i.e the "forcing" is a constant. Hence it has a trend of zero (0).
But that doesn't mean the ocean isn't warming, viz. gaining heat. Clearly it is.
A constant forcing means warming. Only a zero forcing means no warming.
Willis sort of tries to cover his huge error by saying the "forcing" he's calculating isn't statistically different from zero. He finds the mean of the annual values to be 0.2 ± 0.3 W/m2.
But again, that number has a different interpretation that the one Willis tries to give it, because it's a mean and not a trend. The average forcing is positive, i.e. most years have a "positive" flow of heat into the ocean. Some years don't, and you could use the standard deviation above to find out what percentage of years don't.
But the average forcing is positive. The ocean is, on average, gaining heat. But remember, this is the second derivative of OHC(t), not the first. The first is clearly positive, and has strong statistics.
I find, using the pentadal temperature anomalies (the OHC results are here) a temperature trend of 1.25 ± millikelvin/yr, which translates into a OHC trend of
0.34 ± 0.02 W/m2
(1-sigma, no autocorrelation, total area of the ocean)
Now, autocorrelation will increase the uncertainty by a small factor (usually it's around 3), but hardly by a factor of 17! (Willis messes that up, too, but it's tangential to the main point.)
The ocean is gaining heat, i.e. warming. Willis's methodology is wrong, confused, and...well, too-often typical.
Killing the "Cooling Since 2002" Meme
The driver of the climate clown car is trying to cook up a new meme, based on this unfortunate Judith Curry post -- global cooling since 2002.
Of course, it isn't true when you look at the entire Earth, but it isn't even true if you only look at the surface -- neither cooling nor warming is statistially signficant in such a short time period.
Here's the trend since 2002 for the GISS global surface temperature:
The uncertainty is huge. There is simply too much inertia and too much noise in the climate system to say anything climatologically meaningful over such a short time period, which in this case is heavily influenced by two La Ninas near the end of its interval.
I don't, of course, expect anything like a commitment to the truth from Morano, but certain other people ought to know better.
"The tragic consequences of 'the American way of life'"
"So we have reached the point in history where we must face up to the tragic consequences of 'the American way of life,' a way of life also lived in other affluent countries, albeit typically with less intensity and ideological conviction. The same qualities that made the United States a great nation -- relentless optimism, commitment to know-how, determination to expand -- have become the enemies of its preservation and, collaterally, the preservation of the rest of humanity. A nation that has expansion running in its blood can barely conceive of contraction, and so the question we well soon be forced to ask is how much of the rest of the world will be sacrificed to prolong the dream of affluence?"
-- Clive Hamilton, Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering
"...if the meek are ever going to inherit the Earth then they had better be quick."
Army Corps Opts-Out of Its Mission Statement
The Army Corps of Enginners opted to ignore its Mission Statement today, telling Congress it won't comprehensively review proposed Pacific Northwestern coal export terminals.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will not conduct an all-encompassing review of the three coal export projects proposed in the Northwest, rejecting requests from Oregon and Washington's governors and project opponents.
Jennifer Moyer, acting chief of the Corps' regulatory program, told a House subcommittee today that the agency would review the three proposed export terminals separately, and would not directly address some of the opposition's top concerns. All three projects seek to export Montana and Wyoming coal to Asia through the Northwest.
"Many of the activities of concern to the public, such as rail traffic, coal mining, shipping coal outside of U.S. territory, and the ultimate burning of coal overseas, are outside the Corps' control and responsibility," Moyer said in prepared testimony.
ACE's Mission Statement reads:
Mission Statement: Provide vital public engineering services in peace and war to strengthen our Nation's security, energize the economy, and reduce risks from disasters.
And its Vision Statement is:
Vision Statement: A GREAT engineering force of highly disciplined people working with our partners through disciplined thought and action to deliver innovative and sustainable solutions to the Nation's engineering challenges.
There's simply no way you can argue that the proposed exports, which would total 110 million tons annually, might not possibly increase "risks from disasters" (and hence require a review) or not constitute a "sustainable solution." That amount of coal would, when burned, emit about 250 million tonnes of CO2 a year (about 5% of US emissions), costing, according the EPA's social cost of carbon, over $9 billon annually.
+1 for politics, -1 for the environment. Science is left to softly weep over in the corner, its hankie thoroughly soaked by now.
Steak For Me, But Not For Thee
From an article about Google's Balloon Internet project that could provide Internet access everywhere on Earth:
Temple University communications professor Patrick Murphy warned of mixed consequences, pointing to China and Brazil as places where Internet service promoted democratic principles but also contributed to a surge in consumerism that has resulted in environmental and health problems.
"The nutritional and medical information, farming techniques, democratic principles those are the wonderful parts of it," he said. "But you also have everyone wanting to drive a car, eat a steak, drink a Coke."
BEST Paper: AMO is Best Correlation with Global Temperatures
And to think I just gave Judith Curry grief for ignoring ocean warming.
OK, it's not exactly the same thing, but the BEST team has a paper out in JGR: Atmospheres:
Muller, R. A., J. Curry, D. Groom, R. Jacobsen, S. Perlmutter, R. Rohde, A. Rosenfeld, C. Wickham, and J. Wurtele (2013), Decadal variations in the global atmospheric land temperatures, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50458.
Its abstract reads:
Their most relevant figure is
showing that the AMO has a better correlation with surface temperatures than does the PDO. (But not by a huge amount. But I need to read the paper in full to better understand.)
The AMO is currently in its warm phase, since the mid-1990s, and the PDO its cool phase. So, I think, this finding would imply a new cooling influence on surface temperatures (countering the enhanced greenhouse effect) until about the mid-2020s....
Is a Geoengineering Experiment Now Taking Place?
There is an intriguing statement by UK climate scientist Piers Forster in an RTCC article; near its end he says,
"There is one experiment we’re currently undertaking – we’re trying to look at rescuing Arctic Ice by stimulating aeroplanes flying from Spitzbergen in Norway – and dump out a lot of Sulphur Dioxide, and we’re trying to look at that as a very short term protection against the loss of Arctic Ice."
It's unclear what "simulation" means -- I've written to ask him for more details. If it's actually planes dumping sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere, even on a small scale, that would be a huge deal, since no one has yet to do more than study such proposals, and there are all kinds of reasons why such "solar radiation management" (SRM) may be a bad idea. (I wrote about some of the ethical questions here.) Even as an experiment, it would be a huge step in a direction no one has yet dared to go.
A Record for the Pause?
In what may be a record for the claimed length of The Pause in global surface temperatures, a columnist in South Africa named David Gleason writes,
Between 1995 and last year carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere rose 10%, but global temperatures not at all.
This is complete nonsense. HadCRUT4 shows the globe warming 0.17°C (0.31°F) since January 1995, a number that is very statistically significant(*).
How that equals zero, I have no idea.
By the way, the David Rose Hole still exists, barely. There is still a 9-month period from 5/1997 to 1/1998 where there is warming-til-today, but whose statistical significance falls below 95% -- all the way to 89%. (*Again, no autocorrelation.)
(*) This conclusion doesn't includes autocorrelation. Slope uncertainties that take autocorrelation into account are nearly impossible to calculate using Excel, if you want to calculate them for a range of dates, because you need to create an array of the residuals for each interval. And I just haven't gotten around to writing a Python or R script to do it. Using the SkS trend calculator, I find that the HadCRUT4 trend since Jan-1995 is 0.095 ± 0.109 °C/decade (2σ), which is not quite statistically signficant warming at the 95% confidence level, though it is at the 92% level -- the large uncertainty simply showing that it's usually difficult to make statistically signficant conclusions about climatologically short time intervals (as I wrote about in the Sidebar here).
Stunned by a Judith Curry Post
I'm sorry, but I simply cannot understand this kind of thing from a scientist.
This period since 2002 is scientifically interesting, since it coincides with the ‘climate shift’ circa 2001/2002 posited by Tsonis and others. This shift and the subsequent slight cooling trend provides a rationale for inferring a slight cooling trend over the next decade or so, rather than a flat trend from the 15 yr ‘pause’.
I simply cannot fathom why any scientist would make such claims about short time periods - they are not representative of climate, but of natural variability.
I try, I really try when I write my articles, to include alternative voices. But anymore the (so-called) skeptics are getting increasingly ridiculous: this quote by Curry, Roger Pielke Jr's claim that Marcott et al bordered on misconduct, or John Christy's flogging an Anthony Watts blog post in front of Congress a mere couple of days after it appeared on a blog and before it was submitted for peer-reviewed. (And where, can I ask, has this finding yet appeared in the peer-reviewed literature? Nowhere, that's where.)
I have the utmost respect for the values of science and want to believe that all scientists are coming from an intellectually honest place.
But when I read things like this, I am simply stunned.
Is "The Big Burp" Underway?
The "Big Burp" would be the thawing of permafrost -- frozen soil -- that underlies much of the Arctic.
It contains an estimated 1,400-1,850 gigatons of carbon -- man's carbon emissions to date are about 385 GtC, from burning fossil fuels and land use changes.
That's 3.5 to 5 times as much as has been emitted so far.
Of course, this thawing will occur over centuries.
And it's why it's ridiculous to look only at the global average change in surface temperatures.
This is something you'd completely miss if you buy that global warming paused 17 years 4 months ago, as Lord Monckton recently claimed. It's not true anyway, but even if it was, such a broad brush stroke misses important regional changes, such as the fact that the North Pole region has warmed by 0.80°C in that time period, according to UAH data for the lower troposphere.
The NASA scientists say:
"Permafrost soils are warming even faster than Arctic air temperatures - as much as 2.7 to 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 to 2.5 degrees Celsius) in just the past 30 years.... As heat from Earth's surface penetrates into permafrost, it threatens to mobilize these organic carbon reservoirs and release them into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide and methane, upsetting the Arctic's carbon balance and greatly exacerbating global warming."
They don't give any numbers -- I guess they will have to wait for their papers. But there is a surprisingly small amount of methane in our current atmosphere: only about 5.2 Gt.
Are atmospheric methane levels increasing? Yes, but only a little. Here is the graph of monthly CH4 measurements from a station in Yonagunijima, Japan. It just happens to be a station I found that updates only a month or to after the present, and is relatively far north:
So after whatever caused last decades pause in CH4 levels -- the consensus seems to be related to the implosion of the Soviet Union, though no one I've read seems especially sure -- methane levels are on the rise again.
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Roy Spencer Writes....
Roy Spencer writes:
Forgive me if I sound frustrated, but we scientists who still believe that climate change can also be naturally forced have been virtually cut out of funding and publication by the ‘humans-cause-everything-bad-that-happens’ juggernaut.
Of course, few scientists would agree to sign on to the Cornwall Alliance's Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming, which says
"Recent global warming is one of many natural cycles of warming and cooling in geologic history."
The Declaration says a lot more, but that's enough.
I can understand how a "scientist" would be upset about being cut out of funding. But by signing the Cornwall Alliance declaration, Spencer has explicitely removed himself from the realm of science and has instead taken up a religious view of the world, and hence of climate.
I simply cannot understand how such a person expects to receive funding to do science, when he has made it very clear that his views are based on religion.
Religion should be funding him, not science.
About the Plateau
Justin Gillis writes, in a very good article in the New York Times:
As you might imagine, those dismissive of climate-change concerns have made much of this warming plateau. They typically argue that “global warming stopped 15 years ago” or some similar statement, and then assert that this disproves the whole notion that greenhouse gases are causing warming.
Rarely do they mention that most of the warmest years in the historical record have occurred recently. Moreover, their claim depends on careful selection of the starting and ending points. The starting point is almost always 1998, a particularly warm year because of a strong El Niño weather pattern.
Somebody who wanted to sell you gold coins as an investment could make the same kind of argument about the futility of putting your retirement funds into the stock market. If he picked the start date and the end date carefully enough, the gold salesman could make it look like the stock market did not go up for a decade or longer.
But that does not really tell you what your retirement money is going to do in the market over 30 or 40 years. It does not even tell you how you would have done over the cherry-picked decade, which would have depended on exactly when you got in and out of the market.
Scientists and statisticians reject this sort of selective use of numbers, and when they calculate the long-term temperature trends for the earth, they conclude that it continues to warm through time. Despite the recent lull, it is an open question whether the pace of that warming has undergone any lasting shift.
Unfortunately, I don't think Justin's article will change anything.
But personally, I'm getting a little tired of the "plateau." Arguments about it it simply aren't scientific.
Of course, I've done my own reporting on the subject.
Does UAH Have a Cool Bias?
By the way, there is a claim literature that UAH's mid-tropospheric temperatures are biased cool:
Po-Chedley, Stephen, Qiang Fu, 2012: A Bias in the Midtropospheric Channel Warm Target Factor on the NOAA-9 Microwave Sounding Unit, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 29, 646–652.
whose abstract says:
"The analysis reveals that the UAH TMT product has a positive bias of 0.051 ± 0.031 in the warm target factor that artificially reduces the global TMT trend by 0.042 K decade−1 for 1979–2009. Accounting for this bias increases the global UAH TMT trend from 0.038 to 0.080 K decade−1, effectively eliminating the trend difference between UAH and RSS and decreasing the trend difference between UAH and NOAA by 47%."
That would essentially eliminate the RSS-UAH discrepency I pointed out. (Actually I noted this paper last year, but forgot about it until I read this HotWhopper post.)
(Why is it UAH's biases always seem to be on the cool side??)
This claim prompted a response by Christy and Spencer, which brought its own response from the original authors last month, saying
The main finding by Po-Chedley and Fu was that the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) microwave sounding unit (MSU) product has a bias in its NOAA-9 midtropospheric channel (TMT) warm target factor, which leads to a cold bias in the TMT trend. This reply demonstrates that the central arguments by Christy and Spencer to challenge Po-Chedley and Fu do not stand.
Obviously this correction, if indeed true, would bring UAH into agreement with RSS but not with the model results as claimed by Spencer. I am still puzzled how it is that the average model trend doubled from 2007 to 2013.
Kind of on the Authoritarian Side
"You can have a democratic surveillance state which collects as little data as possible and tells you as much as possible about what it's doing, or you can have an authoritarian surveillance state which collects as much as possible and tells the public as little as possible. And we are kind of on the authoritarian side."
-- Paul Krugman
Mid-Trop Tropical Cooling
Here is a graph of UAH's measurements of the middle tropical troposphere, showing the 10-year change in the 10-year moving average (viz. decade-over-decade) with some cooling in the middle part of last decade:
Hot Spot or Not?
Here is what the U.S. Climate Change Science Program wrote in their 2006 report.
John Christy of UAH and Carl Mears of RSS were both lead authors on this section, which concluded that uncertainties prevented any definite comparison between models and measurements.
Below is a rather complicated chart from this report. The relevant box is 3rd from the top, for the tropical troposphere.
The large red rectangle is the range of the models.
The blue rectangle is the range of the observations.
The red line is the average of all models.
The dots ought to have error bars on them, but don't.
This data is only for 1979-1999, so there has been 13 more years of data since.
Note that back then both UAH and RSS measured much larger trends (and again different) than they do now:
RSS: ≈ 0.17°C/decade
UAH: ≈ 0.09°C/decade
with the model average being ≈ 0.18°C/decade. Since then RSS and UAH have seen essentially no change in the middle troposphere in the tropics, and in fact some cooling.
The models though, according to Spencer, show an average warming of about 1.2°C over their 34 years, or about 0.35°C/decade, twice the rate of their 1999 versions.
RealClimate says, "The models have large differences in their tropical variability (which depends on their representation of El Nino-like processes in the Pacific)."
So the measurements have cooled considerably, and the models have warmed considerably. Which, if either, is right?
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What Carbon (Should) Cost You
The EPA just raised the number they use for the social cost of carbon from $22 to $36 per metric ton of CO2. Brad Plumer has more background.... So what does this cost the average American -- or, rather, what would it cost if Americans were required to pay for their carbon pollution?
Here are some numbers:
The carbon intensity numbers and conversions come from this useful EPA page. Abbreviations: MJ = megajoule = 0.28 kilowatt-hours (kWh) = 239 food calories; t = tonne = metric ton = 1,000 kg. 12,000 kWh is about what the average household uses in electricity every year.
Right now the US has emitted 5.30 gigatons of CO2 in the last 12 months, which has a social cost of $191 billion, or 1.2% of GDP. That's higher than I would have guessed, but doesn't seem absurdly high.
Speaking of "Epic Fails"
Roy Spencer has a very unprofessional post, gloating over the failure of climate models to accurately project middle troposphere temperatures in the tropics.
I can't imagine any other science where a professional scientist would openly mock the work of his colleagues in this manner, as if it's all a competition between good and evil -- especially by a group that has seen its own share of epic failures over the years.
Surely this result, which I doubt is anything new to modelers, says more work on modeling and understanding climate is needed. (Remember, that is the whole point of all this: understanding climate and its changes.)
But then there is this: the linear trend for the entirety of the two datasets on middle tropospheric temperatures in the tropics is
RSS MT 20S-20N: 0.090 ± 0.028 °C/decade
UAH MT 20S-20N: 0.030 ± 0.028 °C/decade
That's right -- their trends differ by a factor of three, with UAH by far the lowest -- a fact which is neatly hidden away in Spencer's graph by taking their average. (Added 6/8: How can Spencer claim "...the observations (which coincidentally give virtually identical trends)...."?)
Most people would consider that a failure of its own, and quite a bad one.
Maybe the people doing the measurements should be paying attention to getting their own piece of the science right, and they ought not be giving everyone else cause to wonder if perhaps their own data is extremely inaccurate or biased low.
More With the Ice
More about ice spikes and the like....
This from a reader: a 7.5 cm protrusion from a rock pothole:
The caption gives a clear explanation:
Water expands when it freezes and as it typically freezes along the edges first in a confined space the tendency is for the volume of water in the center to be slightly raised as it freezes. Ice cubes made in a freezer usually have a somewhat convex surface. When factors such as water purity, the rate of freezing and the preferred growth of ice in crystalline planes are considered, expansion of freezing water can result in a variety of interesting structures, such as linear spikes with triangular cross-sections.
And in a variation of this physics, here's a underwater icicle formed in salt water, from the BBC (skip ahead to 1:45):
"Weather Whiplash," Clearly Explained
Here's a very clear explanation of how the loss of Arctic sea ice can be influencing weather extremes, or, as Neven puts it, causing "weather whiplash." From Peter Sinclair via the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media.
A Paradox of History?
"These campaigns are bewildering until we remember that resisting environmental regulations, including energy efficiency measures, has become a sign of red-blooded faith in the prevailing system, the particular conservative construction of the American way of life. The ideological framing of environmentally benign technology has a long history in the United States. When Sherwood Rowland, the American chemist who would share the 1995 Nobel Prize with Paul Crutzen, advocated a ban on ozone-destroying consumer products, the aerosol spray-can industry suggested he was a KGB agent bent on destroying capitalism. While renewable energy industries in the United States face constant political attacks, in China investment in green technologies is surging. It would be a paradox of history if it turned out that democracy in America had become so dysfunctional that it could be held hostage by an anti-environmental minority while a totalitarian government in China took decisive action on the threat of global warming, and in the process assumed the mantle of world leadership in which an emergent ‘Chinese way of life’ proved superior to its American counterpart.
Even so, it seems clear that the United States is at a stage in its history where it is having difficulty making good decisions in its own long-term interests, let alone those of the the rest of the world. The era in which judgements must be made about geoengineering has begun; within two or three decades a momentous choice will need to be made about deployment of Earth-changing technologies. Although the United States is not short of intelligent, thoughtful and deeply concerned people, from today’s vantage point it is hard to see it regaining enough political composure to be able to reflect carefully on the implications of doing so."
Video of an Ice Spike Being Formed
Here's a video of an ice spike being formed, made in the ice lab of Edward Lozowski at the University of Alberta. (Movie by Lesley Hill, Russ Sampson and Edward Lozowski, with technical help by Kenny Lozowski.) Video rate is about 50 times normal.
Via Stephen Morris of the University of Toronto, who has a lot of interesting pages on unusual physics of everyday phenomena, including this Flickr page of ice spike photos.
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Did you know that we've been shipping unit tests for DXperience since version 2008.1?
If you've bought the source code version of one of our products, go to our folder in Program Files (or Program Files (x86), if you're running a 64-bit operating system). Navigate into the Sources folder, and choose a product, like DevExpress.Web.ASPxGridView. Under that you should see a Tests subfolder holding all the NUnit unit tests for that product.
Some of the older, more established products don't have NUnit tests yet because they used our in-house testing system (which you really don't want to see), but we're working on it. However, in general all the products we've been releasing over the past several months, say, are represented.
Have a look at the tests, run them, file bugs against them if you find something. We're glad of all feedback.
Sindre Barstad
What about DUnit tests for your vcl components? Do you have such? And if so, are you willing to share them with customers who have purchased your sourcecode? I would really like to se how tests are written for real complex products, not just for Hello World programs or testing that 2 + 2 = 4.
At present, this support is only for our .NET products. Our VCL products utilize a different methodology for testing (we've built a complex complete test environment) and does not rely on products like DUnit, for example. To be honest, I don't think the VCL test suite is of "releasable" quality, but I could be wrong. I'll have to discuss it with the VCL team.
Cheers, Julian
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Implications of Downing the Israeli Fighter Plane
in World — by Dr Elias Akleh — February 12, 2018
Israel had gained air space superiority in the Middle East after it destroyed the Egyptian air force during the 1967 6-days Israeli aggression war against it neighbors. Since then, the Arab weakness in the air force arena had emboldened Israel to use its air force power intensively and unhindered, up till now, to inflict damages to its Arab neighbors without endangering its troops in risky confrontation.
The free open-air space of the region allowed Israeli bombers to hit installations in the heart of some Arab countries, such as the 1981 bombing of Iraqi nuclear facility and the 2007 bombing of the alleged Syrian nuclear reactor. Violating international human rights, and without any international condemnation, Israel used its air force to destroy main civilian infrastructures, bomb civilian homes, hospitals, schools, mosques and churches, and many civilian institutions. This was apparent particularly in Israel’s invasions and wars against Lebanon and against Gaza Strip.
In fact, Israel was so emboldened that it had routinely violated Lebanese air space to attack Syria under bogus claims of self-defense, pre-emptive strikes against rocket convoys to Hezbollah, retaliations against claimed ISIS rocket launchers, and lately against alleged Iranian military facilities and rocket factories in Syria.
Within the last few years, arrogantly emboldened Israeli leaders had intensified their military aggression against Syria without paying any military or political price for it. This has just changed last Saturday February 10th when Syria finally considered that enough is enough and decided to defend its own air space.
Syrian government forces use drones to monitor ISIS’s military movements. Israel, as it had done in the past, decided to help its proxy army; ISIS, by bombing the Syrian drone air base. Two Israeli fighter planes were launched early Saturday morning, violated Lebanese air space, as usual, heading to Syria to do what they accustomed to believe a relatively easy mission.
Yet, the Israelis were surprised to discover that the mission was not business as usual. The Israeli fighter planes were confronted with heavy Syrian defenses and with ground to air missiles that downed their F-16 and damaged another F-15 fighter planes.
Panic and fear of further rocket attacks spread all over the northern Israeli colonies. Warning sirens wailed in many Israeli towns in the north, Israelis hurried into shelters and Ben Gurion international airport near Tel Aviv had temporarily halted air traffic. On Sunday Israel spread its iron dome rockets on its northern border, while sending more reinforcements south on the border with Gaza Strip. Israel does not have any territorial depth that could protect its citizens from any rockets launched from Syria.
Netanyahu, fearing further “Iranian” and/or “Russian” retaliations, or even worse, getting Israel alone involved in an unplanned and unprepared war against Syrian and Hezbollah forces, rushed to the phone calling on Trump and Putin claiming that Israel does not seek “escalation” and that the Israeli attack came as a limited retaliation for Iranian drone violation of Israeli air space. This is a claim that Netanyahu had always used to justify Israel’s continuous aggressions against Arabs accompanied with the bullying daring threat not to retaliate against these aggressions. “We seek peace, but are prepared for any scenario and I wouldn’t suggest to anyone that they test us” he arrogantly challenged in many of his speeches. Finally, Syria decided to test Israel’s resolve, and Netanyahu panicked.
Israeli officials were shocked by the unexpected result of what seemed to be an easy mission for the F-16 that is equipped with the latest American defensive Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) that is supposed to defend the plane from missile attacks. The shock did not hit only the Israelis but also hit the American military air force headquarters even harder especially when it was revealed that the very expensive ECM failed to defend the plane against the older 1960s technology of the Russian S-200 missile that hit the planes. This is so concerning to the Americans since the American air force fleet is comprised mainly of F-16 fighter planes using the same ECM defensive technology.
Israeli officials hastened to justify the attack as a retaliation for an Iranian drone that allegedly had violated the Israeli air space. It is worth mentioning, here, that Israel seems to be inflected with a dangerous pathological phobic obsession called Iran; Iranian nuclear bomb, Iranian rockets, and finally Iranian drones. All these have proven to be Netanyahu’s false manifestations of his over-imaginative sick mind, who wants to convince the world that Iran, not Israel, poses threat to the region and to the world. The alleged Iranian threat never escapes all of Netanyahu’s speeches.
History proves that Iran has not entered into any war of aggression for centuries and had never developed nuclear weapons, while Israel had been born out of a colonial war, lives into a state of perpetual aggressive wars against its neighbors, reported to have between 200 – 300 nuclear bombs, and had dropped nuclear tactical bombs on Yemen. Unlike ISIS creator America, Iran has no military presence in Syria, but few military advisers invited by the Syrian government.
This event of downing Israeli F-16 fighter plane is not a casual incident, but could be viewed as a crucial turning point in the on-going Arab/Israeli conflict. It could mean that Israel cannot any longer bomb its neighbors without any heavy price to pay. Israel needs to think deeply and to reconsider its policies before jumping into any military adventure. It is true that Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria have come wounded of devastating wars, yet they had come out experienced, determined, and better armed. The “Order out of Chaos”, the “New Middle East”, and the American Israeli ISIS terrorist wars, that meant to weaken and destroy the Arab Resistance Axis had failed and produced the opposite planned results. The Arab Resistance Axis, leadership and nations, is stronger instead.
Israeli leadership understands, now, that this event ushers a new strategic phase. The era of Israeli air force bullying its Arab neighbors is over. Any future Israeli air engagement could further demonstrate to other Arab leaders that Israel, with its air defense neutralized and without any territorial depth, is very vulnerable. Israelis can only resort to their American protectors to deter any possible confrontation or rocket attacks that would herd Israeli citizens into shelters shuttering the myth of “Israel is the safest place for Jews”, and could initiate a reverse immigration.
The only people Israel can now bully and terrorize are the Palestinians in the West Bank and in Gaza Strip, who are now going into their 11th “Week of Anger” demonstrating against the Israeli occupation, and engaging, with stones, the fully armed Israeli soldiers. The possibility of bombing Gaza to raise the reduced morale of the Israeli pilots, a common practice of Israeli leaders whenever they face a military failure, is very high now. The Hamas military wing; Izz ak-Din al-Qassam Brigades, announced that it had raised its readiness for any possible Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip.
Dr. Elias Akleh is an Arab American from a Palestinian descent. His family was evicted from Haifa, Palestine, after the 1948 Nakba when the Zionists stole his family’s property. Then the family was evicted again from the West Bank during the 1967 Naksah, after the Zionist, again, occupied the rest of Palestine.
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Thanks for capturing Israel’s impunity and hypocrisy. The thwarting of the Israeli jet mission was indeed a wake-up call for all.
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Living acquires Cox’s ‘Cougar Town’
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Living has acquired the rights to Courteney Cox-fronted Cougar Town from ABC Studios.
The Virgin Media Television-owned channel has bought 13 half-hour episodes of the comedy series to air in its peak time schedule next year.
Amy Barham, Head of Acquisitions at Virgin Media Television said: “Cougar Town was a stand-out show for us at this year’s LA Screenings. Hugely entertaining, Cox is on top comedic form with a fantastic supporting cast. We think the show sits perfectly on Living and will really resonate with our audience.”
A spokesperson for ABC added: “With Cougar Town, Bill Lawrence has shone the spotlight on the forty-something woman to produce a fast-paced, lively comedy with wide appeal.
“Of course, Courteney Cox’s fan base and draw is as powerful as ever, not least in the UK – her return to TV comedy is well matched for the Living audience.”
The show recently launched to a decent 11.44m in the US.
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If Biden Has A Stroke, Bloomberg Is In The Wings, And That’s Not Good
by Court Anderson September 18, 2019 8 3477
Michael Bloomberg. Screenshot: YouTube
The question may be macabre, but it’s worth asking: what happens if Joe Biden suffers a medically disqualifying event? He will turn 77 in November, the campaign trail is famously grueling at any age, and he has a fairly long medical history, as reported by the Washington Examiner:
In 1988, he suffered an aneurysm that burst and required him to undergo emergency surgery. Months later, surgeons addressed a second aneurysm before it burst. He suffers from asthma and allergies, takes a prescription drug to lower his cholesterol, and has taken medication for an enlarged prostate. Doctors also removed a benign polyp during a colonoscopy in 1996, and in 2003, he had his gallbladder removed.
Biden announced four days ago in Houston that he would release his medical records before the primaries. Fielding questions about his health as a factor for voters, he jokingly asked a reporter, “What are the concerns? Man, want to wrestle?”
Foot-In-Mouth Disease Is Contagious: Biden’s Doc Has It Too
Biden’s brain surgeon back in 1988, Dr. Neal Kassell, currently a professor of neurosurgery at the University of Virginia, claimed in a Politico article in August that his patient is fine, just fine. “I can tell you with absolute certainty that he had no brain damage, either from the hemorrhage or from the operations that he had. There was no damage whatsoever…He is every bit as sharp as he was 31 years ago. I haven’t seen any change.”
Pretty specific diagnosis! Downright confidence-inspiring. It seems at odds with the fact that Dr. Kassell told Biden in ’88 that he might not recover from the aneurysms. More telling still is a quote from Kassell that reveals his political leanings: “I am going to vote for the candidate who I am absolutely certain has a brain that is functioning. And that narrows it down to exactly one.”
But the joke is on Kassell. Instead of simply reassuring voters with the sober, impartial voice of a medical professional, he had to get cute with a zinger, and in the process, betray his bias.
What the voters would have heard: “Brain Surgeon Says Biden Is 100% Fine.”
What the voters actually heard: “Democrat Doc Who Operated On Biden 30 Years Ago Rubber-Stamps His Health.”
Bloomberg: The X Factor
If it’s a medical issue or something unforeseen, the assumption is that minus Biden, his supporters would turn to either Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders.
Don’t forget the other New York billionaire.
Michael Bloomberg was prepared to run in 2018, going so far as to change his diet and abstain from drinking wine. Regardless of other factors he raised in his dropout announcement published on his eponymous website, the only thing that stopped Bloomberg was Biden’s decision to run.
Michael Bloomberg on not running in 2020: "There was not a road for me when Joe [Biden] was in the race to get through, because we would have split the votes"
— Susan Kroll (@suekroll) September 10, 2019
He would have to run as a Democrat. To do otherwise would split the liberal vote and assure a Trump win. He is wealthy enough to mount a quick campaign, and in many ways, it would be the preferable route to take instead of enduring the endless circus-like debates for which Bloomberg, already lacking in charisma, has neither the patience nor the aptitude.
Further, Bloomberg’s no-nonsense by-the-numbers approach would appeal to a broad swath of Democrats tired of the limbo dance of bending backward to accommodate the ascendant far left.
There is an expiry on this idea, of course. Biden would have to fall ill or suffer a major political blow between now and Christmas at the very latest for Bloomberg to mount a furious campaign, primarily in the heartland and Deep South, where he not as well known.
I’m looking forward to hearing candidates in the Democratic field share their plans to address the climate crisis in tonight’s #DemDebate. I don't agree with the candidates on everything, but I do know that every single one would be better than President Trump.
— Mike Bloomberg (@MikeBloomberg) September 12, 2019
Campaigning without debating.
Bloomberg is no political neophyte, having served three terms (12 years) as mayor of New York City with approval ratings high enough that city laws were rewritten to sidestep an existing two-term limit. He’s a smart man with plenty of powerful friends and allies, and like Trump, he’s a wildly successful businessman. He’s tough on crime. Most important, however, is this: compared to the current batch of non-Biden Democratic candidates, he’s positively normal.
Time was, Bloomberg’s Jewish faith would have precluded him from any serious discussion of national office. Historically, Jews are elected to prominent posts almost exclusively on the coasts. The mitigating factors: Bloomberg is a secular Jew, once remarking in an Atlantic interview about requiring a medical consent form for a controversial Orthodox circumcision practice, “Who wants to have 10,000 guys in black hats outside your office, screaming?”
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Further, Jewish candidate Bernie Sanders has preceded Bloomberg on the national stage with all his vein-bulging bluster. Next to him, the slim, prim Bloomberg looks positively Presbyterian. Finally, the left’s spasmodic hatred of President Trump means that anyone who could conceivably defeat him will be given heretofore unseen latitude, despite party darlings like Ilhan Omar who speak out of both sides of their mouths about Israel and Jews.
Bloomberg On the Issues
“Little Mike” has no real party allegiance, shifting from Democrat to Republican to Independent as a matter of convenience and legal expediency. Bloomberg wants to get things done, and ideology rarely steers his decision-making process.
Until it does.
Bloomberg fought for the “Ground Zero Mosque,” a wildly unpopular idea that ended in a compromise. He banned indoor smoking in New York City, and limited the size of single-serving soda cups available for sale at restaurants and other beverage retailers. Continuing in the nanny-state mode, he has been a leader in the fight against e-cigarettes for years.
The elephant in the room is his stance on gun control. From a New York Times 2014 article (emphasis added):
Despite Bloomberg’s platitudes about supporting the Second Amendment, his amicus brief in the Supreme Court’s Heller case insisted that the Second Amendment applied only to state militias, not individual Americans.
Molon Labe, Mike.
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jwstoneman September 19, 2019 at 12:18 am
Mike may appear liberal but he takes from the Machiavelli playbook “appear liberal to stay in control” sort of thing. When Mike started as Mayor his net worth was 3 billion when he left 33 billion.
Oh yeah and don’t forget that during one of the worst blizzards in NYC history he was down in Bermuda. He also stone walled his city unions including I think the Police. So don’t think the Unions will get behind him that fast.
ChuckC September 19, 2019 at 2:15 am
Wrong headline; If Biden has a stroke, Hillary is in the wings. And that is the plan. Biden’s stroke is scheduled for October 2020.
Robert Weston September 19, 2019 at 8:01 am
Can you imagine the carnage is Bloomberg tried to go toe-to-toe with Hillary for the nomination!!
Either it would be a battle royale or Bloomberg would be Epsteined.
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Too bad there is no edit function on this thread.
Pouncekitty September 19, 2019 at 2:49 am
Not if, WHEN. Biden is too sick to make it through the primaries. He’s the walking dead. But then so is Warren and Kamaltoe. Bernie, too. Walking corpses too stupid to lay down and drop.
Carson September 19, 2019 at 3:46 am
NJ flips
Alan September 19, 2019 at 3:54 am
Biden may just suffer Arkanside if he wins the nomination. Then the drums for Hillary will beat loudly.
Meremortal September 19, 2019 at 3:26 pm
Hey Bloomers, spend $30 on teeth whitener. You look awful.
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Ben Daniels To Topline Starz’s ‘Flesh And Bone’; Nora Dunn Joins CW’s ‘iZombie’
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Ben Daniels (House of Cards, Law & Order: UK) has been tapped to star in Starz’s ballet drama Flesh And Bone from executive producers Lawrence Bender, Kevin Brown and John Melfi and creator/exec producer Moira Walley-Beckett (Breaking Bad). Described as a dark and gritty exploration of the dysfunction and glamour of the ballet world, Flesh And Bone follows Claire (Sarah Hay), a young dancer with has a distinctly troubled past, as she joins a prestigious ballet company in New York. Daniels, repped by Elizabeth Wiederseim, who recently moved from Don Buchwald and Associates to Gersh, and by Hamilton Hodell in the UK, will star as the volatile and brilliant artistic director Paul Grayson. Flesh And Bone is set to debut on Starz in 2015.
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Saturday Night Live alum Nora Dunn is set as a series regular in Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero’s CW drama pilot iZombie, from Warner Bros TV. iZombie is a supernatural crime procedural that centers on a med student-turned-zombie who takes a job in the coroner’s office to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat to maintain her humanity. But with each brain she consumes, she inherits the corpse’s memories. Dunn, repped by Pakula King & Associates and Lighthouse Entertainment, will play Eva Moore, a hospital administrator and mother to the lead character Olivia, which has yet to be cast. Dunn will reprise her role as Dr. Marcus in Doug Ellin’s upcoming Entourage movie for Warner Bros. Other film credits include The Guilt Trip and It’s Complicated.
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‘Unbelievable’ Could Spawn Anthology Franchise For Netflix & CBS TV Studios Following Limited Series’ Success
There had been strong word of mouth surrounding Netflix’s limited-series crime drama Unbelievable since its September 13 launch. Today, the streamer released ratings that confirmed its popularity.
Unbelievable, from showrunner Susannah Grant, CBS TV Studios and Timberman/Beverly Productions, was one of Netflix’s top ratings performers of the third quarter — and all of 2019. The limited series was viewed by 32 million households in its first four weeks on the platform, Netflix disclosed with its Q3 earnings report today.
That is a big number for a crime drama that tackles a difficult subject, rape, and is based on a case that is not widely known.
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Turning Unbelievable into a true-crime anthology franchise had been on the back of the producers’ minds from the get-go. And while there are no deals in place and there have been no conversations with Netflix about that — Unbelievable was sold to the streamer as a one-off limited series — the idea of a follow-up is likely to be revisited in light of its ratings success and awards attention, centered largely on the performances of Toni Collette and Merritt Wever.
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There is no premise for a potential second installment being considered, but it would likely tackle a different case in a different true-crime arena. The title, Unbelievable, easily lands itself to telling different stories, much more so than Bravo/USA’s popular true-crime anthology Dirty John, for instance.
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Co-written by Grant, Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman, Unbelievable was based on “An Unbelievable Story of Rape,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning December 2015 article from the Marshall Project and ProPublica written by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, and the This American Life radio episode about the same case, “Anatomy of Doubt.”
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Mariano Rivera, Already Owner Of One Auto Dealership, Eyes New Locale On LI
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New York Yankee icon Mariano Rivera is looking to get back into the car dealership game, hoping to close out a deal by making a different kind of pitch to developers on Long Island.
Rivera, a Westchester resident that already owns a dealership in Northern Westchester, is reportedly planning on opening a new location on Route 112 in Port Jefferson Station on Long Island.
Rivera, Major League Baseball’s first unanimous Hall of Famer and all-time saves leader, and his business partners are looking to purchase the current North Shore Certified car dealership on Route 112, which would be renamed “Mariano Rivera Honda” if approved.
The location currently sits at 6,425-square-feet on an 8.1-acre site. If Rivera’s proposal is accepted, they are expected to expand to a new 50,000-square-foot facility that would reportedly house more than 350 vehicles for sale.
Rivera opened Rivera Toyota and Scion on Bedford Road in Mount Kisco in July 2015. Moving forward, if Rivera is to open up his new dealership in Suffolk County, he will have to gain the approval of the Town of Brookhaven and the Hall of Famer is expected to be involved in the pitches to help sell local lawmakers on the project.
After closing out a record-setting 652 games for the Yankees, Rivera will attempt to close out one more deal.
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The weather is perfect for spending at least part of the weekend outdoors.
The arrival of spring, and the 44th annual "Bicycle Sundays" could not arrive at a better time in Westchester County.
Nearly seven miles of the Bronx River Parkway will be closed to motorists between White Plains and Yonkers on Sunday, May 6 for the first of a summer's worth of bicycle freedom.
Bicycle Sundays, one of Westchester’s longest-running and popular recreational programs is held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
In addition to this coming Sunday, the county program runs on May 13 and 20; June 3, 10, 17 and 24; and Sept. 9, 16, 23 and 30.
No bicycle Sundays are offered in July or August.
Greenburgh Supervisor Paul Feiner, a bike enthusiast,, said that when he got his start in government and politics in the 1970s, he served as the chair of the Task Force for Bikeways in Westchester.
"In 1973 we successfully lobbied the Westchester County Board of Legislators to appropriate funds for the first bikeway in Westchester," Feiner said of the paved path along the Bronx River Parkway, which many cyclists and runners continue to enjoy.
Bicycle Sundays, a Westchester County Parks program, is sponsored by Con Edison, New York Presbyterian Hospital, the Westchester Parks Foundation and Danny’s Cycles, with support from WHUD.
During Bicycle Sundays, the parkway is open exclusively for bicyclists, in-line skaters, scooters, walkers and joggers from Exit 22 at the Westchester County Center to Exit 4 at Scarsdale Road in Yonkers, a round-trip distance of 13 miles. The road is closed to automobiles in that stretch of parkway.
Admission to the event is free.
Parking is available at the County Center lot in White Plains for $7.
The late Alfred DelBello, then-County Executive, appointed Feiner to his Bicycle Committee in 1974 "and we successfully pushed the county to close the Bronx River Parkway for cyclists on Sundays. . . I am pleased that Bicycle Sundays starts this Sunday! And, hope it will never be discontinued," Feiner said.
Rules and Regulations:
• Bicyclists, in-line skaters, scooters, walkers and joggers ONLY; no unauthorized motor vehicles allowed.
• Walkers, joggers and slower wheeled traffic must use right lane; faster wheeled traffic must use left lane.
• Helmets are required by New York state law for children under 14 years of age, including those riding in bike trailers, and are recommended for all wheeled participants.
• New York state law prohibits children under age 1 from riding on bicycles or in a separate seat.
• All headsets are prohibited; this includes but is not limited to music devices and hands free cell phones.
• No skateboarding allowed.
• No dogs allowed.
• Bicyclists must obey posted parkway speed limit of 40 mph.
• Children riding in strollers must be strapped in at all times.
• Children under age 10 must be accompanied by an adult.
• All participants must be off the parkway by 1:50 p.m.
Paul Feiner also contributed to this story.
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Acocella Named Citizen of Year at Harrison Day
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HARRISON, N.Y. - Harrison residents paused Monday in the middle of what was planned to be a fun-for-all festival to remember one of their own. Late Town Clerk Joe Acocella Jr. was named Harrison's citizen of the year during the "It's Great to Live in Harrison" festivities and his family accepted the award on his behalf.
"This community should be proud of what Joey did throughout his life," sister Laura Acocella said, while fighting back tears. "We really miss Joseph and we hope you all remember him and carry out his mission."
The entire Acocella family sported Donate Life T-shirts in promotion of the organization that the late clerk heavily advocated for.
Acocella died Aug. 8 at 30-years-old from medical complications. He was awaiting a kidney transplant at the time of his death.
His death left a large impression on the community. The town honored Acocella after his passing by closing parts of Halstead Avenue in downtown Harrison for his funeral procession.
"Joey lived for this town," Harrison Recreation Superintendent Gerry Salvo said. "That's what this weekend is all about."
Acocella, born July 14, 1981, became the youngest clerk in New York State when he was elected in 2007. Acocella was running for re-election when he died. His medical ailments included kidney problems, but were also related to his Lumbar Sacral Agenesis, which led to the amputation of both his legs at three years old.
During his life, Acocella served as the town clerk, worked on the Harrison School Board and spent time as a volunteer firefighter.
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Songwriters win big as Copyright Royalty Board boosts streaming pay nearly 50 percent
by: Ryan Castillo Jan 30, 2018
Since the dawn of streaming nearly 10 years ago, writer royalties have been based on a strict percentage of each streaming service’s revenue, putting songwriters at the mercy of corporate decision-making. In a court ruling issued Jan. 27 in Washington D.C., the Copyright Royalty Board has voted to increase songwriter rates for music streaming by 43.8 percent over the next five years.
President and CEO of the National Music Publishers’ Association, David Isrealite, calls the victory “the biggest rate increase granted in CRB history.” The federal decision ruled in favor of the NMPA and the Nashville Songwriters’ Association International, requiring Amazon, Apple, Google, Pandora and Spotify to pay more for the use of music.
“Crucially, the decision also allows songwriters to benefit from deals done by record labels in the free market,” Isrealite says. “The ratio of what labels are paid by the services versus what publishers are paid has significantly improved, resulting in the most favorable balance in the history of the industry.”
For every $3.82 to the label, writer/publishers get $1.00.
“The CRB was a long and difficult process but songwriters and music publishers together presented a powerful case for higher streaming royalty rates,” says Bart Herbison, executive director of the Nashville Songwriters Association International. “Songwriters desperately need and deserve [these] rate increases.”
The change will be insignificant to the bottom lines of tech giants Apple, Amazon and Google. Yet, smaller streaming services like Spotify and Pandora may feel the cost. Arguing in favor of the status quo were Amazon, Google, Pandora and Spotify. Apple broke with the ranks, however, conceding that the current royalty rate was much “too complex” and “economically unsound.” Apple advocated for “a single per-play rate that is the same for all services,” which signals an artistic sympathy that may have interesting market implications moving forward.
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11 results for Food Lion, Inc. (Salisbury)
1.Doing a Thousand Things 1% Better by Oliver, Regina North Carolina Vol. 50 Issue 2, Feb 1992
Oliver, Regina
Oliver profiles Tom Smith, President of Food Lion, Inc.
North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 50 Issue 2, Feb 1992, p8-11, por
Smith, Tom; Food Lion, Inc. (Salisbury)
2.In the Media Jungle, the Lion Weeps Tonight by Napoli, Lisa Business North Carolina Vol. 13 Issue 3, Mar 1993
Napoli, Lisa
Officials of the Salisbury-based Food Lion, Inc. grocery chain were furious over what they perceived as sensationalistic tabloid journalism when the \"Primetime Live\" program went undercover to expose questionable company actions. The methods used by \"Primetime\" have raised questions about the ethical aspects of such undercover reporting.
Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 13 Issue 3, Mar 1993, p16-19, il Periodical Website
Food Lion, Inc. (Salisbury); Journalistic ethics
3.The Lion in Winter by Sharpe, Bill Business North Carolina Vol. 14 Issue 5, June 1994
Sharpe, Bill
Excerpts from an interview with Tom Smith, CEO of Food Lion, emphasize Food Lion's recovery from a governmental crackdown and the company's conflict with union organizers.
Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 14 Issue 5, June 1994, p28-31, por Periodical Website
4.Time for Food Lion to Purr by Kirk, Phil North Carolina Vol. 52 Issue 6, June 1994
Kirk, Phil
After suffering the negative consequences of a \"Prime Time Live\" expose, Food Lion, Inc. has rebounded as stock prices have risen and new stores have opened.
North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 52 Issue 6, June 1994, p46, por
Food Lion, Inc. (Salisbury)
5.Recovered from Bad Publicity, Food Lion Roars Back in 1994 by Cooper, Andrea North Carolina Vol. 53 Issue 4, Apr 1995
Cooper, Andrea
In 1994, Food Lion, a Salisbury-based grocery store chain, overcame a harmful expose by ABC's \"Prime Time Live\" in 1992 to post its first successful year-to-year report since the program's airing
North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 53 Issue 4, Apr 1995, p59, il
6.Tom Smith Quietly Slips Out of the Lion's Din by Sharpe, Bill Business North Carolina Vol. 19 Issue 7, July 1999
Tom Smith, chairman, president and CEO of Food Lion, retired in April 1999. Smith, 57, had been with the supermarket chain for thirty years. Some question remains as to whether he retired voluntarily or was pushed out.
Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 19 Issue 7, July 1999, p12, il Periodical Website
7.Food Lion, Inc. by Norris, Jeannie Faris We the People of North Carolina Vol. 44 Issue 1, Jan 1986
Norris, Jeannie Faris
Tom Smith's route to success in the grocery industry ran from bag boy to the presidency. He began his career at Food Lion in 1970, after almost seven years with Del Monte and before that bagging groceries while he was at Catawba College.
We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 44 Issue 1, Jan 1986, p33, 47-48, il
8.City Portrait: Salisbury by Markovich, Jeremy Our State Vol. 84 Issue 5, October 2016
Markovich, Jeremy
Salisbury is a small town in Rowan County. Food Lion was founded there and the town is also home to Catawba College. In the late twentieth century, early Food Lion investors became millionaires due to the success of the supermarket chain. Many of these investors stayed in Salisbury and invested the money in their community, all the while helping to preserve it.
Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 84 Issue 5, October 2016, p60, 62, 64, 66, 68-69, il, por, map Periodical Website
Rowan County--History; Food Lion, Inc. (Salisbury); Salisbury--History
9.The Lion Roars by Bates, Eric Independent Weekly Vol. 9 Issue 27, July 3-9 1991
Bates, Eric
Food Lion is the fastest growing supermarket chain in the nation, but there is concern over how the company treats its workers. A lawsuit has been filed by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union over the company’s “unfair labor practices.” Employees interviewed are upset over long hours, no overtime pay, low wages, and a culture of fear. Questions are also being raised about the company’s profit sharing policy which benefits only one in ten employees and is perceived by many to have been the reason they are fired before they can collect the benefits. Food Lion refutes all claims.
Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 9 Issue 27, July 3-9 1991, p8-10 Periodical Website
Labor disputes; Food Lion, Inc. (Salisbury); Employee rights
10.Doing a Thousand Things 1% Better by Oliver, Regina NC Magazine Vol. 50 Issue 2, February 1992
In the 40 years since Tom Smith set his eyes on high goals, he has risen to the presidency of one of the nation's fastest growing supermarket chains: Food Lion, Inc. Based in Salisbury, North Carolina, Smith manages the business in terms of minimizing extra steps, expenses, and waste.
NC Magazine (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 50 Issue 2, February 1992, p8, 10-11, por
Food Lion, Inc. (Salisbury); Smith, Tom
11.The Personal Touch by Greene, Richard; Fredin, Johnathan [Photographer] NC Magazine Vol. 67 Issue 2, Feb 2009
Greene, Richard; Fredin, Johnathan [Photographer]
With a background in political science and experience in food industry management , Rick Anicetti was a perfect fit for Food Lion. As chief operating officer, Anicetti drives home the company's core values--integrity, strong work ethic, and embracing difference--and makes sure food safety practices are of the highest quality.
NC Magazine (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 67 Issue 2, Feb 2009, p36-37, por
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Sodwana Bay - ungrazed ground
Indian Ocean Coastal Belt, , , ,
Location: Around Bhangazi Lake., Ecology: Coastal grassland with forest patches.
Experimental area
Vegetation monitoring--Western Cape (South Africa), Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
District: Caledon, Location: Kogelberg Nature Reserve., Ecology: Unknown.
Fortified tower
Military bases--Namibia, Namibia--History, Military--20th century
Fortified tower.
Jeppe's map of the Transvaal or S.A. Republic and surrounding territories
Transvaal (South Africa) -- Maps., Pretoria (South Africa) -- Maps., Johannesburg (South Africa) -- Maps.
Map shows towns, farm boundaries, farm names, farm registration numbers, farms under the jurisdiction of Mining Commissioners, roads, railways, postal routes, custom houses, postal and telegraph information, proclaimed gold fields, mynpachten, kraals and "locations", mountains and rivers. The map also shows portions of the Orange Free State, the Cape Colony, Natal [KwaZulu-Natal], Rhodesia [Zimbabwe], Zululand, Tongaland, the British Protectorate [Botswana] and Portuguese territory [Mozambique]., Relief shown by shading., "The compilers are greatly indebted to Johann Rissik Esq. Surveyor General of the S.A.R. for much valuable information and advice.", "The Freestate portion of the map is reduced from Herfst's map of the O.Freestate. Swaziland is compiled from actual surveys and Miller's map.", Photographic reproduction of the map published: London : Edward Stanford Ltd., 1899., Bar scale of main map in English statute miles., Inset maps include: 'Plan of Johannesburg and surrounding suburbs and townships reduced from "Pritchard's commercial map of J'hburg"' and 'Plan of Pretoria suburbs and surrounding grounds, reduced from original plan compiled in the Surveyor General's Office, Pretoria, S.A.R.' Scale [ca. 1:9 446]. Bar scales in Cape feet., To be used in conjunction with Jeppe's map: Hugh F. Marriot's Alphabetical index to the farms of the Transvaal.
People protest Prime Minister Daniel Francois Malan's plans, Cape Town
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, National Party (South Africa), Demonstration
People protest Prime Minister Daniel Francois Malan's plans, Cape Town.
Le Cape de Bonne Esperance comme il a ete ci-devant
Africa - Cape of Good Hope
Similar to Valentijn' s map (see NOR 0215). The mountains are numbered and named in the border. 1. Le chateau. 2. Le Petit-Fort. 3. Montagne du lion. 4. Montagne de la Table. 5. Montagne du Vent. 6. Endroit ou tous les Bataeux Viennent., Leiden. Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
Recovery Forest
Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa,
24/80 [Cathedral Peak Reserve Area firebreak between Catchment VI and VII]
Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa, ,
Ballet dancers, Ballet--Costume, Pas de deux, Cirque (Choreographic work : Poole),
Le Cirque. Izak Botha and Erica Brummage on stage. Choreography: David Poole. Composer: J.S. Bach. Design: Stephen de Villiers.
Busy main road of Elsies River, Cape Town
Western Cape (South Africa), Elsies River (South Africa), Apartheid, Infrastructure, Street vendors
This is the busy main road of Elsies River, where hawkers and vendors sell alongside flourishing modern shops of every variety. People flock to the area for the bargains and the colourful market atmosphere.
Ballerinas, Ballet--Costume, Swan lake (Choreographic work)
Swan Lake. Two ladies on right in white costumes, as seen in Acts 1 and 2. Venue: The old Hangar studio, Woolsack Road, Rosebank.
Rev. Karl August inside his church in District Six, Cape Town
District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
The Rev. Karl August inside his church. The Moravian Chapel in Ashley Street was built in 1884. Its pastor, the Rev. Karl August hopes to build another chapel in Hanover Park. 'We can never replace the history of this chapel,' he says.
Kamassies
Namaqualand (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Donkeys--South Africa--Namaqualand,
Donkeys harnessed together for water collection.
Langrivier catchment
Vegetation monitoring--Stellenbosch (South Africa), Plants--Stellenbosch (South Africa), Botanists--Stellenbosch (South Africa), Mountain plants--Stellenbosch (South Africa), ,
District: Stellenbosch, Location: Jonkershoek Nature Reserve, Langrivier., Ecology: Thirty-six year old vegetation.
Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Dawn baptism and healing, north-west of Soweto. Very young Zionist!
1961 Apartheid elections, Cape Town
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Elections, Newspapers, Technology, Broadcasting
The Argus scoreboard to-day showed the state of the parties before the first vote is counted in the 1961 general election (the first general election after South Africa became a republic). The Nationalists have 50 unopposed seats and the United Party 20.
Louis Trichardt memorial, Maputo, Mozambique
Memorials--Mozambique, Historical monuments--Mozambique,
Louis Trichardt memorial in Maputo, Mozambique, 1990.
Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB)
right-wing organisations, militarisation, military trainingRight-wing extremists--South Africa, Military training camps--South Africa
Training camp run by the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB).
Minister of Bantu Administration, Westbrook, Cape Town
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Cabinet ministers, National Party (South Africa), Governments
The swearing-in of the new Deputy Minister of Bantu Administration by the State President (Mr. J. J. Fouche), Development (Mr A. J . Raubenheimer) took place today. Shown in the garden of Westbrook, the State President's official residence in Rondebosch after the ceremony are, from left, Dr. P. Koornhof, Deputy Minister of Bantu Administration, the Prime Minister (M.r. B. J. Vorster), Mr. Fouche, Mr. M. C. Botha, Minister of Bantu Administration and Mr. Raubenheimer.
Farm worker on tractor
Bushman, Southern Africa, harvester, man, bushveld, San, indigenous, Tractor driving--Namibia, Farm tractors--Namibia, Gobabis District (Namibia)
A man drives a tractor, clearing the field for farming. Gobabis, Namibia.
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Dropbox’s New Requests Feature Lets Anyone Upload Files To Your Account
Sarah Perez @sarahintampa / 5 years
Dropbox today rolled out a new feature that will allow those without an account to share files with Dropbox users. Called “File Requests,” the option gives anyone you ask the ability to upload files into your Dropbox account, into a folder of your choosing. Through a simple interface on Dropbox.com/requests, you can specify what file or files you’re looking for, and you’re then provided a link you can distribute or you can select the option to have Dropbox send a request email on your behalf.
The company says the feature was implemented to address a common pain point among users. Today, most people continue to share files with one another as email attachments, which can be cumbersome to sort through. This continues to be the case because not everyone uses the same cloud service for file sharing, too.
Dropbox’s File Requests feature is meant to offer an alternative to email-based file sharing, as it puts those in need of the files in more control. The company suggests the feature can be used for a range of sharing scenarios, whether it’s collecting bids from contractors, asking for files from clients, or even asking family members to share vacation photos.
“We’ve had it internally built and in testing for quite a while,” Dropbox product head ChenLi Wang said. “One of the most interesting examples internally was when we were working on document previews. The previews team used file requests, asked people around the company for documents that are hard to render in order to challenge their rendering pipeline. They were asking for really complex PowerPoint decks.”
The feature has another advantage, as well – it works with larger files, like video. Dropbox says that, unlike with email attachments, people can send files as large as 2 GB in size using File Requests.
When asking for files, users can also indicate which folder should host the files as part of the request process. Then they can either copy the link Dropbox provides (which points to a file uploader interface), or they can enter in the email addresses and message they want to send.
In addition to making it easier for current Dropbox users to ask for files from others, the new option may also serve to introduce Dropbox to others who had yet to try the service.
Of course, the feature also lets you ask for files from those who are already on Dropbox – in that case, it just simplifies the collection process by centralizing all the uploads into a single folder available across your devices.
The company says File Requests is currently available for Dropbox Basic and Pro users, and will arrive for Business customers in the next few weeks.
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APA Citation Dissertation Writing: Formatting Rules, Examples
APA Citation Dissertation Writing: How to Do It like a Pro
In the process of scientific research, any scientist has to turn to scientific sources, which he is obliged to refer to when using their theoretical basis and applying them in his dissertation. This is where following APA formatting rules is important. On top of that, all those who are going to obtain their Bachelor’s or Master’s degree have to be aware of features of APA citation dissertation formatting.
The design of bibliographic references and bibliographic lists should correspond to universal APA standards. Further, the way you format the title page, in-text citations, quotations, and headers is also important here.
APA is most used to cite sources in the social sciences. In particular, the style is used to form citations and design sources in dissertations in psychology, education, and social sciences. Considering the universality of the style, many medical journals follow guidelines of American Psychological Association when working on the article (6th edition).
It is not for nothing. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association provides recommendations on the organization and structure of the article, the formulation of quotations, footnotes, and tables.
Key Features of APA
Among main features of the style is that it requires a dissertation to have a title page, author-year standard of designing in-text citations and having a running head on top of each page. Get accession in our database below.
Running head
It is a shortened version of the paper’s full title;
It should not exceed 50 characters including spaces.
It should be written in capital letters.
It should be flush left, with page numbers being flush right.
It should include the words “Running head” followed by a colon (on the title page only).
It should contain the topic of the paper – centered, typed in 12-point Times New Roman Font, NOT bolded, underlined, or italicized. The paper topic should be in title case.
It should contain the author’s name and the title of the university.
This information should be double-spaced and centered, without being be bolded, underlined, or italicized.
In-text citations
Designing rules of citations in dissertations are based on the author-date format. When citing any source, you are to indicate the author's last name and the year of source publication. Place this information in brackets at the end of the sentence (Ainsaar, 2016). The in-text citation should be indicated each time you use other people's ideas and cite their works. In case you indicate the author’s (authors’) name in the text of the sentence, write down only the source publication year in brackets and place the in-text citation after the name of the author.
In the opinion of scientists, appraisers are not interested in quality of content; they are more focused on indicators (Uustalu, 2013).
Uustalu (2013) writes that according to scientists, ....
In 2013, Uustalu wrote that .....
When writing a quote in the paper, you must specify the page number where the quote is taken from. The number is indicated after the year and is separated by a colon.
Uustalu (2013: 15) writes that "....."
If the author’s name is not specified in the source, it is necessary to indicate the title of the cited work and its publication year.
Different designing rules are applied to different level of headers in the dissertation. Heading APA style has 5 levels – each designed as follows:
First-level headers are centered, boldface, and written in title case in the dissertation;
Second-level headers are left-aligned (flush left), boldface, and written in title case in the dissertation.
Third-level headers are indented, boldface, and written in sentence case, with a period put at the end. The paragraph starts after period (from the same line).
Fourth-level headers are indented, boldface, italicized, and written in sentence case with a period. The paragraph starts after period (from the same line).
Fifth-level headers are indented, italicized, and written in sentence case with a period. The paragraph starts after period (from the same line).
When writing APA citation dissertation, follow the header order logic. This means that you cannot jump from one level to another, skipping “in-between” levels in the dissertation.
When citing a source in a dissertation, make sure to cover it both in in-text citations as well as on the Reference page, where used sources are listed.
It should be on a separate page in the dissertation.
It should be labelled “References” – centered at the top of the page (NOT bolded, underlined, or italicized, without quotation marks), just like in Chicago formatting style.
All lines after the first line of each entry in the list should be indented from the left margin (1,5 inch).
All entries in the list are to be double-spaced.
Order of source-related information should be the following one: authors' last name, author’s first name; year of publication; title of the work; and where it has been published.
For the online sources, the wording “Retrieved from” is used. Indicate exact URL of the source used.
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Oh, My Word
A place where good spelling, good grammar and good sense appear in equal measure.
Tag / diversity
October 30, 2016 December 29, 2016 by dksheets
Everybody’s already made up their mind
behavior, community, culture, health, race
Anna, diversity, health care, hospital, illinois, justice, race
Illustration by Jeff Crosby for Salon.com
The sound of vomiting awakened me. The smell of it assured no return to sleep.
My roommate was coming out of his coma.
“That’s OK, that’s OK,” a woman told the gently groaning man who had just emptied his stomach and, I noticed a moment later, his bowels. “We’ll take care of that. You don’t worry.”
I heard but did not see any of this. A gauzy, cornflower blue curtain on a metal rod trembled from the activity behind it. Between gulps, the man apologized, his words wavering in the air.
“No problem, no problem at all,” said another woman. The pair sounded much younger than the man they were addressing. “Here, just roll over a little this way so we can get – there, that’s it.”
The whisper of changing bedsheets filled the room. The thud of something wet and heavy landed in a plastic bucket, followed by another thud.
My attention span rippled like water in a breeze. The drugs administered to arouse me from surgery were prying me out of a deathly slumber, but a mild grip continued. The analog wall clock said 3 a.m.
As I noticed this, the women emerged from behind the curtain wearing purple smocks, latex gloves, and their frosted hair bound up in small buns. Each clutched a bulging plastic trash bag and a facial expression wrought from a hard night. The air improved when they left.
My roommate coughed and cleared his throat a few minutes, then was silent. When next I heard him, the hands on the wall clock had spun around three times and sunlight dribbled through the window blinds.
I needed to pee – I could not remember the last time that happened – and so began focusing on how to do it. I had come out of surgery without a catheter and without the use of my shoulders. Long, raw, S-shaped scars curved beneath my arms. A tube jutted from the bottom of each scar. Beneath each tube, a plastic bulb collected orange fluid. Concentrating on how to squirm out of bed unaided softened the edge on my urge.
But in fumbling to stand, I brushed the room dividing curtain, causing one side to slide back on the rod. And that is when I met Clarence from Anna, Illinois. His drooping, swollen eyes stared at a muted TV on his side of the room. He had long white and red tubes running the length of his black arms.
“Hey, hi. Sorry about that,” I said as I grabbed at my loose gown with one hand and my rolling intravenous fluid pump with the other. Pain coursed from my shoulders to my ribs. The half-filled bulbs pulled on my scars.
“No, that’s fine,” he replied and waved to me with thick fingers. “Hope I’m not disturbing you. I guess I got a little noisy last night.”
“Nah. I wasn’t really asleep anyway. They kept waking me every hour to ask a question or poke me with something. How are you doing?”
“Better, I think. They tell me I was out awhile, so I’m not sure,” he said, groggily.
“You mind if I asked what happened?”
“Car crash. I was making a delivery and a woman plowed into my side at a stoplight.”
“I remember that much, then I woke up here.”
“So, you feeling better?”
“Yeah. I think one of these tubes is morphine.”
As the last syllable dribbled from his mouth, two other women slid past me, nodded acknowledgment, then positioned themselves on either side of Clarence’s bed. He greeted one as Mom.
“Ohh, baby, how’re you feeling?” She knitted the words together in a long, soft musical note.
“Mmm. ‘K,” he mumbled.
At that, I regathered my gown and rolling IV stand to address the business that forced me upright. When I finished and returned to bed in a way as innovative and as painful as I had left it, the conversation behind the re-extended curtain had changed from a lovely tune to legal matters.
“Police say she’s already got a lawyer …” the woman called Mom said.
“… and he’s already talked to them,” the other woman added. Clarence called her a word like “Sulee.”
“She was the one who didn’t stop,” he told her. “I was stopped and moved out a little to see past the car and then she was slamming into the side of me.”
“I know, honey,” Mom said. “And they know it. But she’s got this lawyer now.”
Piece by piece, the puzzle came together before me. Clarence was working his second job, floral delivery, and had pulled up to a flashing stoplight two blocks from his destination. Cars parked close to the intersection interfered with his view, so he stopped then inched and stopped then inched forward to see better.
He remembered flashing lights, a siren, and someone shouting questions at him. That was four days ago.
“Mmm, yes,” Mom hummed.
“But now you gotta get a lawyer, too,” Sulee said. “You gotta talk to somebody at the college. Got a lot of friends there, right? You’ve worked there a long time. Somebody there knows someone who can help, right?”
“Dunno,” Clarence said. “Maybe.”
“Oh, we gotta try,” Sulee said.
“Dunno,” Clarence repeated. “I mean, look at me, look at that town. Everybody’s already made up their mind.”
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Defilade, What Defilade?
Finally, here’s a real magic bullet, not something concocted out of Arlen Specter’s imagination.
GIs testing ‘smart’ weapons that leave nowhere to hide
The combat zone just got a little more high-tech as soldiers in Afghanistan began testing and training on five prototype weapons that fire smart bullets.
Army officials are calling the XM25 Counter Defilade Targeting Engagement System revolutionary since it is the first time soldiers will have a smart weapon in their hands. Smart weapons have some form of a processing unit that allows them to be self-guided or, in this case, have self-adjusting sights and programmable rounds.
The XM25 — which is not much bigger than a standard service rifle — fires 25 mm rounds that can be programmed to explode on impact, in front of or behind an object. The weapon allows soldiers to kill enemies hiding behind walls or other cover by firing above, or to the side, of the wall from up to 700 meters away.
“We call it a game changer,” said Lt. Col. Christopher Lehner, the project manager for the XM25 with Program Executive Office Soldier. “From the dawn of direct-fire weapons, soldiers have always been taught if you’re getting shot at or something is being thrown at you, get behind cover, whether it is your shield or a wall. We are essentially taking cover away from the enemy forever with this.”
‘Nowhere to Hide’: U.S. Army Testing New ‘Smart’ Weapons in Afghanistan
‘Smart weapon’ rifle debuts on Afghanistan’s battlefields
XM-25 Goes To War
U.S. ground soldiers to test ‘smart’ rifle
U.S. army’s XM-25 soon be seen combating in Afghanistan
XM25 Airburst Weapons System
XM25 grenade launcher / air bursting assault weapon (USA)
XM25 Individual Airburst Weapon System
Afghanistan would seem to be the perfect place to test this new weapons system. I wonder how the Taliban feel about being the lab rats?
/don’t bother to duck, you’ll just die hunched over
Filed under: Blog Entry | Tagged: 25 MM Rounds, Afghanistan, Arlen Specter, Army Officials, Christopher Lehner, Combat Zone, Counter Defilade, Cover, Defilade, Direct-Fire Weapons, Enemy, Game Changer, GIs, High-Tech, Magic Bullet, Nowhere To Hide, Processing Unit, Program Executive Office Soldier, Programmable Rounds, Programmed, Project Manager, Prototype Weapons, Self-Adjusting Sights, Self-Guided, Smart Bullets, Smart Weapon, Smart Weapons, Soldiers, Standard Service Rifle, Taliban, Testing, Training, U.S. Army, Weapons, XM-25, XM25, XM25 Counter Defilade Targeting Engagement System | Leave a comment »
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Edinburgh Corporation Transport Football Team 1950s
Edinburgh Corporation Transport Football Team (made up from the pick of the Edinburgh garages teams) at the final of the Inter-City Cup, in which they beat Glasgow 2 -1. The game was played at Meadowbank Stadium (where speedway was presented by...
Edinburgh Corporation Transport Football Team (made up from the pick of the Edinburgh garages teams) at the final of the Inter-City Cup, in which they beat Glasgow 2 -1.
The game was played at Meadowbank Stadium (where speedway was presented by Councillor McPherson).
Edinburgh Corporation
Inter-City Cup
arms-crossed
goalpost
telegraph pole
Edinburgh, Meadowbank
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Edujesuit > All publications > 60 youngsters from Fe y Alegría Latin America and Africa meet to speak about education
60 youngsters from Fe y Alegría Latin America and Africa meet to speak about education
Posted: Oct 26, 2015 -
By: edujesuit -
The 45th edition of the Fe y Alegría International Conference has taken place from the 16th to the 19th of October under the motto “Youth Culture, Citizenship and Peace” in the city of Barranquilla, Colombia.
This is a yearly gathering for the 21 national Fe y Alegría representatives currently present around the world. In its 45th edition, more then 60 youngsters between the ages of 16 and 22 years old attended the conference as representatives of every country where the International Federation is present; Nicaragua, Colombia, Italy, Spain, Haiti and Chad among others.
The goal of this encounter was to dialogue about what it means to be a young woman and a young man today: who they are, what they are doing, what are their challenges, what are the demands of their social contexts and how they can contribute to generate proactive participation and a culture of peace in their places of origin and the world.
According to the last United Nations report on “the State of the World Population”, there are about 1.800 million youngsters in our planet. This means that today more than 25% of the world population is aged between 10 and 24 years old.
Adolescence is a very special stage for the development of one’s full potential to live a life with dignity and encourage responsible participation in public life. Fe y Alegría is clear and speaks about “youth” from an inclusive, rights and gender-based perspective as an acknowledgment of the diversity of people and realities, since there is a great complexity and differences among young people today depending on the social, cultural, political and economic contexts in which they live.
Acknowledging the importance of this group of people, the International Federation Fe y Alegría agreed to address the 2015 Conference to youth in order to listen to their reflections, wishes and challenges in their path towards personal development.
The new Federative agenda to be developed in the next years will arise from these contributions and, therefore, be the guidelines to follow in the work with youth from the different countries that make up this movement.
You can take a look at the Conference sessions and updates on the site http://movimientos.feyalegria.org/ and through the hashtag #FeyAlegriaCulturasJuveniles
and the Youth Manifest just published today (in Spanish).
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Dispatched to recover a long-lost passenger ship found floating lifeless on the Bering Sea, the crew of the &NFi;Arctic Warrior&NFi_; salvage tug soon becomes trapped inside the mysterious vessel -- which they quickly realize is far from abandoned. But just who -- or what -- is on board remains to be seen. Gabriel Byrne, Isaiah Washington and Julianna Margulies lead the cast in this high-seas horror film directed by Steve Beck.
Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Isaiah Washington, Ron Eldard, Desmond Harrington, Alex Dimitriades, Karl Urban, Emily Browning, Francesca Rettondini
Horror, Supernatural Horror, Halloween
English, French, Spanish (Neutral)
English: Dolby Digital 5.1, French: Dolby Digital 5.1
English SDH, French, Spanish (Neutral)
English: Dolby True HD, Spanish (Neutral): Dolby Digital 5.1
Common Sense rating Not for kids
Parents need to know that this movie is extremely violent. There are numerous scenes of passengers being shot and killed. Members of the salvage crew are picked off one by one. Scary ghosts, including a ghost-girl named Katie, permeate the film. Members of the salvage crew drink, swear, and are easily swayed by potential wealth.
Implied sex or sexually suggestive material. A man is lured to his death by a smoldering topless ghost.
Shooting, poisoning, explosions, and other graphic death scenes that include a woman being attacked and a cable slicing a large group of people in half.
Very strong language.
Bad behavior all around.
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Team Drag2Zero
We are proud sponsors of an inspirational group of amateur riders who balance careers, families and the other challenges life throws at them with their racing.
We are very excited to announce new team members for 2018: Kimberley Morrison, Ryan Perry and Matt Smith. Read more…
RACHAEL ELLIOTT
Rachael came to time trialling from a running background and like many, came to sport relatively late in life. Regular running injuries saw her switch disciplines and after two years of dabbling – during which she won the World Brompton Championship twice – she eventually moved into time trialling.
As well as riding, Rachael loves organising events and promotes a number of time trials each year for the Newbury Road Club. If “dabbling” results in winning the Brompton twice, we are excited to see what taking it to the next level will do for Rachael!
Rachael’s goals for 2017 are to ride a 19 minute 10 mile time trial and she will also try and re-break her 30 mile record. On joining the team Rachael said “I am looking forward to riding with a really strong team of ladies and seeing what we can achieve with national team medals and records!”
Achievements while riding for Drag2Zero:
Silver medal 25 mile CTT Championships
Team 25 and 50 mile competition record broken with team mates Kate Allan and Alice Lethbridge
Winner elite race CVR World Cup
Various course records and PBs broken
ALICE LETHBRIDGE
Like some of our other team members, Alice was a runner, competing in long distance on track, cross country and field. She competed for England Juniors at cross country at the same time that fellow team mate Vicky Gill competed for the seniors.
Watching the Olympics at Box Hill while waiting for surgery on her foot, she decided cycling looked like more fun than cross training in the gym and that is where her love of cycling started. Injury forced her to stop running and so she now throws all her effort into time trialling.
Alice’s achievements in her first year of riding for the team are:
Broke the 100 mile record
2017 National 100 mile CTT Champion
12 hour record holder beating Beryl Burton’s longstanding record
Team 25 mile competition record broken with team mates Kate Allan and Rachael Elliott
Silver medal National 10 mile CTT Championships
Alan is ex Scottish international runner who has run 29 minutes for 10k. Alan got back into running & cycling 8 years ago after some considerable time out of the sport and has won 6 World & European duathlon age group titles and also won outright the London Duathlon which is the worlds biggest duathlon.
Alan is now focusing fully on time trialling.
Alan and his partner Vicky run a sports nutrition business that advises athletes from beginners to Olympians & some of the best cyclists in the UK including D2Z team mates Kate & Kieron.
www.performancechef.com
GAVIN HINXMAN
I am Gavin Hinxman, I am 49 years old & started time trialling in 1982 at 14 years old. I have generally been racing throughout. I started with Welland Valley Wheelers & did 31.28 for my 1st 10m TT on a sports bike. By the end of that season l was down to 26.56. As a junior, I had the overall club record for 10 (21.17) and the 12 hour! (249.362 miles).
I got a coach in 2006 & have been coached ever since.
My game improved in 2015 beating all my previous bests and doing my first 19 min 10 (having been trying for 30 years!)
And once again, a ‘best ever’ year in 2016, being coached by Mark Jones and including a d2z wind tunnel session, which included two 18’s, two 49’s, a 1-42 & a 3-38 ‘100’
2017 was my first season riding for drag2zero, still receiving excellent coaching by Mark & support from d2z & it’s going great.
Equipped with the Plasma 5, d2z disc, ENVE 7.8 and d2z extensions – I will ride the VTTA champs (I was fastest in the 10, 3rd in the 15) and the CTT Nat champs, as well as plenty of trips to Hirwaun & South Cave.
My guilty pleasure this year is an aero’d-up old trike that I built up over the winter, and this year I have broken a number of course records on it.
I do try to ‘put back into the sport’, organising an annual open TT (I organised my first open TT as an 18 year old) plus marshalling and time-keeping for the Kettering CC.
Thanks to Simon, Natalie & the team for the inclusion, welcome & support. I’m very proud to be part of the team and will do as much as I can to represent us well.
HENRY SLEIGHT
Having raced my first triathlon 20 years ago I have tried a racing at most things on a bike but now returned to a more triathlon focused race season. I was National Age Group champion in 2013 over the standard distance triathlon and then moved to race in the Pro category of the European Xterra (off road triathlon series) for a few years. In 2016 I was selected to race for the GBR Elite team at the Cross Triathlon European championship held in Switzerland, finishing 11th European and 15th overall.
In early 2017 Henry was involved in an accident with a horse which scuppered any plans he had to race in the early part of the year. He pulled it back though to go on and take second in his age group at the British triathlon middle distance championships.
I have competed in time trials from 10miles to 100miles as well sporting courses in the UK, Europe and beyond, but have also raced at international level in road races and track pursuit as well as sportives and triathlons.
I have done this as an amateur so fully understand the demands of juggling training as well as work and home commitments.
Here are some of my successes.
1 x British Time Trial Champion
7 x National 10mile Time Trial Champion (CTT)
4 x National 100mile Time Trial Champion (CTT)
6 x National Time Trial Series Champion (CTT)
8 x winner Champion of Champions, Beryl Burton Trophy
Competition record holder over 10m, 25m, 50m, 100m
4 x winner BBAR British Best All Rounder
Commonwealth Games Bronze medal, Individual Time Trial (Delhi 2010)
17th UCI World Time Trial Championships (2011)
UCI 1.1 Grand Prix de Nations 3rd (2009)
UCI 1.1 Chrono de Champenois 2nd (2009)
World Masters Time Trial Champion and World Masters Pursuit Champion
2 x Duo Normand winner (female and mixed categories)
Champion of Champions Beryl Burton Trophy (CTT)
National Circuit Champion (CTT)
Bidlake trophy award winner http://www.bidlakememorial.org.uk
KATE ALLAN
Kate joined the team in 2015. Having focussed primarily on triathlon prior to this she decided to put more effort into time trialling. Shortly after joining the team Kate discovered that she was pregnant and so 2016 was not quite the year she was expecting. Finlay Allan arrived early which was most considerate of him as it enabled Kate to get back in the saddle before the end of the season!
Kate set her primary goals for 2017 as competing at the CTT National 10, 25, 50 and 100 mile Championships (and podium if she can), and also try and better her PBs in each of the distances. She ticked most of those boxes as she took first place in the National 50, second place in the National 100 and 3rd place in the National 10. With her team mates she beat the 25 and 50 mile team comp records by a considerable margin and has clocked sizeable PBs over all distances. Kate announced towards the end of the 2017 season that she would be giving racing a rest during 2018, we are looking forward to seeing her back when she is ready to come back to competitive cycling.
Age 42, National Bike Sales Manager for SCOTT UK, lives Darlington. Co. Durham. Married with two Boys Sam 15 and Ellis 12.
Raced bikes for over 25 years with over 500 race wins. TT and CX are my passion, can’t be may who have an 18min 10 and a National CX Medal!
TT Medals at various distances over the years – 10, 25, 50, 100 & BBAR. Last year after joining D2Z PB’d at 10, 25, 50 & 100m, How do you top that? Enter an Ironman 70.3
Love racing SCOTT Bikes at any distance. You never stop learning! Race in any weather just enjoy pinning a number on and meeting people, racing events and courses I am yet to ride and helping my son Sam reach his full potential.
MARK HOLTON
I first visited Drag2Zero as a customer in 2009. As a test engineer (of jet aircraft) by trade, I understood the value of good testing. By this time I’d been using a power meter for several years and had spent long hours field testing to improve my position. I’d realised by this stage however, that the quality (accuracy) and efficiency (precious training time wasted) of field testing could be improved upon.
From my first wind tunnel session I realised the value of both the facilities and the expertise behind Drag2Zero. Within a week I’d won my first National TT Series event (beating a certain M.Bottrill – who only reset the balance after becoming a Drag2Zero customer himself a few years later). I subsequently became a regular wind tunnel guinea pig, and helped found the D2Z team who I have been proud to ride for ever since, collecting a nice haul of National Championship medals in the process.
The last few years I’ve been dealing with anxiety and depression, issues which have stopped me being able to race (among many other things). I’m now improving rapidly and riding again, and hoping to enjoy the fun of racing soon.
Mark started time trialling in 1984 aged 13 riding for Wolverhampton Wheelers. He continued riding the local A5 club 10`s until going to university when he decided to hang up his wheels. In 1999 a career move to Oxfordshire made regular cycling possible and thus after a few year’s commuting up and down the a40 he decided to start racing again.
Since then he has clocked up over 35 sub 20 minute 10 mile time trials and 9 18 minute tens. A firm believer in attention to detail and the benefits of aerodynamics he hopes to continue achieving fast times well into his veteran years.
RICHARD D. HARRISON
Richard started time trialling about 7 years ago, looking for a new challenge after a cycling trip to the Alps. He soon got hooked and invested in some proper gear. Having made good progress in his times, in the winter of 2013 he visited Simon and the team at the Drag2Zero windtunnel. Being a Formula One aerodynamicist himself, Richard was able to work well with Simon and they had a fruitful session culminating in some decent improvements.
Since then Richard has continued to reduce his race times in 10 and 25mile time trials, and in 2016 was finally able to break into the sub-19 minute club for a 10.
In 2016 Richard had the opportunity to combine his professional skills with his love of cycling but working on a project to design a hand bike for one of TeamGB’s Paralympians. The result was a gold medal in Rio!!
2017 sees Richard join the D2Z race team and his main aim is to further reduce his personal best times over the 10 & 25mile distances. He also wants to put in some solid performances in the National Championship events over the same distances, having felt that he has underachieved in this arena in the past.
JOHN SIMPKINS
46 year old GRANDAD!!!!!!! Gardener who enjoys biking!!!!!
CHRIS GOODFELLOW
With a background in semi-professional rugby, a knee injury forced me out of the sport and into the pool.
As my knee slowly got better, a friend lent me his old road bike. Next thing I know I was entered into Ironman Switzerland 2005. Come race day my knee held together and I finished the race.
I loved everything about the race and what it involved. From the hours of training to the finishing cute – I loved every second.
Since 2005 I have completed 21 Ironman distance races, with my current personal best standing at 8hrs 47mins 06 seconds at Challenge Copenhagen 2012.
For me pushing my boundaries and seeing where my limits are makes me feel alive.
In 2017, Chris won the Dambuster Triathlon, came 2nd in his age group and 5th overall in the British triathlon middle distance championships, and the following week, 1st in his age group at Weymouth 70.3. He also place 2nd overall in Breca Coniston. A nice way to finished off his racing for 2017.
KIERON DAVIES
Having started time trialling in 2011, I have always been full of admiration for the riders who ride for drag2zero. Amateur cyclists with full time jobs who knock out incredible times in all events that the team riders attend. So being offered the opportunity to ride for the team after working with Simon Smart was a real privilege. Cycling is a hobby, or should I say an addictive hobby! A brilliant activity to take my mind away for a couple of hours when not teaching 6-7 year old children full time.
Originally cycling was seen for me to a way back to start playing rugby after recovering from a serious and career ending injury. Now being diagnosed with OCD, obsessive cycling disorder it is a sport that I wish I would have been introduced to when a youngster.
I have always admired times produced by Michael Hutchinson and especially no other than Matt Bottrill and how fast top riders go. So for me my goal is to go as quick as my body allows and with the help and support from the team I should have the best possible chance.
During 2017 Kieron recorded a number of PBs and has become the National CTT Champ over 100 miles.
VICKY GILL
As a former elite runner, Vicky raced triathlon professionally up to 2016 and then in 2017 took a year off the bike to focus on running. She is shaking it up again and 2018 will be cycling focussed for her. Having cheered on her drag2zero teammates from the sidelines in 2017 she is looking forward to contributing to the ladies team success as they challenge for more national team and individual titles next season.
She plans to spend the winter getting reacquainted with her wind tunnel tested aero position – her Scott plasma will be ecstatic to get back out on the road after a year of hibernation! Having never fully concentrated on cycling before she is intrigued to see where 100% focus on time trialling will take her.
PAUL “WAL” WELSBY
Has been time trialling for years and fits this in between wind tunnel sessions!
LEE PIERCY
An extremely proud Dad of 2 kids, Oscar (5) and Elise (3). Hopelessly trying to juggle family, a demanding career and sport.
Lee has won over 100 duathlons outright and competed for Great Britain at both Pro/Elite and Amateur level for the last 12 years in multiple World and European Championships.
Lee’s achievements inculde:
5 X World Duathlon AG Champion and 2nd overall all age groups in 2016 & 2017
2 X European Duathlon AG Champion
2 X National Duathlon Series Champion including Elites (2008/2009)
11th Overall in ETU Pro/Elite European Powerman Champs in 2016 and 1st GB athlete
3rd in Pro/Elite Field at USA Powerman National Duathlon Champs 2015
2nd Overall including Elites at USA National Sprint Duathlon Champs 2017
I am Gavin Hinxman, I am 49 years old & started time trialling in 1982 at 14 years old.
I have generally been racing throughout.
I started with Welland Valley Wheelers & did 31.28 for my 1st 10m TT on a sports bike. By the end of that season l was down to 26.56
As a junior, I had the overall club record for 10 (21.17) and the 12 hour! (249.362 miles).
Age 42, National Bike Sales Manager for SCOTT UK, lives Darlington. Co. Durham.
Married with two Boys Sam 15 and Ellis 12.
TT Medals at various distances over the years – 10, 25, 50, 100 & BBAR
Last year after joining D2Z PB’d at 10, 25, 50 & 100m, How do you top that? Enter an Ironman 70.3
Originally cycling was seen for me to a way back to start playing rugby after recovering from a serious and career ending injury. Now being diagnosed with OCD, obsessive cycling disorder it is a sport that I wish I would have been introduced to when a youngster. I have always admired times produced by Michael Hutchinson and especially no other than Matt Bottrill and how fast top riders go. So for me my goal is to go as quick as my body allows and with the help and support from the team I should have the best possible chance.
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Jen Manning has a two-month patient waiting list for her therapy care in the health clinic on the White Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota where she works. She is a current student in the Hand and Upper Quarter Rehabilitation Program at Drexel’s College of Nursing and Health Professions.
The Student Perspective
“This program felt like a good fit and the faculty was very approachable. I think they do a good job at emphasizing taking what you learned in class and translating it to the clinical experience,” said Lauren Weaver, a member of the Physician Assistant Class of 2013...
The 11th Street Co-op Experience: Q&A With Danielle Matthews
Danielle Matthews, Nutrition and Food Sciences ‘13, is completing a co-op at 11th Street Family Health Services in the role of Health Education Outreach Program Assistant. Danielle, of Williamsville, New York, plans to become a Registered Dietitian and earn a master’s degree.
Saying “See You Later” to Rebecca Shasanmi
“I love this community so much. Before I came here I never thought it could be that deep,” Rebecca Shasanmi shared with us during an intimate conversation about the time she has spent as the Health Promotion and Outreach Associate at 11th Street Family Health Services.
Drexel Earns Silver Award for Student APTA Membership
Each June, the American Physical Therapy Association tallies its student members as a part of the ‘Reach100’ nationwide challenge to encourage student membership and participation. Institutions with 80-100% APTA membership are honored with tiered...
Drexel Nursing Students Receive Scholarships
Ruth Henriquez, Leah Noble, Latoya Jackson, and Kionna Wright, four junior level students in the co-op nursing program, received scholarship awards from Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc, Theta Chapter.
Drexel PA Students Shine at the PSPA 35th Annual CME Conference
STaND UP for the Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions Event a Big Success!
Drexel's College of Nursing and Health Professions "Wear Your Sneakers to Work"
Members of CNHP participated in the Wear Your Sneakers to Work Day on June 18th and walked from 15th and Race to Drexel Park (31st and Powelton).
Alumnus Profile: John Kristel
“It might sound cliché, but it’s about fighting the human nature of not wanting to change,” said John Kristel, President and CEO of Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network and an alumnus of the Master of Physical Therapy Program at the Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions.
ACE BSN Pinning Speech: Christopher Lanzetta
ACE BSN Pinning Speech: Yori Cozen
DPT Class of 2017 Scavenger Hunt
The Doctor of Physical Therapy Class of 2017 had fun during their orientation scavenger hunt on September 19 as they visited many of the iconic sites that make Philadelphia unique.
Student Nydia Sanchez on the Macy Leadership Program
Nydia Sanchez is an accelerated BS/MHS Pre-PA student in the College of Nursing and Health Professions who recently graduated from the Macy Undergraduate Leadership Fellows Program...
Alumna Circles Back, Joins Faculty in Integrative Therapies
Meet the President of the CNHP Alumni Network
Q&A with Julia Elsisy, BSN Accelerated Career Entry (ACE) ‘07 - Dubai
Alumna Gives TED Talk in Egypt
Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions alumna Carol Hammal, an art therapist, musician, and visual artist, presented during a TEDx (x= independently organized) event on June 27 at the German University in Cairo (GUC).
What’s Next for Our Dragons?
Hundreds of College of Nursing and Health Professions students- both undergraduate and graduate- crossed the stage at the University’s 120th Commencement Exercises on June 13.
CNHPeople: Student Works to Increase Men in Nursing
Andrew DeMaio is a junior in the five-year BSN Program at the Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions and is currently completing his second co-op in Sacramento, California. For DeMaio, the Drexel name is “synonymous with family.”
Student Life Awards 2014
The Student Life Awards Ceremony, hosted by the Drexel Undergraduate Student Government Association (USGA) and Student Affairs, is meant to recognize and reward Drexel community members who have made significant contributions to student life at the University and in the surrounding community.
Nursing Student to Battalion Commander
BSN student Sarah Getsay is looking forward to her senior year as Cadet Battalion Commander of Drexel’s Army ROTC.
Students Spot Elderly’s Need for Good Sneakers
The Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) Class of 2016 from the College of Nursing and Health Professions visited the Philadelphia Nursing Home this February to practice functional mobility and walking with assistive devices.
Students Showcase Skills in World in Focus Contest
Winners of the 2014 Drexel World Fusion Fest’s World in Focus Photo Contest were announced at a reception in the New College Building Student Lounge on April 11.
Smoothies for Dad Vail Regatta
The University’s Men’s and Women’s Rowing Teams were kept hydrated and well-nourished during the Dad Vail Regatta...
You Thought You Knew Eric Williams
Get to know the College’s students, faculty, staff, and alumni on a whole new level through our new series, “You Thought You Knew.” You might be surprised by what you learn!
6 Ways to Moderate Consumption if You Choose to Drink
It’s not news that some college students choose to drink alcohol. That some of these drinkers actually choose to, or unintentionally, become intoxicated while drinking and experience an array of consequences is likewise no secret.
Introducing the Society of Future Health Administrators
Students at the College of Nursing and Health Professions regularly demonstrate how caring they are. Not only do they care about the academic excellence, but they also care about helping their peers to succeed. Senior Health Services Administration (HSAD) Program students Jane Lee and Mahawa Kpada are prime examples...
Yes, I’m a Pre-Junior!
Kat Raiser often has to explain what it means to be a "pre-junior" in a five year program. Sound familiar?
Radhika Parikh: Her Passion for Multidisciplinary Learning
Radhika Parikh is a junior in the Accelerated Physician Assistant Program at the College of Nursing and Health Professions. She is also pursuing a minor in business from the LeBow College of Business. In this interview, Parikh gives insight into the benefits of completing a minor at Drexel, and how it has helped her become a well-rounded student.
Q&A with Noah Zuares: On Being a Man in Nursing
Current BSN student Noah Zuares shares what it is like to be a male nursing student at Drexel University, his path to the nursing profession, and the reasons why he wanted to be involved in the establishment of the Drexel Male Nurses’ Association.
Q&A with Student Samantha Beaino: Replicable Sustainable Farming Programs
Samantha Beaino, an undergraduate student in the Nutrition Sciences Department at the College of Nursing and Health Professions, was recently awarded the Urban Sustainability Initiative Fellowship Grant (USI) for a total of $7,500.
The Steinbright Career Development Center Goes Global
Are you the type of person who loves traveling and learning about new cultures? Are you seeking cooperative education opportunities in another country? You’re now likely to find the information you need, thanks to the new Going Global resource at Drexel...
Erika Barrington (MA ’13) and Amy Capomacchio (MA ’13) hosted a workshop called Theatre of the Oppressed for mental health professionals at Studio 34 in Philadelphia. The workshop consisted of games and theatrical exercises designed to help improve communication skills...
Student Voices: Networking Event Allows CNHP Graduate Students to Meet Peers Across Disciplines
On behalf of the Office of Student Affairs, Center City Office, we decided to host a networking event to foster interactions between graduate students at Drexel, while also creating awareness about the Office and the work that we do. Often as a graduate student it is fairly easy to become immersed in your program and the people you see and are with all of the time.
Updates from the Center City Student Advisory Board
On November 6, the College of Nursing and Health Profession’s Center City Student Advisory Board met to talk about topics such as the recent Family Weekend event, Studypalooza, Student Orientation, the new Health Professions Dinner and Discussion events, the Dean’s Town Hall Meeting, the opening of the LGBTQ Center on Main Campus, and...
Q& A with Jennie Pless: Saturday Scholars Grad Applies Classroom Learning to Launching Her Own Business
Jennie Pless is a 2013 graduate of the Health Services Administration Program. During the program, she launched her business, Work-4-All, an employment specialists agency that provides services to individuals with disabilities.
Center City Student Affairs Leads Volunteer Fair for College of Nursing and Health Profession Students
On October 1, the Center City Student Affairs Office of Drexel University led a volunteer fair for all College of Nursing and Health Professions students in the New College Building’s Geary Auditorium Lobby.
CNHP Prepared Pre-Physician Assistant Student Shivani Amin for CHOP Co-op
For junior student Shivani Amin, who is currently studying in the 5-year accelerated Pre-Physician Assistant Program, the Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions (CNHP) could not have been a better fit. Situated in the fifth largest city in the United States and connected to seemingly boundless opportunities worldwide, Drexel University and the CNHP have helped shape Amin’s career goals early in her education...
CNHP Faculty and Staff Challenged to Think About Diversity
On October 4, Tazuko Shibusawa, PhD, Dean and Director of the Master’s in Social Work Program at New York University’s Silver School of Social Work, gave a presentation about the “Challenges of Diversity” on Drexel University’s Center City campus...
Get Involved: Become Inspired Today to Make a Difference Tomorrow
When I stepped onto the stage to sing the Star Spangled Banner at the National Student Nurses’ Association’s 61st Annual Convention Opening Ceremony last year, I never could have guessed where that performance would take me just five months later. On September 18, I was reunited with my duet partner Bianca Green to sing in front of hundreds of emergency nurses from across the world...
HSAD Student Mahmoud Shurbaji Serves as Undergraduate Student Government President
For College of Nursing and Health Professions student Mahmoud Shurbaji, a “typical” day is anything but typical. His day starts with an early morning Crew practice in the chilly waters of the Schuylkill River, followed by afternoon classes in Center City, eventually ending with a few late-night meetings. In addition to being a Health Services Administration (HSAD) major, with double minors in Business Administration and Operations Management, Shurbaji is also the President of the Drexel Undergraduate Student Government Association (USGA) and a member of the...
Nutrition Counseling Now Available to All Drexel Students
The Department of Nutrition Sciences is very pleased to announce that, beginning during the fall quarter 2013, nutrition counseling services will be available to every Drexel student as a benefit of their student status...
Tips for Healthy Eating at Philadelphia’s Food Trucks
Thanks to Master of Human Nutrition graduate Svetlana Thaler ‘12, the Drexel community has yet another way to eat healthfully on or near campus. In a research project she conducted with Professor Nyree Dardarian, Thaler examined the options available at local food trucks, giving each truck a rating based on...
10 Steps to Rock Your Senior Job Search
“The job search doesn’t begin with clicking the ‘apply’ button; it begins with understanding what employers are looking for and demonstrating that understanding in your materials. It’s also about and cultivating and maintaining relationships in your field,” said Nicole Dalberto, Senior Coordinator for Graduating Students and Recent Alumni at the Steinbright Career Development Center...
New “Life is Beautiful” Course Connects Students with Hospice Patients
Drexel Pre-Physician Assistant student Alexandra Kirczow and Nursing student Judith Parent had the unique opportunity to connect with hospice patients on a personal level while taking a summer course called “Life is Beautiful.”
Gerber, Elizabeth Templeton and Students Co-Author Chapter for Art As Research
This September, pick up a copy of Art As Research, a new book about art-based research, and you will see a chapter written by Nancy Gerber, PhD, with Elizabeth Templeton and PhD students from CNHP’s Creative Arts Therapies Program...
Drexel Student Organizes 5k Race, Raising More than $3k for Wounded Veterans
Drexel University’s Physical Therapy Club and the Arnold Air Society hosted a 5k Fun Run on the morning of July 13 to support the Wounded Warrior Project. The Fighter Jet 5k was held at the Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania, and raised more than $3,000 to support our servicemen and women...
John A. Kristel, MPT ‘97, President and CEO of the Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network in Allentown, Pennsylvania, has been appointed Chair of the Good Shepherd Penn Partners Board of Directors...
Q&A With Rachel Hudes ‘10, Former 11th Street Co-op and Current Business Owner
Rachel Hudes, BS Nutrition ‘10, draws upon her experiences as a co-op at 11th Street Family Health Services as she forges ahead as the founding leader of her business, Delicious Control. Here, Rachel answers our questions about how her work at 11th Street shaped her path to entrepreneurship...
Q&A with Mary Beth Kealy: A New Yoga Course for the Enlightened Practitioner
The Complementary and Integrative Therapies Program is introducing a new course in the fall quarter, titled Yoga for the Enlightened Practitioner. The course has limited enrollment and is delivered entirely online via weekly PowerPoint lectures with embedded video recordings of different yoga postures. “It integrates the traditional underpinnings of yogic philosophy with contemporary medical yoga techniques,” explained Stephanie Ross, Director of the Complementary and Integrative Therapies Program...
Drexel CNHP Nursing Student: A Lesson in Heart
Drexel Students Hold Conference To Erase Mental Health Stigma
DrNP Program in London & Dublin
Music Therapy Research Colloquium conducted by the Creative Arts Therapies Department
Doctor of Physical Therapy Students Winners in the Honorable Mention in the Miami-Marquette Challenge
Jennifer Nasser was Recipient of the 2009-2010 Pfizer Visiting Professor Award in Diabetes
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THE SHAMAN’S HEART
Coming soon to pre-order!
Doctor. Healer. Shaman.
Former brain surgeon, Sidra Hawk, knew it didn’t matter what title anyone used when describing her profession. None of the monikers fit her anymore. Her medical career was more broken than her heart. Death and grief had taken too much of a toll for her to go back and face more of it in her work. What could Dr. Samuel White Elk, or Running Wolf as he liked to be called, know about her pain? Just because she had dreamed of him helping her didn’t mean that she had to buy the entire fantasy that their dream sharing meant something magical.
She definitely wasn’t “Shaman Star Eyes” as Running Wolf and his students like to call her. Sidra knew she was just another broken person walking the planet alone. Nothing mystical could change the cold reality of her family’s death. Grieving them was all she had left. Her textbook doctor-patient attraction to the kind, but incredibly sexy, native healer was simply bad timing. Her growing lust only proved how pathetically normal she was.
She watched him point to the stairs.
“My consulting area is at the top. We can take the elevator if you like.”
“Stairs are fine.” Despite having walked more that day than she had in months, Sidra followed Running Wolf as he turned and started climbing.
On the top floor, he motioned her into his office and over to a sitting area on the far side of the room. Then he walked back to close the door, effectively sealing them both inside.
Sidra chose a seat in front of small coffee table with a bowl full of smooth crystals on it. Like there had been at the massage facility, there was some lovely music playing in the background. She looked around at the degrees on the wall, the shelves with brightly colored books as well as old tomes, and at the table lamp burning softly.
She smiled, a bit shocked at how it seemed to stretch her face. “Is everything in Sedona so quiet and lovely? Or does it take a lot of work to create this ambiance?”
Running Wolf laughed softly at her dryly offered observation. “I create the space I need to work in and provide my own accoutrements. This is the kind of environment I choose to live in and work in each day. Do you find it appealing?”
Sidra studied Running Wolf’s face, watching his facial expressions, seeing the pride that he was careful to temper as he spoke. “Yes. I guess I do. And I should thank you for last evening. I don’t know what you did or how it worked, but I slept all night and late this morning. I haven’t done that in a long time without a sleeping pill. Thank you.”
Running Wolf inclined his head in acknowledgement. He spoke in his native tongue first, and then smiled as he included the English. “My words were thanks to the spirits for helping, as well as to Aaron and Tim for praying. It is an honor to help you.”
Sidra’s gaze fixed itself to Running Wolf’s hips and legs as he rose and went to a shelf to retrieve a book. She might have laughed at her sudden interest in his toned denim covered backside, but she didn’t have time. Running Wolf brought a book back to her. It was well worn and had some pages earmarked. Flipping it open to a certain section, he handed it to her to read.
She reached into her purse for reading glasses. Fitting them on her nose, she read Hopi Legends of the Holy People. Closing the book in surprise, she studied the cover.
“Hopi? Aren’t you Lakota? I read your bio on the internet yesterday.”
“Yes—I am Lakota,” Running Wolf said, “but there was a time just before the English settlers came when the native tribes were communing very closely. When they did, they discovered that they were all similar in their fundamental beliefs. From that time, legends of our origins have been shared. Many native cultures believe in the holy people who live among the stars and occasionally come to Earth to show us the way. Or as our western scientists would say—they come from other star systems to advance our understanding.”
“Interesting,” Sidra said, but was wondering why he was showing it to her. “I’ll have to read about these holy people sometime.”
Running Wolf tapped a finger on the book. “Sidra, I’m showing you this book because I believe this is your history. Though your tribal connection is not obvious to the world, I believe you are here from the stars on a journey as a healer. Your first name even means ‘of the stars’.”
“You can’t really be serious.”
Sidra laughed at his nod and shook her head from side-to-side in denial. Last night was great, but she was going to have some serious problems if Running Wolf’s treatments leaned too far into mystical stuff.
He walked to take the seat across from her again.
“You seriously believe in reincarnation?” Sidra laughed out loud, not able to care how rude it was to do so while he was still speaking. In fact, she was tempted to get up and leave right now, no matter how nice it was not to feel the slightest urge to cry.
“Many like you do not remember their origins, but I can help you discover the truth of your power. It will show you why you have not chosen to take your own life, no matter how tempted you have been to do so since you lost your family,” Running Wolf said.
Sidra set the book on the table in front of her, pushing it firmly away. “We have not spoken enough for you to draw such a conclusion. You cannot know my inclinations until I have revealed them to you. Hell, I don’t even know them myself. How could you?”
“Sidra, look in my eyes. See the reason I took this name,” Running Wolf demanded. “The wolf is my sacred animal. He lends me his ability to see the truth about people. Look at me.”
She watched Running Wolf’s pupils dilate and change, saw a steely glassiness drop over his irises, darkening his gaze until it seemed to bore into her depths.
“I will never intentionally lie to you, so you can always trust what I say. Now place your palm on top of mine and feel the power. I want to share it with you,” he said, holding out both hands palms up to her across the table between them.
The urge to run returned with more force, but Sidra chided herself for feeling that way. She could rise and go to the door whenever she wished, but what would that accomplish? She would be looking for another therapist in short order now that she knew real help was possible. At least Running Wolf had stopped the incessant crying. Wasn’t that worth indulging his quirks a little?
Wishing only to get the sanity test or whatever mind game he was playing over with, Sidra reached out and placed her hands palms down on his. The connection felt like she’d been plugged into an electrical outlet in the room. Something flashed behind her eyelids and light exploded through her mind like someone turning on a overhead lamp in the operating room.
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It can be hard to remember how we coped before the internet. Among its biggest changes has been the way we store, send and share information. The internet lets us take information, and copy, print, edit and do what we like with it.
But not all types of information can or should be replicated with such abandon. The internet may have made it convenient to exchange information, but it cannot replace the powerful intermediaries that control the value of information. Governments, banks and universities still confirm our identities and vouch for our trustworthiness.
A new technology, blockchain, has the potential to transform the world as profoundly as the internet did by distributing information. Blockchain can be considered an internet of value. It is a secure, globally distributed platform where we can store and exchange information. As such, it has immediate applications for HR, recruitment and people management, which all rely on forms of validation.
So how does it work? Like an accounting ledger where nothing is erased but new line entries are added, blockchain records transactions with unprecedented reliability.
Cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin – which are based on blockchain technology – are challenging the financial industry. But blockchain can do so much more. It is a technical solution that can record virtually anything of value, from birth certificates to tax returns. And because it can authenticate in the most secure manner, it is an ideal way to establish trust between individuals.
Trust in blockchain’s security is well-founded. It relies on an advanced form of asymmetric cryptography. This is a fancy way of saying you have two keys to unlock one safe: a key for encryption and one for decryption. It is safer than a single cloud-based service because a digital record is posted globally across multiple computers. Each item of data is added to a block of other information to form a chain. It makes the system virtually impossible to crack, as criminals would need to hack all of these highly encrypted computers simultaneously.
How can blockchain, when considered as the ‘internet of value’, be used in the workplace?
In recruitment
When evaluating job candidates, companies rely on standard tools such as CVs, academic records and references. Simple checks can be made on a candidate’s previous employment, length of service, job title and salary, while an educational institution authenticates academic qualifications.
With blockchain, a ‘living CV’ can be imagined that allows people to keep track not only of their formal qualifications but also other relevant experiences – such as seminars attended, offsite training programmes or MOOCs – that demonstrate their curiosity and continuous learning. A living CV can also document and validate particular career highlights such as special projects, overseas assignments or secondments.
In management
In a world of increasing decentralisation of work, Ethereum is a blockchain-based company that creates tools for managing ‘smart contracts’. A smart contract’s computer code manages the pay and performance of workers, especially freelance or contract workers.
Smart contracts could even change management structures within an organisation through non-hierarchical distribution of work. It could define roles (rather than job titles), share work (rather than assign it) and establish clear rules and lines of accountability (rather than resorting to office politics).
In professional accreditation
It takes at least three years to earn a tertiary degree in the UK, but four in the US. Some MBA programmes are two years long, others take a year. Variations in accreditation systems raise questions about the relative value of similar qualifications.
To put it another way, is it more or less reassuring if your doctor or lawyer earned their credentials in half the time it took their peers to do the same? Blockchain can even up those differences by documenting details about any additional experience gained during a period of study.
Blockchain redefines how we interact with one another; it removes the need for expensive and slow-moving intermediaries. It has the potential to deepen the relationship between employees and HR without the expense and bureaucracies of intermediaries. The internet of value is the coming revolution.
Claire Masson is a digital learning specialist at the Financial Times IE Business School Corporate Learning Alliance
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IN THE NEAR FUTURE, A VIRUS WILL DRIVE HUMANKIND TO THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION. WITH THE ILLNESS SPREADING FASTER THAN ATTEMPTS TO CONTROL IT AND SOCIETY COLLAPSING, THE LAST SURVIVING CITY WILL BECOME A BEACON OF HOPE FOR SURVIVORS. WALLED OFF FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD, THIS CITY IS CHRISTENED OASIS.
Governing on a promise to protect its citizens from infection at all costs, the government of Oasis begins to impose its vision of the perfect society. Every aspect of life is controlled, and the city begins to take on a new, sinister shape.
Born into this world is Quincy Emerson, a resident of the Outer Sector Dorms, brutal housing institutions reserved for those judged at risk of infection. Beyond the walls of Oasis, however, something is stirring, and events are about to overtake Quincy. Her fate, it turns out, may not be written in her genes.
‘A brilliant thriller,’ Irish Tatler
‘Extraordinarily engaging,’ Irish Examiner
‘This futuristic sci-fi echoes Margaret Atwood and yet was written by a 16-year-old from Galway. Expect great things from this young, brilliant writer.’ Image
‘An assured dystopian debut from a teenage author,’ Sunday Business Post
‘A high-paced page-turner that holds its own against any of the big names working in the YA Genre,’ Irish Mail on Sunday
Read the first chapter of Oasis for free!
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Crappy TV & movie cars...
Thread: Crappy TV & movie cars...
Vulture of The Western World
The Land of The Edentulites
Steve McQueen's Highland Green "Bullitt" Mustang is a pop culture icon. But how about the automotive Omarossas? Which movie and TV cars were the worst ever?
Here's a list of possible nominees:
* "Magnum, PI" '83 Ferrari 308
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBVHKwf5mSc
One of the very few slow - and cheap - Ferraris. Though it looks fast, the 308's little V-8 produced just 205 hp - about 60 hp less than a Camry V-6 and about 200 hp less than a current Ferrari.
Now you know why Magnum was reduced to doing burnouts on the grass. The 308 may have a prancing horse on the fender - but there's a Gerbil under the hood.
You can buy a nice one these days for about $20,000 - and that ought to tell you something.
* "Smokey and the Bandit" '77 Trans-Am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZZPalUHlxc
A great movie - about a once-great car. There's a reason why they speeded up the film in several driving sequences to make the action at least look fast. The '77 T-top Trans-Am driven by Burt Reynolds may have been menacing in its black paint with gold trim - but all Burt had to work with was a low compression 185-hp 403 V-8 pirated from an Oldsmobile Delta 88 - and a sloshy three-speed automatic transmission.
The stunt scenes - and sound track - were done with a modifed car equipped with a much-massaged 455 Pontiac V-8 - an engine not offered in a Trans-Am since 1976 - and a real-deal 4-speed manual gearbox.
* "Charlie's Angels" '78 Mustang Cobra II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OtvSLLOx6g
This sheetmetal cousin of the "hit me - and we die together" Pinto remains the undisputed Most Embarrassing Mustang Ever Built. It's amazing Farrah was able to chase down any criminals in this tarted-up, toothless faux muscle car. They probably slowed down - so she could catch up.
The one admirable design feature of the Mustang II was its tendency to rapidly dissolve from rust - like an old soup can left out in the yard. So few are left in existence to blight the roads.
* "Starsky & Hutch" '76 Ford Torino
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2en-Ihaxn0
This car ("Zebrathree") was an even bigger load than David Soul and Paul Michael Glazer. Like a washed-up jock in a baggy sweat suit, the customized '76 Torino was a typical mid-late '70s overweight, underpowered smog machine. Its 200-something horsepower 460 V-8 was a low performance boat anchor of an engine better at sucking gas than hauling ass.
A loud paint job and white stripes only called attention to its mediocre performance.
This unfortunate Ford was the el cheapo equivalent of a Chrysler Cordoba - only without the "rich, Corinthian leather" to class it up a little.
* "Back to the Future" '82 DeLorean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yosuvf7Unmg
It'd be hard to get to the next stop light - let alone 1985 - in this stainless steel road toad. With a feeble Renault-sourced 2.8 liter V-6 under the hood - and all of 130 hp on tap - Doc Brown would have had to stuff a lot of bananna peels into "Mr. Fusion" to get the car to 88 mph - the "magic number" for time travel.
Even with a ""flux capacitor," Biff's old Chevy would've blown its Gullwing doors off.
* "Corvette Summer" 'Vette
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr_yxNf1Cxk
Take a perfectly good mid-'70s Corvette - and ruin it with a couple hundred pounds of slapped on fiberglass pontoons, wings and oversized hood scoops. Then spray thoroughly with garish metalflake paint and prisma. Put Mark "Luke Skywalker" Hamill in the lead role - and you've got all the makings of a first-class stinker of a movie about Corvette mutilation and '70s stoner anomie.
The movie is all about finding the car after it got stolen by thieves - but the smarter move would've been to cash the insurance check and send the crooks a thank-you card.
* "Hardcastle & McCormick" Manta kit car
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIMAfwJSfKw
The music and intro were pretty cool - especially the part where the car cuts under the tractor trailor - but the VW-sourced kit car Lola GT/Lotus wasn't.
Even if it did have a Porsche engine (no one knows for sure; some say it was Corvair-powered) a fake exotic sports car is about as classy as Potomac River caviar.
You're not foolin' anyone, son. Put those gold chains away, tuck in your shirt - and buy a real car.
Throw it in the woods!
chiph
Raleigh NC, USA
88mph was the magic number for the DeLorean.
The Peugot-Renault-Volvo V6 in it was recently voted one of the worst motors ever, by Jalopnik readers. Along with the GM almost-a-diesel V8 and the Chrysler 2.7 liter V6
Chip H.
Originally Posted by chiph
Gotta love a shitty car...
Chicago vicinity
One of my favorite T.V. shows of all time was Columbo. I loved his old Saab. That was a great show too.
misterdecibel
How did the Cadillac V8-6-4 rank?
How about the Citroen 2CV in "For Your Eyes Only", or the Renault 11 in "View To A Kill"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtRoiIf2A3s
Last edited by misterdecibel; 08-18-2010 at 03:29 PM.
You mean the V8-6-4-0 ?
It's in there.
Originally Posted by misterdecibel
And the Condormobile!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g-TkGM4nKI
dBrong
Originally Posted by Eric
I had a 1969 Torino GT 428 SCJ with Ram Air and a Detriot Locker rear and an oil cooler. It was a drag strip car. It could do a quarter in about 15-16 seconds.
But really the car was an engineering POS. Over 100 mph and the front end was sooo light, you thought you might go airborne. It was 335 hp. My wifes 2.8 liter, twin turbo, Volvo S80 is 285 hp. I've had that car up to 140 mph, and it hugs the road like a vacuum cleaner.
So much for the 'bad old days.'
At college (Penn State 1970) I met a guy from Georgia that had a Talladega with a Boss 429. I think the Talladega is now collectible. It drove much like my GT.
Originally Posted by dBrong
Similar experiences!
In their defense, the 335 hp rating of your Torino was under the old "gross" system, which was wildly optimistic. Using the current "net" (engine installed in the car, with full production exhaust and all accessories, normal production tune, etc.) that 335 hp rating would likely fall to around 270 hp... about the same as the Volvo, but in a much heavier, far less aerodynamic car.
My '76 Trans-Am has a modified 455 and has the power to do probably 140 or so... but I would never attempt it. The car is scary above 100, just as you describe.
But I routinely drive new cars - including economy cars - at triple digit speeds, because they are so much more stable and comfortable at such speeds!
Well, how about Columbo's car?
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A man's greatest mistake is to think he is working for somebody else.
Don't forget the "Mentalist's" wheels.....
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Originally Posted by Mase
He had a Nash Metropolitan, right?
I have never driven one of these, but for some sick reason I am attracted to them...
tcolby
http://eurocarguy.blogspot.com/2007/...umbos-car.html
Originally Posted by tcolby
That was a really well-done article; I enjoyed reading it very much!
That Peugeot 403 convertible is more rare than hen's teeth. Probably a decent car too, although this one could use some time in the body shop.
MikeHalloran
I am, too, but not enough to buy one.
I have driven a Citroen DS__, more or less as pictured. It was amazingly comfortable, thanks to thick foam seats and hydropneumatic suspension. ... and pretty fast once you got it rolling, thanks to a tiny but willing engine. The brakes, operated by a button on the floor, took some getting used to, but worked very, very well.
I have also driven a Citroen SM, with the Maserati V6 engine, and a conventional brake pedal, much faster but otherwise much like the earlier model, with super-fast steering and steering range like a London taxi.
Actually, the way engines were rated changed but power dropped a little later than the rating change. The old gross h.p. rating was the bare engine with no accessories, like a water pump. The rating was also dependent on where in the power curve the rating was taken. The 426 Hemi for instance was rated at 426 h.p. but everybody was sure that Chrysler was "poor mouthing" the numbers. A few years ago, the Canadian TV show "Dream Car Garage" took several of the old time muscle motors and tested ones that were rebuilt to factory specifications. The Hemi was over 800 h.p., but the engineers took a rating at a lower engine speed.
The gross rating did not have any kind of exhaust, other than a fan pulling it out the wall, outside cooling, outside fuel supply, etc., etc., etc. The net rating had the wate pump, alternator, fuel pump and anything else that went on the engine in the car. Each small accessory had a large impact on the final numbers. Just adding a larger alternator and then adding a bunch of electrical things will decrease your fuel mileage. The big drop in engine power from lower compression was about a year after the rating change.
A lot of the increase in engine power in new cars comes from the accessories. A lot of vehicles are losing the belt driven fan for an electric one. Electric power steering, rack and pinion steering and anything else that lightens a car will increase fuel mileage and available power.
I help a friend from time to time with his race car and one major increase in power to the wheels came when he dropped the mechanical water pump and cooling fan. The water pump frees up some power and when he's doing a run down the strip, a toggle switch shuts off the fan.
Any small thing on the engine will have a greater impact on power after it goes through the drivetrain and torque multiplication. So when they added all the doodads onto an engine, it really sucked the power down.
Honk if you love Jesus.
Text if you want to meet him.
Originally Posted by grouch
If I recall correctly, the big fall-off in power (generally) came after the 1971 model year. Only a few muscle motors were still putting out more than 250 hp by 1974. Compression ratios were dropped and cams got a lot milder.
On the Hemi: I agree it was under-rated. But 800 hp is way far-fetched. 500 is believable, given the ETs of stock production Hemi cars.
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What do you call a situation where you have choices but no good choice?
How do you call a situation in which you seemingly have a choice, but whatever you choose it will be to your disadvantage in one way or another?
word-request phrase-request
A complementary question asked for "an idiom that means that you are in a very strong negotiation position in a negotiation". – Jasper Jul 6 '19 at 4:30
Caught between a rock and a hard place. Also this is called having "Hobson's choice". – samerivertwice Jul 7 '19 at 17:40
As others have said there are many expressions describing a situation in which there is no apparent beneficial outcome, such as choose the lesser of two evils, between a rock and a hard place, etc.
It could also be called a no-win situation.
MickMick
I don't think no-win implies a meaningful choice. – Loren Pechtel Jul 5 '19 at 23:50
I've heard trekkies talk about a "kobayashi maru" for such a situation with only bad options. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru – RandomForestRanger Jul 6 '19 at 9:53
@RandomForestRanger In the movie dialogue, they call it a "no-win situation". Kobayashi Maru is a leadership test that incorporates this problem. – Barmar Jul 6 '19 at 17:15
@LorenPechtel Yes, it does. It necessarily implies that you're trying to make a decision about what actions to take, even though you know all of them result in an ultimately bad outcome. This typically amounts to a choice about what kind of loss you suffer. – jpmc26 Jul 7 '19 at 13:23
@LorenPechtel You wouldn't describe that as a no-win situation because there's no relevant choice on the matter. – jpmc26 Jul 8 '19 at 5:56
One might say than in such a situation, you're faced with two evils (or maybe more than two). There's a commonly used phrase choose the lesser of two evils:
To pick the less offensive of two undesirable options.
I wasn't excited about going to a seminar all weekend, but I also didn't want to lose my license, so I chose the lesser of two evils and spent the weekend learning about new regulations in our field.
Do you really want to get a demerit for not having your blazer? Just choose the lesser of two evils and tell the teacher you forgot it—maybe she'll take pity on you!
(source: The Free Dictionary)
GlorfindelGlorfindel
There are many such idioms in English. You could say you are "caught on the horns of a dilemma," "between a rock and a hard place," "between the devil and the deep blue sea," "between Scylla and Charybdis." These generally all mean you are faced with two equally unpleasant options. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/on-the-horns-of-a-dilemma
ShowsniShowsni
Of these, the only I've heard in common American English is "between a rock and a hard place". I could probably have deduced what "caught on the horns of a dilemma" means but I think "between Scylla and Charybdis" would be lost on the average American. – Reticulated Spline Jul 5 '19 at 17:52
Horns of a dilemma is still common enough in some AmE circles. And some of us are old enough to remember Christina Applegate being "stuck on the horns of an enema" 30 years ago. – A C Jul 5 '19 at 23:45
"Scylla and Charybdis" is pretty rare in British English, but you see it a few times a year in the Houses of Parliament, presumably from those who studied Greek at school. – jonathanjo Jul 15 '19 at 16:04
In that situation, you are said to have a Sophie's Choice.
Example (from Wiki):
We've been given a Sophie's Choice. We can improperly care for some children vs. improperly care for other children.
A choice where every alternative has significant negative consequences.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sophie%27s_choice
AnandkAnandk
Sophie's Choice came out in 1979 and so won't be as familiar as some of other expressions. – jonathanjo Jul 15 '19 at 15:38
The expression lose-lose situation (any choice is as bad as all the others), as mentioned by Ryan, is probably the best one so far. All I can do is recommend you another way to describe a situation where all outcomes are considered equally bad:
Either choice is bad any way you slice it.
Here's how the Macmillan Dictionary defines any way you slice it:
used for saying that something remains true, whatever way you consider it
Example: The book is a bestseller any way you slice it.
Michael RybkinMichael Rybkin
A lot of answers here (lose-lose, lesser of two evils, horns of a dilemma, rock & hard place) seem to indicate choosing between two options. Where there are a number of distasteful options the general idiom I've come across is: The best of a bad bunch
Yes, it looks like you have a range of choices, but in an ideal world, you wouldn't select any of them. Since you have to choose one, you pick the best of a bad bunch.
mcalexmcalex
Damned if you do, damned if you don't is another common idiom conveying this.
A situation in which one can't win. For example, If I invite Aunt Jane, Mother will be angry, and if I don't, I lose Jane's friendship-I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. [Colloquial; first half of 1900s]
Michael J.Michael J.
"Dilemma" can work well in some cases:
di·lem·ma (noun) a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones.
Also, I like "lose-lose" mentioned above – but “dilemma" is more formal.
DVEDVE
I think of a dilemma as something that negatively affects the other side of the choice, not directly a negative outcome in general. – mazunki Jul 7 '19 at 18:34
It's called a zugzwang.
noun: Zugzwang
a situation in which the obligation to make a move in one's turn is a serious, often decisive, disadvantage.
"black is in zugzwang"
AlejandroAlejandro
In Zugzwang, the emphasis is more about being forced to move creating the negative consequence; not just all the moves resulting in negative consequences. Imagine you are in a room with two doors, and going out either door will lead to your death -- but as long as you stay in the room, you won't die immediately. The last point is what makes it a zugzwang situation. It has more similarity to the terms "stalemate" or "Mexican standoff" than it does to "no-win situation" or "Sophie's Choice". – onigame Jul 7 '19 at 5:58
This would not be familiar to the average English speaker, as it's an uncommon word that's mostly encountered in the context of high-level chess play. – Hearth Jul 7 '19 at 14:15
This is arcane. – Lambie Jul 15 '19 at 15:48
I'll add
It's from an old satire story about American military life. This particular allusion is to intentionally self-defeating regulation. In the story, a soldier may apply for relief from battle on grounds of insanity, per regulation 22, but had to make the application himself. However, the ability to recognize one's own insanity proves no insanity exists at all, thus the soldier would "catch [regulation] 22" and his request would be denied.
The most appropriate use for this should be when you have a choice, but outcomes are identical, but common usage is for a selection of choices and all outcomes are not favorable.
Whatever your choices, I give you The Clash while you decide.
it's from the novel: Catch 22 by Joseph Heller – Lambie Jul 15 '19 at 15:47
Here, we call it "elections".. But you could say "entre a cruz e a espada" in Portuguese ('between cross and sword' literally). If all your 'options' are bad, you dont choose. Except on elections. Actually, not joking or trolling, but people just don´t get it...
KamersKamers
I have never heard of the word being used that way. – nick012000 Jul 7 '19 at 16:50
@nick012000 - I, too, have never heard it expressed that way before, but given all the discontentment around politics these days, it’s an apt metaphor. – J.R.♦ Jul 8 '19 at 0:30
Who is "we"? And why are you talking about Portuguese? Surely, you mean eleições means choices? – Lambie Jul 15 '19 at 15:45
A typical term for this scenario is to refer to "Morton's fork". The etymology for this dates back to tax collectors in medieval England, after a scheme proposed by a bishop named John Morton, which held that anyone who lived modestly must be saving money and thus could pay their taxes, while anyone who was living lavishly must be wealthy and can thus also afford to pay taxes.
nick012000nick012000
Super arcane. :) – Lambie Jul 15 '19 at 15:48
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Lobi Stars Emerge Maiden Tico Select/Ekwueme Preseason Tournament Champion
Gbenga Ogunbote began his managerial role at Lobi Stars with a silverware after he came to Enugu, saw and conquered as the maiden edition of the Tico Select/Ekwueme Preseason Football Tournament came to a fitting end Tuesday night at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu with Nigeria Professional Football League side, Lobi Stars lifting the giant trophy following a hard fought 3-1 victory over Inga’s FC, Enugu, Completesports.com.The chamoion were decided via penalty kicks after both sides settled for a 1-1 draw at regulation time.Inga’s pulled the most shocking upset of the tournament by edging out NPFL side, Delta Force after a 3-0 defeat of Udala FC in the last group match.Tico Select is a Polish sportswear manufacturing company. Ifeanyi Ekwueme, a former Super Eagles player, is their Africa representative.The preseason tournament was designed to prepare the clubs using their kits for the coming seasonSix teams participated in the tournament including Lobi Stars, Delta Force, Inga’s FC, Ifeanyi Ekwueme Football Academy, Udala FC and Goddosky football academy.Each of the clubs received three match balls amongst others for taking part in the tournament.Lobi Stars striker, Sikiru Alimi emerged as tournament leading scorer with four goals....
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Iran welcomes deepening ties with LatAm countries in all fields
TEHRAN, Sep. 19 (MNA) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said cooperation among independent countries is very important to achieve common goals and Tehran is willing to deepen ties and promote cooperation with Latin American countries, including Bolivia.
President Rouhani made the remark in a meeting with the President of Bolivia Evo Morales, on the sidelines of the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Monday.
"To develop ties in all fields between Tehran and Sucre there is no limitation and development of these ties is beneficial to both nations," Rouhani added.
Describing Iran-Bolivia ties amicable and developing, he said "major Iranian companies are ready to export technical-engineering services to Bolivia and increase their activities in the country to contribute to the progress of developmental plans in Bolivia."
On the importance of banking relations between the two countries, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran continued, "we should attempt to develop ties in all fields and banking cooperation is the bedrock."
"As two countries with huge reserves of gas in the Middle East and Latin America, Iran and Bolivia can also promote cooperation in this field," he continued.
Rouhani also said Americans hatch new plots every day against developing countries and they fail every time. In our region, although they wanted to use terrorism as a tool, but the nations of the region, especially Iraq and Syria, are defeating terrorism and the terrorists are nearing their end.
Americans have hatched plots against Iran every day in the past 39 years after the Islamic Revolution, said Rouhani adding, "Iran's main power is its people and when a nation is united and trust their leaders, no power can defeat that country."
He added that the US does not fulfill any of its international obligations, saying, "today, you see that the Americans are violating their agreements with Cuba and other countries one after the other and the world is witnessing what Iran was repeatedly stating that the US is not trustable."
The President of Bolivia described Iran as friend country noting that Bolivia is determined to deepen ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran in all fields of mutual interest.
Renewing his invitation to Rouhani to attend the upcoming summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), Morales said, "your presence in Gas OPEC summit will send the important message that independent friends stand together. It also illustrates close cooperation between Iran and Bolivia."
"We welcome Iranian companies' participation and activities in Bolivia to help us develop petrochemical and downstream industries," Morales added.
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When the duty comes, take it! Hong Xuoju Don't compromise female force will after straight hit
Women fans always believe that the knowledge of a person can be a practical evaluation of a person. 10/14 evening, after Cai English , the second activity of female force Times , the Hong Xuoju of small chili Peppers in women fans paradise, we talk about Hong Xuoju face the pressure of the party and insist on uncompromising female force practice.
10/14 Hong Xuoju's female force does not compromise, sincerely reappears!
Write down your questions! Message board and question area
10/14 site We choose three of the online questions, invite the column sister to answer the scene.
Post-reorganization of women's political forum
"This is the best of times, and the worst of times; it is the age of faith, the age of doubt, the season of Light, the season of Darkness, the spring of hope and the winter of despair; we have everything, and we all go to heaven. And they all go to hell. A Tale of "─
Women fans of the second female political lecture hall, host Zhang Wei Xuan quoted the opening introduction of the tale of two cities opened today's prologue.
After the woman's first female fan time forum invited Tsai to talk about "Taiwan in my Eyes", we look forward to more yuan views and dialogues, inviting the same Hong Xuoju as the presidential candidate to talk about "female force uncompromising, hung Sau pillar and your private words". This time, we want to create a private space where we can sit and build an equal, free-flowing dialogue in a relaxed, close manner. (Recommended to you:"exclusive" Flip old politics!) Hong Xuoju: How do we see diversity in the mainstream media monopoly? )
"Personal is politics", politics is not just an armchair vote; politics is not just fighting in Congress, talking on television, politics is changing power through every tiny and important change. Here we do not divide the blue-green, not to talk about right and wrong, through the sharing of Hong Xuoju, 100 people's Questions and answers, let us hit the flow of democracy.
Starting point: Responsibility must be borne when it comes.
"As the media reported before, I did not want to be president, will participate in the party primaries is entirely a hope, results bowfinger." There's no one to come out of the primaries, I'm so anxious! 」
Last year the mayoral election was lost, the Kuomintang morale was low, even the right to speak was gone, and the Kuomintang seemed to be missing. As a member of the Kuomintang, Hong Xiu pillar could not turn a blind eye and decided to stand up. The feeling of the primaries passing through the party is beyond pleasure or sadness, because it is a very meaningful thing.
"Although I didn't want to be president, I had to take responsibility for it," he said. 」
Prayer votes, shaking hands, the voters in the eyes of the sincere and expectations, let Hong Xuoju feel the responsibility of the heavy. Whether it is the village old uncle's sentence: "The party to You", garbage collection friends donations, or also with the breast cancer resistance of the volunteer friends help, every little story to promote her strong power and backing. (Recommended to you: college students suspended for Hung Sau post?) The most hardy young generation behind the "poorest presidential candidate"
Woman: You must recognize yourself and treat yourself well
Female force is a new word, Hong Xuoju for this word is: the power of women, women's courage.
With the popularization of the right of male and female education, "female force" will naturally show the director and learn in various fields. Despite the fact that the glass ceiling in the workplace is hindering women's progress, the times are changing, and this is her biggest experience in the campaign: society is not going to be different because of your gender.
Before, on television heard Hong Xuoju said: "Check someone is to settle," but in today's more close Hong Xuoju night, she explained: "Whether to go into the workplace or stay in the family, can be a choice." (Recommended reading: The last straw that kills "mom": economic independence is a good mother?) )
Women are not bound by traditional beliefs, and think that taking a child at home is inferior to a career woman. Women's strength is not only shown in the workplace, the home to cultivate the future pillars of the country is also a female force performance.
The point is, do you recognize your personality, your needs, and be kind to yourself and learn to get a little pleasure from your life,
Tolerance: respect for gender mobility, Taiwan does not have a racial divide
In addition to the rise of female power, gender and ethnic issues are equally concerned. Today, at the beginning of the event, Wei Xuan Please column Sister said three of their own keywords: adhere to, frank, inclusive. With regard to gender and ethnicity, she was also interpreted in an inclusive manner, just as the key words she had for herself.
A woman is not necessarily weak, but a man is not necessarily strong.
Who said soft, fragile must be a synonym for women, strong, resolute is a synonym for men. If a man is a stone, a woman is as soft as water, but don't forget that water will wear stone! Just as women fans have always believed in promoting gender mobility and dialogue, we give tolerance and respect to all the different genders. (Recommended to you: marriage can meet social expectations?) The oriental puzzle of the plural family
On the ethnic groups, Hong Xuoju said: "If we are still talking about ethnic groups, actually very ashamed." 」
"Do not speak Taiwanese, it is tantamount to not love Taiwan?" I wouldn't say that. Now there is no arrival problem, whether it is the land and the outside, as long as they come to Taiwan, they are a part of Taiwan, we are a family. Why is there no racial integration in the family, in society there are groups do not fuse it? 」
We do not discriminate against any kind of sex, we do not deliberately provoke ethnic strife, in Taiwan we are a family, a group of people who love this land.
Persistence: The sincerity of political figures is important
In addition to the hot chili pepper, you must also have to Hong Xuoju on the TV Frank shook his head. Even scholars from the University of Suzhou, China, are more direct: "Do you have a personality, or are you not familiar with the skills of the election, you can even now remain frank?" 」。 Others will give Hong Xuoju advice: "You Don't be stupid!" You need to know that Taiwanese are so gullible. When you're all taught, the election is over.
Whether it's the wrong message, or the usual "con" of political figures, Hong Xuoju can only shake his head and say it should be changed. Is it wrong for politicians to be straightforward? The truth should be spoken, and sincerity should be revealed, is her insistence. (Recommended to you:"Live direct strike" women fans first political salon: and you a beer a mouthful Taiwan )
"The directness in front of the camera is my personality, not because I'm not familiar with electoral skills, but can I use this opportunity to flip our electoral culture?" I would rather lose an election than win a sincere one. 」
Whether it's a previous black box issue, or a hat in the same table, you can't make a rational communication if you have a preconceived idea in your mind. If there is a problem, let's get together and make it better.
Hope: No blue green, we want to let the next generation think tomorrow will be better
The "Change column" turmoil continues, but will be hung Sau pillar, this does not seem to be the first urgent.
True and false decision, Rong and withered decision. The people ahead have brought the economic miracle to Taiwan, but what our generation has done to bring the future to the next generation is what she really worries about.
The election of the president is to find a correct way for the country, to set a direction for the country, the most important thing is to bring young people a hope. You may not be able to imagine the bitterness of our youth, but we toiled, we really believe: "Tomorrow will be better." "So what are we going to do?" We need to let the younger generation know where their tomorrows are and let them believe that tomorrow will be better.
A night full of temperature, we see in addition to discipline director, small pepper outside the Flood show column, a no imagination of the hot, in fact, a little gentle and graceful aunt next door. We saw the Hong Xiu pillar outside the news station, a "Soldier on the battlefield, thinking only of moving forward," a son of Taiwan who has a heart in Taiwan and sincerely looks forward to "better tomorrow".
As the introduction: "This is the best of times, but also the worst of times", in the trend of the times we have their own "uncompromising." Hope with all the questions, covered with perseverance, we can write down their own keywords, the answer belongs to Taiwan.
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How should I understand “There is no way around the fact that …”?
The question is based on the following text:
Approaching crafts from the point of view of function, we can divide them into simple categories: containers, shelters, and supports. There is no way around the fact that containers, shelters, and supports must be functional.
How should I understand the words in bold?
What kind of a dictionary should I refer to when I get similar questions?
Can anyone tell me in which dictionary I can find such a phrase?
phrases sentence-patterns
JackJack
Hello Jack. I don't think the second question is really valid. I mean, any and no dictionary will do. – Alenanno Jul 20 '11 at 16:14
@Alenanno: Thanks for your comment. Question is edited accordingly. Actually I'd like to know that what kind of books should I refer to when I need to know the meaning of such phrases. – Jack Jul 20 '11 at 16:24
I don't think it's that easy. You can check grammars but I don't think you'll find a chapter with such phrases but you can try looking on internet. – Alenanno Jul 20 '11 at 16:25
@Alenanno: Hmm, I see. That's the reason why this site is so useful. – Jack Jul 20 '11 at 16:30
I would think the word uncircumventable would be used to discribe when something is unable to be circumvented. That is what’s being asked or am I mistaken? – Nuckin Aug 2 '18 at 21:18
The bold words can basically be omitted without drastically changing the meaning of the paragraph. The connotation of these bold words is that there is no logical "path" of reasoning that would not require you to acknowledge the fact that follows (namely that containers, shelters and supports must be functional); you could not reason logically given true facts and come to any different conclusion.
As far as understanding terms similar to this, there is no one reference other than sites like this one that provides all this information. It is implicitly understood by creative and technical writers alike that their audience, in most cases consisting of native English speakers, will have a certain amount of "common knowledge" of idioms and idiosyncrasies used in language, gained through immersion and experience in the everyday English language and culture. This is one of those instances. Unfortunately, to those for whom English is not their first language, or who are experiencing a different parlance for the first time, these can be missed or misunderstood.
KeithSKeithS
"There is no way around the fact that..." means "It is always true that...".
jimreedjimreed
There's also a connotation of "maybe you didn't want it to be true". You probably wouldn't say "there is no way around the fact that the weather today is pleasant", but you might say "...that the sky is darkening (so our picnic plans may be in danger)". – Monica Cellio Jul 20 '11 at 16:20
@Monica: precisely. In fact, I don't think jimreed's answer is complete without that addendum. Maybe you should post a separate answer? – Marthaª Jul 20 '11 at 16:24
@Monica&Martha, but certainly it depends on the delivery. If one says "There is no way around the fact that today the weather is great!" with a huge grin, the phrase still maintains its normal purpose: to emphasize the fact. (Or am I wrong? I do agree that it is more frequently used in cases when we want to avoid something, still I would say that the essence is emphasis) – Unreason Jul 20 '11 at 16:40
I think @Monica's nuance virtually always applies, in that the speaker invariably either would like the fact not to be true, or is effectively 'accusing' whoever he's addressing of failing to recognise the undeniable truth. – FumbleFingers Jul 23 '11 at 16:11
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Delivery Hero leads $62 Mn fresh round in Zomato; no clarity on UAE biz acquisition
Yanogya Sharma
A month ago, there were reports flying about how Delivery Hero, Germany based foodtech major, wants to buy Zomato’s UAE business for about $200-250 million.
While there is no news on the acquisition front yet, the firm led the latest funding in Zomato with an investment of Rs 350 crore for a 2.26 per cent stake.
In total, the round is worth Rs 440.86 crore ($62.25 million) and two other investors also have participated. Shunwei Capital, a new investor, has poured in Rs 35.06 crore for 0.23 per cent stake. Saturn Shine Ltd. another new investor has contributed the remaining Rs 55.8 crore for a 0.36 per cent stake.
The interesting part about the deal is that the leading investor Delivery Hero is backed by South African tech conglomerate Naspers. The same Naspers that backs Zomato’s largest foodtech rival in the country – Swiggy.
A few months ago it was seen leading a $1.3 billion round in Swiggy, and now one of its portfolio company is buying a stake in Zomato.
At the same time Delivery Hero’s India business, foodpanda was acquired by Ola. Following the acquisition, it owns 1 per cent stake in ANI Technologies.
Coming back to Zomato, in the last month, this wasn’t the only money raised by the Gurugram based food tech major. It had also picked up around Rs 284.42 crore ($39.7 million) from Glade Brook Capital, a growth equity firm in the US.
Zomato’s last major funding round was in October 2018 when the firm moped about Rs 1,500 crore ($210 million) with Ant Financial (Chinese conglomerate Alibaba’s payment entity) leading the round.
It is now being speculated that this is the part of a new round which Zomato aspires to take upto $1 billion. The post-money valuation after this round, if it happens, is expected to go to $3 billion.
The staggering new round is also likely to be led by Ant Financial and might count Primavera Capital as key investors as well, however, the firm is a little unwilling to give more stake to Ant Financial. Hence, it is looking to secure funds from different and new investors.
But again, as mentioned in previous articles as well, the game of discounts, cashbacks, and order statistics is so hyped up in India, these foodtech majors have to constantly secure investment to fund these heavy price cuts. In such a case, if Ant Financial is the major accessible source of funding, then that might be it.
Case in point, it is being said in a VCCircle report, that the losses of Zomato Media are expected to increase sevenfold in FY19 from Rs 106 crore in FY18 to Rs 766 crore now.
It remains to be seen whether Zomato actually sells UAE biz to Delivery Hero and Zomato ropes in Ant Financials as the anchor investor or not. Interesting times ahead.
Ant Financial, Delivery Hero, funding, Naspers, Shunwei Capital, Swiggy, Zomato
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1 Actor/Actress / 3 Model / 7 TV Personality / M
by ethnic · January 6, 2009
Birth Name: Eva Marcille Pigford
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: October 30, 1984
*Puerto Rican (father)
*African-American (mother)
Eva Marcille is an American actress, model, and television personality. She was previously credited under her birth name Eva Pigford. Her father, Evan Anthony Pigford, is Puerto Rican. Her mother, Michelle Yvette Smith, is African-American.
Eva was the winner of the third cycle of America’s Next Top Model. She was the first African-American contestant to win the program.
Her middle name, Marcille, is a combination of the names of her grandmothers, Marjorie and Lucille.
Eva is married to attorney Michael Sterling. She has a daughter with her former partner, rapper, musician, actor, and record producer Kevin McCall; and a son with Michael.
Eva’s maternal grandfather is named Lester Smith.
Eva’s maternal grandmother is Lucille Tomlin (the daughter of Riley T. Tomlin). Riley was born in Texas, the son of William H. Tomlin and Lina Evans.
Sources: Information about the Tomlin family – http://www.tomlinfamilyreunion.org
Marriage record of Eva’s parents – https://familysearch.org
Featureflash / Shutterstock.com
Tags: African AmericanPuerto Rican
her nose, her cheeks, her nose, her smile, her teeth, her gums, everything is perfect
Multiethnicchick says:
Why does her wikipedia say that both her parents are African American? And how she the first African American we she’s also Puerto Rican. So sick of America’s racism in not recognizing mixed multi-ethnic/multiracial people.
bablah says:
Parent’s marriage record:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VVGS-1HF
Mother’s birth record:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2TT-13W
midori29 says:
@ysla East Africans ARE NOT CAUCASIAN. That was a racist theory that has been disproved years ago. The fossils in Ethiopia are the oldest on earth they have the same bone structure and they came before caucasians.
They have Caucasian DNA. And that has been proven. There still East Africans who look West African but there are also the mixed east Africans. All you have to do is look up history. Jewish and Arab people mixed with many east Africans over 1000 years ago.
ysla says:
in world caucasian is not race because there are black caucasian(like east african people),asian caucasian(indian,pakistanese) and european caucasian but i know in USA this word is use for white people only!!!
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Prelaunch Preview: Long March 2C | CFOSAT
October 26, 2018 In Chinese Space Program NEWS Prelaunch Preview
Lift Off Time
October 29th at 00:30 UTC
Mission Name and what it is
Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?)
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC)
Customer (who’s paying for this?)
Chinese Space Agency CNSA / French Space Agency CNES
Long March 2C
Launch Location
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, in the Gobi desert, Inner Mongolia.
Payload mass
Where’s the satellite going?
Low Earth Orbit, Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Will they be attempting to recover the first stage?
No. The boosters of the rocket are not recoverable.
Where will the first stage land?
All stages will crash into the ocean.
Will they be attempting to recover the fairing?
No. The fairings are not recoverable.
Will they be attempting to recover the second stage?
No. The second stage is not recoverable.
This will be the:
31th launch by China in 2018.
No live stream available.
The Chinese (CNSA) and French (CNES) space agencies will be launching their joint satellite mission CFOSAT on a Long March 2C rocket with an instantaneous launch window that opens at 00:30 UTC on Monday October 29th. The rocket and payload will launch from an unknown pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi desert, Inner Mongolia.
The Zhuque-1 rocket is a 3 stage solid propellant rocket. It is 1.35m in diameter and 19m tall. The 1st and 2nd stages appear to be the same length, while the 3rd stage is shorter, but the same diameter. The rocket is capable of putting a 200 kg payload into a 500 km sun-synchronous orbit.
So What is the Payload?
CFOSAT (Chinese-French Oceanography Satellite) will monitor the ocean surface winds and waves and to provide information on related ocean and atmospheric science and applications. The data from CFOSAT will allow scientists to achieve more accurate ocean forecasts and give earlier warning of severe weather events like storms and cyclones.
An artist’s impression of CFOSAT. Credit: CNES
The data will be downlinked to French and Chinese receiving stations. CFOSAT is expected to operate in sun-synchronous orbit for three years.
If you want the best way to know when a launch is coming, I’d suggest downloading the Launch Alarm app to stay in the know!
Thanks everybody, that’s gonna do it for me, I’m SpaceMike from TMRO. Helping to bring space down to Earth for everyday people.
Launch CoverageLong March 2C | CFOSATPrelaunch Preview
Tim Dodd
SCIENCE COMMUNICATOR / SPACEFLIGHT ADVOCATE / MAN-CHILD WITH A SPACE SUIT / HOST OF SPACE.COM's "SPACING OUT" / PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER
Jiuquan is the Westernmost launch facility in China and is very far inland. I don’t see how the boosters could fall any place other than land as the usual Chinese policy is hope the stages don’t fall on someone. You might replace “All stages will crash into the ocean” with “All stages will fall back to the surface” which is true for any expendable launch.
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Roland Kolbeck
Associate Professor (Part-Time), Pathology & Molecular Medicine
EMAIL: kolbeckr
Faculty of Health Sciences , McMaster University
Associate Professor (Part-Time), Pathology & Molecular Medicine , Faculty of Health Sciences
Scholarly Activity in McMaster Experts
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IL-21 drives expansion and plasma cell differentiation of autoreactive CD11chiT-bet+ B cells in SLE. Nature Communications. 9:1758. 2018
CD19-positive antibody-secreting cells provide immune memory. Blood Adv. 2:3163-3176. 2018
Galectin-9 inhibits TLR7-mediated autoimmunity in murine lupus models. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 128:1873-1887. 2018
Characterisation of anifrolumab, a fully human anti-interferon receptor antagonist antibody for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus. Lupus Science and Medicine. 5:e000261-e000261. 2018
Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells Are Largely Dispensable for the Pathogenesis of Experimental Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Frontiers in Immunology. 9:2475. 2018
Lifelong memory responses perpetuate humoral T H 2 immunity and anaphylaxis in food allergy. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 140:1604-1615.e5. 2017
IL-22 Increases Permeability of Intestinal Epithelial Tight Junctions by Enhancing Claudin-2 Expression. Journal of Immunology. 199:3316-3325. 2017
Plasmacytoid dendritic cells in autoimmunity. Current Opinion in Immunology. 44:20-25. 2017
Pathogenic mechanisms of IgE-mediated inflammation in self-destructive autoimmune responses. Autoimmunity Developmental Immunology. 50:25-36. 2017
Distinct and common expression of receptors for inflammatory mediators in vagal nodose versus jugular capsaicin-sensitive/TRPV1-positive neurons detected by low input RNA sequencing. PLoS ONE. 12:e0185985-e0185985. 2017
Monoclonal antibody therapy for the treatment of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with eosinophilic inflammation. Pharmacology and Therapeutics Pharmacology and Therapeutics Part B General and Systematic Pharmacology Pharmacology and Therapeutics Part C Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Part A: Chemotherapy, Toxicology and. 169:57-77. 2017
Complement C5a induces PD-L1 expression and acts in synergy with LPS through Erk1/2 and JNK signaling pathways. Scientific Reports. 6:33346. 2016
Role of BAFF in pulmonary autoantibody responses induced by chronic cigarette smoke exposure in mice. Physiological Reports. 4:e13057-e13057. 2016
RAGE Enhances TLR Responses through Binding and Internalization of RNA. Journal of Immunology. 197:4118-4126. 2016
Autoimmune manifestations in aged mice arise from early-life immune dysregulation. Science Translational Medicine. 8:361ra137-361ra137. 2016
Erratum: Inflammatory triggers associated with exacerbations of COPD orchestrate plasticity of group 2 innate lymphoid cells in the lungs. Nature Immunology. 17:1005-1005. 2016
Inflammatory triggers associated with exacerbations of COPD orchestrate plasticity of group 2 innate lymphoid cells in the lungs (vol 17, pg 626, 2016). Nature Immunology. 17:1005-1005. 2016
Inflammatory triggers associated with exacerbations of COPD orchestrate plasticity of group 2 innate lymphoid cells in the lungs. Nature Immunology. 17:626-635. 2016
Role of IgE in autoimmunity. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 137:1651-1661. 2016
MEDI-551 Treatment Effectively Depletes B Cells and Reduces Serum Titers of Autoantibodies in Mice Transgenic forSle1and Human CD19. Arthritis and Rheumatology. 68:965-976. 2016
Self-reactive IgE exacerbates interferon responses associated with autoimmunity. Nature Immunology. 17:196-203. 2016
Cigarette Smoke Silences Innate Lymphoid Cell Function and Facilitates an Exacerbated Type I Interleukin-33-Dependent Response to Infection. Immunity. 42:566-579. 2015
Complement C5a potentiates uric acid crystal-induced IL-1β production. European Journal of Immunology. 44:3669-3679. 2014
Benralizumab, an anti-interleukin 5 receptor α monoclonal antibody, versus placebo for uncontrolled eosinophilic asthma: a phase 2b randomised dose-ranging study. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. 2:879-890. 2014
T helper cell IL-4 drives intestinal Th2 priming to oral peanut antigen, under the control of OX40L and independent of innate-like lymphocytes. Mucosal Immunology. 7:1395-1404. 2014
Early, transient depletion of plasmacytoid dendritic cells ameliorates autoimmunity in a lupus model. Journal of Experimental Medicine. 211:1977-1991. 2014
Cigarette Smoke Primes the Pulmonary Environment to IL-1α/CXCR-2–Dependent Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae–Exacerbated Neutrophilia in Mice. Journal of Immunology. 193:3134-3145. 2014
Indigenous enteric eosinophils control DCs to initiate a primary Th2 immune response in vivo. Journal of Experimental Medicine. 211:1657-1672. 2014
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Pharmacological Inhibition of Type I Interferon Signaling Protects Mice Against Lethal Sepsis. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 209:960-970. 2014
Noncanonical autophagy: one small step for LC3, one giant leap for immunity. Current Opinion in Immunology. 26:69-75. 2014
A GM-CSF/IL-33 Pathway Facilitates Allergic Airway Responses to Sub-Threshold House Dust Mite Exposure. PLoS ONE. 9:e88714-e88714. 2014
Persistence of pulmonary tertiary lymphoid tissues and anti-nuclear antibodies following cessation of cigarette smoke exposure. Respiratory Research. 15:49-49. 2014
Effects of benralizumab on airway eosinophils in asthmatic patients with sputum eosinophilia. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 132:1086-1096.e5. 2013
RAGE is a nucleic acid receptor that promotes inflammatory responses to DNA. Journal of Experimental Medicine. 210:2447-2463. 2013
RAGE inhibits human respiratory syncytial virus syncytium formation by interfering with F-protein function. Journal of General Virology. 94:1691-1700. 2013
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An Anti-Human ICAM-1 Antibody Inhibits Rhinovirus-Induced Exacerbations of Lung Inflammation. PLoS Pathogens. 9:e1003520-e1003520. 2013
IL-33, but not thymic stromal lymphopoietin or IL-25, is central to mite and peanut allergic sensitization. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 131:187-200.e8. 2013
Noncanonical Autophagy Is Required for Type I Interferon Secretion in Response to DNA-Immune Complexes. Immunity. 37:986-997. 2012
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Novel targeted therapies for eosinophilic disorders. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 130:563-571. 2012
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Damian Sommer on The Yawhg
Damian Sommer did a casual AMA on Reddit recently, about his upcoming game, The Yawhg. I got to ask him a few questions. Here’s what he had to say.
What brought you out of your usual “let’s make fucked up platformers” style?
“I was just kind of tired of them. There’s still one more platformer I really want to finish, (The Clown Who Wanted Everything), but besides that, I’m just extremely bored of them now.”
How did Emily and you decide to work on a project together?
Damian: “We didn’t, actually. We got paired up by Miguel of Spooky Squid Games for an event he was running called Comics vs Games . The idea was to gather up some game developers and comic artists, and pair them up together! Emily and I both like”
How was working together?
Damian: “Everything actually went incredibly smoothly. I’d suggest something, and Emily would just go with it, and vice-versa. I kind of wish there were struggles to report to make things more interesting, but nope!”
From your tweets you’ve been working on it for about 1.5 years, correct? Could you draw a line graph of the progress during that time? Perhaps with important milestones? Bonus if there’s duck-sized horses in the corner.
Damian: “Correct. However, as you’ll see from the following graph, it was certainly not a full-time affair.”
The iterative nature of art
The Choice Ep. 1: Debriefing
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How will learner evidence be assessed in programmes leading to QQI certification?
Learner evidence will be subject to the provider's quality assured assessment process, incorporating the QQI Quality Assuring Assessment Guidelines for Providers (revised 2013). This includes internal verification, external authentication, results approval and appeals processes.
What is programme validation?
Validation is the process through which QQI determines that the programme developed by the provider is fit for purpose; that it will give the profiled learner the opportunity to meet the standards for the award(s), that it is appropriate to the learner and that it fulfils the award requirements.
Providers may not offer programmes for certification unless the programmes have been validated by QQI.
How is a programme different from an award?
A programme is developed and delivered by the provider.
An award is determined and made by QQI.
The programme can be described as the journey, while the award is the destination.
Therefore different programmes, from different providers, may all lead to the same award.
Who owns the validated programme?
When QQI validates a programme for the provider's use, the provider then owns the programme.
A provider may develop their own programme and submit it to QQI for validation. Alternatively a programme may be developed on behalf of a group of providers, or provider types, and this programme may be submitted to QQI for approval for sharing. Subsequently a provider may make an application for validation for this programme. Following validation the provider owns the programme.
A programme cannot be offered to a learner by a provider until it has been validated by QQI for use by that provider.
What is a programme?
A programme is a learning package developed by the provider. It enables the learner to reach the national standards of knowledge, skill and competence required in order to achieve an award. The programme includes the aims, objectives, delivery modes and methodologies, duration, content and assessment through which the learner will achieve the award.
NB: programmes are developed by a provider in line with their quality assurance policy and procedures on programme development, delivery and review.
A programme for the purposes of QQI certification can not be offered by a provider until it has been validated by QQI.
Where can I find out about NFQ levels?
The National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) was launched in 2003.
QQI now has responsibility for overseeing the NFQ. You will find further information about the NFQ here.
Can a provider contribute to the development of an award in the Common Awards System (CAS)?
QQI accepts formal proposals for new awards and/or the review of existing awards. Guidelines on the criteria to be addressed in an application to QQI can be viewed here.
What is the Common Awards System?
Under the Common Awards System (CAS) all QQI awards have a common structure and common characteristics and features such as title, level, volume, profile, assessment and grading. These common awards will be published on www.qqi.ie and available to all providers registered for provision with QQI. Programmes leading to these common awards must be validated by QQI prior to delivery.
How is an award different from a programme?
An award is determined and made by QQI
The programme can be described as the journey, while the award is the destination. Therefore different programmes, from different providers, may all lead to the same award.
An award is a record that the learner has achieved the standards of knowledge, skill and competence required. The learner receives documentary confirmation of this record by means of a certificate or statement of results.
There are four award-types on the National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ)
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Standards for QQI awards at NFQ Level 1 - Level 6 are determined and published by QQI in documents called award specifications:
http://www.fess.ie/templates/ja_edenite/images/bullet.gif) 18px 7px no-repeat;"> A Certificate Specification outlines the standards required for a major award
http://www.fess.ie/templates/ja_edenite/images/bullet.gif) 18px 7px no-repeat;">A Component Specification outlines the standards required for a minor award
http://www.fess.ie/templates/ja_edenite/images/bullet.gif) 18px 7px no-repeat;">A Specific Purpose Specification outlines the standards required for a special purpose award
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How may a Provider implement RPL for exemptions within a programme?
The Provider may grant a Learner exemptions from specific requirements of a programme, on the basis of prior learning.
For each programme, the Provider should make available a statement of entry requirements where applicable, and a list of the competences needed to participate on the programme. These should be listed as equipped to participate statements for each programme. Further information on devising equipped to participate statements can be found in FETAC's Information for Learners, Guidelines for Providers.
The Learner should demonstrate to the Provider that they have the capacity to achieve the programme learning outcomes without attending or participating in the programme or part of the programme. Evidence of this capacity may include a CV, references, records of courses attended or samples of work.
The Provider may grant the exemption(s) from attendance and/ or participation in the programme on the basis of information obtained from the Learner through, for example, an application form, an initial interview or meeting, or a completed questionnaire or checklist.
The Provider should enter the Learner for assessment of the module in the normal way. Learners must provide proof that they have achieved the programme learning outcomes, either by:
Option 1: completing the assessment as per programme/ module requirements
Option 2: submitting a portfolio of valid and reliable* evidence of relevant prior learning, for example, CV, references, records of courses attended or samples of work. Providers who choose to offer this option (Option 2) must document and agree their Policy B10: Recognition of Prior Learning with FETAC.
* NOTE: for evidence to be valid, it must match the Learning Outcomes for the programme and must demonstrate the standard required. For evidence to be reliable, the Learner must attest that it is their OWN.
Whether the assessment is to be completed as per programme requirements or through submitting a portfolio of prior learning, the Learner should be provided with a full, written assessment brief, to include marking and grading criteria.
An example of exemption within a programme is where a Learner with prior experience of work which is:
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may be granted an exemption from the work placement (Skills Demonstration) element of Level 5 Work Experience [W20008]. The assessment of the module is then implemented through APEAL (Accreditation of Prior Experience, Achievement and Learning) as outlined in the module descriptor.
Implementation must be in accordance with the Provider's Policy B4: Access, Transfer and Progression; Procedure B4.3 Recognition of Prior Learning AND the procedures documented in the optional Policy sub-strand B10: Recognition of Prior Learning, if the Provider has chosen that option and agreed it with FETAC.
Can a provider offer Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) for the purpose of accessing an award, independent of a programme?
Providers who opt to implement this area of RPL, and who have the capacity and resources to facilitate learners to achieve a QQI award through RPL, will have additional agreed quality assured procedures in place to support this activity. Such arrangements will be published by the provider and therefore available to any potential learners.
RPL for an award - this is where a learner may achieve an award on the basis of prior learning.
Providers, offering this service, will facilitate learners in achieving an award on the basis of RPL by assessing learner evidence and submitting learner results for certification to QQI, using standard procedures.
The role of the Provider may include:
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The role of the learner is to gather and present the evidence required for assessment according to the guidance given by the provider. Evidence may include CV, references, certificates or testimonials, products or samples, job descriptions and/ or evaluations, evidence of attendance at training courses or workplace assessments. Evidence for assessment may be presented in a portfolio of evidence.
How may a provider implement RPL for credit towards an award?
This is applicable where the Learner is being entered for a major or special purpose award. Credits cannot be claimed in isolation.
QQI recognises a range of specific prior accredited learning by recognising non-QQI awards.
The provider should inform learners of this process. The learner must provide the original certificate to the provider.
Implementation must be in accordance with the provider's policy on Access, Transfer and Progression and procedures for the Recognition of Prior Learning.
How may a provider implement RPL for entry to a programme?
The provider may offer a learner a place on a programme on the basis of prior learning. For each programme, the provider should make available a list of the competences needed to participate on the programme. These should be listed as equipped to participate/capacity to succeed statements for each programme.
Where there are entry requirements to a programme, these should be stated in such a way that learners who possess the competences, even if not formally certified, may achieve entry.
Learners must demonstrate to the provider that they have the capacity to participate successfully on the programme. Evidence of this capacity may include a CV, references, records of courses attended or samples of work.
The provider decision to offer a learner a place on a programme is usually made on the basis of information obtained through interview, meeting, questionnaire, application form, checklist or other.
Having gained a place on the programme, the learner will complete the programme and the assessment in the normal way.
What is recognition of prior learning (RPL)?
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is a method of assessment which may allow learners to gain formal recognition (certification) for knowledge, skills and competence that they already have, howsoever acquired.
Under their quality assurance agreement with QQI, policy on Access, Transfer and Progression, all providers will have statements on their RPL arrangements, if any, for entry to a programme, credit towards an award and access to an award.
RPL may require the learner to demonstrate or prove their learning through interview and/ or through compiling a portfolio.
RPL may allow the learner to:
http://www.fess.ie/templates/ja_edenite/images/bullet.gif) 18px 7px no-repeat;">gain entry to a programme: a learner may gain a place on a programme, based on the learner's knowledge, skill and competence, gained through relevant life and work experience or through previous certification.
http://www.fess.ie/templates/ja_edenite/images/bullet.gif) 18px 7px no-repeat;">gain credit towards an award: a learner may gain a credit towards a major award using previous certification which is recognised by QQI.
http://www.fess.ie/templates/ja_edenite/images/bullet.gif) 18px 7px no-repeat;">attain an award: a learner may be awarded a major or minor award on the basis of previously acquired learning for which they do not have a formal certificate.
What is prior learning?
Learning is the acquisition of knowledge, skills and competence. Prior learning is the knowledge, skills and competence that an individual learner has already attained. This may have been acquired in any of the following ways:
http://www.fess.ie/templates/ja_edenite/images/bullet.gif) 18px 7px no-repeat;">Formal learning: takes place through programmes of study or training that are delivered by education or training providers, for example in schools, colleges or adult education centres. This learning is usually accredited, i.e. it is recognised through formal certification, for example Leaving Certificate or ECDL.
http://www.fess.ie/templates/ja_edenite/images/bullet.gif) 18px 7px no-repeat;">Non-formal learning: takes place alongside the mainstream systems of education and training, for example in work-based training, in voluntary sector activities or in community-based learning. Where this learning is assessed and leads to formal certification, it is accredited. Where it is not assessed and does not lead to formal certification, it is non-accredited.
http://www.fess.ie/templates/ja_edenite/images/bullet.gif) 18px 7px no-repeat;">Informal learning: takes place through life experience and work experience. This learning is often unintentional and the Learner may not recognise at the time that it has contributed to his or her knowledge, skills and competence; for example the learning acquired through running a family business or through caring for an elderly relative. This informal learning does not lead to formal certification, so it is non-accredited.
The Authentication Process - Internal Verfication
What is internal verification?
"Internal verification is the process by which the provider's assessment processes and procedures related to planning, managing and operationalising all aspects of assessment practices will be internally verified i.e. monitored by the provider itself." QQI Quality Assuring Assessment Guidelines for Providers (2013, p.24)
This involves:
Verification of assessment procedures
Verification of assessment results
Can the Assessor also be the Internal Verifier?
The Internal Verifier's role includes verifying assessment procedures and checking and confirming assessment results. An Assessor cannot verify assessment procedures for his/her own assessment activities and cannot check and confirm his/her own assessment results. An Assessor may carry out the role of internal verification on the assessment activities and assessment results of other Assessors.
If there are no briefs, marking schemes, examination papers etc. what should the internal verifier do?
In the case where there are no assessment briefs, examination papers, marking schemes or outline solutions made available, the internal verifier should follow the provider's procedures for taking corrective action. The internal verifier should also communicate this fact to the provider and include details in the internal verification report.
The assessment briefs, marking schemes, examination papers etc. must be available for the external authentication process so it is important that the internal verifier can confirm their existence.
Is the internal verifier responsible for moderating results?
No, the internal verifier is not responsible for determining whether assessment material is in line with national standards and therefore will not be moderating assessment results. Moderation of assessment results is the role of the external authenticator.
What happens if the sampling strategy, developed by the provider, doesn't yield an appropriate sample?
If the sampling strategy provided by the provider does not yield an appropriate sample, the internal verifier or external authenticator should inform the provider and may select additional portfolios to ensure that a sufficient sample is selected.
Who develops the sampling strategy?
The provider is responsible for developing the sampling strategies as part of their quality assuring assessment processes. Providers will make these sampling strategies available for the internal verification and external authentication processes, as appropriate.
The internal verifier and the external authenticator will apply the appropriate sampling strategy.
Does the internal verifier look at all the learner assessment portfolios or only a sample?
There are a number of aspects to the role of internal verifier and part of the role will require the internal verifier to look at a sample of portfolios and part of the role will require the internal verifier to look at all portfolios.
To confirm that results are recorded for all learners and that evidence is available for all learners the internal verifier will confirm that there is a portfolio available for each learner listed on the QBS authentication report (results sheet).
The internal verifier will look at a SAMPLE of portfolios to confirm that
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Will all the learner assessment portfolios be available for the internal verification process?
Yes, all the portfolios of assessment must be available for the internal verification process.
What does the internal verifier need to have access to in order to conduct the internal verification process?
The internal verifier needs to have access to:
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Is there any training available for internal verifiers?
Providers are responsible for ensuring that internal verifiers are appropriately briefed and trained. Resources are available on the Further Education Support Service (FESS) website, www.fess.ie. FESS can be contacted in relation to training for internal verifiers.
How many internal verifiers will a provider have?
The number of internal verifiers that a provider will have will depend on several factors:
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For a multi-location provider, the number of locations/centres through which learners may be processed The provider's quality assured processes
Can you work as an internal verifier within your ETB/school/college/centre?
Yes. The internal verifier is internal to the provider and may be a staff member working in an ETB, or for other provider contexts may be a staff member working for that provider.
Who will the internal verifier be?
The person who will act as internal verifier will be identified by the provider. The way the provider organises the internal verification process and assigns the internal verifier(s) will reflect the provider's context and will be consistent with QQI Quality Assuring Assessment Guidelines for Providers, Guidelines for Internal Verifiers and the provider's quality assurance system.
The Authentication Process - External Authentication
How does the external authenticator give feedback to the provider?
Feedback is given primarily through the external authentication report, but in addition the external authenticator may be required to give verbal feedback directly to management and/or assessors and/or the results approval panel.
What is included in the external authentication report?
The external authentication report must be completed (using QQI template or provider's own) and submitted to the provider and should include:
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What does the external authenticator do with the final results sheets?
The final results sheets are left with the provider on the day of external authentication. All moderated grades will be listed on the authentication report (results sheet from the QBS).
Where grades have been changed the external authenticator will have taken notes on why grades were changed and these notes will be included or attached to the external authentication report.
Will assessors be available to the external authenticators?
Assessors may be available to the external authenticator if agreed in advance with the provider and in accordance with the provider's quality assurance policies and procedures.
Where an authenticator changes a grade, will they also change the mark?
Where an external authenticator changes a grade, they will have to change the mark to reflect the grade change. This does not involve re-marking the work. For example, if an external authenticator moderates a portfolio of learner evidence which is marked at 78% and therefore graded merit and the external authenticator deems this portfolio to be at distinction level, he/she will change the grade to distinction and the mark to 80%.
Will all the learner assessment portfolios be available for the external authenticator?
Yes, all learner evidence must be available to the external authenticator. This should be established with the provider prior to the visit of the external authenticator.
Does the external authenticator moderate all portfolios or only a sample?
This will depend on the total number of learner assessment portfolios presented for authentication and on the provider's sampling strategy. The sample must be sufficient in size to enable the external authenticator to make an informed judgement on the consistency of assessment decisions in the context of the award standards.
What if the sample is not sufficient?
If the external authenticator determines that the sample yielded by the provider's sampling strategy is not sufficient to enable him/her to make an informed judgement on the consistency of assessment decisions in the context of the award standards, he/she may request to see more learner evidence.
Can a provider amalgamate groups from different centre locations for the purposes of sampling?
Yes. Where the learners are completing the same major, special purpose, supplemental and/or minor award. However, a provider must document their agreed procedures for sampling (including a sampling strategy) ensuring that all the criteria as set out by QQI in the Quality Assuring Assessment Guidelines for Providers, revised 2013, p 27/28 are met.
Can the same sample be used for internal verification and external authentication?
This will depend on a provider's agreed sampling strategy and on how the strategy is intended to be applied. It could yield the same sample and it may not. It is more than likely that the chosen samples will be different for internal verification and external authentication, as both processes have very different functions.
What preparations should an external authenticator do prior to the visit?
There are a number of things that an external authenticator should do in preparation for the external authentication visit, including:
Agree the terms and conditions for conducting external authentication with the provider
Confirm, with the provider, the availability of
Relevant validated programmes including programme modules
ALL relevant assessment instruments and appropriate supporting documentation (Assessment briefs, Examination papers, Marking schemes, Outline solutions, etc.)
Assessment plan(s)
ALL Learner assessment evidence
ALL Learner assessment results recorded on an authentication report (results sheet from QBS) by learner group by minor award
List of assessors per module and/or class group
Internal verification report(s)
The provider's sampling strategy which ensures the sample is sufficient in size; reflects the spread of grades including results that are borderline between the grades; includes evidence from each assessor and programme; reflects ALL centres
Appropriate equipment to moderate assessment evidence produced in a multi-media format, if required
Acquire knowledge of:
QQI award structures
QQI award standards
QQI assessment principles
QQI assessment techniques
QQI grading bands
What does the external authenticator do if the internal verification process has not been completed?
The external authenticator should not commence external authentication until the internal verification process is complete. An internal verification report must be available to the external authenticator.
What is the link between the internal verification process and the external authentication process?
Internal verification and external authentication comprise the two elements of a provider's quality assured authentication process. The internal verification process must precede the external authentication process. Internal verification is a monitoring process which confirms that the provider's assessment procedures have been applied consistently across assessment activities and also verifies the accuracy of assessment results. The external authentication process involves the moderation of assessment evidence to confirm that the assessment evidence and its grading are consistent with national standards.
Can the external authenticator be a member of the results approval panel?
Although it is not the role of the external authenticator to be a member of the results approval panel, the provider may request that the external authenticator be a member of or be available to the results approval panel. This would be negotiated between the external authenticator and the provider.
The external authenticator must complete an external authentication report and make it available to the provider's results approval panel.
Can the external authenticator be from a different centre but from within the same provider?
Yes. According to QQI, external authenticator(s) should be "independent of the centre to which they are assigned" (QQI Quality Assuring Assessment Guidelines for Providers revised 2013, p 26) . Therefore, for a multi-centre/location provider, an external authenticator may be selected from within the provider but must be external to the centre/location. A provider must document their procedures for selecting external authenticator(s) as part of their quality assuring assessment process.
Can an external authenticator moderate/authenticate in areas outside their range of expertise?
No. According to QQI Quality Assuring Assessment Guidelines for Providers (revised 2013, p. 26), the external authenticator selected should "have technical/subject matter expertise within the appropriate award area/field of learning". However, in some cases an external authenticator may be in a position to moderate results in general award areas within the context of the field of learning in which s/he is moderating, for example, an external authenticator moderating a major award in childcare may be in a position to moderate a minor award in communications for the same group of learners.
How often should external authentication take place?
A provider will ensure that all major/special purpose/supplemental award areas and all centres have an external authenticator assigned per annum, as identified by QQI in the Quality Assuring Assessment Guidelines for Providers (2013 p. 27).
In addition, ALL awards should be included in a sample over a two year cycle (Quality Assuring Assessment Guidelines for Providers (2013 p. 43).
What is the role of the external authenticator?
The role of the external authenticator is to provide independent confirmation of the fair and consistent assessment of learners and to ensure consistency of assessment results with national standards. This is achieved by moderating learner assessment evidence against the relevant standard and the assessment criteria in the award specifications and validated programmes. External authenticators are appointed by the provider in order to carry out this role. For further information see page 26 of the QQI Quality Assuring ASsessment, Guidleins for Providers revised 2013
Where can a provider source an external authenticator?
Providers can source external authenticators from the QQI external authenticator panel. In addition, providers may appoint external authenticators through their own quality assured processes as agreed with QQI.
Information on the QQI panel of external authenticators can be found on the QBS.
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Revealed: The 21 winners of the West Midlands AEB tender
Fraser Whieldon
Thu 16th May 2019, 13.12
The first winners from a devolved adult education budget (AEB) competitive procurement process have been told the good news.
The list of 21 providers (see below) which have been awarded AEB contracts by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) has been sent only to the providers, but has also been seen by FE Week.
WMCA is one of seven combined authorities which is due to take control of the adult education budget for its area from the 2019/20 academic year.
From August, the ESFA will transfer responsibility for the adult education budget for the WMCA area to the authority, which is worth £125.6 million in the 2019/20 academic year.
WMCA put up to £28m of its overall AEB out to competitive tender, with minutes from a meeting of the authority’s board saying this was done in January. The minutes also say the contracts were due to be awarded in April and provision is scheduled to commence in September 2019.
The contracts from this procurement are intended to be awarded for an initial period of one year, with an option to extend for a further two years.
A spokesperson for the West Midlands Combined Authority told FE Week “After confirmation of award on May 27, the next stage will be the on-boarding of providers. There may be further targeted commissioning where we see gaps in the overall market response.”
The tender was split into two lots: one focuses on tackling unemployment among young people and supporting priority groups such as care leavers, the homeless, and long-term unemployed people; another focuses on improving the skills of low-paid, low-skilled workers and increasing apprenticeship take-up.
The 13 separate providers chosen for the lots include Serco, the major public services contractor, which received a grade 3 in an Ofsted inspection of its apprenticeship provision, but redeemed itself by making ‘significant progress’ in two areas of an ensuing monitoring visit.
Advanced Personnel Management Group (UK) Limited, another provider for the workers’ lot, received a grade 3 at its last inspection, with inspectors finding tutors did not use information of most learners’ starting points well enough to identify their prior learning.
Phoenix Training (Midlands) Ltd received a grade 3 as well, and had to withdraw certain adult programmes after its plans to develop longer-courses and apprenticeships failed.
Several providers which have been chosen have not been inspected yet.
In addition to the 21 main providers, WMCA expects to be also supporting 46 subcontractors indirectly.
WMCA’s providers are the first to be revealed for any of the combined authorities that are taking over the adult education budget for their region this August.
The adult education budget mayoral board of the Greater London Authority endorsed a list of organisations to receive contracts in April.
The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority has agreed to award contracts to 19 bidders, subject to due diligence and contracts being signed and returned.
FE Week understands Tees Valley Combined Authority is currently in the final stages of funding awards and is expected to make a decision in the coming months.
The West of England Combined Authority is making decisions on allocations at its next committee meeting on June 14.
The procurement exercise being run Greater Manchester Combined Authority is still live, according to a spokesperson.
You forgot that in another article you reported Total Training were making ‘insufficient progress’ in 2 out of 4 requirements in an OFSTED monitoring visit. The entire procurement for WMCA authority has been a farce and I am sure if challenged would contravene the Public Contracts Regulations Act. £70+ million was handed to local colleges without application nor due diligence with several 8 figure contracts being given to Colleges that have failed OFSTED and/or financial management. As your excellent article shows, here is a procuring authority that has no problem funding some poor quality for its local people and has set itself up to fail with no more than 10 dedicated staff managing £90+ million of the public purse. Also good to see that there are quite a few ‘out of area’ ITP’s on the list. There is a lot to be said for hiring a bid writer when the procuring authority is not actually checking the product!
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Stuart Rosenberg
Cool Hand Jesus? or, Old 'No Eyes' is back
Experienced TV director Stuart Rosenberg made his feature film debut with this update of the '30's Warner Bros gangster era yarns, albeit given a '60's counter culture perspective and a Christ allegory to boot. The picture was produced by Jack Lemmon's company and intelligently scripted by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson from the novel by Donn Pearce, and gloriously shot by ace cinematographer Conrad Hall who captures several shades of hot and sweaty and dusty with his beautiful compositions out on the roads and fields with the chain gangs, and the claustrophobia of the prison compound. The success of the enterprise however would always turn on the casting of the central character, and with Paul Newman as Lucas Jackson, Rosenberg couldn't miss. Newman dominates the screen in one of his finest efforts, his charismatic Luke was to be one of his iconic roles, in an era when he was on something of a streak, 'Fast' Eddie Felson in The Hustler having come before and Butch Cassidy just ahead.
Rosenberg opens with close up's of parking meters, the word 'violation' in red filling the screen. Luke Jackson is calmly, if drunkenly, cutting the heads off municipal parking meters one by one, the police arrive after a couple of dozen beheadings and before long Luke is dumped at a State Correctional Facility. The Captain (Strother Martin) gives his welcoming address, mentioning that Luke was a 'war hero' who despite earning many decorations left the army at the same rank he joined, presaging Luke's difficulty to accept authority. The mirrored aviator glasses of the head guard 'No Eyes' reflect the chain gang and become a metaphor as they fill the screen, the cold, god-like gaze of 'No Eyes' will haunt Luke the remainder of his stay. Luke soon finds that for all the rules the guards have outlined, the inmates have just as many, as Dragline (George Kennedy) a huge bear of a man, controls what goes on inside of the yard. The morning work detail sets out like a military operation and it's clear Luke is back in the control of an instrument of state. Luke learns the routine and rules, as well as the frustrations and petty injustices that are daily fodder for the inmates. Rosenberg heightens the sexual tension by having a girl suggestively wash her car in full view of the chain gang, the hose an obvious phallic substitute as the men are driven mad, 'She don't know what she's doing', one helplessly says, 'she knows exactly what she's doing' replies the canny Luke. Luke's free spirited attitude finally boils over with Dragnet, who challenges him to a boxing match to air their differences. The bull-like Dragline easily accounts for Luke, but Luke keeps getting up despite advice by other in-mates to 'stay down', finally Dragline accepts his stubborn stand and carries the beaten Luke off becoming his friend in the process. Luke further endears himself to the boys by winning a massive pot in a game of cards by bluffing the opposition. 'You had nothing', says Dragline, 'sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand', replies Luke.
Arletta (Jo Van Fleet), Luke's mother, visits him in prison, she's incapacitated and in the back of a truck, smoking and near death it seems. She regrets the turns that have led Luke to this, recalling a failed marriage, where his attempt at 'respectability' robbed him of all his life 'you was borin' the hell out of all of us' she says. Arletta tells him she's leaving everything to his dull brother, making it clear that her special affection for Luke was because of his free spirit, maybe something he got from the father he never knew. She leaves him a banjo and upon news of her death Luke picks it up and quietly plays the subtly irreverent 'Plastic Jesus'. Luke leads the men in a win against the 'man', having them complete a strip of road in record time and leaving the men with nothing to do for the rest of the day. Luke then indulges in a crazy bet on a whim, that he can eat 50 hard boiled eggs in one hour. he goes into training like a zen master, and on the big day, just when it seems the impossible folly has brought him undone, he succeeds, lying out in a prone crucifixion pose, sacrificed on the alter for the amusement of the camp. The Christ allegory starts to become apparent from here on in. Luke remains out in the rain on the road as the other guys run for cover, and with 'No Eyes' watching Luke howls at the heavens, 'Let me know you're there!', he looks around and then says when asked what he's doing, 'I'm just standing in the rain, talking to myself'.
Luke is given solitary and locked up 'in the box' upon news of his mother's death being delivered, the Captain afraid he'll want to escape to go to the funeral. The contrarian in Luke reacts, as it's plain he'd mourned the old girl in his own way and would not have gone, but now the idea to escape is implanted and he's compelled to act. 'Calling it your job boss, doesn't make it right' Luke says to the pious guard who locks him up, and who'd offered to say a prayer for his mother and who asks Luke about his own lack of belief in God. Luke escapes during a 4th of July celebration, but is soon caught and sent back to the chain gang, instigating a famous speech from the Captain 'what we've got here, is failure to communicate'... Luke uses all his wits to escape a second time, this time getting far enough away to send the boys a photo of himself in a ritzy bar, with two beautiful women in his arms. The image becomes a sensation in the prison, Dragline able to sell viewing of this 'icon'. Rosenberg casually shows two pages of the magazine that holds the photo, the other side has a lead-line that portentously reads 'the illusion that kills' The photo represents a kind of 'paradise', a heaven that Luke has somehow managed to attain fro them all as Dragline keeps the faith of Luke alive. Luke is returned to the fold, his unlikely 'resurrection' coming by another stroke of bad luck. This time the empire strikes back, the Captain telling him that until he 'gets his mind right' the punishment will not let up. The guards take delight in breaking Luke, having had enough of his crowd pleasing antics, and after a while Luke is a broken man, having had to dig his own grave several times, falling into it as a glimpse into his fate. The guys watch on helpless as Harry Dean Stanton no less, convincingly croons 'Midnight Special', a gospel plea for divine aid and 'Ain't No Grave', another hymn that promises no earthly grave can hold the 'saved',
The men still idolise the battered Luke, who breaks down and tells them the picture was a fake, he paid the girls, and screams at them to 'stop feedin' off me'. In an allusion to the 'last supper' Luke is given a huge bowl of rice to eat, the box being punishment for failure to finish it, but his 'disciples' take mouthfuls for themselves to attest to continued belief. Luke has his 'garden of Gethsemane' moment as he asks God 'Where are you now'? 'No Eyes' watches on. Luke is soon back on the chain gang, but doing all of the menial work for 'No Eyes' like a trained poodle, the men are dispirited as Luke plays various versions of fetch. Luke then grabs the keys to a truck, and with Dragline hopping on unexpectedly he speeds off, 'No Eyes' unable to shoot because of the raised rear tray, a visual nod to Warner Bros own '30's classic I Am A Fugitive from a Chain Gang. Luke tells Dragline they need to split up, more or less recalling a 'my work here is done' moment in Christian mythology. Luke heads out alone, but passing a small church he enters instead of running, and starts a conversation, he tells God in effect that he feels he's never dealt him a 'cool hand', in other words he's been trying to cope on his own terms with no help from above, and tried to reconcile his path in life, 'you made me like I am, he yells. Police cars arrive and Dragline enters, telling Luke he's cut a deal (disciple betrayal) and to surrender. Luke has no intention of returning and effectively brings on his own death by opening a window and saying 'What we have here is a failure to communicate', whereupon 'No Eyes' shoots him in the neck.
For all it's entertainment value and the charm of it's leading man Cool Hand Luke is a dissertation on the nature of belief as much as anything. Men need to form common links in order to survive, mythology of all kinds helps to make these connective memes do just that. Luke is like any 'leader' and if enough disciples spread an 'accepted' version of his story then a myth can be built and can indeed flourish beyond the lifetime of the central figure. When we construct immortality myths into the bargain then literally the sky's the limit. Newman gives a brilliant performance of a man caught in a hard bargain, following his nature at one point, no matter the personal cost, and feeling the burden of what his actions represent to others who live vicariously through him. Dragline perpetuates the 'myth' at the end, pointing to the church and telling the guys that Luke was smiling, as the torn 'paradise' photo appears glued back together, Rosenberg visually sealed the deal by having Luke's 'hearse' run over and crush 'No Eyes' reflector shades. One myth displaces another.
Rosenberg's career never really hit the heights, but he proved himself a competent and capable director, working several more times with Newman, and here his command of the visual palette is fine, and obviously his work with large groups of actors in television served him well for handling the nuances of a large ensemble cast. George Kennedy won several awards for his Dragline and Newman won many, but the Oscar for Best Actor would mysteriously continue to elude him. An entertaining, thoughtful and iconic film, with more going on under the surface than you'd think.
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Archival Collections Portal > Rare Book & Manuscript Library > Edith Schloss Burckhardt papers, 1962-2011
Edith Schloss Burckhardt papers, 1962-2011
Subseries I.A: General
Subseries I.B: Jacob Burckhardt
SERIES II: RUDY BURCKHARDT
Subseries II.A: Correspondence
Subseries II.B: Assorted
SERIES III: FRANCESCA WOODMAN
Subseries III.A: Correspondence
Subseries III.B: Work
Subseries III.C: Writings by ESB
Subseries III.D: Assorted
SERIES IV: FAIRFIELD AND ANNE PORTER
Subseries IV.A: Correspondence
Subseries IV.B: Fairfield Porter
Subseries IV.C: ESB writing on Fairfield Porter
SERIES V: WRITING
Subseries V.A: General
Subseries V.B: International Herald Tribune
Subseries V.C: The Loft Generation
Subseries V.D: Books
SERIES VI: ART
Subseries VI.A: General
Subseries VI.B: Barbara Ingber Gallery and Green Mountain Gallery
SERIES VII: PHOTOGRAPHS
SERIES VIII: NOTEBOOKS, DIARIES AND CALENDAR BOOKS
SERIES IX: ASSORTED
Series X: 2016 Addition
Schloss, Edith, 1919-
35 linear feet (26 record cartons, 1 document box; 1 flat box)
Material is arranged into ten series: Series I: Correspondence; Series II: Rudy Burckhardt; Series III: Francesca Woodman; Series IV: Fairfield and Anne Porter; Series V: Writing; Series VI: Art; Series VII: Photographs; Series VIII: Notebooks, Diaries, and Calendars; Series IX: Assorted; Series X: 2016 Addition.
The Edith Schloss Burckhardt Papers offer an extraordinary opportunity for research into multiple areas of scholarship, especially unique insight into the lives and experiences of women in the art world, an American artist's expat life in Rome from the 1960s-2010s, the New York School of painters and poets, and a particularly rich and far-reaching, vein of the avant-garde and experimental music world, to name a few.
In addition to photographs located within the Archive's correspondence there are over 1800 photographs of various sizes taken in locations including New York, Italy, Egypt and Germany. Approx. 700 of the photographs are pasted into spiral-bound notebooks with captions, circa 1962--2009.
The Archive contains over 110 notebooks, diaries and calendars, circa 1962--2011. In addition todaily reflections and thoughts, many of the diaries also contain copies of ESB's outgoing correspondence.
Gift of Jacob Burckhardt
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Edith Schloss Burckhardt Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
No additions expected
Papers processed Adrien Hilton July 2015.
Finding aid written Adrien Hilton July 2015.
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Edith Schloss was born in Offenbach, Germany. She was sent to France and England to learn languages and, in 1936, attended a private school in Florence where she first fell in love with Italy. Edith eventually ended up in England working as an au pair while going to night school. During the Blitz she left England in a convoy that landed in New York City. In New York Edith attended lectures and dance performances at Cooper Union and studied painting and printmaking at the Art Students League. She also studied art history, music and poetry at the New School for Social Research.
Her friend, Heinz Langerhans, German sociologist and follower of Marxist theoretician Karl Korsch, introduced her to Anne and Fairfield Porter. In 1944, Porter introduced Edith to Elaine and Willem de Kooning, and soon after she moved into a West 21st Street Chelsea loft that de Kooning had painted for Walter and Ellen "Pit" Auberbach.
In 1962, Edith and Rudy Burckhardt separated, at which point Edith and her young son Jacob moved to Rome. In Italy she painted and supported herself with her writing; she was the Italian art editor for the International Herald Tribune for nearly 20 years and wrote forWanted in Rome. During this time, Edith became friends with artists Cy Twombly (with whom she had an exhibition), Giulio Turcato, Paul Klerr and Peter Rockwell. She was also a longtime partner and lifelong friend of composer/performer/teacher Alvin Curran, with whom she often collaborated. Edith continued to work and paint up until she died in 2011 at the age of 92.
Edith very quickly became a part of the de Kooning/Denby Chelsea scene that included photographer/filmmaker/painter Rudy Burckhardt and the Jane Street Group around Nell Blaine. In 1947, she and Burckhardt married. Edith was "known for knowing everyone who counted in Manhattan's legendary postwar art scene" (New York Sun, 2008) and she, Burckhardt and Denby were vital components of the New York School and the loft scene of that era.
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FITT International Business Guide: Pros and Cons of Outsourcing Product Manufacturing and Services
Whitepaper - International Trade Professionals are the Drivers of Growth
Whitepaper - Is International Trade an Activity or a Profession?
International Trade Workforce Strategy
International Trade Human Resources Sector Study: Pre-Assessment
Integrative Trade Competency Framework
Certified International Trade Professional (CITP®|FIBP®) Competency Profile
Guide to Importing
CGA-FITT-Nanos International Business Survey Results
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Learn from this collection of popular TradeReady articles written by experts to help you meet your business goals. This guide is designed to help you know if your business is ready to expand internationally, and what to do next to scale your business and expand around the world.
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The focus of these profiles is to provide a comprehensive summary of the required competencies for twenty priority international trade occupations. We have defined these competencies, which are connected to the FITT International Trade Competency Framework. The Framework reflects current and future practices and contains standards for multiple international trade occupations, the first of its kind ever created for international trade.
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This guide is intended to provide exporters with a concise introduction to globally applicable barriers, some key challenges that may be encountered when seeking to enter the United States (U.S.) market, suggestions for strategies to overcome these challenges, and sources for further research.
This guide is intended to provide a concise review of outsourcing as a possible strategy to consider by any company facing the challenges of increasing costs, shortage of labour needed to expand, or competition from home or abroad.
Nearly 200 international business professionals from across Canada and internationally gathered over the past year to take part in our International Trade Competency Standards Project, funded in part by the Government of Canada's Sectoral Initiatives Program.
Read this whitepaper to learn more about how these individuals helped us create world class standards and, for the first time, developed well-defined job profiles for professionals in the industry.
Despite being one of the oldest professions in the world, international trade just doesn’t have the same level of visibility or recognition as other vocations.
Read this whitepaper that discusses the challenges faced by international trade professionals and some solutions around gaining credibility for global trade competencies.
Canada is beginning to fall behind in its readiness to trade globally. FITT's new report, the International Trade Workforce Strategy, identifies two critical gaps between what global commerce requires for success and what Canada's workforce can supply. The report is the outcome of the world's first-ever study into the state of a country's international trade workforce.
Read about the concrete actions that businesses, government organizations and educational institutions can take to fill Canada's workforce gaps and ensure our country remains trade ready.
With the support of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC), we performed a pre-assessment of the current human resource challenges facing Canadian businesses engaged in international trade. The purpose of this pre-assessment was to determine if there was a need to undertake a comprehensive human resource study of international trade, as well as to: define the international sector; define the labour force engaged in international trade; identify the trends that are impacting international trade, and determine gaps in human resource-related knowledge and determine the scope of future research needs.
A Task Force identified and developed a framework of integrativetrade competencies. The ten competencies within the framework describe a synthesis of knowledge, skills and abilities required to be successful in the evolving integrative trade business environment. These competencies are not tied to specific roles. Instead, they are broad attributes essential to many trade-relevant activities within organizations.
The Certified International Trade Competency Profile reflects the skills and knowledge individuals need to obtain the CITP®|FIBP® designation. This profile was developed by international business practitioners representing all regions of Canada. It incorporates the wide variety of specialized knowledge and skills CITP®|FIBP®s use in the many different roles and functions they assume within companies around the world.
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England Extend Nike Kit Deal to 2030
Liverpool FC Sign with Nike
Leeds United Kappa Centenary Kit
England 2019 Black History Month Nike Jersey
IFK Norrköping 2019/20 Nike Home Kit
The English Football Association and Nike have announced a new contract extension that will take their long-term partnership through to 2030.
The 12-year deal will continue to see the sportswear giant design and supply apparel to all 24 England teams based at St. George’s Park including the country’s men’s and women’s senior national teams.
The England UEFA EURO 2016 Nike Home and Away Kits
The FA is a not-for-profit organization and this new deal, effective from August 2018, will represent a significant investment across English football and further support grassroots initiatives and the growth of the women’s game throughout the country.
Mark Bullingham, FA Group Commercial and Marketing Director, said: “We are delighted to be continuing our partnership with Nike until 2030. It was always important for us to secure such a long-term commitment to allow both parties to build an even stronger partnership together.”
The England 2014 FIFA World Cup Nike Home Kit
“With The FA striving to be a world-class organisation, it’s vital for us to partner with innovative global leaders such as Nike and look to the future together. As well as supplying all of our England teams with state-of-the-art apparel, Nike is a huge supporter of our technical division’s work and of grassroots football across the country. It’s fantastic that this support will not only continue but increase from now until 2030.”
Martin Glenn, FA Chief Executive, said: “This is another hugely significant deal for The FA and closely follows the landmark Emirates FA Cup broadcast rights announcement last October.
“As a not-for-profit organization, this new deal with Nike will allow The FA to invest even more into the game and make football available for all. I’d like to thank Nike for their continued support of the England teams and English football.”
Trevor Edwards, President of the Nike Brand, said: “The extension of our partnership with The FA is great news for Nike Football and will see us continue to support English football at every level. We are proud to support The FA with our most innovative products, and foster the participation and development of players throughout England.”
The first England kits to bear the famous Nike Swoosh were launched in 2013. The Three Lions had worn shirts from fan favorites Umbro from 1984 until then.
England’s greatest achievement to date in Nike kits is a third-placed finish at the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. The men’s team failed to emerge from the group stage of the 2014 World Cup in their first foray in a major international competition in Nike jerseys.
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Reissued: Ecuador “Leyendas Por Siempre” (Legends Forever) 1994 to 2006 Home Kits
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A baby girl was born by candlelight in a laundry room as a tornado touched down in Texas
Posted 10:10 AM, October 22, 2019, by CNN Wire, Updated at 10:09AM, October 22, 2019
Every birth story is one parents love to tell over and over, but Sekani’s is truly unique.
She came into the world during a tornado — taking her first breath by candlelight in a laundry room.
The day started out beautiful
Sekani’s mom was a week overdue when she came to the Bump Birthing Center in Rowlett, Texas, on Sunday.
“It was a beautiful day outside, nothing to worry about,” said Kasie McElhaney, the owner and lead midwife at the center in suburban Dallas.
“Then around 10 p.m., or a little before, it was time for her to start pushing and our phones all started going off saying there is a tornado near us.”
With the power out and tornado sirens going off, the staff quickly transformed the safest place in the Center into a birthing room.
“We quickly took [the mom] into the laundry room, where we went on to deliver her baby by candlelight,” McElhaney said.
Both Sekani and the mom, whom the center didn’t want to identify by last name, were fine.
A tornado was confirmed in the area
The tornado touched down in Dallas around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, and knocked out power to more than 100,000 customers.
“Considering the path that the storm took, it went across a pretty densely populated part of our city, I think we should consider ourselves very fortunate that we did not lose any lives, no fatalities and no serious injuries in last night’s storm,” Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson said at a Monday morning news conference.
Luckily, the birthing center had no damage and the electricity came on right after the new family was discharged, McElhaney said.
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